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LANCASTER ASSIZES, SErr. 7.

John .111einsom whys indicted for killing and slay-
ing John Itowlintron, in the town of 1A arrington,
on the [Nth slay ofJuly.
It appeared that the Prisoner was driver of a
stage-coach which runs from Liverpool to London.
the the eveuint of the Alive day, the Warrington
Vulunteers were • paraded, writ the Colonel had
treated theta with saint liquor ; they were in.
consequence out i'o late as tau o'clock, with their.
band sesseitibled, in a narrow street, and a large
role:mane of spectators round them, so that the
,ptroset ,viai• completely blocked up ; at this time
"the Prisoner was driiing his coach through the town,
and when the horses were about to pass through
the crowd, he flogged them ; this was supposed to
be a wanton, careless net, which occasioned the de-
'teased to be kuocked down by the horses, both the
• off whets went over his body, and he died in a few
minute* after.
A Captain of the Volunteers, who was on the
spot, corrobeetted the above ; but on his cross-exa-
ramatiou, he said the horses were frightened at
• the noise of the drums and fifes, appeared restive,
and wanted to turn, which. if they had been per-
' mitted to do, the coach would have been ore: tensed:
On the •aceitlent beim/ dimeovercd, itisuisilit.r of
persons pursued the coach and stopped it usr the
bridge ; on telling the celeflretin what was the
matter, he wanted to go oil with the Coach, alasniti
they must apply to the proprietor in that towel.
On the port of the Pnsoaser, it was proved by two
outside passengers at the time. One ess die box. that
the Prisoner was driving steadily thrriogh the town,
at the rate of about Ave mile* au hour, holding his
eeigni with it tight heind ; be clanged horses inWar.
nueton, mid they understood one of, the fore borers
was a youug Dee, sued only the second time of beiug
"in hariteSs : before they drove off, (rise of the par-
',seiuteni held the horses' heads, while tlse .Priseter
welkrd on a few yards to desire the Volnutesins Me.
to clear away, its he was coming on with the coatis-
'The Prisoner. drove through the crowd, awl they
.ditl not Loom that: any 'accident load. happeeetl, till
the reach was stopped an the btittge.
„ The Prisoner's wester gave hins.a good chine-
lei Tor being a regulor, steady driver, ice. •
The Prisoner hawohewu. winch contrition siner,
the fatal accident ; he•Jias given.thejerelity of the
deceased SOL 'sod has settled 7s, a !seek upon-her.
Judge Cliatillelt. in ilia ‘addries-to• the Jury,
said, he did not kitiow meets of dtistisig, but he
should have thosigitt, on going into the crowd.
when ally thing *war the matter with the Iroise% the
best way emit& liave.been to atop them, instead of
Sontag them ; bowever,be .supposed his motives
:were not the best. He was glad to find that .the
Prisoner was only driving at the tate of shunt five
miles an hour. which he thought a reasonaUc pace.
Ilia Lordship censured very severely the platelet of
. stage coachmen, lithe took a pride in drivisek, wont
furiously through towns than they did on theroart
The Jury. under all. the cid:omelettes*" found
the Prisoner .VOI
Ileary young man, of very genteel
appearance, was indicted for hiving euilonlorl.,and
, secreted the sum of-451. the .property of. hit
employers, Cross .Mortall and liter Nur-
land. merchants, of Liverpool.
It appeared that the Prisoner haul served hit
clerkship to the l'rosecutrirs, and
.contlected V -
extremely isEil, that on, the ,expindiou of his
articles, they featured him in their employ upon a
liberal salary, and he had the taanagemee, of the
Custom-house and -Euise business. A short time
since he obtained leave 'from the Cushier to enter
"nine cotton and worsted stockings. In a short
. time after they .were entered and shipped, all the
packages were seized by the Custom-house Offiet:rs,,
and on the Prosecutors making iuquiry as to the
cause of the seizure, they were informed that they
all had • been entered as cotton steekiegs :• the
• • Prkower boring only paid a as. cotton stoekiage •
being exported free of ditty : bet lie had chan4ed •
•the Prosecutors with the re,;ular duty, amounting
to upwards of SOL
'llse Prows:atop gave the Prisoner a most excel-
lout character idt this offence.
• The Jury -found him-Geary.' sad the Learned
• Jima*, is passing gentence,obserre' 4, that hie Crime,
was particularly aggravated by his committing de-.
predations upoti ffie property of his frimuls,sita well
. les employers, amities-big bete the cause of their pro-
, pole being seized. He should house been in-
dist:Z.(l to send lien out of the country, had it not
le en for the good character he had sustained till
he committal, this offence, a hich lie was iu hopes
was his first ; however, his crime called for a
serere puisishmeut,
,he, therefore, weirenced him
to pay a tine of ts. rued to :le imprisoned sod kept •
to hard labour iu the house of Correction, for two
years. .
• Joke IVorthiniton was indicted for using certain
ecJitious and blasphemous words. •
At the suggestion of the Attorisey-General, the
Prisouee pleaded godly.
t_,. The Arco' e ert-tice cult. then.stated, that the
words were certaidly of a roost bornd neon, anti
• bad beets spoke's in the.eresenee of soldiers' but
the Prisoner had Weu ditatking freely a,t .tbe time,
stud had since sheens much contrition; ht etas very
poor, and had a wale and six childrew. ho, there-.
fore, did not press for # geverepuniehmeot. .
The Jedge senteisped him to be umprisooed ie
the Castle art month.. . • •
Semis ilopaeod was cndieted, guider Lord Ellen-
imeongh'e Act, fur basing wilfully sod maliciously:,
'stabbed Charles Simpeou. of Little Boltoe,with an
. sutrnt to murder him, or do him some bodily harm.
It was !Inured that the Prisoner stablatal tLe V.,es-
eetutor with a knife on the breast, which osarte a
wound, eight inelie• long, sod it was only the knife
coining in etterart with his ribs which presented
ic-
stiuntdeath. .Gailty--Detwis. •
AA" tiaras was found guilty of breaking open
the fullititrarnill !flames Lord, of lloesendale. and
• sv:th lineal*. stolen a large quantity of woollen
cloth. Transported for seven rears.
Juslina Beni vas indicted under Lord Ellen-
lorroirgli's Act, charged with lusting cut, notimed,
and wounded, with a knife, Alice Badow, alias
Ale* Herd, of Oreat Bolton.
--It appeared, that about ten years since the Pro-
oerutrix out married to a man of the name of Bar-
low, who (minted for &soldier ; he was sent abroad.
414,1 she did not hear from lain for eight year., awl
mile thought litut dead ; *lie therefore married the

Prisoner. Tn the Leginning of last March, John
Barlow, her tirst butimind, came to the Present-
trix, in consequence of a furlough which he ob-
tained ; the Prosecutrix, therefore, refnsed to co-
habit with the Prisoner any longer, aid took to her
fist husbood. After ho had returned to Isis regi-'
intuit, the Prisoner applied to the Prusecutrix to
Inc with him again, as. he could not be happy with-
out her ; alie, however, refused. On the 9.:1d of
April the Prisoner followed. the Proseentrix otethe
road leading from Bolton, amid •gave her a violent
blow on her head, which knocked her into a ditch ;
he then gut upon her, with a knife in his hand, and
she t' • king be was going to cut•her throat, sting-
gled with him, and prevented him, but he euc=
seeded in cutting her left cheek opPu, from het
mouth to her cur; ,die iicreisnied " murder !" mkt
a man mine to her assistunee; the Prisoner made
off, lint lie was pursued and taken. Guilty--
Dealt.

Samuel /)nitre was indicted for stealing a black
pure. the prupzrey atJulin Beitwide, of Demme.—
Geri .ses Doers:
Ile was likewise charged with stealing a cart. at
the wine time and from the souse place; but this
indictment was not preceeded Upon.
trartiush Gray was char,;ed with the 'wilful mur-
der of Mary Gray. her dnsighter ; but she being
proved to be insane., was
l'lre trials at all the Prisouers being gone through.
his Lordship proceeded to press sentence of death
upon Joshua Herd, for enanning arid wounding
Alice -Barlow; Sarnia Ilopstead, fOr itabbleig
Charles Simpson, with an -intent to murder him ;
ICose Gqllizeib for ►tealing fire bundles and a half
of liners yarn, in the bleaching scoundi .of Peter
ShWeeross, of Druylesrlen; and Samuel Defile. fin.
•
hors stealing.

Mary Norldocks,'for stealing irletter, containing
nue pound note; directed to Mary Dickens o,
(rum !fe fetter-wrier at blaucheater, to be tined •
one shilliog, ituprisoned. pue year in the flouae'
ifrorrection, and kept bald labour.
• Wham Johrson; barah •Johlioon", alai Benjavils
',Antrim having uttered forged Bauknotsa, to be
•
tram:pos.l;d for It years. , . •
.Thoulat Suom'erson, for having qttered counter-
feit shillings twice on the same day, at Orm/itirk,
4to tor inspnsoned'one yeof, and at the expiratinp of
that term to find sureties for his good behaviour
David illexamier Lindsey. for seditious words, to
be ininritmed six months!

• Jain Prannrell, for k,i I lioF
• of •Liverpool.—llis• Looirship, in 'pawing wentsoce
on thitr man, trolk sweession tsiirewleify 4:oisok° die
blood.. ,ad shag potful, owstoluiwiticiii polveils in
this cauntskof bilskitg. whickis ealkd pprriugo by
which means the Posonethacl killed llmdecrosed ;
add he hadlio aould but it was to be attributed
to this shucking 'previa/I.; that the untidier of trials
here, foe the offence the Prisoner was-rimmed
aids, exceeded others of the whole of the
extensive northern Owl*. , $
.- •
• Juan S, iiv4, for s similar offence upon; Ilesijas..
min 1614nr, receiveirthr lilfe betilenee.
• Ric:toed 'Jones, •N ntiattiittittit4 and warelioirsil.'
keeper, of Atanchestor; for bteaklug open the pits
lakes of Thomas ,Vfordsioetots and • Co. 'whose
warehouse ittl.poisterl)iis, a,t/1 streding,a larimgosn.
tity Of
.goodsi to. pay a no. of OJte l!hillingtto
br ithitritonned two ycitiiiThl the Hottile or Cirrec-
tion, and kiir to hard labnui.. • •
Willians Ras:10)01ton. fur bigamy. to pr.y a-fine
offal* 4011414, he , imprisoned six months in
tholbitlie of Correction, and kept to hard labour.
Ms Lordship observed, that he had been induced
to inflict thiii Italieuepuilishment upon hint, from
his having been forced to marry his first wife from
the sordid-motives of the pariah officers, she being
pregti4iit by him at thc time ; ,which practice his
Lordship censured in very severe terisist, as IT jytit-
Ty observed, that where there we. . ' no affriltion or
regard, nerttomnik or happiness Could be expected,
and evil consequences would follow. •
Juba Tarr, convicted of a 'similar offence, at-
tended with snipe aggravated
seirctimistoocas,•;,lse,
being 'supposed to have three irk,alwil
& idift,
needle pay a fine of one Shilling, to lie atm •
twined one year in the Ileum of Correctiosl;••amid'
„kept to haul labour. •

The rioters were then put to the bar. His Lord-
ship ouldre,tied them at considerable length, nisei'
the enormity of their ottetice, and told theca, that
bad it trot been for the lenity of the Attorney...l;e-
-nend, some of them Mast have forfeited' their
lives. Ho was etrernely sorry for the hardness of
the times,•• which-Alley set up as a cause for their
coodut the manufacturers felt them severely. es
' well as they did t in fact, every class of society felt
tlsem.in a degree : but we must all submit to some
privations, as the cause was brought on us.by the
miasma enemy, and they could riot lie avoided ;"
he, however, was happy to
.learn, that a down of
Letter time; appeared, and hoped the Prisoners,.
on their return to society, &ben experienciimthe
rliansliment due to their edmcs, would enjoy
therm 'rite very means they had resorted to of at-
tacking their masters and their properties defeated
,ita—assis &ma.; foi. ifi they. were destroyed, • they
would not be able toget anc. eniptoyillentv if the
poorer chose' acre, distressed, they mast-resort to
the means the Letaislaturr hod provided, the parish,
and tun resort to violence. Ile had hikrti the whole
of their eases into his serious consideration and-
• wits glad te.dtid that the mobs that had been .prow.
et' had not proceeded in their esinduct with tharfury
'srhieb no wutrratattend mutt,, amid he-should-an:kid
Neat-aiurnshuient- to each of 'them aecording to the
part they had taken id the riot,. •

•
ifeltakloyle and C'hailes Warsaw. for a riot tit
Lane-sitle, in 1-I:islinden; and destroying the tools
and utensils, for w!esviog, of William Eddieston.
His Lordship ohr.errert,. that Hoyle's. was much
die worst case : after having forcibly entered the
choose-of Wm, Eddleitou, he knocked hint down,
and made use of violent capri.issions, putting the
law at defiance, he, thers•lore, sentenced him t. be
iroprisoned• twelve months, and Watson to six
months' imprisonment.
John bhidieril, for u riot at Roa:hJale, and set;
ting fire to the prison, to be. imprisoned for too'
years.

Thomas limes and AA* Ma/theirs, for a riot at
B'ackhurn, and demolishing the house of henry
Cot!island.

His Lordship observed, thak although it had been
proved that Barnes had a bedting-bill, yet U bs

committed no i Wield acts with it, or by any oth-1
wear, he only sentenced hint to six mouths' impri-
moment. With respect to Matthews, lie had made
use of many violent expressions, and appeared to •
be a ringleader; and, iu addition, lie had brought
a mash to his &fence, to prove:sun/W, wlso had, no
doubt, perjured himself; this he should always
consider deserved an inert abed punishment. he,
therefore, seisteneed him to be impnsoned 1-4 mouths.
• Altera IVhittoorth, for being ma riotous nod un-
lawful assembly, in the perish 61 'Rochdale, aml
extortiug is guinea from the Rev. Dr. Drake:. Ills.
. Lordship told him he appeared to have been very
active, although he had committed no act of vio-
lence ; that his going to Dr. Drake, (to sign a paper
'teethe 'advance of wages,) who had nothing to do
with the manufacturers, We a mere pretext ; and if
. lie had wonted: relief, he nag lit to have . gone by
himself, mid not with a snob, and sentesinedinsu to
he imprisoned nine months.
• ,I.lelrm Aialtiwth, Ow a riot at Blackburn, and
' demolishing the house of Mi. Coupland. The
Prisoner Appeared. to have been a ringleader; and
snide use 44f souse violent expressions—to Ise impri-
soned nii.e mouths. •

Elizabeth Walvislpy, for a riot at Blackburn, and
demolishing' lin. house of Mr. 'Cou pland. Al thouih
the Prisoner was actually proved to hare broken
some of theivindows with a stick, yrs she remained
but a.very. short Litwin the irb,ivent quietly honi,
awl had rap ros.ed much penitence ever since; she
tvas iii consequence only sentenced to three months
prisetuattit •

itte node of tbote Imfortimote people teemed
to be truly ob.!vet:‘ of pity. from their a►ppearauee
of poverty mid, 44;kly. mspvets.