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MORAYSIIIRE COURSING CLUB.

The 2d Stxreh !vein: the tiny fixed for running for the
giVell by the :11urayshire Coursing Chili, the tinh
met near Roseislr, at eleven u'elork, %Then Hie first clogs of
dugs %Hs rem np, anJ ilreich-d as under :

Mr. A. Craies 4.4. Rhino beat Lard Hant!)'s r. h. NO tie.
—Dare killed.
Mr. ftrasater's r. and ie. d. Swift (winner uf the cup) heat
Dr. Stvit's p. b. VCIIIIS --41 are lolled.
M. J. Crimes b. and v. el. llocrir beet Mr. A. Giant's d.
Pluto—Hare , •

Mr. A. Furteatte• b. d. NON. Isewt Mr. Brown's r. b.
Ssullow.—Mare
Owing to the wetness of the ground, the !litres ran on-
to lv ill, sod ill'uided little opportunity for the dogs
to thew themselves.

The. Club mct again on the 41k, at Alyce, to ran off uha
lira, aged the following are the decisions that took pleac
Mr. A. fork-ails. Spa ing beet 311. Brasuici'u
killed.
Mr. J. Grant's Oscar beat Mr. A. Craig's Rhino —flare

3lr. J. Grant's heat Mr. A. Furteath's, and non the couples.
—More killed.
011 this day .the hares ran rather better, hut still not
strung enough to try the dogs sufficiently.
The last course was the longest, hot towing to an'errnr in
slipping, Mr. J. Grant's dog gut the lead soure
which gave him so muck of the cotirse in the beginning as
in the upwitui of the Judges to nvechalauce the uthei's eu.
['critic in/cuing in :h.: cud.

HOME CIRCUIT.
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KENT ASSIZES.—MAIDSTONE. •
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BELKINGTON t4.I3QDLE and OTHERS.
Tlthi was an action of assault .and false imprison-
ment against the Overseer of the•patish of ['Wai-
sted, the Constable of the.setne pariah. Ind moodier
person, fur taking a yontig .woinait before a Magis-
trate and compelling her to leave the parish.
The lather and mother of the Plaintiff were ex.
mined, «his_ stated Cost 'their daughter lived with
them, and gained her living by honest iudinstry.
and that neither she nor say of the family had
been chargeable to the parish, Nina itliataisding
this, one morning in July last, as she was going
out early to wt rk, the Defendants lay in wait for
h, r, and ss•izing her, said the must go with them.
S .e said she had done no wrong, that she had nei-
ther rubbed nor murdered any one. They however
fr.rmisted in sUcitigh r away. and carried her before
a 3l.gistrate, who distniseed her upon lit r promise
to leave the pariah and go to West Hails, in Essex,
where she was legally settled.
Mr. NIARRYATT, for the Defeodants, stated,
that the parish -officers acre legally justified in what
they had done under the eirtunittatiers of the ease.
Tl:e Manna lied Leen pregnant of a baatard child,
which was likely to become chargeable to the pa.
rish, and the (Ai era of Plumeted had regularly
removed I,er to Ler place of settlement at West
Ham, in Es-ex, where she was brought to bed.
By the atatitte of 17 Gen. 11. counitianly called the
Vagrant Act, amongst other th ngs it was enacted,
that when ',croons had been regularly removed, if
thre.onlidefiilly came back to the part,h.from_sehicli
they had beets reiniiVriclitey were thpret.ty tteciaied
to have committed an act of vagrancy, and were
liable In •be punished as a Yawata. The Plaisititf,
after her removal, did come back to Plumsted, and
the 'finish officers, fitichog that she had renewed her
old practices, sod might again endanger the pari•li
to the charge of a bastard, took her up wider thii
clati.e of the Act. hut being unwilling to de:II
harshly pith her, they let her go, upon her promise
to depart the piffled).
The former removal being proved,
Mr. Courson S -ERJEAST Wade an able reply, in
which lie contended leer return
,to her parents was
not an unlawful retorts, and conmseisted on the op.
pre.swit of the parish officers with considerable
*reel ity.
The Jury found N. the Plaintiff—damage, 5/.

In Consequence of the great press of criminal
huaines,,, it was announced- by the Judges thiir-tio
Special Jury causes would be tried tit these Assists,

A female child, now living at Kirkland How, in
the parish of Alerdon„ was horn on the Oil of
Atm+, last sear of course, it saw two Gaud
I'rdal. n+.ll two Easter Sundays, before it was a
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'rentsHmk LENT ASSIZES.

YORK CASTLL TRIDAY. MARCH 13.
CIIOWN SIDE
Befure Mr. Alsace BATLEY.

AILIPN.
Was. Creenareod was charged with setting fire to
the workshop or warehouse belonging to the Lett).
Pottery.
Tor iniietment cootained twelve counts. which
merely charged the offence under thifiretst males
of description, as to the properly destroyed and the
iteronns it would injure.
lit the course of this trial, twenty-five witnesses
were examined en the part of the prosecution. some
of them at wrest length ; it will not therefore lie
;erosible to lay the whole of this evidence before
OUP readers. We shall endeavour, however, to
give such sottlnteact of it, es shall tawny a clear
i;leu of die gruouN ou which the Prisoner was
charged. -..
Mr. Haab'', tested tbeistse on the part of the
prosecntion. He first described the pretnittes, and
pointed out the situatiou of that poet which was
burin. and the mode in which shit non obtained
Ivo
access who set fire to it. This p r tion consisted
principally of an explanation models and plans
tirodueed in Court. and which, without that illustra-
tion, would have been unintelligible. The premises
are situ.' ted about half a mile from the town of Leeds,
on the south side of the river, and immediately
emitigoolis to the iron-rail reed-way of Mr. Brand-
hog ; end which also Forms a foot-path from Leeds
to Hunslet and other Awes. The buildings. which
are very extensive, may be conceived as enclosing a
large triangular court. the hese of which sepa-
rates this from a keen'. tolled the straw•yard,
one side of which was accessible by climbing over
it wall about vista feet high. The fire took place
its the buildiug which separated these yards, in a
thin of tithich was tlw workshop where the Prisoner
formerly *corked, and which of course was well
*nowt* to hien. In a corner of the loner court,
Chloe to the wall, was deposited a largelvantity of
ochre, which formed a kind of inclined plane ; and
on the outtide of the wall was found, the morning
after the fire, part of a crate which formed a ladder,
liy the assistance of which a person might very
easily get over the wall into the building where the
fire commenced.
Having explained the situation of the premises.
and the manner in which the person was supposed
'to have effected an entrance, he stated the whore
of the proof he had to advance of the fire toot haw-
lug been accidental, which was briefly as follows:
The fire began in a stove used for the drying of
earthenware, placed on wooden shelves, before it
wits baked, in what was called the cream-colour-
ed work-shop, and within was an iron pot with
A tire under it. On the rubbish being removed, a
shovel, which was used for the purpose of mending
the fire, and which had been put outside of the
door when the workmen left the place was found
within the stove, under the wooden shelves, with
cinders and burnt straw upon it.
The circumstances, as at 'steal by the Counsel,
ranch led to the inference of the Prisoner Iseing
the hand that set fire to the building, are the fol-
lowing :
He had been employed as a servant in this work-
shop, and was well acquainted with tlw premises;
was discharged about a fortnight Siefert, sod had
used expressions which indicated au intention to do
some mischief to the proprietors; that he was 111 II
situation in whicti he Could have done it, being
upon the road ; that the Prisoner's shoes were mark-
ed with ochre, which could only have bent dune
by his treading upon it its getting over the wall;
that he istialniced by footsteps marked with ochre ;
that he was 'wen, almost immediately hefore the tire
eras discovered, coming in a direction front the Pot-
tery to a place called Busk Field, where there was a
light at the time; that In a visit belonging to the
Prisoner were found tools *hid) had been left by the
workmen in the stove where the fire cot ttttt enced ;
that the Prisoner could not account for the time
*lnch elapsed between his leaving the public-house.
at Ilunslet-latte,in Leeds, and beingseesi at the light
in Busk Field ; that he had given contradictory ac-
counts of the manner in which he spent this time;
that he first 'said he had not got home when lie lie.ord
the fire-bell of Ow Pottery ring. butt in his examina-
tion before the Magistrates, he stated that 1w was at
home when lie head it; that he appeared at the
tire sooner than he possibly could lonic done if this
statement had been true; that though he appeared
very active in his exertions to extinguish the tire.
yet in reality lie endeavoured to thwart them by
privately doing something tt the engine which pre-
Vented it from working; and that when the roof
fell its he could not conceal his exaltation, but hue-
s:eel' aloud.
Stich is the .übttbnce of the evidence which the
Counsel stated was to Substantiate the charge
against the Prisoner; but the evidence produced
in Court did tint support the statement mode.
The Jury. 109110 m Vetirisrg Touud the Prisoner
—Not Umilty.
The trial occupied the Court from two o'clock
in the afternoon Mita nine o'clock in the evening.
SATURDAY, MARCH 14.
Joke Squires, being a clerk and servant to the
churchwardens and overseen' of the township of
Leeds., was charged with receiving, by virtue of
such his emplOyment, the sum of tourism KIIIIICIIO,
which he fratuirettly eulberiled mid converted to

las owls use...
1-1:.11.0/1 stated that this woe a prosi;tutirin
fataii,led on the statute of the 35th George HI.
which was passed to remedy a defect in the law,
awl to make it larceny fur any clerk or servant, in-
trusted by theSe persons with money for the use of
their employer, to embezzle or convert the ramie to
their own use.
The Prisoner was employed by she churchwar-
dens and &revivers of the poor of Leeds, as thi-ir
clerk, to receive and pay motley MI their uccomit,
red iu the Counor of his emooloyinent lie received,
au the 23il of
.Juue. the stun of 14 gnliieas Irons
the overseer of Lepton, for money advanced by the
township of Lec•ls for the payment of their poor.
Thir ttttt ey the Prisoner did not ucconitt for, best
secreted sm., converted. it to his twon nor. In the
month of January last; in cooserptelice of some
sewivicion entertained of the conduct of the Primmer,
the Committee, consisting of the churchwardeos
ei.d sr:lc:seers, appcitiltd a day for tl.e particular

exatuirrotion of the out-town paupers, and of his
accounts : notice was brut to the members of the
Committee, desiring their attendance ; and in pur-
suance thereof the churehwordens, overseers, rod
paupers attended. hot the Prisoner did not make
his appearance, and it was soon discovered that he
absconded.
A touither of legal olijections were urged by the
Counsel for the Prisoner. It was also couteiriled,
that it was orcersary to prove the appointment of
the overseers ; but this was over-ruled. on the
groom] thot their meting as such, was sufficient to
//sloe the presumptimi that they were duly appoiiit-
ed, and that he had treated with them as such.—
Another difficulty @root from the property having
hero laid as the joint property of the church-
wardens and overseers; whereas it appeared that
the churchwardens were appointed for the perish of
Leeds generally. and the overseers fur the township
mily--and that the former, therefore. had no legal
jurisdictiou in the concerns of the poor of the town-
ship.
The Conn?. after hearing the Counsel on both
sides, determined that the objection was valid.
But, at the close of this discitssiou, it was disco-
vered that there was smother count, which stated
the properly to be the overseers only. The trial
(lieu pro, ceded.
Mr. Richard 'Keinplay said he was an inhabitant
of Leeds, and a churchwarden for that parish ; he
mentioned the names of the churchwardens awl
overseers for the current year. The churchwardens
he stated were wardens for the whole parish. but
acted as gamut' of the pour for the township. in
conjunct with the overseers.
Mr. John Senior is the overseer of Le;itoot ; dur-
ing last year they had some paupers residing in the
township of Leeds ; he knows the Prisoner. and
went there to settle wish him, for the money the
township of Leeds had I:aid on account of their
township ; he paid the sum of 141. 14%. in country
bank notes ; it was for sixty by gone weeks.
Mr. Richard Kemplay then underwent a long
examination, or rather a series of exit ~, i l lotions,
the substance of which may, however, be briefly
stated. He said, that he attended at the workhouse
with the view of proceeding to the exernination of
the out...town tutor accounts ; lie had examined
those for the last four years. in weekly portions,
and the book was in the Prisoner's own hand-
writing. Witness, by the direction of the Com-
mitter. gave Mr. Squires notice that they would
meet for the specific purpose of examining the out-
town paupers, end the accounts connected with
hint. to see if every thing was right ; and he di•
reeled hint to give notice to the churchwardens,
overseers, and potir of this examination : the over-
seers end poor attended, but the Prisoner did nut—
he had absconded.. Mr. Kemplay produced the
ledger kept by the Prisoner, iii which all sums
received by him on account of the township ought
to have been entered ; lie had minutely examined
it, but there was 110 entry of any Milli paid by the
overseer of Lepton. The Prisoner had given
that book as a true account of the money lie hurl
received and paid fur the township. Witritss said
the Prisoner had been appointed to the situation
heroic Ise was in office, Mid supposed it was a writ-
ten appointment. Ile then produced the minute-
book, in which. under the date of August 16, tell).
there was a nientorersduin of the appointment of
the Prisoner to be clerk to the over , with a
salary of 100/. per annum. The Prisoner pod bees'
coutimied in his situation by the subsequent over-
seers without any new appointnient.
Some further useinunnolums relating to the Pri-
soner was also read, by which it appeared, that
some years ago. he had been deficient in his sic-
counts about SUL half of which the Co 11111 l ittee had
agreed to cancel, and to accept his 'tote for the other
moiety.
Mr. HARDY then milted, to what amount the Pri.
sorter admitted tloot he was deficient in his accounts
The JUDGE said, he thought the question nitro-
per, as it might create a prejudice against him.
Mr. Mane paid, he risked it with a view to raise
the presumption, that the 14 guineas he was proved
to hove received had not been omitted entering
through accident.
In this view, his Lordship thought the question
might be proper.
Mr. Kemplay, in reply, stated. that the Pri-
soner had admitted that the stain of 1,8001. was un-
accounted fur in his books, being sums he had re-
ceived and not eritered in his book, and therefore
never accounted for. Mr. K. also stated, that time
Prisoner was always required to produce the ba-
lance, which he appeared to have in his hands, *lien
the accounts were examined.
Mr. Ws lAA ANS cometided, that there was nothing
to go to the Jury, and that the Prosecutors had nut
offered a tittle of evidence to prove that he hart
converted to his own use a single farthing of the
money.
His Lordship said, there was certainly evidence
to go to the Jury.
The Prisoner being called upon for his defence,
mid. he should leave it to his Counsel, who called
the following witnes-es :—Mr. C. Wood. of Leeds;
Mr. J. Marshind, Mr. Clanliam, Mr. J. Hisichliffe,
Mr. 3. Marshall, and Mr. J. Walker, all of Hie.
stall, near Leeda ; all of whom wake in very high
terms of the Prisoner's character.

After lair Lordship had stated the evidence, and
exiblintied the law in reference to cases of embezzle-
ment, the Jury conferred together a few moments,
and found the Pri.oner—Gerikii but eaprersed
their wish, that the Court would. in consideration of
his foriber good character, sliew I • all the mercy
the ciiciimptauces of the ease would admit.

On Mom's?, at nine o'clock in the morning,
11Ir. Jivitice BA" LEY passed 'Weather spun the
Privoners couvich:d during the Avinzer. The fol-
lowing ‘2.5 received sentence of Death, la the order
in which we name them :

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Matthew, Todd, fur burglary ; Juba Wliberireirk mod
Thomas Wilagli fur slc3lbis in a ilwrllissilsuirse l 0 Ihr value
of fairly abilliiv*,;.; Robert Kirby, David Metall,. and Joseph
Matit.barder„ for alirep•aleatinz; Wm. Parker and Richard
111,1•1. fur horse btrulioig ; %Silh..ms *hitch", fur high-
way syWhei y gamic, tt, at, fur stealing three rows; Juba'
l• y, S .•-.isrl Swabia., JuiLua Nichol% Abrams Maur,
Diiiiu.nx, Richard elayatirit, Jailers Ilarrivuo,
trl kr, Mi In. 110.4 j. S49v:. I Ilan, Gorge Rlph.snlon, Wm.
wa,„.„, Jan.. Nur. ..... and Thum... Wally, fur burglarv;
and 'laird, fur ultra:nig furscil /taut of fli;;•-
laud writs at Hull.

The Liar insullirirsit to contain so largg •
uttrubrr, und thr‘r unhappy turn wvre !nought up,

at three separate times, to receive the awful ten-
teller of the law.
Mr. Justice Birea.inr, previous to passing sen-
tence upon them, addressed each of the Prisoner.,
pointing oat the nature of their several Offences.
mud commenting upon the alleviating or ngtravating
circumstances of each case. His Lordithip made
many just, striking, and affecting observatiotis
on
the extreme fully of a career of wickedness, of which
the unhappy men before him furnished • most pain-
ful but appropriate illustration ; iu most of their
cases, detection had followed close upon the com-
mission of crime ; and in no one instance had any
permauent advantage resulted to the perpetrators
of it. But in the case of all the Prisoners. except
Samuel Leatherlsorl, convicted of tittering forged
Bank of Englund notes, his Lordship distinctly
intimated that the full severity of the We would
not be executed upon them. but that mercy would
be extended towards them, in proportion to the
circumstances which extenuated or aggravated
each case. In speaking of the last unhappy man,
to whom no mercy was to be extruded, his
Lordship void, his case had occasioned him much
distress, mud after the most anxious and bluer
consideration, he had been imperiously c
by a sense of duty, not to interfere in his favour,
but to leave him to the unmitigated rigour of the
law. His Lordship. however, mentioned, as (leum-
stances of sonic elleviation, the readiness
which the Prisoner admitted his guilt, sod the wil-
lingness he expressed to give information respecting
the persons who had employed him. But Ire held
out to him no hope of mercy from any earthly tri-
bunal.
The following Prisoners received the sentences
affixed to their respective' names:—
Matthew Robert! and Wary Robinson for uttering base
silver, to be imprisoned cis mouths, sail find security fur
their goof' behaviour for use year; David Bream. for
stealing in a dwelling bungle to the value of 39a. ; John
Champley and Matthew Johnson for stealing leather from a
earl, to he imprisoned two years ; Jonas Jewett, fur steal.
lug from the person, to be imprisoned one year ; Joel Hsr.
graves and James Hall, for washing a warehouse at chef.
Geed, to he transported omen yon ; and Win. Walker, an
necessary afler the fact, in receiving the goods, hovering
them to be Mulcts, to be transported 14 yeses ; Joseph Fox,
fur being an aecetuary in a burglary, in receiving dwelt/len
property, to be transported 14 years.
Charles Hare, John Gilbask, and Tho.seat Smith,
convicted of beiog out armed in a wood, with an
intent to kill game. were discharged on finding
sureties, and entering into a recognizance to keep
the peace for twelve months, and to appear to re-
ceive judgment when called upon. His Lordship
said, if they abstained from similar practices iu
future, they would never he called upon.
Joins Split-es, the treasurer to the Leeds work-
house, convicted of etribeszlement, was sentenced

to be imprisoned in the House of Correction at
Wuktfield, two years.