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paper, to lie 'carried to the account of Braithirsitel
the whole weight of testimony is against the proof.
I pm of opinion upon the evidence of the accounts,
winch explains the conduct of the parties, the,'
Braithwaite was to have the exchange of Bills with
Messrs. Goodchild and Co. on his own responeibie-
lily, and also on the other tract, that on.the cloareg
.• et the account with the bankrupts. there was no,
' ilernand made relating to them by Braithwaite. ..
•; Mr. Boast mid. as this was the opioioo of his
',Mower, he would not say any thing relative to•
sittilt:rffrobining pert of the prayer of the petition,
. Afert:the assignees should be removed, as he thought
.#4,piould be putting the bankrupt's estate to morn.
thipense.
• . The VICS•CIFIANCIELOR,—" I cannot refuse to
• remove Braithwaite from being assignee, as the
Wright of the evidence is that he proved a debt
.under the commission which there was no founda•
tion for ; but I will not prevent him from bringing
it before r Jury. He may bring his action on
triloodchild's bills, and I will make the petitioner
. assignee for the purpose of trying it."
. Mr. HORNS said. in that case Braithwaite ought
in deliver up to she petitioner the books and ac-
counts of the bankrupts. He wished to know if
Mr. Bell's client would bring the action!
Mr. Btu. said, he would undertake to bring
the action.
The Vtce-Cuotresta.os." According to the
form of an action. neither the bankrupt Smith, ee
Braithwaite, can be examined. I think I would be
right in ordering them both to be examined in the
'Court below. Let the action be brought by
Braithwaite against the bankrupts, and the peti.
. • rtioner defend it, and neither the bankruptcy nor
•
the statute of limitation be set up against the action.
Prayer of the petition granted.

LENT ASSIZES.

KINGSTON, SuRRIT, Aran 1.
CIVIL SIDE.
THE KING if. PALMER MID ANOTHER.
This was nn iwilietMent against Henry Palmer *ad Thos.
inshem Parker, foe • committer, to deftest! Sir Thos. Swop-
weer Champaeyv, Hart. or bills of exchange to the as of
2,0001. and of warrants of attorney to the like asnosiut, by
mean, of false pregame., importing in atobstsisee, that they
were nomied pusses, and in a condition to *domes money
to the prosecutor spot such securities.
The trial lasted from ten in the loonier until haltpast
fve in the evening, whew it was adjourned estil toniurrow
morning by mutual consent. The trial out being the.
liniehed, war forbear, is jestire to the defendants, giving any
account of the no at it was fooled and proved us the part
of the prosecution until the whole case is esmeluded.
CROWN SIDE.
Wes. Daffy was iadieted for assaulting Sarah Cavey, an
rlilerly woman. on the Kier's highway, putting her in fear.
and steilior from her onus two shillings and sixpence, as
Ether. on the I7th or November DO.
The case excited considerable iatercal, from the circa's.
'tames of outrage with which the alleged robbery was at-
tended.
It appeared in ealdence that the proseestria, • women far
advanced in years, had bees attending the funeral of her
brother at Staines, on the day mentioned in the iodielmeat ;
and in the evening, between five sod vitt o'elork, was setae..
lag home to Eremite. She was overturn by • refrain who,
with a most tremeadosts oath, demUded her money. The
evening was dark, and the weather extremely wet. She
had a 'inmate in her band, which she intended to lay out
on her way home. The ruffian mixed hold of her hand,
sad is his violeoce she fell into a deep ditch. He then
*hogged her over • hedge into as edjoinier field, ride'
her pomp, and treated her with the must brutal cruelty,
leaven her apparently dead open Hoe pogo& The ra-
tan left her, and quitted the road, exclaiming to him-
pelf, " Lost, lost." Some pennies passing on the road heard
the vein of a person is distress, sod called oust, " Whet
is the matter ?" The prisoner, who lass close to the spot,
'said he had lust his way, sad was pet into his course by the
pssseagess. Some halos afterwards a waggosser, guiag the
same road, betted the voice el the prusecutrix crying fur
help, but the sight bring dark, he could afford her no assist-
st nee however, as his arrival iii Egham, be pot as alarm
that there was some unhappy female elm had fallen isle
none peril. Two on set SW from Eabant forthwith, with
lanterns, and aftei smirch °room time, found the promote-
trio at two o'clock in the aorniug, drenched with wet and
in • deplorable state from the brutal treatment she had re.
Strived I but after proper care, she was restored to self-pus.
*easiest.. She mid upon recovering, that she could swear to
the voice of the man by whom she hail here sleuthed. On
the information of the permits who had met the Prisoner
•hoet the time the violent was alleged to have been
committed, he was apprehended, mid epos b.isg re-
voked to speak in- do presence of the proaecutrix, she
aware that be was the man by whom she bad bees so
mach ill used. Int the puree of the proem:trio there bad
bean no 'billings. but when she recovered she still foetid
her purse in her pocket, though the money was pm,
end there were the marks of madded finger, about its open-
ing. ft was peeved that the Prhioner's person was a good
deal disligored with mud, as if he had been down. The Pro.
werairta, as to the fact of she rubbery, was sot distinct in
her evidence; and, under all the cis-contagions of the este,
the !or', though there us. sufficient evidence of the Fri.
a titer's ideality, found him Nut twat,.
On the mob's of the Counsel for the prosecution, the
Veneerer, however, wee ordered to be detailed for the 48191/ii.
John Motion Dalton was eapit•lly indicted under the sta.
Dim ISM of El :abet's, for I iolating the perms of .Matilda
Atkinson, an Want, under the age of ten years.
The facts err the ease were most folly proved by titian-
fortaitiate child herself, and by several other whereon who
corroborated her in every important point, bat they were of
a 'were unlit to meet the rabbi. eye.
For the Prtsoser, two witnesses depood, that the pear
child bad on two revers! occasions asserted that the, Injury
contpiatned of had hero committed noon her out by the
Prisoner, but by a brother of her own, a tad of 13 years old.
Mr. Baron WOOO summed op the ease to the Jury with
great minstenevs and miparteality, •nd they wittiest hesita-
tion found the Prisoner—Guilty.
%be Learned Judge immediately proceeded to promotion
upon the Prisoner the earful entente of death, holding out
to him stet the slighest hope that any 'Delimit's of the sen-
tence *owlet he extended to him.

The Prisawer appeared quite surneved during Ike triesie
of hi. trial. cud even when he quitted the dark. The trial
wecupied Ike Court wear!, fire hours, and elicited t►e soft
kleuse Merest.

NAVAL INTELLIGXACE.

*prim t.

Arrived the iltirliard, Willies's', from the Downs for De.
to ; Tbisilr, Gibson, from dim" fur Minns, *lib loft
of anchor and table.

Bailed the Beeves, Gardner, f..r Berhadoes ; Amelia,
%tory, 14 Betooirclos mod Cueesuselua, Champlese, for Nee
York. ,

PLynourn, APRIL I._

Arrived the Areshosa, Weridemwth, (ruin Newcastle for
Quebec, with los, of eablcs to lilt DOWli• ; wed Colombia,
Dewitt, from London (or fdiramrchi.

ORAL,

Cams dews from the River lest night and this morals;
the Elisabeth. Major ; Richebreto, Stranger ' • mid Illoatime.
ranee, Weed. fur Qambee; Intrinsic, Smith, rot Miransithi;
Julius, Wasik for Quintet ; Roebuck, Ellringition, foe Cape
Coast Castle; Flora Dalphiebe, &pleat, far Quebee • sod
)..bells, Pact, for Iliramiebt—tba wink have salmi WO
*fair tied.

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