The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-08-14 00:00:00

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SUSSEX .ASSIZES.

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On Saturday evening the .judges arrived in this
town ; they were immediately attended to the Town
Hall, where they read their Corumi,sion. Yester-
day they went to church, and early this moming
proceeded to birsiness.
On the Civil Side the causes tried to-dav w.rre
very uninteresting. To-morrow there are twit
causes, which excite, in some degree, the public
attention: the one is an Information by the Earl of
Darnley, against his relation, Mr. Bligh, for assault.
ing and challenging him ; and the other is an anion
by a Captain in the 4thaegiment,in barracks here, for
false imprisonment, against a member of the town.
This is considered as a question between the mili-
tary and the townspeople.

CRIMINAL SIDE.
Brion Mr. HE 4 T
Jams sen. and Jame; Booi,w, jun wet e
inclieted for firing at and dangerously wuundiag
John Heskins.
Mr. Guessv, as Counsel for the Prosecution,
stated the cireurnstances of this case. The Prisoners
at the Bar, he said, were father and son, the elder
of whom was possessed of several small houses near
the Cliffe, at Brighton, which were chiefly inha-
bited by loose women. The Prosecutor, Hoskins,
was a Serjeant in the tine is pants Militia, who, on
the night of the 3,1 of June. understanding that some
of his men were out of quarters, and spending their
time amour the women at these houses, went thither
in search oft: ein. He found some, whom he sect
home to their quarters ; and while he was searching
for others, just as he came our of one of these houses,
the elder Boning fired a pistol et him, which so se-
verely wounded him that he till senseless. Within a
minute afterwards another was fired at one of the
soldiers who accompanied hi: , and he believed the
evidence would gu to fix the second shot to have
been fired by the younger Prisoner. The ea, ha
said, was dune most wantonly, for not a single word
of anger had passed between them.
Serjeant Heskins was ealleJ, and he stated the
faits wetly Ai Mr. Guaseir had opened them.
He added, that when he received the shot, he fell
senseless, and did not recover the use of his reason
until the next te/. Several slugs were extreeted
from his groin and thigh.
Thomas Lewis, one ef the privates who was in
company with the Serjeant, deposed, that Hotting,
the father, was the person who fired the first shut.
He was certain as to his identity, for he saw his face
by the fi ish of the pistol.
Longford, another private in the regiment,
said, he was in company with the other two. At the
time the first pi.e:ol was fired, he was standing he•
hirei a wheelbarrow. The next shot came near him,
and he immediately ran to the battery house, and got
assistance for the Serjeant, who was lying wounded
on the ground.
On cross-exam-illation, the Witness admitted, that
he said Before the Justice, he believed that Boning
thought they were come to rob his garden ; and le:
Added, that he now believed the man fired at them
Antader that impression.
' Jastice HE • T 11 immediately told the Jury, if
the Prisoner a.led ender that impressien, although
be melee very blaineahly in firing so hastily, yet
they ought to acquit them of this indielment.
The Jury accordingly aceirdted the Prisoners.
Times DM.'.-es mita indieted for the wilful murder
of John Jnrdan, on the teth of May last, at Lewes.
Ey the evidence, it appeared that the deceased and
the Prisoner were two waggon drivers in the Wag-
gnn Corps. They quarrelled on the 29th of May,
and the deceased challenged the Prisoner to fight.
They fought a few rolled', when the deceased re-
ceived a blow under the ear, of which he died in
about halt an hour. The Jury found the Prisoner
of Manslerghter, and in consideration of hav-
ing been in prison three months already, he was
fined a shilling and discharged.
INHUMAN OUTRAGE.
Elisairth Dale, agirl of only re, sees indi&ed
for an assault upon He,iah Carter, an infant of the
age of five years, by holding her over the fire, and
scorching and burning her loins, posteriors, thighs,
Ake. The only 'Witness to the feet vas another child,
about 10 years old, the sister to the intent. By
her testimony it appeared that they were the chil-
dren of a poor man at Ashurst, in this county.
The Prisoner lived at home with their mother-in-
law, when she was out of piece. The youngest
child had committed a small fault, when the mother-
in law (who is since dead) put a furze-bush on the
fi-e, and the Prisoner took up the clothes of the
thild, and held its bare posteriors in the Lime, by
which she was most severely burned and scorched.
Another witness was called, who proved that the
child was near a month before it recovered of its
wounds.

The Jury found the Prisoner :why. and she was
tentenced to three ',tare towpr,re,meut.
IV.lliern tiroontMge and IF4lham Booth were con-
•i red of sheep-stealing.
Geary .W4ite, a lad of 19, was indiaed for break-
ing into the dwelling-house of Richard King, a far-
mer, at Lowley, near Horsham, and stealing about
Soh in notes and money.
By the evidence of the Prosecutor, it appeared
that he was repairing his house in June latt, and the
Piisonet worked with the bricklayer, by which he
pot a knowledge of the bedroom of the Prosecutor.
(In the 16th of June last, when the family were out,
the house was robbed. The next day the Prisoner
tendered a 101. note to a shopkeeper, of the name of
Pollard, as a 11. one; thi; begat suspicion, and on
further inquiry, it turned nut to be one of the notes
lost by the Prosecutor. Verdia—Goiky.
Mr. Just;ce I-Isar:: finished the calendar at four
o'clock, and passed sentence on the I'li:rulers. He
lammed the sheep-stealers they roust expe& no
mercy ; in the ether cases, he said he should inquire
into the clia-o ters of the I': isoners.

A Gentleman, whose veracity may be relied on,
•::o Las lately returned from the Midland Counties,
says, the growing crops have received very little
injury there, from the late heavy rain.
I he Combined Fleet, during their flight from the
ed every vessel they met with
rse, and detained it a day, or
order to prevent the informa-
•g given to Lord Iskt.sust.
and some ether vessels. they

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