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" Onrcon P.

" 11;e do Uale-,nonvinate, constitute. et:legate. and appoint the
Paid 111114= John Itiehanison, our (hug, dtAllitires in Great
Hritain, ftw us and in our name, and foe and on behalf of our said
State ur tioverninelit of Poyart, to negotiate„ contract for, and con-
clude with any person or persons who may be desirous or willing
so to do, of or for a loan or advance of tte sum of live hundred
thousand pounds. or any part thereof, for the service and use cf
our said Sta!•! or Govaninent of Poyais, and upon such terms,
and in such manticr and form, as the said William John Richattl.
ion may think lit ur demo expedient, and fir us. and in our
name, fur and un behalf of our said State or Government, to
sign, seal, and execute all such deeds, instruments, and writ.
lags, as the said William Juhn Richardson shall or may judge
necessary. or that may be deentcd expedient for effectuating the
purpose of the slid, and upon receipt of all, or any part or parts of
the said lens from time to time, acquittances, recta, or other
good and sudicient discharges fur us, am! in our name, or in the
',erne of tsar said State or Government of l'oyais, or in his own
name, out behalf of the 314111 e, to make., sign, and give to the
parties reviring the same. And genenilly to do, negotiate, and
transact and pert:inu all such other acts, matters, and things for
as, or for and on behalf of the State or Government, in relation, or
in any manner incidental to the said loan, or advance, ea
fullyand cifectually, to all intents and purposes, as we our-
gavel could do if personally present, and did and trans.
acted the same, f erety granting to our said l'harge d'Affaires
full, 'topic, and effectual power in the premises. And We
do hereby engage to ratify, allow, and confirm, all and
whatsoever our said ('barge &AS:dr.:it shall lawfully do or cause
to be done, in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents.
And 11'e do hereby revoke, and dm lane to be void, all former
power or 'powers by 17,1 at any time heretofore granted to any other
person or persons a honisoescr, of. for, or concerning, any of the
purports herelnhefor: mentioned. In testimony wit, roof lt'e have
hereunto subscribed ma sign manual, and commanded our seal of
state to be affixed to this deed.

laren aid granted in Boulogne aur 31h, in the kingdom of
rranm, this _ltt day of Srietnbta, !gn, and fourth of our
reign."

No. 5.
By an inurement, dated the 4th day of June. Gregor
Ml•(iregor. I'. ...Tidal %Van. John Richardson his Charge d'Af.
laLres its London, his true and lawful attorney, fur hint and in his
name in Sovereign Prince aforesaid, or otherwise, to contract and
agree a ish any person or persons whatsoever, foe the sale, mortgage,
or demise, whether for money, bills of Exchange. or other secu-
rities. or by way of barter law other Innis in (treat ISritain or met.
motile commodities. all such lanais hereditaments situate in
Poyaar of and belonging to the said Gregor Jl•Urcgor, as to
the said Wrn. John Richardson shall ~rem expedient, and there-
upon, in the name of the said Gregor a 1 Irrgor, to convey or de-
ntist the said lands and bereditaments, so contracted to be sold,
bartered,. Of Vidlallged, or any part or parts th:reof to the se.
vend purchasers thereof, and for that purpose, the said Gregor
111•ISregor, and his name to ►ign and real, as his act and deed, to
deliver any act, deed, conveyance, or assurance fur conveying, either
by way of actual sale or barter, or by way of exchange lox other
estates the said lands or licresittantenta, lees &c. &c.

MOVCIIMIDB.—No person can remain lotig in Paris,
without hearing talk of mom:bards, without knowing, at
first, what kind of animal is meant. Mszerai says, that
the name mouchard was first given to spie:4, after their
chief, Antoine de Alouchy, who, in the reibm of Charles
IX., sent his agents into the interior of private families, to
collect what was said relative to the Ilugulolots. Charles
de llonligne, however, chews, that this honourable ialst
existed :10 years b:rure Antony's time. He speaks of this
race as follows :
sementins pies couleurres
Jugent toujours a tear 11'0,1100a
Et oitte plus est rnotisrlient par la province*
Pour tuteux ours rapportet au Primes.
It appears that morseher had this acceptation a hundred
years before this time, as in an oil comedy we find—
You% Me+ been de luisir
I) .Wee Mite beam MOWN?
It est temps de s'aller couehre.
La mnurhe (a fly) in tly..se days, as well as in our own,
was an insect without heart, without brains, and its head
all eyes ; it penetrated everywhere, fastA el
an everyone's
expense, and corrupt,•l whatt.ver it reified up

HO3fF: CIACCIT.

'ESSEX ASSIZES. Cnzi.sisroato, FRIDAY, Aro. S.

CROWS SIDE.
DUR•iI,.IItV.

Wilfla we Betts was indicted for borglatfously feesking and en-
tering the dwelimg-house of Thmitas %%lite. at Great
in the night of the 2.11 of .fttly last, and stealing therein a watch.
'Alto silver spoons, awl other amides, hi. property.
Mr. DUIVI. !NO stated the ease oar proseeti coin, and tepee.
wined it as ore deserving the ‘CTIOUS CC:lsideTatioll of the Jury,
with reference to the aggravated circumstances Of the offence int.
puted to the prisoner. The prosecutor was a 41mi:rid old man oe.
copying a small freehold property in the pariah in question,
the Inmates of his house siere a bed-ridden old sister and an aged
feut-de, who attended him as housekeeper. In site dead of the
night, two men broke loth his bed-room wleff-eandles in their
hand,. roused hint from his •rleep, and demanded his money
he told them he hail none, whereupon they proceeded to break'
open a chest in his con.,' whence they took a watch and some'
silver money. Not content with 111.4, they
bludgeon
to use the
old man with violence, striking him with a bludgeon upon one of
his wrists, knocking his heat! against the ketl-ppst, and otherwise
ill-treating him. -They thin; went dein stains and roused the
females, who slrto id the parlour, where they 'broke open a cup-
board, front which they took eight silver spoons and ss. in money,
the property of the housekeeper. kenneling up stain they found
the prosecutor with his coat on, which they desired-him to take off,
ter they would out it ofr his back. After remaining in the house
for an hour they quitted it, leaving the back door open. It ap-
peared that an entry had been effected by breaking a large wooden
'tin which fastened it. The prosecutor and his housekeeper both
twore positively to the identity of the prisoner, having each had a
full opportunity of observing hint b means of the light in his
hand.

It was further proved, by a constable, that oh the evening
previous to the robbery. the mower and two other men were teen
by him in the Ilightstreet of Great Bardti:ld, gebg in a direction
towards the ploacc.:tor's hoax. •
The prisoner was a cottager, is an adjoining parish. •
When called upon for his defet.ce, he simply denied the charge,
but called no witnesoes. •

Mr. Karon fin AII A M summed up the evidenne. leaving it to the I
Jury to say Vibe), could rowdily sunwest to themselves any doubt
of the fart of the prisoner s identity. desiring thisn, in the event of '
their doing so, to give the prisoner the benefit of that doubt.
The Jury deliberated a very few minutes, and returned a verdict
of Gh Ht,/ agntinat the prisoner.
The awful sentence of the last was reserved for further eon.
sidasti m.

SAtt'lln%Y, ArGI'ST 7.
The Assizes An this county ended about two o'clock this after-
noon. Sentence of death was paned upon five capital convicts, brat
none of the wretched culprits were left for execution. Four were
for burglary, and the fifth for hora-stealing; and although 4n all
their cases there were eircumstantes of aggravation, the Learned
Judge exercised his discretion in favreir of mercy.

ExrtNscs.
When Mr. Paron GRAHAM discharged the Jury. who had
served during the Assizes, ore of them, in the name of his fellows,
addressed the Learned Judge, and requested to know whether they !
ought not to be allowed something for their loss of time. They had
'tow been detained from their homes fur six days. at considerable
expense and inconvenience, and they hoped thXt the Court would
mint them sonic compensation out of the county thuds.
Mr. Baron GRATUM said it was quite out Of hit )wirrt td tieW
to the request. Ile had no authority to make any order upeot the
subject. Indeed, if such authority were vested in a Judge, It
might be productive of serious consequences io the administration
of justice. The office of juryman. though it might be biathen-
soine to the individual, was most important to society, and ought
to be discharged without fee or reward. It was one of the honour-
able duties imposed upon persons in the station of life from which
jurors were selected ; and in the uninfluenced discharge of whiCh
the deepest imetests of society were concerned.
The Juryman did not seem at all satisfied with his Lortlthip's
answer, and expressed a hope that his Lordship would take the
subject into his serious consideration, and bring the matter before
the House of Lords.

The Learned smiled at this suggestion, and usual the
gentleman that he had no authority or influence ore way or the
odor upon the subject. The matter was entirely for the c:onsidtra-
tion of the Legs►laturr. •

OXFORD CIRCIUT.

STAFFORD ASSIZES, Fainar, Avevre G.

Bribre Mr. Jwsike LITTILTDALL
Inllan, Cope, aged W. who et the last Assizes was found by the
Jury to be insane, and therefore unable to plead to an indictment
found against hint the burglary, WaS sgair. brought tip for the purpose
of ascertaining whether he had become of sufficiently sound mind
th answer the charge. A Jury was therefore sworn to inquire whe.
titer the prisoner wan insane by the visitation of God, or whether by
fraud and covin he only counterfeited insanity.
31r. Hughes, the surgitbn of the prison, stated, that the prisoner
was still decidedly insane, and perfectly unable to answer any charge'!
that might be made against him.
Thomas lirutton, keeper of the gnu 4 and governor of the House
of Correction, stated that the prisoner had been in his custody
since the beginning:of the year itia 4 when the prisoner was first
brought into gaol he appeared sane, but won after hi became
insane, and Mil rot know what he was about. He (nether stated,
that the primmer was at some times very violent, but at all times
decidedly insane.
The Jury found that the prisoner was really insane. Ile was of
course rot tried.

William Tatdkr was indicted for stealing a gold medal and a
'nowt.° ease. the property of George Tolle, Esq.
Mrs. Elisabeth Tonniclitre stated—l am housekeeper to Mr.
Toilet ; I remember a rose of medals standing in the library of
Wiley flail, the seat of the pmsecutor; in April last the gold
modal I believe was safe; in that month the prisoner and another
boy were employed to sweep the chininics; amongst others they
swept the chtinnies of the drawing.roomi the door of the drawing.
room is near that of the library ; the me..al had Mr. Toilet's name
on it ; it sirs missed a few days afterwards.
John ant a police officer at Birmingham; 1 io ntl the
prisoner and another person at a silvenniith's shop at that place :1
tic prisoner was in the shop, and the other outside; I asked Mr.
Iloston, who keeps the shop, what the prisoner had to sell? lie said
a timid ; and the prisoner produced a gold one in a red morocco
ease ; 1 asked him how he came by it ? he said it lead been left
him by his grandfather, and he hail had it a long time; he said he
came from Newcastle; that is close to Mr. 'toilet's residence. (lie
produced the medal ; it was the large gold metal of the Agricul-
tural Society.)
3lrs. Tee iniclifre identified the medal, though the name of Mr.
Toilet was eriscd from its edge.
Mr. Toilet proved that this resemidea his medal. and he be-
hewed it to he so; he had not teen it for a considerable time before
the loss.

Jinni !Towle said, I accompanied the prisoner to Newcastle
when in custody, and the prisoner without either threat or pro-
mise said, " Can you tell me what I shall be done with ?' I
said, " It depends on the crime you have committed ;" he said,
For taking a medal from Mr. 'toilet's?" I said, " Where
did you t..ke it from? Did you break any locks open ?" Ile
said, " No; I took it ofT a table in a rcotn." I asked :tint if
there was any name on the edge ? lie said, " Yee, Mr. Toilet's'
name, and that he rubbed it oil on a stone at his brother's." I
said, " Did you nib the name off tOr fear of being found out ?"
Ile said, " Vex"
The prisoner said nothing in his defence.
Mr. Justice I.urr I.ensti: summed up the eris'.ence.
.lodgment of sleatb recorded.
John Johnson was indicted for stealing a lamb, the property of
George Atkins.
George Atkins said, I lire at Lay's um, and hail sheep there;
four ewes, eight lambs, and two hogs (two year old sheep). On
the :NI of April 1 went into the grounds, and nsissed is lamb ;
it was shout two months old, and had a long tail. On the lith
of April I went to John Limer's farm. I took my sheep and
births. There was a ewe in Linter's field with three lamb.; one
of was higgi.r than the rci, which I took to he mine. I
turned Mv Amp into that field, and thit.ewe and 1:nal bleated
to each otter, and the lamb cause up to the ewe; this lamb had
a short tai': On my way back, I met the prisoner; I said to
him' 3I r. Johmon, the iamb. I have found in John Litr,v's
field has owned my car. lle said, Then he owns wrongfully."
1 said, " It is rut awkward thing that the lamb's tail is cut." Ile
said, " It was." _ .

Cross-examined by Mr. et:swoon—l kno* the prisoner. His
father is a respectable farmer, and married the daughter of another;
there is only a between his &tiler's land and mire. 1 cannot
swear that the lamb was taken ; it might have strayed. I do not
know that the prisoner inquired of his neighbours whether they had
any of them lost a lamb.
Lydia Bond. a servant of the prosecutor, said, I missed a
lamb on the :NI of April. I found a lamb in John lamer's
croft on the 1.11 of April ; one of the ewes had three lambs,
two little ones end • large one. I thought the large one was
my master's ; when the lamb was lost it had • long tail, and
when it came back again it had a short tail. I saw the prisoner
the II3!1!C nion.ing, and asked him how he came by it. Ila said,
it hail got among his fathers lambs, who told him to take it, for
it did not belong to him; and I said I had seen his father going
to Church, :ma .hail risked hint if he had seen or heard of a lamb,
as we had hat one, anti the father said he had not. I asked him
how lie came to keep it. and cut its tail. es that was a serious thing.
Ile said lie always cut oft the tails of his own Limbs when they
lyrist:irk%
Crow...examined by Mr. Utaanve-1 had notseen Wilson. Any
person going along the adjacent carnage road could sue the field
of John lamer. There was no pitch mark on my master's lambs.
John Linter said. I lire at Blythe-bridge Hank ; the prisoner
is my son.in.law ; he asked me to bring a ewe and lambs to my
Owe; I did not see them brought; 1 could not se, ;Lou, I was
so very lame. (.t laugh.) I saw a ewe and three lambs on the
Sunday following; I asked him where one of them came from:
hr said his father had had a ewe die, and had given him a lamb.
The next day Atkins called me to him ; I saw his as and lambs,
and when the pmseeutor's ewe came up to Cie hut.b in qen Arian she
knocked it down. (The witness lure gave several very con! radic.
tort' answirs. antLiwid a hang story about some children and a dog,
which did not bear on the case.) This he said was all he told
4tef.ire the Magistrate.
irms.exiv,ined by Mr. Craw on: —I am brought here by the
prosecutor ; if I had been disposed to hero served UV som.in-law by
perjury. I might have swum falsely before the llagtstrate.
Ite.numaineit by the Jrn,)E--Thr.• prosecutor complained of
having lest • lamb; hr asked me to let him see if one of the
tubs to my ii •Id and e::e et his ewes woqld nut own each other

agreed it should le' so; 41.11 not Pe whether the lamb twin!:
I said before the 31aaistraie that it mitt* have •socktil for all
knew* I never said that the lamb belonged .to the ewe.
Joseph Salt said-1 live et Illythe-b.itige Bank; I went nal
Limey's croft with the prosecutor's sheep, I saw the sheep
lambs meet ; one of the prosecutor's ewes b !eared, and one of the
prisoner's lambs ran towarth the rwosecutor's abet's, cud that lamb'
:sumac,' to mak ; Linter was tittle: I did not see the ewe knead
the land,' Joan; I saw the prisoner, and heard Atkin.; ask hint
was satittied that the ewe and lamb belonged to each ,!
other, an he said he was.

The pawner desir.al his witnesses might be called. but declined
making nay statewert.
John Ellestinite stated, that the privincr had called on him In the
month or April, and asked if the witness had lost a land u 1e
hail found one ; this was before Atkins claimed it.

:Several very respectable witnesses gavetrieprivoner • pa!
character.

Mr. Justice LIT T LEDALL summed up the cridence.—Verdict.—
.Xot

SAT uttneAvA I:OUST 7.
CROWN SIDE.
Briere Mr. bathe LIT rLE Dv L E.
Joh% Jaynes, ailed Itl, ass indicted foe stealing a quaatity of
flannel, the property of Joseph Pegg.
Mr. LW RWOOD conducted the prineariten.
The prosecutor. a lincnd,aper at !Lindley, proved the loss of the
prertv.
An old woman was called; 010 stated that she saw John Jsnire
tome along a road with a long boodle, which be took into a brick-
field, and piled bricks ever it.
Mr. Pnit.tles, for the prisoner, asked the old woman if she
saw the person who had the bundle now in court ? She looked
carefully at the countenance of every Barrister at the table, and
evert Magistrate on the bench, and then very coolly said she could
not lee him. A wand :as then put into her hand for the purpose
of her touching the person she might identify t and thi a hiking a!
sunnyof another side of the Court, she seemed to hesitate fur a
long tittle between one of the clerks of the Learned Judge, and the
head turnkey of ;he prison, and ;a: Lust she made up her mind to
, the turnkey, and laid the wand on ins head. It is rather singular
that the prisoner stood close to tile person she so pointed out.
MC Curt wool') told her she might go away, and called the old
woman's son, who at once spoke to the person or the prisoner, and
stated that he and his moth, r had known him for some years.
The finding of the flannel was proved, and it was identified by
tile sister of the Prosecutor, who stated that that sort of flannel was
suu,l at 2s. 2d. t yard, but they got a handsome profit out of that;
but the witness a.eelined Irg how much.
The prisoner mole no dainee.
Mr. Justice Ids r tenets summed op the evidence.
Verdict—Gu.ifisi. Sentence —Trt 'I years' imprisontneht, with
hard labour.

Forall Perke, was tndictrd for stealing a cow.
James 3lieklewright, a constable. atsted...hat the prisoner camel
to sell the .eow to him, saying that it had been given to him
by his master Mr. Nash. in lieu of IW. wages. He offered the cow
at M. 14PL and the witness took him into ruatody.
Mr. Nash, the owner of die c.>w. said That he lost the cow out of
an en lolled field, with a good fence round it. lie had never given
the cow instead of wages. nor had he ever owed the prisoner say,
verges, as he had never 'forked for him.
The defence set up was irsan its.
The prisoner's master stated that lie thought he was ir.rane, but
he could work very well.
Cross-examined. by Mr. PHILLIPS—The prisoner has a wife.';
The prisoner's Crtilbsei That is no proof of sense.
Mr. l'it LLiss—lhe Learned Gent,enian says, that his having
• wife is nu proof of sense. l hope the Ladies did not hear :t.
(A laugh.)
Th• Witness—lie keeps his family by his labour.
.111.6liam Dill' stated.— I am turnkey of the prison; the prisoner
atwOya seemed in a low ::Netit way, as if not right in his mind.
Cross-examined by !Ir. PiiiLLlPS—People in prison are seidnen
see y gay; but the surgeon was never called in to attend hits.
When his rei!'e came to see him he would not take ary notice of
her.

Pnixt.iwa—That, according to his own Counsel, is a great
proof of his sense.
The Learned Jr pc r trimmed up the evident:. and left it to the
Jury to say whether tile prisoner was guilty of stealing tie cow,
and whether, if so, they connitlered him insane.
Jury, atter a *lion sassultation, found the prisoner Gaiktr,
but recommended Lau to nierey.--Judgment of deeithrecorded:
Tyle7, aged la, was itglictrd for setting fire to a ci.aon
mill, the property of Sir Robert Peel, Hart.
The prisoner was' very tlettent-laoking lad.
111 e. CuRROOD stated the case for the prosecution. The pro,c-
cutor occupied • cotton mill at Fazely, as tenant of Sir Robert
Peel, that mill was burnt down under such eitcutustaneta as left no I
doubt that the lire did not arise front accident. A witness would
ir,deed prove a confession by the prisoner of the actual fact, but he
ought to say that this witness was one not of so nspeetalile a de.
scription as might be wished, therefore they would consider whether
this witness was beicicotly corroborated. It would appear clear
that the prisoner was drinkingat • public house wlate as 12
o'clock at night, and lie said he had then gone to be bed at Tam.
worth, but it would :Treat that he was at the tire at an hour so
early as to make that impossible, and this witness (a young woman)
would state that on seeing hint the next morning she observed it
was a bail job. lie said it was, but the tire office would pay it.
She said, Had you any share in the jolt, he said, Vex, he knew
where to find the keys of the mill, and that he lighted sonie waste
cotton and threw it among soots more, and then threw the candle
and lanthorn into the 111111-‘l.ltu. No candle or lagthorn were
round In the wrill.alsca t .but a candle and !anthem were frund in a
neighbouring well, and with regard to sating that he knew where
to find the tees, he would state that die head overseer, to avoid
being disturbed in the mornings,_used to hide the keys, where he
knew that the man who was to light the fires cf the mill would
find them.

Mr. John lluntc? said, I Mcapy thi? m'll; it is situate at
Fuely. lln the Light of the 11th of Novi tuber, the a hole of the 'I
mill was burnt excilit the outside walbi and the steam engine. On
the morning of the day before the tire I was in the upper part pU
the mill where there was some cotton, waste oil paper, old frames,
and other lumber. There were lamps used in the morning of that
day. It was on a Saturday, therefore there were no lights In the
mill in the evening that I know of. In the next room to this was
manufactured cotton. The mill was built of brick, and was what
I was called a cotton mill.

Examined by the Learned JUDGE-1 am tenant of the mill,
and have no partner. The prisoner was trot a workman of mine.
The lamps era lighed in the evening, about five or six o'clock.
They are oil. The warkmen leave work at half-past seven; but
did not work on that day cm account of the height of the water in
the stream making the v beels sork badly.
itachel Fletcher, a King's evidence, who appeared to be about
18 years of age, atated, I know the prisoner; 1 remember the
night when the mill was burnt. I worked at Mr. reel's,
and the prisoner worked at Bonne 11111. I met him about half.
past seven o'clock. after I had been home sonic time. Ile came
an, and stayed till bed-time, which is after ten o'clock. Ilynins
were sung at Mrs. Gibson's, next door, and I went out to hear
them, and saw the prisoner. I observed that the prisoner had a
lantern under his jacket ; it was lighted. I asked him where be was
going. lie replied it does not matter to you where I am going.
Ile went over the wooden bridge, towards Mr. Ilantet'a factory.
It was near eleven o'clock. I rentenelies tie mill being on lire t
head the cry when I was in bed. 1)n the neat day, that is the
Sunday. I saw the prisoner at about two o'clock, ou some timber
facing Ilene y Jenkina's door, where I lodged, lie sent in
for seine apples, aced gave me one, and the other girl who was with
me: it wets one of the apprentices. Ile looked very frightened.
I told him it was a shocking thing that this fire had happened.
lie at tint made ro arswer, and when 1 asked him again, he bid
one to hold my tongue, or he should be found out. walked
down to the navigation bridge. 1 said how could any one get into,
the factory, lie said anyone could soon get in, for the kris lay
withinside the gates. I asked him how be did it, and he said he
had got waste, and rubbed it in oil, and set it tin tire.
said what a loss to Mr. Hunter it would be. lie said
—he be d—d, it woiald be no loss to him, for there was •
tire-office, who would make it good to him. I said what a
spite it was to Mr. Monter. lle said ne spite it all, for the tire
office makes it gewal. Ile said further, that after he had set it on
fire, he hail thrown the 'anthem and candle into the mill dam.
lle said, as we walked along, that be was very sleepy, for he had
not been in bed all night, and was going home. lie went away, and
in the evening as Mary Flendel and myself were going eleven the same
road, we met the prisoner. and ell wentho Tamwoetli together ; and
as we were coming hack overtook a boy named IVildnian• and the
prisoner put his hand down a bank, and could rot feel any thing.
and then putting his band down again, he shouted out, " all is
safe." ! saw nothing, because be would not let me, saying it
would do me re, grew.
Freese-examined by the prisoner—CM the 3londay night you
gave me something to drink at Mr. Weston's., with two (Awl girl%
.ill fine of us came out of the house, and you wcut home, and
the other girls said they would go to Tiunworth, and I said I
would go with them. All four went, and were returning a little
way out of the town. The other girls said, they were so late that
they, being apprentices, would be locked out, and it was agreed
to sleep in the fields, and Thomas Wildman got a lock wt. a
hotel-door, and all tiro went in, and remained till five o'clock the
next Interning, and then went to Farcley. I went to the mill, and
hack again to my lodgings, and they were getting up as I got to
the door. .lr. Peel turned me away. My master did say that it
was hint o'clock, nod time to go to bed ; but our cieck was not
by the chinch. There is no church in Frady, howercr. only a
chapel. and that has no clock. You hail a lathem under your
4acket ; 1 could see the light through. You had a dui corduroy
jacket on.
Examined by the learned Jrnor —I don't brow my are : 1
believe between 17 and 18. I cannot say how long I lived in Faitelv:
I lived in Litchfield betiere that; I left that place because there was'
no work. I hare brothers and sisters: I don't know shear three
of them are. I got work as soon ea i got to Fasely. At I.itch.
field nobody was tint away but me: I was turrad away for going
away home. I was first iodinate with the prisoner about twelve.
months *co. but have been no further ir.timate with him thin
freaking. I never had any quatrel with him ; we never Lees' to
talk together of what passed; he never told time hut about this fac-
tory. 1 know Faulkener, but have known him but it
little while. 1 went home when I was turned away the second
time, which wan for staying all night in the hoveL I know Anne
Haddock: I knew her at Alder's null. I know Mary Vert:n..oo
1 remember coming home early to my lodgings. erect complaining
of being ill. I was not out of spirits; I was out of spirits; it iteas
became I was not v. ty well ar.d 'metier. I told 3lary Ferguson'
about the mill all tire the prisoner told me; I told tier that the I
prisoner hail set it on lire, but she charged me with has ing helped
to do it, and with being one of the •• metes." She said I did it,'
and the charged me with having confessed it. She said that I had
told her that I had dipped the cotton in the oil. and urea-If act it
ce fire, and that I said I d:rew the lartcr: :730 the The

'prison.? and r ware Ntimtc. r know Mr. hunter; I never
worked for biro, oat spike to hip., At the last. Aysieru I was at
Stockport; I don't know when I went there. I remember Woe.
Faulkener being taken through flat town, and I left the next
morning and went to Stockport. tie was chanted as one that did
it; I never had charged him viithlt, nor said anything of the mom
I only said he was there when I went to look at the Are. I XlVelt;
I never said any more about Faulkener. I went to titocktiort ho
Call!e thel frightened rne. I remained at Stockport till I eau,
here. I don't know John Powell, and never worked in Si,., ijr.
ton. I never told my father to say that I as,. there.
1 homes Tamer stated—ln Noventbet hot I lived at rarely,
in the service of John Hunter. ati a carder. I hiched tip the mil
that night. That Ira a fire in the with and a candle, b'.t
none in the upper part. The randlea were all put out before
went away. I matt that all was safe in the lower apartments,
but the upper ones I did not look into I hung up the ken,
•on one of the walls of the mallard. I heard the alarm of tre
given about ore or two o'clock to the eight. I I;TC CAW to the
Mill. I got up; I new no one about the mill. The gates and
doors rue ell unlocked. The fire broke oat at the top of she
mill, except the cock loft. The lights werein the buxom Farr,
*Ad put oat when I locked the doors.
John Evans said--I was Mr. Hunter's foreman sr the time of
the Ore. I saw the fire bunting out of the roof. In the upper
part of the house was old Icin,,er of all amts. %Viten I went to
the fire I did not see any orrf there.
Rachel Fletcher recalled kV the Learned Jeocr.—The pri-
soner said he would tell me if I could keeps I.c:ret 1:e would tzle
me. I did not ask him how he did it.
John Wililinan saki—l saw the prisoner on the night of the
fire at shoot eleven o'clock, with several ether.. We were at a
hoot.: together, and the prisoner and the others went array; and
I then saw them again at half-past twelve. They were then
near she mill, but the mill was not on lire for wait time
after t.iat.

Croas-exammed by the prisonkr.—l said I was not going home
till a cart was going, which was between ore and two see-luck
that night.
Examined by the Learred June:E.—When they were near tlvr
mill they were not ping towards it.
Thomas Barret stated—l was in company with the last witness,
at the house he meniionitl.
Mary Bristow stated ta-alsing important.
Henry Winter examined.-1 am a watchman and at one &elect
on the night of the fire I met Tyler and Faulkner coming into the
town. The hour was on; but the workhouse clod struck two,
but it wits Inc too many. I soon saw a fire, which appeared a
little way out of Tamworib.
Sarah eolith examined—l lire near Fa.-ely. On bile morningafter the fire I was out between six sada. .wilgoleiback. leaked hies
ILAN had been to set the fire. fie +aid —11111111r—„and it was all burn
down except the outside walls. lie sai,t he had passed the ai;:l
that night, between one and two, and there was nv fire then.
(The prisoner's examinat' tin lalore Mr. lame the Magristist.
was rod. It stated that the prisoner, and other lads wheal he
named, went to a public-home. and' staid till he went to Rachel
Fletcher's, and then went to another publie.house (the George sa.,
Dragon), and then to a house elf an acquaintance : and went te-
a pint a piece, came out. and weld up the street, through the tor,
pike, and over a lock-gate, and, toaelling a rail. it fell, and he
it. The clock struck one as bespoke to the watchman.
James Puffin examined-1 am d constable of Tamworth. and
conveyed the prisoner to gaol. We were at the lied Lion, at Staf-
ford, before I took hlm to gaol. I Went out of the room, and act
came in he was telling the company in the mum that there was
some cotton waste in one corner of the roltn, and some pawn it;
the ether. I asked item how he knew that? and he said he only
knew {ass the wench had told hint •

Geo. Gibbons--1 exaniihcathe prosecutor's well. Near the rota
1 found a lantern at the buttons of the well, anti a bit of candle is
it. (He produced it ;it ras a ecannian horn lantern.)
The prisoner put in a written deem?, rhifh was rt..nd by

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The defence was neatly similar to the priocne:',. Its before
the 313gistrate, and added that the girl was eirmrtily of belief. alt.:
beings common prostitute, and head been turned allay by different
matters, and been guilty of stealing t shawl
The prisoner desired 11'm. Faulkene„ who hail been orig;-
na/ly indicted with the prlmmer, hut against whom the bill had obt
been found, should he ccdti lend as a nitres& He was areoiding: •
called, and stated that the prismer and he had been in commas"
the evening in question, and thatthey had gone home together
Mr. Justice LITTLEDAI.I: summed up the evidence, and -
scrred, that there apttessed to be no motive for the prisoner to /v.,
committed the uffimee ; and the question wan, whether they be-
lieved Rachel Fletcher, for if they did not. there *as by no weara
sufficient evidence to justify therr finding the prisoner guilty; ar.d
even if they thrtght it doubtful whether she ough to be Liberal
or not, they shriuld acquit.
The Ju7 halving consulted togedie: :It: some Tithe, fo:nd the
prisone: o Grsike.

SIDE.
(Befl,rr J ustier PARK.)
HARKER K. FRKAI:ER.
Mr. CAMPBELL gated, that this was an action for an assault.
which the defendant had justified by pleading that the plaintiff
assaulted him first. His client was a harmless tailor. Ile dki t•. t
present him to the Jury as a man ofa very brave, and certainly rut
of a very flume/some disposition ; but on the day in question ft,:
plaintilraild several more were drinking at the Falcon public-bum,.
near Stone, where the party mixed themselves by callings.
client " Bodkin." Jokes flew about, till at length the defender.
being angry at something the plaintiff said, got up anti beat htt•
till he was covered with blood. • This wan the assault complain.
or, and his witnesses would prove that ft was wanton and sat-
provoked. •
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The Learned Oentlemag called two witnesses to prone du face.
who stated the rime fans that he WA opened ; and on enecte-exatai.
nation they deleted shit the plpinthf had g'een the defendant ar e
other provocation than Melt frottual.lokes, but that the deiendaite
who wits a powerful man, fell upon the plaintiff, and gave bat
most severe and unprovoked beating.
Mr. ('t: swoon, foe the defendant, said he had often admited
the ingenuity of his friend Mr, Campbell, but never tnorr thus
no*, for he began by •being witty, be which he put the Jury in.
good humour, sled concluded by being very pathetic!, to inilsee
them to give lanie damages. Z hinigh trite it was that the plieintt
was but a talk:, yet se-online to his instruction he war a most
tertible tailor, Soil the dread of all the village which he inhabitea.
(A laugh.) lie was told that he had fought near a bandit-ft pitched
battles, and he should tell them a very different story as to the pre-
sent affair, for es he was told, the tailor began the assault by throw-
ing a Atria of ale in the defendant's free, on which the defendant
not broaLlug the insult, had a set-to with the plaitilitY, and two
or three rounds :toren', en which the plaintiff got rather the
worst; tr.q the plainalf r* content with thir,• -and seeing a
man named Milwanl present, exclaimeti, " A h Fifty, are vou
them; who stole the Vorkshiremares pocket-honk ?"113filward
this as badly as the defendant did the glass of ale, and another sc -
to between them followed. In 31ilward he found what the hocez•
esdled " a hugly customer," for 31ilward " gamed him oat," te•et
give him " a regular milling," and it was to that thrashing tt
he was :ralebted for his bloody appearance. After this the plaintiete
melted a red-hot poke:, and flourished it about the room, and be-
haved so violently, as to Compel them to send for a coolish's!, kt.:
the constable when he came could do but little, and then there sus
a geneal cry for them to send for Ms wile. is the only can pow:en
that could subdue this terrific tailor. (A litigh.) The ade came.
cad between her and the constable he was at last mastered.
Four witnesses were then called, v ho proved the following case,—
That the parties were drinking together when the defendant It 4
asleep, and the plaindff swore that he was no company, and he
would put the poker in the tire, and make him a freemason ; the
plaintiff then arouses! item, and offered him a glass of ale, se leech he
refusing. the pheintiff drank half and tlezew the other half in hew
face; a fight ensued, and the plaintiff was beaten; and :tithes:4
(the ht,geereCtlMollllCT aforesaid) proved that begtartelksl with bar.
and they turned to, and he gave the plaintiff a sound thrashing :
and he also proved the introduction af the constable and the wef.
in the field, or ratline chamber of battle, precisely as stated by Or
Lessened Counsel.

The Learned Judge, in ehmging the Jury. observed, that though
it certainly appLared that the plainsit was a fai.4of. he wa. far frp.:t
enorir.eed that h: vas a pcscrAble one.—Venli:t for the Petri's:4.

It7STERN CINCVIT.

itl \CHESTER ASSIZT,S, FaIDAT, Avcrst E.

CRIMINAL COFRT.
SIIEEP.STUALINt;.

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Richard renews, and jaws Batt were indicted for strdieg 6
sheep, the property of 11. Collis, on the 224 February, Ill= 13
the pariah of King's Soniborne.
J. Boucher stated, that he (mind a sheep skin in a ditch tear tts
prosecutoa:s faint in February. Ha/ _

• A. Bentham. the proscrutor's shepherd, received the skin frip.n
the tart witness. A hole had been cut where his niasier's man,.
was placed.
H. Collis :Toyed that he had lost a sheep soon alter Februar
lie 2.

The depositions of the two prisoners before the Magis:rate, con-
fessing to hewing stolen the sheep, were then put in.
The Jury found both prisoners Giriftg.
The Learned .11nrict observed, that there were no fewer ea)
eleven cases of sheep-stealing in the calendar. It was the to t':.e
puNte security that an example should be made of these offs
and sentenced the prisoners to transFort:.:mo for life. I;.. I.cr (-
ship, in the course of this trial, remarred, that the deposit.. ?
this case was rot:truly drawn. and avaaable for the purposes .'t
justice. It was nearly a solitary instance here, for the mann, r
which depositions were taken in this county before 31agistratis
was most informal, slovenly. and disgraceful, the time of
Court being for the most pact wasted in a fruitless attese.pt to sle%i-
viler them.
.1. Ltoleraf and C. Thal were convicted for having ur.1„:,w,1 r,
in their possession a quantity of cordage marked • ith the worsts al
threa.l. and a quantity of iron articles marked with a broad arr,•.
being the property of his Majesty.
The Cones Jeartes: (who was now st•i4ting Ilaron fiarrow
sentenced the former deb:Want to twelve months r:.
and the latter (who was in had health) to sia months imin,soa-
meat m the House of Correction.
Jos,sl llilter, T.Vmas RafM4 sod Irmisa Salt's were in
dieted; the two former for burulAriouslv be, :.king and erteriog tlt
dwelling-house of T. !bowling. in the ranch of Fling. in (•,i
counts. in the night between the 27th and Likh of July, and real
ing therein certain articles of wearing apparel and an sielbrOs
his property ; and the latter was iodieted for receiving part et th
same. know ing them to have been stolen.
thart hheePtast"eTed""al-lwhhi:iuo ii!Ooajrisb‘anild‘ft(irtiondoMwar. Si'ion igesi
the irl le.
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