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London, England, 1806-03-28 00:00:00

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CROWN SIDE.
On the Crown Side, theta was no case of any

consequence.
'Mostar Galin was eesecified of a burglary in the
i house of Thomas Bristow. The manner in which
the prisoner was detefted was rather remarkable.,
1 The Prosecutor fonnd his house broken open in the
evening of the 23d of January, and some of hit-
' clothes stolen. Looking about the window, where
the thief broke in, he observed footsteps, and knew'
I threw to be the maths of his own shoes, which were;
stolen. He traced these steps to Wadhurst. some
kmikes from his awn house, and thence he followed
them to l'unbridge Wells, to a public house called
the Chequers. In that house he found the Prisoner,
with.the stolen clothes upon him.
Kr. Justice Hearst finished about four o'clock,
and passed sentence of death on Ave Prisoners ; but
none of them are cases of magnitude ; and he told
thewite should enquire into their past lives, and, if
deserving. recommend, t!lam to R sal mercy.
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NORPtII..K ASSIZES.
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a.Satarday last, the Honourable Sir NASH
arrived at Thetford, in the evening,
alg-he opened his commission. The following
thrjr, his Lordship, accompani al by the High Sherif
(Hersey Lee WA 'nag, Esq.) and the Corporation,
attended divine service at St. Peter's, where an ap-
propriate sermon was preached by the Rev. Caleb
Klwin, the High Sheriff's Chaplain, from- Boman,.
e. iii. v. 19. "Dearly 6d...end, arenge not yearvlree."
r On Monday morning the business of the Assizes
( cammenced.
Hia Lordship, in his charge to the Grand Jury,
expressed himself in terms of congratulation, as
upon a circumstance unquestionably creditable to
r the county at Loge, that in so populous a distrift as
Norfolk, there should be so few offences coming
under his cognizance, as those which presented
themselves on the present calendar ; and still more
particularly that two only of these were of a ca.
petal nature. He alluded to the case of the un-
tunate woman, charged with the murder of her
leftist child ; and the case of Alice Oleeti, charged
with Arco. With respell to the former. his Lord-
ship observed, that by an Aft of the Ist of James
I. it had been made murder to conceal the birth
of a child. This law, which, from i:s severity had,
been pronounced en be written in blood, had been
I afterwards repealed; and in cases of this nature, it
was now necessary, in order to bar ing home proof
to a full conviEtion, that the corpse deli,* should
be established—that it should be made clearly to
appear, the infant being had once lived. Its the
present matter, it should seem by the evidence of the
surgeon. that no violence had been dare to the
body—and Gentlemen would bear these constdera-
tiens in mind, in their decision on this case. In
adverting to the charge of an assault, with intent
Mamma a rape, his Lordship said, that it was a
case which nag' t to have been tried before, and
took occasion, in a general way, acid with reference
to some other uff-noes its the eelendas, to recom-
mend Magistrates to bring such in future before the
Courts of Quarter Sessions. Espeditinn, the Judge
observed, was, in matters of the kind in question,
highly necessary; and it was a tali which could not
be too straingly impressed on the minds of those in
i wham the magisterial authority Was vested, that
; &gaol sat as ,err.3er if ~ale. indeed, added his
Lordship, most feelingly and justly, it is, on the
contrary. but use frequently seen, that people enter
these places of confinement, to come out again
more abandenedlp corrupt and profligate. His
Lirdship concluded by assuring the Gentlemen of
his perfeet confiJence in the able and upright men-
ses to which they would then proceed to the die.
charge of their important duties.
CAURFs.
There were only three Causes, and hot two of
there came on to be tried ; the other, viz. Sparrow
• Htitchnw. n, respecting a wool bargain, was left
to arbitration.
THRUM** O. CHAPMAN!.
Thu, was an seine brought by the Plaintif
for recovery of the value of two sheep, which, It
was proved by the Plaintiff's v itsiesses, bad bee*'
killed by the Defendants. In etc rouse of the
Vial, which formed the most corrid- rattle part of
the hnsiness of the da!, it appeared, that the Defend-
ants had vise out with sticks, and a dog, upon a
common, on which the Plaintiff's sheep were feed-
ing, and having driven one into a ditch, had there
beaten it to death with their sticks ; and that the dog
had pursued another, and torn mar its entrails. It
was stated on the part of the Defendants, that the
whole was a malicious fabrication, and evidence
was about to be produced in proof of that rate-
mem ; hot it having been previously agreed that the
witnesses on both sides should be nut of Court, and
the Defendants' witnesses, misunderstanding the or-
der given to that effeet, having been present during
the examination of the Plaints'', witnesses, they
were, in consequence of that circumstance, pre-
vented from bring heard, and a verdia was given
for the Plaintiff, of 21. t Is. rid. damages.
CROore-atiniteEns
. There were fifteen Prisoners for trial at these
Assizes, and some of the charges were of an inte-
resting natnre.—The trial of J. Philippe, for sheep-
stealing. was of considerable length. It appeared,
on the evidence of Mr. Charles Gwynn, sun of the
L-.te Mr. Gwynn, of l'ensthorpe, arid who manages
Cu concerns of the farm there for the Eaecutors,
the. on the morning of Monday, the 30:h of De-
eembev last he (Mr. G.) went, in consequence of
information given him by his bailiff, to the pen
where his sheep were, and near it observed the
four feet of a sheep cut off, and entrails lying on
the ground—that from this spot he traced the toot-
ing of an ass for nearly three miles, as far as Guist,
and at the same tune, the mark of a man's shoes of
a particular form ; the nails of the heels projetting
out. and a row oaf nails round and across the hall of
the foot; that he observed, as the ass went to the
pen, there was no man's footing, beside it. The
Witness also described the way in which the ass
walked as very remarkable, the hind feet turring
and 4stepping (as it were) across the fore
Aliflynceented Mr. Gwynn from zttenti-
subjea, and the charge of