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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JULY 17.

Joseph Powell was indicted for assaulting --
Webb. the toll-collector, at Boysoster-turnotke.

Webb proved that on the Ist of May the De-
fendant drove a one-horse chaise through his gate
without paying the toll. Webb immediately seized
the horse by the head, •nd the Defendant, without
paying, struck him severely 'several times with his
whip. He afterward► paid the toll, and drove off.
The Defendant produced (as • witness fur him)
a female who was with hint in the chaise ut the time
the assault was committed, and who corroborated
every thing that Webb had stated.
The Jury. without hesitation, found • verdict
of Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN told the Defendant his conduct
was most unwarrantable in committing a violent
assault on a person in the discharge of his du►y.
Whenever toll-collectors violated their duty to the
public the Court punished them severely, and they
must now show persons disposed to violate the
peace, by assaulting, them in the discharge of their
duty, that the law would protect them. The judg-
ment of the Court was, that he should pay a fine
of 51. ; and as lie had been so foolish as to threaten
the Prosecutor with further violence, because lie
had very properly appealed to the laws of his coun-
try for redress, the Court also required, that he
should give security in the sum of Std. to keep the
peace fur oue year.

• - MR. HUNT.
The following letter i• copied from a Morning
Paper of yesterday :

TO THE EDITOR.
SAJTILIS, JULY 15, 1921.
SlR—Although you have generally evinced great political
Imottlily towards use, yet I should hope that hostility would
nut induce you intentionally to insert a palpable falsehood
in your widely circulated sod respectable Paper, calculated
to encoerage oppression, and the infliction of torture upon
individual who has the misfortune to be imp►isoued
within the walls of a gaol.
You, Sir, may easily conceive that every gaoler throughout
the United Kingdom who has acted the tyrant, has had
his eve fixed upon the inquiry still pending at Ilchester,
relative to the (undue. of the gaoler, and the state of t►e gaol,
and that those who are their prisoners have not failed to
watch with anxiety for some Report lopes the subject. The
Commissioners have closed their investigation after • labo-
Hoes and patisul inquiry, but you know they have not made
their Report, neither Is the evidence before the public ; yrt
you have propagated • report exactly the reverse of the fact,
all an eateries hom the Gloucester Jou►nal, slating. That
none of the serious charges preferred against the Governor
have been substantiated." Although a true account of what
has taken place at Ilchester, was just as likely to come (sum
New York as from Gloucester, yet you have given it the air
of probability by inserting it in your paper, whirls I should
hope your humauity will indeceyon to correct by giving inser-
tion to ibis letter. I beg leave to state that every Maros whirl,
I permed before the Commissioners against the gaoler, was
snholent inter] upon trails; that to many of the moat heinous
of those charges he pleaded guilty, and made no defence
at all, and those few that he attempted to deny, be cows-
pletely failed in the proof that he brought. The gaol sur-
geon who mixed up and prepared the sums. %%bids was
applied by the rioter to the head of Gardner, as a punish.
ment while in solitary confinement, was discharged by the
Magiorates at the Quarter Sessions last week; and an ad-
journed Sessions is to be held at Ileheater to decide upon
the fate of Bridle, lie Gaoler, immediately after he has
closed his &fester of those charges which I substantiated
agvinst him before those Magistrate's previous to Ilse arrival
of the Commissioners, which they hare now called upon him
to do on Wednesday next. Their decision and the Report of
the Commissioners, will give the lie direct to the infamous

Mai have been propagate(), taking their origin
from a paragraph which a prarrd in The Morning Post ten
days ago. 1 sin, Sir, your °Leanest' Servant,
H. HUNT.
P.S 1 ghoul() hope other retvpectable Editors, who have
been made the in,ortitnents to propagate such a falsehood
will give iusertion to Ibis.

NAVAL INTE LI IGENCE.

TORTSMIOUTH. JULY le.
Ps,sed by the Himbletonisn, Gilbertson, from the Hirer
Gambia, ont 49 dais; Windsor 014,14., Lee, from Bengali
•mt Thames, Marshall, front New York—all for Laudon.
Arrived the Alfred end Intrepid transports from the

Downs.
v4t.vvotrro, JULY 14.
Arrived of this port the king George hi. Popplevrell,
from Jamaica for (Amami—misled 6th May.
Sailed the Union, Brokenshir, and Ashland, Smith, for
London.

Arrived the Steamer packet with • mail from Lisboa--
trailed the let iustant. _ _

LIVIMPOOL. JULY 15.
Arrived the Emulation. Morris, from New Orleans; Vic-
tory. Finlay, from N►w York; Stranger, Fibber, from Phila-
delphia ; and Cries, Webber, from Charleston.
URAL, JULY 16.

Sailed the Madras, Weihirn, for Cnkolu; Defence trans-
port fur the Cape of Good Dupe; %Va►hiugtou, Mount, for
New York; Cyrus, Hall, fur the ifieutts Seas► sud the teat of
the outward-bound.

Put bark the Drf.nea transmit, and the Thomas, for
Prince Edward's Island; the latter with loss of maiitiopsail.
yard.
. _ _

Pasqed by at the back of the Goodwin Sands the Amen-
tau ship. Susanna h. R 41141 ; and Die, Smith, frum Antwei
fur New York; and Mentor, Greeu, frum New Orleans, fur
Hamburgh.
Arrived and sailed fur the River, the Biron Androaran,
Puntim, frum Smyrita; and King George, Detect!, from the
South Sea..

A ship is *ow cooing is, supposed to be the Golconda,
from India.

Last Sunday 'gulag, between eight and nine
o'clock, • disturbance of • serious nature took place
in Dean's-yard, Westmifister, bitivren a party ef
soldiers and the populace, in which five or six of the
farmer were very much maltreated. There was a
general tight ; the soldiers acre surrounded on every
side; they made • spirited re►istance, but brill(
ave►poaerrd by members were compelled to yield.
At length information of what was getog on was
lorwarded to the Magistrate., who dispatched •
party of officer, to the scene of outrage, and by
their exertio►s some of the ringleaders were appro.
:htuded, and tr•oquillity restored.

. °RANG& LOOGRI iu GLASGOW.-041 the 12th
of July u proceewou took place is thia ►ity of about
80 person,. with colours dying. dress bratiog, sod
several te.ords amongst tl►etu : there were two o►ange-
cotomeed dogs, will, an equestrian dgwre of King
WILLIAM. There are three lodges, Nos. SG, 83,
nod 200, in this city ; and their existence was not
kuown but to or few. until slo it appearance to the
streets that day. The conduit of the Orangemen
eacitrd a riot owl ►kirmish between the Catholics.
when borne of their liege sad sashes were alcoteet
turn to piccolo; and ofierwards, when any person was
seen with sit t.r.i ,ge coleus, they weir hooted sad
hissed et by the other I,4rty.