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London, England, 1824-08-11 00:00:00

MEL.EVCIIOLT ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

We called tho attention of our readers a kw days ago to a me-
lancholy attempt at suicide by a yourg female at Brighton, wEo
threw herself from the West Cliff, anti wa' sired by one of the pre-
ventive guard. She made a second. and, we regret to add, a third at-
tempt to commit suicide by hanging herself, from a staple in the
room in which she was lodged. Hitherto she has been prevented
from this desperate act, and every vigilance will be everted to
rescue her from the self-destruction on which it is to be feared she
i 3 even still detenulned.

' It appears that she gas a young woman of humble parentage,
but Of irreproachable character. But a few months ago four of her
brothers, who were fishermen, were lost at sea; this naturally
cruated a great depression In her spirits. Previous to this, how-
ever, she had been engaged in marriage to a wretch of the nea.,.• of
Reynolds, • journeyman painter. lie took advantage of the for-
lorn situation of this unfortunate female, and seiluerd her, under
the pramise of immediate marriage. Almost immediately after-
wards be deserted her, under a promise of return on a certain day
(Monday), but not until he had expended whatever little money
she bad. Ile actually pawned her clothes, and even two or One
little valuable articles which she got as keepsakes front her dying
Cicada, and he left her in lodgings at Brighton, for which lie had
not paid, with only two shillings in the world. In this desolate
situation, ashamed to return to tier Mends, and destitute of every
means of support, she made the attempt at suicide, of which we
have before given a detailed account. It has been since ascertained
that the wretch Reynolds is a married man, and the father of se-
veral children. _

The attentions of the surgeon and the clergyman are incessant,
mid yesterday she seemed awakened to a seusc of 11 hat she was
about to do ; her spirits were better, and she assumed a more calm
and collected tone of thinking.

Ann.:. VISITATION.—Last week, a woman who r
sided near ir ado-lore, was taken before .1. Barmy, Erg. a
giatrate of the county, charged with having stolen cider from a
neighbouring farmer. During her examination the woman wished
that God would never Puffer her to speak again. or never let her go
home to her f•mily, if W.... was guilty. The words were scarcely
articulated, when she fell down speechless ! She was conveyed im.
meth:so:ly to the inn, whete she has since continued in a dreadful
state.—!loth Journal.

111LAWEIL •T NEM SOUTH WAL!s.—lt hIIR been re-
ported pretty correctly in town, for the last 10 or days,
that an atrocious robbery and murder have been perpetrated
in the interior, in the dwelling of an old settler of the
name of ('htshirc, in whose blood the wretches barbarously
imbrued their bands; and shot another ir.mate of the
house, said to be a son-in-law. Some parties are in custody,
we umlerstand, for the direful offence. We hope that the
real offenders are secured. and that stern justice will
ypectlily visit their unpardonable crime..—Sydney Gault,•.

WESTRRN CIRCUIT.

SALISBURY ASSIZES, AUGUST 2.

CROWN SIDE.
11lefrre the Loan Cuter JusTier I
SCKe.I.A RV.
Rated Ford was indicted for burrs! piously breaking and 'weft
the cheese-house (which was part of the dwelling-house) of
liam Gre•n, in the parish of 31elkshans, on the l'lth of May, lied
steolirg 15 cwt. of cheese, value 1:.1. his property.
Elizabeth Darter, the dairy-maid of the prosecutor, proved that
the CiletllVl were safe at eleven o'clock on the night of the 12th and
on the morning of the 1311 they were gone. A hole had been :Tiede
in the wall large enough for a man to pass through.
To prase the burglary p man nanied John Newman was called,
who stated that he passed the prosecutor's premises at 3 o'clock in
the morning of the 13th, when he saw the hole in the wnll.
A constable searched the premises of the prisoner anti found half
a chyme in the :loose, and four whole cheeses upon the roof of a
pigstic ad;oining his garden. The prisoner afterwards confessed
to witness that lie, in comp.::iy with two ott,y men, broke into the
prosecutor's cheese-house to the night, between the 1•1111 and 13:h
of lay, and stole n quantity of cheese. The cheese. that were
found by the constable were produced and identified as the property I
of the prosecutor by Elizabeth Dafter.
Guilty—Deretit.
Sarah A i igston was indicted for stealing in the day time from
the house of James Jones, in the parish of Bradford, on the pith
of June, sixty-otie guineas, twenty-four half sovereigns, one hum I
deed and fifty-one lialr-crowns, and other monies, his property.
The prosecutor stated that the money was sac in the morning of
the lath of June that he was absent front h.me during the whole
day, and on his mien at night the property was gore.
Jane Jones, the prosecutor's wife, proved that she went out in
the aftcrnoonof the Nth of June, and when she came back she
found the box in which her husband kept his money broken open,
and the money gone.
_

George Itolfe, a constable of Bradfonl, apprehended the prisoner,
who fore.erly worked tor the proscetnor, aid lived near him. She
told him that she had dreamt Jack F.yks la pauper) had robbed
JOIICI.O house, end had hid the money in Round Garn.w Field. The
pri.oncr took the witness t..) the Meld and pointed out the place
where the money was deposited.
The Jury htur,d the prisoner Guilty, but recommended hcr to
mercy.
CIVIL SIDE.
[Bdbre 211 r. Bauo's Gannow.l

TOT DUCE OF foiIIERSFT V. TOE OVXDRIED or wrier.
This was an action to rerneridameges for louts austaked by the
hlaintifiin cm:sequence of the malicious setting on tire of two
oses all get to be his property. The feet of the houses being
set on lire, at one o'clock, in a calm night, was proved; but a
question arose as to the right of the Noble Duke to bring his
action ; it being admitted teat he had only a reversionary interest in
the houses it
A verdict for the !Plaintiff was therefore taken, subject te the
opinion of the Court ahove on the point of law.
FURIOUS DitlVlNti.

nn, IrSE V. DAI.t.TMORE AND OTTIVIS.
Mr. Sergeant PELL stated, on the pan of the lel- intif, that this
action was brought by bis client, a man in humble iifc, to recover
compensation in damages for injuries sustained by the negligence
of a driver of a van belonging to the defendants. which prevented
Browne front following his occupation of a gardener. The Jury
smeld hear from the witnesses that on the 2:3d December het the
plaintiff' was proceeding in his can tower& havirgton, on the Bath
road. when he heard a van thathelongad to the defendants, anti
which ran between London and Bath, coming behind him. He
placed his cart as far from the middle of the road as he could, as he
was fearful of some accident ; but the driver of the ran thought
proper to run down so clesely upon the platatilf*c cart that collision
became unavoidahl.n. The consequenee we-, that the wheel of the
can struck the oil' wheel of the cart, and sn violent was the coccus-
Rion that it was overturned, and the p par man who was sitting in it
had his leg broken. The road whew the accident happened was
wide; there was not the least men, for the driver of the van to
come near the cart, and the only excuse that would be trade for
him, which would not avail MR •COM. g 044 jelinie9ttitei•
The Learned Sergeant then canal—
T. Gregory. who stated, Celt he saw the plaintiff's tart on the
night of the .:id December, and that he was or. the read between
3lelkaham and the Golden Fleece. lie heard the noire of a heavy
carriage coming up, and observed the plaintiff draw his cart to the
near side of the road, which was his proper side. As soon as the
van came up to the cart he heard the man who was driving it cry
out, " ('heist have mercy upon me !" anti he taw the cart over-
turned, and the pleintilf was thrown quite higl. into st ditch. The
coachman paid no attention to what passed. but the guard got
loan and went up to the cart, searing nothing wag the matter
with the man. They soon found, however, that his leg was
broken. ifftnevi heard the guard ask how far it was to the golden
Fleece; but in fact they had passed that house a mile and a half.
Witness could positively affirm that the guard was drunk. The
plaintiff' was taken to the Bell and a donor sent for. The next day
he measured the track of the can wheels, and found it no more than
three inches from the ditch, on the proper side of the road.
Cross-es:l:nine,' by Mr. Sergeant It'lanr—Witness was about
2$ yards from the can when it stepped for the van to pass. The
guard went for the Doctor. The gusaderambled about, and was
certainly drunk.
Michael Martin. a gardener, was passing along the road in • fan
on the night of the 2:14 December. Ile had followed the van for
some distance. He saw the plaintiff twisted out of his cart. Ile
run to his assistance, and found Browne with his leg broken.
('rose-examined--The van was in the niiddle of the rood, which
was nine yards wide.
William Collett depasnl that he livid within twenty yards of
the place where the accident happened. Ile heard the plaintiff
halloo to the coachman no; to drive over him. The guard appeared
to be very drunk.
John Newman, the landloal of the Bell Inn, stated that the
plaint ft was brought to 11:i4 house. The van had stopped there
lust before Browne was brought there. Both the coachman and
guard, when they were there. asked several times if that was the
Bell. They had, from their appearance, been drinking a good
deal ; and he said so when he went into the house. The coachman
and guan: had each a glass of gin.
Mr. Lewis, a st resel, sta...l that he was called upon by the
coachman aed guard to attend the plaintiff: lie asked how the
accident had happened, but they replied in a very hesitating and
confused manner. lie found the plaintiff's leg broken. The
fracture was a very bad one; both the bones were broken (the
Fibula and Tibia). This was called a comminuted fracture.
Plaintiff was under witness's care from the 23t1 December to the
2:el April, and even at the latter period he was far from well. Es.
foliation was to be apprehended. Plaintiff could not be said to be
in a state to resume Ins former occupation tar a twelve month, lids
bill amounted to Mt!. and he had net yet been raid. The ease was
one that demended n great deal of :mention. At one time he feared
a lockjaw would take place, anti it was a matter of uncertainty ftir
seine time whether amputation would not be necessary.
Mr. Mouble (plaintiff.** attorney) said, that he had called upon
Mr. Dallimore, with a view of bringing about an amicable ar.
rangement. That person said that he was perfectly ready himself
to make a remuneration to the plaintiff. but that his partners
would not agree to it, as they belonged to a Society of coach
proprietors, formed for the tearpnee of meeting expenses incurred
by legal pmceedings of this deserir,ion.
Cross-examined —NVitneas, in calling on Dallimore, had no in.
tendon of eliciting front him any thing that might be used against
hint in evidence.

Mr. Sergeant Acranr, for the defence, observed tr. the Jury,
that the ease he bad to offer was merely one of opposite testimony
to that of the witnesses they had heard. He should call the guard,'!
and other witness, s. who would negative the evidence produced on !
the part of the plaintiff
James Amos, the guard of the van. stated that he saw the
plaintiff in his cart on the night of the Zd December. The cart
was behind the van, but the plaintiff drove his hors: in a furious
manner, with a view of overtaking the van, and was standing up
in his cart, driving without reins. The cart fell in consequence of
the plaintiff' drivint OM souse new-laid stones in a furious man-
ner. The plaintiff ought to have passed on the off -side, but he
endeavoured to get by on ti:e tau side. The van was nine fret
from the cart when the accident happened. As soon as the arzi.
dent happened, witness called to the coachman to stop. which he
did, and they both got down, and found the man laying on his
side. He thought limwne %SS intoxicated. Ile groaned a great
deal, and on attempting to move him, they found that his leg was
broken. No person 11:3 present, excepting winos. and the coach-
man, who has died since. Witness was sober at the tints of the
accident. He had left Bath with the ran for London at seven
o'cliwk. Ile had drank • glass of beer aboat six miles from Bath,
! and lie took nothing else till the accident occurred.
eross.exarnined—lle did not recoll.:et asking raw person how
far it set to the Bolden Fleece. He would swear that he dill not
ask the question. He recollected takirg a glass of beer cc the Bell.
it was not gin. He was certain the van and cart never came in
contact. lie thought the grams of the plaintiff to have been caused
as much be the liquor as the pain.
Richard. Wheeler, the landlord of the Golden Fleece, remem-
bered the plaintiff leaving his house about ten o'clock at night. on
the :MI Ihreenthet. He and three or four others drank two or three'
quarts of gin together, but he could nut say whether Browne was
drunk or sitter when he quitted his house.
Elitabeth Arnold saw Browne at the ('art and Home Inn, which
is about six miles nearer Bath than the Fleece. at live o'clock in the
afternoon of the."3d Deeemlor, suite into:kat:lL
James Bamford, the keeper of the tollgate ?NW where the aeci.
dent happened, recollected Browne missing through his gate in the
c:rt. There were no reisnsin his hand*. _

T. Gregory, the second witness examined for the plaintiff: was
recalled, anti positively swore that when he saw him Browne was
driving inn very proper manner. Ile causht at the reins when the
accident took place.
Mr. Lewis, she s:irgeon, was also recalled, and proved that
Browne, when he saw him, was per:1111r ocher. From witness's
experience in the pmfession, he was prepared to state that had the
been intoskated at the time of the a.-cidatt, that circum.
stance would not have so completcly sobered him as he was to all
appearance when he was brought under witness's care.
The Jury. after a short conynitation, said, that they wished to
give the plaintiff lOU/ above all his expenses.
IJOR TRH Tr desired them to consult ugain, as their verdict
wan not sufficiently definite.
The Jury then returned a verdict for the plalntiff—Damageslo‘l!.
Mr. Boon tiaaeotr observed, that the formation of so,veties of
coach proprietors for the purpose of resisting. at the emulsion ex.
pense. similar actions to the present. was caletitated to do very great
mischief to the public. Whatever threatened to diminish the seat.'
city of persons who were obliged to trust iltetriselvew to the skill
and attention of coachmen was an evil thlt could not be too
strongly deprecstcd. These coroli'.nation evidently had that ten-
dency. and, therefor:, oti;;lit to be woteheil with th: realest
icaleLsy.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.

STAFFORD ASSIZES, AtrovsT

OAKLAND v. TOHLINION AND OTHER!.
Mr. CERWOOD stated, that this vu an action against Lord
flagm's keepers, for taking the plaintiff's dug, which they
carried away in a park. They had not attempted to justify 11,14
by any pies. therefore the Joey would only hate to say how
much the plaintiff shou:d receive as a convoy •—anon for thi, in-
jury. The Jury had heard of " Give a o.og an ill risme, at d
hang him for it," but here it. was," Calla dog a lurcher, oral FL!
hint in a sack."

said—l am the father of the plaintiff, and
was walking through Lord Ragot's park, kading tte dog by a
halter, when the defendants, who were gaine•keepers ut Lord
Ilagot, came up, and took away the deg in a seek, saying be sal
I It:rrhe►. The dog was used to take care of my arm's cart ; it
was a sort of terrier ; it was a uacful dug ; and I have beard roy
son o! fired AL for it.

Cross-examined by Mr. Jeawitt.—The dog never hunted. I
lees the e„r throtteli tie park to prevent he hooting. My !sit
bought it of a ptison named Tortoiseshell, and pre four 'bal-
ling' far it.
Mr. Jetty's, for the defendant, contended, that as four shil
lings was the price of the dqg, that was the proper amount u,'
damages. The feet was, that the keepers minidtred it a pack-
ing dor, • further, and therefore aeirtd it.
Mr. Justice PARK said—This is a cry trumpery action ; but ls
is by no means clear that fuer, shillings is the proper sum to be
given in damages ; but as this is • Jufttnent by default, the de.
kritISMA 1114 st pay the rivts..ouid the amount of the damages is
therefore leis material. The keepers were clearly notjustdied tu
taking the dog, especially as the plaintiff's &the him threudil
the park.
Verdict fur the plaintiff—Damages Ids.
naes.arn v. Lnwr.
Mr. Crnsrnon stattil that this was another action arising our of
the serne transae,ton : for the keep-n, softy they had taken the don,
found they were in the wrong, and. to corer up their mismoduct,
they weal Irvin, a the defendant to a 31agistrate, and the flan. sod
Dee, Ilagot turned informer, and laid an informstio, agents,
the plaintiff for keeping a hitcher. Mr. I. auc convicted him, Rea
this conviction was so completely bad in every respect, that Mr.
Lane did not dare set it up ea his defence; however. ones,' this the
plaintifrs go sls were seised, and the Jury would hare to give de.
mages for that injury.
Two witnemes primed the taking of alnent:ty of cheese, under
Mr. lames warrant; to redeem which the plaintiff paid U.
Ale. Justice PARK-7 here is no justification s there must be a
verdict for 51. as the plaintiff paid that sant. Verdict fur the /6 fn.
tif—Damagcs, W. •