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Lemma!Counsel. that Sf she verdict heal been gives
01111ef ores* impuudeue it would be the dotty al
the Court to get st elide, bet so none of the Ada.
vita pateauted to idgaseaurt meld he lad path a
016.0etitgel. The faiwir J alle 'Jury had IttokbPo'
thlis wiled kiy tbit Iteee*eat
bet they bed huedw .evi ji
an 'Shick they had beaded their vent*, adied.
lop we waved for dissething. .
j Mr. Joistace HOLSOYD ass 4.1 the mew
In inch oases it bed never bees the practice tolttist
Omit to .ieterfere ends the verdict on the issigole
grated of caressive damages. except muse weans
bias ovoid be shawls to have influenced their ma&
Lashing to the evideace. be mold nos or thot
there was any areas bias in the Jury, sad dna
Mw Dot therefore any ground in the present awl Se•
deviate fuses she usual practice of the Coed.
Mr. JUitiet BUT, though be could not fp • the
full length of the language of the Learned Judges,
cited by Mr. Phillips. which be thought somewhat
halo strong, yet concurred wish the tutor the Client
is minion. that in the present case there Z::
ground to disturb she verdict. as. in his o
there was ail presence fur saying the degasses
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Tl* Amy the Admiralty Bessie& Vete irk 4 here;
the Rigid Howe/able Lord SiteMILL pretellifig as
Jaelse of the High Court of Admiralty of Great
Senate, satiated by Mr. Bantu Gllallak mud Mr.
Justice BATLEY.
The Grand Jury having been sworn, Lord EiTo-
WfLi,.cbarged them to the following effect
Geeteewen—lt is • duty imposed epos me by
law to address you, rospectiag the duties imposed
. upon you on this occasion by the same authority.
It is the province of this Court to iequire into all
offieuees committed within the jurisdiction of the
Admiralty of England; • jurisdiction of great
because it extend's wherever the sea rolls is
any quarter of the globe. It is certainly ■ matter
of some surprise (arid a feet highly creditable to
these permits implied ups* that element). that so
few cases of human depravity occur within that
jptiodiction. On the peseta occasion there are
but as cave for your carsideratioe, both of which
are of a serious nature. and will require serious
lIIAMBion. The first cue which will be presented
sew Awe of s capital &empties, and one of very
mairelimet occurrence : it is a case of a rape caw
Silted ell bawd of one sr his Majesty's ships on a
wareied .111111111, the wife of another narrioer belong.
irig to the same ship. In the shape in which the
ewe first reached us, it appeared to be one likely to
give rise tea question of law : for it was represented
as one is which the accused had iutrodoced himself
tote the bed of the woman ashes besboads nod,
availing • Nowell of that deception. had peeps.
tested the offence with which he steeds charged;
but, upon looking at the depositions it appears
that he bud, in the first, instance, gassed admit.
tante under that impression, but being dammed,
he afterwards accomplished the act with wisdom.
If the case bird stood as it was at Met repro.
seated, then a question would have arisen whether,
as the offence hod been committed bp food, mid
without the ingredient of force, this case would
have come within the definition of a rope. which
must always be perpetratrd by violence; but as the
COW now stands, you will consider it as true of en
ordinary description, and pursue your itiqetriei In
the usual manner. There will be moodier ase also
piteented to you of a Diesel'sr nature, and very
grave character. You are aware of the employ-
ment 0111 the meat awls's& Towle called life-beats,
which are often highly rustrumental in the preserva-
tion of humeri life when ships are wrecked or
stranded. The offence charged is, that on a certain
occasion. when one of those boats had approached a
vessel io distress, the praetors went out to pleader
the said vessel Ili a boat called u a Yawl," and in
order to effect their purpose, they-cut sway the rope
by which the life boat was attached to the vessel nu
distress, and by that metros effectually prevented its
approach. The result was, that the lives of the
Captain and three of the crew were lost. You will
feel that this is 11 tramactiso which deserves the most
serious atieutiou, and I have no doubt it will re-
ceive at your hands the attention it deserves. There
is sso other remark which it appears necessary fur
use to makes end I therefore conclude with recom-
mending your own immediate application to hun-
tress.
CHARGE OP RAPE.
The Grand Jury their retired, and on their return
into Court sheet eleven o'clock. and by their fore-
man, Mr. Griffith., announced that they had found
a true bill spina Charles Batmen, tor a rape on
the body of Jane Newman, on the high teas. The
Prisoner, *he:appeared to be about one or two-and.
twenty years of age. was then pet to the bar and
arraigned, when be pleaded /hot Guilty.
Previous to the Jury being sworn,
Mr. ALIA!, as Counsel for the Prisoner, moved
that the trial should be postponed, :op ac oust of
the abreact of a witoess who had been bound over
on the part of the prosecution, and whale testimony
was must essential in behalf of the Prisoner. He
hod not bees subpreinied for the Prisoner, because
it hod been taken for granted that the Admiralty
*mild produce him. Under there cireamstoaces
he felt it to be Isis duty to move that the proceed.
inss in this case should be deferred until the at-
tendance of that person could be procured.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM, who with Mr. Justice
&titn' was associated with Lord Seoweet. 111
the Commission, desired that the statement of the
facts might be put into the form of an affidavit.
While the affidavit was preparing, the witoess
alluded to arrived.

The Jeff were then sworn sod the indictment
was reed wee. charging the offence to have been
committed a• board his Majesty's ship Tarta►, off
the cosat of Africa, within three hundred leagues
of Sierra Leone, On the 3d of June. 1821.
The Proarcutsix, a young woman of very respect-
able appearance. being swan, stated, that she was
the wife of the purser's ►teward of the 1 error, and
the Prisoner was lob-lolly-boy (the prim who does
the dirty. work in the sick birth, under the doc-
tor's maw.) The Primmer had frequent viocavion
to come to her hominoid's birth for things which
were wanted (provisions, &c.) on which occasions
she always behaved to bim with common civility,

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alli.orre isitimate - essinennienlion or ,
!infeir'siinsed between them. ois the !dis" '''.* i•
kir the ship helot a the assts( A,' mss:I'.
salhigers• Leone, slw went Se hod dwelt oime • '7..,:
• • war ff..,
ISW bieliestd went to bed with her. bet hang • •
SIAM the night, he went do Seek. She Itetr .
• ko• ulnae in his hammed'. which* Vse titteritinit
toinsti only with a certain or,oceetos, and frlteolorp.
She was awakened 'by the strekieg of the rim-
-01•1114 Atari mod, " Ne•ameits is that yen t" 'Site
.000eived ON simmer, at which, her husband bang
miter deaf. Me was not Seech surprised: She
then turned herself on her left ode, end was
((nog to sleep. She me a man get . hit*
she hammock. At first his feet were towards her
head ; which was the way in which she asserter
husband usually ley in the hammock. on itecisnut
of the hest of the +ember. arid in Order to ins
them awe roes. Oil his altering his posisiett. else
soon discovered it was not her hennaed. and
called to the sentry for" his maietaiter, bist it .
Prisoner effected his pitman wethout soy an. to-
, fral the sentry, and then got out of the hissiasoMi.
and was trlasnling by the Ninths., when she gips Out
ethos bansainek and again called to the sentry. eh..
• came to the hatchway with a light in his {anima,,
which enabled her to see that it was the Prioneei.
She told the sentry, when he asked what ens the
matter, that " it was Chitties Seamen who had
been ill using her la her hamint.• and the..,
went oa deck to her heabinadvatiriell into Ins
arms eryieg " Nullities 1 Newman!" He went
down with her and asked the sentry who had bee„
down, and he told him it was Bennett. There were
three slave girls slept in the cockpit where her heti.
band's hemmed' was. They were about PS yew,
of age. There was* screen resod their hweinseek
and a curtain round that in which she was lyths.
and no other partition between them.
Crowersatiored by Mr. A i.t.ae—She bad heel,
three year. GIS bond the Tarter; the Prisimer was
on booed before her. She slept in the cockpit.
there were 940 men on bond, who slept en the deck
above the cockpit. The gentlemen slept imme-
diately ever the cockpit, and the men farther 'to-
ward. The place where the sentry steed was net
above ten yards from her hammock. The mete of
the sentry was John Timpani. Sir George Collier
was the Captain of the ship, and she acquainted
him with the matter on the following morieng. and
the Prisoner and the sentry were called before him.
sod the business inquired into. He did not Ordir
the Prisoner into cuatody, but told her she had bet-
ter leave it alone till she got home, acid then appeal
to the laws of the country. She persisted. themes
pressed by 'repeated questions, in stating that she
had never said it was all a mistake on her pert, and
that she thoeglit it ass her husband till he was
leaving her. Her husband frequently lent on deil
on account of the hest. She had never allowed
any familiarities to the Prisoner. She bad never
-drank wine with him, or any thing of that kind.
She did not hear any noise which she supposed to
be her husband coming.
John Tiaipson, marine dreamer, was the next
witness. He was en board the /hater ; he was *en-
try at the gun•rooin door on the night of the 34
June, 1841. The hammock where the Promote IS
slept was,l4 feet from his post. Did nut see the
Prisoner pose him to go to Mrs. Newman that
eight. It was between are trod two o'clock that
he tweed the alarm. The first thing he sew was the
Primmer awning to him Fur a light. He had ou his
troesers and shirt. He had seen the Prisoner go
down other nights before, and never heard an alum
given. He asked the Prisoner what he wanted to
do with the light, end he said to get some medi-
cine for the slaves. He saw nothing of Mrs. New-
moo until she came up the ladder into the lower
deck. He heard her call to him. He had then •
made • noise by potting his foot on a trunk on the
hatchway. He did that to scratch hie loot. He
supposes she heard him. and then she called out
" Sentry, sentry, sentry !" The Prisoner wail taws
standing at the bottom of the ladder in the cock-
pit, dressed. Witness asked her what she wanted ;
she said the Prisoner had insulted her in her hum-
mock. He looked down the ladder and saw the
Prisoner standing there dressed. and he took re
further notice. Mrs. Newman then went en deilc
to her husband ; she had a petticoat and shoes on,
and an apron round her shoulders. Her husband
came down to him, and asked who had been down
in the cockpit while he was away ? Witness en-
steered, " Nobody but Bennett." The husband
then said, " 1 shall call upon you for r witness."
He hes always said that the first he saw of the Pri-
soner was when he was standing at the foot of the
ladder, with his shirt and trousers on.
Crou-cresixed.—He gave the same account be-
fore Sir G. Collier that he has done to-day. If
Mrs. Newman had made a noise she most have been
beard by many persons.
George Newman, the husband of the Preterit-
trie..—Went to b.d about helf-past eight on the
night of the 9d June ; he went on deck betwr;eir
four and five bells' (between ten and half-past ten) ;
lie remained on deck nearly half an hour ; he had
no duly to do ua deck. The first alarm he had of
this business was when his wife came on deck to
him. She cause to him a little after four bells iii
the middle watch (between two and three o'clock).
She appeared in great agitation ; she ctied very
mach, and fainted. She said nothing flint lie re-
collects, but fell into his arms. He took her down
below to the cockpit; he sow below Timpson, the
sentry, and asked him who bed been in the cock-
pit ? He said " Brunet." He does not recollect
that he said any thing else. lie did not see Ben-
nett then. His wife recovered herself in about five
or six minutia. He told her not to disturb herself.
sod not to make a• noise, as it was the middle
watch, but to tell hint the next morning. She did
tell him. and he desired her to r to Sir G. Collier.
, which she did. Witness was not present. Prisoner
was not put in irons. He had been married to his
wife hetet than three yews. ' He had never obvert,-
ed any intinucy between her mid the Prisoner. .
BettPuttio Terry, constabk at Portsmouth. The
Prisoner was delivered into his custody on the 10th
September. He took hint before the Mayor. As
they were piug he told Prisoner that the charge
against hint was a serious one. sod asked him.
- whether he knew any thing about it. He said be
certainly had bees connected with Mts. Newman.
but she had allowed him liberties it great many
times before. That was all that petard betwesu
the..
The Prisoner being then called on for his de-