The National Register.
London, England, 1811-08-11 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL RECI'TER.

aged to preach that morning, he was obliged to sit with grew. I
Patience while the g rl washed. dried, and ironed them. ac-
complished many of his dec, pions by pr....ter.ding that he was in-
tlmately acquai,.ted with Mr. Drummond, of Hartley, in
on wh ~rn it is s..id lie had previously impo,e.l, and got introduced
to his family and connexions. He also pretended that he was io-
timatc! with Sir Sidney Smith, • Colonei Bloomfield, and Mr.
Bradshaw, M. P. fur Exeter; and to answer ~articular purposes
be had forged letters purperting to be written, by some of them
He has been at hamlet', Ipswich, and Eri.tol, and got acquaintd
With several respectabL! idr.iilies from his c'fficiating at the
churches t 11.. obtained money from a Mr. fox, Aid others,
whom he travelleai with in stage-coaches. Ile ende.ivou ed to
get a footing into the church of St. Mary-le-Strrintl. hut the c:er-
gyir.;ln of tin- Parish being very strict in his inquiries respecting
bun and his qualifications, the prisoner was disappt

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had given notice of their dissatisfaction. He admitted that a ver-
dict must be given against his clitnt, but he hoped the Jury
would think a farthing d„rniges most ample recompense.
The Jury found for the plaints--Damages
There was NI one c.se of the least importance on the Crown
Side the others being for mere petty thefts.
John Silos Starker was indicted for stealing 931. in Bank-notes,
the property of Levi Cowan, immediately from his person.
The prosecutor was a travelling hawker and pedlar, who, its
the month of July last, put up et the Black Swan at Wa-e. The
prisoner had resided in the same house fur some days, and slept .
in the adjoining room. On the 16th July, when the prost•entor
went to bed, lie put his breeches, containing his money, under his
pillow. Some time aft,rwards his wife went to bed, and found
them lying across his face, and the pockets rifled. She inane(!i-
ately gave an alarm, when the landlord came, and as the pri-
soner was suspected, he was searched, but none of the no-es were
found. The next Lb..; she sawlim going to-London On the out-
s:de of .t coach, she tollowed in a chaise, and at Chesinant i.e ss-as
stopped and seteched by an Officer, when the notes were found
tied up in his nceltclo:h. identified three of the notes.
A little boy, a son of the lantliord, aged nine, who slept with
the prisoner, depesed, that When lie came to bed on lhe night of
the robbery, he shortly afterwards got up again, and he beard
him open the latch of Cowan's door, and when he came hack ha
sat up in the bed in the dark, and by the rustling he appeared to.
have got Jom r• papers.
The Jury fouls t him Goitfy, and he was sentenced to ho truus-
portcd fur life. The Assizes ended.

BE.DFORD, SA 1 VADAT, AV GUS r 3.

WA RDEN Z.% BAILEY.

This cause, in coL,equence Of the nonsuit entered at the 1..,5t
Lent Assizes, when it was tried before Mr. Jus:ire Goose,
having been set aside, came on to be tried again, before Su
L1T.11:6 MANSFIEtn, and a Special Jury.
Mr. erjetizts &ere opened the cause to the Jury.
The evidence in supp:;rt of the prosecution was gene throtqh
nearly the same as,at :he Lst Ass:zes.' Tht- brother of the p:a:n-
tiff again declared upon his oath, " that be had said a coi.sidera-
ble sum of money had been offered to Ftop the proseertion;"
again declared upon oath, " that what he had so said was
false.'

Mr. Serjeant Sehm opened the defence, and proceeded to call
the evidence in support Lf the defendant Bliley. Ccionel Whit-
bread was the first IA itness examined, who proved his own order
for r,-twinditil.; the plaintiff, and detaining him in !Anson, on the
4th Dec. 1809, two days after the Adjutant had first committed
him, till he cowid take the ord,-rs of his Commanding (neer,
The letters of :Vit.. Whitbread to General Pipt, there com-
manding the district, and the answers of the Gener::l were
read. The order for assembling the Court Martial und:r the
sign martial was produced, recording the charge to have ben
" of words spoken by the plaintiff, tending to excite tntinv,
is convquence of disobedience of ordt.rs, respecting attend-
ance upon a regimental school, and ordering a Court Martial
to be a,sembled thereupon." The minutes of the Court Mar-
till were also produced. It was proved that all due diligence
had been used by Colonel N‘Thitbread, in reporting to his Alpe-
ri,:r Officers, and that he had I,nswered all letters addressed to
burn on the subject, by return of post ; and that the delay of the
promulgation of the sentence hai been official, MI d by r:o possi-
bility imputable to the d-f.mdant, or the defendant in the pend-
ing actin!' Warden v. Whitbread.
After a patient hearing of nearly 11 hours, the h:ry, under
the special direction of the Judge, Sir InistEs MANsilino,
found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 1541. 11;s. sd. Mr.
Serjeant Sellon tendered a bill of exceptions.
The cause Warden v. Whitbread is a remancnt for the
Spring Assizes, 1814, when the wnole question will be again
discussed.

ESSEX.
CHELMSFORD, AUG. 1.

The ensuing Assizes for this County are likely to afford no
great interest. The Judges arrived last night, and, contrary to
the usual custom, they went to church immediately, and at ulna
o'clock this morning they proceeded to business.

!IF:WATSON V. PHILIPS.
This was an action by the Keeper of the Canteen in Romford
Barracks against the defendant, who was a Lieutenant and Rid-
ing-master of a dragonn regiment, for beat:ng aad assauiring
Anne Mills, the servant of the plaintiff, by which she was so
much disabled that the plaintiff lost the benefit of her
services.
Mr. Maryatt, who led for the prosecution, enlarged on the
unmanly conduct of the defs.ndant. who had disgraced not only
the character of a soldier and an officer, hut Led degraded Wl-
stlf as a man, by unmeiciftlly beating a feu :de.