The National Register.
London, England, 1808-08-21 00:00:00

PROV INCIA

At the Pevnn Assizes an actim for crhn. (,n. hrouzht hv
Lieut.-Colonel Guard, of the 45th regint-nt of foot,
Charles Iloilo., Erg. of ()fiery St. M fl. q excited (011.-iderithb
interest ; the damages were Lid at 10,1:00!.

Mr. Serjeat Len. opened the ewe, t►•, a tairh, tin& by the. ells
defier, it appeared that the Pkint iu the year IMO, had
married %liss Comon, of Ki►sale, in the kingdom of Ireland,
and that three chi!:,en were the fruit of this %mina : tl►at they
lived together in terms of the greatest possible airection : that in
November, ISM, the regiment being ordered to Buenos Ares,
the Plaint ill was obliged to accotnpany it; his wife could scarcely
be prevailed on to•remain as hou►e, and nothing but toe positive
orders of the Commander in Chief hindered hey, from ►i►ari►Z;
with her husband the dangers of the cat:limit" Lieut.-Colonel
Guard having enitiarke.l at Plymouth. his discern...ol4le wife
came to reside, drn•ing his absence, at Otter) St. Mary, near
the friends of her husband. Here her acquaintance with the
Defendant first commenced. The Lady was about tweiny•eic
years of age; Mr. lodge twent%-:hree. It cam• out in
dence, that Mrs. Guard was a tine handsome woiratt, of a v 01.,.
tilt di-position, possessing a !evil, of in Miter., and fond of
admiration. Mr. Hodge was a haialsoore youog man. par-
ticularly attached to the fair sex. 'l'h-• emisequence of this inti-
macy was a mutual attachment; and lathe March f.diativiag the
criminal connect iou appeared to have taken place, which eon.
tinued, in the most open and ungw.rded inamicr, till the return
of the husband. A child was the conscqueuce of this amour.
On Lieni.-Col. Guard's return from abroad, a correspondence
took place between him and his wife, in which she t►cknow.
lodged her guilt, upbraided herscli. for Cie levity of her conduct,
which had brought her into this state oldisgrare, and 'eat la
her injured husband all the letters of ner paraimihr. These
being the principal points which came out on the• prosecution,
Mr. Jekyll, on the part of the Defendant, made a ano<t exceile:a
speech in mitigation of damapes. deseritied the DeleAant's
and situation, the temptation placed ImCiire him. os well as toe
inability of his client to pay large damages, t o•v %%ere.
awarded. The J nry consulted a short time, and retuni:d a ver-
dict of SO )01.

At Lincoln Assizes, which commenced oo Thursday a erk,
Richard Long, uged 19, lately of Silk 11 ill. ug I,thottscr,
charged s% it h maliciously maiming atri killw tat: r, and maint-
inz osier mares, the property of hi, ma-te,, L. Itohinson,
of that parish, farmer, was Jet/ad/et? of kill ing the mare (oil
acemett of some iniorinatity 4, but found Guilt!) of maimilig the
others, and sentenced to Death. it peened that the promoter had
no other inducement to commit the barbarous offence, thau re-
venge for the discharge of hi- sister a:,.cl 'matter from the sers ice
of the prosecutor. ile inflicted the wouotis with a slieep-honks
which he slabbed twentyvone. inches Otto the bodies of the pour
lipaTost, AUG. 16.—About tett days ago, when the fleet of
transports were goiog down Coannel for Spain, three of tlie
brave fellotss belon•ting to the 95th regiment, on hoard the Mary
trw.sport, Mile miles south-oeo of the Bill of Porilata.d wrote
Oat e Vtte.-s, which they sealed up in a bottle, and committed to
the tr,ottdeil ocean fortnnntely it was wafted on shore, on a
sandy beech, one mile east of Brimiport harbour, idal picked up
by a Mr. Williams, who sent the letters to Brodport post-office.
The dt;•ections were as follows: Mrs. Jane Cook, Colchester;
Miss Sarah Countowles, Colchester; Mr. George Steel, Man-
chester. The bottle also contained a note, addressed to the per-
son who picked it up, signed Serjeant Cook. From the &tie of
the above note it appeared the bottle had been toned about
four days.
One of the most awful thunder-storms ever remembered, has
Raperienced at Newcastle ;Ind its vicinit:. on Monday se'unight ;
Newcaale Paper says—" No ideii. can he conveyed's( the
trasendoto looditim of the thunder, sod
the Q6(0160'166 vividly'''.

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