The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-12 00:00:00

1)ER111" ASSIZES.

A. cause came on before Justiee-Graham, and a special
jury, which had excited considerable iutere•t in the neighbour.
hood of Derby. Miss Ana Nlateliti (sister to Mr. Matelitf, gro-
cer at Derby) was plaintiff, and Sir Willoughby Dixie, of Nlar-
ket-Bosworth, Bait., was defendant. The act was brought
to,reenver compensation in damages for a breach of.proiniseof
marriage made sonic yt-41, ago; when, after a bees ing which
lasted about live hours, the jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, with 1,5001. damages. The verdict gave great satis-
faction to a very crowded Court.

At the Kent Assizes, James Donald, a naval officer, was con-
victed of forging and nue, ing a bill Of esehange, commonly
called a navy hill, purporting to be drawn by Lieutenant Por-
ter, of his Slajesty's shin '1) rian, with intent to defraud the
Commissioners of the Navy.
The Judge immediately pronounced the sentence of death :
during which the untintimatc ton's wife, alto had been in
Court during the trial, uttered a scream and tell almost lifeless.
he was carried out of Court, and after aurae time recovered.

John Ashhee, proprietor of a paper-mill near Canterbury,
was indicted for forging and uttering the stamp used by the
direction of the Commissioners of Excise to denote the ioy-
ment of &die,. on the paper.
Stride, six officer of excise, who surveyed the mill of the
prisoner, moved the fact of foreod stamps being on the wrap-
pers of paper sold by the prison, r.
Thomas Chilton, the servant of the prisoner, who was also
in custody, said, that he had made the foi ced stamp; that
eettieg possession of the otheer's stamp, he Intl made a model
or it in clay, and then east three leaden ones, with which he
marked the palter; and his master had • o tiequently stamped
.he wrappers with the forged mark.
lie ass eruss-esiiiinned by Mr. Knout's with a view to sub-
line that he annie was the guilty person; not he persiste d.
that his master hail also frequently used the stamp ; and Snide
pros that on some of the forged wrappers dime. ea. a,.0 the
prisoner's
The Jnry found him Guilty, and lie was sentenced to seven
years Irawedortatiosi.
. . . .

Matthew Connor, John Brown, and John Curby, were in-
!acted for stealing tot 1/3110 of dollar., 610111 on board a vessel,
called the Lin oinandel buy, on the navigable river Thames.
The general circumstances of tlik case have been frequent:y
4efore the public, 9io ,V 4 to render a detail unnecessary.
They we. e all found Guilty, and inutie,hately sentenced to
death ; the Learned Judge informing tbcw that. the Law scould
take its cunrse.

At the Rutland Assizes, J. Lewin, aged 12, was capitally con-
victed (doe:ding notes and cash to the uuaunt Of 1001. and I).
Lewin, his father, was also convicted 1. receiving the same,
knowing them to have been stolen. The Judge, in passing
sent,oiee, remarked with much *event, upon the eutiduet of
the tales prbanii r, in bringing up a child to robbery and
Tile buy was reprieved. The father to be ti :imported
to' 14 years.

At the Salisbury Assizes, John Lampier received sentence
of death for refusing to gne the *hole or I,in evidence, af.cr
Irein,, admitted a witness for the Crnwn at th- last Assizes,
mid being himself's/ow charged with lengthy' teibny.

AI'GtTT

At the general mutt ter ses•ions, holden at Wished,. on the
17th of last month, a singular, and, happily, from the
,ent per of the times, a novel appeal came before the Magis-
trates for their determination ; in which Itoliert Nt wstead, •
preacher in the Alethoilist C Zinn, was appellasit, and th*
Reverend 11steri 44444 Peyton, ector of Diultlington, aad Thos.
Orton, Esq, hr.) of his N1.1.)1.,tt .4 Jristices for the Isle of Ely,
were respondents --It appeared from the conviction, and the
evidence adduced in support of it, that the offence with which
Mr. Newstead stood charged, wag, the eollecting together ft
congregation or assettility of persans, and preaching to them, '•
nth. rwiw titan aecording to the liturgy and practice of the
Church of England, in at field which hail not been licensed.
This was Mr. Newstead's crime ; it was for this, that the re-
verend rector of Diuldingtost roused his feilow.bilsourer in
the work of rehirmatioo, to be apprehended ; and that lii,and
his brother hlagistrate convicted him in the utmost penalty
which rho 'fide-ratios' Act imitoscs! •%gainst the legality of
this conviction Mr. Newsteail appealed. r several o'a.
Jertiors had been taken to the farm of the conviction, by
'Nievrdeitif's roamed. and which were over-ruled by the Conti.
Itiebaril Vince, servant to llr. Peyton, swore that lie heard
Mr. Newstead preach in a field at l/itililitszton, on ;smoky, th •
ills, of April last; that lie preached contrary to the liturgy i.f
the Chat eh of England ; and that there were more than to cloy
persons ',resent. On Isis cross asaminaeimn, Ile admitted that
he dill not know what it was he preached, whether it ware a
prayer or a Wrllll9ll , it was 340,110116411,, but he knew not what
and that he kites% he lire:whet' contrary to the liturgy of the
Church of England only beeause he haul toot the Prayer-hook is his
hand f John lame, another of Nlr. Peyton.% servants, COrrti.
borate(' the testintomy of the last is i•ness, but he would not
swear that thoie were twenty persons present.--Me. Bet
counsel far Mr. Nee:stead, submi!ted to the emir!, that the
prosecutou Gad nut Made cull their case. The Toleration Act
requires that the place where any congregation or assembly
shall meet, at svh ch there shall lie present more: than twenty
per .4041'4. (writhe the !amity and s.Tranis of the person in o hose
lionse such meeting shall lee held, shall be certified and re els-
tes . Io order. therefore, he contended, to renders relizions
meeting unlao I'M, according to tlw provisions of this Act, there
must he present twenty persons of a parl;eulat description -of
a retain class t‘tenty, exeltisire of 11 '139 and servants of
III? owner or occupier of the place of meeting : but, far ettglit
the Count knew from the testi 1111 l ity Of the witse2sses, (oMe of
whoa could MA 'meat. that there were t 0 persons present.) the
congregation might be chiefly composed of the family of the
owner of the field. Ile further coptettiled, that a fill is not *
'dace ts hick refistired registration : the term " piace" of newt.
ing is used throughout the het; und, in the lilts Perth/U, that
loran eLphined, and derided to he, a place with doors, bolts,
bars, and locks. .1% therefore it did gut appear in evidence.
that there were to enty persons present of the pas ticular class
'rewired by the Act, and as a hifitifing, and not a field, was
ellfitelliplated by the legislature, he contended that the rtnn
tint N:18 1111116Wfill, and most be titeo.ite,t-1 he Maglsitufa...,
hnweter, confirmed it awl !wore, Mr. Newslead became ha -
ble to the petialty of thirty pounds, or to three nossith
ointment, A ease was demanded, on the Wirt of Mr. New.
stead. for the imistion of the Court of King's Bench; but the
prosveutor% having propnbeti to abandon the proseenti 111 l , soot
engaged not t.i enforce the peen:hies, the Ii biol. of Mr. \ea •
stead withdrew their application,llll% ill= ablliuerl ail 11:t.y eunfd
de-sire. The tiestion of right, however, between the re. tor
and the picas-leer rciaainssmileeitleft.

YORK.
'The case of Elizabeth Ward. late of kothwell, for adminis.
tering poison to her sister, cattle on for ti ial on .12rida stoa-
night. Tlw prisoner is only It years of age. It WM a 1i:dots:II
.cireunseitasiee in this case, that the mops material witiiemooi
were persons nearly connected with the prisoner, a sister end a
y ^ brother: it was with the •etturust difficulty that aileu el<
could be obtained from the former to questions, the tri.elt 'icy
of which W:l4 to criminate the prisoner, who had n,t Counsel.
The Judge tock great pains to investigate the eireamstmict s of
the ease ; but the pi out Was %Cry elltleitl4iVe. Jury, after
retiring for a few minutes, f I the prisoner---Guilty; his
LordAiii immediately rapowil wittekace of death
ready stated, that the 14:111VIICC would iuctitUbl)
cuted.

A cause for sedurtion from the neighlinurliond of Dauca.ter,
Revd!, v. Satterl4,, wa. tried at fiat late 'fork As:..iita. I et-
diet for the plaintiff 3001.

It is A circumstance deserving of .notice, that while
there has been so much rain in the south of turope, there
has been a long •series of•dry weather in the north-east.
A letter from St. Petersburg, dated July 10, says, " For
these four weeks past we have had a continued drought.
It is long since we have had in the north such an uninter-
rupted series of dry weather. At ltiga and Dantzic pub.
lie prayers were,put up to implore rain."
The spots on the sun, which have lately caused so
much conversation, are still visible. They vary in num-
ber.and position dully. On Monday afternoon only two
of the larger ones could be seen ; one of them almost in
the centre, and the other near the equator in the eastern
limb. They are so large as to be visible with a tolerable
good spy-blase, taking care to use smoked glass to guard
the eye from the sun's rays.
The abbrevation Brit. fin. Britanniarum, on the new
silver coin, is spelt Britt. with,rt double 1! Some consul-
tations have, it is reported, been held at the Mint upon
the subject of this gross blunder.
EMIGRATION.Short Tvur.)—An hn ish gentle-
man set out last week tier a tour in France. He got to
Calais, liked the wine, drunk plentifully, and -.-as carried
to bed. About midnight the nausea of the sea-voyage
returned upon him with tremendous violence; he rang
tlir his servant, swore that French living did not agree
with him, and was dressed in time to return at daviight
by the same packet which lauded him in the dark the
night before.

The Connuissioners•fim the liquidation of the nation:l
debt have 62,9971. per day to hey out in the purchase of
stock, tbr M successive transfer days. Friday s •nnight, w.c;
the first day of the quarter, and they purchasal 98,(001.
Reduccel.

On Monday last a s ;viz g bank was ol•cnud Ux-
bridge, under the patron ige of fand Gambit r, nd
nierons list of g •ntlenien. Th. d. posits the ftr.t. lay
unouuted.to ne r 300).