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London, England, 1820-03-11 00:00:00

ESSEX I.NNT ASSIZE.

The Contotiorion fur holdiotthe A"-ize for this
muff was (mewl on Saturday last. The Hon.
Sir ‘i Ohm Garrow having 'sacred the tows about
six o'clock that etesiug. accompanied by Sir
r'rhomas Nome, Bart. the precast digit Streviff,
they proceeded to the foe.that purpose.
The following day; the Leattred Judge, accompa-
hied •by the Midi Sheriff mud Ms suite, attended
dire s- service, both morning and evening; we also
tintreed tie Hight Hon. Lotd Braybrooke. the Lord
Lieutenant of the county, and several other dish*.
gusi-hsrl termintgef, who were present.
On Monduy 1110111111 g the Judges proceeded to
hosiirers, Mr. 1/11.011 GirrOM in tic Aisi Prier
Court, and the Lord Chief Baron on the Crown-
• rode.
• The Grand Jury being worn, the Learned
Judge achlreseed them as follow% :
•• Gentlemen of the (.rand Jury,
I hod in the calendar some ofieuces of a me-
hnrcholy description. the particubsre of which I
need not stow enlarge upon. Your experience in
crortinal Cage" renders it uoneeewntry for me to es.
pl.on the stature of your druier ; bui. if I C4lll give
any smalltime?, nothing will give me greater sans-
fac ; at present, however, there will be no sieves-
Si,! f e me to trouble you, I shell, therefore, riot
a •fr e any more of your valuable time. 1 understand
smile progress has been made in the. improvement
of the county gaol, which will not only be attended
with advontage to the ueliappy person:, confined, but
also hrorticial to the public at large, as it respects
t.•r •.I'.utortoni likely to be effected in the inure!.
and uniidact of the Prisoners. I shall not deism
you by any more observagione ; you will, therefore,
retire to your norm, and consider of the cases which
will be laid before you."
The Grand Jury accordingly retired to their
merit, shortly after returned with a number of
James Fox was indicted for having obtained a
. chesnut gelding from the livery stables of Mr.
Benjamin Jordan, of Cambridge, under the 211p-
stoned character of Sir Charles Thompson, sod by
representing himself. to .be a Fellow-Commoner of
St. John's College. The fact of his hiring the
horse, and detaining it beyond the time he engaged
the animal, was proved, but no evidence was ad-
duced that the prisoner had offered it fur gale ; the
Judge therefore directed an acquittal.
The crew of the Hazard smuggling vessel, of
Boulogne. being i 2 in number, who resisted the
Affegle revenue cutter, when in the act of taking
possession of her coutrabaiiil c. ago. were arraigned
at the bar. They consisted of a mixture 01 ench
and English. the Captain liiiii.elf heroic H French-
men. 1n consequence of their as pleading guilty,
and io consideration of the length of time they had
been committed. being in November last, Mr. Ste-
irasit 0!trlow addressed the Jury, and said, that the
sole object of this prosecution was to teach to_
feigners as well as Englishmen, that the municipal
laws of this country were nos to be violated with
impumity. The Prisoners having suffered a long
unprivonment, sod as they had pleaded guilty, he
should not press for any further punishment. The
Prioniers were then discheoged, upon their own
seversl reeogreizsoces to he of good behaviour.
Nerdy all the Promoters upon the calendar have
been tried ; Fairheati and Gallon, for sheep-Meeks
tog, and other offences iu Rochford hundred ; Leary
drutru and Patrick Welsh, fur uttering forged
notes, were the ohly prisoners upon whom sentence
of death hod been parried, and who had not sub.
ettoirotly been reprieved. The two unfortunate

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koala who stand slimed spa the &whir a
murdering their own 'Taping, will be arraigned
this day, as wail/silk food" Prianners generally.
CIVIL, SIDS. •,, .
I.IIOOOT V. wti.sna, am. .
This wait so action of debt wpirwc this
Sheriff. for the rim* of one Green; a debtor
Pliiestat, at whose suit he hart ben angst t
had 'scowd out of the custody of Shade, the er.
Mr. l4lwryett, Mr. Bullard, sod Mr. Chaste con•
dusted the Plaiutirs case; and Mr. Watford, the
Defendant's.
It appeared that Green had been arrested in the
borough of Malden), at the suit.of the Plaintiff, fur
the sum of 3161. end notwithstanding there were
four Sheriff's Officers engaged in arresting him and
another man, he was suffered to go at ferge.
Mr. W A LrORD objected in defence to the action,
that by the Nlalrfore Charter of Incorporation Kraut-
Id by Philip and Mary, and by subsequent Char-
ters, the S;teriff of Essex and his officers were re-
strained lions arresting any person within the
borough. Passages in the several Charters granted
to the borough were referred to by the Learned
Counsel.
Mr. Baron GARROW, after firedog the objection
discussed shortly on both sides, gave the Delendaot
leave to move the Court above, to enter a tioti.uit ;
but in that mean time. his Lordship directed the
Jury to trod their verdict for the Plaintiff.
Verdict for the Plaintiff is.—U.bi 3161.

CARTWataHT tf. atINNItICIPtaI.D.
This was an metro') of trespass against the De-
fendant fur driving his gig against a mare. the
property of the Plaintiff, whereby the animal was
so much injured that it was deemed necessary to
destroy her. The Defendant pleaded, that the
ware in question was killed in consequence of the
negligence of the Plaiutes servant, aud not from
any fault of his.
Several witnesses were examined, from whose
evidence the following facts were disclosed :—The
Plaintiff is the landlord of the Horn lan, at fir rill-
tree, and was the owner of the mare in question,
which, when nut otherwise emplo3ed, was used as
a hunter ; and the Defendant is a tobacco and
snuff-dealer, in London, who also occupies a
small tarns at Hutton, in this caurrty. On the
4th of December last a very sharp arid isitellitient
boy, the Plaintiff's servant, named Miliaria Jago.
had been out with the mare for the purpose of
exercising her, and, on his return, in cativo:l
with another lad named flobbs. who was slap on
horseback, he and his companion, who had been
riding their horses at a walking pace. stopped at
the Green Dragon public-house, intending to take
a little beer, The public-house was on their wro,•g
side of the road where they had 'topped, at the
instant the Defendant, accompanied by his wife,
iu a gig, d,use up, at the rate of between eight
moil eleven miles an hour ; when, before the buy
Jags) could get the mare out of the way, the
gig came is. 14416 i with one of
.her h rid quer-
ters, and entered the flesh to the depth of eleven
inches, and broke. The were was throw ii down
'by the shock, with the buy under her, but for-
tunately he Was not hurt. Notwitlistarding the
injury, the mare recovered her feet again, but bled
must profusely. A farrier vas vent for, to extract
the broken shaft ; but in the result, it was deemed
advisable to put an end to her sufferings, no hopes
being entertained of her recovery. After the acci-
dent. the Defendant's horse rail off at full sired,
With its load, and before it hail proceeded far, the tr,.g
was thrown Is pun a Lank, and the Defendant himself
was lowed out upon the road, and in a few 'Monies
afterwards 111. wile was larowtrsflitio a ditch. hut
fortunately both escaped unhurt. The [Mend-
ant, without 'topping to inquire (tiro the etreups-
stances of the misforturie, pueaumi bisioursrev.
afterwards *topped on tho road at a Whetl,igheis
shop to have the shaft of his gig repaired. Tairther
lie was traced by one of the Plaintiff's witnesses,
who demanded his name and address, which lie
refused to give, until he was told that be alo sal I
be committed to the custody of a constable;
when, with apparent reluctance, he gave a cold
of reference to his shop in London, and Ins larris
at Hutton, and upon his refusing to make a coin-
peouratiou fur the 10.. of the Planitiff's mare. the
present action was brought. The mare was **Ora
to be wrotlipkg guineas —that she was an auiural
perfectly gentle—that the boy Jag° was free from
all blame, and was ',VT:telly COlUilelelit to manage
her as a rider.
Several witnesses were then called on behalf of
the Defendant, the substance of whose evidence
was, that the Defeirolant at the time the accident
happened. was driving at a fair bevelling pave on
his own side of. the mail—that the Plaintiff's snare,
under tie guidance of the boy ,ago, had suddenly
crossed over f her proper side of the road, to
the Green Dragon politic-house, and having be-
gun to sidle kick at the liniment the palm.
dant's gig was going at a quick pace, it was Ito
lute for the- hatter. to pull up. and the accideut
turavoidality fialq the Plaintiff 'a mate
was naturally a vicious animal and much given
to kick, and that one of the Plaintiff's own
witnesses, named !Jobb., had admitted. immedi-
ately after the accident, that the Defendant was nut
in fault, but that the 6'l Jago alone wart to blame
in crossing from his right vide of the road, at tl.e
instant 1w was passing. Witriesses were examined
for the Plaintiff in reply, for the purpose of contra-
dicting the Deferalant's evidence. and it appeared
that the road where the accident happened was 43
fret in width. and that the Defetidant's wale bail
said in her husband's preartive. that that walk not
the first time they had been thrown out of thaw
gig by their own horse. It uopeared also, that at
the time of the peciikto the Lieletidarit's truss were
held loosely iu his hand, said that lie was an un-
skilful driver.'
Mr. Baron GARItoW summed up the evidence
with great nouuteuress, anal told the Jury, that their
verdict must devisod upon the credit they should
give to the witnesses examined on the one stile and
on the other.
elite Jury retired for nearly two hours, and on
their return, titlivered in a verdict for the l'iattaik
dainsges 401.
nagWiTall a. SEWELL. AND fIIOOTIIET. .
Thaw was au action 14 dchsulatiun. •Ihe trial .
lasted from twelve o'clock on Wednesday until 'Our ,
yesterday afternoon, when the Jury returned a rens
diet for the Plaintiff—. Damages 2,000/,