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SIUSSEX ASSIZUk

I.zw Fs, nee. 23.—The winter assizes commenced here this
ruoruin;, before the lion. Baron Urine's, and the Hon. Mr.
Justice Halley. At 10 siclmk the Commissions were opened,
after which the learned Judges snouted Divine Service.
The Crlrnuur contains lilly cummitniesits„ several of which

are for olii tiers.
David Es..l.r. was indicted for having feloniously utterei a
. fo ged Unnk of thisland note, for the value of 51. on the 27th
of July, Le knowitig it to be forged.
Oa the day in question the ptisoner hail gone In the shop of
t!,• prosco,dor, a shaelitaler, of Mat field. sod Intrull.t.t'd a
pair of boots. in pit)tutut lie tendered a 51. note. Before
the prisoner gave the c :tinge to the prin7outor, he asked where
Int boo gut it Ile aaitt he received it from W.+ master. Sous
after toe note wa. discovered to be forged, and the prisoner
wan apprehended at aurae distance front the house of the pro.
a,outor. the etnistable who took hint into custody told
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him the nelson of the proceeding, he iminedia,ely said he had
received the note hum a person to whom he had sold • horse at
East Grinstead fair. Witnesses wale also milled, who proved
that, on the Ist of June preced lila last transaction, the
prisoner had called at a chandler's shop, al Erridge Green,
near Tuntritilge Wells, and asked the ihripheeper for change
rit a note, saying, at the same ti:oe, that he wanted it for
the purpose of pay Ma • number of labourers in his emp'uy-
wild, tura waiting at • ',Odic house, called the Green 31sii,
io lb.. neit lihouiliond. The change was given, and the pri-
ennee anid his tonne was Russell, and bred at Yaliling, One
of the ins:iacturs of cotes of th, Bank of Eogfand proved that
tl,e two notes, the subject of the indictment, were forged in
all respects..
The confession of the prisoner, sitting that he had bought
. the note. knowing it to be forged, was now put in and read.
The Jcry found the piisoner
W. Lenby was indicted fur sealing, on the 23111 of Octither,
• hay mare, and a black gelding, the property of T. Hewitt,
at Orefield. _ .

On-the evening of the 2,3111 of Octoberr, the servant of the
prosecutor left the two animals mentioned in tbe indictment
aide in a close near the house. The ne‘t morning the prisoner
was seen riding the gelding, and leading the mare, at the dis-
tance of IS miles from the place where they were missed. !le
was pursued -and taken. 1% belt asked how he had attained
possession of the hinsea, lie said they had been entrusted to
bis care by a person whom lie did not know, and that not lik-
ing the job, be had left.them, and ;owe into the wood.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty—deuth.
J. JOIIIISOII, W. Pike, and W. De. were charged with
having, on the night of the 4th of September, burglariosaly
broken into and emit, red the dwelling house of C. Newington,
at ,tici.litirst, and with haring stolen therefrom 18 Miser
spoons, end olh r articles, his properly.
The et idence against the poisoners in this case was also cir
entostantiel ; they had been arch togethei in the neighbourhood
cf Tieehurst for the too pri ceding days, and they were also
assn together at about lire e'clot k in the morning after the
robbery. Suspicion hating arisen, Isom these circumstances,
that the priauners Lnew *unwitting of the burglary, they were
pursued sad taken, et lieu there was found MI the pet win of
Johns n a pocket-kniW, the tip of which appeared to have been
broken oil', and in the wooden sash of the window, oat of
which a pane of glass bad been cut to facilitce the entrance of
• the rubbers into the house, was found the tip of the knife,
which when produced in Court fitted exactly rvtb the knife
found on the person of Johnson; us the person of Pile twelve
silver spoons acre found, and on Payne a limning knife in a
ditch, where Payue had beett„-s lie said, resting himself just
before they were taken into custody, was found two silver
spoons; the %bele of the property was id milted.
The Jury found a verdict guilty—death.
Lew 24.—Thomas Perser was indicted for stealing,
on theehte of November, a brown mare, the property of Ben.
Challen, at Cocking.
On the night ut the 4th of November, the mare in question
was placed in a stable belonging to the prosecutor, by o'4 of
his servants. The hest morning the animal was missed. By
the enquiries made at Lewes, it appeared that the prisoner had
gone to that place with the mare, and booked it for rale at the
other of an auctioneer. The twat day, a person named Eagles
J.Ci..,rtt nt. For greater security, Mr. Eagles asked the atm-
tio: r was the owner. The prisoner was then pointed
cu: to Lim. N't ben Eagles beard of the prosecutor's loss, lie
io.wediat, ly sent to bourn' him, that a •ituilor mare had be
bought 11,3. him (tom a person at Lewes. Chattel& came •to
Eagle la Ituesr, 5:11 identified the annum as his own. The
prisoner was pursued and apprehended on the 10th of
Noverubt r.
The prisoner in his defence said, that on the night of the
robbery, be was sleeping at the house of his washerwoman, and
had never seen the witnesses now examined against him.—
Gnat i —Death.
./4.1111 flay wood was indicted for stopping Samuel Pettit oi,
the highway, and fel ~,, Musty taking room Is person a Bank
mate, a ulcer watch, and other properly, on the 23d oh October,
111
The prosecutor, who is a labouring man, bad on the 23d of
October, gone to a place called Burwash ; on his return he
called at a public-house, fur the purpose of getting some re-
freshment. There he saw the prisoner, and remained drinking
v id& him for some. time. lie inn the prisoner left the house in
company. %% lieu they had proceeded Angt timer about three or
lout holes, the prisoner left him, and returned towards the
public•house they had left. When the prosecutor had a:tilted
some distance further, he turned down a lane leading fi.oni the
main toad. lie limit not gone far before the prisoner seised
.1 by the collar, and b 3 the assistance of another n.an threw
him on tic ground. They immediately put their knees on his
Jreast,,aitit took his watch and some 111011e:I then in his imams.
'roe next day, as the prosecutor knew the residence of the pri-
soner lie went tittle and demanded l,ia wslcb. 'flois was re-
A warrant was then obtained, and the prisoner taken
itdo custody.
Weitesses were called, on the part of the prisoner, who
swore that, on the night in question, the prosecutor had given
his wettish to a woman.
The learned ledge having summed op the evidence, re-
marked that they were of opinion, that tl..e story told by the
witnesses on the part of the prisoner was a fabrication, then
then their verdict must depend on the evidence for the proae-
cution ; but if they thought that it was a sullicitut contratlictinn
Mille evidence modem-it by the priniecutot. they must acquit
the prisoner. lloe Jury immediately acqiiii:,d the prisoner.
JOllll Mown and Charles Smith weir indicted for stealing on
the 29th ol August, a gold watch, from the person of Simeon
Bates, at Brighton. On the es cuing of the day in question,
Dlr. Bates, a respectable tituggiat at Bligliton, was walking
East-street, in that town, tsiseelhe SAW the lortmoolers. They
Lad appresel,ed %cry Dear hied, aloes Bross soo.otthed the
watch &um Lais person and ran away, it company with the other
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prisoner.—A■ they proceeded down the street, he observed the
watch transferred from Brown to Smith, and the letter put it
into hie pocket. Both the prisoners were stopped jest as they
were entering on the Cliff, and on being searched, the watch
was found on Smith.—Guilty—deatb.
PAUPERS P. SELECT VESTRYMEN.

David Saunter, William Saunter, and John Carter, stood in-
dicted for having, no tile 2d of Novernher, unlawfully, riotously,
and tumultuously assembled together, with several other pau-
pers, to the number 0(28 or more, in the parish of Northiam,
in this cintnly. for th• purpose of preventing and hindering
Francis Tress Curtis, George Sp:in:err, Thomas Routes, Francis
Tress, Charles Greenwood, mod Thomas Field, sit of the
select vestrymen of that parish, in the due etecutiuu of their
dirty.
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The cue, as proved is evidence, was simply this :—The
select vestry is the parish of Northium had met in a room in the
workhouse on the evening of 1110 2d of Ku: ember ; they bad
entered ups,' the business of the-evenitet, and having consiyilered
and decided upon the case of a pauper named Tree, he was
was about leaving the room, for the purpose of making room
for a successor, it being an art angenieut of the vestry that but
one pauper should be in flue room at the time; Waddle, the
master ot the workhouse was at the room door, and opened it
ter the purpose of letting Tree ont, and sending another of
many who were waiting in the passage into the room, wheu
about 16 or Itt of them pushed the door open, end rushed into
the room, sod insisted upon being there, in greater numbers
than had been customary ; they also refused to leave the room,
without receiving greater relief than they had hitherto bad : the
vestrymen insisted upon their leaving the room—the paupers
persisted, and the gentlemen subsequently adjourned, and left
their refractory interlopers to arrange their quantum of parochial
relief, without their supply of the ways and means. The in-
vaders quietly seated themselves—expressed thew determina-
tion to become fixtures, contrary to the express will of Mr.
Waddle ; and it was ultimately found neoessary to wall ia the
aid of the civil power to restore me:yr and remove nuisances.—
It also app..strod, that in the rush into the room Mr. Waddle
had suffered some serious bodily injuries ; cud for the riot and
as-cult the learned counsel for the prosecution, Mr. Courtliorpe,
called fur the verdict of the Jury.
his Lordship ably comm. need upon the impropriety of the
prisoner's condnet, and the Jury found a verdict of guilty.—
They were seteenree to bard labour in the Mauna Correction
for three calendar months.

LE% L's. Dec. 26.—Daniel Murray was indicted far eteal;..;.
oc the sth of Decesuber, a gold watch from the shop of ‘ item:
Silvani, at thigh on.
The prisoner, who is only tour:een yeers of age, esme to I% t
prosecutor's shop on the day in question, and purchased a smell
gold pin. In the course or the slate day he came into the shop
on two other occasions with different excuses. About fire
o'clock in the evening, when the shopman was removing Go
the different articles Ilium the window, for the night, aocertling
to the 'usual custom, he missed the welch. Recollecting the.
the prisoner lied been so erten in the shop :n the caerse of tie"
day, lie suspected hint to he the 'version 7 'ea had taken it. Ile
immediately went in purse': of him, end foetid Lim at a short
distance from the shop. When lie had seized the ;it!sonur lie
began to Cr', and said if be i.verz allowed logo he ii (mid give np
the watch. He then produced it, and eras taken back to the shop.
A constable was sent for, sod the prisoner taken into custody.
Guilty—de:oh.
Richard Gardner was indicted for stealing two feather beds,
• pillow, and other articles, the property ef Sir Richard Bur-
rowY, on the ?-.1 of December, et B.rightoo.
It appeered that Lady Burrewe, het ie4 llCCltgidll to leave
*34 011ie., desired a bourse -egret in thet Mon to take possession
of her house, stthles, end larnitere, eat'J the rsoeild return.—
This he did with regard to the !mate. It now only remained
for him to receire.poseessinn of the coat.,'.: house it-ii;. stables.—
The eriachasen, tali:Jived over the coach-house. having taken
away his horses, -sent the prisoner with the keys of the stables
and his own rooms. Not having city_ occesion to go to Ibis
place. until the coachinau of Ledy Dm :elate.: um.° to look
at the plemiets, the keys remained in the efrra of the house-
agent until that time. On the ahoy ementioned occasion, erten
he tried the Lets with the difereA locks, he :oond that they all
fitted, except the one leading to the coachman's room, in which
the property mentioned in the indictment was deposited.—
1 Finding; that the key would net unlock the door, a smith was
sent foe, and the doo.' forced. On entering, they discovared
that the vroperty was remosed. Rand bills were then pablished.
i swing the circumstances of the case, and distributed about the
:.greets if Brighten. Amongst the places at •obieli one of these
hills as left, was the shop or a broker. Ile immediately re:-
v.oll4rd having purchased similar articles from a stranger, and
accordingly petit this information to Lady Butrows's agent.—
The coachman was then sent for, and he perfectly recollected
the pillow to he the one he had left in his room. The prisoner
was then apprehended.
In his defence be said, that they were his property, and had
',old them for the impose of obtaining the means of going to
London, and was perfectly innocent of the crime laid to his
charge. Guilty—sentenced to six months imprisomnent in the
house of correction for the court v.
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his Lordship then proceeded to pass sentence of death upon
the six following prisoners :—David Eyles, for uttering
forged notes; N striae' Agair, William Stublerlield, and James
AI iller, for burglary , and Moses Chandler, and James Crossing-
inglorm for horse stealing.
Robert Weirton and George Enstwood were indicted for
:.ring, in the night of the 10th of November, in the pariah of
Burwash, set tire to a barn, the property of John Fhury.
The prosecutor resides upon a farm, near the tows of Bur-
wash. On this tarn, was lately atuntlin:! • barn, containing
nearly all the hay and earn which had been grown by Mr.
Fleury in the present year. A little before midnight, on Sun-
day, the 10th of November, it was discovered to be on lire,
the flames homing from the top, and different parts of the sides.
The prosecutor, his settast, and • number of persons from the
town were soon assembled at the spot, and every possible ex-
ertion was made to extinguish the flames and save the property.
Their endeavours were. however, inellectual, except as to a load
of wheat sheaves, and a few implements of farming in some of
the out-houses. The remainder of the property and premises
were completely destroyed. Among the persons assembled
on that °cram ~,,, were the two prisoners, who assisted in putting
tint the lire, mod saving the property.
The prosecutor is one ot• the is of the parish of Ber-
-1 wash, and io the habit it attending the select vestries held there.
The prisoners are paupers kr the parish, and receive relief.—
The magistrates having strongly recommended that the over-
seers of the parishes should not grant parochial relief to pau-
pers, who had grown up daughters at home, dressed in a man-
ner superior to their ccourtion in life; and the prisoners being
situated in that manner, the vestry frequently refused to relieve
them, until their daughters went into the poor house. On Sa-
turday, Nov. 2, Nn‘ estc•J applit d for relief to the select vestry,
and it.wse refused to him on the above grounds. The prisoner