The National Register.
London, England, 1808-04-03 00:00:00

PRO V 11 C !ALS.

CAVTTON TO Srfte.vcrs.—Af the last Kingston Assizes,
Charles Martin, -coachman to Sir William Rosh, was tried on
an indictment for defrauding his master of 4d. by 0% ercharg-
ibg for bating his horses on the 19th of October last. This
sum was selected us admitting of the most easy proof; but it
appears, from his weekly books, and the testimony of the dif-
ferent tradesmen, that he has been for a long time in the habit
of overcharging all the articles which went through his bards
full one-third, and often i,ach more; that he frequelaly charged
expenees nut incurred, and on other occasions never paid the
bills for which he received the amount front his master. In
sue instance he charged Sir William Rush, from Nov. 4 to
Dec. 21, nt Brighton, 41. Os, for eight bushel of beaus, while
it appears, from the declaration of the stable-keeper, that the
horses had only Is. worth of beans (hiring the above time. The
charge in the indictment being clearly proved, he was s a-
vowed to twelve months imprizqmiliCat. The above example,
it is hoped, will operate as it salutary warning to servants.
Their wages have of late years been so high as to leave them
wholly without excuse for fraud; and the trust neces,aril%
placed in them is so great, that no punishment, short of capi-
tal, can be too great for the breach of it. It is a duty, there-
fore, which every Gentleman ones to society, to prosecute the
offenders. On this ground the learned Judge observed, that Sir
IVilliain Rush deserved the thanks of the county for bringing
this man to juqice.
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At the last Assizes for the county of Dorset, a cause was
tried of considerable importance to people in private life, who
are able to keep servants.—Au indictment was brought by Jos.
Hyde against J. S. Parha►n, Esq. for an assault.—The former
warirrvunt to the defeadant, by whom he had been discharged,
but Who refused to quit the house. A struggle ensued, and iu
the end the prosecutor being turned out of the thouse, he in
dieted his master at the nest Assizes. The defeadant was ac-
quitted, to the satisfaction of a crowded Court, as it appeared
that when a mater discharges a servant for improper beha% iour,
and the latter refuses to go, the necessary force ►nay be used to
effect his removal.

At the late Hereford Assizei, in an action brought by 1116
Natty, of the Wear, near Hereford, zigaiost Mr. Wilgon, Attor-
ney, near Wats, to recover WWI. -the penalty of a bond granted
by the Defendant to the Plaintilt, promising her marriage, the
Jur, aftAaaloug trial, gave a verdict for GUM
Aar' Qu / . —There was ili,covered in digging a trench near
lei oadgate Holm., in the neighbourhood of Ing Chapel, in
Le:,30,-dand, a Roman bulla, at the depth of two. fret below
the surface of the earth. It iv a very tunfurna ring, made of jet,

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and retains a very beautiful polish ; although It can scarce be le: s
than isso ars old ;it being so putg since the Romans quitted
Britain. The diameter of this hulla or ring, at the out..ide
the ritA is inches and : and its ilkide, Or shortcst
k 2 inches and 4-10ths—and the specific gravity of this light
vet durable sub,-tauce is ofil V. as MIS to one w hen compared with
rain water : that is hulk for bulk ; tlik jet being carce ohe
and a quarter the weight of rain water ; and therefore more
convenient to wear at the breast, as au ornament, than a livit‘icr
übstance.

A person near Braintree, io E%sex, hay long had annually,
acre of carrots for horse food, which lie considers also ruts, ex-
cellent for COVI', as contributing. greatly to tin increase Of the
riehnes, and flavour of their milk. Ile eptimate, oue bie‘hi.l
carrots to be in nutriment and value equal to tote peek of 0;n,,,
He has allowed one bushel of carrots per horse, per xv;ia.
out oats:, for four Iv inter months. 'film use;{ till dr),
of all yegetable, the least las ative. lle -10 • f1.1)111 tc.l
pounds of seed per acre. Had once (309 bushel, ; but not tuna,
on an as erage of three vearS, th.tu from three to 400 Otishei, ihT
;RTC.

Sir Joseph Banks, from varinmi experiments, rind .the experi-
ence of many year. 4, recommend:, a tyneral tee i‘al of the e.)w
almost obsolete practice of layiurrtra w under Ar:is% herr% it::;tit-,
n hen the fruit begins to swell, by wli;clt rhea the root:. ate
shaded from the sun, the n a-,te of einsi s tire, 1), eva pc, rat pre-
vented the !caning fruit kept from damage hv tf`<iii on t::c
particularly in net n cai ber, much hi hi) lir in na-
write> saved. T‘s.clity true of long Straw arc sufficient for
I;4oo"feet of plants.

Mr. Russell, a farmer, at GressenhaW, Norfolk, has this veal
an ewe, five years old, which has y caned four lanais ; they are
all well, two are bringing up as cot-, the other two are mused
by the another. It is remarkable of this ewe, that she ha- u'au-
ed within four year lambs, of which only live have died.
Esperimew.al agriculturists DOW strongly reeionmead, in•acal
of ages for pigs, that every farmer simaild get cures MAC oa
wheels, which may he shifted from place to place. :wad if neta•s-
sar.. , moved Marna on grass land for its iinprov (anent.
At Wrexham fair, which commenced on Tuesday, the *hew
of Irish, Manchester, Yorkshire, and Birmingham mahunie-
tures was very great. Owing to the late w hats, the arri.:its
from Ireland were late. Linens in Neutral looked (loan: and
Speculative purchases were made to a considerable amanita, in
the hope of an amicable adjustment with America. Leather
retained its price, and much busing's:* was done.
A few days since a violent explosion happened at the gam-
powder works, belonging to Messrs. Jeakens and Love, at
Battle, in Sussex. The fire began in the corni*-house, and
communicated front thence to n magazine, wherein were up-
wards of 200 barrels of gunpowder, the explosion of a hick
swept away the dry-nag-house, running-house, and other bulb!-
lugs. Two men who were at work were killed, mad a chill
lost its life by being struck by some of the shattered ruins.
A pair of oxen, which had been worked, and fatted ou yeas
and hay only, by Thomas 'Nark, Esq. of Landport, were last
week slaughtered in Less is, and weighed, one the amazing,
weight of HY stone, aNd the other 18t? stone; a degree of
weight and fatness which has, perhaps, been never eXeCcded by
aay two bullocks, fed on grass and hay only, in the kimlom.
There is now ill a garden at the Iligh-house, near Morpeth,
s:raw berry In blow in the open ground, or rather a northern as-
pect. The plant has live blossoms, the first of which has done
atoning, and the strawbeiry is cairn 'Roe' y set.
On Monday last, a man publicly sold his wife to a fisher-
man, in the market at Brighton, for £aoeal9 shillings and a I,lun:
derbuss! The disposed of female, apparently " nothing loth,
walked, with her new proprietor, to a neighbouring public
house, where her left-hand nuptials were e!ebrated, in a mans
ner entirely suitable to the occasion! These sort dlf india.enco••,
which have of late become very frequent,
e think, should he
put a stop to; they are quite a 3 disgraceful as the practice
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among the great, some time since prevented by an Act ot the
Legislature, viz. that of driving their wives into the alms of
gallants, and then petitioning the P4rliameut to allow them to
purchase new ones?

A very singular and most impudent robhery was commilted on
Friday sermight in Liverpool : carter went to the warehouse
of Mrs. I:rodes, and obtained from the wnretum-en►au a load of
rope, under plau,ibie pretests, which he carried oil, and their
came for another. ►ie returned a third time, when, his pur-
pose being suspected, he 11:44 tukeu tato custody, ;tud mu:lauded
fur trial.