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London, England, 1821-08-26 00:00:00

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LINCOLNSHIRE.
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,Thomas Price, aged 29, late of thp borough of Statn-
ord,,shoetuaker, was indicted for that be, on the 26th
of April last, upon Hannah his wife, feloniously, wil-
fully, maliciously, and unlawfully, did make an assault,
and did stab and cut her on the right side, feloniously,
wilfully, and of malice afore-thought to kill and murder
her. A second count stated Ole intent to be to disable li
her; and a third to do her some grievous bodily harni.—a
It appeared front the evidence, that on Saturday evening
the 28th of April, the prisoner went out from his lodg-
ings, and returned at a quarter past twelve, in such a slate
of intoxication that he was unable to get up stairs alone.
When he got up the next morning at eight o'clock (by
no means recovered front the effects of the previous night s
drunkenness) he went out, accompanied by a fellow
workman named Mason, to the Horse Shoe public
hoose, where they had some ale; they then went to
Mr. Williuioit's, a gin shop, where they each had a
glass of gin ; from thence they went to the Coach and
Horses public house, and afterwards to another, front
whence the prisoner was led home, at eleven o'clock in
the morning, by Mason, who took him op stairs to his
lodgings, where his wife was lying on the bed, who said
to him on his entrance, " You're oftdrinking, Thomas,
and leaving me half-pined at 'tome." Mason then left
hint standing by the bre. Soon after Mason had left,
the person at whose house the prisoner lodged heard his
wife call out, and she Caine down stairs bleeding very
profusely from her side. On the laud lot going up
stairs, he found the prisoner lying on the bed, with a
shoemaker's knife in his band, very bloody; he was
quite drunk. ,The wound given the wife was on the
seventh rib of the right side, about an inch in depth and
length, and event upwards in an oblique direction, and
lire some time it was considered very dangerous by the
surgeon, havitig severed au artery; had the knife entered
direct, it would hate probably proved fatal. 'rite pri-
soner's general conduct to his wife was described as being
eery good, except when in a state of intoxication; and
in his way to the gaol he expressed sorrow for the rush
act, and sakl it was by accident.
The prisoner on being called on for his defence, said,
he never harboured malice against her iu his life; and
lie wished her to be called.
Soumconversation then ensued between the Judge and
Mr. Marryatt, Counsel for the prosecution, as to whe-
ther the wife could be called. His Lords`up was quite
clear that the wife could be called in evidenca against
her husand, in a case where she had suffered personal
violence ; it had beau solemnly decided by the twelve
Judges in the case of Lord Audley, and since confirmed
and repeatedly acted on: but it was equally certain that:
the wife could not be called fir the husband.
Mr. Marryatt.—" We have not the least objection,
my Lord, to call her."
Mr. Justice Park.—" I know you have note I think
she had better he called: this is a very serious charge,
and very properly prosecuted."
After waiting a considerable time, whilst the woman
was being sought for, the Judge was about to sum up,
but at length the wife appeared and was sworn.
Hannah Price has been married to the prisoner two
years : remembers Mason her husband coming home on
the Sunday morning; she was lying on the bed in her
clothes; her husband was exceeding drunk, and wanted
to pack up his clothes to leave the towit ; she would not
permit him, he had at this time a knife in his hand.
and she was fearful he would hurt himself with it ; in
order to prevent this, she tried to take the knife from
him ; for which purpose she took hold of the knife with
one hand, and of the prisoner's wrist with the other;
whilst he was striving to get his wrist at liberty, the
knife wounded her in the side; is sure it was quite acci-
dental, and he did not mean to hurt her.
The Judge then addressed the Jury, and said he was
bound to tell them that they must acquit the prisoner.—
The wife had given her evidence like a very creditable
and decent woman, and without any apparent atieum.t
improperly to screen her husband.
The Jury then acquitted the prisoner, and the Judge
exhorted him to go home and be a good husband, to
cherish his wife, and remember that a sober life was die
best thing he could attend to.
SUItItLY.

CROYDON, AVG. 24 —This day these assiaes commenced
before Mr. Baron Wood and Alr. Janice liurrouth. 'the
only trials of importance that occurred dating the day wire
the following:—
Joseph Cook, John Chapman, and William Clark were
indicted for stealing, on the 23th of June last, in the parish
of St. John, Shad Thames, 25 bushels of wheat, value 11. and
also a quantity of oats, the propel ty of Messrs. Mayes mid
and Wheeler warehouseman.
Mr. Arahin appeared tOr the prisoner, and 511.. Turton
slated the case for the proserntion ; he called
:tames Grady, a wittchnian, who stated he was going
rounds near the premises of Mles•rs. Thumus, Shad Thames,
(which adjoins those of Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler) on the
th of J tnie last, at three o'clock in the morning ; he heard
a noise on the roof of Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler's premises,
which aroused his suspicions ; he procured a ladder anti
ascended the bitilain4, when, with the assistance of other
watchmen, he secured the prisoners C::ok and Clark ; Chap•
man 111.11;t: his escape, but was taken shortly after near the
split.
Mr. Wheeler said, his premises had been robbed of a
quantity of wheat, ;laid the samples produced acre part of
his stock of wheat which was iu bulk in his warehouses.
Several witnesses proved the saute facts.
Mr. Justice Burrough summed up the evidence, and the
Jury instantly found all the prisoners Guilty. The learned
Judge sentenced them to be transported for seven years.
floasE sTi; Li Nu.— 11. Taplow, W. Smith, and H.
Smith, were capitally indicted tio* stettibig, un the 21111 of
May, two valuable mares, the property of Mr. U. Hatd, of
the village of l'ilford, in the county Ct. Sussex. The cir-
cumstance,' of the case were detailed by Mr. Sergeant
Ouslow, who called the fulluwiug WlillttiNC3 to prove his
case :

George Child, in Lis testimony, endeavoured to prove

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the prisoners bad been seen near the ground of the prose.
cater. The conduct of this fellow was of such a descrip-
tion, that the learned Judge (Hurrough) declared not a
word that he said could be believed. He actually de-
clared, that be should know the men better by looking at
their feet than in their faces, and wished to get into the
dark for that purpose. His strange behaviour created
much merriment in a very crowded Court.
The next witness, the servant of Mr. (lard, proved the
horses to have been safe in the paddock of his master a
few hours before they were seen in the possession of the
prisoners.
Taplow, who appeared to be the spokesman of the
party, entered into a long detail of the traissaution ; the
jet of the defence, however, was, that he had been em-
ployed by a Mr. Cox, of King-street, Portinou square, to
take them to Alton, for which he was to receive 11. as a re-
muneration, aud that having come out with the other pri
loners, it was agreed they should return home together.—
In his defence the others said they were embodied to support
him. They called a man numed George Till to prove lie saw
this Mr. Cox deliver the horses to pm isoners, but his evidence
was at midi an i 111 l neasurable dilrunce from any thing like
proliability, that Air. Ju-tice flurrough ordered hint to be
detained until the verdict was returned. .

The Jury, after hearing the lent nett J udge recapitulate the
erideure, iibtautly pronnaileed the prunmi•r*Guilty—lleutli.

LAIC REPORT.

couwr OF CHANCERY, Auo. 21.

lIOWAKD AND GICHS. BANK KUPTCY•-JUDGMENT.

The Lord Cnancellor, on coining naio Court this day,
gave judgment in this cause. lle had read over the
papers must carefully last nieht, and the result was, that
Mr. Campbell could not becohsidered a tusa fate creditor,
and therefore the commission must be superseded, which
his Lordship ordered accordingly ; but at the same tittle
reserved the question, as to who should be directed to
pay the costs, until some further time.
Ills Lordship afterwards sat in his private chamber
to hear a lunatic petition, the nature of which did not
transpire.

Dreadful Ontrage on the Preventive Service in Scotland
—Friday night informatiou was received at Bow .street,
of a must daring attack innle on Captain Ilastie, and a
boat's crew of the Earl Moira revenue cutter, by an
armed body of smugglers, off the Coast of Slit:timid, by
which one malt was killed, two mortally, and several
others dangerously wounded. From the particulars
transmitted to town, it seems that Captain Ilastie having
for some days observed a dark suspioious looking vessel
off ‘Vhalsey Island, on the Shetland toast, on the
morning of the 4th inst. manned a boat, and proceeded
to examine her by virtue of the King's authority. The
strange vessel allowed him to come so dose, that lie
heard several of the men on board speak very good
English but when he attempted to board, a heavy dis.
charge of musketry was given him by the smugglers,
which at once brought down three of his mariners,
killing one on the spot. The Captain made a second
callatit effort, but the galling fire of his adversary so
thinned the br tve little party, that they were obliged to
retieat, and the lugger got oil, with tut cargo, which is
supposed to have cuusisted of 511111;44kt' tea, gill, and
tobacco. From some circumstances that have tratispirtd
it is suspected that the smuggler came front the coast of
Kent, probably Deal, and officers have set off thither to
make inquiries. The Col 1111 l issioners of Excise have
uttered a reward of MI. for the apprension of any of
the parties.

On Wednesday last, in the afternoon, as a young wo
man was passing from Newington-green towards Wing-
ton, through the fields adjacent to the New River, ft+ e
disorderly fellows, who were bathing at the usual place
called the Sisters, quitted the river bank to meet her in
the foot-path, when they laid violent bands on her, and
dragged her to the banks of the river, and after cruelly
using the poor creature, three of them stripped her and
pushed her into the water, and dipped her several times.
At hmgtit she was suffered to depart, almost in a state of
nudity, having lost the greater part of her clothes, &c.
tills wretched condition she reached Islington, where
she was placed in the Workhouse,and Iminanely treated.
Some of them are well known, and the young woman
says she :an swear to the twee ruffians who were most
outrageous.

On Friday evening a number of su-pieions characters
assembled at the Duke of Rolland, Gravel-lane,
Highway, where they remained for some time. At
length amie of them stole unperceived troll' the bar, the
key of a private room up stairs, by means of which they
gained access to the apartment,and :died drawers, boxes,
and other places, of household linen, wearing apparel,
Ste. to a !aux amount, with which they escaped. The
alarm was given by a neighbour, who saw three cr four
fellows going of the lh:eku ay, hea‘dy laden with bun-
dles. They were pursued, but ibetlecivally. Au officer
being procured, six of their companions who remained
all the time keeping the landlady in collects-Aim' at the
bar, were taken into custody, and conveyed to the
1 homes Police (Mice, where they underwent an Oia.
mination on Saturday, and were remanded.

THE lIARVEST.—The reaping of wheat began in
the neighbourhood of Stainthrd on Monday lust.—
The crops are generally good, though in some situ-
ations laid by the heavy rain ou Wednestlay se'n-
night, and discoloured in the straw. There arc
great complaints of mildew in the growing wheat
through many parts of Suffolk, Norfia, and Essex;
but the reports through England generally are in
favour of an average crop ; and in Ireland the har-
vest is stated to be unusually productive.
Mr. Stringer, of Congleton, in Cheshire, produced,
at the recent gooseberry show there, the prize
gooseberry, which measured five inches and an
eighth in diameter, and weighed 21 pennyweights
and 12 grains,

THE Muitaarst.—We arc informed that the mur-
rain has lately appeared amongst the cattle in some
parts of the counties of Brecon, Radnor, Cardigan,
and Carmarthen, but hope the report will prove
unfounded. This disease is highly contagious, ge-
nerally fatal, and mostly occurs in dry seasons, but
happily very seldom in this country. Its symptoms
are, the animals hanging down their heads, which
are swollen, palpitation of the heart, short and hot
breathing, staggering, a viscid secretion from the
eyes, rattling in the throat, and a shining tongue.
We believe no certain remedy is known for the dis.
order; bleeding and purging have been recommend-
ed, with setons in the dewlap—after the operation
of purgatives, opiates and aromatics are said to be
of use, and we think a change of food would also
be found serviceable, with a portion of salt, two or
three ounces mixed in it daily. On the first ap-
pearance of the symptoms of this quapruped plague,
the healthy cattle should be immediately removed
from those affected as far as possible, to fresh shady
pasture, with plenty of water, and salt given them
daily in some food, about two or three ounces each
day; the recovery of the diseased cattle, we fear,
will always be uncertain, and we strongly recom.
mend where animals die with the symptoms we have
described, a skilful veterinary surgeon should hp
procured to open one of them, as then he will bo
procured to judge of the best method of treating the
disorder. Tho greatest care must be taken to pre-
vent the spreading of the disease, which is very in-
fectious, and may be disseminated throughout the
country if neglected.
On Tuesday morning the officers of the customs.
of Aberdeen, seized in the harbour contraband goals
on board the Dutch dogger, Nifn Hoop, Gysbert
Ver Does, commander, from Rotterdam, of 60 tons
burden, and 11 men. She came in here a few days
before, for the purpose of being caulked; and the
discovery was made by the Custom-house boatmen,
who on parading the quay early in the morning,
observed a boat astern of the vessel, with two men
putting casks into her, which turned out to be
Geneva. The vessel was immediately seized, and
her crew marched to pri►on. She was then found,
to have on board eight herring barrels and two half
barrels of tobacco; tour barrels and two half bar-
rels of tea; four bags of tobacco; and five jars and
AI tubs of Geneva. In order to land these contras.
band goods, the vessel was brought up on IVetlnes-
day to the custom-house, when Mr. Wilson the tide
surveyor, and the crew of the custom-house boat,
discovered upwards of 100 more tubs of Geneva,
artfully concealed under the ceiling, and in various-
parts of the vessel; indeed it was so fitted fire this
illicit traffic, that notwithstanding the strictness of
their search, they found they had next morning still
further discoveries to make, as they then brought
great part of the seizure from places they never
suspected, to the number of other 9-00 tubs nearly;
so that the quantity of goods taken on the whole
was 522 half anti 31 whole makers or tubs of Ge-
IleVil, about 5001bs. of tobacco, and 3501bs._of tea.

The Sixty Miles 31a1ch a bay for Tea Days.-....
This undertaking was completed by Mr. Coleman,
near Honiton, in Devonshire, on Thursday, and
considering the heat of the last few days, it stands
equal to any thing on pedestrian record. Mr. Cole-
man bent his course through Huntingdon to Ferry-
bridge, Yorkshire, and from thence crossed the
country through Worcestershire, Oxtinalshi7e, &c.
into the Bath road at Devizes, from thence through
the lower part of Somerset and Wiltshire, till the
600 miles was completed as above stated. It is ex-
traordinary that he felt but little finigue after the
fourth day. He generally did from five to six miles.
an hour when travelling, which secured him rest_
The wager was tir 100 guineas only.
SMOCKIND Mcansa —On Friday morning, at
one o'clock, the watchman in Duval's-lane, Hol-
loway, near Crouch-end, was found on his beat,
murdered. Not being heard to cry the hour, the
patrole went round to uscertain the cause, and
thund the unfortunate man lying dead on one side
of the road; on examining the body, his head was
discovered to be beaten to pieces by some weighty
instrument, and presented a must frightful spectacle.
The poor fellow's watch lay on the ground, near the
body, which is supposed to have been left by the
murderers, fur fear it should lead to a discovery. It
is conjectured, that through his vigilance he had
rendered himself obnoxious to some villains who
have tir a long time been the terror of that quarter,
who waylaid him for the purpose of murdering him.
—The villains have as yet evaded justice.
Extraordillaiy Wager.—Mr. James Watson, of
the Swan, Upper Chipton, who is nearly TO years •
age, undertook, Jim a wager, to draw a gig, weighin,,
cwt. twenty-six miles in twelve hours; he stemmed
at nine' o'clock on Wednesday night, and completed
his task at a quarter past seven the next mornin;,
being one hour and three quarters within the given
time. Hundreds were up all to witness this
extraordinary feat. Much praise is die.: to his frien&
fin. their exertions, as many impetlitnenub woe
thrown in Ina way.