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threatened by some person., and t
hension of their approach tatrlday night which
jump from the windows °elite-ion. 7His general demeanour being that
of a won labouring under a paroxism of insanity, the worthy Alderman
'directed he should be tatt.to proper care •of •by the keeper of die.
Compter, till his friends stiouid come forward to clalutjum.

MA NISIoNsHOUSE.
:Yesterday Mary Maid and. Matthias 'Mum were charged on auspicicin
of coining. They were brought up in the custody otiterserest the officer,
who, with Slay and Gulf. In cousetluence bi information they bad re.
eeived tp,r4t them into custody, at their lodgiage in-Sparrow-court, Mi-
stories. Several imolen tuts for coinisig were tbund in their popenion,
but, at the r. ot the Solicitor at the Mitt, their nutter *Lamina.
skim was postponed.

.PROPINCIAI, ASSIZES.

SURRY.

SMART V. GRACE. . •
This was an action against the defendant. the widow of a Co Mewl.
by a stone-mason at Guildford, for making a tomb-atone for her late
h ishand.
Mr Nlarryatt, fur the plaintiff, stated, that the plaintiff was a
tjadesman at Guildford, and the Lady was the widow of .a Colonel
in the army, who died et (Guildford •in the year 181 g. During the:
fist paroxysms of her, grief, she wished"to skew her love au& regard
?Or her late husband, by erecting. a tomb to his oseloory. The
plaintiff accordingly made a design, which. he .esigageti- to fmish Mar
301. or 351. The 'Lady furnisked-an inscription, but it was both
badly written and badly spilt; but as as.he coaltl.make it out,.
it was as fulfows
" Gone! but whither? Data be cease,
" Now his body rots away?
" Was his soul a fragile piece
" Of the same het finer clay :
41 Wliern', the soul ? Obtained: release,
" That ut'er dies nor. eyer.dies.
" While his body sleeps iii,peace,
" Far away his spirit. flies. 4:
" He's 40:0nit 60 bear his damn !" .1
This epitaph the Cleroman 4alieeted. ..as AsnetiOg.tliciasaaJi
teriality of the soul, .awl wog idasotauffer.it.sabeitmdrilsed. akar,
produced some delay, andat. lesigth.the Larly.tatassiit the umaameat
not necessary, for having qyaoe.toirelandLand resmraed—sheALlallil
declared that she would tot isaitelise tosubatone rat. all. giddier
plaintiff bad completed iLexpt,puttirm it. p, rurrLitwas not-to bd
expected he should lose Itis•Wiour because the anieur,of aJuidy'a,
widowed affections had decreased by time.
For defendant, Mr. Serjeant Best contended, that the tomb WO
Oricred in 1811, and was not finished in October, 1814, and thal,i
after vo tioreasonable a-deiity, • the holy. bad a rigitt to- emitter:naafi.
•ti,c monument. He -ealled• three witnesses, to thew 'that the des
lesoliost had made repeated eppticinions to•the plaintiff try proeeild
.in the vrisek, -bat he deisyed It. They did not, however, prove-wry
slirect•cowntertaturd, and the Jury feand a verdict for *the piaistitt
—4-Damages, 311..105.

ItOSINSON V. BenterrT.
This was an action for a nuisance. The -plaintir hart altonse ehn
the banks of the Thames, near Kingston, fiabieli bad a lawn extend-
flag down to. the-water. At the bottom of *this been -was a drain
which came from a distillery of sweet waters...44lr. Serjeant Bent.
slated, that the whole •of the refuse water *hint pasted by this
drain was merely the dregs of rose water, anti other.oderiferons
tillations, which pare an agreeable odonr, and was:rather destrable
than otherwise. 'rite deli:Want being possessed of an adjoining
piece of gronerd, built three or tonr cottages, and also erected cer-
tain appeirdazes which ore equally necessary for cottages or palaces,
and tamed the drains from them into the old drain—but they did
sot convey rose wafer. ID short, the commodity they deposited
undi r the noes of the plaintiff's family was inch as to render his,
house a most uncomfortable a.itilittiOn.—The fact of the corruption
Of the drain being proved, it was agreed that a verdict shenild be
taken for tht pliintiff subject to an award, to determine how the
drain might be altere4 so as riot to annoy the isisiatitt's

A LOP.

Thotnas Season, a narks!, aged Y 5, was indicted for the wilful
• murder of his:wires Mild, Mat y Birch, in the parish of-Hoith Outgo.
on tere.tantlit of Saturday, the ASO of,Jonsiaty -hot. It appeared
from: the nvideoceoalid• the prisoner's eoutemiou, Allot di/Fief thee,-
sense- ethic wife he took the child. 4Yr theihoees, -and • *Weed its
•Atead against tit:Amor, frac t mine the skull and jaw, :anti miming al-
most immediate death. The prisoner appeared pertiody immusitok
during the whole trial ; but when the irerdiet .and sentence .ws.re
pro:.otinced, he wept and threw hitinelf Son lisedloor in ibelgeestest
-despair.

NV EX FORD.
Brititet W 41,11, for transmuting water into whi,ikey, woo eenteneei
to be transported for seven veers. Thifweatan went welt tievesince
with a jar. which she carried .eider a Lew cloak, to have. it &led
with wlikkey; and having received it, pretended to examine her
pockets for money of•whieltalieseid she bud-not tilfieient ; she then
dexterously handed another jar, of a•sindlor ace, to the sliemiteeper,
defining him to teal the cork and she vi mild retied) inantedi.drly for
it. The jaw having lain in the shop fur some time, crested o stivi-
eion ; and on examination it proved to have been filled with-water.
She was detected in endeavouring to practise a similar freed eat IWO'
ther part of the town.

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