The National Register.
London, England, 1808-08-14 00:00:00

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REGISTER.

• AUGUST 14,

PR0V1NC1AL3.—"...1.611116
Eat, Arc. $.-1 am awry to inform roe an augur
occurrence took place last evening at Landsdowa, near tbireity
It has been long a custom, on the Sunday preeeding LarsJai;
Fair, for the young people to assemble on the Down, and name
themselves with the usual sportiand pastimes of what they term
Lansdowo Revels; but the preient High Constable for the Hun.
tired of Bath Forum, Mr. Duncan Campbell, was hilt; dell r•
mined to suppress, if possible, all iumoltunus and pugilistic pro.
reeding& Unhappily, something 'occurred that occasioned his
interference, and meeting with reslstanee, heat last had recourse
to a pistol, and shot a man of the name of Strong in the abdo-
men. The poor feltow died shortly afterwards. Mr. Camp.
bell witb difficulty escaped the vengeance of the mob, and sm.
rendered himself up to Mr. Justice White, who committed him
to prison. Mr. Campbell is a man of family and femme, ;,nd
has been particularly active in his office. A Coroners Jury
sat on the body, and has returned a Verdict of Justifiable ila-
nsiride.
ANTIgTTES.—The workmen emplriyed in levelling the
ground on the North side of the Nethergatel Dundee, whole the
houses have been lately pulled down, have found two Kohl sirs s
of very curious and antique appearance, the handle of a mord,
a piece of an old coat, partly einbroidered with lace, and an
immense number of human hones, supposed to be part of the re-
mains of the unfortunate sufferers who fell when the town wus
taken and sacked by General Monk, during the notectorohip
of Oliver Cromwell.
As the game season is now approaching, we think it our duty
to give the following extract from the Game Act, re-pecting
grouse, black game, and bustard :—'4 No perine shall, upon any
pretence whatsoever, wilfully take, kill, or destroy. tail), sell,
buy, or have in his possession, or use, any heath fowl, cionruonlv
called black game, between December the lath and Augurt the
20th ; nor any grouse, commonly called red game, between the
106 of December and the l'ith of August ; nor any bustard be-
.tween March the Ist and September the Ist, in every sear, mo
pain of forfeiting for the first tiffence,any sum not exceeilinA 210.
nor less than 10/. and for the second, and es ery subsequeet ot.
fence, not exceeding 301. nor less than 201. halt to the intolmoor
and half to the poor.-13th t;eo. 111. c. 25.—(Wood'eock- awl
snipes, taken with nets or springer, are not game : if killed
taken otherwise; they'ars One: the same distinction is made
between rabbits destroyed in warrens or upon lands in the orrn-
patinn of the person killing or directing them to be killed, and
rabbits killed in other situations : the former are act game; the;
latter are.] • r,' •

VOME CIRCUIT.

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I‘fAiDsToNE, itgsT, AUGUST 0.
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SEDUCTION.---11ANTILLD V. MASSEY.
This was an action to recover a Compenstion in damages
(of
the seduction 'of the Plantiff's daughter. The Plaintiff was a
shipmaster at Ireversham ' In this county, and the Defendant a
Captain in the:West-Yoh Militia. '
Mr. Serjeattt Shepherd addressed the Jury on hekalf of the
Plaintiff, and having made minty observations on the nature and
eotusequeures of the Defendant's offence, observed, that it Wilt
much tiggrkyated ist the eireemstanre orbit: tiring k married man
at the time it-took place. 'The Plaintiff be represented A ere+.
tipeetableempk4sst of eircumstaaces not equal to the Defendant,
who wits a n of fortuae„ and a Cupttiin in the Militia.
He was lino the house.? the Plaintiff :4.l'n lodger, mid
thee litAelliet Myself of the ticteirestich hie siaintiOn enabled
him to have to the eisfollostate girt, be had suet-cede-I in persuad-
ing bee toe bandon the best ornament of woman, and to yield t
his loikillielout • Ile the event she prnvbd with ch id, and the fa-
ther ItOW lank compensation, not averely for the ex pence he
had beeepvi to, but also for the distress of wind and a" zietY he
had sneered owoceasion of the inisCeaduct M a child ahn had
becnsedueedfrogn the paths of virtue. by the artifices of tbe De-
fendant. : t.
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• •'Ellsabeth Bennetd stated, that she lived at home with her fa-
ther at Perktshans, iw he witcnishinesastee, the Defendant wns
an Officer in the West-York Militia. He tame toliodge at their
house. Her father was spgreat deal front home, and her mother
had the management of the house. • Stiettly•after the Defendant
remota the house, be began to ht particlilar in his attentions tor
her, and . ultimately succeeded in sedueitrg tier about six 'seek./
after he was In the house ;, tic consequence Rai, that she liccatue

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