The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-04-04 00:00:00

LANCAST&K ASSIZES. MARCH 30.

CROWN SIDE.
The calendar contains 123 Prisoner% of which the follows
iug es all abstract :
One cbarg. it with ar.oa ; 2 murder; 22 highs., ml bevy;
15 burglary; 43 nib ring and having posorosiou of forged
Bank ..f England mars; 7 horse, sheep, and comfit shako( f
I •ilmistioteriag pullouts; 20 political offences ; 3 nsauslatigh-
ter ; 1 sti 11l i l ',atrium unlawful oaths; 2 maticianso runt iug ;
1 pi jury; 1 larceny; 1 bigamy; I concealing the birth of
a child ; 2 sceessorim it. hughway.rubbery.
It is a most singular cirrumstarce, that nut of an large
a calendar more than use-thud untie whole tin miter should
lie Bank prom notions—there Wag IRO fewer than 44 lemon. ra
charged either with uttering, or having unlawful possembris
of hovel (lank paper. Eleven of these unfortunate prisons
have lwen capitally convicted, avid received weidetwe of death,
of whom three are likely to be left for eeeee Moo ; 21 coo.
wicted, either opus trial or on their own tunfesinuu, have
been sentenced to 14 years' transportation.
Mr. Justice PARC, in passing the sentence of the Con
upon those who had been capitally convicted, oMe. V. 4, Slot
neither lenity our St verity 'seemed to have Roy . ff. et in rr-
nsiiiirliing the perinciusis traffic which it was ilie intesition
of these prosecutions to repress. It seems *video., imbed,
from the increased number of ;mesons charged with the,*
offence., that it a moat alarmingly or the iarresoe.
True hills have been found against nine of Ilse pei.r.o.,a
cluoged with °Reams against the Slate, in which is is.
chided the well-knows Mr. Knight. It is expect. .1 that Me
trial. fur seditious practices wtll come 044 to mormw. Mr.
Justice Bayley presides sow at lie Crewe Calla. His Laud.
ship arrived at this place on Tuesday uight. Yesterday J.
Rood was convicted of administering an Nola writ! gmai la to IV.
%Ammon, for the purpose of inducing him to comsat to e
secrets of ma unlawful combination to compel theu arta.-
sera, the proprietors of collieries, lo adeasee the mite of
wages. This offence was committed in Ja.it.ary, 1819, at
the town of St. Helen's, near Prescol, is Ibis county, at ti e
lime when there was a general fern ant, no it is called, t. r
au advance of wages. Ilia Lordship seutrared the Klause r
to be insprisuued one year in the House of Correction.
Its addition to the 32 prisoners convicted of elf. arm
against the Hank of &mimed, 13 have 'alert. 4.o44VlCieti
highway rubbery, 5 of burglary, 4 for horse steatitic, Ss...
and 1 fur murder; making the whole untsilwr of capital cui—
viciiusis up to this lime 34. There still rrottiou 4 mpitsl
cases fur trial ; 2 of them are for very aggravatid offences,
arson and poisoning.
•PRIL 1.

.fokn Knowles was yesterday Glued Casiitir of ...Worming
ur pike-beads, with miens that the mime should be
tided as armed, unlawful, and seditious meetings.
CIVIL SIDE

WAIVE r. TUIIIIER AND SUMNIR.
Thiv will. au adieu iu which the Ilrfesdants
wee printers, in Wit..., Mr a libel; and Me Pr...milli un-
lunged • verdict with 1001 damages.

SOLLY V. HITCSIIILL.

This was en actiou against the late waster of the Mills iff
for defamation. The demerit were laid al 1,04.1111. but the
trertlict was for 5/.

At the ripisit of the Nisi Prins Court, last might, there
marlins 61 causes fur trial.

YORK ASiIZES.

HORSE CAUSE.

TEXPRAT V. FITZGERALD.
This action *as trird at the last Yorkshire A•sizee, and
was brought by Mr. Temper', of Broaghton 11.11, againg
Mr. James Fitzgerald, the sou of Sir James Fitzgerald, Ba-
ronet.

Mr. HOLT, the Plaintiff's Junior Conn•el (is the absence
of Mr. Scattier?. his leading oar}, stated, that during Ildr.
Tempest's absence in Italy, in the summer of In 1:, his goo.
Mr. Henry Tempest, Ind agreed to sell to Mr. Fitzgerald
not of the Plaintiff's riding horses fur forty•five guineas, to
be paid for and taken away by Mr. Fitzgerald on his read to
the Doncaster Races, in the followisig September. That the
horse was not warranted, but was perfectly round when it
was sold. That accordingly Mr. Fitarrrald called at
Brosixhton ou the 20th September, the tune he had agreed
to take away the horse, and wincing it out of the stable,
rode it himself, pat his servant on it, aid pee direc-
tions fur its gallops to be iserceseel, nod that a e‘tb
strap and roller *humid be put un it. That after Avow
this, Mr. Fitzgerald informed Mr. Henry Tempest that it
would not be couveniesit to him to take the horse away at
that time, and he requested of him as a Savour to keep it
till his (Mr. Fitzgerald's) return from the lb/master RAC.%
when he said he would call and take it away on his road to
Tburnbarn. That Mr. Henry Tempest objected Mau so,
but at length told him to oblige him he smithd let the horse
stay at Broughton till the time fie wished. That Mr. Fitz-
gerald came to Broughton fur eh, bo,.r oil the Saturday after
the races, bet that the animal had unforsuoately drupp•
down dead un the Thursday pia ceasing, whilst it was being.
exercised in $ canter, is customise's(' of breskima blood ves-
sel, as was discovered on opium( it. Mr. Hull farther sifted,
that as the horse was nut actually in Mr. F.'s pumvssiou at
the tune of its death, lbe latter had refused to pay fir it,
contending that it was never slithered, and he conk' nut lie
compelled to pay for it, Sir that the barrens was rued
the Statute of Fraods,there having been nu written contract
made at the sale, our airy usuory pissed by *ay of earliest to
bind the bargain. Mr. Holt likewi.e added, that the act-us
would hare been brought, if Mr. Fitzgerald ha out re-
peatedly refused to have the dispute deemed hetes** them
by a reference, and 111r.Teaspeet bad sit been told it isms
reported Mohan, was .be. be was sold, and had
met with its -deotb by the impeopei isomer in which 16 bad
Lees rode sitlif time it died.
The tisistiff ism evideoce Ike sale od Hie bone, sod of
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