The National Register.
London, England, 1818-07-27 00:00:00

CIIBLMiFORD, JULY 21.

The Assizes for this county commenced here yesterday,
with the waial ceremony of opening the commission-cud at.
tending Divine Worship. Mr. Justice Air bott
in the Crown Court, and Mr. Sergeant Lens 4u tire Civil
Court.
The criminal calendar contains 75 cases, few of which,
are marked by sin g t ilar depravite, and rat the Nisi Prins.
-side there were 72 causes entered :or trial, but them were
neitriy 40 renins.
4Nsf..teGlt rErt.-IVIn. Price, a yoling man of mild acid
preposses.:ing appearance, was-indicted for feloniously kill-
ing and slaying Robert Horseman, at Walthamstow, on the
March. Itappeared that a number of young people of bola
sexes being preseid, they joined iu a ilauee to the music of
one of the party who mild play the flute. Some offence
having been given by the deceased to the female cousin of the
prisoner, the latter resented it with all the gallantry becom-
ing the situation is which tie was placed, as the protector of
his relative, when some high words passing, the prisoner was
iacited by the challenge of the deceased to settle the matter
in a braising match. 'lice prisoner refused for some time to
determine the affair in this snaneer ; but the first cadence
being aggravated by personal language of indignity, lie ac-
cepted the challenge, and the combatants adjourned to the •
yarrel of the public house to fight it out. The landlord, how-
eser,-reflised to permit the contest being deterininerlon his
premises ; and consequently the combatants and their seconds
crossed the river Lee, and there the tight proceeded iu due.
form. After a battle which lasted nearly an hour, in which
both combatants received some dreadful blows, the deceased
fell sensele,s to the ground, in consequeuce of a finishing
blow from his antagonist. lie was carried off the ground,
and notwithstanding every effort to restore him, he expired in
a quarter of au boar. •
The witnesses for the prosecution admitted that the pri-
soner was a very peaceable and inoffensive young man, and
that his conalact on the ground was perfectly fair, he himself
Laving received a (111'1(1611 beating.
A surgeon was examined, who stated that the death of the
vieceastil was produced from a blow on one of the jugular
veins, withal* causing an extravasatiun of blood on the brain,
extinguished the vital spark.
The case, under the direction of the learned Judge, went to
lie jury who found the prisoner Guilty, and lie oat seatenc-
sd to four uniatits'itaprisoodnent iu the county gaol.

CIVIL SIDE.
FITCH V. WING.

CF.DUCTION.—This was au action brought by the plaintiff,
butcher, residing at Helton Ltuiwteail, in this county,
against the ilefeiulaat, a maltster, of small property, fur the
reduction of the plaintiff's daughter, per

The rase, AZ stated by Ur. Marryatt for the plaintiff', and
ac tkveloped iay the cross examination of 3lr. tillluey for the
dcfentlant, was this:—The lady in question, a nymph of
CIO ty two years of age, had received the ad.lresses of the
rielemiatit for mare titan four years. caurtsbip had been
carried on with much ardour, both at the house of the lady's
:other, and that of her uncle, and she had bean suffered to sit
ly with her lover after the tanzilies had retired to rest, par.
ticularly at the house of the farmer, whcre she admitted that
reciprocal familiarities had taken place to abliest every ima-
ginable extent. These liberties, houover, bad passed after
a promise of marria;.te had been given ; and the result of the
amour being a fnie boy, the present action was brought for
its support, and the loss ut its parent's services to her father.
The uncle of the lady being interrogated by Mr. Gamey,
ns to the defmsdiztit's property, stated, he had no more in the
world than the coat on his back. . _

Attar Mr. Serge-ant Lens had fummed the evidence
to the Jury, they found a ver.lict fur the plaitillif.—Da-
mages 141.

WEDNESDAY.

}leery Wilson was Indicted under Lord Elleithorringli's act,
for maliciously shooting at James tulles, on the 10th of
i‘larch last, at Depden, in this county.
'fhe pli.oner in this case was a shoemaker by trade, het
suspected of poaching and making free with poultry. 'flic
presecutor is a labouring man, wm; king with a Mr. Leverton,
and he PM' the following account of the tranvactian t—:'ant
he hail Ast finished his work auont six o'clock, and vas
standing near a tee in the hedge of the held where he hail
been woritiug, when he heard the report of a gon,and heard
Am,' !Mug c • whining past hie head like the whizzing of
a ball. Ile tin ned round awl looked towards the place the re.
port came from, when lie saw a man just at the edge of a
little coppice wood, anti he immediately ran into it. The man
had ott a light frock and light.bretelicv. and he thon?Jit at the
time it we. the pi isoner, hut be did not see him .eilliciently
near or distin.oly to be certain of it ; he then !arnt•d round
to look at the tree, and lie fount; a 5112411 grout e ou the side of
the tree next hint, which had the appearance of being struck
by a ball. Ei• told it to several persons, and a few days after.
wards the prisoner wits apprehended.
John BOWteii Wile next examined, es to expressions of ill
will wird by the roomer against the prosecutor. Hesaid he
had, h," (."1"r"41i011 with the prisoner about Gilder's stop.
/hug 'limn (Ike witness) no passing through a close. and exam-
mitts his basket. The pri•oncr said lie wished Gilder would
stop him. He would have his head knockii4l off berme lie
• would suffer it,cud that Ito vould
_give it Ao the,proaccutor
. before long.