The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

A IiaUST

PROVINCIAL _ASSIZES.

DEVON.
• The As.ises for this county cummenced on Monday morning at the
Guildhall, Est ter.

TI.AXM4NT V. WHITE.

Serjeint Lens staled, thAt the plaintiff (Dia beth Flaxman) was a
young woman, who, for a ttii giber of years, had lived in the service of
1r4., Bailey, a respectgibl:• lady, and bore a very fair character; the
defending (White), Is wilier at an inn, emitted her for a ronsideralde
time, and promised her. marriage. Having acquired some hundreds of
ruinds, hy a !iterative situation at a tm,ern, nt Plymouth, he was deter-
mined in settle honsell in life, and contracted lot a public•house in
Exeter, from whence he wrote to plaintiff in come to him to be married ;
however, on second cansiderati,in, when he had actually taken the house
and stock. hr frgund it would he a none advaingtoeous bargain to be ac-
ooniniuddird wi•h the daughter of the : he theretore fraturd
an excuse, and wrote a letter (s. hich letter was produced in Court,)
saving, that ois mother on her knees I ad bogged he would not hue the
plain'itf; that her eonionution was notedual to the business, and there-
fore he total') declined an) Griller coml. vim' with her, and was con-
Seciae 'lv mar led to his new choice. Nine lung love-letters were
produced in Court, abounding w nig thee most ardent protestations of

Mr. Justice Gibbs observed to the Counsel, that he could not go
through such a volume of letters, and therefore directed sumo of the
prowittent !irides to be read.
These extracts clearly deorsoslrlted the defendant's sttscbment, and
proim.slx of marriage ; ititeswi were also examined, who proved
cirettto•tiotees %Wolir to the letttbrs.

The Judze, in sinn,,,ing on the evidence, said he entertained a very
favourable opinion Of the plaiilt itT, on accutmt ul her living 12 or 13 years
with her loi•tre.s. which intik:died her good character Atil !Meta.% , and
thought her entitled to damages ; whilst he dia not wish they should be
to great it% lib rum the young wan.
The Jury, Mier clmsulling alscut fire minutes, brought in a verdict of
damages fur the plaintiff 1501.

517

bis perqpi, and in Opy r.svige, where he had attempted to secret him,
ell. were seven t.)I. no es, such us he had been passing, and a blank
note (nthigrad) rolled up. Three if these notes, together with the
blank, and the other three which had been eselranged, were,produced
in Court, and all purporting to he of Johnson and Eaton's bank, called
errot,ouslv the Stand rd and
,Rutlandshire, instead of Rutland, bank,
were pronounced by Mr. fat tit, one of the parmersi to be forgeri: a.
Mr. Eason stated, that he had deemed it incumbent to give full vend
tOr the three note, pa•sed awry by Spreadbury to the holders,
were in Court, and identifi..d their notes by marks which they had
made upon them. The prisoner made no defence. The Judge, in
tumming up, observed, Om. the cha-ge was satisfactoaly established,
and the Jury brought in a verdict of guilty.
1 he unhappy man received sentence pf death, and was to fairer am
iday last.
At Lincoln As•izes, an action was tried, brought by the Ateiter of
ti e Bull Inn at Market Deepi,g, against the Cornet of the Nes, Vu.
looteers, for the expt-nses of a dinner and liquors for 54 of the corps.
The party sat down to dinner about half past four o'clock, and mostly'
I etited before ten. The quantity of liquors charged was a% fullows
One ?limited and twrnta-six boats of port. forty eight of Aerry, sing.
liner hay:crown bowls ff punch, and twenty of negia, besides ale old
p rter. Bacchus hinetelt nrot have been Foreman of the Jury, fro
ti.ey gnve a verdict in lavf,ur of the Liukeeper, with only taking us
ts %pence pet bottle cir the port wine.

At the Assizes for the county of Rutland, held at 0 ikhate, on rri-
thy Ae'nniglit, Elizabeth holland, collector of old iron, and women
of till triodes, 70 years of age, sv.is tOund guilty of breeking into this*
house of Mr. Fluitharn, farmer, at Inethorpe, on the preceding Moo;
day night, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the county goal,
l'he old lady lord mounted on a lad !er early in the miming, and was
found a:it king in an aperture which she had made by knocking
our the lattice-work in a whlow, attracted by some cheese that lay
near. Thus awlv,serdly .itunted, the associates of the Lady of-the.
Lathier being observed, they made a precipitate retreat, leaving her:
to the ultimate unpleasant consequence above.
Sty' - -The following trend was practised at Kingston Fair
last week, up!, two unfortunate Wvlchtneti, who were there with a
number of beasts fo. sale. Two men, apparently farmers, came up
to them, and having ele,sen sixteen bents out of a Ines drove, a price
was agreed upon, and MI. paid as a depoeot 4111. more wits to be
paid leo soon as one of them should have disposed of a hrsrse on which
lie was riding.) and for which he had several times been bid money in
the I.ir. For the renminder of the money they gave a draft upon a
gentleman in the town, payable at sight ; and the barguin being hilly
a:ranged, they adjourned to a public-house in the fair to drink. Whilst
there, one of the farmers sugee.qed the propriety of the %Vele/linen •
eeing to the house of the gentlemen on whom tie draft was drawn to
escertuiti if all was right, and offered to go with them. The offer was
acceded to, and they ~eht out for that purpose, but were soon sepa-
rated by the crowd in :he fair. The Welchounn coninurd his way to
in the gentirmaio's house, and, on inquiry, soon ascertained, that the
..rats was not worth a farthing : lie hastened back to the public-house,
expecting to find the parties there, but found
.no one except his ovnz
from tid, the other farmer being gone into the fair to sell his horse.
Under these ciicurustatices, they hastened to the pot, where they had
left their beast) undo r the care of a boy, determined toot to put with
one of them till they had better security. This determination, how.
ever, came ton hoe ; sixtevii of the best of then) were gone. Tho
poor met) imom diately applied to Ulennon, the utlicer, and by his ac•
tivity eight of the sixteen were intercepted on their road for Sink&
field, where they were no doubt Ong to be, re-sold. The persons of
the chief performers in this Welch Tragedy, however, are not unknown
at Urtion ; active search is making alter them, and it is to be
hoped they wit soon make their appearance before the Magistrates in
their proper persons.
Batanast, duo. 10 —The Coroner's Inquest sat on the body of
Cie poor woman who was found inotrdered to to lane here, last w, elf ;
and the Jury ?eve their verdict, " Wilful murder against some Ilk ?son
or persons unknown." An officer of the Valli regiment, from the Ber.
ryllead barracks, and sereral women, attended the Inquest, anti re-
cognized her to be a Mary Good, wife of -- Good, a private, just
sent off to join the second battalion serving under Lord Wellington.
It seems that the unfortunate woman had been vilify of some little
tuiicletueanour, and was turned nut of the garrison, when site fell into
the hands of u ratan who had been confined in 11, and -
whom strong suspicion fallen.
his apprehensions ; and this morn,
on board a cutter, the Lie utenare
in the accounts of himself, and

clothes, and the poor woman's,
when the body lay.

been confined in goal, and on
1. Great exertions have been used for
riling, I am informed, he is confined
nt suspecting him, as he prevaricated
put him in irons ; souse of she fellow))
hen been tumid bid in a• field sin
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