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Wednesday Ivo. an inquest "vas 10,1 sr Wo.d-
wich. on view of she bashes of .lons WRIGHT.
JOHN DONOVAN. JF.NAINS. who wrre
suffocated its a privy, at a house in the dos k-
yard. 4all the hrecrduix sny,ht. Vrrilict —Acci-
(lewdly ',outlined by the mentor, vapour of she
rued,. Four othels with thiliculty wrre recovered.

POLICE.
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10W-STR err.
Yesterday several persons were brought to the Office fru.a
the liegeut's cll4rged with dock hunting, and setting'
dogs at ducks, for which they were bat d sixpence a pine
and also with other disorderly conduct. They were ender,
to find bail.
The commitment of the poor trait, Patrick Quiwan,
der that eevere and peremptory Act of Pelham at fur re,
latiug the Hawkers and Pedlar*, has etected the compassion
of some humane Gentlemen, who have agreed to pay the •
natty of 101. the Magistrate having no power to mit.
asid in rear of nonpayment, to commit for three mote
which the Magistrate very reluctantly was obliged '
and said it was a painful duty lie bed In perform.
A foreigner, who said his UMW! was ..1441,6
brought to the office in the custody of Huggins and alive
assistant, ineptetor of the Hawkers and Pedlars Office, a
charged tinder that Act with hawking goods from house
house, cousisting of gold seals mud paper snuff-boxes,
out being agthorised by a license so to do.
Huggins stated he watched the Prisoner into arm al
in the city, offering his goods for sale, and alert 1151
shop of a Mr. Skinner, a tobaconist, In the &resod
Temple-bar, where he offered his hexer; fur sale, Ai,
percen in the shop said they did smut want any. on use
goiter corning out dr the shop he asked him if lie had
hawk, i's and pedlar's license authorising Into to et
goods, which he readily admitted That he had not, lie
took lino into custody end brought him to the office.
The Prisoner, in his &frac., stated, that he had
arrived in England a month and three days; that the sit
box. s were not his property, but he was employed by ,
Phillips, of Nu. 11, Piescot-street, who had a walchouse
behind his house, and he having lately received a large
of the boxes from abroad he sent..him out with theme he
with him ism small pasteboard boxes, wrapped up in rotten',
and that he was only calling at different shops, elicitieg
them as specimens eir patterns of Mr. Phillips's stuck, hot
he was nut authorised to sell one of them, our bad be offered
any fur sale, except by sample.
The Magistrate was of opinion this ease did not
within the intestine of the Act of Pam liamesit. This,
ever, dot not satisfy the Inspectors till they had ',Titres(
the case to the Commiseiotters, which the Magistrate
lowed. The Prisoner then proposed bringing Mr. Phr
to prove his engagement with him, and that he was the
he represented himself to be, and left the Office for that
pose, leaving his Luxes as a pledge fur his return.
The PS lAUlltr returned to the Office, sud the Inspectors,
and the Solicitor to the Hawkers and Pedlars were
lendauce to meet him, when a full investigation took
before Sir Nathattiel Conant and Mr. Beckett.
It was noticed the short time the Prisoner was absent
since he left the office to go to Prestot-street, and the
by insiuuating that he wool imposing upon the Magistrate
however he explained that flailing he bad taken a hackney-
coach, which cost him bs., and he ierodured a letter, si--
by Mi. Phillips, who, stated, that the Prisoner was in .
employ, and was only exhibiting the boxes as patterns.
The ?listener staled, that Mr. Phillips would have accom-
panied him to the office, hut just as he reached Lis house,
he was going out to attend 'Change.
The Solicitor to the Hawkers awl Pedlars Office objected
to receiving the letter produced by the Prisoner as evidence,
as he did nut know Mr. Phillips, and there was nu per
present to prove it was his hood writing.
The Magistrates, after desiring the clauses of the Am
Parliament ender which this complaint was proceeded
took a very extensive and liberal view of the whole
which they considered of great ithporteoce to trade. They
were of opinion, that the defence of the Prisoner, supported
as it was by Mr. Philips's letter, was quite as good as the
in which the charge had been brought before them. It had k
farmed contrary to the Act of Parliament, which directs,
persons stopped under this Act, shall be given into time
tody of a constable, who is to bring him before a Magisti
whereas, the Inspectors had brought hire to the Office w
out any authority. The P'ristener's defence was considers
good as the short time allowed him would admit.
The case was dismissed.

SIARLEOROUGILSTRM.
Joke IT was re-examined on the charge of harlot
folgul and uttered is bill of exchange for 101. las. dr,iwn
Smart, and accepted by Smith, with Maid
defraud Mr. Moore, cultic, in Oxforil-stri...t. The ca,e
this day entered into, and it appeared that the Prisoner
the bill for a tritliug sum, as a security, until Saturday i
but he not appearing nu that day, the Prosecutor. on
quiry, disrovered that the drawer mid the acceptor were
of st►aw, who could not be found.
The Prisoner said, that he hail taken the bill in the
of trade, as an anaemia dewier in porket-bool• faun
to shop. The goods be had of Mr. Moore were fur
Thomas; but, as the Magistrate observed, neither Mr
nor any other person appeared to skew that even
transaction was tree.
The Magistrate, dismissing the knowledge of forgery,
annotated the Prisoa.•r for fraud, he bovine neglected •
pay for the goods uu Saturday, fur which the bill was left
a security, and without which the Prosecutor swore that
would out have parted with his goods.
martin-GAM:Ir
Francis Emerson and Joseph Priestly, two lads,
brought op in the custody of Baker, a moldable, who attends
at the Chancery Cinintirers, Lincoln's-lim, charged oil
plains of breaking iuto the chamber of John Brooks,
iu Lincoln's-Jim, forcing open his desk and robbing
same of a quantity of 'aver coin, and various other articles.
—They were committed fur further exanniation.
William Hart wan remanded, charged by his master
William Mason, a baker, with 'whet:ling diters sums
money intrusted to kis care.

UNION NALL.
EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT.
The followiug use was yesterday heard before Mr.
jesoiSeLLON, in which Townahend a Cimatahle of Lambeu
was charged with amanltiog the soldiers on duly at Astley'
Amphitheatre.

On Weduesday night, the Duke and Duchess of I-,
bridge were at Astley's Theatre, and a military Guard
honour was stationed at the entrance, leading to the b
prepared for their reception. Orders had been given by
Managers, that no person shorrld be suffered to Miriade
into the lobby, or near the entrance, that the Royal couple
might have free ingress and egress.
The Prisoner Towashend was found in the lobby by Oddy,
an officer of Boer. ccccc t, and ordered to leave the place; he
peremptorily refused, and Oddy was compelled to force
towards the door: he resisted and made his way back,
Oddy was obliged to call in the military to torn him oat.
refused to go ever them, sad when a private soldier, named
Beak, of the Coldstream Guards, took him by the arm i
lead him out, be seised him by the stock which was rue
Isis neck, and premed his knuckles against his throat so
leutly that he was compelled to drop his arms. The serjeaut
the Guard and several Police officers came up, and '
Townsbeed into custody. Yesterday ►e was brought up ,
warrant, and the above statement being sworn to bye variety s
witnesses, the Magistrate informed Townshend, that, as ape's e
officer, it was hie duty to have prevented disturbance, and
to have assaulted a soldier in the execution of his duty. '
be bees assaulted or interrupted is the execution of his
be (the Magistrate) would have protected him, but as be
acted so improperly is assaulting souther officer, ►e
Gird bail to answer the complaint at the Sessions.
The Adjutant stated that it was his determination to
secede Tuwarbeuri for the assault.

A few 'realties back a girl named Kitty Luker less
prrhended by the watchman in St. Janice's-ain't, for lo:lok
ing in a disorderly manner •ith some Officers of the Guards,
at the dour of one of the Hotels. Beiog a well-known
*Wender, the constable ordered her to be lucked up; bur'
soon afterwards, when the proper officer was Ening round
are of all was right about the place., he was shucked to lee 11
anfurtnaate girl banging from one of the barn, appareutl
lifeless. He immediately rut her down, and snit •
Burma, lobo, by the application of various remediril
ended la restoring animation. Sbe refused to assign
cause for she act, but said her friends are in respectable
curwstaucts in Ireland, and that she bad been seduced '
Gentleman whir took her to Fraser, sod there atiertgAt

f

and settinz -
nee a purr,
ere urdert d IT
Ninon, tt-
al for reKu-
comp...tun I
pay the pr_
to untie:toe, _l4 •
ree months,
tired to do, I
Alarm was
Still *MOIR r
Office, mot
m house to
Poxes, with. •
eve. al slo•p•
lau n.t , it,
Wand, near
te..el the
On tile ri I-
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i
to sill Ls
not, lie then
tier.
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it the snuff.
tyed by ‘ll.
; Wit thoo.e
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hose he tool
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ps, %beano:
stuck, but
d be offered
not come
This, bum -
iepreseuteil
Citrate al-
dr. Phalli
as the man
or that pur.
S.
Inspectors,
were in at-
took place
was absent
and there-
lamistratis ;
a hat kuey-
tier, i•igsteil
was in bits •
IS patterns.
lye SCCUsit-
d 4ts house,
Ice objected
as evideocr,
I no person
r the Act of
eeded often,
who:e case,
mile. They
support. d
d as the way
It had cum-
directs, that
lan the cos. ft
Magistran,
Office with-
uusidend as C 11
•
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e of having
a. drrwit by I
intent to
he cwor was
risoncr paid
turday lasi I
aloe, un m-
ar were area • _
in the say ) 1
fions situp
e for a Mr.
her Mr. 'l'.
even that
•
of forgery,
teglected to
I was left ate
lore 'bat he
•oalab ear.
lads, were
who MIMI,.
.ged 1111 NIBS.
rooks, Esq.
robbing lbw
her articles.
his master
re sums of
ON TALL.
ire Mr. Sep.
of
Lambeth,
r at Astley's •
Pm of Cam.
•
ry Guard of
to the box
Oven by the
to intrude
1,1
nyal couple
by by Oddy,
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to force blot 4,
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I hack, and •
tm out. He
tier, nutted •
'be erns to
t wag ruuud
roat so tin-
e oedema of
and took
01 up by et
F• variety of •
it, as a peal e
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t duty. Had
of his duty
et
as he had
er, be must
lion to pro-
ter was sp.
, fur bait-
the Guards,
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• to see the
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.dueed by a
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•

!helmsford, nn
Tuesday hist. before Mr. Justice Assort.. and Mr.
S•.l-kint I.r.xs (who presides in the absence of
Lord Cllrnbormigh.) The ju.hzes orriveil in town
the previous afternoon, pliant three et lock. and
s ie ofterwaids tnllPfk the Commission or As-
sz- in the Comm Court. About nine o'clock on
Tuesday morning. the Learned Jud4es took their
.ents, Mr. Justice Abbott in the Crown Court. and
Mrs. Setirant Lens in the Nisi Prins. The Grand
.1 try having been sworn. Mr. Justice ASSOTT
iire4iefa them as follows:

"Mims of Ike armed Jars.
" I isliserve with satisfaction. that the Calendar before
me, although it contains the mimes of a vast number of per-
sona, don not present to onr consideration any of a greater
degree of importance than i. usual. The number, however,
is treat ; which Nis some degree. attributable to a eircum-
at inns which octane more is this county than in any other
that I have had occasion to remark. Several persons are
committed for trial, at these Assizes, whose offences (one Or
two instances, in particular, on the preseut occasion) are
more usnally disposed of at the Quarter Sessions. lam per.
snaded that there is sot Ike slightest occasion fur a want of
confidence in the manner is which jostler is administorril at
the Quarter &salmis, become the gratuitous and voluntary
saertiows of gentlemen I'S this County are such, es to entitle
them to the praise and gratitude of the conntry at large. It
is. however, not without some reluctance., that I make an
observation ne.this'point, which is, that it hal, in some de.
gree, the effect of increasing our labour; at the Assizes. It
germs to me, opt I have always so mindere-4J it, its the ad-
ministration of justice, that the seamed should be brought
to his'trial at the earliest time at which such In it tan take
place, hi order that if he be i ee t, he may the more
tmedity be discharged; and it guilty, that the punishment
of the law may he more speedily mem, d. The nature of
the dffences I find bete. is not such as in call fur Mitch oh-
sdfation..—inneli particular observation. and as for gr.
oriel remarks, you, Gentlemen, are too well acqoaiuterl
with offences to need it. There are, however, nuforto-
safely, some ruses of such a kind as that the public
discussion of them must necessarily be attended with in-
convenience. You will easily perceive to whet cases I al-
bole, when you look at the Caleudat. I would request your
particular attention to them, in order that they may not be
sent into a public Court fur disenssioo, on full considera-
tion, the evidence was such before you, as to call for a
public investigation. Is one of those cases you may find
that the offence, grows and abominable as it is, and, most
undoubtedly. criminal in the eye of the law, is not Foe-
Marty that which is contemplated by the law ; therefore, he
good enongh to he careful with respect lo that case, and
sullen it be other than I bare aoilcipeted, you will 'wily
conceive there can be no necessity fur ill undergoing an
examination is public.
" There is nothing else that I think calls for observation,
end you will sow proceed to that duty yon are itaieuthlcil to
discharge."
CROWN SIDE.
George Spriitgale was indicted at common law,
for a misdemeanor—lsl. for procuring certain
pieces of false and counterfeit money, of the like-
ness and similitude of a shilling, with intent to cir-
culate theta as and for the current coin of this
realm; and 241, fir having brought false and coun-
terfeit money into the parish of Witham for the
like purpose. The circumstances proved in evi-
dence were these :—On the 4th of June last, the
Defend int and a female, passing as his wife, were
encoding at Witham fair, with a certain gambling
machine, with which themne called gold litre end
ulcer lace is pluyed. They were surrounded, as
is usual on such occasions, by a number of the
country people, who were plucked of their loose
cash ad libitum. Somebody in the crowd gave the
alarm that the Defendant had bad money about
lain. and the parish constable happening to he on the
spot. immediately interposed, and took the Defend-
ant into custody. A struggle ensued, in the course
of which the Defendant appeared very anxious
to secure something in his breeches pockets, into
which lie thrust both his hands. The officer, how-
ever, secured his prisoner, and took him to the
workhouse, for the purpose of having him searched.
In a narrow passage leading to the committee-room
of the latter building, another struggle ensued, and
the Defendant was observed to drop something on
the floor. Upon being taken into the committee-
room, lie was searched, but nothing suspicious was
found upon him. He had three or four pounds in
good m 'toy iii his pockets ; but upon examining.
the narrow passage in which the struggle hull
place, u paper parcel was picked up, in which aus
found thirteen counterfeit shillings. and a few bud
hulf.crowne, all imitations of the new currency.—
Under these circumstances the Defendant was pro-

secuted at common law; the first count of the in-
dictment charging him with procuring and having
in hi. possession the counterfeit money in question,
and the second with having brought the said motley
into the parish for the like purpose.
Mr. Knox, for the Defendant, submitted, first,
that this was not an offence at common law, even
adinittiog the Defendant to have had the money
in hi. pns,es i 111 ; and, secondly, that there was no
evidence to sway either of the counts of the in-
dictment, as to the procuring or bringing the coun-
terfeit money into the parish of Witham.
Mr. Justice Aseorr over-ruled the first objec-
tion, and held, that the hissing counterfeit money
in the Defendant's possession was an offence at coin-
mon law ; and his Lordship referred to a late case,
tried before Mr. Justice Dolroyd. at Lancaster,
which was nfierwards argued! before the twelve
Judi:L.., in which it was unanimously held by them,
that the offence now charged was indictable at com-
mon low. As to the other objection, it was for the
Jury to determine whether the Defendant 111141 pro-
Inca or brought the money into the parish for the
lourimm• of circulation. In either case the Defend-
met rc-ulil lie guilty, if the Jury was satisfied that
I h• vvilletier Was sufficient.

Mr. K%ox then went to the Jury upon the merits
..r t cww, rolonittiog to tin to, that befwe they
r•oild hod the Defendant guilty, the must lie antis-
'hat lie hid procured or brought the money
iiito t w pirldi, with intent to circulate it. The
iii• re posoo—ion of the money (which in this case
was very claiofill, because it was hot found on
the Defttol.int'* person). would not of itself be
proof of a gully intention to circulate tt ; for,
however moos the Defendant's way of life was to
be disrommendett, yet lie might hare obtained pns-
session of the looney in the course of his unlawful
business it the fair, not knowing that it vest coun-
terfeit, nor intending to dispose of it. The pole
sit9.l • for the Jury was, the Defendant's Mien-
tom ; fur if that was innocent, lie would be enti-
tled In an acquittal.
Mr. Jostler ABBOTT summed up the evidence
far the .t ore. and charged them, that the questions
ir their cow: Aeration %rep- —first, whether there
was at all soy counterfeit coin iii the Dafeisdaiit's

John Smith w;" indicted for feloninmlc atetilinz,
on the 2Gth of Al4y last, in the parish of Stanford
River, M black cart gelding, the property of
William Noke.

The Prosecutor stated, that in the evening of the
26th of May he kid turned his horse out to graset
and nest morning it was missing from the common.
fu the course of the 37th, as appeared by the testi-
mony of other witnesses, tlw Prisoner was seen to
drive towards If tekney-tirlds, Nlithlltsex, ■ flue
well-fed horse. Wing known by the person who
observed him not usually to drive any thing but a
miserable half.stvrved animas, his suspicions were
excited, and he closed him to be apprehended.
The horse was brought back to Stantord
end it was immediately recognised by the Pivots
cuter.

The Prisoner, in lii4 defence, attempted to claim
a property in the horse, but :he Prosecutor swore
positively that he had bought the horse of the l'ri-
sortr r,
and paid for it two years since.
The Jury. finder the Learned Judge's directions,
Lurid him Guilty. •
Valentin. Gray was indicted for burglariously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of G.
Chipper!kid. of Newport, in the night time of the
Bth of April last, and stealing therein a Batik of
England note fur 301. two Chelmsford Hank notes
far got etch, and several other notes, the property
of the prosecutor.—Mr. %Vali-twit conducted the pro-
secution. :tint, from Insist:dement, and the evidence
adduced, it appeared, that in the night of the eth
of Arta, the prosecutor's house had been entered
front the back premises, by llMill% of a bole in
the Inuit-wall, made with a clasp knife, which
enabled the depredator to unbolt the back dour.
The Prosecutor's desk, in which was contained
bank notes to the amount of 170/. and a large
quantity of halfpence, was then broken open,
and the whole carried off. Next morning the rob-
bery was discovered, and amongst the rithbiali was
found a cl.rsp knife, by means of which an entry into
the house had evidently been effected. No trace of
the robber was discovered until n month afterwards,
when a gipsy boy. minted Smith, was apprehended
on suspicion, and he swell, that a few daya previous,
the Prisoner, its a state of intoxication, confessed to
him that he had committed the robbery. The Pri-
soner was then takeu into custody, and upon being
Informed before the Magistrate of the statement
made by Smith, he acknowledged the truth of
and Voluntarily confessed his guilt. When t. ken
to the gaol, the knife, found amongst the rubbish,
was shewn to him, and he acknowledged it to be his
property, and to he the instrument with which the
hole had been made in the wall.

The Prisoner said nothing in his defence, and the
Jury found him (.uilty.
Charles Lewis, a lad aged seventeen, was in-
dicted fur stealing, on the 31st of July, in the pa-
rish of Barking, • shawl, from the person of Joseph
Read. The Prosecutor, at last Fairlop fair, was
hustled by • gang of pickpockets, and had the
shawl in question, belotognig to his wife, taken
from his pocket. lie immediately turned nomad,
and saw the shawl in the Prisoner's hands. Some
other persons so itched the shawl from the latter,
and he was immediately taken into custody. The
Prisoner, in his defence said, he had picked up the
shawl from under his feet, and the t he had
done so, it was snatched out of his bands.—The
Jury, under the Learned Judge's summing up,
found the Prisoner—Not Gmilty.
Henry Wilson was indicted for feloniously and
maliciously shooting at James Gilder, on the 10th
51:1,ch, at Debdelo, in this county.
Mr. 11'ALT0r1D, for the prosecution, stated the
circumstances of• the case, amid called the following
witnesses in support of it :
James Gilder stated, that he was a labourer, in
the employment of Mr. Leveret, at Debden. On
the 10th of March last, he was at work in a field
of his master's, called Great Thimbles. It was
about half-past six o'clock in the evening, and he
hewd the report of a goon in a small spring or wood,
about • rod and a half from him. At the rime
time he heard a whizzing noise like that of 11 bullet
passing near him. Ile turned towards the thicket,
and WV a man run loom it, who was dressed in a
white frock. Ile had known the l'risone► about two
years. and Irons the knowledge he had of hint. lie be-
lieved the person who so rams away to be the Prisoner.
The next mornimog lie went into the thicket with two
friends, and they discovered marks in soft ground
near a pond, which evidently indicated that a per-
son had knelt there, and he believed, from the si-
tuation of those marks, that the person who load shot
at him. had knelt there for the purpose of taking a
more deliberate aim. The mark of a ball having
cut through the bark of a tree, nos soon after
discovered, and it appeared as if it had then
glanced off, amid gone thorough a hedge ; hut
from the situation of the marks 011 the pond side,
and the place where the witness stood, he be-
lieved that if the ball had not glanced off front
the tree; it would have inevi!ubly struck him.
Ile examined the tree afterward., and found that
time mark on it had been very mach altered,
by being cut wider and longer. On the Sa-
turday preceding the Tuesday on ulna' hr was
shot at, he stopped a man of t lir moue of John Bow-
tell, with' three turkeys, two ducks, and a 'atrial;
one of the rabbits was the property of his brother.
Ou his croas-ezainimition by Mr. ANDREWS, he
stilled that it was not a shark evening. lie could
see a man at the distance of thirteen soils; he had
desr•rib•d the man as dressed in a light Cock and
black hat, and had said always that lie belay sett the
Priaoner to be that person.
On his ►r-exaumivation, lie stated lie never had
said in his life tliat lie loud any doubt.
John Bowtell was the next %%Poleax called, and
stated that he had just come out of the gaol, to
which he had been committed coo a charge
mg the rabbit mentioned in _se iiiilse•tiuent. Ile
was stopped on the Saturday belmsre the 10rho of
Marcia. ley the Prosecutor, alio funk from lam the
tusk•) s, ducks, and rabbit, all of a loch he had got
from the Primmer, who had requested lons to carry
them In 111'uldeal. Ile then went to 11 slaws, and
tohml Ilion what the Poossecutor hash dohs ; the reply
W ii """ made oas, that lie won't, hive lia•1 16s brad
knocked Lir [Arose the Proarcutor should have

stopped Writ. They then rated, 'and hi three or
four days afterward+, he paw Wilmot again, who iii-
formed him, a swimsuit was out against him for the
rabbit. This was after the Pros.cutur had peen
shot at, and he said he should like to get Gilder
handy.
Mr. Richard I.rterett, the Prosecutor'', master,
stated, that he had measured the distance from the
knee marks by the pond to the tree. which was
grazed, sod it was thirty-two yards. lie then mea-
sured the distance from the tore to the (pot where
Gilder stood, which was eighty.seven or eighty-
eight yard+, and taking a hoe from the knee marks
to where Gilder had stood, the witness thought it
us true an aim as could possibly be.
On 1114 cross-examination Ike stated, that there
were two hedges between the spot where the shot
was fired arid the spot where Gilder stood. One
hedge was close to the knee marks, and must have
been close to the 'nozzle of the gun, and the other
hedge was one in which the tree in question stood.
This gentleman examined the tree again on the
Monday after the transaction in question, and then
the graze, which appeared before chanty, as if pro-
duced by a bullet, end extended but five incite*,
hail been enlarged, by some sharp instrument, to
eight or nine inches.
George Cowell saw the Prisoner, between the
hours of one and three o'clock on the day in goes-
tion, with n gun and dog. in a field close to that in
which Gilder had het n shot at; he was going home-
wards, and was turned out of the field because there
was no fuel-paili.
Mrs. Bass ►tated, that about half-past ten o'clock
in the morning id the day in the indictment ihe Pri-
soner called at her house, and liked her if -he knew
whether Mrs. Holland had swam to the turkeys.—
Witness conceived be alluded to the turkeys found
in the possrasinar of John Bowtell, ■n.l he added,
that Ike wondered whether Gilder would say any
thing in him, if he went through the field where
he was at work.

Mary Ilayrion swore, that on the day in the in-
dictment, -he heard the Prisnoer say lie would do
for Gilder before he yield, and he would give bum
some pepper nad salt.
Mary Bateman stated, that the Prisoner bad said
to her, Gilder bad been properly screed for inter-
rtipling Bowtril.
J. Bateman stated, that on the Saturday after
Gilder had been ~hint at, he passed the Prisoner and
Wdliuw Bowtell, about two o'clock, when the cir.
cuinstance of the Prisoner bring acctp,ed was men-
tioned, and William Bowtell said, lie could answer
for the Privoner on the Monday evening. The wit-
ness torn said that it was an the Tuesday, and nut
the Mondav reeling that Gilder was shot at.
Wm. B.;wtell then said, he moat convidtr, for lie
did not din k he was at home that night. The wit-
ness, then wrist to look after work.

.1.4. ph Saville, • neighbour of the Prisoner,
stated, that for Prisoner called and told hini he was
accused of th. offence in question, and that the con-
stables were after him for it; and he added, that he
was pet redly clear of it. While they were convers-
ing on the subject the Prisoner's wife came in, and
told him his gun was at Wm. flowiell's; in answer
to which, he vaid it should not be there long. Ile
theft told her to go and fetch it ; but as it was dirty
amid heavy, a person of the name of James Bate.
man went and fetched it. The next morning it
was found clove to the witneser house.

Mr. Hall, the Clerk to the Magi,trates on this
occasion, and also) acting in the capacity of attorney
for the prosectitioli, proved that, before she Ma-
gistrates, the Prisoner denied that lie had any light
Bock. It was afterwards di.covered that he had a
light brown jack.-r, 111 the pocket of which was some
blood, stated by the Prisoner to be Cow blood of a
hate.

The Prisoner, in his defence, stated, that he had
three witnesses to prove where he was at the time
iu q•uestion.
William Bowtell, and Catherine Bowtell, his
wife, swore that the Primmer, who is a close neigh•
hour of theirs, was in their house from 90 minutes
alter five until half past seven, nn the evening in
question. Hr came there to inquire what o'clock
it was, and remsined the length of time in quer
tion in conversation.

Joseph Saville, the witness of that name called
for the prosecution, stated, that I►e saw the I'risone►
iii his garden before six on the evening in question,
and mow him quit it ; but whether he went into his
own house, or into any neighbour's, the witness
could not say.
The Rev. Thos. ire stated, that when he saw
the tree on the Monday morning, it evidently ap-
peared then to have been cut by some sharp instru-
ment. He had always been used to a gun, and on
kneeling ►n the marks which were by the pond in
question, and taking au aim, be ascertained the
range shot would take. lie found that a shot, di-
rected towards the spot where Gilder had stood,
would have bees) intercepted by the tree. He
added, that the Prosecutor had told him, l►e could
►,ot swear to the Prisoner, as he had nut beau Isis
face.

Mr. Justice ABBOTT minutely recapitulated the
whole of the evidence to the Jury, who, after a de-
liberation, found the Priorier—Aot Guilty.

The Supplement to the Cadiz Diurio Merean-
fel of the 30th ult. which has arrived, contains
the official account of the naval action that took
place uu the 246, off Cape St. Mary's, between the
Havaninili convoy and a small flotilla of Independ-
ent privateers. The Spanish convoy left Cuba on
the 6th May, consisting of 52 sail of merchant vet.
sels, destined to various ports of the Peninsula, tin-
der convoy of the brigs of war, Alcrta, Vengador.
and Realists, and corvette Diumourr, the Commo-
dore. 011 arriving oft the coast of Spain, their
number was reduced to '23, viz. ten ships, eight
brigs, two schooners, and three polaerrs, most of
them stoutly armed. On making Cape St. Mary's,
the convoy was attacked by an Independent ship and
two sclanoners, and the official report (as may be
seen from the annexed literal tran►lation), states
that the action lasted two hours :

Ou the tlith instant, off Cape St. Mary'', the convoy had
au action with the luso' gents, who attempted to cut off two
vessels which had fallen to leeward, for which reason the
Piamante fell upon them with a heavy are, whirl' la•ted Iwo
hours, against two schooners ((me of considerable force) and
a ship—baring covered the convoy with the armed mer-
chantmen. The Diamante made a 1041101 fur the other
ships of war to accompany her, hut the little wind and
the dullness Of the vessels prevented the brigs from being as
near as they could have wished. The Diamaide ran along
the rue,, 's Into, libernted the captured vessels, and fastened
on the Independent ship, leaving the schooners to make
towards the convoy, which was considered most advan-
tageous, ass by this means the waevessels were able to come
into ■eliuu. The Vengador and Realists thus succeeded in
beating one of the schooners, obliging her to a disor-
derly manner. The Alertn placed herself silent of the l)ia-
menu•, tiring on the large schoinser, but on the arrival of the
Davit, heavy armed Spanish inerchmitman, who also placed
liereed aster's of the Diamente, the licit iteers sheered
The • onvoy being once more collected, in order to prey. nt
any captures, the Independent ship made sail to the south-
west, and the sch,soices to windward, placing themselves
astern of the Diamente. In the night they made n second
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thimante, changing their yards. re. snug ropes, and, in short,
the slop a good deal col up, as atm was aced r
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