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fortunate matt. Had he beet. tumid guilty by the jury,
he would have received a tar severer sentence than Hud-
son, who had some excuse of irritation and warmth to
plead. The sentence 011 Hudson was, that he be im-
prisoned and kept to hard labour in the house of Correa
non for two years.
Toe trial of prisoners finished this evening, after one
of the liAlitert assizes eve! remembered in the county.—
Only two causes remain to be disposed of on NI lay in
toe civil court. In consequence of the little business at
Stafford, and the great pressure expected at Shrewsbury,
the Jiitlaes hare tl,termitted on co tttttt encitig btemiess out
Wednesday, the Commission day at tile latter place,
instead thursday.—Soine criminal cases of icy great
E interest stand lur trial.

iSURREY.
CROWN SLUR.

GUILDFORD, AuorTl. Forbes Reynolds, a
young getitlentati at respectable appearance. was incite:ell
for feloniously killiha and staying Richard Snitttt ems at
earshalinn, on the '.9th of June last.
The case proved to evidetice on the part of the prose-
cution was this:—Tike p.istiner, a yonilA Mall 41101.1 l
years of age, was in partnership with his uncle. Mr.
Jacob Reynolds, one of the Society of Frieorls, and car-
ried on the business of a linen-bleacher at Carshatton;
the i'eceased was a man aged about 75, by business a
toaster brick layer, and of cutisiderable substance. The
deceased had been in the habit of doing wink in his trade
ler Nles,..rs. Reynolds. Oil the 29:h of June he went
to the prisoner's country house to demand the sum of
t7l. due fur bricklayers' WOlk done. lie saw the prisoner,
and in a taunting tune repealed two or three times,
.4 Now, Sir, state your time." It was stated, on the part
of the prosecution, that there hid been an agreement to
pay the deceased every month for sticii work as he might
do limn time to time. Tile ;:ristnier offended at the
mode of address above-mentioned, told the deceased that
lie should not be paid beihre Ciiristmas ; upon which
:he deceased called liiin a tl—d iotut, and used other
offensive language. The prisoner put his hand on the
shoulder of die deceased, and advised Idol to lease the
premises, and called to one of his men to turn toe de-
ceased out at the gate. O.ie of the men interposed, and
advised the deceased to go quietly away. Inc prisoner
*lieu ordered a constable to tie sent for. Some irritable
language was repeated by the deceased, and the prisoner
ill a passion knocked him down with his hit. Tile de-
ceased fell s.enseless on the ground. Mr. Jacob Rey-
nolds, the prisoner's partner, shoals his head and said, he
ought not to have siiiick so e t 3 111111. The 1415011C1
replied, that he had been mot uked and insulted by the
deceased, who had called him a rogue and a tascal.--•
Smite of the prisoner's labourers carried the deceased
away. lie recovered his actor's Burin;, a short interval,
but in roar or five days afterwards he died, and mum his
head being opened it WAS found that lie had died m con-
s wiener of a concussion of the brain. 'Die prisoner
had iminethately sent a siirgeon to the deceased, upon
finding that he was sever. iy hurt. The prosecution was
"instituted Ly the suns of tut deceased, who appeared to
be men in Respectable eircitinstances Two surgeons
gave it as their opinion, that the deceased hail died of a
'concussion of the brain in consequence of falling on his
head.
The prisoner, who appeared a good deal affected, put
in a written statement, in which he expressed sincere
sorrow fur the unlortunatt and fatal intemperance into
which lie had been betrayed towards a man of the de-
ceased's years; but attributed It to the very gloss and in-
stilling language used to 111111 by the deceased.
Three of the prisoner's labourers proved that the de-
ceased was very abusive, and amongst other offensive
113111e3, had called the deceased a half bred Irish
rascal, alluding to the circumstance of his fattier being a
native of the sister kingdoni.
Two medical men of eminence stated that, in their
judgment, thetleceased died of all apoplexy. which, how-
ever, they adtnittett might have been produced by the
violence to which the deceased had been subjected.
Mr. Justice Park sumuied Up the case for the JOry
with great impartiality.
The Jury Mond the prisoner Guilty, and he was4en-
lowed to three mouths Imprisonment in the county gaol.

CIVIL SIDE.
TDB LIVID V. EDWARD TeGRATH.

This was an itithcituent against the defendant boson.
!miring with one John Maherley in cheat and defraud
Sir Thomas Swymmer eitampitys, Batt. of certain bills
of exchange to the amount of 2,W01. The deltoid:ant,
Iliad nut pleaCrd ; Mr. M'Grath pleaded wit
The indictment alleged, that, on a certain day in De-
centb r, 1920, fire defendants conspired to cheat and de-
fraud Sir T. S. Chanspelys. Bart, and in pursuance of
such conspiracy did obtain inters acceptances of Sir 'l'. S.
Cita ttt t nys, litst. When the Baronet CAMe to be exa-
mined, he %tiled, that his lather did MK die Until July,
1821. so that he was not in point of fact Sir T
S tttttt er Chatripii)s, Ban. at the time of the alleged
conspiracy.
Tile defendant's Cullidel objected that this was a mis-
tiest:6onm or the prom:cu.:or, and consequently that the
indictment most lad.
Tate Lard Cisief Baron was clearly of opinion that the
objection was fatal, lust sent to incertatit the opinion or
Mr. Jrisace P irk upon the ituitit, who concurring with
the I.:ailed Judge directed an acquittal.—
Verdict—N.it