The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-03 00:00:00

KENT -MAID6TONE.3:VESDAY, JUL' 2S.

'Phis mustang Mr. Justice Abbott commenced the business
rf the Assizes at the Civil Side, and ?dr, Sergeaut Lett:. (for
I.ord Ellenbutotigli) at the Criminal Side. After the Ut tud
.r.try were sworn in, the learned S. rgeatit addressed them as
101:ossi; g

" Gentlemen of the Grand Jur, —I rye' great Pl'asiire in
totoy on, that in the ease. v.lnrit ale at)011t to be att bnarteit
1.) 'on (Wlllll4OllO. llieelltlllloo, I .re none %thich are, gvne"
rally pima king, of a cry heinous or alarming natnr.. 1 atn
::teary that it 1S 1111ile 11111:Veei0.11y fur nia, Nhru tiohlre,iine
iPnlietnen Of font rilarnrtr r and experience in the count).
to refer your attention in any pal tirtilar 'winner 10 the 11.11111 e
and the chat:icier of the ilutiet )011 are now called 1111U0 to
C a. 11111• i)1111e',• the importance ni I await not, is
't"ti .7ttr ittn..S. En: ict this

VIE NATIONAL IttG/gTEIL

opportunity pass, o ithout directing your nartionlar attention
to nice ur tiv'm cases which will be laid hi t'imm e you ; one of
them of that class of offences known in the low as killing and
slaying ; acid the oilier of that class of crime which human
nature abhors, and which civilized society justly regards as
iu the highest degree penal, and as one calling for the most
summary and most severe public examplo of the offender-
-need Laity I allude to the crime of murder. In the inves-
tigation of these cases in the manlier in. which you are hound
to view diem, your must take rare :hat in your return of the
several hills to keep both crimes distinct—neither redociN
the our nor aggravating time other upon doubiful or incom-
plete evidi ncr, sorer as your judgment enablesyon to decide;
always taking care that it is better so to pronounce in time
first instance upon the character of the othence, as to render
it unneeewary at a subsequent time that the case should tin.
dergo two investigations. It is a very tinfortmaato circuit)
stance that lam not fornislied with the whole of the deposi-
tions. I sin therefore unable to say any thing more to you on
the particular cases to which I allude, except what occurs to
me from. the mere general description of the offences on the
face of the record. But I now leave you to- perliscm your
duty, with the well grounded confidence, that yon will dis.
charge ihe important trust consigned to you with fidelity, inn.
partiality, and consensus.
The Grand Jury then withdrew, and shortly returned with
several hills found against persons charged with capital of-
fences.

Philip Smith and William King pleaded guilty to the lesser
offence, of having forged Batik of England notes in their
possession. There was au indictment against them for the
higher offence, but the comm..' for the Batik withdrew it in
consequence of their plea Of guilty to the lesser.
John Evans was convicted of having three forged Bank of
rtigland notes in his possession. He was sentenced to hoo-
ks:too years' transportation.

CIVIL SlDE.—WsostesnAy.
THE KING V. REES AND OTIIHIS.
this case Mr. Bees, an opulent shopkeeper at Chatham,
Edwards and Wright, two of his shopmen, and Porcher,
porter, were indicted by J. Balls, a private marine, for an as-
sault and rase imp' i)outneat iu the cage of the Workhouse of
Chatham.

Balls (and a comrade of his corroborated his evidence)
swore positively that at 11 o'clock on the night of the tills ut•
August last, as lie was returning to his barracks, he happened
accidentally to brush by a )oling girl, with %ilium Mr. Rees
and his showily!' and porter were chattering at their own
door; they all immediately ran at him, seised his bayonet,
and though Corporal Lis ic came tip, and•ofhercd to take Balls
to the gnard-linnse, and In responsible fie• his appearance on
the Wowing morning, they insisted on taking hint to the cage,
where lie was locked tip all night. Balls said, lie was beaten
and kicked so severely, that he was confined to 11W hospital
fior 1-1 days. The *wines further said, that Mr. Rees ex-
claimed," Go you d—d soldiers, you are a set of vagabonds
altogether. I pay taxes to keep yon, and I'll punish you
whenever I can catch you." The prosecutor said, that the
only provoeation the gave was that" of being a marine."
For the defendants, the watchman who took the soldier
into Custody, a shopworn of Mr. Rees, and a neighbour who
witnessed the transaction, deposed that the prosecutor was
the aggressor; that be had drawn Isis hayonet and rut Ed-
wards( that Ise had said, he'd " assault his father or King
George if he stopped his way ;" and declared he did not care
a pie fur a watchman, as he had paid 21. for capsizing one
before now ; and the only thing lie regretted was, not having
given the fellows tour inches of cold steel.
Verdict—Guilty against all but Wright.

THE KING •.SMI?H.

This was an inforniation---agalnstlfie defendant, at the snit
of the Attorney-general, fur assaulting Nicholas Itoubilliard,
an officer of the customs, iu the execution of Lis duty, at
Deal.

The facts of the ease were these :—Mr. Roubilliard, now a
Lieutenant is the navy, and Mr. Peale, also a Lieutenant, and
both belonging to his Majesty's ship Severn, stationed at Deal,
were sent in pursuance of a deputation limn the Customs,
aided by ten men, to search a Ingger, in the art of landing
and supposed to contain smuggled goods. In the attempt so
to do, the defendant attacked Mr. Retardhard, and 'track
hint a blow on the breast, which made him stagger several
paces.
Mr. Ronbilliard's evidence was corroborated by that of Mr.
Peate, and the defend:sot was found Guilty.
CR:MINAL SIDE.
Thomas Farrier was indicted upon the Coroner's inquisition.(the
bill for murder having been thrown out by the Grand .Jury) for man-
slaughter, in killing Henry Richard Daniels, a child of three years
and a half old, at Mingeham, in thiscounty.
The witnesses for the prosecution statesi,that the prisoner had mar-
ried the mother of the child, who was her son by a former husband ;
that en the 4th of April last, the child, having given some cause of
offence to the prisoner, he shook it by the two arms, asking the child
at the same time if he was not ashamed of himself? The child an-
swered, ^ Yes," and almost immediately after fell down, when it
was observed that its eyes fixed as if in comuldemi. A surgeon was
sou: tor, who arrived about two hours after, Whets he found the child
in u dying state, having symptoms of corwassien of the brain, and it
died in about 40 hours after. A physician also attended, and, voinciel-
ing iu opinion with the surgeon, directed the heed to be opened.when
an extravasation on the brain was discovered, which he considered
caused the death. Both concuffed that the shaking only could not
have had that effect.
On

by Mr. Pollock, who was Counwl for the
prisoner, it appeared that the shaking was not f.. 41) siolcnt as to excite
tiny ohsenation ; that the prisoner teas hithitualli fond of the child,
and kind to lino, and was Wuch grieved at the uezurrence.—lle was
therefore acquittotL

DORCIiEs'ITII, Jet. V 25.
J. Gailnp, aged CJ, was indicted for the murder of Priscilla
mots n, on the 111 k of May, iu the parish of Here Itcgis. The
deceased lived in a house near Bere Itcgi 4, 111111 hail two chi,.
d boy about eight years of age (who gave evidence). and
a MI le gill tone y (11114(dd. The primnter OCCil3iall.lli cohabited
with her Ott the night above inetitioneil, he was obsessed to
go towards the house disguised, w a great coat, although it
was a Walla night. 'floe chid proved that his toothy' was
called owt by the prisoner, and in about an hunt mite, %%ant•
she was found dead in a lane at the bark of the house. A tail,
' named .41111 Leveridgc, aho 11114 standing next door net en,
to the deceased's heard the deceased say, " (u !
Lind have mercy 1111 nit' !" and it groats folhi%‘4.ll. Th. v.-
soner nen, out of his 'anise mood eight o clock, and did • u
n until half-past ten. In the month of September I. a.
ear, lit was Ite4rd to any that lie could kill a taa..on ,is I. I
au niu:Ya (iii a eiittwary,, and nobody vvould he the w,., I,
:.m.: bold of ahem tiy the throat unit uuar ; and vy snas%t
• the %Oat Pp, ••• ai: Ile Illall'llhay i•
Whew borne lio Gummi. he whiveicd
1111 los lodgings, to any, that le: ea'. in bed by lo o'clock : and
,two ttitnroars lartesotl, thist on the Ist of :ct,,y, the pria.nier

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asked them it they had hearth any thing about him that poor. -
lug? They told him they had not; and the pit."• er
they had gut it about town that CH Brown oas aitli child by
him; he would he 41--d if lie knew whether she a as a 111111
or woman ; but if she swore the child to Lim, his eyes
if lie would no. murder her the next minute."
A surgeon proved that the appearances on the neck and
nose were such as would most probably have arisen from that
species of violence svitich the prisoner exercised upon the
person lu whom lie said he could kill any peisen in the
'ninnies. Those and other facts were proved ; but ihe pri-
soner •aid, he was as innocent of the murder as lie *as the inc
inciit he was hew:. plc related a long narrative of the man-
ner iii %%hick lie aj% employed on the night ill yorbtiou, tut
did not call any witnesses to einifirin the 1115(.5,1:along. .1
ftw witnesses weer called to his charactei , hut they could net.
speak in very unobjectionable terms of his conduct.
Mr. Justice litirrough so 000000 led up t and the juicy, after
short consultation, pion:lanced him Guilty. The Learne,s.
Judge, in passing scateime of *leash upon him, colijiited
to apply himself to supplication I. God, to obtain mercy in
the next world, as he could not expect any in this. His Lord •
ship then adjudged hiw to be executed on Nlonday, and that
his body should be Riven to tl•c ...surgeons to be swat...mired.
The prisoner received the sentence with appari lit indit •
fereuee, and on gintting the dock declared that he was as la.
nocent as when lie Caine from his mother's ami).

ron► the LONDON G.IZETTE, Tuesday, July

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BANKRUPT.

Ilanr7lotta?t M. King-sr:vet, West Smithfield. harness wl*.••
4, 11, Sept. 8, at Guildhall. Att. 31e. Lewis, Cries