The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-24 00:00:00

TILE KING V. JAMES lIALI..

This was an indictment against Mr. Hall himself, fur
escaping from the custody of a constable of Margate,
who had apprehended Ii in hiun upon a warrant to give
sureties to keep the peace towards Mr. and Mr. Gude,
whose lives he was alleged to have threatened.
Mr. Gurney and Mr. Abraham conducted the prose.
ocon, and Mr. Andrews the defence.
it appeared in evidence, that between the 24th of April
and the 6th of May last, Mr. Gude found it necessary,
iu conseyience of the ivioletit threats of the defendant
towards hintselland wife, to apply to a magistrate named
Bfys, to hold him to bail to keep the peace. The war-
rant was granted, and a constable having executed it,
Mr. Ball made his escape Irons his custody. The war-
rant was directed to the constable t3l. M agate, and it
appeared to have been executed by an assistant constable;
upon which
Mr. Andrews submitted that this was a fatal objection.
Mr. Baron Graham thnueht the objection not tenable,
bin sattl he would reserve the point.
The Jury, snider the learned Judge's directions, found
the defendant Guilty.
In the Crown Court there was no case of interest.
MAIDSTONE, MARCH 21,-111 consequence of the
pressure of business on the Crown Side for this county,
Mr. Sergeant Lawes and Mr. Taddy successively sat
toalay, in the Anabaptist. Chapel of this town, to try
prisoners. From the same cause it was announced, that
tsl r. Baron Graham, who presided on the Civil Side,
would to morrow assist Mr. Baron Wood in trying pri-
soners, and leave the remaining causes on the civil side
as remanents until the next assizes.
THE KING V. WORTNINGTON AND OTHERS._

D;isvva7;liiformation filed by the Attorney Gene-
ral against Wm. ‘Vot Ellington, John Ilart, and several
Whet defendants, for an assault on John Smith and Ed-
mund Paine, on the 7th of March last, at Deal. lie
prosecution was conducted at the instance of the Board
of Excise. The only defendants who appeared to take
their trial were Wm thington and llart.
Mr. Sergeant Onslow, Mr. Marryatt, Mr. Gurney,
and Mr. Delany, conduced the prosecution; and Mr.
Common Sergeant and Nlr. Adolphus the defence, res-
pectively ';or each defendant.
The facts proved in evidence disclosed a case of no
inconsiderable enormity against the defendants. It ap-
peared that a man named Brown, who had been an
Excise officer, having been dismissed from his employ-
ment, im consequence of gross misconduct in taking
bribes to conceal &tenders against the excise laws, circu-
lated, from motives of revenge, a list of persons whom
he thought oper to designate as informers against
smugglers. Many of these persons were unconnected
with the practice of informing in the way imputed—
amongst others were Joins Smith and Edmund Paine,
who appeared to be industrious fishermen of Ikal. On
the 7th of March last year the defendants seized John
Smith in High-street, Deal, and dragged him into the
King's Antis public house, and after threatening his life
brought Mtn out, stripped him to the skin as far as the
waistband of his breeches, fastened Iffin to a Capstan on
the beach, tarred him from the head to Ins middle, and
covered him over with feathers. lie was then fastened
to a cart, and dragged round the town, the mob continu-
ing to apply tar and feathers to his body. Ile was almost
blinded with the tar, and suffered the greatest possible
croelties and indignitiea. In the pmgress of the cart
round the town, the mob met with Edmund Paine,
another of the persons proscribed by Brown as an infor-
mer. Ile was Hung neck and heels into the cart, and
buckets of tar were heaped upon him, and he also was
covered with feathers. In this manner both the unhappy
men, in broad clay, were exhibited round the town, the
cart bring drawn by the mob, who cheered and shouted
in their progress, heaping upon the men the fllOit
oflen-
+he execrations. At length the police intehered, and
the unfortunate victims were extricated from their peril-
oni Situations. Mail sustained Considerable personal
cadence, and for many days were absolutely
the tar, winch got into their eyes. To this day Smith
had lost the use of one of his eyes.
The Common Sergeant, for the defendant Worthing-
ton, said he must submit to a verdict against t client,
reserving such topics as might he urged in mitigOon of
punishment when brought up ffir judgment. •
Mr. Adolphus, for Hart, called witnesses with 1t view
to the mitigation of punishment, to thew that he was
nut as criminal as the other defendant.

The case went in the Jury under the learned Judge's
directions, and both defendants were found Kui

THIS SING V. PARISH.
This was an information by the Attorney GAeral
against Thomas Parish, for offering a bribe to Thomas
Green, a seanun employed on the Co33t, blOCkade, to
neglec: his duty in giving information against the defen-
dant, so as to forward the landing of utieustomed si • • .
The case was clearly made out in evidence, and the
Jury found the defendant Guilty.

John Wright, the Bristol pedestrian, commenced
his undertaking to walk 1000 miles in 1000 hours,
last Wednesday night, ut eight o'clock, on the Bowl.
ut Sheffield,

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