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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

fortunate man. Had he been found guilty by the jury,
he would have received a far severer sentence than Hud-
son, who had some excuse of irritation and warmth to
plead. The sentence on Hudson was' that he be im-
prisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Coffee.
non for two years.
• " •

Toe trial of prisoners finished this evening, after one
of the lightest as►izes ever remembered in the county.—
'July two causes remain to be disposed of on Monday in
the civil court. in consequence of the little business at
Stafford, and the great pressure expected at Shrewsbury,
the Judges have determined on commencing business on
Wednesday, the Commission day at the latter place,
instead of Ihtirsday.—Some criminal cases of rely great
uttered stand fur trial.
ISURREY.
CROWN awe. _

GUILDTOKD, Aua. I.—. John Forbes Reynolds, a
young gentleman of tespeetabir appearance. was indicted
,•.- tel * iy krlliita and staying Ricriaro Si;;;;;; at
Gosh:ikon, on the 29th of Julie ::131.
Th, case proved in evidence on t.re part of the prose •
cit.,on wJS (ilia :—Ttre prisoner.:' young loan about /3
years of age, was in partnership with iris uncle, Mr.
Jacob Reynolds, one of the Society of Friends, and car-
ried tin the business of a linen-bleacher at Carshalton;
the , recast(' was a man aged about 75, by business a
roaster bricklayer, and of considerable substance. The
deceased had been in the habit of doing work in his trade
Gtr Messrs. Reynolds. 011 the writ of June lie went
to the prisoners country house to demand the sum of
e7l. dm for bricklayers' wink done. He saw the prisoner,
and in v tautiting tune repeated two or three times,
" Now, Sir, state your time." It was stated, on the part
of the prosecution, that there had been an agreement to
pay the deceased every month fur such work as he might
du from time to time. The prisoner offended at the
mode of address above-mentioned, told the deceased that
he should not be paid before Christmas ; npon which
the deceased called him a d—d rogue, and used other
offensive language. The prisoner pot his hand on the
shoulder of the deceased, and advised him to leave the
premises, and called to one of his men to turn the de-
ceased out at the gate. One of the men interposed, and
advised the deceased to gu quietly away. The prisoner
then ordered a constable to be sent for. Some - • able
language was repeated by the deceased, and the prisoner
in a passion knocked him down with his fist. The de-
ceased fell senseless on the ground. Mr. Jacob Rey-
nolds, the prisoner's partner, shook his head and said, he
ought not to have struck so old a man. The prisoner
replied, that he had been provoked and insulted by the
deceased, who had called him a rogue and a rascal.—
Some of the prisoner's labourers carried the deceased
away. He recovered his senses during a short interval,
but in four or five days afterwards he died. and upon his
head being opened it was found that he had died in con-
sequence of a concussion of the brain. The prisoner
hat; immediately seat a surgeon to the deceased, upon
(intlingatiat he was severely hurt. The prosecution was
instituted ley the sons of the deceased, who appeared to
be men in respcciahle circumstances Two surgeons
gave it as their opinion, that the deceased had died of a
concussion of the bratu in consequence of falling on his
head.

lite prisoner, who appeared a good deal affected, put
in a written SUIICIIIPII%, in which he expressed sincere
sorrow fur the unfortunat: and fatal intemperance into
which he had been betrayed towards a man of the de-
ceased's years; but attributed it to the very gross and in-
sulting language used to him by the deceased.
Three of the prisoner's labourers proveil that the de-
ceased was very abusive, and amongst other offensive
names, had called ►he deceased a d--d half-bred Irish
rascal, alluding to the circumstance of his father being a
native of the sister kingdom.
Two medical men •f eminence stated that, in their
judgment, the deceased died of an apoplexy, which, how-
ever, they admitted might have been produced by the
violence to which the deceased had been suljected.
Mr. Justice Park santu►ed up the case fur the Jury
with great impartiality.
toe Jury fumid the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to three months imprisonment in the county gaol.

CIVIL SIDE.
THIL LIN• V. EDWARD beGRATH.

This was an indictment against the defendant Ire con-
spiring with one John Maberley to cheat and defraud
Sir Thomas Swyrunter Champnys, Bart. of certain bills
of exchange to the amount of 2,5001. The defendant,
Maberly, had not pleaded; Mr. Itl'Gratit pleaded wit
guilty.
The indictment alleged, that, on a certain day in De-
cember, I tio, the defendants conspired to cheat and de.
fraud Sir's'. S. Cliampnys, Hart. and in pursuance of
such conspiracy did obtain dicers acceptances of Sir'[. S.
Champrir, lint. When the Baronet came to be exa-
mined, he stated, mat his father did not die Willi July,
1821, so that he was not in 'mint of fact Sir Thomas
Swymmer Champnys, Bart. at the time of the alleged
conspiracy.
The defendant's counsel objected that this was a mill.
description of the prosecutor, and consequently that the
indictment st lail.

Ttie Lurd Chief Baron was dearly of opinion that the
objection wan fatal, but sent to ascertain the opinion of
Mr. Justice Park upon the pint, who concurring with
his Lordship, the learned Judge directed an acquittal.—
Verdict—Nut Guilty.

police.

ROW STREET.

NOW. CAS/ or Foutica Monday evening, John
Brookes, alias John Benjamiu Brookes, a sum reported to
be living it, considerable alluence, mad whale resltleace
is in Broad.coart,Loavarre, was brought before Sir R.
Hirai'', in the custody of $lllllOll, one of Ilia prisioipal
officers, on a warrant, charged with feloniously uttering
and publishing as lino a certrin receipt or acquittance
for money, to the mamas of 1:d. 10.4., he will knowing the
wtuu to lie forged, with intuit to delimit] Wiii. Cies i.e.