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%suit. Our feeders **it" simaa.'et &it the 13-rand.
iself Nails! under Lard gllentwinstigtei Acts
foe Itisiliciousty tatting, in a scuffle, a constable,
who took him into custody for breaking his father's
windows. The Lard Chief Baron was !byte of opi.
Mon, that the "roust& which was only a slight one
%Its the band, was tint suck, under all the ciecuin-
*tenets as came within the meaning of the Act.
tie wen ,now indicted for a common ssisult, end
found Chitty. After a most impressire adtnonitiao
from the Learned Judge oh the impropriety of his
conduct, heirs, fiord Si. and checkered.
Thomas Salter wit indicted for feloinously steal-
ing, ou the lath of March last, a geldii;g, value
1111., the property of Jeremiah Statute, of livening..
well, in Suffolk.
Mr. Muslim, stated the cast to the Jury.
The horse-keeper of the prosecutor, Mr. Stnttor,
a most respectable fanner, residing at Henuirigs.
well. proved the, the horse in question was 'ale in
his mamtes stable at right o'clock on the night
previous, and ou the morning of the 19 h it was
missing. In consequence of this hand-hills were
printed. offering a reword for the apprehension of
leho thief, nrid the recovery of the horse.
jam.. Dawkins, a guard to one of the Suffolk
waggons, proved, that on the morning of the 19111
a,:arch he met the Prisoner at the Coach and
(hese', w Newport, where he had a horse in the
et whicn he offered for pair. The witness said
hr was not in the habit of purcuasing horses, but if
ties went .long ..ith him he would help him to a
Custionet ; at that time the Prisoner appeared to lie
vi,y fatigued, and tin the witness remarkiug that cir-
eniustairce, and that be seemed unwell, he account-
.c, fur it by saying that he had been drunk the
before, Ann been tap all night travelling with
rs.e horse. They then proceeded on the road to-
ward" London, and were toott afterwards over-
/akets by a mail-coach, which dropped a printed
hand-bill as it passed them. The witness examined
found it offered a reward fur the discovery
ct • horse which had been stolen, the description of
'Ach was answered by the horse in the Prisoner's
pinisession, on which he apprehended him, and the
horst was afterwards identified by the Prosecutor.

Some suggestion having been made tint the Pri-
soner laboured under mental deraugernent since lie
hod beet, in custody, Mr. Gepp, the surgeon to the
gaol in this town, was called, and proved that at
one tune he was vent fur to attend the Prisoner, arid
frouni him unsettled in his amid ; but hr was not
in -mit a state es to be unable to distinguish right
from wrong,.
The Jury found him Guilty—Deo/h.
C.orles Faller was indicted fur stealing a pocket-
book, eighteen pounds in Bauk•notes, a snuff box,
and a mob, from the person of Jonathan Smith,
of Little Waltham. It appeared, from the evideoce
this else, that the. Prosecutor, having fallen
isalettp on the eveniog of the day of the election, at
Whitellait Inn, in ahia town, on wakening
again, mimed the property stated 111 the indictineot.
'Pie mime eve ll ioo g„ the Prisoner was at the Spotted
Dog, with a 10/. note and other notes, where he
hot two bottles of wine end other refreshments;
a it on being taken into custody, the onuff-hox and
4/pith were found upon him, together with the re•
ruainder of the weary, which bad out been expend-
r.l. the pocket-hook.
Mr. NlttutousE, as Counsel for the Prisoner,
irrb!ettiously ores...examined each ttitite,.., but could
c alter these facts—Guilty—Transportation for
ICichard Thorley was indicted fur feloniously
sta;attog, on the 11511, of July, five one-pound note.,
tun pennerte of David Powell, Esq. of Lougliton.
'Foe Bailiff of the Prosecutor proved that ou Sa.
roq/arlast he went into the Crown Inn in that
.
tuirt, for the purpose of paying different per.ons
Lenhons his master was indebted, and having gone
out to get change of a five-pound note, he left the
money' in question on the table, and MI his return
it was gone. The Primmer vat by his side. and had
Kong out of the mom. On his return he was search.
rd„ hut nothing • found on him. He was huwer,r
observed shortly afterwards to go to a duughill in
t Cie yard, where he 'took up sosnethiug, sad on being
oviin searched, fisemue poised motes were found on
/:'W.

The Prisoner, io his defence, said ihut he picked
t'nr nuteii up under the table--Goilty—Two
imprisonment in the HOOlll of Capresctiou.
.•Willinnt Fuller was indicted for burearinusly
b►traking and sanction the dwelling-bosun of Thos.
J'eain; of Harlow. 'about the hour of twelve, in the.
of the 29111 of February. and station thereon
four cheeses and three loaves, his property.

Tit? case presented to the Jury, U. 13 the part of
the prosecution, fur their cous:deratiun wits as fol-
low% :

Tice Prosecutor, keeping a chandler's whop in
flatiow, in the night mentioned in the inictment,
w•ut to bed about eleven o'clock, leaving 11:S pre-
-1131.CM ►afr, and the property in question ota a shelf
seat a window, which had been blocked up with
Istiii and plitister. The neat rouranug an aiirrture
bad been forcibly made through the lath .and
pi:owstr, and the property in quertiou hal bees re-
nvorud,
_ _ _

Q. the Prisoner being apprehended fur another
f.jwiiy, he confessed having been concerned' no the
r.iiaroe conteined in the !present indictment; allega.
that he had been inatigated in it 'by **rains.
',ogled Robinson, who broke open the *Maks..
Nir. Venn stated,, on being cruaaaralossiued by
11 r. liNtik, that die Prisoner lived in Ina neigh.-
'...eirhood, and in consequence of the &alb of hie
tier, and the crud noel ein ploymeia of lus
,t.irr, 1w was unfortunate!) ,eft. tun rutits:h at
(;oodly—Death. •
William Cullen And William Galligue _were
itt-
dlc+.tl, for steallog,, tin the 5:11 of June. at. the
person of West Won, 20 bobbin,. and a quantity
tit silk, the property of George. Lorgnette.
le;uppeared that the Prosecutor SS.. stik-inanna.
Imourer. residing at Stratford. in au catenate, tray.
employing upwards of 50. personas. of whoop the
rissuners were two. On the ruorniog of the day tribe
indictment, the Prisoner Congo applied to the Ina.:
r.rgiug clerk of the Prosecutor fur the silk Ps Wars.
11.411 to work witfi ; hut, begin receiver.l..o, he rib.
ertsso,44. On his loots) baits% inuiswaried, it appeared
that lie had not been in ertautoissily milk to proceed
with ha work. The :other *Priatroer shortly rafter:
o-i-ords absconded, and • they were bath taken int,is
ruiteidy, in company together. the silk Igab worth-
from 30 to 35 guinea,. Whets the Prosecutor it
itrfol; tied the Prisoner Cullen, as to what be had