The Sun.
London, England, 1806-03-27 00:00:00

PARISM N. RUMOURS.

At the "Gi;nd Tate otdered by our Emperor for 1
the 7,2 d of next May, -sixteen new Princes of our
S.-3-mnd Military and Political Vuttaionarie. are to be
procilitned,,in 'tile presence of six Princes, exalted
into- IN.tigS by his Imi)terial Majesty. The here-
ditary tanks and titleS will at the same • time be
restored 'to all those of the former Nobility whose,
names are not still found 'upon the list of Emigrants.
•Several Generals, Senators, Councillors of State, -
Pi-etas, Legislators, Tribunes, Judges, Sec. will also
be created and hailed on -that day as Marquesses,
Connthe Viscounts, and Barons ; and every Mem:,
b'er of -the-Legion of Honour Yodl have a right to •
style himself a ehevalier. A new Order of Knight-
that of the Empress's, - called - Ho-
IsouttAneri F,IDELITY;" will then be announced.
Queens of SPAIN, PRUSSIA, BAVARIA, and
-ErauatA, are said to be among its Grand Officers;
and four hundred other FOreign and 'French Ladies
of fink grid fashion- are mentioned as its principal
mernbers. The ornaments of these female Knights
are stars,, worn on the left side"' of their bosom,
and aigrettes," worn On the right side of their head-
dress. •Amon„ the •Ladies already nominated to
t*ls distinaion, the names of Mesdames Garrets,
Searle. RECAMIRR, -TALLEYRAND, REMUSAT,- SE-
,
EAUT, SESUR, LE BRUNN, COURTIN, DUROC,
LAURISTCN, LE GRANGE, SAVARY, LUCCHESINI,
Llots•rore-lAs, HALLAUD, and MitieWieLiAms, are
rnentia;ted. Four Ladies in Waiting of the Queens
Of SPAIN, FRUSSIA, BAVARIA, and ETRURIA, two
Maids of Hon6nr.of the Elearesses of HESSE and
BAPS';:, with several Gertnanand Italian Princesses,
Countesses, and baronesses, are also among our fe-
maie fhevallers in petto.
The. espences for the Fete of the 2d of May are
calculated at' eighteen millions of livres ; of which
theri-devcint EleaOr of Bavaria has paid ten millions,
and the ci-devarzt Eleamr af Hesse eight millions,
The value of the present' to be distributed on the
Sallie occasion is said to ae six millions of lirres,
taken from the. Privy Purse of'our Emperor and
• Empress --.Besides all the Commanders 'and prin-
cipal ChiefS of the last campaign in Germany,
seve-
ral Deputies of each Regiment are to be present,
It is reported here, but with what foundation cannot
.be deteßnipade that the Kings of Sri and Pat's-
SIA, and their Queens, together with -the Kings
' 'and Queens Of, BAVARIA, WIRTEMBURGH, and
HassE, have been invited to thiS splendid fete, and
that few, if any of them, dare to decline the

YORK ASSIZES.

Peter Atiri4ton, about 15 years of age, was in-
, for maliciously assaulting Elizabeth Stockden,
of Swillington, with a hammer, with intent to mute
der her.
The first witness ee.amined was Elizabeth Stock-
den, who stated, that hhe has been in the service of
Mr. Schofield about nine years; that the family, at
-the time this transaction took place, consisted of Mr;
\ and Mrs. Schofield, the witness, and a servant boy,
the Prisoner ; that Mr. Schofield, from his situation
-,steward to Viscountess Irwin, was frequently at
empie Newsome, and the day the assault was coin-
rated, Mrs. Schofield was also there, so that the'
ho Ise was-entirely left to her and the Prisoner ; the
witness'proceeded :to state, that on the morning of
the 23a of SepteMber she got up at six o'clock, and
.had opened her room-door, when she saw the Pri-
soner standing opposite to it; there-was an appear-
ance of savageness in his looks which rather terrified
her she saw that he had a hammer, and he told
her that- he was going 'to kill her, and immediately
struck her a violent. blow on the face with the claw
end of the hammer ; which, though it did not de-
prive her of her recolleaion, caused her to fall e the
• Prisoner continued to strike her as she lay on the
floor, on both sides of her head with the same wea-
pon. The witness supposed that the Prisoner did not
leave her until he thought that his purpose was accome
plished. The witness further added, that soon after
the Prisoner went down stairs she heard a noise like
..the breaking of glass, 'and the kitchen door open : as
soon as the witness had a little rocovered from the
effeas of the blows, she went down stairs and lock-
ed the door ; she then found that the kitchen win-
dow was so broken as to admit the-body of a man 5
the' went to the front of the house in the hopes of
'procuring 'assistance, .when she ,saw the Prisoner
laying hold of a girl ,of the name, of, Hewitt, and
-erieen he appeared to be endeavouring to drag away.
Tee witness called her to heta;islsiance; on hearing
her voice the Prisoner left the girl and came towards
the house, and the witness immediately bolted the
dOor ;- the Prisoner' aNeared to go tp the back of
the house, a;-id the poor- womiin, apprehensive of his
obtaining:admitta&e, exerted the last remains ()filer
streugtii and escaped to the house of Andrew White-
head, '‘Tho lives within two hundred yards of 11Xr.
Mary Hewitt,. an intelligent girl about thirteen
years of aee, stated, that she lives with her grand-
mother a short distance from Mr. Schofield's, and
lrad Came' on the morning of the 23d of-September,
about half ,past six o'clock, to procure a light, and
not perceiving a smoke from the chimney; and the
window' shutter's being closed, she thought they had
overslept themselves, and made a noise with the
gate to‘a Waken. them. Almost immediately after
this she saw -the Prisoner on the green before the
house ; she was struck with
_his appearance----" he
. clid not look as he used to do, he was Very white,
and cried. " Oninquiring the reason of his distress,
he said, ", somebody had broken Into the house and
killed Betty" The witness replied, " surely thou
hest gotten tip it a dream:" The Prisoner said, " he
'-was sure of it, for he had been 'up stairs and found
her lying at her bethrooM door, and that she, was
dead.". The Prisoner then wished the witness
.to -go with hiro toTemple-Newsome, to ly orm. his
ma:4er, which on ,the witness declining to do, the
Prisoner laid. hold on her to force her to go with
him ; at this moment. the. witness happening to
look towards the house, saw Elizabeth Steckded at
the front door, and exclaimed, Betty is not dead,
the is at the door ;" the Prisoner then left' hereand
went towards the house, and the witness being
'her terrified returned home.
-. George Merton stated that he was a surgeon,

on seeing me ttit.etee.. eecretarv_-cz
that IYIP
at FtippAx, at he visite_d'Elitabeth Stat'ltden about
eight o'clock in the moining'of the 23d of Septeni:
ber, and found -her severely rounded in The :head •
and face, and though he could not speak as. to the
exact nutnber of wounds, he. was positive there were
at least • twelve. The wound On the fate vas a sim-
ple incision on the nose, an inch .in length, and cut
down to the.bone ; sotne of the wounds on the head
also appeared. to be simple incisions, others_were,
contused and lacerated; but he tho.ught it possible..
they might all of them be occasioned by the same
instrument. He thought the claw end of a hammer'
Was likely to infiia the 'wounds
.in question. On
being asked whether he- had examined the state of
the wounds in so minute a manner as to form an
opinion whether the interval between two woundS
was such as to correspond with the nature of z
wound infliaed by an instrument divided in the
Manner of the claw end of a hammer, he said he had.
accurately measured the distance, and found the in- '
terval between several of to wont*, to be exaaly
equal ; most of the wounds oti the head he said
penetrated to the bone, and were rather inclined to
the back part of the head.
Mr. Schofield stated, that. the Prisoner had lived
in his house near two years, and that'he had -never
known or suspected ' him in the least affected with
• insanity.* The witness bad a hammer in his posses-
sion, which was intended to have been produced in
Court) but the persen'of whoM he reetived.it not
being summoned, it could not be identified accord-
ing to the, rules of law. •
'On the part of the Prisoner,-Mr.,Wtt.ttAs, 'his ►
Counsel, stated, that a hammer was not such a wea- •
pon as was in contemplation of the-law, and with
which a 'person could properly be said to be cut.—
This objeaion, after considerable argtiment was
over-ruled. ,
Andrew Whitehead was called by the Prisoner's
Counsel, and stated, that when Elizabeth Stockdeu
came to their house she said, after 'describing the
'eondua of the Prisoner; that she theught he 'Was
crazed; from this it was meant W be inferred, that
in the opinion, of the Proseeutor the' Prisoner • was
deranged in his mind. Several persons' were called
'to- the Prisoner's charaaer, Who represented him a
quiet, honest lad.
The Learned Judge, to a very able charge, in
which the objections made by the Prisoner's Coun-
sel weredistinaly slated, said, that he should leave the
Jury to decide whether they were convinced that
blows were given by a weapon within the meaning.:
of the Aa, add trusted- that on a charge which af-
feaed the life of the Prisoner they would maturely
weigh the evidence, and come to no rash conclusion
on the subje&.
The Jury, after deliberating a few minutes, and
.without retiring, returned a verdi of Guilty. '

The Assizes for - this County closed on Tuesday..
---Sharp,-Smith, Robert Smith, William Taylor,
and Heary Headley, for horse' stealing ; Teter At-
kinson, for wounding Elizabeth Stockden, with in-.
tent to murder her ; Jonathan Lakin, for bnrglary ;
George Butler, for forgery; and William Stam-
forth, for stealing a pocket-book, received sentence
of "death.
John Walker, Daniel Humphries, Thomas Smith,
and Mary Lee, for divers • felonies, transported for
seven years.
W. Backer, for embezzling money, imprisoned 12
months.
Francis Barcelona, for assaulting Charles liaison
with an iron poker, to be imprisoned two years.
'Richard Cass, of Knaresbro' for bigamy, fined 6d.
and to be imprisoned six months.
James Halliday and William D6vhurst, for man-
slauohter, each fined is. and discharged. • •
Ifemnel Ibbotson, for manslaughter, fined ad. and
to be imprisoned two months.
The Judge, before he left York, was pleased to
reprieve all the prisoners under sentence of death,
except Peter Atkinson, for wounding Elizabeth
Stockden, and George Butler, for forgery, who
were left for execution ; but a respite has been sent
for Atkinson, till the opinion of the 12 Judges has
been taken on the case.

HOME CIRCUIT.

HORSHAM, MARCH 24.
CRIM. CON.—MEDIVICK F..ADAMS.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD, in Stating the circum-
stances
of this case, observed, that a Counsel re- i
quired no apology for strenuously exerting • himself i
on the part of his Client in such a case as :the pre-
sent. The aaion was brought for-one of the most
serious injuries that one man' could sustain from the ,
hands of another. If a Defendant was ever so poor,
it was no reason why a Jury should not give exem-
plary ilamageS against him, because it was a maxim
in law, that he-who could not pay in his purse must
pay in his person. He had, hOwever,, not the`case .
here of a Defendant who could not afford to Pay
every farthing of the damages laid in the present .
record ; he was a man •ot` good substance, possess-
ing Ipild and houses of-his own, besides his-trade as
Millr. 'The Plaintiff was a person residing at Bog,
nor, in this county,- and was the proprietor ok two
fishing vessels, with which he was frequently at sea
for days together. How long the criminal -inter-
course had subsisted between his wife and the De-
' fendant it was not possible to say, but it was pro,
, bable that it, had existed a -long time before it was
discovered. The discovery was made in a manner
which-world be stated to them by a witness who
would be called, who; going to the house of tlie
Plaintiff, observed a dog,belonging to the Defendant
about the door, and, on finding the door locked, a
thing not usual, he looked' through a-crevice, and'
there he saw what must be detailed in evidence, but-
which was too disgusting to be repeated by him. For
this violation Of the peace of the Plaintiff, he *de-
manded exemplary damages. He was the father:of
six children by the woman who had been thus se-
duced, and the Defendant ltimelf was also a mar- ,
.' tied man., and the father of a family, and had there-.
. fore not the plea of headstrong and ungovernable
passions, which sometimes was urged, as a bad ex-
cuse was better than none at all. He Would call
, witnesses to prove the fans, and the Jury would give
:what was the fair damages for such an otltrage.
Mary Cobden proven the marriage of the, Plaintiff
;• with his wife, about 22 years ago ;- he -had six.
daughters, the eldest was about. twenty years of-age,
, 1 She could not-speak as to him ; they li‘ed t6gether,

'4;l dliql 7 a _ .
die bell'eveit" toleriibly hippy, t7ntil this-Affair. Oil
Ctoss-eXatuinatiBm, 'she said; the Ladywas
when she was therried,but she knew nothing of any'
connexion bet‘iTen the Plaintiff's Wife and a Mali of
the name of Gray. -
Wiltram Jennian that he knew the.Plain=
tiff and wife ;* and he believed they Been to-
lerably well together. He had never heard there
was any great deficiency.
William *ath' deposed, that just about Whitsun:-
tide, 1.804-, he was going to Mr. Medwiek's to bor-.
tvw.a saw ; he
,found the back-dboi. fastened; and
seeing Adams's dog abont the house, he thought
the mister was in the hoUse; and looking 'through a
hole made by a khot in the boarding of the &or, be
saw into the wash-hbuse, and just opposite was the.
kitchen door, which stood side open, so' that he
could see into the room ; he saw Mrs Medwick on
wstool, and Master Adams kneelinc, before her. The
'witness then described what ensued,- which left no
doubt of the fa& of the adultery. When the witness
thought...it would be no intrusion, and had waited,
t ,he knocked with the latch of the door,
and. let them know some one was thew. He told
the Plaintiff of this fa& some months after, when
he had employed his lawyer, • but said he' Was
afraid he must give over for Want of a mood'witness ;
he then let him know what: he could prove. This
was the case for'the PlaintitT. _ •

GARROW, for the Defendant; stated, that
this was the most impndent aEtiop ever brought into
a Court of Justice. He asked tbe Jury. what they
.would think of it, when they should hear proved
that the Plaintiff's wife was one of the most prOfli-
gate women that this country knew. That she had,
by her husband'S own confession, acknowledged to
twenty paramours, with some 91.1,vh0m she had his
leave to associate ; so that to a trespass of this sort '
the Defendant might fairly have pleaded " leave
and licence." But would it..not surprise them .more
to hear,. that this loving couple had agreed to unite '
again as soon as the cause was over ; and if the Jury
were to give a verdia for damages to any amount,
they were to. celebrate it that night, by throwing
the stocking, and having all the formalities of a new
wedding ? ' He would call evidence to prove to the
Jury, that they liad both been to the Plaintiffs At-
torney together,
,to make out evidence against the
Defendant ; and it would appear that the Plaintiff
had solicited hiS wife to allow him a few indulgen-
cies, complaining of his long abstinence ; but she,
-the best lawyer of two, said No, not at
,present,
they.would wait until the law-suit was over.-With
respea to her conduel, he would 'call a. gardener,
who worked in the garden at her husband's, and.he
should tell them what her conduct was towards him.
She accosted him one day with " Well, John, don't
you cuckold your wife ?" No,". said 361 m.—
What ! have not you the inclination for it !"
i" No," said John. again. He was 'disgusted, and.
turned away from her.—lf he'proved any thing like
what was stated to him in his brief, he thotight-thel
Jury would dismiss the Plaintiff's suit- with the con-
tempt and disgust whiCh it merited.
' Edward.Peachey was called, who stated that he
was formerly . Parish Overseer of .the pail:SE-5113a- ,
.stead. He recolle&ed when the Plaintiff married his
wife ; , she 'was then apparently big Witif,cbild ; hut
he had told him that his wife had not had a -child,
she had only miscarried, and in that case no-harm
was done.
Mrs. Knight stated, that she had . bad frequent
conversations with the 'Plaintiff about his wife ; he
had told her that his wife had confessed to him hav-
ing' been conneeled with twenty. men, but he said
it was not all known to his neighbours; and he would
not revu/ge the names of those gallants who were
known to have been. conneaed with her., Th:s con-
versation she had'with the Plaintiff at the time that
his wife run away with one Clarke, a smuggler,
with whom she was absent for several days. She
believed it ended in a fight between the huSband
and Clarke, and had heard it was agreed between
them, that Clarke was to visit her as often as he
liked.
Amy Wyer stated, that she had, had conversa-
tion with the Plaintiff about his wife ;. he confess-
ed that he knew of her bad goings on, but he kept
her as a Gentleman puts up with a bad horse.
Henry Bridger, .a fifrmer at Pagenham, stated, that
on the 15th of June last he met the Plaintiff and his
wife returning from Chichester.. He fell into con-
versation with them. The Plaintiff told him that
they had been to the Lawyer's about Master Adams
having to do with his -wife. The witness advised
them to remember King Charles's Golden Bute, and
" repeat no grievances." He then stated the
_rest
of the conversation, which WAS .too gross to-be re-
peated. It amounted to a lamentition on the part
of the Plaintiff, that the old woman, his wife,' would
grant hith no favours till the law-suit was over, and
they had got damages against Adams the Defendant.
To which he added, that now he litat gOne so far, he
was determined to go on, and if he did not succeed,
he would run away and leave his family to the Parish.
. It appearing, on cross examination, that this was
a respeaable m'an, Mr. Sejeant SIIEPHERD gave up
the cause; and the Plaintiff was Nonsuitcd.

•
ta4- weel; rpont Man, iiathed in tEe. ger-
;iice of Messrs. WOOD -'itud, PLINT, was knOcked
down and badly gored in. the fice by a vicious cow,
as she " eras stickling her ca-lf, at Kingston, near
Lewes, in Sussex. He would, in all probability,
have beeti Oiled, had he not beeri rescued from the
fury of the animal 'by- some' persons who were lucki*
on the 'spot at the time.
A most melancholy accident occurred on Monday
evening, at the honse of Mrs. ELLEN, at Bromptua,
The muslin.dress of Miss PARKS, an amiable young
Lady, 17 years-of age, caught fire in the parlour,
and
.she was.sO dreadfully scorched that her life is
despaired of: She had just arrived from Croydon.,
on a visit to Mfrs. ALLEN.

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On. Monday la§t, of a Son, the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte
Duneornbe, in Grafton-street.

• On Sunday mornitig, the Lady of R. S. Brassey, Esq. of a
-Son.
Yesterday evening,. Mrs. R. Gowland, of Bryanstor..
street, Portnialf:square, of a Son.
On Mond,iy last; the Lady' 'of Dr. Blanc, of Cleveland
row, of a Son, •