The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-20 00:00:00

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COURT OF KINC's BENCH,. Nov. 11.

THE KING 4J.GEORGE-WILICINS.

'Phis person had been indicted at the last
chester Assizes for.-assaqiting Gorge Lovell; Esq.,
a Magistrate ,of Hampshire. The 'bDefe:: !ant was
this day. brought up to receive the sentence of the
Court. •it appeared from the report of the Learned
Judge who
.tned • the muse, tha't the Prosecutor,
Mr:Lovell, was riding, accompanied by his-servant,
along a lane, when he-heard the cries of a boy, and
the sound of • blows, as if somebody were beating
him. In a few :minutes, a woman ran from 'a
neighbouring field into the road, towards Mr. Lo---
veil, imploring assistance; for Gorge Wilkins, she
said, was beating her son. The cries of the child
growing nlote violent, the Magistrate alighted,' and
accompanied the mother to the spot. 'Mr. Lovell
inquired why the Defendant used the boy so unl•
mercifqlly hitt the only reply he could obtain was,
G=d 0-7-Inn you, I am on the premises 'of a gen;-
tleman, and than is More than Voir are." The Ma=
gistrate remonstrated, but the Defendant continued
13eating the boy, and told the Prosecutor, that if he
did Dot init»ediatelv quit the field, he wontd shew
-him the shortest. ..way into the ditch. Mr. Lovell
warned the Defendants,
,and told, him to be careful
what he said, as- he Was &Dyersing with a Mgi-
strate ; but The Defendant answered, that he knew
he Was, but he would be, if be cared, and
raised his stick in a threatening posture above the
bead of Mr. Lovell: The next day the. Defendant
was apprehended and sent to the County Gaol w
take his trial. .

lER.actdressed their Lordships in miti-
gatipn of puoi3hntent ; after which Mr. JEKYI., for
the-Crown, adverted to the various circumstances of
aggravation attendant upon the conduct of the De-
fendant.

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After an observation from Lord ELLENBOROUGH
that Mr. Lovell had not bnly at-ted vita propriety as
a Magistrate, but with humanity as an individual,
Mr. Justice'GßOSE pronounced the judgment of the
Court as folloWs : --No person who has read the evi-
dence in 'the case- can -doubt the propriety of Your
.conviction. You committed an assault upon a-Gen-
tleman whom you knew to be a Magistrate, and who
was-not only performing his duty as a Justice of the
Peace, but as aChristian, is preventing your cruelty
to a helpless boy. Your behaviour has been highly
improper, and your conduCt- adMits not'of a Slagle
circumstance in mitigation ; the Court theretOre, •
order that you pay a tine to the King of 201. he Ml-
prisonetl in the ii.larshalsea,one month, and fitid‘se-;
unity for your good conduct,.
,yourself in I OW. and
two sufficient sureties.in nol. each.

• INFOUMATION.
Sir V. GIBES applied_ for an • information zgaitist
the :Reverend Charles Prescot, a Magistrate of -thc.,
County of Chester, for rion•execution -of his duties, •
as a Justice of; the Peace, when required to do so.
The circumstances on which the motion was ground=
ed, were as A man named Thomas Hart,•
of Stockport, had, bet Ween that toWn and Man-
chester, been violently -assaulted by JOhn Birch, a
constable,- who knocked him down, and then,,pro-
dneing:a pistol, threatened, in the most violence
terms, to Shoot him. information was, a few davt
rifterviards,; laid before Mr. Prescot; and after die
usual fees had been sutinnons -Was granted
for all the parties, on -a-day-appointed, to appear.=.l.
On the Bth of July, 1.806, they -attencre'd •at the
"office of the Magistrate, when, without assigning
any' reason I,vtink.e.i, he refused' to pay the smallest
'attention to the charge- the ' complainant had to
The 'Learned CounSel 'likewise produced
an affidavit-from a person of the - name of Peach;
Who had exhibited-a complaint against his master,
a butcher, Nr the non-payment of his,wages. .F 43.
paid • the fees, and obtained a summons from Mr..
Prescot : bUt when he' attended lo support his
claim, ghat Magistrate, likewise without Chusing
'to assign any reason, absolutely refuSed to listen to
the case. Under such circumstances it was render-
ed absolutely necessary, for the sake of public`jus-
- tice, that an application -,Should be made to .theit
Lordships.

-Lord'ELLENI3,OROUGHet Do you sbew any cor—
rupt motive which
.a6ted upon the Magistrate ? be—
cause we may imagine many cases where JuSiices
'would refuse to hear a 'complaint ; for inst.iaCe, if
.the parties presented themselves in a state of. in—
toxication ?"

- Sir V. GLBBS replied, that Certainly no improper
inducernent`had .heen direaly alledged.; but he'
trusted, that their • Lordships, notwithstanding,
would-,think the condu& of the Magistrate highly
improper.
Upon farther discussion, it appeared.that there
was no affidaVit of notice of this Motion having
been given to Mr: Prescot ; it was, therefore,- dis—
.niiSsed.

BIRTII.
Yesterday morning, at Statntbcd- Hill, the Lady of T.
Nesbett; 'Esq. of a Son.

AfARRIF,I)

. On Friday.last, 'Captain Fredetick Hill, of the 18th, or
Royallrish,• to Miss Haynes, daughter of the late %V. R.
Haynes, Esq. of Lonesome Lodge, Surrey. •

.. . ,
. . .
On the i4th inat. VVilliant Turner, Esrcl to',Miss Beedell,
of Tiverton, Devon. .
Last Nlortday, in Dublin. Mr. Charles Smith, to Miss S-.
Cooke ; the former 6I London, the latter of Dublin.

' Lately, in' Dublin,- Lieutnant-Colenel 'l‘lackenzie, of
Wringron,:in Somersetshirq, to• Miss Hay, dauglater of Ma-
jor David 1-lay, of, the late Anguthire Fencibles.

DIED.

Last week; at folin Scott's. Esq. Hastings, William fortes'
Fry, late Captain in the 'l6th, or t2ueen's Light Dra-
goous.
Satinday last, at Warring Farm, near Guildford, Mr.
William Sinallpiece.

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