The Sun.
London, England, 1806-07-26 00:00:00

SUMMEi?

HOME,cIRCUIT.,,,CHELMSFORD, juLy•24.
YECTEIWAY evening the Judges arrived in this
town, and this morning \t'ent to Church itf,the usual
manner after which they proceeded-ta business in

their respe&ive Courts. • . ; .
CIVIL- SiDt.-11EFORE MR. JUSTICE HEATH.

• , ANSALL 91. rugEm.ll., Atm OTIFER.V.•
This was an action against the Defendants a$
Proprietors of a Stkie Coach:Which the COai-bmah
so un,l:llfoliv drove that it was overturned, whereby
the Plaintiff-'s leg was brokeo, and his wife and child

very much bruised. . .
Mr. Set jealit BEST; for the Plaintiff, stated the
clicumstanceS of the case, which Were shortly, that
the Plaintiff, hia wife, and two Children., went as
passengers by the Defendants' coach., The Plaintiff
was an outside passenger, and his wife and one child
*as within the coach at the time of the
They had proceeded on their journey a.s far as Thax-
tead, in this County, when, owing to' the furious
and unskilful *driving of the coachman; the stage was'
oversete The Plaintiff had an infant child in his
arms at the time, and whether by the intervention
of Providence, or by the care of the Plaintiff in fall-.
ing, it singularly happened that the infact.*eived
not the least: harm; but the Plaintiff himself suffer-
ed most materially, for he had not only one of his
legs broken, but he received several most severe-in-
ternal briii-es, which confined him-and his faMily at
the Inn for several weeks, and' pit him to the ex-
pence- of 801., Thff Learned Serjeant then com-
mented upon the law Which' 'rendered Proprietors
answerable .tr negligence in the condua of their
servants, and insisted that the Jury ought to make
Most ample recompense for the injury the .unfortu-
nate Plaintiff bad sustained. Several admissions be-
tween the parties were then put in and read as evi-
dence. The Defendant admitted, by them, that
the Plaintiff was passenger in the coach, and that he
bad paid his fare.
To prove the nature,of the accident,
John Everit was called, who stated, that on the
30th of July he was standing near the Sun Inn door,
at Thaxtead ; he saw the Barefield Stage coming ; it
was driving at a very quick pace. There was a turn
iu the road to be made, and it appeared to hiM th3t
the coachman overshot the turn, and then, ta-re-
cover his ground, he pulled the horses-sharp round,
Which dra‘e the fete wheels against the perch, and
• upset-the coach. He helped the , passengers out
%he Plaintiff had a leg broke.
Edward SpinV,s, the landlord of the Sun Inn, was,
Standing at the door, and saw til-g; accident, which
he described the same as the- last Wi,tnesS. The
1-•lintit-T was 111, and confined at his bouse'for seve7
tal - and his bill amounted to 481. for himself
ind fatilfte, • • .
Mary abeveiee; stated, that she 'was 'an inside
• 3 r..TFeitger ; just as the coach was entering Thaxtead.
~erve‘.l the coachman drove very fast ; and
esell observed, on. a Sudden, that the coach
goiog over. Before she bad' well tittle enough
to. make any answer the coach was over, and the
:chlti she tiaki in her lap was shot through the window
like a bird flying. The moment she got out, ex-
pee--.tingto find the child dead, she saw it. several
yards distant hrthe'road, lying quietly on its faCe,
-and when she took it up, it Was not in the least iii=

jnred. .
Mr. Gmatow, for- the Defendant, addressed the
Jury with 'us usual. force, and effeCt: tie candidly
athlaitted that.his clients must be answerable for the
tnisconduei of their servant, but he, cautioned the
Jury not to violate the principles of by giving
viudiotive damages against them. They were bound
to give -no, 'more than a recotilpence tor the. injury
sustained by,the.Plaintiff, and so much, he saic4 his
clients were most willing to 'pay. - •
The Jury -found for the Plain tiff—Darnages 751..

CROWN SIDE:
, On the Crown Side several Prisoners were tried,
-bpt all for petty offences, and of those the most'
were acquitted.' The calendar is very light, but it.
is singular there are no less, than three cases of at.
tempts to violate the chastity.of children. ,
Thor_ is also a case of murder arising out of the
duel latZly fonght,,on Galleywood Common, one bf
the seconds 'being in custody ; but the Grand Jury
have not yet found any Bill. .

On. Satuiday last., as the workmen were employed
in digging the, foundation for:, the New Blue-coat
-HoSpital, in Gloucester, (intended to be.ereaed, up- ,
on an elegant and extensive plan, on the, scite of the
antient building inEastgate-street) they discovered,
abdut six'feet below tbe surface of the earth, the
remains of a very :curious tesselated Roman: pave-
anent,, 30 feet 'Ong, and 20 Wide, divided into corn=
partments, enriched with a great variety of scrolls,
gets, and other araiteaural ornaments, and hav-
ing a' wreathed or braided border.. The colours are
white, red, blileish grey, and pale and dark brown.
The tessera are mostly.cubes of different sizes, from
chic half to three quarters of an inch ; some are tri-
angular, and of. various other
,shapes. Tile cement
on which the pavement is. laid is about an inch
thick, and appears to be cooposed.of sand, pounded
brick, and lime, forming together, a very bard .sub-
- stance. The interstices are tilled up with celpent,
so hard, that it is even more difficult to break than
the tessera themselves. The white and pale brown
tessera appear to bd,of a .hard calcareous stone, and
bear a good polish ; the red .are of a fine sort 'of
brick ; the blueish grey are of a bard argillaceous
slope, found in many parts of GloucestOrshire, and
called.Uue !gas; and the'dark brown appear to be
of the granite found at St. Vincent's Rocks, near,
this-city.
yesterday se'nnight a male ass, the property of
Penman, butcher, of Hearne, Kent, was Stolen
frOm a field about a mile from that ; early
on the following morning, however, Jack returned
bOine, loaded with a tarred sail-cloth, nearly new, a
brewing copper bent together, also nearly new; and
a sack, having on it the name of Mr. Curling, of
St. Nicholas; and, doubtless,. greatly. disappointed
the thieves in the loss of their booty,

truordinary Incredse ofßent.—The Court Farm;
at.:Longney, Giouce'stersliire, formerly let at 2801.
way lett by ila6-tion last Saturday for 9001. per year.

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