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her inst wh,-)ut 30. Thcy 11%'-ed
together about a tweh, eink,nth.
Gp.Ruow -then would Live offered evidence to
spew that the Plantiff had b? en a person of c!.:eni-
plarv.good charaEter,
.bUt the .Lord Chief Baron
„held", that the churaaer of eveu British- subjeo must
.ha presumed to_ be good, until the, contrary n-as
shevin.
Mr; Seijeant S:rE.-er,Eab„ for the Defendant, ad=
dressed the Jury in ayery eloquent 'speech, in. which
-he desired- them not to gik,c beau damages. He ad-
mitted that the Defendant had aced wrong : but it
was from weakness of mind, and not from malignity,.
that she had so aced. said; `he could not ad-
duce a stronger proof of dotage, than that an'old wo-
man of 70, with 50001.
.per annum, should have,.
within three years, married a man of 30.. He ad-
:mitted the Jury must giVe a verdi6,l against hum, but
he hoped the &triages would be temperate.'
The LORD,CIIIEF BARON-observed to the Jury,
that this was acase which requred, the greatest at-.
tention, - and a calm and ternperate consideration.
The Plaintiff stood in this situation-, that he Must
live by the gacdness_of his charadter, and. the- con-
fidence he-would thereby acquire with the public.—
klie was not like a roan who retailed cloth or other,
Waves: The. conduct of this woman lad been to
strangle this young Gentleman -in the birth of , his
professional- life. The Jury had .heard. of what
value char:oer "Weri - to an attorney; , and it had
been well said, that there were two thost opposite
races of that class. The bad ones were hostes
generis, -but then there were -others as excel-
lent, He then saw in Court three.of the latter cha-
ra6ter---the 'Clerk of Kisi Prins who sat below
; the Gentleman on his right hand, whose ex-
-tellence lie had' known for 25 years past (Mr.
Meyon, SOlic4pr of Excise), and the Gentleman "on
'the other side (Mr. Jones, of Tunbridge) ; these
.were ornaments to their profession. The young
Gentleman who complained before them on- that
day, had to complain,' that.as far as in the Defend-
ant lay, she had ruined his prospe6t of enjoying the
smile chara&er. He- 11:1c1 suffered-a grieVous injury,
and they would hive him ample recompence.
Verdial for Plaintiff—Damages One ThoUsand
Guineas.
The- Spycial Jniors did not attend in the_other
causes, and the Assizes concluded. ,

SUSSEX ASSIZES.

LEVES,TULiDNY„A+U:",. 5.

F,:.FOSE. A SPECIAL JU%Y.

SERJLANT;;.ON AND WIFE.

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Mr..Gaa w. no told the Jury that this was a case•
d hieh called upon them for-their most grave and
serious attention, insomuch-as it involved the itisture
prosperity, of a very young and very bone:able man.
The Plaintiff in this case was an. Attorney, and, the
son iof a Clergyman, who' had educated lion "Nvith
the reatest care and attention, so as to quaky him
to become a respeetable member of that profession
which he had since become a member of. The
Defendant, Mrs. Serjcantson, was a Lady residing
at Cuckfield, and she possessed an estate of 50001.
per annum. Thevher Defendant, Mr. Serjeantson,
Yeas no way implicated in the transaction, as he was
ihitied in the action merely because he was the hus-
band of the Lady, for in faet he had lived with bee
but twelve months after they were married, as he
found it more convenient to awe apart. -The Plain:it-I
had 'had great eapeatations trona-al-le Defendant ; she.
had premised him much ; and as she was his God-
mother, he had conceived hopes that some of those
'expeetatiens might have been realized. 'He had,
however, to appe,ii to a' Court. of Justice for reparaa
tion for a most cruel injury which he had sustained
at her' hanck., The aaion was brought for ,an assault
and false imprisonment, and in; fatt -the imprison-
ment was by delivering him into the custody of an
ot-litt.er, charring him with a caph ,'. felony, in hay-
ing stolen 601. from her dwelling- hoase, which, as
she was pleased le say, wasidone on the following
occasion : On the 10th of March last the -Plaint4
by invitation, was to have dined at Cuckfield--place,
• the' house of the Defendant. He did not, however,
dine theree but he arrived after dinner. This at first
displeased his Godmother; however she became paci•-•
fied ;- and in the evening she employed him in sorting
and indorsing, parcels of letters. She-next made him
courit.sdveral•parcels of money, which were put in
separate bags, and ticketed ; and then it; aVai that
she took it in her head to conceive that he had
robbed her, and that she had-seen bin) slip the tio
guinells into his pocket--•a-but if she had done so,
would it .not have oeenmatural thatdshe should have
imrnedi'ately complained ? 'But net so. The young
man retired to bed, breakfasted there the-next day,
and took his leave as usual. 'He paid one or two
' intermediate visits between that time and the 23d
of March, when he 'was 'taken' into custody ; and: - 1
i
then, in consequence ;of a letter from Col._ Serjeaha- . - THE ATTOIINg7i-PENERAL V. VIGOR. 1
wet, the Lady's son, he attended at Cuckfield-place. . This was a Petition from the Provost, Masters,
The'Colenel told him that he had sent for him on a Thadents, &c. of Downing College, Cambridge,
most unpleasant business, for his mother charged i praying the confirmation of the Master's Report,
hits with rohbing her of -60 guineas: The young approving of a Plan for eaeaaing the said College.,
man was thunderstruck at the charge, and when be It appeared that the late Thomas Downing, Esq.
had recovered the powers of his - mind, vindicated by his last Will and Teseameht,- devised- certain
himself from the charge. He was stiewn into they Lands, in Cambridgeshire, in trust, for the purposes
Lady's -bed-room, and shortly afterwards the Con- of building a College at Cambridge; to be called afa
stable repie his appearance, and then the following ter his name ; and the master was referred to the
curious dialogue ensued :--•Vilic..in the Constable ap- E. Master to consider and report.
peared, she addressed him—" Ah ! Cetfin, is that - Mr.. Wyatt and Mr. Wilkins, two celebrated ar-
you ?" " Yes, Ma'am."- ." Then take that fellow chite&s, each laid Plans for the building in question
into custody." "'Pray, Ma'am, what fellow ?" before the Master, hut not being himself a Compe-
" Why,-that fellow, Morgan." " Morgan!" exclaim- , tent judge on this subject the Master consulted three
ed the Constable, in surprise. " Yes, that fellow,' eminent- Surveyors upon it, and the result -was,
Toei Morgan." ",For What must I take him, ?" that Mr. Wilkins's' Plan was. approved of, as ' the
" Why, -he has robbed me." The Constable hea- 'most elegant, and best calculated 'for the purposes,
' sitated,. and asked; " But am I warranted to take 'of a University.,
him without any warrant ?" " I tell you, take him," By this Plan the front was fo be built in the Gre- '
said'the Lady, •" and let me have no altercation ; I , clan lonic style, and the side which faced, the town
know your office better than you. do. . If you let " of Cambridge was to
.be of the Corinthian Order.
him go, I'll be d•-•—c-1 but I'll play hell with you." There was also a spacious and elegant Library, with
Under this severe injunCtioh, the. Constable did take every .acecommodatian and conveniehce that such an
him. He was kept in'the custody' of the Headbo- '' establishment might: require.
rough all night, and having -important businesS to its The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, 'Who moved it, fur-
transeet at the A.ssizeS at Horsham the next day, he ther prayed, that his Lordship woad permit a sum
. was ' permitted to go- there—the Constable, how,- of monerto be raised by way of Mortgage, Upon
ever, accompanying hiw. The Defendant, _how- the Lands so devised, in order to defray . the ex-
ever, though she had full oppor;twity of following
,pences of this building; he --was sae. there could
up her charge, the Grand Jury- being then sitting, be no objection to this, as .the proposed: plait had
Thaving word- out her strange freak, permitted the net the approbation of all thepartieg -concerned.
Plaintiff to lye set at large. -It was for this injuryhe - , Mr: Pandivitn, for' the Trhatees, declared; they
now sought repaeation, a Mr. GARRO7X then went e had no objection to this application. ,
• into an able statement of the value ofeharaCter to a ; The LongCHANCELLORsaici, he understood this
profes4innal man, and - untreated the -Jury to award , was to tie a'Very noble and - usefal Establishment,
him most ample damages. • .." . and it was further intended.- to. eihea a` coturnodious
• Riding-house, for the use of the Students. e -
- Jacob Coffin,' theCoThjable, stated, that he was
Mr.. Iltenareos replied, that there- was not so
sent for to Cuekfield-place, on' Sunday the 2eid of . e ,
Mareh ;he saw Mrs. Serjeantson about five o'clock, , great a riecessity for a Riding-school at Cambridge,
as at Oxford, the former being so near Newmarket.
in the bed-them.. He then detailed the conversa-.
His I;ordship then confirmed. the Master'S Re-
tion, as Mr. GARROW had stated it, excephas to the . .
port ; after LL bleb, having niushed the Petition
swearing ;.- .she only said, if he let the Phietiff. go
Causes his Lordship disposed et' a great number of
she v. oald play the devil with him. He took the •
Lunatic Petitions, from which nothing resulted of
Piaihtitf to the Talbot Inn, at Cuckfield, and there
_any importance to the public. .
he. delivered him into the care of Mr. Crouch; the
At, two o'clock, his Lordship rose,-and proceeded
Headborough. . , ' to attend the
.Prlat Council.
' Thoina's Crouch, the Headborough, deposed, that
lie kept the- Plaintiff all night at Cucktield. The -
next day he accempaniedhim to the Assizes at. Her-
Sham, and in the evening; as 'Ors. Serjeantsea pre- • ; , .
• ferred no- regelar charge against him, he permitted We are authorised to contradict that part ,of a
. • .... • statement of the affray at Tullaghmore, on the 22dbins to go at large.
'ult. 'which Mentioned that a Hanoverian Colonel
Anne Green, the maid of Mrs. Serietintson, said,
;was put under arrest by Gen. DONN. The General
' she remembered Mr. Morgan coming to their house
- expresses his satisfietion at the ernsduEt of both Of-
On the loth -6f\larcheafter dinner. He slept there
-ficers'and men belOnging to the Corps in question
that' night, and retired betveeen eleyen anch,twelre.
Ona that,' day.
H
er-mistress dill not retire . to rest until five i ' -1
n the
. ,ord HArtRINGTON, the Commander of toe r orees,
morning, .L.U.ter that-visit leer mistress used-to - threw
;Irrived on Tuesday night; and is to remain at
• out hints, suers as, ‘-Green;•Yon know I ani'Very
i i eee • Ler:cues Hotel auntil his Lordship's apartmentsare
coriaed in my aceounts-? e ' Yes', T.ataaare:
, :heady at the Royal Hospital. - a
take my oath of .it.' 4. Of whet Ma'am ?' ' That
We areconcerned to hear, that a most respectable
the money i 3 stolen.' . ",•,t leneth, one Inclenitig, she -
said to the 'witness, (. •Geeen, -.sit down on my bed ; anchopUlent Merchant in this City put a. period to
:his existence.yesterday, by shooting himself. The.
-remember I ion going to place talent confidence in
, Lteahyr alljharee
.when ' eat, cause which. led to this rash and melancholy ca-
you. I lull robbed.'
• - Illy yes hireit-dave I Will beli,-ve in w illy eves. I t astrophe we understand to hate - been a spechla-
tion in flax seed, in it,liicis he is said. to have lost
. ' saw Morean shuffle, the slaty ensue Gls into his.
pa"aet.' ' 'Really; •Ma'am (said the waiting maid); aboat 12,0001.
~B.VIt what renders it the more ex-
treordinary is, that lie has left behind bins a fortune'
end yet you let -1-Um of ab(ive '3O
net . awav ?' ' Yes ; that-
. was tie-met:ls deli-eaeyd safer this coeversation, when ,°°9l..
next l'ilehhforee.4.came, he waaiehprehended, in the ' . ----- .
manner-stated be the former Viitnes!tee On cros•-
, examination,: ahe. suid; -that on the night•of the loth
itelehMorean slept at Cuel:field-place; his noem-door
was'opeti-in theanchning ; she event into It to deliver
, . a message from her mistress. 'He breakfasted there,
and-nothieg, was said,: 4t would have beep q.pite
. easy to have detained arlsearebedatim,
,if hea anis-
. :tress had been so.ineihted. d HercehiAteaaaaihe sahh4
. Was near 70, and abeut three years ago she married

LA IV REPORT.

COURT OF CHAN'C., itY, Llxcar..N's-IxN, Atc 6.

D ÜBLIN, At;:"ItY.ST 2.

1 At the late Pdrtsdown Fair, the scaffolding of the
1 stage of The Riding-set-idol- fell dOwn, ,with a etash,
I.'and precipitated nearly forty, people, who were then
f-endeavour,ing to gain adinitmcc, to the ground ; one
iof them. was so'rnuch htlrt that ho died the nest
i :morning ;;he proved to he one of the,Perforrners,
!,- who had gleti-the,part-Of Billyßraton, in the Lull:
crous'representation of the Taylor riding to Brent-
I ford. ' . - . . . .

LON N

CL.TING LyTELL!C XCE.

OXFOIU) ,RACES; TuEsDAy,.Auc.

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The Geld Cup of One Hundred Guineas value, iral Eighty
Guineas in specie, by substiription of Ten I.4iineas e,:ell.
lour yr olds 7st. 71b..; tire yr olds ',Sst. 71b. ; cix yr oi.;s
gst. ; and aged 9st. 41b..-one. 4-mile Heat.
Eat of I ersey's Langton, 4 yrs ,)id
Mr. F. Neale's Qui...,, aired , . - . - a
Mr. Wright's Rumba, by Whiskey, 6 .yrs-old - 3
A good Race-between Langton and Quiz ; Langton the fa.:.
vou.rite ; very little bettiag. '.; ' ,
-
The Town Prate of Fifty Pounds. . - •
Four years old 7st. 71b. ; five yrs old ../,st. 410. ; six yes oh!
Sst. tzlb. ; and aged sst. zlb.—The best of three 4-ratio
Heats.
Mr. Einbdei.i.s Sig' ismumia, s yrs old
Mr..Kellettinn'S.Heeltap, 5 yrs OA
Mr ~F. . Neale's Quiz, aged - . - - , . 2.
, o -0
Mr., Stratton's b, h. by Constitution - dr
'Quiz was drawn after the first heat;being dead lame.
No betting. Won pretty easy by Heeltap.- -
The Earl of jersey and Lord C. Spencer are the Stewards.'

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C0.11111.11.12v1a1T10 sV B E E LOND ON
. .AND DUBLIAr.

•
(FRO'M A DUBLIN PARER.)
A plan is in
,contemplation which promises most
essentially to benefit -the Trade and Commerce in St.
George's, the English, and the Bristol Channels, end ,
open a better communication between Loudon and
Dublin than at present eNists by the way of .Holy-.
head. ,It is proposed to carry Out a Pi.er at a place
called PoridynllaenHarbour,in Carnarvonshire,Whieh
may be done at a very 'small e.xpence, and be made
one of the best and safest Harbours in the Kingdom,
In that case'Vessels may beat in hr out during the
day or night, and :come to anchor in. four fathom.
*ger at lOw tide.;. whereas at Holyhead (a, dry..
Harbour) the tide, must flow three hours at spring
tides, and four at neap tides, before a vessel can get
in or out. But .the principal advantage would be,
in case the Packets were to sail frorn this Port to Ire-
land;
that the communication between thetwo noun-.
tries would be considerably facilitated, ,the/dangereus
race off the Head (where so many Vessels:lave suf.-7
feroc), the rocky Shore to the Eastward Of the Har-,
hour., and the sunken rocks off Yusyrhalen would be
savoiciecl; and a commodious, and at alltimes acees-.
,sible harbour, opened in a part where; at -present,
OD either side the Channel, there does not.exist a
roadsted,even for the Ships to run into `Jew;
tor.: The trade of Liverpool, and indeed of all the
places Whose, trade passes through St. George's Chan-
nel, ,W•buld be materially benefited, and the Commu-
nication, before stated, between London. and pub-,
lin, would be bettered. It is 36 miles less from Lot;'
don to Porttlynlliien than tO• HolyLad,.and the clan-
, •
gerous passes of Bangor and Conv.',:: Ferriet wOuld,
be avoided. A' new tnrni4e.road -, been made
through „Wales to Portdyullaen Hi;our, and the
Plan altogether protnises- to the-traveller the multi-
plied benefits of lessening the time, trouble, er;p-enCe
and danger of the journey from London to the Sister'
City. .
For this improvement the Country are indebted to
the zeal and enterprise of W.,. A. Esq.
the Member for Boston, whose patriotic .and laud
able attentions to the subjea demand the. gratitu4
and approbation of the Public at Li-je.

POLICE.

GUILDII ALL.--Ye-sterday Thomas Harman was
charged before Alderman HANKEY with stealing
several pieces of, brass work valued at '7s the pro-
perty of Messrs Davy and Son, with whom he lived
as workman. - Mr. D. stated his having been often
robbed of brass, and ordered one of his men to watch;
the Prisoner was seeuto conceal the brass, and order-
ing all his Men-to be searched, the brass was found
cOncealed upof the Prisoner.- 'The man who saw
him take if confirmed, this evidence. The Prisoner
did not deny the :charge, but..said he had taken-gin ;
that it was the first time of being taken up, and -he
had been in one employ these 30 years. From that
and the application of his wife, who seemed ayery
deeent woman, the Magistrate did not • think proper
to send him for trial, but committed hhn to Bride,
well-for-one month.
tl person of the nameof Pringle was brought be-
fore the Alderman by a Mr. HogdOn and others,
•Mr. H. COmplained that he had 'been' Swindled out
of notes to a considerable amount,- by notes drawn
'and accepted by the Defendant, and circulated by
'man Of the name of Broome; who is now in cuS-t:
tody, and who -has undergone an ,examination at the
I Marine Police Office, where they wanted to see:
Pringle. Another Gentlernan produced a note with
Defendant's acceptance, with several: other names
upon' it, as well as the Defendant's, none of which,'
he: said,, .could be found. AnOther complaint was;
made against the Defendant kr having raised
upon a mutilAed -Bank Nti),te which had been,en-'
trusted 'to the care of Prin7.)e, who said the owner
of the note had given it'to him to put together, hav-
ing torn it in pieces by accident,:!.ind ivc which
note, when changed, he was to have/had bah' the
value: The Magistrate ordered this note to be taken
to the Bank by a :Marshalman. to get the money,
that the owner might not be, deprived of his pro-
perty, and Pringle was sent to the
,Marine Police
Office.
George eiastin, was charged by Mr._ P01:32-14,
Newgate-street,,who told the Aldernian that ii.. hacl'
brought this man before him from humanity, .a's she
'seernedin a state-of derangement, and was followed
into his shop by a mob, one of whom was a b0.,,.:.40
said he.was the son of this man; and was Conveying
him to a :place of -confinement at Hoaton. Austin
himself told the Alderman that he was in' the-milk
way, and had been married about'three Mouths, and
that ever since, he had been deranged; that lie had
been in a place of -confinement at Horton,
his wile had, with . his son, since taLen him out,
which he said was done for him to assign all his pro-
Perty; which he had done, and then they wer',3 going
to take him back again. The Alderman ordered him
to' be taken- care 'of- tilt the Parish,Orricers-should
make proper-inquiries concerning his property: •
Bow,Sir,F.T.--Yesterday Joel Joseph, a no-.
.
torions pickpocket, was charged--,-vhh attempt
to pick a Gentleman's pOcket, near - the .41-erse
Guards, about oneYo'clock, who dete6ted. in'
'the attempt. "Mr: fir,A6, the Aingistnite, Ctovia-
as 'reputed. thief; under the:Police Act,
. and comniited him to the House of coneaion-ac-
.
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