The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-14 00:00:00

OLD. ILIILEY.

yesterday the Spssions for Michilesetc and London
commenced before Mr. Justice LE BLAr
Justice CnaintitlE, and several of the City Magi. I.
strates. .

James Davey was c9nviaed of bigamy, hellAving-
married with
.Mrs.. Eleanor Owen, on the i6th
M„arch last, 'his former wife Rebecca Stapletorts.
otherwise Davey, being then living.
Isaac Daivt!?rry was tried on different counis, fir,t
with having committed a rape upon the persno..:-.)f
Margaret WeSton, on the. 12th of April last,-ip DUke-
street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields; and afterwards with
having been aiding and abetting William Raymond,
John Courtney, aftd others; in a most brutal-attack
upon her person, too many of the particUlars of
which have already crept into some of the public
prints; we shall therefore abstain from giving a single
tittle of the evidence .of the Prosecutrix. • Thomas
Steele, an old man, who is a helper about the.
• stables, upon. account of whcse'absence the trial was
•put off last Session, was now brought forward. He
was in the lower part of the stable he heard some
voices,
.but could not take' on him • to say.whetherhe
heard either the voice of the Prisoner, or of any
other person who was•said to be.implicated in this
charge. He saw the Prosecuttix, but could not
really remember whether she 'said any thing. or. not,
neither could he tell the appearance of hor dress or
person when she came down from the lofts..
• Sarah Bates, Ann Gibbons, and • Mrs. Mills • de•-
scrtbed, .as before, the strugg.ling of the girl 'at the
entrance to the stable, her screaming repeatedly
after Wards, as before stated, until she became tpo
much exhausted by the violence and restraint under
which she iutiered.

The Prosecutrix• acknowledged that in the be-
wildered state of mind which shy was in when the
Officers came, not knowing but they were men of
the same descriptOn as those which slie had before
met with, she did say to them at first, that Daw-
berry was not one of the men, though on the reco-
very of heir senses, she pointed him out as being one
of them: She also stated, that at first she had said
that she was sent ,by her master, Mr. Lumley, to
inquire the hire of a chaise), though she afterwards
confessed that she had asked the question with a view
to decide a, wager between her and another girl.—
This she accounted for by stating that • she was
ashamed„ of the: want ter of her having come into son-
vers4tion with them, and she was extremely agitated
in gi,ing her testimony shoilly after ,•such a horrid
transaction.

Mr. Fisher, the surgeon who attended the Prose-
cutrix, proved the violence upon 'her: person in a
manner sufficiently clear to pro.-e his opinion of.ber
having been a virgin until that time. , •
The Prisoner wade 'no defence. ,

Several publicans from different quarters- deposed
that the -Prosecutrix was addieled to tippling, and
was fond .of joking with 11len, but none impeached
her charaaer for personal virtue. neighbour of.
the Prosecutrix swore she had known her for two
years and a half, had seen her at all
.hOurs of the
day, and did not know that she had ever seen her
Sober.. - The wife of Hatfield, who shot at 'the King
some ye rs ago, was also called to invalidatt. the tes-
timony of the Prosecutrix.
J. Mills, Esq. ,of Lincoln's-inn-fields, who is 'a
barrister, gave the Prisoner a most excellent cha-
ratter from his having served that Gentleman many
years in different capacities, hut last as' coachnian.
Mr. Conyers, of Hertfordshire, Mr. Serjeant Man-
ley, and some other Gentlemen, had the highest
opinion of his character for decency in general ; for
his goodness as a father, a husband, and a servant.

After a very long and minute charge fiom Mr.
Justice CHAMBRE, wholaid great stress on the con-
traliCtions of the Prosecutrix's testimony, the very
high chara6er of the. Prisoner, and thf.; evidence
against the charaCter of the Prosecutrix, the Jury
retired for heady hall at► hour, and returning; pro-
nounced Is verdiet of—Not Guilty.
The trial lasted tram halt after ten till. half after
eight. General Arabin, and several Other Gentle-
[net) were on the Bench.

•
ATTACHMENT IN A DOG.—ltilltitTiCtable instances
of this animal's sagacity have been produced in
every`. age, but a stronger instance of,his i:;iach-
went, in addition to very uncommon sagacity, than
the tollowing, has, 'perhaps, never yet been braid of.
A few months ago the Rev. Duncan Ferguson, who
.vas Missionary in the Island of Bonbicula, South
"Uist, Scotland, on Queen Anne's royal bounty,
being taken very ill, and not entertaining any hopes
of reco,,ery, he signified a wish that his body Should
not be intered among the Roman Catholics in that
Island, but that it should be carried to Carnish, and in-
tered its the magnificent but ruined cathedral of that
place. After his death his corpse was accorCiogly
laid in the ancient consecrated ground, ,which. was
distant five miles from the place where he died, and
was separated therefrom by an arm of the sea, ford-
able indeed at low water, but at high water suffi-
cient to navigate a vessel of 400 tons iourthen.-;--;The
only faithful companion that Mr. Ferguson found in
that Island was a large. Newfoundland dog, ‘vhicli
did eat of his own meat, and drank ,at his own cup,
and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a 'child.
This grateful animal followed his lamented master's
body to the grave, where he remained howling fora
day and night. A neighbour, more kind than
others, pitying
,the attached but starving, animal,
forcibly dragged him away, and carried him to his
own home, from whence, after refusing to take
any nourishment, taking the first opportunity of
flying to the speechless tomb, he swam across the
sound ; and, on the fourth day after. his master's
- terment, he was found also dead, and, lying across
'the grave. .

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