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London, England, 1808-09-13 00:00:00

LANC.4STER ASSIZES; SErr::7:

John Dobson was found guilty of breaking open
,ng-mill of Sorties Lord, of -ROssendale; and
ot having stolen a large quantity of woollen
cloth. Transported for seven years.
Samuel' Dane -was- indided .for stealing a black
mare, the property of John Entwisle, of Darwen,,---
Guilty—qeath.
lie was likewise charged with stealing a cart,. at
the same time and from the same place ; but this
indictment was not proceeded upon. -
Hannah Gray was charged with the wilful mur-
Icr of Mary Gray, her daughter; but she being
a-c.)%ed to be insane, W3i acquitted.
The trials of all the, prisoners being gone through,
Lordship proceeded to pass sentence of death
icon Joshua Herd, for maiming and wounding
Alice Barlow; Sarah Hopstead, for stabbing Chas.
iiimpson, with an intent to murder him ; Rose
Gi?Kneq, for stealing five bundles and a half of linen
yarn, in the bleaching grounds of Peter Shawcross,
•if Droylesden ; and Samuel Daine, for horse-stealing.
Mary Maddoe ks, for stealing a letter, containing
;1 one pound note, direEled to Mary Dickenson, from
the letter-carrier at Manchester, to be fined one
shilling, imprisoned oue year in the House of Cor-
redion, and kept to hard labour. •
William Johnson, Sarah Johnson,, and Benjamin
White, for having uttered forged Bank Notes, to be
transported for 14 years.
Thomas Sanderson, for having uttered counterfeit
shillings twice on -the same day, gt Ormskirk,lo
imprisoned one year, and at the esvir:iiion of. that
term to find sureties for his good behaviour for two
years. s s

David A. Lindsey, for seditious words, to be im-
prisoned six months.

Jahn Bramwell, for killing and slaying John Ball,
of Liverpool. His Lordship, in passing sentence on
this ni3n, took occasion to censure severely s the
brutal and disgrneful custom which prevails in
this county of kicking, which is called purring, by
which means the prisoner had killed the deceased ;
and he had no doubt but it was to be, attributed
to this shocking praelice,, that the number of trials
here, for the otleike the prisoner was charged with,
exceeded all the others of the whole of the exten-
sive northern circuit. -

John Smith, for a similar offence upon Benjamin'
Sagai-.
• Richard Jones, -a manufa&urer and .warehouse-
keeper, of. Manchester, for breaking open the pre-
mises of Thomas Worthington and Co. whose wart-
house adjoined his, and .stealing a large quantity of
goods, to pay a fine of one shilling, to beimprison-
ed two years in the House of CorrecStion, and kept
to hard labosr.

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Um. Ramstottom, for bigamy, to pay a fine of
one shilling,, be imprisoned six months in, the House
of Corre6tion, and kept to hard labour. His Lord-
ship observed, that he had been induced to inflict
this lenient punishment upon him, from his having
been-forced to marry his first wife from the sordid
motives of the parish officers, she being pregnant
by him at the time,; which practice his Lordship
censured in very severe terms, as lie justly observed,
that where there .was no affeaion or regard, no com-
fort or happiness could be expected, and evil con-
sequences would follow.
John Tarr, convicted of a similar offence, attend-
ed with some aggravated circumstances, he being
stipposed to have three wives, was sentenced to pay
a fine of one shilling, to be imprisoned one year in
the House. of Correction, and kept to hard labour.
The rioters were then put to the bar. His Lord-
ship addressed them at considerable length, upon
the enormity of their offence, and told them that
had it not been for the lenity of the Attorney-Ge-
neral, sole of them must have forfeited their lives.
He Was extremely sorry for the hardness: of the
times, which they set up as a cause for their con.
dun ; the manufaelurers felt them severely,
,as well
as they did; in fa&, every class of society felt them
iva degree; but we must all submit to some priva-
tions, as the cause was brought on us by the com-
mon enemy, and they could not be avoided; he,
however, was happy to learn, that a dawn of better
vales appeared ; and hoped the prisoners, on their
return to society, from experiencing the punish-
ment due to theircrirnes, would enjoy them. The
very means they had resorted to, of attacking their
rnasters and their properties, defeated its own end ;
for if they were destroyed, they would not be able
to get any employment. If the poorer classes ,were
distressed, they must resort to the means the: Legis-
lature had provided, the parish, and not resort to
violence. He had taken the whole of their cases
into his serious consideration ; and was glad to find
that the mobs that had been proved had not pro-
ceeded in their condua with that'fury which in ge-
neral attend mobs, and lie should arvard that pu-
nishment to each of them according to the part they,
had taken in the riots.

tiohn Hoyle and Charles Watson, for a, riot at
Lane-side, 'ir(Haslinden, and destroying the tools
and utensils, for weaving, of William Eddleston.
His Lord hip observed, that Hoyle's was much
the worst ',vie; after having forcibly entered •the,
house of William Eddleston, lie knocked him down,
and made use of violent expressions; patting the
law at defiance; he, therefore, sentenced him to be
impriionecl twelve months, and Watson to six
n►onths imprisonment.
John Shepherd, for a riot at Rochdale, and,set-
ting' fire 'to the prison, to be imprisoned for two
years.
Thomas Barnes and John Matthews, for a riot at
Brackburn, and demolishing the house of Henry
couphind. ,

His Lordship observed, that although it: bad been
proved that 'Barnes had_a hedgin will, y9t as.hq.
committed no violent sets with it, or by any other'
means, be only sentenced him to six month's im-
prisonment. With respect
,to, Matthews, he had
made use of many violent expressions, and appear-
ed to be a ringleader; and; in addition, he had
brought a man, in his defence, to prove an alibi,
who had, no doubt, perjured himself'; this he
could always consider deserved an increased punish:-
tie, therefore, sentenced him, to be impri-
hione„t;..:dve months.

Adam Whitworth, for being in a riotous and un-
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torting a guinea from the Rev. Dr. Drake. • His.
Lordship told him he appeared • to have been very
active, although he bad committed no ad of vior
lence ; that his going to Dr. Drake (to sign a paper
for the advance of wages), who had nothing to do
with the mannfadurors, was a mere pretext ; and if
be wanted relief, be ought to have gone by him-
self, and not with a mob, and sentenced him to be
imprisoned nine months.
James Ainsworth, for a riot at 'Blackburn, and
demolishing the house of Mr. Coupland. The pri-
soner appeared to have been a ringleader, and made
use of some violent expressions—to be imprisoned
nine months.

Elizabeth IPalnisley, for a riot at Blackburn, and
demolishing the house of Mr. Coupland. Although
the prisoner was atinally proved to have broken
some of the windows with a stick, yet she remained
but a very short time in the mob, went quidtly
home, and had exOressed. much penitence ever
since ;. she was in consequence only sentenced to
three months imprisonment.
The whole of these unfortunate people seemed to
be truly objeCts of pity, from their appearance of
poverty and sickly aspe&s.
• SEPT. 9.—On Wednesday afternoon, after finish-
'ing the business on the Crown Side, Judge CHAMBRE
left the town, Baron WOOD having declined his as-
sistance in trying the causes, he not being in a hurry
to return to London.

Before Baron WOOD.
BARON V. CROMPTON?.

In this '2.;::2 ?dint of law was settled which is
particularly interesting to mechanics, and in some
degree to the ptil-!?' !erz that working
tools, when in aaual use, cannot be seized foriziO,t,
the• law not allowing those who are in debt to be
depriVed of the means of paying it.
The aaion was brought by the Plaintiff, who is a
weaver, and resides in the neighbourhood of Chor-
ley, and occupies a small house belongingito the De-
fendant, for having seized his four looms, when
they were at work, for rent. The case was, proved
by a man who was at work at one of the,looms.
On 'the part of the Defendant, Mr. TOPPING
stated, that this was a most impudent a&ion. The
Plaintiff was a very poor man, and owed the Defen-
dant 501. for rent, and he could neither get the
Plaintiff out of the house, or any rent, although he
had offered to forgive him all the rent if he would
quit possession ; he therefore had recourse to the
expedient of seizing, to endeavour to get him out
of the premises, and all that could be found was nQf
worth above tol. notwithstanding -which he still re-
tained possession, so that it might be easily seen that
it was an aaion of the Attorney, who was in the
habit of going from the town where be resides to
Chorley, On the market -days, where he opened a
kind of booth, like a man at a fair, having it pub-
licly announced where he was to be heard of to dis-
pense law, and he had thought this 'a proper subject
fir a pleasant journey to Lancaster, of which he was
very fond.
Mr. PARKE, who conduced the cause, under all
the circumstances, gave up the a&ion, upon the D-
efendant consenting to abide by his original offer, to
give up the whole demand of 501. for rent due, and
the Plaintiff undertaking to quit possession by
_Michaelmas day.
In an Insurance Cause respeaing a ship employed
in the ,SlaVe Trade, which was,lost on her voyage
from Africa to the West Indies; the ground of 're-
sistance of payment, by the Underwriters, was,
that at the time she was lost there was not a sufficient
number
,of men on board to manage the ship. In
answer to this, it was proved, that the ship sailed
from Liverpool with thirty-one men, and arrived at
Africa with that number; but where, by mortality
and desertion, they were reduced to thirteen, in,
eluding the Captain and two boys ! and althOugh
the Captain made every possible exertion, he could
nor procure anymore, and sailed for the West In-
dies with the reduced number.

The case was referred to the Court of King's
Bench.

JOHNSON V. LEMON.

In this case there were no particular circumstances
that deserve public notice, but there are in those
that arose out of it. The Plaintiff is a sailor, apd
the,Defendant keens a slop-shop, and lets lodgings
to sailors; in Liverpool. It was stated on the part or
the Plaintiff, that, in the year 1804, he lodged in
the Defendant's house, and purchased of his wife a
watch for five guineas, and a suit of clothes for a
similar sum. lira few days after, the Plaintiff sailed
for Africa, and left the watch, new clothes, an old
suit of clothes, and a hat, in the Defendant's house.
In three days after • he had sailed, the_Defendant:s
wife, who is since dead, in the presence-of a servant
girl, observed, that the Plaintiff was gone such a
long voyage, that she was sure he would never re-
ttirn, and put his watch into the shop window, and/ -
exposed it to sale ; it was sold ; and she also con-
verted the clothes to her own use.

In corroboration of this, a shoemaker, or cobler,
was called, 'who stated, that the Plaintiff bought the
watch of the Defendant's wife, in his presence, in
his stall, when she brought an apron full of watches
for him to choose from.

RAINE, ill cross-examining this witness,
asked if he was not to share in the plunder of this
akaion ? which he denied. Mr. R. addressed him
by the name of Charley, the Coble'', a name he is
known by in Liverpool. The witness took fire at
this familiar and degrading appellation, and replied
" he was as good a Man as any gentleman in Court,
that he was a cordwin,ler, Wand had not come I here
to be insulted." The testy humour of this witness
set the whole Court in a convulsion of laughter.
The JUDGE join7d most heartily in the laugh.
Mr. RUNE continued his cross-examination in a
considerable strain of irony, tending to shew the
'improbability and absurdity of the idea of a woruin '
`going with her apron full of watches into a cobler's
stall, to sell one to a sailor, at the time he lodged:
in her house.

This being the Plaintiff's case, Mr. PARKE ad-
dressed his Lordship, by observing, that there was
not the least colOurable roof of a conversion of the
property adduced.
His-Lordship, however, thought there was;, and
that the Plaintiff had made out a case.

Mr. PARKE observed, that although his Lordship
did not agree with him upon the question of the
conversion of the property, yet it remained with

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the Jury 'to decide upon -the whole merit of the
case. He said, for the \whole of the fifteen year s
h had aLied in a Court of JtMee, this was the
most improbable tale he had ever heard told.; ther e
might be people who believed it, for his part, he
cook! not - illip it. He said, the Defendant's wife
being dead, he had no possible means of rebutting
any thing that had passed between her .and the
Plaintiff.' The Learned Counsel pointed out' eery.
strongly the absurdity of a sailor buying a watch a
few days previous to his sailing, and leaving it be-
hind him, when it was well known that sailors,
prided themselves on having a. watch ; hut this was
one of that description of adions, in which. the sai-
lors were the mere tools of certain Attornies._

The Learned Judge summed up the eviderice Very
impartially, still abiding by his opinion of a con-
version of the property having been satisladorily
proved, and the Jury found for-the plaintiff—damages
eight guineas.
In an anion respeaine the right of a road, , Mr.
HOLROYD was cross examining a wonsiiii.y he
pressed her to answer a question upon- her oith ; at
the same time she trembled very, much. Mr. I.
suspecting she had not told him the 'truth, asked
her the cause of the tremor that was upon her
After some hesitation, she answered him very fierce-
ly, " That be was enough t o'frighten any body."—
At this the Learned Gentleman sat down quietly,
and joined in tile general laugh against himself.

PQLICE.

CHARGE OF FORGER*:

MA RIBOROUGH S T
.—A man of very genteel
appearance, wittr, name, in the present stage of the
birtiriss;:, would be improper to mention, was yes-
tertiay privately examined before the Magistrates,
for the second time, upon. the charge of having
uttered a considerable number of notes for fine
pounds each,' purporting to be the notes of a Bank
which had recently set up, and now stopped pay-
ment, at Southampton. -
Several respectable persons in the grocery busi-
ness, who had been sutferers by the prisoner in this
way, attended, perfectly recollected him, and' laid
their charges respectively.
The charges against the prisoner, however, were
not limited to these, as there is evidence before the
Magistrates that some time ago a considerable num--
, ber of halt bank-notes were transmitted to the bank-
ing-house of Sir James Esdaile and Co. in the City,
to be entered to the account of a Gentleman ,in the
country. The other halves never came to hand, and_
it was supposed that they had miscarried or
been stolen. Although the :remaining halves of
the notes were wanting, the Bank did not refuse the
payment to Sir James Esdaile's house, conditionally,.
however, that the other halves, when they should
come to hand, should.be given in at the Bank. No
traces of those halves, hotvever, appeared until some
days since, when a Bank of England note, for two
pounds, was otiered in payment of some tea at the
shop of one of the grocers who attended this day.
The grocer remarked, when the person who paid
it was gone, that it was made up of two half-notes •
joined together. He entertained no suspicion, but
supposed it would be paid at the Bank ; and he _took
it there with some other notes for payment. The
Clerk to whom the note was tendered, desired him
to accompany hint to Sir James Esdaile's, where it
would be paid. The grocer, not without some sur-
prise, accordingly went, and,
.after much -examina-
tion by the Clerks at 'Sir James Esdaile's, it was
discovered that the numbers on one hal: had been
altered, to make them correspond with the ~other
half. The Clerk immediately acquainted some of
the Partners of the circumstance, and he was di-
sired to detain the grocer until he could produce the
person from whom he had received
aitpe
it. That
to
hat partof
the note which was not altered, p
cor-
respond with one of the half-notes received from
the country by Sir James Esdaile and Co. The
grocer had made every inquiry after the person of
whom he received the note,, but in vain ; heating,
however, that the prisoner was in custody, he came
from mere curiosity to see him, and to his surprise
recogdised in him the person who had paid- him the •
patched note; and to this fa& he swore positively.
• The prisoner denied all knowlalge of the"trans-
aaion ; but he was remanded for further .examina-
tion.

THAMES POLICE OFFlCE.—Yesterday a hackney
coach was brought to the Office, having been seized
coming from Limehouse, loaded with cot Tee and
other goods, supposed to be smuggled froM the
West India Docks. The coach, horses, and goods,
were sent to the Commissioners of Excise -to:ad-
judge the case. •
MANSIUNI-HOUSE.—A watchman, in the service
of the East India House, was charged before the
LORD MAYOR, with stealing, or receiving knowing it
to be stolen, eight pounds of tea and upwards, the
property of the East India Company. Being un-
able to skew in what manner he could honestly have
come by this property, which was found in his watch
box, the Prisoner was committed for trial.

The following exquisite-and refined literary mor-
ceau is copied, • verbatim. et literatim, from the
church-door of Congleton, in Cheshire :
" Ony hair=o hoad which to konsve too the Luckall
Myllittia, mun ahaply too mee. .THOMAS 'ONES."
TR ANSI.AT lON. —Any Hero who would wish to aspire to
the Local Militia, must apply to me. THOMAS lONES.

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESEND, SEPTEMBER. If.

Arrived—the Heart of Oak, Thompson, from Quebec ;
and the Royal Sovereign. Hornby, from St. Domingo.
Sailed—the Eurydice, Compton, tor Surinam ; Thomas
and Mary, Marshall, for Africa; Esther, Satchell, for Mal-
ta ; Triton, Tozer, for Hayti ; Betsey, Hooper, for Cadiz ;
and the Maria, Hos. de Catima, for Rio Janeiro.

PRICE OF STOCKS
YESTERDAY.
India Stock,
India Bonds, 25. 3s. pr.
South Sea Stock, 7z 711
Exchequer Jill's, 2S. 6s. pr.
Omnium, 4 i dis.
Imperial 3 per Cent.
Ditto Ann.
Cons. for 13th 061. 66 4

Bank Stock, shut
Navy S per Cent. 98
sper Cent. 1797, shut
Irish 5 per Cent, shut
4 per Cent. shut
3 per Cent. Red. shut
3 per Cent, eon. 66
Bank- i.. Anu. shut

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