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London, England, 1806-08-25 00:00:00

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LANCASTEU, fII.I,DAY, AUG. !2.

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Titi Court having assembled on Monday morn-
c, the 'names.of-ebe Grand Jury were called over,
when- Sir Roulet.- Gr4
AH AM proceeded to address
them upon the high and important trust they were
now called to fulfil. He-made a _very judicious and
moral, appeal to their feelings and sentiments; as
men of honour and independence, whose duty it
was to inquire into the important matters . that
shout.' come before them. He deliveredsoine very
pointed and suitable remarks of abhorrence against
one prominent crime which would probably be sub-
mitted'to their inspet'iion. He. I:Unglued that such
. a subje& should come before the -PubliCaS it must
do, and, above all, that the untaught and unsuspett-
,ing Minds of youth should be, liable, to be tainted by
hearing such horrid faCts,-ke.
The following were sworn of the Grand Jury :
Lord Stanley, Foreman Sir P. Houghton and
Sir -r. ,Esiwth, Baits. ; John Blackburne, M.P. ; Edw.
wilbrahain Bootle, M. P. ; lrelaud Blackburne, Thomas
Clayton, John Dent, M. P. ; John Dalton, jun. Richard
Cuillym, Bold F. Hesketh, R; G. Hormood, Edmund
lioinby; Samuel Ifttrrocks, M.P. ; john Hargreaves, j. P.
Machell, Thomas Parke, Edmund Rigby, Thomas St. nleY,
lames Stanley, Wm. Townley, Daniel Wilson, and Charles
ieson, Esqrs. '
John Jones, [Pillion?, Wright, and Ann Jones,
were tried for stealing a bill of exchange, value 291.
55.-and bank notes, &c. to the amount. of tool.—
Jones and Wright were found guilty of stealing un-
der the value of,' 4os. and Ana Jones acquitted.
James Sidebottom was tried for stealing wearing
apparel, &cc.; the Jury found him guilty, but re-
commended him to mercy.
• On TueSdayValizes Backhouse was tried and:ac-
quitted of the murder of Thomas Brockbank, of
Cartmel ; but found guilty of manslaughter, fined
is. and sentenced to, be imprisoned six months. Ed-
ward Johnson, alias John Smith, was found.:guilty.
of stealing in the house of C. Hill, of Salford to be
transported for seven years. Chas. Johnson and Ro-
bert Thomas, found-guilty of uttering a forged note
for 301. at Manchester. Luke Lockard and Peter
Higgins were found guilty of forging and uttering a
bill for 1;91. toS. • '
On Wednesday. Ndncy Harwood was tried and
acquitted of the murder of her infant son, John
H4rwoOd.--Joseph Sunter, aged 13, was convicted
of manslaughter, in kiltino. James Gibson, aged 9,
by fighting : fined is. and to be imprisoned six
months. duce Henshcal was found guilty of having
a forged 11. Bank note in her possession, knowing
it to be such:—No bill having been found against
John Skorrock, for manslaughter, he was tried on
the,Coroner's Inquest, on Thursday, and there being
no witnesses, he was acquitted.
There were 120 Causes entered at Nisi Prius, be-
fore Sir T. M. SUTTON, Bart, one of which lasted
from nine o'clock on Thursday morning till the same
hour yesterday evening. It was a new trial in the
cause « Wold v. Hornby and Others," 'respeCting a
weir icre6ted by the latter at. BroCkholes, on the
Ribble, which preVented the salmon from going up
the river. Nuarly 200 witnesses were examined.
Verdiet for the Plaintiff—More particulars hereafter.

BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 21.

STAFFORD ASSIZES.

At these Assizes, three prisoners have been capi-
tally conviaed, viz. Henry Lawrence (a Jew); for
passing counterfeit money ; Sarah Hilkin, for rob-
bing James Aston ; and Maria Bentley, tor privately
stealing. Thomas Somers, for stealing wheat; and
Charles Askey, for stealing handkeratefs.and other
articles, were sentenced to be transported ..for seven
years. _ _

An Eje&ment cause. was tried at the above As-
sizes, before Mr. Justice LAWRENCE and a most
respeaable Special Jury, wherein Jer'voise- Clarke
Jervoise, Esq. was P.laintiff, and Edward Elwell,
the younger, Defendant.
Mr. Serjeant WILLIAMS, as Counsel for the
Plaintiff, stated, that the Defendant, his father, and
grandfather, had rented certain mills and lands at
West Bromwich, in Staffordshire, under a' lease
granted by Samuel Clarke, Esq. deceased (the lessor
of the Plaintiffs Hither)', commencing from the 25th
March, 1761, for 21 years, sublet to the yearly
rent of 51.1; payable' half-yearly,. viz. Michaelmas
and Lady-nay; that the Defendant,. his father, and
• grandfather, continued to hold the premises un-
der
.the term of the said leases, which expired .at
Lady-day, 1782, until Lady-day last, being 24 years
atter the expiration of the said lease, without any
altekation in rent, altbongh the preMises were worth
considerably more than treble the amount of the
rent received by the leae ; that' the Plaintiff having
suffered the Defendant, his father, and, grandfather,
to continue possession so many years without any
alteration, gave the Defendant notice to quit at Lady-
day last., which Defendant refused to do ; contending,
that his tenantcy commenced at Michaelmas, and not
at Lady-day.
Thu lease was produCed and proved, and Mr.
Joseph Fernyhough, a Witness for the Plaintiff,
proved that the premises, rented by Defendant, com-
prehended the whole of the premises mentioned- in
the lease, and that the rent of ~511. per annum had
been paid for said premises up to Michaelmas last ;
. and that a notice, signed by the Plaintiff, was de-..
livered by him to the Defendant on the 27th day
of July; 1805, to quit at Lady-day last.
Mr. DAUNCEY, as Counsel for the Defendant,
produced several receipts, for a year's rent, due at
Michaelmas ; and therefore contended, that the
tetiantcy ended at Michaelmas, and :not at Lady--
day.; and that if the tenantcy did end at Lady-day,
„still that the notice to quit at that-time was waived
_by. the effe& of several letters written by the Plaintiff,
• his agent, Mr. Wall, and the Defendant, and which
;were.'put in and read.
' , Mr. Serjeant .WlLLtams; in reply, followed Mr.
DAUN CRY/. through the whole of his speech, and con-
tended, that the receipts were in no respect evidence
' of the tenantcy, or of any- new agreement, and that.
the:notice was not in any respe& waived,' and there-
fore ,the Plaintiff would be entitled to a verdi&.

Judge LAWRENCE, ins slur-ling up to the Jury;
said, that unless the Defendant could shew an
agreement subsequent to the lease, the lease was
evidenct of a temricy, arid the notice to quit was
good—therefore the Plaintiff would be entitled to
recover.—The Jury without hesitation gave a ver-
diet for the Plaintiff.