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London, England, 1801-09-15 00:00:00

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49estions.
Lord KENYON desired his evidence ' Might he
taken down,' rind ,told him, it' the Jury should not
believe what he said; he would commit him to

prison.
Q. Upon. your oath, what time did you see
Pelham go down the Cliff ?-- A. About four
o'clock, as near
.as I can "recollea ; it was broad
day,- I i t '
Q. On what °day of the month ?—A. It was
soinewhere about the middle of June.
Q. Was It tlie' same morning that Pelham was
there with the Soldiers ?—A. The same day Pel-
ham and Davy had the scuffle.
O. What time did yOu go to bed the night
before ?—A. About half after -ten or eleven, -the
usual time of my family's going to bed.
Q. And what titne'did you get up ?—A. Between
three and four-o'clock.

It appeared from the further cross-examination of
the Witness, that the -glass which had been broke
was• a night glass, and evidently kept for the pur:.
pose of watching the arrival of the Smugglers'
boats. • • -

The Witresset,7-for the ProsecutiOn were again
called up; and repeated their .forther
that the hour_ of their arrival at the cliff was one
o'clock : and that the Defendant, Kennard, and the
other parties were present whtn. they first drew up.
-Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD, in his reply, observed,
thai this was plainly another case of men who lived
by violking.the LAW, endeavouring to screen them-
selves from Justice by. bringing
,forward Witnesses
to forswear themselves. He thought the Case too
clearly 'proved to-require any comments from him
on the evidence of. Hubbard, and he trusted ,the
Jury would not hesitate in finding- the. Defendants
guilty of theeharge imputed to them..
Lord KENYON .said, he wished these deluded
people who lived by defrauding the Revenue, could
be macie''sensible of the danger they ran ; if, in an.
affair of this kind, the Officer or any one of the
Soldiers had been killed, it would have been murder
in all present, though they might have been uncon-
scion's' of the stroke that 'occasioned death. His
Lordship enforced to the Jury the enormi:y of the
offence of Smuggling, observing, that if the Re .
venue,was.thus defrauded, the deficiency must ne-
cessarily be made
.up somehow by additional bur,
'thenson the Public.. He expressed his approbation
of the condua of the Soldiers, Who had done 'that
Which virtue. 'alivays did;. misted the 'strongest
teriii's.tation that could lie offered..
.The. Jury immediately found the Defendanti---
, ,

Lord KEN YON -said. be,should commit Hubbard;
be did not know the Gentlemen. Who aCted, as Jus-
tices for the Division in . which he- lived, but, he
hoped the Jury Would represent .to them what had
passed upon this Trial, and prevent his, licence be-
ing renewed. He also thought the Soldiers ought
to be recommended
.to their superiors, as objets
worthy to be rewarded. = .
The Jury interfered; and requested that Hubbard
might not be committed; probably thinking that
his situation, and the existence of his family de-
pended upon his acting as the Smugglers had dircded
him ; and that' to deprive him of his licence-would
be a sufficient punishment.. Their recommendation
was attended to. - .
-1 he jury desired to have the, names of the Sol-
diers ; they were George. Davispn, 'Richard Jarvis,.
John Edmondson, and Joseph Osborne,- all belong-_
ingrto :Capt. Seymour's Troop. The Jury Said;
they would take care their fidelity should have the
reward it merited.

COUNTRY NEWS.'

13 ATIli SEPT. 14.

At a meeting held at Langford Inn, on Friday
se'nnight, convened for the purpose Of•transading
public business, which was numerously, attended by
some of most respeftableGentlemen in the East-
ern Division of Somerset, the Chairman, Matthew
Brickdale, Esq. immediately after dinner intro-
duced the Blagdon Controversy, -so far,as related to
the Redor and Curate of that parish. He forcibly
expressed the high opinion he had for a great num-
ber of years entertained for both those Gentlemen,
and that . every one must sincerely lament the,, sub-
sisting misunderstanding, and that nothing could
give-him greater satisfkSion than, under the sanaion
of that respeEtable company, to effeft a reconcilia.,
tion between therm.
,Thee Company heard the pro-
posal with.marks.of strong apProbatio'n..Dr..CrOss-
manarose, and after some weighty exculpatory ob-
ervations, offered his hand to Mr. Bere, which he
cordially received, and thus an happy reconciliation
conk place, apparently to the -sincere joy of the
parties and unanimous satisfaCtion- of the whole

• Company.,
Friday sailed from Milford the London Packet,
Lieut. Fegan; commander, for Plymouth, She had,
on' board 150 Seamen, who; for the most part-have
taken the benefit of His-Majesty's late Proclamation
for pardoning Deserters. ,The London PaCk.e.t :►lso
took under licr Conoy a Fleet of Coasters.--

BRISTOLj, SEPT. 12.

A few days since, a little boy belong?ng to Sir
Edward O'Brien Pryce, Bart: providentially escaped
with his life : Whilst a large party were at s-upper,
the child went out in a green adjoining- the house, to
3ee a favourite horse of his ; 'and on laying hold of
the animal's.hind 'he kicked tthe child in the
mouth, and broke his upper -lip, also bruised his
head, and several parts of his body; in such a man-
ner, that all hope of his recovery was given up.—
It -is now hoped,,howiver, he will not be any ways
disfigured.