The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-09 00:00:00

SUSSEX ASSIZES

IlWag; MnNpAY, AUG. 7.—The Commission-
la: for holding the Assizes for, this Cuunty wassap
pinned for laA• Saturday, on. winch day", he Judges
arttred in this town. The business of these assizes
is not heavy, there are but seven prisoners in
thN calendar, and no one of them for any serious
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CIVIL SIDE.
WOODH.kbil V. y..ING.

This was an aett,.n. or trespass tor sporting on the
Fi iintitr§ sand, after notice, and has arisen out of a
Contest which has embroiled part. of this county for
a considerable time. The real Plaintiff' was Mr:
Harbert, who resides at Corsica Hall, and the
De-
fendant, a farmer of respedability.
Mr. Serjeaut -SuErifitan,-for the Plaintiff, de-
Scribed the trespass as one of a-most aggravated na-
tore. The Defend:int, in coMpany with several
others, rode over the Plaintiff's grounds, not mere-
ly with a view of sporting, but with `a, design to-
tally to extirpate the game. For this purpote, they
not only had greyhounds and lurchrs, but also were
accompanied by no less than 12 or 14 ,beagle's. Hour
they could have oonduEted themselves in a manner
more destrudive to the game, he was at a loss to
know, unless they _had hired halt adozenfellows
with.gons to shoot all they would otherwise miss.—
The Pldintiff; Woodham, he said, was tenant to
Mr. Itirben, and that Gentleman being out on the
28th of February last, he saw the whole of this ca-
valcade on his grounds, ,He _remonstrated with
them upon it, but was treated with most gross and
vulgar abuse, instead of redress. He should shew
that Harben merely desiNd to know-their names,
when he was called '" scoundrel, villain," and the
most opprobrious_names that scurrility could invent.
He trusted, however, the Jury, by their verdict,
would "put an end to this sort of intemperate con-
dud of the Defendant and his friends.

Henry Reeds, a servant to 'Harben, said, he
_ served notice on the-Defendant not to sport on the
lands of the Plaintiff, on the ipth of February last;
he was not sure that .it was addresSed to the De-
fendani by the Plaintiff'. The rest of the notice,
except the address, was in' Mr." Harben's harid-;
writing_

It- eas proved that a party was out sporting on
'the 28ib of February last, and. that the Defendant
was on a piece of rape seed belonging to the Plain-
tiff, whither he went after -his brother, :who was
guarrellini.,•with Mr. Harben.
Mr. IVIAKRYATT, for the Defendant, told the
Jury, that,• so far from the Defendant. having com-
mitted an aggravated trespasS, this was one of the
most unfounded actions ever brought into a Court of
Justice. The real Plaintiff . Was Mr. Harben, who,
it was tree, had receiveclsnine bard names from the
befendant ; but as the Jury probably knew him,
they could' best tell-whether he deserved them or
not.. The Defendant, who is a very large farmer,
had, in company with hi 4 neighbours and friends,
gone out sporting on the 28th of February last ; they
held amongst ahem between 3 and 3000 acres of
land, and had no intention whatever of trespassing
on any -land belonging to Mr. Harben ; in fact they
had never gone into any of his land,, when he
thought proper to come up to them, and attack them
in a very unwarrantable manner. This induced an
altercation tity,een Mr. Thomas King, not. he,
fondant, but his brother, and, by degrees, as they
went on, they went off the bounds of the Defend-
ant's la'ed into the land of the Plaintiff. When
they got there, the Defendant, R.King, got off
his horse and went into the field to, preveni any
'contention between his- brother and Harben. The
moment he got into tile field, Harbenexclaimed,
" Ali, ab, Ofd Dickey, I've got you at last ; you
have now committed a trespass, and you shall pay
for it." He tiliould also call witnesses, who would
prove that the Defendant was the nephew of the,
nominal Plaintiff; that they lived on the best possi-
ble terms of friendship ; and that when, Woodham
was remonstrated with upon his conduti, in warn-
inihis nephew off his land, he declared he was to-
tally ignorant of its being done. He said, at the re-
quest of Harben, he had signed some blank no-
tices; but so far from intending to warn, the De-
fendant off the ground, he was perfeEtly welcotne to
`sport and shoot there as much as he liked.
Two witnesses, of the names of Hichins and
Hardwicke, proved, that they were sporting on
their own and the Defendant's grounds; and that
;hey had no intention F9f trespaising on any'person;
that they were followed and annoyed by Harben, in
consequence of which an altercation took place, in
which angry language passed on both sides; that
Harben rode past them repeatedly, and looked in
their faces ; one of them told him he would see no
`face worse than his own, &c. At last, Thomas'
King and Harben went into a clover field belonging
to the Plaintiff, and Richard King, the Defendant, -
followed upon which. Harben said, " -What,
Dickey, I have caught you in a trespass at last."—
The Defendant's brother also proved that the Plain-
tiff declared , he never meant to warn them off his'
land, and the notice'had been given by Harben •
without his knowledge.
The. LORD CHIEF BARON held, that a notice so
given was no notice at all ; and observed, if they be-
lieved the Defendant's witnesses, although a trespass
had been committed, yet the smallest damages
would satisfy the just;ce of the case.
Vdrdiet for tin: Plaintiff—Damages tid.

Lord ELLENBOROUGI finished the Crown Side
early. Three prisoners were capitally convieted.

The quantity "of whitings,in the River Eden, is
greater than ever remembered. Carlisle has been
abundantly supplied with this species of fish, at the
very moderate rate of 3d. per pound.—No less than
1100 were taken last week, at one draught, at King
Garth. " •

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