The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-23 00:00:00

SUMMER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NOTTINGHAM, JULY 22.
Yesterday, shortly after neon, Thomas Moore, Esq.,
High Sheriff, with his usual cortege, went out to meet his
Majesty's Judges of Assize ;at half-past twelve o'clock
Mr. Justice LITTLEDA LE a. rived at the County-ball, where
he opened the commission, and the Court was adjourned to
nine o'clock this morning.

AGGRAVATED CHARGE OF RAPE.
William Reynolds, aged 18, William Marshall, aged
21, John Spowaye, aged 17, and Thomas Connor, aged
24, severally pleaded not guilty to a charge of rape upon
Mary Ann Lord, on the 16th of April.
Mr. BALGUY called Mary Ann Lord, a simple looking
girl, who said that she lived in Wood-street, with her
father and mother, near the Lord Rancliffe public-house ;
she went from home on an errand on the night of the 16th
of April, to Mr. Clarke's, in South-street ; this was about
twenty-five minutes past ten ; on returning through Plat_
street, she saw some chaps come out of the Goat's
Head ; she observed them following her, and heard
them laughing ; when she got to the first house in Wood-
street one laid hold of her, the other three stood two
or three street ends off ; Reynolds put his arms round
her neck and stopped her mouth ; she called out for her
mother and for Mr. Burton, who is a constable; the other
three were peep-bo-ing at the corner of a street, to see
how he was going on. He took and dragged her along,
saying, " You're strong, and if I can't deal with
you there's more as can ;" he dragged me a long way up
the close; I did all in my power to get away ; I scratched
his face ; I squealed out again ; he said he had got Moll,
and he would have his will. He threw her down. The
witness then with great reluctance detailed what ensued.
Reynolds then whistled, and said there were more coming
up, and Spowage came up, Reynolds still holding her
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know roe ?"—Witness said she did not know them ; she
then went to Mrs. Steers's, who lives next door but one to
her mother, and there Rachael bid her good night; her
mother was there, and they went home together directly.
Witness said to her mother they had been doing what they
deserved hanging fur; her mother then knew what had
been the matter. Mrs. Mary Ann Lord, the mother of
the prosecutrix, sent her daughter on an errand on the
night in question ; when she returned witness was at
Mrs. Steers's; when they got home, witness said,
" Ann, what has kept you so long ?" she said she had
been ill used ; observed her gown hang ragged, and on
closer examination she was dirty, and mauled, and faint ;
the backs of her arms were all over dirt; asked her whio
had ill-used her, she said she knew two by name and two
by sight ; asked what they bad done to her, she said she
was not able to tell; asked her if any one had done what
they ought not, she said they bad done what they ought
to be hanged for. ller daughter is rather deficient in in-
tellect through an illness she bad three or four years ago.
The alarm was such as to produce a very serious illness
on witness.
Cross-examined—Her daughter had complained of ill-
usage from a person named Burrows, people used to try to
make game of her weakness of intellect.
The Jury brought in a verdict of guilty against Rey-
nolds, Spowage, and Marshall, with a recommendation to
mercy on account of their youth, and of not guilty in re-
gard to Cannor....-Sentence deferred.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. •
ARRIVALS. •
The Earl and Countess of Abingdon, in Queen Ann.streeW
from a tour; the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, from
their villa at Richmond ; Lady Sophia Kent, at the London ,
Hotel, Albemarle-street, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Austin, at
the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Ramsgate; Captain
Austin, at ditto, from a tour; William Coulson, Esq. at the Bri-
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ditto, from a tour; W. Weatherly, Esq. and family, at the
Orleans Hotel (late Miller's), Jermyn-street, from Newmarket;
J. Blake, Esq. at ditto, front Dublin ; Lady Millicent Barber, and
the Rev. J. Barber, at the Berners' Hotel, Berners.street, froin
Ivergrove, Uxbridge.
DEPARTURES.

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Berners-street, from Newark ; T. Godfrey, Esq., from ditto, for
ditto ; Mrs. Tugwell, from ditto, for Warminster ; Sir Michael
Clare and Lady Clare, from ditto' for Charlton ; Charles Crewe,
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ditto ; Lord and Lady Gage, for Sussex ; the Earl and Countess
of Longford, from the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Ire-
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sor; Mrs. George Probyn, from ditto, for Broadstairs ; Mr. and
Mrs. Carden, from ditto; 'l'. R. Jekeyle, Esq., from ditto, for
Bath; Hon. Mrs. Bennet, for Roehampton ; Colonel G. Wilson,
for his seat, Westmorland; W. L. Fox, Esq., for Bramham
Park, Yorkshire; R. Harington, Esq., for his seat in Essex ; Mr.
and Mrs. J. Grove, from Grosvenor-street, for their seat in Nor-
folk; Captain Higgins, from the British Hotel, Jermyn.street, for
Worthing; W. Seybright, Esq., from ditto, for Cheltenham.