The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-03 00:00:00

ASSIZES RECEIVED THIS DAY,

WESTERN CIRCUIT, LAUNCLSTON, APRIL 1.
ATROCIOUS CASE OF ASSAULT BY A LAD OF FIF-
TEEN ON A MARRIED WOMAN.—Alfred Rae, fifteen
years of age, was put into the dock this morning
charged with having assaulted Grace Brenn, in the pa-
rish of Botusfleming, with intent, &c. The prisoner
is a respectable looking youth, of middle stature for
his age, rather stout built, pale complexion, but no-
thing in his physiognomy indicating the ferocity of dis-
position which the examination fully proved he pos-
sessed.

Grace Brenn, the prosecutrix, was put into the wit-
ness box. She appeared to be in a state of extreme suf-
fering. The witness is 31 years old, and very interesting.
She is a widow with two children. Her cottage con-
sisted of small rooms; viz. a front and back kitchen,
and a bed-room over these, to which access was had by
a staircase leading from the front kitchen up to and
into the same. On the night of Tuesday the 11th
March, she was on the point, at half-past nine, to retire
to rest, when she heard a knock at the door, and
and asked " Who's there ?" Some one answered,
" a lad—a boy." She asked who he was ? He said he
had lost his way, and desired her to open the door.
She said she could not think of opening the door ' • it
was time every one should be at his own home. He
said, you had better ! She then unlocked the door,
and opened it ; the prisoner at the bar was the per-
son ; she had seen him once before • he had called there
some weeks previous to inquire the way to Cargreen.
On opening the door, he said he had lost his way.
[Here the witness betraying symptoms of exhaustion,
was accommodated with a chair.] He said it was dark,
and he would rather go in and stop at her house, and
with that he came in, the door being then open. He
locked the door on the inside, and took out the key.
He said he was tired, weary, and hungry, and desired
witness to put on the kettle and make him tea. This
she did with fear and trembling. He said he should
like to have a bed. He eat bread and butter, with
which witness supplied him. Rae said he had no
money, but would call in the morning with Mr. Bee
and pay for .it. She did not know Mr. Bee. He
ordered witness to bring a bed down. Witness said
she had two beds, but could not think of a person like
prisoner sleeping in the house. He said he would go
up and bring it down himself. She said, oh no, sir,
she would fetch the bed down herself. She went up
stairs and threw down a bed. She came down again,
lighted a candle for him, and put it on the table near
the window. She took her own candle and went up
stairs, and drew home the door of the stair case after
her. There was no other fastening but the latch. She
put her own candle in a little window close by the bed,
and lay down by the side of her little boy. Both the
children were with her on the bed. She took off none
of her clothes but her gown, which she replaced by her
bed gown. She did not go to sleep, and her end of
candle, which was all she had left in the house, a rush-
light, had burnt down in the socket, when Rae rushed
into her room to the side of the bed where her little
girl lay. Witness was on the other side by her boy.
He took up the girl, and flung her to the bottom of the
bet, and in a moment threw himself across the bed,
and laid hold of witness by the head. I exclaimed,
" Good God, what have:l done ?" I got his hands off
my head, and continued screeching. [Here followed
evidence of the brutality of the prisoner, developing a
series of the most shocking expressions and brutish
attempts on the witness. Thrice he thrust a handker-
chief in her mouth, to prevent her cries ; repeatedly
knocked her down across the bed and on the floor; the
witnesss stating explicitly acts, the evidence of which
was conclusive of the attempt, and all but accomplish-
ment of his diabolical purpose. The prisoner had no-
thing on but his shirt at the time of attacking witness.]
The witness at length succeeded in gaining the stair-
case, down which she rushed, when the prisoner, lean-
ing over the rail of the stair head, laid hold of her hair,
by which he attempted to pull her up stairs again.
Her hair gave way, and she fell through the stair-
case door, at the bottom of the stairs. Witness
got up and tried the front door ; the key was still out.
" I tried to push the lock back ; he came down again;
I continued screeching, and said, I wish I'd never
opened the door to him ; he said, if I had not, he
would soon have opened it. I sprung to the window ;
he caught me by the left arm and side, and dragged
me back. He repeated an abominable expression,
and, for the twentieth time, threateaed to murder me ;
he took up the fire-shovel, and struck me three times
across the head." [Witness had previously stated
that prisoner had said he had a brace of loaded pistols
and a razor ; that he was connected with a gang, and
would compel her to his purpose.] " I caught the
shovel in my hand by the shovel part, and got
it clear from him. My head was cut and
scarred very much. All his aim then was to
murder me. He said he passed by the door a
few night agone with three more of the gang. I said,
spare me my life for the sake of my dear little father-
less children. He said, will you promise me never
to split, or to divulge, or to make it known ? I said,
no, sir, I never will. He said, I must put you upon
your oath ; if you divulge, and I am taken up and
punished, the others will soon do for you. He said,
are you agreeable ? I said, yes ; any thing to save
my life ! He said he should be put to death himself
by his gang. He said he never went through
but one such case before, and then his life was a
narrow escape to him, or something to that effect.
I fell upon my knees and he said the words over that I
was to say. I cannot recollect them exactly, but the
last were ' Holy Ghost.' I then thought he was going
to spare my life. There was blood upon the floor.
He said to me, ' You must wash yourself.' I said,
Yes, sir.' He said, ' You must, for you are all over
blood.' I said, I will get some water,' and I took a
basin, but he said he would get the water. He went
out and returned immediately. I said I would wash
up the blood from the floor, as when Mr. Fitzgerald's
groom came to the stable close by he might notice it.
Prisoner had thrown away the water with which I had
washed. I took the basin out to the pump and lifted the
handle once or twice and then ran away to William
Summerfield's. The prisoner was brought there by
William Summerfield and Mr. Fitzgerald's servant.
They asked me if that was the person. I exclaimed
he was the rogue. Prisoner fell on his knees ; he said,
My dear ma'am, if you'll forgive me, I'll never do the
like again.' Before I left my house, he ordered me
up stairs whilst he dressed himself ; he ordered me
down, and I came. He took up the candle, and said,
' I fear I have injured you too much to spare your
life.' [Here the witness described her desperate
condition, the dreadful effects of the assault.]—
One tooth had been knocked down her throat, another
broken off in' the jaw, which was much swollen, her
head had been cut with the shovel, her limbs much
bruised by the fall over the stairs. ( Other hurts were
described of a nature not to be put in type.) Her eye
was much swollen, which she proposed to prisoner that
she would say was the effects of a cold, if any one
asked her the cause. Prisoner said, stop, I fear I have
injured your throat too much. I had been ill for some
time and wore a handkerchief, he said, you must wear
a wider one, if I spare your life. When I was
laying in a bed at Summerfield's, my aunt asked
him how he could be so wicked as to use me so
violently. He said something about waking up in a
delirium. The prosecutrix was cross-examined by
counsel for the prisoner, but no part of her sad recital
was invalidated.

W. Summerfield spoke to Mrs. Brenn coming to
his house, at a distance of a quarter of a mile from
her cottage, at about half-past two in the morning.
She had on a gown loosely flowing about her ; her
hair was dishevelled. She was screeching for her
children. He fetched her children ; and then saw her
in bed. Witness's mother was washing off the
blood which was flowing from the back part of her
head and which had wetted her cloathes. William
Cullis and Summerfield captured the prisoner, but no
evidence was given at the trial as to the means of capture.
Counsel addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner,
endeavouring to show that the youth for a time must have
been possessed of a demon, or that the whole account of
prosecutrix was exaggerated, as it appeared more like
a tale of fancy than an exposition of facts. Rae
was stated to be a well educated youth—morally
and religiously.
Mr. Bee was called to character.
His LORDSHIP charged the Jury, who, without much
hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty, with a recom-
mendation to mercy.
The Learned JUDGE, in delivering the sentence of two
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The General Steam Navigation Company's
mail packet, the Lord Melville, from Rotterdam, arrived
off the Custom-house, at one o'clock this afternoon.
Within the last two years the attendance at
the High School of Edinburgh has fallen off 200 scho-
lars. —Edinburgh Weekly Courant.

HUE AND CRY for MISSING ULTRAS,

" Where, and oh where is my Highlani ladd'e gore?"
OLD SCOTCH SONG.

Where, oh where's John Wilson Croker,
Semi-poet, ditto joker;
He who " Talavera"* writ,
And, no doubt, repenteth it,
Since its most belauded cantcs
Wrap up tarts, or line portmanteaus ?
Where's our Irish Homer, where?
He can't be in Russell square,
For he nothing knows, not he!
Of such /ow geography—t
Where is dear Lord Londonderry,
He who makes us all so merry,
With his fine moon-face of wonder,
And his aptitude for blunder,
And his rich Grimaldi grin,
Which to prize not is a sin ?

Where is he, whom Tories call
Honest Charley Wetherall ;
Whose speech is a quaint Prolegomenon,
Whose very shirt is a phcenomenon ;
Who daily cultivates the Graces,
Albeit he escheweth braces ?

Where are all these great men gone ?
We must find them, every one,
For London—now the funny time
Has gone by for Pantomime,
Now that Punch is stale or still,
Munden's dead and Liston's ill—
Is quite dull and drowsy grown
For want of some rare fool or clown,
To bid her shake through roof and rafter
With a thunder.clap of laughter.

Come then, Wetherall, Croker, Vane,
Come and bid farce live again ;
Come among us, and give tongue
To speech, history, or song ;
Fear riot we shall sneer or snore;
No, we're sure to read and roar
Charles, you Fball burlesque a storm
In some speech against Reform ;
Vane and Croker, matchless twain
Ye shall do the whole campaign ,
Of our Doctor-Duke in Spain ;
One in prose and one in verse,
(Just as Punch might do, or worse)
'Till o'erpowered by glad surprise
At your rare absurdities—
Unrivalled e'en by Blackmore's—Derrick's—
All town goes off in strong hysterics.
• The Right Hon. Gentleman wrote divers poems on divers
of the great Duke's battles during his Spanish campaign. In
some of their more tragic touches these poems were remarkable
for their sprightliness. They were, however, too closely
modelled on the Gazettes.
t• In the House of Commons some few years since, Mr.
Croker professed utter ignorance of the topography of Russell_
square. He had heard a vague rumour that there was such a
spot, but he was not geographer enough to lay down its position
on the map. In consequence of this declaration, some public-
spirited individuals at the west end, fitted out an expedition of
discovery, which, after encountering unparalleled perils from
the hostility of the Drury lane and Holborn savages, succeeded
in reaching within two degrees of the strange continent. The
Square has since been ascertained to lie in lat. 33, long. 54.
/ The great Duke has now degenerated into Dr. Wellesley,
13.C.L , and turned head.schoolmaster of the University of
Oxford. We fear the " schoolmaster" will here find himself
" abroad" indeed

THE POLES, RUSSIA, PRUSSIA, AND

AUSTRIA.

The following are the terms of the treaty concluded
between the. Emperors of Russia and Austria, and
Prussia, on the subject of the extradition (the surren-
dering) of political delinquents in their several States :
" We, Frederick William, &c.

" In order to consolidate still better the intimate relations
of friendship and good neighbourhood subsisting between us
and their Majesties the Emperor of Austria and Emperor of
Russia King of Poland, and for the common interest of the
three Powers to• maintain tranquillity and legal order, in the
Polish provinces, submitted to their sovereignty, we have agreed
with their Majesties in the following arrangements :

" Any person in either the Prussian, Austrian, or Russian
provinces, who shall be guilty of high treason, leze-majesty, or
rebellion by arms, or has been an accessary in any plan against
the safety of the throne or Government, shall find in neither
of the three countries protection, or an asylum.
" These three Courts, on the contrary, pledge themselves to
order the immediate extradition of each person accused of the
said crimes, if he is reclainied by the Government of which he
is a subject.
" But it is to be understood that these arrangements are not

retrospective.
" Agreeing with his Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, and
his Majesty the Emperor of Russia and King of Poland, that
these arrangements should be put forth for the information of
the public in the three countries, we do so by these presents,
enjoining on all the authorities, both civil and military, to see
that they are executed in all their extent and tenor.
" Dated Ist of April, 1834.
" In testimony of which; we the undersigned give our signa-
ture and seal.

" Done at Berlin, 15th March, 1834.
(Signed) " FREDERIC.GUILLAUME,
Baron DE BRENN, DE KAMPTZ, MUIILER, ANCILLON."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RACES
APRIL.

'0 COME.

Cheltenham 3
Holderness Hunt - 3
Pytchley Hunt
The Hoo 5
(:roxton Park 9
Bishop Auckland lO
Malton
Newmarket Craven l4
Durham . . l7
Bath Spring 23
Newmarket First Spring 2Bl

Lancaster 8
Stamford lO
Cheltenham
Bromyard

Chester
Bristol and Clifton
Newmarket Second Spring l2
Liverpool Spring l4
York Spring l9
Manchester 2l
Epsom 27

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