The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-26 00:00:00

TENTH DAT.

The officers re-assembled as usual on board his
Majesty's ship Hastings, at Sheerness, to proceed with
the courtmartial on Captain Hugh Pigott, R.N. .
Lieutenant Walker, the prosecutor, addressed the
Court, and brought in a written protest against the
irregularity of some parts of the examination on the
previous day, and as to the oral protest made by him
on the previous day. having been overruled by the
Court, and protesting generally against being brow-
beaten, as he considered he had been, by the Court.
He stated in his protest that he stood alone • that he
was unaided by professional advisers ' • that his hopes
of promotion in his Majesty's service had been blighted
by the reports of Captain Pigott as to the Alban
whilst under his command ; and concluded a long ap-
peal to the Court, by expressing his conviction that,
under these circumstances, he was entitled to the
sympathy of the Court. He also requested that his
protest might be entered on the minutes of the court-
martial.

The JUDGE-ADVOCATE having concluded reading the
protest, the Court was ordered to be cleared.
Upon the court being re-opened Lieutenant
Walker was informed by the JUDGE-ADVOCATE that
the Court had refused to insert the contents of the
protest upon its minutes and that they were of opinion
that it was couched in disrespectful terms.
Lieutenant Walker meant no disrespect whatever
to the Court. He then stated that he wished to sum-
mon Mr. Maddock, the purser of the 13arhant. That
gentleman had been assisting Captain Pigott in taking
notes, &c., for him in court, and he (Lieutenant
Walker) was sorry to deprive him of his assistance,
which must be the case, as the witnesses were not al-
lowed to remain in court.

The JUDGE-ADVOCATE ordered the point to stand
over. for his consideration.
Mr. Pettigrew, the second master of the Alban,
was then examined at great length in corroboration of
other witnesses previously examined. During this
witness's examination Lieutenant Walker submitted
a question to him which he stated to the. court they
would doubtless deem irrelevant, as it related to the
subject upon which his protest of that morning had
been founded, viz., that irrelevant questions had been
asked of the witnesses bearing against his charges,
and that he had consequently a right to ask questions
that might also be taken as irrelevant to refute it.
The PRESIDENT ordered the Court to be cleared.

Upon the re-opening of the Court Lieutenant Walker
was informed that he might put the questions, which
was accordingly done. They were not of importance.
Mr. Pettigrew was then cross-examined by Captain
Pigott, when an objection was made as to the line of
cross-examination pursued by Captain Pigott, and the
PRESIDENT ordered the Court to be again cleared.
On the Court being re-opened Captain Pigott was
informed that his line of cross-examination was deemed
irrelevant by the Court. It was therefore discontinued.
Samuel Phillips, boatswain's mate, Edward Lloyd,
a stoker, and James Wiltshire, a seaman, all of the
Alban, were then examined, but only in corroboration
of evidence already adduced.—The Court then
adjourned.

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Last week, as Mr. G. Tollit's Oxford coach
(the Age) was proceeding to London, an elderly gen-
tleman, named Shepherd, was walking out with two of
his grandchildren, by the Black Lion gate, Uxbridge-
road; One of the children ran into the road : the
grandfather, anxious to save the child, rushed forward,
and was knocked down by the leaders, which, with the
shaft horses and coach, passed over his legs and killed
him.—Leicester Chronicle.

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On Thursday last, as William Walls, a
gallant of three score years and ten, who had commit-
ted matrimony the previous day with a buxom dame of
the like age, wanting, say five years, be the same more
or less, was cutting down a tree, at Brafferton, near
Boroughbridge, owing to some unfortunate occurrence
it fell upon his bride, who was standing by, and in-
jured-her so seriously as to leave but slight hopes of
her recovery.—York Courant.
THE ATHENJEUM GAMING-HOUSE, ST.
JAMES'S.—On Saturday afternoon Mr. Noel, the so-
licitor employed in the prosecutions against Ephraim,
Joseph, and Robert Bond, for keeping this notorious
gaming establishment, attended at the Judge's Cham-
bers, in Serjeants' Inn, Chancery-lane, for the pur-
pose of opposing the bail, which Ephraim and Joseph
Bond had given him the required notice of their in-
tention of tendering. Mr. Charles Phillips was also
in attendance to support the bail. The hour fixed for
receiving the bail was four o'clock ; but, up to five
o'clock neither the bail nor the Bonds made their ap-
pearance. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Noel then retired,
the latter having first obtained an assurance from Mr.
Justice Patteson's clerk, that if the bail were tendered
at a later hour in the evening it would not be received.
On the previous Thursday Mr. Noel was put to a si-
milar vexatious attendance at Serjeant's Inn, from
four to six o'clock in the evening, at the instance of
Ephraim Bond. In all, Mr. Noel complains that he
has been six times served with notices, and, op his
attending at the appointed time, the bail have not
been forthcoming. Up to a late hour on Saturday
evening Robert Bond continued in the custody of the
Sheriff of Middlesex, at Selby's lock-up house, in
Chancery•lane, for the amount of three estreats of
his recognizances, two being for 1601. each, and one
for 80/., in all 4001. Besides these, he had previously
forfeited, and paid two estreats of 401. each. The
bail in which he is now held to appear and take his
trial at the ensuing Middlesex sessions is for the large
sum of 1,5201. One of Robert Bond's former bail
has also been arrested on an estreat of his recognizance
for 801., but having given fresh sureties to the sheriff
.for the production of Mr. Robert Bond at the next
sessions, he was immediately enlarged. The various
manoeuvres of the defendants to delay or evade the
trial of these long-pending indictments is said to have
cost the prosecutors, Captain Forbes and Mr. Paxish,
together upwards of 1,0001. Both prosecutors have
been held by the magistrates on heavy personal sure-
ties to appear and prosecute.—Morning Herald.