The Sun.
London, England, 1805-08-08 00:00:00

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT.

Tln KING U. 'SALMON AND PILIINELL.
This was an indi&ment for assaulting Charles
_James Stuart, a Lieutenant in the Navy, commanding
His Majesty's Gun-brig the jackal!.
Mr. Stuart, the Prosecutor, stated, that on the
12th of February last he was returning from Deal
to Dover with his wife. In their journey the chaise
broke down, and they were obliged to walk vart of.
the way. It vas about half past eleven at night as
they entered Deal, and just on the skirts of the town
they found a man on the road, whom they at firt
thought to be a dead man, but on examining him
found that he breathed, and was therefore inclined
to think he was only deeply intoxicated. He iru
mediately made the ,best of his way ro the next
pubiic-house, which was called the Wahner Castle,
and situated at the East-end of Deal, and finding
the waiter, he told him there was a. man lying in a
dangerous state in the road, aed that they must
send assistance to, him. The waiter replied to him
in a very 'saucy tone, that they should have nothing
to do with drunken sailors ; they lost enough by
fellows in his uniform, and he might go about his
business. He being a little angry at the fellow's inso-
lence, told him that if the man died, and, as itwas a
frosty night, perhaps he might, the Witness would
expose them to all the world. Just at this moment
the Defendant ramell came o the house, and
said, a you shall not come ;,i. , Sir; lam the
Landlord here." A woman at "the same time looked
out of the window and said," Oh, Sirt-Ilr. Spec-
tacles, is it you ? Take tbC man to your own lodg-
ing." (The witness said he was known by the
name of Mr. Spedacles among the smugglers of
Deal.) The Witness said to the Defendant Salmon,
a I do not want to go into your house'; I have been
there already;" and some words ensued between them.
The Defendant Salmon cried .out, " Oh, d—n you!
you have your dirk with you, have you?" and im-
mediately made a match at it. The Witness endea-
Voured to save it, and a struggle ensued; the dirk
was broken in the sheath in the scuffle, and Salmon
drew out a part, with which he stabbed the prose-
cutor in the face, and tom up one nostril. The
blow made bins for a short time insensible. The
noise of the scuffle drew several people down stairs;
among others the Defendant Parnell came and fell
upon 'him, seizing him by the collar, and hoisting
him up in the air, saying, ." D---n you! you de7
serve this !"
.(by which he understood he meant to
say, that he deserved hanging). While Parnell held
him by the throat, his mouth was filled with blood/
which he spit in ,Parnell's face be was immediately
knocked down, and several of them present tram..
pled upon his body. He remained in this plight
until some people came and rescued him.
Mrs. Stuart, his wife, confirmed this statement,
and said, she, in her distress, ran away, and called
for assistance, •

Mathew Wolkraan, a Serjeant in the Surrey Mi-
litia, stated, that he was quartered in the house, and
being disturbed by the noise, he gut uP, and
looking out of his window, saw Lieutenant ,Stuart
treated in the manner, he had described.
Mr. GARROW, for the -Defendants, stated, that
he was imitrutled to prove that Mr. Stuart had come
to the hottie and demanded peretnptorily that they
should send and fetch the drunken man, and that
upon the Landlord's hesitatine, he dam his dirk, and