The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-26 00:00:00

LIIIDIff JULY 23.

The Assizes for this County were npened on. SA.
fortlay e!nnight, before Sir ALAN CHAMORE,
Knighr, one of the Justices of she Court of Coin.
11,00 Meos, and Sir itoakaI,GRAHAM, Knight, one
of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, before
hom the following Prisoners' iu the Castle have
t...ken their trials,

junathan Ellis, of Rotherham, aged 22, charged
currunitting a rape on the body of Elizmeth
WAhtison, of Adwick. upon. Dcarne, sinsle-wo.

Thcinas Taylor, Aged 29, and John Middleton,
aged 34, charged with a misdemeanour? in killing
and slqing a coney in the night time.--Both guilty
—7,i/lidoleton to be transporter ',even years.; Tay,.
tur to be impriinned twelve months in the House
eiCorrediori at Beverley.

ratlcis Taylor, aged 37, of New Mahon,. in.ihe
North riding, charged with secreting, embezzling,'
and mak tog away with the sum of 4.0010 received
by hint of Richard Kirk, -of Mobutu, on account
nt his masters Robert Carlile 13roattleY?. .1(”e,Pil"
llonison, and William, 'Joseph Dennison, Esqrs.
bankers, of .New Matron aforesaid.7—Ouilty.
Geo/ge'Newsome, aged 30, a debtor in the Castle
of,' York, for having assaulted and 'ill-treated the
It.tv. Randolph Marriott, there.—Guilty.—To pay
a fine of 55. to the King, and ask public pardon.
Thontas Marshall, aged 30, for giving in pay.
mein tol'imothy Harrison, a bill ofexchange, va.
lue 301. which the said Thomas Marshall endorsed
by the name.of Luke Marsden, whereas in point of
fan Itis real name was Thomas Marshall.--Ac.
quitted,—On a different charge for forgery.—
.
Thomas Dent, aged 22, charged with a burglary
in a dwelling-house in the Township of Kingsion-
upon-Hull, and stealing two watches thereout, the
property of George Holmes, a serjeant in the North
Lincoln Militia.—Guilty.—Death.
Edward charged with stealing three five
guinea notes, and a guinea note, the property of
jashua Stanford, of Kingston.upon.:Hull.—Guilty.
—Death.

liannah Marshall, charged with killing and slay.
ing Mary"Ellis.—Guilty of Manslaughter.---To be
itnprisonea six months,
_ _ '

Richard Rubinson, charged with setting fire to
Messrs. Ramihothato and, S.iaine's mill, at Brad.
ford.---Acquitted.
Judge CHAMAKE, in his address to the Grand
Jury, congratulated them and the county upon the
sma:lness of the calendar at these Assizes. He ob-
served, it could not, without peculiar pleasure, be
read by all feeling minds ; but, that we must not
11.itter_ourselves that it occurs front the depression
of vice, but from the engagements in business, and
the necessary employment in the calls of the coon.
try at the present. important period. The learned
Judge then noticed the At‘.l of 'James the First, fluid
also the Aft recently liaised as to the itturder of
bastard children: 'He then noticed the Coroner's
inquest treon the case of Hannah Marshall, for the
murder of her own child, and did not think the Co.
[Owl's Jury had gone far enough in finding her
guilty tit manslat.gbzer only ; anti also took notice
of the case of Th4:masMatshall, for forgery, by
abServiog, that if a man we another name than his
own, without an intention to &food, be is not
gOilty of forgery. The learned Jude observed, that •
at this important period, every G4ntletnan ought to.
consider it as his duty to conciliate, to the extent
of his potver; the affeaions,of the hewer orders, of
people to suppress vice,' wherever or in whatever
shape they found it ; and to enco.urage.religion', and
enforce an observance of it, in every village and
hamlet. Drinking, he said, was the foundation of
almost every vice ; therefore .it was the duty of
:Gentlemen, to the utmost 'of their power, to sup.
press it among the lower orders of the people ; at
the same time bearing in mind this wise and whole.
some principle—that the prevention of crimes is the
()Wed of allsgOodbovcroments, rather than' the pu.
nishinent of them.