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London, England, 1804-02-14 00:00:00

ABSTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE TRIAL.

Serjeant Tart, the Sutler, swore on his oath, that
Capt. D'ESTERRE abused him a good deal by re-
peatedly damning him in the Coffee-roor Lieu-
tenants FURBER, ROBYNI, COLE, DEFFERD, and
Prprs, in their evidence, have proved that Cap.
fain D'ESTERRE did not even once damn or abuse
Serjeant TART in any manner whatever. These
Officers have also sworn, that they were at the time
astonished at Capt. D'ESTERRE'S forbearance and
coolness towards S'rjeant TART'S insolence and con-
tempt.

We have received some further accounts, from a
quarter of high authority, of the Proclamation which
appeared in our Paper last week, ptirpOrting to be a
Proclamation intended, for circulation in the FrenCh
Army upon their embarking on the Expedition
against this Country. We were induced to express
our doubts of the authenticity of that Proclamation,
from the suspicious channel through which it was
first given to the Pithlic here, but we are now satis-
fied that it is perfeetly genuine,. and we can confi-
dently say that it was published by authority in
France.

From Ilmsterdam private information is received,
that throws great light on the disposition of the Dutch.
Army, and their present preparations. The Dutch
Minister of War, fearing. that whatever Batavian
troops should accompany the grand Expedition, would,
from disaffeft►on to the cause, suffer themselves• to be
taken Prisoners without much resistance, as soon as
-they had landed in England, published a very strong
Proclamation. to the Army, declaring that the Ra_
tavian Government would consider all those Officers
or Privates, who should suffer themselves to he taken
Prisoners in England, as having forfeited all their
rights as Batavia!) Citizens, and all claims upon the
Republic as Soldiers ; and that they should not be
entitled to any pay, or indemnity for losses, nor
their wives and families to any relief from the Go-
vernment. In consequence of this Proclamatibn,
there was a General Meeting of the Officers of
the Garrison of Amsterdam, at which Meeting
was present, among others, Captain RIGAUD, Aid-
du-Camp to General DumorccEAtr, who has suc-
ceeded DAENDALS in the Chief Command of the
Dutch Army. At this meeting the Officers unani-
mously agreed ouitwo Reiolutions, which were im-
mediately forwarded to General Dont NCEAU, and
from him to the Minister of War at the Hague.—
The first Resolution was, that they would all send in
their resignations, unless this Proclamation was with-
drawn. Secondly, to convince the world that this
resignation did not proceed from the fear of any dan-
ger attending the Expedition, they should, in case
they were obliged to resign, offer themselve to at.
tend the Expedition as simple Volunteers in the
French Army, among whom there was no such re-
gulation. These Resolutions being thus forwarded
to the Dutch Government at the Hague, the Pro-
clamation was withdrawn.

VoLuNTREns.—At a very numerous meeting of
the St. Giles, and St. George Bloomsbury Folunteers,
in the Museum Gardens yesterday, the Command-
ing Officer having explained to them their right of
Resignation, the several Companies unanimously
requested their respeEtive Captains to inform the
Commanding Officer that it wa, their fxed deteimi-
nation not to lay down their arms until the security
cf the County should be permanently established,
and also desired that such their determination should
be immediately communicated to the Lord Lieute-
nant of the County.
Private Letters by the Dublin Mail of yesterday
contain the unpleasant intelligence of a misunder-
standing having lately arisen between the Earl of
HAR DIV ICKB and Lord CATHCART. Of the ground
of this misunderstanding we are not yet informed,
but it is represented to be of so serious a na,ure,
that the resignation either of the LORD I.4EI:TE-
NANT Of the COMMANDER ►n CHIEF must, in all
probability, be the consequence. The same opi-
nion, we find on inquiry,. prevails in the
political circles in London, and it was even
reported yesterday, that Lord HARD W ICKR
was shortly expeded to resign. Our Dublin Cor.
respondent further informs us, that a Military Depiit
in the town of Rathdrum has lately .been broke
open and plundered.

Died, on Monday morning, in the r3th year of
her age, Miss MARY GOULD, second daughter of
THOMAS GOULD, Esq. of Clicapside.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, A'IONDA?, FE.

THE KING lIEPHOURNE AND ANOTHER.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL prayed thejudgment
of the Court upon William Flepboutne, Lieunmaat-.
Colonel, and kohl-) M'Cumming,. late Paymeter of
His Majesty's 31st Regiment, who had been tried
and felted guilty at the Sittings after the last Term
at WeStroinster,' before Lord ELLENI36ROUdIi•ind •
a Special Jury.
They were brought up on the 6r.11 instant, when •
the Whole of their Case was laid before the Court by -
Affidavit, and the address of the Counsel on both .1.
sides. It consisted of making many fraudulent -.-
Charges upon Government for the pay of some
diers for several days after they were dead ; for ser.
jeants and corporals who never were appointed:soda,"
&c. &c. the detail of which is already before the
Public. Nothing now remained but the judgment
of the •C-urt, which was pronounced by
Mr..justice Gaos?, who delivered to the De-
. fendants an appropriate. reproof. The learned
Judge stated first the different heads of the. Charges
contained in the Information, and the different
items of which it was composed—took a distinai in
in the shadesiof guilt of the Defendants; M'Curn-
ming.being the worsteof the two, he having been
more mischievous; aeti ye', and availing himself of
his station as Paytnaster. 71ie observed also, that the
Defendant, COlonel Hepbourne had in his defence
before the Court,. -upon affidavit, endeavoured to
cast the
_blame entirely on M'Cumming, in whose
integrity he alledged he had entirely confided ;
for this, there. might be some foundation, but
nothing that would amount to an excuse.
It was necessary the learned Judge said, for
him here publicly to correci an error which
had -become much too prevalent in the minds •of
some Public Officers, which was, that they were
not responsible for the frauds of those who aled
under them, provided they did not ad fraudulently
themselves. The Defendant, Colonel Hepbourne, had
stated to the Court, that placing implicit reliance
on the other Defendant; John M'Cumminge he
signed these accounts; but that he, the Colonel, did
not know them to be false; had the Jury .believed.
thii, they would have considered the case, on the
part of that Defendant, as founded in error; but.
they had negatived the idea of this being merely
the effe& of error, and had established the guilt of
both Defendants. In this way, however, the Colonel
had endeavoured to say that this was not his offence,
but that he only relied on the honour of Mr.
M'Cumming, believing his vouchers 'tote authentic
he had signed them. This was a breach of trust
which was reposed in him by the Public. It was
his duty. to know the state of the accounts ; he, as
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment, was as likely
to be acquainted with the state of the Regiment as
any body, at least so far as to be able to detect
both error and fraud; and it was his duty-to have
done so. It was clearly proved that he could not
.be ignorant of these particulars ; he knew of the
death of some, and the situation of others, for whom
pay was fraudulently charged. It was necessary
here to observe, however, that when an Officer of
the Public is called upon to testify by his signature
the accounts cf a Receiver or Paymaster afting un-
der him, he must feel- that he is called upon to exa-
mine and corral errors in the account, which may
either' wilfully. be inserted or inadvertently crept
in, and, at all events, to prevent charges being
allowed for which there is no. foundation ; and al- .
though a Lieutenant-Colonel may not be so well
acquainted with all the affairs, and particularly ac-
counts of a Regiment, as the Paymaster may he,
still he is bound to use due diligence to examine -
into the truth of the accounts, and to take care
that none of the items are fabricated :• this was
what the Public had a right to expel} of the De-
fendant, Colonel Hepbourne, in this case. There
would be no-use to the Public in trusting such an
Officer, or in requiring that he should examine such
accounts, if he did not take the' trouble of doing
so, and paying proper attention to that subjed.
It must therefore be under-stood, that negligence
and inattention to any accounts which-Officers sign
as vouchers is a breach of trust to the Public. Upon
the nature of these crimes, as they affed the Public,
the learned Judge said, he had,- since he sat upon
the Bench, and that not .very long ago, so many
occasions •to observe, that he need not say much
upon that topic. Crimes of this kind were so dis-
graceful, so frequent, and so ruinous in their con-
sequences, and therefore so alarming, that the ab-
solute ruin of the State must ensue unless they were
checked.

As to the Affidavits which appeared in behalf of
the Defendants to their charader, they were from
many of the most elevated and honourable persons in
this Country, and it was impassible for the C,Atrt
not to regret that Gentlemen of such high and ho.
nourable stations, should forget what was due to it :
and they must not forget that when they filled these
honourable offices in the service of their Country,
they had two things to attend to—Courage in the
Field, and Integrity in the Closet, and that it will
be in vain that the Country should have been saved
by their valour, if it was to be ruined by their Fraud
in private.
The Court taking all the circumstances of this
case into consideration, did order and adjudge that
John M'Cumming, for this his offence be commit.
ted to the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea
of this Court for 18 calendar months ; and that Wm.
Hepboutne be there imprisoned for 12 Calendar
months, and then di'charoed.

LENT CIRCUITS.

NORTHERN.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH and Mr. Justice
Yorkshire and City—Tuesday, March 13, at York.
Lancashire—Thursday, March 29, at Lancaster.
NORFOLK

Lord ALVANLEY and Mr. justice (7 Rost,
Buckinghamshire—Saturday, March 3, at Aylesbury.
Bedfordshire—Thursday, March 8, at Aylesbury.
Huntingdonshire—Saturday, March to, at Huntingdon,
Cambridgeshire—Tuesday, March 13, at Cambridge.
Norfolk—Saturday, March 17, at Thetford.
Sutiblk—Wednesday, March zl, at Bury St Edmunds.

Feb. 8, died, at Castle Cary, Somersershire, after
a long and pint-ill illness, Mrs. BURGS, wife of
JOHN BURGE, &q. much and deservedly beloved.

From the LONDON GAZETrA, Feb. li, 1834.

Co»mission in the Bedlordsliire Jlilitia, signed ty the Lord Lieu-
tenant. Doted yam:idly 2j, 1804.
Charles Maddison. Esq.. to be Captain.
Commissions in. the Cheshire Militia,-signed by the Lod Lieu-
- terdqt.
Francis Jodrell, Esq. to be Second - Major, vice Ince, pro-
mated: Datel 1804. Thomas Marsden Jodrell,
Esq. to bLl.Captain, vice deceased. Dated as above.
James Bayley, Jun. Esq.'-to be ditto, vice Cotton. Dated
an. 19, tBc4 .Caorge Barlow, Gent. to be Ensign. 'Dated
Jan. 13, 1504. Edward Garner, Gent. to be ditto. Dated
as above.

Commission signed ly His Majesty's Lieutenant for the County of

Itadnor.
Herrti• Bevan, Clerk, to be Deputy-Lieutenant. Dated Jan.
ISO 4.

- ' Ordnance-Ogee, Feb., 10, 1304. '
- - Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Georp C-rawford,/Gent. to be Second Lieutenant. Dated
Feb. 2, 1804.
Carpal Gunner Dri;vers in the Royal Regiment of ry
Artille.
Peter Henry Short, Gent. to be Lieutenant Commissary.
Dated Feb. 1, 1304.

r- Office, Feb. ir, 1834.

Perthshire Gentlemos and Yeomanry Cavalv.
Captain Lawrence Oliphant to be Major. vice Drummond,
deceased. Captain-Lieutenant James Bell to be Captain.
Lieutenant Robert Graham to be ditto. vice Oliphant.
Cornet fames Farlane to be Lieutenant, vice Graham.
Quarter-master Wm. Blair to be Cornet, vice Nl`Farlane.
Draycott Volunteer Cavalry.
Hon. Henry Windsor to be Captain. Abraham Lloyd Ed-
ridge, Cent. to be Lieutenant. William Coleman, Gent.
to be Cornet.

S*utb East Hants Gentlemen and Yeontatt7Cavilry.
TheophiTus Lewis, Gent. to. be Cornet, vice Waltnesley,
resigned. . _

:Ivediston Volunieer brjan:fy.
Thomas King, Esq. Lo be Captain. • • •

Arcbenfleld Volunteer, (before Gazetted as the Wormlow and
. . . . Grejtree).
.George Money, Esq. to be Major.
To be Ciptains—George Avetine, Esq. LieutenatA.james'
Nixon, vice Scudamore, resigned. • Nathaniel Purchase,
Esq. vice Lechinere, resigned.
TO be Lieutenants—William Dobles, Gent. Ensign Richard
Parker." William Jones, Gent. vice Fosket, resigned.
john Davies, Gent, vice Morgarwesignect. John Collins,
Gent vice-Palmer, resigned-. William Fisher, Gent. vice
Hereford, resigned.
To be EnsiAnS—j, Powell, Gent. J. Stalland, Gent. S.
itowgil, Gent. G. Harvey, Gent.. F. Southern, Gent.
Vice Palmer, resigned. john Bennet, Gent, vice Arrow-
smith, resigned.

.4.l•lsbum Light Infantry Polanteers.
Captain- Collyer to be Major-Commandant, vice Hon. Geo.
Walpole.
• - Bainton Beacon 141uNteets.
Cap-tain Griinston to be Major-Commandant- John Harti-
,Gent. to be Lieutenant. I ohn Ciiulton, Gent, to beditto.
John Ushart, Gent. to be Ensign. Jacob Laybourn, Gent.
to be ditto.

Bo:burst and Wokingbam Volunteers.
Bro..vn, -Gent. to be Quarter-master.
Bathir!./:;): Ccurpaiiy of Gloirceiterihire Vlunterr-s.
Ensign Thoraa-Bryan to be Lieutenant, vice Manning, re—
signed.

Lryal 131,-mingham Polanteer Infzni,j'.
vißattalion. -Warmington, Gent. to be Adjutant.
3d.Battalion, • . Ensign Shepiwrd Lo be Lieutenant, Nice Ra-
bone, resigned.
Bze,teshire Bata Ln of Volunteer Infantry.
Captain john M'Gregor to be Adjutant.

Berwick Arme.l gss9ciation.
Adam Maitland, Esq. to be Captain. Robert Col tart, Gent.
to, be Lieutenant. Alexander Nlacartney, Gent. to be En.
sign.

Rjlal Clarence Volunteers.
First Lieutenant Thomas Howells to be Captain. Second
-Lieutenant 17avici Lewis to be First Lieutenant. Second

-Lieutenant Thomas Nlakeig to be First Lieutenant, vice

Howells.
TO .be'Second Lieutenants—Arian Williams, Gent. Evan
Evans, Gent. David Evans.‘ Gem. Isaac N opt; Gent.
To be Chaplaiii—Rev. lohn Nelson.

Lj,al V;luntter Infantry.

Lieutenant Isaac Greensmith to be Qaptain, vice Maynard,
promoted. Secpnd Lieutenant Charles Miller to be First
Lieutenant, vice Greensmith.
To be Second Lieutenants—Edward Field, Gent. vice Miller.
Heelor Davies Morgan, Gent. George Travers, Gent.
Tb be Adjutant, with the Brevet Rank of Captain —William
Murrell, Esq.

Cation Pe!tinker Iniralto .1. •
Henry Harvey, 4ent. to,be Lienterunt,,vice Irby, resigned.
Bat:4bn e3l the id Re6,-intext Edinburgh Volunteer".
Charles Ross, Esq. to be Captain. lames Gibson, Esq. to
'be dint). Alexander Irvine, Gent. to be Lieutenant.
George Cranstnn, Gent. to be cUtto.
Tube Ensigns—David Cathcart, Gent. Adam Gillies,
Gent. Alexander Lurnsclen, Gent. vice Brangliam, re-
signed.

zd Compa,f_y V SZarpShcoters.

. .
William Clerk, Esq. to be Captain. John Ferrier, Cent.
to be Lieutenant. Thomas Miller, Cent. to be ditto.
Inglis, Gent. to be Ensign.
' • Edinburgh Highland Volunteer:. • -
Captain-Lieutenant Douglas to be Captain, vice Graham
promoted. Lieutenant William M`Ponald to be Captain_
Lieutenant, -vice Douglas. Ensign William Steuart to be
-Lieutenant, vice M'Donald. Archibald Fletcher, Gent.
.io be Ensign, vice Steuart.

Evesbam lidunteir Infantry.
Lieutenant Anthony Stratton to be Captain, vice Boltes,
ceased. Ceorge William Smith to be Lieutenant,
vice-Stratton. [obit 'I) 'odor, Gent. to be Ensign, vice,
Smith. ' . • • _ _ _

Eartern D.:ltria of Filisbire Volunteers.
Illexat:der Bell, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Brown, resigned.
fames Mercer, jun. Gent. to be Quatter-mastcr.
Trades Volunteers,
Tames Graham, EA. to be Lieutenant-ColOnel. William
Barry, M. D. to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Glamorgan RAmen.

Rev. David Thomas to be Chaplain.
Haddingtonsii e Saltation of Volunteer Infantry.
Robert Scott, Esq. to be Major. jolan Y: Donaldson, Gent,
to be Surgeon.

HadkieiVolurtetr I,l:paty.

Lieutenant Tohn to' be Captain. Ensign George Glubh
Parsons to be Lieutenant. Nathaniel I):ake, ,Gent. to be'
Lieutenant. Robert Offord, Gent, to be Ensign. Edward
Reeve, Gent. to be Ensign.
/s/and of Sky and Lang Island l'clunteer Battalions. •
Colonel - Lord Macdonald to be Colonel,

Long Jiand Additional Company.
Ensign Alexander M' Lean to be Lieutenant. lames !VP Queen,
Cent. to be Ensign

Kirkalclr Fe!writer:.

Lieutenant-Colonet ltotreir Douglas 'to be Lieutenant-Co-
lonel-Commandant, vice Christie, resigned. Gilbert Be-
thune, Esq. to be Lieutenant-Coloncr, vice Douglas
Earl Kent Regiment of I'd:truer:- 1)0.17.
Edwqrd Scudamore, sen. Cent. to be Sortreon.
Scuetant6re, juia. Cent. to bg A ssistant-Surgeosi:

Edward

Loyal KnutsforerPohenteer Ittjiintv.
Lieutenant Daniel Leech to be Captain, vice Wallace, re-
signed.' Ensign Joshua Cragg to be Lieutenant, vice Leech.
Thomas Wrigley Ferrabre, Gent: to be Ensign,- vice
Cragg. •

Lane End Velun:eerinfantly.

. .
EnsignSherridan to be Lieutenant. Thomas Mayer,
Gent. to. be Ensign, vice Sherridan. lolin Lomax, Gent.
to be Ensign, vice Beckett, resigned.
Rifle
'Esq. to bel.:aptain. John Unett, Gent: to
be Lieutenant.
To be Surgeon--john Chadwick, Gent.
. . .

Qd Lbat74474..sure reunreer Inia"try-
Alexander Thornton, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Tifos. Brown,
Cent. to be Ensign. Serjeant-Major Allan Dick to be Ad-
jutant. ,
_

Liv" Fuzilerfrs.

Rev. john Smith to be Chaplain. fames Marshall, Gent: to
be Surgeon, vice Dr. fames Carson.
Lavington and Cbeverell Volunteers.

Tohn Garratt, Esq. to be Captain. Leonard Tinker, Cent.
to be Lieutenant. A. Edwards Saunders, Gent. to be
Ensign.
St. Ge2rge's Regiment of Manchester Volunteers.

Ensign john Chadwick to be Lieutenant, vice Percival., pro-
moted. John Mansell, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Chad-
wick. John j.wett, Gent. to be Quarter-master.
Manchester and Salford Rifle Regiment.
Edward Rushton, Esq. to' be Captain, rice Wood, promoted.
William Keeling, Gent. to be Quarter-Master, vice Jor-
dan.
n4th, cr Bury Company o t ne
John Battersby, Esq. to be Captain. v iohn Grundy, Gent.
to be Firit Lieutenant. William Ashton, Gent. to be Se-
cond Lieutenant.

Newbury Yoluntecrr.
Richard Horner Gent, to be Adjutant.
EdWard Wood-con, Gent. to be Quarter-Master, vice Bull,
resigned. •
tyal IVewbarcugh Volunteers.
Major William Glynn:. Griffith to' be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Robert 1,-,:;rnas Carrev, Esq..to be Major.
To be. Captain's— Roberi Currie, Esq. -Robert Rout, Esq,
Robert Griffith, Esq. john Ellis, Eiq. Griffith Wil-
liams, Esq. Griffith Roberts, Esq. Hugh Rowlands,
Esq.
To be 'Lieutenants—Richard Griffith, Gent. Wm. Prich-
ard, Gent. Richard Griffith, Gent. Elias Williams, Cent.
David Jones, Gent. Richard Griffith, Gent. Evan Hughes,
Gent. Hugh lons, Gent.
T• be Ensigns—Hugh ThonAlS Gent. Robert Edwards,
G,.mt, Humphrey Owen, Gent. Hugh tones, Gent.
Robert Hughes, Gent. john Prichard, Gent, Robert
Jones, Gent. _ _

Newcastle Volunteers.
Captain joluk Smith to be Major. Lieutenant Edward 'Mar-
• chant Page to be Captain, vice Smith. Ensign Walter
Ridgeway Smith to .be Lieutenant, vice Chilot, resigned.
Ensign Thomas Moile to be Ditto, vice Page.
To be Ensigns—John Scarlet, Gent. Ed. Foulkes Cleavin,
Gent. .john hccles, Gent.
To he Surgeon—Lieutenant Robert Bentley, vice Bent, Te-
sioetl.: •
To be r\ssistant-Surgeon—Edward Foulkes Cleavin, Gent.
Lerke's Newpere Volunteer:.
Rev. John Dryden Pigott to be Chaplain. •
ad Battalion of Nodolh Volunteer Infantry.
Lieutenant EdAvard Larkin. Waltord to be Adjutant. with
Rank of Captain.
a ith Battalion of Ditto. Anthony Hamond, Esq. to be
Lieutenant-Colonel. lames Coldham, Esq. to be Major.

Quern:ferry Artillery.
Thomas. Malcom, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant.

St. Andrew's Vaunterrt.

lames Wright, Cent. to be Quarter, Master.

St. _Giles's Volunteers

Adjutant lotin Fernarklez, to have the 13re.vAt rank of Captain.

- •
..Vouthantpion roirtnreers; a Brigade-rift.= Rana/ions.
Colonel -George Porter to, be Lieutenant-Colonel Com-
mandant.

Stockbrilge,Tan:b9urne, and Matthfint Battalion.
Colonel George Portzr to be Lieutenant-Colonel-Corn-
• mandant.

Sam bourne Volunteer Infantry.

john Judd, Gent. to bc.F.nsign, vice Wyatt, promoted.

•
Stow Hundred Vollll:trent.
Ensign John Marriott to be lictiteaant. .
vighity rolunteers.

• • .
Ensign Alexander Red' rob^ Lieutenant, vice Bell, resigned .
George Cobb, Ccut. to be Ensign, vice Reay.
Stratv47l.4lunicer Corps.

Rcthiemarchus and Kincairn Compaly.
Erisign Mlncati Nignresh to he Lieutenant, vice j. Stewart
resigner{. joi' Grant, Gti.z. to be Ensign, vice hlnntosh.

• Tbdwastry PViivrer Nanny.
Lieutenant 1. B. Blake to be Contain, vice Runbury, resign-
ed. S. MOthersole, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Blake.

Whitehavo: Artillery,'
William Plasket, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Sherwin,
resig►►ed.
North Irc;•cesterlunteer &lanky.
Rev. krenaiali Smith, A. M. to be Chaplain.
Asch;oer, Wiritcharch, and 1:769r11ve1l Battalion.
Ralph Etwall, •Esq to be Major.

St. lve's Polunteers.
oseplt Hocking, Gent, to be Vnsign. lames Rosewall,
Gent. to be Ensign, vice Hart, resigned.
Artillery.
Thomas Broderiek, Esq. to be elptßin. Thomas Knaggs,
Cent. to be Captain-Lieutenant, Robert Preston Gent. '
to be First Lieutenant. Tho:uas Benson,•Gent. tobe ditto.
John Maitin Ay re, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant,

11-7ilteil.4ven !'oh, Freers.

Campbell Heady, Ebg. to be Adjutant, with the
Rank Of Captain.

- Inriington
Allison Crostbwaitt-, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice
Tickell, resigned.

GARRISON.

ThorriaS Dodd, t sq. Captain in the Royal Artillery, to be
Secretary to the Governor of the G/yrison of i.ibraltar,
vice Raleigh, resigned.

. . .
At the last Sessions for the Borough of IPswich,
lames Payne and his friend Lot, were tried on an
Indiament for a joint Assault on SARAH ANNE
MORGAN. This Cause, from the beauty of the
Lady, and the singularity of the case, excited much
attention: Payne had for, some time paid his ad.
dresses to Miss Morgan, with till, approbation of
her mother and her father-in-law, Carrington, who
keep the Rose public-house in Ipswich ; but from
some interested or capricious motives, the father_in.
law withdrew his consent. The young Lady, how-
ever, persisted 'her attachment,. the ring was
bought, and fitted. on her finger, whilst she impre-
cated that her hand Might rot Off if ever-she gave it
to another ; the banns were published at Wood-
bridge
Church, where they intended to marry.---
She told her lover that she was going•to drink tea
with her aunt, wlio keeps another public-house in
Ipswich, to which a post-chaise was ordered, to
carry her off. When she arrived at the chaise-door,
her heart failed. her,. and Payne, with the help of
the driver, lifted her in. 'Her 'aunea•ostler, how-
ever, rushed out and stopt the'horses, whilst the
timid and disappointed lover suffered his intended
spouse to he handed out of the chaise, after having
stopt her mouth with one civil kiss.

Stich is the versatility of human nature (we must
not say fickleness of the Fair), that Miss Morgan,
was induced to piefer an ,'Lididrnent apinst her
tiiver'and his friend Lot, who had no farther in-
terfered than by beckoning' lievout of her aunt's
kitchen, where she was sitting twirling her hat
upon the tip-toe of expedation. The Sentence
passed by the Learned Recnrder. (Mr: ALDEKSori)
was_, that Payne, the Laver, shouldbe imprisoned
for axe
_year in IptWieli Borough Gaol, and pay a
fine of 201. to the King;' and that Lot, whom, in
his Address to the Jury, he compared to the Trum-
peter in the Fable, for summoning the fair one to
the field of action, should pay a fine of 201. and be
imprisoned until the fine was paid. •