The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-25 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, SEPT. 21.

CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.

THE .Circnit Court of iJuctiriary was 'opened at
13-flt,,. on Saturday last,hvlhe Right Hun. the Loris
:J),:tNSINNAN. Anti CRAIG.

- A case, which should have-gone to trial at the'''.
SiirliOg Circuit, was aProsecution at the instance:
-of • Dr.. T. Rind,:Physician in Stirling, with,con-
currence of His Majesty's Advocate, againstjaMes
:R mile, on of George • R;-,pnie, E-,q. of Rirk.
For .sending Dr: Riad a Challenge to fight a
Duel. Mr. BoyLF, Counsel for Dr. Rind, moved
zthe Court for-leave-A° desert the diet prO loco et-tem-
._ • •

The Honourable HENRY ERSKINE, as Counsel
_far Mr. Rennie, opposed Mr. Boytes Motion,
on the ground that no aelion whatever depended be.
fore the Court, in v.hich his Lord:hipcould proceed,
Hs the Pr secutor had failed to report his,Letters in
terms of the Aa, of Parliament, . and, therefore
moved the Court to declare Dr. Rind's Bond of
Cauti.'n forfeited.

As this was a point of form of some importance,
.and required-to- be maturely considered, Lord ebt....
.LEN certified the whole to the High Court ofius.
ticiary for their decision. •
On Saturday last, the r S,h curt. the Circuit Court
of justiciary was.opened at Dumfries, by the Right
Hon. Lord ARMADAL!, and Lord MEADOW DANK,
.when the Court proceeded to,the trial of John Cook,
labourer, residing in:Kirkcudbright, accused of corn-
mit iog a rape upon.Susarma Caffield, a young girl
about fourteen years of age. The trial continued
to a late hour in the afternoon, when the Jury were
inclosed, and
,ordained to return their verdid on
Monday morning at ten o'clock.
, The Court met again at the time last mentioned,
when the Jury returned a verdiet, all in one voice,
.finding the Pannel -Guilty ; whereupon their Lord.
ships pronounced Seucence. of Death upon the said
john Cook, prdaining him to.be executed at Dum-
fries, on the 24th Ottober next.

The next case that came before the Court was
that of Pierce Irving; son, 'and Catherine Irving,
daughter, of John Irving, in Elosh, accused of ut-
tering forged notes on the Greenock Bank Company,
knowing. them
.to-We forged. After the examina.
tion of several Witnesses, some circumstances oc.
curred, which induced the Advocate Depute to de.
dine prosecuting the trial ; and the presiding Judge
informed the Jury, that although they could not
return a verdis of Not Guilty, it was incum-
bent on them to find' That the Libel had not beep

proved.
The 'Jury were then enclosed, and soon after re-
turned a verditt, all in one voice, finding the 'Libel
not 'raven ; and the Pannels were thereupon assoiliz.
ed simpliciter, and dismissed from the Bar.

The Thermometer at Lewes, on Sunday se'n_
night, at noon, was at 86 in the shade, in a Nor-
therly situation, and at it t in the Sun : within
doors 76: being the greatest heat since-1774..
Most of the Hop Planters of Sussex have now
begun picking; and a finer sample never went tit
Market than their early Packets and Bags this
year will produce. The estimated growth, ac.
cording to present appearances, is said by judges;
to he upon the average about ten hundred weight
an Acre.

At the various Fairs in Sussexduring the last two
weeks, the price of Cattle has rather decreased, but
that of Hogs has somewhat augmented.
• Foor RAct.—The match made between Mr.
BAR,CLAy and Capt. MARSTON, of. the 48th Regi.
ment, to run one mile for too guineas, was per-
formed on ;he 18th inst. at East Bourne, in Sussek.
The Gentlemen were both such celebrated pedes-
trians, that the race attraaed some hundreds of
spdtators-: a great deal of money was sported,
and as Capt. MARSTON was known, by the Regiment,
to he a swift runner, he found many to back him.
The two Gentlemen started at an early hour. Mr.
BARCLAY suffered his c.nnpetitor to take the lead,
apd keep it for a short distance, when he passed
him, act! continued ahead to the end of the race.
lie completed the distance in five minutes and seven
seconds, notwithstanding the intense beat of the
weather.

.Sund,ly a lighterman stepping off a plank at the
floating dock, Rotherhithe, fell overboard, and was
drowned. •Notwithstanding several boats were near,
they were not able to find the body, as, from the
small depth of water, it stuck in the mud, and was
not got up till yesterday.
Yesterday mornitsg, about eleven o'clock, as a
dnstman with his cart was gathering dust in Gray's
Inn Lane, a poor man, a coachman, who happened
to be going by the cart, was suddenly taken with a
swimming in his head, when. he fell down and the
wheel passed over his shoulder and one part of his
head, which literally squeezed one of his eyes out
of the socket. He was immediately taken to St.
Bartholomew's flowital, but little hopes are enter-
tained of his recovery. Fortunately the cart was
empty, otherwise he must have been killed on the
There is not the bast blame can be attached
to the driver, he being close to his horse, but did
nt4perceive the accident till it was too late.