The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-25 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE ASSIZES.

Mr. John Gli,ver, of Leeds, whitesmith, obtain, d
a ierditi, %tit • 91. damages apitist Sir H. C. lob ,t-
-ssn, Bart. of Dent6n Park, uear Odey, under the fol-
lowing circumstances •

Mr. M.,v,r made for Sir Henry an engine for t. e
purpose of weighing cattle alive, wh r by to, slicer-
lain their improvement in feeding. Sir Henry, it is
will known;\ is a .great experimental farmer, and
was of course anxious to have this machine as com-
plete as possible. The machine was pill up, and Sir
Henry, paid 201. in part of its price; to recover the
balance of t, u guineas stated to be due to Mr. Glo-
ver, for alterations, &c. this aaion was brought. Sir
Henry had resisted the Payment on the ground that
the engine was incomplete.
Mr. Greenwood deposed to this effea, and said,
" that it was utterly impossible to weigh correctly
on such a machine."

• Mr. Henry Gothard supprTteLl his eiidence, as did
John Hohnes, Sir Henry's hind. Mr.-H. F. S,:utt
said, that be waited upon Mr. Glover, at Leeds,
along -with his 'relation Sir Henry IbbAson 'about
Easter.- Sir Henry said, that from eve,}- trial-he lied
made, he:was so thoroughly convinced the machine,
had some radical defect, ,that he would give Mr.
Glover five pounds to take it again ; or if he would
make it appliCabLi to the purpose intended, he wouht
.pay all expences of the alterations.. Mr. Glover re-
turned no specific answer to this proposal, out said
*the machine would preci-ion it the
mal were placed, exa6tly in the .rniddle Gi the ttiat-
-form. To this Sir Henry replied, that he could not
prevail upon living animals to stall eiuLtly to L.a-i
position,
On the part of the plaintiff it was adduced by Mr.
John Cawood.,'ol. Leeds, iron-foul:111r, that. ire bad
made several' experiments upon the machine, anti
found it to be mart accurately aijusted. Mr. Thu,
Weare, of Leeds, hoilJer, and Mr. George Sykes, of
Winmoor, deposed to the same effect.
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Mr. PARKE, the plaintiff's Counsel, spoke at gre: t
length, and contended that the machine, big oii,i
of the agrieiln oi'3l fncies or novelties of the present
day, made by the order and under the ditedion o.
Sir Henry, ought to be paid tor, as the mech c
could not, under4iuch circumsiances, be responsible.,
for its detects.
The Jkiry give a verdia fir the plaintiff-1)a.
wages 91.

On Sunday forenoon a.severe accident happened
to Mr. Whelbourn,.clerk in the bre,%ery of Mt-sirs.
Clarke and Gee, of Boston. 'lra:ening with his
wife and two children towards Spalding, io a gig.
between Surtt-et and Gosberton, the horse tout
fright, overturned the gig, and broke it to pieces. In
the fall Mr. W: had one of hip knees very badly frac-
tured; his wife was also much hurt; and the chil-
dren thrown into the most perilous situations ;• one
of them was taken up from under a wheel of the
A,haise; bar, providentially, neither of them was.
much injured.

Buckley, Flerning; Brenwick,'and Sullivan, found
guilty of the murder 01 John Bolding, at the I:te
Chelrrisford Assizes, were re.pil'evetl; but Sweeny
and Pearce underwent the sentence of the-
Sapilday morning, They aseenSed the platform
about half after /3 -o'clock,..attended by iwo Boman
Catholic Clergymen, with whom, falling on their
knees, they joined in prayer, with apparent devo-
tion, for a tew minutes ; yet, al er being tied up,
and before the Clergymen- had quitted them/both
the culprits threw off their shoes, SWeeny kicking
his to a distance with. some violence. They were
Shortly afterwards launched into eternity, in pre-
sence of a vast concourse of speEtators. Their bo-
dies were delivered to the surgeons-for disseaion#.
HIGH TIDE --Thursday week, an extraordinary
high tide, accompanied by a boisterous north wind,
and very tempestuous, sea, swept stkay about 30
yards in .length of the outer wall of Clifford's Fort,
at Tynemouth, .which has stood since
.1746. Some
Masses of stone were carried, by the force of the
waters, near 30 yards from the site of the 'wall. It
also tore up and carried away some hundred tors of
earth and gravel to the eastward of the tort; and de-
stroyed the blocks lately erected for laying do%4n
the frame of a new ship. This tide was also felton
the Lincolnshire coast. It has done some damage
to the embankment in different plaoes, but particue
lady to the new bank in Skirbeck parish,- the guar)•
tity of five or six yards of which in one place is coml•
pletely carried away from the base. The sea flowed
into the neighbouring corn lands to the depth of
about six inches, but did no material damage.
Early rei aration was afforded by WO . hands with
many carts on Thursday ; but the injury done to
the bank by that morning's tide, it is supposed, will
CUSI 10001.

A letter nom Mr. Leonard Knaggs, who was taken
in the 4Vepitine, Allinson, in July 1803, to his hi°.
they in Whitby, dated Olivet, 26th ult. contains tl:e
following particulars :

On the Ist of April last, Mr% Knaggs, w:th a
fellow prismier, contrived to effect their escape Irons
prison, and had travelled four days unmolested,
when about midnight they unfortunately fell in
with a band of robbers, five in number, who in-
sisted upon plundering•them of the few articles they
had been able to bring away wit It, them. The pour
men, rendered desperate by the sufferings they had
undergone during so long a period of confinement,
maintained a successful resistance such su-
perior numbers for half an Ilptir, when ole of t-Leir
opponents clapping a pistol to the. breast of hispati.
tier, they Were compeled to surt'ender. The rob-
be.rs, though from their having so long deferred to
produce the pistol, it would seem they were
Zing to take life, had nevertheless tl,e inhumanity to
deprive them not only of their money and provi-
sions, but also of their shoes, stoci,inos, and shirts.
In this deplorable state they were found the follow-
ing morning, and marched back in chains to th,:ir
former prison, where, though Mr. Knaggs was
wounded in three places, they were thrown into a
cell twelve feet below the ground, and confined
there 31 days, as a punishment for leaving the pri-
son. The writer had recovered of his wounds ;
but observes, that their sufferings would have been
extreme, had it not been for the humane attention
soewo thew by some of their townsmen in tia; same
prison."