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London, England, 1826-07-14 00:00:00

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
WOSCISTIR, JULY 12

CIVIL sins.
The. Court has been occupied the whole day in trying
a right of way cause, which had no kind of interest ex-
cept to the parties.
CROWN stns.—ClTY raisnitzas.
Thomas Munn, aged 22,, leather-grounder, for stealing
a watch from the person of Mr. J. W. Burraston, of Om-
bersley, in the crowd, in Broad-street, at the close of the
chairing of the City Members, on the evening of June 16.
He was taken just as he had got the watch into his bawl;
Mid said, that " it was done by accident."—Twelve
Months' imprisonment to hard labour.
Charles Stewart Ward, aged 25 stocking weaver, was
elirged with stealing a five pound of England note,
from the person of John Meredith.
Mr. Justice BEIRROUGH said that he regretted to find
this trick of sharpers, so common in London, extending to
the country, and sentenced the prisoner to fourteen years
transportation.
In the following cases no bills were found by the Grand
Jury:---John Smith alias Bunn, charged with uttering
counterfeit coin at Bromsgrove ; William Nash, aged 4.3,
charged with stealing poplar boards, the property of Sir
C. S. Smith, Bart. ; Samuel Smith, aged 17, charged
with a stealing a 1/. note, the property of Mary Bury, of
Boehford ; George Firkins, charged with an assault upon
Eliz. Harrison, at the Crown, Clains.
Two cases of perjury, alleged to have been committed
► tuking.up the freedom of the city, were traversed to
ext Assizes.
The Seditious and Traitorous Libel Case is traversed
ail the next Assizes.
The Crown business terminated at eleven this morning.

WORCESTER SESSIONS.
This day, as soon as Mr. Justice Burrough bad left the
Crown Court, the Quarter Sessions were holden.
An appeal was heard, The Staffordshire and Worcester-
shire Canal Company v. the Hamlet of Lower Mitton.
This point has been decided in one or two cases, par-
ticularly in the case of the King v. the Birmingham and
Fazeley Canal Company, argued in the Court of King's
Bench in 1821. The case is reported in, Barnewall and
Alderson, but we have not the book before us.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
SALISBURY, .JULY 12.

CROWN corm..
Ann Davis, who was convicted on the first day of the
Assizes of wilful and corrupt perjury, having falsely sworn
that Walter Long, Esq. a Magistrate of the county, was
the father of an illegitimate chdd, was this day placed at
the bar, turd after a suitable address from Mr. Justice Lit-
dedule, was ordered to be confined in the jail of this county
for the space of six calendar months.

RIOT AT TROWSRIVOIC.
Nathaniel Pearce, John Gregory, George Reynolds,John Parnell, Daniel Davies, mi. Jain' Thompion',' were
put to the bar, charged with assembling riotously at Trow-
bridge, on the 7th ot' May last; and in another count, with
demolishing a guard-house and liberating a prisoner; and
also with assaulting W. E. Waldron, Esq., one of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in the execution of his
duty.
The prisoners did not call any witnesses, nor did they
offer any thing material in their defence. Pearce, Gregory,
and Purnell were acquitted, and the other prisoners,
Thompson, Davies, and Reynalk were found guilty.
John Purnell, Charles 'Hoop John Dilley, and
'Thomas Turner, were subsequently put on trial, charged
with assembling tumultuously, and destroying vegetables
brought for sale into the market at' Trowbridge.—They
Were found guilty.
Joseph Brown, a person somewhat above the lowest
class in appearance, was IleXt,
_put to the bar, charged with
' inciting persons to riot at Trowbridge, on the all of May,
arid also with assiiiting in the riot.
The prisoner said that. he Was intoxicated on the evening
of the riot ; and this statement having been in some
degree corroborated by_the evidence of the constables, t he
prisoner was acquitted.
RIOT AT likADrollb.
Henry Banks, James Alley, JosephDerrett, and John
Stokes, were charged with assisting in e. riot at Bradford,
on the 13th of May.
The prisoners were acquitted.
Ann Hill, who was found guilty yesterday. of robbing
Mary Ann Body, and extorting froni her clothes and mo-
ney, on pretence of procuring her a huSband, was again
brought up this day.
Mr. Justice Gaselee said he would recommend that her

lift; should be spared.
Henry Hemmings was indicted for stealing two fowls,
value 35., the property of Mri. Fowler, of Melkaham,
in
this county. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be
confined and kept to hard labour for twelve months in the
House of Correction.
Robert Banks, a man afflicted with. total blindness, and
• Isaac Hurd, were indicted for stealing a hen, the property
of Wm. Banks, at Layworth, in this county.
The witnesses proved that on the night of the 27th of
June, a noise was heard in the prosecutor's fowl-house,
and that‘ on going out, the voice of the blind man was dis-
tinctly heard giving a signal to the other prisoner, who ac-
companied him. In the morning the fowl was missed, and
the blind man's house searched, when the hen was found,
with the feathers still on the head, boiling in spot over the
fire. The prosecutor said that he had no doubt that the hen
he found in the pot was the one he had stolen from him.—
(The head of the hen was here produced, preserved in a
bottle, and occasioned much laughter.)—Prosecutor swore
positively to the identity of his fowl.
Not having profiler(' any witnesses, to support his de-
fence, Banks was found ONO, and sentenced to be con.
fined for 12 months in the House of Correction.
(errnatrr TO COMUIT A KAM
Wiliam Quintin was indicted for having assaulted Mrs

Elkings, with intent to commit a capital felony.
The prisoner was acquitted ofthe intent to commit a
rape, but was found guilty of a common assault, and sen-
tenced to be imprisoned for six months.
• CURIOUS CHARtilt OP CONSPIRACY.
Abu Brown, Junes Waters, and *--. Masters, were put
to the has, charged with conspiring together to i duce
John Curtly, the younger, to marry Mary Ingram,' the
said Mary Ingram being then pregnant by the said Joint
Curdy. The alleged ob3eet of the conspirators, who were
parish officers, was to shift the haulier) of maintaining the
woman and her illegitimate child from their own parish to
that of Cranbonrne, where Curtly had a settlement,
Mr. Selwyn stated the case for the prosecution. He
said that Mary Ann Ingram was a pauper, having a set-
tlement iu one pariah, and was discovered to be pregnant;
and, upon enquiry, • she said that the father of the bastard
was Curdy, who was himself a pauper, anfendd had a Sett
ied
le,
meat in the parish of Cranbourne. The defendants apps
to Curdy, and represented to him that he had
ve his
s choice
ice
of three evils ; he must marry the woman, gi
for the maintenance of the child in two bonds
ro of '2Ol
ls were
. each
or go to prison. The first and last of these posa
p
l'a unpalatable to Curtly as the second i.vas
impossible,--,
Ile neither wished to marry the. woman, nor to a
digo to
prison; but the defendants, by treating him with
net., sod sod plying him with drink, worked so much upon
the wretchted man,, that at length he coOSented to marry
the woman. To keep Curtly to his word, the defendants
lost no time, but persuaded him to come with them to
support of 0
eoulmeinonA
illi-sbury, where a licence was procured and the nuptial
r, the wedding. -
t We' tied; after which there :wilti another dinner to
In in
Cranhiktow. 1 hay case, Thomas Davis was sworn, and
said---I ant orte of the guard'l is of the oor in the parish of
Dave kruiwnkJloh 1 Curdy I' the younger these
twenty yeas; tic is 110‘.‘,
about r Pr( Y:
His fisther and..mother 4re t"nqF
fpur years at
ledge John Curtly vms
ni,vepratinthioners, and ton
ii .
__e
ii a labouring man, and has no)epp out of the p shu
011 .
' knOv
The father is also a labo • other means of 41 Trt
wing man • I have dm% relieved