The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-14 00:00:00

LENT ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, Aram 11•
Charles Taylor was indicted for assaulting Char-
lotte Smith, at Aylharton, in this county, and Throw-
ing her into a river.

Mrs. Charlotte Smith, on the 10th of January
last, went to the Hare and Hounds public-house, in
search of her husband, when the defendant seized
her round the waist, carried her out of the house►
and plunged her into an adjoining brook; he threW
himself in with her, and ducked her head under
water. She called out " Murder" several times•
At last the prisoner left her; he at the same time
calling out "Murder."

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN having expressed his opi-
nion that there conk! be no excuse for the assault
committed by the prisoner, the Jury found him
Guilty, and he was sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment.

The circuit closed here this afternoon.
Eliza Young, aged thitty, was charged with the
murder of her illegitimate child by exposing it to the
inclemency of the weather.

Mr. JusTicE conducted the prosecution.
Mrs. Anne Jones said—l reside at Henbury. The
prisoner was in my service. I observed an altera-
tion in her appearance. I told her I believed she
was enceinte, but she denied it. On the 15th of
November 1 went to look after the prisoner, and 1
found the body of an infant lying on one of the
garden-borders, about twenty yards from the house-
door I soon after saw the prisoner, who appeared
very ill. I told her she had had a child, but she
denied it. On the next day, Mr. Perry, the surgeon,
was sent for, and I accompanied him to the place
where the child was. The child was lying on its
back, with its eyes shut, and its mouth a little
open. The child was plain to be seen, and not
hidden in any way; its feet were a little splashed
with dirt, and the bands were bent, but not quite
closed, and in one of them was a leaf, but it had
been a very blowing stormy night, and the leaf
might, I think, have got into the child's hand after
death. I think that a child born alive out of doors
on such a night as that would and must have died
in a minute or two. The child bore no marks Of
violence whatever.
Mr. Henry Perry, a surgeon, said—l am a men'
ber of the College of Surgeons. I was sent for to
the house of Mrs. Jones to attend the prisoner, who
at first denied having a child, but she at length ad-
mitted that she had. I remember that it was a
blowing stormy night, and I am quite satisfied that
a child born in the open air on such a night as that
must have died in half a minute, even if it had been
born alive; but whether this child was born alive I
have some doubt.

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN directed the Jury to acquit
the prisoner on the charge of murder, and to con-
sider the case as one of concealment.

Verdict—" Guilty of a concealment only." Sen-
tence one year's imprisonment.
It was understood that the prisoner had previously
had two illegitimate children.

BIRTH.
On the 12th instant, in Connaught-square, the Horn
Mrs. William Rodney, of a eon and heir.

MARRIED.

On the 12th inst. at the parish church of Linton, Kent,
Charles Wykeham Martin, Esq, eldest son of Fiennes
Wykeham Martin, Esq. of Leeds Castle, Kent, and Cha-
combs Priory, Northamptonshire, to the Lady Jemim3
Isabella Mann, only daughter of the Earl Cornwallis.
On the 12th inst. at St. %lary'e Church, Marylebone,
by the Rev. Dr. Perkins, Colonel Brown, of Amwell
Bury, in the county of Hertford, to Mrs. Beville, King-
street, Portman-square.
On the 9th instant, at Chatham, Walter Hills, Esq., of
Maidstone, to Sarah, daughter of William Jefferys, Esq., of
Chatham.

On the I Oth instant, at West Hackney, Lieutenant
William Tills, R. N. to Miss Charlotte Augusta Brown,
Sliacklewell.

On the 10th instant, at St. Mary, Stratford, Mr. Fre-
derick J. Barnes, to Miss Sophia S. Raker.
On the 12th instant, at St. Luke's, Old-street-road, 3,
F. Gill, Esq., of Lower Grosvenor-street, to Caroline, eldest
(laughter of C. Widder, Esq., of Finsbury-square.
On the 10th instant, by the Rev. Thomas Wintle, the
Rev. Bradford Denue Hawkins, Fellow of Pembroke Col-
lege, Oxford, to Sarah, only daughter of Robert Hopkins,
Esq., of Tidmarsh, near Reading.

Ou the 13th instant, at George's, Bloomsbury, J. C.
Schetity, Esq. Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, to Miss
Charlotte Trevenen, of Helston, Cornwall.
On the 10th instant, at Bartlow, Lieut.-Colonel Francis
Le Blanc, to Elizabeth Harriet, second daughter of the late
Thomas Porter, Esq. of Rockbeare House, Dover.