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London, England, 1826-07-27 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JULY 25.

• William ;.Dodd, apparently aged about 36, was indicted
for assaulting Sarah tads German, on the morning of Fri-
day last, with intent to ravish her. There was a second
count for a common assault.

...
The pritioner was formerly a soldier in the-last Indies,
from which he returned only about six weeks since. It. is
understood that he acquired some property in India, as
well as succeeding to some patrimony in this county. The
case was most extraordinary throughout ; not the least ex-
traordinary pare of it being, that the offence in question
was committed the day. before the prisoner was married;
and that he was taken into custody on. the capital charge,
as be and his wife were returning from the church. The
capital charge was afterwards abandoned. •

Sarah Oads German was called and examined by Mr.
Merewether.,--She was a pretty girl, and apparently in-
nocent and artless. She said she was 15 years old the Ist
day of the present year; that she had lived three years and
a half with her present master and mistress, Mr. and Mrs.
Whittear, of Wooriuvw, near the town of Moreton Hamp-
stead. On Thursday evening last she obtained leave from
her Mistress to go to the fair at Moreton Hampstead. Her
own mother lives close to the town. She had been accus-
tomed to go the fair on former occasions, with the same
permission. She was in the fair a great many hours, in
company with another young woman, who afterwards left
her. At the Bell Inn there was dancing; she went into
the dancing room, but did not dance herself. At about
two in the morning, she saw the prisoner there among the
company. He asked her in a whisper to go along with
him. She, in a whiaper, also, declined doing to. Shortly
afterwards she .was coming away, when the prisoner
fol-
lowed her into the pessage, and forced her into the par-
lour, where there were several persons. She was going
to call out, but the prisoner stopped her. She, was
frightened. He then wanted her to driak Some spirits;
she refused; but he fOreed the tumbler up to her mouth.
She remained there about half an IMO or more. He had
asked her whether she was going home that night to her
master's, which is two miles from the town alonga lone
road. She said she intended to go to her mother's for the
remainder of the night, and return to' her master's iii the
morning. She came away just before three o'clock. He
came after her, and said she should not go to her mother's
but to her master's. He took her arm in his by force, and
took her in that direction. They passed by a fairing stall
(the fair still going on); she stopped in order to purchase
a fairing for her master's children. He there bon ht some
sweetmeats end offered them to her; She refused them, but
he placed them on her arm. When they had got eboutamile
on the road, he opened the gate of a field, forced her in,
took her .a good way along the side of the inner hedge,
and then threw her down.-7--(.Here she gave a description
of facts not to be detailed.) She wanted to go home, and
cried very much. He would not let her. He then car-
ried her to a down, where he again threw her, and re-
peated what he had done before., She declared she resisted
to the utmost of her power, but he succeeded. He then
took her to a copse, where he three times repeated what
he had done before. (The answer given to the particular
question, which might be a test. as to the capital, offence,
'was always given in the negative.) This brought them
to seven o'clock in the morning, nearly two miles from her
master's house. Be then left,lfer; asking her to meet
him that evening, but she refused. He said he would
buy her a new suit of clothes, take her to Exeter, and
thence to London, it' she would go off with him. This
also she refused. He particularly wanted her not to tell
what had passed. She declared she would. She arrived
at her master's house about ten o'clock. Sawher mistress;
but believes she 4id not see her. Went up stairs; chang-
ed her gown, took off her bonnet, which Was torn and
tumbled, and came down stairs. Her mistress asked her
where she had been all night. She then told her mistress
all the truth ; as she did .afterwards to her mother, her
uncle, and her master on the same day.
She underwent a strict cross examination by Mr. Jeremy,
for the prisener, but by this her evidence was not shaken.•
Had never seen the prisoner before. Heard him called by,
his name in the room by different persons. There were
present his sweetheart, whoM he Married the neat day :
her brother, her mother, and the wife of the brother.—
There were ~some other persons in the parlour. ' Did not
observe that. 'the prisoner was drunk.
Mrti. Whittear, the mistress of the young woman, tor-
roboreted her evidence, as to her giving permission
to go to the fair and as to whet piaied on her return in
the morning. girl had alwayt(heintred correctly.''
Mr. Whittear Spoke to the same effeet.
illiani Gerinan, the uncle of the preyed to.itv u"
to her
the Friday morning when intittiry was made of thy' Pr:hointer.r
after the, girl, he first . d—d find said he her master)a
about her, and then It"ti
house, at
.four 0 4111111 1" 1114' "'I" 4 the prisoner, con-
addressed tits
-,t,irbelieo the girl in the
tending that it wa's itorossihh!
kart sworn.
improbable story to which ,lie
t.amed.
The mother of the
Nri4lesseB wfx' t 'l`,l wife); her brother, tout the
risoners sweetheart (now ,
P , Law, sho drantc of the spirits wan.
Muter at the inn, swoht, it her .

out any appearance of force, and smiled at the prisoner.
What is moist singular is, that his sweetheart and her fa-
mily were present, and took no notice of this conduct ;
but this they explained by saying that the prisoner was
quite drunk, rind had been drinking all the evening.
The Judge asked Mr. Merewether whether he would
send the case to the Jury; observing, that although the
prisoner might be guilty, yet still as the girl had been con-
tradicted in some particulars, it might be too much to ask
the Jury to depend upon her in the rest of the case, as to
which she could not be contradicted.

Mr. Merewether, however, declined giving up the pro-
seention.

The Judge, in charging the Jury, expressed his disgust
at the conduct of the prisoner but at the same time cap-
tioned them not to allow their prejudice in this respect to
lead them to ,rt verdict of guilty, unless they were quite
satisfied that force was used. • -
The Jury, after deliberating for a long time, said, that
eleven of them agreed, but that the other would. not give
in. Upon which one of them got up and said, he could
not find in his Conscience to bring in any verdict but that
of guilty,. He thought women ought to be protected.
• The Judge said they must agree. •
They were accordingly sent•to another room in charge
of an officer;. and. in about an hour returned with a vet.,
diet of Guilty.
Thomas Russell, jam.: Parry, James Lantarraft, John
Robinson, and Wm. Winnam, were indicted for assaulting
John Holditch, and passing Without paying the toll at
Stonehouse-bridge, near Devonport. •
John Holditch stated, that he was a toll-keeper, and
had-the care of the .tall-gate at Stonehouse-bridge, near
Devonport, and that about midnight, on the night of the'
13th of October, be observed a :number of persona corn-
ing towards the gate, and singing a chorus, to the words"
We parrots live a jolly life." 'Russell was in his shirt,
sleeves, and said, as he approached the gate, " Follow
me, boys; I shall find a way for you." Witness observ-
ing some of the party passing the coach-gate, came from his
office, and demanded,the ; upon which he was imme-
diately knocked down. Whilst witness was down, Rus-
sell said, "Serve him out, the imposing villain."
CrAft then came up, and said, " Don't pay him ; they
have no right here; they are no better than highway
robbers, that rob the public to pay their mortgages."
Cross-examined—Witness was found guilty of an assault
upon Lamacraft and Parry, two of the present defendants,
at the last Quarter Sessions. Larnaeraft did not strike
witness until after witness said, " Go home, andpay what
your father robbed from the poor." The present defend-
ants, Robinson and Russell, were witnesses at the Sessions
against witness. Witness had a sword, but did not pro-
duce it until he bad been attacked.

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Several other witnesses were called in support of the
prosecution; amongst others, the prosecutor's sister, a
young Lady, dressed in a very fashionable style, whose
;readiness and self-possession, excited considerable merri-
ment. She stated that she was at the toll-gate, when her
brother was assaulted. The defendant's party wanted to
paw without paying the toll. Her brother was knocked
down' by them.
• Cross-examined by Mr. Bir&--Miss Holditeh, did you
see Mr. Tbomas Russell (the defendant) on that night ?
Witness. Yes I did see Tom Russell..
Counsel--Well, let it be Toro, if 'you please. You
know hint ? Witness (contemptuously)—Yes, Tom
Russell is not a little knowtn
Counsel—Why did you not Come up at the Sessions,
when your brother was tried, Mies Holditeh ? Witness.
Because I did not choose, Sir.—(Laughter).
Counsel--Were you asked to come I Witness. I shan't
answer• you, Sir.
[The Court here interfered, and informed the witness.
she Must answer the Counsel.]
Counsel resumed his cioss-examinatien-,-There was a
relation of ymit's there that night, Miss Holditrh ? Wit-
ness. There was, Sir.
Counsel--What was his situation ? Witness (with
teat. dignity). The situation of a gentleman, tolie. sure,
Counsel.--Was he drunk.? No, be was not drunk. -Ha
-was in our house, and had only taken one glass of grog.
Counsel... Now, 'Miss Holditch,:did not you say to a fe-
male friend, that the dock-yard men were poor; but that
you wanted to set some money out of Lamacroft's pocket ?
Witness (with a look expressive of the utmost dis-
dain)—Me want to get money out of Lainacmft
(Laughter).
Counsel--I ask you, did you say so ? No, Sir, I did
not, that would be a little too good.
.Coimsel---ligW, Miss Holditch, is it, usual for you to
attend at the gate ?, Perhaps it is of a ball night, Sir.
• rotinsel-;-Then, perhaps you were at the ball? No,
Sir, was not.
Coniißel--Do you often stay up so late as until two or
three o'clock ?' I stay up when 1 please, and as long as I
please ; and I can't see what difference that is to you, Sir.
(Laughter, in which the Court anlt Counsel joined.)
Several witnesses were called for the defendants, and
contradicted the evidence for the prosecution in many im-
portant particulars. 'They stated that the prosecutor was
exceedingly violent froM the time the party appeared at
the toll-gate. Before he was assaulted, be called the de-
fendants robbers; and said they wanted to rob him of their
toll, and that. he would not let one of them pass. It also
appeared that the defendants were returning from a mu-
sical Society, called " The Harmonics," when the quarrel
occurred, and that the prosecutor had previously quarrelled
with many of them.
After deliberating for a few minutes, the Jury acquitted
all the defendants.

MR. BEAUMONT AND EARL GRE

Partvriing montes nuscetur ridiculus mos
, . The mountains laboured, and out came a mouse.
The famoti.4 correspondence is at length before the pub-
lic and,as might have been expected, there is but one'
opi!
nion upon the subject, an opinion, whatever else ma be
thonght, that Lord Grey (to whom the publicationy of
this correspondence must be attributed) has' given the
most indisputable proof of the malignity of his feelings to-
wards Mr. Beautnont. t believe no man in the county but
his Lordship would have been guilty of an act of such perfect
desperation and folly ; it is known that the letters in question
were transmitted to the chronicle not only without the
consent of Sir Johtt Swinburne, but decidedly:_against his
7,siles ; it is kno.o,n, tuo, that the principal Whig gentry
of the comity disapprove equally with Sir John ofg this
most uncalled for, midmost tir Stli bl . exposure of pri-
vate Oak's. 'But it semi that .IVf Beaumontlitei in his speech
atof
hthise
efinteiailuiceltr ;,,,:volfrntialpitlahratdu rriea: sserted that the folly
that " divyace 0 tftched to' them .i-ornralhignitYizagapinlit him'
&puce upon biro,'" that
t'" thetisfeacisveehoandvdi:o-f ht°h•eedebtaclgilexa
brought alptilltit Itiln hail been ( :0.; ; and the um_
&es of hia,eneutic.i were pitiful anti .
to disprove these assertions the Fars o,ll.'eye,tilli.iiita pirn'of°orudnPA
wisdom, submits to the public theofromirrneis-tp-.ond6ence which
we have' seen ! Talk of infirmity t stronger
proof of mental imbecility can be adduced tiw
isu tllet, of a
publication which completely and obviously establishes ii
very positions it was meant to disprove, viz,--th follyt cad
malignity cif Mr. Beaumont' a enemies, that (lige
Yoehed to their fbr having hoped to 4
ifiiii"V (14'4" tf)rt:e !'
and that their motives we're pit., and spiteftd! in loin,k,,
have a word or two about the faitehood of 144, dale; 1.4"'
ifs by, but, in the mean while it may be observed, fitaYt
_ ny. doubt had eXisted of the justice of Mr. Beaumont's
his Lordship, by the publication in question,
retnarke, have had the merit of removing it.
would certa,.olY , •
.1 do not 6,q,,.,ti05e that it is Mr. Beaumont s intention
to make any atati,,,Tent in explanation of that part of his
conduct which, to tin?se untotic quceainted
for w
His ith all threep paeatertid
-
culars, is the most &die-tilt aount ,
- essertlim :" that he. will not advance any thing ill Ins own
justification which MB wound' the feelings, of others,
appears to preeludi him from affording much information
to the public. The attempted proof of the existence of
" mental derangement" is so closely interwoven with the

private affairs of the family at Capheaton, that to shew the
fallacy of that proof would almost be tantamount to the
establishing of what Mr. Beaumont has debarred himself
from approaching. Involved as at present the whole transac-
tion it in mysteryt regard for the opinions of Mr. Beaumont,
and delicacy towards the feelings of a family which Lord
Grey has 'treated with such unprecedented cruelty, consfi-
tutein any mind sufficient reasons for our refraining from of-
fering any further observations on this branch of the sub-
ject. I shall, therefore, turn to the charge of Mr. Beau-
mont's having in an advertisement, published on his return
from the Continent, declared his own unfitness for acting
as a teprsentative in Parliament until he had repelled the
infamous- allegations which had been urged against him.
These allegations are shortly afterwards stated by himself
to relate to an assertion, Ist, of his having been within a 1
late period " under a mental delusion ;" 2dly, of his in-
tended marriage with the daughter of Sir J. S. having
been broken off from a discovery of his having already
married a foreign lady. A third point, to which the asser-
tion extends, can be deemed of no consequence whatever.
As to the report mentioned under the second head of
these allegations, it can only be necessary to say that it
was entirely without foundation. But with respect to the
first and, principal ground of disqualification alleged against
him, what was Mr. Beaumont's conduct ? After some pre-
liminary correspondence with Lord Grey, he instructs his
solicitor in London, C. C. Wilson, Eq. to bring an action
against his Lordship, for having " used and published cer-
tain libellous and malicious expressions to the, injury of his

character, and which he believed his Lordship to have
been aware were contrary to the fact." Proceedings,
it is true, 'were not instituted against his Lordship;
but the intention was not abandoned because his Lord-
ship was prepared " to justify"—it was abandoned, as
his Lordship must well know, upon considerations widely
different. The motives which really operated with Mr.
. .

Beaumont to induce him to relinquislithC idea of prosecut-
ing his Lordship, I may take an early opportunity of stat-
ing to the public; at present, I am not at liberty to ex-
plain them. I may, remark, however, that if the determi-
nation of Lord Grey " not to retract an iota of the opi-
nion he had expressed with regard to Mr. Beaumont's con-
duct," had really been the reason of Mr. Beaumont's not
persevering in his threatened action, the measure would
have been abandoned on the receipt of his Lordship's let-
ter to Mr. Wilson, in which his Lordship distinctly de-
clares his intention "not to offer any explanation by which
proceedings may be rendered unnecessary." It is super-
tluous, however, to enlarge upon this point, as there are
circumstances not yet brought forward, from which the
fact must be readily obtained.
Mr. Beaumont having now been dissuaded from the
idea of a prosecution, he adopts the next best means in
his power of contradicting, the reports to the prejudice of
his character; he meets the officers of his regiMent at a fare-
well dinner at.Hexham, and on that occasion (I quote
from the newspapers of the day) addresses them asfollows:
" My presence among you this day has, I hope, done
much to dispel such an idea (an idea of mental delusion)
from your minds : but should any particle of suspicion
still remain in any one, I think I can remove it by observing
that those who have been most industrious in giving cur-
rency to this report never surmised for an instant the bare
possibility of such a thing until I had left, their house: I
had been in daily intercourse with them for some time without
the least hint havi Rig been given of it to anyone! If this is not
sufficient,there is a fact. which must carry conviction to every
one how entirely false, and without the shadow even of a
foundation, such a report has always been. It is this—

that up to ten days after my departure from a house which
I shall not name, I know, from a letter. received by. one of
my own family, that it was the wish of those. persons that
matters should be amicably arranged. And, in point of
fact, an overture was made to me shortly after my depar-
ture from that house, through a person (who, if required,
will not hesitate to come forward and sty so), for that
purpose."
The facts above-mentioned, which have never been re-
futed, afford, I think, a most conclusive answer to the te-
nons which have been circulated ageinat istittify
hie imbertioll Ll.ll humming*, that " the falsehood (g the
charges brought against hint had been discovered."
Here I should have concluded, but having heard it ask-
ed, why Mr. Beaumont took no notice of the letter frOin
Lord Grey, dated Tunbridge Wells, Aug. 31, I think it
proper to say what is known to-many--that immediately
on the receipt f that letter 1116. Beaumont determined to
proceed to London and had actually proceeded as far as
Ferrybridge, when he was met by a friend who stopped his
progresS, and who has declared himself to be solely re-
sponsible for the abandonment of his purpose.
A LOOKER-ON,

NYWCASTII6.UTC.I4. Trig, Jinx 526.

(From the Tyne Mercury of Tuesday the 21ith inst.)
We suspend the course of our political dissertations in
order to give our first attention t.o a circumstance of as
great local interest as any that has occurred in this neigh-
bourhood, during the whole course, of our editbrial expe-
rience—we allude to the correspondence of 11!Ir. Beaumont
with the Earl Grey, recently published in a contemporary
journal. The tenour of the correspondence itself is of a
very "extraordinary kind. But the' most extraordinary cir-
cumstance attending it, is, that its tenor being such, Lord
Grey should be: induced by any motives of hiis own, or
any solicitations of others, to give it publicity. The pre-
text assigned for its appearance is, to show that Mr. Bean-

mont's calumniators liave committed against him no other
fault, except that of a "too long continued forbearance."
This fault, " leaning to virtue's side," they undertake
to prove against themselves, by means of a private corres-
pondence, from which an inference is to be drawn, that two
year ago Mr'. Beaumont laboured under "a mental delu-
sion."—Let us suppose, for the sake of argument; that
their inference is fairly deduced, and that Mr. B. was for
a moment visited with such a malady; we are still at a loss
to discover in that circumstance any proof of a " forbear-
ance too long continued." Indeed we are at a loss to con-
ceive under such circumstances how any forbearance, less

than complete and perpetual, could be sufficient. If the
inference they would have us draw be correct, Mr. B. as
regards this affair, was an 'object of compassion and not
of persecution. So far, therefore, from this imputation
forming any excuse for the unwearied malignity, with
which they have pursued him, it does but exhibit their
conduct tt more hateful and unpardonable light. It
now appears, by their own showing, that it is.not a crime
with which they have been charging him, but'a calamity
with which they Anse to taunt him! , rood God! can
Lord Grey be so lost to all human feeling, to all, sym-
pathy with the infirmities of our nature, .and, so forgetful
of his own honour and character,. as to publish a private
correspondence for the purpose of showing that he is jus-
tified in pursuing a man with the most relentless hatred,
because he has of him an insult under the influence of
mental delusion ? Does it argue, we Would ask, more mental
delusion, or more dereliction of total principle to *rite, than. to'
print such a correspondence? The offence of publication exceeds
in magnitude that of writing, as much as a whole community ex..
ceeds in number an individual. If we do not consider it as an
act of insanity, we are obliged to consider it as an act of despere-
tion-the last expiring effort of impotent and defeated malice.
Having failed in their attempt to heat Mr: "Beaumont down by
disturteAl and exaggerated representations of circumstances hitherto
concealed, 8.1, enemies. as a list , resource, try the effect of
publication, for which no person ought to be so mach obliged as
the pavan whom they designed to injure. They have thus ex-
pended all their ammunition at one discharge. They have ap-
plied the match to their own magazine of defamation, and blovn
their own characters into the ail'. They may,- indeed, hive re-
vived painful impressions, anti harrowed up the feelings 0 their
advereary,lon they have left his honour untotiche&—not tarnished
even by the very smoke of that infernal machine which was to an•
nihilate hint.
But if Lis.:
6. had nu sympathy for Mr. B. certainly he
ougut to hsep tihis C. I
agtu est for the feelings of min s,
Sir 01, and Lady • d comfort
to wri6,4
Iwo t.teir ,iontonr, reputation, art
tH rang, to the prevailing passion of routing
Mr• B. ? Bow eaucis L(08,4- as,
charge upon that gmtiemo
insanity for writing, what he lame& has the greater Insanity to
circulate in print? Mr. Beatimontwrote the letter'
coutiththl the
charges, r
a co , moreover,uvict.
uni (however &halve)

of their truth. Can his Lordship :allege such an excuse ? We
cannot think it possible, that Sir John Swinhurne gave his con-
sent to the publication in question; and if it was made without
it, we will not trust ourselves with characterising such a proceed-
ing ; let every honourable man consult his own heart, for terms
in which to execrate it.
We have so far argued the case as if the publishers had made
good their position, that Mr. Beaumont laboured under temporary
aberration of mind, which, however, we do not admit, ,and are
prepared to refute, as far as any arguments can be grounded on
the documents now before us. It is true that there is a passage
in one of the letters distinguished by au Italic type, in which Mi.
Beaumont speaks' of circumstances of an extraordinary character,
out of the usual, course of events." But if every, one that believes
in any extraordinary interpositions of Providence, or any occasional
'deviations from the established' and known course:of natures- is to
he considered as labouring under mental delusion, the world may
be said to be peopled with mental dtiusioni#B. But Lord Grey,
forsooth, can imagine no other excuse for Mr. Beaumont. Now
here we differ froni his Lordship. And we' can not only imagine,
but see an excuse for Mr. Beaumont, if he was in fact surrounded
with any thing like the characters and circumstances which he
describes to Lord Grey. We do'not affirm that he was. Indeed,
we affirm nothing ; but only argue froth such premises as the corre-
spondence affords. But assuming the "facts as there stated, we
can easily imagine that a young man of high spirit and warns affec-
tions, anticipating the early consummation of his wishes, and the
completion of his happiness; in his union with the object of his
fondest love, should be so harrassed, tortured, and distracted by
obstacles raised from such sources, as to write a letter as indis-
creet and extraordinary as that to Lord Grey, and yet not be en-
tirely without any excuse besides mental delusion. We are not at
all surprised that the enemies of Mr. Beaumont should endeavour
to snake out Such a case against him, it being the only frail thread
left on which their reputation hangs. But we confess we do not
may effect that purpose,
so desirable, so necessary to their safety.
see the means and proofs by which they
Our limits will merely allow us briefly to ask, why this eel-res-
pondence, involving the character anticomfort of so many indi-
viduals, should be published in the anonymous, unautbenticated,
and irresponsible form of an advertisement? ; h it that no indi-
vidual may have the shame of presenting it in a garbled and muti-
lated shape, as it evidently is as to one letter, and probably is as
to others? Or is it that this attack upon Mr, Beaumont shall,
like all others from the same quarter, be cowardly, insidious, and
disowned? Froin first to last lie has been the mark at which
arrows have been shot by an unseen hand, 'guided by a malicious
heart, itself trembling at its own act, and ashamed of its own
motive. Against such foes, even while secure in their own hiding
places, and trinmphing in the success of their own artifices; Mr.
Beaumont has stood with the firm front of conscious integrity.—
But it will not be long before a discriminating public, being now
put in possessinn of the facts by the indiscretion of his enemies,
will find Mr. Beaumont infinitely "more sinned against than
sinning," and assign bins that high place in their estimation of
which it has been the unceasing effort of a powerful conspiracy
:o deprive him.

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