The Sun.
London, England, 1810-03-17 00:00:00

LINCOLIVS,rnuE LEND
.41SSItE

-More Vastness has come before Mr. Justice BAY*
LEY at the assizes at Lincoln this week, than iS
known to have ever before detnanded at one time
the attention of the Courts for this- county. At
large a calendar has been known, and as consider-
able an entry of civil causes; but it Ins not be'ore
happened that both the one and the other have been
so heavy at the same assizes.--4n consequence,'the
Judge has been detained at Lincoln a day longer
than usual ; and at four o'clock on Thursday even-.
ing (in the morning of which day _it has been usua
to open the commission at Nottingham) he was still
presiding in the Nisi Prius Court of this county.
Several causes were disposed 'of in the same Court
on Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday the Judgd
sat in the Crown Court for the delivery of the gaol.
Edward Chiniley, lately of Winterion, millor,
committed on the charge of a rape on the body of
Elizabeth Gollands, on the 24th of December last,_
was not tried on the capital -part of the iudietment
(the evidence as to the consummation of the 6.410
being thought defeCtive), but . was arraigned for a
violent assault on the prosecutrix with intent to •
violate her person. The nature of the. exantcnae
tion precludes the publication
.of m any particulArs,
It seems the prosecutrix (a very
.personable young
woman, only seventeen years of age), went, with
some other females, to the statute at. Win terton,
to be hired for service, and was singled out and
engaged by the prisoner. Notwithstanding that he
is a married man and has a child, he very soon after
the prosecutrix entered into the service of his fa-'
milt', began to evince towards her an amorous in-i
clination, to which the young woman gave no en-,
couragement; but acquainted her mistress of certain
indelicate liberties which the prisoner had atteMpted
to take with her. After repeated unsuccessful at-
tempts to seduce her, the prisoner at length resolved .
on etfealing his purpose by violence • and an Christ-
mas eve, his wife and I he other members of his family,
except the prosecutrix, and a man servant named -
Asquith, employed 'in the mill, being gone to Win--.
terton, from which town his house is ,situated about
half a mile, he assaulted the young woman, and,
after a long struggle of resistance, so-fh exhausted

her strength, that she-fainted, and became
.a vic-thrl
to his lust. On her recovery, and release from- the
brutal violence Of the.prisoner, she went to :-,cquaint
her mistress at Wibterton with what had happened,
and then returned to her home and t,he protection of-
her mother. This was the erre& of.the evidence.
The testimony,
.charaaer, and previous ehasti y
of the prosecutrix were attempted to be impeached
by the 'counsel and evidence of the [ risoner ; and
Mr. Chimley, on being asked whither he bad him- -
self any thing to say, made an impassioned appeal •
to God that he was innocent.- The Juryf-und him
Guilty.

M. Justice BAYLEY immediately passed sentence
in a most impressive way. The prisoner, he ob-
served, so far from being the seducer even of the fe-
male whom_as a master and the head di a family he
was bound to proiea, ought to have Correded in_
her any propensity which she might have 13.yirayecf
to an improper intercourse ; but when, in gro,s.vi :-
.-lation of morality and the duties of society, h by
brutal violence rubbed her of her chastity, he b.:-
came an offender of so dark a rank, ithat go od
men in their-resentment would hardly ihirik any
punishment too severe to be inflided on
He (the Learned Judge) in verity declared, that,
considering the relation of the prisoner and the
prosecutrix, had the former been tried and foiind
guilty of the capital offence for which he had been
first indi6ted, he have .felt it his duty,- as a
warning to society in these parts, to have left him for
execution. As it was, he sentenced him to pay a fine
of four hundred pounds to the King, and to be im-
prisontd two years in the -house of correction at,Kir...
ton;. and further to be imprisoned until the fine be
paid.