The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-25 00:00:00

ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS.

(From the Wisex Herald of Tuesday.)
The occurrences at Fairlop Feir, in regard to which applica-
tion
was made for payment of extra constables, is fully borne out
by the necessity of the case. With the provision of such a police
as was engaged at the last fair, we see no objection to such an an-
nual scene of hilarity, so long as its continuance can be kept with-
in its present bounds. Every attempt to suppress such an assem-
blage, experience proves,' only tends to increase it. The
Quixotic expedition, as it turned out, which was planned by that
active and somewhat tyrannical Magistrate of his days, }limber
Gascoyne, Req. affords the best evidence of such a fact, particu-
larly when his object had the presence and nerve of such a man
as Sir Henry Dudley, who rather courted danger than shunned
it,; it may, however, be said to have been fortunate for those pre-
sent that they were not all possessed of that most active Magis-
trate's courage. It proved that Mr. Gascoyne was not so great a
hero in the field as he was in the cabinet ; he could plan, but it
was for others to execute. At the first shout, which resembled
the roaring of a park of artillery, as described by Sir. J. Tyrell,
who also was present, Mr. Gascoyne halted—at the second shout
he turned rountland on the third volley, he took to hie heels
and distanced all his companions, who, disgusted no doubt with
such a leader, went in pursuit of some other object, leaving the
fair folks in the full enjoyment of their recreations. The fair an-
creased rapidly after this futile attempt to suppress it, and as the
population of the Metropolis and its environs increases, in the
same proportion, it would appear, the advocates and promoters of
11/444 fair are multiplied.
Hxuav ALLsx, jun. Appellant, v. the CnoncnwAnn.xxis and
OVIASIERS of RAYNE, Respondents, against an Order of
Bastardy.
This appeal came on for hearing at ten o'clock on Thursday
morning, and the trial lasted nearly four hours. The case excited
considerable interest,
inasmuch as it was, we believe, the first at-
tempt that has ever been made in this county to quash an order of
bastardy.under similar circumstances. The grounds which have
been generally brought forward, on behalf of the appellants, to
quash orders of this description, having been, that the reputed
father and mother could not have had access to each other within
the time sworn to, or that the person charged with being the fa-
ther was incapable, by reason of some infirmity of body, of pro-
creation.—Not so, however, in this case, as the appellant had
every opportunity of seeing the mother, if he had been so inclined,
and is a hale and healthy young man ; but there was such an ex-
traordinary weight of evidence brought forward on the part of the
appellant, proving beyond all manner of doubt that the character
of the mother of the child affiliated (Charlotte Hitchcock) was of '
the most infaMous and abandoned description, and that she not
only swore falsely over and over again, in giving her evidence
on the trial of this appeal, but it was also proved that at the Mi-
&mimes Sessions. held here three years ago, she and her father
were both guilty of a most foul and wicked conspiracy, in falsely
charging a respectable aged person, of the name of Vale, one of
the overseers of Rayne, with having assaulted her, with an in-
tent to commit a rape, and that this charge was brought forward
by them in i evenge, because Mr. Vale had indicted the father at the
saute Sessions, for assaulting him in a most gross manner, and on
which indictment he was convicted and sentenced to be imprisoned
for six months. It is but justice to Mr. Vale to add, that on the
trial of the above-alleged assault by hint on this girl Hitchcock,
F the Court was so convinced of the moral impossibility of their
hoeing been the slightest foundation fur the charge, that the
I Chairman, without hesitation, directed the Jury to acquit him,
without calling upon him to produce a single witness to rebut the
evidence given en that occasion by the prosecutrix. Under these
• eircumetancii, therefore, and taking into consideration the nume-
rous perjuries this wicked girl had been guilty of, and particularly
uoticiug the'gross manner in whirls she repeatedly forswore her-
. self On this trial, the Court, after well weighing the arguments of
the Learned Counsel on both aides, were unanimously of opinion
' that she was not worthy of belief on her oath, and consequently
quashed the order. —Essex Hirald.