The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-24 00:00:00

DORCHESTER, Alaitof 20.

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George Trenchard, a young man of gentlemanly appearance,
was indicted for assaulting Harriet Beale, a girl just turned of ten
years of age, with intent to commit a rape.
Mr. BARSTOW opened the case for the prosecution.
Harriet Beale examined—l am going in eleven years old ; my
father lives at Shaftesbury; in the month of Ortober last, my
father sent me to Mr. Rutter's shop for some Friar's Balsam; I
know Mr. Trenchard's house ; I have to pass Mr. Trenchard's
shop in my way; I do not know the how my father sent me ;
it was dark ; I went to look in the shop, and I saw Mr. George
Trenchard there ; one door was half open, the other shut ; they
sell figs, and brushes, and sugar, and tea; Mr. George Trenchard
was putting some canisters upon some boxes that had got yellow
men upon them ; he came and took hold of me by my arm, and
then he pulled me into the r'-.op, and stood me upon a box ; I was
upon my feet; he shut up the doors. (The witness then related
circumstances too indelicate for the public eye.) When I went
home my father beat me for stopping so long; I slept by myself
that night; Mrs. Russell slept in the same room with me; I spoke
to Mrs. Russell about it; I said to her what work Mr. George
Trenchard has been making with me; she said, "Hold your
tongue, I am sleepy ;" the next morning I said the same thing to
her ; I felt a great deal of pain.
Cross-examined by Mr. ERSKINE.—I don't know what made
me look into Mr. Trenchard's shop; I don't recollect being ex-
amined before three gentlemen ; I went up to a gentleman's
house, and I was asked to tell my story to some gentlemen ; I
cannot swear that I did not say I went to look in at the window
for some figs ; I don't mind saying that I did before the Magis-
trates; I don't mind saying that it was a mistake on some other
day ; there were canisters on the boxes ; he did not put Me on the
same box, it was another; there were two or three boxes, I can-
not say which it was ; I know where the counter is, it was a box
against the counter ; I do not know which side the counter was ;
he took hold on me by the right hand ; the counter is on the
left ; I said before the Magistrates that he took hold of use by the
'eft hand ; there was no canister on the box on which I stood ;
it was not very high ; he took hold of something behind me with
one of his hands, he put the other up to my mouth ; my hands were
down before me.

Mary Russell and Elizabeth Beale confirmed the testimony of
the child in every point which came within their knowledge.
Noah Beale examined—My wife is not here; she has been
confined seven days. lam the father of the little girl. (This
witness confirmed his sister in many particulars.) It was
after seven o'rlock that my sister told me of it ; it was in
Salisbury-street; my sister went before me to my house; I
did not examine the child myself direetly ; I was at the out-
side of the door ; by putting questions to her, I examined the
child that same evening ; I had examined her person before ; I
am not certain-whether it was Tuesday or Wednesday that I exa-
mined her person ; I was in my shop when my wife called me
up stairs and told me • it was the Tuesday or Wednesday. (Wit-
ness then described the situation in which he found the child.) I
came home on Thursday from Tollard ; I do not recollect having
seen the child from the day I examined her person until Thursday
night when she was in bed ; Mr. G. Trenchard came to my house ;
he came up stairs ; we did not observe him till he was on the land-
ing-place ; my wife's sister and Mrs. Russell was there; he
looked round and said,—" Is this a bed-room ?" And then he
began to say, he was innocent of the charge brought against
him ; could I suppose that he who attendedMuston-lanaleeting, and
his father being the chief supporter of that cause—he would he
guilty of so heinous a crime? I said, being much grieved, "You
villain, don't let me have any of your preaching here ; I want
none of your stories—look to the child you have injured." He
turned his face to the child ; the aunt said, "My dear, you can
relate to this gentleman what he did to you." The child then re-
lated. (The _witness here repeated what the other witnesses had.
stated before.)—Mr. George Trenchard said, "Don't say that,
that's a good girl, it must be my brother Jena ;" and, turning to
my sister, he said, " You know he is not right." The child said,
" No, Sir, it is you—you know it is you," looking bins in the
face. He then turned to me and said, "If you expose me, it
shall tend to your ruin : it is my father's opinion that you have
done this to extort money." I then said, " You villain, no mo-
ney shall settle it; you shall have the severity of the law, as I
promised you when you assaulted my other child, not six years
old—be off, be off my premises." He then said, "I don't mind
two or three hundred pounds; if you expose me it shail tend to
your ruin."
Mr. George W. Buckland examined—l am a surgeon, Prac-
tising at Shaftesbury ; I was called in to examine Harriet Beale on
the 13th of October last; I examined her person.—(The witness
described the appearance of the child, and expressed his convic-
tion that such appearance might have been caused by natural
causes, and required not violence of any kind to produce them.—
They were by no means uncommon with children.)
This closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. ERSKINE (with whom was Mr. EARL) for Mr. Tren-
chard, spoke at considerable length for the defence, and called the
following witnesses.
William Targett lived in the employ of Mr. W. Trenehard ;
remembered the day en Which the charge was made by Mr. Beale,
who had been at the shop the day before, and spoke to Mr.
George ' • he said, " Please, Sir, will you be so good as to lend ins
5/. ?" Mr. George said, " I cannot do any such thing;" Beale
turned, and went out of the shop, and said, " Thank you, Sir ;"
witness was then on Thursday evening, when Beale and Mr.
Trenchard were in the counting-house together, and when the
sister came in ; she spoke to Mr. George ; it was about ten
minutes after th brother had come in ; she said, " Please can I
speak to my brother ?" He said, " What is the matter, is there
any death or fire, or is he ccine to get money out of my
father ?" She said, " I think he is ;" she went away
without her brother ;" witness had lived with Mr. Trenchard
nearly seven months ; it was the practice to shut up the shop at
nine in the evening; after that, Mr. George usually went into the
kitchen to wash his hands, and brush his clothes, and then into
the counting-house; Mr. Trenchard, senior, generally stayed in
the shop, writing at the desk till ten o'clock, and if not there, he
went into the counting-house ; six tea boxes were usually placed
in the shop at a time ; five of those were placed against the coun-
ter on the left ; canisters were placed upon them ; they hold about
a chest of tea each ; he could just lift them ; alrays went to the
kitchen after the shop was shut, where the two girls and Mr. James
lived ; there was a passage to the kitchen ; a door to it and to the
passage ; they were a:ways left open ; those in the kitchen could at
all times hear the sound of voices in the shop ;
it was his duty to
shut both shutters and dcor ; if any persons were in the shop, it
was usual to leave the half-door open ; he remembered leaving
that door open after the customers were gone out.
Ann Wyatt had lived three years and a half with Mr. Tren-
chard; the shop was customarily shut at nine o'clock; the door
of the kitchen was generally kept open ; in the kitchen they could,
sitting by the fire-side, hear people talk in the shop; if anybody
screamed in the shop, they could bear it; does not remember
being out on any evening during the first week in October ; beard
nothing of any screech or any disturbance whatever.
Cross-examined—lt is when the door is opened that we can
hear people talk in the shop ; it is a great thoroughfare where the
shop is situated.
Mr. John Wills was a surgeon residing at Donhead ;
liar-
riet Beale came to him with her daughter; the disease he saw
the marks of, could take place from natural causes ; the child hail
told him she was pulled into the shop by George Trenchard, and
he placedher on a low box, she said she was standing upon it
One of his hands was on her mouth, and one
clinching both her bands. It was his opinion that that which
was alleged by the child was under the circumstances impossible.
The Learned Judge proceeded to comment on the general cha-
racter of the evidence, and was beginning to read it in detail,
when the Jury said they thought it needless, and delivered a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.
The prosecutor applied for his expenses, which the Judge re-
fused. The young man, who was represented to be of irreproach-
lable character before this charge was made, retired with his friends.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, MAacx 21.
The trial has this moment, 10 o'clock, been most unexpectedly
postponed from Thursday to Friday, in consequence of the illness
of Mr. Scarlett. Mr. Baron Hullock consented to the postpone-
ment, on the condition that it was peremptorily to come on on
Friday. Mr. Scarlett was observed in Court to-day to be so
hoarse, that it was with difficulty he could be beard, and in some

awe his junior tuldresseil the Jury fer him. The boarienem in-
creased en much during the evening, that if the trial came on to-
morrow Mr. Scarlett could not attend.
CAPTION OF WILLIAM WAKEFIELD.
Lancaster, Thursday, Half-past One o'clock.
Yesterday evening this gentleman was visited at his domicile by
a party of the posse comitatus. Their authority was a capias ad
satisfaciendtn, for a debt due, as we understand, to a tradesman
at Preston.
Something like opposition was anticipated by these necessary
scions of the law ; the officer, therefore, to whom the capias was
directed, called to his aid some of his brethren, to the number of

fun., or more.
Watchful and active as cats, they espied their prey ; and, al-
though cunning. as the fox, they scented him to his retreat.
Having entered the outer door, they found that he had en-
trenched himself in an inner apartment, and there defied the attack
of his assailants. After a parley of some continuance, the door
was opened, and the officer communicated his errand, which
turned out to he not only one writ of execution, but two, if not
more, and as is said on a bailable process. The yelps de reserve
were now dismissed by the officer in command. A question
was then raised, " that the defendant could not betaken, he being
under recognizances to appear to take his trial."
This caused some alarm to the officer, but still not so much as
to induce him to abandon his caption, and we left them, not
"singing the Hundredth Psalm," but drinking Champaigne, like
hearty good fellows, although not " well met."
The amount of the demand was understood to be about NO/.
An action has been threatened to be brought against the Sheriff.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DI ARY.—TtuanArt AfAitcx 27.—(At the Court et Commis.
sioners, Basiughall-street.)

Avery, S., Chelsea lO Brown, J. Shadwell ...... ......... 10
Bains, M., St. Paul's Church yd ll Rrowne, J., Walthmstow ...... 9
Baker and Co., Nicholas-lane ll. Cilrago, .1, Bell-alley 9
Barrett, T., Dartford t-street ll
Bates, T„ Thayer-street ... ...... ID. lc., T., Holborn 1
Bennett, W. Kennington lO Drury zaid Co.. I.uke-street ll
Bishop, J., Boswell-street
Bowen, ' 'l'. Lynn
Braddock, J. Portsmouth
Brittain, J., Lambeth ... .....

COUNTRY DIARY.—TUESDIV, MARCH 2.7.
Arnitt, F., Thirsk—Red Lion, York II
Atkinson, J., Lancaster—King's Arms, Lancaster - ll
Barker, J., Bath—Swan, Bristol
Baxter, J., Manchester—Hayward's hotel, Manchester.... ...........
Bragg, VV., Whitehaven—Hodgson and Co., Whitehaven lO
Butler, R., Nottingham—Punch-bowl, Nottingham
Harrison and Co., Chorley—Blackfriars inn, Manchester
Hague, J., Ashton—White Bear, Manchester
Haywood, W., Nottingham—Flying Horse, Nottingham
Hickling, S., Birmingham—Royal Hotel, Birmingham 1
Iggulden, J., Dover—Guildh:P., Canterbury IS
Johnson, J., Manchester—Star, Manchester v
Lambert, J., Chalthrd—George, Stroud
Longley, P., itamegateGuildhall, Canterbury
Mellor, S., Aistonetleld—Green Man, Ashbourn ll
Neck, R., Beaininster—Marine hotel, Teignmouth ll
Penckett and Co., Liverpool—George' Liverpool ll
Robbins, W., Birmingham—Hen and Chickens, Birmingham.....-_ IS
Roberts, W., Ncttlebed—Woolpack, Reading
Seddon, T., Liverpool—Mr. Kaye,Liverpool ll
Spurrier, W., Walsall—Royal Hotel, Birmingham e
Stanley, T., Stockport—Red Lion, Heaton Norris
Walker, E., Birmingham—Royal Hotel, Birmingham lit
Wardsll, G., Liverpool—. George, Liverpool
Welsby, J., Liverpool—George, Liverpool IS
West, 3., sen., Shepton Mallett—Commercial rooms, Bristol

INSOLVENTS APPLYIN(
Petitions to be heard at Portug,
MARCH 28,

TO BE DISCHARGED,
1-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields,
AT Nimit.
Adams, W. St. Pancras Martin, T., Spitaltlelda
Carter, J., Burton, Yorkshire Musto, W. Harlington
Druce, S., Bedfordbury Pope, J., Elrook's-mews
Fruin, J., Clerkenwell Saltonstall, L., Tiorton
Gaston, T., Stepney Selot, .1., Holborn
Jellico, A., Camberwell Stent, W., Stratford
Lavender, T., Tavistock-row Stunt, T., Lambeth
Martin, M., ( henies Mews .

COUNTRY.—At the Court-hi
Antrobus, T., Liverpool
Brew, W. Liverpool
Daniels, W. Liverpool
Ferguson, 9., Liverpool

Liverpoob Marsh 28, at Ten._
Fisher, J., Liverpool
Halliday, -J., Liverpool
Holden, T., Liverpool
Houghton, W., Liverpool

THE MARKETS.

(From the New London Price Current of yesterday.)
SUGAR—The Sugar Market has been very languid all the
week ; the prices are without alteration. The Market remained
to-day in the same languid state, and, at the close, Soft Sugar ap-
reared to offer a shade lower ; the total sale of Muscovado', this
week, are about 1,500 Wis. In the Refined Market, this week,
there has been little business, owing to the short supply of goods.
This forenoon low goods continued to go off freely for export ; all
other qualities are very dull, but not local.. Molasses are us-
varied. The public sale of Mauritius Sugars went off heavily,
1,600 bags, about Is. per cwt. lower.
COFFEE—The public sales of Coffire, this week, have been
rather extensive; about 2,000 bags Brazil sold from 455. 6d. up
to 495. for very ordinary to fine ordinary ; the good quality yes-
terday from 465. to 475.. which may be considered Is. lower, but
nearly the whole sold ; the British Plantation descriptions went
off rather heavily, and lower, particularly the inferior descriptions
of Jamaica, and the fine Berbice, the fall on each from 2s. to 4s.
There were four Public Sales this forenoon, 241 casks, 160 bags
British Plantation ; the whole went off nearly at the reduction
we have stated. 968 bags of St. Domingo sold from 445. to
455. ; the damaged from 425. to 445. ; the quality was ordinary
and broken, but still the Market must be considered from Is. to
2s. lower. In the usual proportion we would state good St. Do-
mingo at 465. after the result of this day's sale.
RUM, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.—The Rum Market is ex-
ceedingly dull. Jamaica descriptions are nominally as the late
quotations. Brandy is heavy, and the few sake lately are confined
to small parcels for shipping. Pale Geneva is held for the highest
price inserted.
Corrow.—The Cotton Market has been without interest all the
week. The India sale so much anticipated, has gone off most mi-
serably, there were no country buyers, and the sale room presented
a thin attendance, and the few persons present evinced no incline••
tion to purchase ; out of the sale of 9,700 bags, the whole quantity
sold does not exceed 2,100 bags.
Otts.—The Oil Market was rather heavy early in the week,
but it has since assumed more firmness ; the prices are little
varied.

INmoo.—There is little or no business doing in Indigo, owing
to the approach of the India House sale. About 1,700 shests were
yesterday on chew, they appeared all to be of good quality.
Toisacco.—The sale in Holland nearly 700 hhds. went off ra-
ther low; it was an inferior quality and produced us about 3d. per
lb. here. At a late hour about 200 hhds. Kentucky are reported
sold here to the speculators at Sid. and qd.
HEMP, FLAX, AND TAnnow.-..---The Tallow Market continues
heavy and rather declining. In Hemp or Flax there is no alte-
ration. At a late hour a parcel about 100 tons It head Flax
was reported sold at 381. to 381. 10s. ; the country demand con-
tinues considerable, and the stock appears much reduced every
w here.

• 'WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Nand 1/2.
84s. Od, to 11.5 e. Od. I
Od. to 38i..
Clover ~.,,..M... 90s. Od. to 135 e. Od.

Pockets..E S or HOPS (per Cist.)-3,laßrepgr.
Kent.., 41. 10a. 54 53. to 61. Oa. Kent 31. 16a. 41. 10s. to 5/, Os.
Sueeex 41. 6s. 41. 12a. to 51. Os. Sussex 31. 10s. 41. Os. to 41. JO..
Essex— 41. 10$. 51. Os. to 51. 15s. Essex ... 3/. 12a. 41. 4s. to 4,1. 15a.
Farnham. fine (Pockets) 01. Os. to W IN.—Seconds, 71. Os. to 8. Os.

PRICE OF POTATOES.-11farch
Yorkshire Kidneys - 7 l. 7l. Os. to 71. 10s. per Ton.
Scotch Rpd.
Si. lie. to 6/. Os. ditto.
51. Os. to 41, 4s. ditto.
51. Os. to 51. ss. ditto.

Oxnobles and Shaw,