The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-03 00:00:00

VILEISIOOD U. AMES.

This wrivan action to recover againSt the de-,
fendAo,.-0-0 "In of 41. for sporting, on the Ist of
September last, at Sible fiedingham, in this
County. The plaintiff is Rector of that place, and
brought this action, as it was said, to prevent the,
defendant frruit sporting on his preserves. It ap-
peared in evidence, that on a former occasion the
Parson had convicted the defendant before a Ma-
gistrate in a penalty of 51. but the defendant took
ample vengeance; for the former mistaking the
supposed be was alithoristil to send out a •
set vent to ,kill game for his tattle ; he accord-
ingly
took: out a licence for his servant, and
sent him nut to shoot fc.r hint. The defendant.
laid eight inforimoTons against the servant, and •
eon% ie'ted .him in penalties to the amount tit' 401.
which, of, course, %vete paid by the present plain-
tiff. The present action was a retort for that,
awl- to support- it Mr. Filewood's 't errant was
wlo) distinttly swore to the treleudant's
having killed a partridge on the Ist ot-'September
last, in company with a Mr. 111.01ing To confirm
this, Mr. Ealing himself was ealled,' who posi-
tively swore • that the defeadant.never fired u bun
the whOte day.—Verdict for the defendant. .
•- z FaANCIS' AND wag ARDLEY.
Tii,l4.ttia,'S all Aetion to iectiver a compensation.
in demapei for an injury sustained by the plaintiff,
the defendant havihioun against a chaise cart, in,
which ilk uife.whs riding. The cirumstances of;
the case •were as follows
The plaintiff's. wife wo in a donkey eau, dtiVen
by a boy, about eight o'clock in the evening of the
.3d of April last, in the road near Kelvellon,leol-
lug to Coitgishall ; the defendant was in a larger"
cart, And retire dri‘ing futiotisly along the :roal.
in an opposite direation. The boy, alarmed,
drew close. Op lo the hedge, but the defendant's
cart came with Stich fury against the donkey cart,
that it was upset', and the plain,tirs wife violently
thrown out; her face was much cut, Rua Ole;
frontal bone laid bare. The harness was bri;ken,
and the.: donkey (rite separated. The defendant
himself also had his own collarbone broken by`'
the violence of the Shock. The plaintiff's wife
was so much hurt, that she could not be removed
for six or eight days.'
'the Jury found. a verdict for the plaintiff--
Damages,. 501. • • • ,
CROIVN SIDE.
- 'IIO.,NSTINci A Clija), •

I •
Elizabeth 71antek, and . I:ebecca Jervis were
raigned Upon nit indictenent, f9t :stripping a child.
naked and roasting it before the' tire until it wa4
badly scorched mill binned.' •"1 liehr tii,d stmois
for It.)-morrow. „ The iintortittnete child teas ono
Intl out 'to•titetn,,by the
John. Unwise tv:is -iiir.e.,rope upon Eli.'
zabetli, 111:;,,,vjry of Join .s Smith, near Ockeiiiier,
in this ,ctinii.ty,..loi3 the is? ;April lust. The
account she gave y.,4A, that the pi isopo,,tiet, net
the evening, i. Ole wits
onrt; e • of) r and. said be
hoved not i but he
.40..1'hat or stre eiyenin-
ttaitc'esceci she* that,the.'crfine nail iwen ctintruit-
tedi hut front_ iOnte pat:Col:Abe evide-tic'e, hid
Lorthitin.. dio.c.t.ed city faiiiittnit hien of. the
rape;
found Guilty of lareetty., 'and leillOte&d" td
seven years' tfausi)ortation..

iiEwrronD AssizEs, JULY Sl.

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f,he action between Messrs, Dickenson and
•L
LongtOn, the paper-makers, on the river Cade,
in this county, against the Grand Junction Canal
Company, which e9mmeneed at oh enly hour in
the afternoon yesterday, lasted till between nine
isMi ten o'clock at night. This cause had been
tried at the last Assizes, when the Judge beim.,
dissatisfied• with the ,verdiet, which was far only
2201. damages, the Court 'of King's Bench grant-
ed a new trial, which was the subject of the pre-
sent investigation. It WAS an action against the
Cifini.thy for ,smktilacting the water from the
it i 1 nisi who, weettAtltitled to the rivers Gade and
lltilbtnoe, and the damages were laid at 3,5201.
Lord ELLENISOLIOUGIi observed, that the Com-
pany having suffered judgment by default, hail
admitted their liability to some amount ; and he
left it, after detailing the evidence, for the Jury
to determine what that amount should be.
The Jury, atter,a short- deliberation, assessed
the damages sustained by the plahniffs at IQOOI.
The Company then consented that in another
action, brought for subsequent damages, a verdict
should be taken for the plaintiffs for 4001.—The
Assizes fut' this comity we're then ended:

Thomas Thorpe the younger) who a few days
since was eunnuitted from Bow-street-Office, an
a charge of being Concerned with three otherS in
breaking open the house-of Mr. Franklin, nt Iver,
with their faces disguised with masks, and armed
with pistols, one of which was fired, but wounded
'one of the,geng instead of.M.r. Franklin, was yes-
terky•tried -Buckingham, anti- found guilty.—
Lord Chief Justice liaising sentence,
with a suitable-address, admonished him to make.
,• the best use.cif his' time; as it *mild be but shorti
•, and; ordered -him for caecatiOn. next, Wednesday;
leaving hint no hopes of mercy. The prisoner
denied .theteharge, as• he- did at the Office, till
sentence of death was:passed on him,'when he did
not say any thing. Cieorge Thorp., his uncle,
tivas, tried- and•acips itted, on an indictment cbarg.
'ing•hin with being one of the 'gang, and can-
cerned with • his yifig as
ionvd,.gui/tYr Ist- the .siane-Assiiei of 'the
mucder-01001. old Lady,' and cutting the t liroaint
another' wontan, butt not eifectuelly-; and •ii's site
sorvixed to-give .ekldence, was exeented-yester, .
day -morning uLA'4,,ltsbury,..pusstiumt to his sett
4-cum
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I.3i'. JAMES'S crwitcn, ct.truu;N•wi.LL.

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totfosfeit's It:rivr.si..—Ye.,Sterday,at tett o'clock
in "the forenoon, an was held at the
Crown TAvrit, Clerkenwell-green, can the body ,
Roby, whose aOth was occasioned by
the cart h falling in on hint, and burying hitiC;
• whilst in the.aet of siding a deep graVe.
'Miss ratty Bacon, being and exambyd,
said she lived at No. 17, lied Lion-street, Cler-
kenwell ; that about ten minutes,paSt one o'clOck;
last IVednesday afterrnion,, She Was standing be-
shle a new made grave in the West part of the ha-
rying-groinot. of St. James's', ClerkenWell-; the
grave was very deep, and she Saw the deceased,
Wm. limby, at the'bottom ofir, and ainither Man, .
named'Stephen Butcher,_ about half way down
she shortly after heard a crash, occasioned by the
noise of the boards used
,shoring it, and the.
falliw, in of the earth, which filled it up and cloSed
completely over them ; she saw there was no time
lost, as several men were immediately 'employed
in shovelling away the earth ; she remained for a
Considerable time looking on,•but the .crowd
in-
Creasing, she retired into the Chttreh, ,where she
remained until ten mioutes past four o'cloah,%vben
Stephen Butcher, who was rele,rsed from his pe-
riloits tituation,was brouglit into the vestry-room, •
where 'he was attended by 'Mr. Chamberlain, the
surgeon, shill lie shortlY4afterwards perfectly re-
covereeri' lint she understood that •the ,body of the
-deceased was not found until haff,past ni o'clock
,
the same (kill, and then he was
Miss organist, io. the. Church;
-and Oii. last witness, deposed. that site
was Ntatoling with her sister at the time,,andsaW.
the accident, and.that the, account her...s'oter gave
was perfectly eorreef.
William Clayton, Of No. 4,„Vrench-yard, Bowl-
ing=green-litne, deimd,ol. that ,he• is is ;:‘,11,;- digger
to St. J:ttne's (.3erkeitwall,. iii which.
lltnation lie had been employed .IfirAtipe year:Si.
that Stephen Butcher had ILCen employed hy,,illint
to snake gravesiiir.ir;,tuck'oi. three ,y,karsi anti the
deceased, Wilthirn !Wry about two months
was a common thing iii that Inir:iiNg-groond to
sink deep graves ; lie. bad.matle, :some as deep as
feet ; it %vas by the cutler;; of the ••,korilie.s,' for
the sake of keeping that ground fpr thuoselres,
and.,byisitiking deerthe•rronie rOdin there 1y614.14.1
b.e So r.eccive fresh corpses, without iiistitrhing
those already interred. lie Ins! plenty Of bolkrcls
and timber for shoring `to prevent accident ;
Hever had all accident 06111.10'1,re ; he al
superintended tiro. digAing of deep graves,.'aciel
Rical the shores himself; he never ent,ei stil'.alr?
of his Men to fix the shores for tear of aecidetft,
Stephen Blocher, Who had been
upwarits three
years in Isis employ, nev,tlr, attetripted the
khores in a deep grave;
The gravy :in Apse:J.l9n, intended for tire
of illiss l)sirrowes, of ltd 'Lion.rstreers. :was
firs deep, and u.ithin three feet 14 the bride AWL
About six months heftier; there was aNii4744riffirf
boricri,.alonn ten feet. deep,, C.lo•sc to thtt
isa 1, tits
te.hich itecuint I.e tyas th,t!•ntore careful tti haeit
the In esent. gro..e. .shored• up, knowing:t bat.;!;
the earth het weelt it and the wan Was'lresli ;ways-
y thereture none particular in
thri:C..ti, n 3 to Lite tleOatati and Stephen-13ot-
, at' ilscir perils, not to fix any oilhe shores;
hot ts, c,lll him for that purpose ; and that al-
mt}-3 whet) they snnk .two feet to call him to fix
!lion, Which fiat chid nntii it wtts.beyond tern feet.
Ile then went home,„having been tip the-preced-
ing s!ight,,to halve an hour's sleep, giving
Omni nesters, when they sunk two feet more; to
call him up in order to fix the shore, but 14 no
means to attempt, it. thetuselvow.,-,lnstead•of cons-
plyingwith his orders, the, deccas.ed, without
hint, fixed that filiare himself, and ther,:dng
iwo feet, more. When witness retkirned and found
whit hail lie,:it,tlmte, they asstieettiOto it was per--
fectly surtired ; hot, however, it tould not be re-
-, titetlictl, avlfl 61tileS4 liitusell fixed the remaining
shores to the bottom. •
About one o'clock, on Wednesdayafternoon,.
lie was,sfAnding at the grave, the deeeinted Wt”s.. at
the bottom of it,' and Stephen Butcher about mid-
way aOtro, lie ordered.tbent to do no,toote, but
come up innuediately. Witness bearing4he'ap-
p4proitch of the funeral of Miss Burrowes., gent to
• bring boards and ropes, alit', wilf
..no! five milliner,
away %%116.1.11e fottoti the ground ,had fell insend
buried them; they were completely coveted %.; there
were sevend men instantly employed in clearing
away the earth, Rod it Was about tWenty-tlye.mi...
tbcy sttcceeded,in, uncovering the
head of Stephen,lintcher, whom they-found
hut 'being closely Irtmmed by the timbers,• soma
Of Which were across his shonlders,land pressed
on various parts of his body, they did hot, atiececd
in extricating him until ten minutes' psst :FMK
o'clock, during which ,interval they was,tl fre-
quently obliged to give him some refresh-
ment to prevent ids, fainting. . lie
'fined la flits ht ti',
,very llt from site .bruises
he received; it wits hall-past
,ten the same night.
before they found the body of the deceased,
w;ts sit the bottom of the grave, and wilt) he
suptio,;cs Wrm killed in. the first instance by else
timber, his head being found turned on one side,
and closely lirstised between the
,wood, and there
being several marks on various parts of his..body.
The occasion of the length of time in digging.for
. hint was, that after extricating Butcher.; they bath
to shore again its they dug, or
.another sitniliir
accident mighi. have, happened,, from the weight
of 't he loose, earth, and coffins on each. side.
The COroper:and Jury expressed their eno:e
satiSfaclion thefprernutiOns,used
,by-the grace-
; digger, and attributed the accident solely to
,the
deceaSed in fixing that shore which is supposed
to have given way. Verdict--(Accidenital.D.ooo

Yesterday morning a waterman,.-on the stairs at
Westminster-bridge, 'observed..sumething in the.
water like the body Of a "child drags were pro-.
cored, and on taking it out of the wate.r it proved'
to be 'a boy about seven years of age. ,_The body
wati take!) to
,St, MArgaret's Workhouse, and was
owned by the father toot mother the iame.day,
The i> ,y +e As di on on,Tties:dtlY last ; his la-
ther, who works on the river at the craft, torts.
Wit i) the deceased on Ittesdily, and Ice only left
him Iwo to the other end of ihie craft when he
hull vvetboarti.