The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-31 00:00:00

tOIID ASSIZES.

iltaTitoitu; JULY LOliD CHIEF les-
itntl Mr..lustice lie tut4iuGit arrived in this
town about eleven o'clock this morning. They-
‘vere niet by the Corporation with the usual tot-
iiittlities ; and alter attending Divine ServiCe
Lord ELLF.NBotiontlli ;went into the Civil Court,
and Mi. JOstice Buttantion tried the prisoners.

CIVIL SIDE.

SELLON V. Ord/ACHE.

This cat►»c occui►ied the greater I►rert of the day.
1t .VHS (me of a series of..actions brought against
the 'Aletobets of tl►e Berkeley Hunt, for trespas--
sin:over 1a mil belonging to a►► ►ssociation of
Getttlenten in the neihbutabood of Harlow and
Pinner. .

T 1 WA• nit nett6l.l of ttespass against: the
huntsman Of the pack; for trespassing On a piece
Of ground called toe .Filteett Acres, the property
of Mr. Joseph SeHon, at Pinner. -
'!'he cause of the length of the cause was the
contradictory evidence of the witnesses as to the
fact, whether the huntSltiab was on the
piece of land in question. , The hounds were out
on the 15th of March last, and hunted over the
neighbourhood ; and it was admitted on both--
sides that as many HS 30 horsemen rode over the
15 acre 041, ..rite fox was found in Oxey-wood,
and took down .osey-lane, adjoinin,f; the field in-
question'; tiutl many oh the dogs, followed by the
riders, rude over the place in (potion ; amt Cu
prove the huntsman was one of them 14 wit-
nesses were called, four of whom spoke most po-
sitively to aeelilg him tide over the 15-acre field,
and they identified his person' by his di ess—the
'club in general wearing scarlet, and the defendant
yellow, with a horn over his shoulders. Seven
,others saw, hint in Pinuer-wuod, to get to which
place he 'mist have most probably le-issed through
the field in question.
Alr. GoIINEY, for the defendant, in answer to
'this CHU:, Stated,- that he should prove that the
'huntsman was not pet sunnily in this field ; and to
prove this, he t ri!ted five wittiesses; who as' posi-
tively stsuctl that they were with the dogs, and
that Turn; Oltlaere itevi-r entered Sellon's
amongst these was the lion. and Rev. 11r.
who stated, in confirmation of his evidence, that
he thought the field in question belonged to •i Mr.
Ranger, and he called Oltlacte. to go that way,
but that OidAcre tuici hint it was Sellout's and he
had been warned Oil* there.
A Mr. Biehe alSo stated, that he' put the dogs
on the scout there, as Oldacre had rode down the

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Mr. Serjeant I3EST loving made a reply upon
thi, Contradictory evidence,
Lord ELLENBottuudt, told the Jury: there cer-
tainly was contradictory t!ideuee in this case, but
that there was-this feature in, favour of the
cvi-
deuce of the defendant—that they added circum-
StAlleeS, by which, if their evidence was,not true,
it must be wilfully false : whereas,• on the other
side, it might be onlyinistuke. It was clear. that
many of the hunters were in thefield, and they
might mistake the huntsman fof one of them.
The Jury retired fur a kW ItliiitsteS, and then
verdictreturned a for the plaimiti---Ilunages

CROWN SIDE. •
The calendar contains no ollenee of any enor-
mity. • .
Joseph Merriden, a labouring man, wag con-
vieted of manslaughter, for killing Joseph Rhoades
in a boxing match. . .
. :.
By the evidence it appeared that tie prisoner
vished to decline fighting, hit that the decel%ed
provoked it. 'lhey adjoarned to kicionatisworth
PA; and fought. After a 'euntebt of an hour
and a half; the deceased fell, mid became settle-
kso ; he hied in afew hours. `. The prisoner was
stIII.OICCII to seven (brays' inipriiontheut, •