The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-12 00:00:00

HUNTING_THE BRIGHTON PACKS.

BRIGHTON, Arasa 10.—Stag and hare hunting with
our subscription harriers, terminated for the season on
Friday, on which occasion the Derby Stag, Robin Hood,
was turned out at .Applesharn Furze, to the west of the
river Adur. But Robin, on that occasion, was not in-
clined to produce the usual sport--hs skulked for shelter,
and at last obtained it in a cottage, after crossing about
five miles of ground. It is supposed that the stag was
ill; though, had it been otherwise, hares were so abun-
dant from the neighbouring preserves of the Earl of Egre-
mont, and so often crossed the dogs, that a firm and steady
chase was impossible.

OXFORD CriCUIT.—GLOCESTER; Ana 10.
The Judges, Mr. Baron Vatrotuat and Mr. Ser-
geant BOSANQUET, attended Divine service in the
cathedral this morning, where the Rev. Mr. Wil-
liams preachel. Business began a little after one
o'clock. Mr. Baron Vaughan presides in the Crown
Court. For the county and city there are 192 pri-
soners in the calendars. Lord Edward Scmerset
was foreman of the Grand Jury.
Mr. Baron VAUGUAN.—It affords me peculiar sa-
tisfaction to 'Aare the honour of meeting so full and
respectable aa assembly of magistrates and g-mtle-
men convened on this solemn and most important
occasion. It would have been consolatory to me at
the close of a circuit, laborious beyond all example,
to have found a less numerous calendar, but I am
not disappointed, for it is a melancholy truth that in
every county through which we have passed, crime
has been more prevalent and the gaols more crowded
than on any former occasion. It is in vain to inquire
into the causes. Large and populous as this county
is, and comprehending such masses of manufacturing,
commercial, and agricultural people, subject to so
many different influences, it is not surprising that
the calendar should be so large. Its number is not
owing to any want of activity and intelligence in the
discharge of the various and complicated duties of
the Magistrates, or to the want of vigilance in the
police, or to the relaxation of prison discipline, or to
any want of that attention to the moral improvement
of prisoners, for which this county (knowing it is
better to prevent than to punish crime) has been so
honourably distinguished. I have cursorily looked over
the great mass of depositions; I have not been able to
do more, and I am sorry to observe that some are not
returned. Mr. Peel's bill directs the depositions to be
returned at or before the openingof the Ccurt. I beEeva
there has existed some misconception about this
act. It is extremely desirable that the Judges
should have the depositions before their arrival in
the town. There are three commitments under
Lord Ellenborough's Act, but the depositions Ita.ve
only been delivered in one case, that of firing a
pistol. I observe two persons are implicated in it.
If they were both present aiding and abetting, there
is the same construction in law, whether the pistol
is fired by the hand of the one or of the other of
those persons. The act makes the offence capital,
but it contains a proviso, restraining it to cases only
where the circumstances are such, that if death were

to ensue, if would arno:;:nt to murder, and you will
use care and cireumspeetion before you send to
trial persons accused under so penal a statute. In
every case where the evidence shall appear to be of
a nature, character, and description such as will not
in your judgment warrant the conviction of the pri-
soner before the petit jury, it is better to forego the
finding of the bill, because it often happens that evi-
ence is discovered afterwards, and the not finding
the bill gives the country any opportunity of even-
tually obtaining justice.
Monza: Gyde, aged 26, was indicted for stealing,
on the 9th of December, in Painswick, five pigs,
the property of Samuel Gyde.
Mr..lusTicE.—The prosecutor is the father of
the prisoner, and by the bad conduct of his son he
has been compelled to institute this prosecution,
with the sincere conviction that it is the only means
of reclaiming him.

Samuel dyde.—The prisoner is my son. I made
him weekly allowance of Ss.; and I ceased doing so
in the beginning of December, and sent him away.
I had five pigs, worth about 11. each. On Satur-
day morning, the 9th of December, I went to Glo-
cester market, and retn:ned at six o'clock in the
evening, when they were all gone. The next Tues-
day I saw two at Samuel Gardner's. I met with
;mother at Frankis's house, and another at Stroud
market. I never got any of them again. I knew
them directly I saw them, by a scissors' mark.
Prisoner.—Father, you do not know where they
are marked.

Samuel Gyde.—They were =eked on the fore-
head; he bought them and I paid for them. I told
him on the 6th of December, and again afterwards
on the Bth of December, he should never do any
thing for me again, or touch any thing of mine.
By the JUDGE.— He used to buy and sell for me
before that, and eat with me, but slept out. I took
him before the magistrate on the 7th of March.—
We have had no t,uarrelling since. He was Jitney
to me the very nc-xt week after the pigs went. I
did not send for Lm to go to Glocester market.
Prisoner.—Yes you did, father, and I sent you
part of the money for the pigs.
Samuel Gyde.—His wife gave me a 11. note bill.
Prisoner.--Fuher, I told my wife to give you tbe
1/. in part payment, and to say I would make up
the rest as soon as I could.
Samuel Gyeke—No, his wife gave me the 1/. in
part of money Dwing to me before.

Samuel Gardner—l bought two pigs, on the 9th
9f December, of the prisoner, for 11. 17s. 6d. which
I gave him. I did not know he had left his father's
service then; he used to be in the habit of buying
and selling for his father. His father claimed the
pigs the next day ; but I did not give them up.
Henry Frankis and Daniel Estcourt also bought
pigs of the prisoner, which the father claimed, but
they did not give them up.
The prisoner said in his defence that he had sold
hundreds of pigs for his father before, that he sold

these for him, and intended giving him the money,
omd had sent him 1/, in part.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN-4f is a melancholy thing
to see a father prosecuting a son. It is doubtful
whether the prisoner might not conceive that the
authority his father had given him was not properly
put an end to. It is singular that there was no
prosecution until the 7th of March, and if the pigs
were stolen, it is strange that the father did not in-
sist upon having there back. The prisoner may be
a very unworthy son ; but you cannot, under this
charge, consider whether he did or did not em-
bezzle the money, and from the nearness of the re-
lationship, there is some doubt whether he may not
have mistaken his authority.
The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
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may be guilty.

Henry Workman was indicted for having stolen
ti bay gelding, the property of Edward Osborne, out
his field, at Tortworth, on the 18th of February,
1825. .

Mr. HORACk TWIRS—The horse was lost on the
18th of February, 1825, and found the next day in
the possession of the prisoner, who was suffered to
depart on his promise to produce the person from
whom he said he had got it. This he did not do,
but went away entirely, and was not heard of until
a :year and a half afterwards, when ha was taken
into custody.. He must now account for the way
he got the horse.

George Clarke, corn-dealer, at Tetburv_l saw
the prisoner on horseback on the 18th of February,
1825, on my return home from Wotton-under-Edge
market.
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had
letal talked together. lie praised his horse,
and ai
d ridden it from Somersetshire. He
stold me he was sent by his father to sell it, and was
about to deal with a man of the name of Simkins.
I appointed to meet him the next morning, to chop
me the horse for 251. I went to his guar_
his horse for my mare. Ile came the next day, and
tarsoffered see the horse, and after bargaining a long
while, he agreed to let me have him for six guineas
and my blind mare. Ile said, it was as bad as giving
away the horse. I suspected he had stolen it, and
I therefore took him to the Angel Inn, and got him
into a room, and said, " Young man,
you have sto-
len this horse ;" and I gave him in charge of the
beadle while I went to Simkins, who came back
with me, and Simkins said, the prisoner had called
on him. The prisoner then said, his father lived at
Red-hill, below Bristol ; he would fetch him, and
satisfy me about the horse. We let him go, but he
did not return, and I never saw him until last Sep.
tember, when I pointed him out among a crowd of

people at 'cotton-under-Edge, and he was appre-
hended.
Edward Osborne--I saw my horse on the even-
ing of the 18th Of February, 1825, and missed him
the next morning, and immediately put out a hand-
bill. The day following the prisoner came volunta-
rily to me, and asked me if I had lost a horse. I
told him I had. He said a horse had been taken up
at Tetbury, whiCh answered the description of the
bill, and Mr. Clarke had it. I gave him a shilling
and some victuals, and told him if it turned out to
be my horse I. would give him something handsome,
if he would come another day. I got back my horse,
but the prisoner never came to me again.
Witnesses were called for the prisoner's character,
but did not appear.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN—The horse was stolen from
the prosecutor's field, and almost immediately found
in the prisoner's possession. The presumption of
the law in such cases is, that the party in whose
possession it is steals it, unless he satisfactorily ac-
counts for his having it.
Verdict--Guilty. Sentence of death recorded.

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, after making inquiries of
the governor of th.: gaol, said, " This is a very bad
offence ; but as there is no reason to believe you be-
long to a gang, it is probable your life will be spared,
but you cannot hope to remain in this country."