The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-17 00:00:00

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104 Mute Capitals,
4,000 'Fickets less than last Lottery,
-L 20 First-drawn Prizes - i,huo each,
Makin; . .
FOR THE FIRST TWENTY MINUTES.

TICKETS and SHARES are selling by HAZARD and Co.
Contractors, at their very old Office, No. 93, ROYAL EX-
CHANGE (established upwards of kg) years), who bold and
Shred - •
FIVE PRIZES OF TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS
In the Last Year's Lotteries, and Capitals in former Lotte-
ries amounting to some Millions.

N.B. An early purchase is respectfully* advised, whilst the
price remains so luw as 191. 10s. for a ticket, and 11. 7s. for
a Sixteenth. The demand was' so great in the last Lot-
tery, that the Tickets rose to _3Ol. and the Sixteenths to VI.
each.

IRISH LINEN COMPANY, No. 4, BLOOMSBURY-
SQUARE, ESTABLISHED EIGHTEEN YEARS.
THE Public are respecittilly •.invited. to an 1n..;
spection of the very large and cheap STOCK of IRIS?'
SHIRTING and SHEETING CLOTHS, now on Sale at No.
4, the South-side of Bloomsbury-square. The Company,
trod) the nature of their EstahliShments here and in Ireland,
offer to the CoMmonity the above Articles much Cheaper and
better than they can be pi ()cured through any other medium r
their Linens are bleached under their own inspection, 'With-
out the help of Acids-; theywarrant their durability and co-
lour, and engage to return the Money should a fault appear.:
Country Orders faithfully attended to. Agents, John Do-
novan, 4, Bloomsbury-square, London; John Doyle, 31, St.
Mary's Abbey, Dublin. Good Bills on Ireland, or Irish Bank
Nutt's, taken in payment for Liners, or di:countede

In the first place, there seems somewhat of contradiction
in dt;ing away with the responsibility of the Overseer, by
throwing all his former power into the hands of the Select
Committee or Vestry, and yet so far stretching the bounds`,of
appointment, as to give a power of nominating a discr;el As-
sistant, or permanent Overseer, and, if my reading of the
clause in question be correct, to go even out of the Parish in
search of an Overseer. On one side, we thus see the office
of Overseer considered as nearly unnecessary; on the reverse,
a new method of procuring one is recommended.
Secondly, The increase of
.Votes; as the' assessment rises,
Will tend very much to` add to the power and influence this
Writer seems to dread ; half a dozen persons may, by such a
process, be brought to outvote twenty, and the Magistrate,
having the nomination of the half dozen, will be enabled
through' them to reduce the twenty, and with theta perhaps
the whole Parish, to a state of complete vassalage.
Thirdly, The ten days' notice when a Vestry is called to
choose aSelect Vestry, or a Select Vestryman, looks a little like
a provision against the absence of the principal man or his
agent, and the giving time JO him to canvass and solicit votes
for particular persons, lest others apparently more eligible
might perhaps present themselves at once to the attention of
the Public.

Fourthly, The empowering of the Select Vestry to take, oc-
cupy, and even build upon, certain lands to-be cultivated by
paupers upon the parish account, will have a tendency to in-
crease the patronage of the Magistrate, and also of the.
Chairman to the Committee. It will tend to augment the
sums levied for the use of the Poor (already enormous) -through
the tradesmen of the parish, some of whom will most likely
he Vestry, Select Vestrymen, voting at the dictation of the
leading man, in hopes of getting some of the various jobs
which must necessarily take place upon such occupation and
building. A Steward or Bailiff ;mist also be appointed, and
no difficulty can arise as to whose creature he will be.

Fifth/y, and lastly, Theextraordinary project of whipping
apinale pauper, because the place of her birth is either in
Scotland•or Ireland! 4.

These observations shall suffice for the present,
with the addition of mt►y protest against tt►e cruelty
and imvolicy o.t robbing paupers of their children,
and forcing a loan upon' them to be afterwards
recovered by distress upon their precarious pro-
perty. The wickedness of such a measure 1 take
to be so self-evident, as to render kunworthy even
of discussion.
Clidtukford, 15th April, 18t% C. D.

LAIV INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 16.

AFEKAL OF MURDER.

WILLIAM -ASHFORD V. ABRAHAM THORNTON.

The further hearing of the arguments of Coun-
sel, on this
,interesting Appeal having been ap-
pointed to come on to-day, the Court and all the
adjoining avenues were crowded at an early hour.
The defendant was conducted into Court by the
Warden of the King's Bench prison, about nine
o'clock: He does not appear to have suffered in
the smallest degree from his confinement ; hut,
on the contrary, seems to be still in the enjoy-
ment of perfect health, and is apparent quite'';-
concerned at his situation. Shortly after he had
taken his seat, two respectable-looking females en-
tered the Court, and placed themselves by his side.
The Officer, on perceiving them, infortned them
they could not site there, and asked if they were
friends to the defendant ?---" Friends to him !"
exclaimed the elder female—" No, indeed ; I am
the aunt of Mary Ashford." The officer then
conducted them to a place in the body of the
Court, where they were .soon joined by the ap-
pellant :and several other relations.

Mr. Justice BAILEY took his seat on the Bench
a few minutes before ten, 'and proceeded ,to hear
the ordinary emotions of the day; at the conclu-
sion of which he was joined'by Lord ELLENBO•
ROLIGH, and Justices ABBOTT and HOLROYD,
when the Court immediately proceeded to hear
M r CHITTY 'S further arguments for the appellant.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH.—" Mr. Chitty, you may
proceed."

• . Mr. CHITTY..-...." When the consideration of
this appeal was last before your Lordship, 1 be-
lieve I hinted that 'my reply to the arguments of
my Learned Friend, Mr. Tindale, was likely to
occupy a greater portion of your Lordship's time
than my previous address had done. lam now
happy to state, however, that I shall be able to
compress my arguments into a much smaller cptn-
pass than I had then imagined, and will not tres-
pass on the time of the Court more than I con-
ceive absolutely necessary. Mr. Tindale arranged
his. arguments Under four different heads :—lst,
That the Plea of Wager of Battle is the right of
the defendant, and not of the appellant ;. 2d, That,
the defendant can only be ousted of that plea in
cases where there are circumstances stated in the
counterplea affording strong presumption of guilt;
3dl That the circumstances stated and alleged