Star.
London, England, 1808-08-25 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

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On Saturday last was committed to the County
Gaol in St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, Owes S 'comfy.
charged on suspicion of felony, in stealing from the
house of Jonathan Risbinsor a private in the First
Guards, in the Parish of Werde, two watches, sun-
dry monies, and bank notes, and articles of wearing
apparel.
At the last Leicester Assizes, there was a Special
Jury case which excited much interest the King v..,
Cleathing. The prosecutor was R. NORMAN, Esq.
a Magistrate of that County ; and the Defendant, the
Rev. Mr. Crassnino, of Thorpe Arnold. It ens
brought as a criminal information for libellcas words
spoken to the Magistrate whilst in the execution of
his duty ; and for a gross, scandalous, and malicious
libel, written to the Magistrate, and published by the
Defendant. The Learned Judge summed up the
evidence, and gave his opinion as to the law and the
fact, and the Jury found the Defendant guilty of all
the counts in the indictment. The Rev. Gentleman
will receive judgment in the Court of King's Bench
next term.
At the Assizes for Northumberland, Martin Birs,
for a highway robbery between Newcastle and Worth
Shields, and at the same time cutting the throat of
Barbara Weir with a razor, with intent to murder
her, was found guilty, and received sentence of
Death. -The prisoner lodged with the prosecutrix at
South-Shields, was considerably In her debt ; and ce •
the morning of the robbery she had lent Mm 201.
Knowing of her intention to go up to Newcastle with
the money of which he robbed her, he way-laid her,
attempted to cut her throat, and barbarously left her
to bleed to death.—He remains for execution. The
Judges. before they left Durham, were reprieved
Jaws Thompron, under sentence of death for horse-
stealing.
At the King's county Assizes, Mr. John Walker,
and three of his sons, were indicted for shooting a
ihan named Cruise. It appeared in evidence that
these Gentlemen went to assist some constables to
execute a decree obtained against Cruise, which had
several times been attempted before, but he had res-
cued his cattle, in consequence thereof they went
armed, and made the seizure good; Cruise approach-
ed them, armed with a gun, bayonet, and pistol,
and burned ?riming at old-Walker, which one of his
sons perceiving, bred at and killed him. The Judge
gave the Jury a very able charge, when they brought
in a verdict of acquittal.
At the above Assizes, Chief Justice DOWNES, in
his charge to the Grand Jury, called their attention
to the situation of the Gaol and the Prisoners. His'
Lordship censured, in very strong language, a cus-
tom which he considered against law, as well as
against humanity, that of putting prisoners in irons
when not warranted by necessity. Prisons were not
erected for the-punishment of persons untried, but for
their safe custody ; and every cruel or eiren unneces-
sary coercion of the person was inconsistent with the
benevolent principles of our law, and therefore the
Grand Jury should strictly inspect and regulate the
Gaol, and see that it was sufficiently strong to pre-
vent any pretence for inhumanity to the prisoners.

Wednesday last, in.the County Court, after the
Grand Jury were sworn, Judge DAY congratulated
the Gentlemen on the tranquil state of the county of
Waterford—he was happy to observe, that the num-
ber of prisoners on the calendar was very small. He
had also to state, what he was certain would give the
Gentlemen satisfaction, that the Judges had found the
circuit hitherto but a pleasing excursion—and that
such a charge had evidently taken place as would
justify us in indulging a hope that the
.goad old cus-
tom of Irishmen, and the chaincteristic benignity of
the country, were about to return to their native ha-
bitations. That such of the people as had exhibited
a refractory spirit are coming to a sense of their duty
and interest, and that the Magistrates were exercising
their authority with a firmness and equity which must
secure the utmost respect for the laws, and shed upon
Ireland the influence of the British Constitution, under
which the Empire had risen to a state of the most
unexampled prosperity and opulence.
At the Galway Assizes, Robert Malin, one of the
guards of the Mail-ioach from Dublin to Galway,
was put to the bar upon an indictment for feloniously
stealing a box of dollars out of the Galway Mail-
coach, the property of Messrs. Perse and Miserly,
brewers, near Galway, on the 17th April last; found
guilty,. and sentenced to transportation for life.

BIRTHS.
Yesterday, the Right Hon. Lady Petre, at his Lordship's house,
Grosvenor-square, of a daughter.
Lately, at Sevenoaks, the Lady of the Mon. Captain Richard
King, of a son.
Saturday evening, the Countess of Bristol, of a son, at his
Lordship's house in St. James's-square.
At sea, on the 9th inst. on board the City of London, the Lady
of Captain Yates, of a daughter.
Wednesday se'nnight, at Little Hampton, Sussex, the Lady of
Captain Morris, of the 72d Regiment, Major of Brigade to the
Forces, of a flattener.
On Monday, the Lady of Dr. Richard Craft, Old Burlington-
street, of* son.
On Saturday, in Upper Gower-street, tike-Laly of Lieutenant.-
Colooel Macdonald, of a daughter.

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DIED. •
Sunday sennight; at Daimon, ;n the East Riding, Sarah
11111 r,
sister of tie Itor•Dr. EA Rector of that parish.
On the nth inst. at Captain Macarmres,_ Itoyal Ardlimy,
Arch CUE Fort, Dever, the only son of Saei Judd, Ds& of
Stamford, Lineolashire.•
Chi the lath instant, Robert Bogie, Esq. of Deblois*, sew
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On the Sob et Mirk the Cape of Good Hopp; After 3 ,
few days Owes, Wro. Henry John Mural', tin war ND fir
Commissary General to the Army in that colony. And on
7th of April following, Mrs. Murray, the wife of *hit' 'Gentle-
man, of a nervous decline.
Tuesday se'nnigitt, at the Secretary's Lodge, in the Phwnis
Park, Dubin., in the nod year of his am JaescaTraU, Esq. Wilder
Secretary for the Civil Department to his GAN the Lord Lieu-
tenant of 'reload.
Lately, at Lee, In Kent, th.t, Hon. Ldp num. The
mind of her Lor4h* waste,. with an mniahle
though 'climatic ent 7/I;tlZCZnylvirs past she hid
sande it an Invariable rule to ply a axiom' pilgrimage to the
tomb of bee Isosbond;

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