Star.
London, England, 1808-07-05 00:00:00

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MME Assizt4.

. .. WESTERN ditcutts •
Before Sir It. GtanAt4,lCut. and Sir .3. tAifl;llT, tnt.
Southampton—Tuesday, July 26,'Cutio,Wisichester. •
Wilts--Saturday, Jtily 30, Nee Sarum. • ,
Dorset—Veanesday, August 3, bdrebestee.
bevon—Saturday, Auguse6, Castle of Exeter. •
k.: ky and County of Exeter—Sante day, Guildhall,Buta.
'Cornwall--Nednesday, August 17, Bodnar+.
Somerset--Wedmsellay, August 24,1D1ty of 'Wells.
city and County If Bristol .—Tuesday, Alvan so, Guildhall,
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Bristol.

COI= DIP ItINCPs BENCII,ItIef
Imam* V. REID. . .
Was a question, whethci a ship being found to be
Ibuch out of repair at Anggna, art&the.Caleain
hag applied to be Vice Admiralty 'Ccibrt tit( re fdr"ai
Sentence of-condemnation and sale, she btirtg unfit
proceed on her voyage without such repair n
exceed her full value, and a sent:ewe befit g
_grantedt
aliJ the ship sold tinder it, that sale was valid ?
'The Conn held, that the Vice Admiralty Court had
no such authority to decree a sale under those
cemstances,aud the owners 'Were alloWed to reetsile'
in troier for-the vessel and furnitute of the Vendee,
They also held, that the ship having actually-iitifed
in England after she sale, end haviog been repaired!
at Nevis, it was itecessitY to have registered the trans..'
fer under Lord Liverpool's Act.
tilusxmas, Vereltitaxima
The Arroassy teratitit. Maid for leave to Me a
Criminal information against the .Rey.. -Thomas
Hornsby, a Magistrate dr the County 'of Northamp-
tdn, under the following circumstattbes
Sir John Pocock bad distraincd 'for rent on a far.
trier named Ward, and as there 'was a great titan.
tit)! og corn in the barn undstasked, it Was agreed
that it should be immediately thrashed out and sold,
and for this purpose a person of the name of Ring.
rose -was appointed by Sir John to superintend the
sates, andascertain the quantities End the accounts,
Nvhith was accortmglY clone and the rent paid ta:—
Ward Att./tarts prelerred inforinations against
rose for :selling corn by a measure less that ibe Win-
chester bushel, and the charge was disfaissed by twol
different Magistrates before *ltem it was preferred. I
He at length went before Mr. Horns*, and althoughli
one Cox who thrashed Otit the earn, *as eiaMiited,i
with another person, and prcreedialat the corn was
sold by Ward, and measured by a bushel which War&
brought into the bartt,.and the business transacteaby
Ward, yet he convicted Ringrost in twenty penalties/.1
amounting to 2571. Afterwards upon a Certiorari
to return the convictions, he had taken no notice of,
the facts stated by Cox, but had returned illat
rose was convicted npon the evidence Cox,
The Court granted a Rule to shew cause.

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COURT OF COIVIM'Ota PLEAS, JULY 4. -
This was a Rule for an attachment against the De-
tendatt (clerk to an Attorney) fore of obeying a pra-
cess of this Court : He was subpoenaed to gave evi-
dence on a trial, and did not attend.
The affidavits on both sides were gone &en th.=-
The Defendant admitted his haVing received, seven'
shillings with the subpoena but contended, that as
there was an error in the date of it, he was not bound
to attend.—The Court, however, were of a differet..
Opinion, and ordered the kule to be Made absolute.

It were to be wished %Lac the pfiAanthropic Sir
isteux, vYould prepate a bill to be brought forward
in the next Sessi6it of Parliarizent) to check the shame-
ful abuse of testementatt trust!, and prevent the ern-
bezzlement of the poor orphait's only hope and expec-
tation—the fruits perhaps of a parent's life of industry
and care. If Sir SAMDEL will undertake this task,
generations yet unborn will *have reason to praise him.
Numberless are the instances of embeztlement which
may be produced, where appeals to Chancery were
too late, and whole families reduced to ruin and dis-
tress, by placing too implicit confidence in the high-
sounding names of Trustees. It would be the greatest
possible act of charity and benevolence, to guard the
good intentions of the credulous and unwary parent
from the encroachment of the perfidious and inhuman
trustee ; and if it be found that the directions of the
will have not been carried into execution in proper
time, or any embezzleirient of• the property clearly
proved, the party so offending should be dealt with
to the utmost Severity of law which may be pro.
dided in sttch cases. The writer of this paragraph'
feels Cob sensibly the ill effftt of a patent's credulity,
rind will assert without fear• of contradiction, that
the Mart 'who betrays a private trust should never
hold a public one. •
Sunday morning as the seventh regiment of Light
bragoons were exercising on Hounslo* Heath, whilst
upon the full Charge, privrates, named Harris and
Johnson, belonging tp LordWaldegrare's troop, tell,
and were both -killed On the spot, •
Yesterday morning, a man working on d house io
Spiral-square, fell from a scaltold on a child aboitt
eight years of age, and,kaled it on the !pot, and was
himself so mitch bruised, as to be taken to thee' HOS-
pital without hopes of recovery..
A serious accident happened yestmlay in Team:
horn Court-road. A carriage .belonging to Mrs.
Crosst, in Hampstead-road, in which were herself and
her two daughters, Was upset by the Unruliness of one
of the horse!, and one of the young ladies was seri-
grisly injured.. Mrs. CrosA's nursery maid, with a
child under her care, was riding on the dickey, and
by the fall she received so violent a coniusien o n
so her
4szacl that her life is IA danger.. The. child Was al
criously hurt.
BoW4l'REET.—Yesterday Samuel Hymns, a very gen-
teel oltessed. Jon', NVas brought before Mr. READ,
charged with picking the pocket of Mr. Ridgway, the
l'hookseller; of riceiaillywho stated that yesterday
morning, about eleaPen o'clock, as he was passing
thiuup. fleet-street towards the Strand, the prisoner
and twnother men ran' against hilt; and he had no
dotifst they did it by design ; he turned round and
looked at them--he went on towards the Strand, and
they followed him till he got into the Strand, when
the prisoner ran against him again ; he instantly
turned about, and saw his pocket-book in the priso-
ner's hand ; he seized him, and at the same instant
one of the prisoner's gang ran off with the pocket-
book, which coatained a AV, and two £1 notes, and
a bill of exchange. The prisoner was fully committed
for trial