Star.
London, England, 1802-03-23 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

The Affixes for the county of Wilts were held
at Salifbary on Monday and Tuefday laft : John
Everett (alias Everad), was tried for uttering a
forged al. Bank of England note ; Carmenas
Farthing, an accomplice, was admitted evidence
againft him, by which means the charge was fub-
Rantiated, and he was found guilty. T. Collins,
tried for a burglary in the honte of Ed. Poore, Efq.
of North Tidworth ; and J. Sceours, charged with
(leafing a mare, were alfo capitally convided.—
Evereu was left for execution; Collins and Sceours
were both reprieved. C. Shore, conviled of Real.
ing a number of fowls ; and W. Woolly, for rob-
bing J. Charles of a pude, &c. at an inn in Safif-
bury, were fentenced to be tranfported. J. Pinchin,
for receiving fiolen kerfeymere, was fentenced to
be imprifoned three years.
There were eighteen cantos at NY Prigs, but no
one of public importance. The crowd in Court
was very great ; and fome pickpockets had the ef-
frontery to exercife their vocation in the very
front and face of Juftice. Mr. Giddings, a gentle-
man farmer, who was attending as a wands. had
his pocket picked there of notes to the amount of
thirteen pounds.
At the affixes holden lad weetat Winchtfier an
ejeament caufe, wherein Mr. Urry was plaintiff,
and Mars. Haddon and Wilkins were defendants,
was decided, which by the peculiar tingularity of
its circum fiances excited the curiofity and attention
of a great number of ?erfons. The outline of the
cafe is this :—Mr. Urry for fome years had the le-
gal elate and was in polliffion of certain copyhold
premifes near Southampton which he held by a
grant under the Bifliop of Winton. About fix
years ago, whilst Mr. Urry was in potato!), the
Bifhop's fieward made a new grant to another per.
fon of part of the fame premifes, under whom
the defendants in the prefent affirm claimed tithe ;
accordingly an ejedment was laft fummer brought
by them againft Mr. Urry, who defended the
fame, and the caufe was entered for trial at the
fummer affixes, but the then Attorney for Mr.
Urry, after the briefs were given to Counfel,
conceiving that his client had no defence, com-
prom:fed the caufe, and a verdict was agreed
to be given to the plaintiffs for all the premifes,
with coifs of fuit. Judgment and execution were
afterwards obtained under the verdia and corn-
promife, and Mr. Urry in November laft was
turned out of roffc.ffion ; and now this ejeament
was brought by Mr. Urry, to recover the fame
l.icinifes.
The cafe was opened by Mr. Gross, wherein
after proceed:lig fume time, the Court recom-
-rended thr cafe to be referred to Mr. TEPIPLE
X as, one of the Collura; who, after having heard
the evidence adduced by each party, awarded that
the plaintiff thould receive the poiTerlion of the
premifes in tin:llion, and that the defendant &ild
pry the coils of fuit. The defendants relied on
the compromife operating as an utter prccluficin
to any future action.

Thomas F.aling and George Lee, who received
fentence of death at Winchetler affixes, for feloni.
wily entering the dwilling-houfe of Mr. Ridley at
Ifecktielcf, and healing therefrom a gold watch
anti nthi.r articles, are, we hear, left for execution.
York Affixes ended on Saturday fennight,
when the following prifoners received fentence of
deAth : John Leighton, of Ujpfal, miller, and Ran-
dal Dalpain, otherwife William Fenton, of Golf-

brough, yeomar, Wm. Peel, and R 3.
for Theep-Itelling ; J. Athton and M. Noble, fer
horfe.ftealing ; David Gibfon, for Realing ciOst
gold watches, and divers other articles ; and James
Can for returning from tranfportation before
the expiration of his time.

Jonathan Haigh, for buying Peen linen yarn,
to be tranfported for fourteen years.

P. James, Mary Granger, and Wm. Pepper, for
perjury ; Thomas White, for ilealing afilver watch ;
;eorge llohfon, for robbing bleach grounds R..
lthoJcs, for 11,,rfe•Ilealing ; and Chrithipher Al-
mond, 1,,r Healing plate ; to be tranfpnrted for
fe yen years. Four other prifoners were convicted of
idler offences, nine acquitted, and twelve difeharg-
ed by proclamation.
Eighty-fix caufes were entered for trial, few of
which came on.

KENT ASSIZES' -MAIDSTONE
BEFORE Sill BEAUMONT HOTHAM.

Tv itN ER v. UM r ERR c.--The Counfel who open-
ed this caufe dated, that it was an aetion brought
by the Plaintiff, a young and refpdtable Attor-
ney, againft the Defendant, a Rout athletic far-
mer, to recover damages for a moll violent af
fault, committed in violation of the rights of hof-
pitality, and without the flighteft caufe or provo-
cation.

The defendant bad invited the plaintiff to his
bottle, in the neighbourhood of Blackheath, and
upon Come fudden trivial difpute, he (truck him,
prefented a loaded pißol to his bread, to terrify
him ; turned him out of doors at a very late hour
of the night, beat him unmercifully, threw liim
down, and wantonly rubbed him in the wet. The
confequence of this treatment was, the plaintiff
caught a fevere cold and fever, which confined him
for feveral months, and he had to pay his apothe-
cary upwards of 201. He hoped in a cafe of Co
aggravated a mature, the Jury would think it ne-
ceffary to give very exemplary damages.
Mifs James, a young lady about eighteen years
of age, and filler in law to the defendant, was
called to prove thefe fads on behalf of the plain-
tiff; and from her evidence, after the had been
crofs-examined, the cafe, which had been Rated as
of fo ferions a nature, refolved ittelf into this—She
had been upon a vifit to the plaintiff's father in
London, and was fo pleand with her treatment,
and the attention of the plaintiff, who was about
the age of twentrone, that the, in return, invited
him down to her brother's. The young lady
(hewed an extreme partiality for the young lawyer,
and they were never happy but in each other's
company. They were accuftomed to RMUIe them-
felves by walking in the groves of Greenwich-
Parkrand upon a certain evening, after having
been a long time miffed, they were found enjoying
a tete4 -tete in one of the vaults of Sir Gregory
Page Turner's decayed manfion. Another fource
of amufement was reading novels to each other ;
and upon the evening the fitppoted affault was
committed, the defendant was preparing to go
round his grounds with a piflol in his hand, as was
his officer, when he heard the plaintiff in his lif-
ter's bed-chamber, reading a novel. He immedi-
ately exclaimed to his wife " What's that girl and
boy about in the bed-room—they flan'tbe there."
In order to be fure of it, he ordered that Mifs thould
fleep in the fame room with her filler that night;
and he would take care to keep the lawyer from
her. This determination fo affronted the plaintiff
that he refolved upon leaving the houfe that in-
Rant. He went out, and Mifs James followed him,
and Willed upon teeing him fate over the heath
to Come other houfe. She clung round and re-
' filled every attempt of the farmer to get her away.
The affault confifted in nothingmore thanthe ttrug-
, gle which was the confequence of her laying tight
hold of the plaintiff ; no blow was ftruck what-
ever ; on the contrary, the defendant willed the
plaintiff to come back, and fleep at his houfe that
night.

The furgeon was called to prove that the de.
fendant had been feiaed with a cold and fever, and
had paid him 201. He however admitted, that
palling an hour or two in a damp vault was as
likely as any other mule to produce fuch a diforder.

The Counfel infifted the attempt to pull the
young lady from the plaintiff by force, was an af•
fault which entitled him to a verdift.

The Judge thought the contrary; and that the
defendant had aged like a prudent man. He even
intimated that he would not have perhaps far ex-
ceeded his authority if he had given the plaintiff a
lentle horfe-whipping, and had locked the young
ady up for a week, upon an allowance of bread
and water.--limier his Lordthip's direetion, the
Jury found a verdia for the defendant.

At the conclufion of the above Affixes, on Fri-
day !aft, the following perfons received fentence of
death ; John Allen, and Edward Jarratr, for rob-
bing Daniel Solomon a Jew, near Rochefter, or his
whole flock in trade, confining of watches, trin-
kets, &c. &c. to a confiderable amount ; Samuel
Taylor, for robbing Mr. Fry on the highway, near
Tunbridge Wells, in Augurs laft ; William Cert.
forth and John Garthwait, for robbing John Berry
near Chatham ; Samuel Fellows, for robbing a
baker's boy at Dartford ; Thomas Pipkin and
Thomas Monk, for a moft daring burglary, com-
mitted in the houfe of the Rev. George Jones,
Vicar of Teignham, near Faverlham; they came
into the morn where Mr. and Mrs. Jones were
alleep, and robbed them of money and notes to
the amount ,f nearly tool. James Elmer, John
It ulfell, Thomas Knife% John Wingate, John
Green, William Hall, and George Phelps, for burg-
laries James Reeves and John Davis, for houfe-
breaking in the day time ; John Saker and Thomas
Dorey, for horfe-stealing ; Benjamin Spratt, for
(leafing cattle; Richard- Kemp, Samuel Toler,
for theep-healing ; and John Blackmore, for Heal-
ing in a dwelling houfe at Gravefend, feveral bank
notes ; Edward Lewis, for having fome new can-
vas, part of his Majclit's naval sores in his pail-
lion, was ordered to be tranfported for fourteen
years nine were ordered to be tranfported for
(even years; and ten were fentsnced to bard la-
bour in the Houle of Correttion.