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make against his son, as a very great part had been
advanced long,before he came of age, and more par-
ticularly when, for the last senrof-400/. advan•edr to
his son, he had taken a bond, without having men-
tioned or demanded any security for any debt pre-
•iously in account.
The evidence for the prosecution having closed,
The .SOLICITOR-GERERAL addressed the Jury on
behalf of the defendants, to the respectability and ho-
nour of whose characters he spoke in terms of high
commendation; and in respect to the charges ad-
duced by the father .against the son, he fully ex-
plained, that.the son, at an early age, had a freehold
estate Bequeathed to him, of which his father •was
the occupying tenant; that he had six other children
to provide for under limited circumstances, and it
was but just that he should charge to his son the
sums advanced to him for the purposes of his educa-
tion and outfit in life. Besides, those charges were',
satisfactorily proved, item by item, before the Com-
missioaers of Bankruptcy, and fully admitted, and
therefore substantiated in law. It had also come out
this day in evidence, that the prosecutor had re-
peatedly declared, in the course of the last five years,
that he would spend the last shilling he possessed to
obtain legal revenge of the defendants, only for their
failure to comply with an unfair deception and ruin-
ous bargain to the injury of all the other creditors of
Mr. Jackson; and upon these grounds, and what had
already come out in the evidence for the prosecution,
he would rely on the Jury for a verditt of acquittal,
without calling any witness.
The LORD Ciller JUSTICE summed up for the Jury,
who, after a few minutes deliberation, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DECEMBER u.

TROST v. BENGIOUGM.

This was an action to recover the amount of a bill
of exchange for 301. given by the defendant in 1815.
The defendant is a member of the dramatic corps of
one of the winter theatres. The defence to the ac•
tion was the Statute of Limitations, by which the
plaintiff's claim was barredt more than six years
having elapsed since the defendant had admitted the
debt. The plaintiff now proved a letter to him from
the defendant in 1817, in which he stated, that if he
succeeded at Liverpo.d, he sh uhf see him_ soomafler
in Bristol, and that at all events he would arrange with
hint as well as he could. The defendant's hand-
writing to the bill wa, also proved.
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN, for the defendant, con-
tended that the evidence was not sufficient to take
the case out of the Statute of Limitations, and there-
fore that the plaintiff could not recover.
The Jury thought the letter produced referred to
the bill, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
the amount of the bill and the interest.
ASSIZES.—HERTFORD, DECEMBER 10.

Thomas Richeno was indicted for breaking and
entering the dwelling house of Enos Durant, in the
parish of Shenly, in the night time of the 12th of
November, and stealing therein a smock frock, the
property of William Osborn.
The prisoner had formerly been a labourer in hus-
bandry in the service of the prosecutor, but had been
discharged. Between six and seven o'clock on the
12th of November, it being then quite dark, the cen•
tage in which the prosecutor's servants were lodged
was broken open, by means of a fracture in the win-
dow, and a frock of Osborn's stolen. There were
marks of blood on the window, as if the thief had
wounded himself. Suspicion falling on the prisoner,
he was next day apprehended at a public-house at
Wheatstone, with the frock upon his back, which was
immediately identified. One of his thumbs appeared
to be cut, and the frock itself was stained with blood.

These facts were proved, and under the Learned
Judge's directions, the prisoner, who made no other
defence than protesting his innocence, was found
Guilty, Death.
Joseph' Threader and John Threader were indicted
for assaulting John Traveller on the King's highway,
on the 18th November, in the parish of North Mimms,
putting him in fear, and taking from his person
twenty-two shillings in silver.
M. JOSEPH was for the prosecution. It appeared
from the evidence of the prosecutor, an elderly man,
that on the morning of the 18th of November, about
seven o'cli:ck, he was coming out of his cottage with
two pails in his hand, to get some water, when the
two pi i:oners rushed out upon him from a shed in
his own yard, knocked him down, knelt upon his
body, and rifled his pockets of 225. in silver. Ile
,was severely hurt ; the blood gushed out of his mouth,
and be had hardly yet recovered from the effects of
the assault. The prisoners ran off with the money.
It was proved by another witness that the prisoners
were seen going towards the prosecutor's house very
fast, and were at that time about five minutes walk
from it. The prosecutor was positive as to the pri-
soners' identity.

The prisoners solemnly protested their innocence.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up the case for the
Jury, iTcl they found both prisoners Guilty.
The prosecutor recommended the prisoners to
mercy, and begged that they might be transported.
John Marshall was indicted for feloniously killing
and slaying Samuel Paritt, at Sawbridgeworth, on
the 26th October last.

It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased
were bargemen, and, with others, were drinking at
a public-house at Sawbridgeworth, on the 26th of
October. The deceased had been in an ill humour
with a man named King, and the prisoner tried to;
prevail upon him to chink. The deceased refused;'
the prisoner again and again urged him to do so ;
but the deceased at last threw the beer in the priso-
ner's face, and then flung the pewter pot at him: the
prisoner immediately rose, the parties closed, strug-
gled, and the deceased received a blow from the pal-
saner, fell, and lose no more. These are the facts
proved. The deceased appeared to be the aggressor.
An excellent character was given to the prisoner for
mildness of disposition.
The case went to the Jury, under the Learned
Judge's directions, and they found the prisoner—
Not Guilty.

Saturday morning, Burley Old Hall, the residence
of the Rev. T. R.W1Loos, was consumed by fire,
with the exception of the wing recently erected.
Some of the furniture was saved, and 1,0001. in cash
was rescued by Mr. Lzicu, at the hazard of his life.
The firs is said to have originated in the laundry,
ist.witiek some clot et befit Idt to dry.