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the sea stood Wide the wagon he had a altir of
his person from the lights in the windows of the
house. Hem, oleo, be had some corm/latices with
him respecting the mode of his accommodation its
the wages, and having made room for him, saw
him get into the waggon, and gave him his bundle.
Thus they went on for six miles further, when they
reached Gansdown-hill, whine the stranger left the
wagon. Thomas asked hire if he was tired of riding?
be said he was ; and that he was ring to Windsor,
and would accompany him as far as pough. They
then proceeded down the bill leading to Nettlebed
Bottom : Thcrittas asked him to walkbehind or before
him, and he went behind. As soon as they reached
the Bottom, he asked when the prosecutor intended
to bait? to which he replied, " as soon as they were,
at the top of the hill." Thomas then received a via
lent blow on his head, immediately followed by
another, the last of which knocked him down, and
left him entirely senseless. When he recovered, be;
was in bed at the Bull public-house, Nettlebed, and
found that two pound notes of the Abingdon Bank. a
pocket-hook, and the way-bill of the waggon, had
been cut out of the side-pocket of his waistcoat,
through his smock-frock, which had been cut, and
none of these had he since seen, He first after the
robbery saw the prisoner at. Abingdon on the 23d of
April, having gone expecting to see him. He was
then in a different dress, and he (the witness) was
not then quite certain that he was the man who had
joined him on the 28th of March. When he. heard
him speak, he thought be war the man by his voice.
On the next day-he saw him again; he was then In
the dress lie wore at the trial, and which he had on
at the time df the robbery—a dark peen velveteen
jacket; lie then had no doubt as to his person.
The waggon had an iron scraper hung between its
wheels on the side by which the stranger walked on
the night of the robbery. He had, as the prosecutor
remarked at the time, a large nose and whiskeri.
In reply to questions put to him by the Learned
Judge, the witness said, that when he was before the
Magistrates, and the prisoner was produced to him
a second time, his expressions were—" The prisoner
is the man, and I believe it is no one else." He had
never seen the prisoner before that evening. He
went altogether four times to Abingdon to see him,
at three of which he was in his present dress. The
third time, be said, that " he knew him by his voice
and by his dress;" but thought he added, " and by
his person also."
Daniel Stephens said, that he was a navigator, em-
ployed in making the canal at Clifton, which is about
four miles from Abingdon, and two miles and a half
from Shillingford-bridge. The prisoner wits, with
many others, paid off on Wednesday, and was not at
work on the Thursday or Friday following. He had
on a dark velveteen jacket, and a smock-frock. The
witness saw him on ursd a y evening, when be said
be was going to lie down. The prisoner's dress was
a common one among the navigators-at the plaie.—
He was taken back again on Saturday, and worked
four or five days afterwards.
Martha Franklin, the daughter of an innkeeper at
Clifton-ferry, saw the prisoner about eight o'clock on
the morning of the Friday. He came to her mother's
house a little before eight, and had three pints of
beer and bread and cheese, but she could not tell in
what direction he came. He paid in a country bank-
note, for which he received change; she believed it
was an Abingdon note, but could not tell with cer-
tainty. The house was three miles from Dorchester
Bridge, about eleven from the place of the robbery,
and opposite the place where the navigators work on
the other side of the river. Many Abingdon notes
were in circulation theite, and she often took them.
William Wheeler, a labourer working at Nettlebed,
went, on the morning after the robbery, to the place
where it had been committed, and observed a quan-
tity of blood, and a large bar of iron. He picked
it up, and found it stained with blood, and with hair
sticking to it.—The iron was produced in Court, and
identified as the same found by the witness.
Richaill Glanville, the landlord of the Bull, at
Nettlebed, remembered Thomas being brought to his
house between two and threein the morning of the
robbery.. He was very much beaten about the head
and mouth, and quite senseless.
Thomas being recalled, said that he was knocked
down about two in the morning.
This was the case on the part of the prosecution.
The prisoner being called on for his defence, said,
" I think it very hard, my Lord, for me to be accused
of this robbery. My common wear is a smock-frock
over my jacket. I know no more. I am innocent
of the crime. Twenty of us were discharged at once.
There was no room for us to sleep anywhere, so we
lay down where we could. I lay down by myself
that night, and that is the reason I haveno witnesses."
Stephens being called back, confirmed this state-
ment as to the number of navigators discharged, who
were turned away because there were more workmen
than were wanted; and as to the want of lodging,
which forced many of them to lie in the fields.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up the evidence to
the Jury. He observed, that there could be nedoubt
that Thomas had been robbed, and had been treated
with great cruelty, and that he believed the prisoner
so be the offender; but the important qu,estipn for
them to consider was, whether they were quite sure
that in this last point he was not in error ? identity
was always matter of belief; though confirmatory
circumstances might change that belief into moral
certainty. If immediately after a robbery the suf-
ferer saw the accused—if he was not prepared to ex-
pect him, and yet knew him at ence—above all, if
yreasonablThe mind. But
Bduidt
any of the property lost were found oh him, no doubt
wouldhere
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others ahen thrown ne dress
which
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employ andm
sleeping
fields ; and though he was shewn to be near the spot,
so also were others, and there was no proof of the
direction in which he came to CM f ton- erry. On the
whole, the Learned Judge implored the Jury iv to g
their anxious attention to the case; if they felt confi-
dente
that the impression of Thomas was the true ne
they must find the prisoner guilty ; but if they enoter;
tamed any reasonable doubt, cher ought to acquit him.'
! The Jury retired for short time, and on th •
turn into Court found the prisoner Guilty. en.
re.
Mr. Justice SAVA-•
immediately n:wee/1W to
• pronounce mnersce of death. II should,
he said,

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KM,. the evidence with the 'IAA* Mei !Mauer
unless be felt reason to doubt this propriety of the
verdict, the kw must take its Fours& He, therefore,
earnestlythat
imiiipbri
change
wthheicphriher to
awaited him.
himselffor
the trial, and who displayed scarcely" any emotion
when the verdict was given, was quite overwhelmed
sboystohseedad;dhresse
treofmthhel eresumed his firmness when led from the bar. The
Judge..
andge wept ii
Hit face
e xcbeeecdainni;ly deeply
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verdict, which was scarcely anticipated, produced a
visible effect on the audience, which was deepened by
the subsequent proceedings.
HERTFORD, JULY te.—CIVIL SIDE.
m This
wasca an action
Loft No
assault
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sawyer, had done work for the defendant i
Ekns, and
journeyman'
oAdwoiraliselint.
imprison-
ment. It appeared that the plaintiff, a.
could not get his money, and Walt AO his house to
den him. Finding he could not gain admittance, he
knocked at the door several times, and abused him
through the keyhole. The defendant' then sent for
-Powton, a constable, and bothtogether took the plain-.
tiff to the cage at Ware, and in their way there halt
him with the constable's staff on the head. He was
confined for five hours, and the next :uprising he
was discharged by the Magistratest
The Jury, under all the circumstances of the case,
found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages ls.
GODFREY F. WHITING AND ANOTHER.
The plaintiff was a charwoman in the service of a
baker at Hoddesdon. and waebeing drivels in a gig
t
by her master's son to London, when the defendants,,
he proprietors of °l:position coaches, from Ponders
End, came along at a furious rate, racing against
each other. The road was 35 feet wide, and the gig
was pulled up on its right side, but one of the coaches
came in collision the gig was upset, and the plain-
tiff so much hurt that she was confined for a fortnight,
and her surgeon's bill amounted to £B.
The defendants' Counsel severally addressed the
Jury in mitigation of damages, with their usual abi-
lity, but called no witnesses.
The LORD Cam Banos; summed up the whole of
the evidence, and left the case fdr the consideration
of the Jury. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Da- i
mages, Fifty-five Pounds.
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CROWN SIDE.
The Assizes for this county finished late on Satur-
day evening. After the jail was delivered Mr. Jus-
tice PARK assisted the LORD Cour BARON in trying
causes, some of which were very heavy in point of
length, but destitute of public interest.
On Friday part of a desperate gang of house-
breakers, who have for the last two or three years
infested Bishop's Stortford and its neighbourhood,
and had committed several daring. burglaries, were
tried and convicted. One of them,
Edward Lee, against whom there were no less than
six indictments, was tried and convicted upon three.
The most prominent case against him was that of a
burglary committed in the dwelling-house of Mr.
Thomas Poole, a respectable farmer at Sawbridgo-
worth, on the sth of February last. In support of
the prosecution, the principal witness was an ac-
complice, named John Fordham, who deposed that
the robbery in question had been planned by the pri-
soner, a man named Phipps (who was tried and con-
vi:ted at the last Assizes for this county of the same
burglary), and himself. They were all bargemen on
the river Stort, and after spending their evening at
a benefit club in Bishop's Stortford, they went to the
prosecutor's house about twelve at night, and forced
their way in by means of a pick-axe, with which tkey
split the door down. The prosecutor, awakened by
the noise, went to the window, and in his terror threw
out to one of the ruffians ISI. in bank notes and some
silver. In the meantime, the other two began to rifle
the house, and found under the bed of the prosecutor's
daughter a muff-box, containing various articles of
plate, with which they decamped,—Verdict—Guilty.
Charles Lee was then tried with another man,
named Meary Saggs, for a burglary in the dwelling-
house of Hen. Ainey, a farmer, at Sawbridgeworth,
in the night of the 12th of September, 1820, and
stealing therein %Abs. of pork, and other articles.—
The principal witness was Fordham, the approver,
whose evidence being corroborated in massy para.•
culars, the prisoners were found Guilty.
Charles Lee took his trial for another burglary, in
the dwelling-house of two ladies, named Langton, of
Bishop's Stortford, on the night of the 27th of Octo-
ber, 1820, and stealing therein several articles of
kitchen furniture. Verdict—Guilty.
Joseph Gfen, another of the same gang of thieves,
was tried and convicted of -a burglary in the dwel-
ling-house of John Clark, on the night of the 14th of
September, 1820, at Cheshunt, and stealing therein
Bank-notes to the amount of 351. ''The Jury, under
the Learned Judge's directions, found the prisoner
IGstilty. Sentence of Death was immediately pro-
nounced upon these three convicts, but Lee only
I was left for execution, there being no evidence that
Saggs and Griffen were old offenders.
William Pain was indicted for stealing a pair of
small-clothes, the property of the Churchwardens and
Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Hitchin.
This was rather a novel case in principle. The
principal witness against the prisoner was a pauper
boy belonging to the Hitchin Workhouse, of which
the prisoner himself was an inmate. The small-
clothes in question, which formed part of the cloth-
ing allowed to paupers in the poorhouse, was assigned,
sizandpetli:ceefctiaihsewestr.oe,oltdhagtothaeopdrisosteianertohffeesrhed thekboy
for the use of a shoemaker who lived in the house,
oema er s
breeches; the boy agreed to do so; he entered the
house whilst the prisoner wait outoitle,• took the
I breeches, came out, and gavelem to the prisoner,
who paid the boy the sixpence.Thr e prisoner was in-
said,
t 0 thethe indictment
ordinary
principle, was well
1
in-
dicted as principal felon, and not as the receiver, and
fraMmer.4,Juisitoiem analogy Justice PARTeogy
that where several persons go with one common
and guilty
abetting,purposeatroe
oporelysenoto,eaiisditihige
cp.rwinincipitaals,":hinoUgahli
active person in the crime. The prisoner's was not
the band that took the property, but the boy was his
agent, and it was the same as if the prisoner himself
had effected the robbery. The boy was confirmed in
several particulars, and if they believed the evidence,
• dence,
the Jur. were bound to convict the prisoner.
The Jury retired for a considerable ti • me, and at
length returned with a verdict of Not
y. •

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&ewe College, * the Rev. Samuel Osentlett, D.D. (Urn.
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the Rev. Reheat ANeS, B.C.L Hello*, of Übe Wiese !odoi.
do Illeetert, wary reeelted at the College-gates a Knit Vire
eight •. deelt by the Warden, the Vice-Warden, and Dk. Gals&
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middle by Mr. Hat Oa Thursday his Majedy's Oold imd
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Mr. s Card Medal.
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the Lamle ler Ireehfr. Mall, a Silver Medal.
°algae/ Oratio ad MiStes—Mr. Moherley, a.Silver Medal.

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ECCLIISTASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Rev. C. N. L'Oate, ILA. So the Rectory of Clartig
Plockagre, Lloosinshire.
The Rm. Llschwood has bean nemlnered to the Arch--
d of Ross, vacant by the promotion of Lb. 13issett tear
Sue-of
The.tee, Ileorip Ledford Harvey, B.A. of Sidney Capers.
Cambridge, one of the Denaestic .Chaplains to the Duke of Tod,
has bean presented bi the Company of Haberdashers to the V.
carigaiof Dilworat, Leicestershire.
The Rev. I. Bred's; ILA: Fellow of green's College, to thr.
Vicarage of Caiisbrooke, in the Jsle of Wight, with the Chapel.
of Newport and Northwood anneacd, vacant by the death of the
Rev. Thema, Dalton, RD.
The Rev. Charles .Baundere Skelton Dupuis, M.A. Scholar ot
Pembroke College, is appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Na:.
quit of Hertford.

Conormea INQuesr.—At tw-3 o'clock, on Satur-
day afternoon, Mr. Sit Er.roN, the Coroner, and a very
respectable Jury, assembled at the Crown, in Kent-
'street, Southwark, to inquire into the cause of tkr
death of a fine female child, named Elizabeth Jacobs,
aged only two years and three months. Mrs. Ilanratli
Gifford, residing at No. 6, Eisher's•buildings,
street, deposed, that she gained her livelih,od by eta-
nufacturing fancy and ladies reticule baskets, a-,1
occasionally used oil of vitriol and iudigo to colour
the wicker. On Tuesday evening last, she being in
want of such drugs, went to a chemist's to purch.,e
some, having previously intrusted her little boy tot: le
care of the deceased's mother whilst she was absent.
After she had procured the cempotnrd he returned
to Mrs. Jacob's house for her little boy, and ha; vened
to lay the poison in a cup on the table, %%last she
wrapped her child up in a shawl, and at that moment
the deceased, who was standing near the table, drain:
about a tea-spoonful of the poison, and in an instant
its mouth and lips were shockingly corroded. The
another of the deceased took it up in her arm., a;..d
poured some cold water down its throat, and
aaer-
wards ran into the street, where she was met Ly
neighbour, named Carpenter,. who took the chld
from her, and administered some antidotes, which
caused excessive vomiting, and the ejected matter
was of a blue colour. The deceased lingered in the
most excruciating pain till the next night, wEen it
died in convulsions. The Jury returned a verdic
" That the deceased came by its death by au.-
'clentally drinking poison." Both the Coroner aad
Jury deemed the conduct of Carpenter worthy cf
their praise and thanks.