Star.
London, England, 1805-07-31 00:00:00

SUMMER .4ssa LS.

At the A flizes for the county of Huntingdon, held
there, before the Lord Chief Baron (Macoorrazn)'
and Sir NASH CFOSE, on Monday, the 29th of July,
much into, ell was excited, and the Court uncommon-
ly crowded, to witnefs the trial of two French prima.
ncrs of war, viz. J. N. Defchamp and J. Roubillard,
who wet e fully convteed, the former of forging, and.
.11e latter of uttering counterfeit Bank of England
Notes, and both received fentence of death.
WINCHFSrEIt, JULY IT—The bnfinefs of the wet-
tern Circuit commenced here on Wednefday
Mr. Judice Ls Btotac preftded .at Nal Prius, .and
Mr. Baron GRAHAM in the Crown Court. , '1
The firft trial was an indiement jobs
Hornby,.Efq. for an affault an Elizabeth Minsfield.•
The pridecutrix (lated, that fhe had .been hiredbas
honfekeeper arid lady's maid, in. Mr. Hornby's
Alma-
ly ; that after fhe had been Oleic abAt• fifty ,tlays,
fhe hadlUnititentictriallY, according to her fi.trOnent)
offended Mrs. 11. 'Who complained to Mr. Hornhy,
that (he had been very impertinent ; that her mailer,
in confequence, defired to (peak to her in the houfe•
keeper's room ; and, on her attending'him there, and'
after Ling that fhb had been guilty of no imitertinence,
he told her, in great heat, that if the did not hold ,
her tongue, he would knock her down—that the
lhoold mliantly go out of the bottle—and, on her ex'
prefling her natlinefs to go, but demanding a month's
wages, he (truck her on the chin with his knuckles,
and afterwards.with his open hand on the cheek ;
the avoided other blows, by ilepping back, and
thricked loudly for. help. Ml. 11. loon after quitted
the room.

A man fervant !aid he heard -the noife and bußle
,in the houlacepet's room, but law nothing of thV
41fault, as he was prevented enteritm.the room By
the butler. 'A ftmale fervint laid the heard. the
proLcutrir Buick,. and law her fliortly after the
came horn her room, when the appoated in great
agitation, and her face looked as though the had re-
ceived a blow.

: Mr. Serjeant I.Ests, for the Defendant, argued,
'that as the proof of the bloivs reited folely,on the ter.
timony c•f the proficutrix, and ash bad, even in
that Curt, deported hell& in a way which made it
not at all uncharitable to conclude the could be both
prit and artful, it was to be cunt►dgted wheth4 fuch
a woman might not have given her own face the ap•
pearance of its +awing received a blow ? It was
more probable that th; had done h•, than that Mr.
liornby.had fo fat forgotten himielf, as to Ilrike her.
The Jury, after fume hotitation, pronounced a verdict
of Guilty.

Df'D EX D. HARRIS V. GREATMEAD..
This cause was tried before Mr. Ptdice I.r BLARC,
and laded from nine in the motn•ng until halipafi
five in the evening. The Plaintiff, Mr. Harris, is a
Conniellor on this Circuit, and heir at law of thclate
Mr. GlCAtheAdp who forme time fince made his will
and bequeathed all his eltates in the County of Dorfet
to. Mrs. Gteathead, his wife; the whole of Mr. Great•
head's eftates in Dorfet and Hants at the time of his
dectafe amounted to between twelve and fifteen hun-
dred acres t f land, about iro of which, it wa?con•
tended on the part of the Plaintiff, were lying in the
p,artflt of Hampstion, within the County of Hants,
and this in fait was the only clocition at ilfite. Seve-
ral witneffes were called on both fides to relate fuch
&Els as might enable the Jury to deterroke whether
the lands in queition wet e lying ia DotrA or Hants,
and coal-trine:Ay whether On v paired to Mrs. Gaeat-
liad under het hufuand's will, or dcicendcd to Mr.
Harris as heir at law. On the part of the Plaintiff
the find witnefs thattwas called laid, he bad been with
Mi. Gieathead nine years as Land Steward, and re-
membered Mr. Greathead's purchafing the lands in
queltion, and that Mr. Greathead kiti every one al-
mays fpoke of thele lands as lying irk the County of
Hants, and that the occupiers of thole lands were
always 411111-ed by, and paid th.:it ti rtinn of poor's
rates and land taxes in the County of Hants, and
were summoned by the aid Comity whenever there
WAS occdfion to eled a Member for that County,
and that the inhabitants of Hampellon ferved in the
atilitia for• the County of -Hants. Several other wit-

neffes were Called who er.rrohorAted what the gra
witnefs Paid, and the whule made out a very clear
cafe to eltablifh the Plaintiff's claim to thefe lands, as
lying within the Connty of Hants. The Defendant
could prove no Eta, Ilrong enough to !hake the evi-
dence given by the Plaintiff.—Verdia for the Plaintiff.