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the lawiTheoW. OU tto Ott
and that, as no party can be compelled to fulfil a ma•
trimonial engagement, he cannot. of course, be liable v. ,
in damages for the breach of it. Bow4ratu...Yestenky Catherine Forrester
fully committed, charged with stealing a eheell fn.
On the other hand it was contended, that the whole the shop of Mr. Hodgson. the comer of QUeen4ltella,
circumstances of the case demonstrated that there Day-lane.
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was a clear understanding and engagement to marry S. alley, the driver of the haeltnercoach. No.
between the parties, and that whether it was reduced
24f, was charged with aiding and abetge,in vin-
to the form of a positive promise or not (a point not in the
worth contesting,) it was at tleast such as is common
in such cases, and is universally acknowledged to be lenStmntlYdasia; who stated, thalliti...clahte°foirtitheicrnidght a the sth
instant, she was returning home by Leicester-square, ,
binding among men of conscience and honour. The
alledged tondiuon as to the consent of Mr. Gow's when the prisoner asked her which way she was gain
children to the proposed marriage was expressly de- she told him, and he said he 'war going into
induced
flied ; and it was, on the contrary, alledged, that one Strand, and would give het s ride, which her
of th- first questions put by the lady and her friends to get into his coach. A man also got in at the same
to Mr. e,w, when he made his proposals, was, how time, who, when the coach drove of, began to take
his ci.ildren were likely to relish such a step, to which ' indecent liberties with her, attempted to ooniniit a
he answered, that they kad too much sense to stand i raPe' and gave her several bruises. She cried out
in the way of his happiness, but that, at any rate, his I violently, but the prisemer refused to stop, though
circumstances were such as enabled him to provide 1 she had no doubt but he heard her cries; and instead
sufficiently for them, if they should disapprove of the !of going towards the Strand, drove to Soho square.
match. As to this alledged condition. therefore, it where the man forcibly took from her pocket a silk
I handkerchief, jumped out of the coach, and ran away.
was maintained to be a mere pretext, under which a
i mix said
denied knowing him, but the prosecu-
breach of the most sacred engagement was attempted
trix said she heard him call him brother, and she had
to be justified ; and to say that no damages were due !
every reaaon to believe he was the Waterman belong-
in such a case, was just tq maintainshat the law of .
Scotland deniedreparatinn for the mostgrievous and in.ling to the coach-stand in Leicester-square. The
tolerable of all human wrongs. Such, however, it WAS 1 prisoner was committed to the New Prison ; and in
argued, was by no means the doctrine of the law of
case of his finding bail, he was ordered to give twenty-
Scotland, nor of anycivilized country. kwasa general tour hours notice.
rule of law and ofcommon sense, that for an injury aria. I Jane Francis was charged with uttering counterfeit
ing*um the voluntary act of an accountable being. ? money. J. Griffiths, of the Hand and Crown public-
dantiges were universally due, and there was ao house, Church-street, St. Giles's, stated, that on
for distinguishing a matrimonial engagement 'Tuesday morning she had some gin of hum, for which
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ther engagements. Indeed, the nature of such I she tendered him a bad shilling, which he refused;
at case peculiarly required the application of the rule ' she then offered him another counterfeit shilling ; at
bf law, because the injury was beyond coMparison • the same time he observed that she had sufficient
more poignant and severe than in almost any other halfpence in her hand to pay for the gin, andoalso
case that could be figured. It was true, that for ob-i a bad Ss. token : she however paid him with the half-
pence. In the afternoon she came to his house again,
, vious reasons, the law could not enforce the specific i
implement of an engagement to marry, but from this.: bad a point of porter, anki.offered him the same bad
it by no means followed, that the wilful breach of : shillings she had in the morning; upon which he had
such an engagement did not infer damages. Such a
I her taken into custody. She was coromited for fur-
case was analogous to cases of agreements that have they examination.
become imprestable, and where the maxim applies{, P. Clanerty was charged with assaulting C. Dris-
Loco jaai impresiabifis snivel:it dannuas d intererse. col, in a desperate riot, a few Sundays since in St.
Upon advising the whole matter, the Court found Giles's, and was ordered to find bail. Mr. N —AlllO3
Mr. Gow liable in se7oo damages, besides full es- observed, that he would not allow the prosecutions
pences of process. l for riots in St. Giles's to be made up.

Mr. Bust, a coal-merchant at Dover, has recovered
of Mr. 'W. H. Gilbert, Jeloo damages, for the seciac.
tion of his daughter, Miss Catherine Bust, under a
promise of marriage.
John Gray, who was senteaced at the last Circuit
Court, Glasgow, to seven years transportation, his
been sent off from Greenock Bridewell, for London,
in order to be shipped for •Botany Bay.

FOROSRY.—Monday a young man, genteely dress.
ed, went into Holyland's Coffee-house, in the Strand,
and stated himself to be an officer belonging to the
21st regiment of foot ; said he had just arrived from
the country, and intended to stop a short time at the
Coffee-house. He said he wanted some change to pay
for his luggage, &c. and presented a note for £1 j.
dated from the Adelphi, August 10, drawn by Alex-
ander Lawrie, promising to pay on the morrow the
account of his pay due on the 21th inst. the balance
to be paid when ascertained, directed to Daniel
McKenzie, Captain of the 21st regiment of foot ; and
endorsed by Daniel M'Kenzie. Mr. Williams, the
landlord, gave him £6 in part, and said he would pay
the remainder when the gentleman returned to droner,
which he had ordered at five o'clock. When he had
left the house, it occurred to Mrs. Williams, that tLe
note was worded in a very uncommon manner : he
therefor, went to Mr. Lawrie, she army agent, in the
Adelptti, who informed him it was a forgery. Mr.
1 Williams in consequence applied to Adkins, who at-
tended at the Coffee-house till the young man came
in to dinner; when, on certain questions being put to
him, it was strongly suspected that he was an impos-
tor, and knew the note to be a forgery. Adkins took
him into custody, and in the evening he underwent a
short examination before Mr. B114:112, who ordered
him to be detained tilLproper evidence was procured.
Tuesday morning he was again brought to the office,
and underwent an examination before Mr. NAM,
when Mr. Lawrie attended, and declared his signa-
ture to the note to be a forery. The prisoner was
committed for further examination.
UNson-Hata....—Yesterday the drivgc of an evcrand-
cart was charged with driving over 3n infant child,
the son of Mr. Brooks, of ltodncy.street, Great Suf-
folk-street, and causing its death. The servant of
Mr. Brooks stated, that she was crossing Suffolk-
strew, with the child in her arms, when the prisoner,
who was standing upright in the cart, came driving
along the street : there were two horses in the cart,
and one of them ran forcibly against her, and knock-
ed her down ; the child fell out of her arms, and the
cart went over it, and on the spot. She call-
ed out to the pritontr to stop; instead of doing so,
however, he abused her, and, svhipping his horses, en-
deavoured to drive away. Fie was, however, stopped,
and brought before the Magistrate, and ordered to
stand committed for re-examination, after the verdict
of the Coroner's Jury shall be known. The child
was about two years and a half old.

At the Lindsey Quarter Sessions, W. Neediumb
miller, of Fullerby, a man of considerable property,
was convicted of stealing a quantity of barley, and
sentenced to be transported for seven years.

At the Stafford Assizes Ann Sheldon was indicted, I
under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for administering
poison to her husband, with intent to occasion his
death. The husband, after some objections made by
Mr. CLIFFORD, which were over-ruled by the Judge,
was examined, and deposed to having been seized
with a violent sickness, after having taken some sugar r
and batter given him by his wife for a cold, and also
after having taken some broth which she had prepar-
ee, and in the remains of which he perceived a white
sediment. A medical person proved that the priso-
ner had purchasfd some arsenic of him, but it appear-
ed that she was in the'habit of using that drug for the,
purpose of curing sere heads. as she and her mother :
practised physic. No quarrel had taken place be-
tween her and her husband. • The Jury, after a short
censultation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
CANTERBURY, AVRUST 12.--The Assizes for this
county terminated, at Maidstone, on Saturday last,'
when the LORD Conte BARON, in a most impressive
manner, passed sentence of death on ten male and
two female prisoners. Two only of which, William
Brawn. fur murder, and Thomas Fowler for fort. ry,
were left for execution ; the rest being reprieved be.
f .re the Judge left the town.—Yesterday William
Brown, the above convict, was executed on Penen.
den Heath. He appeared perfectly resigned to his
fate, and met death with a fortitude seldom witnessed.
He had condUcted himself both during his confine.
ment and sinceisis condemnation with great propriety.
Patsomts or Wan.—At the late -Lewes Assizes.
James Robinson, who holds a mill in the neighbour, I
hood of Oswestry ; John Hughes, landlord of the Red
Lion, and Post-master at Rye ; and William Hatter, '
fisherman of that town, were convicted before the
Right Hon. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, of a conspiracy to
effect the escape of General Phillippon, and Lieute-
nant Gamier, two French officers, who, in breach of
their parole of honour, absconded from Oswestry, on
the 30th of June last. The evidence adduced in.sup.
port tf this charge satisfied the Jury, not only that
these men were guilty of this conspiracy. but that
Robinson and Hatter had actually conveyed the two '
Frenchmen to the enemy's coast ; and the Jury,
without hesitation, found them Guilty. His Lo j
al
ship, in a most impressive manner, after expatiati 'l 1
on the enormity of this offence, which he decl .1
was scarcely to be distinguished from high treason
adjudged Robinson and Hughes to be confined in
the common gaol of the county of Sussex, for the
space of two years, and within the first month to be
placed in and upon the pillory on the sea• shore, near
the town of Rye, and as near as could be within sight
of the French coast, that they might be viewed, as
his Lordship observed, by those enemies of their
count, y, whom they had •by their conduct so much
befriended : and Hatter having been on the same
day convicted of an offence, for which he had been
sentenced to be imprisoned fertwel•:e calendar months,
was adjudged to be imprisoned in the same gaol for
the apace of two years, to be computed from the ex-
piration of his first sentence.
GLORY !—A poor honest tar, or rather the remains
of one, now at Bristol, exhibits a mangled, mutilated
abridgement' of a human being :—he has buried an
arm in Bengal—one leg in the Ocean—and the ether
at the Cape of Good Hope—and he is lately come to
bury his heart (which is still 'as sound as a biscuit)
in Old England, his native land 1 This reminds us

Glimil•I•11111•••
Counrannitt Moxitsr.—By an Act passed at the
close of the last Session, the makers, venders, and
utterers of forged Bank-tokens, are liable to fourteen
years transportation : the same punishment is inflic.
ted on the maker and vender of what are terthedfeek
or Pm notes.
On the morning of Saturday se'nnight, as a young
man was sawing timber in a saw-pit at Broughton,
near Edinburgh, a large log of wood fell upon him,
(the cross supporters being too weak) and crushed
him in a dreadful manner. He was carried to the
Royal Infirmary, and died on the Sunday night.
Wednesday sennight as a daughter of Mr. Pain,
of Sittingbourne, a child about eight Tears of age,
was incautiously crossing the road, within a shrt:
distance of a Rochester chaise, which was rapidly
passing forward, she unfortunately fell dawn, the
wheels of the carriage went over her neck, and instast-
teneoudy killed her on the spot.
Saturday a person of the name of Henry Ronse,
servant to Mr. Fox, of Stourmouth, Kent, aged 60.
undertook to walk five miles within the hour, for
five pounds, which he performed with great ease three
minutes within the given time. Bets'wereten to one
against him at starting.
About midnight cm Saturday last.a fire !woke opt
on the premises of Mockbeggar Fatal, in* the parish
of Higham, near Rochester,.which consumed a Min
and a cart-lodge. It if coniectaredto have been oe