Star.
London, England, 1823-08-09 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

BRTDOEWATER, AUGUST 6.
Samuel Voh was indicted under Lord Ellenbo-
rough's Act for maliciously shooting at Thos. Pearce,•
with intent to murder. The prisoner was a decent
looking young man, of about 23 years of age. It ap-
peared from the evidence of Pearce, the prosecutor,
an old man, upwards of 60 years of age, that in the
month of April last, in the evening, as he was riding
along, near one of the preserves of Lord Glastonbury,
in whose service he was a gamekeeper, he heard the
report of a fowling-piece ; and going in the direction
of the sound, he perceived the prisoner with a gun in
his hand. He charged him with having been firing
at the game. The prisoner at first denied it ; but at
!length said, What if I have; I have done nothing
but what you can forgive me for r The keeper re-
plied, No, I can't forgive you ; you must go •along
with me to the Bailiff." The prisoner assented, and
the keeper rode along before, him, but had scarcely
got forty yards before he heard the report of a gun
close to him, and felt himself wounded in the back.
He turned round, and perceived the prisoner running
'away. The thickness of his coat and waistcoat had,
in some measure, preserved him from the effects of
the shot, and he immediately pursued the prisoner ;
but feeling ihtnewhat weak from the loss of blood, he
desisted, and•torned about, and had proceeded some
'distance on his way home, when the poney on which
he rode turned his head as if he saw something ; the
prosecutor turned his head also in the same direction,
but it being extremely dark, he could see nothing ;
bat instantly from behind the hedge a gun was fired,
the contents of which still& him on the face, knocked
out four or five of his teeth, and entirely deprived
him of the sight of-one eye. He then with great dif•
faculty got home, and saw no more of the prisoner till
he was apprehended. Thefacts weredistinctly proved,
and the Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned Judge (Buanoucitt) immediately
proceeded to pass on him the awful sentence of death,
assuring him that he must not entertain any hopes of
mercy in this world. The prisoner (who is the son of
a respectable farmer, and behaved throughout the
trial as became one in his unhappy situation), was
then taken from the dock. .

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

FITZEII AND OTT IM jeilllTol4.—This was a proceed-
ing under a Statute for the regulation of contracts between mas-
ters and servants employed as labourers, artificers, handicrafts.
men, Ste. to recover from Lord Kenyon certain sums of
money due to the complainants as and for weekly wages.
Mr. ASRAHAIIS, the Barrister, and Mr. EMI, Solicitor to Lord
Kenyon, appeared on behalf of his Lordship; and Mr. Burua,
a Clerk of Mr. Mama, attended for the complainants.
Mr. &iaae stated to the Magistrates (Sir RICHARD Brants
and Mr. Altuntute.), that the complainants in this case belonged
to that highly useful and reepecnitde class of men, the compa-
ct= of the daily press, and it was one of the usages of the trade,
which had existed, be believed, almost ever since the art of
printing was known, for journeymen to give a fortnight's notice
of any intention to quit the service of the master in whose em-
ployment they happened to be, and this agreement was equally
binding on the side of the master. The complainants had been
employed on the late I'rue B item, an Evening Newspaper.
which existed for a time, but was suddenly dropped; and the
compositors were at one hour's notice turned out of employ-
ment. Mr. Stockdale was the conductor of the raper; but he
having become a bankrupts they thought proper to apply to
Lord Kehyon, whom they understood to have been the princi-
pal proprietor. ,&s a proof that his Lordship was a proprietor,
when be preferred a claim for a debt before the Commissioners
under Stockdale's bankruptcy, they refused to allow him to
prove his debt;on the ground that he was a partner in the True
Briton. la November last' an advertisement appeared in a
Morning Paper, stating that all the persons having claims upon
the True Briton would be paid on application to Mr. Edge, his
I.ord,hip's Solicitor ; but when the complainants applied to him
they were refused payment.
Mr. Edge begged to explain this. That advertisement was
inserted'by order of the Commissioners of Bankrupt, and in con-
sequence, a great number of claims were sent in, which he (Mr.
'Edge) referred to Mr. Stockdale, in order to ascertain whether
they were just or not. To the ellish of etch of the present com-
plainants, Air. Stockdale, in the Written account transmitted for
his inspection, wrote the word " NU," and consequently pay-
ment was refused. He begged Further to state, that the opinion
of Mr. Alarryatt, the banister, had been taken ; and it was, that',
Lord Kenyon was not Bible.
Fitter was then called, and he stated, that he was en-
gaged by Mr. Cowie, who was what is called printer of the
Paper, as the reader of the True Brines, and he continued in that
situation until the demise of the Paper. His salary was a guinea
and a half per Week. On a Saturday in November, they (the
operative men) were informed that the Paper would drop, but
on Monday the Paper was brought out, and on Tuesday Mr.
Stockdale asked them if they could bring it out that day by two
o'clock, and said it was to be sold to Colonel Toirens? It was
aho stated that the Colonel would give them two guineas if they
could get it out by two, and they promised they would, and by
great exertion did so. That lame day, however, they were told
that they were to be employed no longer. They claimed the
fortnieht's'salary, and Mr. Stockdale admitted the justice of the
ihrint, bat said he *rasa twined Man, and would gladly change
Situations with any of them. Witness regarded Mr. Stockdale
ye the 'Editor and cabelietor of the Paper voder the proprietors.
He always understood Lord Kenyon to be in the back ground.
Cruss-examined..—Never, to his knowledge, saw his Lordship'
et 'the office. Never bad any communication with the Noble
, Lord. It was thelhntiabk custom of the trade to trive a fort-
-night!s otitikeoe either side, aed journeymen were always udder-
-stood trete liable to ,pernishinent if they did not °imply with
*tat custom.

Jahn-Joseph &bud& liwors.—He odd be never bad any
imoney from Lord Keniyea her the purpose of defraying the
penis of carrying on the Tene-.Briten, but be received a large
sum of money from that Nobleman (acids ezr.tions in advancing
the Protestant interests in that 'Paper. He received £5O a
week tip to Ante, .111121,1eittn his. Lordship informed him that
the state of his finaneetWould boVallow of his contributing any
*err. He sent his:Lardshipcnsicetattot of the receipts and ix-
pasiliture of the conger% regularig ovary week, because be Mt
himself bound in his own mind to do so; but his Lordslaithall
no controul whatever over the . •
Mr. lisasians.—Did W eiric tillihrliaiy shi re. of
the profits ? ,4‘ In.rsm
' Mr.
Mr. Butler.—Were *ire
Mr. Stockdale.—No.
Sir R. Thaters.—No; I tbdeght SA 41 wawa one•legged se.;
4totint—(A lau). A tut i.e. • ,
Witness bebeVgh ed that. Lord an was the
of the Paper. It was projected, be thought, bg Swift ma
Lord Kenyon certainly purchased the lease of thilonte
'the P'aper' was carried on, Ind 'tinted to fibnielf the of
'Wain the Whole caticern out cif. doors front the Imensent that
Paper ceased to advocate these a Protestast.and-ecastital
elped interests and principles" which his 4rdship, was sosiont
Whine promulgated, He exercised that power in one
When his Lordship ceased his advances, witness carried'
paper on his own account, to his utter rain.
Mr. Asaanams.--His Lordship advanced 6,0001. Or 710004
I believe?
Mr. Stockdsk replied in the affirmative. to'seate

He begged c.
that he Wadded the custom of the trade, bat that he had Cm+
Med the men'epen the True -Brills indeuvery special demon:
stances; for, knowing that the paper might at any• tip be,
dineekedlop by Lord Kenyon, lartold the neen.that they. might
be discharged without any notice at all, beg ai the same time he
required from them the full notice Of aliatialght if they seism
to hate the concern.,
' Mr. Cowie, the printer, distinctly denied *been es& •
Bar R. lleastrs—The Act of Periiateent.upea which ebb case
is founded, requires the decision of one Magistrate oily, and I