Star.
London, England, 1825-07-15 00:00:00

HORSHAM QUAHTER SESSIOnS.

At these Sessions, holden on Tuesday last, Nary
Thrrrphrem, aged '2l years, a young woman c f interest-
ing appearance, was indicted for stealing a lace sell,
value 20s. one pair of silk stockings, a silk handker-
cl.Fef, a can't): is ditto, and various other articles.
The prisoner was brought to the Sessions from the
Petworth House of Correction, to which she had been
committed on the '25,h of April, by John Wakefield,
Eq. a Magistrate for tie county, " charged on the
o.ash of the Rev. Edward Robert Butcher, with steal-
irg, in the town of Worthing, one silk handkerchief,
avid one cambric handkerchief, rf the value of 2s. the
property of the said Edward Robert Butcher." She
bad, it appeared, been a favourite servant of Mrs.
I.l.atthe:, whose service she had quitted abunt three
a before this charge was brought against her, and
when apothen,led was in the service of the Duchess of
Ilam hoar, at Brighton. On her examination before
t:.c Mai;is, tate, the prosecutor swore, that Mrs. Butcher,
a material witness in the case, was prevented by illness
iron. attending. That Lady was sent for by the Magis.
trate, b&t did not attend, nor did she appear on the psi-
trial at H•rrsham.
The prisoner, in her defence, said the articles which
s%e was charged with having stolen, had been pre-
setittd to her by Mrs. Butcher, and this statement was
ir. part contirmed by the evidence of Helen Cook, a per-
son living at the same time in the service of the Doctor ;
a,.d by that of a Mr. Cranston, of Worthing. The
latter also stated, that at the time when it was sworn
by the prosecutor that Mrs.Bateher was ill, and unable
to attend before the Magistrate, the Lady was at the
house of witness, about a quarter of a mile distant from
her own residence, and that therefore she could not
hive been too ill to attend at the Magistrate's, which

M as not mine than 150 yards distant.
The Jury would not trouble the Court to suns up the evidence,
but stated thae they had long Ake been satisfied. llity instantly
returned a verdict of—Not GtiLy.
Hurst, Esq. one of the &Leh of Justicia, declared that in the
whole course of his life (a period of more thm half a century) be
had never known so gross a prosecution stain a Cou-t of Justice.
Application was afterwards made by the prisoner's tour el, for
a copy of the record, on which to ground a prosecution against her
prosecutor. The application was immediately granted by the Court.
The trial lasted three hours and a half, and the prisoner, who ap-
peared in a fainting state, was aUowed by the Court to be seated,
the fatigue being greater than her comtituticn could support. She
was treated during the trial with the most huinaue attention by the
governor of the plums.

Jacou Bonsai. was a German horticulturist, and
came to England about the middle of the seventeenth
century. He was appointed first superintendent of the
Physic Garden, in Oxford, I .tended in 102, by Henry,
Rol of Danby. The Catalogue of Plants 'in the Phy-
sic Garden, published in 1648; was drawn up by J.
.P.obart, and is a favourable proof of his zeal and dili-
gence. This Catalogue was republished in 1C.58. con-
siderably impr ved. and enlarged to more than double
its bulk ; Hobart being assisted in the work, as he ac-
knowledge., by Dr. Philip S evens and Wm. Proven,
M.A. A plant, in honour of Ilobart, is called Bober-
t:a, a genus loured by Liniati3, and said to grow in
the Elsa Indies. Under the cane of Pobart and that
ot: tans son, the Garden continued to flourish many
yenrs. Old J -cob died in the garden-house, rebru-
a!y 4th, 15:79,11;.:;ed SO. and was buried in the church-
yard of St. I' ter iii the East, where there is a moon.
- :tent to his memory against the wall of . the church.
()a rejoicing days be to have his veneiab!e
I.,:.:ard tagged with silver. lie left two sons, Jacob
:.nd Tillman, who were both employed in the Physic
Garden. There is an ingenious paper by this writer,
in the Philosophical Transactions, for the year 1683,
on the effects of the great frost which happened the
preceding winter, on trees and other plants. Many
oak, elm, ash, walnut, and other trees were found, he
says, with large rents or clefts in different .parts of
their trunks in the large blanches, and in such parts
of their roots as were not sunk deep into the earth.—
P.;rts, lie adds, that were so knotted that they could
Lot have been split but wi+ great difficulty with
beetles and wedge-, were rent asunder by the force
of the ice contained within tkerp, making, at the-time
of bursting, a noise like the explosion cf gunpowder.—
Its.is supposed that the trees which suffered were dis-
c !sed, that some of the vessels were distended or burst,
:md that the effect was produced by the fleezing of
ti.e sap or other juices contained in these cavities.--
Jacob Hobart gave the rent of a piece of land in Os-
y.eY Meadow, commonly called Pike Acre, to:be dis-
posed of by the Minister and Churchwardens of the
Pnish of St. Peter in the East, in Oxford, in the fol.'
lr.wing wanner :—T% enty shillings yearly to the M:-
Li...ter of the parish fur a sctmon to be preached by him
tea Christauas-day in the aim noon, and the rest to such
f the poor ink ibilants as do not =rive alms. He
died December eqt.b., 1719, to the 79th year of his
are, gild led in the above-mentioned church,
vibwe these is an insciipuon to his mernary.—A de-
scendant of the lloba:ts, Mr. Tillman Hobart, for.
nietly of University College, still reides in Oxford.
He is one of the Lute.ire, or gold stick bedels of the
Utriversity, and appears to inherit a love of gardening

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and botanical p 1 suits from his ancestors.
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