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ORIREWS.!.JRY, MARCH 29.

JONES V. OWES, ESQ.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff against
the defendant for the seduction of his daughter, and
the defendant had pleaded, first, that he was not
guilty, and also that he had leave and licence from
the plaintiff to debauch his daughter.
Mr. DAUNCtY, in a most eloquent speech, corn-
punted on the infimous plea set up by the defendant,
and stated to the Jury, that the plaintiff had'been an
' innkeeper at Market Drayton,• in this county, and
.that the defendant was at this time a Lieutenant in
the 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons. That when
the defendant first became acquainted with the plain-
tiff's family, he was a Captain in the Shropshire Vo-
lunteers ; that the defendant came with the regiment
'on permanent duty to Market Drayton, and the head-
quarters were at the plaintiff's house; that the defen-
dant while there paid great attention to the daughter
of the plaintiff, and made her offers of marriage; but
that she most prudently referred him to her father for
'his consent ; havink obtained the father's consent, be
continned to pay -his addresses to the daughter, till
lie purchased a Lieutenancy in the 16th, when being
obliged to join his regiment, he offered to marry her
rivately, which offer she refused ; he joined his rest%
rMent, and was absent about twelve months, during
which time the plaintiff by misfortune was reduced
iu his circumstances, and obliged to leave.the inn;
• during the time of the defendant's absepce, a cones-
- poudence was kept up betweeh him and the plaintiff's
daughter, On the defendant's return to Market Dray-
ton on the recruiting service, he was jab:aped of the ,
plaintiff's circumstances being much reduced, by the
daughter,who begged that their acquaintance might be
dropped • but the defendant assuring her that her fa-
ther's misfortunes should be no impediment to their
marriage, the acquaintance was renewed, and in the
month of March, 1808, he seduted her, and shortly
afterwards left the place. She communicated to him
her situation; and he wrote to her, promising to return
and marry her, as soon as his affairs were settled in
Wales. After some time, he ceased writing to her,
and her brother, in consequence, went to him at
Woodbridge, to know his determination. He again
repeated to him his determination to marry his sister,
and promised to return in three weeks for that pur-
pose ; he, however, did not return, and she was after-
ward delivered of a son.
Mr. DAIJNCEVS statement was fully proved by the
plaintiff's daughter, a very interesting girl, her bro-
ther, and the Rev. Mr. Atcherley, the latter of whom
stated, that the daughter.had always conducted her-
self in a very becoming and.. virtuous manner, and
that she was the last w•man whose chastity he should
have suspected.
The Judge, in his summiagup, stated that the plea
of the defendant was one of-the most infamous and
audacious he had ever seen pn a record, and that it
greatly aggravated the case.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Dama-
ges £lOOO.

JONIS V. JONZS.
This was a case highly interesting, both to Inn-
keepers and Travellers.
It was• an action brought against the defendant,
who keeps the Feathers Inn. at Wrexham, for the
recovery of £4OO, the amount of bank-notes stolen
from an inside waistcoat pocket of the plaintiff's ser.
vast, while asleep at the above inn, in November last.
The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge
as to the law of the case, found a verdict for the plain-
tiff to the full amount of the loss—A4oo►

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MAIDSTONE, MARCH St
CIVIL BIDE-THE KING V. ALBURY.

'This was an indictment against• the Defendant for
having in his possession naval stores, the-property of
his Majesty.
Mr. Strjeant BEST stated the circumstances of the
case, which were detailed in evidence as follow :

James Craigie, an officer•of the Thames Police, de.
posed that. the Defendant was a rope-maker at Gil-
lingham, in the neighbourhood of Chatham. On the
94 -of September, he was walking near the rope-walk
of the Defendant, and saw a man knotting yarn ;
some of the rope was in strands, and some not ; he
thought it appeared to have the King's mark, and he
went to a person of the name of Evans, to whom he
told his suspicions. In about twenty minutes after-
wards, he returned, in company with Evans and one
Ludon. The man had 40 or SOlbs. weight of great
lengths. He there saw the Defendant behind a tree,
and at the same time he discovered 7001hs. weight of
rope lying in a hedgeopart of it with the King's mark.
There were two or three yards of grass between the
rope yard and the hedge, and there- was tome rope in
the yard which corresponded. The Defendant said
it was Danish rope, and be did not know how it could
come in the hedge. It could not have been brought
over the field to the hedge, because the grass was'
high, and it. was not trod down: It must have been
brought. there through the rope-walk of the Defen-
dant. In the evening the Defendant came to the pub-
-I,jc-honse; where the witness and Evans were.' He
laid he could not dell how the rope came in the hedge,
and as it would depend on their evidence, it was not
worth their while to bring him into trouble about it.
On crois'-examination by Mr. Gummy, he said there
was a public foot-path through the field just above
„Ole hedge. EVans and Ludon corroborated the evi-
dence of the last witness.

The Jury found the Defendant—Guilty.
THE KING V. THOMAS DALTON AND OTHERS.
This was an information against the Defendants
for assaulting and obstructing the Excise Officers.
The case being opened, Thomas Haywood, officer.
of Excise at Dartford, said, on the 23d of September
last, himself, John Feydon, and Edward Shepherd,
who were also-officers of Excise, went to Swanley, to
search the house of John Turner and William Pope,
for contraband goods. They then went to another pub.
lic-house to survey it, and Pope came in and asked for
a glass of,ale, which was given him. A woman next
came -41, n ho d—d them for informers, and said Fey-
don wa\not fit to live. When they left the house there
were seveftl men on the opposite side oftheroad. Thos.
Dalton, tee Defendant, was one, and he threatened to
give him a thump or two on the head. The woman was
hoot' ng,Fey don said he though tb er deranged, and threa-
tened to charge a constablemith the man. The witness
and the officers stood under a tree, when several stones
were thrown at them. The witness and the officers

retired ; but they were followed by a mob of about
twenty, who hooted them and threw stones at them.
Some said d—n the dogs, drive them out. The wit-
ness gave Shepherd a pistol, and soon after he re-
ceived a violent blow on the leg, on which Sh:pberd
fired his pistol He soon after was
,knocked down,
and he sail/ several people beating him about the head
with sticks. Not long afterwards, when the witness
had run to the assistance of Shepherd, he was h-mself
knocked down by Dalton. He Qot up and presented
a pistol at him, but Dalton knocked- him down a se-
cond time. The witness was then rolled over the
hedge into a field, by Dalton and another, and had
the pistol wrenched out of his hand. He then got up,
when Dalton struck him under the right jaw, and
loosened some of his teeth. The mob in the,lane de-
sired Dalton 'to charge a constable with the witness.
Dalton-then collared him, and dragged him into the
lane, when the mob had hold of the other two offi-
cers. The mob consisted of nearly forty people, and
they were dragged to the house of Ellis the constable,
when one Turner gave charge of them.

Feydon and Shepherd, the other two officers, gave
nearly the same account of the transaction ; and, on
cross-examination, denied that they had fired the pis-
tol before they were assaulted themselves.
• Mr. MARRYAT, for the Defendants, called a great
many witnesses, who contradicted the Officers, and
stated that they were the aggressors and gave the pro-
vocation, and that they fired their pistols before the
mob spewed any symptoms of hostility against them.
The Jury expressed their satisfaction of the Defen-
dants' case before all the witnesses were called.—Not
Guilty.
CROWN SlDE.—Robert Clarke was convicted, under
Lord ELLENBOROUGII'S Act, for cutting and wound-
ing John Ashdown, with intent to prevent his law-
ful apprehension as a deserter.

J. Ashdown stated, that he was in the marines, and
was employed by his corps to keep a look-out after
deserters. On the 22d of December last he was on
Larkfield Common, where he met the prisoner, whom
he suspected to be a deserter. He accosted him, and
asked him if he would go into a public-house to drink ?
the prisoner refused and went on his way. The witness
being pretty certain he, was a deserter, went into the
house and got a man of the name of Wolgar to join
him in the pursuit. The piisoner had got forward
about half a mile, and had gone into a little hovel.
The witness desired him to come out, observing, it
was of no use to skulk. The prisoner did come out,
and defended himself with his stick ; they had a set-
to, and it was not until the prisoner had surrendered
that he found he tvas wounded ; but finding himself
bloody, he discovered that he had received a large cut
across the ribs with a sharp instrument, and which it
appeared afterwards had been done by the prisoner's
knife. It was also proved that the prisoner was a
deserter from the 43d regiment.
The prisoner put in a written defence, in which he
stated he had served honourably at Trafalgar and in
Holland, in both which services he had been wounded;
that when the prosecutor and the other man pursued,
he thought they were thieves, and meant to rob him,
and that he went into the hovel with the intention to
conceal his money in his shoe.--The Jury found him
—Guilts.

MARLBOROUH-STREET.—A few days since Sarah
Child: was charged with obtaining money by false
eretences of Frances Marsh, a servant in a gentleman's
family in Sloane-street. It appeared in evidence, that
the prisoner had been employed as washerwoman in
the house of the proseeutrifx mistress, and on intro-
ducing the subject of-fortune telling, she remarked
that she knew a very creditable woman, of the name
of Shee, at Lambeth, who told fortunes so well, and
had so tnu.ch business that it was only by introduc.
tion'she could bespoke with the prOsecutrix ex.
pressing a desire to have hero tune told; the defen-
dant assured her it could be done, without her going,
for half a crown. The half crown walk given to the de-
fendant, who brought .theicredulous girl such u pom-
pous acco Int of her destiny, lec. as indpced her to
agree to give half-a-guinea to have her nativity cast,.
by which she would know every thing. This half-
gnea having been obtained, the defendant contrived,
byuiimposing on the credulity of the weak girl, to get
the greater part of her clothes, and next advised her
to get some of her mistress's property, when the latter
informed her mistress of what had happened. The
prisoner wa& committed.
HATTON GARDEN.—Yesterdayazahrth Tomlin was
charged with delivering hcrself of a male child, which
was found dead in a witer-cbset,in a house in Great
Coram-street, Brun:wick-square, on the 23d inst. She
was fully committed under a recent Act of Parliament.
Early yesterday morning the premises of Messrs.
Butlers, wholesale grocers, in the Boroagh, were
broke open, and robbed of cash and bank notes to the
amount of 800 L -

Yesterday as Pratt, aged eighteen, the son
of a carpenter is Portland Road, was shooting in a
field near, Hampstead, hit gun missed fire, aril while
attempting to draw the charge; smother youth struck
the trigger with- a stick, when the piece went off, and
part of the contents lodged in Pratt's head and shoul-
der, who was taken home in a most deplorable state.
Yesterday se'rnfight, Thomas Jarvis, the post-boy
between Chester and Chirk, was attempted to be rob-
bed by two men. He•states, that about eleven o'clock
he overtook a man-and a woman about a mtle on the
'Wrexham side of Ruabon, Who first addressed him in
Welch, but finding lie did not understand the lati-
guage;they advised him in English to be upon his
guard, for there were two bad men upon the road ;
and the assiu told him they had been stopped, but on
his pulling out a pistol the two men made off. In
consequence of this, he took one of his pistols out of
the holster, and carried it cocked and concealed under
his coat ; and having proceeded about half a mile,
two men apparently jumped. from .the hedge on his
right side, and one of them -caught hold of the bridle
with his right hand, and the other stood about a yard
from the horse's bead with a bludgeon ; the man who
'held the bridle called out di Stand and deliver." He
then watched a, opportupity, and when the man
who held the bridle turbe4 'his head towards his
companioi, fired his pistol immediately. into hir left
breast; the man quitted his bold, reeled about a yard,
and fell to the ground, andAhe horse plunged at the
firing of the pistol, and cirjed the boy away'. ..The
menhave both escaped,