Star.
London, England, 1802-08-11 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

Surrey Mixes commenced yeflerday, when Fe-
& Br9un, a Mulatto man, was tried for an airatilt
with an intent to, commit a rape on the body of E.
Barnes his fellow fervar.t.

The parties were both in the fervice of Mr.'
Walker, a telpellab:e country Gentleman ; they
were left at home together, and citcumflances
very atrocious inJecd on the part of the pi ironer,
happened to the profecutrix, which we forbear to

Mr. GUIREy for the defendant, exerted himfelf
very ingenioutly, and endeavoured by argument
to counteract the effeEt the evidehce might have
on the Jury, and called two witnefles.

Mr. SY LVF ST F R, in a vet y able reply, comment"
ed on the c►idence adduced for the profecution,
and altO the defalce attempted to he fet up. He
pointed our to the Jury the mild, gentle, and mo-
ped demeanor of the plaintiff, the quicknefs with
which (he had made the affatilt known to her mo-
ther and a female fiend, and the circumflance of
her thrieking for near thief: quarters of an hour
having Ala: turd the neighbours.
B iron Horn AM inertly charged the Jury, who
in a momeat found him guilty, and he immedi-
ately received fentence of imprifonment for fix
months.

The Nottinghandh;re ACGzes commenced on
Thursday, Augnit 5, herue Mr. Julhce HEATH,
and Sir ALsz. l'unmrsom, Knt.

W. Bown, alias Brown, was charged upon the
oath of James Sellers and joftph Plaits, of having
been convicted about two years ago, of Healing a
gun from a perfon cf Annefley, in this county, for
which he was tried at the General Quarter Seffrons
held at the Shire Hall, in Nottingham, on Mon-
day the z rlt day of April I 800, and ordered to be
tranfported for (even years, and was removed and
put on hoard the Lion Hulk, Portfmouth, from
whence he has efeaped before the term of his fen-
tence was erpired.—Condemned, but reprieved.
Wm. jalland airs charged upon the oath of Wm.
&ilia% of Plumtree, farmer, and others, with
Healing three theep, the property of Wm. Beallall,
on the morning of Friday the feventh of May lall.
Condemned, but reprieved.

jolosliowit was Charged upon•the oath of John
Marley, of Sutton-in-Afhfield, carrier, with lieal-
ing, out of his cart in Mansfield, on :he azd day
of July, a bridle and (addle, and a lack, contain-
ing fume dieffed leather, the property of Samuel
Hall and Samuel Olivcr.—Tranfpoi cud for (even
years.
Krkard Pal and lA= Langley, were charged
upon the oaths of Robert Revell and others, on a
fulpicion tftlealing out of a cart belonging
to RICHARD BIYRD:O4, Efq. on Friday le'nnight
onz bundle of cotton, and one bag, the property
of Richard Burden, as the faid cart was travelling
from Langwith to Mansfield.—Langley was ac-
quitted, and tranfported for feven years.
At Wniceficr there were no caufes of any par-
ticular confequence at the Ay Prior Bar, and only
twenty-three prifimers for trial; of whom four
were capitally convicted, and received fcntence of
death, viz.—

.736ph We) and Wm. CLambers for honfe-break-
ing, the former at Kidderminher, and the latter
at Bellbroughton.
.6tyrtilla Fume', for privately healing printed
entt..n, atDedley ; and..

Barry Drury, fur dealing a gelding, the pro-
pert iliadley, of Kingfnorton.
'll,e three former were reprieved, and come fa-
vourable circumilances appearing in the cafe' of
Dru.), he was refpiteri till lurtl:r orders.
Pa:rtici Sullivan, Thomas Remains, and Jarrat

for the murder of Samuel Porter, bottler nt the
New Inn, Perthore : after a trial of feveral
hours, in which it appeared that the unhappy cir-
cumflance originated in a violent difpute between
the parties, and that the deccafed had Bruck one
of the foldiers a fevere blow, the Jury pronounced
a verdid of Guilty againfi Rankins, and acquitted
the other two: but in confequence of its being
conlidered as an affray, and fome doubts arifing
on the lubjed, it is to be prefemed for the opinion
of the twelve Judges.
Glonceder Atlizes commenced on Thurfdav
morning. Mr. jullice LE BLANC prelided at the
Crown Bar, and Mr. Jifitice LetwaLscs, at Ay;
Prius. The former briefly addreffedhimfelf to the
Grand Jury, congratulating them on the fmall
number of prifimet in the Calendar (twenty-one),
which, he observed, must chiefly be attributed to
the vigilant difeltarge of their duty in a roagiAe
rial capacity ; and when h:: recollected their able
and zealous conduit at times when they had a
much more arduous talk to perform than devolved
to them at pr.Zent, he deemed it unneceffary any
longer to detain them, perfedly fittisfied that buil-
nefs of inch importance could not be configned to
a more able Jury. The Court then proceeded to
businefs, %shell tour prifoners were capitally con-
vided, and reecived fentence of Death, but were
all reprieved before the Judges left town, viz.-
7 bourns Swirl:, for flealing from a field in the
parish of I.landilo Creffenny, Monmouthfhire, a
light brown mare, the property of Wm. Parry.
To/4h if /W(6 for dealing Liz flieep from Stough-
ton Common.

I)a,:id FlLdt, for flealing fundry articles of wear-
ing apparel, in the dwelling-bnufe of John Whit-
tard, of Co:ley ; and

Hatifr, for treating in the dwAling-houfe
of IVm. Nect, one flyer watch, value 205. and
about 41. in money his property.
At the A•ifi Priui &a, came on to be heard, a
caufe of Conte importance to the public. It was
founded on the amine of (eeit Liizabeth, for the
prottaion of petfons, of ‘Cllatever Lufinefs, who
had tervcd a regular apprenticefhip to the Cane ;
and the particular cafe in the prefent inftance was,
whether the defendant, as a clothier, was entitled
to exereife the tiade of a weaver, without being
apprcn.iced to, or following, the Winds for (even
years. In order to preferve harmony among the
individuals interested, the Counfel propofed, and
the parties agreed, to withdraw a Juror.
Mr. juflice LAIVIENCI exprefled his approba-
tion of this iffne of the bufinefs, obferving, that
the ftatute most explicitly and inconteflibly efta-
blithed, that a legal apprenticethip, or follow.
in g of a trade, for the cuftomary period, was the
only proteCtion for the undilturbed exercife of it,
by any pen lon whatever.
There were feveral fpecial Jury caufes tried,
which detained the Court till tight o'clock on Sa-
turday evening; and owing to this preffure of bu-
finds, their Lordthips were obliged to depute Mr.
Serjeant WILLIAMS to open the commidion at
Monmouth, who e he arrived about eight o'clock.