Star.
London, England, 1806-03-18 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

At Lincoln Afthes. T. Tempera! was arraigned for
the murder of a young woman in the parifh of
South Hykeham, on the 3d of November left, whom
he had that morning married ; and, after a trial of
five hours continuance, he was found guilty, fasten-
eed to be executed on Friday, and his body diffe9ed.
The circomftances oftbe murder are fingularly
ing. Temporal was a labouring banker upon one of,
the canals in the neighbourhood of Lincoln, where he
became criminal', intimate with a young woman,
and fhe proving pregnant, he was compelled by the
pari& officer' to marry her. After the ceremony,
they left the village, in which it was performed, to-
gether; and, the fame evening, the unfortunate
young woman was found in the precinels of Saxilby;
having ha head almoft entirely beaten from her body
with a heavy club, which Temporal had been obferv-
ed to walk with, and which was lying by her. The
murderer was Coon apprehended, and his guilt very
fatisfaflorily proved on his trial.
°MIHAIL—Friday, Jobe Cotterel was found guilty
of breaking into the honk of Mr. Broughton, at
Wing, in Rutland, during church time, on Sunday
the sd inft. and received fentepee of death.
Cotten] !fad lived as a fervent with the profecu-
tor, about five years ago, and availed hinsfelf of the
knOwledge be had, during his fervice, acquired of the
fituation in which his wafter depofited his property,
to break into the houfe, when the family were at
church on Sunday fennight, and Real from a cup-
board, by Mr. Broughton's bedfidi, one hundred
guineas, and Come bank bills- The prifoner was
conviaed on• the clearefl evidence, and was left for
mention. Since his condemnation be has behaved
with the grcateß penitence. On Saturday morning
eonfeffed to the profecutor, and come other per.
Cass, that be had hidden the property in a fecret [pot,
which be defcribed to be among tome nubble in a
hovel, at the entrance of the village of Barrowden ;
they immediately went to the place, where the money
was found entire, together with bank notes, value
eighteen pounds, all of which have been returned to
the owner.
On Saturday the Bth infant, the Affixes for the
county and city of York, were opened before the
Hon. Sir G. ROOILI and the Hon. Sir ALAI Cama-
ses Knights, indices of his Majefty's Court of
Common Pleas, before whom the following prifoners
in the Cagle and Oufebridje Gaol have taken their
trials, viz.
In Onfebridge Gaol—nowar Porlinfori, Mom
Porter, and Mao: Potter, the younger, for /aunt.-
onfly baling and taking away from the &op of
Elizabeth Court, one dozen linen handkerchiefs,
value tali. and upwards—Guilty, Death.
George Ward, for having privately and felonioully
Wen and taken away from the warehuufe of Meffrs.
Item Spencer and Co. feveral country notes, balsa
exchange, and a draft payable to Meffrs. Field, Clea-
ver, and Greenwood—Two years imprifonment.
In the Cable—Sharp Smith, aged is, late of Quick,
in the Weft Riding, for Reeling one mare and her
foal, from a clerk in Qnick, the property of Daniel
Lees—Robert Smith, aged 39; for taking away a
black gelding, the property of Abraham Scott, of
Welt Ardhey—William Taylor, aged 19, for Real-
ing one chef-nut mare, belonging to Peter Byrne, of
Hall.—Jonathan Lakin, aged 24, of Thornton in the
Clay, in the-North Riding, labourer, for breaking
into the hoefe of James Ridley, at Thornton, and
f taking away money and notes, to the amount of 501.
and upwards, all Guilty—Death.
Richard aft, aged 56, of Knarefborough, flax
dreffer, for bigamy—Mary Lee, aged 19, fingle
woman, for healing one raver watch and teal, Sec.
of the value of 40s. out of the dwelling honk of
Sarah Webfler, of Ripon—William Dewhurft. aged
22, for killing and flaying Robert Helium, of Leeds,
all Guilty; fentence not pronounced.
George Butler, otherwife George Ormond Butler,
aged as, for uttering promilf pry notes, purporting to
be York Bank notes, to John Grant and William
Garforth, of Kingfton upon Hull, fhopkeepers, well
knowing the fame to be forged Ind counterfeit.—
Guilty—Sentence not known.
Thomas Wilkinfon, aged 19, for affaulting John
Hutebinfon, on the highway, in the township of
Leak, and taking from him one fdver watch, Sec.—
Matthew Dodfworth, aed 51. of Sowerby, in the
North Riding, joiner, for taking away from a field
in the townlbip of Bagby, five ewe (beep, the pro-
perty of William Naylor—John Firby, aged 14, for
fecreting and openings certain letter at the poll office
at Borough bridge, dirated to Mr. Oilbertfon at
Raveliffe, and with healing thereout certain notes
value 161. Bs. ; and Charlotte Brown, aged 22, wi-
dow, for maliciouhy letting fire to a cock of corn
belonging to Thomas Binns, at Molefcroft, near
Beverlep—All acquitted.
At thefe Affixes a tank was rteied before
Sir A. Cirasesa a, and a Special Jury, Brown v.
Richardfon and Wade, which has excited confidera-
ble intereft at Hull. It was an action for damages
under the following circumaances : The plaintiff is
owner of the hoop Nancy, trading between Hull and
Bradford; the defendants are merchants in Hull,
and owners of the [hip Hope ; ahich [hip on her ar-
rival from Honduras, in February 1805. came to
mooings on the Garrillin fide, in a place called
Sleepy Hole, near the mouth of the Old Harbour.
The plaintiff's hoop was laden with Inger', grace-
rks, &c. and moored direfily oppofite to the Hope,
with feveral other veffele. On the falling of the tide,
the Hope caught the bank on the Garrilon fide with
her heel, and &rung off, or as the &dors term it,
(hared round with her head against the plaintiff's
hoop, which nn the coming in of the tide prevented
the latter from riling, in cenfequence of which fhe
filled with water, and a confiderable part of theFargn

*at aamigea...The Quellioft 110 i which the eate tam-
ed, was, whether the Hope was properly moorcdi It
was contended on the part of the plaintiff that the
was not ; and that fhe Gest to have had a croft,
rope out to the Garrifon fide, by which the accident
would have been prevented. On the put of the de-
fendants it was *fledged, that fhe was moored in the
ufual manner, and that he fhilling, and the finking
of the 'loop, were owing to accidental cautea, which
could not have been forefeen or provided againfi.—
The trial commenced about a quarter pall nine in
the morning. The examination of the plaintiff's
witneffes, ten in number, finillted at twelve o'clock ;
and that of the defendant's witnefTes, held until fix.
The Judge then fummed up the evidence, and charg-
ed the July, which occupied an hour and a half.—
At half pall nine the Jury found a verdia for the
Plaintiff. damages sOOOL fobjea to reduaioa by ar-
bitration.

CIIELMSTOID, MARCII 14.1,41111111Druirrup was
indi&ed for flopping Daniel aorkley on the King's
highway, putting him is fear, and feloaioufly taking
from him one guinea, two half guineas, one (even
!billings piece, fume filver, and Come halfpence.
Mr. Cuawooo, as Couofel for the profecution,
Rated the banes. The profecutor was a fervent to
Mr. Dinky, a farmer at Dagenham, in this county ;
on the t itb of February he bad been to London malt
a load of Bray, which he bad for his matter ; on 41
return home he flopped at the Greyhound, at Chad.
well, about nine at night, and drank a pint of porter:
while be was there he raw three men drinking in the
fame room, two of whom he knew, and the third was
a &ranger. He took out his canvas purfe to pay for
his liquor, when the &anger obferved to him, ss you
have got a good porfe there ;" he replied, that it was
molt of it his matter's money—basing paid, he pro-
ceeded homeward ; but he had not proceeded above
' half a mile down a lane, when he was flopped by a
man, who held a fhort (word or dagger to him,
and demanded his money. He gave him the
money, and then the robber told him, that if he
looked back, or attempted to follow him, that be
would murder him. He was pofitive the man
who robbed him was the fame man he had feen at the
Greyhound, and was the prifoner at the bar. When
he Caw him at the Greyhound, he was drefed in a
(mock frock : but when be flopped him in the lane,
he had a thickfet jacket on ; but, notwithilandiag
this change of drefs, he was pofitive to his perfon.—
On crofs•examination by Mr. Gurney he Roll perfill-
ed that he was pofitive to the perfon of the man.
The Jury found the prifoner Guilty, but recom-
mended him to mercy.
William Beyr was initi&ed for privately Reuling in
the dwelling honk of Daniel Beadel, at North Ock-
ington, one hundred and twenty pounds in bank-
notes, three. gold rings, and a pair of Giver buttons,
the property of Daniel Beadle.
The prokutor Rated, that he kept a little public
hotife. the Robin Hood and Little John, at North
Ockington ; the money which he 101 l was what be
bad got together to pay his brewer and dißiller, and
be kept it in the till of a hutch (chef ) in his bed-
room. The prifoner had been in his hook as a lodger
(or a few days. On the sad of Odober he obferved
him to come down (Lairs, and go out in great balk,
and he had a fufpicion that he had taken away (acne.
thing from his fellow ledger. He went up Rairs to
look about the room, and he found his hutch 'lid
'forced open, and his money all gem: :lie immediate-
ly gave the alarm, the prifoner was purfued and Eakin,
and all the money found upon him.
James Drayton purfued the prifoner, and appre-
hended him ; he gave up the notes, and begged the
witnefs would let him go.—Verdi& Guilty.
W. jaoilea was indiEted for Realing a grey gelding,
the property of Philip Turner, of Rochford, and was
found guilty.
The other cafes in the Calendar were for mere
petty larcenies.
The prifoners having been all tried, the Learned
Judge pronounced lenience of Death upon the fol.
lowing :
Award Dunnage, for highway robbery I Win. Jackie., for
lark Reeling; Uses, Jofeph, and Charles Lurch*, throe liruilars,
for !testing in a dwelling bade.
Wm. Kohertfee, for burglary; and Wm. Royer, for fteallng In
• dwelling huofe t David Hartnett and Tianshy Ballard. for de-
frauding their molten of money roccived for their ufe, were (un-
loosed to 14 years taanfportatlon.
The Adzes ended.