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Court was "That rn addition te the imprifonment
which the Defendant has already fuffered, which
is from Lail Term, he be imprifoned in Newgate
for one year, and, that in that time, he be fet in
and upon the pillory in the open flreet in the Hay-
market, for one hour, between the hours of twelve
at noon and two in the afternoon."
PROTHEACE 2f. JONI!,
IIFACH OF pi:otitis OF MARRIAGE%
Mr. LAW Dated, that this was an ation brought
by his client, a young lady of the age of 213 years,
again( the Defendant, who was a methodiff
preacher, a publican, and a
.finaer, and, who, at
6o years of age, had engaged the affection of his
client, and by his letters repeatedly had promifed
}ter marriage. This was in the year 1799: in the
fpring of the year :Soo, he had made a tour into
Denbighfitire, in order to vifit his Rock; and while
there had written to Mils Protheroe, Rating his
determination, on his return, to make her bone of
his lone; but when he did return, he found an cr-
eate, laying, that being in debt, one of his hard-
hearted creditors had declared, that if he married
his " Dear Winifred," he would cattle hilts to be
arreffed ; and that on this account, and not being
able to get fa much money for tome houfes that
he had, of he fold them now as he otherwife would
ig peaceable times, he mol decline entering into
the holy Date. This, Paid Mr. Law, was only a
cloak so cover his hypocrify, for Coon after he uni-
ted himfelf to a lady who bad morefiaiential rea-
rms fee making the Rate of. matrimony defirable.
*eying:. toad. to her fortune; whereas his client
was without that temptation. Immediately on
being acepfed of this direlitlion of his word, he
wrote to her, laying " that he had been induced
to do it, from what he had been commanded to
do by Goa and his people." In confequence of
this, Mils Protheroe was obliged to have recourfe
to a Jury to give that reparation which his per.
fuiy demanded. It was true, that the had anus*,
titnately, prior to her acquaintapce with the Deo
feadant, been reduced from the paths of virtue 0
but in .only that one int:lance had The deviated—
bat coadua was perfect and chaDe ever fence. He
therefore truffed the Jury would read a Wins co,
this hypocritical Ddendant, that he should
with impunity trifle with the peace of an uniligl
petting female.
The letten were then read ; they weienlkwrit-
ten in the Welch language, and, on being wan
prated, afforded much entertainment to the Clost.l
The letter (roan the Defendant, concluded
with bidding her farewell! fferewel I! farewell!
Mr. ERIMNI (poke in mitigation of damages;,
he raid, that the Plaintiff could do no better than
feftwell, now that the bad got rid of him, as much
dependence could not be pieced on his ward who
gold thus break it. and to a female. The Jury,
bowever, who were in poffefEon of ail the circum-
fiances of the cafe,,and knew that The was not a
Zgtvie/ previous to her acquaintance with the
rlant, wouhi, be trailed, not give heavy
daTele_l•
after - for - ' two hours, re-

jury,- ratirbts_ near
tyrned, with a verclid for the Plaint
Pik Pounds.
`POLICS,

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web !TSAR Ina.
Bow-srasax.—The following extraordinary
circumftances refpelling this rpecies of depredation
were yefterday related in evidence again& jaw
Sdigssad and nosier Polka, who were brought be-
fore R. FORD and T. Roil ?riot, F.fqrs. on furpi.
elm of having ftolen and killed a great number of
dogs for the fake of their fkins.
Robert Townfend, one of the patrole, raid, that
having received information that a number of
flolen dogs were concealed in the prifoner
Sell-
wood's bottle, near the back of the Philanthropic
Society, St. George's Fields, he went there yefter-
day morning, and in a back room found about so
careafts of dogs, and without their &ins, piled one
on another, and under the floor of the fame room
and that adjoining, many more, the ground hiv-
ing been dug up to receive them, and molt of them
were in a (fate of putridity, fo that the (Ranch was
ABA beyond bearing: thofe in the back room
appeared to have been lately killed, by being beat
on the head, as all their fenUs were broken ; and
in the back room he found the hammer now pro-
sliced, which no doubt had been ufed for the pur-
port, as it was covered with blood and dog's hair;
that in the front room he found the prifoners, whom
he Wok into callody.
William Bagfhaw, of Earl-flreet. London-road,
eligiorad, that on the lath of December lad, he loft
a pug bitch, and vittielt he had every reafon to be-.
here was (Wien frarn him; that onhearing
ycßer-
day morning of a number of dead dogs being
found in the prifoner Sellwood's houfe, he went
there, and among the carcafes difcovered that of
his pug bitch, which be was enabled to;wear to
from a particular mark in its. mouth, and being
with pup at the time.
The prisoner Sellwood is an old woman, Patten
is a boy ; neither of them having any thing fads.
factory to urge in their defence, were committed
for ranker examination.
In the courfe of the examination it appeared that '
it was a common mode among the dog-Realcrs, to
take (mall honks for the purpofe of carrying on
thii abominable trade, and when they had collect-
ed as many careares as they could bury, and the
honk would contain, then to abfcond without pay-
ing any rent ; a circumftance of this nature having
happened a fhort time fine at a houfe in Webber-
row, St. George's Fields, where the neighbours
were Arca poifimed by the Ranch.
During the time the prifoners were at the bar, a
man came to give them a character, when three
Jogs in the officeimmediately fondled about him ;
and had they not been prevented would have fol-
lowed him away, from which, and his appearance
altogether, there was every melon to fuppofe he
• was one of the gang. Mr. FORD therefore ordered
him out of the Ace, or ht thould be taken into
cuflody as a party coet coxed.
At the Effcx Seffions nine bills of indifttnents
were found againft butchers in the vicinity of
Loudon for foreftalling Rumford Market.