Star.
London, England, 1809-08-22 00:00:00

ASSIZES. .

The 'interesting cause between the Duke of NOR-I
Tilt MBERLAND and Mr. GREY, relative to the right of
his Grace to the mines, and power to work the same
under the ccpyhold estate of the latter at Rackvvorth,
Nv i chi n the manor of Tynemouth, was lately decided
;n the County-hall at Newcastle. After a number of
a icient deeds of the Northumberland family had b!en
examined, 'a fatal error in the Duke's pleadings was
discovered, it being stated that his Grace• was poi-
sessed of the mines and manor in fee, whereas the estate
being entailed, he is only tenant for lift*; and conse-
quently a verdict was entered for MALGiiEv, the de-
fendant.

At ete late Gloucester Assizes, Messrs. Pitt and
Co. Proprietors of the brass-mill on the river Avon,
near Bristol, obtained a verdict, with 10,0001. da-
mages, against the Bristol Dock Company, as com-
pensation for the loss sustained by having the whole
of the water drained from their mill by the recent
improvements in the port of Bristol.

LANCASTER, AUG. 15.—J. Wood was tried lOT
stealing privately from Isaac Eades, a bill of exchange
for £3O, and found guilty.
Ann Bradley, alias Hodgson, was indicted for bi-
gamy. It was proved that the prisoner was married
Bradley, in 1791, in the parish of Wharton,
and afterwards married Hodgson, in July 1807.-
I'. Berbic, who conveys the convicts under sentence
of transportation from Lancaster to Portsmouth, de-
posed, that the prisoner's first husband was sentenced
to seven years transportation, and he saw him in June
1808, eleven months after her marriage with her se-
cond husband. In defence, the prisoner stated, that
she unfortunately had a child by Hodgson, and being
obliged to apply to the parish for relief, she was
forced to marry him. It appeared that this was one
of those forced marriages which sometimes happened
through the interference of parish officers, without
considering the consequences. The woman, however,
was found guilty.
George Hogg was also found guilty of bigamy.

A hackney coachman, of the name of Wenner, was
called off the stand, in Piccadilly, on Tuesday after
noon, by a well-dressed man and woman, who or-
dered him to drive to Putney, and from thence in the
evening to Turnham-green. When between the
latter place and Brentford, the woman alighted, and
in a few minutes after the man did the same, and,
pointing a pistol at the coachman's head, robbed him
of D. I2s.

On the sth instant, a person of the name of W.
Fowels was accidentally shot at Bishop's Lydeard,
by Mr. W. A llercott, owing to the lock of his gun
being imperfect, it went off at half cock.
On Saturday night, as Mr. Jefferson, of Burton-
Agnes, was returning from Bridlington market at a
late hour, he unfortunately missed the temporary
bridge, erected between that place and Bessenby
(the other being destroyed by the flood last winter),
and fell intothe brook ; there beingbutlittl ewater, it is
conjectured he was killed by the fall. He was found
the next morning with his head upon the bank.
INQUEST.—An inquest was taken at Camborne
lately, on the body of an infant which had been found,
in a chimney•corner, under the ashes ; its body was
burned from :he navel to the chin ; and from the
evidence it appeared, that a woman found in the house
was the mother, and that she delivered herself, but
no evidence appearing to prove the child to have been
born alive, she was placed under the care of proper
persons, until she can be committed for concealing
the birth.

EXECUTlON.—Yesterday George Donnohouglt, aged
41, a plaistezer, convicted at the Surrey Assizes of
committing a rape on Susannah Rich, a girl tinder
eleven years of age, suffered death pursuant to sen-
tence, at the prison, Horsemonger-lane. The Rev.
Mr. MANN attended the delinquent during his last
m,)mcnts, and he died apparently with sorrow and
contrition.