Star.
London, England, 1825-09-22 00:00:00

The Magistrate recommended the parties to go, as an original
ipplication, to the Sessions.

UNION-HALL.
MIA AGIt or RATIL—A young man named James Wood, a resi-
dent of Brixtem, was charged with booing attempted to commit a
rape upon the person of a young and interesting female, named
Sarah Cassell, who described herself as a dress-maker, living at a
short distance from where the (enrage was said to have taken'
place. The complainant said, that as she was proseedingto
Tuhe-
~hill, on Saturday,'sbe met the prisoner at a short distance front
Brixton, and she asked him to direct her to Tube-hill ?He at once
requested that she would allow him to escort her across the &Mt,
which, he observed, was much shorter than continuing on the
turnpike-road. She consented, remarking to the Magistrate, that
she never once supposed that he would have taken advantage of
her. They bad, however, not proceeded far along the fields, at a
lonesome spot, close to, which was a thick hedge that completely
intercepted the view of the road, when the prisoner, without
having given her any reason to suspect what his intentions were,
seized her round the waist, threw her down on the ground, and
attempted to force her into a compliance with his. wishes. Provi.
dentially, she said, she was possessed of strength, and exerted it to.
the utmost, otherwise she must have fallen a victim to the attack.
She called oat, but no one came to her assistance. She did not tell
her mother what had occurred, but mentioned the.circumstauces
to her landlady, who apprised her mother of it.
Mr. Wood contradicted the complainant's story. He said that
since he had become a widower a few week sinceethe complainant
appeared particularly desirous of becoming mistress of his house,
and had actually told him so. He rejected her proposal. He met
her on the way to Tobeltill. He swotted her across the fields, and,
without any iftienne on his part, and without the slightest, resist.
ance on her's, she submitted to his wishes, and then expressed her-
self in these words-i-0 Mr. • Wood, I hope you'll, take me home
now." He said, " certainly not." " Then," said she, " Mr. Wood,
take a warrant out against you, and swear a rape against you."
" You may do that ityouploaso," answered he. and they separated.
Several days elapsed- site that took place, and be had abundant
opportunity of escaping. Threomplainant declared this was false;
he had not accomplished her ruin, as he would insinuate, but he
had made desperate efforts to effect it, which she, however, re-
sisted and prevented.
The Maturraare said, that the defendant had aggravated his
case by the defence he had made, and held him to bail, to answer
the charge at the Sessions.
GAirE.—By the Act of,Creo. 9, 141, any person may
aid and assist in killing game,pruviJed it shall be dnue iy
the company or presence, and for the use of another p< r-
son, who shalt duly have obtained a certificate in his'
own right, and who therein shall, by virtue-
of hit such
certificate, use his chin dog for the taking or killing •
'such game. Under this Act, a person aiding in killing
game without a certificate, and using his own dog, is.
liable to all the penalties for shooting without a license.
Tin GREENLAND Wiling FDlNERT.—Tnarsday, the
Jane, Bruce, a clean ship from the Greenland Whale !fishery,
arrived at Lerwick. Captain Bence confirms the accounts given
by all• the other ships arrived from Greenland, of the almost un-
precedented failure of that fishery, there being, of 23 British ships
this season; 112 or 13 clean ; and or the remaining, the few fish
among them are so small as, in several instances, to be supposed
to produce only five or six tuna of oileaeh; that the average on
the whole was about too tuns of oil Cur all the fishery.

DIED.
At Cardroness, on the 13th lbstant, in the 891 h year of his age.
Sir David Maxwell, Bart.

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