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London, England, 1802-07-31 00:00:00

ESSEX ASSIZAS.

C ELMS TOR n, JCLT 29.-•-. The Judges (the LOOM
Citatt BAkoN and Mr. Baron floritAra) arrived
in town Liii night from Hertford ; and this morn.
ing, :,fter healing Divine &rvice and a Sermon
from the Vicar, the Afrizes tin. the County com-
menced about twelve o'clock.

The ufual noel:m.(6ml being made, the Loan
CHtEr BARON delivered a Charge to the Grand
Jury to the following aft& :
" Gentlemen, as you have been for many years
in the habit of attending on thefe important oaten-
lions for this County, it will not be necelEtry for
rue to fay any thing to you on the general nature
of your duty. What renders it more unnecelfary,
is a circumaance which I cannot relied upon but
with the molt painful fenfations—it is, that this
duty has been for years expounded to you by a
Noble and Learned Lord, truly capable of im-
pretling the fullea fenie of probity and morality,
and who was ever in the habit of impretling them
mod ft:teddy by his own example. Any feeble
attempt of mine to imitate him, might only tend
to weaken thole impreffions he mutt have made,
and I (hail therefore abflain from making any. I
with great pleafure congratulate you on the hate
of the Calendar, and the number of offences being
fo few, contideting the extent, population, and i
affluence, of this peat County. It is fortuna:e,
amt highly creditable to the ehataner of the AL.
I;4lr:icy, and of the County at large, that there is
no crime of murder. There were, however, form
of an commons nature, and one in particular,
which the mixed date of the prefent audience
(dere c great number of Ladies in the Court,).
will not pe:mit me to name; but you will eafily
perceive the Calendar to what it is that
J tvill remember, Gentlemen, that the
offence in T:cflion is eafily charged, and of a na
lure which makes it very difficult for the accufed
to extricate himfelffrom. You will find the prin.
cipal evidence in this cafe to be an infant, a Or-
comllance, though not fuck as fhould dired your
judvitent, ytt futtleicnt to make you very circuits-
cr.th. ;11 four examination. To Me it once happen-
ed, that a cafe nearly icmilar was laid before me,
and altitally gained my belief ; but I war after-
sends atrured by medical n:en, that what had
been alledged was Illiyfic.4lly impoeible, and ever
mutt remain fo. This circomflance induces me to;
exhort you to be delicate and circumfpett in your!
inquiries upon fo. fcrious and important a charge.:
Gentlemen, all the other charges are of that kind
that ufually come before Grand Juries at every'
Affixes; and 1 (hall not mif-fpend your time byi
detaining you with lily farther obfervatioos." ,
The Grand Jury then retired to hear evidence,
and enquire into the prefcntments, and the Court',
proceeded to try thefe caufes on which bills had
already been found, and remained till the prefect
Mixes.

Stephen Lie, a gipfey man, was put to the bar,'
charged with burglariontly breaking into the
dwelling-hoar of Richard Grout, on the sift of
December 1795, in company with reveral others
(two of whom have fince fuffered for the offence),
and healing therein money, plate, watches, and
wearing apparel, to a conliderable amount.
The evidence produced againif the prifoner was
that of the profecutor, and of Mary Littlecbild,,
his niece, atlifled by an accomplice in the fait.—'
From the joint trflimony of theft: reriOns it ap-
peared, that Mr. Grout was a farmer at a place
tailed Murriden, in this county, and was fitting
in his kitchen in company %taut Mrs. Littlechild,
a boy, and a female !errant. It was the 2lit of
Decernher, between fey en and eight o'clock in the
evening, when on a fitdden thev heard a violent
knocking at the window, which was prefcntly
broke open, and the prifoner and three others
jumped in. Mr. Grout and randly ran up hairs
dreadfully alarmed, and were foon after followed
by the rob%crs. The prifoner pi-cc:turd a knife to
Mr. Grout, and demanded to be informed of all
the property he had in the houfe; he was fatisfied
in every evicition he put, when they all proceeded
to break open and ranfack the contents of every
tior, trunk, and drawer, they could find ; being
diliatistled with what they found, the prifoner laid
hold of Mr. Grout, and dragged him into an ad.
joining room with intent tp difpateh him, holding
a large hog knife in his hand, fwearing he would
cut bib throat ; at that moisten Mrs. Littlechild
flew to her uncle's prot:tlion, and caught hol4 of
the blade of the knife, and thoogh flle loh the ufe
of three of her fingers in the refiul.ance made, rue-
teeded in getting the fame nut of the prifoner's
hand, and direw it under the bed. On further
ternonftrance being made, the prifoner defilted
from his horrid purpofe, on promife of a full dif-
tovery of all the profecutor's effeft; being made.
The prifoner and his companions then left the
houfe, firft locking up the profecutor and his fa-
mily in the bed chamber, whence they after-
words broke out, and communicated the fa: Is to
the Magiltrate.—The cafe was Ili clear, that the
Jury inflantly pronounced him—Guilty ; and the
Judge the next minute palled fentence of Death
upon him, obferving, that it was matter tont°.
Minn, in rerpeft to the &fay of the crany, that
the IA remaining culprit of a defpetate gang,
which had long difturbed its peace, had at hilt
been bronght to juffice ; a jury of his country
bad found ltim guilty, and he would molt affu-
aedly fuffer.

The prifoner was taken from tit,. bar, exclaim-
in PARIS I'S lake, have mercy!"
Carter was capit4lly, indiaed for (lealinz a
bay gelding from the partfb of Weft hhrfey, the
proneity of Bennet 111. The fatfts were clearly
ma:le out, and the Jury f-.und TLC
priConer, iH bit det,:nct, fail, that he had drank
• rather too much, bi 4 fttl!tn 404epi a 4 that h,
wqs waked loon after by A horce %prat% him °vvr
with his note. Hegot up, and being Limit
Lance from his }lnure, he mounted the hoer, but
with no intention of Had it been lb,
he fhould have got bridle and a faikfly, andgine
off ;Ike geotifer godlersatr,
ja•sci ilea TIM inklidt4 for wilfully kill* sad
Oalin 171931,1 Lizit.sts s. thi akil of Nag at

Holland }flacon went into the Groen•hfan pub-
lic-houfe, Waltham Abbey, to linve a pint of beer
he there law the pritinter very much in liquor, be-
having riototifly and fighting with a Arlan in the
tap-room. The landlord parted them, and took
the prifidter into a back parhsur, from whence he
prefent;y returned, obfe!ving that he would fight
any m.m in the room. A perfon cried out—There
is a man will tight you, printing to the deceafed,
who was perfuaded to fight by two pertims pre-
fent, White and Adams. He went ont, and a
battle took place, which appeared to be a .fair
one. After two or three rounds, Head firuck the
deceafed a blow under the left ear, which cautial
his death.

Morris, the publican, raw the prigmer intoxi-
cated and.fighting in-his tap-room. He got hint
away, but prifoner returned, and fait' he would
fight any dog in the thin. The deceafed turned
out,aud a battle commenced, in which Knight was
lined. He law nothing but fair fighting.
Mr. Hidden, the Surgeon, who artended,rtid,
the man was perfeetly dead when he an ived, and
on examining the blows the next -slay, and con.
&tering the party Laying been in liquor at the
time, made no doubt of tl►e blows and falls being
the caule of his death.

Jofeph Cannon, called fur the defence, laid, the
whole was fair fighting ; that the prllwer first
gave in; but, on being plaid to it, had two rounds
more, during which the laud hiow was (truck.
The prifoner's own defence wasp repetition of
the hit Itory.
The LORD CHM BARON Paid, that the affair
turned out to be exaZtly whatconflituted manfiaugh- '
ter, hut went no farther.—The Ivry pronounced
him Guil..y of lifeviaufhter • and the judge, after a
fuitable admonition, in wit'ich he repretented the
intemperance and inebriety of the Prifoner, as the
occalion of shedding the blood of the deceafed,
wished to caution him in future by a fentence
which thould induce him to remember the melan-
choly effeils of his hafty temper, and adjudged
him to pay a fine to the Sheriff; and .to be impri-
collect for
,Six Calendar Months.

. .
In the comic of the day, Mits Eleanor Jane
Buer, the child on whom the horrid atria& W3S
made near Epping Forell, washireught into Court,
and excited the attention of all prelent, from her
inte.refling and intelligent appearance. The Judge
aik.t.t her if thelnew she nature of an oath ; Ate
laid Ate was aware of the danger of telling a falte-
hoJd ; that if the did, the would not go to heaven.
The Judge WAS well fatisfsed with her reply, and
defired the might intlantly go before she Grand
Jury, who a (tort time
,alter returned a true bill
againtl Ckiri,for the alrault and crime on
this infant.

MOAT, JULY 30.
The Loan Cif I Er BAROS attended this morning
on the Crown tide, at (even o'clock.

William Clark was put to the bar; he Rood charg-
ed with violently atraulting and wounding Eleanor
Jane Buer, an infant child, the daughter of Charles
Buer, of Peckhill, Waltham•Abbey.
Mr. Jessor opened the cafe to the Jury, obferv-
ing that he had to lay before them a tranfaelion of
the molt horrid cruelty and wanton barbarity.—
Mr. Buer, he (aid, was a molt relineable farmer
in the neighbourhood of Waltham Abbey, and his
daughter, a child wanting two months of nine
Pars of age, had received from hey parents every
virtuous precept and moral intlruelion ; and it
would be ken how far the had profited by their
care and attention, in the mattner the would give
her evidence that day to the Court. The Learned
Counfel then entered on a statement of taas which
will be better undertlood from the evidence itfelf,
as far as we can give it without of the
delicacy of our readers.
Mifs Eleanor Jane Boer was then gated in a chair
before tLe Judge, and a more interaing counte-
nance and ingenious. appearance were never exhi-
bited before in the pet Con of an innocent female.
She (Fated molt dirtin6tly, that lalt Tuefday was a
month the was returning from fchool to her father's
houfe. It was about (ix o'clock in the evening
when the prifoner overtook her, end Paid to her,
" What, is it you, Mifs Boer ; come, l'll fee you
home to your father's hook." Thinking no harm,
(he gave him her cam and provifion batket to carry
for her, and they went on together. On coming
to a green lane, about &rife mile from her father's
houfe, he raked here to go that way, but (he refufed
exclaiming " No, No T it is wet, don't let us go
that slily." On which he laid, "If you don't go
quietly, I will nab you." He took her by the
wrist, and dragged her along. She wiDted to get
away, cried very much, and raid the wanted to go
to her father's honk. The wretch then affaulted
her in a manner too horrid for defcription ; and
having fatisfied his brutal inclination, "he held his
hand, faid, upon my mouth, and I ()braved lilm
feeling for fomething under his frock. I anted him
as well as I could what it was ? and he laid, " I
am looking for my watch to give nu." He then
took out a knife, which he Buck into my throat
here—(She was pulling off her tippet to thew the
fcar of the wound, but the Court and the Jt-ry
withed to difpenfe with the (hocking exhibition.)
—I could jai cry out, though he held his hand
to my mouth, "Oh dear my throat is cut!"
and he then took the knife, and (luck it into an-
other place, (which we can only allude to,) and
cut me fq that I bled very much, and was in ter-
rible pain. He then got up and ran away. The
halt wprd he Paid to me was, ° I am going to give
you the watch." In running away, he fell down
and dropped my yeatt-can and banter. I did not
know him, and never raw him before. I was all
covered with blood ; but as loon cm 1 law he was
gone, I took up my can and bailed, and ran as
far es I could aloog towards my father's honk.—
While I vies running, I met our man Philip, and
raid to him, " There is a man ruff down there
who has cut my throat t Philip had two flicks,
and hallooing to another man, ran after the pri-
, fluter. I then met with another man and a boy,
and told them the fame, but the man would not
Inilisve me. I then (w our neighbour, Mrs.
mid, and (he =ditto. Holdfworth
me to the. honk. end fent for. n Desor...

eatife there were fo many men there ; bnt when
they took me into another room, I told the maid
every thing. They then font for my father and
mother, who came to me in a (hurt Lime."

Mr. JIM? then :Liked, whether he thsuld exa-
mine the mother of the child, to prove tbat the
complained immediately of the whole. treatment ;
but the Court thought it would be unnteettary to
impofe fo painful a talk upon her.
Philip White, a fervant to Mr-Buer, aid, that
he was pa(llng down the lane before alluded to ;
he heard a difinal noife, and on looking up the
lane law his matter's child running along the lane ;
he was much frightened.at teeing her covered with
blood ; the exclaimed, "a man ! a man !" and
pointed to her throat; the could not (peak plain.
He left her, and ran up the lane to fee if he could
find. the man, fir' calling out to fome, perfons to
look to the child, who came. to heraifittanoes and
cartied her to the next cottage.
John Carter defcribed litmfelf to be a Surgeon,
refhling at Waltham,abbey. On the evening of
the 29th of June he was fent for to this child,
whom he fountiata little cottage at tome diflance
from her fatlier'shoufe. She was then faint, pale,
and apparently dead from the lots of blood, which
'he law all over her clothes. At the bottom part
of her neck, jock above the Sreafi, was a wound',
two inches long, and very deep, which bled pro-
lufely. Her breath was 'filling through it as much
as through her mouth, fo that her voice could not
be dillinaly heard—at the time the difcovered
fymptoms of certain animation.'

[His defeription of another wound, equally fevere, and
given by the fame instrument, mull be omitted from cite cane
motive% that induced us to withhold the greaten part of .the
evidence.]

This teilimony doled the cafe of the profccu-
don. The prifoncr declined •to fay any thing in
his defence, leaving the bufinefs to Mr. KNOWLICS,
his Counfel, who, though certainly againa his
natural fedlings, omitted nothing of his duty as
an advocate.

The Loto CHIEF BARON recapitulated the evil.
pence, with fuitahle comments and obfavations,
remarking to the Jury—" Although the crime here
charged upon the painter is of that nature that
muff excite your indignation, and difgult your
feelings, yet it becomes you to keep yourfelves cool
And collated, and to have your minds In Corn-
poled as to enable you to diveft yourfelves of every
impale which may have its origin in prejudice.—•
In this free country, every man, even the worff
of human beings, is entitled to the full protedion
of all .that the law affords him, and you arc to
decide, not from feeling, but from evidence.—
The law, in cafes of this kind, requires very pofi.
tive and decided proofs of certain circumitances
which do not admit of ocular demonftration, and
can often be collated only from inferences and
fymptoms. Upon there you have no diredion to
receive from me, and are to he guided by youi
own judgment and experience."
The jury, with very little hefitation, pronounced
the oriloner Guilty—Death.
The Judge, in a very impreffive way, proceed-
ed to pals the fentence of the law upon the pi Wit-
ner. He laid, the hiflory of human wickednefs
could not afford a crime fo atrocious as the one of
which he had been found guilty. He, perhaps, at
the time of committing his brutal violence, might
have had fillers young and innocent as the objed
Hof his barbarity ; but it was ufelefs to (peak to a
wretch fit hardened—it was throwing away words
to expatiate on tae enormity of crime to one who
was a difgrace to the fez to which he belonged : if
he had been any other than what he was, he would
have known that to the care, the attention, the
nouri(hment of the female, man was indebted for
his whole life ; they cherifhed him in infancy, they
fuccoured him in Miters, and they fupplied his
wants. GOD had made the woman the prod-kr of
man in his infancy, and he was bound in gratitude
to ufe his utmoft endeavours in preferving her
from harm and violence during the remainder of
bis life. That child the ALIH,c wry ha dcfigned
(hould be a fruitful Mother. and contribute to en-
create the human fpecies ; that wonderful elefign
and matchlefs goodnefs were now perhaps detat-
ed and deflroyed, and the wrongs the had receiv-
ed lay upon his guilty head ;—lte could plainly
perceive his obfcrvations had no drat upon fo
hardened a !inner, therefore he fhould confisn him
to that fate he had merited. His Lordly then
repeated the fentence of the law, and the prifoner
was taken from the Bar without either fymptom
of forrow or penitence. He wore a (mock frock
at the time of his trial.

This wretch is only 20 years of age, a farmer's
man, and lived at a place called Copthall-green.
When he was firft taken, he endeavoured to ilarve
himfelf, and would fcarcely take any food for a
fortnight. He was taken into the chapel of the
prifon on Sunday laff, to hear Divine fervice.—
He appeared unmoved during the whole of the
time. When he returned to his cell, the keeper
;aged him if the difcouril: he had heard had not
made him mindful of his lunation i He replied,
that the obfervations had alarmed him, and he
was Corry for what had happened.
The little girl was attended by her father and
mother, very refpeeable looking people. The
latter was the only exception to the exclufion of
females. Every one felt interetted for the infant
(offerer, whole cure in the throat, we undet (lane,
has been fuccefsfully effeOed, leaving no 'mains
but the cicatrix. 'flit child's life was delpaired
of for four days after the horrid a& was commit-
ted, and it was fuppofed the muff have lott four
quarts of blood before the wound was fewed up.
She is a very delicate and pretty child,of very art-
-1::fs and decent demeanour, and drefied in a white
frock, with a ltraw or chip bonnet.
This trial excited conilderable intereft, and per-
fons came from all parts of the county, with a view
of teeing the child, and the mintier who had lo
brutally treated her. At an early hour, the ave-
nues to the Court were crowded; but the body
of it was not fo full, owing to the exclufion of the
Ladies, who flocked thither in great crowds,
though even, if admitted, which never is the cafe
on fuck accations, their curiofity would not have
enabled them to (attain the indelicate and difgutt-

LoNttny aI2dRAT7I.

CORN-EXCHANGE, ; DA7, J

A Return of the PRICES of 171.0 r It. from Cie .. 7th (41,q
to the a3O. of IA), 3..16 r.% c.
Total !Atte f?Cks.—zSv,r.-n: ;Gs. CI:.
is. ii.l. WiLer tl:.to 141.. ~.two.
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE InytOUGI-:.
Dna 61 es to 71 Its I PuCtCtl 6i Ws to 10. 33
SMITHEFF.LD, July 3c.
To fink the offal—pet Runt (OM.
Beef - 41 64 to
Ss
64 li•al - 4' Ca to 1.“ 31
' Mottos -4s 8d to js C.I Pork - Ss 2s: :, ‘:9 ij
Lamb js 6.1 to Ca &I.
Stock at Market this morning, Ilestts 70c.,
Sheep and Lambs 2,1',0:-..
NEWOATE and LEADENHA LI., July 30,
Per (tone of 811.. by the careaf:..
Beef 41 od to 5s od Vetd 3. 4d to 4.. so
Mutton 4s 41 to js od Pork is 2‘l to cs :-.
th
Lamb p cd to ts cct.
RAW lIID E•z, ;it. 30.
. Hides !per Ilone).3s 8d to 3s lot! Heavy C.. 11 es cC eseS
Middling 33 od .to js 40. tio,fe Sl.'..i. iv ... t,f
Ordinary .as 64 to as lid I.a.mh Skin. 2s c,..,;,-„4,....4
Shearlings ts. 31.
PRICE OF LEATHER, pc: lb. AT LEADENHAIL.
Butts, so to sfils each, -s, 18.! to lad
Ditto, 6o to 661 b . . . 22e.• to 243
Mtr CballtS Backs . 1 7 .ttl to .14,4
Dretling Hides - .. 36.1 to ilia
Fine Coach Hides . • ad to .33.1
Crop Hides for Cutting - - t8,.1 to wig
Flat Ordinary -164 d to t&t
Calf Skins, 30 to 401 b per dozen, • a6d to 334
Ditto so to 7011 - - 26.1 to 334
Ditto, 7o to Seib - - 2jd to 274
Small Seals (Greenland) per it. 33 mi to 31 44
.Large ditto - - loos. to tom per doz.
Tanned kierre Hides - Ills to 32s each
Goat Skins - - ass to 6js per dozen
Bark per load - 231. tos. to :31. to.
PRICE OF TALLOW IN LONDON.
St. James's market 33 94 Town Tallow 63s 6d tops
Clam market 3s 314 Rufiia ditto (ca.)59.0d to 61s
Whiteeliapel market 3s Ilid Rulfia ditto (foals) 59s toes
(per Roue uf 81b.) White Caudle kWh, lio s to 614. '
--.--- Melted Stuff ss Aod tops
ass ad Ditto Rough 36. od too,
Average Price 3s Ilid ("heaves - 545 oel to os
Good Dregs 109 to OS
Yeleow Soap, 705. to os.--,Mottled, 735.--Curd,B2s,
Catiall:4, tos. 6d.--Moulds, z is. oil.

PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, jail 30.
Smithfield. St. James's. Wlsitcchapel.
o.Hay SlotO 7 so 3 z 8 oto 8 o 0 to 7 7 •
New Sotosis 2 2010214 0 tI6OtolS
StraW 2 oto 2 3 7 7 o to 8 8 ia
Clonr7cwBJ;
llo.new 6 o to 7 0 _

COALS, July 30.
Bel Coa' in Cle Pool, al. 3s. od. per Chaldros.
Del:wed •.zL 12$. od.
Sunderland, al. its. od.
Delivered 21. Ss. od.