Star.
London, England, 1812-08-11 00:00:00

ASSIZES. '~

MAIDSTONE, AUGUST 7.
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William Brows, a privatein the Royal A
was indicted for the wi.ful murder or. Isabella
guire, a child of the age of seven years.
The circumstances of this case were of an
dinary nature. The prisoner was servant I,
tenant Webber, and bore a most ex •nipl
character in the regiment : some things,
had been mien from his master's closet, ant
suspected of the theft. He absented himself
night of the 4th of April, and on the mnrni
Sih, as early as between five and six, he el
to the bari acks, and awoke a person of
of Jeffecot, with whom he had lived. A.
preliminary conversation, he told him he
mitred a crime for which he must be hat%
desired to be taken to the guardhouse.
Little, Serjeant-Maj•w, there received him in
and desiring to speak to the Serjeant in pri,
then told him that List nigh he had murdere.
girl. The Serjeant desired him to state Wittig?
ticulars. He said, that getting over a stile wh
into a lane, he saw the child at pl ay, who c,'
she saw him ; that he then took the child-in
and with his finger and thumb strangled it
as it was dead he carried it under his arm
distance, and laid it on some stone steps .
he described. The Prisoner could ascribe
tive for this act, but told the Serjeant he hat
lice against the child, and could not tell
came to do it.
Mr. Cunwoon, as Counsel for the Prisons
mined as to whether the prisoner might not'
ing under temporary inflammation of tl.e
the improper use of mercurial medicine.
The Serjeant said, heknew the pris••ner
nistcred mercury and laudanum to him e
medical advice; but he knew not in what
The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summ'n
dente, stated, that the mere atiocity of VD
must not be considered evidence of nhani:y
the most guilty criminals wo.ili escape
was evidence much too slight to infer an,
ment of mind.
• The Jury found the Prisoner guilty, an,
1 ved sentence to be executed on the Mond;
HILL v. TILVER.
' This was an action of Mr. Jos .ph Hill,
ney, against the defendant, for i A s.all—ef in
was struck of the Rolls.

The witness to prove the slander was
a Sheriff's Officer, who stated, that drum:
Assizes, at the Haunch or Willson publi(
Maidsuic, the plytn• iIF and defenda .
present, Mr. Hill produced a letter swat
dereodant to A third person, which c

slander. The deend.nt immod..ttel oo
said so. Mr. Hill, ..m this, the witness s.'
some poetry, which he could nut nitiern.
knew it began with—
Who steals my mime ,teals trash."
Lord ELLawaollol.l4ll held this! the words
slanderous, as many persons were struck off
at their request, and foe many reasons
misconduct ; therefore, to say that a man
off the Rolls did not necessarily imply that
been guilty of any malpractices.
Plaintiff nonsuited.
THE KIND v. HILL.
This was an information against the defendant
aiding the escape d three French prisoners.
The facts against the defendant were
The boat of the Cybille being cruising of ,
saw an open boat within three nada of the
piddling in for the shore. She was found ,
three prisoners, who, it turned out, had escs,
prison ;. and on the stern of the boat was ►
though nearly obliterated, " W. Kite,
Kite was a fisherman at Folkstone, who
lately died; and Mrs. Kite being exami
that she had sold the boat a day or two
defendant Hill, for eleven pounds, and
for it the morning the boat was missing,
say any thing about losing it. The van,
WAS proved by the Custom-house Surveyl
more than 45.
Mr. BOLLAND, for the defendant, cone
this evidence was much too slight to co
fendant, itsasmuch as his boat might hay,
horn the beach ; and with regard to
extra price, he might want it for other pi
haps not strictly legal. But here was .
the smallest, of any connection between
prisoners and the defendant, except that
been found at sea in a boat bought by '
The Jury retired for some time, and
a verdict of Guilty.

AUGUST 8.
William Col 7 and France: his wife were
maliciously shooting at and wounding "
Gadding deposed, that he lived'with
Beakesbourne, in this county, who ha,

:beep frequently stolen, employed the
man of the name of White to watch on
tweets thel9th and 20th of April. lief
they saw a man and woman come into
chace the sheep, endeavouring to drive
a corner ; upon this the witness, who was
a double-barrelled gun, came from his •
cealment, and told the Prisoner to surrender himselt
and go with him, or be would shoot him. The pri-
soner swore he would neither go nor surrender, and
dared him to shoot. The witness then said he would
stay by him till the morning, and they remained t.,-
gether for some time, when the prisoner made a sud-
den jump at the witness, and pulling a pistol from
his breast, fired at the witness, and wounded him it
the thigh. White, the other man, fired his gun and
wounded the prisoner ; the woman at the same
ment snapped a pistol at the head of White; she
immediately knocked down, but Gadding being bad.
ly wounded, they both escaped. They were, how.
ever, traced, and apprehended at Canterbury the next
day. —Guilty.
The case of Miss St. Julian, for a conspiracy to es•
tort money from the Hon. B. Cochrane, was remo•
ved by certiorari. •
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The Assizes and Home Circuit fin;shed here.
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that bet had
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defendant for
news.
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Boolqgnet
the harbour,
nd to Contain
escbped from
ss legibk, al-
, Folkstone."
who had then
mined, stated,
) before to the
d he paid her
g, but did no‘
toe of the boat
eyor not to bat
contended t .t
onvict the. de.
we been sole*
his givin4 elk
purpose", per-
no proot, not
en the Fre.sch
that they ii4d
him. •
then returnicl
ere indicted for
J. Godding.
h a farmer, at
aving had his
witness an.t 4
▪ the rtightbe-
efore day.ligin
o the field and
e them up into
ras armed with
s place of con.
rrender kinbelt
aim. The psi.
surrender, and
said he would