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London, England, 1806-08-06 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

S.lsrotto.—On the Crown fide there were only
three prifonets, all of whom were conviaed, viz. J.
Allen, for healing two linen and a lamb ; and Wm.
Ballot, for Dealing a horfe, received fentence of
death ; and Watts, for (leafing five ells of cloth,
was ordered' to be tranfported for 7 years. The two
former were refpited before the Judges left the town.
On the Isldi Prins fide there was only one cattle,
but the moll extraordinary of the kind ever tried in a
'.urt of Jutlice. It was as follows :
The RSV. ROS. WOODWARD O. THOS. WALI,III.
This was an affirm brought by a parent againft the
reducer of his child, and the jet of the adtion was, that
he had been deprived of her fervices, and the corn-
, fort, deriveahle from her being citable and virtuous.
Mr. Serjeaat Ss cunt hated the cafe to the Jury.
He (aid the plaintiff was the Vicar of Harrold, in that
county, and that his family confided of himfelf, a wife
and three daughters. The plaintiff refided at the vi.
carage houfe, and lived the life of a reclufe. His
daughters had never been from home, nor had they
ever demeaned themfelses in a way to throw the
flightelt imputation upon their charatters. The de-
fendant was a young farmer, who came to teak in
the parins about four years ago, and became acquain-
ted with the plaintiff's daughter, Sarah Woodward,
and reduced her. It was extraordinary,but very true,
that although the criminal intercourfe between the
plaintiff's daughter and the defendant had continued
for a confiderable time, he was not prepared to prove
by any other witnefs than the girl herfelf, that they
were ever together.
Sarah Woodward Rated, that the was 24 years old,
and the eldeß daughter of the Plaintiff, and that un
account of the diflreffed lunation of her parents, the
aged as fervanr to the family ; that after firtlfhing
her work, the employed the tell of the day in making
lace, and her filter kept a day fchool, for the pur,pofe
of fupparting her parents. In the year 1803, they
came to refide'at the vicarage houfe, in Harrold, and
the firft Sunday the went to church the law tbe De-
fendant, who fixed his eyes upon her very much, but
that for more than two years the never (poke to him;
that on the t Ith of February iBos, about fix o'clock
in the morning, lie came to her father's !tonic, and
knocked at the door ; the opened it, when he alked
if her father was up ? and upon being told he was
not, the Defendant proceeded to take improper fiber-
ties—lhe got rid of him, however, by Dating that her
father was coming down flairs. On the next morning,
at the fame hour, he came again, when the yielded to
him, and a criminal intercourfe took place between
them, which continued till the month of November
following ; after which he never came again. In the
courfe of thefe interviews, which were always about
day break in the morning, the Defendant informed
her of the circuitous route he had taken to come to
herfsther's, in order to avoid being Peen by any per-
fon. In the month of February, 1806, the thought
the was pregnant, but made no preparation for fuch
an event, nor did the communicate her fulpicions
to any part of her family; but on the asth of
February, in the morning, the felt herfelf very
unwell, but continued doing the houfehold work
till about ten at night, when fbe delivered herfelf
of a female child in the fchoobroorts, having no per.
fon with her to afford the lealt atfitlance ; that the was
afterwards carried up flairs to bed, and the child
wrapped up in an apron and laid by her; that Sarah
Crouch, who refided at the back of her father's bottle,
was fent for, and brought tome cloaths to &eft the
child in, and that the child died in 12 days after.
On her crofs-exasniaation by Mr. WILSON, (he laid
the defendant knocked loud at the door, as if he came
upon bulbuls ; that it was an iron knocker, and that
the indecencies the Rated were outfide of the houfe ;
and that no fort of canyerfation or cnurtthip took
place previous ; that the next day the let him into the
houfe, and that then, without more ceremony than
was before obferved, the yielded to him ; that he
came fometimes twice a week, fometimes not fur a
month, but always, either in winter or fummer,l
about day-break in the morning ; that fhe was pofi
tive he was the father of the child ; that the did not
know the was with child till near the time of her de-
livery ; that the never told her mother or fitiers,l
and that they never fufpenfted her to be fo ; that her,
father was a very dillreiTed man, and that until the;
Igft fix months they had no bed to lie on ; that there
was very little furniture in the Vicarage-houfe, it
having been given away, and that the, her child,
and her fillers, lay upon a flock mattrefs on the floor.
She Paid her father, as loon as the was able to get
up, called a meeting of the inhabitants of Harrold,
at the Wheatfheaf public-houfe, in order to ex-
plain to the defendant and others the linfinets, and
that at that meeting the charged the defendant
with being the father; bat on being defired to
mention the day the fuppofed the child to have been
got, the fixed it as the Friday beforelOdell Fair ;
but it was then obferved that 01111 d not be, for that
the defendant was not in the county, and, being very
much confuted, (he did not then cone& herfelf, but
that when the got home the recollefled (he had made
a rnißake, and that it.., was the Friday after Odell
Fair. The examination of this witnefs hafted three
1 hours.

Sarah Crouch proved that the was called up loon
after the birth of the child, and that the afforded
every affillance in her power. She (poke as to the
extreme mifery and wretchednefs of the family, and
that flue had been in the habit of feting the plaintiff's
daughter feveral timeea day for more than two years,
and never obferved any thing improper in her eon-
dna ; nor did the perceive that the %vas with child,
and that the and the girl's parents were never more
ti rprifed than when Inc was delivered of the child.
On her craft examination, the Paid the child was a
very fine child, and that the had more fingers and
toes than a child ought in have, and that the want
of care and attention in the delivery had been the
caufe af its dent'. That the rented the hack part of
pe the Vicarage-hnufe, for which the paid 4ss r ann.
—'hat the had a large family, and role early every
morning, but never lkw the defendant near the houfe.
Mr. WILSON, for the defendant, raid, tharthe pre.
lint altion was of a fingular nature. and fupported
by the mob extraordinary evidence he had ever
heard in the entree of his profeffinnal experience:
he was infirofled to fay that this was a moft
fool and wicked confpiracy to ruin and difgrace
a young man jai entering into life ; that extra-
ordinary as the cafe was on the part of the plain.,
tiff, his defence was Rill mere estmordiaary,

he was inffrubed Mon unequivocally to declire
the defendant an Innocent man, and that he never
had any. thing to do with the plaintiff's daughter in
the whole emote of his hie.
-Several witnelfes were then called to prove the
delendant was not an early rifir, and that whenever
he went out in the morning, he went to his farm the
direB reverie of the road to the plaintiff's bottle ; and
one of the svitneffes called to prove the 'Wince f the
defendant in Norfolk at the time Dated by the plain-
tiff's daughter to be the fuppofed time when he was
the father of the child, made the fame miftake as the
girl, by dating his return to be Friday after Odell
Fair, when in fait he returned the Friday beforoe
Odell Fair;
After Setjeant Sizzom had concluded a reply of
about two hours, Sir JAMES MAIISFIt LD left it los the
Jury to decide upon the improbability of the 'tory
told by Sarah Woodford ; but if they believed her,
they would confider what danineii filch a cafe deman-
ded. The Jury ennfidted together abatit five minutes
and brought in a vert!ia for the Plaintiff—Damages
Ten Pounds.
The trial laded :even hours, and the Court was
uncommonly crowded. The Plaintiff is find to be a
clergyman of mat eccentric charaeler, and of fuch
weaknefs of mind, but good intentions, that he is the
dupe of the pretended poor, and although his living
is worth :col. per annum, he cannot refill the impor-
tunity of any perfon pretenJing to be diftreffed, and
has aBually given away all his furniture, and lately
the (hoes off his feet, and left himfelf without the
common neceffaries of life.
The daughter is a very delicate girl, appeared to
be very ill, and, from her manner, is nearly an ideot.
Soon after opening the cornruiffion at the above
Affixes, a perfon of the name of R a fltoemaker
in the town, addreffed the Judges, Rating, that he
had been appointed by the Corporation to tape& the
, Bakers and Butchers' (hops, in order to afcertain if
their weights were jai, and their progifions good.—
He then enumerated feveral inflances of his diligence
and exertiona for the good of the poor, particularly
in preventing unwholefome meat from being fold—
notwithflanding he had been difmiffed his lituation
without any reafon being aligned, or any remunera-
tion made for his trouble. For the truth of what lie
(aid, he appealed to the Sheriff and others who were
in Clurfi Sir James Mansfield faid, he was very
forty he. had no power to arm d him redrefs upon his
bare datement ; but it lie would employta profilliceal
man, and take the proper meafures by prcientment,
every attenti. n be paid to his complaints
'llse fhoemaker replied, rather warmly, that he had
neither the means nor inclination to go to lace—that'
the seedy in that cafe would be work than the rfy?afi,
and if the Judges would not do him jullice, he would
write to the Lord Chancellor. The lhoemaker (poke
uncommonly well, and afforded a great deal of mirth
by the feverity of his remarks upon Lawyers, and
the misfortune of going to law.
LEWES, AUGUST 4.
Saturday was a day of nnufual bugle in this town.
It was the !aft day of the races, and the company had
fcarce begun to quit the town when the Judges ar-
rived, and read their Commiffion fur holding the
Affixes. Yeflerday they attended Divine Servii.s, and
this morning early proceeded to bangs.

CIVIL SIDII.HICKSW • QI/AKRIL MID AN APO.
THICART AT BRIGHTON.
Mr. Motets Rated, that the declaration in this
cattle complained, that whereas the Plaintiff had a
valuable dog, which the Defendant bear, and robbed
his fides with a clank liquid, in confequence of which
it became neceffary to destroy the animal. To this
the Defendant had pleaded, that the dog trelpafTed
upon his premifet, and that he beat him to keep him
away.
Mr. GAR ROW Rated to the Jury, that this was a
cafe of moll unparalleled cruelty, as well as an ag-
gravated breach of the law. The Plaintiff, Mr. Hicks,
was the keeper of a Livery Stable, at Brighton, and
the dog which was dellroyed wai a molt ufeful
ani-
mal in guarding the yard. 'l'he Defendant was of
that clefs of religious leas who are fuppofed to car-
ry the principles of the Chriflian religion to greater
extent than their neighbours. He dreffed like a
Q.lsaker, and would talk like one ; his yea would be
" yea" and his nay " nay ;" but In far from being
purer in his principles than his neighbours, his con-
dud on the prefent occafion would (hew, that he had
not the hal rudiments of Chriflianity in his heart, as
it was devoid of mercy. The Scripture taught us
that a merciful man would be merciful to his bean,
and he would add, he would alfo be merciful to' his
neighbour's bean. How far he had been,fo the Jury
would judge. The Defendant, it fee Med, kept a
bitch, and, as was a natural confequence, the neigh•
bouring dogs would frequent his hour. He had :in
uneweltionahle right to beat them away, and if that
had been all he had done, the Plaintiff would have
had no right to complain. But he lhould (hew that
he aaually enticed the Plaintiff's dog into his yard,
and then rubbed him over with a liquid, which, from
circumltances, he believed was oil of vitirol. He then
turned the poor creature nut, and in the courfe of the
next day it corroded the flank of the animal until
the bowels aditally dropped out, and it became r e
neffary to put it out of its mifery. It was for the Jury
to fay why recompense they would give the Plaintiff.
He was not in a condition to /stove any (pecific vatue
of the dog, but the Jury would he jullificd in giving
the higlicff value that oar yet was let upon any ani-
mal of the fort.

James Okendon Rated, that he knew the Plaintiff's
dog, and he alto knew t!,e Defendant, who was a
chemift, at Hi Warn. On the 4th of February laft
he law the Plaintiff's dog go into the honk of the
Defendant, and lie taw the Defendant take the dog
into the yard; he next fetched a bottle from the fhop,
which contained fame lignid ; he then-wetted a piece
of tow on the epd of a hick, and he rubbed it over
the dog's Rank and fides.
Sarah Wilton, fervant of the Defendant, gave the
fame tellimony ; the could not tell what the liquid
was, but when it fell on the hones it hided like boil-
ing. They had a bitch in the hank, and the dogs
frequently came there.
Cooper Sampfon, ofller at the Rabies, Rated that
the next morning after the liquid had been applied,
about five o'clock, he fira taw the dog ; it was then
running about the yatd in great agony. The hair
on its back was hard as though burnt, but on the
fides where the dog had licked Isimfell, the Refit had
been torn away, and there was but a thin fkin be-
tween the. bowels. The tongue of the 4vnal, by

licking Weir, was bdrht hard like a coal, an d war
fo hard and Riff, that it remained as if it was hew.. • •
About twelve n'cl,•ck tie fkin in the dank was quite
eaten through in hOiC). and the bowels dropped out
on the ground. In this flute they (hot the animal.
Two other witneffvs proved the fame thing
Mr. Sesjeant Bite, for the Defendant, admitted
he could not fay any thing in his jollification, and
that a verdift mutt be had againft hi- client, for the
value of the dog. But he cautioned the int y against
giving way to tle•r angry feeling;, and acetuding
vindictive damages. They were by their verdia to
compenfate the Plaintiff fur the lof; hi, dog, and
not to punifh the defendant.
The LORD CHIFF BARON Alf) Rated to the PM,
that by their verdiA they were to give to the plaintiff
a cumpenfation for the Itifs of his Jog. In this way
of bufineG, fuck as animal was certainty ufeful in
nrotefting the Ilable-yard fr,tm the depredations of
firollers. He doubted not lint that Inch cruelty'
would be punilhed by the Religious Society of which
the Defendant was fit ditgraceful a Member. They.
no doubt, would expel him from am•:ngt them
when they heard of loch unparalleled cruelty.
The Jury gave a verdit9 for the Plaintiff, damages
—Five l'ounds. Tae whole bufinefs on the Crown
Side fini Lied early i there were none but petty cafe •

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MED.

On the Itt inttant, at HAverfordweft, In Smith Wales. Georg,
Silk, Erq. of Dodoes Conimqtm, to Mil, Fortune, yollogett dangle.
ter of the late joreph Frrtune FCq. of the above place.
At Donglafq, the feat of Sir J..nses Hall. Bart on the t ft Initiate
Sir James Montgontery. Bart to theßlght Hon. Lady Elisabeth
Douz,l2a, daughter of the late Earl of Selkirk
At Lockt.nd, near Edinburgh, Lieutenant Colonel Dalrymple, of
the tab foot, to Mir. Warreuder, only daughter of the late Sir P.
Warrendcr, Bart. of Loehend•

DIED,

At Manfe of Strichen the Rev Mr William allinderfon, Waiter
of the Carpel of that perifb
A few days force, aged 68, Mrs. Nelbltt, ditsztiter of Dr.
Nelbit r.
At Brißol, on the 33th ult. Mrs. Boardman, nil 1 of the Iva
Colonel Boardman, Royal Scotch Greys, and fdlie of Henry Da-
refl. Efq . of Cale Hill, Kent.
On the 23d ult. at Leith Port, Colonel Wm. Peter Smi..b, cm.
minding the Royal Artillery in North Britain. This excellent
Officer had patted his lite tram early youth to the palod of MI
lamented death, aetively, and with little intermillami, itivhe fee.
vire of bit country.

52 minutes after i
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For the SCURVY, LEPROSY. and &II COninainill ardtpg trunk
Impurity of the Blood, and difevfc.l Lymphatics.
Slr JOHN HILL's hSSENCE OF IA'A [TR DOCK.
If any one is ill and knows not his titte.:er, let tuna fur,pedt
the Scurvy." fid.thtolus.
111 HE SCURVY Appears to be more prevalent in •
this Country than In any other within our kti,wiedge; whe-
ther this mites from luxurious living, the state of the atmorpherc„,
the vari.blenefs of our climate, or the large quantity of animal
mod taken by Kenn. of every daft, is not eafily den.rmined; it
Is enough that the evil t alit., and t.is a valuable blcillog,th.it the
great and beneficent Ca FATI/It has particularly fivesured the sate
habitant. of Great Britain with a pe,uhar Remedy.
The GR4AT W:VINRDOCK Is a plan indiglinosito this
country, and las ever been recsintroctudid as the only renew
Vegetable Specific for the Scurvy. Mutt tumulus* publiated
Trcattfe on this Plant, in the year refit, where be largely treats
on Its pnwerf,.l virtues In eradicating the Scurvy, with 41 iis as
tendsot f)mproms and proves it to be the HER BA
Niel of the ANCIEN I'S.
Whether the Storey of the eruptive Mind, or ',tent In the
hsb.i, this Rffence is always continent in its ope,stuut anal tilted&
Its firß saint TO by left:dial, prafatiratim, open og the ohltrooladi
pores, and giving paitigs to the offending ; a. d,
the difoi der is virulent. Mauer is farther &flitted hy a more thee
ordinary ditcharge of urine. It tenures the hift tone of the Ro-
mer:ll, anri.hea and !wet t..nr the blood, tweed* all Its acrid, acri-
mown*, and putrefaCtive qualities, removes oaafia, t kes
livid fpots of the thin, el tars it in its impurities, and never stais tat .
p:rfortnins a fund sad pc:ha cure.
Sold wholefale and retail by Shaw and Edwards, No. 66.
Paul's Church Yard ; the Le i.e art ick has t..clr sautes snstatcsil
on de Stamp. Price 3s. 6d. los. 61. and its.

AN I MPOIt'ffANT DISCOVERY.
MESS RS. CU k RI E and CO. Surgeons, having fele
a tong fete, of years suds the VENEREAL DISPASI the
particular °Meet of their inveßigation. are now enabled to is—
nounce the difcovery of a Medicine faperior to Mercury ix disk
Cure of that Mare. It is at refute foilleient for them to Wave
Mat its dials are diametrically oppoflte to doge of Mercury. tor
though it completely emikatcs every millet of the virus In Its
mat confirmed Raga, yet it does not in the leaft injure theemiltif.
tuton, or alter the complezim ; on the contrary, It rebovates the
ryttem in aU Its natural lunetioos, promotes Appetite, and facia.
totes Digeltion. Nomberlefs inftances are an recent record of the
fuperior efficacy of this Medicine, Its inherent and fpwifie virtues.
acting as a perpetual corrective to bodily debility, whether two.
meting from an excel's of conjugal and Illicit plealere, or front the
more inadious though not tea deltructive indulgence io a certain,
pernicious habit. Aotidft the melancholy variety of Wardere
which are the conferment of this folitary vice, there are none more
alidUng than thofe net ictinecs met DIMITIIIS that prevent or
embitter the matrimonial ftate.Tbc wretched (offerer broods over
hit misfortuoes, afhamed to feet relief till It he, brought Mm
rush a notes( °Lacey as to render life oppreffive. To theft se.
happy Perfons It will be a confiding reflection to know that thee
may now, by a new and infallible mode of treatment, be mitered
to that greaten of all human bleffings, a ftroog, manly, and vigor.
otu Connitution.

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11.1414. Currie and Co. may be ecefulted by Patients adder
Sec, at their Houle, No to 7, Hatton Carden, Pekotialbs or by
letter (Haft paid) ineloflng a Bins. Note, when the netritiry ad-
vice and Medicines will be given or lent to any part of the King-
doro.-.Patients in the Cowl Ty are requefted to state their age awl
general mode of livi•tg. No. toe, Hutton o.orden.
WAVING de.itcAted spyleit to the itudy, And beeft.
gratifird by the Molt conildenifile pradice in that brands
w►ich I thought privw to feted, I trek that I have not more nar.
em7loyeti my time than thofe who, In the exteultve held of the
profit/Ina. arc oceaßoraily Imsr.erfed le uncertainty, and mares
always attain that fuccefs which to acquired by colicannsting the
totelleetual power to .ate clafs of &larders.
The difeafts of DRBILITY are peculiarly diftrefang, for thee •
bring with them a train of coecomitant fimptotns, and by a Ai•
mfflooof all vital energy, exiltence Melt becomes emNttswdv.•
Whether alcy ante trom the prevalence of 111 example, Um dettruo.
ties habits of fchnolboys,or the indulgences of maturity, they re-
quire the mon. alliducnis profdhonal ; but by the Igneranee of
utiohicanol men, the fraptosue are aggravated, and the coanitis-
don is deftroy.l.

Asa MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEON&
I ground my pretenfiena on regularity of education, and pen-cling
every privilege to praUce. I feel myfelfrntided to that confidence
with which I have hitherto been fo liberally honoured.
In the Lrft fenfatkns of local wealinefs, early appteatlon will
prevent the calamity of a debilitated frame : but where the futferar,
from a conicioufnefs of the unssanlinefs of the vice which carrel
his misfortune, is (earful of the contempt or cer.fere of his family
pbyfic lan, an .t broods over hi. infirmity with careful concealment,
t mutt be fatisfaaory for him to be 'Cured not only of capability
of treatment bnt alto of the meill inviel tble fecrecy.
And In reeentVenereal Complaints it is poffitste to prevent pal*
danger or &firers ; In the molt complicated cafes it is the acquire.
malt of ezclefive experience isi this iinc to died a fats, mule,
and fpeedy retilahltihmer.*.
I effer the advantage of this e tperienre to thole of either ft* wile
are &Elided with any hind of DERILITY, of any fyniptome of
VENEREAL INFECTION, and in all cafes the terms of remu-
neration are ftatcal on the firit interview.

raft:lllln the country are eapedert tolnelole a Ranh note, and
are reev,fted ketify thele age and manner eat hying.
MARTIN BMW.,
Member of the Royal Colltr of Surgeon., In Leaden:.
No. ast Annalal-tireet. Stmod, mat Temple Bar. -

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