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London, England, 1813-05-03 00:00:00

CHESTER ASSIZES, APRIL 2t.

Willranr kintost, Wm. rartoood, and John Burger,
all Batmen, from Northwich, were indicted for. ra-
vishing Mary Porter, at Runcorn, to which they
pleaded Not Guilty.
Mary Porter stated her age at 22, and that she
lived at St. Helen's, in Lancashire, with her father
and mother; her father is a weaver, but not having
aufficienrempley for hop, early in January she quitted
them, with an intention of seeing a relative at Ches-
ter, and if possible, getting a place as a servant—her
relation's name was Peggy Cuncliffe—she arrived at
Chester on the Tuesday, and not succeeding, set out
on her return on Friday. At Frodsham, in the way
homes she was told there was a nearer way by Run-
corn Ferry, and she accordingly directed her steps in
that direction. When she had gone about a mile,
she saw a flat in the river, and inquired the road,
being a perfect stranger, and she was told to proceed
oa to Weston Point. In a little time, however, she
was again at a loss, but seeing a little hut) near which
were some flats, she knocked at the door, when some
), one of whom she soon found was Wilkinson,
to her, and one of them pointed to two other
a distance off, and said they would shew her
ad. She went to them, and one of them (Bur-
said he was going to Runcorn, and if she had
kind he would shew her the way. He was then
big to the other man, and soon after followed
'mess. This was about a mile from Runcorn.
Irgess asked witness where she was going? she
I to St. Helen's, over Runcorn Ferry, and. in-
,led to reach there that day.--a, He said I could
for it was not high water till eight at night,
eight in the morning, and I had better stop till
aing, as I could not then pass. I asked him was
telling GOD'S truth, and he said he was. We went
ise by a public-house, and he said I might as well
in and get a glass of ale. I said I did not mind ;
I went in ; this was about two or three o'clock. He
;ed me would I taste the ale ? I did, but only put
lips to it.—He then asked what I would have a
is of? I said I did not care; and he called for a
glass of rum and water, which I drank. Yarwood
Wilkinson came in, and I stopped with them till
ten at night. I had then given over all
.ghts of crossing the Ferry, thinking it dangerous
that time to go over—and asked Burgess could I
lodgings ? He said g 4 yes." I might there, in
public house.—After Yarwood and Wilkinson
one of them asked Burgess where I came
? He said I had been at Chester, and was going
St. Helen's. One of them ( Wilkinson) then said, I
e,ht go in his flat; th y talked amongst thernsolver.—
ey enquired about several people that they knew
St. Helen's, and said they had often been there for
I.—Wilkinson said he was captain of a flat, and
others ware his haulers, and if I would go in their
I should be there (St. Helen's) at 8 in the morn-
g. Wilkinson said I might have supper and break-
% and should go free of expence ; —he said I
mid have a place in the flat cabin to myself, and
one should molest me. r was a great while before
I consented, but I did at last, because they seemed
so pleasant, and talked nothing indecent nor offen-
sive.—We then went out, Burgess went with me,
the other two went first, but I do not know which
way they went. It was very moonlight. Burgess
and I went towards Weston Point ; the same road I
came, very near the shore; it was a bad road. We
bad gone about three or tour fields, Burgess walking
at my side. We came to a stile, when Burgess sat
'himself down, and would have pulled me to him, bvt
T resisted, and got away from him. He followed me,
and in getting away, I met Wilkinson and Yarwood,
'hem I wanted to pass, but Yarwood got fast bold

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(The MUM* 'WM by the *Owe*, acts flat, Waifs here,
but is net It for the publiebyer ft is se/ lest to ay, that the
wretched girl was ,bro Kalli violated by. these human wolves, in
a nianrier, too acocking for description. The circumstances- at-
ieadittg the erTmewere of the Most eisgusdng Ind horrid mature
such, we tbilgt, as never ditkanid we hope never will again, dis-
grace a Courtof Justice. In the agony of her mind, she cried
oat for mercy, but tears were of little avail with the inhuman
' monsters. The witness through the whole of her examination,
which lasted nearly three hours, conducted herself with the
greatest propriety. She was much affected several times, and her
situation attracted the sympathy of as aowded a Court as we
ever recollect seeing. She seemed in a very ill State of health,
and was Accommodated with a chair.)
I agreed after to go with Burgess from the field, be-
cause I was fearful of the others murdering me. I
• was dreadfully hurt. When we came to Runcorn it
was late, and the first light I saw, I begged Burgess
to take me to. He did. It came from a cellar win-
dow ; at which Burgess knocked, and asked for lodg-
ings ; when the door opened, I ran down stairs, and
begged protection and a night's lodging, as I was a
poor distressed creature.—They said they could not
accommodate tne, but they would get me a bed at
Mary Gibson's. I went there • I told my story to both.
Mary Cheshire, servant at the public house, at Run-
corn, deposed, that the conduct of Mary Porter, so
far as she saw, was quiet, orderly, and Decent.
Samuel Bennett, who kept the cellar in Runcorn,
at which Mary Porter sought refuge, corroborated
her teitinsony in every particular.
Mary Gibson,who kept the lodging-house, spoke to
the miserable state in which the prosecutrix was, when
she came to her house ; she was almost perished. She
was very ill the next morning. Witness repeated
the story told her by Mary Porter.
Lydia Helsby also corroborated the testimony of
Mary Porter—said she advised her not to tell her fa-
ther, for fear it should put him out of the way—and
least it might operate against her (Mary Porter's)
character. She was fearful of the world knowing of
the affair, and her father and mother being troubled.
Has known Mary Porter several years.
George —, Master of a Flat, was getting
the vessel out on the night the dreadful affair took
place ; knows the field-road from Weston Point. On
the 15th January lay near the Cheshire shore, and
ht and a woman's screams. She cried, 44 0 LORD,
help !"—and after that 44 Murder." The cries lasted
a quarter of an hour. Thought they might proceed
fiom a woman whose husband was beating her. The
vessel was then 2or 300 roods from the field, along
the shore; about two or three roods from the shore.
The wind blew from whence the sound came.
John Porter, the prosecutrix' father, swore to the
illness of his daughter when she came home, and to
the tale which she narrated. She did not tell of the
transaction till about 10 days after she returned ; she
was then in a very bad state. As soon as he knew, he
sent to Runcorn, to see it they would come forward
and prosecute, being unable himself : and hearing
from the Vicar, that the case would be taken in hand,
he immediately went to a Justice. The delay that
took place was occasioned solely from his inability
to commence the prosecution.
The case for the prosecution ended here.
Judge BURTON asking Yarwood what he had to say
in his defence, he said he bad a certificate to shew
that Mary Porter had been in Liverpool.
Judge Bun Ton said it could not be admitted.
Burgess said, it liberties had not been given to him,
he should not have made so free with Mary Porten

Wilkinson had nothing to say.
The Learned Judge (DALLAS) then recapitulated
the evidence with his accustomed accuracy, and
after about five minutes deliberation, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of—Guilty.
On giving in their verdict, the Court observed,
" Your decision has our perfect approbation."

The Jury afterwards recommended the prisoners to
mercy, but Judge DALLAS said, is. was fearful it
could not be granted.
On the prisoners being taken from the Bar,
Mr. Otos: rose, and submitted to the Court the
form in which the indictment was drawn, as a plea
for an arrest of judgment. The prisoners, he observed,
were all charged in the indictment as principals in
one act, the commission of which was a physical im-
possibility. It does not say, that the crime was COM.
mitted by the prisoners, severally, but by all together.
In his (Mr. Cross's) humble opinion, there should
have been these counts to the indictment—the Ist
charging Yarwood with the crime, and Burgess and
Wilkinson with having aided and abetted. The 2d,
charging Burgess as the principal, and Yarwood and
Wilkinson, as having been aiding and abetting—and
the 3d, charging Wilkinson as a principal, and Bur-
gess and Yarwood as having aided and abetted.
The Judges, after hearing the Counsel for the
Crown, overruled the objection, and the prisoners
were left fur execution on the •29th of May.

Sunday se'nnight died, Mr. James Bullard, the
Governor of Bethel, Norwich, who, a few weeks since,
received a wound in the body with a scythe from one
of his patients. The unfortunate maniac, whose name
is Jonathan Morley, was committed to gaol on Mon-
day last, by John Roach, Esq. Coroner, the verdict of
the Jury held on the body being Wilful Murder.
Several accidents happened m Nottingham market
last week, by young people falling from the chairs of
the merry•go-rounds : one girl had her arm broken,
another had her skull dreadfully fractured, and a
third received so severe a contusion that she was taken
away senseless. The Mayor immediately ordered the
machines to be removed.

At Sleaford fair, on Monday, a girl about thirteen,
Whilst witnessing an exhibition of wild beasts, having
incautiously ventured too near the case in which a
lion was confined, the animal darted his paw through
the wires, and, fixing his talons in her skull, lacerated
her in a most shocking manner.
Sir ROBERT Wasosi has sent to England a most
striking likeness of the gallant Herman Count PLR..
TOFF, which he lately received from that distinguish-
ed It was accompanied by the following
letter, which is truly characteristic of the simplicity
and nobleness of his mind :

" TO 111.10.11111R-GIINICRAL 11/1 noasitt /NILSON.
44 Kalish, March 9, 18/9.
44 I have had the honour of being known to you for a long
while. We have fought together in two wars againa the enemy,
and you have shared the dangers of them with us, so that it gives
me pleasure to make use of your friendship. As a sure mark of
my regard, I send you herewith my picture, and I beg you will
give me your's In return. A friendship like our's ought to descend
to our children, who, after the example of their fathers, will en-
t rtain fob !lab other sneers 'love and friendship. I remain,
with sineere regard, &c. " COseNT PLATOTT."

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Maid-lane, Borough, Southwark, March 8, 1813.
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MESSRS. GOSS and Co. as regularly educated
Surgeons of London, have sedulously devoted their atten-
tion for these last 17 years to the study of those disorders which
so frequently embitter, and too often prevent, that inestimable
blessing, matrimonial ttlicity. The unrivalled patmeage that they
have hitherto received front persons of the lint sod
the uniform success a residing their superior mode of treatment
in such comp Lints, induce them t has publicly to offer their assist-
ance. In all cases of debtlity or deficiency, whether result ins iron.
the too frequency of participating in the gaieties of a fashionable'
life, the unbounded iudulgenee of libertinism, or a secret, solitary,
and destructive habit, which weakens the energy of the mind, and
destroys thellower of youth, by producing sterility in the one sex,
snit impotence in the other, they offer a sale and permanent cure.
To those who, from such cuml Lint., are prevented entering into
the marriage state, and ashamed to seek relief, brood °err their
infirmities :n silence, it mint he consoiing to know, however MG.
cult or ineig ctual the cure may be deemed by other practitioner',
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are enebled to cure in a %hart period, without recairse to the
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been cured in a envy short period, after having laboured undet
stricures for many years. To marrkd Females, whose expec-
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defeated, it may also be a pleasing reflection to know, d.at by a
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Messrs. Goss and Co. exclusively professing the cure of three
tetrticular complamts, in order that they may nut be marked by
a mistaken few with the obloquy so justly attached to t isms
rant empiric, think it but justice to themselves to Nate that they
lave been properly educated and initia.ed into eve:l branch of
the profession (certificate; of which from different hospitals, and
testimonials from the ntost eminent physicians, they haste to fl:I•
wince any inqu.rer,) that the success resulting from their codes.
Yours first induced them to quit the practice of the general prat..
taloner, and they presume that their pretensions constitute aisle
ground for the unprecedented confidence with which they have
by the Public been so liberally honoured.
P*ient is in the Country are requested to state the particulars
f their cave, age, and manner of living, enclosing a Bank%
note for advice and medicines, and the same will be given of
iorwarded to any part of the Kingdom.
GOSS and Co. Surgeons, IS, bouverie-street, Fleet street. _

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