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London, England, 1826-07-08 00:00:00

ttiNINIER ASSIZE*

N 0 RT RAM PTO Any 6.
The Loao Curet Bartow, eV entering the Court
_morning, ordered Qalitehdl, alias Captain tilasll, '
placed at the bar,Land pronounced upon him the
sentence of the law, withoth, however, naming
on which it was.to take place. His Lordship t
the prisoner to make the Most of his time in this world,
in Order to prepare himself to meet his Ceravon. The
arimeof the prisoner was marked with such atrocity, th it
all hopes of mercy in this world mint be denied him,
lend he therefore earnestly exhorted him to prepare fur,
the world to come.
, The unhappy man seemed to hear his sentence with somtthing
worse than indifference; and it was not a little curious is hear by-
standers offer wagers that the Captain, notwithstanding all his ex-
giloits. would not die " game."
sHERARD V. WOOD AND JANI22.
This was an action to recover compensition in darn
triages for a libel, priblished by the defendant% in a
newspaper called the Huntingdon, Northampton, Bed-
ford, and Cambridge Weekly Journal.
The plaintiff is an attorney of c snsiderahle practice
in this county, and is also clerk to certain Justices of
the Peace. The libel imputed vlri•lus malpractices to
Mr. Sherard, and particularly stated that he ap; ro-
priated certain penalties to his own use and profit which
should have gone to the po r of the pa, ish.
The defendants pleaded a justification, but called no witnesses to
support their plea.
Mr. Heaven, for the defendants, admitted that no ground ex-
isted for the imputation cast upon the plaintiff.; and
Mr. Cf..% RIM for the plaintiff, said he was satisfied to take a
nominal verdict, accompanied with the apology of his Learned
Friend. • •
. Verdict for the plaintiff—Danmges Is.; costs 40s.
OXFORD, ;rice 7.
James Arnett was indicted for wilfully and maliciously
murdering Thomas Maley, by firing at and against him
a Certain gun loaded with gunpowder and leaden shot,
at Ensham, in this county, on the 17th of April last.
Mr. CURWOOD said it was his melancholy task to de-.
tail to the Jury the circumstances of the case, in which
the prisoner was charged with an offence, not only by
the law of England, but by the law of all other nations,
and by the law of GOD, pronounced in thunder from
Mount Sinai, ranked as the deepest and the blackest
in the catalogue of human offences. The Learned
Counsel then went on with a statement of the facts, with
a remark that in his judgment the present was but a
case of manslaughter.
Charlotte Smith was then called, and stated th it she
lived at Ensham, in this county. She remembered the
17th of April last, and on the evening of that day, at
a little after eight o'clock, she was opposite the pri
sorter's house, who was a respectable farmer at Ensham.
There were a great many persons near the house at the
time, and among them the deceased. She heard
ia Murder" cried in the hon,e. Mrs. Arnett, the pri
soner's wife, presented herself at the down-stairs room
window, and cried out, "Do pray come in, or I shall
be murdered to-night." She requested tie deceased.
Thomas Maley, particularly to go in. The deceased
Maley then got over the pales, and took the key of the
little gates from Mrs. Arnett. He came back, and un-
locked the gates, and others Went in also. The deceased
entered at a window, which Mrs. Arnett pushed up,
while she had a candle in her hand.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Pease—lt was dark at this
time, and there were a good many people in the street; but I did
not heat any of them use any galling or jeering expressions to the
deceased. He is at times-irritable, but at others a very kind and
good-natured man.
Mary Ana Smith, the sister al the last witness, corroborated her
evidence. •
Several other witnesses were called, who proved that
the prisoner fired' through the kitchen door after the
deceased had uttered, and shot him dead. At the time
the prisoner 6-red, a woman was pulling him .back by
the collar, and the prisoner's face was not towards the
dole through which he fired.
The Aram then summed up the evidence, after which the Jury
retired from the body of the Court about ten minutes, and returned
a verdict—Net Guilty ?Murder—Guilty e Mandasigker. The pri-
soner thanked the Jury.—To be imprisoned 12 calendar months.
WINCHESTER, JOLT 6.
Thos. Derby, an ironmonger at Gosport, was charged
with having in his possession a number of copper bolts
and bars, marked with the King's broad arrow; hut it
appearing that the articles had been brought to Derby's
premises in his absence only half an hoar before they
were seized, the Jury acquitted the prisoner.
Aaron Roam was charged with having in his pos-
session a quantity of cordage and a deal plank, con-
taining the King's mar
The prisoner, with another person, was seen in a small
skiff, hovering about Portsmouth harbour, before day.
break, on the morning of the 15th May. This circum-
stance
excit. d the suspicion of the Preventive water.
guard, stationed at Stoney Steps ; they
,kept the skiff in
view until the prisoner and his companion landed, when
the officers entered, and discovered that about forty
fathoms of rope, bearing the Government mark, and a
piece of deck plank, marked 'with the broad arrow.
Neither the cordage nor the plank appeared to have
been used. •
Mr. Minnie, for the prisoner, shortly addressed the Jury, urging
the insufficiency of the evidence.
. The prisoner was found Guilty.—Sentence not passed.
HERTFORD, Juur 7.
John Parsons was tried yesterday on a charts of,
h"rse stealing. He is about the age of 20, and will be
entitled, on coming of age, to a freeh3ld property of abs
value of 2,0001. His education appears to have bees
wholly neglected, and his appearance indicates no very
striking symptoms of care having been bestowed on his
early years. Although the heir to such a property as
this, end though receiving a portion of no inconsiderable
amount at this moment, yet he has but recently filled
the office of coachman to Mr. Preston, a gentleman of
fortune in liertfordthire; and at the period of his ap-
prehension followed the occupation of a horse breaker.
In the calendar he was deacribed as a hone dealer. The
present predicament in which he appeared was the result
of his too strong sporting prof ensities. Ou the 3lst of
May last lie was strolling about Mr. Batty's yard (the
Blatt Lion, at Hoddesdon) when he saw quite a beauty
of a horse coming into the yard: The horse belonged
to Mr. Simon Allen, of Doctors' Commons, and had
keen driven up from Brighton to London the day before,
and from thence, on the above day, to Hoddesdon.—
The prisoner took an opportunity of quietly taking the
horse out of the stable, and seeing that he wanted a pair
of hind shoes, he conducted the animal peaceably to a
neighbouring forge, and there held him while the shoes
were making and fixing on. He then took a bridle out
of his coat pocket, and arranging it on the horse's head,
he mounted and rode off, bate backed. According to
his own account he rode a circuitous route of siren)
miles, in ,order to get &obis own place at Sawbridg,
worth. Here, about half-past eleven o'clock, the growl:
and a constable arrteed. They knocked up the prisoner
who quietly gave up the horse. They made attempt