Star.
London, England, 1810-03-15 00:00:00

`AS'SIZES.

HUNTINGDON, MARCH is. r
Sr Nash Grose did not arrive here till late on Sa-
turday evening last, owing to the multiplicity of bu-
siness that occurred at Bedford Assizes; and it was
past 8 o'clock before he proceeded to Court, to open
proceedings and swear in the Grand Jury. He at-
tended Divine Service at All Saints Church on Sun-
day morning, where an excellent discourse was deli-
vered by his Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Pemberton ;
after which he gave a dinner, at his lodgings, to the
Magistrates of the Grand Jury, &c.
The Court assembled on Monday morning at nine
o'clock. Three prisoners were tried, one of whom,
Thomas Cupnington, aged 55, was convicted of break-
ing into tke dwelling-house of John Sharman, of Great
Stoughton, in this count, no person being therein,
on Sunday, the 31st day of December last, in the day-
time, and caking thereout one waistcoat, one pair of
and 1
breeches, two shirts, of the value of four shil-
lings, the property of he said John Sharman ;
and was condemned to suffer death, but we under-
stand hews respited prior to the Judge leaving town
this morning.
Jahn Wright, aged 19, for sheep-stealing ; and Miry
Thompson, charged with stealing a quantify of perk,
were acquitted.

HERTFORD, MARCH I'3.
The business of this county is seldom very much,
and on the present occasion there is no cause of any
public expectation.
CIVIL SIDE.—WILTSHIRE AND 0411CRS• V. BARBER.
This was an action on a promissory note for £2OO
by the partners of the Hatfield bank. • The defen-
dant's hand-writing to the note was proved, but the
defence set up was, that it was paid, and it appeared
that a receipt was on the back of the note, but it was
blotted over. To explain this Vim. Dunage, a clerk
of the plaintiff, was called, who proved that this note
was given as a substitute for another of £2OO, which
was given up, and instead of writing the receipt on
the cancelled note, it was written by mistake on the
present note, but immediately discovering the mistake,
it was cancelled in the manner in which it appeared
on the note.—Verdict for the plaintiff.
CRIMINAL SIDL—Mr. GARROW sat for an hour on
the Criminal side, to relieve Mr. Justice HEATH, the
Learned Judge.
William Smith was convicted of stealing four sheep,
the property.of William Smith. The prisoner in this
case was a butcher, residing at London Colney, in this
county. The sheep were missing on the Friday eve-
ning, and the next day the skins of four of them, hav-
ing the prosecutor's mark, were found in the possession
of the prisoner. By the evidence of the Gate-keeper
on the road leading from the prosecutor's farm to the
prisoner's abode, it appeared that a person much re-
sembling the 'prisoner drove some sheep through at a
late hour the preceding evening. The Jury found the
prisoner guilty.
TUESDAY, MARCH 13.—Mary Fortlham was indicted
for the wilful murder of her bastard child, by giving
it a blow on the head with a brick, of which it died
on Saturday, the 3d of September last.
Mary Chapman, a girl of 16, stated, that she lived
fellow-servaat with the prisoner, at a Mr. Whining-
ham's, at Stevenage, in this county, in the month of
Septentber last ; she had no suspicion that the priso-
ner at the bar was with child. On the Friday night
she slept with the prisoner, who complained all night
with a great pain in her bowels, and was so very
restless, that she prevented the witness from getting
any sleep. The next night the witness went to sleep
in another bed by herself, and when she got up in the
morning she went into the prisoner's bed-room ; she
was lying in bed, and the floor near the bed-side was
very bloody. She told the prisoner she suspected she
had miscarried; but she, denied that any such thing
hadhappened. The witness toldher to get upand clean
her room, which she did, and went about her work the
whole of that day. In the course of the morning the
witness acquainted her mistress with what had hap-
pened ; they searched the garrets together, in one of
Ja, who was lately convicted at the Old 8ai..1 which was a hole in the floor, about five feet deep,
horse-stealing, and sentenced to be transported,l whkh they put rubbish into. Here they found 'a
passage to totany Bay, had a dispute with a stocking of the prisoner's, which was bloody, and
convict, whose head he almost severed from ( lifting up an old bee-hive, they discovered Abe body
He will be tried at the colony. i of a child lying under it ; they did not take up or
move the body, but sent for the apothecary.
lay evening a lad got up behind a hackney.;
Bishopsgate-strt, when he fell backwards Mrs. Whittingham deposed to the same effect with
lctured his skull. He was immediately taken': the last witness, as to the finding the body of a child
lospital. in the hole. On cross-examination, she said, about
onday se'nnight a melancholy accident happened in the .
a month before this time she recollected that the pri-
t
soner and herself had both been very much frightened
iver, to the .loop Ann, of Carnarvon, GRITYITH mas-
with oats, Mate, bacon, and butter. Having sailed by a man in a mask coming into the house. It was
for the tide, she struck on the point of a sand bank, 1 one of the labourers who did it in a frolic, and the
rreenfield, and soon after was laid on her side by the force ' effects of such a fright upon a pregnant woman was
current, her mast striking into the sand; but that break- I
very likely to produce a miscarriage.
rolled over three times, When.`comitig into deep water, ,
red. The master, mate, and a woman, were drowned : s Robert Jones, the apothecary, stated, that he was
A passenger, only escaped; by catching and clinging to called.in and saw the child, but he could not under-
...set in every revolution; he was taken up by the boat of take to lay whether it WAS born alive or not. • About
Perseverance cheese-ship, Ciptain EVANS, who gave imme- a foot from the child, a piece of brick war found,
s assistance to the man, and brought the vessel into safety,
• any other damage than the loss of her mast and bow- which was produced ; it had marks of blood upon it,
Her cargo is but little injured, an', what may seem stir- and corresponded with the wound on the child's head.
she had taken in but very little water. The Learned Judge summed up the evidence, with

is greatly to be. desired that you and your col-
would recommend to those in power, some
ion in this department of the service ; or,
souse of Commons, that illustrious and en.
Assembly, would, amidst their frequent and
investigations into the various departments
lecutive Government, turq their attention to
in general, whose situation is highly sus-
improvemen t.

suggest that something similar to that

Idaraental principle or regulation of the
called Brevet, which diffuses animation and
trough all its members, and upon which its
.tence depends, be extended to the Medical
-th tt every Regimental Surgeon, after ten
ice, be allowed to rank as a Field Officer in
, with the additional pay of is. 6d. per day
.ry Assistant Surgeon, after five years ser-

Mowed to rank as a Captain in the Army,

additional pay of 2s. 6d. per day—and that
k go on in eve, y respect parallel with, and
ding to, that of Military Officers, according
:niority and length of service,
the Army sever will be well supplied with
men of talents and education, until some plan
.ed which may be found conducive to the
.nt of their condition, is• a point which ap-
:-evident and indispntable to every person ca-
discernment or reflection. MEDICOS.
'l, 1810.

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