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London, England, 1826-07-12 00:00:00

LINCOLN, Juvr 10..

John Armitage and Ensor stood indicted, for
that they, on the 18th of June la,t, feloniously assaulted
John Hall, and took from his person a silver watch,
value five pounds.
The first witness called was John Hall, who said—
I live at Grantham; I have a house at Harrowby, which
is almost a mile from Grantham; I am in the habit of
sleeping at Harrowby. On Sunday the 18th of June
last, I was going in that direction, and saw two persons
coming down the hill ; one of them said, Do it," or
" Go it," and that instant I received two violent blows
with bludgeons; on turning round I received a third
blow,which laid my head open to the skull, and knocked
me backwards to the ground. They continued the
blows with great violence. I had presence of mind
sufficient to protect my head with my arms, or it must
have inevitably been dashed to pieces. I said, "My
life can be of no service to you, I have nothing but my
watch that can be of service to you," One of them
said, id Give it me then." I said, it will be of no use to
me again, you have so disabled me. They turned my
pockets out, and took the watch ; they then returned
towards Grantham, leaving me on the ground ; I took
op a piece of broken broom-stick which lay on the
ground, to support me; I found it necessary to have
medical advice up to Saturday last ; I remained unable
to see any one till the next week. lam satisfied that
the men now at the bar are the men ; I can say so dis-
tinctly and unequivocally. e place where this rob-
bery took place was in the county of Lincoln ; I was
attended by Dr. Turner ; he is nut here.
Corroborative evidence was heard, and the prisoners were found
Guilty, and judgment of Death was recorded against them.

SALISBURY, Jour to. ,
Ann Davis, aged 21, was indicted for wilful and cor-
rept perjury. The alleged perjury was committed in an
examination sworn to by the prisoner, in which she
charged a respectable Gentleman, a Mr. Long, a Ma•
gistrate, with being the father of an illegitimate child.
of which the prisoner had been delivered. She, in her
ettamiltatiroil,. did .notllOntent hers'Olf with roundly
swearing to thefact;"but went into particulars of the
transaction upon which' she charged this Gentleman,
and, which particulars gave the means of contradicting
her. She swore that she, was accosted by Mr. Long.
who was driving in his gig in the public road; that he
left his gig and induced her to go in the open day to the
stone quarry, almost within view from the road ; that
he gave her two shillings, and that she knew the Gen.
demon to be Mr. Long, from being told so by a man of
whom she enquired aftea watds on the same road. She
also professed to describe the colour of Mr. Long's horse,
of his gig, and the description of his harness, in every one
.of which she was expressly contradicted by Mr. Long
and his servant, who declared, that he never had horse,
gig, or harness, of such a description. Mr. Long al:
' positively denied the m Aerial circumstances charged to
him by the prisouerrwhom he declared, on his oath, he
had never before seen in his life: Theta was some reason
to believe that the prisoner was correct in her facts,
though she had been at least mistaken as to the person.
Mr. Long's innocence was completely established, though
it was possible the woman had been misinfot med as to
the name of the person whom she had seen on the road,
and certain as to the person on whom she had fixed.
The Jury returned the singular verdict of ,4 Guilty
under a mistake." This the Learned Judge told them
could not be received; and that they must reconsider,
and return a verdict one way or the other. The Jury,
therefore,: after some consideration, returned a verdict

Mims *Apse, aged 19, teat convicted of a burglary, and of
stealing hoot the house of the prosecutor a blue coat and other arti-
cles.--Judgment of Death recorded.
John Milker, aged US, and John Hord, aged 21, were convicted of
stealing divers •Wicks of wearing apparel, in the house of George
White, at Westbury.
There were sense onset eases of theft of most common occur-
rence, and net worth the least notice.

VINES AND ANOTHER % THE HUNDRED 01 WARMINSTER.

This was an action by the plaintiffs to recover from
the hunched the amount in value of a miiw of wheat,
their propel ty, -which was maliciously destroyed by fire,
by some persons unknown. The plaintiffs are clothiers
at Warminster ; and they have recently adopted the
use of machinery in the cola ,e of their business. This
circumstance, it is presumed, caused an angry feeling
against them among those who conceived themselves
injured by its supposed effects; but, whether this pre-
sumptioo was or was not correct, it was clearly proved
that the plaintiffs mow of wheat had been destroyed
under c4cumstances which left no room whatever for a
belief that it could be accidental ; and the usual formal'
proof having been given, the Jury, under the direction
of the Learned Judge, returazd a verdict for theflain-
tifL—Damages, 574

DEVIR V.,ILLLISON AND ATTOtRn.

This was an action by an Attorney of this COonty, to
recover against the defendants, Colonel Ellison and. Mr.
Gordon, as election ►ills for the plaintiff's services in
his professional character, in the year 120, on an un-
successful attempt made by the two de endants to re-
comas-aid themselvei to the pure and worthy electors of
Woottoo•Bassett. The ►ill consisted of items for pollivg

and canvassing ; the former at the tate if five ininaas
a day, and the latter at Uwe guineas a day. Bot the
amount was sot se 'much in disru.e, its the question
who was to.pay it,

Ibe tiefenclanft entintied that they had already paid
; and it -certainly appeased that I,OOOL had
been-paid for certain issxses. independent of another
sum of 5001 paid by. t 1%.1r. Pi t, .who owned a very
considerable property in the borough, ansf MLo coun-
tenanced the pretension! of these candidates. Among
theitems of which this 1,5001. was composed was a
sum 'of upwards 9001. paid to a Mr. Kibblewhite,
to meet certain espe.isrs, all of which, it was ob-
served, might be very proper; but still, that the
defendants had paid enough—that they were not,
by agreeMent, to pay anything further—that Mr.
Pitt himself was to pay the remainder—that the defend.
ants had already paid Mr. Mulling', a clerk of the.
plaintiff's, for the expenses of an unsuccessful petition
in respect of this election—and that if any thing further
was due from them, it was not due to the plaintiff,
whdm, they said, they had never employed. Much ~tree
was also laid upon the staleness of the demand ; but the
Jury; on the whole, found a verdict for the plaintiff, with
14416 damages, the full amount of his cilia).

2ILAKI V. HARDING, KIBBLEWHITR. AND OTHER 3.
This was an action by a wido.v wom .n re,iding at
Wootton Bassett, claiming dam tges for a trespass and
alleged ill gal expulsion of her from her house in that
town. The chief question in the cause was one of
cite, depending on that legal machinery which is so
commin in borough towns, for the purpose of ensue ing
a pliant voter. There was not one circumstance of in-
terest in the case beyond the very important politics of
Wootton Bassett : but, after a trial of some hours, the
Jury found a verdict for the pleintifi, with HA damagesr

GENEItAL ELECTION.

MEMBERS RET.URNEDi
Galway (County)—J. Daly, R. Martin.

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Caithness (County)—lion. Captain J. Sinclair.
Argyllshire—Mr. Campbell, of Islay.
Inverness (District)—Hebert Grant.
Taira—Sir Hugh lanes.
Enniskillen—Colonel R. Maginnis.