Star.
London, England, 1826-07-27 00:00:00

GLOUCESTERSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS.

Saturday, Henry Slifer wis indicted for an assault
upon P4tience Prawn a young and interesting female,
about eighteen years Of age, under the foible/mg dis-
graceful and unmanly circumstances.: The prisoner, a
respectable looking young man, and a herald painter by
profession, bad been acquainted with the prosecutriz
some time, and when she was little more than fifteen
years of age, having secured her affections, succeeded,
in an unguarded moment, in betraying her innocence.
The fruit of this unhappy connexion was a child, which
only lived a few months, during which time it was
entirely taken care of by the prosecutrix and her mother,
a respectable widow woman of Bristol. It was stated,
that the death of the poor infant was accelerated by the
brutal treatment of the prisoner towards the mother
during her pregnancy. Haring made to the prosecutris
however. a promise of marriage, the acquaintance bel
tween the parties was still kept up ; doubtless. On her '
part, from a hope that, notwithstanding his inhuman
conduct upon many occasions, be would still make her
the only reparation in his power for the injury be bad
inflicted. On Sunday evening, the 21st May, the pri-
soner persuaded the prosecutrix to take a walk with him
to Hanhans, in the course of which he wanted her to go
with him into an ale-house on the road side, which she
declined, from a sense of the impropriety of such a step.l
Incensed at her refusal, he began quarrelling with her,
'snatched her parasol out of her hand, and struck her
with it upon the head and shoulders, till it was broken
to pieces. lie likewise stamped upon her feet with peat
violence, and committed other unmanly force. Silent,
and in tears, she pursued her way home, still accompa-
nied by the prisoner, till she reached a ferry which it
was necessary for her to crow. The prisoner got into
the boat with her, and when they had attained the other
side, and the boatman had pushed back again, the pre,-
goner renewed his brutal behaviour, struck her with his
fist several times on the river bank, and at length. with
one very severe blow, felled her senseless to the ground;
and, bad not her clothes providentially been caught by
the comp of a tree, she must have fallen into the water,
when her death might have ensued. On reeoveriag her
senses the prisoner was gone, and she found her way
home as well as she could.

The mother, who was the only other witness ex-
:mined, de2osed to the agitated state of the presets-
trix when she got home, the disordered appearance of
her dress, ana the marks of excessive violence epos
her person.
Both mother and daughter underwent a long crow
examination, but their testimony was not in the least
.Shaken ; and the prisoner ag;ravated the atrocity igithe
'ease,. by a futile attempt to impeach the respecteXlityl
•
of the tirosetutries another.
The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
The Rev. Cnatossort, in passing eunteatememmente
strong and merited severity upon the and helot eimedips-
el tbs prisoner. It was a ease which called fir emalf.ll/
mast, and the judgment of the Court wouhl phew de Mtn ship
entertained of this highly digranfultrassumedes. them amijudgod
the prisoner to be confined eighteen weak. in the WM, if Ow.
rectioo at Northleach. and at the mikados ofthatine te glad so.
equity, himself in E5O, and one taker surety ofthomposamonalem
keep the peace towards the promenade for thespian ocyfro years.

sand

In the Gazette of Tuesday. among the insolvents. who
are declared, la•a Mr. Naps. *IPA inanufacterer.
Sir WILLIAM and • Lady Pots left Devonshire for
London, In the course of the last week. Sir WHIMS, returned
again to Shute House on Monday. • ._.
BRIGHTON, JULY 25.—The influx of visitors within
the last week has been so great, that the hotels are eom-
pletely filled, and most of the lodging.houses engaged.
The Libraries are crowded to excess every evening.—
The harvest leis commenced upon the Downs in this
vicinity: Several fields of wheat have already been cut.
Lord AZIRCRO24/114 who resides on his family pro-
perty of Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire, has for a
considerable time employed one hundred men daily,
who have been thrown out of work by the tit cumstaoces
of the times, in working upon his estate, not so much
for its improvement or adornment, as to keep them io
rtgular habits, and to preserve them in a comparative
tile of independence.
The American J,,urnalists resort to an expedient for
convening *Jr subscribers to a wet/meet, which would not W
very palatable in S4laad—tLat oI adveitisiss their reuse?
delbulteri!