Star.
London, England, 1820-03-30 00:00:00

OXFORD CIRCUIT.

The Miming cause at the Nisi Prim: excited
considerably intcrest :

THE KING V. PACE.
This indictment was breu2,ht under very peculiar
circumstances.

Mr..JErtvls stated to the Jury, that '.%riss Elizabeth
Edwards, the prosecutriz in the case, was a Lady of
fortune, beauty, and accomplishmerts, residing at
Tewkesbury ; and the defendant was an attorney,
dwelling is the same place. Mr. Pace having been
employed prc;essionally by the family of Miss Ed-
wards, was acquainteil with that Lady's fortune, and
had taken upon himself to address her in the way
of marriage. These addresses, however, had not
proved agreeable to Miss Edwards, who, in order
to avoid the importunities of her suitor, retired, in
September last, to Aberystwith.- To Aberystwith
she was followed by Mr. Pace, and there those
circumstances took place which would appear in the
evidence.

Mr. Richard Gittins said that he was a maltstcr,
residing at Tewkesbury. On the 10th September
saw Mr. Pace; at seven in the morning, standing
near the lodgings of Mrs. Edwards, at Aberystwith.
Between eight and nine o'clock he was walking upon
the Matine Parade with Miss Edwards' and Miss
Walsh; Mr. Pace came up and spoke to the ladies,
who made no answer. Witness told the defendant
he treated the ladies ill. Defendant left them, but
in a few minutes returned, and again addressed
Miss• Edwards. Witness kept between defendant
and the ladies, and said,'" the ladies shall not be
insulted." Defendant then fell behind ; in a minute
after witness turned his head round, and saw the
defendant with a pistol against Miss Edwarch's
shoulder ; the ladies ran away ; and witness at-
tempted to wrest the pistol from the defendant,
who fired at him, and missed him. Defendant then
produced a second pistol, which was taken frOm him,
and. which was found to be loaded with ball.

Miss Elizabeth Edwards proved that she received
a blow on the shoulder from the pistol of Mr. Pace.
On her cross-examination she admitted that the de-
fendant had paid his addresses to her. The young
lady, whose personal charms justified the account
which had been given by her Counsel, gave her evi-
dence modestly, but with firmness.

Mr. TAUNTON, for the defence, took a formal
objection to the description ; it was one Elizabeth
Edwards; it should have been Elizabeth Edw*ards,
junior. The point was reserved by the Judge.—
The Learned Gentleman then contended that it was
impossible to believe that the defendant had in-
tended to injure Miss Edwards, because if he had
really intended any such purpose, there had been
nothing to prevent him flom executing it ; the
assault, if any, had been committed against Mr.
Richard Gittins.

Mr. Justice HOLROYD thought that the whole con-
duct of the defendant had been unjustifiable, and
that the assault had been fully proved.
Verdict-Defendant guilty.
SURREY ASSIZES, MARCH 21.

James Alldis and John Bunn, Esq. were indicted
under the late Lord Ellenborough's Act, the one as
a principal, and the other as accessory, for felo-
niously, wilfully, and maliciously shooting at Sarah
Mitchell, with a fowling-piece leaded with powder
and shot, at Chertsey, on the 27th of December last,
with intent to murder her. There were other counts,
laying the intent to maim, disable, or do scme griev-
ous bodily harm.
The case proved in evidence was in substance this:
The prisoner, Mr. Bunn, was a respectable .and
wealthy gentleman, living at Chertsey, and the pri-
soner Alldis was his coachman. In the evening of
the 27th of December last, the prosecutrix, a young
woman, a servant out of place, had been out with
another woman and two youths to see a friend at
Weybriclge. Betwen ten and eleven o'clock she and
her companions determined to return home by a dif-
ferent route than that by which they had set out,
owing to the roughness and disagreeable nature of
the latter, and they chose to adopt a path which led
through Mr. Bunn 's farm-yard, and which was stated
to have been, not more than three years since, a pub-
lic way. It seemed that there were two gates at op-
*polite sides of the farin-yard. The first they en-
tered without difficulty, and upon coming to the
second they found it was fastened. Whilst trying
to open it, and at the same time determiningtoretnra
back, a dog began to bark. At the same instant the
prisoner Alldis,. who lodged in a lone house about a
quatter of a mile froth his master's, opened the ease-
ment of his window and cried "Ho!" It was moon-
light. One of the young men answered, " Inc ! mnte
and before anything further passed, the prisoner dis-
charged a fowling-piece"at the group, the contents of
which wounded the prosecutria dangerously in one
.of her thighs, and slightly touched the rest of the
party. The prosecutrix fell u!;on the Shoulder of cne
of the young men, and the other fernaleaddressing
the prisoner, told him that they meant no harm—that'
they were wayfaring travellers--,that they had often'
gone that way before, and thought there was no
hat:m in doing, so again. The prisoner wilt ned.Clem
to be gone, and - said, if they did not lie would fire
was given by the prosecutrix', or
any of her companions, nor any explanation given
where they livedenor was there time, from the sad-
denness of the 'transaction, to do so. The prisoner,
was in his thin t, and had apparently started -from. his
bed in conixquence of the .I.unt ziven by the dog,"

and discharged Ws piece under the impression that ••41
there were thieves in his mlster's yard. In come-
,
quence of the menace given by the prisoner, t!-e
prosecutrix and her companions immediately made
the best of their way out of the farm-yard to avoid
any further danger, and with great &fficulty she was
got home. She was confined a considerable time
from the wound she had received, and appeared none
to be an incurable cripple. A few daye afterwards,
the
.prisoner, Mr. Bunn, 1s as applied ,to by two of
the same parry for some relief for the prosecutrix.-_
1
He told them that the other prisoner was an honest
and faithful servant of his, and that he had eehe
acted by his orders, and that he (Mr. Bunn) xrculd
have done the same, under the like circumstancee—
In consequence of an application to the Magisti rt :s
at Chertsey, Mr. Bunn, however, ahreed to maintain
the prosecutrix clueing her illness, out he afterwards
repented of his kindness, and said that shy must look
to her parish. It appeared that no complaint had
ever been made by the prosecutrix against Mr. Buns,
as an accessory, the charge being confined to tlee
servant Alldis ; but at the Assizes both were indicted
before the Grand Jury.
Mr. Baron GARROw strongly reprobated the
prosecution against the prisoner, Mr. Bunn, and
charged the Jury that they must acquit both Fr:-
!niters, for if even death had ensued it wculd ret
have been murder. This was the criterion be which •
such an indictment could he supported under
Act in question. His Lordship, however, lamented
that Xr. Blinn shoulel hare suffered his pity for the
suffering of the peosecuttix to abate under any eie-
cumstances.
The Jury found both prisoners—Net
BIRNARD v. A'_:STIN.
This was an action ahhinst the defendant for a re-
sauce, in ereeting a steam -engine at :tiitcham,,:vherchy
•the plaintiff's huuse became uhinhabitable.
Tire trial in this case lasted the wh“le day. The
plaintiff is a widow Lady residing at Mitcham, any
the defendant occupies cotton-mills in the same place:
The case went to the Jury, under the Learned
JVDGE'S directions, upon all the evidence on both
sides, and .the Jury found for the defendant.

Two of the criminals excLuted yesterday, for Ut-
tering • forged Bank-notes, were quite boys in ap-
pearance. Kepion had noc attained his 17th year,
and Ves;, his companion, was only 18. They 1;;;;11
wept bitterly.
On the 1(..A1i instant, an inquest was taken at the
Dovcr • Cattle Inn, Dover, on view-. of the body of
Chailcs M.Dougal, of the; Veteran Battalion, who
was found dead in his bed by the bursting of a blood-
vessel. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of GOD.

Corent-raiden-mayket had, on Saturday last, a small spew of
cucumbers and rrenzb beans for sale; the form.!r at the int.-
derate price of three shillings each, and the latter at half-a-grow:a
the hundred.

Perhaps the annals of horticulture have never txhibited a
more extraordinary occurrence than BLit of the Bromelia
Ana-
r.as, or Pineapple plant. front At hich Mr Robert dluck,garde:.tr
to Lord 11Atior, at Plitf.old, St:fort:shire, last year prOduced,
of tLe seed of OPZ fruit, raised the rrecedin3 year, 725 pit:-
plants, and from another, ;:t2l plants ; the former sal:posed to
be the largest increase of the kind ever known in England.
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