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• POLIO'.
Dr;ver underwent an examination at

Toesda senniglit the assizesfOr Heats conivAtirteed
at Winchester. There were 32 prisoners on the en-
lendar„ five of whom received sentence of death, viz.
le.iftlorgan, for forging au order for 024, upon Messrs.
Grant and Co. bankers, at Portsmouth ; C. Liman,
for stealing a sheep ; D. G. Randall. for forginfg a
navy pay bill for R!,3 13s. 6d.; R. Erdal!, for a bur-
glary in the house of Messrs. Waller and Co. and
stealing property to a very considerable amount ; and
J.7Vor, for a burglary in the house of H. Hetusley,
at Havant. They were all reprieved..---The other pri-
soners. who were convicted were for trivial offences,
except Hughliiilday, who was indicted for assaulting
'Mary Bright, with intent to commit a rape, of which
he was convicted, and sentenced to two years impri-
sonment.
At the assizes held et Oxford, on Thursday las!, a
true bill was found by the 4.;rand Jury against the
landlady of the Crown and Cushion inn, at Chipping
Norton, her daughter, waiter, chamber-maid, ostler,
boots, a Mr. Phillips, a Mr. Endall, and others, in-
habitants of Chipping Norton, for a riot and assault
upon a respectable traveller, who, while at the above
house, in the month of August last, having discovered
a deficiency in the measure of oats delivered fOr his
horse, laid his'complaint before the Magistrates, when
the landlady was fined in the 'full penalty, and the,
corn and measure forfeited.

Yesterday J.
Bow-street, charged with robbing the hotisiUf Mr.
Reeve, who keeps the Duke of York public house in
Shire-lane. On the evening of the 19th pf January
last, about seven o'clock, Mrs. Reeve locked' her bed.
room door, which is on the first floor. About an
hour after she went up stairs, and found the dour
broke.open, and the prisoner and another man looking
into a desk, which had been broke open, examining
some papers, and several articles of plate on the bed.
Scli instantly shut the door, and called oat "murder."
The men, however, broke chi:frame outwards, and-by
that means got out. She then seized the prisoner,
but the other made his escape. The prisoner at length
extricated himself, and ran down stairs, but was met
at the bottom by Mr. Reeve, who fastened the street
door and secured him ; when the prisoner said' he
Lad only been up stairs assisting hitewife in endea-
*aring to secure the robbers. - Mr. Rlpeve, however,
gave him into the care of some men, while he went
pot to get a constable. On his return he found that
the prisoner had escaped, and the men, whose care he
was left in, said he had got out of the window. This,
however, proved false, as the men who were in the
parlour proved to be thieves ; and no doubt assisted
him in his escape, and were his accomplices. A dark
I4anthorn and• two hats were afterwards found in the
he ti room. They only stole a guinea and a 7s. piece.
The prisoner being known to the prosecutors, from
his frequenting the house, they gave information at
the above Office, and he being well known, was ap.
prehended a few days since is Wentworth-street,
Whitechapel.
At Union Hall, on Tuesday, G. Axtrll, charged
with having in his possession a quantity of deals, and
W.lYuurf for having a quantity of oats, for which
neither of them could give a satisfactory account,
were each convicted under the Bum-boat Act, and
fined 40s. •

HERTFORD, MARCH 11.
Among the causes is rather the singular occurrence
of a Writ of Right, which is a trial founded on an
ancient mid almost obsolete writ in the law. It is
brought in cases where the party holding the land
claimed has been so long in possession thatr-lject-
ment will lie against him ; but the party claiming the
land must prove a better right than the tenant, which
is the issue joined whether aie " claimant has a better
right to have than the tenant to hold the lands ?"
This issue is to be tied by a grand assize, who are
chosen by four Knights of the county who come into
Court girt with their swords, and are sworn to
elect the grand assize, who hereafter are to determine
the cause. This was this day done; -the four Knights
appeared in their swords, and were sworn to that ef-
fect, in a cause of Dessau: v. Strangford. The issue
will probably be tried next assizes.
MARCH 12.--GRRENAWAY V. BURTON AND ANOTHFR.
This was an action against the defendants, who
were the overseer and Headhorough of Watford pa.
rish, for an excessive distress, in taking a coach horse
and harness for the payment of Al Ss. 6d. poors'
rates, assessed on the plaintiff.
It appeared in evidence that the plaintiff was an
innkeeper at Watford, in this eounty, who, in respect
to his house and stables, was assessed at the sum of
Al 3s. 6d. for his share of the peon' rate of the pa.
rush, which he refused to pay. The defendants there-
fore, as Overseer and Headborough, .distrained upon
one of his horses, which was ready harnessed, waiting
at the door ready for the Berkhampton stage, of which
the plaintiff was-a proprietor. The horse and harness,
it was stated, was worth 20.3, and was sold by auc-
tion for £l6. .

An action was tried on the 28th uk. in the Court
of King's Bench, Dublin, in which Mr. D'Eotrim.F.,
the Ballet•master, was plaintiff, and Mr. H. Jonnsrost,
Proprietor of the Theatre in Teter-street, Dublin► was
defendant. It appeared that Mr. Johnston had given
a bill of exchange for £538 9s. 3d. British, to Mr.
D'Eovit-cn, for the performance of himtelf and his
pupils, and the defence was that he had been over-paid,
and that he was to be considered as a partner is the
undertaking, and to derive no profit in case of failure,
which was the case. After a long hearing a verdict
' was given in favour of the plaintiff, who w.:s to be
paid the amount of the Bill of Exchange, but without
inter .st.

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Two female servants, belonging to a farmer who
resides near to Castlefin, in Ireland, lately asked leave
of their mistress to go to a dance in the neighbourhood,
which she would not grant; notwithstanding, being
determined on going, they, atter all the family had
retired to rest, got up and went off, accompanied by
two young men. Next morning the girls were missed,
on which a very general and minute search was made
for them through the country. One of them was found
in a ditch, strangled with her own handkerchief ; the
other could not be found. Suspicion having been at-
tached to the young men who left their master's house
with them, they were taken into custody and confined
in a house, from which one of them made his escape,
by leaping out of a window, but the other has been
safely lodged in Lifford gaol.

It was contended by Mr. GARROW, for the plain-
tiff, that it was a malicious and excessive distress, and
the officers ought not to have taken a thing so much
above the value of the assessment.
On behalf of the defendants, it was proved that be was
of a most refractory character, that he never would
pay any of his rates ; that he had been twice sum-
moned by the Magistrates to :hew cause why he re-
fused the payment in question, and not deigning to at-
tend their summons, the Magistrates directed the de-
fendants to distrait on one of his coach horses, be-
cause it was generally supposed that the goods in the
house belonged to his mother. The Jury found a
verdict for the defendants.
WIDTEFIRLD v. LA ROCIIIR.
This case was tried by a Special Jury, and lasted
'the whole day, until six o'clock in the evening.
was an action of trespass for taking the soil of thel
plaintiff on the river Colne ; to which the defendant
pleaded it was his own freehold, and next a right to
take it to repair his banks adjoining the river.
The next .question was, whether a little eyot,
(island) in the river rose out of the river, or whether
it had been separated from the adjoining meadow by
the current ?
The defendant contended,- that it was originally
part of meadow, and that he had a right to con-
nect it drain by an embankment.
On the part of the plaincff a great number of wit-
nesses were called, who stated, that witch in their re-
collection there WAS no island where it now existed,
but merely a shallow, which at low water, in dry
weather, produced a number of water plants and
rushes, but that since the Grand Junction Canal was
formed, it lowered the water in the Coln., and a
bridge above being, about sixteen years ago, blown
up by a high flood, the rubbish and materials settled
'on the shallows, and created the island.
For the defendant several witnesses were called,
who spoke to its being anciently a part of the mea-
dow, and apparently separated by the current ; they
also spoke to the custom of all persons adjoining the
river being in the habit of repairing their banks with
the soil of the bed of the river ; but it was generally
done by the persons raking the soil adjoining the
bank, and not taking it by boats from the middle.
The LORD CHIEF BARON recapitulated the whole
evidence on both sides with great minuteness ;—after
which the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da.
magus Is.

P 1 w! OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH MARKET.
Bags Pockets
Kent M. ss. to 71. 151. Kent 6L Os. to 91. 93
Sussoi 51. 9s. to 7L Os. Sussex 51. 104. to 71 15s
PRIOR OF HAY AND aTRAIA, IN narnin M.D.
Meadow Hay 61. Ps. to 91. Os. Rowels 51. Os to 81. Ot.
Clover 71. Os to 101. 0.. Straw 31. 10s. to 41. Os.
COAL MARKET, March 13
Ships at Market Sold Price+.
711 Newcastle 60 475. Od. to SM. 6d.
7 Sunderland 6 47a. Od. to 495. 9d.
1 Cinders 1 335. Od.

CANTERBURY, MARCH o.
E. Wheat 6es Od to 93s Od Tares (bush.) 8s od to 10s Od
New ditto Os od to Os od Brown Malt tits Od to Os Od
White ditto 7es Od to 98s Od Amber Malt 89 Od to Os 01
New ditto Os Od to Os Od Pale ditto 90s ed to Os Od
Rye 54. Od to 5As Od Fine Flour Ills od to Os Od
Barley tos Od to rAls Od Second ditto 7Gs Od to Os Od
Oats 32. s Od to 355 cd Third diuo 7os od to Os od
New 84, Od to 53s :4 Rough Meal 54s ed to Os Od
Bcaas 43, Od to 40$ rd Her (hags) 51 Os to 61 61
New SOs Od to Stls Od N. Pockets 61 10s to 81 Os
'Pick 46s •d to Sees cd Hay (tons) 51 Os to 61 04
New 40s Id to 44s rd Sainfoin 61 Os to 61 10*
Hog Peas 41s *A to 45s MI Clover 51 Os to 61 10s
➢ulllng ditto 44s ed to 48. od Straw 131 105 to 44 o
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BIRX H.
Sunday to night, ht Cowcaddens, Glasgow, the wife or Peter
Coolie!, a labourer, of three Site female dukiren, whkis, with
the mother, are likely to do well.

MARRIED.
John Sheridan, Esq. Captain is the Royal Navy, to Miss Jane
Carter, daughter of Doctor Carter, of Mecklenbergb-street.-
Dr. 4' ricbard, of Trinity College, o:ford, to Anna Maria,
eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Estlin, of Bristol.
The Rev. Arthur Meyrick, of Rainsbnry, Wilts, to Miss Fos-
tone, of Lamboum.
Captain Hayes, of the royal marines, to Margaret, eldest
daughter of Joshua Cooke, Esq. Oxford.
At Edinburgh, Lieutenant George Richardson Lundell, royal
marines, son of the Rev. James Landell, Cokllnghans to Miss
Catharine Campbell, youngest daughter of Mr. John (:ampbell,
Hosvmuir.

' DIED.
At Verdun, where he had been six years a prisoner of war,
Lieut. R. B. Cooban, of the Royal Navy.
At Edinburgh, Mrs. Ann Aymsworth, daughter of Lieutenant
Colonel Leathern.
At Barbadoes, on his passage to England, John Smith Tracey,
Esq. Secretary to his Excellence Sir A.Cothrane.
WHITCHURCH It, WARNER. After a few hours Moors, the Rev. Charles Walters, • many
years Curate of Bishop's Waltham.
This was an action against the proprietors of a ln Portugal, on the 13th of January, Mr. nradnock, Commis-
Cambridge coach, to recover damages far an injury eery and Paymaster of thettoyal At mizry : He had been la--years
sustained by the plaintiff in being overturned by the is the Depariment.
negligent di iving of the coachman. - The 28th ult. in the 24th year of kis age, at•Hravytree, near
The plaintiff was book.lcseper to the Guildford Exeter, Samuel Teppen, Esq. late First Lieutenant of his Ma-
jesty% ship the Rainbow.
coach, and went by the defendant's stage to Cam. At Colemore, in Hants, in the 75th year of his age, Anthony
bridge ; during their journey the coachman drove in Mate, one of the few remaibing veterans who fought under the
a unit furious manner, which ended in upseuing the inimonal Wolfe, and was within a trw paces of that gallant hero,
6th wound.
fore Quebec, Is hen he received his
coach—the plaintiff was thrown from the roof, and be a
Friday last, at Broomwell-house, his residence, near Bristol,
considerably bruised°. in his 88th year, the Right Hon. John (the eighth) Lord Col-
For the defendant several witnesses were called, vale, of Cuirass, in Scotland. The title now devolves upon his
who attempted to represent it as an unavoidable ac eldest son, John, a Captain in the Royal Navy, now Lord Cot.
ident, occasioned by the whip being entangled in,
At High Wycombe, Backs, Miss Sarah Louisa, daughter of
' reins. vine, of Culross.
the late Lieutenant Douglas, R. N.
The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damagei O. At Dulwich, Ebeneser. King, Esq. surgeon, of Burr-street East
CROWN SlllE.—Withais Berle": was capttally con- Smithfield.
victed for a rape on the body of an infant. The rsi. At Bletchinron Barracks, near Seaford, , Sussex, the Hon.
Stanhope Dormer, Isenger eon of the late Right Hoe. Lord Dor-
dence it would be indecent to report. He was Kn. .of Grove Park, our Warr/1404 Ma{ at of the War
tented t• be hanged. The Anises here tailed. wicksidre Militia. .
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