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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COVET OF CHANCERY, AUGUST pt.
CmF. ime, Xrit, attended*. LORD €IIIMICELLdRI
this cur,* nine o'clock; in hia-prtrate chamber, and;
'Was sworn in as one of the Judges of Wales, vice
ADP. Mau= Esq. •
IN THE MATTER OF THE REDFORD CHARITY. c'
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said he was instructed
to request of his Lordship that he would allow the'
petition in dais ow to be put in his Lordship's paper
for an early' day. The petitibn, according to the sug-
!ration of the Court, now embraced all the parties
utterested in the Charity. After the long discussion
which had table place, it was not •the intention of
Conasel to again address 'his Lordship on the suit-
jeect. What he had therefore to ask was, that it
might be-put 'in
.Ms Lordship's per pro forma, to
enable the pars mil:wroth; jpdgmentraf Ole Court.
The LORD CHANDILLOR-••" Let it be put in the
parr for Tuesday next.~ _
ICINORTOR V
,KI*VISTON.
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This cause was heard before the Loan eneecur
Lost on the 20th ultimo, in which the Earl of King-
stain complained of injuries he bid ,sustained from
the Countess Dowager of ,Kingston,' his mother, as
so plate and hooks, for having ulled down a certain
building; called a library, near the family seat, also
for .having cut ceetaie woods called Gurtinaclutha
• 144 Brigewn, on the said estate, entailed on his
Lordship, and for having written a certain letter
calculated to induce the creditors of the said estate
to ,call its their mOney, and also relative to a certain
sum of A:23,ooo.:which was raised on the estate, and
which bad not been properly expended. The bill
alio complained that certain old and ornamental trees
had been' cut ,n the demesne and woods adjacent,
and that the plantations had been over-thinned, &c.
After a bearing of two days and a half% the CHAN-.
lIELLOR was pleased to dismiss his Lordship's bill with
costs, as to all the complaints, except as to that parti
of it which sought an account of the timber cut in;
the demesne, and in the woods connected therewith.
The CHANCELLOR referred it to the MASTER to
.in,
quire and report what timber, &c. had been cut in'
the demesne, and the woods connected therewith, re-
serving to the hearing the final decision as to what
parts thereof were considered as ornamental, and
within the protection of the Court.
SUSSEX ASSIZES, LEWES, AUGUST 11.
MURDER AT BRIGHTON.
Edward Broadbent, a private soldier in the 90th
regiment of foot, was indicted for the wilful murder
of William Watson, a serjeant of the same regiment,
by shooting him with a loaded musket, at the parish
of Brighthelmstone, on the 29th of June last.
This case produced considerable interest. When
the wretched culprit was put to the bar, he excited'
feelings in all around, very unusual on similar occa-
sions—pity and commiseration. He appeared deeply
affected by a sense of his dreadful situation, and his
whole demeanour was highly creditable to him, con-
sidering the nature of the crime with which he stood
charged, and the inevitable certainty of his fate.—
Agitated with grief and remorse, he stewed to re-
gard the doom which awaited him.as a just retribu-
tion for the *dreadful crime into Which he had been
huiried by an ungovernable temper. HIS mind ha-
rassed by the, stir of conscience. he did. not even
affect a composomwAtich most W b.-"peak,the-teek
ings of his heart. Viten called apps fprliis Aglaia
the arraignment, ha esclaiined in a pathetic, and woe-,
begone manner and gesticulation, " I am but too
guilty—l am guilty, and it would be only adding more
guilt to my conscience if I were to say otherwise."
Mr. Justice PARK urged • him to plead not guilty,
and take his trial, suggesting to him the inutility of
the course he had taken, if he expected any mercy.
The prisoner shook his head with affecting signifi-
cance, and repeated that he was guilty-anti expected
no mercy. Upon which his plea of guilty was recorded.
.The Learned JuDnr, however, again entreated
him to plead Not Guilty, and requested the Common
Serjeant, who led the prosecution, to speak with and
recommend him to retract his plea.
The COMMON SERJEANT accordingly conversed
with the unhappy man, and after a great deal of
persuasion, prevailed upon him to take his trial.—
The Jury accordingly being charged,
The COMNION SERJEANT stated, in as short a com-
pass as possible, the case for the prosecution. It will
be recollected that the prisoner, having been put
under arrest by the deceased, for some act of mis-
conduct, on the day mentioned in the indictment, he
was liberated to attend the evening parade in the
Barrack-yard at Brighton, and that at the moment
he got at liberty he levelled his loaded musket at the
deceased and shot him through the body. The de-
ceased survived about 20 minutes, and the prisoner
suneedered himself the moment the melancholy oc-
currence took place. The following witnesses were
examined to prove the case :
. John Shannon, a private of the 90th, stated, that
on the 29th of June the prisoner was confined under
arrest in the guard-house at the Brighton Barracks.
Whilst witness was in the guard-room li saw the
prisoner priming his firelock. It frequently happen-
ed, that when a soldier wanted to light his pipe, he
flashed some gunpowder in the pan of his piece, to
ignite some tinder ; but as the prisoner did not ap-
pear to be going to smoke, witness laid hold of his
firelock, and asked him whether he was going to in-
jure himself ? He replied, that the firelock was his
own, and he was not so mad as to injure himself.—
Witness took the gun out of his hand, shook the
powder out of the pan, and laid the piece down, at
a 'distance of about four paces from the prisoner.—
The prisoner never touched the piece until a non-
commissioned officer came to take him to the even-
ing parade, when he took his firelock with him.
Examined by Mr. Justice PARK.—The powder
must be very small to find its way through the touch-
hole from the barrel of the gun into the pan, the
touch-hole being very small.
Thomas Vizer, private in the 90th, stated, that the
prisoner N. as put in confinement in the guard-house
by the deceased, between eleven and one o'clock on
the 29th of June. Witness saw him in the guard-
house, walking up and down in a very agitated Iran-
ecr, flinging his hands about in a threatening and
pa:sonate manner, and heard-him say, "Iflgo to
the evening parade this evening, it slndi be worse for
Serjeant WatsoL."
John Thomas, a private of the 90th, said, he had

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just left his barrack-room to attend the. g Pa-
rade on the 29th of June, when he saw the prisoner
coming out of the guard-toom with' his firelock.—
Witness was standing six or seven yards from him.
The deceased was standing in front of the company,
with his back towards the prisoner, the latter being
at the distance of about three or four yards frorrrhim.
IWhen the deceased was in the act of turning round,
the prisoner raised his firelock to his shoulder and
discharged it at him. The deceased dropped to the
ground, and exclaimed. ",My GOD, my GOD, I am
,shot!" The Scrjeant-Major came running. out from
the guard-room, and asked, " Who was it ?" The
prisoner answered, " It was I, •I am the man," and
said no more, but surrendered himself into custody.
Corporal James M'Cabe said, that he came imme-
diately to the spot after the gun was fired, and lifted
the deceased up ; he died in about '2O minutes. Wit-
ness took the prisoner into custody, and in his way
to the guard-room said to' him, " Are you not a ter-
rible man for doing such a thing as this?" The pri-
soner replied, " I urn not, for the serjeant was always
tyrannizing over me, and I was determined lie should
not do it any more."
Mr. Isaac Silcotk, the surgeon of the regiment,
stated, that he was called to attend the deceased ; he
died in 15 minutes after witness saw him. The bullet
passed under the right shoulder blade in an oblique
direction through and through the body, and in its
passage went within three inches of the tip of the
heart. • The deceased must have been standing side-
Svays,,from the direction which the ball took. There
was no doubt it was the cause of his death.
When each of these witnesies were examined in
chief, the prisoner, being without Counsel, was asked
if he would put any queitions to them, but every
time he shook his head in a melancholy manner, and
said,. 4, No."
Being asked what he had to say in his defence, he
said nothing, but shook his head in like manner.
Mr. Justtce PARK, in his charge to the Jury, said, ,
it was always'of great importance that the proceedi
lags in cases of this description .should be as public,
and notorious as possible, it. being much more 1
satis-
factory, for the purposes of justice, that the groundsl'
upon which the Court and Jury decided should be
well known ; and.it.was, therefore, that his Lordship)
was anxious that the unhappy man at the bar shoul
have the opportunity of having his case fairly and
impartially tried, by urging him to retract his plea
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of gu'lty. As there could be little doubt of the re
suit of the case, it would hardly be necessary to sum
up the evidence, still less necessary for him to make.
any observations upon it. Without making any fur-. 1
ther comment, it would be sufficient to observe, that
the crime of murder consisted in taking awa* the
life of another with malice aforethought. lherej
could be no other inference drawn from the evidence
they had just heard, than that the prisoner was guilty
of such a crime. The unhappy man at the bar
seemed to have had a mind extremely sensible and
irritable ; and because the deceased, in the faithful
discharge of his duty, had put him under arrest, he
meditated the fatal revenge which was carried into
execution, as detailed in the evidence. The case was
before the Jury, and they would.dispose of it accord-
ing to their consciences. . ..
The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty,
and he struggled with his feelings to preserve some
degree of firmness during the solemn procesding
which followed.
Mr. Justice PARK proceeded with difficult* to dis-
charge the melancholy duties of his office,. and the
tide of his own feelings, greatly excited by thq de-
meanour of the prisoner himself, frequently rare-
,lized the power of utterance. Adverting tc the'. pri-
soner's unfeigned sensibility, he said he should not,
aggravate the distress of his inind by enlargittg opon
the enormity of the crime for which he was about to
suffer, conceiving that le was duly impressed with a
consciousness of the dreadful sin lie had committed;
but in the language of commiseration and entreaty,
he urged him to employ the few short hours left him
in this world, in devout application to that tribunal
from which alone he could expect mercy. 'His Lard-
ship pronoin,ced the, dreadful sentence, and ordered
the wretched culprit for execution on Friday morn-
ing, and that his body should be .delivered over to
the surgeons to be anatomised.
The prisoner, during the Learned Judge's impres-
sive address to him, was dreadfully agitated, and at
the conclusion he tell into the arms of the jailor and
his assistants in a paroxysm of grief.
The Court was crowded to excess, and never was
sympathy so powerfully excited in a Court of Justice,
in favour of a culprit condemned to die for the
blackest offence in the catalogue of human depravity.
CIVIL SIDE.
TIIE KING V. PAGE AND OTHERS.

This was a criminal information, filed by his Mi
jesty's Attorney-General, against John Page and 15
other defendants, for a riot and an assault on one
Charles Saunders, on the .27th of February last, at
Selsea, near the celebrated watering-place called
Bognor, in this county.
It appeared by the statement of the Learned King's
Serjeant, and corroborated by the testimony of the
witness subsequently called, that in consequence of
'the prosecutor, who was a butcher, residing at Selsea,
having recently before the riot in question, been sub-
poenaed to attend the Court of Exchequer, in a pro-
secution against one of the defendants, named Reeve,
for being engaged in a smuggling transaction on that
part of the coast near Selsea, a general detestation
and hatred had been excited against him ; and in the
evening of the 27th of February last, a mob of up-
wards of two hundred persons, among whom were
the defendants, assembled before his door, broke his
windows, and with dreadful imprecations would have
:torn him out of his house, had it not been that he
'presented a loaded pistol to them, declaring that he
'would shoot the first man that attempted any vio-
lence towards his person. In order to excite a con-
tempt as great as the hatred they bore towards bim,
they exhibited an effigy of the prosecutor, clad in all
the paraphernalia of his trade, and adorned with a
mutton chop in his button-hole, by way of bouquet ;
which effigy they were about to hang before his door,
when it was agreed that that exhibition should be+
postponed to a future day, in order that a party of
smugglers from Bognor, which the Learned Serjeant
remarked, was no less celebrated for an illicit con-
traband traffic, than for the fashion and beauty that
resorted to it, might be enabled to attend, and wit-
ness the performance of that ceremony. In point of

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