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London, England, 1817-03-24 00:00:00

YORK LENT ASSIZES.

Patrick Doering, abet Dr. Bell, alias fir' Aterr, was
indicted for feloniously assrulting Anne Broadbent,
abed 14, of Quick, in the month of July last, and
forcibly violating her person.
The circumstailces of this atrocious case are briefly
these :—The prisoner is about fitty.four years of age,
and bore some close relation to the parents of the
procecutrix. Oa the day stated in the indictment, he
called, it appeared, on horseback, at the house where
the object of his detestable passion resided,. and where,
alter imposing upon her credulity that sometLiog
was to be communicated to her of interest, at a short
distance, relative to her mother, she consented to Ac-
company him, and he placed the child behind him
on the horse.. After riding about two miles, the
child began to express her anxiety to reach the wished
for house where she was to receive the intelligence
from her mother, then, as she supposed, at Liverpool;
and, in consequence of this im,. ittence, the prisoner
stopped at a public-house, where he tried to satisfy
her inquiries, called for reliesement, and induced the
child to take some gin. He then ;ensued his way,
tatting her, as'before, behind him oe the !terse, and
they travelled on until it became nearly dark, when
the prisoner rode into a wide common, far from the
public road and the reach of human habitation. Here,
A.m. various guilty artifices, and callous to the cries
of his helpless victim, he twice perpetrated his diabo-
lical purpose: Having subsequently extorted a pledge,
or rather threatened the prosecutrix, as to making
the matter known, he remounted his horse, and pro-
ceeded back with her towards her residence. On
the way thither, she•stopped at the house of a female
friend to tensile for the night, and to her she made
' known t!!e whole of what had passed; and among
other things, stated, that one of the reasons adduced'
by the prisoner to her (the prosecutrix) in extenua-
tion- of the crime he had committed ores, that her
mother had requested him to do it !
[The latter disclosure excited feelings of the mmt
revolting nature in the Court, and caused the Lear-
ned Judge to animadvert and scrutinize the circum-
stance with becoming severity.]
After the commission of the offence, the prisoner
absconded, but the most vigorous measures being
as instantly adopted for his apprehension, he was
traced into Ireland, and eventually secured at Newsy,
in the northern part of that country: On his way
thence to the Castle of York, he endeavoured to bribe
the Officers who had him in custody, in order to se-
cure his own retreat; or in consideration of their se-
erettng the child (the prosecutrix) at the time of trial,
offered to secure them a reward of 100 pieces of Irish
linen, valued at least at ed per piece.
The prisoner, after a patient and most impartial
trial, which lasted four hours, was found Guilty, and
he was subsequen ly sentenced by Mr. Justice BAY- I
Lit' to death, who, in the most feeling and impres- I
sive manner, impl, red him to prepare for that awful'
eternity to which the offended laws of Goa and his
country bad to justly consigned him.
The prisoner exhibited every mark of obduracy
and contempt throughout the trial.
W. Townley was indicted for the commission of an
offence similar to the last, but under still more shock-
' ing and disgraceful circumstAnors. He was charged
with viel del, upon several oecasiens. the person of
Mary Thornton, a chili under eleven years of age,
and his own daughter-ire-law. The least of the cir-
lcumstances of this case we dare not expose to the pub-
lic eye, but the fact, were simply but clearly proved
by the infant preeecutrix. A Medical Gentleman
ieW peeved distinctly the injury sustained by the child.
Mr. lattice BAYLtY, however, in addressing the
Jury, was of opitroo that the mere story of the child,
lunconfirtnedeby other corroboratire.testimony, would
I not warrant thetas to conic to a conscientious conclusion
of the prisoner's guilt. The child, it was true, he
said, had jabot toed her moiler of the infamous at-
tacks of the prisoner; but that mother, in point of
law, could not give evidence against her husband :
for those wise reasons, that domestic divisions or 'fa-
mily differences might induce her to state an untruth
to the prejudice or iujary of her husband.
• The prisoner was in consequence acquitted, and
after a severe admonition from the Court, discharged.
Nicland Marmon was indicted for the wilful murder
of Henry Hoyle, an infant of four years old, at Hud-
dersfield, on the 20th of February last. This case
Wits one' orPeenliar enormity, inasmuch as the priso-1
ner was the father-in-law of the deceased, having
'married its mother about a year previous, and since'
which he had treated the child with great barbarity.
Martha Mooting deposed, that on the day stated
in the indictment she was in the house of the primmer,
when she saw the latter etrike the deceased a vio-
lent blow on the head ; she did not perceive the child
do'any thing to eicite this violence, and it cried bit-
terly; witness soon after perceived its eye and face
greatly swelled, and a doctor was sent for by the
mother; the prisoner was asked also to go tor a doc-
tor, aid be affected to comply, but did not'retuin ;
the doctor was brought by the sister of the deceased.
Mary Anne Hoyk said she was sister to the de-
ceased. and was in the room with the latter the day'
of his death; the child having got a fall, cried one'
when the prisoner gave him a blow on the head, and
said, 4, if he did not give over, be would give him
fieotimes as much ;" the prisoner isofnediately laid
told of the child, seized him by the arms, and flung
him down upon the pound; witness could not say
with what lone he dashed the child upon the ground,
but she saw it soon afterwards, and observed its face
much swelled and blackened; the prisoner went for
'a doctor,. but did not return until late at night; the
child lingered nine days:and died.
Mr. Justice AATI4I7, ia mataing up the evidence,

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put hi the jury to decide whether theie seal su.F.
cient evidence to convict the prisoner of sip serious a
crime as that of Murder—or whether it would not be
more consistent with justice to conclude, that the in,-
jury dine to the deceased by the ptisoner was mo
the east of a sudden impube of passion, than of
previous malice or deadly hate.
The Jury It tving &liberate,' a few minutes, found
the trisoner Guilty of Mar-slaughter ; and Mr. Jus-
tice BAYLEY having expat:rted with becoming seve-
rity 'Jinni his gross inhumanity, and the violation of
that duty which should have secured his protecti J.l
towards the life he had sacrificed, sentenced hi a to
one year's imprisonment.
A

t the Lincolnshire Assizes, Efir!P Erarl7, A mrn-
dicant, was found guilty of enticirri away t re iuferc
daughter of William Pearson, of 133stori, aged rinc
years. Sentence postponed.
At the Assizes for the COnnly of Meath, at Trim:
on Monday last, five of the villains who robb.d chi
house of Mr. Sillery, of Carrickleck, County of Meath;
and murdered his ;vivant, on the rjAht of the 19th Or:
were capitally ctinvie:vd, and ordered to he elem. d.
The 12tli inst. Michael C4i,r, alias (!aithin Collier;
Was tried for robbing 13ridget Lines, a passenger its
the Newry Fly coach, qr. u e Jaly, ISIS. The
Jury, after two boon!' Lie;ihet a. ion , acquitted him.
Friday se'nnight a Coronet's Inquest wit'. held at
Sackville, county Dahlin, on the body of Deniiis Slat-
tery, who was shot by a s,,ldier at the wreck at Dianna.
Verdict—Wilful Miat,eer against Patrick Healy, pii-
Yate in the 3oth regiment.

HALL.—S.iturdly M.Ty San WAS charized
as a cheat and yap, am, at the it stance ot Jane VeAl,
who stated, that in consequence of the :7risr.re;'s
I:tme she was induced to go to her, having doubts As
to the result of a mairimailial specol.ition, at her le•.
sisience in Lock's-fields. Slre informed her she came
to have her iortune told. The prisoner said, that at
a preliminary step, she roust mak,: an ftEerini. of
N. od. This being complied with, she was 'alms
into a room, where she was kit surroivided
with serpents, alligators, glares, tele.copes,
There the remained for hill an hour, when she was
joined by the pri-onet's son. He asked several ques-
tions as to her age, Etc. alarmed k.r by his rudeness.
and then suffered her to go away, :and sheiinm diately
gave information of what had passed. May pro-
duced A number of books on the occult sciences, tele.
scopes, Sec. found at the old I zdy's lodgings. The
prisoner said, the business of fortun-f-relliog was not
carried on by her, but by Ito. son ; she only acted as
poiteress. It; however, the Magibtraie would Emotive
her, she promised in future to desist frim her offi,!c,
And from telling fortunes altogether. Se eral neigh-
bours „:eve her a good charac:er ; ::rod the Magi.
strafe, on her promise of future good behaviour, dis-
missed !lei.

CLERIC/IL /Xi ELL/GENCE.
NORWICII, MARCH 21.
On the 22d day of February the Rev. James Spears, Clerk,
was instituted to the Rectory of E.lntset, Suffolk, on the presen-
tation of ;lie Master and Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
On the Gilt instant the Rev. Thomas Jones, Clerk, A.M. wit
Ikensed to the Perrerual Curacy of Stoke by CLue, Suffolk,
on the nomination of Sir W. B. Rush, Ilan.
Wednesday, the Rev. Robert Steele, Clerk, was instituted to
the Rectory of Mundesky, on the presentation of the King by
reason of his Duchy of Lancaster.
OXFORD, MARCH 22.
Wednesday last, the Rev. Henry Wetherell,of University Cot-
lege, was admitted Bachelor in Divinity. Grant Componader
'Jae Rev. Arthur Edward Howinau. ?LA. of Queen's Clkeile,
Cambridge, has been adulated ad eundent.
EGCLE.IA.IICA rty.txturiuNs.
A Dispensation has been granted to the Rev. Robert Wci;to,
Chartain to the Mon Noble the Marg.:is of Bui.k:nr..
ham, to Tied the Rectory of Orn.gron, with ktinn Abbas, to ;:.e
county of Southampton.
Wednesday se'nuight, the Rev. W. I. Mans-1. A'.ll. was in-
itlta.ed, by the I.erd Bishop of this Diocese, to the Rectory of
Hethe, on the presentation of the Lord Chancellor.
Tile Rev. Wm. Stephen Giay, B.A. is presented to theßectory
of North Funibridge, Estes.
Tim Rev. W. H. Cite" to the Rectory of Cold Higieam,
NorthantiAiinthlre.
The Key. U. F. Tavel, M.A. to the Rectory or Campsey Mb,
Suffolk.

The Re•. Dr. Randolph, Prebendary of Mimi!, Ca '
the vakhd.le iterory of m • Pun's, Covent-garden, L mina
The Kt, Thom,' Oldfield Barlett, of Wareham, Durst,
the It.e=a4 y of Swanage, in .he Lie ul Porb,ek.
The Nevi C. ti. Pdynter, Perpetual Caret of Lower S •
Culumb, and C. , C•nuwall.