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London, England, 1811-08-17 00:00:00

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KINGSTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST IS.
CIVIL SIDE.-TME ICING 9. COL
This was an indictment preferred by.the Commis-
sioners of the road for a nuisance, in erecting a build-
ing in Blackfriars-Road, which encroached upon the
road, and was forbidden by the Act for maki 1:z the
road. The building in question is in front of Christ
Church-yard. It appeared that there had originally
been an enclosure, behind which was a shed, upon
the scite of which the defendant had erected the build-
ing complained of, but the plinth in front extended
six inches more into the road than time old fence, and
seven inches on one side, and there was a portico at
one end, on the scite of which no building had for-
merly stood.
This indictment came on in consequence of the
Commissioners and the defendant not being able to
agree for the purchase of the piece of groudd, which
the former were authorized and desirous to lay into
the road.

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Mr. Serjeant Bas r, for the Crown, contended, that
as the Act of Parliament prohibited any building
from being erected within ten feet of the road, that
the whole of this was a nuisance, as it was within
that distance, and it was of no consequence that an
old shed was previously there, which time might have
rendered necessary to pull down.

Mr. GARROW, on the contrary, admitted, that as
to the particulars abcve enumerated, the defendant
must be found guilty, and must remove them ; hut
that he had an undoubted right to rebuild wherever
he pleased upon the extent of ground whereon a
building had formerly stood.
Lord ELLENBOROUGII being of the opinion with Mr.
Garrow, the Jury, under his direction, found a ver-
dict accordingly.
CORNWALL.
Monday the Summer Assizes .for the county of
Cornwall commenced at Bodmin, before Sir Restive
GnAHAM, and Sir JOHN BAYLSY, Knights, W. L. S.
TRELAWNV, Esq. Sheriff.—The following prisoners
are for trial, viz. Agnes Griffins, aged 18, for break-
ing and entering the dwelling-house of Richard Har-
ris, and stealing wearing apparel, the value of ss.
and upwards. William Smith, aged 17, for breaking
and entering the dwelling-house of Jane Matthews,
and stealing seven one pound local notes. Elizabeth
Bosence, aged 26, for taking from William Sim-
mons, a pocket-book, containirg nine promissory
notes of one pound each. John Cowliti, fur breaking
open the dwelling-house of Thomas James, and steal-
ing about one thousand pounds his property,—and
C. Milan, aged 36, for the murders of JosephAinasse.
ARMAGH.
The following trials took place at the Armagh
, Assizes
Hugh Brereton, alias Briers, for feloniously uttering
and publishing as true, a forged note of the Belfast
Bank of Messrs. Gordon, Batt, Houston, and Craw-
! ford. Guilty—to be hanged oa Tuesday the 20th
August.
I Timothy Bell, for feloniously publishing as true, a
note of the bank of Messrs. Gordon, Batt, Houston,
and Crawford, which had been feloniously altered from
• two pounds to ten ; and also for publishing as true,
a note of the bank of Messrs, Montgomery, Hama-
• ton, Orr, and Sloan, which had been altered front
one pound to two. Guilty—to be hanged same day
as Brereton.
Loughlin Kennan, for falsely pretending•and affirm-
ing that one John M'Parlan was a deserter, and there-
by obtaining from Leonard Dobbin, Esq. the Pro-
Collector, the sum of one pound. Guilty—to be
transported for seven years.
It appeared is evidence that M'Parlan, after his
• being apprehended as a deserter, was sent to the re-
giment which Kennan asserted he had deserted from,
and from thence he was ordered to Spain, where he ser-
ved the whole campaign under Sir John Moore, and
was at the memorable battle of Corunna, and after-
wards served under Lord Wellington. On it being
discovered, however, that he was not a deserter, nor
ever had been enlisted, an immediate order was se.t .
by Government to the army for his return. •
George Timing, indicted for feloniously disposing
of a bank note of the Governor and Company of the
Bank of Ireland. The witness against him was Wil-
lian Steenson, an approver, who had been ernpioyed
by Tipping to circulate the note for him, and on the
table he contradicted every fact swore to in, his in-
formation. Tipping was consequently acquitte 1,
and a bill of indictment sent up against Swenson,
lon which he was convicted and sentenced to be pil-
-1 loried, and then to be transported for 7 years.

The trial of Charles Lee and John Oughton, at
Warwick Assizes, for the wilful murder of John
Whitton, at Kenilworth, so long. ago as the year
1799, attracted much attention in the Court. on
Tuesday last. Oughton was acquitted, and the Jury
returned a verdict of Manslaugh= against C./Lee.
Before the Judge left York, at the conclusion of
the late Assizes, he was pleased to order the execu-
tion of William Hodgson for a rape, to be respited
until the 23d of November. His Lordship also re-
prieved six others who had severally received sen-
tence of death.
In a former paper we gave an account of a sup-
posed murder in Lancashire, related by a boy in tire
County Bridewell. He has confessed the whole to
be a fiction he invented on ship-Isoard, in order to be
sent on shore. He is sent back to the Port Admiral
at Plymouth.—Exeter Paper.
The horse and gig stolen from the Nursery, New.
road, St. Mary-la-bonne, about two o'clock in the
imorning of the 29th July, were taken to Seagrove,
a village in Leicestershire, 120 miles from London,
by ten o'clock the same night. The robbers were de-
tected there, and taken back to Leicester, where they
were tried, and one of them, William Martin, cast for
death ; but he has since been reprieved for trans-
portation.
The Essex Assizes proving maiden, by no convict
being left for execution, the Sheriff, CHARLES SMITH,
Esq. presented the customary offering of a pair of
white gloves, silver fringed, to each of the Judges.
A dog-stealer was committed on TuesL'ay fro n
Marlborough-street Police-otfice, for having stolen a
pointer, which he had sold to a Mr. Nightingale for
eight guineas. He had sold the dog again to an t er
Gentleman, of whom it was owned by Mr. N an I
it turned out that the dog was originally stolen t,,,An
Hounslow ; and the prisoner confi s ed having st, e
and sold the dog five several times In one zu

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