Star.
London, England, 1804-07-23 00:00:00

part with his winney under the intpreffinn of fear
He Paid not. To be fare he was afraid when he ran
away, but when his wind was gone, and he flopped,
he got his courage up pretty well. The prifoner did
not threaten him, and they had 'a little talk toge-
ther, to tha: at latt he was not at all afraid. " Why
I think," Paid his Lordship, " you teem to have got
very good friends :" to which the withers, with great
seivete replied, "Why, my Lnrd, I think fir ton. I af-
firm you we were quire good ft lends before I gave him
I the money." This anfwer produced a general laugh.
The Learned Judge immediately told the Jury that
they mull acquit the Prifoner. To eonflitute a rob-
bery, the goods or money mull be taken by force, or
extorted through fear ; :sere it was clear there was
no force, and the profecuthr had laid he did not part
with his money under the impreflion of fear. The
prifoner was accordingly acquitted.
- 1 boma: Wry, a foldicr of the third Regiment of
Guards, was indieted for the murder of William
It was flared in evidence that the Prifoner and the
deceafed were bath privates in the third regiment of
Guards, quartered at Chelmsford. Having had a
jht difference they left the barracks on Sunday,
March r ft, about 4 o'clock ; they went into a grafi
field, and fought only one round. The deceafed
received two blows, neither of which knackid him
down, nor did him any apparent injury. They then
beekme reconciled, and returned to the barracks.—
Tho next day the deceafed exhibited evident marks
of a fiadlore in the fkull, but the Surgeon could not
difcover at what part. He died in the courfe of the
day, when, upon opening the head it was dire°.
vered that the fkall was fractured in the moil extra-
ordinary manner : the blow had [truck juft below the
eye-brow, and the frafture had extended to the inte-
rior of the !Ica, which was Folded tip,'vards upon
the brain, while the exterior part of the bone remain-
ed unfraAured.
The Cam, BARON lammed np very humanely on
the part of the prifoner. The Jury found him guilty
of manflaughter ; he was fined one Chilling, and im-
mediately difcharged.
Robert Won was inclined for the murder of John
Bradley, at the parifh of Keydon Bois.
There was no other evidence againll this prifoner
but what had been confeffed by hunfelf, and bated in,
his own defence. The fans, as collated from theft
fources, were as follow : The deceafed was brother
to the prifoner's wife, and they lodged together in
the fame houfe. On the ad of April the prifoner
came home to (upper, but before it was prepared he
quarrelled with his wife ; her brother;thedeceafed,
interfered, upon which the prifoner give him a blow
on the head with a flick, which fractured his lkull,
and proved mortal.
The prifoner, in his defence, d that the de-
ceafed (truck him firlt.—Verdi[, ifonflamOter.
The CHIII BARON obferved it was well for the

primmer that by the law of England a woman could
not be witnefs againa her hulband, for, looking into
I the wifs's depofitions if they could be made legal
evidence,he had no doubt but that the priloner might
have been convitied of wilful murder ' • and, if he had
been (o convifted, the Learned judge Paid, he fhould
certainly have left him for execution ; hot as he was
only convieted of manflaughter the puoilldnenr
of coorfe be more limited. He thereff.re lenteneed-
him to a fine of one ()lining and twelve month.' ina-
pritonment.