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lie also married her to her first husband, bat he did

not recollect her person.
Dorothy' Hill was present when the prisoner was
married to her first husband ; it was about sixteen
years since. They lived together for many years, but•
just before the peace he went out in the transport
service. She thought it was eight years since he lived
with his wife.

Mary Young was present when the prisoner was
married to John Smith, in 1819. She had seen Rich-
ard Nicholson within the last three months, and
she also saw him about• a month or two before the
second marriage. The prisoner lived at Jarrow. The
witness was present at the wedding dinner, and
Richard Nicholson was near the house at the time,

and the neighbours asked him why he did not go in
and have a glass with his. wife? and, on his going in,
John Smith turned him out. She never heard the

prisoner say that her first husband was dead.
The Learned JUDGE said, if the Jury were satisfied
that the prisoner knew her husband was alive within
seven years previous to her second marriage, they
would find her 7uilty, and, if otherwise, they would
acquit her.—The Jury found her—Not Guilty. .
The prisoner is a respectable woman in her appear-
ance, and was greatly grieved during her trial.

SUSSEX SUMMER ASSIZES.-LEWES, Accurr 21.
THE KING V. HAISELL AND ANOTHER.
This was an information filed by the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL against two Custom-house Officers, named
liaisell and Gurr, for a conspiracy to aid, assist, and
abet certain smugglers in the landing of unaccus-
tomed goods at Gufidford, near Rye, in this County,
on the 4th of September, 1819.
The witnesses for the prosecution were all noto-
rious smugglers, with the exception of one, a Cus-
tom-house Officer, and the substance of their state-

ment was this:—in the evening of the 4th Septem-
ber, 1819, a large quantity of smuggled spirits and
foreign silks were landed at a place called Jew's Gut,
near Rye. Whilst the smugglers were landing the
cargo the two defendants and another-officer, named
Chapman, came up, and it was sworn that the de-
fendant Gurr, in the presence of others, said to one
of the smugglers, named Ilersfield, " We must have
some of the tubs." The smugglers said, that if they
clki not make any alarm they should have some.—
Gurr then said, "We must have 30 of them." The
smugglers answered that they could not let them
have so many, as it was but a small crop. The de-
fendants then agreed to take 22 or 25 tubs, the wit-
ness could not say which, as their share, and pro-
mised net to give any alarm. The goods were ac-
cordingly landed, and the defendants received as
their share 22 tubs, which they carried off, and took
to the Custom-house, but suffered the smugglers to
take away the remainder of the cargo. Under these
circumstances the prosecution was instituted against
the defendants. In opening the case, the Counsel for
the prosecution gave the defendants the benefit of
having been active, meritorious Officers previous to
this transaction. _ _

On the cross-examination of the witnesses for the
Crown, great pains were taken to shake their testi-
mony. It appeared that the information which led
to this prosecution had not been given by them until
a year and a half after the alleged transaction. One
of them admitted that he had been ruined by the de-
fendants and other Custom-house Officer, in his trade
of a smuggler. The witnesses, however, four in num:
ber, acknowledged themselves to be notorious smug-
glers, and had supported themselves all their lives by
such illicit means. They were examined separately,
and all gave an urvaried account of the transaction,
and were consistent in their story. Their testimony
was corroborated by that of Mr. Chapman, the Officer
above mentioned.
Mr. Serjeant TARDY remarked upon the novelty of
this singular coalition of the Board of Revenue, with
notorious smugglers, against their own Officers. The
defence he had to set up was, that the evidence of the
smugglers was founded in vindictive motives towards
the defendants, in consequence, as one of them ad-
mitted, of the activity which they had shesvn in the
suppression of smuggling. He particularly dwelt
upon the staleness of that information upon which
this prosecution was founded—a year and a half
having elapsed before the slightest hint was given of
anything of this kind having taken place. It was
manifest from this that some malicious feelings had
influenced the witnesses, and the Jury, therefore, ought
to watch their testimony with the greatest jealousy.
The Mayor of Rye, tlr: Town Clerk, Mr. Watson,
a Collector of Customs, and several other respect-
able persons, gave the defendants a most unexcep-
tionablecharacter for being active and zealous Officers.
The case went to the Jury, under the Learned
Judge's directions, and after retiring for three quarters
of.an hour, they ound the defendants—Guilty.
AUGUST 21.--THE KING V. BARROW AND ANOTHER.
This was an information against the defendants,
charging them with offering a bribe to Mr. John
Burn, an Admiralty Midshipman, employed in the
Preventive Service, to induce him to permit the
defendant and others to land a cargo of smug-
gled spirits.
The case was opened by Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW,•
from whose statement it appeared that the defend-
ants, Barrow and Henbery, having obtained an in-
troduction to Mr. Burn, darkly hinted to him, that,
by means which they could point out, he might get
a little money for himself. They lamented that he
was employed on so fatiguing a service, and hinted
at his allowing them to land a cargo of? contraband
goods on his station, by which he might get £4O or
£5O, and ultimately they agreed to give him £lOO.
The time arrived when this.landing was to take place,
and a part of the crew of the Severn frigate were
concealed around the intended landing place, and the,
above named defendants were apprehended in the fact.
Mr. Burn was called, and proved the above cir-
cumstances; that he had communicated the result of'
the different interviews he had with the defendants
to his superior Officer, Lieut. Chappel, who was also
called, and confirmed the statement, on which
Mr. ADOLPHUS acknowledged he had no means of
resisting the strength of this case, and the defendants
were found Guilty.
ohn I

Friday morning, FRANCIS WALKER, son of Mr.
WILLIAM WALKER, writer in Dundee, (who had at-
tended Monifieth Races on the preceding day) was
found dead on the east side of Dighty water, at Mil-
ton of Monifieth. The manner in which this dis-
tressing event happened has not been satisfactorily
ascertagted. The deceased was in his 18th year.