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her service in a clandestine manner : she was for-
aarel was raised by the polluting hands of some
'from the persecuting assaults of the mob. Her lower
bidden to do so. The moment she was gone, he pp
found that there were two spoons missing : what then ruffians, and what was found beneath soon lost, in
could be more reasonable than the supposition,
lances of which modesty forbids the th
en.nienti Having
that i the contaminating influenCe of gutter, ppear-
.as she had had the custody of them, and had de-
of the stable pond, she was pur-
camped in such a clandestine manner, she had taken
!sued with unabated cruelty to the suburbs of the
them with her ? It was by no means to be inferred tescaped the perils
I oat the charge being dismissed when before the .t" n,
I the road side, to the imminent where
of drowning.
where the was again immersed in a pond by
'Magistrate, that such probable cause did • not exist.
In the moment of irritation at being accused of an I Persecution being at length exhausted, she was left
improper intimacy with Mrs. Wright, wasit sat un- to the kind interposition of some pitying females,
natural for him to use something of the sort of vio. who conveyed her to a house, and procured those
lent langitage, when speaking of the plaintiff? This, necessary comforts which her situation requited.
The whole of the eviience detailed a series of bru-
without recourse to worst: motives, would account
tal outrage, which wculdbe scarcely credible if re-
Thefor and palliate what had been said by defendant.
apprentice girl was called, who proved that hated of the most barbarous nation in Africa. The
the plaintiff's box was given her out of a window ; mob was stated to be nearly 200 in number, hut the
that her master told witness he missed two small only offenders secured were the Defendants now on
spoons and some salt apoons immediately afterwards. the record, the rest having escaped.
She said, she had not seen them for a long time be-
The juvenile Defendants laid the blame on Pa-
tore; that he was not in the habit of maul; them ; tience and their companion before the Court, who
ihat she told her master three out of the five spoons on her part denied altogether any share in the dis-
in use were in the cupboard, and that she had wash- graceful transaction.
*I the other two in the morning tor the use of the The Jury, under the Learned Judge's direceons,
family. She was present when plaintiff packed up found all the Defendants—Guilty.
her box : there was then no shadow of suspicion that John Cm:leaden was indicted under the Black Act,
she had stolen any thing, for maliciously cutting certain hop binds, growing on
Mr. Serjeant PELL, in a most animated reply, de- Pt'l", in a plantation of Samuel Sauter, at Benen-
nominated this as one of the most striking instances den, on the sth of July last.
he remembered of complicated cruelty and falsehood. It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner had Of-
Ile entreated the Jury, as fat as damages could effect fered another man a shilling to cut the prosecutor's
the purpose, to vindicate the plaintiffs character, to hop binds, but the latter refusing, he cut them him
mark their abhorrence of the defendant's constuct, self. Under these circumstances, Mr. ANDREWS
and to afford another instanct of the noble purPoses submitted, that there was no evidence of that malice
a Jury serves, when they apply their understandings which was necessary to support this indictment, and
in favour of justice and of right. " I have perhaps referred to a case decided by Mr. Justice Hea'h, aho
imprudently described her as well connected : how ruled in the case of an indictment for destroying fish,
sinks all honour to be derived liom family into insig- that express malice towards the owner must be proved.
nificance, in comparison of 'that exaltation of cha_ Here there was nothing from which even implied
racter to which a young person entitles herself, by malice could be inferred.
such a strong moral feeling as was shown by the Mr. BERENS, on the ether hand, distinguished this
plaintiff here. It was objected to her, that she went from the case referred to, as well as the ordinary
out of the house clandestinely ; it was the part of case of injuring cattle, that the malice alleged might
every virtuous woman, under such circumstances, if be compounded of a malicious feelirg towards the
the door were shut on her, to go out of the window. master and the animal injured.
The Learned Gentleman here commented on the evis Mr. Baron GARROW held that there need not be
deuce very Forcibly. She hid herself at Southerland's express malice proved, but said, that if much proof
three nights; but she was obliged to quit her asylum was wanted, the circumstance of the prisoner offer-
there. She was without a friend in the world but ing a shilling to another man to do the mischief; was
the Judge and Jury, who were that day to restore sufficient for the purpose of this indictment. IF the
her to friends—character—to life itself, taken from prisoner had cut the hop-binds, with an intention of
her as it had been, when malice denied her the means injuring the prosecutor (which he left to the Jury), it
whereby to live. What probable cause was there for was clear malice within the meaning of the statute.
the defendant's conduct ? I will tell you, Gentle- The prisoner was found Guilty, and received sen-
nc of ea
men ; it is given you by himself. Wha: does he say to •
to her at her departure. "As you have attempted We
illiamd t
Wh. codgeravas indicted for nadiciousl y,stab-
to ruin me and Mrs. Wright, I will give you a cha- bing Elizabeth, his wife, with 4 case knife, at Off-
racter." This, and this only, afforded a clue to un- ham, on the 20th of March last.
ravel the infamous transaction. Guardians of the It appeared, fiorn the evidence of a young woman
public morals, it well became a Jury to visit with named F. Kettle, and James Nunell, that the priso-
the extremest vengeance of the law a crime like this, ner and his wife, who are both labouring people, had
Whatever were the damages, however, the injury been married about a twelvemonth, and during that
exceeded reparation, in the same manner as imputa- titre had lived together upon very unhappy terms.
tion outlives vindication; and in spite of the acquittal :kbout eleven in the evening of the day mentioned
in e indictmentrisonr d hom
of a Jury, inventive scandal will still be found ready th
-h a publicouse at, thep Mai Town li e returne e
from
ng in a state of intoxi-
to adopt the recollection of the unfounded charge,
cation. His wife, who had been to her uncle's in the
and to point the shaft barbed with this mortal venom
against her pure and unsullied character. same place, returned in a few minutes after him with
Mr. Baron GRAHAM ably summed up the evidence a baby in her arms, and complained that she wanted
food fur herself, and child. The Rrisoner began 'to
to the Jury. He observed, that abiconding seemed
to insinuate a flying from justice—an attempt to abuse her in violent language, which was answeredt
by the wife in terms equally -provoking. He threw
escape from its reach. Was this the case here, where
her on the floor, and in the struggle which she after;
the plaintiff was seen to have voluntarily surrendered
wards made to get up, he seized a case knife in-
toandherself ? The Learned Judge very strongly alluded
flicted a slight wound upon h left
the presence of the defendant, when the plaintiff er• breast. The
husband then left her, and returned home again at
was present befog" the Mayor, and his suffering her
ni
to be discharged without following up his accusation three mg Aas to her
wound ; no surgical aid was called in, and when she
with a prosecution. There was not a tittle of evi-
saw a surgeon, ays afterwards, 'he thought the
dence to prove any thing lost even. The whole ap-,
wound was so elitesligs to require none of his assist-
!Leal ed to him an inexcusable attempt to ruin a young
ance. It was
stater that
the witness Nurrell, that he
kterson s character, and thereby to cover the infamy
had reason to suspect that the wife was unfaithful to
of one crime by the commission of another.
The Jury returned their verdict immediately.—
her husband's bed, and he swore that he did not see
Damages—Two Hundred Pounds. any wound inflicted.
The Learned Baron, doubting whether he could
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HOME CIRCUIT-KENT ASSIZES, AUG. 5.
THE KING V. JURY AND TWO OTHERS.
This was a prosecution at the instance of the Com-
missioners of Excise, against the defendants, Mary
Jury, John Underwood, and James Cleaver, the two
latter being boys about 14 years old, for a riot, and
an assault on the person of Maly Cannagh, at Maid-
stone, on the 29th of March last.

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examine the wife as a witness to support the indic►
ment, conferred with Mr. Justice PARK, who being
of opinion that she might be examined, she was ac-
cordingly put into the witness-box.
After undergoing a strict examination by the
Learned Judge, she prevaricated' and contradicted
herself in several particulars. She was also contra-
dicted in part of her statement by the jailor. From

The case proved against the defendants was in
substance this s—A sister of the prosecutrix had been
examined as a witness in support of an information
against a man named Patience, for selling spirituous
liquors at Maidstone, without a license, for which
offence he was convicted in penalties. The prosecu-
trix had also been subpeenaed as a witness in support
of the information, but was not examined. On the

the whole tenour of her evidence it appeared that she
had instituted this proceeding in consequence of re-
peated acts of ill usage, in order that she might get
rid of her husband.
The Learned Judge asked the Jury, whether, after
the demeanour of the principal witness, they could
come to a resolution of convicting the prisoner?
The Jury instantly found the pi ironer—Not Guilty:

29th of March last the prosecutrix, accompanied by
a li lend, went to take some refreshment at the Turk's
Head porter-house, at Maidstone, where she met the
defendant, Jury, and Patience, the person already
mentioned. The latter and Jury immediately began
to abuse her in very coarse and abusive terms, call-
ing her an informer, &c. The publican, seeing that
the storm was gathering to a greater climax, begged
the parties to retire from his house, whither she was
followed by jury and Patience, the latter having ob-
' served " that he would give a pound note had his
'wife been there to tear her clothes from her back.".—

The following prisoners were tried in the course of
the day, and received sentence of Death :
John Woudgate, for horse-stealing ; John Manger, for bur-
glary; John Can, for burglary in the day time; Jos?ph Thorp
slid William Davis, for a like offence; and John 111.1'herson,
for stealing in a dwelling-house.
ENNIS ASSIZES—JULY 26.
TUE KING V. WM. BOROUGH, ESQ. AND J. srAGRATH.
This was an ex•gjficia information filed by the AT-
TORNEY-GENERAL against the defendants, for con-.
Firing, with others unknown, to transport a woman
of the name of Judith Lynchy, to America. There

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As soon as the prosecutrix was fairly in the street, was a second count for assault and false imprisonment.
she immediately became the object of the fury, not It appeared by the evidence of the said J. Lynchy
only of Mrs. Jury and Patience, but of a tumultuous and her father, a very poor man, living at Clarefield,
mob, .which instantly gathered upon the attractive in this county, that the defendant Borough, a Magis-
notice that an informer was " turned out." The irate of this county, and the other defendant, his te-
leaders of the riot supplied themselves with the ma- nant and steward, came to Lynchy's house, at Clare-
icric/ of offence from the neighbouring fish-market' field, on the 17th of August last, took away the
and the kennels of the street, of which both afforded woman, and on pretence of bringing her before Ma-
great abundance, in the guts and offal of fish and jor Warburton. the Superintendant Magistrate at
mud, with which the hapless prosecutrix was imme- Kilrush, put her into a boat, and rowed towards,
diately assailed. In a few minutes she presented the and actually put her on board of a vessel then under
appearance of a wretched culprit reeking from the sail, with passengers for America ; that she was ac-
pillory, and not a trace of the " human face divine" tually taken to America, and brought back by order,
was to be seen in that which might be considered a and at the expense of Government.
good countenance. Her mouth was filled with the For the defendants, three witnesses were produced,
decayed intestines of fish, and other unsavoury con.' who swore, that Judith Lynchy went off with her
tributions which the fruitful resources of Cloacina own free will to better herself, and one of them swore
could furnish. Not contented, however, with endea- that Judith.Lynchy had been contemplating a voyage
vouring to smother her by these means, she was lite- to America for upwards of a year, and that she was
rally hunted into the pond of a stable-yard on Ga- trying to prevail with the witness (another tcniale) to
We s-hill, where, if she did not find lodging, she ex. accompany her.
Eerienced. all the dissreeables of good washing.— The Jury, after a short deliberation, found the de.
LEVen litirsgarments afforded tier person no.protection
ifendahts Guilty upon both counts in the iatorniation.