Star.
London, England, 1817-04-04 00:00:00

IRISH CIRCUI rb.

SEDUCTION CASE.—At the Galway Assizes, in the
County Court, a trial for seduction, ‘, Bunter v.
Homewood," came on before Baron SMITH, on ba-
turday the 22(1. The plaintiff was father to an in-
teresting young girl, in humble life, for the seduc-
tion of whom, by the defendant, who is a young man
and a Captain of Dragoons, he brought his action.
The damages were laid at £e3ooo. 'I ftc Jury, after
a patient hearing and some deliberation, returned a
verdict of £4.0 damages and W. costs.
BREACII OF PROMISE OF MARHIACIE.—At toe same
assizes on Tuesday, in the Town Court, an action for
breach of promise of marriage came on to be tried
before Baron SMITH, in which Peter Blike, Esq. a
Lieutenant in the Navy, was plaintiff, and Mrs.
Mary Wilkins, a widow lady, was defendant. The
damages were laid at 55000, and, after the stat.-
menu of the plaintiff's and of the defendant's cases,
and of the examination of witnesses on both sides, the
iparties consented to have a juror withdrawn.

LONGFORD ASSIZES.
TUE KING W. TUE REV. PATRICK SCALLY.

Wednesday se'nnight this cause same on to be tried
before 24r. Justice FLatcustit. A capital indictment
had been fotnid at a former Assizes against the tra-
verser, a Roman clergyman, for sending a threaten-
ing letter, but the Counsel for the Crown declined
prosecuting it ; and the present indictment was for
a misdemeanour, in endeavouring to prevent a per-
son, wli had sworn examinations, from attending at
the Assizes to give evidence. It appeared, that in
the month of August, 181.5, one Patrick Dowling
had sworn information against ten persons for a bur-
glary, and for taking out of his house arms belonging
to some constables. The constables had also sworn
examinations against the party who took the arms, in
which they had included Dowling. In consequence
of these informations, the following letter was written
by the traverser, and sent to Dowling, who was af-
terwards murdered

" Sir—A very bad philosopher could make me believe, that a
square tower war round, or that black was white, since Patrick
Dowling is become an iNru it at la. Oh! how I was stunned when
I heard two men, who were passing me by, say that Dowling will
destroy the country. mark, it is trebly worse in you to itn•
form than any other person, because the people had placed thrice
as much confidence in you as they had placed In any person. Did
you ever see or know ot any of your family to inform before your-
self? Why did you not act ltks my uncle, .Barney—why did
not you act like those Carders who died honourably in Mul-
Ungar and Longford ? Perhaps you may say that y .0 did not
wish to lose your life; that maybe—but, did you not take the
best means to lose it since you informed—ad you ever know of
an informer to be let live loos ? And what is still worse, you
have disgraied yourself and your children, and your great grand
children, ad all your relatious. How can they shew their laces
in fair, market, or assembly ? Don't you know that Informer is
the most internals name ever a man got. If a man be a thief
or a robber, no person could blame him, except his own friends;
, but an informer leaves au aching heart to hundreds. If any child
sees Dick Brackey passing by, they immediately say, lia ! ha!
there is Brackey, the damned intornier s may bad luck attend
him!' 'I hey will say the same to you in So or 40 yens time, it you
live an long. Beside every other bad consequence of your boor •
the worst Is, that you have destroyed me ' • yes, you are
the man that will UMe me to quit Ireland; you have disgraced
my mother's bates in the ground. If you Informed of she ten
men who broke open your house, is corder to save your lit., and
then go to England, and not prove it against them, nu person
could blame you so much—although, If you went to gaol, you
never would be hanged by the evidence of Harriet, /cc. for Coates
would not take then. oath. It is reported that you were not
contented with informing of ten men, but that you said Lest night
that you informed against Iso men. Oh ! it you did, may all the
misery and 'niftiness.* on the surface of the earth surround you,
and nay you nut live tong to prove against them ! Let me know
are this. things false-, and what are you determined on doing.
" Mr. Picin' Dowling, Abbeyshrule. " P. SCA LLY.*
Maki' ‘Villiis a Magistrate, proved, that the tra-
, verger hid voluntarily acknowledged to him that
he had sent the above letter, but added, that he
had changed his mind since, and was sorry for it ;
that he was not a clergyman at the time he wrote the
letter, and that it could be proved that he had since
preached peace to his Hock.
On the part of the traverser, it was argued, that
there was not sufficient evidence that he wrote the let•
ter,l flowing that Dow ling had sworn the examinations.
The Learned Judge told the Jury that it was for
them to draw the conclusion from the letter, accord-
ing to good sense and right reason ; that th,:y must
be satisfied in their mind that thi traverser, Imowing
the fact that his uncle had sworn the examinations,
intended to keep him back from giving his evidence;
but that that must be collected- from the circum-
stances of theease, as it was impossible to prove what
was passing in the mind of the/writer : his saying that
he was an altered man, the Judge observed, 'hewed
his own impression that he had acted improperly an
writing it. 'must be presumed that the higher or-
den ot the Roman Catholic Clergy inquire into the
character and conduct of the iutetior Clergy, and,
from his having bccoan a elcagyagau, it lip to be

hoped that he had altered his sentiments; but :la
that did ndt lessen the criminality of the act.

The Jury, after some deliberation, in'a
verdict of Guilty ; and the Leatne4 Jo .ige. in a most
impressive address to the traverser, dwelt on the eno..
mity of the °Fence, of which he had been convist,4
on the c'enest evidence, and widi every Atit'Afilqe
on ht, fri.il ; and üb.srved on the lei.ity of these
ceii..td for the Crown in giving up the capital indct.•
menr.—The traverser seat sentenced to if,rce
imprisonment, and to ray A 4ille of £5O, or in tailmre
thereof to a torLi:er imprisorurent el tbreie rnontlif.

PUBLIC CMCF, P'JW•STREET.—Yesterday
Turner was brought to the office, charged wit..
tempting to c,:mmit a rape on a servant girl. Pe
was charged with an assault upon the isome
sno. '1 he Captain was ordtved to kind b.:11 to Ammer
the complaint.
GuitottaLt..—Serjeant John Alpin, of the 10:h
Regiment ot Toot, earged Cathetioe Euler
robbing him of £7, in Bank-notes—Fatly
MANSIOI4•IICIUSE,....The LAM) MAYOR sat yesteiday
in tl!e Justicc.room. fiha /Java was charged by
titc+r, two slava, and a Itaskirae, with batting 0.7-
Mined money, &c. under taiie otetences.
The butcb-r rai,l, t! e risists.r c.:lled himself a re-
spectabh: farmer, and preten.ied be had a consiiis,-
able quantity of live beet aasi mutton 'ma the mad,
that he A' toted some hose silver to pay fssr drink,
for his drivers. This complainant not only lent b: •
10s. upon such representation, but gave him a fp • .
tity ot salt meat, cn uActstallies Oa. i:suo
should be substituted.

The first sweep Also rece;Ted the prisoner as a r:-
potable farmer, agreed to ►end him it , quantity
soot to improve his lend, and lent 'oho lOs. undertte
impression of his respecubility, to discharge tome
expenses attendant u uelay in timitlihei.!.

The poi:titan received him, nut only gave hint tl'e
e%t his larder afforded, but lent him a shin Ansi
stotiongs, that he neigh: cut a creditable figure ..t
Lord Nl,Don.tld's., white, he eAd. be was inviteA to
dine ; and lea lon' It's. to disttibute am‘agst !!:1
servants, who vt ere to upon him witla
Etc. Et dinner.

Tn.! second sweep, obese face and bands bore les.
timouy to file trade, c4bld not afford to lend so much
money to the pr isomer as any of the other complai s.mt
but gave him half the sum, and offered him, as he
was going to dine with a Lord, part of his warefrotoo
liiquities having been mane into the chsracto
the prisoner and his faintly, the latter was found to be
respectable. The pii.oner, upon promising isnra_-
Jiately to discharge the debts so scandalously eon.
tractetf, and expressing his sorrow for leis conduto,
WAS dismissed with a reprimand.
Qua:coo:LlLA:re. L'rejamis shoernak
living with his father at Claptun, and William Iku,
who stated himself to be a servant to Mr. Lansdow.o,
Botogna sausage maker, Sharpe's-aliey, Cow.criso
were brought to the office by James LtTer, a watch-
man at Quesn's E!ms, on the Fulham-rued, on sus.
picion of toealino a I.trge basket full of sav:llaus
satoogeo weighing 6015.
Witness st 'Led, that about half-past two this m)rn-
ing, being on his be it in the Fulham-road, he not
the priSooer s, Hayes having the basket produced ar
its contents on his shoulde• s, a:of Percival Carr; •
Hayes's hat. He stopped them and asked what :ha
had got ? and on seeing such a mass of eatables *a
these hungry times, ut such a time of the mornir;,
he felt it his duty to apprehend and take them to t e
watch house, from wbeisce he brought them tot
office on suspicion of the basket, &c. being
Mr. Cobounotos having desired Hayes to be t kes
out into the other room, asked Percival v:hat !:e ..k
to say for himself ? to which he answered, th.t
never saw Hayes in his life till yesterday ( WeJn,
day), about three o'clock, p.m- at the Water:no..
Arms, kept by Scroggios, the pugilist; to vol .
'place he went to learn where the fight of the next
was to be, and he could not obtain that inlormaso
till half-past nine, when they were told it was to 10:
on Twickenbam.common, or Heath, he could nc:
say which. About eleven o'clock Hayes told In:
he was going down to the fight, to sell some sat•
sages and Bolognas for his master, at Cow-cross, an,!
if he would assist him in carrying the basket, II
would remunerate him for his trouble. He aceor.'-
ingly went with Hayes to Cow•ctoss, where he i;
the basket and its contents, and they were on their a ay
to the hght when stopped by the watchman.
On Hayes being called in his story was so erIC:7
like the foregoing, scarcely varying in a si:7,:c tx-
pression, that the Magistrate desired the oatchrosa
to accompany prisoners to Cow.cross, and if Mr.
Lansdowne identified the property to be his, and that
be had authorised Hayes to sell it at the liolo,
desired the watchman to discharge the prisohers, and
commended him tor his steady attention to his duty.
Yesterday Mary I.iddle, who was only liberated
from prison in the morning, was folly committed, Or
fraudulently obtaining a quantity of linen, the ;
perty of Mr. King, of Maiden-lane, Covent gard.n.
The prisoner came to Mr. King's house, saying sot
was scot by the laundress for the dirty linens rs has
lull of linen was accordingly given to her. There.:
laundress called about an hour after, and thus t;:c
fraud was discovered. 1,-,quiry was made for I' =
prisoner, and her lodgings dOc• vs red ; bat the call
not be met with until about three weeks ago, vr:ol
she was found in Tothiloields Bride sell, where s'
had been committed for unlawfully p.wning.

ibIA4tRIED,
At Ca:lll:ray, In Franee,on the 9th ul.. Deputy-A islet:sr C."'
misaary-Cerwral liar, to Elizabeth, ekilst (laughter ct tLe :
l'aptahs Botlan of Edinburgh.