Star.
London, England, 1803-08-05 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

MAITSTOIII, AUGUST a.--Mary Kotler was indilt:
ed for Cie wilful murder of her female child on the
ath of July latl. at Biding. There bein fullisient
roof of infanity, the Judge adviled the Jury to ac-
quit the palmier, obferving that the was a married
woman, and could have no motive to kill the child,
which the at firft appeared fond of. The prifemer
Jeering her trial appeared very much diareffed, and
was in tears the whole time.—Verdict, Not Guilty.
Thomas Kenyon and Hoer,. Non, were inAifled for a
rape on the perfon of Mary Davis, at Elthant, on
the 28th of July la(l.—Verdk'f, Nut Guilty.
William Spars, Lieutenant of the lmrunrtalite, was
arraigned on the Coroner's Inquen, for the murder
of I'. Fleming, a feaman, on board the Dorfet Ball
Indiaman.

John Carter, a waterman, was on board the Dor-
fet EaR Indianian the day of the accident ; he heard
an alarm that four prefs boats were coming ; the
men fwore they would not be prefect, and got the
boarding pikis to keep the boats off. The crew call-
ed nut to the men of war's boats to fire away ; they
did fire ; the witnefs Paid to the beatfwain, there was
no flint in the mulkets ; the boatfwain laid, No! they
muR not fire to kill them : a fecond volley was fired,
and Fleming was killed.
William Stiles Paid, he went alongfide the Dogfet
Indiaman to prefs Come of the crew : when *helm .
came alongfide. the crew of the (hips cheered, and
laid they would fink them if they did not keep off :
feveral things were thrown into the ',at, and the
witnefs was thinned by a blow before the firing. He
thinks that. if there had been no firing. the two
neareft boats would have been funk. After the man
was killed, the men of war's boats went away.
Ch. Ward, Midlivipman of the Immortalite, gave
the fame account of the tranfaaion.

Mr. Juftice Hearn obferved, that it became the
prifoner to make out a joinification, and, in his opi-
nion, he had done it. A public officer mull do his
duty—a private individual might retreat from dan-
ger, but in an officer, be had a duty to perform,
which he mull execute, and rnufi not be deterred by
danger. It appeared that the Gentleman at the bar
had been violently refilled, and indeed driven to ufe
violent means to defend himfelf. Verdia, Not Guilty.
PHI-wig v. WRIGHT.—This was an aaion for
money had and received under the following circum-'
fiances : the defendant, as Mr. Serjeant Bait iv Rat-
ed, might bell be known from his own account of
himfelf, publithed in a pamphlet edited by himfelf.
He there Rated, that he was one John Wright, called
by the Hotr Snare from Leeds to London, and
from London to Avignon, in France, to found a So-
ciety of United Chrinians. In purfuance of this
plan, and to Sew his fupernatural infpiration, the
defendant had related many intlances of his being in
favour of the Hots, Strati. : by thefe means he had
prevailed upon many Pimple men to put him in pof-
fellion a their ?property, by way of founding a So-
ciety which thotild have for its balls a Community of
Good. The plaintiff, Phillips, was one of the foolith
people who had been duped by him: he had given
np his farm, and transferred all his property to the
defendant, for the ufe r.f the United Chrittian Bre-
thren ; but finding himfelideceived by its defendant,
who, notwithflanding all his profeflions, had an rye to
Matainoa, he brought this anion to recover the money
he bad been duped out of.
Two witnelfes were accordingly called, who Rated
that they were Members of the United Chriihan Bre-
thren. They ftated, that the defendant had confeffed
that he had received 6981. of the money of the plain.
tiff Being croft examined as to the nature of their
confederacy, they could hardly give any account of
it, except that it was fomething of a religions confe-
deracy, in which there was to be a Community of
Good, and that each man was to have what he wanted.
Mr. Serjeant Baer and the King's Serjeant endea-
voured to etlahlith that it was a partnerthip under the
fi.m of the Uai:ed BrwArra, which was writ-
ten on their farming carts ; but Lord Et se ration° N
faid that it was a partnerftrip of infinite a nature,
he could not think the common rules of law applica-
ble to it, and therefore he mull be of opinion, this!
what each man advanced was to be confidered as to
much mime) had and received for his tile, and which
he might recover by adios. The Jury coinciding in
opinion with his Lordthip, returned a verdia for the
plaintiff for the amount sit the money be had advanced.
Tar KIP.° v. li I aasona.—Mr. Jacxsou latest,
that this was an information filed by the Attontev
General, for affiliating and oblii 'tains an Excite 01.
ficer.—Vei dia.
GRIER Ir. HAMIPHIllt•—This was an saints for
an *Sault comusitteci be the defendant on the plain-
tiff, his apprentice. The witisecs proved that the de-
fendant had beat his boy with great indifcretion, and
hurt his knee, the contingence of which was, that a
white fwelling einned. The furgeon. however, Rated,
th it the defendant was of a sirophuluus habit. and a
Gov, with him wasl.kcly to produT more malignant
c. niequences than wish a good habit I.f hody.--.Ver-
slid fur plaintiff, damages 1401.