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London, England, 1827-08-27 00:00:00

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CARLISLE, Awn W.
SCAM V. SCAM..

BRIDGWATER, Minn 25.
MA!',LAUGHTER.

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and his body to be given to the surgeons for di section,
and to he Anatomis-d.

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The unhappy wretch was then conducted from the
deck. overwhelmed with feelings of terror and rem irse.
Bullock, the prisoner who gave evidence against Mil-
ler, was then put to the bar, and pleaded Not Guilty to
an indictment for burglary. In consequence of some
previous arrangement, no evidence was offered against
him, a d he was acquitted.—Tne Assizes concluded
with this case.

MAIDSTONE, Aaiun 24.
HIGHWAY Itt.lllllllY ON A CONZTAIME.
Charles Linikie u as indicted for assaulting Benjamin
Cole on the King's highway, at Greenwich, in the month
of June last, and forcibly taking from his pet son a gold
watch, chain, and seals.
It appeared that Mr. Cole, who is an extremely active
constable in Deptford and its fcinitv, was, on the day
in question, on duty at Greenwich Fair, when he was
suddenly accosted by the prisoner, who asked him how
he did? and at the same time made a snatch at his watch
chain. Cole secured his watch chain with his hand,
and believing that he was too well known to be the
subject of a robbery, at such a time and place, treated
the matter as a joke, and turned away, saying, u No,
nn, I shall want this," meaning his watch, •• by and
by." The moment he had turned his head, however,
he heard a loud cry of I. Stoll, Stoll,' which means,
help, help, and he was immediately surrounded by be-
tween 30 and 40 men, all armed with sticks, who com-
menced a most furious attack upon him. His hat, which
was new and strong, was quickly beaten to pieces, and
knocked off his head, and he received a number of se-
vere blows both upon his head and body, under which
he at length sunk upon the ground. almost in a state of
insensibility. In the course of this attack he felt his
watch, &c. dragged from his lob with great violence,
and the prisoner being the person nearest to him at that
moment, and having no stick, he suspected him to be
the thief, and had sufficient presence of mind to seize
him by the collar, and he fortunately succeeded in keep-
ing hold of him throughout the whole transaction. In a
short time the affray and alarm became so violent, that a
party of soldiers came up with fixed bayonets, the crowd
were dispersed, and Cole and the prisoner were taken to a
neighbouring public-house. Upon searching the prisoner,
Cole's watch was found upon him, much bruised and
battered, and separated from the chain and seals; and
the chain was also found upon him, but in a state which
made it at first difficult to be recognised, it being pound-
ed
nearly into a solid mass of metal. The hat was never
recovered. During the attack the prisoner and several
others were repeatedly beard to cry out, o Down with
him, down with him I" Cole was so much injured that
he kept his bed, in consequence for several days.
The prisoner offered no defence, and the Jury found
him Guilty.
The Learned Judge immediately proceeded to pass
upon the prisoner the awful sentence of death, assuring
him that it was utterly impossible that any mercy
could be extended to him, and solemnly exhoiting him
to lose no time in making his peace with his offended
CaaAToa. He obscrved,that the instances of this dreadful
offence, which had occurred at the present Arsine, were
so numerous, anti of a character so atrocious, that it
became absolutely necessary, for the welfare of society,
and for the preservation of the lives and property of the
honest and peaceable part of the community, to make
some examples of the offenders ; and he felt that he
should be guilty of a gross dereliction of his duty, if he
did not leave some of them, at least, to suffer the ex-
treme punishment of the law. Among these the pri•
soner must certainly be included; for it was hardly
possible to conceive a more audacious, cruel, and savage
instance of highway robbery than that of which he had
been sea clearly proved to have been guilty.

This was an issue directed by the Court of Chancery
to try the validity of a will of Robert Suite the elder.
Mr. BROUGHAM and Mr. ALDiRSON conducted the
pistintiff's case; and Mr. iNswesis and Mr. PARKE
that of the defendant.

The testator resided le Berkley Lodge, in this County ;
he died in March, 1826, leaving property to the amount
of abou 7,0001. most of which he had acquired by be-
coming a ship owner. He had several children, and the
day before his death, namely, on the 24th of March,
he executed a will, with codicil thereto. He had
previously executed two other wills, the one on the
21st of May, 1823, and the other on the 9th of
February, 1825. The will executed on the 24th of
March was peepred on the 23d, and then signed only
with the mai k of the testator ; but when a fair copy was
made on the 24th, he signed each sheet of the will, and
the blai ks a ere filled up by himself. By that will about
ball the property was left to other children; and the
deceased being then 81 years of age, and the disposal
of the property being then very different to what it was
by the will of 1819, is had been suggested that the tes-
tator was not of sound mind at the time of the execution
of the will of 1t.26, and a bill was accordingly filed io'
set that will aside. It was also suggested, that a dif.
ference having taken place between the elder son and
his father in Lis latter years, advantage was taken of
that circumstance, and the old man was influenced by
other branches of the family to make such a will as
better pleased them.
A number of witnesses were called, who all deposed
to the sanity of the old Gentleman ; and the nurse, who
was with him at the time he died, %tated that he was
so to the last.

The Attorney who altered the will swote that the
w ill was the same in strhstanc, as the former will, only
that the codicil %%Lich a• en:bodied in the last executed
copy made provis nn for I.i, clang! ter Isabel a remain-
ing at lLr kir:, Lodge ,0s itoilihs after his death, and
demised two seats itt the ravish church to her.
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Mr. J. WILLIAMS audiessed the Jury for the defend-
ant, anti argued th all ti:e evidence that might have.
been produced had riot been brought before the Jury
The case was left in doubt, and that doubt was bis case
for if parties were wiling to let the whole truth be
told, a female set vant who had not been called, who was
in constant attendance on the deceased, no doubt could
bavecommunkated facts that sere cautiously concealed.
The Jury consulted together for a short time, and
found a verdict establishing the will of the testator.

William Amesbury was indicted for killing Cecilia,
bis wife, by having inflicted upon her body several
ki, kt and blows, in the parish of Whitmore. on the lit
of May list, of which violence she died. He was also
charged upon the Curoner's Inquisition.
Mr. R, GERS stated the case to ti e Jury. He la-
mented that, from the peculiar circumstances of this
unhappy occurrence, he should have to call upon the
Jury to consider whether the unfortunate priso. er

had. not killed his wife, and the evidence must be
(anti:lle.! from the narrative of the children of these
parties. It was a source of grat:fication for him to know
that the Grand Jury had ignored a bill for the capital'
offepce, and so far it was compete t for the Jury at the
outset to dismigs from their minds the remiting con•
sideration that betsseen parties so neatly allied the horrid
clime of murder had been perpetrated. Enough, how-
ever, he feared, would be :hewn to bring the second
charge home to the prisoner. The Lestrned Counsel then
describid the nature of the evidence which he had to
offer in this case, as it was subsequently given by the,
witnesses.

Sarah Amesbury, the prisoner's child, who was about
nine years of age, was fist examined, and an old wo•
man acquainted with the family, was put into the box
with her, to inspire her with confidence, and repeat the
questions to her. She stated that her mother was at
home on the night in question, and her father also.
They went out to empty the well after supper: while
there, her father called on her mother to give him more
assistance, and he quarrelled with her about it. Her
father desired her (witness) to clean his shoes; but her
mother would not let I,er, whereupon her father knocked
her mother down with a piece of turf, and William,
a man who worked at the place, helped her up
from the ground, and she went into the house and was
sick; she did not see her mother struck again, but she
went to the chimney-corner, sat down, and cried. Her
father then went up and made the bed, and her mother
was helped into it. Witness then went out for a candle,
and when she returned found her mother very bad ; her
father was smoking a pipe at that time. This was the
substance of the child's evidence, which was.delivered
is a very inarticulate manner.—The prisoner said that
this child was of disoidered intellect.

The man who was stated to have been present at the
occurrence, was next called, but did not appear.
William Amesbury, a boy six years of age, corro-
borated his sister's evidence respecting the ill usaye of
his mother by his father. He remembered their guar-
Telling about drawing up the water out of the well.—
His mother was sewing, and did not want to b • helping
the water, and that caused the quarrel. This boy went
out for a flour•ba at the time, and on his return found
his mother •ery ill in the corner and crying Inr.".
Mr. Justice BURROUGH here inquired whether their,
was any other evidence beyond proof of the mere brow
of the turf to be produced in this case? The Learned,
Counsel replied that the poor woman was well in the
morning, and dead in the night ; and he would chew
the fatal marks of violence upon her body. The Court
held that that would not do, for there WAS no proof
whether A or B had inflicted this violence. These
children 'hewed nothing but the blow. of the turf—the
absence of the man who worked in the place was fatal to
the case.—The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.