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London, England, 1817-09-15 00:00:00

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Our Market {vas well supplied with new Wheat
from Essex and Suffolk, the major part of which
was very cold and rough, and met heavy sale at a
decline of Bs. per quarter horn the prices of this day
week. Oats and Beans are full 3s. per quarter lower,
and dull sale at • that reduction. In Barley, Peas,
and other artici, s, no alterati

CUItiIICNT PRIM Ai VNelii:

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WhPat, Kent and Eicex new

Oats, Potaine,3ol 38a.
Ditto, Poland, 2M 3-I5
Ditto, Fred, 165.:55.
Rapeseed, X 44 £46 per
Flour, 705. 73a. per act.

701.761. old 81s.
Suffolk, 601. 78s. dos..
Norfolk, old, 701. WA.
aye, 40*.
Barky, bOs 41s
11/1/Ir, 50s. 83s.
White 1'e.1%, 381. 38s. boilers,

!ORISON.
Wheat, Motile, 63e. 64i.
Ditto, Baltic Red, 65,. 70a.
Hambro'or Bremen, 655. 70,
Rratuur Red, 655. 700.
Rye, Oth. 00a.
Arutricat Hour, Ise 01.

424 44v.
Grey Peas, 40f. 445.
Sinill Beaus 42v. 464.

svaniFIELD MARKET, SEP ITMBER le.
Bert 6, 41 to 4s 4L ( Veal 4. 8.1 to be ed
Murtoti 3s 4d to 4. 4d t Perk 45 61 wS. Gil

Lamb 48.04 to ss. 01

Beasts '33.2o—Ae,t. and Lambsito,24o —Calves ^3o—Pars 920.
HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD.
Hay 44. 0. to £5. 15s.—Clover £5. Os to 71 Os.
Straw £1 14.. to .C 9 Os.

LANCASTER ASSIZE?, SEPTEMBER 11.
ASSAULT AND F.U.SE IMPRISONMENT.
DiII6KWOOD 6. FDDIT AND oTHERS.
_

Mr. T. -rnso. —This is the most outrageous assault
that I have ever had occasion to complain of to a
Jury. I find the name of my brother John Cross
among the defendants. You know the fellow-feel-
ing that prevails among us at the Bar; 1 Oita-dory
give n.• evidence against John Cross, who also goes
in Bury by the name of Charlie Trim, the first time
I had ever known my friend to go by two names.—
The plaintiff is a weaver. and lives with his father,
respectable farmer in Walmersley. The defendant,
Frost, is a bleacher in the same place, and I am
happy to say a man of great opulence, so that you
can pot your hands pretty deeply into his pockets.—
On the 21st of June last, easy in the morning, the
plaintiff, John Isherwood, was in bed with his bro-
ther when he heard two men calling his name at the
window; lie got up, and saw Joseph Seddon and
George Knox, servants of Frost. They told him
he must go immediately with them. He was, in
tact, hurried away without washing or properly
dressing himself. Frost obliged him to go into a
cart with five others, charged with stealing from his
bleaching croft, and to sit upon a plank to be more
conspicuous. He was handcuffed to Knowles, (the
1 same that made such a distinguished figure its the
Crown Court during the present Assize) : the rest
were tied with ropes tor want of handcuffs. They
were thus driven into the town of Manchester. They
stopped for a moment at Bury, when-multitudes of
spectators crowded around them. The poor old fa-
ther came and put his own handkerchief around his
son's neck. Frost, on horseback, accompanied the
cart, and in several places on the road, but partial.
larly in the market-place in Manchester on the mar-
ket-day, made an exhibit of them, saying, 44 These
are my thieves," gi These are my robbers." When
he came before the Magistrate, Mr. Evans, be was
fined for contemptuous conduct, for while conduct.
ing his party along he had treated himself liberally
with drink. When the plaintiff was brought before
the Magistrate, and Frost was asked what charge he
had against him, he said, 01 I have nothing to
say against that young fellow." The plaintiff was
immediately discharged, the Magistrate expressing
great indignation at the flagrant injury done to him.
I have no idea what defence can be set up for the
defendant t perhaps it may be stated that he was in
liquor ; but I protest against one crime being made
an extenuation of another. What, is a man to be
permitted to do such flagrant wrong in a drunken
frolic? Is this poor youth to be publicly exhibited
in his native town, all the way to Manchester, in
Manchester on the market-day, manacled and hand-
cuffed, as a thief, a robber, charged with a capital
felony, and all with impunity, because Frost was in
liquor ? I believe I shall not have as opportunity
of addressing you again on this subject; the prudence
of my friend will not give me an opportunity.—He
(Mr. Cross) will make an able and eloquent address
to you ; he possesses ability and eloquence, to which
I can make no pretension. lam a plain blunt man
that tells a straight-forward tale. I rely, therefore,
entirely upon the evidence, and from it you will
agree with me that this is the most tyrannical and
oppressive act that has ever come into a Court of
Justice, and you will not be persuaded by any elo-
quence to withhold from this poor man such damages
as may not only do justice to his character, but ap-
pease his outraged feeling's.
The father and brother of the plaintiff, and'several
other witnesses proved the facts. The plaintiff is up •
wards of SO years old.
Mr. Caoss.—My friend ushered this cause to you
by a compliment to my eloquence, for which I am
certainly not obliged to him, for it was calculated
to benefit the plaintiff at the expense of my client.—
He has called himself (4 it, plain blunt man ;" but,
Gentlemen, these are the words of the craftiest and
subtlest orators of antiquity. Our celebrated Poet
ascribes the words to Mark Antony, who by that
speech blew up afresh the flames of civil war, which
for ever ruined the Roman Republic. My friend
has evidently made some impression on you by his
bluntness. He has said that this was a case of ty•
fanny and oppression, but I complain of great op.
pression,in this action, iaasmuch as he has all the
persons who could give evidence in his favour.—
You are called upon to dip deep into the pockets of
' my client, but you will recollect that he was actually
robbed that night, and that he only wanted evidence
to prove that the plaintiff was one of the thieves.—
Yon recollect, too, the situation and rank of the
plaintiff. The injury to a labouring weaver is not
the same as to you, Gentlemen, or to any of us here.
Other actions, too, are in process for this same act.
The defendant is at your mercy, add I trust you will
tin that mercy with temperance and discretion.
Damages, 450. Costs, 40s.
It appeared in the Crown Court, that even Knowles'
, had been entrapped into the theft by Akersley, and
that both were taken in the act.

TUBNER V. FROST.
The same verdict was taken in this case, which was
,for the same conduct towaids James Turner.