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London, England, 1817-08-07 00:00:00

KENr ASsiZI:S.—MAIDSTONE, AUGUST

The AsF:....s for 0..; Coanty commencyd here to.
day, before Lord Er.t.c%witot.ant in the Nisi Prius
Court, and Mr. Justice DALLAS in the CrwA rt,Court.
On the Civil Side the number of causes entered was
'29, and the prisoners on the Crown Side did not ex.
ceeJ none of the offences b..ung very heinous.

CIVIL SID".
ABRAHAMS CL:117111D, ESQ.
TI;:i Of assault. The tlaMtifr, a
Young ss!ic, sued by Lis next frier..), Judas
Solinnons, cartiv.l on the busiit• ss (if a sl p-seller at
Sio•erltss; and the defendant, at the time of the.
trans 7ction sr,:e.tion, was a Licturna..t.ool,lnel in
fslajes4's service. commanding a regiment ss.a-
timied At Slieernt•ss Barracks, And now me
t el? iment to Inds 4.

It apwared that the defendant, rti.prcting the
plaintiff' to have bought sem regimesital shirts of
some of his men, collo ary to the Mutsu). Act, vrent
to 100 shop, accompanied by a serjean• and two or
fhr e privates, for the purpose of making search.
The plain:iff was at li•st disinclined to s?te • his sl.ps ;
but the delenda 1, insisting upnn examining his
rasgery, found, upon turning over A bundle of old
shots, ne which was instantly recognized, by con-
spicuous marks, to belong to the regiment which the
ddendant commanded Up. 11 demand to yit-ld up
the properly the plaintiff stood upon the tight ut pns-
session, and said lte should n t part with the 'lda
without an eltuvaler.t. The defendant, however,
appealing to miliiary denounced a prosecution
tinder the fsl.ititty Act, for having mill dry st.,tes il-
legally in his possession, unltss the shirt WAS given
up. An altercation elisned, in wl.ich the plaintiff
s.tid, " that the dctend int was no Gentleman to take
away his prnperty in that manner." The defendant
replied, " You rf—d .1: vv.-looking scoundrel, if it was
not for such fellows as yon we rhoold have no thieves,"
and i•wriediattly tunic up the shirt, and was wing off
with it, when the plaintiff, Jet( riniued to have a part.
ing shot, called him " 4 d—d r.tscal." N.it:.er mi.
litary ',cutout., nor nataral feelings, could ht.ir this
cmitplinamt, and the gallant Colonel accordingly
turned back and belaSoared poor ;Moses ttiih his
waikit:g.caue most unmet citully t•ir his
Tne case went to the Jury under the dirt.set!otis tit
the Nibble and Learned Judi,,, .:rd a v:rdict was
found tor the plaintiff—Damages One Farthing.

W001:W.1 I! DS q). LEC.

This was ai,o an action of asLatilt. Mr. Cult-
wooti opened the pleadings, and :qr. Guit:atey stated
the case to the Jury
It appeared that both parties were masters of ee.
remotly ist the etpiiiie department of two inns at
Gravewaid, hem wilich rival stagecoaches started,
uoe call al the 1. td Nelson, and the other the -8k..-
eyed 14,te1. for London. 'Pier plaiutttf, who catered
lair :he Inue•eyed M•id, exceed the envy of the de:
fend int, by the :nimbi r of afilliesents which he enlisted
on the side of his p ss, the latter conceiving that
the girater r.spect was due, in these " piping times
of peace," to the tame and memory of his hero, fur
Wit= he wn lied to manopolize MI the itinerants from
Gravesend to tl.e tnetrop•.fs. For a considerable
time the tiv.al kert within the hotrods of
legitimate errailat;on, but on Sunday, the 1.5e1t of
June last; an inc dent occurred which brought their
exertions to a saliguinai y issue. A soldier, attracted
by t!e cl of the Blue-eyed Maid, paid homage
at her shrine, and was immediately admitted amongst
her votaries; but the ale!endant thinking a hero of
lAiaterl o a titter ally for the hero of the Mir, took
offence at the conquest made by his lair rival, and
immediately comnieuced an attack upon I.er active
champion, to whose it:vs:ions artifice lit attributed
the seduction of the soldier. He planted a dreadful
blow, upon tl:e nas.d prcniontory of die plaintiff's vi•
rage, tioni which immediately gushed a dreadful
hemorrhage, and before he had time to recover the
composure of his nerves, smother blow from the de-
fendant's sinister fide:- put one optics in terni•
ruourning, and utterly incapacitated hint for a riir
trial of his own pugilistic prowess. Ile took refuge
under cover of the Blue.eyed Maid, but his antag,o•
iiist following up the assault with tremendous fury,
laid hirr. prostrate amongst the hon.es' feet, where it
was probable he wuuld have been trampled to death
but for the interposition 01 the by.standers, by whom
he was rescued from his yerilosis situation. anti car•
rigid out of the IreaCil 01 the defendant's further viq-
lence.—The Jury found for the plaintiff, damages 4.0 x
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