The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-17 00:00:00

lIVRTFORD ANNIZES, Jety

Thigh Carhill. IL robust (.skins Yining swan, aged
20, was capitilly indicted for fclonionsly assaulting
tlw Rev. F. W. Fran:Ain, clerk, on the highway, and
taking from his person a watch, chain and seals; anol
other articles, his property. Mr. Price, as Coons." fur
the prwertiiimi, &tailed the following eircams:moces,
whieb were often% arras proved in evidence :—On the
evening of the aid of April last, Mr. Franklin, who is
a clergyman at Hertford, was returning 1 f
London in his gig, and Lad reached about one mile
this aide of Iltblesdon, when two men soddenly
rushed into the road, ore of shone seised the hoe-i's
brad, and the other pooped into the gig, and demand-
ed his money. The prisoner wes the man who held
the horn As Mr. Franklin was feeling in his pocket
for his pu se. the man in the gig saw his watch chain,
and • ediately seized it, and attempted to draw it,
from the fob. Mr. F. Made some resistance to this,
upon whit L the rubber called out to his companion ('lie
prisoner) " Hive me a pistol, and I will Mow. out Isis
brains." The prisoner then left the hurte r. head, and
jumped into the gig; and the other pulling Mr. Frank-
lin over to one side, the i.risssiter :seized hint by the
legs and threw over int P the road. .1 hey gut dowse,
and were proceeding to ride his pockets, when- a
%%onion, named Catharine --1131.1rOCIA, ('55151. np, and seia-
ing the 'prisoner, draggy I him pdf 31r. F. The other
ran away. The prisoner was stk.!' afterwards :.:ccured.
On him too sham pistols were found, whirls were formed
of bras., nitiled on to pieces of %%old, but were uot cal-
culated to do any serious injury. The Jury, without
hesitation, found the prisoner louilt)—I : but re-
cowmen letl him to mercy, on a Mill! fit of his youth.
JuLv I.—fues ph !Laymen', aged IM, and William
Hew, aged ►I. were convicted of burglary and theft
at the house of John FCIISOIII, at Ilitehio ; and Armee
aura Joseph .dlobi.tre of receiving the stAeu property.
James Aldrige was forthwith sentenced to transport*.

lion fur foarte•en years.
Juhm Curler and Thermos Brrtid;,•r, were indicted
fur entering a certain close belonging to Joseph An-
drew Latour, Esq. at Heston, in this county, with in-
tent illegally to kill game, and being there found with
lire arms in their possession. A second count charged
them with assaulting Win. Darby and Joseph Godfrey,
with intent to murder them. In a third count, they
were charged with a minims's assault. No evidence
was offered on the first count, Mr. Justice BASLET
having expressed an ',pinion at a former Assist., when
another person was tried fur being concerned in this
affair, that that charge could not be sustained ; and
the Jury entertaining a similar opinion as to the second
eOlllll, found them linilty only of a common assault.
The Judge immediately sentenced them to a year)
imprisonment each, and, at the ens, of that time, to
timid suretie.; for their g. ..rd loch.tviuur for tot years.

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7. All
James Dot;er, Grorgis.ally Grev4, and II
Crtiekeil; Were pM 'to thez*bar, upon as intlieitnent
rhargiug them with ammo of the same nature as
those contained in the hint, with the additional eliaree
lir attempting to shout Thomas Wakefield, Thomas E.
Dogitett, and others.
Ir. PLAT' detailed the following nets, which were
afterwards proved in eridence:—On the evening of
the 2911► of January, last, Wakefield and others, game-
keeper anti assistants to the Rev. Sir John Flinger,
Hart. who is proprietor of an estate near IVatford,
were on the watch for poachers, and met the four pri-
soners and several others, armed, souse with guns, and
the remainder with bludgeons. As might be expected,
a rents/titre took place, during which shots were tired
ion both sides, anti one of the poachers was wounded
in the hip. They then came to close quarters, and the
gamekeepers were most terribly beaten, two being left
senseless and welterint• in bleutl. The w hole of the
twitchers made their escape, and only the four prisoners
were snbsequeutly apprehended.
The mietlemeenour (going out at night armed with
inteut to kill game) was clearly brought home to them I
by wine pheasants, recently killed, being found in a
bag where the scuffle took place, and they were foal
guilty upon that'conut.
l'he Co/emus SKeartY r, who tried them, sentenced
the whole four forthwith to transportation for seven
years. !vim; the highest punishment awarded by the
statute.
he Assizes terminated this Jay, when the
fulluw-
iug prisoners reerived sentence of death, viz.:-
11,mila% Brothers and James Neighbour. for house-
breaking ; Hugh Curtail, for highway robbery ; Jo-
ftepl, Jennings and W. Slough, for sheep-stealing :'
shserpla Rat-meld and Williang flupt, fur burglary; and
Charles Smith, for hoise-stealing.
1l iliia+u Slough was left for 'aeration. The others
were reprieved heron the Judges left the town.

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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FOR THE LAST WEEK.

Though the weather during the latter part of the wed )12,
been warmer than the beginning. the tlouds and gloom ME
have 'prevailed have been uncongenial to the season, sad
greater than usual when nnaecompanied with rale. It h"
been very (*lvor:ruble. however, fur the hay-harvest, led forpromoting the vegetation, if not the maturity of the other
crops. Np other at movherie appearance has occurred tolls
of any extraordinary kind ; hut w e I,.arn that, oa datankr
sennight, a few minbtes past II o'clock, a very b-idivi.i.
meteor passed rapidly over Leilli. in a direction from seer;
west to north-east. The ray of light which it entitled sal of
' • pure white colour. ai.d iu magnitude equal to No polies,.
Strand. July Id.

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TIIFIthIOIIIIITIII,
S I 1 , 1 1 I amunneTta,
o'clotk. o'clock. at night.
July -
p, m..... 60 81 I 67 20,46 Fair
10. M. .. . 67 es 1 69 30.10 i Fair
11, TII. .. Ott 09 1 54 X 1.16 Irak
12. W. .. . 69 00 50 30.08 I Fair
11. Th. .. 37 I 4)1 55 29,91 as*
It, F.... SR 114 02 20.94 ' Claw.
15. 8. ... .el 74 — i 111.05 I Pali'
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MARY POR TIIIC PRKsr,VT WEEK,
WITH Tux men sr HIGH WATER AT LONDON•CIMIL

July
18, .s.—Seventh Stmtlay after Trinity.
High Water—morn. m. after 7; even. 50 ao. err.
17, M —Venus sets 21 in. after 8 even.
1110 Water—morn. 14 m. after 8; even. 38 ia.aftetti.
18, T;--Iloon first quarter at 11 morn.
High Water—morn. 3m. after 9; even. ?Om. after
19. W.—Do y 15 h. .24 in. Icrlg.
High Watrr—morn. Ii tu. after 9; e% !I. NIB. after
90. Th.—Margaret.
IVater—morn. 30m. ar.-r 10; men. Um. fter 11.
21. F.—Div deer. 0 h. 42 ru.
High Water—morn. 24 113. after 11; el en. 49m. after 11.
22, S.—:llngdalen.
High iVater—worn. ilai. after I? ; even. r :n. arleri2.