The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-31 00:00:00

ALLLN P. X 11:611ALL *ND OTNIXII.

This was an action brought by a lad of the name of
rcsbling; near Totness, against Dr. Marshall. a
physician of some eminence, and 3lessm Edwards an
Harris, her sous-in-law, to recover a compensation ie
damages fur being taken from her home, and confined
in the Lunatic Asylum at Exeter, on the plea of inuarv,
from whence she was iu a %hart time liberated. The
general natcre of the case was stated with notch feeling
by Mr. Serjeant Pk:LI ; hut as the trial in fact ended
with the Learned Scrjeaut's opening, and is the chirps
hail no opportunity of le•nr answered, it would be to:-
prover to ricer int., At the close of the ooettior
Mr. th.ron 11.000ev.re.sell his opinion very stroncly
that it teas a very ant case to be submitted to a Jury,
aird 00000 therefore, a settlement by some mu-
tual !demi. Mr% .t!lco was in (*owl, and

r. Serjeaut PELL the observations of
the Learned att:;ing to it fiis own concurrence.
but te.dinr that he rotihi stop the cause without the
consent of his client. The solicitor fur the lady withtlrew
with her, and after the I:tpse 9n.trter of an hour, he
returned u ith her Consent to tsitlitiraw a juror, upon

whirle
Mr. Karon' ools declare I that she had riven a most
decided I f that she was now in her senses.
A juror was acenr.iingiy withdrawn, it being under-
stoo by the d, an, that Ito farther procedings
could be had against them.
On the Crown bidets-It uncle and lime nephews. lirinr
between Hole and Bristol, were arraigned for wholesale
dealings, not only in onfoxlidee, or passing forged owes,
also in bars"-slealing. Their practice was to steal
in their own neighhettrhood, awl to seek a market at
Plymouth. Ten cases of horseetealitif lead been traced
home to them. They 101 were ?Milted to plead guilty
to the minor offence, with regard to the Bank-notes: and
one was f I guilty of Itorseotelling, who, it is es-
?octet'. will suffer death. 51r. Justice Burrough declined
trying the other four.

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SURRA* LE.Yr eISSIZES, MAitcfr

The A•sires for this county fini,hed this morning at
eleven o'clock.
The following capital consists receired sentence di
death, viz.:•—ilonry Payne aid Jam* Woolwich, fo#
sheep-steali:ig: William Taylor, Autoioe Baptiste,
James Proem, John Williams, Joseph Drernfield, and
Willi.itii Cain, for burglary; John Moore, John Ash-
ton, William Dimitt, Thomas Ml• Daniel, and James
James, for straliog in a dwelling-house; Charles
l)rewett, James li`Vi••ken', Daniel Cork, James Bar-
ton, and Edward James Maddox, for highway. lob-
bery ; John Reece, for privately stealing in a shop;
William Worstield, Sainnel tlatwaril, John Warren,
and Sar.:ll Williams, for uttering forged Bank of Eng-
land notes.

Jane Palme►, an interesting looking girl, aged
was indicted, on the Coroner's inytisitittn, fur the t,
fttl murder of William liregory, on the 25th of August
last. The Grand Jury bad thrown out a bill fur murder,
but returned a hill fur manslaughter.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. TUnTON, and
the defence by Mr. ANDREWS.

It appeared: in evidence, that the deceased was an el-
cleric man, and hawked pies about the streets in the Bo-
rough. On the day mentioned in the indictment, the
prisoner, who was beastly drunk, met the deceased in
ll'ebher-rmr, about one o'clock in the afternoon, and
asked him for a ?ie. Ile gave her one, wide!' she ate,
and she desired him to let her hare another, and after
eating that she demanded a third, which he refuse I to
give her, saying. " l'ay me what you owe me fire."—
She bad some halfpence in her band, which she offered
Ishii. He said, " u, you owe sixpence, pay me that."
She still demanded the pie, hut he still refused ; upon
which she snore at him, and abused him. She then bit
hint on the head with her list, on the temple two or three
blows, and putting her arms round his neck, hit him
again as hard as she could on the head and breast.
1 he deceased called out for help to the hy-standers, not
being able to assist hiss...elf, his pie-pan being strapped
round his neck. Souse of the spectators took the de-
ceased from her; she tried to get at him again, and re-
peated her abuse : she said she would pay him ott
rise deceased lint his hand to his breast, and said Ise
was a dead man. He walked away, leaning by the wall.
In ten minutes afterwards he WAS Seen sitting down in
a breathless state ; lie attempted to walk away again,
and after going about six yards lie said, " I Can Walk no
further." He was then taken home to his lodgings in
a cart, and in live minutes afterwards he died. There
appeared to have been no malice on tie part of the pri-
soner, and the i:eceased had knots is her before.
tin the cross-examination of the witnesses, it was
proved that the deceased had kicked the prisoner during
the scuttle. . .

Mr. J: Cooke. a surgeon, said he examined
Lofty of the fleceurti. There was a rontusion over the
lett eye. occasioned by a blow or fall. On opening the
fowl he (mind some extravasated blood on the brain ;
the skull was not injured, but what be observed on the
brain was to produce death. The chest and
ablonien were unhurt. The deceased appeared to have
been in bad health, and of a wesk habit of hotly. Apo-
plexy might have produced an extravasation of blood on
the brain. l'Assion and exertion might have produced
apoplexy, but probably in this case it was occasioned by
a blow or fall. _

The prisoner, in her defence, stated, that the deceased
bad kicked her before she struck him, and she called a
witness to prove that he had kicked her on her side, and
that she lird not struck him until then. _

Mr. Heron BARROW charged the Joey to consider,
first, whether the death of the deceased was occasioned
be the act of the prisoner; because, if nut, she was en-
titled to he acquitted altogether; and next, whether,
if it was so occasioned, there appeared to have been in
the prisoner any malice direct or implied, because, if
there was nu tualice she must be aqui:telt of the charge