The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-27 00:00:00

KENT ASSIZES.

MAIDSTONE, JULY 25 —The Assises for this Coun•
cwouweaced here to-day, before Lord Chief Justice
bbott. In the Nisi Prins Court, and Mr. Baron
loud, in the Crown Court. In the latter, the busi-
ness, in point of amount, is nnusally small, the Ca-
lendar containing nut more than 77 rases. Of these,
however, several are very bunions crimes. Besides the
case of James Nesbet for the Woolwich Murder,
which is expected to be tried on Friday, there are a ,
child murder, two cases of rutting and maiming, two
rapes, several burglaries, seven hank of England pro-
secutions, &c. &c. The rause list in the former con-
tained 37 entries out of 44 venires which had been
brought down. Nothing of very general intertst
occurred in the Crown Court to-day.
William Butler, being indicted for uttering forged.
Bank of England notes, pleaded Guilty to the miser,
&fence, of knowingly having forged notes in Ibis re.
session, and was sentenced to 14 years traelpallS
tainr—t4e prosecutors forbearing to give @MO& le
support of the capital charge.
civil. SIDE.
EVANS W. BEST.—This was an action by a linen-
draper of Dover. to recover the amount of a bill de-
livered to the amount of £4O for goods supplied to the
defendant, whilst she lived separate from her hus-
band, with the plaintiff's knowledge.
Mr. Gurney and Mr. Balland were for the plain-
tiff. and Mr. Marryat and Serjeant Teddy for the de-

fendant.
The sale sad delivery of the goods in question were
regelarly proved. It was suggested in the opening
that the defendant, by a series of the Most cruel acts,
had driven his wife from his house, and hid literally
turned her out of doors, and that the goods supplied
her by the plaintiff were necessaries suitable to her
condition.
Several witnesses were called to prove these facts,
lint, on their sroes•examioatios, it appeared that the
defendant. a wealthy brewer. at Chatham, had married
Mrs. Best. after she had been for some time living
with Mtn is a state of concubines* ; that previous to
that time she was a notorious Cyprian ; that after they
were married they lived like eat and dog. and gene-
rally taught most furiously after dinner. when both
were in a date of intoxication ; that at length Mrs.
Best voluntarily eloped from his house, carrying off
with her a Carriage load of all sorts of wearing appa-
rel ; she had two dozen pairs of new silk stockings,
two ilosen pairs of new shoes, fec.
The Chief Jostles under these circumstances, and
Wore the defendant's ease was roe into, ruled
that the action world not lie. There were In bet
two defenses to the action. In the first place Mrs.
Best had voluntarily sloped, and in the seemed she
hatearried elf such quantities of clothing. that she
could not be said to be in want of necessaries. A
tradesman. like the plaintiff, trusts a married woman
at his peril, if he knows -that the Is living separate

from her husband. If she was living with her
husband, the case would be quite different—Mt-
suited.

WILTSHIRE, Just .111 LT 24.

Mr. Justice Burrough arrived here ow Saturday
evening, and opened the commission in the usual
manner. The business in both courts is extremely
light, the calendar containing only 35 prisoners, with
no one crime of magnitude. There is one prisoner
charged with uttering forged Bank-notes.
Batman Y. Woonmasi.—This was the case of a too
credulous damsel and a false-heated swain, and was
an action—not fur any breach of promise, although
the swain bad subsequently united himself to another,
but for the consequences of a too-fondly judulged
hope. Miss Brewer, the plaintiff, was a maiden of
about 30 years of age, residing at l'hippenhatn, at
which place Mr. Woodman, the defendant, carries on
the trade of a mason. Miss Brewer was in the posses-
sion of money to the amount of two or three hundred
pounds, which Mr. Woodman was in want of to com-
plete a purchase. In an unlucky moment, and with-
out any thing as a security tint the hope of becoming
Mrs. Woodman, Miss Brewer drew 220 L of her pro-
perty from the hands of her bankers, and consigned it
over to her iauadcd. /ler evidence of money lent
consisted in the banker deposing that Miss Brewer
had drawn out the money in question, and in her sis-'
ter seeing a roll of notes, and hearing the defendant
say he would pay the principal and interest, but with-
out naming the sum. Under these circumstances the
parties agreed to a reference to Mr. °rant, under
which both parties were to be examined on oath as to
the sum actually advanced.