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KENT ASqZES.
MAIDSTONE, TUESDAY, MARCH 20.
Yesterday the Lotto CHIEF BARON and .Mr.
Justice HEATH arrived in this town, for the pur-
pose of holding„the Assize.. This morning, after
heariiig Divine service, they prneeeded to their
respective Courts : Mr. Justice EIL tTII sat on the
Crown side, and the Lou CHIEF BARON on the
Civil bide..

CIVIL SIDE.
DUBS ARtSQUE V. Slit PDERN•

Mr. Serjeant SUEPIIERD stated, that the Plain.
tiff its this case was a young Officer of the Royal
Staff Corps, and the Defendant was the Mayor
of Ilythe. The action was biought to recover a
compensatioe in damages for an assault committed
by the Defendant on the 'persist) of the Plaintiff.
He had, it was teue, not to complain of any great
personal injury, but he expected a compensation
for the wounded feelings of this piing gentleman.
He trusted the Jury would by their verdict en.
courage. this appeal to the Civil Law, rather than
having recourse to that fatal alternative, which
frequently end d in the most distressing conse-
quence! to the friends and Connections of those
cone:ernes!, They would recollect how delicate
was the honour of a suldier, and that a blow was
the most grievous insult which could be inflicted
on a man of that profession, as giving a stain to
his character far Mere grievous than any wound.
He would now state the circumstances of the case:
—The Plaintiff, he had already informed them,was
a young man not quite 17 years of age, who had
but lately before joined the Staff Corps, then
quartered at Ilythe; and on the 20th day of July
last, walking down the street, in company with
another Officer, he passed the house of the De-
fendant, Mr. Shipdcrn. It seemed that at the
parlour window of the Defendant there was a box
of mignionette, and as the Plaintiff passed he
plticked a single stem of it, for the purpose of
smelling. No sooner bad he done it but the.De-
fendatet rushed out of his house, and for this sole
aeons violently seized him by the cellar, and
finally drove him against the wall. It fortunately
happened that Colonel Nicotai, the Officer com-
manding the corps, was within view at the time,
and although the young gentleman was not in his
regimentals, he knew him. His attention was
Called to the spot by the, exclamation of his Lady,
who was accompanying him. He immediately
hastened to the spot, and observed to Mr. Ship-
dere, that he conducted himself very hastily;.
upon which Mr. S. replied, that the Plaintiff had
conducted himself as a boy, and must• be chat.
toed as a boy. The young gentleman felt, as
might be supposed a young suldier'would feel at
such an insult, but at the sante time he had the
good conduct to submit to the judgment of his
Colonel, who promised him he would take care
he had honourable redress. Under the advice and
guidance of that • Honourable Officer, he had,
I.brought the present action, and • he trussed',
Jury would give bins such damages as wnsW
mark their disapprobation of the conduct of the
Defendant.
Colonel Nicolai was called, who stated the
transaction in the same manner as the Learned
Counsel had done, to which he added, that he its.
formed Mr. Shipdern, if any Otficer of the corps
were to misconduct himself, he was always, rewly
to give every redress which his situation, as Corn.
mending Officer, enabled him to give. To this
Mr. Shiptlern replied, he was not going to con.
descend to Colonel Nicolai ; bethought himself as
good a man as the Colonel, &c. On cross-exa..
titillation, he said, Mr. S. said it was the accond
time dtiring that day that the Plaintiff had plucked
some of the mignionette, but he did nut see that
he had plucked a hires, quantity.
Mr. Serjeant Best., for the Defendant, admit.
ted that a verdict must be given against his client;
lost he contended, that the thoughtless and vex-
atious conduct of the Plaintiff brought upon him:
self the chastisement he had received.
The LORD CHIEF Haltom, in summing up, told
the Jury, that Mr. S. had acted with less gravity
than became a man in his office ; but at the same
time there was no evidence to shew, that he knew
the Plaintiff bore his Majesty's commission.
The Jury found for the Plaintiff--Damages Is.
GREGORY V. ORMEROD AND ()VMS.
This was an action of trespass for seizing the.
Plaintiff's goods, to which the Defendants, being
Sheriffs' Offic4re, pleaded in justification, that
they seized them by virtue of a writ of execution.
It however appeasing that the writ expired on
the Saturday, and they- kept possession until the
Monday, the Plaintiff.bada verdict, and Is. Da.
wages.
BILRY V, Ott MEIROD AND OTHERS.
This was another action ow the same transaC.
(lon, in which tbp,PlejaliCalleged, the goods of
Cregory, the last Plaintiff,.liarl been sold to him
before the writ of execution was levied. It all.
peered in evidence, that Gregory, having' a ver-
dict against him at the suit of one Hennet, as he
stated, sold the goods in question to the Plaintiff
to avoid the judgment ; but it appeared, on the
.cruss-esamination, that Shepherd, wife introduced
him to the purchaser, was his fellow-prisoner in
the King's Bench, and the broker was also a re.
sident Within the Rules, and that they remained
,un the .premises with Grego:es servant in. the
house; that `•aileteleyyrwee,....ealaitittelly himpelf
there, and the Planitdr Bility:was never there et
,all. Under these cirdumstancea, Mr. GARROWI
for the Defendant, contended, that the whole was
fraudulent sale, with a view to defeat Henna of
k the fruits of his verdict. .
The Jury cuntweed in the same opinion) and
found a verdict for-the Defendants.
There was nothing Material on the Crown side.

On'Thursday last a meeting' took place between
F—y C r and Q cA.
Cork, Esq. On the first fire Mr. C. received a
w.,,ind in the right arm, *filch, by the immediate
assistance of Mr. 11. a surgeon, Was.rendered,com-
paratively trilling, and the ,fair was amicably
settled.

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M A estort-Hoassz.—Yesterday John Klee)) was
again briiught before the Loan NtaTon, be hav-
ing been charged the day before with showing him-
self in a very indecent way at different times to
little girls in their way to and front school. Three
of these girls with their mothers appeared, the
latter of whom said that they wished, for the sake
of the Prisoner's wife and children, that-he mil:lit
be forgiven for the present, on his promising never
again to offend in like manner, They thinking he
must have been in liquor. His wife attended, and
gave her husband a good character; and promising
never to behave so again, he was discharged, with a
pewit admonition.
CHARGE OF MURDER.
ilow-sTatET.--Yesterday Thomas Ramp was
bruught to the, Office, in the, custody of Bacon,
charged on .suspicion of the wilful murder of
George. Harris. •
I Eli Lbeth Bedworth, of Brentford, said, that on
Saturday week, abort half past eight o'elookin
the evening, she was walking with the deceased in.
Brentford, when the Prisoner met them, and
pushed her off the pavement, upon which the de-
ceased turned ruuud and asked the Prisoner why
i he had acted so? when the Prisoner, in reply, sail
I to the deceased, ii .D,) you know who you are
talking to? yeuaretalking to a gentleman, said not
a blackguard like yourself." The Prisoner then
immediately gave this deceased a violent blow and
knocked hint down ; he fell on the pavement on
his batik, and his head struck against a stone; the
deceased gut up directly, without makieg any Com.
pleiat,. and said he would light, and they went
laway together.
Robert Smith said, he saw the Prisoner strike
the (Imaged, and he fell ; the witness went to
his assistance,• and he sat up, when his mouth was
full of blood ; the Prisoner and.the deceased went
away to fight in a more couvenient place, and he
followed them ; they fought about half an hour,
during w-hich time they both frequently fell, the
deceased, however, oftener than the Prisoner; at
length the Prisoner gave in.
Nathaniel Samson, a surgeon of Newßrent.
ford, said,- that on Saturday eveaiug, the 10th in-
stant, he was sent for to look at the deceased, and
found hint in a total state of insensibility, desti:ute
of the powers of motion* and sensation, with a
wound on his lip and right eye, and notwithstand-
ing remedies were applied, he died alroot four
o'clock in the afternoon of the Monday tstifisieing,
till which time lie remained in a state of instanti.
bility. On the Tuesday morning. lie opened the
body, and discovered a rupture in one or more
vessels in the brain, and extravasation of blood
therein, which produced a pressure, and conse-
quent death ; and which, ho apprehended, arose
from a fall or falls, as there atil 'tit appear any
bruise or fracture, the lip and eye4i3 bele; super.
ficial wounds. . •
The Piisoner was ordered ,to. find bail, on a
charge of manslaughter, which be accordingly did,
and was liberated.
On Saturday sennight Sir Godfrey Weboer's
trunk, of considerable value, was stoli', from his
house, in Clifford-street, and discovered in ibe fol.
lowing extraordinary manner, : -A short time since,
a gentlemae's servant, out of place, of the name of
1:Collins, went to lodge at the -I se of William
Hartley, Huegerfiird-biarket.l A few days since,
Collins Offered Hartley far sale trig.silver tea-spoons,
ler twelve ihillings, aod.several other articles or
value equally cheap.-? Hartley having been for.
merly.one of the patrols: n belt /110 g to the Pub-
liciollice, Bow-attest,, was custvirictd he had nut
come holiest'', by them, and he 'contrived to get
sight of a umiak -which Collin) bad a fete days
before brought, into the house; but that had not
the owner's name on it, bat it had the maker's
name, and by -that means Hartley traced out that'
it had becu purchased by Sir Godfrey Websfer,o
.to whose house he went and inquired if they had,
been robbed, whet? the steward told him a trunk`
(till of plate hail been stolen, and which proved to
be the same. as Collins had taken to Hartley's
house. Collins. was in consequence taken to Bow..
street Office, and committed for further examines'
nation, by Mr. NA QM
Coiling had been occasionally employed by
Sir Goilfre)'s. steward to assist in cleaning the
plate. • s
HATTON GA RDETC---Yesterday, Margaret
Smith, about 25 years of age, underwent a second:
examination, charged %ilk the mettle, of J.. Beans
a nurse in the insane ward of Clerken well Poore
house, a few mornings since, because she would,
not give the Prisoner a half 'holiday, upon which
the fury of the Prisoner became violent, who' beat
her about the head with a clmber-put, and,, wit*.
a broken piece, tore her left eye put, and damag.
eil the right. The surgeon who attended the de-
ceased in ,St. Bartisadonsiw'm Hospital, stated, that
she died with an inflammation on the brOin, flint%
loss of blood, and contusions on the head. A ne.
cessary witness being absent, she was committed
for another hearing. Although she is only of the
above age, she stays She is 94, and has nine chit-
. dren, which is not the case.
SuAnwer.L.—Yeitcr4y. Mary French, well
known at the Sessions, Was fully committed fur
trial, charged with robbing Mr: James Foster, of
Ratcliff, of various articles of valuable goods.
Nary Allen. and. Mars Brown were- eciiiiimitted
6inura-exkunimatio9, Charged ',Atli robbing a gene-
rous seaman in Rattcliff Highway, of a sum of mu.
Dry be had reserved for an aged relative.

Friday last, an affray took place between two
French prisoners, in ,the Royal Prissin at Dart.;
moor, in which one of them drew his knife and
stabbed the other through the'heart..
11YonlornostA.—Monday Wahl& died,' !led
21, Mr. Henry S.tvago, joiner, of Holt Ilan). This
unfortunate young man was bitten in the fore-
finger by a inatl dog, about 15 weeks ago, and
had the part rut out hr to sorem.n two hours al-
ter. The finger had aiip.treisity lienied, and he
felt no further inconvenience till the Sattirday
previous to Ilk death, winos he was sudden') taken
ill, accompanied with all the ilreadfal-symptunksita