The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-02 00:00:00

ASSIZES.

KINGSTON, Msncn SI.
.• 'tater(lay afternoon the Loan CIIIF.F BARON and
.Mr. Justice Geese arrived in town for the purpose
of holding the Aisixes. They Immediately opened
their Commissions, and heard Divine Service. This
morning they proceeded to the business.of their re-
spective Courts ; the Lord Chief Baron sat on the
Civil Side, and Mr. Justice Grose tried the pri-
soners; but the business of the day was wholly unin-
teresting.Thieea
se which occupied the greater part of the
day was a case of Page v. Layton and another, which
was an action of .trespass, to which the Defendants
pleaded a right of way over the Plaintiff's ground ;
ail(' a great number of old witnesses were examined
•to substantiate the right. After lasting four hours,
the Jury found for the Plaintiff—Damages One
Shilling.
CRIMINAL SIDE.
Mr. Justice GROSE did not commence so early on
the Criminal Side, and this Court to-day afforded no
ease of interest or importance.
ll'hite was convicted of stealing a 201.
I: Bank-note, the property of William Manners, Esq.
The prison: 1. White was the servant of Mr. Man-
-ners, and the Prosecutor having purchased some ma-
nure of a person of the name of Ladd, at the price
' of 101. was also indebted to 4nothev person for cart-
I.ing the skme, tQ the amount of 61 ; the Prisoner told
his master, just as he was about to leave home for
Some time, that those two persons had called for
r payment. • Mr. Manners said, that if they called in
i•bir, absence, the Prisoner was to ask Mrs. Mannets
; for the money. The Prisoner accordingly, during
I the course of the day, applied to his mistress for the
money, pretending that it had been called for. She
gave Itim the 201. note, which he took into the town
' (Epsom), where he got it changed, having received
fifteen 11. Bank. of England notes, and M. in silver.
He then re(arned home, took his limy awl clothes,
and several articles of the wearing apparel of his
master, together with a pistol, and various other
articles belonging to the house, with which he ab-
sconded. lie was afterwards apprehended at Seven
Dials, by a Bow-street Officer, who found fourteen
•of the notes, and 31. 15s. in silver, upon him, which
fie confessed was part of the change he received for
'the 201. note given him by Mrs. Manners.
The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced him
Guilty. •
' Ames Gudgeon was indicted for breaking and en-
tering the dwelling-house of Mr. Squires, no person
being therein, in the day time, and stealing various
articles therefrom. It appeared that the Prisoner
Gudgeon was a lodger in the house of Squires; and
while the latter was absent, the Prisoner broke into
the rooms occupied 'by the Prosecutor Sjuirei and
his other lodgers, who were also absent, and stole
every thing he could carry off. The Prosecutor
heard nothing of the Prisoner (who had decamped)
for a considerable time, the robbery being committed
in Dec. 1810, until he was brought into Chelmsford
poi, in October last, upon another charge. Squires
than peat to Chelmsford, and identified a smock
tree) to which the Prisoner was found, as being his
owe, and stolen from his house. Besides this, there
was a sliver watch found upon the Prisoner, whisk
was identified by one Browning, who also lodged
• • with Squires, and who was also robbed at the same
time.--The Jury found him Guilty.