The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-26 00:00:00

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BRISTOL ASSIZES, Acc.24.

The Commission for the Annual Assizes for this
►•if,. it as opened on Thursday evening last by Mr.
Eaton GRAHAM, bat in crmseq•lvnce of the greet
r rit44 of civil hesiness at Bridgewater.the court here
oas astjourned till Satiably, at ten o'clock. Seven-
spell's:llnel Wort' covered, siz of which were Special
Juri►s; the litter being of an important nature, has
Wei: the means of extending the Assizes several days
t05i..11.1 the usual time. On Saturday several ens.
enn•r Jury causes w►re disposed of, but the subject
being within the limits of the cite, were little
citleulsted for general interest. Yesterday three
Fl'cr:alJery caves were tried, all relating to com.
rr«rrial transactions. The only one which pos-
.,. xsed any thing vast of the COOllllOO way, ens the
cause of

cellar being unscrewed, awslaceesed on again slightly •
go into the cellar to we that is right, once or
twice a ;seri:. The screws on the lock were not so ;
sight as they might is be. Oa the Siturclay evriling
I went into the cellar and remained there all night ;
on the following morning, Charles Roberts and John
Speak cause iuto the cellar with cans; and 1 shet
them ep I. the passage, and secured them. 'they
had then got into the cellar over the doorway, be.
twist the iron rails. Speak was taken into custody

afterwards.
Jobs Speak ezamined.—l was taken sp with one
of the Prisoners, on a charge of stealing beer. The
Prisoner was in Sir Watkiit's service in July last :
we were both helpers in the stable. The Prisoner
asked me to go into the cellar and fetch a little table-
beer, about • week before I was caught. I went
with him, and we got into the cellar over the door
which opens into the servants'-hall. The door was
locked; we took alma foor gouts of beer. The
board was loose over the celler.door, and we had
li nothing to do hot lift it op, and get into the cellar.
It was the small, weak beer which we took, what
people would call ale any where else. Williams
1 end I took sonic, end pat it into the cepboerd in
the meanie-hall, till after we bad finished oar sta.
Wine ; we then drank it.
,Martin was recalled, to speak to the Wee of the
liquor; he first said it was worth twopence per
quart, but afterwards reduced his valuation to a
pent).
Speak, in continnation.—F.Jward Adam and Henry
Hodkinson helped to drink it. llodkinson was saber
of the servants' hall.
Martin, to a question by the Cuter ivreice.—
There was always an opening over the cellar door,
bet I did not think shy body could get in. •
Tleeleas Hughes, clerk to Mr. Browne, of Win-
Mr., the Megistrate's clerk, produced the stamina-
ties and confession of the Prisoner, which he bad
volintarily signed. It appeared, that to obtain the
beer, they polled est the cork at the bottom of the
barrel, and ran it into a japanned can.
The Cutts Justice .sawed up the evidence. Ile
observed, that the Jury might give credence to as,
accemplice,lf be appeared in Court es a 'efficient wit.
COSI; bet they ought not to give the sue degree el(
ancient* to him, as to a man whose credit bail neves;
been impeached. This was the opinion of Judge
Haller, and of the first law authorities of the country;
who alto declared that a Jury might convict even es
each testimony, if it was sufficiently stroug and cone
elusive. Ile would not omit mentioning, that dr;
eelier-door..appeared to be left in a moat insecure mad
lecaullOos state.
II The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty of stealing to
Ilthe value of 41.
There was another indictment against Wilhelm,
but the At rosiarv-ULNEN.AL declined proceeding
with it
In passing sentence, the JUDGE remelted, that
the evidence ma which the Prisoner had been convict-
ed was perfectly satisfactory, and the crime was
dark and offensive, although the value of the property
was not large. It was breaking up and destroy is` i
that confidence which masters must of Necessity place
la their 'emote when absent ; and the Court tkoeght
it proper to make so 'sample, that the present pro..
motion might operate as an wapiti to servants ge-
nerally. The sentence of the Court, therefore, was, i
that the Prisoner be committed to the House of Cm- i
teethe(' to hard labour for the space of six months,
and then be discharged.
Charles Roberts, another of Sir Watkin's Is,
was then indicted on a similar charge. The evidence,
against him rested altogether on the testimony of
Speak sod Henry Hodkinsost. The Prisoner made
no defence.
In recapitulating the evidence, the Juouc said,
that the present charge had sot the corroberatieg
support which the last case possessed for it altoge-
ther depended or the degree of credit to lie given to
lien accomplices eqsally guilty with the P:isoner.
The Jary laid their heeds together for a consider.
able time, sod the Come was about to address them,
when the Forams said Guilty, one of the is y add-
ing, that the reason they bed been so lone in deli-
vering their verdict was, became so fez.; of the Jury
urnkrstood the English language.
'foe Prisoner was sentenced to ids months' impri-
sonment in the Hasse of Correction, to bard labour.

HEATLIT V. c•nrcys•
‘Vhich was an action opium an underwriter for the
loss of the slip Friends. in Bede Harbour, in the
wands of January last. The Plaintiff, in the first
instance set op an akendonment, bet failed, and was
trinced to claim en scrap % which he stated at 851.
,per cent.
A witness Ws. eteudeed Ate surveyed the ship
after the storm bad driven her ashore, and who esti.
tasted the repairs at 3231. ; bat Bode being a very bed
%arbour, and pnisossing no amens of reparation, the
C: timid direcoll the ship to be sol.l through the
meaty of a Mr. parley.* merchant of Butte, Mho
11..r1 been appointor) by the Defendant to du the but
vcith the !hip. She was accordingly put op for
see. and Mr. Davey snaking' use of the name o(
ether persons, became the purchaser of the hull and
. the greater part of the doting. This circumstance,
achich came net spots the cross ezawsinatino of Mr.
Paley. himself, was uteri! by Mr. Serjeant PILL for
ti-• Defendant, sea complete proof that all was not
right. and more particularly at it turned out that the
vessel bad been repaired by Dewey frr 691. only, and
was now in Weal employment, hating more than
ernes. revisited Bede.
The Jury robed, and in shoat half an boor re.
turned their verdict for 441. per cent. emenanting on
Or. '2(.01. the estent of the Defendant's liability,
to

R CIRCUIT.

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DEN tti'..lFsittr.r. (.ItEea 1114.10K1n. Ann. 21.
Aft•r Mein* sie•vize on SOurity, des Coast was
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cpcned in.the coo ninary manner.
• The 0110 of Mr. Justice Wartime was to the
foliewielj, put ;im. :—lle •as softy, on this being
::,e first hate he hid ?he 'ironer Is preside on that
8ey.... , •.•.rt he slcul.l find the Cskoder, although
by on nieyn. nuruci. .s. nevertheless cotstsining two
cases of corder, ra.d •notht r of vest enormity,
1111 mhich he would then 'void thiscrib*.4. To Gentle.
inert possessing the esperience owl discrimination JI
those before him, it ass unnecessary to offer any
the cri.ne nf morder. With respect, however, to the
UN of Mary Juoell, it world not be improper to
state the Ism as it stood at proseut. It was not al-
nv)s as it is now : by Statute 21 Jac. I. the women
sc.:used, unless she a as able satisfactorily to prove the
child ar as horn ‘ lite, it was considered she lied destroy-
I'd it; ;nil the I emalned sotilt the 40th year of the
preerot King's gn,wht nit was attend. The Jury
wrashl sccoraingly consider the facts in this, es in all'
ither cases, not being bound by any specific evil- I
desire, but on the gettingl testimony which shoed be
P ildeced spinet the Prisoner, not from one single cit..
tumstance. but (tom all the rvidence which would bel
b.nocht before amis. By the Statute of the 10th of Ilse,
present King, the Jury might acquit of the mesder,bot i
find a bill for concealing the birth ; and, on conviction, i
Ile Prisoner would be liable to any period of kn.
prisonment cot exceeding two avers. As to the
taw in tee Calendar. marked N... 3 (the murder i
. f Themes Jones), it would be suffitient for him (the
Chief Justice) to state the line of distinction which
it.e law drew betwiat murder and manslaegklee:
murder could not esi,t unless by proof of @awned
or implied malice sforethought, under the infloence
of which death was effected; het if oo malice could
Improved, then the cause of death wai only mind
slaughter. It would be for the Jury In say, 'slather
the deceased was kilted maliciously, in 'cool blood,
by a predetermination of the Prisoner ; or whether in
tested blond, es in a sodden quarrel, in •hich no
yredisposition to malice could esist. With respect
to the cast which he bad before &deeded to, it
was impossible for him to say more, then that the
l 111 rge was of such a eaters as to seeder necessary
the cl t proof of the alleged facts beyond all res.
sonable doubt ; it otherwise, it would !whops be
better not to bring It at all before a public tribunal,
is it might po•sibly lead to topics by no means likely
• o further the interests of merality.The Chief Justice
need ly mention the ether charges ceolained in
the Cslendar, excepting these of Edwards and Side.
hotfoot, for euthefilstmeet ; they did net, he spry.
tended, come within the eseeniog of the Act relative
to embesalement ; they were lame's., and the in.
indictments should be prepared as such. Ills Lord.
.1:0 said; that with these elmervatiens he should dis.
~ise :hem to the discharge of *boss important duties
qv) ,ears so well gealified to execute.
tills.. AxvonnET•Groastat. (J. Uill, Esq.) moved
''ho Soak be admitted evidence for the Crows.
NI.
Williams was indicted for sleeting • cows
f beer, the propetty el Sir W. W.
s Wynnstisy.
'loose *wand to Sir W. W.
'‘ the time Sir Watkin is io
-4 so board.wcps. Is
+ear was in bit Wit.
Atli the rest was
mese allowed
he spared.

PO LIG E.

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IBAlseolf-110U(t.—Yesterdsy the neighbourhood
of the Nlansion-hoses Ins again crowded by persons
who ea ported that Mr. Carlite would be knight up for
bail. That iodivideal was, however, to remain a
little longer in custody.
The Loop MAYOR performed the motive business
le the Justice Ream until nearly two o'clock, when
he prortmed to visit the whims of Smitlideld. 'He
bad on the night before received inforsalloo, that the
Committee. the asoment they beard of the suggestion)
of Major Cartwright, with respect to the Minded
Meet*, esasisteesly opposed it.
It appeared that Ur. Mills, of Bristol, epos can
dieing to the Cillialltif, et which Dr. Watson pre.
sided, the amities istelligence that Major Cartwrigh..
ht
wee averse to the proposal of mumbling et Smit
geld, called epee them to perform their promise of
abiding by it. The answer was, that delay could net
eecere success, end that the Meeting certainly should
thane eke place.
—Greets Mr. Mille, who CUM from Bristol in a Russian
Edgard . boating cap, for the purpose of disseading the Its.
filo qmintity s. dies' 1 from seeds; on the occasion, was so disgust-
Wynn, But. for.. II et this breech of faith ethibited sport sack an
Mr. Hammond, . emergency, that he determined sever to base inter.
ltV, nn, Bart. 'did,
are course with the Doctor again, or with any other of
I .atirlon, the tersest, are p. those who in his estimation have neither principle
.• . month of July last, the Pat, nor onderatending. Ile waited epos Mrs. Watson
htit's sersice, as a stable lad, and i. with the as aaaaa co that ell acquaintance, either po-
en board.swegee, at which time they •.. litical or private, between him and the Doctor, was
.t. vt vegetables, and milt when it could .were at an end.
qeed This communication, added to the positive &mis-
t:. t tLe ale and beer were not allowed, the,
. , t... 1 up, and pat io the care of a Imo ea. ration that the measure was quite at variance with
the opinions of wry elan of +Fight end sinderataed-
:%.l.rtii.,
W. Martin esamined.-1 am the brewer to Sr •in the country, was sneered at by the Doctor,
V. atkio, an
live in the home as part of the family. iti. had expected the approbation of Mijnr Cart.
!laving missed pert of the property ender my care., wwheicig.
~ of Mr.
m Wt. ooler,nd Mfor. Cardlilef, to his pro.
I adopted men
for discovering the offender. I
1: . _ et in!, started _ rwar , _
.r thee first
wiostd some bete last Christmas.. I bail the cite pa i 0.11!c_ • rminent. eader artnd adviser o the
of the small beer cellar. I missed swath beer "It, .II:: et. the mettfutle frdina 'Wit:alt.
' 'flu .`n .5111 lift i 1 iwlied ee from the lock of the (39.estat a