The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-07 00:00:00

fiCRILAM. ASSIZE&

Mr. Justice it +sr: ry arrived in this ritv nn Tuesday
trninX; and, after hsvinor heard Divine Service,
'priori! his commission in the I 'minty ('ours. No parti-
, Aar bnslnrs orcturv,l until the next morning, when
cieerkiiiinal trials commenced.

Jon:a!ham Niehassa, sired St late of Wohtingltsm,
• as indicted for stabliing 'fhontes Frazier in the belly,
p.:th intent to kill, on the It•th of Angtist last.
It appeared in evident-I• that the prisoner. imagining
tt it Frazier, in prim• with a person named Eden, was
r nettling him on the ;Jac •et forth in the indictment,
showed him and threw stones at !ties a high being re-
turned by Frazier, the prisoner made up to him and
stabbed hint. It was proved that the prisoner was oc-
casionally deranged, during which time he appeared
retretwely jealotts. VerJkt—Unilty, the prisoner being
at the time insane.

John Brady, late of Merrington, was indicted for en-
alearouring to pass a forged U. Bank of &island note,
knowing the same to he fergell. It will be recollected,
that the prisoner, lately, in attempting to make his
escape, broke Lis leg in falling from the wall of the
prison ; be nut, in couseptence, accommodated with a
hair.
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner tendered a
f. note to 1l r. Jackson, hatter, of this city, on the 6th
November last, in payment of some girls' hats the pri-
..oner had chosen. Jackson ascertained from the
tanking-hoit.e of Messrs. Ilackhouse and Vac that the
rote was a forged one, and returned it to the prisoner,
who did nut take the has. flaring some suspicion, Mr.
.i:lckson followed the pri•oner, and saw him enter the
loop of !Ir. °Tyres-, V.lvet, where he again
offered the same note in payment fer some groceries.
31v. Hines, an attorney. bring aware of the circumstance,
seized the prisoner. awl Ihel hint taken Into custody.
When in the shop of Mr. S.:inborn, the prisoner was
oliserved to throw a hun•lle into the street, which, on
'vans' nation. was found to contain two I/. forged Dotes
a:ri la counterfeit sixpences.
"1 he prisoner, in his defence, said, he had taken the
note f a traveller, of the name of Beckwith, in
e way of business. The prisoner previous to this
trinsaction hon a goal character. Verdict—Guilty.'
ehas a wife and si't children.

Charles C/fArd was found guiltr of stealing Ere silver
kb-csses, kr. the property of Ar. Holton.

SIIERIFIS COURT. N EIVCASTLR, FEL

BREACH Or PROMS& OF 3IARRIAGR.

WI LOON r. A Rt'NDALZ. MN.

tiofuntlant in this rert• interesting rue, haring
eon ell jullzment to go by *default, thereby admitting
tf,e promke of marriage, and that some damage■ were
reAtusitr, the parties now appeared by Cou fowl. —Serjeant
Noss and 31r. WII.IIAMI for the plaintiff; 3lr. boon
s+•'d Mr. Gnus fur the defendant.—liatnages laid a'

gerjeent Cana... in an energetic and feeling speech,
detailed the cause of action, lir which it appeared, that I
Mies Elie. Wilson arrived in this town in the latter end
of 11114, on a visit to her uncle, Mr. Macnav, a grocer ;1
:lertly after her arrival. she Itecame acquainted stills the
defendant, who it appeared had made a cloak of religion
for the most detestable purposes. The family in which
Mho Wilson reeided, were what is called religions people,
A n 1 the defendant h.ning shown some desire to heroine
oat of the Nleiliodiat ronnexion (his fatally being Qua-
1, rs), was received as intimate terms in the honer of the
1. a;ntiff's uncle; in about sit mun:hs after the arrival
fhb yowl?: lady. her intimacy became eotorions to
4 their acquaintance; it continued in the same way na-
t. I Ihl7, when Miss Wilson became pregnant, aid to
Aweal her misfortune front the world, retired to the
t •'at of England. where she wag safely delivered of a
. !it'd; from this time forward the warmth of the defen-
e4or s lure seemed to abate, as appeared by a letter,
o filch was read, dafe:l in Leeds, Auguat, Isl 7, which
e•atained litt:e het nishrs for the recuvery of her health,
and advice by which that desirable object it as to he ac-
complished. and conelmle,l by stating that her misfor-
tune was hat little knots n in Newcastle, and hopes
that it would soon be forgntten. Here Serjeant Cross.
made an eloquent appeal to the feelings of the Jitry, as
Otters of families, on the cold neglect which he coa-
t. shone through this letter, particularly the latter
part. Two witnesses were then called to prove the hand-
ta citing of the deteinlarit, and the intimate terms on which
he lived with the plaintiff. which was generally known;
oee of these. NI r. t.r 111', a local preach. r of the Methodies
sect, was a very intimate friend of the plaintiff's u erle, and
knew the parties from the time the young lady first case to
Newcastle in I Sl4 ; he stated that Miss Wilson was the pie-
tare of health when sbefirst arrived in that town, and that
she was now directly the contrary. He was examined
a. to Lore:/emsts, which. he described, as meetings of
tor admitted for the purpose of prayer and psalm sing-
ine, and perfectly free from all improper con.luct ; he
pr• veil the hand-writing of a letter from the defendant
to oho plaintiff while in London, with the sister of the
defendant, which being written in the style of a Quaker,
caused ennaiderelde lamfhter in the Court. In this
epistle he complained of her not having is mitten him int-
ediatelv on her arrival in London, after many exprrs-
s". as of a bvine: natnre, and an anxioua desire that slur
',mid be careful of herself in the great place of tetropta-
l!we : at the same time, admitting that it was hardly
embattle she would br put to so much hazard in this re-
sTosel as he had been! he then informs her of several
p:acee in London, a visit to which lie thought would
gratify her curiosity, amongst them the Jetts' Spa-
gogue and the British Museum ; here, after many pions
ejaculations, he informs her may be seen stones, brought
from afar, which retain the impression of flakes, he.,
which he conceives a strong proof of that part of Scrip-
t.Jre which treats of the great flood ; and ends the letter
with a wish that he could call himself her husband.
Mr. WILLIAMS assisted in the examination of the
witnesses, who were cross-examined by Mr. Hear (Mr.
Loeb being engaged in the Counts, ('mart), who elicited
little from them in favour of his client, except that they
mere totally unacquainted with any communication
having berg made to the father of the defendant, as to
At reliable connexion between his son and the plain-
t'''. The case here closed for the plaintiff, and
Mr. User rose to speak in mitigation of damages,
whieh he did with great ability and argument, be con-
tertirti that his Learned Friend had drawn and highly
ca!onred a picture, for the purpose of carrying with him
the feelinrt of the Jury, when, in reality, the case was
eno of the lightest description he had ever met with of
the same nature ; he then drew a parallel case to the
o• r actually before them; in the coarse of which, be
~!.awed that the defendant was of a superior rank In
Ire, and that the friends of the plaintiff had never inti-
mates' in the slightest manner to the father or friends of
tie defendant, the connexion which would probably
take place between the young persons, and on this
gerund, he contended, the friends of the plaintiff were
ext:emely culpable, and, in fort, much more to blame in
the unfortunate calamity which. befel the yueng lady at
a subsequent perind—tiset, as the dethitdant was airier
age at the time he hadiprotnisted thaloarriage, it was
st:1! more the duty of the plaintiff's friends to have in-
quired whether such eiparrive wip.at all agreeable to
the connexions of the. deferMant ;.be imointained that
ass •Ii conduct was highly reprehensible, and only sheered
their urerweening de:iie for the marriage. which they