The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1804-08-10 (London, England)

ASSIZES.  At the Assizes of Downpatrick, which ended on Wednesday the Ist of August, a most important trial took place in the Crown Court, before the Hon. Faro:. Groacz and a respetable Jury of the county Down.  A'#xande► Sri-err and 'Wert Sievert, the father a-d sor, stood indieted for forging and uttering a deed of conveyance, and a receipt for the consideration thereof, indorsed therein, dated 14th December,  17,15, wish intent to defraud Thomas ►► atson, the fii andson of said Alexander, and nephew of Thohras Stewart, and being capitally convided of uttering the said receipt, knowing it to be forged, which is a capital felony under Inc Ara of 39 Geo. 111. received sentence of death, to be executed at Downpatrick, on Wednesday the 29th of August. The Learned Baron, in passing sentence of death on the prisoners, observed, with great force, on the cruelty and enormity of the crime. Forgery in itself; he ►aid, was highly injurious to society ; but when praßised by such near relatives to defraud a poor helpless infant of his small patrimony, and was supported by perjury and conspiracy, it became dJuhly atrocious, and called loudly for punishment; and therefore be besought them pathetically and l.nmanely not to indulge any vain hope of mercy (which in this case would be public cruelty), but to prepare by repentance or prayer for the law taking its course.  We are extremely sorry to find that the report of the death of Admiral Di acrier turns out to be corn& lie had on Saturday another attack of the fit which lately seized him, and he expired in a few hou.l. During a long life, his Lordship uniformly slittingnished himself as, at once, a brave and skilful commander. The battle of Campadown completed his naval fame, and will hand down his name to the latest gene:adults. He has left behind a large fa. mily. Several of his sons are designed fur the navy, and will not, we hope, sully their father's honour. On Tuesday evening last the wheel of a hackney coach flew off on Holborn-hill. The coachman was thrown from his box on the pavement, and bruised exceedingly. He was immediately taken to the hospital with little appearance of life. A Mrs. Jacirsua, of Sheffield, sixty years of age. and in respedable circumstances, hung herself on Wednesday in a fit of insanity, by tying her pocket handkerchief to the latch of her chamber-door.  The assizes for the coanty of Hants, held at Winc:.e,ter, closed on Friday seenaight. At these assizes, Pdtr. Molest was • tried for the wilful murder of James West, in the parish or Dar. ley, by stabbing bim s..ith a knife, in the aft of taking rooks, in company with John Fox, uncle of the deceased, and James and Edward Dowse, two brothers, from a large rookery belonging to Mr. Houghton, at Darley-mill, on Saturday Might, the tith of May. It appeared, that during We course of a long trial, the deceased and his conyanions had come in the night to take the rooks, and behaved in a very disorderly manner. It came out iq evidence, likewise, that just previous to the fatal blow, the de. ceased said t' his companions, " Here comes one; take hold of the rrseics, I'll face him !" He then stepped oat about two yards, and held up his har.ds in a fighting posture. The Prisoner rushed in upon him. The Prisoner jumped up, and twice said, Here's oae man acad."  After tbe evidence WAS gone through, Lurd Lowrie aft, in whose service the Prisoner had been nearly ten years, and who bad come from Westmoreland, a distance of between three and io.ir hundred miles, for the express purpose, aid several other Gentlemen, gave the Prisoner a good charaaer, as beir.g a peaceable man. The Jury r tturned a verdia, .1/ 4-ht,r. The Prisoner was then entenced to six mon;.:ls lawn:content, and ta pay a fuze of