This Paper is circulated in the most expeditions Manner through the adjoining Counties of ENGLAND and WALES. Advertisements riot ex ceeding Ten Lines, erled at Six Shillings each U£ sss3rass « aii WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1823 Reduced Hales of Carriage. T. & M. PiCKFOIM) & CO. RESPECTFULLY inform their Friends and the Trade ill general or SALOP and NORTH WALES, tliat they hare REDUCED their RATES of CARRIAGE to and front LONDON and SHREWSBORV. Goods are forwarded from S. TOMBS'S Ware house, Welsh Bridge, SHREWSBURY, every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, to WOLVERHAMP- TON, and front thence by their Fly Boats direct to London aud the intermediate Wharfs. Arrive from London every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Goods received in London, at their Warehouse, Castle, Inn, Wood Street, Cheapside, or at their Wharfs, Regent's Canal Basin, City Road. Land and Assessed Taxes, and Game Duty. Hf HE RECEIVED- GENERAL for f the Counties of RADNOR, BRECON, arid MONTGOMERY, hereby gives NOTICE to all the COLLECTORS of these Taxes, that atony future Receipt he will not receive iu Payment of his Majesty's Taxes any negotiable. Bills; nor any Bills besides those of the Bank of England, the Bank of Wu. Kiks & Co. of Brecon, the Bank of DAVIES and Co. ofKiugtou, and the Bank of BUCK and Co. of Welsh Pool: and that all other Bills will be rejected. J. I. LOYD JONES, Receiver- General, Radnor, Brecon, aud Montgomery. Maesmawr, 24th July, 1823. SHROPSHIRE. Co IJC Uvii). itf Contract, nPHAT much- admired elegant VILLA St ORNEE, with the extensive and complete Outbuildings ( and three large Cottages with two Stables in the Grounds), all of which have been recently and substantially built, and ornamented in the Gothic Style of Architecture with great Taste aud Expense : also, a Garden walled in Part; with Coach- drive and Private Road, planted with the most valuable Plants and " Shrubs, now growing in a luxuriant State. The whole encompassed with about 22 Acres of rich Pasture LAND, conveniently divided into six Enclosures and well fenced, aud a Belt of thriving Plantation encompassing the Whole; called HOARLEY GRANGE VILLA, situate iu the beautiful VALE OF WEST- WOOD, one Mile from the Borough Town of Much Wenlock, a most excellent Market, where Coaches pass through daily from Holyhead to London, Cheltenham, and Bath ; 13 Miles from Shrewsbury; 9 from Bridg- north ; and 5 from Coalbrookdale. The [ louse consists of a Portico in Front, a neat Entrance Hall, Dining and Drawing- Ttoom, hand- some Staircase ( the Windows of which are orna- mented with rich Stained Glass), several capital Bed Chambers, and a small Library ; also a roomy and most convenient. Kitchen, Larder, Butlers' Pantry, Wine and Beer Cellars, Brewhou. se, Laun- dry, and Dairy. The Whole of which are fitted up in the most complete Manner, with every requisite Fixture ; also a neat ornamented Bath for Hot or Cold Bathing, with Pump attached ; an opeii Fold Yard, with Stabling for seven Horses, Coach I House, and Grainery, with ornamental Turret Clock in the Centre ; ' Cowhouses, Piggery, Sheds, Wainhouse, and capital Barn with two Bays, in perfect Repair, & plentifully supplied with Spring I and Soft Water. ( j^ r- For a View ( which is much recommended) apply upon the Premises, where further Particulars may be known; also of Messrs. TL- DOR and LAW- RENCE, Shrewsbury, where a Map of the Estate J may be seen.— If by Letter, Post- paid. N. B. Possession may be had at Michaelmas next, or sooner, if required. Ellesmere and Chester Canal Navigation. NOTICE is hereby given, that the next GENERAL ASSEMBLY of " The I United Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere and Chester- Canals," is appointed to he held at the Canal Office, in Ellesmere, on THURSDAY, the Thirty- first Day of July, at one o'clock in the I Afternooti; when and where the Proprietors of Shares of One Hundred Pounds each, or upwards, in the said Canal, are requested to attend by theui- I selves or Proxies. HENRY POTTS, Clerk to the said Company, Chester, June nth, 1823. CHIRBUKY, SHROPSHIRE A hen/ slmih ! t aces A; RE appointed to take place, on £\ FRIDAY, the Mh of AUGUST. All Entries to he made before nine o'clock the Evening pre- ceding, at the Talbot Inn, Aberystwith, where the Clerk of the Course will attend. JAMES MORRICE, Clerk of the Course. Aberystwith, With July, 1823. JAMES FARMER begs to inform his Friends, that his SHEW of RAMS will take place on TUESDAY, the 5th Day of August, on which Day the LETTING will commence ; and he shall be happy to see as many of bis Friends as please to honour him with a Call. Desirable Freehold Estale, THE MIDDLETON HALL AND other ESTATES of Mr. GEOROE DOWLER HASLBWOOD, containing 476A. 1R. 24P. or there- abouts, will he SOLD by AUCTION, on Thursday, the 21st of August next, at the Dragon Inn, Montgomery. Particulars of the Property will appear in a future Paper, and may iu the mean Time be had on Appli- cation to Mr. JONES, jun. Pen'bryn, near Montgo- mery ; or Messrs. PRITCHARD, Solicitors, Broseley. SOUTHDOWN RAMS, TO BE LET BY AUCTION, BY J. BROOME, At the WETMORE FARM, near Ludlow, on Tuesday, August 6th, 1823 ; rapWENTY- FIVEimproved pure bred 1L RAMS, viz.: Four four- year olds, by Rams from Mr. Hill: Eight three- year olds, hy Rams from Sir John Sebright, Mr. Ellman, Mr. Hill, and Sir W. W. Wynn : • Four two- year olds, by a Ram of Sir W. W. Wynn, and own breeding : Ten Yearlings, by Rams from the Right Hon. the Earl of Bridgewater and Sir J. Sebright, one of which got the Premium ( No. 3) at Salop, last Meeting. T. BI. CCK flatters himself that his Friends, and those Gentlemen who may favour him with their Attendance, will, on Inspection, he highly gratified with the Symmetry of the Rains. TO BE SOLD, PURSUANTtoa Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause ROW- LEY against EYTON," with the Approbation of WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Court, at the Pheasant Inn, in Welling- ton, in the County of Salop, in several Lots, The COPYHOLD ESTATES, late of THOMAS EYTON, Esquire, deceased : consisting of several DWELL- ING HOUSES, LANDS, and PREMISES, situate in and nearthe Village of ADMASTON, in the Parish of Wrockwardinc, in the said County of Salop, in the several Occupations of John Proudfoot, William Leese, Sarah Pinches ( Widow), John Griffiths, James Austin, John Williams, John Austin, Rich- ard Leighton, and Thomas Eyton, Esquire ; and also several Pieces of LAND, situate on SYDNEY MOOR, in the said Parish of Wrockwardine. The Time and Place of Sale will be duly adver- tised ; aud printed Particulars may then be had ( gratis) at the said Master's Chambers, in South- ampton Buildings, Chancery Lane; of Messrs, BENBOW, ALBAN, and BENBOW, Solicitors, Lin- coln's Inn ; of Messrs. PALMER and FRANCE, Bedford Row, London; and of Mr. FISIIER, Solicitor, Newport, Shropshire. MONTGOMERYSHIRE CANAL, mi JESE Races ha vtna; been advertised a. to take Place on the 17th and 18th Instant, the Public are respectfully informed that the Inser- tion was caused by a Letter written to the Editor iu the Name of a respectable Inhabitant of the above Place, requesting- him to insert the same ; the Signature to which Letter was added by au obnox- ious and designing- Character who was unauthorised to write or sign any such Letter. In order, there- fore, to prevent further Disappointment and Incon- venience to those interested in the above Races, the Committee of Management have appointed the 14th and I5th Days of August next, when the same w ill positively take Place. Eastern Western Branches. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Annual GENERAL ASSEMBLY of « The Company of Proprietors of the. Eastern Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal," which was advertised to be holden at the Canal Office, Welsh Pool, on Monday, the 4tli of August, is POSTPONED to Monday, the ISth Day of August, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon ; when and where the Proprietors are requested to attend either in Person or by Proxv : And NOTICE is hereby also given, that the Annual GENERAL ASSEMBLY of " The Company of Proprietors of the Western Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal," will be holden at the Rock, near Newtown, on Saturday, the 16th Day of August, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon ; when and where the Proprietors are requested to attend, either in Person or by Proxy.— The Post- ponement. is made, agreeably to the Act of 2d Geo. IV., in Consequence of the herein first- mentioned Day being fixed for the Commencement of the Gieat Session for the County of Montgomery. G. W. BUCK, Clerk lo the first- named Company. Canal Office, Pool, July 21, 1S23. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, In six Volumes, royal l2uio. with 25( 1 Copper Plates, and other superior Engravings, many of them of an exlra- liir « e size, and all of them very effective in Character, Price Three Guineas in Boards, NATURE DISPLAYED, in THE HEAVENS and upon THE EARTH, accord, ing to the latest Discoveries, and the best modern Authorities. By SIM EON SI1AW, LL. D. *** Another Edition has been prepared, in which are beautifully coloured, after Nature, all the Sub- jects thai admit of Colouring, at £ 3. 10s. ; and Ibis coloured Edition, at so small an Advance of Price, is respectfully recommended lo the Preference of the Public. The Whole of the Engravings have also been printed uniformly io FOLIO, constituting a GRAND ATLAS OF NATURE, containing nearly 100Sheets of Engravings, with special Descriptions; which Alias will he sold by itself, at. £ 2 10s. boards, or £ 2. 12s. 6d. half- bound ; while Purchasers of the Atlas may also bo accommodated at anv time with the Letter- Press by itself, in 3 Vols, al £ 1. lis. 6d. Printed for Sir ftrcHARt) PHILLIPS & Co. London, . and lobe had of J. Cnminitltf, Dublin ; J. Anderson, ' jun. Edinburgh ; and of all Booksellers. N. B. This is the most complete and splendid View of Nature, in all its Branches, which has appeared in anv language, and is iu all respects one of the most instructive and attractive works ever published iu England, likely lo enjoy a permanent reputation, and lo confer unexampled popularity on tile import- ant sillily of Nature. And entered upon immediately, AN E A T convenient H O U S E and GARDEN, situated iu the Village of AD- MASTON, consisting of two Parlours, Kitchen, & e. five Bed Rooms and Attieks. The Tenant may he accommodated with Land.— Apply upon the Premises. VALE OF LLANGOLLEN. TO~ BE LET. And entered upon on the 2d Day of February, and [ the 1st Day of May, 1824 ; RG^ HE MANSION HOUSE of DINBREN, .&. suitable for the Residence of a Family of Distinction, situate iu the beautiful Vale of Llan- gollen, in the County of Denbigh, with commodious and convenient attached and detached Offices, a Walled Garden, and upwards of One Hundred Acres of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture LAND, upon which are Three Cottages. The House comprises an elegant Drawing Room, 28 Feet by Feet, opening into an Anti- Room, Feet " by 14; a spacious Dining Room, 30 I'eet by 20 Feet, and 15 Feet high; Entrance Hall; handsome Staircase; Breakfast Room, 16 Feet square ; and Library, 15 Poet by 13. The attached Offices consist of a Kitchen, Scul- lery, Servants' Hall, Housekeeper's Room, Butler's Pantry, and two Larders, with Back Staircase; and detached is a Dairy, Brewhouse, Bakehouse, and Laundry. The Chamber Story contains three sp.-. cious Bed Itomns, and two Dressing Rooms over the principal Rooms, each 12 Feet high; Family Bed Room, with two Dressing Rooms ; three Bed Rooms, and one Dressing Room ; a Bath Room, aud two Water Closets ; and there are seven Servants' Rooms in the Attics. The Outbuildings are situated at a convenient Distance from the House, and consist of u double Coach- House, and Harness Room, two capital Stables containing seven Stalls, two Bams, a Cart Stable, Cow- Houses for 26 Cows, Granary, Poultry House, and Piggery, with several other convenient Buildings. The Scenery of the Vale of Llangollen is so generally known, that any Description would be useless. The House commands the most ro- mantic and picturesque Views of this much- admired Vale, and is well sheltered with extensive and thriving Plantations. It is distant one Mile from Llangollen, through which Town the London and Holyhead Mail and two London Coaches pass daily. For further Particulars apply to Mr. JOHN JONES, Brook- Street, Oswestry ; or Mr. RICHARD JONES, Draper, Llangollen, who will appoint a Person to shew the Premises; if by Letter, Post- paid. On THURSDAY, the 14th Dav of August will bo run for, a MAIDEN PLATE of £ 50 ; three- years old to carry 6st. 101b.; four- years old 8st. ; five- years old8st. 91b.; six- years'old and aged Horses Pst. Mares and Geldings allowed 31b.; twice round the Course and the Length to a Heat. On the same Day, a PURSE of SOVEREIGNS, for any Horse, Mare, or Gelding not exceeding 14 Hands high, Weight to be named at the Time of entering. Oil FRIDAY, the 15th of August, the TOWN SUBSCRIPTION PURSE of £ 50, for any Horse, Mare, or, Gelding that never won tlie Value of £ 50 at any one Time ( Hunters' Stakes, Cavalry Stakes, and Matches excepted) ; lo carry the same Weight as for the first Purse on ' 1 hursdav, and to run the some Distance. On the same Day, a SWEEPSTAKES of Five Sovereigns each, for all Ages, to carry the same Weights and run the' same Distance as for the Maiden Plate. The Winner of either of the Purses on Thursday not to be permitted to start on Friday, without the Consent of the . Committee, by whom all Disputes concerning these Races will be determined. The Horses . for each Day's Purse to be shewn at the Town Hall, on Wednesday, the 13th of August, at 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon.—' To start at 4 o'Clock each Day, aud to be subject to Conditions as will then be produced, Ordinaries, Balls, & c, & c. as usual. rpHE on'y SPORTING SUNDAY « NEWSPAPER.- BELL'S WEEKLY DIS- PATCH, published in London every Saturday Evening, and sent by Poi. t to all Parts of the Country, and arrives'in Shrewsbury ou Sunday Morning for the Breakfast Table, cnnt » l » - « » <• Inst of Bankrupts in Saturday's Gazette, and the Stock Exchange Busiuess of that Day up to 3 o'clock ; also the following Original Features :—] st, A com- plete Picture of the Sporting World, written exclusively for this Paper by PIERCE EGAN, Author of " Life in London." 2d, Spirited Sketches of Parliamentary Characters. 3d, Enlightened Dis- cussions oil Political Subjects, written iu the genuine Spirit of Constitutional Freedom, by the EJ for, ROBERT BELL. 4th, Correct Law Reports ; Exposure of Legal Abuses and infamous Prac- titioners. 5th, Original Correspondence and In- formation from the Continent. 6th, Liberal Criticisms on the Drama, Theatrical Performers, aud Works of Literary Merit. 7th, Extraordinary Men on the Town ; with an Epitome of all the Life, Fun, Wit, Humour, and Gaiety of the Metro- polis, - Orders for the Dispatch received by all Postmasters, Clerks of the Roads, News Venders, and at the Dispatch Office, 7, Wine Office, Court, Fleet Street, London. » aie0 tip auction. Valuable Furniture, fyc. SALE, AT CHILD'S ERCAIXIIAIX ( IN THE COUNTY OF SALOW), j Ldle the Summer Residence of Sir Corbet Corbet, J Baronet, deceased. BY W. CHURTON, Without the least Reserve, oil Monday and Tuesday, the 4th and 5th Days of Aug- ust, 1823, each Day at Ten o'Clock : CCOMPRISING a complete Drawing- J Room Suite, Dining-, Sitting- Room, and large Hall Ditto; Bed and Dressing- Room Furniture, Lobby & Staircase Ditto; Servants' Ilall, Kitchen, and Culinary Requisites; China, Glass, Linen, & c. & c.; all of Which are described in Catalogues, which may now be had at the Lion Inn, Shrews- bury Pheasant, Wellington; Lioii, Newport; Bear, Hod net; Talbot, and Phcenix, Market Drayton ; White Horse, Weni; and from THE AUCTIONEER, Whitchurch. ORDER OF SALE :— viz. Drawing-, Dining, and j Sitting- Room Furniture, Kitchen, Stables, and Garden Requisites, and Phaeton, will be sold First Day • -— Bod RooniSj Dressing Ditto, Glass, China, Linen, and Servants' Hall Furniture, on the Second I Dav. MONTGOMERYSHIRE CANAL. WESTERN BRANCH. NOTICE is hereby given, that in Con- sequence of the Great Session for the County of Montgomery being- appointed to be holden at Pool, on Monday, the 4th Day of August, the GENERAL ANNUAL ASSEMBLY of the Com- pany of Proprietors of the Western Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal is, in Pursuance oKj. be- Provisions of the Act. of Parliament of the 2 « \ of Geo. 4th, POSTPONED to Saturday, the l' 6t\ Day of Aug- ust, when the same will be holden at the Canal Office at the Rock, near Nevytown, at. Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, where the Pro- prietors are - requested to attend either by them- selves or their Proxies. JOHN WILLIAMS, Clerk to the Company. Rock, 15M July, 1823. MONTGOMERYSHIRE, At the Oak Inn, Welsh Pool, on Monday, the 4th of August, 1823, between the Hours of Four aud Six in the Afternoon : 4 LL that FARM, called LOWER t\ TREFEEN, in the Parish of Kerry ; con- sisting- of a substantial and commodious Farm House, with convenient Outbuilding's, and several Pieces or Parcels pf excellent Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, containing- ( with Allotments under the Kerry Inclosure Act) about 213 Acres, now in the Occupation of Mrs. Goodwin. The Estate is about. Half- way between the- Mar- ket Towns of Montgomery and Newtown, on the Turnpike Road leading- from the former through the Village of Kerry to the latter Place, and is about three Miles distant from Lime and Coal on the Montgomeryshire Caual. The Tenant will shew the Premises ; and for Particulars apply to JOHN JONES, Esq. Brook- Street, Oswestry ; or to Mr. WILLIAMS, Solicitor, Shrewsbury. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS. For Indigestion, Jaundice, Loss of Ap- petite, and other Disorders dependent on a deranged State of the Livery and of the Biliary and Digestive Organs, QMITH'S Genuine LEAMINGTON SALTS, are confidently offered to the Public, under the Recamiueridattion of Dr. KERR, Northampton ; Dr. THACKERAY, Chester; Dr. WAKE, Warwick; Dr. MIDDLETON, Leamington 5 Dr, THACKERAY, Cambridge; Dr. LUARD, Warwick; Dr. WEATHERHEAD, Henley, Oxon. The peculiar Efficacy of the Learning- ton Waters in the Cure of the. above named, and many other Dis- orders, having; been so generally acknowledged, ren- ders it almost, unnecessary ( especially when offered under such Recommendation) to adduce any Thing- in favour of these Salts, except that they have been sa- tisfactorily proved, both by Chemical Analysis and Medical Experience, to possess all the TONIC, APERI- ENT, and other native Properties of the Waters; so that those Persons who have been hitherto prevented, by Distance or other Causes, from availing them- selves of. the Curative Powers of these celebrated Springs, may now be supplied with, a Substitute, possessing- all their beneficial Qualities. These Salts are prepared hy evaporating- to dryness- the Waters at the Original - Baths,, Learning- ton. Sold in Bottles, Price 2s. 9d. and 4s. od. each, Duty included, Wholesale and Retail, by Mr. SMITH, the Proprietor, at his Pump Room ; Mr. GOSSAGK, at the Depot, Bath- Street, Learning- ton; and hy Messrs. BARCLAY and Sous, Fleet Market, London ; and by all Venders of Medicine.., . Ask for SMITH'S LEAMINGTON SALTS. ALL Persons who have anv Claims or Demands upon the Estate of THOMAS ALLEN, late of the MOORTOWN, in the Parish of Hrg- lv Ercali, ih the County of Salop, Farmer, deceased, are requested to send the Particulars thereof to Mr. JOHN A DNE. Y, of Rowton, in the said Parish'of High Ereall ( the surviving- Executor named in the Will of the said Thomas Allen), in Order that the same may be examined and dis- charged ; and all Persons who stand indebted to the Estate of tlie said Thomas Allen are required forthwith to pay their respective Debts to the said Mr. Adney, WILLIAM NOCK. Wellington, 21.9f July, 1823. "^ J OTIC E is hereby aiven, that a Meet- i ^ ing- of the Trustees of the Overton District of the Turnpike Road leading* from Shrewsbury to Wrexham, through Ellesmere, will be held at the Bowling- Green, in Overton, on Wednesday, the 6th Day of August next, at 12 o'Clock at Noon ; when the Propriety of erecting- a Side Bar across the Musley Lane, at the South End of the Village of Overton, and another Side Bar across the Lane leading out of the said Turnpike Road towards Penley, at or near Ellesmere Cross, will be taken into Consideration, and an Order made for that Purpose, if the Trustees shall so determine.— Dated this 9th Day of July, 1823. ROBERT MORRALL, Clerk to the Trustees. Ellesmere. INTERROGATIVE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION, In Thick Post Copy- Books. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT OFFICE No. 33, Lincoln's Inn Fields. PETITION of an Insolvent Debtor t< v be heard at the adjourned General Quarter Sessions of tiie Peace to be boldeu at the Shirehall, Shrewsbury, in and for the County of Salop, on Thursday, the twenty- first Day of August next, at the Hour of Eleven o'Clock in the Morning. SAMUEL ELLIOTT WALTER, sued as Samuel Walter, late of IRONBRIDOE, in the County of Salop, Letter- press Printer and Cabinetmaker. The Petition and Schedule are filed, and may be inspected at this Office every Monday, Wednes- day, and Friday, between the Hours of Ten and Four. Two Days' Notice of any Intention to op- pose any Prisoner's Discharge must be given to such Prisoner to entitle any Creditor to oppose the same. J. TAYLOR, 6, Clement's Inn. For ASTER LEY, Shrewsbury. Dr. Solander's English Tea, OO many Years recommended and ap- k. 7 proved by tiie late Sir Richard Jebb ( Physician to the King), and other eminent Physicians, in Pre- ference to Foreign Tea ( more particularly during the Spring and Summer Months), as the most pleasant and powerful restorative hitherto d iscovered, ill all nervous, bilious, and consumptive disorders, and in every other dehilitv of the nervous system. This Tea, so pleasant to the taste and smell, is an effectual purifier of the blood, and, hv promoting gentle perspiration, powerfully assuages those excruciating pains derived from the gout or rheumatism ; anil is of sovereign efficacy iu removing complaints of Ibe. head, invigorating the mind from tliose self- created alarms which too frequently render the existence of nervous people intolerable. Drank warm at night, it promotes refreshing rest, and is a restorative cor- dial to the constitution of such as keep late hours, or live loo freely. Sold, in Packets 2s. 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All in LARGE QUARTO COPY BOOKS, with Ruled Spaces for the Answers; and to distinguish thein from the Small Books of Questions at. Is. please ( in ordering them) to specify " Copy Book Size." A Key to each Set, for the Convenience of Tutors, may he bad at 9d. each. Primed for Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS and Co. London, and to be bad of J. Cumin ing, Dublin ; J. Anderson, jun. Edinburgh ; ami of all Booksellers, with the ' usual Allowance, and 13 to the Dozen. Adbaston, Staffordshire. In Aligust next, unless previously disposed of by Private Contract, of which due Notice will lie given l COMPACT and most desirable t\ FREEHOLD ESTATE, with an excellent House and Outbuilding's, and about 260 Acres of superior Land, situate at A|) BASTON, near the Church, in the Occupation of Mr. THOMAS PALIN, the Proprietor. N. B. Particulars will shortly be published ; and Applications to treat may be made to Mr. PALIN, on the Premises; to. Mr. SAMUEL BELL, New House, Chetwynd ; or to Mr. FISIIER, Solicitor, Newport, Shropshire. IMPORTANT AND EXTENSIVE raj (> J ID K. is hereby given, I hat. the L1 Trustees of the Turnpike Roads under an Act passed in the second Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, " for more effectually repairing several Roads leadiug? from Kiddermin- ster, in. the County of Worcester, and several other Roads connected therewith, in the Counties of Worcester, Stafford, and Salop," will meet at the House of Henry Godfrey, the Lion Inn, in Kidder- minster, on Wednesday, the sixth Day of August next, at the Hour of Eleven in the Forenoon, in Order to consult about erecting a Toll Gate, on the Side of the Turnpike Road leading- from Kidder minster to Bridgnorth, at or near the Top of Shatterfoot Hill, across a certain Highway there leading- out of the said Turnpike Road to Birch- wood ; and also one other TVil Gate on the Side of th* said Turnpike Road, at or near a Place called A Hum Bridge, across a certain Highway there leading- out of the said Road towards Dudley and Stourbridge. Dated the 16th Day of July, 1823. GEO. HALLEN, Clerk to the Trustees Xoi- tlj eealrs. 13Y MR7~ CREEn. At the Owen Glyndwr Inn, Cor wen, on Friday, Aug'ust 22tl, at 4 o'Clock, in Eleven Lots : j nnjj E extensive Domain of CROGEN, - 1- comprising the Manor and Mansion of Cro- gen, the capital Residence of Tvddyn Llan, and the valuable Freehold Estates of Crogen, Tyddvn j Llan, and Dinam, containing upwards of 3,000 Acres of inclosed LANDS, Mountains, and Sheep- walks, the Whole of the low estimated Value of £ 2,000 per Annum, and delightfully situate in the Parishesof LLANDRILLO audLLANDDEJtFEL, in the romantic and beautiful County of Merioneth. The Crogen Domain presents one of the most i eligible and important Estates in the Principality, i and should be viewed to be justly appreciated. | The Mansion is seated in the delightful Vale of ^ Eide. rn. ion, upon the Banks of, the Dee, which adjoins the picturesque Vales of Corwen and Llan- gollen ; and the rich Vale of Chvyd, and. others of equal Celebrity, are in its Vicinity. The Turnpike Road from Bala passes through the Estate, and forms a Junction with the Holyhead Mail Road from London, at the Distance of about five Miles from the Mansion House. The Estate possesses the Resources of excellent Angling, Grouse and other Shooting* of all Descrip- tions, particularly of Woodcocks. Descriptive Particulars, with Plans, will be immediately ready for Delivery at the Owen Glyndwr, Corwen ; of Mr. OWEN, Llawr Cilan, near Corwen ( who will shew the Estates); also at the Auction Mart, Brookes's & Hatehett's Hotels, London; York House Hotel, Bath; of Messrs. LLOYD and WILLIAMS, Liverpool; Morrison's Hotel, Dublin; of Mr. ANWYL, Solicitor, Bala; Mr. WILLIAMS, Solicitor, Shrewsbury; RICHARD GRIFFITHS, Esq. Southampton Buildings, Chan- cery Lane, London ; and at the Offices of Mr. CREED, Surveyor and Land Agent, Hemel Hetnp- sted, Herts, and 15, Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, London ; wlierePlans of the Estate may be seen. XN this Preparation are concentrated all the Medicinal Properties of the Sarsaparilhi Root, even to a perfect Saturation of the Menstruum with which it is prepared. To such Persons, there, fore, who, from various Causes, would experience great Inconvenience, or with whom it would he utterly impossible to prepare the Decoction, the Fluid Extract, which possesses the Advantages of Portability and of keeping iu any Climate, will be found a most desirable Mode of employing this much esteemed Medipine. The Diseases in which it has proved most !> ene. ficial are those of the Skin, snch as Scorbutic Af- fections, Eruptive Diseases, Secondary Symptoms, & c. arising from a diseased Sifite of the System at large. It is taken iii Water, rendering it of the same Strength as the Decoction Prepared and Sold by Butlers, Chemists, 4, Cheap, side, St. Paul's, 220, Regent- Street, ( near the Ar:; \ lo Rooms) London; Waterloo- Place, Edinburgh ; Sack- ville Street, Dublin; and by the principal Drug- gists and Medicine- Venders throughout the United Kingdom, in Bottles of 4s. Gd. and 7s. 0d. { J^ Ask for " BUTLERS' FLUID EXTRACT OI- SARSAPARILI. A." TURNPIKE TOLLS TfcJOTICE is hereby given. That the TOLLS arising at the " several Toll Gates upon the Newport Division of the Turnpike Road leading from Whitchurch through Ternhill to New- port, in the County of Salop, will be LET BY AUCTION, to the, best Bidder, at the Dwelling House of Mr. William Lid die, the Red Lion Inn,, in Newport aforesaid, on Monday, the eighteenth Day, of August- next, between the Hours of eleven in the Forenoon and one in the Afternoon, jii. Manner directed by the several Acts of Parliament' % fos regulating- Turnpike Roads ;" , which Tolls pro duoed the last Year the Sum of £ 595, above the Expenses of collecting-, and will be put up at that Sum. The best B, idder must at the same . Trine, give. Security, with sufficient Sureties to the . Satisfaction of the. Trustees of the said Road, for Payment of the Rent agreed for at such Times and in such Manner as they shall direct. R. FISHER, Clerk to the Trustees. Newport, 14th July, 1823. . ri^ JJE following is a wonderful CURE . JL effected by the above inestimable Medicine LONDON ( TO WIT). James Davis, of No. 11, Globe- street, Bethnal- green, in the county of Middlesex, maketh Oath arx! saith : that he was iiSlictod with an asthmatic disease for a length of time, and. was in such an- aiauniug state he could hardly breathe, and that he was under a medical gen I Ionian for- five months, but without getting the least benefit.; that he was recommended to take the Cordial Balm of Rftkasiri, or Nature's Infallible Restorative, which, he is happy to make known for the benefit of his fellow- creatures, re- stored him to his former health and strength in the space of five weeks. ( Signed) JAMES DAVI8. Sworn at the jViansion House, this 21st Day of April, 1817, before me Matthew Wood, Esq. Mayor. Prepared only by Drs. C. and J JORDAN, of the Surrey and Wt- st London Medical Establishments, No. 9, Great Surrey Street, Blaekfriars Bridge, and 28, Berwick Street, Soho, London. 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Y " 26.— Mark Henry Steward, of Long- lane, Berhiondsey, Surrey, pump and engine maker.— John Hopw oody- hfttf of Chancery- lane, London, bill- broker — Heuty Thornton, now or late of Thayer- street, Manchester- squaie, Middlesex, Italian *> i 1 — • man,— WiUiam Truslove, of Diruehnrelf, Warwick, shire, far/ ner.— Richard Norton ihe younger, laie of Charlotte- street, Fitzroy- square^ Middlesex, paper- hahgf r and stationer.— Erhnuuil Saftery, of Dovvn- liam, Norfolk, farmer,— Edward. Watt/,- of Yeovil, Somersetshire, butcher. Sljropaljtre ^ tnnttur We have in our subsequent columns given the whole business of the Crown Bar; also a correct abstract of the nature of such of the cases of s'nserest as were tried in time to enable us to prepare them for our present publication. The other cases wf interest which we shall now briefly notice, will be correctly given in our next Journal :— Fairclaiin dem. Jones v. Harrison and. anotfier ( S. J.)—- This was art action brought by the plain- tiff, Mr. Benjamin Jones, a baker, residing in London, against the defendant, Major Harrison, a gen tleman of property residing inSXontg'omeryshire,. to recover possession of certain estates, the property of the late Thomas Jones, Esq. of Llantisiiio Hall, Denbighshire, who died intestate. The cause came on, before a special jury, at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, and did not terminate, until half past three o'clock on Shnday morning, when the Jury imme- diately returned a* verdict for defendant.— A similar action, with a like result, \ vas tried between the same parties at our Lent Assizes, 1822. Lysier v. Broidn and others.— This was an action brought by H. Lyster, Esq. against John Brown, Thomas Brown, and Edward Brown : John Brown was tenant to plaintiff, on a farm at Neenton, in this county, and the other tWo defendants are his sons ; ana this action was brought, under 11th Geo. II. to re'cover the penalties incurred by de- fendants for fraudulently removing goods & c. from the premises at Neenton, to prevent the landlord distraining them for rent, and arrears of rent dhe and unpaid .— The; Jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for £ 154, being- double the value of the goods proved to have been fraudulently removed.— Mr,' Taunton, for defendants, took an objection on a point of law, which the Jury recognized in their verdict, and on w hich the opinion of the Court above will be taken. ^ ' • THE KING ?). WHITCOMBE. This was a criminal information against the defendant, one of the Coroners of this county, charging him with malversation in the duties of bis office on an inquest taken before him on the body of Mrs. Newton, at Severn Hall, near Bridgnorth, in this county, who died on the 20th January last, from violence inflicted by her husband, John New- ton, and. for which violence the said John Newton was tried and found guilty at our last Assizes, and subsequently executed.— This cause came on at half- past niue o'clock yesterday morning, before a Special Jury, and was not terminated until we were putting- our Journal to press at twelve o'clock last n i ghf, w lie u th e J u ryreturned a v e r d i ct p'fGUI LT Y, but that there was no proof of his haying received a bribe;?— He. will be called up for judgment, in the Court of King's , Bench, next Term, his attorney having passed his w ord for Ivis appearance. WAXES. On ( lie 20th inst. at Bronhwylfa, near St, Asaph, aged 22, Louisa Anne, wife of Lieut.- Col. Browne, K. C. B. and daughter of the Rev. Dr.. Gray, Pre- bendary of Durliam and Chichester. On the 22d inst. Mary Anne, - wife of James Boydcll, Esq. of Rosset, Denbighshire, in the43d year of her age. . On the 12th inst. Mr. Richard Thomas, of Tyny. maes, in the parish of Llangfirrig, Montgomery- shire ; a man highly. respected by all who knew liim. DJINCING <$• FENCING. WV. BOURLAY begs most respect- • fully lo inform his Friends and the Public, that his ACADEMY on ST. JOHN'S HILL, Shrews- bury, will re- open on Monday, 5th August. The Rev. Win. Barnes was lately instituted by the Lord Bisbip of Chester to the rectory of Rich- mond, in the county of York, void by the death of tbe Rev. Christopher Goodwill; and his Lordship has. been pleased to collate the Rev. Frederick Parry to the perpetual curacy of Threapwoqd, neitr- Wortheubiiry, in the . county of Flint, void byf tlije cession, of Mr. Barnes. ! . '. 1SS FIDLOR, having taken ithe Advantage, whilst in I. ONOON, of receiving Lessons from FUTROTE, the Inventor of the Imita- tion of INDIA JAPAN PAINTING, will be happy to give Instructions to those who may ' wish to acquire a Knowledge of the Style. Landscapes, Flowers, Figures, Ornamental Drawing, kc. taught by Miss F. either in Class or Private.— Fancy Works made, painted, or varnished, and Drawings let out to Hire. ST. MARY'S PLACE, SHREWSBURY. BOARD AND LODGING. AGentleman of regular Habits, may be accommodated with Board and Lodging in a small genteel Family, in an airv'tind pleasant Part of the Suburbs of Shrewsbury, and within a short Walk of the Abbey Church.— Also, to LET, and may be entered upon imrnediatelv, a neat con- venient DWELLING HOUSE, situate as above.— For Particulars apply to THE PRINTER { if by Letter, Post- paid). JULY 29th, 1823. ! ALL SORTS or ^ Foreign iJlain SHatcfjes, CHRONOMETERS, REPEATERS, PATENT LEVERS, Musical Snuff Boxes, fyc. < § - c. REPAIRED, IN THE MOST CAREFUL AND CORRECT IMANNER, BY JOHN GLOVER, WATCH. MANUFACTVRER, ( FROM LONDON), - r ADIES' GOLD WATCHES, MU- JLrf SICAL and CHIME CLOCKS, PLAIN SILVER WATCHES, kc. Stc. made to Order on liberal Terms; and warranted the best Materials aud Workmanship. WYLE- COF, SHREWSBURY, ( Opposite Mr. Blunt's, Druggist J. * * . and SHREWSBURY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1823. Visiting Clergyman this week at the Infirmary, tbe Rev. John Richards ;— House- Visitors, Mr. Thomas Cooke and Mr. Thomas Brocas. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MURDER.— ON Wednesday week, about seven o'clock, Mr. William Wood; of Eyain, Derbyshire, was discovered rob- bed and murdered by the road side between Disley and Whaleybridge., on bis return from Manchester Tuesday's market. This atrocious murder, there is J. LLOYD, plumber anS ( iMajicr, CLAKEMONT- STREET, SHREWSBURY, RE T U R N S his most grateful Thanks to his Friends for the very liberal and kind Support he has experienced since Hughes's Patch. his Commencement in Business, and most respect 1 1 r fully solicits a Continuance- of their. Favours, as. suring them and the Public that no Exertion in his Power shall be wanted, to give them the utmost. Satisfaction ; and all Orders he may be favoured with, shall be punctually executed,; and on most reasonable Terms possible. To tlic Trade and Public, in General\ IMPROVED PATENT PUMPS, for Water for Domestic Purposes, supplying- Reservoirs, Draining Ponds, Tan Pits, Barges, and for large Water Works, &. c. This Pump is on the most simple Construction, can be fixed in Wells of the greatest Depths, without any Liability of its being out of Repair; and it is put down at a v. ery small Expen'se, considerably lower than any ' Tiling now in use. If the. Well be 300 or 400 Feet ifeSp, .' aud Second- hand Watches bought, sold, or exchanged. ^ ale0 to? Unction. BYMESSRS. TUDOR & LAWRENCE, At the Crown Inn, in Church Stretton, in the County of Salop, on Friday, the 29th Day of August ncxU at Two o'Ciock in the Afternoon, ill. the Five following, or such other Lots as shall be agreed upon at the Time of Sale, unless pre- viously Sold, of which Notice will be given : \ 7ERY desirable Freehold ESTATES, " situate at WALL and RUSIIBURY, in the Gounty of Salop ( hereinafter described), in a very good State of Cultivation, aud now in the respective Occupations of Mr. William Harrington and Mr. John Gwilliam, as Tenants ut Will. LOT I. Londoner's Meadow Broad Meadow Cressett's M(" » dow WILLIAM STATHAM, TEA- DEALER, GROCER, Hop and Seed Merchant, Sealer in 13ritt8fj C& ltncs, AT THE ITALIAN WAREHOUSE, OPPOSITE THE OLD DANK, HIGH- STREET, SHREWSBURY, ETURNS his most respectful and grateful Thanks to his Friends and the Public in general, for the increased Share of Patronage with which he has been favoured since his Removal to his present Situation ; and assures them, that it shall always be his Study fo have such au Assort- ment of Goods, of the most superior Quality, as to give universal Satisfaction, aud upon the most reasonable Terms. N. B. Families supplied with Wax, Spermaceti, London Moulds, Dips, kc.; together with all Sorts of East and West India Pickles, Table Fruits, Fish and other Sauces; and genuine Fancy Snuffs from Fribourg and Treyers, llayinarket, London. ( fj* Genuine British Wines; Old Raisin, Cur- rant, Ginger, Cowslip, Calcavella, & c. iiic. *** LODGINGS to LET, genteelly furnished, with separate Offices. High Street, Shrewsbury, July list, 1823. KIVINGTON'S ANNUAL REGISTER, For the Year 1822. rpHE Public are respectfully informed, A that this Volume will be ready for Delivery at the usual Time, in DECEMBER next; the Pro- prietors considering that, by fixing that Period for its Publication, the Editor would be enabled to do greater Justice to the most important Part, the HISTORY OF EUROPE, than if published a few Months earlier. For an Account of the Volume for 1821, they beg to refer to tbe BRITISH CRITIC for June, 1823. Waterloo Place, and St. Paul's Church- Yard. the raising Little Cross Meadow Great Ditto Ditto 8 Rider's Meadow 0 Sun Pitts 14 Gretton's Bridge 5 Heath Ground... 12 Calves I. easow 13 Cotes Leasflw 7 Straws; Meadow 1 Dodamores 2 In the Occupation of John Gwilliam, and contains by Estimation 86 1 16 2 8 0 30 3 0 1 14 3 31 0 8 3 30 2 19 0 0 1 35 0 32 2 r> 2 35 0 9 All the Meadows in thisLot ( exccpt Londoner's Meadow) are Free of Tythe'- Hay. LOT II Coaley Meadow every reason to suppose, was committed by three | « > « » "!? 1 l^ h. bore, there i » no StuSnj Box •^ SZ^ ZZ"'!:. ' ' ' ' were observed c^ fi ^ ' S raised in a direct Lure, and from geutii[ g The Cause List complete, tie. in our next, vr On SUNDAY, the 10th of August, a SEHMOy Will be preached for the Benefit of the PUBLIC SOMSCRIPTIOJV SCHOOL O. V THE NA7/ OJV. J7. Srsynni, in this Tow.!, by the Rev. 11. (!'. C'otTon, A. lit. Vicar of Hinstoch, in the Morning at the Abbey, and in the Afternoon ( ut Three o'clock) at St. Julian's. The Friends of this Charity ore requested to meet JOH. IV ARTHUR Ll. orp, Esq. the President, at ihe County Hall, soon . after Ten o'Ctock in the Morning, to proceed from thence to the Church. DIED. Suddenly, at Leamington, the Very Rev. Arch- deacon Gooch. On the I4tb iust. at Leamington, where he had gone for the benefit of bis health, the Lord Bishop of Norwich, in tbe 7lst year of his age. Last week, Miss Rogers, of Trefonnen, near Oswestry, and formerly of The Rhyn. On the 24th iust. at Ellesinere, aged 54, Mr. Robert Williams, cooper; a man universally re- spected for his piety aud integrity : his friends will long and deeply deplore his loss. On Friday last, after a long illness, Benjamin Pugh, Esq. of Bernard- street, Russell- square, London; a gentleman who, for a considerable number of years attended the Oxford Circuit as Deputy Clerk of Assize. By the members of the Profession he was generally known and universally beloved; and the same kindliness of heart and con- ciliation- of demeanour which rendered him,' when living, an object of unfeigned regard, will tend to nmke his death a source of sincere regret. Oil the 28th inst. in Princess Street, in this town, aged 53, Mr. Thomas Lloyd, late Serjeant in the 82d Regiment of Foot: a truly honest man. At Fleury, near Kelso, his Grace the Duke of Roxbnrghe. He is succeeded in his titles by his only child, the Marquis of Beaumont, who is about five years of age. The Duke was nearly 80. On the 7th of March, at Serampore, of cholera morbus, after only one day's illness, the Rev. William Ward, one of the Baptist Missionaries. On the 19th inst. at an advanced age, at his scat, Pepper Hull, near Northallerton, Yorkshire, John Arden, Esq. of Ardeli Hall, near Stockport, and of Tarporley, Cheshire. He was the elder brother of the late Lord Alvanley, and uncle to the present, who chiefly succeeds to his immense wealth. men, dressed in sailor's clothes, who to follow him through Disley, up the old road ; both parties having, it appears, previously met bv accident at a public house in Howlaue. Mr; W. having refreshed himself ( being on foot) left the house, ainl was followed in about ten minutes by the three men, who, taking tbe sumo road, came up with him within a short, distance of Wbaley, where he was found— his pockets turned inside out, and his bead beaten in the most dreadful manner possi- ble. Tbe villains not content with using their own bludgeons, had even taken tbe stones from tbe wall, and used them for their dreadful purpose. Mr. W. is a married man, about 30, years of age, and has left a family of three children ; and there is too much reason to fear the murderers obtained a con- siderable bootv, as he bad received a large sum in Manchester. Tlie unfortunate man, when found, was buried under the stones of the wall, which they Pipe of that Size, an incredible Quantity of Water is discharged. J. L. cannot in an Advertisement explain its i Utility, or name his Prices; to any Gentleman favouring him with a Call, he will be happy to state any Particulars; can give Reference to a Pump put down for a Gentleman which raises a great Quantity of Water from Wells of upwards of j 200 Feet deep, and requires but a small Portion of Labour to work it. FOR LARGE WATER WORKS this Pump has been decidedly sanctioned by the most experienced Engineers, it being put oti a largeScale at a small Expense, and not liable to be out of Repair, and the Ease with which it is'kept in constant working Order, is very readily connected with all Kinds of Machinery, Water Wheels, icc. FOR TAN YARDS and BARGES this Pump 14 0 1 Ditto ... The Acre ..... In the Occupation of Wm. Harrington, and contains by Estimation.. Coaley Meadow and The Acre are Free Tithe- Hay, LOT III. Wood Grounds Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto 2 36 3 5 0 14 1 20 0 6 leg bp Auction; WE JIT WEEK.^- LION ROOMS. Extensive Sale of Household Furni- ture, and other Effects. BY C. INFLUERT, In the Lion Rooms, on Tuesday, August 5th, 1823, and two following Days ; ffPHE truly valuable HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE of a respectable Housekeeper leaving Shrewsbury, and some other Property belonging to a Gentleman retiring from Business": comprising capital Four- post, Tent, and Wardrobe Bedsteads, in various Hangings; excellent Feather Beds and Bedding-; Mahogany and Painted Dress- ing- Tables, Chairs, and Glasses, Chamber Carpets, kc.; excellent Mahogany Furniture, in Dining, Pembroke, and Pillar fables, Chairs, Chests of Drawers, Bureaus, & c.; Pair of superb violet- wood Card Tables, with OChairs to match ; handsome Pier and other Looking Glasses; capital Brussels Floor Carpet ( good as new), Scotch Ditto, & c.; Grecian Couch, and two handsome Sofas; neat Painted Wardrobe ; a very superior 8- davs' Clock ( circular Face), Ditto square Ditto ; a neat Timepiece, Mahogany Case; with a great Variety of most excellent and useful Kitchen Furniture; a few choice Paintings and Prints, and some Books ; and a most extensive Assortment of Tin, Copper, and Japanricd Utensils; also Earthenware, China, Gjass, & c.— A prime Double- barrelled Fowling Piece, and a Single Ditto ; several Powder Flasks, Shot Belts, kc.; seven Pieces of Bed Furniture, kc. ( C^* Sale to commence each Day at Half- past Ten o'Ciock. ' *** The above Property will be found parti- cularly deserving the Attention of the Public. N. B. Catalogues may be had the Saturday pre- ceding tbe Sale at THE AUCTIONEER'S old Office, Pride Hill, or at his new one, High Street. of 3 6 3 33 0 15 1 28 2 4 JMarhet Place, on Saturday, Aug. 9. BY C. IJULBERT, In the Market Place, Shrewsbury, at One o'Ciock on Saturday, August 9, 1823 ; QEVERAL handsome GIGS, with HARNESS, kc. WENLOCK RAOFS.— At these Races, last week, Richard Collins, and M. G. Benson, Esqrs. were chosen Stewards for next year.— Ail All- aged Slake for 1824 was proposed, of lOgs. each, when five Gentlemen put their names as subscribers.— A Hunters'Stakes, of 5gs. cach, for 1824, was also proposed, when 9 gentlemen put their names as subscribers. . Commissions in the Staffordshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, signed l> y the Lord Lieutenant of the county :— The lion. Orlando Bridgeman to beCaptain, vice Crockett, resigned; Cornet Thomps Princcp Robinson to be Lieutenant, vice Mount, ford, resigned. Ill the Court of Chancery on Friday, in the cause Reer v. Ward, Mr. Shadwell said that his clients had given notice of their intenl ion lo attack the late verdict obtained in the Court of King's Bench The Lord Chancellor intimated that he should not longer detain the heir at law from possession, and putting things on this footing, he proposed to hear the case arirued oil Tuesday. Sir John Wrotfesley was, on Wednesday elected M. P. for Staffordshire, without opposition ; and on Thursday, J. 15. Deunison, Esq. was elected for Newcastle- under- Ljirie. His opponent was R. E Heathcote, Esq. who was left in a minority of 23. A King's Letter has issued to the Archbishop of Cantei bury in support of Ihe Incorporated National Society, for the promotion of the Education of the Poor in the principles of the Established Church throughout liie kingdom ; aud in consequence cir- culars have been addressed by the Bishops to the Clergy of their respective dioceses, " requiring them to read his Majesty's gracious communication to their several congregations, on Sunday, the 27th inst. if received in due time, if not, on the following Sunday, and effectually to excite their parishioners to a liberal contribution" in aid of the funds of the society, which contributions are directed to be made the week following at their respective dwel- lings by the churchwardens or overseers of the poor in each parish. The amount so. raised is lo be transmitted to the Treasurer of the Sucicty in London. CONVICTIONS FOR WILFUL MURDFR. Oil Friday, Philip Stoffell and Charles Keppell were tried al the Assizes for Surrey, held at Croy- don, and found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Eliz. Richards, by suffocating her with an apron, in her house at Clapham, on the 8th April last. Tlie particulars of this very atrocious case were amply detailed in former papers. StoffVI was related to the poor old woman, who was the unhappy object of their vengeance. Both culprits were executed on Monday. had pulled upon him to conceal him.- Iminediately ! s a^ Por^ b,, e a, lli more ' " P^ jM" Inflow used on ti c discovery of the murder, pursuit was made ^ h", V?> ' ° r ST° w , Plac. es j" after the three men suspected, anil on Thursday one J ortab, e . "" P i , f . h. e ^^ A ? teV' of then, named Charl s Taylor, was apprehe ided- l fe at the Greyhound public house, Oak- street, Manchester j. he was committed to the New Bailey, • and on Friday afternoon w; ts discovered suspended on the stove pipe, which crosses the room where he was confined. The wretched murderer, it appears, , x .......... had tied his stockings together, and wit], the assist- ' TiTnrvwMS V l ™ wu. Unn » n House> Garden' ance of his garters, w^ as enabled to make then, . ^ irZ^ r^ ZZ T ™ nsendV .... sufficient for the fatai deed. He was not quite dead V^ T^ P1f< for dashing Wall Trees, Greenhouse Dltto when found, but had so far effected his intent, that I ^ T ^ 4 AT .... .1 r. nnm « t, t^ „ n I Mill Gates he was not able to speak afterwards, arid died on Sunday morning,' ab6i. it three o'clock. He was a native of Sal ford, and had lived for some time in Old field road, is 17 years of age, and has twice been convicted of felony. The other characters are equally young, aiHl have but a short time since left' the Ne\/ Bailey ; they are so well known that they can not with any degree of probability remain long- at liberty. i-^ On'Monday night'an inquest was held 011 the body of Taylor before John Milne, Esq. and a verdict returned of FELO DE SE An event dreadfully fatal in its cons^ upnees oc- curred to lii e So v ere i g 0 Day Coach bet wee n Bi rin i ng- h% m and London, soon after eight o'clock pii Saturday morning last. As the coach was proceeding at a steady pace from Lea filing ton towards Southam, the lyrich- pin of one of the wheels by some accident dropped out, and when about four miles from the latter place, the wheel flew off at a sharp turn of the road, and the coach was suddenly and instantly overturned. The coachman and a clergyman of the name of Atterbury, who sat with him on the box and was at the moment reading, were both precipitated with so iriueh violence against a bank on the road side that they rebounded from it, and falling under the body of the coach as it descended, were instan- taneously killed. The other outside passengers, eight or nine in number, were thrown forcibly to ill ground, but as far as we can learn, none of them met wjtb any serious injury. Three ladifs were'inside, and they also fortunately ' escaped without material hurt Ou Thursday, Lot Cartledge and Griffith Lloyd Turner were tried at the Manchester Sessions,, charged with stealing the two parcels of notes be- longing to Messrs Taylor and Lloyds, and Gibbins, Smith, and Co. of Birmingham, from the London Balloon coach. The case occupied the attention, of the Court the greater part of the day; bur the evi- dence failing to satisfy the jury of the actual, guilt of the prisoners, and after consulting together upwards of hail fan hon r, they returned a. v'e rdict of not guilty. uuderstand both prisoners have been detained in custody to take their trial for receiving the same notes, knowing them to have been stolen. and contains by Estimation..... LOT IV. Valve whatever in the Pump ; ft will discharge an incredible Quantity of Water, and can b^ kept in: working Trim by any Persou who may have to work the Pump. :.'. . FIRE ENGINES on the most improved Plan, from the Power of 4 Men to 18. GARDEN ENGINES mounted on Wheels on an improved Plan, for dashing Wall Trees, Greenhouse Plants, & c. & e. SPRING VALVE PAtf and PORTABLE WA- TER CLOSETS, Sheet Lead, and Lead Pipes, with every Article in the Plumbing and Glaizing Busi- ness, at the lowest Price possible NOTICE is hereby given, that the PARTNERSHIP subsisting between us the undersigned JOB BARKER, JOHN WARD, aud THOMAS COOPER, as Iron Manufacturers, at LIGHTMOOR, in the Parish of Daw levy in the County of Salop, was this Day DISSOLVED by mutual Consent, so far as regards the said. THOMAS C OOPER . All Debts d ue to the said COpartnershi$ Concern are to be received by the said JOB BARKER and JOHN WARD, and all Debts. and Demands;( Uie I therefrom are to be paid by them. As Witness.:, the Hands of the said Parties, this Twenty^ second Day of July, One Thousand Eight - Hundreds land Twenty^ Three. . JOB BARKER, , JOHN WMIR THOS. pQOPER. J Witness to the Signing by all the Parties^ { JTVO. pRITCHARI), of Broselev, ••-.'!. .- • ' Solicitor. . . - M.' V pFI E Comnnssiotiers in a Commission I of Bankrupt bearing Date the 23d Day of Januarv, 1821, awarded and issued forth.. against JAMES OWEN, of MADE^ EV WOOD, art the Parish of Madeley, i n tiie County of Salop,^ dealer in Coals, Dealer and Chapman, intend to. ftlEET on the 12th Day of August next, at 12 o'Clofck at Noon, at the Tontine Inn, in the Parish . of- Malleley aforesaid, to make a FINAL DIVIDEND of the Estate and Effects of the . said Bankrupt; when and where the Creditors vvho have - not: already proved their Debts are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded; the Benefit of the said Dividend ; and all Claims not then proved will be disallowed. , - r i PRITCHARD & SONS* Solicitors to the Assignees of the Estate find Effects ofthe said James Owenvi Broselei/ y July If), 1823. LOT V. and Yard ...... » .„ .! 21 3 6 . 1 2 14 3 13 .. ! 1 18 .. 8 3 5 .. 0 2 11 .. 1 3 36 .. 1 2 2 .. 2 1 30 .. 6 2 5 WALL and RUSH BURY, are about 4 Miles from ; Church Stretton, 15 from Shrewsbury, and 9 from Wen lock. The Tenants will shew the Premises; and fur- [ ther Particulars may be had at the Office of Mr. COOPER, Solicitor, Shrewsbury. TO- MORROW & FRIDAY. MASKETHEEALD. • SHREWSBURY. In our Market, 011 Saturday last, the price of Hides was 4d. per lb.— Calf Skius 5d— Tallow 3d. Wheat 10 10. £ > 72 The Quarter of Bii rley Oats... Peas... 9 8,1 = o r V16 2 | 30 J ( 10 It]! eigbtVVincbes- lj| ter Bushels, or 0 J 236 Quarts. Several Samples of Wheat were sold at lis. CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 28. There were very large arrivals of all descriptions of Grain last week, but the fresh supplies of this morning are imt considerable : tbe weather continues very unseitted, and occasions the factors to holdout Wheat and Beaus are materially advanced in price, but our buyers will not comply with the demand; the. sales of Wheat that have been made are only to a limited extent, and ihe finest parcels have realised an advance of 2s. per quarter oil the terms of this day se'unigbt- Barley is also rather dearer. Beans are advanced 2s. In Peas of both kinds there is no variation. Oats find but few buyers, and are quoted Is. per quarter lower than ou last Monday. The top price of Floor is cxpected to be 60s. per sack Current Price of Grain per Quarter, as under? Wheal' 40s to 68s | White Peas 34a to 36s Barley..... . Malt.. to 35s 54s to 60s Beans.. Oats.. 32s lo 38s 24s to 27s Fine Flour 50s to 55s per sack,; Seconds 45s lo 50s SiaitUfilBLD ( per St. of Sib. sinking qffai), Beef.... 3s 4d to 4s 4d I Veal 4s Od to 5s Od. Mutton 3s 4d lo 4s 4< I | Pork 3s 6d to 4s 6d. Lamb 4s Od to 5s Od . FAIRS TO BE HOLDEN. Aug. 2, Kington, Northwich— 4, Northwich, Reddich— 5, Shiffhal, Wattleshorough, Altritlcham, Middlewich, Long- uor ( Staffordshire), Wednesbury, Stone, Wig- more, Dudley— 6, Khayadr— 7, New- town, Machynlleth, Wrexham— 8, Whitchurch, Knighton, Ruthin— 9, Ilowey, I. lanrwst DR. LAMENT. ( Son of Dr. I. LAMERT, of the Old Medical Est ah lishmenty 10, Church Street* Spitalfields^ London, where he has resided above 60 YearsJt CONDUCTOR OF THE MEDIC A L ESTABLISHMENT, 54, QUEEN- SQUARE, BRISTOL, AND PKOrRIETOB OF THAT INVALDABI. E MEDICINE The Cordial Balm of Zura, BEING now on a Tour through Shrop- shire for the sole Purpose of appointing Agents, and having been repeatedly solicited, by Letter and Personal Application, during' his Visit to Shrews- bury; to extend his Assistance ' to various Parts of- the County of Salop; lie hereby announces that he may be consulted— On Thursday next, July 31st, from 4 o'Ciock till- I 9 In the Evening, and on Friday from 9 till 12 iii the Morning, at the PHEASANT INN, WELLINGTON. On Friday, August lst, from 2 till 9 in the Even ; ing, at the TONTINE INN, IRON BRIDGE. . On Saturday, August 2d, from 9 in the Morning till 9 at Night, ot Mr. BRICKLEK'S, Hairdresser, Htr. ti. STRSrr, BRIDGNORTH. " V ! . On Monday; Aiigusl 4th, from 9 in tTie!: Moilniog till 3, at the P1.00011 INN, WENLOCK. ' _ On Tuesday, August 5th, froin 5 till 9 in the Evening, and on Wednesday, the 6th, from 9 in the Morning till 2, at the WVNNSTAV ARMS. INN, OSWESTRY. On Wednesday, Augfist 6th, froin 4 till ' 9 in the Evening, at the BRIDOBWATER ARMS INN, ELLES- | - M ERE. O11 Thursday, August 7th, from 9 till' 2, . it the WHITE HORSE " INN, WEM: Persons who would wish io avail themselves of Dr. L.' s Personal Advice, will please to be punctual to tbe Time, as bis numerous Engagements ut his Establishment in Bristol will preclude the Possibility of a longer Stay than is above specified. Genteel Furniture, Plate, Linen, Wine, Seven Hundred Gallons of Ale, Malt, Hops, Hay, Pony, Pigs, Manure, Gig Harness, Sfc. BY M R" 7" S M 1TII, On the Premises at the CASTLE INN, Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury, 011 Thursday, the 31st Instant, and Friday, the lst of August, 1823 ; rpHE Entire of the valuable FU RN1- JL TURE, PLATE, LINEN, Cellar of WINE, ALE, and other Effects, the Property of the late Mr. JoilN CROWTIIER: comprising 14 Bedsteads with Furniture, 15 good Feather Beds, Mattrass, Blankets, Counterpanes, Quilts, 28 Pair of Home, made Sheets and Table Linen, Mahogany Bureau, Chests of Drawers, Linen Chests, Bason Stands, Dressing Tables, Swing and Pier Glasses, excel- lent Oak Dining and Pillar Tables, 5 Dozen of Chairs, large Painted Beanfet, and Oak Ditto; 10 Dozen of Wine and Ale Glasses, 6 Decanters; 1 Dozen of Silver Table Spoons, 18 Ditto Tea, Silver Cream Ewer, aud Sugar Tongs; Dinner Service of Delf, Tea Chinawith all the Parlour Furniture, Kitchen Requisites, and Culinary Arti- cles ; 780 Gallons of Ale ; a few Dozens of Wine ; 68 Bushels of Malt j 3 Pockets of Hops ; Quantify of Oats; Stack ot new Hay; large Quantity of Manure ; Pony ; 6 strong Store Pigs ; Pony Wag- gon and Gig ; 26 capital Ale Vessels ( from 30 Gallons to 76 Gallons), Mashing Tubs, Cooler, Fur. nace and Boiler, with every Brewing Requisite, kc. Particulars are published in Catalogues, which are ready for Delivery at THE AUCTIONEER'S Office, Shrewsbury. *** The Sale to begin each Morning at Half, past Ten o'Ciock precisely. dS* All Persons having any Claim or Demand upon the Estate or Effects " of the said JOHN CROWTHER, are requested to send the Particu- lars thereof to the Office of Mr. WM. JEEFREVS, Solicitor, Dog- pole, Shrewsbury, 011 or before the 21st Day of August, 1823. FREEHOLD PROPERTY, < E; i0tl£* iForc3titc, CjljrrtDsimri? BY MIL'S MI Til, I At the Castle Inn, in the Castle- Foregate, Shrews bury, on Friday, the lst Day of August, 1823, between the Hours of six k seven in the Evening^ subject to Conditions to be then produced, in the following Lots : LOT I. rfflHE Reversion, Freehold, and Inherit A ance ( subject to the Life of a Female aged 48 Years) of and iii all that MESSUAGE orTenement, with Brewhouse, Yard,' and Appurtenances, situate in Castle- Foregate aforesaid, near to a Street there called Back Street, and now in the Occupation of John Tanswell. LOT II. The Fee- Simple and Inheritance of all that MESSUAGE or Tenement, and BLACK SMITH'S SHOP, with the Stable and Cowhouse I adjoining thereto, situate in Castle- Foregate, near Back Street aforesaid, and now in the several Occupations of Wiliiain Roberts, Blacksmith, Mrs Crowther, and Mrs. Humphreys. Particulars may be had at the Office of Mr. WM JEFFREYS, Solicitor, Dogpole, Shrewsbury. VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, Near Worthen. BY d ot by Private Contract, be given,) at Four C. HULBERT, ( Unlesss sooner disposed of b of which due Notice will 1 o'Ciock on Monday, the 11th of August, 1823, at the House of Mr. Weaver, the Sign of the White Horse, in Worthen : VERY valuable Freehold ESTATE, in the Occupation of the Representatives of the late Mr. John Lee: comprising 27 Acres of excellent Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, with good Farm House, very commod ions Outbuildings, Garden, Orchard, kc. attached — This very desir- able Property is situate at BROCTON, " in the Parish of Worthen, 13 Miles from Shrewsbury, aud S from Montgomery. The Estate may be viewed on Application on tbe Premises; and for Particulars applv to Mr. THOMAS CRUMPTON, Mr. J. BICKERTON WILLIAMS, Soli- citor, or to THE AUCTIONEER, all of Shrewsbury. A VERY DESIRABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, NEAR TILSTOCK AND COTTON ( In the Parish of Whitchurch, Salop). BY W. CHURTON, At the White Lion Inn, in Whitchurch, on Saturday, the 9th Day of August, 1823, at 4 o'Ciock in the Afternoon, subject to Conditions then to be produced ; ALL those NIN E PIECES or Parcels of rich Arable, Meadow, and Pasture LAND, in a'Ring Fence, aud in a highsState of Cultivation, containing in Statute Measure 36 Acres, or there abouts. The above Property is pleasantly situated lo build upon, and producesjearly Crops ; commands extensive and rich Views of Hawkstone, and the surrounding Country ; is Three and a Half Miles from Whitchurch; Five from Wem; and distant about a Quarter of a Mile from the Turnpike Road leading to Shrewsbury, and a Mile and a Half from the Ellesmere Canal. N. B. There, is Plenty of good Brick Clay and Sand in the Land. '#* For further Particulars, apply to Mr. I{. SANDLAND, Cotton; or to THE AUCTIONEER, Whitchurch. MONTGOMERYSHIRE. A VERY DESIRABLE 1FEH! MI ® 1LID HSmmS § CONSISTING of a substantial and convenient modem- built BRICK HOUSE, with good Offices, Stabling, and a good Kitchen Garden ( for the Residence of a small g- enteel Family), called OLD IIALL, situate in the Parish of Llanidloes, in the said County ( and7 distant, from Llanidloes about three. Miles)', together with 85 Acres of Land, 01- thereabouts : and also'an excel- lent MILL and FACTORY ( which is under Lease for nine Years, of which seven Y'ears arc unex- pired at May next), always well supplied with Water, to which is attached 7 Acres of LAND, or thereabouts ; together with a Right of Road to the Wear, which turns the Water thereto, for hauling Materials or other Purposes : will be auction, Together, or in Lots, as shall be agreed upon at. the Time of Sale, BY MR. DAVID GWILLIM, At the New Inn, in the said Town of Llanidloes, 011 Wednesday, the 17th Day of September next, between the Hours of four and six in the After- noon, unless disposed of by Private Contract in the mean Time, of which Notice will be given. There is a large and valuable Allotment of Com- mon and Wood Land, containing about 80 Acres ( more or less), adjoining the same, lately made to it under the Arustley lnclosure Act, which will be sold together with the above, 01- separately, as shall be agreed upon at the Time of Sale. This Allot- ment of Common may be continued as a Sheepwalk or converted into a small Farm. This Estate possesses the Resources of excellent Angling ( the River Severn running thro' the Midst of it), Grouse and other Shooting- of all Descriptions, particularly of Woodcocks), and there is a good Pack of Harriers hunted regularly in the Neighbourhood during the Season, For Particulars apply to Mr. INGRAM, 011 the Premises; Mr. TARRANT, Solicitor, 44, Dean- Street, Soho- Square, London, with whom a Map of the Estate is left; and to THE AUCTIONEER, in Llanidloes. The Timber and Growing Crops, together with about 200 Sheep, to be taken by the Purchaser at a fair Valuation. JULY 26TH,. 1823. Arustley Inc/ osure. WE, JOHN MATTHEWS, JOHN HUMPHREYS, and JOHN DYER, the Commissioners appointed bv the Authority of an Act of Parliament made and passed in tbe 56th Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, entitled ( e An Act for inclosing- Lands in the Manor of Arustley, in the County of Montgo- mery," do hereby give NOTICE, that we have set out and appointed the following Public and Private Carriage Roads, Public Bridle Ways, and Public Foot Paths over, through, and npon the Commons and Waste Lands in the several Townships under- mentioned, in tiie said Manor, and which are all the Public and Private Carriage Roads, Public Bridle Ways, and Public Foot Paths we judge necessary to be over, through, and upon the same. UCHLLAWRCOED TOWNSHIP. Private Carriage Roads and Public Rridle Ways of the Breadth of 18 Feel. ON MYNYDD LLYN MAWR. C. One Private Carriage Road and Public Bridie Way, lettered C, branching out of the Road A, at Bwlch Gttrreg, and leading in a northwest- erly Direction over Allotment No. 13, towards Gellv 111r, & c. ON LLWYBCOED. D. Ditto, from the Boundary of the Township at Camo Brook, northwesterly and northerly to the ancient Road leading to Mynydd I. lyn Mawr. E. Ditto, from the Road D, southeasterly to the ancient Road leading to Llariwnog. F. Ditto, on Wern, from the Turnpike Road near the Clatter, northerly and northeasterly to the Boundary of the Township at Caruo Brook, at Rhyd Captain Lloyd. G. Ditto, from theiancient Road near Cwm Gwef- wyn, northwesterly and northerly to the ancient Road at Lle'd Gwm. II. Ditto, from the ancient Road near Bwlch Shiwgjwr Tenement, northerly to the Boundary of the Township near Jane Goodwyn's Tene- ment. I. Ditto, from the Road II, westerly over Allotment No. 1, to the Boundary of the Township. K. Ditto, from the Road 11, northeasterly and northerly over Allotment No. 3, to the Bound- ary of the Township at Pant y Chwaran. Private Carriage Roads of the Breadth of 18 Feet'. ON LLVV YDCOED. L. One Private Carriage Road from the Road E, southerly to a Messuage in the Occupation of Edward Evans. M. Ditto, from the Road D, southwesterly over Allotment No. 26, to Glanrafon Tenement. N. Ditto, on Wern, from- the Turnpike Road north- easterly to Allotment No. 29. 0. Ditto, from the Road G, westerly to Blaen GWrn Tenemeut. P. Ditto, from the Road G, southwesterly and westerly to the ancient Road near Bridget and Mary Smith's Tenement. Q. Ditto, from the Road H, southwesterly toTwin- path- melyn Tenement. R. Ditto, from the Road II, easterly over Allotment No. 2, to Bwlch Shiwgwr Tenement. S. Ditto, from tbe Road'I, southwesterly to a Tenement belonging toSir VV. W. Wvnn, Bart. T. Ditto, on Gwynfryu, from the Road B, easterly to the Boundary of the Township. V. Ditto, on Mynydd Llyn Mawr, from the Bound- ary of the Township at Nant Llyn Dn, southerly to Cae Eitbion Fields, belonging to John Mytton, Esq. Foot Ways ofthe Breadth of 4 Feet. ON LLWYDCOED. a. One Foot Way, lettered a, from the Road D, easterly over Allotment. No. 1!), to, ari, ancient Foot Way leading through Humhins Wood. b. One Ditto, from the Road D, northeasterly to a Tenement in the Occupation of Edward Evans. LLYSSIN TOWNSHIP. Private Carriage Road and Public. Bridle Way of the Breadth of 24 Feet. A. One Private Carriage Road and Public Bridle Way, lettered A, commencing at the ancient Road at Llidiart Cae Cyd, and leading in a southerly and southwesterly Direction, by Aberddaunant, to Rhyd Blaen Cwm Cledan. Private Carriage Road and Public Bridle Ways of the Breadth of 18 Feet. ON WAEN BRYN YR AliEN. One Private Carriage Road and Public Bridle Way, lettered B, from the Road A, southerly to the Boundary of the Township near Ty- niorris. C. One Ditto, from the Road A., at Llydiart Cae Cyd, westerly and northwesterly by Tyn llwyu to tbe Boundary ofthe Manor of Taler- ddig- near Frwd Wen. D. Ditto, from the Road C, southeasterly to the Road A at Aberddaunant. ON ALLTGOCH. E. Ditto, from the Road A, at Llydiart Cae Cyd, northwesterly to Doimaen, thence easterly and northwesterly to the ancient Road leading through Bwlch Tenement. Private Carriage Roads ofthe Breadth of 18 Feet. F. One Private Carriage Road from the Road A, at Aberddaunant, southerly and easterly to the Road B, thence to the Boundary of the'Town, ship at Nant y Llewarch. G. Ditto, from the Road C, westerly fo the ancient Road leading towards Cae Hani'mon. II. Ditto, from the Road C, southwesterly towards Tyn llwyn and Llette yr Eas.. 1. Ditto, from the Road C, westerly by Rhoswylfa to Frwd Wen. K. Ditto, from the Road C, easterly to Wylfa. Ditto, from the Road K, easterly to Cae Ham. B. Ka. L. Ditto, from the Road C, southeasterly to Lands called the Warren. M. Ditto, from the Road F, northeasterly to Cae- haidd Tenement. N. Ditto, from the Road A, southerly to a Public Quarry. O. Ditto, from the Road A, northerly w towards Blaen Cwm Cledan and Paiitley Tene- ments. P. Ditto, from the Road A, at Rhyd Blaen Cwm Cledan, southerly to a Public Turbary. Public Foot Ways of the Breadth of 4 Feet. a. One Foot Way, lettered a, from the Road A, southerly by Blaen Nnnt y March to the Boundary of the Township at Gralg fach. b. Ditto, from the Road A, southerly to the Bound- ary of the Township at Nant y March. c. Ditto, from tbe Road A, northeasterly and northerly ( 011 Bryn Eithinog) across the Roads Dand C towards Cae llaminon, & c. d. Ditto, from the Foot Way c, southeasterly to the Road A at Aherddaunn'nt. e. Ditto, from the Road E at Dolymaen, easterly to an ancient Foot Way leading through llen". dre Cledan Tenement." f. Ditto, from the Foot Way e, northeasterly and northwesterly towards Sam. g. Ditto, from tbe Foot Way f, westerly ( on Allt Gocli) to a Stile entering the Lands of the Rev. John Thomas. h. Ditto, from the Road D, southwesterly ( on Bryn Eithinog) to Bryu Eithinog Tenement. And we do hereby give further NOTICE, that Maps or Plans of the said Roads and Ways, lettered as above, and signed by us, are left for Inspection at the Office of Mr. GRIFFITIIES, Solicitor, Pool, the Clerk appointed by tbe said Act for carrying the same into Execution. And we also g- ive further NOTICE, that we shall hold a MEETING at the House of Richard Kinsey, known by the Sign of the tlnicorn Inn, in Caersws, on Wednesday, the 13th Day of August next, at Ten o'Ciock in the Forenoon, for the Purpose of hearing and determining any Objections which may be. made to the said Roads and Ways. JOHN MATTHEWS, JOHN HUMPHREYS, JOHN DYER. July 13( A, 1823. wfyixt Sttmmer COMPANY OF MERCERS & c. HART. This action, which has for some time excited considerable interest in Shrewsbury, was instituted by the United Company of Mercers, Grocers, Iron- mongers, and Goldsmiths, against the Defendant, William Hart, until recently a mercer in High Street, for carrying on that business, he not being a freeman of the Company, and was tried before a Special Jury. On this occasion, a full special jury appeared, a circumstance very much to the credit of the parties, and for which Baron Hullock paid them a handsome compliment. The following are the names of the Jury : — Henry Williams, Esq. John Ravenshaw, Esq. Richard Mountford, Esq. FerdinandoSmith, Esq. Edmund Plow den, Esq. Richard Phillips, Esq. Thomas Bishton, Esq. William Jackson, Esq. John Horton, Esq. Thomas Maddock, Esq.. William Briscoe, Esq. William Law ley, Esq. The eas6 was opened by Mr. Uvedale . Corbett, and stated by Mr. Campbell, who, in performing that part of his duty, noticed the successful action brought by the Company of Carpenters, Brick- layers, Tilers, and Plaisterers, against Hey ward, many years ago, and the evidence, & c. as reported in Douglas's. Reports, p. 374, bv which that action was supported. He then particularised the different sorts of evidence he should adduce in support of the present action, the documentary commencing at a very early period, namely, from the 3d of Henry VI. and parole evidence that, would connect the documentary and bring it. down to the present time. He should then only have to prove that the defend- ant carried on this business to entitle him to their verdict. The first witness called, was Joseph Yeomans, who said he was beadle to the Mercers1 Company, and attended at the assizes and all other times that the Company required him in the dress lie then wore; produced a box, which he bad received from Mr. Robert Gray, one of the Wardens of the • Company*- the books therein were the property of the Company. Mr. Edward Hughes.— I was a member of the Company of Mercers, Grocers, & c. but have been disfranchised. I was a member from 1780, for above. 40 years, and was entitled to it by birth as well as by apprenticeship. A mercer. must be free of the. Company to exercise the trade in this town ; and always used to be until these refractory persons would not come in. Iu my time, every mercer in town has been a member of the Company. The sons of freemen are entitled to become members., I served the office of Warden twice— once in 1794 and once in 1797. The Wardens' duties are to call the Company together — keep the accounts, receive the rents for houses belonging to the Company. I know of thirteen pence being paid to the poor of St. Chad's Alms- houses, as they cajn. e for it; I be- lieve I have paid it myself. There were formerly thirteen houses; but there are not thirteen now, some are taken down. The senior Warden has the care of the box in which the books are kept. When warden in 1797, I paid £ 100, as a subscription from the company towards the defence of the country .-— The Company meet for the admission of freemen, and are summoned by written or printed sum- monses; foreigners are generally admitted on payment of a fine of £ 20; it has been more; and l have known it as much as £ 50 in my time. I have frequently attended meetings of the Company. The, senior and junior wardens are annually elected ; if they serve two years together they are elected again. We generally meet in the To. w nil ail.— On his Cross- examination, he said, we have no hall. Persons acquire their freedom of the Company by birth, servitude, and redemption; the fine isarbi- trary, and depends upon the pleasure of the Coin pany. I have only known one instance of a fine of £ 50 being paid; the person was obstinate, and would carry on the trade in defiance of the Com- pany; he paid £ 50, and part was returned him. I know of no one paying less than £ 20. The Compriny do a great deal of { rood with the fines: besides the £ 100 I have mentioned as being sub- scribed for the service of the country, the Company assist decayed freemen and their widows; I have known sums of 4: 5 or £ 10 given in such cases. The Company dine together once a year, on the Tuesday in the Show week. The dinners are gene- rally paid out of the above money> Some of the Companies in this town walk in procession to Kingsland at the Show, but the Mercers' Company does not, they only walk to dinner. They require upholsterers to take up their freedom, but not cabinetmakers or., tailors ( the latter are a separate company), nor woollen drapers only ; also apothe- caries that choose, but some go into the barbers' - company ; those that were not surgeon- barbers we admitted. We have nothing' to do with tea- dealers, if they sell tea only, but if they sold sugar, we required tlieift to take up their freedom,— Re- examined. The fine of £ 50 was paid by Mr. Henry Parry ; he was a retail woollen- uraper, and took to sell mercery ; he paid on the 27th May, 1788, Re- examined. A book of entries produced. Mr Maddock was clerk of the Company; his business was to make entries ; if he was there, and well, lie made them; they were always made regularly, and the book kept bv an Officer of the Company.— ' Cross- examined. The clerk made the entries, hut the wardens received the money ; the clerk had nothing to do with that. Mr. John Bovven. — I am acquainted with old hand- writing*; produced a book, the title to which was in Latin, but the translation was, " These are the mimes of the Brethren received and incorporated an the time of Richard Attyncham and John Cut- ler, wardens in the 3d year of the reign of Henry VI. after the conquest." IMPRIMIS.— Adam Goldsmith hath made his fine for 20s. After that followed, a variety of other names, i the same style and to the same amount. The fol lowing entries were then read from the same book 1480. Richard Phillips, Goldsmith, 11th Nov. 20 Edw. IV. made himself freeman with the fel lowship of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Gold- smiths, for 36s. 8d. and paid in hand. 148J. William Pontesbury, Mb April, 21st Ed. IV iin. ade himself freeman with the fellowship of Mercers, Ironmongers,, and Goldsmiths, for 16s # d. and under the condition that he shall pay every year 3s. 4d. till the same sum shall bp fully contented, and paid besides iu wine 8s. 2d. JU85. Richard Pontesbury, of London, mercer, the 16th day of June, in the 2d year of Richard III. made himself freeman with the company of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths, for 20s. and paid in hand the same day and year aforesaid. 1186. Roger Mason, the 24th May, made his fine with the fellowship of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths, and made him freeman wit!] the said Company for 16s 8d. and paid i hand the day beforesaid, and in the year of our Lord 14* 6, and in the first year of the reign of Henry VII. 1491. Richard Eddysley, son to Christopher Ed dysley, of Ronton, in Staffordshire, made t'kiMoclf brother and freeman with the fellowship and combrethren of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths, for 40s and paid in hand. 3497. William Barbur made himself freeman with ihe onibret. hren of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths, within the To ten and Franchise of Shrewsbury, for four pounds sterling, and pai in hand the 17th day in the month of May, i the time of Thomas Grace and Dayid Ireland, wardens, again chosen the 29th day in the month of May, in " tlie year of our Lord 1497 and in the 12th of fing tlenry VII. 1566. Thomas Bromley, son of William Bromley of Stoke- uppn- Teni, ill the County of Salop was admitted to be freebrother of the Guild and Fraternity of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths, within the Town of Salop, and h* fine, by the assent of the whole company, - pardoned, save the wipe and fe. es, the 17th June, 8th of Elizabeth. 1617. Isaac Frier, son of George Frier, deceased late freeman of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths, 22d May, 1617, and hath paid for hi? admittance, as the son of a freebrother, 16s Sd. with the otlier fees of the House according 1623. The company were assembled 1623, at which time it was agreed that a suit should be com- menced against Mr. Michael Lewis, for that lie doth open shop and sell wares belonging to our company, not being- a freebrother among us. 1625. Michael Lewis, the Son of Thomas Lewis ou. e of the Aldermen of the Town of . Shrews bury, in the County of Salop, gent, was admit ted a freebrother of the Company of Mercers,_ Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths, the 20th day of June, 1625, at which day the said Michael Lewis, here in person present, and in perform ance of an order taken before his Majesty': Counsel in the Marches of Wales^ ou that behalf, did submit himself to the Wardens and Com brethren for imposing a fine of his admittance and by and with the consent of the said War deus pud Company bath priid for his fees as foreigner, with the fees of the house accord- ingly; the same order bearing date at Ludlow, the 10th day of March, the 22d of James I. a true copy whereof, under the testy of the said Court, was openly read before the said Com- pany in their hearing the said day. . 1625. Roger Tomkies, son of Humphrey Toinkies, late ofthe Town and County ot Salop, glazier, was admitted a freebrother of this Company the 20th day of December, 1625, and taken in , as a foreigner, for that lie had- jprot served Mr. John Griffiths, his late master, according to the strict covenant of his Indentures, and laid down for his fine ten pounds, which was quali- fied by the Wardens and four men of counsel, to whom he referred himself for his fine, to the sum of £ 3. 6s. 8d. and paid the other fees in cident accordingly. 1769. David Prichard was this 29th May, 1769, upon his petition to this Guild, sworn and admitted a combrother of the said Guild upon vote of the Company, Upon paying for his iadmittance the sum of forty pounds; and the said Company, at the same' time, voted him back the sum of ten pounds ; and the said David Prichard paid the Sum of 16s. 8d. the usual fee due to this Guild or Company. Numerous other entries of a similar nature were contained ih the same book.— From the same book were then read the following, amongst a variety of similar extracts 1521. 13th Henry VIII. The Wardens let summon the whole Company together the 8th day of August, at the commands of Mr. Bailiffs; for to see the Company prepared, in a readiness to do the King's service ; and also to know what harness the Company hath; and further, that none ofour Company be retained to no manner of person out of this town, but only to Mr. Bailiffs and the Wardens of our fellowship, nor to take no manner, of wages of no man, nor otherwise, without license of the Bailiffs. 1521. The Wardens let summon the whole Company together the lltli day of August, at the com- mandment of Mr. Bailiffs, for to cause all the whole Company to be in harness afore the King's Commissioners the. next day following. 1551. 28th July, 1551. Let summon the whole Company, * to enquire and certify to Mr. Bailiffs, according to commission to us di- rected, how many able men ( betwixt, the age of . threescore years and sixteen), and harness, there is in our Company . to serve the King* withal. 1579. 2.2( 1 July, in the 21st. Eli?. Mr. Wardens let summon the whole Company, by the ap- pointment of Mr. Bailiffs, for the ordering of provision for the Judges of Assize; so that at the said assembly it was agreed upon by the whole Company then assembled, that Mr. Wardens should provide for two beds, with the furniture thereof^ for the cause aforesaid, and to be paid for by the Company.— 6th Aug, 26th Aug. 22d Eliz. at which time it was agreed that there should be assessment of the whole Com- pany for the levying of,£ 2. 9s. 4d. being towards the furnishing of soldiers for the ser- vice of the Queen's Majesty, according to the commandment of Mr. Bailiffs. 1607. The Company were assembled 28th July, 1607, at a request of Mr. Bailiffs, touching the finding* of a bed, which in kindness the Company is requested extraordinarily to lend to the Sheriff, Sir Robert Needham, Knt. which the Company doth consent unto, and also to find two beds, and four Wardens, accord- ing to ancient custom, for the Judges during the time of the assizes. The next document was a confirmation by the Judges of Assize of the customs of the Company ranted by Prince Edward, and was as follows : Be it knowyn that We Sir Lewvs Pollard Knyght one. of the Kvng's Justics of his Comen Pleas and John Fitz James the King's Attorney beyng Justics of thassises in the Countye of Salop have sene and redd theys said Ordennce. and Evy. article therein conteyned and pfectly. understenden the same. And for as mycheas We pceive. the same Ordennce. to be for the, Comen weale of the said towne and of the Guylde thereof a cordyng to the Statute made at Westmr. the xjx yere of the reigne of Kyng- Henry the vijth. We the said Justics at Ludlow within the seid Countie of Salop the xxviijth daie of February the xj yere of the reigne of King Henry, the viijth have approbate allowed and con- fermed to the Now Combrethryn the seid Or. dennces. & all the articles theryn conteyned to have and use the same from hpnsforth aceordypg to the trewe Eriteiit of the same. In Witnes whereof we the said Justics have here unto sett oure Seales and subscribed onre names with our honds p me lodowicu Pollard John Fitz James p me llobart Dudley p me Rogeru Thornes Bail lives Salop After this, the orig- inal composition or charter granted by Prince Edw^- d, commencing " Edwarde of inye moste drede lorde and fader Edwarde the iiij of Englond and of Fraunce Fyrst begotten Sonne,, Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwayle and Erie of Chester," and ending " Given in our pre- sence at Schrevvsbury the xi daye of M « ye in the xx yeere of the revg'n of my most drede lorde and fad re," was. put in, but the defendant's counsel objected to its production, on the ground that it could not be pr- oyed to have come from the records of the Company. To this point Mr. Hughes was again called, and said— I was warden in 1797 ; I did not see the composition then ; it was not in the box, I believe ; I do not know exactly where it comes from ; 1 did not hear of it until after the action was brought; J believe it was not found until about that time. Mr. Campbell said it was found in the possession of Mr. W ndsor, former- ly clerk of the Company, and contended it might be read. Mr. Jervis objected, and the Judge concurred in the objection. Mr. Hughes, on recol- lection, said he saw it in the hands of Mr. Gray, the senior warden, before the action was com- menced, but had no recollection of having seen it in the box where the Company's books were kept whilst he was warden. The Judge, however, remained of opinion that the proof of possession was not sufficient to be admitted in evidence. They then produced the following- grant to the Company s 7th Edward IV. To ali the faith full of Christ, to whom this present Indenture shall come and their successors amiualy every Wednesda; in the Year do distribute thirteen pence of silvej of the Rents Profits and Emoluments of the affore& id Tenements to. thirteen poor people for the time dwelling- in thirteen Chambers under one Roof in the Cemetry . of the Church aforesaid built ly Benedict Upton as in , a certain Charter there a f made more plainly appears Then in CaSe of iron Payment re- entry into the said premises this Grant notwithstanding- Dated at Salop Monday next after the Feast of St. Peter ad V^ peula 7 Ed IV. Richard Harries, Esq, born within 4 miles of the town; I am 74 y ears of age; I had a brother Thomas, who, on the death of Mr. Ward, purchased his stock in 1769; my brother was not free of the Company ; he was called upon by them to take up his freedom ; lie was admitted, and paid £ 30} on the 29th May, 1769; and the Company voted him £ 10 backhand lie paid 6s. 8d. for tees ; he carried on business for 2 or 3 mouths, and died ; I was, at : that time, appprentice, to. Mr. Stanier, and had" served two or three years of my apprenticeship!: my friends wished me to take to my brother's business; I was not 20 years of age; 1 purchased my freedom from my apprenticeship of Mr Stanier, The Company, as soon as I began business, calied upon me to lake up my IVeedom, for not hayihg- served out my apprenticeship : Xjetig- aged, on at- taining- 21 years of age, to do so ; w. h. en, 1 was 21 they called upon nie again, and | paid £ 30, but the Company taking- into consideration that I had paid £ 100 as au apprentice fee, a- nd?£ 50- to be released from my apprenticeship, returned me £ 20. I car- ried on business23 years, during which time I was twice warden. J was also - Ste^ yard :, the stewards1 duty is to g'O round and suniuiop those who are not free: I called upon some non- freemen, and made my report to the wardens :••' many attended and took up their freedom ; others, whose trades were only hucksters, and not being able fo pay, the Company, took into consideration that their business did not interfere with the Company, and excused, them :' they principally lived in the Castle- fPregate and Frank well.— I knew no respectable person within the walls Commencing- business without taking up his freedom ; I never knew a mercer decline taking up his freedoin.^ On his cross^ examination he said, mercers only dealt in linen goods, haberdashery, stuffs, and silk goods; tapes, bobbins j and lace's; come within haberdashery. Persons in the Castle- foregate and Frankwell are liable to be called upon the same as those in the town -. grocers were obliged to take up their freedom, as they generally dealt in small haberdashery : I do not know one grocer that does not sell thread, tape, & c.* I do not know one grocer in the town that was not an haberdasher Upholsterers were called upon as well as gn- ocers^ also- apothecaries. I never knew a taylor called upon unless he dealt iu mercery articles; I never knew one called upon. Ironmongers were called upon; drapers also, if they dealt in mercery: articles,— I do not remember any mercer carrying on his business who was not called upon for his freedom. I never knew a person excused on the ground of poverty.- Re- examined':' the drapers are " separate company. r The following'- Submission of Richard Harte was. then put in :— r" Whereas I, Richard Ilarte, 6f. tf\ e town of Shrewsbury, in the county of Salop, tailor, have used tlie trade of a mercer within the said town of Shrewsbury, contrary to the form of the Statute, having not served as an apprentice seven years to the same trade of a mercer ; arid, by reason thereof, ! do confess myself to have infringed the liberties and intruded upon the privileges,, pf the fraternity and- guild of the Mercers, Iron- mongers, and Goldsmiths, incorporated Within the said town of Shrewsbury, for which I acknowledge myself to have transgressed, and am sorrowful, for the- same; and do humbly submit myself to' the Wardens of the said fraternity to pay such sums pf Money for my offence as they shall think f| t" and convenient; and I do undertake and promise not, any more in the like kind to oftend; and to this,,, my submission, I have put my hand and seal, the; thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord God, 1657, RICHARD HARTE. ( i. sj ; Witness to the Submission, EDWARD MYERS, THOMAS GITTINS, ; EDWARD IRELAND. A similar Submission froih Robert Bell, ' chap- man, made on the 16th of July in the same year, was also read.— After which, Mr. David Pritchard said— I am 83 years, of age ; 57 years ago I came to settle in Shrewsbury ; I had served an apprenticeship, but not in this town; I set upas a mercer, and was called upon by the wardens; of the Company to take up my. freedom; they demanded a fine ; 1 offered to pay what otherS'did ; I resisted their demand, and was served with a copy of a writ ; I did afterwards pay £ 50, and they returned me £ 10again;— On his crOss- examinatipn, he said— I know Mr. Horton ; he is a haberdasher ; I do not think he belongs to the Company. I know Mr. John Dicken ; he does not belong to it. I do not know Mr. Scoltock. I know Mr. Copley ; . he is an hosier and mercer ; he does hot belong to the; Company ; he has been in business about five years. I do not know Mr. Morris, grocer; Mr. HortOn has. been in business about five years. The. plaintiffs' ease being closed, a copy of the oath, as taken by freemen of the Company before and since the Reformation, was handed up to the • Judge : they are a's follow :— BEFORE THE REFORMATION. 1 , FIDELITAS. I shall troe man be'" to Godl Our lady Saint > Mary, Saint Michael the Archangel, patrons of the Guild, and to the Fraternity of the Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths, witli- i;!! the Town, and Franchise of Shrewsbury ; I shail- also true man be to the King our leige Lord aii'd to his Heirs Kings, and his Laws and Ministers of the same, truly to observe and obey ; and over tiife I shall be obedieilt to my Wardens, and their Sum, Richard Attynchain, Burgess of the Town of Salop send Greeting KNOW YE thai I the aforesaid Rich- ard have granted and by this my present Writing- confirmed to Thomas Goldsmith and Roger Fox of Salop Wardens of ihe Arts of Mercers and Iron- mongers ofthe Town of Salop and their, successors for the time beinjGf, two of my tenements in Salop, lying together with all and singular the Appurte nances and Building's in the said two Tenements built or annexed, of which two tenements one in the Bakerewe near the Highway and extends in length frour said way to the lane leading to the Corne Market under the Walls of the Church of Saint Qhad. d towards the Seden silii of the blessed Virgin of the Church aforesaid and extends itself in breadth as far as the Lane aforesaid between the land of Richard Matthew Baker formerly of Cassan dre Wyke and the land of Thomas Kjnton on the South pai't, the other Tenement extends from the aforesaid Tenement as far as ofthe church aforesaid built oil the highway and contains length twelve yards whole and in breadth five yards whole as in a eertaine Charter indented to the aforesaid Richard by the Dean and Chapter of the Church aforesaid more at large appearetb To have and to hold the a Co resaid two Tenements, with all the appurtenances to the aforesaid Thomas and Roger, VVardeiis, and their successors for ever, of the Chief Lord of the Fee for services thereof due and of right accustomed rendering thereof annually to Richard Marshall and Richard Wantenor John Wyrrall and Roger Fipps Wardens of the church aforesaid ajid their successors 6s. 8d. of silver to be paid annually to a Chaplain fit to celebrate Mass at the Altar ofthe blessed Virgin in Geisinia in the CllurCh aforesaid in support of the said Altar for ever —• Rendering also two shillings of silver yearly to the Dean and Chapter aforesaid for the time being for Obit of me the aforesaid Richard and Alice my wife, and one penny to the Priest celebrating Mass • offered by the hands of the War dens ofthe Arts aforesaid for the time being at th Mass afbresaid, and the other penny to the Crier of the Town for the time being proclaiming the Obit & c for the souls of' the aforesaid Richard and Alice his wife and for the Souls of their Parents and Benefactors and all faithful dead — And that the aforesaid Thomas and Roger Wardens of the Arts aforesaid for the. time being the said two tenement with all and singular their Appurtenances and Edifices, together with the Reparation of another large Tenement in the Baker- row called Mercers Hall shall repair edify sustain and maintain out o: the Rents and Issues of the said two Tenements as oft as it shall be necessary by the Survey of th Wardens of the Church aforesaid for the time bei n< as oft as there be necessity which same Tenement called the Mercers Hall formerly belonged Thomas Attycham Chaplain and now to the War dens of the Arts aforesaid in this manner that they mons. obey and keep; I shall be true and faithful to* the Combrethren of the ( xuild aforesaid, and itheir* counsel keep ; ali lawdiable and lawful Acts and Compositions made, or to be made, within the said, Guild, truly obey, perform, and keep, after my reason and power: 1 shall be contributary, bear,/ yeild, and pay all manner of ordinary charges, cestes,- arid contributions, after my power, as any other Master,. Occupier, o. r C. ombrothei- of tlie said Gilild shall happen to do and bear. Sif help trie God, and hofy Dame, and by this Book. SIN6B THE REFORM A TL'IJ. N;;. I .- I, A. B. shall true man be to God, and to the Fraternity of the Mercers, Grocers,. Ironmong* ers, and Goldsmiths within the Tow tie and Franches'of Shrewsbury ; I shall also true man he to the King our leig* e Lord and to his Heirs Kings, and his Lawes and Ministers of the same truly observe and- obey; and, moreover, I shall be obedient to my Wardens, and their Summons obey and | eep ; I shall be true and faythful to the Couibrethreu of the Guild aforesaid, and their . eounsel keep.'; all laudable and lawful Acts and Compositions made, or to be made, within the sayd Guild, truly obey, performe, and keep, after my reason and power ; I shall be contributory, bear, yeild, and pay all manner of ordinary charges, costs, and contribu"- tions after my power, as any other Master, Occu- pier, orComlirother of the sayd Guild shall happen to doe aud bear. So help me God. Mr. Jervis then rose and addressed the Jury for the defendant. He comirieneed by expressing the satisfaction he felt, at seeing a full Special Jury assembled to try as important a case as ever was heard in the town of Shrewsbury ; and said that the plaintiffs' counsel, feeling the weakness. of^ the materials which they had'' to support, this pause,; had; referred his Lordship to a case that was tried many years ago, not between this Company and aa; indi- vidual, but between ' ans- ther - Company, ( the Caiv penters) and a person ofthe name of Hay ward, On which a verdict'passed for the plaintiffs ; arid - said he might himself, with as much propriety, mention the case of an action brought by the Bakers1 Qoin- . pany, in which his learned friend rMr-' - Gamp^ ell.). was his coadjutor for the plaintiff ; it was iried before Mr. Baron Garrow, and we failed' became we could not satisfactorily prove, the immemorial^ custrtin. In the present case, Mr. J. cbhtend. ed,: was ihc'nmhent oil the plaintiffs to prove that their,; Coinp^ ny was immeiporinlI v a corporation, that is, a corporation that existed from the year 1189— it may be proved by the production of a chartei?-^ OE: i that it existed as a corporation by prescription, which'wpuld presuthp a grant before that year f. buL. instead of that, the evidence they had adduced . proved, they were not, for one document styled thein as th. e Wardens and Company of Mercers and Iron-,- mongiei's.;_ another, . Mercers, .. Ironmongers,; andi? Gobi sin iihs,^ a third, the Guild or Fraternity'of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths; and ano- ther, the. . Qompany of Mercers, Grocers, Iron- n) ongers, and. Goldsmiths. He then . comin'euted on • the', documents adduced, particular-) v o.) the book from which the admissions wore . re^ id ( which had tin? upper part of the first leaf cut off j.; noticed the grant from Attycham, which, he said, proved con- clusively that this corporation did not exist, - in 1468 ; for, by the St^ tiiie of Mortmain, which was enacted RichardM. anil extended to all corjior- ; ations, whether sole, Aggregate-, ecclesiastical., or civil, such corporations could Hot leg- ally purchase or accept any grant of lands without a license from the Crown to take it in mortmain. If, therefore, the corporation had existed from the time of legal memory, the conveyance of the property from Attycham to the' Company must have been in mortmain, and the; grant would have been made under a license from the Crown, iri which the Company would have been stiled by their corporate name. He then noticed the grant as being- NOT to a Corporation, but to the Wardei; s: of' the A RTS of Mercers and Ironmongers, omitting the Goldsmiths' altogether ; atid proceeded to comment on the evi- dence as to no persons carrying on business with- out taking up their freedom, observing- that there rtvould necessarily be few men bold enough? to resist ? tpublic purse, as it would be much better for thejiix to pay £ 20 than do that; and mentioned the beadle of. the Company, whom lie said he Iiad never hail the pleasure of seeing- at the Assizes during the twenty years be'had attended the circuit un! i|; th'e present ' occasion. 1' Hp thfeii asked the Jury IP consider^ who were the persons that were to be drawn into the Cortex: of this " company. . They described them^ selves, as Mercers, Iron mongers, and Gptdsuiiths, but they required not only all the Merpeif^ Iron- uipngers, and Goldsmiths, but all the Grocers also, thPiig- h lie could not see what Grocers bad to < fo with the Company; of Mercers, Ironmongers, and Goldsmiths.;, In commenting on Mr. Harries's evi- tlenpe^^ as to 0|- pcers being'reqiiired to take up their freedom, lie' said', if the Company was a Corporation at all.,; it must have existed from the time of legal memory ; biit'eVery one knew that sugar ( and the Company did not compel person's to pay who sold tea only) was not khovvn Until the time of Heiiry VII. The Company next required Upholsterers to take up their freedom, which may be acpounted for p, ri the groiind. that j perhaps, they had furnished tlie be< Js which had been mentioned as provided by . this, notable Company for the High Sheriff; but as to Apothecaries, what had they to do with the Company? He thought nothing whatever. After noticing the submissions of Hart and Bell, which, he contended, from the expressipn ^ contrary to the form of the statute" contained therein, alluded to the Act of Elizabeth which prevented any person from commencing* business who had not previously served an apprenticeship of seven years, apd not to this Company, he said that corporations, when legally incorporated, must be established for the benefit of the community ; and asked the Jury to pbsei've how this Corporation conducted itself in the case of Mr. Harries. He then remarked upon the. " variation in the amount of the fines required at differetit times • first it was 16s. 8d. then it was 20s. next 36s. 8d. next 40s. and the Company acquiring boldness as their demands were complied with, demanded £ 4, then £ 20, then £ 30 and returned £ 10, and lastly £ 50— nothing seemed too great to briMg- within the vortex of their capacity ( not, their legal- capacity), they making a practie'e m drawing in- ail they cotrld gret;— for first they Were described Mercers and Ironmongers, afterwards they added Goldsmiths, then . Grocers, then Upholsterers, but not content with that, they attracted and added the busin ess of an A pothecary, but fpr what reasoh it, is impossible to say.,, unless that as- they gave sgood dinners,' and eat very largely, they- might. think an Apothecary a very ' proper attendant. ! He; tlieii asked where were the Company's Indicia of Corporation ? Had they any seal ? None.: What did they meet to do, except, cpnipelling people to nay and eating good dinners ? To. be sure, in 1797 th^ y. gave £ 100 for the defence of the country. ' We'll : the Society of the Inner Temple, to which he had himself the honour to helong, gay'e' ^ OOO, birt that Was no proof of their" being a e. orporite body ; for if it was, there w'ould be nothing' but corporate bodies all through the kingdom.. They ;| ad no Indicia of corporation; Where vvere: theiV ^ cftrpPratiOii books? Where any book whatever ^ escribiii^' thenx. as such ? To be sure, they did produce a book with the title cut out. Where* tbei ^ corporate seart' Tliey did hot ever join in the procession that the Other Companies of the town made to Kingsland. However, they joined in one thing, and that Was g'pod eating-. He theu observed that it wi^ s . for the benefit of the realm, and parti ^ darl^ ofthis ^ re^ tc^ mmerbiafcounfry, that trade should be free ; notiped the monopoly assumed by the Company in instituting this action ; said he should call no witnesses ; and ponplu. ded by telling the Jury that if. they were not satisfied that this corporation existed before the time of Richard II. they would find a verdict for bis client, the do fendunt; Karon Hullock summed up, ahd- told the Jury this. action Was brought for the purpose of/ proving that the defendant had violated a bye law of this '• eorporation: The first question for their considera tion woidd be, whether the evidence laid before them by tlie plaintiffs was sufficient to satisfy thei niinds that, this was a corporation, and whether i had existed as such froin a! 1 t. im. e,' that is, generally speaking, from beyond living meniory. In point of law, all restvaiuts upon trade are illegal; at the ; same tiriie it is'clear, by law, that all local usage ; in restraint thereof, in certain districts, are good, for any man may give a bond not to exereise a trade within a certain distance of Shrewsbury : this would, be a restriction upon trade, but it would be good in law. With respect to the arbitrary power of- exacting a larger fine from individuals who wer< foreigners, that: was iu> exception in point of lavy; as the Company would find it for their own interest not to exact to^- iiigh a fine. After noticit^ g- tin general acquiescence that, had prevailed with re. gard to the custoih set up by the plaintiffs, which would not have been the case unless the parties called upon had reason to be satisfied that the clkiim- was a legal one, the good that was done wUh- tive money in relieving indigent member^ and- thei widows, and various parts of the documentary evi deuce, his Lordship told the Jury it would be for them to say whether that evidence'was sufficient ifoiVrihem to presume a charter from the Crown the time of legal memory. They would lay wof the case all the other trades mention ed Which had' nothing to do with the present action^ and consider only whether MERCERS could carry oil their business in this town without being, free of ft lie " Company. On the defendant's part the ri^ had been ho evidence whatever to rebut the inferences to be drawm from the various entries that had been read from tire books, commencing in 1^ 82, and extending from that period down to the present time : tis to the book that had been mentioned by ! VMI\- J' 6r: v'k'- as ' IKV?^!^' t- he: ti- tle:"" cut off, the observa. tiou might have been worth something bad the entrant been a single one; but as all th6 other entries read from the same book alluded solely to this Company, and mentioned their style, the effect ; of the raniark was lost;-- His Lordship, after alluding to other parts of the evidence, and noticing' A'tty'n * chain's grant, told the Jury it was for them to fin whether the plaintiffs were such a corporation as they had represented themselves^ and whether the custom set iip by them had existed from tim immemorial. If they should be of opinion they were so, and that such a custom had existed ( aiid there was not a tittle\ of evidence to the contrary), • they would give a Tcrdict for the plaintiffs,' da; mages Is. ; but if they were not. of that opinion they would find for the defendant.— The Jury ^ immediately found for Plaintiffs. Counsel for Plaiutiffs, Messrs. Campbell, Russell aud Corbett; Solicitor, Mr. Edgeiiey.— Counsp for Defendant,' Messrs. Jervis, Taunton, and Pear, i spii; " Solicitor, Mr. Thomas. behind the others, and struck the plaintiff under the . abrasions of the skin ; the mark was there a fort and iiis lutt^-" fle. vy.' off: the plaintiff used no ! " reatening language^;"' he picked Uj. J . his'hat, before he- could well put it on his head, he received" leconi blow till the^ blood flew. Tiie plaintiff then folded his aruis. ronixl the defpudani, \ vho said," 4 Are on for any more," and put bitnseli in au attitrule for ghting,. The plaintiff folded his arms round the efeuilaht, and the defendant his" arms round him, rid then threw him violently'ogains^' the garden .. all ; His head came againifthe coping s, tone, which being'loose, and the foundations of l: he'" wa| i bad; the all shook. ' Letitia Powell said " Mr, Strapben, do interfere and pai- t them, for God's sake." S'tra- jiiien took hold of tlie defendant; no one touched the plaintiff. Mr. Strapheu' anM'jhe others wejU one ay, and vje. took' tiie plaint iff into Mrs., Powell's house to wash tlie blood off his face ; lie was cut bder tile left eye, aiid bled very much; I saw him nil ho. ur'' after, and the eye was closed ; I cau't say the plaintiff st11ieV'VIle ( if fendanI;; 1 casay iie did not; lie did not strike him before the two blows, and hetber he did after, ti'ie nor no'otber person. can tell. Cross- examined.— 1 swear it was- impossible foi- ny one td see whether' the plaidtifi' struck; the defendant; when iliey embraced each other, it was not very loviiigly ; they einb. raCed. ^ aCh other about tuo minutes, to prevent more; blows, as 1 suppose ; I ain sure the plaintiff' had; not struck befpr^ then. I a? n widow ; I I i v; e at Jane's': PlapP,' part " of the ate Mr. Simpson's property— part of the estate the plaintiff is to have— I believp it is" his property, only he don't receive the rent; the plaintiff was as quiet as a lumb all this tim'e ; I hev'pr' saw any; jersoii more quiet and. mor'e.'^ ntle'' m''' - all; Ufpy fie. was not in any passion till" lie repe. iv'ed tli| two blows ; tlie second was in the same place precisely as the first; I think the defendant is a g- ood liiiarks, man. Plaintiff went to hjs mother's, when he came from there ; hp might see a little ; his; eye appeared quite Closed up; he said he was going- to" London that night; he weut with two eyes, only the ope was closed up ; his friends could not have known him in this state ; J don't knovV that hp was. so disfigured with his eye buno- ed up that h, is: friPnds would not know him. . Before it commenced he he was going towards his mother's house to the Flash, but on seeing the defendant he turned back and Went towards them ; they did not sefe hi in till he came up. I was, nearly as close while the fighting was as I am to this yoyng man ( one in the witness- box), only there w^ sfa wall between us. Oh, I was not afraid of them ; when it commenced I was going into my garden ; 1 had a little woman's curiosity to see wlmt they were about. Oakley, Strwphen, and the other person saw me ; at first the wall was between us, hut when the blows came on I came out. of the garden and, went close to them ; I was as near as I could be and not get a blow ; the • JOttNSON" r, STANTON". , This . W. av ai. i- action . brought hy the. plaintiff, D Johnsoo, of Shrewsbury, against the defendant, M T.' Stanton, % vho is a civil engineer and surveyor fo ihe cotiniv, residing at Ellesmere, to recover a com pensatioii in damage^ for an assault aiieged to have " beeii cpmoiltted by the defendant upon the persoit the plaintiff, on th. e 3d of August, 1822, This paui was entered for tiaal at the Spring Assizes, butw made a ren^ anej, a nil , no w came on before a- Special Jury. The plaintiff's case was opened hy Mr, Campbell, and stated by M r, Jej- vis ; after which the followiii; evidence, ^ as addiiceil, £[ V1ary Diivies;- r- I live at Cotton Hill ; I'.'. snwf the defetnbriit near my house . on the 3d August, 1822 ;. M, r..- Oakley, Mr. Straphpo, and anotherperson wpr nw^ tljiliim ; it, was about 6 in thje evening ; they we leaning over a wall opposite niy garden;.,. it- is: D ( plaiiitiff's), property, 1 sutipose, but, I don't know whose ; I savv the piaipiiff going towards Cotton, House ; he had not to pass them ; he tiirnpil ij.' ipk ; Mr. Oakley . is a builder ; - Mr. Straph^ n: is a hoi. bjer ; thp . plaintiff came and leaned'over , my Wfiill 00( 1" pointed to a piece of biiildiug made of ,' boaids and straw, nod said, yt I hope„. you havp. taken notice < » f these- nuisances, o- pntleiuen.?!' IV] r. Oakley said; " 1 have, Sir defendant said, " What have you to ilowfih the, premises? 1' plaintiff replied, 44 I'd have yoii to know, Iain on my own property ;" dpfendam said, with a sneer, " You'r property ;" plaintiff answered, Yes, I'd have yon to know these are my. jvroperty ; you had better he employed on the Elles- • inere Canal ' than . iri looking over mv premises; you lave attempied to defraud tny family of £ 1000." Defendant then said, u Ynu area liar," flew from plaintiff tumbled against my garden wall ; he did not tumble over me; the plaintiff is the heaviest and stoutest. ' Letitia Powell was with Mr! Oakley and the others, shewipg who the gardens belonged to ; Mr. Oakley fetched her out of her own house to know to whom the gardens belonged. The plaintiff did not first, say to the defendant, " You are a liar ;" I heard every word; I did not hear the defendant u I have as much right as you have;" he did not say he cheated, but that lie attempted to cheat— he might have said it; I did uot hear the plaintiff say lie Was a liar after that. Re- examined :— What passed after tjiey were in each others arms I did not hpar, there was such a bustle. '. Letitia Powell.—= In August I lived in Janets Place ; Mr. Oakley called. me out to give infprma tion who were the occupiers of the late Mr. Simp- son's estates ; I wept with them to the garden wall; I saw Mr. Straphen, Madeley, and the- defendant together; the plaintiff spoke, and pointed, to the nuisances upon the estate ; the plaintiff did it very quietly ; Mr. Oakley replied " Yes;'! the, defenda.' t rthen said," What right have you here ;" the plaintiff' replied " You had better be occupied in your affairs at Ellesnjere ; vou have attempted, to defraud the estate of £ 1000r;" the defendant said " You are liar," and'ran wish. great violence and gave him blow under the left eye ; and before the plaintiff' could replace his hat upon his head, tlie defendant gave him another blow, til} the bloou gushed out, ami ran down his cheek ; he then said, " If you are for more, come on," and vapoured for ap^ ther blow; tlie plaintiff catched him roupd with his arrps, to prevent more damage, and, in the spuffle. the defendant threw the plaintiff's head vio: leiit. l; y ugainst the coping stone of the garden wall-;, he sprung from the garden wall, and. 1 desired the gentlemen to separate them; Mr. . Stra. ph. en took the defendant, apd we took the plaintiff to our house; he was hurt- under the eye,; there was no great deal of blood; it flowed down his cheek,; Cross- examined : The last Witness aiid me were not together; I was; cbiifpspd^; sind; capnp't^ s^ hpw far she was off; she vyas in her owp garden; I won't say she was as near as I am to tfiis young man. ( the one in the box) ; I can't say she was there at the beginning; she might or she might not be, close to. me after, and me hot see her ; the gardeij is " npt mijch— it is a rood and. half; I saw her in her garden; I was there when the plaintiff came up; I did riot liear him call the defendant a liar ; I must have he. ard. it if hp had said it.; I did not hear it ; I did hot spe the- plaintiff strike the defendant ; they. did not fight at all, further than the blows the plaintiff received ; the plaintiff- had pot got hold of the defendant by t] ie throat— he had by the arpi ; I now Five at a, distance. Jane Bpamand.— I was in my bed- room making niv bed, and hearing a noise, looked ps. it at the window'; I saw four men going Up Cotton Hill ; I saw thpm lookiljg over the wall, and the defend- ant go to theip ; all I heard was the defendant call the plaintiff a liar ; it was not loud ; I was about 20 yards from theiu, up stairs ;/ they were talking- as if a few words had ^ en'between tlieni before ; the defendant ran up to the plainfift' Ijike a, bull, pnd hit him; plaintiff's hat flew op^; the plaintift' picked it up. and the defendant hit jiinjjigain until lie fetched blood ; I thought the defpndapt was for a battle, Mrs. Powell Galled for f^ iergei. itlemep to assist to part them, but no one came nigh ; I did not see them close ; I saw the blood on plaintiff's face ; afterwards I heard the defendant say " D— n him, what brought hirn there ? I wish. I had given hiin so much . again ;" I heard hitn particularly say so with my own MOUTH. They. went off sniggering and laughing' at what they had done. Cross- examined .— Nobody never parted tlie'm ; Mr. Straplipn did npt part, them, but stood and looked at ,' eiii like an oaf;, wh'pn'Mrs. Powell parted them the defendant vvas fig- htnig with the plaintiff — the plaintiff vvas not fighting ; I thought him bad used at the time, but let. every one have fair play. I hayp told you what 1 have to say, and I'll say no more, so you piay as well a. sk no more ques- tions. Mrs. Powell took hold of the plaintiff,, and washed him— I told you that before ; they had not. their hands roupd one another : who dp you ipean ?' do you meap the plaintiff and, defenda'pt t They had not their hapds folded round ope another any part of the time. I was £ 3 yards off, ssanding ip the window up stairs. Joseph Owen.— I live iii Castle Foregate; am tenant to Mr. Beacall. I spw defendant and plain- tiff. on thp 3d August; 1 saw the plai. ptiff standing- on the lower ground, and the defendant strike him under the left eye; the blow fetched blood, and knocked his hat off ; the plaiptiff went to pick it up, and got another blow; heathen clasped the defendant round.: I do not know what Mrs. Powell said.. I. did not hear the defendant say any thing to the plaintiff. It did pot bleed ipuch ; , it might liave run down an inch or so immediately. After the plaintiff was gone, the defendant, said " D— n him, what brought. hini thprej'' I vvish I'd given. ' ' ' " ' At this time I was coming from the I igl^ t after. Mr. Taunton then addressed the Jury for the defendant, and said, That if Dr. Johnson had recei ved a black eye, it was one of his own seeking and, he might thank himself for it. He then com- mented on the. evidence which had been brought forward respecting the fight between the parties and said, that the interests of truth a id justice required that lie should not leave the case where it, was. . After hearing the respectable witnesses be should adduce, although a verdict must go against his client, op account of there being no justifica tion pleaded on the record, he had no doubt the damages they would give would be merely nominal. Mr. Oakley.- On the 3d Aug. 1822, 1 went with the defendant, Mr. Straphen, and Mr. Madelev, to view some premises ou Cotton Hill ; I was present when the plaintiff caipe up ; we were leaning- over " S11 5, 1 saw the pl « ' » tiff coming, and said, Ihe Doctor, s pouring ;" he was coining very fast, and foamed at, the mouth ; he addressed the defendant; and said,. " What business have you here '— this was said rather in a pet—" You had better be minding tlie capal- office, I know you pretty well, you attempted to defraud inv father- in- law of £ 1000;" defendant said < 4I have as much business here as you have ; 1' plaintiff replied, You are a liar;" ihey then botb advanced towards each oilier, and met; there- were no blows struck ; they pushed each other with their open hands, and the piaintifPs hpt fell off; he followed his hat about four yards; and put it on his head; he then clenched liis fist and ran at llie defendant, who defended himself, and they had a roiiijd ; Mra: Slra- phen and I parted them; there was not a person t tjie beginning except we four and him . there WAS no Woman there ; Mrs. Powell came up first • I did not see Davies there— she might be there ; t'he defendant said nothing more to the plaintiff. Cross- examined : the plaintiff was about fifteen yards off, when I saw him coming up, he foamed at the mouth and was in a great passion, more . like a madman than any thing else; he was mad enouob then; lie said nothing toine nor to any other person except the defendant; he spi » ke these Words'! have mentioned as fast as he could for tire foam • the defendant never said, " D~ ii him, what business had he here, f wish I'd given him as much again ;" they had a regular round ; arid the plaintift' was down; the whole did'not last two piinutes; 1 did not send for Letitia Powell; that was on the day before, when I was there alone; she was not there until just be. fore we parted them ; oil my oath she was uc. t there before the plaintiff'came up ; she came up whfii the battle was nearly over. I. know Mrs. Davies and her garden ; we were looking. over that Wall; 1 did not see her iiv her garden ; l didjiotshe her that day to the best of my knowledge. I am sure the plaintiff's head did not come against the wall ; it was a very middling wall; Icalh.- d no ope out that day; that was the day before; the plaintiff's fpee did " bleed a little. Mr. Madeley— I was commissioned by Mr. John Loxdale, on the3d August, to value some property. The plaintiff came up while I was there ; we had been there in all ten ininules, and were looking over the wall; the plaintiff began upon Stanton^ he asked him what brought him there ; and said " You vvould do better if you were in the canal office ; you lipve trjpd to. defraud my father of £ 1000, and I suppose you are come to do as much for hie." They got close together ; the defendant went and knocked off his hat ; the plaintiff was in a violent passion, he foamed at the mouth, and vyas in such a passion he could hardly speak ; tjiey met sideways1, within " 6 or 8 yards of the wall ; after plaintiff had got his hat, they met again, and he went down on his sitting; there must he blows, but 1 can't tell which struck first, pf which last ; Mr. Oakley and Mr, Straphen tried to part them: the plaintiff told the defendant he was a liar. The whole scuffle lasted about two mimutes. I saw none of the women until it was pai » tly over; there was not one of them present when it begun. The de- fendant is p stranger to me, and so is Oakley ; I ain a fanner and builder. Cross- examined.— The defendant did not seem to be in a passiop ; the defendant was pushing the jlaintiff, and hit his hat off; his hat fell off behind iim, and lie picked it up. The defendant did not make any noise or disturbance ; the plaintiff made a great poise. There were no women present when it began ; I saw no man there ; none but ourselves ; I will not say there was no man there, but I saw nppe. I saw the defendaut hit plaintiff's hat off, but } did not see him give a blow ; I did npt take particular notice how tpey struck. Mr. John Straphen.— I am a builder; I was employed m this survey ; I was present when the plaintiff came ; I was farthest off from him, close to the wall, and did not see him until I heard him speak ; he said " Stanton, you had much better be at the Canal Office." Defendant said, " I have as much right here as you have." The plaintiff replied, < f You are a liar." The defendant and plaintiff both advanced in the same line sideways.; I beipg furthest off, did not see when they met. The plaintiff g- ave the defendant the lie a second time; the plaintiff advanced, and the defendant pushed off his hat. After the plaintifi' took up his hat the defendant, was retreating, and the plaintift'rallied, and then they closed. I turned round and they separated. Mr. Oakley and I sepa- rated them ; there were loose bricks, so that they eould not stand, apd they both swerved towards the wall. Oakley, defendant, Madeley, and I came together. The first woman 1'' saw. was Mrs. Powell after they had separated ; Oakley did not go to fetch Mrs. Powell out of her house ; when we'eanie away there were a dozen women there. T did not see the p'aintiff come up ; he seemed in'a violent passion when talking'. Cross- examined,- cI did not see Mrs. Powell until it. was over. J am pot connected with the defendant in ply business ; I have worked for the copnty, and he is Deputy Surveyor. I did not hear the defendant say he was very sorry he had not given him . more ; but I told the plaintiff he ought to be ashamed of himself. 1 did not see the defendant in fault ; I did npt se, e him strike the plaintiff, Mr. Jervis then addressed the Jury in- reply, animadverted on the evidence, and called the atten- tion of the Jury t > winch was the most consistent and probable, story, that told by the , plaiptiff's witnesses oi- that told by the defendant's;; and called upon them to give the plaintiff ample compensation in damages, not for the bodily pain he had suffered, but for the disgrace attached to carrying such a mark upon him as had been inflicted by the defend- ant, and particularly so at a time when business required him to go to London. Baron Hujlock summed up, and said, that as there was no justification on the record, the verdict niust be for the plaintiff ; noticed the impropriety of lang- uage. which by all the witnesses appeared to have been used by the plaintift', and then con- trasted and commented upon the evidence given oil each side; and concluded by leaving it to them to say which party they believed ; if the defendant, then their verdict would be for merely Poiniiial damages ; but if the plaintiff, then it would. be for their consideration, whether that, which at first was po very great offence, had not been aggravated by the defence set up- Tlie Jury; in less than five minutes, returned a verdict'for the plaintiff— Damages one farthing:. him more. Green Fields ; I suppose you know where it is was hot close to the Bird- ip- Hand public- house. I saw Davies come up after Mrs." Powell. What had passed before the blows, I know not. ' Sarah Powell ( daughter of Letitia Powell).— I saw the defen'daut strike the, plaintiff twice ; the pjaipti'ff did nothing Tipfore to the defendant. Cross- examined.— I saw the blows fiijst, I cannot say as to the words, Mr. H. E. Burd.-^ I am a Surgeon to the Infirm- ary ; the plaintiff is one of the ^ Physicians, I saw him on a Saturday evening ; it. was the £\ rst Satur daytin August last year, about 6 o'clock' he had had a blow on his face, under the eye ; there Were two slight abrasions of the skin ; the sk in was off' in two places; it was dark- coloured, livid, and swelled a little ; I think it. would swell more, apd become black'; there was up blood on it, but it was such a mark as I should think hiid bled. He went to London thatiii^ ht. I saw him eight or ten day; after, and there was a slight mark remainiu'gv- .. v Cross- examined .— I did nothing* for : it V opo- deldoc is not the sort'of application I should make use of. There was not any Seriousfinjury. Re- examined.— When I saw him after he had been in London, there was the mark asif there had been ah lack eye. Mr. Pritchard.— On the ."> th August, 1822, I was in London ; 1 met the plaintiff, and remarked hei^ ad a complete black eye;; It must have beep, a severe blow, if received from a fist-; there were two slight [ BEFORE MR JUSTICR PARK.] BR() Wx\ 1.. ( Jl LES. This was an actionhrougln by the plaintiff agijinst the defendant, for trespassing ou his laud, after notice had been given to him to keep himself, his dogs, c. pft* the same.— Three witnesses vvere called, who proved that defendant was seen on a'field adjoining plaintiff's estate, and that his dogs were, at the saiiie time, op the estate of the plaintiff; Jind ihey admitted that although they did not hear the de. fendant call, his dogs ofi", yet they had heard Imp assert that he had done so ; and they further admit- ted that they had not seen him on the ( lay iii ques- tion shoot or sport on the plaintiff's land, although he had a gun with him at the time.— A fourth wit- ness was called, who staled thzjt the defendant bad on tlie Saturday preceding the Assizes: mentioned to her that he had gone across a part of th'e plaip- tiff's field on the day when his dogs went on it, but he merely crossed it because it was in. his way to a Mrs. Hall's, at whose house he was going to, dine, and lie had a right to go across it, as there was formerly a footpath through it.— Mr. Pearson ad- dressed the Jury for the defendant, and coipipented with cnuch severity on the bringing of such au action. -~ The Learned Judge to'd ( he Jury that, as the trespass had been admitted, tlieyiniist find a verdict for the plain tiff, with such damages as they ' bought the case deserved— The Jury returned a yer^ jct for the pip i n t i ft', w ith - Da in ages one farthi i » g— pp ji Is one farthing. , Ou Tuesday, John Radford, alias Bright, was condemned at Devon Assiz e, for the, wilful murder of Sarah Down ( a yonug woman who was pregnant by him), on the 11th instant, al East VVorliugton, in that county. ^ Ijropalj& w Rummer I shoulder of the other. He who helped up with the bag was the prisoner, Mr. Beeston ; she knew liirn by his face and by his voice, and he had on a black hat, dark coat, and light breeches, w ith light stock- ings or gaiters; the other man had a smock frock on, but she did not know him. She heard the pri- soner say to the other man, " We must not put On Wednesday afternoon, the Commission of Assize was opened in Shrewsbury by Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Baron Mullock, who had been previ- ously escorted into the town by John Mytton, Esq. | them ( the oats) in the house'or in the malthouse, the High Sheriff, attended by his javelin men, and hut we must give them all to the horses to- morrow accompanied by a respectable body of gentlemen, 0r on Saturday morning before they go for lime.' 4' tradesmen, & c.— On Thursday morning, Mr. Justice 1 The man with the oats and the prisoner went from Park and Mr. Baron Hullock attended Divine Ser- J the barn over a piece of fallow, in a direction to- vice at St. Chad a Church, where the Assize Sermon 1 wav( js the prisoner's house. Witness then went was preached by the Sheriff's Chaplain, the Rev. home and told Miss Garbett what, she had seen ; Henry Calveley Cotton, of Great Ness, from Deut. theapprentice boy, Middleton, being present, when iv. 6.— About half- past twelve o'clock, their Lord- she mentioned it.* Miss- Garbett was called to prove s- hips proceeded to the business of the Assize, Mr. that Mary Wail had mentioned the circumstance to Justice Park presiding at the Crown Bar, where, her when she reached home from Farlow, and that, by her directions, Wall mentioned it to her brother ( the prosecutor) next morning. Miss Garbett was cross- examined as to whether she had not sent the boy Middleton out after her brother on the night of the 26th, previous to Wall coining home from Far- low, telling him to see that her brother instead of going to his lodgings did not get. to the g irl, Mary Wall ; but Miss G. " flatly denied this circumstance. after the usual forms had been gone through, the following Gentlemen were sworn of the Grand Jury : —' The Right Honourable Edward Herbert, commonly called Lord Viscount C hivE, Foreman: The. Honourable Robert Henry Clive, of Oakeley Park The Honourable Thomas Kenyon, of Prado Sir Andrew Corbet, of Acton ileynuld, Baronet John Cressett Pelham, of Shrewsbury, Esquire Thomas Wbitmore, of Apley Park, Esquire William Lac oil Cliilde, of \ V roc k ward i lie, Esquire . Pan ton Corbett, of Long nor, Esquire WilliarnWolrycheWhitmore, of Dudmast, on, Esquire Andrew Vincent Corbet, of Ross Hall, Esquire John Arthur Lloyd, of Leaton Knolls, Esquire John Wing- field," of Onslow, Esquire John Cotes, of Woodcote, Esquire Ralph Benson, of Lutwyche, Esquire^ Moses George Benson, of the same, Esquire Edward Cludde, of Orieton, ' Esquire Thomas Nethertou Parker, of Sweeney, Esquire Joseph Venables Lovatt, of Bebnorit, Esquire Henry Pynsent Tozer Aubrey, of Broom Hall, dleton, that he would do for Beeston some way or The prosecutor Garbett was cross- examined; as to whetlier, previous to this business of the. oalsv he had not said to John Wall, a servant of the, pri- soner's, that he ( the prisoner) had made mischief for him to his landlord, and that if he met the prisoner when he ( Garbett) was three parts drunk, lie would give the prisoner the best, lacing lie ever had in bis life. Whether he had not said to one Mary Lane that be had lost some oats, and Beeston had taken them ; that; he would have his revenge if it cost him £ 4.00; and that he would go toShrews- j bury and try to get a bill, before the Grand Jury land make Beeston suffer for it., for it was through him he was distrained upon for the rent. And whether he had not said, in the presence of- Mid- who was not apprehended until Saturday, the 19th : nsiant,— It was now proved that on the night in question the prisoner Weate was absent from his father's bouse at the time of the burglary ; that he was taken into custody close to the house of his father on the night, of, and immediately after the burglary ; that his shoes were then upon the instant compared and found to correspond with footmarks leading over a garden in a direction from the house :> f Mr. Icke towards that of the prisoner's father ; that the rush of a person over the hedges in the same direction was also heard at the moment the prisoner was seen to come to the back of his father's bouse ; that he was allowed to go home that night on condition of surrendering himself, if called for, next day ; and that, next day, as soon as he saw Piisbiiry custody, he absconded.— Pilsbnry's wife was called, and deposed that, on the night in question, Weate came to her house and called her husband up from his bed • that he and Weate went out together, and that for the transactions of that night Pilsbury was transported;— The Jury, after consulting for a considerable time, returned a verdict, of Not Guilty The Judge Was evidently surprised at the verdict, hot lie said, no doubt the J ury had reason for their decision, and be cautioned the prisoner very strongly as to his future conduct. Esquire Thomas Harries, of Cruckton, Esquire John Thomas Hope, of Netley, Esquire . Francis Blithe Harries, of Benthall, Esquire Robert Jenkins, of Charlton llill, Esquire His Majesty's Proclamation against Vice, Pro- faneness, and 1 minora I ity w- as then, read; after which, his Lordship delivered the following CHARGE. '' Q'sJTTREJWKN OF THE GLIANI) Jt1 ft Y " This is the iifth time, I have had the honour of addressing a Grand Jury of this County, and really on tlie present oeGasi. on l have no comment to make. Having, in the Calendar, so few of those persons who are unfortunately placed in circumstances demanding your consideration, 1 have merely to point to it as a matter of joy and congratulation, such a Calendar not having been. seen for many years. And indeed it would be a mere idle parade on, my part to give you trouble by cOmroenting on the cases of any person therein named : I. shall,' therefore, abstain from any such remarks. To what cause this great and happy change is to1 be attributed, T am unii'dle to . say, but I trust there is some grmiiwl for attributing;,!.!' to a prosperous administration of the. affairs'of tl;' e; pafion; and to the great effects which have been produced by an increased attention to the proper employment of - prisoners when, in custody. If the labour thus proved indisputably beneficial may not • prevent some great and horrid crimes being-/ committed, it certainly prevents our prisons being the resort of the lovers of idleness and profligacy. Above all, Gbntle. men, - I ain inclined to aftgjjut. e this happy change- to the great attention which has of late years been paid to the religious' education of the humbler orders' of the, Community. It is impossible to believe that as long; as, attention is paid to the interests of religion an, 4" morality, the principles thus inculcated will not- be productive of a due' attention to the . laws of" fbe Cfi'untry;, Founded as those laws are upon tile'Diyihe rule, I cannot help thiuking that such effects./ must naturally follow.— Gentlemen, during the late , Session of Parlia- ment, a ' great, alteration has been made in the Criminal Law of this Country ; and that attention has been paid to., this- subject which must give a complete answer to the slander of those, who as- serted that no attention was given to the measures proposed for a revision of the Laws. About twenty punishments have been altered in their nature ; but I shall not. trouble you by a recapitulation of these alterations, for two reasons : first, because it will be as well that certain persons should not know that such changes have been made : and secondly, because there is not one crime in the calendar that comes within- the scope of the alterations to which I have alluded. I shall not here say any thing as to, the attention to these matters, and as to the alterations in, our Criminal Laws, which some wise and good men have been so actively recommending-: it is enough for me to know that tlie Legislature has made the alterations to which I have referred, and to point thenr out to your notice. Gentlemen, I really have no more to say, but to thank yon for counsel as to his having, previous to the parcel beiig sent, seen in the Chester Chronicle an advert- isement containing a notice that the proprietors woild not be accountable, for parcel;?, & c. unless entered and paid for accordingly ; but he declared m< sst positively he never had, arid that he never read that paper. He was then pressed upon ihe point of having read that paper at the news- room, but he stated be was not a, member of the news- room. A board, on which a variet y of names ( as subscribers to the news- room) were entered, his own amotigst the measured the situation of the tree, No. 4, and they all agreed that the butt of it grew wholly within the 4 feet allowed for a ditch, when measured from the centre ol' the hedge, and of course that it grew on the plaintiffs' estate.— On the part of the defendant three most respectable witnesses were called ; of these, the evidence of one had certainly no reference to the tree in question; the second witness, who was brother- in- law of the defendant, stated that he had measured the tree, and that the side of it next the plaintiffs' farm was 4 feet from the grower of the otherAll these conversations the prosecuto so- lemnly denied. Mary. Wall was cross- examined as to whether she bad not sworn, when examined before the ma- gistrate, that the man she had seen in the barn in a smock frock had black hair and a light complexion, although she did not know him because his back was towards her all the time : this she positively denied. • She was then asked.•• whether Gibett had not said to her, in the presence of the boyMiddieton, that he would do for Beeston some way or other ; and that, she then observed, that if he could do for him no other way, she would meet Beeston some mghteouiiug from the Ford, and swear a ravishment against him : this she also positively denied.- Garbett was also further cross- examined as to whether fie had not given a good character on his trial to" one Smailman, eouyicted at the last Assizes of horse- stealing, and whether he had not, pre- viously to giving Sinallman a character, met Smallm^ n's wife in the County Hall Square, and asked? h/ r. io g't^ J? 1'^ tbj* Grand Jury, and say she had seen jfeeSioa ^ bmit. 9- o'clock- gallopping be- tween Tatt. on Hall and Stottesden ; and whether he had not also desired her to say" that Beeston had helped another man up with a bag of oats and over the hedge and down the fallow towards his house at. Stott. esdea about 10 that night, and that she knew Beeston but not the other man ; and whether, upon condition of her saying this, lie had not. said ..... be would- get her husband off.— Garbett admitted prisoners were vagabond characters, and were sen RICHARD DAVIES was found guilty of stealing five pigs, the property of Mr. Win. Shingler, of Alderton.— It appeared on the clearest evidence that, on the 23d <> f June, Mr. Shingler and bis servant went to Wellington Fair on business, not knowing that any pigs had been stolen, but when there, a respectable person named Minton told them that he had, on the road from his residence near iJa. dnal, overtaken a man driving five pigs, which he said he had bought of a person . named Morris, who lived at Hadnal ; Mr. Minton knew, that no person, of that name lived in Hadnal ; and on Mr. Shingler and his servant seeing'. the pigs they knew them to be Mr. Shingler's property. Ou their return home tbev found that the five pigs had actually been stolen in the preceding- night or early on that morning.— The prisoner made no defence, and Was sentenced to be transported seven yea is; the Judge observing that there was no doubt, although time did not permit the neccessary steps for proof to be taken, that he was the same individual who, under the name of Raudle Oare, was, in the year 1809, sentenced to be transported for life, in consequence of his having then committed a capital felony in this county. ABRAHAM SMITH, aged 16, k JOHN HAZLE, aged 17, were found guilty of stealing six small cheeses and an earthen bottle containing barm, the property of Thomas Eieock, of Row ton, in the parish of Worfield,— The cheeses and bottle were placed in the prosecutor's cellar on the night of the 26th June; in the'morning, the bars of the cellar window had been removed, and the articles mentioned were gone ; the prisoners were seen each carrying a cheese that morning, and were observed near the outhouses of Mr. Beeston, at New Lodge, in which the bottle and a part of the cheeses Were found ; part of one of the cheeses . was also fouiid J> ii the prisoners, corresponding by a blue vein with one of the cheeses from which it bad been cut, and Which was found in the outhouse at New Lo( lge.- rTbey ivere apprehended by Michael Rutter and others,^ Bridgnorth, wbo, seeing these boys with cheese, suspected they had stolen it.— The number, was shewn to him for the purpose of re- j hedge, and of course that the tree was on defendants' freshing his memory, but be said it was not his j ground, but on his cross- examination he admitted writing, nor done by bis authority ; that he never j that he measured the 4 feet to the inside of the was a subscriber to the news- room, nor had he ever plaintiffs' hedge, and that he had stood in the paid one penny towards it; that he never read the I plaintiffs'field to measure it ; the third witness ( who Chester Chronicle there; nor, at the time ofse. nding was first examined) stated that he had measured the the parcel, did he know any thing of the liability of tree jp qnestion, and that the side of it next the the proprietors respecting such things.— Mr. Griffith plaintiffs' farm was 4 feet from the centre of the Griffiths, shopman to M r. Jenkins, proved the making- J hedge, and that be saw several persons ride on up of the parcel ; its being directed to Mr. 44 B. j. horseback along the ditch, and between this tree aud Griffiths, draper, Oswestry ;" tlie delivery of it to the the hedge ; but the Judge, in summing up, seemed coachman, and the latter putting it in the boot of the i to he of opinion that this gentleman had made a coacli ; and that, they had sent parcels in the same { mistake as to the free, ami that he was not speaking way before, Oti bis cross- examination, he said lie often read the Chesier Chronicle, but never read the coach advertisements, and did not know the coach proprietors would not be answerable..— Robt. Oliver* a young man formerly in the plaintiff's employ, said the parcel was expected, but was never received to his knowledge; if it had come, he must have known of it.— John Taylor, porter at tlie inn at Oswestry, said he delivered all parcels that, came, but could not recollect delivering a parcel at the time men- tioned, it being so long ago. Mr. Puller then addressed the Jury for the defendants ; after which tlie Judge summed up, and verdict was given for the plaintiff.— Damages £ 10.12s. of. the tree in dispute.— The Jury found a verdict for plaintiffs— Damages £ 2.10s. BROWN v. H1GGINS. An action to recover a penalty of five pounds for taking a hare in a snare. It appeared that as Thomas Wheathall, who was employed bv the Earl of Powis to preserve the game in Blakeridge Wood, was going his round about eight o'clock on the 8th of March, 1822, he heard the cry of a hare, and on oing- to the spot found a hare nearly dead in a snare, and other snares set near the same spot; he, lerefore, concealed himself, and about ten o'clock the next morning saw the defendant come to the pot, look at the other snares, and then take the hare J of charge for meat and biscuits were unnecessary, and out of the one in which it was caught. Wheathallat that if the mercer's bill had been produced it would that moment made his appearance, and the defend- J show that it was not wholly for, hatbands and gloves ant threw the hare o, rre way and the snare another, for the funeral, but also fur mourning for the plaintiff' ade his escape, and absconded for about two I or his family, and for which lie ought to pay himself, months. Another witness proved the defendant's j - The Judge, in summing up to the Jury, said the law that he had given Smalltnan a character, but solemnly denied the rest. On the part of the prisoner, John Wall, Mary Lane, William Mi. i dleton, aud Elizabeth Small man : we're called, who respectively positively swore to the truth of Miss Garbett, Thomas Garbett, aud Mary Wall having used the language and made the observations which they had severally denied oh their cross- examination. Mr. Edward Farmer, of Tatton Hall, with Mr. Farmer's servant, clearly proved that the prisoner Mr. Beeston was at Tatton Hall, nearly three miles from the barn in question, from about 8 to half past ten dr nearly eleven o'clock on the nig- ht of the 26th Sept. and that, he came there and departed on horseback; and three of Mr. Beeston's own servants I proved that lie came home that night on horseback at nearly eleven o'clock. It was also proved by Mi'. Farmer, and the several witnesses just men- tioned further deposed, that Mr. Beeston had on that, night a light dress,' with a light- coloured jacket, and an oil- cased hat — One of Mr. Beeston's servants also stated that his master kept five horses; that it was the witness's place to feed them that be gave theui two bushels of corn or beans every night; and that he gave them their regular feed on the night in question. The Rev. J. M. Wood, Vicar of Stottesden, proved that Mary Wall, on her examination, had deposed that the man she saw in the barn, but whom she did not know, had a light complexion; and the examin- ation itself was produced in confirmation.— Mr. Wood gave the prisoner an excellent character; since this business happened, lie had been chosen your attendance, and to release you to the. business I overseer of the poor of the parish, and had been which has fallen to you tor consideration." | offered the collection of the taxes.— Several other gentlemen also gave Mr. Beeston a most excellent The first prisoner placed at the Bar was Mr. I character George Beeston, a very respectable looking young j Mr. Justice Park stated the case at great length man, who occupies a farm of about 150 acres, in j to the Jury, commenting on its various bearings j the parish of Stottesden, and who was charged with reference to the affair of the oats being found so stealing about two bushels of oats and one hempen J opportunely among the hay- ricks, he observed teneed to he imprisoned 12 months, and to be twice publicly .. whipped in the Gaol sack, on the 26th of September last, the property of Tnotnas Garbett, jun. of the parish of Sidbury. The prosecutor had preferred a bill of indictment against the prisoner at. the last Assizes, and the Grand Jury having found a t rue bill, Mr. Beeston was apprehended on a Judge's warrant. Bail was immediately, given, so that, not having been in the Gaoler's custody, his name did not appear in the calendar. He now surrendered himself for trial, and pleaded Not Guilty. This case, which the Learned Judge observed, in summing up, was one of great importance to the prisoner, and to the public, occupied the attention of the Court the whole of the afternoon, aud the following' is a correct outline of the evidence and facts adduced : — It appeared that the prosecutor and his father had been distrained upon for rent due to their landlord'; and that part of the land, which had been occupied by the prosecutor, and for the rent- of widen a distrain had taken place, was subsequently let to the prisoner, and, in fact, is now held by him. The goods of the prosecutor's father had been sold under the distrain, and prisoner had been a purchaser at the sale ; and on the prosecutor quitting the ground he then held, and which is now occupied by the prisoner, he gave the prisoner leave as coining- on tenant to occupy it and prepare it in the usual manner— prosecutor at the same time I BENJAMIN SPEA1CE was the first prisoner tried holding a barn, called the lower barn, about 500 Jon Friday morning. He was charged with stealing yards from prisoner's house, for the purpose of four pocket knives and one pair of sheep shears, the storing, threshing, & c. his share of the crop as j property of Mr Francis Cliveley, of Wenlock, iron off- going tenant. It, was sworn by the prosecutor, monger. The prisoner, who lived near Wenlock, and and proved by other witnesses, that on the 26th of J travelled the country with a thrashing machine, September last, he had directed his servants to went to the prosecutor's on the 15l. ii of July to pay a winnow a quantity of oats previously threshed in I bill of 10s. lOd. and while the shopman went to fetch there was an old adage that they who hide can find ; and he remarked that it was singular the prosecutor had not called his apprentice boy, Middleton, who had assisted in the winnowing*, & c. as a witness on his part. The Jury almost immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty.— The Judge said, u Gentlemen, I am quite satisfied with your verdict ." Between 4 and 5 o'clock on Thursdaye vening, the Grand Jury appeared in Court, and Lord Clive stated to Mr. Justice Park that they had gone through all the Bills before them, and that he understood there were no more to be preferred, w ish the exception of some road indictments, the parties concerned which were not expected in town till to- morrow : the Grand Jury, therefore, requested to be discharged.— Mr. Justice Park said, it was well kno A ii throughout the county that the Calendar was extremely light, and it wus'the duty, therefore, of those who had bills1 to prefer, to be in town on Thursday morning; as the parties mentioned were not arrived, he could not think of detaining the Grand Jury merely because [ they were expected to come to- morrow.— His Lord- ship accordingly discharged the Grand Jury from farther attendance. the barn before mentioned, and when winnowed they were put into bags there, 5| bags in the- whole', two empty bags were also in- the barn, and, with those filled with oats, they were left in the barn when the prosecutor and his servants quitted at night, the prosecutor having turned three of the bags inside out, and the vvhole of the bags having his name marked thereon. The prosecutor deposed that in consequence of information given to linn on the morning of the 27th of . September, by his ser- vant Mary Wall, and a bag ot oats being missing, he that day got a warrant to search prisoner's premises, but previous to putting it in force, he and a witness, named John Monk, went on the night of the 27th to watch near the premises of the prisoner ; they saw nothing all night, but about 4 o'clock in the morning of the 28th they heard and saw a person come from prisoner's house, go to the stable, and thence to within a few yards of a hay- rick, when observing prosecutor and Monk, some conversation passed between them, and he retraced his steps. Prosecutor then left Monk to Watch the premises while, he went for a constable, who searched the prisoner's house, malthouse, & c. in order to which the prisoner gave them every facility and told them to search every where. Con- stable and Monk having searched the house, & c. went to the hay- rick above- mentioned, & between it and another found a bag containing some oats, which bag was produced at the time and in Court, and the prosecutor proved that it was his. Tu order to shew that this bag and oats were removed from the him some cider, he secreted the articles in question. The shopman, while away, heard something rattle on the counter, and on his return charged the prisoner with the theft : the prisoner was searched, and the articles were found on him.— The Jury returned a Verdict of Guilty, and he was sentenced to 12 months'imprisonment. — It was not the first time the prisoner had been at the Bar. WILLIAM HENRY, a youth of vagabond cha- racier, was found guilty of breaking into the dwell ing house of Joseph Edwards, a labourer, of the parish of Acton Round, in the day- time, no person being therein, and stealing various articles of wearing apparel,— The prosecutor and his wife having gone out to their work, the prisoner broke into the house, but was apprehended alyiost as soon as he had got outside of the. house he had robbed The Jury immediately found their verdict, and si tence of Death was recorded against him, according to ihe recent alteration in the Statute. barn and placed between the ricks by the prisoner I supported Or with his knowledge, Mary Wall was produced as J. acquitted a witness, and she swore that, after having helped her master's servants, viz. Richard Davies, the apprentice boy W. Middlcton, & c. to winnow these oats on the 26th of September, she went on an errand for her master to Farlow, about 2 miles distant, and that on her return, about, 10 o'clock, she passed the barn, and. hearing- voices as she ea. nu\ near to it, she looked in at the back door of the barn, from which a board had been taken away. It was clear moonlight, and the moon shone into the barn from the front, the door on that side being open. She saw two men doing* something- to the bags; and the one then helped a bag on the EDWARD PERRY and THOMAS FIELD were charged with stealing twenty shillings in silver, from ihe person of James Henshaw, at Hales Owen. — The prosecutor and the prisoners are nailors, and having finished their week's work, they adjourned after receivingtheii' wages on the Saturday night to the. public house ; they all got fresh ; a quarrel took place between the prisoners and the prosecutor on the road home, and the prosecutor lost his money. The charge as laid against the prisoners not being- HENRY KNIGHT, and ANN KNIGHT his wife, the former a very- fine gentlemanly- looking man, aged 35, and ihe - latter a you ng woman, aged 23, in black silk gown Iri'inmed with several rows of broad lace, and wearing a white hat and large black veil, were then placed at the bar. They were first tried upon an indictment charging them with stealing twelve curtain pins, of the value of twelve shillings, a quantity of brass binges, of the value of sixteen shillings and sixpence, and a quantity of nails, the property of Mr. Thomas Anslow, cabinet- maker, of Shrewsbury.— The prosecutor deposed, that on th morning of the 30th of June- he received the articles above mentioned^ with other goods, from Birming- ham, but being taken suddenly ill about half past 12 o'clock, he was obliged to leave the shop: and lay down ; on his return, about two o'clock, the articles were gone.— John Haslehain Leake saw the prisoners enter MivAnslow's shop about one o'clock.— Char- lotte Oliver deposed that the male prisoner left a bundle at her father's house( the Swan Inn, Coleham) on the same afternoon : in this bundle the articles were found, and were now clearly identified by Mr Anslow; Joseph Hassall, Esq. banker, of Whitchurch, and Mr. Churton, auctioneer, of the same place, were called on the part of the male prisoner : these gentlemen stated that they knew the male prisoner in 1816, about which period he lived for nearly 12 months at Whitchurch, when his conduct was most correct, liberal, and gentlemanly. The prisoner himself stated that when he left the bundle at the Swan he knew nothing of its contents, but thought they were articles purchased by Mrs Knight for domestic use.—[ The prisoners, at the period of their apprehension, had resided for a sho time in a neat cottage at Ryton, near Condover.] The Jury immediately returned a verdict of guilty against the male prisoner; the female being of course acquitted under her coverture. The same parties were then tried upon another indictment, charging thein with having, on the said 30th day of June, stolen a case containing five pen holders, value fifteen shillings, one pack of printing- cards, value seven- pence, and a prayer book, value five shillings, the property of Mr. Thomas Howell bookseller, Shrewsbury.—- About two o'clock that day, the prisoners went into Mr. Howell's shop, and while the shop, boy was reaching down the article the female prisoner requested to look at, she, as the boy turned three several times to reach them down secreted the various articles above mentioned.— M: Edward Harrison, painter, happened to be lookin,_ through the shop window at the time, and saw the robbery committed ; the male prisoner, during the commission of the- rheft, was occupying attention by walking- at the other end of the shop.— As soon as the prisoners left the shop, Mr. Harrison gave notice to Mr; Howell, the prisoners were pursued, and the articles found in a basket carried by the female, except the prayer book, which was found in th< bundle left at the Swan by the male prisoner.— The Jury immediately found the male prisoner Guilty on this second indictment— the female being agai acquitted under her coverture, the law ( excepting in cases of hi^ li treason or murder) considering that a woman is not legally responsible for acts done i the presence, and of course under the presume* knowledge and direction, of her husband, who i that case is the only guilty party in the eye of the law.— Mr. Howell recommended the'male prisoner to mercy ; but Mr. Justice Park said there was nothing in the case to warrant his acting upon such recommendation Tn passing sentence his Lordship addressed the prisoner in very forcible terms upon the enormity of liis offence, aggravated as it was by the conviction that the prisoner, from his appearance, had been brought up in a manner which ought ever to have kept him from the possibility of being . placed in his present degraded situation. It was, too, his Lord- ship observed, necessary for the protection of trades- men in country towns, who naturally had confidence in the respectability of those who settled around them, that the present offence should be severely dealt with. Whether the prisoner was the, guilty person wbo planned these acts of depredation, and merely employed the hand of the female to commit thern, or whether she had seduced him to concur in this mode of plunder, he was in law and in morals equally guilty as if be had taken them with his own hand. Whether the female was in reality his wife or not he did not know, the indictment stated that she was; but at any rate, if the male prisoner had rela- tives or friends, it would he a mercy to thein, and it would be a mercy to him, to separate him from that woman with whom he was now connected, by visiting his present aggravated offence with the heaviest punishment which the law permitted. His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to he transported for life. An assault case, and the discharge of a debtor under the Lords' Act, as it is termed, were the only business remaining on the Crown side ; and these MORE, ESQ. POOL. This was an- action brought in the name of the late High Sheriff of this county, for which he was indem- nified, against the defendant, who is an auctioneer at Wolverhampton, and was likewise indemnified by a person of the name of Pearce. It appeared that iG. Durant, Esq. of Tong Castle, bad obtained a judgment against a person of the name of Ward, of j proper from the plaintiff's demand of £ 20. 12s. lid. Shackeriy, for a sum which, with the taxed costs, } and find a verdict for him for the remainder.— The amounted to £ 239. 14s. ; for this sum a writ of Fieri j Jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, for £ 18.10s. 5d Facias was issued, and sent to the Sheriff's Office in j Shrewsbury, and thereon a warrant was granted on HUGHES v. UiSfDERHILL. - the 6th of March, 1822, and given to an officer of the The plaintiff in this case is Mr, Hughes, the De- name of Edward Jones, who, with Mr. Haslehaiu J pntv Registrar of the Diocese of Bangor, and the Leake as his assistant, went the same day to put it j defendant is Mr. George Underbill, horse- dealer, of : nto execution. Oil their arrival at Shackerly, they, Eaton Mascot!, near Shrewsbury. The plaintiff CL1FFE v. DALE AND ANOTHER. Tlie plaintiff in this case is son of the late Mr. W Cliffe, of Drayton, who died iu 1819, and tlx defendants are " the late Mr. Cliffe's executors.— Tin defendants had, it appeared, authorised tlie plaintiff, after his father's death, to pay the funeral expenses, to collect the monies owing to his father, to pay his father's debts, & c. and at a former Assizes, brought an action against the plaintiff to recover monies he had received and held ; he then paid a certain sum into Court; and he now brought his action against them, to recover the amount of monies which, under the authority of the defendants, he had expended on account of his father's funeral, and in liquidation of certain debts of small amount which his father owed | at. his decease.— Part of the plaintiff's demand was I £ 8. 2s. 5d. the amount of the mercer's bill for the funeral, but which bill was not produced ; anothe item was £ 1.4s. 9d. for butcher's meat for the funera dinner; a third was 16s. 6d. for biscuits; and the whole of his demand on the defendants was £* 20. 12s lid.— The executors contended that, as the father had not died Worth property, accordino- to the pro bate now produced, amounting to £ 100, the items going- to the place, coming running back, and say- " ng ' fe Wheathall has catched me taking a hare out of I the snare."— Verdict for plaintiff. allowed all funeral expenses that decency aud the situation in life" of a deceased person demanded But when the situation of the deceased Mr. Cliffe was considered, it would he for thern to eonside whether meat for a feast, and biscuits to. the amount stated, were proper ; he thought they were not: as to whether the amount of the mercer's bill was merely for hatbands and gloves, lie had no means ol knowing, as the bill was not. there: they would, however, if they thought any unnecessary expense had been incurred, deduct such sum as they thought found a person in possession, who shewed Jones a paper, which Leake ( in his cross examination) called it bill of sale, but which expression he afterwards retracted, aud called it a paper. One was put into his hands, but he . would not swear it. was the same. Mr. Wood, attorney for Mr. Durant, seeing bills) issued for the sale of Ward's effects hy the defendant, I sent for him, and asked him what Ward was going to ! sell for; to which he replied, be was going to pay his rent. Mr. Wood then told him there was an execu- tion in the hands of the Sheriff against Ward's effects, I at the suit of Mr. Durant, and that as he had pre- j pared for the sale he might sell under the execution, 1 to which lie agreed. Mr. Wood afterwards told him sought to re. cover £ 42, the value of a horse he had sold and delivered to the defendant; and which sum the defendant refused to pay, first, on the ground that he had agreed to purchase the horse with a warranty, but which warranty the plaintiff' subse- quently refused to give; secondly, because he had never accepted the horse from the plaintiff in the reg ular way as if a bargain had been concluded ; and thirdly, because the horse was unsound at the time the bargain was made and the warranty given.— Mr. Taunton was Counsel for the plaintiff'; and Messrs. Pearson and Campbell for defendant. The witnesses called by the plaintiff were Mr. Den man, druggist, of Bangor; Jnlvn Roberts, ostler it was necessary that he should make an entry at the I at. the Albion Hotel, Chester ; and James Johnston, excise office of the execution ; the defendant told :| Esq.: and the following is a correct outline of their him he had looked over the goods, which were \ vWthil evidence. from £ 170 to £ lB0; and Mr. Wood informed him 1 Mr. Dehman stated that he was on Chester Race the landlord was only entitled to one year's rentyas I Course', on the Wednesday in the Race Week, in against the execution. Mr. Wood attended the sale j May last,' and that on the Course the plaintiff, after at Shaekerly on the next day, and saw the defendant, j some discussion, and after the defendant had tried the who told him Pearce bad set up a bill of sale, which j paces of the horse in question, agreed to sell defend- was produced, and was to receive £ 110 and ex- 1 ant the horse for 40 guineas. Mr. Underbill after- penses; but Pearce, by the advice of his attorney, wards asked plaintiff" if he would warrant the horse declined giving Mr. Wood any statement of account, j sound; and Mr. Hughes replied, he never warranted Mr. Wood directed the defendant to gd on with the I a horse in his life, nor would he warrant this, and if sale, but gave him notice to pay the proceeds over to he ( the defendant) took him, he must take him as lie the Sheriff*. At different periods of the sale it ap was. Defendant then asked when plaintiff would peared, that the auctioneer's account was, at the j deliver the horse, and plaintiff said, be would deliver request of Mr. Wood, added up, to ascertain whether J him that evening-. Defendai# then asked plaintiff'to the proceeds amounted to £ 120: when it did, Mr. I keep him till Thursday or Friday ; plaintiff'^ con- Wood asked if there was any objection to the Sheriff's | sented, and shortly afterwards rode off'the course officer receiving the remainder of the money, as the sum received was more than enough to cover the bill of sale: the defendant ' made no objection, but Pearce's attorney did. Mr, Wood, therefore, told the Sheriff's officer that if there should be any diffi- culty attending the sale, to remove the goods from the house. On the next night, Pool called at. Mr. Wood's office an. I said every thing was sold, When Mr. Wood told him that as. there was a dispute about the money, he must pay it to tlie Sheriff'; and be replied he had paid it to Pearce, who had indemnified him for so doing. On. his cross- examination, Mr. Wood denied ever having authorized Pool to sell for Pearce to the amount of the bill of sale.* From the evidence of Mr. Thompson, attorney to Mr. Pearce, Mr. Denman said, in his cross- examination, the transaction took place about 200 yards from the coming- in chair, within 20yards Of the course, and between the heats ; and that there was no other per- son present that took cognizance of the transaction. John Roberts stated that on the Thursday in the Race week Mr. Underbill came to the Albion, and requested him to bring the horse Out; witness de- livered the horse to defendant's son iii defendant's presence; defendant's son then rode him once or twice in a close adjoining- the Albion ; after which he was put into the stable again. On the Friday, wit- ness, at, the request of Mr. Hughes took the horse to the Hop Pole, and delivered him to Mr. Underbill's two servants in the stable which Mr. Underbill it appeared that he prepared the bill of sale, which usually occupies at the Hop Pole at Races and Fairs; included rent, money paid for taxes, money lent, ley I about three minutes after this, he saw MrTUnderhill of cows, & c.; that possession was given toa servant I in the stable ; Mr. Underbill asked fora halter to put of Mr. Pearce, under the bill of sale ; and that the on the horse, and which it is customary for the seller Sheriff's officer had notice of Pearce's claim under to give on delivery of a horse to a dealer; Mr. Hughes gave witness sixpence to fetch one, and he delivered it to Mr. Underbill's servant, at the same time telling him to be cautious in touching the horse's head as he was a little tedious about, the head. Witness said the horse seemed to him to be perfectly free from vice or blemish, hut was rather shy about the head. After the horse had been delivered, Mr. Hughes requested payment, and Mr. Underbill said, if he would wait till his son came back from Stanley- Place, or till the Bank was open, he would pay him. Not a word was said of soundness, or warranty of soundness ; witness then went away. In his cross- examination witness I said, Mr. Johnston and witness were the only persons present with Mr. Hughes and Mr. Underbill when they conversed about the payment. About half an hour after, the horse was brought back to the Albion the bill of sale. On, his cross- examination, it came out that the rent up to tiie then next Lady- day, though not due, was included ; and that Pearce was the collector of taxes, though witness believed no taxes were included but what were due. The Judge left it to the Jury to say whether Mr. Wood had, at the sale, consented to Pearce having his bill of sale satisfied or not : if he had not, then it was for them to consider whether the bill of sale was collusive and fraudulent, or whether it was an honest one. Verdict for defendant £ 85.— This verdict seemed to surprise the whole court; and several questions were asked the Jury, who said that they found a verdict for the defendant to the amount of the money actually due, deducting from the £ 110 the one year's rent. The verdict, to that amount was then entered, with liberty for the plaintiffs to move the Court to set. it aside, and enter it for the plaintiffs to the amount of one year's rent. * The sale was originally entered at the excise I office as under a distress for rent due to Thomas Pearce; and afterwards there was interlined by the defendant " also under an execution for £ 237. 14s. at | the suit of George Durant, Esq." [ BEFORE MR. JUSTICE PARK.] WINGFIEI. D AND ANOTHER v. CLARE AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by Mr. John Wingfield and Mr. Robert Pardoe, as trustees of the estates of the late H. L. Lee, Esq. to recover £ 2. 10s. the value of an ash tree, which they alleged to have been illegally felled by the defendant Mr. Clare, or by his directions.— It appeared in evidence that in the autumn of last year, the plaintiffs employed Mr. John Deverel! to value the timber on a farm called The Bowells, in the parish of Alveley, which farm the plaintiffs had offered to sale. Mr. Deverell observed that some trees on the boundary of this farm, and where it adjoined Mr. Clare's estate, grew I at the Race Course I would not warrant hi by very distinct evidence, they were DAVID WEATE was charged with having, on the night of the 25th March, 1822, burglariously broken and entered the dwelling bouse of Joseph Icke, of Newport, and stolen thereout two bushels of beans, the property of Messrs. Joseph Icke and Edward Icke.— It will be recollected that at our Summer Assize, in 1822, a man named William Pilsbury was convicted of a burglary on the premises and at the time above mentioned ; and it was stated on his trial that a person charged as an accomplice, named David Weale, had absconded.— The person who so absconded was the prisoner now for trial, being got through, the Court broke up about si| s o'clock on Friday evening. NISI PRIUS. GRIFFITHS t.>. LF. IGH & JOHNSON. An action brought hy Mr. Benjamin Jones Grif. fitlis, mercer and draper, of Oswestry, against the defendants, who were proprietors of the Prince Regent Coach, running from that town to Wrexham arid Chester, to recorer the sum of £ 10. 12s. the value of a parcel sent from Mr. W. F. Jenkins, of Wrexham, to the plaintiff, on the 8th of March, 1819. Mr. Jenkins, who had heen paid by the plaintiff for the parcel two years ago, proved the contents and value of the parcel, and its being delivered to the coachman as the coach passed his shop- door. He was cross- examined closely by the defendants' in such a situation that it was questionable to which property they belonged. Mr. D. in consequence recommended that some gentleman should be ap- pointed bv the parties to seitle the matter amicably : this was, however, refused on the part of the de- fendant, who, although he received a notice to abstain, persisted in felling the trees iu question, and at the same time be directed an ash tree to he felled, which, on the plan produced in Court, was marked No. 4, and which grew in the ditch that was the boundary of the plaintiffs' farm.— There was no evidence adduced by the defendant to show that the ditch did not, according to ihe usual custom, belong hotel for Mr. Hughes hy Mr. Underbill's son; Mr Hughes would not receive it, and Mr, Underbill's son left it tied to the wall in the Albion yard. Witness never heard the horse cough from the Tuesday lo the Friday in the Race week, during which time it stood at the Albion, James Johnston, Esq. saw the horse at Ihe Hop Pole, after the delivery by last witness ; he saw him taken out of the stable by Mr. Underbill's direction, and led np and down the yard as he supposed to see his paces; Mr. Underbill then ordered him to he taken into the stable again. Mr. Johnston spoke to the conversation about payment for the horse i mentioned hy last witness, and said he was with M Hughes all the time he was at the Hop Pole at Ihe time of delivering the horse, excepting for a lew minutes when he ( Mr. J ) went into ihe stable; and he did not hearaword said about soundness or war ranty. After ihe ostler ( Roberts) had gone awav, Mr. Underbill, who had been absent for a short time, returned, and said he would pay the money, aud be then asked for a warranty : this was the first time witness had heard any thing said about a warranty. Mr. Hughes replied to defendant, " You know that aud I will bring an action against yon if you will not pay the money." The defendant then swore he would not take the horse. In his cross- examination, witness said he had known the horse two years ; he had been his property; he had given 30 guineas for hint, aud sold him 18 months before the Races to the plaintiff for 30 guineas, and bad subsequently offered to give the plaintiff the same money for him again. He bad bought Ihe horse as a sound horse, and sold him tothe plaintiff as a sound horse; at the time he sold him he knew be was a windsucker, but said nothing about that to plaintiff, because he did not consider wind sucking an unsoundness, He did not know that any . rice,; piaintifl'asked 40 guineas, and defendar.' offered £ 40 the first word ; he afterwards bid him 40 fuineas, and plaintiff sold him. When Mr. Under, till offered the £ 40 he asked if the horse was sound, tnd Mr. Hughes said be was perfectly sound. The occurrence took place near the coming- in ground ; there were a good many people round on horseback, and there was a pprson on foot that held Mr. Under- bill's horse when be alighted, hut he does not know his name.— In his cross- examination, witness said, he is a saddler, and had been a horse, dealer ,0 years ago; he bad been a horse- dealer 25 years, and a saddler 40 or 50 years ; he went to Chester races with ' Squire Eld's son, to assist him in selling one horse and buying another; he bad been an acquaintance of Mr. Underbill's many years, and had dealt with him for horses Did. not recollect seeing Mr. Denman on the Ruce Course during the bargain, nor any person with Mr. Hngltes as it companion ; hut 4 or 5 persons sat on their horses looking at the bargain as is cus- tomary on a race ground. Joseph Roberts said he saw Mr. Underbill at Chester Races, and held his horse there while he bought another; did not know the gentleman who Sold the horse, but Mr. Wigan was by. Tlie gentle- man asked 40 guineas, and Mr. Underbill offered £ 4( 1; he afterwards said he would give 40 guineas if he would warrant him sound; the gentleman said he would warrant hint sound in every possible respect. In his cross- examination, be said the words lie had mentioned were the very words used when the war- ranty was given. There were a good many persons about, hot he and Mr. Wigan were the only persons present that took any interest iu the bargain. Did not see Mr. Denman there. Witness said he has a pension of one shilling a day, and besides he gets a sixpence how he can. He was holding the master's ( Mr. Under- bill's) horse at the time of the bargain, [ He said to the Counsel, Mr. Taunton.—" 1 should be glad to go of an errand for you, Sir, if you please."] Obadinh Tuntiicliffe, Esq. said he saw Mr. Hughes' and Mr. Underbill at the Hop Pole on Friday in the Chester Race Week. Defendant offered to " pay for tlie horse if plaintiff would warrant him sound. Plaintiff said he would not ; and defendant then said he would not have him. Defendant asked plaintiff's objection to warrant him, and said, " Is not the horse sound ?" Plaintiff' replied, be be- lieved him to be sound. Defendant said, " Why then do you object to warrant him ?" Plaintiff saw? he would not warrant, him. Defendant said, " If you will not, you may keep your horse, and 1 will keep my money." Plaintiff then said, u I will' make you tnke the horse, whether sound or not." Plaintiff' was tlu- n leaving the Hop Pole yard, and defendant called after him, saying, " Slop, stop, Sir, you had better take your money, and give me a warranty." Plaintiff said he would not, and walk- ed away. In less than two minutes after, the horse was sent back in witness's presence. Mr. James Walters staled that be had been a veterinary surgeon - 27 years ; he examined the horse in question about a month aoo ; he then found his eye ill an inflamed state, and he cannot now see at all with it; this inflammation arose, in witness's judgment, from previous disease, hot bow lung it may have been coming it. was impossible losay, hut he should think more than a month. The horse had also a chronic cotlgh, w hich he should think had heen of longer standing than the bpgirtuin- j of May. He did not consider windsucking an unsoundness. A horse cannot he sound if he has in him the seeds of blindness or chronic cough. In his cross- exami- nation witness said, a short cough of a long stand- ing was a chronic cough. By the seeds referred to he meant diseased fluids in the body, which may affect either eye or heel; these fluids arose from morbid matter ; the se seeds may be in the habit of body for a long time and lie inactive until some cold or other exciting cause should bring them into action. In his re- examination he said, that, ill his jnigmenl, from Ihe state of the horse's eye, he must have been diseased iu May ; and though disease may not have affected the eye then, it must have affected some other part before it localised itself. Thomas Barker stated that he was servant to Mr. Underbill, and was with him at Chester Races; his master has a particular stable at the Hop Pole, but the horse in question was not put into that stable which is an eight- stalled stable, but was put into the six- stalled stable ; and Mr. Underbill has nothing to do with liny horses that are tint put into his own stable; Mr. Underbill did nothing with this horse while it was at the Hop Pole. In his cross- ex- amination, witness staled that he did not know who received the horse or who put, him into the stable at the Hop Pole; tiiat Mr. Underbill never had more than one stable ; however, if Mr. Underbill hail- more horses than that stable would accommodate they were put into another ; witness saw the horse iu qnestion come tip the yard, and saw Mr. Underbill's son take him out of the stable, but did not sec him ride it. He said Mr. Underbill had eight horses there, and his own stable held but eight; if a ninth horse came, he must he put somewhere else. Edward Davies stated that he was ostler at the Hop Pole, and recollected the horse brought up the, yard on the Friday in the Race Week, hot did not know who received him; he did not hear Mr. Uiider- hill direct or interfere about him; he saw young Mr. Underbill take him down the yard. In his cross" examination he said he s: nv Mr. Underbill's son ride him while Mr. Underbill was there. Mr. Taunton then addressed the Jury at o- reat length. He said his learned friend, Mr. Pe.- Trson had alleged, in stating- the case of the defendant that there was a warranty of the horse by Ihe plaintiff, and that the horse at the time of sale was afflicted with an incurable cough, and was Iso nearly blind, ami further that the defendant had never accepted him. The acceptance, how. ever had been clearly proved by John Roberts, and the attempt to disprove his evidence by that of Thomas Barker anil Edward Davies had completely failed. With regard to the horse having been un- sound al ill.- time of the sale not a w„ rd of evidence had been given ; Mr. Wallers spoke of bis being unwell now, and it was no wonder; for, iu conse"- quence of the defendant refusing- to fulfil his bargain, the poor animal had been at grass and neglected ever since Chester Races. As lo Mr. Walters say- ing the horse must have had the seeds of disease in him in May, he might just as well have said the same of every animal in the creation, and of every person iu that Court; but were we all then to he deemed unsound merely because we had got the seeds of disease in, us, and because there would come a time when those seeds would mature themselves and we should die and be buried ? But even if the horse was unsound, there had been no warranty, and of course the defendant could gain nothing on that point; and he would leave it to the Jury to'sav, after contrasting the evidence of Joseph Roberts aiid Wigan with each other, and again comparing, it with tile statement of Mr. Denman, whether theie was liny belief to he attached to the evidence of either Joseph Roberts or Wigan; more especially when they considered the evidence of Mr. Johnston, and of the defendant's own witness, Mr. Tnnnicliff'e, for if ihe horse had been warranted nn the Race Course on Wednesday, why should the defendant apply for a warranty on tiie Friday ? and would he not, on the latter day, have reminded the plaintiff of the war- ranty as a part of the bargain, if such warranty Wl been ever before mentioned ? His Lordship summed up at considerable ieuglb, and stated tlie case in its various bearings. The chief point, be said, for the Jury to consider was, whether there had been a warranty, for if there bad, been no warranty, the plaintiff was entitled to their verdict, whether the horse was sound or unsound at the time of the sale : if they were of opinion there had been a warranty, then they would consider whether, in their judgment, there was any proof of the horse having been unsound at the time of sale; and ou this point his Lordship observed, that he was con- strained to say the opinions of Mr. Walters as to lin- seeds of disease proved nothing, for certain it was, that the seeds of disease and mortality lurked in the system of every living creature, however sound and healthy that creature may be considered : to prove the horse unsound, it must be proved that there was some blemish or unsoundness visible or known at the time of sale. The Jury returned a verdict for plaintiff— Da- mages £ 42. to the hedge which was on the plaintiff's' ground, I thing was the inalter with the horse's eyes, nor that but the point at issue was, whether the tree grew he had any cough when Mr. Hu » - hes sold him to within the limit, which, according to the custom of defendant; be knew he had a cough at Bangor in the property of that nature in this and most other last winter, when he had caught a cold, ™ but he counties, is allowed for a ditch that forms the I believed he was quite recovered, boundary between the land of adjoining proprietors. I On the part of the defendant, Mr John Wio- an of — On this point several eminent gentlemen in the] Stafford ; Joseph Roberts; Obadinh Tunnicliffe professions of land surveying, & c. were culled on the J Esq.; Mr James Walters, veterinary surgeon • Thos' part of the plaintiff's; they stated that4 feet was the width invariably allowed for a ditch, which 4 feet was measured from the centre of the hedge, where the stake or butt of the hedge- row grew: one of these gentlemen added, by way of explanation, that of this Barker; and Edward Davies, were called : and the following is a correct summary of their evidence. Mr. John Wigan stated tli-. it he was riding with Mr. Underhill on Chester Race Course, on the Race Wednesday, and they met plaintiff. Mr. Underhill 4 feet, one foot was allowed for the hedge bank, and asked him'i'f he would » ell liis horse, and'he said he 3 feet for the ditch— Most of these gentlemen bad | would; Mr. Underbill saw bis paces and asked the SANDFORD, WIDOW v. HUNT, WIDOW This was an action to recover the balance of an unsettled acconnt dne upon certain bonds. The amount sought to be recovered was not stated, nor was the case discussed; hot a verdict with Is. damages, was taken for the plaintiff bv arrangement, and the matter was to he settled out of Court, JONES v. JONES. An action upon a note of hand for £ 7 ; the signa- ture to which was proved hy Mr. John Vearsley.— Verdict for plaintiff ; £ 7. Printed and published hy IV. Eddowes, Corn Mnrfis! Shrewsbury, to whom Advertisements or Aiticies of Intelligence aie requested to be addressed. Adver tisements are aiso received by Messrs. Nereton nnd Co. Warwick- Square, Seuigate Street, and Mr. Barker, No,' 33, Fleet- Street, London ; likewise by Messrs. J. K. Johnston and Co. No, 1 Loatr Sackville. Street, Dublin.