features of the affair, therefore, he could not avoid feeling, that the question of right, set up, and over which the Bench had no controul, ought to be established in the proper court, before it would be prudent in the Magistrates to interfere with it. Mr. Kemp and Mr. Bates, coincided with Sir David; the former gentleman observed, that if any person were, without his sanction, and in violation of the law, to build a wall upon his ground, such wall could not be regarded as the property of the builder. Mr. Cooper, by his Solicitor, Mr. Furner, who very ably advocated the complaint, said, that both ground and wall belonged to the complainant---he had made affidavit to the latter, but, as a point then in dispute, though no reasonable doubt could exist upon it, he declined the former. The Chairman said, that so clear as he had consider ed his judgment in the first view he had taken of the case, yet that a considerable change had been wrought in his opinion, from what had been since said on it, and he felt every way disposed to coincide with his brother Magistrates. The matter had just arrived at this conclusion, when Mr. Gregory loudly addressed some hostile words to the complainant, in which, by agency, he menaced him with the application of a horsewhip. The Bench expressed itself indignant at this, and were not to be disposed to receive an apology as an atonement for the error. Mr. Gregory, therefore, was held in a recognizance of 2001. to keep the peace, until the question of right, upon the subject agitated, should be finally decided between him and the complainant.

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APRIL 11.---Before Sir David Scott, Bart. J. H. Bates, and T. R. Kemp, Esqrs.

Smith, a boy, not more than eleven years of age, but an old offender, for stealing linen rags in the premises of the complainant, Mr. Akehurst, in High-street, was ordered to be whipped at the parish workhouse.

Charles Hoad, was fully com→ mitted to the gaol at Horsham, for trial, on a charge of being concerned in the robbery at Henfield, on Christmas Eve, in the shop and premises of Mr. Cook, whose property, to a very considerable amount, was feloniously therefrom removed. It is likely, that Hoad, who has an inclination that way, will be admitted an evidence for the Crown. At the same Sitting, James Walkely was committed to the prison at Lewes, a pair of breeches having been found, pawned by him, which had been stolen at the time and place above mentioned, and which article, on oath, was identified by Mr. Cook. Hoad will be tried at the Assizes, and Walkeley at the next ensuing Quarter Sessions.

An adjourned Excise case, in which a person named Homewood was the defendant, next came on for decision.--He was convicted in the full penalty sought to be recovered---501.

An Excise case, against Eliza. beth Guilford, otherwise, by a subsequent marriage, Lush, was withdrawn.

Sloman v. Edwards.---This was an assault case, in which the complainant had suffered considerable bodily injury; but, as damages were sought, and with which the defendant refused

compliance, the matter, as not coming within the jurisdiction of the Bench, was dismissed, and a process at common law concluded upon.

A disorderly house, in Egremont-street, was complained of, and the High Constable, Mr. G. Wigney, gave orders to his headboroughs, to keep a close watch on the said house in future.

APRIL 15.---Before Sir David Scott, Bart. Sir Henry Ryecroft, I. M. Cripps, T. R. Kemp, and J. H. Bates, Esqrs.

Richard and Thomas Pollard, lads, and brothers, the former for stealing a pair of trousers, the property of Henry Knight, and the latter, for purloining a book from the library of the Wesleyan chapel, in Dorset-gardens, were committed to the House of Correction, for trial at the Quarter Sessions.

John Bannister, for a trespass on the grounds of Mr. Gerard, a stone-mason, the night before, was reprimanded and discharg

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James Morton, charged with being an utterer of base coin, was committed to Bridewell, to be disposed of at the Sessions. Joseph Langton, W. Carter, W. Webb, and Lewry, brother of the Lewry suspected of being concerned in the robbery of Mr. Cook's premises,. at Henfield, on Christmas Eve, for the apprehension of whom a warrant has been issued, underwent examinations, principally to discover the retreat of the absconded Lewry, but were discharged.

James Care, under the vagrant Act, was committed to Bridewell, to be passed to his parish.

APRIL 18.---Before Sir David Scott, Bart. and J. H. Bates, Esq.

The first case was one of a peculiar nature, and which was made to excite more than common interest. The complainant, a lady of independent fortune, of the first respectability and connexions, a visitant of the town, and residing in apartments in Richmond-place, had been induced to purchase eight eggs the day before, from the basket of the prisoner, a girl, not more, apparently, than ten or eleven years of age, at the price of sixpence. Complainant gave a shilling to the girl, who had returned sixpence. The prisoner having received the shilling, forcibly rubbed one side of it, making it look bright, as if to ascertain that it was silver: the complainant had observed to her, that such rubbing and consequent brightness would give to the shilling a sus picious complexion---advised her to desist, and she did so.. Mrs. W. the wife of a respectable tradesman, in whose house complainant hired apartments, was with her at the moment. little time after this, a few words in conversation having passed with Mrs. W. the prisoner remarked to complainant, that she had forgot to give her a shilling for the eggs and the sixpence which she had received. Complainant, much surprised, reminded her to the effect of what is above stated; but the girl persisted in her demand, and became vulgarly insolent in manner and expression. Mrs. W. who had witnessed the whole transaction, and whose surprise had been equal to the complainant's, irritated at a depravity in one so young, threatened to search the prisoner, who readily said, that she had no objection to be search

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ed; that when she came to the house, she had in her possession, one shilling, two sixpences, and some halfpence, which she then exposed in her hand, and which Mrs. W. received from her to examine; but the shilling bore no shining mark of having been rubbed, and, evidently, therefore, was not the shilling which had been paid to her by complainant. Certain, however, that the shilling, as she then had not been out of her sight, must be concealed somewhere about the prisoner, Mrs. W. first inspected her basket, but it was not there. In one hand the prisoner held a bunch of flowers, of which she seemed careful, and not desirous that it should be touched; but, by force, it was taken from her grasp; and, upon shaking it, a shilling dropped to the ground. This shilling complainant examined; the bright mark which the rubbing had occasioned, as above mentioned, conspicuously remained, and complainant could be positive it was the identical shilling which she had taken from her purse. More shocked than gratified at the discovery, complainant had returned the shilling to the prisoner, with an admonition that ought to have induced her to confess her guilt---but it had no such effect ---she called the complainant a cheat, used language indelicately gross, succeeded in inducing a crowd to assemble in front of the house, and then disappeared, as she said, to call her mother, taking with her the rubbed shilling, and leaving the silver and halfpence before mentioned, and her basket, containing her remaining quantity of eggs, with Mrs. W. Soon after, the pri

soner was brought back to the house by a Beadle, who had been induced to the spot by the crowd, in the exercise of his duty, and had taken the prisoner with him to learn the particulars of her behaviour. Complainant would willingly have dismissed her, but a conscientious scruple, that, by so doing, the prisoner, from impunity, might become hardened in vice, and which, a slight, but suitable punishment for her wilful attempt at extortion, might do away the probability of, prevented her. Mrs. W. partook of the same feeling, and, with the benevolent intent solely, and with no other object in view, than that of bringing about a favourable change in the prisoner, she had been given in charge, and committed to the black-hole. It appeared that the girl, while in custody, had undergone an examination at the Town-Hall, by a Magistrate, the business of whose life seems to be that of doing good, and, to the fullest extent of correct intentions, impartially to dispense justice in his official capacity, who had liberated her upon bail; but not until he had examined all of the particulars of the case he could get at, and which had established a feeling in him that the prisoner was innocent, and that the matter had originated in some unaccountable mistake. He had been told the number of eggs which the prisoner had taken from home in the morning---of the manner in which she had disposed of them, and where---the money, in the several instances, which she had received; and, upon casting up the aggregate, had found, that it was precisely one shilling short of what it ought to have been

from the several vendings. All this was mentioned at the final examination; but, opposed to which, were the affidavits of two persons of unquestioned integrity, the complainant and Mrs. W., who were as firm as the truth and conscious rectitude could make them. The father of the prisoner was present; he spoke favourably of his daughter, and said, she was pretty correct, generally, in the money she brought home for the articles she might be entrusted to sell. Several present spoke favourably to his character. Mrs. W. mentioned an instance in which his daughter had been suspected of theft; but no witness was asked for to prove it, In the end, the complainant and witness were pronounced premature in having given the girl into custody, and the prisoner was discharged. The complainant, amazed at a termination to the case so unexpected by her, enquired, if her deposition, upon oath, had been doubted ?---to which was replied, "You have heard the decision ;' and complainant and witness retired.

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Perhaps we cannot better follow up this compartment of our plan, in stating the local occurrences meriting notice, than by the following suggestion, which appeared in The Brighton Gazette, on Thursday, the 14th of February last:--

"It is but too often the characteristic of the descendants of John Bull, to deplore consequences without investigating causes. We are induced to make this remark, from the many piti able objects, who are driven to seek a precarious and wretched

John Duvel, who rents a house of complainant, Mr. J. Slee, was charged with disorderly conduct, and compelled to enter into a recognizance to keep the peace.

Richard Lind preferred a complaint against William Carter, for removing a certain quantity of deals from his premises, which was adjourned for a final hearing this day, Monday.

Henry Trusler, for gaming in the streets, penitent, and promising never to repeat the effence, was reprimanded and discharged.

Two persons, a man and his wife, named Kennedy, for keeping a brothel, and for seductive arts, by which it was proved that Susan Lancaster, seventeen years of age, had been tempted from honest servitude and correct intentions, to become a miserable object upon the town, were adjudged to enter into a recognizance of 2001, with two sureties in the sum of 100l. each, to meet the consequences of their infamous conduct at the ensuing Assizes at Lewes in default of which they stood committed, and twenty-four hours' notice bail required.

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subsistence, by thronging our streets after sun-set, and courting infamy, as the only means by which they can hope to live. Several cases have come within our knowledge recently, where original error has been succeeded by anguished penitence; but useless has that penitence been to the suffering objects, and to society; because the latter has provided no saving refuge to which those who have sinned and repent may turn, and offer up their thanks for the heavenly visitation. Shut out from every

honest and honourable means of procuring sustenance, the devious paths of dissipation and vice alone are open to them---neces sity overcoming compunction, apathy then succeeds; cureless, abandoned, disgusting apathy, ending in misery, premature decay and death. Surely a PENETENTIARY, in a town so populous as this, the residence of the powerful, the opulent, and the reflecting, might be established for contrite and suffering humanity to turn to---for error to lose itself in recovered virtue; and for the advocates of moral worth and charitable dispensations to say---this, this, is my work! That such an institution may shortly be thought of, where the means of promoting it, among our numerous residents, may best be supposed to exist, is our hope, our fervent prayer.'

It affords us much satisfaction to add, that a meeting, upon the above important subject, took place at the Old Ship, this day se'nnight, the Dean of Hereford in the chair, and present, Sir D. Scott, Bart. Sir H. Ryecroft, Rev. Doctors H. Pearson, Hol land, Barber, Rev. Mr. Scutt, Rev. Mr. Everard, I. M. Cripps, T. R. Kemp, N. Kemp, Prince Hoare, T. West, Esqrs. and other gentlemen distinguished for active benevolence; when sub scriptions were entered into, various resolutions passed; and, that such an institution should actualy dispense its blessings in this place, was the gratifying result of the whole. We promise ourselves much pleasure, in touching upon this matter hereafter.

A dreadful accident occurred between this place and Rotting dean on Tuesday se'nnight: Mr.

Briggs, a respectable hatter of this place, and one of our local body of commissioners, had been with a friend, Mr. Knowles, of Cowfold, to Newhaven, in a light spring cart; and, returning thence,. had stopped at the Inn at Rottingdean for a short time, leaving the latter place at nine o'clock. At half-past ten o'clock, the parties named were found on the beach near Roedean Gap,. dreadfully mutilated, and quite dead; the fragments of the cart,. in which they had rode, being scattered about them, and the lifeless carcase of the horse perfecting the tragic picture. The depth of the beach from the summit of the cliff is estimated at from eighty to ninety feet; over which frightful precipice, all, from some cause or other, must have been. plunged. An inquest was held on the bodies, at the Inn at Rottingdean, on Friday---Verdict, Accidental Death The horse was known to be of a bad temper, and the supposition is, that retrograding in one of his fits of irritation, the distressing catastro-phe was produced. Poor Briggs has left a widow and eight children, and Knowles a widow and seven, to lament their prematureloss.

HORRIBLE SUICIDE---A most dreadful instance of self-destruction took place at the Barracks, in Church-street; between nineand ten o'clock, on the night of this day se'nnight. It appeared, that the deceased had placed the muzzle of a musket to his mouth, the discharge of which, by a string attached to the trigger and his foot, had blown his head to atoms, and scattered the brain on the wall of the building in the Barrack-yard, near which the