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Monday, March 15, 1819.





Winchester.
SATURDAY, MARCH 13.

The Mayor and Aldermen of this city have caused to be distributed to the poor of the different parishes 1000 bushels of coals.

On Friday last was married at St.George's, Bloomsbury, John Sperling, Esq of Park Place, near Henley on Thames, to Miss Harriot Hanson, third daughter of John Hanson, Esq of Farleigh House, in this county, and sister to the Countess of Portsmouth.
On the 2d inst was married, at Linsted, in Kent, Mr. George Harriott, of the Rectory, North Waltham, in this county, to Sarah, second daughter of Thomas Abbott, Esq of Linsted.
On Wednesday the 3d inst, was married at Fordingbridge, by the Rev. W. Roberts, Mr. James Chubb, to Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr. Pargeter, surgeon, of the same place - Also, on the same day was married at Fordingbridge, Mr. John Hick, plumber and glazier, to Miss Lucy Trobridge, both of the same place.
Died in Lower Seymour-street, London, early on Sunday morning, of a sudden apoplectic attack, Sophia, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Shedden, of the Elms, near Lymington.
On Saturday evening last died at Standing, in the parish of Hursley, near this city, Mr. Wm. Elderfield, yeoman.
On Sunday last died in this city, aged 52 years, Miss Susanna Gabell, daughter of the late Rev.Mr. Gabell, of Winchester College.
On Wednesday died at his lodgings in Bath, John Payne, Esq late of Droxford, in this county.
On Friday last died at Andover, Mr. Joseph Grace, aged 85 years; he was upwards of forty years bailiff to Ralph Etwall, Esq and town serjeant thirty years.




On Monday last Sarah Huntingford, aged 61, was executed near this city, having been convicted on the preceding Friday of the murder of her husband, in October last, at Portsea. This unhappy woman, during her confinement, and previous to her trial, manifested the greatest reluctance to say any thing respecting the crime with which she was charged, and after conviction persisted in the statement she had made when first taken into custody, that the murder was perpetrated by two men, having the appearance of chimney-sweepers. But the evidence adduced at her trial was so irresistible, and, which she herself admitted, was such as to warrant the verdict of the jury, that notwithstanding she appeared fully alive to the consolations of religion, and evinced the greatest firmness even to the last moment. There is too much reason to apprehend that she was labouring under a most dangerous delusion, arising from an opinion, that having been once in a state of grace, she could never finally fall, and that, as God alone could forgive sins, it was unnecessary to make confession to man. She appeared to be quite a visionary, and reconciled to her fate; when urged on to confess, she replied, that she would confess to God alone - and the act of dying was only momentary, and what she did not fear. When brought out of the gaol, she stepped on the sledge with firmness, and did not appear otherwise at the place of execution, even when the fatal cart was removed, and she was launched into eternity. She was drawn to the place of execution on a hurdle, and her body delivered to the surgeon of the gaol to be dissected and anatomised. It is conjectured, that nearly 10,000 persons were assembled to witness the awful ceremony.- All the other capital convicts were reprieved before the Judges left the city.




Williams v. Henry Hunt- An inquisition was held at our late assizes, by the Under Sheriff, to assess the damages in an action brought by the Rev.Mr. Williams, against Mr. Henry Hunt, for breach of covenant. It appeared, that the defendant purchased the lease of Cold Henley Farm from the Sheriff of Hants, under an execution, a few years since. The defendant had suffered judgement to go by default. The declaration stated that the breaches of covenant were, omitting to repair the house, farm buildings, and fences; not keeping a flock of sheep; selling straw, and sowing the land contrary to the stipulations of the lease. These allegations were supported by the evidence of respectable witnesses. Mr. Hunt called numerous witnesses in mitigation of damages, from whose evidence it appeared that when he took the farm, the dwelling-house, barns, and out-buildings were out of repair; that in the second year of his occupation he new thatched the barns, and put the premises into a state of tenantable repair; and left it in a better condition than he had found it. It was admitted that the defendant had expended on the farm the manure which should have been left for the coming-on tenant, thereby reaping the advantage himself, instead of his successor. - The Court was occupied about 14 hours in hearing the arguments and evidence on this inquiry, when the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff- Damages �152. 10s - Mr. A. Moore was counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Hunt conducted his own defence in person.

Richard Titheridge was publicly whipped at Alresford on Thursday, pursuant to his sentence, for stealing a promissory note, value �20, the property of Henry Fry.

INTERESTING INQUESTS.- On the fifth inst. an inquest was taken by Mr. Shebbeare, one of the coroners for this county, at the parish of Selborne, on the body of Charles Heath, an infant of the age of 14 weeks, son of Robert Heath, a labourer, and Elizabeth his wife, who, we regret to say (young as it was, and contrary to all maternal feeling) had been beaten by its mother as to occasion its death. After opening the body, and a long examination of witnesses, a verdict was returned of "Wilful Murder against Elizabeth Heath the mother," who had previously absconded, but has since been apprehended on the Coroner's warrant, and by him committed for trial at the next assizes.- On Tuesday last an inquest was taken by the same Coroner at Winckfield, on the body of Samuel Howard, an old man upwards of 80 years of age, who was found dead in his cottage the day preceding - Verdict, "died by the visitation of God."

Committed to the County Gaol this week - Elizabeth Heath, charged upon the coroner's inquisition with having, on the 5th inst at the parish of Selborne, wilfully murdered her infant son, Charles Heath.- John Watkins, charged on suspicion of having, on the night of the 8th, or early on the morning of the 9th inst broken into the dwelling-house of John Cole Tonge, at Stockbridge, and stolen and carried away therefrom one great coat, four waistcoat pieces, and divers other goods, the property of the said John Cole Tonge.- George Lunn, James Lunn, and Wm. Lunn, charged on suspicion of having, on the 5th ult feloniously stolen one wether sheep, at Crondall, the property of Mary Goddard; and also with having, at Crondall aforesaid, about the 18th or 19th ult stolen one wether sheep, the property of William Hankin - Daniel Winter and John Moody, committed by C.W. Michel and W. Sloane, Esqrs for six months imprisonment, charged with having, on the 8th ult unlawfully cut down and carried away, contrary to the statute, one oak timber tree growing in the New Forest.




LYMINGTON, March 11.- Arrived: Spring, Gore, from Newcastle - Maria, Brown, from Waterford - Industry, Maddick, and Jane, Dominy, from Poole - and York, Saxton, from Chichester - Sailed: Avon, Jones, for Cork - Maria, Brown, for Plymouth - Industry, Maddick, for Dartmouth- Happy Return, Primmer, for Newhaven - and York, Saxton, for Chichester.




Southampton,
SATURDAY, MARCH 13.

Conformably to a request of the Worshipful the Mayor, a numerous meeting of respectable tradesmen of this town and county took place at our Audit-House, on Tuesday last, to consider of petitioning Parliament against the renewal of the Insolvent Debtors Act. A petition to that purport was proposed and unanimously agreed to, the meeting being fully convinced of the mischievous and ruinous tendency of the present Act.
We understand that a project, lately devised, for the material enlargement of St. Mary's Church in this town, is to be early effected, such measure being found of late highly indispensable; as, by an account lately taken, the population of that parish exceeds 4000 persons, and the church is not capable of accommodating more than 600 : a considerable proportion of the enlarged space is to be appropriated as free seats for the poorer inhabitants of the parish.
The American ship Susan, Bailey master, from London to New York, having ten days ago put into Portsmouth in a leaky state, got stranded in attempting to enter the private dock at Fareham to get repairs, (there being now no private docks at Portsmouth.) She is now full of water, and it is supposed she will be condemned.
In order completely to prevent any evil effects that may arise from the disease of hydrophobia which has appeared in the canine species of this neighbourhood, order have been issued for the close confinement of all dogs during the three next succeeding months.- On Sunday last, about noon, a dog afflicted with that malady was shot by Mr. Trim, of this town, in its course through our High-street.

Mrs. G. Moncreiff, of Wrexall Cottage, Isle of Wight, was safely delivered of a still born male child, at Edinburgh, on the 6th of March instant.
On Thursday the 4th inst died Mr. Caleb Cooke, a worthy and respectable inhabitant of Newport, Isle of Wight.

Arrived : Neptunus, Oosting, from Gronigen - Prince Cobourg, Weeks from Harve - Speedy, Lidstone, and Aeolus, Le Maitre, from Guernsey - Sons of Commerce, Stephens, from Cherbourg - Peggy, Watson; Hebe, Corner; Hannah, Miller; and Tyne, Kidd, from Sunderland - Four Friends, Oake, and Pomona, Slade, from London - William and Mary, Bittreson, and Plough, Swinburne, from Newcastle.
Sailed : Prince Cobourg, Weeks, for Harve.- Diligent, Grnt [?], for Guernsey - Rose, Payn, and Britannia, Newman, for Jersey - Albertus Adrianus, Plug, and Jonge Richard, Parlevliet, for Rotterdam, Alexander, Longmaid, for Cork.




Salisbury,
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1819.

The business of the Lent Assizes for this county commenced at our Council Chamber on Monday morning. Sir George Sowley Holroyd, Knt. presided in the Crown Court, and William Draper Best, Esq., at Nisi Prius - The following Gentlemen were sworn in as the Grand Jury: Wm. Fowle, Esq (foreman); John Benett, Wm. Wyndham, John Hussey, A. Powell, P. Templeman, Edw. Baker, E.T. Egerton, G.J. Kneller, Daniel Eyre, T. Baskerville, C.L. Phipps, G. Fort, J.H. Everett, Jas. Roles, W.B. Brodie, Wm. Hughes, Rd. Hetley, C.W. Everett, Walter Long, and Robt. Hale, Esqrs.
Mr. Justice Holroyd, in his charge to the Grand Jury, made a particular allusion to the number of the prisoners on the calendar of this county having increased, while that of a neighbouring county (Hants, we presume), had decreased. This circumstance, however, he said, he did not think owing to any want of vigilance on the part of the magistracy of the county; he rather attributed it to their laudable exertion in the detection of offenders. There was a consolation too, in observing, that although the prisoners in the present calendar were numerous, their offences bore no peculiar mark of atrocity. The learned Judge next called the attention of the Jury to the too frequent crime of stealing cattle, which were not under the immediate protection of their owners. Over this particular species of property, which was obviously liable to loss from the vicissitudes of the weather as well as from the plunder of depredators, the legislature of this country had thrown, in an especial degree, its shield of protection; when the crime of cattle-stealing, therefore, had become frequent, the rigour of the law must be enforced. It was the wish, however, of the legislature, that the punishment of crimes should be directed to the reclaiming of offenders; his Lordship therefore pointed out the urgent propriety of a classification of all prisoners. Young offenders, in particular, should be prevented from having any communication with old ones; they should, if possible, be kept to industrious employment, whilst confined; their religious and moral instruction should not be disregarded; and a relaxation of their punishment ought to be extended towards those whose amendment became manifest. Above all, prisoners ought not, if possible, to be turned out of gaols without the immediate means of getting their livelihood. This would in most cases prevent their returning to their old practices; and it particularly behoved magistrates to direct that suitable instruction should be given them for that purpose. His Lordship concluded with paying a high compliment to the magistracy of the county.
The following prisoners, 17 in number, were fully convicted of the crimes for which they stood indicted, and received sentence of Death :- James Rawlings, aged 21, and James Batton alias Viles, aged 27, for a burglary in the house of Wm. Roberts, at Beanacre.- Edward Pearce, aged 18, for a burglary in the house of Philip Nowell at Warminster.- Wm. Beckingham, for a burglary in the shop of John Fox, at Melksham.- Israel Hooper, for a burglary in the house of John Hudd, at Trowbridge.- George Macdonald, aged 18, and William Adye, aged 18, for a burglary in the house of Grace Gale and also of Laban Gale, at Cliffe Pypard.- George James, aged 16, and Richard James, aged 13 (brothers), for breaking into and robbing in the day-time the house of Thos. Gore at Broughton Gifford.- Mark Whale, aged 19, for breaking into and robbing the house of Henry Sherwood at Brinkworth.- Wm. Parker, for stealing a sheep the property of Thos. Swayne at Steeple Langford.- John Newport, for stealing a sheep belonging to Wm. Smith at Highworth.- Thos. Johnson, for stealing a sheep the property of Wm. Chowles, at Baydon.- George Whitwick, for stealing a mare the property of Wm. Jenkins at Shepton Mallet.- Wm. Clarke, for stealing a pony belonging to James Curtis at Downton.- Richard Kemp, for stealing a mare the property of John Winslow at Steeple Ashton.- John Cottle, alias Mustard, for stealing a bullock the property of John Witchill at Yatton Keynell.
All the above prisoners have been reprieved, except the two first-named, James Rawlings and James Batton, who, though young men in years, are old offenders. They are to suffer the awful sentence of the law at Fisherton on Tuesday the 23d instant.

As the trial of Cable, Hunt, Foyle, Jennings, and Eyres, for the robbery of Messrs. Brown and Brice's waggon near this city in November last, excited great public interest, owing to the particular circumstances which attended the commission of the crime, we will here present our readers a correct detail of the evidence. It is to be noticed that the testimony of Fanny Eyres (wife of Geo. Eyre's, one of the prisoners) being material to the prosecution, it was found necessary to offer no evidence against her husband, who was consequently acquitted before the trial of his accomplices.
Henry Young (aged 16) deposed, that on the 3d of November last he was assisting in driving Messrs. Brown and Brice's waggon between Wilton and Salisbury; about ten or eleven o'clock at night, when near the two-mile stone, he heard the waggoner Brockway, who was in liquor, and lying in the head of the waggon, fall out on the ground; witness stopped the horses as soon as he could, but the hind wheel of the waggon passed over Brockway's head, and killed him on the spot. Witness was very much frightened, and waited near the waggons till a person named Bowles came up, whom he desired to go on to Wilton for assistance, which he did. About ten minutes after Bowles went away, who men, one of whom he is sure was the prisoner Foyle collared the witness, and said, "how came you to throw the man under the wheel, and kill him ? I will send for a constable to tek you up." Foyle said, "the boy is not to blame," and desired witness to get on the pony which was by the side of the waggon, and go to Wilton for assistance. Witness accordingly got on the pony, and went towards Wilton, and returned to the waggon in a little more than a quarter of an hour, and found that Foyle and the other man were gone, and that a man and a boy, who accidentally came by with another waggon, were near Brockway's body. Witness in a short time missed some flats of butter (baskets so called), and a lock-up hamper, which had been taken away during his absence.
Fanny Eyres, wife of George Eyres, deposed, that she knew Cable, Hunt, Foyle, and Jennings; that about eight or nine o'clock in the evening of the 3d of November, they all four came to her husband's house in Fisherton, near Salisbury, and in a short time they all left the house. In about two hours Jennings and Cable returned, bringing with them two flats of butter, they left the butter in the pantry of witness's house; they came the next evening, and Jennings and witness took the butter, which was wrapped up in a cloth, and put it in a bag, and hid the whole in a dung heap at the back of Fisherton, near the water; Jennings then went back to the house of witness, and cut the baskets, and burnt them.
Thomas Smith proved his having found the butter in a dung heap, as described by last witness.
James Hannam, a shopkeeper at Wincanton, stated that on the morning of the 3d of November, he sold the deceased (Brockway) a quantity of butter, which he (witness) packed up himself in the cloth produced, which is his property; he also proved that the basket produced was one of those in which the butter was packed.
John Jones, a constable, produced a basket which he found on searching Foyle's house on the 4th of November, and which was sworn to by Henry Young as having been one of those which contained the butter that was stolen from the waggon.
D. Rumbold proved finding a butter hamper and a lock-up hamper in a plantation near the Wilton road on the 4th November.
John Swift, at whose house the prisoner Cable lodged, stated that on the 4th of November Cable sold him 6lbs of butter at 14d per lb., and on witness asking him where he got it, he said "never mind."
Samuel Pittard, a constable of Southampton, stated that he apprehended the prisoner Hunt in that town, and upon searching him found a knife (produced in the court) upon the handle of which was marked the name of "Brockway."
John Hodding, Esq. proved a confession made by Foyle, which in substance agreed with the facts now deposed. - Mr. Edw. White proved that Hunt had made a similar confession before two county Magistrates.
The learned Judge then summed up the evidence, and a verdict of Guilty was immediately returned by the jury against Cable, Hunt, Jennings, and Foyle.
His Lordship, in a most impressive address, commented on the enormity of the offence of which the prisoners had been clearly convicted; and he observed, that during the whole course of his professional life, he had never witnessed an act of greater cruelty, or one which showed the offenders to be possessed of more hardness of heart. It would have been disgraceful to him, as Englishmen, to be spectators of a most awful accident like this, and not to afford every assistance in their power to the unfortunate; but in the present instance the prisoners has sought an occasion to plunder over the remains of an expiring fellow creature. He regretted that the law did not authorize him to inflict a much greater punishment than he was about to pronounce. If it had been proved that they had by threats induced the boy (Young) to leave the waggon and go to Wilton, they would all have been guilty of highway robbery, in which case he should not have felt it his duty to have stepped between them and the execution of their sentence.- His Lordship concluded by sentencing them severally to be transported beyond the seas for the space of seven years.
(Much credit is due to Messrs. Brown and Brice, whose waggon was robbed on the above occasion; for, although the butter and other articles stolen were the property of the unfortunate waggoner, Brockway, these gentlemen, with a laudable zeal for public justice, carried on the prosecution against the offenders at their own sole expence.)

The following prisoners were convicted of various acts of grand larceny, specified in last week's Journal:- John Godwin, Thos. Godwin, Sarah Parham, John Barnes, Jacob Carter alias Marshman, Aaron Britton, Geo. Rose, Jarvis House alias Chas. Jarvis, Wm. Foyle alias Poyle, Wm. Hunt, Thos. Jennings, Wm. Cable, and Thomas Phelps, 7 yrs transportation - Noah Tovey, John Brown, and Richard Cock, 12 months. Joseph Bird, 6 months, and John Gray, Edw. Mills, and James Sexton, 3 months, hard labour in Devizes house of correction - Wm. Dudman, 6 months, hard labour, and once whipt.- John Weston, imp. till the 16th inst. and then whipt at Calne.- Geo. Ford, 1 week's imp.
Joseph Marchant, for manslaughter, 1 month's imp; Thos. Chick, for uttering counterfeit silver coin, 12 months, and Geo. Fossett, for a similar offence, 3 months imp.
Joseph Hart, John Gregory, Richard Wise, John Huntley, Wm. Palmer, Eliz. Hone, John Adye, Sam. Gray, Richard Gray, Benj. Carter, John Westley Mathews, Thos. Clarke, Solomon Blackford, James Clarke, George Eyres, John Dobson, George Phillips, Thomas Smith, Jacob Sly, Cornelius Sly, James Batten and Geo. Hendy, tried for various offences, were acquitted.- No bills were found against Jeremiah Edgehill, George Barnes, John Singer, Esther Webb, R.C. Shergold, John Robbins, Hannah Hood, John Edwards, William Dowsell, Wm. Savage, And. Bishop, Ed. Clarke, Thos. Bendle, and Wm. Kemp.- Hester Tylee, Wm. Beale, David Thompson, Henry Bailey, and Samuel Small, were admitted king's evidence; and there was no prosecution against Wm. Harris and Richard Lawrence.




The following interesting causes were tried at Nisi Prius before the Hon.Mr. Justice Best

Sir Christopher Bethell Codrington, Bart. plaintiff, and George Cresswell, defendant.- This was the only special jury cause tried at these Assizes. It was an action of trespass for sporting in a preserve called Kington Down Thorns, in the parish of Kington, in this county.- It was proved that in the month of October last the defendant, in company with three or four other persons, having with them several dogs and guns, entered into the preserve which is in sight of the plaintiff's house, and began beating for game. The plaintiff's steward went to them, to remonstrate on the impropriety of their conduct, when the defendant abused both him and his master in very gross language.- It was proved that the defendant (who is the son of a gentleman of fortune residing near Sir Bethell Codrington) had been previously served with a notice forbidding him to trespass on the plaintiff's grounds. The learned Judge here observed, that there could be no defence for conduct of this nature, and recommended the defendant's counsel not to suffer it to go to the jury.- After some deliberation a verdict for the plaintiff for 40s. was entered by consent.
Sartain, spinster, v. Amor.- The parties in this case resided at Studley, near Trowbridge. The plaintiff, who was described as a young woman of great beauty and propriety of conduct, though in a humble situation of life, brought the present action, to recover damages from the defendant for a breach of promise of marriage. The defendant, it appeared, was rather deficient in intellect, and had been a pauper in Trowbridge workhouse; but by the death of a distant relation he had lately become possessed of considerable property, of the value of �120 or �130 per annum, with the expectation of a great addition to it on the death of a lady of the name of Hillman. Upon his coming into possession of this property, his relations placed him at the house of a Mrs. Fryer, at Studley, to be taken care of. The plaintiff lived with her father at a short distance from Mrs. Fryer's house, and it was proved that the defendant was in the habit of regularly passing his evenings there, from whence he returned at a late hour, generally in a state of intoxication; it was also proved that the defendant had frequently promised to marry the plaintiff, and that he had actually procured a licence and a ring for that purpose. He had also desired a linen-draper at Trowbridge to furnish the plaintiff with whatever articles of apparel she chose to order, and in fact the plaintiff had ordered and received 8 or 10 very handsome dresses. The defendant also promised to settle �4000 upon her on the day of marriage. Mr. Gaselee, on behalf of the defendant, observed, that there was no imputation whatever upon the character of the plaintiff, who appeared on this occasion to have been merely an instrument in the hands of her father, he, for his own selfish views, wishing to sacrifice his daughter by marrying her to a person of the defendant's description; the defendant, from imbecility of mind, forwarded the father's views, being quite unable to withstand the united charms of beauty and liquor. Several witnesses proved that after the defendant had quitted Studley, and resided at his house, called Berry Lodge, in Gloucestershire, a communication had taken place between the parties, which the learned counsel contended was an absolute release of the promise of marriage. The witnesses also proved that the defendant was married on the 4th of January last to one Hannah Lawes, who had lived with him as a servant. - The learned Judge, in summing up, reprobated the conduct of the plaintiff's father, and observed that it appeared he had been actuated by the most selfish views, inasmuch as he had informed the defendant that he never should marry his daughter unless he would consent that himself and his wife should constantly reside in the same house. His Lordship also expressed himself to be clearly of opinion that the promise had been released by the subsequent communication, and under his direction the Jury found a verdict for the defendant.
The King v. Roger Coale- The defendant in this case was indicted for perjury, stated to have been committed in giving evidence at the Lent Assizes for this county, on an indictment for forgery preferred by him against a Mr. Tuck, a brewer at Swindon, upon which indictment Mr. Tuck was tried and acquitted. After a long investigation of accounts and other transactions between the parties, which was necessary to entered into in order to understand the nature of the charge against Mr. Tuck, and the circumstances under which the alleged perjury was committed, the jury found the defendant - Not Guilty
Redman v. Cleft - This was an action for an assault, stated to have been committed at Devizes on the 18th of June last, the day on which the nomination of members to serve in Parliament took place. Three witnesses deposed that the plaintiff (who was wearing Mr. Wellesley's colours,) was standing near the Rising Sun public-house, when the defendant rode up to him, and, without any provocation, struck him two violent blows on the head and one violent blow on the back of his hand.- Three other witnesses stated that they were riding, at the time the assault was alleged to have taken place, in company with the defendant, but acknowledged that they lost sight of him for a minute or two. - The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, -- Damages �50.




The business of the Dorchester Assizes commenced on Friday morning. Mr. Justice Best presided in the Crown Court. The prisoners on the calendar were thirty-one in number, of whom the following were tried when our account left Dorchester on Saturday afternoon:- Robert Jamison, for stealing a gelding the property of the Rev. Morgan Jones, of Ryme Intrinsica; Wm. Smith and Robert Duck, for stealing a mare the property of some person unknown; Wm. Pilton, for stealing a sheep belonging to W. Richards, butcher, of Sherborne; James Grant, for a burglary in the house of Chas. Pain, of Shillingstone; and Robert Harris, for a burglary in the house of Betty Deane, at Chardstock; were found Guilty.- Sam. Chant, jun. for a burglary in the house of John Gibbs at Buckhorn Weston, 7 yrs. transportation,- Benj. Ellary, for stealing wearing apparel at Weymouth, 6 months hard labour - James Legg, for stealing oats at Bridport, to be imp. till the 20th inst. and then whipt.- John Rogers, John Pilton, Jane Pilton, Wm. Pilton, Wm. Lester, and John Lester, tried for various offences, were acquitted; there was no bill found against Thomas West. Robert Woodland, Ann Woodland, and Robert Lemon, were admitted King's evidence.

The following interesting causes were tried at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Holroyd :

Weston v. Premann - In this case the plaintiff, a ship agent at Weymouth, sought to recover a considerable sum, the value of articles advanced to the defendant, who was Captain of a Bremwn vessel that was obliged by stress of weather to put into Weymouth in the month of December last. The defence was set up, that the plaintiff had supplied the defendant in his own wrong, there being a Bremen Vice-Consul (Mr. Horsford) residing at Weymouth, whose particular duty it was to act as agent for vessels from that part.- Many witnesses were called by the plaintiff to prove the circumstances under which his agency had taken place. The Counsel for the respective parties at length agreed the verdict should be extended for the plaintiff for �23.
Card v. Jeanes, jun.- This was an action of trespass for breaking down certain hatches in the plaintiff's meadows, in the parish of Gillingham, whereby the plaintiff was much injured, being unable to irrigate them. The defendant justified the trespass, by pleading that the hatches in question injured two pieces of land belonging to him, by causing them to be overflown. The plaintiff called witnesses to prove that the hatches had been used in these meadows for 50 or 60 years; it was also endeavoured to be proved that the injury alleged to be done to the defendant's two pieces of land was occasioned by his own act, in building a mill called Waterloo Mill, at some distance up the stream above the hatches.- The defendant produced in evidence an agreement entered into in the year 1745, between the then proprietor of the meadows in which the hatches are situate, and the owner of the two closes now held by the defendant. By this agreement the former was to pay 12s per annum, for the injury these lands sustained by the water being penned back; and it was proved that the plaintiff himself had about 9 years ago paid this sum, though he now refused to do it, and claimed a prescriptive right to use the hatches without paying any acknowledgement.- Several witnesses proved the nature and extent of the injury done to these lands. The case for the defendant being closed, the plaintiff's Counsel consented to withdraw a juror, in order to save the costs attending a verdict against him.




Mr. Gyngell senior's performance at Blandford was respectably attended on Friday last, and the company were highly gratified with the amusements of the evening. We understand that nearly the whole of the boxes are engaged for Monday night.




A few days since was married at Shapwick, Dorset, Mr. James Evans, to Miss Joyce, daughter of Mr. James Joyce, of the same place.
On Tuesday last was married, by the Rev. T. Fearon, Thos. Nicholls, Esq, of Burton, Dorset, to Mary, third daughter of the late Wm. Davis, Esq. of Winterborne Abbas, in the same county.
A few days since died at Wroughton, near Swindon, after a long affliction, Esther, wife of Mr. Donaldson, sen.; her maiden name was Newnton, and she was the last of a respectable family who resided many years in Wootten Bassett, in this county.
On the 6th inst died Ann, the eldest daughter of Mr. Hallilay, of Wedhampton, near Devizes, aged 33 years, after long and most severe sufferings from the dropsy, which she bore with the utmost degree of fortitude, and pious resignation to the divine will. She was tapped twenty-six times within the space of two years and a half.
On Monday last died at North Frith, new Tonbridge, Christopher Idle, Esq., aged 48, late M.P. for Weymouth, and formerly in a most extensive business, and during his whole life a man of active benevolence and strict integrity.

On Saturday evening the 6th inst. as Richard Skinner, a sober and industrious labourer, was returning from Dauntsey, in this county, to Bath, when about 3 miles from Corsham, he was attacked and robbed by two fellows of a �1 note (which he had received on that day from the overseer of the overseer of the parish of Dauntsey, in order therewith to pay his rent), and 5s which he had saved out of a fortnight's hard earnings. - The villains left the poor man on the ground in a state on insensibility, one of them had the appearance of a soldier.




HYDROPHOBIA.- We have had the following case of a cure for hydrophobia communicated to us from a most respectable and authentic source.
Mr. Westcott, a respectable surgeon of Ringwood, and his son, were, about eight years since, bitten by a favourite bitch, which died mad about three weeks afterwards. A number of dogs were bitten by her and confined, all of which died mad excepting three that were drenched with the recipe which appears underneath, and immersed in the sea. The same treatment was pursued by Mr. Westcott himself, and his son, with complete success. Many persons in the neighbourhood and at Damerham were treated in a like manner with the same benefit; and a few weeks since the medicine was tried on a gentleman near Lymington, with success :
For the bite of a Mad Dog.- Take of the leaves of rue, picked from the stalks and bruised, six ounces; garlick picked from the stalks and bruised, Venice treacle or mithridate, and the scrapings of pewter, of each four ounces; boil all these over a slow fire, in two quarts of strong ale, till one pint is consumed; then keep it in bottles close stopped, and give of it nine spoonfuls to a man or woman, warm, seven mornings together, fasting; and six to a dog. This the author believes will not fail, if it be given within nine days after the biting of the dog. Apply some of the ingredients from which the liquor was strained to the bitten place. This receipt was taken out of Cathorp Church, in Lincolnshire; many of the inhabitants of which town were bitten by a mad dog, and all that took this medicine did well, and the rest died mad. N.B. Re-printed in April 1765, after many years experience of its proving an effectual cure to man and beast.




A shocking accident took place on Monday, at the cottage of T. Wale, Esq near Wellington. Mr. Wale being about to quit the cottage, a sale was advertised of his furniture, and many persons arrived to view it, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. Hancock, of Wiveliscombe. A pair of loaded pistols, which Mr. W generally travelled with, had been placed by his servant on a high shelf in a bag, and Mr. Hancock taking one of them down to examine it, it went off, lodging the contents in his wife's side who was standing with the other ladies in the room. - The ball has not been extracted, and there are little hopes of Mrs. H.'s Life. The feelings of the husband and Mr. Wale are beyond description.




Two young men, named Lemon and Hunt, were on Tuesday last committed to Dorchester Castle, for a burglary at Blandford.




To the Printers of the Salisbury and Winchester Journal.

GENTLEMEN, - I am induced to request the insertion of this letter in your next Journal, to correct the inaccuracies in your report of a trial at N.P. during the late Hants Assizes. Priority of information is certainly a great recommendation to a public paper; but unless accuracy be coupled with it, the feelings of individuals, whose conduct may be alluded to, must be distressed.
In your report of the cause "Stares and Wife v. Eyre," you state that the plaintiffs were overturned in their gig by the defendant, and that Mr. Casberd, for the defendant, contended it was occasioned by the defendant's unskilfulness in driving. I beg to assure you that the gig of the plaintiffs was not overturned, nor did Mr. Casbard contend on the trial that the accident was occasioned by the defendant's unskilfulness. If my own counsel contended as you represent, can any other persuasion prevail on the minds of the generality of your readers, that I designedly caused this accident ? And is it surprising that I should feel a wish to remove such misapprehension ?
I am the more desirous you should rectify the mistakes in your last paper, on account of the artful sagacity, as I considered it at the instant and still do, with which I was reproached on offering my assistance to the parties whom the accident befel; as also on account of the evidence of Mr. Rushworth Keele, who stated, it seems, that my enquires on his return from Waltham were accompanied with "a laugh:" both circumstance being calculated to convey the impression that I had wilfully occasioned this misfortune.
On the first, it is not worth my time farther to remark; with respect to the second, Mr. Rushworth Keele might have given it in the evidence, but I unequivocally deny that my meeting between Mr. R. Keele and me took place in the Bar-gate at Southampton, soon after four o'clock, nearly four hours after the accident had happened, and what passed between us can be regarded only as private conversation; on the propriety of repeating it, therefore, and giving it in evidence, I leave it to the candour and discernment of others to determine.
The accident happened precisely as Wm. Foster deposed; and what I addressed to Mr. Rushworth Keele arose from indignation at the conduct of the other party, and not from any indifference to the effects of the catastrophe.
I repine not at the verdict of the jury; but I am solicitous that false impressions should not be entertained, and therefore it is that I encroach on your columns with this recital of facts and feelings.
I am Gentlemen, your obedient servant.
HENRY EYRE.
Botleigh Grange, March 10, 1819.

[The Printers, in answer to the charge made against them above, beg to acknowledge that they did insert, (but certainly through mistake and hurry only) that the accident was occasioned by the unskilfulness of the defendant, instead of by that of the plaintiff.]





ANDOVER, HANTS.

TO be LET and entered on immediately, - A good HOUSE, situate in the most advantageous part of Town; comprising a large shop, and sitting room adjoining; good cellar, with back kitchen; 3 chambers, and three attics. Attached to it is a yard leading to a commodious out-building, with a large and exceedingly pleasant Garden, having a way to it unconnected with the House. Indeed the whole forms most desirable Premises, replete with every convenience for an extensive Business - For particulars, apply (if by letter post-paid) to Mr. W. Tapp, nurseryman; or Mr. B. Willshire, hatter, Andover.




SETTERS.

A very handsome Brace of well-bred DOGS, twelve months old, unbroken, and promise to be a great acquisition to the kennel of any Sportsman for the coming season. Price TWELVE GUINEAS.

Apply to Mr. Wm. Webb, Lee Farm, near Romsey.




In the VICINITY of SALISBURY.

TO be SOLD by AUCTION, in the Month of May, (particulars of which will be given in a future paper), - All those FREEHOLD PREMISES, Garden and Land, late in the occupation of the Rev. A. Tidman, pleasantly situated in Fisherton, near the turnpike-road from Salisbury to Wilton.




Estate of HENRY FOOT, deceased.

ALL Persons having any Demands on the Estate of HENRY FOOT, late of Romsey, in the county of Southampton, deceased, are requested forthwith to transmit the amount and particulars thereof either to Mr. Boorn, of Pauncefoot Hill, near Romsey aforesaid, or Mr. Samuel Foot, solicitor of Salisbury; and all persons indebted to the estate of the said Henry Foot, are desired to pay the same either to the said Mr. Boorn, or Mr. S. Foot, without delay.
To be SOLD, - A capital CHESNUT MARE, 15 hands and a half high; she is an excellent hunter as well as roadster, possessing very good action, warranted sound and free from vice; is in high condition, for immediate work, and sold for no fault whatever - Apply as above.




MR. JOHN PICKARD, DECEASED.

ALL persons having any claim or demand on the Estate of the late Mr. PICKARD, of Westend, in the parish of South Stoneham, Hants, are requested to send their accounts, (free of postage,) to Mr. John Hunt, of Southampton, one of the executors, in order that the same may be adjusted; and all persons indebted to the said John Pickard, are hereby requested to pay the amount of their respective debts to the above Mr. John Hunt, as early as possible.




ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of the late Mr. W. HEATH, Maltster and Spirit-Dealer, of Amesbury, deceased, are desired to pay the amount of their respective debts to Mr. Robert King, of Broughton, Hants, or to Mr. Wm. Sandell, of Amesbury; and all persons having claim or demand on the estate of the deceased are desired to send the same to either of the above persons.




CRANBORNE, DORSET.

ALL Persons having any Claim or Demand on the GUARDIANS of the POOR of the Parish of Cranborne, by contract or otherwise, are requested to send an account of the same to the said Guardians on or before the 23d of this instant, that the same might be discharged. - N.B. FARMERS SACKS sold at the above Workhouse cheaper than at any manufactory in the kingdom, quality considered, being made of the best hemp - March 12, 1819.




To the Creditors of CHARLES and GEORGE TARVER.

NOTICE is hereby given, - That the Deed of Assignment executed by Messrs. TARVER, is at the office of Mr. Holmes, solicitor, Romsey, for the signature of those Creditors who have not already executed it; and that a meeting of the parties concerned will take place at the White Horse Inn, Romsey, on Monday the 22d instant, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when and where a Dividend will be paid.





PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION
BY SUBSCRIPTION.

NEW MAPS of the Counties of WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET, CORNWALL, and DEVON, from actual Survey, by C. GREENWOOD, Surveyor, for the New Maps of the Counties of England and Wales.
The proprietors of the projected Series of New Maps (from actual Survey) "of the several Counties of England, and of North and South Wales," respectfully announce to the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry, resident in or connected with the interests of the above Counties, that they will shortly commence on a Survey, on the plan specified in a general Prospectus, advertised in this and other papers, pledging themselves not to fail in any part of their duty to the Work in which they have embarked; and having for the last five years, during the progress of their survey of other counties, been honoured with patronage beyond their most sanguine expectations, it will ever be their proudest boast to continue to deserve it. In offering to public notice the above projected Maps, they know no better recommendation than one of stating themselves to be the Proprietors and Authors of the New Maps of Yorkshire and Lancashire, already before the public, Specimens of which may be seen at the Printing-Office, Salisbury, which are intended to form part of the great work alluded to.

With a view to render the County Maps as ornamental as useful, the proprietors will use every means to join superior elegance with the minutest accuracy.

Prices of the following Maps:- Wilts �3. 3s.- Dorset, �2. 12s. 6s. - Somerset �3. 3s. - Cornwall, �3. 3s. - Devon, �4. 4s. - Subscriptions to be paid for only on the delivery of the Map or Maps to the Subscribers.
Subscribers names for the whole work, or for any County or Counties separately, are received by the principal Booksellers in England and Wales; by the Surveyor, at his residence, 50 Leicester-square, London; and by agents, whom the Proprietors may appoint in the several Counties.

SUBSCRIBERS NAMES.
His Grace the Duke of Somerset, Bradley House, Wilts, Map of Lancashire.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Bath, Longleat House, for the Maps of Wilts and Somerset.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Anglesea, Uxbridge House, for the whole of the Series.
The Right.Hon the Earl of Radnor, Longford Castle, for Maps of Wilts, Berks, Gloucester, and Kent.
The Right.Hon the Earl of Waldegrave, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, Maps of Somerset and Middlesex.
The Right.Hon Lord Arundell, Wardour Castle, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Cheshire, Lancashire, Middlesex, and York.
The Rt.Hon Lord Holland, Holland House, Middlesex, Maps of Wilts, Berks and Middlesex.
The Right.Hon Lord Grey, Dunham Massey, Cheshire, for the whole series.
The Right.Hon Lord Ribblesdale, Gisburne Park, Yorkshire, the whole series.
Right.Hon Lord Lisle, Brickworth House, for Maps of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, and Devon.
The Hon. and Rev. A. Harris, Chilmark, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, and Hants.
The Hon. Mrs. Robinson, Privy Gardens, London, Map of Middlesex.
Sir R. Colt Hoare, Bart. Stourhead House, for a Map of Wilts.
Alexander Powell, Esq. late High Sheriff, Hurdcott House, Wilts, for Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset.
Wadham Wyndham, Esq. M.P. Sarum, for a Map of Wilts.
Thomas F. Heathcote, Esq. M.P. Embly House, for a Map of Wilts.
Lieut. General Wynyard, Castle Malwood Cottage, Minsted, Hants, Map of Hants.
The Very Rev the Dean of Sarum, Map of Wilts.
The Rev. Wm. Douglas, Chancellor of the Diocese, ditto.
The Rev. T.H. Hume, Treasurer of the Cathedral, ditto.
The Rev. Dr. Price, Canon Residentiary, Sarum, ditto.
The Rev. Robert Morres, (Prebendary of the Cathedral), Britford, near Sarum, Map of Wilts.
The Rev. Dr. Evans, Sarum, ditto.
The Rev. Dr. Hawes, Sarum, Maps of Dorset and Suffolk.
Miss Hawes, Sarum, Map of Wilts.
The Rev. Mr. Marsh, Winterslow, Maps of Wilts and Yorkshire.
The Rev. Mr. Shuckburgh, Downton, Map of Wilts.
The Rev. Mr. Bromley, Bishopstone, Maps of Wilts, Hants, and Middlesex.
The Rev. Mr. Bingham, Berwick St. John, Map of Wilts.
The Rev. Dr. Prevost, Tisbury, ditto.
The Rev. F. Skurray, Horningsham, Map of Somerset.
The Rev. C. Lifscomb [?], Sutton Benger, Map of Wilts.
The Rev. T. Lear, Downton, ditto.
The Rev. J. Bowle, Sarum, ditto.
The Rev. C. Grove, Odstock, ditto.
The Rev. John Christie, Shaftesbury, Map of Dorset.
J.H. Penruddocke, Esq. Compton Chamberlain, Wilts, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset.
Wm. Wyndham, Esq. Marshwood, Dinton, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, and Hants.
John Benett, Esq Pythouse, Tisbury, Wilts, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset.
Thomas Grove, Esq, Fern House, Donhead, Wilts, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Derby, Norfolk, and Oxford.
J. Gordon, Esq, Wincombe Park, Donhead, Wilts, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, and Hants.
G.J. Kneller, Esq Donhead Hall, Wilts, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset.
F. Popham, Esq, Clarendon Park, Alderbury, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset.
W. Helyer, Esq, Coker Court, near Yeovil, Somerset, Maps of Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, and Devon.
W. Helyer, Esq. jun. Sedgehill House, Wilts, Map of Wilts.
N. Twopenny, Esq, Knoyle House, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, and Rutland.
H.A. Russell, Esq Corsely, Maps of Wilts and Somerset.
John Osborne, Esq Melchet Park, Maps of Wilts and Hants.
J.J. Lockhart, Esq Sherfield House, Hants, ditto.
R. Bristow, Esq Broxmore Park, Wilts, Map of Wilts.
George Lawrence, Esq. Cowesfield House, Wilts, ditto.
J.T. Batt, Esq New Hall, Bodenham, Wilts, Maps of Wilts and Dorset.
J. Hussey, Esq Sarum, Maps of Wilts and Somerset.
Richard Hetley, Esq Wilton, for the whole series.
Henry Hetley, Esq ditto, ditto.
C.W. Michell, Esq. Northwood, Lyndhurst, Maps of Wilts and Hants.
A. Copland, Esq. Gunnersbury House, Middlesex, Maps of Wilts, Middlesex, and Norfolk.
James Hammerton, Esq. Hellefield Peele, Yorkshire, for the whole Series. George Eyre, Esq, Warrens House, Bramshaw, Maps of Wilts and Hants.
H. Hinxman, Esq Ivy Church House, Alderbury, Map of Wilts.
Edward Hinxman, Esq Durnford, Map of Hants.
R. James, Esq. Wyke House, Shaftesbury, Map of Dorset.
E. Storey, Esq Shaftesbury Bank, Maps of Dorset, Lancashire, and Westmoreland.
George Fort, Esq Alderbury House, Map of Wilts.
Edward Baker, Esq, Sarum, ditto.
Henry Biggs, Esq Stockton House, near Warminster, ditto.
Charles Bowles, Esq. Shaftesbury, ditto.
E.H. Keasberry, Esq Shaftesbury, Map of Somerset.
George Wilkins, Esq Shaftesbury, Map of Dorset.
John Rogers, Esq Tisbury, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, and Hants.
S.F. Phelps, Esq. Warminster, Map of Wilts.
W. Boucher, Esq. Sarum, Map of Dorset.
John Morris, Esq. Sarum, Map of Wilts.
Miss Eyre, Landford House, Wilts, ditto.
Mrs. H. Eyre, Landford Parsonage, Wilts, ditto.
Mrs. Ekins, Stratford, near Sarum, Map of Surrey.
Dr. Grove, Close, Sarum, Maps of Wilts and Dorset.
Dr. Finch, Laverstock Asylum, near Sarum, Map of Wilts.
John Hodding, Esq Sarum, Maps of Wilts and Hants.
John Swayne, Esq (Clerk of the Peace), Wilton, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, Gloucester, and Hants.
William Andrews, Esq Sarum, Map of Wilts.
W.D. Whitmarsh, Esq. Sarum, ditto.
Alexander Morison, Esq. Sarum, ditto.
Samuel Foot, Esq Sarum, Maps of Wilts and Hants.
Thomas Lawrence, Esq. Sarum, Map of Wilts.
John Charlton, Esq. Stourton, Maps of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset.
James Charles Still, Esq East Knoyle, Map of Wilts.
John Seagrim, Esq. Wilton, ditto.
Mr. Davis, Horningsham, Maps of Wilts and Somerset.
Mr. R.P. Whitmarsh, Wilton, Map of Wilts.
Mr. R. Thring, Wilton, ditto.
Mr. J. Kerley, Wilton, ditto.
Mr. John Phelps, Wilton, ditto.
Mr. John Martin, Evershot, Dorsetshire, Map of Dorset.
Mr. Charles Miliett, Chicklade, Map of Wilts.
Mr. Henry King, Chilmark, ditto.
Mr John P. Geary, Milford, Sarum, ditto.
Mr. John Newman, Britford, Sarum, Map of Wilts.
Mr. T. Godwin, Britford, Sarum, Maps of Wilts and Hants.
Mr. P. Pinckney, Wilsford, Wilts, ditto.
Mr. John Tanner, Cholderton, Wilts, Map of Wilts.
Mr. Watson, Sherfield, ditto.
Mr. E. Saph, Sarum, ditto.
Mr. Wm. Martin, Odstock, Sarum, ditto.
W.B. Brodie, Esq Close, Sarum, Map of Wilts.
Mr. Dowding, Sarum, ditto.
Mr. John Nicholson, Barford, ditto.
Mr. E.A. Nicholson, Barford, ditto.
Mr. James Turner, Hill-street, Tisbury, ditto.
Mr. Wm. Turner, Gaston Farm, Tisbury, ditto.
Mr. M. Coombs, Wick Farm, Tisbury, ditto.
Mr. John Coombs, Tisbury Mill, ditto.
Mr. John Bracher, Walmead Farm, Tisbury, ditto.
Mr. Samuel Alford, Withyslad Farm, Tisbury, ditto.
Mr. Henry Snook, Tisbury, ditto.
Mr. Henry Foot, Berwick St. John, ditto.
Mr. Robert Pinckney, Berwick St. John, ditto.
Mr. Wm. Spear, Pentridge, Map of Dorset.
Mr. James Ames, Hindon, Map of Wilts.
Mr. John Bailey, Redlinch, ditto.
Mr. James Wapshare, Downton, Map of Dorset.
Mr. George Whitmarsh Downton, Map of Wilts.
Mr. Hooper Downton, ditto.
Mr. Jellyman Downton, ditto.
Mr. John Cheney, Barford, near Downton, ditto.
Mr. John Reeves, Downton, ditto.
Mr. Samuel Brown, Landford, ditto.
Mr. John Alexander, Bramshaw, Map of Hants.
Mr. J.L.M. Wyatt, Sarum, Map of Wilts.
Mr. Beckingsale, Sarum, ditto.
Mr. W. Tubb, Sarum, ditto.
Mr. James Sidford, Barford, ditto.
Mr Jonathan Folliatt, Knoyle, ditto.
Mr. James Chisman, Knoyle, ditto.
Mr. John Rogers Burcombe, ditto.
Mr. Henry Rook, Throop House, Bishopstone, ditto.
Mr. James Parham, Broad Chalk, ditto.
Mr. Thomas Blandford, Fifield, ditto.
Mr. George Young, Broad Chalk, ditto.
Mr. C. Gould, Broad Chalk, ditto.
Mr. F. Nowlson, Bishopstone, ditto.
Mr. David Feltham, Coombe, ditto.
Mr. George Fleetwood, Coombe, ditto.
Mr. Wm. Harding, Fonthill Bishop, ditto.
Mr. John Lush, Warminster, ditto.
Mr. John Long, Sutton Veney, ditto.
Mr. John Cooe, Milford, near Sarum, ditto.
Mr. John Green, Barford, ditto.
Mr. James Flower, Ridge, ditto.
Mr. Robert Lamb, Maiden Bradley, Map of Lancashire.
Mr. Wm. Upjohn, Cann Cottage, Shaftesbury, Map of Dorset.