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the following day. Bennet has absconded: bis wife fled during the scuffle, and has not since been heard of.

WILTSHIRE.

of ground in the county of Louth, and was in the employment of his Lordship as a labourer. No disagreement took place between them until the defendant took a fancy to about four acres of the SINGULAR AND DREADFUL ACCIDENTprosecutor's land which the latter refused to part Mr. Samuel Foot, attorney, of Salisbury, met with; and this drew down upon him the displeawith a singular and very dreadful accident :-Exsure of his Lordship, which manifested itself in amining some phials which had been set by, with several acts of oppression. In the month of Dechemical preparations, he was induced to un- cember, 1809, the act for which the defendant was screw the glass stopper of one of them filled with now before the Court was committed. On a a white powder; the instant he had effected Monday in that month he summoned the prosehis purpose, the powder exploded with woncutor before him for the alleged offence of cutting derful force; the phial was blown to atoms, the timber; but the charge was not acted upon, his left hand torn'in strips, the finger-nails and and he was sent away, with orders to attend again. bones being afterwards found quite bare, and on Saturday. His Lordship, however, did not he was obliged to undergo amputation at the wait for the expiration of the time, but on the wrist; his right hand was much shattered, and intermediate Thursday he went with a constable the right thumb obliged to be amputated above to the prosecutor's house, and arrested him upon the first joint; his coat, waistcoat, and shirt were the warrant. In vain did he implore his landtorn away in front, and he was very severely lord's clemency, urging that his wife was despairwounded in the belly, where it is apprehendeded of in a fever, and that his child lay dead in the

some of the pulverized glass has lodged; his eyes and face were greatly injured; and it appears he must have been instantly killed, had he not been near the mantle-shelf, with his head inclined over it, in the under part of which shelf some of the bones were found. Mr. Foot sustained this severe injury, and has undergone the subsequent operations with wonderful fortitude, which has materially contributed to his present favourable symptoms; he remains free from fever, so that there are hopes of his recovery, and also that his eye-sight will be preserved.

IRELAND.

ABUSE OF AUTHORITY.-Lord Louth was brought up in the Court of King's Bench to receive judgment, having been convicted in Trinity Term upon a criminal information for abuse of his authority, and oppression as a magistrate in the year 1809, in issuing a warrant against M. Mathews, his tenant, the prosecutor, and having him arrested and committed to Dundalk gaol for an alleged felony, of having cut timber upon his Lordship's estate between sun-rise and sun-set.— Judge Day recited the evidence given on the trial, from which it appeared, that the prosecutor held under the defendant, since the year 1801, a piece

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next apartment to her. In vain did he urge his
innocence; for, after the most minute investiga-
tion, not a trace appeared to warrant the charge
of cutting the trees, none having ever grown
where they were alleged to have been cut. His
Lordship inexorable, and, without either oath,.
information, or any document whatever to sub-
stantiate the charge, committed the prosecutor to.
prison for felony, where he lay confined in a.
dungeon, as a felon, for twenty-four days, and
was not delivered until the Assizes, when he was.
discharged for want of prosecution. The defence
set up by the defendant on his trial was error in.
judgment; but every circumstance tended to.
prove that his Lordship was actuated by malicious
in con-
motives, and that it was done in revenge,
sequence of the prosecutor's refusal to give up.
the four acres. The Judge stated that the court.
had taken a considerable time to mature their
opinion of what the sentence ought to be, and
thereby afforded to the defendant an opportu
nity of making compensation to the prosecutor,
which had been done; but the reparation to the
public for the injury yet remained, and the court
had decided as the sentence of his Lordship, that
he be imprisoned in Newgate for three calendar
months. The sum paid to the prosecutor is said.
to be £300, besides costs.

London: Printed by JOHN BELL, Southampton-street, Strand. August 1, 1811.

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A New Series.

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