Lewes, August 17.
-L UCe assizes 7or ntns countv commenced here to-day, before tlr. Baron GRAHANi on the crownv side, and Mr. Justice BURROUGH on the civil. Their Lord8hips dined yesterday at the Earl of Chi- chester'a, by whom an elegant entertainment was given,2s well to the learned Ju egcs, as to several of the leaders of the circuit. CROWN SIDE.--TE KING V. THOMr.XAS MILLS. The prisoner had becn commiued to talce his trial under the .57th George ll., for feleniously and unlawfully assaulting, with other persons unknown, near Circkmere flaven, in the parish of Dean, in order to aid and assist in the illegzl running of incustomed goods, andt also for having wounded WVilliam Wiliamson, a seaman of the Preventive Service. The King's Sergeant (O0SLow) now moved to postpone the trial until the next as8izes, on an affidavit that WVilliatmson was so dan. gerously ill as to be unable to attend the assizes to give evidence in support of the indietrment, and also that another materi;l rand neces- sary witness wYas unavoidably absent. IMIr. ANDRnws, for the pisoner, endeavoured to resist the appli- cation, and requested time to answer the affidavit, but Dlr. Baron GRAHAM .said this was an unusual course, and as he was bound to presume that the affidavit produced was founded in truth, he had no alternative but to postpone the trial, according to the exigencies of further justice.- rhe trial was postponed accord- ingly. Robert Bovtnell was convicted of wilful and corrupt erjury in sutpport of an information against a gentlenson, named lMr. Luke Upperton, fer purchiasing game contrarv to the statute of 5 Anne, ant was sented to 12 montbs' imprisonment in the common gaol. LEWES. AUGrSTr 17.