Star. — London, England, 1803-04-21 00:00:00

' i OLD BAJLEr. Yefterday the &Mons commenced, before thc Right Honourable the ,Loan MAYOR, Mr. Jullice IT LATH, Mr. Baron TnustpsoN, Mr. IlucoaDra, &c. when elevenprifoners were tried, level; of is horn were conyijted of felony, viz William Reicher, for itealing nin: Gott Is, the pro perty of John Freeman. Sarah Harcourt, Fratcil ja.-Ifin, and d 1 1 .177 Ca lif!, for healing 23 yards of printed calico, the property of Bartholomew Coombe. Sarah Darin, for healing t 7 y at hs of Printed cot• ton, the property of Edward Tweil. William Stadman, for healing 195. the property of William Salli Cs. gottn Ovrinctia”, for healing tolbs. of coffee, the property of Andrew Cornilh. And four were acquitted, viz. Captain William Pier: and Mary johiOn, capi- I tally indicted for felonionfly and malicioully (hoot ing at William Cobb, a journeyman butcher, with a loaded piflol, with intent to murder him, on the sth of January lall, about nine in the evening, at i the corner of Paddington (greet, Mary-la-bonne ; and Mils Johnfon, for being at t and part in Mai gating him to this ad. Mr. CON ST, leading Coon (el nn the part of the • rolectition, hated the cafe to the Jury, and then called witnefres. The fit ft veitnels called was William Cobb him- felf, who received the contents of the piftol. His head was covered with a handkerchief, and though i he uffer:d to fit ;.w the wound to the Court and Jory, this was dilpenle , l with, as the evidence of the furgeon would be pet teelly fulficient to anfwer every purport of information as to this point. The I rlibflanee of his evidence was, that on the night of Jan. 5, about nine o'clock, he and the appren ticc,and a watchman, were handing at the 'hop. door, and were in converfation together. He faw a woman pars by two or three times. He denied that either he, or any perfon with him, had offer. ed her any infult. In a few minutes afterwards, , he faw the two prifoners come into the (hop. That Mr. Piers collared the boy, on his coming into the (hop from the (laughter houfe, and that Mifs John. fon laid to Mr. Sharp, that he, the boy, was not the perfon who had infulted her, but charged the Winters as having done to. The prifoner, Piers, then called the watch, and charged the witnefs, wlao, in his turn, alto charged the prifoner. As they were going along with the watchman, in the euftody of the watchman, Captain P. got away Venn the watchman who had charge of him, came up to the witnefs, who had alto got away from the perfon in whole cuftody he was, and fired a at him, by which he was feverely wounded.— Captain Piers was behind him at the time he fired the piaci. The witnefs never once attempted to firike him. Lawrence Mawby (aid, he was apprentice to Mr. .Sharp, and that he was (landing at the (hop door on the night alluded to, and faw Mifs Jobnfon pals the door two or three times. In a converfation which he had with the watchman, and which had no elution to Mifs Johnfon, he uf ed this expreffion « what a lollop of a turkey I" Immediately af ter nfing theft words, Mifs Johnfon came up to him, and (aid, " you (hall fuffer for it." She went away, and returned immediately with Capt. Piers. the remainder of his evidence was the fame with that of the lag witnefs. He underwent a crofs. examination by Mr. Autz 7, in the courfe of which be denied having fpoken a word to Mifs Jobnfon, or having touched her, or having behaved in an indecent manner towards her. Tiinothy Corbin kid, he was (landing with the two . lag 'trundles at the butcher's door, on the tight alluded to. He remembered feting Mary Pittston walking along the High•ftreet, near the corner of Paddington-Rent—that (be appeared to be fomewhat intoxicated ; that Ow laughed, and he and the others laughed alto, on account of fet ing her in that Rate. That the turned round, and (aid, You vagabonds, what do you laugh at ?' She walked on, and aid, the would loon procure a perfect who would give him (meaning the but cher's boy) a pill. She walked on, and the wit. nets few nothing more of her. He did not hear either Cobb or Mawby fay any thing to her, nor did any perfon touch her—and, indeed, nothing elfe paffed than that they laughed at her folly. Mrs. Sharp depoled, thaton the night of the sth of January (he remembered two perfons earning to her (hop, between nine and ten o'clock. There parlous were the two prifoners. She sliced what was the matter, and what was the eaufe of all the ttoife ? Mifs J obnfon immediately anfwered, that the had been moft grofsly infulted by a boy, an ap. prentice of Mr. Sharp's, who was then handing in the (hop, and whom the pointed out to the witnefs. , The witnefs (aid, the was very lor r y for it, and en quired what intuit he had offered to her ? Capt. 1": , ...r5, who came tip at this time, twilled on the watchman taking him into cutiody. The witners orfered to mak-. force recnmptnee to the lady, T.- inking the might be left alone in the fhop. Cobb, however, entered, and required the watchman we re civilly to let the boy alone. On this, Mitt Joint :on laid, it was not the bay, but the man, (mean ; Cob's) v.tho had infulted her. Soon after this, ee witnefs heard a pith , ' fired, but was slot near :nough to fcc chat had paired. William Sergeant was near the butcher's (hop it the time the affray commenced ; o'ofcrved Mr. Vas timking the boy by the collar i--tiaw Cobb taken hold of by the watchman, on his uciag charg ed by Mils Johnfon as the man who had intuited her. Some perion in the area: txti, " make charge for charge." Captain Piers was accordingly, on the charge of Cc. 4 ,, taken into the cuttody of the watchman. Ileird a pistol fired, and heard Piers ft y, " there, take tliat.•') Some of the watch men laid, " do not let him go, for be hai murder ed a mt:-.. ,, rrati 's Bootle!, another watchman, dcr - f that' at Sharp's dc , r, Capt. Piss turned front .end laid, " Heaven, I'll blow his ;, ra ins nut." William C. , hb was at this time in cde .ahndlr r,f this vritnefs, and made a violent ego:. to get off from him, but he did not accons• gel his ot%-et.. Pler: cam: u:s with a 1).1.01, and fired it at Cobb, holding it at the difiance of only, nine or ten inches, laying, at the fame time , " takc that." On this, the wands purfued Piers, and took hold of him. Richard Haine, another watchman, and next door neighbour to Sharp, laid, that he heard the node in the greet at ten o'clock that evening, and haw the two pt diners giving charge of Cobb. He law Piers (who was alto charged) wrell himiclt from the watchman. William Cobb, on fecing Piers had got loofe, laid, that he would not be in cultody any more than the Captain was. Tlic witnefs advifed Cobb to be quiet, and not to make a bunk. Saw Captain Piers turn round, and fire a piilol at Cobb. laying at the fame time," There, there,take that!" on which the witnefs let Cobb go. John Andrews was in a houfe nearly oppofite to the butcher's (hop, and enquired into the caufe of the noife ; law Cobb dangeroully wounded. — On teeing this, the witnefs Paid, that Piers (hould be apprehended. The Captain hearing what the witnefs laid, made anfwer, " Damn me, I am glad of it ; I with I had (hot him through the heart." Richard Mayes, keeper of the watch•houfe, Paid, that when prifoners are taken into euflody, it is ufual for him to fearch them, in order to fectire any w:apons they may chance to have about them. Piet s told him, that he had no occafinn to do that, as the pillol was in his breeches pocket, adding, " I with the ball had gone through his brains or through his heart." Mr. Morris Jardan, a furgeon, Paid, that on the sth of January Lill, betwixt nine and ten o'clock, Cobb was brought to his honk. He found that the ball had entered on the back part of the right cheek,aud had (truck his jaw-bone,which had fallen back, hut had refilled the force of the ball. Mr. Mackintoth, a Gentleman belonging to the Scamp Office, was palling along the greet at the time of the affray, about half pail nine o'clock; had pill then left his father's houfe, and had reached the corner of Paddington -greet ; taw the Lady palling, and alto feveral people (landing at Mrs. Sharp's door, and amonga them Cobb and Andrews, who were in particular hooting at Mifs Johnflon. When (he had proceeded twenty yards along the High-greet, the returned to Paddington- Ilreet, and they then increafed their intuits, (lull hooting at her as before, and calling after her in their own cant (Lyle of language, "Tag-rag and bob-tail." Mifs Johnfon, at this time. entered into a fi(hmonger's (hop, in Paddington-beet, from whence a Gentleman Coon came out along with her, and both went into the butcher's (hop. The witnefs was (landing jug at the door, and heard Mrs. Sharp enquire who had intuited Mifs John fon ? who anfwered.fhe could not tell who it was. When the boy came into the (hop. the. however, immediately laid, a that is the perfon who has in fulted me." On this, Mr. P. Wismar caught the boy by the coat, ( ho ok him, and eked him how he dared infult any body in the greet ? This wit nefs alto faw the butcher's man. Cobb, come into the (hop at this time, and concurred with the other witneffes with regard to what pall. This witnefs did not fee Piers touch Cobb, but heard him defire the watchman to take him into cuftody. There were about hilf a dozen people prefent.— Cobb jumped down Hairs, and began to (wear moil dreadfully at Piers, laying, a Damn him, let me at him, aad I will give him his gruel."— Several people attempted to flop Cobb when he was aiming two or three blows at Piers, on which occafion bEfs J. alto interfered, and ftept in be tween them. On this repetition of infults the wit nefs law Piers make an aim at Cobb. and °soot him in the face. The witnefs had never lien ei ther of the prifoners before; had feen Cobb often, and he was a perfon who had repeatedly behaved very infolently to the witnefs. Had beard of thefe two butcher's lads being called civil, but from his own perfunal experience, be did not think fo; both of them having on feveral occaftons infulted him without any cask. This witnefs did not think that Mifs Johnfon was in the leaft degree intoxi cated; but that, on the contrary, Ate caudated herfelf as became her then lituation, and was per feely decent both in her appearance and drefs. On behalf of the prifoners, the following wit neffes were then called:— James Miming laid. he was apprentice to a pawnbroker, reading at the corner of Padding ton•Rreet, and that about half pail nine on the night of the gth of January, as he was going on fome bufinef. for his maßer, he palled by at the time of the affair in queflion. He law Mifs John. fon walking backwards and forwards by the butcher's fhop, and the butcher's boy was hooting after her; he made the fame kind of noire as if he was driving a bullock. The witnefs went into the fhop of a filhtnonger A:de by, and there raw Capt. Piers cheapening a Mifs Johnfon diately cam: in, and laid to him, I will; you would fig) out, as Come butcher's boys have in. tithed me." They both went to the butcher's (hop. and the vritnefs followed. Captain Piers • plai tied 'if the infult the Lady met with.— Cobb dc.iied having infulted her, and fome language pafTzd ; when Captain Piers called the watch, and gave charge of Cobb; but when he foetid that Cobb charged him alto, and that the watchman was taking him into cuflody, he ;tithed to decline the bufinefs altogesher. and was going away f, om the watchmen, when Cobb broke away from the people who were about him, was is a great rage, (wore at Capt. Piers, fquared at him in a threatening pollure, and (truck him. Mifs Johnint went between tbem, and endeavoured to pia Cobb away. Immediately after this, the witncfs heard the report of a pifol. At the time when Mils Johnfon was walking by the butcher's (hop, there was n•):hing indecent in her manner, or her dreg. The witnels was a perfea aranger to all the parties. and he came forward now by the derim of his ma her, to whom he had related the account of what he law. Chtiitopher Reeves faid, he was a carpenter, refiJirg in Mary la-bonne parifh i he gave the lame 2CC(1:111t of the tranfa&ion as the latt %/rimers, with this difference, however, that he did not ob fen': Cobb ttrike Capt. Piers; but faw him Rand ii.g lief , re Lim in a potitire of defence, at the time when Mifs J o hnfm t Rcpt b , :tween. and pufind Crhs away. Illapt. Jo D it ur&VOP-tlie A r4illery, was (lien callt4l‘; f to therharafter of Captain Picrs. l whom he . uostn Since 1798, and rie44401 - 1?1- 1 &red to' perfon who would At; raffity,". pat lionately, hlike a Gentleman : on the contra• ry, he hati 0 ways behaved like a gond-tempered man. ' He lvad been Captain in the 22d Foot, wAs afterwards ilrehe I 13th Regiment, and was now on I.alf pal. • Captain Yonge faid, he knew the prifoner two years; lewas brother to Sir John Piers.— From having been much in his fociety, lie had an. opportuaitj 4 knowing that he had always con- ' ducted hfffifqif with good temper, and in a proper manner. _., Capt. Elaine, Mr. Morley, Infpettor of Hofpi tale, and ancsher Offizer, gave a limilar teaimony in favour of the Priibner. _ On behalf of Mifs Johnfon, two women came for ward, who bow her from her infancy, and faid, flue was always a,viell behaved and good tempered girl. Mr. Jufkica 'lsar'', in his charge to the Jury, pbferved, the in order to conflitute the capital offence with which the Prifoners were charged, it was nreeffary, according to law, that them flu .uld appear in the conduit of the Prifoners ill it degree of malice which would make the crime amount to murder, if death had mined in confequence of the fhot that was fired. But if, in the prelim inflance, there were any fats which, in cafe of fuel' death, fhould reduce the offence to manslaughter only, then the pi honer , mutt be acquitted altogether.— But in the cafe of a perfon !hooting at and killing another, the law implied malice ; and it remained with the party accufed of that offence, to produce such fad% as should bring the offence under the de nomination of manslaughter. As to the evidence he was forty to fay that fume parts of it could not be reconcile* Perjury molt evidently appeared on the one part or the other. The Jury might, perhaps, be acquainted with the chara&eis of fome of the witneffes, from what they had already teen ; and might therefore, be enabled to judge what weight oughl to be put upon their evidence. If the witneffes on the part of the profecution were • to be believed, there was no doubt but the charge was brought home against Piers. After reca pito.' Wing the evidence, his Lordlhip took notice of the cafe of Mifs Johnfon. The charge againft her was that of aiding and abettin n r , the pt ironer Piers, 'in the firing Of the piltol. Whether flue had done fo or not, me depend on the evidence of two wit neffes ; of whom, one Rated her words to be--; " You will Coffer for it ;" and the o s ier (wore, that the (aid, rr the would bring a perfon who would give one of them a pill." This great difference of esprefflon, laid his Lordfliip, created confiderable ' doubt ; and if the Jury thought the erpreffions which tended to criminate Johnton were falfe, they muff acquit her, even though they were of opinion that the other prianter was guilty. The Jury retired; and after being out of Court for the fpace,of two hours and a quarter, returned with a rerdirft—Both the Prifoners Not Guilty. MIDDLE.SE7E SESSIONS, APRIL so. THI Lao W. JARRAT.—This trial gave rife to a good deal of amufement, and involved points of law of the fief! importance. Mr. Common Stataawr Elated that this was an indictment again& the defendant, for an *fault upon his with. Mrs. Jarrat then appeared in the witnefs box.— She is a very handfome and very genteel looking woman, feemingly under 30. She was very much alreited, and wept bitterly. The Counfel for the Crown was leading her to give an account of all her old grievances—but Mr. CuawooD, for the Defendant, properly in. filled that the should confine her evidence to the fuppofed affault, charged in the indietment. She then•ftated, that having rated the fervant girl for Raying too long in Mr. J.'s bed room, be came out and took the girl's part. An altercation took place between them, and at laft he pulled her about by the hair of the head and cruelly ill-tifed her. On her crofs examination, fhe Paid the was not jealous, and die allowed that the had thrown a fieve at her huthand's head. Mr. Cuawoon,in a very witty fpeeeh, defended Mr. Jarrat, and the cattle of hatbands. He main tained that by the law of England the hatband has a right to adminifter moderate caftigation to the wife, as well as to the other members of his fami ly. Some Judges had taken upon themfelves to overrule this principle, but without any authority, either in reafon or statute. It tended highly to the peace of families, that the paterfamilias should be invefted with abfolnte power over all his houfe hold. Had no attempt been made to abridge the marital prerogative many of the difputes among the common people, and much of the profligacy in high life might probably have been prevented. The law to be fare talked of a thumb Rick, and a hatband mull not exceed the bounds of modem lion. But there was no reafon to fuppofe that the defendant had exceeded the OR b..unds of his au- thority. The evidence of Mrs. Jarrat was without the fmallefl corroboration, and this was the only cafe in which the evidence of a wife againft her hatband is even admiffittle. As the can never be free from the ftrongell attachment or the moll violent awe:Troth it was very properly rejeCted.— This was not only the opinion of I lad biter Lawler: but of the bell judges of human nature and human life. Mr. C. here very happily introduced a quo tation from Fielding, where this illitatious pays a compliment to the law pf England in forbidding the teftimony of Mrs. l'.trti iJgc to be received to the convillion of Mr. Pirtridge ; oh. Iferving, that if a women likes her I.o:bstiol the will (wear any thing for him. and if hats him, the will (wear Any thing againit h:m. Mr J. had, in! fa& behaved very gently cuntidering his provoca lions, which were great, thotE,li perhaps he could not explain them to others. Mr. lAA swaatmc, in his charge to the Jury, ex claimed with great indignation againil filch dan. gernus doftrioes. The fair fez required our pro. tenon—but we were to prate& them, not by (tripes and Wows, but by leading them from error by oar advice, and Welding them from danger by our courage. Whatever might have been the cafe . in former tiorv, the marriage tie certainly di,' not • nowt ferment th e ir ttiet4ldmi:!. ;1 t Ifitt had hem clearly provedom4-14 ticle4 4 4l) 0 ; he: not no/1;61y be acqui;:ee!.—ii'zz.liats Mr. Jarrat %vas afltuel uti Le do? • He affured the court thif tr? etl his wife with great fondo±fs', and rh:tt he 11:11• entertained for her the warstrit attachment. Aire offered to take her home again. s Mrs. J. maintained that he was t bale man. 22:4 4 that (he would never live with him more. Some time was granted for artangibg a * treat. between them ; it being •anderionti that if the fendatt fatisfies the pi-oft:en! tix, the mattes-will not be again heard of ; but ir iie wilbnot du what is teafunable, that he nmil be fait to ntitielveli.— The Court was prodiglem!y • Yetlerday morning, about &et.. a mirerable looking old woman was t•as.4il be the w.ttchmAn its Lumber -court, near the keen Dials, with a large bag on her shoulder. filled with vations articles wearing apparel, which the raid the had purehafeff from feveral perfons, being a dealer in old clories. The watchman took her to the watch !xec, we ns the was examined, wh,o her bag was lous/ tisiaea silk cloaks, grille, tiockings, andlive. ral other articles of both:: linen, bcgdes all the np.7 paratus for honk breaking—crow bar, pie* I nc s ,. dark lanterns, pholphorous bottle, and matches._„,. She was brought to the Public Oillce, in Great Marlborough-itrect, yeilerday to be examieee' r when it was difeovered that all the abcve articles' had been Nolen the night before from a houfeln Well-tireet, when the family were ageep, by fame thieves getting in at the wiedows-of the attic gory.. from the leads beleoging to the ,nest , an d who, by means of vieldocks, ()petted al! the dr.orier , ,. and cat vied off every moveable article. She would not difeover her ACOMPOOneeI‘ anti was flllty Com. mitred for trial under slit name of Satoh Franklin, She fometimes goes by the name of klaillips, ar.d: is upwards of yo years. eat the affizes for the Connartglit Circuit, land, only one capital convielicia took pla& upon: the whole mut-.-this was tire cafe of a fellmw who had conceived fome jealoufy agaiati his wife, era• whom he had been about three weeks married,. he had decoyed her into a geld where he krangled* her, and then laid het in a ditch ; the inerder wee fome time undifenvered, but infpiciens huisg arifen. and the body being found, tome grottgAre. cumgances arofe. upon which the prisoner was found guilty, on Friday le'nuight, and ordered tee be hanged the follawing day. Saturday fe'nnight, a very melancholy affair happened in Galway.—it man timed James Mal; boy, laid to have been an old (Zinc, but by tea** hatter, had tome words with his wife, and beiri. heard tie ing her a vety revere kat i eg at the time,* foldier and a woman r at E ng hy,entered thehout4 to make enquiry of the mite t and, if pollibbe, Os. vent further ,villain took tsp 4 :s4sj. which he had in the room (e fimetparlour) which was loaded with !t uts; and dig harped it aping the perfons who had thus attempted to interfere. whereby the foldier and woman were both inffantly killed, and a gentleman paging be was feverely wounded. two of the guy hexing lodged in his arm. The offeoder •ittemptal conceal himferf by hiding under a bed, bulb/ jfib immediatelr taken, and conunitted to ga*, abide hit Mel. Yetterday feanight, about ten o'clock, 4'e Ilwar, for horfe-Realing, and gobs *Pill, for halt breaking, were executed at llcheller, fpurfua,t to their (entente at the late Affixes for Pigott behaved with great penitence and dtvothlini but Hunt appeared much leis concerned; hanesser, they took an affectionate leave of each other Fr?. vious to their being turned oEs. Though esetutss for different offences. they had long been coet. ranions in their nefarious pradices ; and it is fa ii they have made confeflions of much important I, the promulgation of which would at prefsat:par. bably defeat the ends of juilite. On the night of the 4th intl. an atrocioaataik ditti attacked the houfe of one Hake ' on tike tad, of Granane, eounty of Tipperary,andaviivredthidu imprecations, their intension of bariurcaiity.olii. treating him. His wife, in the Atop's. of pistil% time for his efcape through ,, lAck winfiJos. AD.u• the door, in order to retard thcif entri - nel, &hes by intreaty or oppontion. and in this. fetidly foe hertelf, the poor aiding...m.4mi Afew minutes rap cefsful; but the roilcreants having at lengthforced the door, were fo infuriate at hazing been bafiled -of their pre determined objed, that they wretitegi their vengeance on the helpleft wife, thnsigh in ski hell Rage of pregnmicy,and with tviins,whokbirtii was thus nntirnay caufed; the furvired their lulus: manity but the enfuing morning. 11SRTHS. Friday monies bit, the lady of L4vs.-C.4onel Rettbialore of the 49th regftnent, of a fon. bontlay bd. as be[ father's hook. Grofesourilase, fast ist of Laguna Wi:der..f a foe. MARRIED. Toef.lay Taft, at Brampton Chapel, by fpreial *cense, by Abv Rev. A. R. Chaoact, Chaplain to hi. Royal Highest's the Prire4 of Wales, Sir Charles Himiltou, Bart. R. N. to Mlle DM'S. ascend; only slaughter of the lac, George Drummond, I:fip Banker, at Charing-Ctofs alto L:;* couple let oilier the country. At Cork, Richard Lockwood, Efq. Lieutenant in the Rol 1 Navy, to Mils Anse Studdy. yourgco daughter of Mrs. Mod dy, of the Tontine Colfee-loule. At St. Brgdes,Fl-et-ftrtet, Capt. Thomas Butler. or :‘, I t• 9.. Ealt butts Congary's bte (hip the Hoot kioptcm, to s Icy, daughter of lorictitcy, Erik of WIN se- Windows, v... !tablas, YorkfLire. DIP.D. In Paris, MA Maria Tlfllo, '-"- Zughtes of the late Tone, Flo. On the torh of Frltruary, at the land of of Vim-Admiral Sir Androw Mitchell, K. a, At Pena, Baronets Fyfc, Lady of ,Jahn. Deno File,foreatte: of Dublin. At the Palace of KDtoore.ofa tortvellinat. Mae an..0=.3. Berevord, ad danghter of the Lord Itilbog of Kiluanie. Sunday teeniest, leadenly, Mn. Roniefoo, was 4 ttr. Rohistfon, turfman. rf Clapoltag Norton. 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