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in the house. l
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ihcrrnprietors, said he was brouelir
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time the audience had met with any Interruption. The Nee
had been performed since Monday last, and received with uniieNi
eclat. /le, however, was unwilling to carry en a proimitior,
against the defendant, who, he believed, had been led into the
elm by others.
The defendant was ordered to find sureties to keep the petite for
three months—himself in 491., and two other poem's 201. (tie,
The remtired bail was instantly put in, and the deferdant rot rrf
with his friends.

ALLEGED ASSAULT BY A FEMALE.
UNION' HALL.—Yesterday a Mrs- Allen, dressed out in ill de
gaudy coloure.l the rainbow, war brought belare the Sitting Ma.
gistrate, M. SwAar.v, Eaq. charged with hovirg mmraittea on
assault on the person of Mr. fil`laennali, a tea-dealer residing in
Lambeth.
The complainant, whore scratched face exhibited a ample of
what the lair sex can do when exasperated, commenced the *cgs
by stating that the female whom he now accused of luting
as.
united him, was formerly a customer of hie. She, however, ma
off dealing with him latterly, leaving a small Wane dae'•. few
this balance he called on the uterine% day, art having been al.
ruined into the house he proceeded to the par'cour, where Mn,
Allen was sitting at the tune, and very civilly a,kea het to clear
off the balance of her account. Be, however, had scarcely made the
demand, when up she started from her chair. grzspel him firmly
Iby the hair of the head, and fairly draraed him about the
MM. until it gave way by the. rows, ae sotahaiow a
limdful of the hair in her hand. Not content, he said, with
depriving him of the covering of his crown, she also in.
flitted the market visible on his fare with het finger nail's,
and threatened to "punch" out his other eye (the complainant a
blind of one eye) if he did not make himself sum, and be of out
of her presence. A Ithough a good deal alarmed. at such a terrible
attark,Mr. alsKennah exprssia d his determination of not quitting
the house until ilk hill was paid. " Oh, if that's the cue, the,,'.
said Mrs. Allen, " I shall soon have you bundled out, auk sad
trop •" and then lustily squalliog out " Murder !" a ti,. Abbott
rushed ir.:o the room, who, without wailing for any eaptanoti„ as
i hlef(complainant's) part, proceeded to use both his fists and his feet,
and fairly kicked and cuffed him out of the house into the Mae:
Re added, that had net some persons, who were retracted to eke
.pot by the noise, wasted in rescuing him, he verily believed
his other eye would have been stooped out of his head, a Com
was the " lady" to get another claw at hia visage. The tea-deakt
having finished his account of the affair,
The Magistrate expressed some surprise that he should have
been so roughly handled for MT* demanding that which he
alleged was due to him. Mrs. Allen was then asked what she
had to say in answer to the charge. flaying thrown back her veil,
which had previously concealed a very pretty fare, -the lair defend.
ant began her defence by admitting that part of Mr. 31•Kennahlt
account of' the fracas was true, but by far the waster portion of it
was invented Gm the purpose of giving her into hot water. She
acknowledged that she was indebted to him a trifle, but Instead of
calling at her house, and demanding it in a proper and tradennan-
Lite manner, Ito rudely entered her parlour, took a chair without
being invited, and commenced abusing her in the most gross man.
nor helote her children. She repeateCly requested him to desist,
but he perrevered in that hoe of conduct until the was at length
under the necessity of railing aloud for aasistenee in expelling a
man that was capable of such behaviour. Fortunately for her, the
said, Mr. Abbott. who was in the habit of visiting at the house,
heaving her screamie, tame to her aid, and certainly turned Sir.
M•Ketuiali into the Street. With respect to the charge of dragging
off a lundfol of his hair, Mrs. Allen derlared there was no truth
in the assertion, for if the Magistrate would be so good as to CM a
glance at the complainant's hend, he would readily perceive that
there was by no means a sufficient covering of hair upon it u
enable a person to drag him about in the manner he deathbed.
The hair au certainly very thinly scattered over the complainant's
head. Mrs. Allen then said, as tar the expressions that the was ac-
cused of hating uttered, namely—" I'll punch your other eye
out," sod" I'll have you bundled out of the holm. neck and crop"
she could amino the Magistrate it was a specie. of slang phrase that
she never indulged in. In fact, the complainant's statement, she
added, was grossly exaggerated throughout.
The MAGISTRATE censured the complainant's conduct for la.
truding Wu-lull so unceremoniously into the crimplainant'a parlour,
and the, abusing hcf. ‘• There were other means of MOUT-
ing the money she was indebted to you," observed the Magistrate,
" instead of adopting those you have had recourse to."
•

Mr. SWADEY then remarked that he should not hold the defend.
ant to bail for the alleged assault, but Mr. M'Kennah might, dna
ehose to try the experiment, indict her at the S ssions.
The tea.dealer looked Nightly chagrined at this decision, and
shook his held, observing that he should go to work another rosy.
in order to punish a person, by whom he had not only been deprived
of Us locks, but bad also got a scratted Lice into the bargain.