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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

MONDAY JANUARY 8.
This morning the business of the Ses • fur the
county of Middlesex commenced at the Sessions.
Clerkeiswel I-green, before FRANCIS CONST.
Ellg. and a full Bench of Magistrates. On the
Grand and Petit Jurors being sworn, the Learned
Chisitintin took ocrasion to observe, that there was
not any offence in the calendar that would require
any particular observation from him. In adverting
to tile delay that had taken place in tra•ismitting
the bills to the Old Bailey, and which was noticed
its so pointed a manner by Mr. Baron Garrote last
Sessions, it was intimated that means bad beets
taken to prevent such a delay in future.
THE RING v. MOWRY, WALTON, AND inocti..
M►. A IIDREW• stated the facts of this case to the
Jury. It was an indictment fur a riot, in which
the Defendants, with other persons cot before the
Cuurt had, oil the 13th November last, riotously
a•setnbled, attacked the house and burnt in effigy
Mr. Jelly, a baker, of the town of Enfield. This
riotous assemblage took place on a night in which
it had been previously arranged that there should
be ao iluinivation in honour of her Majesty,—
NIT. Jelly snit thinking proper to join in that
expression of public feeling, took the precaution to
shut up the lower oart of his house, .id secured
the upper windows by hanging sacks before them_
About eight o'clock in the evening upwards of 11)0
toenails approached Mr. Jelly's house, and kindled
a fire a few yards from it, to which they committed
an effigy, *lnch was attired like Mr. Jelly ; and
whilst this figure was consuming the mab sang the
following elegant couplet :
" Burn his body from kis head,
Aud then they'll say old Jelly's dead."

When the figure was partially consumed it was
token horn the lire, and the door of Mr. Jelly's
house being bruken to pieces, it was thrust into
the passage, the mob et the same time shooting
and throwing fragments of burning materials
agsin•t the upper windows of the house, lit
this outrage the Defendant, Bickley, was conspicu-
ous : lie was the maker of the elNy, and the leader
of the mob. other two Defendants were also
se,isely tsigaged, assisting and partaking in the
attack on Mr. Jelly's house, which altogether lasted
half all hour:

Several witnesses were culled, who proved the
foci' til..b.ve stated.

Mr. IVALFORD, for the Defendants, called no
witnesses, but addre►sed the Jury on the frivolous
nature of the charge. It was, he sa.d, us one of
the w►tnesses had truly described it, " a lark," or
harmless piece of amuse►went, which would have
ended without any serious coneequeue-a at all. had
not Mr. Jelly very unwisely thought proper to in-
vite an attuvk by the precautions which he haci in
his opinion unilecevsarily taken; and yet notwith-
stauding that indivcreet conduct on his part. what
had taken place ? A little shouting and noise. n
few broken windows, and then this tumultuoti%
seinhlage hail peaceably dispersed.
The Jnry found all the Defeioltilts poi
the Court sentenced Bickley to three mouths
peisonment in the Home of Correction, and the
other two Defendants to one mouth's imprison►nent
in the same place.

1116 KING O. SMITH.
This was an inditharut for au goo suit. and was
instituted by the Partbit of St. l'aocros
following eircurootaocrs: The Dvlrotho (ibri

a respectable looking wont's% of the inidtAle att..) 1.
the wife of jr.N Snug a smith, of Lower Morn. -
street, Berkeley-square. Oil the night of the 13,1,
N0v..... pine of the nights witen the tone wks
illutninatesi in honour of the Queen), Mrs. Smith
was tiring a pistol from the door of her hustsiand's
house, when the wadding unfortunately struck tin.
thigh of one of the workmen tamed Jobosop, em-
ployed lay Mr. Swith, and thisugh at the Dimes t
he scaicely perceived that lie raw wounded, yet the

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!illy, was afterwards et gm serious a nature that the
(lIVI was Obliged to be under a Surgeon's care fir
sty weeks. Being discharged frotn Mr. Smith's
employ, he applied to the Mendicity Society, but
was by them referred to his Parish. who granted
hiin relief, and by their directiona the present prose.
ts. instituted. These facts were proved by
the evidence of Johnson, who swore that just pre-
•;.r,rsiy to the of CUrraner his mistress hid treated
him and asiiiither worst:llu with a glass of
M►. A pot.ritus for the Defendant, submitted
t►tat it coillil not be necessary for him to (.311 ti
puler as there tild not appear to he the
lca•t ill intriiiion raisting—the affair was entirely,
occidental, even °a the evidence for the Prose-

The C'tt tIRMAW said. on the evidence mdclitred
by could laid feel tnut-elf justified in telling the
.1: TV that there had heel) n 0 its•tattlt. '
The Jury Immesh itely acquitted the Defendant.
The Court wo• afterward• occupied in trying for
trrtui it.saults •rod other matters of no public
IhiCrtato

POLICE.

•owdeimErr.
Yesterday William Rvtand, the Chelsea carrier, appear.
ed hs fore Richard Honig, Esti the Sitting Magistrate, he
helix eltirged with defrimdisig r.Johts Wilton, of Paradise-
! J'a, Christi, of right-pence, on the 98111 of Detemb,r last,
111 the charge for the carriage of a hare, the Defendatit hav-
ing charged for the porterage from Mmire's Green Man and
Oxford street, 8.1. whereas Mr. Wilton contended,
that is was an imposition, no 'thaw for porterage bring
made Caere; and the printed ticket, pstrportiog to be issued
from Aloorc's Green Mats and Still, Oxfurtatreet, was a

forgery, which was proved by Mr. William Setaiii, the book.
'keeper at illooee's thren Man and Still) oilier, iu Oxford.
Mum. It was staled that a great number of forged priatid
ticket* were in (-imitation, purporting to be issued from the
green Man and Mill, srlyeretry a number of impositions wrie
i.rarticed on the public, in pretended charges fur porterage
from that place.
The Defendant d,-tared his innocence of any imposition
• in the trausactlwn, and that if Mr. Willau had asked Inns
•*.t wnnld have gives every ratisficiory information upon
the subject, which was, that he had received the ticket in
the state it wail la from the Old White Horse Cellar in Pic-
cadilly, where it hrd beet, received from the Green Alan
a.iil still, and it there was any thing wrung in the ticket or
the charge, it was with the bookkeeper at the Old White
llorse Cellar.
The Magistrate observed that there was no doubt that a
fraud hail hero committed by ►ome preen, and postponed
s.'s derision upon the rase, to give the Defeuilaut the op•
rottoiiity of proving that the imposition was practised by
some parson before lie received the hare.
Maat.aowoUGH•STIEZT.
FEMALE IMPOSTOR.
Calker•ine Foley was yesterday charged by the Beadles of
the Parish of Si. Ann, as n common impostor. It appeared
test the Pei GUM' assumed the appearance of a Covent.gar-
e!eii basket woman, and was in the habil of preleoding is
fall with. her basket at the donreur gentlemen in the west rail
.d the luau, as if she was usarnotor by excessive fatigue or
weakness. This farce, by which she often proved a some's.
ful appeal lo the lib.ratily t.f the passerigere, rhe attempted
to play east the (Lon. of Mr. Carpus, the easinent Surgeon,
to Deao.street,out Sunday list, when she appeared in a dying
state, but ret•wnlling the approach of the Beadles, she re-
rowel-ad miraculously in a minute.—ln ber defence, she said
she was driveu by nccersity to these courses, having a hotl-
ines( and large family to 'torpor!. She was committed.

itoßße.lilES.
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On the night of yesterday %enough" the house of William
yeadley, Esq. of Muchmorelull, near Enfield, was broken
open slid robbed of property to a considerable aismint.
Thursday night the house of Mr. Hammond, of Keppel-
etre, t, Chelsea Common. oar broken open, when wzassug
apparel sod other prop. rty of considerable ♦due was stolen,
With which the rohbeis made their escape.
A member of roblvenes were committed last week in
Corent.garden theatre, sod in the
theatre. The following have come tu our knowledge:—Mr.
Echelons, of Jertnyu sires', Si. Jamrsi, was rubb44l of his
:retch in the two.ohillisog gallery. On Tuesday evening Mr.
Semi, of Little Mourgate, Moorfiehls, was robbed its the
Tit of his watch. On Weilnesdsy Mr. Alexander Muaday
of Hoclinsoud.strert, St. Jarnres, was robbed 4.f his V/31411
ut the avenue leading into the pit. On 'Thursday Mr.
Itichaid Henry, of Kirby sheet, Ilatton-Barden, was rob-
bed of his watch in the gallery.

The County Court of Middlesex is removed from
Pu'wood's-rents to Kiog's Gate-sireet, Holborn.
Charles Wheeler, a horii-blower, was yesterday
brought before the Slow, Magistrate at Flatten'.
girdeii Police-office, charged wish blowing his horn
rend selling newspapers near Sr. Passers. Church on
Sunday last, during the thine of divine service. The
charge being proved, he was convicted in the miti-
gated penalty of 10s. which, slot being able to pay,
►te was sentenced to three days' imprisonment.
Sir CUMULUS BAMPFYLDN, Bart. High Shetiff
fur Somersatshise, with a noble spi►it deserving
the highest praise, has destroyed, for the present,
the petty orders of the Magistrates ageing Mr.
HUNT, of which that gentleman lately entriplain-
ed in the Court of King's Bench. Sir CHARENS,
as soon as he was informed of the real, state
of the case, went to !Wolter gaol, and there
said, "I em High Sheriff' fur the county : this is
my gaol, mid Mr. HUNT is in my custoitc ; and re.
collect the officers of this gaol use to take their
orders from me. Mark me well. Let none of Mr.
Hunt's friends be obstructed; but let all male,
and particularly his female, frirods have free access
to him. If you obstruct ally haly, and particularly
the ladies of Mr. Hutte's family, it shall be at your
peril. It is quite enough for Mr. HUNT to suffer
imprisonineot, without any other pniiishnient. I
did not wish to be placed in the office of High
Sheriff; but as long as I hold that office, n• mini
or set of men shall interfere with my power."
A few days since Major W•RauaTON, accom-
panied by his police, proceeded to • place near
Milltown, county Clare, where they discovered and
reized some tobacco; , they then embarked and
bailed for Mutton Island, where they made anotlicr
►eizure, both amounting to near six hundred bales!
Our informant tells us, that in Mutton Island, re-
goiar caverns were censtructed, well lined with
limber, ts.c. for the preservation of the traffic.—
(Lasts Chronicle.)
' At the recent• Anniversary of the Wlsitehaven
Philosophical Society, two specimens of meat cured
with the isyroliguerios acieo•wrre exhibited by one
of the members; they were prepared on the 7th of•
September. 1019; use was hung up at home, and
the other sent out- by • vessel to the West Indies,
to try the etiect of climate upon at, and brought
bock on the relent of the illy to that port ; tin/
were pronounced by all present who tasted them, to
he perfectly fresh, sweet, and lit fur use, after a
lapse of 15 mouths.