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London, England, 1826-09-14 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

Yesterday. these Sessions connnenced beforethe LORD 31A YON
the titinttliTS. the REeou DE it, and the City Officers.
The RECORDER., in making his charge to the Grand Jury,
observed, that there was a yeti, unusual it crease in the number of
prisoners, which circumstance he coeld not attribute to the interval
between this and the last Sessions, though it had been longer thai•
usual. He would not, therefore, congratulate them on the hope ut
their attendance being dispensed with, as twice the usual number et
prisoners were conttnitted. He should leave it to their own good
sense, which be considered would be sufficient todirect them in ,'.e
discharge of their duty, without any especial remarks from via
Bench. There was one rase, however, on which he thought it ne-
cessary to make a few observations. This was a charge of rape,
most abominable crime, which, if proved, certainly deserved a se-
vere punishment. As such Charges were sometimes made flat the
purpose of retorting money, he would advise them to ply partite-
ar attention to the manner In which the prosecutrix gave het art-
denee. With these remarks he left them to their duty.
tritfinnt Sprat!, John Dennett, John Parker, and Trillians
!Ism!, were Indicted for causing a riot and assaulting Michael
Lynch, in St. Dunstan's-court, Fleet-street, on 13th June last. 1.
appeared by the evidence that there WAS a general row between the
pieties. Dennett was accused of striking Lynch, and Spratt with
aiding and assisting by crying out " go it's to Dennett ; Parker
was likewise very busy in the affair, but Hunt was merely a spec-
tator, and was a:litit(ed at the direction of the Recorder, and ad
niitted as witness for the defendants. The three others were aol
found " Guilty," and recommended to make some compensation
the prosecutor.
ries syciferies was indicted for assaulting Sarah Johnson, at No. ;,
Willow-walk, on the 30th of last May.
Thb prosecutrix stated, that she hail taken a chandler's shop of
the defendant, for which she paid 161. though hardly worth as
many pence. The defendant had frequently called fur good..
"fine. and to see a lodger named Rymer; but on smite tliettensi.
ment, ehe had forbid the defendant coming to her house, and
her entering the shop on the above day, comileinant shut the de . r
in her face. The defendant then commenced the most riots: t
hollow, and insisted on coming in to see Mrs. Cyan-r.
burst open the dont, and was turned out by witness; she the.:
forced open the hack door, and at last succeeded in getting
at a r9rlour window ; she then took up a knife, and threare.."l
In stab her. and struck both witness and her sister several times.
Mr. PHILLIPS, for the defendants, called two wiinse.ses, ai *
proved that the priteecutfis and her sister were the offend:es,
the defendant was frond Nut Guilty, without hesitation.

1111scm.r.aivcons.—We sometimes hear of individuals
of very opposite characters and occupations accidentally
meeting together in particular places, but perhaps thers
never was a more varital group than lately occupied the
outside of the coach that rims between Perham "antl :_4un-
lerland. On Thursday week, when the vehicle Was on
return 10 theformer place, there were seated on it an Cfter.
tric house-painter and his' wife, a parson, two thieves and
a constable, a methodist, an P.ttctm y, a int:al:ism, .nit
auctioneer

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POLICE.
CRISI. CON.. AND 7EA1.01':,1".
MAIIIIIOII.IIOU sr.—On Tuesday a married woman, Ales. CU-
lea, the wife of an ivory-tamer, residing in Brick-lane. Spiral-
gelds appeared to answer ei charge of assault preferred against her,
-by.a decent-looking young 'minim named Suns King, the wife of-
t carpenter.
Mrs. King appeared with two black eyea, and her face otherwise
•beatiog marks of severe cartualohn. She stated, that Pile was peace-
ably walking with another female, shell Mrs. ('lifton, the defend-
ant.- whom she had never seen before, suddenly flew upon her with
the fury of a tigress, and, after deniers:Ong her bonnet and cap,
beat her shout the head nnel face until she put it in a worse condi-
fun% that that in which his Lordship noer saw it. She seemed de-
teemined to amid her leafurra for ever, and would no doubt have
don/flit) Mad not R erased gathered and interfered. Ile? fury excited
their reMPTIVItent, which the mgna,ged to allay by Assuring them that
she f thetomplainant) had stolen a pair of her sheets.
Mrs. Clifton. who could rot refrain, during tha complainant:.
refection'. making use of the epithets, " Goad-ha-nothing jade."
" Honey," fike. at once admitted the fact of the mutat to the full
'extent represented by the eernplainant, but declared that she hail
just grounds for doing far mnre towards her than she had done. The
feet was, that she had been fro:-.1 home on a visit to her native place
( Wales), and in the mean time her husband had hail criminal con.
venation with this good-for-nothing women. Ile had, as she was
Seemed on gond authority, when she returned. taken her home
with him. In short, he had conleasell as much himself. Could it
Le expected, therefore, that a virtuous woman should peaceably
bear sock treatment ? Was it not natural, as well as right, that she
should visit with some marks of her resentment such a good-for-
t oiling creature as now dared to complain ?
Mr. NOBLER, the Chief Clerk, observed, that supposing the
fact to be scandalous and bad, as was stated, it was probable that
the husband was the most guilty- party.
- The Lour) dtArnk said, the:, at all events, the defendant could
not be allowed to take the law in her own hands; but there was
nothing in the appearance or manner of the complainant to corrobo.
sate the statement made against her.
The complainant protested that it was utterly untrue. The de-
fendant had incited a number of Welsh people of the lowest chit-
meter against her, and her life was actually endangered by them.
The complainant's husband, a young carpenter, who said he had
been married to her six months, came forward, to state his collide.
don of his wife's purity of character and conduct. Ile believed the
defendant to be a bad malignant woman; and he represented her
husband, whom lie knew. to be no b-tter.
The defendant assured his Lordship that she could prove what
she had stated so be the troth, and could undeceive the young man
AS to his wife's conduct (if he was not aware of it already), pro-
vided time wet e given her to produce witnesses.
The LORD MAYOR adjourned the ease until yesterday, when
film. Clifton produced no other person than her husband to depose
ui his own shame. " Now," said she, " mind you speak the truth
b. fore his hardship."
The husband then calmly acknowledged that what his wife had
stated was the truth.
The Loan Xlavo re strongly reprimanded him for his idiom'.
'table conduct, and his public and shameless avowal of it. " Get
out of the room !" said his Lordship, " for I would not believe a
wand uttered by a fellow like you. who thug, without a symptom of
aflame, tomes forwatd to avow his infamy."—(The husband then
dunk mat.)
lividencewas then given to move that Mrs. King, the complain-
ant, who now wore so respeetaale an exterior, had been, in Let, a
prowitute.
The complainant wept, and admitted that her former course of
:ife had not been strictly virtuous. hut she declared that since her
marriage she had reformed. She had seen the defendant's husband
who represented himself as a single man) in the company of her
I usband. She had once met hint in her husband's absence, and
ifsd taken a glass of wine with him, but she declared her innocence
of the charge imputed to her, and prayed that she might not be
abandoned to the fury of the defendant. end the females of the
neighbourhood, who had all come forward to support her.
The LORD MAYOR reprimanded the complainant- who, he
said, could only atone for her early misconduct by her future good
behaviour. At the Warne time, whatever the defendant had suf.
rued from her worthless husband, she must not be allowed to take
~.unice in her own hand. ; nor was site. because she was virtuous,
to let tome her fury without restraint. Ilia Lordship ordered the
defendant to find sureties to keep the peace, and alto ordered the
romplainant to enter into her own recognizance, foe the sante pur-
pose.

CHARGE OF ROBBERY.
Parr, the officer, Airs. Ford, the landlady, and the lad, who
•acre charged with robbing a sailor, underwent a final examination.
No additions, evidence was produced.
Tne Lon D tIAVOa Raid, that although there was no doubt in
Ins own mind as to the intentions of the partici+, vet on a full con-
sidevaPon of the whole of the legal evidence produced, lie did not.
thit•k a Jury would convict upon it, the sailor being drunk at the
time, and the offence, being capital, requiring the moat strict and
!' ill evidence. His Lordship had heard nothing against the officer,
futtw r than that lie was somewhat addicted to liquor, nor against
thew lad, and he discharged all three; but lie told :qrs. Ford she
was bound to recompense the sailor.
The sailor said be had been offered his money back, provided lie
h* cold not appear that morning ; but his lordship having taken the
Lowreya in hand, he would do nothing without his advice.
this Lordship commended the conduct of the Pallor, and re-
later& if he were not compensated, that Ford might be
brought before hint again,