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OLD lAILk.Y. Arm 10.

Maw Mlkicii was capitally indided for pri-
vately oteoling. is a d welling-house, one silver salt.
cellar, valtfe 3 shillings, the property of George
Blaawoy. It appeared, that in the month of March
last, the Prisoner went to the house of Mr. Black-
way, the Prowcutnr, who keeps a glass-shop in the
Strand. and proposed to putchisi a quan.,y of
glass jogs, &c. of considerable value, for which he
offered to pay in halfpence, and said he should send
his wife for them Immediately after leaving the
shop, the solt•cellar in question was missed, and the
rii.'lner pursued, hut n-thing was found upon him ;
however, upon seatching the place whete he was
stopped, the salt-cellar was discovered thrown into
an edjoinieg area.
The Jury found him GP:Pry—Death.
filwa, Abich,fi was indided lot stealing in the
dwelling-house or W•lliorn Beale, a hotel keecer,
in leo myn street. one silver fork.
It appeared, in eviden:e, that the Prisoner was
caught in the fad of putting the fork in his pocket,
i.i the Cooffee.room.
In his d fence, the Poisoner said, that, upon going
int., the Coffee-room, and finding nobody io attend-
ance. he took tip the fork, to stroke against th.•
table, in order to mike himself heard, and at that
moment the waiter came in, and charged him with
the felony.
'the Learned Judge (Lord EL L EN 13010 VON), was
proceeding to charge the Jury. when, up.on lo.•king
at the i: diarnent, he discovered the Prosecalos's
name spelled Bell, instead of Beale, which being a
Cita' miumwer in the indidment ; the Jury were
oolq,ed to 'lNya the Prisoner.
His Lordship direded that a fresh inlarnent
shoulJ be ptefered.
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MIDDLESEX SEI6,IUNS—MaiL 10.

Afore WILLIAM MAINWARI,IO, Lig. Chained!,
arid a worrirous Beath of justices of the Pellet.
SINGULAR ASSAULT OF A HUSBAND UPON His
CSriwoir4e, Daly, a young man about 2.2 years of
age, was indicted fur mose violently assaulting and
beating Maria Daly, his wife.
Mr. Ai.t.av stated the case on part of the Pro-
*mations, and observed, that the Juries of that Court
bad eases of assauits fiequeutly brought before
them, of the most violent nature, between indivi-
duals. between masters and their apprentices, and
even of cruelty indicted upon helpless children; but
eases of violence exercised by a husband towards
his wife, were rather of a singular nature; such
was tie case he had to lay before them, nor could
be recelfla cane of .much more atrocious barbarity
than the present. The Prosecutrix was a young
wornar. unfortunately wife to the Defendant, who
war. himself the son of an attorney, in the city of
Dublin. The Prosecutrix was :he daughter of re-
al:enable and reputable parents iii the county of
Noi folk, and had received the education of a gen-
tlewoman, at a London Boarding.School.—Young,
innocent, and unsuspicious, she became unhappily
lecqosinted with a young Gentleman of the Irish
`Sat, by whom she was seduced, and brought over
to the city of Dublin; where, under his proteaion,
the enjnyed that enenfort and affluence, wbkh. do-
eke such circumstances, she could have, until the
*Defendant friend means to become acquainted with
It-r. 'fie proposed marriage ; and she, preferring
poverty svr h a viriu—is husband, to affluence in
vice, about twelve months ago became the wife
of the lhitenciant ; but not before be was
made acquainted with her situation; in an.
siva to which he pleaded his ardent affeaioa
for her, and his anxious wish to make her his
wire. At that time she had a house handsomely
furnished, and was possessed of such wearing ap-
parel, and personal ornaments, as taste and luxury
Might deem necessa-r I but, like the popular dra-
cumin entertainment, Tbrre Wear after Marriage
bad scarcely passed, wl en the husband assumed the
charafter of the brutal tyrant, and his real objet
the posaession of her little property) became evi-
dent. He first disposed of her house and furniture,
th n of her clothes and valuables, and lastly, be
beat her violently, and turned her out of doors,
naked and detenc•less. She once mote returned to
"F.nglaad„ and sought protettion and peace in the
b•-•som of her parents : but s!,e nes not permitted
long to remain in trai.cprality ; the Defendant Sol-
ln.ved her, /raced her to her parents, at Lynn, in
Norfolk, rt.:d persuaded her to accompany him to
Lir.dor ; where they mixed in the disdpatinns and
pleasures nf the gay world ; and here again the bus.
band', d-pratty was exercised ; he broke open her
drawer:, pawned all her clothes and little trinkets,
then horseasehipped her naked person; and in
that situation, turned her into the street. This was
not only repeated, but when all her property was
gone. and she had nothing left to support his extra-
twiner., this athletic serve young man, who was
capable of earl;ng his own bread, attually forced
her to pinstitute her person, in order to supply the
means of his dissipation. More than once she for-
gave those Os 4 violoome, span condition, that. ha
would return to his own country, and molest her no
more bur, in the month of Much last, be again
beat her most unmercifully, so that her hie was
nearly dup.iired ot ; and, in order to protect her
person from further violence, she was under the ab-
solute necessity of instituting this prosecution.
This statement, with mast' more fails, were fully
corroborated by the evidence. It appeared, upon
the evidence of te,iperson with whom they lodged,
that at out time the Defendant was beatiag the Pre-
SeCtltrlX with sucli violence, that her screams reacts-
ed their landlady, wino interfered; and when the
Derliti..4 retired, il:e discovered, that the un-
happy ire, and her infant child, bad passed the
day a u: a morel to eat ; and wide the humane
landlady was giving some dinner, to her own apart-
ment. to her and her child, the husband returned,
broke open her drawers, took away all her clothes,
and pawned them. The auplscate lie afterwards
sold to a woman of the town, fora guinea, and then
went and stopped the goods in use hands of the
pawnbroker. Uper another occasion he was known
to declare, that he bad no nhjettion to his wife's
prnitioring herself with oil men. but not with
) env,, as a mutual attachment might be the
result in s..ch cascc.
Ht re the Defendant interfered, and said, that was
Val a juke over a bottle of Cliampagne.

The Defendant, in person, erotvezainined the
Witnesses. and only seemed to involve himself the
deeper, by every question he proposed.
In his defence be said, he was here a total
stranger, not knowing a human being in London ;
he had been inveigled by the Prosecutrix into a
marriage, and was not yet of age. She afterwards
persuaded him to go t 3 England, and kneeled te
him on the beach, entreating him to go with her.
He admitted, he had assaulted her ; and did not
deny that he suif-red her to prostitute her person
for his support ; but, as a leading feature in his de-
fe:tce, he said, he WAS not legally married. for he
had procured a degraded clergyman, commonly
called in that country a couple legg.ar, who perform
ed the ceremony for half a guinea. His father, h-
said, had since instituted a suit in the Ecclesiastical
Court, and his wile had been cited to appear, in
order to his obtaining a divorce.
'The Jury found him Guety, and the Court de-
ferred the sentence for another opportunity. In the
mean lime, the Learned CNAIISS AN observed. that
the person of the female must be protected from
further molestation or violence ; and direned the
Defendant, by the time he should next come up, to
be prepared with sureties to keep the peace, himself
in 200 L and two sureties in 1 (mi. each.