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London, England, 1826-01-07 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, FainAy, J.S. 6.

No leoe ihori row intEritli.als, namely, Dania Roark Jot.o ebh,
ouldel4 Dia*, and tovk their trials before Fe: awcis
1„;:i yr, E.q. for po:-orea!ing, from a number of publicans in the
rk,..t.v.y of Wr.tfri,otcr.
Lbe clinrges agvirat the whole of the prisoners were clearly
proved by the maJcuce adduced, and the Jury. ecreraily found
:fen) all Gelitj. . . . . _

The ( ni. ea then pa.:ed judgment, and sentenced Roach to
ewe, latently'. Walt heir iit-mths. Dibble three months, and Ivory
1, six weeks' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and there
k-
pt to lewd labour. The latter prisoner was, in addition, ordered
be 'publicly uhippcd.
Jet+, Ceariles was irdieted for entering the house of J. Brooks,
r•q. with intent to steal.
Brook..tated that, on the night of the 16th of December last
he treed hurtle (rum the Roeal Society about a quarter put 11
el cluck, Yeti tmeered the house 6y a dem which, on certain nights,
as left on the loatth for Isis students. Before he retired to rest he
xam teed the r00m.., a...wroting to custom. (in approaching the
-twit be thought he saw nornething like a thigh of a man, but it was
ghtly bolted in corduroy, which he thought extraordinary. Ile
tl,erefert. locked closer. when a pair of human eyes flashed in I:is
7 " whirl* turd out to be those of that villain there." said
Dr.B., "my discarded stream." The prisoner came out of his hid-
ang-riliceiend made ail attack upon him (witness), and though he
euciferated tOuctler with all his might, still the " villain" kept his
gri. and atlernmed to throttle Mm. The Doctor added, that be
scarf thought his life would have been taken but for the opportune
nt Ilia female servant, who was brought to his assistance
hr h!‘
Ocas.exiinined—lt was no uncommon thing for strangers to
twee to bis house at night, but his iatiects generally were brought
Ity-'ureak. '
Vi!liam Styles—lives opposite to the Doctor's house. On the
i.ight he question he ttAW the prisoner run out without his shorn.
The female s.reAnt, who saw the prisoner by the Bide of her
master when she came down stairs, also swore positively to his

f..1-lucllcr, the sliort.hand writer to the City or London, with
wham the prisoni:r lived previously to his going to the Doctor'.,
gave him a good character, as (lid also another respectable witness.
The Jurr imrnedis..aly found the prisoner Gesifty.—Sentenced to
;Ix months' imprisonment and hard labour.

'-!VINTPR =MR CIRCUIT.

KENT ASSIZES, iAtnsTows, JAN. S.

I Brpre Mr. Baron
.11 Lt.oc

jcsrph gbinatit and Sam-Net X night were indi'eted under I,lrd
:til;enborough's Act, fur maliciously cutting George Pearson, with
ti,teo to murder him, at I:ast Parleioh, on the 22d November last.
'fits prisoners had been committed under the Poaching Act, 57
t_.IlC
polland conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson the
. .

"Iv appeared in evidence that the prosecutor, who is a servant in
theworployment of a gentleman of fortune. named Charlton, at
Last /seriph, was out in one of his master's woods, on the night
of the nd November, fur the purpote of protecting the game, and
w }Mat in- the act of preventing some pheasants irons settling on
toe trees, the prisoner Blundell came up .and struck him. A
rime!» aculile er.tmed. and the prosecutor received several blows
1.-oM a gun which the piisoner had in his hand, the butt-end of
which broke rE. There was another man in the prisoner's com-
pany, .rho could not bo identified. The prisoner and his com-
panion, after the scuffle, ran off, leaving the prosecutor senseless on
toe craned. An asslitant of the prosecutor had left him when the
affray commenced, for the purpose of procuring assistance. Whets
tinsslwerecutor came to himself he found he was desperately
-*evaded lh his left thigh, with a knife, or some sharp instrument.
The sound penetrated to the bone. On the scene of action were
left a clasp knife, and the fragments of a gun, the latter of which
formed }art of a gun which the prisoner Knight had got repaired
at Maittstone en the nd November. Positive evidence was given
as Identity, but the case against Knight rested'only upon
snrconantnees of strong suspicion. A surgeon, who had examined
the prosecutor's wounds, proved that the wound nn his thigh mows
leave horn inii,c.ted with a sharp instrument. Ile had sustained
other bodily* injuries.
The prisoners dirtied their guilt, but the Jury, undo: the
r,earnesi 'Judge's directior.s, found Knight Not Guilty, and lilun-
d'l aranst whom sentence of Dcofh was recorded.
Cerge Luu refl.., w.ll ii.dicted for assaulting John Hawley, an
intuit of the under age of two years, at Gravesend, meth. fah No.
•enber with :meat to mimics him.
sr. A NDREIVIII conducted the prosecution.
_

The prisoner, by trade a shoemaker. had married the mother of
'the Pyle bog, anti lived with her at Gravesend. In the course of
04oher and Noveniher, the next-door neighbcun had their atten•
11414 witted on Feveral occasions by the brutal ill-treatment of the
chit& by the prisoan. They remonstrated with him upon his mis-
earodbet, but he , reproached them for interfering with him in
she' management or s own Lindy. On the night of the
fah' Of November. Armstrong, a next-door neighbour.
heard the violent airs of the child, and the splashing of
sake water in the prisoner's sitting room. She looked out
at the• window and saw the prisoner immersing the child in
a lisib of water, its void being nearly stilled In its struggles
lug life. Upon calling to the prisoner, he abused her in violent
terms, and told her that be had aright to do what he pleased with
ble own. lie said that the child was dirty in its habits, and that
he drily wanted to cure them. Next day the prisoner was taken
up, and on examining the child's body, it was found marked in
!v egrrial places with severe bruise,, from the blade bonen to the legs.
taken before the 31agistratm, the prisoner admitted that he
naditruek the chill once in a passion. and put him into the water
..Lle. merely to cure him of certain offensive habits.
The prisoner aloe declared that be had no intention of injuring
the shiJd beyond moderate correction.
'the Jury, order the Learned Judge's direction, sequined the
pawner of the Intention to murder the child, but convicted him of
an visual:. and he yen sentenced to three months' imprisonment in
silMatunty gaol.

Ikatzsicart I.eva Liar s.—The pensiobs and allowance's
which' became due to the American loyalists on the dth of
jaireary, 1+4,26. will be paid on the followinr, days, he-
tween.r level) anal one o'clock, viz.:—‘l,ednesay, the I I th
talk, Wednesday, the 18th inst., and on the Het IVeduer-
slai is melt succetdit4 ruoath•
IL etas SAYIN.GI BARS.—It is a remarkable fact, that
daring the late severe runs on heeling awthlishments, aced
savings banks throughout the country, the savings bank
=ibis town received a considerahleinerease of deposits.—
fArris Paper.
IveLumb:NcT or TITS WitaTuca.•-.lame/, second son
of Mr. Robert Jenkinson, of this town, was found on
Stinday last, rear Ulpt.a, having perished through the hi-
e' y of she weather. He was en apprebtice to a
titeriu this Sown, and had shown-talents of no ordinary nc
.He Ina in the lath year of his sgs...cvmho ian'd
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