The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-11-15 00:00:00

YORK SASSIOIS.

At the General Quarter Sessions of Peace.
held at the Guildhall, in this city. on Fr stay, the
6th of October last, Mary Hayes, otherwise Mary
lure, was indicted for keeping a disorderly house.
Mr. Dicectss, with his usual ability, addressed
the Court en behalf of the l'rosecutors, whom lie
represented as a laudable Society for the Suppres-
sion of Vice.
Mrs. Agar *aid, that she lives upon Peasehol in-
Green, about 60 yards front the Defendant, and
had dour for eight years. last past. She had
been disturbed at nights since January, 1807.--•
There was figlitiiig both day and night; George
Young ran out with a fire-poker; these were bad
girls and men ; had girls, with their areas all hare,
and in unbecoming dresses; witness was different
times disturbed ; a great crowd collected, and con-
stables were called ; witness was prevented from
.sleeping ; Defeiribsart quitted after last assizes; in
the Spring Assizes, on th(Saturday, • some bad
girls and mess were there; they were lighting from
about eight to nine o'clock in the evening ; wit-
ness has seen the Defertilaut urn' girls frequently
cull in both gentlemen and countrymen.
William Sniiili soya, re has lived eight years upon
Peaselsoliii-green, about ;vs yards off the Defend-
ant ; he knows Mary Hayes ; there was ir battle at
31artionias come a twelvemonth, between nine and
ten at night; 31rs. Hayes kept one George Young,
a lighter, and some men %sent to the house, and he
gave battle ; there were tire girls, more like quality
than working people; they were imniudestly dressed;
on Saturday. im the last March Assizes, there was a
very great riot; there were sonic Knaresborough
gentlemen ; Mrs. flares and two girls were upon
the Green; the riot coati about MI hour; be-
tween J 1 ttttt ury, 1807, and that time, witness has
seen lighting with pokers; has seen blood shed; the
Defendant kept girls for the use of gentlemen; has
wen her call thrill in and speaking to them ; witness
has been disturbed some dozens of times; it conti-
nued till she quitted ; disturbances were always at
throng times, such as assizes and races.
On betag eroas-examined, witness said, he is a
bird-catcher occasionally. 114 was riot employed
by the Society—he had no irrourise from them.
Anu Smith. wife or last witness, has knows' De-
fendant eight years ; has seen many skirmishes and
lightiwg, mud heard murder cried out there were
girls, people of all kinds, gentlemen andipoor men.
‘Yitiress has seen four, five, amid six girls, walk at
twelve o'clock at night with risen; they were very
Indecent frequently. On a Saturday, in the assize
week, there was a riot on the Green, about Moe
o'clock at night. Whit-Monday before last, they
were rioting at day-time, with indecent men and
indecent warners; their " duct was always disor-
derly ; has heard disturbances three or four times a

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night.
Mr. Ilortetst asked why she did not appeal to
a Magistrate ? Witnen riplied, that Mrs. Hayes
told her. " she had uentlenien tricker' on all sides;
it was of no use applytog ;" to witness never tried.
Elizabeth Dolby, lives in Ilungate. Mrs. Hayes
came to live near the wheelie. N'ituess has seen
rude doings, very unlit to mention—very indecent
deeds. She has seen girls and men together, in
very indecent postures; first time witness observed,
was 00 a Sunday night, about seven o'clock, dm-
ing the first month she came, mid witness has seen
it since.
Mr. Hotitiss, on behalf of the Defendant, ad-
dressed the Court and July, at coinsiderable length.
Ile deprecated the Society alto had brought for-
went this prosecution, as au unlawful combination,
a confederacy of limo self-elected, and self-taught;
they are what the world night to deem a nuisance.
My Learned Friend would bare you believe they are
to aid the Civil Magistrate; but I consider them a
libel on the Magistrates; they are a Society gut to-
gether to do what the Magistrate. ought to do ;
the hues know of no. such Society; the laws give
no authority to them ; mid I should be glad to know
what instance they have hr.ught forward which was
refused by the Magistrates ? Some few years ego,
this city was particularly Infested with nightly de-
pretitur, and the Magistrates stepped forward ill
a very proper manner, and brought them to punish.
[tent, whilst these Societyuineti skulked in the
back-ground. If they are suffered to continue,
they will be peeping into private families, raking
out their inmost secrets. Institutions of this sort
are dangerous and unworthy ; they are not omen'''.
.rd by Imo ; they have a power to crush any private
individtril. ‘V hat month the country will be safe ?
The purse of this Society may bo turned egaitt.t
him, and bring ruin upon hit fortune. Who
knows What other views they have besides those
they profess? In the licentious titre of Charles I.
society of this sort was brined, and was thought
a lendable institution, mid no doubt was enter-
. tenanted of its being soda ; it was suffered to con-
tinue; and in time grew in power, and extended it.
over the constry; xt,..% the means of it, the
Government was overt and the Monarch
brought to the block. If this Society be comity
mowed by the jones of the country, the lower or-
ders tire runt.-d. IL. tronsidered the Society ill em-
ployed : if they had been employed in bringing of-
enders to justice fur steeling goods, it would have
been prsise.worthy ; hut, as it wu, lie utsmitleteil it
a conspiracy, indictable at common law, by a ham-
ber of grant' men joining their lames together Ivy-
press thosewhO may fall tinder their disapprobation.
—The Lesrued Counsel then Commented on the
evidence brought against the Delendatit, our en-
treated theist to weigh it well,- nod not pay ally at-
tention to any reports which had come to their ears,
but entirely lay them out of their consideration.
—The Defendant was iudicted sonic time ago. wild
that indictment was quwilie4l; but the Society will
not give up their purpose, they have conjured up
another, and gone a full year and a half bark to
prove the complaint. He said lie had soineevideuee
to offer.

Jonathan Calvert lives in the neighbourhood ;
proved the hens. was locked up the night of the
Saturday in the aysiz.- week.
Being que.tioned by Mr. DICISMI, the witness
said, Mrs. Hayes r rose mod opened the door, and
a heap of omen rushed in.
Henry Sonith, publican, Peaselinlin.green, said,
that Mrs. Hayes removed upon r *4liturday in the
ashore week, and lot Led op the house ; remembers
a tit of a quarrel that ev.
&iug croas•e:ataused by Mr. McKim, witness

said, he never found her any iiti4amce ; he had
sio reason of cinuplaint ; she wns no customer to
the witness ; he reside,. five yards from her house.
Thomas Nicholson lives in Uunßate ; he wag
countable ; ha never saw any riot in the assizes
before last ; MN. llayes sent for the witness to
protect her house ; witness took two men to the
watch-house.

Being cross-exitnined by Mr. Dream's., witness
said, there were no girls nor Mrs. Hayes, there; her
buy came for the witness.
Mr. DICkENS rose, and replied to the evidence
adduced by the Defendant. As to what her Coun-
sel had stated respecting the Society in Charles l.'s
reign, Mr. Dickens solemnly protested, that the
Society he represented, consisted of Gentlemen,
the greatest part of wham he 1,1/lacquiainted with,
and who, like himself, would. W0(1734011 should re-
quire, spend the last drop of. their blood in dsfence
of their beloved Sovereign.
The RECOHDER SLAW(' to the Jury, that, upos
their oaths, they were to decide according to the
evidence only. The panegyric on behalf of the
Society, and the philippic against it, might liin‘r
been spared.
The Jury brought in a verdict of Cathy; urn,:
which Mr. lllov.Hast row, and moved an arrest ,of
judgment, wich was o'er-ruled by the Court.
On Tuesday, being the adjournment of the Sea.
'ions. the Defendant was brought up for sentence,
when, after a suitable admimition front the Bend,,
she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
and to be confined to hag& labour in the filousem?
Correction.
At the above adjourned Sessions, an indictment
was tried on the prosecution of the Society,
one F.lisabeth Lee, for a similar offence, attended
with the aggravation of her having prostituted her
own daughters.
The 'Defendant was found Guilty, and verdencied
to the same punishment as Hayes.

The West India fleet, 30 in number, sailed front
the Cube of Cork, on Saturday twesung, the atk
instant, under convoy of the Roinhourtligate. and
Reindeer sloop of war. They cleared the harbour
before night with a light wind. Major-Gen. Lord
CLARINA nod suite, and Lady CLARIPIA, took then
passage in the Concord., merchantman, fir his Lord-
ship's command in the West Indies. Capt. Wt.
RUPP has gone out as hie Lortiship'it Aid-de-ea:op.
We are hippy to hear that letters have been ►e.
ceived from Major DAVID LECKY, who was taken
prisoner at Talavera, cud alio has effected his
escape, together with Lieut. Illtentero‘attur,
the neighbourhood of Derry. These gentletnea
were on their march from Madrid towards France,
when they found means to elms r the vigilance of
their escort, and, after traversing a great part of
Spain on foot, swimming crew' rivers, and endur-
ing a ►ariety of hardships they had reached the
British head-quarters in safety. We have rectifed
some further particulars of the escape of these of-
ficers, which shall he published ou Saturday.—
Dublin Evening Post.)

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coon*, of Chester, D.J. Nicholls, Esq. of ;Vetch. Pot, IS
the enmity of Montgomery, to Miss Mary-Aline, young's*
dauchier the Rev. Robert Harrel., of Hale Lodge, in the
county of Chester.
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December 1765.
On Tuesday last, at Fulmerielate, in the enmity of Bache,
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