The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-27 00:00:00

SI}ERII'IS' COURT, TUESDAY, OCT. 26.

D. ELLISTON.
This wee an action for daninees, brought by the plaintifT, Mr.
Win. Henry Williams, a comedian, against the defendant. Hobert
at. Ellisten. Esq the patentee of Chary-lane theatre. Mr. Ellis..
ton having suffered judgment to go by default, a Jury was now
impannelled merely to assess damage-se
The Jury being sworn,
Mr. A not.rut us, as Counsel for the defendant, said be was an-
tilmiscd to make a proposition which, he doubted not, would
uoviate the necessity of going into the case. He was ready now
to admit that the plaintiff, alt. Williams, had just grounds for
complaint: in a moment of ungovernable preen.. to which we
amt all sometimes subject, Mr. E. so far forgot himself as to mission
Mr. W. in a gross and vi. i:nt manner, and for which he ( Mr.
A.; would undertake to say, that the aggressor felt truly sorry.
He trusted that his I.eamed Friend, Mr. Phillips, who appeared
is: the plaintiff, would nut object to nominal damages, which
would of course carry costs. The good feeling that once existed
between the parties previous to the unfortunate transsetion which
pro !need the present action, had suffered no breach in consequence;
7:lr, Williams had been performing with Mr. Elliston in London,
Leamit,gten, and many other plans since that, and there was no
dnuht that Mr. Williams's services, as a comedian, were held in as
-high repute by Mr. Elliman as ever; and that his engagement
weld not be at all effected by this circumstance.
Mr. PHILLIPS said, that. after the handsome decimation of
Mr. Elliman, made through his learned Friend (Mr. Adolphus).
I:e would undertake on the part of his client, to wept the pro.
position. Mr. Williams had no vindictive feelings to consult,
no sordid appetite to gr.dify ; his only wish ems to sustain the re.
spectshility of the profession, of which he was a highly respectable
rounbcr.
Tuns the ;Stir terminated. Many anon, Ste. wire present.

SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS,

Tuisnmr. OCT. Wu

Jens Baker, aged MI, was indicted foe stealing fifteen *deer
spoons, and various ether articles, value DM, the property of
master, James Yates.
The prisoner was a servant to Mr. Yates, and in consequence of
various articles being occasionally missed. suspicion fell upon her,
when sine acknowledged that she had stohm dam • altsalso said
that she lad met with n young man, (whole name 'did not trans.
pin,) with whom she hid been intimate about five weeks, when he
tad her he had become bound fa a person, and unless she could
assist him, he would be utterly ruined. She said the had no rim-
try, but he advised her to male rase of some snicks which were
her medal's. She was in consequence prevailed on to take the
plate, kr- mentiunid in the hulletment, and she pawned them at t
three different pawntrakers, h: waiting outside the shops to receive
the duplicates and money.
She was found iv. dry.
The CRAII HA X (It. Meager, Esq.) sentenced her to 14 years'
transportation.
Joseph Fry was indicted for stealing two shawls and other arti-
cles. value sk, the pnitieriv of Charles Fox Smith.
Mr. Smith stated, that he was a silk,itercer and drawer, at No.
Cl, Blackman-street, Borough, in partnership with Harriet Smith ;
the prisoner was his Merman ; on the rooming of the*2fith August,
in cnnseamence of his suspicions that the prisoner had mbbed hint,
be seirclial his boa. In which he found two shawls, three lace
wsils. and some gamma, the whole of which the prosecutor was po-
sitive had been stolen nut of the stock in the shop ; the prisoner was
lament when the hex was searched, tied, on the gervls being found,
be exclaimed, "Oh find. Mr. Smith. I here you will have mercy
on me, as it is the first time II ever dialer." thing of the kind." Ile
also said, it was through a person named Evans, another of the pro.
wmtor'sahnpreen, who had been discovered in the morning by one
• the apprentirca in the act of robbery, and had decamped.
The parcel in which these articles were wrapped, the prisoner said
had keen given to him the night previous by Eases, who asked three
to met care of it for him, and that it was some dirty linen.
The prisoner, in bus defence, said, that Evans gave him the
roods. desiring lidu to put them in hi; box. Ile thought, by
Esans'a flurried manner, that there was something wrong, but he
did not know what it was.
Mr. TII ESSIG. It celled several witneases, who gave him an un-
ears ptionatde eharamer for several tears.
rite Jury mutt ad a verdict of Guilty.
Tho prisoner was sentenced to seven years' transportation.

On Friday morning last, a tin., younr, deer, about threr
Tears oLI, was ohativcd on the farm of Mr. M'illiams, of
Ruckston, in the parish of Langarreu, about sin miles from
Ross. It being only eight o'clock when firNt scot, the
howls of Mr. Taylor, of Marstow Fanu adjoining, went.
scat for, and Immediately laid on. It'lrn roused, he made
far Mr. ltollin‘s estate of the Grove; and after making sr-
veral circuits over the atkjoiniug parishes, and many times
crottintr the river Oarron, be was, after a capital chase of
two hours anti a half, taken in that river, near Mr. Donles,
of Langunnock, in the former pariah.

MIDI3LESEX sEssjoNs,
TuEsuAy, (CT. 26.

Patton, Elliott, and Caonthes, servants, stood Indicted for an
assault on Wolf Harris, a jew vender of old clothes.
Dlr. Ptnt.Ltes stated the case for the prosecution.
The prosecutor swore point blank to the commission of the assault,
and a Iriend (3loses) supported hint.
Mr. A DOI-PHU:3 addressed the Jury for the prisoners. The lower
orders of the Jews were used to disgrace themselves in Courts of
Justice, even to the disgrace of humanity. His clients never cont.
nutted the assault. Their master. Colonel Townsend, son of Lord
Sidney, haddirected his solicitor to defend them at his expense.—
He was the last man, from his birth and breeding, who would take
such a step, if he had not been certain of their innocence. des k.DeSSICS would conic forward to prove that they had seen no assault,
and that if an sault had been committed, they must have seen
One of thew tnesses for the defence having stated that he saw
blood on the mouth of the prosecutor.
Mr. PHILLIPS—Oh, ! there!
Mr. A oni.ritus—This is most irregular Mr. Phillips; these
interruptions air very itnproper ; they disturb the course of justice,
and often breed ill blond among the bar.
Mr. Put I.I.IPS—We had no ill blood yesterday, Mr. Adolphus.
(Mr. Adolphus did not attend this Court ye.itertlay.)
31r. A tiol.efir s —Perhaps so, Mr. I'hilhps ; but that was an
answer which I could not expect front you.
Mr. PHILLIPS in his reply. denied the truth of the 'weeping Im-
putation against the credit tit all the lower order of Hebrews; such
an opinion was at best lint a sectarian prejudice. For his own part
he thought that himself and all his fellow men were going to the
r.ante gtcat destination, but by different reeds.
Vinlict—Patton, Coilty ; Elliott and s'oombs. No; Guilty.—
Judgment on Patton—"A tine of It. fit. to the King."
Mrs. Keerno, a pinmp, jolly, good-humoured.looking dame stood
charged with an assault tut another of the Hebrew nation, Mr. B.
Lewis.
Lewis stated that he was standing at his own door, doing and
saying nothing under Heaven, when the prisoner came op with a
bowl of dirty or clean waver, (which it was he could not swear,)
raised it between her hands, and dashed it into his Innocent face.—
This was an Immersion so sudden and so very shocking as to take
away, for the moment, the use of his breath, and brains. soil eyes.
However, he soon atteinpted to remonstrate, but was cut short in
the inidn.le, or rather the beginning, or his oration by the prisoner
elevating the boson a second time and dashing it at him. Mrs.
Keeran oo gooney saw her basun broken, than she snatched up the
numerous fragments and flung them in poor Benjamin's counte-
nance. Prosecutor swore he had not said nor done any the slightest
thing to provoke or merit such an aecumulaticn of violence.
This
story the prosecutor told with a querulousness of tone, anti empha-
tic illustration of attitude and gesture, which kept the Court in
roars of laughter.
Mr. Pit Luis (to the proseentar)—Did you call the prisoner any
names ?
l'rossentor-1 might, hut don't exteely rememher what I said.
Mr. I'IIILLIPS—Did you call her a name beginning with a
w—?

Prosecutor —I don't know.
31r. Pit 11.1.1 rs.—Oh, perhaps you begin it with a v?
Mr. A noLvitua—No, no, I daze say he begins it with an A ?
( A laugh.)
The quarrel appeared to bare originated on a professianai jea-
lousy between two neighbours, who happened to be old clothes
venders.
Verdict_Yoe