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Monde,. Janeuty 11.. The drat Seal motions.
lanuery 16; Weshominy. /7;. and
Thursday, 118—Ite•heeriaige shit Appeals. and
such Mks, Deintiettiro, Eseepliana, and further
directions. as are set dean fa bo heard before the
Lord Chancellor. elternirely. Rh Lordship yidl
not proceed on sof motions after the Seal-day
Frith'''. January 19—The second Seel motions.
&turd3y. January 40—Petitions. _
TICL-CRRNCELLOR'II COURT.
Monday, limner, 15—Firet Seal motions.
Tuesday. January 16; Wednesday. 17 ; sad
Thomley, le—Bankrupt Petitions.
Frid•l'. January 19—Second Seel motions.
Saturday. Jekuary 40—Petitions.

wssrmnvsrEx SESSIONS. JANJJAHT 4.
This, morning the business of these Sessions com-
menced before F. Conn. Esq. and a full Bench
of Magistrates.
A hill of indictinest has been preferred against
Mr. Frederick Ammo for petty lerceity, is respect
to the I charged to Is.sve been taken nut of
books belonging to the Itiord !estimate*. Yeeser-•
day the Grand Jury sitting at WestmiOster fetid
a true bill %reins' him. sari his trial is expected to
take place in the present Sessions.
THE KIND N. CHAPMAN AND BAIA..
The Defendants were indicted for an assault, and
interrupting persona passing along Piccadilly, un-
der premium of plying for passengers for the short
stages, which start from the White Horse Cellar.
The indictment was preferred egoism them at the
instance or the proprietors of Machete's Hotel. to
whose house the practice of solicitisig by cads. es
the men employed are technically named, is a per-
fect nuisance. Oit the 4th March, two or three
hundred persons were assembled opposite the Ho-
tel. and the two Defendants were actively engaged
in a sort of battle royal which hart taker place for •
passenger. One of the proprietois of fletchetee,
assisted by the waiter and the inspector ref mail
coaches, went out at the desire of some of the cus-
tomers of the house. who were taki-g them wise
after dinner. and who were annoyA by the long.
continued tumult, and took the two Defendants into
custody. This Ives nut performed without some
danger and personal risk. the inspector of the snail
coaches having had his finger severely bitten, sod
his coat turn from his heck.
These fleets being fully proved. the Jury found
both the Defendants I;siftry. and the Court sen-
tenced them to three mouths' imprisonment is the
House of Correction.
ASSAULT. •
DIM* P. *vim
Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the facts of this case to
the Jury,_which were briefly as follow. The Pro-
water. who M a boy of 16 years of age, living with
his father, • broker and appraiser to Arshetia-place,
Pimlico, had • goarrel and scuttle with another
boy, about 13 years of age, who had armed himself
with a stone to throw at bun. The i'rosecutor be-
ing the more powerful, gut the other down, or was
otherwise confining him sod preversting hiss from
doing mischief with Isis missile, when the Defendant
came up and struck and kicked him.'
Three witnesses were called, who sustained the
preceding statement.
Mr. ANIMISM addressed the Jury for the De-
Ifendant, whom he staled to be a rispeetoble mar.
ket-gardener. residiog at Pulliam, quite unknown
to all the parties. but who, siding by, observed
what he considered all act of cruelty and tyranny by
the Prosecutor, who was greatly an overmatch for
the little boy with whom he was in contest. He
desired the bigger boy to detii.t, end on his re.
fusel. he merely give hits • box on die ear. and
reword the lesser boy from the peril he was M.—
He (Mr. Andrews) would nut say that this conduct
might not to law be cousidered as au @moult. but it
was an assault under such circumstances that pro-
bably not site of the twelve men whom he had the
honour to address (more particularly if they were
fathers themselves) bus what would have been guilty
of the like.
Henry Porter (tbe little boy whom the Defend•
ant had rescued) was then called as a witness,
sworn, and examined. He swore positively to the
blow which the Defendant had given the Prosecu-
tor, being only a slop on the face with the open
hand. and that was after the Prosecutor bad kicked
sit &sod struck Mr. Smith.
The CililltliAtt summed up the evidence, sod
the Jury, after a short consultation, found the De-
fendant Geihy; but the Foreman added, that
they considered Mr. Smith to have acted from a
humane motive.
The Cnaiauaw admonished the Defendant,
fined 401. and discharged him.

THE KING H. KINKY ILLP.
This was an indictment for an assault and riot.
On the Slat or August a great crowd of people
were orrembrd in Si. J ames's-square, - wait* to see
her Mijeasy go down to the Parliament House;
Mr. Mills was there taken into custody by some
Bow-street officers, and as they wereconveying him
along the Strand in a coach therwere followed by
a mob of between two and three hundred persons,
who exhibited every disposition to rescue him from
their custody. Opposite Hungerford Coffee-house
I stones sod brink-bats were thrown at the
officers., and the Prisoner, who was in front of the
crowd, was observed by ono of the officers in the
act of throwing something. at the same time groan-
lug and hissing at the officer.. who immediately
seised him. sod with some difficulty conveyed Itimi
to Bow-street.
James Wayten, • Bow-street officer. and one of
those who had Mr. Mills in custody, swore posi-
tively to the person of the Prisoner, as being the
man whom he saw with • brick-bat in his baud.
Wm. Wootton. • patrol belonging to Bow-
street. confirmed the witness Waylen's account of
the Primmer being ooe of those who groaned and
hooted at the officers; bet although he bad his
eye on him just before he was seised, he did not
see him throw any thing.
Mr. ANDREWS addressed the Jury for the De-
fendant (who was a young man of decent, not to soy