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laid he would not hear anybody, and witness then desired
to leave the room : he did so. ENiston followed him, antrelesterSig
plaintiff: " I did not strike you. because if I had I should hemp
billed You." Witness replied that he had already atritck plaited";
littlet owin
owhii.h I.:a d m
llniaton rejoined
a nedsbtrony gigvininang.aitness the lie. Plaintiff' is a
Cetiss-examined.—Witnees has the honour;
but did not accompany plaintiff as his Counsel.
that very few people would take him for aI.
laugh.) Vi'ets thee aware that there had been On
between Elliston and the plaintiff, but recollected
had said, that
.fhere *se some mistMderstaddli
and Elliston ; mit tha plaintiff had atilt! ''
politic prints held Bllrston :up to ridicule
pis hip saying that he,. wopid do so r
Ihk lath can set; that ere miaintiff did
to the theatre for the purpose of
waited teethe-five minutes, dr lialr-an-
nut know whether there was any re tarsal
the back part' of the stage. Witnitee
.with the plaintiff to a elagistrate,ldt witness %
advise hint to change the torte of proceeding fi
ledge; but he did reedninreetelltim to hold
ged
eldieule. The moment f;lliston'tair plainoff,
ciaimpestien, and said to plaintiff, if he Aid not get oils ..... _
• Abb. ICAPLTTT addressed the Jury for the defendant. They
weer tip moulder whether or not the plaintiff had sought or courted
the moth that had been committed on him. He well knew that
tho-dahedent was of an ireitarle temper, and lie had gone to his
theatre for the purpose of exciting that Irritation. He had pre-
viously written to him upon the subject on which he pretended to
go to make personal application. His last tetter the defendant had.
refused to answer, and with that the plaintiff 'might to have beets
aatkfieil. Ife complained that his free admission to the theatre had
been stopped by the defendant. They all knew that these free ad-
missions were matter of courtesy on the part of managers, and
they had a right to stop them when they liked. The defendant had
exercised that sight, and the Jury were not to inquire whether he
had an exercised it discreetly or not. He (Mr. scarlett) was not
very well prepared is resist a verdict against his client, because an
menials had certainly been admitted ; but, under all the eircutn-
Nance*, he thought that the only question for the Jury would be,
whetffet they should give the plaintiff one farthing or one shilling
damages.
The LOAD CHILI .It'ST ICE briefly charged the Jury ; they
consulted together fur about ten minutes, and then returned with i
verdict for the plaiiitiff—damages 801.

APPOINTIfJ IN MIDDLESEX AND •
LONDON, •
Before the Right Hon. Sir Draper Best, Knight, Lord
chic( Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, •
in and after Trinity Term, 1825.
tw rEdx.
MIEIDLESEX. * • LONDON.
Saint - - June 4th. Monday, . - June Ash.
Thuraday, - - 9th. Friday, . —loth.
Wennniday, . . —lsth. Thursday, - —l6th.
AFTER TERM.
Thursday, - - June 23d. Friday . - June 24th.
7'he Court wi'l sit at Oneo'Cloek on June 4th, fith. 9th, and
10th, and at Half-past 141,cprecisely on each of the other days.
SURREY SESSI.O.VS, June I.
Thomas Collins and John Legman, were indicted for assaulting
Georg: Rogers Barrett, Esq.. of Stockwell, on the 14th of May
last. The defendants were m the prosecutor's servi:e as coachman
and footman.
George Rogers Barrett. Esq. deposed, that on the morning
mentioned in the indirtment he was returning from Covent garden
Theatre to his house at Stockwell, in company with Mrs. B. anti
two daughters in their carriage; on arriving at Stockwell, theladieit
entered the house while witness remained near the carriage. The
defendant, Lutman, was sbuttingehe carriage door without putting
up the steps; witness, remonstrated with him. when he still per.
dated. in endeavouring to force the door. Witness pushed hien
away, when he struck him a violent blow, at the same time making
uie of thy foullest langusge, Witness struck Lutman in return,
when Collins jumped off the box sf the carriage and knocked bins
down, and when in that situation, both the defendants continued
lkicPng sad striking witness. Ths private watchman of witness's
premises, and the rest of the servants, rescued witness front further
violence. The defendants, after witness entered the house, continued
the grossest language, and erdeavoured to break open the house
door. iVituess gave the defendants into custody, and the following
day they Were conveyed to Union Rath Witness's face was mucta
disfigured.
The private watchman and several female servants corroborated
the above evidence.
Mr. TuEssw Ea addressed the Jury for the defendants, con.
tending that attt.prosecutor had committed the first assault.
The Jury having consulted for some time, returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The Cnainnsw sentenced the defendants, the former to sits
weeks', and the latter one month's imprisonment, in the county
gaol, and to find sureties to keep the peace, themselves in 401. each,/
end two sureties in 201, for twelve months.

PO Lier
MA RLBOROUG lI.StREET.
Yesterday a man named John Holley was brought before Mr.
DTZI, the Sitting Magistrate, upon a charge of illegally die.
posing of a quantity of copper entrusted to him by his employers
Mr. Sheen, who keeps a wholesale tin and copper manufactory as
Hol born-hill.
The MAGISTE•TE convicted the prisoner in a penalty of
under the Act, besides the value of the property, making 4/.
and in default of payment, he Acts committed for three months to
the House of tkirrection-
Mr. Sheen said, that the depredations committed upon his pro.
party by workmen in this manner was become so very extensive,
that unless something were done to strike terror into them, he must
shut up his manufactory altogether. It was only the other dim
that he had to go down to Bristol after a man who had plunderell
him largely in this way.
Mary Louis, better known by the title of Waterloo Tom, she
having served in the name of TOM Jones luring a great part of th.
Peninsular war, and at the battle of ‘Vasetloo, u a drummer, die_
raised in male attire, with the 32d regiment, being very much
attached to a soldier of that corps, whose fortunes she determined
to follow, was yesterday charged with vagrancy by the officers 0(
the Mendicity Society, who stated that they found her sitting on
the pavement in the streets, affetting to be in fainting fits, and ex.
citing the compassion of the passers by.
In her defence she said, that the fact was site was on her way
from a distant part of the country, wheie she hes been for puma
time residing, and going through town to meet her husband at
Kilburn, where he is at won at present, she fell in with one onset'
military compinione, who settled .ter with something to drink,
which to affected her when she got into the air again, that she was
quite overcome, and obliged to sit dowq to rest on the steps of a
door, when she fell asleep; bat she neither begged nor intended to
beg of any one ; and, as a proof of that, the said she had with her
a bundle of her husband's clothes, thich she wu bringing up 10
him from the country.
The Magistrate inquired how often she had been in custody
before on similar charges, for ht had a perfect recollection of her
person ?
The others said, that this made the sixteenth time she had bees
apprehended.
The Magistrate said, that she had some claim to indulgence that
mert persons under such charges had not ; but she was trespaedng
too much upon that indulgenm, and he would caution her how sites
made her appearance at that office a seventeenth time ; for the pas-
sent ahe should be discharged, and have one more trial. She Imo
then discharged.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday Mr. R. Vermori, of llalkimstreet, Creisvenor.plarue
Mr. W. Deakin, of the White Horse, Buclanghatmgate; Mrs.
d. Janes, of Upper Regent•street, Pimlico; and Mr. J. Burton,
of the Magdalen. all respectable livery stable-keepers, appeared pia
summonses preferred eggnog them for refusing to receive the billet,
and tate into their charge, a certain number of horses belonging
to the 7th battalion of the Royal Artillery, which were ordered so
be quartered on them.
The case against the defendants was proved by the sergeant of
the detachment, and it was not until the cireumetance was made
known to Lord Robert Fitzroy Somerset, when that General pros
cured shelter for the animals in the King's Mews barracks.
The defendants were severally fined in a penalty of U. exch.
UNION-HALL.
CAUTI.ON TO JOIIIINETMEN SUOINIALNIIIL—Vernardity
seven ionmeymen shoemakers, in the employ of Mr. Carter, of
Blackfnars'-road, were brought before the Sitting Magistrate,
L. R. ALLEN, Esq., charged with having absented themselves
from their work, leaving the same in air-unfinished state.
Mr. HARDIE a attended on behalf of the defent'-.nts, all of whose
were included in one warrant.
Previousjo the investigation being entered into, Mr. Harter in.
formed the Magistrate that notwithstanding what had recently
occurred at the office respecting the annoyance he was subject to
by the discontented journeymen parading ap and down before his
premises, the nuisance was now as bad as ever, for neither himself
nor the few men who were left in his service could quit the shop
without being dogged by those appointed by their Society for that
purpose. Mr. Carter then stated that his charges against three
workmen were for hating returned their work in an un.
finished state and refusing to finish it.
Edward Humphries, one of the complainant's apprentioto.
Coenauer, t called.cor cat
ie called
defendants iratehe stated
shop,e/h that
na d
had
idt the tetnhheda
pair
of women's boots and shoes delivered to him, in order to be
which he said
an unfinished stair, ft
aamnaididvteeh:uhoodrpe.triclbiynn
i.natighoehfout:::::
aeeirlkvinlity.elruet:rn:
' finish, declaring that he could not gain
it was impassible for hint .o
told him that
darn ago,
ialwcrsjk"foiigPshriaxer
he was bound to ehtlaltincitch;.wipon pairfinishod,
the defendant

that state, ,
In answer t.
an industrious

can his t'

Mr. ar,
into any i
absented

work in an

11101 oythen work. 11' Knew tnu
bound to finish the work he had taken in hand; how. ver„
his reasons for leaning them ita
andt
n'
ewer a q
on b h repeating
e shy e Magistrate, the witness said that
onions journeyman, at the present Bede of rim. osaw
twenty-Cour or twenty-five shillings a week.
'MINER contended, that u the oefeodiuit oat
implied contract with his swipisipar, the VI et
I himself from the service of bis seaeler,
am ilatigibla state, could as be paggersoi, 'Nash mho

mar of being a Barrister,
•
angel. Witness is afraid
for a Counse,l. Liist laud
been previous diftei aces
:collected that the plaintiff
lerstanding between hint
id that he had la the
de; but does not renal.
again. Witness 11010
I not say that he watt
of insulting Elliman.
run-hour. at the theatee.
aural on at the time they
tress went the someday
less did not subsequently
ig from indictment to an
old Ellistan up to public
Off, be appeared to be In
iid not get out lie would