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New Street office, proved•that letters were tent to
'.. Mr. Pitt in May, 1816, signed by Mr. Milne (one
of the Detinderii.), alio is Secretary to the Com-
missioners for the New Street. Mr. Cornell is a
clerk under the same Commission. The, letter ,of
Mr. Milne of the 23d of May, 1816, acknowledges '
the receipt of the Plaintiff's offer for 11'llite's house
in the Haymarket, but the Commissioners declined
inakiins uny otter. A letter from Mt. Milne, of the
1341 i Stine, 1816, stiles that the Contonssioners
will declior eutering into any contract of reference
in•which Mr. Pitt should be proposed as an urhis
trots,.
George White proved that in filmy, 1816, lie was
Linssesselfof a (louse, No. 53, Haymarket, and that
, file. Pilt came to him at litig-hrosi, soil agreed to
purchase his interest in it, awl he .4,1(1 it in hint '
foe SSW. ; he Raid at iirst be did not wont it for the.
1 . New kloreet. hut after the agetement was signed lie
acteLoWiedg,4l ihat it was for the Commissi(aiera lie
wanted it. Afterward* when called upon for pay-
. went of the money, Mr. Pitt stated his inability
to par the money. lie ultimately sold the house
himself for: gilt)!. to tile Commissioners. . .
Frederick 11 Folsech proved.that he lived in a
laripe at No. 357, Geoid-awe!, iu: 1816. • los '
Mari-lr;'18.16, lie lead it... 4 m 4'er that his premises *ere
Wanting li•Yll4e Commivsioners for the New Street.
He ritsployed Mr. Pitt us his agent ; Mr. Pitt
knew nothiseg of his letting the premises to Mr.
Srlitoeder ; the witnesa did not take his advice upon
it ;4. Mr. Pyke, his attorney, managed the business
for hem. Mr.• Pyke was recornantittled by Mr. l'ltt
tcollfin. A -bond «ma given icy ii Mr. Benson for
11. e• p syment or die rrio.. Mr. like ripolted to
hint that aciisoit7sapa evortli 3,0001. Ile (waiters)
wos duped in thu husioess, lnuAlie.Plilltliff had
nothing to tlo with it. • •
Witness Brii+olll Mall ellikill, • bit the Learned
JUDGg interposed. to .top lii+ etttlet.er. as (litre was
liollolll._ to spew soy connexion of the Plaintiff
with the letting to Schroeder. •
Mr. Thoogrr tendered the office copy of the re.
cord of the proceedings iii the Court of King's
Ileisch, which was read, aLd that clusetl the case
fur the Defendants.
Mr. Pt TT replied at considerable lentth. but the
latene•O of the h. en r sit which the trial closed pre-
vents our giving any part of his speech.
The- Lea Turd Jud;.;e summed up the evidence
very minutely.- Ile conceived that not a shadow of
proof hail liet•n odelliced to implicate Mr. Huskis..
sua,,„..atid IL , ,11 the conduct or the other De-
feiselantsivas, too equally clear fr blame, yet there
.....
wris.hither ground for an action of slander than a
charge of conspiracy.
The Jury deliberated for a , few minutes,, when
they returned at iliac o'clock a verdict of Rot
Guilty.

WESTMINSTER S4SSIONS, OCTOBER 19.

Mary Tagil* was inducted for having received
a set ul h•irneas, the property of George Popelitid,
knowing it to be stolen.
Il app. wed iir evidence that the Defendant kept
what Ni called an old iron ahopl and was also a dealer
in marine stores. The .Proteculor is an officer hr.
longing to the' police establishment of Queen-square,
whose stable we. broken into by means of a sktle-
tou key, and the harness sttslen therefrom on the
sth May last. In consequence of some information
which lie received. he obtained a search warrant for
the Defendani'a preints, NO in a trunk nailed up
and standing ands r a table w the 'parlour, he found
the harness in question. :lin' Defendant said she
bad advanced Ore shillings upon it to a moo whom
aloe did not know, neither diet she know the conients
of the box.
From the'evidence of the servant girl it appeared
that tire box woe the. property of her 'Maim,, and
hail been in her itowlimtits previous to the robbery.
She al.o swore to having. even the h, mess previous
It, the search made by the officer* in her mistreats's
parlour covered with a alitwl.
The Jury Loud her Guilty, and the Court sen-
tenced her to three months' imprisonment in. the
House of Correction.
• Mr. WALFORD 'applied to the Court to ',treat
the recogoizances or Joh. Fly and 14'in. Griffiths,
who were indicted for a riot at Knightsbridge on
the day or fir funeral of Honey and Francis, they
not appearing to take their trial.

The COURT satd,,the recoguizances could not be
estreated till the last troy of the Se.sions, es the De.
fend4nts might °Tiptor at the latest period.
Mr. WALFORD said he shnuld defer his motion
till the time poiartrd out by the Court.

SOUTHW el liti SESSIONS.

Yesterday these S, s•ions commenced before the
Right Hon. the LORD MAYOB, the COIRMON SEW-
JEANT. &C. •
Siephets Tidy was indicted for an assault upon a
married female, named Marg-aret N.-o
The Prosecutrix is she trite of a builder in the
Borough, and on the night of the 13111 of March
was going down the Borough-road upon some busi-
ness, whets she was attacked by the Detenduitt,
whom she had never seen before, and who imme-
diately hit her over the head with' a I.d old large
saucepan several tirnes and ultimately krt her on
the ground iii a stale of insensibility. She was rt
that time eight • months advanced in pregnancy,
and a premature labour followed the same night,
its consequence of the siob.iire. The child is im-
perfectly formed, and blind of one eye, she judged
to consequence of the violence she received ; her
temple, where she was struck, still bore the mark
of a most violent blow.
A person who itiw the outrage corroborated the
statement of the Prosecutrix.. •

A midwife .tated the most serious effects oldie
outrage upon the peraon, and also the infant of the
Proseentrix.
Mr. BARRY addressed the Jury on behalf of the
Defendant, and pleaded, in mitigiciuu, dist he was
intoxicated, and that he now frit most poignantly
for the injury he Lad inflicted in a fit of drunken
madness. Verdict--(4i/iy.
The COMMON SERJEANT commented with much
feeling on the cow, and seutenced him to be itu-
prisos►rd for six months.
These were two rather cares of aggravated as-
sault upoil married females hied• niter. In both
the cases premature labour was produced by the
violence, and in our of them the intent was marked