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dace a " baubry," sw as it was explained, to " kick up a row,"
sprung his rattle violently. This naturally alarmed the defeudehfs
who now caste forth, anil'on observing the plaintiff #ery forernear
Ii thwireiley crowd that had assembled, he exclaimed that he had
Wog watched loran opportunity " to do her," and !without further
Piok•Y gave her is charge, and she was instantly esoortsd to the
Watehhouse, ober, she was detained for the space of two hours,
The plaintiff had bete sebsequently indicted out this charge at the
klbssions for keeping a disorderly house, and she was note expiatiaL
her offence in 'rothiltields !Thom. The examination of severtl
the fair Cyprianwexcited much laughter.
Isabella Ratcliff was particularly pressed by the 0011 NOW
0/1110IT to give a description of the house, and the use made of it
by' her mistress, the plaintiff, to which she laconically replied.'—
" I've nothing more, to say."
By the COURT.—But you have something more to nay. You
must answer that gentleman's questions.
Mr. Dr.'s staw.—Now state what sort cf a house your Misuest
kept.
Witness.—Apparently determined—" I've nothing more to
• Mr. DEXUAIt—Nay, but you must answer me : Came, come.
whiff soft of a house was this ?
Witness.—With .evident impatience. Lord, Sir, you gentlemen
there eh knows *hat son of a house it was bitter than I can tell
you. (Laughteri
Several other witnesses having been examined, it was suggested
by the Cover that a Juror should L. withdrawn, which was ac.
cording!, done.

CO-11-/IT OF COMMON PLEAS, Mow DAY, Arm 11.

• SCALIS a'. CRESIALL.
•
Mr. Sergeant Vatrunax stated the case. This was an action
brought by the plaintiff, a carcase butcher, in Whitechapet„ against
the defendant, a carrier in Easel, for losses sustained by bun in
consequence of ill-treatment to his horses by the defendant. The
action was not brour lit so much to recover damages as for ungrate-
ful conduct of the defendant. In 1823 the defendant had sulfe:ed
great losses by the death of several Ironies, and applied to the plain-
nfr, who ofnreil to lend him a horse and pony for a sheet time, pro.
Tided proper care was taken cf them. The defendant expressed his
grultude for the kindness, as he was then too poor to boy any
horses. In about two months after the horses had been lent the
defendant returned divot in n wretched condition, so misfit so,
that the plaintiff' sees put to a good deal of espronie in en/I.:avow.-
ing to restore them to it proper state. He was tH. odd oat of packet
for surgical care and keep, and lost upwards of 111. by.the sale or
the horse, in consequence of his deteriorated condition.
Hr. Sergeant PELL for the defendant, contended, that the evia
dente did rnt support the allegation in the declaration as to the
period the horses were lent. In fact they were both in no good
condition at the time, as would be proved by wimesses in the
service of the defendant. The horses had been lent in 1823, and
though the plaintiff' professed to have sustained to much damage
by their deteriorated condition, yet he forebore to bring the anion
1825.

Justice GASVLEE fell it to the Jury to decide between the
cos rradictory evidence of the parties.
The Jury returned a verdict for the pfsintiff—Damages ISL

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Aram 11.

OLD. COURT.
Before Mr:Sep-ant Allan's and a Middlesex Jury.
Thee are upwards of 200 prisoners remaining fbr trial, Inn the
offence. charged are mostly of a minor description.
Joseph Maarll (who was convicted with Denman on Saturday
evenirg) was put to the bar, to plead to the. charge of et.saulung
Thomas Cozens on &Fe King's highway, putting him in fcat, and
taking from his person as. his monies..
The pri.oner pleaded Not Guilty. .
Mr. BRODERICK was instructed to say, that in consequence of
the prisoner having been convicted of another offence, which sub..
jetted him to be trat:sported for life, be should not edit any evi-
dence In this ease.

The prisoner tru therefore acquitted.
JUDGMENT ON JOSEPII..I.I9.IJpDS AND FREDERICK

DEN3IAN.
Mr. Sergeant A R ADM, in delivering the judgment of the Court*
said, in order that society may he rid of such pests as both of you
are, the sentence of the Court is, that each of yeu be transported
beyond the seas for the term of your natural lives.
The prisoners both wept as the sentence was pronouncing.
JUDGMENT ON lIENRY JOHN ASHLEY.
The prisoner, a men lad, was convicted on Friday of stealing a
hat in open day. It appeared that the prisoner was excited to com-
mit the robbery, in order to qualify him for an entrance to the
Refuge Mt the Destitute.

Titre prisoner WWI ordered to be Wenn/any *hipped in the gaol,
and then discharged.
Edward Crawley. aged 17, Janus Cqr,sd 21. and Edward
Davis Duna,
.aged 17, were indicted for Meaklag into the house of
Alexander Brice, Esq. in Euston-square, and stealing thertin a
cruet frame, and other article:: of plate, his property.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
.loha William, wk.; indicted fur telonioesly entering the honer
of Thomas Watkins, and stealing various articles of *caring ap..
parel.
Verdict—Guilty of stealing under the value of 10s.
IPilliune Becby wee tried fur stealing a bi. Rank note, the pro.
pally of Elizabeth Fuller.
The Jury returaed a verdict of Guilty.
Mary A.ra Palmer was indicted for stealing a watch, a guinea,
and Ills., the property of William Scott.
The prisoner, in defence, said the watch Wes given lir: in
money.

The primer WAS Aegnified.
NEV COURt.
Bertre the Rrt ORDER.

I.ldbetlee, convicted last Sessions, and in whose ewe tho
point w.is reserved for the opinion of the Twelve Judges, whether
the prosecution was or was not legal, was brought up tills morning.
when

- The RZCOIDER nit', that notwithstanding the crime was
brought home satisfactorily in the opinitm of the Jury to the pri-
soner, yet a point, as above stated, was reserved. The Judges.
the Recorder said, had since, upon consideration, determined that
the prosecution was a legal one. The sentence of the Court upon
the prisoner therefore we., that he be imprisoned in 'Senate for
the of frm rnonts, to commence from the day of his
conviction.

The prisoner •as the landlord of the Dolphin public home Ott
Ludgate-hill, and the offence of which he was last Sessions con-
victed, was that of receiving money from a person who had been
robbed, as an inducement for the discovery of the property stolen.
John Loral• and William Slaughter stood indicted for stealing,
on the 21st February, two sues, value 30s. the property of the Eetl
of Harcourt.

The prisoners were both found Gsf.!tv.
They were sentenced to seven years' transportatiol.
Timms: Biggs, aged 80, was indicted for stealing 46 yards of
flannel, the property of It:chard Aklerson, a shopkeeper in CUM-
ford-street, Bryanstone.square.
Thomas 'Teesdale, the shopman to the prosecutor, proved that
the roll of flannel was tied to the frame of the door In the manner
usual with traders in the hletropolis, and that upon an alarm be.
ing given he ran out, and secured the prisoner in Bfontague.place,
with the roll of flannel under his arm.

The prisoner, as a defence, pleaded distress, nnd the great temp.
'Con of an snide placed in such an exposed situn:ion, bring, as
lie asserted, full six feet from the door.
The prisoner was found Guilty.
The COURT sentenced him to be erhiOped, and eobrined for eight
months in the House of Correction.

Vpon Teesdale applying for the expenses in this ea*,
The REconne a desired him to inform the' proseeutor, Alder-
son, that if anything was again stolen from his shop the Coo,:
would rot allow c.epenses to either prosecutor or witnesses, if it we. •
proved that the articles were placed in a situation so touch expose::
to depredation and so tempting to distress. Ile (the Recorder) sae
this as a warning to the prosecutor, and for the information of
those who adopted a similar practice.
E.'eargye (',mn was charged with stealing the sum of '2s. in ti •
shop of Edward Woodward, a butcher, in Prince's-street',
minster, on the 21st of February.
The ease was fully proved, and the Jury fcund the prisoner
Ghilty ; but the Learned Judge, in consideration of the trivial 113 -
lure of the offence, and her having been confined since Fetrual,.
last, ordered that she should be discharged after one week's impr:•
sonment.
nomas f.ipacorn&c was indicted for stealing some apple.treoi,
on the morning of the ath of it. last, fiom the garden of hi..
William Belton Poynter. North-end, Fulham.
William B. Poynter, the prosecutor, stated, that he is • Marlin(
and resides at North-end, Fulham. On the night nf the 3d..:
Munch the nein he employed as gardener left a quantity of Rapti-
trees laid in the groural, but not planted, and, upon his going him
seif to the garden about six o'clock the next morning, he (atm.!
that upwards of twenty had been stolen. The prisoner at the b .
is Ids tenant, living shout a quarter of a mile from his house, eu.3
suspeetiqg him to be the thief, he went immediatel to search.
found, tied up in a bundle, covered with a mat, alb the end of •
nrisoner's house, and in his garden, the apple-trees which had
Morning been swim.
Bert, the prosecutor's temporary gardener, proved a.'
the trees were not properly treated, but that they were worth fir_:..
9d. to a shilling !.piece.
John King, a jobbing gardener, saw the prisoner about eig!
o'cieek on the morning of the robbery, going from his own hause
with a bundle of trees on his shoulder. Spoke to him, and 11-1
reigUelard by him not to mention that he had seen him omit:. •
anuhi:•g,
!Ur. Poynter re•examined—Saw the trees about six. bet left ti. '
there, because he was obliged to go for some one to identify .
The coostaide who apprehended the prisoner said, he found t ••
in Biainroerstnitk at ten o'clock in the morriry. and that he ,•.•
dared the trees to be big ~wa property. lie certainty found
prisoner's garden many trees used as stocks to grnit tied trees up •
On his cross-essmina,on his witneNsaisdini•ted gilt there r
be apple trees laid by the heels in the iirt.o7er's Evelen, in the SA.: •
state as those in the pro,: color's.
Mr. Poynter adinit.ed he Mai seen some trees oh the prints
which were nut his property.
The prisoner in Ms defence said, that although he had paid Mr.
Poynter 11101. in rent, yet be had lately sea: is a broker to sell 1:4
thi• gs, because he a It 3i. in arrenne
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