The National Register.
London, England, 1808-12-04 00:00:00

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the prisoner was Sayer., the ..A '.w-strevot litli itr, ,and ;oust take
:ilia into custody. The witness...began to rep;;-ailate, hut the
other said he had better behave handsome, asol give him some-
hilt& to he quiet. Ile wool i take 301 anti say on more ala;,at
t. The witness said he was tit.l worth 5..11: 110 -then 100 emit
his demand to .101. 301. 201. and at length' to 1(11. llc said if
•;e had not toe latter sum ite might Imo it something to make it;
.up, and, induced li• his threat, the w it.t, SS liaolled his gold,
watk h. and made up 101. which he gave the prionsr. During-
• :lis conversation the witness hail di.closed •his residence. Vie.
;lest day the prisoner tame to hum o ith aimil,er mat, whom he
-aid was Wiikin.;.o., and toid him that the athir oaf. known at.
Bow-street, and he had been obliged to divide the IN. and(
therefore lie must give him another 101. This the i.rasevittoil
also complied with. Ile came
,again on a third day,-and got
two guineas-more. At length hp went to 13ow-street,•4o km)*
whether he• was really Sayers*, the o:W.:yr, or hots he thesi
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' learnt that the whole was a het.' tn. lie was di; reted the oest
time he came to details him in c nversation moil he sent to the
(Ace; he did so, and 'by that watts the prisoner was appre-
hended.—The Jury found him fiailfo.
lie was tried on n second itidiitineat with .lames: Coddington,
the person whom he had rept&estted a 4 Wilkinsou, and they
Were both found Gui:ty.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
ASSAULT WITH AN INTENT TO RAVISH.

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TILE KING V. risNi MIN DLACON.
This was ti case of unparalleled atrocity, the particulars
of which are so base and so abominable, as weli ass inde-
corous, that we are necessarily prevented from giving it
in detail. Front the evidence of the innocent and injured_
individual, who was not more than eight years old, Mid a
rela.tise'of the culprit, there *as wore than enough front
wheuce to elicit the crime aargeilin die indictment, for had
the offender been charged before another Omit for a cap,-
oireme. his fate, perhaps 4 Yfiuld not have been tloubtlul.
As it was, there was abundance of proof, in addition
to ltis
own confession %Awn taken before the magistrate, to fix ts to.
with the 'crime charged. Ills counsel, one of 'whom It a 4
Mr. Altey, urged every art :re and every; observai;ol
than ingenuity, or the rcasonin faculties ttpott a
case could display. But a discerning
.ittry, considering tr,o
•wvirietice before them, under the cautious and itniarti.il
summing up of the learned Chairman, found hint
to the satisfaction of the whole Court, and of a numerous:
auditory. Judgment deferred.
Friday a Medical Gentlemae, of great respectability
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his profession, was indicted for an assault, with an intent to
commit au abominable offence. 1 private soldier, of the 3d
regiment of Foot Coati., named .1 lamp, vi as the Prosecutor
The oftence. was rilledgrd to have born committed when he
was on gunril in fit. .111. es Park, about half past eleven o'clock.
on a rainy night in the montli of duly last ; but in his testimony
be exhibited so many instances of prevarication, awl the De-
fendant having :A11141.11 a chat:loer for the must unimpeachable
morality ic-pectabilitv, fang a longli>t of professional and
other genii:mien oho hail known hint for many )ears, the Jury
found him Aut