The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-14 00:00:00

NAIIONAL itimitTrit

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
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SAIVRVAY, APRIL 12.—" Two gentlemen named Lucas, who
reside in Otturd-street, were indicted for no sunk upon John
Pryor, the t of • Mr. Steel, who reides near the defen-
dants, and between whom and the defendants there has been a
misunderstanding for some time.
It appeared on the part of the prouention, that there was •
gateway down whibb lay the &tallies of the4dainliff and defied-
dents, and that some disputes had.arisen rehttiae to the right of
way ; that the prosecutor in passing slung was suddenly
attacked by both the defendants, who tore the clothe* from his
bark and b. at him.
For the defence it was stated, that Pryor bad trespassed upon
the premises of the defendants, and that they had merely col-
lared him to put hint in charge of the watch, who was called by
them for the purpose.
The Jury found them—Guilty, and the/ were sentenced to
pay a line of 101.

W A :7WICK ASSIZES.
William Astbary, a yoneg alas of genteel appearance, wed
.25 y cur, Mary, his wife, aged 27, and•flilarat
mother, aged 16 sears, were plated at thu bar, charged .with
feloniously forging and gotraterfeiting the win of this realm.
The facts were clearly prayed in evidesei as far as regarded
the man, but not the women.
His Lordship they sinnited op the evidence, and expressed
great doubt whether the evidence sufficiently affircted the fe-
males to wirrau!the Jun=tur.ningsicdffilidiciseamy against
them; but lett 4.0 them in rray riteinuirs ionald be soy doubt of
Anthory'e guilt.
The Jury, in five ninnies, proatinseed W. Asthery,Ocßty,
and the females both not Ga.lty, but reamismended the firmer
to mercy, on armored erf his previous geed aharacter.
•His,Lordship prooseded "cress simians of death epos the
nonviot, the women. having.beire takes by his orders from the
,dock. His Lordship osiatt that led was the extent to which
the eefortnnete Twists welsod waried ea the practice of coining
, base money, that oliffmer he should mosey to the Crown the
I nientemendatioe of tbs. try, yet the prisoner could not lope for
'lsere,. and he advised hire to prepare for the worst.
,4*o MILDER AND lijleCriwsl.
SOONER Y.—Charles Thomas Seymour, (relative to the Marquis
of Hertroid) a young man, elegantly attired in black, 2$ years
of age, was placed at the bar, charged on, cn indictment with
basing, on the night of the nth of August last, stopped one
John Devil, on
.the King's highway, in the parish of Aston,
neer Birmingham, with feloniogaty shootiag him with a pistol,
intending to reorder him, and with 'dealing from his pertain Its.
fee.
The trial of this ynotig gentleman", excited hi ails and the
oeighboarlug comities. the greatest ietereat, and the Court was
• 'weeded at an early boar."-
• Mr. Common SergesoYDeorate slated that Ls was oottnitsl
Ibr tut prisoner, and Ire believed he was insane and incapable
of pleading.to the
~,Xdietment.
MG Clark, tbertierk of the arraigns, read over 00 indictment,
sad nailed limn the wormed to plead. The Judge also called
• op to him 10Plsod, WI he reansined male.
!The Jos; was impanelled to decide if be wee capable of plead-
jag, or if be was,suute through lbe visitation of Lod.
Doctor Lew/rd sworn-4 bare r:isited lb. prisoner almost
daily since JAnnary the Ifith ; I base been with him an hone
together, aid I have bad a full opponenity of forming a corned
opinion ciao the state of his mind. lam .decidedlg.coevinced
that he's issue his lingerer' .is tooolaerost, tad elm cannot
underridand what is said to Wu. 1 SO convinced that he is an.
able. to know the nature of the indictment; or to plead to it.—
'Nuts is somettiia4 vary particular about hie eyes, they are di.
'oiled, and it is likely he has water on the braio. His poise has
:bees as high as 160. 1 dorsal believe he will ever recover
from his present seelenelluly sitastioa.
The Jury instantly prommaced him mote by the visitation of
God.
.'Phi loused ,Judge osinuirined him under the statute to•side
custody during his Majesty's pleasure.
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Od the 31st of March last, John Townsend, the
pedestrian, set nut to walk non' Coventry to Warn ick.
. and return the 5.1:15t day, being 66 miles, whnli he WAS
to walk within sixteen hour, each day, for sis successive
days, being in the whole 396 miles, which he 'performed
in the presence of thousaials, having 6iiished his labo•
tidos task oil the sth of Ainal A baud DI music'
ushered hint into town. In the evening he walked
round the stage ttf the Coventry theatre 70 and hill
tins s, Isola a mile, in e-ght ininittes and five seconds.
Berhshi-e Easier Sosians.—Chose sessions wese held at
Newbury, on Tuesday lost.--•Seteral 'Jerson. were con:
,acted of petty offences, and sentenced accordingly...-
John Becket' -vas Convicted mom two indictments ; tile
one for all assault, with intent to cut ;;;;; it a rape, upon
his niece, a child of urnr years of ag' 1 cud :the other
for a similar offence upon Sarah Sherman, a child of
clef en years of •tge. 'rise horrid delimit'• tit was sell
fenced to three years hard labour, and, to 6titi surety in
501. for erten years. Malheur Stroud, fur assaulting
Vliaibeth Pal tridge, at Wasutsgt...tu be coif 1W 12
ttttt us, all fined Is.
Meadfra Accidoei..-4)o the 2d inst. as swo men in
the employ of )dr. litook, brewer, at (..)id 13rentford,
were returning home with a dray, laden chiefly with
empty casks, übont rllll o'clock is, the evening, one of
them took It's staipm amongst the casks at the I)..cit of
the dray, and the other got up sideways upon 411 e hack
of the middle home, winch started at the light nl a
window ou Turnhout (Intel', and he fell off; the wheel
turnoff then:llp of his head,so that a third part of his scull'
appeared, anti the other side fractured, nutty' thstandina '
which, the pour fellow (who was rettiored to St. tit-urges
Hospital) lingered untifTuesday last, when he expired.
He hiss lett a wile and lime children to lament his fuses
An thrplett WAS held on the body on Wednesday at Our'
Turf I ais, Grosvenor-place, •Ati the Jury's verdict Waal'
—" A cci,tental l)• th.—lleoluid Is.
AN AOTIVE ScousrLatOSTta.-.,rooming la the German Pe•
tlagogie Magagine, vol. iii page 407, died lately hi Spain, A
avbaalaaaaler, who, fur lit years, had superintended a large
institution with old-fashioned ity. From sn ge
(erred by memo d recorded observations, one of the ushers
had calculated that, in the ocsrse of his exertions, Ise bad
gives 911.500 earrings, 124,000 floggings, 209,100 <restudy'
130.009 tips with the ruler. end 22,100 tasks to gm boob r
it was further caloulaled that be made 700 trays fetid r
600 kpeel on a sharp edge of wood, 6000 we the (dot',
and 170 hold the rod. flow vast the quamity of hr"
j40;,;t,;41 sr a Magi° perverse edunator. •

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