The National Register.
London, England, 1823-01-12 00:00:00

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These Sessions commenced before Mr. Const and a
',flail bench of magistrates.
Capt. Charles Tebbe% was indicted for having cam-
matted an assault upon Mr. Kent at the Haymarket
'Theatre on the night of Mrs. Chatteiley's benefit there.
Mr; Kent stated that on the 11th of October, he ao-
vonipanied his wife, children, and some young ladies
mo the theatre. I)uring the whole of the first act, and;
pars of the second, the audience were annoyed by a
owe. lie went eat of his box to expostulate with the
=, and, on going into the passage, saw the de-
is a hoeing attitude towards an old gentleman.
Witness said it was ungentlemanly in hinuto raise his
.hand to a man old enongh to he his father. The reply
was a kick behind. Witness procured an Miser, but
.could not find the defendant. Three hours afterwards
wiliness went into the saloon, where he met the defend.,
-ant, who, after very few words, struck him two use three
times most violently in the face, and knocked him
'senseless. The fruit-woinan and ;set servant held his
arms while the defendant war striking him.
filr.Medgens an elderly person, saorthe first part of
'tl, doilsitiners :induct in the theitre. i'he defendant
ithenotemed to kick himout for otposuilating with hiss
beeplbe pease, and threw a chair at his soh. llee
orsiastrig also expostulated with him; but had used no
ninon harsh terms than had been stated. •
.11r4. Sharpe saw the defendant kick the prosseutor
wirklisist poreoestion.
Tor three other witnesses represented the coodism
.of she defendant as extremely unkeurous daring the
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the Charms, is ,naming op, said, the condom of
Aka deisaideat was most unwarrantable. Verdict...
1. man, 'named £sdogten, was tried on Friday, on an
/indictment charging him with having desperately a.-
.4atelsed one Hayward, who had been a soldier, and bad
neon red errors' wounds ins the smoke.
Willow-walk,
sun* that he was Viol atoll the
Willow-walk, Westminster. the defendantepproeched
entleuenk him a violent blorwithout having received
• , and afterwards came up to him in Huns.
-read, where the blow was frequently
•repeated. and
4be prosecutor was covered with his iswalbleod. A per-
ils who sew the transaction pursued the bete dent, and
*ink bine tote voltady. .
The ovossolor. sot has conossaintinaden, said, thM
before the magistrate at Queese-square ogre befollarged
4be prisoner with• having sobbed him of two watch seals
-enitax haU,croWns on the highway. and that the nia-
Omani dismissed the charge of-rubbery, but ordered that
deal sboulil be giros for the assault.
Shaer persons who weft passing at the time of the die.
*whams, in which the blows were said to bare been
ospemed, said, that the prosecutor was in a dreadful gate
less the violence of some assailant. One of those wit-
lesano plilitod out the defendant as the Ulan who cons.
aniseed the agnalt, but did not say one word about any
anisonit to email a robbery. It was admitted by all,
that die prosecutor made no intelligible charge of rob.
bevy until he appeared at the police office, and that he
VAS quite confined after the beating.
The defendant's-enamel ridiculed the charge alit*.
thee, end merely called the clerk of Queen-square idles.
es s the deposition of the prosecutor en the tutees
when it came before the Magistrate, adding, that his.
client bad lost his situation sad his friend, by the moo
elation.
The amount in the book was, that the pmerteriter
*wore that the defendant cams up to him in the Willow.
walk, presented a pistol at hint, demanded his womb sod
.atimag. and snapped the pistol, which missed lire. That
the prosecutor knocked the pistol out of his band, and
that the defenasat struck him, and threw the is
the ditch. That afterwards the defendant op M
him, when be had got to a considerable distime,
knocked him down, side the seals of his watch.oed silt
half crowns, and went away.
The Chairman observed, that the prosecutor bad evi.
deutly mistaken when he charged the defendant with a
robbery, and that it would be hard to convict the latter of
an assault. which must be coupled with the recollection
of the first story. Verdict—Nut Guilty.
INN indLAN ASSMILT.—A publican, named Goulding,
was tried upon an indictment charging him with a most
Vila assault upon a poor Irishman named Driscol, by
which the unfortunate man lost au eye.
.; It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, that
• he had been drinking beer in the defendant's Nene with
some others, and that the defendant wanted him to call
for more drink, but he refused to do so, and was in an
instant assailed by the publican, who, Dot content with
the power he had of striking hard with his fist, raised up
an officers stag' which he kept in the house for his noisy
customers, and smote the Irishman with such violence
in the eye as to destroy the sight of it for ever.
A witness stated, that Goulding, after he had struck
the poor Irishman iu so dreadful a manner. made an
attempt to hit him on the bare head with the stall; and
would have succeeded had not the winless caught hi
hand.

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The Chairman then told the publican that he knew
the case appeared worse at the police office than it even
now seemed to be; that the 'peer man was long lan-
gelatin undo. the dreadful treatment he had received,
and that no offer to make amends bad• been made. It
had beat in consideration on the beach to inflict some
disgraceful punishment opon the person guilty of such
cruel violence on a man whom he had also been guilty
of inciting to drink; but the previous good character of
the defendanrearried its due weight, and the sentence
of the Court was, that he should be Sited WI, with
liberty to speak to the prosecutor.
The prosecutor was content with 101., and the defen-
dant, on paying that sum, was discharged.
Several of the bar said an action would have saddled
the publican with the snm of NUL at least.

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and that the latter had given no MON offence than by
nice* to order the beer. The poor man's ep had
bees always good before ibe emelt. The defendant's
or /
• wife baud it mensal to interfere, le get her husband
mud the room.
Pm the defame, witnesses were sailed, one of whim
mmumed so fer as tu say that the melbas had sat
sem& a blew, but had been reviled sad sum* by the
11=r2 that the publican was so quiet k was
t to pot hiss out of the MOM I sad that be
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ink Clamiemen completely confotioded this witness,
And is addressing the Jury said that a most inhuman
aguish had 'been committed overt the tutfortuume pro-
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acc u um. Vert! ic t—Uutl ty.
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