The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-14 00:00:00

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.


MONDAY, JAN. R.
The business of this Court commenced this rimming, before
F. Coast. Esq. Chairman, and a full Remelt of Nlagir.trates.
TUE USG V. MICKLEY, WALTON, AND STONES.
Mr. Andrewb stated the fact, of this case to the Jury. It was
• t indictment for a tior, in which the defendsnts, with other
p loons not before the Court. had, on the 13th of November last,
riotously assembled, attacked the house of, and burnt in effigy,
Mr. Jelly., a baker, of the town of Enfield.
This riotous assemblage took place on a night in which it had
been previously arranged that there should be an illumination.
Mr. Jelly not thinking proper to join in that expression of pub •
he feeling, took the precaution to shut up the lower part of his
house, and secured the upper windows by hanging sacks before
them. About eight o'clock in the evening upwards of 100 per-
sons approached Mr. Jelly's house, and kindled a fire a few
yards front it, to which they committed an effigy, which was
attired like Mr. Jelly; and while this figure was consuming,
the mob sung the follow ing elegant couplet :

•• Bum his body from his heittl,
And then they'll say old Jelly's dead."
When the figuru was partially consumed it was taken from the
fire, and the door of Mr. Jelly's house being broken to pieces,
it was thntst in the passage, the mob at the same time shooting
and throwing fragments of burning materials apainet the upper
windows of the house. In this outrage the defendant, Hickley,
was conspicuous ; he was the maker of the effigy, and the leader
of the mob. The other two defendants were also actively en-
gaged.
The Jury found all the defendants Guilty, and the Court sen •
tencssl Bickley to three months imprisonment in the House of
Correction. and the other two defendants to one month's impri-
sonment in the saute place.
The Court was afterwards occupied in trying for trifling as-
souk and other mutters of no public interest.
Israel Alexander und Henry Moss were tried on five indict-
meuts, for assaulting James Holt, and four other persons.
The prosecutor, James Holt, deposed, that he keeps a public
house at Hendon; that on the id of August last, the defendants
commenced running an Opposition Coach, called the Queen
Caroline, to Uxbridge, and called at his house on their return to
Town, at eight o'clock in the evening, when Mots had some
thing to drink, and said to the prosecutor, that they would soon
drive Torrick. whose coaches stopt at the prosecutor's house, off
The road. The pro..ecutorin reply said, that Torrick and himself
had been on the road before them, and would after, and offered
to bet a guinea. Moss said, he bet tool. the new coach would
Tun twelve months, which the prosecutor accepted, and both laid
down a pound note. Mr. Norton, an attorney, who was one of
the passengers, then came in and wrote an agreement for the
wager. Moss asked where they should meet to complete it. and
the prosecutor, said, it must be finished at his house, as they had
come to him, and he had not gone to them; that Mors imme-
. diately took up his note, and tore tne agreement, telling the
prosecutor he was nothing but a humbug, and had a great mind
to punch his head ; dud he asked Muss what was that lie said,
and was instantly struck by him. and knocked! down—that the
other defendant then came and joined Moss in beating hint, and
that one of the passengers having come into the room for the
purpose, he supposed, of making peace ; and having with that
intent held his hands, both defendants struck I • while he was
held, and disfigured him so much that he could not appear for
three weeks after.
The prosecutor's ostler, and three persons who attend the
coaches that stop at his house, who were the prosecutors, in the
four other indictments, all proved, that at Mrs. Molt's desire,
they went into the house to save her husband, and were all seve-
rally knocked down by the defendants, who were certainly persons
of a most athletic appearance.
Mr. Adolphus. for the defendants, made a very humottrous
address to the Jury.
The Jury returned a verdict of—Guilty on all the indictments.
The Chu rman in passing sentence said, the Court considered
that the defendants had been put to a considerable expense by
by five indictments, the sentence therefore was, that they should
pay a flute of od. each on the indictment for assaulting James
Holt, and Is. each on each of the other indictments.