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if the Captain was le this enitistry, hat, unfortu-
sodely for rue. I nod that he is at sta."
Mr. Jamice DALLAS Gettlie►nrn'ttf the Jury.
soothing I.lv. hers offered ito the shove of Woof
can :itteCt 4iptir verdict."
The Pri•onrr was then taken from the bat.
Julia Preti, aged 28, wilts indicted 'for robbing
1).,.i•1 Litciteld, on the King's highway. of
:to.. 6:1.
It appeared in evidence that the 'Prdsecuttor,
who was a plain Aistfc, in his mode of telfiwg his
•tnry, was coat►ng to town, and met 'he Prisoner
i4-11:e way; they agreed as fellow-trevellett to j•'g
nit together, and us. the way the Prisoner staid he
-as (1111te broken dove in tits purse:. and Legged
of the Prosecutor to buy a handkerchief of 1. ;
he did to serve him. tot Welt after. as the
:Prosecutor was going liver a lido. he slipped and
Gil, and the Prisoner. instead of MIMI:, him
immediately culled hint about. mad riled his
I►nckets. The Prisoner was shortly afterward*
taken by tile horse Iwtrule, and the thutal found
-tipms
The rilimilyr altogether denied the charge.
Verdict—Guilty.
Sevens! trilling eases ofiareeny were heaftriss'tht
count of the Joy.

lIIIIViLES EX S ESSIONS.
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SESSIONS HOUSE CLERKENWELL,
WIPMMIPAII, (*rotten es.
•.• JoAti RuirgA was indicted for lassausliiiigT. Green.
a boy shout thirteen years of awe, pet the agih
September. It uppeared that the Defehalinit, a
firmer, hued ordered a harrow of the Proatecutor'y
father in March or April lad, which was sent to his
house by the Prosecutor and a servant on the day
laid in the indictment, on which occasion the as-
sault was alleged to have been committed.
The Prosecutor, and James Rutherana,ths servant
who eccompained him, swore that the Defendant
had koucktal the former down, and kicked
ssiihout may provocation gives. by hint, except re-
fusing to take back the harrow.
11 tlham Harvey sod Porker, two servants of
the Defendant, stated, that the Prosecutor. when
desired by the Defeuslant to take back the harrow,
called hint a d---d or a b---y fool,
burl made Me of much more very abusive language ;
that the Defendant then took hum lay the shoulders
to turn him off his ground, when be threw boatel(
down and began to cry.
The Cliatatiss told the Jury it was for them to
jutlae which evidence was deserving of credit.
Verdia—Nut Gailip.
APPRENTICEII.
Charles Phillips (apprentice to Thomas Nolton,
ivory-brush.maker, 12, New Peter-street, West-
minster) was indicted fur asssultiug his Mastics*,
Susainaah Nolton, on the 12th September lost.
Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the case to the Jury.
Susannah Nolton Stated, that on the day laid iu
the indictment the Defendant's uncle. who's. tonne is
else Charles Phillips, called at her husband's house,
and saw her, her husband having been up stairs.—
He inquired how his nephew had behaved at. late,
and ultimo told him very badly. The Defendant
overheard the conversation, and ran up stairs crying
violently, which be used to do in fit of ...a 1111414011, to
which he MSS very mach subject. She had 11C111•10U
to go up stairs shortly after, when the Defendant
cause to her hualiand. sod it her presence sand
that his mistress lied heels telling a parcel of Ines
of low to his uncle. Witness said, why du you not
take the ratan to him and correct hilt, as the
Magistrates desired you ; on which the liov,
unto a taisroeysitt of rage, cried out, " Wall lie?
Will lie ?" matched up the slams (two wooattoi funk
used in the trade). and threw himself imam lighting
attitude. Wane's appreheimliog he would attack
I.er husbetid, went between them, mid the Dr-
fendaiat itoitantly struck het two blows oat the
shoulders wish the slams.
In her cross-examination witness admitted that
the boy had beet% repeatedly brought by her bile.
Wool before the Magistrates at Quern-square,
without receiving utly puilishment, and also that
onlictnients hail !ken preferred by I *geoid
!when* and her boyhood.
T. Noltun drooped, that he had received a fee
of lit. los. with the Defendant, which (Mr. Adol-
phus observed) explained why the M agistrates
had nia ordered the boy to be ouniyherl, their
joinailictiost out extending to cases where al fee of
above 5/. was given. He corroborated the testi-
mony of his wife, adding, that Detemlant had
called her a d--.d liar. The indictment was not
prelerred against himself till last Friday.
James Mi'orthing, a journeyman to Mr. Notion.
canitiiined the testimony of the two farmer wio.
tweare.
Charles Tagg. an apprentice, taw the whole
transaction. The account given by has master was
perfectly true.
Mr. BARRY, in MI address to tile Jury, for the
Defendant, said that the boy, though naturally
well disposed, would certainly have berm spoiled
by iliac cruel treatment be received. His master
malersoloil to he a nom of a very fretful,
nnpa-
Lrat temper, whom no service, however tzent-

Wary. could ristisfy. The boy too hail been ne-
glected. He had served nearly three yetri. and
art had been taught nothing of hi► trade. lout em-
pinyeil in oilier OcCOpitionss He had itiesisitm a
%noes% to call, who should prove that the boy hail
barn beaten by his mistress before he went np
.irs, which would •hake all the ciiiitidritce the
July might have pluced in the evidence of the
sviiire.ves tar the proseciiiion.
Charles Phillips. uncle to the Defendant. *as
then examined by Mr. BARRY to this fact. but
tuusily fisted to establish ut—his testimony in that
resimet applying to souther occurrence on the even.
lug of the same day.
CHA SRN Att ooliiiorriiiril to the Jury, it Wit
to he I.tutrotrd that disputes between masters
unit their appientives s,ltould so often collie bt.fort
tile Court. Insubordination among apl,ranncrsi
had ',potion to such pitch, thl,st Millie demon o!'
emit s,eniefi to have got 4111.111114 them --tin the
►!i;;hteat 111:d /MIA punishinenis ii.tl cted
by a 4ts•irr, they 'mist run to r Magt•trale sod
Court 1.1 J,e•t;te. The Cottet %rid febflived to wit
down 11.111 (hit/Obi:tit/do and it Weenie the Ju►y to

phew this hay that *such violent disrespect and MIS...
conduit to his master was a very dangerous offence.
The Jury, in a few minutes, fouud the Defer.dout
Cnitty.
The eIIaIRMAN, after a short admonition to the
Prisoner, 6,lllence4 I, to is fortnight's solitary ion-
pri.minient in the (loose of Coriection.
The Defendant so-tied if he might say something
for hituself, anti nos 'wilt, permitted, to the horror
re all present, affirmed% Zoo if his mistress had not
bhouttht thus indietetteitt or.gaiiist him, his master in-
fendsd lo have charged Wm with the cotninission of
am unnatural crisne!
The Oa A IRM A N toiA him, that if he had said this
before his stistroce hail liven ;minded, his imprison-
*Vitt should have been for a month. His conduct
slieweil that whotNtrat alleged of hi. bad disposition
was quite true, sod that his mind was W diseased
IN to render him unfit for society.
Mr. Mottos, consented to take him back on the
expiration of the imprisonment, with an assurance
from the lietich.•that should his refractory disposi-
tion continue, he should meet with prompt and
ample mires,.

Joseph Jones, indicted fur osaultiug Susannah,
his wife, pleaded Gaiky.
Mrs. Jones had been separated from her husband
eleven years; latterly he had been in the habit of
To!lowing her in the streets, and making use of vio-
lent menaces—she only required to have such secu-
rity that her life might he put out of danger.
The COURT ordered Joseph Jones to give security
for his good behaviour, himself iu 401. and two
friends •iu 201. each, till which, to remain in
custody.
The Grand Jury informed the Court, that in the
indictment against Eleanor Bryan, for the-murder
of an infant child, they did not hind the evidence
sufficient to support the charge of murder, and de-
sired to know whether they might endorse it homi-
cide.

The Coy RT said that was the proper course.
--- Fielder was iudicled for an assault on James
Fuller. nn the night of the islai August last.
Mr. WALFORD stated the case for the prosecu-
tiou.

The Prosecutor was a gentleman of fortune, re-
airliiig with his sister al the time of this transaction.
in Edward-street, Caverirlish-square. The Defen-
dant kept s roitge-el-noir table, in Bennet-street,
St. James's. His son and the Prosecutor had been
mu terms of intimacy. Mr. Fuller had been oust
Of town about ten days; the night lie returned,
he and his sister were in his drawing-room, between
Italie sand ten o'clock, when the Defendant, without
any notice, rushed violently in, exclaiming, " sod
titters the scoundrel—l have been on the watch for
you l" walked up and down the room in the most
bullying manner, challenged Mr. Fuller to fight,
risked titan had lie ao spirit, loaded him with the
mien opprobrious epithets, seized him by the breast,
and continued this conduct fur three quarters of an
hour. Mr. Fuller referred him to Mr. Gwynue,
his Solicitor, if he had soy communication to
make, or explanatiou to require; but h. rejected
this. with scorn. A constable was at last sent for
by Mr. Fuller, and be was delivered from the per.
vecirtion of the Defendant. The Prosecutor swore
to the truth of the above statement.

Cross-examined by air. MART.
Fielder charged him with destroying the
morals of Ins sun, by tacking him to rob the bank,
of which► he was stoney-changer, by giving him
more change than was equivalent to the value of
his notes. He had been clerk in a breeches-maker.
He never we, a servant to Mr. Fielder; never had
soy employment et, or connection with his gaming
tattle ; has been at the house ; is now a " gentle.
man ;" has property cuing!' to support him; has a
letter from the person with whom he was clerk, es.
pressing his sati►faction with his conduct. He has
lent Mr. Fielder,jun. money repeatedly ; the latter
was brought up et a gaining table.
Fuller fully cm ruburated her brother's testi-
muoy ; alien she, through fear of what might
happen, went between him and Mr. Fielder, the
latter pushed her away.
Mr. ALLEY, on behalf of the Defendant, la-
[muted to extenuate the magnitude of the offence,
describing the assault as consisting merely in a
touch of Mr. Fuller's collar in a moment of pas.
aims, heightened by his reference to a solicitor iu
a matter which required personal explanation.
The CHAIRMAN. in chargiog the Jury, remarked,
that whether Mr. Fuller did or did not deserve the
language applied to him by the Defendant, was
not very material to the present case. Mr. Fuller
had been mole the subject of ridicule by Counsel
for catsisig himself to be styled a " gentleman of
fortune." The latter addition might be too much,
but there certainly was nothing in the ►ituation du
clerk inconsistent with the character of a geutlemau.
The charge had, in his opinion, been fully sub-
stantiated.

The Jury found the Defendant Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN —" Mr. Fielder, the assault of
which you hive beets fouiiil guilty .14 one of a very
offesisive ..4ttire ; nut only from its general charac-
ter, hut Com the aggravating circumstances d be.
Mg committed ui preseime of a sister, sod without
:any iitimetlidte come of provocation. In desceudiug
t.. PUCII His as an very much forgot yourself.
The sentence of the Court is, that you be juipri-
suited for fourteen days.
There were eeverid other cases of assault, but of
no iiitefeAl.

On Monday night, about eleven o'clock, at the
Windsor Cattle, City-road, some thieves came in
unperceived, atiti one of them threw a lighted squib
unto the parlour amongst the conspithy assembled
there. circumstance created considerable
confusion ; the Landlord WA% ettiltavonriog to ditco-
ter the offender, timing which tone the thieves
availed themselves of the tippoiuuiity and wear into
hie bed-room, %litre they broke open 11 litinit which
contained 119'. to (Link of England notes, two so-
vertigo., two goilieas, 30/. in silver, sax silver tea-
spoonse met oilier driletr., which they curried off.
There at% a coati stspitly of samples at Norwich
Gore-marl;;.t Sintirday.-.-Wheat wait rather lower
than kit %ter k , trot liar et watit!s.iter month higher.
Other grain much ar lielore.—Alit 11111 was toler-
ably supplied with Scots and homebred cattle, the
price of whirls dors 110 i abate. The sheep-pros
were 61,0 well filled, and for this sutt of stuck great
rrtccs are (komplett.

POLled.
01711.01,14 LL.
Afore Mr. di Meriting THOWAS SMITH, presiding
Magistrate.
Dftsmis Cats Marie, s lad shoat fu 'ten years of age, was
eharg! d yesterday by Mr. Wu. klawkissit, of Fettot.lane,
cluiaratintres, with rutting his watch-ribbou, and stealing
two phi seals and a gold wateb.bey.
The Proreelitor award, that about foie airlock on the day

Isefure I.7;;;;;iinr-1; the corner of Cursitor•steeet tato:
ing to a ("rheas!, when be felt as if his watch bail heels polled.
He saw the Prisoner mandril% by hire; be caught hold of
him by the hand, apti in it be found his seals and key. He
gave him into the charge of an olfice'r.
%lr. Sanibel Busichrad corroborated the testimouy of the
Prosecutor, and said that be saw the Primmer hand some-
thing to a boy, also ran off -r-He supposed it was the in-
strument the Prisoner cut the watch-rilsbau with.
An officer stated that he took the Prisoner into custody,
and searched him, bud found stotbint on him.
The Primmer, in his defence, said, he picked the articles
up in the street, and was looking at thesis when the Prose-
cutor seized him by the hard. He dill rout know who they
belonged 10.
The worthy Magistrate obserxed, he considered it a very
proper rase to go to a Joey.
Mr. Hawkins said, be thought if the Prisoner was sent 10
the House of Correction for a short lime it perhaps would
be the memos of rerlaiMing him. if it was in the power of
the worthy Alderman to do this, he would forego the prose-
cution.
The worthy Alderman observed, that perhaps the coarse
pointed out by the Prosecutor would best answer the ends
of justice. He would, therefore, cninsuit biro to Bridewell
for a month, and to be well whipped.
I M PROPER DRIVING.
The driver of the hackney chariot, No. 1,145, was charged
with improperly driving in Cheapside, as Thursday last.
A groom in the service of Wm. Bow, jun. of Leidgale-
street, stated, that on the day above mentioned, he was
riding his master's horse in Cheapside, between two and
three 'o'clock, Le was on the right side of the street follow-
ing a range of carriages, Sac. a cart was before him. The
Defendant drove the pole of his carriage against the hind
part of the horse, which made him plunge forward. The
Prosecutor turned round and requested that /se would
poll iu his horses, instead of which be persisted, and the
splinter bar of the chariot took the horse in the back of
the hind near leg, and hoisted it over the traces of the
horses in the chariot. The witness was thrown off the horse,
when he was immediately surrounded by a mob of haekney-
coachmeu, nail if two gentlemen wins had seen the lease-
act' had slot interfered, he was certain that they world
haft ill-used him. One of the geutlemen gave hint his ad-
deem, and was then in the office.
The gentleman alluded to stated, that he was walking
with another gentleman in Cbeapside, who observed to hint
the improper driving of the Defendant, which caused the
witness to remark, if he attempted to pass the horse the
rider's leg would he endangered, as be could not get nut of
the way urn amend of the rouge of hackney-Niche, on the
stand ; immediately afterwards be saw the horse's leg is the
situation described by the last witness. The conduct of the
Defeadant was most wanton, and after the wituess bad
spoken to him be was extremely inewlent. He was certain
if be sod his friend had not interposed, Mr. Roes groom
would have been very roughly treated.
Another Gentleman corroborated the evidence of the last
witness. _ _ _

The worthy Alderman observed, that he was sorry it was
not iu his power to convict the Defendant he more than 20s,
but it was in Mr. Box's power to indict him at the Sessions.
Mr Box said, as his horse was not materially injored be
would not go to the Sessitoma. He brought the Defending
forward ow public greens, to show him and all other emelt-
weer that they mast drive carefully through the streets of
Loudon.
The worthy Aldermai then convicted the Defendant in the
penalty of 110 s. and Os. rusts. He observed, that the public
were mach indebted to the gentlemen who bad mime forward
on this oetainu to give 'liar evidence.
11111111,41111117.
Yesterday an important nee undue the Mang Aet, tame
on to be heard Wore Mr. Hicks, the Sitting Magistrate,
by au information preferred nailed Mary Soiemose,of West.
street, Smithilehl, charging her with purchasing regimental
clothing of soldier*.
The Solicitor to the id Regiment of Foot Guards, com-
manded by his Royal Higher*. the Duke of Gloucester, said
be was instructed to bring ibis charge forward, as ben, very
serious, under the Mutiny Act, especially as it but seldom
occurred that a charge of this description could be com-
pletely trade out, and be was iustrueted to take this ques-
tion up in a serious point of view, as it greatly tended to
the good government mud discipline of the army, in the pie.
serration of their clothing, tie.
The iiifurinatiun against the Defendant was then read by
Mr. Keene, the Clerk, which automated to three counts in
one information.
William Cummings was the Bret witness called to prove
the ease, who stated that be was a private in the let regi.
meat of Foot Guard.; that in the treeing of the 17th of
September last, the hour be could amt tell, but it was after
dusk, lie went to a house in • street leading oat of Smith.
field, where be sold two shirts, one Of his own, and one be.
'unglue to Isaac Brolly, to the Defendant, for 9s. and
• pair of regimental trousers for fa. ed. The shirts were
marked 4d Light lufautry, 2d Battalion, Letter B.; the
trousers, although they were regimental, had no mark to
his knowledge.
The witness was asked what dream he then wore? He re-
plied, the same as be now did; which was the regimentals
of the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards.
The Defendant had pleaded guihy at the commencement of
the proceedings, hiving no legal adviser, but by the humane
interposition of the Magistrate, she withdrew her plea, and
pleaded nut-guilty; bad she persisted iu her originl plea,
she most have been convicted upon all the snots ; but upon
an explanation it appeared that her pleading godly arose
entirely from iguorauce, and that all she meant was an honest
acknowledgmeut that she had purchased such articles with.
out a guilty knowledge that she was doing wrong.
Isaac Bently, 'mother private in the 3d regiment of Feet
Guards, being sworn, stated hut be was in the shop sf the
Defendant at the time William Cummings sold her the
shirts awl trousers as above stated. He also appeared then
Us his regimesetals. lie believed Ilse Ddeodast to .be
the saute woman who purchased the shirts sad trousers
from his comrade Cummings. He bad no conversation
wish her, but the whole dealing was with her and Wm.
Cummings; but as she refused to give the amount of the
mousey which was asked by Cummings for the shirts and
trousers, he observed, that if his shirt was sold, he would
have be. fur it, ur be *mild not sell it.
The Defendant admitted that she had mirehased the ar.
ticks as stated by the soldiers, the prier she gave fur them,
kr. to lie correct, but in justification of her conduct she
repesseil a pitiable tale which had bees told her by Wil-
liam Conintings, who was the man she had any dealings
with, but se to the other she did not know him again,
as he held down his head during the time be regained
in her *hop, no doubt with • view to appear in great dis-
tress and very ill, by way of deceptiusi. Cummings stated
iii her that they had just returned from the South of France;
that they had been ill-treated by ass 011icer, whom they had
met with *ince their arrival in England, and had been dia-
-1 charged (sum their regiment, and were about to leave London
for Ghtigow, and had taken their plates by a coach, which
would start from London the following morning, and that
they waisted to raise some money, the pawnbrokers being
slant, was the reason of their selling their clothes.
The Magistrate said, he slid stet think the conduct of the
soldiers vas ally palliation for that of the Defendant, who
had porch/teed the, articles wilb regimental marks on them,
and the men api.witring ill their rrgisiviital tubiform; but
the ~!fence was the same to purchase the King s regimentals
of any 'scrawl, whether ill iegimeutals or not.
The Defendant stated, that whets she loirebased the girlie
des obey were in such • dirty and filthy state, she could
scarecly sell of what they were composed.
The Solicitor asitsolled that the true state of the ease was,
that the men heel hews drinking freely at a pultliclionae its
the neighbourhood where the I)efestdatit resides, and nut
Intis; MA to pay their reckuoilig they sold their clothes fur

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