The National Register.
London, England, 1823-01-20 00:00:00

NIDDLNSta SESSIONS.

owns-T, JAM. 13 —This mottling the General
Qnarier S..bsions of the Peace for the County of Mittil:e-
sex commenced at Hicks's Hall, Clerkeowell, before
?lr. Const, Chairman, and a te:y full Bench of Ala-
glfir4lCll.
01111 Peddar was indicted for assaulting John Spencer,
in the parish of Isleworth.—Tne Jury acquitted the
deremlant.__

Cnaries Vides, a Frenchman, was indicted fur at.
saiditna Mary Reason.
TI c defelltlatit was found giiiliy, and sentenced to 14
day s' imprisminmet in the Home of Correction, and to
enter imo hilOWlll reCOSIIIZJIice to ktep the peace.
T. Quigley, the lather ul Thom 4is Quigley, the son,
and Joint Hunt, were indicted fur ..s..mhing Ituger
Chin ley—and the saute Itnt rr Chidley, John Skate, and
SllllOll ‘Vella, nem indicted for. assaulting .1. Quigley,
senior.
This being a erns indictments, sll tile parties. de-
fendants as well 43 prosecutors, and all their witnesses,
were examined, Wore the Jury decided Ott the Cilott of
either defendants.

The evidetter was very c•mtradictore, and
The C 11341111111 iihordy charged the Jury, that they
must make the best way they could throui,ll the utass ol
es ideree they had heard.
Ttie Jury, after souse consultation, returned a verdict
of guilty ag.titlSl (2,1161ey the lather, and acquitted all
she nthe•r defemlumat.

The tiiiirt sentroced Qoigle9 in pay a flue or 404.
l'UtitDAY,JAuvAtty 14 —ll•'ilha,n iludsuif, Edward
nit is. awl milers (wit tvt.re 111(111CItstl for
riotous!? assembling, and roioniiiting Jil aSsJIIII. &C.
Ntr. IVJgord ilie caw for the iirosvelition,
Whiell hr,;and seJs instiliced by Ihr viritb of n,thlial
GrCrll, in cons (relive of the r. pealed and darn% utn-
rsurs that had lately taken iilJee.
Tim len ~d assault in question took place nil tlies:l.
of Oerinllt•r last, at Clatii‘Vjilla' Aflllll, art),e
of an 411teillpt Of the 011.1112efs 10 dit,lPtqlo: a disordrrly col-
-1.141(111 of 111111V11114113 in that liffthe.
The Gita;rrnari (F. (:uust. ) in particularising
be vi ilia c-, d,wlt 3: bottle levvi. of the

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(mirage, and the aernua ertsse-4.:-::_Ls that a:Lht have
ensued, I the bad example of I 1116011 striking
Aker. Aphis: Datil he did not think the evidence
conclusive, and lie was entitled to an acquittal.
T!::: Jury acquit.,4 Daris, and pronounced Hudson
gstdiy.
Tile Chairman, in passing judgment, said the prose-
onion had heel, directed for the public good; lon the
defendant nut living one of 1114 depraved class who had
su often linticen the Kin,:s peeve, and as it did imt ap-
',ear Ow lie seas in the house for the plumose of rioting,
the Court merely sentenced bias to pay a fine of 40s. and
to tiller into set:taroks to keen the price.

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FA:DAY. JAN. 17.—Groner Cain and Elward Poole
were indicted litr Yelonionsly s ealine 3 silver watch, the
pommy of James Fledlaml, a watchman.
The Jury found both prisoners guilty, and the Court
sex rncetl them to transpitriation for life
CJIII, who has been a most 'monism' thief on the town
for a lets tit of time, on hearing the judgment of the
C. looked towards the Chairman, and exclaimed—
.. Well, 1 I you will he stiff one' by tomtorrove."
Gibson aniffirown, two men well known to the
isnlice, were indicted for stealing a watch, the 'Horny
of William Norman.
The proseemot had just arrived in town from Sheffield,
and in tits rambles tit ttttt eh the Boronah met the prisoner
Brown its the Loudon-road, who came up to him, and
and claimed him as a towustnan 01 his, and wanted 1140
In go In a public-house and hate some refreshment,—
Norman accepted the insitation, and they retired to a
public house in Gardettelane, Newington, where gam's.
hug was going forward, and a quantity of paper motley'
floating between the gamesters. At length Bto,vl, whoa
aopeared to be sit utter stranAer to the company, cont..
menced play ; and, alter he had lost what money he
had about hint, lie requested the loan of Norman's
watch, and staked it on a Irt of 51. with Gthson, who
won it, mid got the watch into his pos:ession.—Brown
desired the proseetthir to accompany Mtn to a friend's
house in the and he would botro v the
monev, and redeem the watch ; tiow:ser, the moment
they got ism the street Brown took to his beef+. The
'Fur prolleVitor Mentioned Ile ClreiimblaliCe w liallohe
officer, Who apprrhrudetl the prisoners the following
day. 'rite watch was found in Brown's coat pocket,
who, it appeared, had changed coats with his COlOll3lOOO

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The inn, found the prisoners Ruilty, and the Court
sentenced them to hg transposed for srveat years each.

OLD I!AILE7 SESSIONS.

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WEDNUDAY, JAN. 15.—William Pearce stood in-
dieleil with hat mg, (la the loth I).:cerither, feloisiously
stolen 13 pieces 11t silver, value 31., the property of the
ii,oneyert of his Nlajesty's Nlitit.
NI r. It due and Mr. Law were for the prosecution.
Henry William Atkinson, the senior moneyer of his
Majesty's mint, had Irrepiently discovered considerabie
ileticiericws in micoined metals anterior to November
last; 1111 the loth of I)econtlier silver coin was being
worked; knows prisoner; ou the alsove day he was rut.
pilled m euitinA the Wile into Wangs, 'early to he
stamped; the practice in the mint is to vveigit the gold
or silver when glien out for work in the g, and
to weieli it at slight when it is returned. Witocss was
present when the prisoner was searched ; a tin hoz fell
110111 his person cootaining a sitel key, and another
key in preparation for being tirade of a stmilar description
—l3 crown blanks were also loured upon the prisoner;
the bus ness of the day was over, and the prisoner was
on his way home; the blanks weighed full I tounces,
and were %%mitt at least 31.

Richard Franklin, jut'. also a ninneyer in the mint,
was on disty cm the 10:h of D.ccititier ; winless weighed
the silver delivered out that Intoning, which was 5391ba
10 oz.; when it was re-weighed at eight there was but
5311 lbs. 5 oz. ID dots. leaving a deficiency of 1 lb. 4 us.
Johns consequencv or the discovery of a
defic!eticy in the silver on the 10111 of I)ecember, witness
stooped the men us they were leaving the mitn ; prisoner
Was 11110 ol the 'mintier, and wither • seeing his hand Ito
his great coat pocket, separated him from the rest, and
on pulliog I is hand out, a tin lux drop:,ed ou the
ground, whicit opened iii its fail, mid cwt skeleton keys
fill nut; neither ol them were quite finished. but were
in progress, being waxed tar that purlwxe. ‘‘',turss has
applied the keys to tite locks of the storing bolds in Ilse
'Mot, of Which there are several, and cut whicii the bul-
lion is SlVllfeil, and the lucre of the keys is exactly the
size of the pivots of the locks. As WlllitS4 was proceed-
ing to search the prisoner I urther, three or four pieces of
silver fell out of his waistcoat pocket, and immediately
afterwards, as his emu was tieing taken UH, a bag. also
containing pieces id silver, called clown blanks, fell oil
toe ground; there were altogether 13 pieces—prisoner
said lie supposed somebody must have pin them in Ins
pocket ; i.e gave the same account of his possession tat
the tin box containing the skeleton keys.
Psiker was formerly a silieramith; attended
at the ttt itt t on the loth to December, with his sou in
law, the preceding it/moss, whose evidence is correct.
r. Powell, soliritor to the unto, was present at the
..x Imivatiau f the pissouer before Alt. Twyford, the
• 'tolerate. Prisoner said, .1 Sam Mallow gave me the
keys." Mr. Twy ford asked for what I mime ; prisons.:
r. pied, 16r the purpose ol opening the strong holds."
FMB was not taken down in wrung.
'I lie Lord Chief liar charged the Jury at considera-
ble length. au.l tors retuned a verdict lc—C:lo4.
Mary M.,11,1a0,1 lava e Sioo,l iudiered hie having, oil
the 4111 ,/1 th'lo,Wr, staled IWO 511 tels aid other articles,
value 1.:3•. 0.1. tit.: propr rt) 01 Itoiiers Twiner.
Nlr. Alley was for I.IIC pflatreimini.
The prisoner lodged it the house of the pmeecsitors
and absconded with the pri lofty in question. which
pledged at several pawnbrokers *hope; brat it appearing
Mat sal.: had been cumin:tad At SI auto& Gault's police.

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office under the anri moat she had
cower/newly suffered sit untwist iiiiii east of three ottonilis
for illegally pledging the articles she was charged with
having stolen,
Mr. Justice Ilidmyd charged the Jury, that under
these c.re .antes the learned counsel for the proaecu.
lion could not proceed with his care.
The Jury the..efore returned a verdict---?'lot
John Barnes sod George Seabrook were charged with
having mulcts an ass. taltie hr., the property of Jaws
Deacon Hum., of Pinner's Park.
Mr. Andrews stated the case to the Jury. The as► in
(111014/II was turned into a meadow, on the evening of
the fifth November. the gate of which was afterwards
locked ; ma the followeng morning the ass was missing,
the gate having been forced open ; about a fortulaht after
the prisoner sold it to a samlniatt, named Ruff; tit whose
itossession it W 45 found by a servant of Mr. Hume; the
ass was identified by a sore on its tail, and three stripes
across its off fore lap.
Alr. Justice Burrough slimmed up the evidence, and
the Jury returned a %mho of---Guilty.
John Davis, only eleven years of sue, Joiteph groom,
and George Ni eller, were indicted for having, on the gd
of January, hinglariously entered the ilwt Ihua-hoa•e of
Nlomagne Let soon, l2b, Pall-mall, with ititent to steal.
Davis and Fr iiiiiii guilty—Taller, not guilty.
George Clay and John Smith, Iwo young men, were
capttally indicted for borglarionsly freaking and entering
the dwelling lonise of Catherine Ball, and stealing a cop.
per and other articles, her property.
The evidence was conclusive, and the Jury found the
prisoners Guitiy—Death.
TNURSOAT, JAN. Is..—Thomas Reswick war indicted
for burgh iriOnsly breaking and emeriti& the dwelling.
house of Thomas Walker, and stealing a watch, value
11. his property.
The Jury rclinned a verdict °faintly, but n • inmenderl
him to mercy oil account ot his youth and pres ;oils good
character. The prosecutor 3160 joined in the 9CCOMOIVII.•
datioti, which the Ciotti Baron said should certainly be
attended to.
James Thomas, a man of catkin, aged se, was indicted
Gtr I,,irt2 1.16(11151V breaking :mil enterina the
dwehling-
huuse of George P.svutn, and stealing four pounds in
copper, Pour half erowits, and oilier • his property.
Dinla thy Pawson, the wife of George P.unrun, star►,►,
that her husband us landlord of th.• Angel, public-horse,
in Back-lane, Shadwell. On the nngl►t of the• I Ith of
Drcestiber„ after baring shut np the house, she weld
round, as was her 0,41131 to see that :tl/ was 910.19.
On entering the parlour she divernered the prisoner lying
on the tattle. Site asked what he was doing there. He
replied." I am asleep. and very sack, don't diEurh me."
She told him it was time tit en to bed, and desired he
would go away After sonic hesitation he went away.
She fastened rile door after hint. saw every thing secure,
and went to b.d. On coming down stairs the following
morning, she found the bar door open, the till forced,
and its consents carried off. A pane of glass had been
cut of the wash home window, and was sulllciently large
to admit the entrance of a man. A pail had also heels
taken away. lis the course of the day the was infioteit if
of the prisnuer having been stopped by a watchman,
with the property in question. The pail produced is her
property.
Joseph Kendall, a watchman of the parish of Sr.
George tan the Easu, stopped the prisoner about five
o'clock iii the morning, about one initiated yards front
the prosccuan's house; he ha I a pod on Iris shoulder,
which he put down on seeina witness A large-piece of
flank of beef was in the pail ; whets asked where he had
gut die !eel, he replied, that he had bought it that morn.
log in Ratclifflitaliway, 321(1 !lid he belonged to the
aJiiis lisp., theta lying in the Laudon Docks. and that he
was vigil: to has e company—witness attempted to move
the pail. and found it very heasy ; upon lilting up the
piece of Intl, he discovered a quantity of loose copper,
amounting to Itetweeii four and five pounds. Suspecting
limn his evasive answers that he had stolen it, he seised
him. The Jury tumid the prisoner guilty.
The wife of the prosecutor recommended the prisoner
to mercy, on the ground of no violence being offered to
the inmates. This the learned Judge said shuutd be
attended to.

Mary Ficton was indicted for stealing a 101. note and
four sinereigns, the properly of $•l ward William &shots,
tn the tiwelling-house of Edward Bishop, the elder. The
Jury found the prisoner—guilty—death.
Jane Moore was indicted for stealing several beds, a
large quantity of linen and wearing-apparel, the property
of Capt. Samuel &diens.
prosecutor lives in Margaret-street, Cavendish-
square. On she 1411 i of I)eceusber the prisoner entered
hit service, and ginned it without notice, on the 2641 i
of the wine moutn, when the properly its Question was
missed. Westcon and another apprehended her, and
found duplicates for the stolen property neon her person.
The Jury found her guilty.
Ann Williams was indicted for stealing 41. iga. and
Point' wearing apparel. in the dwelling-house of John
Harri so ti.—Giti;ty—clealli.
Elizabeth Stewart was indicted for stealing VI !nre..
reigns and two pieces of flannel, the property of George
Silva iiiii Underwood, in his dwelling-1r .

The prosecutor insides in Bateman Plare, Stepney,
and on the loth of December the 'Manlier came him his
service. She stood by the prosecutor's desk, and saw
hint take the ttttt ney out of a hag to pay the miser see.
want that be had discharged. In the course of that wet k
he itii•sed two bilk shawls from his window, and %, hen
they caote 110111 e f chapel they fantail the shop door
ope.n. awl many things displaced. Site was asked Anna
it; but driticti that aity vile had beets 'to the I se, tie
that rite knew ht.'s the shop door came to h:• 111WII
it, III:11,441 nit 5.'31111611U her box, %% Inch she readily al.
lowed. and a piece of knit linen and one of flannel
longing to 11111. wrrr hound 11t It. Ile admitted Utal
be 10111 the pristine, it WI)11 d he better liar her to mars,
before site was cut ttttt the uioriey was Hot
found.

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