The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-07 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

TUVID4Y. OCT. Adjonrned Seasinna for the
City commenced thk day before the Lord 11.tyor, the Rs-
cord.a., Al.lermen Ainaley,lVaithman,"lhorpond Smith.
CASIELES4 DRlViNa.—Groige Lenoe• Nab fried on an
indictment for having aaaanlied and duvet) over a carpen-
ter named Bel borough.

oppeared from the evidence called by the Common
Seigeant, who conducted the 'trot-et-nth'', on behalf of the
rity, that on the 31,,i of Jody idAt, iu the afternoon, Mr.
Brihorottr.h, after 11.1 v tug heels at a dinner where he
drank fatherfrrely,wa. returning with a ti tend, and a,
they crossed near the Uld ISailry, the %d-
-m..., (lielliorottgli) was Andtlenly knocked down by the
pole or by the horses of a edf i:lgej 1111 d n as 111111 over ; he
dill 1111)11 know whether by the coach or by Me hoises.
recover ing his ItellAe4 he found I. i ... self in a sorgeon'r. shah
With three of his ribs broken, and one of his lingers
shat-
teted to pieces.
A ant geost proved, that it was found necessary to ampu-
tate the shattered finger. and that the injury Mr. B. had
received would debilitate him for life.

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A porter belonging to Lincoln' •inn saw the defendant
driving away, leaving the prosersitor on the ground ;
itairxs pursued the dettaidint, who, though evidently
inmate:veil, appeared sensible of what he had dune, and
-rat his horses to their Inmost speed to get cif, but the
witness, who was on horseback, swore lie would tallow
him to the d—l sooner thin let him escape, and with Ilte
•ssistance of some by-slanders, hill him secured.
lit the prisoner's defence, it was set rip dial the prose-
cutor, Mr. B. thorough, was too much iiitorticrted to get
oat of Cue way, and tile owder of the coach. Mts. Jones,
proved 'bit one of the horses of the couch was so spirited
as not to he likely to stop readily. I; was al,o ...talc(' that
his family had been ruttied by his confinement on the
Charge.

The Jnry found the iletenolan, hui recommended
him to mere) in Consiilei atom of his ilisliesseil fa•uily.
The Gatti said, the eri 11l Mal carelessness of coachmen
had been manifested in so ninny instonces lately, that it
was necessary to cheek an evil so ilasigerints to the public,
WO Sentenced the iivieliciniit to 3 months' imprisonment.
Julio 1),1! toll, a Bow-street officer, was indicted for
Laving assisulued Mr. Woolson, plow ietor of the (foaling
bath, near Blackftiors Bridge, on the Jlh of July
Mr. Willson Slated, that the defendant rented a house
from hint, fr which he Iled by alight, having, sal liis (Ike
defendant's) own please," shot the moon." The witness
stied I for his tent and recovered it, and in conseschence
incurred the defendant's hatted, whirls he never failed to
display when they met. Oil the day of assault, witness
was tettinsing trout his baili up the stairs of Blackfriars
fridge, when he was accosted by the defendeat, who
ponied forth a volley of abuse. 'flue winless took no
notice of the defendant, but proceeded to give some °osiers
lo a boy who was with him, when the defendant ap-
proached hint, and, as if accidentally, trod on Ilia foot, in
such a nullifier that lie scraped the skin flout his slim.
Witness irmonstrated on receiving such treatment, when
the lit feuds It seized him by the collar, hunk out his stair
of office, and beat him about! the head with it its an unmer-
ciful manner. •ro anticipate any complaint the witness
might wake, the defendant immediately went to Union-
boll, and obtained a warrant against Iti,tl fur an assault,
and actually preferred a bill of indictment before the
Grand Jury of Surrey, that lie might, to use his OWII
ploilse, " have the first of him."
Two witnesses corroborated the defendant's statement.

Mr. Alley addrested the Jury for the defendant, and
called two of the patrol of which the 81.411440 t WAS the
vondurtor, oho agreed in Adlyill that the prusteutur had
defended hins.ellas well a, he could.

The Jury instantly found the defendant guilty, end the
Records r ventenced him to tour months' inipiisontin
W cosmos Y. OCT. Y.—Charles Sytinnotids. a boy appa-
rently not snore th.sii twelve years of ege, the soil of a
respectable watchmaker, was tried upon au indictment
charAing hint with having assaulted another boy, named
Lewis Hart, who is about the same age, HMI 'Altai buying
set a dog on him, which dog tore and injured the .prose-
castor.

Alt. Alley, fur the prosecution, in the course of his
speech, vehemently censored the conduct of the defen-
dant's fattier, who had refine to allow the dog to be exa•
Willed, the consequence of which r. insal was, that the
wounds were came' iseil, ill the apprehension that the dog
was mail. 'Flue learned counsel dill° 5.1111, Illat the case
was one of the greatest cruelly. The evidence was
buirily this:—
Lewis Hart stated, that as he was going along Holborn
the defendant snuck I on lie 11144 Willa at hag, and
said something abusive to him, to which, when the witness
replied, Sy almonds again struck him. A strange buy,
who was passing, told Sy rummids that he *bold hit hint if
lie 415 tick wutues, again, and Symmonds then sold, " Iwill
shew hint mid you too that I can set se you worse."
Having said Ibis he called out a large and sit hint at
the athiess. 'flue dog seized Min as he would seize a rat,
worried him, tore a large piece out of groin, and tore
hit belly dreadfully. Wittiest screamed, and the people
hum ricet-market saved him front the fury of the animal.
Symittonds, after the dug had been taken from the ssll•
Ht.*, tiet him upon the boy who had hist interceded fur
bus protection, butt the pr "phi preveoled the :tonna' ti 0111
doing ally enure basin. 111111e511 was taken into stir. Syut-
mobds's shop, and A ell Ale requested ftlf 1111:1 to Nil 11, 111 l
When Mr. Sy said. " Pull, putt, take hint a* Ay
I have child' ell enough (limy own." IVi 0000000 *46 1:4111ell
home in a roach, and was unable to follow his occupation
fug a moult after the violence.

The aisnran was CIOSS-;1181141(.4 by Mr. Phillips, but
he denied having given any provocation.
Samuel Samuels, the buy who interceded in behalf of
the pi owl:taut coatis used this liatrinent. He denied any
previous acquaiiiialice a tilt the prosecutor.
William vine, IA 110 keeps a stall in Pleet-market,
said, Dial he sea Symisioudi set the dog at sue prisierniiii.
Mr. Coustai, • aurgews, oh St. Mary-Axe, deice hied the
eoutlitifill ill %litchi he found Lewis. There was a bite on
the groin, where. a piece of 110111, more than au inch in
Is tigth, had been toils out. The belly ass dreadfully bb-
-IPIII. Willies» said it was the duty tit a surgeon in a case
where the wounds proceeded Item the tango, of a dug to
eanierise the wounds, unie,s he wits amused that the slog
was not mad. The %WWI WIWI of the poison would other-
wise he Ineviiable. The %itorss, therefore, sent fur the
ho examine it fur ibis very important purpose, bat n
Tatuml was given; lie sent his card, requestiug Ilial 1110
auiolal 01011111 be sent %1111 all possible dispatch. Thr
dug »sus a‘ain refused, and 0111101,, after having waited
two hours, hegatt to tautei tie the %%vomit. The 9perstioo

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was eXeruciating to the delicate child, who was obliged to
be held down by Nor men whilst llse hie was applied.
The father of the prosecutor slated. that lie went with
the card of the mire ''on to Mr. Spittoon.ls, to request that
his don: might he sent to be examined. He refitted to
prima it to be taken from Ilia titular, notwithstanding the
mug earnest request of the witness, but said lie would
allow it to he examined in his own house. He treated
wills some contemn( the idea that it was mad, and said it
rail airfoil and played wills Ilia children, a tlatig which be
*mild nut slain if he knew it to be mail, lle said the
Jog was a ferocious animal, that would fly at any permn
in the shop it' they only spoke a tuna word, sod that he
kept it for She purpose of protecting his children, for the
times were to deplaveJ Sisal they could not gu about with-
out some protectiuti.
Mr. C. Phillips, for the defence, stated, that he was
instructed to state that there was etislettee in Cunt; that
would prove the whole case to be unworthy of being lis-
tened to in a court of joatie...
Several witnesses, one of whom p icated greatly,
watt then examined, with the view of contiadicting the
evidence for the prosecution, but the defence wholly
failed. The person who prevaricated was detained till
the *nil of the trial, in the custody of an officer.
Tilt• father of Syminunds said, film his 11011 was a boy of
great humanity, and never could have acted as bad beets
described. lie added, that 1111` father of Hatt had not,
when he called for the dug, tub' who Ise was, or the dug
sl Id have been gi.en op to him.
The defendant was I 1 gnilty.
The Recorder, in ailditoising the defendant, said, dm,
his father had aliewn great want of feeling towards the
boy, and lie would now have an opportunity of
shewitig ~hither he had any feeling for his own sots,
%shunt the Calm were (Niel mined to 'mulish wills severity
proportionate to his offence, if remuneration were not
male. Tile Court, the Recorder added, would allow the
pavtlient of :'Ol. let the prosecutor as lemiiiierviutt.
Tow sum wa. paid, and the boy hoed a shilling and dis
charged.
THVIZSDAT, OCTOLIR 3.—Richard Clerk, a fish salesman,
in Ifillingsgate-market, and William Perry, his servant, were
indicted for having wautuoly assanlied ta old Scuteinuan na:ued
Foram'.

The complainant, it appeared from his own statement, which
he made with great eccentricity of manner, is an exciseman,
and on the day mentioned in the indictment he ventured into
Billingsgate-market, for the purpose of being some fish for
his dinner, but it was that day too high in price fur his pocket,
and be was making the hest of his way out, when the defend-
ants, the master and the men, seized him with their •' fishy
paws" and dragged him to their baskets to buy. From the
manner in which be was seized, be thought himself is the
hands of robbers, and put his hands ut,ion his pockets to protect
them, which excited the laugh of the market, and he was im-
mediately marked out as the subject of a " spree." Whilst
be was remonstrating with the two defendants for their con-
duct to a stranger, a flying-fish gill hit him on the cheek, and
the whole place was in a roar at his confusion. lle tried to
make his escape, but the defendants, and a number of other
fellows, surrounded and prevented him, hustling him from one
to another, knocking his hat over his eyes, and one of thou
wished to possess himself of some documents of 4,000 value,
which the prosecutor had sticking not of his bosom; nor was it
until they had exeicised every species of Billingsgate manual
wit upon him, that they allowed him to wake uis escape sorely
bruised.

Mr. Adolphus, in an entertaining speech, which he made in
behalf of the defendants, contended that there was no et i-
deuce in convict them of an assault. There Ivo; at any rate no
malicious attack of the prosecutor on their part. The seizure
of the person and dragging him to their basket nein: trts:on.l to
induce him to buy, was only the rugged manner of enforcing
the claim of a tradesman. If the Jury wished to know how
their ancestors used to solicit custom, they should go to Oil-
lingsgatemarket, where they would find the only remains of
those exploiters which were described in the new mild of the
" Fortunes of 'Nigel," to belong to the city tradesmen of the
reign of James the First. On that accoout they ought to be
respected.
'l' lie Jury found both the defendants guilty, when the Re •
corder addressed theca oil the folly of such continct, and the
injurious effects of it to strangers on the market. When
would the ignorant see the policy o. using courtesy to induce
persons of respectability to go to the market, instead of de-
terring them away from it by riot and brutality? The Court
siewed the outrage of which the defendants had been guilty as
an (dream., against the good order of the market, and therefore
were not disposed to treat it lightly, and to teach the place, if
it were capable of being taught, that no stranger was to be
tomoyed for their amusement, they hued the defendant Clerk
and Perry his man, 4ds.

13EST MODE or I.IIIIITING A El the
grate with flesh cork quite lip to the upper bar but one;
then lay on the wood in the usual lllaltlll.l, raiser collected
in a Illd•4 than seattei ed. (her the wood place the
cinders of the preceding 'lay, piled up as high as the
grate will admit, and placed It.sody in rather later frog
meats, in ord that the draft may he tree; a bit or Iwo of
flesh coals way be added to the cindris when once they
are lighted, but no small coal most he the call on at first.
lien all is peeparril, light the wood, when the enlaces
in a short time !Wet/11111,g 0101 ignited, the gas
timing from the coals below, which will now lie atlectril
by the lira!, will mke tile as it 'lasses Ilitotigh them,
leaving a very small portion of ,mike to po up the chilli.
lie,. One ut the advantages of this moue of lighting a
tile is, 11i 1 small coal is better vatted to the purpose than
tinge, r weld a hew pieces in twin, to keep the autall
trots talhiug out of the wale. A file lighted to this way
ohl barn all day, without any thing being done to it.—
Wlicii apparently quite out, on brunt; itiiired, you have
In a few wits men a glowing file. When the upper part
begins to cake it urn.t be mined, but the :wet must not
lie touched.

Au :awful and melancholy circumstance occurred at
Ilse City of Loudon Tavern, at tile iteneral toecting of
toe friends of the Pension Society, on Wednesday i. til
last, tur the electum r 1 pen►iunus 11110 that esacellesit
it ttt i t mums. One of the erndidates, B Gray, agt-il 73.
wits SUlllfrilly taken ill ill the room; Ihr Bev. Or. Runge,
the chhirmaii, not finding that any medical gentleman
Wall present, i tttt ordiattly directed that one soookr be
sent tor. Mr. Pis6ii ul Gracechurch•sireet, attends,
hut byline lie armed the poor matt had expired. 01.
the result of the election being kiiown. it war dace:-
wined, lIC WJS one ou the successful danthilates.
widow will be a candidate at the tux& el, • in April,
when it hoped, km the Ifeet:hinny of her CM gust We
respecubiliLy ui her claim, she will succeed.