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Witness knew the Prisoner for the lest six
mid ni,til How always timught him to be en
ir,nre.t met ; hr never attempted to escape, though
1.9. hitt Ititul an opportonitv•
J,rseph Brwl, the nernosplice, was next called.--
I lo hid been for tltree yeses r serving to Mr. Chilton;
I:mnur Owen was it fellow-arterial ; bis master was
alal his mistress 00 a visit. On Tose..dry,
Ilse 1.5'14 eseittentber. witness situ Emma 04rn
a el/I 10 the ploy, and left his uncle I)eniiis
,11,.•41 she house. Attest a fortnight sfirrivards
illse.a had some conversation withtbe .Prisomr
respecting simnel hung which hail liapperisA mi 1114
• ;sight ; they islet at the Globe I Acitor
liGhlte-
hnuse. surd the Prisoner said to witness..." You'll
• he taken up the moment yottr waster comes hoisse ;
1 not afraid to tell you obeli' Whet. lest you'd
spht"—(that i's, tell it.) Witness pressed the 1/ri-
• stater to explain what he meant. mei he theu told
him that the house had been robbed us' the irigheaf
the play, mid he would cover the matter by giving
• an shims that night, and pretending that the rob.
be hod been them cominitted. The watchman
told him thin the house had been robbed of astute
of the plate on the night that he and Emma bed
Rowe to Astlere, and thetas he (Braid) had charge of
the plate. he'd get into danger the moment his 11116-
ter returded. Witness agreed to do any thing, cud
bit tketimiday nseruiseg, bydeeire of the Pristiner,wit-
tieso though t•liiin down more of the plate. as Prisoner
. timid it would be is well to hive all as part. On
thlk.elome Sunday, at tufo o'clot k, witness met the
l'irsoner and I, Old Mike. the Jew." at Piisoner's
lodgings, where wittiest; got 61. iii Bonk routes. as
his share. He spent two, and buried the other
four IL 'toter in the garden, with some duplicates.
liVitireps bought a pin and • brooch fears the Jew,
and the Prisoner a mill. On the 'right of the Bth
ut October. witness let the Prisoner into the horse,
and they then removed the thiugs in the house, so
es to give thorn the appearance of disorder. After
all this seas done, the watchman weed down stisirs,
nod at half-past two o'clock tit the wonting. he
. sprang the node. gad knocked at the dour; he
. then let hint in, awl they gave the alarm.
The witness uuderwent • long cross-examination
from Mr. AouLphos. The night he went to the .1
play he left his ousels in the honor. He knew no.
thing of soy robbery on that night. About a fort-
night otter. the watchman met him and told him
that iir was in great danger, for he would suffer
when his toaster came home. The Prisoner shell
. 'told him, that the night he and Emma went to the '
play his oracle and himself (the Primmer) lied cal-
tied off a greet deal of the plate. end that they
h
might as cell have the rest, and witness could have
his share. Witness comseisted, and gave the •Pri.
miler some MOM of the plate, mid concerted with
him the Mode in which they would give the
Orrin. so et to make it appear that the house lied .
beets robbed at the tinse the alarm was .given.
t'ituiiss put Punta Owes' in possession of what the
Prisoner had told him respecting the post robbery,
cud the project for completing it.
Eunice Owen lived with the last witness, as •
fellow.sermust, its Mr. Clulow's house. Oro the

night of the 15th of September they went to the
play, leariag thehoure in the care of Braid's uncle.
About a fortnight afterwards Braid told her, that
he sod the watchman had taken the plate on the
night witnees hall been with Junket the play, and he
told her the ally way they bad to get Whet it 1111111.
to give an alarm iu the course of that night, and
leave the hitch door open. She was then Instruct-
ed, when she heard the alarm to run to her
hares room-door, and say that she had but just
teamed from two men, whose faces were black-
ened, and who watched her until, the rattle sprang,
with pistol'.
Crese.e.reariaeri.—She rime this day front the
bowie of Currection, but had had no conversation
whoever with Braid respecting her evidence, ex-
kept that they called to each other to *peak the
truth. She and Braid, on the 15th of September,
when they went to the Theatre. gut there before
the doors were open ; it was to Avtley'a they went;
they had had nothing un the way; she alterwardr
recollected that they took a cop of tea on the road
wi h a servant she knew in Upper Harle}-street.
They got home about half-past twelve o'cli.ck ou
the night of the play. Braid told her the *Mlle
night what had passed between Ithu sod the watch-
man.
Braid was culled rip anti %liked how he came to
pawn an article for 4s. on the 3d of October, or hr
Itsel hail sit the time the 61 he got from the Jelli
He said he bed beets at the peaubritker's on the
&doyley, cud slid not get the mousy from the Jew
until the Sunday.
Samuel Gorskiii sairl,the Prisoner, Morrill, lived
with litm at Camden Town. He recollected au old
dew calling ou the Prisoner no the Sunday before
int alarm of the tubbery was given. Braid was

with tlfeni.
Mr. lutes HAKIM, the Solicitor for the prier-
Cuitun.-011 the Prisoner being apprehended. suid,
Ms he was removing from the watch-house to Bow-
-tree, that Braid had had inure money than the V.
tit the garden. and had beets to Isis (Prisoner's) house
to meet the Jam,
Mrir. identilied the spoons and shirts
found et the Prisoner's lodgings. se being the pro-
petty of her husband.
The Prisoner. on being called upon for his•dr-
fener, said. •• I know nothing whatsoever of the
actual robbery of the house."
Eight or ten respectable inhabitants rye the •
Nl:outer a most etcelleut character. They had
kit..vses him for years as their private watchman. end
**Mild intrust him with any amount td itreperty ;
he had been more than once rewarded for his honesty,
vigilauce, anst activity.
11r. Justice Dsr.ths memated up the evidence
in die surr.t minute manner to the Jury, who, utter
few tel cominlottion. returned a verdict of
ugaiust the Prisoner, but stroincly recom-
mended him to mercy on account of ins preVious
good character.

Lott moruing waft rxecel 4.41, oppuoite the Debtors'
door, Nevrgate. Frumeis Losch, for the wilful nom.
der of wire. 'rim wretched culprit woe brodght
ion the ',colloid • few Ili t liefore right o'clock,

wh-re tip rrin.iined hnt t short tune hrfore the plait--
totror fell, and lie was tunnylied into Erermry. Ha
wit,. nit old twin. slend.•r u, perm'', and isteatily
drroard. After the tmly had hung the u•rtsl tine,
wais cut down uud gireu to the *wroth fur dlt.
a• C last:.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Not. 2.

CHARGES Or RIOT AND AtcAC LT.
At few o'clock this moment Beejwswerr Shaw,
Jests Ales, sod firer firms, were put to the bar,
.said indicted fur making it nut in the perish of St.
Luke. Chelsea. on the 17th August.
Mr. A tr.e`V stated the cur fir thr Jury. He said
that gtoe .Plaiondf. Corning Si'ortleitegton, was a
Gentlesaan of .furitilie, residing in Sloane-street.
Chelsea. About the latter end tom July, he had
seen au id4rtiseenriat in our of the public Payers,
slating. that two floe carria:e horses were on sale,
price !Its guiuras, at the Seracete's• hired, Livery
stables, Aldgate. eccotdingly wrest there, and,
after havinctuul the OUrVell we trial fur two or three
days..patcluneesl them, on the 30tle July, from a
person named Davis. of attune he knew nothing.
excelit as being the person who had advertised the
horses for sale. 12.214. Worthington had the horses li
removed to his tenable in Slalom...street, and lie about
three weeks. after (ton the 17th August), he heard
that some persons .were in has stable, wed claiming
song of the horses as stolen twoperty ; he itatuothate.
hy went oat, suit saw the Priaoner Shaw ; the latter
said thiit one of the hones was his property. Capt.
Vi. tistasediately agreed to accompany him before a
Magistrate said state the 111111111er w winch he had
becothe .Pdsoessed of the horse. they accordingly
repaired to the Marlborough-street Office. where
Bsiter, io COII4YM ()COM of a legal objection.
relnied to tulle cogensance of the case. After fear
o'clock on the castor ski, Captain 11'orthiugton was
informed 'that several persosuu were in lies stable
forcibly attempting to carry off one of the horses—
lee wrest there, and with the help of a soldier and his
town servauts, succeeded in driving them away, but
toot until they had collected a large crowd aunt been
guilty or 601 00.191 conduct.
'George Henry Worthington, Esq. stated, that
be 'raided in Sloasee.strert, Chelsea, and iu conae.
perfect of an advertisement, lead gone to a livery
stable, the Saracen's Head, its Aldgette, and par-
doned a pair of carriage horses on .or about the
30th July, alter having had them a day or two on
trial. About the Litle of August the Prisoner
Shaer canoe and demanded one of the horses, and
the Prosecutor consented to go before Mr. Baker,
the Magistrate. at Marlborough-street, where the
complaint, owing to a legal objection, was not heard.
On the 17th august the Prisoner Shaw came to wit. ,
nesa's house once or twice, and insisted on getting the
Isom. Soon alter four o'clock on the same day, wit-
ness heard ate alarm, and on going to his stable, saw
the Prisoner Hyams iWuding at his stable-door, and
a crowd about him. Hyams said he was a coughs.
ble, anal had come with Shaw ; inside the stable
were Shaw and the Prisoner Ables ; and Hymns
said the door was locked, and nu person should to-
ter witness, however, succeeded in geiuing admis.
siesta to his own stable by calling to his servaut who
was inside, and he fouled the Prisoners and his ser•
ant squabbling about the horse; the former had
token the•lealter off the horse's neck, aud put it on
one of their own ; with the assistauce of a soldier,
witness succeeded in turning there out, and said
io.llyalus. " If you are a constable. 1 give Mr.
Shaw in charge to you, and shall appear agniust him
at Mariborough.strert Office." Hyams said lie
would. but witness could not fiud him at the office
when he went there.

Cross-e.romemed by Mr. Attor.ruus.
De bought the horse at the Sewell's Head, Aid-
gate, front a man, a stranger to him, who said his
•111111/C was Davis. The crowd around the stable
when the l's wooers went to Chelsea were peaceable,
and there were only two of the Prisoners squib-
bling —the rest there were witness's own servant, and
.soldier, who hod been accidentally passing, went
in to give the serv.iiit esinsteuee. Drams, who
stied as constable, stood at the door. The crowd
about were merely idle gamer'.
Mr. ADOLPHVS here submitted to the Court,
that no riot was proved—fur, according to the evi.
deuce, may two persons were engaged in the scuffle,
except the Prosecutor's own *errant.
The ohjsetiou was admitted, and the Defendants
admitted of the riot.
Mr. ALLEY then 'proceeded with the case of—
johPl .llttstr, who was indicted for assaulting
George Drury Wiprthisvoip, Esq. in the parish of
St. Martiiwio-the-Fields, uu the 9th of September
last. This person was the son of one of the former
Dvfendauis.

Mr. ALLEY stated the case to the Jury, and ex-
pressed Ins full belief that he would substantiate
this -charge against the Defendant. He said that
•wbettibe Shaw*, who were horse dealers, were de-
feated iu timer attempt to take possession of the
hone at Chelsea, they determined to watch another
opportunity of carrying their !mint. and on the
Oto September, succeeded is) doing so in the hay-
market. The Learned Couneel then detailed the
particulars of the case against the Defendant,*in
the manlier it was subsequently stated in evidence.
'George Henry Worthing. Esq. stated, that on
the 9ili September he drove the horses with his
carriage to the Ilsymarket Theatre. where he bad
ees down liir family, whet, the Prisoner John Shaw,
with font others, armed with largo sticks. exclaim-
ed. "That's he. stop him ...sitters my horse, take
him out !" we, at the time riding on the
. box,•and he whipped the horses, and endeavoured
to get away with them, observing. " These net my
horses, you have nothing to do with them." While
witness w;is endeavouring to urge on the horses,
enittehorly pulled hint by the kg, and drew him
down oil the pole or the carriage. Clements, a
constable, came up to witness's assistance, slid en-
deavoured to induce the parties to come before a
Magistrate, and robust the nuttier. IVitliesl at this
time got down from the pole to the horses' heed..
and took hold of the bridle; he was then collared
by one of the patty, while the otlo•rs brat the
horses with -sticks. nod tk• prisoner Shaw struck
him unite on the arm, and compelled him to let go
the reins'. Shim then Avocet-Mini in carrying off the
horse, which willies. never sAw
Cross-exestainril.—.He was not no Officer in the
Guards, but Inol lire,, an Officer in the Mikity.—
The bones were toul.e, riming the scuffle, kept
hurrying on to the 11.11 of the Dayiniirkei, witness
andiihow kith struggling to hold the bridle.

Mr. E. Campbell horl Own. d MI, outrage, and
tl gh n perfect stranger to the Prmtmotor, came
tip sod offered Ito. meroitarite-. He corroborated what
the leg mama! respecting the rosarolt and
forcitile StizUlt of the iiou Irj Vtioutr.r. He