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London, England, 1823-01-26 00:00:00

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was down the turning leading to Breetford—the terming is at
right angles with the road. The souls was thrown over a• the
right side as it turned. MUMS was thrown some distaue
upon the gravel-reed. Wilmette was thrown epee him, and
thinks his weight broke the plaintiff's leg. The person who
drove the emieb wu out a regular coachman—believes he was
a helper.
Crus-esamined by Kr. Sergeant Vugham.—Does not think •
plairtir seised t►e reins—is sure be did net ; observed Lis right
hied grasping the eashien of the boa—his left Laud held lbw-
bar of iron by the aide of the boa—did set hear Coster, the
euebataa, saw tt For God's sake, drop the reiu." The road
was very good—there was no irregularity io the reed beyond
the desceot.

Re-et emined.—They frequently v.'s away from the whip. -
Thomas Clarke, sou of the precedieg witness, confirmed the
evidence of his father in every particular.
George Dickinsue, a 'urgent', residing at Ealing, deposed
that he attended plaiotiff at Mr. Rubins's, at Ilanwell; foiled
the ensull4sone of the right leg broken ; tbo 'nay had been
previously reduced ; the shoulder joint was !metered, and
otherwise injured, and be had a sevr.re cut cross the right
temple ; attended plaiotiff for about viAbt weeks ; attended •
him daily daring that time—esamieed him profemioaelly oa
Saturday last ; he was nearly well, exceptieg as impeded mo-
urns of the *booklet joint.
Sir Amley Cooper, Bart. deposed, that he attended the
plaintiff four or five days after the accident—:he cup witch
receives the yrincipal boae of the shoulder had bee. broken
through—only attended him owe.

SergesiatVim glues obearved that this aexiditaa bad bees caused
by the refusal of the regular CA4114111•• to drive round the vil-
lage of Haswell to take op passengers ; there were, bewervr,
always persona about a coach office, who-for . trilling /0113111 Pl.•
ra:ioa would taro Phaetons. Coster was one of t►ese, mid it
was is coaseq of . less of time in so doing that be was
oblige(' to make all possible de►pulcb to resign Lis. temporary
command to the regular Uxbridge coacitamm, who was waiting•
his return.

Mr. Justice Perk saimeed up, and. the Jetty reeseued a
diet for the elaintiff—Dantagee. UN,

OLD BAIL Er SE•SS/ONS

TUESDAY, JAI. 21.--BlGAMV.—Frederiek John
Wittier, alias Haiti], a •reiasier, was itiriicted for kb.
n:otisly interinarryi• g with Sarah lludmarsh, his wife
Harriet hying at the nine alive.
William lisice proloiced a register from the parish
church of St: M icy, Islington, of the marriage of the psi-
tuner with Harriet Weston, n o the I Bth April, 1813. •
Mr. J. Stowerman stated, that he was present at this.
marriage. 'lite prisoner is the man who married liar-
oiet Weston. Witness saw her alive this morning.
Cross-examined.—Harriet Weston was servant at the
house of a Jew stained Levi, at , where she was
married to she prisnuer. It was a 10,16,iig•nouse fur
men. Hs did not know whether site prisoner lived
mach longer with her than three months.
Me. Price, parish clerk of St. Outman's, Stepney.
prixliteed the register of the prisoner's marriage wish
5ar:,11 podmanh, on the belt ..1 April last. He was de-
scribed as a widower, end Sarah Dirlinarsh as a widow.
He was sure the prisoner was the man.
Cross-examined.—He diil not believe that Sarah .s.ilod•
marsh rosecuted the prisoner.
"l'he prisoner in his defence said, he was by birth a
Gt•rinuoi, and told, thr..ugh the medium sal so interpre-
ter, a I ng story, about Isis first wife thr.,at.rinne to beat
nut his brains with a child's chair and a poker, and
threatening also to stab hint with a knife, when he took
up his leg, and pushed her down. They then separated,
and she aohabiied with another man. by whom she had
a child ; but lie could not deity the second marriage.
The Jury found him gutsy.
The Recorder ordered him to be called sip for judg-
ment. and sentence ! him to be imprisoned six calendar
months, and kept to hard labour.
Geonte Nash was Wive.' fin stealing 40 lbs. weight
of heel, the pro,oesty of John Bennett.
The prosectivis is an eating-house keeper in Ratcliffe
Highway, and.hail weglecied Intake in his beef at eight
o'clock tit the evening. He was informed that the pri-
soner had stolen it, and went to his lodgings, where he
found the beef. _ _

The !prisoner was found gerilty, and sentenced to two
months imprismoneni, and kept to hard labour.
Matilda Scott, a woman of the town, of very superior
address, was indicted for stealing eleven sovereigns of
Joseph Beaman, from his person.
Mr, Resins', is a slupseller. and nis the evening men-
tinned in the indictment he bad been making a little
free with his glass, when, as he was returning home
through Tower-street. hr overtook the prisoner, and
heard her, as he passed. mutter to herself; " Ahl if Cap-
, tail Rew was at ltmase, I should not be suffering this
dreadful distress.' She appeared to be indeed distressed,
having scarcely covering sufficient for the purposes of
decency. He knew a Captain Rew, and turning about
ta her,, he said, " If you know Captain Rew.l will.give
you. something to drink, for you Weill to want it."" He
took her to an adjacent public house, where they had
two glasses of roan and water, said they then Fated. In
a few minutes after she was gone he missed his purse,
mate' ' ag seven sovereigns, (rum his waistcoat pocket.
He heard no more of the prisoner wail about eitelst, days
after, when he saw 1111 account in a newspaper of a
young woman having been taken into custody while
miarrellitig with another woman in the ',wet, and ten
&acreage's and Home silver being found in her possession.
She hail been kept in comedy for some days, and was
about to he sent to.the tread-mill, and the money
nutted to the coon.y funds to cmiribuie it, her sappy'
while in prison, when an appeal was made to the ma.
gis raw by the prisoner, to have sue a tttttt ry returned, or
to be renitiade.l w ptison u"iil she could fi..il the gently_
man who she said tome it to leer. TIM tank phase at the
Thames Police thliee, anti beano reported in the public
journals, was seem by mite proscenia'''.
The deatice of the • risoner was, that the prosecutor
gave her ihe money.—She was found guilty.
Wareantanwe, JAN. Y2.—Pat rick Crawley anal James
Carr, two lads, were indicted for stealing nslbs. of rope,
the property or T. Plullips,

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MI. Phillips itra lighterswan. and nn the 10th of I)re.
last he WAS sem for to the Thames Polow, where he saw
headrest" belonging to inse of his lighters, which
was lying in the City Canal.

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44'.utaiclititan of the canal heard some whispering in
the dock on the yth of Decensber. as challenged the
parties and took the prisoners into cusuitly, who had th-
'rope coiled sound their bodies beneath theic smock
frocks.
l'he Jury found hoth the peisonereguilty, whee the
Recorder sentenced them to he whipped in the neigh-
bourhood of the canal, and to he confined six months
.he House of Correction, mad thaw kept to hard I.
Law.

I s;•ae Bateman was indicted in, stealing s bonstle.,ens
ainirg three pocket handkerchiefs. anti other article.,
the property of Joseph Bromley. Front the evidence of
the prosecutor, it ap twed that he was a private in the
14th regiment of LOalit laral,o•ois, and had taken a
place on the Isleworth coach, 0. go to his criarters.—.
I•end le coistai ll i l the articles in cprestion was placed
on the roof 11 his side. The prisoner was also a pa,.
senger. The cruel' stooped at Tit nthan Green. and pm-
secutor got off'-4 m a few minutes, leaviog the primmer •
and his bundle on the coach. On his return ire found
that the primmer had pone off and I. ken the bundle
with him. patml belonging to Bow....treet stopped
the prisoner shout a quarter of a mile Om the place
where the each had stopped, but on the prisoneek sell-
ing where he lived, he suffered him lit proceed. A feiv%
minutes afterwards the L....eh drove up, and entrtired of
him if he had seen a person with a bundle,. Ind on, •
leansing- Odin he had eiiber taken it away in mistakstor
stolen it, lie went to the house where the prisoner said.
he resided, and found him with the things in his pour.
lion. • Ho wet very much i 111 l rxicsted, and had left •
boo bekssiging to himself in the toseh.—The prisoner
in hisdefence declares' that he had Mr inteotiosrof meal
mg the property. and that he took it sway by mistake. •
Ede also received a pawl character, forms some persons •
who had known hint for upwari:a of three years, and
who were in the. meth at the time.
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Ann eve Recorder had summed toy, the Juicy at—
gpsisied him.
Tneutaa Collins and Dennis Domwan, two boys of..
II years old, wrre convicted of stealing an of I hasul--•
kerchief (ruin the pocket of a Mr. Rinfield.
An officer swore that he saw the prisoners watching •
the pockets of pendent/in hefore Collins drew our Mr. •
Butfield's handkerchief its Holborn, and pee it so •
Donovan.
Several witnesses save Donovan *good chancier— -
but
The Recorder said they belonged to•• gang which the •
Aileen feared to attack in a holy and he divisions.
sentenced them to inituntirmitois I.r life:
This sentence, which was heard with evident sot. •
tithe, had a severe effect upon the buys, both of whom o
cried bitterly. D.musan professed tliat• he had never
teen in prison loici'ore When they hail been anneved
from the bar, the
.:reaming fondly in the yard adjmilin• she Court.
TiIURSD*I' • lAN. 23.—TIns. morning she sessions
savannated, when the Recorder proceeded so pass
Woe" on the personvenneicted.
r Th;raymite were sodomy' t 7 years' transportation—,
Iwo .or life—inse to he imprisoned fin :wo
Caen—seven fdecnie year— .r s.a months eight—knit
simians tem—ursis ntivolis eight.-.me month .lute, une
Slir them, 1. Reynolds, to be privately whipped.
The jinlgisiesst in several cases was respited until nests.
sessinsis,
The sentence of death. was passed on• the • following
pers.ms„ twelve iii• number. who hni-heett convicted of
capital felonies during the Gethollll—iJohn Buckley. S.
Rio:Munn, George Marshall, Thomas Beswick. soil •
James 111.011135. for burglary. William Petirce, N,•11
Moran, Anne Williams, Mary 'nekton, James Cross, .
Hattalt F iol and Elisabeth livid (sisters), fur 'sealing
in dwelling houses.
The sessi to were ailj•ourned to Wednesday, the 17th. •
of February.

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SiAllT1416.—S•11111141. was a (Milli Will 410 at this •
healthful pastime, la several marshes amongst first rats
men of selenco, ow the M. net bailment, Wade's Mill ands
Froadleshans, Heats, and some part of the performance
was equal to any. thing w. record. The first match was a.
sweepstakes of two• sovereigns each, between Messrs...
lierewouil, Phillips, Scholia, Thompson. inpp, Malla• •
way, and Rodgers., to ge sic miles round a half-mile •
circle. They all went off together in hue style., •Mt.
Rodgers soon tcok. the lead, with Messrs. Herewoud mot
Thompson Dearly abreast of bins. Mr. Schultz led in the
second mile, and bring veer together, it was mine
sight. In the third mile, Messrs. Phillips, and Jepp
were • hundred yards behind; awl Mr. Holloway fell.
leaving the race to the other three. Mr. lierewastil
a close amend to Mr. Thompson is the MTh mile, when,
Mr. Schnitz was beat. In the last half-mile Mr. H. left
.his adversary two hundred yards behind, and won easy-
Captain B. Smith was empire. s. Radii' principal betting
being about time, he deelared the an milerto have been •
done is 16 rainntes and 311 seconds.

DMATWOII A REMANIIIMIAII 4110 It AIM age
an old maa, nanewiltobert Tristram, wlso resided in • dirty
wort iu Cow-cross, being to every appearance In the
greatest distress, not having common uccsssarieenf life,
was admitted se a pauper into the poor.husse of St.
Jaases's, Clce kennel!, where he renamed instil Friday
last, when he expired. Some persons in •lie poor-honne
alter his death eitene.ke box, in which were slepoeltesl
few stags of clothes belonging to the deer:med. cud' en.
their surprise, in the pocket& found le sovereigns, 204 •
afterwards three wasc•se.,s this 10,115c..,1 them to search. .
more minutely, roil 46f at last Conti a written paper
perpurtisig to be the oos man's will, whereby he give.
I,ojol. in the lauds, and other property that he may be.
p .1 of at the time of his death, to Moe, Abele-
Thompson, whom hr calls his natural slaughter, and de—
scribes her to be about 14 yearauf age. This glut Hub
known by any persists iu the poorhouse, mud John Sever.
Eel. the churchwarden, has taken the meslr Mashie own.
hands, and is sister eves, exertion in his power to trete-
est the pour girl, in order that she may nut be dewiest"
nt her right& masks her fdlitaebiltilk•

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