The Sun.
London, England, 1809-06-28 00:00:00

CLERKENIVELL SESSIONS.

Yesterday lYilliam Goodwill, a boy of 14 years of
age, the driver of a hackney coach, No. 1053, was
indi&ed for assaulting Patrick Crawley, a watchman
of St. Giles's parish. The Prosecutor was on his beat •
on the evening of the 2d of February last, in Bo
yard, leading into Broad-street, St. Giles's, when a
hackney-Coach came driving violently' along; the
place was narrow, and he called' out., The driver,
however, drove on, and crushed, him 'against the
wall. He cried-out, "Do you- mean to kill me?"
to which he replied; ".1 don't mind killing a- watch-
man," and drove on into Broad-street. lie called,
out, 'and- the coach was stopped opposite St. (Peet;
church; and the. number taken. The'Prosecutor
was Very flinch bruised, and a considerable time
under din hands of the apothecary of the work-
house. • • •

The Jury found the' Defendant guilty ; but re.
commended him to' the lenity of the Court, on the
ground of his youth, ?end believing the injury arose
rather from carelessness than malice.

The Learned Chairman said, the frequency of
such conduct mado,it pilblic concern,' and callid
for an example.
Norait• Hayes was .-in,ikied for assaulting Sarah
Moss. The.Prosecutrik it a ieWess, and her hus-
band keeps'a slop shop in King-street, and is what
is called a crimp. A black • man bad lodged in their
house, from which he wentou'board a ship, where,
being taken ill, he was carried back, ou Gyod
day last, to their house.. The Prosecutrix, appre-
hensive of distemper,,refused to take him in, and he •
was sent to the workhouse, but died in the ad of•
removal. ' The Defendant, a poor Irish servant in
the neighboorhOod, indignant at, what she. con-
sidered a' cruelty, in refusing to admit 'the:dying
black, upbraided. the Prosecutrix, and :astlisted to
put the man into the chair in which- be was con-
veyed to the workhouse,' wrapping his blanket
about him, and placing his bundle under his head.
The Prosecutrix swore, that upon bidding her mind
her master's business, she meek her a violent blow
on the mouth, and knocked out one of her teeth.
She was supported by the swearing of another wo- •
man, and herbrother„ to the same etre& In 'con_
tradielion to this, six Women, who witnessed tire
whole transaction, swore that the Defendant Merely
assisted the miserable man, and that thereupon the
Prosecutrix said she wanted to. rob him that 'the
Defendant said, " She thanked God it was ,not from
a Christian's 'door the blaCk was turned .away.”—
That the Prosecutrix then spat in her face; to which
she observed, that was what was done-on tire same
day to Jesus Christ and, snapping her tinges, said,
it it-was-not for the law, she would 'use her worse.
.-,--They were positive she neverstrvi!A: her. Upon
this•evidence, the Jury, without hesitation, acquit!.
led the Defendant..

The whole of this clay was occnpied in trials of as•
wholly void of interest or smpol tante.

• The indictment against Mr. BOND for writing a
threatening letter to Mr. PHILLIPS, for the purpose
of extorting money from him, stood for trial at the
present Middlesex Sessions. It has, however, been
removed into the Court of King's Bench by Certio.
rani.

The Pro,seention against the Duke of Gonnow, for
an. assault, .with an intent to commit a Ripe, has
also been removed .by Certiorari into the Court of
King's Bench. _ _

A-
young Lady of genteel appearance, of the name
of Heale, a milliner, was .sound drowned in the
Paddington Canal, yesterdarafern,ion, by 3 barge-.
man. She left hei houso in the Edgeware-Road at,.
seven o'clock in the.wntng,, and was supposed tp
be deranged.
The report circnlated.; yeste.ra.4 - of Ici-I,•WitiT!.
pit KAI) having been overturned in a 011(.1110rSe'dmise,
and his leg fraftured, is void of fnandation.

•
CDUNTY,or -us'' .

The rollowing Requisition ant Coutirer
tiontwere lately presented to the High Sheriii of the
County of Sussex , The first, WhiCilikiS
, ha wked
about the County full sii weelts -is signed
,by 74
Freeholders or Inhabitants; most tit whose tinicA are
scarcely knoln to the County at large. The Counter
Requisition was signed by the great mass of the
landed interest -of the County, in less,than a week ;
and, it would hive been signed by many inure, if
there had been setficient time. Among thy names
are those of almost all the Nobility and men ofJarge
property in'the County; and also, of a great number
of the Clergy
.and opulent 'yeomanry, amounting al.
together to upwards of WO: Thus the sense of this
large County is completely known, and the mode of
expressing it, furnishes the bestexample to Coun-
ties and,other places, which may wish not be mis-
represented or, over-ruled by the turbulent ormost.
incompetent part of the community.
Sussitx„,-4 hereby give notice, that I have re-
ceived a requisition to call a Meeting of the Free-
holders and Inhabitants of this County ; and also 3
counter requisition (both hereunder published).; and
that after duly considering the subje&, I feel it my
diary to decline calling the Meeting.
, I (Signed) TUOMAS TOURLE,
Landport, Juno so, [Soy.

TO THR HIGH SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OP SUSSEX. .

SIR,
t
Being deep)), affeeled by the extreme importance
of the transactions which have fecenity passed in the
Commons House of Parliament, inuolving, as they
appear to us to do, the, es,enual interests of the
County, we think it highly prwer
.and, necessary
that the public opinion should be..unequivocally ex-
pressed with regard to them ; we therefore respe6t•
tally request that you will' at, a M..eting of he. Fre-
eholders and Inhabitants Of the County of Sussex, for
the above purpose, especially to Consider of a Vote.
of Thanki to Mr. WARDLE, along with the other
Membets of the House 4 Commons who *upporled.
him, for the manly intrepidity and perseverance dis-
played by him, in' instiipiog and. prosecuting his
Charges ogain,t the col-4E1130 of the Ex. Commander
in Chief.—Signed by 74 ereeholders and Inhabitants.'

TO THR MCI; SHERIFF OP TUE COUNTY OF susses.

sta,`• • "
We, the Undersigned, being informed that a re-
quisition for a Meeting of the Frechnider4, and aim'
of the Inhabitants of the County, has been, a consi-
derable time •circujated for signature, and that the
avowed pnrpese (011ie Meet in is, " to e:4ress the
public opittion with.regard to transactions which.
have -recently passed in the' Commons House of
Parliament," beg leave to represent to you, that it
appears to us WO a Meeting of, the County, called
to agitate questions winch have already been lulls dis-
cussed and ditqlde i upon by the Representative of t he
people at WO, is not only un necessary, but improper,
and' may be attended with Abe worst conseqUet,ces
that the tendency of it evittently will be to i.i4lante
and mislead the minds of the people, and eventually
to disorganise the State, at a period w hen .the ut-
most Unanimity is required, to preserve our (lust.
once as a nation, and to mii,trtin the glorious stunt:-
riots its which Great Britain now &taws, the only
suppnrol And'esserter ot the liberties of mankind.
We therefore do retiod;t 'that you will deCiine
calling such a Meetink:'