The Sun.
London, England, 1813-11-02 00:00:00

OLD BAILEI7.

Yesterday James Loutftware was indicted for
maliciously stabbing, with intent to murder or
Jatnes Harris, on the morning.of the 21st
of October. Both the prosecutor and,the accus-
ed seemed to be about 18 or 19 years of age.
Mary Jay was servant to :the_prosecutor's fa-
ther, and accOnpunied. her mistress and her three;
daughters to a place near the Old Bailey, on the
evening of the 20th, whetter., they returned about.
one o'clock in the morning of the 21st. In Long-
alley they called nt a public-house, where the
~elder Barris (the nrOseeutor's fattier), was wait-
ing to necoMpany, them home. She proceeded
before, and observed the prisoner with two fe-

tiudes. Shortly after she Beard behitrd her the
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prisoner'i.'compantons and her master's daughters
quarrelling, and and soon after the prisoner as-
saulted Harris. The prosecutor then came ont
• trout their pause, -which Was not far diStuut, oia
hearing fqther't; Voice, and told the prisoner
and not with his fatlier. Ott
this a settfile ensued, and the Inlsitner went up a
• dark alley, followed by the piosecutor, who scion
returned, wounded in the side.
The prosecutor and his father gave evidence,
mulch to the same effect. One or two blows had
passed between the prisoner and him before he re-
treated to the passage.
The watchinan gave an account of 'his having.:
fnowl the knife with tvhich.the wound had been
inflicted ; it was a etninuon clasp knife.
The Surgeon, to l'iehOse care the prosecutor had
bee 4 connnitted, stated that the wound had not
been dangerous since the removal of the first.
dressing.,

Baro'U-Titomrsrm then addressed the Jury, and
said, that he had not called, on the 'prisoner for
ai►y defence,' because in tile statute which inflicted
the punishment of death on the crime with which
the prisoner stood charged, it was provided in.
such case as the wr►und, if fatal, Nould ►rot have
ainounted to murder, than the prisoner should not
be Convicted. ...Such a case he conceived was that
before, them, tend the Jury could not therefore but
acquit the prisoner.
The Jury accordingly gave in a verdict of—Not
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Jomes Braon was indicted for stealing a mare,
With ,i Cart-saddle and harness, the property of
Walter Pritchard, ..

The facts of the case 'mere, that prosecutor;
on the evening of the 19th of October, had left the
Mare with its harness in a stable ; on the morning
of the 20th the lock ‘s,,,as broken, and the mare
and harness gone, On the same morning early
the prisoner Was met and detained by the watch,
between Stepney-green and Mile-end-road, with
the same ware and harness, drawing a cart laden
with flax.

The prisoner said, hi defence, that the hone
had been lent to him by the metier of the stable,
but lie,atiduced no witnesses: and was found-=-
Uuilty.

Brighton Cotton ‘vess indicted for having Monis
ously assanited William Bro‘Vn,:and having taken
from him a watch, value 31. his property.
Brown', the prosecutor (a groom) stated, that
on the 9th of October, about nine o'clock in the
evening, lied went into the IVheat.she.ar, zi
house in Wych-street, Drury-lane, in company of
Nn acquaintatiee. He took a pint of beer, and
not finding a man whom he wanted to see, he was
hbont to leave the house, and in the passage to
the door, he %vas struck-by a man Who hit him oa
the breast, and his
,watch was drawn out , by this
man. At the Same time he Seized the man, and
closed With him; the Mon struck him, and both
fell. Wittiest still kept his hold, till some people
came and drew the man 'to the front door, which
they opened, and the man' made' his escape. While
on the ground, he held' the Man by the toot, and
remarked be ha.d a high shoe ota. The prisoner
at the bar he -could iiot sweir-positively, to ha the
person: lie ~vas told by several persons in the
house that he ,should Wye, his wretch on the Sun-
day morning.
Hamm)) Fitzgerald vas at the Wheat-sheaf on
thk•eveuiogin prestion, and was coming out whtu

she saw Brow„ the passage, and another
ttla.rovith him ; she could nos say tvbether it was
tke yrisoner ; there were many others pushing and
sci.angingto get off themats ou
,the ground -whom
Brown had by the leg.
Benjamin Bennet, landlord of the Wheat-she:o*i
has ICept it.nearly'three months ; knows the pri-
solier from his frequenting his house, and saw
him there on the night of .sitttaday the, 9th of Oc-
tOber. NVitiiess saw froth his tap-room, on the
9th of_Ootober, a bustle in time passage : he was
at.that time getting out a man who came in with
Brown, who was tipsy and troublesome. When
he got into the passage Brown was returning from
the front door and comphiined he had lost his
watch. frown's companion 'declared, that he
(Brown) hid, no watch when he came into the
house, to which Brown did not reply; both were
drunk.

Brown was called up again and declared he was
not drunk ; be was
.sure he, had u watch, and the
_girl could speak to it.
Ilannah Fitz,,erald then said she saw a seal and
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kev hanging from Brown's pocket.:
A C:ol,lt4ble deposed,. that on. some information
he- had received of the loss of Brown'S watch, he
took the prisoner, whom he met in Covent-gar-
den ; Brown told hini that the man had a buckle.
The prisoner when taken had on ankle shoes, such.
tx thieves in general wear.
The „Indge cautioned him from eliminating af
person ior wearing a shoe a little higher than'
usual.

Baron 'NomPoN summed up the evidence and
the Jury found the prisoner—Not Guilty.
On the Jury returning the verdict, Baron
Tno:,lPsoN told the oftieer to stand out, and said
he hoped the house where the rubbery was cpm-
mitted was not suffered to go on. Tile officer said
it Was indicted. Baron Tuotursort said, " most
properly—not one of those pei:sons shall have their
expellees, for the evidence here has ditlered most
inaterjally front that given before the Alagis
trates."

J. GrVales was put to the bar for feloniously
stealing a watch, value 31. the property of -------
Hinnphries, from a dwelling-house.
It appeared that the prosectoor and prisoner
slept ,at a public-1)010e,, in the same room ; the
prosecutor laid his watch on the chair by his bed-
; side .at night, and in the morning it was gone ;
and it was proved, beyond doubt, that- it was
taken by the prisoner.
Sir A. CxADiIIRE in his charge to the Jury said,
that the crime, in the manner in which the prisoner
was charged with it, was capital, under a statute,
the object of Which wits to,prot(Tt those, articles
which everyone is obliged to leave in his dwelling
without any other protection. This statute was
severe but necessary, for noprotection can be too
much for a man's property in his own Louse. As
thestatute has been
,interpreted, it bad been held
that k did not include-those articles which a man
had under his own immediate protection. In this
state might by considered the watch at thetime of the
theft, being much in the state of any thing which a
man had put on a table near which he is sitting. This
was a point of law, and though the distinction was
nice it wa, conclusive to overturn, the rapital part
of the charge. Another consideration, if this had
not been sufficient would have been the value of
the watch, which, possibly, -did not come within
the value mentioned in the statute. They had,
therefore, to consider merely the fact of the steal-
ing, of which there Could be little doubt, and if
they were convinced of the fact they should bring
in a verdict against the prisoner of guilty of
stealing, but not in a dwelling-house,
The Jury immediately brought in a verdict of
stealing, but not to the amount Of 395.

Btslu!p • Was capitally convicted for n
burglary in the dwelling-huuse of Richard Tuilitt,
with intent to teat his'goods.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

RIOTS AIIONG THE CIIINESE SEAMEN.

Yesterday five Chinese seamen, in the employ-
ment of the East lndia.Company, named drsing,
.41rpin, &pun, and Chonghu, were in-
dieted for being concerned in a licit among about
300 of their countrymen, at present resident in
the building at Ratcliffe-.Highway, erected for
their accommodation,

The principal novelty in the case consisted in
'the mode of swearing the witnesses, which was
by lighting np a fire of sandal wood, lighting two
wax candles with some emblematical Characters
inscribed on.themsome
, lighting aISO reeds, re-
sembling rush-lights, placed in a bed of sand, and
lzy setting fire to some pieces of oiled paper, also
,having emblematical characters inscribed on them,
over which the witnesses first bow' six times in
an erect posture, and afterwards six times> bending
towards the ground; and finally take the oath
kneelinr, on a cane mat.
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,Withthe circumstances of the •rase oar readers
are already, acquainted. A very serious riot, and
one attended, in several instances, with fatal eon-
sequencea,:had broken, out, and continued for a
number of days, among the natives of China re.
sideut in this country, which all the authority
of tho?e siarnsted with the charge of tliem was
unequal to.restrain, until a. ninither of them were
cet and wounded in a dreadful mariner, by the
tremendaus.,weapons which they are accustomed
to rise, 'and also by a sort of instrument which
they 6%, by means of a swivel, to their fingers,
and with the other end, which is armed with
atll sharp pikes, wound and lacerate the faces
of their antagonists. Of the wounds thus
et!, three men- have already died, and several are
still in the hospital in .a dangerous state. The
five.men at the liar were charged with being con.
cerned in this riot, and the evidence detailed by a
nuinher of their companions, through the medium
of_an interpreter, named ,Aipiing, leaving no -doubt
that they
,were present, and more gr less concern-
ed in the business.

Ihe Jury:without begitstion, found the pri:
sorters OWlt,y, anti the Court sentenced them to
be imprisoned for two months each.
'lra, nisi) a Chinese, was (mind guilty of as-
saulting John Clare, a watehtwin of the bounds
where the house in which the Chinese live is
situated. Ile was also sentenced to two muonths
imprisuument.