The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-23 00:00:00

LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS, JULY 2.2

Thomas Clarke and Charles aforecraft, two journeymen
chimney-sweepers, were charged with a 'brutal assault upon a
little chimney-sweep boy, about 12 years of age, named ROW.
Porter, and one or two gentlemen who interfered to protect
him from their violence.
The child himself was examined. He had been stnt out
with Clark who is journeyman to the same master, to look
for work. Clark bad him go into a house that was repairing,
to
look for the job to sweep the chimnies •' he did so, an on
his returning without getting the job, Clark angrily said,
he never did get any work ; and at the same time gave him
a violent kick in the side, which laid him sprawling on the
ground, and while down kicked him again several times, so
that he was scarcely able to walk home.
Mr. Sibbering, an attorney in Union-street, and Mr. Evans,
a master bricklayer, who had witnessed Clark's brutality to-
wards the child, said on their interposing to
protect him they
were assaulted themselves, and that Morecraft, in particular,
struck Mr. Evans several times.
The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Guilty against both
the defendants, and the Court sentenced them to hard labour in
the House of Correction—.Morecraft for six months, and Clark
for one year.
SURREY SESSIONS, Ju IX 22.
Nathaniel Daxky, a lad of respectable appearance, aged
17 years, was indicted for stealing a silk handkerchief, the pro-
perty of Mr. F. Weller.
Mr. Weller was In the pit of Astley's Theatre on the evening
of the 2tith of June, when a disturbance occurred, during which
he felt a pull at his pocket, and on tutni round he caught the
Prisoner with his handkerchief in his ham? He then gave him
into the custody of Stowell, an officer.
Stowell stated, that he took the prisoner into custody from
Mr. Weller, and on searching him he found four other hand-
kerchiefs, a snuff-box, and card-case.
The prisoner said he picked the handkerchief up in the pit
during the disturbance ; the other handkerchiefs, as well as the
snuff-box and card-case, were bis property. He added, he had
been for the last nine months with his brother, a stock-broker
in the Rotunda of the Bank, and was not likely to have com-
mitted this robbery.—The Jury found him Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to six months' hard labour

in the House of Correction.
Mr. TIIESIGEn begged to call the attention of the Court to
the trial (yesterday) of Mr. Lewis Moses, for felony, and beg-
ged that the Court would grant him a copy of the Indictment.
The learned counsel observed, that it must have been clear
to every person in the Court, that a more flimsy attempt or a
more unfounded endeavour to affix the crime of f luny t) any
man, never was attempted. He had a risht to bring the
whole circumstance into a Court of justice, in order that the
base proceedings might be exposed, and Mr. Moses' charac-
ter, in the eyes of the world, redeemed from the stigma cast
upon it.
The CounT refused to grant the application.
Mr. TRESIGER advised Mr. Moses to apply to the Attor-
ney-General, which he declared his intention of doing.

STAGE-COACIIES.—Johnson, the informer, hits
been milking a profitable tour along the Southampton-road. It
appears that many of the coachmen along that line have for
some time past been in the habit of taking occasionally more
passengers than the Act of Parliament allows. Several offenders
of this kind were brought before a bench of Magistrates at
Chertsea on Monday week, at which time Sir Henry Houten,,
one of the Lord, of the Admiralty, presided as Chairman. The
first case entered into was against John Walden, the driver of
a Southampton coach, who was proved to have passed through
Frimley with no less than 18 persons on the roof. Sir Henry
notham, in pronouncing his judgment, observed on the gross-
ness of the case, and declared his intention of
protecting the
public from the accidents which such a course of offence must
give rise to, by inflicting in every instance the foll penalty
101. for every passenger above the allowed number, being in
this case six convictions of 101. each. The driver of the o
Suth
ampton Union coach was convicted in one penalty of 101., and
the driver of the Old Salisbury, and several other coachmen, in
whose cases some mitigatory etreurnstances appeared, were fined
each in the SAM of 01.