The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-14 00:00:00

?iIDDLESEX QUARTER SESSIOAS.

The Sessions cornMenced ytsterday, and was
chiefly occupied in businrs's of little interest.
Robert Peares wa; indicted, at the proiecutinn of
the Post-office establishment, for obtaining under
false-pretence, from a person in Westminster, the
sum_ of twopence.- It was-not the measure of the
offence which causal-,his r,rosecuft..n., but its nature,
and the wide road which if would oi...en to similar
fraud,, -if sutiered to p iss %.% lib imputtilr.
This defendant had formerly been a letter-carrier,
in the ervice,of• the two-penny.PosT-otlice, br,t was
dismissed-from his employrnenti and in October
last tie formed the scheme of raising money tinder
colour• of hi, torinti occupation. Having got to,
get her a bundle ot. tiert•joJs lutiers, addressed to a
number of persons in Westtnialter, and berir;pg-
apparently me usual mum is of the t wo-pcnny
office, he went sound .and delivered them, rr:,.
ceiving the usual rate of po,rage, and pock,ting.the

.money,
On .the prisoner's being t.triaigheil, beinstantly
ac-
knowledged his ot:fence-5 . and -said, 1.0 would not.
aggravate it by telling a fakehood. prof.•ssed
extreme compunaion lor hisc9nduel,andthre.,.
itini-
self on the mercy of the Court,
Mr. WATsoN, 30711 as pro-chairman, said, it
would be cecessary to have the „verdict 'of a jury, in
order to the defendant's conviction ; and, therefore,
Mr. Abbott shortly stated the case, and the prisonet
was found guilty..

Mary Anne. IPillianzs ovis charged with robbing
Mr. Bryan, of New Sotnetsei-place, of t 11. iti,Bank'
of England Notes. Mr. B. stated to ihe'Aidermarr,'
that he was somg honie on- the tight of the
and in passing down Ludgatei.bill he was atlacked.
by the prisoner and another woman; that the pri-
soner forcibly took the notes from kis pocket, wh!...n.
the two women separated ; that he pursued the pri-
soner, who crossed the street, an.l got' into a court,
and by the datkress Of the night he lost her at the
time, but she wits afterWardS -taken and sent to the
Compter, without being searched, and'alterWards no
notes being -found upon her, the Mai-trates
dis-
charged her ; but the proseculOr said, since that
time having got the number-of the notes; and three
of them •having been paid into the Bank,, he had
traced one of them to have been paid 'l6 ho,ier by
the prisoner, who had confessed a • knowledge of her
as a 9u,torner, but ttid' not .+p;-car.
`.llle Magistrate ordered him la be summoned to
give 'evidence; and remanded the plisotter for fur-
ther exa:tim:ition.

Jacob Fletcher- and his wife, were itidided for as-
saulting a pOor old wsotnan wlio lo4ed to their
house, and who kept a mangle. It seetnua that
they ,‘ ere des-nous, of g,ttiog rid of her w 111)one
giving her-any notice to qui", but she rffinsed to go,
under the advice of her attotney, without aquarter's
notice;' not being able the.refore, to succeed iii get-
ting rid of her, they. devied all..means to plague
her : particularly they would sbUt the door, and
Make her 'wait a considerable time, before she could
get admittance into the. hous,... At length, on the
day stated in the indictment, as she entered the
house, the male ptisoner salwed her, by throwhlg a
pal! of *Merit) her face. He aftetswatds .knocked
her down, and kicked her in the stokriach and breast.
While he',.vas doing this, his wife tt tchtd more wa7
ter, with which he sluiced her whili she lay on the
floor. The blows he gave her, wkre of that violent
ra
sort, that it caused her to votriit blOod, and as one
of the witnesses said when she carne into the room,
the poor old woman was dripping with water, wet
through, and, spitting up blood, which she h.id
oc-
casioually done ever since.
The Jury foUnd them bPth duilty, and they were
sentenced to pay fines—the, man Twenty Pounds,
and the wile Ten Pounds.

. The Dividends are now paying at the Bank.
The State Lottery begins Dra'wing at Nine o'clock
on Tuesday Morning, and finishes the same Day•

An Italian Journal of the bth of November an-
nounces, that no timber for ship-building, nor any
masts, will hereafter be permitted tube exported from
Italy.

•
Extra6l of a letter from an Officer of his Maies-
tyis ship Ternwant, dated December 2, I 8 t 1 :
" Since the fall of Tarragona. we haVe been con-
gaudy employed getting stock at Magdalena, for
the fleet off that place. The Royal George, Admiral
Hallowell, has arrived 'at Gibraltar. It is said he is
to command on the coast of Catalonia, where, it is
exPe6ted,' thew will lye abrisk employment. The
lioyal George has since sailed. We are now cloSe
abreast of, St. Ilf?che, ail& often visited by the
French, who Meditate art attack, with 7,000 men,
upon the Spanish General Ballasteros, who is lying
under the rock of Gibialtar. :And it is thriught they
twill be daring enough to attack them, in sp'te of
the gun-boats, • Thiningant, and neighbouring bai7.
tlements, which occasionally annoy, with a shot
or two, their pier-pets and out-posts. In a skirmish
a day or two since, with the pictitiets of both Par 7
ties; the Spaniards had several men killed. The
French till hold the heights, acid appear to be turn-
ing it into complete blockade. Colonel Skerrio
came over from Tariffs, With fnou English and
2000 Spaniards, to co-operate in an attack upOn.the
French, bur the Scheme was 'abandoned. General
-Roche is particularly active in disciplining the Spa:
nigh. troops; three regiments of which he h
brought in.o good order ; and in raising recruits
(chietly_deserters from the French) for our service,
he has been remarkably successful. Upwards of 600
• already have arrived at Gibraltar, by the Termagant
and others, from Alicaut : most of them seem to be
GermanS. The French privateers are very success-
ful in making captures in the Mediterranean, but ra-
ther unlucky in the retention of them. Daily mis-
fortunes happen to them. We ba,l the luck to take
two, -and bring to with us, belonging to the Babiole,
a French ship of 46 guns, which has been since
' taken. The gininer of the Aierope 'shot himself, a
feW :nights ago, in a state et Thors-
dty morning a man 'was king on board the San
Jean, at Gibraltar for mutiny. He was a desperate
tharaaer. When in the 'gun-boat service, he of-
fered to desert to the enemy."

A few mornings since the house of Miss Davis,
of Twickenham Green, was broke open, and robbed
of a quantity of linen and other property.