The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-28 00:00:00

WI DNESDAY, OCT. 27.

Tnts day was wholly employed in the trial of
Zetty Assaults, of whose description the two follow-
ing will suffice as a specimen.
Two young men Thomas and Jchn lames Bush;
brothers, were indided for assaulting a'person of the
name of Wood.

Wood deposed, that the Defendant J. J. Bush
being under contra& to fit up a shop, employed him
to paint the letters on the door. In consequence
he pencil'd the letters, but the two or three days
ensuing being wet, it would hat'e been useless to
paint.them.. Bush of&nded at the delay, then in_
ststed that he should not paint them at all, but the
Witness insisted on his doing it, as he began the job
already. He accordingly repaired to the place, with
his pallet, and began to paint, when he was frequent-
ly collared by Bush, who endeavoured to put him
out of the house., Enraged at this treatment the
ProsecUtor called him a puppy and pulled his nose,
in his own defence, when T. Bulih,.• the other De-
fendant, came up, saying,' " I'll settle him," and
after putting himself in• a boxing attitude, and
squaring 'at him some time, gave him a violent
bloW on the arm, which made, him desist from his
work. He thought at first to indid them, but on
refledion.dropt the intention. He, however, found
that J. J. Bush had ind.ided him for pulling his
pose, though, as he said before, he did so in his
own defence, and the Cause was never brought to
a trial. Having thus been put to an expense of 61.
which he could badly afford, and conscious of his
not being the aggressor, he brought the present
indidment by way of retaliation.

The Defendants were found guilty, and fined
51. each.
Elizabeth Robinson was tried for violently as-
saulting and beating Mary King.
The Prosecutrix deposed, that on the evening of
the 4th of August, she saw the Defendant beat-
ing a black man, and interfered for his protedion.
Th.e Defendant asked her if she would take the
part of a black against *hire ? She. anscvercd,,
‘. Why not P' Having said this, the husband of
the Defendant. exclaimed, " give it to her, Bet,
for ,it can
.be only a Warrant," and anothei man
present said he would bail her if it was for 2001.
The Defendant then asked .her if she would fight ?
She replied that she, wal not a fightable woman,
upon.; which the Defendant came up and lent her a
thump on the.head; whiCh she did not return.
Two other Witnesses ,in part corroborated this
testimony.
The Defendant endeavoured- to assert her inno-
cence by saying, ,that some black men were using a
white woman very ill in her house, in consequence
of which she endeavoured to turn them'out, when,
the Prosecutrix came up and took their part. She.
however, denied having., at :ill struck her, though
she upbraided her with siding withblacks againSt
whites. The man who was pre-sent at the trans-,
a&ion, and °feted to be bail if necessary,' appeared
as a Witness for.the,Defence, and after confirming
part of the statement made by the Defendant, said
that she was ready to fight, but as the other wo_.
man declined it, no blows were given' on either
side.

l'he Jury found the Prisoner—Not Guilty.

There was also a trial of a womanfor,beating
another. Both parties reside in- an alley in Moor_
fields, and the dispute seemed to arise from the
right of the Defendant to throw her dirt into the
common dust-hole. Both sides took up arms for
the decison of this important contest, the
vanquished heroine appealed to the avenging pro-
tedion of the Law.

On both sides the cross-swearing was pretty
nearly equal : one or two women confirmed all that
had been said by the Prosecutrix, while it was de-
posed by other Witnesses, that the Prosecutrix first
spit in the face of the Defendant, and also instigated
her dog to assail her. The dog they described to
be a perfed bully in the neighbourhood.
The Defendant was found Guilty, and tined cne
shilling ; which very properly leaves the Parties to
pay their own expences.
The indietments preferred at the instance of the
Society for the Preservation of Morals, against per_
sons of the names of Baptucci, Cantelopc, and Al_
Brick, for selling indecent prints, &c. were, by
agreement amongst the Counsel, sent back for the
reconsideration of the Committee, to be tried at
the ensuing Quarter Sessions, if they should think
proper. The defence, we understand, rests upon
the character of Gray, who is the Informer, and
probably the only Witness on this occasion.
The trial of Elizabeth Salmon, on a conspiracy
for stealing a child, was deferred to next Sessions,
upon a certificate of a Surgeon, that the child is at
present affected with the small-pox.
The Session was then adjourned to Friday, and,
on dismissing the Jury, the Chairman could not
help expressing his regret that they had been
obliged to waste three days in such a manner; for
in the great number of causes which were brought
to trial, there were not above three or four that
deserved to come before a Court.

The Wind having blown pretty much from the
West and South. West during the whole of last
week, the shoals of Herrings have for the present
quitted our coast, to the great loss of the Fishery
at Brighton.

EDINBURaII Oct. z 3.

SET: off from Poole% Hotel, the Earl and Countess
of Mansfield, and suite, for Comlongan.—Arrived
at the same place, Prince Ruspoli, Grand Master of
Malta ; Colonel and Mrs'. Maitland, and Miss
Fletcher, Major Douglas, &c.
Arri-ved at the Buck's Head Inn, Glasgow, his
Royal- Highness Monsieur Le Compte D'Artois;
Doc de Berry, Chevalier de Piseguri Due D'Har-
court, Baron de • Roll,. and suite, on a tour; the
Marchioness of Hertford, • Lady Mary Taylor,
Major_General Salboukoff, in the Russian service,
General Forbes, Lady Dalrymple, Colonel Ciaver.;
ing, Colonel Burnett and family, Captain Fletcher
and Lady, &c.
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It is a fad, that for the month preceding the loth
Gather inst. the Harbour Dues of Greenock
amounted to the sum of' six hundred and fifty
pounds sterling. '
A letter received at Greenock, from C/impbel-
town, of the date of Tuesday se'nnight, says,
" I have this day a letter from Lochlaxtord in the
north, of the 9th inst. advising of a good fishing
being there, and only a very few vessels on the
spot."