The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-21 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Mr. Thomas Thomas, a West India planter, was
brought up in custody, charged with having as
saulted Mr. Mason and his wife under circumstances
of peculiar aggravation.
Mrs. Mason, on being sworn, stated that on the
preceding night, as she was walking along the Cam-
berwell-road with her infant in her arms, and her

husband following at a little distance in the rear,
the defendant who was going on in the same dir=e-
don, walked up close to her side. She endeavoured
to avoid him by quickening her pace, hut he till
kept close to her, and when she stopped for her
husband to come up the defendant also stopped ~nd
'ook her round the waist. She, however, extricated
herself from the embrace, and her husband, who
witnessed the circumstance, said that she was his
wife, and desired the defendant to go on about his
business and not insult persons who had given him
no liberties. The defendant, however, regardless
of the caution he received, thrust his hand into Mr-.
Mason's bosom with violence, upon seeing which
her husband tried to pull him away. The de-
fendant, however, turned round ❑pon him and at-
tacked him with fury, got him down, a•td while on
the top of hint began to b. at him, until at 1. ngth
',is wife's cries for help brought a policeman to the
spot.

- The defendant, in his defence, said that he had
recently arrived from the West Indies, and having
dined with a friend and made rather free with the
bottle on the night in question, he happened by
mistake to shove up against the female, but he coold
positively declare that he had not off,red the insult
described by the complainant and his wife.
Mrs. Mason adhered to the truth of her state-
ment, and said that she had not exaggerated the
facts.

Mr. WEDGWOOD and his colleague inflicted a
penalty of 50s. and 10s. costs on Or, defendant, ar
,he same time remarking that they were convi,ced
as to the truth of Mrs. Mason's sta►ement, although
the defendant had denied it so vehemently.
SENDING A THREATENING LBTTER.—Frederick
G. Baldwin, a man of respectable appearance, was
charged with sending a letter of threatening import
to a Mr. Laurence, who produced the epistle, an 3
read from it those parts which he said conveyed the
intentions of the writer towards him. Toe quarrel
between the parties arose out of sore dispute re-
specting a lady, and in allusion to the circumstati.'t
the letter which was addressed to Mr. Laurence
was to this effect. The writer says, "It seems
that you (meaning Mr. Laurence) told Mis.
1-'s friends (for I am informed so by Mrs.
Plain) that she ran away with me, and that my
condition of life was that of a dealer in furs. and

that she had made but a poor match of it. Whitt
you mean to insinuate by my being a dealer in furs
I know not ; but when I see you again I will let
you know that I deal in skins, for if you do nor eat
your words, or, more properly speaking, slanderou3
lies, your nose and my fingers, rely upon it, shall
be baiter acquainted." The complainant laid par-
ticular stress upon the sentence he had read, and
submitted that the language conveyed a threat of
personal injury sufficiently obvious, and that under
such circumstances he trusted the Magistrate would
render him that protection which the law afforded.
The defendant attempted to justify the epithets
he had used in the letter by stating that the com-
plainant defamed his character, and endeavoured to
lower him in the estimation of a lady for whom he
had the highest respect.
The complainant denied the imputation, and hav-
ing stated that he considered himself in danger of
violence from the writer of the letter, the defendant
was held to bail to keep the peace.

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