The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-13 00:00:00

REY QUARTER-SESSIONS.

MottriAy the Adjourned Quarter Sessions for
surrey were held at the New Sessions House, in
Horsemonger.lane, Southwark.
James Bailey and john Carpenter, two. Journey-
:men Shipwrights, were indieled fot assaulting Robert
Howard, on the zzd of June :.there was another in-
diament.against them for assaulting John Cox, on
the same day, in the parish of Deptford.

Mr. Mattatotr said, that the Defendants stood
indiaed for a most violent assault on the proS&u_
tors, who were, like themselves, Shipwrights r they
were in the employ of Messrs. Randall and Brent ;
and, it would• be remembered, that an alarming
Combination had ~taken place among the journey-
men,. most of whothrliall refused to work ; the Pro-
secutors, howevetywere-an,"6xteption, and lot this
reason the Defendants -had determined to ill-treat
them. He then stated the manner in which the
assault was made, and sail that the presentprosecu-'
tion was in fast carried on by. Mr. Brent, the sur-
. Viving partner _of Mr, —Randall, who conceived-
ir to public justice, and as an example to
those in_ the same line of life, to deter them from
forming Combinations, which, in a commercial cOun.
try, and more especially when they were formed by
Shipwrights, must prove ruinous and destruaive.—
He had no doubt when the Jury were in- pog,ession
of the evidence, they would be.satisfied of the De-
fendants' guilt, and assign theta to receive that
punishnlent they so well merited.

John Cox deposed, that on the evening of the
22d of June, as he was going home from the Yard
of Messrs. Randall and Co. in company with Robert
Howard and Henry Chapman, he received .infOrma.-
tion, that a large body of Sawyers were posted at the
door of the Britannia public.house, at Deptford ;
being alarmed at this, they agreed to go down a lane
before they came to the publie.bouse, to it';oid them :
they. accordingly went down the • lane, but had not
gone far when they saw several of them running round
to meet them. Carpenter was the first who came
up, and he immediately began to put himself in an
•attitude to fight, crying out, "D---n your eyes, we
have been waiting for you.". He then asked the
Witness if he did riot belong to Messrs. Randall's
Yard, and was answered, No. _ Bailey then came
up, and several others and 'Bailey struck him a
violent blow with a stick,- which knocked him
down ;- this was rowed -several times, and at
length he was Perinitte'd to go, upon his promise
that he would not work for Messrs. Randall.

The evidence of Robert Howard, on the other
indidment, was nearly similar to that delivered by
Cox. He had been knocked down four times. 'On
his crOss-examination, he admitted that he had for-
given the Defendants for their ill conduCt.
The
_Tury pronounced them both guilty.-

_ . .
The Chairman sentenced them both to ,be im-
prisoned for the term of ore year, and observed,
that if any Shipwrights were in Court, he hoycd
this sentence would have the proper effect, as it was
necessary to }rut a stop to Combinations of every
kind, in Order to protect the commerce of the
•
country.

A Prussian Merchant of:.the name of Ambrose

Crow, was indifted for assaulting Hannah An.
droyde, and two children, 'the daughters of a Major
Stuart. The Counsel for the Prosecution opened
the case with considerable feeling, and by pointing

to the children (than whom we never sati two more
beautifully interesting) stating, that they had both
been severely hurt, and one so much so as to be un-
able to walk for several days, by the unprovoked
violence of the Defendant.

Hatmah Androyde deposed, that on the ztst of
Kay she Was walking with the children in Surrey_
square, when she saw a mob collated, and the De.
fendant anti his brother engaged in a quarrel with
sonic young men, against whom she heard they had
drawn their knives. She got out of the way, and
while she was speaking of the circumstance to a
woman who lived within a door or two of the De-
fendant, the Defendant's wife began to abuse her out
of a one-pair of stairs window ; she desired her to
desist from using such language to one who was as
good as she was, and was walking away. On her
returning back upon the Terrace, the Defendant
ordered her to go home; which'she said she should
not do until she thought proper; upon which he
dirally shoved her with much violence off the
Terrace into the road, which is between two and

three feet high. Though greatly alarmed, she was
not much hurt, and on her regaining the Terrace, in
order to get to the children, she, together with both
of them, was again thrown into the rand by the
Defendant, with so much force, as. to lay herself
and the two children on their faces in the dirt. A
Gentleman then came to her assistance, and she
went home. The eldest of the young Ladies had
received so violent a strain on her back as to render
her incapable of walking for several days, and the
other was much hurt in the leg. A Mr. Roberts,
who was accidentally passing through Surrey square,
saw the transaaion, and went up to proteEt the Pro-
secutrix from any further injury, and on her telling
him to whom the children belonged, he felt it his
duty to go home with them (though unknown to
Major Stuart), and explain his knowledge of the
affair to the father.

Two or three women who saw the business, cot
roborated the evidence given by the Prosecutrix,
and Major Stuart himself said, one of his children
had. been so strained as not to be able to walk, and
the young woman, who had lived upwards of six
years in his family, from being so much alarmed,
had been confined to her bed for several days,
-Mr. MARRIOTT cross-examined Major Stuart
with much severity, and we were sorry to hear
some family questions put for which there was no
necessity. The Defendant attempted to prove
provocation on the part of the .Prosecutrix, by her
having used abusive language t'o his wife: He
was, however, found Guilty, and ordered (which was
th,Nsole objetti of the Prosecution) to give security,
himself in 2001. 'and two Sureties in tool.-each, to
keep the peace during his natural life ; to be fined
61. Bd. and to, he detained in custody until such
Sureties as the Court approved of were produced,

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