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London, England, 1827-07-10 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JULY 9.

The Quarter Sessions for the County of Middle-
sex commenced this morning at the Sessions House,
Clericeowell, before Vve.ANcis CoNsy, Esq., and a
full Bench of Magistrates.
Monsieur Anastasi Robbie, the husband of Ma-
dame Robine, the dress-maker, of St. James's-street,
was indicted for committing a violent assault upon
Mr Francis Lloyd, an Irish solicitor.
Mr. PHILLIPS stated the case for the prosecution,
and Mr. ALLEY for the defence. The facts proved in
evidence were these. Mr. Lloyd had been on terms 1
of intimacy with the family of Madame Robine, who
had made dresses for his mother, who resides in
Ireland. Mr. Lloyd called on Madame Robine, and
in the course of conversation he communicated to
her that she had been slandered by a Mr. Jarman.
Mr. Lloyd paid another visit to Madame Robine in
company with his wife, and Monsieur Robine having
in the interim made some inquiries relative to the
alleged slander of his wife, taxed Mr. Lloyd with
having himself originated the slander. Mr. Lloyd
said it was false, and Monsieur Robine called him
rascal," " villain," and also used other epithets
which abound in the French vocabulary. Mr. Lloyd
immediately quitted the house with his wife, and
they were proceeding along Ryder-street, when the
defendant came unobserved behind Mr. Lloyd, and
struck him a blow on the back of his neck, kicked
him in the seat of honour, and pulled his nose. Mrs.
Lloyd was so alarmed that she fell into a fit.
The Jury found the defendant Guilty, and the
Court sentenced him to pay .51. to the King, and to
enter into recognizances to keep the peace for six
months towards Mr. Lloyd, himself in 40/., and two
sureties in 201. each.

William Biddle was indicted for committing a very
brutal assault on Ann Croker. The Jury found the
defendant Guilty, and he was sentenced to pay a
fine of 251.
Thomas James Arnold, Esq., was indicted for as-
saulting James Isaacs, a watchman of the Saffron-
hill division ; and there. was a cross indictment,
charging Isaacs with committing an assault on Mr.
Arnold.
The Jury Acquitted Mr. Arnold, and found Isaacs
Guilty.
Johu Watson, George Weaver, and Richard
Ayres, also watchmen of Saffron-hill division, were
indicted for assaulting H. Bell, Esq.—Mr. Arnold,
and Mr. Bell, and other witnesses, proved this case;
and a mole unprovoked and wanton case of assault,
perhaps, never was committed. The watchmen were
dragging a female along the ground to the watch-
house, and Mr. Bell asked them not to ill-use her,
when he was beaten in a most brutal manner, and
dragged into the watch-house ; and but for the in-
terference of the watch-house keeper, he world
have been thrust into the black hole. •
The Jury found all the defendants Guilty; and
they were sent to the House of Correction, with
Isaacs, to be brought up on a future day to receive
the
.;;Adgment of the Court.
Jamesnirmingham, the butler of Sir Henry
_
Wright Wilson, tc2s convicted of committing two
assaults upon the under butiet snd the coachman of
the Honourable l3aronet, and was sentenceito pay
101. to the King.

Last week, an old woman, at Longtown, aged
100, fathered her male child (aged only 70!)
upon a man in the neighbourhood.—
Car/ide
Journal.

On Saturday a melancholy accident happened
at Mr. Henderson's farm of Haughmuir, near
Brechin. A fine boy, between four and five
years of age, the son of William Taylor, farm
servant to Mr.i Henderson, happened to be at
play, when one of the horses, going to the stable,
suddenly inspired with an unaccountable anti-
pathy to the child, ran forward and struck it on
the side of the head, and pressed against the
jugular vein with his foot so severely, that the
child died almost immediately. It is singular
that the horse exhibited no symptoms of rage or
restiveness either before or after having struck
the child, and appeared to be animated solely
by a hatred to the unfortunate object of its
,attack.—Caledonian Mercify.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 9.
RUDTORD V. SHAPCOTT.
This was an action for slander.

Mr. Sergeant WiLDE stated the case. The plain-
tiff in this action sought to recover compensation
for some very gross reflections that had been cast on
his character by the defendant. The nature of the
imputation was, that Rudford, who had been con-
nected in business with the defendant, had robbed
him of 6004, arid that he was one of the greatest
scoundrels in the world. The plaintiff and defen-
dant were both Sheriff's officers, and the latter had
taken a person named Frig :yell into custody, who
was acquainted with the plaintiff, and on being ar-
rested by the defendant, requested to be taken to
his (the plaintiff's) house in preference to any other.
The defendant then made use of the expressions
complained of, which would be proved by Trigwell,
whose request he refused. That the imputation
was groundless could not be doubted, as the de-
fendant did not attempt to justify it; but it was
such as was likely to prove highly injurious to the
plaintiff in his character as a Sheriff's officer.
Mr. Sergeant CROSS, for the defendant, contend-
ed that the words were made use of under circum-
stances which gave them a very different aspect to
that which they now presented ; but the Learned
Counsel for the plaintiff had very sedulously pre-
vented any evidence from being gone into which
was calculated to throw the proper and real light on
the expressions. On the whole the Learned Ser-
geant thought it was not a case to call for damages.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages, one farthing.
In the case of " Blake v. Ravenscroft," when Mr.
Sergeant LAWES was about to state the facts,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE interrupted him and
said, he had already been made acquainted with the
facts from a very improper source—he meant the
defendant; and he begged to observe, that if he
should ever again receive a statement of facts in a
similar manner, he would bring the party before the
'Court, and should have done so in the present case
had the defendant been forthcoming.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JULY 9.

Francis Harrison, lately an extensive farmer at
Humbleton, in Yorkshire, was brought up for final
examination.

The insolvent's application was opposed by Mr.
CoolE, on behalf of Mr. Wm. Beckwith, a credi-
tor for 150/. and costs of suit.

The insolvent stated, that previous to February
last, he rented a farm of 333 acres, which is now
possessed by a person of the name of Dunn, his
landlord in that month having put in a distress for
rent : the rent was what is called " a corn or produce
rent," viz, according to the quantity of crops pro-
duced on the soil. When the distress was put in,
there was more than a year's rent due; the distress
produced 8051.; some of the furniture on his late
premises belonged to his eldest son, and some to
his landlord, who occupied part of the house occa-
sionally. Mr. Hare (the landlord) resides at Hull,
but he travels a good deal, and some time since he
was going to Italy. There was not the slightest
collusion between him, Mr. Hare, and the present
tenant (Dunn.) When the valuation was made
under the distress, there were 34 acres of wheat
sown, which was not valued, as also some dressing
of the land. The crop is now growing, and goes
against the rent due up to Lady-day.
Thomas Wells Pluxton, a fanner, living at Wan-
sted, in Essex, proved that he went down into
Yorkshire with Mr. Beckwith to value some live
stock between that gentleman and the insolvent.—
At that time the latter had from 2.5 to 30 horses,
some of which were entire-horses, of a valuable de-
scription, and were let out at a particular season of
the year; beyond the stallions, there was a brood
mare and some coach-horses.

Mr. Beckwith, the opposing creditor, stated, that
he lives in Chiswell-street, and is a silk-merchant.
Witness is grandson and executor to the late Mr.
Dobson, of Brand's Burton, Yorkshire. At the
death of his* relakv, the insolvent owed him 4001.,
and a larger sum to another branch of his (witness's)
family. Witness went down to Humbleton in the
capacity of executor, to denim] the money, when it
was arranged that he should take live stock for a
part, and 1501. was to stand over till the following
April. The insolvent at that time represented his
property to be worth from 2,500/. to 3,000/., and
witness had reason to believe, from the judg-
ment of others, that he did not overrate it. He was
therefore at a loss to know why it realised so little.
Insolvent also said that he only owed half a year's
rent; whereas, by the distress, it appeared that he
owed double that sum. Having received informa-
tion of circumstances different to the statements
made by the insolvent, he swerved from his agree-
ment to wait till Lady-day for the balance, and com-
menced an action against him, which went to trial.
Mr. Wilson, a solicitor, in Lincoln's-inn-fields,
produced the proceedings in the action " Beckwith
v. Hales," by which it appeared that a verdict was
given to the plaintiff—Damages, 157/. ; the costs
(including the additional) amounted to 831.
The insolvent said that the old gentleman (Mr.
Dobson) always said in his life-time that he would
so shape his will that he (the insolvent) should pay
the money by instalments:. At one time he owed
him 1,0001. On being questioned about four
valuable horses, he said they belonged to his sons, to
whom he had presented them instead of wages.
Mr. CooKE contended at the original hearing that
there were two points in the case which militated
against the insolvent,—lst, he had made away with
his property to his sons; 2dly, he had put his
creditor to expences by a vexatious defence.
Mr. HEATH, on the contrary, observed, that the
opposing creditor was the first offender, inasmuch as
he had broken his engagement.
The COURT then said, that the distress and con-
demnation papers ought to be produced, in order
that a proper inventory of the property taken might
be a matter of record.

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This having been done, the Court expressed its
conviction that there was no proof of collusion.
Under all the circumstances, therefore, the Court
would pronounce the insolvent entitled to his dis-
charge, and ordered it to issue forthwith.

The Guildhall Sessions commence to-morrow,
and the Old Bailey on Thursday—at the latter
the number of prisoners to be tried is not great.
Among the cases are those of Owen Daintry,
the Post Office clerk, for embezzling money out
of letters, who was remanded last Sessions on
account of the absence of a material witness ;
Edward Hudson Treadway, committed on a Co-
roner's warrant for the murder of his wife, Henry
Solomons, the father of Ikey, for receiving stolen
goods,—and Sheen, the man who was acquitted
at the last Sessions of the murder of his infant
child, against whom new bills for the same crime
have been found.
CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.—On Thursday,
the Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics of Ire-
land was held in Clarendon-street Chapel, Dub-
lin, Lord Killeen in the Chair. Mr. O'Connell
read a petition praying for the repeal of the Test
and Corporation Acts, with which, he said, Ca-
tholic, Emancipation should be united. He
added, that the state of the Papists was now one
of hope, that they had every right to be satisfied
with the friendly intentions of the new Ministry ;
that the Marquis of Wellesley was an old woman ;
and that, previous to the removal ofthe Tory squad,
they had every reason to apprehend a civil war
in Ireland. He concluded by proposing that the
Catholics should unite themselves with the Eng-
lish Dissenters, that meetiv should be held on
the subject of Emancipation throughout Ire-
land ; adding, that he had little doubt their
claims would be granted by next summer. The
meeting was temperately but spiritedly conduct-
ed, and separated after a protracted discussion at
five o'clock.