The Sun.
London, England, 1811-10-31 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Oe'reata attiMmir.
George Jul 4 Clerk was put to. the.bar; charged
upon an indictment with assaulting a female child,
under the age of ten years, with intent .te ravish
her.
The circumstances of the cast~, which came out
in a very long and painful investigation, we're shod:-
ing in the extreme, and :furnished warty great and
lamentable proofs of excessivo depravity in a youth'
NI offender, such ae the delinquent at the bar,' who
is not, more than in bis .111th year. lie was found
OstiOy.. •
Mr.. WATSON (who sat as Losttm tenons for Mr.
Mat Alt 014), After a long consultation' with the
'Mattstiates on .the Bench, pronouuced the judga
ment of the Court. He noticed the enormity of the
crime, and hoped 'that the example .made of the
crimin,l would not only deter bun but others troth
the commission of so foul an offence &pin, The
Court, he. observed, ordered, that he should be im-
prisoned in the House of Correction, Colithatli.
fields; for V 2 Calendar morn b 4, to which place he
was instantiiyoonveyed.
Richard Chitrp and Rotert.Spicer si4re'brought to
the bar, aceoSed'af enturniitiog an assault upon the
person of George. Taylor, in the joint perishes of St.
John end St.
,Margaret.
The Counsel for the prosecution stated, that
TitylOr• WWI employed by Mr.,Johnson to calico eh*
.dust or ashes of the Females of St. John and St.
Margaret, according to Act of Parliament
.11).1t in
passiog along the *street he perceived the two pri-
soners oolletting ashes into a cart amongtt the
• houses for which leis master was a contraeter, Ira
attempting to.tescue his master's property, he was
beaten and abused, and a mob colleetingi he was
obliged to desist, from securing the cart which con.,
tained what he„ considersl as stoleo, and what lie
was employed le lirotea,
The. prosecututs . and Grieve, a constable;
borated on oath the truth of this statement.
The Counsel for the delendantts- argued that the
prosecutor had no right to violate the law by seizing
the horse: and cart. His business Was with the
perpettators of what he considered an ilivgal proa
ceediug. -•
They wore, without hesitation, found golly of
the assault by the lurk; and ordered to be
ed one Month each.

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'The East Norfolk Regiment, 700 strong, corn-
(winded by the Hon. Colonel NVeraanotrit, are of.
rived at Cahir, in Ireland.
y a veisel arrived after a short piiimage Goat
Madeira, we team that the infeetiotis leve,r, winch
had tarok encout at Great Canary, had extended its
self to thoother Islands of that cluster, and that all
communication WER in consequence cut' oft hvt*e.cit
them and N'lldeira.
battle, "fray :tort gninetls a
side, was fought on Monday last at Harvard's
SiOugh; Cralsingblttni between` Mr. Hertnath
tt
fernier, 'tips ,It. fpreatintm, a tamer, in come-
quer= .of gymnaidics, in which
.eath claimed supetior manhood. Fifty.si%.avier.
tiered roundttwete couragionsly maintained, when
vi Tory was iu favour of Great ham, btu both were
blind in halt: an hour after the expiration 01114
combat. The combatants staked their own nion44
and each hall partial knowlkLe of the 56-11e0,
Was sliewn partictilawly in stooping and poising its
simile., straight hits. Greathain was Pupil '.`f
Gulleys and is said to be not a bad copy of I.e.
original.
Rostosav,—.on Silndsy night last) as l‘fr. S.
1184Diat, of Ashton, was returning home on .1t0r,,,
back, he was- stopped by two footpads, dresie4,
in
soldiers' white jackets, about a mite.trorn Sr.
Hill, and- robbed Of his WO till and tql. Mr, a,
atiempted to escape, whim one of the rohhtrs beJ
hold of the bridle, but the latter'kept fain hi5.114.1,,t,
and the other robber knocked Mr. B. of his tiork.„
by a
_blow on the neck with a bludgeon, ant
the robbery turned the horse loose lino a fietd,.....
They were wlthont fire.artus‘ and mue described as
stout fellows, about five feet ten iii heitht.