The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-15 00:00:00

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LONDON SEg I •g;
William Williams was indicted for tivings assaulted
Mr. Woodward, the landlord of the Crown public-
house, in West-street, Smithfield.
The prisoner said it was all a mistake. The jury
immediately found him Guilty.
The RECORDER then told the prisoner, that if the
prosecutor had died, he (the prisoner) would haTe
atoned for his crime upon the scaffold.
The prisoner (who seemed quite careless about
the matter).—Let sue ask him vone question.
The RECORDER.—The sentence of the Court
upon you is, that you be imprisoned in the Giltspur-
street Compter 12 calendar months.
Prisoner—Vell, but let me ask him a word or two.
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Prisoner—l must ask him. I say, master.
RECORDER—I advise you not to treat the Court
with contempt or insolence.,

Prisoner—l an't insolent; I only vant to say a
vord to him. I uy, muter.
RECORDER Remember this—it is in the power
of the Court tollouble the punishment, if you treat
them with contempt. You had better alter your
conduct altogether.
Prisoner-►-Why I tells you I an't insolent. I
don't mean nothing wrong; uponmy honour I don't.
RitconnErt—Gaeler, take him away, and before
he is discharged from prison he must find good bail
for his future good behaviour.
The prisoner then turned round, scratched his
head, and walked out of Court.

WINTER ASSIZES.

HOME CIRCUIT.—KINGSTON, Disc. 14.
Joseph Parfett, who was yesterday " Acquitted"
of a charge of embezzling W. of his employer's mo-
ney, which ha, as a traveller, bad received from one
of the customers, was this morning put upon his trial
upon another charge of embezzlement of Si., received
of a Mrs. Parker, at Dawlish, in Devonshire.
The Jury found the prisoner "
Mr. Justice PARK sentenced the prisoner to 14
years' transportation.
Joseph Swain; John Thompson, Anne Stone, and
Emma Scott, were capitally indicted, the two first
as principals, and the latter as accessaries, for break-
ing and entering the shop of Mr. Sizar, at Newing-
ton, and stealing therefrom shop goods to the amount
of upwards of 4001.
The prisoners, in their defence, all declared their
innocence of the robbery. Swaine observed, that if
he had not been assisted by a friend, he would not
be able to fee Counsel ; whereas, if he had been
concerned in this very extensive robbery, he submit-
ted that he must have had plenty of money.
The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty, but
wished to recommend the women to-mercy.
Mr. Justice PARK replied, that there were thrqe
other indictments against the prisoners, and, until
these were disposed of, he could not' receive any fa-
vourable recommendation of them from the Jury.
The prisoners were all then put upon. their trial,
for robbing the house of one Alexander Brown, of
Pomeroy-street, Deptford, an the evening of the
12th of August, of cash, wearing apparel, and ar-
ticles of furniture, to the amount of .50/.
The Jury; under the directions of the Learned
Judge, convicted, Swaine and Thempson of the, ca-
pital felony, but acquitted the females.
The next 'charge was against Swaine and the •
woman, for having in their possession certain articles
of property, stolen from the house of John Grattan,
at Newington, a hatter.
It was proved that the woman Scott had pawned
many-of , the stolen articles under various names;
and other portions of them were found at the house
in Tiverton-row. • . •
Upon this indictment Swaine and - Scott were
found " Guilty:'
. Mr. Justice PARK then desired that the. male
prisoners should be placed at ,the bar to receive their
sentence. The law, had at last vindicated itself—
and the day was at last come, when they were to
enter upon their dreadful reckoning with that Being,
from whose eye nothing could be hid. His Lord-
ship went on to exhort the prisoners, in a feeling
way, to make a good use of the short time which ,
they had to live, and concluded by sentencing them
to be executed; but without naming any day. The
women he sentenced to fourteen years' transpor-
tation.
The male prisoners received their sentence with
the greatest apparent unconcern. The females were ,
convulsed in tears. Swains. is a powerful-loosing
man,and has been a most desperate character. :Ile
was quite the terror of the' Borough and its neigh-
bourhood. His pugilistic pretensions were no mean
ones; and, it is said, that upon one.occasion,hiaop-
ponent came off with loss of life in a combat pf that
sort. _ •

John Gardner, a gentlemanly-looking man, was
indicted for escaping from the King's Bench Prison
in September last, whereby the Marshal was fixed
with the debt, and obliged to discharge it with costs.
The Jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced
to six months' imprisonment in Horsemonger-lane
gaol.
Two fellows, of the names of Pearce and Gosling,
were indicted for a highway-robbery upon Mr.
Fowles, a merchant, as he was coming out of the
Borough-market. The prisoners were part of a
desperate gang which his long infested the Borough,
and on the day in qiiestion the prosecutor wa.s hus-
tled about by the crowd, and robbed.—Guilty.
Sentence of Death was ordered tq be recorded.

Lord W. LENNOX accompanied Miss PATON
in her late visit to Birmingham.— Worcester Journal.
The facility with 'which every species of lar-
ceny and petty theft may be practised in this city, on ae-
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offenders
f nriiateitlico.soe mdsseeeluteri:us.ntesioit,yty.tzdhhoeif:,,
boldest enterprise upon the goods and chattels of the res-
pectable part of the citizens. Favoured both by the want
thieves are not deterred by any kind of barrier wh:ch indi-
y ni~hL
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quantity(t)ll:ne icoalri
tobacco,
awl
camped. —.Li ncoln Mercury.

CAUTION TO SPORTSAIEN. On Saturday
morning, as one of the cc.laelles fromthis
tdhe
hill town to Man-
eit:l:i: the town of
cheater, was proceeding
Doneewosbf uthrye,
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distance.
cross the road, whisk ap-
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lithe: oenfrollathe unpoper part' of thne
in the—lmlunse The contents of
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, inch from his eye.—Leeds Intellipower.
MiIVLELLAN, ins-keeper,
last, a scuffle ori-
ginated
High-street, village of Akdrie, which ended in one
THOMAS SIMPLE, a road-contractor, being knocked down
ofa January
u rs.
and murdered, another man being wounded to' the danger
of his life, and Mrs. AIVILLAN being seriously injured.
Captain BROWN, on Friday last, about midnight, succeeded
in capturing one of the supposed culprits, of the name of
FREW, at a place eight miles west of Edinburgh. Yester-
day morning, he was conveyed from gdinburgb, under &
sure guard, to klamilton.—Edinburgh Weedy Chronicle.
A sheriff's officer having been lately sent to
the town of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, for the purpose of
arresting a person who resides in Glamorganshire, bat Who
is in the constant habit of attending Llanelly market, the
officer having searched in vaiii for the man, gm up an
hopes of his coining to market on that day. Some time
in the evening, however, the loan arrived, and transacted
his business ; but finding it tea late to return home, pro-
cured lodging, and got into bed. In a little time after, the
officer (rather grvs) procured lodgings in the same house
was shown into his friend's bed-room, and procured 11-
permission to sleep with him. The officer, getting k
no. in his hurry,Ing 1.1
rather early nest monii ~, to be oft; 0 1
on his bed-fellow's coat, instead of his own • and (lapped
7 the other,
on rising, found, to his great surprise, his Coat had heel.
,ken away and another left in it
its pockets, was found its stead, which upon
examining I to contain, among other
°Piot documents, a capias against himself,the . fa'
druggist, from Carmarthen. 11' at suit 0
may be imagined..., Tv 18 surprise at its perusal
°renter Journal.