Star.
London, England, 1801-04-14 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

Yetterday, 77,9,7f11 FQ7firr was indieted for alEtult•
ing and beating ".Lary, his wife. By the evidence
of Mrs. Foriler it appeared, that, at the time the wa,
married to the Defendant, the was in fervice, and
was in the coktant habit of affording limn (ippon,
he having ii:)thing to fublift on bin his pay as a
private in tile Train of Artillery. Some time af-
terwards he commenced Recruiting Serjeant, and
had taken the fign of the Dark-houfe, in Dart:.
houfe-lane, Billingfgate, where he lived with a
woman of the name of Kerfhaw, and refuted to
acknowledge his wife. On the 23d of November.
:he called upon him, infilling that be thinild turn
Mrs. KellhaW from his hottie, and ellablith the
witncfs in her place, the being his lawful wife—this
he refuted to do ; and, without any provocation,
caught her by the throat, threw her down on the
!lairs, and, kneeling down on her, bruifed her very
much. .He afterwards took 11,:r forcibly up flans,
and again threw her down, dragged her by the
hairof her head, knelt upon her, and covered her
mouth with her gown, to prevent her cries limn
being heard. She was fo much bruifed on diticr-
ent parts of her body, that the was obliged to call
in the aid of a Surgeon on the following day, and
was ill for Tome time.

The Surgeon confirmed the tefiimony of this
witnefs as to the brnifes the had received.

The Defendant called three wit:Ores, who pofi-
tively contra.iitied the Profccutt:x. They dated,
that .The belta:ed in a eery outrageous manner, and
Anted both the Defendant and Mrs. Kerfltaw; that
the Defendant,not wilhing to have a didurimace in
thc tap room, took her gentlY by the arms, and
carried her up flairr into the kitchen, but did not
in any degree ill tile her. They further dated, that
the Profccutrie had a knife in her hand, with which
!he threatened to kill Mrs. Kerthaw, and which
knife one of the witneffes, after a firugglc, took
from her.

The Recorder told the Jury, that the material
point for their confideration was, how the Prole-
cutrix received the bruifes If they believed (he
got them in her firuggle to hinder the Dcf;:ndant
from taking her up Rairs, they mull then find him
not guilty, as he was r•rtainly, in that inflance,
not offending againfi the law; but if they were
convinced he had conduetedhimfelf in the way The
had deferibed, they would return a verdia of guilty.
The Jury found him Gay. He was committed,
and ordered to be brought up for judgment on this
day fortnight. The Court advifed him to do what
was proper in the interim.
Several other c-anfes were tried ; after which the
Seffions were adjourned to this day fortnight.

Yeßerday job: Green was charged by John Vint
and Ifaac Bird, at the Police-office, Whitechapel,
on fufpicion of liraling an afs, value 75.-I'he
prifoner was fully committed for tri.d.

Thirty•one informations were laid -againft a
Salefnian in Whitechapel Market, JOT felling com-
modities not being catered according ro regu-
lations of the Ali of Parliament in fuch cafes pro-
vided, of making entries in their own proper
names, as agents cr fellers in the i,ook of the Cle:1:
of the matket—The informant being deleient in
fursortirn-r the charges, the complaints were dif-
mitte,l with cells attached to diem.
jaw/ l'ai.var was fully committed for trial,
from the Pc•ii,..c-ollice, Worf:.:;.-fiteet, for utter-
ing a couno:rfeit half-guinea to Mrs. Patcy, in
Brick-lane, Spitalficlds.
At the late Affizes for Derby, the following
very important Cavfe was tried before Mr. Baron
GRAHAM and a very refpedable Jury: The Corpo-
ration of the lnfuranee Company preferred a Bill of
indiament againft Edward Bower, of New Mill,
in the parifh of Glofop, in the county of Derby,
cotton-manufaeurer, for wilfully letting fire to his
own mill, and for having exhibited falfc accounts,
with an intent to defraud the laid Corporation of
upwards of 30001. which he had infured on the
building and machinery. The eftimates, which
were brought forward loon after the fire happened,
and the general circumaanecs attending the tranf-
aetion, were fuch as induced the Company not
I only to refill the claim, but determined them to
profecute Bower, per waded that his conduit was
fo atrocious that a Jury could not hefitate to had
him guilty.
A great number of witneffes were examined, hot
the ftronge It evidence again ft Bower was that ant
of his fervants, who proved, that on Tuefday night
the 16th April 1799, he fat up to rake his naafi er's•
boric, Bower having been at Mancheiter, from
whence he returned about t a o'clock at night, that
Bower went loon after into the mill, and took out
a dark lanthorn, %Oda he carried into the houfe,
and came out with a lighted candle therein, and
then, having previoufly told the withers he had
fume bufinefs to tranfai in the counting-lanufe, he
went into the mill, and the witncfs wclic -nand to
a window, and law him throwing cotom amongst
come carding engines, and let fire thereto.
From the great number of witneffe, the trial
failed from tt in the morning of the t 7111 :o
3 in the morning of the following day, when after
a few minutes confultation, the Jury leund the
raid Bower guilty, and he was accordingly fen-
teneed to 12 months imprifonment in Derby gaol,
to pay a fine of tool. and to be imprifoned till the
line is paid ; in addition to which, by the condi-
tions of the policy, his infurancc is void.
On the 27th ult. were tried before the of
Argyllthire and a fpecial fury, yoLa Lirri, tenant
in keils, in the parith of kale:km:Wale, and 11l end
of Jura, and !Abel APDassall, his fponfe, at:oiled
at the inttance of the Procurator Fifeal,of the crime
of %beep ficaling, and of being habit and repute
thieves. The jury returned a verdict finding part
of the charge libelled, proved, on which the court
fentc need both the prifoners to Rand at the door of
the Highland church of Invetaray on Sunday the
12th of April next, having a theep's (kin tied to
each of their necks, and a label affixed to their
breafts denoting their crime; and alto to be banifh-
ed from the lard Mire during all the Jays of their
lives, from and after the lath day of May ntxtf
under tite ufual cettifacatikan.