Star.
London, England, 1805-10-31 00:00:00

M:DDI AS EX SESSIONS. s

Nefday Thvmsas Cetatit was indiCted for an affault
n Mr. oh Skelton oe 2th o Augull.
It apJpearn ed that !sir.nth Skelt9on, of refpedable linen-
aper, living in Chandos-nreet, Covent Garden,had
-oontry home at Hammerfmith, where he went
very evening during the linnmer after his bufinefs
,‘.13 over in town. On the evening of the 29th Au
!:tiff, as the profecutor was paging through Kenfing-
nv., he obftrved the defendant ill treating and pullingl
riling girl, who refilled his carefree, and teemed
uvry uneafy, and eager to efcape. The profecutor
oroved that the days of chivalry are not yet over, byl
teeing intn the road to the relief of the damfel in jeo-
p 'rely. He alked the defendant whether the girl be-
olged to him, as he conceived be was behaving in too
• nde a manner to a Rranger. The girl took advan-
nf the defendant's turning round to anfwer this
n•rt rngstory to make her efcape. The defendant,in
--tit of civilly anfwering the profecutor's queflion,
Agate! himreff in a Foulest of attack, fquared at
him, and followed the retreating profecutor to a paf
•Ty cook's fhop, which be entered, demanding protec-
• 1011. All the time the defendant was thus following
the profecutor, be damned him and fwore dreadfully
at him. After the profecntor had been in the chop
.time time, waiting till the people colleeted round the
onor fhould difperfe, the defendant rulhed in, Rruck
;he proftzutor a mcR dreadful blow on the Inouthiand
violent "'AS th< soncugion on the prefecatot'sjaws,
Ihat it was tome time before he could determine
whether or not his teeth were all demolifhed. The
.11fault was confirmed lit the paltry cook, and a gen-
tleman's fervant who war in the fhop at the time.
Mr. GLIM!, Couniel for the defendant, did not
mean to difplite the fad of the affault as Rated, neither
..ould he deny that the profecutor was a moa refpeil-
,ble gentleman ; Rill there were fome points which it
t4S his duty to mention in extenuation. It was ez-
cedinßly in the profecutor to interfere
1-,•iween the defendant and the girl. He ought to
1...ve recnlleeled—
tt They that in quarrels iaterpote,
tt She often swipe a bittody tide."
It was entirely an affair of gallantry ; the girl had
Lnneked at the defendant's door in paging, and as fhe
*tad frequently done fo before, and teazed and tan-
Alized him in various strap, he ran out and got hold
her, refolving to make her atone for her trifling.
it was at this indent when the profeeutor came up
told difintbed the defendant, who, of courfe, lbewed
refentment, " even the timorous Rag," faid the
Learned Cnuitfel, " will kill in rutting time." The
;„Et was, that the defendant felt irritated, that by
he interference of the profecutor, his amours fhould
to made public.
The jury found the defendant Guilty, and the
Court ordered him to pay a fine of Id.

DISOIDIIRLY NOV*.
Essakti; Rnigrave, afrappirt: girl, was indilted for
keeping a diforderly houfe, in Portland-flreet, Soho.
Mr. Morris, who lives next door, deferihed the ge-
,leral irregularity attending the euflomers of this
temple. Mr. Knowks, an ersssfite barber, oppofite,
detailed the indecencies of a Mrs. 'Williams, who oc-
cupied the defendant's firfi floor, and particularifed
feveral inflames of ladies, Handing at the windows,
attired molt falltionablv, the ehentifi being the only
Aartuent they had on. It was alfo proved by the wit-
:,eires, that the defendant was in the habit of going
out and bringing inzirt for the ladies.
Mr. At.ely argued that there was no evidence
that the defendant was millrefs of the houfe; on the
contrary, fhe was only in a sneaial capacity. If
naleglnefi was a proof of guilt, he did not know many
ladies, now a days, who could be acquitted of a
charge of indecency.
l'ne Jury found the defendant Not Guilty. Mr.
MAINWAILING advifed the woman to leave the houfe
as loon as poffible, as, &mild a fecond complaint be
preferred againft her, fhe would inevitably be feverely
punifted if conviCte4,l
Yeflerday John White, a Maher Carpenter, was
indified for a violent affault on one of his workmen,
of the name of Benton. He raid that his journey-
men did not eatn their wages. " Why employ us?'"
faid the rnan. On which, after ufing an oath, he
turned a ladder on which the Profecutor was (land-
ing, fix feet from the ground, at work • finding be
did not fall, the Defendant pulled the ladder down, fo
that the Profecutor fell on Come bricks, by which his
fide was much bruifed ; he beat the man on the
ground ; the man gest up ; the prifoner knocked him
down twice afterwards, and tore his arm with his
nails, fo that blood ran down it; at lift the man
ftruck the Defendant in his own Defence and gave
him a black eye. The man gave the Defendant no
previnus provocation whatever.
his cafe was confirmed by other Witneffes, parti-
(Wort), a foldier, who interfered and prevented the
.'`r!•!ndant firm committtrig further violence.
The Defendant called fame witneffes to thew that
•he 6: fl affault came from the Profecutor, hot failed
in proof.—Guilty.—Fined tol. after which he was
allowed to fettle the matter with the Profecutor,
NI 'cis he did.

.7former Fiat, a Colleaor of Taxes was; indicted for
affault on Elizabeth, the wife of William John-
l;m, who writ to pay him ti. tgs. for poor rates.
The Proreentrix Rated, that, en the day mention-
ed in the indielment, the had called at the honfe of
the prifoner, who is a tax-gatherer, to pay the
floors rate due on her bottle, amounting to 11.
► 95.: that the tendered him the mobey, which he
~-,eived, and made out a regular receipt for the
4 ,IttiHt. And laid it on.the table, which Inc
up : that he then made a further demand
co her of 3s.-6d. as a fee; but that the, being un•
a.;(piainzed with any caufe for fuel) demand, rented
Ito ray it : that the prifoner intlantly feized her by
the neck, and infitled on her returning the receipt,
ur paying the fee. which the alto refufed, having
paid the rum stipulated in the receipt as having been
received. The prifoner then threw her down, and
heat her unmercifully, fo much lit as that, from her
tituatinn at the time (being regnant) her life was
endanger,!d. That, in confequence of the ill ufage
the tan received.fite %dim confined to her room eleven
days ; at the end of which tiffie the applied to a Ma.
I.,igrate for a warrant, and the Prifonv was in con-
lequeuce apprehended.
Mary Jackfon cortuburated the tellimony of the
••fecnt, x. _ _

Countel for the prang: Itatsd, that his dicut

had been for many years a tax-gatherer, and was
univerfally refptfted by his parilluoners as an bona
and humane man. Many were then prefent to
(peak, if neceirary, in his behalf: that with retpea
to the crime alledged againa him, from the RAtement
of his client, he understood the Profecuttix had ten-
dered him a paper, which Rte afferted to contain 11.
ists. and for which he, imagining it to be right,
proceeded, without examining its contents, to make
nut the receipt as for the full amount of the taxes
due ; and having finifbed it, laid it on thetale :
that the immediately fnatched it up: that on exa-
mining the paper, he found that it Oh a Alba, (port
of the fum doe, and %formed her fhe milt have made
force miltake ; but fhe told hies it was falfe, and that
as the had the receipt he might slo his worn t that
he then demanded the receipt back, which Ilse refut-
ed; and that in confequence a lcuille enfued, and in
his endeavours to rept:frets himfelf of the receipt,Mrs.
Jones might have received/ow/10e beery, but not by
any means fo violent as file Rated.
No witneftes were brought forward to fubßantiate
this Rateutent.

The pi-ironer was timed—Guilty ; and fentenced
to pay a fine of 4.05. and be difcharged.
Emitius Halliday, and Hannah, his wife, were indieted
for an atfault on Mary 13ainbridge.
Mr. ALLev, for the Profecutton, Dated, that the
Profecutrix was the wife of a brave failor, who was
now employed in the fervice of his King and coun-
try. The Defendants were cheefetnongers, in the
neighbourhood of Covent Garden. Upon the night
of the day Rated in the indictment, the, profecotits,
who lodged in the Defendant's hook, had a few
friends to fpend the evening with her, and; as the
was going to let them out, a little after twelve at
night, the was met by the Defendants, at the hall-
door; they accolled her, grofsly abufed her, and,
as loon as the wife flapped her in the face, the huf.
band knocked her down, and kicked her. She was
mach injured, and did not recover it for force time
after.

Thefe fags were proved by the Profecutrix herfclf,
and force of her friends, who (pent that evening with
her.

On the part of the Defendants, it appeared, that
the Profecntries company were making merry, until
near three o'clock, on a Sunday mornmg, and made
fo great a nnife, that the Defendants found it need-
' fary to call the watch. The Profecutrie herfelf came
to fee her company out, half undreifed ; and the
watchmen, who were called in, fwore that the Pro.
fecutrix, and one of her fair cotnpanions, were 41
sndfid in liquor, and very much intoxieatal.
The Defendants were both acquitted.
Miry Aobinfon, and four other perfons, who did
not appear, were indiaecl for a slot before the dwel-
lin-hcuie of John Peter Hop.
Prom the evidence of the Profecutnr, it appeared,
that the Defendant, Mary Robinfon, had lived with
him for upwards of ten years, as a companion ; but
taking a fancy to anot.ter woman, he made her his
wife, and difearded the Defendant; when the fevere
pangs of flighted lave would have vent, and were
difcharged in a torrent of abufe upon hint and his
bride.

It appearing, however, that the chief caufe of com-
plaint arofe more on account of a violation of pro-
mire, ott the part of money matter., than of broken
vows, and no aft of rioting being proved, the Defen-
dant was acquitted.
The parties were well aricken in years, and there
were no traces of beauty in the countenances of the
fair difputants.
Robert Molt was indicted for affaulting William
Potts on the t4th of September. Upon that day the
Defendant came to the work fhop of the Profecutor,
who is an eminent cabinet maker in Ward.,nr.ftreet,
on pretence of feeing one of the men. Thee Profecu-
tor was attending one of his culomers through the
vrotklh Ts, and Seeing the Defendant, *ho had for-
merly worked for him, fitting on the bench in one of
them, knowing him to be concerned among the com-
binations, and aware that he was acquainted with
the rules of the houfe not to permit any perfona
there, but thole workmen tvhn belonged to it, defir-
ed him Mandy to be gone about his bnfinefs, as he
would corrupt his men. In reply to this, the De-
fendant [-wore he would knock him down, at the fame
time aiming a blow at the Profecutor's head with a
large nick that he carried, which was warded off by
one of the men ; he repeated his blow, and [truck
him on the bead. The Profecutor then, affified by his
apprentices and men, drove him out of the (hop.
The Defendant endeavoured to thew, that the &ft
affault was given by the Profecutor, who Shouldered
him nut of the Shop, and that a matliff bitch was fet
upon him ; which latter merely barked, hearing the
noife and kale. . _

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He wasfound Guilty, and fentenced to one month's
imprifonnsent.

COLD BATH FIELDS PRISON.
Mr. Spow, the Foreman, accompanied by the reit
of the Grand Jury, entered, and addreired the Court
as follows Mr. Chairman, we have been vifiting
the prifon in Cold Bath Fields, and we have the fa-
tisfailion and the pleafure of telling you, it is in a
perfect Rate, and much beyond our expeeation. We
are extremely lorry that patty prejudices have carried
things to fo high pitch as to reprefent it very falfely,
for the prifon as lupe' ior, we think, we may lay, to
any prifon in the world."
Mr. GLUM, the Counfel.-4 The publication of
your report may do much gond.
CHAIRMAN.—" The pa it'pn is really fuch as you
fay, Gentlemen ; all thole have who had any with to
be informed of its hare, are pealed* fatiified."
FOREMAN.—" It is rcallY beyond any thing we
ever faw, and we are about making a ieprefentation
of it to the public, and of our entire fatisfaaion at
the Rate of it. It is a pleofure to fee a place of this
defcription."
CHAIRMAN.—" If you were to go round the king-
dom. and fee every jail in it, you would be of the
fame opinion."

A pann, on a very extenlive reale is to be built
immediately near Ti,rr Royal, on Dartmoor, about
fix miles from Taw;flock. prifon and its court-
!ages, within the boundary wall, will occupy fifteen
acres of ground, and contain five thoufand prifoners
of war. This will be the future grand depot of pri.
foncrs from all the ports of Cornwall and Devon.
Tuefday a poor man tell down in a fit in Union.
Ilreet, in the Borough, and almolt inilantly expired.
The body was taken to die Workhoufe to be owned.