Star.
London, England, 1805-01-09 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIDAS.

Yentrday Ann Liman was tried, on a charge
raildt her for an atfault on El:7 theth Goodwin.
This cafe, from the eiretimitaoce% almut to be
deeettd, il, we doubt not, appear I.:ther flogular.
The pro'ecutrix Rated, Thal in th.! ..fte,neion rif
he 27th of September lalt, the had oti,ained perrnif-
firm from her mailer and miilrefF, the being a fer-
vant to gq rut fnr a few lionrs. I.\;iten the re-
turned, about nine o'clock, her mailer lent her to art
oT He. r (hop ;n to ho three red
herrings. When (he got to the fhrp, the -.11:A.: found
I,lr. IJi. mn, the hiltbank: of rite Deiesidanr, citing

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) acts. Ile talked a lir': to !•er. ptc!:*A her to eat
a 1,.w witli Lim, and fuccee,'..vd. .•.:eindiog to the ac-
ccir.t rif tl . with g•-eat Makin, her 1
(wallow one ~yller. Sr.! film left it.e Ihoe vith her
h.:rtings, and wav I.lloweJ D. who
ta:keil a cood deal to licr, faviti? b v. anted cc. fpcak
to her. lie laid 1.• her aim, and
look Ler Min his ()lice ch-i-t by. llere till her
that he had k,Ait c“ropany •vi:li a t.,i•E f,.1- two years,
vt 'hat II c had oflate heenme viit,a,reeable to him,
and that lie wilted to leave her. lie alio witlicd she
vv:itief, to fiipply her place, and in order to mollify
Ler, and to bring her to comply with. delire, he
V.'ls ahl/Ilt to adminidet !ovine gin, else. anal Ilimu-
Lila on filch necalions), when his wife, the picfent
l)cfendant, built into the oftice, and difeoveleit her
lu.i rand with a firarge woman, who of courfe could
not fc,l but mightily Ins prized at In IntexpeCted a

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Fleav'n Iro;,ves no me, Elm love to hatred turn..l,"
And the Drfend.int attacked this interloper, and eer-

t iinly did not fpare her.
Mr. Go eriev, for the Defendant, Rated to the
jury, that he had no legal defence to oficr, becaute
a woman finding another %kith her hufbend, was not
entitled to take vengeance into her own hands. The
Defendant was found Guilty, and ordeted to pay a
tine of Is. 4d.
Rawsint and Afar, Wood were indicted for
an :drank on Hannah the wile of John flirt. The
profecutrix hated, that her hufleind was a broker and
appraifer, and had bought houfehold furniture of the
two Defendants, who had lodgings in Wardour-
fireet : lOme time after the purchafe, it was dile°.
vered that in one of the drawers lie bought there were
fourteen duplicates of abides which the Defendants
bad pawned, and they were fent to them, hut not
withitendin!! that, they came to the profecutrix's
hook iii firect, Leiceller-fields, and afked for
her hufb lie!, oho was not at home, and demanded
their ticke,s or duplicates, fearing that they had
not got them, and created a great riot, and upon the
rtmonttrailee of the profecutrix, they beat her moll
viuiently ; they were accordingly apprehended. The
witnefe twine that fhe had given to the Defendants no
provocation whateve , neither had the withheld from
them their duplicates, or any other article belonging
to them. That her hatband had fairly bought and
paid for ell the fart:kart of the Deferidants.
On her crofs examination by Mr. Coast, the de-
nied that her hufband kept the houfe in which the
Defendaets had lodged, he only reedited the rent of
it. Af, er a great deal of difficulty, the admitted that
her inehand is now in confinement for keeping a
}write ot ill fame, for unfortunate women; but fhe 'o-
leic on iteahat lie never did keep any fuch houfe :
fdr t!:at fhe had been imis lawful wi:e for twenty years;
efu•i,g all %Oriel: time lie had lived in reputation as
a trade(mee, and returned upwards of aeon'. a year
it. hirCeSs. She admitted It was extremely incon-
es mice. to have the uproar of tilde women at her
ti,e. when Cie rublic attention was attrafted to
t .uthood by lantheins at the doors in the
day time, Sec.
Time fervatit woman of the profecutrix fisted the
eircamilances of the affault in the fame manner as
her mitirefe had done.
Mr. Coesr on the part of the Defendants laid, they
were unfortunate women who had lodged in a home
belonging to the hulband of the profecutrix for fix
years, and the fad molt notorioully was, that the
hone was his, that he was indieted for keeping it as
a nuifnce,convifted upon the molt indifputable tel.
timeny that ever was given in a Court of Jolliet, and
was now actually impritbned under the lenience of
the Court for that offence. Thefe women had the
miefortune to live in that houfe, they became dif
treffed and were obliged to fell their furniture to this
profligate broker, and filch a houfekeeper—and then
they were turned adrift—they never had their dupli-
cates, he believed, and as to the fairnefs of (nett a
fate as this, it was not difficult to judge of it t—he
was aware that under filch circumllancee, it was not
very invortant whether there unfortunate women
were convied or not, for which reafon he timid not
call any witneffes, af.lough lie had feveral in Court,
one of whom was a pettedly relpeCtable perfon, am'
for that realm, he world not call him, becaufe it
mull be unple dant to hi; feelings to give teflimony of
the fcene he witneffed when there unfortunate women
were beat by e.e profecutrix aiai lime of her
elate.. It was dreadful to fee there cafes in Courts
of Jolliee. Loth the Defendants were found Guilty,
*.r ; foed each a alining..
P.n IV* was indieted for an affluelt on Cathe-
rine llawke.
The profecutrix Rated, that the defendant keeps a
public Louie in eiliaktFeare-Nalk, Shade ell; that her
ha land, who is a coal.lizaver, wits drinking at this
public honk, and the went to hioi to get fornething
for her children to feed them. That the defendant
followed her out of the bridle, knocked her down,
and rolled her in the dirt, and kicked her, althorre,li
fhe had a child in het arms ; that the got up and he
knocked her down again, and beat her on the ground;
the never (poke a word to him, good, bad, or Mein-

Icrent.
Crofs-examined by Mr. Gur.vvy: the Paid the was
very ill of her bruifes three or four days after this,
but was very well for a day or two, whm the went
to the office to complain.
Anoeher woman (wore the faw this aifauit
corn-
mitred as the profecutrix had Ilated.
On the part of the defendant, three or four wit-
neffes who were in the poblicboufe, fwore mot! po-
fitively that the profecutrix behaved in the moll vio-
lent and uutrpgenus manaer, accufed the defen.
dant with familiarity with her ; the profecutrix's
hutband threw mud in the face of the defendant and
fl,: er people in the tap-room, and that, to get rid of
h.r violeTvie and uproar, the Jeltildalltioiik lest b 7

the arm gently, and put her'crut of [the hetife, but
that the never fell, neither did the defendant tulle
her. •

The CHAIRMAN told the Joey, that the queflion
wa,, which fet f witneffes they thought firuke the
truth, for they flatly cortr adiaed each other.
The Jory found the defendant—Not Guilty.
411.-xam(L7 Suing was indided with three others.
win• did o t .rppear in Court, for a violent alfault on
‘Varren and others.

Thomas Warren Hated that he is a perriwig maker
by trade, and lives in Crown Court, Pall-mall. That
ane time ago on Sunday afternoon, he, together
with llrotircr-inlaw, a perfon of the name of
Lovery, had been at St. James's church, where they
heard an excellent diecourfe delivered by the Nlinilter
of that place ; went to a public hance in Pall-Mall
for a drop of beer, and the converlation turned on
the dircoorfe they had heard, which they agreed to
have been moil excellent. A perku of the !rime of
Rice wa-4 there. He raid to the wit lei:: and hi, con)
panions, You fltnuld go to the Houle of G, _n ;"
they laid they had been to the Houle of Goo ; he
laid No, los that d',z Houle of Goo was in NVardnur
Street, Soho, meaning a Roman Catholic Ch met
there. The defendant Swiney was then in the room,
and heard this cenverlation ; he went out and
furl 'nought in three others, his brother and two
perfons of the name of Prendergait, and every body
was fitting Oil ; upon this the defendant Swiney
gave the profecutor a blow.under the eye, wi;11 fume
(harp inhume!), he believed, fnr it cot his face fad-
ly, and then he jumped over the table and knocked
down the witnei'.. A young man who happened to
be in the room, of the name of Cromey, a gentle-
man's fervant, laid, " for Gon's fake do nor murder
the people ;" upon which the defendant knocked him
down alfn. He 101 l his hat and had A black eye.

J. Lovery laid. he was brother-in-law to the Taft
wieners, and had Octal teed waiter at the Albany,
hut which place he loft on acci..ol of the wotods h:
received in his face from the defendant and comp-,
nions on this occation, who had not the leail provo-
cation whatever, the whole having happened as the
laft witnefs related it.

I'. Cromey, the gentleman's fervant. gave welly
the fame acc.-ain: as the other witnelfzs had done.—
The Prifoner and his companions mere Catholic.,
and (poke to each other in Irifh, before they com-
menced the alfault. They made their ef,:ape then,
but were loon afterwards apprehended.
The prifoner was found guilty, after which he
(poke for fume lime to the Court and Jury ; laid he
was porter to an ironmonger, in Jermyit-Ilrcet,
that he happened to come into this oolitic t:o•de, ou
a Sunday afternoon, where the pt.fecutor put to him
fume unfair quellinns about his R ligion, ani treated
it with fermi, laying, that none but a Roman Ca-
tholic Candleliick would believe that the Hots
GHOST delcended by a ladder to the Virgin MAKY.
That the profectitot and his companions made as free
with the Law as with Religion--that they maintained
the mull dangerous pirlitics, and drank r toall—" May
all the Clergy and the Lawyers go 10 h fell together,"
and it was thus that a quarrel took place, and the
alfault came fira from thl profecutor arid his compa-
Mons, &c. &c.
The CHAIRSIAN aiked the witneffes how much of
this dory was true? and all three laid, .4 Not one
word of it."
The fentence of the Court upon the prifnner was,
That he be imprifoned for Three Months, and that
at the expiration of that time he do give fecurity for
his good behavi ur for one Year, hirofelf in Sol. and
two fureties in 251. each. and tha: he b.: kept in the
Houle of Correction until Inch furety be found.
He laid it was a very hard cafe upon him.