Star.
London, England, 1824-12-02 00:00:00

MIDDLESSMAISIONS. DECEMBER 1.

ilgantf: soceleart, • a respectable lospleigg • Inman, was
PIDDI
charged by Sa tly or, a gFilener• tf ul to.. with
haying asaultid him with a brotra-siick, at Lt*lh3m,
on
ttie 26kh October last.
It appeared from the evidence of. the prosecutor, that
he went into the defendant's garden, and when there
the Lady repeatedly struck him.
.On cross-examination by Mr. ANDREWS, he varied in
his 'story,. and admitted that, there had been an old
.grudge betvieen them, which ended in his being bound
over to keep the peace to the defendant.
The Jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
Mrs. Elizabeth °Weld, of Pentonville, was charged
with assaulting Mrs. Mat y Miller, an old. Lady of the
same place.
Mrs. Miller stated that she had the misfortune to be
married to a 'mail,from wh.'m, though she did not live
with him, she did not consider herself separated—(no
deeds, or articles, or anything of that sort, having been
entered into between them.) This unfortunate man was
given to very bad courses, and lived at present with Mrs.
Oldfield—how, she would not shock his Lordship's ears.
But if she mus.., she must, and it was adultery. This
husband of her's allowed her a weekly sum, which she
only went to demand at Mrs. Oldfield's, and having
knocked at the door with a double rap, for she was al-
ways accustomed to do things genteelly, Betty Green,
the servant girl, told her her master was not at home.
"Oh, ho! says I, but I know he is at home :" with that,
Oldfield came down, the girl was sent out for a
constable, and Mts. Oldfield shoved her about like a
shuttlecock.

Mr. ANDREWS addressed the Jury, and said that the
prosecutrix having-been separated from her husband, she
has become jealous of eve, y woman with whom he might
happen to lodge. Mrs. Oldfield, though a most re-
spectable Lady, was constantly attacked by her, and
assailed with the foulest epithets which love and jea-
lousy could inspire.—The Jury acquitted the defendant.
Thomas Stratford and Ambrose IVotton, the former a
il
driver, and the latter a cad, of one of the Paddington
stages, were indicted for assaulting Mr. Baldwin, a
japanner. Wotton did not appear to take his trial.
Mr. Baldwin swore, that soma time ago he and a
friend took their places near the Yorkshire Stingo, New
ltoad, on the coach driven by the defendant, Stratford,
he promising to proceed to the City without delay.—
The defendant, however, stopped at several public-
houses, and drove with such rapidity by racing against
another coach, that Mr.-Baldwin and his friend came
down from the coach, not thinking it safe to proceed on
it at the rate the defendant drove: Stratford then struck
the prosecutor several violent blows on the head and
face, in which he was assisted by Wotton and another
fellow, who was convicted last Sessions for the offence.
The Jury found the defendant 6ullty ; and Stratford was sen-
tenced to six mapths imprisonment and hard labour in the House
of Correction.

LONDON SESSIONS, DECEMBER. 1.
John Jones, and Elizabeth his wife, pleaded guilty to
the charge of keeping .a disorderly house. In consi
deration of their having already suffered three months'
imprisonment, they were sentenced to a further impri-
sonment of three months only—the man to be kept to
hard labour.
J. Hudson and J. Smith, had been convicted before
the present Lord Mayor, under the last Vagrant Act,
as rogues and vagabonds, and sentenced to hard labour
for three months, and they now appeared upon their
appeal against that conviction. The case of James
Hudson was first called. The conviction was read,
which stated it to have taken place upon the ground
that he being a suspected person, and a reputed thief,
slid on the 2'2d of Nov. 1824, frequent a certain street,
called Holborn-bridg*, with intent to commit felony.
Mr. LAW, as his Counsel, took exception to the
wording of the conviction, and contended that to fre-
pent a certain street on a certain day, was not sense in
the English language—that to frequent was to go often,
to resort to frequently, and not to be in or at a place;
and although he might allow the possibility that if a
person was several times in a certain street on a given
day, he might be said to have frequented that street on
that day, yet here the evidence proved that the defend-
ant had never been seen in that street befo: e that day,
and only once upon that day. •
Mr. BOLLARD replied in an argument of considerable
length, the object of which was to shew, that the term,
'4 to frequent,' was not so limited in its definition as
Mr. Law contended, but that it was commonly used
to signify to go to, or be at a place. If Mr. Law's
meaning of the word was the correct one, then, as there
were upwards of 4.00 streets in London, a reputed thief
might be in a distinct street, for the purpose of commit.
ting felony, on one day, or change his walk to another
street upon another day, and so on through a whole year
with impunity, without exhausting his number of streets,
and no conviction could take place under this Act.
A long consultation ensued, and in the end the RE.
CORDER delivered it as the judgment of the Magistrates,
that the conviction must be affirmed.

In delivering the judgment of the Court in the other
case, that of Smith, the evidence and the objection being
the same, the RECORDER said, the Act made the offence
frequenting any street, from which he inferred that if they
had before been seen in any other street, that would em-
brace the word frequent,and complete the offence if they
were again seen with the same intent in another street,
although they might never have been in that latter street
betore. The Court, taking into consideration the time
they had been in custody, sentenced each of them to a
further imprisonment of seven weeks.
Mr. LAW hoped the Court would take full minutes of
the evidence, that he might be able to bring both the
facts and the law before the Court of King's Bench, if
he could devise any legal method for so doing.

One of the most dreadful cases of but ring ever wit-
nessed, °centred on Tuesday night, about nine o'clock,
to Mrs. Ann Fermin, an old Lady, in the 79th year of
her age, at her son's house, loar.streLl, Gravel-lane,
Blackfliars, She had been lest by her daughter reading
before the fire in the front pat lour about ten minutes,
when a stranger passing beheld from the street the room
in flames, and gave the alarm. On entering the apart-
ment, a horrible scene ptesented i:sed ; the wretched
woman extended on the fttor, without a vestige of.
raiment of any description remaining on her person,
which, with the exception of her feet, was burnt fright-
fully, the tongue, hair, eyes, ears„and nails being nearly
destroyed; in This calamitous condition, the ill fated
sufferer was wrapped in sheets, and takefi still breathing
to Guy's Hospital, when, after languishing in the extre-
mity of torture for four hours, and calling oil death to
relieve her, she expired in the arms of her afflicted ,son.
She was U111)SUAlly tall, and had borne the temains of
:Much beauty. lt.is remarkable that her husband was
bcalded-to death 43 years since.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,
•
/I A NBIAN.4I 0 US
Mande.y.,, a sesfising man.. accompanied by his wife; 9'd-their
laiast, who' wit horn without arms, crated to The ,Lottb Alairoa..
.that Chetahs .Dlion, of the brig II try, bid, by prothiliiiag
give him an& handfed pounds, induced him to kaet a good, btoi.
seas at the Island of Tristan da Cunha, to come liver here, arc
tarty refOles.to complete hie agrrement.--The bleto Nlavor. d.
sired an Ater to call upon the Captain, end request (ifs attend.
anee ; but neither the sailor, his Wifeotor child, were to he li.und.
The Captain stated, that, so far from . haring brought him ,ie„,
from a good business, he took him and his family on board 44'
consequence of their great distress. That, on their arrival at
the ,Cape of Good Hope, he obtained a silbscription for their re',ie,
anti they had every In iulgenee it was in the power Of•ashosithsey.
man to famish ; and he had witnesses to prove . the ttuth of h,
statetnent..—The Lams MAVOIL said, the circutnstance of the arm
and his wife not coming forward Was sufficient to stamp. them im-
postors, and he was very glad the, opportuhlty hatt
the Captain of exyliining his conduct so satisfactorily ; and he linpott
. the Public would not allow themselvis to be deceived by. ti slue
cious pretencest.of these people.
• UNION-lIAI.T.
Thomas Wick, the auctioneer, of King-street. Thorough, wl,O
stands charts-Al on suspicion of having forged the signature of .10,1
'ruiner to three checks on the bank of Mews. WvitUll 410 co,
High-street, Southwark, underwent a final examinationlietore Mr.
CIIRNIIIESI4 at Horsemonger-lane jail, on Tuesday afternoon.
It appeared that the final examination of the prisoner had hi•eo
delayed in consequence of the absence of a material wine s,
it was stated, was not to tie found since the first hearing of the cas,.
Mr. Weston produced a £3O note, No. 1851, which he stitot
Jul. clerk to have paid away to some person who,presented d check
on the Bank, purportit.g to be in the hand-writing of Jo‘eph Tons.%
Mr. Jackson, a wins-merchant, of Maik-lane, stated that lie h
a clerk named Thomas Gifting, who kept his books, and he (wit-
ness) had seen him write frequently. lie uniformly holom daq
notes received by him on witness's account. and he (Mr. Jacksoi.)
believes the indorsement," bls. T. Wicks, King-;?reel, Southwark,"
upon the £5O Bank of .England note, No. 1851, produced, dared
the 7th of September, 1824, to be in his handwritiOg, lle kit
Witness's service on the 4th or sth of November last, sa!ing he
wanted to go into the country for a few Jays, and witness hes litt
seen him since.

George Dent, of Blacknsan.street, grocer, stated, that the last
witness's clerk, Thomas Gibing, presented the £3O note now pro-
duced, at his shop, in payment for goods. Two or three days at.
terwards, Giffin, called again at the shop, and was anxious to have
the note again. Witness, on his application for it, told him that it
had been paid away at the bank of Messrs. Prescott and Co.-11,
then went away.
The Magistrate observed, that notwithstanding the absence of
Mr. Jackson's clerk, he would send the prisoner to take his trial,
and accordingly commi:ted him to the next Assizes.
Yesterday, Margaret Holey, a servant to Mrs. Boys, of Dean.
street, Southwark, was brought before the Sitting 11!.listrati.,
R. J. CHAIIIIERN Esq. in the custody of a constable helot' ng to
Bristol, who apprehended her in that city, on her way to Ireland,
charged with robbing her mistress of the undermentioned sums of
money :—One !XX Bank of England note, two 101. ditto, two M.
ditto, forty sovereigns, fourteen guineas, a bill of exchange for
81. 175. together with a great quantity of valuable clothes.—She
was fully committed for trial.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Elizabeth Clark, an old woman, was fully committed for entering
three different apartments in the absence of the tenants, and steal-
' lug various articles from each.
I C. _Beckett, aged 17, was committed, for entering the parlour win-
dow of H. Burgess, Esq. in the Vale of Health, at tiampstead, and
stealing a tea-caddy.
Ana Batkr, a laundress, was committed to the Howe of Correc-
tion for six weeks, in default of paying 204. tine, and the value u•' a
shirt delivered to her to be washed, but which she had pledged.
MA RLBOROUG H-sTREEr.

Yesterday, Mr. Denham, stationer, of 180, Urgent-street, com-
plained to the Magistrate, as follows :—lle stated, that he had read
in The Tines newspaper of the day before, a letter front Ale Ran-
ken, of Gray's Inn, to Mr. Abraham, the solicitor, of No. 6, Great
Marlborough-suet-4 which he conceived had a tendency to cast an
imputation on the testimony given by his daughters teethe late trial
of William Ramrden Robinson, which created such public.curinsity,
in consequence of the dispute about his identity. Mr. ILitikett's
letter be thought a garbled one, and there was a circumstance coo-
cected with it which he could not possibly account for—tlie letter
was dated the 25th of November, and stated, that the rein man
who bore so strong a resemblance to young Robinson, confessed to
Mr. Itanken that he yeas the person who committed the robbery
on him (Mr. Denham), and on the various other per-ors, that young
Robinson was charged with ; and Air. Ranker ,rates his reasons for
not before communicating the circumstance, adding, that the young
man had left England, and enumerating, at the foot of the lete-r,
the names of the different personS whom he had robbed. lie
(Mr. D.) thought this letter was calculated to raise a prejudice agaitee
his daughters, for the very positive manner in which they swore
to the identity of young Robinson ; and he thought it his duty to
mention what he had done.
' Mr. Denham then stated, that there was a Mr.Pettir, a bookseller,
residing in Compton-street, Soho, who had been rubbed of two
valuable prayer-books by the same pet son, and in the same manner
as he (Mr. Denham) and all the others had been robbed; hut as
Mr. Pettit did not wish to subject his sister, who must hr the
witness, to an examination in a public Court, he iitoho m .tl,- ane
charge whatever against young Robinson at a Puke. office ,h 1 iCourt,
or at any other place; and although at the public ex.o.inatioo, of
young Robinson, he brought his sister to the Office quite privately,
and only as a spectator, to see if she could identity the young man,
which she professed to du, yet Mr. Pettit never mentioned to any
one that he had been rubbed at all, or had any interest in the busi-
ness; but, notwithstanding this, Mr. Pettit came to Into (Ale Den-
ham) a fortnight before the date of this letter of Mr. Itanken; now
published, and asked him if he had been paid .or his books that he
had lost? saying that Mr. Abraham had called on him. Pettit, and
inquired if he had been paid for the two prayer-books he had I eat?
at the sante time expreasing,his astonishment how Mr. Abraham
could come to the knowledge-a his having lost any prayer-bouks at
all, as he bad never mentioned the subject.
'Now, Mr. Denham said, as Mr. Abraham professed not to have
known anything about the private history of these robberies until
he received Mr. Ranker's letter, bow did it happen that he knew, a
fortnight before the date of that I..tter,.that Mr. Pettit had been
robbed? the circumstance having never been mentioned, nor is
Mr. Pettit's name or his books mentioned in the list furnished by
Mr. Ranken, of the various articles plundered by his client. So
that, as Robinson was not the person, as Mr. Ranken's client was
not the person who robbed Mr. Pettit, otherwise the prayer-hocks
would have been in the list, there must of course be a third person
committing those depredations, and all three so like, that one could
not be known from the other.
Another thing, Mr. Denham said, was very extraordinary : it
was strongly contended at the .trial, that young Robinson never
bad or wore a coat and trowseri of a certain description and colour ;
but it now appears, Mr. Denham said, that a coat and trovesers of
the very sort were nude for young Robinson, by a tailor in St.
James'e-street, to whom he at present owes a bill of .CO.'; for
clothes; and besides this, Mr. Deoluon said, that Mr. Cooke, will
resides in Marlborough-street, declares that he has often seen you. g
Rubinson go in and out of Mr. Abraham's house, with a coat on of
the very colour mentioned.
Mr. Dreg said, that he had no recollection of the name of 3lr.
Petit, as connected with that charge, and that he thought Mr. Der-
ham need have no dread of any imputation being cast upou
daughters for the miimer in which they had given their evidence.
Mr. Denham said, Mr. Petit's charge was not brought forward,
owing to a disinclination on the part of his sister to appear before
the Public. What he had mentioned to the Magistrate, Ike thouLz:%:
it his ditty to do, as he ctrtainly was impressed with the idea that
the letter might lessen his daughtirs reputation iu the public esti-
mation.—lle then withdrew.