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ADMIRALTY COURT, bOCTOItS COMMONS,
TUESDAY, Octosidt 31.
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This day the Right Hon. Sir W. Scorr proceeded
to the adjudication of the following cases :
Jorge Jan, Tanger master.—This vessel was seized in Norden
riser, by the Censor gun-brig,—Ship condemned.
FOrtniu, Poort master.—This vessel, sailing under Dutch co•
lours front Norden to Holland, w lured ' the lirhannis

~..,nt.t:ordeti to cape by
gun-brig.—Slip and cargo condemned.
Jonge lans, Laurens mister.—Thls being a similar case; the
ship and cargo were also condemned.
Vrou*.(!ornelia, Dykstra niaster.—This shiprbonnd from CU-
tante andßourdeaut to Jitill, laden with brandy, was Captured
by the General Doyle privateer btuas she sailed under a liAtice
she was restored with freight and eipences, and further proof or-
dered with respect to the cargo. . . . .
Erasmtft, Willigen mister—The vessel, ander tlairbuigh co-
lours, lying off
.the botch coast In! passengers, was captured by
the Active cutter.—Wtsel condemned.
Johanna Eleonora, Eartelman }aster,—This vessel was Origif
nally seiiettin the Tagus; and way coming to this country, laden
with salt; which was afterwards destined to ffollasid.—Ship con-
demned.Yronvi Anna, Visser master.—This Pappenburgh vessel, laden
with pantiles, was binind from Anisterdain to Petersbirgh Ship
and cargo restored. .

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS: •
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Ykerday eras chiefly taken tip in the trials of tri
vial assaults.
Thomas Woodward, in Oil man; In a reputlble line
of business in Spital-fieldsi. tried upon an indict-
ment for violently assaulting one' of his respectable
customers, a Mrs. Sarah Pori.
was
a prosecutrix being sworn.t.tted that she was
a constant customer of the defendant ; and having
often complained of the iil colour cf his green pickles;
she went on the day specified in thi indictment?. to
buy a penny's worth of girkins ; but on, receiving
them, and not liking the colour, she requested them
to be exchanged, for red cabbage. The temper of
the dekndant, however, being just as sour and ifl-
savoured as his girkins, he peremptorily refused.—
Mrs. Purl rerhonstrated upon his unaccommodating
disposition, and refused to take the girkins ; but the
defendant, probably considering her language rather
too bitter for his taste, replied in language as hot and
biting as his own capsicums, and attempted, by vio-
lence, to force Mrs. Purl out of his shop into the
street ; but in this attempt, he gave her an unmanly
kick on the abdomen, she being in the eighth month
of her pregnancy, which put her to exquisite and
alarming pain ; she continued so, with little abate-
ment, until her time of parturition, when she brought
forth an infant much smaller than usual, which she

attributed to the assault she has sustained.

A female accoucheur, who usually attended Mrs.
Purl, was adduced to sustain the latter circumstance;
but she could not say the prosecutrix had ever made

any complaint to her of the injury ; and she alledged
that the infant was of the usual magnitude.
Mr. GLEADE, after an eloquent appeal to the Jury
on the evidence of the prosecutrix, adduced a witness
who was present at the dispute, and who utterly de-
nied that any assault was given in the way stated,
and that so far from refusing to exchange the girkins
for red cabbage, the defendant actually gave her the
latter, which she, in a paroxism of rage, threw in his
face, and then, indeed, the defendant thought it high
time to escort the lady over the threshold, which he
did without the least violence.
The Jury of course acquitted the defendant.
Cummint and Connolly, office bearers of a benefit
society, were indicted for not complying with an or-
der of two of the Magistrates of Bow-street, by which
they were enjoined to pay to an old man of the name
of Lawler, a member of the society, the sum due to
him by the regulations, during a period of sickness.
Mr. ALLEY proved the case on the part of the pro-
secution, by producing the order of the Magistrates,
dated 3d July, and the notice of service of that order
on the 28th and 29th July.
Mr. GURNEY, for the Defendants, having collected
from the witnesses for the prosecution, that the order
was not drawn out and executed of the date it bore,
argued, that the indictment must fall to the ground ;
for, though it might not be necessary that the or r
should be executed on the very day on which it 1. as
pronounced, it was still incumbent on the prosecutor
to shew, that it had been made out before the com-
mencement of the Sessions, without which the indict-
ment was a nullity, as proceeding on an order which
had then no actual existence. The Sessions cow,.
mentel, and must be understood, quoad hanc rein, to
have finished on the 26th July. The indictment,
however, charged the offence, or refusal to comply
with the order, as having occurred on the 29th July,
being three days posterior to the supposed date of the
indictment itself.
Mr. ALLEY, on the other hand, contended that the
Sessions were not now to be understood as commenc-
ing and ending on the same day ; or that every in-
dictment must be supposed to relate to matter occur-
ring on or before the day on which the Sessions com-
menced. He referred to the case of Purcell v. Mac-
namara,.lately decided in the Court of King's Bench,
to bear him through this argument, in which it was,
held, that not the first day of Nisi Prizes, tut the day
on which the charge was actually proved to exist, or
to have been committed, was that on which the in-
dictment ought to rest. He begged leave, in further
corroboration of this doctrine, to ask, if his were not
the proper interpretation of the law in this case, by
what means it happened, that offences committed
after the commencement of the Sessions were often
disposed of within the same Sessions ?
The Court was decidedly of opinion with Mi. Alley.
The Jury found for the prosecution, and the Soli-
citor for the defendants undertook that the prosecutor
should be satisfied.
Yesterday the Grand Jury for Middlesex found a
true bill upon an indictment for perjury against Miss
Frances Latham. It is understood that she intends
to apply by her Counsel to remove her trial by Certi-
orari to the Court of King's Bench.

The University of Glasgow has lately conferred
the Degree of Doctor of Laws on Mr. KELLY, Mas-
ter of the Academy in Finsbury-square, Lcmdon, 01
account of his publications on Nautical Astronomy,
and other useful Sciences. The testimmti:ll of merit
presented on this occasion, was signed by the Rev.
Dr. MASKELYNE, the Astronomer Royal ; Dr. HER•
scam., Dr. HurroN, and several other eminent Ma-
thematicians and distinguished Literary characters.