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London, England, 1809-09-13 00:00:00

physician, see on, or apothecart, should preset&
as necessary for his own personal use.
Mr. Newman, the Keeper of the prison, stated,
that his conduct in stopping the introduction of the
infusion in question, had been actuated solely by a
wish not to transgress the Act of Parliament.
The infusion was ordered to be restored to Mr.
Swinton's friends, they undertaking that no attempt
should be made in futnre to introduce it into Newgate.
A soldier, named Frederic Rickler, a private in Co-
' lonel Murray's company of the 3d regiment of foot,
was charged by the keeper of a gin shop at the ear-
nee of Fleet Market, with an assault, and attempt to
defraud him.
The facts were, that Rickler, with a.comrade, was
roving on a foraging party through Fleet-street, and
made a descent into the prosecutor's shop, where they
called for two cartridges of his liquid ammunition, which
they immediately pouched ; and were making a ra-
pid retreat without heat of drum, or feeling it necessary
to p.-y for what they received. The owner of the
s'iop, however, was a little too much on the alert, and
collared Rickler, who in his turn struck at him with
his fist. Rickler's comrade, who had sallied into the
street, finding his friend a. prisoner in the enemy's
hand, rallied and counter-marched to his assistance: but
the gin merchant, by a ruse de guerre cut off the re-
treat of the assailants, for he ran into the street, held
the door fast on the outside, and called the watch ;
so that the parties were obliged to surrender at dis-
cretion.

Sir JOlO7 EAMER ordered Rickler to be conveyed
to the Prevost prisr,n, and a letter to be written to his
Commanding Officer, communicating his unsoldierly
conduct.
Putt D*, an frisk Wert Indian, was brought up
on a charge of having desperately assaulted a country-
mail, Darby M'Nevin, by only just laying open the
back part of his skull, in a Chici-lane siirrnmh, so that
he was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital and
remained there three weeks with little hopes of his re-
covery.
Poor M'Nevin, with great good nature said, gg as
Mr. Daffy was his countryman, his gossip, and his
next door neighbour for thirteen years, had a family
of Adder, he did not wish to hurt him but to make
it up with him, and forgive him from the bottom of
his heart, if his Honour the Magistrate would," to
which the Magistrate agreed, and Mr. Duffy was
tf ism i ssel

Not so, however, of the next case.
Anibrat and Anne his wife were charged by
a Mrs. Anne Middleton, with a most outrageous as-
sault.

The scene of this transaction or rather transgres-
sion, was Grub-street, erst the residence of the Muses,
but now, apparently, the abode of the Furies. .
Mrs. Middleton complained? that the male prisoner
had, about three weeks since, without any sort of pro-
vocation, come into her house, knocked her down,
tore her cap and neck handkerchief to shivers, and
broken a blood vessel in her leg ; aad that yesterday,
in like manner, without any cause, he again came
into her house, knocked her down, tore her cap, shawl,
gown, mid other habiliments (the shattered remnants
of which she exhibited), gave her a black eye, swore
he would cut her fiver out,.with a large knife he held
in his hand, and robbed her of her honour, by tearing
off a handful of her hair ; and, while the husband
was thus attacking her em the liver wing, and com-
mitting this " rape of the loci," the wife seized her by
the thigh with her teeth, and bit her in such a way, as
1 ',hat she was not sure that she slusuld not lose the use
of her limb ; Ate husband the while holding her down
i to the ground by the throat.
Two other females, and a respootab'.e man who was
passing at the moment, corroborated the story "f the
`violent assault; and added, that the male prisoner
returned to the charge, and pelted the prosecutrix with
mud, until she was quite a dirt pasty from head to foot.
1 The prisoner, in his defence, stated, that the prose-
cutrix is his sister, and was continually in the habit of
abusing himself and wife, in the most gross language,
and constantly bringing mobs round his liouie ; and
that .on this occasion 'he had struck his wile, and
scnrched his face, before he sti uck her.
The constable of the ward corroborated the evidence
against the prisoners. He added, however, that Mrs.
Middleton had a very aggravating tongue,. and had
much provoked by her abase the prisoner, who she
knew was not right in his head.
Mr. Middleton denied this want of rectitude in the
upper story of her furious relatiOn, and said, " she had
not lived so long in the service of Dr. Munro, without
knowing what insanity was."
The Magistrate thought the best way to rid the
neighbourhood of the pest of this quarrelsome family,
was to give Mrs Middleton a full elate of law, by bind-
ing her over to prosecute the parties, at an expence of
about £l5 to herself, and holding the prisoner to bail
for trial ; which was accordingly done.