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was filled with terror. They totallyneglectel to observe
the side established by law, and scorned to listen to
cautions l• indeed, because they were eirnOwgd by
Government, and were occupied by. Government bu-
siness, they acted Is if they deemed themselves li-
censed to do %Alit they pleased. The abuse, 'and a.
great bne it was,twOuld tot be ciiirt!cted till tine pub.
tic took up the bustness ; and he was sure the July
would do their duty. There were three coin s..s for
them to pursue, if they disbelieved the guild and
coachman. to make a deodand of the horses, &c. the
property of Messrs. Waterhouse and Co. to return a
verdict of Murder, or of Manslaughter.
The widow would have her action against the pro-
prietors. He would not'allow the Bath Mail coach-
man, Joscpii Akerinan, to be ertmined, because as he
nti;ht be affected by the vet dict, he ought not to be
called on t criminate himself.
The Jury ainiost immediately returned a verdict
of— ilianstni.htlr against .leitelih Akerman.
The deceased, a most respectable farmer, has left
a wife, six children, and an infirm mother, to mourn
his loss.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.—SAttIidAy George Bird, Richard
Bird, John Cannon, William Cannon, and John Jones,
were indicted for assaulting Mary Clack the elder,
and Mary Clack the younger, on the night of the 23d
July list. The parties all resided at Hammersmith,
and had been at a public.house ttether on the eve-
ning on which the assault took place, in consequence
of a young woman qu sting the defendant's company,
andsjoining the proccutties, with whom she left the
public-house. The defendants, enraged at this deser-
tion, waylaid the ptosecutrizes in their way home,
dud seizing the younger, a woman about thirty-five
years of age, and who it appears is the mother of /3
children, treated her in a most barbarous and savage
m inner; indeed, the particulars of the assault were
of such a nature as renders it improper vibe detailed
in a newspaper.
Mr. Graham, a Surgeons resident at Turnham•
green, stated, that the injury the unfortunate woman
had sustained was such ss would render her invalid
for life. The mother also, who is near 70 years of
age, was treated with the greatest brutality by these
inhuman wretches. They were found guilty, and
sentenced to two years and a half's imprisonment in
the House of Correction.

OLD BAILEr.

Saturday Charier Hurke Allen was indicted for felo-
niously secreting and embezzling a certain letter,
sent from Dartford, in Kent, to Mr. Wentworth, at
Wandsworth, in Surrey, containing a Jelo Bank of
England note, he being employed as a sorter by the
General Post Office.
Sir Wst. GARROW stated the circumstances of the
case, and called the witnesses, born whose testimonyt
the following facts appeared :—On the 19th of July
last, Mr. Halle, of Dartford, transmitted to tli2. Jas.
Wentworth, of Wandsworth, a letter containing the
note in question. The Dartford Mail was received"
on the 20th of July, and delivered to the prisoner,
whose duty it was to sort a portion of letters. Mr.
James Wentworth lived at Wandsworth, and WAS
serval)t. to Mr. Halle, of Dartford, who is a mill-
wright—did not receive any letter on the 20th of
July—expected a letter containing a remittance of
money.. It was proved that the prisoner wear to the
shop of Mr. Etlswo'rth, a linen-draper in Bishopsgate-
Strtet, to purchase some handkerchiefs, for which he
paid with a 410 Bank of England note, and wrote
On the back of it " J. Wilbraham, Trafalgar Place."'
No such person could be found at Trafalgar Ilace.
The note was produced and identified.
Several most respectable persons spoke favourably
to the general character of the pris-ner, who is the
son of very respectable parents, and is no more than
19 years of age. Guilty—Death.
Titre were five other indictmen s against him ti
a similar description. .
Jacob 'mace was arraigned for feloniously •f..rging
and counterfeiting a certain note, pulp ruing to be a
cote of the Governor and Company if the Ball
England, for five hundred puuniJs. He was also
diarged with having such forged note in his posses-
sion. He pleaded guilty to the second charge, which
sufjects him to transportation, and no evidence was
off. red on the capit il indictment.
William Barnet, was indicted for robbing John Hall,
on the King's highway, of a pocket-hook, containing
ten one pound notes and three halt guineas. Time [
prisoner met the prosecutor in Crown-street, Finsbury-
square, on the evening of the 21st of September, and
accosted him as if he was an old acquaintance. Pro-
secutor had, however, no knowledge of him. While
he was talking to him some person came behind and
pushed him, and at that rrnoment he felt a hand in
his pocket, frcm whence, his pocket-book was then
taken. The prisoner then walked away, and when
the prosecutor called out stop thief ! he ran off. A
person however stopped hint ; some of his accom.
plices then came up and knocked the prosecutor
down, but the prisoner was prevented frqm escaping,
and in his pocket was found the prosecutor's pocket.
book. Gu Ity—Death.
Theasei kelfieren, a sailor, was indicted for cutting'
and maiming Kees Harris. The prosecutor, a dis-
senting clergi man, residing at Chelsea, deposed areal
he had been at Hoxten collecting some rents of hM
own on the 29th of September ; and as he wils
coming down towards Haberdashers'-walk, at past,
ten o'clock at night, a person started upon him,
, knocked him Down. The person said, " I have beepll
waiting for you some time, and now I'll do for you,.•
Witness received several blows with some instrument,
trim which he received two incisions in his eye. Wit-
ness gr, mull dismally, but no one heard him. He
then loosed himself) and, to protect himself from
further cutting, he placed his right hand across his
eyes, and-received a very large and deep cut across
the beek.ot hii hand. He then cried " Murder!"
He was then heard, and a wattlunan came to his as-
sistance, who perked hiM nip. and gave him into the
care of a Gentleman, by whom he was taken vi a
public-house, and from thence conveyed in a teach
[ to Baithelomew's Hospital, where tie remained nearly
three weeks. Witness had •no optinrtuntry of seeing
the prisoner's face at the time of the assault., but he
saw that lie' had one blue jacket with. white buttons at
the Aeries. He bad never seen the prisoner before.
ThorhasTriesr, the vratcbtnarri heard the cry of

murder, • and on going-op he tow t),* prosecutor on
the ground, and the prisoner at a 'joie distance from
him, daring any one to come Mir him. Some mit.
said, U WAtchrnttno.that is the nom, take him." Ile
then took hold of him in the, most. cautious manner
he could, and asked. if no one would give 14;m
and two or three young:fellows assisted In taking i
him
to the watch-house. He did not then see an; wsapon
in the prisoner's hand, it was so dark. hroigtit
constable at the watch-house refused to take the
charge, unless the man laitos•..ll came, Witness slid
he did n‘t think he was able to come; and the pri-
soner said. if the man came there with whom he hid'
been scufffirtg, he would do for him with the poker,
or something else. Near where the prisoner stood
the constable found a knife; which the prisoner owned
to be his. The prisoner became more and more out-
rageous, and they fastened him - hue the cage with
some difficulty. While there, he kept whetting an-
other knife against the bars, and swearing he would.
do for the prosecutor if he came there. Some time
after a gentleman came to the watch-house, aid after
having some conversation with the pi isoner, the latter
said, if he had injured the man, ha was sorry for it,
and would go down on his knees and ask his pardon.
The prisoner appeared to be intoxicated.
Robert Doncombe resides at Holton, in Haber-
dashers' place, and is an insurance-broker. On the
night in question he heard the cry of " Murito,"
twice repeated. He went out with a candle, fo it
was very dark ; he saw Mr. Harris lying ou the
ground, calling for help, and another person' %anion
two or three yards of him. This man was the priso-
ner, and there was no other near them. Witness took
a stick. in one hand and a candk in the other, and
he heard a voice cry, "Take care of that fellow sith
the stick." He then assisted Mr. Harris. When wit-
ness first went out, he heard a voice cry—" We have
found the Devil I let's kill him ?"
A resident Surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospi.
tal recollected Mr. Harris being brought thereof?: the
night in question. He had two wounds on the lower
eye-lid of the left eye, and one on the back of the
right hand, which appeared to have been done with a
sharp instrument. Those on the eye-lid appeared to,
be lacerated wounds.
The prisoner said nothing io his defence. . -
Several witnesses gave him a good character for
humanity and sobriety.
Mr. Justice Cumuntas summed up the evidence,
and the Jury found him—Guilty, Death.
Thomas henry Strum and ,Hugk Morrison were tried
on an indictment charging them with burglarious)),
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Thomas
Tanfield, in the parish of Mary-10-bonne, and steal.
ing thcreout a German pipe, value and various
other articles.
The guilt of the prisoners being made manifest, the,
only. question left for the Jury to decide was, whether
the burglary had been committed in the night time,
or whether the day had not broken before the crime.,
was effected? The evidence of the prosecutor admit-
ting of a doubt, the Jury found the prisoners guilty of
stealing to the amount of 395. and acquitted them of
the burglary.--Stevens is nay 16 years of age.
The following were capitally convicted :
Lydia Case, for stealing two pieces of silk handker-
chiefs, value 40s. and upwards, the goods of Bryan
Weems, in his dwelling-house.
illexander Wilson, for a burglary in the dwelling-
house of George Welch, and stealing a quantity of
wearing apparel, value £4, his property. •
James Topping, for assauloing and robbing Tdiza.beth
Peplow, on the highway, of a shawl, her property.
11'1111(1ns Gardener and Mamas Osmond, for assaulting
Andrew Westerland, a Swedish sailor, on the King's
highway, and taking from his person a pocket-bo dc,
containing a bill of exchange for £lO, three broaches
and several t nglisb crowns.

HATTON Coanao.--Saturday W. Harvey, a coal-dealer, in
Gray's inn-lane, and J. Marin, a butcher, in Brooks-Market.
app arrd to summonses, on an information of an agent of the
ocirty for the Suvression of Vice, charged, the former with
seding half a peck of coals to a poor woman, a' ten o'clock the
precedin3 Sunday morning ; and the latter, with having part to
his shop dour open, and a woman seen with sonic meat tied up in
a handkerchief, at the same hour ; When it being their tint ot.
fence, they were fined each in the mitigated penalty of 5. and
4s. costs.
Quseo-sge mte.—On Saturday, Me. Cuthbert, of St. Martin's-
lane, optician, was summoned fur exposing to sale certain deto-
nating balls.—Pace and lavender, Police Officer-, said, that Mr.
C. had a bill in his window, stating that he sold chemical deto-
nating balls, that produce the report of a pistol, without danger.
In consequence of which Pace purchased a dozen ear is. ed. one
ot which was exploded in the Office, and emitted coasideratie
flame, and threw out many sparks. Mr. Cooper, cheml.t, i.f
Drury-lane, who was convicted on a former day, of having sold
detonating balls on the part of Mr. Cuthbert, admitted that these
compositions threw out a Bash, but denied that such Ba-h con-
tained any fire! It was only Barre.—Mr. iiti.DING, however,
overruled this objection, and the defendant was fined £5 and costs.
Bow-rraavr.—Tuesday, Captain Mathison, of the artillery,
.was charged with woooding Mr. T. htylvalley, of Roildyoole,
near Weymouth. .'l'he prisoner and the prosecutor were loge-
.ther in a room u the Ship Charing Cross, on Monday evening,
when they disputed with others in the room on American po-
litics, which terminated in the Captain assaulting the prosecutor
with a candlestick, with which lie cut open his head in several
places. At the time the prisoner was under examination, the
life of the prosecutor eot brit% out of danger, he was committed
for further examination. On Saturday he -underwent another
examination, when Mr. Freeman, surgeon, of Spring Gardens,
pronounced the prosecutor out clanger. lie, however, quali-
fied his statement, by saying that wounds, sometimes in a week
or ten days alter they appeared to be mending, again assumed a
more formidable appearance. lie lad kept him so vety low,
that lie was almost starved, and was not able to write. Mr. Bir-
nie, however, admitted the Captain to bail.

MARRIED.
Or. the 15th instant, F. W. Campbell, Esq. to Mies Emma
Caulfield.
Rev. John Pratt; to Edna, daughter of John Gillett, Gent. of
Halvergate, Norfolk.
At St, Lawrence Church, Winchester, the Rev. William Car-
den, rector of Chiltombe, near that city, to Miss Laventhorp, of
Winchester.
At Higlsworth, Wilts, the Rev. Edward Milnes, of AU Souls'
coUege, Oxford, and vicar of Wallington, in that cknriay, to mi.,
Charlotte Saunders, of Highworth.
At 'l'onbaidge, E. Morris, Esq: Surgeon (late of the sd Lanca-
shire), to Miss L. M. Harvey, ►econd daughter of William Tho-
mas Harvey, Esq. of Haden House, TonbriJge.

DIED.
Lately, at Woodstock, aged MI, Mr. Coles, am geon and aro-
tlitc.ity, and one ut the Aldermen of that Borough.
Aged 73, the key. Hamlyn Harris, itcctor of Wh:twal, imar
Stamford, and Vicar of Campdon, Glouce:tef shire.
t his brother's house, at Frainlitigham, in his 70th year, the
Rev. Win. (*Kibbe, L. 1.13. many years Reator of 1•lowtou, afid
Vicar of brands:moo, Suffolk.
At .iiirniftigham, thr, Rev. loseyh Viebb.
Iu Augt.at last, at Messina, Mr. James Buxton, Assistant Sur-
geon :n ibe ►loyal Artillery.
Oa the _4th of July last, at his estate, R.nse, In the colony of
hiffq refry, of an inn4mneatacy laver, the live. Robert Asigustus
Hynclitiaii, one of the Members vi his Majesty's Cotnieiffur the
iblanti oC lletuniica.