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London, England, 1822-05-28 00:00:00

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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, MA Y 4- and two others in 401. et*, for his f
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RS 11541411011 e, stalling, and putting
This morning Mt. DUMAN entered the Cpuyg,
Damon sedeent, attended by ibitzsbetuft, Mr. breasti. said-0 I have a mind, my latd,
Mawrns, of Galway', dm. Ste. and toot his seat upon heard all with. fattitaihh" • .
The following were also convicted
the Bench for the first time. . . ' Edward Sun, aced Ishtar stealing torolish‘, lisory..
FATAL BOXING. , aged 16, for snaga dock; William Nichols. aged IM,
Helery Sedges% Samuel DiVZ: Jcul,4 Swish otesOngsixtm Su" er 'agar! galas; l'ild.s3* to aria'
AP a shawl; Peaty Andaman, 45, for stealing a ear; An.
Thomas Buchweeeter,. and John were charged, rum, seed 34, for man three gowns r Asses Butler, aged
the former with killing William Pratt, in a passionate 17, ter amain a gag ma; aeons Tuner, aged so, for steal,
contest, and the latter with aiding and abetting in log two Celts; and John Angell, aged 2g• for obtaining money
the same. under false pretences.
Samuel Dawn, Headborough of St. Dunstan s, The following were acquitted
William Taylor and William Mahon, of stealing a quantity
Stepney, deposed that be saw the fight, which lasted of horse hair; Fly' Morris, of stealiqg silk; Thomas Potter,
one hour and forty minutes ; he considered it a fair of mean to a d!venlataciuse; and George Armstrong, of steal-
one, but he was unable to separate the coMbatants on ins footmen sprees, kr..
account of the mob. He saw the deceased the next MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
day, who took a considerable quantity of drink, and Yesterday, Daxiel Price was indicted for a fraud,
.died the third morning. • by the London Dock Companu The prisonef was a
Several other witnesses corroborated
'the testimony servant to the Company, and committed the fraud in
of Dobson, so far'as related to there being no impro-
question by charging a sum of money as being paid
per advantage taken of the deceased. to one of the workmen, which in fact he had not
Mr. Green, a surgeon, stated that on the following paid, but converted it to his own use.
morning he was called in to visit the deceased, and The prisoner pleaded Guilty to the charge, and in
found him insensible, and he died in a few hours;
after which he opened his head, and found a comma- his defence said, he had been in the employment of
the Company upwards of seventeen years, and that
disable quantity of coagulated
blood on the left he had a family of sii children wholly dependent on
inernbrane of the brain ; he considered it arose from
him for support.
a recent fall, and not from a Mow. The Court observed, that it did not know how to
Snelgrove said, in his defence, that the deceased
sent him the challenge. distinguish his case from the cases of others, who had
been transported for similar offences. Fortunately
The Costmou SERJEANT summed up the evidence.
for-
He considered that the case of Snelgrove alone re- for him his prosecutors had humanely stepped
ward to implore the mercy of the Court in his behalf,
qisired their attention, as there was no evidence to
and in consideration of their interference, and of the
Prove that the others were alders and abettors.
penitence he had evinced, by pleading guilty to the
• The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Snd-
crime imputed to him, he was sentenced to four
grove, and acquitted all the other prisoners.
months imprisonment in the House of Correction far
TRIAL OF THE 'MAN UNXNOWN. the first offence ; and two months imprisonment for
At five o'clock last evening, THOMAS DENMAN' another offence of the like nature charged against him
Esq. Common Serjeant, took his seat, and " the man in a second indictment.
" to the Bar. Joseph Guthrie was indicted for a fraud. The cir-
unknown was pMr. Clarke readut
the indictment, which chargfd that cumstances of the fraud were proved by two of the
6 he, a man whose name to the Jurors was wholly servants of the prosecutor, Mr. Levi, a merchant of
unknown, and who, being brought before the said Great Prescott-street, Goodman's-gelds. By their
Jurors, did refuse to disclose his name, did publish a evidence it appeared that the prisoner called at their
seditious and blasphemous libel" &c. &c. master's house on the sth of February last, with the
The Prisoner.—ls that the whole of 'what lam address of Mr. Levi written on a piece of paper, and
charged with? represented that he came from a Mrs. Winter, the
- Mr. Clarke.—The indictment is in other respects laundress of the family at Clapham, for the dirty
the same as that you heard two Sessions ago. linen. He conducted the deception with so much
Prisoner.—r pleaded to that two SesSions ago. plausibility, that Mrs. Levi, without any hesitation,
The COSMOS SERJEANT.—This is not the same in. directed the servant to give him a great quantity of
dictment. You have now to plead guilty or not to this. linen, which, it is needless to say, was never returned.
Prisoner.—l am not guilty. Mrs. Winter, the laundress, proved that no autho-
Mr. Clarke.—Will you be tried now, or traverse? city was ever given to the prisoner to call at Mr.
Prisoner.—l will be tried now. Levi's in her name, but she stated that she gave the
Mr. ADOLPHUS then told the Jury, that the person address to her young son, to carry to the Clapham
who now stood before them was charged with pub- carrier, for him to call for the linen, and that carrier
lishing a blasphemous and impious libel. He would is a brother of the prisoner, and by this means he be-
call the attention of the Jury to one point, which came acquainted with Mrs. Winter's connection.
would probably be touched upon by the defendant. The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses with
He meant that religion, being in some degree a spe- very considerable ability, but was unable- to shake
culative matter, was open to fair discussion, and it their evidence. In his defence he admitted that he
was perfectly legal, therefore, to publish opinions had been convicted of a capital offence, but received
upon it, whatever those opinions might happen to be. his Aajesty's pardon after enduring a twelvemonths'
He, however, would warn the Jury against admitting imprisonment.—The Jury, after a short consultation,
such a doctrine, for if works were issued reviling the declared him Guilty.
established religion of the land, it became the duty Samuel Jones was indicted for a riot, and also for
of the Government to pro,:ecute those who published an assault committed on an officer in the discharge
such works. He then read the indicted passages, and of his duty.—The prisoner is one of a gang of young.
concluded by calling upon the Jury to consign the villains who infest the doors of the principal Theatres,
prisoner to the punishment which lie merited. at the time when the company is gcing in, or coming
William Smith proved purchasing the libel of the from them. Their practice is to have a place of ten-
prisoner in Carlile's shop. dezvous where they congregate, and by issuing forth
The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, in small parties, they effect their depredations with
read it from a voluminous collection of papers, justi- greater security. On the 4th of May, and for some
fying the whole of the work. In doing so he referred time before then, they had been in the habit of meet-
to certain passages in the Bible, in language and in a ing near the house of Mr. Higham, in Great Wild-
manner which we should be sorry. to sully our pages street, in the vicinity of Drury-lane Theatre, but in
by transcribing. He was proceeding in spite of the the evening of that day in particular they met in such
humane cautions of the Common Serjeant, when numbers, opposite his door, as to make it prudent to
Mr. Anotenus requested that females and boys send them away, and on Mrs. Higharn's attempting
should be directed to leive the Court. to do this, she was assailed with such dreadfully abu-
The COMION SERJEANT ordered it accordingly. sive language, that she gladly retreated into her house,
The prisoner then proceeded to read certain pas- but was followed by the young ruffians, among whom
sages in the Bible, and called upon the Jury to say the prisoner acted as the Captain, who burst the door
whether that book did not deserve the designation he open, and would have proceeded to greater violence
had given of it, and all he had said respecting it ? had not an officer been instantly taken to the spot.—
The incl of defence throughout was very similar to On the prisoner being taken, he made such a deter-
that pursued by Carlile. - He boldly avowed a de- mined resistance that he brae from the charge of the
fiance of the law, said he cared not for punishment,, officer ; and, on being again captured, with the assist-
and indulged in language which called forth audible ance of other officers it was found necessary to bring,
expressions of horror and indignation. he conducted hiMself with the most eztracirdinary
The COMMON SERJEANT proceeded to charge the violence, by biting and kicking all who came within
Jury, and having read the several passages in icted, his reach. An officer had a piece completely bitten
said, he felt himself bound to state, that, in his opi- out of his leg, and another received so much injury
Ilion, they could not be regarded in any other view from his bites, that he is now, and has been ever since,
than as most libellous. It was undoubtedly the pro- confined. He was at length secured, by cording his
vince of the Jury to decide. The law of libel was not han3s and legs, but not before two or three hundred
perhaps defined, it was not certainly.to be traced to persons had been collected, many of whom, compa-
any particular statute, but it was a part of the coin. nions of the prisoner, most daringly attacked the
mon law of the land, which existed for the purpose officers with whatever weapons they could get.
of giving protection to the property and the morals The Jury instantly found him Guilty, and the Court
of the community at large ; and if a man published sentenced him to six months imprisonment in the
anything to the world by which either was endan- House of Correction, and to be kept to hard labour.
gered, he was undoubtedly a fit object for prosecu-
tion and punishment.. With respect to any difficulty
which might have existed as to his name being un-
known, that had been removed by his having pleaded
to the indictment in its present shape. It was with
deep regret he had heard the prisoner pursue the line
of defence which he had done ; and the Jury would'
judge whether he had done himself any service in it.
In some cases it happened, that a Jury might be jus-
tified in acquitting a man on the ground that he was
,the unwilling, or ignorant instrument of publication of
Mich. But this could not be urged here, for the pri-
soner had, in his defence, boldly adopted the. prin-
ciples and language of the publication, and avowed '
them to be his own. He had not interrupted the pri-
soner in his defence, because he thought it even better ,
for the purposes of justice to let a prisoner-go On,
though his defenceahould be injurious to himself.
The Jury found a verdict of Guilty. . 1
When asked what he had to say in arrest of judse-
ment ? he said, " I consider I have done no more than'
my duty, and lam proud of my conduct. I shall al-1
ways be of the same opinions, and will do an can to!
publish thetn."
The COMMON SERJBANT said, that after the line of
defence he had pursued, and what bad just fallen,
from him, it was impossible that any but a severe
sentence could be passed upon him. He was that
sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment; and at
the end of that time to fipd sureties, himself in 1001.

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Saturday, between one and two o'clock, a tremen-
dous storm of bail took place at Kensington, by which
the destruction of property has been immense, and
most of the houses deluged from top fo bottom. The
Kensington Lace Manufactory had almost the whole
of the windows broken, and it was with difficulty the
work-people escaped from the broken glass and pieces
of ice, some of which measured three Inches in cir-
cumference, and which were flying about in all di-
rections, to the destruction of a large quantity of va-
luable lace. Such was 'the accumulation of ice in the
gutters of the building, that it was not wholly melted
till Simday evening. Di the garden attached, some
of the trees were stripped as it it: was winter ; and on
sweeping together the Teases next morning, sparrows
were found under them killed. At Malcolm's Nursery,
1200 squares of glass were demolished, and ,the de-
struction of valuable pants is incalculable. In Ken-
sington Palace gardens, 1500 squares were destroyed.
At a nursery near Trafalgar-place, the damage is
estimated at L'3oo, besides numerous other instances
of its destructive effects.
Monday se'nnight, two children, in the neighbour-
hood of Aberayron, Cardiganshire, were struckdead
by lightning. Sanie day the school-room at Pleasley
village, near Mansfield, was struck by lightning, and a
girl, aged about 16, named Flint, was killed ; and at
the same time two younger children, called HudsOn,
were struck senseless, but &pourable hopes are enter-

versall, was also struck dead by lightning, whilst sit-
ting under a thorn hedge, where he bad taken shelter.
—ln Herefordshire, at Bodeisham, Hay, Kington, &c;
much damage wet done by storm's, and bridges in-
jured; at Grendon a flock of turkiei were killed by
the hailstones.
Monday se'nnight, the loft over a stable, at Aires-
ford, belonging to Mr. A. COLLYER, coach proprietor,
broke down in consequence of being too heavily laden
with corn, the whole of which was precipitated ►nto
the stable, where there were eight horses, three of
which were suffocated in the ruins.
Sunday, upwards of one hundred police officers
and dismounted patrols paraded Spitalfields, Bethnal-
green, Hackney-road, and the surrounding neighbour-
hood, the whole of the day, to prevent the usual
assemblage for dog-fighting and bullock-hunting.—
We understand this force is to be continued for seve-
ral months, in order effectually to stop the numerous
disorders that have taken place of late in that part
of the town.
WGATSA•

AND AatbENHAILCL MARK BM, MAT 27.
(By the Carcase.)
Beef Is id to £s 6d I Veal 24 Od to 4.1 41
Mutton.. ...... Is id to is 6d I l'ork "s Od to 3s sj
Lamb 3s 'Od to 4s 4d.

[CRS •r HAY AND STRAW YESTERDAY.

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Hay 31 Os Od to 41 4s ed hay... 31 Ss to 41 Os 04
Straw 11 7s Od to 11 17s 6d Straw 11 6s to 1l 16s 04
Clover 31 Ss Od to 41 Ss Od Clover 41 Os to 51 Os 04

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for his good behaviour tante4 Of their TteattiefilliValkilifillikotifbirti4
aid Vat it • hot'beeriAr pro-
putting hit hand to his mist% muut have been- Magda bovines.
i, myl,erd, which can - Monday senuight, Birsoinghant sind its neighbour-
hood were visited by one of the most violent thii,der
twicupd of felony: storms ever witnessed. A girl, eight yeast old, was
lag tero4ibil ligartilwris, struck dead by the lightning, and the mother and two
man Maas. flied 110, for other children were severely burnt. • Richard Brooks,
„,„,rf°:lllbAnt a labouring man, in the employ of Mr. Frost, of Te-
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