Star.
London, England, 1805-09-18 00:00:00

CLERKENIVELL .SESSIONS.

Yellerday Timmy Deane was indiFted for having'
committed a Laifance in the ere6ion of a building in
Git.fvenor•mews, In as to ()barna his Majefty's liege
fubjeas in their free paffage through that place.
A great number of witneffes wcre brought forward
to prove that the Mews was a common 'paffage for
foot-paffengers and horfes, though not for coaches,
for a great number of years, and that the fpnt in
queliion was never covered or built upon, until left
year, when the Defendant had ere6ed the building
in queflion on it.
On the o her hand it was contended, that the place
in queftion was a nook or reeds; a the corrinr‘n-
hiAhway, and that it was private property, which ,
the Defendant held by le.ife. In Itipport of this, a
leat'e was produced horn tome of Lord Grofvenor's
ancetlors, in which the whole of the ground, called
M .not-field, and Brook field, was let for the purpofe
of building the ilieets and other places upon iris
I.3.cilbip's'eflate, of which the Mews now formed a
part. Another leak or a transfer from Meffrs. Butt,
'the le fees, was produced, which had a dianglit in
1 the margin, with a line drawn in front of this elbaw
in the Mews, In as to demife to the Defendant, the
ground which has now been built upon by him, and ,
one witness (wore that he confidered it to have been
a coach-yard, and tkat it was foi tired by the late as
well as the prelent rgoprietor. H: conceived it to be
private property.
Mr. CONST replied on the part of the prnfecution,
and nbfervcd, that if every paffage or opening that'
was not in a reailineal form might be built upon at
pleasure, we might have Stratford place doled up'
alay•ft, Bat tletes-bnildings might he conhat9ed into
a li,tle narrow alley, and if the bare pathway was to
be confidered as belonging to the public, Portland-
place might have a range of haufes built down the
middle of it, to as entirely to dearoy the conveni•
ence as well as the elegance of the place. This would
not only infringe on the right of the public to the en
joyment of a free paffage and healthful fituation, but
it would even be detrimental to the interelts of the
original proprietor, as his leffees would till pay him
or his heirs the lame rent, while in procels of time
the vague of the buildings would be lowered confider-
altly, on account of their confined fituatinn. As to
the leflee's tpecification of limits in that part of the
Mews, it did not appear that he had any authority
to make Inch demife, and a man might as well make
a transfer of all Bond-Itreer, as do that for which
there was no power vetted in him by the original
I kale.

The CHAIMAN was of opinion that the Defendant
could have no right to the ereFtion of a building be-
yond the doors of other houfes in the fame range,
notwithllanding that was wider than other parts of
the Mews, and the rate having been proved to have
been paid by the Defendant for paving and lighting
that place, the fame as others did, he confideted to
be an additional circunillance againd him.
The jury found him Guilty, and he was given time
to remove it bef we next Sedion, without any judg-
ment being pallid upon the cafe at prefent.
7c•ha A bil'CrOMMe, /M'S Bajion, Thomas BarnareEne,
Ttornat Ward, William Martin, and five others, their
allOciates, were indiEted for violently affaulting a
' perion, named Wm. Young, a headborough of Beth-
nal them, in the execution of his duty,on the morn-
ing of Simday, the t d of July.
Mr. Young laid, that, on giiing his rounds upon
the day datcd, between the hams of twelve and one,
he called at a public honk at Bethnal Green, the figs
of the Whittington and Cat (a very unappropriate
emblem for the rendezvous of nonurnal caroufal),
where he found the Defendants drinking and tinging.
He told the hollers the hour was very unfeafonable,
and that (he mull immediately clear the bottle ;
the anfwered, the mod the could do was, to refute
I giving them more liquor', but if he wiffied to turn
them mit, lie mull do it himfelf. He immediately
went into the room and told them the hour, and that
they mull difperle and go home to their own rell-
dences. They refuted—abufed hint by every ?,rols
epithet ; flung their tobacco pipes at his head ;
fwore they would not depart for the bidding of any
officer ; told him he deferved to have his head knoc-
ked off his fhoulders . and that if they had him out
of the houte, they would terre it out to him in Q) lc.
He gave them in charge to a watchman,naroesl Le
Fevre, whom he brought With him, but who took

care to keep at a refpeEtful &fiance from there for-'
midable boa vivants, who confined of two cow keepers,
three gingerbread bakers, and five filk weai'ers. Mr.
Young took one of them into cufkody ; but he was
immediately ref-cued by his companions, and fall ruch-
ed into the thee, threatening vengeance againfk the
Headborough. He flill endeavoured to advife them
to difperfe ; laid they knew they were diforderly, and
that if they continued to be In, they mutt be taken
into cullody. brought before a Magiftrate, and pro-
bably Cent on board a tender. The word tender ex-
ploded all tendernefs from their high fpiritcd feel-
ings : they fell upon the unfortunate Headborough,
knocked his head about, the watchman fprung his
rattle, and a party of the worthy guardians of the
night came up, but thought it more prudent to form
an army of obfervation, and to preferve a !rift neu-
trality, than to enter into the war. The Headbo-
rough, unable to maintain the contell," tingle hand-
againtt fo powerful a confederacy, was fpeeuiily
overpowered, and made to bite the dull. He %V Ai co-
vered with blows on every poi.. of conta4l his per-
tonal fug face afforded—dragged oy his legs through
the kennel—had his collar bone broke in three places;
was eight weeks under the care of a furgeon, and had
not yet recovered the the of his left arm. He was
pofitive the whole ten Defendants, all of whom he
knew, were in company of his afTailants, but could
only identify thofe above named as having aaually
ftrnck him. _ _ .

The hollers of the Whittington and Cat, with her
(errant maid, (wore the hour of the night was not
quite twelve, the Defendants perfeelly Faber and quiet,
and that the Ileadborough was himfelf much tofii-
cated in liquor, and began by taking hold of one of
the Defendants ; hut the knew nothing of what nc-
curred
out of dons.--This was contradiaed by two
other %%lend-es of rerpeEtability.
The Chairman exprelred his forrow at the frequen.
cy of witnelr:.s fweating direaly in oppolition to each
other in a Court of Juttice. The Landlady's teal.
mony he conceived to be at kali extremely doubtful.
' As to the watchmen, he hoped that the •higher offi-
cers of the parith would take care not to continue
loch watchmen in employ as thought proper to keep
at a diltance during a time of riot and confution,
while another perfon might be killed for what they
knew.

Tile Procedural- (wore polltively only to five of the
prifoners having !truck him or being atlive in the
ri;it. There five, namely, James Abercrombie,

James Batton, Thomas B trnadine, Thomas Ward,
and Wm. Martin, were all found guilty, and fenten-
ced to one month's imprifonment each.
A man named jaw: Coadell, and Sufan his wife,
were indieed for affhulting a woman named Brant.-
combe, near Shoreditch, on the nth July laft.
This was a family quarrel, and the profecntrix was
the filler in law of the Defendant, and own filler to
Sufan Cowden. It appeared from her flatement,
that on the evening of the day mentioned, (he was at
the huufe of a perfun named Glatton, near Shore-
ditch, with an infant in her arms, in company with
her filter, one of the Defendants ; and that the other
Defendant, James Cowden, came in from a public
houfe its the neighbourhood, with an half pint mea-
fine full of peppermint water in his band, which,
after uttering fome ahufive terms to the profecntrix,
without any provocation, he fpilled over her and her
infant, and then violently (truck her nn the face with
the half pint meafure, and indented her countenance
with a wound in the form of a crefcent ; and not
content with this violent treatment, he told his wife
that if flte did not alfo give her filler an excel:ent
beating, he would, as foon as they got home, tune&
to her all her clothes, and turn her cut of doors. The
filler, who had been fitting with the profecutrir, un-
til her hufband came in, upon the molt kind and
amicable terms, immediately tut ned round, and be-
ing a dui fat wife, did, in all that zeal and nl.Vianre
to the mandates of a hufband, which became an and -
alle and ez,7;eionate fpolffr, fall upon her fifter.pas erre,
ramie, and gave her a moil exquifite thralhing, on her
head, neck, breatl, hack, and fides, of which flee car-
ried the imp:et:five marks in black and blue for fcve,
ral days.
The Father-in-law of the Profecutrix, a feeble old
man, who was a fpdtator of this friendly inflame of
family difcipline, corroborated the circumnances.
No evidence was adduced in the defence ; but Mr.
ikaa.ry, Counfel for the Defendants, endeavoured to
fupply the &feet by a humorous flatement on behalf
of his clients. Ile ailedged that this unlucky gnat--
re' arofe in confeqttence of fome pique, conceived by
the prolecutris againfl the defendant Cowdeli and his
wife, becaule the former had ref ufedto cabirlhet in his
erhykey, along with his wife, on a jankettittg party to
one of the autumnal fairs in that quarter of the
ieuxtonegs, after her hufband had 'dared to in-
&lige her with a jaunt thither. That the Defendant
had lefttfed to comply, principally becaufe he knew
his own
.fisza had a ilrong predeliftion for ieprzTra.'nt,
and the prolecutrix a warm tendril; for gin ; that
they might be tempted to h 3 nob, and injure each
other's health by a mixture of liquors. But the Pro.
fecutri a, unmindful of this confiderate kindnefc, had
abuted them both. This led to the Utzt;on complain.
ed of ; and thus that quarrel and animofity, which
fhould rather have been drowned in t,:a, 'were:int, or
any other fot.4,4ing trod, was now unavoidably
brought before a public Court, for the expofure of
family contelis. lle hoped, therefore, the Jury would
difinifs the affair try an acquittal.
The pry, liowevrr, found the bulb tni gatikr, but
acquitted the wife, as acting nod t his influence.

A molt daring• robbery was lately committed at I
Lamberton, in the (Zateen's County, Ireland, the
feat of Lady Tvuo. The robbers (three or more in
number) having entered Lady TYnn' bed-chamber
window by means of a ladder, alrurt one o'clock in
the morning, compelled her Ladyfhip to condat
them to an apartment in a dillant part of the houfe,
which they rifled of calk and bank-notes to the atnonnt
,of 2001. and upwards.
Early on Wednefddy nr:rning as Mr. Concannon
and Mr. Beavoii , of Great M-Ary-la-lionne-tireet,
were coming to town in a polt chaile, they were Hop-
ped by a tingle highwayman, well mounted on a bay
gelding, who demanded their mutes, upon which
Mr. Concannon inflantly Snapped a Olio' at him,
but from throe acridt-ot it did not go off. The
ways-ran then fired at Mr. Concanoon, and wr;linjed
him defperately in the fhoulder ; took his watch,
purfe, and pocket book, but rode off without rob-'
bins Mr. Beavoir.•

1
ToLIC.

THE KING, OH THE INFORMATION OF BM, AGAiNII

SWUM.
WORN IP STRIM.-•--Mr. LOW as yesterday attende.t
on the behalf of the: Informant, and, -.dur waitio:t
near two hours for Mr. Gurney, the Connie: f w the
Defendant, pr,,poted, for the accommodation of tik.
Gurney, postponing the hearing until Saturday nett,
and which day is f xed oa by the Magistrate, who was
fitting yesterday at the office.
Mr. LAW E s propofed to Defendam's Solicitor, that
the Defendant fhould content to a convialo, and
that the Plaintiff fhould not Foetid thereon at pr..
fent, but leave the Defendant to remove the
tion by a Certiorari into the Court of King's Bench,
for the porpote of having the opinion of that Cour.,
whether the offence with which the Dcfendanl
charged is within the ftatute of 39 Geo. 111.
The Solicitor for the Defendant laid, to the fulitin
effect, he was employed for the DefendAn: only, ~±
that it would be puttiiig his client to go!. exptzia
to obtain filch a decifion, Mr. Bell laid, he flinnid
exhibit informations againft at leaft fifty more p7i.!.
tern, and furely they would not leave Mr. Barfield
to bear the whole expence, as a pound each :void'
defray it. Mr. Bell Paid he would, in fuch cafe, lodge
the different informations, but not proceed on than
before the Court of King's Bench decided the sueg•
tion. He aid this he was ready to do, although he
fhould be put to confiderable expence in lodging the
informations, and have, individually, to contest the
queftion of law againft a body of men, who could
fubfcribe a fum of money, to a .large amount, but a
very finsil one to each. The Defendant's Solicitor,
would not canfent, and the hearing will be at laalf
pall eleven precifely, in the forenoon of the day above
mentioned.

On Sunday, the Lady of Beacon Lang, Efq. of a daughter, at
his houfe, Chiflehurft, Kent.
On Friday left, at Fulham, the Lady of Peter Free, Lk. e
Throgmorton-ftreet, of a fon.
Lately, in Cork, the Lady of the Right Hon. Lord OWN. .
of a fon.
On Sunday morning, at the Cottage, Southgate, the Lady of Wm.
Curtis. L•fq. of a fon.

On Monday bit, at Lambeth, George Roots. Efg. of !Allen/ea.
Inn,to Mifs Sarah Pace., youngeft daughter of the late Captoth
Thomas Price, of the Honourable Eaft India Company's Service.

Yefterday Morning, at Plad ing'a Reel. Ogrked•ltreet• aged
the Hun. Colonel William barley, fecund fon of the Right Um.
Lord Card y.
On Tburfday, the t2th inftant, at Minehead Honfe,lo the 73t1
year of her nee, Dorothy, emote& of Liiburne, rciio2 of Wan
Earl of Lifbilme, of the kingdom of Ireland.
_ . . _

On Friday, the s3th inf. at hi houfe,in Clotseeftsr-plare,Neas
Road, MAIM Rogers Bearcroft, Efq. late COMM/art (keen' of
Accounts to the Leeward !(lands, and one of the Commiffamene
for tnveftigating the Atcounts of the Army Eipasditure in
Welt