Star.
London, England, 1814-10-21 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER* SASSIONS.

• Yesterday these Sessions commenced. whets Frances
Pessidd admtted herself guilty on the charges, in
an indsctments consisting of 2.5 counts, for obtaining
a pension of forty pounds from the Fund for the
Widews of Naval Officers. It appeared, that she
had received it fur her mother ; and that after her
Inotlicr'S death, which took place two years ago, she
continued to receive it, in consequence of producing
- fabricated affidavits.

The Lords of the. Admiralty expressed a wish, in
consequence of the enquiries they had made, that all
possible mercy might be extended ; and the Bench,
seeing her contrition, adjudged her to t days impri-i
for an offence which might have put her lite
in peril. The poor woman (such was her joy at the
leniency of the sentence) swooned in the act of falling
on her .knees to thank the Court.
N. Cunningham was indicted for assaulting a wo-
man, who had been summoned to give evidence.be.
fore the Magistrate at Bow-street against a person for
keeping a '44 Little Go." The defendant met with
h. r on her r .iurn, and after using threatening lan-
guage, swore he would prevent her giving evidence
any more against Lottery people. He then began to
push her about; charged her with having stolen his
watch, and raised a mob. With some difficulty the
erraped from his fury, and returned to Bow-street.
A woman, called to confirm this statement, said,
.I.st she saw Mr. Cunningham paying " attentions"
to Mrs. S. ; and she should have considered them as
originating in good humour, had she not seen the
" wry races" of the prisoner.
Mr. At.tex treated it as a paltry assault, scarcely
weeding a rough joke, bin
The CHAIRMAN field that it was something worse,
end that pervais who were engaged in supporting
public prosecutions, in particular, ought to be pro-
tected. Verdict—Guilty. Three months imprison-
ment.
Ir. Batley was indicted, -tit the instance of the pa-
rish lit St. James, for 'assaulting tour.watchmen, and
rescuing out of their custody two persons whom they
had m charge for rioting.
The defendant was returning from a dinner, where
he had been sacrificing largely at the shrine of Bac-
chus; perceivir, a disturbance, he enquired 'into the
cause of it, and informed. He being a parish.
constable, desired the Guardians of the Night, to li-
berate their prisoners. Not complying with the or-
ders of their Commander, he set-to, and completely
drubbed them, and liberated their prisoners.
The Jury found him Guilty, and the Court sen-
tenced him to pay a fine of 40s.
J. Maria, a very old offender, was convicted of
picking pockets, and .sentenced to transportation ter
seven,' ears.
Sarah Winter, a young girl, daughter of a shoe.
maker, was indicted for an assault on Mary, the wife'
of Abraham May. The prosecutr'x having impru.'
dently used a most offensive expression, the defendant,
notwithstanding an the day Peace was pro.
claimed, declared War, and commenced an attack,
which left Mrs. May senseles on the floor. The Jury
found the prisoner guilty, stating, with their verdict,
that the blows had been given under great provcca-
tien. The Court sentenced her to be imprisoned one
week.

A Mr. Hoon, of Wynyatt-street, Clerkenwell, was
attacked on Wednesday night by a gang of nine men,
near the Vinegar:yard, City-road, who knocked him
down, dragged him into the middle of the road, lace-
rated him much, and rifled his pockets, but on the ap-
pro ich of some one, they made off.
Last Tuesday some villains stole on the premises
of Mr. Vvrral, of Bevendean, Sasses, eight hives of
bees, which the robbers selected from many others,
placed in front of the dwelling house, and conveyed
to a neighbouring chalk.pit, where they burnt the
bees, And secured their honey.
BAH:, the-young =an who was so severely wound.
ad in the jaw by -the shopman of Mr. Hammond,
Dover-street, Piccadilly, when attempting to rob the
shop, has changed- for the worse since his removal to
Tothilbfieldt hrs wound is now consider-
ed of very dangerous siodency, as the ball cannot yet
be extracted. Bolton is unable to speak, and the
Sorgeons pronounce it to be their opinion, that should
he bu. vi ye the wound, he will never mover the faculty
of speck.

POLICE.
• BOW-STRUET. •-•• YCHeid y names Pelham was
charged with a robbery. Mr. Edwards, of Long-acre,
stated, that he was returning on Wednesday niglit
through Charles-street, Covent-garden, when the pri-
soner seized him by his arm and snatched his watch
and packet-book ; the latter containing notes and
other property, arid then ran off. He called the watch,
and the prisoner was, in consequence, secured, and
taken to Covent-garden watch-house, where he was
searched by the Beadle, who found upon him -a silk-
handkerchief belonging to the prosecutor ; and on
being informed that he had thrown something away
in Tavistock-row, the Beadle went there and found
the pocket-book, with the notes in it; but the watch
could not be found. He was fully committed..
A master butcher was charged with robbing a boy
of a XI Bank note, in Marquis-court, Driiry-lane.—
The boy stated that he had eight stone of meat on his
shoulder, and was carrying the note in his hand, so
that any person might see it, when the butcher
squeezed his hand, and immediately after he missed
the note. In his first statement he positively said that
the butcher had taken the not?, but on being ques-
tioned, closely, he only said that he missed the note
after lie had squeezed his hand ; the prisoner was
stopped within twenty yards of where the circum-
stance was said to have taken place, and searched, but
no Bank-note was found upon him. An old woman
however, swore that she saw a paper resembling writ-
ing paper in the butcher's hand atter the boy said lie
had lost the note, and persisted that she could not
have mistaken some rag that tied up his finger, which
was sore, for paper. He was in consequence ordered to
be detained.
Mr. HODGSON, Coroner for the county of Middle-
sex, stated to Sir N. CONANT, that every possible ex-
ertion had been made in vain to discover the murderer
of the infant, the corpse of which had been found on
the Strand, near Kew-bridge, some time since. It
was, therefore, wished, for the satisfaction of the pub-
lic, that an examination should take place publicly in
that Office. Sir NATHANIEL said, he could not agree
to the proposition, except some person was in custody,
or that there was an information upon oath against
some person or persons ; he could not have any thing
to do with it on any other grounds.
The man who was apprehended by Pearkes and
Bishop, in company with the Bedfont robbers, a few
days since, underwent an examination, on suspicion,
of being concerned in robbing a man of his watch,
in the Kent-road. The person robbed being gone to
Scotland, and not likely to return, and there being
no direct proof against the prisoner, he was dis-
charged.
H. Steven: and 11. Morris underwent another exa-
mination charged with breaking open and robbing
the Wheat Sheaf public-house, in Dorset-street, Mary-
la-benne. Adkins, the officer, and Becket the turn-
key, belonging to the House of Correction, produced
a variety of articles stolen from the house, when it
was broke open, and proved them to have been in
company together when they pledged a Dutch pipe
belonging to Mr. Tranfield, the landlord. In addition
to this Amelia Buckley, who was in custody on suspi-
cion of being concerned with them in the robbery, was
admitted an evidence against them, and they were com-
mitted for trial.
HA TON-G A RDEN...- Yesterday Benjamin Swinnerton
and John ll'ard, two boys, were brought tip again,tin
the information of a boy named Napperby, with steal-
ing on Saturday last a bundle, containing linen;
and Rebecca Barnett, the keeper of an old clothes shop
near Clare-street, Clare-market, with receiving the,
same. One of the prisoners was seen to get over the
garden wall of Mr. Burn, in Spa-fields, with a bun-
dle in a handkerchief, which he gave into the hands
of the other prisoner. Mr. Burn, the prosecutor, dig.
covered that several articles of linen bad been stolen.
The prisoners said they sold them to Rebecca Bar-
nett, on whose premises was found part of the proper.
ty ; likewise watches, rings, wearing apparel, &c.—
The boys were committed to the New Prism)► and
the woman to the House of Correction, for anothet'
hearing.
QUEEN-SQUARE.-YesterdayJ. Boswell, Esq. ex-
hibited a complaint against the -driver of the hackney-
condi, No. 635, for excess of fare. Mr. Boswell, who
,had just returned from a visit' to Scotland in a travel-
ling dress, the coachman appeared to have mistaken
him- for a country Gentleman, wholly ignorant of
London. From tbe.City he was driven to the Hum.'
mums, Covent Garden. On inquiring what fare he
had to pay ? the coachman said that it was a rule with
thins never to make any charge ; that people gave
theni what they pleased ; that as he was a Gentle.
man, he might give seven shillings if he thought pro-
per. With this demand he agreed to comply, pro-
videcl.the coachman would give tickets. The man
pretended to treat this request with ridicule, as if it
sheaved the ignorance of tier country Gentleman, and
laughingly remarked that the ticket system had long
since been done away with by an order from the
Board of Green Cloth.. Mr. Boswell finding the
coachman a good deal too eloquent for him, deemed
it the best way, to cut short the argument, to pay the
man his last demand of ss. and afterwards to apply'
o the Magistrates. Process ordered to issue.
A Captain in the Cornwall Militia charged Wilfiam
Grundy, driver of 203, with rude behaviour, in
saying, what a pretty thing of a Gentle:mato he was,
because he asked for tickets, deeming himself over
(charged. The coachman gave an eighteen-penny
ticket for a 3s. fare, dated September instead of Oc-
tober. The Magistrate said that fraud had been add-
led ,to abuse, and convicted him in the penalty of twen-
ky shillings and costs.
Bernard Crumpe, Esq. of the 31st regiment,
charged the driver of 138, with extortion in taking
more than his fare. The coachman said that there
was an immense deal of luggage ; but it appearing
that it was not the weight of three persons, and that
Mr. Crumpe was the only passenger, Mr. COLQUHOUN
told the coachman that he had no right to any extra
charge, as his coach was not burdened with above the
weight of four persons, except where a special agree-
ment might be made. Convicted in the penalty of
20s. and costs.
A. S. Gordon, Esq. charged the driver, of 801,
with abuse. On the sdi September, ,Mr. G. was
driven to Conduit-stieet, and be refused to pay his
fare without tickets. The man raised a great mob
about,the do?r, and assaulted Mrl G. by violently in-
terruptingsluOrtagn leaving the coach, Assistance
was sent for froya kliiiiiiwoughaltreetood swing the

Police Officers. coacher rode off. Penalty 204 and°
costs.
The alicive coachmen could nnt find any money to
pay their penalties, till Bridewell stared thetas in the
face, and then they gladly • paid the fines to avoid
',seven days hard labour." •
MARLBOItOUGII STREET.—John Gawky, a soldier,
was charged with being the person who assaulted and
robbed Mr. Lacum, of Jermyn-street, a few nights
since, and left him for dead in the Five-fields, Chel-
sea. The fact of Mr. L. having been stopped and
rubbed of a bundle has been already stated, and that
he was dragged across a field from the road, and bar-
barously maimed. The unfortunate sufferer was de-
-priced of his speech by the violence he received, and
he has since been confined in St. George's Hospital,
in a very precarious state, until within the last day or
two, when he bad been declared nut of danger. Clark,
a constable of Chelsea, had obtained sufficient infor-
mation to enable-him to armrehend the prisoner.—
Having done so be took him to Mr. Lacum in the
Hospital, who identified him as being the man who
first knocked him down. The prisoner was remanded
until Mr. Laciitn is enabled to attend.

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Henty Cook and Irm. Boyd were charged with steal.
ing glasses from different public•houses. The .priso-
ners were detected in the act of stealing tilt proper/rat
the house of Mr. Gee, Coach and Horses, in Wel-
heck-street, by Pyall, a Mary-le-bonne constabjeif-vho
was waiting for them, the landlord having been rob=
bed to a considerable amount in this way, and suspect-
ing the prisoners. 'They werocommitted for trial. •
Gummi Al. Mary Allen, an elderly woman; from
Chick-line, was yesterday bronglit up by an honest
sailer, charged with having robbed him of a £lO note,
and a one pound note. Jack stated, that he arrived
safe from Sheerness yesterday, not granny, btt wet and
fatigued, it having blown fresh, and been squally, all
his voyage, on the outside of the coach ; he went to
the prisoner's house, where he was kindly entertained,
and the jacket he had on hung before the fire to dry,
and seeing
,a hammock ,alongside, he turned, in, not
thinking foul play, and slept till the next watch, when
he awoke. He began search for his money, which he
was sure was safe stowed when he went to sleep ; but
to his great surprize it had sheered off, with another
woman, whom the prisoner had treated as he would a
messmate, but now swore she did not know him.—
In a box of the prisoner's Bank notes to the amount
of £lO were found, among which were two tens ;
these were owned by the prisoner's brother ; the sailor
could neither read nor write, or identify his property.
The Magistrate, Sir M. BLoXAM. could only sympi-
thise with the sailor for his misfortune. The story
told by the prisoner's brother might be true: he
strongly suspected it ; but there was not sufficient,
nor indeed any proof of the robbery. She was dis-
charged, and went off in triumph, while poor Jack
shivered his timbers, and went straight a head for So-
merset House, where he said he had another small
cargo.

A woman was lately found murdered at Harefield,
near Windsor : it is supposed the horrid act was per:
petrated by a footpad, as she was robbed; and her ear-
rings cut from her ears.
A free pardon has been received for Thornarßryan,
who was convicted at Stafford Assizes of the murder
of his wife at Bilston, and he was on Friday last set
at liberty.
A daring attempt was made by four felons, to
break out of Newcastle jail on Sunday last. They
were all confined in one cell, and bad burnt a hole
at the bottom of their door sufficiently large to pass
through. They then proceeded to another heavy door,
from which they contrived to burn ae ponderous
lock, by piling coals on a large iron plate, which they
had taken from their beds. Their design was however
discovered, by the smoke issuing from a niche in the
wall, about four o'clock in the afternoon, when the
jailer, accompanied by a guard cf soldiers, secured
them ; and they are now chained to the ground until
the doors are replaced.
Tuesday evening a fatal accident happened at St al-
fcrd : five or six farmers, who bad been carousing
after the sports of the day, were very imprudently
riding at lull speed through the Foregate.street, whet:
they came in contact with a cart and two horses, be.
longing to an unfortunate inah who, with one of his
horses, was killed on the spot. Two of the men on
horseback were thtow•n off their hones by the concus-
sion, but they remounted wed rode off.
Sunday morning, between four and five o'clock,
the parapet wall rianniag along the fronts e 15 houses
in Colmore-row, Birmingham. fell down, to the great
alarm of the inmates, but without any person being
hurt.

iH wAnnt AI LONDON BRIDGE 'ID •MORlid*.
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BIRTHS. .
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On the isth inst. the Lady of Johnson Phißoa, Esq. of Batts,.
of a daughter.
Wednesday, in Grosvenor-place, the Lady of Major-General'
Wilder, M P. of a daughter, bring her fourteenth child.
At Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 17th September, the Lady of
•Major-General Duncan Darroch, of a son. .
. Monday, at Broom Cottage, 04993.0)00. Kent. the Lady of
Captain Byers, of a daughter.
On the 13th inst. at Amsterdam, the Lady of Robert Milne,
Esq. British Consul, of a daughter.