Star.
London, England, 1813-09-16 00:00:00

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MIDDLESEX SISSIONS.

Yesterday Kr. Goodavia was ;misled for an assault
on T. Ambrose.—The prosecutor, it appeared, was a
.gentleman's servant, and the defendant a hackney-
coachman. On the earning of the day mentioned in
the. indictment, the prosecutor was Waitiog at Covent-
garden Theatre for his master and family, and on
their coming out of the Theatre, he called the car-
riage to come and take them up; there was quite
sufficient room, but the defendant, with his coach; was
standing in such a situation, that the carriage could
not get tip. The prosecutor, at the desire of the
coachman, requested he would get out of the tray;
this, however,. he refused to do, and, on the prose-
cutor's going up to take his number, he struck him
several times. The assault being fully proved, the
Jury found the defendant Guilty, and the Court sen-
caked him to be imprisoned for fourteen days.
J. Herklingtua alid J. Chiltern were indicted for a
violent assault on M. Burgoyne and J. Chay. The
parties, it appeared, were all sawyers s there had, at
the time the assault was committed, been what is de-
nominated a strike amongst this description of work-
men for an acipoce of wages. The two defendants
were arnongste who contended for the increase ;
_the prosecutoirsiere amongst those who were content
with the usual wages; and on the morning of the sth
of May last were proceeding along Gravel lane, in
their way to their work, when they were met by the
two defendants, who asked it they were going to
work ? and on being answered in the affirmative, they
immediately accused them of working for under price,
and struck them several times. This was the assault
complained of.—The defendants were found Guilty,
and' the Court, after animadverting in severe terms
on their conduct, sentenced them to one month's Im-
prisonment for each assault in the House of Correction.
Mr. BARRY moved the Court for proceedings
against a person, a Preacher of the Cood; for bigamy.
The defendant, it appears, has no less than four wives,
all living.

The town of Ramsgate having been for some time
annoyed by a great number of vagrants, means have
lately been adopted to remedy the evil, and Mr. Bay-
liy, a constable, had accordingly undertaken the ta ,k
of removing the intruders from the town, in the exe-
cution of which duty, on Tuesday sennight, while in
the act of turning out a blind man and a woman, the
former became so refractory that it was deemed ne-
cessary to handcuff, and secure him in the cage ; in
effecting which Mr. Bayley received some severe
blows from the man, particularly one or two on the
stomach, but which did not at the moment seem to
be attended with any serious consequences. A short
time after, however, Mr. B. complained of indisposi-
tion, retired to his home, laid himself down on a bed,'
and almost immediately expired.- —The Coroner's In-
quest, after the most delibet ate investigation, is a ver-
dict of Manslaughter against the blind man, in con-
sequence of which he has been committed to Sand-
wich gaol.
A few days ago, a female soldier sailed in the pac-
ket from Harwich, for Heligoland. She gives the
following account of herself :—Her name is Johanna
Stain, and was born at Vien, in Germany. About
twenty-four years ago, being a strong woman, she
chose to put on male attire, and afterwards let her-
self as ostler at an inn. After being some years in
that capacity, she enlisted into a regiment of foot,
where she continued five years. She afterwards en-
listed into a regiment of horse, in the German Le-
gion, and served ten years. During that time she
had been in eighteen battles, and was wounded seven
times, sometimes severely ; the last one was from a
cannon-ball, which grazed her back, and wounded
her severely, which led to a discovery of her sex, and
she was sent home from Portugal. She was also ta-
ken prisoner by the French, and was confined three
years. She says that her sex was discovered once
before by a physician, who attended her after she was
wounded, when on foreign service, and she gave him
LIU dollars to conceal her sex, which he (much to his
honour) accepted. She is allowed a pension from
the Austrian Government, for former services, and
is now also allowed a pension from our Government.
She is so attached to the male attire, that nothing
can induce her to change it. She is near fifty years
of age, of the middle stature, and full of spirits—
but very much regretted to be sent home to her own
country.