Star.
London, England, 1815-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

Yesterday the Sessions for the City of London and I
County of Middlesex, were opened at Guildhall,
befoe the Right Hon. the Loan Mason, the Recoil
nag, Aldermen, &c.
Richard Plailitca, a drayman in the service of Messrs.
Con:be and Co. was charged with violently assaulting
George Wm. Young, Esq. surgeon,
.of Aldetman•
bury, on the sth of May last.
The prisoner, it appeared, had, in 3t most ventoti
and negligent manner, run against the gig of the
prosecutor, in Lombard-street, on the day in guess-
tioo, and completely upset it. By this ehe
hai not only broken the front of the shop Mr.
Smith, a hatter in that street, but had exposed the
lives of the prosecutor and his servant, who were in
the gig, to imminent danger.
The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to
three months imprisonment.
Mary Waster was charged with a brutal assault
upon the person of Robert Togo*, in Houndsditch, in
February last, the tendons of whose hand she bad
bit. The prosecutor was obliged to go to an hospital,
where he remained thirteen weeks, and was even.
' tually obliged to submit to the amputation of hishand.
It appeared that the prisoner lodged in the same
house with the prosecutor and his wile, into whose
apartmeqt she had obtruded herself during a state of
into4ication. The prosecutor suffered the prisoner
to remain some time in the room ; but, as it grew
late, in carrying her her up stairs, she commit*
the assault charged in the indictment.
The prisoner, in her defence, attempted to prov
that the prosecutor was the first aggressor, and the
ff
her conduct was influenced by a spirit of resistance to
his putting her out of the room.—She was found
Guilty, but in consequence of her long confinement,
was sentenced only to three months imprisonment.
There were two other convictions for assault, and
three were convicted for keeping disorderly houses,
apd sentenced to be imprisoned, and w find sureties
fur their good behaviour.
The Sessions then adjourned.

To-morrow the Old Bailey Sessions will corn-
mence, when the following catalogue of crimes will
be inquired into:—Larceny Burgla! ies and steal-
ing in dwelling-houses 13 Highway robberies 4
Cutting 1--Bigamy I—Privately stealiug 6—Feu.
fiery I.—Rape I—Murder I—Uttering base coin 7
and almost twenty others for varkus offences, making
near 130 committed since last Session.

An indictment was tried at the Winchester Sessions
against John Anne!:, Charles Harris, alias Sauggr, John
Ilion!fiehl, and Charles While, jun. for combining to
defame and expose to public ridicule John Chase, and
Elisabeth his wife, of Wickham, by the vulgar prac.,
tice of riding Skytnington, which (although errone-
ously supposed to be sanctioned by custom) is illegal,
inasmuch as it is a ineAch of the public peace. The
defendants, (except Annels) were found guilty, and
bound over to keep the peace, and pay all the costs of
the prosecution. _ _ _

HATT4IINGARDEN.Yesterday .1. Prise and J.
Yams, boys, were charged by the Churchwardens of
St. John's, Clerkenwell, with disturbing the congre-
gation during Divine Service, on the preceding even-
ing. The charge being fully established, the Magis-
trates were about to commit the prisoners, but the
master of the one, and the father of the other, pro.:
wising to be answerable fir their future good beha-
viaur, and the prisoners expressing their contrition,
the Churchwardens di,i not with to prosecute, stating
that their object was mote to prevent offences, than
to punish otiendvrs, and hoped that might act as a
caution. In cctrisequence, they were discharged with
a suitable admonition.

WOUSHIP.STREST.— Yesterday B. ifahahais was
charged with attempting to violate the person of Mrs.
Cad well, of Edmonton, and also assaulting the hus-
band. Cadwell, who is a labouring man, took lodg-
ings for himself and wife at the Bull' Head, in Kings:
land-road, in a room where there were other lodge's,
and los wife slept in an adjoining room, wish another
female. About ten o'clodc she was alarmed by the
prisoner, •who came to her bed, and was taking im-
proper libertici with her, which she resisted until her
husband and others came to her assistance ; when an
altercation ensued, in the course of which the priso-
ner bit the husband's ear completely off. The facts.
being proved, he was committed for want of bail.

IRELAND.—Sunday se'nnight, about 7 in the even-
ing, two men armed entered the house of Isaac Jacob,
E.q. at Me'brook, near Clonmel, during the absence
of the owner, and demanded arms, and stated the
particular places w here they supposed they were con-
cealed. However, Mr. Jacob had no arms, and they
were disappointed in their object : they did not corn.
mit any violence, and on their first coming in, Mrs.
Jacob offered them some money, which they refused,
but on their departure, they took from her about 85s.
Monday se'nnight, a dreadful accident happened at
Howth, near Dublin, in one ut *the stone quarries.
The neglect of some necessary precaution caused an
explosion to take place unexpectedly, when three men
were dreadfully mangled. Two are not expected to
live, and a third will be disabled through life. -
AccinexT...-Tuesday last, an accident happened
in Worm gate, Boston, owing in some degree to the
reprehensible conduct of a drayman in riding on the
shafts of his dray. Two boys, who had just left the
school of Mr. Reeler, and were playing at horses;
(having a cord tied to each other) observing the dray
approach, pulled in opposite directions to avoid it,
and the drayman not having any command of the
hone, the animal, chafed by the cord, rushed forward,
and drew the boys under the w heels. One of them,
named Booth, was hurt in a shocking manner, the
wheels quite cutting open a knee and thigh, and
nearly passing over his face. ."The other boy escaped
with slight contusions. He was for some time in a
state ofinsensibility.
Dust,.—On the 16th a duel was fought at Time
de Grace, between Mr. Grant, Surgeon, and Mr.
Stewart, Purser, bath of the British Navy, when the
ball from Mr. Grant's pistol struck Mr. Stewart on
the lower part of the body, but was prevented inflic-
ting a mural wound, by a bunch of seals attached to
the chain of his watch, which- providentially hung
against the place where the ball struck him. The
seconds then interposed, and mattegi were amicably
settled.