Star.
London, England, 1824-04-24 00:00:00

• MIDDLESEX- ADJOURNED SESSIONS.

Richard Williamson stood indicted for assaulting
-Archibald Henry Stewart. The prosecutor said he was
.employed to call at the house of a Mr. Douglas, the
Quarter-Master of the West Middlesex Militia, at Ux-
bridge, for the purpose of receiving some debts due to
a person named Strickland ; there we:e in the room a
considerable number of Officers, commissioned and non-
commissioned, and he was ordered to leave the room.
'[he Adjutant, who, he conceived, meant to insult him,
aei:ed what he had said concerning the Rep,iment, and
added, you must either jump over this whip or out of
the window ; he teplied, he should do neither, and kick-
ing the whip aside, was proceeding out of the door
when he was followed by defendant, who pushed him
agains: the door and much strained his back. On his
cross-examination, he said he was sent for to attend
the meeting of the Officers, and had been a Lieutenant
in the 18th Native Infantt y. When Captain Brew made
use of the obsery :thous, a letter had been read, in his
(witness's) hand-writing, reflecting upon the Regiment.
John Strickland said, that some time since he leut the
Officers of the West Middleex Mietie about 4001. but
being unable to obtain it, he employed Stewait to te-
cover the sum, when he met with the assault lions the
defendant, in the manner already stated. On his cross-
examination, he said he had been a Serjeant-elajor in
the Regiment, but left in consequence of the inter-
ference of the Duke of Portland, and the defendant filled
his situation.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, who appeared fur the defendant, said,
- he regarded tie proceeding as arising fit= spleen on
the mot of the two di•mis,ed Officers.
Captain Brew, the Adjutant and Captain, was called :
He said, on Sttickland leaving the regiment, he com-
plained that some money was due to him from the Offi-
cers, and for the ecrpose of inquiry he directed Strick-
land to send a friend, when the claims should be in-
quired into. Stewart then attended, and the witness
observing him, said, lie was acting the part of a double
dealer ; and a letter was lead in his hand-writing.—
Stewart then left the room, but no one touched him, or
got up to shut the door. A whip was certainly laid
down, and the witness supposing Stewart had disgraced
the regiment, told him either to go out of the window
or over the whip.
Surgeon Thornton and other Officers of the Corps
gave similar testimony.
The CHAIRMAN left the evidence for the considera-
tion of the Jury, to say on which side they placed the
greatest credit.—The Jury found the defendant Guilty,
and he was sentenced to pay a fine of 51.
Mary Orme was indicted for assaulting Ann Stone,
on the 21st of February last.
The prosecutrix deposed that she lodged in the de-
fendant's husband's house. On the day mentioned in
the indictment, on going home, she found the street-
door locked, and the defendant refused to let her in.
However, a ladder was procured, and she got in byethe
window; the defendant got into her room by a false
key, flew at her with a knife, and struck her with it,
but the bones in her stays prevented any wound from
being inflicted.
The defendant was found Guilty, and sentenced to
pay a fine of 13s. 4d.
John Peterson was indicted for assaulting Sarah
Gashey on the 21st February.
The prosecutrix stated, that on the day mentioned,
she was going to market, when the defendant met her,
seized her violently by the arm, and struck her in the
face. He threatened to do for her, and. held her by the
throat, the blood all the while streaming down her face.
He keeps a chandler's shop, at which she sometimes
deals, and she owed him a rifling sum, which was the
cause of the quarrel.
Cross-examined by Mr. AI. LEY.—Witness and her
husband had been held to bail for assaulting defendant.
Peterson and his wife were then examined in support
of their indictment against Gashey ani his wife ; and
said that Gishey and his wife came to Peterson's shop
about the bill on the 21st of February, and committed
an assault on him.
The Jury found Gashey and his wife Guilty; and Pe-
terson Not
Gashey was sentenced to ten days imprisonment,
and his wife to pay a fine of 3s. 4d.
ATROCMI7B•OUTRAGE.—Monday, the 17th instant, a
child, the son of a man named Roche, getting up on a
high bank, ,en the lands of Sarsfieldcourt, perceived a
labouter, whom his father was in the habit of employ-
ing, engaged in killing a lamb. The little boy said he
would tell his father, when immediately the wretch
turned from the lamb he had been engaged with, said
that be would take care no tales should be told, and
seizing upon . the boy, cut his throat, so as, however,
not to divide the windpipe. The child is in"much dane
ger, .but still lives.
Mi. GREEN'S ascent from the Piece-Hall, in Halifax)
ern MOnday last, was peculiarly magnificent ; the pa-
tience of the immense concourse 01 people assembled,
to witness the first thing of the kind ever known there,
was in some degree tried by the length of time occu-
pied in filling ehe balloon. It was iegated before four
o'clotis, and the car being attached, it ro,,e majestically
and freely at twenty-five minutes before five. Ilis course,
ior about a quarter of an hour, was due north, the
greatest part of which time he could be seen from the
Hall eknowing that that course would take him into a
mountainous country, and where lie would not be likely
to meet with immediate assistance, by descending a lit-
tle he got into another current, which took him north
east,.and at ten minutes past six o'clock, he descended
into an inclosed meadow, near Hot nby Castle, the seat
of the Duke of LEEDS, about four miles from Bedale,
is the North Riding, and sixty-three from the place of
ascent. Assistance was at hand, and although the wind
was strong, the balloon was seemed without sustaining
any injaryeand
,the intrepid amonaut was kindly. and
hospitably entertained by Colonel Poi-es:tee, of Crake
Hall. It is supposed he passed in the direction of the left
of Bradford, Utley, Ripley, and Kirby Malzeard ; di-
rectly Gel- Masham and Bedale. After the balloon was
secured, it was conveyed to Squire Mercuere.'s, of
Ileckfattloand a messenger was immediately dispatched
to Bedale for a chaise. Mr. GHEE/4'S ft tenth in Halifax
were waiting his• caul n till a Lite hour. A letter was
received from him about nine o'clock cm Tuesday motto
of his being well and sere ;
log, stating the intelligence
and about twelve o'clock he made his entry is a chaiiei
and four, amidst the acclamations of the Pub:ic. The
hills encircling a pail of the town were covered with
people to witness the ascent. Thus l‘ir; Glir.EN's in-
vention of asceedioe with cerbueetted hydro;en has
at the greatest height,
*Amu been amply proved. When
the mercury stood iii the barometer at e' t) 3-10th inches;
the mercus y in thc thermometer fluctuated from 10 co 45.