Star.
London, England, 1806-09-17 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIOA.

Yellerday the Qtlarter &eons for Middlefex corn-
` inenced at the Sauce Honfe, Clerkenwell.green,
'when the following were the only trials worth notice
Ott occ u rr ed.--
ASSAU LT MID CRIM.CON.
Mrs. Afary 1:140 ins, a refponfilde dealer in oglers.l
mufe4s, pereyeria.W.r, &c. &c. from the purlieus of
C.carnaby Market, was indifted for violently affault. I
ing a female friend. named Elizabeth Bradley.-e.,1
Flom the tellimony of the Profecuttix it appearedoi
that the Defendant is the wife of a fhoe-maker. who
carries on his leathern operations in a room conti-
guous to the Ran of his rib ; that Mrs. Bradley. who
was an acquaintance of the family, one day paid
them a murning 'air, either for the purports of tall.
ing Mrs. Higgins's sutlers. or having her fhoes heel
tapped by her friend Crypin. But as thole friendly
meetings are feldom deeme I cordial without a modicum
ofzier . r armed, jug to oil the wheels of affettion;
Ks. Higgins was detached with hermrafet-pyiel for a
pint of Hodges's kfi highllavoured juniper, leaving
her fpofo and her female friend tae a tete ; but on her
return with the reviving elixir, what was her alio.
niflament and indignation to find her /Ws and her
friend in a fituation not to be named'. The gin bottle
flew at their heads is an inflant : rafir, laffloarr. ham-
use, I, and peggiaresole, followed in quick Iticceffion.
Mrs. Higgins tripiag up with anger, coaxed exceed-
ing wrath, and brandifhing the boot.trees. threatened
to dole her hufband's days, and put an erd to Ler life.
* Cutsfelusee makes cowards of us all."
—Crifpia, terrified at the vengeance of his enraged
ipofa, apprehenlive of a revere leathering, and not lik-
ing the fizeybei with which fhe,thteatened to ince-
fare his head, abate:toned his quarters, took to his
heels, and vamped cff without ceremony, leaving his
frail alp to receive from Mrs. Higgins a complete
welting in Wad and blue, Irons which no craft could
fate her ; although Ilse fought to conciliate the ire of
Mrs. Higgins. by affuring her that her huMand was
as much to blame as (he was.
Mrs. Higgins, fatibfied with the ample damage: (he
had taken of her rival, had nn notion of proceeding
to Beers' COMWWLI for farther revenges but Mrs.
Bradley thought fit to profecute fur the ;Abair.
Mrs. Higgins acknowledged the fad, and was of
cootie Jubjed to a verdift of guilty, and fined one
jailing.
yoke Turner was indifled for arras:king an aged at-
torney. named Chambers, in the parith of St. Mary-
la-bonne, on the 7th of June lan. It appeared that
the defendant had a (hop and premifes in Tichfield-
Ilreet, upon which two painters were employed on
the day mentioned in the indiament. They had juft
finillsed painting a gate leading into the defendant's
yard, where his counting-houfe was, when the pro-
I ecutor, Chambers, came up the Neer, and turned
to the newly nrilrellilbed portal. an a pretling occafion. 1
One of the artifts told him that fuch an indulgence there
was exceedingly improper, as the paint was ttill wet.
Ile however did not dad,. and in the mean time the
defendant came out of hit counting houfe, and, ac.
cording to the ftatement given by the profecutor, he
shoved him into the kennel, and beat him feverely,
in confequence of which he has been indifpofed ever
fince.—This ltory was completely overturned by the
evidence.on the part of the defendant. It was proved
that the Kofecutor behaved with great infolence, tell-
ing the defendant he world evacuate where he pleated,
and that he (the defendant) could not make more
noire about it, even if be had egeaded in his pocket.
Inflead of his having been Bruck by the defendant,
the profecutor brandillsed pver.his head a molt for-
iniJahle cudgel, on which the defendant ;sated him
away, and the puffs was defcribed by fever:al witoeffes
to be too feeble to knock down even a child. It was
proved alto that the profecutor, when he received
the pufb, eongratidated Natick* upon it, raying it was
juft what he wanted. In order that the pujb might
have i:s full effea, the profecutor ran into the mid&
lo: the Brett, pretending to iagser !tom its viJlence,

and very quietly, and with infinite compofure, lay
down upon " the flinty pavement," as Wise had ac-
tually been knocked down.—The Jury acquitted the
defendant.
Elizabeth and William Barlow, a mother and her fon,
were indicted for affaulting Wm. Galloway on the
28th of June, in the patills of St.Leonard,Shoreditch.
The profecutor Rated, that on the evening of the day
mentioned in the indiament, while he was (landing
peaceably at his own door, the two defendants iffued
from White Bear-yard. On obfervins the profecutor,
the old lady Paid to her fon, "Go it, Bill—Go it."
—lt would appear that this pious command was not
unattended to by this hopeful young gentleman, as he
inftantly ran up to the profecutor with his fills clench-
ed, and, after fainting him with the elegant and fami.
liar phrafe—" B—t your old eyes," (hack him
fereral blows about the head, which felled him to the
earth. He drove the profecutor into his own houfe,
where he not only repeated the alma., but aggravat-
ted its enormity, by kicking the poor old man when
he was down. The afiault, as above defcribed, was
fully proved, but there was no evidence affeEling the
mother, as having taken any (hare in the beating in-
flailed by her fon on the profecutor.
The other defendant Paid, that on the evening
dated, one of his fillers was going to place, and he
bad canied her box, and was on his return home
with his mother, whom he had met. As a jaifica-
lion for the attack he had made on Goillowcey, he
Rated, that the profecutor had been for a long time
an iodations calumniator, not only of his mother,
but of his filters, whom he had freque*ly to all the
neighbourhood pronounced to be %mesas-- He went
tip to him, and remnarated with him on the impro-
priety of chains his kindred with titles fo very oppro-
Wong ; but, inftead of espreffing any contrition, or
making the molt trifling apology, be abufed the de-
fondant, on which be Bruck him, but did not kick
Ibim when down.
The CHAIRMAN obferved to the Jury, that the
oafs on the part of the profecution teemed extremely
feefible ; and, in addition to this, it had Len eta.
blithed by evidence ; whereas the defendant had
not attempted to fupport what he bad advanced by
any fpecias of teftimony whatever. This being the
cafe, it would of cootie become the duty of the
jury to determine to which of the parties they were
inclined to give the greateft credit. The Jury, with-
out hefitation, acquitted Mrs. Barlow, and found
her fon suilty. The Court fentenced him to pay a
fuse of 51.
Thomas Burdon, a journeyman hole draper, was in
diaed for an affault on Mr. James Newman, a linen-
draper, of Oxford-greet, lb whore fervice he had re•
rattly lived for a Ilion time. The defendant got em-
ployment at a neighbouring (hop, and as often as the
profecutor paired that way he was a(failed by jure,
lomat:, :rine, and every dernonftration of infult from
his late 'errant. The profecutor met this admirable
mimic and facetious seafarer of linen on the 28th June,
and silted him what he meant by that ipfulting line
lof conducthe maintained towards him t He gave
an evafive and irritating anfwer, when the profecutor
called him " a low fioandrel," on which the defendant
Rruck him. The blow was returned, and in the feta%
Re that enfued the matter linen draper evidently had
the wont of it.
The Jury, after a charge from Mr. MAINWARING.
found the defendant guilty ; and the Court fentenced
him to a month's tmptifonment in the Houfe of
Correction.
AUT. 15f—Tlll KIN. O. DA COSTA.TRALID.

This trial occupied the whole day, and will be
found as peculiarly interefling to the public as to the
prifriner.
Mr. Gcsto opened the prnfecu'ion. He Rated
that the prifoner, Aaron Da Cofla, was indicted up.
un a fpecial AR of Parliament, the 3oth Geo. 11.
commonly called Sir John Fielding's Aft, which was
palled for the purpofe of protecting perform from be.
tag defrauded of their money or goods by falfe pre-
tences. The charge againll the Defendant was, that
be had beenguilty of a fraud, in falfely pretending to
Elizabeth Binkheim, who kept a (mall fhop at Par.
fon's-flreet, Ratcliffe Highway, that he would fend
her 1 cwt. of ivory black, I cwt. of black lead, and
a certain quantity of falt of lemons ; and that by
fach pretence he obtained from her the turn of 121.
to. with intent to chest her ; that in fall he did not
fend her fuch goods, but did deliver certain powders
made to refemble ivory black; black lead, and falt
of lemons. The profecutrix was married to • la-
bourer in a brewery, and for her better fupport had
taken a chandler's fh,p ; the had not been long in it
before the prifoner called upon her, and afked her to
purchafe the articles mentioned in the indiement.—
The profecutrix profeffed her ignorance of the com-
modities, but was willing to try them, provided they
were of the quality reprefented. The prifoner affuted
her they were the bell that could he made. He was
paid his demand, and when atked for his addrefs,
Paid it did not fignify as he thould call every Friday
for orders. The profecutriz, however, never taw
any thing more of him. Several months after the
found him out, and told him that the goods were un.
faleable ; that the had only difpafed of two boxes of
the fah of lemons, one of which had been returned,
and that the ivory black and black lead no one would
buy. She offered to take other goods fuch as the
ordinarily dealt in, but the prifoner would not con-
tent. He was willing to have given her other ar-
ticles, which would have been equally ufelefs, fuch
as Jews foaling wax and flippers. Her friends ac-
cordingly advifed her to profecute him. Thefe were
the falls, and the Learned Counfel (aid the law upon
them was fo clear that there could not be a doubt as
to the guilt of the prifoner.
Mrs. Binklicim proved the cafe precifely as (Fated
by her Counfel.
The Drug Broker to the London Dock Company
was examined, and pofitively fwore that the articles
were of fpurious manufaaure, and that what bad
beta charged 31. 14t. per cwt. was not worth 1211.
The falt of lemons, he faid, was magnella and cream
of tartar.
Mr. ALLEY, for the prifoner, contended, that al-
though his client had committed an immoral and dif-
honed act, he was not guilty of a fraud within the
meaning of the Aft of Parliament.
He called as a•witnefs a drug merchant, who faid
the ivory black was genuine, and the black lead,
thongh (omewhat adulterated, a fair article of trade.
Upon his crofs-examination it turned out that he had
fold them to the prifoner ; be admitted that at the
utmoa they were net worth more than 18s. per cwt.

A chervil Rated that the fait of lemons was whit was'
ufually fold under that denomination. It appeared
that he too had fold it to the prifoner ; that if it had
been the real falt of lemons, it would have been
worth so. 6d. per lb. but compofed as it was, led.
per lb. was its utmoft
Mr. GUILD, in reply, obferved that the prifoner's
crime, in defrauding a poor woman, was aggravated
by the evidence by which he had attempted to de-
fend hisnfelf ; he relied with confidence upon his con.
vision.
The prifoner addreffed the Jury.----He (id it was
a very hard cafe upon him, as he had offered to re-
ceive the goods back and fend others in return.
The CH.411144%11 Rated that this was a fubjeft of
ferious concern to the public. It was of the utmolt
confequence that a statute, framed for the exprefs
purpofe of proteling the ignorant from the frauds ot
fuch men as the defendant, fhnuld be rigidly en-
forced. It would be for the Jury to fay, whether the
circurnftance of the prifoner promifing to call every
Friday for hells orders, and never afterwards making
his appearance, was not evidence ot the flak pre-
tence by which he had obtained the money ? He
recited the words of the haute, commented upon
them, and concluded by expreffing his opinion that
the offence of the defendant was clearly within the
(cope of the law. •
The Jury, without a moment's hefitation, returned
a verdia of Guilty.
The Ratute is highly penal. It direes judgment of
tranfportation at the difcretion of the Court. Sen-
tence was not patted. We underftand the prifoner's
Connfel will move an arreft of judgment.
jaesi Kin:, and Akzabetb his wife, were indifted
for an Aloft upon Mrs. Ann Greenfield, ow Eafler
Tuefday, in Tothill.fields, during the celebration of
Goofeberry Fair. The faits were very brief : Mrs.
Greenfield had a Raft, and was alfo the miarefs ut
an srprigbt ; this was defined to be a flick thruft into
the ground, on the furomit of which was placed
either a tobacco pouch or a fnuff-box, at which every
perfun was entitled toh, on paying one penny. It
happened that an auk ward feliowrafped the flick, and
inllead of levelling it at Mrs. Greenfield's upright, it
flew ()flat a tangent towards Mrs. King, and hit that
lady a fevere blow on one of her legs. In her rage
fhe vented a profufion of abufe, not upon the fellow
who inflieted the blow, but upon Mrs. Greenfield
Not fatisfied with this, the pulled her to the ground
with an infant at her breaft ; and in this the was
comforted and aided by her hufband, Mr. King, who
kicked her dreadfully when down. She was fo ill in
confequeoce as to be under the neceftity of weaning
her child, and of keeping her bed for fame weeks.
Mr: King and his (prink denied the aflault, and
imputed the firft attack to the profecutrix ; bat thi,
they did not eftablifts by proof. They were of cringe
both found guilty, and fentenced to 14 days impri.
• fonment each in the Houfe of Corratian.

IMPOSITION or WATillt4 Lg.—A cafe came on to
be heard at Union•hall, on Saturday, in which all
perfons, who are in the habit of hiring boats, are in.
tereaed, under the following circumflances :—Mr.
George Smart hired a boat yellerday fe'nnight, at
Blackfriar's Bridge, to Vauxhall Stairs, for which the
waterman demanded p. Mr. Smart, knowing the
fare to be only ninepence, demurred at paying ; but
the waterman, as ulual, was ready with a Jeal of
abufive language. Mr. Smart fabenitted to the irm
pofition, but made up his mind to punilh him for the
good of the public; and accordingly fummoned him
before the Magiflrates. A waterman, whom Mr.
Smart knew nothing of, attended to anfwer to the
number of the boat, and denied having bad Mr. Smart
' as a fare; and laid, if Mr. Smart had been taken in
his boat, it mull have been by fome man who ufed
his boat without his confect. The Magitirates hay.
ing no doubt that was a manoeuvre, very properly
convified the number of the boats and told the mar,
who appeared, if his tale was true, he mutt take bet-
ter care of his boat in•future.

Dr. Formraoses Nervous Cordial Drops are
Orongly recommended at this feafon to the fair fez;
they are pronounced to be certain in removing all
lownefa and depreffion of the Spirits, the moll alarm-
ing difeafes of the Head and Stomach, palpitation of
the Heart, Horrid Thoughts, Vain Fears, Frightful
Dreams, Lofs of Memory, Relaxation from Mifear-
riages or difficult Labours, debilitred Habit from
long refidence in Hot Climates, and a Sedentary
Life ; Patties, Dorfal Confumptions and Weakaeffes
incident to both Sexes ; alfo for Sparms, from an
irregular influx of Vital Heat into the affected Mut%
des. This grand Antilpafmodic Remedy never yet
failed in a 6ngle inftance for eighteen years raft, in
Bilious Cafes; Indigeflion, Slow, Nervous, Putrid,,
Malignant, Petechial Fevers, and Broken Contlitu-
tions—Sold wholefale and retail, at Mr. Butler's,
No. 4, Clieapfide, corner of Paternoller.row, in bot-
tles at 45. 6d. and t ts. each, with ample direßions.