Star.
London, England, 1815-12-05 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

Yesterday these Sessions were opened at Guildhall,
before the Right Hon. the Loup MAYou, the Recor-
der, Aldermen, &c.
After the Grand Jury had been sworn in, the Rs.
CORDER addressed them, brit fly stating, that although
the Calendar for the ensuing Sessiocs ..t Oid
Bailey was unusually Leavy, yet in point of offence
or crime it presented nothing beyond the common
catalogue of error which is daily practised in a prilt
metrnpolis. Nothing, he was happy to state, of an
atrocious nat.l.e was likely to come before them.

John Grigthr was indicted. for violently assaulting
William Lee, one of the Officers of St. Andiew,
Holborn. He was also charged in a second cunt
with assaulting Susannah Mary, the wife in the said
Lee, on the 24th of September last.

William Lee deposed, that he resided at No. 04,
Field-lane. On the evening of the day stated in the
indictment, he was severely indisposed fu to fever,
but being advised by Physicians to breathe the air as
much as possible, lie was sluing at his own dour.—
Duting the time the prisoner came up and solicited
charity, which the witness denied him, not thinking
him an object. The former, however, persevered,-
bat finding his entreaties vain, he exclaimed—" then
since you won't give any thing, take that," and in-
stantly struck him a violent blow. He then seized
him by the collar, aad having repeated his blows
several times, he at length knocked him off his chair,
and threw him a considerable distance back into his
own entry. Having called for help, his wife was-the
first to arrive, but she was also attacked in the most
furious manner by the prisoner, who knocked her
down, and while in this situation beat and kicked her
most unmercifully. Her cries, however, at length
attracted the attention of the inhabitants and passen-
gers, and the prisoner was taken into custody.
In his defence he stated, that passing the house of
the prosecutors accidentally, he ,sw the wile of Lee,
who inquired it be was shout to purchase any thing ?
Being replied to in the negative, she asked him if he
W•llai have any objection to " a bit of love ?" and
began to take indecent liberties with him. '1 hese he
resisted, when she called in the aid of her husband,
t whom she represented that he had assaulted her,
in consequence df which he was secured and sent to''
the Compter.
This statement was completely refuted by other
testimony, and the prisoner was found guilty.
The Court immediately sentenced him to six
months imprisonment, for the assault on Lee; and in
consequence of the aggravating defence he had set
up, with regard to the assault on his wife, he was
ordered to be further confined for six months longer,
in the gaol of Newgate.
Mr. Aatinews rose to pray the jildgment of the
Court upon Theme: Squire:, Sound guilty at the late
Sessions, for a nuisance, by keeping a certain Matto-
factory for Fire Works, in Union-to us, Holborn.—
Mr. ALLEY, however, having put in an affidavit,
made by several moot respectable ittclimiduals, de.
daring that the evil was abated—the defendant was
suffered to go at large upon his recognizances.
After hearing several other cases, the Court ad-
journed pro forma, to the-Old Bailey, to-morrow.

A LPGAL PUN.--In a trial, wherein Ceuiuellors
Gaanow and JEKYL were employed as Cunard. an
old woman was brought forward as .a witness to
prove there had been a trader wade of money. The
old Lady gave rather an equivocating evidence ;
'upon t*hich Mr. JEKYL, who was opprued to ;kir.
GARROW on the occasion, handed him this couplet,
written with a pencil :

" Garrow for;year ! that totie c!i
" Can never prove a—TILN I) CR MA I) !"
Tim JUSTICE Puzyxu—is Tuve Tarx..---Some
time since, two persons in Cumberland, w•rnt with an
artist before a Justice, at l'enrith, frith a vcry grievoi.s
'complaint against the latter, which was, they said,
for 11,c/:ins the Commandr► ent:. 'this was •o unconimou
a CAW, the Justice requested an explanation. The
two men said they were Churchwardens, and as their
Church had been lately rebuilt, they «•anted the
Commandments painting anew, and had giverrthein
to this man to be done. To induce him to do them
well. they had paid half she money agreed for in
band. and the balance was to be paid when he bad
finished the job ; but they had called on him time
lifter time for two or three years past, but fur all they
,could say or do; he wad keep the Commaadmenh !