Star.
London, England, 1807-12-02 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL SESSIOf S.

MONDAY, Nov. 3o.—This dky the Berton, for the County,
commenced at Clerkawtdl before W. MAMIWAIING, Efq. and a
Bench of Ivtikes.
The kveral indietments preferred againft Mr. Thompfon, the
Attorney, were removed by Weirs of Certiorari to the Court of
King's Bench, by the profeeutors.
Mary Ruffel was tried for keeping a brothel in the parilh of St.
Leonard. Shoreditch; but the parith afacers, or dude cooeerned
for the profecution, having failed to prove her to be the proprietor
of the houfe, the was, by the dlredtion of the Learned Chairman,
acquitted.
ASSAVILT.m..A taylor of the name of Wedderburn.was:charrl
with having affaulted a Lady, the wife of a very refpeetabletra -
man, by laying bet nerds his knee, and beating her with as much
cruelty as indecency, The above charge was (imported by the
Lady herfelf, who gave her tettimony with a very asußderable
Rare of reludance. She Rated the whole of the particulars, and
added, that the was fo much injured and knifed with the weight
and violence wherewith the defendant applied his hands, that the
was lame for a fortnight. Her evidence was corroborated by two
other women. who reeved her from his attack.

The Defendant when called upon to account for his eondadt,
entered into a fpcech of very cooGderabk length, and betrayed
great irritability He attempted to juftify the deed, from what
he termed the provocation given by the profecutriz,andraged with
furl loud and laftieg vehemence, that the Officers of the Coon
were at lift obliged to Rop him. He nu found guilty, and fen.
teemed to ea days imprifonment in the Houle of Corredtion.

MATRIMONIAL FRACAS.
Ws. sinte► and Robert ytrtim were indiEted for afaulting Ed-
Ward Clarke, on Sunday the aeth September lift
The cafe was opened by Mr Guarter, from whore Statement
it appeared, that the Prosecutor and his Wife were separated, in
confcquenee of tome difagreement—that on the day the *fault took
place, the Profeentor was Banding at his door in the Curtain road,
when hejaw his wife pars, srm in •arm with the Defendants. He
immediately followed and claimed her, when he was knocked down
by them. In detailing the particulars of the affault, Mr Curtsey
obierved, that t►is was only one of a (cries of injuries which the
Prosecutor had received ou account of his wife. _ _ _

Mr. ALLIT. fertile Defendants, reprefented the condo& of the
Profecutor to be highly reprehenfible fo far u it refpe6ed his wife.
whom he had turned out of doors without fupport, and now with•
ed to blacken her charadter, by imputing to her an improper se
qualatance with the Dcfaad,lnt Archer. He had federal witneffes
to call, who would difprove the teftimony of Clarke.
The Cdort informed the jury that the Defendantsmuft be found
guilty. u the affault was proved, and they had no right to obttrudt
the Prefects:or in claiming his wife.

The Jury accordingly found them Guilty.
RICHARD ANDREWS.

Yeamday the abovementioned perfon, of whom
the public have already heard a good deal, in the
report of his different examinations at Queen-fquare
Police Office, and at the different times at which it
was fuppofed his trial would come on at this Court,
and alto at his ti ial at the Old Bailey, was put to the
bar and arraigned for a mifdemeanor, in having ob-
tained zoool. of money from Colonel William Sr
muel Davifon, by falfe pretences, he the faid Ri-
chard Andrews repreknting himfelf to be a perfon
who had fuch connexions with the Earl of Befbo-
rough and other perfons of diftineion, that he could
obtain feats in Parliament for the (aid Colonel Da-
vifon and other perfons his friends.
Colonel William Samuel Davilon Rated, that he
was a Colonel in the EaR India fervice, and that be
became acquainted with the defendant in the prifon
of the King's Bench in the month of Sept. tBo6, in
*confequence of an application from him in behalf of
anotherprifuner named WCallums to whom he fent
it bounty of col. The defendant reptefented himfelf
to be. a man of fortune, having received 28,0001.
with his &ft wife—that he was very intimately ac•
quainted with my Lord Befborough and Lord Ro.
bert Spencer—that he bad feveral fetters from noble
perfons with whom he was in habits of friendfltip—
he fhewed the witnefs one from Lord Fitzwilliam,
Mai told him that he (the defendant) had Rood for the
borough of Ipfwich, but failed, and that in confe•
quence of his failure Lord Fitzwilliam had made
him a prefent of Soot. and told him that if he knew
he had witted to get into Parliament, he could have
procured him a feat without any expence of trouble.
'The defendant generally Rated that he was prattled
of great parliamentary interea, but that be had
ruined himfelf by being attached to Mr. Fox's party;
that he has, kept open houfes for many of his friends,
and on one oceafion had three !routes open. The
witnefs expreffed his with to get into Parliament, and
the defendant expreffed his confidence in the friend.
flip of my Lord Befborouph. The witnefs here
Rated, that he left the Bench at the end of
him,
ber, and Andrews thortly after called on hll, and
they went together to Rochampton, the witnefs be-
ing engaged to dine with Mr. Goldfmid ; and the
Defendant pretending bufinefs with my Lord &tho-
rough t the latter, upon telling for him at nine
o'clock to return to town, faid that his Lordfhip was
not at home, but that her Ladyfhip had fent down a
very kind maize. The defendant then had feveral
other meetings with the witnefs, when on each occa-
fion he informed the latter that my Lord Befborough
had pledged himfelf to return the witnefs to Patlia
ment, but that his Lordfhip was n/t rich, and tato-
oey'would be very acceptable—he (aid he would'alto
return two or three, friends, and begged he would
name any—the witnefs named Mr. Maltby, to whom
he faid be would mention it. The defendant then
Paid, 44 my Lord conceives that I ad as your Secre.
tary, therefore I thould be happy to be fo." The
witnefs, however, nbferved that it was ridiculous for
bins to employ a Secretary, for he had no ufe for
one. He then faid he was to be my Lord's Seer:-
tary, and to have a room in his houfe. " Well then.
(Grid the Defendant), let me be as ufeful as I can."
To this propofition the witnefs acceded, and entrua
ed him with bills, and autliorifed him to open an
account with Meths. Snow and Co. banker!, near
Temple Bar, the defendant having recommended
thefe Gentlemen, laying that they knew him on ac•
count of his intimacy with my Lord Fitzwilliam,
and would accommodate the whack on that account.
About the end of Ottober, he told the witnefs that
my Lord Befborough had given him a hint about a
little pecuniary accommodation. In confequence of
this intimation, and believing the truth cf his Rate.
meat, the witnefs gave him a check for wool. on
Mats. Snow and Co. The Defendant atter wards told

tm the 6e ford received two, yool. • notes for the
rtcheck,mliich he bad paid over to my Lord. On the
'l3oth Ottober, be accompanied the defendant, with
Mr. Cracklow and Mr. Roberts' on a (peculation to
!,the borough of Oakhampton ; but when they ar-
rived there the eleiftion was over, and the defendant
iobtaineitfronohim 6471. to pay the expences of the!
trip. About the Bth or toth November, the defen-
idant required another furn of toool. for his Lord Zip,
.when the *itnefs expreffed his furprife, obferving,
that he malt have sor 6001. in his poll-et:Son, which
!he acknowledged, and the witnefs borrowed 4001. of
Ur. Maltby, to make up the moo!. On all thee I
occafions tie ofeeted great fectecy. He alto requef-
ted the witnefs's acceptance of a gold cif), as a mark
of refpett, and informed him that he intended to
prefent three others—one to my Lord Be(bnrough,
one to my Lord Fitzwilliam, and one to Lord Ro-
bert Spencer. The cup which he prefented to Lord
*thorough the witnefs law, it was very handforne,
and valued at two hundred guineas. The witnefs at
length became exceedingly alarmed about the feat
,in Parliament, and furpeCled all was not right, as
the returns had been made, and his name not among
them. He applied toThe defendant, who told him !
be was aEtually returned for a place in Ireland, and '
the returns would be made at the Crown Office very
loon. 44 My dear friend, ffaid he), it is impoffible you ,
can furpeit me for a moment, when you know how I
much I am indebted to you."
A letter was then put in and read from the Defen-
dant, in anfwer to one of reproach from the witnefs.
In this letter hte afferts hi's upright coedit-et, and ac- I
cafes the witnefs of infulting him.
Colonel Davifon then returned hit evidence, and
fated, that he threatened to appeal to my Lord Bef-
borough on the bufinefs—when the Defendant pre-
tended, that his Lordlbip was in great diftrefs of
mind, in confequence of a M. Lamb having reported
that his Lordfhip had accepted of a confideration for
the Borough; and prevailed upon the witnefs to
fign a paper of his own diittation, profeffing his read
diners to take an oath that no confideration had been
paid to his Lordthip. The witnefs, however,faw his
Lordfhip, and afterwards taxed the Defendant with
his duplicity, when he fell on his knees and viand
G—n might Rrike him dead! if he had not lifted
honourably."
On his crofs examination by Mr. dURIEY, the
witnefs Rated, that he had been 25 years in the EMI
India fervice ; had been difmitted in confequence of
Tome improper conduit on board the Glory, on het
paffage ; but that, in order to mitigate the feverity of
the fentence, the Court of Dirators allowed him a
petition of 1501. per annum.—admitted he was in
the King's Bench prifon in tBo6, from May to Sep-
tember, and came out without paying his creditors;
confeffed, that under loch circumftances, and being
largely in debt, a feat in Parliament would be ex-
tremely convenient for him to prevent him from fu-
ture wrens ; allowed that he was very intimate with
Roberts, but that the intimacy had ceafed for tome
time. He never reprefented himfelf as a man of
fortune, but introduced his friend, the defendant, to
Maltby, as a man of great interell and (efficient in.
fluence to obtain a number of feats in Parliament,
but at the fame time concealed that defendant had
been difcharged by the Infolvent Acknow
ledged- he was dißrefferl for money on two Occep.
tenets for god. each, by Parker, of FleetAtreet ; that
feveral of his bills were unpaid, and that he bad
*tilled a perfon of the name of Farquharfon with
bills to the amount of two thoufand fix hundred
pounds, whkh he had obtained by f---ing. At
Okehampton he was to do wonders—to build as
bridge, and to purchafe the whole town. He alto
admitted, that he borrowed Spencer Smith's canine
for the defendant to ride round and raife money, and
to pay Smith's bills. During his conneftion with the
defendant, he had a high opinion of him as a good
hearted mangy indeed, as big as he is, he thought
him all health The reR of the witnefs's examination
went to thew, that when he had been confined for
debt, he did not raife money by bills, but received
allitlance from friends.

The defendant here put feveral queßions to the
witnefs, which the Court thought irrelevant to the
charge, and confequently he defined.
Mr. Rowland Maltby, Solicitor and Clerk to the
Fithmongers' Company, proved the payment of
vol. in part of the wool. lan advanced ; and (poke
to the falfe reprefentations which he bad made with
wiped to the feat in Parliament. He Rated to this
witnefe that he was a defcendant of Bifhop Andrews,
and Mould lbortly be in poffeflion of 200,0001. in
right of his relationfhip to that Reverend Prelate.—
When crofs.examined be admitted that Davifon in-
troduced Andrews as a man who had formerly a
fortune, but was imprudent ; yet never told him of
his being releafed by the recent Infolvent AEI ; Paid
that Davifon was acquainted with Lord Rockby, and
promifed Maltby, the witnefs, the Stewardflups of
that Nobleman's elates : that the zoool. were paid
by Davifon to Andrews in conlideration of a feat in
Parliament, and if the Paid Davifon was not returned
the money was to be refunded, having been given
fur that plurpofe. •
Mr. Martin French, wine merchant, of George-
&etc, Portman fquare, silo fupported the teßimony
of the profecutor as to the falfe teprefentations t and
further Rated, that the defendant knelt down and
took a molt folemn oath to the truth of his having
procured a feat in Parliament for the profeeutor.
Mr. Gubbins, clerk toMeffrs. Snow and Co. proved
the payment of the two Soot. bills on the Colonel's
draft.
The Earl of Beflyirongh denied in the molt une-
quivocal terms his ever laving bad any connetion
for the Pale of boroughs, or ntherwife with the defen-
dant, except that he bad received feveral letters
from him foliciting pecuniary affiflance, and once his
Lordfhip fent him the fum of Icel. As to the gold
cup, he was afinnidted to.find that it had been left
for him under Inch circumftances as thole under
which it bad been Rated to have been left : and
rather than fee the goldfrnith loft the value of it, he
paid him his price, which was fumething about 200
guineas.
Mr. Guess' and Mr. ALM made each a long,
able, and Ingenious fpeech in favour of the &fen.
dant. The principal point upon which their argil•
tent rafted, which only we have room to Rate, was
this, that the indiEtment charged the defendant with
having obtained mosey under falfe pretences ; that
the ae under which he was tried pnGtively expreffed
money, goods, wares, or merchandise, as the objets

of the legifiat are in that enadMent-rthat that law was
antecettent to, and could not have In itk contempla-
tion even that law which fubfequently proteded the
bank, but not individuals, (except in cafes of ars tit)
and made bank notes a legal tender as far as refpeds
' the bank. It was true that the defendant might be
fetid to have afterwards obtained m..ney for thefe
notes ; but in the cafe of a man obtaining poffeffion
of a honfe under tome falfe pretence, and obtaining
money for it afterwards, it could not be at law con-
tended that thereby money had been obtained under
ladle pretences. The indiament and the fads did
not fit together, and therefore they requefled the
Court, if a verdict of guilty thnuld be pronounced,
that the verdift Mould be made fpecial.
Mr. GLIAD, Mr. BOLLARD. and Mr. ADnLpgue,
on the other fide, molt teetotal,' contelled that point.
Mr. Adolphus declared his opinion molt broadly,
and without exception, that in the prefent late of
the commercial affairs of the country, and after
the palling of the 37th of the King,•for the pro-
tedion of the Bank, and the lupport of public
credit, bank notes and money were one and the
fame thing. By the ufage of Tome nations, (hells
were the general circulating medium, and as fuels,
they were properly the money of thofe countries. In
another place we might find that leather was ufed as
the circulating medium, and confequently leather was
the money of that country. Here our Legiaatnre
had thought proper to adopt paper as the circulating
medium, in addition to metallic coin ; and here,
confequently they were both the money of the country.
The CHAIRMAN funsmed up the evidence in the
mon perfpicuous manner.
.* He (swelled the leaning
of leis awn mind in favour of the arguMents which
had been urged on the part of the profecation. He,
however, relayed the point of law for the k onfidera-
don of a fuperior Court, if neceffary, and left the
jury to decide upon the fad of the cafe.
After about. ten minutes deliberttions the jury
pronounced the defendant guilty. .The point is to be
argued before the Judges. In the mean time, if the
Court Ihall think fit to try the defendant upon any
of the other charges that are alleged again ft him, etc
notice will be given to the parties interefted.

Andrews, from the comMenceinent to the coneln-
lion of the trial, appeared to be as much at his cafe
as if he were the plaintiff, inks(' of the defen-
dant.

COURTS MARTIAL....-Monday a Court Martial
was held on board the Magnanime, at Sheernefs, on
Thomas Tindall, Ship's Corporal of the Namur, for
detaining and opening letters, when the charges
being in part proved, he was fentenced w receive so
taffies, and be iMprifoned twelve months in the Mar.
Salim

The Court then proceeded on the trial of a feamaa
of his Majely's Didaton for fighting, which
occafioned the death of his opponent.
The Court of Inquiry, tonfifting of General Offi-
cers, is now fitting on the military cond,i of ack.
Officer of rank, who ferved in the EaII Indies under
Lord Vifcount Lava. The inquiry, we underhand,
has been inhiruted at the inßance of the Officer
himfelf.

An idea of the feverity of the weather may be
formed from the following circumfinece, which oc-
curred on Monday fe'nnight:—As 4ur drovers, on
their return from the (ouch, were paling over Shap.
fell, three of them were fo overpowered by the cold,
that they were unable to proceed farther. In this
emergency, the fourth took upon his &wilder! one of
his companions, who appeared more eshaufied than
the others, and conve,yed him to the nearefl public-
houfe, at the diftstice of a mile and a half, though
the poor man performed the journey without his
ices, having loft them in the (now. Having relieved
himfelf of his burthen, he inftantly fet out again in
fearch of thofe he had left behind, whom he found
fomewhat recovered, they having, during his ab-
fence, killed a fheep, which they found on the fell,
and prevented the vital (park from being estinguilh-
ed, by wrapping its warm intellines around their
benumbed feet and hands. On reaching the public-
hook, they obferved their friend a Welds corpfe.

Costossa's Ismyssts.—An inqued was held on
Monday, at the Swan, in Mount Itreet, on the body
of Malley Edward Powell, who was drowned on
Sunday morning, in the Serpentine River, bytbe ice
giving way. The deceafed was a youth of 16 years
of age, foil. of Mr. Thomas Powell, one of the box
door keepers of Drury Lane theatre. Verdid—Ac-
eidental Death.

An %minion was taken yeaerday at Newington,on
the body of P. Fowler, a joiner, who reGded in Gray's
Inn Lane, who was drowned in a pond near New.
ington, and whole wife was a fpeEtator of the fad
accident. The deceafed had been to fee his brother,
and it was by mere accident that he was induced tb
go on the iee, where Come boys were aiding. Verdieft
—Accidental Death.

A lad of the name of Bremen was alto drowned
in a pond at Somer's Town, as was alto a youth at
Paddington, on whole body an Inguifition was taken
on Monday.

On Tuefday evening ha, Mr. M. Simcocks, a very
decent old man, fell into the intended Canal near
Sa!Mary, at a place called the Town Ponds, on bit
return home from a friend's houfe, and was either
'tanned by the fall, or fuffocated. His body was
found in the mud on Wednefday morning. The
deceafed wa 8a years of age► The Coroner's verdia
was—Drowned, occafioned by the pond being de-
fencelefs.

On the night of Friday, the :nth ;What, a molt
malicious and wicked trituration took place at Brans-
thaw. a village near Lyndhurft : —Mr. Coombs, a
farmer, refident there, was fuddenly awakensfd loon
after twelve o'clock, by a noire in his chamber; on
examination, it was found that fevers' large !hots
had paired through the window into the room in
which he was Beeping with If. wife fame of which
Bruck the furniture of the bed. Shortly after, on his
fon and his carter going into the liable, they di/co-
vered two bodes fu feverely maimed and nabbed,
that both died the fame day.
William Pilkington, aged eleven. and Edward
Whitaker, aged ten. have been committed to York
Cattle, charged with felting a feribbling mill on Le.
There wretchedly ignorant children thought, by thii
terrible as they mould .bait a Aolihth and the ap-
pears to have been their fele inducement.

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