Star.
London, England, 1823-09-29 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

•
These Sessions ended on Saturday. The Court was
occupied during its.iitting on the trial of assault cases.
_Francis Jolthson, a• journeyman carpenter, was con-
victed of a brutal assault upon the wife of an industri-
ous tradesman. The defendant attacked the prosecu-
trix in the street, 'under the supposition that she was an
unfortunate female; she resented his overtures with
some warmth, upon which he knocked her down, and
with a blow on the mouth struck out one of her teeth.
A companion of the defendant was called to contradict
the prosecute ix, but he equivocated so much that the
Learned Chairmen told the Jury he was unworthy belief.
The CRAIRNIAN, in passing sentence, lamented that
no decent woman could pass along the streets, after sun-
et, without being subjected to insult. The defendant's
conduct was most unmanly and brutal, and' therefore
he adjudged him to pay a fine of 121. with liberty to
talk to the prosecutrix.
James Butcher, a hackney-coach master, was indicted
for a brutal assault on Jane Hitchcock.

The prosecutrix stated, that the defendant had mar-
ried her sister, and treated her so ill that they wele
obliged to separate. On the day mentioned in the in-
dictment her sister went to see her daughter at the de-
fendant's house, in Cheney-mews, Thornhaugh-sti eet,
when the defendant came out, seized her, and dashed

her with great violence upon the pa,:ement. She got
up plain, and he seized her round the waist for the pur-
pose of treating her in the same brutal manner, when wit-
ness caught him by the arm, and entreated he would
not murder her sister; upon which the defendant di-
rected his fury towards the prosecutrix, knocked her
down, with her head upon the kirb-stone, and, whilst
she was down, he had the brutality to expose her pei son
to the view of the people who had collected. These
facts were distinctly proved and confirmed by several
witnesses. It was admitted that the defendant's wile

had broken his windows before he had commenced any
violence.—The Jury found the defendant Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN said he hardly knew how to deal
with a person who had been guilty of such barbarous
and unmanly conduct. He had to answer not only for
a cowardly and outrageous assault upon a helpless fe-
male, but also for an offence against public de-
cency, in the exposure of the unhappy woman's person,,
He should, therefore, let the case stand by, to give the
defendant an opportunity of doing something which
should relieve him from the just severity of that punish-1
ment which the Court should feel itself bound to inflict.
In about half an hour afterwards, it was announced
to the Court that the defendant had made such terms
with the prosecutrix as were satisfactory.
A fine of one shilling was then imposed upon him,
and he was discharged.
William Hudson was indicted for an assault upon
Philip Marks. The prosecutor was an upholsterer in
High Holborn, and the defendant was stated to be fore-
man to Mrs. Bissex, feather-bed maker in the same
street. It appeared that the defendant was indebted to
the prosecutor in a sum of three or four pounds, for
which he had made repeated applications for payment,l
but without success. Having never knowa the defend-
ant by any other name than that of Bissex, and con-
ceiving that the feather-bed business was his own, he
resorted to a stratagem for the purpose of obtaining
payment of the debt, namely, by sending a Mrs. Evans,
who lodged in his house, to the shop to order a bed as
for her own account, to be paid for on delivery. The
defendant accordingly took home the bed; and having
deposited it in the apartment which he supposed be-
longed to Mrs. Evans, the prosecutor interposed, ac-
knowledged the trick he had played, said he should
keep the bed in satisfaction of his debt, and pay him the
balance in money, whatever it might be. The defendant,
however, was not disposed to Concur in this arrange-
!heat, and insisted upon taking away the bed again.
Defendant• then attempted to throw the bed out of the
wiadow, a scuffle ensued, 'and the
,prosecutor, who is
an aged man, was knocked down by the defendant, and
received such injuries as are likely to accompany him
to the grave. A surgeon proved he had attended the
prosecutor for a considerable time, and described his
sufferings with all the technical phraseology of profes-
sional science. His bill amounted to 151.

The case went to the Jury, who found the defendant
The Climmea.N said, it was a very serious case as
respected the prosecutor's personal sufferings, and there-
fore for the present he should respite the sentence, to•
enable the patties to come to some understanding for
the prevention of further litigation.
Rickard Antor was indicted for an assault upon Pris-
cilla Pinnion. The defendant was a headborough, and
carried on the business of a baker. He had summoned
the prosecutrieshesband in the Court of Requests for
debt, and on the day mentioned in the indictment, called
at the house of the latter, to know whether the sum
-
11101)S had been received. He saw the prosecutrix, who
told him she knew nothing about it. 1W dgfiltkdaili
abused her in the grossest terms, and without any pro-
vocation knocked her down five successive times with

his staff of office, leaving her weltering in hdr blood.
The defendant called two or three witnesaes in his
defence, who completely corroborated the case for the
prosecution.—The Jury tound ,him Guilty; and the
Court sentenced him to pay a fine of £l2, with liberty
to speak to the proseCutrts:
MASONIC INTE4LIGENCIL

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=TRACT OF • LOTTEL FROM eltrraWiT, bay=
.14teriwaaa.18 :
" On Monday list, a grand display took place:li this' borough.
exciting the interest and curiosity of the neighbourhood for mile.
around us, caused by the laying of the foundation' Stone of. the New
Bridge to be built over the Severn, At the Blythe, with all suck
Masonic honours as were capable of being exhibited on sock
an interesting occasion. At an early hour the town was Alledelth
strangers front all quarters, anxious to behold a sight not lessgratl-
tying to their feelings of curiosity, than it Was of utility tiEtbe fu-
ture interest of our good old Own. •13rothtr Quarington, the Act-
ing Grand Master, performed the ceremony of laying the stone i'af-
ter the other numerous ceremonies which are usual to be performed
on such occasions, but which are of too tedious a-nasure for me now
to describe, had been previously disposed of, one of each of the
coins struck during the rely of our parlous doctrine were then
deposited in a cavity of the basement. over which west placed a
btau plate, bearing the followhn inscription :
' Under the favouring auspices of the gOod and might- tGeo,
The Gnome ASOMITICT and Butanes ROLE' of the trniTsusz,
" - Tie Feuidathesoitoniof this. Bridge . •
Was laid iitit due tilasonie. solemnity.
" . ni Thomes,Quatington, Esq.
D. P. G. 'Master for the*Cbunty of Gloucester,
• °tithe nth day of September, A. D. 1813.
A. I. um,
And in the 'north year of
His lifajeary King George the Fourth,
When Goa lent preset re.'
)n the presence of the Brecliiina s'inu'ous Lodate,l4 the Province
'CO:easter %Pomo*, mid ilnrofood, . of the HAUS and Ceti
.deis of thej3Ornnoli glAiikesbnry, and of an inasneine
gonna of sirrolimpaqi ireeppers.
H.
Oissisa-Milarcragr#, Architect." con.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
I .
BOW-STTt RET.
Covasts-statime biorsattese—The proprietors of the Old and
New Humninms, in Covent-garden, applied to the Sitting Magis-
trate (Mr. HALLO, for his adeice hip( to proceed under the follow-
ing circumstances:—They stated that they suffered very material
injury in their business, in consequence of their houses 13,:irg so
blocked up with market carts, that. from midnight till ten or eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, egress and regress was almost impossible.
Gentlemen sojourning at their houses, and wishing to leave town
early in the morning, were undis the neLessity of walking to the
j bottom of Souihampton-street, in the Strand, to get to their car-
riages ; and the noise and confusion was almost insufferable. These j
nuisances had very materially increased of late, in consequence, asj
it appeared to them, of the Lessees of the Market under the Duke,
of Bedford, having let cff every font a the market-ground to stall- j
keepers of every description, to the total exelesion of the' growers,,
who were in consequence obliged to to,ke their sales irt the sun.'
rounding streets. The applicants humbly submitted, that, unlests
this state of things were altered, it would be Utterly impossible for
them to carry on their business.
The Magistrate said he did rot think it was so serious an affair,
as they seemed to apprehend ; but, if they thought proper, they
might proceeii by lino:illation ; and he would do all in his power to
abate the nuisance complatted of. Informat ens were accordingly
laid against several growers, and summonses issued thereupon.
BAJMIS.—Eight more bakers were ci.nvicted in the usual penalty
of 40s. and costs, for selling " half-qtiartern loaves," on tbr infor-,
ni oion of ,johnson. There was nothing interesting in any one of
these cases.