Star.
London, England, 1809-09-20 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX- SESSIONS.
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Yesterday J. Dearlove was indicted for an Assault
on a woman of the town, in Paneras parish. There
(were some wicked circumstances transpired in evi-
dence, whiCh marked the atrocity of the prosecutor's
[conduct. The Jury gave a verdict of Guilty, and he
I was sentenced to two months imprisonment.
Mary Bugden, the keeper of a bagnio in Craven-
buildiPl
1.)-Airy-lane, was indicted for an assault on
The

Sarah Smith. prosecutrix Was a young girl who
who had but very recently taken to her life of misery,
and rented apartments in the house of the defendant,
at a very exorbitant price, besides which the defendant
demanded 2s. 6d. for each visit she received ; the
girl consented to pay one skilling until she could get
a more honest landlady. She accomplished this ob-
ject, and gave the defendant notice to quit, when she
(expressed her anger by fracturing the skufl of the
poor girl, and leaving her for dead in a back yard.
The assault was proved by another female resident in
the house.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and the Court
I sentenced her to three months imprisonMent. The
,husband of the vixen audaciously demanded of the
'Court to know how he was to get his rent.
The Chairman then wrote to the officers of the
parish to direct a prosecution to put down the brothel.
James Deadman was indicted for an assault on his
father-in-law W. Rutt, a gardener in Fulham parish.
The Jury found the defendant guilty, and the Court
sentenced hiM to six months imprisonment, and at the
expiration of that time to keep the peace, himself in-
-10001. and two sureties in 5001. each.
A foreign gentleman was charged with an attempt
to commit an unnatural offence. The wickedness of
the prosecutor, soldier, was such, that his own state-
ment was sufficient to display his villany, and the gen-
tleman was acquitted.
Samuel Rants was convicted of assaulting Robert
Ewing. This was a mere fracas between the parties,
originating in a quarrel between two boys, their sons.
He was fined £3.

Edward Bush was indicted for an assault upon
Thomas fowler. The prosecutor is a smith, and a
woman, who lives, by washing battles, lodges in hid
house. The prisoner, who is a porter to a dealer in
bottles, was in the habits of bringing bottles to this
woman to wash. The prosecutor stated, that,'on the
27th of October last, the prisoner came to his house
with a basket of phials on his head, which he desired
him to take down, as, by that mode of carrying them,
he injured his passage, as he had often done before ;
that the prisoner thereupon threw the basket, bottles,
and all, on the top of him, and cut him severely in.
the head. This was corroborated by two other wit-
nesses. A little girl, for the defendant, swore, she saw
the transaction, and the prosecutor struck the priso-
ner on the breast, which caused the basket to fall off
his head. The Jury, giving credit to the prosecu-
tor, found a verdict Guilty. The Court sentenced
the prisoner to two months imprisonment.

At the conclusion of Lancaster Assizes, ten prisoners
received sentence of death ; six of whom were for
selling forged Bank notes, but some objection hav-
ing been previously stated by their Counsel on points
of law, the same are to be submitted to the twelve
Judges; two for stealing a box belonging to a Friendly
Society ; one for a highway robbery ; and one for
stealing a bill of exchange, were respited before the
Judge left the town.
The fire which we mentioned on Monday as having
broken out in Bear-yard, Lincoln's Fields, is generally
, supposed to have originated in the imprudence of some
workmen about the stables, in consequence of which
a snuff of candle set fire to a truss of hay or straw—,
The fl Imes spread to Mr. Simmons, the carper ter's
work-shop, well stocked with timber, and which is
said to have been originally the Little Theatre,
Bear-yard. The whole of the stock, together with
the tools, benches, &c. were quickly destroyed, to-
gether with the square building in the centre of the
yard, and the flames then extended to the rows of
houses on each side. On the north from Mr. Griffiths,
a Compositor's house, to that of the Caledonian chop
house, five houses had their doors, windows, &c.
burned, and the families suffered extremely by the
consternation into which they were thrown, and by
the hasty and confused removal of their goods. On
the south, next Clare-market, some partial injury was
done to the rear of the White Lion, and some slaugh-
• ter houses. On the east there was a small row of de-
cent private-houses, inhabited mostly by working peo-
ple, and in it seven houses suffered very heavily, al-
though not totally destroyed. On the west, the rear
of Mr. Sadler, the tallow-chandler's premises ; those
of Mr. Biss, the undertaker ; Mr. Jardine, earthenware
and glass-seller ; Mr.Worsom, bottle-seller; the Bull's
Head public house , Dines, coalman ; and Brown,
hair dresser, all sustained injury. Three old wooden
houses at the back of them were entirely destroyed.
Underneath the great square building in the centre of
the yard, below the carpenter's shop, set of stables,
&c. there was a most extensive range of cellaring,
containing stores belonging to Mr. Rex, a wine and
brandy merchant ; Mr. Cullum, cheesemonger, and
others ; to these, however, notwithstanding the arch-
way. in some places had given way, the flames did not
extpid. Upon the whole, there were besides the cen-
trebtiildings three houses totally consumed, and about
twenty partially injured. The loss to Mr. Simmons,
above the amount of his insurance, is said to be very
great. 1111 r. Sadler, the
.tallow-chandler, also suffered
severely.;l kit the case of the poor inhabitants-of the
three warden houses is most truly pitiable--:theY lost
their all.
Mr. 80% the butcher, at the corner of. Gilbert's-
passage, broke open a place in which about 15 or 16
sheep belonging to Mr. George Scrivener were, and
saved the whole ; he also assisted in rolling away some
casks of tallow from Mr. Sadler's, and was probably
the 'means, by his active exertions,
.not only of. saving
gse
.greater part of his stock .and,prernites, but to all
appearance the whole range of, houses in Yere-street, '
next Bear-yard. Xllere were a great number of en.
gibes, and a toed supply:4 water, so judiciously ma-
naged, that thelfames.meght be.said to be entirely sub-
(hied by 'Eve o'clock the morning, though it was
found necessary to keepAe'en*ines•plaYitis (In -.the
embers all day and.part,of :the melt: The**. Oe-
n-161es and oilier atteidea, Wra
'extremely useful.