Star.
London, England, 1815-04-04 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

Yesterday tireseB:sjim swerC held at Guildhall,
before the Right Hon. the LORD MAVOR. the RE-
CORDER, &c. when J. Myatt was indicted for having
violently assaulted, and falsely imprisoned, Mr. J.
Brev•ne, on the 94kh of January last.—The prosecu-
tor dept,scd; that he is a miniature painter, residing in
Pancras-lane, Cheapside. On the evening ot• the
above diy he went to the house of a jeweller, in
Hatton Garden ; from thence he rt.tireLl into the
Abercromby public house, where he met some friends,'
and sat drinking and talking politics until halt past
one in the nra 'MI. He drank very moderately,
and departed with a Mr. Kelly ; who having ex—
pressed some fears of being locked out, he offered
him a bed. Upon their going by the house of Mr.
Richardson, of Holborn, Mr. Kelly said—" Let us
have a tingle at the bell." Of this, he prosecutor at
once disapproved, and went on. He had not got
more than .50 or 60 yards, when two persons ran'
across the street and secured him. They were fol.
lowed by the prisoner, who crifd out—" Take him
along ;" and while the prosecutor was inveighing
against such unmerited treatment, the prisoner, who
was a police ofii:er, thrust the sharp end of 'di staff
into his cheek, and lacerated him in such a way, that
he had been confiiic.d nearly a month under surg:cal
assistance. The wound inflicted was of such a
nature, that henceforward ire should•be disfigured for
1.4. • After the commission of the assault, he was
taken to the watch-house, where he was detained
about half an hour, and then suffered to dep.:rt, with-
cur any specific reason for his being kept in custody.
71e defence was, that the prosecutor and Katy
had disturbed the inhabitants of Holborn by ringing
bells, and knocking at the doors ; also, that Browne,
in endeavouring to rescue Kelly, received an acciden-
tal wound.

Atter a ,nitable admonition from the Court upon'
ti.e :seistousn..ss of a peace officer thus violating his
:rum. And tatting the law in his own hands, the pri-
mer was s,..ntenLeil to pay 1 fine to the King a
sews /sounds
YORKSHIRE ASSIZES.
ALLISON V. NOVICRIck AND Damns.

The plait.tiff in this Action is. a Gentleman in the
profession of the law, resident at Huddersfield, and
the defendants are three of the Directors of the Nor-
wich Union Fire and Life Insurance Company. The
action, which had been some time before the Courts,
was instituted upon a policy of insurance for one
ilieusand pounds, which had been effected on the
marriage of the plaintiff, with a Lady rt the name of
Ormond, a native of Wales, and payable to the sur-
vivor of them.

The office resisted payment on the ground that the
deceased was of such intemperate .habits, that her
premature decease could be attributed to no ether
Cause.

The plaintiff, in support of his case, called nine
different witnesses, who deposed, that at the time of
effecting the insurance, and for upwards of twelve
months afterwardi, Mrs. Allison enjoyed good health,
with some intermission arising from two miscar-
riages; and that from early life up to the period of
her death, slie was of regular habits, and by no means
addicted to the vice imputed to her.
The defendants, on the other hand, called eleven
different witnesses, who swore that the deceased, born
before her marriage, and subsequent to that period,
drank to excess ; that this habit was contracted as
early as 1806; that she kept spirits in her bed room ;
that she sometimes drank as much as seven or eight
glasses of spirits, and at others two quarts of mulled
ale a night; that she drank wine, morning, noon,
and night ; that she laid in bed for a fortnight Loge.
then in a state of intoxication ; that she frequently
IA out of bed from intemperate drinking; that on
one occasion, she was found on the ii or, with the
neck of a bottle grasped in one• hand, and the other
part of the bottle and its contents in another part of
the room, at which time she was then dead drunk,
and incapable of getting into bed again without as.
sistance.• And in order to prove that Mr. Allison
was aware of her propensity to liquor, a man servant,
who had lived in his family at Huddersfield, swore
that on one occasion Mr. Allison in going into the
parlour, said to his wife, " What I tipsey again,
llachael," and went up to her and kissed her. These
witnesses in their crossarxasnination, admitted that
Mrs. Allison was a healthy looking woman, of ele-
gant manners and superior education.
The Judge sutnmed up the evidence very shortly,
observing, that it was quite impossible to believe that
any person could, for a series of years, lead the life
described by the witnesses for the defendants, and
still continue to exhibit the appearance of good health.
Such a course of intemperance, said his Lordship,
must have long before extinguished leer. •
The trial lasted nearly fifteen hours, and the Jury,
after retiring for about one minute, returned .a ver-
dict for the plaintiff—DamagesagglOU.

At the Assizes at Wexford, asoon damage+) and
costs, were returned agatnst Jthes Wheeler Pamdrn,
Esq. for writing an anonymous letter to the Reverend
Richard Radcliffe, in which he called hint a petjurer,
An hypocrite, his wife a draaLitsis. a. bagazd,7.6ad
being iucoatiaeit.

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