Star.
London, England, 1807-01-14 00:00:00

NILDLASEX SESSIONS.

• ---. On Monday 7 home Witfirreru the elder, and Thomas
WiPiams, the younger, were feverally indieed, the
former upon two chatges, the latter upon one, for
assaulting, beating, and wounding Mary, the wife
of Michael Wood, and the laid Michael himfelf.—
There were alfo two Crofs Indielments againft Wood
and his wife, for affaults upon Williams and his fon.
This traniaßien aroli out of a trial, which took
place at the hal affixes fur Chelmsford, one of the
perry being instilled for fleeting flour from his mit-
trt's mill, of which charge he was acquitted.—
Theft fevcral patties re faded OR the banks of the river
Lee, in the County il Middlefex. The defendant Wil-
liams, the elder, kept a milt, and the prufecutor and
his -wile lived in a houfe adjoining ; the whole of
both pennies being inclofed in a common yard, ae-
ceffible to all patties. Alter the trial before alluded
to, frequent bickering: occurred between thefe per-
toys, the one accufing the other of being perjured,
Oro other 1 etaliating, by calling him a felon; until
apl-aa, from words it came to blows, and the rlefen-
clair,, Williams the elder, violently affaultet!, fir),
Mrs. Wood, and then, calling in the atliflance of his
ion, the other defendant, a lad about 16 years of
age, they both together fell an, and beat the mole-
putor, Michael Wood, and wounded him fo feverely
- with a, chile! in the head, and elfewhere, that, from
the evidence of a kapott, his life appeared in great
Aanger for fume days. Ihe fourindiements being
tried u•gether.,,there appeared a confiderable contra-1
Tidy of evidence on both fides ; the one party en
dtavoutina to make the, other the fira aggreffors.
The jury, however, found the defendants Tlm-
Teas Williams, the elder, and Thomas Williams. the
younger, Guilty on birth indictments; and the Court
lenience:l the Winter to pay a fine of fol. upon the
fi: 0 indiftmeat, and a funilar fine upon the fecund.
And, for:her, fentenced the younger to be imptifun-
ed one month, and both to find fecurity for their
_
future good condua.
Yeflerday Charles Fewer:, alias Charles Inabletters,
.was inditted for a misdemeanor, in breaking into
liofes belonging. to the London Dock Company,
with intent to commit a felony therein.
This profecution was inaituted by the London
pack Company under the following circuit:fiances :
Severafdepredatiens hating heen committed at thefe
..husks about the month of (Mabel. Ina, the Corn-
pan, placed a guard to watch, and, if poffible,difeo-
ver die perpetrators. About eleven o'clock on the
night a the 27th of that Month, the guard beard the
'opt,
of hammering outride the Bores; he went
opt, and the Moon Wang bright at the time, be'
plainly ditcovered four men working with Tickaxei,
At. it the wall of the !totes ; he Immediately fent
one a two little boys, who were along with hien, to
gibe the alarm to the next watchman ; upon the Lit-
ter fp, inging his rattle, three of the men made theft
ekape over a high wall, and at the fame time the
Defendant advanced towards the guard and watch-.
'poi from the 'pot where the ethers had been at
'work. He was taken up, but afterwards refuted.—
.In three days after he was brought before a lslagif
trate, and obliged to give bail to hand his trial. The i
•prentifetheihg afterwards examined, a pickaxe, an'
:kw: crow, atid Inuit other tools of the fame kind
were found; and upwards of nine tier of the bricks
-bad been ritunied, quite fulficient to admit a man
itironh ; but futtunasely, a calk of tallow happened
toklie exaalj at the breach, which prevented au en-
*l nue at that time.
Mr A tn.: a, for the Defendants made reverel ob-
ellgtrus• to the form:of the Willi:mot, in point of
law. He contended that-the instillment, in the fill
-plate, lhould have fet out the names of all thrperfons
compufing the London Dock Company, profecuting
moot this indiement, in the fame way as an indie-
Mehl prefecined by a parifh, always set out the
arames o: the Churchwardens, &c. fpecifically as the
prof-cement. He further contended, that in order to
eimittteici iburglary, With intent to commit a felony,
It fujita appear thatkune part of the tan's body
bid been within the peemifes fo broken open ; but in
• ibis cafe ao each Eita appeared, and therefore the Pre-
- Ant indiOrnent could not be fultained.
Mr. §eijeanirtr, for the prrfecution, anfweeed
tliephjeClious Learned Connfel 'with his usual
ebikity, and the Court sms,af opinion that the indite-
mint Was properly ft arced.
Ur. Pt ctsy then entelqil into Lis defence, upon
i trafts i and, in a Tpry able argument, birdied,
,; from all the citeensaances of thi cafe, tit; figir
-inference was, that the Defendant mutt I innocent
bfflre 'ttarge alletked again* him. In the firetplace
Ii i..iviti' a 47) au off lop
.Ins Pfoisecty, and, of courk,
entail not ha ye been. loppoOdtiihe di iven to the ne-
csili•y of sommittiag a (deny for his livelistood,--
He had lived for trial, fy yea": in tlic neighbourhood
nf) ct 2 detc.kA
,s and.litd kime rtit and toimediately
, , . • .
joiritialig (40 part tit eree-the wed who efcaped,had
been at work ;and the fad was, a• tic was initisgled,
fume depteOns baying hula ;e omitted on his
yfit.giound, lid was there ay.*, ti oa tl-e watch,
01,4. is : ike. 04autlitIte Poi, y. His vol un-
ni
firitureencler inisnediatelt;iiid `at dance bekere a
ifttace thin days after, wilkattli any. ittternpt,
aids blepart, either to conceal himfrlt or to abreond,
. le tifrttleiosonvincing tettimony of his inno-
;.. ..;1
gig witnelits were called to his charafter, and
. re Iburryipol, after
.a. flii.borgt
.pcoriiriottratiwonas,
fhernoiteighnceidintaovebie•-
4,' • i o,4tAattgiritimed.
4
til, A. 140, 44 OW Gravel-lane, was tried for
an affeult upon a foreign Captain of a (hip. SOW.C.
thing'ttiorefra ''omit 'ht this cafe than was within the
Itiidelitriltior ' Wtineat. It waillated,thst one
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of ihiTailo*; 5 tog iii.
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taken ill, was fent to the binge of the pa:mei hn f-
band, and died. The Captaia went to fee the re
mains of his forma man, viten the lady of the houfe
Paid he fhould not go there, fpit in his face twice,
and, taking alone of her 'hoes, attempted to Rrike
him with it in the face. It was Rated in the defence,
that the prifoner had millaked the Captain for one
a number of per lons who wanted to have the rbt-
ceafed waked, according to the cultom of thole pro-
fefling the Roman Catholic faith. He was a Grecian
(*dor.
The Jury acquitted the prifoner, but one 'of the
Jußices cbfervcd`that there !as not a viler honk
about the metropolis than that of Mr. Bonifh.
The Court expteffed the utmoll indignation at a
child of four years old being brought 'inward to give
evidence in a cafe a airaai, is is too frequently the
pra&ice.
Win. Hayward was fined 201. for anaggravatedaf
fault on a pregnant woman.
A true bill was yefterday found by the Grard Jury
againfl Lord Caledon's Sbvil; valet, for robbing his

The London Salons commenced at Guildhall,
yeflerday, by the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen
Sir John Anderfon, I3oydell, &c, &c. Nothing of
importance occurred.
The Surrey Seflions commenced yefierday morn-
ing, at the Se(flans Houfe, Hotfemonger•lane, before
Lord GRAN TLAY, Chairman; Lords MIDOLSTON,
LECLIE9WILLIAM RUSSELL. Sir THOMAS MILTON,
Sir ROBERT 131,RN ITT, Sir JOHN ALEXANDRA, and
twenty other Magiarates. After the Grand Jury
were fwnrn in and had retired to bulinefs, the *thud
county haulers was gone daripugh, but not one trial,

took place.
In the Surrey Calendar there is the following rather
unufual entry—" Sarah buither, committed the 3d of
Jammu, 1837, by the Rev. W. ROBERTS, charged
nfi Ivr own eorfeirson, with repeated aas of incontinency,
for fix months." The frail fair one is in Guildford
H. ufe of Coffeelion, to hard labour.
We are t xremely forty to notice a very ferious ac-
cident which happened a few days fence to a diflin-
pilled member of fociety, and moil relpeflahle
private charafter—Mr. Joint NicHoet., printer, Red
Lion-paffage, Fleet-lireet : Coming down father a
dark flair cafe, at his printiag a (lice, he fell over a
coal fkuttle, which forte carelets let vant had placed
in the way, broke his thigh chile io the hip,apd other-
wife dreadfully bruifed himfelf. We are happy,
however, to hear that his tee, very is not doubted. ,
BOWeSTIL r CT.— Patr Pinder-grafi, tfirth,rine, Fis
daughter, and "'anal Layer. were i.n Monday corn.
mined for trial, Inr the robbery of the houfe of Mr•
Bell, on the Edgeware road. The wurmin was a
fervent in the honk. and it is foppofed to have planned
the robbery with her father.--italert Feer was alio
committed for trial, upon the evidence of Dr. 'nail,
of Woburn place, for indecently ezpoftng his perft.n
oprofi e his parlour window.
Yenerelay 7 Pullen was charred at Guildhall
-robbing Mr Macartney, to whom he was firam,,n,
of wine and ale to the value of aol. Mr. M. Hated
that the prifoner had confeffed that he had been fur-
milted with falfe keys, with which he had entered
the cellar, by a carpenter, but would not give fetch
information as might lead to his deteffion, which as
Mr. M. deemed him the reatell culprit, was his
principal objea. After vanons efforts were unavail•
ingly cxetied by the Magiflrate to induce the prifoner
to give the requilite information, Mt. M. propelled
his being fent un baard the tender, which was ac-
cordingly done.
Reherca liquierton was charged -by Mr. Prelim', of
bong-lane, with robbing him of 421. Mr. Preflon
Hated, that he had given her the run of his bottle,
while the was out of place, during which a foudaefa
of drefs had induced her to rob him, after which the
went to Yarmouth, and on the officer attempting to
apprehend her, the was with difficulty prevented
from cutting her throat. She was committed for
re examination.
About three o'clock on Saturday morning, by tome'
milcondna, a boat upfet at the month of Foripouth
hat hour, belonging to a Danifh (hip, by which two
boys were drowned. Three men were alto in the
boat, who were Paved.
Saturday afternoon, between three and four n'tle.eh,
as two gentlemen were in tingle hale cbaife, going
through the Circus Turnpike, the he* took Iright,
in confeq!sence of which one of them was thrown
out, and ho much halt. that there are little hopes of
his recovery: .
Suneay as a hackney coach was pal Eng up Union-
fireet, l'Alhopfgate, one of the horror trampled .on
child, by which it was fu much hurt that it died in a
few hours.
A few days fence, at the Annual Meeting of the
Meenhers of an Amicable Sudety in Briphton, Mr.
I'. Mitchell, their clerk, wan called upon for' a f,ngs
which he executed with gicat cbeerfulnefs ;—but it
was the Taft he had to Imp for he had no fooner.
chaunted the concluding line, than he reclined his
bead on the back of a dais, and expired without .a
groan.
The body of an elderly man was found lifelefs in
the Tower ditch fume nstunittgs !ince, fuppofed to
have fallen in.
On Tuefday fOnnight, a man who had been fent
by Mr. Phillips of Rochelier, with fume mot:ey to a
petfon at sits village of How, was flopped on lion
c Immon by fingle foot-pad, who after bearing him
in a very fevers manner, robbed him of ten pounds.
A few nights fence, as M. Overton, a filherman,
was examining his nets in the rixer Lune, near Datil
Point, he thought he heard a boat approaching ; but
to his great ationilhment when be held up his lan•
thrrn he difcovered a honk fwimming, and his afta•
ailhment was encrealed by finding a cart faßened to
the hurte, With a man in it, who proved to be Mr.
J. Iciiby, a farmer, of Heyfham. The only account
that he could give of his extraordinary fituation was
that he bad been in a public bode on Condor Green,
• with his cart, on his way to his father's houfe, at
Cockerfharn. He left the public houfe in the evening,
Very much intoxicated, and was put into his cart by
fame companions, with whom be had been drinking,
and they fee the horfe off. The bode, itilleadnfgb-
ing forward to Cockerilsam turned off towards Oa&
f,n, whete it had been accuiflomed to orofs.therivexi.'
The tide, however, was fcatcely half out, and it ma
have fwam with the cart above a quarter of a miles
Kirby was difcovered quite in an infenlible fla3ll
I throtrp inte,xication, andsit conrfe not war/ of der
inuntrient clinger he had ifcaptd.

antra. -
On the i tth inf. it Hatllatki,n liorkftdre, die
_Lay of Capt.
qcoiygoßyre, tht‘Nayy,,of a dtott'ter.• • • -
Oft the aSth ult. at Marton near Dover, Right Hon. Lady.
Etches, of a fon.
• Saturday fe'nolcht, at his houfe in St. Jaameaquare. the Lady.
of Lori", Vifeount Asfoo, of 'a daughter.