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London, England, 1805-10-15 00:00:00

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YeAetdaptbeGeneralQnarterSelions of the Peace
for the County.of Surrey commenced at Newington,
beforeTuomas EVANC a, Efq. and a' Bench of Juitices,
when the following cafe occupied almoft the whole
of the day :

RIOT WO ASSAULT.
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Atlinfoa, John Fijbnatoat, Pbirp Bilbop, John
Wilkinfon, Richard ifilkinfon, john Maclaughlin, Mina:
Jones, Vincent treering, and d;lier Caring, were indiaed
tor a riot and an alfank, in Gravel lane, and pulling
down the premifesand fence belonging to David Ma-
fon, and alto for violently slacking David Mafon
and his wife.

The Defendants, who were journeymen hatters,
pleaded in juftification that the fence obftruded the
light, and prevented their continuing at work fo long
as they otherwife Could have done, and that they
therefore gently and peaceably removed it. From
the teftimony of the profecutor and witneftes, it ap-
peared that the premifes of Mr.Mafon were contiguous
to the houfe of Mr. Boaden, in Gravel-lane, where
there was a hat.manufadory, at which a number of
journeymen worked. Mafon found it convenient to
ere& a fhed. and put up a fence. While he was fo
doing, Mrs. Gearing came up to him, and laid,
" You are putting up this for your pleafure: one
of thefe days it (ball come down for mine." Shortly
after the fhed and fence were crated, a quantity of
heavy pieces of iron were thrown down from the
manufactory upon the tiles. Mafon went to Union
Hall to complain, but not meeting a Magiftrate
there, he returned, and found the workmen alrembled
and tinging " Vidorious." A woman came over to
him, and told him they were pulling down his flied
and fence. He perceived twenty or thirty men de
itroying the fence ; they had made an opening. He
went near the fpot, and was immediately alrailed by
the Defendants. The bricks and tiles were thrown
at him in all diredions. One of the men exclaimed,
" Kill him, d—n him, down with him." A piece
of timber ftruck him, by which he was much hurt.
His wife was alfo hurt, and called out " Murder."—
She held up her arms to rave her head, and received
feveral violent bruiles. Another of the workmen
cried out, " D—n murder, go on with it•" Mrs.
Geariag, in the midft of them laid," I told you you
was putting up the fence for your pleafure, and
fhould pull it down for mine." This fcene conti•
nued a confiderable time to the terror of the whole
neighbourhood.
The defence let up way, that in the indidment the
defendants were charged with riotoufly deftroying
the fence, whereas in fad no riot whatever had been
committed, and that they had only limply levelled the
fence, which they conceived to be an obftrudion.—
After deliberating near an hour, the Jury found Philip
Bilhop, Richard Wdkilfon, Thomas Jonrf, Vincent Geer-
ing, and Ace Goring, guilty of the rit t, and they were
fentenced to four months imprifonment in the county
gaol ; the other four were acquitted.

At the General Q2arter Seffions or the Peace for
the Eaft Riding, held at Beverly on Tuefday laft, a
bill of indiEtment was found againft William Allifon,
alias Wilkinfon, late of the parith of Sculcoates, la-
bourer, for bigamy. He is now in cuftody and is to
take his trial at the next Affixes.

Wednefday fail was committed to Reading gaol,
by Edward Loveden Loveden, Efq. John Erflitt,
charged on fufpicion of uttering falfe coin, purport-
ing to'be half a guinea, knowing the fame to be
counterfeit, to Charles Lewis, of Colefhill, and with
obtaining money from him under falfe pretences.
Lail week, a cow belonging to the Rev. Mr.
Fletcher, of Roydone, near Barnfley, calved three
fine calves, which, with the mother, arc likely to do
well.

In the night of Saturday fe'nnight the dwelling.
houfe of James Kicro, Efq. of Cottingham, was en-
tered by Tome perfon or pe►fons, who broke open a
defk, from whence they took part money in cam and
notes, and alto carried away an old family filver pint,
(even filver table and five tea fpoons, together with
other articles of value, with which they efcaped un-
difcovered. An attempt, we underhand, was made
the fame night, probably by the fame gang, upon
another houfe at Cottingham, but happily it did not
fucceed. __ _ _

About four o'clock on the morning of Monday
fe'nnight, the boufe of H. Prellon, Lfq. in Park-
place, in Leeds, was broken open, and robbed of
:351. in notes, a bill for 151. los. 6d. and feveral
gold rings. Two men and a boy, who were ken
near the premifes, are fuppofed to be the thieves.—
The robbery was effused by putting the boy through
the iron grates of the wafh boufe window ; who was
fo little, that to open the door for the entrance of the
men, he had been obliged to get a chair to flip the
bolt. With the above the villains got -clear off, and
had they not been alarmed their plunder would, in
all probability, have been more extenfive, as they
had packed up a quantity of plate, linen, &c.
Yeflerday, at Marlborough-greet, a young man,
fervant to Mr. Eater, currier and leather-cutter in
Monmouth-greet, was charged with a violent affault
on Elizabeth Eases, his Mailer's relative. The pro.
fecutriz had given Come flight offence to the prifoner,
and, in order to retaliate, he prepared a plailler of
lamp black, oil, and other pernicious ingredients,
which he placed on her face. The young woman
was taken very ill, and a fnrgeon pronounced her to
be in a very dangerous Rate. The prifoner was
committed, until the fate of the injured woman be
known.

UNION HALL—Saturday morning two men, one
apparently a gentleman, and the other his fer•ant,
went to the houfe of Mrs. Lapiniere, a widow lady,
in Walcot•place, under the pretence of looking at
fome apartments. One of them remained below,
whilit the other went up (lairs. After their depar-
ture, Mrs. Lapiniere mitred five flyer tea fpoons and
a filver coup fpoon. Her fufpicion fell on the fuppof-
ed fervant, and the immediately fent a perfon after
him, who (lopped him, brit his companion efcaped.—
He was taken to Unicn Hall, where he hated his
name to be William Felix, and that be was the fon
of a pocket book-maker in the City. He faid he dept
on Friday night at a coffee houfe in Ncwgate Mar-
ket, and wasgoing along Blackfriars Bridge on Satur-
day morning, about ten o'clock, when he met the per-
fon with whom he had called at Mrs. Lapiniere's,
and with whom he had a flight acquaintance. The
fpoon• were not found upon bim, buthe was reman-
ded for a further keariug ba Wedoefday