Star.
London, England, 1823-09-20 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

Yesterday nonsas Ouse was indicted for stealing
from Thomas Goody a watch, his property.
The prosecutor, a shepherd, in the employ of Mr.
Passingham, at Heston, stated that he had a silver watch
in his possession. On the 12th of July, at about eleven
o'clock at night, he *as going home horn Hounslow.
He had been spending the evening with some friends at
a public-house at Hounslow, and on coming out to go
home, he met the prisoner. He had known the prisoner
slightly before this transaction. The prisoner asked him
if he was going home? Witness answered in the affirm-
ative, and then his companion asked him if he had a
watch about him? Witness was surprised at the ques-
tion, and asked why be put it? The prisoner readily an-
swered, " Because if you carry it with you, you will
certainly be robbed or it." Witness was unwilling to
part with it, but at length reluctantly gave it to him.
On the Monday following witness went to the prisoner,
and asked for his watch. The latter denied that he had
his watch, or that he.had seen him at all on the pre-
ceding Saturday night. Witness never saw the watch
again until early in August, when the prisoner was
taken into custody.
Cross-examined.--He was not intoxicated on the Right
in question ; he was sometimes drunk, and on such oc-
casions frequently behaved most foolishly, throwing his
money about, and other follies.
T. Cook, a constable of Ileston, proved the appre-
. hension of the prisoner on a day early in August. The
prisoner first denied that he had seen the prosecutor's
watch, but afterwards admitted that he had sold it to a
watch-maker of the name of Edmonds, living at Brent-
ford End. _

Edmonds prbduced the watch,' and proved that the
prisoner sold the watch to him a day or two after the
11th of July.
The prisoner called a few witnesses to character, who
spoke highly of him as an honest and industrious man.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy, on account of his good character.
Prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
James Sullivan, aged 18, and Anne Wheatley, aged
32, were indicted for stealing two plants, the property
of George Smith.
It appeared from the evidence, that the male prisoner
was seen in the grounds of the prosecutor, who is a gar-
dener at Islington, and he was observed to hand over
two plants in flower-pots to AnneWheatley. The prisoners
were immediately apprehended by a watchman. The
prosecutor stated, that one of the plants was a native of
South America, and worth upwards of five guineas.
Mr. Bodkin;Secretary to the Mendicity Society, was
called as a witness for Anne Wheatley, but he merely
deposed that he knew her to be a very accomplished
woman, and respectably connected.
The Jury found both prisoners Guilty.
The RECORDER observed, that the Jury had returned
a very right verdict. The woman, he knew, had been
in custody before. It was true, as had been represented,
that she possessed great accomplishments, but those did
not prevent her from mixing with the very dregs of so-
ciety. It was necessary that she should leave the country,
but he would not pass sentence at that time.
The prisoners were then removed from the bar.

PALACE COURT, SEPTEMBER 19.
WRIGHT V. MOORE.
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This was an action brought in forma pattperis, to re-
cover the balance of an account for washing and gar-
dening work.
The plaintiff is a gardener, residing at Camberwell,
and the defendant a gentleman of considerable property,
also living at the same place. The plaintiff's wife
washed several weeks for the defendant's family,
which was large, and a demand of a guinea per week
was made. The charge was considered reasonable
by several witnesses, who had been accustomed to
wash for families. The plaintiff and his brother had
both been employed in the defendant's garden in June
last, and their demand on that ()erasion was also deemed
an equitable and fair one. The defendant had been
summoned to a Court of Requests, but as the original
charge exceeded £5, the case was dismissed without
being heard. He, however, offered a sum of money to
the plaintiff about the same time, which the latter de-
clined taking, alleging that he was entitled to the full
amount. This being refused, the present action was
brought.—The Jury consulted half an hour, and then
returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 21. 19s.

The Session at Clerkenwell ended yesterday, when
Thomas Cato and Joseph Ices, who had been convicted
of assaulting and ill-treating Thomas Francis and John
Brundley, two of the Bow-street Patrol, near Highbury
Terrace, at a late hour at night, when in the execution
of their duty, were sentenced to be imprisoned in the
House of Correction for three months each.

It has been determined, in a meeting of the inhabi-
tants of Plymouth Dock, held on Monday last, that the
town shall in future be called Devon-port.
DISPATCEir•A bleacher in this neighbourhood re-
ceived, on Tuesday week, nearly 1,500 webs of muslin
to be bleached ; they were bleached, returned, packed,
and sent off for a foreign market on the Thursday tol-
lowing!—Bolton 1 spurt.
MIRAGg sir Faityce..—A Letter from Paris, dated
Sept. 15, says,--4, We were astonished yesterday by a
a sudden storm, which, in the course of a few minutes,
raised enormous clonds of dust in every part of Paris,
to such an extent, that from the brilliancy of a mid-day
sun, we were plunged into comparative darkness. For
more than 10 minutes, the dust raised by the wind
formed a distinct ridge of clouds, which was only dis-
persed by the heavy rain which fell afterwards. The
oldest man in Paris remembers nothing so sudden and
violent. In many parts of Paris windows were brOken,
and doors forced from their hinges, and in the Fau-
bourg: several chimnies were thrown down, but I have
not beard that any person was injured.
We have been informed, and we trust the informa-
tion is correct, that steps are now taking to bring in the
London Mail to Edinburgh at five o'clock in thesafser-
noon, in place of nine; that the Lords of the Treasury
have ordered a survey of the road, particularly from
Berwick to Edinburgh; that they are to afford some re-
lief to the Road Trustees, in consequence of the heavy
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