Star.
London, England, 1822-10-02 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS.

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Yesterday the adjourned Sessions for the Ci itt
London were held before the LORD MAYO*, the 'L`4.
CORDER. Aldermen AKSLEY, SMITH, THOR?...''
WAITfiIIAN. . .

John Dutton, a Bow-street patrol superintendent,
was convicted of an, assault on Mr. Wil;iani Watson,
the proprietor of the.floating-hath, near Blackfriars•
bridge, on the 9th of July.
The Comm, in passing sentence eiron him, .said
that he, as an &Bier, whose duty it was to keep the
peace, should have been the last to violate it, and
that 'such. violation of the peace as he had been
guilty of deserlted heavy punishment. That he had
more than once subjected himself to a charge of,ucii
a nature was evident from the. acknowledgment of
one of the called for the defence. The sett-
tencedaf _the .Coint, under such circumstances, was,
that the defendant should be imprisoned four months
lin the Giltspur-street Compeer.

...• CARELESS DRIVING.
George fining., a hackney-coach man, was tried a pon
anindictment, charging him with having assaulted
and driven over a carpenter msmed Bilborough.
It.appeared from the evidence called by the COW
NON SRIURANT, Who co' ndikted the ptcsecution on
behalf of the City, .that on the SI st 'of July List,. in
the, afternoon; Mr.- Ililborougb,--after hiving been at
a dinner, where hesdrank7rather fieel, was returning
home with friend. As they were crossing Lud-
' gate-hill, near the Old Bailey, Mr. Bilborough was
.stuldenlr knocked clown-by coming in . contact with
the pOle'of a each or..tise 'horse, and was run over;
' he aid :not kiwi' witether by the coach or the horses.
When he recovered his senses,. he found himself in a
surgeon's shop, with three of his sibs broken, and one
of his fingers-shattered to pieces.
A surgeon proved that it had become necessary to
amputate the finger, and that the injury sustained by
Mr. Bilborough was such as was likely to debilitate
him for life. -
. The defendant was seen by a porter of Lincoln's-
Inn driving away, leaving the prosecutor on the
ground, and was followed by the porter, to whom the
defendant appeared to be sensible of what he Lad
done, from .the circumstance of his having put his
horses to their utmost speed as soon as the mischief
was done. The pursuer, who was on horseback.
swore that he would follow the fellow to the devil
stoner than let him escape, and secured him with the
assistance of some other persons.
• In the prisoner's defence,' it was set forth that Mr.
Bilborough was too much intoxicated to get out of
the way, and the mistress of the cooch proved, in be-
half of her driver, that one of the horses he dtove
was a spirited mare, which was not likely to have
stopped readily. It was stated also that hi, family
had been reduced to beggary by his confincmen t under
the charge, since he had been taken into custody.
The Jury found. the defendant Guilty, but recom-
mended him to mercy, on account of hi, family.
The COURT said, that the crin,inal carelessness of
•coachmen in general as.to the lives of toot passengers
had been manifested on so many occasions recently,
that they could not, consistently with their duty to
the Public, listen to the recommendation of the Jury.
' To check the serious evil of careless driving it was
"necessiry that frequent examples should be made.—
. The sentence of the Court-was, therefore, that the de-
' feodant:should be imprisoned for the space of three
'calendar months in the Giltspur-street Compter, in
addition to his former confinement.

BIRTHS.
In Rutland-square, Dublin, on the 26th of September, the
Countess of Longford, of a son.
Sept. 26, at C4stkcraig, the Lady of the Hon. Capt. W. J.
Napier, R.N. of a daughter.
Sept. 25, at Conway, North Wales, the Lady of Sir David
Erskine, Bart. of a daughter.
Sept. 25, at her father's house, Carlton-place, Glasgow; Mrs.
Matheson, wife of the Rev. Jas. Matheson, of Durham, of a.son.
Sept. 24, at Aberdeen, the wife of the Rev. John Murray,
of a son.