Star.
London, England, 1805-10-16 00:00:00

SURREY tr:s3/02,11.

lIISOLENCE OF TURNIFIXI•IREW.
Rr,kri Kai.;At. o,te or the Colle.tors of the Toll at
the Circus Torrorike, Blackfriars Road, was indiaed
for allaulting Samuel Booth, the fervant of
Brogden, Efy. I oiling him of his horfe, and other-
wife ill treating him.
Mr. NIAAVATT flated the cafe for the profecution.
obferved, that it had been intlttuted for the pun-
pole of correfting, if potlible, the inordinate info-
hence of the keepers of tollgates. The profecutor
was the groom or fervant of Mr. Brogden, a Gen-
tleman of fortune, retident at Clapham. Some ti.ne
ago, in confequence of a complaint made by Mr.
Brogden, the perfon-who then kept the toll was dif-
char,red. This circumtlance was perhaps the cattle
of the Defendant's having aftcd in this manner. On
the morning of the day mentioned in the indiftin;nt,
Mr. Brogden rode to town, as was his cuttom three
of four times a week, attended by his fervant Booth.
The latter paid the ufual tolls at Newingt(4l and the
Cirrus turnpikes, and took tickets from each of them,
which be put into his pocket. About three in the
afternoon they were returning by the fame road
Mr. Brog.irti was fuffered to pals quietly through the
Circus Gate. When his fervant came. up; the De-
fer.dant alked him if he had paid before ? He re-
pl;..d he had. The other delired him to produce his
ticker. He pulled nut the ticket he hid received in
the morning, and gave it him. " 0 (exclaimed (he
Defendant), this won't do—it is the wrong number
—you mutt pay again, nr you Beall not pats."—
Booth infittcd he had aright to proceed, and fnorred
his hrrfe. At this moment a man who was with the
Defendant raid. " D—n him, unhorfe him ?" Upon
which the Dete.adant immediatAy flized the reins,
and laid hrld of Lis leg to pull him down, while the
man took hold of the other, to pufh it up. Booth
fuon found bin-Self failing, and held by the horfe's
mane. to lot himfelf down with as little danger as
poffible. At t e inflant a hackney coached rifled by,
and the wheel brallied the hank, by which, as it was
a fpirited animal, the life of the proiecutor was much
endangered. The Defendant fureNy preveated the
Profeentor from ternottiohig till lie paid the toll. A
Gentleman rode up to Mr. Brogden, and infarmed
him the men at the gate were id tiling his fervant ;
upon which Mr. Bt Ogden came hack, and reprimand-
ed them for their cu ndor% The ptifoner audactoutly
laid, " What do you know of it ? I am lure you was
too far off to fee any thing ?" The toil was paid
over again, and 'the profeeutor was allowed to pal's.
Mr. Brogden jutlly thought it a duty he owed to the
Public and himfelf to profeeute the Defendant tor
lo unwarrantable a proceeding ; and doubtlefs, if the
fall: were proved, the Court would haft on the
Defendant the punifhntent he merited.
Samuel Booth diilin tly ptovcd every part of the
learned Counters (tenement, adding that the Defen-
dant tiled a good deal of ahtifive language, and
wanted to fight hint for a guinea. He laid he could
never find out who the man was who had affitted the
defendant.

Mr. Brogden faid, the Defendant and the other
man at:entivety eyed him tiS he paffr I, and he fut.
IpeOed it w ts their intention to iulutt him. He prov-
ed that Ms fervant had pail the toll in the morning,
an& teceieed a ticket.

Mr. Motels addreffid the Jury on behalf of the
Defendint, hut did not call airy witneffes.
The CHAIRMAN recapitulated the evidence, and the
Jury, wi hoist a moment's hefitation, returned the
Defendant Guilty.
Mr. Brogden obrerved, that his Mita was to make
the prAcution of the Defendant an example to
others, and as be had been conviaed, he willied the
Court to he as lenient as poffible.
The Ctratestam remarked, that the offence com-
mitted by the Defen.lant was one which had become
a public and intolerable grievance. Scarcely a day
palled without the Magiftrates having complaints
made to them of the ill behaviour of the keepers of
toll-gates. Thofe complaints were more frequent
with regard to the Circus gate than any other, and
it was abfolutely neceffary, by proper and timely
punithment to prevent the neceflity for them in fu-
ture. Had it not been for the recommendation of
Mr. Brogden, the lenience would have been as fevere
as the law would have allowed of; and he trailed
that all perfons in the fituation of the Defendant,
would rake notice, that they were not to commit
inch offences with impunity. The judgment of the
Court was that the Defendant fhould be iinprifoned
14. days in the Houle of Correaion, and fined is.
&mole! Evan: was indiNed for an Araillt upon
Mary, the wife of Thomas, on the t 7th of
July lan.
The Defendant was a hair drefTer, and lodged in
the Profecutor's houfe, in Wincheller-flreet, in the
Borough, but being rather irregular in his hours, he
got notice to quit, and, as in the former cafe, a dif:
pine miring relative to the rent, and the detention of
his trunk, it appeared on the part of die profecrition,
that he feized the mop with which the Profircutrix
was cleaning out the apartment formerly occupied by
the Defendant, and (truck her in the fide with it ;
he then threw her down the Rain, and 'beat and
abufed her in fuch a manner, as to cattle her to be
confined, and finable to do any thing for had' and
family for fix weeks. The witneffi:s for the Defett,
dant fisted, that, OR the contrary,ahe Profecotrix
was the fir fi-and fale aggreffor, and ihtew the Defen:
dant down the Rairs. _ _

The Chattman, in Cumming np the evidence to-the
Jury, lamented exceedingly, that fn tunch foul trEtz
jury timid be committed in cafes of air:tubs: '
The Jury fnnnd the Defendant—GuiliY p—andt
Coon after, the parties having ctitipromiled the mat=
ter, he entered iuto the ulual rectignizatkat'aud watt
difcharged.

Monday. at the Sainns held in and for the Bn.
rough of Dorchefter, a bill of indiftment was found
agsinfl Geo. Norris, the driver of the Bath andWey-
mouth-coach, for engroffing lobliers and prawns,
and carrying them to Bath. where they bear a great
price, and of wLich the inhabitants of Dorcheller and
its neighbourhbod have bcen entirely deprived for
fume pall.
On Saturday evening an old houfe, in King's head.
court, New-ftieet. Gough-ftinare, fell to the ground,
and carried away part of another adjoining with it;
for;nnately no lives were 1011, nor any perfon hurt.
The inmates being apprized of their danger, ran into
the ftreet. .; • : 2Pi J r,• I •