Star.
London, England, 1815-01-07 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSION&

John Barefoot. a lad of eighteen years 'of age, was
indicted for an attempt to commit a rape upon the
person of a child under seven years old. The father
of the child having accidentally come to its assis-
tance, seized hold of the prisoner : he confessed his
villainy, and begged for forgiveness. The surgeon
who attended her proved the attempt having been
committed, by which symptoms pf disease bad been
communicated. The prisoners is his deknce,, said
he was so much intoxicated as not to bave any re-
collection about him at the time. He was found
guilty, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment
in the House of Correction.
Will am Siazleton was indicted for a brutal assault
on the person of Dinah Goff, a child about eight
years of age, on the 4th of December last. It ap-
peared that the prisoner had been invited to dine
with a person who lodged in the house of the child's
parents, and- having been left alone with the child, he ;
took that opportunity of effecting his diabolical pur-
pose. No discovery was made till three or four days
after, when the state of the child's health caused an
investigation Ito take place, and the child then related
all the circumstances. The Jury, without hesitation,
found him Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to 12
months imprisonment in the House of Correction.
Alizaki4 Brennand, who was yesterday found guilty
of keeping a disorderly house in Crown and Sceptre-
court, Si. James's-street, was this day brought into
Court, and there entered into her recognizance to abate
the nuisance within the present month, which she did
in the penal sum rf £5O, and was discharged.
William Simpson, who was likewise convicted yes-
terday of assaulting a Constable in Hyde Park, last
Jubilee Fair, received the judgment of the Court,
which was three months imprisonment in the House
of Correction.

Thomas Lee, a gipsey-boy, was convicted of a hr•
ceny, in stealing Trom a shop in Sloane•street a ball.
He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment ; and
in consequence of his being a notorious thief, the
Court also ordered him to be publicly whipped fifty
yards on the Knightsbridge-road, at the end of
Sloane-street.

Richard Chapman was tried for obtaining from
James Brunskill a leg of pork by false pretences.—
It appeared that he came to the. prosecutor's shop,
and said that his master, Mr. James Walsh, sent him
for it. The pTqccitOr, not suspecting any wrong,
gave it to him,
,end he instantly went to a public-
house, and there had it dressed, and with three of his
companions made their dinner of it. Guilty.
Thomas Weldon was indicted for stealing two bun- •
idles of holly from a stall in Covent-Garden Market,
the property of Mr. Knubb, who depmetithat he lost
a cart-load of that article on the 18th of December,
and traced it, after it was so lost, to a person of the
name of Ward, who said he had it from the prisoner.
Witnesses were called ie support of the proseetuion,
who were severally cross-examined on the part of the
defendant by Mr. BAIIIIY, who called several respec-
table persons to his character, all of whom gave him
a very good one.—The CHAIRMAN summed up the
evidence, and the Jury brought in a verdict of Not
Guilty.
i:ONSPIRACY Chapple and
Augustin Ratclip were indicted for conspiring to de-
fraud William Cork of the sum of £5O. Mr. Cork
is a farmer, living near Maidstone, and happening to
be in town during the present week, was accosted by
one of that defendants, Ratcliffe,. on. Wednesday last,
in the Strand, and after a little conversation toge-
ther, introduced him to the other defendant, viz.
Chapple, at a public-house, where they laid a plan
to tempt him to lay a wager, for the purpose, as they
signified to him, of winning jB2OO, bat in fact to ob-
tain the sum of 450 from him. He discovering
their intent, told than he should go to a friend, and
return in an hour with the £5O, as he had not so
mach about him, and in reality went to the Police
Office, -Queen square, and there gave Information
against the panics; and being accompanies by Of&
ears from thence, apprehended them botb;
,end on
searching, found upon them Baah notes to a very
great amount. Evidence to all the foregoing facts
was given; and the Chairman, Mr. W*rsnw, having
'surnmed,up. the whole, left it with the Jury, who,
atter a short period of deliberation, brought in a yew-
diet of Guilty ,against both prisonets.'obey were
both old men. Chapple stated his age to be 75, and
Ratcliffe upwards Of 70. They are both well known
on the town these many years. ' They were each of
Chests sentenced to one year's imprisonment in Tothil-
helels Bridewell, and find seaseity to keep the peace
for one year, themselves in .`2l/ each, and two sure-
ties in £lO each.
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Evu or Fonrintr-reksilio...--Predictions often '
procure their awn fulfilment,' and thus oceasion the
,very, evils most appce,liended.; in con firmatiun of which
we shall relate a fact :—A Lady had been married
some Tears, had three little girls, and was near her
confinement a fourth time; when her husband, being.
absent a& Wiriness, wrote to request she eiciuld search,
his bureau tar a paper of some consequence; in doing
which she found another, inscribed. " Minutes of my
fortune, told me in the yea{• r,'*9."' which was seven
yeari prior to her marriage; Ciwioski prompted her
6 to open it, when she found as follows-:-.." E. D. tells
1114 thritl am to mpg, in Minn park a lady with.
blue eyes, fair. complexion apdlight-hairaiiikwholle.
-I am to lire. verx liawitily ; tlitat, I shall .14ve three
dAughters. ; that m giving lain} tq
,a,bay,.,the fourth
&Oa, my wife shill 'die.s.4.Thig ppev fell into the
lady's bane bat a kw dayi betitre.slis was =find.
,ate caused * depresioa -*ltch she . cad/IAM throw
*off but. whea t4•AICFS4..* Cigtd Wat 4agni the
straw ceineilfotpoe„ o ti)e,t dim of. no the boy.
'being, aspreditted, the ram* Child; so entirely seized
' her id/aviation; thlit 'in riini dais ilti lost bat bi—'
pleats, mutinies. ilinis *ion sins* (61.10.-.'

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