Star.
London, England, 1804-12-04 00:00:00

MIDDIZSIX SESSTONS.

Yelerday thefe Settons commenced at Clerkenwell
Green, when
,laser Tows, for affaulting Ann Swin-
ton, a girl of fourteen years of age, with intent to
commit a rape, on the stet of May, who was indil.
ed lag Sefton', but acquitted. through the junk:-
laity of the indiBment, was put to the Bar.
Ann Swinum, who was apprenticed to the Defen-
dant, a ribbon-weaver, eighteen months fince, by
If pains, Rated, that on Whitfunday lag her
enifirefs was in the country, and her nsatter being
lick, fhe was ordered to attend him and her fellow-
apprentice was lent to bed t while the witnefs was br
the bed-fide, he ordered her to rub his bofom, and
on her doing fo, be attempted to behave ill to her,
when the made her efcape. On Whit-Monday he
made a holiday, and did not return home till Tile(
day morning, and when he went to beds called her
to him, feized bold of her, (mothered her up in the
bed-clotlies, and behaved in a way we cannot de-
fcribe. She loon camplaited to the Para-officers,
who inßituted this indithsent.
On her cads-ezamination b 7 Mr. Merv, fhe Rated
that liberties of this defeription had been offered to
her feversl timer, and partienlarly once, when come
boys and herfclf were locked tip together in the pa.
rifh black hole. She had raid to her fellow appren-
tice, that a complaint of this kind to the Para-
officers would obtain her liberation. It alfo appeared
by her Raiment, that the precast complaint was nut

ieladi &the time not iNtittld Ott t a made it km;
had lt not been ?twill ufage of another kind towards
TbeCitairman did not ftsffer the cafe to go to the
Jury, is the girl acknowledged Abet the would not
have made the matter a ruble& of complaint, but for
the firtafequent frequent beatings the had received.—
He alfo reprobated the prattice of locking in the
parith bOys and girls together in a ,lark-hole. -
join Brew, a broker, refiding in Lille-ftreet. Let-
cener-fquare, nfrat'indilled for keeping a diforderly
houfe.
Mr. Laeoek, an'eogra-att. of Line-ftreet, Qated
that his Family were Segni/ley Socked at the baba
viour of women telling' in the Defendant's honfe,
who frequently erhibitidtheinfelees at the windows
in a Qate of nudity. He had written a note to the,
Defendant on the (*eft, who Elated that he &mid
not mike any alterations until his pretest lodgers re•
moved. On crofs-examinatton be denied heels*
given his approbation foe the eettplaymebt cif the tart.
thorn men, although he belonged to the Para Com-
mittee..
Mary-Ann Higgins refided in the honk 'Tweed!
of three years; the at firft inhabited the fiat-floor,
after which the became boofeteeper, and colleaed
the lodgers' rent, which the always paid to Mr. or
Mrs. Brett. She left the Insole through ill-treatment
• in January laft; the at that time wai four pounds in
• arrears, whicfr the had fince paid to Mrs. 6. She
would not (wear that the Defendant kept the honk,
fince the name of Pearce was on the door. Witneft
never knew of any riotous or difordetly behaviour in
I the honfe, nor did the ever fee the women more naked
than Mesa required them.
The Colleftors of the Tiles proved, that they had
always received payments from Mr. Brett and his
wife.
Mr. ALLIY, for the Defendant, remarked, that in 1
order to conftitute the crime alledged againft the De
fendant, they mull prove him to be the owner; and
fecondly, that as owner, he was' privy to that which
was going on in the honfe ; the Defendant only re-
ceived the rent until he Souk' be paid for furnithing
the honfe of Mr. Pearce, and had kft the bottle fince
January laft.
The Jury found the Defendant Guilty; and the
Coon fentenced him to be imprifoned fir months, to
pay a fine of 501. and to find fureries to keep the
peace for three years, himfelf in tool. and two bondf-
men in tool. each. -
Mary Baker, Ehza Baker, Francis Dean, Sufannah
Chart, and Gearie_ Galloway, were indicted for a riot,
and aft-wilting Mary Cracklow, the wife of a water-
man of St. Catherine's. It appeared that the pro-
fecutria had placed a cock in the -window' as a
token that the was a cock of the walk. The Defen-
dints refined the affront by burning her effigy. and
by hiring what is called a band of rough mufic to
play before her door.
The Defendants were all found guilty, and the
Court fenteneed Mary Baker to pay a fine of Si. and
the other Defendants zl. each.
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