Star.
London, England, 1804-10-19 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.

The trials yeßerday were in general unimportant
we Idea the following as the only interaing things
which occurred :
7homor Maader and R. Grier: were inch/led for af•
faulting John Chard, on the 7th of April la& The
profecutor at that time lodged in Mender's honfe.
where Groves was at the fame time an inmate. The
profecutor went down for a pitcher of water, when
the defendant Groves pufhed him away from the wa-
ter buy. and told him that he should not have any.
At this inlhant Mender came to the fpot, and Groves
laid, ti this little flitikibg b•— has been for water."
Mender replied, " damn him, why did yciu not
drown him." tiander then &act the profeentor,
and put his hand into thei(kater, and threw forte
over him. The picifeentor's wife interfered, and ca:-
tied him op Reim The defendants, however) con-.
tinned to perfecute Mr. Chard, by ridiculing hen on
every occafton, which they effected by ratn4ing on
the wainfcot (iodide of his apartment, in palling up
and down (lairs : they alio made ufe ofonbeedning lan-
page, calling hiM a Pimp, 3tc. The day on which
the quarrel took place about the water, the defen-'
dant Mender Allied the profecutor from die door
t'vee time‘, and threw him into the kennel. On his
crofs-examination by Mr. At.nay, he admitted that
be had received notice to quit, and lac he did not
pay his rent, owing to his hiving been denied water.
The affault, by rolling the profeentor in the kennel,
was fully proved; and the Jury found both the de-
fendants Guilty. The Court ordered Mender to pay
a fins of sal. and Groves to be imprifoned for one
month.
Yetnetoelart was indieted for a violent alfault upon
Mary Foldjam.
Foldjam pofitively (wore, that Lockett attacked
her without any manner of provocation in the open
Bred % knocked her down, battered bet face, and
polled her hair up by the toots, a pretty large Nita
of which the plucked from her Worn, as a proof of
the depredation committed on her alit kown surer
by her delperate all'adant.
Mifs Lockart Paid in her defence, that they were
bah conhant companions ; that on the day of the
meagre, they were drinking together for leveret
hours, and at length had fome words, when Foldjam
challenged to. fight her for a guinea ; the aufwered,
the had no guineas to bet ; when Foldjam replied,
" then b—t your eyes I'll fight you for love • to
which Mils Lockart with great spirit agreed. :That
both parties prepared for battle, bound up their hair
with their handkerchiefs, " (book hands for no kw,"
and fell to work. They had a number of rounds and
falls, and much hard hitting. That at WI Foldjam
began foul play, by biting, andpu/fing Bair,
and !hat Rue, Mifs Lockart, then redoubled her at
tack, and knocked her antagonill down; and then
Foldjam went to law, which the raid the would not
do, if the had been victorious. Mils Lockart con
cluded 'ter defence by alledging, that Foldjam was
remarkable for challenging people to fight, and then
going to law when the was beat : and in her torn'
Ilse produced an auburn ringlet, which the Paid had,
been torn from her own head by the profecutrix.—
In fupport•of her vindication, a.wholefloci of ladies
came forward ; but the Jury were fatisfied with the
• evidence bef 're, and acquitted the prifoner.
Robert Balfirld was indieted fur affaulting William
Salmon.
The Profecutor Resod, that the Prifoner had en-
ticed his wife away from him; but, willing to for-
, give pall offences, he had taken her back, on condi-
tion that the would behave better in future; but the
Prifoner would not be quiet, and at lafl took leer
away entirely, and kept her from him ; he afterwards
treated the Profecutar very ill, and threatened his
life. On the 28th of May lA, he came to the bake-
bode in Carnaby Market, where the Prolocutor (be
ing a baker) was at work.and, after fame few words
interchanged between them, the Prifoner, without
any provocation, 'knocked him down three revere!
time', called him various opprobrious names, gave
him two `black eyes, and otherwise bruifed several
parts of his body. This account was corroborated
by other witneffes.
The Prifoner, in his defence, Rated, that having
fome difference with the Profecutor, relative to his
wife..they had fome words together; but, in the
fequel, the Profecutor proposed they (mold Quake
hands, and forget all pall animofity. Afterwards Pro-
fecutnr offered to fight him ; they had fome rounds
together, but lie could not tell who (truck firft.
William Griffith, on the part of the Prifoner, raid
that they had all been taking lime gin together, pre-
paratory to their going to Bow Fair, and rnolt of
them were rather mcnaicated.
The j.ry found the Prifoner—Guilty. and the
Court fentenced him to fourteen slays imprifonment.
Samuel Pries was indided for Reeling a ladder, the
property of James 'Cud. It appeared that he had
obtained the property Iron the Profecutor, on pre-
tence of borrowing it to complete a job, and after-
wards offered it Cr tale to a broker, who raided to
porchafe it. As the Prifoner had not parted with
the cuftndy of the ladder, the indittm:nt was not
fufficiently fupporn.d. and the prifoner WAS acquitted.
He was then tried for a similar offence ; in bor-
rowing a Rep-ladder from Ann Hunt, the day pre.
sinus to the foregoing tranfattion, which he had
see-Wally fold to the fame broker for eight-pence.—
He was found Guilty, and fentenced to one month's
imprifonment.
gerernia6 );arva, a boy about it years of age, was
convitted of Ilealigg a fi:lc pocket handkerchief out
of the pocket r.f William Denman, who was return-
ing from Drury-lane Theatre. The Prifoner, in his
defence, Paid, he law the handketdiief drop, and lie
picked it up.
The CbI•IRMAN, in palling sentence, obfervcd, he
had been goal, ttt a some which, if not checked in
slime, would io the end bring him to an untimely
fate. He had got 11110 a bad COMICeIOII, which would
be his ruin; but, AS it appeared to be his fiat offence,
the Court were unwilling to tranfport him, and alib-
i to give him an °ppm sanity of amendment ; and
he much wilbed his friends would procure him a fitn.
mina on board a (hip, and take him away flout his
prefent companions. He was fentenced to fix months
amprifonment in the Houle of Corredian.
hams 7cy was conviacd of Reeling one pewter
quart. and three pewter pints, from a publican at
Chelfea; he Isis sentenced to 14 dirt SlSlPSSibainein,
and to be publicly whippcd.

~or Rafe a little girl only elm* years of age, and
Mary Wood: thirteen years of age, were tried on an
indietment, chatging them with Dealing in the fhop
of a man named Read, in Orchard-ftreet, three
&awls. Mrs. Read (ued, that her hufband keeps a
eloaths thop. and the was up (lairs with him, when
he told her there was a noife below. She ran down
immediately, miffed the fhawls from the window, but
law nobody. She went into the (tree, and turned
round the next corner where the girls were, and
when they law her they direly began to run. She
overtook them, and they were fecured. The pro
pert,' was found in the cußody of Ann Role, the
youngeft. There was no defence attempted. The
mother of Ann Role then came forward, and addreff
ed the Court. She Paid that fhe had procured a place
for her daughter fome time ago, and that the had
gone home to her fervice, where the hall no doubt flue
would have remained, had fhe not been enveigled and
feduced to leave it by Mary Wood. She had fre•
quently heard her daughter talk of Wood, but the
herfelf knew nothing of her. When (he deferted her
fervice, in company with Wood, (be was a whole
week away, (trolling about the town, and fleeping in
the fields. The Jury found them both Guilty.
Mr. Matewaatec, in paging fentence on Ann
Itofe, expatiated on the enormity of the offence (he
had committed. He told her, that milers the altered
hek tonduet, the was in the high road to dal-la:lion,
and that ruin would attend her in this world, and in
the world to come. He fhould, however, if poffiblet
endeavour to corral her line of life, and he hoped
that the imprifonment fhe would have to undergo,
along with the inftruetions of a Clergyman, which he
fhould take care to have for her, would fend her
again, into the world, with her mind pure and un
tainted by vice. She was ordered to be imprifoned
fit months.
the CHAIRMAN next addreffed Mary Wood, whom
he confidered as completely incorrigible, although fo
young. Her condos% was bale and deteftable, in
!educing the other little girl to become a partner in
her villanies, and it was impoffible that the Court
could pronounce a mild fentence upon her. from
the regard he had to fotiety, it wash's duty as a man,
to affift in expelling fuch charaters from it ;—but
fitting there, vetted as he was, with the authority of,
the law, it was his bounden and imperious duty, as
a Magitlrate to do fo. He then fentenced the Defen-
dant to be tranfported beyond feas, for the term of
fere* years.

Liceates.—Wednefday.dre jullices for the Tower
Hamlets met at the Court Houk in Wellclofe-fquare,
for the put pole of granting Licences in the Paid dif
tria for the caning year. Among others that were
applied for,
Mr. Asrxer, jun. petitioned their Worfhips to
grant him a licence to perform tbofe kind of enter-
tainments at the Theatre in Well-greet, Wellclofe
fquare, which he ufually performs during the furn-
mer months at his Amphitheatre, near Weßminfter-
Bridge. As loon as this application was made known,
Dr. THILWALL rofc, and, after a few prefatory
words, prefented a petition to the Magiftratesagainft
granting the Paid licence to Mr. Astert, jun. The i
petition was read from the Bench by one of the Ma-
gillrates ; and the general purport of it was, an ob-
jeaion to fuch entertainments, as firongly and deeply
I ijitrious to the cook of morality, and highly incen-
tive to the commillion of all kinds of vice, viz. im-
piety, fornication, adultery, thievery, robbery, bur-
glary, and almoft every other crime to which human
nature has ever been fuppofed to be infligated by the
arch enemy and deceiver of mankind.
Mr. Aeesy, the Cowrie!, was alto heard againft
it, and made a (port argument on the general worth
of the Stat. to Geo. 11. which prohibits plays, operas,
farces, or othfr rairrtainmentr of fixity, without a li
cane.
The Magiftrates were, however, of opinion, that
the law had long been fettled as to the operation of
the general words of that ftatute; and as the petition
was founded only on a general fuppofition of the ten-
dency of fuch entertainments, without any evidence
of fuch confequences having nativity refulted from
them, they granted the licence to Mr. Asr ex v, jun.;
there being twenty-three for it, and only ten againfl it.
FlRES.—Wcdnefilay the neighbourhood of New
Crane, Wapping, was ♦iolently alarmed, by a caul-
dron, containing 6 cwt. of pitch, boiling over. The
flames were however (mothered, after three hours ex-
ertions of the firemen, die. by throwing earth on them,
as water from the engines only appeared to increale
their fury.
lucidity a fire broke out at Mr. Hind's, Twine-
fpinner, High-lireet, Shadwell, fuppofed to have been
occaficned by a (park from a candle falling among
Come flax, whereby the interior of the houfe was
much damaged, mid a quantity of Has and hemp con-
fumed.
, Thurfday a fire broke oot at the hook of Mr.
BOYDI, rope-maker. Shalldon, near Teignmouth,
owing to a (park of fire falling on fome hemp. The
flames communicated to lix other dwelling-houfes,
and a did-eating chapel ; and the whole were nearly
burnt to the ground.
NIAILOOROOGN svatev.--Weclnefday lag, at this
Office, Maria, a black female fervant charged her
znitlrefs, a very elegant looking young lady, with
robbery and affault ~ Rated, that Calar, her black
fellow-fervent, when leaving town with his mailer,
gave his trunk containing his clothes into her care,
and that her mute's Witted on taking it from her,

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and fent it away in fpite of her ; upon„ remonflrating
with her, her miflrefs Bruck her, and ufed her very ill.
—The young lady in her defence Paid, that the had
taken Maria nut of charity ; the had been a negro
flave, and difcharged by her late mifirefs„without
any friends to recommend her. She had had feveral
letters from Crfar's mailer, dire ling that the would
fend his clothes, as he did not know how long he
lhould be abfent, and wifhed particularly that Czfar
(Ilaid have his livery ; when the was about to follow
;bele direftiuns, Maria abufed her grofsly, refufed to
give up the trunk, and threatened to (wear a robbery
againll her, if the took them.
The Lady was then dilcharged, and the magillrate
having given the. black vvoni.iii a fevere reprimand
for her inficnce to her kind miiirefs, advifed that
the fhould he paid whatever wages might be due to
rer, and be difmilfed.
On Smt nt daT fennight the wife of %labouring man
was al:p.hendeJ ;n a cellar, in Liverpool, having in
her pt.i.i.,...G:icounterfcit laver to the amount of near
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