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London, England, 1810-12-06 00:00:00

dunred for the last seven years. He offered in truth MIDDLESEX SEiSIOAre
£25, by way of paying it. The Jury would be sur- s---.
prised to hear the circumstances under which the bill! Yeetordat, Thome: naploa, a Butcher, wka lives
was tun up. It was not for feeding voteri,kitt tor. near the turnpike, Islington Road, was ptMo the
the neceisary objects of the election. ' Mr. nier's•i bar, charged with assaulting a Gentleman of.the Leet
house was respectable, and out pf the way of the tu- Jury.—lt appeared in evidence, that the Centlerhan,
Alit which naturally occurred at an. election. Mr. in the prosecution of his duty, went to the defendant's
Johnson was in Mr. Tierney's interest, and that shop, where he detected two weights deficient, and
Right Honourable Gentleman applied to him for the consequently seized them. This excited the anger of
use of his apartments. Johnson refused, as not wish- the defendant, who, in the most violent manner as-
ing to have his'house the scene of riot, which a house sailed him; and beat him outrageously.
for voters generally is. Mr. Tierney particularly re.• There was an attempt to palliate the offence, but
quested of him to give up a few rooms, for the mete in this the Counsel for the defendant totally failed,
accommodation of a few clerks, necessary fbr carry- and he was, without the least hesitation, found Guilty.
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mg on the business of the election. Those clerks Mr. Wal•stax, the Magistrate, who sat- as locum
staid in the house frequently all day and all night, tenens for Mr. Mainwaring, in terms of severe repro-
min('b ) and drinking on the order of Mr. Tierney • i ' bation, animadveted on the defendant's conduct, ob-
and after all, Johnson was moderate enough to re- , serving that his crime was greatly enhanced, because,
strict himself to a charge by which any man might : in the commission of it, he had been guilty of an at-
see that it was next to impossible he could make the I tack upon one whom the law and the constitution-hasr
ordinary profit of his business. Mr. Tierney con2i in its wisdom rendered sacred, as long as he was per-
trived to resist the application for seven years, and i forming the duties of the important task de Member
the action was now brought to make him pay his bill. t of a Leet Jury, who are in fact thz guirdians• of the
The waiter, and a female, hclor -ing to the Circus - ii:st the frauds of dealers. He was

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or Equestrian Coffee-lieuse, proved the cheapness of
the items in the bill, and the delivery to the order of
Mr, Tierney.
Mr. Russell, one of the principal Poll Clerks en
the..clection,gave evidence, that the order for supply:
ins tlie'clerks had been given
.by Mr. Alcock, the
prtaCipal.managir for Mr. Tierney ; that Mr. Alcock
and witness had dined with the clerks on particular
days, when they all had wine furnished by Johnson ;
that one evening- Mr. Tierney with some of his Com-
mittee and witness, drank tea in the Coffee-house ;
that no one attempted to pay ; and that the charge
was added to the bill, as by regular custom. •Wit-
ness was a clerk, but never paid for any thing which
he got in the Circus Coffee-house;'Nefullynnderstan-
ding that it.was to be paid. for By Mr. Alcock, mn
Mr. Tierney's account. Mr. Alcock had the ma-
nagement of his own parish, and witness that of Su'
George's, during the election. The clerks nommen-
' ced their operations at Johnson's three days before
the election, and continued them for some days after.
The election was in 1803. An order was hung up in
some of the houses where the voters were, to allow of
no scores being run ; but Johnson's house had no--I
thing to do with the voters, though, as Johnson was'
the friend of Mr. Tierney, lie allowed the clerks to
have the use of his house, and for their particular
purposes threw three of his apartments into one. The
bill was extremely moderate for the eating and drink-
ing, without taking in the attendance and the rooms.
Benjamin Wilmot applied to Mr. Alcock for pay-
ment of the bill ; Mr. Alcock said he would see it
settled. The bill was so moderate, that he, witness,
told Mrs. Johnson he would pay it himself rather
than a widow should lose her money. Her very
charge for the rooms ought to have risen to the full
amount of the bill.

poor, agar_ . petty
sentenced to One Mouth's imprisenment in Coldbath
.Fields. •
.Thomar Wren was next putto the bar,-charged with
violently assaulting Leonard M'Nally, and Hannah
his wife. -
From the statement of Mr. BAttav, Counel for
the prosecution, it appeared that the defendant ha 4
conducted himself in a way wholly unbecoming.a
man, and an Englishman; that his behaviour ids
wanton, outrageous, and unprovoked.
His Counsel, Mr. GLEen, endeavoured, byiit in.
geilions address to the Jtny to palliate the offence;.
bat, without hesitation, they pronounced him guilty,
and he was sent, to quiet the turbulence of htstern.
per, to the care of Mr. Adkins, the new Governor of
the House of Correction, Coldbath Fields
Several cam of trifling assaults were heard, and
the Court was adjourned to hear the remainder, until
Friday next.

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BONA R Teil new Conscription For the Conquest or
Spain evinces a suspicion of his Officers,• or why se-
lect his Staff from forty-four departments for the four
divisions of the two hundred thousand troops, unless
he has taken the hint from the arrangement of the 44
Capitals in the Plan of the State Lottery for February
next, which has 4200X0 in Prizes, including
Twenty Thousands.
Tuesday night, J. Selby, alias Country Jack, alias
Long Jack, was charged at Bow-street, with uttering
a fictitious 45 note, on the Southampton and Hamp-
shire Bank. The prisoner purchased a brushfor 3s. 61
at the shop of Mrs. Bosbury, at Chelsea, for which
be gave the note in question, in the name of Nicbolc,
and received among the change 10s. worth of half-
pence from Miss B. ; but on =hewing it to her mother
it was discovered to be a bad one, of which the pri-
soner denied any knowledge and returned the chnngt
except the halfpence • at this time Nichols the officer
happened to pass, and while Miss B. was detailing
the circumstance to him, the prisoner walked off, but
was speedily secured, and 28s. fid. in silver found
upon him. He was fully committed for stealing the
halfpence, when he behaved most outrageously, and
would not quit the bar till carried out by six of
the patrole.
Yesterday a Mr.Drozu was charged at the Mansion
House, with assaulting and presenting .a pistol at J.
Leversack, who stated, that in passing through Fen-
church-street, the night previous, the prisoner shoved
him from the wall with such violence as attracted
the notice of a watchman, who desired him to pass
on ; but this he peremptorily refused, and presented
a pistol at the complainant, when he gave charge of
him ; and at the watch-house a brace of pistols (not
loaded) were found upon him.—Mr. D. stated, that
he was a gentleman, and lived at Kennington ; that
he was walking on the right side, when the com-
plainant wished to take the wall of him, and that be-
ing himself intoxicated, he rashly produeed7a pistol,
for which he professed his sorrow. The Lord Mary
said, that so trifling an object by no means j ustified such
violent conduct, and desired him to procure bail.
Yesterday T. Hayden, sen. T. Hayden, jun. J. Hay-
den, and P. Taylor, were charged-at Hatton-garden Of-
fice, with stealing a large quantity of wheat, from the
premises of Mr. Vaughan, of Baker-street, Enfield,
which was found ia the possession of the senior pri-
soner ; but owing to the absence of a material witness
they were remanded.

Mr. JEKYLL,. for the defendant, said he was instruc-
ted that he had a witness who would negative all
that Vas said about a general order being given for
Lthe feeding of the clerks. That witness (who was Mr.
lAlcock) had been called, but he did not appear.—
The cause must then be given up.
Lord ELLENBOROUOII, after some brief remarks on
the nat,tre ni the cherges, directed the Jury to find
i for the full demand—M.7 6s. O'd.

The wife of a gentleman of fortune at Liverpool,
charged yesterday, at Marlborough-street Office,
Pitman, shoe-maker, in King‘:,g.tte-street, Holborn, and
his wife, Mary Jones, his servant, and another man,
with a most violent assault. The prose:atria had
purchased a pair of shoes at the shop of th^ defen-
dants on Tuesday evening, and returned with her
daughter to purchase seven pair on the following
morning, when she was charged with the theft, and
searched, together with her daughter, in the most in-
decent manner. No property was found about them,
but Pitman called a constable, who positively refused
to take charge of the ladies. The defendant then con.
fined then) both in a room, anij, aided by the other
three persons, he committed another assault of the
most ofTeni,ive kind. The defence was, that a theft
had been committed the preceding night, and the pro-
secutrix was suspected. Mr. PLAISTOW, the Magis.
trate, after expressing his abhorrence at the conduct
of the defendants, ordered them all to find bail.
A few days since a parcel, containing £75 in local
notes, which was sent from a banking-house in Tewks-
bury to Cirencester, was purloined, and a sheet of
brown paper, neatly packed up, substituted in the
place, and delivered as directed.

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Ihe mail-coach, which runs between Caller and
Cashel, has lately been twice stopped and fired on, in
the neigkbourhood of Grange.
A few days since"as a servant girl, 17 years of age,
named Stewart, was going from Glasgow to Balqu-
bidder, she was attacked by a man, with &foreign ac.
cent, knocked down, beaten, and robbed of a bundle
of cloaths and .ss: in silver. A short time after the
villain returned, and again beat her in a most barba-
rous manner, and threw over a dyke into a p'ark, where
sh 2 was found lying speechless, next day, by some
farmers, otherwise she, no doubt, would have died on
the spot they imniediately .carried her to an adjoin-
ing house. Except a word or two, which she unin-
telligibly uttered soon after a cordial was given to her,
it was 24. hours betige.gic vtAtl Live any account di
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