Star.
London, England, 1816-07-11 00:00:00

SPOR7 /NG !NIT L LIGEN.JR.

NEWMARKET JULY Mlrla,a. fete.
WLDNEtAIMY. JULY 111,
Handicap Sweepstakes of 15gs. rack, for the beaten horses to
tlvi July Nakvs. T.Y.C.
Wynitham's bay Lilly, by 00hallrla, Wt. f!lb.
Mr. Craven's bay filly, by Canopus, sit. 41b. -

Duke of ltutlantri, co't; by W.Llton. l't.
to L agst Mr. Wytid.'.ani's fi ly—:: ru i agst Mr. Craven's filly.
Evert on the Duke of ktolao.i's colt.
liane.:cup Sweepstakes of ttirteit, if decTired
st rhil a quarter of an hoar alter the wog:it...re ; for
:t-yr oils and upwards. R.M.
/,,e,.; Sullieitl's Cotwrs-, 4 yr,.01 I. m,:. •
Lon.; G. H. Caveto!‘o4% ayr.okL, 74t. 101 b.
Lord Jertey'r. Skti.:rr :4;0, as!. • a 3
Doke of Rutland'. thutan, 3. y first.
Mr. Shak,spr.ar's Donkey, 4-ymnitl, 7st. Ittilti
Dult:t of Grafton 's 111,try Arleew, 131 b.
force paid— I he Jo.lo Liu: three.
sto 2 apt Congress-6 to I :lot ;01d,.r0 It g—F.ven betting on
Slender Billy.
The Towts Plate of ,C5O, for 3.1r-o!ti colts, Nat. (lb. fillies, Bst•
Last Mile and a Distance of B.C.
Lord Foley's filly Dorm's, by :ilk 1)41,1(1 - - I

. . . .
Mr. libbit's bay filiy, by Cirvil:e . • 2
Lord Maynard's brown colt Pauitakon• :: -
Mr. Vilbcrs's brown colt Crusader, by cit. David • 4
7 10 4 on Duentia.

There are two very old lines, which give n very
apposite picture of the late War and the prerrat Peace—
Then comes the reriettiog when the hanqueeft
'the drvatiful rrck'st.titg, at.d men std: Lt.) more!

The weathet proving tine yesterday afternoon,
Hyde Park was thronged with carriages and pedes
trians. The rit:e was honoured with the PitiNye
IteuasT, the Duke ul CUMBERLAND, and PlittCr
LEOPOLD.

Monday evening, a fine girl, eleven years of age,
was run over I'y the Pitisce Iteuxx•l's carriage, in
13eak-street, Sw:.ilow-street. The popul ice 1011,,t,e,1
the carriage, and the Ramorr, IA: being informs-al of
the misfortune, sent back a tootruan to take care of
the child. •
Tuesday, a grand Cricket Kttch was played on
the Eton Play-field, between eleven of the young
Gentlemen of Eton College, and eleven of the Bal.
lingdnn C11:1), which WAS won by the latter by an
inning and eiOtt tans.
The came day, a grand Cricket Match was played
at ltickinan,wGrtt., between the Windsor and Eton
Junin:. Clubs, aid the ltickmansworth Club, eleven
on each side. Afar much excellent play, the match
was won by the• former, having three wickets to
spare. The Windsor and Efon first innings, 100;
second innings, seven wickets, 49. The Rk.kmaus.
worth's first innings, 70 ; the secs nd innings, 77.
BLACKIR LATH Pk.ro.4l.ltlAbl( S7th Day.)—The fine
weather of yesterday, particulasly towards the even-
ing, attracted 'tumbrils of persons to the Heath, to
witness the continued exertions of &won, who this
morning, shortly after eight o'clock, completed 876
miles. Betting, at pteseutp is in his favour.

• •
• . INTALIGENCIi: •
•
MIDDLESEX SESS lONS.
CHIMNEY-SWtEPER'S bRUELt`r.
Th 4 Case of -William Moles, x master almney.
sweeps+, who was lately tried at the Old Bliley
Sessions, on a charge of Murder, in having caused
the death of his apprentice, J,ifin llewlings. by re-
peated acts of cruelty, and ot which charge he was
acquitted, was yesterday tried at Hicks's Hall, on
an indictment fo'r vilently asstulting, at the several
times there;n named, the said John Hewlings, to
answer Which he was detained in custody on his ac
quittal from the former charee at the Old Bliley.
The Prisoner • pleaded Not Guilty to the present
arrAignment. •
Mr. ‘VaLporto stated the case for the prosecution,
in a plain and affecting manner. The prisoner, he
said, stood charged with having Created with great
violence and cruelty a child tangoed John Hewlings,
who had• been his apprentice. It was due to the
prisoaer at the bar to state, that he had recently been
tried and fully acquitted, in another place, upon a
capital charge connected with this transaction ; it be-
came the dory, therefore, to cast from their minds
every thing which they had previously heard on this
affair—to look on the prisoner as fully exonerated
from the heinous na•nee with which he had been at
first charged—and to direct their attention wholly
3ad exclusively to the consideration of the subject
then immediately 1:-fore them, and decide ace irding
to the evidence which they would then hear in its
support. Tnis evidence as he was instructed)
prove four disti.:ct instances of cruelty on the part of
eau prisoner, tow:aids apprentice, ',I Jai Hewlings,
a boy about Joe ran. of age. The first had been
committed in the house of a Mrs. Reeves, in Sitit el
tieids, to which the boy had been taken by his mas-
ter, early last April, to sweep the chimney. \%
in the act.of &int; this, a M,5. Wart, who lodged
in the hone, hni Iced screams, attsl the sound
of the blows (31 pertoo, as it beatin4 another. On
}Ting to the room which tl.e noise issued, she
found the pris4ose, be.stiag the boy, and forcim: lam
up the cia:riney, and fi4t.li:44g hi. coercion inellectaal,
dragginr, feat down Ilona it, a:id dashing hint on the
The secoad eistance tt'4, hi cit• .01
4 Mrs. Chan4,iler. W:lit:•(- h !wr e the boy, in
' a,cending the a:l:mini, stuck in the flue, from
cables periinos sitnati 4o he • was extlicateil by the
prisoner. and that reade:ed senseless by a blow
which knocked Lon against a chest of drawers in the
Loom. The third instance was in thesprisoner's own
house, where a Mr. Rohs, a passenger, hall over-
bend violent scieamlng from a child, and, on hives-
tigating the cause, mound that the prisoner and his
wife had been ! .reat.ng the buy unineicifully. fah.
lt,,lts was also grossly ahu.sed by the patties for his
interposition. Toe fourth instance was where a Mts.
Craig, who lived next door to the prisoner, laid help
ed his wife (.Item she found in a state ot intoxica-
tion) home, %Otte %fie Imuld time poor boy stretchirsi
on time 1.4,494 4thiil, and not able to put One in his legs
down. I; was gteatly swelled, amid when the boy
could not am it, the prisoner 111;eil hint up, .tod let
him fall to the ground. T. stub 'accusations lie
could nut anticipate what defence se onid be ma‘le.---
Perhaps it may Ise, that the statement of witnesses
• was untrue, or that the prilonsr bad' only exercked
!his undoubted riAt of i,:flicting reasonable corset-
tiomt wet his am prentice. If stress were laid on the
'former, in the event of its introduction, }:e lad only
to Fay. that the witnesses were unconnected with
each oilier, or with the 'rimer, aio.l that their per-
jury (if it should so apprar) %Aso! a most singularly
•ii;•nterestei kind, FLN could not have the slightest
sn erest in orig4aating this plostcution. It the Latter
wale the groui4d of defence, lie would have no diffi-
culty in rendesing it untenable, by proviog that the
violeice used was not re leonahle correction, but un-
justifiabie crucity. "! he Learned Gentleman con-
cluded by imi)ressing atiamu non the Jury, the duty
at taoishing I:44in their miads every thing cornice.
ied with r',e p'risoner's case, save that which would
come be!ore them in thlt day's discussion.

The lira witness was Elizabeth Ware, examined
t)y Mr. Watson)). Ste lived at No. IS, Prima:i-
-s reet, Spitaltields. On the '2.1 of Apia last, the
prisoner came t' erg with a boy, between five and
six years of ate, to smeep the chimney. They went
commroce the work in a room over her head, and
shortly atter she was alarmed by the violent scream-
ing of a child for hdp—titi sci eamifig was accom-
panied by the sound of hln.cs (sr *laps. Ott hearing
this she called Mr. Reeves to go up stairs and see
what was the matter, following herself immediatAy
as soon as sl.e could (tlie witness being indisposed at
that time, as she w only a week out of her lying.
in). On enteriog the room up stairs she beard the
boy crying b•tierly, and exclaiming a. Olt cleat!"
and found the prisoner stooping and striking. at him
up the chimney with great vi .letice. %Vanes, was
shocked at seeing such an outrage, that ,he et:-
dared were it not for her illness, she would go out
to the next Magistrate and procure an informaticm
against him, observing that no apprentice ought to
be treated so. pris riser said he was no appren-
tice, and palled him down the chimney on the hearth,
severe the back of his head sir uck with greats iulence.
Oil seeing this, s:se came down stairs to her own
apartments, being apprehensive that remaisticg any
longer in the cold would do her injury.
On the prisoner being asked whether he had any
question to ask this witness, he said, that whets she
entered die revim, he WAS only lifting the boy up the
cLmney. He denied that he pulled him down at all.
The witness, however, contradicted him, and adhered
to her previous testimony.
Sarah Reeves, examined by Mr. WALSORD.
Sated, that she lived in the same house with the
last witness, anti that on the day stated, she was
called by her to go up stairs, in consequence of the
noise. On entering the room, ,she saw the Prisoner
with his arms extruded up the chimney, and soon
atter saw him draw down the child and let him fall
on the ground all If a lump. She remonstrated with
him on such conduct, and. in her rage, flung the
child's shoes, which lay on the ground, the only
things near her, at his head. He then sent the child
Wthe chimney again—[This happened after 'Mrs.
are quitted the roon3.l!—The infant cried out that
his knees were sores he then drew him down again
by the back part of his small-clothes, and dashed him
upon the hearth (there was no stove there at the
tin:), and swore to the child that he would :ergs kiss
out when he wok him home.—'rhis witness made

Mn. Wait R 8 tinft likha mem It* it,e dioliid
eatth Cold, it befrig but the te4eitth day 61'16- hef
illness.

In reply to nuestintis froth the Cntlit+4 she' stated;
that she never sase the Prisoner before that day: She,
of Course, expostulatei with hird on hit get ; asKed
him whether he was a father ?—he ansti+ert•d ih Ihd
but attempted to justify his severity by
saying, tt.tat he had the b••! more than a month at
stn appretitke, and emild make him do nothing. Ll:te
swore positively as to his having used the words he'd
Jerre him cut when at home.
Anne Chandler, of No. 22, Chicksand•street,
Brick•lane, Whitechapel, deposed, that the Prisonei
came there on the 211 April to sweep their chimney:
He brought with him a little boy, whom he called
Johnny. ,ppareotly abo:n fire years old, and another
about I'2 or 14. He put the child up the chimney;
where the bide thing stuck fib:- upwards of an hour
He sent the other 1).1, wht•in he called David, to
try and 1111•Ve him, withoht t Get ; he called out to
the child, but receiirel no abswc:. Witneis then got
alarmed, and wanted the Prisoner to get a ladder,
and go up to the top of the chimri.ty outside,
at longth bclore this, itowever, he called cut
to the poor child, that if he had to go tip to extricate
him, /a• pull his b—y urn;: out ty t, a rots! He
did at length go up, and somehow Cr other eased the
child trout th.! outside. The eh:ld then came down
try himsch, and stood at the roam-door, waiting until
ht.: ma:ter, wlo !lad gone up from the outside, htl
returned. The moment then Prisoner came back 4
the Timm, be struck ti►c child a blaw with nst,
and knocked him Ilv senseless aitainst a set dr savers
that stood neat him. The witness stated, that at this
bath her'i•l! and a child then in her arms cried.—
'';te boy sslio was struck began to rtcovvr, and as
late wa, br;;in:tittr• to move, Lie. Prisoner gave :jai a
kick which dim': hint a:loss the room to the tire.
place. Ile then tl. ir. J him to pack hp his things,
whilst which he reii-atedly knocked his head
against the brick work 01 the fire-place. He also
kept Chi:chin.; him up no !:r the lace while the little
thing :Itaaped to tie on Its 5!,0..5, and when they were
on be gave hint a thriip, and swore With an oath,
that he'd serve him i-::t when he got him home.
la reply to .1 ques :as. [r•)^t the Clit:itr, the witness
stated, that the last evprcst,:oa was used as the child
was tilt of the r.Surit._

• ....144 Craig, imincd by Mr. WALrottn.
8!u, jives at IS, R.)se-lanc, next dour to OW Pig-
sower, cam! to het ox the 25th of April
last, ant's being drunk, went asleep in :t chair in the
room. The witness shti,,k her, and assisted her
into her own house to put her to bed ; on knocking
At the do.,r for this pt:rpose, received no answer, ort
wtlich site lilted up the latch and entered. The
Prieorivr was then sitting at 'ale s:de of the tire, and
the deceased boy oil t! ,e gruuad at the other. In
about 20 riinutes alter she e,:tele,l, and when she bad
got the wom.tu to bed, she licaid the prisoner tall on
the boy to get up. T.:ie b ,y, pointing to a stick that
lay on the ground, said—. 6 Give me my stick, and I
will." Witness did n previi.usly know t'le boy was
ill, and WAN rut-prised to iiad :n.t !,e could hot raise
himself without a stack. down she wit
that the child's lett iv appeared to he very bad ;
she oh.,.eived to the pissinita, that he ought to get
some .ontm. tit for it. 11., replii!d, i.e had some lac
I ehat purpose, and immediately took down some oil
rand totTe oitititirnt, with wl!!ch he began to rub the
put sitry rpi.V.44—atter svh.clt he desired the
'.t) Ctg an.l wa,k. Tat: boy aaswcred-4t I
Pristine: then lilted tip his icg. and then dashed it on
the ground. Oa witness's renwnstrating with him,
he twok the elpid up and ki.ocked him down again.
10)y t:,eut begged tor some water, and prisoner
answered—', No, ',in shan't have any, you have
been di inking water ail day."
In answer to a question trom the COURT, the wit.
ness stated, that the. prisoner had had ointment for
the child before she suggested thit the stick
appeared to be for his assistance in his Idi
"the boy was cerciinly knocked down by the prim,-
tier, when he loond him usable to walk. Witness
helped the child to a stool iu the room, and then gait-
,ted the

(,:corge !Wits, of No. 96, Wentworthstreet, White.
chapel, derio.ed, that abio,t one o'clock, on the 231
of April, as he was passing iniough hose-lane, he
was attracted by the screaua, and cries of a<. child ea-
claiming—" Muider ! —Mercy 1" issuing Irom the
prisoner's house ; he at the same time heard the
sound Of heavy slaps, as ifs ,inebody was beating.--
listeniog two or 11:ree minutes, he knocked at
'the door. which was not opened road he almost
kicked it in ; the prrioner and his wile the came
out. In answeno witues's (volition, how they could
beat a child so, tinmeicituily the wife said, it was
she who Ilovged him, and that she would du it again.
Witness saw, the child could not be their own, else
they would not be killing it in that manner. Witness
did not s. the child, hut judged its age Irons the
screams lie had heard tronr the outside.

Esthvr Itzubs coliobor.ited' the last witness's testi-
mony, iii all its parts—she also happened to have been
laceinentAy passing at the time.
Tie evidence for the prosecution being closed, the
prisoner Was called un tpr his defence, when he put
.iii a written paper, which was read to the Court. It
commenced by adverting to the many weeks of his
imprisonment, which was the result of a cruel perse-
cution. He met the charge of inhumanity, by a flat
denial of its truth ; he had only inflicted on the buy
the wholesome discipline of a father upon an ithluis.
posed child, or of a rood master on a refractory ap.
prentice ; be wanted to.currect bad habits, which the
boy possessed. HL then alluded to his domestic si.
Illation—to the wretchedness of his wile and child--
and submitted whether IS was likely that he, himself
a father, could be guilty of such an offence. He also
pleaded the general propriety of his previous conduct.
The Coma then summed up the evidence to the
Jury, and observed, that it the witnesses were credible,
the Cabe WAS made out.

The Jary, without a moment'shesitation, returned
a ♦erdict of Guilty.

The CRAIRMAN then addressed the prisoner. He
said, there was no ground upon earth for his insinua.
lion, that he was the victim of persecution. His own
conscience would tell hini4whetlier he was either op.
pressed.or persecuted. His,case bad received a pa:
tient hearing, and be had been convicted of a brutal
assault, which, from its circumstances, went as nearly
as, possible, in point of law, to the crime of a font
mu/des. A little MOM than that for which he bad

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been convicted, could have been only redeemed by
the forfeitttte of his lite. In order to deter other vio-
lent characters, like the prisoner, from the exercise of
cruelty to unhappy and helpless children placed at
their disposal, the Court would inflict upon him the
severest punishment in its power for an assault ; its
sentence was, therefore, that he should be inoritosted
for two rearr.-4This conviction gave the greatest sa.l
tistaction to a crowded Coot t.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 9.
MAU rim woter not v. CIIARLES PEACE.
This was action for damages for the breach of a
promise of marriage. The plaintiff is the widow of a
person fcrnierly engaged in the business of a barge-
builder, and, according to the statement of the Ar-
TrOtNitY•GENtItAll., is of about the age of 40. After
• the death of her husband, having a family to support,
witkout any large means of doing so, she was recom.
mended by her friends to take a house in a respectable
situation for the reception of persons of character as
boarders; and she accordingly established herself in
Mabledon place, Burton.crescent. She became ac-
quainted with the defendant, the inspector of a public
institution, and a man of some property, about nine
years ago, when he became an inm ire of her house.
The defendant had resided constantly in the plain-
tiff's house from that period until within these two
years, when be ceased to be a regular boarder, but
continued a very frequent visitor, mixing with the
society of the house, and compensating the pl,tintitr
by presents of wine, &c. He thus had the fullest op.
portunity of becoming acquainted with the character
mid temper of Mrs. Wteatton, and several years
since made her an offer of marriage, which was
accepted. The day was fixed, the defendant even
took measure of the lady's finger for the ring, and
all circumstances seemed to promise a speedy :-ord
a happy union. About this period Mrs. Woottors
bad been disposed to quit her house, but she forbore,
on the representation of ate defendant, who pointed
oat to her many advantages that would result to her
establishment when he should become the master of
it. Not' long after tke declaration of Mr. Peace, it
appeared to Mrs. Wootton that his spirits fell, and
that he became gloomy and unhappy : the lady in-
quired anxiously the cause of his uneasiness, and the
defendant at last confessed that he had formed an un-
happy illicit connexion with a young woman of bad
character. Mrs. Wootton was not disposed to re.
proach Mr. Peace too severely for an offence that he
made appear almost unintentional, and she recom-
mended that he should make an arrangement by
which this female should be allowed a guinea a week
for her support. She was afterwards informed by.
Mr. Peace that lie had broken off the criminal con-
nexion, and that he was now ready to fulfil the so-
lemn engagement into which he had entered, It
seemed alm-st incredible, but the fact was, that the
defendant was all along cruelly insulting and tortu-
ring the feelings of this lady ; for lie had never broken
off the illicit connexion he had formed, and which fie
pretended so deeply to lament, but had continued it
down to the moment of trial. The Learned Counsel
did not contend that this was a case which• required
vindictive damages, but the plaintiff merited a com-
pensation for the wilful disappointment of her sober
and rational hopes. The promise of marriagp by
the defendant he should be able to prove from
the band-writing of the defendant, who, in the
month of October, had written to the plaintiff in the
following terms

" Dtarat Martha-1 have duly received yours, and I ant
deeply sensible of the observations therein made: he assured that
I ant act unenhidful of what you say„ and I only wl4ll to Con that
the baseness erat sett led : my sentiments are strictly honourable
and just towards you, and that high sense of propriety only has
prevented me from calling in the situation in which I am placed.
ato must anxious to see you, and have been more than once on
the road for that purpose, but my nerves were so distressed that
I could not prdlited. What pity I ever kit your comfortable fire-
aide! I big my kind remembrances to your son and daughter ;
.Sind believe me to etmain, my dearest Martha, your most assuredly
allectior.me. " a. raacc."