Star.
London, England, 1804-10-24 00:00:00

EPIGRAM.

♦ Colond, by Clsronicks, tau it appears,
la Kyle give a feed to his Crack Volunteers;
The dills.. were good, but the gliffes fo knoll,
His Heroes could feared), drink any at all.
The Commandant thus to his right and left wing
Said, " Gentlemen, thaw, let us drink to the King!"
A jolly Sub. eying his glaf, at the time,
Cried, " Colonel, there's hardly enough for a tripe."

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yetlerday Mr. 7 hangar Hanford was indi&ed for
two different affaults on Emilia Dickron, a young
girl of about eighteen years of age.
Mr. Guam Tv, Counfel for the prorogation, in
opening the cafe, Rated, that common as this fpecies
of affault unfortunately was, the prefent was not one'
or a common or unimportant nature, but was ag-
gravated by many Rrong and peculiarly aggravating
circumftances. The profecuteix was a young, beau-
tiful, and inexperienced girl. The Defendant, who
lefrom his profeffi..in mutt be fitppofed not fo ignorant
las others commonly charged with fimilar offences,
was a married man with a family, bound, as the
matter of the Profecutrix, to pritea her from infult
and injury, not to (educe, nay force her, ia•o guilt
and infamy. The Defendant, he maintained, ought
to feel thankful that; inftead of now (landing at that
bar, he had not been indi&ed for his life before ano-
ther tribunal.
Emilia Dickson faid fhe was about nineteen years
of age, and had been fervant to the Defendant from
March to June laft. The Defendant was a printer,
in Nessmanftreet, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and had a
wife and two children. She related the circumhances
of the two different Oinks fpecified in the india-
ment, and depofed that fhe bad riot given her con.
lent. In accounting for the mode in which the
efcaped from her matter's chamber on the evening of
the t6th Junk! when he did not accomplish his ob-
I jeR, the laid that fhe had found the key of the room
II door in his pocket, with which the had unlocked it.
That the gill had been injured was proved by two
,furgeons and by her mother, to whom the had corn-
planted the day after the fccond affault, which took
I place on the t9th.
In defence, Mr. Comae contended, that fo far from
having efcapcd from the D..tendant's bed chamber
on the 16th, by means of a Ley found in the pbckzt
of theDetendant, the door had no lock which ad-
mitted of a key. In evidence of which fa& he had
ordered the lock to be taken off and produced in
Court. He could alfo prove, from the teftimuny of
Mrs. Haufard's filler, that nn force had been ufed
againtt the girl, fhe having conical to that lady
that fhe had voluntarily gone to bed with the De-
-1
lendazit.
Mrs. Thredder, filler to Mrs. Hanfard, was ac-
cordingly adduced, who confirmed the itatement of
Mr. Conk, having put the guanine to the girl at
the requeft of her mother ; to whom, however, lise
at the fame time admitted, the had never communi-
cated the retult, even to the moment the was then de-
posing.
Mr. Thredder, the hufband of the witnefs, alit
deputed that be had taken Ott the lock produced from
the door of the Delcndant's chamber, not, however,
lance the commencement oldie trial, hut, as lie de-
'poled, on Sat:lst:lay lath It was proved, too, that
there were different doors to the apartment.
After an appropriate charge from the Chairman,
in which he (hewed tine impotlibility of applying to
the depot-mon of the prolecutrix the fait of the luck
taken off by Thredder on Saturday,
The Jury, after a few minutes eccifultation, found
the Defendant CuAr.
He was then recommitted, to be brought up for
Lenience on a future day.
!Valiant RiPerr, th. was indiacd for affaulting
Elizabeth *Mahon. It appeared that the prole-
nitric was cock to the Defendant, who was a gen-
tleman of property, and kept a bachelor's houle in
York-buildings,l3aker-fireet. One day the prolecu-
Iris, by her matter's permiillon, had been fiom home
and returned about ten o'clock at night, when the
houfekeeper &Cited the would prepare a pair of fowls
tor flapper, as her Mader expeeted company. This
order was countermanded about twelve o'clock,
wheat 11 r mailer cam: down to the kitchen, and
Wonted ler in very profs language, afking her, was
it the who hotrAht the (craggy veal for dinner ? lie
(truck the table with violence, and threw the candie
down ; he alien ordered her to go up to bed ; tat im-
mediately followed her up, and whik fbe was in the
aft of uttdrefling, he (wore at her, calling her an im-
piol..or b—fi, and 41..cd her, did (he Ray up to Itf-
tett F lle then kited her by the wail, and dragged
her with great • ao!.:nce down three pair of hairs,
by which lot limbs were much hi oiled and hurt : it
Was then between twelve and one at night, and he
irsfailed the fhould insmediately leave the houfe. She
eitlcd, not kti.wing where to i.oa at that late hoar;
he then '. t kcd her up in the kitchen, where lie re.
:named all mills , and the next mowing made her
escape dirt loth 'he p t:thn, and what to her fillet's ;
the 1114414 nt ha. F.i.tcr., where he had feired her by
the level Al Jas.. She Command
Lens bet. r. tic Magma ces is.,—..Oreet, when he
a. kur.v.ledg .1 he 1,..d ui J tar 111, and said he had
left a one rn! l'• nie, •au. x with her wa
0140. .1.• • .....1114...:1!.! ;.•: as fie had brought him
h. r gee l'• • • ny. Site was mita-
% at* dt!.',;-,:-! t': p. :•,n: f h-r st-1 :es at Hol•
horn. e jetty 1,,:n4 th- Defer 2.. ant coltr, and
the Cohn Le:wired /mm t.' pi) a 4frc 44 tsc.