Star.
London, England, 1803-04-21 00:00:00

MIDDLE.SE7E SESSIONS, APRIL so.

THI Lao W. JARRAT.—This trial gave rife to
a good deal of amufement, and involved points of
law of the fief! importance.
Mr. Common Stataawr Elated that this was an
indictment again& the defendant, for an *fault
upon his with.
Mrs. Jarrat then appeared in the witnefs box.—
She is a very handfome and very genteel looking
woman, feemingly under 30. She was very much
alreited, and wept bitterly. The Counfel for the
Crown was leading her to give an account of all
her old grievances—but
Mr. CuawooD, for the Defendant, properly in.
filled that the should confine her evidence to the
fuppofed affault, charged in the indietment. She
then•ftated, that having rated the fervant girl for
Raying too long in Mr. J.'s bed room, be came out
and took the girl's part. An altercation took place
between them, and at laft he pulled her about by
the hair of the head and cruelly ill-tifed her. On
her crofs examination, fhe Paid the was not jealous,
and die allowed that the had thrown a fieve at her
huthand's head.
Mr. Cuawoon,in a very witty fpeeeh, defended
Mr. Jarrat, and the cattle of hatbands. He main-
tained that by the law of England the hatband has
a right to adminifter moderate caftigation to the
wife, as well as to the other members of his fami-
ly. Some Judges had taken upon themfelves to
overrule this principle, but without any authority,
either in reafon or statute. It tended highly to
the peace of families, that the paterfamilias should
be invefted with abfolnte power over all his houfe-
hold. Had no attempt been made to abridge the
marital prerogative many of the difputes among
the common people, and much of the profligacy
in high life might probably have been prevented.
The law to be fare talked of a thumb Rick, and a
hatband mull not exceed the bounds of modem
lion. But there was no reafon to fuppofe that the
defendant had exceeded the OR b..unds of his au-
thority. The evidence of Mrs. Jarrat was without
the fmallefl corroboration, and this was the only
cafe in which the evidence of a wife againft her
hatband is even admiffittle. As the can never be
free from the ftrongell attachment or the moll
violent awe:Troth it was very properly rejeCted.—
This was not only the opinion of I lad biter Lawler:
but of the bell judges of human nature and human
life. Mr. C. here very happily introduced a quo
tation from Fielding, where this illitatious
pays a compliment to the law pf England in
forbidding the teftimony of Mrs. l'.trti iJgc to be
received to the convillion of Mr. Pirtridge ; oh.
Iferving, that if a women likes her I.o:bstiol the will
(wear any thing for him. and if hats him, the
will (wear Any thing againit h:m. Mr J. had, in!
fa& behaved very gently cuntidering his provoca
lions, which were great, thotE,li perhaps he could
not explain them to others.
Mr. lAA swaatmc, in his charge to the Jury, ex-
claimed with great indignation againil filch dan.
gernus doftrioes. The fair fez required our pro.
tenon—but we were to prate& them, not by
(tripes and Wows, but by leading them from error
by oar advice, and Welding them from danger by
our courage. Whatever might have been the cafe
. in former tiorv, the marriage tie certainly di,' not

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nowt ferment their ttiet4ldmi:!.
;1 t Ifitt
had hem clearly provedom4-14 ticle444l) 0; he:
not no/1;61y be acqui;:ee!.—ii'zz.liats
Mr. Jarrat %vas afltuel uti Le do? •
He affured the court thif tr?
etl his wife with great fondo±fs', and rh:tt he 11:11•
entertained for her the warstrit attachment. Aire
offered to take her home again. s
Mrs. J. maintained that he was t bale man. 22:44
that (he would never live with him more.
Some time was granted for artangibg a *treat.
between them ; it being •anderionti that if the
fendatt fatisfies the pi-oft:en! tix, the mattes-will
not be again heard of ; but ir iie wilbnot du what
is teafunable, that he nmil be fait to ntitielveli.—
The Court was prodiglem!y •

Yetlerday morning, about &et.. a mirerable
looking old woman was t•as.4il be the w.ttchmAn its
Lumber-court, near the keen Dials, with a large
bag on her shoulder. filled with vations articles
wearing apparel, which the raid the had purehafeff
from feveral perfons, being a dealer in old clories.
The watchman took her to the watch !xec, wens
the was examined, wh,o her bag was lous/ tisiaea
silk cloaks, grille, tiockings, andlive.
ral other articles of both:: linen, bcgdes all the np.7
paratus for honk breaking—crow bar, pie* Inc s,.
dark lanterns, pholphorous bottle, and matches._„,.
She was brought to the Public Oillce, in Great
Marlborough-itrect, yeilerday to be examieee'r
when it was difeovered that all the abcve articles'
had been Nolen the night before from a houfeln
Well-tireet, when the family were ageep, by fame
thieves getting in at the wiedows-of the attic gory..
from the leads beleoging to the ,nest ,and
who, by means of vieldocks, ()petted al! the dr.orier,,.
and cat vied off every moveable article. She would
not difeover her ACOMPOOneeI‘ anti was flllty Com.
mitred for trial under slit name of Satoh Franklin,
She fometimes goes by the name of klaillips, ar.d:
is upwards of yo years.
eat the affizes for the Connartglit Circuit,
land, only one capital convielicia took pla& upon:
the whole mut-.-this was tire cafe of a fellmw who
had conceived fome jealoufy agaiati his wife, era•
whom he had been about three weeks married,.
he had decoyed her into a geld where he krangled*
her, and then laid het in a ditch ; the inerder wee
fome time undifenvered, but infpiciens huisg
arifen. and the body being found, tome grottgAre.
cumgances arofe. upon which the prisoner was
found guilty, on Friday le'nuight, and ordered tee
be hanged the follawing day.
Saturday fe'nnight, a very melancholy affair
happened in Galway.—it man timed James Mal;
boy, laid to have been an old (Zinc, but by tea**
hatter, had tome words with his wife, and beiri.
heard tie ing her a vety revere kat i eg at the time,*
foldier and a woman rat Eng hy,entered thehout4
to make enquiry of the mite t and, if pollibbe, Os.
vent further ,villain took tsp 4 :s4sj.
which he had in the room (e fimetparlour)
which was loaded with !tuts; and dig harped it
aping the perfons who had thus attempted to
interfere. whereby the foldier and woman were
both inffantly killed, and a gentleman paging be
was feverely wounded. two of the guy hexing
lodged in his arm. The offeoder •ittemptal
conceal himferf by hiding under a bed, bulb/ jfib
immediatelr taken, and conunitted to ga*,
abide hit Mel.

Yetterday feanight, about ten o'clock, 4'e
Ilwar, for horfe-Realing, and gobs *Pill, for halt
breaking, were executed at llcheller, fpurfua,t to
their (entente at the late Affixes for
Pigott behaved with great penitence and dtvothlini
but Hunt appeared much leis concerned; hanesser,
they took an affectionate leave of each other Fr?.
vious to their being turned oEs. Though esetutss
for different offences. they had long been coet.
ranions in their nefarious pradices ; and it is fa ii
they have made confeflions of much important I,
the promulgation of which would at prefsat:par.
bably defeat the ends of juilite.
On the night of the 4th intl. an atrocioaataik
ditti attacked the houfe of one Hake' on tike tad,
of Granane, eounty of Tipperary,andaviivredthidu
imprecations, their intension of bariurcaiity.olii.
treating him. His wife, in the Atop's. of pistil%
time for his efcape through,, lAck winfiJos. AD.u•
the door, in order to retard thcif entri-nel, &hes
by intreaty or oppontion. and in this. fetidly foe
hertelf, the poor aiding...m.4mi Afew minutes rap
cefsful; but the roilcreants having at lengthforced
the door, were fo infuriate at hazing been bafiled
-of their pre determined objed, that they wretitegi
their vengeance on the helpleft wife, thnsigh in ski
hell Rage of pregnmicy,and with tviins,whokbirtii
was thus nntirnay caufed; the furvired their lulus:
manity but the enfuing morning.