Star.
London, England, 1827-12-12 00:00:00

Die of eCid and bunter!

Yet joy to Bartle!—grim, pitiless December,
'Tye. mid thy corm-clouds that our LORD descendedi—
Christnaas is thine, and Man shall rejoice him,
Dark though thy scowl be! Dam.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Dec. 11.

John Cavanagh, aged 17, was indicted for assaulting
John Hus►ey on the King's highway, and stealing from
his person a bag and a pound of tea.
It appeared in evidence that the proseentot, wilco is in
the employment of Messrs. E igietun, of Newgate-street,
was passing through George-street, St. Glee*, on the
SOth of Nov. when he was met by the prisoner and
several other persons, who attempted to take the bag of
tea from him. The prosecutor resisted for some time,
but the prisoner being joined by several others, they
ultimately succeeded in obtaining the tea, after beating
and knocking him down. He got up and ran after the
prisoner, whom he caught, but he was rescued from
him by his companions, who weir about twenty in
number. The prosecutor, however, again* pursued,
caught, and held him until a police officer came to his
assistance.
• The prisoner called a man named Tyson, who contra-
dicted the prosecutor ; but this witness's testimony had
no other effect than to call down the animadversion of
the Judge.•
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The RICCORDZII ordered the prisoner to be brought
up to receive judgment of death.
While the officer was making the usual proclamation
of silence, a female in the gallery screamed aloud, and
asked for mercy. With great difficulty she was removed
by the officers.
The RECORD= then, after dwelling upon the neces-
sity of making examples of those desperate offenders who
infested the streets of the metropolis, and who went
about in gangs, plundering and striking terror into his
Majesty's subjects, proceeded to pronounce sentence of
death upon the prisoner, who seemed utterly amazed at
first, and afterwards implored mercy. The Recorder,
however, told him he could hold out no hopes to him.
George Davidson and Robert Coleman were indicted,
tlle latter for stealing, and the former for receiving,
knowing it to be stolen, a quantity of pig iron, value
421. the property of Alexander Galloway, their master.
Davidson, it appeared, was the clerk of the psosecu•
tor, who is an engineer, and it was his duty to weigh all
the iron that was brought from the %%harts to his em-
ployer's factory, West-street, Smithfield. Coleman was
a carman, also in the prosecutor's employment, and on
the occasion in question he received a delivery ticket
from Davidson for more iron than he brought to the
factory, and it was afterwards discovered that be had
sold it at a foundry in Cow•cross. In tlis case, how-
ever, the Jury were of opinion that Coleman had acted
undo Davidson's orders; and therefore, after some deli-
beration, acquitted the former, and found Davidson—
Guilty. _ _ _

The RECORDER told the Jury, that as Coleman was
indicted as the principal, and Davidson only as an ac-
cessory, it they acquitted Coleman, Davidson must also
be acquitted.—A verdict of Apt Gaily was then re-
corded as to both.

The same prisoners were then tried upon a second
indictment, charging them with respectively stealing
and receiving a quantity of other iron, the property of
the same prosecutor.
In this case it appeared that Coleman had pretended
only to have fetched two loads of it on frcm the wharf,
whereas he had received three; and he acknowledged
that Davidson agreed to pay h m a pound a load for
carrying it to the yard of a publican, who, however,
would not suffer it to remain on his premises.
The Jury found both prisoners Guilty, but recom-
mended them to mercy in consequence of the excellent
character which they both received.
Mr. Galloway joined in the recommendation.
The RECORDEa said be feared the security of masters
against their servants required that the utmost punish-
ment which the law allowed should be visited on the
prisoners in this case, in consequence of the numerous
depredations of this descriptioa which had been com-
mitted of late.

T. Calls, who was convicted in the early past of the
present Sessions of receiving a gelding, knowing it to
have been stolen, was charged with stealing a mare,
the property of a Mr. Richmond, a brewer. The mare,
it appeared, had been stolen from the Isle of Dogs, and
was shortly afterwards traced to the prisoner's posses-
sion near Gosport, when be sold it to a man named
Alvxander. But it appearing doubtful whether the
mare had been sold by the prisoner on his own Wulf
or that of another man, who was also a proprietor of
the st.rbles near Gosport, the Jury returned a verdict of
Not WWI,.
The prisoner was then taken off to Hampshire, to
await his trial on a similar charge, or charges, in that
county. _ .

George Newman was♦ charged with stealing a mare at
Hackney. on the 13th of October. Tne prisoner was
acquitted on a previous indictment. on the supposed
ground that he had merely acted in the capacity of
servant to another person, with whom he had been seen
riding off wi h the two cultic. in question. That pre-
sumption was rebutted by the circu►nstances sworn to
on the present trial, and the Jury found him CidAy.