Star.
London, England, 1818-06-26 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

Yesterday Richard Walks, a miserable-looking man,
was indicted for stealing from the person of Richard
Bartley, a silver watch, with its appendages, value
six guineas, his property.
The prosecutor was near Highbury-barn, looking
at a precession of charity children, when he felt the
prisoner's hand in his pocket, and he afterwards saw
him put his hand behind him, as if finr the purpose
of conveying it to somebody else. Prosecutor seized
him, and although he was struck in the back se-
veral times by others in the gang, he held him until
an officer tame to his assistance; lie was searched, but
the watch was not found upon him. Other witnesses
'confirmed the prosecutor's statement.
In behalf of the prisoner, a woman named Lucy
Rice, who stated that she lived in Long-lane, Moor-
fields, was present during the time the procession
passed; the prosecutor was very drunk, and one of
the officers said he did not see. the prisoner do•auy
thing, and that he told the other officersor Icahn go.
In contradiction to this assertion, the prosecutor
and his wife said he was not its the slightest degree
in liquor. • •
The Jury instantly found the prisoner—Grata'.
The COMMUN NT then addressed hint:—
Richard Wilks, you have been foursd•gnilty of al-
most as great a crime as you could commit, by the
united consent of a Jury of your country.. You seem
to be one of a gang who infest all public places, and
from whose depredations it is difficult Lc) preserve
the property of industrious but unsuspecting persons.
You 10 league with a gaug, and Ido not
.doubt
but tbit there are some cr your Confederates is ?thin
hearing : I v.ish, therefore, tliat you and they should
learn, that as you have been . disgrace to this coun•
• try, you shall net lcng remain in it. You roust re-
linquish it far life; and it is probable that the unfor-
tunate woman whom, to the great. aggravation of
your crime, yott have induced to commit the clime
of perjury, wilt accompany you. You cannot expect
any mitigation of the sentence."
France; Sex was indicted !Or perjury, in evidence
given by her in a cause tried in the Court of Exche-'
quer, (Kepple r. Piazey.)
MrAsoftEws stated the circumstances of the case,
but Mr. ricoav took an objection to the indictment,
which, be contended. was lull of technical informali-
ties. The Court was of the same opinion, and di-
rected an acquittal.
Maria Smith was indicted for stealing from D.
Davis a 11. Bank note,•and Bs. in silver.
The prosecutor accompanied her to a brothel near
Drury-lane; when he awoke be discovered that both
the prisoner and his money bad flown. The prisoner
was found about sir o'clock, •and on being charged
with the • !Team, attempted to swallow a 11. note.
In her defence, she said, the prosecutor made her
no recompense fur certain favours, and she felt jus•
titled in paying herself—Guilty.

Alonday night Mr. W. Thorpe, of Iledfordbury,
pa%sing along George-street, St. was attacked
by azang of ruffians, who knocked him down, and
robbed hip of his watch and hat.
A few nights ago the brewhouse of Messrs. Star-
key; Jennings and Co. in Pultency-streets Golden-
square, was broke into and robbed • of considerable
property.
As Mr. CUNNINGHAM, of Pimlico, was crossing
FUlluttn-fields, about ten o'clock On Tuesday night,

he heard a groan as if from a person in distress ; he
followed the sound of the voice for some distance,
and just as he thought he had reached the spot froM
whence it proceeded, he was attacked by a single
footpad, who, jumping from behind a hedge, knocked
him down, and after severely beating him, rifled his
pockets of a five pound and two two pound notes
of the Bank of England. It is needless to add from
whom the groans proceeded.
Mr. VINCENT, of Holborn, had his pocket picked
yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, in front of
the Ihistings in Covent-garden, of his pocket-book,
containing five pounds and some paprs.—Mr.\\*Ar-
, sos, of Lambeth, lost his watch, and another Gentle-
, man had his pocket-book taken from him, with Bank
of England note'., bills, &c. to the amount of between
11:9;) and 4.:100.
PROVIDENTIAL ES:CAM—About eleven o'clock en
Tuesday forenoon, two old houses filled with lodgers,
situated iu Loni Lard-street, Fleet-street, fell to the
ground with a dreadful crash; providentially, the
tailing of a stack of chimnies a Jew minutes before,
and the cracking of the walls, alarmed the inmates,
who had just time to escape with their lives. All
the furniture was buried in the ruins.

Monday se'nnight the family Mansion of Garbally,
in the county of Galway, the seat of the Earl of
CLANCARTY) was totally consumed by fire. The ca-
lamiW is said to have originated in die catdettneis
of a domuttie.