Star.
London, England, 1816-01-09 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS- '

Yesterday these Sessions commenced before Wet.
WATSON. Esq. and a Bench of Magistrates. The
Grand and Petty Juries being sworn, the Court pro-
ceeded to business, when one case alone engrossed the
whole of the day. •
Ann Farthing charged Mr. Pyle, a jeweller, in
Berwick-street, Soho, with an assault. She stated,
that about twelve o'clock, on the 3lst of October, she
was returning from Islington, and walking up Hol-
born she met the prisoner in company with four other
persons, who had been that day dining at the White
Hart, in Holborn, arid that without the least provo-
cation Dyke struck her a violent blow on the stn.
mach ; giving an alarm, a watchman arrived, who,
upon giving a signal, several others came up, among
whom was one named Denis Mackartney. The
guardians of the night attempted to secure the Gen-
tlemen, who made a stout resistance ; three of them
were at length secured, anti afterwards admitted
to bail.

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After a long examination by Mem& GURNEY and
ALLY on the one side, and Mr. ADOLPHUS OD the
other, Dyke was acquitted.
Reeves, one of his companions, was afterwards
placed at the bar, and found guilty of assaulting
.Mackartney, the watchman ; as were also Dyke and
Flacaston, another of the party. They were fined
40s. each for the assault, and 40s. each for the riot.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, Jane Mune aliys Sophia
Brown, was brought to the Office by the l'arish Offi-
cers and the Beadle of St. Clements, charged with
the most gross impositions upon the pubk. it ar-
peered that the prisoner occasionally gees by both
the above names, and dresses in the most pitiable
state, ito excite the commiseration of the humane.—
On Sunday morning, during the time of Divine Ser-
vice, she collected a crowd of persons round her at
the door of the Temple Coffee-house, pretending to
be very bad, being just taken in labour, and that she
could not move, which excited the feelings a all the
neighbourhood, as well as the passengers. Several
of them conveyed her to St. Clement's Workhouse,
in Portugal-street, by the most gentle means possible.
On her arrival at the Workhouse she was recognised
as an impostor ; but those who conveyed her there
could not be convinced of it till Mr. Randall, the
Medical Gentleman belonging to the Institution,
convinced them that she was not in labour. It is
only a short time since she was brought to the same
Workhouse by Ewe Ladies anti a Gentleman, in a
coach, they having very humanely picked her up in
Fleet-street and relieved her, she leaving fallen down
in that street pretending to be taken in labour, and in
great distress. Several other instances of itnpoiitions
were stated to have been practised by her.—The
Officers were directed to give her the correction of
the House, there being no particular law to meet her
conduct:

a later Carrier, was fully committed
for trial at the 'text Assizn for Kent, on two charges,
of stealing two letters entrusted to his delivery, and
their contents, consisting of Bank notes.
TIME FIGHTING TAILOR y. HIS WIFE...-.Cartridge,
the tailor, was brought from St. Clement's, for 0e
third time, to the Office, charged' with the most bru-
tal and violent conduct towards his wife, of which
her face gave evident proofs. In addition to his vio.
lent beating, &.. it was stated, that he had deprived
her of food, except water-gruel, tripe.water, &c.--
Sir WILLIAM PARSONS reprobated his conduct, and
ordered him to find bail, and advised his wik to ex-
hibit articles of the peace against him at the present
Sessions. He not being able to find bail, he was
locked up.
UNION•HALL.—Mary elm Poet, a ch Id under 14.
years of age, was yesterday brought up by one of the
Parish Officers of St. George's, charged with being
a.tommon prostitute. The officer stated, that though
so young, the prisoner might be seen every, evening
in the streets in a state of intoxication, and was the
' most riotous and disorderly of any of the sisterhood
who infested that part of the Metropolis. She was
committed to the House of Correction, and ordered
to be kept to hard labour for one month.

Charlotte Mendota and Rebecca 7h6mlstm were
brought up, charged with assaulting Mr—lames Gar-
rett, of Upper Thames-street, on the 19th of Decem-
ber, in the Lambeth-road, wounding him severely,
and rubbing him of his watch and money.—The pri-
'soners•were fully comtnived for trial at the Assizes.
RoßßEltY.—Late on Friday night, or early on Sit-
turilay, the house of Miss Honor Sydney, at Stock, in
Essex, was robbed of Bank of England notes and
other property, in rather an extraordinary manner.
Miss byduey is advanced in years, and generally put
her pockets under her pillow when she went to rest.
Saturday morning when she awoke she found her
pockets had been taken from under her pillow, and
the property taken out, and which had been effected
without awaking hcr. A gold watch hung at the
head of the bed, but was not taken. About a pint of
spirits had been drank. There was an appearance of
a person having enterid at a front window, from the
marks of dirt of feet, but this is Supposed to be for
the purpose of imposition, as the suspicion is, that the
robbery was committed by • some person well ac-
quainted with the house. Miss Sydney's house stands
alone in the parish of Stock.
An attempt has been made to break into the
strong room (or Treasury) of the Navy Pay Office,
at Portsmouth Dock-yard. On Wednesday morning
this discovery was made, when it appeared that, in
the course of the preceding night, some depre.i!ators,
had actually obtained possession of the book-room—it
is supposed by scaling the Dock-wall from Chapel.
row, and getting in at the window. The key being
left in the door of the book-room, which leads to the
strong room, they had nothing more to do, to gain :in
entrance to the strong room, than to break dawn the
brick work which encloses the iron door of the room.
But, whether they were unprepared for such a ser-
vice, or from any other cause, is not known—they
retired from the apartments without effecting the
prinCipal object of their visit. They broke open most
of the clerks' desks, and took away three pounds
from the Messenger's apartment. There were in the
strong room at the time above five thousand pounds.
in Bank tokens ; btu the• Bank notes were all locked
up in iron chests. The Right Hon. Geonoz Rose,
the Treasurer of the Navy, and Pearkes, the Bnw.
street officer, arrived on the following day to enquire
into the circumstances*; but nothing satisfactory has
yet 'film out of the investigation.