Star.
London, England, 1803-10-26 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Yelerday :Tame: no-t t!! was indicted for an affanit
upon John Spillbury. This was a cafe of conliderable
importance, as it teaches the drivers of mail coaches
and carts that they arc liable to ptiniihment for every
accident that tn.p happen from the fury with which
they drive along the Itreets.
John Spillbury, the profeentor, depofed that he
was palling -along Sr. Jannes's-flreet, on the 3oth of
July lad, together with his wife, children, and others;
as lie was turning the corner of Ryder's•Rreet, the
!nail-cart, driven by the defendant, came up at a
furious rate. The driver, as he was palling, wan-
tonly lifted up his 'lath and gave the profecutor
blow which cut his cheek from the ear down to the
chin. The wands followed the cart to the Gloncef-
ter Coffee houfa,, where it (lope. He alked the de-
fendant the reafon of fuel] ufage, but received an
isidiffsrent cvafive ;rawer. This determined him to
the offender to lattice.
Jotcph Spilaytry laid, that he wasin company with
the ptoleetttor at the time of the affault, and Rated
the circuit:fiances in the fame manner as the prece•
ding wand's. The appeared to him to have
b,:cn wantonly committed.
Mr•. ALZAY, as Coronet for the defendant., con-
tended that the injury latiaincii by the profectaor
♦vas purely the effeCt of accident. The driver of the
mail-cart was obliged by crania& to drive from the
Ue:.eral Poll-office to the Gionceller Coffee-honk, a
(pace of two miles and three quarters, in teveuteqp
minutes, which obliged them to proceed wills conft•
derable velocity. 'l•he boric was relive, and apt to
plunge and run back, efpccially at the turning of
corners ; fur cAfon, whenever a corner was to
be turned, the driver was acenanmed to lath the
lot e, and in this mariner the plaintiff accidentally
frifferod the injury of which he complained. To prove
thi, Raiment, he called

John Cooper, the mail mild, who depofed to thenl
cif-cur:lQ:vices mentinned by die learned Counfel, and
was potitive, that if the driver did at all drike the
profecutor, it was purely the et eft of accident. Ile
was in the cart, and had blon is Isis horn as ufual, to
give warning of their coming.
The owner of the cart then flepped forward, and
mot:idled, that though he was callsid by neither party
as a witnefs, lie might be permitted to explain f,,rne
e•rcumllances to the Court, as there was in the evi•
dense a gr.4(•s perverfion of the truth, which he could
patiently -in f'cr•.ee. Being thin (worn, be
et:poled, that the hnrfe in queflion, Indic:id of being
tritive, was remarkably quiet : that the d ifendant
bad conleffed to him, that the cut was deggnedly
given to the p;ofecutor. There were at the time
three perfons in the cart who were abiding his
horfe, whereas none onght to have been in it except
the driver and the guard. There was no public re-
g dation whatever about driving along the greets.
which he would prove by feveral witneffes,ifn-eeffary.
Mr. MOLINAVAII.4O, the Cl►airtnan, obi reed, that
it was its.roffible there could be any regulation fans
tinned by my public authority-with regard to the
velocity with which the mail was to Jiive aiong the
greets. He was going to tell the Jury, before the
htl a idles appeared, that, admitting the defence pet
up, the defendant, though he had no malicious in
te-ntinn, was ye? liable to punilhtn•:at for the effetls of
his carelefs conduit. He himliithad witnetfed feveral
accidents thief had happened (torn the furious driv-
ing of mail coaches along the ithrects, and be was
airily that filch Capes were ant (Owlet' brought berme
the Court. It was pepper that per'ntis concerned
with mail coaches and carts, fhonld be taught that
-they were not paramount to the law, and that the
lives of the (Ojai: of this country were not to be
wantonly endangered.
The Jury immediately returned their verdift—
Guilty. The defendant was fetitenced to impritim•
menu for two months.

Sarah Prat was intlitietl fnr nabbing and cutting
Lie.titor Everet with a knife.

The profecuttix Rated, that fhe tired in the fame
honfe with the prifoner, and went on the day the
nd'ault was committed to her door. requefling to be
informed what it was o'clock. The prifoner rulhed
out with a knife in her hand, and cut and wounded
her in the arm. •

On the part of the dr, f..ndant, feveral .tithe lodgers
in the houfc Dated, that the prolecutrix was of a
croarrelfnme difpontion; Oat the knife being in the
band of the plifiitier at the time of the kuifte was
purely accidental, and that the cut had betel uninten-
tionally given.
The Jn. y found a verdift of Guilty againfl the de-
fendant, who was fentenced to pay a fine of thirteen
fourpence.
/jaw Coen, a jew, was indieted for affaulting joreph
Blandon, hi brother in law.
Mr. GURNIT Bated the cafe tn the jury. He laid
that the profeentor had been before the Court the
gellinn pieced ng the !aft, on a charge of had belia•
vireur to his trite, the defendant's filler. On that rte.
tafitxt he bad been entiviiled, and bound osier to keep
the peace. When he left the Court, and Was going
&own Hairs, he WAS followed by the defendant, who
thonglit it would be a good fcheme to make him
lireak his recognizance. by provoking him to ftrike.
He allured him in a refill leandalous manlier. From
&bole he proceeded to violence, pedbcd him agiinft
the rails, feized him by the collar, and tore his thin.
The prolecutor being (worn, depofed to the nate.
Meat g:isren by the Counfel; and added, that whole
the defendant was abiding him. he exclaimed,—
" Damn your eyes, you thief, we'll do for you I"
Mr. Kcare, for the defendant, ("fated, that un•
dotilitedly if they were to judge by the evidence
they had heard they would certainly cocci° him.—
But it tsar his duty to date, that the parties were
not new to the Court. tie fail, he believed. it
would be in the Chairman's recolleCtion, that on the
day mentioned in the indiamcnt,the prnfecutor him.
Mihail been bound over to keep the peace act ae•
tount of his brutal conduit to las who. the &fen.,
dent's filler. The dam(' ~,, sin this family seem fo
great that IltlltfS fuore effefluel fleps were taken to
put an end to diem, they might multiply to an tut.
Lunwn extent. 97te only thing that occurred whim
WAS, to put due defendant tat the fame fituatinn with
the prefecutor, by binding him over In keep the peace.
The Jury remised a serdiet of Guilty againfl the
defendant, who was lenteneed to pay a fine of tcl.
rind In enter intn a recognizance to keep the ;vacs
tar twelve Usustlis, asiagtlf its 3001. 11111 d two buctigs
502. cub.