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London, England, 1820-04-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

A brutal fellow, named AC Ceetky, was on Wednesday indictei
for having committed a violent assauk upon his &Wet, J. Leeks
Esq. of Grosvenor-place.
It appeared from the evidence, that Mr. Leak had hired the'
defendant as coachman 'bur days previous to that on which the
assault was committed. The defendant had orders to get the
carriage in readiness to take his muter, and Mrs. Stackpole, his
master's daughter, to Hanover-square, at. four o'clock. Au hour.
after the time directed, the defendant appeared in.the house, in
a most disgraceful state of drunkenness. Determined not to
run the hazard of losing his own life, nor to put that of his
daughter in danger, Mr. Leak ordered the coachman from his
presence ; and, finding that he was intolerably abusive as well
as drunk, shut him out at the stable door. Soon afterwards the
defendant walked round to the hall.door, and knocked. The
moment the door was opened he fell upon the servants, and beat
them most unmercifully. Mr. Leak went into the hall to re-
monstrate with him, and to request that he would leave the
house ; but the fellow without ceremony attacked his master
furiously, and disfigured him about the face. Mrs. Stackpole,
upon bearing her father's voice, ran to the spot where the de-
fendant was in the act of assaulting his master; but M,Carthy,
instead of desisting, at her appearance, from further violence,
only transferred his bloWs from her father to herself, and seemed
to take greater pleasure in this more cowardly exhibition of his
strength and ferocity. He pulled the necklace and other orna-
ments from Mrs. Stackpole 's person, knocked her down, and
kicked her in the stomach. The Lady still lies dangerously ill,
in consequence of this ill treatment : indeed her situation is such,
that it is doubtful whether it may not be found necessary to pro-
ceed against him capitally.
The Jury instantly found the prisoner
The CHAIRSIAN advised Alf. ANDREWS to impress upon Mr.
Leak the nee. ssity of prosecuting the defendant for the assault
upon Mrs. Stackpole, in the event of the recovery of that Lady,
and said that the punishment, upon conviction, should be a-les-
son to M‘Carthy for life.
The CHAIRMAN siren told the defendant, that he slain:hl ab-
stain from making any comment upon his conduct until the ia•
dictinent for the assault upon Mrs. Stackpole should be before
the Court. In the meantime he sentenced the coachman, for
the assault upon Mr. Leak, to imprisonment for two months,
and to find security for good behaviour towards that Gentleman
for twelve months.
The Grand Jury have been' sitting on the un-
usually large number of indictments which have
come before them ever since the morning of Tues-
day, the l I th instant. Thursday last, in the after-
noon, abouLAlineteen or twenty of the Gentlemen of.
the Grand Jury- with JOHN SIDNEY HAWKINS, Esq.
at their head, came into Court, and delivered the
last of the bills on which they had decided; which
bills having been severally proclaimed in the usual
way, one of the Grand Jurors stepped forward, and,
addressing IstAticis Coast, Esq. the Chairman of
the Sessions, said—" Mr. Chairman, as one of the
Graad Jury, I beg to make this presentment to the
Court ;" at the same time handing up a paper. Im-
mediately after which, J. S. Ilawetws, Esq. the
Fos email of the Grand Jury, after calling the atten-
tion of the Chairman to a paper which he held in his
hand, read therefrom, as follows:—" I am autho
rized by all the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury now
present (‘‘ ith the exception of Mr. FAney), to sly,
that they totally dis-eat from all that is contained in
Mr. I:Apex's Menturied, now deliveted in."
Mr. FAREY—" Mr. Chairman, I have made no
Merno:ial ; that is my l'resentrnent," pointing, at the
time time, to the paper which Mr.'Coser held in
his hand, and from which paper he proceeded to read
as follows:
" I, John Percy, of Howlend-street, Fitzroy-square, one of
the Jurors of our Sovereign Lord the Eine, assembled at -the
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden on Tuesday, the
11th day of April, 1320, at Hicks's Hall, in and for the County
of Middlesex, and duly sworn and charged to make present-
ments, do think it my duty to present as follaws, viz.
" Tuat on the examination of witnesses, who appeared before
this Grand Jury to support indictments against certain persons,
about forty in number, severally charged either with uttering,
or attempting to utter, or pass, or else with having in their pos-
session, certain notes, which were produced, about to the rum-
her of 120, the same were, by the Bank Inspector, sworn to be
forged imitations of Bank of England notes; because, as he
stated, such notes were not printed from any of the plates be-
longing to the Bank of England, or on the paper used by the
said Bank for the printing of their notes. Whereupon, in an-
swer to ft rthcr eiestions put to such Inspector, he repeatedly
and distinctly steted to this Grand Jury to the following effect,
viz. that each and every one of the notes which be had so, as
atorcsaid, sworn to be forgeries, were impressions, or copies,
printed off from plates, with the existence of which plates be
was previously and tvtll acquainted, from having, in the course
of his officio' incpe:.ions, often Wore examined impressions
from these tame t.rrged plates; and all of which plates and notes
he (the Inspector) understood, and verily believed, to have been
=graven and forged iu or near to the town of Birmingham, in
Warwickshire. On tnore than one occasion. the same witness
stated to this Grand Jury, that some particular person, or per-
sons, Wirriti.:eg in or near to Bit miugham, was very strongly sus-
peeled of being tire engraver and forger of such plates and notes;
yet the further questions put to this and another witness, on the
part of the Bank of England, failed of producing evidence or
information to this Grard Jury, whether attempts had actually
been 'nude to search for and seize th..: tools and implements and
the stock of the engraver and forgers of the many notes which
have lately been found in the possession of titterers in the county
of Middlesex, and brought before this Grand Jury, as aforesaid.
" Under these circumstances, I have deemed it my indis-
pensable ditty, and do, in consequence, hereby humbly pray
thy. Court, that the Justices therein assembled will, without de-
lay, as far as in their power lies, cause the most energetic and
eficient Ismael which arc known, and the laws will by any means
allow, to be used and put in force, for fully detecting, punish-
ing, and altogether stopping, the highly illegal practices of any
such wholesale forgers and first titterers of forged Bank of Eng-
land rotes; whereby the strong and almost irresistible tempta-
tion which such first uttcrers (and more especially so their emis-
saries dispersed throughout the country) daily hold out to dis-
tressed and ignorent persons, for inducing them to engage in the
highly illegal and mischievous traffic of buying and uttering
forged notes, would, it is firmly believed, in a great measure, if
not altogether, be put a stop to, because none of the notes which
have conic before this Grand Jury, appeared to be first, sepa-
rate, or independent acts of forgery; nor did it appear from the
evidence adduced thereon, that the persons indicted were likely
persons to have engaged in, or to have been able to have eihmed
the forgeties of the notes, with the uttering or possessing of which
they were severally charged. The highly-injurious effects of
such a state of things on the morals of the poorer classes of so-
ciety, and the great losses to which tradesmen and others are
daily exposed, through this continued and extended issue and
utterance cf forged notes, induces me confidently to hope that
effectual measures may be devised, and put in practice, for en-
tirely stopping the same. " JOHN FAHEY, Sen."
An imps essive silence prevailed in the Court during
the reading of this presentment.
The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to thank the,
Grand Jury for the great attention they had paid
to the numerous indictments brought before them
on this occasion, and discharged them from further
attendance, intimating, at the same time, that such
of them as might wish to inspect the Coldbath-fields
Prison, would be attended by the proper Officer
immediately ; on which all of the Grand Jury pre-
sent, except Mr. HAWKINS, the Foreman, who ap-
peared overcome with fatigue and the weight of
business he had just then completed, retired, and
walked immediately to the Prison—at the gate of
which Mr. WILLIAM ADKINS, the Governor, received
them, and very politely attended them through every
part of the Prison, explaining as he went along the
various regulations adopted therein ; all which, as
well as the clean and orderly state of the Prison, was
approved by all the Gentlemen of 'the Gran'l Jury.

TUAM, APRIL M—This day, five of the unfor-
tunate nineteen men found guilty at our Assizds, for
the attadk on 'Major Place. and the party of the 77th
Regiment, at Irgloony, within one mile of this town,
were marched in here for the purpose of receiving a
part of their sentence=namely, public whipping ;
but an expectation of their pardon being entertained,
their punishment was put off until the arrival of the
Dublin Mail, but it brought no respite for these
miserable men. In consequence of which the neces-
sary preparations for flogging were instantly put in
readiness, and they were whipped, one by one, after
a car, through the principal streets. We never wit-
nessed so great an asemblage of people—the punish-
ment being so very novel amongst. us, and we trust it
will long continue so ; nothing is to be heard in our
streets but the cries of the wives and children of these
deluded sufferers. A strong guard of the horse
.and
foot quartered here, and a party of the police, at-
tended.—Saturday, the unfortunate man, named
Anthony Daly, who was found guilty at our Assizes,
for breaking into dwelling-houses, and administei iug
unlawful oaths, was executed at the hill of Seafin, in
the neighbourhood of Croghwell, in the upper part
of this County. Throughout the whole of this awful
ceremony he evinced great firmness, and seemed to
meet his fate with composure and resignation ; he
wa; a stout good-looking, man, and by trade a car-
penter.—Monday, Chades Lanl)ley, found guilty at
our Assizes, for the same offence as Daly, was exe-
cuted at Castleblakeny. This man also evinced
much firmness. Yesterday, the other wretched man,
named Michael Finlay, found guilty of breaking into
the dwelling house of William Walshe, and adminis-
"tering unlawful oaths, was executed at Garncreen,
near Ahascragh. He met his fate with the same re-
sohnien as the two men abovementioned, and said
nothing to the numerous spectators (the greater num-
ber of whom were his acquaintances and friends), his
last moments were devoted to prayer and supplica-
catior, ;cal his dying request was, that all who now
saw his ignominious death would offer up their
prayers for him. Ile died without a struggle.
ATHLONE, APRIL 14.—Ribbonism, which we con•
sidered on the wane, it appears still prevails. Its
votaries, renouncing all claims to humanity, have
given loose reins to all the stormy, inordinate pas-
sions of their nature, and seem reckless of any con-
seqnence that may arise from imbruing their hands
in the blood of their species. On the night of Mon-
day a numerous hand of them attacked the house of
a man named. Ridt!inton, of CroOncom. ~ county Ros-
common, about two miles and a half from this town;
the door being strongly barricaded, these mercilese
ruffians were proceeding to strip the reef !of his
cabin, when the devoted inmate signilied his assent
to give them admittance. But as he was apprcach-
ing, for that purpose, they instantly fired, with too
fatal an effect, for the discharge having passed
through the door, lodged in his neck and laid him a
corpse. Upon Major Wills receiving information of
this horrible transaction, he immediately repaired to
the place, and caused an Inquest to be held on Rid-
dinton by Mr. Whelan, the Coroner, when a ♦erdict
of Wilful Murder was returned, against some persons
unknown.

OUTRAGEOUS MURDER.—As wanton and barba-
rous a murder as has ever been beard of, was per-
petrated on Saturday afternoon, between thetours
of two and three o'clock, on the Naas road, at a
place called King's-wood, about six miles from Dub-
lin. A boy of about twelve years of age; named
Bryan Reilly, the son of a carpenter in the employ-
ment of Arabin, Esq. left his fathez's house with
a pitcher of milk, and was going along the road to
the place of his destination, when a soldier, armed
with his musket, &c. was passing in the same direc-
tion, and the boy, being at the distance of five perches
from him, turned round to look at him, when, shock-
ing to relate, the soldier levelled his musket and fired
at him ; the ball entered his head at one ear and came
out at the other ; he instantaneously dropped a lifeless
corpse. The wretch went up to the body, and find-
ing that he had committed murder, looked around
him to see whether arm were any witnesses of his
crime; and, perceiving a young woman, he delibe-
rately loaded his musket, knelt down upon one knee,
and took aim at her; but fortunately she escaped into
el house, which she entered and closed the door;
there was also another witness, a pedlar, named Pa-
trick Bacon, who also hid himself. The murderer
then turned back, and as soon as he was at sufficient
distance, the young woman, whose name is Mary
Pidgeon, alarire.d the neighbourhood, and immedi-
ately the country people assembled, and, headed by
that very active Excise officer, Mr. J. Fitzgerald, be-
longing to the Tallaght wall:, pursued the ruffian,
who, when he found them closing on him, repeatedly
presented his musket, as if ready to fire at the first
that came near him. During this proceeding one of
the countrymen, having got in his rear, knocked
him down, when he was instantly disarmed and se-
cured, and Mr. Fitzgerald, with the assistance of the
country-people, brought him to Clondalkin, before
J. Harkness, Esq. a Magistrate of the County, who,
havingtaken the informations of Mary Pidgeon and
Patrick Bacon, committed him to the county jail,
Kilmainham. A Coroner's Inquest has been held on
the body, when a verdict of liiitfid Murder was re-
turned against the prisoner. He will Be tried at the
next Commission, which commences the 24th June.

1 Thursday night, some villains broke into a new
building belonging to WILLIAM MOORE, Esq. of
Bow Common-lane, Bromley, and cut the glass out
of fourteen large sashes, which they carried off, to-
gether with some carpenters' tools.
Wednesday evening, about half a dozen villains,
dressed as mechanics. went to the public-house at the
corner of 7door-street. Seven-dials, and pretended
they wailed to look at the clubroom, as they were
about to form or remove a club' there. The young
couple who kept the house, had been there but a
few weeks, and they being glad of an opportunity of
increasing their business, the fellows engaged the
room, which is nest the landlord's bed-room. They
called for porter and pipes, and the boy of the house
waited upon them. Soon .after twelve o'clock they
paid their reckoning and left. The landlord having
made his fastenings good, went up stairs to go to
bed, when he found the door of his room which he
left locked, open, and his drawers and trunks ran-
sacked of £Bo' and upwards, a watch, and other
1 articles.