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cry of—" Stop Thief !" raised, when having assisted
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the Jury returned a verdict of—Net Guilty.
William Nicholls was indicted for a burglary in the
dwelling-house of William Vormick, and stealing a '
trunk, value £3. 10s. three shirts, and other articles.
Williani Vormick stated, that he lived in Pelham's-
street, Mile-end, where he occupied an apartment in
the house of a person named Abbott. There were
other lodgers in the house. On the 12th of this month
he left his own room, about five o'clock in the after-
noon, and locked the door, taking the key with him.
He left the room for the purpose of taking tea with a
lodger in the same house. Between seven and eight
o'clock, he was first apprised of the robbery in con-
sequence of a kitten that had been left locked up in
the room, having come up into the apartment where
he was. On getting to his own room, he found his
property gone, and the door opened by a false key.
The trunk contained all his property, both clothes
and money. Witness had recovered some little
articles of the property, and had seen several persons
about the house, but did not particularly observe the
prisoner.
Alittle boy, about eleven years of age, proved
that on the day of the robbery, he saw six men stand-
ing opposite the prosecutor's lodgings, of whom the
prisoner at the bar was one. Witness knew the pi.
soner very well, who after addressing a few words to
him, immediately after crossed over to the other side
of the way, and the lamplighter having gone by,
said to his accomplices, Come, come ; now is the
time." They then went to where Vormick lodged;
and after remaining there a short time, one of them
came out, and placed something like a trunk, of
about a yard long, on the shoulder of another of the
party. They then went off, and witness followed the
person who carried the load on his shoulder, and
who was accompanied by five of the gang, including
the prisoner, while the sixth met them in an alley,
by taking a different direction. Next day he saw
one of the gang come out of a public-house, when
witness having gone in to see what o'clock it was,
found them all assembled there, and playing at
cards. This little boy, who, though quite uneducated,
still gave his evidence very circumstantially, and
stated some other particulars, from which it appeared
that it was by his means the prisoner had been taken
into custody.

The two constables who apprehended the prisoner,
produced some part of the stolen property, which
had been found in different places.
Mr. Baron WOOD recapitulated the evidence, and
the Jury found the prisoner—Not Guilty.
It appears that the Sheriffs have not yet adjusted
their differences with regard to precedency. This
morning, at an early hour, Mr. Sheriff PARKINS took
his seat, in the Senior Sheriff's box, but quitted it on
the arrival of the Judges, in order to attend them
into Court. In the mean time, Mr. Sheriff ROTH..
I WELL entered the Court, on the same side with Mr.
Baron WOOD, it:id took possession of the seat which
his brother Sheriff had just left vacant, and who,
upon his return, appeared exceedingly disconcerted
at finding it filled. Mr. Sheriff ROTIIWELL now took
up some Newspapers, which Mr. Sheriff PARKINS
had been reading, and regarded him with a signifi-
cant smile, while the latter immediately retired.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCTOBER 27.

THE LINO V. GEORGE NICHOLSON, ESQ. •

This was an Indictment against the defendant,who
is a retired Captain of the Veteran Battalion, for an
assault upon Michael Elijah Impey, grandson of the
late Sir Elijah lmpey, oi*he 4th of June last.
From the statement of Counsel, aad the evidence
adduced, the following facts were disclosed:—The
defendant had, in 1816, married the widow of the late
Major Impey, at Jersey, where his Regiment was
quartered, and the prosecutor', a young man aged 18,
was one of the children left by the Major, to whom
the defendant was Guardian. The prosecutor had
been at Bagshot Military School for his education,
and on leaving that seminary he became one of the
inmates in the defendant's family. During his resi-
dence with his stepfather, those disagreements which
but too frequently occur amongst such relations, un-
happily found their way between the prosecutor and
the defendant. In the month of June-last, the prose-
cutor's married sister was on a visit at the defendant's
house, at Southall, near Hayes, when an accident
having happened to her child, the prosecutor imme-
diately went for Mr. Evans, the family Surgeon, to
attend it, but finding that Gentleman from home, he
brought in the assistance of a Mr. Oliver, who at-
tended to the child. When Mr. Oliver appeared, the
defendant expressed his displeasure at the circum-
stance, and seemed anxious that Mr. Evans should
have been called in in preference. The prosecutor
was about to explain the reason why Mr. Oliver was
called in, when the defendant immediately said to
him, "What do you know about it, you dirty puppy?'
Upon which the prosecutor replied, " This is fiery
uncivil language to use to me before a stranger ; if
you have any thing to say to rne, say it at another
time." The prosecutor having just put on his hat to
go out with Mr. Oliver, the defendant came behind
him, and struck him a violent blow on the right side
of the head, and knocked his hat 'off. A scuffle en-
sued, and Mr. Oliver interfered to prevent further
violence. In the scuffle the prosecutor received seve-
ral other blows on his forehead, eyes and mouth. He
then retired to his room to bathe his face, when he
was followed by the defendant, who collared him, and
again struck him several violent blows, using a great
deal of abusive language ; upon being restrained from
committing further outrages, he said, that he was
very sorry he had not given the prosecutor a d---d-
-good threshing. Some time afterwards he came up,
and again renewed the assault, and said, " I will
have him out of the house; I will have the villain
out by the cuff of the

On his cross.examination the prosecutor admitted,
that when he was first struck he bad his hat on in the
room, there being at that time some Ladies present ;
but he denied that the blow was given in consequence
of his refusing to take his hat off when requested by
the defendant.