The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-06-28 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL SESSIONS.

Tuesday, June 27.
The cases of Jestes Isaacs and Elias Isaac', for
perjury, in an affidavit sworn by them against a
rule to show cause, stood for trial to-day.
Mr. GURNEY and Mr. ALLEY, fur the Prose-
cation, applied to have the cause of Elias Isaacs
flied first, be being the persoti principally insp.
sated.
The Defendant, Elias himself, who is an At.
taiwey, strenuously opposed the trials changing
pianos. In two hours he should be ready with
b tritneeses, and he also, within that pitiod,,
=st.l Mr. Serjeant Vaughan to conduct his
At the same time, he mit slit an in-
deaden*, fur bailout hoer for the other Defendant,
Jim Isaacs, his brother, who had been in Curt,
bet who bad gone out a few minates ago, not
sup_posling the case would come on so soon.
Mr. Gomel- offered to postpone the case 61
Elias Isaacs for en hour, if fie would undertake
that Mr. Serjeaut Vaughan should then be is
Court to conduct his defence. He insisted, how-
ever, that the Defendant should, in the mean time,
be=itted to the cognizance of the Jury.
the Court was about to proceed in the
trial, Mr. Isaacs pulled out of his pocket a Writ
of Certiorari, removing the cause into the Court
of King's Bench, which he immediately presented
to the Court, and which, of coutse, operated as
a complete suspension of its powers.
Mr. GURNEY then insisted on the other Defend-
ant, James Isaacs, being called, avid, on his fail-
ing to answer, his recognizatices were forfeited,
end fresh process was ordered to issue out against
him.

William Goodwill, a boy, of 11 years of age,
' the driver of a hackney coach, No. 1053, whi
in for assaulting Patrick Crawley, a watch.. i
at St. Giles's parish. The Prosecutor wit
ilibble beat on the evening of the 2d of February
Jot, io Howl.yard, leading into Hroad-street, St.
Gile.i's, when a hackney coach came driving vin.
hntly along ; the place was narrow, and he called
et. The driver, however, drove on, and crushed
in against the wall. He cried out, "Do you
mean to kill me ?" to which he replied, " 1 don't
mind killing a watchman ;" and drove on into
Broad-street. He called out, and the coach was
stopped opposite St. Giks's church, and the
uullsher taken. The Prosecutor was very much
imue
bruised, and a considerable timc under the hands
of the apothecary of the workhouse.
The Jury found the I)efendant Guilty ; but
reetememoded him to the lenity of the Court, on
the ground d his youth, and believing the injury
arose rather from carelessness than malice.
The Learned Cum MIMI said, the frequency of
each conduct made it a public concern, and called
fur yu example.
*rah Hayes was indicted for assaulting Sarah
widialle.a, The Prusematrix is a Jewess, and her hut.
"be /Nap a slop-shop in King-street, and is what
le a crimp. A black man had lodged iu
F from which he went on board a ship,
being taken ill, he was carried beck, on
Good Friday last, to their house. The Prosecu.
Iris, appreheasive of distemper, refused to take
him hi, and he was sent to the workhouse, but
died in the act of removal. The Defendant, a
poor Irish servant in the neighbourhood, indig.
ant at what she considered a cruelty, in refus-
ing to admit the dying black, upbraided the Pro.
seemed*, and assisted to put the man into the
chair in which he was conveyed to the work.
house, wrapping his blanket about him, and
placing his boodle under his head. The Prose.
evade &wort, that upon bidding her mind her
master's business, she struck her a violent blew
on the mouth, and knocked out one of her teeth.
She was supported by the swearing of another
woman, and her brother, to the same effect.
In ertradirtlon to this, six women, who wit.
onsed tie whole transaction, swore that the De.
fendaot merely assisted the miserable man, and
that thereupon the Prosecutrix said she wanted to
' rob him; that the Defendant said, "She thanked
God it was not from a Christian's door the black
was turned away." That the Prosecutrix then
spat in her face; to which she observed, that was
what was done on the same day to Jesus Christ ;
and, 'clapping her fingers, said, if it was not for
the law, she would use her worse.. Tiny were
positive she never struck her. Upon this evidence
the Jury, without hesitation, acquitted the De-
fendant.
The whole of this day was occupied in trials of
' assault) wholly void of interest ur importance.
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POLICE.