The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-28 00:00:00

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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

P/RJUST.—Late on Tuesday evening, T. Derry, an el-
derly man of respectable appearance, wss indicted fur
wilful, malicious, and corrupt perjury, in swearing an
a&lavit before Mr. instice Bayley, the allegations in
which were totally false anal unfounded, for the pur-
pose of procuring the arrest of Mr. James 1.141%3, a
respectable butcher residing in Bethnal-green-road.
Mr. AnoLenva, in opening the case to the jary.
raid the defendant ran one of those who, with a dis-
guised ignorance, which they called knowledge of the
Taw, 'sallied the characters of attorneys, and were
constantly found crawling about the doors of gaols
and pollee-Aces, entrapping the unw.ory, and wring-
ing the last shilling from those unhappy beinks who
Used to be objects of compassion and protection rather
than of fraud. The prosecutor, by this proceeding,
only sought to protect himself from the machinations
of this man, who, in his assutued legal character,
had threatened him with snit upon suit, and action
upon action, and who had declared that he never
would leave him at rest while he had a shilling in his
pocket. The learned counsel then detailed the cir-
cumstances of the ease, and called the following wit-

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Mr. Wells, clerk to Mr. Jnstice Bayley, deposed
that the affidavit now shown to him was sworn by time
defendant before that learned Judge, at his chambers
in Sergetate-ina. on the Rth of October, 1619. The
affidavit was read. It stated in substance, that on
Saturday. the Itith of September preceding, the de-
femilipi having bad some words with Nlr. James
Lloyd, v was violently pushed, assatiltril, kicked, and
knocked down, by the said James Lloyd ; that he re-
ceived a violent contusion on his right arum, which
Willy deprived him of the use of it on to the time
that his allillavit was sworn: th:tt hr 1144 a W
•and two small children entirely dependent upon him

for support ; and that by the aforesaid kirks and
bruit..., &r. he wag rendered wholly incept'', of pro-.
curing a livelihood."
The defendant, it appeared, hail entered an action
for the altered assault, and the object of title affislivit
was to procure the arrest of Mr. Loyd. in orit,•r that
he might put in bail. lie so contrived 'netters, too,
S3ter.lav
that air. Loyd was taken into custody on
evening, to the treat inconvenience and detriment of
hie business; independent of w1s:1•18 be was kept in
confinement until Monday morning. A summons was
else issued by the Judge for the defendant to 11110 W
cause against the affidavit, which he slid by his .It-
torney, and the result was that he was discharged out
of custody without giving hail.
Mr. James Lloyd stated that he was a butcher in
Ifiethsal•grees Road, and the defendant lived next
door to him. It was his custom to put fop a shutter
at one end of his shop, in order to keep the dust and
wind from his meat and lamps at night ; and on the
curing of the lath of September, ISM the defend-
ant, who appeared to he intoxicated, came up to the
shop-door, where witness was standing. end in an att.
thoritative tone desired him to take down the shutter.
or he *mild take it down himself. Witnees took no
notice titbit% hut stood with his hr.nds in his spree.
The defendant walked to and fru in a great passion,
pulled the meat ahem', swore that witness had no bu-
siness there, for he had bought the premises, and
cautioned people net to buy meat of hire, for if they
slid they would be sure to go to eternal d—m—n.
Witness told him to go in, like a silly old man, and
mind his business. This only enraged him the more,
and his wife came not, and told him to come in doors,
anti not get himself laughed at. Ile at length pulled
SOUTHWARK SS:SSA/NS.
down the shutter, and threw it into the
Toed. In
firming round he fell down, in consesinetice of the ; --onto—
th p ese Sessions •were oen.sl before the
exertion of throwing the shutter. Witness went
' Yr`lrrilaY
iuto the road, and picked up his shutter, and replaced Louts lii A YOB, Sir Wisaaan ',stow's, and Sir J.
it. but never once touched the defendant. Ills wife ' EAMES. arc• arc.
mot a man came out, and picked him up, and conveyed . Proclamation basing been made, and the (hand
assembled, the Lotto SI A'. 011 said, he
hint betweeu thetu into his own house. Witness was at tise ' Jury was MOM
sorry to inform them, that from the alarmingly itt-
distance of two or three yards from him when he fell,
creased and increasing trosliitude of hstsinem at the
Red also when be picked up the shutter, and be would
prettent Old Bailee Sesaicm., the Common Scrjeant and
rvear most positively that Ise slid not tench bins in any i
tray. The defendant returned in about half an hour tho other City Oifierrs were so lunch roped with
the arduous duties of that place, that they would be
with his right arm in a sling, and renewed his former
abusive language. He took up a chopper from the ; unable at present to give their attendance for the &-
block with his left hand, and B
rain hr would cleave I spateh of the business of these Sessions This being
it threw upon him the necessity of adjourn-
witnesa's skull. and let out his brains. Witness took I the rare,
ing the Sessions for som time, as the business at the
tiestdropper from him, and used no violence whatever,
and then sent for a constable. Before one arrived.
Ohl Bailey premised aide he of •li longer duration.
He had himself hour. through the gaol of Neu-gate
however, the defendaat went into his own house, and,
previous to the co tttttt encensent of these Sessions, and
placing.himself at the window, harangued the people,
;found no less than -I:id prisoners tinder trial for van
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bestowing a quantity of abuse upon the witness, and
nces ; and to this appalling number then.
lattgldag at the constable. The defendant had enter- ors rllro
ej an action, and also caused him to he taken into ens- would Probably be an increase of not less than 100
tody, and he was in (lilt:spur-street Compter from Si' before the Sessions had terminated, making a total fur
tigtlay.eeening till Monday morning. trial not resnembered during the worst period of our
Crorrocsansieed by Mr. A NDISWI4.---He and the de- history. Yet, with this increase of numbers, he had
mine pleasure in stating, there was no peculiar in-
*pant, wore safertunately, next-door neighbours.
Pthmerhutt's wife keeps a haberdanier's shop. Netnews crease in the atrocity of the crimes committed. The
Mi. Btainesbv, the surgeon, in the same street, and increase mainly arose from the inereeeed swat*, of
pockets with which the streets had recently been
knows• tenth joined in this affidavit, but he had not Pia
troseciied for perjury. The defendant was gene- inrestell; 'nil these, he must say, were in a great utea-
rally st home drunk. Witness knew he had formerly sure promoted by thenumher of unfortunate addressees
been a clerk to respectable solicitors, but he had not which had latterly pa-sell through the streets of
bees to lately. ; this great metropolis. 'I hese addressers lead been
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hen residing sett door to Mr. Lloyd, on ; invariably followed by vast nu ellers of pick; pacts,
gangs of all and Itl each, who plundered the gap.
the other side, saw the transaction of the lath of , ill
September, 1819, and described the main rireritn-1 ing multitudes with impurity, and almost art at des
po. 1 fiance the civil pnwer. Indeed it needed great resole-
stances 'sadly as Mr. Lloyd had done. He swore
sitively that kir. Lieri did not pelt, kick, or in any 1 'ion on the part of the officers to break 'hi...ugh their
Kay,,.b es assault the defendant. ranks, anti it was not done without great danger and
. ciosnninna,..ffe saw defendant next day with diffieuhy. Under the painful circumstances of the
his arse
oding. The abutter wax put up to keep case which he had before mentioned, it was his duty
to inform thrum that the Sessions must stand adjourned
WC the dast; and witr.ess did not conceive that it ob-
warted the view of the window of the defendant's until that day fortnight.
shop. Proclamation was then made for the adjournment.
Mr. Edward Bales, a clerk in the Bank, was par- of the Sessions until Wednesday, the I fib of °dikter,
et.oloa, ...oat in idr. Lloyd's shop, sad saw the . and the Comet broke up. It is understood that Wee
oas";;;idan. He alw, overused it exactly as I are no cases of great public interest on the ea/ender.
iketabir *Hansa had done. Mr. Lloyd did not lay ; ---..—..---=--..--
iiriiespon t
en he at all. He was two yards ;We have been informed that, within the last fart.
• from Mai when he fell. 'night, the Reservoir, near this town, has been ems-
' *Edward ldridge, servant to Mr. Lloyd, saw the ! pistely let of, to repair stow breakage that took plat.
1014fe.biasiartes,. and described it with very little va-la few months ago i and the extraordinary *sand of
• iiirtort in tire same assauer as the former demerits. i upwards of four hundred weight of treat was la .
'William Harris swore that, when the defesdnatfell, with as many eels, and the most pert of them sea s
112. Lloyd was notes ar monk to kick or seeds him. . our market. sons of the trout,votighiNg three 101‘0.
*field 'several times he would stick, or stab, Lloyd, ' nod a half. We hope the ree#,44141 It beiths
ft lie4Ml a keilb; aad his conduct upon the whole ; the township. has Oren distribuy4 'rli4ne wins 'axe
was eseeediigly griis. I in plow-4p`
was It sj Aiiiirlisre.)

tou-iness. s
Cross-evamisiesil.—lle tenderest himself as one of 1
the defenslants's hail upon this indicii.arnt, but was '
rejected. The defrnda.sr might have pat up a s!.o.ter !
or so in a fortnight after t.te affray, but nut in a day
ur two. 1
31r. ADOI.PIICS replied at considerable length.
The Con 310N-Bi:slat %vs., in his charge to the Jury,
said, that the defendant was charged with a west
enormous offence, for we held slur lives, nor prnperty.
our fame, and every thing that could b... valuable to
maw, upon the tenure of the sanctity of an oath i and
' unless its violation was punished with Bret severity,
there would be no safety in society. The Jury, how-
ever, world not suffer the magnitude of the eriose to
Iweigh to the prejudice of the defendant in their judg-
ment upon the evidence: nor would they find hint
guilty unless they thought the case clearly pr.oved.
The Jury. merely turning round in the box, pro-
nounced a verdict of iistilty, and site defendant was
ordered into custody to await his Sentence.