The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-18 00:00:00

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OLD BAILEY gssszo-vs,
BATVRDAT.

Miens Patterson was put to the Ur, charges! *A SOW
uI.:L II; a rape On the person- of harsh Finch. Net. seamed
rlt., a most disgestiscr detail of the swims. eiregintalesse
r v•I. o•thii with the alleged crime. but such were the dram-
s ar.ere. In her hest stassory, that the Learned Jake (Rich-
arcii‘n) did sot consider it necessary to call witnesses ia de-
and Jrzy instantly retaftted 0. verdict of Not
GuAty.
Urn the witness's departure from tbeCourt, she was neep
nised by the mob at the oetside, who booted sad shouted at

r fotS euhsiderable time.
Wns. Sydow! Smith and Freakriek Hopkins were next
p•st to the bat, charged with feloniously assaulting a
gentleman, of the name of Middleton, and forcibly
taking from his person a pocket book, purse, watch and
chain, in the open day, at 12 o'clock, in the Strand, on
the 15th of August.
Mr. Middleton, a respectable old gentleman, was then
c.s.lesland sworn.—He could not swear to the persons
of the prisoners. Ile said, it was on a day when a pro-
erision was going to the Queen; a parcel of fellows
/wheel up against him, and held his arms in the midst
of the crowd, whilst others committed the robbery.
Thos. Taylor, officer, was next sworn.—lle assisted to
bete the prisoners into moody ; he observed then.
amongst a gang in the city, on the Itoth of August, and
6,Vowed them to the Strand; he there heard 3lr. lid-
st.ettin singing out—the scoundrel has pot tor watch;
he thee turned round, and ',We've.' a fellow Musing a
ket book • this person, to the best of his belief, be
believes to be Hopkins ; the person for whom it was in-
truded, missed it, and he took it up, and he then heard
them cry ont, CAiary, which said, meant Hal' MHO'
enires ; he, assisted by Cook, took Hopkins into cus-
tody at Kensington.
Coulter, the officer, was next gp own. and corroborated
tbi testimony of the former witness, He ob. d the pri-
soners amongst a gang rushing to the proressi..n, and they
kept alongside lathe carriage of Mr. Sheriff Parties, where
the crowd was most numerous. !lc assisted in taking the
prisoner into custody. lie was knocked down several times
and received considerable injury.
Thomas Cooke next railed--Is a Constable, saw Smith
wheu Mr. Middleton was robbed, pushing against the man
%be was nest to Middleton; be heard Mr. Middleton Tryout.
•• you have got my watch, you rascal ;" he had seen the pri-
soners previous to-this 4,nerviinn.
John U'iggius, a twistable, nest sworn. Ilk evidence
was sot very material.
Here a pocket book was produced, which Mr. Middle.
tom swore belonged to him.
S:everal persona were called, veto all spoke to Ilir gr.
*oral good character of the prisoners, particularly of
Smith.

Air. Raton linsitAst then charged the jtirr with ex-
treme minuteness. This nal a crime, he said. that con-
.. rued the community in a must serious manner. It
a matter of regret that •uch pres:tlenee dill exist,
and that so many opport 111 l itios occurred for the emu-
-I,w...ism of the crimes, n Wiwi any allusion to this par-
ticular instance.

fhe jury then returned. after a few• minutes, a verdict
of Smith, quilt—tionLins not guilsy.
i he court then adjourned.

MIDDLESEX SENSMNS.

On Saturday Gore .110, was indi,•trd for 'trai-
l:l eleven pounds of flour, the property of hi. em-
ployer. The prosecutor is a baker, and the pri•ouer
was in his enseiloy as a journeyman. The prosecutor
having came to suspect the prisoner of robbing him,
hr, on the day mentioned in the indictment, on his
leaving the shop, followed I ' and stopped him in
the street; and on searching yin a part of the tour
was concealed in the crown of his hat, and the 'mutin-
eer on other parts ,•f his person. An officer w'•rs
Gt. and ate prisoner was given in charge to him. T-he
prisoner now said he purchased the flour of a person ;
het he failed to produce him. 'I he Jury found him
guilty. and the Court sentence I loins t.. Ina months'
aril labour in the House of Correction.
Edrorrio, convicted of picking a gentle-
r a:.'s pocket of his handkerchief, was sentenced to he
; ',sported for seven years.
Ri•hard ifoldgote, convieted of a simil .r offence,
also sentenced to seven ears' transportation.
/trite Reseed, an unfortunat••cyprian, was also indict-
.; for picking the pocket of the prosecutor of his hand-
The prosecutor, a gentleman of sanctified
erPnrtonre, said lie had been supping iii Clare-street,
c.aie-maket, and was on his nay home about our
c'ciot•k, when he was accosted by the prisoner, near
Willie Hart-yard, who requested the favour of his
..;ripany ; he stopped to converse with her a short
t.oe, when be missed his handkerchief, and charged
I with has•ing taken it : she denied the charge,
rd he called the watch, and gave her in charge,
yt! !n the handkerchief nas found in her possession.
1 - prisoner, on being called on fur her defence,
531.1 the prosecutor joined her company about eleven
• jock, instead of one, and was with her near two
be....rs. They went to two or three houses, and had
1-q•mr to drink, Anil he gave her the handkerchief
as a reward fur certain favours, his money bring
xhausted. lie afterwards charged her with having
his pocket; she denied the charge, a i de-
him, if he thought lit, to rail the watch, and
st e should npt attempt to run away, as she cos-
,idered the handkerchief fairly her'S. The Jnry
giving credit to this defence, found her—Not
I LXUAID KEAN, ESQ. r. AN ORDIER Or RIR R. MAKER, Le.
This was an appeal against an order of filiation upon
l'itninnd Kean, Esq. the distinguished actor, of a male
bastard child of Louisa Bartlett, spinster.
The case basing been called on, Apr. Abxer proceeded
%foray, and with as much delicacy as possible, to state
to the Court the eireumstOnees which he was instructed
t,• prove in support of the order of filiation. The wo-
min. who was the mother of the child, would he called
to prove that she had been delivered of a male infant,
or the sth of June, is the workhouse of the parish of
S:. Martin-in4he Fields, and would swear, that the fe-
ver of the infant was the Gentleman who now appeared
before the Court as an appellant. If the woman s testi-
Irttry was believed, he was at a loss to conceive how tlie
cam could bk answered.-
Louisa Bartlett, the mother was then called. She
Caine forward under lid apparent influence of grief and
confusion, calculated to excite the feeling's orcommis-
s 'ration. She had the external appearance of one of
1:. JAC unhappy beings who infest the streets in the lowest
stage of proatitetion. Her wretched apparel bespoke
the last stage of penury. When placed in witness' box, ,
.he was ordered by the Coins to remove the tattered
Is mail which coicealed ir`er downcast countenance,
which it was expetei would exhibit indications of the
tnagt poignant grief, but, to rbe.astonishinent of every
body, a fare of uwhhn•hing imptitieeee was exhibited to ,
view: Though, like Niobe in external gesticulations of !
Otetet. her tears were but these of the crocodile. With
dept eyes. and a brazen front, she underwent the follotr-
sag Wanting!: :