The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-02 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SE,VSIONS,' 4PaIL 1.

The Sessions of Peace for the City and Liberties of
Westminster, commenced this day before WILLIAM
MAINWAnt NG, Esq. the Chairman, and a full Bench
of Magistrates.
John William Cundj was indicted for assaulting
John Basset on the 17th of December. It appeared
1 that the Prosecutor was returning home to his lotlg-
ings,in St. Martin's-lane;abont one. o'clock in the
' morning, when the Defendant
_perceiving him open-
-1 tag the door with what h. conceived a false key/
alarmed the watchman. 'The. Prosecutor by this
time bad got into the panne, from whence he re-
turned, and asked the Dectiolarst if he had lost any
i thing ? The l) Pendant replied; by desiring the
' matchman to take him into custody. He was then
! walking off, but the Prosecutor desired Ida address
before they parted. Some words ensued, ;end the
1/4endant struck and beat the Prosecutor, bit with
i the assistance of the-watohnsan,.he was taken. to the
watch-house. -
. On the part of the Defendant, his brothek was
r.cal led to show that the Prosecuter had struck the
first blow.
i The Jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced
to pay a
.fine of 101.
Henry Betts was indicted for assaulting and false-
I ly imprisoning John Spencer, on the :id of last Aug.
under the following circumstances :
Mr. BARRY stated the case on the part of the Pro-
secutor, which sas in substance to the following ef-
fect : Mr. Spencer had been to dine with his brother
in Clerkenwell, whom he left about six o'clock, and
walked to Pimlico, in search of lodgings. On his
return home to his apartmentsat Pancras, he stopped
in the Green Park to rest himself upon one of the
seats ; the Defendant came up to him,. seated himself
on the same bench, and made a sort of push against
him. Mr. Spencer not liking his conduct, got up and
walked towards the Park-gate, to go into Piccadilly.
The Defendant followed him, and charged him with
indecent practices, gave him in custody of a watch-
man, and he was conveyed to the watch-house. This
was on a Saturday night; he was detained till Mon-
day, when he was taken before the Magistrate at
Marlboro Ugh-street Office, and no Prosecutor ap-
pearing, was discharged.
Mr. ALLEY, for the Defendant, made a very able
defence, commenting on the conduct of the Prosecu-
tor as being very suspicious. Ile called Mr. Groves,
of the Court of King's Bench, who gave the Defen-
dant a good character, having lived it the time with
his brother in Scotland yard, who is since 'dead.
1 Mr. BARRY replied, in an able speech. The Chair-
man directed the attention of the Jury to the evi-
dence, who, after a short consultation found the De-
fendant Vuiltli. •

The court sentenced him to be imprisoned one
month.
John Christinn Frank was indicted for assaulting
an interesting young girl, of the name of Ann Lane,
with intent to ravish her, on the 2d June. From
the stitemeut of Ann Lane, it_appeared that the Pri-
soner, who was a master tailor, in Poland-street,
hirel her to live with him as servant, a few days before
he assaulted her ; that on the day stated in the in-
dictment (iunday), he sent his son out for a walk, and
having directed her to enquire for what the guns were
firing, on her return back into the drawing-room,
where he was drinking wine, locked the door, put
the key in his pocket, and pouring out a tumbler of •
wine, ordered her to drink it, she refused, and he
then assaulted her, but a knocking as the street.door
alarmed him, and she took the opportunity of run-
ning down stairs into the street, and lime to her.
father's.
The Jury found him Guilty.
The Court, in consideration of his being a fo-.
reiguer,•and not, perhaps, aware of the law of
.England, only sentenced him to be imprisoned six
snerrAs.
A Gentleman, named Edwards, was fined twenty
'killings, being convicted of assaulting some watch-
men in it. James's parish, in the execution of their
antht :

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.- On Friday last the following melancholy accident
happened at llarinw, Essex :—As some children who
had been tctasdng potatoes at a kiln, were stooping
to gather them up, the clothes of one of them, a girl
if eightyegmxild,,canglet fire, anti notwithstanding
lihe hadilmese Immediate assistance, she was so dread-
fully.burot that. she expired in a few hours.
Vistxon .M.trcu.—The shooting match between
Messrs. Morton and Payne, at 21 birds from a trap
at eighteen
y‘rds from the gun, took place yester-
day in f
And's New Ground, between the New Road
and Kilburn. Morton won the match very easy at
17 birds,' Of *hick hi bagged 14, having hit hard
'the sth and 14th, without bringing them clown. He
made ante miss only, which was at the Pah bird.
Payne killed ninebirds only from 17, and several of
the othir eight were not hit. Morton did not shoot
at his remaining four birds, the match being decided
without it. .
• A sad acCisient happened on Easter Monday to a
•Mr-lliel Sik Kilby, living in James-street, Mary-
le-bellif. IV: 1611 w wave painter. By the boiling
o*. _ ifira pdt. of iteirpentine in. the exercise' of his,
profeeitier,'. his:wilt Was so dreadfully burnt that she
died ' . lbw morning in the most excruciating ago-
nee*E 1. - fie; husband, from the same calamitous di-
r
can't , 'cannot long survive her. They' were a
cry deserving young couple, With a family of four
Mpg children, 'one of which is also seivrely _burnt,
'llmailitY- has seldom found fitter objects than
rill for the faergise.of sympathy and beam.

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MANSIO7i-110USE.
Yesterday, Mary Berths, a respectable
I ill,
1 elderly wornanyservant.to Mr. Brodcrip, piatio4,,rl
maker, Cheap4ide, was brought before the 6R;
MAYOR, charged by a host of ° green-erocers,
0 endeavouring to pass bad money. Ts one she ()Cr.
ed a bad sixpence, to another a had dollar, and i„,
third two bad three-6011n; •tokens, as app,,,,
upon their evidence.. But upon furth 4.
it appeared, that her master had taken the twoihreN
shilling tokens in change from a neighhooring
can, had given them to her mistress, who gave t!ip,
again to the Prisoner for household purposes. sht
had also received the dollar and sixpence froth her
mistress, both of which proved to be good. cp 4
this Loan M %Yoa thougpt there was no-p.*0,1(1 rot
charging the Prisoner with koooingly
passing bad money, and accordingly distuktNi
i complaint, to the no small disappointment and !nor.
tifictt ion of the green.grocen, who appeared e“.,
zealous in the cause, and most anxious for a tr:e.
cation. . _ _

• nUILIMAIL.
. Yesterday 1V,,. Tkylot, alias Smith, alias CO9
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ley Billy, (for we do love to give every man his he.
WV/.
! Pourable and total quota of appellations, thoueli
they might in number distinct a Spaniard); Ka
!Nought again before the Sitting Magistrate, Alden.
man Deemartm.e, on the charge, which we mentioned
~yeateetley, of having displayed signal alacrity
amot%st the pockets tsf,thei parties attending the
Lord Mayor's Bail on Monday ettming.
I Country Billy alsortal the hlagistrate, that Ward
iintiniteted hiseestraint to several honourable acquaiikt.
&aces, who unfortunately happened for him to be
Icalled out of town, on most important busine4,
they might have distinguished hits by -a chancel
`worthy of sebtaluing the pace of the Court. llow.
ever, he maintained his own innocent*, even in et
absence of his character; and etuleavouced to eitd;ry
the Judge, by informing him be had tree itly oh.
Mined bail for an assault, which would only continue
• to Monday.
The Magistrate informed him, that a charge of
felony was paraniount to the assurance of hail ; and
it was impossible, under the suspicious circumstances
so strongly proved against him, that •he could dis.
charge hit»; even on themes! urgent necessity. lie
had totally failed in giving a satisfattory account of
himself, and-also of maintaining any. appearance of
character at all, by bringing wittiesces forward to
prove him a person of good habits. He would,
therefore, be under the necessity of committing him
to Bridewell as a rogue and vagabond.
The wemau, of the name of Eiroon, who attend.
ed Country Billy as a,companion, on his pilgrimage,
ileare the Mansion-house, was discharged by the
Magistrate. None of the Officers could recoguize
her as an old acquaintance of either good or evil re.
pert
/leatey Chilton a boy engaged in the service of
.Mr. Radford, a cheesemonger, in Jen in-strett, was
brought up by his master, and accused of havisig
lobbed his till to the value of four shillings. IN
parents, who live in Whitechapel, had been order:d
, to attend, and answer to his character before tha
! Couit • but they neglected to appear ; and several
1 other little nefarious circumstances having come out
against him, he was,ordered on board the tender, at
the desire of Isis Prosecutor,
Ann Hawkins was charged with having stolen. a
pound of bacon from dcheesemonger's shop, which
sheendeavoured to conceal.g below her apron aide
make her escape with it. was taken hold of by
the lady who conducted the shop, and after a stout
denial and then a struggle, the prize was redeemed.
The Prosecotris, with the most laudable lenity,
droppd the Prosecution and desired that she might
be discharged, which was immediately done, with a
suitable admossition.
The poor old deranged man, meatiened in our
Paper of yesterday to have bees broegist,ep at Guild-
hall, accused of having a silent. • watch In his.posses•
sion, for which he could not, or Would•aot account,
was discovered to be a well-known lunatic from a
neighbouring parish, who had eluded those persons
who had him in charge, and strolled *Oat the ,streets
of London, where he was immediately oppribpded.
fie wair put into the custody of 'one of his, own Po•
rish. Officer.% -and seat to a place of proper reception.
NA RLI3O RO UG(l',-STREET.
4.otpttsfo.4,eonitionlierd was
ngoshrub
s ocucUilt ofle tedMerly6-lett7BoPneenPalitYrk!'i

The Lord bishop of Cx.altsti, we 'are told, de.
rained the Lotto MAYOR so long at church on Mon.
lay; bra most admiruhle discourse, that several per.
fans of the highest distitiction were assembied.pre-
vious to his and the Leer htaxottros'a arrival ; and
before the •LApY Maxciazsa could huddle on her
Court Dress, and the LORD MAYOR to
sadjost his
State Robes, the major part, of the company were
istembled, Ltd one half of them had got the :rind"
cholic. . .
CAUTION TO CRACTI*IOI.-•—ks thl!,".lrteadinc
coach was coming to town
.01,1 Tueidei sieving,
.aboit eight o'clocx, the CoadtiMan quitfed the horses
to deliver a parcal in St. Martin's.lao# ; when they
set off at a quiek rate without any driver. They
passed along Chandos.street and crown Bedford-street
into the Strand, to the endbf Salisbury.street, where
the coach overturned. The passeugets, cousktiag
of three iftside and hvo'clut, escaped without much
hurt.

RRI EH.
.At Melkshsta,_ Wiltshire; on the ?Ist March, Ri- hard C, 3.
eninbe, Esq. of Taunton, Somersetshire, to tAken, eldest d.kit(Y.
ter of John flartnoll Moore, Esq. of the rinse place.
On Tsesday, at Northampton, B. M. Wiko.t, Est.•ef Sel•
awe-place, to Sophia Ann, daughter of the late IL Vaud r-
gueht, FAN. of Lower Brook-street..
On Saturday last, Mr. G. Hopkinson, Skinaer's-hk.ll,
citor, to Miss Shortehige, Nehon-ware.

DIED.
On the 19Ih alt. at Doncaster, W. Dancer. Tjo. fortherrb Ist
the tkith Grenadiers, and late Lieut.-Col. of the Ilayallt
I li
tegilautt of Foot.
siugate of ljaddingtoa, oa the 19th ult. aged 1 Mr. P.
M•lityre, late farwr at losikri...,,aitts. hlc. Wird re juiet.:
the Pretender's army in 1743. and was severcht wounded -with a
I.3sikvouet Aube battles of. Culloden, on the lfiti AKA. 171 d.
Oa the 15th Decedher, at Fiih ill, America, J. lleoller-tto,
11911 yon. He was at the wattles of Culloden mid Niue, r,
!MO ht the takiag of Queisee, after which he settled la Anseti,t..
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Printed and Pit Wished Ay p. Loyal% at 14.
STATES-NAN OFMCIG, $7, Fleet-strect.

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