The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-07 00:00:00

LONDON SiiSSIONSi

On Satortlay.the Adjneirneil Sessions for the City of
London was hell b-fore the Lord Mayor, the Recorder,
and Aldermen Sir ,lames Shaw, Cox, and Venable%
James F?as►tstll was tried for riot andassault in Whitf-
cross-treet prison.
Tile e 031310,/ SPRIMA NT and Mr. I:lom.aszre conduct cil
the prosecution in behalf of the City.
The evidence stated, that Mr. Brown, the creditor of
one White, a priaoner,agai oat who te he had attended at the
Insolvent Debtors'-court, to protect his interest•, wt nt to
the prison at the request of White, to accommodate the
matter; that soon after he entered' preparations were made
by a number elf the inmates to pomp on him, the
having been filled with water, and the rxecutloners of
the prison laws haring blackened their feces.. tailed up
their sleeves, ; that in spire of h struggles they half
drowned him, and then covered hien witn w.hes and saw-
duo, and that the defendant was amongst the most ac-
tive t.f his persecutors.
The defendant said in his defence, th it he had washed•
himself with the water he had pumped, and that the ter-
ror of the prosecutor had transformed him into one of
the executioners.
The defendant was foam! Guilts•, and senteneed to he
imprie.ne•t in the Home of Co r •ction to hard Tabaue
fur six months.

A circumstance of a most heart-rending kind took
place in St. James's-street, in this town, on Saturday
last. A little girl of the name of llowcroft, about six
Years of age, went out with her sister, live 'months obi,
and as she us, playing over the month of a well, the co-
vering of which (being insecure by the rottenness of the
timber supporting the outer flag) gave way, and bat,
unfortunately, fell in. This circumstance being un-
known,the parents were kept in anxious suspense till
about seven o'clock in the evening, when some circum-
stance caused swpicion to fall on the fatal sp it ; on whi h
the father descended, and found his infant babe on t• e
chamber of the well. immediate search was made • fur
the elder sist-r elsewhere, supposing she had ebsconifed
after seeing what had happened to her charge ; but dur-
.
tug the absence of the father, another person went down
and discovered bet suffocated at the bottom of the well,
with the large flag, &..., upon her, fifteen yards leaver
than the place where the infant was f tund. She had her
thigh broken in two places, her shotilder dia'inatttd, anti'
was otherwise mach bruised. An inilest was held oa
the bodies on Monday morning, when a verdict of" At-
citiental Death," was returned--(beedi latelligeneer.)
An inquisition was enTuesday.taken at Oiford,os view
of the body A. T. Grey, coachman to the Regulator
coach. It appeared that on Friday night preceding, the
deceased had been running up High-street against at iend
with Whom he had been spending an evening, who out-
ran him, and whom he then challenzed to a race back-
wards ; when the deceased, after running a few yards,
fell with such violence on the pavement, as to cacsea cos-
cussion of the bra; A, which terininatel his existence en
Monday morning. Verdict, Ac.:iden'al Death. Mr.
Grey, who was forty-four years of age, and has It ft a wi
dow, a son,and two daughters, was very much respected
and esteemed.

A dreadful accident occurred, we understand, near
Hounslow, between four and tire o'clock on Tuesday af-
ternoon last. The coachman of the Bo b Chronometer
coach s'ogps.sd at Smalibury Oreen to set an inside pas-
senger down, and incautiously left the horses without
any person to hold them, for a few seconds. They set
offal full speed. The coachman ran•after and succs &led
to reganing the reins, but in so doing use tnroan and r
the wheel of the coach, and had h's shoulder dislmated
The horses afterwards oyes turned a cart and broke it to
atoms, in which were two women and two childrin. One
of the women was killed on. the sp st, the other toss so
much injured that her life was despairs d of. The chit•
then received but little injury.—(Backhanishire Chron )
A shock'ng a cident occurred • on Saturday, the sttt
instant, in Fenchurch-street, to .51r. Leathaaite, who.
in driving into town in his gig, struck against a hack-
ney-coach, and was thrown out La' a considerable dis-
tance, by which-his right elbow was crushed in many
places. Mr. Basset, surgeon, was directly sent for, and
after the removal of some of the bones forming the el_
bow-joint, was enabled to leave Mr. Leathwaite in the
hope of ultimately doing well, without losing his arm.

MARRIED.-03 Saturday morning. at St. tieurge's
Church. Haaover-square, Hata)ly. son of Thos. G. Knapp,
Esq., to Esau, daughter ofJeffry Wyatt, Esq. architect.
On Saturday, the Mb Inst., at St. George's. Slooinshary,
Thomas Holroyd. Esq. fourth son of the lion. Mr. Justice
lloiroyd, to Sarah, youngest daughter. of Wm. Morgan.
Esq of Gowor-street.

D I ED:-4411ifthea re. ia eiftiiii-stettet aptiatiquirs. se
Me 3th ismt4l6 et ft of apoplexy, James Pratt, Esq, in his
OUth yeoman& tosootail by bisolliolect
On tinalibriallS; Mary. the Wile of Robert Fisher. Esq.
of Alder and of Mitchel!). SurreY.

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