The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-11 00:00:00

111119bLESEX SES'SIOn, !14 IV. 10.

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James Barden was lndicted for violently assaulting
W. Carter, an eged maw.:
M r.BARRE • having- stated the-case, the Protect's.
for was examined, He'stated that he sold enfe!aldti
and other precious stones, isy commisaion, for• the'
Defendant. On the 20tb :of' August last he called
on the Defendant. to propose the sale of itome
emeralds upon credit. This _proposition was agreed
to, and a stamp was sent for. While the bay. was
gone for the stamp, Prosecutor asked the Defend-
ant to pay him *lll.. 14s, optimiseion—doe upon.'"
former sale made. This, I)efetstient refused.. to, do,
and afterwards pulled' th:e.P,tosociatoi• orate chak
upon which he sat, by the *taut! beat ltithr over
the knuckles with his owe idol, in consequence of
which he had ever since bean ender the care of Mr.
Want, the sorgeiiii tactie-Critscent, in Tottenham-.
court-road.
Upon the part of die. Defenaant,
Mr. GURNEY addressea the Jury and stated, that
the violence iu question, was attributable, to the Plain,
till's having refused to give up some emeralds which
be had in his possession, the' property of the Defend.
ant. Of this there was no evidence, and the Defend-
ant wag found Guilty.
The Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 13s. 4d.
Jain littgler was indicted for assaulting John
/I o ward. 'l'he Defendant is a pig-jobber, and the
Plaintiff a tallow-chandler, and both reside in White-
cross-street.

The parties, it appeared, had some quarrel respect- j The friaiinei pleided guilt", but Mr. ALLis'A in
ing the exhibition oil board on the premises of the his defence, stated, that he was so unconscious of
Plaintiff, and some high words haring ensued, the the unlawfulness of the copper being in his posses.
Defendant, who was employed in killing a pig, and sion, that upon a persist) seeing it who belonged to
held a knife, stained with gore, in his hand, swore , the house, and mentioning to the Prisoner his fear
by all that -was &mune, he would rip Plaintiff's h—r! of the conseqtencel, he replied he was extremely
guts from his body. fisintitt was so terrified at the ! sorry it had ever come there, and Would not hive
threat, that be ran off and hid himself in a tallow tub. wished it for " five hundred pounds."
Several witnesses nere called pro and con the re-1 The RECOREIpt said, that the crime for whit)) the
suit of whirl, was to produce from the Jury, a ter- Prisoner was found guilty, was one upon which the
dict of dfctptittel. • I law inflicted a very"heiry punishment, namely,
im-
Loeis a Stanton was tried on an indictment charg. prisont, fine, whipping, and • the pillay. In con-
ing tier with wilful and corrupt perjury. sideration, however, of the line of COOduct puraued.
Mr. ALLEY stated this to be a case of a very by the Prisoner's Counsel, as well as the contrition.
singular description, and such as bad on no former he had himself manifested, the sentence of the COurt
I occasion, either in practice or reading, fallen under would be mitigated to the least mentioned. The'
his observation. It sou an indictment preferred by Prisoner was then sentenced to be confined twelve
a husband against his wife, under the -following cit..' calendar months in Newgate.
cooastassces:—The Plaintiff was an Officer on half- John Kenned, stood indicted for a violent assau re
pay, and a few days after his maniage with the De. upon the person of William Lee, an officer of the
feudal's, she had thought proper to elope; and, as a parish of St. Andrewir, HolbOrd, in the exercise of
justification of tier conduct, she had applied to this his duty, on the 14th November last.

Court fur its protection, stating, on oath, that she
had' been most grievously treated by her husband,
who had threatened to cot her throat with a razor,
because she could not procure from her father certaju
sums which he had &hired her to obtain. These
threat. were w frequent, that. she at length con-
ceived her life to be in danger, and she felt it no.
cessery to seek the protection of the law. The re-
gale of this statement was., that the Plaintiff was
taken into custody, and was obliged to find sureties
for his keeping the peace. In consequence of this
proceeding, which Plaintiff asserted was not war..
routed by any act of his, he had preferred an in.
dicteent against his wife, charging her with Wilful
petjury. Upon referring to the indictment, however,
he (Mr. Alley) found that the Plaintiff himself Was
a witness to prove the case, and, in fast, without his
evidence the prosecution could not be sustained.—
The Judges ie Westminster Hall had decided, how-
ever,
that the parties prejudiced in a case of perjury
could net be minified in their own behalf, and con-
sequeatly, in . this case, the evidence of the Prose-
cater was inadmissible. Under these circumstances
he was amble to sustain the prosecution, and,
therefore, the Defendant was entitled to au ac-
quittal.
The Jury found a verdict accordingly.
The Defendant is a most interesting looking young
woman, and was accompanied by her father, who is
a most respectable individual.
JaJus Baistbridge was indicted for having in his
possession 25 pair of boots, and other articles, of
the value of 81. the property of Alexander Cohen,
welt keowieg the same to be stolen.
The Prosecutor keeps a shoemaker's shop in Lin-
coin's Inn-passage, and on the 27th of August last,
hisshop was broken open, and the articles in ques-
tinn stolen. In three weeks afterwards, from infor- j
illation which be received, he found a part of the
property so stole:►, in the lodgings of the Defendant,
who was not at home at that time, and who kept out
of the way for some works subsequently.
To the character of the Defendant several wit-
nesses were called, who spoke favourably of his ge.
neral conduct.

: , The ll.'rosecutor deposed, that on the day stated
, in the indictment, he received a warrant to search the.
, apartments of the Prisoner, a shoemaker, who re-
sided in Plough-court, Holborn, and who was
charged with felony. He went in company with a
brother officer, named Lacy ; on their arriving at
the lodgings of the Prisoner, they forted him at
home. Wituess informed him, that he had a war-
raise to search his apartments for a blanket, which
had been stolen; the Psisener replied, he might save
i himself the trouble, as the blanket, which, he con-
• 1 fessed, he had taken, was at " his uncle's," namely,
that it was pledged. The witness then demanded
I the duplicate as a proof, which the Prisoner pro-
I duced. The witness then said, he was author:bad, to,
;.say, that if he gave up the duplicate no more notice
Iwould be taken of the matter; if not the Prisoner
'must consider himself in custody and go *long with
Aim. Prisoner then advanced towards the witness,
!apd struck him a violent blow on the breast; a
scuffle ensued, and both fell. The Prisoner at length
got the better of wifneisLand upon rising from the
floor, seized his. knife and threatened several, times
" ' to stick hire." This (tweet, however, he was not
able to carry into earecution, owing to the assistance
given to the Witness by Lacy, and after a good deal
of violence ana resistance the Prisoner was secured.
The Prisoner was about ticall a man of the name
of Maloney, to disprove the statement of- 14e; but
lit appearing that this person was charged with a simi-
' ler ulnae against Lacy, the officer,
!
The Counsel for the Prisoner (Mr. ARABIN), re-
commended .him to throw himself upon the mercy of
the Celia, as from the very fair and candid evidence,
. given'by the witness Lei whist him, it was trident
that the saline description of pieta *mild be pro- '
duced against his companion Maloney br lAcy . 1
The Jury therefore must certainly be more iodine/
to pay attention to the truth of two retipectahle wit.:
' news, than to the evidence of an individual, in fa.el
your of, his companion, charged with a similar ok.
fence. . • • I
The accortoett highly approved the line of conduct .
adopted.by•the Prisoner's Counsel, and remarked,3.
that instead of lessening the crime with which he stood ,

.The Jury found a verdict of Guilty.
George Cole, a constable, was indicted for con-
tempt, in refusing to execute i warrant, issued by
jobs Francis Girdler, Esq. a Magistrate, residing alt
Idewerth.
Mr. Srsapinc, inn. stated the case. He observed
thatMT. Girdler was a gentleman whose character
sod relpectabrlity was well known, as well n the
fact of his being a very old Magistrate of the County

charged, it would have been. considerably Increased,
bad such evidence,
,embracing, perhaps, a principle
of perjury, been produced ; in stsch case the punistO
roent could not be too great. In consideration there,
fore of the Prisoner's sense of his error, and the
course punned by his Counsel, the sentence of the
Court was, that he should find securities toiceep tlsA
peace fdr 12 months; himself in the sumo! WI.) and
two sureties ih 101. each.

of Bdiddlesex. f In the mouth of September last, *-a
poor woman of the name of Fuller went to hi* and
ekunplained of •a TUNA assault committed upon her
by another woman named Allen, in consequence of
whieis he issued his warrant to ay. her brought ba-
tiste .him. The Defendant, however, neglected. to
obey this warrant, and hence the present indictment.
Ms. G.uaury, for the tisfindent, now produced
the warrant in question, and on its being read, it

The plan for the new street from Pall-mall to the
Regent's Park is skid to be in abeyance. In esti-
mating the "expences, the 'intrinsic value of 'the
Mouses to, be taken down was considered, not tide'
Soul-mills of the trades carried on in several of them.
The Coturelisioners ire stopped by some demands of
this sgrti, Which tbeY can neither comply with, nor
redtste. .

appeared that, by it, the' Defendant was ordered to
bring the body of Martha Allen before Mr. Gird-
ler, or some other Magistrate for the County of
bliddlesan"..--and on inspecting the back of the
warrant, it am found that the Defendant had taken

The Cornwallis) 74 Rear-Admiral Bvii.To4,
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Captain /talo' 1 - and the. Rover, 14; • •CAPtein
BRUCE, wee to •1111 with a convoy for the Capi-41i.f
Good Hopi, Mantilla') and the East Iddiesi yestet-
day (10th tus9. The dmphion, Captain J. P.
STEWART, andMalabWr stirs:ship, are to hit in coot-
for the Hiazils, a tonvoy.
The Rotterdam and Ilelvoet letters ere to theliih
instant. A very adateibil redaction In the price Of
American commoditims Isiatairee faiiie in Holland,
cotton wool excepted, whilAi fekniech.likis the erect
of the pacification. Much jiAlOaly is said to subsiit
between the people of Holland and Belgium • and
the good citizens.. of Amsterdam are fearful 'Of the
utter annihilation of their trade, by the approaching
competition between the shipping of the Tent and
the Scheldt.

the woman tesulether Magistrate, having previously
given notice tolhe Complainant, and the CoMplaln-
ant not attending she was discharged. Independent
of this, the warrant was not correctly wet forth in
the record.

Under these circuinstaneas, the Court held the
prosecution could not be nphold, and de Defendant
was acquitted.

Marsha Allen wag neat tried, on an indictment,
charging her with asntalting Mary Flitter, the woman
alluded to in the last case. She was found guilty,

au►d sentenced to seven days imprisonment.