Middlesex Sessions, Tuesd...
The Times, 1824-09-22T00:00:00

ll at?erineand Ann Irwting, convi;ted onMlond#y of starvingtand ill-treating children, were brought up for .Judgment. The CUAILnrAN said there could be no doubt that the parenis of thc chlildren had been guilty of a great dereliction of their dutry that fact, however, formed nojistification of the conduct of the prisoners. The case, as proved had not come up to the opening state- ment; but there was still much for which they had to be responsible. Catherine Irving (the mother) was then sentenced to four months' imprisonment; Ann Irving (the daughter) to three. Wmn. Clfg/ord, who described hiirmself as having been a school- master, was put to the bar, charged with Rn assault. Defendant, on coming up, said that he objected to the jurisdiction of that Court; he desired to be tried before the King. The CHAItSr.AN.-AVCII; you are nominalUy before the King now tn you wish that he should attend in person ? Defendant said, that certainly was his wish. Alr. CoNsT.-HunlPh I I am afraid, on this occasion, I must presume to act s-s his representative. Defendaiut.lI object altogCther to the Court by which I am Lied. T'he CAItriAm...-I am sorry for it; but a great maniy people come hdre with the samne feeling. Mlr. C. Fox, of Queen-street, Bloomsbury, the prosecator, was tihen called, and seemed almost tis ebullient in his style as the de- fendant. He said that he knew the prisoner at the bar, and had to complaic of an assault from him. Defendant.-An assault ! Let him go on. I'll bring him back with a rircumbendibas. Alr. Fox.-lvly Lord. he came to mny house in Queen-street on the 24th of July, in the evening. May servant brought up his name, and I sent down word that he should go about hts business. As she was going out of the room to tell him this, in he bounces, without with your leave or by your'leave. The CrAraMAIT.-Hle does seem to have a mode of his own. Alr. Fox.-When he camne in, he said that he came to demand his wife and children. I said that tlhey were not witlh me, as he knew very well. With that, my Lord, he took up his stick-his " shille. lagh" he calls it in his own country; and he began to beat me over the hcad with it, if your-Worship pleases, as lIard as he could. The CI51lMAN.A.-BUt why did he do this ? Al r. Fox.-Aly Lord, I don't know. The CssAs1nsrAx.-And had you no stick yourself? 1A1 r. Fox.-I\Iy Lord, I took one up, but he took It away from me. So then I faced him right and left with my ffits, and we fell upor, the carpet together; and, as I found I had the worst ofit, I cried out for help, and t he neighbours came in and parted us. The C i1AIRaMAw.-But what is it about his wife ? Alr. Fox.-Mly LIord, it is that I am trustee to some property she has independent of him. They have been parted a considerable time, and she is governess in a most respectable family, as he knews. The defendant being ealled on for his ans.wer to this statement, sai(1 that every word of it was false. He was an oppressed man- always in prison and ill-used, andneow mnuch aggrieved by the Court. IHe had that in his hanit which would show his wrongs, and some day make his enemies tremble. On going to Queen-street, he had found Mr. Fox sitting on a sofa, after dinner, taking his wine; while he, wvho was Mlr. Fox's betters, ha(d neither dinner, nor wiie, tior sofa. Ele himself, however, had been assaulted before he laid hands upon anv hotl v. A prihtctl pamphlet was then handed in, which purported to de. scribe some disputes between Mr. Fox and the defendant; but the CirAtasrAV, after looking ever it, said that it was no answer to a charge of assault. Defendant._Then again I challenge the Court. It is a fraud that you, or any single iidividtal, should have power to pass sentence on me. The CiiAiRntAN._-It is a breach of the laws ef equality, but we are cotnepelled to submit to it. The .Jury theni found the defendant Gtilty, who continued to contest the right the Court hind to deal with him. Mr. COsST.-I doti't know what to do with him. Mir. IFox.-_ly Lord, he had been taken up to Bow-street on the very lay wvhen he attacked (le. I)Defedant.-That'is false. I went there to complain of the con- spiracy wlich you are at the hea(d of-as I have been to the Lord Mayor acud the Secretary of State. Mr. CONST.-_Have you any bail? D)efendant.-If I liad, do you think I shouldhave laid two mnonths in prison ? Thc CIeAi 11MAN.-I don't know how long you havebeen in prison. Dcfendant.-I dare say von don't. This is what Iobjected to the Court far. I knew I should be foind guilty. Mr. PltgcDERGAuST the barrister, said, that he believed the tlefer(dant was insane. had seen him in courts of justice before. The defendant said that he believed lbir. Prendergast was insane; he had seen him in courts of justice before. The CHIdRMtAtN the,i ordered that lie should be taker, away for the Present. Kitty Af'Carilty, a very poor Irishwoman, was charged with stealing coals out of a barge uipon the Thames. Poor Kittv, it ap- pearedl, ha(d been takeii in tlhe fact ; and a peck was the quasntity of theft cliarged against her in the itidictment. The tAlaiAN.-Have you anvcounsel? Mlrs. ll'Ceartrhy.1Is it counsel, your Honour ; what wouldI I be having counsel for-let alone where would I get 'em-wlen I never .hd the thing at all at a}l? I'nt an honest womarn-log life to your !.rdsliip-and gets niy living virtuously by picking up oalsg upon the wharfs. I walks into ttie water after 'em, the bits of things, anl arnsmybitand my rag by weuing myself savingyourHonour's presence, to the skin of me. I never laid a fnger on the coals nor oni nobody's property but my own, bad luck (anid sure that's Clerk. enwell) to me if I (lid. I have two " childer," witliout ever a thdther. And sure I'll throw tayself, arid all that's inine, on youtr lordship and( the jintlemen of the jury altogether." These declarations of innocence did not produce all the effect that inighlt have been expected. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The CnIAnr MAN then procecedied to pass sentence; but Kitty's trust in her own cloquence was not over. I%1rs. A'Carthiy.-T.any thanks to your Honour, and its that lam. Tl'e C)rAIsA.AN.-YOU bave been found guilty of a very badact. Mrs. AM'Carthy.-XVMy then truth'struth,yourHonour; Ididdo it; hut the things caine in my way, and I could not help it. Thie COURT.-Ay, but you must help these things. Tihe sen(enee of the Court is, that you be imprisoned seveR.-no, I mtis- take-. Mrs. Il'Carthy.-You don'r, your Hlotiour ; would it be your 1 onoour that woultid mistake! letitbeseven days, your Honour, as the word you spoke it; don't, your Honour, go back of your word. The C(AsATIMAM thensaid that, for once, lie would beas good as hiis word ; it should be seven days, but he hoped he should aever see Al rs. Al'Carthy again. llrs. M11'Carthy (moving off).-Oci I never again will yourlord- shiit lay your two eyes on me; though I'd always be glad to see your I fonour well and in health; and might the blessing ot' God fall tiown uplon you, and yours, night ana morning, and every other time of day. Isaac Linton, James WVilliams, aind James Tonge, three corporals in the Coldstream Guards, were indicted fbr a riot on the 30th of July, anti for assaulting and stabbing Joscph Pond. It appeared, that on the day in question, the prisoners were found by Pond, the beadle of St. Giles's parish, in Buckerillge-street, or itt (corgc-strcet, 'erv drulilt, anti surrounded bv a mob. Being apprchensive of a riot if this continued in such a neighbourhoo Pond! and sonie other officers accosted them, and advisedl them to go to their quarters, our'.eing to sho v the e tie way. The soldiers at first went away very peaceably; but some person in the crowd call- ed out " Take them to the watchhouse ;" upon whieh thbe tamed round,and, attacking the officers, a general battle commenced. Lin. ton drew his bayonet and made alunge at Pond, which went through his coat, and tiarrowly missed liis body: Villiams also drew his bayonet, but was dlisarmned bv a man ot the name of Riley ; Tonge fou ght away svith biis hands i but at length all three were overpow- crcl antl taken into custody. A sergeant of the Coldsreairi Guards gave all the prisonersagood clharactcr. The Juryfounld Uinton and NVilliamsguil*y; bitt acquitted Tonge. The C'TAHlnRAN observed, that if Pond had been stabbed and had died, Uinton woutltl in all probability have beetm hangedl. He thieti seiitenced Linton to ten wreeks' imprisonment, and Williams to six, in the House of Correction. I . AMIDDLESEX SERSfOAVS, Tussn,-&V Sr,. 21.