Star. — 1821-10-19 (London, England)

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.  Yesterday these Sessions commenced. The Chairman (Mr. Coxsr), hi charging the Grand Jury, remarked, that although the list of cases was numerous, fret he had reason to believe they would find nothing out of the ordinary course in the business which would be submitted to them. itl‘Carthy, Roebottom, Deane, Hardy, Davis, and Jones, privates in the Ist Regiment of Foot Guards, were then put to the bar on a charge of riot in the Almonry, Westminster, on the 18th June last. Mr. ADOLPHUS informed the Court that the prisoners at the bar had been already tried at the Old Bailey Sessions upon a charge of murder arising out of an affray in Westminster on the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. One of them (M'Carthy) had keen found guilty of manslaughter; the rest were acquitted. As it was not the intention of the Parish, after the investigation which the subject had already undergone, to prosecute the matter further, it only remained for the Court to arraign the prisoners and discharge them.—This was accordingly done; but before the prisoners left the bar— The Cuantssmi said-4d Prisoners, it is better before you go from this place that your attention should be called to the gross impropriety of your conduct on this occasion. Your subsequent behaviour would lead one almost to suppose, that in the commission of the crime you had the intention of doing deadly mischief ; for, sirce your acquittal, you have not only considered yourselves justified in what you have done, but you have gone and abused the officers of justice, who only did their duty, one of whom narrowly escaped with his life. You all know that you have since boasted that you gloried in the act, and that you would rather have died than made any concession. You hare not been visited with punishment,  and the great lenity shew•n you should be taken in . proper sense. However you might have been prompted by a high spirit, yet the danger in which you stood, and the dread of being again in a similar situation, should have its full effect upon your minds. Persons who support the dignity of the military profession, under whose controul you more immediately are, feel the necessity of assisting and protecting the officers of justice, and 1 hope, before you leave this Court, you will be impressed with the respect due to the laws." Mr. ALLEY was sorry to hear that the soldiers had, subsequently to the day of the tumult, acted improperly towards any of the police. There was certainly nothing in the conduct of the latter throughout the whole affair to provoke or justify any such attack. Mr. RAINSFORD, one of the Magistrates from the Queen-square Police-office, complained in the strongest terms of the ill-treatment that Cooper of that Office had received from one of these soldiers : the violence  of the latter had been in the particular instance alluded to most intolerable, and might have led to serious general mischief, had he not promptly interfered, and sent to the Horse Guards for assistance.  Mr. ADOLPHVS said, that nothing could be more proper than the Chairman's admonition to the soldiers, who would, he trusted, profit by it in their future conduct. Certainly, nothing could justify any ill treatment of the police; but, on the other hand, no treatment could be worse than that endured by the soldiers, on the day of the occurrence which had already undergone investigation. They had suffered what soldiers, what men. with flesh and blood, cotild not bear. Was it to be tolerated that brave men, who had fought the battles of their country in time of war, and who. evinced so much loyalty in time of peace; were to be insulted and abused as they walked the public streets ?• They deserved from their country a very different treatment. lie trusted that soldiers would alwayslemember they were citizens, and had a civic as well as a military obedience to pay the Authorities of their country. They would, lie trusted, imitate the high example of their Officers, than whom there could not be a more high minded or honourable set of men. The iiisoners were then discharged.