A. To the best of my knowledge (it was candle light) it was a light coat, with buttons of the fame; it appeared to have a lappel, with buttons on the breast. 2. Had you an opportunity of seeing his face at the different times he spoke to you?. A. Yes, a great opportunity, because all the fhops were open. 2. Turn round, and fee if you can see the same man again? A. Yes, that is the man. 2. Have you the least doubt? A. Not the least in the world. I went to Bow-ftreet; my landlady was with me; I faw him in the yard among a great number of other' perfons; and I said to Mrs. Garrison, That is the man that cut me. 2. Had you any body to point him out to you, except your own recollection of his perfon? A. No, Sir; there was no perfon there to fay any thing to me; and as foon as I came out of the house into the yard, I faw him, and fingled him out directly; he was dreffed in buff and blue. 2 Had you ever been taken to Bow-ftreet by other people? A. No, never. 2. Do look at him again, and tell the Jury whether you have any doubt at all of that being the same man that struck you? A. No; I have no doubt of the features of his face; his hair was dreffed with powder at that time. 2. Have you received any reward for giving this evidence, of any fort? A. No, not one fingle farthing, nor any promise of any from any body. Court. How long after that did you fee him? A. When he was at Bow-ftreet, the 4th of June; I never faw him before to my knowledge. Sarah Garrifon fworn. T I keep the house where this poor woman lodges; I remember her coming home on the 5th of May; fhe hallooed aloud in the court; I did not know her voice; I thought it was a common prostitute; did not open the door directly; the knocked twice before I opened it; and when I opened it, I asked her what was the matter? She did not answer me any farther, than she said, Oh, the man! the man! I fhut the door, and the dropped down in a fit; I went with her afterwards to Bow-ftreet; and fhe went into the yard and pitched pitched on the prifoner; there were a great many people in the yard; I thought it was a gentleman that was walking under the Piazzas; fhe faid, no; it was a gentleman in blue, with a buff waistcoat; I never faw the prifoner before; the faid fhe did not think the flowers were natural. 2. Did you fee the wound on this poor woman? A. Yes; he was ill about nine days. 2. Was it a cut with a sharp inftrument? A. It was like a scar; but the blood was within the scar; no blood befides; it feemed to be a fmall inftrument; the clothes were cut all through at the fame part as the wound was. Patrick Macmanus fworn. 2. Did you go at any time to No 52, in Jermyn-street? A. Yes. 2. Did you find any clothes there? A. Yes; that is the houfe where the prifoner's mother lived; I went there after I had been to his lodgings; he lived at the George ale-house, in Bury-ftreet; I found this coat at his mother's, a light-coloured lappelled coat, with buttons of the fame; the prisoner faid it was his coat; he did not deny it at all. Court. Did you ever defcribe the drefs? A. Yes, to Mr. Angerstein, at the house, before the pri foner was taken. Julius Angerftein, Esq. fworn. I faw this poor woman, I believe, a day or two after this happened; fhe came very ill to my houfe; the described the coat to be a light-coloured coat; I do not recollect the circumftance of the lappels; I was not well myself at the time; I took particular notice of it, as it was different from the other description. 2. Did you hear her fay any thing of the buttons? A. No, Sir; the first defcription I had of the Monster, was a blue coat; and the differed in the colour of the coat fo much, that I took notice of it in another advertisement. The prifoner was going to enter on his defence; but Mr. Swift faid, Not a word, Mr. Williams; you was prevented from speaking last night, and you shall not be permitted to fpeak to-day. Prifoner. I shall take the advice of the Gentleman, my Counsel. Mr. Chairman. Gentlemen of the Jury, I must say, that I never faw either in this, or any other Court of Justice, a Jury conduct themfelves with more impartiality, more cool nefs nefs, more fairness, more deliberation, and more propriety, than you did yesterday; you have done yourselves great honour: you have done your country great fervice. I am now, Gentlemen, to call upon you, and endeavour to impose upon you a ftill harder tafk; that you would endeavour, if poffible, to forget every thing that paffed even yefterday; and to treat this as a new offence; and to treat the prisoner, in your judgment upon him, as if you had never heard of him before, but that he was now, for the first time, brought before you, charged with an affault, proved only by one witness, but with certain corroborating circumftances. Here the Chairman fummed up the evidence; and the Jury immediately found the prifoner GUILTY The prifoner was then tried upon a third indictment for a fimilar affault on Elizabeth Baughan, spinster, on the 6th of December 1789. Elizabeth Baughan fworn. I remember being with my fifter Frances on Westminsterbridge, on the 6th of December, 1789, about a quarter paft feven at night; I was coming towards Parliament-street; I obferved a man following us pretty clofe in Bridge-street; he kept grumbling in a low tone; I could not hear what he faid; he came to the fide of me, and walked almoft to the end of Bridge-ftreet; I faw him very clearly; he endeayoured to push himself between my sister and the rails; he hit my fifter about the fmall of her back, and then he struck me just at the fmall of my back; he struck me only once; my clothes were cut to pieces, and a streak on my back; it must have been with fome fharp inftrument; I saw the prifoner at Sir Sampfon's, and pointed him out immediately among others, by my recollection of his perfon, and by nothing else. 2. Look at him now? A. Not the leaft; I went to fee fome other perfons at Bow-ftreet, but they were not the right perfons. (A blue filk gown produced.) It is cut about half a yard; it was folded up round me; I did not hear it rent at the time; the rest of my clothes were cut, and I am pofitive they were not cut before, and the scratch corresponded with the cutting of the gown. Frances Frances Baughan fworn. I was in Bridge-street with my fifter. I heard the prifoner fay (with his mouth clofe to my ear) Blaft you, is it you? he fwore bitterly all the way. The blow on my back threw me forward, and I turned round and observed him strike my fifter, and he kneeled nearly on one knee when he struck my fifter, which was with great violence, and he fwore at the time; I faw his face very plain, but not at firft; and it came to my recollection, that I thought I had seen him, and knew his voice before; I did not know him so much by feeing him that night, as two years before, when he insulted me from the King's Palace to May's-Buildings, and never from that time did I forget him; he infulted me very grossly, infomuch that I flapped his face in the Park; I cannot pofitively fay it was the fame man; but I think it was from his voice and perfon. 2. Look at him now ? GUILTY Mr. Fielding faid, there was an indictment against the prifoner, for an affault on Mifs Sarah Porter; but he was inftructed to fay, the family did not mean to profecute him farther. There were feveral other indictments against him; but the ends of public juftice being answered, for which alone these profecutions were fet on foot, he would not go on with them. The Chairman then passed Judgment on the Prifoner. Renwick Williams, you have been indicted for an affault on Ann Porter; you bave been tried and found guilty, by a cool, impartial, difpaffionate, and deliberating Jury, much to the fatisfaction of the Court, and much to their honour; for I must again say, that I never faw a, Jury conduct themselves with more propriety in all the experience I have had of Courts of Justice; they feemed to have divefted themselves of all prejudice, and to be unconnected with the general mafs of people. The fentence of the Court on you, therefore, is, That for the affault on Ann Porter, you be imprifoned in Newgate for the fpace of Two Years. For the affault on Elizabeth Davis, that you be imprisoned Two Years, to commence from the expiration of the former fentence; and that, for the affault on Elizabeth Baughan, you be imprisoned Two Years, to commence from the expiration of the former four; and at the end of the Six Years, you find fecurity for your good behaviour for Seven Years, yourself in the fum of Two Hundred Pounds, and two fureties in One Hundred Pounds each. STATUTES STATUTES paffed in the prefent SESSION of PARLIAMENT, holden 25th November, 1790. AN ACT For granting to His Majefty an Additional Duty on Malt. Be it enacted, That from and after the 5th day of January, 1791, there shall be raised, levied, collected, paid, and fatisfied, unto and for the use of His Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, for and upon all malt, the rates, duties, and malt impofitions herein-after mentioned; (that is to fay,) Upon every bushel of malt which shall be made of barley, or any other corn, in England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, by any perfon or perfons whomfoever, whether the fame fhall be or not be for fale, the sum of three-pence, and fo proportionably for any greater or less quantity, to be paid by the maker or makers thereof refpectively, over and above all other duties and impofitions that may be payable for the fame: And for and upon every bushel of malt which shall be made in Scotland by any perfon or perfons whomfoever. whether the fame fhall be or not be for fale, the fum of one penny halfpenny, and fo proportionably for any greater or lefs quantity, to be paid by the maker or makers thereof refpectively, over and above all other rates, duties, and impofitions that may be payable for the fame: And for and upon every bufhel of malt which, at any time or times, thall be brought from Scotland into England, Wales, or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, the fum of one penny halfpenny, and fo proportionably for any greater or lefs quantity, over and above the duty hereinbefore granted upon malt made in Scotland, and all other duties and impofitions, that may be payable for the fame. And be it further enacted, That there fhall also be paid` and fatisfied for the ufe of His Majefty, for and upon every bufhel of malt, whether ground or unground, made of barley or of any other corn or grain, belonging to any maltVOL. II. A a fter |