At the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, Mr. Bodkin said he
was in- structed to apply to the Court for leave to exhibit articles of the peace against Richard Dunn, Esq., a gentleman 'who was a member of the profession to which he had the honour to belong. The application was made on the part of Miss Angela Burdett Coutts. Mr. Bodkin read the articles at some length, detailing the annoyances to which Miss Burdett Coutts had been subjected by Mr. Dunn at Harrogate and at London. :Miss Commits in her affidavit denied the assertion made by Mr. Dunn that she had sent letters to him. The Chairman, after hearing the articles and depositions read, ordered the defendant to enter into recog- nizances, himself in 500/. and two sureties in 250/. each, to be of good behaviour, and keep the peace towards Miss Angela. Burdett Coutts for two years.
At Twickenham, on Saturday, the Earl of Waldegrave and Captain William Duff were bound over in their own recognizances of 100/. each, and sureties for the same amount, to appear and he tried for a brutal assault on a Policeman, committed ou the 5th of June near the White hart public-house, Hampton Bridge. Lord Waldegrave and Captain Duff were two out of a party of four, who were behaving in a disorderly manner on the night mentioned. They had arrived at Hampton Bridge in a fly ; and when the Policeman, ordered by his Sergeant, attempted to take the number of the fly, he was knocked down, kicked, and beaten when down, with such effect that he was obliged to keep his bed for some time afterwards. The two other per- sons escaped ; and their names are not known, though suspected. One of them lost his hat, which was picked up, and afterwards proved to belong to a Mr. Richmond, who lost it on the Derby day at Epsom. Mr. Richmond borrowed another hat; and there was positive proof that he could not have been of the riotous party ; but it is believed that the hat was taken " by a nobleman of considerable celebrity, whose name it would not be proper at present to mention."
Early on Saturday morning, a Policeman on duty in Wood's Lane, Shepherd's Bush, leading. to Wormwood Scrubs, was passed by three post-chaises, each containing a gentleman, followed by a carriage con- taining two gentlemen, and by another gentleman on horseback followed by a groom; the whole proceeding towards the Scrubs. Suspecting their intention to be to fight a duel, he hastened to the Static"-house on Brook Green, and gave information ; when a sergeant and party of constables were sent to the spot ; but on their arriving near the Scrub, they were met by the whole of the vehicles, at full gallop, proceeding towards town. It appears that on reaching the gate at the entrance of the Scrubs, they found it locked; and on applying to the gatekeeper, he refused to allow them to pass, declaring he knew what their object was, and threatening to send for the Police ; who at that instant ap- pearing in sight, the whole party made a hasty retreat. It is supposed that the parties were 'teen of rank. One of the carriages had an earl's coronet on the pannel.
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