Star. — London, England, 1807-10-29 00:00:00

MPORTING IIv7ELLIGENCE. I:CWMARKET THIRD OCTOBER, OR HOUGHTON MEETING, 184. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29. • A SUbrCriptinit Plate of Sol. for 2 yr olds tarrying oa. 71b. 3 yr olds 811. toll). and 4 yr olds 911 51h_. Two yr old Courfe. C. Sunbury's ch a Snug. 4 yrs old mr Wilfoti's ch f Frances, 3 yrs old Mr Leer's br f Volumnia, 3 yrs old Mr. D. Radcliffe's bl c. Murgo 3 yrs old y,lr~itw Al ' s br c Goblet. 3 yrs old LdStawcll's b e Deceiver, 4 yn old 6 to 4 on Snug ; 5 to 4 ag,fl Mungo. A Subfcription Handicap Plate of 501. for 3 yr olds and upwards. D. I. D.of Grafton's b f Vanity,4 yrs old, 8R 51b Mr Sitwell's br c Goblet, 3 yrs old, 7ft 7lb 2 Seckville's ch h Profpero, 6 yrs old, 91t slb 3 Sir C. Bunhury's h c Rambler, by Whilkey, 3 yrs old, 7ft slb 4 Sir F Siandifh's fitter to Duxbury.s yrs old, 3ft 5 Mr Batfon's ch e Charmer. 4 yrs old, 711 solb 6 h:r William's eh f by A mbrofio, 4 yrs old, Bft 41b 7 Mr C. Browne's hr c Woodman, 3 yrs old, 6ft a Oh 8 1• i . s . 3 4 I . dr dr ward. .., . Mr wiiron' , , ch f Fray crs, 3 yrs old, 6ft sdb dr Mr Wyndham's br e by Sehedord, 4 yrs old, Bft dr Mr Fermor's b m Prldfr, 6 yrs old, oft 71b dr Mr I.ake's b f Nymphina, 3 yrs old. 71t 'lb dr 4. to i agit Vanity ; 4. to 1 agli Goblet ; 7 to 4 agn Prnfpero. IA Stowell's Deceiver, Bft. rec. sogs. from Mr. Payne's Ferdinand, 6ft. 131 b. Ab. M. toogs. WATMOUIII, OC7O4'AR 27. • N.awithflanding the late gales on this coan. the Fafhionables fill continue to increafe. . Among!' our I, IA arrivals are Lord and Lady Hasvice, and the t 3th Light Dragoons. On• Saturday the Sands difplayed an until - nal afftmblage if coaches, barouclies, cut ri ties, (addle hones, &c. indeed more fn than at any' one period of this feafon. The balls are announced b r a continuance during the winter., The Volunteers from the Shropthire and Montgo mery Militias, who have joined the 53d, now in bar racks here, after regaling themfelves for lonic days pall, as long as their bounty money !ailed, are now undcr Ilrift difcipline, and on parade wake a very fine foldier like appearance. Colonel BINGHAM, of the 53d, has got the tallen man in England in his regiment : he procured him from louse thew people, who exhibited him as an Eng,lith colofrus : he is only nineteen years of age, (lands feven feet four inches and a half high in his flockings. The Colonel humanely allows him double pay and double rations of every kind of alas to the 7 . 0 if the regiment. Except on partial benefit nights, the Theatre has been by no means well Attended. Mrs. BARNES, the wife of our excellent low Comedian of that name, and a very favourite as9refs here, had her benefit on Saturday evening, on which occafion the boxes exhi bitcd all the beauty and fafhion in this neighbourhood, accompanied by every Military Officer in the barracks here. On Thurfday a large brig, deeply laden with coals, from Sunderland to this port, went on fhore in a fug on the funken rocks off St. Alban's Head, and almoft immediately went to pieces —Crew Paved. Off the Race of Portland, for fume nights paft, teveral French privateers have been feen hovering about, and giving chace to our coafters ; hut from the vigilance of the Pttyro Imp of war and Linear"( go brig, no captures have taken place that we know of. It blew In hard all day on Saturday and Sunday, that the Guernfey packet could not leave the harbour; it cleared up, however, yefierdey, when fhe got un der weigh with the mail, and failed with a fine breeze at E. S. E. 'eflerday a Court of Direetors was held at the Eall India Houk, when Captain HENRY MEMTAN was fworn into the command of the thip Exeter, dellined to China. The Court adjourned at fix o'cl.ck till Wednefday next. Extract of a Letter from Captain 'Awls, of the fhip Diana, to his owners in Liverpool, dated Augull 30, Itirl, in lat. 17. 9. W. long. 58. 20. W. an: lorry to inform you that two days ago wr fell in with the Freceb fawner privateer la Vengeance, Capt. Bligh, front Gua &loupe, of twelve 9-rounder carronade., and too men, out two ths. At four P.M. (he came alongfide and attempted to board es, but we repulfed them, having fhot away her foremaft and bowfprit, and taking four of the boarders prifonem two of them badly wounded: the lair's' lafted till fcven o'clock. when we made tail wed joiued the Hannah. I ant furry to fay, that I received a flint through my thigh, and am grazed in the face with a mullet tot; my EA mate is badly wounded in the heft ye, thc boatf. wain lightly in the right arm, Jonathan Plumptor flightly in the tight band, P. Jofeph !lightly in the back, and W. Cowley very badly in the righ• arm. We received fevers' thot near the water's edge, which mad the (hip to make a deal of water before we flopped the leak ; the foremaft is badly wounded, two of the fore &roues cut away, and fume other ropes of inferior eonfequence earnsged. Extra6l of a Letter from Capt. THOS. LIG HTLEY. the fhip Hannah, oC this Port, bound to Kingfton, Jamaica, to his owners, dated off Antigua, Auguft 36, 1807. SIR-1 am happy to inform you that we are fo far advanced oo oar paffagt to Jamaica; we fell in (being in company with the Di.na, 'Captain Lewis, for Hayti) with a French privateer, be :ongiog to G aadaloupe. mounting twelve to pounders, and carry ing tco men, but the two ihipq being together heat them cif after a lnhg engagement, difmafted him, and left him in a finking Rate, In lat. t 7 30. I•mil 39 30. . . Should a 2c,0001. Prize not come up during to morrow's drawing, there tvill be a chance of its accompanying, on the Fifth Day, the FORTY THOU. SASD POUNDER, to which the (it'll drawn Number will Sc then entitled. Much more improbable events /lave taken place. That thus the chance of obtain ing, at one llroke, 60,0001. by any remaining Ticket Rill for purchafe in the Lottery Market, is a no lefts evident, than a moll interelling faet. The Ticket, 4,030, Drawn I l he Third Day of Drawing, a Prize of gool. was Shared and Sold Icy J. WARHSR, No. 16, Cornhill, in One Half, One (12arter, One Eighth, and Two Sixteenths. The fortunate Holders may receive their Money imme diately. Nil Perfons purchafing Tickets and Shares before FRIDAY, October 30, have a Chance of the following Grand Lin of Capitals: Prize of 4^.000 2 20,000 I 10:-CO &c. &c. &c. PRLSLN PRICE pd[Ticket %Am Lzt o 0 £lO 1 4 0 Eighth A;2 I< 0 S ti Sixtecutb 1 1 0 OLD BAILEr. Yenerday the Sellion% commenced at the Old Bai ley, before the LORD MAYOR. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Mr. Baron l'it.)rtipsor4, the RECORDER. &C. when 16 prifoner% were tried, one of whom was capitaily can viaed, viz. John King, alias Benjamin Gibbs, for having, upon the toth of the prefent month s Rolen fix flieep, being the property of J. Jacombs and Edward . Wood: It appeared in evidence, that the profecutors, J. jacombi and Edward Woodward, had purchafed a lot of 140 cheep, at Salifbnry, and brought them to Wilfden, in the neighbourhood of London ; that on Saturday the 3d of Oaober, fix of the cheep were miffing; that the prifoner brought them on Sunday morning to one Wheatley, a butcher, rending at Bayfwater, to have them killed and brought to market ; and that Wheatley fufpeaing the prifoner did not come by them honeflly, gave information to fome Bow-ftreet officers, of the circumliances, and fent the lkins - of the theep to Bow-ftreet. Jacombs, one of the owners of the cheep, having met in Ox ford ftreet, a man precifely anfwering the defcription of the perfon who brought the fheep to Wheatley, infifted upon his coming with him to Bayfwater.— That man, who was the prifoner at the bar, at tirll contented, but afterwards ran away acrr'fs the fields, and was purfued about a mile before he was taken. The (kips of the (beep were farorn to by the Shep hera, who had branded them, and who produced the brand in Court, and applied it to thynatrks. The prifoner made no other defence than that he had bought the (beep from a man on'the road, whom he did not know. Lord EccENBOROUGH recapitulated the evidcnce to the Jury and nbferved, the the circumtl.ince of his flight, added to that Af his not being Able to give any probable account of the manr..:r he came by the (beep, which was (worn pofitiv,:ly to have been ilolen from the profecutorc, mutt create fufpicion againti the prifoner ; but if the Jury had any doubt, it Wai their duty to Phew him the full benefit of that doubt.—The Jury, without hefitation, found the pr ifone Guilty—Death. Eight were convided r f felonier, •iz. Warm "harp, for Pealing a clock, value tcl. the property of Judinian Caffamajor, Efq. The profecutor Bated, he had employes' the pri foner for fome time in his houfe in HertfDrd(hire, as a carpenter, and he had (hewn him and his family fome kindneffes. Having occafion to vifit fome of his relations in Devonfhire, he left his haute in the care of two maid fervants and a gardener—but when his el( ck had been taken away, and, in confequence of inforroatic•n, he attended at the Police Office, where he law the clock again, and found the piifoner in cullody ; he afked him how he got into the houfe ' and took away the clock He laid, at the Venetian window in the kitchen, which nobody about the !mule was aware could be opened. No promife was held -out, nor any threat ufed, to make I,im confers._ Aldus, the pawnbroker, proved, that the prifoner brought the clock to him to pledge ; be anted him the particulars of it—how he came by it ? He Paid, it had been given to his wife by her father ; the had had it ten years; it had been in the family thirty.— He afked him to give forne further defcription of tire clock ; he could not—wanted the clock again —the. Pawnbroker would not give it, unlefs he produced fumebody who knew him, which he did not—and therefore the Pawnbroker kept the clock, and de tained the man ; and, in confequence of an advertife• ment, the profecutor appeared, and obtained hi 4 pro. perry, The Learned Judge laid, that although the taking was in HertfurcHhire, yet the offering to pawn in Middlefex, was a continuation of the theft, and there fore the indiement was well laid in Middlefex. The Pt ifoner Paid, that he had formerly received a violent blow on his head, which hurt him fu much that when he had taken a drop too much of liquor he did not know what he did. He threw. himfelf on the mercy of the Court, and appealed to his profec-utor I for a charafter. The Profecutor laid, the prifoner was an idle drun ken fellow, which was the more to be lamented, he caufe he could do almoft as much in one day, when be chofe, as any ordinary perfon in a week. The Jury &mid him Guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Mr. Baron THOMPSON obferved, that the ptifoner was not indieed capitally, arid therefore his life was not forfeited, although the evidence in this cafe would have fupported an indiement for a capital offence. Hontague and Wiliam Gaib'by were reminded of Healing, on the v.ith of September. four geefe and three ducks, the property of a Mr. H3dfon, a farmer at Bufby, near St. Alban's The property was found on them by Blackman and Crr cker, two Offi cers of Bow (tree, who nofid there poacher; in Dynt. ftreet, St. Giles's, and, in their language, walled them home. There were a number of nuofes and fnares found on them, for the killing of hares and poultry without nnife. Ann Gill was indifted for Healing three window curtains and a tablecloth, from the dwelling houle of Mr. Warunder. Pringle, a (Allender, in Norfolk greet. The prifoner was employed as a charewoman, and had taken thefe goods and pawned them at a neighbouring pawnbroker's, for a very (mall furn. She did not attempt any other defence, but merely declaring that the had intended to redeem them. She was found guilty of Healing under the value of 405. Pollard and 7. 7.r e:, for Healing a quantity of Ilrono, beer, the property of Meffrs. Bennett and Co. klizateih goner, for Healing two lets of cut glafs bottles, and one let of cruets, the property of Meffrs. Neale and Co. and IV. Wilmot, for Healing zo yards of velvet, the pro , petty of J. Wells. And (even were acquitted, among whom— /lax killiams was. indifled for Healing a (mall pocket-book, containing two tol. and three 11. bank notes, the property of J. Somers. The profecutor Hated, that as he was returning, on the sel of Oftober intiant, between ten and eleven at night, from tiettfington towards London, near the Turrp.ke-bar, be met the prifoner, in company with too other women, whom the left, and came to him. She walked v ith him about ten minutes, and then left him, ILA w:u: t;ta contrary way. He miffed his pOcket-book from his inlide coat pocket ; it was there when he felt for it in the courfe of the day ; ii contained two ten pound grid three one pound note nf the Bank of. England. He followed immediately, Prized her, and gave her in charge of the patrole. She was then taken to the watchhonfe, fearched— nothing found. She made nfe of a folemn oath that the had not robbed him, he (dying that he would forgive her if the gave him back the property. Upon this oath. and fruitlefs fearch, he let her go, but re fated what patted to the Bow.tlreet patrole, as he went along. The profecutor Paid he was about a minute furrounded by all three women, before the prifoner fepirated to go along with him alone. William Butterworth, the Bow -greet patrole, laid, that in confequence of the defcription which Mr. So otters 'had given of the three women, who were in company with three grenadiers palling through Koight(bridge that evening, he went to their lodg ings in Duck lane, Weftminfler, where he found the prifoner in bed with a grenadier. When the law him, the fell out of bed and cried, threw down on the poor five guineas in gold and filver, and put one pound note under the bed ; he fearched the fol. Bier, and found a one pound n , ,te on him. The prifontr acknowledged and dcclired that the robbed the Gentleman, but laid it was only of ten pounds that the robbed him. The next clay flue acknow ledged before the witners, that the had robbed Qf the three tl. notes and :he 201. He had not hid any thing to her to induce her to confeL Mr. Sooners, however, thought that Butterworth had laid to titeyrifoner, that he would be her friend it the confeffed: ELLLMIOROUGH obferved to the jury, that this indietment was for a capital offence, that of Pealing privately from the perfon. As to that, the could not be convieted of the capital charge, unlefs the Jury were farisfieci that the prifonet's was the hand Lb tt Role the property ; but, however, if it was done by the hand of either of theirs, yet, if the was concerned with either of them in that aft, the was guilty of the fingle larceny. No part of her confeffion should be tiled again( her, if it could he laid to have been obtained under the lure of a pro mile, or the terror of a threat. They would con• rider whether there was any pretence for that, under I the evidence, as it applied to the fir( confellion. If they did not believe the prifoner had any Ihare in I the robbery, they would acquit her. The Jury, after a (hors confultatioc, found the prifoner Not Guilty. William TreWr, whofe trial Rood ever fince the laR Seflions, was put to the Bar, on a charge (f feloni onfly Realing out of the Edinburgh mail coach, in March laR, Bank notes, Bills of Exchange, &c. to an am"unt exceeding vool. the property of Metfrs. Kentington and Co. Bankers in the city of London ; and in other counts in the indiament, the property was laid as the property of other perfons. This cafe occupied the attention of the Court a confiderable time, and was not concluded till paR eight o'clock. In the courfe of the evidence, which branched out into feveral chains, it apreared that the priloner had been a paffenger in the Edinburgh mail coach, from York to London, with force other paffengers : that at Newark, a parcel had been given by the Pollmatler, who had received the fame from a Banking houfe in that town, for delivery in the wfuaLway by the mail, to the honk of Mars. Ken lington, in London : this was the parcel that had been flolen. One of the paEngers (a witnefs) obferved in the hearing of the ptifuner, that the parcel certainly contained money, and that it was made up its a care leis way. The prifoner had a pair of faddle-bags in his polfeffion. They changed paffengers more than once ; but the ptifoner continued ail the way (01 London, as above. At the PoI Office the parcel I was miffed; and i: was proved that the property was! never received at the houfe of Meths. Kenfington, to which it was direaed : it (honk, by the due cootie I of delivery, have strived on the 13th of March. By another chain of the evidence, it appeared that la per fon calling himfelf Warren, negotiated a Bill I of Exch , ange at the honk of Me ff rs. Arkwright, 1 barkers, at Vs'aikworth in Derbylhire, for 4271. tot. { which it appeared was one of thole incloted in the , above parcel), on the 20th of March, in the change fnr which he teceived a 2001 note, and a Bank Poll Bill for tool.; but the witnefs who defcribed this could not (wear the prifoner was the perfon. It was alfo offered in evidence on the pat t of the profecu• tion, that one of the notes received in exchange for the above mentioned Bank Poll Bill, was negotiated or changed by the prifoner, through the medium of his daughter, a very yt ung girl, at a Coffee bottle in Somer's Town, on the 29th of March, near which the prifoner then lodged. A Clerk of the Fevetlham Bank, in Kent, Rated, that a perfon, whom he had no doubt was the pti- I loner, though he declined fwearing pofitively, nego. tiated a Bank Poll Bill at that houfe on the 9th of April ; and the waiter of an inn at Feverfhant. laid that the prifoner, who had a pair of faddle-bags, came in company with another perfon to that bottle, On the evening of the Bth of April. Mr. RECORDEZ addreffed the Jury, obferving the cafe Was certainly a fulpicious one ; but whatever their private opinions might be, the evidence ad. duced was not loch a Ilrietly to maintain the charge as laid in the indielment. To bring it legally tinder the jutifdiellon of that Court, it lhould be proved that the felony was committed either within the county of Middlefex or the city of London ; there was not fafficient evidence as to the 1 , cality. No part of the property was found in poll: Rion the prifoner in the city of London ; what might have occurred in Derbythire, or in the county of Kent, did not legally apply to the particular charge, and he thought they could not, upon their oaths, fay that the property in quaion was !Wen either in the county of Middlesex, or the city tf London. The Jury, in confequence, after a. (hurt delibe ration, found a verdict of—Not Mr. Recoavea ferinufly admonifhtd the prifoner as to his future condu.l. It was his duty (the Rev:mote's) to take care that he fhould unt be ctin eieed but upon the aria letter of the law; and he trolled what had jug paned would be a warn:ng to him never to be teen at that Bar again. Harry Mop and hichard Brown were indieted for killing three Cheep, with intent to Heal their carcafes ; the lbeep being the property of JAn Watkins. • The prolocutor, who settles near Kensington Gra rel pits, was proceding to Rate the way ill which *he citcumflances of the cafe came to his knowledge; when it appearing on queltions from Lord ELLEN BOROUGH, who tiled the cafe,.tha: the fi-ld in which the profecntor had found the Cheep fl i.ighicrcil, was not the fame field in which be bad plat .d them, but the one immediately aJj ; and th it no mai ka of blood were to be traced in the field where the profecntor had placid t h e (b eer , lii,Lord fhip i:bfer ved, that there flt - in! ha ye been two connts in the indiftment, one of them charging the prifoner with the (leafing of the (beep. The remo val of the flieep from the oae field :`e tiller com pleted the felony. They hail n. , t, therefore, been tialightered with intent to flea], but after bei, g had been removed for the wir pole of fl lighter. The prefent indiftment could not be main...lined, f r want of evidence applicable to the precire offence. It was imponible to fay that a man had killed with intent to flea], !beep which he had already Ifolen The witritfres mutt therefore go before the Grand Jury, and file a bill againtt the prifi.ners for ',lusting the !beep in queltion. Mary Ward, aged 23, was indiaed for healing a filk cl iak, and other articles of wearing apparel; the pr petty of Sarah Turnbull. Fro-n the evidence of an officer of police, it ap. peared that the profecutor had expre free her deter mination not to appear. She was accordingly called on her recognizance, which was ordered to be ettreated, and the prifoner was acquitted for want of evidence. Andrew 2IPGiII was charged with (leafing two 51. three 11. notes, and 6 guineas in gold, the property of Captain Chetham, at Hatcheteb Hotel. The prifoner then earnefily begged the Court that his trial might be put ,ft one day. on account of the abfence of a material wi•nefs in his favour. He laid it was the firll time he had ever appeared at a bar of juitice. He knew very little of the bufinefs of the world, though he "ad been 4; years in it, and owing to this, and hi , . being c• nfined in a dungeon in Cold Bath fields tiil laft, he had not been able to prepare flifficiently for his ttial. His princi pal witnets was out of town, but he expelled him tn. morrow, when he ()mild be prepared to rebut the charges. The Court obletved, that Captain Chetham being an officer in the ferv;ce of his country, delay might he inconvenient to him. Captain Chetham then con tenting to the delay, the trial was put off till this morning. /atone° Departlo, alias Depino, was arraigned eircid an indictment, charging, that he, on the 50 , h of November LA, at Canton, in China, on one William Burn felonioufly did make an afrault ; and that he, with a knife in his right hand, in and upon the left fide of the belly of the Paid William Burn felonioufly did flab and thrutl, thereby giving him a mortal wound of the breadth of one inch, and of the depth of feven inches ; of which he died; and the Jurors did fay, that the prifoner felonionfly did kill and flay the Paid William Burn, egainfi the King's peace— that ii, the aline charged upon him is manfl tighter. The prifoner being a foreigner, a Pqrtoguefe as we underhand, an interpreter was (worn to com municate to him the indiament, and to call upon him to plead to it ; being told, in his own language, that he fhonld plead Not Guilty, he did it readily. The queliiatt was then afked him in th. ufsial form, " How will you be tried ?" and being told that the anfwer he fhould make was, " By GOD and the Country ;" he anfwered, " By Goo and the People of the Country." His anfwer was amended, and put into the common firm. He was then aficed, by direftion of Mr. Baron Twit/mom, whether he chofe to be tiled by a Jury of all Englarnen, or half Englifh and half Strangers? lle anfwered, half Engin and halt Strangers : which was ordered accordingly; and he was it f rifled, that his trial would be proceeded in on Friday morning next. TUCKER, THS BANKRUPT. Tucker, who (lands charged with felonioufly ab fconding from his commiffion, and embezzling his elites, was yellerday brought to the bar of the Old Bailey, n the motion of Mr. GURPIEr. When put there, the Learned Counfel Rated to the Court, that the objat he had in view was to move that the trial nt the prifoner (hould be pollponed un. til the next Seflions, in confequence of the profecu. tors, who were the aflignees under the commitlion of bankrupt, being unable to proAuce all the witn.:ffes neceliary to fupport the charge, as many of ti cm lived in Devonshire and in Cornwall, and could not be procured in time for the ends of public jutlice, during this Sellions. And he moved accordingly. Mr. KNAPP. on behalf of the prifoner, refilled the motion. He nbferved, that he had been in cullodv there three weeks, and that the profecutors having had time to have collated all their evidence, ought now to have been prepared with it, and not keep the pri foner unnecefiarily in fulpenfe, with a charge of fo weighty a defcrittion over his head ; and concluded with hoping, that the Court would proceed with his trial in its regular court , : during this Seflonc. Mr.GuastLy, in reply, anfwersd, that the prifoner could feel no inconvenience from the delay fought for, till next Seffions, as, at all events, he mail be continued in prifen till the fining affizes for tke county of Devon, being detained under a warrant of committment, for felony and forgery of (tamps in that county, where he mull be tried • but at any rate Monday he was not fully committed until onday lall, and he was perfuaded that, conlidering the magnitude of this cafe, the number of the witneffes, and their dif. tance from the metropolis, the Court would not im• pole upon the profecutors in hard a talk as going im maturely to trial with this man at In null a notice. The Court granted the motion, and the trial con fequently ttands over till next fellions. We have the pleafore to inform Officers comman ding Regiments of the Line, Militia and Volunteers, 'hat this day was publiflied by J. A sPiltas, Cornhill, price 25. 6d. Divine Service of the Camp or Gatti. fon, as performed at the Drum [-lead, with the out lines of a few Difcourfes or Field Sermons. adapted to the underflanding and circum fiances of the private Soldier ; to which is annexed. a Sketch of the Form cf Confecration of a Stand C , 1 lir% by the Rev. Wm. HENRY PRATT, R,etor of Jorisrb 'rough, in the County of Armagh ; and Chaplain to feveral Regi ments: of Cavalry, Infantry, the Line, Fencibles and Militia, daring the late and‘prefent wars. 111 • ; , t I 1 . • iJ • • , , ,1 , • 111 • ••O1