Star. — London, England, 1818-11-03 00:00:00

. i 1 t i • 1 - 1 li ' l l 1 1 i !I . 11 • 1: 1 . f, 1, 1: 1 ) 1 1 A • I 7 4 1 / 1 7 k : 7 7 ... 1 t 1 r • . 1 • . 1 7 t . 1 1 I 1 1 1 • 1 . . 1 1 : • 111,; ' 1;1 ,:. .1 : .4 t. .. , I , ~• , , i i , . i 1 1 . r ; i . . I 1 ' \' . • • 1 . •. 11 1 4 ', t , v.. • j • i 1 . .4' t 1 i , . 4 I .1 11 . 41 1 . 1 1 ‘ ~ i 11 i , 1' 1 IV: F. i ii i Ad 4 , , I, s ' c •6 i( ‘ 1 li t • t , k ' i 1 ( • •i ) ii 1 t. : ... • •,., . N '' , e • . • • , . Olalr • SESSION'S. Yesterday Joseph * Davis, aped 60, was indicted for having a forged 11. note in his possession, he know ing the same to be forged Thomas Grandy, the first witness, stated, that he was shopman to Messrs. Eigleton and Co. grocers, in Newgete-street. On the 19th of September, in the evening, the prisoner came to their shop for the purpose of purchasing a quarter of a pound of tea. He offered a U. Bank of England note in payment, but witness did not altogether like it, and therefore took it to Mr. Edward Laileton, who then came to the shop. Edward Eagleton said the prisoner gave his name as Mr. Davis, taylor, Bridgewater-square, on which witness wrote that on the note. At the same time he asked him where he had got the note? and he re plied, from Mr. Silvester, blanket-warehonsemans, in Osborne-street, Goswell-street. The note was given back to the prisoner and he left the shop. Witness followed him down Basinghalstreet, and gave him in charge to an Officer of the Police whom he hap pened to meet by accident on the road. The prisoner was of course instantly taken into custody. Henry Honey, constable, took charge of the pri soner 9.: the desire of the last witness, and told him that he must go with him to Mr. Silvester, to sec whether he had given him the note or not, for he did not believe there was a blanket • warehouse - in.o3- borne-street. The prisoner was surprised, and asked if witness was an officer, for if he was, lie must know Silvester. They went to Mr. Silvester's house, who at first said he- did not think the note was'bad. -Se veral persons were in the room, and the note was handed, from erne to the other ; one said he would wager a bottle of wine that the note was good; ano ther wished that he had-a thousand of them. Sil rester made no answer to the prisoner, who said he got the note from him. 'Witness then told Davis he must go with him, which he refused to dc, and called for a pint of beer. Witnessput the note in his pocket. and took the prisoner to lkidgowatemquare, where he found the prisoner did not live. Told him then that lie must go to Mr. Eagleton's .shop; prisoner replied, " I'll be d—d if 1 do;" and on his saying he could not walk, a coach was called for, and he endeavoured to go away, by turning into a court, but he was forced into a coach and carried off to the Comptcr. On the road the prisoner gave witness a blow on she breast, and ran oil as held as lie could, but he was apprehended. - • Other witnesses proved his offering two other notes, which were all proved to be bad, and the ad dress he gave was also proved to be false, no such person living there. Mr. Justice DA LLAS charged the Jury, who found the prisoner Guilty. .MreSerjeant Bosaxourr then stated, that it might be satisfactory for the Jury to know that t:,e prisoner, notwithstanding his strong asseverations of innocence, had applied on daturday to be allowed to plead guilty to the minor offence, and had even done so that very mornirg. The charge was originally of a capital nature, lent the Grand Jury had thrown out the Bill, and the prisoner not knowing that, had so licited permission to plead guilty, but he had felt it his duty to per evere in the prosecution. Mr. Justice DALLAS said, he could assure some of. the parties s.-ho had acted in concert with the pri soner, that their conduct would certainly be watched very narrowly in foiure. • le the case of .7ohn Leonari, tried on Saturday, orte of the Jery expressed an anxious wish, that the •Signinte Clerk should be cannel, as. he considered that vibe the only effectual waj of ',roving the note to be a forgery : for no person could better dis- 1 tinguish genuine signatures than the person who %trot.: them. • Mr. Baron GARROW sail, that he was glad thin question had been put, because it afforded him an opportunity of stating what he conceived was the law on the case. The Bank in this and other prosecu tions had employed persons as Counsel whose talents, ingenuity, eloquente, and sound judgmcLt, were fat beyond any praise that he could attempt to offer. In the discretion of these Gentlemen the Signing Clerk had not been called, and he thought vtry properly ; for, in his opinion, the evidence of the Bank Inspec tor was sufficient. He fully believed that the note was forged; and, in truth, it was utterly impossible for any man to doubt it, after rho very great expe rience and attention of the Bank Inspectors, who could not possibly be deceived. A most foolish no tion had some how or other got possession of the public mind, that the Bank had a private mark of their own, which no person but those in the privity of the Bank knew. That was certainly not only a foolish but a most absurd notion ; and he would say more, that it was folly in the extreme (not to use a stronger term) for persons to say so. The signature of the Bank Clerk did not require to be proved by the Clerk. The proof of that Signature was suj/lcicntly made out by the oath of the Inspector, and not by the Clerk himself. Ile held it to be perfectly suffi cient for all purposes that the word of the Inspector should be taken, because otherwise the Governor and Company of the Bank of England would be sub jected to an inconvenience which would totally frus trate the ends of public justice. The Signing Clerks at the Bank could not be hie et übique, and the Jury must therefore see, that the Bank Inspectors were the only adequate persons to judge of the genuine nature of notes. Besides, the Signing Clerk could not pus silly sign any note except what was given him by the Bank ; and that Corporation became, therefore, bound to their Clerk for all the paper they gave him to sign. On the whole, it was his decided - opinion, that the oath of an Inspector was most satisfactory, in every point of view. The Juryman shook his head ; but sat down, sub !flitting to what he conceived to be the law, as laid clow.a by the Learned Baron. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN CAMDEN TOWN. n Morris was put to the bar, charged un dergegileleindictment with having stolen in the dwel ling-house of William Clulow, Esq. a silver coffee pot value £2O, 30 silver spoons value £7O, a tankard, and other articles of great value. -Mrs. Elisabeth Clulow, a very infirm Lady, stated that she was the wife of the prosecutor, who lived in Camden-street, Camden Town. The servants of the family were Emma Owen and Joseph Braid ; the female servant had been in the service for twelve months. About ten weeks ago Mr. Cluluw left the country, and Ort the 14th of September witness her self left the house. The prisoner was a private watch man employed especially for the protection of pro perty. On Tuesday, October. 6, witness happered to be at home, and went to bed .at twelve. In the course of the night witness was •disturbed by the rat tle of the watchman (the prisoner.) Witness rang the bell, and opened the bed-room window. Emma Owen answered the bell. Witness asked her what was the matter, without opening the door. Emma said, that two men with blacked faces had been at her bed, one remained with a pistol threatening to blow her brains out if she stirred. She said, she had been in that situation for half an hour, when the watchman sprang his rattle; and the man who held the pistol lover her said, " I Must be off." Witness was very :such alarmed at this statement. As she opened the door to let Emma in, she saw Joseph Braid with a poker in his hand, and Morris, coming up stairs. The plate chest of the family was kept in the two pair of stairs back room ; it was wooden. She had seen the chest two or three days before, and it was then not broken vet. On the morning of the 7th of October she found that her plate was gone, and several shirts, marked " W. C." John Smith , an•officer ' proved, that about seven o'clock on the morning of the '7th October, the pri soner came to - his house, and informed him of the • robbery. Witness immediately went to Mr. Clulow's house. The prisoner told witness, that abrut half past two he saw a light in the kitchen, and saw a man there, and thought there were others. He knocked at the door 'and sprang his rattle. In two or three minutes Joseph let him in. He went down stairs and found the back premises open. He saw a ladder upon the wall leading to the balcony. Upon going up stairs he saw that the plate-chest had been 'bmkeu open. Witness then examined the house, and saw no marks of violence, excepting the drawing room window being broken ; the nails of the chest were drawn. A week afterwards, the prisoner was taken into custody on suspicion of the robbery. The prisoner then wanted to' know what " Joe" (Braid) had said. Witness replied, that would appear on the examination before the Magistrate. On the prisoner was found a watch, a gold seal, and two El notes. The prisoner said, he knew very well who had the plate, for, he added, " it is the old Jew: In a draw& in the prisoner's lodgings, a shirt was found marked C. and it appeared as it another letter had been taken our. This search took place on the 15th ; and on al subsequent search, on the 16th, eight silver tea-spoons were fcund, three with the crest of a lion, two with a cipher C. and three with the mark scratched out. When at the office, the prisoner said, " It is old Mil - e• (Michael Levy), the Jew, who ::as the plate ; you know him well." Witness did not ;crow him. The seal taken from the prisoner was L'inilar to one witness had ...een in the possession of the old Jew a fortnight or three weeks before. From Mr. Clulow, jun. vit.. ner,s received an earthen pot, containing fear £1 totes and three duplicates, mac . out in the name ef Joseph Braid. Braid was taken into custody the same day :is the prisoner, and conducted witness to the Jew's hous,:, hi a court near Petticoat line. lie there saw alihc, and his wife and daughter. Josr•rli Braid, ti:e accomplice, was then called.— Ila was servant to Mr. Clulow, and had been so for three years. Eninta Owen was lair fellow servant.-- On Taesday, ;lie 15th of Sepu.smher, lie and Emma Owen went to the play, and left the house to the care of his uncle, Dennis: a fortnight afterwards witness had some conversatson . with Mattis about *hat hap pened that night. Morris told witness, at the Hope, and Anchor public house, that he had something to tell him. He then said, " You will be taken np when your master comeshome—r 4 am afraid to tell you lest you will split" (divulge.) hen Morris told him of what had occurred, and the next day said, " there is no other way of getting over it than this; to break open the house, and let him (the watchman) in at twelve o'clock. I will give an alarm at half past two, but I will have some more plate first."— This conversation took place two or three days before the transaction. On the Sunday before the affair, he was dire( Led by Morris to fetch the plate down to Lim. Ile accordingly brought down in a half peck measure a silver tankard, a silver coffee-pot, three silver saltcellars, some spoons, and some forks. Morris was in the stable-yard ready to receive them. He gave to Morris what be could carry about him, and witness took the rest. Morris then told witness I to follow him, and they went to Angel -court, Gravel lane. The prisoner then said, "1 am going to old (Mike," and .licy both went into his house. They waited half ins hour and then Mike came. A young woman and man left the rcom, and the prisoner, witness, and Jew, were left together. On the same Sunday all three were to meet at Morris's, in Caro- 1 line -street, to receive the money which the piste had sold for. He saw Michael Levy pay a handful of 1 notes into Morris's hand. They all had some gin.' and the watchman gave witness six C.l notes. He told him to put it where it could not tie found. He spent two, and put the other four in an earthern pot in his master's garden. On the Monday, before the transaction, he again saw the Jew. Witness bought a pin and a razor, and Morris bought a seal and a key. On the Tuesday witness told Morris his ir i s tress had returned, and the prisoner said, " It must be done then to-night, for fear your master should come home." The directions which Monis then gave were to shut up the dog in the scullery, and to let him (the prisoner) in about twelve o'clock. Witness went to bed at about eleven o'clock, and got up at twelve to let the prisoner in. When 11:onis came in both pulled off their shoes, went up stairs, fetched down the plate chest and put it on the sofa; the plate was taken out of the chest and tied up in a blanket ; two mirrors were also tied up in a blanket. A ladder was placed at the back of the house, against the balcony; some bread aad meat were placed on the side-hoard, and several lighted candles placed in various parts of the house. Morris also told v.itness to instruct Emma Owen what to say about the rob bery. She was to declare that two men with blacked faces had entered the house, and that one of them held a pistol over her head—all this being done, at half-past one he let Morris out. The prisoner said, " I3e sure nut to go to sleep, as I will make the alarm at half-past two. At the appointed time Morris Sprang his rattle and knocked at the door. Witness immediately ran down stairs and let him in.--The notes and duplicates found in the earthen pot were his property:. This at.cginplice underwent a long cro*examina- tion, the recult of which dig not materially affect his evidence. I Emma Owen, the other accomplice, was next era mined. he lived servant with Mrs. Clulow, and had done so for twelve months. She stated the facts which have been already related by the last and pre vious witness. After she had been told what to say, on the robbery being committed, she met Morris, in Gloucester-place, Camden Town, and she said, " I had rather this business had not taken place." Nor. ris replied, " You are very foolish, for it can be ma naged very easily." This witness also underwent a long cross-examination. Thomas Baastin lived in Caroline-street, Camden Town. The prisoner lodged with him. Witness had seen the Jew, Levy, call upon Morris. On the Sunday before the 6th of October , he saw the Jew with Morris. Braid was with them at the time, but he did not know what had passed. Mr. Henn r, the Attorney for this prosecution, proved that while the prisoner was going to the watch house, he said, "Braid had more money than was found in the garden, and was concerned in selling the plate to the Jew. The eight spoons wei c they handed to Mrs. Qulow, and they Nverecomple:ely identified by her. The prisoner in his defence denied any knowledge ' ' of the transaction. Ile had no concern in the robbeg.l Several gentlemen residing in Camden Town, Who r had employed the prisoner as private watchman, gave him a good character for honesty. Tile Jury, after a consideration which lasted about ' hal' an hour, brought in a verdict—Guilty : • but strongly recommended the fritoner to mercy on ac count of his good character. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Bode:win maw, John Abets and Flynn Hymns, were charged with a riot in the premises of George Henry Worthington, Esq. a gentleman of fortune, rr siding in 'Sloane -street, Chelsea. It was stated that the object of the prisoners was to take by force, from the stable of Mr. Worthington, two horses, which it was alleged were the property of .Shme. It appeared. however, in evidence, that one of the prisoners took no active part in the affair, and consequently, that only two were guilty of riotous conduct. The charge laid in the indictment was of courst abandoned. John Shaw was then indicted for violently assault ing G. H. Worthington, Esq. on the 9th day of Sep b-mber last. Mr. ALLEY stated the case for the prosecution-- The prosecutor, in consequence of an advertisement in a newspaper, went to the Saracen's Head, Ald,,a'ate, to view a pair of horses. It never occurred to him, that the horses might not be the property of the ad vertiser. No honourable mind could doubt, that a man publicly advertising property for sale had ob tained it fairy. Acccrdingly, be took the horses on' trial for three days; and at the end of that time, as they gave satisfaction, he completed the bargain, and paid eighty guineas for them. On the day mentioned in the indictment, the prosecutor, accompanied by the females of his own family, was driving to the Haymarket Theatre, when the carriage was stopped by four men armed with bludgeons ;.the prisoner was one of these, and claimed the horses as his father's property. i The prosecutor said they were his. The prisoner began to disengage the horses from the har ness, and struck the prosecutor a violent blow, by which he was thrown from the box, on the pole be tween the horses. What court the Jury think of a, man who, strohg as Hercules, and armed with a bludgeon, could thus attack an unarmed person, and one so evidently his inferior in bodily strength ? He had declined indicting the prisoner for hosse-stealing, ' on account of his clams of right; although he was not certain that the law on the subjlict would not have warranted the capital charge. Me prosecutor continued to hold the reins, while the horses were driven at a furious rate up thellaymarket; at length exhausted, he was obliged to quit his hold, and the horses were taken away by the prisoner. This statement was fully substantiated by evidence. The Jury found a verdict of—Guilty. The CHAIRMAN addressed the defendant, and said he had been convicted of an outrageous assault. He was willing to believe, however, that he had acted under an error cf judgment. Had the assault beep trivial, his punishment would probably have been only a nominal bite; but as the outrage had been violent and dangerous, the Court sentenced him to pay a fine of 4:10. The fine was immediately paid by the defendant's father, Benjamin Shaw. An action of trorer is still pending against Shaw, for the recovery of the horses. Saturday everting a large hamper, well packed and carded, with a card of. direction, was brought by a porter to the house of Mr. Hurst, wholesale egg merchant on Saffron-hill. On laying down his load, the porter said it came by the coach from the coun try, and that the carriage and porterage was paid, and then went off. Mt. Hurst proceeded to uncord the hamper, when on lifting op the lid, to his great surprise, he found • li-fine female child, about three weeks old, with a lace cap, and otherwise well dress ed, lying fast asleep, closely packed all round with hay and straw. Mr. H. sent it to St. Andrew's Work house, where it now is in a very healthy state. MAnLeottovutt-sTurrr.—Yesterday. John Curly was charged with assaults and riot at Mary. la-bonne Church or. Sunday evening. A young Lady named Baynes, who was a total stranger to the defendant, stated, that she was on hCr way through the gallery to her pew, in company with her brother and si.ter, when the defendant accosted her in very disgusting largui7e. He was in company with several others, 1 and together they impeded the passage and ulti mately stopped the way. A party rushed down the stairs in the confusion, and several females were thrown down. Another Lady attended, with her daughter, ss - ho corroborated Miss Baynes's statement. Her daughter was thrown down upon the stairs, and the alarm was such that she went into fits, and was removed in a senseless state. One of the Mary-la bonne Constables, who attentis dating Divine Service, proved that the accused was constant in his visits at the church, annoying females, and breaking out into what the witness termed « horse laughs." The rest of his associates escaped upon this occasion.. The mother of the young Lady stated, that in the confu sion to get her daughter away, she lost a silver purse and prayer hook. The Magistrate (G. 1 7 1, II N Esq.) severely reprobated the dcieL:clant% tuutiLict, and ordered him to find boil rya MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, M Cla.lo , ll' ►ilCl muse. I ARK- LANE, NO Al Until: Email Nazi .. Tick (119 0 ....... Oats, pou, POlind -- Feed .. .... Fkil; pv Sack... n C , leed, Pu 1.1,6 'Wheat, KaTt and F:ses Suffolk .......... ...70. 116 e Norfolk ... 0 .7oa 114 s .....521 13orley (Now) ..... 7EI Malt 7C. $6. Wkko Pen B6. 70s ficilers PO' 811 Grey Yeas ......... . 72s num,. What, ntz:c..., raloc IL ', I Taa • T Bremen. NEW Ci .1T 1: AN:) IS. I I,DEN (127 the Bet f to 4s SJ Mutton el to Si LamS 41. ---_ - 'HALL 7.l.aitter Vetl Pcrk 1:d. to Z Ai :fs _ - - Pit ICFS or HAY am; STILIWITTT - $7. JANES'S. MI.:77MA hay ...61 os od to el es Od I irn - ...71 Oi Le, t Straw 21 14s 04 to 31 Iso4 tl 12 $ rd Clover 71 14s Osl to WOs Ce. I Myer 111 n PRICE OP HOPS lOr'" tb-a NEW SAGA. Kent 5l Ifrs to '7l N I K.—t ~... , StooKi 51 124 to '€l 15; Sarez ....—.41 I_, Elsez Ol Os co CI (. ESiti ...,..71 o i FOITIV :1 Cs to 41 ICs rank= —4l c. pluck: or TALLOW, SO IP, Asa CAN'J se. James's Market Ss tOd I Tor:n Clare Market WhitectsaptlM.uket 5s 'M White ditto ........ (pvr stoop of MI b) .. Yellow It 2,---NoteoA, 111 ss--ru4 ... Caulks, per duh. 11, 64-31osidds„,, .~i h R.IV; mnPs. Beit Thifers and Steers (p ,r I ()rdinary LOd to _d M:okat Cal: 11 t Middlings ...us 6d to 2s IOS I Sloreptkics--Polled, 58 Od t.t at—Dov: Shearliogs, &IX! to 6.10,1-I,Lad.o. :A Li • PR ICE OF I.E ITIIIII Butts, 50 to sClbs each Ditto, 56 to 6615 s tach ....... Dressing li,dcs Fine Coach Hides Crop Ilidcs, 35 to iClbs or clttir g Ditto 4: to 501b5.. Calf :10 t.) 4C119 Ditto $0 to 7Clbs Ditto 70 to •ts Abs, Small Seals (Greenland; Large ditto Tanned Horse Hides Spanish Horse Hide ..c6AL . IIAF I: Ships at Mar Let. 48 Newcastle 12 Sundt:rind Ogin Main 1 Cinders 61.!?s .11.1 to .151 N •S‘ii to :SS to .5.4 d V .36d ti .3E2 t, dcum tics to 17(1,,t0 6;1 to ~:. I. Gbh .4. The genial weather we have so hap blessed with this Autumn, has proved sing neticial to the agricultural interests thmui kingdom, as an abundance of food for the' has been the consequence, and in some compensates for the deficiency of hay, whi to the light crops of this year, =del ed the of wintEr fodder a subject of serious ans . .e, farmers. In addition to numerous other ern-am-din produced by the mildness of the present s have to mention, that barley in ear, nai fill is to be !Tell in several parts of tie luxuriant appe.:..ance is not supped tot the self-sown grain, but rather to be =rim extreme droaght between the time cf harvest, w! ich, in some situations, (*email the seed, till the late genial rains and unusai operated so powerfully in promoting vege. In some fields, near Lincoln, on the II barley that was shee during the harvest, I up and is now in ear. The like, we mil to be seen in most light soils where much lost on the ground. BIRTITS On the 47th of October,;;lOsel4 Hall, the la Taylor, Esq. of Moire Green, Worcestershire, of On the Stith ult. at Pt 'churl., :he 1.14 of the I Maude, of a still-born :4 .. Ttosday, at Farnham, the Loly of Captain Dewy MARRIED, Oct. 18, at Dublin, Godwin Swift, Fag. of that younge,t daughter oiled= swift, Esq. late Coakc:( rrim District. Oct. 13, at Bess Brook, Ireland, Mr. Michael Re 81, to the accomplished !Miss Ann Rea, Carri:iert.s diately after the hymeneal knot, the bride, a slip w:. attained her ;NI year, supported hi a cra7ck, repair rib to an alehouse, to send in festivity the nuedt DIED. On Sunday morning last, at her house No. 5,17 p street, Buttman-square, deeply regared, after; la ful fllnea, wkich she bore wish trade, lira. Lytton, the widow and relict of Lytton, DA. lute of Knebwnrth Place, H. rts. Thursday; at Dublin, Lieut. Somertale, R.N. Wednesday, aged 14, Fanny, year: at dialf.,ter Joseph Ellerton, Vicar of Betk:with. Yesterday sennizht, Henry Barton, r.l l . a Sir: of Manchester, In the 82d year cf his ate. Tuesdiy, in the Itoyrl infirmuri, he barb. tall, CO.il agent. Ile-waifaor.d, speecbles' 1, ly„,:g .iptingtarden, about seven o'clock co llo:Alay (kt. 18, at Lockerby, Mary and Biddy °Welt They had lived together nearly the wh:::e of their! e::pressed a singular solicitude that they (Jr thit their prayers were heard, as they died on ;Le the one at ten, the other r.t v.velss o'clock, and w WC grave. 'l`aesday sennight, at the Hanhifis, near Lee,ll Jr. Gt.!.sth Wright. lie had attained the advanc and was, perhaps, the oldest Proprietor of a News kingdom, if not in the world, having ettabliihed intelligracyr, A.D. 1751, WIN years before hit Fel accession to the throne. lie retired from business years since. tlterred by the consciousness ci a k sper.t public and private life, he retained all his isc day preceding his dissolution, when an universal I dully, but cently, and without pain, closed his earth 31AiLS - T •RL DIM Dublin 1 0I 11derford 1 0 Guernsey and Jarsey 1 0 tic-Aland 1 1 ' Flanders 0 0 Lisbon Malta PRICE OF STOCI Bk. Stock 273 i Reduced 77t 768 Cont. 77i 781 77if I per Ct. 86f 1 per ct. 95ii Navy 1081 10711 Long Amis. 201 1-16 France HIGH WATER at LONDO' Morning Aftimoon 11;Mburgh Lisboa: India Stock India Bonds t.; Exch. Bills 19 Omn. dis. Cons. for Ac. '791, • - Lottt.ry Tick BITfI)C7-Iti TO. • Ze Minute LV.N 11()N; Primed 31. d pub:6ll4 by pact, Ttripl4l4,