Star. — London, England, 1801-09-24 00:00:00

kiAtiAnDiA itotitsz Telterday a Quarterly General Court loris held at the Eall-Ind ia purfaant to Charter. Af ter the laft minutes were read, gr. Roca wilhed to lmow whether certain ac coots of the net- profit and lots of the . Corupany ought not to be laid before the Court. Tbe Chairman (Mr. MILLS), Rated that the Ac counts alluded to had been produced in March Mr. Roca, obferved, that his objed was to af certain the era& ardount of die Company's debt. The late Prefident of the Board of Controul hav ing fated it to be Twelve Millions, whilft an Hon. Proprietm (Mr. Joan) had alerted it in Parlia ment to be Twentr Millions ; thefe were the grofs contradiaioue which he was anxious to have re- eondled. Mr. DAVID , Scorr raid, that the Itatement of Mr. DUSDAS Was made up from corred accounts fornithed by the Company's Officers, and that the General Court had not any' hing to do with the we re davit of a Member of Parliament. After a few words from Mr. &saw op sr, in fup port of Mr. Scort's afertion, the Court adjourned The Court of Directors of the Eaft India Com pany have vefolveet, in order to preferve due re (pea and attention to the officers of their marine i n I n dia, who, on important occafions, efpecially 'd ur ing war, are afociated with the military, and affiftiag in op eratiors of warlike nature, that cer tain MI ihan be , aiEgned their marine officers, correfponding pith thole of the military, viz. nit tke Cceilediere have mphl rank. with the Colonels in iise army.' The Captains of the ismer veireh of IS guns and upwards, opal rank with Lidetinant-Colonels in the army. . . The Captains of findler veirek, under 2,11 guns, equal rank with Won in the arm).. The Ark Lieutenant, equal iahk with Captains in the army. Arid the itheard Lieutenants equal rank with Lieutenants in Uwe amt. in aC esks the data of the ketpeedve Commiillons are to re iplitte the pietudenee of tie ndlitsuy or marine caws. HIS Welty has been pleafed to confirm the fen tence of ieveneral Court Martial, held at Govern ment houfe, Plymouth, on the jilt of July and following day, on Lieutenant 'NOMA* PHILLIPS, of the Scilly Fencibles, Major Smear, D. J. Ad- Vacate, for fending a challenge to Lieutenant J. Jonas, of the Royal Invalids, on the 25th of June jail, requiring fatisfaftion for being expelled a Ma lonic Lodge on the 14th of June (St. John's Day), and having declared on a fubfequent day that the {aid Lieut. J. Jonas was a coward. The Court Martial found him guilty of both charges, and judged him to be cashiered; but, in confideration of his youth and inexperience, and general good thaileter, innoldy recommended him to his Ma j My's clemency. His maitay, however, having taken into confideration - aTI the circumstances of the cafe, deemed it neeeifary, for the fake of exam tie, to 'Confirm the fentence of tire Court Martial. On Friday the ilth irritant* as lona Hawes, a tanner in the lettchment of the Royal artillery, tommanded by Captain Dtte, no* itationed in Hull garrifon, was attending his duty on the race termed upon Wold Cam, near that town, he was kertfortunately thrown from the gun, which going 'Veer his freadoxedlioncd hi:death at Drypool on tionday laft.—He hats left a pregnant widow and bee child.—What adds to this dittreffing accident it, that the father of the widow dropped down dead, nearly at the fame time. TWO foldiers of one of the regiments in garrifon at Bois le Due, having attempted to reduce their tontrides, the company to which they belonged paid them their arrears• by a private fubfcription, among the men, and expelled them from the ranks without acquainting their officers : notwithiand• ing the irregulatity cif the proceeding, the General is Chief of the Batavian army was fohighlypleafed with the fpirit which it difplayed, that he ft:feted It to pars unaltered ; bet, at the fame time, 're queßed the foldiers to give Won:dation to their officers, if any attempt fltould in future be made to withdraw them from their day. The Trills Knight who is upon his road to Bo tany Bay,has gallantly written to take leave of the objeslt.of his aifeeion and the caufe of his crime. Other lovers, he lays, feel momentary raptures for their mlllrelres's but thew me one, betides my own ref, that is trtvileoreedfor Sfel At the Conn which was laft week held in the lorough, for the purpofe of releating Pebtdrs Under the Infolvent Ad, a curious circumilance occurred, is a Faber's oppofng the liberation of his Son, and a !leaks alto joining in the oppofition. The objeftiorts.towever, after a dircuflion of five cr fir hours, prevailed, and the prifoner was re manded, it having been proved that the debt for which he was confined was money which he col• lefted as the 4ent of his Father, And did sot af terwards account for. On Fmturday laft the Poßmaller of Eaß•Grin• fted diflriboted the Lam of 1361. Its. 4d. which he recerved for that porpore, from the Merchants of the city of London, as a reward for the recovery of certain drafts, bills, &c. contained in the mail, foppofed to be robbed by the Beatfons on the aoth of July in the manner following, viz : To Edward Daniel and Richard Walter, two indttarious labourers, who fir( drcoreted the pro perty as they were reaping in a wheat field, near Hartfield, and gave information thereof, fifty pounds each : and the remaindcr among( thofe (about ten in number) who ptoteaed the fame un id Po(•mafer abotie-mentioned arrived at the fpot, and took pore fion of it. - Yellerday William Pooley, a feaman belong ing to a fmuggling veil, was brought to town hom Burnham, near Hilda, in Effie, by a King's hleffenger, and one of the Bow•Rrett Officers, who arrelled him under the authority of a warrant from' the Secretary of State, in which he Rands charged with High Treafon. ' Yeßerday yobs Sawa, in cußody for extorting money fi om a publican, under a threat of charg ing him with an unnatural cri►ne, was re-epunined Bow-fireet, and fully committed to take his trial f,r a highway robbery, in flopping and taking the money from the profccuter, m sbeltrect. c SPORTINO INtELLIVENCE. 140 . 11MIAMTTON, TUESDAY, SEPT. au The Gentle rlait'i Subfcription Parfe of Sol. for 3-yr olds. Colts carrying Bft. 21b. Fillies 811. Three heats, a mile and a half each. • Hon. G. Warfon's b. c. Striter, 811 711). - r I Mr. Bores cc. Miniature, 81t. aib. . - ENFIELD RACES. Tana, Day.—The attention of thole fporting men who are not at the Done/ Melting was par ticularly engaged by the Ladies' Plate of pl. for all ages, which was run for at Enfield yeiterday. Six honks were entered ; but the " tug of war" was expeCted to he between reiver•Horn and gaci Andrews. relvet-Horn was bred by Mr. Barsou, in Windfor Foreft, and therefore takes his name from a horn which grows out of the antler of a flag at four year, old, and which, when it fprouts, from its colour and formation, is called the velvet-born. —This horfe, after winning at Ajeol, was bought by the PRINCI of Wat Es, and fince purchafed of his Royal Highnefs by Mr. DURAND. Jack An. drew: ' together with his brother Did Andrew:, • (both from the fame fire and dam), were bred by Mr. ROOKs. 'jack Andrews is a bay horfe of great powers, and uncommonly fpeedy. From his length, his tboulder, back, long reach, and high fpirit, he was the favourite, though from Mr. DURAND'S late fuccefs, the knowing-ones backed Velod-Horn. The firft heat was won by . 7aci Andrew:, though Velvet-Horn pufhed him very hard for 200 yards to the winning poll. The fecond heat was molt ad mirably run, and was determined a dead heat be tween Ploughboy, a grey horfe belonging to Mr. Fa oc IY, and . 7aci Andrew:. The third heat was eafily won by Yeti Andrew:, who was declared the favourite of the and carried off the plate. Although the morning was extremely unpropi tious, it did not prevent a full attendance : the company was not fo numerous as on Monday, but a greater number of fporting men were prefent.— A tenons accident happened about.three in the af ternoon, owing to people crouding on the courfe to fee the holies come in; a line of condua diame trically oppofite to the printed regulations, which dire& that the clerks of the courfe do not allow either equeftrians or pedeftrians to ftand within the line. During the firft heat, many perfons cro l led the courfe repeatedly, and one mien was unfortu nately rode over by the clerk of the courfe ; two of his ribs were broken, and he was otherwife much hurt. A gig was overturned trolling the ftream, next the mill: no other accident hap pened, than that two bucks in it received a tho rough ducking. A Penn r-Racr, for ten guineas, was run for at the St. Helena, on the Deptford-road, on Monday afternoon, by three famous ponies.—The winning pony ( M argate), fell jute af t e r he patted the win ning poll, and rolled upon the young lad who rode him, who was fo much hurt as to be taken off the ground fenfelefs, and, we are foray to add, is ain in a very dangerous 'way. Rowian MATCH.—Notwithflanding the conti nued rain, Greenwich Annual• Rowing M'tch, for fix different prizes, took place on Tueßfay, by term of the Loyal Water Fencibles. The prize boat was won by a young man of King's Stairs.' —Her Royal Highnefs the PRISCESS of WALES viewed the conteft from the balcony of the Go vernor's houfe, and appeared much pleated with the (terse. _ _ Bu Lt. Barriec.—A great number of perfons of all defcriptions, but principally from Tothillfields, Spitalfields, Kent.ftreet, and the Mint, affembled at New Crofs, yefterday, for the ravage purpofe of baiting a game young bulL—The Magiftrates and Officers difperfed them from thence, and they adjourned to Deptford Common; where the bull. after killing two dogs, broke loofe, and hurt fe veral perfons very feverely befdre he could -be fecured: TN Covarr-GARDEN.--Left night in the Comedy of Speed the Plough, thecharaaer of Sir Nib)) Blaadford was performed by Mr. LACEY, who ap peared, for the firft time, at this Theatre, laft fea fon, in Hamlet. Mr. L. :frames a folemnity of de portment well-fuited to the part of the mortally wounded Baronet,' and the defcription of his wrongs are given by him with confiderable pathos; but, upon the whole, we think him rather too la boured in his - at - lion, and, moreover, he appears of too juvenile a figure.—On the part of No J3kacei. ford, merely taken by Mrs. Lirctirteco at the fpur of the moment, on account of the indifpcifi-,. tion of Mrs. H. JoHvsTowE, we (ball forbear cri. ticifm, as the lady is altogether out of her element. , Mr. Cooa a, letters from Newcaftle fay, is in a *ate of health fo impaired by his late accident, that a fortnight or three weeks more muff elapfe before he can teturn to his duty at Covent Gar den Theatre. The Yarmouth Theatre clofed laff week, after the molt fuccefsfal feafon' ever known. The Manager's benefit on the preceding Saturday was a bumper—the receipt tog'. A new piece was latelyproduced at the ?brain de Vaudeville, in Paris, called The fildband, the Rob. 1 1 bar, awl the Lover. It proved to be a medley of jib ferrelfcenes,andpf fheer nonfenfe. When the curtain dropped, fome of the audience called for " the Anther"—another party called as loudly for" the Robber!" neither of courfe appeared. There are thole amcmgft our Dramatic Writers who would (brink inlike manner from this theatrical but and cry! It is acknowledged by a molt numerous affem blage every evening at the Royal. Ctacus, St. George's Fields, that the new Grand Speaacle of Kin (War, or The Negro Slave:, brought out there, has never been excelled upon any Rage, for the ftrong intere* of its plot, and the isupreffive cha ratters with which it abounds—the fcenery, for its appropriate defigns and execution, is inimitable ; and the 'nurse, by Mr. W.Wa It a, is allowed, by the firft judges, to be admirably compofed—the effea upon every ear is truly fafcinating--tbe whole of this piece, in (port, with the otherlentertaisiments of the night, prove a routine of complete and .ra tional =dement to every circle. OLD AWLEr. Ve4erelaypzteen prifoners were tried, one of whom wa*coe lifted of a mifdemeanonr, viz. • y. Peltier*, for utteringa counterfeithalf-guinea. Nine were conviEted of felony, viz. _ _ eQ,ee~; jaia ,Margrqor, for that he being a Clerk in the employment of divers perfons, who arc four teen in cumber, being Traftees and Direaors lof the Pelican nfurance Office for Lives, did embezzle and fecrete 3001. which came into his hands for and on the account of his mailers.— Another count in the Indietment charged him with having embezzled and fecreted the above fum, which had come into his hands as the fervant of the above Gentlemen. Mr. Gnawer opened the Pleadings. Mr. Serjeant Bear opened the Cafe on the part of the Profecution. He faid, he had the honour of attending the Court to-day, on behalf of the Pelican Infurance Office, who bad brought on the prefent Profecution againft the Prifoner at the Bar, for embezzling 3001. of their property. This was a Cafe which came before the Court on the late Aft of Parliament pail on the fubjeft of Servants efts bezzling and fecreting, or appropriating to their own ufe any of the property of their mailers. Pre vious to the paffing of this Aft, tome doubts had been entertained among the Learned Judges, whe ther the Servant of a perfon when he had got the polliffion of his property in the courfe of his being employed by that Matter, and who afterwards con verted it to his own ufe, without the leave of that Mailer, did, in point of Law, commit an aft of felony byithat converfion ? To remove filch doubts, the Aft of Parliament he alluded to, was paired ; and the Aft Rated, that fuch doubts had been en tertained, and profeffed to remove them, by de claring, that any embezzlement, converfion, or fecreting of property of a Mater, by a Servant en trufted or employed by him, (hall be deemed fe lony. The Jury would, therefore, be aware, that in order to convie any perfon under this A& of Parliament, the firil thing which was neceffary to be proved, was, that the party accufed fhould be a Servant employed by the party whole property he had got into his poireilion, in fuch a way as to be able to get poirellion of the property by virtue of fuch employment. The fecond was, that hav ing fo got the property into his poneffion, he fhall have teemed, embezzled, or in Come way or other, have converted that property to his own ufe. Now, upon this Aft of Parliament, the Learned Serjeant contended, that if any property was thus fecreted, embezzled, or converted, and afterwards every fhilling of it was brought back again to the ufe of the Mailer, it would not do, nor he any cr eate under this Aft of Parliament. If he takes the property and converts it to his own isle, only for a while, and only for the purpofe of making the profit of the intereft of it, that (hall be a con verfion to his own ufe, and a felony under this Aft of Parliament, and no fubfequent reftoration will do away that felony, which being once eompleat, could never be afterwards altered in its charaCter. Having thus Rated the Law, the learned Serjeant I proceeded to-recite the fags, as they afterwards appeared in evidence, and of which we give the fubßance as concjfely as we can. He then obferv ed, that if the fads were proved as they were Rated to him, or nearly as they were ftaied to him, the Jury would find it a duty which they owed to the Public, to find the Prifoner guilty. If they bad any doubt at all,they would afford him tie be nest of it, and reftore him to the society of his Country. Edward Gale Boldero, Efq. being (worn, faid, " I am one of, the Truftees of the Pelican Life I Infurance Company. The Direftors confift of fourteen Gentlemen.—[ Here he went over the names of them all, which were truly Rated in the Indiftment.]—We are the Managers of the funds of the Society. We take it in turn to audit the ac counts, among which is the payment of what is called the Renewal of Premiums. It wasmy turn to audit from the loth to the 17th of July laft ; and I did - audit them up to that date. Pre vious to the toth of July, the Prifoner at the Bar was in the service of us the Trullees. He was our Clerk, or Accountant, and had been fo for about two years, more or lets ; in his chara&er of Clerk, or Accountant, it was his duty to receive renewal premiums, and endowment premiums alto, gene rally, but be did not receive all the endowment premiums."—[The renewal premiums are the turns of money which are paid in at the Office when the time of infurance of thole who effea policies expire,and when the parties continue the infurance. The endowment premiums are moniet depofited for the benefit of children.]—The Witnefs then proceeded—" Here are the accounts of the Priso ner, from the toth to the 17th of July. I audited thefe accounts, I fee, for I have figned my name to them. The entry of the items, is all of the hand-writing of the prifoner at the Bar ." Here the account was read, by which it ap that the Prifoner's receipts for the London renewals, and endowments, from the loth of July to the r 7th of July, was 6251. cos. z id. ; and the account by which the Prifoner difcharged himfelf from the receipt of that funs, confuted of various items, one of which was that of 3811. 15s. 7d.. paid into the houk of Robarts, Curtis and Co. on the ,4th of July.] Mars. Robarts Curtis & Co. are the Bankers , of our Society. Before I audited the accounts of the Prifoner, it was my praftice to examine the items contained in the Banker's book, to compare them with the other parts of the account. I never upon any occafion, pals such an account without finding that the items of the account and the book agree with one another. [Here Mr. Boldcro prov ed the Books produced to be the Books in which the Prifoner's entries were all made, as all() the Banker's Book, by which credit was given to the So ciety for the monies from time to time paid in on their account.] The Banker's Book is not. now as it was when I law it, and pall the Accounts of the Prifoner, becaufe it then correfponded with the entry in the Prifoner's own hand in the Book of the Society, which was for 3811. iv. 7d. the (urn which I thought was paid into the Banker's, or elle I fhould not have pail the Account as I did. It is now altered in the Banker's Book to 811. Iss. yd. and there certainly appears to be an erafure on which that entry of 8 tl. 15s. 7d. is entered." Mr. Thomas, CaMier is the . Hotta of Roberts, 'Curtis, and Co, proved that the entry in their ' Book of the firm of 811. 15s. 7d. Was of his own handwriting. That he received that furn on ae ! count of the Pelican Life Infurance Company; and by a draft on Meffrs Welton and Co. Bank ers, in the Borough of Sosithwark, on the ,4th of July laft, when this Book was in his hand there was no erafure in it; he was quite fure that he did not receive on the 14th of July, on account cf the Pelican Infurance Company, more than 8,1. 15s. 7d. This correfponded with another entry made on the fame day. A Clerk at the Banklng.houre of Meffrs. Wet ton and Co, in the Borough, Paid, " That the Prifoner at the bar, John Macgregor, kept 'calh at their houfe • that on the i4th of July laft, they paid a Draft of the Prifoner's for 811. 15s.'7d. on them, to the houfe of Meas. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. and no other Draft of the Prifoner's to that houfe on that day. Robert Ward, one of the Clerks of the Pelican Infurance Office, raid, that the Prifoner was dif miffed from the Office on the 23d of July, to the heft of his recolleCtion, and came to the Office the day afterwards. [This Gentleman went through a long hiftory of different items in the accounts of the Prifoner, the refult of which was, that at the time of the Prifoner's dirmittal, he was indebted to the Office in upwards of 7001. but that Shortly afterwards he gave a Draft upon his Bankers for tool. and that at this moment (taking bills for cant), he be lieved the PrifOner was not in all indebted to the Office above Sol. The cuftom of the Office he Rated to be, that the accountant Wel pay into their Bankers always what he had in hand, when ever it amounted to tool. and to pay in on Friday whateverhe had, whether little or much ; Friday being-what is called a Settling Day with them.] William Mafon, a porter at the Pelican tam.. ance Office, proved, that after' the Prifoner was difmilled, he came there and ordered him to fetch him the Banker's boisk, where the cafh carried in was entered; that he went to the Banker's, and brought it to the Prifoner, who took it with him, and it was not feen afterwards until the Prifoner was apprehended. The Withers, at the time he gave the Prifoner the Banker's book, did not know that he was difmiffed. [The Bankers' book was altered after the Pri toner had it, from 3811. 15s. 7d. to 811. 15s'. 7d.] The Prifoner raid, in his defence, that he had never attempted to make ufe of any property of the Office for his own profit : and he Paid, that fo ' far was he from owing the Office any thing at this moment, that hcapprehended.there was fkanething of a balance due to him, which he could have 'made apparent to the Court, if he 'had been al. lowed an infpeCtion of the accounts, which were long and complicated. He called 16 witnefes who gave him a good charafter. The COMMON SERIEMIT fumroect up the whole of the evidence, and read the Claufe of the Aet of Parliament as it applied to this cafe. "The quef tion for the Jury," fie raid, was " Whether in the Accounts the prifoner paft to Mr. Boldero, in which was an item of 3811. 15s. 7d. as paid to Mars. Robarts and Co. for the ufc of the Office on the 14th of July, he did not, at the time, fecrete the rum of 3001. it appearing that on that day he actually did pay in no more than 8:1. 15s. 7d. as appeared by two entries which correfponded in different Books? If they thought that he did keep this Account back, as this evidence they/ea he did, it would be their duty to find him guilty ; if they had any reafonable doubt upon that evidence, they fhould then throw his charafter into the (tale, and acquit him. It had been properly Rated in the opening, that if the offence was once committed, no refinution could alter it ; Tor, if once a felony was committed, no fiibrequent condo.% of the guilty party could alter the charafter of that act." The jury found the prifoner Guilty, but begged leave to recommend him to mei cy, on account. they Paid, of his appearing to with to make retii tution—for they conceived that he withed to make The COICIIO7I SERJEAMT--The good intention does not appe ar till after the detection. At the fame time, it as fufficient for me to Hate it, if you recommend him to mercy. The prifoner's Counfel, Mr. Ketowt. es, Mr. KNAPP, and Mr. ALLY,. then objcEted to the In. diament in point a law, on account of its not (Wing whore property the 3001. thus found to have been embezzled was. The COMMON &MANI' was of opinion againft the objeaion ; but raid, that the fate of the pri. foner ffiould nut ren on his opinion only, anti, therefore, he referved the point of law for the opi nion of the Judges. Yobs Price acid jobs and EGrealeth Brown, for burglarioufly breaking and entering.the dwelling houfe of John White, and dealing therein a variety of articles, his property. The Profecutor, it appeared, keeps extenfive livery-Rables in the vicinity of Moorfields. On the night of the 29th of July, one of his Rabies, which adjoins his dwellins-houfe„ was broken open, and the property laid in the Indielment nolen there from ; but the charge of the burglary againß the Prifoners, was given up by the Profecutor's Conn fd in the outlet of the trial, as he ackno*ledged he had no evidence to bring it home to them.— With refpeift to the charge of their having Rolm the goods, it appeared, that, on the 3 ill of July, the Prifoners were obferved together in a plibik houfe, and that Price had on his hack a coat longing to one of the olilers, which was amel the articles taken away on the night of the 29th the °ace. articles ilolen, confining of a Caddie and fome bridles, lay in a bundle in the famel»x with the Prifoners; it lay nearer Price than either of the two others.—The affair of the robbery of Mr. White's Rabies being well known in that neigh bourhood, and one of his people being in the room, the Prifoners were charged with the theft ; they all denied any knowledge of the bundle, they were however taken into cuilody ; they had much diffi culty in fecuring Price, who drew a knife upon the Officer ii ho apprehended them. One of the Witneires Rated, that he had fern the Palm come out of a coach with the bah- a ,