Star. — London, England, 1817-01-22 00:00:00

driven into the Downs last eveninp, W. wind, and landed her mail and The Kept, for Calcutta, p:uted consequence of tt e sing of hvr anchor ,NISLIAT2, JANUARY 21. rollowing vessels for shelter, viz.— 'anny, BAKKE!: ; Effort, Tormr; Sis- Griaust.Acx:.Line, JON L'S ; a Jane,l Trusty, CRA WFORD; Curntrei land, 4.2ence, PrenwN ; Mary, 1:11.:Nus; S:n. l i d Minerva, Mitav ; Zephyr, BANFIELD; 1I from Landon ; also the Two ears, ALMOU 1 I% JANUARY 19. ..,dings.—Wind S.S.E. strong gales. SiMot; JANUARY 11. itiorid, f,orn the Downs for the Cape ; Iskr%on, WATSON, from Berb;ce. I•st •SaEled his Majesty's slips RO,Altlo on a csn;:e.—Wind W.S.W. '0111.14013: , E, JANU.%ItY 21. Iswoans.—Yise Po, Cullen, from Calais; from Seville; Alexandrine, Bore, from toss. from Lisbio; kifiebeth, Hunter. from May, from Cork; Moan* St ranaek L-Attituao, from St. John's, New THE ARM-. •wo Companies of the 25th RegiMent Glaucester, on their route from Nottingham. ice of a meditated abridgement in the ~p artment, three of the Inspecting in the English Districts, one in Scot !Mani, are to be reduced on Friday' fal change is also to take place in the of the various establishments, by tiler the command of Colonel MORGAN, where it has reinseined upwards of ill be removed to Coventry, on Sa- ; ••• . 'JOTS IN SCOTLAND . .atly concerned to observe %bat in some ..)wer orders have allowed themselves to Juctd--leto acts of insubordination and riot.— Wi • - week about one thousand poor peoi►le out•parishes of Glasgow wa►ted on their !questing patish aid They were informed' , •i been takes to settle the question of as ' it was thought that every thing had idly. Some cavalry had befit under .::serve the peace, but their services were not the crowd, alter quitting the place of felt in with a Poiice Officer conducting to Bridewell, and actually rescued one isoners. , y there was some tumult at Dungries: shust supply of oat meal in the marf Iple who wanted to buy saw large quars•L pi be sent elsewhere. The mob in several cart loads and carried them to They also seized a quantity found os Ind It the the neighbruthogni, Ilse brooght to the market, where some :hose who wished to purchtse. I're Ma 'steady swore Is a number nt constahles— alibrt time restored, and several of the secured and sent to jail, but not till the to charge the mob. The efforts of up constables to restore order were una- . from Leicestershire, state, that several ringleaders of the Luddite:, who were concer. -glues, some time since at Loughborough, ten op, and committed to Leicester jail. out for the apprehension of six more of Ing: Eight are already in custody. shortly.alter the acquittal of Dr. WAV Old Bailey, his Solicitor, Mr. HAMM/ tames of two of the Doctor's friends, at appearance- to answer the charge which', iy pre:erred against him hefork the Grand ticks's Hall; when Mr. Haustatt was iti it was necessary that 48 hours notice teen. aiming there was a Meeting of tits i Bankers, to take into consideration a propo had been submitted to them by Ministers, 'laid permit an Inspector from the Mint , all their shops to examine , and verify Coin offered in exchange roe the New and that they would suffer the New Coin issued at their counters. The Bankers unanimous Resolution, that it would he impossible for them to permit this operation houses, on account of the creta ds that it. steamily assemile, and the interruption that - thereby given to their ordinary hosie-ss.— pence of this refusal Receiriag Houses are 'petted in different parts of the town, where will be stationi:d. The houses will be Monday, the 3d of February, and kept . fortnight.. The Country Bankers have receive the Old Silver and issue the New exchange, but to appoint each his own In- ale-brewers have given notice to their ens ;aising the price of that beverage 10.. per .mber is also to experience an advance. The seem to.levy taxes on the public whenever proper, and apparently without control. EXCHANGS. MARK LANE, JAN. 22.—Wc,con- , . Iperience very heavy sale for all dcserip terior Corn, but fine samples support MOs. prices. —Fine old Oats gu off readily, en bad quality of the new. or Pour Minim are informed that flue full Vintage 1815. is sold at Us. per dozen ; Rage 1812, ar 4 1 25.; ditto in tbe woo 4 of 'loins flavour, at se9s per pipe $ also Pootac bottles at the very low price of 425. Fes _.:to the finest Cape Madeira imported at dozen ; ditto Langarote in French bottles, at dia:n ; ditto French Frontigniac of the delicious quality, at 66.. per dozen ; in pints at - dozen, by the Commercial Hall Wine Co m-10 Skinner.suiet ; and $4O, Oxford-streat. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, JANUARY 21. 9'T' TRIAL. OF THE. RIOTERS; FURTHER PA RTMULA RS. This morning Richard Simmons, a man of colour, was indicted for having, on the gd of December last, feloniously broken and entered the dwelling-house of Thomas Rae, a goo-maker, in the Mionries, in the City of London, and for having stolen therefrom a quaroiiy of gut's, swords, and pistols, to the amount of sexual hundred pounds, the property of the slid 'rho,. Rae. To this the prisoner pleaded Nut Guilty. Mr. BoeteseD having opened the pleadings, Mr. G HIM ZY rose in behalf of the prosecution, and addressed the Jury. He stated, that on Monday, the 2J of December last, a tutoultimus assemblage 'of 1- ople, fury ished with arms, had proceeded trim some other part of the town towards the Minorie%, wly.re they a-tacked the shop of Mr. Rae, an emi nent win-maker, and stole from him a large qu m ilty of guns, pistols, and a small fi Id.piece, toge ther with money and Bank-notes. During the f,er petretion of teis outrage, the prisoner at the oar had appeared particularly active, brandishing a sword, to the terror and danger of those residing in the house. We had on Monday OCCASIOA to observe to the Jury, in a case nearly similar to the ptesent, and he should repeat it, subject to the correction of the Judge, that in law, it is not necessary in substan tianog the guilt of a party, to chew that he had been actually the hand wherewith the crime , was perpe trated. It is sullicient it he had consented by word and action to cie commission of the crime, and had aided and comforted those more immediately CUR.- cenied. To instance this, the Learned Counsel re peated the caw he-had adduced yesterday, in which a burglary may be committed by persoos who had not actually entered the house, provided they be so disposed without, as to assist and encourage those within. If, indeed, the law were otherwise, it would extend impunity to numherless offenders, and in every crime, the old and experienced would be ex empt from punishment, as they would instigate only the young and thoughtless to be the irnmediate agents of the crime, and thus become the victims of their guilt. With respect to the prisoner at the bar, the Jury would have him identified as active among the rioteri. by a respectable merchant of the city of Lon don. ,Mr. Hail, and who, if he had been assisted by. others equally resolute as himself, would soon have dissipated the danger, and seised on the rioters.— This Gentleman, foreseeing the danger that threaten ed Mr. Rae's shop, assisted him in fastening it, and called on the by-standers to assist hint in repelling the aggression. The summons unfortunately was not attended to, and the Learned Counsel comment ed with some severity on such criminal remissness.— He wished it to be understood as the duty of all per sons to resist flagrant outrages on the peace of so ciety, and repeated the words of a Learned Judge,. CM a similar occasion, " that men ought not to lie down and die, because a regiment of soldiers was -trot present, to protect them." The party of armed ,seen who,fiese attacked Mr. Rae's house did not ex ceed 15 or 16 men, and these were allowed, in a po ,ptdeue pivot the chi, to occupy nearly an hour in plundering the shop and house of Mr. Rae. Let the consequences of Inch a proceeding be considered.— , By it the most opulent man in London, if his pro perty consisted in hit stack in trade, might, in half an hour, be reduced tobeggary. The prisoner was with the mob fleurishing a sword,, but as soon as ten or twelve soldiers appeared at the top of. the street, therm occurred, what most ever occur in such cases, that those who were most rapacious in. power, sink into the most abject cowardice rn the first appear ance of effectual resistance—the mob dispersed, and the prisoner having received from a soldier a blow with the fiat part of a sword, instantly gave up his sabre. He observed, that it this CAW were proved .bt.wituesses, it would be for the Jury to coneider athesber the prisoner had not opereted in the outrage, and whether those within the house could have pro ceeded to the same violence, if they bad not been as sisted by their associates without. The first witness called was Thomas Rae—is a gut-maker;' his shop is Nu. 91, Minories, City of London, and fronts the street—does not reside there, has a private house in Ely.street I keepi no 'servant at the'dtop during the sight—the upper part of the Mose it lot to 11dgers. . Hese Mr. GURNeY remarked to the Court, that ;he capital part of the charge could not be sustained., The witness then stated, that on the 2d .of D.:- minim . , about half past one o'clock; he saw a great crowd attacking Messrs. Bander and POtts's house,i in the Minories—lte immediately shut up his own shop.. and retired to the garret, where he looked out of the window, and saw the mob assemble opposite his own house—he then left the house, and went to his private house. in Ely-street, returned about three o'clock, and saw his shop windows demolished, the doors broke open, and missed 'property to the amount of at least a thousand pounds. The property con sisted of guns, swords, pistols, blunderbusses, a field piece, some silver, Bank notes to the amount of £7. and SOs. worth of copper. . • John Hall is a merchant—On the 2J of Dieern bee saw a mob in the Minories furnished with lire-. EMS and swords; were firing powder in the air— saw the prisoner' particularly active. 'lite mob broke into Mr. Rae's house, rod carried off guns, pistols, swords, ea:touch-boxes hung over them, and bayo nets appended to their sides. The prisoner was within. four feet of Mr. Rae's house when the breaking took place, and continued shunting and• brandishing a sword, and pet-Jon:Sing e! . .e motions of , the broad sword exercise, with which he appeared well ac quainted. He was manifestly co operating with the plunderers, and seemed to act with the intent of de ,firfidg'any parsons from making resist•tnce. * "fu'irquestion from the prisoner, Mr. Hall said, bad not seen the prisoner enter the hous e . Abrabirm Samuel, a constable, deposed, that he t had ialifi'the prisonee, not only flourishingthe sword, but also taking pistofi out of the shop wibdow, and distributing them to the'erowd. John Wilton, s private in the First Life Guards. deposed, that he had aeon the prisoner flourishing a sword, and that be bad stood-while the rest of the crowd dispersed. Witness desired him to lay down the sword, and, on his refusal, struck him with the Rat of him own swbrd, ou which the ptiamer to gently threw down his artist. • Townes Branscomb, a valuable. apprehended the prisooer at, Nortidleet, on the 10th of December. Prisoner then acknowledged his havitif been in the crdwde but denied diskette bad carried arms... The prosecution having closed, the. prsaner, in., his defence, stared, that on the 2d of December he' had been drinking half a pint of rim in a public house, and passing through the itlinories met the crowd, when a men put a sword into his band. He flouriehed the sword, but diti no harm to any one. He knew no person in London, and those who could give him a good character were absent. • Mr. Justice eitruitoucti charged the Jury. of serv. ing with Mr. Guresey, that participation in a crene might be suhstantiaied without provingthe prisoner to have heen tee beret th a t committed the effenee. lie ir.stanced cases of burelary and murder, wlitrein 411 persons in any respect eacouraging or corn:orting the actual perpetrator ut the crime, were deemed principal offerders. And this doctrine, laid down by the law, was in every respect consonant to com e moil sense. The Learned Judge then receilltuleted the evi dence, and die Jury, without leaving the hue, brought in their verdict—Guilty of stealing to the vela: ut 41h. but net ail a dWdillg•llnUae. William was indicted for having in his' possession one pistol, the property ot Thomee Rae, knowing tfe same to have been stolen. Mr. boat-anti opened the pleadines. Mr. GuitNite stated the case. He observed, that the offence with which the prisoner was charged amounted only to single larceny. and therefore his life was not hazerded. It was for having in his pin- I session a stolen pistol, and offering it fur pledge. In I this it would not be necessary to enter at any.kngth. nor trace the property through the several stagei from the robbery, to the moment of its having been offered for pledge, it was for the prisoner to shew that he had acquired it honestly. It stolen property be fiend on a person atter a considerable lapse of time, the presumption against him is weakened by that circumstance ; but it the robbery has been re- Cent, the presumption is very much strengtnened, and is tendered irresistible if a false account be given. The robbery, in the present case had been commit ted on the 2J of December. The pistol was offered for pledgebn the 4th of January, the prisoner had stated that he had been a naval officer's servant. and had received the pistol from his neater. It trns be true, lie might bring forward his *nester to eubsten date it; • but, it take, why was this false pretence ,set up ? Thomas Rae was called, who stated that on the 2d el December he hed lost tee pelf of pistols. On Isis cross-examination by Mr. Ctiawooo, he said, that he lied not distinguished the pr.suiter among the rioters at his house, Joseph Delaney, a pawnbroker, deposed, that the prisoner had offered tho pistol to him in pledge. Jos. t'owis, a police *dicer, deposed, that he had arrested the prisoner, and produced the pistol. Thomas Rae again called, identltid the pistol, both by its having his own name on the batrel, and by the locks, which had formerly belonged to a ver-mounted Pair of pistols that had been stolen from him. Tile silver had been taken off, and the stocks, locks, and barrels tied together, and thrown into the Thaines, and had been afterwards taken up and re-. turned to him. The locks he had put to another pair of pistols, of which that in Court was one, and' by the lock he particularly recognised it. James Fell was clerk at the lhernes Police oSce. where the prisoner, on his apprehension, was brought for examination. The pawnbroker attended end , pro duced the pistol. The prisoner, on being asked how' he came by it? said, that he received it from Lieu tenant Pryor, of the Montagu, 74, and that when they wept .to Algiers, to demand' the slaves, the things were all thrown about, and in the cuittusion the fellow pistol. to this was lust. The. Lieutenant brought them on boird two years and a half ago. He was then, he said, at Chichesier. The prisoner stated diet he was in London during the riots, but did not recollect where* was oa that day. Used to attend clubs, btu did not lately. The Lieutenant gave him the pistol with othet things, such as a coat, bed forniture• a his cabin, and other little things, worth about £SO The ease.for the prosecution was here closed, and the prisoner, on being called upon fcr his defence, saitt e that hid nothing to add to whet Jr Wit utgedat his examination before the Magistrate. lie bed qp fricnds in town to attend as witnesses. Mr. Justice Pink summed up the evidence teethe Jury. After stating the terms of the indictment, he observed, that although the case was devoid of those points of aggravation which belonged to others, it was yet otte calling for their *triune consideration.— lt was a clear principle, that when stolen property was found in the pos.ession of a party, that party WAS bound to give a satisfactory accoutitof the man ner in which he obtained it. or else to incur a suspi cion of the charge. It was for the Jury to consider how far the owner's story of receiving it from Lieutenant Pryor was likely to be true or not. It seemed, Ito ever, rather singular that the Lieutenant , eliould give inch a thing as a pistol to his servant ; one could easily suppose the.propriety of his giving bin. his cabin bed when it was no longer lICCUtsiAly. There was this strong circumstance against the psi soner, that he said before the M .....ag_stiate he had the pistol two months ago, when the ship was paid off, though it was clear from Mr. Rae's evidentc that the pistol was at that time in Mr. Rae's shop. The Jury, atter a short consultation, returned a ;verdict ot—Guilty of the simple larceny. Joke Harmon was indicted lot stealing a gun, valise £2r), the property of Thomas Rae. These was a second coma, charging him with stealing a gun, the property ot Benjamin Appal. . . Mr. GURNSY stated the case to the Jury. He de tailed Anew the whole proceeding's of the rioters in ; their attack upon Mr. Rae's shop. There was, how ever; this dietinction, in the case, that the prisoner .was slut seen either in the shop of Mr. Rae, or in front a kt—he'fins, however, stopped with the gun• about one.heashred yards from the shop—the prisoner then sated, that he found the gun in.the street. — Now, it was quite clear, that no wan could take such an •article, the property. of another, without commit ting the crime of felony. It was important for him so account for the winner' in which he became pee imed th e ne gun. The Learned Cote tel then de tailed nature Of` theevidence he bad to adduce agiip . st the prisoner. • Thomas Kit repeated his former evidence relative fb the ettes.k upon his house—the gun teund upon s. . . j.:ft 'he prisoner was nne of those taken from his shop...— It had h•en /eft there by Mr. Apriti to have it sold. Abraham Samuels described the attack oti the ouse of the List witness. Ebenezer Dalton WAS a police ofEcm.; remember ed the attack on Mr. Itaeit ; apprehended the pre saner in the &booties, just atier th ...e 41t.iCk W4S • he appeared coming from Mr. It ae's - sealiona••' very Last, with a gun in his Wore ss .atn i iord him, at.d en askin.r, hint how he carne by i. he said he got it in the Minot - les. The day ditty, bin the gim hid no trip of dirt upon It was joist aster the s•ildiers con,, and the mob 114,1 beon dis persed. The witness here produced Ole gun in Cutlet, . . . . .4 nJ Mr. Itte.,Askent.fieJ k as p.trt of . Vie pr , vrty stolen from.ltun : Mr. A tielin ploy A the gun to have been sent to Mr. Rae's Lir s.ll`e. i. • The case 4eirA kfre cl-sod for t!ie prosecution, tle Poison. r, oa - benty; c..11 . .N.1 on t. r i.is defence, vid, that he bld on the 2.1 of Dt cember come horn a tilt- tanee to look for SCOI k. He went to Spa-fields on th it d.ty to see if any };and was to be done for the poor. On his rtditin throagh Hoinkisditch he m't the o nb, and tollowed them, w!itin a Gentieio.o• came up him and have him the gun to lbhnulJur. That SI all he dil. Edward H-on?tott was a shoemaker, ret;iling at Limeht•the. Knew the prix 'tier for eight yi,ars ; he h,d trot ked for him during the while tit Li, oppreo tic:•ship; he always toulti him a s(het, mild, titineA hid, and very industrinits. He had oaten enithsted him with property, and always found him eirirrest, , — He left his employ saith witness to- go to . (ors 4; e 4r his mother. who WAS in Teat- distress. •He believed he had been some time oat tit work. - Henry Gerald was a shoemaker residing in Rat cliffe-highway, knew the prisoner as an honest, sober, and industrious lad. His age was over 20. Cross-examined by Mr. GURNEY.—The prisoner lodged in his house; he went out the morning of the 2d of December, and did nut return before he was arrested. Mr. Justice Bonnorort summed up the cviderce to the Jury, who, after a short consultation, returns.' a verdict or—Guilty. Philip Shiva was indicted for stealing a sword, value is. the property of Thntnas Rae. Mr. raLLAND opened the pleadings. Mr. GURNair scaled the case, the particulars which were neatly the same as the last. lie was lotted at Whiteiliapel, within a quatt..r of an t i ,,,te after the attack on Mr. Rae's !wine, with a part of the st.deti property. Thomas Rae proved the sword *to have been one of those stolen from las shop on the '2.1 Decenin:r. Samuels, the conatable, repeated his former . evi. deuce relative to the felony. Robert Ireland lived with a butcher in alldgare. On the 23 of December he WAS MAT Red Lion-ft: r.,:, til - %itecfranel. when he met the pria ,, ner with a sen:rst in his hand ; he appeared coming Iron the trlsourie in company with two others, who had a pi.toi —Wi.ness asked several to assi.t hirn i , t the three. This took place immeaiatrly after the soldier had dispersed the mob. A triad at leapt!i came up to witness; they went together to vi• son , r, who, on being asked if he was an officer, slid 4•140." They then asked him where he got the sword, he said he found it in the Minories. The day was dirty, hut the sword had no apiwatanee f being wiled. The prisoner said he wits a leibtlUrer, but iw was well dressed. Dalton, the officer, produced the sword, which had been given to him by the last witness. George Brookes, a their-dresoer, living in Red Lion-sweet, Vs'hitechapel. At three o'clock on ete 2J of December, he saw the prisoner walking with a sword. This witness cimoborated Ireland's testi niony, as to their going up and apprelieridiag the prisoner. Mr. ltae here identified the sword as being his he knew from the mark on the scabbard ; it ryas part ot the property st...lea on the 2.1 of Doceruber. • The case being here ci•ised for the prosecutuni, the prisoner, on being called upon for Fs defence, said, that on the 2J of December ire was going up the Mir- Dories to look for work, when he saw a pile of arms. Thomas Koper, a sugar refiner, knew the prisoner, who had been lor.two years in his service, trout De cember, ISIS, to August, ISt6. He was, throughout that rime, an honest, sutler, and itolostriuus 11110—he was in their heave atxrut ten o'clock in the ma:DIU of the 2J of December. Patrick Neale., a labourer, know the prisoner for the last two 'years. His general characttr was excellent. Mr. Justice l'Artx summed hp the evidence to the Jury,• who, atter a short consultation, roof:x(1 a ver dict of—Guilty. Henri lietireurieris, aged 19, . and. George 11-ro;s, aged ‘2l, %etre neat pot to toe kir. accused.uf stea,tiogi 4 sword, a plitol, a large quantity of puwster, small thou, &C. the property oh ThornasTitae, uo the 2J day of December. Mr. Rae and Samuels repeated their •former evi. deuce. • Mr. Rae adding, that tut hail io.t £I:41. My above 30tdirs. ut sho.. . s • Jnlirs Griffiths apprehended the prisoners,in the George puolic•fic.use, Wilitechapei. 1134( s ine of them he found the pistol now pit...di:croon') a sword swor behind where titey were sitting. The pistol a nd sword were perfectly cleari, but the friiiimets them. selves were extremely duty. Does our .i'v.,;einoer any conversation lie had with them. . Fretosaii, an otficer, scan bed them, and found on hisildswolth two gun flints, some shot, powder, Etc. Thomas Wooclttant. it Smith, web in, the public neuse when the prisoners came in, but he did an .t see them bring any th.,g with them. Seeing then apprehended, he begin to lonk about the table whine they were sittiogi t and.he-lound some shot and Knits, ;and powder, mixed . together. . . , *William o.boro,,pierk of the Public-office Lam beth street, prtattivl bis notes of.what the prisoners .bad said otioheic public examination, by which it appeared that Holdsworth declared lie had been that ' day in the Minories, that he wax..at the time pretty much intoxicated ; saw the mob stito writ there as sembled, saw them dispis..l by die 50141..r5, and in picking up the pistol (winch he dip not tilt a mostur t -deny his having done) he ttiougan he 4kl as good t a riiht to it as any one else. beim aye Stiziik,r seasons for his picking up the swoilde .. bit. Kee did nut ide.iii.y the sword; but the pistol :te uuduubredly blew to :w I n , 04:: . . Int pi laOntto liti;.B t. tikd . on flits thee Wow, . p J.ll:4Dlvil• was the stro ng S• . 40ea gers here. este rday, in cm' v .eakln • g• —• Wint RA3 Erne ; n the 1 ; s:der% 17' nrs Prov 'deuce, •; $ .O 001 813 ' 6 E rotor' ; y, LOVE M MAsc Airs and Si,: VAL AlliTais of Nat m ired the the Brn Jo Ja Co xes.—ti TyKIAK, CUSIC errs E N T'►.rr sn E a ter. p nai r ; Hope, Allw C a nte; Lora 24c r." OFt.rit!; Last week tw fase J through 1 1rh WAIeS to constlineWC Rttositing Dcl Ttrld Officers in lani,ani one in ay. A genera fiad.quarters witich that undo] in Gloucester, right years, nil: today nett. Rh .We are greatl SACCS the lower be seducesi—iwtn da NVinday of nne of the ou tcquest tbat steps had L seamen ; and ilminated citric arms to present tpeded. But t assemblage, frl two prisoners tt of the prisoners On Sattardal There was a si while t.be prop tides shipping stantly seiwesf the market. 1 Ute quay,and which they also was sold to tho estrates insults order WAS in a• rioters were le Militia had to suds of WO I railings Accounts f of she ringleac ned in the curt ban bee° tat Warrants are the same . gani Yesterday. SON, at the 0 gave is the as bail lot his s vtiltyesterday lacy at Hick torreed. that should be giv Yesterday London Ban& sal which had that they won fn attend in ; Ohl Silver t Coinage ; ant to be thus ifo tante to an totally impot at their how would access.. 'would be the, In cunsequett :o be opened Inspectors °?elled on I wren for a f agreed to vet Coin .in each tytttor• The ale-bi toners of ral b•rrel s Amt brewers • sees they think Is, Cuss Eau tinue to cap 60 qi of inter t*y's prices.. nu of the Bonus co ird Port, 'itte, Vilna! • rich vim French b °ten ; dint per doze' ' O 4 per di .ost delicio • per doz any. 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