The National Register. — London, England, 1815-05-14 00:00:00

318 LA IV INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLE,IB,-SATURDAY. BIDDLE AND LLOYD Y. LEVY. This was an action bronglit to recover e9ll. for goods sold and delivered. The Plaintiffs arc Birmingham manufacturers, and the Defendant had been a seller of plated goods, & e. in London, and bad dealt with the Plaintiffs for some time. A short time since the Defendant stated to the Plaintifis that he was going to retire from bminegq, hut that his son. a young man named Samuel Levy, would sncceed him, and that although lie the Defendant should retire from the business, he should still continue to watch over his sun. Under these circumshores. Plaintiffs trusted Samuel Levy with goods to the amount of 8 , .? 11. hut payment not hieing made at the expected time, application A% a , made for money, alien the reply was a plea of infancy on the part It Mr. Samuel Levy. Under these circumstances, the brought the present ac tion, on the ground that although the goods were ordered for and by Samuel Levy, yet that Emanuel, the present defendant, had had the benefit of them, and to prove this fart, a witness named Samuel was called, who stated that Ike had received the goods in question of the Defendant. and had travelled the country with them and sold them on his the Defendant's account, particularly an Epergne at Norwich, and some Vandyke plates at Brighton. which were proved to he a part of the goods ftirnished by plaintitL to Mr. Samuel Levy ; and the only question was, whether under these them tancea the Defendant was liable. The Jury acted on the Judges direction found for the Militia's-8911. 10$. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.- SATURDAY. THE /iING 0. JOHN WM. FOR‘TER. This was a proceeding to recover from Defendant, upon a bond far 10001. given by him to the Crown, under the following circum stances :—Defendant was an Auctioneer, awd the bond in question was taken by Government as a security for Defendants making a correct return of all articles sold by him, that the Excise might be enabled to charge the Auction Duty of per ceat. upon the produce. The charge against the Defendant now was, that he had made a false return of articles sold by him at a sale of furniture, at a house in 'Leicester-street, on the Vld of October, 1813, having there stated that two lots of f u rniture, one of 91. and the other 61. value, had been bought in by the proprietor, and therefore were not liable to pay any duty; wl u in fact they were pnrcha•cd by a gentleman of the name of Ratcliff, belonging to the Navy Pay Office, and duty paid for them. Thi4 fact was proved, and the Jury found for the Crown—Damages 10001. and costs. OLD BAILEY. Friday morning judgment was given in the ease of William Saw Ner, lately convicted under a Special Commission for ,the murder of Harriet (I`askell, at Lisjem. Sir Simon Le Blanc recapitulated the three points of objection on which arrest of judgment had been moved, and stated in snbstance the grounds on which the twelve Judges coseAdered them insufficient. The Recorder then solemnly addressed the prisoner, and pronounced his sentence of execution, which is to take place on Monday next. The prisoner appeared very melrncholy, sed expressed a hope that the Court would recone mend him to the mei - dent consideration of the Prince Recent. The point of law reserved in the case of Josiah Box, for forgery, was ever-ruled, and he abides the judgment of death. SATURDAY. John Roberts, aged to, was capitally indicted for robbing John Barnes, on the highway, of a piece of Irish linen and other articles, velne 81. the property of Messrs. Lamprell and Co. linen drape's, iu Barbican, on the 9:11 of November last. It appeared that on the 9th of November last the goods in ques tion were ordered at the shop of the prosecutors, to be sent to a lady in the City Road. Jolla Barnes, who is a boy about 13 years of age, was sent with them,- between four and five o'clock in the site's noon. On arriving in the City Road, he was searching for the house to which he was sent, when the prisoner came up to him and desired him to retnrn with him to his master. The prisoner then asked him to give him the property to carry ; the boy refused, and the prisoner immediately put his foot between his legs, knocked him down, snatched the bundle front his hands, and ran off. Tutor motion was given to Hancock, the officer, of the robbery, and the prisoner svas apprehended on the 9th of Apt il. John Barnes iden tified hint from among nine other persons as the man %ILO bad rob bed bi prisoner solemnly denied his guilt. • 4,.. - 11111111 L-.. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. MAY 14., Sir 8, Le Blanc craving stuttered- tq the evidence, O A . Ju►y re. tired, and after an absence of half an Lao►, retinite:d With a verdict of Guilty- , -Denth. Elizabeth Sims was found guilty of stealing a 51. note, the pie. petty of Rebecca Ford, in her dwelling-house. Th prisoner had been entrusted to place the mite in a drawer ; it was afterwards missed, and on het being accused of the theft, blic c'ut.lessed she had' taken the note, and was veil sorry fur it. George Sherrington was convicted of stealing I. from Eleanor Hudson. The prosecuti ix is a poor infirm widow, a lionseket per, listing in Gray's Inn-lane, and the prisoner, snide► rietein r of he. longing to a society formed for the purpose of paying poor-widow's debts, cajoled her out of her note, w►th which he got clear off.-- lie hiss been convicted dnringll►e present Sessions of a similar offence p and five other charges have been preferred against him. POLICE. UNION HALL. Mary Welch, a native of Ireland, was brongbt before Mr. Sera jeant Sellon, on Tuesday, on a charge of attempting to hang her own child, a girl about eleven }Tara of age. The child oaten. that her mother, aided by her father-in-law, after t)iiig her hands se. curely behind her, put a rope 'mind her neck, and dragged her to a hook fixed in the wall of the room, front which they suspended her in such a manner, that the end( of her toes only just touched the floor; in this situation sue was fortu:tately discovered by a re lation of her father-in-law, who entered the room by chance, and cut the rope before the vital spark was extinct. This person stated, that the child soon recovered her speech, and informed him how she had been treated, on which he immediately sent for a constable, and the unnatural mother was taken into cnitotly. The father-in. law, having received information in time, unfortunately escaped. The prisoner was fully committed tor trial at the Quarter Sessions. A respectable looking young man was brought up by May, on a charge of forging the signature of Mr. Benj. Robinson to a check for 13s. on the house of Down and r Co. The prosecntrix was frail fair one, residing near Astley's Theatre, who stated that she was on Monday last witnessing the performance at that place, when she was accosted by the prisoner, and after some conversation, they left the Theatre together about half.past ten, and he accompanied her borne, and quitted her about half past six in the morning. Be fore he quitted her, he expressed his regret at seeing a girl of her interesting appearance so indifferently attired, presented her the check in question, desired she would procure herself some better eloaths, and meet him again at Astley's on the Thursday evening following. In the course of the day she presented the check, and was informed that it was a forgery. On the Thursday.evening she went to Astley'a, and seeing the prisoner in the boxes, pointed him out to May, and he was taken into custody.--The prisoner denied the charge, and brought forward a number of respectable persons in his defence. The servant of the house where he lodged swore that he was at home in his own apartments at half-past ten on Mon day evening. She was positive he could not have been out, when she rose in the morning the door being as she left it the night e, chained and bolted.- A gentleman who lodged in the same house also swore to his being at honk at the time the prosecntrix swore to bis being in her company. And a young woman, who lives at a pastry cook's in Fleet-street, swore to the isoner's coining, abort ten o'clock on that eveu i hig, to her shop, and purchasing a jar of jelly : the jar was found in his apartment.—Under these circum stances he was discharged. QUEEN SQUARE. EXTRNSIVR ROBBER v.—Wednesday, Ann Collins, housemaid of John Lake, Esq. of Grosvenor•place, Pimlico, was charged at this office with having robbed that gentleman of money, plate, jewels, linen, and household property to an immense extent and amount. Collins had long been in the family, but never suspected, till some notes, gold, and half doubloons were missed. It was then disco vered that she cohabited w ith a wearer residing in Spitalfieldii, where she went very often. A search warrant was obtained to ex amine the weaver's apartments, and Mr. Lake accompanied the officers as one of them, but he was no little surprised to find 11;e phase most richly furnished with his own property, and with articles that lie had no idea of having lost. Abundance of Ibien, plate, glass, decanters, knives and forks, &e. were found, and it iequirvd a large cart to remove the whole. Collins was afterwards taken into custody by Garner, the officer, when she partly confessed her guilt ; but site afterwards denied ever, thirg,—Committcd. . a.