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1 ~es-,......,, t -•-- - -- distance fruit the stairs which they first saw in Bares. The plank which prn . Nleci appeared to have b-en on fire, and the laths taping down nu it vnere greased with tallow. George Harri s on, an him:e.carpenter, produced an tuft model of the ;Heal ies. and tie witnesses pointed out to the Court and Jury the place, which they found to have been either on tire or scotched * when they forced open the door. John 8“-o iford corroborated the statement of the ihrmer Witnesses. and snore. that when the Psi. stoner came down, he was lolly dressed, and that when he found the candies in ti.. coal-cellar, he, the witness, Gies: determined to place the Pt isomer Us custody, under the suspicion of setting fire to his bans*. On his cross-ersmination, he said. he could not positively swear that the candles, which were nut burning at the time he cmcred the coal-cellar, were lighting at any time that night ; a! the time rime that he could swear the tallow which oohed from them. was, when be felt it, moist. Thomas Dridge, another neighbour of the Pri tnner. corroborated the testimony of the former Witnesses. Eleanor Sheppard deposed, that she lived as ser vant with the Prisoner for three months. He was a married men. but on the night of the fire, his wif- did nst sleep at house. I ler master told her and tellow.servant, that their mistress had gone to Bow, and would not return until next day. Wit ness said her mistress went off the day before the fire, hut did not see what she carried in her hands.--- A bout half-past eleven that night, her master, the P:isoner, desired the Wines; and her fellow-ser vent to go to their bed. Xitness then went down to the coal-cellar, with a red dish, and she saw every thing there save and proper. When she and hi.ow-servant went up stairs, her sinter followed, woh the till under his arm, and went into his Tnom, as Witness supposed, to go to bed About three ~'clock. sir was alarmed by a violent knocking at he- ri um door, and heard her master call to them, a lor Ged's sake get up immediately, the house is ua fire. Wee immediately got up. ran to to. door, and saw the l'i-ssancr. Mud he, the place is sli on bre. and ye bath must get oat on the leads. 1 be Prisoner was devoted in his usual way tor work, with his apron on. Witless waisted to go down gaits, hilt the Prisoner prevented her, and went himself clown. and brought her and fellow-servant's buses. He did not remain down stairs any time, but came up en the leads almost immediately. When there. he gave an alarm, and asked the watchman why he did or.t spring his rattle ? Witness was positive as to his dress; it was exaelly the maw as — that worn isy him the day before. ; Martha D Iris, the other servant, gave the same account, with this dilfesence, that she immediately ran gut nn the leads, and made no attempt to go do:- n stars. ito e coofirmeJ the statement of the break. irg out ..f the fire. She lived in Clement's-lane, an.. saw ti.a Prisoner and the maid se•vants on the 1r He appeAre:l to Or pulling one of them abojt th• leAds. Wines c.dlyd to him to come deuce. It was the nature of the offence to afr:rd only circumstantial tesiniony. and it would be fair the Jury to consider who had an interest in COM mitting the crime, for it WAS fully manifec, that it was premeditated and determined. The dress of the Prisoocr, the mann..r in which be cenducied himself, his non-appearance at the time the fire was extinguis%ing, were all strong cites:mi.:vices; bu. it there was a possibility of supposing that it v...ce don- by another person, then certainly the Prisoner ought to be acquitted. Indeed, the state in which the house wis secured prevented almost that possi bility. as was visible from the excrtioos of the per sons assembled to force t:;e doors. The Prisoner had received an excellent Aare/ter. and if there were doubts in their minds, the Prisoner wield have the benefit of that charaeler. .fury, alter some deliberation, found the Pri soner Guaiy of setting tire, with intent to defraud the London Assurance Cumpaily (Deeih ); but net guilty with intent to injure the landlord or lessor. We understand a question of law will arise upon the legal prodmiion of the evidence with respefl to the policy and premium receipt. Phi/ips Cefians was indi.fted for forging and counterfeiting an order, draft, or check, t..r the paynrnt of 491. purporting to be signed by George Griffitlis, a Linen-draper, in Huundsditch, upon Messrs. Prescott and Co.. Bankers, Threadeeedle street, dated 22J of August last, with an intent to defraud that Company. William Fleming Grason. a Clerk to Messrs. Prescott and Co., deposed, that upon the day above stated, the Prisoner came to their liouse, about a quarter before five in the afternoon, and presented tl:e check in question. Upon looking at it, he en tertained susocions of its signature. and comparro it with one (man Mr. Griffiths, which had been paid a short time before. He consulted with another Gentleman in the same office, and then took the Prisoner into a back room, where he examined him. Tire Prisoner answered ttie interrogatories by saykg. that he had it teem a Mr. Soenies. a hatter, in St. John's•strtet. but did not know the number. and said he did not her with him. On being fur ther interrogated, the Prisoner told she Witness that be had not received a check from Mr. S ism's, but that he had gait front a Gentleman in BA( dr,. Inure w-tane, whom be did not know, but who desired him to say it came from Mr. Suarnes, of Sr. J,kt- street. The Witness then asked him where he was to meet that Gentleman, it he had got the money ? to which he answered, that he was to meet him at an eating-house, in bartholomew-lane. The Wit. Deft then sicsired him to write his name upon the check, and the Prisoner wrote the name " On being question:A as to his christiaii name, he afterwards added, " Jul.n." They then went nut together, to the house where ti:e Prisoner said he was to meet the Gentleman, and irquired for him, but no person of that name was to be Sound. On being further questioned by the nets, the Prisoner told him he lived w.th a Mr. Simpson, in Coleman-stteet t bat oo their way to ticwm Pawner ariswerzd, it wa, impossible, as the pl..ca was all on fins 'the next time .ha Liw him was coming oat of the adjoining house, in Cle anent's-lane, with a sack on his left arm and shoal wards that place, he again varied in his statzrnent. and said, t►at ha woi Iced with A Mr. DIMON All oilman, in that street. These various statements confirming the suspicions which the Witness first entertained, he conduaed Collins back to the house of Prescott and Co. and had him taken into custody. der. and a box under his right arm. There was near the house a pomp well supplied with water. George Heads, an Officer of Queen's-square, pro domed the burnt parts of use stairs, and rie grease. laths, which were suspended over the per jefting plank. The former witneoes, Bucklow and ocean ford. identified them. Heath larther deposed, that be bad taken an inventory of all the goods in the premises of the Primmer, excepting a jack, and that they were under the value of 401. ka l e he could not say witether any other portion of the property was, in the intermediate tune of the fire and his surreal, taken :seq. Mr. Wm. Ford proved the receipt of a box, from the w;fe of ere Prisoner. on the premises, the day alter the fire. It was there examiatd, and some money and varir , us papers were taken out by a mend o' the Prisoner. who opened the box with a key of his own. It.. box was at the house ot Wit ness, and he did not think. as he had received no hi der. that it was necessary to bring it. Mr. John lfickcrstaff, a Clerk to the Corporation of the London Assurance Company, proved the policy of Insurance, which seas for 6201 and the Mr. John Dutton deposed, that the Prisoner had lived wF a bon as his porter for several months, and that he (Dint. n) kept his cash at Prescott and Co.'s, and frequently sent the Prisoner to their hou e kith money, and had i:one so that very morning. The Prisoner had originally c:,me from Bath, and had eonduaed himself so est'emely well, that he would be inclined to take him back d were, he acquitted of this charge. The testimonies of other witnesses all tended to confirm the tag of the check being a forget y, and the Learned Juocc, in summing up, observed to the Jory, that there could be no doubt of its bc.ng forged; but the only question was, whether it was uttered by the pri,oner, he knowing it to be so f The Jury retired, and, alter an absence of about bolt an hour. returned a Vomit,. aefaittiag the Pri soner. 'the accused. was a young man of only nineteen years of age. Mary Davis was indi.lled for stealing a boa, con taining one guinea, and Ss. ti t. i.t saver, from the pocket of Mrs. Hannah Parsley, when purchasing articles at a market. . . sinnature to the memorandum for renewal of what The capital part of the indiflment, however, was was endorsed upon It. dor.e away by Mrs. Pat :ley, in lier evidence, stating Mr. Alexander, from the same institution, de- that she felt the hand of the Prisoner in her pocket, posed, that the premium receipt, which was pro- and immediately missed her propery. Tne Jury %rimed. WAS taken out of the box produced by the accordingly returned a verdiet of stealing, but not Witness, FurJ, at the examinajon in Bow-street. privately. Mr. Martin produced the Charter of Incorpora- ,saes Stock stood charged with a burglary, in tino. Mr. E‘tward Austen. Accountant to the stealing tt.e sum of SI. I ls. (id. six silver spoons. a London Assurance Company, proved the validity brass hand-bowl, and a candlestick, out of the vestry of the policy. as he was the attestins . witness. He of the Chapel called Providence Chapel, Titeitfield was preeeeding to prove the handwriting of two Di- street, Mary-la-bonne parish, the property of the rectors to the endorsed memorandum, when an oh- Rev. Mr. Huntingdon, on Saturday, the Ist of Aug. jedtion was taken by Mr. Curtsey to the production last, at two o'cloct in the morning. of such a sptcies of evidence, the alleged memo- Martha Elliott, the char. woman g enera lly ern _ randum not being ea a legal stamp, or being rather played in cleaning out the said chapel, deposed a hand upon the revenue, and if the memorandum was that there were tv:o rooms, the one a vestry, and no evidence ' the policy could not either, it having the other a s tudy a b ove i t , ( t h e c h ape l), w hi c h l ast .. eis i s ed on the 54th of Jose last, and could not be room contained a bed occasionally used by Mr. k. -pt alive 'about a renewal of the premiten, of Huntingdon. She had cleaned these apartments which renewal there was no proof. Alter some oh- on Friday, and saw the said ankles therein, but is:remit" the abjection could not be supported, the missed tam on the Saturday morning, when she •:nount of the sum paid for the renewal betig perceived a lower window forced, and the drawers under 40s. and, therefote, not within :be scope of broken open, apparently with a p..ir of tongs which the Ad for the regulation of Stamp Duties. lay upon the fbof, considerably bent. Wm. Richards, the landlord, and John Lang- Dennis Crew, a watehman,who first discovered the fitlJ, were neat called, and proved, that the i'ri- robbery and gave the alarm, confirmed the former toner p.sid rent twice to the former, and succeeded witness's testimony, as also did Mr. Huntingdon, the otter in the premises in &swell-court and Cie- who identified the property. names-lane. Mr. Atkins, the officer who apprehended the The Prisoner. in his defence, admitted that his prisoper upon suspicion, deposed, that upon search reason for insuring to such an amount was I.) e - .ri- mg him. he found a pawn-brokser'siditiilicate Int the secesen:e of an imgairenicn• witit his landlord to re- candlestick, and nn charging him with the theft, build the premises in case tiny accident occurred. procured. confession of his guilt. Mr. &Marla and Mr. Moss Brune, re‘peetable The Pawn-bioker's Clerk gave a corroborative merchants, gave the Prisoner a MAAS utimpeadiao e testimony, arid another Witness spoke favourably eh/trete, for integrity and !apishness. The latter of his charaaer, during seventeen years that he had gentleman said, that property to the amount of known him i adding, that be, the Prisoner, had been twenty, thirty. and forty thousand pounds, was abroad as a soldier, and was new twenty-eight nit•en, with perfect confidence and security, tom- years of age. mitopi to his care. Three name persons spoke The LBASISSW Junos stated to the Jury, that the L'w,ly n the charafter ex the Prisoner. Aare of burglary could not, in ass case, be Mr. Justic e 'ISA TN. with m as k e d i m p art i a li ty ' w i th justice made out against the, Prisorser. the the:: — elevens, seamed up the wh o l e o f t h e ay.- act ballot beta committed in a place that could be ---- - properly denominated a dwelling-house, as Mr. Huntingdon only occasionally slept in the room al luded to. The Jury, according*y. found the Prisoner Guilty, not of burglary, but simply or stealing the goods. MIDDLLSEX CLI•S:ISWp'LL, SIFT. 21 . -- Lawler, the associate of Squirts and Smith, who were taken up on the 15th ofly last, by two of the i• Ricers of Police, at How, ne1o• Streatham, in Sorry, under suspicious circumstances, respeCting the breaking open a wareliothe in the city of Lon don, and robbing theteout a sum of one hundred and twenly pounds, Exchequer Balls, divers ar ticles of p•Tate, &c. was this day tried upon an in disffment under the Statute against vagrancy, the lith of George the Second, with a view of tran sporting him as a rogue and vagabond. The Officers stated. that, on meeting the Prisoner with Squires and Smith, near the house of a Mr. Adams, they iuterrogated them about their business or employment. when one ot the three cried out to the re,t to run away ; but they were pursued and ap prehended by the aid of Mr. Adams. 06C of them Ist fall an iron crow upon the font of Ray, the offi cer, and another crow was found upon one of them afterwards, on closer search, with other impiements for house-breaking. Squires and Smith were com mitted to Newgate, to be there tried, as the evi deuce against them seemed more clear, and the Pri soner, Lawler, was to have been transported under the statute. It turned oat, however, that Lawler escaped ccnviCtion ; for. instead of laying the m dietenent under the twenty-third of His present Mae jesty. which wculd govern the Prisoner's case, it was laid coder the seventeenth of the late Kier, which did not reach the present case. The ptisuner was of course, acquitted. liiisairik Kerber/ea stood charged with fortune teUing. Sarah Burgess, a comely young woman, was examined (after the Police Officer had produced to the Court the cards, lit.le books, and other ap paratus, by him found spoon this sorceress) ; the Witness stated. that the Prisoner told her that she would have a fair handsome man for her husband, and that the sum paid by her for the information Way sixpence only. The next IVittuss stated, that the Prisoner foretold she was to i:ave a handsome young man (then at seal for her husband. The third Witness. an old woman, stated, that she was told no fortune, but bad afted as a kind of procuress of customers for the Prisoner. The Ma ctn. ears ordered this old woman to be turned out of the Court, after a severe reprimand for her wicked way of life, and postponed the sen• tenet: of the Prisoner until Saturday next, to which day the Se.cons are adjourned, whets sen tence will be prtnounced on several persons found guilty in the course.of this Sessions. Several received sentence for petty offences this day; among w:som was a man named Jame Louts, sentenced to six months imprisonment, for stealing twopence halfpenny out of his master's till, in Holborn ; and a man named Nap Doren, an old soldier, a native of Dorsetshire, sentenced to six months contLement in Bridewell, for being fotrid begging about the streets. This Pi ironer stated, tint he had served his King, in the army, for thirty six years, and has a pension, or bounty, of SH. per annum. The MAGISTRATI observed to him, that those circumstarr.es aggravated his misconduti, ►y de grading the name and eharalter of a soldier. The following anecdote will shew that the age of superstition is not yet passed. even in this enlighten ed country. Two sailors who strived at the port of Liverpool, in an Arwrican ship, a few days ago. solemnly assured every one they met with, tha about a week before their landing, they saw, intshe Atlantic Ocean, two Mermaids, who, raising toeir treads above the water, and assuming a prophetic attitude, declared in a loud voice, "that on a cer tain day, (Thursday last), Ile town of Liverpool, with its environs. for tee snits round, would be destroyed by an earthquake." Several persons ex pressing some incredulity at this account, the men offered instantly to go before the Magistrates to testify, on oath, the truth of the assertion ; and if arch a ridiculous attestation could have been pub licly received. they would actually have fulfilled their promise. In the mean time the matter be came a common topic of discourse among all the lower orders of people, and the fatal day was ex pelled with no :mall degree of alarm and appre hension. Several person, we are well-informed, were so far overcome by their tet tors, as to leave the town, in order to avoid the approaching catastrophe. Happily, the day passed over without mischief, and public tranquillity is of course restored. The following singular circumstance has occurred at Portsmouth :—Between nine and ten o'clock cn the evening of last Sunday three weeks, two men engaged Intim •s Haas, a whervyman, to take them from Gosport beach to Spithead, to get on beard a ship there, as they said : when the boat reacted Spithead, they pretended the ship had gone to St. Helen's, and requested the waterman to go on after her. Having reached that place, one of them (for the other it seems could not speak English) tuck a dagger from under his coat, awl swore he would take away the life of the wherryman if be did not land them in France. Under this threat ; the man consented to follow their direftions, and land ed them at Fecamp. They were no doubt French prisoner, making their escape, though they appeared to be in the uniform of offices of our navy. The wherrymen was lodged in prison at Havre de Grace, and kept there about tea days —He was then released on representing himself to be a fisher man; his boat was returned to him, and tin. French men gave him six or seven pounds of bread, some cyder, a pocket compass, and a pass to pre vent his being interrupted by any French vessel he might meet with.— i hey sent him adrift, and he landed at Portsmouth on Wednesday last, ■od, gives the above description of his voyage. lie brought several le from English prisoner?, ii, France, and horn French persons to tin sr frond, prisoners in this country He foal been, we under staiid, examined, to sift this singular stoty. 'lle s d a vah bound to New York, is on shore near Liverpool, but expected to be got off. OW NAVAL MTFI POUTI6IOI.III, SEPT. 20. Arrived the Streereer gun-brig, from A cru:se Yesterday morning, the Seth Regiment, 700 -Aron, embarked from Cowes, on hoard two ; ran . sports, which, with four more, having 6e3 Volu m , teen for different regiments in irel,ilJ, b mird, sails d far Cork, under convoy of the Rtr:hrew rhe transports and 114th Regiment axe gout, on ,❑ expe. diticn. Several of the Medical Staff went. The Speristey Russian frigate was joined, nn day, by a store-ship ; they will sail for the Mediter ranean, in a few days. PLYMOUTH, SCPT. If 4, Sailed His Majesty's ships Spnrti•ite and Vol,ge on a cruise; and the Caroline armed ship, with sere. 141 transports, for Ireland.—Widd N. E. snEssmabl, wt. tn. Arrir•d the Danish ships Mteerca, son, laden wilt oil and fish, from Greenlind, aid The Tiro Sisters, Anderson, from a port in France, uiat salt, vinegar. &c. bound to Mon, in Norway, I n c in by the North Sea squadrn:i. The tl;c: for Lie Baltic will sail on Tuesday neat. Drat., si.er. 20. Sailed theC/ode frigate rn a cruise. Arrived the Sperja . for lugger from Portsmouth. Wind S.W. HULL. lIEFT. IS. A petition has been forwarded from the mereitat•ts and ship owners at this port to the Ctmmanding Officer in the Humber, requesting the Baltic curia voy appointed for the gist. may be delayed mud the 24th inst. The Goa intent, Snowden, of this pert, is now ascertained to have been the vessel lost in the 0:k -neys. Little of the cargo Wi:l be saves ; the 0r.:7 survivor of this melancholy accident•is a boy of the name of Penman. OXFORD, Seer. 19. The Rev. Cranley Kerby. late Fellow of N,ei College, and Vicar of Whaddon. in the county i.f Bucks, has been presented. by the Right Hon. Charles Spencer, to the Redlcily of Wheatield. in this county. A Dispensation has passed the Great Seal. to enable the Rev. Richard Lord, Reetor of Barre tor, in Kent. to hold the Vicarage of Lydden, on the presentation of the Lord Chatic.:llor. On Monday last came on the Medina of Mayor and Bailiffs of this city, when Mr. Alderman Yeats was elated Mayor, and Mr. Thomas Roberson and Mt. Percival Walsh. Bailiffs. for the year ensuing. 7WE AURILTS. CORN 4XCHANGE, SLIT. St. Whits, has arrived this day in rather lame supply, and goes • of heavily at a reduction in ;nice Of is. and 2s. lot stia.ici I See new Barley rather higher ; and Matt full as dear; Waits Peas upwa,di of tOc. per quarter deanery BMW of the two kind are ; Wu are in Wettable supply.aurt &bent per jeans, I ,wci ; Flour dull taut° at the quotation. CUItRFKT PRICE Or GRAIN. is. 55.. 66. • Tick scans.... 449. 30+. el. Fine 72. t. Od. Oats ..245. 30+. Lis. Ryv (New) .... 445. 04. I Polandt 344 364 Od. Bar.•y Malt tioi. 0.1. Rape Seed 331. VC. 0,. White Pnia.. I SS+. 13 i , . Ul. Fine Plour Ers. Ss,. 60.. Grey Peal 60+ 65.. 0.1. Seconds 50, 55, Od• Means .52.. 58.. Ott SMITHFIELD MARKET, SIFT. 11. The supply of prime Beasts was UM ;lay rery i tiod and the Market, in ether resprct , exhibited a pleinifal wof Cattle. Bestatsd Mutton are dearer than our last report. Veal and Lamb are cheaper. Pork sold at last price, and the trade, to general, was pretty bn,k. The sales in Vie Hay-Markel sent somewhat lively. Hay fetched a better price than Friclai'a Market. Straw. has fallen in price. Clover obtained la,t p.ice. We subjoin a correct statement of the prices acid numbers. To sink the offal per stone of 81b. Bost .16 GJ. to 4s. 61. Mutton 44. Ud to en. WI. Od. to 61. 04. Od. to 4s. 101 pork is. Od. to Cos. 04. 'MAP HI CATTLI THli DAY• 6..asts Sheep and CAtres Pegs ♦"U COAL-MARKET, Sara. 21. Ships at &lathes. Sold. Price. G.; .. Newcastle 7 ..Sunderlaed .. . 6 , 47s Od a 491 Cid V .. 5i,,,,. ..(. 1 6.19 Id a—4 Od 3 ..Coders. 1 32s Oda —s Od Yestettlay.—Ay. MArrmaw.—A flolsdAy at the Public °Meet. CtIURSE OF EllO Amsterdam 33 11 11 U. Ditto at Sight 33 Rotterdau. ll • I U. Ilamburgh 36 2 2 pl. Altona 34 9 2i1.1. Pam 1 day'sda66 24 6 Ditto 24 10 11 U. liertlesuz :HANCE, 6 &PT. Is. Venice 5ll am C. Naples Lisbon .641 Oporto • . 4 14 Dublin Cork lll oinittos. Portugal ti.IJ in Coin Madrid -in paper. Ditto 3Ol !liras. Palermo ..... Ditto 3di eliaria. Malaria 301 Leah ren 31 Genoa • 451 „ sad Bars her os. New D0u0',0064.. New Dollar. 5 Silver in Bars New Louis each Agin of the Bank on Hollmii.t, 5 per Clot. EIRTR. Monday oo•anight, at Lire Via. the Lady of R. C. Peas*, Rog. of a too. MARRIAGE. 09 Soul.,Jar, at St. Comsat Del" Mr. Genrgr Witc, Turoritter, Nt.saufac.uutr, to MISS Mar An., Nl•rig , al. daughter o! tM tato Thomas Markham, £.q of .b ,dge. DEATHS. Still,lay 'Aught, aged 67, Mr Quaterrrsre, of S. ()deer. ONPod, who had bean upwards of 40 yeas II ltd 11 .::er of Ft. John's College, in Oxford On the 9th instant, at Wane Ivor, r.ear Cierf,:'y, in 11.6 119.11 year, the Rey Lewis Same., uorards c: 53 ea t• pratiir e' tile baptist Church at Cana-Helloed, in the i.ar.sh gJ GeUnglue, (V!ainurgaushire. Os the 17th instant, at Horton fitstrarren, after a short Warm, rhornu Simplyld Tyndale, Fvq. Jda , ,ack-lsf ...ter as rae..taa, s 4 Adjutant, stc,a the Lanepert Less] Volunteers. Monday *Aright, die infant ova t sir Brisco, Kt only eleven days old. On the £94 of October last, at Hyderabad, Mn. Sydenhate. Li', of the brush Ressder.t at that Court 0,, Finley, the 18tt, instant, in lit futh year, Miss Chr Tette Lindagiy, shiest daughter of James !Ando!, E'4l. %feign:), Sg.rrer. NIr.H WATEk, THIS DAY, AT LOW) 04.i$K11X; ... 56 min. alter ..4 1 F.Tcn..l6 tam after..... 5 1.°141/ON :..-Pgooml h a. 1:111% 1050 N. Nu. 17. Dukc court, B ,11-vtireet. CO•eral.gardCA, and publobed at r oece. N.' 13. Sock of St Cloorent's Church, Stand, W of Nu. 7, Now Seltuo-!t cot, Luag-Acro-.. Orden, 3m for that Paper, sent to the Office, (~ o st party wig. tee defy attended to. L (i ac 'et& Cut. amp nb hat. . of de. el f F P. .5 %a cc's- a tha by 44, „