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LAW INTELLIGENCE: COURT of CHANCERY, Rrovoau WiDNISDAV, DIPTC3IIIItI ie. This beim! the third seal after Michaelmas Term, the LORD UtiANcti.Loß ciiietwil it at los house, preparatory to his Il[tumor the VICE-CHANCELLOR hearing has Lord.hip's LAW PROMOTION 3 The LORD Ctias CELLO& of erwdrds awor. in the fol'orrii , g I, milord Couino-1 to tiwir iit-vvrid officer : Mr. Srrj..ant Cucuta', as King's Serjvant and Chief Jos lice of Clweicr._ Mr. Svrjr , ini Pau., as King's Srrjeant. Mr Gtrra■ Watioa, ur tbe Cbsneery Ear, as King's Cntinsel. - Mr. GASELICS soil Mr. NOLAN, of die King's Beneb Bar, as Kiug'd Cnituarl. VICE.CHANCELLOR'S COURT, !Alec°ties-INer, Uscsiansa 16. This was the third Seal after Michaelmas Term. The Vire-Chancellor, on account of the Lord Chiinct-Ilnr's continued indisposition, heard his Lordship'is motions. THE OPERA-HOUSE. WATE&I V. TAYLOR. Mr. HEALD, Counsel for the Defendant, stated, that he was instructed to request of his Honour to h ear a m otio n in this cause, which had on a former occasion been made before the Lord Chancellor, but in which his Lordship had not yet given his judgment. His Honour had made an order that Air. Waters should pay into Court the sum of 8,445/. being a part of the purchase-money for the Opera-house, which he ought to have paid in the month of December, 1817. Mr. Waters had made an appeal from his Honour's decision to the Lord Chancellor, and his Lordship had confirmed the order, and directed the money to be paid into Court 111 August last. Mr. Waters, however, did not don/. and Mr. Taylor served hint with notice that he would move the Court on the first day of last Term, for an attachment against him for a contempt of Lorin, in not haring obeyed its order. Mr. Wu. ters served Mr. Taylor with a cross notice, that he would move the Court on the same day to have the tone for paying the money into Court enlarged to the first of next January. Both motions came on for hearini , before the Lord Chancellor, and his Lordship observed, that a motion had been made to him in the sittings preceding the long vacation, on the part of Mr. Taylor, to have a sum of money paid out of Court to him, lie having paid it in twice over. His Lord-hip said he was tired of the Opera house cause, for which reason he would deter mine the three motions together on a future day. However, from his Lordship, indisposition, he had not hero able to give his decision. Therefore, what he (the Learned Counsel) had to ask of his Honour was, that he would then hear the niution, as Mr. Waters was in possession of t!ie Opera-house, and receiving the emoluments of it, without having paid thin purchase money. The SOLICITOR GENERAL, Counsel for the Plaintiff, said, that the motion lie hail made be fore time Lord Chaticellor was not only to enlarge the time fur paying the money into Court, but that his Losriship would revise hams Honour's order. It was discussed before his Lordship, and he post poned his judgment. He would ask then, how his Honour could hear the motions? The Vteg-LisabicEt.t.oa—" As one of these mono!), does, in a degree, involve my opinion, I do not think, Mr. Heald, I ought to hear them. 'filerefore Mr. Waters must have the benefit of the delay e4used by the ►udi.posttion of the Lord Chancellor." Mr. HART, on the same side as the Solicitor General. ' , aid, that he trusted his Honour would direct that all proceedings relative to the attach ment ugainst Mr. %Voters should he stayed. until Ins Lord•liip gave his decision. Mr. FIRALD mid. that his client's Solicitor would undertake not to proceed with the 'attachment. Mr. HART said, he had nu doubt of the good faith of Mr. Tarrant, the Solicitor of the Defend ant; but he must confess he had not the some opn.icin of his client. He would, therefore, require of Mr. Tarrant. of he ceased to be Mr. To)lor's S d:citor, that he would give Mr. Waters notice of the t hange. .Ir. HltAtn—" That we have no objection to." Application reftierd. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S OFFICERS. The VICE-CHANCELLOR observed, that he ex pected in future that the Lord Char:cello?. Offi cers should he iu attendance when he (Ins Honour) sat for his Lordship. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GmuniALL, WLDNILSIMAT, DEMMER 16. Sittings after Michaelmas Term, bcfure Chief Justice ABBOTT and COMMOI4 Juries. SMITH V. HEYSHAM'. This was an action to recover damages for a false unprivonment. The Plaintiff wag a Journeyman slater and plasterer; the Defendant kept a public house in the New-road, near hloorfields. Some time in March last Plaintiff went to Defendant's house, with his brother, and hurl something to drink. The reckoning Caine to between two and three shillings. in payment of which lie tendered el. Bank of England note. Defendant suspected the note was not genuine. hut sent out for change it ; the p , rsott to whom the ante tetts brought buTeeted it span, and it was brought back. tirit• ciaw vela it out again, the servant staid about en hour, and a little after his return two Police f ere came into the t:.p.r‘nun and asked to whom the note be4.mged.—Smitit answered to hum—they tin,' it was a bad one, and inquired whether he hod any more of tlwat—be *sod not, but he wished lie hail. They then searched his 'm art., 114141 the lin tog of his fiat, and founil no 11101 T, hie, note/Ith -I"""clii.g. instantly took 1..... to the watch-house. brother bud prrvionsly offered to give their chlresb, that Ilrnbliatke might bend to them for nay merit of his hill, but , list wbs refused. When tlirY came to die watch-house. t h e officers told the other 'ram?. they might go at t their busitte,.a. but detained ['lnbuilt there till night, and tit k hint brat wowing to /tits Police ()diet:. Uu investiga lion the note tics di4cnveie,l to be a good one, anti the Plaintiff brought his action ['ensile*, for giving him in charge uu a pretended foam'. It was stated by Defendant's Counsel, that Smith, at first, threatened the officers with an ac tion, and sued out a writ, on which they applied to the Bank, who give them to!. to compromise the matter, winch was paid to Smith, and the affair was !opposed to helve elided; whereas, he then turned round against Henshaw for a second compensation. It was also proved by ►everal witnesses, that Defeo dant had nut given Plaiutiff in charge ; that the waiter had indeed gone to the watch-house, hut merely told the officers he had suspicion► of the note; and that the officers apprehended him ou their own authority. The COURT directed a nom-suit i and PlaiiitilTwas accordingly non-suited. FOX V. BLACKBURN& This was an action to recover the sum of 3/. for goods sold and delivered. The Plaintiff' is a wine -merchant, the Defendant sells wine by retail. In December. 1813, and the first four months of 1814, Plaintiff sold wine to the Defendant to the amount of 81/. 4s. In April of the latter year, 90/. was paid Plaintiff, an allow ance of I/. 4s. was made for bottles returned, and a balance of 9/. left, on which the present action was brought. Plaintiff's clerk frequently called on Defendant for payment of the balance, and he used to promise to call on his master, but never objected to the justice of the demand. The Defendant set up two defences—first, he produced a bill of Plaintiff's relative to another transaction, and a different species of dealing, con taining au acknowledgment by Plaintiff of an error of 3/. against Defendant; and this lie wished to stand as a set-off—secondly, he brought forward two wine-tnerchanta, who ot.ited that they thought some of the charges in the bill toe high. Verdict fur Plaintiff fur 31. Assignees of OAKLEY and EVANS V. CARVE& and PEATE. This was an actiolitoTecOver the value of goods sold and delivered on the value of a bill for 7001. accepted by Defendants in favour of the bankrupts. Messrs. Oakley and Evans were upholsterers in Bond-street. In the end of May last they had a large quantity of woollen cloths in the bands of Rawlins and Foy, fine dressers, to be made up for the London market. During this time they sold the goods to Messrs. Carver end Peate, Basiiighall. street, to whom they were all delivered, after being dressed, by Rawlins and Foy, from time to time before the end of June. About the seine time Plaintiffs stopped payment, having in their hands a bill fur 7001. accepted in their favour by Defen dants, in hart pay►net:t of the goods. Previous to the stoppage, au application was made by Defen dants to Oakley and Evans to give up their accept ance, in consideration of having the goods returned. They consented. The bill was put into the hands of Rawlins. Foy, his partner, took it with his cart to Basinghall-street; met one of the partners in the street, gave him the bill, and was clewed to go rollout with his cart to the warehouse, where the cloths would be delivered to him. Went to the warehouse, but could not get the as tieither partner was there; called at their house several times, and was at length told they had resolved to keep both bill and cloths, and be answerable for the consequences. A docket was struck against Oakley and Evans the 2d July. and as Defendants aihere4l to their resolution, the assig. uses were compelled to bring the present action. Rawlins proved the delivery of the cloths to Carver and Peate, and estimated their value at near 9001. Foy, partner to last witneva, valued them at 9081. The Counsel for the Defendants did not attempt to Justify finir conduct; the only question, there fore, feinted to the amount of the damages, which they contended, should be greatly reduced, and for that purpole called the following witnesses. -- Randall, clerk to Carver a►►d Peale, re membered the goods being sent for sale from his emplo}ers to Kepilen mid Pickersgill ; made a via lualion of them previously, to which he was per fectly competent; did not consider them to be worth more than 500/. or 550/. at the utmost. They were sent out in as good condition as they were received. John Milani), clerk to Kepden and Pickeragill, recollected the cloths being received the 7th July. from Carver and Peate's ; the greatest part of them has since beet. sold—the proceeds are 57d. 14c; the valise of the remainder lb 7.1. 128. The Judge told the Jury the simple question for their consideration was. what was the value of the cloths ? It was fur them to consider whether troy's testimony was true, in representing them to be worth 9081., or that of the witnesses on the other aide. who stated their value at 550/. or 6301. Verdict lot Plaintiffs for 908/. On the evening of Thursday week. as Mr. FISHER, BARTHORP, and Mr. LING, were in a small boot, on the river at Aldborough, for the purpose of shooting wild fowl. the, boat wits by some means upset, and they were all drowned. The Magistrates of the Hundred of South Green hoe have publicly addressed the farmers in that dia. trit•t, retlur•tiug them to pay their labourers on the Finlay instead of Saturday night. The object of this measure is to prevent vticinaching upon the duties of the Sabbath, by spending their money. Sunday main; Mr. J. Grounileill, of Cliespeitie, after attending the cresting service at St. John's Chapel, Chapel_ street, Bedford-row, retired to the house of Mr. Evans, the King's Arm•, opposite, where he spent the evening with Wine friends; anti remaining till 71 late .11011 f, he 'Notated to be accommodated with • bed fin tiw night, which was complied with. About tea o'clock, a man, aho represent. ed himself as a butcher, came In the bar, nail desired to hare a bed for Ike night, which he WWId retain for the month, if etisculeist. He was accommodated with a bed, in the next room to that iu which Mr. Gra•ndrill slept. Next moriiing it was discovered that the butcher had rot tip at an early hone, licfortt any of the inmates were stirring, havit:g previously entered Mr. Groundrill's bed. room, aml ca. tied off his wearing apparel, wrapped up in a blanket ; in the cost p...-ket was • ned morocco pocket bout, containing two hills of exchange, one for 2211. 1•.6d. aunt another for WO/. suit ald Batik of Etiglaistl note Mr. Gromodrill was obliged to burrow one of the landlord's suits of clothe•, until he gut some fume home. %l r. t.,ound rill pescrieed the villain in his room in the incriwig, who drew tKr curtains round lus Ind : hut thinking it ass one of the family, lie turned round and *Wird L,,usd le sleep. OLD Bind3v. W11 . '111110" DECZMIBIR Id. FORGRRI ES. This morning the trials of the Prisoners t'ilm re. yoked their pleas of Guilty to the Minor offence were resumed. The first person put to the her was John Kingston ; he was indicted for having in his possession a forged one-pound note on the 19:11 September. Mr. Serjeant BoSANQUET applied to the Court for permission to proceed against the Prisoner merely for the minor offence. The Court acceded to this request. The Learned Serjeant iu statiniz the coat to the Jury, took occasion to remark. that the Batik, in mercy to the accused, merely pro. cerded for the minor offence to which the Prisoner had already pleaded Guilty. He entreated the Jury to dismiss from their muds the recollection of the Prisoner's former plea, and dispose of his case according to the evidence which would be sub mitted to them. Raphael Ronnanell said, that he kept stn auction room at No. 194, in the Strand. Hr rroiliected that on the night of the 19th September, the Pri soner and another mail came to his room and war. chased a sportsman's knife lor 2.. Gil. They ten dered in payment a 11. note, and the Prisoner's companion mirked upon it, " Kingston, Hand-in- Hand Fire Office." This witness underwent a long cross-examination, in which he ad►n,tted, that, thoue,li he suspected the note to be a forge►y. he passed it away on the same night at Houper'N eating-house, but the proprietor knew him. He admitted that he was told at the Bank to go up to Marlborough-street unit see if a man in custody was the person who passed the note. He went there and identified the Prisoner. Thorns's Barrett stated, that he had been for thirteen yeara a town messenger at the Hand-in- Hand Fire-Office. On the 19th Se►rternher the Prisoner was not a fireman at that Office, but he had been about six yeas ago. Charles Masters was Collector of the Watch-rate in the precinct of Whitefriars, and resided in Tem ple-lane. Lombard-street was not the street near the Mansion-house, but that near the Temple, at the back of Fleet-street ; there were about eighteen house. in it, every one of which he knew. The Prisoner did not reside there on the 19th September. He was perfectly well acquainted with the Prisoner's person for thirty years, bat he never lived in Lombard-street. John Wakefield was a cheesemoriger, residing at No. 61. Upper East Smithfield. On the evening of the 23d July, the Prisoner came to his shop and purchased about two shillings worth of bacon ; in payment for which he tendered a 1/. note. Witness suspected the note, it being different from all he had seen, and said he had no change. He observed the name of " Mackay," or some such name, writ ten as if with a bald pen on the front of the note. He went out to try if the note was good, and in the event of his suspicions being confirmed, to get an officer. He shewed the note to one Moses, who sail it was had, and lent him his porter, named [Nasty, to get sn .ifficer and watch the Prisoner. The officer semi (ime and brought the note in his hand, and took the Prisoner into custody. The note now produced was the same which the Prisoner tendered, and which he (witness) marked at the time of the Pri soner's bring in custody. The Prisoner had five shillings upon his person at the time. Cross-examined—He had himself often got change of a note when he had silver in his pocket. M►. ALLEY here remarked, that the indictment against the Prisoner was not for passing this note, but for that said to be tendered to lionianell, the auctioneer. The witness, Wakefield, in answer to a question from a Juror, said, he did not mark the note until after he went to Moses; but he particularly ob served the name of Mackay on it before he first left the *hop. The officer who took the Prisoner into custody, proved that fact, and that the Prisoner said he got the note from two sailors, whom he took from Gravesend to carry ois board an Indiaman. The Prisoner at the time said he lived on board barges, aid had no lived residence. John Hatch, a lighterman s said, he knew the Prisoner for about twenty-five years. About the middle of September last he met him taking beer at the Bell, in Fulham. He said he had got a barge of coals lying at %Vandaworth, and if witness would come down at dark, he would give him some. He then asked witness if he could get him change for a pound note. Witness took the note and ask•. ed the landlord for change. The latter gave limo the change, and witness handed it over to the Pri soner. Cross-examived.—He did certainly expect the note to be paid by the Bank after this prosecution, for the landlord knew witness, and of course ex pected hr would pay the note. There were other persons present when the note was passed, hut they were not at present in town, they were at Waltham Green. He went to sea for about six months, hut not to escape front a charge of stealing timber ; there was nu such charge made against him; irrit ate's could not write, but he believed the landlord put his name on the note when lie gave the change for it; he knew Mr. Prnituni, a lighterman, ut Follw', and worked for him at different periods for let years; about a year anal a half ago he was absent from him for about six months, but not in consequence ol a tillage of stealing timber; they had inert ly had a quarrel. Richard EYlllls said, he was landlord of the BA Inn, at Fulham, last September; in the middle of that month be saw the Prisoner and Hitch at his house, and changed a note for the latter, and at the time wrote ou it, " Hatch, avatermatt, Fulham." The mite now produced war the saute which lie then changed. humanoid' Morison said, she was the wife of Thomas littreisett, who kept the Crow., and Anchor public-house. in King -street, Seven Dials. On Tuesday, /Iv $1.1,,f Nitro-440)er, the Prisoner with two other:, came to lbw of Ute public-linutte, and our of the .urn (•oit the Pe ittti,ell, bni.lervil i t .tte 8,1 1-t)inetu fur some veppirtuint. fiec emir now l aud acrd was the saint. Timm** Ilia-on, tier itipit..titi of the last wit u. +s, corrolioraird her testimony, and r.tttl t that as lie lard some su•pti..ms of time note, he sent for an (Aces, who imilt the ti rer earn into custody ; the l'imsatr olte:ed a alight resistatices ou searchnig him, upwards of a pound ip silver was found in hie pockets. Samuel Flimflam. n constable, merely proved that he took the Prisoner, and two others Into custody. John Lees said lie was one of the Dank Inspec tors, and had been co Farr twenty yemi.. The note proved by Humanell was handed to witness, who said it was a forged our. It was not the paper used by the Batik—it had not the waved mid cr o ssed litres, whieli constituted the fbink water-mat k there was an initiation of Il i a se ! , alas itierelr, as cell as of the words Oale-114111. of EA:4l4nd." The unit:mon eill be done in various Vi.lyS, but in this note it wtr done lay impression, hut nut in the manner of the Batik 111 i:itaßctia.ed paper. The dale line in this note was raw-loved. but in the gr. twine note the date was stereotype. There was a blank left in the plate fur the I,eitoine note, and then the stereotype letters and numbers were .put in with a different sort of itik. The signature ia this note was also forged, and the No which pre fixed the number was engraved art the forged no:e, but it was done its stet.. otype in the water-marks iu the forgery were executed by pres sure and oil. The other notes were proved to he forgeries L•y the witilemg, in • plinths,. in:inner. to his cross-examination he admitted that lie had, notwithstanding his experience it the Bank, He hewn deceived in a particular note. e knew that risve ral forged notes were taken at the B un k. ley ili Clerks, in the course of the last year. Ile could not state the precise iitimher, but the Clerks weer certainly deceived by several of the forgeries. Ile never saw the Batik paper its the process, of manu facture in Hampshire. he merely spoke of it faun seeing it at the Bank. He never compoied the forged note with the Bank plate fir genuine notes. But he formed his judgment limn his experience and familiar knowledge of the character of the genuine Bank paper mid plates. Re-examined by Mr. Serjernit BOSANQUET. The forged 'Joie% which he alluded to us tieing taken at the Bank in the cotirss.. of Lire year, were certainly taken through the neglect of the Clerk, and lie was always obliged to pay for the forgery, unless he could ascertain the person from whom lie took the note. Mr. Lister, one of the signing Clerks at the Bank. proved that the forged note now produced had not his signature. Cross-exnatiged—He recollected cases in which a genuine Bank note had gone forth to the public without signature. He could not recollect the number of such instatices.—lt once happened in a case of his own book of •totes; hut if such a note were afterwards sighed in his name by another, if his attention were drawn to the circumstance, lie must detect the signature. A Jaror—" My Lord, we wish to ask Mr. Leers a question." Mr. Lees then went into the witness-box, and the Juror put to him the following question " Has any instance ever occurrtd, where • ge nuine note was rejected at the Batik, and stamped forged?" Yes; it was a recent instance, and where the note was an old mutilated, one pasted on paper, and rejected by a young Inspector." Q.—" Are you * paper-maker, or an engraver, or • worker on stereotype?" A.—" No." The Juror—.." My Lord, after the scene of yet. terday, our feelings are very great, and where the life of a man is at stake, we think we have a right to require the beat. evidence." Mr. Baron WOOD — " You have had it here to • greater extent than in former case•. " The Learned Judge then summed up the evi dence to the Jury, who, after five minutes delibera tion, brought IH a verdict of Guilty. The witnesses were all separately examined at the request of the Prisoner. Je►emiu/r Ilejfert was next put to the bar on a similar charge. He was indicted for having in his poosession a lorged I/. Batik note. By desire of the Prisoner, all the witnesses were ordered out of Court. It was proved in evidence, that this Prisoner. in company with the last Poi-oner, went to Mr. Har rison's public-house, iu Knig-street, Seven and attempted to pass the note in question, on the 9d of November. The usual proof of the note bring a forgery, was given in this case by the same aitnes , es and in the Millie rummer YS In the hint case.—Verdict. Guilty. Kingston and Heffrrt were then put to the bar, and arraigned on the capital charge. A verdict of Not Guilty was recorded, as the Bank offered no evidence on the capital indictment. As the Prisoners were about to be removed from the bar, Heifer' exclaimed-_ " My life is sworn away ! I Ste there is no justice to be had in this country ; I hope I shall get more in the country where I am going." Wat. King, a boy, was then indicted for having in his possesision a forged 1/. note. Thomas Jones proved that the Prisoner came to his shop, in Laystsll-street, on the 14th of Novem ber, and tendered* forged 1/. note iii payment. Wit ness having suffered a great deal from forgeries, de termined to stop the next person that attempted to impose upon him in tins manner. The Prisoner, when questioned respecting the note, gave a false mime and address. The note was proved by the Bank Clerks to be a forgery. The Prisoner, in his defence, denied the charge. Henry Iluimisou gave lour au excellent ch Jac ter, and said, he had worked for him fur two year., and up to it to. tnigh.! I.eiore this trans.*. tiou took place, when i.e we .t house tlittrugh Verdict— Guiliv. The Prisoner was then arraigned and Acquitted ort the capital charge. Mr. Setjcs ot Bus 4 kolltiET then expressed his otitis. fsctivii, that thi% %VHS the list of the Bank cases betnie the Court. He was Wed that the Prisoners had revAtell their pleas, sod put themselves, as they had done, tin lhsir country for trial. These trial. occupied the Court until sis o'clock in the evening. The RECOR.OEII tlwn adjourned the Court for on hour. At *-ii;la Wel°, k he proceeded to pars 'vacs". on Prommers. Sentence of Death war tamed on the fullorring Ptivoin.ra 'Mumma Pernk., far house breaking ; Robert Petraoas, Jahn Cynical, Ucu. Woud s for bilreary Will. 1111"11IY, . , ror korvi James Egertoa, tor bizlilf4Y rohhrry I Richard Evros and JatIIEPS 11,11 four, fur •leallog iu • du. bot: , ot : I+1{111• AMIN for higliway ry ; Sarah Thwalles, for lut-e-btrak.gx; %Yon. RA I.Luck, for high euy ruhlses y ; It.ibera Tbruw.r, 1 4 ,r •14.41ing its a ,Ise;liug Louse; (i.os ge Hardy, fur burglary; Juba Nfamtu, fur straliug in n tlwrl ling-huttgr; Julio IhdKeuu, for burglary; Wm. build' as Etulrra B:v.11osao, (or sicallog in • rtwriti:ir-buu,t ; Joint Fellottm, for burglary; and Rularrt Taylor, fur cutting ti cry. A wool of law 1. sawrrl fur the la,t owner. Wm Irillisms, fur robtiery, was sentenced to be trans ros ted f,w life. J ' Kffigsiou, Jeremiah Hared, ■nd Win. King (the Prisoners notirieted tl.is Jay on the Bank proseculions;, were senteueed to 1$ vats transportation. Kingston exclaimed, u. the Recorder W ism.. lug sentence, that ligsvotivietioa was nbtaitied by ratite ecideuce„ and lie hoped, w herever he was .cut. he would obtain beaer jostler than hcattaitird here. littlest said to hunt--" Come away ; there'. ito use in speaking to him." Ralph t'cuper was sentenced to seven years trans.. poitat ((((( . The Court was then adjourned until Wednesday, the 13th January next. Sir Iteßerr Mr. Alderman WooD, Aliiessneis IVAttum AN, awl Cud. Unets, for 11'urcrater•, wrre oh tlie Bench duriiig the wholit of the trust ul hingstun. POLICE. gow-sTR t K. EOCGED BANK NOTES. Yesterday a lung investigatiou took pirce before Mr. Hicks, (lie Sitting Magistrate, of John .tdoem, one of tha ~,,, v s iLrint and extensive utterer• of b,rr, it tiaras MM. 111.. t has heti, driecied upon obis nefarioti• piiiiider upo. INS public, and the Bank Solicitors have enca ; Ted lu SWIM 1110 411111 , rUSIS parties who have hien &fraud. d by him in car ryiug out the numerous pruarru•iuns against him. Thera were tio lets than lire clear iy proved yesterday. The Prisoner was• apprehended a few slays since by Humphreys, with * gang of thteres, iu Ron,!..irtrt, sw mpt iug to rub persous in the most daring manner hewn* pit unwed as having uttered a forged bl Bank stole to Mr Hopkinson, a gruel r, iii Henri, itamireet, Covent-garden, ill Ih.• put of a pound of Iris; at Mr. l'ockney'T, a eiticer, so Bedford. street, Curtis' garden, he uttered o bl. (~,e rd Nee 111 slur poirlinrr win pound of tea, and said h tame from Mr. Kiid• dell, al the New Slau:litel's Coffer-house, Si M at Mr. Anderson's, Mr. liarelay'ii, and Mi Showstnith's, grocers, in St. Muffin's-lane, he tittered It ft)l K. tl SI. Bank note at each shop in the purchase of a pound of tea Mr. Anderson was induced to take the note from liiin 011 seeing the mime of Fuss, Nassau street, Sohu, written on it, and Mr. Anderson knowinj shat Its Sr sas a 'meson of that name residing there, and the Prisoner represented himself• to be the person. At Mr. Barelay's he stated, ilad he came iron► Mr. Wells, at the Nurthoinht Hand Cutler-house, Charing. cross. Mr. Barclay bad the precaution, before lie parted with his properly, to send to Mr. %%the to make loquiries, and the Prisoner hallowed the person sent, taking advantage of a number• of persous being its the shop, and by that rheum made lisa escape. At Mr. Showsmith's he represented himself Or coming Goan the la +Mord it ihe Rainbow ciiilie.lionse, in &tog. street, Covent-garden, who he staled to be a very particular man, and tin that account requested to have the price of the lea and paid written tin the tra.paper ; and Mr. Show smith knowing that to be the character of the lambus it of the Raiiibutir cuffee-house, had nu doubt of his being the character he repres. sited himself to be, and did nut hesitate in taking the forged Si. mite. All the representations he hail given of himself proved to be entirely false; he seldom appeared us ihr same ri.auctei SOnll'i 'Mei he was dressed as a pus ter, at whets sentrely and fashionably, es he wan ye..teiday gone a Dowdy. the unit Mr. Audessou look of him puipurted to he signed by Phillips, a Bank clerk; nod Mr. Anderson having seen uu. doubted good not,. signed Philhp., and convideriug that presented by the Prisusivr to be ibe s.rme baud-wi lung, was another inducement fur bin taking tar Mr. John Freeman, a Rank-note Inspector, proved that it was out Mr. Phillops's writoug, who was a chrk in the Hank, and stated, that all the the nuteu whic1....4.1 been Issued by the Poisoner were furgroirs, and that 11,, y bad been all winked oft (rout the same plate. Mr. Showsmoth uuderwent an exanoitlatioon by the Magis trate, in cousequence of his having stmiat to th. Solteiour to the Batik, that he was nut in inosses..tim of 'tie Ca 1:C11 11111 C which had then uttered to him by the P/ Ing,lit i w bile he us. in the other; and afttrwards he ackuuwl4.4.4 d 11141 he Ito.. it in his pocket, sod produced it. Mr. I hu..smith urcuutti..l fur his false statement by saying, that, ill audition 111 the loss of the smuuut 4.f the owe 10: lead turtt drlrnudrd 441 by the Prisoner, he could tout afford to to.e the lime to prose. cute him, as be did nut keep an assastaut to his stoup, and boa wife had an infant to arms. The Ave parties were bound over to i.rusectote the Pri. soner fur uttering life tinged notes to cheql and &floud them, and the bank Solicitor will conduct ohe pruetcutious fur them. ROBBERY AT COVENTGARDEN THEATRE. On Monday evening u floe company erre proceeding into the pit of Covent-garden Theatre, on the opening of the doors, Donaldson, the constable emplo)cd lay the amine, was in titteudance, and as s caution railed out to those go ing into the theatre to take care of their pockets; and Ina. meillately after Donaldson beard a voice among the crowd Falling out " Officer!" and in cons...garner he made has way to the spot, wk., be found a Droll. man who had called for assistance, saying be bad been rubbed of his watch, and had seised a man by tile collar, wham he eh arced a alb having rubbed him of his watch, which was found lying oat the ground with the glass bloke° The mass seised wall brought to the Office, when he proved to be ll'iffions Hawes, a well-knowas character. fie was committed. The Gentle. mass rubbed was Mr. John Manning, of limes Langley, harfitager and coalmerchaut. QUEIKAQVAISC. A SINGULAR CASE. Yesterday Mr. Brookes, linen-draper, of Bridge.street, Westminster, was summoned before the Magistiair (Mr. Manklaud) by a female of very respectable appearance, who was amended by her Solicitor, ruder the following cn:ciiiu• stances: — The lady took a hackney coach at ten o'clock in the num, iog, on the 4th of this mouth, to go to a shstaht pail eit the town. Suou after she had quitted the coach, the tosind that she had left in it a parcel, containing (nu 201 mars ai,d three IL notes. The notes were described to Ir.,noldo:ls and had been stopped; tole of thews by Mr. W001..a who re. fused to give it up. Mr. Brookes said he detained it fur very good rearm*, which the Complainant had ettready hearsl, mei which the Magistrate shois:d sewn bear. A wowrip, be sited, g• ,kje Ic his shop, about three o'clock on the aboveoitenituited do, and purchased sheeting and linen to the die presented to him a 2(. note, which he changed. k)c however, helot; to suspect that she bait togrie by the WWI , y in an improper manor, ; lard her followed au I brought 1:•ttlr. His suspicions acre out it moved by her rood, ri Itp4ll , Inc return. lie therefore took both chtoge sod 01 tirfre 6'014 her, but told her that if on inquiry he fumed ul r)glit, Itt should restore to her that to which she stioti!.l he.initeihie; Mr. Brookes learned tit R short time, that list w be t te n a p part of n sum that had bred forgetteo tu a .74m1, mot ho found that the hand-bills in circulating enatailied of a reward of five guiIIVIA to the perillll atm skulf.4 h 014. i or the propeo ty. He immediately gave the ter ms to on o". rantol, that he had take° WIG of the mites, and tArti tat i - instion Iva to the recovery of the ether outray irtiiett tt reemed the ccachnsAn 13. d found to the rough mid s A r. ' his wife, who had been frustrated hi her werty erid to teke advani use of her good hie.l nue. Mr. Brookes g Mul l ett fitly mouthd to the rinarel Unutf all Oen: ttitoesua +."~ - F