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I IWlrt the Lot Cali/ BARON, Mi. Juttire LAW. d3l f RENCE, 0 , / r? • " Ace R owe . Th ,„ s. n oa was capitally indiZled for stealing *an . d three silver tea spoons, sis silver table spoons, di, the property of Mathias Ma value tin's* ,Pr'un 1 . Ma grab. h appeared t iat the Pri , soner . had been,. in to a Captain o. aw, ohn December last. p v servant ' house, and that the pro tierf;hai:lst --givsesto'cuosiSStrhes Priso ner on the 29th of becem b er . for she use of his master, hoo fs. that d a y to have company. When the h dinner came, the Prisoner was; not in the way to lay the ( 1.. 0 ; a nd, on further examinatton, it w as so found di.4. the spoils hid been tak..ii away. me time after the Prisoner was ap p s poons found in his pocket , reh w ended, end one of the which the wife of the p ros ecutor swore to. The J ;tr y f o und him Godly of stealing Is the wont o f Sh i lfi no r., which makes it not capital. •ndilted for stealing eighty p i oh PIA was a b con the property of Mary ncom on the 224, .she shop in P° lt ti a ti e j ee' s led bs that ' Spitad ' aelds Market at twelve o clock at night, and s a woke at fi ve in the morning by the watchman , who told her her shop had been brokea open ; on examining it, she missed a quantity of bacon. Some time After her brother was passing by the Prisoner's shop, and saw the bacon which hit tiger had low; the Prisouei, on being questioned about it, said he b o ught it, but would not telli hi s sh op, whwhom;S and d ad abs b e y on sh d e ti ed mci , th de t ( ti i k ffi e c n es the i° dbagci on st to w wish hint,% but afterwards go i t himself up. As it did not appear in evidence that the Prisoner took the bacon, he was acquitted, but ordered to be detained, and prosecuted for re ceiving it knowing it to be stolen. Mary Banding was cap i tal l y incli fted for stealing ; silver watch, chain, and seal, privately from the prrion of John Snipe. It appeared, that the Prosecutor had gone in drunk to a public-house. in Farm-street, St. James's, and that the Prisoner, who was there also, took his watch, vhich was found upon her, and which the Yosecittor swore to as his. According to the di reaion of t h e LORD CD lEr BACON, she was arrayed of the capital offence, hut found Guilty of stealing. Hr wsi.'r was indined, arid found Guilty, for stealing twenty-three yard; of flannel, from the shop • of William Todd. iu Great Russell-street ; the P.:sreutor, on missing the flannel, went to the door, aa..: saw the Prismer walking down the street with the anted older his arm. He immediately scanted D 4 Court Was kept waiting for upwards of an hour. none cf the different Prosecutors appearing, aed at one o'clock were obliged to adjourn until five in the evening; at to • same time declaring, that none of the Ps - Jseetoors stiould have their expenses, on account of their neglect. fraiess IP:if:ce too ; , 1 capitally indideJ for liar glarieusly breaking a .d entering the dwelling house of William Chan' ante and Benjamin Whitrow, wholesale stations: s, and taking thereout one ream of paper, called p.intin;etcmy. Thomas Bt.resrd de l , iced. that on the even ing -f the i Ith of December he was passing by d :hvercutor's a 'rehouse, in the Minories, and saw the i'ris ewe open the door very eisseitloakv. and ads.: at a bundle of something with which he went away t he immediately went into the warehouse and told the clerk t they pur sued th s Prisoner, and oveltook him in the Little Minorics, whh the bundle in his possession, which turned out to be a ream of paper, which was pro duced, and proved to be the property of the Prose cutor; but the Witness not being able to swear positively that the Joor was latched, the Prisoner was ACylliiitA of the burglary, and found Gel', of the minor offence. Oec irritionwu capitally indiCted for bur glariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Joseph 2i.ococc, druegist, in St. Mary Axe, and takiogl.tcreout one hon e, containing three pounds weight of oil of peppermint, value GI- It appeared, that on the 29th of December, be tween seven and eight at night, the Prisoner went to the shop of the Prosecutor, on pretence of chang ing a large paper hag for a small one ; he went away, saying he might return again, as he wanted some goods. The shopmen, suspecting the Pri soner of taking some bottles which they had lost a short time before, agreed to put out the candles, sod watch for him ; some time atter he came into the shop, but just as he had entered. a gentleman came in also, to buy some goods, and the Prisoner made off. The shop door was shut, and the young man remained on the watch ; it was not long before the Prisoner c sme again, and opening the door, took from off the counter, the bottle of oil of pepper mint. He was immediately pursued, but before they could seize him, he threw away the bottle, and broke it. the RECORDER summed up the evidence, but the Jury having a doubt en their minds, whether the o was latched or not, acquitted him of the capi ta offence, and found hint gritty of stealing to the value of thirty-nine shillings only. .lain Lemon was inditted for tendering. on the Oath of December, to Elizabeth Shepherd, one pieze of false and comterfeit money, made to the lik.mess of a shilling, and for having in his posses sision another piece of the same kind. It appeared. that the Prisoner went to the shop of James Shepherd, a baker, 'in Great Kest Cheap, and c 'fling for a half quartern loaf, tendered in pay ment A counterfeit chilling: the woman being in doubt svlictlier it were good or bad, shewed it her husband, who immediately perceived it was a bad one, and, knowing that the Prisoner had passed bad money on him some days before, he detained him, and sent for a constable ; before the constable came, the Pri soner let fall one shilling and three sixpences into a :tour binn. The money was produced, and Mr. Parker proved them to be base. The Recomsee observed to the Jury, that the punishment annexed to this offence by Aa of Parlia ment, was six months imprisonment for the first time, and if the delinquent should have more about hint at the time he atteroptcd to pass one, he was subjeA to twelve months imprisonment; they had, he said, therefore, to consider not only whether the Prisoner was guilty of uttering the bad shilling, but also whether he had others about him of the same kiad. He was found Gone,;. of the whole offence. 1.1=1....... .11111111 P.... • I AMERICA. ~__ FROM THE NEW itiitE PAPERS. Nrw you, D.C. 8. No news at present—Oh yes, his Imperial High ness, Prince Jerome Bonaparte, rad his lovely Princess Elizabeth, were yesterday at Dumfries, thirty miles south of this place, on their way here. It seems, the unmanly Britons, off the C4pes of Virginia, would not go out of the way and let them pass unmolested to the Imperial Court. 'This breach of etiquette not ascording with his Imperial Highness's idea of propriety and decorum, he re turned in dudgeon to Norfolk, and took passage in tbe stage—no, not the stage—a private hack, for Washington. We wen to be honoured to day or to-morrow with his princely presence. A transport has arrived at Ne,e Orleans, from Ja maica, with two hundred troops on hoard, belong ing to the late army of St. Domingo. She was bound originally to I lavre de Grace. These men took pos..-ssion of the chip off the :and c'n• dulled het to , Ptaquemin, where tlis-y landed, with the consenr of the officers, and were pr,:ending to New Orleans, along the banks of :he River. It was thought that the imtroduCtion of these people would increase the discontents that prevail there. List of Banks in the United States, with the amount of their respective Capitals and the period of their institution. Rank of North Amr:tca - Massaelishetta -- New-Y.4k maryland ditto augmented from 1:95 to 1801 --. United States Pmvidenee Batik Bank of Pen•ylvania Albany • • - South Carolina • Union Poi* of Mottos • Essex Bank of Salem • New Hameshirn Bank Bank of Alma., a . Hanford Brisk Urtign Bittk„ New London New Hav-ts Bank . Baulk or Columbia . • "Ne known Rhode Island . • Ba'titnnre Hloucener Batik Cape Ann Newark Bank . Middletown Bank Manhattan Batik Wadiington Bank Westerly Batik of Bristol, N.l. Eschatige Bank of Provid:nce Farniers'iLtiik of I.an,itigliurgl! State Bank of Soul t Carolina Bank ..f Kentucky Mere, ants'Bank Pniladelphia Merchant.' Bank New•Y,,rk Union BA* of Maryland, if the Bank at Ra.'imurr itset• not present them, void have a ntirter For Inm it uteri. Capital. . 1781 10.00, , 4)0 11114' 4041,0,10 . 1791 950,9v0 • 1790 300,000 1791 , 15,000 10,000.000 40' ..000 2,00 0 :),0')0 170,000 1791 . 1792 1799 . 1792 . 1792 . 1792 . 1792 . 1794 . 1791 . 1792 . 1792 . 1793 1795 1795 1795 1795 . 1796 1796 1795 1799 1204 IRol, , 1201 11101 1292 . 1995 675,000 1,200,000 125,000 150,000 500,000 100,000 100,000 80,0 A 447 000 225,000 100,000 110,000 1,200,000 ',O.* 60,000 75,000 2,000,000 50,000 80,0 1 )0 1115,000 75,000 $OO,OOO 500,000 1,01,0,000 1,000,000 9,000,000 Total Doll,. 28,002,000 The 29th ult. as the Swiftsure stage, crossing to Powles Hook, was crossing the bridge over Hucken sack River, the beam. gave way, and the stage, with its passengers, were plunged into the River.— Amongst these, the Lady of - Mr. Desabay ( who gave a concert on the Tuesday preceding), his child, an/ his sister, have been the principal suffer ers. The money made by this Concert, which was intended for the relief of that amiable family, to gether with the best part of their effeets, have been swallowed up by the waves. They had already lost their 411 by a shipwreck, in coming to this country. The child, only nine months old, and who had escaped from the arms of the lady who held him, as she went down, was found hanging by his little hands to a piece of the wreck, and was -oiraculously saved unhurt. Both the leading and one of the wheel-horses extricated themselves in the struggle, and made the shore ; the other, with the stage and baggage, went to the bottom. On Friday last, in the Hon,e of R , precentativel, U. S the Committee, which h Id bets appointed to consider and report upon tho cAse of Mr. Chase, presented the following iterirr, which was re ferred to a Committee of the whole House, and was to have been taken up nn Monday. 111•111111.11111 OLD &AILEY, J.:4. 10. I Froßr. • Article; exhibited be th.i of Representatives of the State %, in the name of theme res and of all the people of the United States, against Samuel Chase, one of the klisociate Justices of the Suureine Court of the united States, in maintenance and supoon •d their impeachment against him, for high enema and mi-denteanors. Aar. I. That, unmindful of the solemn duties of his office, and contrary to the sacred obligation by which he stood bound to discharge them " faithfully and impartially, and without respell to persons," the said Samuel Chase, on the trial of John Fries, charged sciih high treason, before the Circuit Court of the United States, held for the distria of Penn sylvania, in the city of Philadelphia, during the months of April and May, one thousand eight hun dred, whereat the said Samuel Chase presided, did, in his judicial capacity, conduct himself in a man ner highly arbitrary, oppressive, and unjust, viz. I. In delivering an opinion in writing, on the question of law. on the construCtion of which the defence of the accused materially depended, tending to prej.iJice the minds of the Jury against the case of the said John Fries, the Prisoner, before Counsel had been heard in his defence. 2. In restricting the Counsel for the said Fries from recurring to such English authorities as they believed apposite, or from citing certain statutes of the United States, which they deemed illustrative of the positions upon which they intended to rest the defence of their client. 3. Indebarring the Prisoner from his constitutional privilege of addressing the Jury (through his Coun sel) on the law as well AS on the fain, which was to determine his guilt, or innocence ; and at the same time endeavouring to wrest from the Jury their in disputable tight to hear argument, and determine upon the question of law as well as the question of fad, involved in the verdiCt, which they are required to give. In consequence of which irregular conduit of the said Samuel Chase, as dangerous to our liberties, as it is novel to our laws and usages, the said John Fries was deprived of the right, secured to him by the Bth article amendatory of the constitution, and was condemned to death without having been heard, by Counsel, in his defence, to the disgrace of the charader of the American Bench, in manifest vio- 1 Atkin of law and justice, and in open contempt of .he rights of juries, on which, ultimately, rest the iberty and saf e ty of the American people. ART. IL That, prompted by a similar spirit of persecirtion and injustice, at a circuit court of the United States, held at Richmond, in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred, for the distria of Virginia, whereat the said Samuel Chase presided, and before which a certain limes Thompson Cal lender w.is arraigned for a libel on John Adams, then President of the United States, the said Samuel Chase, wish intent to oppress, and procure the con- , viaion of the said Callender, did over-rule the ob jeCtion of John Basset, one of tha Jury, who wished to be excused from serving on the said trial, because lie had made up his mind, as to the publication from which the words, charged to be libellous, in the indiament, were extraaed ; and the said Basset was accordingly sworn, and did serve on the jury, by whose verdia the Prisoner was subsequently con viCted. Aar. 111. That, with intent to oppress and pro cute the cnnviElion of the Prisoner, theevidencezif John Taylor a material witness on behalf of the aforesaid Callender, was not permitted by the said Samuel Chase to be given in, on pretence that the said witness could not prove the truth of the whole of one of the charges contained in the india ment, although the said charge embraced more than one dad. Aar. IV. That the condud of the said Samuel Chase was marked. during 'he whole course of the said trial, by manifest injustice, partiality, and in temperance, viz. 1. In compelling the Prisoner's Counsel to reduce to writing, and submit to the inspedion of the Court, for their admission, or rejeetion, all questions which the said Counsel meant to propound to the above named John Taylor, the witness. 2. In refusing to postpone the trial, although an affidavit was regularly filed, stating the absence of material witnesses on behalf of the accused ; and although it was manifest, that, with the utmost dili gence, the attendance of such witnesses could not have been procured, at that term. S. In the use of unusual, rude. arid contemptu ous .x:wessions towards the Prisone-'s Counsel, and in falsely insinuating that they wished to excite thl public fears and indignation, and to prOdrice that in subordination to law, to which the conclud of the judge did at the same time manifestly tend. 4. In repeated and vexatious interrliptions of the said Counsel, on the part of the said Judge, which, at length, induced thorn to abandon their cause and their Client, who was thereupon conviacd and con demned to fine and imprisonment. 5. In an indecent solicitude, manifested by the said Samuel Chase, for the conviaion of the ac- cused, unbecoming even a public prosecutor, but highly disgraceful to the charaCer of a Judge, as it was subversive of justice. Aar. 5. And whereas it is provided by the aft of Congress, passed on the 2-his day of September, 1789, intituled, An All to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States,' that, for any crime or offence against the United States, the offender may be arrested, imprisoned, or bailed, agreeably to the usual mode of process, in the state where such offender may be found : And whereas it is pro vided by the laws of Virginia, thay upon present. ment by any Grand Jure. of an offence not capital, the Court shall order the Clerk to issue a summons against the person or persons offending, to appear and answer such presentment at the next Court ; yet the said Samuel Chase did, at the Court aforesaid, award a Conies against the body of the same Jame; Thompson Callender, indiaesl for an offence not ca pital, whereupon the said Callender was arrested, and committed to close custody, contrary to law in that case made and provided. Aar. VI. And whereas it is provided by the 24th setclion of the aforesaid all, intituled, An AC to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States,' that the laws of the several gates, except where the concitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as the rules of decision, in trials at com mon law, in the Courts of the United States, in cases where they apply : And whereas, by the laws of Virginia, it is provided, that in cases not capital, the offender shall not be held to answer any presentment of a Grand Jury, until the Court next succeeding that during which such presentment shall have been made—yet the said Samuel Chase, with intent to oppress and procure the conviElion of the said James Thompson Callender, did, at the Courts aforesaid, rule and adjudge the said Callender to trial, during the term at which he, the said Callen der, was presented and indiCed, contrary to law in that case made and provided. ART VII. That at a Circuit Court of the Unit ed States, for the distrilt of Delaware, held at New Castle, in the month of June, 1800, whereat the said Samuel Chase presided, the said Samuel Chase, dis regarding the duties of his office, did descend from the dignity of a Judge, and stoop to the level of an infoi :Tier, by refusing to discharge the Grand Jury, although entreated by several of the Jury' so to do ; and after the said Grand Jury had regularly declar ed, through their foreman, that they had found no bills if indiltment, nor had any presentments to make, by observing to the s C.:and Jury, that be, the said Samuel Chase undo , st.od " that a highly seditious temper had mainiested itself in the State of Delaware, among a certain class of people, par ticularly in New Castle county, and more especially in the town of Wilmington, where lived a most se ditious pi inter, unrestrained by any principle of vir tue, and regardless of social order—that the name of this printer was”—but checking himself, as if sensible of the indecorum which he was committing. added " that it must be assuming too much to men tion the name of this person I but it becomes your die y. Gentlemen, to enquire diligently into this mat ter, 01 words to that effeei—andthat with intention to procure the prosecution of the printer in question, the said Samuel Chase did, moreover, authorita tively enjoin on the Distil & Attorney of the United States, the necessity of procuring a file of the Pa pers to which he alluded (and which were under stood to be those published under the title of Mirror of do Times and General Advrrtiser)," and by a stria examination of them, to find some passage which might tarnish the ground work of a prosecu tion agaiust the Printer of the said Paper--thereby degrading his high judicial fun lions, and tending tti impair the public confidence in, and respell for, • the tribunals of justice, so essential to welfare. ART. VIII. And whereas mutual confidence between the government of States and those of the individual states, tween the people and those governments. tively, are highly con Aicive to that public h without which there can he no public happiness; the said Samuel Chase, disregarding the dignity of his judicial char-after, (Ads Court for the district of Maryland, held a in the month of May, 1803, pervert right and duty to address the Grand Jury there assembled, on the matters coming a province of the said Jury, for the purpose . vexing to the said Grand .7nry an intemperrie inflammatory political harangue, with intent to cite the fears and resentment of die said Grand Jury, and of the good people of Maryland, against their stategovernment, and constitution; a condal highly censurable in any, but peculiarly indecent becoming in a Judge of the Seprente Court United States; and, moreover, that the - Chase, then and there, under pretence his judicial right to address the raid Grand aforesaid, did, in a manner highly arm, endeavour to e::cite the odium of the si ,Jury, and of the good people of Maryland, the Government of the United States, by deli . opinions, which, even if the judicial authority were competent to their expression, on a suitable occasion and in a proper manner, were at that time, and as &limed by him, highly indecent. erura-judicial, and tending to prostitute the high judicial chara&er with which he was invested, to the low - an eleCtioneering partisan. And the House of Representatives. . tion, saving to themselves the liberty of at any time hereafter, any farther articles, accusation, or impeachment, against theta Chase, and also of reply ;try, to'his answers, shall make unto the said artichos, or and of offering proof to all and ever articles; and to all and every other a. Or ment, or accusation, which shall b. 7 them, as the case shall requita. do demand said Samuel Chase may be put to crimes and misdemeank,uis, and ings, examinations, trials, and jit ',„;itarn! had and given, as are a7reeable to Lsss dI.%MICA. mosr con PA Yesterday arrived the ship La G.'cirep London, from the Bay of .ionditras, having sprung a leak in the law gi N.W.—La Gioire is one of a Ben of nil convoy of His Majesty's ship Le Ayscough. The fleet left the Bay on . the 19th ult. and had contii.ual winds N.W. Capt. Cowhars parted with we Tuesday evening, standing to the Saudi , Westward, all well. R IS CfT~ The American brig Raaistila, from to this port, with provi,ions, detained jesty's brig Sidjuinte, arrived yesterday. Yesterday arrived at Port Royal, from Portland, bound to Berbice, in by a Frencb privateer, and re-taken jesty's brig Pori Mahon. Saturdly arrived at Port Royal schooner Redbri An , i iha schoontr nerman, from 11 .1 6 , 3, with slaves, I Lady llotart, cast an on that i:aand. His Majesty's ship Pr,"lens aarloot, Gardiner, arrived yes!:rd.,y at Port two vessels from Cork u.l•ler her convoy. Cork seventy-three days ago. and called does, from which place she had a presage teen days. Yesterday the ship Stranger, Capt. Honduras to Lon, n, raL i: to . .'cut F she left the convoy on the C‘i raanas, all well. Yesterday arrived at Port R.lyal, Marin, from it. Thomaes to i Ine() and cyder, taken by a French privatier, by His Majesty's ship Frewkw. JERSEY. Jeammtv 5. ----- most delicious 3 , acid of their fa! Lje, and render out the year. The packet due on Sunday from .. not arrive till late yosterday. Conodernb) were entertained for ire: safet7. The of the 59th embark to-m(o row fo.• also f,nty.seven men beiongiog to the . battalion, who are to join the :second the tied regiment, and second battalion 831, at Horsham Flitracks. These anive limited service. The oecood the tijtb march from Cronylnt DO place the first battalion of the 58th. then at St. Helier's will be the second batta lion of the 59th, the second battalion of the 69th. and the 83d rill:mem. At Cireusille will muslin the second battalion of the ltsth regiment. and the first garrison battalion. The wrs.i.lc nt the &Vela still lies on the beach. Evety article is now taken out of her. In honour of Sir Waters it attiox, who first introduced the use of 'tobacco into England, ars" who, by the bye, went to his tuam . ”itesi execution with a Pipe in his mouth, there ..ue mine Sioia.bri, it is supposed, in the British metropAis, than i- any ten other cities in the universe.—Naar, a.. Tamsces is stile.l " Ens theuyht inspir , eog rani," it may be ask ed, what sentiment can it inspire at the present sea. son of general gratulation. that may prove of much reel importance? It is scarcely to be doubted, that it will powerfully suggest the impressive subject of the numerc..; Capital Prizes iu the great Lor tiny, which now draws so near to its commencement. 'Tis a participation of these Prizes, that will make the Smoaker's porter low that will the general respea and I; of the United ates, and be- nents, respec- blic sappiness ; yet Ql the duties and at a Circuit at Baltimore, ' art hi; official Jury then and I . ag within the r rpose of deli- 1 emperza and intent to el- I Grand Jury, against their ondu!l highly :cent wid un- Court of the e said Samuel of esereisir.g :rand Jury, nwarrantahi-, he said Grand ' Lind, against by delivering • 1 . unites - 4y were itable occasion time, and as ex,m-judicial. icial charafter isir purpose of by protesta- of exhibit;ng, ides. or ()CAL . 1' I . he $41,1 vers. he • 7wy of writs, • the aforesaid irks, impeach- ,: eaLibited island th v. the seer the :.rid rich priceal- moot. may be w auJ justice. • t SAY, WI?. 3. Pr, Cowbem, of -as, in distress, gales Com the ts , • :sine sail, under Iteaarti, Capt. on the night of riv,ls flora the the state last Southward and T ON, ROC 7. • 70111 rk ed by diis Ma- lay. Nov. 9. • the be. PL EN I N • in ball.:st, taken • !n by H 3 Ma". His li°v. 5;: 18. jesre Ban. saved from the - 1. Nov. 13. f' .dials:, Captain art Royal, with invoy. hilt; left allei at Barba- passage of thir- NOV. 15. rm. Pine, from . • t R0y:4,6:1:4; st. off the Cap. 7 Nov. 17. ' • the brig 410 • Boras, with beer ier, and retake - -5.. • • ; Weymrorth lid yi,iderable . ••••:s 'he first batuticn • Portsmouth, 41 the first rirrison rood battalion of battalion of the are Ma t men for sod battalion of 4 Barracks to re. 58th. The fovea to second batta- lion of the 69th, is isle will remain Enter go down by far the more triel- furnisb Porch Drinker, with the Sweet, for corretbng not oniy the mom ire beverage, but many oriole of r the Pipe, in short, relishing througli.