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LAW REPORT. COURT.OI" KING'S lIENCH, Nov. 25. BUYING GUINEAS, THE K 1 V. DANIEL DOWGOOD. i IfIeSOLICITOR-ONERAL prayed jnd , rment here in, the defendant having been found guilty at the Lancaster._ Assizes on an indictment of having bought five guineas at an advanced price, namely, for 5/. 15s. The defendant put in an unvouched paper, which stated, that the offence bad taken place in September, 1811, that he had answered to the in dictment in January, 1812, that he' had been put to great expenses and distress since, .and that the present was his first offence. - Sir W. GARROW expressed his happiness that the document just read was an nnvoucbed paper, for it had appeared in evidence that the present was not his first offence. The. offence of whicli he had been guilty. tea's the highest possible inis demeanour ; and this was the first time that the Court had been called upt.'n to pass judgment since the passin, of the recent Act on, this bead, making the ofknee punishable as'a misde meanour. Mr. Justice GROSE delivered the sentence of the Court. Considering the present state of the cur rent coin of the realm, it was highly, necessary that there should be such an Act in existence as the one under which the defendant had been tried. The object of the defendant in offending as he had done, was not susceptible of a doubt ; and as it could not be questioned that the guineas had been purchased with the view of sending them out of the kingdom, the Legislature had shewn its wis dom in classing the offence among thOlighest mis demeanours ; for it was not to be borne, that a svh9le nation was to be iacounnoded by the con .duet of such men as the two nowt before the Court. 'With the. view, not only of punishing the' indivi duals before the Court, but of _holding out a warn others, to make them beware how they coAnnitted a similar offence, the Uourt sentenced the prisoner to he imprisoned in the Castle of Lancaster for the space of Six Calendar Months. THE KING C. BROWN. W. GARTIoNV also, prayed the sentence of the Clitirt in this case. The ,oilence was similar to the one noticed above, Brown. having been found guilty on. an indictment charging him with pur chasing two guineas at am advanced price, he hav ing given for them 2/.415. 'An affidavit was put in by Brown in extenua tion. Sentence—Six Months Imprisonment in the Castle of Lancaster. . THE KING V. CHARLES PETER WHITAKER AND ANDRE,Y,' NVILSON. The SOLICITOR GENERAL prayed the judgment of the Court upon these defendants, who (it will be recollected) were found guilty :at the London Sittings.on the 13th of July last, of a . conspiracy with each other and with other persons, of whom, viz, Noah Edward Lewis, was acquitted, and two of whom, viz. Augustus and William Whitaker, had not yet been apprehended,' to defraud Ed ward Gibson of 5,000/. by divers false represen tations. Lord ELLENBOROUGH read his notes of the at - 4 the defendant, C. P. Whitaker; put in an affidavit, which stated, that he had already been confined in Newgate ever since. the 23d of September, 1811 ;' that he had a wife and child, with no means to support them but the gaol allowance; and that lie was afflicted with a disease in his eyes, which had brought, on, / a fever since he had been in prison, from which he had never perfectly recovered, and that in the opinion of Mr. Box, the surgeon of Newgatc, he was in great danger of becoming blind.; and the defendant, Andrew 'Wilson, put in an affidavit, which stated, that he hadheen a prisoner in New gate ever since the. 4th of November, 1811 ; that he was afflicted with a rupture, and subject to spasms front general ill health and debility ; and that he was utterly destitute of every means of existence except the gaol allowance. The SOLICITOR GENERAL, Mr. SCARLETT, and Mr. GURNEY, supported the prosecution ; and the Court framed its judgment, in some degree, ac cording to the punishment declared by the Legis lature in the Statute against obtaining.goods under false pretences, under which tiic defendants might almost have. been indicted, .for this nearly equal offence,—by adjudging,each of them to be impri soned NeWgate for eighteen calendar months, and to stand in the pillory, within the first of those moths, before the Royal Exchmnge. THE KING U. JANIT!S ELNNELL .The SOLICITOR - GENont.-a. prayed judgment against this defendant, late a linen diaper of Bristol, ~ : nd Lieutenant in the 2d battalion of the Royal .East Gloucester Local Militia, who lied ' buffered judgment, by default, to an information sled against him by leave of the Court, for.chal lenging James Crann, Surgeon of the same re ginient,to fight a duel ; and for posting him as a coward, upon his declining the meeting. It appeared, from the affidavits on both sides, that the quarrel bet Ween the parties arose at the Cirencester Theatre, where the Officers o.f the regiment !lad adjourned, after dining at the mess, when on perniaiicet duty in that town. Thi de fendant had taken a place in .the boxes of the theatre, and whiled to pass the prosecutor to a seat, which Major Larkin declared to be vacant ; but the prosecutor told him he could mit pass without inconvenience to the ladies present, and refused to let him do so. The. affidavits on each side told different stories : those in behalf of the prosecutor .deposing that thi defendant was offered anotber'seat, and told not to expose himself and the regiment ; and t!hoSe on behalf of the defendant, swearing to the p 1 osecutor's having pushed and struck the de fendant. The challenge. was sent on the same evening, to meet the next morning. ,Of this the prosecutor took no notice,, gml, sixteen days af terwards, was, without farther application, posted. by printed hand-bills.• The defendant - had been LONDON Printed by THOMAS Nia)(11), of N0::22,. Russell-court, BrYdgeS-street, CoVcnt-ganici); 111, 1 1 Aisbed by WILLIANI ARMIGER SCRIPPS, Sant Itt the SUN OvvicE, Straw'. wilcre Adger . iiserautts o Ordel - s•tr the Paper, Lciters ivr the Editor, ac. (post . , tnyacrictis occitrrefice toc Awe on Monday night by the stage coach finhx Blackwall. A man . and woinan, passengers, earrying a bun dle; supposed to contain a. dead child, and which was suspected to have been murdered, information being given At the Police Officers. at Whitechapcl, they accompunied:the coach to the Black Boy, ;11 Leadenhall-street. Here they.requested the party to step into the house, when •on searching the bunule, they found a dead carefully wrapped up in flannel, and which appeared to haire had it:; throlt cut. • Griffiths, - a surgeon, was sent for, when the man stated, that the woman was Ws wife, and hat' come on a visit to him %Chere . he was - emplovedi on hoard of shiP, accompanied by their child, fo`uf: mouthi old,'whioh was suddenly taken ill, and died.; a surgeon being sen'. - for, had made an ii) . cision on each sije. of ale neck. Tills account wal confirmed by Lr. who stated tliat thi incisiovs were made by -a regular -practitioner fcit the.parposc of letting blood. The parties lyerd T 1.42 tneeCng• of the .Cicrg‘ •. of thd - Cmory of ideicester, c)uvenett-by_th‘a Rev. the A.i.:hAeacon; too:t place Last - week, fk:r 'purpose of petition be Parliumeat.against the Catholic chtims. The attendance was nuinei•oos. .The business of Ord meeting was opened by the Archdeacon, and si Petition to bOth IlrouscS of Parliament unani: mously agreed upon, expressive of theie 0-pinions that hirther con . cessions could net be . gt4ntdd to the Catholics, consistentiv with the :secrtrity of the spiritual and temporal establishment in thesa :—that .td the linuac of Commons toy he presented by the Members for. the ..County, that to the noose oi . Lords, by the Bishop of the Diocese. There were no speeches of any ho po: though many were expected. Several petitions were formed, and one even engrossed,—* and•between the - sevecul candidates sonic enter- - tainment was expected j but the Archdeacon un expectedly produced the sketch of a petition, which was very much admired, as being mild yet manly—moderate, yet conclusive. nieNncholg Catastrophe.—On TueSday morn. ing last, Supiiia Edwards and Mary Nest, two fe male servants of the Rev. John Gibbons, of I;ras ted, Kent (one aged 22, and the other If? years), were found drowned in a pond in the garden, he- . longing to the Parsonage House at that place ; and the same day an inquest was taken on their bodes, by R. Crow, Esq. Cw , oner, when the fol lowing circumstances were disclosed :—Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons had been from home several weeks, leaving their house to the care of these females, who, during the absence of their master and mis tress, had the misfortune to break Some articles of furniture, and to spoil four dozen of knives and forks, by incautiously lighting a 'fire in an ()Yen . where they had been placed to kotp them from rust. The unfortunate girls bad, however, bought other knives and forks.—Upon the wurn of Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons (on Saturday, the 14th), the servants were severely reprimanded for what ha:l. happeried,and one of them received notice to leave her plae. They both appeared to be very un comfortable during Sunday and Monday, and ota the latter day, the footman heard them in con vet. : sation respecting Martha Viner, a late 'servant irs the same family, who had drowned herself in the pond in the garden ; and observing one to the other, that she had done so through trouble.—Tht: elder then said to the younger—".We have a swim to night, Mary f" the other we will, girl."—The footman thought they were jesting, and said—" Aye, and I will swim with. you." Sophia Edwards replied—" No, you sha'ut, . but I will have have a swim, and afterw..trds I wiil haunt you." After this conversation, they eon— tinned about their work as usual, and at six.o'clok , asked the footman to get tea for them ; while he was in the pantry for that purpose he heard the kitchen-door shut, and on his return into the kitchen they were both gone. , The footman after wards thou: A lit he heard them up stairs, and there-: fore took no notice of their absence, until eight o'clock, when he told his master and mistress. — Search was made for them about the house, gar den, and heiObourhood, during the whole night; mid early on Tuesday morning the same pond was dragged which had so_ recently been ate watery . grave of Martha Viner, when, shocking to relatt,. both their bodies were found in it, lying close to each other.—'Tie Jury returned a Verdict of— FLzoni. I..?rownea. dismissed from the regimerit by a Court-martia upon a ena-rp,e arising 0... c ot tin.) tiansaCtlon. affidavit pieadcd poverty and. great ill health. Tht. R-/GENERAL and Mr. supported the prosecution, ,and Mr..Gti , votto spoke in initio;ation. • The Court adjudged . the defendant to three Rio:l6g itnprisontuer,t in the, Marshalsea of the King's Bench, aid-to give z,:eetirity of the peace for three years aftervilrits, hirsisclf in 1001. and two sureties in 501. each. THE KING V. CIIBEVEY. Mr. BROUGHAM moved for a Rule to spew cause why a Writ of Certiorari not be issued, to remove to this Court, an indictmenrpreferred, clt the Sessions for the County of Lancaster, against the defrndant,' who was a Burgess in tins last Parliament for the Borough of Thetford. De fendant, it appeared, had thought proper to make some observations in his place 'in the House of Commons, which afterwards found their way into a • provincial newspaper. For these observations it was, that the bill of indiement was preferred and found by. the Grand Jury of the' County of Lancaster.—Rule granted. • , The I;:lephant; 74, Captain AUSTIN, (being A fast-salli;ig ship), and the 'Hermes, of 20 guns, Captain I'. ThtowNE, sailed ou Thursday last from Portsmouth., to look after the American fri gates which chased the Galatea otf die Western Islands. The Hatfield hounds meet on Thursday at Bar net Heath, at half-past ten o'clock. AT.vcnoTE.—A hessian nobleman, Count Di midoff, tray breakfanting with oneofiluonaparte'S Ministers and his lady, whose name 1 forbear to mention, as nothing from my pen shall ever savour. of the least ofknee towards her. During' the ' breilkfast, a jeweller, who worked for the family, presented himself, and offered for sale a diamond necklace and ear-rings, which he said he would part with as a blrAaia, as theN' had been ordered by a person who had lately held a situation under Government, but since the order was given he had been dismissed from his employ,. and was conse quently unable to pay for them. The necklace was,' worth 30,000 livres in the trade, and 36,000 to a wearer, but the Jeweller said he would sell it fOr 24,090. The lady fancied it' very much, and the husband offere: 18,000 for it, whick.the jeweller declined taking. When the I,..itace , (j . monds ivent aWay, die lady's disappointment . be- - came greater, and she enressed very strditgly her great chagrin at notpossessing the necklace. The Russian soon left the house, and ran name -diately to the jeweller, whom he desired to carry the necklace to the gentleman's where they met in the morning, and sell it to him at the price hq had offered for it, which , mzs. 18,000 livres, and Dimithiffengaged himself to make up the difference„ namely, G,OOO livres—an act of gal lantry purchaged at a cheap rate. 'lbis was done; • the jeWeller went to the person on whom he had waited in the morning, who was just getting into his carriage to go to the Council u State.— He took the necklace with-him, and paid the jeweller'* money ;• the difference was paid by I)imidoff, who immediately went to the lady, and isformned her of what he had done. She was of course &lighted at time intelligence, but what she learnt a few days afterwards produced a sad re • verse in her spirits. Her husband, it seems, had shewn the necklace to one of his colleagues in the Ministry, who took a fancy to it. They went together to a jeweller to get if- valued, and the necklace was again sold for 32,000 livres, which left the original pm chaser a profit of 14,000 livres. .On his return home, he told his wife of his day's work, and could not suppose that she could have any objection to his gaining 14,000 livres. He was however mistaken—hysterics and faintings followed—her. raze and disappointment were ungovernable; and as women in general be tray thick own secrets; she, of course, let out all she knew of the transaction, and she even told her husband of the gallantry of the Russian No bleman. Report said that tile Minister was A rcady apprised, of Pimidoff's liberality towards his wife, and consequenly thought it not unfair to play off this trick upon her, especially as he gained 11,000 livres by the transaction. if this be true, it was indeed diamond cut diamond?—(An tigailican Monitor) 'ANTWERP, OCT. 27.—The courage andgene ro§ity of a young woman, who substituted her self for her, hrother, a conscript in 1806, and who has just returned from the army, covered with honourable, woands, is now the st;hject of much conversation here. The story is true, and the particulars de - Serve to be known. • Virginia (.:hcsquicre, horn at Delmont, de partment of the North, district Of Lille, finding .that her brother, who was ordered - to march, was not in a condition to support the, fatigues of war, and that he - was inclined to continue. his studies, obtained from-her parents permission to depart for him. They were twins, and • very much re sembled each other. • She presented belsell at the, depot in the clothes of her brother, and was sent to the '27th regiment.of the Ltie,„jn which she has served_ six years. Mhe was raised to the rank of serjeant at the battle of Iyagram, for having saved the life of her Captain, who fell into the Danube, and was. in danger of perishing. At the battle of the 2d of May,. near Lisbon, where the Duke of Abrantes commanded, her- Colonel being sur rounded by the enemy, she demanded six men whom she could depend upon, with whom she proceeded to his succour ; notwithstanding a gun shot wound which she received in her left Will, she - succeeded ,in saving him, besides making two insurgent officers prisoners. She also received on this occasion a wound from a bayonet in the left Ode, was carried to•the hospital of Almeida, and thence to that of Burgos, where she was cured of Mcr wound 'without her sex being discovered ; but an illness has since betrayed it, and she has just passed by the city of Coutrav, to go to het' depot, to receive the recompense due to her va lour, and to ht. - :dec:4rated by the hand of the •lond whom she saved with the honourable in signia due to the brave.--(French Paper) toLicl. Bovv-STREET'. ,, i4 man was charged with.se ing.forged Bank of England Notes. for, less than their nominal value. Mr. Lees, the Inspector of Bank of .England Notes, attended !the cztamina tion., The prisoner 'was committed for further examination,. On Tuesday evening Ned Owen, alias Symonds, the %veil known sharper, ,underwent another exa mination, charged with Tieing concerned Kenyon and Green, who were tried' at the last Old Bailey Session for robbing a youth of the name of Delatoueb, at the door of the Green Man public-house, 41 . 0x:ford-street, when he was ft.r!y committed for trial. A woman yesterday underwent an examination, eleargad %yid' 11aving„stolen . eight valuable coach glasses. She teas committed for trial. Uxtos-trat.t.— LIEUTENANT JOHNS ON.—Ro 'berts and Mellon, the two men in custody on sus picion of having been concerned in the murder of of Lieutenant Johnson, .were again examined.— Mellon repeated his assertions, that he was totally ignorant of the transaction ;'and that th? pre— tended Confession of Roberts, accusing hint of being a principal, was a string Of diabolical fake- - hoods. It will he recollected, that Embers in his confession stated, that he had preserved the knife with which Lientanant Johnson's throat was cut, and that he bad marked it with names of both. Mellon and Butler; not knowing to which of theta it had belonged. He was now'called on to state where it was; when he stated that it was concealed in a tin kettle hid under - some brambles, in a ditch near Shooter's Hill. Upon this statement, Coiling bourn anti Glennon were directed by the Magis, tratcs to take the prisoner in a' chaise to Shooter's that he might point out the •spot where the - knife Would be found. Front some instances O prevarication ; however, of which the prisoner had been guilty, a degree of suspicion list arisen .in the minds of tilt na.rist-rates„ that his conles§ion, was a mere fabrication, and the officers were directed to be particularly atten tive to his actions. The prisoner was accord ingly taken in a chaise to Shooter's-hill, and when they-had arrived near the .pot - which he had mentioned, they girt out of the chaise to walk.— Previous to their quitting it, Colliughourn ob served the prisoner busily shuffling about his poc kets, upon -Which he gave the signal to Glenuon ; and on observing him more closely, they perceived he had got a knife in his hand ; they took no notice of having perceived. it, and when he had come to the spot where he had represented the kettle as being deposited, he pointed out a bram ble bush, which, on being removed by the officers, the kettle was discovered ; the prisoner ran his hand underneath it, and after keeping it a short time there, produced a knife, which he handed to the officers, - pretending•to have taken it out of the kettle, but which the 'officers immediately knew to be the same that they had previously seem' in his hand. On one side the handle the word " Mellon" was written, and on the other side,the letters P.ll. 89. When handed over to Collinglootn•n, the knife was covered with fresh soil, and had riot at all the appearance of having kid for any length of time in the damp. The prisoner also produced a brooch, vhih'h he asserted to have formerly be longed to Lieutenant Johnson ; by the activity of the officers, however, it has been clearly proved that Lieutenant Johnson did not wear a brooch of any sort. The hat produced by the prisoner, and also stated to be that which was worn by the de ceased at time he met with his unfortunate fate, has been sliewn to the relations of the -deceased, who all declared their opinion, that it had never belonged to hint, nor did they believe, that at the time of his death, he had so large a sum of money about 11;:n, as was stated by Roberts, in his con fession, to have been taken front him. Prom these, and several other circumstances no room was left for doubt in the minds of the Magistrates, that the pretended confession of fli'e prisoner, was a most diabolical attempt to attach the guilt of murder to two men innocent of the crime', for the pur 7 pose.of obtaining his own pardon for other of knees with which himself was charged, and w;th a, view to the obtaining' the reward to, be paid on the cOnviction of any one concerned in this most atrocious mutter; and his diabolical attempt would most likely have succeeded, • had it not been for the zeal and, activity of the officers„ who, much to their credit, displayed more anxiety to promote • the ends of public justice than to possess thent selves of the sum of 2001., to which they would have been entitled, had Roberts's confession been corroborated by collateral evidence. No doubt, however, remaining on the minds of the Magi strates, they ordered Mellon to be discharged, and fully committed Roberts, for trial, for the burglary with whichltewas charged, and on his_ own confession. GuiLbit ALL.--Stritidliiig--YeSterday Moses Lcrey , «•ho was charged some days since be 'ore the sit t'ng Alderman, with liavin . g defrauded various . persons Of goods and money, was again put to the bar, wiien'a great many fresh charges were made against him.—lle was fulls committed for trial. MAELBOROUGU-STREET. A female servant to a Lady in Quel.kc-street, tins charged with her bro 'ther, on suspicion of breaking open a bureau in her mistress's ned-rooth, and stealing 261. in Bank notes.—lt N3Reared in evidence, that the prosecu trix, who is an elderly Lady, residing - with two other Ladies, went out on Sunday afternoon ; the servant, by permission, went out afterwards, her brother, the other p'risoner, having called for her, and he waited until she had got ready. On the return of the Lady, she discovered that her bureau had' been broken open, and 261. had been taken fimn a p • ket-book which contained 301: In the same place was a considerable sum in gold and silver coins, together with plate, trinkets, 8:c. which were left. A Lady in the house stated, that , she heard a noise up stairs after the prisoners left. No trace has been had of any sort, and the prisoners were remanded to formal custody until a future day. A coffee-house keeper, in the nc.qghbourbood of lion -street, was held to bail for a series of as saults and barbarous treatment to his wife, who appeared in a dejected-state. BIRTHS. On• the 29th of September last, at Palermo, the Right Hon. Lady Montisomerie, of a st.C. On t2oiti inst. Cie Lady of John 131acket, Lsq. of West Sinitlifi , :hl, of a daughter, her first child, after a marriag,e of 14 rears.. Lately, in Dewson-street, Dublin ; the Laclyof Dr. Edward Percevid, of a sun and heir. I.;stur;lay, OsbQroe, of Clapham-road, of a daughter. MARKit;D. On the 12th inst. at Cardiff Church, Captain E. Davies, of the Etutern Itegi:lent of Glamorgan Local Militia, to Mi. , ieltb.:st daughter of the. late Mr. Charles Carrier, o•• that town. Lately, the fLer. John Kedington Whish, B.A. late of Luta, nod College, to Miss Hale, daughter of the late John Blag.-- don I ial. , Es.l. of AlJerley, in the Co•mity of Gloucester. st'unight, at Cithernarry Church, Nathaniel Koh,. bins, Esq. :eldest sou of 1.14..,0rge Itonbins, Esq. of .1-Iyrni:ul town, in the County of Tipperary, to Miss Massy, daughter of the Hon, George Eyre Massy, of lliversdale. The same dav, Mr. John JoDie, second, son of the publisher of the Carlisle to Miss Mary Hind, daughter of ;klr.. Edward Bind, of Cannon-street, London. On Thursday morning Gast, in Ocirlz - Major Charles De' ftuip3ky, of the Nuke of Brunswick's dussars, to Maria Te resa daughterof Jeremiah Hoare, Efq. of that City. On the 17th inst. at Oranefield, Alexander Thomson, Eq. Cashier of the Grtlenuek Bank Company, to-Miss Fyfe. On Monday last, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, Richard Osborn, Esq. of Green-street, ti) Mary, -daughter of W. 1,-). Dadley, Esq. of Hamsey-Hall, Sussex. Di E D. At Chovci•in;hce, Lieutenant-0)1one' George Ball, Ackfu taot-Gi.aeral of the. Bengal Army. At hi:: house at Hanaytedal, Mr. Jame:. Bell, of Coventry street,. aged 71. COAL MARKET,.NoV.:2S: - `.hips at Marxet. Slnixs sold. Price. 6i Newcastle .. 3. 3i . 445. '6d. to 555. Od 2 Sunderland . . . . 'I -. . 445. 6d.• to -5-s. 0.17 • WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 7 minutes after 9. I Evening, 32 niinutea after 9. I Molton-strict, Grosvenor-square, must be addressed.