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they ousel their friend; and two others lOW IFRII aslant at the
' tia,e, pledging their oottscienota that the fact ticeet occurred. and by
their doing so they served flair ftiond t cid this it, a soma to be
daily ultocessd in a CoUtt of Justice!
"Alas ! poor bullion nature l"

re each a mart ilecread.to be trea4. Prosesatians of this kind ;
were of extreme importance to the public, bemire thee art' she'
I best and moat effectual Menne of keeping the profession to which he'
bad the honour to belong nnsailital by ,characeers.of such an infa.
aim description as that of the defentiloc.nod It behoved allthe
mapectable members of it to take care that no such martbleatbrings
mediae should obtrude themselves amongthem.
Daniel .lead was then examined.—The detendent came lo me:
about the beginning of September in the last year ; he was quite a.
stranger to me; he said he came from .a alr. Webber, an attorney:
whom I had before that employed to act for me. lie told ate thatl
Mt. Webber heine no longer qualified to act. he had recommended,
him to me, and he should be very happy to do my business. I
told him !had a few debts that 1 wished to be collected, and that If
he would call in a day oe two, 1 would give himthe particulars. 1
consented to employ him, because I thought he was an attorney ; lie
said he was so when be called again ; and I thenthrected him to issue
the writ against Parsons. I accompanied hint to the Middlesex
Bill Office, and made an affidavit of the debt. Aboat two days;
afterwards he called and asked for IL 16s. to pay for the writ, and
the officer's fee, which I paid him. After this he came several
times and said he wanted money ; first, for a rule to the
Sheriff, and then for various other things, on all which occasions I
gave him money.
Mr. Ilnowan mit here observed, that these several payments
constituted distioct and eeparam offences, and ought so to have been
alleged in the indictment, whereas the offence was only charged in
One Went. ,
The CEIATIKAW apprehended that the indicunent was correctly
trained. The defendant was charged with being guilty of obtain.
ing money under der.. false pretence of saying that ha was an nt.
ll troey. It was not necersary that the whole of the iponey should
be obtained at the esine tithe; it was sufficient that the pretence
under which he obtained it was the saute end that was so, he eon.
ceived. Ile bad obtained to couch few One thing and so much for
another, but all upon the pretence bet hearse an sttorney.
Witness,--I' peed him 10s. tot the rule; hoot from me altoge.
thee about 101. or 111. lententled one de, at IVeettninater by his l
desire, to oppose Parsons' bail, and for which I gave him half al
guinea to pay to Counsel. Ile sent me to a publiC-houaL till he I
came to tell naparhrther the bail was station; as lie did not come
I went down to the Court and met him, when he said the bail had
ustified, for they had sworn through thick and thin. Ha told nit
he had retained Mr. Chitty oo the occasion. He also stated that
he bad whim-need a air. Dance to attend the trial, and he wanted.
two guineas to pay mat gentleman, which I acoardinaly gave him.
The trial never came on, nor have I ever hail any fruit* from the
action. I was ailed upon by a man named Richardson, about
three or four months ago. He was an entire stranger to me. He
demanded al. for conducting the action against Parsons, but I
refused to liay him, because I did not know Min; I never employed
him to my lite to arine the action option Pectoris.
This witness was (Togs-examined at considerable length, by Mr.
BIODIRICIC, with a view to show that he had conducted
the suit against Parsons in person. Notices were shown to the
witness, which be acknowledged to be in his hand.writiog, and
which purported that he was acting in person, and not by attorney ;
but the witness declared that he was notearare that such was inc
case. Ile positively denied ever having told the Sheriff's Officer,
or anybody else, that be was acting in person. Goldsmith did nut
say to hint after the cause had gone on some time, Now, as
Parsers is out disposed to settle the business, it Is necessity you
should have ao attorney ;" nor did be ever mention to witness the
name of Richardlon at any time. Witness had made application
to the Court of Kind's Bench against Richardson, in consequence
of these proceedings, but did not succeed. Witrena had not yet
paid the costa of the application. Mr. Brewer was his present

LONDON SES'4IONS, Saes. 14.
Tbis miming these Sessions commenced before the Hight Elan'
the 31a- Heronlcr, 13heri8s, fall Baia.
considerable
.... confess that It
Gentlemen of the
" length of
bl;CatiOt4
VILMA the
ever
years
eon.
familia, there.
their imaligence
"• - of re-
which

malice against
destroyed.
. had judi-
this descrlp-
arena;
There
'which
_ soo
Learned Ra-
unlawful con.'
he tolerated.
properly
•he lard

prevent,
.oany, , done) with
ttal felony, end punishable as
. - mkndar did not contain
, before the Grand 1-
, serious attention.
charge of combination
this, this ottence was •
lie Legislature
render the common .
.11
_ dve, so as . eto annihilate the evil, or at . to stern
torrent. Expeilecie had shown, that the offence to which he
r ded bad not only been surversice of order and detrimental to
I 4 and tonmerce, but its result had been stained by the f.,ul
cirlme of murder. Those conspiqcles had not been confined to one
eilement, hut in some Matinees bodies of men had armed themselves
land attacked ships, &c. theteby preventing the orderly and aatis-
lied mariner from doing his duty. After the Learned Recorder had
remarked upon the several other otfencest he dismissed the Jury,
eipresair,g bis confidence that the members of it would discharge
their important duty in a manner which would prove not only satis-
factory to thpnselves on reflection, but also obtain for then the
thanks of their fellow-citizens.
The Coral afterwards tried one assault case, and heard a num- '
, bee of parish appeals not possessing the least interest.

APPE;II. UNDER THE VAGRANT ACT.
Jame, Bond, who had been committed by the Lord Mayor, as
a rogue and vagabond, for deserting his wife and family, whereby
they became chargeable to the parish of St. Bennett linet, appealed
against his Lordittip's conviction ; but upon the care being called
on. he (lid not appear to prosecute his appeal.
Evideuct of the facts were then given, and the Lord Mayor's
conviction af3rtned...

1 ha Court than adjourned until to•motrow morning at the Old
Bailey.

attorney.
Mr. Denham, a miller, was next examined. lie became ac.
quainted with the defendant at the house of Mr. Mead, rho, ia
defendant's presence said, that is my attorney, end Goldsmith im.
mediately asked the witness whether he bad any business to do is
the law, because, if so, he should be glad to do it for him. IVit.
neve afterwards employed bids. Witness had searched the rolls
of the (kart of Xing'a Bench this morning.
Tbe CRAlrtmAx.—Suppose he has, do you mean to say that this
is evidence ; must not some one ncquaint‘d with the Rolls be pre.
sent, or must you not produce the Rolls themselves.
Mr. ADoLenus submitted that this was the best evidence that
could be adduced by him, as it was a well known rule that no pub.
lic documents could be produced, because being public they were
required always to be at some certaM place.
eiratemag—lf you mean to prove that the defendant is not an
Attorney by the Roll, you must prove it by the production of the
Roll itself, or by a person who has eatmined it properly.
Mr. Anot.rlivs.—We do prove it by this person, who has ex.
embed it.

POLICE.

MAICSION-TIOCSE, SEPTIIIIIER 14.—F:livsbelli Prows, t
fruit-woman, was charged with having used false weightY.
A respectable min stated that he purchased some filbert nuts
from the woman, who, in weighing them, showed some inclination
to avoid giving good weight ; he therefore took hold of the
weights, and found that they were very light. Ile finally Mee?.
mined, that by her mode of weghlng, ahe managed to gain eight
ounces ii. the pound, her pound. weight weighing no more thatti
ten ounces, and her her hand having pitched uponthe beam as much
weight as defrauded the customer of two ounces more. The coin.'
plainant stated that the fruit-sellers gained a great profit by OW
plan of cheating, which was now very general.' It was, he said, to)
be lamented that the %Vard Inquests, to whom the public interesta,•
so far as weights and measures- in the city of London were con-
cerned, had been intrnsted, did not exert themselves more to pre.
lent frauds of this description.
A gentleman, who has been long acquainted with the duties of
Ward J' said it was laughable to see the in

CHAIRMAN.—Very well then, do so.
Mr. Rnonnatcx.—No Sir ; I submit that your voice here is
law. a id I say that What you have lain down is the law ; and I Deg
a take advantage of it.
CHAIIMAX...-1 certainly have expressed my opinion, but I will
not overrule any thing now, but I shall mention my opinion pre-
sently.
The witness.—l can read ; I examined the Roll this morning in
s Court in C'hancery-inne.
13E0DEIIIVX..-1 object to this.
Mr. ADOLPH Vs.—What do you mean ?
The CIIAIIt7tIAX.—I am of opinion that this person cannot give
evidence whether the defendant is, or is not, in attorney, by what
he saw in an office in Chancery.lanc.
Mr. Anoxeuus.—Whether it is evidence or not will be known
hereafter.
The Cuatax•sr.-1 say it Is no evidence st all.
The witness—.l do not know at what office it was I searched ;it
was in Symond's Inn, I believe. I looked into a large book. I
asked for the rand attorneys, and the clerk gave me a book, which
contained entries for 30 years. I watched it carefully, but there was
no such name as Thomas Goldsmith.
Mr. BRODERIICI —I really object to all this.
the COCAT—Who was the clerk there?
Witness—l do not know.
51r. ANDREWS—If 1 cannot establish this fact by the present
whness I will not waste the time of the Court, but will call another.
The CHAIRMAN—Is this the way to prove whether the defend.
ant iv an Attorney or not? Here is a man who Isays'he is a miller,
and that he went into an office in Chancery-lane, and asked fur a
book, and that tomeborly gave him one, but he does not know who
he is, nor what the book is. Justice can never be administered if
such a course as this is to be attempted.
Richard Brewer was then called, who stated himself to be an
Attonrey, and that he had searched the rolls in the King's Bench
office, in the Inner Temple. and the defendant was not an attor-
ney of that Court. The Clerk of the Rolls did not keep any coins.
terpart of the tell&
Croes-examined—Witness could not tell what day it was be
made search, but it was any day but Sunday.
Counsel—Come, you an tell what day it was.
Witnews—l
TheCHarastaN—Then, Sir, if you can you are trifling very
much with the time of the Court not to do en.
Witness—l tweet (dropping the t again in such a manner as to
be understood to say I eau/
The Court and Counsel together—You can? Then why don't
you
The wieners still more earnestly than ever vociferated " I canal'
tell. Do you suppose I keep these days noted in my memory
I This latter clithe explained tris meaning.
The Cum...stew-0, you cantos tell ?

~ aid Jurymen, it really o see the manner
which the general run of the Jurymen went about doing their bu.
sines. All the shopkeepers in each ward had notice of the annual
day on which they were to be visited, in order to have their weights
and measures tried, and the Inque,i, preceded by their beadle in
his robes, walked round to examla weights and measures, which
*ere, is many instances, prepared for the occasion, and which
would, if the visit had been sudden and unexpected, have been
substituted by weights and measures of a vary different description.
The Loup MAYO n regretted that it was necessary to have the
presence of two Magistrates before the merits of a case of this kind
could he decided upon. (The measures and w,:!ghts had just been
tried, and found to lie deficient to the extent described.) The pub-
lic were defrauded of 30 or 40 per cent, by this system in the article
described ; and it was not known to what extent they might be de.
fronded in articles of much more importance. Ile had been in.
flamed that the Ward Juries were extremely negligent upon occa.
sions of the kind, and he considered the subject one which deserved
to be brought immediately before the public by some member of
the Corporation.
MT. SAVAGE, the Common Councihnan, who happened to be'
present when the Lord Mayor was making these observations, said
the frauds practised in the manner just stated were innumerable.
He agreed in the statement that the annual parade of the \Card In.
quests was calculated to prevent the detection of false weights and
measures. That practice, he was happy to say, did not exist in the
%Ward (faitingdon Without) which he had the honour of repre-
senting. The Juries were In that Ward in the habit of taking all
the shop-keepers by surprise, and of visiting them frequently.
This practice had completely done away with the possibility (f fala
lowing up the deception to the prejudice of the public, and the con.
eequence was, that a man might go into every shop in the NVardi
without the slightest chance of getting a false weight or measure.
The publicans, he observed, were never on any occasion found to
have deficient measures. It was, he added, his intention to bting
the subject before the Court of Common Council, for the purpose
of more effectually checking a system of fraud which obviously
affected the poorer orders of society.
Mr. Heider told the Lord Mayor that he was empowered by an
Act in the reign of Charles 11. to adjudicate in cases of this kind,
without the co.operatlon of another Magistrate.
His Losiasuir accordingly convicted the defendant in the
penalty of five shillings, and she also forfeited the weights and
scales. It was proved that she had steeped the nuts in water for
the purpose of making them weigh heavy.
A CHILD SOLD TO A CII/MNEY SWEEPER.
GUILDUALL, SEPTEWBEII 14..e.A. fellow, who gave his name
!)arid Duricam, was brought up before the sitting Magistrate,
Mr. Altlertnau THORP. upon the singular charge of decoying a
little boy, named John Keating, and disposing him to a chimney.
sweeper. one Hardy, of Hatt:bone-place, for 2..
Jolt Heating. the fatheE a'rtleman's servant, at present oat

Witness—l mon t.
The CIZAIRMAIII—Who did on See P
Wof itness—l saw the masterthe King's Bench dike, or the
officer, or somebody belengiog to him. I hats not the least doubt
but what I saw some person there; I do not know his name; I
don't know the 11.111)CA of all the persons I see.
Who showed you the book?
Witness—The book was open, and I searched it for the certifi.
tate.

of place, endresldlng at No. ii. Hatler's-alley,'Mookelds, said
that be hail been absent in the country upon business ,and upon hie
Teton home on Thursday evening last, he learnt that his little boy
had been out all day. He did not return all night, and in the
morning, though every inquiry was made, no tidings could be
learned respecting him. Ile had continued his search for him day
ally day, bet without succe”. till Tuesday. evening, when a lad d
the name of Murphy, happening to bear in the neighbourhood 0,
the child being mis Nine, came him and Informed him, thatbe

Air. Bnoncatcx--Oh ! the certificate?
Witness—Yes ; that was the book I smelled.

bed been playing whh a boy, whom he now supposed to be his
Gen. in &Withheld on the Thursday ; that he watched him after.

The CHA lit iIA Y—And that will not do. wards going away with a chinutei-aweepoian, and it he went to
' Alr.Annatws (in an under tone) %aid it would do. 'tardy s, the chimney-sweep, in kathabone-place, he dare say he
The CHAIIIMAX.—It will de, will it ? I thought not. There we : would find him there. He went there accordingly with all speed,
differ again. I where he found the child ; and learning fiam hint, that the pri.
' Mr. iIItODEIMCK —Yon have been in some difficulties yourself, goner, who is a sort of occasional journeyman with Hardy, was the
have you not ? 1 mean you have been at the Old Bailey. man who reduced him away, gave him into custody.
11'imess—Oh, do you mean that? I got SOU damages shoot I Little Keatiog, who was still in the state his father had brought
that affair. . him away, ttansformed into a complete chintney.sweep, on being
%%limas examined by 11h. A xnutws....-The moster's office I questioned by the Magistrate, gave the following account of his
is the place where the book is kept iu which the naives of the atter. transformation i—lie had gone, he said, to hmitlifichl, the day
nets are entered. - !after the fate, to see the shows told things removing awry, when he
'rtes owAtiwitAir—.Yea; those who bare taken out their Mai. Mgt the prisoner, who, after .nine wenversattow with him, asked
rateware there enrolled. but those who venture to practice without I him if he would go with him, and he would MR e hint a tanner to
certificates are not enrolled. iiixpenee); he went slung with hint at first of his own accord, but
air. Anot.ruus—And those who are not on the roll are ipso that lie afterwards beat him and made him come along with him,
facto off the roll. took him all round by Islington, ordered him to say his name was
iItatIRSIAN—No, I think not. Ido not know that the defer.d. Richardson, and that he was only nine years of age, and tore the
ant is an attorney, but this is a most extraordinary way to show mark of his name out of his shirt, by the way, and at last took him
that he is not one. Why, the witness himself knows that the book to the chimney-sweeper's where lie was Mund, and where he hyA
' which he searched was not the criterion to aloft whether the man been detained against his will, never having been suffered to go but
was an attorney a not. A man may be an attorney, even if he of the house since.
has nor ittken out hie certificate: he incurs a penalty under the Murphy, the boy who had given the information to Mr. Keating,
Stamp Act by such* proceeding, but he does not cease to be an said he had been playing with the little boy in Smithfield, though
attorney. What the witness has stated was all nonsense, and no ,he did not know who he was, when the chimney sweeper joined
evidenre at all. If this is a bona tile prosecution, let a proper I them, anti coaxed his companion away front him. Ile suspected
search be had. Why, we i,hould not be satisfied in a common re- 1 there was no good, and followed to watch. When they had got as
moral cos,: with such ptoor as this. Gentlemen of the Jury, there tar up as Islington, the sweep h..ppening to turn round, saw him,
is no evidaice at all, and you must acquit the defendant. and told him to go back, they did not want him with them. He
The Jury accordingly found the defendant Not Coilty. pretended to do so. but instead, bid himself in a doorway, and
The CRAIIIIIAN.Zi really do wish that Gentlemen would in afterwards agile followed them, till he saw them go into Lardy's.
future not depend upon one's naves so much, but upon one's judg. He did not see the chimney sweeper best the toy at all.
meat. It hoot a fair way to proceed Inwards the Muth, Owe it The prisoner, in his defence, wished it to be believed that the
has expressed its opiidon so decidedly; and it is wasting the owe 1 child had gone along willingly. Mr. Hardy had told him, on the
cf the Court in a very irregular roamer. 1 Sunday, that he wanted it boy that had not been used to the trade ;
Many petty assault cases were Gloriosad of to-day : the greateri aid that meetirg this boy in Smithfield, the next day, begging, be
number by swearing to keep the peace, end a fah proportion by asked if he should like to be *chimney-sweeper ; that theov ex.
point-Maw swearing pro and con. and leaving It to the Jury to pressed his wiilingrteas to go along with blm, and that lie accord.
balance what is technically termed eurifliefiteg testimony ; but ingly took hint to Mr. Hardy, who gave him two shillings for Me
which in too many instances them can be no doubt is a mere mica.l trouble. This, he said, took place on the Monday, anti not on the
Lion has A or B perjured himself. It is quite possible ter men 1 Thursday, as the boy stated. He acknowledged that the child had
under the influence of palmier to receive impressions front the same ' been beat, but it was not at that rime, nor for the purpose of mak.
ettentnstances hi very different asp ; bur it seems wholly borro. ing hin, come along with Wan ; but some time afterwards, to.make
bable that the senses of hearing, of teeing, amt of feeling, should, him climb a chimney.
be entirely perverted by the bias of opposing Inelinationa; so that The boy. however, persisted that it was on the Thursday that
of ten persons who shah be present at the seine trinssction, fire the prisoner toes hint to Hartly'a, and that lie had never beam ant
shall see things in one point of view, and tire in another; and tills of the house since.
so precisely In accordance with their - own rearms! intermit.' for Mr. Heating oMented,that it was obvious that the boy was there
instance. a person wits indicted so day foi jumping upon a women's against his will, :Ind that they were suspicious of his making him
toes. The woman swore positively that the man did jump upon mcm,c, for when he (Mr. K.) went to the house be found his little
her toes, and she was reedy to show her watt toe to any of the boy locked up in the cellar.
Jury. There were tour or live persons present. Two .of then. Mr. Alderman Thor& inquired the age of young Keating, rant
were relations of the woman; they bode 1,9,0,*(' that the Mau did leaning the! lie was 12 years old, though from appearance he did
jump upon the women's tots ;-'the ether two or three peraore e'erel not aeon to be more than nine, doubted much whether he had not,
the hientheof the dtteraraer.ertt they serene memoopriAttrely that in the first instance, gone with the prisoner, partly at least, velum
the man did nefilintP ePoh we weereWe lees. lieTw then were, tartly. A boy afl2 years of age, he thought, would- have known
two cam's :4 iilal;iri charcor.scicacca to a fact, and 17 euirg so bow :o puvezt Id:tielf from Ling taken forcibly away through the

.the Loan 31arott, the liscortla, the dlieritis, and 4 I
of Alderinen.
The littcostits addressed the Grand Jury et consider
-
'length, and to the following efts s.-THe tree free to confess th
gave him great concern that ;belabours of the (tenderness of
I Orand Jury were likely to he extended to a coosiderable lengtl
time, for up to the hour the Celender wes made up foe publ;ao
there were eighty-two prisoners charged with alines within
City, of London, which was at least one.fourth more than he
remembered in the corresponding periods during his forty y
experience. With a few exceptions, the charge, were of that e
mon description, with • hid) they were, alas, but too familiar, tl
,fore: In deciding upeo them, In all .probithility their intellig
and experiencs would most likely supersede the oeceuity of
marks from the 464. That was, however, one rue on w
he would make e tetairk, rte.—maliciously killing two rah,
'horst". formerly the la" did net deem this heinous ot
to caldtal felony, olden It was proved that the offender
PrOMPled to such a brutal act from a princirle of malice sr
'the proprietor of the beast or cattle which were maimed or desire
During the last Session of Parliament, the Legislature had j
cieuely passed a law which would prevent persons of this des.
.1100 irom esesPing (as many had done) with impunity t the oil
wea octir become a capital felony. and punishable as such. T
were some CUCII which the adendar did not contain, one of •
number would probaidy COMO before the Grand Inquest and i
it would demand their most serious attention. The Learned
corder said, he alluded to a charge of combination or unlawful
spiracy. In a country like this, this tee", was not to be toles
Since the Sessions before last, the Legislature had very prof
made ap enactment Which would render the common law of the
operative, sous if pouible to annihilate the evil, or at lerat to