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London, England, 1804-12-12 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, TUUDAT.

After some trials of n interest, the RECORDER
informed tn.- Jury, dist there were no more prison-
ers to be the this s..ission —a d that they were dis-
charge.'.. li. then proceecied, in a very solemn
. mane r, to pus sentence di,,• prisoners who had
}seen found guilty
S. wenc.!, f deoti WAS passed on Beliamin Bishop,
J .e JelNiu, John rl'ilght, Ifaanah Palmer, Ana
iinrric, And Jam Holdiane.
lien eh elver and Ann Ifarrls pleaded preg-
nancy, in stay t.f th.ii • sedition, which is to be
examined into.

I sy, .ty ordr reri •n ►,e transported for seven
• •.IA .g two last Sessions ; and se-
vere' etiwry for mini. • Renee.. were sentesoesl to
fines and imprtsot•.mr^• 4kir various pet iods.

POl.ler._.

LITTLE GO's.

BOW-STREIT.

flrtre NICHOLAS BOND, Lsq. 44 Sir WM. PARSONS.

Yesterday Jobe Holland, Tirana, Phillips, Thomas
White, Tbomai Rehr, James Garrard, Thomas Bu►-
ne/f, and Edward Cbqrabcc.'aint, who were apprehended
at the Stitherlar.d Arms public.: rinse, in Sackwille-
street, last Thursday evening, in the act of drawing
a little-go or private lottery, in consequence of a
search-warrant issued by Mr. Bono, were brought
before the above Magistrates.
Mr. MAItiIeATC and Mr. Cossr appeared as
counsel for the gcntlemrn who have so vet y lauda-
bly ►tood forward for the public to put a stop to
this infamous mode of committing depredations
upon the lower orders of society. They address-
ed the magistrates very fully upon the laws that
have been passed for the suppression of unlawfully
gambling, in lotteries, and applied them to the case
they were about to lay before them ; to com-
plete the charges against the p:isoners, particulaily
Mr. Holland, to prove him to be the pi optietor of
the Pik go or private lottery, they had thought it
adviseable to admit one of the men apprehended an
evidence, who, on being called, deposed, that about
four months since lie was employed by the prisoner,
Jobe Holland, of No. Grosvenor-place, as his
agent, to take insurances in a p, ivate lottery, called
a Mk ze, then set up by Mr. Holland ; and that
another private lottery was lately set up by Mr. Hol-
land, which commenced drawing on the 12th of last
month, and was to continue drawing for 31) days,
Sundays escepa•d, and which has continued to be
drawn from day to day till last Thursday evening,
when they were apprehended by the officers. Each
drawing took place at different public houses, at
which they contrived to gain admittance for that
purpose. After the drawing was over each evening,
a. place was appointed for a meeting of the several
agents, who took hunks about in differein parts of
London to procure insurances in Mr. Holland's
lottery the next morning, at which time they were
informed of the place of meeting the ensuing even-
ing, and which time happened to be the place where
the lottery was to be drawn, they being always
kept ignorant if the second place they were to meet
at, which was done to avoid deteAion ; and it was
frequently proposed to retire to another place, and
that no persons were admitted to the drawing but
the agents, or persons strongly recommended by
them. Mr. Holland was in general present, and
lie aneti as the principal in the business, by receiving
money from him that he tool for insurance, and
paid him money to pay the hits with, and balanced
his book at the end of the Lottery. There were about
fifteen Agents employed to take Insurances like
himself, and that he used to take from five to eight
pounds a day for Insurance, from a number of per-
sons he called upon, and for Iris agency lie used to
receive two shillings in the pound, and the other
agents were paid in A similar manner. At the time
the officers entered the room to take them into cut.
tody, the lottery, or lude go, was in the aft of being

drawn, and it was about half over. He eenld not re-
celletri who drew the lottery that evening, but WAS
sure it was two of the Prisoners ; one of them drew
ivory tickets out of one of the wheels, and another
drew one out of the other wheel, which contained
the blanks and prizes, and announced whether tlos
ticket drawn was a blank or prize: dui ing this
a: swing, the Prisoner, John Holland, was prewar.
That, .they each drawing, listswereregularly prin:ed
of the !:umbers draws, and their fate, and the shffil -
eta agents took them with them to their customers
houses when they went to colle& insurances. The
lists were printed in an ambiguous manner, P, to
denote the first drawn ticket, and pod, to deno:e
prize.
John Parsons said, about three w,eks since he
met the Prisoner Jarrard, with a green b rg in h;s
hand, when he told him the contents were the litqep,
and which was very similar to that seized by the
officers.

Mary Ramsbot!tn, of Berner's Mews, O' ford-
street, said, the beginning of this month the Prisoner
Jarrard called upon her, and asked her to Fit a few
friends of his meet in her loft, over her stable, for
a short time, anti no harm should come of it ; to
which she consented; and in the evening of the
same day, the Prisoners Holland, Jarrard, and
Chamberlayne, with a number of others, came ac-
cording to agreement. She went with them a short
time into the loft; :An she was out, she heard the
hide g• rattle. When they were going away, she
received 6s. for the use of her loft, but could not
recolleft who paid her.
A journeyman gunsmith, of Mr. Manton's,
street, attended, and said his wife had inoired to
the amount of 2M. and had pawned a number of his
cloaths, to carry on insurance with Mr. Holland's
agent, which had entirely ruined him. He hid
several times applied to Mr. Holland to return the
money, but had received oo answer. Ihe Magi-
strates could not afford the poor man any relief.
Hugh Penny, engraver, of Old Burlington-Areet,
sat.', a book seized by the officers, entitled The
Grand Imperial, with the figure of Fortune, wa,
engraved by him for Mr. Holland, who gave him
t:v., design for it, and paid him for e. 50, which he
had snuck off for him.

Mi Gustav, and Mr. Atter, addressed the
Magistrates at considerable length in behalf of the
Pris,ners, and contended, that the case made out
against the Prisoners was not cognisable under
the 17th of George the IL but came under the
Little Go A& which only makes the proprietor
liable to the penalty of 1001. and the agents liable
to be imprisoned.
Mr. CONS r was heard in reply.
The mag:grates then took a view of all the cir-
cumstances, and conviaed all the prisoners as rogues
and vagabonds under the 17th of Gee. the 11.
Mr. FSTCOURT, the Solicitor to the Stamp Office,
attended, and said, the gentlemen who had so lau-
dably stood forward to apprehend rite prisoners,
should have every assistance he could give them.
as the officer of Government. He likewise addressed
himself to all the Publicans present, and said, that
it was a very mistaken notion with them and the
public in general, that this business was only a mat-
ter of Police; but he took that opportunity to inform
them that he had received itgructions from the
Commissioners of the Stamp Office to prosecute all
persons who should admit such proceedings in their
premises. of any description, for the full penalty of
5061. in the name of the Attorney General.
The examination occupied the attention of the
Magistrates from eleven till past four o'clock.
The office has not been so crowded since the time
of Mrs. Lee and the Gordons.

A Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall yes-
terday, at which were present the Luso MA rot, 19
Aldermen, Records, Sh and City Officers.
The Court ordered the eice of Bread to be raised
to 160. the quartern loaf whesten, and 1.51 d. hou e-
hold, to commence to-morrow.

The LORD MAYON was requested to issue his pre-
cept for the eleaittn of an Alderman for the Ward
of Lime-street, in the room of Sir %VA IKI N L swis,
Knight, who is removed to succeed the Right Hon.
THOMAS HARLIY, deceased, •as Alderman of the
Ward of Bridge Without, and Father of the City.
The appeal of the inhabitants of St. Michael
Crooked, against the assessment under the 'ncum-
bent MI, passed last session, was further adjourned
until the nest Court.

Net of the homeward-bound Lisbon and Op iito
fleets have arrived in the Channel.

The Dragon, of 74 guns, has been on shore off
Portland, where she sustained so much damage, she
was obliged to go to Plymouth to repair.
Admiral Lord Gsana tit it, we :1,1,10-stand, to
hoist his flag on board the If,bere,,,, the finest ship
in the British Navy.
The George, SIMPsoN, from New-York, for
Greenock. is captured, and carried into Gnadaloupe.
The Forgone, Moo's, from Emhden, for Phila-
delphia, has upset in the Delaware.
Last Monday the Loyal Whitechapel Volunteers,
or Second Regiment of Tower Hamlets, met in
their ground in Goodman's-fields, to present a sword
of the value of IA guineas, to their Commander,
W. 11 A Roy, Esq. which was delivered with a
speech by Serjeant-Major ARGILL ; after which
they had a grand field-day in the London Fields.
To-ni broom morning the Jiff. rent Ririe .:.1.1 Licht
Cnmpani •s of Volunteers in the city of L
and is vicinity, will be brigaded in Hyde Park,
ond..r the command of the Earl of HAI kIsC; roN.
We understand that they are to have frequent field
days during the winter.
Letters Patent have passed the Great Seal of Ire-
land for constituting and appointing Brigadier-
General TIIOM as Baowriatoo, Exarnmatot Comp-
troller of Army Accounts, in the room of the Hon.
Colonel Grouoc Napica, deceased.
When the Poirs celebrated Mass at Lyons, she
cathedral was not large enough to contain the peo-
ple ; several persons were pressed or suffocated to
death in the crowd.

On Saturday morning a beautiful young Lady,
of a mpettable family, in a fit of despondency, sup-
posed to have been occasioned by disappointment in
a love affair, swallowed,on the Steine, at Brighton, a
Large phial of laudainam. Her rash a 2 was disco-
vered by sonic genttfmen walking near her at the
time, one of whom procured immediate medical
assistance, and, we are happy to hear, that some
hope; are now entertained 413er winery.

FROM I.4ST stGrrrs GAZETTE.

•
Adnoiralt.o-Ver, ar. 11, 1804.4).:
C old Letter from tit: I Innoura.lle Admiral Cornwall*
.1:c. to Witham Nl..,,deti' F.i). titted on board lilt 24.ijestyll
ship the ViHe de Paris, off the Start, D.-rember 7, leab. ;
SIR,
I have the honour to enclose,' for the informatioa
of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
letter to me from Captain Hondas, of the NA*
givinq an ac,mont of the captare of the French
therein niewiinied by that ship.
I have the honour to be,
Ma. Coasiwa Lids.
sat, of Bret, Nov. 27, 12J4.
I Ws leave to acquaint you, that at daylight
morning, seeing some small vessels at a short
tance from us, and s:.a-tly afterwards perceiviu
lire of muske ry from them on the boats of its
jesty's ship L'Aigl:r, which Captain Wolf. hsl a.
chase of therr, I made sail, and cut oil t
which prove to be gun-boats Nos. Stil and 3 ;
motanilig etch one lung brass four-pouritler, and u•.
short twelve, from Hal...horse bound to Brea. ha
..
in 7 nil board a Lieutenant or the 6i.t regim.mt u •
and thirty,sis privates, besia:s five seamen
bel ;o7ing to each vessel, being pars of taxtee,4 ',has
h td sasied from that p it t on a similir destination.
I am sorry io acquaint you, that two seamm belong-
ing to the L'Aigle are wounded ( William Sheph
and James Mitchell), the latter dingerously.ll
h eve given Captain Hawkins, of His Majesty'si
sloop Dispatch, orders to proceed to Plymouth with
the two vessels which I think worth preservinsiii
and to land the prisoners. •
I have the honour to be, icc •
(Stned) THOMAS DUNDAi.
To the flonnarable Corow.ars, ,illl
Commander its Chief, See. ke.

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