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person whose character, it is paid, was respectable pp to the time
thin transaction ; but It is impassible that I can do othe-wiee. The
plan by which the property was obtained was one of the most 410
liberete kind.
It was word in the Juatice. room that the prisoner was a kVA
Tate chot, and that he is the terror of many of the great game-pre'
servers in the game counties. There were poison,' In the ofL • With
had warraets againist Lim for shorting without a licence, and who,
apprehending that he would have been discharged, were ready to
take hold of him.
Allerson seas then committed to prison, and the parties mil
bound over to prosecute.
Mr. Bradley. who lied transmitted the 200 sovereigns, tagetliti
with the six pounds of tea. to Iris brother, the hanker, of Ashhornes
attended yesterday. for the purpose of' continuieg the investigation
into the circumstances of the loss of his parcel, which was to have
gone to Aehbornte
The guard of the Manchester Detainee coach, r.-orn Leicester to
Ashhortte, !mended, at rite thrice of Mr. Bradley, who had a soli,
citor upon this elimination —The geard stated, that lie had guild
with the coach on the night the panel was 100, but he had no re.
relit eion of having seen it on the oceaßion. Ile thought that, if sf
bad reached him, he would have remarked the circionetaece. Hd
wan in the habit of receiving the earcel for Mr. Bradley, of Adia
borne. of the same kind, for a long time, and he knew It.
r. Brat:ley said, that he had no reasen td doubt what the mead
had stated about the parcel. In fact,. he believed that it lied need
left towp—thet it had never been semen into the custody of the
guard who set off front London.
The !Joan Mecoa salted Mr. Lee, the solicitor for Mr. Water)
house, of Lad-lane, whether there was arty information to be added
lie that Which had been already received.
LEE stated, that the clerks of Mr. Waterhouse went
deserving of credit as any bun ; and they had sworn that they h.:
delivered the parcel to toe guard. The most minute inquiries hot.
been made by Mr. Waterhouse lets the case, and its is ustirfired:
that no blame is to he attributed to his establishment: Thawed.
might have been lost in many different ways; indeed, it was Wiese& •
diet. although it hid been put into tire hands of the coachman, it
had never been put into the Defiance coach. It might have been
put into another coach, ie the c infusion and variety of business.
The Loan 31kroit. said, mat die fault lay m the system, or
rather in the want of system. In fast, things could not go on lobe
in such a way. it Last been mated out of doors, that it was
practicable to check off the parcels received into coaches. Wow, he
knew that it was prottreable, and that the practice was attended
with the very lest elders. He would instance the case of Collier'. •
(we thiek he mentioned)Soathampton Coaches.
Mr. leer said that the business would be greatly impeded by
adopt:rig the euggestion. . • .
The LORD MAYOR stated, that it would be proper totem a .
pireoe, whop bosinees It should be to compare the way.bill with
tire p rrc rls wlo•n the coach was &raciest into the care of the second '
grind. Tire present insecurity was indeed very great.
Mr. Bradley said that It had been stated that he was willing td
take 501. and to have done with the Fleshiest. This was totally In- •
correct. lie had newer said he would take less than the 2001.
Mr. LF.E sad that he had merely heard so. He could not vouch
for tic truth of the report.
Mr. Bradley repeated hie, intention to proemd for the recovery of
his Orel sovereigns ; anti after tire Lord 3layor had again urged the
necessity of altering the system fur the rester public security, the
parties left the OLT.
6ot Litt' r.t..—rranche !raker. an elderly miserable-looking
man. was brooght bet ire Sir P. Late are. fint., yesterday, charged
rgith having stolen a number of import:int records of the Common .
Pleas Collie.
Mr. Sherwood, the Clerk of. the Dockets, stated the ease. He
said he had known the r:risoner for upwards of 20 yeast. He wen
formerly a clerk the respectable house of' Meese.. Evitt and
Hikoo, mile t •rs, Haydon-square, btu latterly be was to be found
constantly !oh ring shout the Temple. asking charity as a
chargA clerk. On Monday afternoon he was deserted in carrying
away the roll of the original rules of the Court in the year li90;
and upon examining the closet 'Moire these records were preserved,
eight large mils and twenty eraall ones were missed. The closet
was situated in the waiting-room, and there was no leek upon the
door, but persons were passing and repeating every five minutes.
Tint large rolls were the rules m ode by the Court in eight different
years, and were of very great importance, being the original re.
careli, which it wee necessary fr.quently to refer to; but the small
rolls were termed dockets, and were merely indexes to other docu-
ments. The large rolls were technically called the Secondary's
Remembrances. The value of the whole of the records stokm
would he ;'s., estimating them an old parchment.
'!'lianas Brown, an attorney's clerk out of employ, deposed, that
he went to the office of the Peollionotaties of the Court of Common
Pleas, in Tanfield-cortrt, in the Temple. about two o'clock on
Monday afternoon, and waited there to speak with one of the clerks .
nearly to hour, dt.uhng which thine the prisoner came into del
waiting-room twice. When the prisoner entered the second time
withers went out to look at tire Temple clock, and on his return he
met him leaving the Ch:Of:hers with the roll of parchment under
his arm, not at all concealed. Witness, however, suspected they
were public documenor of' importance, and took tire liberty of tn.
quilting in an inner office whetner the prisoner had been sent away
with any old parchments!' He was directed to pursue him imme-
diately. and he,overtetok hint in :!litre-court, making his way to.
wards Fleet-street, with the toll still under his arm.
Mr. Richard Orden, clerte to the Prothonotaries, stated that the
record: of the description entered on the large rolls had been kept
in hooks since the year IEOO. Tire roils for the years 1771 to 1791
were kept in the chalet that had been spoken of. The rolls that
,had been stolen were missed immediately on the alarm being given.
and, when the prisoner was brought back int t the Common Plate
office, he was earnestly.queetioned as to what had become of the
other records, bat he persisted that he knee no hing of diem. Di.
ligent search had since been made by the police, but no trate of
them could be discovered.
Mr. Teague, the tiovemor or the Compter, said the prisoner
seemed bent upon self-destruction. When he was apprihendtd,
he first at.empted to choak himself by thrusting his fingers down
his throat, and then opened a penkuhfe which was instantly.wrested .
from him. Since he hadbeen in the Comptee he had repeatedif
manifested his design, by attempting to catch held of articles with •
which he supeosed he could effect his purpose, and it had been ne-
cessary to keep two men constantly watching him, and to contir.e
him in a strait waistcoat at night.
Sir P. Iseorti E said he receives] a certificate from Dr. fox, eh.'
eurgeon of the prison, on Tuesday morning, declaring his state of
h. alth ti b„ such that it would be improper to put hint upon hie ,
examination that day. He creejured him now to abandon the • ,
wicked intention it was too evident he had entertained, and not add
crime to crime. Sir Peter then asked hint what he had to say in
his defence, turd the prisoner replied simply—" Nothing."
Sir PETER said it might be cf importance to him if he would
state what had become of the other roils.
The prisoner, who seemed bewildered by the keen sense of the
disgraceful situation in which he stood, after the question had been
repeated, faintly articalsted that he knew nothing about them.
Sir PETER said Ire had to doubt the Four creature had corn.
mitted the offence through distress, but he must commit him for
trial ; and he gave instructions that the same precautions should be
taken in Newgate, as to his safety, as in the Compter.
The prisoner was then committed.
BOW -STR E ET.—An elderly female of extremely respectable ap.
inference, accompanied by a heaotiful and interesting girl of about
fifteen years of age, her younger daughter, came before Mr. Mix-
. sue t.t. and Sir R. BIRNIE, yesterday, and, in a state of agitation
truly pitiable, requested the assistance of their Wotellipe to procure
the restoration to bier fatuity of her eldest child, who was only
eighteen, and the very counterpart of tire girl who now accompa. •
tied her. The mother stated that she was a widow, and her two
daughters were her only comfort. She had given them the beet
education within tire reach of her means, and had by the kindred •
treatment tried all she could to endear them to her, and their con.
duct bully answered her fondest anticipation. A few weeks agoe .
however, she observed a sudden alteration in the manner of her el.
dent daughter, and, anxious of course to ascertain the cause, she
questioned her, but could obtain no satisfactory explanation. , Iler
daughter became more and more melancholy and absent, and acts-
siorally very morose and unkind to her sister and her mother.. At
1-ngth, shout a montli..ago, she left her house without any previous
intimation of such an intention, and the applicant was totally at
loss to account for her absence until she keened from a neighbour
that her elver daughter had been in the habit of having private
meetings with a young man of very fashiceable exterior, who was
constantly hovering about the house. A rigid inquiry was made
after the unhappy girl, but it was not until that (yesterday) mom.
ing that she was found at a s' lodging-house for women," as
Dukc'e.court, Bow-stmt, where it appeared she was first of all
taken by her heartless seducer, and after a few days intercourse de-
serted. She did not know where he lived, nor even his name; so
perfect was her confidence in him that she did not ask the question.
The mother proceeded to state further circumstances, and added,
that her daughter was still at the house in Duke's-court, which she
refused to leave unless she was compelled ; and the object of the
applicant was to obtain the assistance of an officer to force her from
her disgraceful abode.
The Magistrates, at once sympathizing with the unfortunate
mother, sent a patrol to bring the daughter before them, and he re-
turned in a short time, bringing with him a blooming girl of 13,
who, on seeing her parent. burst into tears. The poor mother and
the younger daughter were almost overwhelmed with grief and
Marne at the sight of the wretched girl. The girl was asked if
she would return instantly to the roof of her parent, who WAS alt.
xious to receive her; and, to the surprise of every one, she replied
in the negative.
The Magistrates urged her, and endeavoured to convince her of
the folly of her determination, but still she resisted, saying that she
was too wicked to join her mother and sister until she had been
placed in some asylum where she could reform.
In this determination she persiated, until she was looked nip fa s
short time, and she then (dreading probably an imprisonment of a
more rigid description) consented to accompany her poor mother
and sister home, and they went away together.
Mr. lienig Mrtrayi: was this morning brought up on a warrant
before Sir H. BIRN IE, to answer the coloplaint of one William
Jelferies, from whose statement it appeared that the defendant had
succeeded hint in the capacity of publisher or the Engligh
man and I.ondint Merotry newspapers, though he (complantardi
in ;till in the pey Of the proprietors of that establishment, and will
continue to he so until Saturday next.
Mr. 11 asborgh, the proprietor, here interrupted Ws, extlaim.
Mg. " It's no such thing ; .you're a discharged servant—you were
discharged for very good reasons."
The complainant then proceeded to state, that so great was hitt
attachment to the above-mentioned journals. that though lie had
repeatedly received orders to go ahem his Wittiness, he eonti•