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Genrgr Gamldr, formerly a naval officer, and now a cheese-factor,
residing in Wruminster, was tritd On a charge of receiving a cer-
tain qua.itity of lead, knowing it to be mitten. It appeared that the
lead had bt.en stolen from the prenti,cs of the ptuaenitur, and war
found in the possessimi • f the 'mamas, alto did riot account fur such

possession ins satisfactory manner.
It appeared from the evidence detailed in the course of the trial,
that the prisoner re:Tired the had front his brother-in-law, Coney, I
and that lie withheld the answers necessary to exculpate himself,
from a dread of criminating Coney.
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Th, (.01IMON-SERGEANT ordered him to be brought up for
judgment on the charge of a similar native, of which he had beer.
yesterday found guilty, And said, that under all the circumstances,
of the case, anti to wipe out as far as possihk the stigma which
that conviction had cast upon his character, his sentence should be I
merely nominal.
lie Was sentenced to pay a tine of Is., and to be discharged.
Julia Ilayffes, alias nail, wan indicted for stealing a quantity
of brawn, butter, and cheese, the property of W. Tripping.
It appeared. that the prisoner went to the shop of the prosecutor,
and purchased the articles in question, to the amount of W. I
which he tinkled to he sent to hint to a house in North-street.
Finsbury-square. Thevials were sent as directed, but • strict
charge was given to the carter who conveyed them, not to leave
them until the money was paid. The prisoner took the goods from
the carter, gave him five sovereigns and one shilling, and having
apologised fur troubling him with .11 much copper, delivered to
eighteen packages, which he said contained five shillings in
each. This sum made up the amount of the purchase, W. Ils.
When the carter returned to his employers it was discovered that
the packages contained a quantity of lead instead of copper. A
pursuit was immediately commenced against the prisoner, and he
WAS apprehended, having previously removed the goods to a public-
house.
Mr. A not.rw us took an objection to the form of the indictment,
and contended, on the authority of the King v. Park, that the
offence did not amount to a felony.
Mr. A whay.ws, for the pruaceution, argued that the case re-
ferred to differed from the present, inasmuch as there the prosecutor's
servant had acted as agent, and used a discretion as to the property,
and received in retuni for it what turned out to be waste paper. In
the present the case was very different.
The Com stow SEitnEANT said, that as part of the price had
been paid in proper money it was impossible to say what portion of
the goods was unpaid for. l!is Lordship theretore yielded to the
objection, and said, that the prisoner must be prosecuted fur re-
ceiving ;mods under falae pretences.
The prisoner was acquitted, but detained by the Court fug the
purpose of preferring the other charge against hint.
IN THE NKW COURT.
BLASPII 1:31 V.

It'en. Campion, a shapinan of L'arlile's, in Fleet-street, the
who's-mile dealer iu blasphemy, was indicted for selling Paitic's

Age uj
Ifeaion.
Mr. BERMAN o read the indictment to the Jury, charging the
defendant with publishing a profane and blasphemous libel on the
floly Scriptures mud the Christian Religion, contained in a work
of Thomas Paine's, called The Age tf Beams.

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801.1. AN I/ Stated the -
John Cousins, a Police,. ()thee, proved that the deft:taint anld
him the book without the slightest hesitation, on his asking fur it.
The Defendant employed no Counsel, but read a very long mate-
ment in his defence, which had evidently, from the manner in which
he mu! it, been prepared for him. Ile justified what he haul done,
and stand that prosecutions were not the legitimate mode of sup.
I pressing free discussion. fits defence, front beginning to end, was
one continued libel. Ile was frequently interrupted by the Jury,
and warned by the Court that the course he then was pursuing was
not at all calculated to be of service to him t he nevertheless per.
sisted. At its conclusion the Jury retired to consider of their ver-
dict, and after an hour and a half they returned, and proocunced
the defendant—Gni/Iy.
The at:con nt:l4 proceeded immediately topes, sentence on him,
which he prefaced by urging the necessity of putting a stop to such
publkat ions as those for which the defendant had been convicted,
fur the purpose of preventing the contagion of such noxious princi-
ples. Ile observed, that the guilt of the defendant had been con-
sitlerably aggravated by the manner in which he had conducted his
delenee ; and the sentence of the Court therefore was, that lie should
be imprisoned in Newgste for three years, and at the expiration of
that period, that he should enter into his own recognizance' in the
sum of lOW. to keep the !Tare during his life. The prisoner heard
his sentence quite unmoved, and left the liar with a contemptuous
smile on his countenance.

THE NINO v. JEFFREYS.
T. J.lftrw, another of l'arlile's stntmen, was next put upon his
tier the sal: of Paine'. Age of Ileasom.
Mr. B01.1.•NU and Mr. BARNARD were the Counsel for the
prosecutinn.
The evidence of the sale of the work was the same as in the pre-
ceding cage of " tampion."
Mr. Fat; xt H appeared for the defendant. Ile lamented that the
shot tness of the time elapsing between his receiving the brief and
the trial disabled hint from doing that justice to hat client's case
which it required. Ile argued at considerable length against the
impolicy of such prosecutions, and more *specially at singling out
paupers wed illiterate men as the objects of it, while such men as'
Lord Byron were allowed to indulge in an unimpeded course of li-
centiousness. lie urged the inconsistency of calling upon them to
account for publications that were called irreligious, while blasphe-
my, in a dental of the divinity of Chnst, was sanctioned by Puha-
incite with regard to the Unitarians. Ile concluded an eloquent
and impressive speech, by calling on the Jury to acquit the de-
fendant.
The It scorns:it summed up, and, at great length, entered into
the precedents as regarded the prosecutions for publications of
hha.phetny.
The Jury, without hesitation, found the defendant --Cuin y.
Ile was sentenced to 111 months' imprisonment in Newgate, and
to enter into his own recognizant:atria good belutviour fur life in the
sum el 1001.
Tits: ZINO v. JOHN CHRISTOPHER.
This defendant was another of l'urlile's blat.pmett, and was in.
dieted for the wale of l'aith'r ty' Reason and l'altrier's Prix-
cipiet tf/' Nalut r.
Mr. C. 1.1.1 es, the defendant's Counsel, recommended to
him to withdraw his pleas of " Not Guilty," and to plead— Buil-
ty" to the indictments, to which advice the defendant assented, and
was consequently sentenced to six months' imprisonment only, and
to enter into the saline perbotial recognizance* as the two defendants
who had preceded hint.
Four inure of Cailik'n shopmen remain tee tried.
Pfl/./CE.

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Joints (Wirer, a respectably-dressed lad of about 18, via ehsrged
before the Sitting Mugist rate, Mr. Alderman Key. with having ob.
tained goods under Wm: pretences, from Messrs. Grout, Hollis, and
Co., No. Al:utter-lane.
In the attenuant of :Monday, a little boy came to the warehouse,
with a note purporting to be from Mr. Archer, of No. 11t, Banner-
s:rev:, St. Luke's, a customer of the house, desiring them to send I
by the bearer a packet of blue-black crape, and one of jet-buck. I;
No suspicion was entertained, and the goods were looked out abd I
given to the boy. AM the property was of the value et M., and I •
the boy a mere child, the shopmao, on giving them to him, •
cautioned him to take care that nobody took them away from bun I
in going through Fore-street, and Moor lane, that neighbourhood
bring notoriously infested with a set of young thieves. The boy
sold, iumwcutly enough, `• 1 am not going to take them myselt,
Sir." This answer, of course:, led to inquiries where he had
brought the order from. A Gentleman, he said, gave it him in
l'heapside, and he was to wait there till he returned with the gm Als.
In order to ascertain if this story were true, and to detect the real
offender, its it should turn out so, the two packets were given to the
boy to take to the gentleman who had sent hint : a shopntan
tid-
lowe: close at his heels, and on seeing him &Wiser them to the
prisoner Oliver, stepped forward Immediately and took hint into
CUSksly.
It‘ lore the Magistrate Oliver did sent deny the truth of the hoes
story, but would have had it believed that he himself was eiptallv
guiltless. lie was tint Of tiopley, and in the habit of ping
errands, and had received the order t a gentleman to take to
I:inttr.lane ter the goods; but as they walked along Cheapsule,
the gentleman said he thought a smaller lad would do better, and
• told him to send the Loy with it, and wait till he came hack. Ills
story, however, gained rot erect, nee; and MI Mr Archer's inspect.
ing the order, and deposing that it was not in his handwriting tier
' sent by hum, the prisoner was cools:U:1rd to Newgate for trial.