The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-18 00:00:00

OLD itiTLEr. SEPT. 17.

The Court was occupied from ten until one
o'clock in the trial of causes of little impot tante.
Margaret Ifeburs and kl;zlorib Gilt wire found
pray of stealing a piece of It ish linen hut cf the
shop of John Alexander, in Brick-lane, Bethnal
Green, but not privately.
O'Rria was acquitted of an assault and
highway robber; of Hannah Davy, on the Vole
July last. The articles robbed were an old pocket-
handkerchief, and three pounds of beef. The Pro.
becuttit., and three men who were in her company.
swore direst to the fads ; but, from some inconsis-
tencies in the testimony, and the defence of the Psi-
Aoncr, that the Prosecutrix had consented to leave
her company, and go with hint for the purposes r.l
prostitution, the Jury returnSh a verdiCt of Not
The Prisoner also stated in his defence, that
the prosecueion was commenced with a view of ob-
taining the reward of convillion.
yaws jare was capitally indiEted for stealing,
on the 2.1 out. a piece of printed cotton, value 4Js.
the property of Thomas Anstey, William Pearce,
and George Anstey, linen-drapers, and copartners
in trade, in their dwelling-house, in the pas ish of St.
George, Hanover-square.
From the evidence it appeared, that the Prisoner
been employed in plaiseering the house in which
this thett was committed. and had taken an oppor-
tunity of purloining the piece of co ton from their
shop, which he concealed under a ti ig-stone in the
p nary. and was detetted iu taking it away under
his apron. The futile was identified by the shop-
man ; but it turned out that the indictment was
somewhat errone"us, in charging this theft to have
been committed in the dwellingthoose of the com-
pany, conjointly, when the dweliog house of Thoi.
Aastev, one of the partncrs, was in the Strand.
This ii-eumstance did away the capital part of the
indielment. Th.? Prison'.., in his defence, alleged,
that he found thr cotton concealed under the flag-
stone, and )',d tAk.ii it up, not knowing what ft
was. He called a Witness. v: ho spok • favourably
his char.i:t!r. l'he Jury, however, found him Laid,
of v.:ay laceby.
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31:.sterday. White. the vz.raon charged with pro-
em-10g.11,e mils or Ecc7an.ze, io fie possession of
Mr. lieristnAton. rte hai.ker, to be discounted by
Mr. C.u.,,er, tile banker. of Burton-e:son-Treut, in
Swffinshhire, was brought up for further exansi-
cdtion.

Mr. Cooper again closely viewed and examined
the teeth of tne Prisoner, as on the last examination,
but seemed rather less confident in his belief that
the Pl isoner was the person for whom he 1,4 d d:s.
counted the hills produced P,is day by Mr. Kee-
singtor, Nvho attended in person, andlelle evidence
of all the circumstances r.speding two of the bills,
bat aduated the neccs.ity of further time to trace
the drafts sent ta Aim, as for the payment of the
third 6.11 produced in eaiileice.
Mr. Hardeman. of Na. 1, Ilammnnt-place, near
To.tenhani-court-road. au..cmaic,r hy trade, was
pr. die:ed t t ;move the true name of the PoiSOner,
an 1 he swam that he knee: him in the • year 1781,
in the city of Salistait S. as an aaos in Davis's coon-
p.auy nl Arcang pl lye's; and that in particular he
had seen h sn at the ciona.ters of Humid. Chiclle,
and he believed 1;e-1.4rd the I.!X d; lie said he had
pi led billiards with the Poisoner tepeatedly, and
w..s with him in gambling-hisuses, and that the
Ptisonet's real narllt! was G. Warren. Said he bad
woke) fur the Pri,oner at Salisbury i and several
ye irs Aviv:aids, on ni-etinl him in London. re-
ce reel half-a-guinea of his demand from him, at the
house of a Widmer Goss, corner of Moorestreet,
Soho, where he met him and me Pure. now a poi-
soner in tl e Flett, and accosted the Prisoner by the
name col Warren, to which he answered. tVitness
stated, ttat I.e hid eautioi.e..l Parry against any cc-
qt ,i,lance with the Priseiter, at that time, assuring
him that he WAS one of the greatest swindler, in
England ; to wf ieh Parry answered, that he too
was not ueaegitaieted with such praaices. Wit-
ness stated that he it'd seen the Prisoner seven or
eight times si• ti I ; and at one time, on meeting
with him at a ganebting-howe. in Ozeudon-strect,
he cautioned the groom-pester, te.e Orford, since
deceas.e.i, ag cut:zing th • Prisoner to pass by
the name 61 11..ig:It, as he Cud there, for that his
real name was George Warren.
Mr. en LIVs. as Coun.el for the Prisoner. asked
this witnet:,, on crew-examiention, whether it was
not Seven with persons to disguise their names in
such place, since witness appeared an ad.'s: In
gambling ? To which the Witness answered. that
such things might be. but that he was certeiti of the
truth of all his evidence. To a questa•n, whether
he krpt the house he lived in att.wered, that
he had bought the lease of it.
Here one of the Magistrates (Mr. To event) in-
terposed. and stated, that cross-examination was nut
regular in such a stage of the business.
Mr. ANDIMS olt.erved, that he was sorry to en-

terrain a different cpicion ; and mach as he re-
.sistelei the opinion of any Magistrate, he woul.:
contend for his right to such cross-examination, in
a case mine especially of life and death, until that
Magistrate should prohibit him; and on the Ma-
fistrate declaring, that he would only bear evidence
or the Crown in a case for committal, the Counsel
declined any trtther crosssexamination of the wit-1
nesse,.
Mrs. Esther Gottinby was next examined; and
states', that some. time previous to February last,
the Prisoner and hit wile, who lay in in that month,
came to lodge with the Witness, at No. SOO, Ox-
ford-street, by the names of Mr. and Mrs. Hope,
and that the lodgings had been taken for then; by
Mr. Parry, the person before mentioned; but this
Witness not being accurate as to dams or times,
was de,ited to bring her book of entry of lodger's
nom, s, and times of coining, which she admitted
to has.- kept, on Monday next, at one o'clock, when
the fi!tal examination of this interesting ease is to
take place.
The Prisoner appears to be a man of &boat sixty
years of age. His wife, a very pretty young wo-
man. accompanied him in Court.

The Rev. W. H. LAINGI ON, B.D. is instituted
to t%e sinecure Rectory of Lonst44 in Derbyshire,
on the presentation at T. W. Coos, Esq.


NAVAL INTELLIC-NC,

Y M OCT
Arrive! Hit Majesty's ship AsOlfght.i
Capt. J. Stsranger, fn•m the coot of
donsear. Capt. Blarney, from the West,-
Sailed the Lori 'Nix lured armed
Westward.—Wind S.E.