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YORZSIIIRE JIfUSIC..IL FESTIVAL.

SECOND DAV.—Ws:DWESDAY, SEPT. 14. •
The demand for tickets after the conclusion of the Oratorio con-
tinued, and the receipts were great. The sale waa resumed this
morning at seven o'clock, and did not terminate till two o'clock;
we have not heard the amount received since our last report.
A great many other arrivals have taken place, and Me observe
several who attend the meeting, as much to be ready for lion.
cutter Races next week, as to participate in the enjoyniehts of the
Featiral.

We have taKen some pains to get as full a list of the Makers as
possible, and are enabled to lay before our readers the following
names, and in our next shall very probably give many others.
Sir P. Vet:moue and Lady. Lady Emily Fielding ; Captains
Ford, Fawcett, leers, Rose, Gleado*, Irvin, liefroy, Alacduff,
Mitchell ; (Ice. Sharpe ; Colonels Richardson., Shadforth, Staple-
ton, Pulieine; :Major Horton, Lord Bishop of liilmore, General
Harlane, Lady Horton, Mr. Archdhacon Lyre, Mr. Archdehcon
r Markham, Dr. Spray, Dr. Young. Revercnds-.Allott Allanson,
Annesley, Blow, Bosanquet, Boulton, Bentick, Bulmer, Benson,
Bowness, Croft, Clapham, Charleswoed, Courtney; Clarke Choi-
osondelev, Currer, Chaloner, Drake, Dixon, Duneombe, Di;dgson,
Ellis, Enipson, Etridge, Evden,Ethelatone, Eking, Eyre, Ellerton,
Fenbank, &e. Lady Bruce, Mrs, Admiral Brown, the Mime;
Cholmondeley, Cayley, Court. Deans, Eyre. &c. Sir W. W.
Cooke, Dr. Calcraft, Messrs. Agar, Armitage, Allington, A kroyd,
Allen, Boulto:o, Bulmer, Budenham, Burton, liragce, Bainbridge,
Chaloner, Crompton, M.P.. Duncombe, Graham. Gaunt, Gaskill,
Greene, Forbes, Beverley, Burrell, &c.
The performances at the Minster yesterday went off with great
eclat. The devotional feeling which pervaded the audience mani-
fested itself to a very striking manner at the performance of the
chorus, when all standing up together, seemed to unite in the
solemn anthems of the orchestra. The scene outside the !Minster
during the perfonnance was very animated, the streets being
wronged with people in grater numbers than were ever before seen
here en any public ocimeon.
In the west gallery of the Cathedral yesterday (the admission to
width is one guinea) there were about 1.04)0 persons of the higheit
rank. The &eases of the ladies were extremely elegant and appro.
prime, and, contrasted with the sombre appearance of the venerable
building, bad a very singular, sod, at the same time, interesting
appearance.
Wan*. t: 0,0 r•-evil this wog trey be;llienttwienonded
•s it•-••• :• die esrnugss ..-c;,•vn“ta arrive; art- by eight':
ti •.riSoclk, the this appointed for its commencement, the hall was
full, presenting a truly splendid scene, which was rendered still
more fascinating by the great proportion of ladies, their 'magnificent
dresses, and the profusion of light, there being, besides the two
grand chandeliers from the ceiling (each having thirty berners), a
number of liphts supported on massy gilt and bronzed stands, and
several clusters along the Wei.
The selection for the evening commenced with a grand symphony
of Beethoven's, which was supported by the elite of the instrumen-
tal performers, and though the impression was not to profoand as
was created by the overwhelming force of the orchestra in the Min-
ster, It was more pleasing, and we were more capable of discover.
Ing and enjoying the beauty of the composition. A ballad of
Arne 's by Phillips was admirably sting and encored. A duet of
harp and flute, by Boehm' and Nicholson, was very fine, but the
weight of the piece rested on Nicholson, and it would be a difficult
task to describe the delight which appeared in the auditory. Alin
Stephens, in " Lo ! here tl:e gentle Lark," and Mademoiselle
Giecia and :Mph), in a duetto from Tancreili, afforded a grand,
treat, and were effectively sustained by the orchestra. Mademoiselle'
Garcia sung Una voce poto fa" in a style worthy the daughter
of one of the rqost perfect singets of the day. Madame Caradori
was loudly encored ip " Should he upbraid, and Miss Stephens
delighted and surprised us by the comic effect with which she
sustained her part of the duo ' Con Pnrienza" with De Begnis,
whose '` Large al factotum" afterwards was encored. A conccrtante
for flute, burn, clarionette, and bassoon, by Nicholson, Platt,':
Willman, and !Mackintosh, was beautifully executed, as was a
brilliant concerto on the violin, by Mori. Miss Wilkinson, in':
". l'ango a voi," excited great interest, and displayed a very supe-
rior developement of style and voice.
At an early hour this morning the streets were crowded, and long
before the commencement of the Mestiali. the :Minster was tilled
in every part. ~amongst the commute were the Fitzwilliam family,
his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, and most of those
'ilea names we have previously mentioned; it is said that near
8;000 were present.
The Messiah has been so often the thkne of wonder and admire-
firm. as to require little notice of its tinparallehd excellence, we,
shall therefore be brief in our observations. The overture *as
env's, executed, and abated the precisioti and merits of the Innen.'
mental band with great effect. Vaughan gave the recitative of
" Comfort ye my People" with much spirit and taste, and
the song with a fine catlenCe ; the succeeding chorus was
delighttully performed—the harmony was perfect. Bellamy
was in line voice, and gave " Yet once a little while," with
a sublimity find deepness suited to the character of the corn.
position. Slim Wilkinson delivered the recitative " Behold
a Vitgin," with great chastity, and Sent through the air " (1
tSoit that tellest" in a very rpirited manner. The solemn com-
position, "For, behold, Derkness" was Seri good, both in its ac-
companiment and singing, by Phillips. 1111sa Stephens in "
knew its my Redeemer liveth," Braham in "The Rebuke," and
" Rejoice greatly," by Mille. Garcia, were all in the first style of
excellence. The "Trumpet shall sauna," by Mr. ;hilarity, '
with the trumpet accompaniment by Mt. Harper, with the pieces
above enumerated, were the most prominent parts of the perform.
once. All the choruses went oll'adrnirably, the performers being
ocectlingly correct, and keeping in strict unison. Time prevent-
Mg our enlarging upon ihe above, i'te shill therefore only add, that
this divine prosfuettou of the iieniortal Handel Was never before
perfbrined with such powerful e..ect.-
We have just saseertained that up to Tuesday right the receipts
amounted to abort 11,000.
Te pickpockets have been very succeessful. On Monday
evening a trunk was stolen "Min Coney street, containing valuable
wearing apparel; and yesterday, in the cathedral, a gentleman had
his pocket pitked of forty bank notes of Si. and 101. each, and in
the evening a gentleman was robbed of 501. near the Post-office.

Mr. O'Callaghan, of whom the pUblic heard so mucli
during his iinprisonmnnt in Horsenionger-lane for an as-
sault on the Rev. Mr. Saurin, ii now following hl3 old pro-
fusion, and playing at the York Theatre.
The Prince Regent, arrived from sierra Leone, hat
brought the Captain, Mate, and part of the crew of a
piratical vessel, captured some time ago On the Gold
Coast.
We understand that a vessel belonging to this port has
for several months been tinder seizure in the harbour of
Rio de Janeiro, for a slight infraction of the extremely
rigid regulations enforced there. We have heard that the
British authorities in that port, whose duty it is more es-
pecially to endeavour to mitigate the rigour of the Brazilian
regulations, where their infraction has arisen from error and
not from design, as is the case in the present instance, have
shown an unaccountable remissness in their duty, and that,
from this cause there seems no prospect of the vessel being
speedily liberated.—Li re; ponl•Cour irr.
The principal grocers in Birmingham have,in compliance
with a requisition signed by fifty-seren shoproen, agreed to
shut their shops at nine ti clock every night except Matur-
ity, and on that evening at

DREADFUL ACCIDANT AT THE LAUNCH OF THE
PRINCESS CHARLOI'I'E, Al! PORTSMOUTH.
It is our painful duty to *nominee a melancholy and fa-
tal accident which occured on Wednesday, just before the
launch of the Princess Caarlotte, 110 guns, at Portsmouth.
,The workmen of the ;sari, under the direction of the Ship-
wright Officers, had been 'preparing the basin for the re.
eeptioft of the ship, ai soon as the should have been
launched ; but the tide tviteg unusually high, the gates of
the rock unfortunately gave way, aud swept a number of
peofile, who were either pasting dr.itancling on the bridge
as srectators, into the bc.ain, and Wheat& persons perished.
Th.: number of sufferers, it willArtiies, la variously esti- I
mated ; we hope it Will be leer tlioxisileipllr were at first, in
tbe.agitation of the moment, led imppritieml.
't A letter from Southampton states se a report there, th..t
ilisrty-two !persons had been takesi out of the water by
threF.o'clock, all of whom were dell). ite umlerstand,
however, that of twelve person slid. ere almost immedi-
ately dragged up, seven recovered. and *redoing well ; and
we hope an equal proportion of the others were saved. The
r.:6fitnilssioner, Sir George Grey, had promptly dfdtred the
bailif to be drained, that the bodies might be found, The '
launch proceeded without any other accident, and, though
proud orvur navy, we wish the continuance of peace may
render thic•the only loss of life the Princess Charlotte may
directly or inNectly occasion.
The following are extracts of letters received yesterday
from Portsmouth; giving the details of this melancholy
and fatal accident :

• "PORTIIIIIOUTR, SEPT. 14.
" At about one o'docl, or a quarter of an hour before
the Princess Charlotte Was let off the slip on which she
was built, a most dreadful accident happened, as the
public were crowding over the :bridge across the dock,
wherein it Was intended to brint the launch. There are
three docks, all of which were dry es& every preparation
to receive die launch was tratt4o." iindsr.saeb laidge them
are flood-gaigg. to let the, !saw. i* or l'eeto it. back ; the
comber now filling two feet above- the usuai height, the
weight of this water carried away the floodttetes on which
the middle of the bridge rested, and the whole. of the
crowd passing thereon fell into the dock, and wen: hurled
over and over, the water falling three or four and twenty
feet before it came to a level—the whole mass of people
were hurled away to death in a moment.
" As the bridge is upwards of eighty, or nearly ninety
feet across, and about four feet six inches wide, you may
judge how many persons it would hold, closely wedged
together, and all pressing to be over first, to get a good
standing place. There were nearly 130 on it at the time it
gave way ; the number lost it is as yet impossible to ascer-
tain.
Eleven are now dragged up, hut as there happens to
be two ships in the basin or comber, and they cannot work
the engine to pump out the water, until these ships arc
pro Orly shored up, all the labourers are ordered into the
dock-yard all tfight, to proceed as fast as possible to forward '
the work, And get the water out.
" There were 100,000 persons altogether at the launch, '1
and never was there such a scene of woful countenances;
all are in dread that their nearest friends have perished."
" PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 14.
" This day ha's presented the finest spectacle that has
beeu witnessed in Portsmouth for some years past, in the
launch of a first-rate ship of war, the Princess Charlotte,
an elegant vessel, built upon the modern principle, with a
round stern.

" The morning was rather unpromising, but the day
cleared as the time for the launch approached, just im-
mediately before which, and when the crowds of spectators
were immense (the shores and the sea being literally covered
with them; and numerous bands ple.ying on board of
different vessel's, amongst whkh were various steam-boats,
full of company, from different parts of the coast), a barge
approached with the royal standard flying ; and the scene
was made still more interesting by the salute of 21 guns,
paid by each of the men of war to the Royal personage
therein (supposed to be Prince Leopold), and by the ships
manning their yards.
" At about ten minutes past twelve o'clock the stupend-
ous &brie was received in the hosom.of that element where
we trust she will ride triumphant, and grace with laurels
the brows of future British heroes. A quarter of an hour
afterwards a brig of war Was also launched, from a slip
close to the oaten

" Happy should we be if the narrative could end here,
but we have to report a most rata: and dreadful atteident
that ezeutrecl. The crowd,- kf the dotir-yasji
were so remevise, that ever 9 place that could command
' even a limited view of the slit'', was covered with people—
amongst the rest, a bridge that crossed the entrance into
one of the docks; it is So feet in length, and about five
feet in width, and as many poisons were petsing on it as
possibly could (a person who saw the accident states, there
must have been at least 100 persons on the bridge), when
the gates of the dock upon which the bridge was fixed,
gave way with the weight cf *ater against them, and the
immense rush dl water into the dock was excessive, carry-
ing with it the bridge, and all that were on it. Nothing
can exceed the horror of the scene, anti it is not possible to
ascertain bow numerous aro the sufferers. Various boats
rowed instantly into the docks and lent all the s;d in their
power ; men, women, and ch.ldren were picked up, some
with life, and others without the appearance of any. Efforts
are still making to discover bodies ; many, it is feared,
lost their lives by the violence with which they were deshed
against the sides of the dock.
" The scene of parents looking for children, and hus-
bands for wives, is truly deplorable, as no judgment can
hitherto be formed as to whom may have been victims.
We are glad to say that the method recommended by the
Humane Society has been successful in several cases, and
happy shill we be if the loss of life should ultimately
prose to be much less than we have every reason now to
apprehend."
"Pontraioteret, WISTIRESDAT AFTERNOON.
" This day has witnessed the launch of the largest vessel
ever built at the Portsmouth Hock, and one of the most
destructive accidents attendidg snith an event it haa ever
been the painful duty of an English Journal to record.
" For the additional accommodation of the numerous
spectators assembled to behold this truly grand end im-
posing spectacle, a temporary bridge or platform had been
erected across one of the docks, which, at the moment the
launch took place, gave way with a tremendous crash, when
seventy persona were instantaneously precipitated into the
water. The strong current occasioned by the Velocity of
the course of the vessel, rendered the endeavours of the
boatmen nearly ineffectual, and, lamentable to relate, seven
oily have escaped a watery grave.
" The consternation pervading the assembled multitude
surpasses ill description, for no one knew whether he had
inst to lament the untimely death of his nearest relation.
" The number of persons present exceeded all calcula-
tion. In a boat under the royal standard, his Royal
Highness Prince Coburg, and his liztelleng Prince Ester-
hazy, honoured this exhibition *miff their presence, it-
tended by the Port Admiral, Sir George Martin, Bart. and
Commissioner Grey. A salute from his Majesty's ship
the Ganges announced the arrival of their Highnesses.
" A splendid ball was announced to bo given this even-
ing, at the Royal Clarence Itoome, Southsea Beach, under
the special patronage of Lady Martin, and it was expected
to be numerously and fashionably attended."
UTILITY ON STEAM BOATS.--Yesterday a deeply la-
den ship, in tacking in the rivet, nliued stays, and the
*ind blowing fresh frotn the northeast, was fast drifting on
the Cheshire Acne, above Tranmere. The masters of the
Birkenhead and Tranmere steam-boats, which were both
crossing the river with passengers at the time, perceiving
the perilous state of the ship, made towards her, and took
her in tow, one on each side. It was a long time before
they could stem the current, so as to drag her off; at
length, however, they succeeded, and brought her in safe-
ty down the river, opposite to the Prince's dock, where she
came to anchor. 'lbis occupied between one and two
hours, during which time the passengers were detained on
board the steam boits.—Litterpool Paper of Wednesday.
Sent IIseraUCTION ERIVINTED,--VESIETtIAX morn-
ing, about ten o'clock, Mrs. Fleming, of Vnion-court, in the pa-
rish of Shadwell. wife of Mr. Fleming, coal backer, was seen run.
ning in an agitated state of mind on to New Crane Ways, where,
from the tide being low, the unfortunate woman plunged herself
head foremost into the mud, which would in a few moments hare
produced stitibcation. Fortunately the shore-raker of Mr. Luke,
of Wapping-wall. was near to the spot. who insuintly.ha.tened to
het assistance. and rescued her from tor7e perilous situation in which
she was placed. Medical aids was promptly !procured, and anima-
tiOn restored. The unfortunate woman is of interesting appear-
under. 30 years of age, and fortunately recovering. Tae
cause of this midi act is said to have arisen from a quarrel which
had taken place a short time previously with her husband.

OLD BAILEY, Tut:l4D" Sept, 1.5.
' • •
The Seeking corruneneed here this day, at nine o'clock. before
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, 3J;. Baron Moonset, and Mr. Jus.
tics GAST:LEE. The Lord 6 aim, Aldermen, and Sheeiffs also
'sat upon the bench. . .
The calendar is extremely weitkty in.point of numbey, and owes
tains the names of 86 prisoners cosagehlod from the city of Londe*
and 340 from 311.1dlesex.
Of these, 4 are charged with the.eOrtirniasion of morder, 7 with)
burglary, 6 with the offence of lioree.itealing, 3 with highway rob.
bety, and 2 with forgery. The larcenihs are. very numerous, being'
for Middlesex, 212, and 43 fur ',tondo's; in all 2,;.5. The.gmem
number of prisoners is 426. )
lAster Clark, aged 40, was put to the bar, capitaily indicted t
stealing several articles of plate and wearing dpparel, otiose) t
, value of 40s. in the dwelling-house or Ilenry Thwaltes, Esc., of
Euston-squ.re.
Mr. ItIRODE ICK stated theme for the prosecution as it after-
wards appeared in evidence, and observed, that as it could not be
proved that gib articles in question had been stolen all at once, it
might not be possible to satisfy the Jury that the value of the
articles stolen at arty one time amounted to 40s. . tnder those
circumstances, he d'd not think the capital part of the charge
could be sustained. • • .
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, th-t the 04.
stoner had been left inseam of :81r. Thwaites's house while,*
family were in the country. It was discovered on their mitten,
that during their absence the, property laid in the intlicuneut
was taken and pledged by the prisoner.
The prisoner acknowledged the commission of the offence, and
, that the duplicates which were founff on her person were tlit:se she
had, received when she pledged Mr. Thwaites'ti property.
l'he.CounT charged the Jury, who acquitted the prisoner of
the capital part of the offence, ,and found her guilty of stealing in
a dwelling-house property to the amount of 3gs. .
The prisoner, who was a decent and respectable-looking fraud*
was then removed from the bar, apparently deeply affected with a
sense of her unhappy situation.
BURGLARY..
Wm. Rippen, the younger, was put to' the bar, 'indicted for a
burglary to the house of Mr. Woolf, in Bedfordbury on ibe
of Jane last, and ideating from thence a quantity of woollen
cloth, of the value of lOW. the property of the prosecutor.
William /Doom the elder, father of the prisoner, was else
pat to the bar, charged with receivingibe death, knowing it to have
been stolen.
The'prisoners, who me ctleptaterifia a reireetible line of life,
were extremely well dressed, and appeared by sheir demeanour to
be considerably abot,e the ordinary class of prisoners usually placed
at the bar under similar circumstances.
It 'appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who is a clothier
resident in Bedfordbury, that the prisoners were his next door
neighbours. Witness's back premises were undergoing some re-
pairs in the month of June Iva, and on the night of the 23et the
door belonging to his warehouse was secured and safely los:!ted.
At four o'clock on the following morning the prosecutor, on viziting
his premises, found that the door had been forcibly broken open,
and about 100 yards of cloth wore discovered to be missing. Wit-
ness toads some inquiries, and from the informslion he received,
wailed' to entertain suspicions that the prisoners were the parties
engaged in the commirsion of the robbery.. The prisoners were
aatchedooldju consequence of some doubtful appearancei ob-
served by thepcospcutor's son, a search warrant was applied for,
and obtained. Pace, the officer of Queen-square, accompanied the
prosecutor in hie search, in the course of which the property stolen
was discovered, concealed in a large grape jar in the prisoner's eel-
lar. The prisoner, in the course of his cross-examination by Mr.
Broderick, admiqed that the elder prisoner made no objection to the
search warrant, nn 'the contrary, he went down with him and the
officer with a light into the cellar where the goods were discovered.
It was also elicited that there were several lodgers in the prisoner's
house at the time. • '
A servant of Mr. Sptrtir, a eoW-keeper in the neighbourhood,
whose premises immediately .adioin those of the prosecutor, de.
posed that at an early hour on tit:. morning of the 2tth June. be rob-
served his master's cow-house and hay-loft had been opened, and
a ladder taken away, which appeared* to hive been sublequently
used for the purpose of getting into dit+ pi•imises of the prosecutor.
Witness also stated that he discovered a pert of the Cloth in his
master's hay-loft. In consequence of this he made an alarm, and
communicated the circumstances he had observed.tbtfle watchman,
who went up into the loft, and there found the club.
The watchman stated that he observed two sibling men coining
out of the prosecutor's premises at about half.part-ont of the
morning of the robbery. They were shortly afterwardd: joined by
a third, whom he believed to be the younger prisoner. One of the
two whom he had first seen was a person of the name of Ready,
and a companion of the younger Rippen.
Joseph -- stated that he was acquainted with, both the pri-
soners at the bar, and that the younger toll him that three persons,
named Ready, Flanagan, and David, had cotnmitted the robbery to
which he (Rippen) was privy. This conversation occurred while
the seach was taking place in the house of the elder prisoner. The
younger Rippen remarked, he thought how it would be."
Pace, the officer warn called, and produced a chisel found on the
premises of the prosecutor, and which appeared to have been used
for the purpose of breaking open the door. Witness experienced.
no obstruction from the elder prisonerin the course of the search';
on the contrary, he rendered every assistance in his power in ordusi
to further the search, and expressed his astonishment that
should have became the ticle,?,ect of euepicioo. The elder Rippen
repeatedly peotested his innocence after the discovery of the pro-

posed
the 131

prisoner's
Philip \ . deposed.,
--
directed him to watch the prisoners' house on she morning
after the robbery. He did so, and observed. the cider prisoner
looking cut of n window in his own house, a little before fire o'clock
on that rhorning. Tho prisoner was partly dressed, anti had his
shirt sleeves turned up. About the same time he heard the voices
of, as he conceived, a man and woman, in conversation, in the pri-
goner's back kitchen. The woman said, "Nor they are on the
watch;" and the man replied. " bet them watch, we have got if
safe enough here." Witness believes the man's voice was that of
the Ode, Rippen.
Mr. Nodder, the •Governor of Totbill.field Bridewell. stated.
that he had received a written statement from the younger prisoner,
shortly atter his apprehension, which be subsequently delivered to
Mr. Markland, the Magistrate of Queen-square.
This document, which wns identified by the last witness, was
put in and read by the officer of the Court. It contained a con.
fession •that the writer had been prevailed on by three youths,
named Ready, Flanagan, and David, to coin in the commission of
the robbery. The goods, after they were taken, were deposited
in his father', cellar, without his knowledge or consent, Tits
paper funher stated that his father, Wm. Blom, was quits ig-
norant of the robbery, and knew nothing about it till the goods wets
discovered in the cellar.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Baron CISAHAM having called on the prisoners for their
defence—

The younger Ripper' repeated the statement contained in the
document just read, and entirely exculpated his father.
The elder prisoner disclaimed all knowledge of the transaction.
The defence was to the following effect :
A silversmith, named Radcliffe, who lodged In the house of the
elder prisoner, stated, that on the morning of the robbery be got
up at an early hour (between four and five o'clock), for the purpose
of going to his work. He looked out of the first floor window,
being at the time without his coat, and with his shirt sleeves turned
up, as was emsl with him when at work. On looking out he ob-
served one or two of Mr. Woolf's sons, who appeared to be watch-
ing the premise*.
Philip Woolf was now recalled, and being confronted with this
witness,. persisted in declaring, that it, was the elder ltippen and
not the witness whom he (NVoolf)saw looking out of the window
I on the morning after the robbery.
It was proved by several lodgers in Rippen's house that they
heard the elder prisoner come down stairs about six o'clock the
morning alter the robbery, end not earlier. Some of them reposed
that their rooms were so situated that Rippen could not have passed
down stairs without their hearing him.
The prosecutor having been recalled, for the purpose of identi-
fying the goods, voluntarily spoke to the prcvious good character of
the elder prisoner. . .
several respectable witrmssee Joined in giving the elder Rippen a
most unexceptionable character. _ _

Mr. BaronrGasnast charged the Jury„ who after a short con-
sultation found the younger prisoner guilty, but recommended him
to mercy ; and aequitted the elder prisoner.
Thom or Lock and Henry Godfrey were indicted for stealing •
gold snuff-box and other property, of the value of 2 tt., from the
shop of James Jeremiah Tunisian, on the 7th.of July last..
It appeared (Torn the eviderire of. the prosecutor's shopman,that
on the day. in question, about ten o'clock, the two prisopersatt the
bar came into his master's shop, in Great Russell-street, Rloonis.
bury, and asked to see a gold hording-watch. They remained
some June In the shop. and afterwards went away. Before they
had passed the window the witness saw two.brooches on tbecounter,
in consequence of which he made a remark to 31r. Tuptnan, wpo
looked into the glass-case, and missing two watches and a gold
snuft-box, directed the witness to pursue the prisoners. The
property was seta by. the witness an instant before the prisoners
entered the shop. and tufssed immediately after they had left it.
Witness pursued the prisoners, but did not succeed in apprehend-
ing them. On. the evening of the same day he saw the prisoners
at the bar lo custody at Bow-street.
(in his cross.examination by Mr. Law, who was of Counsel for
Godfrey, the. witness said, that he kept his eye on the prisoners
while they were in the shop, and saw them take nothing. The
property . ban had never since been recovered. A
,gentleman had
been in the shop to look at lodgings the same morning before the
prisoners.
Cross-examined by Mr. Pstrtries, for Lbck.—Did the gentle:
man trine the lodgings P—So.
Oh I then lie wok nothing, that you saw, except hls leave 10—
e 4. •
By the Cor irr.—Witnen saw the.wstches safe In the glass-case
otter the gentleman left the shop. They were there immediately
before the prisoners Caine into the shop.
The prosecutor care a similar account of the transaction with the
last witness,
. and identified the prisoners as the remits who had
been in Ins shop on the morning of the robbtyy.
Joseph Woolinan, • coosselble, apprehended the prisoners, and
sesrened them, but did rot find the stolen property ir. their pos-
session.

deatidbcoueb,tiwnistahrae
piibedarier
otaswt.hettihener,atehei.priroalooecum,:orb.:iir
ihouse was. I"
For the prisoners it was urged by Pleura. Law and Trractrs,
that N:. Tupn:ses shop was situated :n the parish of St. Utht:

Several witnewes were examined on this point, and it appeared
(bola their evidence that the boast of .the prosecutor was correctly
described in the indictment as being in the parish cf St. George,
Bloomsbury. • i
This was.the case for the prnseentrin.
. . ,
The prisoners being called on for their defence, 'add they todld
leave it,to their Counsel.
90 evidence was offered on the part of the prlionites. • , .
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALT. Chilled I Jurf. and obeerved,slisa
the evidence in this case was merely pretumPttle—but certain!!
;Ufa piesumption wee very strong against the prisoner.; for al.
14smaght no person had seen them take the property, and it was not
oftekeardi found in their portessmn, yet it bed been seen by the
prosecutor's shopman immediately Ilfore they entered the shop'
endorsed as soon after their departem. If 'the ..T'Air errerttnrc,
any •loubt as to the circumstance of the parish tit which AIL an-
fitan's house stood not being correctly laid In the Ind trnent, they
would giri,the,,prisoners the benefit of it, andperha acquitting
them of tae etp,rel, pert of' the charge, find Moo ' te ofjea4
larceny. In altklierer of the parishes in quotion ilrelibite et
in
t 7
theta cold be little doubt that it stodd.on UV! con'7l4.of
both. It had indeed been prii,ed by the prosecnter and POW rrit.
nesse', that as far as thelr•knowledge went, the liousemae, in St,
George', parish, but perba?a the beat possible evidence c'S the sub.
jest had not been mulduced.
The Jury consulted for smile time, and acquitte4 r prisoner;
of the capital offence, but found them both Guilty grind far-
e
„. . ,
ary Muses, aged 23, was inP..ted for steeling- pt gg UZI
valpe Sl. thepteperty of Richard Duckworth',Dunn, In
of kt. Margtret, IVestminster, on'the 12th Jelv hat. „ .....
Richard D. Dunn; i
the proieeutor, a scholar in Ville
school, andepparebtly a lad of abOut 14 ,yeare of age egared, *it
he left his watch, which hi had purchased about a foitnight beton
.for Bt., on the 12th July, under the pillow in the b., -room of the
house of Mr. Grant, where he lodged and boarded, in Weetminster.
Shortly afterwards he went to look for It, and finding it sou tone,
melted the prisoner, Whose business It wee -to clean his room, If she
knew any thing about it ; but she dCnied ell knowledge of ii. •
The Rev. Geo. Preston, an usher in `Westminster schovol, de-
-4 to the circumstance of the prisoner's brie being searched on
Ith July; and the watch being friend in it, 1n the practice of
..: prisoner, who said, "I think the Devil prompted me to take it."
The watch was produced by the constable, and identified by the
Ist witness as the one fond in the prisoner's box.
..
For the defence several Witnesses were called, whet pee tbefti-
orrti an excellent character frole•her Infamy.
Mr. Justice Gass LE x charged the Jury, who immediately Astml.
the prisoner Gritty, but recomtnend?d her to mercy. .-.
nie Rev. !Ir. Preston begged ieave to state • eirennistence
which induced' hint to believe that Vie prisoner was young in crime,
A few day. preyious to the stealingof the wench, prisoner found A
pocket-book,
bemnging td one of the bitO, Omtaining terenty-eighf
shillings. She made no attempt to retina it, beflt,,on the'Cdbtrary,
Was brought it to the housekeeper, and tt restor bathe owner. '
((.urge ..Vitcltell. a, cosoinnam oat Indicted for stealing a, silver.
milk-ewer and coffee-biggen, of the Value of 101. thy property of
James Window, of the parish cf St. Pancras, on the WO day tif
August.
It appeared thas on the day laid im 'be indietthent the prisoner
was met coming tit of Mr. Window's pons with a bundle in hie
-hand, which :ontatned the articles in question. On being,Pawsued
he threw the bundle down an area, and attempted to ecape, but
wait overtaken and appreheodl4.
Guilty of grand larceny. ' '
Joseph Jackson was indicted for stealitig. on 'the 43th July, a
clock, of the valueot fI. in Beyenstone.atreet, in the parish of St.
ill arylebone. the.property of Samuel Lomax.
It appeared from the evidence of the mounter . that the doom
and shutters of the house were properly secured 'on the night pre.
vioue to the robbery. About foer o'clock of the morning of thtt
13th July witness was alarmed by the watchmen,, who had taken
the prisoner into custody with the clock' in his Plseposion,, The
front door of the house vas open, and other articles had alto been
taken away,
On his .ttots-examin'atioti Vie prosecutor stated. that he hie 4
another residence, In which family generally lived ; but on the
night of the rubbery he had Sept it. the house in 13tyanstone-strect,
watch was usually let in lodgings.
The watchman (Atkinson),deposed tb hating met the prisoner
about half-yest three on the mottling of tie INA, with the clock iii
his possession.. There was another person in company with hint,
who threw down a quantity of toroper6, he had in his possession,
and effected his escape.. .N •
The prisoner put in a written
that he had been spending " - -
locked out of his lodgings,
till the time arrived a hen '

of his wanderings he represented
son carrying two umbrellas, mom
clock in question. • This indii
servant carrying these articles
dilly, wheri he expcpted to nice
sorer to issad him by' burying t
and. turd not gene far with him
man is Ilricribed, and his collopiiiiO4
Mr. EITOU GILAHA)I chargea the
prisoner.

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hear. on an
'cm ember
I Ctn. each,

rather a.
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111 r. Sergewnk. ...ANQUET magracfra ibe Jury fbr the prosiec.....
tion, and called the following withesset :--
Mr. Henry 3ferrik Hoare. examined by the Bench,-1 ant oiler
of the partnera.in the house of Maisps. Hoare and Co. They tomtit
of Ilchryfloare, Charles:Hoare: Hugh Hoare, and Hear.y ,flerritk
Hoare. The prisoner was a clerk in the house, coil at end In-
trusted to receive sums of money for the firm. It wet his hiving's ti,
carry the Exchequer Edit' to the Audit Office of the Exchequer,
for the porpose of getting. them changed. The ti-lual course way,
trit witch a notice came front the Exchequer, the prianner 'made our
slish•which he took whit the bills to the Exchefluer, where Pe.
received new ones fur them, with the inte-':eit. According lo the,.
custom, a list was made out in September last, whieh the ptisoncr
made out himself, and got new one,' for them. He was dismissed
from the banking-house in the month of September last. , . •
Examined by Mr. BaonErtlexThe bills were depoa!ted by
the customers of the bank as a security, but tht• partner& had no
right to use them. The prisoner hail been in the house for many
years, and wps itikhly respected.- When sent for to explain his
conduct he came. Ile cam,: the day he was token into custody. -
' By Mr.,LAW—The Iwitse has the power of exchanging the oh!
{for the new bills as the.latter are paid off..
. Mr. Hugh Richard Hew examined—l am the Mphei a tl.t•
list witness. In September last I looked out the E:%ettequer bills
'for the prisoner to take them to the Excheqth, but 1 did not take
any account of them, as that was the duty ot the prisoner.
Ily the Retontit R—l had no list. I looked nut all the not, s
of Sept. 22. .I,merely handed over the ]Exchequer bills of that dal,.
to the prisoner. Many of them had been deposited in the hduse
by the customers. .
Mr. H. Snelgar examined by. Mr. Lai'—l am an officer err.
ployecl in the Audit Office, Somerset House. I prOduce a list of
Etchequer bills transmitted to our office from the house of Messri.
Jpare. The amount of the two lists is 47a,400/...prigelps!,
and 14,2121. for humid. The lists specify the tr...mbet and
date of the bills. The manner in which a demand for ne's
bills and interest was made, was by the person 'Mese unk:-
writing appeared at the bottom of the list and receipt, the words of
of Whizh were " Received the 2'2d S'ept. the bills as sreeified within
with interett." That receipt at the bottom of the hats in questiur
was the prisoner's handwriting.
Mr. 31errik Hoare, again examined—The list of the lid is kali
as the new bills is in the handwriting of„the prisoner. ,
.. ,
Mr. Snelgar again examined—Th7 bills have no;as yet heir,
coniptired at the Audit Office. The figures at the back of the elfd
billido not mean any thing. They were merely ornaments!. •
John Henry Latham, examined by Sergeant Ron... Zeal u EX—lrit
the paymaster of Exchequer bills, and paid oils !lumber to the oil-
toner In F•eptember last. He gave him new for eld ores. • The
amount of the principal was 476.400?. • of the Thterest 14,:e21. fist• the prisoner received 30 bills for lOW/. each , (29 krllpi
/10Q1. each; 116 bills for 2001. each ; and 2'27 for in. each, t it,.
acts did not compare the Exchequer bills with aqy account, but 4s
believed them to be the sante. Ile gave the prisoner all he dp-
mended. . A book now prod.i.ced wits one in which all pew, !ilk eke
copied. It contains an account of all the bills issied,trid to wtotb..
It also Contains an account of those delivered to the pesoner do the
2•21 of September last. Precisely the kame sgefies of liotei wet-
given in exchange for old bills. If a 10061. bill were reesented;*
10001. new bill would be given for it, and not two HIS for 6601.
Mr. Woos, paimasta to his Majesty's. fotets In Setembet laj.•
A paper now_produtdd was not In his (wimeas's) hand-tithing, li
was coned tiorn the (retinal draft ; witness examined It et the
time. Thinks he has seen the prisoner c. never paid h!'4l any mangy
on his own account ; never paid money without proper vouchietts,
cnosisting of draughts end ntlidatits ; witness milli the prisoner a
draught on the Bank. Pensions wert in courte of payment in Seb
tember last, and remained so tip to the p t time. ,
Mr. Henry Whiting was and is in t service of the Bank of
England, as a clerk in the public Bra g-office. I hate a
check in tnj own hand-writing, order', thlt. Armen! of
1:1293/. fn. lid. by 11r. Hetherington to he prisoner.• r„,,..:
' was another draught connected with the a eKw the plyinent of
33/. es. lid. The order was not made particti I yto 31r. II etherlnl-,-.
ton, to whom the prisoner presented. it, And it•eil tide Metros.
Whites. did not see the money paid. Had n known, delitiol
the thirty years he had been in Me office, but t Jost:mit, Ir
which money had heen OM without the person receiving It
putting !di name on Are back. Cannot say that he ecliany
paid the draught over tri the prinaher, but he keSicved sc. ...
Mr. Wm. lletheringinn, one of the gay clerks to the be n_ k.
probvier.d
bills, to the amount of 374.4fitt1. had been made in the him;
quer CoyleO ; the nrone
produced'v,a but
b like. could
in w hich riot San
einttorywohfotmt.
r.1..e.
Roberttg
while na new bill was placed to her account. The interest al tOrit,
10011!. n•as !Mi. The prisoner ought to have brinlght ilte lettere....
ermrlivtingwoloodthe.sprtislocnbere;hueeringacictfiol/t Ineapsothaa.ein ought to heaptebeiniz-1:..
check and Exchequer bills to Meseta. Hoare's, but he laid dot
don! so. . . . .
In the crosi.examination, :he rhnisa admi'ted that he hid noti-
fied in the public press the etamination of the prisoner at Bet..
street. previously to that taking place. If the money had been pti.l
to Alien \Vinod, it would have appeated in the book. i
Mr. Oeorge Meirnme—V'itnors had examined the aceouri of 0•1
t

••• , • •
rrittOts defence, the perrort of ;blob wan
thefvening with ions frierts• and being
I, came to the resolution of walking about
he abld go SO his work. In the course
esenred himiuslf as having met with a per_
Is some luggage in a carpet big, and tho
individual told him he was kgetatlemanlk
tieres to the ll'hlte Horse
tucet,ltis master. He revisted the re-
rying the clock, ona.the law cpmenitod,
I him when he eras stoppeetb7 pirstatch.
Icollimation tan away.
chatgel the Jury, who ecciblttal tt'e

r obstrrueilost from the eltrerl;risoner inthe course of the search.; „TRIA7i (iF 111.1 t. W. CHRISTMAS.
i the contrary, he rendered every assistce in his power in ordsr tr. Chris., ma:, avd .ty profession a clerk, was pct to the
further the search, and expressed his astonishment that he bar on an indicutnt, ctiolng him with emberzling on the
t.'2d of
omit] have become the seh:eet of suspicion. The elder Rippen September list, a stbz cit of London, ten L'lchequer bills for
peatedly protested his innccence after the discovery of the pro- !fa each, the Oriiperty. of Messrs. Henry .Mertit. trite, and
!rty. others, hie pennies, by thorn the private oto
It appeared. from the evidence et Wootibtr... another officer, that ' There wA a sec Ali iikridttnotiraihilipatXtu et ha "em .
e cloqt was diootvered h 1.40,,, in aia:^h 'hers wits sum* barlor, berried a bait ace for *it. t rdiLeati.af the said -merrii,
r favoisig tbscia„. nil that toe-elder pit mr iept poultry. A pee. , Hoare and panzer', at the n n zro kaki !n the West.
n might be in the wear without perceiving the cloth, which could The prisoner was accompanied into Court by a profearional
Ire been concealed where it was found without entering the elder friend, holding in his hands a bundle of papers. He pleidrxl ir.
Owner's house. - rather a-faltering tqne " Not Guilty" to the indletMent.
Philip Woolf, son to the prosecutor, deposed., that hie father Mr. liw opened the epic. - '. : ' • .. _ .
rectal him to watch the prironcrs• house on the tam Sergeant ping Mr. fIOSANQUET acii44 ibi Jury fbuthe corerec..-

• NEW CO,' , THOISDAT.
mr.F. cook was convicted of stealing a handkerchief.
The palominor was walking up New-street, Covent-garden,
ebtretil at dight, on the 6th or July, and wart told by a gentleman
that his pocket had been picked, and that if he went back about
literal. yards he would see the person who had done it; accordingly
fifteen with the gentleman, and found the prisoner in the custody
of an Alen, who searched hini, and discovered the handkerchief in
pie cruu•ert..
Thome, Bryant stood indicted for stealing, on the 10th April,
a chaise harnesi. rake 30%. the property of T. B. Kertwell.
'T. B. Kenwell resides at 27, Colonnade, Russel-square. On the
day in question he hung the harnels up in the stable, and on the
gut Morning mired it.
The hamlets was then produced aril identified by this witness.
Tao watchmen upon the Coundling mute proved, that ott the
night of the 10th April, they saw the prisoner and a man, who was
tr' a Seuion or two ago, with Mie Mimes' in their possession,
goktg along Compton-tureen ; the ethlr man had the harness upon
his beek, and when the watchman got up to them, the prisoner at
the fmer said., " it is all right," andleft them, as he said, to find
another person, to whom he pointed, to fetch the man who had
irtedn them the harness to carry ; tbe prisoner went, but did not
return.
The beadle dewed to having taken the prisoner, for whom he
had been In March ever since the robbery, in Nelson's skittle
ground,-about half a mile from his residence.
The prienter's father has been bedridden for several years, and
htsMother has a very large family. 'in his defence he said a man
ha 4 given Joyce, the other man, and himself, the harness to carry,
tot which they were to receive Is.
The Cortarotr-SEnc Lowe having summed up the evidence,
the Juty sequitted the prisoner.
ceopee GOOillin was indicted for stealing, on the 6th June, four
tame Swig: value lea., and nine chickens.
Tns promeutor, a resident In Bolden-lane, had fastened op the
chickens and fowls or. the night of the 6th, and when he went the
next morning he missed them. He accordingly searched for them,
sod in the courac of the asatcli,, found the lien and nine chfekene.l

.-.• aw. we the defence, called
he had hem far some hale; he gave him a most excellent character.
The Jury forted the prisoner Not Guilty.
Thomas Ilammowl stood indicted for stealing a gold snuff-box,
ISt, on the 17th July, the property of Slr George Beaumont.
. C. PHILLIrs stated the case for the prosecution.
eery Hardy—ls in the service of the prosecutor, on the 17th
7r
July recollects his master saving something to him about the snuff.
box. Witness saw the prisoner then running away very fast round
.thecarriages. Witness pursued [inn ; before he got up to him, he
was speaking to another man. When he did get up to him, he
co/lated and told him he had something about him that did not be-
Lieg to him. The prisoner said he had not ; but aftcr a little heti-
twain, h^ put his hand into his pocket and took out the snuff-box
that hiamaster had lost.
Cross-examined by Mr. C. Law—The prisoner ran round only
one carriage, and when he had given up the box he wanted to go,
sayscit, that then lie could not want any thing mote of him.
Be-examined be 31r. Prm.hins--AlVheu witness and the pri-
soner went to Sir 0...0rge Beaumont, the other man did rot go with
then.
Bit George Beaumont identified the box, which was here pr0..1
dozed, as the one he had in his possession wher. in church ; cut Of
shish be was coming. when he felt a pressure upon hint as though
•hi inns were pinioned, and suspecting his snuff-box was gone,
directly put his hand into his pocket and found such to be the
44.
' De of course immediately called to his servant, and pointing
'de I auras, told him he had lost his box ; the man followed at once,
tW. tatalund,,• bringing the box and the prisoner. He accordingly
-aliteibi. taken into custody.
. , be MLA:. LAW—Was confident he had the box
Cypossession at least five minutes before the pressure.
prisoner, In his derelict., said he had picked up the box
tally, and that he ran after a person and asked him she.
it not belong to him ; while doing that, he was collared by
. ... Pew
perembstorpli, causedfoot hisan er
and tshwesigi ng thattati t
excited
had
citedbxnotthhaitneg aboutlrcnm
re,
that did not belong to him.
. - r. C. LAW thimealled, ins/gnarl of the defence,
Thant Henry Smith, a wax.cl,antlfer; residing In Clerkenerill
but formerly of Conduit-street, who stated, that on Sunday, the
. Uth of July, he sevollected, as he was passing by the door of St.
. Ges:ge'S church, he saw a person stoop down and pick up what
appeared to him to be a snuffbox, but whether it was actually No
or no; he e told not say. Cannot say whether the prisoner is the
person who picked is up. Never saw him before to-day, unless he
has the .can who tork up the snuff-box. Did not see what the
man did with the box. Comes here in consequenoe of an adrer- ,
twenient he sae in the Timer on Monday last.
The pope was then produced, and the advertisement read. It
requested " the person who saw a young man pick up a snuff-
box,
on the 17th of July, near St. Gorae's church, to go to Mr.
Ifuniplircss's office, as be might be of essential service to that
person."
Crew .c Nlmined by Mr. C. Pa txxirs—Never saw the prisoner.
before, but he is very uch like the person who picked up the box,"
or whate,.._t it m:git
The wi-ntss then aid, L. came to give evidence quite disinte.
rested.
Gr. C. Pis xr.tp Ido rat say that you do not. Sir, but it Is
Waite unser:meg an innocent reason to clear himself, unless be
b accosted, which were not.
Cast-exain;r a resumed—Did not know but the box might
have Lamy, . to the person who picked it up, and that he had
dropped it.. id nct see him run away i did not see on the instant
that be run away very fast, nor that he was pursued by a person in
1i;47. The person did ask him whether he had dropped or lost a
et
-box.
• pir G. P:aumont, by the Comatose SEnnsaxv—Could DOI
base lost the lox out of his pocket, which is very deep, without
. Its having been taken out ; could not have pulled it out wish his
poelterthaaditerchief.
• The Jury, after consulting a short time, found the prisoner
Ow il.'w.
John I.nthis was indicted for stealing a gig on the 22d of Au.
....

. X the property of J. tl filar.
The prosecutor deposed, that he went ot:t ►ith the prisoner in
bla ; the nrosecittor's) gig, urn business. After they had settled
. business, the prosecutor had occasion to call upon ore of his
westerners, and left the reins iu the hands of the prisoner, who
Male off with the gig. On the next day lie met him, mid an agree-
rent wa,s made between them fur the prisoner to hire the mg at
Ire. per week; at the expiration of the week another agreement
Wall made far another week. After that the prosecutor told prisoner

•i
'be (multi not let Lim have it lor.get, as be Ilei tatM ke, The Pri-
soner then told him he had let it fur a mealibilletellalliter.
Davis, who had gone into the country. 11*-iwftlelrager subse-
quently discovered that the prisoner had sold it on the 27th, five
'days after.
The Covwow Swerorta:ve observed. that this might be fraud
but not felony ; for there was no proof that the prisoner intended
to sell it at the time he first hired it ; indeed, therime that elapsed
before the sale, in that respect, spoke ih favour of the prisoner.
Not Gellty.
R. M•bonald was indicted for steeling a quantity of lead. in the
parish of St. Pancras; on the 6th of July, belonging to the Impe-
-1 rial ties Light Company.
Edward Torrinmon, store-keeper to the Company, identified a!
piece of lead, neighing 3tllbs. as belonging to the Cerripany. Ile
was. on the Gth July IPrit, in the employ et* the Company. Ile
could not swear that he delivered the lead to the prisoner..
Thornier Slatdiews, a plumber, proved that the prisoner had
brought the lead produced to his shop for sole. He bought it of
him, but not liking the account he gave of himself, he gave him
into custody.
Several witnesses were called to speak to the prisoner's good
character.

The Jury found him Guilty, but recommended him to mercy, on
actouht of his gnod character.
The COIIIIOI4 SIRGEANT sakl, the recommendatinn would be
attended to as tar as possible; but that the robbing a master by a
servant 111111 no: to be treated as a venial offence. Servants had
their masters nt their mercy.
Mary M•Dernrot was convicted of stealing and pawning four
shirts and a pair of pantaloons.
Thunius Prunturtun was convicted of Waling, OR the 41st
ATtust last, eight live tame fowls. value 20e. in the parish of St.
Pancraa, the property of Aaron Howley.
Wye. Willis was Indicted for stealing, on the 16th August, st
watch anti chain, value 10/. from the person of Thomas Selby.
• It appeared from the evidence, that on the day in question, Mr.
Selby, who is an attorney, was muscling at the bottom of Surrey
street, looking at 11 boat race. Whilst his attention was fixed upon
Nib spoil, the prisoner tome up to his side, Made a snatch at the
protecutor's watch, drew it from his fob, and immediately ran off.
Mr. Selby immediately gave the alarm, and the prisoner was pur-
sued and overtaken.
The evidence was complete, and the Jury found the prisoner

(Before Mr. Sergeant Moslem and a London Jury.)
BIGAMY.
Skein' Fred. Reed was insticted for bigamy.
Richard Lucas proved that the prisoner married his daughter
Eliza on the 27th of August, 1813, at Cripplegate Church. After
living with her for a year he left her. She was still living.
Afar y Anne Donaghue deposed, that she had known the prisoner
upwards of two years. She was a servant in the family of Mr.
Frerhfield, the solicitor. The prisoner paid his addres.cs to her,
and represented himself as a single man. She married him on the
11th of March last at Christ Church. She discovered that the pri-
soner was married in about four weeks aftet the otremony. The
witness was 21 years of age.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. He was an ill-favoured
man, aged 28.
Thos. IVuat was also indicted for bigamy.
William Hearne was present when the prisoner married the wit-
ness's wife's sister in 11320. She had three children by the prisoner.
She is still living.
Sarah Horton depcsed that she became acquainted with the priso-
ner in 1821, and married him in 1822. The prisoner said he was
single. The prisoner left her in about eleven months after mar-
riage, and never returned. She was in service, and left it to he
married to the prisoner. She had one child by the prisoner, which
wan now supported by the parish.
John Garner, a beadle, proved that when he apprehended the
prisoner on the present charge he was living with his first wife and
three children.

The Jury retufned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner wan *27 years of age, and, like the last, had nothing
to bout of on the score of persoual appearance. The girl whom
be last married, on the contrary, possessed a very interesting
countenance.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. 15.

Before FRANCIS CONS?, Esq.
The Court was occupied the early part of the day in hearing
appeals against orders of removal, and convictions under various
penal statutes, but no cue except the following occurred worthy of
notice.

THE SILK TRADE.

This was art appeal entered by John Parker, of No. 2, York.
street, Bethnal.green, against • conviction by two Magistrates,
under the statute of 17 !leo. 111., cap. b 6, directing him to pay a
penalty of 201., for having a quantity of silk in his possession, and
not being able to give a satisfactory account of the manner by
which he became possessed of it.
Mr. Adoxenus was retained to sustain the conviction, and Mr.
ANDREWS and Mr. BRODERICK appeared on behalf of the ap-
pellant.
r- - that owing to the very great facilities given to persons
`v extensive silk manutactories in and about the me.
embezzle the raw material, and the ready
F disposing of it to these who, calculating
e exists in the way of detection, venture is
dishonest species of traffic, considerable d
made on the property of the manufacturer.
it seems, are articles almost Imporsi-
' a long time, presented a formidable
and conviction of offender!; sill at
provided a remedy by passing the Act of
Sri, which empowers two magistrates, upon
them, that it is suspected a quantity of silk
purloined, or embezzled, is secreted upon
irldual, to issue their warrant to search the
t any such silk being so found, to summon
n whose possession it is, to give an account
It he became possessed of it ; and in case
be able to give a satisfactory account of It,
the silk should be forfeited, and the ma.
power to convict the person in a sum of
',C, for the second, and 401. for the third,

one moiety thereof to go to the in.
, to the poor of the parish, or to such
.ity 1 magistrate should direct.
appelkur. _ according to the modern phraseology, an ope-
rative silk weaver, but instead of pursuing his calling, he has for •
long while been a dealer in raw and wrought silk. Mr. Wilson, a
very respectable silk manufacturer in the Old Jewry, having sustain-
ed considerable losses from time to time by the depredations of the
persons employed by him, and from certain causes suspecting that
Mr. John Parker, the operative, wet a person of that description,
who did not scruple to purchase the silk of any one, from any
body, obtained a search warrant, and, together with the officers of
Hattomgarden police establishment, went to No. 9,, York-street,
Bethnal-green. and there found in a room, not having the external
resemblance of a shop, though it contained a counter and other
appurtenances necessary to the carrying on of a .sag and retired
business. Under the counter were found several drawers, full of
silk, and in another part of the house a large quantity of in-
digo and ostrich feathers. Mr. Wilson, however, not being
able to identity any of these things, was undecided whether
to take them away or not ; until presently a female came
in and asked Parker for an ounce and a half of silk, which he told
her he could not then let her have. This circumstance excited sus.
pinion, and it was determined to worth the rest individual alto
'should enter. A few minutes only had elapsed before another wo.
man showed herself, and on being asked who elle was, Parker
'said, " Oh, she is a woman who winds silk for me." Oat, of the
officers then searched her, and found on her • person a• night-cap
filled with silk. He said to Parker, as this woman is your winder,
or course you can tell me what coloured silk this is she has got here ?
I Parker then said, she is not my winder. Mr. Wilson upon this
turned room? to Parker, and told him that he must now prepare to
give an account for ell the silk that was in his possession ; and that
gentleman with the officers immediately took the silk and Parker
before the Magistrates. A subsequent day was appointed for
Parker to bring forward his witnesses, to show by what means the
silk tame into his possession ; but, when that day arrived, Parker
was not able to give a satisfactory account to the Magistrates, and
was therefore convicted in the penalty of 20!., and the silk ordered
to be forfeited. Against this COOVit:i011 the present appeal had
been made.

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Just as Mr. ArsoLrtatus was shout to open the case,
Mr.,01111)1IEWS rose, and said It might save the titre of the
Couit If hewere ndrito state an (rheostat, which ha coozeivad
would altogether dispou of the case. Ile argued at great length,
that the conviction bong grounded upon the 10th section ot the
statute, It ought to setfurth the predate words of that section : thin,
however, was not the case, and for that reason he contended that the
conviction was bad.

Mr. BRODERICK followed, and occupied a very considerable
portion of the time of the Court in going through the various sec.,
none of the act of Par:lament, and then the comments and °biter-
rations made thereon by the late Mr. Evans, who was at one time 1
a magistrate of Manchester, and afterwards appointed to a Judg-
ship at Bombay ; and arguing front thew, that the form of coo.
Oaten was defective, and could not, consequently, be sustained.
The Court would not snow Mr. Adolphus to reply, being antis.!
fled that theobjection was net a valid one.
Mr. Bacintarcx then submitted, that as the Act gave the Ma.
gisirates a discretionary power as to the disposal of one moiety of '
the conviction, it being either to be paid to the poor of the parish,
into some public charity, as they should direct, It was therefore)
essential that this discretion should appear to hoe been exercised ;
but upon the Asce of the record of the conviction itself no such
thing did appear; and for that reason he contended the conviction
' was bad.

The CHAIRXAI4 asked Mr. Adolphus what answer he eatrld
give to this "r It was an objection that at present struck hits to
have considerable weight t.for, it the Act dial hive a discrettunavy
power. it certainly was necessary Mat that discretion shoals' be
exercised.

Mr. ADOLPHUS said, that by disuse in the late Police Act, h
MIS directed, ►hat where a part only i 4 the penalty we. to go to the
informer, and the other part to the pn.•r of tha parish, or to any
0! her person at the discretion of the lliagistrate, instead of such
pan being paid at the diNcretioa of the Magistrate. it 'hoard ?we the
futon, be paid to the Receiver-General of the county, for the uses
specified in the Act ; so that in truth the discretionary power given
by the 17th Geo. 111. chap. LG, had been taken away by thin latter
statute.

The CHAIRMAN referred to the Act, and, haring read it, held
that the eonatruelion of it was as the beamed Commit had muted.

Mt. BRODERICK argued that the 17th or Gee. 111. was parti-
cularly excepted out of the operation of the Pollee Act, which only
applied to cares where part of the penalty was to be paid to the
parish, and not la those casts where there was an alternative lett

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with.tim Magistrste to direct its being paid to other patios"
.At
all events he hoped the Court would reetrve the point.
The Cita' Rlf AN refused to do so, ,bserving, that he mold pot
possibly conceive how any point could le raised upon so obvious an
enactment.
These preliminary objections havingthus been dispewc. 4 of,
Mr. AnoLviens called his sinuous, whose testimony confirmed
tbe•matement above made:- Bad, in addition, weat to show that
the silk found in the appellant's.posertsion was oot.at all in that
state which a regular Manufacturer would keep It. Silk that
ought to be on warp bobbins was wound on shoo% and that
which (Mould properly have betel on shoot, was wound on
warps. Other bobbins had, considerably more silk upon them
than it wee usual Or even possible to have for the purpose of
manufacture, Amidst dna quantity of siik, amounting nearly to
40Ibs. *eight, there were Kandy two bobbins of it precisely of
the same odour; the various hues of the rainbow, rf mismati.
caddy reflected twenty-fold, would not outvie in splendour the
' nere.show (as the Learned Counsel called it) that was displayed
upon the table of the Court. Mr. IVrison, in his evidence,
slated that It was tie custom of persoas in the silk trade to hare
all their bobbins marked with their Initials, but most of those
found at Parker's had the names of. other persons obliterated by
Parker's owo initials being three or four times burnt in upon the
Tit• dare. t•
al witnesses (all of the very lowest grade in Society) came
turd on behalf of the appellant. One or two testified to their
hierfng sold Parker some silk in a raw and undyed 'state, and
they could rot therefore sneak to the silk then before them
being any part of what they had sold him. One of the wit.
mean, however, mid the silk then in Court was en a proper state
for fancy trimming weavers, though be confessed he was not at all
acquainted with the operative part of weaving, and had only been
connected with the silk trade as a dealer foi about two years.
A deer also stated,. than the bad dyed silk for Parker, but he
could only select about seven or eight out of the seventy or eighty
different eokiitte that were put before hint, as corresponding wit
those he had dyed far tit appellant. •
Two or three poor woven were likewise called, who said they
had wound silk for Parker.
The Corwr obsemed, dolt this evidence certainly did not seem
material; that the silk had been dyed, and that it had been
wound was obvious erough. for midi was the present state of it.
The question was, was this silk that which the appellant purchased
of the first two of his witpersee ?
Mr. ASt DRIWS then multi two or three bills of parcels, which
he mid applied to ail the-sollitioat was Wand at his client's by the
officers.
This was contradicted by the testimony of Mr.Wiison, who said
the bills of parcels mentioned only. two sorts of silk, whereas there
were a great irony different sorts then before the Court.
'Plie Co A terra": and that the case remained precisely the same
as it was before the first witness for the appellant etas enamired.
The question was wish him, whether he ought is have heard the
appellant's witnesses at all. He was glad he had done so, because,
that die man.taight not goaway and say that he had rot been fairly
teemed; but in point of law. that Court, he conceived, ought, hi
justice to the Magistrates Who had convicted, to have heard only
the evidence width was eddueed before them. and upon which their
conviction was grounded. The appellant had had five days given'
bin by the Magistrates to produce all that testimony, which, as it,
now appeared, was then upon toe spot, and as available to hint at
I that period as now. There was no doubt that all this silk had
been dyed ard wound by
innssomebod but was it in that condition
which ammo and brierefidedealer ilk would keepsit ; or, wan it
in such a state as to justify the suspicion that it was not.hooestly
come by ? If such evidence as that whiehthe appellant bad just
offered were to be adnitted, the same evidence would ggto cover
the possession of thousands of pounds worth of silk, for these was
nothing to prevent the same loose testimony being equally applica- I
hie to any other ease es to this. lie thought, upon the whole. I
that the Magistrates were tight in their decision, and that the
Court could no: alter it. The convictioe, therefore, must be con.
firmed.

Mr. A DOLPFULTS hoped that the Court would Consider this as •
case entitling the respondents to costs.
The Citatustaw thoorht the appellant ought to pay the costs.
If he would pui the parties to the trouble of attending at that
teurt.to hear evidence which he might have produced elsewhere,
he must pay the et penses incident to such a course of proceeding.
THE UNRULY APPHETICE.
The petition of Benjamin Smith, of Judd.street, Brunswick.
square, in the county of 311d,llesex. engraver, alleging divers very
grievous complaints against his apprentice, Witham Theodore
Gordon, the son of Lewis Theodore Gordon, an officer in his Ma-
jesty's navy, and praying to be heard toucbirg the same, was read,
by the Clerk of the Pence; at the conclusion whereof, Mr. Ben-1
jamin Smith presented himself to the Court. This gentleman
being duly sworn, was desired to state his complaint. His manner.
figure, and preluding, were all M such ao original stamp, that the
auditory, despite the solemnity of the occasion, could not restrain
the convulsive movement of those muscles which are so peculiarly
susceptible of excitivion at the sight of anything that is .Panay ;
for truly funny was Mr. Smith, both in person and in speech. The
sum and substance of Mr. Smith's complaint—f;)T It would re-
quire three of our columns, •at few, to give a reasonable sketch of
his voluminous catalogue of weighty charges against the poor
wight, who stool like a reed shaken by the wind before him—the
sum and substance was this :—That the young Theodore was in
January. ISA, placed with him on trial for a fortnight, to ascertain
whether the profession of an engraver was suited to his capability
and taste; that at the end of the fortnight Mr. Smith told the
father that his sen did not evince a fondness for the profession t to
which the father replied—O. I dare say he will do; you had better
take him--and forthwith P. 1. Of lOW. were paid to Mr. Smith, and
the father covenanted with am that his son should he a good
and ndthfuf • uppestethea tOn--isim (Mr. Smith), for seven
years, to leant tea ase at% mystery of an engravei
The youth entered on his task, but, sooth to say, although his own
father had, under hand and seal, covenanted that he should demean
himself a s a good and faithful apprentice ought to do, yet, without
the fear of an action of covenant before his eyes, he did not obey the
lawful dictates of his master, nor did he, in sad truth, repose him-
self seven nights in each and every week on the bed or mattress of
his said master, but, with a tenant disposition, he absented himself
from time to time, for the whole night together, sleeping, as it may
be, where he ought not to sleep, and being there for certes he
ought not to he. On divers errands he was sometimes sent by his'
said muter, but still so true to his own perversity, instead of
going and coming as a good and lawful apprentice ought to do,
he returned with fictions; for in honest plainness of speech he
never went at all ; and then, sometimes the reproof of his master
would be such that the wayward Theodore would say I do not like
my profession, and rather than. serve cut my apprenticeship to it I
would prefer transportation. But he forgot that his father core-
nanted that he should serve for seven years. At length he ab-
sented himself for a period, nod not being to be found Mr. Smith
communed with his father, and had hand-bills printed and placarded.
Some person, of N 0.23, Little, Bell-alley, called on Mr. Smith, and
surmised that he knew of the lost young man ; finally it was disco.
vered that he had been twereted under the disguise of his sister's petti-
coats. It was rumoured indeed that he had slept in brick fields, and
had in other ways become the vagabond apprentice; but Mr. Smith
had discovered that this was only the invention ofan enemy, for it was
under the maternal wing of his mother (living, it should be noted,
not with his father) that the young Theodore had sheltered him.
self. The young man returned tremblingly to Judd-street, and •
there a t'onsultation was had as to lt,w he should be treated. Mr.
Sergeant Sellon (an awful annunciation) was to be consulted, and
forthwith the young man was brought before him, but that worthy
magistrate despaired of making any impression on his mind, and
withheld his counsel. The youth agaia returned, and again
disobeyed.
At this stage Mr. Smith took from Ms pocket a small memoran.
slum book, in which he entered daily (for they happened daily) the
taulta and vices of this truant boy but the Chairman thought
enough had beta said, and requested that the young man might be
heard.

Itlr. Smith—Of coarse, Sir. I feel warmly (putting his hand to
his heart), and when I do an, I speak with warmth.
The CMAIRMAX—Yrou seine.) a 11017 proper zeal.
31r. Smith—l only wish the young man to know his duty uan
apprentice, and to be taught that he must obey my dictates, and I
will do my duty towards him.
The young man then came forward.
The CHAIRMAN—WeII, Sir, you hove been accused of very Wt.
proper conduct ; what have you to say to it ?
Apprentice—l am prepared to deny many of the facts.
The CLIAIRMAN—YOI/ have step: out of the house, have you
not?

Apprentice—Yes, Sir.
The CITAIII If AN -‘l. tit , that is a fact.
,&spoptig;—Nr. is a very harsh and severs master ; and
the reason whit sreprmFortteltottse wasOrseariae, his lad. at
lull of vermin.

At this moment, Itlr. Smith, the father of the boy, and his
brother (a gentleman abOut 26 years of age) all spoke together.
Mr. Smith very warittly--andeed the whole of his conduct
evinced an extreme degree of warmth—zeal the Chairman called it),
denied that bats (for the word was used) ever congregated in hie
linen.

The feeler spoke of his son as a di‘grate to him, and pointed at
his ragged shoes to prove it.
The Apprendee—Why, if I came home to you, you would not
give ma any others.
The Brother—Sir, may Ibe allowed to speak. This (pointing
to the youth) is a very ill-used young man, and his master is a very
immoral mitn.

(111 r. ADOLPITS'I here said 0 ! yea, I dare say. One accuses
hint of bap, ar.d ...other of Immorality.).
The brother conti9ucd—and besides, he is not qualified to teach
hintthe profet.sion.

The Carats laAN.—liti this person he sworn.
Being was hskell what he was?.
The Bother.—l ant a commercial traveller, stn come up to Lon-
don tft protect my brother.
The CHAIIMAW.—Why here is his father.
The Brother—His father is a very tyrannical man, and the poor
boy eras frightened to denth, and attaid to to il:mplain to his father,
who had threstehed to brat his d--tl soul through the partition,
upon'tha complaint of Air. Smith.
Another apprentice (ors journeyman) of Mr. Sinidt's came for-
wind to corroborate what the. youth had said as to Mr. Smith's
temper, anti the filth of his bedding.
The Cm at IIIIAN—WhO is Mr. Smith?
Mr. Smith--1 have ilied in the same house for the !rat two and
thirty yeara, and em the (adopt tradesman from turnpike to turn-
pike.
The Father then edtheased the Bench in severe terms against the
bor.
The Brother appealed to the Bench for the boy.
The .latter protested hia earnest wish to have him reclaimed.
The CHAIIIIILN said tiomething must he done with him, and
finally sentenced him to solitary conlinentestior one month.
The apprentice then came forward, and said. " May I be al.
lored to t‘peak ? " Mr. Sthlih is a very cruel tyrannical roan ; as

an instance of this I sill mention to you one eifeumstanCe. some
, plates (as we understood the young man) were injured, and he
came up to me and asked who did it. I told him I did not know.
lie then immediately swore at me, and struck the twice on the
bead. I afterwards spoke to some of my fellow apprentices about
it, and they told me that Mr. Smith did it himself. I then took
an opportunity to say, • Why, air, you did this,' and he immedi.
eel), Hew into a passion, and accused some one else of it. Mesides,
Sir, I have no taste for the profession. My talents are not equal
to it, and I shall never be master of it. And to show how impos-
sible it was for me to complain to my father. Mr. Smith once told
rne that my father was coming to knock my d —.4 Soul through
the partition.
The father, colouring up. begged to explain how this was. Be
said, Mr. Smith came to him one day, and as they were in she
parlour together, he told him so much of the ill conduct of his son,
that he did exclaim, " d— n him, I will beat his d—d head
off;" and this was conveyed from his house to Islington ( where
Mrs. Gordon lives), and from thence to the boy at Judd street.
Here Mr. Smith began to be very earnest. lie pulled forth se-
veral crayons and other drawings by the young man. showed them
round the Court, and said that a young man who could do like that,
proved he had a talent for the profession, if he would but apply it.
A gentleman then came forward, and said lie had placed a son
of lits with Mr. Cnith, of whose professional .abilities he was
perfectly assured, or he should not have intrusted his child to
him. . . . .

111 r. Smith—Yes, and I can show what that lad (pointing to a`
boy about 14 or 15 years old) can do.
The COVRT, adhering to its farmer judgment, directed the
officer to take the young man into custody, and to let him be kept
in solitary confinement for one month. If he evinced a conscien-
tiousness of his error before that time, and his •matter was willing
to receive him again, it was signified that he might do so.
Mr. I.:mith again declared, that he had no wish beyond that of
having the young man made sensible that lie was bound to obey
his dictates, and if he would become a good apprentice every thing
should be done to make him comfortable.

The parties then left the Court.
The above is but a very faint statement of the scene that was ex-
hibited by these persons. Every variety of passion sunned to be
called into play. The master, an old man, who, as he said of him-
self, felt wcrnaly—we should say glowingly—the father, from whose
eyes the tear now and anon was seen to start, though the rougher
passions were visibly marked in his countenance ; the elder brother,
indignant at the ill-treatment (as he conceived) his paunger brother
was receiving. ; the youth himself, apparently unmarred, renting on
the protection afforded him by his senior brother, and, if we mis.
take not, there was a sinter's heart beating for him, and cheering
him noir and then with a word of comfort in his ear—all these
characters were at once before us, in their own real and unsophisti-
cated forms, developing without restraint each his peculiar trait,
and displaying in the coup a subject worthy the pencil of a
master.

Sergeant SEttoX asked' the young irowtAn what tfonld %deice
her to conduct herself in such a manner, after all the humanity
which had been shown her ; in fact, she was like a " spoiled
child."
The prisoner, with great pertness, replied, that she did not wish
to go to a parish, and mix with beggars; she'd prefer going to
prison.
Mr. Montague then addressed the Magistrate. He observed,
that as one of the managers of the institution he happened to be pre.
sent when the prisoner excited this disturbance, and that it *se
most prejudicial to their interests to have those riotous scenes about
the office, attended with such false charges. On the same mom.
ing (in proof of the humane feeling of the society), he himself had
collected ten pounds among his friends for a distressed family.
The prisoner, in spite of every remonstrance and advice to return
to her parish, still persevered in preferring a prison, to which 44
was committed at length in default of bail.

MARLBOROUGH-BTREET, SEPT. 111.—James Warrvv, a*.
lor, and Eleanor, his wife, who have been several days in cemxly
upon a charge of starving and otherwise ill.treating the daughter of
the male prisoner, a girl about fifteen years of age, and instigsting
her to commit various acts of felony, were brought up for final es.
aminat ion.
The girl, who is very intelligent for her age, repeated her Armee
statements respecting the prisoners' conduct towards her. ma"
particular evidence as to ore robbery she had committed in the shoo
" of Mr. Shoolbred, a linen-draper, in Tottenham Court road.
The pawnbrokers with whom she had pledged the goods at,
tended and confirmed her testimony ; but neither Mr. Shoolbred
nor his shopman could identify the articles stolen.
The Magistrate said, that the prisoners had very asnowly
escaped the charge of felony for the present ; but for their barbarous
anti inhuman treatment of the child, of which there was abundant
proof, they could be indicted by the parish, and he would take good
care that they should be, as far as his representation went, unlent
they promised to give the child entirely up to the aunt, who was
very properly inclined to save her from ruin, and engage never js
go near or interfere with either of them. The indictment would
still be hanging over the prisoners, and the moment that he Ohs
Magistrate) should hear of their again molesting the girl, that mo.
ment he would apply to the parish to indict them.
The prisoners promised that they never would ; and, on this un.
derstanding, they were discharged, and the little girl given up to
her aunt.
APPREHENSION OF " MOTHER TURPIN."
QUEEN-SQUARE, SEPT. 15.—This woman, the mother to the
notorious Jack Turpin, who was sentenced to transportation for
life at the Old Bailey Sessions, has at length fallen into the hods
of justice. She is known by many aliases, but from the infamous
career site, and indeed the whole (Whet family, have run in Weis,
minster, she is called ‘• Mother Turpin,"—the name of her t,,
husband, but since his death she has been living with a man named
Watts, under which name she now passes. To attempt to describe
the infamy of the Turpin family would be almost impossible.
Suffice it to say, thatithey were the chiefs of a very extensive gang of
robbers, principally consisting of boys, who were enticed Rum the
laths of honesty, and initiated in the art of plunder by this hope-
ess family, whose residence was the depot for the stolen property.
Notwithstanding the fate of her unfortunate son, which it might be
expected would have acted as an example to the test of the family,
his mother still continued to carry on her old calling, and kept a
fence (receptacle fur plunder) in New Tothill-street ; and so sys.
tematical was she in her nefarious traffic, that the of found it
impossible to detect bet, so as to bring her within the pale of
the law.

The charge now preferred against her Is for feloniously receiving
a clock, the property of one James Sullivan, well knowing it to be
stolen.
Sullivan stated, that he is- employed at the Westminster gas.
works, and lives in Johnson's-court, Peter street. Unfortunate))
for him, his two sons, boys about twelve or thirteen years of age,
bad by some means joined a gang of juvenile thieves, and their
depredations were very extensive. One of his boys, a short time
since, obtained a situation in the family of 111 r. link, the surgeon,
and was there but a few days when he robbed the house of a
quantity of plate, which has never been found, and he bad since
learned that it had been taken to Turpin's, where it was purchased,
and the gang shared the spoil. That boy is now in the Marks
Society. His other boy, John Sullivan, is just as bad as bis bro.
ther, and all endeavours, mild and harsh, to reclaim him, prove
ineffectual. His inclination fur stealing is so great, that lie never
went into a have but what he deprived it of something, for which
he always found a market at the Turpins'. On Monday last his
wife was obliged to go out in the morning to work, and hit the key
of the apartment with the boy. On his coming home in the even.
ing the key was given to him by a neighbour, with whom it hat
been left, and on going into the room lie found that a new clock,
that cost only the week before 21. 6s. had been stolen. Suspicion at
once fell on his son, who was no where to be found, but in the
evening he-was met on Westminster-bridge and brought home, atd
when challenged with the robbery he at once admitted it, and said
that he had sold it at Turpin's, to Mother Turpin, for 3e.! Wit.
ness took the boy, and it man named Welsh, immediately to the
prisoner's house in New Tothill-street. Sbe was at home; and ow
being asked if she had not bought a clock of the boy then present
that day, she declared solemnly she had not, nor 'id she ever ate
the boy before in all her life. Witness insisted she bad, and swore
positively he would have it back again, as his son had rubbed him
of it; upon which she said to the boy, " Whet a rascal you must
be to rob your father : when you sold me the clock, you told we
you had found it on the step of a door near the Marsh-gate."
Here the prisoner put her hands together, and cried, Oh you
talk man, I told you that he said he found it in a gentlemau't
passage near the Marsh-gate, and not on the step of a dour."
Sullivan continued.—lle declared the clock he would have and
b would pay her back the money she had given for it. lira
which she said the block was INA then in the hodse, but, If he would
would wait till the morning, it should be all riett, as it ihould be
sent home, ant; she introduced pen and ink to take down his address.
One of her sons then interfered, and said that he supposed 113011ty
would do just as well as the clock and said he would give him a
sovereign to let the business drop. Witness told him he wanted no
money, but he would have his property. The prisoner then said—
" I'll give you any money if you'll take no further steps; I 'am a
lone woman, and have been in a deal of trouble for the last nine
months, and I wish I had never Wen the d—d shop." She then
took out her purse, and pulled out some sovereigns, which sin
offered to witness.

Prisoner—lt is false t I took a sixmce out of my purse to este
the children to get some supper. lou demanded 51. of me cut
prosecute—you know you did.

%Vitness still refused to take the money, and, finding all her et.
tempts to induce him to take it were useless, she paced the room is
a state of agitation, and went into fits. Witness waited fur soma
time, and at length went away upon a promise that the cl,,rk
should be sent home in the morning, but he had never seen it from
that time to this.

IVelsh, the man who accompanied the prosecutor to the prisoner'
house, bore testimony to what he stated in every partieulta: and
the boy who stole the clock said that he had sold it to the prisoner
for three shillings, and that he told her at the time he had picked it
apnear the Alarsh-gate. •

Magistrate to theboy—Pray, Sir, was any person with you when
you sold the clock ?
Boy—Yes. Sir, there was another boy with me, natred Judge,
and I gave hint half the money ; but he was not with me *ben 1
took it out of the room ; he was waiting outside for me.

Mother Turpin on being called-on for her defence, declared meet
solemnly that all that had been said against her wan false; she
never admitted buying the clock ; she recollected the boys bringing
it to her for sale, but she would not buy it for fear they had stolen
it, as the boy Sullivan said he had found it in a gentleman's passage.
near the Marsh gate, Lambeth ; I told them, if they did not bead,
I would kick them out of the shop.
The boy here said, you know you sent the other boy out dile
shon first, while you paid me the money.
The prisoner stoutly denied purchasing the clock.
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The Magistrate said that as the clock was not produced, it onl►
rested upon the testimony of the principal, therefore, as there sas
another boy with him when he sold it, he should like to have his
evidence before he sent the case before a Jury.

The prisoners were then remanded for further esamiosneo,
the boy as the principal, and :nether Turpin, alias Watts, ss the
receiver.

81/ RGLA RI Es.--Two were committed during irednegli!
night, the one at Mr. Robinson's, Harvey.terrace, Somers.tom
and the other in Seymour-street, contiguous. The thieves gots
small quantity of plate, a time piece, and some linen ; from Nt•
Robinson's, and at the other house, Mr. Paschall's, they were
sorbed by a boy in the houses and decamped, leaving their Sooty
packed up.
Suic Ins.—A young woman of the name of Billingiont,
a servant out of place and pregnant, took a quantity of oxalic acid,
a part of which- was found in a cup in her apartment yestrnig
morning, in Bird.4treet, Oxford-street. She was found a core
in the evening by Margaret Coulson, who slept with her. MOO
is supposed to have been the cause of the suicide.

BIRTHS.
On Tuesday last, at Hampstead, the wife of Thos. Farrer,
of a daughter.
On the Ilth inst. the lady of Nathaniel Wells, Esq. of Pa -cr
field, of a daughter.

,dif- —th
whit 011 b, en found theitetelly with the exception of
as: .1111.1.1H1411. . each which were want Mg.
len
sea
•I'vgWatts, i bill-broker, sworn, bald he had sold
for 1001. cads on the prisoner's own account.
On the a( hoe eitnesa wild three Exchequer bills for 1001.;
Vitt** a Jane three more hills for 1001.; and on the 14th of
sndralltr sole bills for 1001. each. Witness understood that the
Patimageneted. aa agent for another person.
lli*. glitz/more was again called, and swore that there was an en-
"try of . es. WI in which there ought to have been three Ex-
°Vte hills, whereas there was only tw.) .
ia dosed the case for the prosecution.
Alt.Aporenus and Mr. natmsrnc a addressed the Court on
the poled dime, and contended that no evidence had bean adduced
So.bldAg horde the charge to the primer. It was trite there might be
a Sadie atomise that 10001. lied come to the bands of the prisoner,
achteld my evidence been adduced to show that ten bills for 1001.
ea4le4 been embersled ? They contended that that had not been
abtli, and consequently there was no evidence to go to the Jury.
' , Seigeant Bourg UDE? was aboat to reply. The only ques-
-4W14 hest has, whether there was not sufficient evidence to go to the
.flity, ilhd would have to decide whether ten Exchequer Bills for
lON ' .silt bad rot been embezzled, lie contended there was, for it
Wirsattiriy proved that he was paid In ten new Exchequer bills for
lilbraneh., and his own receii,t eleerly proved that he had so re-
* them, and that those were the identical bills wanting. He
4u ted that there was evidence to go to the JOry.
trit
. e Ititc'emeixt said, With respect to the 301. bill, he was of
the ttenherlOworbg.:Lil,7.7„titotateowthase ejvliyeitcbeat' with
Mtge fount was now paled on for his defence. He read from a
'teen riper a most forcible appeal. He solemnly denied that his
* bad been occssioned by his connection with a certain
H blameless, He declared to Hod she was and called on the
r,
genthimett wbo attended for the public press, to do justice to an
follirtist Character. As to the libellous story of his yielding to ex-
travagancies, he could easily disprove. his expenditure had not
exceeded 30s. per creek, and his tailcr's bill had not amounted to
SO. in • Lem. He hart several letters from Mr. Henry Hoare,
• Mad other entltmen, declaratory of the estimation in which he was
Weeern; and concluded by imploring the Jury to carefully
tint* the merits of the case, and restore him once more to
Villitre time the prisoner a most excellent character up to
trausacuon.
-111 ClAtness also spoke in high commendation of him.
e RlCCOltnElt summed up the evidence of the Jury. and
.•.' ~,,,, Meek au the peculiar circumstances that characterised
. ' 41. - joist Melte o'clock the Recorder closed his sum-
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• • art 411100nfed for about ten minutes, and then found the
rlgliyialt*,.
nscoarma immediately ordered him up for judgment, and
oentenced him to be transported' for fourteen years.
'The Court remained crowded to the last.
NEW COf•RT, THVISDAT.
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11111)(1 the premises of the prisoner, who, when prosecutrix taxed It appears that owing to the
lion with stealing them, said, " Take them." This the pineal_ employed in the extensive silk
tor did hot think proper to do, but said, as he had been 'to re. tropolis to purloin and ember
peatedly robbed, he would take him Into custody, which he ie. means afforded them of dispoi
cordlrigly did, and upon the officers attempting to go up the pri- upon the difficulty there exists
nonce' stairs, he resisted, and told them they should not go up— speculate largely in this diahor
however they eventually went up, and there found, tied up in a Lotted:hone are continually mach
baarfkerchief, the co4tead ether ft:, 4q,..whieb the prosecutor raw and wrought silk, i
divinelly escort as his property. prisoner then told the ofir itto to be lairotihati ; shims for
hens that he had bought tlae poultry of a man named Smith, a dug- obstacle to the apprehension
fender, thattnorning. length the begiaLature provide
Thu heatllantaugh stated, that he and a man named Fordham, 17th George 111. chap. 56, wit
went to Smiths howse, and found him at home t they told him oath being made before them.
that they wanted him to go with them to Goodwin's about some which has been stolen, mulch
poultry 'that paean said lie had purchased of hint. Smith thentit the premises of any individual,
Oh his eoat, and went with them. On the way Fordham acid to said premises, and upon any 1
the headborough who had hold of Smith, that he need not keep before them the person in who
hold of him, for as he had known him for a long time, he was cer. of the manner by which he
WV he would walk quietly with them. Accordingly he let go, and such person should not be abl
Vary soon after a cry of—" The 13enbow" was raised, and mime- then the Act directs that the 11
dtitely about thirty men rushed out, and began to ill-use the head- gletratea should have the powe
bOrOugh. The consequence was, that Smith got off, the headbo. 201. for the first offence. Mll. fu
Seh bring so much hurt as not to be able to give chase. and any subsequent ofence, e
veral witnesses were called, thewhole of whom deposed to the former, and the other moiety t
farce already given. public charity as the magistrat
Yr. Law. for the defence, called the persons in whose employ The appellant is, according
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