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SILIBY e. OR) Ell.OO and OTHISRS.

This was another action on the same transact'inn,
in which the Plaintiff alleged. the goods of Ore-
ivory. the last Moneta', had been sold to him be-
fore tie writ of ex•n•utiosi was levied. It appeeiorl
in evidence, that Gregory, having • verdict &palest
hint st the mi.t of one Simnel, as tie stated, sold the
goods in question to the Plaintiff to avoid die jiii'g-
went; but it appeared on the creva-exaniioatiin,,
that Shepherd' who introduced Hui to the pur-
chaser. was his feller;-prisoner in the Ring's Serie%
and that the broker was ales a resident within tt

Rules. and that they remained on the premises
with Gregory's servant in the hoes•, that Gregory
"Pea rotationally hitultlf there, r;4l the Plain ar,
Why, was never tlarre at al.
Under these circumstances, Mr. Gaiow, fa.?
the Defendant, contearieJ, that the %hale was e
fraudulent sale; with a view to ch feat Herne, of titer
fruits of his verdict.
The Jury ennenrred in the same opinion, end
hued r verdict fvr the Def.adnit,.
There was (lathing material era t',e Crown Side.

YORK ASSIZLS.

CROWN SIDE

Frantic, himereo•, of b. eerier, in khe moot,. of
York, •idea. was indmetsii ter tittering, rtters,.ll,r,
•nd potting •way • 41. Book of Englan 1 u••
knowing It to be for Keri ; she one also furtlier
charged for paying counted'', tooney. •
Mr. PARK op.•nrd the (VIM n. kohdr cc the

IRank, sod detail te..l the carcuatieteeees eleele.,J;e
oat in evi.letgre ; e.e tru.•etl, !list. - the re.. i t
case, sod other iutertnAtiou olitaratd by th. 5.,,,k.

It would be the means of nearly putting a stop to
these prictices.
Jo .0 I inrion. a parish constable in null, sifts
he smut he was sent by the Magistrates or
Hush to detect the Prisoner; *noess is a corner by

trs,:e, and live 4 there ; he *cut with another ver-
so . fter ite liaml got his instructions; they stoimcil
at the Plough Inn, in Beverley ; witness sent a
niessav tot Prisoner, saying, two gentlemen

waot.;l to ve.. bi r at the inn; she came ii-untethate-
Jy ; she appeared acquainted with the other per.
*Oa. Witness asked her, if he would have a drop
of Dap and sent fur a shilling's worth. She
drank oto glasses of rum ; witness then asked her
if she had any bobs or Amer? the said, tes, she
had. and he might have ay matoy as he liked ; she

too!: a lantern, and went to fetch them, at•d re-
turned with four parcels of bad money. Witness
bought it, slid paid her ase eeee e for it. %Vit.
nesa then molted het, if she had any xereerrs? she
'said she hail only one left, and went to fetch it ;
she brought a two-pound Batik of Englund note,
which witness produced. Witness asked her what
she ought to have for it ? she raid 13s. ; lie said it
was too dear ; she said, no, it was not ; it is the first
time thou bast ever bought one of me, give me my
price. Witness offered her half* guinea ; she said
no, .she would not take it; he then said, he would
give her 13.. if she would be a bob's (r sh idling a)
worth of ru.n, to come• io. Witness gave her the
13s. and she gave him the note ; he wrote his DIM!
upon it, that night, befo►e a Magistrate, at Beyer.
ley ; he never parted with it, nor was it out of his
eight until he had signed his name upon it ; they
find another shilling's worth. Witness wanted to
go riot ; she said, no, you must stop a little longer;
she must be another shilling's worth to come in,
which they h Witness told her lie was going to
Pocklingion Fair; she told hint if he should see
one David Tsubton, at Pock:ington Fair. witness
was to say she would see him at York, in the Assize
week, and he might have what bobs and slums he
liked. She then called witness a rare good lad, shook
bands, and said, " if thou keep my company, thou
shalt never want fu► money." She said she was
coming to York to try her luck ; she was determin-
ed to make something of her business ; she would
either have a golden chain, or a wooden leg. Wit-
ness went out for a constable. and met one ; he
took her up, and she was had before a Magistrate
that evening.
Mr. 11'tt.t.tasts. for the Prisoner, cross-examined
the witness ; he said lie was sent by the Recorder of
Hull; he had not given any information, but knew
she was addicted to those practices; he was told so
by nos South. Witness was not acquainted with
Southitutil the Magistrates sent for the witness
he had no conversation with South—he learnt the
cant words in going with hint to Beverley upon the
coach ; he never spoke fire words to South before.
When the Poisoner came to them at the Plough.
they both asked her how she did? South asked her

first if she would have some ale ? Wituess had seen
her at flull, but never spoke to her before: had
seen her in a public-house, at Hull, some time ago,
but never spoke to her. Witness pinched the had
money before the note, and gave her a g ea for
it; hr paid her for the note bcfure she was Wien.
Witness paid her for the note half-a-guinea, half-a-
crown, and one penny. He never 'thew those slang-
names till riding upon the coach with South. Being
questioned respeetiug the serecne he gave for the
had money, witness said it was a (fall bank-note, a
good one.
Mr. Thomas Clover was called ; he has helm an
inspertor in the Bank of England shout ifi yt.tra ;
the note was shewn to him ; he said neither the
paper, impression, plate, nor ink, were those of
the Bank of England ; there was a W. Newton in
the Bank, and not a J. Newton ; this was not W.
Newton's hand-writing, as eutering clerk; the
name R. Lowe, as signing clerk, was not of the
hand-writing of R. Lowe, a signer of small notes
in the Bank of England ; in short it was a forgery
throughout.
The Prisooer was called upon fur her defence.
She said the Witness was a bad character, ■nd" she
was an innocent woman. From being taken up so
lately, she had not had time to have any of her
friends here to speak for her.
Mr. Juqire La BLANC recapitulated the evi.
dente, and observed, that if the Prisoner did not

know it to be forged, she would not be guilty upon
this indictment. South, it appeers, is deeply con•
eerned in the business ; hut the witness Horton op-
peers to have no concern, being sent by the Ma-
gistrates for the purpose of detecting her. Selling
the note, purporting to be of the value of 41. for
13s. chews she knew it was a forged one ; end whe-
ther the witness paid 13s. or 13s. 6d. in the wny he
said, wee not mate' lel. The Jury found her—Guilty.

CIVIL
Before Baron Tuomrson.

NARRIOTT V. DAY.

This was an action brought by the Plaintiff, late
• drummer in the ilath feot, against the Defend-
ant, proprietor of • coach running between Shef-
field and Doncaster, to recover damages for the in-
jury sustained by the Plaintiff, in being overturned
in the Defendant's coach, by the drunkenness of the
coachman. It appeared us evidence. that, on the .tth
July last, the Plaautiff applied to a Mr. Parker, clerk
to the above mech. at Sheffield, for an outside place
from thence to Doncaster. The regular fare, it 'ap-
peared, was five shillings, but Mr. Parker told him
it was only three shillings for • soldier. The Plaintiff
accordingly paid three shilling,, and before the coach
went off, took his place in the chair behind, and
placed his drum on the top of the coach. When
the coachman came sip, a girl, (daughter of the
Plaintiff, and one of the principal evidences,) saw
he was very drunk, and a Mr. James Woollin, of
Sheffield, Quarter-muter of the Local Militia at
that place, who was an inside pc:stager, also no-
ticed his situation, and told Mr. Parker that it was
very unsafe to go with the coachman in that state ;
Mr. P. replied, that he had often driven the coach
when more in liquor than he was at that time ;
when the coach drove off, there were eig' ina.de and
six outside pas.enfrere, and three more were taken
en on the Outside shortly after ; shout a mile from
Sheffield the coach was overturned by the di woken-
neer of the coachman, by which accident two lathe,
were hart, and the Plaintiff very severely iniercd ;
he was taken home, and after being under proper
care boat a month. he was sent to the Sheffield
Infirmary, where he ass au in-patient some time,

afterwards an out-patient ; and had since been at
the Whitworth Doctor's = ene of the surgeons wbo
attended hint, had seen loin lint week, when he
appeared still to suffer pain iu certain postures of
the body ; hie thigh was wasted ; lie limped iii
walk, and the surge‘n was of opinion that he would
feel the effects at the accident all Ilia life; the
Plaintiff was near sixty years of age, and though
Ode to work a little ut his business, as a table.
knife cutler, was unable to dress himself without
usi■tumce.

The fret of the accident having happened through
the carelessness oldie servant of the Deletidant,lwas
admitted by his Counsel, (lr. Park), who, how-
ever, attempted. in the cross-examination of the
Plaintiff 's witnesses, to chew, that the Plaintiff not
having paid the regular fare of five shillings, was
not • regular passenger, and had got up unper-
ceived by Mr. Parker, the cki k ; but this was
positively contradicted; and it was also proved,
that, alter theaceident Mr. P. waited on the Plain-
tiff, returned to his wife the fare of three shillings,
and alio gave her seven shillings and sixpence more,
for the relief of her family. It was proved by the
Plaintitrs witnesses, that the Defendant turned
away the coachman immediately after the mention,
and paid the surgeon's bill for attending the Plain-
tiff i be first three weeks.

Mr. PARC very handsomely admitted the liebility
of the Defendant for the consequences of the care-
lessness of his servant ; but contended that this was
not a case which called for large damages. The
Defendant had acted throughout in a mariner
highly honourable to hint, and had even offered to
rel'e► the question of the amount of damages to any
respectable individual. He reprehended very severe-
ly the practice of coachmen in taking up more pas-
serigers than the law allowed, and thus rendering
their masters liable for whatever accidents might
occur in consequence; and observed, that, in the
present case, the passengers, when they saw the
coachman so evidently incapable, ought to have in.
'listed on another driver.

After a few words from the Learned Judge, the
Jury retired, and in a short time returned a verdict
for dot Plaintiff, damage• WO guineas.
r=iiir2insinemn
BOOKS E LLERS.

On the first day of the late Sessions at the Old
Bailey, a convictiou took place. on a clumze of fe-
lony, highly interesting to printers, as well as to
booksellers. The following are the particulars :
Ou the nth ultimo, the working warehouse of
Mr. M'Creery, printer, in Black-horse-court,
Fleet-street, was robbed, hetweeu the hours of
eight awl Mile at night, of about 1000-sheets of
au original awl unpublished work, entitled The
Scottish Chirp. In a short time after the robbery.
• part of the property was taken to the shop of Mr.
.14,11C0, chemenionger, in Fleet-market, and there
sold at VA. per ;annul. Mr. M'Creety'e supi-
ciente fell atom • pressman of the name of Isaac
Pettit, who had frequently called at his offire iii the
eve ll ill gr. to inquire for employmeut, and when en-
gaged did nut come to work. Search was imme-
diately made after this man, and it war not until
the 16th that he was taken at the office of Mr.
Stratford. in Crown-court, Temple-bar. His lodg-
ing was searched, but none of the property foetid
there ; lie was then taken to Mr. Jones's, and im-
mediately recognised by Mr. Jones and his son as
the person who had sold the paper.
When ea before the sAing 'MagiAnste.
ht was discovered to be the person who, six months
before, had offered • bundle of white paper to a
trunk-maker in Holborn, who stopped it, suppos-
ing it to have been stoleo, and which proved to
be the property of Mr. Swan, printer. On this oc-
ow he made his escape.
After the trial. the Hecostictt gave Mr. Jones
• caation, iii future, not to purchase property of
this description from persons of whom he knew no-
thing, as it is a double injury to the person from
whom it has been purloined, the value of the
printing being added to that of the paper. Deal-
ers in waste paper ought to bear in remembrance,
that if stolen property he found in their possession,
without their being able to bring the person for-
ward from whom they had it, they are theinsslves
Gable to action and punishment. There are regu-
lar and respectable dealers in this article, from
whom. if they purchase, they will always i.e in
safety. Butchers and tobacconists ought also to be
very cautious with whom they deal for waste paper.

There were thirty-five prisoners on the calendar
for trial, at the late Wi.t•hire Assize', but the chief
interest was excited to bear the trials of Ilerhord
Wright, (known by the name of Bleck Dirk.)
loins Leo and William Hancock, charged with
breaking into the counting-house or factory of
Messrs. Cerium and Wilica, at Westbury, and
teeing a large'quantity of superfine broad-cloth.
A chain of evidence was adduced, by which the
prisoners were traced, with a cart, to the premises
of Me-srs.Caosay and WHIM at the time of the
robbery, and from thence to Wear, near Axbridge,
Semersephire, where • large quantity of the
stolen property was coneigned to the rare of
William Lloyd, who had been committed as an ae-'
eomplice in the robbery, but was admitted an
evidence for the Crown, and by the addition of his
testimony the crime was broaght home to the Pri.
sneers. The Jury accordingly returned a verdict
of I:nifty—Death; but iu consequence of a legal
objection by the Counsel for the Prisoners, their
e‘ecution was ordered to take place on the 56th of
May next, that the opinion of the twelve Judges
might be taken on the point reserved. When the
verdict oft he Jury was given, Wright declared that
Lloyd, the witness, had sent for him and his com-
panions from Derbyshire to commit the robbery.
The trial began at nine o'clock on Tuesday morn-
ing, and lasted till seven in the evening.
A moat melancholy affair happened at Itippin-
ple, near Falkingliain. on Tuesday seciiiight.--.-
rno. ATKINsom, a blacksmith, of that place, who
had been stipbamed to Lincoln as a witness in a
horse emse, unexpectedly returned front the assizes
in the evening, having left Lincoln bi't'e the
cause Caine on for trial ; and in the griddle of the
'light he got up from his bed. and h iviiig nothing
on but his shirt, he thre e himself into Rippingsle
town well, a descent of 17 yards. and waydrowtied.
lie was not discover.,l •everal hours after.
The prior man is ,a very direteil on his return
home: his wife abed •neut a year ago, and left him
with le infant children.

APPLICATION OP PUBLIC MONEY IN IRELAND.

A censurable, unprofitable, and injudicious ap-
plication of public money, has justly been consi-
dered among the secondary, or derivative cir-
cumstances which conducts! to retard the poogre,s
of Ireland towards that distinguished place .111101. g
the nations of Europe, which she is demonstrably
quallied by nature to hold.
The following facts, collected from Mr. Newen-
ham's last work, furnish sufficient evidence of
the want of a well-directed solicitude for the pros-
perity of this country, on the part of its former Legis-
latoire ; a want which, we trust and believe, the
Legislature of the United Kingdom, notwithstand-
ing present appearances, will not, hereafter, be
liable to be reproached with.

The total amount of the charge fur pensions, on
the civil hat, from the year 17:03, to the L.
year 17a6, inclusive, was 3,367,922
Tim total ainomat of the parliamentary grants
to the Incorporated Society for promoting
Protestant Chatter. schools, and the produce
of the duty-uu hawkers and pedlars appro.
printed to that society, from the year 1745,
to the• year ended :AL of January, 'so', was 612,271
Besides whirls, the 111Clei y derived a very coo.
milemble re v e ccc from estates,legacica, do-
nations, tac.
The total amount of the money disbursed, un-
der ildftient heads, by the trustees of the
Born manufacture, for the encouragement
thereof, from the year 1712 to 1703, Melo- _ _ _

. .
sive, was .. SUOMI
The total amount of the bounties granted on
the exportation of corn, fur the encourage-
ment of tillage, films the year 170$, to the
yesr ended in Vlsreh, 1754, was only 1 ighanfi
The charge fur erosions un the civil list In the
the year ended sth January, lens, was 89,639
The grant to the incorporated society, in the

name year, was a3,97*
Tbe grant for the enciteragement of the linen-
manufueture, wu st,tioo
besides the produce of the appropriated duties.
The grants to the Dubin' Society, and Farm-
ing Society, including ,t,uoul. for the Cork
inatitut ion,aan 'tooted to 17,014
out of which there will probably be applied at least
10,0001. to buildings, repairs, salaries of officers,
allowances, wages of labourers, &c. &c.; as has
uniformly been the case for several years past ;
leaving, at the utmost, not more than 7,0001. for
the encouragement of agricultural industry in Ire•

hind. which"oe conceive—should actually, in a spa-
c'al manner, excite the sobeitude of the Legis-
lature.

'fhe foregoing particol.trs furnish ground for
some further observations : First, the application
of 3,300,0001. to pensions, in the space of 57 years,
out of r revenue, the gross receipt whereof did, in no
year, previous to 1706, exceed one million sterling.
appears to have been r most unjustifiable and scan.
delnus lavisliment of the public money ; especially
as the pension list of Ireland always notoriously in-
chided the 1114111 e. of A Cat sudsy 11111.•01thy
inthvi-
du'ls, and thii,e of laer.vu, w ho had no claim whatso-
ever on bill, national gratitude. Secondly, it may be
observed, that the effect expected to result from the
inatetotion of charter-sehoole, has not been expe-
rienced the numeral proportion of the Roman
Crtliolics to the Protestants not being
but obviously and conies.eilly increased. Thirdly,
it may be observed, that no manufacture whatsoever
is entitled to so great a share of public money, as
was appropriated to the eneouragernent of the linen
manufacture of Ireland ; that the rapid progress of
that manufactory is nett ascribable to the expen-
diture of so much money for its encourage-
ment. a great part of that money, as ap-
pears by the Journals of the Rouse of Com-
mons, having beau misapplied or jobbed away ;
and that the late and present flourishing
condition of that manufacture evidently pre-
cludes the necessity of continuing a bounty.
which, perhaps, might have been requisite in its
iiilitiit state. Fouttlily, we feel oierwlvi autho-
rised to observe, that the former Legislature of
Ireland, either remained for a long time ignorant
of the various,' important national lichen's necessa-
rily accruing, in a peculiar manner, from the erten-
Dion and improvement of agricultiste ; or that the
majority of that Legislature wanted sulEcirot pa.
trionsiu to urge the adoption of measures proper fur
their atti t i ttt neut.

A fire, almost unexampled in its Semmes" be-
fore it was subdued. broke out in the house of Mr.
Gages, engraver, in l'at tick-street, Cork. on Mon-
day se'imight, betweeu seven and eight o'clock in
the evenin4. The bursting of a ve•s-1 in which oil
had been hailing ass the cause. aad the same pro-
duced b► this accident. which took place in the
lower part of the house, communicated itself with
each singular rapidity, that in a very few minutes
after its appearance, the roof was barn* furiously.
—The preservation of a little family of helpless
children was the first object of exertion, and an
effort was made to rescue them, in defiance of the
danger to which the suddenness and fury of the
conflagration► exposed those who made the attempt.
It was not. however, we lament to state, altogether
successful ; of five children which composed the fa-
mily of the unhappy *offerer, only four were re-
deemed from this horrid peril—a tine boy, of three
years old, unfortunately perished. A female ser-
vant threw herself out of a window, but was so ter-
ribly lacerated is, the fall, and so bruioed liv it,
that she duel the same night. The boos of Mr.
Charm was entirely consumed. but, by great ex-
ertions. the tire was prevented from spreading

Monday se'imight died, aged 21, Mr. lIESnY
SAVAGE, joiner, of tiulkham.—This unfortunate
young man was bitten in the fore-finger by a mad
dog. about 15 weeks ago. and had the part cut
out +,y • surgeon two hours after; the Gager had
apparently healed, and he felt no further incon-
venience till the Saturday previous to his drath,
when he Ur% suddenly taken ill, accomposited with
all the dreadful symptoms of hydrophobia.
There is no foundation whatever for the state-
ment in some of the Papers relative to a pretended
concealment practised in respect to the proposals
for an exchange of prisoners received from France
in November last.—(Morsing Pow.)
A shocking murder was committed in the vici-
nity of Wrexham. on Friday aennight. The fore-
man of • lime-work havmg received about aye
pounds to p.y the other workmen, a blacksmith
(now in custody) way-laid him. and so trverrly
wounded him. as to rinse his death. The ,umbers
of the notes were krmien, and the delinquent was
discovered, whim pourcha.ing a Den kat. thus% &c.
at Krealtam. die iIJ; folisming.