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IRELAND.

The following are the particulars of the attempt to as-
sassinate Mr. Nagle, as stated in our last :—" Mr. Nagle
lives at Ballinacar, Barony of Coshma. He had gone to
his estate, near Fermoy, to rece've his rents, and on his
return to his house he was attacked at his hall-door by
Sullivan and liet:han, for the purpose of robbery and mur-
tier. A most deserving resolute woman (Anne Adderley)
leaped out of a two-story high window, and called assist-
ance, one of whom ran for three Police from the town, wbo
captured the two culprits, on bt ing pointed out to them.
It was under Providence, by this girl's exertions, the dia-
bolical murder was prevented; and Eyre Evans, Esq. was
enabled to commit to the county gaol these two wretches.
Every praise is due to the Police for their exertions on ilia
ocoassont"—Linterick Chronicle.

Ax IMPUDENT TDIEF.—On the 13th instant, Thomas
Clark, arias Captain Faulkner, was tried at Somerset County .:es.
sions, for stealing silver spoons sad forks from John Thomas,
Es 9., at I'rior Park. Ile did not employ Counsel, but cross-ex-
amined the witnesses himself in a most impudent and artful man.
ear : the result was, that one of the witnesses, in answer to the
prisoner. said, " Why, how can you say that ? Did not you fall
down upon your knees when we caught you, and beg us to let you
go, saying that you should be trammortesi if we took you before
a Magistrate t"—The Jury, who were standing up, on hearing
this all sat down, and a verdict of guilty was returned against the
prisoner. Ile was sentenced to seven years' transportation beyond
the Val., and at the conclusion of die sentence said, with a most
significant look, " n:.d when I come back I will call upon 3lr.
Thomas again."—Biel

l:fW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Fitt)Av, JAN. Pt

The LORD CHANCELLOR was engaged the whole of this day
hearing furth:r tegument in the case of the Highgate l'hatity.
The tact. of the case have been already fully detailed in the
LI: itiv;r

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, rx:DAy, J•N. 16.

Sittings at Westminster after Alicisarlssas Terhi, Isefure Mr. Jut-
tiut aid a Special Jart.

ministration of criminal justice in thig country than himself; but
he could not affect to be ignorant, that the necessary forms by
which it was regulated sometimes operated with peculiar prejudice
to a defendant, and the ',regent was an instance of the dithculty
under which a defendant had to vindicate himatli front an &cellist-

tinn deeply affecting his sa itfy and character. The minds 0 tie
Jury were, as he might say, pre-occupied by the address of his
Learned Friend (Mr. Scarlett), and before the whole of the eel-
tienee was gone through, he was afraid they would be fatigued and
exhausted. Ilia Learned /*tient' would then exercise his right of
reply, and by his ingenious commentary on such parts of the evi-
dence as he chose to select for observation, 'timed in rendering
Mr. Whitehead, in their opinion, suspected, if not guilty. lie
begged, therefore, that when his Learned Friend should reply,
they would, if possible, contrive to bear in mind the whole evi-
dence, and not suffer their attention to be drawn aside to particular
parts, which, considered alone and without reference to the whole,
miht appear to partake of a suspicious character. lie did not
wish to impute any improper motives to the ;institutors, Messrs.
I Watkins and Pioli; but, as the case against his client rested solely
on their evidence, he must remark, that they gave their testimony
under a strong bias of interest. A civil action had first been cow-
',fenced, but that was soon abandoned. As they had indemnified
Sir Alexander Campbell, they could not maintain the action
wish their evidence, and therefore this indictment had been
substituted by which the.sanie object was intended to be gained.
That Mr. Brown had been guilty of a gross and abominable fraud
there could be no doubt ; but Mr. Whitehead had been as much
the victim of his imposition as Sir Alexander Campbell, though
nut to the same pecuniary extent. Mr. B'hitehead was • young
man. Mr. Brown possessed every qualification that could enable
him to deceive with success. lie was a minister of the Church of
. England, respectably connected, with a plausible address and finished
manners. lie was besides a magistrate for the county, and the
member of a Scotch College. The clearest proof that Mr. White-
head was his dupe, consisted in the fact that the first advance on
this fictitious property was made on the advice of Mr. Whitehead,
by one of his own friends and clients, named Strong. But he (the
Attorney-I:ennui) relied for the complete exculpation of Mr.
Whitehead on the confidential correspondence that had been
carried on for a kung period, before and after this trarsaction,

between l:itt: and Mr. Brave. If there heel been any COI'
lesion, some traces of it must have /Treated in these private
and confidential cornmuilicatione between them. When Mr.
Brown absconded, his father.in.law„ Mr. (eke, nhtained pos.
lesion of all his papers, and he had given them up to the
prosecutone Ile (the Attorney-. lettere) tor his client, would
produce all Mr. Brown's letters to Mr. Whinthead, and if the pro-
secutors would produce the replies, the Jars would den have be-
fore them a correspondence from which it would be evident that
Brown was throughout actively and dextemudy employed in de-
ceiving Mr. Whitehead. At the last trial some letters bad been
omitted by accident; they would now be produced. They were im-
material to the case; but their absence had exceed suspicion, which
Mr. Whitehead was now happy to remove. Why wee it to be in-
CONSPIRACY. hared that, because Mr. IVlutehead had become the dupe of Mr.
THE Ince v. WHITEHEAD AND BROWN. I Brown's imposture. lie we guilty of participating in it? More
This was an indictment against the defendants fur having con- experienced persons than himself lied been deceived, and they mere
spires to obtain the sum of 5.0001. from Sir Alexander Campbell,; not in the slightest degree inculpated in Air. Brown's kaudu.
Ilan. by falsely and fraudulently representing thedefenthuct Brown, ; lent designs. When dir. Whitehead said he knew alt. Hills,
the late Vicar of Clackion, in Essex, to be entitled to the pea- the supposed steward of the manor, he relied on the au-
session of a copyhold estate at Holland Green, in that county, 1 fierily of 31r. Brown, in wham he confided su fully at that
worth 11,000 e, and to an income of 4311 L ..year fr om the tithes of, time, that he hail persuaded his best friends to advance their
his vicarage, and to a further income of 1201. a.year on a marriage: money on his atippotenl property. Ir. the are of Hama and
settle rte Another count charged the detentlants with conspiring : Creasy, it had been eke:mimed that it was not necessary a man
to defraud Sir Colin letnnibell, h.(:. B. ; should possess actual knowledge of every fad he affirmed. In that
The defendant Brov.:n was the Vicar of Cleekten, in Essex. He case, winch his landslip well tecolleeted, a :Mrs. Hobertsca, a
was of most respectable family in Scotland, a member of the l'ni. I swindler at Blackheath, had imposed on the defendant to such an
yersity of Aberdeen, and magistrate of the county of Essex, whine extent, that when applied to by the plaintilTas to the respectability
he had intemiarrie.d with a very respectable family, and stood in lot Mrs. Robertson, he said he knew of his own knowledge that the
er general esteem before the discover of this transaction, in come. possessed the property to which she pretended. %Chen he was
quence of which he had tied to the United States of America. 'the sued, it became clear on the trial that he only knew from the re-
other defendant, 3lr. Whitehead is a conveyancer in Burlington. presentations of others; but that was considered to be an answer to
street, extensively employed in the sale of annuities, and posses- the action, because he spoke bout; fide, and it rasa not to be expect.
' sing a highly respectable character. Ile only was upon trial, ed that in the ordinary concerns of life turn spoke with the techni.
judgment having gone against the defendant Brown by default. It cal accuracy with which a lawyer pleaded in a Court of Justice.
appeared that the money had been actually obtained from Sir' There was only that part of the case for the prosecution, and the
Alexander Campbell, though in the first instance the design was I evidence as to the handwriting, which elected Dlr. Whitehead.
directed against Sir Cohn Campbell, with whom the negotiation As to the evidetice of James, he disbelieved it ix tufo. He was
WAS first commenced. The fraud had been effected on pretence of i closely cennected with 31r. Brown, and under pecuniary obligations
the sale of redeemable annuity. When the tint payment became 'to him, and he had pledged himself to keep were all the trancse-
due, it was ascertained that the tithes of the defendant Brown were ' does between them. That would be proved from letters tbund
worth only 1631. a-year, instead of OM., and that his income on ;since his decease; and he (the Attorney-General), verily believed
the marriage settlement was only telL a-year, instead of 2201., and , that James was the agent, in conjunction with a man named Shep-
that he had no copyhold estate at all. The deeds were all thrged, herd, to practise the imposition on Sir Alex:miler Cantpbell arc:
on which the advance had been made, and the defendant Brown Mr. Whitehead. On the former trial James identified the hand-
had then absconded. writing of Mr. Brown at a cursory view, the ugh the witnesses, that
The prosecution was instituted by 3lessts. \l'atkine and Pioli, day could recdgnise it only after a patient examination, and compa-
the solicitors of Sir Alexander Campbell, whoni they had indemni. neon between the documents. The Lein the Jury had to try was,
tied against the loss be must have sustained in consequence of the whether Mr. Whitehead was a willing or an innocent Instrument of
imposition practised upon them. Brown ? It would be shewn that to the List he continued to have
The case was tried last summer before the Lord Chief Justice, implicit confidence in the inwstor. If he had known the fraud,
when the defendant, Whitehesde was timed petty. Ho -haste would be not have indemnified Himself from 1/111? would be not
since obtained a rule for a new trial, which was specially fixed thr have secured to himself' the benefit of the fraud when the transaction
this day. was settled ? let it would be ithewn that 480 L were emu due from
31r. CuawooD opened the pleadings. Brown to Whitehead, which the latter did not deduct, and that he
Mr. SCAILETT stated the case for the prosecution at madder. had actually advanced 2001. additional, which *as all lost by the
able length. absconding of Brown. These facts were utterly Wetted:cable with
The following evidenee was called in support of it :-The first the supposition that he hail participated in thifraud. The learned
witness examined was gentletnan concluded an address of great three and abili7y, with be-
Mr. F. C. Pioli, the partner of 31r. Watkins, who proved that seething the attention of the Jury to the evidence he should adduce.
In 1819 the defendant, 3lr. Whitehead, who was then a convey. Mr. George Hicks sworn. I succeeded my father as an attorney.
sneer in Burlington-street. came to his chambers and stated that lie ln 1817 my father raised three sums of COOL 3SOL and 1,2+10.by
wanted to raise a sum of 1:0001., and at a subsequent meeting he !three annuities, for Mr. Brown. They were secured on the
mentioned that the client for whom
he wanted to raise this money Tit-wage of Cl;tekton, and on the marriage settlement of Mr.
win the Rev. Mr. Brown, the vicar of Clackton in Eserx, and I Brown. I succeedel to my father's business in 1818. Mr. White.
only eon of Dr. Brown, of Aberdeen, whose large fortune he I head made application to me as to the partictilars Mr. Brown's
would Inherit. 3lr. Whitehead also stated, that his client was the property. I woe hint all the information I possessed ; I gate him
son-in-law of 31r. Cole, a gentleman of property in Essex, gel the copy of the rental of the parish now produced, in *lnch the
that in right of his wife he possessed a large copyhold estate in that value of the tithes is set forth at 1901. annually. I gave the paper
county. Mr. Whitehead represented that the Rev. Mr. Brown to 3lr. W. in 18111 1 mentioned to Alr. Whitehead, that Mr.
was in somewhat embarrassed circumstances, and wished to raise a Brown was a very respectable man. I had been once at Clackton,
sum of money for ecclesiastical purposes. Mr. IVeitehead said and I mentioned that to Mr. Whitehead.
' the copyhold estate was worth 11,0001., and he stewed the witness Mr. Coles was recalled, to state that Brown married his daughter
en abstract of the title. He stated that his client was desirous to about seven years ago. Ile was Vicar of Clackton before he was
!:eep the transaction tweet from his father-in-law, and that as 3lr. warded.
Hills, the steward of the manor, had married another daughter of 31r. 17icka's examination was then resumed. The three annui•
31r. Coles, he could not allow the Court-rolls to be inspected. 31r, ties were regularly paid down till Mr. AChitehead's application.
Whitehead added, that he knew the title to be perfectly good. Witness then believed 31r. Brown to be a very respectable man.
He spoke of 31r. Brown asan intimatefriend,with whose afters On cross-examination, witness stated that he was sublerna'd at
he epic wellacquainted. Witness did not choose to conclude the the former trial, but not properly serve:. His father died in De.
bargain himself, are therefore referred Mr. Whitehead to his part- cember, 11119. Witness succeeded to no part of the business before
net, Mr. Watkins. 3lr. Whitebe.ad said, that he knew Mr. Mills, his father's death. He thought it was a little after his father's
the steward of the manor, and had heel roam business with hint be. death he went to see 31r. Brown • he had heard Mr. Brown say ha
fore, or words to that effect. had a copyhold estate ;he proposed to witness to raise money upon
On being cross-examined, the witness said he could not positive. it, and witness endeavoured to do so ; the three persons who ad.
ly state that 31r. Whitehead said more than that he was known to vaned the sums for the annuities were his father's clients.
3lr. Hills. The reprefentation as to Mr. Brown's family and con- Re-examined-Witness was with his father when the converm-
nections was perfectly correct. There bad been an action brought tions took place about the annuities ; a letter being .hewn to the
to recover eonspenastion in Images for the fraud, but it hai since witness, he said it must have been before his fathee's death that he
been abandoned. went down to 11r. Browns; it was really so long ago lie did not
Mr. Watkins was next Examined. He stated that Dlr. White. know when it was.
bead lied waited upon him, as related by his partner, and that at By Mr. SCAB LETT.-Most likely Mr Brown Melted witness
the interview between deni tie prodaesi a doelument purporting to down. Shepherd, who was since dead, went down with him.
be an abstract of Ile Brown's tide, and soothe:, purporting to be Shepherd advised witness to advance money. Witness had seen
a rent-roll de the tithes of the vicatage, according to which they Shepherd several times at his father's. Ile went one day to Brown's,
produced anantusal income of 461)1. Ar.ii'llitehead re-stated the and returned the next ; he staid at Brown's house. Shepherd and
gante reasons as before why the Court-rolls shoed not be inspected, witness dined with Brown, passed the evening with him, and came
f and the he had satisfied himself fully as to the title, on which home the next niorniene. They went to look at the estate. 31r.
be had already advanced 1,1061. Mr. IVhitebead expressly Brown %hewed the original survey. He told witness the estate was
stated, that Cie examination of the Court-rolls must be dis- worth Newlin.
parsed with at all events, and that for himself he was perfectly an- A letter, in the hand-writing of this witness, dictated by his
tisfied, as he had inspected them. Ile said he knew the S'eieanl, father, was admitted in evidence, to prove, that, as the agent of
Mr. Hills, personally. Mr. Brown, who was present at the inter. Brown, he had been in treaty for a loan on the estate at Upper
Time, produced a letter from Lord Dade to himself. written Holland.
in the warmest and most familiar terms of friendship, and franked Dlr. William Whitehead. the brother of the defendant, was then
by his Lordship, and another from another Noble Lard. A survey examined. In January 11:111, he remembered Brown applying to
of the estate was agreed upon, but Mr. Whitehead wished to have his brother for a sum of money, by way of annuity, and that Brown
previous notice when the surveyor went down,,,lost Mr. Cate referred to Mr. Hicks as to hi. respectability. Witneas's brother,
should hear of it. The admission and surrender were in the usual in cooserfuente, applied to Mr. Hicks and to several other per-
terms • and finally i• was settled that the money should be ad- sons. Hicks gave him the rent-roll now produced. Kellet, the
vancevi. Mr. Brown bad since gone to America, ant it was then steward of Col. Rigby of Rigby Hall, one of the persons applied
discovered that he had no copyhold estate whatever ; that Mr. Ma- to, said he was satisfied with Mr. Brown, and would fake them six
berley !was the Steward of the Manor, not Mr. Bills, and that hundred pounds of theaututity. Witness's brother also inquired of,
the tithes of the Vicarage were 0:14 worth 1631. irat,ad of 41e11.- Hyde, formerly the coachman to the patron of the living of t;lack-i
Tice affidavit of the defendant Brown was then read, stating that he too, and to 31r. Bruce, chief porter of the Bank of England.
WAS the Willa of the copyhold estate, which was north 90001, and They were all satisfied of his respectability. In consequence 1;021.
that the tithes of the 'Vicarage were worth 480 f. per annum. 10s. was advanced, for an annuity of elle. 116 s. a year. Kellet,
The abstract of Brown's pretended title was next read. It pup and ten others, advanced the money. Ahem inis 3lr. Brown ap-
ported to be attested by Mr. Hills, the steward of the manor. The plied for further advances- lie sent letters three times a week. Ile
admission, surrender, release, and other deeds, were also read. said he had a copyhold estate given him h:• his father-in.law when
Mr. Watkins on cross-examination stated, that a subsequent ap. he was married. He said he could not make any charge upon it for
plication was made for a further advance of 'I,OOOL on the same fear it should reach his father-in-Isles knowledge, as he had great
sedenty. expectations from hint. There wee a good deal of negotiation. He
Mr. Coles, the father-in.law of the defendant, Brown, was them said tie would give this estate as a collateral security, if it could be
examined to grove that the documents just read in evidence acre in done without searching the gulls, as the Steward of the Manor
the hand-wflung of the defendant, Brown ; but after examining was his brother-in-kw. Witness proceeded to detail all the arti.
them carefully for sane dne, he stated that he was inclined to think fices b 7 which his brother was induced to become the du7e of
the signatures were not written by the defendant Brown. Witness Browns imposition. Ile also deposed, that James, who was a late
afterwards stated that his daughter, the late 311 s. Brown, was now clerk of 3lr. Hicks, was dead.
deceased. Al'iniese also stated that he did not believe his sn-in. The correspondence between the defendants was then read. It I
law was capable of planning and executing so extensive a fraud as consisted of sixty letters, reaching over the whole retied of their
had been committed. *squab:none. 'l'heir contents agreed with the description given of
31r. lhown, a namesake but no relative of the defendant, was their intercourse by the last witeens.
also examined as to his hand-writing.-SVitnese was a trustee un- Mr. Hyde was then examined.-Ile proved, that In 1819 he
the the marriage settlement. He believed that the deeds wire in called on Mr. Whitehead on business, when the latter naked Min if
the defendant Brown's hand-writing • but they were written in a knew Mr. Brown. Witness had formerly been in the service
disguised hand, and a band so completely disguised, that he did of Mr. Nassau, who was related by marriage to 3lr. Brown's
tot think sonic of them to be in the defendant's hand-writing, un- wife- Witness cold Mr. Whitehead that he might be satisfied as
nil he compared them all together; and then be did not doubt that to Mr. Brown's. respectability. •
they were written by the defendant in a disguised band. On cross-examieution, this witness stated that when Mr. White.
bev^ml witnesses were then examined to prove the actual value head said that Holland-green was given to 31r. Brown by his
of the property. father-in-law, witness replied, he did not think it had, as Mr.
3lr. Smith, a gentleman of property in the metropolis, stated, Cole had too many children.
that he recollected that the defendant VChitehead made an applies- Mr. Bruce, the chief porter of the Bank of England, stated that
fiat to him to advance money on an estate of Mr. Brown's, in he was applied to by Mr. Whitehead, to make inquiry respecting
Essex. %rime's applied to his agent, 31r. Large, of Cavendish- Dlr. Brown, and that lie tnund he was 'Vicar of Clackton, and very
street, on the subject and he not being satisfied with time security, respectably connected in the county, which he had reported to 31r.
witness declined having any thing to do with the transaction. Whitt:M.2d.
On cross.examinatiou„ he stated that he had known 31r. White. Mr. Strong was then examined, to prove the circumstances
head several years; during which time lie had always borne the under which he advanced his annuity on Ltrown's estate, and that
character of a most respectable man; and witness had always he was paid off.
thought him such. It was admitted that all those annuitants were paid off.
Mr. Enson, clerk in the Enrolment Office, proved that during The Vicar of St. lichen's, Bishopgate, Mr. Deputy Greenaway,
the year 1019 Mr. Whitehead had railed upwards of 20,000 L from and eight other very respectable persona, gave the defendant,
different persons upon copyhold security. Whitehead, an excellent character in every respect.
Dl r. Justice BEST then read the evidence given by James at the Three letters of the deceased witnine, to James Brown, were reed.
former trial, front the notes of the land Chief Justice. The ma. lu the first dated 114th November, 11719, he said, " I rely on your
to dal fact against the defendant Whitehead was, that the witness honour, and I will not impart the smallest particle of what you
saw him towards the end of 1819. 'White:lead had a bundle of require to be kept secret." In the second. dated 7th December, he
papers in his hand, among which were the admission and surrender I said, l• If any thing remains to be effected, 1 beg you will, in con.
of Brown's copyhold estate. Witness remarked, that they looked Meyer, communicate it to me ;" and in the third, dated 11th April,
like Brown's hand-writing. Whitehead did not answer the ques- 1820, lie offered his services generally to Brown for the accomplish.
don, but put the papers up again. went of his fraud.
The ATTOWNEY-GENERAI. thee &Admitted the Jury for the Mr. SCARLETT replied.
defendant Whitehead. No man, he said, more admired the ad- Mr. Janice Best meld it was quite cleat that Brown had been

guilty of a wicked fraud, which hit had witvortcd by forgery and
perjury ; and, in his view of the law, it Wii:•,..ht•ad knew that all
the deeds were (urged instruments, and had twisted Brown to
carry the fraud into execution, he was guilty of the conspi.
racy, although there might have been regular concert or

agreement between them for the acontpli►hn.eitt of the fraud.
The question of his guilt might, therefore, be resolved in-
to this- whether he believed the instruments to be genuine.
The proofs of his guilt mainly depended on the evidence of the two
witnesses, Pull and Watkins, and also of the witness James. As
to the insinuation of the Attorney-General, that the former gentle-
men had preferred this indictment because they could not succeed
in a civil amine, he (Mr. Justice Best), was bound to say they
could receive nothing from the success of this indictment. Still,
however, the temper and feeling under which they unavoidably
acted might give a colour to the facts they stated, which they might
sot otherwise have possessed. The evidence of James was rendered
very doubtful by his letters, by which it appeared he was offering
his sen•icos to the abominably wicked nisi whom he ought to
have held in detestation. It was the duty of the Jury to take the
whole ease into view, and give the it verdict with r_•ference to the
whole, and not to any part selected for the purposes of either party.
They would weigh the facts, and decide on the balance of testimony.
Ili% Lordship concludel his summing up with sonic strong ani-
madversions on the doling in annuities in ger.entl, which he cha-
racterized as a ruinous race between avarice and distress.
The JUry deliberated about fivis minutes, and then returned a
verdict off Nut Gni:ty.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. &so I.ZTT, the Cox-
310N-SERGEANT, and Mr. It'4mOODI the defence by the
ATTORXEY.GEXERAL. Mr. Ou RN EY, and Mr. ADOLPItra.
The trial occupied the whole day till balf-put seven in the
evening

SHERIFFS COURT.
Fafnir. JAN. V.

tßefbre ths SUE rr trod is Comma Jury

The following awe excited ■ great degree of intcrett among,
licznsed victuallers and wine-meraaws:—

JOYDAN V. GobI,SET.
This was a writ of inquiry CO assess die damages in at action
I against the defendant, to recover various sums ofanasey on bills of
exchange, and goods sold and delivered.
Mr. PHILLIPS stated the case to the Jury. The action was.
brought against the defendant, the proprietor of a well-known hotel •
and tavern, in King-street, Covent-garden., by the plaintiff a rt.-
speetable wine.merchant, in Hoodge-atreet,•Tuttenham.court-road,
tint to recover the sum of 29/. 14a. for wine and brandy sold and
delivered ; next the sum of 771. 10s. ha. nn an vomintoletion bill
160 lilt 7a. COlas • and 37/. on another bill, and //. Hie. 7d. interest'
thereon. He oft:aid call the plaintiff's son, who would prove the
delivery of the goods, and the ileter:iant's admission on the bills.
which he conceived would entitle hint to their verdict, In a ease
where there was much ingratitude.
Thomas Milan, jun. deposed he was in his father's employ. and
he delivered the articles mentioned in a 1411 produced to the defend-
ant's porter, amounting to 291. odd. Witness was also present in
March. 1f 1, when the defendant came to plaintiff, and aid
would pay 51. per week off the :V. bill, which was then lying on
the table. It was the 37/. bill they were speaking, of.
SHERI rr.—There is nothing in the whole course ofjustiee an
completely inconvenient as the manner in which witnesses tune
forwent to swear to admissions, which frequently are, in fact, nd
admissions at all.

Witness.—lle (defendant) spoke in the !taunt terse. He came
and wanted some goods, wlli►lt plaintiff woltld not deliver without
their tieing paid or;f the bill wa. given, and five pounds paid on
account.

Ernes-examined by Mr. &leen, for the Defendant—Does not
understand what accommodation bill. are ; will swear the firs
pounds were not paid on account of a former transaction in goods.
Mr. ROACH here called for the account hook.
Mr. Pit LI.I rs apprehended he was rot °bilged to produce it.
He had not expected to be wet in the way he leas, and therefore
had not come so well rrepared.
Su Entrr.-1 thine the prcduetion of the book ',requisite.
The bock was produced, and a written agreement was pointed
out, to pay five pounds per week, by instalments, entered into by
the defendant.

James Phillips, another witnrm, produced a blll far W. which
had been accepted by the plaintif.'for the del:Awes aceonimodas
tins; costs and interest thcreonaleavenassL.Z.L 108. M. Tint
plaintiff. Jordan, waa areasted thereopoit, andwitneas went to Oa&
fres, and Informed him that Messrs. Lancaster and Co. the holden,
had proceeded upon the bill. The defendant rejoined, "My nod
cessions situation precludes me front assisting him." Witness
said," Why, it is hard; you know but the other day he lent you :Mk
upon the lease of your pretnises, to put you on your legs again it is
therefore ungrmetul.', Wimess further ending that the defendant
was unlikely hi take it up, got the money end paid it for the
plaintitr.
Mr. ROACH contended, that as no special agreement had been
matte regiudirg the interest, it could not be allowed ; and farther,
that the 31. 1/44 on condition of a former transaction for goods sold
and delivered, The mortgage transaction of MON. had nothing to
do with this ease; it would be for thedury to view the bills, and to
form such a general knowledge (as tradesmen) in digit consciences
as they could in justice between the parties.
The Sit xmirr charged the Jury, who, after considering the case,
assessed the damages for the plaintifrat 1291. 13s. 2d.

OLD BAILEYSESSIONJ,

FRIVAY, JAN. 16.

William Hall Aryan was indicted for stealing In the dwenirg.
house of John Cantelow a silver watch, a gteat coat, and a siL
vet spoon, value Os.

The prisoner
was seen, by a man at work in a house opposite to
Mr. Cantelow's, to ri in thire, and la a few mihutes return a ith a
great Mat over his arm. The workman gave the alarm, and Bryan
was seized by a carter in Jockcy's-fields. The prisoner threw sloten
the coat in the pursuit, which was picked up and given to an offi-
cer. The prisoner was taken to Mr. Cantelow's, and when he got
into the passage, a watch and salt-spoon, which were proved to
be the property of the prosecutor. were picked up. The coat was
also identified as the property of Cantelow.
Guilty of stealing to the value of 395.
Robert .Smith was indicted for burglariOusly breaking and enter-
ing the dwelling house of Lady Croft, in iVelli.xl-street, with in-
tent to steal.

The watchman, on going his round at a quarter before seven, on
the 17th December, observed one nt the parlour windows of Lady
Croft's house open. Ile ring the hell end apprised the servants of
the circumstance, who went Into the parlour and saw the prisoner
under the bed (the room being used as a bed-chamber). The pri.
sorer, on being asked what he less doing there, said :hat he hal no
shoe► to his feet and nothing to cat.
Gni/iv—Ma/4.
Jolts Butehin, was indicted for stealing a coat, a sovereign, and
other coins, the property of Thomas Toms, in the house of
Chri.tie, Esq. in Itaker-street.
The prosecutor vu servant to Mr. Christie, and was told by one
of his fellow-servants, about nine o'clock in the morning of the
Stith December, that a strange man was going up the area steFs.
Toms ran after him, crying, " Stop thief !" and overtook him in
tiloucester.ruews %rest, he having been seized by a man acciden-
ts:ly passing, to whom he had given the coat in question. The
prisoner was given in charge of an officer, and committed from
Af ary-la-bonne office.
The prosecutor identified the coat, and the Jary returned a ver-
dict of aditiy—Death.

Alrry Leopard was placed at the bar. charged with stealing from
the person of John Pardon a watch, chain, and seals, and Ws. in
silver, his property.
The peeseeuser was going along the E.-mgsland-road, about eight
o'clock in the evening of the 2'2d of December, when a man tame
behind him and pinioned his anns, and a woman carne to his left
hand at the same time, and another woman stood in front of him,
who rifled his pockets. lie went soon after the robbery to the Fox
public-house, in the Kin/Mend-road, where he saw the prisoner,
another woman, and a man. The prosecutor believed these were
the persona who had ruhlied hint, anal caused them to be apples
hcndcd. At the police 4/thee, however, he could not swear to the
man and the other woman.

On his examination before the Court, Mr. Baron 111.1.t.ncs
particularly cautioned the prosecutor rut to speak positively as to
the identity of the prisoner, If he had any doubts on his mind.
The prosecutor said, that he believed the prisoner was the person
who came in front of him, but she WAS then in a different dress,
and he covid not be certain that she VAS one of the party.
The Jury, therefore, under the Learned Judge's directions, ere.
quitted the prisoner.

Mg/lions /folding was indicted for stealing nine tea-spoons. a
tout, and other articles, the property of Nathaniel Holding, his
father, in the parish of Ealing.
Nathaniel Holding, the father of the prisoner, deputed, that
about tier weeks since his son called upon him, and said he Iran
very hungry and very lame, and asked for something to eat.
prosecutor gave him something to eat, and gave him leave to stop
in the house. The prisoner lived in Dublin. On the Sunday sitar
the prisoner came, witness and his wife went to chapel, and left
their son in the house alone. When they returned from chapel,
the prisoner was gone, and the witness missed the articles men-
tioned in the indictment. About a fortnight after the prisoner re.
turned, and said to the witness, " Father, I come to Tempi myself
up." The prosecutor replied, " Then you must suffer death."
'The prisoner said, " I know I must, and I deserve it."
Jeremiah Laws was present when the prisoner returned theseeond
time. He told his father that he had pledged the coat at Abing.
don, and tht other things he had sold out. Witness knew the pet.
loner well before he went to Ireland, *bleb was about two years
ago.
The prisoner, on being called on for hie defence, said that Ws
father had told what was not true.

The prosecutor was again called, and said that he believed the
poverty was worth
Mr. Justice Hu 01101,011 observed to the Jury, that this was a
melancholy case, but they must du their duty in it as unhesitat.
ingly as they would in any other. The property had been sworn
to as being worth much more than Os., and ti they thought the
prisoner guilty, painful as it would be, they must pronounce their
verdict accordingly.
Guilty of stealing to the value of 395.
Mr. J Wake BURROVC II expressed his surprise at the Jury
finding under 405., and observed, that it was their verdict, and
not his.

After the verdict was returned, his Lordship recalled Laws. and
asked him what he knew of the prisoner i
The witness sz.id that he tenet knew any hams of him.

MIDDLESEXsEssIOXS,

in man% Jim 16.

RI7AIL_BREIVERS.

This morning Mr.TitZia Drove -)crooks, retail brewer at
Brentford, appealed against the conviction of Fol. l'litheroe, tor
selling beer by retaiL
Mr. Sergeant PELL addressed the Court for the respondent
when he was interrupted y the Chairman, who suggested that, as
the case was of vital importance, whether it sculd not be better to
refer it to the l'oort of King's Bench.
This was agreed to on both sides, and the ease was refined
accordingly.
AIR. CORBETT AND TIII: KENSINGTON TRUST.
This was an appeal by the Kensing:on Trust against the toll
conviction of Sir Richard Bernie.
Mr. Adolphus was counsel for riumix Webb, the collector at
Kensington, who was the appellant.
Mr. A nut.rti n a tool an object.ni to the conviction, that the
Magistrate who made it was root mentioned r.B being within the
county...
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I3lt. FaE n. fiw the respondent, then contended that the paper
A pitched battle for 11. a-aide took place at Moulton on served on the respondent. purporting to be a notice. w. is not a lewd
Monday lam. and drew together great numbers of the fancy, who onz., and that an express clause in the General Turnpike Act vs.
were much di:appointed at the shortness of the combat. After it, timed it.
a brother of the victor gave an open challenge, which was accepted 1 111 r. AntiLett ca—lt is a general tender of not guirty.
by a sturdy miller from Ifolbesch, who got his jacket well dusted. ! Mr. Ft:Ewen obserred—Then Sir ltichard Minnie must have
A third light followed for a sitbacription purse, when a strong mill. convicull falsely.
ing took place. which ended the day's antuscnicr.t.—L:riculs Puper. 51r. AD:IEI'IIU s--Nothing is more likely. Without encasing

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The appeal of the Imperial Gas Company, agahmt the cootie.
flan under Mr. Taylor's An. was mod. The conviction was cons i
armed. A ease was granted far the King's Beach. i
(The question was, whether a part of Park..lane wan masks . •
the jurisdiction of Mary-la-bonne lavish, the Ras t'oropart
having laid their pipes there without permission frosu they Vi atr). I
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desperate ad upon hemelf or Ohm. In the pretent instance,
tiny disreerwet to Sir Richard; 11101 U; and the Legislature must Ought a poor girl to be sent, in her condition, eight months ad-
have considercel the point when they blade the ertietment. yawed iu roe, nancy, front pariah to parish, perhaps to Woolwidi,
The conviction, it win be recollected, was fur scurrilous language where site had Leen left by her seducer ? by could she not be
and abuse, in the penalty of M. received at once. without toe form of a pus, when her settlement
l'he Cot uT dismissed the appeal, for informing of notice. was clear 1, What would have been the condition of those who oc
Mr. l'olkett *at on the Bench the whole tune. i casioned such delay, had abe elected her purpose of self-destrue.
EXTRAORDINARY SWEARING. I tion ? The practice of refusing to receive the poor without a pass
jon such OCCBAJOIIS win base and cruel. The poor girl in the pm-
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WHEELER SIR D. WILLIAMS.
This wu an appeal 'Rehm a conviction of Sir D. Williatns,rhe
Magistrate of Lambeth-street, by a publican named Wheeler,
charged with keeping open his house after the time allowed by Act
of Parliament.
Jolla Forster deposed that he knew Wheeler; he kept the Wind-
mill public-house in Rosemary-lane. On the 23.1 November, about
One o'clock in the morning, he went into the house, and saw a uuni-
ucr of people there smoking. IVitneas told the landlord he shocld
report it to the Magistrate next naming, which he did. Witness
W. 4 ordered to 40 Wheeler's house in consequence of an anony-
C.OUS letter received by the Magistrate.
Crosavexamined by Mr. Pn itxxes for the appellant.—People
must have seen him pull out his watch. A clock stands in the bar,
which every one could have seen.
James Lee, another officer, eonfiemed the aforesaid testimony.
In his cross-examination witness said there was loud talking only,
but no riot.
Mr. Pun. Lire, for the appellant, here called back the first wit-
nese, who swore that it was after 12 by the clock in the bar when
he catered the house

Mr. Pitzt.t.tes—Von will be. prove to
re it has not gone for two years.
WilliaM Empkins callel—Witness lives with the appellant.
It'pon Ids oath the clock has not been wound up for 12 months. !t
was a quarter past 12 when the officer entered ; and the parties were
merely inishing what they had. Not a drop was drawn after 12
tedoek,--neither beet or epirita, and all were in lied by half-past
twelve.
Daniel 31`Carthy sworn.—Witness was standing at the bar when
dip officer entered; did not see his watch pulled out; has known
tie house for nine months. The clock in the bar has nut been
wound up fur that time, and has stood at tire minutes to nine all
that time.
Daniel Cunningham corroborated the aforesaid evidence, and
added. Wheeler would not driw a pint of beer after 12.
Forster. the fint witness, was again culled—Does not know
*heeler the dock went nor nut ; but he will swear it was past 12
by it.
Counael--Ile omega. Von will swear it?
Witness-1 will; it was past 12 by both.
Janes Lee was again called—Witness will swear that by the
Acct in the bar it wanted about live minutes to one.
The tletatanatt said, this is a question of credit alone to
termonv.
;,,The COURT considered that the convictioe ought to be con-
crone.:.--coegeMed accordingly.
THE " TRUE BRITON" NEWSPAPER.
noileost v. Loan KENVON•
This ease, whidt was an appeal against a conviction before Mr.
Minshull, the Magistrate, was called in its regular ...ourse.
Alr. C. Pelt LI es objected to its being postponed, as he under-
lie:sod an application of that kind was intended by the Counsel for
his Lordship. He would state to the Court his reason why he
should oppose apy.euch application. This was a conviction before
Mr. 111:nshitll in August, 180. Lord Kenyon, who was pro.
prietor of the True Britun evening paper, was summoned by the
respondent, a joluseyesan printer in his employment, sod called
12/pon to pay the sum of IR. Bk. ed. - The Magistrates decided that
his Lordship should pay it. His Lordship, no doubt for very goad
reasons, appealee against that conviction. The case was put off
once before, and now an application was to be made to have it
again postponed. This application, if the llench should think
limper to consent to it, would be a great hardship upon the ie.
ip!tndent, Mho ought to be paid his money. It could not, he sub-
mitt be postponed. The appellant was not in Court, and was
not In in town, and could not attend.
sdie
'ski omit AAN decided, that as the appellant was not here, the
emiriecion must be coqopned.

little surprised when I

SURREY SESSIONS, FILIDAT, JsN. 16.
AIM Barraftt was hulloed sot feloniously stealing a gold seal
end several other artieles, the property of George Sdiith, retie 31.
George Smith deposed, that he resides in Citailotte-terrace.
Lambeth. On the 2:ral of )eeembet last the prisoner came in the
firuntion of nurse to Sim Smith. Having suspicion of the pri-
toner's honesty, witnesS' obtained a search warrant, and accompa-
nied Rice, the officer, to the prisoner's lodgings, where Rive found
a variety of articles ri'rentioned in the indictment, the property of
witness. Rice took the prisoner into custody, together with the
proerty now produced.
Rice, the constable, corroborated the above evidence.
Mr. CowLET, on the part of the prisoner, examined the wit-
nesses, but nothing was elucidated to her benefit.
Several persons gave the prisoner • good character.
Sir. CowLET then addressed the Court in mitigation of punish.
molt, on account of the prisoner's having a child and an aged mother
solity dependent on her for support.
The .14.ry returned a verdict of (:nifty, and the prisoner was sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation.
On sentence being passed, the prisoner, who was an engaging
young woman, fainted away, and was carried out by one of the
officers, totally insensible.
Mary llkf,or was indicted for stealing a silver watch, the pro-'
petty of Timothy Mosey, a coal-dealer, residing at Richmond.
It appeared In evidence that the prisoner was engaged to wait on
the prosecutor, and in his absence took the watch now produced
Born the prosecutor's bedroom.
The Jury returned the prisoner Guilty, and the Court sentenced
bur to 'eves years' transportation.
'Mos ClUford and ;rm. Mass were indicted for stealing at New-
ington a Brussels carpet, the property of Samuel Crowder.
The prosecutor deposed, that he resides in Church-row' New-
intim, and is by trade • broker. On the 11th of tlic pre-
rent month about four o'clock, saw the prisoner Mann looking into
his shop ; witness suspecting the prisoner, determined to watch him ;
the prisoner then went away. and in about three minutes Mann
returned in company with Clifford. They both passed and re-'I
passed tor r.early half an hoer, and at last succeeded in taking the
carpet now produced. Witness intruediately pursued the
pns.iners, and took them into custody, together with the property

seat instance had erred, as was the case in nine iaistances out of
ten. from being of too ingenuous and tender a dispasition. Her
CAM deserved the uauost compassion, and the female who received
her, when she was shitaned and driven away by other. of her sex,
merited great credit.
An onier of removal was then made out to convey the poor girl
to the parish of her settlement, and it was promised that steps
should be taken to bring her seducer to account.
QUEEN-..,QUARE.
CRIMPING RECRUITING SERGE•NTS.—YeMeIdRy a man,
named Walton, who stated himself to be a shoemaker at Kensing-
ton, entered the office with a recruiting sergeant, who said he bad
enlisted him, but that be was now willing to pay the smart money.
The Magistrate asked the man when be had enlisted?
" Your Worship," said the man, " I got tipsy on Christmas-
day last, and kept up the spree till the following Saturday, when I
met this sergeant at a public-house ; be was then in coloured clothes;
I told him I was out of Work, and he said the best thing I could do
would be to become a soldier • that a shoemaker could make a for-
tune in the army, and if I liked: he could get me into a good regi-
Weed.r shillin- but I it it all D.-

The prisoners, in their defence, denied the charge, and said they
*we apprehended while walking along Newington, by two men,
who estiveyed them to the shop of the pmserutirr.
The CowIMAN having *lammed up, the Jury returned a ver-
dict of (:silly against both prisoners.
The Court then sentenced CliWord to twelve months, and Mann
to nine months• hard labour at Guildford.

POLICE.

mein. I , and he gave me a shilling, but I spent .. upon
company, and now he says he will take me up for a deserter.
The Magistrate told the sergeant this conduct was derogatory to
the principlts of the Mutiny Act; he had no right to enlist a man
when in coloured clothes; he rendered himself liable to a heavy pu-
nishment; nor should he enlist a man in a state of intoxication ;
even if he was legally enlisted, he should have brought him before a
Magistrate to be attested in 23 hours afterwards.
The Sergeant tinswerett, that the man knew him to be a soldier,
and hr was aware of his beitig enlisted next day, and promised to
join at any time; he was now prepared to pay the smart money if
his Irorship pleased.
The Magistrate observed it was the first time he had such a case
brought bctore hint, therefore he would non' overlook it, but if such
a thing imppeneill again he would treat it differently. Now be
in* express his disapprobation by discharging the aim without
paying tit swan Money.
THAMES OFFICE.
Jrvrwrta DreetaviTy.—Sorry Isaac.. and /thrice Marko,
two lads under fourteen years of age, were brought to this office
yesterday, before T. RIL UDELL, Esq., the presiding Magistrate,
on a charge of felony.
‘Kynlica, an officer, stated, that on Thursday night,
in company with William Williams, another officer, he saw the
prisoners with some reputed thieves conversing together in Howse-
ferry-road, Limehouse ; on the witness and his brother officer
making towards them the prisoners ran of; and in the act of pur-
suing them the prisoner Isaacs dropped a hat and cap ; they. were
soon overtaken, and on the person of Marks was found a mecenf
fresh beef. The witness inquired how they came by the articles,
ehd the prisoner Isaacs said lie purchased the hat and cap in Petti.
coat-lane, for as. ; and Marks said the beef was being kicked
about by a gentleman in the Tail, who observed, " if you keep a
dog. tare it anal give it him.
William Williams confirmed the last witness's statement, and
added he went to Mr. James Brainswoutra, a butcher in the neigh.
hourhood of horse-ferry-road, and he told him, on inquiry, that
on Thursday evening he lost a piece of beef ands hat, which the
witness saw in his sl:np about half an hour before it was stolen.
James lirain,wnod appeared and Identified the property.
The prisoners made no other defence than what was stated by the
°Metes. and the Magistrate, after a imitable admonition, fully tom.
mittcd both for trial.

MANO4IN-.110!:IE.

POYATII ElSlGitAatT9.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor announced
fir the Justice-roan, that the widows and children of the emigrants
In royale, in behalf of whotu a small subscription had been raised,
*ere sent down to their homes in Scotland, as the place where they
Would meet with the greatest attention, and where they would most
*teddy recover from the sideman under which they laboured. The
aoliseriptiona received before their departure amounted to I3L, rf
which 111. were given to defray the ertee of their journey. In
czeenee of the publicity given to the transactions which
ht down so math misery upon these poor people, some bene-
volent gentleman, who signed himself " B. T. G." had transmit-
ted to him 301.. to he tipped tatbeir relief. The note enntabring
lbw benefaction had the Wads, "Aid thy dietreesed neighbours and
erten," and was written by one who had great experience in deeds
of charity. His Lordship exproseed a hope that the generosity of
die public would be extended to the poor miserable adrenturers,
who were the dup% of this barbarous speculation, and he would
ante date that the entitribiLion should be appropriated acwniing to
the urgency of the case. The orphan child of Sergeant O'Neil he_
hg too 111 to bear *Moral, remained in town, and was attended by
tics. medical gentlemen, whogave their services gratuitously.
• Se:over 'wt.—An interesting girl, about nineteen years of oge.
earned Margaret Rice, appeared to prefer a complaint against the
swish offleira of St. Bartbuloniew the Great, for not having given
let relief in her extreme Mweaslty. She had, she said, been se-
doted by the son of her mistress upon a premise of marriage.
liar mistress was a Quaker lady, of great respectability, and lived
upon her income, which was considerable. frer seducer took
Jlagulp for her in Kings/and-toad, told his mother day tete mar_
Ii and visited her constantly. After a short time, however, he
spade some pretext for giving up the lodging, and be seat her bran
* her mother, who was a widow and had seven other children,
and was too poor to keep her. Ileleft hey lo debtat her enotherl,
but she met sins sibsequenely.and IlSrepeated hisassnranan to her,
and promised is get her a permanent residence. He then took hoe
to a house, and grave her a night's 'edgiest, but deserted her in
*c morning, and she had rot seen him since, nor received any as-
whence from him, although she was far gone in pregnancy. She
cemplaned to hisasother, who was desaf to her esoassulations, and
refused to give ben the lea': aid. But for a friend of her mother's
she most have perished ; that friend had protected her ; but the
trriofficers, having learned her condition. threatened to visit
lnd hostess with the severest punishment for harbnurieg her,
*air ameba:aim being that she would become burdensome to
them. She was esosequently obliged to apply to the Aiken of
tun parish in which she bad gained a settlement by three years ,
wrier; fbr relief, but they refused to give any without a pass
Om Op parish in which she bad last slept. From that parish the
received haif.a-crown, and she was sent to the parish of Biehopa.
gate, where she had slept one night, at the lodgings procured by
be *duce/. The officers of that parish refused to yaw her,' be.
*use she had not regularly resided them. Driven almost to mad-
saws, she calculated upon death as the only benefit:ler she yowl
*test with. Her hostess, however, thought uf the expedient oil
applying to the Lord Mayor. The poor girl was so greeted while
wow was nnokrug Misstatement, that her free was bathed iu tow,,
the female who had received the girl, and had been threetened
with parish vengeance for having dune so, told the Lord Mayor,
tint the apprunot was sunk so weep in despair at the tristment she
fradreeF.ve3.* than he actually attempted to commit suicide. The
character of the unfortunate creature had been irreproachable till
die fell a victim to the Qouker's importunities.
The beadle of the last parish in which the girl slept said, that
COW the thing was explained be was quite ready to paw her to her
settlement.
The Loan WATlrlli said be was bound to make a general obser-
wawa upor• practice pursued by 'lmam all the parishes, mud pro-
ductive of unitary, Ilespair, :sal often of death. When a po-or
mum: prZnented herself for relief, though her title might be
dear and he: settlement undisputed, her parish would not receive
bee il/11411S she was pawed according to law, as it was called, (torn
the last parish inWrhiel; she bad :aria. She then was knocked about
.rem pariah to.palsh, until, driven to despair, she Cl)lll:i.ittc.l wine