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S'-VINDLE!:S.
Levi Mortigen and tsfrpte,,tiw two Jews who
stood ciiarg, d with defrounto r , Lo• g, at the
Hotel, is A !bemarle-street, and others. yesterday
underwent an ,ther examinat.
It has been already • n ed on what manner the
(rand was committed •• •Ir. Long, who, it appear-
ed at this ei.smination, was imp.oe I upon princi-
pally by the appearance of a tespe,2—•le man, a•h an
tslr. Lot•g knew, being at the tine'. their comp any ;
and aho appeared to be forwat e•e -11;ip •stel
mission, in po.curing aparint, ts fin Russian
Noblesse, so tomb talked of hr the Praln r
gen. Mr. Menksfield, coachman to the Duke of
2.smbridge, who accompanied the Prisoo:ers to the
Hotel, has port ably suffered by their artifices, but
has at all events be •n completely dup d. The Pri-
soner Mortigen called at his house, and asked to
see his sun, who had been at Hanover with the
Duke of Cambridge, stating that he had just ar-
rived from that country. fie ;.ad kept a public-
house in the vicinity of Hanover at the tome the
Duke of Cambri.'g• was there, and he was
conse-
quently known to the servants us the Duke. "('he
Coachman re:eived him as a friend': visitor to his
son, and, after a while, the Prisoner asked the fa-
vour of a sheet of paper to write a letter. He in-
formed the Coachman of the expeEted arrival of the
Russian Noblcsse, and asked otm to condudt him to
Long's Hotel, where he said he was about to pro.
vide for their reception. the Coachman assented,
without susoeCting his visitor ; and the Prisoners be-
ing in such company, Mr. Long could nut sus-
pea their meditating a fraud.
Another charge was preferred against the Pri-
soner, by a gentleman from Edinburgh, with whom
the Prisoner Mortigen formed an acquaintance, as
the gentleman was coming up the London River.
He represented himself as a Courier, belonging to
the Secretary of State's Office. By assuming a fic-
titious chandler, and other artful designs, he ob-
tained from the gentleman three guineas.
A landlord in Butcher-hall-lane, Newgate-street,
appeared to have suffered most by the fraudulent
condudt of Mor; igen, who occasionally slept at his
house. He used to call himseof an interpreter to
the British Government, who was also employed to
furnish money from Government to different fo-
reigners. He used ta talk of his transactions with
Mr. Goldsmid ; and one evening he went in haste
to the house of the landiord, and revested the loan
of twenty-one guineas, tor the immediate conve-
nience of some Tut ks, who had arrived, as the bank•
ing-houses to which he had access were shut, and
he would return 0: money t!:e morning. He
had before, nn diffes eta occasions, given t! e landlord
a teference for character to Mr. kl ommersly Vs, banker,
to who;n, he said, hr WAS known dhe money was
advanced, and a supper was ordered by the Pri-
soner to be ready at ten o'clock for the Turks, but
neither Jews nor Turks made their appearance.
Some other frauds were investigated resp• ding
tlie Prisoner Mortigen, who appeared to heat the
whole of this busiuess jestingly, and frequently, by
his boisterous and assumed consequence, prevented
the heating of his accusers. He boasted of his
ardour and bravery in defending Hanover ;
and *1 his transadions wr h men of consequence in
this country. f lie accusers, he said, had sworn him
to be a Cornier and other dignified charaElers ; and
they might as well swear that he was a Governor of
an Island ; for they could swear as heartily as him-
Luppini seasa gentleman's servant The Pri-
sot:ors were committed for trial, and the parties
'ogan,l over topic‘i.clac.

OLD znizr.-JAii. 14.

This day the Seseinns commencer) betaw the
Right <lnn the Loan Mevon, the Lome Cm es-
BA .')a. Sir &LILL:LH LAAVNISCIL, Sir AL•N
CuaM-
lCC,ftc.
Fr &rick hasysh. otherwise Hew, Si. Jahn. was
inclifted ter stealing privately from Mr. Barden, a
Rea note, value 3001. in the dwelling house of
Kelly, publican, Petersstreet, Soho.
It Appealed in evidence, that in consequence of
the Mtn:dation of a Mr. Davis, an attorney.. the
Prosecutor had confided altogether his affairs to the
direnhon of the Primmer, whom Davis informed
him WAA an officer in the army. Mr. Bartlet had
to some time been separated from his wife; from
this, and some other trifling circumstances, the Pri-
soner rook oc-asion to remark to the Prosecutor,
thet his wife and some others had conspired toge-
ther, for the purpose of proving him in a state of
lunacy, that they :night come at his property. which
was then vested in the three per cents. Having
once frightened him into this idea. the Prisoner
found it easy to persuade him to convert this stock
into cash, which he might always carry about him.
and thus defeat the designs of his enemies, by im-
mtdinte flight. should they persist in their deter-
mination. Doting the whole of this trans:Union,
the Prisoner never left his Ward ; and when Mr.
Arnell, the Stock-broker, who sold the stock, on
the 7th of July, gave Mr. Bartle a check on Messrs.
Boldeto and Co. for the net produce of the sonic
sold. amounting to 6191. I's. 61. the Prisoner was
dos present.
The Prisoner, who it appears was at this time
totally destitute cf money, found it re,cresary to re-
sort to some new expedient to jenny his continuing
to live on Mr. Bearden. He represented to him the
danger to be apprehended from the ceetinuation of
his wife's resentment, aed propoxed, that he (the
Prisoner) and Mr. &inlet should go down to
Ramsgate, where she lived. and promised there to ef-
frit a reconciliation between him and his wile. They
went down to lisensgete, where t:.e Prisoner, after
an interview with Mrs. Barden. mid, he feared it
was impossible to effeel it by any other means than
by taking his ion, of whom Mrs. Bartlet was demi-
inely fond, from the employment of Mr. Newbold,
at Fulham, and threatening to remove with him to
America, if she persisted in living apart from him
This pi eposal was also agreed to. and they set out
for Fulham. Mr. Sankt remained at the inn at
Fulham, while the Prisoner went to fetch his'sem.
Ile son retie n rd, and said, young Bartlet had
been absent sonic days from home about business.
Mr. Bartlet now beg.n to grnw weary of the Prison-
er's company and interference. and endeavnured to
escape the vigilance of his guardian, by crossing
the River there iii a beat ; in which, however, he
was discoveted end stoppi d by the Prisoner, elms,
after some upbraiding, insisted on his returning
with him to Linden, in a chaise. On their return,
the Prisoner frequently intreduced spirits, with an
intention to intoxicate Barnet. Previous to their
entering town, he r. collects pelf elly well, he bad
his money safely deposited in his right pocket, on
which side the Prisoner sat. They set up at the
Welch Harp Inn, Peter-street, Soho, where they
were scarcely stetted, until the Prisoner called for a
quartern of brandy, and pressed Bartlet again to
drink, who was now in a state of intoxication.
Bartlet said. he would pay first for what he had
gotten, and produced his pocket-book, which Kelly,
the publican, Mid, he had seen in the Prisoner's
hand, prOe to this trenseaion. On opening it.
they perceived it contained retching ; Bartlet accuse:l
the Prisoner as the thi f, who immediately sprung
tip, clenched fie fists, amid swore that he would
chastise him, if he totted to repeat the insult. He
immediately, in company with another stranger,
left the tap-room together, while Bartlet and Kory,
in vain, endeavoured to secure them, as they suc-
ceeded in making their escape by the back way.
On the 7th of August. Mr Hunt, clerk to Messrs.
Haywood and Co. received from the Pris iner, who
called himself Mr. Henry St. John, a lodgment of
3001. in one Hank of England note, and supposed
him to be a military mart from his appearance. This
note, which was indorsed H. St John. and mat ked
Nt. 333, he that day remitted to the house of
Menus. Mesterroan and Co. In a very few days,
Me. St. John drew oat almost the whole turn, leav-
ing but a very small balance in hands ; for this
balance, he called on their Correspondent, Mr.
Henson, on the 3lst of Chnober ; Henson affixed 1
het to be Acquainted with :he wet sum, and went
into another office, as if to inquire ; he then secured
the outer door, and sent out his clerk far an officer ;
he returned. and informed the Prisoner his clerk
was then searching for the letter which contained the
statement of the account; the Pi iinner became ra-
ther uneasy at the delay, and said he might pay the
trifling balance to a Mr. Rem, since he cattle not
conveniently wait, as there was a lady, who was
unwell, then waiting for him in a chaise ; he then
signed an authority, which Mr. Henson drew up,
empowering Mr. Rem to receive the balance. He
was then departing, but Mr. Henson told him he
could not permit him to leave him, sine.- he had
received advice that the note for 3001. lodged by
Mr. St. John in Messrs. Haywood and Co.'s hands,
had been stolen from Mr. Bartlet. The Primmer
immediately denied his name was St. John, and
rushed one angrily, towards the deer. which he
found secured, and soon att. r, the Constable artised
and arrested him. The Prisoner's hand writing on
the authority *as moved to resemble that on the
back of the Bank Nate. It was also proved, that
on Mr. Bartlet's asking the Prisoner, after his arrest,
hove mach of his money he had yet remaining, the
Prisoner answered, about 2301. and offered to pay
him this sum if he would not appear in evidence
against him. The Prisoner teen urged, iu his de-
fence, the possibility that existed of his not having
taken the note, is the first instance, from the P;nse-
cuinr, es there ass no direct evidence of the tail ;
and grilse. red, that the last Witness had not fairly
stated the c usversation that took place in his office,
as he had Avows,' to the Witness, not only that he
himself was not &. Joao, but that Mr. St. John had
sent him fur the munef, and was then with tne lady
in the chaise, iii waiting. The Prisoner then re-
quested the Witness to acconteauy him to the chaise
arid arrest ht. John, but this see refused, without
essignino any cause.
After a fesv mimes cansultetion the Jury brought
iD the ve:di2

t. •
tberAi Af•Codin vas found -cl,44'y titterrrg
courterfeit silver coin, knowing it to be spun us
This unhappy woman, it appeared on the trial, had
been twice before corroded of a similar offence, which
renders her coriviax.n capital
Jobe 01.41;o wac also contalltd of stealing 301bs. •—•
weight of lead from the roof of a building on tower-
hill.
Richard war
iford, It iffiam 11. u! John Pordhooo,
and John H...oey, were indieled for burglariously
entering the house of James Spencer, on the 18th
of December last, taking from thence several articles
of value, and zssailting his son.
Sarah Taylor, s.mvant to Mr. Spencer, heard,
at seven that evening, a rap at the door of her
mister's house, situated in South-street, Pander's
End ; she opened the door, and three black *acid
men, armed, entered, who t.eized young Mr Spen-
cer, and put a p;stol to his face. Sne immediately
fled, jumped out of a back window, and proce ded
to alarm the neighbourhood. When she 1 eturned
with the neighbours, the robbers had retreeed. And
took with them a watch, coat, and purse of silver,

her property.
Jame, Spencer, jun. hearing the noise at the door,
went Into the hall. when a man, of Po dkam's figure '
and height, presented ■ pistol to his face, threaten-
Mg to blow his brains out if he resisted. Another .
of the gang, not so tall as the first, came up, armed
with air iron crow, t• whom he d •:ivered all ha f
change, amounting to a shilling and sixpence. At
the small. est of the sum, they were so incensed, as • •
to threaten again :cs shoot I but seeing old Mr.
Spencer, they laid hold of trim, while others dragged
Mr. Spenci r to the kitchen, where they confined
the father, mother, and son ; a person reason/ling
Fordrians standir•g eentinel at the door, while the
ran ran up stairs to the bureau, the key of which
they nad procured from Spencer, ten. After some
time the robbers returned, d moncrirg toe k..ys • f
two drawers above stkirs. "Toe Witness had
recovered from his fright, and darting suddenly.
forward, he struck the sentinel a box in the face,
which dislodged him, and the Witness escaped to
the hall-door, where lie was seized by two in:lre;
his coat yielding, he made off completely. In this
affray, be reeerved a black eye, and hot his hat;
and uncut the party, he thinks, snapped a pistol at
him. He could almost be certain Bridge was one
of the patty, a. he wore no mask, had red whiskers.
and Ala remarkable II having lost his left hand.
John Spenc. r only corroborated the evidence of
the foregoing Witness, and thought Bridge was tan•
of them, in which statement Mrs. spencer also
agreed.
William Ives, who came to Mr. Spencer's assist- '
ante, saw a man, like Fordham, following young
Spencer, with a pistol in his hand ; Witness seized
Lim, atter a short struggle he was necessitated :o
let him go.
Robert Ivy, apprentice to Dexter, Pawnbroka.
in Whitechapel, swore Bridge had pawned .sere
woman's which Mrs. Taylor proved to be her
property.
J inatian Trott swore he had, in consequence of
information, apprehended Harvey on :he in a
house near Shoreditch, and in a bag ►n his to he
found a dark great coat and a mask. At first he denied
his mane was Harvey, out when he found he cmil
nut escape, he acknowledged it : from hence he And
a brother officer went to the Peacock putter-house,
in Bethaaliveen, where they found Fordham lying
on the bed ; in his coat they discovered a pistol. a.td
in a box a pair of bulletemoulds ; in consequ.ince of
his turbulence, they hand.culf..d him ; yet in go:ag
down stairs be endeavoured to escape, and fell down
two flights of stairs in the attempt : they put him
into a carriage, and proceeded to the Catherine-
Wheel, Whitechapel, where they found Bridge and
Hartford smoking together; on Bridge they disco-
vered a bat, which Mr. Spencer swore to be the one

he lqu.
Enoch Roberts, approver, swore, that onThursday.
• e, with five others, agreed to rob Mr. Spence: 'a
house, concluding he had ready m..iney to a coi.-
mderable amount in his h• use; beside t...e Prisoners
at the Bar, there was anotner in toe conspiracy
Ilardon); at Liver Edmonton, at ass
o'clues, they all met ; and, behind Mr. Spencer's
house, they arranged the plan of attack; he and
Harvey were appointed to remain outs.sle ; sour.
after they entered, he observed young splice-
eying from tae house, and crying out Murdai
?Mere:! while }'ordham pintoes; him tvitn a
pistol in Lis hand. Soon alter they all dr.al
trot') the house, in different direction,. and
:•e did not see any of the gsng till two days after.
when he conversed with FordhAm, from whom he
had, previous to the attack on Mr. Spencer's house,
bought the fellow pistol to that found on him In
Bethnal-green. He had no; spoken to any of cite
party ;thou; the distribution of the plunder, nor had
he ever received any ot it.
Dempony and Ulan, sawyers, residing in War-
ship-otreet, and relations to the Pristine'. Harvey,
endeavau:ei to prove an shEi nu his part;
swore he had remained from six that nigh:, till near
ten o'clock, with them, at the Brown hear potter-
house, in Worship.i:reet. Alter a very long and
un.atisfattory ezarnimitive ot these %%incase., the
Jury retired for 'near a quarter of an lour, and
brought in their verdia Gage,' on all the prisoners.
• Doling the trial, the Gaoler, Mr. Newman, tit-
te6t. lie. tiord, one of tne abandoned and un:.app y
wretches, in the ad of picking tar mkt iss gaole.'s
p•scket ot dis handtercaiet—an eztracediaaty
iA-
s.auce of hardened villainy.
(Fut Mitrtleset and Sirrey Snit• lig sea last page.)

If proof WAS w,- .lit% :of nnW z7alont are
Foriuse's %rota, les to participate mote especially of
the rwo 30,0001. Prizes. which. anscng ntutterios
other Capitals, enrich the resin?. State y
Wheels, it is suthaent to state tt,e far', that by tsr
the m it part of the gainos of 101. Prizes. on Cnr:•
day List. instantly ez,:tiangeJtlletil for fresh Tickets
and Shares.
foes !ay the State Lottery esmortenced Dras-
ing, whet No. 240.90, the First-drawn Tickit.
e~-
ii•.iri to t0,0:731. was sold at Me ors. HAZA2I),
1:1)4ma, and Co.'s (Mc:, lbyal Ls7hanr. ra tn.e
Halt, one Fourth, one Eiztath. and two S reerth
Shares Tick-es and Shares, warranted unier..*.n.
pre sail's as alsi,ve. Ttsa ZecNid Day of Draws g
%sift lie on l'hoiisi.ty, the sad just. a•td on the NI.. .
day 'Oiler:art, vie First-drawn '!just
utl:d