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CLERKENIVELL SESSIONS, Je■.l4.

Joh"; CoNoss and Siepiten Pagewer, indictM frtr
comp.racy, with toteut to deftsod ftiesArs.
llmil-
dricL, Cr.ciritsakerA iu Long Acre, of varioog bllllll.l

or moue!.
Bailey, the first Witness, stated, that
he was Cterk to Xlessrs. also gave run-
ployinvot toa number of HIVII in a great variety of
brauches or chimes of tra4e. The Prisoner Col-
minis was foreman of the smiths. and Page was one
of that class, a Etc-cutter. The NViti.eas every
week received their ateouuts kom the forefront of
the ollierent classes; it was iSeir business to make
up a weekly account of the work of each class. A
book pro:slowed to him rontaiised neekly accounts
of the file-cotter's wont, ns so:mosed to have lieu
done by Page ia the months of mite and July.
ISO 7. The tootle of pro ling we", the account
was weekly given hr Page, in his own hand-
writing, to Collins. and by Collins's) the Witness,
and ass signed by them both. Upon the..e vouch-
ers of the work done, payments were made, by the
Witness, by check upin one Irwitoc, sho k.-eps a
p001i..-house in the neighbournood where the work-
oleo are paid. The %%lbws; remembered, that in
the monthooof •Roil Jody, in the year lacq,
the Messrs. Hionliittli were assorted with a large
quantity of tiles they boil received from Binnino-
kaan, sod were not no want of any; dnrime that
period oe bad uts knowledge of any work dune by
Page, execet he his weekly accounts, as certified
mtsl passed as ioionve. (liana his cross-examination
Fe said, that Pa t, while in the employ of 'Wears.
IFioolditch, marked at his own house, mid not on
their premises t • tflotfor sometime before Mild after
the months of Joint. and July, Pn, he had been
colonised fur debt in Neogate, an.l than io couse-
quesoce of it, the work had been taken from hi:n,
and given to a eau of the mutate of Browne, who
bad worked molar bin. It was the hornless of
Collins to send out the old riles to be re-cut, but
be had not heard that otters of the workmen did so
lama ion.

William Dowling, a file-cutter, said, that early
in the mouth of .ttigust, Dan, he had applied to
COI iici for work, who said that he should have it,
provided he branght it home regularly ; that they
hal not load alley filet cut for the lust lox weeks, ex-
ctyt a lot a dat; or two before• because they hat!
received a large cask oldies's, but voltiela.were oear-
le out, and th tt there were nearly five or six hun-
dred weie,ht to he re-cut. I Ipon his croo-etaini-
natio'', lie said, he could not be mistaken as to the
time, at he had left working with Browne, above-
socittiotted, about the middle of June, and bad
betio out of employment six weeks.
F.:lward Browne, the next White's, a file-cutter,
irai employed by Page, and his portlier caavekiinc,
to cut files in the years 1806 and 1807, for Alessrs.
aouldiurh ; that in his recount of work dole:, there
was no sork charged from the tpth of May, to
the tat of August icor ; he delirtred his accounts
to Collins.. On the 3.1 of September, in that year,
he was shears Collins's account bout.. By that it
eppeared, that he had not only regularly charged
for work done within the last menliotted period,
but had also overcharged for the work which
had been performed. 11l a conversation he had
with Collius, the latter bid him not to mention
that circumstance, if asked about it, but to ray he
haul not kept ally iteconnts, and mold not tell how
south the work came to. Ile never received from
• Collins more than the 11011:13 charged in the RC-
vomit given in by hitn. lie dud no work iii the
months of June and July, because the Messrs.
lloullitch had a large parcel of files during that
period. I/1 en this man's (MINIS-PM • t he
was guilty of muck shuffling and preverication, by
which, however, it appeared, that having been
take', ;nto the service of Messrs. lioulditch, upon
Page's confiiseinedf,• he haul afterwards been die-
'barged to maks. room again fer the latter, upon
his liiwnitimo, %volt*e the vecommendatiou mod in-
terft•-••enee of Collins, and that, in revenge for this
tinplate .1 injury, h had disclosed the Caudill
chariced to be corntatted by the two Defendants
on cite Masora; Houltiitch. Ile also, with diffi-
culty, was brought to contras, that about five
years ago, lie was worsting in Staffordshire, where,
b"ing dctin.tect in stealing the property of his em-
ployers, be was admitted tomilist to escape prose-
cuiton.
rie Defendants attempted to invalidate the
te.thanoy of ti.:; last %Vance, by railing three or
Saw witnesses who score to his ducats of revenge

against the 11-feiulatatp, and saying he had sold
the►p like brillocks as Smithfield.
Tl►e Learned Cuataxaia, iat summing up to the
Jury, observed tha•re was .no great stress to be laid
upon the testimolty of Brewoc, further than they
found ►t confirmed by other facts u► the case.
The Jury ale!ilverateal for a cot►sNlerabtc tune to-
gether, sud :t last brought them in Guilty, but
recommended them to the mercy of the Court,
upon the groom! of the good character given by a
suother of 11/afilesses, cite had been called for that
.purpose. •
This day Ri7Ae►d Andrews was brought up by
lint:Nis Corpus from Newgitte, to receive the at-al-
to-der of the Court. He hail been tried and con-
victed at a former Sessions for having obtained,
under false pretetaces, noinv,y from a :11r. Davistna.
but (lOWA. haviug beets sug-gested how far the evi-
dence aas iSullioirnt to sustain the intlictuteut, his
sentence ass respite!.
The CIVAIUMAN stated, that those doubts were
now removed ; and atter expatiating on the euua►
mity of ins offroce, procreated to pass the sentence
of the Court upon hint, which was, that its con-
sith-ratims of the long eoutiotinent Ise hail ulrenaly
tuidergosie, be should Inc confined for the space of
two months in Hir Majesty's goal of Newgate, asst
be then discharged.

EarAL INTELUGANCE.

FORMIOUTIi, JAW. 13.

Arrived the Fisgord, Captain linitun ; Iphige-
Mich Lninhert ; •nd the Mantes, Ilan. Coo.
Walrlegrave tf. 4411111.) front the Eastward, where
they have been titter, to n eeive their orders ; also,
the dastard, Cain: Mntklaoil, from off lionlogne.
Ensiled the Diligeotie stern-ship, for 11'trsthvicit.
J till. 13.

Ariice;: the Brim:mach:l;llk ;4 etude, (
owl the Lola ,l/e/ri/k East ludianseti, from the
DOWles.
Sailed the litgard, and Primrose, with a fleet of
traninats fur Spain.
The 41. iohe is expectril to sail to-tnorrow, with
another ilea of transports, for Span.—Wind N. E.
PLYMOUTH. JAM. 13.

On Tuesday last a Court Niartial was held on
looara the Select:lor del .iionde, Ito the trial of
Caot. baker, his oRw ni awl e•ew, for the lose of
the AiAer. Aft•r a full iiire+tiotion of the cir-
cutastancest the Court aamniiished Capt. Baker
for not having a pilot on hoard; the u•e►s aucl
crew were all acfp;ited.
No au rival+ nor aaihngs yesterday or this cloy.
JaN,l3.

Arrived, an I It gaud Cit. the River. the Mwore.s
Ray, from St. Kitts; and the Mary, Hunt,
from Waterford.

DFAf., JAN. 14.
Sail.4l the natward-bound, &c. utitier convoy of
the .11cxandria, fur Portsmouth.—Vilud N.H.

DOYEN. JAN. 12.

The brig .lava •Afaria Catharine, of and Loan
imam, Nisi:hie, for i)iil . with a cargo at tea,
sugar, it:lige. and v.krimis I • i of tuerclutillise,
with a vivatity of arina, in th • fete Ole, in coining
into hal hour, after lw.ing low:ions and eatiks, had
inisfortitiwto stroke tlw I.7wr-lo mi. 11
which means she stave in her bns. and drive ro sea
again ; she wits afterwards gm in ...4 repaired, NMI
'nearly. ready for sea, since which she appeared
quite tight ; but, tart slight, from, wane utiforcseen
cause, she sprung sleek, 41141 monk without the its-.
ow.* bring even •wpeeteil ; every citation is nuw
mitT4ing to get out her ea r,!n.

FROM SATI:IIaIY GAZETTE.

Jerfio,', J.:l

Tbe Duke et Cllre idt aged to eppoirat the
11, l'eter Wood, .1. Bof (••Arze, 011eirti. Whe sae
of Ids Royal Higloieser dmatoit

Whit, Na(, Jno. 13.
This Fin! has befit plefseil to appoint the Rev. Airflowlee
Seineio to too church aod parish of Letitia/lb, in the PN.I. -
byte: ) of lir.rhin, awl 'sootily of Forfv, ~rot Ly tht death
uf Nit. Juba T.iylois, late Slifii.ter there.