The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-11-01 00:00:00

COINING

Robert Batts. Ila;:yil;Oileas 0119 f) Bytes, Joseph
Cope.'Nery Slater alias Cope, rod Clarke Nation
(i, d. sorter groan the artn), were capitally indicted
for high treason, trader an Act of Edward the
Third's, For conspiring together, and coining *tie
base shilling and one base silepeitee, in istitimon of
the coin of the realm.
Mr. Kahrr staled the case.

AVlWarn Stafford deposed. that in March last he
was a soldier in the Bast Middlesex Militia. He
saw the Prisoner. Charles .Wslton. at the Crispin •
.puldie-house. Grub-street. Mary Walton mired
.hint. did he come from.
ffir Wurwichrbire4
(an-
swered in the amative. She then Swig • lie
knew Birmingham, and if he had been demo to the
queer. He kutw what she incept; it II Barreling •
term for coiuing. He told her he heti; and aft*
some other conveisatien. they got perked), ac-
quainted. At Easter, Butts exited him ter fillbem
to move from No. t 7, Hooper-street, Leicester- •
fields to No. 4. Chequer-alley, BenhiH-row. He
assisted hies ; there were a lathe and a cutting-en-
gine, used in coining.. At the City of Chester pub- •
lic-house, he heard the PkiIIADCF Cope complain to
Butts that be wanted blanks to goon with; they.,
were what Butt, cut in the shape of shillings sod six-
pencet, and which Cope finished. Hf. had seen
both Butts and Mary Welton at work remolding the
edges. Cope rhea ed loin some sixpences ninth
were very rough ; he said *lmo %sere finished by •
young heed, whom he had taught, and wonted the
witness to iit.lwae of them. which he declined.—
At another time be heard Cope tell Butts be want-
ed his hiaiiks to complete an order which he' had re-
ceived from the country. Ile asked Cope for some
white oues—he said he could not give them to him
until he4pid served his regular customers. Charles
Welton was present et the time. He (the witness)
was taken into custody on the sth of July. as a deli
-
serter. end put int. the Savoy ; from %hence he
was scut to prison. On the nth of Auplei lie gave.
information to the Solicitor of the Min „ from which
time he had acted mider his directions, and sew all
the Prisoners et work, except Chatles Walton.
On his cross-examinatioe by Mr. GURNEY, he
said, he kn.iw all the slung of coiner. before Le
knew the Prisoners. Ile made the disclosure from
no other motive than for the good of hi. King and
Country.
John Armstrong, an raver belonging to Worship.
street Police-Office, proved the taking of Cope mid
Mary Slater into cestoily, and finding% quantity of
counterfeit sixpences is, their spertsuent, No. in,
Peter-street, Saffron-hill, also the neer/nary arti-
cles for colouring. fie also upprehenderl the other
Prisonero, and found the cutting-machine in the
garret of Butts's house, fixed with a cutter the
size of a sixpence.
Lord Et.i.eNtioaoucta observed, he was of opi-
nion that the indictment was not supported ac•
cording to %list Wilt 1 rlillloll by the Act of &laded
Ill.; for it fool not !wen 111,1iNt that they were all
at the conipl. lion or linix!'ing of troy piece of base
coin in question. The statute of William 111.
makes a person assisting in any purl of the process
of coining capital, but the present Act only took
into its voustaleratien the completion of the thing

'rite Jury returned R verdict of—Not Guilty.
Robert num erns then (-vitally indicted under
the Act of William 111. for having in his posses-
'lnn a cutting-ungine, for the purrune of coining,
withnitt being lawfully anthurised.
Tl•e ?vide:ice WAr the .:.roc as in the la•t case,
and lie nits Ss.

The Nathan, N 1.1.1; a h•ta arrived at Liverpool
from the Rio de la Plato, brif ging advice of the
vutiniimiion of a large 1/9ltion of t he int-riot of South
America to the mew Gover,oneos of litueu,is Ayrks,
mad of the c:iptiv.ty of Gen. Li IE.G3.