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London, England, 1826-08-28 00:00:00

PHRENOLOGY.-ALEXAVER M' SAND.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

SITTINGS.
His Lnansmr said, lie wished to have it understood, that on
Monday he should state in what rases he should give judgments
in the course of next week, and that after Monday he should
layer no motions except what may come under these heads :-
31otiona for ir•junctions in the nature of was:e—klotions to
dissolve injunctions in the nature of waste—and writs of habeas
corpus.

POLICE.

ROBBERY OF BIESSRS7ALLEN, GYLBY, AND
ALLEN.
Itleaseciaotton-synxxv.—On Saturday Thomas Hall, and
Elizabeth his wife, had their second and final hearing for robbing
Messrs. Allen and Co., solicitors, of Carlisle-street, Soho. of 1701.
l'he turpitude of the robbery Is, that the gentlemen whim the ini-
loner robbed took him from the erects as a patish sweeper, and
employed him at their office at 20s. per week. 7 he caption of the
man was effected through one of ifs se singular prepoeses-
sions of mind wholly unaccountable, unites attributable to that
Omniscient eye that sees MI our actions and directs all
our movement*. That of the wom -n was by an act of after eau-
tion, by which the guilty often point out the path to their retreat,
for the residence of either was net kn-own. The woman hes been a
most abandoned character. Avis an officer t f this establishment,
knew her when he was an officer of Bow •street, taut her where a e
livell,-alsi the men with whom. The male prisoner admitted th y
had lived apart, and that she was of violent temper; steins eight
months ago she stabbed him in the site. At the time he robbed his
employers they had been living spar for eight or Wile weeks. Be-
tween fire and six pounds is all the money recovered of the 1701. or
1751. ae 3I r. Emanuel Allen thinks was the sum. The rest comsat
at present be found, though the whole sum is completely trace I ,o
Mm, as well as by his acknowle'ga en.. The woman ie suspected
to have a secret lotigine, where tae remainder ef the property may
be co..eesleil. Though a trunk vu found in I er poises:eon, con-
taining finery to the value of 201. or 251.. two dupl cites wee in
her pocket for pledges of ls. and ls. 61. in her own nan e. The
following is the evidence :
Emanuel Allen is Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middle-
sex. anti Vestry Clerk of St. Ann, Weetmir ate ; l a ;then tt t the
business in Carlisle-street to his sons and • en. tt-lew, but ace. ha.
eines% at their.hothe, of which he ha. a sod .rase eiaount. On the
9th instant he had a considerable sum of melee, On hi. desk. part
of which he was going to lend ; the remainder-1701. or 1751., he
does not know which—he sup: used he had put Into his cash-box,
but recollected nothing about it till the following Saturate morn-
ing, when he had occasion to put more money into the b ,x, and
was surprised at finding it empty. The rrisoner had b sett in the
office for two years, anti was so on the9th. He wished to state how
the piisotier came into their emp'oy. Ile gained a act erne- tin
St. Ann's parish by keeping a ge cer'e •l-^n lint feting in b
new, sought parochial relief, and was tnnioyed in w int, the
streets ; finding that he wrote a good lend, witness said ba w ..ild
see if he could not take him out of tite I.ail e ut the par ah,
and employed him at 12s. per week wage., with the intent mat he
should mill get something front the parish ; but the 1 risoner ex.
messing a wish to be independent of the parielt, his wages were
raised to 209.: his sons have found him in clothes and other trifles.
A short time previous to the robbery a parcel hail been lost, of
which the prisoner was suspected to know sonseing ; and fir that.l
and getting drunk, he was threatened with a discharge. Witness
mentioned these things, as hc u nder.mod the prisoner made that
an excuse for absenting himself. On the 12th, when he mettle'
his money, the prisoner had been absent tao days. On his
mentioning the loss of the money, a clerk in the office said to him,
"Oh 1 Hall has got it, Sir." Wittiest, had seen netting of the
prisoner till apprehended on Wed, cedar. The money co 'slated
of one note for 100/., which he received frosts his son. aeries; a
SOL note from Josiah Humphrey.. one of their clerks; the re-
mainder wait in small notes, he think- fives.
Charles I'ettit Allen, son of the last witness, received from Mr.
Gylhy, his partner, a note for 1001., which he paid to his father,
as a debt doe from himself and partners to his father.
John Parker Gylby on the 7th inst. received a note of 1001. from
Josiah Humphreys, which he paid to Charles Pettit Allen, on ac-
count of Mr. Emanuel Allen.
Josiah Humphreys, on the 7th, presented a check to Martin,
Call, and Co.. bankers, Old Bond-street, and received a note of
100 L, which he afterwards gave to Mr. Gylby. He also received a
501. note from Messrs. Home and Co. Fleet-street, part of a
check tbr 2591., which be paid to Dlr. E. Allen.
John Ward, clerk to Marten, Call, and Co., paid a cheek of
Messrs. Jeyes, on the 7th inst. for 1001. in one note, No. 4,109,
dated July 20, 1826.
Thomas Benjamin Kingston, clerk in the Bent of
lodeEnglan
produced a note for 100 L, dated July 20, 1826, which he pa d
female on the 11th inst., who gave her name and address, Eliza
Robinson, No. 8, Theoleald's-road, Bedford-row." He pa 'd h:r in
70 sovereigns and an order on the pay-clerk for 301. in notes. Took
particular notice of the female, from her tam being able to
count the sovereigns; she was going to take them without count-
ingi; he told her to ace they were right ; site tried to count them,
but could not ; witness asked her to let him, lest he should have
made a mistake: he did—they were right. He had no suspicion of
her, because she wanted some of the money in noes. This was at
ten o'clock in the morning. At two o'clock on the Here d he
met her standing up for the rain at the foot of London-bridge;
something induced him to turn back to look at her. Is certain
the female prisoner is the person for whom he changed the 100/.
note.
William Frederick Mortyn, clerk to Messrs. Allen, Gylby, and
Allen, on the )9,11 inst. returned from dinner about lralf-past four
the prisoner was the only person in the office; witness said he had
collected a little money. about 201. The prisoner replied, " l'hat's
nothing to what I in my posecasion. I have four or five times
as much." '• How much have you ?" asked the witness. The
prisoner said 1101. and.offered a wager he hail 1701. Witness sup-
posed he had it to pay into the bankers, or that the money had been
left there for the firm, and asked him how he tame by it. The
p-isoner replied he hatl it is, neither means. The money had been
left on the desk ; and the 111r:down being open, the notes might have
blown away if he had not taken care of them ; ho would keep them
till one of the partners came in, an .I then he would return teem.
William Price lives at No. 7, St. Ann's Count, SAG ; keeps a
chandler's shop; the two prisorers oreepied the front attic.
fnrnielted,of his house ; they slept there only two nights, the Bth and
9thinsh The lastnight they slept in his house, they came home be-
tween 1I and 12; madmen in his shop and had tweed and cheese
and a pot of porter ; the woman was sober, the man intoxicated.
The men acknowledged he bad been drinking a great deal that
thy, and witness saw that he had. Witness had another lodger in
the back attic, funned Taylor, who was gone to bed that night.
NVilliam Taylor lodged about a formight at Sir. Price's, and left
on the 10th or I lth. l'wo persons slept in the room next to his on
the lith and 9dl. They slept taere but two nighty. The last
night they slept there he was disturbed about twelve o'clock by
their coming to bed ; his room is separated tram the front one by
a thin partition. The first thing the witness heard was the
man telling hie suite that he had h:en charged with dis-
honesty, and hearn the rustling of paper. She said, " 'Where
did you get that?" he replied, " It is all my own." She cried.
Wittiese then got out of bed, put his ear to the wainscot, and
heard the paper eusele again. lile heard the woman say—
" I am certain that money to that amount cannot be yours," and
wished Lint to take it back. Ile said he would not ; that he was
going into the country next morning, anti wished her to go with
him. She asked him where he was going to. !le replied first to
Dover, then to Calnis an.
Slur sad mentionedtherlaces, which witness
does not recollectid she would sot go with hint. He heard
her say," Thomas, you had better takethe money back, and not de.
fraud persons who have behaved so well (or so kind) to you." [The
woman here exclaimed, " 'lts rabic, 'tie false; all he saes is false."
The matt said, " It is all a tissue of falsehood.") The titan he
supposes to have been sitting on a chair, as he afterwards heard her
make the bed.
Sarah White, widowlef Na. 61. Wardour.street, recognised the
female prisoner as a person who hied Indeed In her %mese for eight or
nine weeks previous to the 11th • of August. The man dad not
.odge with her. Last Thursday week she came to tea with her. On
be Fsitlay before the 11th, at five in the afternoon, the female pit-

[From the Mancheeter•Gavette.]
The, body of Alexander ll'Keand was brought to.our
Infirmary on Wednesday night. It bears no snacks of
emaciation, the limbs being remarkably muscular and full.
Previously to the arrival of the body, a good deal;of curio-
say prevailed as to the phrenological development. It
will be recollected, that when Farraday took the brothers
into custody, notwithstanding the excessive exhaustion oc-
casioned by long travel and want of food, they made a
desperate resistance.' We copy from our paper of the 3d
June an account of their condition when overtaken by
Ferradaye
" They were In the moil distressed state imaginable; the toles
of their shoes were completely worn ofL and their feet were covered
wltlitliatets ; they were nearly famishing, and they had rot a
penny in their pockets. It was literally impossible that they could
have gone on much further. They were outcasts upon the earth—
s price was set upon their heads ; and at every turn they taw their
names attached to horrible murder ;" the precise description of
their persons, and the reward offered for their apprehension."
In this distressed condition they made a desperate re-
eistance, and Alexander overcame the two men to whom
Farraday had committed him. Their first thought was
resistance, and they fought with an energy which was as-
tonishing
in exhausted and starving men. Their corn-
bativenees was here strikingly manifest ; and still more,
when locked up together, the wretched brothers fought !
But when secured in Lancaster Castle, their dernesneur
was wonderfully changed. They called for Bibles; during
their confinement they were intent in reading them; and
Alexan.l( r spent much of his time in devotional exercises.
This, was a curious change. No one could have expected
this demeanour from men so seemingly desperate. A
friend of ours, an ardent Phrenologist, talking on the sub-
ject, said be could almost venture the truth of the science
on the fact that, in addition to combativeness, these men
had veneration highly developed. It was a hazardous an-
ticipation of the probable craniological development; but
the body of Alexander arrived—the body of him whose
conduct seemed the most atrocious, and whose behaviour
in prison seemed the most penitential—and on examination
of the head the anticipation of our friend was completely
realized. The combative and destruvive organs were found
to be full; while at the same time that which denotes
veneration, or more accurately, respectfulness, was found
to be tetnarkably prominent.

In consequence of some trifling repairs bring necessary
in the machinery of the Eclipse and Brockelbank steam-
packets, the Quentin Durward has been the only steam-
vessel on this station (Brighton) this week. The Eclipse
will, however, resume her place on Monday. On Tuesday
forenoon one of the General Steam Navigation Company's
packets, the George the Fourth, of 720 tons burthen, will
call at the chain-pier for passengers, on her passage from
London to Gibraltar, Oporto. Lisbon, &c. Lieutenant-
Colonel St. Clair and family will leave us in this elegant,
commodious, and noble vessel, which is expected to make
her passage to Gibraltar in ten days. The advantages
which will accrue to the commercial World, in the result of
this undertaking proving successful, must certainly be very
great. We cordially wish her a prosperous • voyage.—
Briglilon Herald.
STRONG BEER BETTER THAN SMALL.—In the Cathe-
dral-yard at Winchester the annexed lines appear on a grave-
stone. The following circumstance, it is said, gave rise
te r r e
, a a
tb au rl ittlieg
rise to them :—Many yea's ago, tvhen the North Hants
Militia were marching from Winchester to Waltham, un-
-1 stpthhey the road-side, a draughtprivates contrived to pro-
cure, chsuanit'lleorn'se
of wretched meagre beer. Within ten minutes after the
man was a corpse. Over his grave is the following epi-
taph, written by the Chaplain, at the express desire of the
then Colonel, Mr. Hans Sloane:—
Here rests at peace a Hampshire grenadier,
Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer.
kzo!diers! beware of his untimely fall,
And, alien you're het, drink strong, or none at all.

soncr came to her, and said she had been in the city with her ~;----
to receive some cash at the Bank, and that she had slept ia","itei, 'r
sister at the Elephant and Castle, to take the coach to lithersi, ';`,'"
COURT OF CHANCERY, 'SATURDAY, AUGUST M. husband two nights in St. Ann's-eriurt. She took off li erit-,T "ker
His Lo it mit I r arrived at his room at half-past nitre o'clock this and put on clean ones, and said she was then goinger et Clothe,
`''''',"e,
that day she redeemed a pelisse from pledge. winch It."
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itBh2e6.soli.BDoo:
totes i ease
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ntornit.g, and soon after eleven the door was opened to all who had
business.
LEGAL PRO3IOTION. seen before. *mins bad
'After the close of the public business yesterday, Charles Pepu, Here ended the evidence attaching culpability to the wife, with
Esq. was sworn in by the hoed Chancellor u one of the King's possession of the 100/. note.
Nol!l2r..o37Kin,gsditttenedp;duneueleds, paid by u em ,
Counsel.. Mr. Pepys is the second son of Ilse late Sir Wm.Wella
Pepys, many years a Master in Chancery.ere mutilated ....
g the black. letter words cut out, and die name "
EX.-PARTE LEPARD., IN THE MATTER. OF HOLMES, Aof the •
BANKRUPT. Cu;Ctlt of 1 0 Cad
Mr. Hoare's clerk was sent for, but PM out of town.
Mr. Moseracti appeared in support of an application fore
sup, rxrtleas. The circunistanceo were rather uncommon in this Joseph Downer, oho man to William Kirkham, pietenhteker ~,,
High-street, Borough, on the I 1 ill instant sold the male pne,'—'•
matter. The bankrupt, John flolmes, lives at Derby. A eredi-
lady's gold watch for 12/. end a silver one for 2/ .14., a hte).heZ 1
to was prepared to take out a London commission, and another to
take out a country one. The two creditors met at the Bankrupt forby the 501. note now produced. lie gave his address, . .'
Office at the same time. The Secretary felt rather at a loss to labellams, 2ff, Camberwell-grove," which witness tad ' -I'.
on tie
know how to proceed, but was inclined to allow the docket papers t'
an officer bad made
to be struck furs London commission in preference to a country one; ivoll .inquiries at both whitener, d
such persons were not known. aced found
both creditors then professed themselves prepared to sue out a Lon- Joint Hoyle. clerk to Messrs. Allen, Gylby. and Altai,. Dy0n,,..,4
don commission, and, according to a precedent of Lord Erakine's,
R to Peckham fair last lrednesday, as he had a ' ' -r—e„,—;
both having arrived at the office at the same time, they drew lota
he shocld meet the male prisoner. Mr. Etranuel Allen told m -
who should have the commit aion ; the lot fell to a Mr. Moss, the
as he was a stranger to London, he had Inver take a coach, hili'M'
creditor who originally was in favourer having a country commis-
was fifty to one he would get robbed, if not stripped. If -';
sion. Mr. Moss therefore took out a London commission ; he,
witness sent, and preferred walking. At the 314.,h_cate to°Thwertr,
however, did nulhill.fs OF next to nothing under it, but soon after-
wards applied to the Court, ex- ante, stating, that the great body 1
w tness met the prisoner, nod, tlanigh he had not drank with re:
before imposed togo with him to
of creditors lived ins, that it would be very advantageous to i , 1 . a public-house, that he might.
Ice
an opportunity of securing him. Hsving got him in the ,
have Dab, assignee appointed. and a great saving of expense to
le told the landlord to get hint an officer. 'teen two of 'the Bosr.
the bankrupt's estate to have the cummtsimn worked in Derby, '
street patrol came in and secured him. They immediately dro
and, therefore, the petition prayed a =per:am: of the London
the prisoner, in a coach, to Messrs. Allen's office. In about half ''
commission, and leave for Inc petitioner immediately to issue a
hour after the wife was brought into Mr. Allen's. While sitting
county one. The Court made the order as prayed, and the origi-
toether she said to. him, " Don't tell any body to whom you hare
nally defeated creditor now appeared to complain of that ex-parts
Had
moncy.'.' Witness then thought it proper to separate them,
application, and to apply for a superscdcaa of the county commis- °
an placed hem in the back office.
mon. Mr. Montagu considered that Mr. Hart, who applied for °
Jure.; /lacked!, patrol of Bow street, took the male prime,
that county. commission, had not acted fairly towards the Court,
into custody at het public-house near the Marsh-gate; on him h.,
because he had suppressed the most material fact, that the parties
at first had cast lots as to who should • Pork a London commission, found 3n., a pencil-case, knite, comb, and one duplicate. }}acing
left him at .Ir. Allen's, and got a description of th '
Mr. Motitagu's client was now, and had easter' been, reedy to 1 e vole, as there
in -match wit
strike and work a London commission, where it was agreed, on all wr • raw lt , ness went towards Westminster-brier.
T e coachman also knowing the wife was wanted, on the way back
hand.. the Commissioners, &c. were better acquainted with pro- "
observed two boys following the coach. Witneas got out, mid
reeding% in bankruptcies than they mild be sapposed to be in the
country, and therefore lie hoped Its Lordship would now supersede of the
the boya, who said a woman answering diadem:titer%
the female prisoner offered them a good reward ifthe" would
the existing commission, and give leave to the petitioner to take told
brng her word where the coach took the gentleman. At %I hitched
cut a town commission. _
________ she let the boys pass, but the coachman stopped, and she asked
white he had taken her husband ; he told her very near where de
• an, and if she would get into the coach he would take her to him.
'.
She got in, and be drove her to Mr. Allen's. When near the ,
finding where she was being taken to, she tore up some pape
which have rot been recovered. Witness searched her at ale,:.
s
Allen's, and found in a pocket-book in her pocket three sovereign;
and two half-sovereigns, 1/. 13s. rid. in silver in a bag, sod fd. and
sixpenny-worth of halfpence loose in her pocket, with two kilt
rates, toe fora brooch. la. lid. the other for a hankerchief, Is. in the
name of " Ann Hall, ll'ardour-street."
Hall said he should not avail himself of the opportnity of toy.
ing further than that he absconded on account of the threat obi vt
the lost parcel.
Mr DYER—Does the woman wish to say any thing?
The wife looked at her husband, and the latter shook his has...
She was silent.
Hall applied for the money found on his wife to be restored to
him, which was refused.
He was fully.committed to Newgete for the felony, sad she to
the same place' for feloniously receiving the 1001. note.
Mr. Emanuel Allen wished them to be kept separate.
%Viten Avis said he knew her, and told her of a bed she took
from some man she lived with, the female forgot her silence, and
buret oat in a tragic invective against him for daring to slur her
character.

CHESS.

On Thursday last the Philidorian Match was played s:
Bath, by Mr. Keen, of the Middle Temple, against Mr.
Manners and Mr. Moline, of Bath. Mr. Keen played two
games at the same time (ore without seeing the board)
against Mr. Manners ; and another, giving the odds of toe
pawn, and two moves, against Mr. Moline. He won the
game played without seeing the board in twenty six moves.
The game, at the odds of the pawn and two moves, war
drawn. _ .
. .

The following were the moves made in the game played
without seeing the board :
Mr. REEN.-1. King's Pawn, two squares.
Mr. AIANNE23.—The same.
2. King's Bishop to Queen's Bishop's fourth square
Kings Knight to Itialvp's third square.
S. King's Knight to Bishop's third square.
Queen t • King's second square,
4. King's Knight to adverse King's Knight's faults
square
Queen's Pawn 2 squares.
b. King's Pawn takes Queen's Pawn.
King's Knight takes Pawn.
6. Queen to King's Bishop's third sq tare.
Que..n takes httiy,ht.
7. )(lag's Bishop takes Knight.
Queen's Bi•hop's Pawn one square.
8. King's Bishop takes King's Bishop's Fart
&ticking.
Ki,g to his second.
9. King's Bishop to Queen's Knight's third.
Queen's Bishop to King's Bishop's fourth.
10. I 'mistier.
King's Pawn one square.
11. Duets to King's a cond.
ts.ng to Queen's square.
12. Queen's (awn one square.
Queen to King's second.
13. Queen's Pawn takes Pawn.
Queen takes Pawn.
14. Queen takes Queen.
Queen's Bishop takes Queen.
15. Queen's Knight to Bishop's third.
Queen's Bishop to King's Bishop's fourth.
16. Queen's Bishop to adverse King's Knigtt's
four.h, checking.
King to Queen's second.
17. Queen's Rook to Queen's square. checking.
King to Queen's Bishop's square.
18. Queen's Hook to adverse Queen's square, chcc,..
in
Kingg. to Queen's Bishop's second.
19. King's Rook to Queen's square.
Queen's Knight's Pawn two squares.
20. Queen's Bishop to King's Bishop's fount.,
checking.
King to Q,ueen's Knight's second.
21. Knight takes Queen's Knight's Pawn.
Queen's Bishop to advance King's Knigt.ii
fourth.
22. King's Rook to Queen 4th square.
King's Hook's Pawn two squares.
23. Knight to adverse Queen's Bishop's second.
King's Bishop to Queen's Bishop's Rota'.
24. Queen's Rook takes King's Rook.
Bishop takes Rook.
25. Knight takes Queen's Rook.
King takes Knight.
26. Rook takes Queen's Knight, giving check-m.tc,

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On Wednesday, the Union coach, from London to Leeds,
when near Alconbury Hill, was upset, in consequence of
herd of pigs running betwixt the horses, when the hors
took fright and dragged the coach on a heap of stones. A
passenger of the name of Linsell, we believe or Leeds,
was killed. From the inquiries we have made, we find that
no blame whatever attaches to the coachman.—Dorasto
Gazelle.
The moors above Chesterfield are still on fire, though
ready one hundred men have been employed to stop is
progress for some days. The smoke and smell are felt a:
Chesterfield when the wind is westerly, and not very plea-
sant to the inhabitants. The rain which was falling
yen
liberally on Wednesday (to the great joy of every one), 11
is hoped, will extinguish the fiames.—Don.utster Gazette.

MARRIED.
On the 24th inst. at Heston, Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq. of floor
slow, to Mary Harriet Georgiana, only daughter of the Rer. Jobt
Neville Freeman, of Hayes, Michllefes.
On the 24th inst. Mr. William Church, to Elizabeth Jetntro
eldest daughter of the late Captain James Wilson, of Denmattr
hill, Camberwell. 11
Thomas Hooper, Esq. of Aldermanbury, to Miss EHzsbeth
A. Cookney, of Castle.toreet, Holborn.
On the 24th inst. at St. John's Berwick, Wilts, William Firu4'!
of Connaught-square, Esq. surgeon, son of Charles Finch, °I
Fisherton House, Fisherton, %Villa, Esq. to Sarah, youtli#
daughter of John Lush, Esq. of the former place.

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DIED.
On the 12th inst. at East Wickham, Kent, Martha P'hat,
fourth daughter, and on the 14th inst. Louisa Anne,
daughter, ot the late Richard Staynor JJIICS, Esq.
On the 25th Mat, at her brother's in Ludgate-street,
bath Ann Dunaby, in her 40th year.
At Pentonville, on the 24th inst. aged 22, Ellison Fenn(
yo
Au ntgle.sot t
hontm*
5,10rn ithLet2'l/15tieitrs.t. Mrs. E. D. Curtt/at in the
year of her age.

HIGH wrnsti, Tins DAT AT LONDON Dminogi.
Morning .. 40min. atter 11 1 Evening........ 16 rain. mil'

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