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OLD BAILEY SESSION —Dec. 6.

JA 'CP i EilfitVOld was inait !c.l for stealing a silver
tableopoon, and three silver tea.spoons, dot. pro-
perty of John Witfin, a smart young midshipraan,
of about sixteen years of age.
Mr. Witfin, after taking his station in the Wit-
rt'SS'S Bea, having carelessly, thoteah gracefully,
bowed to the Court, deposed as follows :
u My Lord—on the Ist of Atiguyt last I was
reading a newspaper, in the Northumberland Arms;
the Prisoner came in, ard entered into conversation
with me. He told me he was a Lieutenant in the
navy ; so we drsnk together. I liked Lis appear.
ante very much, and asked him to come home and
lunch with me. He told me he would; hut, as he
came too late for lunch, he dined with me. The
next day, aho, he dined with me, and then gave
me an invitation to spend the day lollowing on
board the :hirer., which lay at Deptford, and of
which ship he said he was Lieutenant and Com-
mander. I thanked him for the honour he con-
ferred on me, and promised to go. I asked him to
come and breakfast with me the next morning,
which was the 4th of August, and said we might
afterwards go together to the Aurora. He came lc-
cordingiy, and, while at breakfast, said, that the
cutter would he at Hungerford stairs fur its. After
breakfast we walked there together ; but, being too
soon for the tidr, we took a turn up the strand.
While we were walking, lie said, we should have a
very pleasant day, as he had plenty of wine on
board. ss But," says he, " I have no spoons of
any kind, can you len'l me any ?" I told him 1 had
a table-spoon, and dare tea-spoons, to which he
was very welcome; and we went home to my lodg-
ing, in Herefor4-street, Fitzroy-square. I then
sent for some ;Auer for hint, before we got un-
der weigh ; and went up stairs to pot on a clean
shirt, an I another coat, leaving him in the parlour
alone %Viten I came down again, he was gone, and
the spoons alio. It instantly strock me, that there
was gle.it impropriety in bringing horne a person I
knew nothing about ; but it was then too late ; the
spoons were gone, and I gave them up. However,
just for curiosity, I went to I+mpg-ford-stairs, to see
whether the cutter of the,-fatora were there ; hot, as I
expeeted, no person there knew any thing about it. I
contented myself with the loss, and thought no more
alsont it, until last NlOndAy werk, the' Bth Novemher,
at about eleven in the morning, as I was bitting read-
ing the paper, an the Bromley Arms, at the t •us tier
of Cleveland-street, the Prisoner, and a woman,
came into the room. When he saw MC, he got red
in the face, and seemed much confused. oOh how
are yen ?" said I ; ‘• netty well," rand he ; and then
he beckoned me into the passage; when we were
alone, ss Weil," said lie. ss how have you been since
I had the pleasure of seeing you r, .‘ Pretty well, I
thank you; said I—" Whete are my spoons?"—
He MAO no answer to this, and I said, we might
as well go into the room. tie went in, accordingly,
and, as I was going towards the bar, to get some
person to assist me an taking him, he made off as
fast as his legs could Tarry him. The woman re-
mained behind ; but you know, my Lord, 1 had no-
thing to do with her ; so A let her go about her bu-
nion.; advising bet to take care of the fellow she
was with, as lie was a great thief ! I thought, by
snatching in the \ egiabourhood,. I would be able,
t%l/4
some time or other, . ome along-side him ; and,
accordingly, the very tie,. morning, as I was going
% up Southampton-place, I saw flirt in the middle of
the read ;,ane.. laying hold of barn, said, " Yon are
a daintiest thief," isind hiought him down to Bow-
s:tee:. sQa the way, he begged of me to let him
go ; and said, he had a another who was not able to
mo:k :o maintain herself. I tasked him, "whether
it were by robbing lc maintained her ?" He said,
I. so." I th-n asked him, ss Whether he were not
asbarned, after I had treated him so well, to go away
without bidding me good bye?" He said, ss he
was:" Witten I brought him to P,aw.street, I gave
him tato custody, and told the whole story, two or
three times, (wet, la. air. Bond.
Mr. .sauce. Gasses " Do you know in what line
aI• lire the Prisoser was '
an Mt. w, " 1 uodeistand. my Lord, that ;ive
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or sit yean ago be.waa a•Laentenant in the Navy ; 1
hut I do not ktfnii what he has been rep to same."
The Prisoner beiniCalled on for his defence, said.
that he was at present ou the list of Lieutenants in
the Navy, and had commanded a gun-brig ; but
rot being Lble to pass 'his :ie.:omits, was superseded.
The Prosecutor, he .aid, was a ramaway Midship-
man, and requested hin. to write to Mr. Marsdeii to
get the R. taken from hi, name ; this he did, and he
bilieved, at his instance, it was done. As to his
taking the spoons, he positively delacel it.
Nit. Justice GROSE asked the Pri,secutor, sshether
What the Prisoner said were true? He said, "It
is not my Lord ; I am nee a 11111.1 Way Midshipman,
I belonged to a bomb, and, if your Lordship please,
I will tell the whole story."
Mr. Justice GROSE CIOd not signify any wish to
hear it ; but merely observed to the Jury, that the
very clear evidence of the young gentleman. who
see.ned to possess all the openness and good-nature
that men of his profession generally do, was before
them ; and, he conceived, it was almost impossible
that they could avoid giving their eerdia accord-
ing t it.
The Jury instantly found the Prisoner—GOlie.
He was a genteel looking man, bald-headed, iti:d
43 years of age.
BIGAMY.

Jane Miff was tried upon an indiCtment, charging
her with intermarrying with John Stanley, her tint
husband being still alive.
William Butt, the brother of the first husband,
gave in evidence, that he was present at the mar-
riage of his brother with the P: isoner, on the Bth of
Janu try. 1798; and that his brother was in court.
John Taylor, parish clerk of St. ‘lartin's, proved
the prisoner's second marriage, on the 42.a1t of No-
vember, 1804, at that church.

The Prisoner left her defence to her Counsel. She
was found
Ana liniford And Catherine Lnkreace, were indifte.d,
the ore for stealing, and the other lor.ruceiving srd
concealing a great qu•+ntity of hAher.lisnery good.,
the property of Mr. Bell. a haberdasher, ri Bridge-
street, Westatinsre:.
It appeared, the Prisoner, fialford, hal lived ser-
vant at Mr. Bell's nearly four years, and lately
found an opportunity of robbing the shop of different
a 1 tides, to the amount of sixty pounds. Mr. Sell,
missing many things, had inforrnAtion of a box, con-
taining the goods, being sent by the Prisoner, Hal-
fo:d, to the house of the Prisoner, Latirdlll.4:, alarm
Items, where it was found.
The Jury found them Godly.
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MIDDLESEX SitSSIONS—Dec. G.

CoNsFIRACY.

Jahn Marries, J. Barrow, W. Trifle. and Sarah
Goner, were indicted for conspiring to injure
John Hathaway, a bankrupt, by presenting a
pet;tinn to the Lord Chancellor. ct.ntaining false
charges agsinst the said bankrupt, in consequence
of which he did not obtain his certificate.
Mr. Asses', as Counsel for the pi osecution, stated
the charges agalast the Defendants, which were de-
tailed in the following evidence.
John Hathaway, the Prosecutor, said, he was a
clerk in the Bank ; he had beer. it that situation nine
years. In consequence of some pecuniary ember-,
rassments, Witness became a Bankrupt, in 180 ;
at which time his creditors gave him a release.--
Witness knew Barrow. who was a money-lender,
aid, after his 'creditors had proved their debts,
he was arrested by Barrow, and taken to the
King's Bench prison. While in the latter situa-
tion, Whyte waited on the Witness, and said he
CALM from Barrow, who had proposed that Wit-
n-ss should pay 131. off the debt, for which he
was in custody, and obtain his discharge. Witness
said be would rather perish in prison than pay
Krrrow, who had used him so ill, a fartliipg ; on
which, Wintle observed, " vau do not, Barrow
mill pcifien a:abut 'tour Certificate, oft the ?round of
pia,yiag at card.. Barrow it a man dot cull smear, and
get persons to swear an, thing." %%link then described
himself to be a Mr. Bell, of Bloomsbury, and went
away. Witness's Certificate was signed the 2J of
OtTober, ; and, on the Monday following, he
received a copy o• a petition against the Certificate,
in the prison, from M.Clatchen, an Attornsi's
clerk. Witness shortly after understood that Win-
tie lived in Twister's-alley, Bonbill-row ; and that
Barrow, and tit' Defendants, had concerted the
petition against his Certificate, at Wintle's house,
where he had never been but once in his life.
Several 'Witnesses proved that the Prosecutor was
nut of town at the time the petition described him
to have played at caids with Nlarriot, at %Vintle's
house.
Nl.Clutchen said, he was clerk to an attor-
ney ; Witness was employed by Barrow, Ad he
attended the meeting of Hathaway's creditors, at
upon which occasion Barrow expressed
xtnie apprehension that he could not prove his debt,
as it was a usurious transalhion. He alas observed,
that Hathaway had lost his money by gaming, and
asked witness whether he could not be deprived of
his certificate, if such a charge were stated in a
petition to the Chancellor ? on being answered in
the affirmative, Barrow Witte a, -Marriot, and
another, mm at a public house in St. Martin's-
le-Grand, where it was agreed, that Wintle
should swear he saw Marriot play at cards with
the Prosecutor at Wintle's house, for ten gui-
neas, and also for a supper to cost one guinea.
After the agreement, Barrow laid down two gui-
neas on the table, and desired Marriot and another
to take them ; the latter, however, refused, and said
they did not want Barrow's money, but that they
came as friends to serve him. The different affida-
vits were afterwards made, and received by the
Master in Chancery.
The Defendant, Sarah Grover, was called in as
an assistant ; and she made affidavit that she was
present when the Prosecutor played at Wintle's
house.
The conspiracy, upon the whole, was clearly
proved, and the Jury found the Defendants Guilty.
Sentence deferred.
Thursday se'nnight Mr. DENstTT, of Bigg's
Farm, in Cuckfield, Sussex, shot at a doe with a
single ball, in Mrs. Seer:mores pack, and attually
killed three at the same shot ; but what renders this
matter more extraordinary is, that the ball should
have passed through all their heads, which is lite-
rarly the taia
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PA, •
ttraltriti INTELLIGENCE.
roassasotme. SIC. 5.
Salted the Defence Matt of war to the kastward ;
and the Assault Run-brig on a cruise.
Came up from Spithecui, the Victory, man of war.
Wind S.W.
ror.stotru, Dec. 3.
Arrived the IValhella, Capt. Landsohol, from
Lubec, bound to the Mauritius, laden with
wine, brandy, &c. and Maria and Eli:nobeth, laden
with sugar, coffee, and logwood, horn the Havan-
nab, for Tonningen, prizes to the Lord Nelson pri-
vateer, of Guernsey ; the Swedish ship Fredeciea
Charlatia, Capt. Gilbert. from Barcelona, in twenty-
eight days passage ; and the (Kearney, Capt. Cook,
from Jamaica, for London, in eighty-one days pas-
sage, leaky ; Diligence, Gard ; and Medea, Tierney,
from Plymouth ; IYrlbanr. Landzrige. from Liver-
pool ; Mary, Harvey, from Cardid; Alary and Ann,
Cotton, from Burry.
This day appeared off this port, the American
ship Affaufre, Capt. Howe. from Virginia. On the
19th ult. she spoke the following vessels, to the
Northward of Ireland, viz. the Pemooia, ;
•the Charles, ; Rickard, —, from Jamaica ;
and, on the 22d, spoke the brig Joseph, Captain
Cowan, from Lisbon, bound to London.
Sailed the Fame, Thomas, for London. —Wind
Westerly.
DEat., DEC. 5.
Arrived the Pallas frigate, Captain the Right
"Immutable Lord Cochrane, from Quebec, after a
passage of five weeks, with the following vessels
under convoy, viz. —the Euretta, Patterson ; Adernne.
Kirby; and Qrneltc, Bayley, which are sailed fOr
Standgate Creek, under quarantine ; also the Prus-
sian ship Atlas, --, from St. Andern.
Arrived and sailed for the River, the Enterprne,
NVaterman, from I wmerara ; Petro, Borough,
from New Providence , and s I others.
Arrived the V. aal frigate, with several gut.
brigs. &c. from off the French coast; and remain
in the Downs with the ships as per last. Wind S.W.
EXMOUTH, DEC. 4.
Since Inv last arrived the Hazard, Webber, from
Brisfol, with groceries; Do(rndor, Tucker, from
S. I)ehi's, with coals; Neptune, Dinning ; and
Ace, Bartlett. from Liverpoal, with ditto; George
4.,,, Hodder, from Dartmouth, with stone ;
Pbpoo4b, reed, from Plymouth. with timber ;
Behino, From Oporto, with wine; and irnifoory,
Amin, from Padstow.

Sailed the Phi,'sant, Brooks, for Poole, with
outs; Thn,:as And Hannah, Holeman, for Ports-
ninuth, with potutoec, &c. ; Erped,tion, Scott, for
ditto, with wine ; Lacrty, Leach ; Britannia,
Wrightson ; Markwell ; and Eaterpri,e. Belt,
al for London, with bales, wool. &c. ; Unify, Youl-
dt.n ; and Sogiiterims, Slade, for Plymouth, with gro-
ceries.

FROM LLICIYD's LIST.
Gaavesseo, Dec S.... Pared by the Frienibbip, Dar;
&inertia, Muter; Belinda, Rohens ; and the Flarrict, Gon.
stag, teeth Cant; Jeinlina, Barber; and the Louisa, Evans,
(rum Dublin; Lied Duncan, Inglish ; and the Thomas and
Sally, Birth., from Limerick; Molly, Ilutchinson ; and the
Venus, Chandler, from Waterford; Hoye, Jones' from De-
; Chatty, Seager, from Quchr-e ; Willhelmiea, Evan. from
(Oporto; Speculation, B.dam; and the Brothers, Baidar,
from Bordeaux; Vrow Anna, Vinson. from Bribe= Urias,
Williams, from Bone; Experiment, Mener, from Danti,C;
Mary, Hurdle; and the Olive Branch, Davis, from Lisbon
Sided the Union, Evans, for Cork ; Alligator, Granseer, for
Tobago; punter, H insell, for Barhado,:s ; Lord Barham,
Fowles, for Antigua; Princess of Wales, Grierson, for St.
Vincent's; Dale, Smith, for Dominica; Generous Fiance,
Really; Mania, Douglas; Symmetry, Liddle ; Cesar, Foe-
kr and the Latona, Magrath, fur Jamaica.
AltalrCO.
OR Dover—the Rio Nova, Tyler; and the Aimewell,
Richmond, from Jamaica; F.ddistone, Suntan, from Quebec;
Peritrectres, Everett, from Virginia; Industry, Sinikill; and
the Mary, Deye., (rum ‘Vaterferd.
At Cowers--the Anna, Lund, roam St. Cress; and the Lien,
Young, from Jamaica.
At Bristol the Fermkett, —; and the Strap, —, from
the emit el Spain.
• At Liverpool...the Phenix, Hong-, from Riga; Dirt, Rid.
Ake, (rani Oporto; Nictiart, Perrin, from Jamaica; and the
Elbe, Yeates from Demerara
Ar Gale Ty.—the Res?„?f, Madden, from Lonelth.
At Londoliderrv—the Fridearou., J•inC, ! London.
!At Waterford the Onihoten. hole St. Übvs.
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