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departure, and the place for which they had em-
barked, reached Scotland before them. When'the
vessel was about a mile off Dundee, three police of-
ficers breaded her aild arrested Piper and M'Kay,
and while bringing them on shore in a boat, one of
the officers observed M‘liay moving about un his
seat, and presently heard a splash in the water, but
did not see the cause of it. It afterwards turned out
that two little girls gathering pebble-scenes on the
beach, about three miles front Dundee, picked up
up some bank-notes, and a red leather pocket-book,
v:hich had been washed ashore, containing a turn
letter addressed •' .1 ohn M.Kay, Blue Boar, Lon-
don." These articles were given by the girls to
their mother, and both they and the old woman
s.vore to the articles„which they produced. The
ne.t put of the evidence related to the apprehen-
sion n f Catapodi and Foss. In the house of the for-
reer, in St. Geerge's-fields, the plate was found i and
in the custody of the latter, the seal. Camped',
upon being apprehended, said there was no harm
.1 man having an engraved plate of the kind in
Ins cu.t':.ly, and said he could not be punished for
it. Piper having been admitted an evidence for the
Crown, described his acquaintance with M'Kay
having taken place in Scotland ; and that he came
to Loudon in August last upon busing, of his, and
went bask again. In about two months afterwards
he came to -Loudon once more, in company with
hPKay, u ho promised to lend him 1001. for twelve
nrositlis. Atter a long detail from this witness, it
turned out that he had been introdnced to Foss and
Catapodi, and seas the person who attempted to '
s the note to the landlord of the St. Andrew. He
did not know the note was bad at the time, aid he
cause off in the vessel wit's& M'Kay, being anxious to
get home. It likewise appeared ;hat the witness saw
Foss stamp sonic notes; but this was the mornii.g
of the day of his departure. Mr. Joctice Heath
hoe remarked, that there was no evidence that ei-
ther Foss or Catapodi had forged or uttered the
note in the county of htisldlesex, or were even privy
to *Kay having uttered it.
The Jury retired for a short time, and returned a
verdict—Geis" of wenn: and InnYlAin; against
IsPKay—Vide.—Foss and Catapodi—A of ado.
they were, however, ordered to be detained.
Afralmtm Ntcl,9les, a person who had been em-
ployed in the General Post-Office, was capitally in-
dieted for secreting, on the 2f.'d of January last, a
letter containing a 101. note, two 'A notes, and' 3s.
in slyer, the property of Joseph Goldsmith. It ap- '
peated that Mr. f aylor, an attorney in Gray's Tun,
having occasion to remit a sum of 141. ss. to 11r.
Goldsmith, at Lewes, in Sussex, gave his clerk a
cheek fur that sum, for which he gut cash at Messrs.
and Sharp's, in the Strand. • The clerk put
the money along with a- bond into a letteraddressed
te, Mr. Goldsmith, and give it to another clerk to
put into a receiving house. This the other gentle-
man did, by putting it into a receiving house, in
I last-street, Bloomsbury. The mistress of the shop
swore to the letters having on that evening been sent
to the General Post-Office as usual. A clerk of the
inland department of the General Post-Office at-
tended (the eighth' division), on the '22d of Janu-
aty ; a letter fur Levees woald of course come to
that division. The prisoner was on dtity at that di-
vision in colleting and facing the letters for the
witness to charge. After this was done, it was the
prisoner's slut-; to lie them up in bundles. If a
money-letter, or one known to contain money, ap-
peared, it was always sent to the clerk at the money
hook, who entered it on the bill to be sent to the
post-master in the country. The prisoner might
hare secreted a letter, although they pass throagh
eight ur ten different hands before they reach the
eighth division. isli. Cuter, of the lottery-office,
Coating-cross, said, the 101. note which kid been
lest, No. 139 Y, had come into his possession in
taking payment for three sixteenths of different
tickets iuihe present lottery, purchased, he did not
h:sow, by whom. H.: had marked his check num-
bers in the note, against No. 51 ; one of the six-
teenths he had sold. He paid away the note to the
Equitable Assurance Office, and soon after heard
from Mr. Parkin, Solicitor to the Pust-Oilice, that
:...such a note had been lost. In a few days the pri-
soner callild at his office, desiring him to stop the
sixteenth, No. .51, as he had lost his pocket-book
Containing that share. 'The witness said he was
it lad to see him, as he had been very uneasy respect-
mg the note which he had paid for the shares. He
desired the prisoner to wait on Mr. Parkin, which
be readily agreed to, and called twice for Mr. Car-
ter to go with him ; at length he went himself, and
said 1w had only purchased one share. This was
stated by Mr. Parkin, who said, that at length he
aeknowledged buying three'; but said, that during
she week in which he had purchased them, he re-
ceived three 101. notes, and wished to recoiled where
lie had got the one laid in the indidment. Ile was
then taken before a .Mat;istrate. It also appeared
that the pocket-bsook had been found in the
:end that it contained the lottery shares. A great
number of very respedalde witnesses appeared to
his character. The Jury for halt an hour,
and returned with verdia of--Ueilty; but in con-.'
'Aeration of the favourable charefter he had re-
ceived, recommended the prisoner to mercy.
Rol»rt Smith, alias Alexander Gordon, was capitally
indicted fur assaulting Francis Treadwell, on the
highway. near Paddington, and there robbing him
it one pound two shillings, his property.
The prosecutor, who is a hackney-coarhman,
stated, that oa the tith rf .Ipril, he was called off
tiT ANL/oat Charing-cross, by the prisoner, who or-
s!' him to drive to Paddington ; when 11.7: had
•o‘v.•tieti some distance past 1 ybum-turnpike, the
prienter called Ceachman, your dour is open;"
which the witness got off the gas, with intuition
to shut it. On his goiug to Use coach door, the pri-
soner jumped um, ineaelliett a pistol to his head, and
dissuaded his money; he immediately gave hiss five
shillings and sixpence, and a seven shade% piece.
The prisoner then Jensunled his watch, and struck
him a vinleot blow on the right arm with a tuck-
stick, after which three shillings more, and a seven
%billing rives-. were given to ham The prisoner im-
rnediate y after mask off. eaclaiminp, " It you fol-
low me, I will Mow Your brains out." pruses:u-
tor had not the least 'doubt as to the Wrathy of the
prisoner's person, as he had known him by sight fur
near fuur yrars , it was a moonlight night, and he
could not possibly he niaaken. NVhen ht tirst knew
Jinn, be belonged to the artillery at Woolwich.
The witoess was robbed un Zsuriday night, and the
rext mortsiog he saw the prisoner at the Police Of-
-Loki Folatinaglo. a nall'Ol'es said that be met the.
%Cox* it, the Xing'..rati.d, where be