The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-05-14 00:00:00

OLD B.iILET, M•: 13.

This day the Old-Bailey Seuirns commenced be-
fore Mr. Justice Goose, Mr. Baron GRAHAM, the
Loan 11at ate, It rewrote, and other City Officers.
Peter Gibbs was iaditled for stealing, in the dwell-
ing-house of Mr. Warren, who keeps the White
Swan, in Bunhilhrow, two gold epaulettes, and a pair
of leather breeches, value more than 40s. the pro•
perry of Captain Delaney.
It appeared that the Prisoner was a private in the
East LoAdon Militia, and that the Officers of that
Regiment occupi,cl a room in the house of Mr.
Warren. as a depository for inch erheles as they
might occasionally require. 0a the 28th of March,
Captain Delaney's servant left in that room a pair
of epaulettes, and a pair of leather breeches, belong-
ing to his master. Some days afterwards the arti.
ales were missed, and it being ascertained that
tae perstn but the Prisoner had aecet.s cf the
room in the interval, his place of residence was
searched, and the duplicate of the breeches found
conceah.d. On this discnvery the Pri•oner fell on
his knees, and acknowledged that he had sold the
epaulettes to a Jew for sirteen shillings.
The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty of stealing,
value 395. thereby doing away the capital part of
the charge.
Cathere..e PePhr WAS indi.ted for stealing, in the
dwelling-house of Charles Hall, in the parish of
3t. Luke, a quantity of wearing apparel, to the
value of more than 10t. In another count she was
charged with the simple aft of stealing, and, having
so stolen, of ccmantting a burglary, by breaking
out of the hoes:: in the night time.
The Prisoner, it appealed, had been taken into
the house of the Piosecutor, on the night of the
flith April, to assist the servant, who was a young
girl, in washing. When the servant awaked, about
six o'clock next moil ing, *found the street door,
which she bad locked and bolted the night before,
standing open, and the Prisoner gone. She ac-
quainted her mistress with the circumstance, ar,d on
examination, it was discovered that the whole clothes
which were to have been washed, riocipally consist-
ing of frocks, grans, &c. belonging to a child, and
of considerable value, had disappeared.
Imme-
diate steps were taken for scenting the Pristiher,
and she was detained in the shop of a Pawn-broker,
with a'm-rst the whole property upon her.
btr.B,ronGsattast direlted the Jury to consi ler.
the servant girl not having awaked till about sia
o'clock in th, morning, in the end of April, whether
it was rot possible that die robbery might have been
committed in day light, in which ease it ceased to
be a burglary ? On the other charge in the in-
diflmenr, however. namely, stealing in the dwelling.
Louse, to the value of more than. 40s. he laid it
down, that, though the articles should not have been
stolen all at once, but might have been curia off

at three or Emir diflitent times consecutively, this
could only he regarded as one stealing, and, there.
fore, could not go w diminish the value of the arti-
cles carried off. ,
Jury, notwithstanding, after retiring, found
the Prisoner guilty of stealing, valor 39i.
7. Howard was ilidiaed for stealing. in the dwell-
ing house of Thomas Woodbridge, Esq. three pair
of traces for draught horses, the property of the
said Thomas Woodbridge.
The fad of stealing WAS incontrovertible, the Pri-
soner having been nausea in the very aft. It be-
came, however, a question, the theft having been
committed in the stable, between which, and the
dwellingr.house, the brew-house, cart-house, and an
old stable lay interjthed, and there being no com-
munication between the dwelling house and stable,
without going into the open air, whether the pre-
mises formed part of the same chain of building ?
which the Learned Judge (GRoss) held to be sutb•
tient to support the charge in the indidmenr,
of being the daelling-house of Mr. IVoodhridge.
It appeared, however, that the I! ou,e and adj rising
oftces were not surrounded by any wall Or fence,
but stood themselves outside. The Jury, therefore,
on the recommendation of the Learned Judge,
found the Prisoner guitry of the larceny only.
jo.in Clark was indideel for a highway robbery,
on the night of the sixth current, in taking from the
person of Mr. Joseph Mort, and against his will, a
silver watch, value 21.
From the evidence of the Prosecutor, it appeared,
that in passing through Gee's-courr, St. George's..
•Hanover-square, between eleven and twelve o'clock
of the night specise.l in the indictment, the Pri-
soner made up to him, tnatched his watch out of
his pocket, and conveyed it to some one of three,
consisting of two men and a woman, standing to-
gether in the court, and who then immediately ran
off. The Prosecutor, however, seized on the Pi i-
somer, and called the watch, when a fourth person
came up, and attempted a rescue. On his cross-
examination, the Pr.,sectitor admitted, that the
person whom he supposed to hare intended to res-
cue the Prisoner, or some one ehoe, came to the
watch-house, and gave charge of him, (the Prose-
cutor), for insulting him ; also that he bad spoken
to a girl that night in Gee's-court. He denied,
however, that Lee was drunk.

The Jury, on the recommendation of the Jtolge
(Baron GIL AKAN) who held, that the snatching of
the watch from the pocket of the Prosecutor, before
he was even aware of his losi, could never ba con-
strued into putting him in bodily fear, found the
Prisoner guilty of stealing, but acquitted him of the
robbery.
Joh., Craft was found:to:10 of stealing from the
root of Colonel St. Leger'i kitchen, in Montague-
square, a quantity of lead.
Morns Cave, was indiaed for stealing a pent-
coat, value 41. the property of kis Grace the Doke
of Montrose.

It appeared, that orr Sunday, the 10th May iost.
the coachman belonging to his Grace having re.
turned with hi. carriage from Berkeley-street chapel,
had left his great coat in the coach-house, the door
of which, from his lot having taken the pole from
the carriage. he allowed to remain open. A gentle-
m..n of the name of Dennis. who lived at the
corner of V.. Mews, where the Duke kept his car-
riage, observing a person to pass with a great coat
under : is arm, and having caught a glimpse of the
crest nu .. button of the coat. aai. -from that cir•
joined to the appearance of the Priiouer,
which was not the m••st tespedablet and from ob-
serving him frequently to turn round, induced to
follow. and finally to stop him, and carry him to the
Duke's stables. There the theft was at once de.
tate&

The Jury immediately found him Guilty.
Juba Stairs was indiaed for stealing a piece of
floor-cioth, the property of Mr. Barnes, an extensive
manulaanrer of that article, in the City-toad.
appeateJ that the Prosecutor having suffered 7teat-
ly by depredations in the line of his business, t.'r
some years, and within the last twelve months,
to the amount of upward; of one thousand
pounds, set one of his apprentices to w itch ;
and the ressilt proved to bei the apprehension of
the prisoner, who had been his servant, as a printer,
for 10 years. 'Pie boy saw him carry a piece of
floor-cloth horn Iris master's shop to the house of •
Mrs. Benson, a chandler, in Gee-street, and come
out of the shop again without it. He immediately
informed his master, and, on searching for the
piece of ior•cloth, it was lt.tind in the possession
of a neighbour of Mrs. Benson, it appc-ring
that Mrs. 11. had paid the Prisoner 30s. for what
was worth five times that suni. •

Abe Jury irnsoceiAtely fuunl the Psisoner guilty
of the larc-ss).

The Cyrwr, PINKH AM ; rborleite, WIIST ; and
the PtrICTCP,FICC, Sr•V11161, from London, fcr the
South Seas; the C,eirt-14. Hoarse; anJ the /rib.
liars Fena;ne., front the South Seas. for
London. sue all well, uff Cape Horn, on the 14th
December 1414.

h. The i.esdae, Ti Cites, from London, for Quebec,
was captured on the 29th ult. by the Alert French
privateer..

- The Laza, from Bristol. for Buenos Apes.
was all well on the 2d February, is lat. 50. 20. S.
lopg. 29. bO. VT.
_ _ _

(in Saturday morning a fatal accident happened
at the Dock-Yard, Chatham, at the lower part of
which some men were at work, placing and secur-
ing boning, fur the purpose of preventins timber
from floating away ; when one of them slipped off
a mast, and fell into the river, another came in-
t;antly to his assistance. and while endeavouring to
extricate his companion, he also fell in, a third
then came to assist the other tw-t, and he was
likewise precipitated into the river ; the last,
however, happened t• be able to su im, a..d
he made to the shore; the other two Isere
sueked under by the masts, where they remair.ed,
the one ten, and the other fifteen minutes; when first
taken out, they both had some slight appearance of
animatioa, and the one who had been under the wa-
ter the shortest time, after considerable etc: tions and
attention. was recovered; but the other, named
Wawa' HMI ir SLIM!, was too far gone to be
restored Isy the means possessed by the attendants of
the Dockyard Surgery, being unto:tunately not
provided with the apparatus generally used for re-
&Lucius finspamied animation.

N.lr4L INTELLIGEI:CE.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY IT,
Arrived EN Kijesty's ships einllcHser, from a
cruise, and Seagull, with a fleet of transports, etc.
with troops on board, from the Dorms, bound to
Cork.
• PLYMOUTH, HAY

CAMC in thn Lord Cy-brane privateer from n
cruisn; and the Alert French brig privateer, of 14
guns, captured by the Pallas frigate : she .Ivid
been at WA three months, and is said It, have cap-
tured the Lomas, of London, from Quebec.
DIAL, MAY U.

•
Arrived His Majesty's ship Alfred, trout • Ply.
mouth ; Sivlar4, and the Exertion, from a cruise ;
and remain in the Downs with the ships 41 per last.
Wind S.W.

TORBAY. %I 11.

Its Majesty's ships Eiboreoe, PrimCc of Water,
Lowly*, Dteadnorght, St. George, Monar"4, and
Rose, which sailed from Torbay yesterday, resigned
again last night.
cmarmara, KAY 12.
At half past four o'clock. this morning, the Royii
Denbigh Militia left Dort Pitt, and embarked on
board the bpats provided to convey them to Sheer-
ness. Thcylintshirs regiment return by the same
conveyance this afternoon; and will occupy the bar-
racks whicb. the Denbigh left.
HULL. MAY 10.

A convoy is appointed to sail from hence for
Onega and Archangel, nu the IGth instant. The
vessels bound for Tunningen sailed from hence on
Friday evening, and those for Cie Baltic on Saar.
day evening and ihis morning, to 19in their respec-
tive convoys in Grimsby roads.—/..i.ch fleet will be
succeeded by other convoy., iu 14 day. Alter they
leave the Humber.