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POLICE.

WI W.RT R P ET .

Yerteelay Ehurrii Olken Was br night be•ore
look N a act. Esq. the Sittig Magistrate. on sus-
picion of having set his howe, in Old liassrL.l..
color. oa fire. the preceding night.
Juan &entiford stated, he occupies the haus...,
No. 14, in Old 131 swell C' ASTI, next door to tie
Prisoner; that he was alarmed, shoot (Air o'c! .ck
in the morning. with th cry of "F re !" and, deep-_
ing in she back pailoor, ale uu•u'Jia:ely got up ;
on opening the si op-door, he p • eeive.: a great
deal of smoke, aid a red app •ara:Le tram a
false door on his ,ta"c*s-, sonic!' p rte .is
house from the frivoler's. arid %shies hid h•r•:n
covered with math sou slas.ter. •I'h. Wanes. .111 -
diately went up stairs to his g , and hrought
down his two ehiYren, who we- e sleeping th,
and havi g taken t em to a neig"o tie's house, re-
turned. and w nt I to his cellar, and got two nails
of water. an . this sr them on the fire. l'he ..Votne,s
then wen. t . the Prisoner's house, the door of w
had been teced by the wa.chmen ; on enteria,t
passage, he towid the s assn ►eading op to 1..0
first 8 .Or Oil fw., which he cut dawn with an •,
a• d tootle water on the fire ; h- was then Lamle!
by a person of toe name of Crowfoot, wit
the cellar of the Prisoner's house, and on Witness
going their, found a candle stuck in part of a pate-
s.,e, titled upon a coal (whit.,ll was produced), light.
ed. and plsci d About .Is inches from the joists.
und.r the 9.0 r s.f the shop, the boards of which, in
oue place, were burnt nearly through ; that this
was on the opposite side of the cellar, from whore
tme stairca me was on fire ; that Witness finind two
other pieces of coal, with tallow grease, and potato,,
which he pi seduced. Dear the same spot, and placed
in t..e sa.nr situ ition as the other piece of coal, but
which app•a•eJ in ti are g-ne out. after burning
the board. slightly. I'i.e ss stated. that after
he had pat out the Ere. and WWI.: befort-aasia-
waned articles, the Prisoner came into 184 shop.
dressed as be appeared before time Magistrate; and
on Witness saying he should he taken into cu.:odb
the Prisoner retched to leave his house, but was
taken by the With's* to the watch ease.
William Crowfoot stated, that be Eves at No. 4,
Old Boswell-courts that he Was alarmed by try
of " Fire !" aad got up and went into the wort,
and toui.d Mr. Smandlord and astother pence ea-
deavour:ng to force open the street-door of the Pri-
soner's house, from the two-pair of stairs wind**
of which he saw smoke issuing. The door beteg
forced open, the Wham went into the passage. and
perceived the stairs leading to the first float on fire ;
that he waist down *sin, ►ut meld sae tanhing of
Ere till he came to the coal.. .Bar. la the ripe-bawd
corner of which he found a piece of a lighted coo-
die. in part of a potatoe, and two pieces of cog, watts
pr tatue and tahow•grease oe them, as deemibed by
Mr timeLtitord.

Eleanor Shepherd stared, dun she was servant are
the Prisoner, and had lived with him now three
months; that he keeps a molt-shop i that bar .Is.,
tress went out on Tuesday meaner. aid slew she
was gone, her master told bee she was gene a hide
way taco the country, but that she would return
either this morning, or by dosser time; thet het
mistress had never been out before to ray all essta
since the Witness bad bead, with them ; that die
W.taess and her fellow-servaiit obis ep in the
three-pair of stairs tront.romn ; that her master
slept io the room under them; her Master ordered
her and her fellow-servant so go to had oboes hisif
past eleven o'clock at eight ; that 'joss before Me.
went to bed she was down in the CObiyMilelt with A'
I.ght, to take some dishes; that she mow up Mame.
thusly, bat saw- no appearance of fire err emotes
there, or of any pieces so candles week in potatoes
and coals. which she thioks the must have saw Lai
they be: the-e at the tune she vies is use *Alas s
Met yeste. day morai..g early; she Nal alarmed by
bee guesser knocking at her dos'. and debt: in , bet to
get up. Viet the htiUse WAS to Raines. ant t.iat they
wound all be ber.,eki ; that s..e immediately got up.
and when eh- came out et her roMn. she saw ore
master dieseed as he Wen appeared ; and on i.er at-
tempting to go down stairs with her clothes, be t ,Id
her she could not go down, she mustgrt out at the
top of the house, cad come down the a. joining
boute ; the. she. a..d her fyllow-servatit, got oat
at the top of the b,u,e, aid dres•-.1 themselves upon
the leads : the Witness Ala. fi3ilro, Met Wipe time
last week-her master said', •he must get oak of the
house, and lie d.d lint care if it was to tumble down,
or beset on fire, so as he got out of it.
Martha Davies stated. that she hail bees servant
to the Prisoner about seven months, and that die
zr:ver knew her mistress to stay out all night be-
fore, aid corroborated'the insole of the stratum of
the lest wltnesi. ' '
George Heath, a fireman belonging to tint jibipais
Fire-Offize. stated, that yesterday =hating he went
and examined the Prisoner's house, with the
Churchwardens. sad found ,that firs or six of the
stairs leading to the first floor had been burnt and
damaged by lie; that the pieces of burst timber
which he prd#iced were part of the same. The
Witness went iTko td the Prisoner's sleepinrroone at
the second leor, and Lund the bed-490es tel up
in a bundle, and the bed off the bedeteadon the
floor ; that ttere was no other furniture in this
room Lot an old black trunk; that there were three
separate appearances of fire ;'one at the waits, inn.
ther at a paft of the fimr under the shop, about i*
inches distance from the stairs, and another nodes
the fioor, whe;•e the candles were foetid, at the op.
posite side of the coal-cellar ; and that a board which
he produced had been taken from the boor of the
shop before he came. '
Several other persons appeared and 'amitotic! the
Witnesses in their statement. and Mr. Mains took
infinite pains to investigate the bishmes. jt apt,
peered that the Prisoner rented two honses in ties.
gc:
weli.conit, the one that was 011erm. ad bent
door $ that he had insured the houses at die
Fire Office for 9001. sod the goods id the
Fire Office far hoof. and it wet seated put Wei
niters m the house that was en itra was nut winds
401. The Prisoner denied any knowki4ip hevi the
candles became placed in his veal-ceffiet. end we*,
posed it must have ban dans by tow enfillZatait
persons, who had some time ago raised 1 4*
against him. sayiug, be could not pay liis taus $
he affirmed that his wife great to limpet Bern (if
the benefit of the air.
TaqiNisnawasom*a4
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HOME CIRCUIT.

SUSSEX ASsIZ ES.
LIMP, ALS. 4.

CROWN SIDE.
Befiov HEATH.
FORGER Y.

fdtpard nail w. in3ifted for f 3rging and otter-
irg a .51 Bank of England Note, at Eastbourne, on
tl.r 1013 ~1 e 14st. .

Mr. G41(1::,%., AS leading Counsel fir the Bank,
stated, that th Prisoner was Clerk to an Attorney in
the tow', tit Lewes, arid was a most ingenious artist ;
but, unfortmati-ly tar himself, hr had per vetted his
talents to the wi Ist pmposes. lie observed, that
various laws had e:,..leasoured ro guard the Bank
against forgery, by voiding restrttions which for-
bade any pa rsoa t.i use similar materials to those
used by than. nor.. it was felony to make any
raper such as W:I. ;.w-..1 by them t r their noes. It
sr;,c telooy to Ile.t S'ICII \'••.at• • mark. It was
fet.tay t, ng r v any elate in a turn %%nadar to the
WIC used h' them. but yet, In.twitistandiug all
t• •e I:n•c:.uuc'.s, ch.•y had not f‘:und themselves
S,CIIIeti. h order to forge one at their notes, it
5..,r1..1 be supposed that a combination of attists must
he neassiry. A paper-niaker, un engraver, and a
pc, •cn skillea to imttat.• f srld•writing. But from
e evidence Le should adduce tr the Jury, he
thought they would have little doubt but the every
part of the twgery was perfeEted.hy the single hand
of the Prisoner himself ; for when Mr. Bliss, an
odicer of •'l^ Bank, writ down to Sussex,
in order t.s trace C.e ottthor of the forgery, be
found in the Prisoner% apartment every wide no.
eersary to the fabrication at a forged Dote. He then
detailed the circumstances m they are below given
in evidenc-.

Mr. 'rooms' Bliss deposed, that he was an In.
speelli-r of Bank Notes In consequence of a set of
forged notes coming into the s,iin. he was sent
down Inv snissex, by them, in order to trace a 51.
note to which he ad got a else. From information
he traced at to the hands of a person of the name of
Reed, who kept a public-hosse at Eastbourne; by
his dm-nit-1 he went to Lewes, to the Office of Mr.
:oopet. an Atto-neys with whom the prisoner, Ball,
as clerk Hi there saw thorns' Cooper, the
repbew in fur. Cooper, and the prisoner at thole's.
Ile asked Mt. Thomas Cooper where he had re-
ceised t'‘e 51 note which he paid to Mr. Reed on
the Sunday before at Eastbourne. Cooper pointed
to the Prisoner, and said he had it of him. The
Pfiti.liti admitted the UR. and said he had received
it flom his wit-. Thar she bad been in town from
the 3d to the tith of June, and bad brought it from
London. The note was shown, and the Prisoner
said,, he knew it to he the note, because there
were the initials of J. G in red ink on the face
of the note. Ti,, Witness desired the Prisonet
g t home to his wee, and learn from her where
sate had taken it in town, and at what shops she had
and to write down her information, and bring
it back t- him in an hoar. The Prisoner went
Awey, liut the witness did not wait the hour for his
reini.. for in about halt as hour he followed him to
ids lodgings. He I. sand the Prisoner and his wife
there, and had some conversation with them. The
wile said she haJ zensived two 101. notes from her
hush-nd she° sbe went to town. He replied,
" N', :ibis received but one." While they were
talking. Mx. bliss a small writing desk in the
sibni, upon which wee lying a small hit of silver
paper, just J•Alf the size of a bank-note ; he took it
bp, and saw the faint imptession of the word
i• MIS," such as is on the top of the one pound
bank-notes t and on it was written the words " G.
Bacchus, E..iq." This much astonished him, and he
asked the Prisoner if it was his hand-writing ? who
said it was. [lt afterwards appeared that another
forged note for 101 had come into the bank, with
the wards G. BILLOWS on it in the same handwrite
jag.] The witness found in the same desk India
ink, camel's hair pencils, and other materials. which
would produce the watersmatk.
Thonnts Cooper stated, that the Prisoner lived
Clerk with his uncle. an Attorney, at Lewes. On
Sunday, the ith of June. they agreed to spend the
day at Eastboarne ; the) went in a gig, and it was
agreed the Prisoner should pay the day's expenses,
and they were to adjust the account when they
came home at night. After dinner the bill was
brought to.him, as be sat nearest the door. The
Prisoner gave all, none to ham, with which be paid
the bill.

Mary Chapman. the servant, proved. that sbe
handed the trite to her master ; and Reed. the
nasty said he gave the note the same evening to
his daughtet-iro-law, who was going to London.
Rebecca Moggsidge,the daught--.in lam, proved
that she Ir,id it to a Mr. Juh.. .'•'.'....k, a linen.
draper. rr Wood-street, by whom it was paid to
the Bank. when it was discovered to be a forgery.
'Perry, the Engraver for the Bank, proved
that the note was a forgery, th it it was not en-
graved, but that the whole was written and drawn
by the pen or easel.hair ptocil. He also stated.
that she water-mark might be made with other ma-
mmals four.d at the Prisoner's lodg'engs, and pro-
duced a complete Joe suede of the water-marks of
a Bank-note, made by bawd, from the paper and
Iltitoisi which Mr. Abseiled luund at the Prisoner's
apartments.
. nee was thee given of two other notes ut-
tered by the prisoner, one on the pith of Match be-
tc,re, and which were proved by Mr. Terry to be
forged ones.
With respell to this evidence, Mr. Justice Heart'
observed. that it was carrying the principle farther
than, t bad ever yet been extruded. tither utter-
ing' had been received as evtJencr cu. aninso. Tire
note in the lodgement was uttered, but they must
for- d the same act. 1 ht,s if a man went
oe k. uttering forged mites all the
continued act. but beer arts the
on uttering no voy connected will
in the indictment, either by time
But, he coal. if the Counsel for
any confidevor in the law, he
ewdence, and Wake a Case as to
?lytrtlCC.
/as accordingly received, subject
the dodge,.
forged note, were produced in
)161Ch were proved t have pass-d
is, from the citcutustaucc ut having
on all of them.
tit, Poisoner Ciegigrp ; but Lis cm-

tenet is rotas& is eesse4oence of the p01...t of
law as to tho propriety of receiving the evidence
i.linve alluded to.

George Baue► was inditlel for breaking in the day
time into the house ei Thos Marchant. no person
bring therein, and stealing money and notes to the
amount of 1171. 9s. lid.
Thoasas Marw.ant deposed, that he lived at Hol-
lingdon, in this county, and on the 30th of Septem-
her last. he and his family west nut hopping. kW,-
ing no one at home. He had 59 guineas. a 301.
mite. two tens, and a 51. note, besides other m.
When he came home in the eve ing. he found the
door had been broken open, and all his money
stolen. He heard no tidings of his money until the
month of March last, when he reer,ved some infor-
mation which induced him to get a snatch-warrant
Against the Prisoner. On searching Ills house, the
Prisoner admitted he bad been guilty of the fall, and
told his wife to restore the Prosecutor all the money
they bad left. He said he had spent the SOI. note
the next day, and begged forgiveness, saying he
would give the Prosecutor a hill of sale of all he
was worth, and only asked he would leave him as
much as he stood uptight in.—Verdia
Tilt KING, r. GREGORY, raes.cox, THUMDZI, and

THUS ()TIMIS.
RIOT AT BRIGHTON.
This was an indiSment against the Defendants
for riotously assembling and puiling down the rail-
ing on the road East of Brighton. lading from
thence to Rottemlean, and oburuaing the surveyors
of the road in the execution of their duty
This case arose nut of the accident of the fall,rg
of the cliff last autumn. The Surveyor of the K .d
thought it necessary to carry in the railing, aini
trenched upon the ground of the three first named
Defendants; they coasidoted that he had cio3 • more
than necessary, sad resisted his altering the railing.
In consequence of this, on the 11th of Feht nary las..
they employed men to eta down the post and rail,.
which had been wetted by the Surveyor of the
Road. 'The nest day the Surveyor enip.yyed men
to re-ered them. and the ilefendatAs, another party,
to pull them dews 1 a riot ensued, .he one set pull-
ing down as fast as the other etreled, until at last
the Surveyor's party were the •iflors.
Mr. Gunnar. for the Defendants, rested his de-
fence on the ground, that the Su. veyor was 11,t un-
der the necessity of corning upon tneil freehold, but
that be had Acted wantonly, and with a view to ha-
rass the Defendants. He proposed calling evidence
to chew that the road at that part of it was perfectly
safe.
The L Jolson held that the Surveyor of
the Road was perfectly right. He was to judge of
the necessity. If he acted wrung, they ought to
have brought an action of trespass. and not have
taken the law into their own hands.

The Jury found them all Geary. —The three prin-
cipals were fined 201. each, and the three workmen
01. each.
In the Civil Court, an action was tried, arising
nut of the same transaction, in which the Plaintiff
had a verdict against the Surveyor.—Damages betel)
guineas.
The Crown Side finished at three o'clock —No
Prisoner was left for eseciition.

rOlii G4nl4hmed.)

COLLIMIOII MITCHSLL.

This was an anion brought by the Plaintiff',
an apothecary at Hull, for damages fur an as.
fault.

Mr. Totems, in his opening for the Plaintiff,
stated, that Mr. Collusion went into a public-house
in Sculeoates with a friend, to take a glass ot bran-
dy and water; that it was the fair; and every
room is the house being full. they wete introduced
into &MOM where a party of tea or twelve persons
were asseenhied. Mr. Collinson and his friend sat
down; and the former gentleman happening to
take up a ant from the table. was assaulted by the
Defendant. whams his coat. but was withheld by
the company Item further violence. The Defend-
ant then apologised. and offered Mr. Collinson a
31. note for the damage done. Mr. Collinson said
11. was too moth; he only wanted some apology
for the public affront put upon him. The Defend.
ant refused to etiologist. and threw a glass of
wine in Mr. Collinsoes face. offering to Burdett
him. Mr. CoUinson preferred a legal mode of re-
dress.
Front the evidence it appeared, that Mr. Collin-
son, instead of taking a mee
g k out, bad crammed
a whole handful into his pocket, when the Defend-
ant interfered, exclaiming •• that it was too bad
to me both hands ;" and that the Defendant tore
off Mr. Collinsen's pocket containing the nuts, and
threw it into a corner. The Doffor had only worn
his coat sir times: be bad not his double-frilled
shirt on, otherwise the damage from the glass of
wine would have been greater. Mr. Mitchell,
who was a stout man, offered to fist it out with Mr.
Colliaion, who was his inferior in bodily powers ;
and the offer to Barlett, or combat with sword and
pistol. came from Mr. Collision, and not from the
Defendant. This was, in return, declined by the
Defendant, who thougMhe should have no chance
of hittina so small a mark. It also appeared that it
was put to the vote by the company present, who..
tker Collinson and his companion should not be
turned sot of the room f and was carried in the at-

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