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Mr. Hayes had not the original ticket on the day he paid. There
was no such thing es purchasing a ticket for half-a-year; he was
connected with half the posting in the kingdom, and paid 3,0001.
annual? to Government for post-horse duty.
Mr. Viniesets said he shookl call a disinterested witness who
saw the whole transaction, atid who would swear that a ticket was
given to the enecliman.
Hayes—lf he swears that Bond gave the ticket 1 will in-
dict him for perjury.
Mr. WILLIAMS told Mr. Hayes it was unbecoming th, chit-
rector of a gentleman to intimidate a witness by threatening to in-
dict him for perjury before he speaks; he ought first to hear what
the man does aweer.
Francis Cater is inspector of stage.cosclies ; is appointed by the
Cemmissioners of Somerset House to take the numbers and, notice
the times of the stages passing through the Knightsbridge-gate;
has nothing to do with the toll; is placed there daily by the ("cm-
missioners. Recollects the dey on account of a discussion about
the post-horse duty ; saw the ticket given by Bond to Alr. Hayes's
coachman ; it was on Thursday, the 7th ; has no doubt whatever,
because he was close enough to hear and see every thing; it was a
one-horse yellow carriage ; the coachman had not a livery; he had
a tlrah box-coat.
The coachman said the carriage was yellow, and he had on his
box-coat, but the ticket was not given to him.
Sir GEORGE FARTIANT and Ale. CONANT agreed that the Case
was proved on the testimony of two witnesses to one; and that it
was in their discretion what sum they should fix under W. for
omitting to give a ticket.
Mr. Wite.rams hoped the Magistrates would fix a sum suffi-
cient to enable them to appeal against the conviction ; 40s. would
not be sufficient; if they would fix the penalty at 41s. they could
appeal.
Mr. Levy said. the ofrence his servant hail committed was e very
trifling one, and he thought Ml. enough. Ile would sooner have a
conviction foe fel. than .1 Is. it might do very well for Mr. Williams
to hove a job at the Sessions; that was his opinion, and he should
be off. So saying, Mr. Levy immediately left the office.
Sir GEORGE Fan RANT said they should not be guided by what
Mr. Williams had said ; lie might be guided by a wish for have the
decision appealed against, but they were hound to appoion the
amount of fine to the magnitude of offence, and therefore sentenced
Itt tul to a fine of es. and 3s. fid. come.
Mr. Hayes took his emit., and left his moiety of the fine (2s. W.)
with Mr. Fi zpatriek, to be given to the next deserving object he
stvold meet with.
The father of Withers brought to the Office the livery which had
been worn by his son, and for which application was made a few
days ego by Mr. Searle. Mr. Withers was referred to Mr.l'atinan,
the Solicitor.
SUSPICION OF THEFT.
John Salrr:, a fitter-up of gas pipes, was brought up on suspi-
cion of steeling 39/. front the till of Messrs. Jeffries and Mill,
pawnbrokers in Berwick-street. where he was employed to repair a
gas pipe. The money ICUs safe in thetill at one part of the time he
was at work near the till, and was missed directly he was gone. His
lodgings in Sealitight-street, Betlinal.green, had been searched, but
the money was not found. Some tools belonging to a former mas-
ter were found there, on which he is remanded till Monday.

FORGERY.
Ihnry Sal m, for obtaining five pounds worth of silver from Mr.
Burn, a fruit.salestnen in Covent-garden Market, by a forged let-
ter in the name of Reason, an acquaintance of Mr. Burn's, was
fully committed for triad.
The prisoner denied being the person, though all :he parties
swore to him.

FRAUD.
MARYLEBOVE OF tint —On Wednesday, a young gentleman
named John Edwards. living in Belmont-place, Vauxhall, made
a charge of fraud, at this Office, against one Captain John
Campbell.
Air. Edwards slated, that feeling a desire to promote the cause of
freedom in Greece, and to further his own advancement in life, he
had been induced by the high pretensions, and the apparently
official documents in the hands of the Captain, to advance him GIL,
for which consideration the Captain undertook to secure him a mid-
shipman's birth in the Greek navy ; but he had now reason to
suppose that the Captain's pretensions, &c. were not genuine.
From Mr. Edwards's statement it appeared that a Mr. Curry
was also in some measure interested or concerned in the transac-
tion ; a summons was therefore granted for Mr. Curry to appear
and give evidence.
On Wednesday evening. in compliance with the summons, Mr.
Curry attended and gave his evidence, whereupon a variant was
granted for the apprehension of the person charged.
We forbear at present to enter into particulars, because the seen-
sation has been made in the absence of the party accused ; but the
cdse is now an far ma!ured that it must undergo a judicial inquiry,
I after which we shall have an opportunity, with justice to all par.
ties, of laying the particulars before the public.

STREET ROBBERY.
Wort SIIIP-RTRFET.—Yeaterday George Houghton, alias
" Pr.lly George," and James and Henri/ Jfnycr, two brothers,
were charged with stacking and robbing a Mr. Fuller, a surgeon,
of Cambridge-heath.
It appeared that on Monday night last Mr. Fuller was proceed.
in,- home from WhilechaPel'
when, on reaching Fleet-street-hill,
we twelve fellows, who demanded his money.
ailed, than a signal was made, and no
One of the gang then secured
hmeowsosson‘etop,proftibcytrL
surn::.
:,he prisoner, .1. Boyce, took
less than twenty Lthers came u
his arms, and while thus pinioned,
from letpersone care of surgical imisrasene:B. two aoreseigna, and
neckhandker-
a small key. The prisoner Ildughton then too.
chief and his hat : and James Boyce putting hi': 11,t. hie face,
said, " If you say a word I'll kill you ;" he then han,'led back the
key, and said, " If you attempt so follow us, we'll do ,tor you.
The gang then took to flight, and Mr. Fuller, without bi:"littr
went home, and gave immediate information to Goodwin's par.!
of Bow-street patrol, who fortunately succeeded in apprehending
the three prisoners, all of whom were fully committed.

FRAUD ON THE CUSTOMS.
TIIAM es Orrict.—Jolin Daniel, a mate on board a vessel from
Valparaiso, appeared on a summons to answer an information ix.
Whited against him by the Commissioners of Customs, and to show
cause why he illegally had in his possession 2141b5. of foreign bis-
cuits, upon which the King's duty had not been paid, contrary to
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Mr. THACRIERAY, the Solicitor for the Commissioners, attended
for the prose. tion. He stated, that this was an information, under
the lith Gee. IV. am. 10E, whereby it is enacted, that any person or
persons having in their IKYMVPIIiQU any foreign biscuit, corn, or
flour, without having paid the duty prescribed by the Act, are sub-
ject to a penalty of three times the value of the said biscuit, corn,
or flour.
John Galloway, the constable, stated, that on the 29th of July
last, he was on duty at the Regent's Canal, and be yaw the defen-
dant land from on board a vessel three bags. He asked him what
they contained ;he replied, biscuit. lie asked him why he was
landing them ; the defendant said, it was foreign biscuit, which he
had been made a present of. Witness then seized It, and lodged it
in the King's Stores.
The defendant was then called on for hie defence. He stated,
that he had been made a present of the hiss uit on board the vessel
by a passenger, who had conic from Valparaiso. where it was
made. lie was not aware that there was as harm in landing it.
He had not been in Engird four years, and was ignorant of the
laws on the subject. .
Mr. BA LT.AN T g inquired whit was the value of the biscuit ?
Mr. Thackery said about Ins.
Me. BALLANTIxr observed, that the penalty in that cast. would
be Hs. ; but he seid that it was not proved that it was foreign
biscuit.
A gentleman in the trade said, that he had showed a simple of
it to several b.scuit.makers, who wen: decidedly of opinion that it
was not made in England.
Mr. BALLANT INZ said, that the Act hail invested him with a
power of reducing the tine, and since the mate had erred from
ignorance, he would reduce it imp. ; be, therefore, only con.
vitted him '.v 'e instantly paid, and

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whom she invited into the office, and while they were in converts-
lion with her she observed that she smelt the fire burning in the
kitchen, and hastily ran down stairs, leaving the two etrangera in
the mom where the desk was placed. Being absent in the kitchen
above tire minutes, she added, that she strongly suspected the
strangers of having opened the desk and taken the money In the
interim. This account, however, instead of creating an impression
in her favour, told aeainet her; and she was permitted to remain
still in his service, in order that the matter ahould be sifted to the
bottom. In about ten days after the rubbery, none of the money
i having been traced during that period, the prisoner expressed a de.
sire to leave the house, saying that the work was too hard for her.
1 l'revious to her departure her boxes were searched, and on exami-
nation were found to contain a vast number of articles that
appeared to have been recently purchased. This circumstance
added to the suspicion already entertained of the prisoner. How-
ever, she was permitted to leave her situation, and she then
entered into the service of a family at Clapham, promising to call
occasionally at the complainant's house, to ascertain whether any
thing had occurred to throw a light on the mysterious circumstances
of the rohhery. She kept her promise, and did tall twc or three
times. Dlr. Nettlethorpe having stopped the notes at the Bank, he
received a letter on Saturday last from thence, stating that one of
the numbers had been paid in. Ile immediately traced this note to
have been paid into the hands of Mr. Jenkins, a respectable linen-
draper, residing in Bridge-street, by the prisoner, for articles our.
I chased at his shop. the this discovery, Mr. Nettlethorpe applied
I for a peace-officer, and Hammond proceeded to the house where the
prisoner was then living, and having expressed the nature of his
visit, proceeded to search her bozo. While thus engaged, the
prisoner, who appeared excessively alarmed, requested to be allowed
to go into the garden ; she proceeded thither, and was observed to
enter the privy, when the officer followed, and who, after having
some work which he described as none of the cleanest, at length
discovered a purse containing two 51. rotes and nineteen sovereigns.
Hammond produced the notes and sovereigns, when one of the
former was identified by the complainant as constituting part of
the money that had been taken out of his desk.
The linen-draper's shopwornan attended, and identified the
prisoner as having passed the note now produced at her employer's
shop, in payment for various articles of linen-drapery.
The prisoner in her defence merely stated, that on her trial she
should satisfactorily explain the manner in which she became pos-
sessed of the money that was found in the purse.
She was committed.

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timed him in the penalty of 2: is. which the mate nstantly paid, and
then left the office
ROBBERY ON THE RIPER.
A men of the name of John Thompson was put to the bar,
charged wide stealing farm= board a barge in the London Decks
rills& of coffee.
Thomas Thompson, rem of the Officers of Esau, stated that he
wns stationed on nosed ale brig Argo, and the btu^ No. Witty
alongside her. About padre eclock on nenakti ftweeting, he au
on the deck of the Arta, nod he heard a noise,Mlich proceeded from
the barge, and it appeared as if there was something running out
on canvass. He looked into thobrge, and theta saw tbe Foams '
pull a ping out of one )f' the bands of coffee, and the es or ran i
on a ta, paulin, aftr.r whWite saw the prisoner go to snot er patt I
of the barge, and bring 12 small bags, which ha fined pith the
I coffee, and remorld to another part of the bilge. Witness ,
then went into the , and asked the prisoner what; Mae
doing 1 He said its• in was a watchman, arid Hann dies I
rig;;l. He risked thinp ?colter how he came to open 4,W of
add,oll‘
softie p The prison. him no ODOWCf. flefispzior the
oaks ro the ;Sing's* , subsequently tooktite, Into
custody. '.
Mr. &kraals-I'lw* iSkw4 talw fthiner what be had tooff. he hie
defence?
The prisoner seppol:Shat- all this had bees sworn solais,Piss
was false. lie was fikw *milted Lot We!. ... , - -
RofpWejt BY ASVLYANT. . .._t