The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-01 00:00:00

OLD- D.IILEV, Wtmet:sm or. *o.

This day the Ser:sitnis cuutorencod
.here, before
the Right nom the Lonu tYon, iumtice*Gactse.
justice Liu4tl tat, the Ri.cuttuce, P.c. Ste.
Ilillietnstlark and Jaturs ihmkcj Were indicted
for stealnig a copper, affixed so a dweliiog-house,
the property of Robert Harm (ledge..
The Prisoners o ere observed coming out of. Cie
house, 17, Soho-smisre, belonging to !lie Pro-
',v4;llll/r. but uninhabited, Bally iii fbg morning Of
the ;td of October last, old, bring
dogg.t, were weuttrea, togoiper 'RA vitswel.—
Ventict
Fleury Weffins was indicted f..r Lroald ig and en-
terimt the ilwelling.liouse, mid st, aline; therein
back uotes and money, the 'novelty of El zabeth
Shaw, widow.
The Prosecutrix stated, she I ice's at No. 3,
Larkiler's-court, Rimini:court.. in tin' Stroud ; she
went from home between twelve ,ind one, on the
.1-2,1 of October lust; upon her returii home, she
found her parlour windows were ho ken °lwo, and is
chest (Wallwers forced, out of nlt ch, moiler and
notes, to the amount of 791. es. w holt she had in a
gitiVe, were talon.
Ir turned out, in the course of her examination,
that she was not A widow, but it single WI/III:I/I, at
the time of the robbery, and mai rim 3 **toes.. The
iethetinent being imperfect in this 46,4:6 owl', the
Primmer was, of necessity, or- just .dl ; hut at fresh
was ordered to he prepared and
preferred against hint, in order that the ends of
justice might not lie defeated.
Francis Alter was indicted, for being at large
within the terinLorseven years. fur which he was
sentenced to lie transported.
The record of his cooviction and sentence in Jan.
last, wit.; produced.
I lowever, by the evidence of the Turnkey of New-
gme, it appeared the Prisoner was eillisteri hi New-
gate, and handed over to it party or soldiers, tinder
fits Majesty's pardon; this was protiue o! under the
Royal Sign Nlatival ; it therefore a?peared the Pri-
staler was Illerely a deserter, and, us such, acqsiited.
The. Learned JI:DGE reprobated the conduct
the officers in not investigating the facts, befor.•
such an indictment was preferred, which imported
to be done inertly for the reward on conviction.
Mary Sharp was indicted for privately stealing
a piece of calico, in the shop of 11 to. Rogerson,
Leseester-Fields.

011 iqt instant, the Prisoner came into ti,
shop, under the pretext of lookii:g at some goods,
when she secreted a piece of calico under her
clothes, but sulacinti being excited by the hulk
she was pursued immediately. and taken with the
article on hen—Guilty.
James Bailey wat indicted for stealing g case
surgeon's instruments, the property of James

Morgan.
'f lie Prosecutor is a surgeon ; on his return from
the West Indies, he sent the case to a surgeon's-in-
strument-maker, to be repaired, from whence if'
was sent by his order, packed up with other arti►
cies in a box, to the Wert India Docks ; the brw
was there broken open, and rifled of its content
which were traced to the possession of the Prisoner,
Verdict—Guilty.
Mr. Morgan, with great humanity, informed

Court, that the Prisoner, an apprentice to
Captain of an hidiainito, lying in the %Vest India
Docks, had hitherto borne a most excelleist cha-
racter, but hail been seduced, in the present iivitance,
by bad example, and Legged to recourtnead bun
an object of mercy,
John Stowe Lundy was brought up, in order
lie put upon his trial on a charge of forgery,
Upon this Prisoner's appearance at the Her,
exhibited all the marks of outrageous insanity.
real or affected. Upon being called upon, in the
usual form, to plead to the indictment, Guilty tilt
Not Guilty, he said he did not know what. thtsi
meant—that he was come there, sot as a Prisonei.,
but us a witness, and abused the Judges, the linty
and the entire Court, with the grossest curses saci
imprecations.
Mr. GA RROW. who attended on behalf of the
Bank of England, to prosecute, observed to the
Court, that he was then ready, w ith his witnesses, to
establish the guilt of the Prisoner ; hut he was
willing, if the Court saw it ;rum his pre-
sent behaviour and appearai.ri-, to postpone the
trial. If they were now to pr..eeeil, and the Pri-
soner should persist in nu conduct, and refuse to
plead, he should feel himself obliged to call for an
highest, to try the fALI of madness or not; and
having good reason to think that the part he now
acted was the effect of art and design, auil lint of
misfortune, lie was bound to declare, that, in the
erent of the Jury finding he was sane, and lie per-
sist in refusing to plead, lie should call for that
sentence (death) which the law probided iu such
cases.
The Court thought it fit to stay the proceedings,
for the present, in order that the Prisoner or his
friends might have leisure to reflect and consider
what was proper to be done On the occasion. lie
was, accordingly, ordered from the liar, and taken
away in the seine outrageous manner italic appeared
at it.

Robert Fenton, alias Robert Atkinson Fenton, wan
indicted for feloniously marrying Mary Wain-
wright, he knowing his forwer wife was still living.
John Turner, the first Witness, lives in Lanca-
shire, where he was present when the Piisoner at
the bar was married to Mary Poole, on the .27th
Mardi, 1797. He produced the imrish register
where the marriage 1141.4 recorded, awl to which his
name appeared as is subscribing Witness. This
wife lie saw ou Fr.day last, previous to his setting
off for London, to give evidence on tile present oc-
casion; she has two children by the Prisoner, now
ulmu•