The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIO.VS.

'UMW(' JAN.
William George Wilmot, Juhu Wiwi, and Mary
Butler. were indicted for compi. Mg to charge Elizalwth
Gaze with felony. Mr. Alley opecsd th, case. 'lite par-
ti. ulnrs have been detailed tab two (eraser trials. The cir-
cunistanye aril' wit of Elizabeth Gaze having been taken
up ma a charge of felony by Wilmot, and it atm waids
turned nut that the ankles were put in her box. Wilmot at
• the last Sessions was found guilty of perjury, and was now
with Mr. Want charged charged with compiling with Want,
but Mr. Alley left the animal out of the case. The pill:oiler,
Want, addressed the Jury in a speech of petit length, in
shish he undertook to disprove by evidence, the charged
alleged against him. The uiul having lasted eight hours it
was adjounted until
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17.
The first witness by the dvfetiduollb, was Mrs. Payne,
the lady at a hose homy the pa usectitrix. state(' she had ire-
ived the mahogany boxes, fur stealing is Melt the deka-

dams hod prosecuted her.
;lb.'s. Payne stated, that the prosecutrin bud lived with
her near Yarmouth, fur fourlemi years, and had left her
service about four or six )e.iv since ; said she had nut given
her any mahogany boxes or tea caddies, hitt could not soy
that her falter-in-law, ss hu lived in her house at the time,
an lis now dead, had nut given her such to tides. She gave
lhr prosectitrix an excellent character.
Rhoda Hall was then called fur the prosecution and de-
posed, dint the prosecutrix lett Mrs. Pay nes service sis
years ago, anti t list she had at that time tea caddies SUCII as
she Mid Ammo ibed.
Caroline Higgins was servant to Want,'n November, 1819.
IV hen (laze's boxes were brought to Wind's house, she pot
them in a lu.uber-room, of %illicit she kept the key till the
hoses were taken away, and nothing could have been put
into them w hilc they acre there. On her ci ow-examination
she denied that she bad ev, r said to Sir Rubel I Wilson, or
any other person, that slit Could hang her waster.
-The defence closed here.
Mr. Alley addressed iii.• Jury on tile evidence. He said
it was now the pi ectice with protligme men, who k sit te they
could 111,1 set legal OH VOCilleb to violate all the rules of lan
and decency, to undertake to defeat; themselves., ill the mail-
tier luut Ali.. Want had dune. The Learned lientlentan then
proceeded to c iiiii meat uu die evidence with great Seal non
erect, and e toiled hy saying, that, if the Jur) Silt/tllll
hod the prisoner guilty, it must be his fault in conducting the
prosecution, as there certainly never wa► more conclusive
evidence 11t u conspiracy.
The Chairman recapiteMted the evidence to the Jury,
explaining the law us it applied to the farts proved.
The Jur) retired a fen minutes, and returned a verdict of
Guilty against built tile defendants.
The Magibilrall.) retired to consider of the judgment, and
on their return into Court, the ChM, man addressed the pri-
soner Wilmot. lie said, w hen he had the painful duty, the
last Session, of prinionia ing the juilment of the Cott. t oil
him for alit peijiey of which he was then found guilt), it
was distiectly stated, that the rause of the inadequacy of
the punishment to which lie wits then sentenced, was, I tat
he was to nosh rgu the ordeal if a hint on 11110111 C- (114trgt..—
The present verdict proved that the measure of his guilt was
full, hod Ihiejudgmeut of the Court therefore was, that after
litr expiration of lIIS resell( idyl' iiiimeld, he should be fur-
ther imprisoned for the space of fifteen woutha, which tittle
the Cl/6111 hoped lie would employ in sincere repentance of
the IIeIIIUUS crimes lie had committed aguitist that nod, his fel-
low creature,
Chairman then addressed the prisoner Want. Ile
said, that when ignormice and brutality were convicted of
heinous crimes, their feelings must be ; but when
rack, talent, and reputation, were proved to have becollie
so degraded, as Ili eider iiito conspiracy with perjury, it
ruuoat !MCI) Willi I on the perbllll so CUllllleted, the most poig-
nant sutferiog. Tar only excuse, however, that the Court
could make to itself fur the very slight punishment he was
guiiig to pronounce, was, the hope that the prisoner might
have been 111/llir the dupe of nom her ; be (hell bellleOClll the
prisoner to pay a hoe of 4004 and to lie imprisoned till the
hue was paid.

SURREY SESSIONS.
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TUESDA Y, JAN. 17.
RECEIVING STOLEN Lotius.—The folio% big case ex-
cited considerable interest in t 0111.130e11Ce of ehe accused
basin,- been fur a long tune u preacher, and having had a
chapel of his own in Lock's-fields, at which be had preached
until within the last t %else sunlit In.

'rise prisoner, Isaac Tapper, was indicted (or having re-
ceived ten books and a liaise cloth, knua mg Diem is be
it-den. The &inlet, s in question a ere the pi uperty of Mrs.
Schroder, of Chaplains Rise
'the viva out latices of the case were shortly these. Uu
the 11th of October last the house of Mrs. M. Schroder, U
German lady, residing at Clapham, was subbed oh' eureidtr-
able property , amongst a kick New lOU volumes of at German
woo " Mustin Luther's Com 1111 l tentary un the Bible," nod
tome table linen. Otte volume of the work in quest • was
left belatod by the thieves. Oil the 4th of December the
1.1014,11N0rk tans uttered fur sale by the pt tattier, tu company
with a woillaal twilit aIIOM he cohabited, to Mr. Bulde, a
bookseller, in York-street, Covent-garden. 'rise NM de-
manded by the prisoner fair the win k alas 71. Ile said be
had it in his rituality for 50 year, hut the ace omit a loch he
gave of the possession being disbehe yr d he has taken into
custody gave a false accuuut of himself, and rettised lit tarsi
to ddclose his residence. An ullicer seat cited the residency
of the prisoner its Temple-stieel, and found there a table
cloth uud harp colief, the prupert, of the prusecu'ras.
The J siry found the prisoner
The Court, in paesang sentence, observed, that they never
saw a stronger instance of deter' ll ill ed depravity than the case
of the prisoner at the bar, aho had beets before the Court
uu he',, thaw rive times fur niuus °Heiress I.lllVe ISIS, and it
airs nu later ohms JMy Last since he was tried before the
Cow t, a hen he tr., cautioned and particularly auunnn.bed
against (.41;0h:wog in Is, iwyunous course of late ; hut lie
bad disregarded those aatiturittion, lie was, Miss ever, lit
I .st withal the medic... of the law, and the Chairman regretted
that so llab case it did out go for tier than ado', for certaiiily
the prosuirer had been fur )cols ime of the must tta.:rani and
successful receivers of stolen ;Arad, in the Borough of Sinstio-
k. The turpitude of his ruurse of life was particular'y
aggravated by litasillurg Itiiiibelt up au the promulgator lit
that last Whirl' said " Thou shalt not Ideal," staid " thou
shalt out do any mason r of Injury to illy neighboui," and
upon is hien hue. had now lass practii al comment. Tar
Court setiterceil she 11l isoner to beta pi isaimil in the Corn'
op Tar ter as of t %eat, -four edit:mho- mouths, tin
'ul: iditas!itio by the Tae.

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