The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-24 00:00:00

JAN: 14.

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up a little brown paper parcel ; he observed that somebody 1
meat have lust it, and he vi ished the right owner bad it ; she said ,
she w ished so too ; hut she added, the wondezed what it cuutaiued.
lie said foes, would go into the Green Park, where it it as a
little private, and thdy would e twine. The) accordingly View
through the rate to tie sceond seat; and there they oa.Ted the
pareel, and it contained a red leather case which inclosed a glit-
tering cross; a man passed by at that motnent, and the prisoner
twilit. to hitu, telling him what they had found, anti produced a
receipt a hick was also in the parcel ; the man read it, and -aid
it tsas a receipt fur 2101. for a brilliant diamond cross; • he said
rho% 11 ere both entitled to it as they had both found it. and pro-
p.t.ed that the prisoner slsould give the lady a suits of :matey as
security fur her half when it wit; sold : the prisoner said, there
was a roan in Loan a ho had 501. of his mitney in his hands, and
proposed that they should go and get it ; but the other man
said it would he better to put the cross in the lady's hands, and
she should give what moue) she had as a security fur her pro-
duciag the cross the nett day' : she said she had but ST. which
would not he ethnigh ; the man said, but :son hate a Watch,
711ariam. and shdaccoldingly gave up the 5/. note and the watch,
and she was to he sure to take great care a the cros•, anti pro-
bre it the next day When he called upon her. She %teat home
with the cross, when she discovered she had been duped. She
inoilediately went to Bow-street, and, having described the man,
no Officer took tier the next morning to Leicester-fields, and
There saw the prisoner passing ; the Officer immediately appre-
hended bins.
Colonel De Watteville proved that he paid the prosecutrix
the a/. *tote produced. Verdict—Gniky. .
At si v o'clock, when the Jury were to be changed, only eleven
Juror.: appt•dred, alai neither of the summoning officers were
present ; the Court wa: therefore obliged to adjourn, having
first tined the summoning officers 10!. each.
tovitsniv, JAN. 21.
This day sentence of death was parsed ou the following pri-
sourN,, v i/.. ; ,Mary Carroll, alias Mitchell; .Joseph NVebb,
John Davison, Jolla .Adams, George Russell, Idizath Minster,
Martha Davis' Ceurge ltudd and Thomas Douavan, Isaac
C;.stle, Elizabeth Crosby, George Humphries atal Charles
Brt»rn, John Coates and Robert Badger, and John Matthews.
Sarah Ward's judgment was respited un account of Hitless.—
Ttt entv-six were ordered to be transported for seven years;
three were ordered to he imprisoned in the lionise of Correction,
Clerkenwell, for two years ; si v for twelve months; sixteen for
six months; one in Newgate for tw 0 years; nine for lesser pe-
rirds ; two to he publicly, and six to be privately whipped ;
awl eight were fined onr.shilliug a:iti discharged. The Sessions
were :oljourned to Thursday the ISth of February next.

IVednesrlav mnrning was executed, in the Old Bailey, John
Alni,md, fur the criaie of for; t;ie will of a working man,
;•viiaititance, appointing hiin:elf sole executor, and reecis-
Wiz ?Ai the Bank of Limland, under that w ill, 3001. ctock, the
Layil earned savings of his friend. The unhappy culprit hailer!
hint a wife far advanced in pregnancy. In Ilk last
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terva•w n ith the Sheria he acknowledged the justness of his
seirenre.