The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-02 00:00:00

SATURDAY.

Fobor.bits.—Joarph Boyce was ina:led capitally fir: feloniougly
forging a deed, or Power of Atterbey. for the trimisfer of "P511:4.11(1.
in the 3 pr Cent. Annuities, and with feloniowly uttering the ante,
knowins it to be formal, with intent to defraud the Governor and Com-
pany of the Rank of Eng Land, or John Tuber, a DartrOrd, or Wm.
Smallhorte. Th? indictment contained nine counts.

71fita trial lasted several hours; but the evidence was far from inte-
res‘ing.
John Tasker. Esq. a brewer, residing at Darford, deposed, that in
the month of December last he saw the prisoner at leis home, who
avplied to him on the part ofune Austin for the transfer of the property.
Itrtnes.s raused to do it. The s;gnature Jno. 'Poker" to all the
instruments, were not in witness's hand-writing.
The prisoner made a lon;.; defence. the purport of which was, to deny
the charge of forgery altogether ; avowing that it wus a most wicked
proseci a Tun.
Mr. Justice B %it.r.sr summed up the evidence, and the Jury retired
for :al hour, and returned with& verdict of Guilty—Deat/a.

John Gre.Torii all() was capitally convicted of having forged, made.
and nounterfenid, or caumxi to be forged, and counterfeited. • transfer
bill for %al. in the Navy 5 per cents. in tl.e name of Eli/AIL/1i Coward.
with intent to &taut! dis: Governor arid Coropon of :Le Bank of
Ergk.nd.

QUEEN SQUARE.
FINAL EXAMINATION OF MARY ANN KING.

Monday this person wait again brought up,Wll en the following
persons gave evidence Miller, a pastry-cook, of High.
Holborn, said, nn the last day of January the prisoner engaged
a bed-room and drawing•romn in his house, at 1,1 guinea per
week, saying, she had ran away from a boa .ding-school to be
married to a Mr. Thomas on that day week. He was to find
every thiag for her, and at the end of the week area to send in
his bill. After dinner she expressed a wish to base sonic 'err.
son to sleep with her, as she was not in the habit of alceping
alone, and his wife laud (Milliken shpt alternately with her,
until about the middle of the week; when she expressed a wish
to go into the country, saying she came ;.teas' sentient any
money or clothes, and requested Mrs. M. to lend her £I ; she
only lent her six. All the time she represented herseittu be a Lady
of immense fortune, and on Mr. 'fliotrte's arrival lie al Id he
paid. She ordered wedding cakes, and directed hint to to and
meet Mr. 'Thomas ; but in his absence she decamped, taking with
her a silk shawl and a pair of silk stockings-belosigina to Mrs.
M. ; she also got A pair of shoes from a shoemaker in the neigh-
bourhood, for which she was obliged to pay ; and from a bed-
warehouse property to the amount of La, besides other trifling
articles. J. Simpson. in Portman-street, said, the prisotier
came to his house on the 18th of April, and wanted lodgings,
saying, she bad property to the amount of 2.1 too; and said she
had taken no refreshment, and had been taken ill on the road,
having rim away from her father, near Margate, intending tat
be married to 'Air. Thomas that day week ; she took apartments
at four en Incas per week. In the course of tlie week Mrs. S.
lent her ale, and at the end of the week I presented my bill,
which amounted to C 25 ; when she put it into liar pocket-book;
and ordered me to gu to M r. Thomas at the White Horse Cellar;
in the mean time she order( d four wedding cakes at Mr. C.'s, a
pastry•rook, in Berkeley-square, which were sent; and at Hey
it:tura, nut meeting Mr. Thomas, she was gone. Mr. Pocock,
a limo, draper, in Oxford-street, said, lie is acquainted with her
father, who lives in Gloneestei shire ; that she received a li-
beral education, although she denied being• able to read or
write. Witness here produced a pair of sugar tongs she lead
left at his horse, which he suspected the haul stolen from some
person. G. Scott, a baker in Winehester-street, deposed, that
the prisoner came to him with a similar story ; she conti-
nued with hint about eight days, during which time she borrow-
ed of Mrs. S. A'S, and while he was gone to meet Mr. Thomas,
she decamped, having in that short period drank about two
gallons of gin. A Surgeon in St. John's.street, stated, that
about five ytarssitece he was called in to visit Ler at a house in
.(liteen-street, Percival-street, by a Juan named Biggins, who
nth:tied great tenderness for her, and requested he would call
in a Physician, which stay done, and on her recovery be was
induced by a plausible story to take a bill for .1:21, giving hies
as a balance La in cash ; but this bill had never been honoured.
Mr. Tilt, of Ludgate.hill, stated, that she took lodgings at his
license, and her behaviour was so extraordinary that he taxed
her with being a swindler ; but she told the story of her seduc-
tion so pathetically, as to obtain the commiseration of Mts. T.
to such a degree that she wished to continue her in the house.
She said her father was brother to Lord King, and nephew to
the Earl of Kingston, hut would not give a reference to any per-
son in town, and decamped without paying any thing; but she
lett a duplicate for a Broach,. pawned for leiss and a cap and
tippet for £2. 2s.—titre was thou committed, and the parties
hound over to prosecute.

MAI

iH-STRF.I7I%

R. Donald and S. Tulk were charged, the fiirnier with steal.
ing, and the latter with receiving, four pair of suutiiirs, three
locks, and other article!,, the property of Itt essrs. Summers, of
New llund.street. It appeared, Donald bad, for the last two
years,been in the employ of the prosecutors, who,having lately
missed various •rticles, were led to suspect him; and ou his
being charged with it, he confessed the whole trammetion,and
stated, that about live months since, he went to sell some books
at an old iron shop in Gee's court, Oxford-street, kept by
Tulk, who told him nut be afraid to bring things to hint at
any time, a, he would always purchase them of him ; in con-
sequence of which, he had been induced to rob his employers
ever since. Talk ga% c hint very little money for them, amt
was constantly desiring hint to bring more ; that he frequently
Icft things with Ins wife when he was not at home, and received
money from NM at another time : upon which the (Meer
searched TOWN house, and found various articles, and dupli-
cates for eight locks, which had been pledged by his
which were sworn to by the prosecutors as part of their
property that had been stolen. They were both fully com-
mitted.

Several of the seamen implicated in the late slots at Shields:
came to the Court of King's Bench on Monday last, and plead
ed guilty to an indictment against them. They wrrc all suf-
fered to go at large upon their rccognizances tUr future good
behaviour.

An overseer of a parish, and his wife, were indicted at that
late Quarter Sessions for the county of Cumbci land, fur hav-
ing conveyed a pour Irish woman, on the eve of urcouchartiout.
out of their parish, into a neighbouring one, where she was
left, and being soon after taken In, was Conveyed to the work-
house, bringing en that parish consideralde expense. The
overseer having made pecuniary compensation, the parties ap-
peared and pleaded Guilty, and expected to have been &•-
charged ; but the !knelt, determined to punish a practicewlach
is in the highest degree reprehensible, and which, as is said
the provincial statement, has of late been much psletiseet,
tined the parties I. and to remain in prison until such fin. bs
paid. What gave a deeper shade of unfeeling cruelty to this
above case is, that the removal was made by the overseer's
wife, wko, io the absence of he r husband, conveyed the pauper
in a cart; and n hen within the limits of a neighbouring rarisNi,
hantaarly turned her adrift to shift for herself!
Wednesday, a girl, six years old, daughter of - Sissons,
of Wileohnlee, felt into the river Hull. Near ten minutes
elapsed lir fore she was taken out, when all efforts to reatora
animation pro% ed unavailing. Another child of the .ante pa-
rents was drowned in she same place six or seven years ago.
A daughter of J. Poole, blacksmith, of Drypual, to years
old, a law days since, while stirring the tire, set Ler clothes is
a blame, and was so dreadfully injured that she died the nest
day.

••••••••
John Bull, lodging at the honse of W. Booth, Parai
.tattle-hrittge, ilti!la confined to his bed for a weds with a br.iin
Meter, gut uv on Wednestla), ntor tt ill and, ettnniug tIliJ lil
otypet.in aatate of mental dcraitgtontitt, want as/rd itii a tit
wad expired.
Friday night, or cart, aw Sahtrchry morning, the warehouse.
Inoonging to Mr.W addle. Mercer, iti Lii arrnce-la nr,* tut toolto
"lien, and robbed of •et e;dl hnwhtd pin 44 N• rth uf balk 44
tua shnola, itaa kerchitts,and tth rattwita.

'RPM

'NI.. !ity evening an invest wits iiciti at Ono.,,klitwiLlieredt,
liz near Islin6-ttiVirtr44.-ttos, tliff f 4 AiniisV44lllllt, Of St.
Jobeloitrert g Sit S -at Naylor': tibm-frist in it
.oitte ol.neental tti.riistorossitt, Siitattlity night ettiticil the
v.gilitnei• of brr irittls, and I,i, fotmdiOrtr..nesi the folinoing
inutnist; i-Ihr ; i i; /gnu iti:ti..s. $ t.rtiict tit Isisau.ty.