The National Register.
London, England, 1818-04-06 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

'This morning the eight following prisoners were brought up
to the bar and arraigned under an indictment, charging them-
with having committed various forgeries upon the Bauk of
I•.ngland.:
Sarah Wilson, James Butler, Richard Raeford, George
Downes, aary+.haw, Witliain Downer., Jobs Townsend, and
Thowas temah. frlieruth pleaded guilty to the minor offence,
and of course wit: be seeteurest to 14 years transportation ;
and Joseph Davy was .capitally convirgesi of Lorgiug a draft
for WA. uu Ed. Sieplienson and others.

STATE OF HIS MAJESTI"F. GAOL OF NEWCATE.
Males. Fe:Dales.
Convicts under sentence of distil.-- i I
Under sentence of transportaticii for life :ti Yi
For fourteen years l5 10
Lt. s.en years 49 35
Respited during pleasure- Y -1,
ti:yrisoned to. misdemeanours 54. 21
Itrepited Aslginent
For trial l'i4-330 4i—,138
AMONG THE PRISONERS FOR TRIAL ARE:

For Burglary
(terse stealing
FaTery 1.24 lxn
't•usiling in a dwelling heuse .—itllFor larcenies ..,141
i.scll2): • t acct Isit:WciATl.—.Weclnesday morning, !tit hard
Tierner,.•srho was committed friar I I attomgankn Police Office, on a
charge of passing had money, tic• whitli lie was tried and condoled
laa sessions, and sentenced to six blN•litlai' imprisonment, effected ,
escape. Ile was employed in ossisti:z to get in some coals, and
mailed himself of the oyportunityss• run away.
About two Sessions sines the rioted resurrectior. man," Israel
C!,aprratn, rueived sentence of death at the Old Bailey, for a high-
s:-.y robber,. lte received, however, a commutation ut his sentences
to transportation dri lite, rod is tow oil board a ship bound for New
South %Vales. Chapman having a charge made zgainst him of being
concerned in thumbing the :Ales af some of his own nation (the
Jt ASII. at Mile-end, in the presence of the High Priest lib. Wes-
el:ell) made suite disclosures. Ile admitted that he bud ante, but
only once, been engaged in removing the body of a deceased Jew,
bat then he vowed lie had nit aggravated his crime by laving hawks
upon it. Lie was wax free bswever to confess, that he had during
me period lit ClCeTtiNtli Ices abominable calling, raised, on an average,
'mai their graves, 'foam in' to Zo bodies per week ; sometime
tcaling as many as forty, and sometimes even So ! The avert*,
rice he cceeised was :mu: three us tour guineas cacit bad) and be
ably v,ioid, in his nocturnal depredations upon the dot by.a
unier.iti. party. Then is at prsseat, he dealared, ed.-iv:mg a gong
at. least 3n, alin rontbule the prance but cannot act wanton&
to Aoai•twiec of certain sextons, watc!rnen, lie related in-.
maims-v.6re ...nicer I,' vl been matte of a,sstrticatlar depth and shape,
onlettte fueilitate rewinds/ of bottle, by night.
An inphibisieo on Wednesday held at Guy's llbspital. on thebody
son„;-:-. Mr. Cotton, of ilorselydown, aged three years.—
fy stated, tliat.the deceased was in a small chaise,
bra Ntwth,0,56,',.cl dog, in tire K ent .restd, it lien a cand-Wagorell•
sal b tin which i,‘,04;,e',/ t,arted forward. and bit tumors the !waves,
rich 16'6.4 coientiv.ar. seor its heels comitti.; in contact with the
ikl's head, •'.,sotorul its Nest-t"-t" violently us tocause its death ; and
r. I'. in ;,..t,•„„,,• gto „we th's; over, and most serious-
! „ anal deodand of tos. air the
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COUNTY ISWIZES.

SURREY.-ISts:Gstom, Afretr. 1.

Fon Gray.--George Wood, a lad aged 17, was indicted for
forging a promissory note for 301. pnrporting to be drawn by
John Pritchard, id favour of Mr. Bassett, and uttering the
same, knowing it to be forged, on the 28th of Nov. to Messrs.
Sawyer, and Co.; coal-merchants, with intent to defraud the
said Messrs. Sawyer and Co.
Mr. Samuel Sawyer stated, that Mr. Bassett, of Nelson-
square, Rlackfriais road, was in the habit of dealing with the
house for coals. On the 26th of November last, the prisoner
Caine to his counting-house, representing himself to be Mr.
Bassett's son•in-law, and desired to have a coo of his father's
account for coals. The account was produced, which amounted
to about 321. upon which the prisoner produced a promissory
note for the payment of 661. made by a Mr. John Pritchard,
in favour of Mr. Basset ;and stated, that his father would be
much obliged to Messrs. Sawyer. if they titould take the
amount of lUs aeccinnt out of the note, and give him the (lir_
ference. Witness concluding that all was right, took the
note, and gave a checque upon his bankers for the difference
between Mr. Bassett's coal•acconnt and the isternissory note.
The prisoner then ordered three chaldrous of coals to be sent
to Mt. Bassett's, desiring that they might not be delivered
till the week following. On the 28th of November, the pri-
sorter came again, and presenting another promissory note for
501. pnrporting to be made by the same party, in favour of
Mr. Basset, said he was desired by his father to deliver his
compliments, and request the prosecutors to take the amount
of the three chaldrous of coals oat of that note, and give him
the difference. Witness suspecting there was something dis-
honest in the pr•isoner's conduct, detained him, and sent to
the supposed drawer, to know if he had made tht note, and
receiving an answer in the negative, the prisoner was taken
before aMagistrate and committed for trial.
The last mentioned note, upon which the indictment was
founded, being produced in evidence, was compared with the
note set out in the indictment: and it appearing that the
name of the payee was written Bassoll, instead of Bassett, as
in the note itself,
Mr. Platt, for the prisoner, submitted that this was a fatal
variance.

Mr. Baron Wood acquiesced in the objection, and the pri.
goner was found—Not guilty.
Joseph Charrington was capitally indicted for feloniously
stealing on the Bth of March a gold watch, and gold chain
and seals, in the dwelling-house of Ann Gardner Smith.
Mr. Nolan conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Heath ap-
peared for the prisoner.
It appeared in evidence, that the prisonerhad been a young
man of good prospects, and at the age of hl became Fossessed
of considerable .property, which, however, was absolved in
the liquidation of large debts, contracted during minority.—
The prosecutria, who upon her own examination, admitted
that she had lived in a very equivocal situation with a gentle-
man, named Smith, but described herself as a spinster, hail
some acquaintanceship with Ute mother of the prisoner ; and
on the day mentioned in the indictment, the latter came to
her house, with his mother's compliments, to know how she
(the prosecutrix) was in health. Mutual civilities passed on
the occasion. The prosecatrix hadll gold watch, chain and
seals, hanging over her chimney-piece, and after the prisoner
went away, the property was miming. Suspicion fell upon
the prisoner; he was apprehended, and taxed with the theft;
and he confessed that lie hail taken the watch, and its ap.
pendages, and parted with theta to an acquaintance for less
than their real value.

The case went to the Jury under all the eircumstances,
and the prisoner was found Guilty--Death.
James Richardson, convicted of having had forged notes
toile extent of .2,31. in his possession, 4:nowing them to be
forged, was sentenced to transportation for .13 cears.
John Johnson pleaded guilty to the charge of having utter-
ed a 51. forged note, knowing it to be forged, and was sen-
tenced to transportation for 1.1 years.
SINGULAR CHARGE OF 1111:11WAY ROURERY.
John Pearson Fountayne was charged with having, on the
Bth of November, feloniously assaulted Ann Maria Fall, at
Vauxhall, and with having taken from her tour 33. tokens, the

property of Wm. Fall, bet husband.
Ann Maria Fall, Mrs. Cooper her mother, mid Mr. Rice
Ives, were the only witnesses railed for the prosecution.
4 Mrs. Fall stated, that the prisoner met her between 11 and
12 o'clock in the morning, ou the ittis of November, alleged a
claim of debt, and demanded payment. She denied all
knnwledgeof any debt, and said she had no money to give
him. He followed her from near Westiniueter.bridge to
Vawv-hall, whew.he terrifed her to give I • titer 3s. tokens.
They Rath mettrewds of persons, but she called for no aid.
A letter, written by the prisoner, and asserting thejvassest
abuses of Mrs. Cooper and her mother, was read.
The prisoner-spuke at treat length ia•lsis own siefeoce.—
He had been,introduceil to Mrs. Cooper'afamily by a lady of
the town, He lent her WI., which she never repaid. He
was:melons to learn where she lived, in order to apply for
payment, when he accidentally fell in with Mrs. Fall. He
folluwetl her till she gave hint three liallerowns as an admis
slot' of the debt, fur lie had _got her guarantee of the debt
tin finally, becaaise the mother did not live a itlt her husband.
lie had given his aiktrees at the New York Coffee-house, and
made no attempt to avoid any inquiry or '47111611y. A cite'
from Mr. Hamilton, theproseeutriiis attorney., to the pri-
soner, was seat!. ,It threatened the must derisive nivaseres,
ifbe repeated the gross and unmanly interim plum be had
given to Mrs. Fall. The date was the thin ut
The Judge 3 1111 l toed up decidedly against the prosecution.
Verdict—Dist Guilty.
Mrs. (amper and Mrs. Fall are ratter floe 10,:ikinia ladies
Captain Fountayne is a short hustling gentleinait,but nut par'
tienlarly preposses,iag.
Thursday W. 31.irslia II and 'rhos. Hurtle were t rind, ethic r
Lord Elleubormigh's Act, for basing si,deitily as.aaitt d and
%co:hid:l Jolai Sharp, i, the church yard of .I.4thlort,lt, Oh the
ui ill of the 34iii at November last.
John- Leagrr, sexton of the parishof,Ltuniteth. had employ
ed the Iwo pri•oners to assist !twin vt ate:..o tit,: cher. It
vard for a fortnight in for to the 30th if Noyetil .er. 1! tr.
shall had Iwo so employed the previa', t utter. llt•.re
were, fuer erfive but ials 011 SIMI:1y, the aoili 4)%e;:l'oee.
about 3 o'clock. Wituess .and kis sons -Wet repeuteoly gone
re nod Ow church yaral to.ace that all wesaiale. In the oven_
icy, after having ionkeittbe-eharch, lee went into the !serial-
ground to set titan traps, .sniknotari to Marshall, :vet Marshall,
followed hint andsaw Min sentbene Ifc th•ittAnded the key
of NI;11,11411 ; but he refused it, sayiee isheil to look in
the erimml afterwards. 'Between 12 o'clock, wh, n
, • • • ...tot 144 4.40 reline he" Vie 1705, ' •.s.e two

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