The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-17 00:00:00

TRURSDAY, DEC. 14.

William Saunders, a man of respectable appearance,
was indicted for stealing two books, the property of Mr.
Taylor, a solicitor of eminence in Furnival's Inn.
The prisoner was employed as a copying clerk in Mr.
Taylor's office, and being entrusted with two books to
take to a client of his employer's, he sold them.
The prisoner addressed the Jury in a very superior
manner, and apparently labouring under the deepest
emotion. He acknowledged the offence, but declared
that he had been driven to the commission of it by the
deepes► distress. Ile had been five months itt White.
cross-street for debt, and to obtain his release execoted
a warrant of attorney, engaging to pay eight shillings
per week. Ile had but one guinea per week at Mr.
Taylor's, and when he scud the books in question, it
was to enable him to keep up the payment. These
facts, added to the circumstance that he had been the
only support of an aaed mother and sister for the last
I 5 years, would, he hoped, operate on the miods of the
Court and the Jury in his favour.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but reermino tided
him in the strongest manner to mercy, and with Ma
prompt humanity which always distinguishes a British
Jury, made a subscription for him, to which several
gentlemen in Court added their donations.
r. Taylor, it afterwards appeared, was actuated by
the strictest sense of duty in the prosecution, as he had
several other clerks (younger men) in his employment,
and he also behaved in the kindest manner to the pri-
soner, having clothed him entirely when he came into
his employment.
In the course of the day a man was tried for stealing
a coat, the property of one of the Turnhanigreen stage
coachmen 3 and it appeared that the prosecutor had
traced and apprehended the thief himself, and was the
only person who knew any material fact, notwitlis
standing which, Gammon, a constable, who merely
took charge of the prisoner, was bound over as a wit•
nest. The prisoner was found Guilty.
EMBEZZ EMENT.—Thontas Fowick was indicted for
embezzling 101. the property of Mr. Bodkin, the Secre..
tary of the Mendicity Society. The prisoner was a
messenger belonging to the establishment, and had been
employed to redeem cert-dit property belonging to the
society. It was proved distinctly that he applied the
sum which he thus obtained to own use. The Jury
returned a ierdict—Guilty.
EureNatv Fa nun.—J. Clark and J. Dvwfon. alias
Farrington, two young men of apparent respectability,
were indicted for obtaiiiihg of Mr. Samuel Nock, guts
manufacturer, 2001. worth of goods under false pre•
tense:.
It appeared by the evidence, that a lady of the 1141110
of Catherine Farringtn•i, had died, leaving property to a
very large amount to Mrs.Trickey, who is tine residuary
legatee under the will. The prisoners represented to
Mr. Nock that they were the rightful heirs to this
property so left by Mrs. Farrington , that Messrs. Blunt
and Beaumont, the solicitors to Mrs. T. acknowledged
them to be so; that they had an action inn the Exchequer
against the residuary legatee I and that in fact, in a very
short sp cc of time, they would become possessed
this large property. As a huffier inducement to allow
the prisoners to have the property they afterwards
obtained, they referred Mr. Nock, to their own solicitors
Messrs. Robins, No. all, Lincoln's lon. Under these
citeumstances he a:lowed the prisoners to order 1111.
worth of Bons,
It was arterwatds proved, that the prisoners hill
pawned one of the guns fur NI, at a pawnbrukc!''
that, previously to the fraud, the prisoner Clark Heed
in house In Gteenficld Street, neat the deeea►od

Farrington's house, and that the prisoner Dawson visited
him. .Me. Beaumont proved that neither he nor his
partner ever wrote any letter stating that they were ready
to give up the property in question to the prisoner. A
distringas had been put upon the property in the funds.
The will of W. Farrington was read ; and it contained
not a syllable respecting the prisoner Dawson (alias)
Farrington. The Jury without hesitation, found both
the prisoners Guilty. The prisoners were again indicted
upon a separate charge of defrauding Mr. Nock, upon
false pretences, of other guns worth about MA. on the
22d September. Upon this charge also the prisoners
were lotind Goilty.
'l. he prisoners then received the sentence of the ("mat
upon the first indictment—to be publicly whipped;
and upon the second to be transported lar 7 years.
TittDAY, OECt.ttutta la.
The three resuec:able tradesmen residing at Kensing-
ton, who were cunuu tied by Mr. Mioslnd 01 a charge
of murdering a constable, named John May, were this
morniug tried for Manslaughter.
Twenty witnesses proved that the death of May was
produced by his own misconduct. The Jury stopped
the case before the Recorder summed tip, stating that
they were quite satisfied of the innocence of the liartits.
Thomas M'Carthy, a poor middle-aged African, was
capitally indicted for a burglary in the house of Mary
Topping, and stealing a clack. &c. her property.
The prosecutrix quitted her house about three o'clock
in the afternoon, and on her return at night she found
that her sitting-room had bee i broken open, and rite
goods in question stolen. The prisoner was stopped
with the property in his possession the same evening,
but there was no proof that the breaking and entering
took place after dark.
The prisoner, whose appearance was that of extreme
misery, put ill a written defence, stating that he was
driven to the commission of critic by the deepest distress,
not having tasted food for several days at the time of the
robbery. He never would have stood in this disgraceful
situation but for the cruelty of wine men, who dragged
him from his home and friends in the prime of ;
he hoped to find mercy from white men, in return for
the miseries he had endured. Although poor and I riend -
less he could safely declare, that this was the first act of
dishonesty he had ever been guilty of, and he prayed the
Court to deal mercifully wits him, and to pot him in
some place of refuge until he could get into hottest
employment.
The poor fellow was observed to shed tears vv life the
clerk was reading his &knee.
Mr. Swallow, a respectable hatter, in St. James's-
street, stated that he had known the prisoner tell-sears,
and believed hint to be perfectly honest. He was some
time ago a servant to a " dashing buck" at the West end
of the town, wins left him without paying him his Wages
(about 141.) and he endured the greatest misery ill tile
last severe winter. Witness saw
several times, when he had scarcely a rag to cover him.
'The Recorder.—" our conduct, Sir, to this unhappy
man, does you infinite honour."
The Jury found the prisoner guilty of the larcery only,
and the Court said, that means should he taken to get
him into the Refuge for the DeAting at lit/MOH.

Volta.
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NI ARLBOROUG I I sTnErr.

The Resc►te Gang underwent a third examination on
Friday, before Messrs. Conant and Farrant ; and as the
evidence adduced upon former proceedings is already
before the public, we confine ourselves to me additional
evidence.
Marsden, the gaoler, was in attendance, with his head
tied up, and lie as much altered. lle would ton take
upon himself to swear to any of the prisoners, as he was
knocked down instantaneously, and had no opportunity
of observation.

Jones, who has been identified as one of the rescuers,
appealed to Kilsby, the keeper of a collee-shop in Great
So&lk-street, St. Georges field', to prove his 111110CelICC
by alibi; hut as Kilsby did not attend upon the last
examination, a warrant compelled his attendance upon
this occasion, and instead of proving an alibi, he con-
firmed the testimony of another witness, who SWOP.; to
Jones. Kilsby proved that Jones the rescuer intruduceti
Jones the burglar (convicted at the present Old llailey
Sessions) to him on the evening of the rescue, awl that
they slept at his house. They made no secret of the
seacue.
Two of them, of the name of Harris, plcade•l much
innocence, and appealed to the Magistrates how hard it
was that they should he kept in cuullut tucut. Although
they had been very oftan charged with lelemy, they had
always been innocent, and such usage was not right
The (Aimee is no more than a misdemeattoor, fur
which bail cannot be refused, and Mr. Taylor, solicitor,
tendered bail for Woodgate, but the Magistrates rcynned
4)1 hours' notice, in sureties of Sol. and Iwo of aol. cacti.
—Bail was tendered for others, and tut: is hole were re-
manded 141 next Friday.

ALLEGE!) SEDUcTIO N.
A statement appeared in our Paper a few weeks ago,
seder the head 'low-street, of the circimistalices attend-
ing the alleged seductiott of a girl of Ili, the ilatidiier of
a widow lady, residing of Chelsea, by an aged loan 01
rank, who was supposed to have conveyed her to his
country tesidence iit Scotland.
A writ of Habeas Corpus was procured, at the sw,-
gestion of Mr. Ihrnie, of ]few-street (to whom au
apl)Ileal W,l was wade by licr I riends), and rscry effort
was made to discover her retreat, and to restore her 10
her friends; but no tidings could lie !carped oilier 111161
about a fortnight ago. when the saute worthy Magesii,Ue
received an ationyinous letter, diced Edinburgh, and
bearing that post-mark, inforinina min, that, by a pi:l it'd-
lion being made at a house at Clapham, Ctll6llll liiL ll-
getict: would be obi-hilted of the young, lady whose case
had been mentioned iu the London newspapets.