The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-27 00:00:00

OLD BifiLlY SES.SIONs.

MONDAY, AIM' 24.-.-I'illeltaS Pearce, cleik, aged
ell, and Goodman Soloman, aged-ets„ were indicted,
the former with stealing divers articles.of wearing appa•
rel, the property of J•• H. Wreiltall, and the latter with
receiving the smite, knowing theist to be stolen.
The prosecutor did not • appear, when the C 011111501)
Sergeant made itursiries relative to his absence.
Mr. Adolphus, for the primmer, explained, and af.
laded to lilt case of Moses Marks, whose name is in
the caleinlar immediately utecedent to it.
) The Ci Sergeant obeerved, that they could not
got to trial without witnesses,. and he was ilterelore
.hotiiiil to tali the Jury that - the prisoner must be ac-
quitted.
Elie Joel retinued a verdict :Tomball,.
Litiwani Smith was pai to the bar on ins indictment,.
-chateitig,hint with hating stolen a snook Colikailling
rail 111 l 5 ;tenacity, nelonging to the Collates, of Selkirk.
Hugh Cadger deposed, that lie was bemoan to the
Countess of Selkirk ; on the Ist of February her laxly.
snip was 'crab% to to on a visit to BJIII, and the trunk
so question was fastened behind the carriage. When
they got ennui a mile and a half from sown no the Fol.
hash rMiti, lilt CO.ithinail nutted round and saw the Ft-
:oiler walking away with t'ie trunk. oti Ins shoulder--
Witness i 11111 l ediately got down, and pursue) the pri-
soner, cling "Stop thief ; " the prisoner then threw
down the trunk and rats off; a grinfltinan named Bolton
followed, and sectued lite prisoner, when he polled Mil
a knife, and lillea.elitil to stab him.
G. Bohm', of Inc Satiny Mice, living st Chelsea,
stated that out his way home he saw the prison .r running
beitind the carriage, and the strait was (44;51011g; he tlieti
took the mink from she Carnage and walked oil; MI that
cite witotes loiloteed and slopped Win, whin he polled
nut a kiille and brattillslied it at 1 ' ; Weil% previously
turown down are trunk. Winless perceived that- the
straps wham fastened die minks to the carriage were
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John Parsons, a conetable, living in the Vellum road,'
assisted iii taking the prisoner into cuettely.
The promoter acksioss kdaed to the robbery, but de-
aired •Irlyttig wird the kink to Mr. 801..0ti. He said that
lie had been a stfilint in several families, in all of which
lie liall.borne a giloil cusutacter. Among those were-
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I irt tits of Carmarthen, Laud Wahlegrave, and
! Lord Ddicitester's son. He had received test imonialaof
good character limn Lady Holland to citable bon to
°Wain another situation.
The Records,' said, that _it wools, have been easy to
produce iirytkl of good chartc.er from some of the above
initividisals, if his character had been as he represented.
'Tilt Jury wood the prisoner guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to be tiali,ported for seven years.
'lbex Session* itavina terminated oil Monday night,
sentence season Tuesday lliefliilla passed 'ohm the hil-
l:twine prisoneit:---
Thomas %Valley, Francis Rosser, Robert S. Hatim,
George Clarke, Ruin. H .., John Tony, R. Palliate,
George Hopkins, James Williams, Jaunt Curtis, James
Hats o, Julio Powell, Eleanor Leach, Witham Mimes,
Saran Thom osoit,lnotters Coates, John Allen:Friona*
Welsh, James Walters, Joins ares,Joliti Latham, John
Williams, Edward Jailiiioo, %V. Osborne, Mary CMOs.
bury. JtiCllll4lll Crawley, and Morgan Davis. 10 he
traliSpOrttil bit. seven years.-walVid Evans, C. Grolth,
JIM Bryan 11PKiii 11111 l , for 14 years—Ruhert Edward*,
Pea .cis Hall, and Mary &Hain, lor life.—Fewty•six .teas re
sentenced to v onto' terms of imprisonment, and kept to
hard labour —Five to be publicly whipped; three on
wit he judgment of the Conti was revited; and se-
veral were discharged by prie:lauitairm.
The hallowing unhappy culprits, received sentence of
ileath:••-•
Samuel Johnson, for breaking and entering a dwelling
house in the day tone, and stealing thereont twelve shil.
bap—Elinor Viitiiiinni, alias ilPCormack, for stealing
a batik aide, valor . 1., Irmo the Custom-house—John
Barley, John Malmsey, Joseph Johnson, and Thottias
Barite*, tar burglary—Rieliard Beigas. George Elliot,
Daniel Denning, Anne Norris; and Sophia Fraser,
tor highway robberies--Henry Pestell, Thomas Pet.
cher, John Toontey, Anne Reason, Henry Hymnal,
John Barlow, and rhnitias Knight, for stealing in a
dwellin2-house—Sillistio Trapp, for atterispinig to
minder Citarlotte (hunks, Morris Houlihan, for coiling
and ilialmilig, and Thomas Groves, for horse stealinu.
lit the case of Elizabeth Frances and Mary Ann
SCIIII, convicted of eoliiiitig a Mill its ilroad-cutin, Liang-
ewe, pile niein was respited.
The sessfons was adjourned until Wednesday the
14th of May.

Another magnificent vessel, of the same dimen-
sions u the Prince, Regent, is to be laid down on
the same slip as that beautiful ship was launched
from a few (lays since, .at Chatham. It is to be
called the Royal George. The old Royal George
being found unaerviceuble, is broken up at Ply.
mouth.