The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-26 00:00:00

711 k: DLVENCE-AN

The prisoner in his defence said, Mr. Phillips was a
traveller, whom he had met on going fawn Liverpool to
behind, and he sold him goods to the atnnind of 1371. and
he cave him the dife►ence, &it.; Phillips gave bins the
address spoken of; that he had been five necks in prison,
which hall spoiled his business, and ruined him hi his elm-
racier.

To prove an alibi, Mr. Adolphus and Ir. Arabia called
the following with •
Coleman Levy, sexton to the Jews Synagogue, said, that
en the 21st of December he honied the priponer's mother,
she had lived in Still-alley, 14 isditeh, and it was their
ligion to say prayers morning and evening at home iu
the room where the corpse had lain for seven days. AS'it.
nets attended for the seven days Gum half past seven to
half-past eight in the niornine, and from half-past three
until half.past four in the arterimon, and the pi toner was
there every morning and evening during the seven days,
and lie appeared to be in a bad slate of health; there was
a Uri ed prayer to be said standing by the young children,
and the pri'ou.► was too 11l to hold up the youngest child,
and witness did it for him.

11)man Benjamin Cowan said, he called on the prisoner
at the expiration of the lb day to take measure of
himself and the children ;it was on a Sunday. lie called
at ten o'clock in the morning and saw him in his room, pri•
toner aid he was dl. and could not stand to be measured
V. is Culled about Iwo hours afterwards, about its( lye
o'clock. and saw the prisoner spin in his bed-room, and
he said he was so ill he meld Out he mounted. Witness
measured the (+lichen, but nut the prisoner:
. .

Ann Hardwieke stated, that she attended the prisoner's
mother as nurse; she went to her on the 19th of Devem-
her—she died on the Sunday following, and was bulled on
the Monday. The whole of the family sat on the ground
for seven days after the flidal. Witness was in the honse
for 14 days, and she was stare she prisoner WWI not out of
It during that period; he was not net of the house on
Sunday,the 17th of Dec. he was in iii health.
Mr. Abraham Shannon, surgeon and accoucliene.proved
that the pi imager had been in a ad-lining state of beJib
for the last tut, years, and he attended him at his father's,
about Ch I ibillllta.

A great mall; apparently respectable persons, but
chiefly of the Jewish perseasion, gale the prisoner a good
character.

Bar on Wood Visa reeapitalating the nature of the charge
against the prisoner, when the Jtuy tnatifsted an ansiet)
to have a convoiltat:on, which they immediately had, and
:thro declared themselves satisfied of the hint/CI:110E of the
prisoner. . . .

Mr. Baron V/‘ ad—" If so, let the verdict ha taken."—
Verdict, Not Guilty.
The prkooer, olio is a respectable looting man, bowrd
and seiired.—The trial excited a great deal of interest,
particularly ainoupt the Hebrews.
IN THE MATTER OF CHARLES RENNETT.

At the termination of the above trial,,Goudvi in, one of
the patrole belonging to Bow-street °thee, gut into the
vs &mess' box, and begged that the it Lordships would i.e
pleased to tale on the tiial N 0.9, against a gut named
Patterson, and in whose case he was a witness, but his
application was grounded upon this circumstance. He
held a warrant against Charles Bennett, who was charged
with having stolen a child from Mr. liorslty. LitOrmatrun
had been received that R.:emelt was hourly expected at
liar ich, and it was the anxious wish uf )Ir. Horsley that
he (Gondwia)should go to Harwich to escort It i 11l to tows,.
Mr. Justice Park condemned applications from officers
to put off trials, cud observed, that Vaud' practices were
satiated to ?nos unnoticed, the uffiters acre, y Pulice.office
would be making similar applications %%behsrer they
thought lid,
Mr. Baron Wood refused to grant the application, but
after a cunsultnt tun between the Judges, and ars, rat of
the Gentletnt n of the Bar, Goodwin, (who was the man
that pursued _ronett on the Continent), was again Caiied
ap, and told that the trial of Patterson aunts be postponed
until Thee sday morning, and that lie might have lase of
absence hum she Coast, on giving the prisoner and
her witnesses, and the witnesses fur the prosecution, no-
tice of the same. The witnesses fur the prosecution were
in Court, and heard the order.

SATURDAY, APRIL 24.
RANI FORGERIES._
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Thomas Arnold, George Seves a, and Daniel O'Hara,
lime charged with having in Mei; possess►on 'wildly

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fo'Rel'flank of England. nole4. -*fhb** Privmers Imolnt
pleaded Guilty, scirieets Iltem to transportation fur 14
years.
Henry Dart and Mary Ann Griffiths were charged with
•ianilar offence. These priaormis pleaded Not Guilty ;
they sedl, therefore, take [lair trials the ensuing week..
William Knight was convicted of stealing a quantity of
wearing apparel, the property of John Edwards, at the
Coach and Horses, Frith•sts eel, Soho.
Robert West was convicted of stealing two silver tea
sponnv. the property of Mr. M•Dormel.
ROBBERY OF THE' GENERAL POST-OFFICE.
Nicholas Benigtie Albin and 'llionias Jeticott, clerks in
• the above Office, were capitally indicted on various
counta, fur e trailing awl secreting dicers letters, conininisig
54111,11 y Bank of England and oilier mites, which had come
into their possession by virtue of their employment in the
said Generid Rum time to time. This trial
exciwil considerable interest, awl on no one occasion has
the Court been more crowded. 'The two pri...itters were
hroneht to the bar at 10 o'clock, when the various elweee
against them w tie 11.411, it) which they pleaded Not
Guilty ; and the London iiiry hawing been sootil in, the
trial of Albin look place, during the w bele of which the
pri rimer held a ttunapet to his ear, at the inner bar, he
ireit.g allowed to come fouwatch til.it he 11 'gilt the each r
heat the evidence against him. The ease was opened to
the Jury by M . Gus hey ; and the facts tat ieg clearly
proved by the evidence of Itobt. Simpson, esq. of Middle-
! hot iw Hall, Yorkshire, who put ill a letter containing a
201. Batik of England note. addressed to a gentleman at
Yak is of the liana of Hodson, on the 7th December last.
This was fully eolith-uteri by the evidence of two elriks
flout the Post-Office at Yu, k, and the evidence of other
gentlemen at the General Pest-Oltiee in London, who
ostethat it was the duty of the prisoner to open the
York bags. It was also proved by a female of the name
el Anti Curtin. that on the 7th of December she received
the very note from the pi isomer at the bar, about mac
o'clock on that day.—Mr: Baron Wood rbarged the ..I.lly,
who, after a few minutes' consultation, returns d a vet duel
of tfuilty—l)ralh,
Tholtis Jelkolt was also capitally indicted oa similar charges
as the fowler prisoner, and particularly for stealing on or about
the 16th of October, a quantity of Bank of England Note's.
ainounting to .1:50. which were inclosed in a letter addressed to
Mr. Edward Windy. at Bury, in Lancashire, and which was sent
twbiLliby his uncle, Mr. Duo% in the firm of NICIIM Longman,
Hurst and Co. Paternoster-row. It appeared that the prisoner
had been for 20 years in the Post Office, arid for some years past
he had a situation of £2lO yearly, and was highly respected in
the office till suspicion fell on him—and had fur these three years
past kept elegant lodgings in Nuifolk-street, Strand. His situa-
tion in the office was a taxer anti charger. The prisoner put in a
written defence, and Mr. Justice Park having stated the different
evieences which were ..ddneed aguinet hill!, IWm which it appear-
ed that the letter in question had been proved to have been put in
in London for Bury, and that no such letter had ever been re--I
ceis ed there ; that en his being apprehended at the Post office on
the morning of the 29th of January, and carried to his lodgings.
Atkins, the officer at Bow-street, ou searching his drawers. found
one of the Notes which had been enclosed in the letter addressed
to Bury ; that on his being taken and charged by Mr. Perkins.
the solisitor, of his being suspected of being guilty of stealing
monies from different letters, the prisoner replied •• I have dime
wrong. I am guilty." In his uratwers were found upwards of
2001. in Bank of England notes, part of whist amounting to
X. 31. he had received as part of his salary. The learned Judge
having sitnitutd tip the whole of the evidence, the Jury with-
drew out of Court, and on their return gave their verdict, Net
Guilt j,.—The prisoner on being taken from die bar, was informed
that ou Monday morning he would be tried on another charge,
and the patsies were ordered to a'.•end.