The National Register.
London, England, 1822-07-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

CAUTION To THB UNWARY.—JamesJones,an elderly
man of respectable appearance, was indicted for stealing
two al. notes, the properly of Thomas Robinson, trout
the person of Anne, his wife, by the stak trick of hiding
under the pot.
Ales. nottinson deposed to the facts.
Smith, 4 street-keeper, who took the prisoner into cus-
tody out the charge of the plaintiff, said he searched him
and found a quantity of sovereigns, a foreign gold coils,
and souse flash notes, which prisoner attempted to de-
stroy. As witness was taking inns to Guildnall, a t!es-
Iterate attempt was made to rescue hint, butt it Jailed.
prisoner protested his innocence, and said he won
the money fairly, Ile could have called witnesses, but
be was nut aware that his Lila I would have come on so
snout. Being asked to bailie these witnesses, he stam-
mered and hesitated, and at length said he could not re-
collect Mem.

The Jury found him guilty, without hesitation.
Tile Recorder lie rejoiced extremely at the ver-
dict ul the Jury, and he only regretted that tile prisoner's
companions nett: not also at the liar to participme in the
sentence which the Conti was about to pass. lie ought,
however, tell theiii, that if they should he convicted of
iluilar practices, they would ineritably shale tile same
late —lle then sentenced the prisoner to he transported
Mr the .erns of his natural life.

%V LDNESDAY, JULY 10.—John Swann, a inan of
very respectable appearance, Wit indicted for feloniously
receiving one chest of tea, the property of Messrs. Kent-
hle and Smith, wholesale tea dealers, from a titan whose
name is unknown, he well knowing the Sallie LJ have
beet)

vVallord, in stating the case for the prosecution,
said tlict until lately a titan cotilil nut he tried fur a felo-
nious receiving of goods, unless the principal should be
first tiled and convicted. The Legislative, however, in
inner to remedy thot defect, had in the present session
passed an act which gave power to a joty to try persons
.0: a felonious receivitig ol wicids, even Inough the princi-
pal should not be in custody. This was the first case
which [tad aris.m since the passing of this act, and it
would be fur the Court to say whether the Indictment was
property trained or not.
The Recorder said, the Coirt, in case of a conviction
would probably refer the ntattur to Me consideration of
the t welt e tidi,;es.
I)attiel Blight, a surveyor of the Thames police, de-
!Risco, that having heard that a chest ot tea had been
stolen from a cart of the prosecutor's, he went to the
house ur the prisoner, who is a slop-dealer, near Tower-
hill. ILiviu wide ktrowit the nature of his errand, lie
proceeded 10 scat cat the house, and tumid smile pieces of
a taroi:ett tea Chest, which Cite prisoner, oil Lieu i,
yucs-
tioned,said he lum purchased tiletlas bet. re for lire-wood.
--On a limiter search) witness Mond deposited upon the
soil uw;eriteaill tile scat of a water closet a considerahle
qoatt.ity of tea in a sack. lle then took prisoner into
Thomas Hodges, carman to the prosecutors, proved
that a chest of tea was stolen front a cart in whrcu were
sixteen chests, which he was conveying to Colchester ;
and the purees of a cites' were 101111 d 111 the prISOIICr'S
house. closed tile case fur tiie prosectittsm.
Messrs. Alley and Adolphus, for me prisoner, then
raised three Obieelloll6 to the indictment; viz. first, that
the prisoner should hate lien indicted asa principai, and
not :.s the receiver; secondly, that tile indictment was
detective in poiut of lona ; and lasly, that the case as
made out itt evidence was tint such a one art WIIS COIIICIII-
- by tile Legislature when the act in questimi was
passed. It was Impossible (the learticil cottliszl argued)
that the Legislature could have intended that a man
should be tried for the felonious receiving, where tile
thief was not only not in custody, but not es eit known
by 1111111 e Or descriptioil.
l'ne Recorder said he was of opinion that the first ob
jeClil/11 was sufficient. fits Lordship then said, he would
propose this question to tile Jury—it they were of opittiou
that, supposing the prisoner had been indicted for steal-
Ina the goods in question, instead of for receiving thein,
they would, uptor the evidence they had heard, have con•
ictcd hint, 'Len they would find a verdict or acquittal
upon the precut itidietment ; if unt..-I %%Ise, the case
should inue;c,J,
Tlie Jure, atter a few moment's consultation, found a
verdict of not guilty.
Tow itst,AY,JULY I I.—The whole m'the trials having
been guile titruogli, the Recorder, this morning, pro-
ceeded to ,as, selllellCe Upon the prisoners convicted
dultOrg the sessions—two received sentence of transpor-
tation tor hie—three for fourteen years-19 for seven
years, tile last, Tobias Burke' was convicted of bigamy,
and when asked, in the usual form, what he haul to say
wily junlionertt should not be passed triton hitti, lislid"
in a written paper, iti which lie set lintti, that he hail
been entrapped, while drunk, into the first Illairiage,
(winch, as tie Was a P.otestant, War, ill 1101111 011,1 W, ()I
110 effect whatever), and that the witness who had given
evidence against hint hail sworn falsely.
The Recorder, addressing the prisoner, said—" The
statement you have handed in, is, like your conduct
upon the trial, an aggravation of your ()deuce; and the
Court would not do Its duty, it it mil tun pass the severest
seinence the law awarils."

The lolluwiii unhappy individuals received the sen-
tence of death :—Mary Serkins, Joint Kerns, Charles
Mttrih, and Alary Allll Andrews, liar stealing in a
dwelling-house p and John Atinasley and Elizabeth
Capps, tor higitwdy mbliery.
Anne Clarke, alias Wheeler. who had been capitally
cont ieted mu he April Seb9lollS, but whow je'.,:utnt had
been stayed on account ut pregnancy, was put to the bar,
antlreinantled in the wwidl form.

btSS 10 I Slhilladjuurncdukil NVeciiiebday the I I di
of ScpieusiAl.

Tlt CLEANSI: TI.LTII, AND 1N11'.:4. 7:111
DI E\TII.—
i I.,tir ounrca 01 prepared linie water, add one tlracliin
nl l'eruvian ll:irk, and wash the teeth with the water in the
morning. ht•liire bi-:Alf-AM, nod niter sapper. It will effeetuAlly
destroy the tartar us the iectli. aatl feature the oli'eusibe
atisitq, float those dteajid.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

22

TRIAL OF BENBOW.
THURSDAY, JULY t I.—Wm Bcnbow was indicted
for publishing certain obscure libels. The indictment
contained twelve counts, ten of which contained extracts
front a magazine or novel, published by the defendant,
and the outer two described points contained in thosis
works.

The prosecution was instituted by the Society for the
Suppression of Vice, and excited a high degree of inte-
rest. There were sixteen magistrates on the bench.
Mr. Adolphus stated the case for the prosecution.—
The prosecutionwas, he said, instituted her a persever-
ing publication of libels. Toe defendant, who hail kept
a large shop in the Strand, removed to Castle-street,
Leicester square, where lie commenced the publication
of a work called " Tde Rambler's Magazine," whicit
w.as calculated to inflame passion and to throw chastity
into disgrace. The defendant had opened a shop to dis-
seminate poison, and had nobody but himself to blame,.
for the conseentences of his conduc
Jas. itignali deposed, that lie purchased several num-
bers of the Magazine and No"el produced to him front
the defendant. The hers were taken frotu large
parcels that load the appearance of being the same.—
They were sold at sixpence, and some at eight-penue
each.

Cross-examined by Mr. C. Phillips.—Was employed
by the Society for the Suppression or Vice. Frequently
bought books to prove alt. rwards upon trials Went •rii
many shops wherever he was ordered. Had regular.
wages, and was out paid by convictions.
I lie indictment was here read, and the libels charged
were compared with the passages in the book proved by
the wiinets. One of the libels was a song. The
of the libels, which occupied an hour being ended.
read-
tuglr. C. Piiillips addressed the Jury for the defend tut.
llis thou had, the said, treeired a written notice limit
the Secretary, that his trial would not take place till
Friday, and at eight o'clock on IVednesday night he re.
Ceited another notice, that his trial must take place that
(Thursday) morning, a pruceeditig which left hii advo-
cate wholly unprepared, as he had only received his brief
that mornilig. He said his client was a humble unpro-
tected man, persecuted by a Society which had never yet
been kuovvii, sauce their first institution, to prosecute a
rich man. Had they read no libels from noble Isbellers ?
Had they heard of no gambling-house in St. James's,
kept by a titled cheat? With such persons the Vice
Suppressors hold ton touch sympathy to think of a pro-
secution, because the culprits were persons of their own
rank; but the man who published what they pleased to
call a libel, was to be dragged from his family, and con-
signed to arlurigeon,for the hundredth part of the offence
that was iirerloolied in the titled and the opulent. They
would not aim at high game, lest sonic hoary hypocrite
amongst thcitis,fhes should meet the punishineut he de.
served. Their cvualuct Was c ilenlated to justify the
satirist, who nail said that " laws were cobwebs easily
broken by great offenders, and only made to catch flies.
In the manse of God, were the law utlicers of the crown
so regardless of their duties? Was the Attorney-Gene-
ral a traitor to his trust—did he see blasphemy anti ob-.
seenity diffused without any ellort to prevent it; and if
hot, why did these worthies cougrea,ate to search. the
dwellings of tradesmen, rake up the dying embers, and
fall the flame which would otherwise be insioxious ?
The publication of the novel was of long standing. His
client hail been oidi6ed to leave his house in the Strand
because he had been persecuted by another gang, who
procured hint to be imprisoned for ten months, and then
turned him mu of his dungeon, his last stinting gone, and
family brought to ruin. These were the modern chant-
rioi;s of Christianity. Christ never persecuted ; but
terse men were Pharisees in their words, Pag,.tis in their
amt., and Christians only in nanie. Alter a very long
awl powerful appeal to the feelings of the Jury, the
learned counsel concluded a spech which evidently
made a strong impression.
The Chairman addressed but a few words to the July,
statin.t that they had heard the es mence, and could judge
of the nature of the publication.
The Jury retired hir about ten minutes, and then rt.-
turned a verdict or—Not GAilty.

S 0 IC DE —A ytiTtaUAitan, J t)1111C1. was the °the: day
brought uefote the magistrates in Nlariborougli-sired,
CililreCti by a watchman with havin,4 attempted to hang-
himself near Hyde Park. Tile wxclimaii, who disco-
vered him took min to St George's watch-house, win-re
the unfortunate young man acted in a very strange mail-
Her, lacquently exclaiming—" Oh, my tote!" lie nun
said, that ie hail been chalking with some friends prior
us his joining a battalion of his regiment at Deptford the
lollowura until us, anal intoxication excited Min to the
/Jan attempt. Tins however, was not the only cause—
he was desperately attached to a female, whom he re•
iiitested to accompany him to Deptford, and on her refusal
he attempted to destroy himself, but ten prevented. On
being discharged Irons the otlice, he proceeded to a so'a-
Lary place neat Rinirose lltlt, where tits suspended hint.
sett by a cord from a tree. Od being cutclown, medical
aid was procured, but it was too late, he being quite
dead.—tie is 15 years of age.
lttqat Gtu E. —An elegant cement may be made from
rke-fluur, wttich is at prestut used for that purpose in
Clouts and Japan. It is only necessary to mix the r:ec-•
Haar intimately with cold water, and gently simmer it
Offer tile fire, when it readily forms a delicate slid durable
CC1111:111, 110' only aimvering all the purposes of common
piste, but 1.011 joining together paper,
card, Sze. tat homing the various beatriful lad tasteful
()roam: tits w It ;en afford su 1011 Ch employment Muse-
MOIL 10 the ladies. \Viten made of the totisisklice of
plitsiie city, models, busts, Lasso-relievos, Sac. may be
twitted ; aittl the articles when dry are susceptible of
high 1101'00, Jllll Are vc•ry durable,
Orders ore repeatedly received at the victualling-
()thee, Plymouth, tbr the shipm:nt tat bisc,.it to Ire-
:and tier the use of the poor peasantry; 12LOU b.4;1
had Inch scut call: