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London, England, 1811-07-21 00:00:00

NATIONAL R!GISTVR.

Chapel was greatly frequented was a matter of such public no
that it could not be disputed. The munificent donations
of Mr. Hill, to what he might conceive charitable purposes'
fibritted no part of the present question ; the only question wta,
whether the property which furnished the means of his charity
sees rateable to the poor. Those whose cause he was advocat-
tug viewed with alarm and apprehension the splendid and bene-
ledent donations of Mr. Hill, justly considering them as the
Most powerful instruments employed in the propaganda :irirem
of methodism. What claim had people of this descripti,ai to
De exempted P None whatever; for he was persuaded, and
Many person, and wise ones, too, were of opinion, that the pre-
sent prevailing, and increashg system of methodists existed for
this ultimate and final destruction of the established Church of
England. He believed Mr. Hill thought that his preaching did
not operate to the prejudice of the Church of England ; but let
tie fact speak for itself: Was it not manifest that wherever
these Methodist meeting-houses existed, the worship of the
established Church of Englund was not held in the repute it
'aught to be t Men could :lot serve God and Mammon. They
could not follow the doctrines of these Methodist Ministers,
aud at the same time love or respect the regular Ministers of
the established Church, whom (,d, and the constitution of
'their country, had appointed to intrust them. He concluded
with submitting, that the Chapel in question .ought to be in-
eluded in the rate.
Mr. Lames and Mr. _Nolan, for the parish, adtbitted, upon
the evidence which had been produced, the liability of the
Chapel to be rated; but they contended that the evidence ne-
gatives: the proposition that Mr Hill was the proprietor.
Mr. Cowie?! and Mr. Shepheed, Counsel for Mr. Hill, argued
to the same effect.
Lord Minot.EyoN stated, that the Court were of opinion the
~property was nut sufficiently vested in Mr. Hill to entitle the
pal tsh to make the rate on him. The present appeal was there-
ore dismissed. _

ADMIRALTY SESSIONS.

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ituAy 19.;

STEVENSON's •
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:dlr. &meat, nn the pat. cf the prosecution, moved the Court
itspostpOne the trio' until 'he next Sez;sion of Capt. John Steven-
soh, inciict_d for an assault on a lady of the name of Popple-
the ground of the unavoidable absence of Capt. Aus-
tin. novv on a voyage to St. Domingo, whom he stated to be a
most material witness. In support of this statement, the Learned
Counsel put in a variety of affidavits.
Mr. Strjeant Vaughan, o; the part of the prisoner, said, that
however anxiously his
client might wish to be delivered from
this charge by a trial at the present Session, yet he was perfectly
ready to admit, that the affidavits jut read stated facts which
must make it highly proper for t he..euert to consider how far it
would be expedient tu comply with the motion of his Learned
Friend, by putting off the trial 'trail the nest Se.,,ion. He beg-
ged leave to submit, that his client was in dirt detained as a
prisoner in England, inasmuch as he could out proceed on any
voyage to the West Indies, or elsewhere, while this charge was
ouspended over his head, and while be was hound by sureties to
abide his trial at any time the Court in its discretion should
appoint. All he would intreat of the Court for his client, under
such circumstances, was, that an alteration might he made in
the reeognizances, and that he might be enlarged, merely upon
his own security, to appear at the next • ession, when he would
-certainly attend, as being naturally aaxious to bring this matter
to its termination.

To this proposition Mr. Scarktt could not accede; hut he de-
clared his readiness to agree, if, at the next Admit alty Session,
lw should be unprepared with the testimony of Capt. Austin.

OLD BAILEY.

Tuesday the Sessions ended,sentence of death waspassed on—
John Francis,- for forgery ; Eliz. Leach, for a like offence ;
Mary iVl'llonald, for stealing goods and monies in a dwelling-
bousit ; Susannah M'Pherson, alias Aroott, for stealing 141.
in Bank mars, in a dwelling-house ; James Hodgetts, for
stealing goods, value 1161. in a dwelling-house ; John Robinson,
for a highway robbery; Joseph Antonio and J,):epli Kin, for a
like offence; Elizabeth King, for stealing goods in a dwelling-
house ; and Thomas Mann, for forgtry.
Sentence of Transportation was passed on the following,

Wm. Daniels, Wm. Smith, and Jonas Michel, were ordered
to be transported for life ; Thos. Judge and Thos. Leech, for
14 years; Matthew Murphy, John Manning, Wm. Wellings,
Diana Fidler, alias Schultz, Ann Carroll, Richard Parn-.41,
Robert Mansfield, Elizabeth Smart, Diana Crow, Henry
Ashton, Alicia Cox, Amelia Major, Richard Frederick, John
Walrnsley, Charles Norton, Thomas Dennis, John Cox,
.Wm.
Hall, Thomas Mitchell, Joseph Ibbetson, Thos. l'orner, Ann
Bates, Sarah Stones, Sarah Atkins, Elizabeth Waters, Hannah
Lelr, Sarah Wise, Ann Kennedy, and Mary Haynes, for seven
years.
Eleven were ordered to be imprisoned in the House of
Correction at Cierkenwell for one year, and 14 for six calen-
dar months; 14 for imprisonment in Newgate for different
periods; 16 judgments were respited ; 8 were ordered t o be
privately whipped ; and 28 were discharged by proclamation.
The Sessions were adjourned to the 18th September.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, Bfc.

ROBBERY OF THE GLASGOW BANK.

On Sunday night last, it was discovered that the office of
the Paisley Union Bank Company, Glasgow, had been en-
tered by means of false keys, and robbed f Scotch Bank-
notes, Bank of England notes, and cash, to the amount of
,20,(X)01. Suspicion falling upon three men, who for some
days preceding had been seen in Glasgow, Mr. Campbell, an
Oiticer of the Police, of Edinburgh, and two of the gentle-
men belonging to the Bank, set off in pursuit of the robbe.s,
who, as well as themselves, travelled in a post-chaise and
four, and whom they traced td Darlington, and from thence
followed • them the London road to Welling, in Hertford-
shire, where they left a portmanteau, to be forwarded to
a gerson in 'Tottenham Court-road ; and then carne on in a
cbaise and four to town, and wer:? put down in CoVentry-
street, were all trace of them were then lost ; but Mr. Camp-
hell making application at the Public Office, Boca-street,
Lavender, Vickery, and Adkins, three of the Officers, accom-
- st by Mr. Campbell, were to the house in l ottenhain
..;;..aujoad, where • the piivis,4,inteau had been directed to,
and *here they found A bcoi,-vessitai.ling a nturther .ai pick-
locks, skeleton keys, and 'various other implements for house-
breaking, and which, from being directed the same as the port-
manteau, and an innkeeper's ticket also found there, they
had no doubt been very recently sent to town. The officers
learning that the owner of this house was at present in the
Rules of the King's Bench Prison, went the same night to his
residence in the neighbourhood of St. George's Fields, where
they apprehended a well-known character of the name of
Lofton White, who, a few months since, escaped from
one of the hulks at Woolwich. White, on the officers
entering the house, was going to jump out at the one-
pair of stairs window ; but Vickery perceiving his inten-
tion, called out to him to desist, or he would shoot him
—when be returned, and was secured without mischief.
On searching the house the identical portmanteau was found
that had been forwarded from Welling, but which contained
only wearing apparel. On the person of White was found
16 guineas and some Bank of England notes. On Friday,
White, and the man of the house where he was taken were
examined before Mr. READ, at Bow-street, when Adkins,
the Governor Qf the House of Correction, Cold Bath-fields,
attended, and recognised the person of White as having bean
convicted at the last Summer Assizes at Chester for being at
large within this kingdom before his former sentence of trans-
vrtation was expired, and receiving a second sentence of
transportation for life.—White and the other man were commit-
ted fur further examination.

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