The National Register.
London, England, 1822-07-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

CAUTION TO raa UNWART.—JamesJones,an elderly
man of respectable appearance, was imiicted for stealing
two 51. notes, the property of Thomas Robinson, front
the person of Anne, his wik, by the stale trick of hiding
under the pot.
Mrs. Robinson deposed to the facts.
Smith, a street-keeper, who took the prisoner into cus-
tody on the charge of the plaintiff, said he searched him
amid found a quantity of sovereigns, a foreign Kohl coin,.
and Wine flash notes, which prisoner attempted to. de-
stroy. As witness was taking him to Guildhall, a des-
perate attempt was Made to rescue him, but it lolled.
The prisoner protested his innocence, and said he won
the money fairly. He could have called witnesses, but
tie was not aware that his trial would have come on so
soon. Being asked to mune these witnesses, he stam-
mered and hesitated, and at length said he could not re•
collect them.
The Jury found him guilty, without hesitation.
The Recorder said, he rejoiced extremely at the ver-
dict of the Jury, and he only regretted that the prisoner's
companions were not also at the bar to participate in the
sentence which the Court was about to pass. He might,
howeser, tell them, that if they should he convicted of
similar practices, they would inevitably share the saute
fate..si-lie then sentenced the prisoner to be transported
for the term of his natural life.
WEDNESDAY, JULY W.—John Swann, a anan of
very respectable appearance, was indicted l'or feloniously
receiving one chest of tea, the prootrty of Messrs. Kent-
Me and Smith, wholesale tea dealers, lrom a man whose
Hattie is oiiktiuvyti, he well knowing the same to have
been stolen.
Mr. tValfurd, in stating the case for the prosecution,
said that until lately a man could not he tried for a Ido-
-1 nious receiving of goods, unless the principal should be
first trieo and convicted. 'lime Legislatuie, however, in
order to remedy this defect, had in the present session
passed an act which gave power to a jury to try persons
tor a felonious receiving of goods, even tituugh the prioci-
pal should not be in custody. This was the first case
which had arisen since the passing of this act, and it
would be for the Court to say whether the indictment was
properly framed or not.
J. he Recorder said, the Court, in case of a conviction
would probably refer the matter to the consideration of
the twelve Judges.
Daniel Blight, a surveyor of the Thames police, de-
posed, that having heard that a chest of tea had been
stolen from a curt of the prosecutor's, he went to the
house of the prisoner, who is a slop-dealer, near Tower-
hill. Having made known the nature of his errand, he
proceeded to search the house, and Mond some pieces of
a broken tea chest, which the prisoner, on being ques-
tioned, said lie had purchased time day before for fat-wood.
—On a further search witness found deposited upon the
soil unilertieatit the seat of a water closet a consideralt le
quantity of tea in a sack. lie then took prisoner into
custody.
'lllOlllaS Hodges, carman to the prosecutors, proved
that a chest tat tea was stolen Isom a cart in wilicht were
sixteen chests, which he was elitist:pug to Colchester ;
and the pieces of a chest were found in the prisoner's
house. This closed the case for the prosecution.
Messrs. Alley and Adolphus, for the prisoner, then
raised three objections to the indictment; viz, first, that
the prisoner should have been indicted Lisa principal, and
mint as the receiver ; secondly, that the indictment was
detective in point of twin ; and lastly, that the case as
made out in evidence was not such a one as was Content-
plated by the Legislature when time act in question was
passed. It was impossible (the learned counsk I argued)
that the Legislature could have intended that a Mail
should be turd tor the felonious receiving. worse the
thief was not only not in custody, but not even known
by name er description.
The Recorder said he was of opinion that the first oh
jection was sufficient. His Lordship then said, he would
propose this question to the Jury—if they were of opiniou
supposi Lig the prisoner 'tad been indicted for steal-
ing me goods to restion, instead of for receiving them,
they would, upon the ei %deuce they had heard, have con-
s icied Mtn, then tory would tied a verdict of acquittal
upon the present iudictment ; oinks% ise, the case
should proceed.
The Jurv, after a few moment's cousultation, found a
verdict of not guilty.
TuwitSDAY,JuLY 11.—The whole of' the trials having
been gone through, the Recorder, this martitog, pro-
ceeded to pass iienteliCe Multi the prisuiteri cons iCted
during the sessions—two received sentelice of trampor-
tat not for life—three for fourteen tears-1J tor seven
years, the last, Tobias Burke, was ciiiivicted of bigamy,
and when asked, in the usual torus, what he had to say
why judgmeut should not be passed upon hint, handed
in a written paper, iu which he set faits, that lie had
been entrapped, while drunk, into the first marriage,
(which, as tie was a Protestant, was, iti point Oh law, 01
no dieCt whatever), amid that the witness who had given
evidence against him had 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 offence; and the
Court would not do its duty, if it out nut pass the severest
sentence the law awards."
The 161lowitig unhappy individuals received the sen-
tence of death :—Mary Sky:kilts, Joiui Kerns, Chalks,
Mardi, and Mary Ann Andrews, for stealing in a
dweiliug-house ; and John Atinasley and litizabk.ii
Capps, tor highway robbery.
Anne Clarke, alias Wheeler, who had been capitally
convicted inathe April sessions, but whose jildgilient had
beets stayed MI account of pregnaucv, was put to the bar,
and remanded in the usual
The sessions then adjourned until Wednesday the 1 lth
of September.

To CLEANte THE TEETH, AND IMpRnVE THE BREATH.— I
To four ounces of fresh prepared lime aster, add one drachm
of Peruvialf Bark, wad wash the teeth with the water iu the
morning before breakfast, and after supper. It will effectually
destroy the tartar eta the teeth, and remove the offensive ►well
ariaing from► thole decayed.