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London, England, 1818-11-29 00:00:00

W EUNESDA Y.

Mr.Searlett moved for a rule to show canse why a criminal
inforimition should nut be tiled against Thumas and Richard
Abbotts (styling themselves the Commercial Wine Company),
on affidavit., which disclosed in substance, that the delete•
dints being Nine-merchants, and well knowing the value of
Wine, had prevailed ton and conspired with certain needy.
D •rsons to obtain wine MI credit, and then purchase it of them
au little more than half price. The affidavit of Wrench, a
b aika iipt, stated, that being dish essed for ready money,
tb • defendants had coins and cdfervil lum rt 11. for wines which
.]tai been charged to him at 1301. o the 2:011 of May, ISt 7,
issidig again pressed for cash, he ealtr•l on them, and after
t.tey had talked of hut ttttt r and inviolable secrecy in their
tz,insdethms, they advanced him about half the value ut a
few doze," of wine, paying 11411 of the price in shuts. In
July the same persuil &Wattled from Alessis. Milked and Co,
respecialole ittereliant.r, tott alreen of wine, for which he was
charged 3.51. The Abbotts gays hint 261. fur the tut. The
aealof Halkeil was on the corks, -so flat the Abbotts knew
very well front whom it came. 'Flury afterwards asked him
if he had any wine in the docks ? lie replied, uu : lint I.e
knew where to get sonie, and accorditegly bought a pipe oit
credit fur SI. exclusive of the duty. He asked them to g„
to the duck to taste it ; they refused. saying it was contrary
t r Ihcir Clabildentall Nay of doing business; but they sent 4
bay to bring a sample, and when it ram: they g:IVC the de-
p•onent 211. in ready money, for the pipe. In Sept. 1817,
t •ey seat deponent a letter to ask if he had any Cape wine.
He had hone, but immured three pipes oil coedit, and melt-
tioned of whom; ahoy. said they required no sample, for they
kilt.... the. %%me. The pa ice charged toy the seller, ?Simpson, to
deponent wa ; the Abbotts gat e hien 361. There were a
number of other aedances of the same description ; and,
to about • ni Pat to the 'tint of I okial. had
passed tin °No in, di well hp. hand., ''or which hr had re-
ceived ItO
first toe, hilts, *twit; he had um hint, and that he had it

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nu credit. His credit being impaired. the!. objected to deal
with him by his own name ; *arm w h ich be ilivealed • ficti
liven u;:e, and in that they aecepted ids statement:
were confirmed by carnival ison with the dock accounts.—Rule
to show.Cllllle granted.

Mr. liaselee noosed fora habeas corpus, to bring lip a gen-
tleman confined in Winchester gaol under the following eir-
envestances :—There being a great tumult round his houses
ou the (occasion of a lido-vest home, and actual danger that his
house would be attacked by a moh, he went out, and fired a
blondes buss loaded with powder, in the air ; on his going out
to tire it a second time, the bl lerbuss 'mist and shattered
his hand, hut no other person was hurt. In consequence of
his having refused to quit the neighbourhood. a person lied
held him to bail nailer Lord Elleothorongle's Act, for firing
wills intent to kill ; and be was committed to prisou.—The
Court granted a writ.

THE KING V. THE JUSTICES OF OXFORDCHIRE.-(CORONERS.)
Mr. Jervis showed comic why the Justices shoold not al-
low Mr. Cecil, the coroner. his expenses on renal-Meg home
flour an inquest. The question turned on the words of the
25th Geo. c. 9. a. 1, a hurls allows ninrpence a stile to co-
roners, for travelling from the wised place of abode to take
each imptisition." The learned counsel contended, that under
these words, the expenses were limited to the coroner on going
out. The allots:nice on returning home had never been al-
lowed in Oxfordshire.

Mr. Taunton, for the coroner, evened that the object of the
legislature was to indemnify the officer; and it could not be
meant that he should be paid out, and left to find his way
home as he could. "To take the inquisition," only meant
that lie should not be paid If he travelled for any oilier pm.
pose.
Mr Justice Bayley said, that long since the Act passed. fif-
teen pence a mile was the whole charge for four horses. That
was before the ditties were imposed.
Chief Justice Abbott observed, that chaises scarcely ex-
isted in those time, and nine.pence a mile was sufficient to go
and return, if the coroner travelled on horseback. He
thought the constrnetion put on the Act by the justices was
the right construction.

Rafe discharged with costs.
THURSDAY.
ALLEGED MURDER IN A CONVICT slur.

Mr. Rolland prayed that Captain Drake, who was brought
ap by tial'eas Corpus from Maidstone-gaol, might be admit-
ted to bail in a case of nuirder.

The Attoruey General desired that the affidavits on both
sides might be then read.
'these affidavits, which were very lnng and nnmerons, at
well as the informations taken before Mr. Carter, the Magis-
trate at Greenwich, disclosed in substance the fullowing cir-
cumstances —The ship Chapman sailed from Cork with con-
victs for New South. Wales, in Match, 1517. Every thing
went on well till the ship arrived at St. Jago, when there was
a slight quarrel between some of the convicts and the soll.
fliers. At this time it seemed that * convict of the name of
Collins (whether from a view to procure himself his liberty,
or from what motive did not appear), heel persuaded the
officers end the doctor of the ship, that there existed among
the convicts a conspiracy to rise upon the crew and take the
ship. The officers, impressed wills the truth of this story, on
the night of the 17th. of April, after the convicts had gone to
bed, and had been fastened flown by the chain cable being
placed upon the scuttles, caused the crew to fire down upon
the consicts,which was done fur two hours, according to some
of the affidavits; for only one, according to others. Three
of the convicts were killed and a great molly wounded : the?
lay groailioz and crying out fur the doctor all night, but no-
body 4'.6111C to them till near nine .''cluck the next morning.
The doctor then told them that it was all their own faults,
for they had conspired to rise on the crew; this they all
solemnly detied• They were afterwards brought up to the
hatchway, and examined on their kites., as to this supposed
conspiracy, particularly as to a saw and turnserew uhich
they were supposed to have secreted. They all denied
the conspiracy, and on their births being searched, oohing
was fonuil but a few nails and a file. After this, the convicts
were treated with great harshness ; several floggings took
place, and one man had a bayonet run into him because lie
cried out while some fetters were rivetted on his leg with red
hot rivets. The convicts were repeatedly threatened with
death ; and on the night of the 22.1 of April, after they had
retired to bed, and been fastened dewn as before, a
second firing on them took place from all parts of the ship,
awl lasted nearly two hours. Another was killed, and se-
veral more woumded, and no as%istanee afforded till the next
morning. On the 21th of June, four or five of the convicts
were chained into the jolly boat, and one of them shot ;
another was put in the long boat, where he died in four days.
All the affidavits asserted that there had been no conspiracy
whatever, nor any resistance, or the slightest 'appearance of
resistance, either before the first tiring, beta reit that and the
second firing, after that filing, or during any part of the
voyage. The crew had been !maid to speak of Collins as
the saviour of the ship ; and alter the 17th of April, the
convicts had been treated on all oreasionti with the must
relentless severity. The affidavits of several soldiers on
board the ship stated, that the firings did mot continue above
10 minute% or a (ratter of an hour; according to some. slot
more than five or six minutes ; that a belief heel been ge-
nerally entertained among the crew that the convicts in-
tended to rise ; that before the fi: big commenced a
disturbance was heard among the prisoners below, and an
alarm given that they %%VIP 1/11tAk illg Incise. 011 the oilier
hand, the atfidas it of one of the convicts meted, that lie had
overheard Clements and Baxter, two of the crew, agscr to
give an alarm, in toiler that the tiring might commence.
'rite affidavit of the Captain Maim!, that the convicts wcue
200 in her ; that he was informed by his mate and cren
that they were of a most riotime disposition ; that on the
nights of the firing they had atieinpleil to bleak the locks
of their prison, and had been heard by :ant to say that it
nes a bad jute they hail all been found out , but that,
though they failed thee, they would try another 'intr. lie
had received the must distinct info' ination from Collins, that
there .Ets a regular organised conspit cry to take the stein.
Tile f;.ings took place without any older from the officers,
there being a great alisturbance below, and the crew erode
out th.st the prl centers were rising upon them. tiring
had been slopped solely by the exertion., of the offiects ; for
the crew nese exasperated to the la,t degree, having r
stood they were all to be pun to dent h. his affidavit Int titer
'fated, that be had given ito orders whatever for the drools of
the ettavict %slit) was shot to the jolly boat. Tihrtr. were
several other iittiihvits in --(mot/oration of the captain's:
they *ailed, that t!:ei e was panic among the clew that
the firiug I,ad I'l,lllllle Ile ed white the captain was his
caain, without his triflers, and even contrail to them; that.

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all the exertions of the offirers had oren navieLse to ►top
the firing in less than t.•n minntes or a gesirter of au hour.
Chief. Justice Abbott.—Mr. Assures General, all the *llea
gaiiotis have keen r' ad upon which the prisoner was com-
mitted, and Annie on his behalf; the Court thinks that Ibis is
a cane m whirls the prisoner should lie allowed to gibe bail;
of cotirse it will be ascertained that the bail are sofficient.
'f he Attorney Gi.neral said, there was no objection to the
bail, who were then sworn ; Mr. Lee, ship builder, and
Messrs. Chapman. merchants, of tint
/USA L I.T.— Belinda Tantre, Thomas Rountree, Joseph
Parish, and George Carron, were called en for judgment,
liar ins( pleaded guilty, by their counsel's sdrice, to an indict.
meat for an assault on Lady Culebrooke and her grand daugh-
ters in August last.

Mr. oiir"ney said, lie forbore to pray judgment against Be-
linda Tea& ; and as Carroll did not appear, and his conduct
was less blameable than that of the other, he should say
nothing as to him. He then stated the particulars attic case.
The two young ladies were un a visit to their grandmother,
and in her custody, when the mother tried to take them flora
her by en application to the Court of King's Bench ; and that
tidies:. had recourse to violence. And what account did Mr.
Boultbee give ? —that he was a merchant and a gentleman;
and yet he came on an appointment only one day old, to mite
an attack on four helpless females, with treasons who were
not known to him—a waterman and a prize fighter; pretty
company for a gentleman to join himself to, in such an enter-
prise! Ilse prize tighter, too, had pistols; and though it was
stated that they were not loaded, they might have been for
aught Mr. Boultbra knew. He funned, by his own account,
that they ladies were unwilling to feat e their grandenue
Cher, but he still continued to act as director and costume:der.
When Parish endeavoured to drag the young ladies out of
the carriage, and the footman interfered to prevent him,
" Knock that fellow down," was the language of this gentle.
man, who, by Isis own account, was endeavouring to prevent
all violence. Tin* was the language lie held to a prize-
fighter ; anal then he sent sway, Hecording to his own account,
the persons who were assembled to take Mrs. 'faaffe's part.
It was impossible to believe this. All the other affidavits
were to the contrary, and said that the by-standers cried out
shame for such an attack on an old lads/. He then desired
them to go away; it was probably because they did nut stn
go away diet this 4..dort of the defend:ads proved unsuccessful.
Mr. Botoltbee said, that he had gone into the carriage at lady
Colebrooke's request ; but the footman said it was at Mrs.
'Fertile's; that she had in fact resigned it herself, and disclaimed
any right to cell her carriage her own. Such au outrage as
this, in the open day, was disgraceful to the country in which
it happened ; but it would be .ll more so, if the author of
it was set at large upon giving security, because that he said
that lie felt some contrition. And what sort of contrition was
this?—such as persons often felt when they were before the
Court, who never l'ett it on any other occasion. The conduct
of a gentleman, who could jnin with a Waterman and a prize-
fighter, upon such an occasion, was not to be distinguished
from that of any unprincipled ruffian. The prosecutors wean
actuated by no vindictive fueliegs ; hid they wished to show,
that an outrage should not be cominitted with impunity on the
persons of unprotected timales.
Mr. Justice Bayley, in passing sentence, said, that the pd.
sone**. offence was one of au aggravated nature, and such as,
fortunately fur the police of the country, rarely occurred—a
systematic plate to way-lay *carriage, in w hick there was one
female So years old, and three others under 20 ; and this was
said to be in aid of Belinda Taaffe, mother of two of the young
ladies, iu order that she might hive an opportunity of seeing
them. The defendant Parish was not any servant of Mts.
Taatfe's, 'tor any commotion of hers ; and the only account
given of Lion was, that lie was a prize-fighter, 41111 had pistols
in his trueket, though it was said they were not loaded. lie
!tad not 'mon with Boultbee po /or to the assault in ques-
tion. Butiltheee account was, that he was most reluctautly
prevailed on by Mrs. Taatit., to assist her in an attempt to see
het childreu, autl protect her from the pottage of Letly
Cole-
bsooke's footman. Did he usake any inquiry before lie en-
gaged in such 4111111derlakillg? Dili he nut know that if they
were detained against their will, and wrongfully, the law
would protect them by a Habeas Corpus ? Or did he trust
implicitly to Mrs. Tato& ? His affidavit dial not state that
he had nut full kilos% ledge of all these circumstances. How-
ev el , lie was °vet come by M rs. 'f gaffe's importunity ; and he
then met her by appointment on Hampsteati.heath— not to go
to Lady Colelitookr's house—and he saw (what would hair
opened the eyes of any reffectiag person) two men with Mis.
one of them having pistols in his pocket, though not
loaded. Instead of remonstrating, he placed himself oil a
hackney-coach. Lady Colebrooke's carriage Caine in view
when the carriage whirl. Bunlthee was seated so conducted
itself as taunt/lett ly In obstruct the way. If hr lied only
wished that Mts. l'aaffe should speak with her danglitt
they might base done without violence. Bat what was the
ca-e The dotes were °fretted, and an endeavour made so
feree the young women out. A %entertain, a pi ize-figlitt r,
end two other 1111'11 attacking one WUIII4II of eight) and three
snider twenty. Mr. Ilenlibee stated, that seeing the )011N:
women not so Willi:ig tat join their mother 113 lie had been 14. d
to expect, lie Jest' oil Its companions to cease t by which I:C
11411 :41/.11111 vll, that 410%1111 to 11141 time llts had acted wish
outrage. Did he then quit that• vantage moil Ease Lath Col..
brooke to return intioniested No! lie anal Mi.. 'fax& pi, •
corded in the cart 'age to London, insisting on Mrs. 'faade's
right to have. the children. Mr. Booth bee took ertalit that he
had prevented the crowd hoist increasing the anuoyau• e :0
Lady Colidnooke. liut iii what a siiiietien t lie I aye
placed that lady, when, titan the impetuosity or a v
w iiiii an, lie hail thaws, twilit hi 1 the indi4siation tat a crowd Ile
had stated the circumstances ale most larnurahle manner,
and aerorilinit to Mr. It•iiiltbetos affidavit. The affidavit. on
the oilier side gave a omit lo worse t iew of the ease, lit. ' a
kat hinsself must nnyostitialily and imp ink nth toe Wlllll4
who Was not a cool jmige ill w lost she was about to du ; he
Thad lent ',Outwit' to an outrage, such as forielietel% Was 11l
frequent. Conti would nut do its dilly, it it did nut
protect others front 4 S. ; 111111 baud ft
pimislinient might tonnes , it was must requisite that bend.'
111411 4Cltati oil such he SIIOIII.I think. Tile Ciilll3
luctrture '4.11111111 'WWI 11.. e to four calendar in•
pi isiinment in the cieatoly of the Marshal of the Marshall/a a,
to filet see Ili it% for good behaviour, to pay a tine of lUJt, and
be further imprisoned till it was 1141 d.

COURT OF tONIION Nov. 23.
ASsIGNEIVI UF WRIGHT V. GRAHAM.
Tlii4 %VMS nn Action agailixt di!. Inlaid for Eriminal con-
verv4tioss auth the ploolittFa Wile. It wio. Is ird
in .Augtn.t, Itllfi, ht.tine the late Chief itt,tott of 'h.. Co. -
mon and a vershet gibes tor the ranttitt. vtith (1. -
wage, tOi 100111. It happrise.l that the lotainiitl hail to. n
them ititltb.utl to the defendant in a e of ..DUI. It I• it.,

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ftezt yeti, that that should be pnt,by way of set off, in part of
itisfeetion of the deitiages; and, at a meeting het qo cell the
41111 their n.l4lol:five solicitors, the rem:dopier WAX
with Ilie Cll/414, deli r receipt in full given. The
hgtv ever, iteglectol 1114 V illg caused satisfaction of jitilginent to
be entered 011 the record-11 commission of bank' uptry
isitted against the plaintiff, Wright, and the a.isic ne es weir
to aunipel plei.oliti to peg' the
Ho* woceeiling at law,
\%ll le damage% over again,
111. Serjeant Best applied to the Court for a t ell. to .hew
CLlll.r why aatisfaesion of judgment should nut be .clewed to
be e9il:ft.il Ott tete rerorti.
The Court said, they shoal grant the rule to ,thew came ;
Ira:, when cense tense to be shewed against they
re I nirt. cootirining the alledged fee t•, iu the •; Fong-
est sad clearest terms, to 'hew that their 810 50r1 oI mid-
betweea tke parties in the action, to the injury of the
as iptees.

• A circular letter bei been forwarded from Lord Siilniontlea
011ie,: to the High liberilft, Mayors, and °tiler chief
otti,•cir, throughout the Kingdom, requiring ►etium to be
the fiat week of January next, ecnitaining—

coconut of all the Gaols, Houses of Cor:ection. or Peniten-
tiaeies in the United Kingdom ; specifying toe number of persons
colioliAtA to est:h. and the greatest number of persons confined in
sti-o, at any period of the yea ;. distinguidimg tried from an-
ts:4l 41,141,:s froal 1•.:111:11eN ; those' under the age of 17 from these
above it ; also under what jurisdiction and suocrintends.iec each
prison is placed, what number of pr:soners each is calculated to con-
tun. into sepNtfttvelasses ur departments it is di-
vided, m l how far the number of those divisions can. without great
inconvenience or expense, he inerease,.l ; also an account of ail allow-
ances of food, money. or clothing made to iiris2itzrs %la
lshour 40%1' and the applicator; th.neo. ; ant generally of the 40b-
SiAjjW teguiations for the tligeiilline and government of each prison,
aul in what ivataorrs thoso regulations had been deviated front in
tie course of the year IRIS, and whit has b:-an the occasion of such
deriatina, and under what Authority it. has been allowed, in all such
priiollA respivtively."

The following are some further particulars respecting the
fire which took place at Carroll's Lottery Combat—
Mr. Carlon resides at Waldroustow, an.l Ito person lived in
the house in town ; All oil lamp, covered with glass, was always
fell binning on the counter ; the gas hail beet, 'timed off pre-
vious to the clerks (loafing the premises, and, therefore, how
the fire happened it is impossilde to aseettain.--Mr. Smith's
child, the culler, in Luitibard-st riot, was saved through the
artietly and pi-Neve, Alive of Jones, one of the Rank Messen-
gers; he suet Mi. Smith on the stairs, and 'Tim leaini lig lie had
a child it, bed in the upper story of the house, he iminedi•
ately we'd with hint, snatched the child front the bed. and
on returning down stairs, the flames surrounded them, aid
Mr. Smith's hair was nearly burnt off; we are sorry to add
Mr. S. received a serious injury in the leg. He was insur-
ed, but not to the aniline of property lost.—Ou the Satur-
day anemone, soon after four o'clock, the oeighlemrhood of
Lumbaril-street was alarmed by the cries and screams of the
passeeigees,oreasioned by the fall of the front of Mr. Smith's
house, which had remained in a precarious situation front the
fire before mentioned. At the time the wall gave way, the
street was crowded with passengers and persons looking at
the destruction the fire had caused. Ten or twelve persona
were buried iq the ruins. A very respectably dressed female
woo su amen jairded that she was conveyed away atipareutly •
lifeless, having an eye knocked out, and her lead greedy in
jured. The son of Mr. Nlack reth, grocer, in Loinbard.stieet, •
aged IS, was so dreadfully bruised that he was taken home
and died to a short time ; J. .Inderson, of the l'hootix tire •
Office, had his ,knit shockingly fractured; a little girl, about
seveit Betas Obi, was killed; two lads and a winking man were
also taken front the ruins, the latter was pin upon a shutter
and carried to the hospital : two of :t It. Stitart's suns, of the
eating house it, George-street, were in company with young
Mackreth. dint were buried in the ruins; one died the
night, and the ether is said to be in a dangerous state. Several
other persons were taken away, and we fear the injury they
have sitsteined, not falai, will he of a Very merioll*,
nature. During the whole of the night the street was crowd-
ed w 411 envious impairing friends; and, not withstaatlin; the
falai accident, the firemen and City potties officers had g red!
difficulty in preventing the idle cariosity of numbeis fiten
.sisking a similar recurrence, as the remaining part of the
building was expected to fall every moment. The street was
Jaw icadued, neither carriages nor foot passengers were stir-
feted to pass. Carriages wire also prevented passing through
Cot 'Mill, as the front of Mr. Carrolfe house remained in the
a, • dangerous state. By the fell of Mr. Smith's wall, the
Clearing house opposite had a great nit:alter of windows bro..
ken, but the Bankers' Gerks, who attend at that hour, for-
tiniatelv escaped ally injary. 111 consequence of the above
melancholy event, the intil roadies weer not allowed to enter
L mtbard-street ; they drew up in Combat And UNA' Ille hank ;
the bags were conveye:i to them.
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SHAMEFUL Outrage.—On Tuesday evening, a soldier, in
the wadies!" of the tinarik, went into the 13 lack Boy pnolic-
h-Jose, Little Towei ibli, and •Iter drinking some beer, ten-
dered Pixpowe in payment, and ecti vv.! the change : lie
■ witty afters% anis insisted that the eitange had mit beta given
to him, and although st veral of tile persons who were ',sent
and saw the money handed to him, entleaentired to 4'oll Chit."
11011 that lie way unmakes), lie pee sisted in his deimind, and 41
alt went oat iliitateningvellgOilleeitg:lllllo eyed y person in it.
to less 111.1,411%c inmates lie roan ned with 12 of his cointailes,
sv in Wert 411141 tea et! in the neighboin hood, who immediately
f need tiieniselsts 111(0 tile V3IIIIIIS 41141111u1114 art thy house,
armed themselves with the fire.irons, acid commenced a ge-
II 'gal attack ppm; the fiimily, customers, and proper!y. Se-
veral persons edecied their escape at the back part of thr
premises, others %NAV di eadfully beat and wounded. On
their 1:1111411tee they took possession of the bar, broke all hit
bottles, and %vast eft the liquor. A man, his wile. and child viol!
sitting there at supper; the child was loin lions the motile'
and thrown into the fire place, the mother knocked down,
- and the father taliumanly beaten. Sea cral neigh hones lie:trill
the cry of murder assembled in front ki the house, bat were
hatimidated try the violence of the solilicus, and witness,' d
their shameful conthict without bring :tide to prevent it.
After riemoiishing the iadows, door, and the trading stork
of the ii use, and compelling every' person to fly, they quitted
Lie place. Ale. :‘lllold, the 1411111ord, eldleeted his (beads
8,1,1 set era' %smelting:it and went iipin,nit of the rioters.
Also,' magma search he StiCreuded 111 taking Wile Of Wein
into ensto.ty, lodged them in a w well-house.
J,,vrmel says--" The advantage ol' salt to slictii is
stroii,;ly exclopli tied by the of Mr. Curfeen sstearTing South
lhovn this year. The fv:is vale le:fleetly wuntl, which Sas tardy
the case. Fur wet siteauons, salt i. must valuable. Mr. lumen has
ofi'Lote, and ant t slaga: bad herr, mini scarcely the
upp,iirance LC a.O a u, t. OM UllOll The sleep on wile and
turnip received sals atm Uwe' a ces.."

itrdstsin.

POLICE.

CUI i.OHALL.

George I leaue WAR Its-aught before the sitting Alderman,
Sir Win. Demrilliu, far pieking a gentleman's pocket of his
pocket-,t. I dLeit ii t, in Fleuut-steret, en Monday night.
Mr. C. Camerfoi I, solicitor, Nu. 10, Copileall—costrt,
motion-Area, said, he w:is passing in Fleet-street, (WA alas
Clidurd's-* „un 1/111.ine.4s, when he- felt 4 sud.len Ing at his
pocket, and, on taming round, saw the prisoner with one
end of his silk-handket chief in his 1141111, fs hick he let go
immediately on finding himself discovered. sta as animism
being near the spot, the prisoner was taken into custody.
Osi being pesticidal ly questioned, Mr. Canna-fort said the
lianilkeriJnef was never entirely oust of his pueket ; the psi-
sumer had hold of one end of it, but shy detected before he
obtained complete possession.
Toe worthy Magistrate held that not to be a suffirient taking,
and accordingly committed the prisoner to lake his trial I.llr
the misdemeanour otil
Mr. S. a respectable married gentleman, was bronght up
by the parish officers of St. Nicholas Ohm, on a warrant or
Lastardy.
Elizabeth lluekinaster, the girl on whose evidence the
warrant had been granted, was in appearance a mere child,
although she stated herself to be IT years of age. She had
lived servant in Mr. S.'s family far d short lime.
Mr. S. said he should scarcely have known the girl by sight, ,
and had never taken the slightest Cl:intim-icy with ner. She
was hired by his wife, and discharged by her a few days after
AS an idle, good-for-nothing girl. The hiring, it appeared,
took place on the 31.1:b 4 Ani,-;:;:, !t•ft his service on
1"7 :isupiember, sin( e fali:.ll period he had never sesr:
or heard of her, site was stated to be in the thild month of
her pregnacy.
hit oath was then administe •ed, and the girl, with an ef-
frontery 141101 beyond her years, persisted in the evidence
she had given.
Mr. S. declared she had perjured herself, and was de-
termined to have the case fully investigated. Two respectable
gewlemen then cum ed into tecugaitzauce for his appearance
Al the Sessions.

PA WN nitOliEn4.—Mr. Gray, a respectable pawnbroker in
Flcet.strect, was sununuiied to 411511(0' the ellinillaint lit' Mrs.
Jame Shepherd, 58, Upper Th Sillt,-street, for 111114,A hilly 41e.
tensing I silver table-spoon. awl 6 tea spoons, her property,
contrary to the statute.
The complainant stated, that some time in August last, hav-
ing occasion. to ;F) out for short instance, she left the door
half open : stud us her absence some person unknown entered
the house, and stole the articles 10 question. Judging that
the property was very likely to he pled4ril, she made, sn_
pussies at several pawnbrokers' shops, and at length discovered
the property at Mr. tis ay's in pledge for :Ws. in the name of
Elizabeth Green, lodger, in Thames-sts stet. No pes-sou of
that name was to be Kassel according to that address, and
51s. Gray roused to dc:sver the properly, sinless paid the
amount lent by him upon them.
r.Gray, and several persons in the trade, on. his part, con.
, tended he could not know that the properly was stolen ; the
spoons had been legally pledged with Iwo, and lie had Scut
nearly the valise uposi thesis. lle was not bound to kiwis or
allow that they were the property of Mrs. Illeislteitt, oulil
that tact was proved, oil the prosecution of the offender, anti
that lie had a sight to detain thesis for Ilse purposes of such
prose:cos:on.
Oss reference to the Act of Parliament, is appeared, that in
the case of property pawned without the pip/Sty of she owner,
whether stolen or otherwise, the party to whom soils properly
belonged was entitled, on snaking oath before one Magistrate
to tile tact, to his warrant to search for the same ; cud such
Magistrate was fully authorized and empowered to tinder
z•taell property, if found, to be delivered to the owner or
owners thereof, on proof of the °wises ship being made before
him, on the oath of one dirisiterested witness.
Mts. Shepherd's sister then made oath that the table spoon
was the property of the complainant t but she would not swear
to the tea-spoons, there being sto mask on them by which she
could positively identify them as her sister's property. The
table-spoon was, therefore, by us der of the Magistrate, sli;
livered to Mrs Shepherd, and the six tea-spinsua were se-
taiued by Mr.6i ay.