The National Register.
London, England, 1821-04-08 00:00:00

CROWN SIDE.

Solomon Joseph vvaT indicted for stealing, at New-
ington, on the ts3d of August laid, 4th) gold 4uvertigr.s,
the property of llessrs. Whitmore and Co. There writ,
other counts, layin Mr properly to be in tither persons.
This case excited eutisidcrAle interest.
It appeared in evidence, that un the 23d of August


lasi, a parcel, containing 400 gold sovereigns, was sent
from the Golden-cross, Charing-cross, by the Chichester
coach, directed to Messrs. Hack, Dandy, and Co. of
Chichester. There was but one inside passenger iu the
coach. When the coach arrived at the 'Elephant and
Castle, St. George's-fields, it stopped for above five
minutes to take up outside passengers and baggage.—
When it stopped to change horses at the first stage out
of town, the inside passenger, who had paid his tare to
Chichester, was missing. This excited some suspicion
in the coachman, and on searching the coach seats,
where the parcel had been locked up, it was also gone.
It appeared upon enquiry that the inside passenger left
the coach when it stopped at the Elephant and Castle,
and no doubt was entertained that he had carried off the
parcel with hint. The question was, whether the pri-
soner Was the mall. The coachman and the guard, the
latter of whom accompanied the coach to the Elephant
and Castle, expressed their firm belief that he was
the person, but neither of them would swear to him
positively.
The prisoner declared his innocence, and said he was
prepared to skew that he was at home with his family
at the tune the robbery was co iiiiiii tied.
Accordingly four persons, Lazarus Joseph, the priso-
ner's father, Edward White, a person connected with the
custom-house, Isaac Alexander, secretary and reader to
a jewish synagogue, Alin Edmonds, a female servant of
the prisoner, and Samuel Coleman, one of the outside
passengers who had travelled with the Chichester coach.
were called, and the substance of their testimony was,
that the prisoner had arrived from Hamburgh with his
father on the 221 of August, that he was in bed at his
house in Berwick-street, Soho, at seven o'clock on the
morning of the 23d, when the robbery was alleged to
have been ct d, that he was down at the custom-

house on the morning of the 23d at nine o'clock, and
that he was not the inside passenger who had left the
coach. A great number of respectable persons, Chris-
tians as well as Jews, spoke of hint as an hottest and
industtious
The case went to the Jury under the learned Judge's
directions, and they found the prisoner Not Guilty.
The prisoner had been out on bail, and had surrendered
to take his trial.
?HI RING V. LED AND ANOTHER.
KINGSTON, APRIL 4.—This was au action tiled by the
Attorney-General against the defendants, for assaulting and
obstructing an excise ufficer, named Goldsmith, in the exe-
cution of his duty. The Jury found the defendants Guilty.
THE KING V. LONG AND TWENTY-ONE CYPHERS.

This nos an indictment °ohm the defendants,who are all
journeymen huttels, for u conspiracy to raise the price of
bogey. It wus arranged on both sides -that the defendants
should safer a verdict of Guilty to be recorded against them,
and when brought up for judgment, to urge such matter in
suit igatiou as would not be a defence to the indictment. A
verdict of Guilty tvm accordingly entered.