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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Ruthen and Mackay. endeavouring to secure the robbers, they only
suxeciod with one, two made their escape--one of the two they ap-
prehended a few days after. Their names were Mars and Flanafran.
They were examined, tried, and convicted of the burglary at the la..t
Surrey Assizes', but were nut executed.
'file reward for the convictions of these two men was divided between
Archibald Huthen, Mackay, and Hubbard. It now appears, that
Hubbard was not only the now, but he was actually the tiiitcl robber
in the burglary of the clock and watchntakes; and Archibald Ruth=
knew that llubbard was one or the robbers, he having received infor-
mation to that effect; and for this neglect of duty, Mr. Narea ordered
hint into custody, and connuitual hint.
We have used the Christian name of Archibald, in alhelin3 to
Ruthens as he has a brother belonging to the onice not connected with
hint.

Thursday. Mackay made a full and shocking disclosure of the various
eases in which he had been concerned, and of others which had come to
his kno.vledge. One case w`ikh he stated was that of a poor sailor,
casually found at a poblic-house, who was sent to purchase a loaf with
counterfeit-money, and immediately afterwards seized by Vaughan,
who was in waiting, tried, and convicted !—Vaughan is still atlarge.

Friday, Messrs. Nara and Rimie again resumed the baiinc,s ; when
W. Drake and R. Browne were put to the bar. The former confessed
that he had seen Mackay, B. Johnson. Brown (the other prisoner). and
G. Hubbard, in company with s2veral of the Patrole. They were all
in possession of a great many counterfeit Bank-tokens, which he un-
derstood they had purchased of Ryan. Shea, and others. They paid
for rae:i Is. token ls. 3d. and some of a better sort Is. fal. each. G.

I lublianl's practice was, to pick up persons whom he met with in the
streets, and engage them to carry small parcel+, which were made up
for the purpose, their contents being of little value. Witen they had
carried the parcels a short distance, he would give them a counterfeit
token. desiring them to go to a public-house to get themselves some-
thing to drink with it, and at the same time contriving to drop other
counterfeit tokens into their pockets ; when the circumstance of having
other counterfeit tokens found upon them makes the offence double
that of uttering. While Hubbard was pursuing these practices, John-
son, Mackay, and Browne were following them in league ; and when
they tenderul the counterfeit tokens. Johnson and the others then ap-
peartal, and. pretending, to be Police Officers. searched them, and find-
ing others of a similar manufacture upon them, they securest them, and
made a communication to the agents of the Bank, when the victims
were committetlas agents of miners. They have sometimes put as
many as sit counterfeit tokens into the unfortunate people's pockets.
Drake state lhat he frequently heard them relate these diabolical ad-
ventures. White they pursued this infamous practice, they also det 'cted
and prosecuted guilty utterers. Some of Hubbard's companions. when
not occupied with transactions of this description, used togs) out thieving
with him. After they had convicted people, and had received their re-
wards from the Agents of the Bank, they used to meet at a public-house
in Coleman street to divide it. Drake stated himself to have been pre-
sent when these transactions were going on in the publi:-houses. Hub-
bard in general had a larger proportion for his share, for his ingenuity
in procuring the people. The fellows of whom they bought the coun-
terfeit tokens were admitted to share in what they got from the Bank.
Drake had hitherto been in custody only on a charge of bastardy :
but on Friday the Magistrates committed him on suspicion of divers
offences. Browne was also committed again.

MANSION"-HOUSE.
MONDAY, JULY 15.—ANOTI1ER INFAMOUS CONSPIRACY:—
On Saturday last, our readers will recollect, three poor illite-
rate Irishmen, viz. Quin,Connolly, and Bearden, were capitally
convicted at the Old Bailey, for counterfeiting the coin of the
realm. In their defence thee stated, that being oat empl.n.-
nn.nt, and destitute of bread, they were wandering about for
work, and were engaged by a man, to whom they were in-
known, to accept of " a jou." The person in question then
brought them to a two-pair et'stairs waste room, in Angel-alley,
Moor-lane, Cripplegate, where, having given them a lesson, lie
set them all at work rubbing pieces of metal, the size of shilling■,
with some white composition, and left them, under the pVe-
tence of going out to pi ocure them something to eat and
drink. While waiting for his return, however, the officers
arrived, and they were taken iutc custody. During their trial
also it was announced to the Court, that the actual person who
had so employed them, was apprehended. Brock and Pelham,
two of the officers who apprehended the priaoners, and who
were bound over to appear upon their trial, had absented them-
• selves, and hail forfeited their recognizanecs. In consequence
of the above circumstances, and others which arose upon the
trial, the Judges directed that a special investigation of the
affair should take place before the Lord Mayor, and the fol-
lowing evidence transpired:—
John Berry was now brought up, and charged with con-
spirinf, with several others, in an attempt to take away the
life of the three forementioned persons. Mr. Burgess stated,
that although Pelham and Brock were aware of the circum-
stance, they had not yet come into Court. These persons he
had seen in company a considerable time in the morning with
0. Vaughan, the officer, about Guildhall. The Lord Mayor
ordered two of the Marshahnen to repair to the spot, and in-
form them of the necessity of their attendance. Peihain only
could be found. Vaughan and Brock had retreated. P.
M'Donnell then deposed. that in the month of May last, un the
morning of that day the three Irishmen were taken into'cus-
tody, he was standing at the usnal place in Cheapside, where
they wait for work, when Berry came up, and after some eon-
veraatiun engaged them to go to a holm in Angel-alley, Moor-
lane, for A job. On Saturday last, when witness went to the
Old Bailey, to hear the trial of the men employed by the pri-
soner, he saw the latter waiting at the doors, when he gave an
alarm, and he instantly fled, but was overtaken, and secured.
The Lord Mayor enquired of Pelham what he knew• of Berry,
and how he received information of the prisoners being em-
ployed as coiners. Pelham replied, he knew nothing of Berry.
He was then asked why lie fled from the Old Bailey, and thr-
feited his recognizance, at the time too when Berry was appre-
hended? Pelham replied, that seeing Brock go away, lie follow-
ed—beside, a man at the dour or court told him he would not
be wanted. The Lord Mayor said, he had litt'ie doubt of the
present case proving a conspiracy against the lives of innocent
men, and lie was determined to exert et cry means in his power
to probe the case to the quick. He therefore ordered Berry
I and Pelham to be conveyed to hlewgate, to be kept separate,
and alain brought up for examinatioa.
Tuesday Berry and Pelham, chargal with conspiring in the convic-
tion of the three Irishmen for training. were again broultat opt when
Cartwright and Leadbear.=. Marshalmen, stated, that they had gone
in search of. Bruck, one of the parties RI yucca! of being implicated with
the prisoners. Ile, however, was no where to be found, nor was he
at his ladgings the whole of aloaday nigitt. T. White. an officer,
depOtell m!) its know!. ;Ige of the intimacy between Berry, Pelham,
Brock, Browne. and Vavoglu..a. Witness knew a poblic-hottro in Bar-
bican. where the partiYs were in the habit of muting, but which was
bow rlosAt tine of the principal persons. however, aerpwinted with
the coi,apirazy. he was in L•ui..s of tracing. B. Nl•Donnell tamest.
that he at the ar:r!i-t. as it is called, at King-street. on the morn-
ing whin the three liisita.en were apprehended. They hail cone there
as bril.laver's labourers :a lock fer cmpkwymcnt ; when Berry desired
to Enc.... if they wante.l •• job." He hoard attuwarls of the com-
mitio nt ni the th:...e ..i; knowi.l4 their innocence, had gone to
tee 0:.1 Wiley to h• ;heir fate. 11:1 this ot..a.ion he spied Berry
(who hat proviutuly be, n walking in the Preeu.vard with Brock, Pel-
ham aa.l another); and upo•h attempting to glye him in charge.,
he
was knoekui, down by. a man who escaped, %bile Bur) fled. Tlic.
Latter, however. was a:cur...l. Pntelianl stated, that sic
Watt tanpl..l col to let lodgings in a how,: in Angel-alley, Mo.a-1.144:

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about two days previous to the apprehension of the three men she let a
room to two young men; she could not say to the prisoners. She saw
the convicted men when apprehended in the room, and thought two
of them were those who took the room. The persole who did so spoke
English. (This witness, who denied any knowledge of the prisoners,
upoa being pressed, acknowledged that 'ellitun had called upon her
after the inen had been taken into custody. I Being ordered to go to
Newgate, and see whether any of the convicted persons were those
who hired the rooms, she repaired there, but was unable to identify
them. Mr. Westwood, of the house of Kaye and Cu. stated, that he was
acqnainted with Pelham (who had gone by the names of Murphy and
Phelirn), Brock, and Berry. They had each been with him respecting
bad money. Pelham confessed that he had been to the house of Mrs.
Pritchard; but it was, to ask what had become of a board found
in the room when the Irishmen were apprehended. Berry denied
any share in the conspiracy; but (although he un Monday denied all
knowledge of Pelhain) he now confeseed, that on one occasion the
latter applied to him to watch Browne, who was passing counterfeit
tokens. lie declared vehemently, he was '• a, innocent of the present
charge as the three men who were convicted on Saturday last."
Mr. Burgess said, that if time were allowed, he would undertake to
bring forward the most conclusive evidence of the connexion between
the two prisoners, Bnick and G. Browne. The Lord Mayor said, that
the omnexion was satisfactorily proved; and lie could not but consider
Pelham as a principal, while Berry had been sworn to as a party; and
ordered the prisoners to be remanded, and separately confined.
Brock, the companion of Pelham, Berry. George Brown and
Vaughan, was on Wednesday morning apprehended in bed, at I
house in Fehl.street. Ile was brought before the Lord Mayor at an
early hour, and underwent a private examination which bested two
hours. In the course of this proceeding, his identity was clearly esta-
blished, and he offered to give certain information to the Lind Mayor
upon the subject.
Pelham, already in custody, has also confessed his guilty participa..
tion with a number of other conspirators; and, in a long letter, has
detailed to his Lordship some of the principal facts of the system of his
partners in guilt, and promised to disclose the whole.
White the officer also, who apprehended Brock, give some impor-
tant information; in consequence of which, the Lord Mayor ordered
several other persons discovered to have been connected with dm parties
at present in custody, to be secured.
Brock was afterwards put to the bar in a public manner; when he
was informed by the Lord Mayor, that he was in possession of suffi-
cient information to spew, that he was not only a coiner of bad money,
but that he was a principal in employing the three men who had boss
convicted of that offence on Saturday Led, with a view of obtaining a
reward for such pretended service to the justice of the country. Under
these circumstances, he felt it his duty to remand him for further ex.
amination.
Brock then begged leave to state, that he had much information to.
communicate, if his Lordship would suspend his commitment, and
hear him in private.
The Lord Mayor said, he could not hear him at present, but that
his offer would be a matter of consideration hereafter.

The prisoner was therefore remanded, and ordered to be kept in a
separate apartment from all other persons.
Thursday looming the Lord Mayor entered into another private in-
vestigation of this extraordinary and limit infamous affair; in cons..
gitence of two other persons named Barry and Ryan being apprehended
since Wednesday, the examination was remm..l.l in the evening, and
cntinned until a late hour. _ _

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From the information derived from some of the parties, who express.
ed a wish to become evidence in the case, it was ascertained that Barr
who is .on of the man of that name at present in cuatody, was conceal)c
I in an apartment in Lamb Passage, Butehill-row. White and Ilarri.
win, the officers, in consequence repaired to the place, at three o'clock
on Wednesday morning, where they found him in bed; and after some
difficulty (the man being in a state of intoxication) took him into
custody. They then proceeded to an obscure lodging in Ratcliffe
Highway, where, being compelled to break in the door of his apart-
ment, they apprehended Ryan also. The latter, it now appems, was
the person who usually furnished Barry and his son with the money,
in order to procure permits who might become objects of yroneution;
anl it wrs by them, in conjunction with others, that Quin, Reordan,
and Connell, were selected.
The examination of the younger Barry and Ryan took place in the
presence of Brock and Pelham; each of whom has, as we already
stated, offered to develop, not only this, but other conspiracies, which
are now not inaptly termed by the officers themselves, " the Estate of
Blood." It is but justice, however, to state, that as yet, no repdar
officer of justice, save one in Middlesex (Vaughan), has been proved to
be concerned in the gang of conspirators, which we understand amounts
in number to about twelve, and is composed chiefly of persons who
havo been in the habit of loitering about the Old Bailey and the Po.
lice Offices. Neither does it at present appear, that in the ease of the
coiners Vaughan had any share.
The prisoners Brock, Pelham, and Barry the younger, ens Daniel
Browne, made full voluntary confession of every fact within their
knowledge. The ease of Timothy Ryan having undergone a strict in-
vestigation. and nothing sufficiently strong being proved to warrant las
detention, he was discharged.
Friday. the Lord Mayor aeenin resumed the investigation of the eon-
spiraey between Brock, Pelham. and Berry sen. and jun. The ex .
emulation was chiefly confined to the case of Brock and the elder
Barry, the principal actors in the scheme for trepaneing the three Irish-
men. The plan, it appears, was first 14:d at tie French Horn public-
house, near Barbican. Beery sen. his sou. and 'e ham, procured the
victims, and the former also fund:died Riordan, Quin, and Connell
with the compositions which whitened the shillings in which process
they were engaged when apprehended by Baauk. Pelham, and Taylor
(an officer of respectability) whose assistance they obtained, in order
to give a colour to their proceedings. Several publicans in the neigh-
bourhood of Barbican were examined as to tete prisoners frequentme
their houses, when Brock and Barry in particular were identified.
Evidence has also been obtained of the same parties having before
"shammed" caws of coining, and one in particular twe believe its
Grub-street) where an impaverisaed man belie, furnished with heel.
money by Barry and others, who retired into a palled: wee while they
sent him to change it in the pure:nese of bread aced cheese, the pour
man was detected, and Brock, who was waiting on the outside, in-
stantly seized him, brought him before the Magistrate at feffildhall,
from whence he was coonuitteel, and afterwards convicted. It is a
cu iceis circurn4ance, that on Satanley morning last, Whlte, the
officer, obeeneel all the parties in consaltation in and about the Old
previously to the trial of the three Irishmen. One of them ap-
plied. to him to borrow sixpence, and, as a prod the; these wretch
were destitute and calculating solely upon the conviction money of their
miserable victims. Pelham, when soon dee-voids se:ttred. was nut
(CUrld to be worth even so inatt'a. Prsvioas to the iavenigation on
Friday, the Lad Mayor visited New gate, and them held an examina-
tion in presence of the three convietod men and Barry the elder. The
latter was fatly rear viand by the unfortunate Inca. The investigation
was again poetpuned.

Ann Pratt was charged on bippicion of having set fire to a bou-a
in Goldin lane. whieh had already been twice warned in pun. Job
Bridge, a watchman. depOsed, that on Thursday night a mob collected
round the door of en tan;•ty house, in eouselucnce of a light having
been seer. therein. He immediately entered tile place. and thwtd tit'e
prisoner going thmugh the apartments wits a li..tilted candle; and
king asked what brought her then:, she. said .he woes ru,:rey loJking
over her old premises. From other evidence it appeared, that
prisoner, her broths and si=ter, hal lived in the house, which had
been twice before burned; and that on :he lazt ocea.ion she was also
found ohms in the houses which had been insmred for nut.
while little or uo property was in it.—demanded.
Yesterday Willinu Jordan Mao timidly examined, charged
with st..mling a 101. bank o: tF:iv;antl note, the property of Join.
Appleby. The prosecutor and prisoner, it appeared were
old friends, and a few evenings azo were together on board
vessel in the Thames, u here they slept. Ur foe to4owir.g
morning they came ashore together, but had not proceeded far
oti thcix wa)., when the prosecutor la;ibta the note ha lnettica