The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-03 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SEBSIONS.

MONDAY, FEB. 25.—W. Pegg was capitally indicted
for violating the person of a female child, under ten
years of age.
After the evidence, which was of a nature we cannot
report, had been gone through,
Mr. Justice Best said, it was impossible not to have
perceived hours ago that the evidence must fail in pro-
ducing the conviction of the prisoner; hut he (Mr.
Justice Best) had thought it better that the time of the
court and jury should be consumed, than that it should
be said a case of tins importance was prein timely stopped.
His Lordship ordered the prosecutor's expellees to be
paid.
The Jury then returned a verdict of—Not guilty.
'There were no trials of any interest 011 Tuesday and
Wednesday.
THURSDAY, Frs. 28.—John White, a respectable
lonising matt, aged 42, was indicted for fraudulently and
by false pretences obtaining a large quantity of goods
from Messrs. 'Cliruer and Co, wholesale woollen drapers,
in Aldermanbury.
It appeared, From the evidence of several witnesses,
that in July last the prisoner went to the warehouse of
Messrs. Turner, and said ite understood that they were
manufacturers of woollen goods, and as he had been
appointed to the situation of colonial purveyor, he wished
to deal with them, and should give them considerable
orders. lle gave them a card, on titil;ol was written,
J. White, Colonial Purveyor, No. '29, Bow-lane," and
stated that he held the appoi 11111 l ent through the interest
of the Duke of York ; that if Messrs. Turner chose to
supply the order, they would find it worth their while,
and as a proof that what he represented was true, he
:hewed them au ins (lice of goods which he had been
purchasing from Messrs. Townsend and Brown, in
Cheapside, and said he would refer Messrs. T. to those
gentlemen, if he should conclude any bargain with them.
The next day an order, signed "John IViiity," was re-
ceived by Messrs. Turner, to deliver ttic goods which had
la,eit selected. They then thought it ',toper to inquire
at Messrs. Townsend and Brown's, who said the prisoner
had bought goods of them to the amount Of between 3
and 4001. and he was recommended to them by a person
of high respectability. In two or three days afterwards
the clerk of Messrs. Turner called upon the prisoner,
and in some conversation the latter said that he sent Ins
goods down to Chatham every three months, and that
they were examined and passed in two or three days,
and the money was remitted to hint immediately by the
Governor. Upon the faith of all these representations,
Messrs. Turner supplied him with IiVOOS to the amount
of more than I sul.

W. Hill, lisq. chief clerk to the Treasury, Capt. Bart-
ley, stall' captain of the depot at Chatham, and another
gentleman, were called to prove that the prisoner held no
office under Government, that he had no authority to
procure guoda for the Colonies, and that them was no
such situation as colonial purveyor.
Mr. Broderick addressed the Jury for the defendant.
The Common Sergeant summed up the evidence, and
the Jury Mond the prisoner Guilty.
lie W3b sentenced to seven years' tr inVOrta,iol7.
THY. ISKIDGE•STREET SOC/Ent P. CARL/ LE'S SHOPMEN.

FRIDA r, NlARcu I.—This evening, at five o'clock, a
Loudon Jury were sworn, and alier a trial of no interest
the lour shoputen of Catlisle, Windy, VullipleW,
Biltklay, and a man wnuse name is unknown,
were put to the bar, charged with publishing a seditious
libel, and the Jury were charged won the delivery of the
prisoners in the usual mainlCr.
Air. Adolphus said, he understood that Vamplew, who
was first ma the list for trial, W4lllllllderellded by Coun-
sel, and as llolm 5, the second in rotation, was to have
the benefit of the talents of his learned Mewl, Mr. Pren•
dergast, he was willing to take Holmes first.
Mr. Murray, the lion. Sec., whispered something to
Mr. Adolphus, who iotutediately 11,11‘1" But as Vain-
plew is first on the list, illy Lord, perhaps it would tie
better to proceed with hnu, though 1 snould have liked
to have had the first case defended by Counsel.'

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Vamplew remained at the bar, and the others were
removed.
Mr. Adolphus then stated the case, and
Mr. W. Payne, clerk to the magistrates at Guildhall,
produced the pamphlet, which had been left in his care.
Robert Duke swore, that he purchased the pamphlet
in question from the defendant, in the shop, 55, Fleet.
street.
Cross-examined by the defendant.—He had received a
pound in money for his trouble in purchasing this pam-
phlet, and for several attendances. He called in the
morning first, and defendant said he had not the book.
Witness did not say on that occasion, " Why, you are
not so timid as to give up already, are you i"
Defendant—Have you read the pamphlet?
Witness-1 have read part of it.
Defendant—Has what you have read produced any
evil effect upon your mind?
The Common Sergeant-1 cannot permit that question
to be received. You are not charged with producing
any evil effect upon his mind.
l'honsas Jamings, a clerk in the office of Mr. Murray,
the solicitor, produced a copy of the placard which ap-
peared on the window of Carlile's shop the day after the
apprehension of two of his shopmen.
When the libel, as it was set out entire, had been gone
through, the officer was proceeding to read the different
portions of it as they were set nut disjunctively, when
The defendant said he thought there was no necessity
for occupyinz tile time of the Court by reading the tie:-
junctive portions of the libel, when the whole had been
already read.
The Common Sergeant said, he would not allow the
defendant to 'admit any thing which might prejudice
himself. There might he some variation yet (Intersected
• between the libel, as it was set out in the record, and
the original pamphlet, and it was therefore to his advan-
tage that the whole should be read through.
The defendant commenced nis address to the Jury at
a little before nine, with au eulogy upon the trial by
Jury, which had not yet been destroyed, which was
almost the only protection now remaining to English-
men, and which, thank God, yet existed unsullied, its
spite of the sophistry of paid advocates, and corrupt
judges, and their endeavours to overturn it. He com-
plained of being prosecuted for the publication of theolo-
gical or political works, contending that free discussion
on those points was the privilege and birthright of Eng-
lishmen. He entreated the Jury to interpose between
him and his prosecutors, who, he said, dared not skew
their own faces, hot had thrust forward such worthies as
Murray, Sharpe, and others, to carry on their sanctimo-
nious persecutions against opinions which they dared
not combat in an open and manly manner.
He proceeded, and came to a passage, in which "the
Constitutional Association" was mentioned, and was in-
terrupted by the Common Sergeant, who said, the Court
knew nothing of such an Association.
He went on, and in his continents reflected on the
character of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence,
and contended that Carlisle had beets unjustly immured •
in prison.
The defendant, after many interruptions on the part
of the Common Sergeant, having closed Isis address to
the Jury,
The Common Sergeant, at ten minutes to 1 t o'clock,
commenced his charge to the Jury. He concluded at
one o'clock, and at ball past one the Jury returned a
verdict of Guilty upon the general count.
The prisoner was immediately sentenced to two years'
imprisonment in Giltspur-street Coupler, and at the end
of that period to enter 11110 his own recognizance of 5001.
for his good behaviour during life.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

MONDAY, Fan. 25.—Edward Shepherd and Jas. Smith
were indicted fur the double offence of uttering, and hav-
ing in their possession, counterfeit money.
Robert Hall, a waiter in the employment of Mr. Davis,
a licensed victualler, living In Chelsea, stated, that the
two prisoners came to his master's house en the 11th lust.
and called fnr a pint of porter, in payment for which the
prisoner Sundt tendered a shilliuz, which, upon examina-
tion' proved to be counterfeit. Mrs. Davis sent it back,
and Slieplicri: gave another, out of which lie received the
change. Both prisoner., on going away, went to the bar,
and said they would have "something short," after which
Smith gave Mrs. Davis a shilling, whirls proved to be a
bad one. Mrs. Davis immediately scot for a constable,
who took both the, prisoners into custody, and on searching
thesis several bad shillings were found in their possession.
Mrs. Davis corroborated the evidence. _

The Jury found both prisoners Guilty, and the Court
sentenced each of them to be imprisoned for 12 mouths iu
Newg.tie, and to find sureties for their good behaviour for
two years.
Anne Lewis, Mary Jackson, and John Davis, were con-
victed fur • similar oftener, and sentenced to a
.like pte
nisliment.

Thomas Smith, an old man who has been for many years
in the habit of stealing pewter pots in public houses, was
tried upon -two indictments, for con ##### Wog the 'awe
offence.

He was convicted upon the clearest possible evidence.
Tme Chairman (Mr. Omen) said, that he should adopt
the plats of whipping for the crime of pot stealing gene-
rally. and begin with Mr. Smith, %lin had so mach expe-
rience in the line, and compel him to remember the last
tobberi he had committed,—" The sentence of the Cunt t
upon you, Thomas Smith," said the Chairman, " that
you be, for the first offence, imp' isimed tno months, and
well n hipped in the gaol; and for the se coml offence, that
Jos be imprisoned tno months, and well whipped."
The prisoner seemed nut at all uo fancy flit sentence.

Last week a party ut the pour inhabitants of Win-
farthing, in Norfolk, assembled and went in search
of thrashing-machines; they found only one at
work, which they took and dragged by loud to
Shelfanger, the poor inhabitants ut which parish
dragged it to Diss, where they lett it; the farmers
in the village promising they would use no more,
they dispersed without doing any vie nee or mis-
chief.

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