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London, England, 1820-12-06 00:00:00

POLICE.

110W-IPTIMET.
EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD OF OLD CLOTH ESN EN,

Yesterday Saws[ Hamer, • Jew old clothesman, unite'_
went an examination !refine George MushylL Esq. tin
Silting Magistrate, cistern' with being concerned with an-
other man in cernmitiing a fraud lawns Capt. Slade, at his
residence in the AJelplti
_ _

It appeared that lilt Captain's Cast India stores, consist•
ism of three dozen 'hitt', a wusuher of mstaloons, mummy*,
napkins, lir-char/I ar.iwed from flourdeaux, and urge • ue•
veyrd by coach to the Spread Engle in Gracechurals-stieet,
fur the freightage and coifing. 61. was charged, and out
being likely to went the ludic stores soy more, he deter-
mined on selling the whole of them. and fur that purpose
the Prisoner was called into Captain Slade's residence from
the street, as be was calhoe " old clothes," when the
Captain asked 101. fur them. The Priairtier, after examin-
ing them, offered 61., voicing that he .3S a poor marl, and
could nut afford to rpve say more. '1 he Captain replied,
that be offered them at the price aa a very %teat bargain,
and was therefore determined not to like a shilling lea, than
104 which the Primmer decliceil gh.ile, aid kft the !muse.
In • short time the Primmer returned, accompanied by
another Jew uld cluthesainn, whim, she Prisoner introduced
'is his master, and who bed mote money to deal with Oulu
be had He proceeded to examine the different articles,
and made use of many obseraalmns, arguments, and ma-
iimneres to induce the C,aptaiu to lake less than 101 but the
Captain remained quite him, .ind iefuned to abate a slot.
ling. He Hum tried ape:Uncut upon the Captain,
by dividing the assieles nod nuking two parcels ; one of
them, he said, the Chantier would give thirty shillings
for, and he would give eight palings fur the remainder,
which would make 01. 10.. The Captain, however, con.
tinned firm, cud Aid they might arrange air divide the
properly as il:ey pleased, but I.e must have 101. and no leas.
The other Jew gave the Misooer a eery large proportion of
articles, which he put into his bag and laid down nn the table
St, the nitres: Jew saying be would give 61. fur the se-
anaindcr. The Primmer, after having put the articles which
11,. other Jew bad Mtn Ists bag, 1--ft the Captain's house ;
the other Jew taking the remainder of the stuck' tibia
primed to be very plain, and appeased to be almost to
pay the eight pounds, whe9, oTi (rating in his pockets, he

exclaimed i.e bail kri his pocket-Imok of bow; he wool.]
go and fetch it, sad would retorts in silt minutes. As soon
as he bid left the room, it °crewed to Ilse Captain and his
lAdy that they had bees tricked, and they seat a hey to ful-
low the Jrw, who found the Prisoner waiting for bin. They
went together tie a house its Leg-alley, I.ring nue, and from
thence they were watched to a public-Louse in Petticoat-
lane, where they were wooled lint to Iwo constables;
the Pi/ironer was taken, but the constables made a amis.
take, and took a wrong nu in, the rausequesse• way this
Jew charged made his escape. lit being insulated that the
constables hail let him escape by design. Mr Allinalsull ob
served, that if that could be proved they should be dia.
charged; hot it was suggested that, as they bed been con-
etablr • for 14 teary, and haul always conducted themselves
well, they tined to be heard in answer to the insinuative',
as it was most probable they (night leave an answer to give
to it; which was agreed to.
The Prisoner who had been admitted to bail, was ordered
to elitl:iime so, to take his trial at the Sessioue. _ _

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Me. \limbo!l mta of opinion airy might be indicted fue
• raminrary •a well as • fraud.

A wom•ri culling Iser•elf Celle:rims Seaton, and a man
calling himself twat Topper, underwent an examosatioa
before Sir R. Baker, charged with having stolen property
fourol iu their possession, belonging to Mrs. Schrod,r,
of Clapham Rise, whose house, it appeared, had been
broken upon un the night of the 11th of October last,
sod • great v iriety of articles stolen, among them were
Mat tin Luther's works, prissiest in the old letter, coosistiog
of eleven volunies.bunssd is venom, leo of the volumes were
stolen and roe I.ft. On Saturday the Prisoner Catherine
Salmon called at the shop of Meows. Robles Germ's books
welters in You k-street, Covent gardeo, arid asked floe shames
if be wattled to purchase a work of the above description,
he replied in 11.. negative at first, but on recollecting that
he had heard of such a work having been stolen, he desired
her to call again un Monday. She called WI the morainic/
that day, when she was desired to call again in the evening,
when she might see Mr. Bible, and to 'swig oue of the hooks
with her—this she also dud. In the mean time information
WWI sent to Mrs Schroder, at Capitals Rise, and to Mr.
Schroder. iu Lesilexhalhatreet, her elation and t xeeutor to
her husband's wilt, when after the showman bawled had
some cunveseatiou with her about the !souks, Ike. he iutru•
deiced lure In Mr. Shrucler, who on that occasion personated
Mr. Roble, to pretend to treat fur the iiiircliase of the books.
Site said she Masi* possession of the whole of the volumes of
the work, except one in high p slaw., and asked It fur
that ten volumes. lie questioned her as to who she was,
when she mid her huisbaud was a cobbler, and lived in the
Mint, that the hooks had been a great many years in their
powwow'' and that money would.lie of more use to thins
than the books. On Mr. Schroder expressing a doubt sat to
the correctness of her statement, she said her husband was
a broker, and had Wright them iu the way of trade, and
that he was waiting at the dour fur her.
Mr. Schroder tuW her it was in vain fur her to tell so
many lies abi.ut the books; that he knew more about the
hooks than she was aware of, as they had been in his family
fur 40 years soil upwards. A constable was procured anal
they *etc both takes. into cu.tody, linesman Prisoner being
found at the door, as the woman described, when he said the
books had tiers, is his family's possession fur fifty years, and
acknowled4ed a connexion wills the woman.

They were yesterday etamitied separstely, the woms•
first, she claiming the snarl as her husband, and then sent
they lodged al • chairmaker's in Oxford.streel, N 0.427. She
could not gave any sati.factiory account of the books.
On the man being brought into the Ohre he refined to
give his name or place of residence. He denied being the
bilabainl of t►e woman. He desired to know mini lie was
krpt in custody fair. Ile was sure there was nu evidence to
implicate him.

on the rvideure which bad hero taken against the woman
being toad in him, be made a copious minute of it with a
Alter that he wet again asked for his name, when
be gave Isaac Tapper, but positively refused to give his re-
sidence, but said it was not above • stones throw off the
office.

Sir Robert Baker assured him he should detain bias as
well as the wousaa.

On Monday the London Sessions commenced be-
fore the Lord Mayor, the Sheriff, Recorder, Al-
dermen Maguey, Sir C. S. Hunter, and Ansley.
he Recorder, after giving the Grand Jury some
itistruci 1111 l a with relation to the case of perjury,
cungnitulated them on the comparative thinness
of the calendar of the present Sessions.—Ou the
MUMS of the gentlemen summoned to serve on
the Petty Jury being called over, one claimed
to be excused on the grounds that he had only
been tuariird the day htfore, nod was by no means
in a fit condition to' deliberate upon a jury.
The COURT seemed to be startled at this Hovel
objection, but, upon a Moment's consideration,
they allowed it to be a good one, and excused the

11w following is the stale of the Calendar of the
Old Bailey Sell/10111, which continence thii/dia!:—

Leedom. Middlesex.
HoutArcakiag . . 0
Burglary 1
Furgre y . 0
Ustre lug forged ',Wei 1
11 les ir a y robbery . 4 .. 13
Melding to a deelliul.borae 0
Hurse-ate.liag
baulky, 0 .....
;Armlets .......1f ..... 89
&gamy 0
Receiviag Moles gouda
Siealieig fans the perau5...
Esabeasleuicat
iseassesaur 9 1 ..... •
Fraud 3
Perjari .. 1

Total 3ll 100
The following was the state of New•gste on the
Ist instant:—

Motes. Fenn! s.
Coavirts under sentence of death.... 45 a

opus .hum the i algrneot
of the Court has been rearmed 7 4
soder sentence of trans-
portaiiou fur bk..... lB 16
fur funs tees year 5........ 7 23
fur went years 4fi 31
Misusers 'tooter SI utroce of imprison
meta for felony and nUsdrinessors 23 13
Cumwittrd by Cuassuissionen uflissak-

rupts
For Vial ■t the present Stisiou 166 39
Admiralty Srssiuu
For the Assizes

Total 316

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 'CurioAy, DSCILAISER 5.

Await rJame. C.F. 12 7 44
Ditto at Sight ... 12 4 Venice Lal. Lir.... 27 BO
Itottestl,m ..... 12 8 Malta ............ 45

........ 12 8 I Napks. ....... 39
liatoburch 37 N P41.-rnso, pe► 0z... 115
Al ..... 32 * lasbuu ...... se;
Paris 3 day's dale 25 71.1 Opartu
liiUn ,28 Rio Jancir0........ 53
Bourilraux

Finukfort is the I Dublin...
Maine........ Is4l Conk ........ 771
Vienna lEn.tin.du. 10 14 BULLION
Madrid
eashz
Hilboa 361 Gold in 8ar5..... 9 17 101
filleelOUS 36 New llnutaluort.... i 15. 0
Seville
Gibraltar 3Ol I Silo*, in Bars.... 0 4 Ili
Legboro
Trieste

THE QUEAN.
HER MAJErTY'S ANSWERS TO ADDR ESSE%

Her Ildsjesty retained the following grroJtie
Answer to the Address from the Inhabitant* of
'Norwich :
I sincerely !bask the Inhabitants of the City wed Cos sir
of Norwich for IWI loyal awl otreetiesaie Actdreee.

In defending my rights, I have ~,,, lost sight of those
of the people. 1 was well aware that my degradation, by
an ii bilary enarlintut, would have prepared the way for
overthrow of English liberty. That attempt has happi.y
been rendered almanac, and that design frustrated by
unanimity, the aeltdevestiim, and she constancy which thl
pcuplr tom •isplayed is defeat., sla persecuted Queen. I
am (unripe...l that I am more indebted fur my preserratius
to the sympathies of the people, and to Site support uf t►e
press, than to any HIM of justice, or say feeling of be-
usentty in the bosom of my adveisaries.
Though the conspiracy which menaced my &street ion his
brru vanquished, the conspirators here yrt to I. a• u •
relent oniteration. There is s species of fs:a sty w ,
resifts to be more owing to the depravity of Ilie to.", 1:i. a
to the imbecility of the intellect.

Iler Alojesty returned the Idlowing gracious
Answer to the Address from the A ;ilerm in, Deputy,
Common Council, and Inhabitants of the Ward of
Farrtagdott- Within
" I have perullsr satisfaction in reeeiviag this loyal sod
afftrtioNara Address from the Alderman, Deputy, Commute
Conical. and Fohabitirots of the Ward of Farringdon-Witb.o,
in the City of London.
Though my life will skew the instability of friendship, it
wall prove the security of innocence. My former frier&
seen, to have prescribed no other rale for their constancy
than the fluctuations of their isterest. Tie completion
their regard has varied with the state of sarroanading coi-
eamstances, wadi have been extolled or reviled, as I appear.
rd to f their ambition or to be an obstacle in the way of
their ail . ment. Bait still, is the perplexities ahead and
in the labyrinths of perfidy, I have coostriatly foetid integrity
to be the wisest counsellor and the serest guide. la the late
proceedings against me, I was certainly trot much indebted
tither to the candour of my accusers or the enoderat.u•
of my ad ,ies. Candour would have avoided ma-
beton, (alliterations; sad virtue would never have become
roof. denote with perjury. Bat, though my ellrfatell had
recourse to every species of mesas, whether lawful or u•-
lawful—though they scrupled at so artifice sad rejected so
•Ifatoze23 that could Serve their turn--yet the simple hirer
of truth, powerfully ansaated by Ike agency of the press,
has enabled me to defeat their otachinattuni and to triosipb
titer their maligoily.
Some affection foe the place of our Nativity seems to sprint
Up yams, the very soil. The local sympathies, sided by •
thoosaod endearing assoriatious, entente their invisible
fables around the heart. But though Eretaad was not the
moony of my birth, at is that of nay adoption. The gene-
rous r haracter of the people has rendered it as dear to my
soul as if it hail bees the spot where I inhaled tin first vital
breath. And can I ever forget the numberless claims whirl,
within the last four or five mouths, it has acquired to My
grateful recullectiou and nay cituusie regard

lirr Nlsje§ty was ple4ard to rrturn the follosiottr
gr .eiou§ Answer to Om lolialotuoto of B. ivhtno
The loltabstauts of Brighton will accept my cordial thanks
for Ibis loyal and •Iffcctivii•te Addrns.
_ .

The character of the late proceedings against me may ler
correctly appreciated by the turpitude of the uremia and
the infamy of the lIMOSS'S. Who coul,l approve a raise
that had recourse to such detestable means fur its support •
It gives me increased pitmen to frfleti that the amts.
dant which I—o►, rather, which the people of England—
have obtained over the must unparall►led malignity, is, at
the same time, auspicious to the best Witerests of liberty. I
should be a most degesserate desereadant of the Haase of
Brunswick, if I did out feel the mast lively satisfaction in
therm improved prospects of freedom and of happiness which
the present calightened state of public opinion auouumees to
use generous people of these realms.

THE POI ACRE.—There is an individual whose
name is Jackson, at present on board the Jusech.
Christopherson, now Ijing in the West India Docks.
who had the command of the polacre in which h-r
Majesty sailed from Sicily, during a voyage from
Gibraltar to London. Both Paturzo, the mate.
and Gargiulo, the captain, were on board; hot the
vessel was given io charge to Jackson on account o'
the great value of the cargo, and because the
capiaili was not sufficiently acquainted with the
voyage. Jackson had heard, in the vague manner in
which those reports were circulated at the tiro', of
the initaitations cast on the character of the Princess
of Wales for her conduct on board the pulacre.
and WJS therefore induced, in the course of the
voyage, to question Paturzo and Gargiulo on that
subject, which gove rise to frequent conversations
between them. So far from 'Binding any confir-
mation to those reports, they both declared that the
Priuscess conducted herself with the greatest pro-
priety, and that they never observed the slightest
improjer familiarity to exist between her Royal
Highness and any other parson. Her manner and
habit,' were retired, and ratty body treated her wit&
the greatest respect and attention, as her rank
mandril. The mate, indeed, stated that she was i•a
the custom of passing several hours every day in soh-
tude, and to use los own expression, was so tem.
perate, and even abstemious i■ her diet; as to be
" more fit to be a Catholic than a Heretic."—
It is not the least striking circumstance in Jackson's
relation, that even the name of Bergaini was never
mentioned to him. He had supposed. having
heard that there were English officers on board.
that one of them had been the object of her Ma-
jesty's attachment, and therefore confined his inqui.
ries solely to them, which were answered by the
Captain and Mate by assurances of the utmost pro.
priety in her conduct. This affords a strong pre.
suesption of the falsehood of the charge, which we
have always maintained. since it is nest to impos-
sible, if it had been whispered among the crew, or
the slightest impression existed that Bergami was
the favoured individual, but that the captain cot
the mate, iu the many conferences they had on the
subject, must have mentioned it to Jackson. The
mate, as deacribed by Jackson, is a MOW whom
y would tempt to any action. huwev.r in-
famous. and not worthy to be received as rsi le
iu any court of justice.—/Times.)

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Batik Stuck
3 per Ct. Had.. 68& j 9 I India 1i0na15..23 26 pr.
3 per CL Coos. 6990i4 I Ex. Bills, 2.. par. t.r.
Si per Ceut....77j 78h I Omit utu....,.ar. dig.
4 pee Ceuta.
11.1 k. L. Auo..• 17 13-10 I Cu,,'.. fur Ace. .. 70 ill

DEATH.
Ofts Friday last. at Abergsvenny, in the 19th year of lus
see (awfully sudden), Mr. Whistance Purell, sun sir the
Row. Eateries Powell, kectur of Llaufoist, and true of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Mon.
aseeils.

HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE.
:Horning 2$ after I. I Evening 51 after 2.

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