The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-23 00:00:00

ÜBL QFFIEE ROW-STREET.

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YEsTETO-)Ay -Thomas Scott Smith, . the canonical,
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tinpostort.-was finally examined before A; GRAHAM;
Esci...rzfin'g the forgery of the Draft on Messrs;
s'inith; .:'ay-re, and arniths, for the suni.of ,
Whirl', Draft he ife.gTtiated to Mr. Capper; of the
tiengerford _Coffee-hou'se, in the Strand; as die
Draft of .11i:, :father, although his .father' name' is
Richard Smith, and- the Draft Was signed Robert
Sinrth.

A Clerk in the house of Messr. Smith, Payee;
zed Smiths, said, 'that Mr. Richard Smith, the
Pris Oner's father, kept cash at their house; but
that the Draft in question was not his hand-writ;
ins:

The charge of the forgery, therefore, being suf.
fi:skently established to carry the matter before a
Jury; the parties were bound over to proseedte Ern'
at the next Old Bailey Sessions.

The Prisoncr during the examination appeared
extremely unconcerned, and stared about him with
a most unmeaning vacuity of countenance ; when
asked by.Nlr. GRAHAM, if he would wish to make
any reply to the charge, he just answered, that.he
left the matter to,Mr. CONST, who attended as his
• Counsel.

We 'understand that the new Ships Vuilt for the

Eastlndia.Company's S:trl'i6e this season, of
the buithen ,of !zoo 'tons and ppiards,- are to be

manned and equipped in such manner as to yeniove,
every apprehension of their being easily capturet.4
The weight of metal will he heavier,-and the cert.-

plement of m6i in prop6rtibii.

By the Packet-boat trim- New-York, which,ar-
rived at Falmouth on Friday last, after an extraor-
dinary shOrt passage; New:Y.ork and Philadelphia
Papers, down to the Igth of 'August, have bcen
received. It stated in these Papers that
Tousiii.tvr has, at last, .openly declared himself
the Sovereign of the Istan4 of Sr. domingo.
Mr. I‘./11.rityt6.Y, the AMerican Minister at the
Hague, is re:called; and is to be succeeded by Mr,
Livpioi-rosr, of New-York. •
. On Monday the rii.th September; was married
JANtes RosEitTSON, Esq. Merchant, in dlasgoW,
to Miss GRAY, daughter of the late WILLIAM
GRAY, Esq: ofGarteraig.
We have authority to; 'state; that accounts are
just received of the death of Sir FRANCIS FORD,
Bari. Hedied its Essequibo; oh the I zth of June,
of A .fever, and is 'succeeded in title and es,.
tatei by his eldest sin q at yonth at school.
THOMAS BoNHANi and JOHNCARTER,Esgrs;
were on Saturday chosenAidermen of the Corpora:.
tion of the Borongh of Portstnouth:
The Piotens; Nixon; frOni Sutinthi to London;
foUndered iii sea—crew saved:

Ah event lately took plaCe iii the neighbourhood
of Stivoisy, near Di/in!, which, for extent of horror;
is hardly, to be paralleled:. A Soldier who Was
upon flirloitgh, having on the 3d inst. spent the
(by in thinking, inet a man and his wife in the
Woods: The Soldier attacked the womanin a very
gross Manner ; and the iitan.as was naturally to be
expeaed, attempted to defend .his cOmpanion. A
battle took plate; but as their arms were. by no
means' e'quar, the husband was obliged to take to
flight. 'The Wretch, indignant at the escape of the
man, fell on the woman with redoubled fury, and
murdered her : Her daughter was not 'far off, and
she shared the satne fate; while an unfortunate pas-
striger;, alarmed. 'at her cries, ran up, and was cut
to pieces by his sabre:
„The monster is not yet'
been taken.

pry.Fri44y nitirning, Mr. Evans, constable, and
Mr. Parkes;.. beadborough, of Birthirigham, appre-
heridtd J. Mary Hill, and Sarah Brazier, whom
they, hnd. for a long time strongly sufipeetcd of being.
tJie m:rntifaclurers,offorged Bank; of England paper.
—Theo found Hill With his press ready, his paper
stamped, .and every thing but the plates ready for:
working.,, After a strict search; they discovered
the bill plate in the garden, and the water-mark
plate in the cellar, concealed under some bricks.
Monday a Melancholy accident ,took place in'tbe
nighbourhood of Highgate: • The son of Mr" Dewi
of that place, who held an office the enitornsi
having a holiday; Went to fish in ifi'e ponds ; and,
while amusing himself, slipped in; as it is supposedi
and was drowned. The accident happened about
two o'clock, but the body was not found till it was:
too late to.attempt any means of resuscitation.
Ori Saturday,,last, a rnelanclinly accident happened
at Mr. Robs-on's Dock; in. Stinderland Wm,;
,Crawford, .smith at the Doc 1; was leaning over
one .of the quarter rails of a large vessel then in' the
dock; arid driving a bolt therein; the rail unfortu.
nately gaVe way, and lie fell head-foreMou upoti
some thither lying (beneath; by, which his skull 'as
dreadflilly fraas red; andflie died „in a few hourl-after.."
He belonged to the Surideilan4 Volunteer Artillery;
"and, on the proposal of Major Sca.rth,, on Monday
last; the Corps. ‘both Dicers and men) generously,
and with the utmost unanimity, agreed to give one
day'S pay. each to the widow, who is at this tittle'
pregnant; and; front the aboVe lamentable misfortunei
in the utmost distress.

PLiBLIC-OtFICE HATTON-GARDEN.-On Mon-
day a perion of the name of Tranfield Was charged
before Wwi. BLAMIRit andßOuiltr BAKER, Esqrs.
by a Mr. BroWn; for passsing a bill of exchange for
251: upon him, for which he obtained goods of hint
to the amount of it. It was acceptei by john.;
Ruggles; of Downing-street,' &tiling himself an Army
iilgent,, indorsed to the Prisoner by a person of the
name of Lee; who; and the acceptor; are nor to be
found ;, consequently the bill was brought Welt to.,
the Priioner for payr,Cnt he affeaed not to kAlow
the amount of it; as he could not read nor write,
but acknowledged that he directed a person to in 4
dorse his name for him to pass it .to Brown; add
took the bill of Lee in part of a bad debit that
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due to It, appears that this person is closely
conneted with Shaw; and ether persons .who have

disappeared in c...usequ'ence of Sha-w'.s apprehension,
The Prisoner was. called upon to give an account
himself,. whin he said—that 1 was-a_ tobacconist,
but could not pro've any regular settlement.
,A ma. ,
terial witnes being'absenti. he cvas committed fet-
re-exairi ;4. -

OLD BAILEY:

.1, SIXTH DAY---TUESDAY, SEPT. 22 .

John. Gottfried, a German, was tried for stealing
great coat and various articles of wearing 'apparel,'
of the va.lue of in-the dwel4ng.house of Benjamin'
Lay, at Smallbury Green., .
The Prisoner was -seen coming:out of .the house
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with the property in his possesstorL
The PriSoner, in his defence,-stated through the
medium of an interprtzer, that he i; by trade a
blaCksrnith ;- that he came from Hesse Cassel to
seek employMent in this Country ; that he • landed
at Portsinouth ; that on coining up to London, be
was attacked by three men who robbed and stripped
him of-every thing he bed in the world, and that he
was induced to do .this aa to cover his nakedncs:.
He called no Witness, but produced a Paper, ILA-.
porting to come from some Municipal Officer in his
own Country,-being in the nature of a Certificate of
the good- eharaeter•of the Prisoner. Guilty--Death.

Sainucl Richardson was tried, for feloniously
stealing and emhezzlin a s'ol. Batik Note, in the
course of his ,empjoyment as, servant • to John
Burrows, the property of the said John Burrows.

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The Prosecutor being sworn; said, " I live at
-Kensington ; I.am an/Upholder and Cabinet. maker;
the Prisoner was my servant, employed to fetch and
carry, and to do evcry thing that was required of
him, He was employed also in writing for me as
a Clerk, or to do any thing that was required of
. He was a weekly servant. On Saturday the
sth of September, I /trusted him with a 501. Bank
Note, to go-to London to take up a Bill of mine
due that day for 2,81., Made 'payable to a Mr.
of-Bloomsbriry. The PriscrOer went away
from me about three o'clock in the afternoon ;-.he
,did not return ; -owille Sunday morning I went to
my friend Mr. Wright, to inquire if he! had been
there ; I was informed-he had been there, and re-
ceived instruetion'where- the Note lay, which was,
,Messrs. Hodsol and Stirling's,- Bapkers, id the
Strand.. On the 11,1Ohday morning as soon as the
_Banking house was open, I went there:- to inquire
whether the Bill _had .been taken up. I found it
.was not ; I have the Bill now in my, pocket. From .
theitcc I wept to the Bank, and gave -the number
of the -Note, to put a stop to the payment. I then
went to the Tower, to inquire if the. Prisoner had
been impressed, or whether any thing of that kind
had happened to him.. On second thought, I inttgin-
ed that tit, Prh.,oner,miglii himself have been at the
Bank to get the Note 'cashed, The Clerks there
searched from my desciption of the Note, and found
that it had been cashed 'on '.the Saturday. -I,then
went to BoW,street and got a Wartant, and after
having made soli* endeavours to find the Prisoner
without etfeft, I gave the Warrant to a Constable,
who at last apprehended him. Here .is the Bill
Which I direfted the Prisoner to take up„ for me, and
fir which- I gave hiM the Sol. Bank Note, which
Bill the Prisoner did not take up, and which, con-
sequently I was obliged to pay.. I have known the
Prisoner from a child, and he was in.my service for
two years. I bad no character with him; he was
always of .an artful and avaricious disposition, but
I had no reason before this to suspea his honesty."
[This last part oldie evidence was given in con-
sequence of the Prisoner having asked the Prose-
cutcirr whether he hade.verslepended on him before.]
A Constable who apprehended the Prisoner said,
he found him at a Public house at Gravesend ;
searched him, and found nothing on his- person, but
Under the pillow where, he slept, there was a pocket-
book 'containing some gold and silver, and a One
Pound' tank Note, which was produced in Cciurt.
The Clerk of the Bank then proved that the
Piisoner charted there on Saturday the sth Of Sep-
tember, about five o'clock in the 'afternoon, a Bank
Note
,for Sol. and had fifty 11. Notes for it. He
was positive as to his person ; the Notes be bad in
change were numbered from-9 Isr to gtoo.

The 501. Note was then PrPduced; and also the
Note, and they were both proved '; the soh one
to be the Note which the Prosecutor gave to the
Prisoner to take up the Bill, and the 11. Note to
have been given to the Prisoner in change for thiS
501. Note at the Bank, on Saturday the sth ofSep-
remblr, the day on which he went off. at three
o'clock from the Prosecutor's house.
• The Prisoner in his defence said, that he never
,before this time did any injury to the property of
his Master, but Lid always served him faithfully.
That he had, unfortunately, got into bad company,
had lost, by gaming, a fortnight's Wages, and he
was advised by a man- he met on the Saturday; to
take this note to the Bank and change it.
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The COMMON SERJEANT summed up the evi-
dence, and obSerVed to the Jury,'that this was a
prosecution upon a Statute passed about two 'years
ago, snaking it Felony in auy Clerk or Servant to
embeizle the property of a :Master, -by whom such
Servant was trusted, and employed, subjeCting the
person convkted to transportation--a severity
Which the dishonesty of Servants had made abso-
lutely necessary. As to the charaeter of the Pri-
soner (for he had proposed ro call Witnesses to his,
charaCter), as far as that could go, he must be taken
to have a good one before this act was done ; the
very circumstance of 'the Prosecutor having trusted
him with the 501. Note, was a proof that he thought
him trust-worthy on the day when this took. place :
but good charaCter, although very valuable in the
time of peril, was only valuable in a doubtful case.
Where the Jury were perfthly satisfied on the fitCts,
charaaer was of no use, because charaaer could not
alter the ElCts. If the Jury. were satisfied upon the
faas, as they were related by the -Witnesses; he
"need not tell them it was a duty they owed the Pub-
lic, to pronounce the Prisoner guilty. If they en-
tertained any serious doubt on the case, they, would
give the Prisoner the benefit of that doubt, and ac-
quit him .—GRilly.—Aged 16.

Hannah Andricvs was indkiedfor stealing tWenty-
five,yards of Irish linen, the property of persons
unknown. •

It appeared that the Prisonco, on the -roth of
September, had offered-a piece of linen to pledge at