The Sun.
London, England, 1801-09-18 00:00:00

The Prisoner, iri his defence,. solemnly denied
the charge, and brought forward two Watchmen,
who stated that he had applied to assist him in turn,.
ing two 'men and a black woman out of his house,
who he was afraid would rob him ; ttiley went up,
on which the men.went away at once ; the- woman
remained,
,and had some words . with Berry, who
she abused very much, and said she had paid him a
shilling-tbr.the use of the room ;- that she was not
struck by any of them ; and that they never heard
her make a charge of robbery.
On evidence to this and, and under an appro-
priate charge from Mr. Justice LE Br ANC, the„-
Jury had no hesitation in acquitting the Prisoner.

-Thomas Dennis was indided for stealing a metat
watch with a gold seal, the property of Henry Rey-
nolds Hinde, Esq.-.
The Prisoner, it .appeared, had lived as set vane
to the Prosecutor, a Lieutenant. in the rst Regi-
ment of Foot Guards. lie missed the watch so long
since as jali'.:ary, when in Barracks. at Knights-
bridge. Vs he saw it last, it was in a writing
desk. In the course of some months ,after, having
occasion to susped the Prisoner, he had him taken
into custody and searched, when a number of dupli-
cates were found in his possession ; one of these was
for the watch in question, which a Pawnbroker U.
Jermyn-street p►oved he had -pawned under tlio
name of Polhill. The watch was duly identified by
Mr. Hinde : indeed, when the duplicate was taken
from him, he ickercwledged the watch to have been:
his master's.

His defence consisted of a written address to the
Court, it was of great length, and contained the
part;ci!?:.lr3 ts:f his situation at the time, and assert-
ing that hiS master was considerably in arrears with
him for board wages—He acknowledged he took the
articles, but with the intention of replacing them
when he had received ; that he lived cre-
ditably with Lords Barrymore, l'etersham, &c. and
finally threw himself on the mercy of the Court.
The Prosecutor declared, that that part of the
defence which respected the non-payment of board
wages, was untrue, these he always paid him regu-
larly.; and that he understood the distresses of the
Prisoner arose from-his having gambled in the Lot-
tery.

The Court observed, that allowing the allegations
of the Prisoner to be true, it could be no justification
of his condutt ; and .he Jury holding the charge
fully substantiated, immediately found him Guilty.

Joseph Ha/ford was indieted for stealing, on the
zoth of August, a pocket-book, value as. contain-
ing twelve Bank Notes amounting to z6l. the pro-
petty of Riehao Hadrill. • .
The ProseCutor, a resident of Canterbury, andr
we believe, an Officer of the Metropolitan Church,
stated, that on the above-mentioned day, about-
two o'clock, :he was looking at the pidures in the
shop window at the corner of Cock-court, Ludgale.::
hir
lul ts
hawt ittie felt
lepr a
isoin)etirll
naetalriilsui:on,ckelve, ithand his
ptuorcnin
ketg.
_
book in his hand. To this fad he swore positively,
and had no doubt of its being his pocket-book..—
He instantly charged the Prisoner with the theft,:
which he stoutly denied, and a crowd colleding
about the spot, the pocket.l3Ook disappeared.---
'Confident that the Prisoner gave the -pocket-N.)OTC t°'
Smile accomplice, he charged an Officer with hin
He was taken to thy Compeer, and searched, but to
•no purpose: • A respedabie person stated, that !lc
had paid the Prosecutor the Notes which he deseribcti
himself to have been robbed of, but an hour before/
-The Prisoner, in his defence., denied the faa, and
protested his innocence ; spoke of his brother, an
of some friends- of respetiability, who, however,
were not forth --coming.—Two lads appeared to 1-05
charaaer, but the Jury implicitly confiding in the
Prosecutor, found -the Prisoner Guilty.

WIP NEWS.

'CRAY SEND, SEPT. S.

Passed b7—the Hope and Anchor, Fryer, Neptnne, Jacob.'
son, and Harmony, Williams, from Norway ; Margarctlar
Smith, from Quebec; Jonge Peter, , and Britann.3,
Cowlson, from Dantzick ; Jonge Maria, Smith, fromlz°t-
terdam ; Fidelity, Edwards, Danx, Batty, Britannia, Carr/
Hector, Prin.gle,.and Nancy, Pearson, from Petersburgh.,,ii,
Sailed—the
_lane, Gardner, tbr Hamburg-It ; Portland ,u,:r
lar,
Rotterdam ; VroW Alida, —, and Drie Gesusters,
for Amsterdam,

MARRIED,
On the 3 oth of July, at tiv: Island tf Tortola, in the Wcst
Indies, I. Tov,•-nsend Nsea, Esq. to Miss Monro, 44uglitor,
of the late Major James Nlonro.
On Monday last, George Blackshavv, Esq. of Donning-
ton, Ecrkshirz, to Miss Bruinmell.
Yesterday,
w,rarneart, oStt.,
St.Nl varyinlec-ebnotn,se.Church, Mr. N. Tayntr.r.,
to Mrs.