The Sun.
London, England, 1806-10-31 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY

Wednesday the Sessions commenced at the Old
13 tley, before the LORD MAvott, Cord ELLEN--
8 ;anucitt, BarortTnomp6w, Mr. Justice ROOKE,
di RECO aryitn, when to Prisoners were tried,
two of whom were capitally convi&ed, vit.
Thomas Askew, for. a burglary in the dwelling-
botlse of Walter Collins, and stealing a silk cloak,
five cotton gowns, and other articles, of. Susannah
Miles, and two silk handkerchiefs, six guineas, and
a metal watch, the property of William Miles. •
Margaret Rice, fir stealing .in the ,dwelling-
house of John Jones, a silver watch, two muslin
gowns, and divers other articles of wearing apparel,
his property...
Tl.4.elve were convieled of felony, viz.—Charles
Hogs, James Como-, William Ar 7 ow, Sarah Samson,
homm,Cuokman, Robert Shipley, Mary Blacksley,
Ann Molineamr, Francis Duddridge, Gk-
. vet., Mary Yokes, and Mary Hinton and live were
acquitted.

SECOND DAY, THURSDAY, OCT. 30.

Aseph Purvess was indicted for a capital felony,
in having stolen a poney or young gelding horse,
the property of Sohn Curtis, a tallow chandler, in
the Mews, near Berkeley-street, Portman-square.
It appeared in evidence that on Saturday. the' 63d
of August, the Prisoner went to the Prdsecutor's
house; in company' with Mr. Warrell, a broker, in
East-street, Manchester-square, and agreed to give
71. for the horse, which the Prosecutor had to sell.
He borrowed a shilling from the person in whose
company he went, and gave that as earnest for the
horse. On the Tuesday following the Prisoner bor-
rowed the horse to shew it to a person to_whom be
meant, to sell it again.' • Another person came to the
Prosecutor to look at the horse, but • the latter said •
lre was too late, as it was sold to that Gentleman,
meaning the Prisoner. The horse was returned that
night, and in a day or two after that. the Prisoner •
again borrowed the horse, to take him to Cornhill,- •
'here -be said he was going to cash a. check on a
Banker. But in a much shorter time afterwards
'than he could possibly have. gone to Cornhill, the
prosecutor's nephew saw a boy belonging to a fish-
monger, in Paddington-street, riding the horse up
and down the.street, to try his paces. It was then
sold by the Prisoner to that person for seven ouineas.
and a dish of fish. It was sold afterwards from One
to another, until it had had about half a dozen-dif-
ferent masters, the Prisoner still evading payment.
At length it was found' to have been, sold to Mr.
John. Hall, a glazier, in the,neighbourbOod, for, ten A
guineas. The Prisoner, however, in the mean time,
hac called twice at the Prosecutor's house, and pro-
. nosed that be would either pay or give the latter
- another horse ,in its stead ; but not seeing the Pri-
soner for tome time after that, had him apprehended
and sent to prison for stealing. The Prisoner, in a
very long defence, endeavoured to convince the
-Court and Jury that he had fairly bought the horse
and meant to pay for it.
Baron TnomPSON, in his charge to the Jury, ob-
served, that if they should be of opinion that the
Prisoner, having no property in the horse, had ob-
tained possession .of it with intent to dispose of it
in the manner he had done, and to apply the money
to his own use, then they must find him guilty.—
if:, 'on the other band, they should think that the
giving of earnest,, and the subsequent promise of
payment, was sufficient to vest in the Prisoner a right
to dispose, of the horse, in that ease they would ac-
quit him of the charge.
The Jury retired for about twenty-five minutes,
and returned the Prisoner Not Guilty.
Mary Daley and Hunch Railton were capitally
convi&ed for privately stealing, in the shop 'of Tho-
mas Page, four silk handkerchiefs, his property.'

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —Lord C. brought a ,
complaint against a Watch-house Keeper, for con-
fining his Lordship in the black-hole during several
hours. It appeared that the Complainant was going
along Swallow-street, on Tuesday evening, when he
hears the cry of " murder," and saw a man most
inhumanly beating his wife. On his Lordship's inter-
ference, the man struck him, when his Lordship
charged the watch with him. The fellow, by way
of contre-prrget, charged Lord C. with aft assault,
and he was put into the hole, among the vagabonds
of the night, and there detained until the next morn-
ing.' The Magistrate reprObated the condud of the
Constable of the night, and instruded his Lordship
in what man'ner to proceed against him. He also
gave the Constable to understand, that the hole was
intended for the felons and refradory, and not for
rersons of respedability, whom any idle person
might prefer a charge against.
Mr. THOMAS GRF:NVILLE, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, laid before His MAJESTY, at the
"Levee, on Filday, the resig,:ation of Sir Pitt Lit
STEPHENS, as a Lord of the Admiralty, whip re-
tires on account of old age. He likewiSe laid be-
fore his MAJESTY a Memorial from Sir Pfluir,
playing fOr a pension. It stated, that he was a
Clerk in 'the Navy Office several years in • the reign
of GEORGE 11. He. was removed. from that Office in
the year 1751, to be Senior Clerk at the Admiralty,
in which .situation he continued till the year 1759,

when he was 'appointed Second Secretary,-tinder
Mr. CLEVELAND ; and. upon his death, in the year
1763, he Was appointed sole Secretary, which situa-
tion he. held twenty years.' In the year 1795, he
was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty and in the whole he had been employ-
ed sixty-one years in the public service, and being
now eighty-three years of age, he found himself too
infirm to execute the duties of his Office with'
satisfaEtion to himself. His MAJESTY, under these
peculiar circumstances, WAS pleased to order him -a
pension of 15001. per annum nett. This is the
first instance of a Lord of the Admiralty being al-
lowed a pension upon his retiring from office.
On Monday last ,a melancholy accident occured
at the London Docks.-,-As the son of the Captain of
a Hamburgh ship,..a lad of seventeen, was'towing a
toatie. the basin, he fell over-board; and though
kiragged for immediately, the body was not taken up
ten minutes, and then without the least appear-
auce.of life tliis is .116 second child he has lost in
the same way in nine month.

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