The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-21 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS:

Yesterday Messrs. Fellowe. and, Tied eft., pia'itneri
in rope manufaCtory at the Willow Walk, were:
inditted for receiving half-a. torn weight -Of 11 r_flip;
knowing the same tb, ire feloniOtisly stolen -frord
the premises-.of Mes4is. Dunefin and .1.-iayes, Whar-
iing,ers. ' ' .

The- principal 'evidence- against the .Defendanti
was John King, a confidential foreman in the service
of Messrs., Duncan and :Co. ThiS •-man' stole the.
propertY; and, in.:consequent* of confessing the,
robbery to, his employers, -Was not. prosecuted.
He stated, that in August.lBo4 he hada quantity-of
heittp.under his charge at IfayeS'SWharf, whia..lQ-
Id2iggd to Messrs. Forster and Co. The Defendants
were in the habit' 'Of purchasing hemp, and in the
rhorith of July "Mt. Fell Owes the - witness" at a
public fiouse, where they occasionally met,.and ask-
ed him if he had a small quantity of hemp to dispose.
of. The-.witness said he had, and, itFellows would
send a call to Hayes's Wharf, he should have
They agreed :about the price. Mr. &Bowes was to'-
give, 455, .a hundred for it, and he paid witness 81.
and gave -a note' for 151. the balance.—A cart
Was accordingly sent in the morning at eight
o'clock, and the hemp was thro'vn openly into it
from the loft; after whiCh it*l.vas conveyed to the -
Defendants' premises in the Willow-walk. It was
not concealed;and went out Of the . wharf in the
ordinary way, without any interruption from the -
Clerk-of the Wharf, who had no knowledge of tile
transaction.. On the 4th of August, in consequence'
of a discovery that the hemp wa# missing, Witness'
was discharged frOni the employ' =of Messrs. Dui ,
can and Co. He then confessed having stolen the
property, and was suffered to go oft board a ship at
Woolwich, 'and escape' a prosecution. Several Wit-
nesses corroborated the above statement; after
which the Chairrhati observed there was no evi-
dence to implicate Mr. Beckett; and the Jury, with:.
out hesitation, acquitted him.
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Mr. LAWES, as Counsel fdr the other Defendant,
represented the transaction, as stated by King, to bd
as honest on the part'of Mr. Fellow-es as possible.--
He described the Defendant to be a respectable trades-
man, who had bought the hemp, under a belief that
King was the owner of it,. and conseqUently able to
sell it. There had been no cdncealnient, or price
given for it below its value. The Defendant had
sent his cart in the face of day td fetch it aWay-, not
supposing it had been obtained by the least act of
dishonesty; and Under all the circuniStances of -the.
case, be txp,resttil art assUrance that the jury would
acquit the'Defehdarit, as they had done his partner.
Mr; Serjeimt Orisscow; in gut-timing up the evi-
dence; Observed; that be was' enabled to say, ftor
his knowledge of the price bf hemp, that the hemp
in question had riot been purchased by the 'Defend-
_ant for less than its valbe ; and with respqt to the
knowledgethat the property was stoitn, :it remained
with the Inry to decide whether the evidence had
',applied td. that -point: The Jury pronounced the
Lefendant--Airct Guilty.

TueScEly last the sale of the. Courtney Estate,
Which had lasted for several days, closed at the Corn-
mercial Coffee-house, Dublin, when the amount. of
the different purchases appeared to be upwards of
2cio,boOli , . . ,

Ronnaltoti,".the historian; Lays of• the keys of.
Lochleven Castle,“ They were thrown into the -
Loch; after DOUGLAS had dialed the escape of
(71,UE& MART (Sunday, May 2, 1568)."---In the.
Month of Oaober last, a boy, digging in the sands
-near Kinras House, fetind the bunch of keys in a
very decayed state. The Loch at that tirno was-
within narrower boUnds,'‘ on aecount of the severe
drought:
On Thursday morning early a duel was fought oa
Mu§selburgh Sands, by kwo young Gent;i4men of
Leith, in consequence of a dispute on the Monday
preceding. They exchanged two • rounds without
of e&, when the seconds interfered, and the matter
Was adjUsted. The parties had bt.en watched on
Tuesday and Wednesday by the' Police Officers, but
they escaped their vigilance,