The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-03 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

THIRD DAY-FRIDAY, DEC. 2.

. Yesterday. Thomas Cannon was indi&ed for fe-
loniously a.saulting Joseph Butter, putting him in.
fear, ark: stealing from his person, and against .his
will, a• I 01.13aink of England Note and halt a guinea
in. gold; his propert)% •
The prosecutor stated, that he had.the- manage-
ment o the business of Air. Workman,. jeweller, St.
Jamei's-stieet. On the evening of the Bth of 'August
last, about ten o'clock, it being a fine moonlight
night,-he went into the Park by Spring Garden Gate;
proposing to .take that as his way home to-his apart-
ments in Cleveland-court. In going along he sat
down on a seat where . there were several, persons
sitting, all of whom, in a short time, departed, ex-
cept the prisoner, who proposed'io the prosecutor to
take a walk; and notwithstanding every ettbri on
his part to get quit of bim, the prisoner continued
to accompany him towards-Buckingham Gatel and,
on the prosecutor
.she.wing strong dissatisfattion 'at
his perseverance, the prisoner got, hold of him by the
arm, and pulling. something - trom under his pocket
'resembling an officer's silver staff, told him, that in
virtue of his office, he was. his prisoner. He then in-
'formed the prosecutor that he was Young Sayer, the
Officer belonging to Bow-treet, and that the crime
I,Vitli Which he charged the, prosecutor was an at-
tempt to commit an unnatural crime. _

The prosecutor, though conscious of his inno-
cence, was greatly agitated at the idea of standing as
n charged ou suspicion of an accusation of
that nature. The prisoner told him that if lie would
give him 5.0.1.1,e would suppress the business; other-
wise, that, he must take him. to Bow-street, "and
prefer AgainSt hint the charge alluded to. The pro-
secutor said, he had no such sum in his power ; the
prisoner pointed to lhs chain and sealS, and told him
money might be raised on them. He then accom:
paMed the prosecutor to his apartments,' where be
reduced his demand -gradually to 101. and the prose-
cutor; still under the same impulse of dread of the
threatened accusation, consented to go with -the pri-
soner to toe house of an acquaintance of the prose-
cutor's,7 who was a pawnbroker, in' Bruton-street,
where ire borrowed 101. on his watch, chain, and.
seals, which he gave- to -the prisoner. After the
prisoner hild received-this slim, he inquired if the
prosecutor had no more money about him, and, on
being given to understand that he had half-a-guinea.
besides, 'in his pocket, the prisoner insisted on hav-
ing it, declaring, that if lie did not receive it, he
would still prefer the accusation. The prosecutor
accordingly gave the prisoner the half guinea also.
On the. 13th of October the Prisoner again called -
at the Prosecutor's apartments, informing him that
he had been dismissed from his situation at Bow--
street, in consequence of being 'absent from his duty
in the Park', on the night of the 811 i of Augu‘st,. for
which he had not satistactorily accounted. He there-
fore desired the Prosecutor to give him two guineas,
to carry him to Portsmouth. .This the Prosecutor
positively "roused to do, expressing it to be his de-
termination not to give the Prisoner isingle shilling.
He alsO insisted on his instantly quitting the house,
and, with his hand, pushed the Prisonerlo the door.
The Prosecutor idnuediately after this went to the -
Police .odice for advice how to proceed. The Pri-
soner called for iritn, onee more, at the shop of Mr.
Workman, and in consequence of the advice the
Prosecutor had.receiveci,- the Prisoner was taken into
custody.

This.statement was corroborated by the Pawn-
'broker from whom the Prosecutor had burrowed the
oi: who stated that the Prosecutor seemed greatly
agitated at the time. Also by khe Police Officer by
wuutn. I►e was arrested, who proved that'the
saner was not t ouug Sayers, and that he had never
beeh a Bow-street Officer.

Mr. ALLEY, for the Prisoner, endeavoured .to
'hew that a sufficient period had elapsed troth the
time of the original threat, supposing it to have been
calculated to produce, such a degree of fear as
should have put the Prosecutor in alarm for his per-
sonal safety, as to have enabled a man. of common
firmness of mind to recover hiniself from the impulse
of surprise, which could alone plaCe the ctirne here
charged in the light of a highway robbery. . -
The LLarncd Judge who-tried the case (GROsE),
'and also Mr. Baton GRAHAM, were;;of a contrary
opinion. They held that the threat in consequence
of which the half-guinea was extorted, was, in itself,
a substantive ()deuce, originating, and completed at
the nionieni, which went fully to support the charge
in the indidtment. In point of law, they were de-
cidedly of opinion, that such -a degree of dre'ad as
Adei,rived a man of a commonly firm mind of the
contsuul over his property, even though that dread
did nut arise from any immediate apprehension for
his personal safety,- fell within the meaning of the
crime laid in the indictment.

The Jury, without hesitation, fbundthe Prisoner
Guilty—Death.
Tiw same person, Thomas Cannan, and another
person the name of James Coddington, were in-
dieted for a siulitaK "nttence against the same Prose-
cutor.

it. appeared that, not satisfied with the extortion
practised on the Pro%ecufor. by Carman alone, on the
evening of the 8111 August, he returned on the fol-
lowing-Morning:along with Coddington, who, under
the name of Wilkinson, passed as an under Clerk in
the PubliC Office, Bow-street. 'They then pretend-.
ed ,that' Carman being missed from his duty in the
Park, on the preceding, evening, bad been obliged to
explain the reason to the other Officers, who, of
course, insisted ou recei'ing part of the money;
and theretbre the other . fol. must be paid, otherwise
the charge would still be preferred. The Prosecu-
tor agreed that he shoUld endeavour to procure the
money next morning, with which assurance the pri-
soners departed satisfied. They returned, however,
the same night, saying, that they could not .wait till
next morning ; that the money must be got; and
on the Ptosecutor's declaring hiS inability to procure
it ii at night, they actually went the length of call-
ing a coach, putting the Prosecutor into it, and or-.
&ling it to drive to Bow-street. One of the pri-
soners,. however, soon atter ordered the coach to stop,
told the prosecutor, that it was not their wish to ex-
pose him, if he chose to ad like a gentleman, and let
thetn,have the money. The prosecutor, under the
dread of an imputation of the nature of that with

which he was threatened, bethought himself of a
friend, from •whom-. he- might borrow the money.,
They acccordingly drove thither ;. the prosecutor pro-
cured the money, and paid it to, the prisoners.
Smtth;jeweller, inßruton-street;froin whom
,the Prosecutor borrowed the HA. last mentioned,
corroborated this part of the statement, and declared
that the Prosecutor was greatly agitated at the-time
he borrowed the money.
The prisoner Cannan„ was apprehended ill the
manner already mentioned ; and the prosecutor
having met Coddington in the street, the latter at-
tempted to run off; but was pursued and secured. -
The Jury twin& both prisoners Guilty—Death.
There was a third indiarnent, of a similar nature,
against Carman,- for an assault on a person ,of the
name ,of. Hall, which it,was- thought/Unnecessary to
go into.

Mary IPehh, Louisa Morley, and John Abbott,
were indicted for robbing Thomas FO;ter, groom to
Lord Charles Bentinck, of a 'pocket-lociok, Contain-
ing- 721;in bank-notes, on the evening of the 28th
06tober. The particulars have been. Already fully
• before the public.-=—The two women were found
Guilty of stealing, and Abbott Wai found Not Guilty.
Henry Weston was capitally indicted for stealing
351. in Bank notes and 451. in money, the .property
of Elizabeth ShaW, in her dwelling-house. It ap-
peared that the Prisoner accompanied a man, of the
name of Murphy, to the honk nithe,Prosecutrix,
in Broad-court, in the Strand, and-having obtained
an entrance at the,street door, proceeded to break
open the parlour dooi, which they effected, and took
the monies and -notes in question from a drawer in
the room. They then left the house,. and got;clear
off with the property. Murphy could not be found
when the robbery was discovered; but Weston was
immediately apprehended.. In the course of the trial
the supposed theft assumed a very different shape.
It appeared that Murphy had lived with the Prose:,
cutrix for 25 years, and. that she had borne him 14
children ; thal; abont a iwavemonth since they had
parted; and that Murphy,. who was an idle and dis-
solute fellow, was continßally„making depredations
upOn her property, claiming it as his own. The aft
in question was of that ccimplexion, and not a felo
nious taking. The Prosecutrix- got- her living ,by
selling fruirinCovent-Garden market ; and as soon-as
she had saved a few pounds, Murphy deprived her
of them. - The Jtidge said the cOodua. of Murphy
was very, unjustifiable, and the ProSecutrix had tier
remedy,: at law ; but the Prisoner,, who accompanied.
him in taking that property which he erroneously;
laid Claim to, could not be conviaed of felony. The
Jury accordingly-acquitted the Pris Oner".. •
Sarah Jackson and Eleanor Johnson were indiaed,
for feloniously stealing, -on the- 14th of Septem-
ber, 20:yards of printed cotton, the goods of G.
Vipond. . , .

The circumstances of this case, as stated by the
Counsel for the prosecution, were in part curious.—
The Prisoners, who had been intimate companions,
had had a quarrel, which -led to such consequences
as to induce Jackson to take. out a warrant-to appre-
hend her fellow Prisoner, Johnson. She accom-
panied. an Officer" who served • the warrant, and a
scene of recrimination and Billingsgate ensued be-
tween the ladies; in_ the Course of which, Johnsdn
said—f.' Don't you remember Ludgate-hill ?" This
eventful 'eluery led to an explanation, from which it
transpiied;.that the Prisoners, together with another
person, .stole a piece Of 'cotton, such as that laid in
the indictment, from the shop of the Prosecutor;
thal afterwards they divided it in three pieces,.eac,h
taking one. - Of: these, 'one' had been found at a
pawn=brokers, to which both the Prisoners claimed
a right; in consequence of certain occurrences re-
speaing the dnplicates. One WitnesS was called on•
the part of the prosecution; viz.

Thomas Walker, shopman to Mr. Vipond, who
keeps the first linen-draper's shop_ from the Old
Bailey upon Ludgate-hill, lie had no doubt of the
piece of printed cotton (pledged by one of the Pri-
soners, and claimed by both) having been stolen
out of Mr: Vipond's shop. But, seeming to recog=
nize it only by his recolle6tion- of the pattern, the
Jury were of opinion that such, in a ease like the
present, was not a suffiCient identification ; and the
Court observing, that proof of property was. essen-
tially necessary, a verdi& of Acquittal was given.

SPO aTIN o:—The Duke of GRAFTON'S fox-hounds,
in Northamptonshire, had, on Friday last, a most
brilliant day's sport. At half-past ten o'clock, the
hounds came to Green's Norton, where they were
,met by the Earl of EUSTON, Lord SOUTHAMPTON,
Lord JOHN FITZROY, and a long train of distinguish.-
ed sportsmen. After trying the osier beds without
success, a fox was found in a piece of furze adjoin-
ing. He broke covert in a most gallant form, and
although he was followed by upwards of a hundred
sportsmen at starting, yet his game and goodness
allowed only four to witness his death. This run,
which exceeds almost any of late days, was one hdur
and twenty-five miputes, without the smallest
check, and the whole time. at the lest pace.—Mr.
LINDON, Tom ROSE, the excellent huntsman of
these hounds, Mr. Ameitose, And Colonel ROYSTON,
were the only persons who were with the hounds.
for. the last, three quarters of an hour; the pace and
Ihe strength of the fences having beat the rest of 'the
field. The above, however, were all in together.
when the fox was killed, after, running a space of
near-thirty miles, in hlakeley Hall stable-yard. Mr.
LINDON, who, in Northamptonshire and Leicester-
shire, is " Le dieu de la chasse," declares, that he
never rode such a chace.

Whenever the Lottery hafr been drawn about
Christmas, or., commencing - with ,the New Year,
Twenty ;or Twenty-five Thousand Tickets have in-
variably been d;sposed of. It has been the custom
of ages to make preients at this particular season ;
as such, it is .reasonable to suppose that Lottery
Shares held a great proportiop- among the various
articles presented. That the Adventurer should fi-
nish 1808 with joy, and receive comfort in 1809,
seems to be the ambition Of theConiraaor for the
Lottery. fie,' therefore, chearfully presents to
those who wish to try•their. fortunes 1,000 Tickets .
(sealed up in the Bank of England) for their sole
use and benefit; by which means they may ,become
possessed of four 20,0001. beiideS 10,0001.. 5,0001.
4,0001. 5001. 1001. 501. 251. 151. which may be ob-
' twined at HORNSBY and Co.'s, 26, Cornhill, or St.
Margaret's Hill, Borough.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. t.

SEDUCTION.

GRUNDY V. HUMPHRIES.

Serjeant SHEPHERD stated, this was an action for
damages sustained by the Plaintiff by.the loss of
his daughter's services, caused by the.Defeudant's
seducing her. The Plaintiff was -a Master; ship
carpenter, living at • Gravesend ; ..the'Defendant a
master anchor-smith, living in the same place. 'lt
Would be shewn, that the Defendant's condudt to
the unfortunate girl, in public, and before her
friends, was perfectly correa ; that he never at-
tempted to' take any familiaritieS that could give'
the, parent any:suspicion, so that no blame could
attach to the Plaintiff. The Defendant was about
tbventy-fiVe years -of age,' and the obje& of his se-
dudion only eighteen. He was a widoWer, and had
buried his wife about a year and a halt ; the girl was
the companion and intitnate friend of his late wile.
The Plaintiff and Defendant were on the most in-
_timate terms;' they liVed 'nest door but one to
each. other ;, they frequently • visited ; there was a.
sort- of social relationship between them. The pa-
rents were totally ignorant of, the situation of their
daughter, until the result was too obvious to be
)onger hid. On ' her being questioned, she ac-
knowledged that the Defendant had been the se-
ducer. She acknowledged they had .had more in-
terviews' than one. The Defendant, on being ques-
tioned; liice'a cold- hard-hearted fellow, said, the.
child, he believed, was his ; and, if she swore it was,
be would support it ; otherwise,. if she published
her own misfortune, and his infamy, to the world,
he Would give the parish,otticers a douccur. It was
not alone .tor her loss of services ,to 'the Plaintiff
that the Jury ought to gibe damagesi, the feelings
of a. parent ought to be considered, for it was
unfortunate that the disgrace riot only fell upon the
ruined- girl, but upoti. her friends. The parent
also is deprived of the. delightful hope of seeing his
daughter the wife. of .some honest Wan, raising
him an honest progeny. He appealed.to the JOry,
somf: of whom he knew must be parents; whether
they did nut.,refieet with pleasure on- the'hope of
embracing their grand-children. born in vedlock
He knew they did, for it was the most gratettil en-
joyinent (hat a rational' man could aspire to ; yet
his unfortunate client' was cut- off from all such
'hopes, by the 'baseness of the Defendant. He would
not dwell any longer on the subject, well knowing
that the Jury -would consider the case as if it was
one of themselves had the misfortune to be the
Therewas no damages too great to be•given
to an
,honest tradesman for such ,an injury as the
Plaintiff had received from the Defendant. The
Learned Serjeant then called his witnesses. .

Mary Grundy,. an interesting looking girl, who
•seerneu much: affected, was • examined by Mr. Ser-
jeant LENS.—SIie deposed that she was thedaugh-
ier of :the Plaintiff; she lived in the house with
him, and did the service of the house ; 'she knew.
:the Defendant from
,her 'childhood, ,their families'
were particularly acquainted. The
„witness knew ,
the .Defendant's ; she died 'better than 18
months ago ; there never bad been any faniiliarity ,
between her and, the Defendant before- the -I.7th Of
August, 1807. ' He supped at her ; sup-
per was over by nine o'clock"; it was a moon-light
night ; a walk was proposed, either her brother or
his 'wife sprOp6sed it. The Defendant'said to the
`Witness, !` Come, old girl, we will walk first.r—.
They weni'out together; she expe6ted the rest were i
iollowing; not seeing them coming,. she sat down
On-a bettch to wait for them ; saw two persons
coming, whom She supposed was her brother and
his wife, but they. proved to be two young'inen.
She got uneasy, and wanted to so home. The De-
fendant began to take liberties with her; she got
up, and ran from him. He followed her, a,nd
pulled her-down a small precipice; she fell, and he
accomplished his purpose-
,(The witness fainted in
the box.)
On her recovery,' she stated, that she bad ano-
ther interview with the Defendant about six weeks
afterwards. She lay-in August last. The Defen-
dant left off visiting her father's fur. fire .or six
months before her delivery. Her father paid the
expences of her confinement; did not know what-
they amounted to., She expostulated once with the
Defendant, and told him, it she became in the fa-
inily way, her father would be much hurt. He told
her, if she Would let him know in proper. time, he
would wake, her
.comfortable. She 'was .on>.y
eighteen years of age last August.
On her cross-examination by Mr. Serjeant BEST-,
she said, she had had sweethearts, but it was the
first time that any person had used her in the.same
way ; she knew a person of the name of Boy, he
had been her sweetheart, but never served her sO;.
ff
she knew Mrs. Munson, for-she bad unfortunately
made her her confidant, but never told her, on her
asking who was the father of the child, that it was
patch-work.; she did
_not know a house kept by
Bildges, nor any house kept at Gravesend for the
convenience of young persons of both sexes to meet;
she never said, that it Boys thought she was with
any other person, he would kill her; she knew
Samuel Thornton, he never was a swe6theart of
her's; he had often walked with her after the Me-
thodist Meeting was over, after eiglot o'clock, and
as late as ten o'clock at nighti it was three years
ago. She here related familiarities that Thornton
bad taken with her; although they did not, amount • ,
to the charge against the Defendant, yet they shewed I.
she must hate been a very imprudent young
woman.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE interfered, and ad-
vised that the action should be withdrawn, on the
parties paying their own costs; for, from the nature
of Abe girl's own evidence, it was very doubtful to
him,what'verdict the Jury could give. The Plaintiff
seemed to be innocent of the misconduCt of
daughter, and it would be severe if he were obliged
.to throw away his money. •
The Counsel orrboth sides consulted for 'a few
minutes, and accepted of his Lordship's advice;, the
record was accordingly withdrawn.

• ..

. ,
,
On Monday the 28th ult. was married, at Gos-
port, SAMUEL SYMONDS, Esq. Surgeon, R. N. to
Miss MARY WHITE, second daughter of Mr. JAMES
I i WHITE, of that plki,ce.

SPANISH TOPOGRAPHY•

t:he
,The town of. Calataynd; 'in' Spain, recent]},
scene of so much wlnfare, is distant about 51!) '1651',
lish miles in a South West direction from Sarag
.. It is celebrated for being the'stieceSsor and -reF
13ced to
sentative of the antient Bilbilis, the birth-
-1)
•Martial; the Epigramatikt-, who having repaire„
Rome; rose in favour With TertA and D.
otorArli;
but, being neglected by 'TRAiAN, he returned to,_h
native city, where he marriecfa-lady, whose we.aliir
and other qualifications indemnified him forhisrrhe
appointments in the Capital' of the Workt,
town-contains about 6000 inhabitants. It is
aced otra • plain, and on rising! ground itr
along the West Bank of the river XalOn (or*
. pronounced in Spanish, Hilton), which, rising in
05,
„mountains dividing Old' Castile from
Southward, and falls into the Ebro near Al.g°`.;
about tour leagues from SaragOSsa. Calatayud uWS,
its name to a Moorish Chief, called Ayub. that
ARRAGONESE."—The natives •of Celtiberia, biro,
part of Arragon lying on the:South side of thel
were excellent warriors, and their swords were
high estimation. It was their pranice to bury,ut
iron in the ground (acceiding to Diodorus
leaving it there until the coarsest and most itnir3,
parts were.corrodeii and consumed. By tits qtbe
Arraeoo, rug
Lion, the swords made out of the remainder ulbey
iron became of such 'a temper and edge, toffy
would cut even iron itself without turnin4. °b•ar
the iron swords were possessed of this p-roptiffl!;per
even such as were Made of hardened 'H]tie
were in this district brought to perfeetroa• pia
Royal Translator of Sall ist °lie late IcW,ol,itl
Gabriel, uncle of the present Ferdinand the
ra
had in his cabinet two of these swords, disoYeo,
not long since bet Ween Clla!il.)-Alci and SiOic,noll
which he says were of such a temper, and hdu_.',ll..
an edge so fine, 'that they cool] nut be touched, 014
out the_risk. of cutting the hand.. i 5
Alcolea, on the road from Saragossa to A- 1 1dr"..;0.
imagined to be the ri)pst elevated village in SP`i
Front the.. Ebro, about one hundred miles
tta
the ground rises with regular ascent.• It is tb
the
of co.untry. which gives rise to the Tag s arid
Xalons falling into the Ebro- above Sarago's3s,l;d;.
to the Xucar, which discharges itself into the ,
terranean to the Southward of Valencia. he
,P
is
sage:from Alcolea to- Aligera, .fotir leagues jistaiti'es,,
across a .suctession of ridges and intervening valhe general waste lands,' excepting the bbtttmPs'io` t!'
country is destitute of trees, and thinly reqities,:
The road continues intersected with narrow i.
steep plains, and broken ground, as tar as ti'e',,
ley of Henares, which is extremely fruitful, ,
clueing large supplies of corn "and wine, while 3rd
hills, which spring up abruptly on each Si'‘i°.
richly clothed with
six leaguesolives.
from Madrid, %-
bpd t'
At Alcala, about
one of the most renowned Universities. 10
'
which, with those of Salaiiianca, Bologna, Irt;
Oxford,. and Carnbridge,- makes up thent;rob';
the six principal Seamnanes trinerls* celebrate° .15
Europe. One of the Collegeeof this .UniversitY
appropriated to the useof Students from IrelatA v`-t5!.
it was suppressed about twentp years since,- on,`l'.l.b,
revenues. and scholars Were transferred to the -15%
College at 'Salamanca. The Archbisop Toled„.
has a palace here, and the other public 'buildings dil'o
play great
.magnificence. . We:sincerely ho, ,e
beauties of this village may escaoe the approacbi'
horrors of war.