The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-18 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

Post the two last days the attention of the Court
has been occupied hi hearing Appeals: There were
only. two that nierited the smallest notice... .
One, the PrOprietOrs of Cole's Wharf, against the
Rate made on them by the Inhabitants of St. John's,
Sonthwark. 'The other
The Proprietors, of the River Wey; against aßate
niaae by the Parish of Woking, on -account of the
Tolls colleaed at a Lock. •
In both cases the Rate *as in part confirmed, ,
and notice given that Appeals would be entered to
bting the case before the Court of King's Bench.
Charles Etheringtail, for robbing his master, of
. wheat, was found Gpilty: And
Leonora White, for stealing fowls, .was acquitted.
AA half past six yesterday the Sessions adjoUrned;

On'Sattirday a man was executed at Militia for
cow stealing. At the commencement of the fatal
ceremony, the rope broke, and the unfortunate
wretch fell upon the failing betbte the dritrrice, of
the prison: He was brought Up to the place of
execution, dreadfully bruised and cut, and the awful
sentence of the laW was completed without any 'far::
ther obstruction.

From Fortune de Guerre BONAFARTE is exa&ing
• ,
large tiontributions on the Austrian btates-77wread—
ing thereby misery more extreme, How different
from that Fortune. de Letterie, who is on the eve
almost of presenting betiefrti, in this tonntry, to a.
multitUde of individuals !—Monday fortnight the
latter spreads her rich bcinners. Ilas-te adventurers
to her Standard I Wealth and independence await
many of you.

OLD RITLEY,

tiugp DAy—raui.ky,• JAN. 17,

Maey Snuth stood indiaed fet atealint two band-
Lerchiefi from the door of a linen-tirriper at No.
360, -High Holborn, on the ed ofkune last, at
fctur o'clock in the evening: The shiaoman getting'
notice of it foirowed the. Prisoner, aril found= the
!goods onceaa.d, under her. cloak, find_ gave her Mt°
the custody of a Bow-street Officer.
The Prisoller alledged.that she found these arti-,
cles lying:yin the -street, .:and picked them up as she
was, passing iay. the: shop-door. There- being no
other witnesses to provethat shelled aanally taken
the handkecchiels out of, the .shop, the itccoanEtt,
. before. whom this trial proceeded,' took occasion to
observe the great impropriety. of haberdashers and •
linen-drapers, &c. exposing their goods on theout-
sides of their shop-doors and windows, and even -
laying them upon the pavement. :Such people' de--
served to have ther goods stolen, .for their condu&
. afforded an opportunity and inducement to poor
6ple passing by their doors. to •commit thefts
when they-otherwise- would not be guilty of such
crimes. .The Prisoner was discharged. - •
_
. - Mary -Pullen, a genteel-looking old lady, stood.
- indided for having- in lier-possession several chit-
- -terfeit notes, for one poundeach, purporting to be-
- issued by the Governor and Company of the
7.Bank of England, and for: uttering one of their),
-knowing it to be forged. 'To this charge s,he'leid
fon-nerlyapleaded Not Guilty ; but on her appear-
, ing a the bar, her Counsel (Mr, GURNEY) advised
hereto plead Guilty of having the notes in lieMogs.
session. This being done, the presiding judge then
informed the Jury; that the;ConnSer for "the Bonk
had intimated that they did not mean" to infiist upon
that print of the iadielinent whieh charged her -with
being hi the kuowled.ge'ofanch notes being forged
or-counterfeited. The Jury therefore acquitted her,
of the capital -part of the Indiament.
• Mary:Dow,- Mary Jones, and-Jane Shaw, three
young women, were all charged with.stealing t 8 I
yards of printed cotton from the shop dociroi \-Vm.
Davies, a linen-Araper in Holborn, on theta-1h of
Dec. last, at eight o'clock in. the. morning. They.
were'observed. by Croaker, a Bow-street Officer,.
walking together, and sometimes standing befOre-
the shop. Satin-afterwards he discOvered Shaw
putting something below her arm, and crossing over
tc the other side. On this he apprehended her, and
found Davies's goods its her possession : the other:
two were also apprehended, but nothing was found
upon them. The Prisoner, Shaw, alledged that she
had bought a piece of cotton for a gown ; and the.
other „two, that they were intending to purchase
ts\eus also; and were standing adinkring the cottons
at the shop 'door when the Officer seized them.
The Jury found the Pri,soner Shaw Guilty, but
acquitted the other two; It appearing, however,
to the tom) Cu tar BARON, from the evidence given
by Croaker, that they must have been all equally in '1
league, with-- an intention to divide the spoil, he
observed; it w-auld be a species of injustice to con-
demn.oile to punishment and allow the others to go
free. As he reprobated -the custom of exposing
goods at shop-doors, and 'upon the streets, which
appeared now to be too much praEtised,,he thought
it wtould bernostiproper to put them upon an equa-
lity by discharging them. This his Lordship did after
exhorting them -to be more careful in future, as any
'second offence would not be passed over so easily.,
Mary Willi, a young woman, servant it> a Mr.
:Denman, a 'slop7ilealer, at No. 5, Hermitage, in
;the t'arish of St;John's, -Wapping, stood capitally
indided for stealing,' in her master's
-house, a quantity of- gold finger` and- ear-rings, to
.the value of upwardS of 141. sterling. If appeared I
that the Prisoner had been in the Piosecutor's
-vice for-two months ;- that on the I.3th of Decein.
her last, at seven in the Morning, - her master rung
the-bell for her, but; -instead' of answering it; she
came down stairs, - from her room aboVe his own,
into the kitchen e in abatit ten minutes afterwardS
the outer bell was rung; and :she- Opened the 'door
to let - the' shop-boyln. •Thithediately on seeing
him she said to him, -" that..the- outer door had
been all night left upon the single 'lock, and that I.
we should have the shop broken- into." She then I
went down iisto 'the cellar, -and when. the bayhad I,
-opened the shutters.- het ereeiVect- one. drawer half
open, and all the gold -rings, taken out, a few of
which he found scattered upon The'lloor. 00 this.
he.calle4 the-Prisoner np, and-desired hereto go arid
acquaint her master that the -shop-- had been 'broken'
into and robbed of a quantity: of rings and ti;inkets:
This she did, and -her master accordingly came doWn
to ekamiue how, this robbery had-been committed;
as the doors and shutters bad been all doubly locked'
and bolted the preceding-night, it was not possible to.
account for it in any other manner thap that the girl
heNelf had robbed the premises. An Officer was
sent for, and on searching the Cellar a parcel was
founk containing 34 golcrrings; and 43 gold ear-
rings, concealed amongst a quantity of saw-dust.
The Prisoner
,denied having any knowledge of that '
parcel, and produced several witnesses, who spoke
very favoUrably ()flier character previous to this rob-
bery, which circumstance, joined to the want of
proof in other .respeas, induced the-Jury to find a
verdict cf---Not
Jo/in 4cltlll, a soldier, was
_capitally indicted
for stealing, in: the dwelling-house of E,ditiard '
a publican in Wapping, 51. ly.s. in a,
small., box, the 'property of Catherine Conrad, a
servant of-the, said Edward fumes. The Prisoner
had been . nuartered at the. Prosecutor's . house for ,
several weeks, and lodged on the same floor with '
the ?servant Conrad. She had kept her money in a
small screw bOx, In a chest- in her apartment, and
EliSiA. it on the p4th of November. Herfirstsus.-
Ricoh of the. PriSoner being the thief, was excited by
ills going to the Play-house, for the first time in his
lire,
.and treating two girls there, whom he aftet'-
w-Ords brought home and entertained with refresh,:
meats. On being searchd by a Pulice Officer, there •
was nothing found in his pockets, but during the
search a box answering the description of. hat which
had been stolen dropped from ,under his waistcoat,
This box contained'only one shilling- and sixpence,' lie
having otherwayS' disposed Of . the. remaiuder of the
money: .

The Prisoner alledged that the box so found> was