The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-31 00:00:00

CAUTION Tc),.BANKERS

A person Calling:Mimelf G. W. Brown, Deputy
Assistant Commissary, on -Friday last requested
cash for a draft of 1501. at the Bank of Messrs.
Blackmore and Austin, at Honiton.• The'bill was
drawn on J.-C. Herries, Esq.. Commissary-tiene-
rah London, and the applicant represented,' that
troops would shortly pass through the town; -for
whose 'service he wanted the amount., and,rcupiest-
ed the Clerk to send to the Post Office the letter
of advice which he had written on he subject.
After receiving the amount, some distrust occur-
red with the Clerk, .and he opened the alleged
letter of advice, ‘viiic.b he found
,to contain a few.
words of intintelligible stuff, but not a syllable ie-
specing- the draft. Upon this
,discovery the ad-
venturer was pursued and overtaken at Chard,
where he was taken into custody, and the whole.
of the property recovered, except 41. At one of
the Banks ,at lioniton, lie was extremely indig-
nant.at the disrespect shewu to a person of his
rank in the army, bY'a refusal-' to. 'discount' his
draft, and poured a torrent of abuse on one of
,the partners in the Bank, nil account of the in-
jury, which 'might accrue to Government on the,
occasion !--The Said Brow is about 5 feet eight
inches high,' sallow complexion, has hair. under
his Chin, a mark-of ginipowder (some ligure mark)
between his left thumb and fore-finger, dark eye,
and eye-brows, and dark 'curly hair and high fore-
head; has the appearance of ki Jew or Foreigner,
and' could only. by a stretch of fancy be mistaken
fora Gentleman. " • 7

The Threshers or Carders- of, the county' of
Westmeath have, within those few days, dis-
covered a new mode oftorture : -Idthe.course of
lass week tht3'se miscreants broke into a house oc-
cupied by Mr. CHAS.I4ENNON'S herd, of Drum-
rainey, when without ceremony they dragged the
unfortunate victim of their vengeance out, and,
horrible to relate, with a pair of 4heers cut both
his ears off. • No • reason can be assigned for
.this
act of barbarity, but a supposition that he had
given his master, Mr. LENNON, some information.
A few nights afterwards they tOotoft-- one ear from
a female at Walderstown, two
.miles front Duni.
rainer. 'A meeting of ti le Magistrates, in conse-
•queriee of those outragsts, has, before this, talteu
place at the Five-Mile-Houst.--(Saunders'c INTelas
'LWer.) . . - _

On Sunday, last; about eight o'clock in the
evening, the house Of EDWAUD:WYNNE, farmer, ,
'cifi3allard, in this county, .was attacked by
armed 'men, who met with considerable resistance
from MS, IE9III whorl, how-
ever, they took three guns,-which they afterwards
returned, fearful, as is supposetl, of having been
recognised, Whieh, we are,glad to find, is actually
the case;. from Ivbiefr circuuuiance we conf:-
dently o:pect their speedy apprehension. After
'they left the.house,'one of liTyNNF.'s sons looking
out to, see if they were gone, received a viol nt
blow on the eye with the butt end of a gun flout
One of the villains, and he now lies without hopes
of recovery.—(lVeit moth Journal?) •
On Monday -night bust, two guns and a pistol
were left in the demesne Of CHARLES KELLY, -of
tehaisreC(oientielit.n.t,in
ed
to Esq, with the follow
abandon such
practices in future."—(ibid.)

OLD BAILEY; S ITURDAY, OCT. 29.

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16:a letter-sorter in the U-neral PoSt4,,,flice; was
iodteted fOr•einhe.ztling •,i-• letter diVecVed
Wentworth Of IVandstvorth, 'and taking theieont
it 101. .13auic 'not e • • • •
Mr. ATTORNEY GENER eandtictid-the prOse-
cution-; who stated', that the prisoner; •Wh'o.x'oai
a v4o.y.yonug man, had rot- 'sane titne'past been,
entitheyed Lit the Post-Office as one of the rlerlts:
It cvaS his thity to sort -the letteri for delivery to'
the persons to winitu they were diret:!t•ed.• lie
had. availed hinlself of the opporttinitih-his sittra-
tinii 'afforded to secret the letter and gtetil tlictitite
in ituestion. The case would be 'Most ekarly and •
distinctly made out. Greutkuilait of -Au iiame
of
.Clot k, residing at bait ford; having dceasion
to 'remit Money to Mr; Went Worth, eticlosed
10E: note in a letter on. the 19th 'July last; and put
it into tine 'Post:Offrce at tliat. place. •Tile' letters
in :the 'Dartford Office were regtilarlY forwarded
to the. l'ost-Office• in London, Where'they arrived
the ensuing thy. The prisoner,. who.se business
it was to arrange. them for delivery, had of cont'se
opportnnitiis Of convertingibe•Contents of any of
them to his own Ilse. It tvonld be situ uut that
on the 20th July he passed the note atthe shop
cif Mr. Els Worth, a linen-draper in liishopsgat4-
street. :Mr. Wentworth not receiving 'the 10/.
rote; which I e had expected, tirade the necessary•
and saddled himself that the letter. (ad -
been' withdrawn at the Post-Office. Upon alsl>lT.- •
cation at the Bank; it tippcared-that the note'had
been brought in' and t'titicelled. •It itas
traced to 'Mr: Els Worth; but no fnrther in the first
instance. There was the name Wilbrahani,
falgar-place, on the hack, which hadbeen ‘vritten
by the prisoner When he passed the note. This
name and address ttirned Out to be fictitions.'Nr,.
thing further was ascertained t,on the subject till
a few weeks ago,,‘vhen the prisoner being in ens-
tody, upon some other charge, Mr., lidswortWs
shopman recognized him , as the person...from'
whom. he had received .the note. Such -were the
short facts of the case. If the .J ry 'saw no rea;
son. for doubting, he accuracy of the .w,tnesse,
whom he should -eal.4 it would be fur the pria
voter to shew that be Nettie to the po.ssussioti.of
the note by tau fill means.: If- they believed be
had availed himself of his situation' ro.steal. the
letter, and, the note, it would be their 'painful
duty, highly penal as the ()deuce was, to convict,
hint.

' Richard bark said, --that in the month of. July
last lie was living, at Dartford, in the employinent
of Mc. Hall ; he had occasion to make up a let-
ter to go to Mr. Wentwoi th, of Wandsworth ; he
inclosed a 10i. note, of which he had .preyiously
taken the Particular: ; the note- eras dated May
2 } st, anti the number 5323. Pe carefully sealed
up the .letter with a wafer, which he pressed
close with. a stamp; hating done so, he put it
into the post-otlice. . .
Henry thron, the rostmaster at • :Dartford,
proved that on the 19th July, the (14y When. the
nti been put in, he made up and forwartlf.'n
all the letters ; he was sure he had clei'tred the
box.

Charles Wood, Clerk at tile Yost-of e, proved,
that the prisoner.opened the bags front Dartford
on the morning they reached Lombard-street ;
that the prisoner was the clerk 'at the table, whose
duty it was to sort the letters. . .
Charles Hess said, he was cmployedin the Ge-
neral Post-ottiee ; he was at the same table. whit
the prisoner his ditty was to open the bags,aud
give the letters to the prisoner to be sorted.
• Mr. Wentworth proved, that he hid neither re-
ceived the letter or the note, Upon 'inquiry, itc
found the letter h.ad,heen stolen.
Nash, the slioinnan to Mr, Elsworth, said,'
that on the 20th of July he. saw, 'the prisOner in
his master's Shop,
,he came.to purchase
chiefs ; witness hail seen him befti.re; he handed
hint the pen, and saiy him , A>; rate Ore name and 'ad-
dress on the back nt the nate.. He observed him,
about t‘vo hours after%i.nyAg,:.go down the sante.
street ; he saw him again in two or three days,
but did not speak to Itint; his countenance was
quite familiar to biut. He had since seen the pri-
soner at the (711tspmu Convey ; he knew
hi:o as soon as he saw him, though he was among
several others.

Petcr 130,vittu, -the Clerk,of M. Parkin, Soli-
citor to the I'o§t7Ptliee,- said be !rad made inquiry
ut Trafalgar-place, to know whether a person of
the name. of 47-iioi...tham had_ resided' thel'e its Jlil~{
last: ties ilßittired (root house to house, hut could
Gbtain no information of any such person.

Mr. Parkin droduce,i • the tote %vhich he said
be had received from the Inspector of the Bank-
of Englund. it had been cancelled in' the usual
way. _ •

Lord ELLENBOROUG4 thought that as theTianic
nate appeared mutilated, and the stun punched
our, it was necessary to
.prove- it was in a perfect
state when the priioneroi)tained possession of it.

Mr. Clark said the. Bank-note was.entire in all
its parts,,ndien.he put the letter, containing it into
the Post-office. • ,

It was .proved• by Nash, that the-,Note bad the
Op pear an ce of being irieurrency ; it. was perfect,
or he should not have taken it, in payment of the
goods the prisoner had purchased,
The prisoner,npon tieing called upon for his de-
fence, said he left it to-his Counsel. • •
LOrof ELLe,isoation informed him that his
Counsel could • cif? nothing- more.for him
.thanurge
any objection thaemight 'occur on'matter of law.
if 41e had any thing 10 say in his defence he would
lise,bis,o‘va Judgment and discretion in stating it.
Several persons of respectability and credit
were examjned.to the prisoner's character. They:
had. known him some for several years, others
from iii, birth, ,They,descrihed hitu as a young
man who had uniforinly conducted himself ho-
nestly and without reproach till the present trans-.
action. _

Lord, ELLENI3OItOU.GFI summed tip,the eyiJenre,
rcniarking that it hinl .heenine necessary for the
protection of the conveyance of letters that a, se-
verelumalty shout,i be imposed upon persons se-
creting, therm. .Tile evidence of the.fact vas the
circumstance of lire contents (f a letter being
traced to the posxvssiph of the party accused.
A Gentleman of the Jury observed that the

nitte 4nd AtldresS bad not been pr.oyed to have
beezi in the 'prisoner's hanthwritin::• •
!Lord ELLEntoaouGn. said it could hardly have
been expected that the Counsel for the prosecu-,
put any, question 'with' ,view -to
prove thtit The,natare Of •ithe..transaction
Wits: suclohat.the prisoner ‘vould of eintrse write
a ieigned hand ; and therefore if the Conn,itl had
e2iandald‘to that point, he should haft thought: it
•would'have been- the lust time. they- ,intended to
make• their appearance la a Court .0f- J ustic-e•—
The prisoner had certainly received a god cha
ratter, but if -it had been more his• fayotir it
could hardly -have availed.. Character. urns only
ittiptil taut when- the 'scale of evidence hung even
or doubtful, but when a case was 'satisfactorily
made out 0: could be of no weight. '• Here the
pris:oner had 'peculiar aceess to the letter : the,
Note had been traced to, hi4posse,ssion , and he bad
not given any account of -his haying lawfully ob-
tained it.--416W far the prisoner by treason of his
youth might' be an Objeot of mercy was tint for the.
consideration of -the Jury.--If uvon. the evidence
they were satisfied he bad taken the Note, -it was
.their duty by their verdict to t;ay•sii.
The ,airy found the prisciner,GulkT—Death. •
There Were five other indictments against him
of a sinti4rdes,criptioni .
l'ho.ino..ol4thin.sou was capitally indicted for felo4-•
nionslyisetitting'ind-statibing Rees Ilarris, *with-.
intent twinurder lino, or do him hof!
(lily twin*
nun) inv.! -,SChoolinaSter, reslning
the day Stated iii the indictm:alt,• lie had been to
Uoxton to collect Soule rents of his own. He let.t
Eloxton at 10 o'clock. at n;ght. As he was coin-
• mug by the Haberdasher::' Walk, a 'person started
. t l)');t hito amo .knOckeil. liiiu down,
'have •becti -waiting for it some
mill do,frn* you." MC- ceaeired tigAleral -SUCCeS'
Sive Mows, and felt two incisions On his eyes; and
Oen hc groaned To protect Ititnelt. he
put'ttp.his hand and reeeivedan incisiOn• on ; -
then:et:red otet.notrder. - -The „watchman came to,
his fisistati*, Ow iitid delivered jiilll
► - L
t:o.t.,e care ol a geuticinan. He was sent in a
e'o'ach to• St. Barthol'ohiciv's Hospital ; he, remain.,
eel, :there -.dirge weeks::: -Ht.-had no knowleilge.
whateveF of the prisfoner. understoOd he was
mariner, andhadserved on board the Gladiator.
These facts were corroborated -by the:other ,
nesses,and the surgeon described the nature of
the wounds Were of a dangerous nature
The prisoner denied time charge, knit called tour
"or'fiVe•w ituesses who had known bids 30 years
They spoke of .hint. as- man of a_quiet,
fensi ye disposition,•uu ways addicted to quarrel-.
ing or acts of barbarity. The Jury found him'
Guilty—Death:
Jacob -Isaacs was arraigned for feloniouslylopg-
ing, and connterleiting a certain ,note, purporting
to 'be a note of tile Governor and COMpany of the
Bank of E,30,11.d, for 500 i. He tiers also charg-ed
with Faring such forged -note, in his pOsselisioll...
plead,nl .guilty. to thesecand eltarge,. which
subjects him to transportation,
,and no Ev;denc_e
'was offered on the capitallndiettneirt.
• Ifria.•Biznett Was indicted for robbing job n
On the King's highym:ay, sit; a; pocket-tmook,,,con7
taining ten c./he Pound :Cotes and th; ye Half Gui-
neas. The prisoner ,net the: prosecutor in Crownstreet, Fiashury-SqttarC, on the evening of :the
21st of bcpi.ctuber, and accosted hits ;is if. beWit
an old acquaintance. Prosecutor had, hower-er,,
no )(nowiedge of him. While he was talking
to. hint- Sonic on came • behind. and 'nailed
him, and at that moment 'ae felt aliitird in. his
pocket, fronLwlience his pocket-hook Was then
taken. The prisoner then wanted away; and
when time prosecutor called out stop thief ! he ran
off. • A perttri however stopped hint ;; sorrieof his
accomplices then came up, and knoctted the pro-
secutor. down, but the prisonel was' ineVented.
trade escaping, and in his pocket was found 'the
prosecutor's pocket-book. Guilty!---Death,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.