The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-22 00:00:00

!MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, SEPT. 21.--Wind S.W.—The wind last night
shifted to the 'N.H., and towards morning it got to the S.W. ;
about 5 a. m. we had violent thunder, lightning and hail ; about
half-past six it cleared up, when the outward-hound sailed, ex-
cept the following, viz. :—Protector, Dickenson ; Hibberts,
'rheaker ; Barrossa, Hutchinson, for India; and the Resolu-
tion, for Quebec ; 4 p. m. the Cape Packet, Kellie, and seve-
ral others, are now coming back.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 21.—Wind S.W. blowing hard.—
' Passed by for London the Elizabeth, Walker, from Grenada,
landed passengers.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the French
brig Les Deaux Amies, Chevalier, from Noirmoutier. Sailed
the Skelton, Carlisle, for Antwerp.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 20.—Wind W.—Arrived the Panthea,
Hathaway, from New York ; Minerva, , from Lisbon ;
Wilkinson, White, from Petersburgh ; and Thomas Parsons,
Bragg, from Quebec.

The Magnet, Watkins, from London to Rio .Taneiro, out
three weeks, has put into Dartmouth leaky, channels broke,
sails split, loss of rigging, and other damage, having been as far
as lat. 46. long. 14. W.
The Byron, Lord, from Liverpool to New York, was driven
on shore Vie ith inst., near Cambletown, and it was doubtful
whether she would be got off.
The Moffatt, from China and Quebec, is not arrived, as stated
on Tuesday. •

FATAL ACCIDENT.-Friday afternoon, a dis.
tressing accident occurred at GREAT Yartsou'rtt, on the
river, near Fisher's Quay, by the upsetting of a boat. A large
party of ladies and gentlemen, consisting of Mr. Andrews,
Misses Sarah, Catherine, Mary, and Frances Andrews, son and
daughters of the late Rev. Mr. Andrews, of Flempton
near this town, Rev. Mr. Harris, Mr. Power, and Mr.• Cape,
enaged a boat to sail on that fine piece of water, near Yarmouth,
called Bradon, and had spent the day in the most agree-
able manner. On their return, when near Turner's bowl-
' ing-green, it was 'suggested that they should land there, but
a man named J. Bull, in the employ of the owner of the boat,
advised them to proceed to the place from whence they started,
and there land; Bull then unsolicited got into the boat with the
party, to assist them doWn with it. The boat afterwards gently
dropped down the river with the tide about 200 yards further,
when they arrived at the quay, where they were about to land.
One of the gentlemen here got into a smaller boat, and was put
on shore, Bull then threw the jib-halyards for him to make fast,
without properly securing them to the side of the boat, which he
ought to have done; the rope was thus fastened from the mast-
head to the shore. The tide was running very strong at the time,
which caused the head of the boat to sheer off from the shore.,
consequently was carried round with its side to the current, and
owing to the rope being improperly fastened to the mast-head it
instant:y upset, When all on board were precipitated iLto the
rive-. The accident was observed by many persons, and boats
immediatelyput off-to their assistance ; some without oars,others
with only one ; and from the confusion which ensued, it was
much doubted whether any of them could he saved. We are,
however, happy to add, that the ladies and gentlemen above-
mentioned were all preserved by the boats; some of them in a
nearly exhausted state, and others apparently lifeless. The
gentleman suffered but little, as they were all able to swim ;
but the ladies floated down the river, buoyed up by their clothes,
• some of them nearly to the bridge, a distance of two hundred
yards, before they were picked up. The most distressing part
of this occurrence is, that .1. Bull, the man who went on board
unsolicited, and was in the boat when it upset, has never been
seen or heard of. It is supposed he must have been stunned
by a blow o the boat going over, as he was a very good
swimmer.

COAL MARKET, SEPT. 21.
Butdon 40s 6d—Killingworth 42s 6d—Ord's Redhugh 36s
Pelaw 37s—Tanfield Moor 40s—Willington 43s—Walls End
Bewicke and Co. 44s—Walls End Newniarch 42s 6d—Walls
End Russell's 43s 3d—Lyon's 42—Russell's Lyons 42s 6d
Walls End Iletton 44s to 44s 3d—Walls End Stewart's 44s ad
—l3 Ships at market, 12i Ships sold.

INCLEDON, the vocalist, has been in Durham
for about a week or ten days past, and it is said
to be his intention to remain some tithe longer in
that neighbourhood. He is regarded with pecu-
liar interest by the inhabitants. Though rather
infirm, the veteran looks well.
BALLOON ASCENT AT YOUII.—The ascent of
GREEN, the aeronaut, in his balloon, at a quarter
last four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, concluded
the public entertainments of the week at York.
It took place from the Gas Works, which are si-
tuated on the Scarborough road, a little beyond the
city gate called Monk-bar. The ascent was ex-
ceedingly beautiful and interesting, the ballou,
with a majestic grace, floating through the air,
Mr. Green occasionally waving a flag towards the
upward-gazing multitude, who cheered him on
his mission to the clouds.

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ROBBERY OF THE GRAVE.—Zenas C. Johnson
has been tried before the Supreme Court of New
Hampshire, for digging up and carrying away the
body of a woman, in Andover, in October last.
The Jury brought in a verdict of Guilty, and-the
defendant not answering to the call of the Court,
his bonds (250 dollars) were declared to be for-
feited.--(New York Paper.)

rilE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extr;lets fro* the Morning Papers, Sept. 22, 1 82 b.

[TUE TIMES.]

A .day or two will probably decide the im-
portant question whether we are upon the eve of
a general election, or that event is to be deferred
for another year. It is considered that by the
dissolution of Parliament so soon after the defeat
of the Catholic question, a great accession of
strength will accrue to the anti-Catholic party—
that is, one side of the Ministry will be strength-
ened, and the other weakened. It is not, however,
by-a house being divided against itself that it is
most likely to stand. The weakened party, by
far the ablest in talent, may be disgusted and re-
tire-; and then what becomes of the stronger,
thus denuded and exposed ? It is very certain
that whatever strengthens the anti-Catholic party
in the Cabinet, tends to paralyze Mr. Canning
and convert him into a cipher—that Minister to
whom the country professes to feel itself so
much obliged, on account of the liberal system
of policy, which he has introduced into its coun-
cils. There is no question, we allow it, but that
a very strong anti-Catholic feeling exists in the
country, ready to break out into an anti-
Catholic cry, if one-half of the Ministry
should at this time take advantage of their col-
leagues by dissolving the Parliament, and stir-
ring up the passions through a general election.
But we contend, that if a general election take
place at the present crisis,—to which, in truth,
we have no objection,—Catholic emancipation is
by that very occurrence suspended : for it is ob.
viously betrayed in the Cabinet, if its adherents
suffer the election to take place, and continue in
office. The friends and supporters, therefore, of
a liberal policy, cannot do better than adhere
together on those general principles on which
they are united, leaving the detached and ano-
malous question of Catholic emancipation out
of their view; for it would be very rash indeed
to betray the grand cause on which they are
united, on account of discrepancy of opinion,
wherever that exists, upon a single point. The
Whig candidate for a seat in the new. Parliament,
supposing a new Parliament to be called, if re-
proached with his vote on the Catholic Emancipa-
tion Bill, would now reply, that there was so !couch
trickery in the Ministry upon this question, that
it -ought to be forced upon them as a Cabinet
measure ; for until it is decided affirmatively in
the Cabinet, it will never be carried : and for
this cause it was that Sir Francis Burdett reso-
lutely and rationally refused to ♦ote on the sub-
ject a year or two ago, alleging that the obtrusion
of the question on the House, while the prepon-
derating body of the Ministry opposed the bill,
and the enlightened fraction of the Ministry act-
ed in its support, was a mere imposition, to which
he would not give his countenance. He would
not appear to be gulled by it. The measure is a
measure of State,—not the subject of conflict be-
tween parties. _

[BRITISH PR US.]
If we may judge from the proceedings of the
Slhipw•rights' Union, they seem resolved to sub-
stitute an entirely new theory of subordination in
lieu of that which they have so recently thrown
off. They appear to have enacted a new code of
combination. laws in the place of those which
Parliament have repealed. By their code their
own sentence is to be, in all cases, final. They
will bold nothing by favour—they will accept no-
thing by, compromise—they will ask what wages
they please, and they will have what they ask as
of right. If all power is to be translated, as it
seems the intention of the Union Committee that
• it shall be—from the hands of the employers to
these of the workmen, it will certainly be no
easy matter to settle their pretensions. It seems
intended on the part of the shipwrights that it
should be a trial of strength. Indeed, the whole
combination system has been commenced, and is
carried on in that spirit. But the conflict of norm:
bers against property can never be a drawn
battle. It is a propensity that experience
has uniformly discovered in the mind of
man to usurp power, and there seems at present
but too prevailing an inclination in the working
classes to possess themselves forcibly of a dominion
which,irt the nature of things,they never can obtain,
and which if they could obtain, they never could
exercise but with ruin to others and to themselves.
They may centinue for a time the present state
of broil and confusion in which they have involv-
ed the master manufacturers—but in what can it
.end Property, after all, must preponderate :it
cannot be otherwise. That class whose lot is
labour—useful as they may be in their station,
and invaluable as their services may be in their
proper sphere of duty—can never hope to make
a new distribution of the powers and interests
of society. They may indeed disturb, but they
• cannot destroy, the order which Providence
has _established in the world, for the furtherance
• of 'civil society and the security of private rights.
They have their. allotment of
.power, which, it
well and wisely exercised, is adequate—at all
times—to what-ought to
.be its purpose, antd to
the attainment of whatever it ought in justice to

accomplish ; but the instant 4 seeks to be pm-
, mount, its uumerical strength becomes its real
weakness, because it gives birth, from necessity,
• <tn an antagonist force, against which, while the

order of civil government exists, it can never

successfully contend. As to the attempt to re-
•gulate .wages by the price of,provisions, it is ut-
terly impracticable. It can never be attempted
:tea any, principle of common sense or of common
justice. It is preposterous for the workmen in
any trade to.attempt. to regulate their price-book
by the returns of Leadenhall or of Mark-lane.
As Ewell might the journeymen, bakers or
butchers-fix their wages by the price of ship-tirri-
ber.At ismanifestthat the very same causes•which
tend to advance food to a higher price than usual
:inay at the.same time lessen the demand for that
very labour, for which the workmen would
.insitit
upon an increase of wages. No man of sound
wind can reflect a moment, without perceiving
not only that such a demand, under such circum-
stances, would be most unreasonable in itself, but
that It could not be complied with. That is the

most prosperous state of a manufacturing country,
in which, while food is cheap wages continue
high, and where consequently the reward of la-
bour operates as a stimulus to industry. It is a
bad condition of society, in which the labouring
classes are perpetually struggling to keep poverty
at arm's length. But it does not therefore follow
that the expence of subsistence ought to regulate
the rate of manufacturing wages. It cannot be
too often repeated, that the attempt on the part of
the working classes to insist upon this measure of
value can only arise from a want of those just prin-
ciples of thinking and reasoning which it most be-
hoves them to attain. Wages in every branch of ma-
nufacture must depend on the decreasing demand
or the extra consumption ; these are the barome-
ters by which they must rise or fall ; but the
prices of bread and butcher meat fluctuate, it is
obvious, with various causes with which these are
not connected, and upon which they have no in.
flnence. As for the present combining system, it
cannot long go on without extirpating the Capi-
talist. He will soon find it his interest to carry
his money and his machinery where he can em-
ploy them, not only profitably, but in quiet and
repose. This he must in vain seek for, as long
as the rise or reduction of wages is to be per-
petually contended for between manufacturers and
their workmen, as between two active and hostile
interests. As far as legislation is concerned, un-
doubtedly the laws which best defended each,
would best protect all. At present the boundaries
o: all law are threatened, and that general capital,
which is the object of common concern, and in
the employment and circulation of which the
prosperity of the whole community depends, is
placed in a condition which it is fearful to look
upon, and the issue of which it is not easy to
prophecy.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 20th instant, and the
Etoile of Tuesday, arrived last night, by Ex-
press. The latter has brought advices from Con-
stantinople to the 22d of August, by which it ap-
pear that the resolution of the Greek Govern-
ment to place its country under our protection,
and the increase of our naval force in the Levant
Seas, had created a serious sensation in that ca-
pital. As no mention is made in these accounts
of the proceedings of the Turkish armies, either
in Greece Proper or in the Morea, it is evident
that nothing had occurred calculated to gratify
the Porte,or else advantage would have been taken
of the slightest occasion to build upon it the re-
port of a magnificent victory. The Constitutionnel
gives several extracts from the Friend of the Law,
which throw some light on the actions and skir-
mi►hes whith the Austrians have turned into im-
portant succeses gained by their dear friend and
Frogs* Ibrahim Pacha. The first statement is
the most important of all, for it confirms the in-
telligence which we had previously received from
other quarters, that the Greeks had surprised
and destroyed the garrison of 1,200 Arabs,
whom the Egyptain Commander had left at Nisi
to protect his communications with the sea. Only
a few horsemen escaped with their lives, and 25
foot soldiers who were taken prisoners. The
Greeks lost in this brilliant enterprise, which
was executed by four thousand Arcadians,
Andrusians and Leontariotes, only fifty killed,
and the brave Commander of the Arca-
dians, called Crizalis. After the action of
the 20th of July, in which the Austrian Bulletin
writers slew Ypsilanti, and annihilated the whole
armed force of the Morea, that murdered Com-
mander continued to advance and to occupy so
important a position, that he was fiercely attacked
in it the next day by more than double his
strength. He repelled his assailants, and inflicted
considerable loss upon them, but finding that
they had turned the position of another Greek
Chief who was overpowered by numbers, he
moved to his relief and covered his retreat, when
Colocotroni arrived with his corps, and drove the
Arabs back to Tripolisza. This is one of Ibra-
him's boasted victories, and may serve to give a
just idea of the rest.

[THE PUBLIC LBDOER.I
The determination of the Greeks to seek the
protection of this country has excited an univer-
sal anxiety to ascertain in what way the applica-
tion will be met by his Majesty's Government.
If feeling alone decided a matter of this import-
ance, the result would not be problematical;
for to such men as direct, at this hour, the affairs
of this country, the idea of restoring Greece must
have incredible attractions. It is an affair, how.
ever, of calculation, as well as of sentiment; and
if it be found, upon mature deliberation, that
the inconveniences greatly outweigh the advan-
tages, the honour of the proposal will be
declined, however pain may accompany this stern
act of duty. But it is not altogether certain
that, in a mere profit and loss view of the
subject, the objections exceed the documents ;
for the risk appears to us to be by no means
so great as is usually imagined ; and the ex-
pence is not worth speaking of, as Greece pos-
sesses resources, if well managed, which would
be soon more than adequate to cover her own ex-
penditure. As to the risk, the only objection
worth noticing is the possibility that it might in-
volve this country in hostilities with one or more
European Powers. That it would lead to a result
of this kind, however, is in the extreme doubtful;
for what right would be invaded, except the ob-
solete one of the Porte, should the application suc-
ceed. No other Power would have even a plausible
pretext for going to war ; and if it still proceeded
to hostilities, the risk would be at least as great
upon its side, as upon ours. The last considera-
tion would have more influence upon the deci-
sion, than perhaps is generally believed; and the
objections in this respect seem to us to be far
more specious than solid. Should this country
too decline the overture, the Greeks would pro-
bably next address themselves to Russia ; and,
were the latter to accede, we could not, with any
shew of humanity, interpose to prevent her' from
rescuing the Greeks from the horrible evils that
await them, in the event of being brought again
under the Turkish yoke.

NEW TIMES.]
We last night received the Etoile dated Tues.
d a y . The Three per Cents. continue to support

r themselves nearly about the pries they have for
some time maintained. The Journal des Dobai*
pursues its daily attacks on M. de Villele,. who
will probably sink at last under. this load of
abuse, because he has the folly (too common with
great Statesmen) to undervalue the influence of the
Press. M. de Villele has effected two vast bene-
fits in France—the passing a law of indemnity to
the emigrants, and the reducing the annual
charge of the Public Debt ; but he has never
brought the true nature of these measures
fully before the public; he has suffered
the French people to be puzzled and deluded
by the Journal des Dclbats, as if he ima-
gined that sophistry and misrepresentation had
no effect on public opinion. Fatal mistake ! M.
de Villele will hereafter find that he has neglect-
ed one of his first duties to himself and his coun-
try in not causing the false reasoning of the
Journal des DAats to be clearly exposed and
powerfully refuted. That Journal quotes his
words, but perverts their spirit. He had said
that when the five per cents. fell below par it
would be to the advantage of the State that the
Sinking Fund should purchase in that stock
rather than in the Threes. Well, cries the
Journalist, the Fives are a quarter per cent.
below par, why do you not purchase in them ?
Because (it may be answered) the circumstances
of the market are such as to render the purchase
not advisable in the opinion of the Commis-
sioners. The Commissioners have decided that the
present circumstances of the market form a case
of exception. M. de Villele's remark was just,
as a general rule ; but there is no general rule
without exception. Suppose a combination of
Stockjobbers were to succeed in depressing any
Stock a quarter per cent. ought the Commissioners
to assume (contrary to their own positive know-
ledge) that this was the natural state of the
market ? The Commissioners of the English
Sinking Fund have a discretion as to the parti-
cular Stock, in which they purchase, and the
French ought to have, as by law they have, a
similar discretion.

DROWNING CHRONICLE.]
It appears from a paragraph now travelling the
rounds of th• Press, that the Duke of Northum-
berland, on arriving at Alnwick, expressed to his
assembled tenants his confidence that they would
receive pleasure at being informed how incorrect
the newspaper accounts were on the subject of his
late mission. His Grace is then reported to have
affirmed, that from the King to the Peasant a mark-
ed attention was paid to him as his Majesty's Re-
presentative. We make not the least doubt that
this statement was as gratifying to the good peo-
ple of Alnwick as the Noble Duke had antici-
pated ; but while his Grace was condescending
to make his tenantry happy, by correcting mis-
representations touching the degree of honour in
which he had been held in France, we regret
extremely that he did not enter into some expla-
nation concerning the alleged neglected claims of
a decayed Gentlewoman (connected with his
family) on I►is justice and generosity. The
story, which is the talk of the town, has deeply
interested the public, and the circumstances
of it, if truly stated, are such as detract
more from the • dignity of a noble and weal-
thy house than the rumoured slights which his
Grace has taken the trouble to contradict for
the especial satisfaction of his friends in the coun-
try. We need scarcely add that we allude to the
representations of a lady of the name of Webster,
now dependent for support on parish aid, whose
grandfather, Mr. Lomas, on the death of his
wife, the Dowager Duchess of Somerset, surren-
dered, with romantic generosity, to the late
Duke of Northumberland a deed securing to
him (Mr. Lomas) the Duchess's property,
amounting in value, it is said, to 60,0001. The
grand-daughter of this gentleman, advanced in
years, and in deep distress, describes herself as
having in vain solicited the assistance of the pre-
sent wealthy Duke, and also of his kinsman, Lord
Beverley, whose possessions have been swelled
by the generosity of the applicant's grandfather.
We refrain from entering into the sordid parti-
culars of alleged evasion of promises and trickery,
to which, supposing them to be truly stated, his
Grace can doubtless prove himself to have been no
party, for our sole object in noticing the matter
is to invite either confutation of an injurio►►s tale,
or justice to an aggrieved and helpless indivi-
dual. Assuming the fedi to be as represented,
we must in charity assume the Noble Duke to
be a stranger to them ; and, indeed, we are
strongly inclined to conjecture that he must. be
altogether ignorant of what has occurred at
the Mansion-House, for surely if he were aware
of wl►at has passed, he would think it at
least as incumbent on him to shyw that he
had not lost his title to the world's respect
in this affair, as to correct idle misrepresentations
respecting slights offered to his embassadorial dig.
pity at the Court of France. Certain we are that
the good tenants at Alnwick would feel more
interested and more gratified by the former in-
formation than by the latter, as it is of more
concern to them to be convinced that their land-
lord is beyond all question a liberal and humane
Nobleman, than to be assured that he has been an
honoured Representative of Royalty at a Fo-
reign Court. It is very seldom, indeed, that we
notice affairs between individuals ; but the pecu-
liar circumstances of this case, and the explana-
tion which the Duke has just offered on a matter
that touches him less closely, have tempted us to
infringe our general rule. In some degree, howr
ever, the affair is of public concern ; for if the story
be permitted to rest where it is, it will be winded
about in France as an anecdote little creditable
either to his Majesty's late Representative, or to
his Majesty's choice of a Representative, and as
generally illustrative (our neighbours love to
generalise) of the mixed meanness and ostenta-
tion of the proud English Nobility.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There is a practice growing up in our Criminal
Courts, arislngl as we apprehend, from a dislike
to trouble, which requires, we think, to be put an
end to. The circumstance we allude to is this,
of a Counsel for a prosecution rising up and in-
forming the Judge, that in his (the Counsel's)
opinion, the evidence, as stated to him, is not

sufficient to convict the prisoner, and that there-
fore the prosecution should be abandoned.—
This is, we conceive, a manifest injustice
to all parties, and proceeds upon the erro-
neous notion of treating such matters as if they
were causes between individuals. When a
Grand Jury, consisting, as it ought to do, of
twenty-three persons, has deliberately said that
there is no good ground to put a man upon his
trial, we are not convinced that one individual,
who has probably neither seen nor heard one of
the witnesses, and who knows perhaps but half
the story, and that imperfectly from his brief,
can be competent to set aside and stultify the so.
lemn judgment of a known, a legal, and compe-
tent tribunal. Judges, too, now and then, do
something of the same kind, by stating that the
case does not appear to be sustained by the de-
positions before them, and for that reason ought
to be abandoned. The depositions as taken by
the Magistrate, and by him transmitted to the
Court, can hardly in any case be sufficient to bear
out this conclusion, against which, as in the other
case, the finding of the Grand Jury is a complete
answer. Besides, how can the Judge tell (as in
fact is often the case) but that stronger evidence
has been found since the prisoner's committal ! If
the Judge discovers from the depositions that
in fact no felony has been committed, and that
the prisoner has been proceeded against under a
mistake, he may be justified in stopping the pro-
ceedings ; but the sufficiency of evidence is the
province of the Petty Jury to judge of, and
public justice requires that a person charged on
the inquisition of the Grand Jury should be con-
victed or delivered by the verdict 'of his Peers,
and by that alone. Without dwelling moreupon
this latter practice, the former is one which we
feel quite confident upon—via. that the guilt or
innocence of a person accused should not depend
upon the dictum of an Advocate. This kind of
interference on the one hand, and of courtesy on 1
the other, between the Bar and the Bench,'
is highly unconstitutional ; and arises in a
great degree from that modern familiarity,
which has taken away so much in public
opinion from the independence of the one and
the proper dignity of the other. Gentlemen at
the Bar, are, we dare say, "all honourable
men." Having received his fee, of Course the
trouble of conducting a case is what no one
can wish to avoid. He can, of course, have no
case or engagement which requires his attend-
ance elsewhere. And as for his being feed on
both sides—that is, on the one to prosecute,
and on the other to obtain au acquittal, is a
thing utterly impossible. Yet in ignorant minds
this sort of interference may subject a man
to some one of those imputations. At all
events, a criminal prosecution is not like a case
between party and party ; and, for the sake A.
public justice, and from respect to that high name
in whose behalf the prosecution is instituted,
ought not to be got rid of in this summary extra.
judicial manner. In cases of civil inquiry it has
become the practice, after the whole legal ex-
pences have been incurred, and the Jury even
impannelled, for Learned Gentlemen to recom-
mend a reference. Here the parties themselves
have something like a choice; though, in fact, it
is oftener than not merely nominal, and which
they are not allowed to exercise. The highest
legal authority in the kingdom has repeatedly
condemned this practice, as one to which he
would not himself submit. The Lord Chan-
cellor has more than once declared, 4 4 were I
tin. party, I would insist upon the Judge trying
my cause." But, be this as it may, it never can
be fit that criminal prosecutions should be put an
end to by the method' we have pointed out; but
every man who a Grand Jury has said ought to
be tried should be tried, and either convicted or
acquitted by the due course of law.

OLD: BAILEY, .SErr. 21.
(Before Mr. Justiee GAIIELEE and a London Jury.)
TRIAL OF MR. WHITE FOR FORGERY.

Henry White was put to the bar, charged with forging on
th 29th of July a power of attorney for the transfer of 3201.
New South Sea Annuities, with intent to defraud the South
Sea Company. There was another indictment for forging the
names of certain witnesses to the same deed or power of attor-
ney for the transfer of the annuity. To the latter the prisoner
pleaded " guilty." To the first indictment he pleaded "not
guilty." On the prisoner being given in charge on the first
indictment,
Mr. Sergeant BOCANQUET addressed the Jury. The pri-
soner had been indicted on two charges : the first for forging a
power of attorney for the transfer of a certain amount of South
Sea Stock (new Annuities). This was a capital offence. The
other indictment, that of forging the names of two witnesses to
the same power of attorney. This was a felony, subjecting the
prisoner to transportation only. To this latter indictment the
prisoner had been well advised to plead guilty ; and he trusted
he should not be considered as departing from his duty if, under
all the circumstances of the case, he declined to offer any evi-
dence in support of the capital indictment. The Governor and
Directors of the South Sea Company, whom he had the honour
to represent, taking the whole of the prisoner's case into consi-
deration, were of opinion, that the ends of justice would be
sufficiently answered by allowing the plea of guilty of the
minor offence to be recorded, and by not pressing the evidence
in support of the capital charge. He hoped that this clemency
of the Company would have its due effect, and that when the
prisoner should be removed from this country into another
society, he would repent of the offences of which he had un-
fortunately been guilty. He would now, with leave of the
Court, abstain from offering any evidence in support of the
capital charge.
The JUDGE observed, that he did not think It necessary to
call on the prosecutors to support the capital indictment : that
not being offered, the Jury would of course acquit the prisoner.
The Jury, therefore, returned a verdict of Not
The prisoner was now given in charge (to a Middlesex jury)
charged capitally with forging and uttering as true a receipt
for 281. 125., purporting t.. be from the Receiver-General of
Stamps.—To this indictment he pleaded " Not Guilty."
Mr. BOLLAND stated to the Jury, that the forgery of
which the prisoner was now accused arose out of the transac-
tion which had been the subject of the last trial. The Com-
missioners of Stamps, aware of the course pursued by the
South Sea Company, had also come to the conclusion that the
ends of justice would be sufficiently answered by the punish-
ment to which the prisoner would be subjected by the plea al-
ready recorded : they therefore instructed him to withdraw
from the farther prosecution of the case. He would, therefore,
not offer any evidence in support of it. Under these circum.
stances the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The prisoner, who is a than of extremely respectable ap-
pearance, apparently about 45 years old, was now removed
from the bar.
OLD BAILEY NEW COURT.
Elizaleth Watt:, alias Tut-pin, was indicted for feloniously
receiving from a boy, named John Sullivan, a Dutch clock, the
property of Timothy Sullivan, the father of John, knowing the
same to have been stolen.
The particulars of this case having been fully stated within a
few days in our Police Report, we forbear repeating them.
The prisoner did not deny the offence, but stated that a Mr.
Welch,
who accompanied the prosecutor to her house in search
of the property, offered to compromise the affair, if she would
allow him to pass the night with her:
Welch, who was in Court, denied this imputation. He
he said, a wife and two children, and wished to hare nothing
to do with such a thing as the prisoner.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Court sentenced
her to be transported for 14 years.