The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-29 00:00:00

pert,,rm any rational aa whptever. Atriong tire
wt neses called wete'. the I.WO femaie dotnestii-s
who -were the-. subscribing witnesses to the will,
and who' re,-::.6ented her, at the time she executed
i 4 ‘=(or'?-ether the time it was executed) as utterly
and completely :insensible. The Medical Gentl6,
man, who'_attended her, stated it as his positivt:3 be-
lief, tito. she was not.cap.able Of performing -any ra-
tional act ; that her mind was completely gone, and
that she w.Ts almost constantly in a state of Itthargic
insensibility. Another domestic, who was also
constantlywith her, and several ladies, her acquain-
tance, who called upon her in the course of her
shi;,-t. gave evidence to the same etfe&, and
they all agreed in stating, that stile could not recog-
'ntse her most intimate friend::, arid could not distin-
guish even the-dome's-tics who were constantly about
her. • This Was the substance of the evidence on the
part of the. Plaintiff.
Part of the evidence on both sides was
,affetied by
contradidory testimony ; and on the part of Mr.
Jack Son, the Surgeon, by written declaration of a
contrary nature, brit which he explained by saying,
that it was customary for medical men, when writ-
-ing to the friends of their patients, to represent than:
as better than ihey really were.
The JUDGE'S summing up; and his address to
the Jury, occupied nearly threeliours-; in the course
of which he observed, that .the Jury had nothing to
do with the propriety of the will, their only pro-
vince was to decide whether it was really her will ;
it she had understanding enough to know what she
was leaving, to whom she was leaving, and frpm
whom she was eaving it, was sufficient; if she. was
not capable of this, the will was a piece of waste
paper ; they had heard the evidence, and would pro-
nounce their verdict without reference .to airy prior
cre.cisions.

The Jury retired about eleven o'clock at night,
and about two o'clock in the morning fond a ver-
did for the Plaintiff, which of course destroys the
•

At Nottingham, James Wilkinson was arraigned
for having utter'ed two forged riches.- purporting to
be genuine notes of the Leicester Bank: A whole
Wilily, besides others, were involved in the charge
—a father, mother, and their two children, a sun
,and daughter. JaMes Wilkinson was the son,
and he. pleaded guilty. The Learned Jude very
btimeinely placed-before the Prisouet the-futility: of
any hope he might derive troitt this condutt The
Sentence of the law pass upon him in the same
main-Tel- as if the offence were proved by the clearest
evidence. The unfortunate man persisted in plead-
ing guilty, although repeatedty admonished by the
Judge to consider the awful consequences. The
Prisoner seemed occupied only by the most sincere
contrition of mind. He said he was guilty of utter-
ing the notes, although not of the forgery ; and
could not in Conscience, do otherwise than plead
guilty . '
He was,, after a considerable time thus elapsed,
withdrawn trous the bar, and John Wilkinson (the
father) was arraigned. He pleaded not
Mr. Set jeant VACGH N stated the case of the pro-
secution to the Jury. The prisoner was charged with
being an,accessary before the fad. to the uttering of
these notes, knowing them to be forged, and being
concerned and cottneeted with the persona who
did utter them, and being interested in, the'protits
arising from the said uttering. The Learned Serjernt
proceeded to state the tads' of the uttering of the
notes, bj. Wilkinson, the seri. On the 9,oth of May-
last, be had given two of them payment for a
watch, and on being asked for his address, wrote—
" James Wilkinson, Loughborough." The young
man, however, lived in Lancashire, and the father
in Cheshire. The Prisoner then at the bar, it
seems, sent some time.back for his son, au& gaie
him 250 of one pound forged notes of the above
desciiptiun to circulate. James Wilkinson first ut-
tered some of them at Derby, and -then passed
about fifteen of them in this town. The forgery
bei g discovered, the parties were traced and ap-
prehended : most of the property' obtained for,
the forged 'notes was found on the premises of
the Prisoner at the. bar (the father) ; , and-no of
the forged notes 'were found in a road near the
prisoner's house, and througb,Which he must pass
to his house ; and on his being examined, lie de-.
nied having been at Birmingham, though it would -
be proved that he had been there a little previous. to
this transa6lion. The prisoner had aded with pecu-
liar caution throughout the -whole affair, to escape,
danger himself, but it would be found that he was
the contriver, and protrioter,of this scheme of this.
plunder, in which he had involved his whole faMily.!
This being the case against the Prisoner at the
Bar—

Sir Stmos LE BLANC said, he bad listened with
attention to discover if the indicloient couldbe sup-
Kited, but there was nothing in this case to bring
the charges home to the present prisoner. The Only
points were the finding the property at his house,
and having denied being at Birmingham ; these
would induce suspicion, but could not be received
as proof of the f.l4ts they were intended to support.—
He Must, `therefore, instruct the Jury to acquit the
PriSoner. This was Acco[dinfily done. • ,
The mother and daughter were then put to, the
bar,. but no witnessed were produced, and here the
prosecution, was stopped. -
`James Wilkinson was afterwards brought up to re-
ceive sentence. The Prisoner's tears flowed rapidly.
There was, notwithstanding, an: expression of pa-
tience and resignation in his,coptitenauce,that ren-
dered hii fate still more to be lamented. The de-
portment and conduct of the father, present all the
time, was a s.trange contrast to all this. A petition
was handed up to his Lordship, who said he would
peruse it with attention;

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A few dayS ago a Workman; making snrne altera-
; tions in one of, the rooms at Tong-Hall, near, Leeds,
the seat -of John Plumbe, Esq. was literally aSsalled
with a shower of silver," which fell from an, aper-
ture he' had"naaile hi the wall above. When he had
recovered a little from his surprise, he collected the
_scattered pieces and examined the spot ; it appeared
that a bog had been deposited lathe wall, some
• parts of which were still visit*, which r had contain-
' ed. some hundred pieces of silver, many of . them
crown pieces of James-11. • The workman very pro 7
perly took them to the owner of the mansion, who
liberally rewarded him.for his honesty.