The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-14 00:00:00

POLI C E

Wit-
-130W..5TE1111T..---011 Tuesday evening, John
son we; brought to the Office, in the custody of
Salmon, charged ‘vith MoillotOy.att,:iing a lott-
ed Bank of Eagland note.
It appeared, that-the priaoner we it to the F,t,eil
public-hoitse,inLeicester,street, Lei.:ester- square;
on Monday evening, and had a glass of gin, and
water ; he tendered a summved one pound Bank
of lingland note iii payment. The landlord nut
having change, seat out to procure it. Tile pri-
soner went. away; saying he was in haste, and
Would.call again for the change., t)a his return;
he. .st'as informed several had been applied to tbr
change, hut they had refused, being of opiaion it
was khad one. He was 40,iikcat where. he,got the
note? he replied, "What iS that to you?" hits
refused to tell where he lived. Ile said he had,
just come from ,Lineolushire,_ and iital,taken the
note on the coach... This aceoula not being deem-
cd'satisfactory, he wag infer Ned must be de...
talued and the note, ulna:: whieit he huditvply
jumped up, and rushed out of the hutrie, lie W 3
puts a st.'..veral persons call'in,"& •)p tit et, &c.
tend he was stopped and secured iu the

The prisoner, in hi 3 defence, sai,.l lie was a
hunter ; that he c m came fro Stam:ord cm AVednes-
day morning by the cooeh ; that be cluoiged a 2/.
Bank of Englant(tit Warasfor.l, aril receiveo the
note in quchtiou in change. tic wvot to the Bea
pahlk-hoosc to hainire for t 1
lII' 11 I'M
of the -male
of Esrnns. He wa committed for farther excl.-
taination.

Yta,rertlityJd.lit Co° It: was brotignt to the office,
and tioder‘stlit, lotbor examination, ebarv.ed
,t% itit uttering it fori',..,ed draft for upwards of t ut)t.
to a sbopman (ii Air. Cooper, linen-draper, in
Nt'w Bottil-Ntrect, ptirpGrtitlg to be deasyn by
James Ronne r, otlAles,rl. Walpole ~101 Co. Lom-
bard-street. Notliing new or lniportatie trans-
pit ed.
_

The prisoner re,quested 'to have. IR of the irto-
- tonwi cart him by. Vicary the olileer, wheit he
oppreheaded him, which WAS agreed to by the
litrale and the proiecotor.wile w tvai.
witted for Itirther exawithitiou,

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

YORK, JAN. IL
. Joseph Brooke,, -late of Rastuels, tailor, aged
40, was „tried fOr burglariously breaking into tho
dwelling house of Benjamin Strickland, at Kirk-
Heaton, and stetting .a silver watch, and some
Silver and copper coin,
,on the dth of October lait.
It
,appeared in evidence, that the family of the
prO:,:ecator, and himself, retired to rest betweem
10 and 11 o'Clock, and in the course of the night
they were disturbed by, voices ontside, saying—.
open the (loin% Strickland called omit Who's
there—what do you want...?" .. It was between t (.1
and ibree in the morning—it was. stae-light.;
they said " Come, come, open the door;" there
appeared to be a nuniber of persims by the noise
at the door. StrHtland asked- if it were. some
Others that wanted quarters, and wanted thein
to give some account of „themselves before
opened the dodlr; but they did not, and One of
theta called out giiee/i (a term used for a large
hanireer)„ and' gave bard blows at the door ;
Strickland opened it fear fear
.they should break
the door : when they enteVed,. One of them said,
we are come for yrnir ,iBtrickland assured
him he had not one, it was 'at the guard-rootii ;
the man staid; we must have your Money ; And
they proceeded to get, it, and made Strleklavid
deliver it up, and,allo a watch. They endeavour
ed to raise a light, hut could not ; one of the men
struck the stone floor with a sword, by the
of which, prosecutor's niece, whom they had,
alarMed by the noise, and Who slept on Oft
floor, perceived the face of 'a man to be blacked,
find believed the prisoner was the man. Suspicion
arose that he was tile one, from his having oil
the Sunday betcire heard a person of the name iif
Hohnea say to prosecutor's nephew, that his un-
cle had money plenty, if he would bring it oat.
On the part of the prisoner was set lip an (AN,
which, together with tt e prOsecutor's niece only
diseovering the features uf the man's face, which.
she believed to be the prisoner's, by the flush
of the light occasioned by the man striking the
stone floor with his sword, was left with the Jury
by the Learned Judge. The Jury retired a short
time, and returned a verdict of---Nat
,Jeh Huy, John Hill, vnd " ifartley,
were next tried,_ for divers btirglaries and Misde-
111441110tirS, and particularly with a burglary in the
home of Mr. George. Haigh, of SCulcoates: they
were found guilty.

YtiRK, lAN. 9,

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James Haigh, of Dalton, aged 28---JonalitarA
Dane, of Huddersfield, aged 30—John ()den,
aged 26,--James Brook. aged 29.----Thonuth Brook,
aged 32----John Walker, of Longroyd-bridge,
Aged 31—and John Hirst, of Livers-edge,
were tried for iiotously assembling with others,
and attacking the mill of Mr. '.'Cartwright, at
Rawfolds, in the township of Liversedge, in the
county of York, on the 1 lth of April last. Mr.
C. being apprehensive of an attack being, intended
to be made upon his mill, took such Means for
defending it as be judged best; accordingly, he
had kept some of his own men on the night of the
attack ; lie also procured the assistance of live
ttoblici.s. The mill, it must be observed, consist-
ed of machinery on the improved principle of
`Cleaning cloth.
Mr. Cartwright retired to rest about 25 minutes.
past 'l2 o'clock on Saturday night, the 11th of
April, and about a quarter of an hour acterwar:l3
beard the barking of a large dug, kept there for
giving the alarm in case ofattack. Mr. C. arose
immediately, and white opening the door, of his
room, beard a breaking of windows On the
ground-floor, and alson firing into the upper anti
lower windows, and a violent hationeriog at the
door. Mr. C; and his mar immediately flew to,
their arms; a bell, that had been placed at the
top of the Mill for the purpose of alarming the.
neighbours; being rung by one of his melt, the
persons inside the mill discharged their pietes:
from the lobp-holes in the side of thetnill, The-
fire was returned regularly on both sides, thaCts,
frent within-and without. The ino4, Which ap-
eared to be numerous, called out—" Bang tip,
bds,in with you—keep close—darmi that
get to it.---(the rope uhinist immediately brnlte).-f---
datnn'eni; kill 'cm all. The numbers assembled
were cansiderable. The attack might have crin,
Untied about twenty minutes.' The fire slackened;
front without, and they heard the cries of the
wounded. Two men that were wounded were
taken care of; they afterviards 'died. 4Witell day-
light came, the windows of the ground floor up-
peared to be entirely destroyed. 'tile door ap-•
Hared to have pannels.broken, that a map Might
put in a pistol or a gnu-, two stones at the door,
called damn-stones, `Were 'broken' off; there is at:
pond or pool of water by one, of the dooms ; the
upper windows were broken 'also ; the mill is a
very Strong stone building. • ,
Mr. Cartwright's servants fetthd many imple.
ments 11,..,1 formed viva n the N'VeapOliS of at-
tack, Which were produced' in coact as also .a
(lark-coloured mask : one of the servants foutal ax
tat in time data or poet next Morning, Which W:A*S
pli)ditCqd in Commit.
One of the accomplices of the men charged in
the- indietniebt, William Hall, who now gave Isis
evidence, it appeared was 'one Of those diktded
ttteit connected with Melbir,and Thorpe, who
'have 1)N:a executed. They assembled with many
othir hv'the desire of Mellor, in a field,.
belonging to Sir 'George Armitake, Bart. i)efir (01
o'clot Ic, oft the 'night of the lift of April last.
thek: tuthibers, rc;u,:itied there three-
quarters Of an hour, and then alaxitcd
nambcr was seven. .Nrellor commanded the nins•-•
LA'colapsny, another tbe pistol company, -and
lin:Aber the bat::het cotarnilly a they Were tormed
litws of ten each, Two .)1 the men, Ii aii mutt
tmoOler., were to go last, and driVe up the rear.
They went. in' a line twer'llea:l,lled
fold's mill, it ,:arty three Miles drsrant: s3we h“( 1,
hatchets, some hammers', some stieksi anti Miler*
11,,u1 nothing. • T
A nOther aceOrriplioe gave sirttilar teStitnotty, awl
lueataneh toe prisoneN; anti was in some (Arent-
03i:wives confirmed by of her testimony;
On the part of lb prlsOnerSi tits defence Act
drat of as to some of them.
'utter a very able charge front Sir 'S.
the .1,4 e y. retired' about an hour, and -returned a
rer+ltct ass follows <---Janes Hai4h. Jolt !him,
,
a_onn tigaen , 'l'/donnas
oas Brook, John Walker,
Jaw's' BroOk, acid John
..tiir*t, Not Golity.

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SPECIAL-. COMMISSION OF, ASSIZE.

YOUK CASTLE, .Lt%.

DARON TIIOIIISON.AND MR. JUSTICE LE DLAIsIC.

[As We gave bra- a briefitecurit of the Special
Commission of Assize helfi at York Castle, we
(teeth it proper to Olsen the address of: Mr. PARK
tq the Jury,.and that of theludge to-the unhappy
prisoners.