The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-08 00:00:00

CROCKFORD'S CLUB.—The History and
Mystery of this celebrated Club will be found in the
NEWS AND SUNDAY HERALD of the 10th instant, to-
gether with a variety of Original Articles.—What shall we do in
1836 ? Appointment of a Lord Chancellor ; the New Member for
Westminster ; O'Connell's Letter to Sir Francis Burdett ;
Further Triumphs of Municipal Reform, &c. &c.
Office, 23, Brydges-street, Covent-garden.

APPEAL to the BRITISH PUBLIC, against
the PRIESTLY AND POLITICAL POWER of the
WESLEYAN-METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Very few are aware of what Wesleyan Methodism actually is. It
has hitherto been looked upon, for the most part, as an extraordi-
nary means employed by the Providence of God in the spread of
truth and holiness amongst the poor, the wicked, and the wretched
of our hbrne population : and has been acknowledged accordingly,
as a branch -.f Christ's Church here upon earth, the efforts of which
He has been pleased signally to bless and prosper. The word Me-
thodist, for about one hundred years, has been applied to all—what-
ever their opinions as to speculative theology, or their practice as
to ecclesiastical government might be, who were not ashamed to
bear the reproach of Christ, by whose love they were constrained
to seek the extension of the heavenly kingdom every where, but
principally amongst their neighbours and fellow-countrymen, who
were living around them without God and without hope.
John Wesley was the founder of this sect, every where spoken
against. Both by his preaching and his living he showed himself
the witness of the truth and power of that inspiration, which enables
the man of God to know nothing amongst men but Jesus Christ; and
him crucified. No one could ever charge him with seeking his own.
" It is you I seek and not yours"—was the unchallenged and un-
-1 changing spirit, in which he lived, and worked, and died. All that
he did is before the world. He knew nothing of men's opinions and
persuasions as such. Men of all sentiments, religious and political,
were his brethren—and allies—if, with him, they strove to flee from
the wrath to come, and to lay hold on endless life—to save their
own souls, whilst they were instrumental in assisting others also in
working out their salvation with fear and trembling. This was the
great—the only bond of his confederated or " United Societies,"
whom he supplied with every means of grace, required by the
coming emergencies of their novel situation, and evidently furnished
out of the providential storehouse of the great Head of the Church.
Himself a churchman (as to its doctrines and discipline generally),
he applied himself to the reformation of mankind, according to
the light and help which God himself was pleased to afford, deter-
mined, in the mean time, to know no man after the flesh—but
thankfully to avail himself of the aid of all, and never to rest, until
the heavenly character of the church of Christ should be seen and
acknowledged, and every thing worldly and unholy be taken for
ever out of its way. In one short sentence he has left upon record
the full and settled judgment of his enlightened mind upon this
fundamental subject—on which also he uniformly acted throughout
the whole course of his truly apostolical career ; and, instead of
crowding together a variety of quotations, all of them to the same
point, we shall rehearse these memorable words—written, as if for
these very times--spoken as by a spirit of prophecy, to mark out the
doom, and betoken the speedy downfall of the USURPATION that has
subsequently been built upon the Scriptural foundation which he was
chosen of God to lay in this benighted land. THE BEAST IS •
SPIRITUALLY SECULAR POWER, OPPOSITE TO THE KINGDOM or
CHRIST ; A POWER NOT MERELY SPIRITUAL OR ECCLESIASTI-
CAL, NOR MERELY SECULAR AND POLITICAL,, BUT • MIXTULE
or BOTH." These oracular words of his weleave to the thoughtful
meditation of the true Christian. They will bear a second and a
third perusal. We pray God to carry them forward to his inmost
heart—there to become auxiliary to the establishment of the almost
unknown, unheeded, but Heaven-sprung truth of Jesus Christ,—
" MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD."

Since John. Wesley's death, his successors of the Conference have
endeavoured to root themselves as " a spiritually secular power" in
the land—to rival, to outstrip, and then to cast under them' all
other modes or forms of faith whatever. They have, for near half
a century, been underworking the rights and freedoms of mankind;
the same outside show of doctrine and of discipline, which their
Father left them, being uniformly presented to the beguiled and
beblinded eye of their unsuspecting adherents. The last meshes of
their net have lately been knotted, and upwards of one million of
our fellow-countrymen, of their classes and congregations, in Great
Britain alone, now finithemselves enclosed within the toils of an
ecclesiastical economy, which asserts the divine right of an irrespon-
sible priesthood to legislate in all matters of doctrine, whilst it
maintains the legal right ONE HUNDRED self-chosen elders of that
priesthood to have and to hold, to open and to shut, several thousand
houses for worship, all raised by voluntary subscription,for the reli-
gious instruction and benefit of the respective neighbourhoods, in
which they have been built. Besides which appalling fact, it is
openly, unblushingly asserted, that, while this priesthood can deal
as they list with the souls of men and the things pertaining to God
—the members of their numerous societies and congregations have
no right whatever, human or divine, so much as to deliberate, much
less to decide upon, any of the great principles which associate
them together as a religious or a corporate body. Certain opinions,
held indiscriminately, amongst all classes of the community, civil
and religious, have been declared irreconcileable with the con-
nexional existence of the parties holding them • certain proceed-
ings, sanctioned every where else in the churches of Christ, have
been denounced as unmethodistical, and have entailed the sum-
mary excommunication of all who have hitherto dared to iden-
tify themselves therewith. Thus, within a few short months (the
machinations of these lords over God's heritage being completed),
several preachers, with thousands of the members of the body
have been solemnly expelled. These men are now unwillingly
obliged to renounce all connexion with their brethren—all claim
and title to the temples they have assisted. in rearing, in which
themselves and their children, and their neighbours, have toge-
ther worshipped the Lord God of their fathers. Since the in-
famous Act of Uniformity was proclaimed, the consequences of
which are matters of notorious history, so frightful, so dar-
ing a stretch of priestly prerogative, has never been exhibited
in the United Kingdom. Of the real state of things in this
body, the country at large has but little knowledge—nor are
our fellow-countrymen at all aware of the dangers with which they
in common with themselves, are menaced by these overt acts of an
ecclesiastical tyranny. The concentration, the organisation, the
secrecy, the ease, with which, at the nod of one man, the most
complicated, yet most efficient machinery in the world is now
brought to bear upon the people of England, as one means of
checking the progress of salutary reforms ; and, under the mask of
religion at home, and missions abroad, of overtopping all other
churches, and upon their ruins causing a second grisly papacy to
arise. These religious and political features of Wesleyan Metho-
dism, as at present administered, are now disclosing themselves in
a way that, unhappily, leaves no room for doubt, whilst it must fill
the mind of the generous philanthropist with serious apprehension,
if not with dismay.
To counteract this influence, and, if possible, to subvert this
power—to find out what is the freedom wherewith Christ has made
his people free, and then—having attained unto the truth of God
( whether Wesley, or Calvin, or Luther, may have aided us in our
search after it), to hand down the clustering blessings that grow
out of it, to our children after ns : this great idea has led to the for-
mation of the Wesleyan Methodist Association. Whether it shall
succeed or not, it is for God—for time—for the friends of truth—
everywhere to determine. On this one thing the members of this
Association have set their hearts, and they hereby again pledge
themselves, never to grow weary, so long as they have any hope from
heaven—any help from their brethren, whatever may be their creed.
and whatever the name by which they are called. The object of
this address is to call the attention of Christians, and of the public
generally, to the present position and aspects of the Wesleyan Con-
ference, on the one hand, and of its reformers on the other—to
forewarn Englishmen of all classes of the danger that threatens
their municipal and national liberties, through the wily but stea-
dily progressing career of this now stupendous body, more secret—
fai ther ramified—and more dangerous than any Orange Union that
ever plotted against our freedom—to forearm all, thus forewarned,
that they may be ready to meet these men at every fresh develop-
ment of their deep-laid schemes, and to bespeak the counsel and
support of all who are willing to take any part in reforming this
great people, and so, relatively, in reforming the entire Church of
Jesus Christ,.

The friendly leaning of Wesleyanism tcwards the Church of Eng-
land, so grandiloquently but gratuitously trumpeted forth by the
Conference of 1834, and so covertly made to bear upon the politico-
religious crisis of that period, together with some more recent at-
tempts to conciliate the influential Dissenters, whom they had
previously most cavilierly affected to despise, has happily opened
the eyes of both these great parties in the State to the Jesuitical
character of modern Methodism,—running with the hare, but hold-
ing with the hound,—standing aloof on the field of battle, and in
treaty with each of the contending hosts, until the hour of hottest
fight should afford an opportunity to pour down with its mercenary
legions, and occasion their mutual discomfiture. This trickery with
the one party, and treachery with the other has disgusted them
both. Whig and Tory, Churchman and Dissenter, Conservative
and Reformer, Protestant and Papist, are all alike prepared for the
tortuous, though undeviating, policy of the best organised, and
most dangerous hierarchy, at present to be found in Christendom.
We seek not, as an. Association, to mingle in this strife. We are
men, Britons, and followers of Christ ; as such, we would seek out
the truth, and, having found it, under whatever shape we care
not, we are willing to walk after it, and to abide by it. Whoever
is like-minded with ourselves in this matter, or whoever should
think we are in this, followers of that which is good, he is the man
to whom we look at the present crisis of our ecclesiastical and na-
tional existence, for the kindly help he sees we need ; whilst,
at the same time, we trust we shall not be backward in doing
all that may be in our power to assist him in the furtherance
of everything that shall be shown to be truly wise and good,
and strong and holy. Sure we are, that the times we live in,
are not times either for sleep or for sloth. The minds of men
everywhere are athirst, we might almost say, agasp, for some better
thing than that they have hitherto been furnished with. We are
weary,—we are woe, when we look at the tearing, the biting, the
hating, the worrying of one another, that has been, and still is,
toovisible in some of the sections of the professing church of
Christ. Men and brethren help—come up with us to the help of
the Lord—to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
We call, then, most earnestly upon the free press, metropolitan
and provincial, to afford their powerful assistance in disabusing the
mind of the public, who know little or nothing comparatively of
the real state of this hierarchy ; we invite the notice of all parties
of politicians to the existence of a priestly power, that is ready for
the time and to the seeming, to coalese with any, whilst it is
,ilently working its way over them all, and above them all, and to
ne destruction of them all. We solicit the assistance, pecuniary
and every other, of the friends of truth and liberty—the wise—the
great—the good of all parties, who are bound to none, but God
only, to enable us to carry to successful termination a werk which
w ebave undertaken, not with any private aim, but for the public
good,- and in which we arc resolved never to slacken, whatever the
sacrifice we may be called upon personally to make, until having
brought the subject before the whole British public in its courts of
law and of equity, and of supreme legislation ; and, lastly, before
its most awful anti all-determining tribunal—the tribunal of public
opinion—it be seen what. the truth is, and whether that troth shall
wand or fall.
* In every principal town a Committee of the Wesleyan Me-
thodist Association is to be found, to whom Donations and Sub-
scriptions can be transmitted; thence to be conveyed to the Man-
chester and Liverpool Central Committee, or to either of the fol-
lowing gentlemen :—W. Smith, Esq., Reddish House, near Stock-
port, W. Wood, Esq., Newton-street, Manchester; Richard
Farrer, Esq., St. Ann-street, Liverpool; or John Thurston, Esq.,
, Catherine-street, Strand, London.
' Liverpool, Oct. 24, 1835.

TO SPORTSMEN, TRAVELLERS, MER-
CHANTS, and CAPTAINS of SHIPS.—THORN'S
POTTED YARMOUTH BLOATERS. Now in high perfec-
tion. The increasing demand for this most delicious preparation
proves, beyond *ll4 oubt, it is far superior to any thing of the kind
ever yet offered to the public for Sandwiches, Toast, Biscuits, &c.,
and as an excellent relish for Wine. In Pots, ls. and 2s. each.
Warranted in all climates.

" In this preparation, iiie flavour of the Herring is preserved un-
impaired, if not improved; the prime parts of the fish are concen-
trated in a substance about the consistency of butter, and which
may be used in the same wav ; and, being put up in neat and port-
able pots, a treat may be enjoyed at any time, without the unplea-
sant smell and other inconveniences which attend the dressing and
partaking of herrings in the ordinary way."—Watchman.
THORN'S TALLY-HO ! SAUCE, for Fish, Game, Steaks,
Chops, Cutlets, made Dishes, and all general purposes, is the richest
and most economical Sauce now in use, imparting a Jest not other-
wise acquired. In Bottles, 2s. and 4s. Warranted inall climates.
"We have tried (crede experto) Thorn's Tally Ho ! Sauce, and
can pronounce it exquisite. We know nothing of the ingredients—
that we leave to such as are more curious in fish sauce' than we
are, but wo can speak to the richness of its flavour, which, to our
thinking, would create an appetite under the ribs of death."—Sa-
tirist.
Wholesale at the Warehouse, 223, High Holborn; of all whole-
sale Oilmen and Druggists in London ; and retail by all respectable
Oilmen, Grocers, and Fishmongers in the United Kingdom.
CAUTION.—The Proprietor, being aware of several spurious
compositions that are daily offered to the public under the name of
Potted Bloaters, begs them to observe his signature, ALEX.
TI TORN, on the side of the pot, without which it cannot be genuine.

CHING'S WORM LOZENGES are Patronized
by the First Noblemen in the Kingdom, as well as by the
following Honourable Ladies who have given this Medicine to their
own Children, and also to the Poor of their respective Neighbour-
hoods, with unparalleled success :
The Duchess of Leeds. Right Hon. Countess of Shaftes-
The Duchess of Rutland. bury.
Right Hon. Countess of Darnley. Rt. Hn. Countess of Mountnorris.
Right Hon. Lady Caroline Capel. Right Hon. Countess of Cork.
Right Hon. Lady Eliz. Spencer. Right Hon. Lady Lucy Bridgeman
Hon. Lady Boston. Lady Page Turner.
Hon. Lady Say and Sele. Lady Levet.
And many other Ladies of the first rank and character.
It is a fact established by the annual Bills of Mortality, that one
half of the Children born are cut eff before attaining Seven Years
Of age, and the fruitful source of this mortality is found to exist in
that foul state of the stomach and bowels which produces the gene-
ration of Worms. As the safe restorer of Infantine Health, in this
critical state, " Ching's Worm Lozenges" have long held a distin-
guished reputation. As an opening medicine in Spring and Sum-
mer, and for foulness of the stomach and bowels, and convulsions,
although Worms may not exist, it is allowed to be superior to any
other.
The Genuine will have on the GovernMeni Stamp, " Evan Ed-
wards, 67, St. Paul's." In packets, ls. 1 .and boxes at 2s. 9d.
each.
Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's ; Spalding, Royal Exchange
Gates, Cornhill ; Sanger, 150, and Chandler, 76, Oxford-street;
and by most dealers in medicines.

A NEW EDITION, WITH IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL

REMARKS AND CASES.
Just published, the 19th Edition, price 4s.
lALN HISTORICAL and PRACTICAL
TREATISE on SYPHILIS, its Consequences, on Stric-
tures, Eruptions, Nodes, and Nocturnal Pains, so frequently mis-
taken for Rheumatism. These subjects are illustrated by a variety
of highly interesting cases, together with the miseries of a secret
vice, so long and so unhappily pursued by the youth of both sexes.
In the one it will 'be found an unfailing source of barrenness, in
the other have its ravages fatally developed by a distressing state
of debility which, if not timely remedied, terminates in impotency
these are its remote and ultimate effects ; whilst Consumption,
Loss of Muscular Power, and various other complaints, usually
characterise the earlier stages of these distressing diseases, for the
Cure of which the Author has laid down a plan of treatment which,
during his experience of upwards of thirty-five years' extensive
practice, has invariably proved successful; with concluding remarks
on the evils resulting from attempts at self cure.
Principiis obsta : sero medicina paratur.
By C. B. COURTENAY, M.D., 42, Great Marlborough-street.
Printed for the Author, and sold by Siinpkin and Marshall, Sta-
tioners'-court ; Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand ; W. Marsh,
145, Oxford-street ; J. Chappell, 98, Royal Exchange ; Hays,
248, Regent-street; W. Strange, Paternoster-row; M'Phun,
Trongate, Glasgow; Messrs. Sutherland, Calton-street, Edin
burgh ; and by all Booksellers in town and country.
" Amongst the numerous medical and surgical works of the day,
we consider that written by Dr. Courtenay on Syphilis and other
frequently fatal complaints, to be worthy of the highest encomiums,
and justly deserving the serious attention of all those persons who
may unfortunately happen to be afflicted with the maladies which
form the subject of this very interesting publication. The lumi-
nous views, taken of these diseases, together with the important
warnings. against excesses, entitle this work to great praise ; and
ye may add, as a further recommendation, that it is written with
such delrcat uLI morality."-!--Inspector and Literary Review.

'3O, STRAND.

SONNET.—By a Parisian Lady, on her Entree
in London.
Translated from the French, and inscribed to Mr. Warren.
I've seen the dew-drop fall from high,
I've seen its influence on the flower •
I've ponder'd o'er its brilliancy,
And love its all-resplendent power;
And oft I've seen Golconda's gem
Glitter upon the diadem :
But ne'er saw I that beauteous bloom
That on my bright shoes here is set,
Nor thought I they could e'er assume
Such a refulgent glossy jet !
For Warren's Blacking there displays
Beauty on which I ne'er had thought to gaze.
Then, Warren, take the praise of one
Whose best of wishes thou hast won.
This Easy shining and Brilliant Blacking, prepared ky ROBERT
WARREN, 30, Strand, London; and Sold in every Town in the
Kingdom.
Liquid, in Bottles, and Paste Blacking in Pots, at 6d.-121.,
and 18d. each.
65- Be particular to inquire for Warren's, 30, Strand : All
others are counterfeit.

CONSUMPTION.—We perceive, from the " Ac-
count (just published) of the Christenings and Burials,
within the City of London and Bills of Mortality, from
December 9, 1834, to December 15, 1835, that the deaths
of not less than 3,662 persons, were caused by consump-
tion. There is no doubt that this " slow, but sure working
disease" is becoming more and more prevalent in this coun-
try, and daily increasing the number of its victims. Vari-
ous remedies are resorted to by the faculty to stay the pro-
gress of a disorder which terminates so fatally as Consump-
tion, but generally without effect. The medicine so uni-
versally known as " Brandreth's Pills," has performed such
extraordinary cures in numerous confirmed cases, that many
medical men (throwing aside their prejudices) are in the
daily practice of presenting it to their patients, and with
perfect success.

A rare instance of longevity anti domestic comfort
lately occurred in this neighbourhood. Farmer Landsay,
at Adsbrow-hill, Creech St. Michael, lived like one of the
patriarchs of old, together with his " man-servant" and his
" maid-servant," in peace and plenty for upwards of half a
century, when, having arrived at the united age of 144
years, nature broke up the party, and within the space of
one year they all three dropped, mellow and respected, and
rich to boot, into their graves—viz., Mr. J. Landsay, aged
82 ; the housekeeper, 77 ; and Daniel Brougham, 85.
The land they cultivated amounted to thirty acres, but of a
productive soil. They were buried (the last of them a few
days ago) by the Rev. H. Cresswell, Vicar of Creech St.
Michael.— Tau n ton Courier.
CUTTING A FIDDLER'S HEAD OFF.—In the
Isle of Man all the parishes hire fiddlers at the public charge,
and there is not a barn unoccupied during the whole twelve
days of Christmas. On Twelfth-day the fiddler lays his
head in some one of the girls' laps, and a third person asks
who such a maid then present shall marry ? To which he
answers of his own whim, or agreeably to the intimacies he
has noticed during the merriment; but whatever he decrees
is absolutely depended on, as from an oracle, and if he hap--
pens to couple two persons who have an aversion to each
other, tears and vexation succeed the mirth. This they
call cutting the fiddler's head off, for after this he is pro-
fessionally dead the whole year.

The result of the Municipal Elections has driven
the " Obstructives" into a state of utter despair. Their
success in the two recent county elections, had raised their
expectations to the highest pitch, when, most opportunely,
these elections take place, and in one day nearly '2OO nur-
series of Tory corruption were swept into oblivion !

This was an appeal from the Vice-Chancellor, argued
yesterday. Sir C. PEPYS gave the judgment of their Lord-
ships this morning.
The question in the cause was, whether the testator,
James Donovan, had, by a codicil to his will, given a le-
gacy of 1,000/. to each of his grandchildren, or confined
the benefit of that bequest to the children of only one of
his sons. His Lordship considering the fact that the tes-
tator had made frequent additions to his will, and always
stated as a reason for it that his property was increasing,
thought there was good ground for the supposition that he
had, in the codicil in question, intended to confer a benefit
on all his grandchildren; but whatever doubt there might
be on the subject was clearly set at rest by a reference to
the last codicil of his will, in which the testator, recollect-
ing that he given a legacy of 1,0001. to all his grandchil-
dren, states a bequest to Henry Donovan to b 6,0001.,
although, in the body of the, will the legacy was only
5,000/. For these reasons their Lordships thought that
the order of the Vice-Chancellor must be affirmed ; and
the appeal be refused with costs.

THE SKINNERS' COMPANY V. THE IRISH SOCIETY.

This is a motion for a receiver of the estates now under
the management 'of 'the Irish Society, and for an order to
compel that Society to pay into Court a sum of 4,0001.
and upwards, the balance they admit to be in their
hands, pending the progress of the suit now instituted
against them. The motion was opened at length by Sir
W. Follett, in the course of Michaelmas Term, and the
further hearing was resumed this day.

Mr. LI.0171;, on the same side• with Sir W. Follett and
Mr. Wigram, entered into a statement of the foundation of
the society, and contended that the society were merely
the agents of the twelve principal Commissioners, and, as
such, bound to render to them an account of all their pro-
ceedings.
Mr. WHITmAnsH appeared for the Butcher's Company.
Mr. KNIGHT (for the society) said that this was a mo-
tion, not on the part of the Attorney-General, but of indi-
viduals, and a motion which, if assented to, must decide the
whole question at issue between the parties. The Learned
Gentleman was proceeding to examine the allegations of
the bill, when the Court rose at four o'clock.

Sir C. PEPYS, as he was about to quit the Court, said it
would be desirable to bring the motion to a conclusion be-
fore the first day•of term, and if that could not be conve-
niently accomplished on Saturday, in the ordinary hours of
business, their Lordships were willing to sit a little later on
that day, to get through it.

INSOLVENT COURT-THURSDAY.

IN THE MATTER OE SAMUEL HIPKISS.

This insolvent was discharged under the Act passed in
the 53d of Geo. 111. He had recently become entitled to
thirteen freehold houses in the county of Stafford. His
debts at the period of his discharge amounted to 5601., no
portion of which had been liquidated. An application was
made a short time ago on the part of a creditor named
Haywood, for a rule calling on Hipkiss to show cause why
his debt should not be paid, out of his subsequently ac-
quired property. The rule was granted, but no cause was
shown.

Mr. NICHOLLS, on the part of Mr. Haywood, now
moved to make the rule absolute.

The Court ultimately ordered the rule to be enlarged
for an affidavit to be made of the estimate of the property,
to guide them in the sum to be levied for the applicant.

SURREY SESSIONS.-THURSDAY.

A young man named Simpson was indicted for stealing
two books, " The Revolution of Sweden," from a stand in
front of a broker's shop in the New-cut.
The prisoner admitted the charge, but said that it was
his first offence ; and when the jury inquired if lie had
any friends to speak to his previous character, tie pri-
soner, addressing the Chairman, said, that, with difficulty
he contrived to raise 10s., which he gave to a lawyer's
clerk,: who. came to him in the gaol, and who had under-
taken to have witnesses in attendance to give him a charac-
ter. He (the prisoner) now found that, he had been com-
pletely deceived by the party alluded to, and he (the pri-
soner) was therefore without the necessary witnesses %-..hom
he expected.

The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to 20 days'
solitary imprisonment in Brixton gaol.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

Robert Fuller, aged 21, was indicted for embezzling the
sum of 45/., the property of William Gardner, his master.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Thomas Lennard, aged 28, was indicted for forginc, and
uttering a bill of exchange for 191., with intent to defraud'
Messrs. Stuckey and Co., bankers of Bristol.

In September last a letter was received by Messrs. Stuckey
and Co., bankers, containing a bill of exchange for 191., pur-
porting to be accepted by Mr. Leach, a solicitor, residing at
Pont•y-Pool, and drawn by Mr. William Williams, also of'
the same place. The letter was signed " Thomas Baker,'
and the writer requested that the bill might be discounted,
and the proceeds, or a check for the amount, after deduct-
ing the usual expenses, be sent to No. 116, Fore-street,
City. The bill was discounted and a check, made payable
at Messrs. Roberts and Co's., the London agents of Messrs.
Stuckey, was sent as desired. 'rile check was afterwards
paid, and the notes which were given were traced to the
prisoner's possession. It was also ascertained that he had
previously called at the house in Fore-street, which was a
coffee-shop, and had requested that any letter addressed to
Mr. Baker might be taken in for him. This was done, and
he accordingly received the letter. Two other letters were
subsequently received by Mr. Stuckey, in one of which the
writer, Thomas Thomas, inquired whether a bill for 30/.
had been paid into the banking house by a Mr. Saunderson,
in his name. The handwriting being found to bethe same
as that in the check, information was sent up to London of
the forgery, on which Role, one of the City officers, went to
Fore-street, and thence to Thames-street, where be found
the prisoner. A letter was then sent from Messrs. Stuckey
to Thomas Thomas, which the prisoner received, and he was
then taken into custody.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Baron GURNEY informed the Jury that this was
the last case, and that they were therefore discharged from
further attendance.

SENTENCES.-At half-past four the RECORDER, with the
Sheriffs, took his seat on the bench, and proceeded to pass
sentence upon the prisoners convicted at this Session.
TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE.—W. Landon, H. Wheeler,
W. Jones, Hannah Hairne, W. Summers, D. Hadwell, and
T. Lennard.

TRANSPORTATION FOR FOUICTEEN YEARS.—J. Milton, J.
Dyson, and J. Cluney.
Foa SEVEN YEARS.—W. Ed!wards, W. Garton Smith, W.
Hay, W. Stone, J. Alderson, E. Wheeler, D. Williams,
Mary Jones, S. Suff, T. Rainsbury, J. Bryant, Elizabeth
Jones, Sarah Hall, G. Smith, J. Smith, H. Emmerstone,
alias Heath, Maria Simpson, W. Berkley.
ONE YEAR'S HARD LABOUR IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
—Mary Roach, J. Green, Catharine Crocket, Thomas Young.
FOR NINE MeNTIIS.—J. Jones.
FOR EIOHT MONTHS. —Robert Fuller.
FOR SIX MONTHS.—Robert Dent, James Cotter, David
Walker, J. Roberts, J. Wade, James Barnes, R. Wilson, J.
Burdett, Robert Hancocks, Anne Wallace, Thomas Serle, J.
Green, H. Albert, J. Mayne, Georgiana Taylor, F. Clarke,
H. Dedman.
FOR FOUR MONTIIS.—Thomas Jones.

FOR THREE MONTHS.--JaMe;WEii;;, W. Lewis, Hannah
Baker, J. Carney, F. Castle, Isaac Lodden, Emma Turtle,
James Ellery, Sophia Painter.
FOR Two MoNTHs—Morris Quin, Mary Anne Kemp.
FOR ONE MONTH.—James Lepine, James Mayne, Charles
Sellick, and to be twice privately whipped.
Several others were sentenced to minor punishments.
Mary Dixon, for burglary, was then called up, and sentence
of death was passed upon her ; the Learned Recorder pro-
mising her that his best intercession should be used for the
Royal clemency.