The Sun.
London, England, 1813-11-01 00:00:00

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If
ttotepti charirH with altering at bill
of exchange frOin 2sl. to w!th intenJ to
defraud tiro banli.ing-hotise a Down; thornibn,
And Co. NI. as put to the.bar, but his Comisel hay:
ing stated chat a -iilaterial witneNs was absent, the
Court postponed the.trial
wuntil next Sessions.—
The draerf or tbe bill In queilion so
,altered,
wefe Bralsh and Reid; booksellfri, of
Glasgow, tend, ut, we utHerstand, one of the
partners only being preettt, the trial could not
he entered into. .
Tkintos HiMard Lyons, was indicted for forging
a Power of. Attorky, in order to receive certain
Prize Money doe to Mr. John B. Ormsby, a Mid-
shipnian, formerly of tlie Ruisonable, and then of
the Nronztr.
Mt. U. Thompson, Navy Agent, .4, Coltlmll-
--nalingi, stated, that the prisoner applied to him
on thq 2lst March last. , Represented hitnelf as
Mr. John tirmShy, a Midshipman, then of the
Namitr—that he had got a ticket of leave of
absence, and wanted some money to enable him
to go to Bath, where his mother resided. The
prisoner, who had formerly served under his own
name as n Midshipman on board the Rnisonable,
gave so -clear an account of the transactions of
that ship, that Mr. Thompson was induced to ad-
vance him 11. towards getting the necessary stanip
for a will and power to enable, Mr. Thompson
to receive leis prize-money---that the prisoner pro-
duced a certificate, apparently signed by the pro-
per officers, and he ad%auc.ll him. in the whole,
about 271.; that he saw no more of the prisoner
for several mouths, when he met hint accidentally'
in .Idolhortt.

The case was dearly proved la number o
witnesses, and the Jorp;ith hesitation pronotine.
eti a verdict of—Gil/11y. •

,AESTRACTING NOTES FROM A LETTER. •
John, Spurr, aged IG, was indicted forfelonious-
ly stealing a letter from the Receiving Office of
Mr. Miles, hatter, in Oxfor&streefito whom he
was an apprentice. The letter -was directed. to
Mi. Woodley, at L'Afeter,.coutainiug a 10/. note.
It was sent from Mrs. Milner, a lady of,. fortune,
at the west end
the
the town. The transaction
'took place on the'eYening of the 12th of March
last, and two days affer, the prisoner applied to the
father of a young lady to whom he paid his ad-
dresses, for change 61. 'a ten -pound' mote, mid
which note turned Out to be th'e Same Mrs.
341i1-
per had procured
.froa) the Hankers,
doubtless with the intention to send it to Mr's.
Vi,toodley. A clerk belon4ing to Mr. Chih prov-
ed theknninber and date of the note..
Mrs. I.;lizabetb.. lliitadtr (dresso in elegant
mourning) proved she, rereived note of /0!. tront
:Messrs. Child, tor the porpo,„e of f:,efid-,OA- to
Mrs: Woodley, at Exeter, She .returned to her
house hi Manchester-quare, and.deliyercd to her
sister a 101, note forthatiturpoSe, hot could not
-upon oath say whether stlyas die, rune note she
received from Childs. It was intended as a pre-
sent, 'and 'Mrs. WoOdley load no reason to expect
-it, and nearly a fortnight ehtpsed'before she was
:informed :letter had mis;carried,
Thomas Cropper, butler t 9 'Mrs. Milner, stated,
Chef he reciiyed, on the 12th M,.ir.:11, ktter from
MrS. Milner's sister, diyecte'd to Mrs. Woatiley,
at'Mrs-Legend's,' near f:xeter ; be was ordered
to p+y posta,-ze 8,-; a doable letter, lie took it,to
hatter„in o.xford-.;treet, a receiv;-
in.?,-house for letters, and delivered ,the letter to
the prisoner at bar, and paid 1 s.4oo.:poitayy.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL. then aol.lqtssed the
Jury—
,
hi. Judge laes storgested to me, that;
•
to the ditikulty of pioviii'g the ir.lt.,ntity of the
note ; the want of recollection e the very re-
spectahle lady and the absence of that Indy's sis-
ter, I will not troiihle you flintier the to, record
a verdict of—acquiaft/."