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ithitia It tihtoiictio4 wheii • lie hut welved tttc
public-house from Phillips, and therefore loOvould
he accountable for the value of it, as lie had sent
it to a customer 'cif his : he also mentioned that
Phillips was indebted to hitito au amonnt con,
siderably exceeding the value of the effects which
he had taken possesgion of.
Kendall., ou- his..eross-examination, said, that
he did not recollect that Slader promised to pay
Merely conditionally, viz, if Phillips should pay
him.

OLD' P,.8.1.1.1A4,

Sessions comMenced yesieill before the
Lout.* Mavoe, Mr Bayou 11.0012! itirr. Justice
HEATH, My, Justice DAMPIER, and the RECORDER.
Stephen Curran was indicted for maliciously cut-
ting and maiming Jobti aw cett , with intent :to
murder, &c.
John Fawcett stated,. that he was master off
Shadwell Workhouse, and on-the I Ith of Decem-
ber last the prisoner was placed .under.his care by
-an Officer of Police. He remained quite peaceable
till the 18th, %ellen, about tWeh'eo'clitek at night,
he was awakened by a dreadful .noise: . He- was
much alarttted,. and called a person of. the.. name
of. Dune to his assistance. They proceeded to
the room whence the noise issued, and' found the
prisoner breaking the door With.an. axe. They
attempted to seize but he struck the witness
on the forehead . with the head of the ,axe•, anal
felled him to the ground. When he recovered, he
found his nostril cut through, and his lip severed
down. to the chin.
.The prisoner was at length se-
cured, though with difficulty, and not till he had
inflicted several other wounds and bruises. He
THE EARL OF ORFORD V. CHURCHILL. , had been pat to the workhouse as insane, and his
His HONOUR gate judgment this morning in COLICIO-ct fully corroborated the account,
this cause, which is of great public:interest to fa- John Drammoed the keenef of Slnidwell Of-
:
mulles. The case was ably argued at the bar yes- fice, represented that. the prisoner Was deranged.
terday, and turned on the distinction between the The Jury, consequently, under the direction- of
general term issue, as contradistinguished from the Mr. Justice Heathy acquitted him.
terms child or children, in wills and marriage 'set- George Smith, a youth aged only, eleven years,
dements, • t was indicted for stealing a Pair of shoes, value tea
The facts were, that in 1745 Mr.. Chas. Church- shillings, from •the • houSe of Alexander Jardine,
hill, oh the intermarriage of his_ eldest sort Charles I and Elizabeth Wayne was included in the same in-
with Lady-Maria-.Walpole, had .settletl On the r dictment for receiving the said property, know-
children of the intended marriage a :stn of it to have been. stolen. It appeared., liow-
-30,0001. with interest, payable front the time the ever, that the prosecutor lived in 'the 'City of
same should become due ; and in the event 'Of his London, whereas the indictment set forth his
eldest SOll having no Child or children, 'then to residence as in the County.of Middlesex, upon
go to the grandchild or children- of the son who which theprisoiwrs were acquitted.
died in the lifetime- of the settler, who left the Samuel Alder iindllenry Wolfe; two boys, each
defendant.his great-grandchild; and the question 12 years•old, Were convicted of bieaking a,pane
was, whether the great-grandchild, a male, should of ghiss,--and stealing a knife from.a shop vitnlow,
take the money wider the' word issue, ill exclu- Ina recommended to mercy, on account of their
sion of the grand-daughter, who claimed as a years.
grandchild in the settlement, althongh nearer by f James'lngram was convicted of Imrglarionsly
one degree in blood, but a female ? • .
stealing front tbe- dwelling house of James Bion,
His HONOUR was of opinion, that the word' -on Situday, the Gth instant, various articles of
issue in the. preamble' did not - entitle the great wearing apparel, shifts, gowns, &c. to the value
grandson, in exclusion of the word g,rantlchild, I of tiearly 51. 'Wainwright, one of the Bow-street
used. in the operative or enacting clause of the j patrole, stopped--.llim with the bundle in Ay.les-
settlement, and declared, Lady Maria Walpole, bury-street, Clerkemisrell, attune half a mile from
daughter of the late Lord Walpole, who died in the premises. Harriet Binn, the wife of the pro-
-1812, entitled to the money, with four per cent. i iecutor, identified the property, and the 'capital
nterest.Judgment for the plaintiff. part of the charge, both with respect to the burgg_
lacy and the stealing in a dwelling house, was
done away by returning a verdict of . stealing to
the.value of thirty-arsine
Harley. Smith was indicted for stealing four sil-
ver-watches, value 121. from the -house of Robert,
Winter, a watchmaker, residing in Cannon-street,
St. George's in the Lest.
Robert Winter stated, that he had taken the
prisoner in from charity, in order to give him.
work. 'This was on the 14th-of last August, and
on the 19th be decamped, taking with him four
silver watches. These he pledged to four different
pawnbrokers, and sent the duplicates in a-letter
to .Mr. Winter.
. The pawnbrokers were severally examined; and
seemed very reluctant, after having
_told wh,at.they
lent upon each watch, to deliver their opinion as
-to- its value. They at length subdued their de-
lie-acy, and each of them thought that 31.35.
might be about the worth of each watch. One of
them had lent only 255. another 30s.,and one as
~mach as 21.—The watches were produced, and
-Mr. Winter swore to "them as being his,nroperty.
-They were all -pawned in -the same name. john
:Johnstone, one of• the pawnbrokers, identified
the prisoner as the person -who had pledged it
Mages was indicted for stealing' (or
rather for attempting to steal; as he did not: get
-off with the property) from Thomas Shands,
baker, residing in Providence-row, Finsbury-
square, a wooden till, containing penny-pieces
and halfpence to the amount of 21, cud upivards.
Thomas Shands stated, that on-the evening of
the lOth February, he was sitting at tea with his
wife in the parlour, at :the back of his shop ; he
looked towards the shop, and saw the candle flar-
ing ; this excited hii attention., and he then saw
the prisoner on-his knees at the till ; hesjumpednp,
and the prisoner ran away, but he followed Min
out, and secured him two doors off. It came
out in the- course of examination, that the prose-
cutor did not count the money in the till at the
time, but i did so immediately after he returned
from having taken the prisoner before a .Magis-
trate. During his absence, however, his Wife
hacl taken money in the shop, and given change,
so that he. contd not be positive as. to the exact
amount in the till at the moment it was attempted
to be taken. • Under these: circumstances, the
Jury did away the-capital part of the charge, by
finding the prisoner guilty of stealing only to' the
amount of 39 shillings. ' •
Henry
.French was capitally indicted for feloni-
ously, and without lawful cause, being at large
within this kingdom before the expiration of the
term for which he was transported. - He was
found Guilty, but reeopmended to mercy in con-
sequence of Taunton, the Officer, 'having men-
tioned' in the-Coarse of his, examination, that be
was working as a chandler.
The following were all capitally convicted :
Andrew Rooke gird George. Hatcher,' for stea!ing
two pieces of printed cotter), value '4os. and up--
wards, the property of John liuglies, in his dwe11...,
ing-louse ; Abraham Levy and Charles Harding'
for a robbery on William Woodhouse, and taking,
from his person a silver watch and a 5/. Batik note,.
his property-; Moses Solunions, John Morris, and
Joseph Burrell, the oldest eleven yearSjor a bur-
glary in the darelling-hOuse of Richard Atkinson,
and stealing a pair of shoes, his property.

Sedeant PELL, for the defendant, rested
his defence wholly on the improbability that Stu-
der should ]rave promised to Pay for the gin, when
Phillips was his debtor to so great an amount ;
and-,,..at the' same time, that he should have taken
posse4ion -of the other effects of Phillips, vho
was insolvent.

No witnesses were adduced for the
.defendant,
and the Jury, found a verdict for
,the
2n 10s.

,
The Court was occupied during the greater part
of the day with causes uninteresting to the.

ROLLS COURT, FEB. 16.

THE POLICE.

MURDER OF WHITE.

Bow-wrattET.—YeStrday Conieligs Callaghan
was brought to the Office by „Mr. Chambers., the
High Constable of the Holborn Division, and
charged before Mr_ NARES, the sitting Magistrate,
on suspicion of being concerned in the wilful
murder ofEdunind, alias Edward White, in Bain-
bridge-street, St. Giles's, on Sunday evening fort-
night, by a nuniber of Irishmen,lt appeared that
the Coroner's Jury found a verdict of wilful mur-
der.against.the prisoner, as, according to the evi-
dence before them, he was. principally concerned
in the affray ;he was the,n not in custody. Yes_
terday morning he called upon Mr. Chambers,
the High Constable, and sin rendered himself into
custody, stating, that he had been extremely un-
easy ever since he had seen himself described as
being concerned in the murder, but the evidence
must have-been -mistaken, as he had been in 'St.
George's Hospital till Tuesday. Mr. Mums: told
him that he must surrender himself to the Co-
rover.

UNION-HALL.—Wm. Caisey, a genteel looking
Man, was charged by Mr. Frederick, proprietor of
the St. George's Coffee-house, with stealing two
shirts and various other articles, his property.. It
appeared that on Monday evening the, prisoner
called at the prosecutor's house, and inquired if
he could be accommodated with a bed. Being
answered in the affirmative, he said he should per-
haps stay some days; he had supper, and-retired
to bed, and did not make his appearance till late
the next day., When he came down, the maid-
servant was struck by his appearing much. stouter
than he had done the day before. Her suspicions
being roused, she stopped him, and having pro-
cured assistance, proceeded to search him, when,
,concealed between his shirt and 'waistcoat; they'
found two shirts and two silk handkerchiefs be-.
longing to Mr. Frederick, and a grnvn and other
articles belonging o the servant. lie was coin-
mitted I.ot-re-examination. • ,

The late severity of the season has proved fatal
stoi the beautiful, bridge of Derry, so long the ad-
miration of all those who had seen it. The float-
ing ice, with a strong ebb tide, and. the great'
t3ood occasioned by the thaw, having carried away'
the centre cl the bridge, with ten or twelve
and all the work.S attached Co them.
A -puir.pkin'has rece'ritly been raised-in the State
of New York, of the-enormous weii4la