The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-29 00:00:00

P LICA

Bow-STIt EST Tuesday evening, Char les
• _Miller, a private belonging to 'the 13th Regiment
of Light Dragoons, was charged before Mr.,NAF.Es,
the Sitting Magitdrate, with 'robbing the Ftik Public-
hsruse, at Twickenham, where he was tp.artered.
Edward Dingley, the landlord of the house,
proved that seteral articles had been stolen from
thence.
Jobn Strickiandi a serjeant belonging to the Roy,
al \Vest Middlesex Militia, said, that on Monday
Marring the Prisoner enlisted with him .to serve as a
private in the West Middlesex Militia, and received
rourguineas, as part of his bounty, at Uxbridge.—
Having, however, received infortnation that the Pri-
mmer had deserted .from his quarters, at Twiel;en-
halo, and was suipeCledofyobbinghis landlord, he
bet off with him-to march hint to Twickehham ;
when the Prisker confessed he had conitnitted the
robbery, and where the property was. • •
`lVoss- Moses,_a Jew, of Rosenntry-laneisaid„ that.
the Prisoner, on Thursday or Friday last, exchang-,
M, the property identified ,by. the Prviecutor, for
ether wearing apparel. • • ' •
The Prisoner was committed fbr trial.
John Lanner Was convicted in the penalty of 51.
l'or purchasing of the Pi isoner a regimental cap and
•lieather, under the 85th section of the last Mutiny

Tucker, jun. late of Exeter, serge-manu-
-ft6lturer and banker, charged With - being a fraudu-
fent bankrupt, was brought to the Office, and un-
.der.ivent another, examination before -Mr. READ,
when a fresh charge was exhibited against him, by
the Solicitor to the Stamp Office, charging .him with
altering several bills of exchange for larger sums thah
they were originally lulled, which made:, them re,
quire larger Stamps, with an intent to, defraud his
Alaiesty's Commissioners of the Stamps.
Andrew Levering Sarel, of,,Surrey-street, .Strand,
the Attorney to fife; Prisoner's bankruptcy, produced
three bills of exchange, which had been uttered ;
ode for tool. one for. 3141. And one for 201. ; which
were drawn by the Prisoner on the house of. Tucker
and',Co. of ;Exeter, and accepted.' and payable to
hie own order, and negotiated afterwards. said
three,bills of exchange are dated the of May,
1805, and all purport to be made at Exeter, and
drawn by the Prisoner, payable to his own order,
are endorsed-by him ; and the name of William
Tucker, juts. on the face of the three bills, and the
name of WilliaM Tecker, jun. 'as the first endorser
thereof, he believed to, bet the hand-writing of
Vie Prisoner) he having frequently seen, him write
his name. • ' • -
Mr. DA.MPIP.'It attended for the Corprni's'sioners of
tho'Sramp.Otlit:e; anti Mr. LAWS for the iirisoner:
He was committed to Exeter gaol, to,take' his'trial
upon both charges'. ,
Mr. James Townsend, Of, Honiton, Devonshire,
ba;ker,.. and Mr. Nathaniel Cranch, a merchant of
Exeter, the assignees to the bankruptcy, were bound
°Ver. to prosechte. ' -

john'ilooker, one 'of Bill Soames's gang, brought
by 114 i. Woodron, of: the Swan .Hotel, Westmin,7 ter-
bridge,. and charged- with. picking his pocket on
ni Monday eveng,ln the Strand, of his handk.achiel
and other property, was committed for trial.
0U §T e!r.=---, Yesterday Edward
gibed's, '-a 'trnin of gentleman-like 'appearance and.
manners, was charged with convirtng, NV hit a man
of tai:{ naine of I.3rOwn, and'a female, to defraud dif-.
:'erent tradepepsile of their property. : ,
The- fellOWing 'is the Substance of the evidence
,i,dcineed-by Mr.-Hancock, an ironmonger, and Mr, '
an upholsterer, who were the principal suf-
- :ferers appeared that -a man of the naxue of
&own; who had' recently taken a linge hotiSe in
Great, Coratn-street, .RuSsell-Squirei went to the
stiopS, of difirent tradespeople; accompanied by. a
ijaThing female, and gave extensive orders for &tie-
rent articles' of furniture' to be conveyed to the mart
COrain-street. This Lady,' Who had been
aecnstomed to pay'her visits to industrious trades-
penrie in jier chariot, ..went by the name of 'Mrs,
Brown. Bipwn represented ;himself as a wine-7
merchant, and who 'was .possessed of landed 'pro-
perty in. abundance k Scotland.' ,The condud.of
the parties was .such as did, not excite suspicion,
. from the apparent frankness of their manner, their
rest canbie eilnipage, and the -appearance of: their
habitation, and •consequently several frun4r.4l potluck
worth of furniture Was soon in their pOssession..

-Some circumstances however occitired,: 'whit h
awakened 'Suspicion,' and the trades-people be4rne
clamorous, when a third per Son (the Prisoner) made
appearance as an inmate at the manioc, in Co-
ram-street, and the ci-devant Mrs—Brown became '
Mrs, Roberts, the wife of the. Prisoner. The ser-
ranti in-the- housc,,-who knew' not whom they were
serving, became astonished at this sudden trausition,
tor they hadalways understood that the Lady Was
Mrs. Brown.. The Prisoner suddenly proclaimed
.• • .
debt of t9ule against his trtend Brown, and the lat-
ter having made out a. Val, or sale on , his 6-09(.6 to
ltitn, the Prisoner put an eNecution- into the house.
, was notorious amongst the trades-people, that the
female, Who had accompanied drown, as his wife
in 'the seleaion of the goods, sought the, protec.:
!ion of Roberts as her husband; and this induced
tiletu to make complaints to the Alq,Mrates, who
warrants for clay apprehension
Brown is in custody for debt,. and the. Lady k in her_
goods retrain in the possession.
of Foy,. the officer. In defence, the Prisoner bind
lit xvit not privy to the trztwiaCtions of.lirown,
nor had he ever boll tit his company when the goods
..vcre selcaed, and tiVeren)re he 4.',uttid not 'be•a con-
tl)lrator. 'The' gagistrate
,obseriTd; that the evi7.
,I,nice went to prove n conspiracy .aggin,t him, idL
though he was, not present when the goods wek:
(4dered. The -Prisoner was remanded for another
ey.cirnination. 7 7' ,

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in cots ItAV&ttitltert place. That thus the'el,a'nekt.of
abwinitiz, anc.stroke,. 130,0001. by,any remain--
'rict,:et Mill for':vurnhase in the Lottery Mial:;„et,
Lk) 1,, evident, thitu ui mofitiutetesting tact.