The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-04 00:00:00

SURREY WINTER ASSIZES.

KINGSTON, JAW. 3.
Elizabeth Webb, a girl about 16 years of age, was
for uttering, on the 26th of September; at Croydon,
11., note, to Elizabeth Gray, with intent to defraud
Las lunar and Muggeritife, bankers, of Brighton.
To prove the prisoners guilty knowledge, several
were called for the purpose of showing, that in the e`
the 26th of September she uttered six or seven forged
and Stissex 11. notes, to as many different tradesinen in
of Croydon. In these transactions she was accompar
elderly female, and it appeared that they had Come to
in a cart, accompanied by two men.
Mary Allen, landlady of the Bull and Dog, proved
prisoner uttered to her a. One-pound Brighton and Sr
in payment of a glass of gin, and received. the change.,
wards discovered that the note was a forgery..
Elizabeh Gray, who. keeps the Bricklayers' Arno
hciiise, proved that the prisoner bought at her hotise-
saincevening,,half a pint of gin, and paid for it in a .7
and Sussex note.
• John Paine shop roan to 111 r. Battersby, a grocer,
don, proved that the prisoner bought at his mater's
the same evening, a quarter of a' pound of Bs. tea, an(
it in all. Brighton and Sussex note, and received the
John Fulcher; a grocer at Croydon, also proved that
soner bought a pound of sugar at his shop on the 5011.'
ins, and paid for it in another forged note of the Brighton
Sussex Bank.
.Mary Pe
Withers, Catherine Musgrove, and Ann CoPPI
proved three other utterings by the prisoner, under narly "tor
circumstances, at Croydon, all within an hour in tlie '1"
evening: go
Two of the notes traced to the prisoner were sworn 11
Aluggeridge to be forgeries. 01
The Prisoner, who wits in tears all the time of her tri,;: oet,
nothing in her defence, and called no witnesses. T"`",
with whom the -pritioner had been seen, were apprehende!l,ol
some of the articles purchased by the prisoner were fount' "
thein, but they were not broight to trial. es
4„inti
The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, w--
prisoner Guilty— Dedtli.•

BIRTHS.
At 13tulminton, the seat of . hex father, the Duke of BO
Lady Elizabeth O'Brien, of a son and heir.
On the Slat of December last, the Lady of John 1311
Rooper, Esq, of Woodbury Hall, Cambridgeshire,
daughter.

MA BRIE D.
On the Ist !nit:, at Astbury, in Cheshire, John Currie: 41
Esq., of Essendon, Hertfordshire, to Elizabeth Anne, PI •
daughter of N. M. Pattison, Esq.', of Congletom
'On IVednesday last, the Ist inst., at Orr, in GloucesLd
the Rev. C. P. N. Wilton, to 'Miss Plaistowe, of
street, Pall-Mall.
On Thursday, the 2d inst., at Marylebone Church, AO',
Bryant, Judge-Advocate-General of Bengal, to Mario,
eldest daughter of the late Henry Churchill, Esq., of .
ter-place;—and at the same time, Major John CralPt'sie:
puty-Secretary to the Bengal Government, to Emily, her,
On the Ist inst., tit Warnford Ilants, Iletir.L.A3
sham, second son of Robert Thornton Heysham,
Hinton-house, Hants, to Esther, second daughter 0'
Nunez, Esq., of Belmont-park,: in the same county-

DIED. 111
On Thursday evening in Lower Grosvenor-street '4O
87th year, Mrs. Ilantner Watson, of Hanmer Hall, llinipt"
relict of the late John Watson, F.'sq. and previously 010'
phry Hamner, Esq. of Hamner Hall, which now 'dot,
Sir Thomas Hamner, Bart. .
On the Ist instant, in Sloane-street, Patrick «'ilk.e,tt
late his Majesty's Consul at Carthagena, in the 80 r
his age.
On Wednesday last,. at his houSe, at Clapton; after.ll,l);s, ,
days illness,la the btlth year of his age, S. PM, KN.
Yesterday morning, at her house, in Ilulstrode-styee
Elizabeth Turneri tho 77th year of hex age.f -4*u
•
On the Ist inst. aged 64, Sir John Everitt, bnt. 0
street.
On the 29th of December, Alexander Matheson, 3L
C. Cameron, Esq.,-of Baker-street, Portman-square. ,
On the 29th of December, at Preston, in the countl..&P"
Caster. aged 16 months, Walter Arden, son of, Walt •
Fell, Esq., of that place, Barrister at Law.

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