The Sun.
London, England, 1812-05-20 00:00:00

OLD /MILE}, MAY 19.

I

Judge OROSE arrived in Court at twelve o'clocl,
when Thos. Collicot, late a vender of• medicines in
Oxford-street, wholtad been found guilty of forging
stamps, on two several indiaments at a former Ses.;
sinus, was put to the bar, his Counsel having takcni
objeaions in points of law, which afterwatds oc-
cnpied the attention of the twelve Sudgts. The
objeetions taken.at the trial - Were two in number,
viz. that the instruments did not bear the re-
sernbl'ance of legal .stamps, inasmuch as they did ,
rot. specify the amount of duty,. that part of the
stamps which generally covered the tops of the
medicine bottles, on which the duty is expressed,
having been left blank, and covered with wax,
and consequently could not constitute forgery.—,
With respea to this objeelion the Judges had
nimously, decided, that it was not required by law
that the forged stamp should be a fac simile of a
real one. The4rnisSion in the forged stamp was
intended to deceive, and the forgery was complete.
The second objection was 'that the indictment did
not 'set forth what was the' resemblance of the.
forged instruments to the legal stamps: - The Je,dge,
in the latter objetlion had decided also unanimously,
that it was enough- to constitute the crime of for-
gery ; that the indiarnent charged the pri,oner with
vending paper falsely, resembling the legal stamps.
The second ohjedion, the Judge observed, was no•
more valid than the Rest, and the prisoner had been
well convicted.

George Hammond who was convicted in February
Sessions last, of stealing in the dweding-house of
Messrs. Birch and Co. Bankers; in Bond-street, two
'Bank notes of .501. each, and whose case, on au ob-
jeaion in point *of law, had also undergone the con-
sideration of the twelve Judges, was next put to the
bar; to hear the decision. It was contended in
point of laW at the trial, that the prisoner's offence
did not amount to felony, as the notes were not the
property of his employers, Messrs. Birch and Cham-
bers, but of a person vt ho Itept cash in that house,
and in whose natite the sum was entered. It was
further contended, that the. Bankers could recover
"nolo alleged to have been stolen from the till, from
the. customer to whom they were entered, ty
means of civil- process, and it any offence had ben
committed, it was fraud upon an individual, and not
felony. The Judge at.the trial, left the Jury to
decide by their verdi&, whether the prisoner, is
making a false entry in the cash book, did it with a
view to get posSession of the two 501. notes. The
Jury decided by their verdi6l, that the prisoner had
so dune;, and it was by this decision that the Judges
had unanimously decided the case to be felony, and
that the fraud was praised as the means of accom-
plishing the felony more easily. This convietion
was also confirmed.

The Sessions ended, when sentence of Death %Iraq
passed on die following capital conviels :—Thorna;
Collicot, Mary Best, and Catherine Foster, for for-
gery; John Richardson, for highway robbery ; Jo-
sepli Metcalf, James Goult, George Hammond,
and _Eleanor Chambers, .fdr,,stealing in dwelling-
houses. Two were ordered to be transporied for
life, seventeen for seven years; and forty-t wo were
sentenced to ,different periods of imprisonment.

The.Ghette'of hst night contains an AchlrePs to
the PRINCE REGENT from the Master, Wardens,
and Commonalty of Merchant Venturers of Bristol,
knd another froni the InhAirants of the same City,
expressive of their regret and horror at the AssaJsi-
nation of .Mr. PER CEVAL.

When the body of Bellimtham was -conveyed into
the AnatorniCal• Theatre at. St. Bartholomew's, the
room was already crowded with spedators, mostly
we believe of the Medical Profession. The cic.lies
having been removed by the executioner and ..is
man, the body was laid on the disseding table in
the centre of 'the theatre, and SirW. Buzum and
the demonstrators of anatomy then came forward,
and procteded to the work of dissection. The first
incisions were made in the diredion of the abdo-
minal viscera, which were found to he sound aid
healthy fo a degree seldArn witnessed, and this WAS
the case with :ne lungs.alsg, which were afterwards
inspeded. The contents of the skull exhibited the
usual appearances of death by strangulation. ' The
determination oflthe blood to the vessels of the brain,
and the stoppage of its return to the lower extremi-
ties, by the sudden jerk of the rope, was so trent •r,s
to prevent a, minute inspection of the stare of the
brain, so early as yesrerday. The head has bren
severed from. the body, in order to afford oppor-
tunity to an artist to tale a plaster cast of his covo-
tenance. Great crowds hourly flock to view the dis-
gusting spectacle. of his mutilated remains.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MAY 20.--This day we have
not many fresh arrivals of Wheat, but tolerable re=
maining supplies mostly second and inferior, sales
thereof again heavy, and rather give way in price ;
Barley continues dull in sale at somewhat less 1
Malt ltkewise ; White Pease rather lower 3
Btlans of each description hardly at last 'price=s;
there are 'some further arrivals of Oats, and di 's
trade is quoted nearly at Monday's currency; Flour
at late prices.. •

Wheat ,85s a tics a tps Tick Beans -66 s a 72$
Pine ditto - t3ss a tos Ditto (fine old) ns a 74$
Rye -76 s a 82s Oats -48 s a Sts a s7s
Barley 57s a 67s Poland ditto -58 s a )ps
Malt - - - 86s' a 94$ Potatoeciitto - (3,3 a —s
WhitePeaSe(boil.) 82i a ' 88s Rape Seed - 761 a $
Grey ditto - 74$ a 785 Fine Flour ' !css a
Beans - - 7os a 76s seconds - - :.s a less

Ea RAT UM. —lt should have been InentienLd in the Aci.
vertisement inserrecton Monday, that Mr. lixtientan's Con-
cert will be on krida) Meat.