The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-26 00:00:00

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Bovv-STREET'.,,i4 man was charged with.se-
ing.forged Bank of England Notes. for, less than
their nominal value. Mr. Lees, the Inspector of
Bank of
.England Notes, attended !the cztamina-
tion., The prisoner 'was committed for further
examination,.

On Tuesday evening Ned Owen, alias Symonds,
the %veil known sharper, ,underwent another exa-
mination, charged with Tieing concerned
Kenyon and Green, who were tried' at the last
Old Bailey Session for robbing a youth of the
name of Delatoueb, at the door of the Green Man
public-house, 41.0x:ford-street, when he was ft.r!y
committed for trial.

A woman yesterday underwent an examination,
eleargad %yid' 11aving„stolen. eight valuable coach
glasses. She teas committed for trial.

Uxtos-trat.t.— LIEUTENANT JOHNS ON.—Ro-
'berts and Mellon, the two men in custody on sus-
picion of having been concerned in the murder of
of Lieutenant Johnson, .were again examined.—
Mellon repeated his assertions, that he was totally
ignorant of the transaction ;'and that th? pre—
tended Confession of Roberts, accusing hint of
being a principal, was a string Of diabolical fake- -
hoods. It will he recollected, that Embers in his
confession stated, that he had preserved the knife
with which Lientanant Johnson's throat was cut,
and that he bad marked it with names of both.
Mellon and Butler; not knowing to which of theta
it had belonged. He was now'called on to state
where it was; when he stated that it was concealed
in a tin kettle hid under- some brambles, in a ditch
near Shooter's Hill. Upon this statement, Coiling-
bourn anti Glennon were directed by the Magis,
tratcs to take the prisoner in a' chaise to Shooter's
that he might point out the •spot where the
-knife Would be found. Front some instances O
prevarication; however, of which the prisoner
had been guilty, a degree of suspicion list
arisen .in the minds of tilt na.rist-rates„ that
his conles§ion, was a mere fabrication, and the
officers were directed to be particularly atten-
tive to his actions. The prisoner was accord-
ingly taken in a chaise to Shooter's-hill, and
when they-had arrived near the .pot- which he had
mentioned, they girt out of the chaise to walk.—
Previous to their quitting it, Colliughourn ob-
served the prisoner busily shuffling about his poc-
kets, upon -Which he gave the signal to Glenuon ;
and on observing him more closely, they perceived
he had got a knife in his hand ; they took no
notice of having perceived. it, and when he had
come to the spot where he had represented the
kettle as being deposited, he pointed out a bram-
ble bush, which, on being removed by the officers,
the kettle was discovered ; the prisoner ran his
hand underneath it, and after keeping it a short
time there, produced a knife, which he handed to
the officers,-pretending•to have taken it out of the
kettle, but which the 'officers immediately knew to
be the same that they had previously seem' in his
hand. On one side the handle the word " Mellon"
was written, and on the other side,the letters P.ll.
89. When handed over to Collinglootn•n, the knife
was covered with fresh soil, and had riot at all the
appearance of having kid for any length of time
in the damp. The prisoner also produced a
brooch, vhih'h he asserted to have formerly be-
longed to Lieutenant Johnson ; by the activity of
the officers, however, it has been clearly proved
that Lieutenant Johnson did not wear a brooch of
any sort. The hat produced by the prisoner, and
also stated to be that which was worn by the de-
ceased at time he met with his unfortunate fate,
has been sliewn to the relations of the -deceased,
who all declared their opinion, that it had never
belonged to hint, nor did they believe, that at the
time of his death, he had so large a sum of money
about 11;:n, as was stated by Roberts, in his con-
fession, to have been taken front him. Prom these,
and several other circumstances no room was left
for doubt in the minds of the Magistrates, that the
pretended confession of fli'e prisoner, was a most
diabolical attempt to attach the guilt of murder
to two men innocent of the crime', for the pur7
pose.of obtaining his own pardon for other of-
knees with which himself was charged, and w;th
a, view to the obtaining' the reward to, be paid on
the cOnviction of any one concerned in this most
atrocious mutter; and his diabolical attempt would
most likely have succeeded, • had it not been for
the zeal and, activity of the officers„ who, much
to their credit, displayed more anxiety to promote •
the ends of public justice than to possess thent
selves of the sum of 2001., to which they would
have been entitled, had Roberts's confession been
corroborated by collateral evidence. No doubt,
however, remaining on the minds of the Magi-
strates, they ordered Mellon to be discharged,
and fully committed Roberts, for trial, for the
burglary with whichltewas charged, and on his_
own confession.

GuiLbit ALL.--Stritidliiig--YeSterday Moses Lcrey ,
«•ho was charged some days since be 'ore the sit-
t'ng Alderman, with liavin.g defrauded various.
persons Of goods and money, was again put to the
bar, wiien'a great many fresh charges were made
against him.—lle was fulls committed for trial.

MAELBOROUGU-STREET. A female servant to a
Lady in Quel.kc-street, tins charged with her bro-
'ther, on suspicion of breaking open a bureau in
her mistress's ned-rooth, and stealing 261. in Bank
notes.—lt N3Reared in evidence, that the prosecu-
trix, who is an elderly Lady, residing-with two
other Ladies, went out on Sunday afternoon ;
the servant, by permission, went out afterwards,
her brother, the other p'risoner, having called for
her, and he waited until she had got ready. On
the return of the Lady, she discovered that her
bureau had' been broken open, and 261. had been
taken fimn a p • ket-book which contained 301:
In the same place was a considerable sum in gold
and silver coins, together with plate, trinkets,
8:c. which were left. A Lady in the house stated,
that,she heard a noise up stairs after the prisoners
left. No trace has been had of any sort, and the
prisoners were remanded to formal custody until a
future day.

A coffee-house keeper, in the nc.qghbourbood of
lion-street, was held to bail for a series of as-
saults and barbarous treatment to his wife, who
appeared in a dejected-state.