The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-16 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

SECOND DAY-THURSDAY, J ULY

Joseph Rodgers, Maly Ins wife, and !forme,
were charged with a treasonab:c offence, in treason-
ably and feloniously couoterfeir &c. the current
silver coin of the Realm, to wit, ~no. shilling,
The Case a2ainst the Prisoner, rested principally
on the evidence of Edward Rogers, a Police Officer,
who is particularly active in Ctoes of tits
narrative His of the affair ran to a considerable
length, and his descriptions relative to the various
implements, tliaterials, &c. used in the process of
coining, were very circumstantial and Minute. ..111.2
jet of his account was, that in consequence of in_
formation he had received, he proceeded, on tile
26Ji of June, to Suffotk_street, Bentonville, at
which place the Prisoner ROdgerS resided. He took
his -station in a neighbouring house, and closely
observed the pretrikes of the Prisoner; he was seve-
ral hours employed in this way, during which time
he observed Mary Rodgers several times go in ana
Out, and also the Prisoner Horne once or twice ; he
observed that those persons came out very cautious_
ly, and always looked around in order to sec whe-
ther they were observed. Having seen sufficient to
justify his suspicions that something very improper
was going forward within the house, he sent for a
Warrant and also for assistance, under the apprehen-
sion that those within would resist. Being rein-
forced, he knocked at the door, which was opowd
by Mary Rodgers. She endeavoured to shut the
door against them, and cried our, " Here they
are." HoweVer the party speedily obtalned en-
trance. The Prisoners Horne and Mary Rodgers
were found with their hands black, and apparently
as if they had been recently at work. On going
up stairs, they found the Prisoner, Joseph Rodgers,
in the aft of getting out of the window. He had
an apron on, was without a shirt, and bore every ap-
pearance of having been just in the at of coining.
In this room were furnaces, crucibles, moulds, &c.
&c. ; a number of counterfeit shillings in different
stages of preparation, from the blank state to one
in which the shillings were nearly fit ftr circula-
tion on some of them the letters I S were marked.
One in particular Mr. Rogers described as in a
state perlefily fit for circulrtion, the colouring be-
ing in a perfea state at the time, but it had since,
greatly faded. It was on this counterfeit shilling
the indidinent was founded.

This narrative was in most points corrobmateli
by the other Witnesses; and the defence \made h 5•
the Prisimers, &c. was such, as induced the Jury
to find Joseph Rodgers Guilty—Death—and to
quit the other two.

Samuel Robins was charged with stealing two
pair of doe_slops, eighteen pairs of gloves, in an
unmade state, and one pair of breeches, the good;
of Thomas Lingham.
The Prosecutor is a Breeches-maker, &c. in the
Strand, and the Prisoner it appeared had worked
in his employ about three months. In consequence
of some information the former received, he went
to Pritchard's the Pawnbroker, in Short's-gardens,
Drury-lane, and there found a part of the property
laid in the indictment, which it appeared the Pri.
soner's wife had pawned. It also appeired in evi.
dence that the Prisoner had given the doe-slops,
i. e. pieces of doe-skin ready fur making up into.
breeches, to another of Mr. Lingham's workmen,
in order to make them up, which he accordingly
did ; and the breeches were produced in Court, of
which Mr. Lingham identified the materials as his
property, by means of his stamp appearing on the
leather ; the workman also proved, that he made
the breches by order of the Prisoner, who said they
were for one of the customers. The identity of
the gloves was proved nearly in a similar manner.
In his defence the Prisoner averred, that he bought
the breeches for rl. 35. 63., from a person who
looked like a Gentleman's servant, and a Witness
was brought forward by him to prove, that a per-
son came into the Prisoner's apartment, while they
were drinking tea, and sold him some damaged
leather. However, the Jury not deeming this de..
fence sufficient to invalidate the charge, found the
Prisoner Crui/ty, after a very short consultation.

George Spikes and lames Hollis were indicted for
stealing a basket, containing a quantity of wearing
apparel, the property of Mr 3. Joyce Dace.
The Prisoners, two young lads, it appeared, were
seen, by one of the witnesses, together, near thr.
House of Mrs. Duce, a laundress, at Islington.--
Hollis went in, and instantly came out with a basket:
of clothes, with which he and Spikes, who remained
near the door, made off. The alarm was soon given;
they were pursued, and were overtaken in the at_
tempt to get over some adjacent paling, after having
thrown away the basket.

These circumstances being clearly proved, and
the Learned Judge being decidedly of opinion, that
under the Law, they were both equally guilty,
The Jury found a verdia against both to that
effect.

The Fretmdschaft, Havighorst, from Bayonne to
Bremen, is lost on Tegelers Plath : part of do;
cargo is saved at Cuxhaven—one man lost. The
Hupe, Calder, in ballast, is lost near the same place :
—crew saved. Two other ships, names unknown,
are lost also at the same place, laden with sugar and
coffee.

A few days since, Mr. ROB ItcsoN, farmer, of
Cotton, in Lincolnshire, intending to go from
Gainsborough to Hull, by water, to the Eled;on,
being a Burgess of that place, had proceeded but a
few yards from the inn where he slept the preceding
night, and eat a hearty breakfast that morning,
when he dropped down and instantly expired.
On Wednesday last, between two and three o'clock
in the day, three villains, accompanied by a boy,
had the audacity to open a back w indow of Mr.
Sharman's house in John_street, Pentonville. The
family being abroad, fortunately they were seen by
a servant of Dr. De Valiingers, who procuring as.
sistance, went to the house by the garden, with the
hope of oking the robbers, but were only successful.
in securing the boy, whom they found in one of the
bedchambers, and lodged him safely is ills watch.
house,