The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-24 00:00:00

DIYING MACNINE, RANELAGH.

NOTRING can be more unpleasant than ei be
under the necessity of recording the failure of an •
experiment which a man has employed great pinsi
and expended considerable sums of money. to !ring
to perfection, and upon the success of which he had •
perhaps placed his ultimate hopes in life; btn.we
are compelled to state, that Mr. TODD'S Ming —3
Machine, which was tried yesterday at Raneligh,
by no means answered the expectations which had
been raised by a perusal of his advertisement, and
we are inclined to fear that the failure did not arise
so much from the unskilfulness, with which the ap.
paratus was managed, as from a defed in the prin.
ciple of the Invention itself. The Machine was
extremely simple in its construction, and had very
much the appearance pf an old clumsy suit of black
armour. The inside was iron, the outside sail.
cloth, pitched over. Into this case Mr. TODD was,
with much difficulty, forced ; he complained that it •
was too small, and that he could not move his arms
with any facility. This case enveloped him up to
the neck ; a wooden cover, with some glass in the
front of it, and at the top a small aperture to which `
tubes were fastened, by which air was conveyed to
him, was then put over his head. This wooden
machine was fastened to the other part of his case, -
and made waterproof by means of pitched sailcloth.
He was then raised up with proper tackle, and let
down into a kind of tub full of water ; it was about
eighteen ;. height, six feet in diameter at bor.
ton), and something more man tour fret at
Neat the bottom there were little glass windows,
to enable the company to see Mr. TODD ; but they .
looked in vain, for nothing was to be seen.
He was not under ivater at any time more than
three or four minutes, and after being immersed a
few times, lie was uncased.
He attributed'his failure partly to the Machine
being too small for him, and partly to its admitting
water in some places ; but it appeared to us so very
cumbrous, that if it were possible for hini to remain
under water for an hour, we very much doubt whet
ther he could-be of any use.
There were not above fifty or sixty persons pre.
sent, and they bore their disappointment with great
good humour.
Mr. ToDa announced his intention of making.
another experiment, in a few days.

.EDINBURGH, SLPT. zo.

ARRIVED at Drysdale's Hotel, Sir WILLIAA
JOHNSTON, Bart. J. LONSDALE. Esq. Oil their way
North ; the Right Hon. Lord KEITH, on his way
to London ; Mr. and Mrs. GRANT, of Rockville,
and Miss DALRYMPLE, Admiral Sir ROBERT and
Lady CALDER and family, from the North ;
TER CAMPBELL, Esq. of the East India Company,
J. MELD, Esq. from London ; the Right Hon.
Lady-DoWager DUNDAS, and Hon. Miss DincriAt,
on their way to Kerse House ; Colonel and Miss
LINDSAY, and Captain eirMING.
Arrived at the Salutation Inn, Perth, Sept. zz -
the LORD CHIEF BARON ; Colonel HAMILTON
Pencaitland, and Captain MINIMS, from Loch.
Erich( to Lundie Houle— cpt. 14, Lord BAN/Or
and 51t DAVID CARNEGIE, Bart. both on their
way North.
On Saturday the z rth inst. there was found ex, •-
posed in a corn field, in the neighbourhood of
Bridge-end, Perth, a child, apparently about eight ,
days old. A reward has been offered for the de- :"
tettion of the person or persons who exposed it;
but hitherto without effeft.

Thursday a ram made its escape from a butcher's
yard, and ran furioti.,ly along Methven.srreett
Perth, pursued by the dogs. Unfcrtunatelv an old
woman was in the way ; the ram threw her down
in his career with such violence that she was killed
on the spot.
Last week considerable quantities of herrings
were caught off Kincardine. The Filth of Furth
at present aboUnds with spray, and an early herring
fishery may be expected this season.

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Tut experiment of my" 31st ascent, and of my
sth descet in a parachute, took place on Tuesday
last, on a very fine day, and in the presence of:an
immense crowd of spectators, who filled the streets,
windows, and houses.
It is' necessary, when I undertake the experi,
ment of the Parachute, that I should know the
state ef. the atmosphere, in order to enable me to
judge of the course I am to take; and also to adopt
'the -precautions' proper to ensure success.. About
: three in the afternodn, I had . the satisfa6ron of
having a-first indication from the agreeable effea of
a Very pretty Montgolfier Balloon, vvhifh4as sent
off from the environs of St. George's Parade, and
which: took' a direftion over Mary-le-bone.:fields.
• - The success of this experiment ought not to pre.
vent me horn expressing my opinion of the dangers
that may result to the general safety,'fri)in:the daily
abuse of those night experiments, which:'afe not.
alWays direEted by persons conversant with the sub-
jetct. One shudders when one thinks, that a machine.
of this kind may fall, and fall on fire,. upon the cord-
age of a ship, and thus involve, in one great con-
flagration, all that constitutes the wealth of one of
the first cities in the world. The use of these
chines was prohibited in France,•and the Consular
Goverrobent confided to me alone the diredion of
night' balloons, which I conceived and introduced
into the National Fetes.
Convinced- of the direAion of the wind, I has-
tened the filling.. of the Balloon,
.and at- 5 p, , in. .I
filled the Pilot Balloon, which Mrs. SHERIDAN did
.me the honour to laundli; -It Seemed to me that I.
was conciliatiog the favour of Heaven by the inter-
ference of the Graces. This Pilot Balloon, ascended
quickly, and was soon out of sight, mirking out
ruy career towards the north-east. -Whilst the
anxious crowd-were-following -the path of nay 'little,
Pilot, I suspended the Parachute to the talliion
this painful and difficult operation was executed-
with all possible address, by -the assistance of :the
• . most distinguished personages. The Parachute was
gradually suspended, and the breeze, which was
very gentle, did not produce the least obstacle.
At length I hastened to ballast my cylindrical bark,
and to place myself in it ; a sight which the public
contemplated with deep interest—it seemed at that
moment as if every heart beat in unison, for though
'I have not the advantage of speaking English, every
, one understood my signs. I ascertained the height
of the barometer, which was .at :of inches. I now
pressed the moment of my departure, and the period
of my fulfilling any engagements, with the British
Public. All the cords were cut ; I rose amidst the
most expressive silence, and launching into infinite
space, discovered from on high the countless multi-
tude that sent up their sighs and prayers for my
safety.. -My Parachute, in form of a dome over
my head, had a majestic
.effeet. I quickened my
ascending impulse, and rose through light and thin
vapours, where' he cold informed me that I was en.
tering into the upper region. I followed a ttentie-
Iy the route I was taking, and 'perceived I had
reached the extremity of the City, and that immense
fields and- meadows offered themselves. for my de-
Scent. I examined my barometer, which I found
fallen to 73, inches—the sky was dear,- the Moment
Tifton-table, and threw down my flagoo endeavour
• to shew to the people assembled that- I was On the
point of cuttipg the-cord that suspended me.between
Heaven and Earth. I made everY.necessary dispo_
.. uition, prepared my ballast, and measured with. my
eye the vast space that separated the from the 'rest
of the human race. I felt my courage confirmed
by the certainty that my combinations were just.
I then took out my knife, and with a hand firm,
from a conscience void of reproach, and which had
never been lifted against any one but in the field
of victory, I cut the cord. My Balloon rose,
and I felt myself precipitated with a velocity
Which was checked by the sudden unfolding of
Ply Parachute. I saw that all nay calcula-

lions were just, and my mind remained calm and
• ferene: I endeavoured to modulate my gravitation,
and the oscillation which I experiepced increased in
PropOrtiOn as I approached the breeze that blows.in
--the rtiittate regions ; nearly ten minutes had elapsed,
ail.d I felt that the more time I took in descending,
the safer I should reach the ground. At length I
Perceived thousands of persons, some on horseback,
others on foot, following me, all of whom encou..-
. raged me by their wishes, while they opened their
arms to receive me. I came near the earth, and-
. after one bound, I landed, anti quitted the Para...,
Chute, without any shock or accident.- - Aire first
Person that came to me pressed me in his arms ; but,
without losing any time, I employed myself in
detaching the principal circle of the Parachute,
anxious
.to save the instrument that hail so well
guaranteed me ; but a crowd soon surrounded me—
laid hold of me, and carried me in -triumph,- till an
indisposition, the consequence and, effea of the
oseillation.l had experienced, obliged the proces-
tinn to stop. I was then, seized with a painful_vo-
trilling, which I usually experienee for several
hours after a descent in a Parachute. The,,interval
of a moment, however, permitted me to get on
horseback ; a numerous cavalcade approached to.
keep-off the crowd, whose enthusiasm and trans-
Ports incomitioded me not a little. At length.,
after several incidents, all produced by the univer-
: gal interest with which I was honoured, I wirhdreW
from the crowd without any other acciSent than
that of having had my right foot jammed-between
the hOrse J rode and a horseman who- preSSed tOo
!lose to me. My Parachute was preserved as well
as Could be expeaed, a few of the cords only were
cut.
I have just learned that my Balloon. descended,
on the 22d Wednesday) at Mr. Abraham Harding's,
!leaf Frefiehain Mill, tutee miles beyond Farnham,
,iiliwiS'arrey,"w..tPere it
is in safety, as. appears by the'
ong tetier :

TO MR. GARNFR 2!•i.
I have the Leasure to inform you, of finding the Balloon.,
1::.1 the parish of Frencharn, in the County of Surrey, near -
tarnharn, on September zz, and to acquaint you, that it shall
ce taken tare of till you scud for it.
"ABRAHAM HARDING."

According to • M CARNERIN's calculation, he had
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-u to neva QI 4154 French-feet on Tuesda'y

Sar•r. it.

ACTS OF GOVERNMENT.

DECREE OF SE 'T. 11.

• . .
'IidNAPARTF, first Consul of the French RePhblic, de-
crees, General BRUNE, Cou,nt;4l.cr..Gl State; is nominated
Amb4ssador of the Frenc.ll Republic to the Sublime Porte. •
of Foreign Relations is charged with the
execution of this Decree. •

c, (Signed) a_BONAPARTE
By similar,liecrees of the First Consul, the fol
lowing Nominations have also taken place:

.Citizen L ACUEE, Counsellor of State, to be President of
the Se lion of War, in the room of General Bie. UN E.
C. Rt c A-0 b (de St. learpd'Arigeley), Counsellor of State,
to be President of the Section or the Interior, in the room of
R.:EDER ER, apjaointed a Senator.
C. BIGOT FR AEM Es/ EN, to be President of the SeoiOn
of Legislation, in the mom of C. Bout Y.
'C. Btit:l, AY. Counsellor of State, is charged with all liti-
gations reipeaing the National Domains; in the room of C.
REGMIER.
C. FOURCROY, Counsellor of State, is charged with the
care of Public Instruction, in the room of C. RCEDEK ER .

•
C. PERzGNON, Senator, is appointed Extraordinary Corn,
rnissioner, to regulate,. agreeably to the bases of the 7th Ar-
ticle of the Treaty of Peace, concluded in the year 3 between
France and Spain, everything that relates to the Ratification
of the Boundaries of the two States towards the Pyrenees.

CILAZAL is appointed Prefed of the Department of the
Upper Pyrenees.

DECREE OF SEPT. 17.

The Consuls of the.' Republic, on"the Report of
the Minister of the Interiors decree,

Art. r; The measnyernent of the meridian of Frahee shall
be -continued from Barcelona to the 'Belearic Islands.

The Minister of the Interior is charged with the execu-
tion of the present Decree.
(Signed) BONAP A RT E-.

An Arrete of the Consuls, considering that the,
.re.establishment of order at St. Domingo, Gnicra-•
loupe, and its dependencies, and the .intereit of
trade and cultivation, depend principally upon the
presence' of the. Proprietors on their property, re-,
quires that the said Whiteroprietors should return:
thither without delay, under the penalty orre-
-
mauling under..s-equestration.—Persons. under 18,
widows and their daughters, the. infirm and the
old, soldiers under arms, and public funetionaries,
are excepted. No one is„to receive a dispeimation
from personal residence, or haye his; sequestration
taken 'off", unless represented by` an European Ma-
nager, capable,of well managing a habitation in
Which he shall aetually reside.- Every t'lloprietor is
also, in order to have, his fequestration taken off,-
to "produce proofs of non.ernigration, erasure or
amnesty.

AnOther Airke relative to St. Domingo, con_
tains the following Aiticles :
1. 'To the 23d SepteMbei iBo6, Debtors and their Security
are forbidden to be prosecuted for the payment of debts anta-
rior to the rst January 1792, caused by sales of habitations,
houses, and negroes, at St. Domingo, ,as *ell as for ad-
vances made for cultivation in the said Colony.
.2. During the same delay, the Creditors of the Colonists
of St. Domingo, for every other cause than th'ese specified
above, shall not prosecute for the payment of their demands
upon property situate in the Colony.
3. In case the Creditors of any Colonial Persoa, for other
causes than those expressed in the Ist 'Articleoshall- make
demands or institute A6tions against the property of the said
persons in France,: the prohibition declared in the said first
Article shall be taken oft, and all the Creditors shall exercise
jointly their rights upon the property situated in France.

The following is ex traEled from a letter by a Gen.
demon in Glasgow to his friend in Greenock, dated
Augusta.

" An affair of so much consequence to mankind
as the following, it were criminal in me to conceal ;
I therefore request 'of you to make it as piblic as
possible among your sea-faring and philosophical
friends.

" Our mutual friend, before his departure last
fall for Philadelphia, construded a machine, appa_
rently simple, but which is infinitely more valuable
to navigation than the compass. It was brought to
to me, together with his log-book, by a fellow pas-
senger homewards, who unluckily had paid no at-
tention to the use •of the apparatus, which was the
more unfortunate, as our, friend died within three
leagues of land.
" It is a magnetic ball, floating in ailliason of
•quicksilver. The ball is painted all over", to keep
,tlie:quicksilver from penetrating the pores, which
might embarrass the evolutions, which coating, I
dare not destroy to examine the materials of the
ball ; but from its weight it must be metallic, yet
it floats high in the fluid. 'Since he took it from
this place, I perceive he has marked it with lines of
longitude, and latitude, like a geographical sphere.
This, I presume,..he has• done on his voyage out-
`Ward, the journal of which is likely left in America.
But this which I possess begins with the exal point
of latitude and longitude of Philadelphia, and re-
', cords the zenith of every day as 'accurately as if he
had. been all along on terra firma. Iu bed he told
the Captain his distance from the Coast of Ireland
to a:rnintite, by looking at his machine.
(6 The properties of magnetism ate not yet suf-
ficiently known, and they have heretofore been ap
plied to use only in the form of the needle. But it
appears to possess, beSides its well known polarity,
a propensity to retain its native relative position
on the'earth ; that is to say, it turns upon an axis
like the earth, one point al,vays pointing at the
pole star. Beyond the, line, this point upon the ball
is below the horizon ; and on the shores of America
the longitudinal line, which now is its meridian,
was far down the side : so that if he had sailed
'round the earth, his little ball wool(' have made a
'complete revolution upon its axis."
At Pontefract Races, on Tuesday se'nnight, the
Sweepstakes was run for by three horses, and won by
Mr. Croft's bay colt by Traveller. In running for
the first heat, at the two-mile turn, the Traveller
colt fell, and T. Todd, who rode him, was much
s't--tinued by the fall. As' soon as possible,;.;a:boy, of
theiname of Howard (who weighed about 73t. 711).)
wa's'sut upon the colt, without eithr whip or spilt.,
hut having the stable-door key in 1 is pocket, used
it for a whip. He was, howe'Ver, clistanced about
6o yards above the usual length (240 yards) ; but
as neither of the flags were dropped, as is usual
against distanced horses, a dispute arose whether he
was entitled to start again. The Stewards, after
consulting with several Gentlemen, were of opinion,
that in consequence of the flags not being dropped,
Mr. Croft had a right to start his colt again ;
which -he did : won ,the two next heats, received
the plate, and the bets were paid accordingly.

bLt' BAIL
.El'.

DAIL''•-•'•-•tfiUR.SDA.Y, SEFT. ij.

, Owen Mosi was tried upon an
,indietment, charg.
;no- for that he, being a person: employed by Wil-
„,
ham Philips, in the CaPaCity of a servant; did; by
virtue of such emplpyrnent receive, and take into
his possession,. of and from one :thews' GrAths,
for and in the; nante,:and on -the account of the
said William Philips, the sum of 18s. and did felo-
niously and fraudulently embezzle; ,Seerete; and
make aWay, with the same, against the statute, &c.
Mr. KNAPr opened the 'case for the Prosecution,
and observed, that by a late AA of. flarliament, the
embezzling, of property of a master, by a servant,
was made
_Felony, and stibieoed the offender, at the
discretion of the Court, to transportation forio...
teen years. He then .detailed the circumstances of
the case, and proceeded to call evidence.., .
Ann Philips swore, that she is -the sinter of the'
Prosecutor, William Philips. That sometime ago,.
he had the misfortUne to break his thigh, and there-
fore could not attend to his business, and she had
the care of it for.him. He is a baker, living in
Carnaby-street, Carnaby Market. • She received 'ol-
die Prisoner the-Money which he colleded.for Mr.'
Philips; whose servant he was,: She' had been -in
the habit of receiving money. of the Prisoner in this
manner for about two months. He never accounted -
to her for the suns of 18s. which he received of a
gentleman's servant 'of the name of Griffiths ; he
,was a customer of her brother who servedhitn with
bread. . She always.gave out the bills to the-.-Pri.
soner for him to deliver to the customers and to re-
ceive the money, and afterwards to account with
her for the money.- She delivered to him a'bill to..
be delivered to Mr.- Griffiths. When he receivstii,
money of the customers, he always Wrote paid-up..!'
on the bill, which was the only receipt he gqve.
She had seed the bill of Mr. Griffiths, and .it_was
the same bill whiCh -she delivered to the Prisoner.
J. Griffiths produced the bill, and said, that when
he paid the Prisoner, 18s. he produced, the bill to
the witness, who had kept it ever since, saying to
the Prisoner, he should-ofc:-..rwards pay the whole of
it. This was the hill,. it amounted to 11. 6s. Bd.,
of he paid 18s.
Mrs. Philips said that, the Prisoner never accounted
. with hit* for these 16s. nor (AO she know of his having
receiver it until she was told -so by Mr. Griffiths.
Crosi-examined by'Mr, GRAPEY, she said that
her brother, she believed,-had abotit koo customers,
but she could not tell, without the books,- which'
were not_ in Court. There was a book in which
the Prisoner entered all the sums of money he re-
"ceived from hii master's customers, and that book
was not in' Court.

-The COMMON SERIEAisrr said, that owing to the
verytross abuse of the trust reposed in servants by
their masters, and their embezzling property so
much, the Legislature had, of late, made it extreme-
ly penal subjectto transportation at the discretion
of the Cofirt for fourteen years. It was a neces-
sary security, but being so penal, care should be
taken, that it should not operate unless. the •proof
was complete ; the law required the best evidence
'the nature of the case would admit—now that best
evidence was the book, in which the Prisoner's ac-
counts were kept ; that book' was
snot in Court,
there was a possibility, though it was not very pro-
bable that Mrs. Philips hld made a mistake in this
case, but in the absence of the best evidence which
the case was capable of, it was the duty of the Jury
to pronounce him Not Guilty.—Not Guilty,

Edmuird O'Dannel was tried for Bigamy, that is,
of marrying and taking to wife, Mary Price, on
the 15th of April last, his former wife being then
living, against the statute, •&c.

Mr. KNAPP opened the Cse,for. the. Prosecution;
which he said was instituted by .the brother of the
second wife. .

No doubt remained upon the fal of the Prisoner
having married two women, for the registers of the
two marriages ,were•prodliced in Court, and the two
women appeared also..' The first marriage took
place On the 31st of January I-19-, in the parish
church of St. James, 'Westmi'nster, between the pri-
soner, under the name of Edward, O'Dannel, and
Julia Ann Robertson. The.second marriage Noli4
place 'on the i sth of April, 18oz, between the
Prisoner under the name of Ethgard O'Thnnel,
batchelor, to Mary Price. • •

The Prisoner being called upon for his defence,
said, that when he married his first wife, he was
very young and indiscreet ; he was only 19 years of
age : he understood her to be a virtuous young
woman, and well conneaed ; but he soon after
marriage found out his mistake, and discovered that
she had been a kept Mistress, that her morals were
very loose, and that she was given to excessive
drinking; that her way of life became so expensive
that he could not supiort her, he being then only
an articled Scrvant at a Arlanufaelory : that she was
often in furious passions, so that they led a very
unhappy life ; at last, she left him, and for a year
and a half he had no other account of her, than that
she was said to be dead, upon which he paid his ad-
dresses to his present wife, and married her, but he
had no improper motive in so doing, for that he
had. no fortune with her : that he was very happy
with his last wife until he was apprehended upon
the charge for which he was now about to answer.
Souse witnesses were then called to prove the im-
moral condus of the first wife, but they only gave
evidence of her being a little too fond of her glass.
The second Wife was called to prove, and she did
prove, that he treated her with pure affection, &c.
. The COMMON SERJEANTsaid, that this case was
very -short, and as clear as it was short. The
charge •upon the Prisoner was, that he married
Mary Price, on the rsili of April last, his wife
Julia Ann'O'Doo'nel'being then alive. This was
clearly proved byi,the'Registets (1 the two Mar-
riages,. and by persons who were present when
both took place. This was a serious offence, for it
called God to witness to a falsehood at the altar,—
bia it was in its nature an offelyce attended with
many different shades, in diErent -cases; It was
done sometimes from motives of pecuniary interest,
for the purpose of obtaining possession of the pro-
perty of a young woman—sometimes to obtain pos-
session of her person. The Legislature viewing
the nature of this crime in a different light from that
of former times, had declared it to be a Felony,

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and had therefor:l to totirt sof Cr riunniii itizt
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power toorder the dfznding patty' to be trinT,• is s;
The jury had, hoihing to co in this c•t,C but
to COnsidei, whether this was or itif6 not the mad
who-had married these two women, and that they
could not doubt, tinless they coild, be satied that
all the witnesses Were wilfullY-perjured, withoui
interest in so doing. The condw of the fit3lwite;
of which there was siiine evidence, Lut'not Much;
and of the Prisoner's behaviour to the second, which
was clear, had, properly speaking, :nothing :to dcd_
with the issue the Jury had to cry,, but he suffered
it to'be. gone into, merely that its might.givelhe
-Prisoner 'the chance of its turning snit, such mig;-,t
operate hereafter tioh the Court, vhkh had, in•
this case; a discretionary power in ordering the
ptOshnent.
'The Learned Serjoant said, he did ri;:r much
approve—of-the PriSoner having entered his name
'on the first Marriage Edmund o'l3annel,--on the
-second, Edward O'Donnel, Batchelor. 'This locked
like a premeditated scheme and trick—hovirever;
these were points with Which the Jury had nothing
to d0.,-.,G,7iley.

The jury'recommended him to thelenity of the
Coutti on account of his youth, and, the charatier of
his first wife.

The COMMON SE R j E ANT, after sortie deliberation,
told the Jury their recommendation should\ be
tended to,

Catharine Kicky, a woman of nearly eighty years
of age, and apparently in the lowest degree "of fill;
man wretchedness, notwithstanding which she bore
evident ma rks'of her having seen far better days., was
charged with stealing, on the 4th of August, a pair
:of linen,sheetS, value. 95., the goods of Wm. Gill.
The Prosecutor stated, that he is the servant- of
'William Egerton, Esq. of Sr. James's Square, that
on the above-mentioned day, he found the hi-
saner, whose appearance was then comparatively
decent, in the.tfousekeeper's room, to which she
had got down through the area gate. He suspe6leet
her intentions, and proceeding to search her, foutid
the sheets in question rolled up in her apron; he
accordingly' had her taken to a Magistrate, by.
whom he was bound over to prosecute, and he had no
doubt of the sheets being the property of his master.
' On clear and positive evidence to this effea, the
Jury were constrained to find her Guilty, and Mr.
COMMON Silk JEANT inquiring of Mr. 1(11Y,
,then he had any knowledge of the Prisoner before
the present occasion, was answered in the negative.

William M'Nevin was charged with
,stealing
seven shirts, two pair of stockings, a blacking
brush and ball, the property of Robert Hayden.-
The Prosecutor, it appeared, is a Private in the
,Coldstream Guards, and having obtained a ftirlough,
rather unfortunately fell into company with the
Prisoner at. a'publie.house.; the articles in question
he had with him, economically packed up in his
knipsack. Liking the company of the Prisoner, they
drank together some time ; he went out occasionally,
and having no suspicion of the Prisoner, left his
portable wardrobe on the seat 3 however he did this
once too often, for on returning after one of his
retirements he missed both the Prisoner and his
knapsack. Fortune stood the Soldier's friend,, fur
it appeared that one of the Witnesses, who was
waiting for her husband, observed the Prisoner re-
move the property, and attempt to conceal it in
another part of the room. He then left the place,
but the Witness'alluded to very properly communi-
cated what she had observed to a Watchman, whq.
ran after and took the Prisoner into custody.
These fads appearing in.evidence, and the Prison..
er's defence not being at all satisfactory, the Jury
had no•hesitation in finding a verdict

El;zabeth Prosser vas indicted for feloniously steal.
ing, on the 26th of July, one shirt, a shift, a dimity
petticoat, and cotton gown, goods of John Bradstreet.
The,Parties it appeared lodged in the hou.se of a
Mr. -Thomas, in Gray's-Inn-Lane. On the above
day, Mrs. Bradstreet, wife of rh'e Prosecutors
went out about two o'clock, and locked her apart.
went; as: usual ; about half past four she returned,
found her room door broke open by the staple being
taken away; and her drawers riled of the articles
laid in.the Indiament.—The landlord stated, that
between three and four o'clock he saw the Pri.
Soner:Coming down from Mrs. Broadstreet's room ;
and as soon as he heard what had happened, he went
up to the Prisoner's room, which he opened, and
found the staple which was on the door of the
Prosecutor's apartment on the head of her, the Pri-
s.oner's bed; the shirt was afterwards traced to a
Pawnbroker's in that quarter, who stated that-the
Prisoner herself pawned it with him.
On Evidence to this effea; which was not in the
least shaken by .the-defence, the Jury immediately
found the Prisoner Guilty.

Mary Callaghan was irdiaed for stealing four
live rabbits, and four shillings, the property of
John Rowley._ _

It appeared, that the Prosecutor on this- day
fortnight missed the rabbits
,and the money from
his apartment in a court near Liquorpond-street.
On the same day the Prisoner was taken into cus-
tody on suspicion of having stolen the rabbits,
which she.. lead offered -to several persons for sale.
The Prosecutor had no sort of•knowledge of the
Prisoner, nor could he account for how she came into
possession of his property. On being searched,
some halfpence were found pinned up in the Pri-
soner's shift, and (as we could colleftj• as much
money about other parts of her person, as made up.
the money which the Prosecutor said had been
taken out of his room—three of the rabbits, pt-
being since dead, were produced in' Court and
identified by Rowley.
The sum of the .Prisoner's defence was, that she
had bought the rabbits from a woman, for two
shillings, who seemed to be in distress, but of
this Person she knew nothing—nor had she any
Witnesses in her behalf.

Mr. Common Serjeant SYLVESTER add,reFsed the
jury.---" Gentlemen, you have heard the story of
rabbits—you will dispose of it as you Think prove "
The case was rather an intricate one, but what
was detailed in Evidence seemed to satisfy the
jury—they pronounced the hist:net. Guilty,