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London, England, 1802-10-28 00:00:00

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Sittings appoititt.il 'in WesitiliPslel:`anA Londrit`..
before the'Righc' Hop. RICHARD PEPPER, Lord:
ALVANLEY, Lora Chief Justice-of riis —Majesty 'S, '
Court of Commori P 16,15, 'at'ArestiiiinSt4; in anS'.
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The following melanchbly accident•happened ats
IDeal bn Friday morning as a boaPwiitt five mend
;belonging to that place, was wcr-kitig•td.windwardl
(it blowing :strong-horns-the ,South,). jtstsa's they`
were putting. the .boat about nearly l''Nf.the,,Sout.ll7
Foreland, a •young Man of the nameiif ,Wrt.•Lifry',t
unfortunately fell overboard but being an excellent!!
!swimmer came up *;ig-ain and 'made for the shore,
;which he almost reached, but getting into'the-surf,
'and before any assistance c,:inid :be Tendered him he
`went down and was drowned ;• his' body•was 'again:
taken up in the afternoon. • •

On the i3th inst. the tide rose so high in the•
Medway, that the streets of Stroud were inun„.
dated. It was also very high along the coast from
Whitstable to Margate. At: Herne, some of the
marsh lands were overflowed ; .and at Reculver the-
waves beat so violently' against the cliff, as to sap
the foundation of the ancient chapel, ling since
converted into cottages,. but lately deserted • bytheir inhabitants. The outer walls, with the roof,
was precipitated in ruins dOwn the beach.
On Friday night, a Gentleman' residing in the
neighbourhood of Fitzroy -square was hustled in.
Tottenham-court-road, near the end of 1-I:inwav_.
yard, by: several genteelly dressed villains,. and
robbed of a valuable watch and two gold seals. It
is conjeaured, there is some place of rendezvous
for such charaaers near the spot, they were out
of sight almost in an instant, although closely pur-
sued.

On Wednesday se'nnight, at the Sessions of Kil-
larney, the Jury withdrew to deliberate concerning
their Verdia. They remained confined till the
following Sunday, without being able to\ come to
any agreement. By this time two of the jury were
so enfeebled, from confinement and fasting, that
they were not able to endure their sufferings and'
longer, and on an affidavit being made, stating the:
peril of their situation, and their inability to bold
out, two Jurors were withdrawn by consent of the
patties, and no verdia was returned.

OLD BAILEY.

FIRST DAY-..WEDNIESDAYi OCT. 27.

THE Sessions were this day opened in the usual
form, before the LORD MAYOR, Mr. Baron THOM?.
SON, the RECORDER, &C.

Charles O'Connor was charged with the capital
offence of feloniously stealing, on the 18th instant,
twenty-seven ewe sheep, and ten wether ditto,
the property of the Right Honourable the Earl of
Besborough.
The sheep in question, it appeared, were kept
in a field belonging to his Lordship's grounds, at
Roehampton ;—they were duly secured on the night
of the ifith. On the Shepherd's going to the field
the next morning, he found that the lock of the
gate had been forced, some of the stakes drawn,
and the sheep enumerated and described in the In-
di6tment, stolen therefrom. It further appeared,
that,ar an early hour the next morning, Mr. Spraggs,
a reputable butcher of Sr. James's Market, and who
aced very laudably on the occasion, observed
the sheep in the street, and the Prisoner standing
by thew; he -inquired of him ,whose they were, on
Whica the Prisoner immediately replied they were
,iris own--.To the query, siihat he proposed to do
with them, he state 4 he was to have them slaugh.
tared by two youth men, who were in an adjoin-
ing public.hou!,e, `which place, however, lie could
particular*.'—',Ahout this time Mr. Spraggs
observed .another man standing near the sheep.—/
V' hat bad passed thorooghly awakening his sus-
picions, he, in a manner' the most likely to have
the desired effect, advised the Prisoner to drive
the sheep • into the market, where they would be
safer than in the public street;--this recommenda-
tion was attended to, and as they were going along,
the Prisoner said he had bought the sheep the day
before of a Mr. Andrews, who lived about 7 miles
from Bagshot—he stated he had also a number of
pigs, which he alledged the same young men agreed
to kill for him at a stipulated price—he also
added that he dealt extensively in poultry.
In the market Mr. Spraggs was joined by a
neighbour who corroborated, his account of the de.
teetion of the Prisoner.—About this period, the
other man above alluded to, as keeping near the
flock, of sheep, absconded :—the assistance of a
couple of watchmen was resorted to, the Prisoner
secured, and the sheep taken care of —they were
afterwards, it appeared, sent to a farm near Isling-
ton, where on the following day they were
claimed and identified as the property of the Earl .
of Besborough.
In his defence, the Prisoner alledged that he was
a total stranger in those parts, that he-had recently
come from India, that he met a man with a flock
of sheep on the road near town, who said he would
pay him handsomely if he would assist him in
driving the sheep to town ; 'to which he agreed,
and the man, be said, afterwards requested, him
to' tell any one who should ask hint,- that the
sheep were his own ;. that this person.was with him
when the Butchers first came up, but that he got
away.
No evidence being adduced in support of this
defence, the Jury were inclined to credit that given
on the part of the Prosecution :—..they, therefore,
found the Prisoner Guilty—Drath.

Joseph Blish was charged with stealing, on the
22d of September, a saddle value zl. 'I2S. the pro_
pert! ofreter
The Prosecutor, it appears, keeps a Saddler's
shop in Oxford-street ; he had known the Prisoner
previous to the affair in question, as a groom to
Coh Bromley, for whom the Prosecutor had done
business in hiS line. On the above mentioned day,
the Prisoner came to him, and said, that Col. Brom-
ley had just-bought a horse at Tattersall's ‘;...that he
wished to borrow a second-hand saddle to• try the
bOrse, which if he approved of, he would imme-
diately order a new saddle of the Prosecutor, and
that the borrowed saddle should be duly returned
in the evening. Accordingly the saddle in ques-
tion was delivered to the Prisoner.
It appeared .that in about an hour after this, the
Prisoner carried the saddle to 'a Saddler's in Picca-
dilly, to whom he offered is fur sale. This person
suspecting some foul play, consulted another Saddler
in .the neighbourhood, by which means it was dis-
covered to belong to the Prosecutor. They formed
a plan to get•the Prisoner to a public-house in the
evening, under the idea that the saddle should he
purchased from him at that place, and in the mean
time they apprised the Prosecutor with what had
taken place, and it was settled that he should attend
at the same public-house in the evening. The te.
suit was, that the Prisoner was completely detected,
and it appeared that he had quitted the service of
Col. Bromley some time before.
These fads clearly appearing in evidence, the
Prisoner was called upon for his defence—which
proved to he a very circumstantial narrative, but,
of the rather singular tendency that almost every
syllable of it went to inculpate himself.
Two or three Witnesses appeared to his chara6ter ;
these, however, said very little more than that they
never knew any harm of him. He had, though
very young, been in several services, and was
on the Continent, in Germany, for some time.
Mr. Baron THOMPSO N, in his Charge to the
Jury, observed, that there was no evidence what-
ever that the Prisoner had stole the saddle: 'The
question was, Whether he had obtained the proper-
ty under a false pretence, as he affeded to borrow
the saddle for a persorn whom he described to be
his master, but who, it appeared, was not such at
that rime. They would 'decide whether this was
not obtaining the property through the interven-
tion of a Fraud, and farther, whether at the time he
so obtained it, he intended to convert it to his own
use. In consilering this point they would recol-
lc& that the Prisoner offered the saddle- for sale in
abour an hour after.

The Jury had little hesitation in finding a Ver-
did of Gui/r.y.—The Prisoner stated his age to be
fifteen.

Francisco, the Tyrolese, who fired the pistol at
Ivir. Mayan, in Lombard-street, was brought be.

fore the Court.: When theluestiortwas`ptit to him
how he would be tried, 'he gave no answer. The
person who stood near him, told the. Cour- that the
Prisoner was unable to speak or understand English,
but could speak
,both. French and Italian. Upon
hearing this, the RXCORDkR asked him in Italian
hoW he would be tried; and at the same time told
him the privilege which he enjoyed, of being tried
by a Jury of six foreigners and six English. He
answered in Italian that he would be tried by an
EngliSh Jury, and would ask the favour of being
allowed a French Interpreter.

WESTMINSTER QUARTER-SESSIONS.