The Sun.
London, England, 1802-09-25 00:00:00

OLD 1.1!lILE

NINTH DA.Y.----171',113.,:i--, SFI" T. 24,
Ge or Pl.._ Yates iuld yaba :J*)lei"tha;/ were ind::',4
for sterlitirt.'a nuniber of bundtes of printed Co-pic:, di
e, .
Votes of the"--Houie Of Cttirinion:=; sevei'id loin,i e;
of printed Copies of ..Pennant!s liintiotan--df t .e
Bishop. of _Ltncoln's Elet-iients of, T,i)eologyi ,in,l.
other printed Papers of greAt value; the property of
Luke .E-Lnand. ' , ,

It appea'red in:evidence. that the PrisonerS
-servants in the Warehouse ot Mr. Hansard,,in. Lin!'
'Coln's Inn Pielck, Wh'ere he carries on the • •
business to a great extent.: that on the 3d of Sep..
tember insLJlt; between three and' tbur o'clock i!i
the afternoon, the two'Prisoners cattle to. the. shop
of Mr.JantesLinder, in Dearyntreet, High Hol-
born with a large bundle of, paper, and:oared 46
sell it as waste -paper, and asked 75; 6d..- for it;
Which the Witness agreed to give, and botight
it acc•Pdirigly, and paid for it ; the boys had some
contention ahotit dividing the money; which gave
him some suspicion that they,might have stolen it;
and soon afterwards.lie opened the Rundle; and when.
he saw the name of Mr.. Hansard'otithe paper; he
gave inforriation of the property being with
And how he had.bought it, which led to the: disco-
of. the theft.

It appeared ids(); that tq Prisoner; Yates. had
taken other pziTeCii.,Of the same sort of Valtiable
-printed Copies, and 'sold them as Waste.pataer to
A
eneesernongei• ; said his 110 the was %.::naprnan; that
he came to sell the ,sviSie-,,paper by order, of his
master; Mr. Keys, of No. 3, Inael.TeMple; tind
the shopkeeper bought it of course,-without
ing the btindle, .and afterwards discovered ,it to be
a part of, printed Copies of the same work had
been proved already to be bought by the first Wit:
ness.

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4, lise d •
The COMMON SERjEAN. 0 Ila Wag
to be hoped, that reputable tradesmen will; in fu:
tore, be a little- more attentive in buying Waste
paper of strangers, that they give thernselYeS
the trouble of at least opening thebtindles they deal
for ; had this been done in the present case,it vvonlct
have aPpeared at once, that these bunel;es •Were.ikb:-
thing like waste paper:
Mr. . - • ,
Haniard haVing looked it all the bundle; that
were produced, said, they were his property; that'
each bundle was stated to be of the value of slzlitif
that the loss of therti rendered uselesS a whOle set at
copies of books; the labour of piinting, engraing;
&c. came to more than tool.
Several tviinesties appeared on behalf of the i"ti4
.sorters; and gave t's.ein good charatters, and said
they would employ and take tare of ihey ,
were discharged.
The COMMort Salt yEAN'f' lamented that rive; such
young men should be in this situation: I;sfothing
ttirned upon the value of .the property in this case;
.-becatise the Indi6ment slid not stilts the offence its
a•eapital one. if the Jury believed the cvitieocc;
lucre-Could be rio'doubt of the guilt of the Prisdner.S:
'As to their charaeters, it wigs to be Idmenred ihdt
.young ttEn of ,rich charaaers should fotieit it ;
he added"; that charader %vat itse trl o;-dy: ii a dutibt.
ful coe.

The Jury found bOift the PtisOrxrs
They are each fotirteen years of age only:
The jtfry therh tr-jsz..cicS- on iecOtint
of their youth:
The Ptosector also ..4.listied to. r'e'cOrzLirr:eptl
to.inercy. He said; he hii conceived a yi4tialitY
for these'boys; and intended to promote (hem
he had vety ekteoSi.i,E'vrarehousesi and vast dear
iif prolieity in them ; it eras very painful to
prosecute these childteni but he was the
.cesSity of doing-it_ to piote.R h s property:
The.CovrmoN StkJEAI:Vt assured the- jtirir anti
the .Prosecutor, that their rectimniendation shoitld
lie aitcuded to• - •

•
krakeel, who was said tO hive .1.1t..en :7;
Midshiptnan; on board one of His Majesty's Ships,
and lately come houte, 'and the.son of a m'an of large
fortune in Ireland; and known fo'd Lady Of rank in
this Country; was tried sitpOn an Indidment fur
stealing a gold watch; the property of Mr. 1-let Vet •
an Ohicer in the Navy; who had a great dial of
b.usiness to settle at Chathath; on the Subjetl: of the
Expedition to Egypt. He happened to have a lodg-
ing in town, in the same. hose as Old Prisdner; at
•an Hotels On the sozbof August he came fo.ttiOn,
and brought the watch to town- with him ; it
longed to his wife: it was an old gold w'ati:ll;
ont an outside cased and lie left the watch in his
lodgings; but Whether in his portimmteatfor tirawe,
he could not say, but if was nit under, lock; 951:
that was broken. He had so ifttich bitiriai to at-
tend to; that he forgot his watch when he went odt
of-town,' and did'not miss it until he came to Rd,
elresier: He afterwards SaW it at the Public.:Offiei
when .he returnC&‘

Ic.
appeared that the Prisorfer v,as seen kOing
backwards and forwards into the Prosectitor's robin,
and being sdspe4ed, 4 Constable was sent for, the
Prisoner Was searched, and the watch was fottnd
his pOssessiOn, whim he said his father gave ii hint
The COrimo'N SEitiEANt said it was ninth to
be laMen teal t .a. Sovng man, dins conneauf;
should disgrace hiniself and his.` respedable fanny
in this manner, but That was nothing: to the purpose
of the trizi. If the Jury belieVed the eVidence,
the Wai cleat if they entettaineJ any reason-.
able doubt of it., they Would take, pleasure in giving
this yotmg than the benefit of that doubt, and
quit MA.

Ou./70:,=--Aged . • .
The Prosecutoi recommended him to trercy, and.
that if Lt had not been take'n on the sOdde-tz;,
when he came to town; h should have declined' ibis
Piosectition. He should have bein.klatf o 6
of the situationufg Prosecutor fn this Case..
't le Ctimbidzi We thiist ietree
that-ateh a young nian as this via S-in this sittiattoni
but we lutist our stationf do' our chity to. Sv.:,
ciety.;

• ' Phlllp Mm boat was indieied for feloi7liouo
stealing 7001bc. weight of loath'eti carted butt
shoulders, and other kinds of Russia kathee, tLe'
propefcy of Messrs. William- John; ind Irenry;
tvrtfa n ; and William. Rabe:'-t: for receiving xn-dt
hrbouring the. said Phi; ii n d

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c.cs

f

he goods knowing them /o be stolen ; and r 7 +n
KM* for receiving patt of the said goods knowing
them cc. be stolen.

Cise occupied the attedtion of the Court a
considerable time, as well on account of the num-
ber -of Witnesses examined, as from a degree of
intricacy which pervaded the whole—but its de-
tails exhibiting nothing either curious or imprtant,
we shall recite but merely a very general outline, ,
and the result of the whole.

The charge, in a certain degree, depended upon
the testimony of an- accomplice, who had been a
FOreman in the house of Messrs. Newman, -and
stated a variety of fads direCtly implicating -the
Pilsoner /Vlabbott, who, it appeared, was also in
the employ of the Prosecutor, and' who was the
chief instrument in the removal of the property.—
The Case as ittfeeling the Prisoners Mabbott and-
Roberts was substantiated by • their own separate.
confessions, as .well as by other ithplicating cir-
cumsrances which transpired 'in the course of the
evidence, particularly with respeCt to the latter,
in whose possession a considerable quantity of the
leather was found. The Prisoners l'aftbbott` and
Roberts made no defence, and Kelsey's was little
more than a denial of the charge.
In his summing up, Mr. Common Serjeant SYL.
VESTER observed, that with reVea. to the two. fold.
charge against the Prisoner Roberts, :namely,. that of
receiving and harbouring Mabbott, and of receiving
the goods, he knew not how to ‘Separate them- :if
they were satisfied by the evidenee,-that lie 'receiv.
ed both together, they must say so by their ver-
diet. How he disposed of them after Jiardis was
perfealy- immaterial. With respect to the principal
Witness being an accomplice, it did not go to atre.tl
his competency but his credit, and his narrative
should be received with jealousy and caution, and
unless he should be, to a certain degree, borne out
by unexceptionable evidence, they would be slow
of believing him. In the Course of his address- to
the Jury, the Learned Judge made a variety-of ob--
servations upon the evidence, Whieli-seemed strong
ly to inter his opinion of their guilt"; and the Jury
after a very short conference, Convided all the,Pri..
sutlers.

The remaining hu4iness of the day was chiefly of
a trivial and unimportant nature. We notice the
following cases merely to give an idea of its ieneral
complexion.
RichardSallowc.i, a'soldier in the Guards, was
indieted for stealing on the 22d of August two
linnen sheets and a-blanket, the prciperiy of Thomas
Smeed.

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The Prosecutor, it appeared, is a Publican; and
...the Prisoner had been qttartered on him. On• the
day stated in the Indiftment, the 'sheets in question
were put on the bed. In the afternoon the Pri-
soner asked for the key of his room, went up, and
after staying there about ten 'minutes, came down
with his knapsack (which the. Prosecutor observed
to be stufl;:d pretty full) and with which he walked
away. They shortly afterwards examined the
r;oin, pn.l missed the property in question.
The Prisoner in his defence asserted he was per.
fe&y innocent of the charge, and,eneof the Ser.
of his COrps gave him a very good cha-
rac-ier.

The COMMON SERJEANT observed to the Jury,
?Lit they .would consider whether what appeared
id Evidence formed a Case sufficiently strong to
warr►nt a verdid against the Prisoner.
The Jury's opinion appeared to be in the nega..
tive, as they had little hesitation in finding the
Priuner-Not

. Ilawrah Razienicroft was charged with stealing
h sheer, a blanket, a counterpane, and other articles
of less value, the property oi Israel Watts.
The Prisoner, it appeared, had lived as servant
in a house at the eastern extremity of the Metro..
polls, whence the Prosecutor and his family had
unloved frOm lodgings in the Midsummer quarter.
They packed up their things carefully as they
though, ; .however, on opening the parcels at their
new lodgings, the articles stated in the Indidment
were missed : at that time-they had no suspicion oi
the Prisoner, hut in some time after, about the
Intrer end of July, Mrs. Watts found one of her
best caps on the Prisoner's head ; she knew it by
the lace ; and, on farther examining, one of her
shifts was adually on the Prisoner—these were
reluiiantly surrendered ; the Prisoner's apartment
was searched, and more of the articles were found
then ein, and also a number of key; of different de-
scriptions.
The Prisoner displayed much volubility and
confidence in her defence, denied the greater part
of the charge but acknowledged having taken the
shift, which she said she made free. with, While• her
own was washing.—She called the. mistress she
,lived with at the time, to her charades- ; who was
proceeding to give her a
,very bad one, When:the
Court interposed, and observed, that standing as
she did they could not suffer her to proceed.
Verdid Guilty.-- Prisoner's age r 7. ,

tow keep hold of. By these trean-i experiments
are made .with great ease, certainty, and del,ll-.e-

ration.

Hitherto the minutes of these repeated "riperi-
inenti have not been published ; but it is. expeCted
that they will, on some future day, be .made known
to the world.
Many persons have proposed to regUlate the di..
realm of Ballooni, but the nature of things
seems, to have, for Med an -irresistible impediment.
From navigating the water, we have learnt, by the
experience of some thinisands'of years, that there
must be. some great.: foice excited from within
'the vessel, such as oar acted upon- by the
y‘ind. Now as a
~.ailibon is all. immersed in
one medium, or fluid,. sails cannot be of any
because there being nothing t,* ,(.3 resist, the Balloon,
like a body entirely immersed in water, must follow
its direetion, be' the. form what it may ;' and as to
any interior farce, there is not any 'animal,- nor
any 'machine, the weight of which the Balloon is
able to carry, of sofficteni.force to work wigs or
oart'so as to produce any movement contrary:to the
imPulSe of the. medium in which it passes-: The
string by which a flying-kite is held, answers, the
same purpose with the resistance of ,the Yraset: in
the case t,f a ,ship; and the moment that thai'''Ance
ceases to exist, the kite, or the substance iiat 7s`
carried along, goes.. as the current ;limas. ThiS,
:we believe, will always be the case ivitlt Balloons,
although we allow that' much .may be
,-expefLed
.frotn..the* effc)rts of ingenious :men, tat a. long, he;
rind -direde4i.to

SHIP IVEdn.

GRAVESEND, SEPT. ?j,

Passed by—the Kent, Card, fropt Antwerp; Jane, Smith,
from Rouen; Providente, Brown, from Bremen; Kingston,
Broad, •frod:: Amsterdam ; Deltiney; Harris, from Hambro';'
John and Sally, Rogers, from Cuxhaven ; :Christopner,
from Virginia i - and Jonq Anna, -- from Calais.,
Sailed—thd;David Scott, Gibbs' and Stirling Castle, Ho.
neyman, for. India ; Hero of the • Phelps, for Lisbon;.
Speculation, Johnoo.,, an :1 Rambler, for Leghorn ;
Flora, for Antwerp ; Hannah, Taylor, for'Venice;
Eli;abeth, ---, and La Modeate, --, for Gibraltar.

Yesterday, at Statmore, ..4r4. Drummond, wife of fohn
Drummond F.K.
On Tuesday last, -the arst inst:' at North Walsham, in the
County of Norfolk, ,Miss Cap,l ine Cooper, aged aq, youngest
daughter of Thomas Cooper, _ •