The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-18 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, OcT. 17.

Charles Adam Corbyn, who pleaded guilty on the first
day of the sessions on two indictments for robberies com-
mitted at the residences of Sir C. Forbes, Bart., and Mr.
Rose, surgeon, was again arraigned for stealing a quantity
of jewellery, of the value of 501., the property of Miss Eliza
Laing, from the house of Mr. Laing, Cannon-street.
The prisoner in a firm voice pleaded guilty.
Mr. Laing, the prosecutor, applied to the Court to have
the property restored to him.
The RECORDER—Where are the pawnbrokers ? But
surely they are all much too honest to keep stolen property.
Mr. Laing—One of the pawnbrokers refuses to deliver
up the property.
The RECORDER—Where is that pawnbroker who will
not deliver up stolen property ? Let him stand up, so that
we may all know him again.
One of the officers here said that all the pawnbrokers
were willing.
The REQORDER—Then there is no occasion to stand up.
I thought it was a mistake.
Thomas Payne, a respectable looking man, was indicted
for stealing a coat of the value of two guineas, the property
of Mr. Johnson, of Gracechurch-street.
The prisoner, it appeared, entered the shop of Mr.
Johnson on the 24th September, and proceeded to take off
his old coat, which he laid down, and put on a new one ;
he then walked to the door, and, seeing an opportunity,
ran up Whiteyard-court ; he was pursued and taken into
custody. Several witnesses of great respectability gave the
prisoner a most excellent character, they having known him
for upwards of twenty years, and during that period he had
been in an extensive way of business, but he had of late
become greatly reduced.
The RECORDER summed up, and
The Jury said it was with great reluctance they found
the prisoner Guilty, and in so doing, they begged most
strongly to recommend him to mercy.
Mr. Doane—l am desired, my Lord, by the prosecutor
to join in that recommendation.
The prisoner was then sentenced to be imprisoned in
Newgate for fourteen days.
John Pate, a lad sixteen years of age, was indicted for
stealing a valuable Napoleon banner, estimated at 121., and
a quantity of gold lace. The facts of this case were lately
published in The Sun.
The flag was produced. The embroidering in gold on
blue satin was splendid, and only inferior to English manu-
facture in point of weight. It is a singular relic of the rise
and fall of Napoleon. When the latter effected his escape
from Elba, he was joined by a troop of horse. None but
this, then a Bourbon banner, could at the instant be pro-
cured, and to suit the emergency of the occasion, the fleur-
de-lis was displaced, and the eagles of Napoleon substituted.
The flag waved as the standard of Napoleon until the
memorable battle of Waterloo.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that the lace
and flag were all he had stolen.
In reply to a question from the COMMON SERGEANT,
prisoner said Mr. Holbeck could give him a good character.
The prosecutor was called up, and it was inquired of him
what character he could give the prisoner ? Mr. Holbeck
—I 11 give him the character of stealing all he could lay his
hands upon.
This closed the case, and the Jury immediately returned
a verdict of Guilty.
Thomas Candler was indicted for stealing 10s. from the
person of John Whitney.
Prosecutor on the sth of September was in company
with the prisoner at a public-house in the Kingsland-road,
where they drank together, and the prisoner robbed him.
Cross-examined by Mr. Phillips.—The 25th of Septem-
ber, the day mentioned in the indictment, was my birth-
day. It was indeed. I did say when I got up in the
morning, " I'll get drunk to-day if I never get drunk no
more."—(Laughter.) I began drinking in the morning. I
had gin, rum, and pots of beer. I had the beer to keep
the gin and rum down. I had all that at one house. I
went to a second. I had some more gin there. I went to
anothor public-house, and I had part of two pots and part
of two pints of half and half. It was not later than eleven
in the morning then. I went and played at skittles after
that at the " Acorn," and he whopped me out of two pints
of beer. I had some dinner. I had beef and pickles. I
had some beer with it, and then we had a glass or two of
wine.—(Laughter.) I'm not addicted to drinking. I bad
some more rum and gin after that, and I had a glass or two
more of wine.
Mr. PHILLIPS—Did you not offer to lay a wager, and

the prisoner would not allow you to lose your rapncy
Witness—Yes, I did offer to bet a man 6s. or Bs.- he did
not get a floorer.
Mr. PHILLIPS—DO translate that for us. Witness—
That he did not knock them all down at once.
The COMMON SERGEANT stopped the case, and the Jury
acquitted the prisoner.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCTOBER 17.

The Court heard those applications for musical licenses
which were ordered to stand over yesterday. There was
not so full an attendance of magistrates as on the former day.
The first application for a music license was from Messrs
Peters and Bathe, the proprietors of White Conduit-house.
The licence was refused to the late proprietor last year.
Mr. PAYNE, on behalf of the present applicants, urged
that they had given a very considerable sum for the pre-
mises, and that they would be totally ruined if the license
were withheld. There was no other house of the kind
within two miles. One of the applicants was in partner-
nership with Mr. Bleaden, the proprietor of the London
Tavern, and the King's Head in the Poultry, two of the
most respectable houses in the city, and he hoped that any
improper conduct on the part of the former proprietor
would not prejudice the present application.
The license was eventually granted, there being but one
magistrate who opposed it.

On a license being applied for for the Adam and Eve,
Duke-street, Chelsea, there was same opposition to it, upon
which

Sir CHARLES FORBES said that in the proceedings of
yesterday he thought the Act of Parliament had been con-
strued too strictly, and he for one should be glad to see it
repealed altogether. He could not perceive why gentlemen
should have their musical entertainments in Cathedrals and
other public places all over the kingdom, while the poor
were denied similar enjoyment in the only places to which
their finances would afford them the means of admission.—
License refused.

Mr. ADOLPHLJS applied for a license for the New Royalty.
Theatre, in the Commercial-road, and in support of his ap-
plication stated that formerly every nobleman had the right
of having a company of players performing in any place
they chose to appoint., for the entertainment of themselves
and their friends, and in the reign of Charles 11. certain
players were styled " his Majesty's servants," and others
" the Duke's servants," meaning in the latter case the Duke
of York, afterwards James 11. He contended that thea-
trical entertainments, when properly conducted, were pro-
ductive of great public benefit, and it was a well known fact
that a youth had been reclaimed who was pursuing a course
of folly and vice by witnessing the representation of the
tragedy of George Barnwell.—Licence refused.