The Sun.
London, England, 1802-05-06 00:00:00

L;ITY REPORT.

COURT OF _KING% BENCH, MAY S.

Tilts being the first day of Term, the'Court.did
-Dot sit till near one o'clock.
ELLENBOROUGH took the oaths and his
teat upon the Bench as Lord Chief Justice of Eng-
land. The business of the day was not very im-
portant, in detail, to the Public.
John Sbuttleworth, the Captain of a Ship in the
Whale FiNhery, was brought up from Newgate by
Habeas Corpus, to be admitted to bail.—He stood
committed fur the murder of William Archer, a boy
on board his ship, by immoderate punishment,
flogging, &c.
The Court having heard read all the depositions
made before the" Magistrate by whom the Prisoner
Svgs committed, and observing that two or three
Surgeons and some Physicians who heard the whole
of the evidence, had given it as their undoubted
-opinion the death: was not, nor -could be, in this
case occasioned by the flogging, &'c.---ordered that
the Defendant be admitted to bail, upon entering
himself into a recognizance of fowl. and prod9cing
four sureties of zsol. each •for his appearance to take
his trial at the next Admiralty Session /for this
charge, which recognizance was entered into imme
diately, and the Defendant was allowed to be a

Alex. John Riddle, Esq. an Officer in His.Mi-
lesty's Service, who has been some time married to
a Lady at .Bath, was ordered to find securities to
preserve the peace towards his wile, who exhibited
articles of the peace against him—on the Motion
of Mr. MAR Rl' AT.

OLD B.IILLY.

FIFTH DAY.-TUESDAY, MAY 4.

CIRCULATION OY CAN,Ot.LLED BA.NIC NOTES.

Robert Bakerwell was indicted for that he, -being
a servant employed by the Governor and Company
of the Bank of England, and entrusted with effels
belonging to them, did feloniously secrete, em-
bezzle, and run away with certain of these effects ;
particularly a note of the vakre ()go'.
Mr. Bentley, and some other clerks belonging to
the Accountant's Office at. the Bank, proved the
circumstance_ of the Prisoner having been in the
same office, and having had access to the cancelled
notes. They described the manner in which notes
are cancelled, by tearing off a corner from each
note, and then putting the note so mutilated, on a
file. The 5&. note in question came to the Bank
on the 24th of March last, Was entered in the cash
book, cancelled, and put on the file. The 25th
was a holiday ; on the morning of the 26th the note
was missing. _ _ _

Mr. WINTER, Solicitor to the Bank, swore that
neither threats nor promises-bad been used to extort
a confession from the Prisoner; but that he volun-
tArily admitted the faa of his having embezzled the
.eXe&s in question. He told the Witness he had taken
several notes off the file; of which notes he had sent
to the amount of 5501. into circulation. He also
saidthere.were several more of them-at a house in
13ride.lane ; but when the Witness was about to
proceed with -him to that house, he told him they
were not there, but at a house in Saiisbury-square.
In this house waSfound, pursuant to the prisoner's
dirdlions, a tin box, containing notes and post bills
to the value of 3701. In the box was also found
an agreement in writing, purporting to have
been entered into by the Prisoner, with one
Heylin, who was to have assisted him in
circulating the notes. This instrument stated it
as the intention of the Prisoner to put some of the
notes into circulation, merely with a view-of con_
vincing the Bank how easy it was for them to be
defrauded by their. servants to a large amount, and
for the purpose of claiming a remuneration from the
Bank after he should have made to them such a 'dis-
co rery.-_

SIR,

Mr. Serjeant BEST, as Counsel for the Prisoner,
took two obje6tions to the indiament. In the first
place, he had not been, as stated in the indiament,
entrusted • with the notes he was charged with
stealing; it being proved that they were not within
his departmect. And in the next place, inasmuch
as the notes were admitted to have been cancelled
Bank notes, they could not be considered as having
any value attached to them. In_short, they could
not be considered as coming under the description
of Bank notes, bonds, bills, or other effets.
The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty. And the
RECORDER said, that although he did not see any
weight in the objeaions urged by the Learned
Serjeant, yet is this was a new case, he would re-
spite the judgment until the opinion of the twelve
Judges was obtained..

METH DAY, W EDNESDAY, MAY 5.

7sbn Findlay. Was tried for forging and uttering a
s'hiank-note. The principal evidence against him
was an accomplice, named James Gillington, who,
together I,vith the Prisoner, had been engaged in
the late rebellion in Leland. It appeared that
on the izth of March last, Gillington Met a wo-
man of the town, named -Susan Siddons, at Co-
vent Garden Theatre, and went hoirie with her to
her lodgings in Denmark-court, where he sent a per-
son out for-some refreshments, and gave the forged
note in question to purchase them. The note was
taken as a good one, and Gillington received the

change. In two or three days after, he and the
Prisoner set out from No. i 6, Weston-street, Pen-
tonville, where they lived, to Liverpool; and on
the. 17th, as they were enquiring for letter.; at the,
Post. Office in that town, they were taken into cus-
tody by. Bow-street Officers who had been sent after
them. "At that moment Findlay contrived to swallow
ten notes, and he afterwards boasted of the fad} he

Lad performed. On each was found a gold repeating
watch, and several valuable trinkets. They were
brought up to London, and lodged in the COW..
Bath-Fields prison. On.their house in Pentonville
tieing searched, there were found plates, presses,
and other implements for, falvicating Notes.—
Laeht of them kept his girl, who lived in the

r;ouse .at Pentonville, and they too were taken
into custody. Gillington. was admitted as King's
evidence. He swore that the Prisoner had en.
graved the plate for the 51. note ; that about
one thousand notes were worked from it, 'and
sent into circulation, and that' he .him'self had
passed between five and six hundred of them. They
resided at Bristol at the time when Findlay engraved
tie plate. Here Findlay deserted his wife; "and se-
duced and took away to Bath, and afterwards to
London; a young woman named Evans.
ton also took away a young woman named Powell,
the daughter of the person in whose house he lodged
at Bristol. These young women were brought for-
ward as witnesses. They positiVely swore that
t saw Findlay engrave the plate, and afterwards
sign the notes. While the Prisoner was confined in
Cold-bath-fields Prison, the Dire tors of the Bank
received-an ii.nonymous letter, which was proved
to be his hand-writing, and in which he stated that
,he had a discovery to make, which would effe6tually
prevent forgeries 'in future; it was 'a discovery
as to the mode in which . the water-mark had been
executed. . For this lie exOeeted to he pardoned ;
but if he was not pardoned he would die merrily,
and had only to request that at his funeral two
pipers might he permitted to •play before him' to
the grave. The Prisoner's Counsel called evi-
dence to shew that Gillington was a man not to
be believed on his oath. He had been at one time
heard to say, he would no more mind taking
a false oath than swallowing an oyster ; and at, ano-
ther time he said, he would take a thousand oaths to
hang an Orange-man. His evidence, however'
being fully corroborated by that of the two young
women, who were brought forward rather as un-
willing witnesses, and who fainted after they gave
their testimony, the Prisoner was found Giiihy—
Death.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.

TUESDAY, MAY 3.

The King's Plate of soogs. for yr. old mares, carrying lost.
R. C.
I). of Grafton's b. in. Hornby Lass . . - i
Mr. Heathcores's b. in. Anniseed, 4 yrs. old - - 2
Mr. rleteher's ch. in. Allegranti, 4 yrs. old - 3
Mr. IVhaley's br. m. Tuneful, 4 yrs. old • - - 4
Sir F. Poole's br. in. Tawnev, 4 yrs. old. - - - 5
Seven. to 4 and z to rag,st-Hornby Lass—Even betting on
Anniseed—s to.' agst. Allegranti:
Fifty Pounds by Subscription for 4 yr. olds, 7st. 91b. s yr.
olds Sst. 31b. 6 yr. olds and aged Bst. 71b. R. C. •
Non-subscribers to pay sgs. entrance.
1.4.. Sackville's Dick Andrews, 4 yrs. old - I
Mr. Smith's ch. h. Slapbang, 5 yrs. old - -- .2
Mr. Moorhouse's br. h. Litean, s yrs. old - -, 3
Mr. Laclbroke'sch:m. Hippona, aged - dr. .
Mr. Watson's ch. h. Canterbury, i. yrs. old - 4 dr-
Three to 1 on Dick Andrews.

Sweepstakesof roogs each h. ft. for colts Sst. 3113. fillies Est.

- Across the Flat. ✓
Those got by untried stallions allowed 31b.

Sir F. Standish's c. tty Sir Peter, out of Storace - x
I.d. Darlington's c. by Star, out of a Woodpecker m.
bought of AI r Broadhurst -.- - a
Mr. Cussans's f. by Sir Peter, out of Yeoman's dam pd
Mr. Dawson's c. by Mr. -Teazle, out of Sincerity pd
Mr. Watson's 1. by Alexander, out of a sister to Nimble pd
Three to a on Sir F. Standish's c.

Mr. Wyndam's Babylon. 7st. 131 b. beat D. of St. Alban's
Minh-tins, 7st. 61b. R. M. sogs.--7 to 4on Mittintus.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SAN.

From an impulse of gratitude to Dr.,Solomon,

. _
for the great benefit which I have experienced from
'his invaluable medicines, I have ventured to sport a
few lines in honour of his name; and if it should be
thought that I hav'e made too free with other tames,
be assured that my heart.- is as orthodox as ever was
Dean Swift's or Prebendary_ Sterne's, who have
each, in their time; though pillars of the Church,
made equally a's free with such, and yet their ve_
neration for the Law and the Prophets was never
yet called in question.
I atn, Sir,
Very respeetfu!ly, yours,
FELIX FITZ SHANI)y.

Great Solomon, When in Judea hr reign'd,
Was extol l'd as the wisest of Kings;
And, 'tis said, that unequall'd" through life he remai—n'd,
In his knowledge of numberless things.
For he'd frequently split to the breadth of a hair,
Some things, at whiCh grave ones have smil'd,
•And once, to determine a thing very rare,
Would have split for two mothers—a child.
Thus, he dreW dusky Sheba, the Queen of the South, •
By his wisdom,- to visit his Court ;
Wno, to all Ethiopia, soon open'd her mouth,
The renown of the sage to report
Yet, as wisdom, sometimes, to odd things will give way,
Had such odd matters then taken place ;
And such things had ensued from his wand'ring astray,
As had caus'd him to make a wry face ;
Little Solomon,. then, to great Solomon's joy,
Had he been with his nostrums at hand, •
Would have dealt him a dose, root and branch to destroy,
What had put his own wits to a stand.
Nor the Dodoes due recompense could he refuse,
But with gratitude's full ebullitions, •
Overflowing at heart, the Great King of the Jews .
Would have dubb'd him the King of Physicians.

To make Paint, which, it is stared, answers for
out-door work at least as well as any other, and at
much less expence :—Dip eight ounces of -lime in
water, and expose it to the alit-, when slacked, mix
it with a pint of skimmed milk, then add, by slow
degrees, six ounces' of linseed oil, in which' two
ounces of white Burgundy pitch had been dissolved,
over a slow fire ; and when these several ingredients
are thoroughly blended, mix with them three pints
more milk of the same quality, and three pounds-
of Spanish whiting. Two coats of •this compoSi-
lion, which. will be fit for use in, one or two days,-
will be sufficient for twenty-seven square yards, of
even new wood.
The seeds of forest trees should be planted early
in November, or towards the end of March, and"
only covered. with earth sufficient to prevent their
being seen.
At Daventry Fair last week, fat cattle and sheep
declined in price, and many were driven home for
want of purchasers. Cheese,. of which there. was a
large quantity, was also dull of sale, at considerably
reduced prices, very good being sold at +os. per cw .

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