The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-25 00:00:00

kIIDDLESE)t SES~si&v. .

' YestcMay ..foltn Lowmat 1.17%s indieted for an as=
ciu)t on Sarah Weeks, wth intent to commit a
rape. . .
The Prosecittrix was servant. •at Mt. Patterson's,
No. 26, Monmoutly-street, and the Defendant was
a lodger in the lower part of the house.--Guilty.
The Jury recommended the Prisoner to the mercy
of the Court, the girl not having been injured,' and
in consequenceof hii having bc,en confined six weeks:
he was sentenced. to be imprisoned three months.

Samuel Hall, was tried and conviaed, at a Gaol
Delivery which was held m the morning, of being a
reputed thiefiand having been found in a suspicious
situation by Trott, an Officer of Hatton Garden 116-
lice Office, without being able to give a proper ac-
count of how he got his living`; he was committed
under the Vagrant A& to the House of Corredion
tojr one Calendar• month.

• Vincent Wright, Win. Elson, and Ann Fezand,
were then arraigned for conspiring to defraud David
Corley, and several other tradesmen named in- dif-
ferent counts in the inclement.

Mr. G,LERDtelated the faCts of \the case in the
same manner as a dramatis personce and story of a.
play are drisVn up. Each of them, he said, had a
particular cast of charaCter assigned.. He then de-
scribed their respective performances as they bustled
through their parts until previous to-the dropping'of
the'curtain they cane to the present den'ouement.
The first witness called was Mr. Carey, a Builder,
of.Clar6nee-iilace, Pentonville. , He deposed, .that,
iii „Marlast, the,Prisoner Elson came to him, and.
Observing-that heperceived by a bill, with reference
to.Mr C. that he had the house, 8; Woodstock-
street, OxfordLstreet, to lett,:told hint there was. a
Lady with whom he was acquainted who had lately
come into a fortune, and wanted such as house as
that. Besides that, he had lodged with her before,
and did not know but he should do so again ; if it
should so happen, it would answer his purpose also,
as he Was a Banker's Clerk, and,it would be a cen-.
tral situation for him to collet Its bills in. The
Witness then agreed to lett his house for 85 guineas
a year, provided;on inquiry as to the Lady's charac-
ter, he should find it suitable to his. wishes. He
accordingly, got a reference to a person in King-
street, Holborn ; but, on going there, he did not
think that the girt of character he obtained of that
Lady was by any means satisfaCtory. He immedi-
ately went to his house, but found that in the interim
the person who had the key for the purpose of shew-
ing the house, had been prevailed on to let some of
the Prisoners have it, and they were in a&ual pos-
session.

David Gorley, of Wardeur-itreet, smith and iron-
monger, proved the supposed Capt. Wright'S having
called at his shop, left his card, and'bespoke a very
fashionable Rumford stove, With a deal of cut steel
and fret-work ornaments about it. The particulars
of this transaaion have already been described in our
Papet,-and the circumstance of Mr a. Fezand beckon-
ing him into the parlour, when he went to take mea-
sure of the fire-place which the stove was to fit -hi,
for the purpose of telling M. G. what an extra-
ordinary good chat a&er she had of the Captain, and
what a wealthy man he'Svas, has also been already
mentioned, together with her :recital. of the Cap-
tain's extensive West India Trade, his rich uncle
who was, worth thousands, and ' had 25 aeri:mtS
in constant attendance abotit his domestic atitiirs.-,-s
She had alSo said that .the Captain had. another
counting-house in the City, and that-she had a clia-
teeter of him from a mercantile house in the same
tie; liliourhood, 'as well' as from three Others, who •
had all agreed in declaring that he was a per-
s n 'of the utmost respe&ability. She then desired
Mr. Q. to be very particular about' the-ornaments and
fret work of the stove. < A grate, value 15 guineas,
was afterwards bespoke ; and Mrs. hi: i at
another meeting that a 4itchen range and oven was
anted with the utmost expeditien, as the =Captain
was to have some company to dinner the next' day.
On that account it would be necessary that he should
employ a bricklayer to set these articles, as the Cap-
, tain was then in the City about getting some glass
cleated' out before the fresh duty was laid on, How-
ever, as the place appeared to be nearly empty, With
only the appearance of a counting-house fitting imp
and very. bare, having hardly any thing in it but
a few boxes, on one of which were painted the
words, " Vincent Wright, Esq. St. Kitt's," he
thought it would be mident of him not te:send
home any more of the articles that had.been be-
spoke than the
.first Stove, Which was by that time
taken home, until he had either sotife Mouey Or:
further security for his goods. Atler.this he called
repeatedly, but could learn nothing more abotit Cap-
tain Wright, until he saw by the Newspapers that
he was in custody. .
A shopman belonging• to Mr. Robinson, of tot,
Drury-lane, grocer, deposed, that in consequence
of en order received from Mr. Wright, he had taken
home tea, coffee, sugar, tize. to the amount:of 2i:
as. 3d.; be 'was coming ftWay without leaving the
goods, as it was his master's general direaiona opt
to leave a first order. without:money, but just as he
'was turning off from the doer,: the PrisonerTlson
came up, who, Mrs.. F. said; was one of the Cap-
tain's servants. She then spoke about the Captain's
charakSter, his opulence, anti his connexions, in the
same strain of eulogium is she had made use of to
the last witness. Upon this he left the goods. He
called two ur three times afterwards, and once he
saw' thi: Captain, who.gave him a promise for the
amount of his bill, htit that was all.
Mr. Gordon, ofOxfor&street, stationer, said, ti tat
Captain. Wright bad come to his shop, . and <lege' ibs
ing himself to be a West.-India Merchant, ordered
him to send home two reams of the best double gilt
letter-paper to his house in Woodstockatteet, giv-
ing biz card of address at the time. Seeing the
wspn to possess 'every thing of the appearance and
deportment of a Qentlernan, as far as he could tell,
and judging alao from his celoer that , the story WcIS
very likely to be; true (the Captain being a Mulatto).
he. suitthe paper home without the least lieita-
tion. He saw Mrs. V. after that, and described her
to be as laviSh in praise of the Captain as the -other
witnessea. bad suite she in their lioariez,-. She
had also mentioned that a needle bock and some
other little 'fashionable, articles might be- wanting
for Mr, sister. - A ledger was..afterwards or 7,
'tiered by,tha Captain, and the Witness took -bit two
of them, the one .of three guineas value, the other
tire, in order that his customer mizht have his
choice. The Captain chase the.smaller of the two

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'but the Clerk walited hitid d take the other alai;i
with it, as it. would he titeessary to send steh a
opt to thd.West Indies. tho
,next days, hOwever;
Isar. Elsa) called at the WittieSs's shop; asked for thcir
large ledger; and pulling a stamped paper out of hiS.
pocket, With nothing but the acceptance of Vincent
Wright, Esq. written On it, he asked what was the
amount of the bill ; and upon being told that it waS
t 51. 12s. he wrote the fiord Ufa bill of 'exchatie to
that arnutuit upon the stamped paper. the witness
wrote. his own name on the back of it ; but aCord-
ing to his own words, he afterwards fotind that it
was all moon:•shine, and erased his natne tivin the

W. Beally, vlerk to Mr. Newport, the Xeeper
of the New Prison, Clerkenwell, was thensWern.
He knew the Prisoner, the mulatto, who is now
called Capt. Wright. He ova's confined In the New
Prison for debt, about twelve months since, and will
discharged underthe late Insolvent Atl, by the name
of Sibley.
,
The Prisoner Wright being called on for his der.
fence, said, that he is a foreigner, that he had lately
received some Money from home, but had paid it to
people to whom he was indebted. The other people
Who were joined with him in 'the indi&ment had
nothing more to do with the tfausatkion before the
Court than any .other servant Or any other landlady_
would have to do with any person whatever that wal
the master of the one, or the tenant of the other.

Mrs. F. is a woman about 50 years, very tall laid
comely, having a very resp4table appearance. Shc
was extremely agitated, and den►ie the hugs al-
!edged against her.
Elson was fbrmerly a Marshalsca eoutt Cittcer:
Fre was the only one that had Counsel', and
Counsel wished to impress on the mind of the jell
that he could not be answerable for what l►e had
done merely as a servant, without being a parricipp
tor, or even piu•taking of any guilty knowledge in
the transaction. The woman, in fatt, he thought, to
be equally innocent, though he was not retained on
her behalf.

The CHAIRMAN, however; was of opinion, that
this was calculated to destroy the whole force of ilk*
indielment; 'as it was clear that one person alone could
not conspire. He traced all the evidence through,
with the greatest minuteness, and inferred that there
was guilty knowledge proved against the whole of
the Prisoneri from the different parts of their. deal-
ings.—The Jury found all the Prisoners Guilty.
The Court, in passing sentence, lamented that
the indictment Was not laid so as to charge each of
the Prisoners with the a&ual commission of a fraud,
in which case, if guilty, they would have peen liable
to sutibr transportation. It was a new sort of
an offence, and if persons were suffered to go about
telling abominable lies of each other In this manner,'
no honest trades Man . would be sure of his preperty
a moment. They were .sentenced each to be im-
prisoned twelve months, Wright in, Newgate,.and.
the others in the House ofCorrealion.-4.;Adjourne4.l:

OLD BAILEY: