The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-20 00:00:00

;VISTIVIINSTEI? SESSIONS, APRIL fq.

lialerfar MA tiaWklttica, t 36. AND Tliiivirricrs
or scr, rtAct rot, Tat CITY AritittlticTits
%/emirs nucknaid, a boy about 16 years of age,
wa intlitied tot otvainiog money under false pre.

Mr. Ft tr,Drtro stated the case on the part of the
:iiroseention. He said, that the 1 efend:Halt:nl beep
she apprentice 44 the ,Prosecutor, James Norman,
who was 4.blacksmith, at Chatham, and, had
scrinded from him t.rt the 23d of March lass, when
lie Was joined by two wren of the tonic trade, and
ame to Lond,r, In the Doke of Clarence public. •
bona, tot Charirvg.Cruts, where he inlisted in the
Royal Marie,es, at the same time representing him.
84 not in he an arprentice ; which offence, by a
hare An of Parliament, wag made transportable fat-
fourteen years:.
here theCttnl it Wit! interfered: he thought it was
better the boy's trirods should be consulted, and
the master should give up the prosecution ; as, iv
cise of coovitiion, rite IY;y must be transported,
and then loth he and the Public would be deprived
of his services.. He also thought that the two men
whit had accompanied the boy to the IttldeZJi.
house should hive been prosecuted far 'a conspiracy
trriob the putbe purse, they' knowing the situating
of the boy at the time they offered him for enlist.
went..
Al-rer sorn.e conitultation, the Prosecutor petsi4tea
his-determination to- prosecute the. boy ; and the
Witnesses being called, and severally examined by
Igrass. if MANG, KNAPP, and Gti ft !ivy, for the
prOtellt :yr r lf al peArCli, upon the evidente,of two
Serjeants of the Royal Marinesi that the
two men, alleatly Mentioned, name to the Duke Of
pall IC. 11,!: use, in ClNtring.Cross, and nifited
to enlist thebOki they asked hires whithet he Was an
apprentice ? and he positively denied that he Was ;
in con:equrnue ~f which ne WI; afterwardi attested,
bent thWil 10 Rt Chester, and received the usual
burl-try ot' five gnmeai., which, it WAS tiridersrand,
be shared with the two men who htought him
to.. the rentleztml,. The l'robecutot afterwards
torn (tun, had him apprehended, and biought
up to town to take his trial.
When railed spun for his defence, the'boy stated,
_that he had been persuaded by these tveo men tin join
tftt m, and deny his having been an apprentiee. They
gave him ton Much to drink, and were the sole cause
o hit miticsondua.: ,

Jury, aiLer a short consultation, found a ver-
dicl of Giedij.
T!'e CHAIRMAN then ordered him to he remand.
eti, observing-at the t,ittnt tune, that as his master
had thought iroper to carry the Proseeittion to the
LICMOSt, it 'Would he the duty of the'Court to Con.
eider the case halbert and see that the Public de-
rived no .kiss from the services of the, boy.
veph Neville-Eawu:oo(1 was indieted fora mis.
&Meat-1,41r, in pretending to. George Clements, that
he could procure for him, knowing him to be a ma.
titter, a protediott franc the Admiralty against bring
imptes.ied, and thereby oh ninitig from 11:114.Eiray,
the,,father.in.law the said George Clemerits,•the
sum of 11 6s.
•

NPEitny deposed, that on the 2,l of
ertylber laA 'the Defendant came- to him in St:
Mattin's.lanc, where he kept a public.hoUse, and
represented himself to have been a Lieutenam in the
Navy,. who WAS dismissed the service, and that he
tadildprocure a protedion frr this son.in.law froin
Adiniralsy. With this view the Witness went
te, '.llte Defendant to the Admiralty Office,' ansi
the latter went in,butosoon atter returned, saying; it
was not the tithe ; they atliaurnid to it rteighbovt.
log house for. some time, and the Defendant told
the Witnes that it was neeessarrfor him to give
him t 1. 6s. it, order to obtain the proteellun; which
he Pcc r'dingly gave him Without hesitation.. The
Detet,dant immediately 'went away, tart' pietenet
thaehe was going to die Admiralty, and the Wit.
SleSs never saw him 'after till he was apprehended
in the month of February laSt.
Mr. Rot t NION, SAIL presiAed in the absence of
the Chairman, observed; that this Wa's 'not A
Case 16'r a Criminal PrO4cution ; the petty shordd
have brought a Civil Adion ; he enwit have
St noWtA4hat it was not yoointe for the Defendant,
touprocuie proteaion fir him; he- might as well
have told him he could make hurt the- Chief Eecre:.
tsry of State.
The jury ,accordingly Acyritred the Defendant.'

Joblt Walibe, for setting fire to a barn at Arnai.
sago, ,in S;afilirtishire,. was „excepted 9n .Saturday'
last in the front of the County gaol. Waltho lived
fervAt with Mr. tlenney, of Armitaget in The year
,1759, and, owing t.o his repeated negligence, a foal
was killed in the stales when his service expired,
Ur. flenneysuipped', sl. -nut Of his wages on that
account. Waltbo frequently uttered expressions
it4icative" of revenge for this ; and 'on the
Oa Caine Wsiti counsiitted he was seen in various
rhiees, going and Turning 'from the barn with a -
lighted candle in a' lanthorn, though a clear moon.:
light, night 4 the very moment after he had done
tl(crl,el: he fled from that part of the country; and art
interval of nearly sixteen years elapsed previous
to his retiorn into it : his altrins3 first net:afterwards'
tva's to gn to his former master,
,and 'demand the 51.
which had been retained by him. Mr. I. desired.
him to sit down, and sent for the Constable, who
061 c hitil into custody. From the evidence atitio.
reed at his trial, not a doubt of hirguilt could be en.
tertained ; rind the Learned judge, in passingthe
sentence of death, observed, that.intreat crimes,
though the person controlling them might for a
Titre (loode the vigilance, tit justice, yet An over.
in the end, generally led
b's7,olne indiscreet aet or oilier, to betray hirnself,
and weet that punishment be had. long tnerited.--
since his condemnation,' had evinced
pet;itc,ict.

riort that has appeared in some of the Daily
Pavas, rn,potifig•die ill treatment of a female ser.
vkifit of 'Jur(' icr ITH'M 1111:11ilyt, i 5, WC are,happy (c)
litur, utterly dcalitote 0 foundation.

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