The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-19 00:00:00

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Vir.,,,,Tritukyniorning the Scs3i4ns ,commenced
,
the Pal Bailey, pouffe tne r,v..eorsnEtt. of LONlynN,
dr: ~..titt-rinan j-13.itice Plotxitn, Sir
1;:41'01:1 :;,,T FON,
Orand and Petty Juries being sworn and iin-
pannelled,
Pergtion and .11if.1,ard fleqd.,. two
were tr;l-.1 au ,indietment for assaulting I)1 tei
lirwtta,irl, Sailor, in Stepriey.,fields, on
10th o ,Augkisi last, and .rori,bing him of the
whole of his clothes then on, his watch, and three
guineas and a half in money.
The Prosecutor proved his having been at the
Arnsterdam Public-hotiv, St. Catherine's, on the
waiting to be 'eruplOyed, with a number
oilier seamen, to bring:. up a Ship from.Southamp-
inn': The Prisoners and he came out together,, and
they asked hint to take a will into the fields;
they went into the Halfway-house, where they re-
mained until alter eight, when they came away
and, on returning through the fields, Ferguson went
on, :and the Prosecutor saw him at a short distance.
.lead stopped for some purpose close to the Prose-
eutoi,; and, in a minute or two, a man came up to
ttlie Prosecutor, damned him, asked him what
brought him there, in his green fields ? bid him ship
direCtly, and instantly knocked him down Nvith his
fist., which, tho witness said, was the only weapoil
he had in his nand. Witness was so stunned by
the blow as to be some tribunes insensible ; and
when he recovered, he found himself, naked as
when he was born from his nwode/wr, lying in a
ditch of water. He could not identify either of the
Prisoners as having been the man who struck him ;
Ise had never seen them before that day. The
clothes were paWned with a pawnbroker near the
place, between nine anti ten the same, night ; and
the Prisoners were proved to have been together,
driaking, about ten the same night, at the Seven
stars, M ; but still there Was no.
idelltifienlivil of their, persons, either as .a&ually
cOMmitting the robbery, or as having the goods in
tlicir
&Alio recapitulated the evidence
to Ow Jury, who, after retiring for half an hour,
rbtinned their verdia---.Not Gui/tg._

Wm. Cubit was tried on an indiament for steal-
ing'a gold boy:, value 101. the property of the Right
ion, Wm. F4arl of Mansfield, at his
1,0ut.,, in Portland Place, in the month of August
last.

The Prisoner, as appeared from the testimony'of
the Countess•of Mansfield, Who Was sworn in evie
&nee, had been in her Ladyship's service Six years,
as • groom. of 'the chembers ; was always considered
a confidential servant, and had'. conduaed himself'
preperly until the present occasion. Her Ladyship
had received, as a preeht froth her 'Lord, a gold
box., w ith blue enamel, in the lid of which was a
miniature of the late Emperor of Germany, Joseph
11. set round with brilliants. • Her Ladyship had
seine time age deposited this box jailer private
cabinet,: which was in a certain room in Portland-
place-house, called the Organ-room. Her Ladyship
last saw the box in thip cabinet before it was stoleo,
and the Prisoner, from his sitnation in the honse,
roust have. known it was there, as well as her Lady.
ship; front this cabinet
,it was. taken ; which
she kneW nothing until she was informed by a let-:
ter from the Magistrates at the Marlborough-street
Office, The Prisoner was. discharged from, her
Ladyship's service on the with July.
Joseph Dobree, a pawnbroker,: of Oxford-street,
proved that the Prisoner came to his shop en -the
th (4. August, and asked to purchase a gold
i;Lain; He was shown one by the Aepman. to
witness came into the shop at the tithe:, and the Pri-
soner asked if it was not usual to take old gold, in
exthange ? being answered in the affirmatiee, he
then produced a number of fragments of a gold
box,. .Mr. Dobree asked him where :he got the
ged ? he:answered, that he had it of a servant.—
Mr. Dohrtxtc replied, it was no servant's property,
and taxed the Prisoner with having stolen it, and
said he must come along with hint to Marlboreugh-
Street. The Prisoner snatched et the pieces of
gold, several of which, with the gold chain, ho
carried off, and ran out at the door. Mr. Dobree
ran after bins about bo yards, caught him; and took
him to Marlborough-street Office. He there ac-
knowledged his lodgings to be at a house in Bole
saver-street, Oxtbrd-road, whither two of the Police
Officers were sent; and they proved, that on search-
ing, the Prisoner's room they feund, in a chest of
t,leseere, a striall box, containing some trinkets and
tveelee.brilliant diamonds, and under the grate in
that- teem part of a miniature piaure, some of it
INg been burnt off:, it. appeared to have been put
kMar fire foe the purpose of , being consurned.---
,everal articles were produced in Court, and
Minifidet preyed the geld pieces, and
kt uro, to have been part of the
eee rich b.!11,;LI was iet round with brit-
pro(lutvri., and bad bees
eiq t4ber.by the late Emperor Jos,,ph
/'' Ls could fios. p9sitively to
'Yalu,:
to 0 pnce, but lutrinbicilly Ow box.

editharine Taal elan, Ilonse-hooperto the f • am tly,
bcdv that the Pci:,ooor had, cittitted they: ta:r)ily
the July„ and CAM: to
the of August for I)i3 truatul,
,fe vvai 'at home, scLitcid a
>arloarstory, andstory, ncniy, but not (putt over it,
the 1•0011.1 e ca. lied the -01 gan7room.i he could have
heard from where she sat any person with shoes
on moving across the, Organ-room. The rd.
:;oner asked her pertniision to go. up for his clothes,
to .which she agreed : be took off his shoos at the
toot of the stairs to go up, and requested her to got,
Pr bird; frJth licr own: room 1.):1,641., two mugs of
his, and she accordingly weindown tot' the purpose.
The Pr ewer remained up sttirs about 1i tuinates,.,
44:then c ane down and Went •a way, The key Of
,organ, which generally remained in it, was after-
d'i:4o4Yered to match the lock of a small cabi
rtf..q of Liady Mansfield's, in the Organ-room, in
tll box was. The witness took this hey by
0r.1,1 of 1 aly "Ntansfield,
,on the IA of August, un-
-I,„,cked the c abinet,. and found the box missing.
Thu; th& substance of the evidence. he tiri,

Orter made nu (it:le.:lce: Jut:), foul\
1-lis Age is 31, ',tad h i, a rnr,:irkably
oungy Ulan.
.

Chat:lM an , a Police Ofrxer to
Hatton-;Garden Office, and atove ";5 :tionrs of arre,
was indiaed for a rape on Mary .Smart, a Orr of
.fi Years of age,at a ptiee behind St. Pancras Church;b
on the morning Of the 31st Of Aktgust.
The Prosecutrix swore to the fat of the Pri:zoner
haiing decoyed here thither, and comMitting the
violation on her person. The ilia• at injury tit staiped was-supported on the testimony of dr:. girl's
(bistros, to Woont she told the skry afewhenrs,
after it had happened, and of a Mr. Pickering, a
Surgeon and Midwifery I'l!ofessor, to whom the
girl's case bad been submitted the following Wed-
nesday.
Two Witnesses, however, appeared to prOve,
that the girl, since 'the .death of bet father, about
two years since, had not been brought up by her
mother Morally or modestly ; that they were obliged
to quit a house where they lodged, fifteen months
since, on account of .the infamous •company with
whom they associated, and the Proseentrix in vial-
(attar had afterwards. one to live at; servant with a
woman of ill-Thine, and had acknowledged .to one
of the witnesses, that ;,he had read books of a very
vicious and profligate tendency, and the- witness
frequently Nvitues"sed her udng ,lintrtodest language
and adions.
-Mr. Baker, one of the Magistrates of Hatton-.
Garden Mee,. who •Itad employed Chapman for
eight years. past, swore he always found him a re-
markably prudent, discreet, mural, , and well con-
cluded man in all respeds ; and many other highly
respedable witnesses bore testimony to the

Mr. Justice LE BLANc, who tried the cattsei.
deemed it unnecessary to recapitulate the evidence
to the Jury, bet observed, that as the whole mus
of the testimony for the prosecution rested upon
the evidence of the girl, whose morals and con-
dna stood thus impeached, and was dilecied
against the life of a man, the purity and rectitude
of whose charader stood so highly avouched, the
Jury would weigh them against Mo other, and de-
cide according to their own,perfe& convie.tion,—
Verdi% Not Guilty.