The Sun.
London, England, 1805-05-31 00:00:00

OLD B.,IILEY.

3F.c,CINI) DAY, THURSDAY IsrAy 30,
7 obn Tray was iodided for uttering a counter.
fel'i Si. B ink of England Note, knowing the' same
ttitbe forged. -It apreared that the -Prisoner had
offered the Note in question to a Mr.. Rhodes, a
io order to pay for a pair of
stoek.ings, which he had agreed to purchase at the
rate of 3 7.i. Mr. Rhodes luspetled the Note !to
bad one, and pretending to go out Hi get
change, consulied a Gentleman in his neighbour-
hood" who confirmed his suspicion. Ile then pro.
cured a Constable, and returning to his., shop, the
Prisoner was taken into Custt.dy.. The Note was
pfd,Vett to be counterfeit, tvd it was also proved
tlt the
,Prisoner had endeavoured to pass two other
"forgiA 'Notes, of the same tat)ricarion,--Guilty.
argni'et Leonard was indided,for stealing the
wtraring appatel,pt Sarah, the in.!arit child of Henry
Thompson. Its mother stated, that she 'left the
child at the door of her shop. A 'woman 01),;erved.
the Prisoner go up to the child and4ay—" My dear,
will you go with me to Covent...p.:l,lP-) :Maker, and
I. shall give you something nice." The child an.
swered, '' Yes." The Prisoner then took the in-
fant by the hand, and • led to to. the distance of
about three yards from the step on which, she had
keg' sitting. The Wittiess called after the Pri..
super, anti charged her whir stealing the child.
Upon this charge'being made, the Prisoner, though'
lame, endeavoured to run away ; but a Crowd
. having.collettco, she was stopped, and carried to
the W atch-house.
The Prisdner said in her defenee,' gni she was
only disking the wa'y tO Covent.. Garden Marker.
Mr. Baron GRAiiiktd summed. evidehce.
He observed,. that Mere, .appalca be
doubt of the Prisoner's guilt, yet "he.‘serioti4
warned the Jury of the danger of being, on the
present ccasion, hurried away by that'indignation
which it is natural to feel agOnst an offence of
so aggravated a nature
.as.th.licif stealing a child
(tom it:, patents.
. .
The Jury deliberated for -a short time, and K.
turned a verdid.of Guily. •
The other trials were chiefly petty larcenies) and
'eery unimportant. ."

TIIF SOCIETY FOR THEIIsteOURAGEMENT OF
ARTS, MANUVACTURES, AND COAIWILRM

The folloviing Account of The Proceedings of this excellent
Institutipn at the Meeting, held on' Tuesday
last, may be deemed,V-erY interesting to ReacWrs of. taste,
as well as to tiw Friends a those Dlcoveries Ancllmprova-
„ Irtents,which may be hencticiai to mankind.

PINK business* was opened,.according tei 'annual
custom, by a speech from C. TAYLOR, Esq. the
.very able and worthy Secretary of this Society.
The views•of this Society„
,from its firs't institu.,
tion, observed Mr. TAYLoit, .have been steadily
direhed to almost evety,ubjed by which mankind
can be- improved or benefited, and a division of its
nosiness Inv, nine classes,has been made 'fur the
More methodical transaaing: thereof. '
The Secretary next, afttr Mentioning the Km.
tine of business in the investigation of matters sub.
nutted to the Sudety, proceeded as fallOws •
" It forms a part of molury to state to this very
respidable Asseuility,' the Rewards which are this
day to be confetred in the several classes I have
named, and to notice some of the advantages likely
to arise frcim their labours. Permit me strongly
'to impress uran your minds, that these advantages
ate inceqed for the world at large; the MetTallerS
At• si4iety discard the narrow principles of self-
' ish interest : minute accounts, of the inventions al).
proved are given in their Annual Voluine, and the
...114aehines• rewarded are gratuitously open five days
in every week, in' the Repository of the Society,. fur
public intpdtion. ,Agriculture haS' been long and
de,servedly a.favourite objed with this Society, as
well as with the .mote recent estahlishments.of the
Board of Agricuiture„ and the ntsintrous Pr.)vincial
Societies, having for theirobjeds, the. snaking 'and
improving- Plantations of 'Flintier-Trees, arnetiora.
tion of Land; produetive•rotations of crops of Grain
and Herbage, the preservation of such ?rodttds,
provements in Agricultural Implements, and the
means of contributing to the happiness sal labouring
men.
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