The Sun.
London, England, 1803-09-16 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, Scr'r. z 6.

thl.Aft4 for this day's Market is in but little sup-
ply ; expeding better arrivals, with few buyers,
little sale is effeded of Wheat; Barley, with Malt,
exceedingly heavy ; old Rye is cheaper ; new, for
seed, far exceeds our quotation ; Pease and Beans
have more ready sale, and something dearer; in
Odts.but little doing; the prime samples are not at
less, price ; Flour without finthiation. - •
wheat 4tts a 56s a sels ott Tick Beans - .3es a 345 OA
Fine ditto - 6os a6u 6d Oats - ' - Ati a 23$ a 265
Rye - - 315 a 34$ ott Poland ditto -2,7 s a 28s dd
Barley - 2ro a 243, od I Rape Seed - - ..341-11 361
Malt - • • SOS a stys od i Fine Flour - . 50s a 555 od
White Peass 465 aps ott Seconds - -45 s it 505
Means - 34, a 375 6,1

Capt. ROB ERTSON, whom we mentioned as start•
Ing from the Sussex Encampment, at Brighton, to
.iwalk to London and back again,irt) 48 hours, for a
)iWager of 40 guineas, returned to the Camp on Tues.
day morning, after having accomplished his point
two hours and forty minutes within the given time.
The man who some time ago leaped from Lon.
don, Blackfriars, and Westminster Bridges, into
the Thames, in three quarters of an hour, under.
took for a wager to perform the same exploit yes.
terday. Having leaped from London Bridge into
the water, he sunk and rose no more, and thus 1)1.
cane a vietint to his ill-applied courage,

OLD iAtLEr.

It'edND TjAY=—TFIBF.tiD.4Yj 5F p 7. 1~.

David Harris and Elea?tor liarri: were indidle,i
for a capital offence, breaking and entering Old.
dwelling house of Pring, in the afternoon of
the isth of July last, no perscin being therein, a!1,1
.stealing thereout several little articles of the value •
of 9s. .
Tin case .was quite clear as to the rift.; but theta
were two points to be con,,idered---First, Whether
the Jury would think themselvesj t ifitd in reducing,:
the value below p. so as to do awry the eapit,alz.
put of the.charge ?—,S4ondly, whether
.tlianot
Harris, although party to the. a,‘".l of Felony, ()tight
'not to be acquitted ?
Mr. JUstke LE BLANC told the f nry that she
Was:treated as the wile of the other Prisoner, and_
as there was no evidence that she was not his wiie;it-
might be taken that she was, and it appeared that,
they were together when the Felony was committed}
:she might therefore
,be taken to alt in subordination
to her husband, and if so,sbe eou!d not be found guiles
ty of 'this.critninal ; the Law ptestmied, in ,not
cases, that the wife ads in obedience to the will afldl,
direCtion ,of the husband,. and therefore will riot
punish her. , .
Daniel Harris Guilt; of stealing. goods of the,
value of four shillings and ten pence ; Eleanor fiar:
ris, Not Guilty.

Elizabeth Curtis was inditled far, a capital o,4"enc'ej
stealing live yards of black cambrie muslin, and thteef
h intikerchiefs, of the value.of 335. the property

of Alex, CO.Vit Johnson, privutelyio his shop;
Mr, Johnson, the Prosecutor, said, he is a. lint n.
draper, living at N0..13, Norton ralgate t that 'on
the 3.lst of August last, the Ptisoner came into his:
shop to purchase goods for mourning, as she said,
on account of the death of her husband's mother,'

and appeared to be much affeßed, almost weeping
the Prosecutor felt great compassion for her : she
b:niht goods to the value of tit. she said her hus.
band kept wine vaults, in Vine.stteet, Shoreditch,
and she asked the Prosecutor for' his custom : he told
her :he; had no objeaion, since he was not engag(lf.
toany.one that,trade : she was in the shop for an
hour and an half; went on in conversation alviut
number.of people at I\,l*tvbery, in,Hcrkchire, whorn
the Prosecutor knew. When the goods were pack.
ed up, he asked her in what flame liM should rnikc
out the bill of parcels; she said in her husband',
Whose name was Russel. She said that she was go.
ing:to.Shorcditch to receive a bill of t 1, and would
eitherians she came and pay for the goods, or
they might be sent home to her, and she" would p,,y
for: them ,thcre. The Prosecutor, . out of ci v i y
proposed to send them; upon which she folde:i
her gown, aodWalked our of the shop; the Pr 05,....
cutor had not the least suspicion of her ; but his

- - ,
Nepheaa, who assisted him in the shop; suapeeled
her, and said 'to him, '' Uncle, I thnlr. that wo.
man has robbed you." The Prosecutor thaught it
impossible, as he had never left the counter whie
shr was in the shop. The Nephew went out,
howeVer, and brought her laick„ with the Fort ty
stated 'in the Indiament.
The goods being produced, the Prosecutor proved
them to be his property ; there was his Soso pri% ata
mark on each, of them ;•,but he could not swear pasia
sively they were in the shop the mort.ing the Psi.
sorter came in, tho Ugh he believed they were.
Totnkins,
,the 'Prosecutor's Nephew,
said, he was in the shop all the time the Prisonet
was there. He saw her put her hand uncler her
cloak, but he did not see her take any Thing. 1-i.e
saw these very handkerchiefs in the shop, that morn.
ing ;" they ,had been shewn to another, who did not
buy them, and the Witness put them buck upon thd
shelf ; and his. Uncle had shewn them afterwards* •
and they remained on the counter. in consequence
Olseeing the Prisoner put ting'her hand up under het
cloak, this Witness suspected her, and 'that induced
him to go'nurafter her. hie took her at a place close
by, but she had first gone into a Pawnbroket's'shop,
and come nut. The. Witness saw her drop the
handkerchiefs ; and a person behind him • picked
them up ; he brought her back to the shop, where
she Was charged with a Constable.
William Barker, a Pawnbroker, said, that on the
3 Ist of August, the Prisoner came into his shop,
end offered to pawn some black cambric muslin :—as
he told her it was an article he never took in ahe
otrared to pawn three silk handkerchief: ; asked ten'
shillings for them : he glanced at them; he was busy,
and said, "three half-crowns " that won't do,"
said she, and walked out. The Prosecutor's Nea
phew came in, and in-consequence of what wal.said.
to him, went instantly after her, and took her.--»a'
!fhe Witness went otit and saw her dtop the black
cambric muslin. •
Mr. Baron HoloshlVl observed to the jury, that
stealing...privately in a shop to the value of five
shillings, or more, was a capital offence. --With
reit:el:to the fatt itself, he could hardly find it
necessary to say a word to them, 131°C3Utie they haat
proof of it, whichit was impossible to doubt. Tile
handkerchiela and the musliO were proved to have
been in 'the shop when the Prisoner came in, and
she was seen dropping them in the street when put.
sued. The remaining question .however wits more
important, and it was entirely' for the Jury tonic.
cide it, .and it was a question reapeeting the .ctta.
cumstances which took place while she was in -the
shop. 'As to the value of the property, he did not
feel himself warranted to advist•thern. to reduce it
belota the value of five shillings. The nephew of
the Prosecutor did not see her actually- take the
property, nor see it in her hands, yet he saw so
"much as to induce hint to think, when she was
putting up her hand under her cloak, that she was
doing something that was dislioneat, This At of
Parliament, said the Learned Judge, has always been
donsttued favourably by Judges and jot ies, who had
always'decided, that where a person was seen in
the-ail, he should not be found nifty of stealing
privately., Such a case did not tall within the mean.,
ing of the severe part of the law. if nobody saw
the Prisoner do any thing at the time she stole the
goods, 'and
'aught
'were of more. than fivevalue, she ought to be ConviCied of the capitai
offance ; but, said the Learned judge, if you alionlat
be of opinion the young man saw her in an alt which
induced him to believe she was robbing' his uncle,
then she ought to he acquitted of the ca iial part

k '
th• charge, the private stealing. 1 thiok tho'
'A‘ o 'I of kte you N ill give that construction to
• an in which case yoot verdict will he, that
is ;;silty of ste;,;ing the goods, hut not pri-
r!y the shop ; and now 1 leave it for your
n.nieration.
,
yof A sten g, Dot not privately, in the
6loy.—Aged 23.

Lary Torm7,7, the ‘.% ,te of Jeremiah Tourney,
laOourer, was indieled for a
oWence, hank.notes and other pro.
perry, t,l),ve the value ni 2o!. the property of
Julio Wright, in the dwetling.house of Lawrence
Kelly.
The Pro,ecutor and the Prisoner lodged together
in 'a Polnic_house St..Giles's, and Wright, to
Nshom the property belonged, is a Seafaring. man.
It was given under the care of the Prist,ner's hits.
haul wile Mrs. Wright 'went to Portsmouth, but
uhen-she'returoed the property was taken away,
and the Pris-ner's husband absconded.

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The Learned Judge told the Jury, that as to the
p;irt of the charge, they might dismiss it
from their consideration, because the property was
si.a•,:d. to have been stolen out of the dwelling-house
of Lawrence Kelly, and it was entrusted to the
care of Jeremiah Tourney in that' house, so that
the protedion of the dwelling-house was not ex-
tended over the property in this case. The next
question was, whether the Prisoner at the Bar had
done any a6t on this occasion independent of her
husband ; if not, she was, in point of law, to be
cOnidered as acting under his coercion, and there-
fore was not to be punished tor what she did. The
evidence here was much t,.0 weak against the Pri-
sOnet to convict her, and therefore he advised the
Jury to find her not guilty ; and she was accOrd-
ingly acquitted.

James hvy was inaided for a capital offence in
assaulting Frances Beeby, on the ,20th of
Atignst, on, the King's highway, putting her in
fear, and taking from her person one half.crown,
one and one sixpcnce her monies.

The Pr-o..veu!rix, it appeared, was proceeding
across Th.:° fu:ids train Hackney to Kingsland, be-
f„ern 1,,(1'r and t“e o'clock in the evening of the
above invrtion,ll day, when she was met by the
Pris(iet, who immediately asked for her money.
She replied she had none ; and this demand and
denial were two or three times repeated. At length
the Pris6ner took something from his pocket which
aaeared to her to be a rather large knife,--she
could ele,irly perceive only the haft of it, but had
doubt of its being a knife. On seeing this
she e. as considerably alarmed, and almost uncon.
scinusly put her hand into her pocket, took out the
money spmfied in the Indian-lent, and threw iton
the ground. The • Prisoner asked 'her for more
money ; was sure she had some more, and bid her
give him a seven shilling piece. She declared she
hail no such thing in her possession ; on which the
Prisoner stooped to pick: up the money, and the
'rosectitrbttook the opportunity to run away, and
very-Soon tikes. gave the alarm that she had been.
robbed, &c.

Xr turther. appeared from the narrative of two or
three Witnesses who assisted in the apprehension of
the Prisoner, that he was taken at a short distance
fr urn the place where the robbery was committed :
he was running off at the time, and wore a smock
frock, which was the description given by the Pro.
secutrix of the robber's dress tri the 'first person
whom she saw after the fad took place. She added
that he had sore eyeS. She instantly recognized
hts person when the Witnesses brought her back to
him. When he was first taken an oyster knife was
found in one of his pockets, and in the other the
sheath of it, and he, was just after. observed to
throw away something that appeared like money,
and two of the Witnesses picked it up near the place,
the one a half.erown and the other a sixpence,
which were held by the Court to be strong corrobo.
rating circumstances with respeei to the original
testimony of the Proseco trix.
The Prisoner had a good charaler given him,
particularly by two Serjcants in the Guards, he
being a Private in one of the Regiments for nine
years ;
,he was discharged at his own request when
the reclunion took place at the close of the late
War. However, on evidence to the above circa,
tit," Jury 10 little hesitation in eronouncing him

Hannah Park& vas, indicted for a capital offence,
in lel-onionsly breaking and entering the dwelling.
house of Robert Gordon, certain persons being
flteri!in, the night of the of August, and
stealing therein various ankles of plate, two dozen
silver handled knives and forks, several brass can.
diesticki, and other articles, the property of the
said Robert Gordon,

Front the statement of the Counsel, Mr. GUR-
-Ir, and the depositions of the Prosecutor, Mr.
Gordon, See. it appeared that Mr. G. lives at
Jitackwall ; that, on the night .of the loth of Au.
most, every part of the house was, as usual, duly
s.ecured before he retired to bed; about 4. o'clock
.in the morning he was awoke, and he immediately
came down stairs; he first found the parlour win.
dew open ; he saw a knife.ease empty lying near
the window ;. the parlour window must have been
opened from the inside ; the entry .was made
. through the kitchen window.; he observed a small
poker near the spot. lii consequence of some in.
formation he got, he pursued the Prisoner, and
came up with her at the distance of, nearly half a
mile from his house ; she was running away. When
he came near, and desired her to stop, she took a
brass candlestick out of her pocket, and threw it at
his head ; he caught hold of her ; she then begged
him to let her- go, and said she would tell him
The. Prosecutor made no
where all the things were.
promises, but she took him to a small fence near
the spur where they then stood, and in, a garden
which it inclosed was a bundle containing the
greater part of the articles ; he took them up;
soma people 'had gathered around them, and ex.
'claimed against the cpncluel of the Prisoner; she
it Mrs. Gordon had given her a eharader she
1.V.4)1.1id not have done so. The Prisoner had lived,

not long before' this afriir, a very short lime as
servant with the Prosecutor. When she was brought
.to the hoUse, she was searched, and several articles
Mof the Prosecutor's were found about her. She said
she had no accomplices.
The diff:rent things were produced, and duly
identified by Mr. Gordon ; their aggregate value
fdr exceeded the sum required by law to render an
offence like,the present capital.
The Prisoner had nothing to offer in her defence;
a few Witnesses, however, appeared to her cha.
raaet.

Mr. Baron HOTHAM, in his summing up, ob.:
served to the Ju►y, that if they believed the
deuce on the part of the Prolsecution, a capital
charge was substantiated against the Prisoner, and
it was matter of serious regret that one so very
young as the Prisoner seemed to be should be found
capable of acting in such a manner. The value
which the law required to be stolen in order to
constitute such an entry capital, was five shillings,
which was but a small fration of the value of the
property taken away. Could they entertain the
least doubt upon the case, they would of course let
the prisoner experience the benefit of it.
The Jury very shortly brought in a Verdid of
Guilty—Death. The Prisoner stated her age to be
16. The Jury strongly recommended her to mercy,
on account of her. youth.

Thomas Brown was charged with a capital of.,
fence, in feloniously stealing, on the ifith of. Au.
gust, a silver watch, steel chain, and metal key,
value fifty shillings, the property of Thomas Craw.
ley, in his &veiling-house. The jury framed their
Vercliel—Guilly of stealing to the value of thirty..
eight shillings, which obviates the capital part of
the charge.

Mary jowl was charged with a capital offence,
in feloniously stealing, on the Ist of August, a
Dol. Bank of England Note, the property of John
Marshall, in the house of David Wills.

After examining some of the Witnesses for the
Piosecution,

Mr. Justice LE BLANC observed to the jury, that
there was no evidence adduced to aired the Prisoner.
What she had said, under the circumstances in
which it was offered in evidence, by a rule of law,
they could not hear, because, in case of a promise of
favour held out to a prisoner, provided he or she
acknowledged any thing, the law holds that it
would not he safe to rely upon What was so said ;
they could not t4arefore hear it in the present in-
stance, and consequently they must acquit the Pri.
soner.

Verdi& of course—Not Guilry ; and his Lordship
reprehended the Prosecutor for his conduft in tarn.
poring with the Prisoner. v

w.
SamuelSamuelßunn,: as capitally indiled for break-
ing the dwelling house of William Vernon, and
stealing a quantity of men's wearing apparel.
The Prosecutor said he kept a shop for the sale
of all kinds of men's clothes, in the parish of St.
Martin in the Fields. The Prisoner was his ser-
vont, arid lived with him a week. On SAtUrdey
the zoth ult. the Prosecutor went out of tow n,
and when he returned, h.: found be had been robbed
of a variety of goods. The Prisoner slept in. an
outhouse ; anti Mr. Vernon could nor say whether
the goods had been taken all at once from his shop,
or at different times ; hat he could positively swear
that those fount! in the Prisoner's possession were his
property.

It appeared, that on the night in question, cr
rather the next morning, the Prisoner was seen by
the watchman carrying a very large bundle on his
shoulders : when questioned as to where he was
going, and whose property it was be had, be gave
very evasive and unsatialaitcry answers ; Ire was
taken to the watch_house ; and afterwards, in his
way to the Compter,
,ire ran away from those who
had him in custody, Litit was soon taken.

Mr. Baron HOTHAM told the Jury, that In order,
to convi& the Prisoner capitally, it would ,be ne-
cessary for *them to believe that the Prisoner had
either broke out of the house in the nighttime, or
had stole in the dwelling more than the value of
4.05. at one time. The Prosecutor did not know
whether the Prisoner. might not have conveyed to
the place where he slept parcels at different times,
each of which might be under the value of 4,05.
The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty, but not ca.
pitally.

MANCREtTiR, SEPT. 13.....-We are happy to
announce the graciouS Acceptance by Hts MAJarri
of the oar of service, of the Corps, consisting of
One Thousand Men, under the CoMmand of Colo.
net StLVESTItit. HIS MAJESTY has also graciously
accepted, the St...Georgeg, Corps in this town, which
was communicated to them on SundaY evening at
Parade, by JOHN Crtoss, Esq. and received with
three times three. The Holme Corps of Volunteers,
commanded by J. Poo Ltty , jun. Esq. have also been
accepted by our gracious and beloved Sovereign.

Last Tuesday a young man, a Substitute in the
Army of Reserve, sold, his Wife, a pretty black.
eyed girl, whom he had married by Licence, from
her service in the Cliffe, near Lewes, but a few
days before, to one,of his Comrades, for Picric Gui-
neas, and delivered her accordingly, in the,presence
of a great number of spectators. The bargain,
however, was made subjeft to the following Con.
ditions:—That the Purchaser was to pay down One
Guinea (which he immediately advanced) and take
the Lady one month "ton trial, at the expiration of
which term, if he repented, he was to return her,
or complete the contraet, by paying the remainder
of the pbrchase money II !
On Tuesday s' e'nnight, the wife of Mr, fn, oont
j
Pt LK I NGTON, farmer, of Cunliffe, near rotacknur
was safely delivered of three fine female children ;
the mother is in her 4zd year, had before borne
children at single births, and the grandmother by
the father's side, in her 93d year, was the 'Midwife
on this last occasion : the children are at present
very lively, and the mother is doing well.