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or TospeCting OiEar by whom the Insrealon
shall be made.
I have the Honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient
Humble' Servant,
C. YORKE.
Lis illajcy's Lieutenant of the

OLD BAILEY.

FOURTH DAY.-SATURDAY, FEB. IR.

Jahn Palmer and Sarah Hudson were tried upon
the capital charge of feloniously publishing and ut-
tering as true, a certain fiaitious Bank of England
note fur the payment of zl. knowing it to be forged
and counterfeit, with intent to defraud John Shaw,
Sze.

It appeared in the course of the evidence, that
the female Prisoner tendered the note to Mr. Shaw,
the Prosecutor, a linen-draper in Newgate-street,
but the affair was immediately detested, and she
found means to escape at the time. In a short in-
terval after this, the Prisoner (Palmer) called upon
the Prosecutor, and insisted upon having the note
back again. The Prisoners were then apprehended,
and it appearing, by what transpired in the evi-
dence, that Palmer had had some dealings in fabri-
cated notes previous to the present transaction, the
Jury were induced to find him Guilty, Death. The
woman was acquitted.

Abram Cohen was charged with a capital offence,
in feloniously stealing; cn the 26th of January,
three watches, value 51. the property of Daniel
Windsor, in his dwelling-house.
The Prisoner, one of the tribe of Israel, it ap-
peared, went on the day mentioned in the Indict.
meat to the shop of the Prosecutor, who is a sales-
man : he desited to look at, some watches, and was
shewn- a lot of them ; not satisfied with that, he
desired to look at two or three different lots, in or-
der, as. he said, that he might• choose out of a va-
riety. A number of watches were accordingly
shewn him, but he bought none ; and shortly after
the Prisoner went away the three watches in ques.
tion were missed. Not long afterAthis proceeding,
it appeared the Prisoner sold a-watch, together with
an old-fashioned necklace, to a -pawnbroker and
salesman in Ryder's Court, Leicester-fields, for
which he gave him a guinea and an half. The in-
trinsic value of the watch was estimated by the
pawnbroker to be about five or six-and twenty shil-
lings. This watch was produced, and was posi.
tively sworn to by the Prosecutor as one of those
he missed soon after the Prisoner had overhauled his
watches.

No satisfaCtory defence being offered by the Pri.
soner, the Jury found him Guilty of stealing to the
value of 395. which did away the capital part of the
charge.

John Cooke, an elderly man of genteel appear-
ance, was indiaed for stealing, on the 16th Fe-
bruary, a key, value 63. the property of William
Green.

It appeared that the Prosecutor is a tailor, and
lives in Finch-lane, Cornhill ; between twelve and
one o'clock on the above day,. the Prisoner was seen
skulking behind the door of the Prosecutor's house
in the passage with the key of the door in his hand ;
he was seen by the Prosecutor's apprentice, who gave
the alarm : the master, &c. hurried to the spot,
when he was observed to slide the key down by his
side. On being questioned, he said he came to in..
quire for Mr. Patterson, who he said lived there ;
however, no such person did live in the Prosecu-
tor's house, nor did he know of any person of the
name in' the neighbourhood. A Constable was jrn_
media tely sent for, and the Prisoner given in charge
to him.

The complexion of the case appeared to the Jury
to lie such as to induce them to pronounce an imme-
diate verdid of—Guilty.

Tho:vs Renard was charged with stealing, on the
27th of. January, a pewter quart pot, value sod.
the property of John Martin.
It appeared that the Prisoner was observed by one
of the Witnesses (a Police.oflicer) early in the fore-
noon of the above day,, in Leadenhall_street, with
something bulky under his jacket ; Iv immediately
questioned him as to • the matter, when not liking
his answer, be.proceeded to. search, and found the
quart pot in question. It was easily traced to the
Prosecutor's, by whom it was recognized. The
Prisoner said he found it in the street. The Prose.
tutor admitted it might possibly have been placed,
as pots sometimes are, near the door of the house.
The RICORDER took occasion to observe, that
if the Prisoner took the pot from such a situation, it
was just as much a felony as if he had stolen it in
the house ; it
,was well known a parcel of fellows
went' about watching the doors of public houses in
order to commit depredations of the kind.

Thomas Robson and Joseph Collins were convift-
ed on d charge_ of feloniously stealing a large quan-
tity of paper, writings, 'books, and effeas, in the.
Navy-Office, the property of our Lord the King.
These Prisoners, it appeared, had been employ-
ed in the. Navy Pay-Office ; a quantity of the pa_
pens stolen were sold by them to a cheesemonger in,
Drury-lane. . Among the papers, it appeared, were
a number of accounts transmitted to the Admiralty
by Officers in the service. Previous to this detec-
tion, the Prisoners had borne the most unexcep-
tionable charalers.

jam Spencer was convicted of stealing a lamp
from the chamber staircase of No. 14, Clement's.
inn. It appeared that this kind of depredation has
been very very frequent of late.

Two brothers, privates in the Shropshire
were;sonie days. since buried at Yarmouth in the
same grave; one died of excessive drinking of spi-
ri!s, and the other of drinking water while ill with
the measles.