The Sun.
London, England, 1803-11-07 00:00:00

Catrrt broke.ur, wete,orilerefl to.rtiviin until ten
o'..clock the, followitig:day, to which hour it WaS
idivurned.

TUPSDAY, Nov. To

At eleven o'cleck, the Jury, who were confined
the 'whofe night -in the case of the King against
Shields and Gallagrian, for having in their posses-
sion forgeries,on the Bank of Ireland, -returned a
verdio of acquittal.' The Prisoners were, ()owe.
vet, held over to bail for future goad behaviour.
Avdrertu Harris and Miry' Harris, otherwise Kel:.
100, stood capitally Witted lot-forging banknotes,
purporting to he of the Bank of Ireland ; and a se.
coed class of counts in the same Indiamerit charged
the Prisoners with uttering the same, knowing
theM to:the forged. -
Mr. Gjt REN, as CounSel for the Crown, observed
'that, from the indispositiOn or his Learned Friend,
Mk.Gtit N E SS, w 110 k pYovintre, ss senior Counsel,
r;Astould.havebeetilootrate a case for the consider.
ation of the Court' and ;jury' ,• eltat duty devolved
moon him, At
.the same time he. had ro.felicitate
himself that: the indisposition, of his Learned Col..
league was not so :severe as to deprive him of the
a4vantages.tvltich must xesult to the cause of their
mutual Qients from the exertion of
.his well-known
abilitie in anotherisranch of cir.
cumstances of the case. were 'briefly:these : Mr.
justice Bell had•received intimation that the Pri-
%oilers the-Bar werememhers of a kind of incor-
porated body of forgers, whose haunt's that,aCtive
Magistrate had explored, and siehose Iwfarious
schemes he haddemeloped. On the ist of May last
he did employ a man, by name Michael Kell, , who,
'in concert with twV.lnen of the name of Wear's',
had different interviews with: the Prisoners at the
Bars. particularly in• a house belonging to, one Cu-
sack, a publican, in North Kitig-street, also at the
mouser of one Shields, another publican, iti the same
. •
objea of these communications between
KellYanil the Prisoners .was to traffic. in tinged bank
notes:; Kelly, -however,stnakinga pretext of this
specks .I.)f traffic for thelaudable.pUroose f eshibi
ing his fidelity to ;the Mogistrate who Employed I
him, and perhaps from...a sentiment of bringing ut.
tenders of. this descriotion, so odious to the Public,
and so clesttuelive to, the trade of the. Country, to
condign punishment. In one of the interviews
which Kelly had with,the Piisoner Andiew,/,larrisi
thelatter borrowed, a guinea from him, which he !
prornised' not to pay exaCtly in koud, but to give
him valuable consideration in another species of-cion. '
modity.
After various succeeding interviews, at which
one of the MiCartys,: as partner in trade with Kelly,
had been present, and -who in fad did negotiate
with the Prisoners. about the • purchase: .of torged
notra,, in the, proportion .of, seven guinea ones of
their- manufaeiere.monelentrine notes she Prisoners
Mary. Halrris, „With is species .4 :address oac
would suppose not the result of inexperience, (lid
place a small bundle of forged notes, consisting of
five guinea ones, ! in .some' cavity ,betkeen the paper
and the wall of artapartment at the house of ShiAldss
andthjnted to Kelly that he alight sake diem ;* they
kl,e,rev however, bat levy, yet, as. More .Were in the
pteicessof being wiirkeil off, that, he should at the
nut Meeting bit. fairly and honourably dealt with.
This pininised meeting shortly,oceorreds in which
Kelly gave the Prisoner Andrew four guineas more,'
*nil his co-partner-Mary, now his fellow- culprits,
graciously. rising ftom her heat, left Kelly an .op,
putouts, of taking therefrom another. bundle of
norei, to the amount (of thirteen goipea ones, and
Six notes of one guinea and -an half, which he
shortly after handed to Mr. 11.11.
This narrative "Kelly subitantiated by his evi.
drnce.

-Qn croar.examinatioU by Mr. MNAt.t.ir, he ac.
krowledged, that previous to the last General
mission, 'in the month of July last, he receivett from
Mr. Justice Bell five guineas for work and tabour,
he could nor live Upon air.—atid being in the habit of
working and cultivating, both d4y and night, in
his department as under-gardener, and. otherwise
dicLsupysise heanerelygot the valise of his ordinary
labour, and no more, beingcapahle of earning that
sum .ire his daily ano nootyral, toils *Wirt' the time
he dedicated to this business ; received, only since
that period from Mr. Bell one guinea and an half
and 4 few shillings,, on
.the same account—expects
to be paid tar this.day's services, inertly as a la.
pourer, though he received a Crown summons— -
perhaps two shillings or hall.a.crown.-7-Sasv Mr. •
flOll mark the 'genuine guinea note, and the others
Which he 'received 'from' him, and which notes he
presented at 'different times to the Prisoner An.:
drew.;—and would suppose that the Justice did mark.
theni ire that manner with a view to make them
Nieces of evidence against the Prisoner:: at the Bar:,
*Mr. Bell corroborated that part of Kelly's testi.
mony respetling, his interference, and said that' he
saw.both the Prisoners at the Bar in a house in
Mary-street, where they alledged they had lodged.,
The-man he found in a room in bed with 9 woman,
who said she.was sister to the Prisoner Mary. sit»
ting near him—he previously SW Mary on the land-
ing place of the stairs, who said that she was not
married, and that her name was-Kelton. On inter.
rogating the,Prisoner Andrew as to his being. mar_
tied, he ret lieti that he was not then a married man
that *unitippily.he had lost his weft..

'O6 erOSS.CXIIIIIII,4tiCIII by Mr. MeNTALLY, touch.
ing the general charaaer of the Witness, Kelly,
and his own opinion of him, the Witpess replied,
that-his general charaaer, ro his knowledge, vv,,3
ROM ono, And he believed him a very honest man.
lie river tither Nigairsed with him for, or prp;
wised -him any gratuity for services of this de-
scription, 'previous to his embarking in them,
)rti MONMORE charged the Jury, recapitulat.
ing the evidence, on which ,he commented with
that candour and ability so peculiar to him._
'They returned a verdict of GA", without leaving
the Box. •

Pat. COleralle WIS put to the Bar, on an Intliß.
tnent for having, on the, tzth of March last, in
ittnpany with several other persons robbed the
'dwelling.houie of Mr. Byrn, of DolPhin's.hartl,