The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-31 00:00:00

POURTII DAY--..SATURDAY, OCT. 29.

Edward s,7clismann (a very genteel young man,
fashionably dressed) was indided for that he, on
the 30th of July lasr, being employed in the' capa-
city of clerk •to Messrs., Hosch, „,Bintz, Losh,
Lubbren, and Losh, did by virtue of such em-
ployment, obtain possession of a bill of exchange for
the sum of 301. 145. for and on account of the said.
Messrs. Hosch, Pnd Co. which, said bill he did, tin
the same day, feloniously embezzle, steal, take, and
carry trom his said employers, and convert to his
own use, &c. the said bill being their property, and
the sum voyable for the same being to theM due
and unsatisfied.

It appeared its the course of the evidence, that •
the Prisoner aled as clerk to the Prosecutors, a
foreign house, without a salary—he had been in
that situation about three quarters of a year. The
bill in question was drawn by Messrs. Pearce, of
Exeter, on Messrs. Hoares, Bankers, in Fleet.
street ; it was dated the 4th of May, and duly taken
by the Prisoner for acceptance. It was some time,
however, before the bill was missed by the Prose-
cutors. Some inquiries were made on the part of
Messrs. Hnsch, and some time after this the House
was declared bankrupt. They adopted the usual
precaution with resped to applying for the stoppage •
of the &c. and about the time it became due,
they sent to Messrs. Hones rtipeding the Bill,
when they were informed that the bill was paid on
the day set forth in the indidment, pursuant to the
acceptance.
A clerk in the house of Messrs. Hoares,Bankers,
stated that on the 3oth of July he paid ilia amount
of the bill to a person very like the Prisoner-..he
could not positively swear to the identity, but
seemed to entertain very little doubt ; he paid the
amount of the bill by a 251. note, a note, and'
14.5. in change—being called aside at the moment
on some occasion, he did not see the person to
whom he paid it, Write the name, but on return.
ins he found the name of Martin had been writ.
ten—he believed the person to be the:Prisoner ; he
was a young 'foreigner, and spoke With a foreign
accent.

Being questioned as to the points, as well by Mr.
RECORD IL, as by the Couosel, the Witness stated
that the bill had been stopped ; the grit notice
they had was froth their correspondents, to pay it
through no other channel than the house of Messrs.
Hosch ; it was also stopped on; the part of the Pro-
secutors—he explained it was usual for Bankers
to stop acceptances—applications ot the kind were
frequently made in consequence of
.bills being mis-
laid, &c.

The Officer whO apprehended the Prisoner, stated
he, took him into custody at Harntriexsmith. . He
was in a one.pair of stairs room ; he refused to
open the door.---on which theOilicer.got a person
to mind,the window while he forced the door'; he
was brought up to town in a post chaise—the Pri.
toner at titst seeing(' to. think it was an arrest for
debt the'Officer explained to him the nature of
the transattion ; when he learned it was on account
of Messrs: ilosch, he said thatthe house becoming
bankrupt, he could
.not see Mr; Misch; who he
thought was aporeitenSive of being arrested, as he
could nut find him—that he had the money, and
Could give it to him. In answer to this, the Officer
observed that he could see Mr..1.-iusch, at any time—
that he had go( the' Warrant from him above 'a.
Month before ; the Prisoner was not apprehended.
till the t;th of September.. . -
The Proiecutor, Mr. Hoch, on being again call..
ed up, stated that their house stopped payment on
the sth July. ' With respeet to the Prisoner he be.,
lieved be might be abouttwelve months in England;
that he was from Manheim • • by the desire of the
Bavarian Minister, he had been allowed, or advan.,
ced a guinea a week, beside -the expences of his.-
lodging ; he ita'a• reason to believe his friends %We
persons of respeelability....
The Prisoner left his defence to his Counsel, which
was offered through the• medium of "'the CrO3S-CX4-
mination-rait .wroi deemed unnecessary to trouble the
Court on, the score of charaeler, the statement of
the Prosecutor in that respe,ft, being considered as
'sufficient up to' the time of the traniaelion.
-Mr. RECOR b vtt l'C3pittliiitelltilt evidence, whith
was to the above circa, and lielivered an able and
impartial charge to the Jury upon the
,case, who after
deliberating some time, pronounced a verdict of
Guilty. The Prisoner stated his age to be nineteen.

joppb Bennett :And Mary Smith, *ere indifted,
the former for stealing lbw!
,yards ,of starpetting,,
seven yards,Of.cott&n, four of check, and ten imunds
of (eaglets, the property of Edward Foxhalf and
James 'fryers; and the latter, fur, feloniously re.
ceiving the same, knowing them to be stolen.,
The Prosecutors, it appeared, are I.lp4oisterers
in Old Cavendisit.street, Maty.lk.bone. The
sorter, Bennett, lived some timeirt their emploi as
porter i they missed no property 'in,> the first in.
stance, but, in consequence of some infotmalion
they reCeiveti, they -measured some pieces of check
and carpetting in their shop, and found them de.
ficient in the quantity set forth in the indkittsent.;
The Prisoner, Smith, it appeared, kept an old iron;
shop in Marybone.lane.
One or tht Witnesses,"whose testimony was very
'material, stated that he lives withie about forty
yards of. Smith's shop, and on the opposite side,: Qn
the rBth'of Q4lober, about eight in the morning,'
he saw- the Prisoner Bennett go into Smith's with a
small hag of feathers in his hand; he saw some
them drop from the bag; he, raw him deliver them'
to Smith, who said she expeded he would have
brought them before. On the aoth he observed
him again go into Smith's ;, he wore a great coat=
closely buttoned up. In a few minutes he,came out
with his coat unbuttoned, and his apron. &on
after this (being vigilant in observationi he saw
Smith open some check at her door.
Mother Witness saw the Prisoner frequently go
into Smith's house, and he generally carried some.
thing with him, apparently like one or other of the
articles charged in the indiament. By these tneans ,
information cval conveyed by different channels to
the Prosecutors, and the Prisoner, Bennett, their