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London, England, 1803-09-23 00:00:00

of money himself: he had disposed of it in the
way which appeared in evidence. • . . •
One or two Witnesses appeared to his charatlec;.
which of course they described as gond, and' as an
:instance of his industry one of these. stated that he
'was carrying a.toaci.of 2 civt., of pliiat!-the day he
was,apprehentied.
The Jury, however, had little doubt as to the
case.. Verditt—Guilty.

'Roger o‘Pqali was charged with
.feloniotidy:
stealing, 'on the' 16th of 'AUgusti) silierl watch;-
the' property of jatnes Rellot.
The Prbsecutor, it appeared is a Watchman, and
had some previous acquaintance with the Prisoner.
In'the morning of the day stated in the indidMent,
as he was returning how. about 'semen o'clock, he
fell, in with the Priioner, who was in company with
two women, one he yclep"tl his wife anti tbe• other
her sisterthey walked in company .together till
they catne to the Prosecutor's house—the women
there parted company, and the Prisoner was asked
in by the Witness';' he remained' there about half an
,hour t 114,1 access to' the watch ; they walked out
together afterwards. On the Prosecutor's return, the
watch was not to be found, and an inquiry was set
on foot, in conseqUence of which it was traced to a
Pawnbroker's in East Smithfield, where it appealed
the Prisoner had pawned it for Jos. on the same
day it was missed.
'These filets clearly appearing in evidence, the
Verdict of course was Guilt?.

..7'avathan alias joha Nigh was charged with
feloniously stealing on the 3d of 'August., a hammer
cloth value zol. the property .of Morris Lord
Rokeby.
A second count in the. indifiment charged it.as
the property of Thomas o[4ll.
,The ostensible Prosecutor, it appeared, keeps a
livery stable, &c. in Davies.street, Grosvenor.
square ; on the day laid in the Indiettnent the ham.
mer.cloth was missed off the carriage of the Noble
owner, .which. was in the care of Orkell.

By a distinct ,chain of evidence it appeared that,
the Prisoner anxiously endeavoured to get a lodging
at a Public-house in Prince's-street,
_Westminster,
and in a manner forced himself upon the people of
the house as a lodger, at least for that night. He
then said he woiddletch his clothes, and soon after
he brought a very large bundle, by which the land-
lord was induced to suspect the. Prisoner, and in con.
sequence sent for an 04cer. The 'Ptisoner was
found in the of of unripping the har,,ner-cloth,
which was a very superb -one, and was stated by
one of the WitnesSes to have cost so guineas ; lie
was accordingly taken into custody.
These fiefs being. clearly prov6d, aiA the defence
of the Prisoner not being at all satisfactory, the
Jury found him Guilty.. The riididment, as we
Could condi, was not laid capitally.

'We beg leave to call the attention of the • Public
to the event-of the trial of Humphrey Crawley, who
was fand guilty last week of attempting to seduce
a soldier belonging to the Royal Tower Hamlets
• militia, from-his allegiance. We are satisfied that
clubs of traitors still exist in and about the metropo-
-lis and we doubt nut but Ministers will narrowly
watch their -proceedings at this momentous crisis.
The conviction of Crawley, however, was not the
efied of any ministerial interference. The inform.
anion against this wretched rota of Jacobinism was
laid by the hOnest soldier (one Corporal Hall), on
whom he poised ; and the Charge passed to the
Jury through the ordinary medium of one of the
public, offices, that of Whitcchapel. Let the
gar declaimers of the day, spew the smallest inter-
position of the hand 'of power in this affairt if they
can. In saying this we do not mean to inculpate
the care which Government exerted in bringing to'
condign punishment Derpard and his associates in
treason ; but we wish to shew the world that a fer.
menting traitorous pqnciple is still at work among
us ; and that some people have endeavoured to
persuade us 'that it 'existo only in the: gratuitous
assertions of the friends of Government ; hut the
case of Crawley proves to demonstration that the
existence of disaffedion is not a mere imbrication of
Ministers or illarnnrri,* as some have nick:named
the Country's best friends. Crawley's traitorous
attempt was not. piiinted out by the finger of power,..
hut was disCovereti by the loyal zeal of -an humble
private in ;the militia.

• 'CURIOUS SWINDLING.—On Friday last, totif
inst. a man, pretending to be a military officer,
travelled with gieat expedition from London to Bed.
'ford, for the purpose of engaging a number of seamen
and landsmert,, as volunteers in a secret expedition
now fitting.out at sbeemess. He arrived at Dunstable
post.chaise and four, about one o'clock, and
immediately went to
.the Magistrate with a letter,
purporting to be written by Sir Evan Nerean, of the
Admiralty ; direaing .the Magistrate to assist this
Government. Messenger in promoting the objea of
his journey, by causing handbills to be distributed,
referring to Lieutenant HedGr M'Lean, at the
King's Arms, Rupert street, Hay.marker, as the
Officer to enlist the volunteers in question.. 'He
was, of course, direfted to Morris's Printing-office,
at Dunstable,.where he ordered a quantity of hand.
bills to be immediately.struckoff, and coated up in the
town and neighhiturhood.- The urgency of the hu.
sines not permitting the Gentleman to wait till the
hills were all printed, be took a part of them, and
at four o'clock took a post-chaise, and hastened on
his way to Bedford. Previous to his departure, he
with sectuing modesty. and reludante solicited a
loan of tit't:eeynunds in aid of :tis finances,' leaving
in pleti,ge,Atiraft, foig:2tl.• on one of the Agents of
His KiSesty's "N,asyy, promising to return.,the next
day for die purpose of distributing the remainder of
the bills, and se'itling his accounts ; but has not
since been. heard of, He Was a ),,,,hg .marii
not
more titan five and twenty, and called himself by the
natne of Robert Taylor. •