The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-13 00:00:00

WFDpESDAY, SEPT. /Z.
,THI Sessions commenced this day,.: Wore tin
RpFok Dalt of 4ondun, Bayou liptHAM, .and Sit
ALLEN L:HAMSR.S.. • ,

The Pannell for the Petty Juries of London and
Mi''dieseic being called oser,,a t ircumstai ce rathet
remarkable happened,. with respect to rase of site
former, whose name, however honourable to his
feelings. the circum•tance may he, we di, not thinlG
it proper to mention.. After ant werin‘cto his time,
he addressed the ,Court, and said,. 'Tat he stood.
under circumstances .16 peculiar, ihat instead of
being summoned upon the Pannel as a juror, his
place should have more property. blest ai a piiionet
at the bar, to iniwer-a charge of the ;post • heinous
nature made against him, nit') y and publicly. It
was a charge of. the hero: crime of perjury. To
vindicate his character, he had appealed to a British
Judicature', by an a4tion against the'person who had
made the charge ; but Until his charaCter should be
completely vindicated- front the tout stigma of such
a charge, he presumed the Court would he of °pi.
nion, as he was, that he must be ineligible to per.
form: the sacred office of a British Juror.
The REC(eitpkit. answered, that .by. the .high
sense of honour and delicacy the Gentleman had •
now sliewn, he had evinc:d feelings anti principles
but little likely to characterize a man capable of
the heinous crime to which he had alluded, How.
ever, the Court should be cxtiegiely sorry indeed,
that such an idea should go finch to the public, as
that the' mere unsubstantiated charge of a crime,
however heinous, should he admitted in a British:
Court of Justice, to incapacitate a man, in alt other
mopeds eligible, from discharging the sacred office
of a British Juror. He c:atld not, therefore, admit
the Gentleman's objeCtion against his own compt.
however honourable that objection was to his
own delicacy and. feeling.
Tire Gentlem m reptied, that 'the person who
made the charge was now in open Conn, storm) tied
upon the Paunch as he was, and liable_ to be urn
upon the same Jury ; What .then, he wouid ask,
might be. the consequence in'any tl.ffeteoce of opt.
Ilion, arising upon any versl‘C't ?
The Recorder answered, that the Court would
' take Care to prevent uCCUrtepct 91 such a Clt.„
cumstance.
A number of Prisciners'were then arraigned upon
varinu. latlidments, and pleaded —Syt Goa!".
Tim tirstfrtsoner put on mat was
Mr:trice Coinor, an aged Inan,:ii),Alm .sixt% , upon
an intlidment, for that he having' eoOviaed of
the charge of grandlatceny 'at. the is of
ber sßot, and sentencol transportati,ns for seven
years, was accordingly -embarked on b.'ard a vessel
for that purpose, on she r4th of lechruary„lBo3,'
but found at large in th 6 partsh Lf St. 13 aolph,Aid.,
gate,' on the eth of July last,
The Record of las Conviffion and S,mtence was'
produced and re.;tl in. Court, and his was
identified by the Police ()hiker who itiVe.iiciittsd
;him.

The Prisoner had nothing' to say in his defenei,.
and the Jury of course found .
William Hill, Ckarlti Connolly, And John Lacy,
were next .tried up3n an: 1114;d:tient for a burgl.try
in :!le dwelling.huu,e of Richird P.rter,. in d.c
parish of New Eafiiig, on the 33 of Ao4ust last, in
the day. time, no per:t.)n being. thueio,, and feloni-
olisly stealing tliereout several articles of we.ifing
Apparel, and other articles, the gouda, of Richard
Porte!,

• Richard Porter and his wife cleatly proved, that
their honse 1. d been broken open : and it was
prayed by a n'utriber of evtdences, that the Prisoner's
were seen running from the house, were pursucd,
and taken, and the g,rituls stolen either picked up in
the trait they ran, or bound upon them.' .
-The Cott; t, on sumping up the evidence, ob.
served, that the chargé of burglary had not bern
stitheiently brought. hoitie to the Prisoners ; and'•
that the second count, namely, that of stealing in
a dwelling to the, value of. p. and upa aid., had
not been Jolty substantiated, Inas,Kuch as the aril..
des'sWoro to, at the t?alitatiOn stated •in the pro.
secution, did not amount to five shilltog, ; arch
though ' the Jury believed the Prisiner. guilty
; of the stealing, yet, within the letter of the laW,
Cu the benefit of which the Prisoners wou:d cer.
tainly he entitled, the 'capital parr of the charge
was not sustained.---The Jury fouiii a verditt
stealing to rbevalue 4f 4t.
Jobs Parry was tried upon n capital charge o
burglary in the house of Walter West, I; n..in mger
and Brazier, in Crawn.:sireet,,Finsbur.y, on. the 17,11
of 'July ldSt, and stealing thetenut a brass Warrniog
pan...deprittrd.
/woe I ebbs and John TlAh were capitally in.
diited tot. a burglary, On the 3.1 of Alig,to lasi, in
the dwelling..house of George Daniels, Wild' row,
St.. Giles's in the Fields, and feloniously
thereout it,f. a :hand two ii. Bank of England no, es,
a pair of sneets,lour 'silver spoons, and other v,itu..
able article., the goods ot Francis White.
it appeared in evidence, thai .Francis White was
it working cabinet-maker! and lodged is iih his
wife, Frances White, on the totO pats
in' the 'house of Daniels,; and -il'at Tibbs
lodged in. ,u same house, aid iti:.)ll s:itne
with his reputed wife,thaid,h h,h,e was
Stevens..;- that on the night of '3i of Atignst
the PrOseCtitot, even 'to his %site ilia
Wank-mites ablveinentinned, which:.tte hii rut
int° • tea-pot, and 1..t.W up in lirr chest, togett er
with the pair of sitters, and other ari wles, • and he
ing pressed by the wife of L'oac Tibbs to go with her
to market,about halt past nine they went togc+Ler,
to Covent• Garden, where they remained togeiliet -
tall :vine time after- detest, when Tibbs's w !le
parted from her, hot did
,not come dirt ttly hi tar ;
when, however, the Witr*ss returned-11mile, she
found her room broke open, ,and also her chest-,
and the 'tofu tble articles above. mentioned, goi e.
Alarmed and distracted by the circumstance, 5.14
intreated I aac Tibbs, who lodged in the next MAN
to go fur her husband to the - pay.table (it brivg
Saturday) ; which he atcortlingly did, and anon
returned with him. Tibbs lensed much con.
corned, and offered to render, any assistance
in'his power, but some time aTtery a Ills' oh.i, vra
to the Prosecutor, White, I.9bete be bled he did n.-.r
-sartra of the rebb‘rys'q• tl.teu akiYiscti t