The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-27 00:00:00

JOSEPH
.7EMMEIT.

FEW amongst the many instances or forgeries
which are daily recorded, were ever' more daringly
committed, more expeditiously detthfted, or more
spiritedly punished, than that hteiy praelised on
Messrs. Citowg, SpARRow, :Ina BROWN, Bankers
in, Sufrfolk and Essex, by Joseph jemmert, who
Was executed this morning.at the Oita Bailey.
.7.-inmett
.had ordered ,a copperplate , to be en.
graved from one of the Notes of the
,Stowinarket
Bank of the above Gentlernen, from whis:h,.to.be
gin With, he had furnished hitmelf wilt, two hun-
dred iMpriorlii, Which he carried to the. Wtiersl
Stamp-office himself, anti got stamped ; after which;
he. filled them up, and went into, different "1 art
Suffolk, Notiolk, and Es:iexeto.issue them.
Mess.Crs o WE, SP A R Ow' and BROWN; soon
vered at all theirdifferent'Banks, inuch.about the same?
time, that some of their Notes Were forged, whkh,
hoWever, much to their honor and credit, they paid
as they were presented, both irri...ndon attain the
Country; rather than permit the PubliC to be lbsers
bytheM; bat in -the'meati while they lost no time,.
nor minded any expence, in their exertions to
discover the - author• Of..theM, by tracing. e:.ch
forgery through the channels it had liaised. One
of them they found had been paid Ott a shop. in Crin
-bourn-alley, and another at Cbebnsford; by
the same description of person, who, trout the said
circumstance, they had little doubt' of bCing the
forgerer.
With his description thus obtained, numbers of
-
Bow-street ()dicers were dispatched iu
,iill direnion's
in search of hint, stimulsted by the. promise of a re-
ward of one hundred guineas besides. their expenecs.,
But BROWN (one', Of the Firm 'On whom the
forgery was committed) through singular good for-
tune, aCtivity, and address, was the first to appre-
hend him.

Hiq. trial at the Old Dailey in February last,
•
where he was capitally convOed, we have already
laid before our Readers ; and now we have only to
announce the execution of the last Sentence of the
LaW against the above Unfortunate young man, only
twenty.eight years of age, r whoSe appearane, t3lu.
cation, .and abilities, bad they been virtiirmsly ex.
ercised, qualified him for abetter de,rinati.m. His
cOndua since his conViaion sheered his sin.
cere penitence, and his manly yet pious resigns.
tion on the staffeild, could only ,lave been the
ell'ett of true ,Christian hope and tortitode.. ice
concealed. his 'real name during the whole of hii
disgrace, through a commendable regard to the
ings of a respettable family, to which it is said he
was very nearly allied, and who we understand
used great interest with, Lord Pe t.'}l to rcconl_
mend hint to His Majesty!.s mercy ;: but it cannot
be too generally known, that in a great .Cnmili,:reial
Country like this, the -atrocious Crime oi. forgery
ought never to be, nor ever is pardoned.

An Article in The Bahama Gazette of March 3,
received at New-York, menti,med that His hi-
tannic Majesty's :)11:p the C'qypso, had tcucl;ed at
in New-Ptovidenee, on its way to New_
Orleans, with dispatches to the Spanish Governor
thire resident.

A Plan has been
.suggested to Government for
the eneouragenierit.ofThe Fisheries on the Coasts of
Ireland, which, We understand, meets with gene.
ral approbatiori,:ani will probably soon be carried
into tfrea.

We !Live the pleasare to state,. that accounts were
received at Bengal, from Our Ambass,olor at the
Court of Ava, before the iede Itl.i4;rist2u, sailed, of
such a favourable nature, as toskays sio doubt wh.it_
ever of the hnal success tit the tnisiori. The objetis iti
view me stated to be; first, to permit 6f a mod:tication
of the Present imports on ()us— trade to Rangoon
and Pegue, and to establish a Faaory on the coast
of Pegue; for the purpose of supplying our Settle-
=nth in India with sizeable tinier fit fin. ship build -
ing; and, secondly, for opening getter-al commu.
nication with.Arracan. ColoneiSrm F 3 W.iS Ava
in November, and experienced the utm..,st reved.t
and attention from the Prince and the w,liole Court,
who permitted the English Flag to be displayed on
the Arnbassadot's residence.

a: .iILEY.

,DAY-."tUESDAY, APRIL

Sin;th, alias jobii Thompion, was in-
difte.t to: stealing. and :r.iding away a. lila& geLling,
-and a bak mare, the property of. John Hall. There
M
tterd othZe counts io thetodiamenr, stating; ar
the geWing was the property of F. Chopping, Esq.
;:nd the mare Ate property of C. L. Pundas, Esq.;
though, as •against a wro:ig-doer, the property
was well laid, to be in Mr: Han, for he had the card
of thcat. •

It appeared in• evidence, that Mr. hall took this
horse and inure, towing many others, to grass, at
Kensington ; that on the I of Mara, at five
o'clock in the afternoon, they were locked up per,
redly saf, by the servants of Mr. Hall; and onnthe
next morning thq were gone. That; in conse;.
qirnee of information, they were pursued on the
Oxford road, and that within six or seven miles oe
Oxford, the Prisoner tvas found riding one and lead,
ing the other, about twelve, on the following day;
whichis:of the distance of .0 miles. •
.The gekiing
appeared to have'been tired 1‘ ith riding. The Pri.
soner was apprehended. He said he bought the'm4re
and gelding .of Thorrias W;; r,l, a horse-dealer, at
High Wycoinbe; but be pr.l,tuce4 no Witnes.ses to'
prove it, ,although nibs-trial had been in the course
of coining on for the last three
The horse in;il mare were clearly identified, and
the Prisoner was flund.Gailiy-Deathf:

.7oreph Willis and Waker ,17.110 i Were inclined for
a capital offence, upon, the statute of the , 24th of
Georgelf. which mikes the stealing Of goods• to
the Mlle of forty shilling's, from on board any ship
or vessel, in any navigable river, &e. an offe'nc'e
for which the person Committing it shift' suffer
Death,

The Prisoners belonged, the one of them to a
Lighter, and the other had some employment under
the. Wet Dock Company, They stood charged
with stealing a quarter of a hundred weight of cot.
fee, from on board a vessel in the River, that lay
ate the Hambnro' tier of st.ips, off St. Catherine's
Stairs. They were suspected .by the water Police
Officer, who called to them to stop, as they were
going off in a Wherry from this vessel, about seven
rn the morning, and they, threw over a bag, large
e:,0ue,.11 to contain th'rty po4nds weight of coiree'or
sugar :----when the Oflizer came tip, he searched
them, aid COund in the pocket of one of thetn,.abotit
two p. whits. weight of coffee, which, on -examina-
tion, v.as fOund to be the same in quality as that on
board the vessel, from which upwards of a quarter
o!' a Hundred weight was taken out of one of 0:e
c •

Tht: Cir.tN7oN SERIFANT thrtight, that although
this was crid,!nce of the steaOng of eoffce to the
atmunt of what was found in the possession of the
teriwner,.and wss strop;; presuroptioO that they
stole the whole 91. the coffee
.that was missing from
on board the Vessel, ypt he thought it ,vas lrartlly
to suppbrt the charge. as far as it' atf...cicd
the lives of the Prisonqrs; and theeefore he advised
the Jury to acqiiit.tl44:l4.44.ll,e.F* of cay,;tal part
of. the and to find them .goilty of the,
sitgle Fctony which thry.ditt accordingly.

Clyambers and Price were charged
with the capital offence Of a burglary, in the house
of Wm. Taylor, and stealing
.therein, tin the 4d,nf
March, zo loaves of sugar, roo.hs. weight °fana
of tea, together with some,plate.and
linen, his property:
1
It appeared in the cvidt.riee, drat the house of the
Prosecutor was.broken open at the tittle mentioned
in the Intlitftment, and the shop plundered of the ar--
tides as there stated: but under all the eircutet.,
.StAlle6' of the,ease-, ,as they .appeared • in' evhiei*eY,..
there Was ,no prt*lf of the fad having been'
committed, in the nighttime nor, in• the oiciniow—
of the Jury, that it was sufficiently crearjnd strong
to 'implicate tire Prisoners.; they. therefore, pru.:,
pounced them—Not

, .
. •
j At Witt was charged with the. capital offence
of a high Way robbery, in teloniously•assaulting John
Menteno, and taking /of cibly from his person, a
silver watch, his property.
The Prosecutor, a young lad, son of Mr. M.
the Print*StAler, PALMA!, it appeared, was go.:
ing through I'vlaryie.bnnt.:street, about half pa.st
eight o'clock, when the Prisoner met him, snatched.
the watch vi,;!entic lrt,ni his pocket, and ran, Ll'
with it.: The Pt c,sccir.or cr:c .1 out 4 stop thief,' anti
fotloWed him, on v.,hi6, one of the Witnesses, on.
able to stop the Prisoner in any other manner, knock.
cd him diwn, when the Prosecutor's watt h was funnel.
under hint. ri.'he'se Etas drarly aprenriog itt evi,
dance.; as jury found .!rdiet quilo.., but nut t 9
the fuli,.ekteo, of charge.