The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-20 00:00:00

OLD PAILEY.

lames 'Mop2fie was indwted for a Highway Rob,.
hery,' committed on the person of Alfred Baxter,
to the arliount of direr dollars and a Shilling,
The -prosecotor when .on his way to town,. at
aboiit eleven- o'clock on the night of the I ith of
June, .from Chalk' Farm, was stopped near St. Pan-
cras' Workhouse, by the prisoner, who putting a
pistol to his ear, demanded his. money ; on win ness
hesitating,- the prisoner cocked the pistol, and the
immediately 'gave him all his money,
amounting to threes dollars and a shilling. The
prisoner,. after vainly endeavouring to get more
money frofn bin), went 'away across an adjoini'lig
field. Witness-then proceeded tolown, and in ins
way called at the Britannia Public House, Camden
Town, where he gave information of his having
been robbed. On the Monday following he saw
the prisoitr at 13 ow-street, knew him' ithmediAtely
and identified the shilling of which he had been
robbed.

John Smith, one of the Bow-street Patrole, said,
that he was returning from Hampstead, together
with another-officer of the name of Preston, they
bad obgerved a, man %Valking in a field, and having
heard of the robbery, Preston went over to him, and
after some conversation he took the man. into cus-
tody, and brought him into Mother Red Cap's, they
then searched his pockets anti found three: dollars
and a shilling, one farthing and a loaded" pistol.
Preston, the officer, corroborated the testimony of
the, last witness.,

The pri-oner said that he had come from B ith to.
gei some prize-Money,. and that beink disappointed
he went. to Hampstead to call on a triend ; on his
v.ay, he found the pistol on the road. He lay down
in•a field to sleep, and
,was 'yet ignorant ,kliy he had
been taken into custody.—Guilty, Death.
John pkaded guilty to the charge of being
at large within this kingdom before the expiration of
the term during which he was sentenced to be trans-
ported.

Charles Mason way tried for stealing wearing ap-
parel to-the value t.f five pounds, the property of
Ttiom,4s Ne ,-bury, in the house.of George Lane.—
The prisoner and the prosecutor lodged in the same
house.—Acquitted.

liobert Latham was convicted of
,stealing .a tea-
caddy, (is. value, the property of Sophia M‘Ketizie.
Lucy Foley w:is indict.2d for stealing four pound
b ink notes iritn the person mf Stephen Leason, a
servant, hi. propf.:lfy.—.,acquitted.
George barrel was capitally indiEted fOr stealing
bank 'notes, doilars, &c. in the 'dwelling-
house of a publican in Kensington, the property of
•Samuel Anhther indicttneiit cirarged him,
with feloniously breaking out of the said house with
intent to.,es. ape.

Ann. Sim>le the prosecutor's wife said, that'she and
her hush•nd were lodging at the Etght. Bells public-
house, li,lisington, ',on' the night of the 20th of
Jurie she:and her hus`tand,slept in one bed, thr.::
sorter and,anothex man in, another' bed; id the-sante
room : witness on going to bed placed her • pock-ts
containing the money under berhead ; on awakening
in he tn,,rning at five O'clock, she found that the
pocket, containing the money had been tit away,
she went to the •other bed and found the prisoner
gone ; *pa!) was in the bed and told her
he, had gone out at tour that morning. She went
down shies but theurisoner was gone. Her husband
was a sailor, and had receiv• d ti:e money in question
as prize money. Knew n,,thit:g 01 the prisoner till
three days before the robb,-ry. She and her husband
had. come frOm Wales to, receive his prize-Money,
and the prisoner had seen ver receive the money
from her husband at the Artichoke, at Ken-
sington. The first time she saw the prisoner was
at a liublic-house in the •Bo7rough; he immedi-
ately ran htici the house, shut the door, and climb- ;
ed over the wall .of the. yard into the next house,
where he. concealed InmSelt- under-the stairs. • The
constable who accompanied witness took him into
,custody,; witness said how could-he have acted sio;
prisoner bid her lake it easy. •

Samuel Sipple; the husband of the last witness,,
corroborated her testimony'. He added, that it was
by the persuasion of the prisoner he had been
diced to take up his money out of the hands of the i
owner of the Artichoke.

John Bass slept wilrthe prisoner on the night of
the roAbery. Ile awoke at tour' in the _morning,
and touted that the prisonvr was gone, but that his
bundle had been, left behind. •

Jc►•e[Sh Shepherd, Clerk in the House of D )wn,
Thorn►on, and Free, proved the payment of the
prize money, he having paid a check drawn on said
f-Jous;• by Messrs. Conk and Co. to the amount of
471. les.

Joni) Golf, a constable, who apprehended the
prisoner, and -to,,k him io UniOn Hall, tound on his
person a silver ‘vatcti,,and afterwards at his lodgings
various articles of wearing apparel, quite new ; also,
a purse, containing a ten pound note, which prisoner
said he had found on the toad,

Elizabeth Couhon, daughter of the landlord, cor-
roborat,d the testimony relating to the prisoner's
lodging and -golng away from that house.
John Tennant stated, that the prisoner,, en the
29th of June, had bought of hint a piece of linen
and shawls, and gave him in payment a Al. note,
which_ he changed. • This note b-ing at'erwards pro-
duced in Court, by Mr. Parker, from the Bank, the
witness Tennant recognized it ~and swore positively
it was the same note paid by the prisoner.
Mr. Shephe,d was again called, produced-a
.boOk, in wnicn was entered the numbers of the
notes, paid by lint to Sipple—the three ten-pound
notes were, 244-5-6, and dated each 4th June,
18 10. Two of these notes were produced :n Court,
and the dates and number, corresponded.
The prisoner in his detence said, that he had
found the notes—that.he had been-22 years in the
navy,- and never in 'a prison but in.those.eithet of
K•uce or. Spain.

Guilty r f siealing in the dwelling-house, to the
amount stated id the iniictment—Death.
June Stinson and Sarah Junes, for feloniously co-
Jour.ing, with materials producing the colour of sil-
ver, divers pieces of •base coin resembling 'six-
pences, were capitally cbnviaed.

FORGERY.

William Carpenter was capitally indieted for ut-
tering a forged onepoond bank-note; 'knowing the
sa;ne to be tOrge,;. Anuther count charged him' with
having forged ihe sAme.

WiJliam-Clarke said, he kept the Royal Oak pub-

lie-house.. in Red Unn-pi';'Saqe, 11.-0 1-)ofi-sinPre ;
r that on the g. 3,1 oe.'i,irch, the prs, ner. itlltwo -
others, came to his house at Moor in the afternoon,
and having taken
.three fig tt.or. efffred'iti
payment for the Safiit-• a oi.st hound oank-
nOte, mane paysibleat the or and Nnr- -
ris, 31,.AAile-street ; thai he refuSedelianee, when
the prisoner thiqi produced a Southampton 51. bank-
note ; and one of the other's said' to the prisoner,.
" You may as well get your brandy here,"
sorter then iaid, that. he an4-those with him were
going to visit" a friend, a prisoner in an adjoining
lock-up house, and that they would take -witr,
them sotw:brandy7-they bid, him give thein a bot-
tle of brandy and a pint of gin, ant to 06 sure not to
charge for the bottles, as they would
_be sent back.
Witness ~rook the one p:iund note, gave the iiquor,.
and ten shillings in -change; but .on going on the -
following Mon ray to the 'house in Addle.sireet,
there was no Such person as Butler—there had been
persons calling themselves. Butler'. Agents, .who-had
left the place Without paying the rent, And; whose.
desks had been det;;inet for the Sarne...--Mr.fostice
LE BL AiNe • bete asked the CotitAel for the,prOsecu-
tion (Mr.-
.Knapp) if he had any evidence .to -the
forgery of the 'note itself, who replying its the ne-
gative; the Jory;under the dire6lion'oct he Judge, ac-
quitted the prisoner, who was, hoWever,- detained .
uptio other charge's.
- John' Williams, for being at large before the ex-
piration of the term of his natural life,.for which
he had been ordered to be transported, was capitally
conyitied.
Esther Gamble, a younggirl of the age of thirteen,
was convicted of sealing 'several laced veils, and,
other articles, t heproperty of Charles Harris.- The
prosecutor kept a haberdasher's Shop, and the psi-
saner came into it on the 14th of June to ask the
price of a piece of lace she saw in the window. The
prosecutor supposing, from 11,1,r age and appearance;
: that she:was not in a condition to purchase, bid her
gb along. At that time two Ladies entered the.
shop, whO occupied his attention. Soon afterwards
he discovered that lace had been taken, out of the
box.on the counter to the amount of 401. or 501.
A pawnbroker, with' whom the priSoner pledged
several articles of laCe, stispeting she could not have
nb aint-d then) honestly., sent for -Foy., 'the
°filter, a.td had her taken into custody. ' She con-
fess 'd where she had stolen-the articles, and at her
lodging they found several other pieQes_of lace, the
property of the prthecutor.. •
John Kane, aged 19, a dragoon, was conviaed of
stealing a purse''and a. one note, the prokrty
of ThOutasPhillips. ,The prosecutor in this case
was a brickbyer, who coming from/the pay-table'
on
,a Saturday night, got int, company with the
prisoner and others, who were on a recruiting.'
party stationed in West Minster ; he' drank very
freely, and as' he u ent home the prisoner aceconr
palsied him. While they were going a:wig be said
he' felt the prisoner make several attempts to put his
hand in his' pocket- where his motq. was. .He sent ,
home,and went-to bed ; the next morning when he
awoke he missed fits money, b it sts;*ting the pri-
soner had got it, he went to a c ntstable. ; The con-
stable deposed, that be went to the prisoners quar-
ters early the, sn,:xt -Inc:ming, before 'he was risen,
and -as he'slept lie took his jacket'lrbtn Under his "
head.; in the pocket of which he found-the
prysecutor's purse,. and two .duplicates, which toe
prosecutor also identified to be his property.

POLICE.

-
MA NSI 0 N-HOU.Sfi .—Yesterday Daniel Spencer
Brown and Henry Spencer Brown were cti,irgect,
fore the Lord Mayor, ith torging.and uttering seVeral
checks upon the banking-house of Sir Wiltiain Cur;
tis and Co.

The worthy Baronet stated, that the Prisoners
were the two brothers of the'young .woriLin who
bad undergone an examination before his Lordship
upon the same subject., -He was sorry to say. that
these prisoners bad filled arid uttered several
checks; one of whicl4he produced, regularly tilled
up, and ..signed " Daniel Brown," the.narne ot.,a
respeCiablz "stock-broker, who keeps cash at their
house. •

, .
• Mr. Thomas Montague, the master oldie While
Horse public-house, in Moore-lane, Fore-street, de-.
posed that the, two ptisoners boarded and 'locked at
his house for two or three days—that a .balimce of
their account being demanded., of gs. 2J. they gave
him, the check in question, which, he carried to the
banking-house, and was told that it was a forgery,;
but before he returned, Ike prisoners had gone
away„ leaving word that they would return for the •
change, but they never did.
Mr. Daniel BrOwne .examined the check,, and,
with some hesitation, contested no part of it was his-
writing, nor did he know any thing of tiie prisoners.
The prisoners, in their deleirCe, said ,they were
brothers, ,and came from Northampton : they did
not fill up shese checks, but had them fro., a .man
at the Yorkshire Stingo„ Edgware-road, The pri--
soner Henry said he WAS a baker, and, the. other a •
servant.otit 'of place. The oldest did not seem to
be above 24. years of age...,They were both. folly
committed to No.vgate for trial, but not be
tried this Sessions.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, IUL Y 20.

This day's Market had a scanty supply pf, d:f-
ferent kinds of Cattle;
,Beef, Mutton, Veal, Lamb,
and Pork, sold at last prices; and the trace for ;he
most part was not over brisk.—The sales in the Hay
Market were not lively.;. Straw hasgot up inprice ;
Hay and Clover have fallen in price.—The nude.-
Mentioned prices and numbers are a correct state-
ment:—

To sink the offal per stone of 81b. '
'Beef 4s. &I.' to 6s. c.d. Mutton 4s. Bii. to 6s. od. Veal
Ss. od. to 7s. od. Pork Ss. 0d..t0 7s. oil. Lamb 4s. Si. to
7s. od. .
Beasts 670. Sheep and Lambs7,74po. Calves 3 to. Pigs
230.
SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. •

Hay 61. os. od: to 81. Bs. od. Straw 21. tos. od. to 31.
los. ad. Clover 71. os. od. to 91. os. cd.

.U..• ~MO

CORN EXCHANGE, JULY .20.—There ate sere-.
ral further Arrivals of. Wheat to-day, with consi
er-
abl.e on hand, fine hadly at last prii.es, other (Ina-
lities• almost without buye, s ; Rye at less ;. again
very little Barley; Malt is lower;, -White Yeas like-
wise; Beans of the two kinds are cheaper ; there
are also considerable supplies °Wats, and this'traats
is cheaper, excepting fine Samples ; Flour nearly at
our late currency.

•LAIW DEPORT.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, juty 17.

LUCAS V. WILLAW.
This was an anion brought by the plaintiff who
had been a passenger in the Pilot, Liverpool stage-
coacti, belongieg to the defendant, and had his thigh
broken in consequence of the coach having'broken
down. Tbe plantiff alleged the injury to have taken
place from the double negligence•of. the-defendant;
first, in pipviding a bad axletree to his coach, and
next, in employ* a careless driver. ,
Mr. Hickmair who was a passenger when the ac-
. ciOent happened, deposed; that it took place about
150 miles from London, at the foot of a steep hill,
. where a rail-way intereiened the road ; rain had
fallen, and the iron of the rail-way projeeted near
two, inches above the surface of the road. He
warned the coachman, when going down the hill,
that he was driving too fast, but the coachman
laughed at him, and asked him if be was frightened ;
the coach jolted severely over the iron railway, and
the axletree 'snapped : the plaintiff had his thigh
broken. _

then they thought the accident might have been pre-
.vented by the driver's going more slOwly, or putting
drag on his wheel; they would also . find for the
plaintiff; they ~Vould 'give him whatever damages
they might consider due to him, both for his surgi-
cal expences and personal injury.
'terdia for the plaintiff.--Dania es t201.-40s,
costs.

- IvLY 19.
THE LATE' DIS TURBANCES

WILLIAM MAINWA RING, ESQ. V. BELL AND

DOBSON,

This was an ac=tion brought by the plaintiff (who
is Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the county
of Middlesex) to recover damages for the injury
which his house sustained on the night of the 6th of
April, from the outrage, of the mob. ; sThe aftion
was brought against the Hundred of OsSulton, in the
county of Middlesex, in which Hundred' his heuse:
iri Hanover-squareissituated.
Mr. Serjeant
.SHEPHERD stated the case on the
part of the plaintiff.' It was an•aetion, he observed,
founded on the Ist of George the First, which pro-
vided, " that if a mob unlawfully and riotously as-
Taylor,. a country blacksmith, had ex- ,sembled, and wit h.foreesdemolished or polled doWn;
amined the axle after the accident, it was broken or began to demolish or pull down any house; chapel,
about a foot from the shoulder. barn, stable, or any other building, &c. then the
Serjeant VAUGHAN" By your oath,. Sir, were Hundred in which such house, &c. was situate
you not drunk when you examined it ?" should reimburse the owner." The Learned Serjeant
Sir J Ath,EiMANSFIELD.--." Indeed I think brother, said, that on the night in queStion a large mob had
if he was drunk you. could scarcely expea hint tore- 1 assembled, in consequence of the Speaker of ; the
member it : you had better ask somebody else the House Of . Commons having issued his ivarrant to
question." apprehend Sir Francis Burdett. Now whether 'that
• The Surgeon,, who attended the plaintiff, was oft warrant was or not issued legally, that could not be
opinion that, titan a curvature isr the bone, the 4 offered in palliation for the condua of the mob, in
broken thigh would be always shOrter than the attacking the property of any individual. Mr.
sound
,one, so that he would be lame all his life. , Mainwaring had formerly been returned Member for
Serjeant SHEPHERD, as Counsel for the defendant, Middlesex, in opposition to Sir Francis Burdett, and
contended, that unless there was some negligence that circumstance, it is supposed, made him one of
proved against a Coach Proprietor, he was nut to be the objects of re,entment to the persons-illegally. got
en ids responsible for any casual acccident which together. They prodeeded from Piccadilly, and
might occur to his coaches. If such accident could were driven by the peace officers froM place to place,
fairly be imputed to the Proprietor's-want of atten- until at last they came to Hanover-square, about
Lion, undoubtedly he ought to suffer, but not other- half-past eleven o'clock at night, in number abut
wise. It very frequently happened that coaches, three or four hundred. He did• trot wonder that
belonging to private gentlemen, made ,with the those breaking the-laws should feel animosity against
greatest care, and purchased at a great expence, 1 the administrators of the laws. Mr. Mainwaring
met 'accidents which it was impossible either to fore- filled the office of Chairman of the Quarter Sessions,
see Or guard against. If such was the case with ree- was beneficially employed in the service of the pub-
pea to them, it.was doubly probable in stagecoaches, lic in keeping the peace, and, in adMinistering the
which went constant journies, and carried both lug- I criminal justice of the country, and therefore it was
gage and passengers. Modern coaches were very I likely that these sort of persons-should cost off those
liable, from their construction, to accidents. Every • restraints which morality and the law imposed upon
one knew that since the war it was difficult to get them in order to attack that Gentleman's property.
as gorsi iron as formerly, and necessary to use even Mr. Serjeant Shepherd then detailed. the evidence
what we had sparingly. (which he letended to produce), and stated, that
Sir JAMES MANSFIELD.+." Indeed' I, for one, t after the appearance of the mob in the square, the
know no such thing. I have even heard the con- butler of Mr. M. expressed his wish to put up lights
trary. Since the war there has been much good if they would be satisfied, but they answered, " No,
iron discovered in England." . d—n your lights, no! we'll not have lights, we'll
Serjeant SHEPHER'D.-.•-" I .know, my Lord, a have a smack at your house !" They then com-
coacb-maker once gave me that as a reason. for the menced the attack, and as be should prove, did
badness of a coach he made." . considerable damage to the house, by casting stone's,
Sir jeme;siNflarssareen.—“ Very likely he did, brickbats, &c. at it. tinder these circumstances,
brother ; but you should not have believed it." be had no doubt
_the Jury would find themselves
Srjealit SHEPHERD declared, that kt.that be as it compelled to give in a verdict for the consequence
Might, he would prove all that was necessary in
.I of this abominable, he had almost said, tremendous
the present instance : he would prove that not only riot ; a
_riot, which, had it not been for the strong
there was no- negligence imputable to Mr. \Villan, measures- taken, no man could have known where
but that every dad a man was specially appointed to it would haire stopped'. The defendants in this case
inspect the coaches, and- see that they were fit to had been selected because they were the High
• perform their jouri ey ; if he did cilia,' lie hoped the , Constables of the Hundred, and as a Jury must
Jury and his Lordship would be of opinion .that his give a verdict before any rate could be raised on the
rlieptsv'as not legally responsible for the effeets of , inhabitants.
an accident which it was not in his power to pre- The admission of the defendants, that the plaintiff
vent. occupied the house in .question, was then put in,
Captain' Trotter was a passenger in the coach fitom and read.
London : the Coachman, in his opinion, conduEted John Ross, a 'watchman, was examined. He
himself remarkably well. He attributed-the acci- I stated, that on the Gth of April, about twelve
_denttentirelv- to the rail-way at the foot of the hitt.— i o'clock at night, he was alarmed by the appearance
'He examined the axle after it had been broken it of a mob on the left hand side of the square, corn-,
did not seem to have suffered any former accident.— ; ing from Bond-street, there might be about 150
He was a. Sea Captain. . Before the break-doWn, the persons; they ,asked him which was Alainwaring's
coach had unloaded some of the cargo. house; he told them he did not know, -that he was
--, a wheelwright, proved his being em- a stranger; they went further on inquiring, ; and
ployed by Mr. Willan to inspect all the coaches pre- knocked at several doors; the witness knocked at-
vious to their departure on a Journey;• lie inspected Mr. .M.'s door, and told the servants the Mob' was
seventy in a week. If the Pilot bad appeared at coming. At that time t
herewas a great light in his
all unsound, he would . have ordered it to be laid box ; he went to it, and a large stone was thrown
aside, and have sent' anothercoach in its place at him; he put out the light. Somebody in the in-
J. Short was also appointed to inspeCt the coaches: ! terim had informed them which was the house of
be Was positive be inspected the Pilot, and that it i Mr. Mainwaring. They went up to it, knocked at
was fit, to go any journey. (This witness was very i the doer, and Some cried " This. is Mainwaring's-
-1 e
perplexed et his evidence—he saide the accident mere goes !" There was a great shouting, and,stones
happened in January' though it took place in No 1. and brickbats were thrown at the windows for near-
vernber.) ly half an hour. ' Previous to the attack lights bad
Valentine Hallam was guard to the Pilot.; it was ; been put in some of the windows. When they had
quite a new coach, and bad no flaw whatever. The ; broke all the windoWs they went away. He saw
driver was as good as any man on 'the road; he was the house in the Morning', the window frames and
driving down the bill at the rate of seven or eight glass were broke all to pieces. .Some of the mob,
miles an hour. • perceiving that he was about to spring his rattle,
The evidence was here closed ; and Serjeant : exclaimed `.` Dawn anti the watchman, if he
,hav ire; replied, • makes a noise, we'll -kill him !" - They inquired for
. Sir JAMES MAN3FIELD proceeded to comment On no other house than Mr. Mainwaring s. •
the evidente. 111 ease a carrier took charge' of goods, John. Price, butler to Mr. Mainwaring, spoke to
he was persopally responsible for theth if they should the same leas nearly; some of the mob asked him
.be lost, no matter whether through his carelessness when he opened.. the door, if that was Mr. Main-
or not ;it he even deposited them in a place of safety, waring's -house ? He. replied that it was, and that
as he thought, and teat it happened they were stolen he would put up,lights, it that .would prevent them
troM thence, he mould be liable. In short, the l from doing mischief; but they said—si No, we
law exempted him in no case, egcept where the vi- I don't want lights, _we'll have a smack at the win-
.sitaiion of Providence, or the unavoidable violence of dows," He thought there were abodt. tw'o or three
an enemy auerfered. With respect to a Coach Pro- hundred persons assembled.' They eacclaimed—
prietor, th-e case was different—he was not reason- j" No Mainwaring, Burdett for ever." He had
sible, upiess he was negligent. It was not, however, put up four lights before the mob made their a'p-
rieee.ssary for a piainuff to spew that a- Proprietor pearance, they threw very large stones, some Of
omitted to have his coaches daily examined. If it them weighing seven or eight pounds, brickbats,
appeared that on the departure cf the coach there Ike. The windows in the dining and drawing-
was a manliest- probabiliy that . the coach would room, and in the porter's hall were entirely broken,
break down, be was also liable, to the consequences many of the frames and the wainscot in the
'hall was .
of hs shiver's carelessness on the road. The present damaged, one pannel of the 'dining-room shutters
complaint was of a mixed nature—it first objected was broke through, the stair-case was marked with
to the weakness of the axletree, and next to the ne- stones. Hitirsell and the rest of the servants-Were
gligence of the driver. -If the Jury should think, obliged to retire (he having previously called them
from what they had heard, that' the axle was natu- up), in ordtr to secure their lives. Some of the'
rally unfit to bear the jolt over the rail-way, which , stones were thrown the length of Is feet,
jolt.wes to-be eXpeCted, because the existence of the Elizabeth Kalloway and Sarah Collier, in' the
rail-way was as well know to the driver as the ex- service of .Mr. Mainwaring, deposed to the same
istence of any turnpike-gate on the road, and should efrea..
have of course . been provided against, they would Mr, Joseph Wood was employed to repair the-
find for the plaintiff. They-had heard the driver was injury done to the house ; his -, bill amounted to
going down 'the hill at the rate of seven or eight t 901. Gs. There were five or six-- sashes repaired,
rules an hour, and that he was warned he was drive one entirely new ; two blinds repaired, &c. In-
ing too fast, but he disregarded the admeesition. If ; answer to a question from one of the Jury, he stated