The Sun.
London, England, 1810-11-01 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Yesterday the Sessions commenced before Lmd
Ellenborotigh; Mr. Baron Thomion, 21r. Justice
Lawrence, lee Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs,
Recorder, and ther City' Uric,-r;.
i'lr. K NAM', on the tart of tte proieentors, (the
Bank of Etiglon.9 moved to ltati e the trials of Daniel
Aris and WI Fulkard postponed till next
Sessions.

Mr. GURNEY and Mr. ALLEY, as Conflict for the
prisoners, cou:d not consent to this, unless the
Counsel for the prosecuti,n agreed to the liberation
of the pri.oners in the wean time.
This %has agreed to, and the two prisoners were
brought to the 'Bar, awl discharged on their own
recognizanc,s, to the extent of 1001. each, to take.
their trials at the next Sessions.

ENSIGN itEPRIJUN AND WHITE.
John Newbold Heplan n, whose trial had been
postponed from the September Sessions, in con•e-
citit-nce of an affidavit by himself, stating the ab-

sence in Portugal, of two drummer boys, ‘vho %Veie
material witnes.es in his-favour, now filed an adJi-

tiocal affidavit, detailing a variety of applications
made by him at the Commander in Chief's Orlice,
requesting that these. boys might be ordered home,
and an answer from the office that this could not be
complied with ‘Aithotst a requisition from the Court
to that effeEt. The prisoner, therefore, begged the
interference of the Court to the effeci orprocueing
him the means of obtaining justice, and that his trial
might be again postponed, till the presence of those
boys could be vocured.
Lord ELLENBOHOUGH said, the Court was not in
the habit of issuing its requisitions to any of the de-
partments of Government. Et was to be hoped,
that they would at all times be ready, as it was their
duty, ,A idiom •ary interference of the Court, to !To-
mote the ends of justice. • At the same time, as the
ab...ence of the witnesses referred to seemed not to
have been occasioned by any remissne,s on she part
of Mr. Hepburn, in endea,outing to procure their
testimony, he saw no impropriety in postponing the
trial.

The young man, IPliite, expressed his desire that
hia trial should now proceed.
Mr. Au.cy, who appeared as his Counsel, dis-
suaded him from persevering in such a request. If
the evi lence of the two buys would be bi.meticial to
En‘ign Hepburn it must be rqually so to him. .
Lor ELLENBOROUGu said, if ihe young man wish-
ed hi; trnil io proceed now, he was entitled to hive
h s desire coitiplid with. Justice ►oust not be de-
nied to him fur the accommodation of another.

White, however, did not persevere iu his request,
and the trials of both were postponed.

COINING.

Robert Butt, Itlary Walton alias Bolt, Thomas
Walton, Joseph Gape, and Sarah Slater were indicted
for High Treason, under the statute of Edward the
Hid. in coining or counterfeiting the current coin of
the realm, denominated shillings and sixpences.
William Stalord, an accomplice,' and the Police
officers, Vickery, Armstrong, &c. proved the fad
of coining by the whole of the rrisonets, in which
they carried on a wholesale trade, the plates consist-
Mg of a composition in which there was a small
proportion of silver, being furnished by Jos pit Cope
to Robert Butt,, by the latter of whom the blanks,
of the sizes of shillings anil sixpences, or as they •
were scientifically denominated, " bobs and tanners,"
were cut JUL., by means of a cutting engine ; in this
state they were delivered to Cope, by why gym. and by •
Sarah Slater the blanks were rounded in the edges with
a file; and were coloured nod finished off till they
were in a state fit tier circulation.. In the house of Butt
was found a cutting engine mounted, and a cutter in
it of the size of a sixpeuce ; under the engine was a
blank of a sixience corresponding with the cutter in
the engine, and a quantity of scissile, or remains of
the oldies out of which blanks both of shillings and
sixpences had been cut. Here, iowever, no shil-
lings or sixpences were found in a finished state.
In Cope's apartments there were found a great quan-
tity of counterfeit shillings and sixpences, some in a
finished state, and some not; there were also found
cloths, which, thotigh they had been washed, re-
tained :he appearance of having been covered with
aqua firth, a composition used by counterfeiters of
money; the hands of Cope and Sarah Slater, when
apprehended, also appeared discoloured, as if with
aqua fortis; there were the appearance of filings of
metal about the room, and the remains of cream of
tartar, w hich is also used in disguising base money.
Lord ELLENBUHUUGH doubted, however clear it
might be that these persons carried on a most ne-
farioes trade, whether the charge could he support-
ed, as laid under tire present indietmeet. By the
statute of the Bth and bib of Wiliam the Third, it
was rendered apparent that the Aet of Elwaril the
Third applied only to total and complete participa- •'
tion- in the whole process. of coining. It did not ap-
pear in proof, however, that the shillings and six-
pences found in a finished state in Cope's Wise,
must have firmed part of the banks cut by the
engine found in the apartment of Butt, or that Cope
had a participation in this original operation.
The Jury accordingly found the prisoners—iVot
Guilty.
Robert Butt was then indicted under the ALA of •
the,Btb and 9th of William the Third, for havitut.in
his possession a machine or engine, calcul tied to cot
flatted bats of silver or ;old to the similitude of the
current win of the !ealoi, he not being io the em-
Tl'Vueni of the Lords ot • the Treasury, or of the
Mint, without lawful authority or excuse.

On this charge the eVideuee «as again adduced,
and the Nei being clearly proved, the prisoner was
found Guilty—Deal
Cope and Sundt Slater were indi&ed under

the same statute, tor colouring certain pieces of
couuterteit metal to the similitude at• shillings and
si x-peaces. - •
The proof was confined to one six'-pence ; but ii
not being satisfactorily m;idts Out that this piece had *
been coloured: at the Inoineuf," or it it' had been s
colouted by both theprisoneti, and, if not by bUth,
by..which of the two the indiiidnat sit-pence had
beets to coloured. , The. Jury found both prisoners
Xot Guilty.