The Sun.
London, England, 1810-01-20 00:00:00

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SWINDLING.. 4
MANSION44OUSB.-John Cooper', a young man of
gentlemanly appearance, anoilt 23 years of age, was
yesterday brought before the Magistrate under a vao
eety of charges, for , obtaining goods on fAse pi e;--,
tences ; end, certainly, the
.instances proved .agairid

im evinced a boldness of advent Ore, and a know-

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ledge of ways and means rarely.excelled by any nib-
dern genius, for ". carrying on the •Wari!' as the
phrase is, since the exploits of the celebrated Ma-

jor Seinple. • •
The first charge was brought forward by a Mr.
Blundell,
.a mercer, .of 13ishop<gate-street,
,from
whole statement it -appeared, 'that on the loth, of.
last'Pecember, the priionercaMe to his shop, bar-
gained for a quantity of saiSnet, amounting to 61..
34. 6d. and' ordered it to be sent *ith a'bill to the.
Bull Inn, in the same Street, where he would Pay,
for it. It was aceordinthr cent by Mr.. Thundell's

porter,. who took with biro change
.amounting to
the difference- between the pill -and 71. The pri7
soner took the goods and change, and gave the
porter two Banker's notes, doe 'for 51. and the other
for 21. the porter brought to his master, but
which, on examination, proVed to be country notes,

purporting to be issued by 'aOrnqt Bank in Hamp-
shire, made payable by Jogget and Co. City Chatn-
bers,'and marked with the signatures of Cooper and

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Hard- wicke. Upqn inquiry,
,hoti ever,. at the City
Ciiarnbors,' Mr. Blundell was informed. these notes

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wise fiaitious, and that there was no such Bank as
that froin.which they purported to issue.
,The next accuser was a Mr. Bumstead,,a hosier
in the city', who stated that the prisoner came to his
house, and gave. an order for hosiery to the amount

of 61. which he desired to be sent to Broad7street
Chambers, with a bill to be there paid. They were
sent. in Consequence to the prisoner's chambers there
and,paid.for. In a few days sobsequentiV, the pri-
soner again called and gave an order for shirts, hand-
kerchiefs, hosiery and other goods, to the amount'of
351, I Bs, and ordered also that they should be aentl.
as before to Broad-street chambers. On their being:
sent there, he said his clerk had just gone out, and.'
inadvertently taken with him the key of the desk,'
so that 'he could not get at his banker's check-book,
but requested the messenger to leaVe the 'goods,
and call at any other time. This was done; but
the prisoner was never more to be foUnd there, nor
any clue to find,hitrt elsewhere.
Varkaus Other persons brought different charges
aginat him for goods, out of which he had.swindled
them, with the assistance,of a young man named
Hardwicke, who a&ed as his clerk at Broad-street
Chambers. Amongst the number was Mr. Samuel
Nock, gunsmith, of Fleet-street, from whoM Hard-
wicke had obtained a. gon and a pair of pistols,
amounting to 40L upon a fiaitious bill of exchange
also Mr. Mortimer, another gun-smith of Ludgate-
hill, from whom he got a double-bartelled fowling-
piece, and sorneother artiole.s by a similar stratagem.
Mr.Ch-rdwick, a silveramii h, of Cbrnhill, charged
the prisoner with having obtained from him, in
a like- fraudulent way, a number of silver forks and
spoons.
Mr. Deynas, of Wel worth, complained also of
being swin,:led by the prisoner out of a cut-glass
chandelier and decanters., of considerable value ; and
a Mr. Lathy, of New ate-street, stated ihat the
prisoner had, in like manner, obtained from him
linen to the amount of 231.
Several other people were in attendance, to prove
other frauds against the prisoner, hut there was not
time for their exam;nation.
It appeared that the prisoner, in company,with
FlardwiCke, bad occupied those rooms in Broad-
street. ...
Chambers; for the very purpose ,•of.recetcang
goods. They employed a clerk of reputable Ap-
.pearance to receive the goods; and give plausible an-e
swers to all :inquiries. They 'bad enot her house at
Wel worth; and e, eonoti ng- house inWestininster,each
of Which answered t he dooble purpose; of a teceptade-
for 'spoil, and a Iziai:e of reference from the other
two. .Many persons were by these meats grossly
cheated ; for when. the gomis..were once., secured in
the tray, the purchaser .was-oeear eavrin to. be seen.
Hard wiel,e starlet', Mes assumed t he name of ,Cooper,
and Cooper occasionally ten that of Jackson. A
man whom th,ey occasionally etdPloyed as gardener,
at their house in Walworth, and to whom they ne-
ver paid any wages, stated, that Ilea), decamped wish
the whole furniture 'of the house in one night ; that
the Cart which carried it was unloaded in the middle
of a field, . and after a, little time the goods were
placed in another cart, and removed to some place
known only to the prisoner and his accomplice.
The extent to w hich these men contrived to carry
on this systeM, is scarcely calculable. It is suppos-
ed that above an hundred persous were the dupes of
their artifices, under various pretertces. -
He was committed for further examination on a
future day.
Evan and Jcsep/a Jones, in custody for stealing
mask from the premises of Messrs. BoWden and
Tucker, druggits, in Camomile-street, were yes-
terday' brought up far,a :second exarnmationi but
Mr. NALD2II not having obtained oily new infama-
tien on the collect, they were itgairi reeaanded.

MA RLDOROVGII-STRIMV."—BUB GL'A RY. Beaisancl
Pritchard,. the -latter a whom is a ir..,stt:r butcher
in Berwick-street, were yesterday re-examined on
the charge of breaking and enteri'n the dwelling-
house of Mr. Stacey, in IN impole-iitreet, and stealing
cloth to the amount of
.1001. The pcisoners vv,tre
taken, in consequence of Od,ly, a Dow-street patrol},
informing Mr. Stacy that Ise would get "his lo,t pro-
perty restored for 20 guineas. It turned out,•on
• vestigating' the circumstances, that ythe prisoner
Pritchard had asked the value of soma cloth he had
by him, and which he In 4 observed at the time had •
been got upon the crack (burglary) by the. prisoner
Beais,,who is a publican's son, and whom the two
.1049- toot: into custody at the Office. It turned out
that.the (loth in. Pritchafd's possession belonged to
trbe prosc.cuto.y ; and it was,also proved, that he bad
received it of Bettis, knowing it to ba stolen.—Prit,
chard way fully committed for trial ; and Bcais was.
again retnaoded.

QUERN-SQUA..lll—Yesterday a case of conlider-,
able importance to pawnbrokers came on to be
heard at the above office.

Three gentlemen of tivat profession, one of whom
feiisiee is. 6'42 » Sha4.7

made. their cppnranCe before 1,VILLIN:•1 FIETer
DING and E3sNnY•hik4i3 PYE, Escjrs. to atiiwer to a
complaint preferred against ,each of them', .by two
'.officers belonging to the Excise, for ;having taken in
pledge a nunib,r of bandattna hathlercbipls, con-
trary the. statute, 'and .harbouring and ec.)n6ealini
The said prohibited_ articles. It appenreci by al.,
-statement of one.of the Complainants, thit in sea:a,
Tag the fesideilce of the ,defendaiii, a quantity of
prohibited articles of the above c:tscription, were
found in their possession, which hod been, taken in
as pledges.

Tl‘e above statvnient was fully substantiated,
likewise b the testimony of Burgess,' another of-
ficer belong`trg to :the Exciie; no!wi.thstAnainir,
which, there being no proof that the said articles had
been taken in by arty of flit. defendant: as prohibited
goo,Js, but on the cow t.!ry, it %vac proved sthlt the
sai,l goOds had been. taken as `Fledgits at. Chtferent
periods ; and that they were oat new, 'and that they
had not bem ,knoWingly lu or concealed-by
Any of them, consequently they were acquitted.

TIATTON-GARbEN.—Yeqeniay two bakers wee
charged by the Chit Leet Jury, for.epositsig bread
deficient in weight io the public. Some Of the
loafies were very'clefettive, noon which ihey were
severally convicted, and the bread distributed to the
poor.

C9RONEIC.S .INo.unsT.,--At, seven o'clock On
Thursday evening, an I,equest was held in Upper
Thames-street, before 'Trios. 'SHELTON, P,sq. Co-
roner' for, the. City of London, oh the body of Mr.
litbit LEVI, who was found dead about noon that
day, in Monument-yard. It appeared in evidence,
that the deceased had paid for admissiou into the
Monument, observing tot he keeper, that some La-
dies were shortlyto join him, upon which the Man
said, " Sjr, had not you better wait until the Ladies
come ?" The deceased, however, proceeded* on-
wards direaly ; he reached the gallery, Precipitated
himselinVer the railing, and falling on his head, ex-
pired 'without' a groan. His fall appeared at first tv ,
be in such' a strait perpendicular diredioo, that it was
thought he would have fallen inside of the railing;
hiS feet, however, striking against one of the grif-
fins by the way, threw him some distance from the.
Monument, and he. fell. into the yard surrounding it.
He'vi,as one of the most extensive dealers in dia-
monds, pearls, rubies, toeazes, emeralds, and
.other precious stones; in England. - He was of the
Is:wish persuasion ; and, besides several very exten-
sive counedions abroad, be had nearly twenty Jews
-about- the .streets Of London, who acted as hawkers
or 'runners to his house, and etch of whom had
power Jo. gite' credit to the Jewe)ers to a great
eKtant. •I:\fithin the course 'of tiniest mouth he
called on a person of responsibility in the trade, re-
siding in Craven-buildings, arA offerad trim dia
monds and other precious Stones to the amount of
between 2 and 30001. ,ou credit ; but the other
prudently refused the offer on account of the very
great I isk he ran of disposing of such a quantity of
-valuable gems in time 'sufficient for the payment.--
Tire deceased was a man of such correctness in all his
dealings, flint up to the'very day of his death, he
could have got credit amongst the other merchants
in his line of busieess to almost any atnount. He
had been, however, unfortunate in several very ex-
tinsive speculations to Gibraltar and other places
abroad ; he could not brook the ide'a of sustaining
his credit for some time longer by the assistance of
friends, whom, perlyers, he might not have it ill
* leis power to pay ; add 'after having passed many
years in the -most honotrable affluence, his altered
circarnstances made-a d'ep impression on his mind;
he-was
-:observed to be frevently of a gloomy habit,
was totally absorbed in - thought, and absent froti
every thing- Oat v. as. the topic Of conversation around
him.: • He has IL:ft a wife and eight children to be.
wail his loss, and it is supposed that his wife is
pregnant of a ninth child. Cinder all these cireum-
stances,..the Jury returned 'a verdid of Insanity.

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SATS 111 KAMPTSCII.ATA.—There is a species of
'Rats in karriptschri' tka; which nearly resemble those
this country, but these live in the woods, fields,
and high mountains, in a kind of community, hav-
ing very neat nests, which are large, and divided
into'different apartments spread wrtit grass, in some
of whigh they Store uproots of_ several kinds, which
fliey gather with great labour in summer, and lay
up against winter, dragging them out in Sunshiny'
weather in order to dry them. All the summer
they lives upon berries, and such other food as they
can find, never touching their winter provisions,
while any is to be procured in the fields.' These
Rats change their habitation, and sometimes they
leave the country, which.t he inhabitants of Kampts-
chatka imagine forbodes a rainy season and a bad
y. ar for hunting, but when they return they expect
a tine one, and a good year for the chace, and there-
fore expresses are sent to all parts with the agreeable
hews:. When they depart,- it is always .in the
Spring, first,' assembling in great numbers, and Steer
their curse dife,West, crossing rivers, lakes, and
even arms of the Sea,' and when they reach the
shores, spent with fatigue, they lie as if dead upon
the banks, till recayering their strength, they again
pursue their march. They have nothing to tear on
the land, their greyest danger is lest sons raven-
bus fish should devour them, for the I(amptscha-
dales, on finding them weak on the banks, give
them every assistance in their power. Their troop
is someti*s soil-Mimi-oils, that travAers an ob'iged
to ‘wat- two hours for their passing by. Tf,ey
Usnaily return to Kamptschatka about the month
Oaoher. lt is surprising that such 'animals are able
to pass over Such au immense track of land ; and no-
thing can be more admirable than the regularity and
order they:observe in their march.
NEW DISCOVERY.—We learn, from Yakntsh
in Siberia, that nl‘l, HEDENSTROM has again
the lands discovered to the north of Siberia ;, andwhich are deserit)ed, in the best maps, as the coun-
try of t istickof, or Sannikow. This place it found
lo be nothing but an Island. Rut more' to the
north, our new traveller discovered a chnirtry wa-
tered by considerable rivers, and which appeared' 10
tbrm part of a continent. He has inspeMed the
coasts for) 70 wersts, aid found them covered with
large petrified trees, heaped over each other in
layers. The mountains are composed of slate, pe-
trified wood, aq4 coal; That country has been named
I\LT Siberia.