The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-29 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

ROBBERY 11.

I THE MINT.

Yesterday John King, the. dciendant, was in-
dicted for buying 2(.; ounces of silver, value 61.
the property of the prosecutor, Mr. Mosbett, who
is the refiner in the Mint. About the of Au-
gust last, as will be recollected, there was a con-
siderable •Tiantity or silver stolen from the Mint,
souse pieces Or which were found in the posses-
sion of the defendant, a slop,-seller in gist Smith-
field. Au investigation of course took place before
the Magistrates of Lambeih-street Office, which
were fully detailed at the time in our Police Report.
The defendant accounted for them by saying he
purchased them from a jew,.Abrahant Levy, who,
being apprehended, said be got them front a 'Spa-
nish sailor to sell to the defendant 3 but he did not
know ‘vho that sailor was, and had never seen
him since. A bill was found by the Grand Jury
against Levy, but he was not tried. An extra-
ordinary circtonstance took place before the Grand
Jury, on which Mr. ALLEY, as Counsel for de-
fendant,Commented with much force, observing,
that it was a grosS and hitherto Unprecedented
breach of the valuable rights of .a British subject.
The defendant had, it appeared, been a witness
before the Grand Jury, where he had been exa-
mined, and but for that exathination, there would
not have been the slightest shadow even of sus'.
picion against him. The prosecution against Levy
was abandoned, and the defendant brought tr,
Rid. This, at Mr. Alley contended.) was con-
trary to the immemorial usage of the law, which
certlinly never requireda man to convict himself,,
and he trusted in God he would never have cause.
again to reprobate it in a Court of JUstice. iJa
Was happy to say, however, he had a cloud
witnesses to character, who WoUld at once spew
the defend Ant to be a different 'man from what he
was charged to be. The Learned Gentleman
concluded an animated and eloquent Address in
behalf of the defendant, bycalling a great number
of respectable witnesseS who had known the de,
fendant for six, ten, and fourteen years, as an
honest, upright, sober man.
The Jury retired) after an impartial charge
&dm the Chairman, and in twenty minutes re-%
turned a verdict of Not Guilty.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

kEWMARKET TLI!RD OCTOBER OR HOUGHTON

MEETING, 1817.
TULSDAY, OCTOBER 28.

Fifty Pounds, for two-yr-olds carrying a feather, three,
7st. 51b. four, sst. 21h. five, 9st. 31b. six, 9st. 7th. and aged,
9st. lolb. Last three miles of the B.C.
Ld StaWell's b. c. Merry-maker, 3 yrs • • - 1
IA Jersey's ch. h. Slender Billy, aged • - • 2
Mr. Rogers's b. f. by Sorcerer, out of Stingtails 2 yes ... 3
Mr. Fulher's b.f. by Sorcerer; out of a sister to Rosetta,
3 yrs •
6 to 4 agst Merry-maker-6 to 4 agst Slender Billy.
Handicap Sweepstakes of logs each, for :3-yr-olds, and up-
wards. T. Y. C.

Ntr. Farrales c. by Bobtail,t yrs, 7st. 131 b
D. of Rolland's Rhoda, 4 yrs, fist. 2
. .

Eight started.—The Judge placed but two.
4 tot agst•Rhoda.

INSANITY AND SUlClDE.—Yesterday an Inquest
was held at the Three Colts, Bethnalsgreen, be-
fore J. NV. UNwIN, Esq. on the body of Mr. Jo-
seph Biggs, a tespectable Gentleman, who put a
period to his own life by poison, George Ed-
ward Carruthers, surgeon of Mile-end, deposed,
that he was sent for to the deceased about eight
o'clock the preceding evening ; Omit he found
him vomiting, and, front the appearances, he sus-
pected he bad taken poison, and he gave hint
medicine to counteract the effects of it. He asked
the deceased what he had taken ; lie said he had
taken sixpenny-worth of arsenic in a glass ,of
brandy and water ; that he bought it the night
before. at a chemist's, in Chiswell-street. Witness
opened the body after death, and found the coats
of the stomach in a state of high inflammation,
and likewise about two drachms of arsenic were
found in his stomach, which occasioned his death.
Mr. Mordaunt, surgeon, of Hackney, who assist-
ed in opening the body, concurred with the last
witness in opinion as to the cause of his death. It
appeared that the deceased had formerly been a
salesman in Smithfield, but lately had retired, and
lived on his fortune at Hackney, and had fre-
quently, within these five months, exhibited decid-
ed symptoms of insanity, a complaint which was
hereditary in the family, three of whom had put
an end to their existence. The Jury, after a short
consultation, returned a verdict of " Insanity."
CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.—It has lately become
a practice with a certain description of persons,
known by the epithet of common informers, to
impose upon the unwary publican in the following
:patina :—Two men go into a public-house, .anti
call for some liquor ; after being seated a few
minutes, they request the landlord to lend them
some dominoes or cards, and the natural anxiety
to oblige a customer induces hint to furnish the
articles required. A third person then enters, and
after a few moments observation, affects to'expos-
inlate with the landlo'rd on the impropriety and
illegality of salt:Hug gaming in his house, and
departs with a threat, that he (the landlord) will
hear more about it in another place. If this
threat does not succeed in extorting a sum of ma-
tey by way of compromise, he is actually sum-
moned before a Magistrate, time offence is proved,
for the first lie is fined 40s. and for the second
101. It is hardly necessary to add, that the scheme
is the invention of the three above-mentioned per-
sons, who share 'amo►►g them the moiety of
,the
penalty to which the informer is entitled.
A few days since Messrs. COOPER and Co. Sur-
geons, of Charlotte House, Great Charlotte.
street, Blackfriars-road, gave an elegant enter-
tainment to several of their friends ; among the
company were Six Gentlemen who assisted in ex-
inguishing the late fire at the
.Medical Board.—
The dinner was at Mr. Cleveland's, Dog and
Stile 'Tavern, St. George's-fields. On having his
health drank by the Treasurer of the Board who
Fesided,•Mr. C. expressed himself in handsome
terms, declaring he was under the greatest obli-
gation to the Medical Board for the cure of a
dreadful rupture, seventeen inches mend, with
which he had been afflicted many years, and
deemed incurable by eminent Surgeons. Several
Medical Genilemen present (one front the York
Hospital) expressed their pleasure in witnessing;
so good a case. Dr CooPeß's health was them
drank with enthusiasm. The dinner was excel-
lent, served up in the first style, and the evening
concluded with hilarity.