The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-31 00:00:00

STAFFORD, JULY 29.

.Miss Mary Whatetcy, a young lady of very in-
teresting appearance, who was attired in deep
mourning, surrendered in discharge of her bail, to
take her trial, on a charge of wilfully setting her
house on fire, with intent to defraud the County
Fire Office.
Sergeant RUSSELL stated that Miss Wite-
ley had carried on the business of a milliner, at Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, and that having effected a policy
of insurance with the County Fire Office, on the
26th of June, in the present year, a fire was disco-
vered at the house, in the attic, at about eight
o'clock in the evening of the 30th of the same
month. It would be difficult, nay, almost impos-
sible, to suppose that this fire originated by acci-
dent, and it would be for the jury to say, upon the
evidence, whether they were satisfied that the house
had been set oa fire by the hand of its owner.
After evidence had been gone into at some length
for the prosecution,
Mr. Baron VAvattsr: said, it was quite impos-
sible to say that there was any evidence upon which
a conviction could take place. His Lordship then
directed an acquittal, and the Jury immediately pro-
nounced the prisoner--• Not Guilty.
Aliss Whaleley was then tried on a second indict-
ment, for again setting fire to her house on the 3d
of July. ,
Mr. Sergeant RUSSELL stated, that three days
after the former fire this house was discovered to be
again on fire, the fire en this occasion being in the
room immediately under the attic, the subject of the
farmer indictment.

Mr. Baron VAUGHAN—Were there no lurking
embers of the former fire ? It is rather difficult to
suppose that a person should effect a policy of insu-
rance on the 26th, and then set fire to her house in
a day or two after.
Several witnesses were called with a view of
showing that this secund fire could not have arisen
from the previous fire.
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN said, there was nothing
even to put Miss Whateley on her defence. Ver-
dict—Not Guilty.
Miss Whateley was immediately discharged, and
left the Court with her two sisters.
Thomas Lowe and Moses Smith were charged
with uttering a forged .51. Bank of England note,
knowing it to he forged, with intent to defraud Geo.
Bentley. Verdict—Guilty.

CAMBRIDGE, Jett' SO.
The business of the Assizes for this county, on
the Civil Side, has been at once unusually great
and unusually uninteresting. The number of causes
entered, being no less than 18, is double the ordi-
nary. number, but they are for the most part of an
interest purely local : while, on the criminal side,
the business was disposed of in two hours; the'
only prisoners being one for manslaughter, against
whom the Jury ignored the bill, and two for lar-
ceny. One of the causes still standing for trial ex-
hibits a record of the length of nearly !?,0 feet, and
the witnesses, we understand, are proportionably
numerous.

Mary Griggs was indicted for, and found guilty
of, stealing one gold ring, and other articles, the pro-
perty of a young lady of the name of Bull. On her
trial, a prisoner, the only other person for trial, gave
evidence for her, deposing that she (the witness)
and the prisoner were walking on Parker's Piece, in
this town, when the latter found the ring in peti-
tion. • The Jury, unfortunately, disbelieved the tes-
timony of the witness, anal found Mrs. Griggs guilty,
and she was thereupon pUt by till the case of the
other accused was disposed of.
Anne Slogrove, aged 21, was put to the bar
charged with having stolen a muslin flounce, value
Bs., a piece of lace and other property,
the goods and
chattels of Miss Anne Ball.
The prisoner was a very intimate friend of Mrs.
Griggs, the last prisoner, who was the cook in 1111,,s
Bad's family. The prisoner was in the habit of going
to the house of the prosecutrix before the family
were up in the morning, and on one occasion, when
all the family except the son were gone out, she was
found concealed •in the pantry, and said she was
there " to frighten the cook 1" Suspicion falling

on Mrs. Griggs, she was discharged, and she went
to reside in the house of the prisoner, whose house
was afterwards searched, and the articles, the sub-
ject of this indictment, found in her box.
The prisoner, in her defence, said that Mrs.
Griggs had put the articles into herbox, and had
herself acknowledged so.
Mr. GUNNING then proposed to call Nrs. Griggs,
who had just been convicted of a felony. •
Mr. IlusT submitted that she was not a com-
petent witness, having been convicted of felony.
Mr. Justice HoutoYD was of opinion that Mrs.
Griggs was a competent witness. She had, it was
true, been convicted, but had received no sentence,
and non constat that she might not yet arrest the
judgment. The sentence was necessary to give
effect to the convictioN. The Learned Judge, how-
ever, suggested that it was hardly worth while to
call her, as the evidence was scarcely such as to jus-
tify their finding a verdiet of guilty.
The Jury agreed to this view of the case, and.
" Acquitted" the prisoner.

LINCOLN, JULY 28.
Frances Stephenson, aged 21, single woman, wag
indicted for stealing a bay mare, the property of
E. Lindsay, of Raithby, in this county.
The prisoner had lived in the service of Mr. Lind-'
say, an elderly far Mer, until about three months
ago, when he discharged her. At about eight o'clock
on the morning of Tuesday, the 10th inst. (on
which day the prosecutor missed the mare from his
stable), the prisoner had her in her possession at.
Holford, a village about six or seven miles from
Raithby, and there employed a man, named Green-
field, to take her to a neighbouring market and sell
her, giving him to understand that she belonged to
a Mr. Taylor, of Astley, who availed himself of " a
moonshine flit" to dispose of her, to prevent her
falling into the hands of his creditors. Greenfield
sold her for 81. 10s. The prosecutor, in the mean
time, procured a constable, who succeeded in find-
ing the mare, and the prisoner was apprehended-
-In defence she declared that the prosecutor had
taken familiarities with her person, in con Sequence
of which she was at present pregnant, and that he-
had made her a present of the mare in return Co!:
the favours he had received.

The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty," hilt re-
commended the prisoner to mercy. Judgment of
death was recorded.

LICENSING OF HOTELS.

In pursuance of a notice given at •Marlborough-
street.Police Office on the previous day, that appli-
cation would be made to two presiding Justices ors
behalf of several Hotel-keepers at the West-end of
the town under the Hotel•keepers' Act, for permis-
sion to retail beer, epirits,. wine, &c.- to be drunk
upon their premises, Mr. Blackrriore, the solicitor,.
who was the agent in for Warding the Bill in ques-
tion through Parliament, attended before Sir George
Farrant and Mr. Dyer, with the under-named per-
sons, and applied to have the provisions of the Bill
extended to them, .so as to protect them against
common informers until the next annual licensing day.
With one exception the applicants were all suc-
cessful—and on each entering into his own recog-
nizance in 30/., and one other inhabitant household
of the same parish in 201., that he shall obey the
terms of the recognizance as to the regulation' of hips,
house, the Magistrates sioned the necessary.license.
The last application made by Mr. BlackmOre wa.s.
on behalf of Mr. Ward, the proprietor -of
.a.place.
called the " Wine Shades," near Leicester4qUiSre,.
situate in an angle of Cranbourne-street.•
Mr. Blackmore; in making his application :for a
license for this house, could take upon himself to
say, that it was a moat respectable }Muse,. most re-
spectably conducted, and that Mr. Ward, its:. pro:
prieter, was a most respectable man.
Mr. Allen, jun., of the firm of Allen and Gilby,
Vestry Clerks to the parish of St. Ann, Soho,.ap-
Feared before the Magistrates, 'On behalf Of: the
above-named parish, to oppose the granting of any'
license to this house, notwithstanding all the re-
spectability that Mr. Blacikmore attachedielf. The.
fact was, Mr. Allen said,'.that this place Wes is mere.
wine shades.
Mr. Blackmore said that the house was a regular
hotel. .

Sir GEORGE FAnRANT here put sevelquestions
to Mr. Ward, as to the nature of his es lisliment,
clearly with a view to ascertain whether in'the event
of its having a license, it was likely to he convert id
into a dram-drinking .shop.• In Characterizing his
house as a family hotel, Mr. Ward, in reply to the
Magistrate, said that it contained four bedi ; headmitted that he had a bar at present, at which. per-
sons might go up and drink a single glass of wine,
but then they must go into the wine-rooms to get at-
the bar.
Sir G. FARRANT said that the question *as whe-
ther this bar would not turn out to he a great " bar"
to the granting of the licence. 'This house, by. Mr.
Ward's own account, did not seem to possess much
the character of an hotel. The Magistrates, hoW..
ever, would let the case stand over to give it further
consideration.

The terms of the recognizance upon which a
licence is granted to a house, under this -new Act,
are very strict in restraining the proprietor to proper
hours, against the accommodating or harbouring im-
proper persons in his house, or suffering in it any
gaming, cock-fighting, badger-baiting, &c. ?,"

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.
TUESDAY, JULY 29.—High water 43 min. past
twelve.—Wind N.W.--Arrived the Laughton, Dawon,
from Barbadoes; Renown, Hogarth, from Trinidad ; Hi-
bernia, Merry, from New Orleans ; City of Rochester,
, from Alexandria ; Welcome, , from
Gallipoli; Prompt, —, from Finland; Shannon.
Jones, from Riga ; Norval, Boyd, from Carthagena ; Ann,
Steward, from Palermo ; Minstrel, Moore, from Buenos
Ayres; Sophia, Sergman, from Stralsund i Ellen Claic,
Roberts, from Leghorn ; Cornhill, , from New-
foundland ; Richard Wilmer, Chambers, from St. Pe-
tersburgh ; Britannia, Hamilton, froth Finland ; Tods,
Black, from Archangel. '
CLEARED OUTWARDS.—Tbe Jong Margaretha, 'Yykin-
Byez, for Rotterdam and Dordt ; Jong Willem, for Dordt ;
Hannibal, Dickson, for Quebec ; Picton, Jones, for --;
Agnes, Wilson, for Seville and Cadiz; United. States,
Wilson, for New York; Lalla Rookh, Fullartoti, for the
Ilavannah ; Kelsick Wood, Owen, for Quebec ; Grecian,
WVicar, for ditto.

•
The remains of the late Viscount tLiotntia •';
were removed from his residence in Whitehall yesterday
morning, to he conveyed to the family vault at Brocleet-
hall, Hertfordshire, for interment. The corpse was con- •
veyed in a hearse and six, followed by three mourning
coaches and four, in which were the principal domestics
of the late 'Viscount ; the carriage of the deceased, those
of Sir GEoRGE Womnw cr.t, Mr. WostswzrA, Sir M.
TIERNEY, Mr. TurrEß, R 4!. &c. The procession would •
be met at 14211-bar by the present Viscount 111ELBOURTIE,•!,
Sir FREDERICK LAME, the ./10-A. GEORGE LAM/Si:Earl
CowrEa, and other relations of the deceased, who would
follow the corpse to the place of interment.

BIRTHS. - -
On the '29th inst. at Lower Tulse-bill, Brixton, Mrs.
George Wynne, of a daughter.
On the 28th inst. at St. Peter's Cottage, Manchester,-
Mrs. Connell, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 29th inst. at Abberley, in Worcesteishirep' •
Thomas James Malin;, of Birchanger, in .the county of
Essex, Esq., Captain to Jemima,daughter of Howl
Bromley, of Abberley Lodge, Esq..
On the 25th inst. in Dublin, by the'Rev. J. H. Stubbs,
John Ward Straton, Esq. to Isabella, daughter of David. •
Murray, Esq., Dundalk.
DIED.
On the 30th inst. Marian, the wife of Mr. Henry DWI'
of Nelson-square, Blackfriars, and second daughter of Mr.
Henry Smith, of Potton, Bedfordshire, aged 25.
On the 29th inst. at Chislehurst, Kent, Elizabeth, the
wife of Sir Herbert Jenner, Knight, his Majesty's Adso' •
cate•General, in the 45th year of tier age. .

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