The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-16 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Veqterday these Sessions cotnmeneed before
the Right Fho. the LORD MAYOR, Mr. 1-141.01,
(iRAFIAM, Mr. Justice BFST, Mr. Justice litcti-
ARDSON, the Recorder, Aldermen, &r,
FORGERY.

Mathias Maher, aged 23, was arraigned- for
forging a receipt for the value ot 121., with intent
to defraud Mr. Cooke and some others in a public
office. This case excited mulch attention, froth
tl,e circumstance of the prisoner being arraigned
in May, 1818, when lie appeared quite insane,
and when the Jury. found a verdict that be was,
mute by the visitation of God. At that time also
he had a strait jacket on, but now seemed quite
Yell, lie pleaded. guilty to the charge.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM strongly advised him• to
consider what he was doing, and to reflect on the
painful consequences which might. result from
such a plea. The prisoner replied, that he was
well aware of what the result would be, and that
he woold plead guilty, which plea he requested
Might be recorded. Mr. Baton Graham hoped
that the prisoner had not taken this steroyith-
nut advice, and requested him again to think on
what he was doing. The prisoner replied, that
lie was ,!etertnino-i to persevere in his plea,
which lie wished to 4c rucorded. This
was accordingly done, and the prisoner was re•
Inltided to New gate. He has been for a con-
ei,!er hle veriod in the crin•itial lunatic Asylum.
Jane Mogericlige,' aged 40, was convicted of
stealing a box containing a Tiatiti7y of wearing
apparel, the property of Maly Anne Mortinter—
`Guilty-Death.
• John Stoat and John Britian, both aged 17,
were capially convicted ot stealing two silver
table spoons and six silver tell spoons, the pro-
perty of Sarah •Lawford, in her dwelling4house.
In chareing the Jury on this ease, Mr. Justice
Best alluded to the conduct
,s‘lsicli some Jorics:
hod finding verdicts for soots less ,than
40s. when the goods which were stolen amouuted
to a vast deal more. In doing so, he thonght such
Juries acted front mistaken principles of mercy,
because all they had to do was to decide as to the
innocence o+ i.he a Cell sed, for the dispensation of
mercy was. pr.:p:.rly vested by the Constitution
elsewhere, He, t'or one, sheuttl never think him-
t;elf jostific,' •in calling on a• Jury to I,,,:sen the
value of stole!' propett y— Guilty—Death.
Joseph Clinton, aged 19, Was indicted fur steal-
log 16 sheep-a-nit lartib, the property of Thomas
Crump, a butcher to Newport Market. The evi-
,denee seemedqnite Clear agaiesr the prisoner, hut,.
to the astrmishment of all present, the Juty touud
Hui iVot
CAITFAL CONVICTION OF TWO OF THE DESPE-
- . • RADOES AT WEST•END•FAIII,--

Willianz Fletcher Was put to•the•nar on an in-
dityint nt chit-girog hint It ith • assaulting
Hobert Soggatte Prettyman,, on the 27th
July last, at West-end Fair, and 'taking !ruin his
pet sou a attn a silk handicjcnet.
• AI!. .A.nz.N- in op( ning the'ca'e, said the pre-
sent was 'OO, the greatest public iwerest, and
,arw,e out of
,rhe late disgraceful outrages that took
place at Wtst.end Fair, woere rego:arly orgaKized
binds of robbers i,ad resorted for the purposes of
plunder, the command or direction of
leaders, whose mandates thev scrw,tdonsly
Mr Pre t Titan, in describing the outrages com-
mitted fill himself, said, that having gone to the
fair in ibe .compaoy of a friend named Elder, be
fount! himself. so situated,:between eight and tittle
o'clock, as
.tO be under the necessity of passing
between Iwo booths, the risage bet wee') which
was not of the usual breadth, but narrow. In do.
log this he was iuteartipted, by a pail? of men
au:t boys, amounting to at least CO or 70. At
this instant lie disti-ctly heard a-cry of " Trap,
trap !" sevet al Clines,both before and behind him,
and at that inowent he was knocked . down by a
blow on the buck part of his head.,
,On getting up
lie was attacked by six or seven of these despe-
radoes, who seiztd him on both sides, and very
nearly tore the pockets - from his pantaloons, lie
wis againknocked-rlown by a •blow from behind,
and on getting up again he round his clothes in the
state before described. Finding that nothiog
but a resolute resistance could SAVt him, lie knocked
one or Ns° of the foremost down, and by this
means in some measure secured a partial retreat,
but immediately a cry was raised of " D—n the
little fellow, he has escaped, give it him again,"
and accordingly lie Wag attain fallen upon, and by
the violence of one blow knocked completely
through the'canvass of a booth, where three per-
sous, who were termed " fiddlers," immediately
gave him, aide! by some other persons, assistance.
Three of the 2ang pursued hint- into the booth,
but nano diately made their escape through the
rent he had made whets foiced into the booth,
The gang having found that he had considerable
prop( rt y about him, acrually cut holes in the side
of the booth, for the pin pose of .watching him,
and in this situation he was tinder the necessity of
remaining from nine o'clock until between two
and three in the morning, when lie was extricated
by the Hatton Garden Police Officers. i num-
ber of persons were brought into' the sante booth,
while he remained there, who were most dread-
fully cut and bruised, particularly two. •females,
who had-nearly the whole of theiry-clothes torn
from their backs, and were robbed,of every thing
they had about them.

Alr. Elder corroborated the former witness's
testjmoil, every particular, until be was sepa-

rated trorn him, when lie also was. robbed of every
thing Lc had about
Goige Furrian, an Officer, proved taking she
ini,ouvr into custody, and finding on him a hat
and two silk handkerchiefs.

The prnsccutor pro‘'ctl the hat and one of the
handkerchiefs toile his properly.
The prisoner, in his defence; said be found the
things. He called a journeyman tailor and a
!Joenriker to speak to his character ; hut-the

former skid the last time he had lived tvith him

%va,s; four or live years back.
i"lr. GRAHAM summed up. the evidence,
end the Jury found hint Guilty—Death.
Jvhit Hentry, Otte of the leaders of the gang,
also pot to tile b;tr, charged with A similar 01-
fence at the sarneplase, by robinugJpsFph Burn

of a anutf•box, bat, haodke:cliirf, two balf-

rrowils, a comb, &c. vu the 26t4 0-I July last.

This prisoner was comph = identified by the pro-
secutor, who bad known him 'before. His clothes
were literally torn from his body, and the gang
having completed their purposes, let him 'go, by
direction of the prisoner, with a dreadful oath.
Guilty—Death.
The prisoner was again arraigned on another
indictment, charging, him with leaving robbed, on
the same day, William Colvey, of one silver six-
pence, and flute-pence in half-pence. The cir-
cumstances of this case were in some measure si-
milar to the last, and have lit foie been :,iven to
our readers in the police reports at the time.—
This prosecutor was the person who said to the
-prisoner, " Jack, it won't do, I Lave got no.
thing ;" who ca/led on those about to desist, but
who would not, until they had taken the above
sum (all he had), from hina. lie Was again found
Guilty—Death.
Fairly, one of the Jury, was at the
conclusion of this trial so indiiposed, as to bk,nn-
der the necessity of applying to, be discharged,
which was granted.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

DISORDERLY HOUSES.

Yesterday Mrs. Fernandez was indicted for nn-
lawfully keeping and maintaining a common bro-
thel, at No. 55, Upper Titornhangh-street, in the
parish of Sr. Pancras, ou the Ist of February last.
Richard Dent,•colleetor of taxes for the parish,
knew the prisoner at Ire bar, Mrs. Fernandez;
she lived at No. 55, Upper Thornhatigh-street ;
went there for the halt.year's taxes due at Mi-
chaelmas last, which .she paid ; afterwards wrote
a letter to her about the non-payment of other
taxes .; saw her in consequence ; she appear-
ed very angry, and said she was always ready to
pay them when they were due,
Mr. Ross lived nearly opposite to the 'house in
question ; did not know the Lady at the bar till
this morning ; could not identify her person be-
fore; 'slie came to hint in the mornin, hoped he.
would
_not be very severe in the case, anti that she;
wonhl pay the expenees incurred, and trosteti !IC
would let her off; .he replied he could n,,t ;- has.
liv.d in the house 'ire occupies neatly two years;.
hail an opportunity the et hole day of seeing what
was going on there ; Ciere were very gay: lasses
there, who kept giggling on the balconies, and
alluring Gentlemen in ;.bas seen many Gentle-•
men go in there frequently horn gigs, and most
commonly fruit) 1 to 22 years of a.ge ; the.,lo
men in the house were the reverse of modest ;
thought it his duty to come forward. on !he OC••

C 364011

Cross-examined.—iiis house is. No. 24 ; has.
no gay lasses Jiving with hint; bad no lodgers.
but married people fur the last two yeats.
When the witness left the box, the defendant,
at the tecommendation of her Counsel, withdrew'
her plca, hnd pleaded Guilty to the charge
Amelia Cooper was put to the har nu a siinilar
indictment respecting the house, No. 31, in the
saute street.

Five witnesses were •celled, who fully proved
the-description of the house in the initictme.nt to
be trite correct.; they tailed in establishing the
iderity of the defendant with -the keeper of the
horse—the latter; it appeared, having passed by
the name of Browne. Accordingly the Jury, by..
the direction of the. Chairman, found the defend.;
ant Nut Guilty.

PUBLIC W.HlPPlNG.—Yesterday morning, at
halt- mist eight o'clock, George Wilson rids public•
ly whipped along the New Cut, froM the Coburg
Theatre to the sign of the Artichoke, for having
stolen a quantity at, grapes from a vine, the pro-
perty of Mrs. Guy, who resides at the coiner of
Waterloo-place, anti whose Female servant caught
him in the act, and detained him until Goff, the
officer, and Smith, the constable, airived acid took
charge of him. Wortley, Plush, and Smith, at-
tended to see punishment duly inflicted, and to
preserve the peace,-as they were interrupted by a
mob, beaded by a- female, called the bully of
Bowen's-square, Vine-street, Lambeth, who was
taken to Union-Hall, and committed to prison
on the oath of Smilh.

STABBING vviTH INTENT TO KlLL.—Danis!
Mendoza, jun. was taken to Lambeth-street Of-
fice yesterday, charged with stabbing and inflict-
ing several severe wounds with a penknife, on
Joseph nuke, a young man, so,r to Mr. Thomas
Huke, who keeps an eating-house in White-
chapel•road, and apprentice to Mr. Jerson, a
saddler,- residing at the above place, with intent
to kill or do hint some bodily harm. Evan Davis
deposed, that as he was standing in Stepney
Church-yard yesterday, he saw the prisoner arid
two other young men coming forward, the pri-
soner asked fluke if he would light bi►n, and fluke
said he would not, as he knew him to be the son
of Mendota, the celebrated boxer ; the prisoner
then rushed at Hoke with a penknife in his hand,
the.blade of which was open, and stabbed fluke
in his lett side, threw him on the ground, jumped
upon hint, and made several stabs with the knife.
Witness ran to finite's assistance, rescued him
from he prisoner, from whom lie .forced the knife,
the top of which Wag bloke off; the wound
about three inches in length. Fluke was taken
to the London-hospital, where he now lies with
faint hopes of recovery, ;Inc! was unable to at-
tend at the examination.—The prisoner was re-
manded.

NovEL RonnERY.—A genteel dressed man cat-
. led at the house of Mr. Wesley, Albion-place,
Hampstead-road, on Monday evening, and in fa-
miliar terms asked if Mr. W-- had returned
from Brighton ; on being informed by the servant
in the negative, he pretended to have urgent busi-
ness with Mr. W-- relative to an estate which
bad devolved to him, and at his request be was
• sliewn into the parlour, when pen, ink, and pa-
per we're.brongla to him. After being in the room
about five minutes, a man knocked at the door
with a hamper of wine, as he stated, arid at the
sante moment. the gentleman walked out of the
`parlour with a letter in his hand to be put into the
post, and made.off. It was soon discovered that
he bad stolen a snial7l time-piece from a glass-case,
and 14 pieces of plate. The hamper, it seems,
was brought to attract the attention of the ser-
vant, as it turned out that instead of sviue it c9ll.
Wined brickbats and rubbish.

IRELAND:

(From The Hibernian Journal, Dublin, Sept. 11.)

A Morning Paper having presumed to usher
forth, with its usual avidity., any thing Libellous
against the Loyal Society of Ciringemen, has pre-
sumed to copy a ridiculous paragraph from a
Liverpool Newspaper, that the Proprietor of said
Newspaper had received an intimation of his being
threatened with Assassination by Orangemen ;
we beg to assure those traducers of Loyalty, that
Assassination is not the province of Orangemen,
and that such occupation belongs to thcise of
another complexion.

The following extracts are from a Letter which
appeared in The Ctirk Advertiser of Tuesday, un-
der date of Skihbereen, Sept. 4. It relates to a
tear made through that country by Doctor Cop-
pinger, the Roman Catholic Bishop of die Dio-
cese, who on his arrival in 11;e town, is represent-
ed to have thus addressed the multitude—

" His Lordship now proceeded, and with a
confidential air, imposing awe, authority, and
submission to his allegations, on the surrounding
auditory, levelled a few broad-sides at the poor de-
luded Protestants, their pretended Reformation,
their useless prete sions to salvation, and at length
concluded this pert of hiS oration with a flat denial
of mercy to any without the pale of his own
Church. Hard sentence—however, he proceeds,
" St. Peter, who was appointed Bishop of Rome
by Jesus Christ, iias deputed his authority to the
Universal Bisht.,- Rome, the Pope-1:c has
subsequently trac-mitted this authority down to
me, which I als,; • ransfer make o+er on the
subordinate Cl,
..;y of the 'Church Tlify, tray
near people, yo;i perceive, th,•. 1 have regu-
larla traced up the orir,in and forudation •of
our Holy Church to Christ himself, as its
founder and head, from the present day .to
the day of its institution, over 1800 years, a
clainl Oat no other Cipircb can make, neither
pret rod' Id." He surprised nee still more, when
he publicly declared that " the Romish Church
had such a ef,llllCCtiot; and. c,,nr:;iinion with Christ,
ihat they had a lathier which reached unto Ilea-
ven, and could thereby ascend into the Kingdom
01 Glory, with safety, while all other sectaries
tumbled at the thild.or fourth step, having- built,
their vehicle of conveyance of ro'ten materiels."
We sincerely wish the Romish Churelt.isVoufth
display mote liberaltiy in its preteuskins, with tiie
want of which its votaries so much accuse us Pro-'t
Jestants.

CURIOUS OCCURRENGR.-7-At one of the Dublin
Police Offices, a Lady of independent tortntie,
named Thompson, applied lately to the -Magis-
'rates, solici,ing their inlet fel ence on a business
of the highest consequence, as she declated, to
her pe;•ce of mie.d. stated, that about
.13 years tip she hail conceived a strong tiffec-
tion for a relative's infant .daughter, then six
weeks old, and with the consent of her father and
snottier,,
_took her at the time under her prw cc•
Lion, and, adopted her as ,her Own ; that nii to
the present period she atterid;:d to her wit!: all
the tenderness and solicitude of a_fond mother,
and. designal to. tueke her, heiress to all She
had, which, site declared,. 'would amount to
considerable property. The parents, however,
without any apparent cause, inveigled the girl
home a day or two ago, contrary to her inclination,
anti now wit Wield her from all comtnunication with
her adopted mother. Some proposals had been insi-
nuated by friends of the parents, that their consent
to restore the gill to her protection might be
obained for the valuable • consideration of 3001.
This slim she would not hesitate to pay, if by
so doing she could obtain an indisputable right
to her sole possession. She could not live with-
out her, and would .accede to any terms ra-
ther than, lose the dJrling object of her every
wish. The Lady excited the compassion of all
who witnessed the pungency of her feelings ; and
the Magistrates' humanely promised to interpose
with the parents towards an amicable adjustment
of this very delicate business.