The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLY:►toUTIH, JULY 16.—The Antelope cutter,
Liens; Loveless, tender to the Ramillies, arrived
here during- Sunday night from the Downs, having
left that anchorage on Thursday, for the purpose of
raising met for the Kent Coast Blockade.
• The Snipe cutter, Lieut. Purcell, tender to his
Majesty's ship Victory, came in from the Portsmouth
station during Thursday night with specie for the
Dock-yard, and returned again on Sunday after-
noon.
The John Craig, hired ship, arrived on Tuesday
from London, and embarked the detachments of the
58th, 61st, and 97th regiments, which have been
waiting here some time, for conveyance to Ceylon.
Lieutenant Samuel Grandy, in the Fancy, reve-
nue cutter, has, by a persevering attention to his
duty, this week, captured the Dutch lugger Snip, of
Middleburg, a smuggler, with eight men on board.
Lieutenant Richards, in the Hawke cutter, captured
en the 3d instant the Dash, with four men on board;
and a few days prior, picked up 187 tubs of
smuggled spirits.
His Majesty's ship Vigilant arrived off Lisbon
from Falmouth 30th June. The Plumper arrived
at Madeira from Portsmouth 9th June, and sailed
for Sierra Leone same day. The Frolic arrived at
Madeira from Falmouth 16th June, and sailed 17th
for Teneriffe and Rio de Janeiro. The Leveret ar-

rived at Falmouth previous to 30th May:
The Susan, Clarke, from this port, arrived at
Cadiz the Bth of June. The Mary Ann, Hopton,
of and from this port, arrived at Madeira the 15th
of June, and sailed same day for New South Wales.
The Dryad, Swinburne, from this port, arrived at
Quebec the 25th of May. The Recovery, Patter-
son, from this port, has arrived at Trinidad. The
Lady Peel, Ashley, from Riga for this port, arrived
in the Downs 10th of July. The Priede, Netzen,
from this port, arrived at Memel 25th of May.

RECORDER'S REPORT.

SIX MEN AND ONE WOMAN ORDERED FOR EXECUTION
Yesterday the Recorder made his Report to his
Majesty of the prisoners capitally convicted at the
last Old Bailey Sessions, viz.:—
Charles Smith, 17, Henry Pike,l9, Mary Brown,
35, Susannah Gibbs, 16, Mary Ann Bacon, 24,
Thomas Devine, 17, George Edwards, 25, William
Jones, 44, and Joseph Byron, 19, for stealing in a
dwelling-house; Thomas Worts, 18, Edward Mar-
telli, 25, and Henry Jubilee Conway, 19, forgery ;
Ann Wilson, 18, Charles Banks, 20, Wm. Humph-
ries, 23, Henry Phillips, 20, John Hanison, 23,
Richard Ellis, 28, and John Colville, 20, house-
breaking ; Charles Jones, 24, uttering forged Bank-
notes ; John Watkins, 37, uttering counterfeit coin,
having been before convicted; Ann Chapman, 28,
attempting to strangle an infant; William Dimmitt,
alias Long, 28, and John Tisley, alias Joseph Har-
ris, 38, returning from transportation ; James But-
ler, 20, arson; Edward Turner, 19, Thomas Crow-
ther, 18, and James Daley, 14, highway-robbery ;
and Charles alias David Richards, 56, rape. All
whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to respite
during his royal pleasure, except Charles Jones, Ann
Chapman, Edward 'fume'', and Thomas Crowther,
who are left for execution on 'Wednesday next; and
Edward Martelli, Henry Jubilee Conway, and
James Butler, on Monday, the 27th instant.
Charles Jones was convicted for tittering a forged
5/. Bank of England note. From the evidence
which was produced on the trial, it appeared that
the prisoner, with a woman and child, went into the
shop of a shoemaker in the neighbourhood of Rat-
cliffe Highway, and chose shoes to the amount of
1/..15. 6d. To pay this the woman produced a 5/.
note, and gave the address as " James Wilcox, 17,
James-street, Commercial-road." The note after-
wards turned out to be forged. On the evening of
the same day, a woman went to the house of a Mr.
Solomons, in the same neighbourhood, and requested
change for two 5/. notes. Mrs. Solomons being of
opinion that they were forged, refused to return
them, in consequence of which the prisoner, in an
hour or two afterwards, came to her house, with
two other men, and insisted on having the notes
back. She said she had given one of them to a
Lambeth-street officer, and he then insisted on her
going with him to that office to obtain it. They
accordingly went there, and the prisoner was taken
into custody on that charge. Another case of pas-
sing a forged 51. note to a tailor was also proved
against him.
Ann Chapman was convicted for attempting to
strangle her infant child. On the evening of the
3d June, the poor child, which was about three
weeks old, was found lying in a ditch at Acton, its
cries having attracted some persons who were pass-
ing to the spot ; its mouth and eyes were choked up
with dirt and grass, and a string was tied tightly
round its neck. The prisoner, who was seen on the
spot a short time before the child was found with an
infant in her arms, was apprehended in Hammer-
smith, in company with several other persons. She
at first declared that her child was dead, and buried,
but afterwards confessed that she had left it in the
ditch, thinking, she said that somebody would find
it who would be able to do better for it than she
could, as she had another child. She denied having
placed the string round its neck to strangle it, and
said she had placed it there to hide a sore, but it
did not appear that there was any sore or wound on
the child's neck. From the statement of the wits
nesses, there could be no doubt that the purpose of
the prisoner was to destroy the child, and a very
extraordinary interposition of Providence alone had
saved it from destruction.
Edward Turner and Thomas Crowther were tried
with a woman, named Stephens, for a daring high,
way robbery. The prosecutor, Thomas Davis. was
met on the night of the 6th May, in the New-road,
by the female prisoner. He was induced to accom-
pany her to some unfrequented buildings, when she
coughed, and Davis was instantly beset by four or
five men, who knocked him down, beat him in a
most violent manner, and robbed him. The three
prisoners were convicted, and the woman was trans-,
ported.
The cases of Markin and Conway are fresh in
the recollection of the public. In conjunction with
a youth named Coombs, the prisoners committed
several forgeries on some London bankers. One of
their forged cheques was for two hundred pounds,,
drawn in the name of Mr. Hamlet, upon Messrs,
Coutts, the bankers. The forgery was detected
before the money was paid, and Mttrtelli, who pre-
sented the cheque, was instantly, taken into custody.
The case against the prisoners was supported prin-
cipally b the evidence of Coombs, who was ad-
/11140a- witness for the prosecution, and from
whose testimony it appeared that himself and the
prisoners had committed many depredations on the
public.

James Butler is the qian who was convicted for
setting fire to Igessrs. Downing's floor cloth factory,
at Chelsea.