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HOME CIRCUIT-KINGSTOR, DEC. 12.

William .Giles and Mary Ryan were indicted for
MO-treason, ift coibiug two counterfeit shilling-s, on
the 3d of August, at Newington. A second in-
dictment charged them with having coining instru-
ments in their possession.
Mr. BOLLAND (with whom was Mr. LAW) stated
the case for the prosecution. The facts were these :
—ln consequence of information received, Myers and
two other constables went, on the day in question,
to a house situated No. 5, Cross-street, King-street,
Walworth, which they well knew was in part occu-
pied by the prisoners. The street-door was open,
and they advanced to the door of a room inhabited
by the prisoners. There was a bole in the door,
through which Myers peeped. Giles was sitting
by the fire, with his coat off, and his sleeves
tucked up. He had a mould in one hand, and
took a pipkin oft the fire with the other, from
which he poured some hot white metal into the
mould; he then placed half of the mould on the
hob, keeping the other half in his hand. Myers
then went in, upon which Giles started up, saying,
" Oh, my God, lam a dead man." At the same
moment a counterfeit shilling fell from his hand to
the-floor, and he placed the half mould with both
hands between his knees, and in that way crushed
it to pieces. Myers then seized him, when he
struggled hard to escape, but the other officers com-
ing in, he was secured and handcuffed. The pri-
soner Ryan, when they were first discovered, was
leaning over a chair, rubbing something with A cloth
dipped in wet sand, and which she instantly dropped,
and which proved to be another counterfeit shilling.
Before Giles was removed from the house, he was
about to make,some statement, when Myers stopped
him, saying, " You had better reserve what you
have to say for your Counsel." Giles replied, " Oh,
I have counsel enough here," pointing to the moulds,
&c. " there are counsel enough here to hang a hun-
dred of us ; this is the clearest case that ever you
had." They were then taken before a Magistrate,
and afterwards committed for trial.

These facts were fully and clearly proved by the
officers, Myers, Goff, and Bradley.
• MrField, from the Mint, proved that the va-
rious articles found in the prisoners' rooms, toffether
formed a complete apparatus for the coining of coun-
terfeit money.
The Jury acquitted the female prisoner, and found
the other prisoner- Guilty.
The learned JunGnimmediately passed upon him
the awful sentence of death, without bolding out to
h;:n the slightest hope of mercy.
No evidence was offered against either of the pri-
soners upon the second indictment.
Thomas Phillips was indicted for a highway rob-
bery on William Wyatt, on the 12th of October, at
Morley.
The Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, found
the prisoner Not Guilty.

We understand that several gentlemen are to
be raised to the rank of Baronets • among others, the able
and respectable Mr. Putman, of Blanchester, and Mr.
CriAmBERLAINE, late Consul at Rio. '

Our city article touches on a variety of topics,
foreign and domestic, which may be read as gossip. If
important events had occurred, or interesting intelligence
arrived, the one would have been related, and the other
repeated.— Times.

On Friday the Honourable T. LIDDELL and
MATTHEW BELL, Esq. the Members for Northumberland,
paid a visit to' the ship-owners of North Shields, with a
view of conferring with 'them on the grievances 'under
which the shipping interest labours.—Hull Packet.
A fine vein of culin has been found east of the
water at Bideford; iu the garden of Air. 110DD....—,Exeter
Alfred.

The election of a Coroner, in the place of the
late Mr. Kula, takes place at Lincoln to-morrow. One
'of: the' candidates, Mr. S. TROWGRT, has resigned but
another ]gas come forward in the person of Mr. Jos. Dlcx-
ixsox, of Horncastle.—Boston Gazette.

We are sorry to learn, that upon application
being made to Mr. LYNN STEnzErrs, respecting the le-
ga-cy of SONO/. left by Mr. LEWIS STY:nazis, of Lisbon,
for the benefit of this city, he bas returned a brief answer,
that he considers the same as lapse and void, through the
,operation of the Mortmain Act,—.Exeter Alfred.