The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-16 00:00:00

OLD IiALLEY, .IcLy lb.

jidpi Roberts was called to the bar to be Art-Alga-
ed far having wilfully 6.tal)bed John 11 11 with a
certain dirk or dagger Mai intent to maim and
disfigure
The prisoner, npon.the .irulictment.being read%
h3ht I t Wll4 !Mt pliky ; but being aq(ed the moat
yue}Elnn," lit),W Will .you be tried l" I•efused to
.say that he would he tried by ond 1i; cctnn
try, Eid, deciared That he, was Julio.; Ccesar the
Emptror. and could be tried by none hut his Ma-
Cuoncil.
Mr, Justice PAIIKE then -directed that the jury
. should be newly cinpannelted, to try whether the
nrif,oner n. 113 non, Inuteky malice or by the visita.
Clan of God. . _

lie jury Hong accordingly sworn in the ttsital
bielliler, several witimsiies were, called, who proVed

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the insanity of the prisoner arol Mr. Newman,
gaoler of Newgate, swore that ever since be had
buen 'nought' into the prison he had been ill a
disordered state, and was sent in conseltienee,
When the prisoner came into his custody, into the
Infirmary, instead of being placed among the
other prisoner s.
The July, after. the summing up, fotlnd the
prisoner--'' Mote by the visitation of cod, and
Insane."

Mr. Justice PAtit.lt then ortlered, as the statute
directed,- that John Roberts be kept in strict
custody until his Majesty's pleasure be.known.
. John Harrison was capitally indicted for stealing
a bay mare, the proportrof Willoughby I‘l46lhie.
It appeared upon the evidence that the pony
in question was at grass Dear West-end, Hamp..
stead, in a field; .on Sunday afternoon, the 18th
of June ; and, on Monday morning,. At halt-past
six, the prisoner brought ij to a livery-stables in
the City-road, with a blithe and saddle upon it;
the hostler took notice of the pony, and. asked
what the prisoner gave for it, and lie answered
that he gave. ten guineas for it. After giving: the
necessary directions thd prisoner went away, say.
ing he would come again. In the interval the
brother of t lie prosecutor, Thomas M..Ghie, tame
to the stables to put a horse to bate, ,and seeing
his brother's pony, inquired respecting it. At
half-past. nine the Same morning, .the prisoner
carne again, kind WAS accused by the brother of
stealing the ;may. Upon this, ILirrison °tiered
to rive it op, it htr were allowed to take away Ilia,
saddle. This was, however, refused, and the
prosecutor tors sent
,for, who, when he arrived,
said he, would hang the prisoner. Being asked
how he -carne by the hOrse, Elarrison answered
shat he had bought it of a butcher on Primrose-
hill tor alit gnineas and a half.
The prisoner, in his defence, said lie had bought
the horse of a man of whom he had no knowledge,
Thomas Culltver was capjtally indicted for hay-
ing'burglariously broken into the dwelling,house
Buck laud, and stealiug therein three silver
spoons and other property.
The pr'osecutor kept a pliblic•honse, at No. 5,
Old Cavendish-street. Ou the 29th of May, at
fi.,e o'clock in the morn big,
.he was, awakened by
the report of thieVes in the houSe, He immediately
got up, found the doors opened, the till picked, end
missed tli vox table-spoons, tow t ea-spoons , a pair of
Nortr-tongs, null other property to the amount of
al ,ut I Witness was •t be last up in the house
the night before the robbery,. 01,11 saw the.pror;
perty at that time; the prisoner, had lodged in the
prosecutor's house a yeer and a half, and had left
about a fortnight before the. robbery. the
moroing of the 29th of May witness foundOiti: the
passage o(his house a variety of arrlcles,twit up iu
a handkerchief, worked C. consequence he
went to Marlborough-street Mice, obtained , a
Warr:WC, att.l hitd the 10 isoner, taken up.
Ethe;ud Barnes, pilt.bny -last: witness*
on the nitoruing t;le 29th of May, about
o'clock, came down stairs, and beard a noise
the passage. Ile received a blow in the face, and
distinctly saw two men, one nt whom asked wit-
ne,i; who he was. It was not the. voice of the
prisoner, as he knew that very. well, Upon this
lit: rail up stairs to tell his master,. and when ho•,
came down foam! the Men were goliC
thehin' a wa4hierwornitn, had washed
for the plisouer, and identitiool the ,hatulkerchirt
produeed, marked T. C., and she knew it by the
crooliOnesit of the letter 'flue prisoner had
fatelted it away, from her house, where it had been
for. three weeks, the Sunday preceding the
rob4rY •
.'['he prisonerilil his defence, .sisal he never had
had a white poclteot-handitoretiet in his life. The
one lie fetched from the tvasherwom sn on Sunday
,he Irad;lloyit 41)(114t his neck.

The Juiy tottud tltc priNotter qui/Iy, after au
lione* considtration, but reuutifittemled him to
metcy,

POLICE INTELLWENC

MANSION7HOOSF,.

ANOTIMR:CoNirInACY.."..OII Saturday last,'nur
readers will recollect, three illiterate poor Irish.
men, viz. Quin, Connolly, and !Iconic:a, were ca-
piiall3r convicted at the 01s1 Bailey, for coot:ter.,
teiting the, coin of the realm. In their defence
' they stated, that !nil% out of. employment, And
destitute cat bread, they were watidering about
for work., and were engaged by a matt, to whom
they were unknown, to accept of " a job." The
: person in question then bronght them to a tvvo
pair of stairs, waste room, in Angel-alley, Moor-
, lane, Cripplegate, where,. having -Riven them a
lesson, he set-them ail at work rubbing pieces
'of metal, the size: of shillings, with some: white
composition, he then left them, tinder cite pretence
of going out to procure them something to eat and
drink. While waiting for his return, however,
the Officers, arrived,. and they were taken into
custody, Dttrinv their'. trial also it . was, 'itn -
'Jounced to the Court; that the actual person who
had so employed them was apptchended.
Brook end Pellrami, tt-vo-of the offieers whoAp.
prishended the prisoners,i and who , were' bound
over-to- appear upon 'their trial, Absented them.
eelvee,:atol torfeited their recognizanees. In con-
sequence of the above eireumsomves, sod .others
Which: ArOiaMpUti the trial, the Judges. directed
that a special investigation of the affairshould
take place-before the Loon MAYOR..
. Alta Derry: Was, yesterday brought ' up, and
charged, with conspiring, with several others,,to
take away this lives of the ;three afore Mentioned
persons. ' i
' ' Mr. Burgess stated, that although Pelham and
Brook were:aware of the circtunstence, they had
not yet conic ifito,Cottil. ; These persons he bad
seen in company a considerable time in the snort,-
ingwith G. Vaughan, the officer, about Guildhall.
.::'!'tae .Luau-Msvottordered two of die Marshal:, '
men to repair to the spot, add acquaint them of
the necessity, of their attentlaoce. - Pelham,. only,
however, could be found. Vaughian and Brook
had retreated. " : V

Mil)onnell then deposed, that in the moat!"
‘of hlity i st, on the morning of the 11,y the three
Irishmen were_, taken into custody, he teas•siand.
log at. the itstisl phiee in Chesphille, I,eheitl they
wait tnr work; when lierty citMe tips snd after
wale conversittivu engaged thew to ;JO to ti I►ous4

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1 'll.- ',VI
.11 .t..nge 001-htlle; tor a n afttr-
day last, when witness went to the Old Balky,
to near the trial of the men eMployed by the pri-
oner," he saw the lattei waiting at the doors,
when he gave Ito alarm, and nit instiutly tied, but
was overtaken and securod.

• The Lotto MAYOR inquired tif Pelham, What he
knew of Berry, and how he teceived it forniation
'of the prisbners being employed as miners. Pel-
ham replied, he knew nothing Of Berry. ile was
then ai,lk.ed why he Bed from the
,Old Bailey, and
forfeited his recognitances,.at the time too when
Berry wit's 40prehended ? Pelham replied, that
seeing Brook go away, he fol,loweil-j--besides, a
man at the dour of the 6in-a told Iliai be would
not be wanted.
The Lotto MAYOR :Said, he had little doubt
the present case proving a conspiracy against the
lives of innocent men, and he Was determined to
exert every means in bis power tO probe the case
to the quick. Ile therefore ordered Berry and
Pelham to be conveyed to Newgate, and to be
kept separate, and again brought- up for eXanti-
nation tn-morrow day.)

Samuel Newnian was broughtandfinally
examined, charged with divers forgeries on vari-
ous Banking and other houses throughout' the
kingdom. 'rhe principal Charge urged against
the prisoner on the present .occasion was, that of
having forged the acceptance laf the house of Wil-
lis, Pcrceval and Co. Limdan, to a Bill of ;x-
-change tor 1731. 6i. This Was discotnited by the
house of Phipps and Co. of Warinintler; Hankers,
where the prisoner represented himself to tie Mr.
Hunt, of F'rnme. He was fully 'committed for
trial at the next Salisbury AsSizcs.'

130 W-STR r.E T.

RoBatNG 64ED.ENs.—Th e Royal Garden,
at Kew, as well as other gardens in that part of
the euitotry, have lately b.:en robbed of Ott alost,
choice and rare fruits, which hay! been In ought ,
to London and offered tor sale. The depredatious
weresaspeetcd to have been entomittl by a gang
of idle fciloxiis who resided at Kt and Richmond.
Mr. Byron, the principal gardener of the ,Itoyal
l'alaces,has been indefaiigabk itt his exertions 1,9
discover the robbers, assisted by Bacon, die coo.
duCtor of the patrole belonging to litiS Office,po
that road. R young man of the name, of Wrz
Ctuic Was iu cobsequenee appreheoded by P4a,con,,
oil sn;pit ion of being collet:rued in the robbery.
Ott bis being laken' to Mr.. Mart's, a 4-ruiterer's, in
Oxford-street, he n by the daughter
am! shopwonian pllered, Sonic roe.actkes
f,r'saie ; but (ii,COVeliin4 (hut they had not been
pulled by a geirtle thener, y suspected titty bad
licuti stolen, and .deciiticil 14:04 do
with then,. Son)::liar. pcae7es
:were, otlei ed for
sale I:iliont the smile Hine to Air,
,tlie pur-
vevor tit to the Priiiceltegent, by 4 With
but be declined buying it of hint.'
Mr.Eytori tvent to Ole 41top, of Levy, 4 Jew,
a daaler iu troll in Oxford-street:, and purchased
n peach, After hedtml plucliased it, he observed.
to Levy lie t4tiflivcted it to be one ink had been
stolen train him ; and hetore ltt, openekit, if it
was his, it wnidd have a rcd mark 111 a certain
Part • this pros el to be t4c..eilSe, tltty bying,o
peculiar Sint th it r,voky in Kew gm-detis.
Cane a tiCconli rXa,ninntinn yes!er.
g%ty. `‘‘ 11,n vy •iit ended, hot saying he could
not cii:.ll4llljVci.
L1,14,,(4/ rnitS, a drover,. wal.lnought tt,) the Of.
Tice, anti charged with. erin k shoT tehich he
teas ctitrusted to drive: lust f riday from
,Swith-
fieltl-inarket to CI ,re-markct. ; in Stork-
iat.ot lie beat awl ill-tr..med the sheep
.in_ the',
most cruel Wolillt'l lie broke two, of a .sllccp,it.,
leg., with a Lirge stick, 03 teal proved by Mr.;
9f CaNYrStreCtr,foe
-
Was convicted in the penalty of 20.4, and inAle-
fault of payment- to uc or?tiintittedl,fttr, a pvol4ll,
VAuo II ANr 'rue I)4Titor.:e,--:Mr. the!Mt.t..,
gistrate,atteild..ll yesterday for about three hours,
for the ptirpos,.: of proceeding jn the investigation_
of the conduct of ratighqui the p4trole; but he did
notittlend, uyr couitl It he, round at his resi-
de„,,,, or any of the place.. he 'resorts to. He is
ch,ligcci with. empioying four others .to entice
Nitiug thieves ate conouit horglaries, and, after
Wronging the plan, to lie in wait and apprehend
,
them, in fuller th4t they might be brought
.to
trial ustilldcioen;;ilcete4do,l,.
per
man conviction money.
and he and his accomplices
Two ofVaughan's accomplices, named Drake and .
mackay, have disclosed the patictilqs of several
burglaries thus executed; others toe .expected to
be developed. . . •