The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

There is little more to be said of the Devon-
shire bear garden on Friday last., than that in all
the worst features of a tumultuary assembly, it

was an exaggeration of Penenden-heath. Four-

fifths of the nobility and higher gentry, including
the Duke of Somerset and others of the most

illustrious names in England, were on the side of
religious freedom. Lords Rolle and Exmouth
were the only noblemen (of their statesmanship
we say nothing) on that of thi, anti-Catholics.
But to supply the 'defect, the rabble—women and
children reckoned in—were marshalled at their

tacks, and supported by their _ " most sweet

voices," their unwashed aprons and greasy caps, a
motion of which they understood as much as the

hob-nailed shoes that carried them. Lord Morley's
speech deserves attention for its moderate spirit
and thorough knowledge of the subject. The con-
duct of the Sheriff also demands attention, but of a
different kind. This gentleman, on Mr. Furs-
den, who proposed the Brunswick resolution,
experiencing some interruption at the outset of
the business, pledged himself to dissolve the
meeting if there should be a continuance of the
noise ; but when Lords Seymour, John Rus-
sell, and others on the liberal side of the question,
were assailed by an organized and deafening
clamour, the Sheriff appeared to disregard his
pledge, though reminded of it, and put succes-
sively the amendments and original resolution in
the midst of a tumult which prevented all but
those within a yard of his person from even.
guessing what they were called upon to oppose
or ratify. When the several sets of resolutions

come io be signed, and the signatures made
public, the country will be no longer in the dark
as to where is lodged the real opinion and in-
telligence of the county of Devon.— Times.

We see with satisfaction that the Irish Ca-
tholics have lost no spirit, nor abated one jot of
their political activity, in consequence of the
misfortune which has befallen the country through
the dismissal of an honest Lord Lieutenant.
An immense assemblage of the citizens of Dub-
lin, and of inhabitants from the neighbouring
country, is expected to attend his Excellency to
the water side, and there to bid him a grateful
and affecting farewell. In the Association on
Thursday last, a gentleman of the name of Morris,
from Newfoundland, deposited a contribution in

dollars, amounting to more than 531. of Catholic
rent, from that quarter, and with it gave a pleasing
description of the general benevolence and har-
mony produced among the motley population of
the colony by the simple but certain influence of
a mild and impartial Government. The exist-
ing state of comfort enjoyed by the people of
Newfoundland is well contrasted by Mr. Morris
with the shocking condition from which they
were rescued, after many appeals to the trilsainals
of this country, to the Legislature, and to his
Majesty's Ministers, who appear to have done
them at length substantial justif_.% In the course
of this gentleman's speech, which we regret that
we have not room to insert, he read copies of
two addresses from different descriptions of co-
lonists; one from the Catholic inhabitants of
Newfoundland to Sir Thomas Cochrane, ex-
pressive of their sense of his just administration,
and of their loyal gratitude for the blessings
which they enjoyed: the second address is from
`the House of Assembly at Nova Scotia,—gene-
rally, though not exclusively, composed of Pro-
testants,--no less ardent in it, declarations of
affectionate loyalty to the Crown than that from
the Catholics of Newfoundland to their Gover-
nor, and praying unanimously that the oaths
against Popery and transubstantiation may be
dispensed with in favour of Catholics chosen to
represent the people of Nova Scotia in their
House of Assembly. We refer to both these
documents, and moreover to the whole speech
of the gentleman whose name we have mention-
ed, as animated illustrations of the effect pro-
duced, and produced ii !fallibly, on the minds of
civilized men, by their feeling themselves fairly
and generously governed. The panegyric on
Sir J. Kempt is no more than due to that liberal,
conciliatory, and enlightened officer, whose pro-
motion from Neva Scotia to the general govern-
ment of Canada we hail as the revival of Con-
tentment, peace, and prosperity to one of the
most important and interesting colonies under
the Crown of England.—Aid.
We call the attention of our readers to a trial

for High Treason yesterday, at the Old Bailey,
which very strikingly exemplifies the peculiarities
of English criminal procedure. William John-
son, aged 5'6, was capitally indicted for colour-
ing a half-crown and a shilling. Limbrick, an
officer of Hatton-garden, employed by the Mint,
in consequence of information and instructions
from Mr. Powell, Solicitor of the Mint, pro-
ceeded with Reynolds, another officer, cm the
27th December last, to No. 10, Little Earl-
street, Seven dials, and broke open the door. of
a garret four stories high, where they found
Johnson sitting before a fire rubbing half-a-
crown with a piece of rag and silver covering.
Johnson, in alarm, dropped the money, exclaim-
ing 'c Oh, God ! Oh, God ! I am trepanned."
Reynolds picked up the counterfeit half-
crown. On the table were a pipkin containing
silver colouring, a piece of sand-paper, and a
paper containing cream of tartar. A piece of
iron hoop was in the fire, one end of which
red hot. On Johnson being searched at Hat-
ton-garden, a had shilling was found in his coat
pocket. The prisoner, in his defence, said, that
an individual called on him on Boxing-day, and
asked him to go and drink with him. On the
following morning the man called at his lodg-
ings, before he was up, and brought with him the
bad half-crown, the sand-paper, and liquid. At
that time the prisoner had not a single halfpenny
in the house, and thermal' said he would go out
and buy some silver and cream of tartar, as he
expected a person he should meet to pay him
some money. the man was absent about twenty
minutes, and he went out a second time to buy
more stuff, because that which he had got, he
said, was not strong enough. When he left the
room he said he should be absent about ten
minutes, and he locked the room door and took
the key with him, and in a few minutes after-
wards the Officers broke into his room. As to
the charge of coining, he could only say that he
wa'Ognorant of the process, and never till that
morning, when the articles produced were brought
to his room by the man (who was in the service
of the Mint) did he ever see any thing of
the kind. If Limbrick be to be believed, John-
son was detected rubbing . half-a-crown with a
piece of rag and silver..colOuring. The defence
denies all agency whatever in the process. The
probability is in favour of the Officer. But still,
admitting that the prisoner was employed in
coining, an important question meets us—was
he a coiner with a knowledge of, whose guilty
practices the informer of the Mint had contrived
to make himself acquainted, or was he a poor
ignorant devil whom the informer had initiated
into the practice with a view to profit by trepan-

,•
-

ning him ? Now here it is where English jus-
tice always leaves us in the lurch. One minute
in the life' of a man of 56 years is selected
as the foundation for a criminal prosecution.—
The officers find him with the instruments
before him. The whole character of the
act depends on the animus of the party
committing it. We know, for instance, from
the case of the poor Irishmen, whom Vaughan,
some years ago, contrived to employ in
coining, that a man may be coining, and have all
the while not the slightest idea that he is doing
so, or doing any thing that is wrong. The
whole light which the Jury had to guide them
respecting this most important point—the ani-
mus of the prisoner—was the statement of Mr.
Powell—that " he had reason to believe that
the prisoner was not entrapped into this, be-
cause he knew his connections." Here, then,
was one clew. Let us see what advantage was
taken of it :

" Mr. Clarkson (the prisoner's Counsel) —Well
lam glad I have got that out. Now, I will ask
you, what are his connections ?
" Mr. Justice Park refused to allow the question
to be put.

" Mr. Clarkson—Does your Lordship believe that
if the Mint could show that the prisoner's connec-
tions were bad, they would not do it ?"
A number of witnesses gave the prisoner a
good character.

Mr. Justice Park " fully exonerated Mr. l'owell
from all participation in the wicked and diabolical
conduct of the party hho had given the informa-
tion which led to the prisoner's apprehension. It
appeared to be a contrivance on the part of that
InitlP to entrap the prisoner into the offence, and to
make it appear he was a coiner."
After all, this conclusion was rather come to
from the good character given of the prisoner,
and the absence of all evidence, except the mere
detection of the prisoner with coining apparatus,
than any thing like certain knowledge. The
object of an English criminal trial is not, in the
least, the discovery of the guilt or innocence of
a prisoner. The object is a sort of combat be-
tween prosecutor and prisoner, conducted accord=
ing to certain rules, of the most arbitrary cha-
racter, and the public are invited merely to see
whether the fight has been fair. " We had a
fine run yesterday," says the fox-hunter. The
chace was the sport to the hunter—the trial is
the sport to the lawyer.. The Judge takes care
that the Jury shall not know too much, and the
Jury, on certain isolated Acts, pronounce a judg-
ment of Guilty or Innocent, without having the
slightest ground to warrant them in inferring
either -guilt or innocence from anything that
comes
..before them. The wit of man could
not devise any more effectual means for destroy-
ing innocence and setting guilt free than an
English trial. From first to last, it is an elaborate
contrivance to prevent the discovery of the
truth. The Jury are constantly guessing, infer-
ring guilt where is none, and interring innocence
where there is guilt, from the consummate
pains taken to place guilt and innocence on the
same footing. When the feelings of the Jurors
are interested against a particular offence, they
jump to a verdict of guilty, and when their feel-
ings are the other way, they jump to a verdict
of innocence. They know that they are con-
stantly mystified—that very little of the case is
suffered to come before them, and hence the
dreadfully arbitrary manner in which the fate of
men is disposed of in this country. Any man
who attends to verdicts knows that there is often
no connection between the evidence and the ver-
dict, and that a man is really found guilty
of that for which he is not tried. Had
Smith, who was tried at the Old Bailey
on Saturday, been tried before a less earnest
Judge than Mr. Justice Park, (who, take
him all in all, is perhaps the best criminal
Judge in England), the Jury would have found
him guilty, not because he was really guilty of
that for which be was tried, but because he was
an immoral man (for morality in England is
summed up in affairs of the sexes), and set all
decency at defiance. Long after it was evident
that the evidence was throughout rank perjury,
did.the Jurors stick to the prisoner with a sin-
gular pertinacity. If it wet e wished to discover
the truth, the first etep unquestionably would
be to interrogate the prisoner with respect to
the acts which form the foundation of the charge.
If William Johnston, for instance, had been ex-
amined, his statement of the transaction cowl
have been analysed; and subjected to the ne-
cessary tests. The whole hinged upon his hav-
ing been a coiner, or his having been entrapped
by the Mint. Nothing could have been more
easily discovered than this ; but this was
the only point which it was determined not
to discover. Mr. Powell may, by the Eng-
lish law, be perfectly blameless ; but had
this trial taken place in any other country
than England, what Mr. Justice Park said would
have been deemed arrant nonsense. It would
have been deemed the duty of the prosecutor to
know something mere of the prisoner than that
he was detected in a certain act. It would have
been deemed incumbent on- him to shew that the
prisoner was entrapped, and yet that he the Soli.
citor, was innocent. It would have been deemed
.the very essence of the matter, for the Solicitor
to shew on whatgrounds he came to tile determi-
nation of placing a human bell in peril of
his life, which constituted a justification of his
conduct, separate from what appeared in this
trial. We fear there are laul doiugsj ust now
with these Mint entrappings. On Wednesday
next, a poor man, James Coleman, is to be exe-
cuted for a similar crime, on evidence which we
should wish to see looked a little into. The
trial was on the Bth of December last, and the
case was not reported in the newspapers, though
a fall report of it is in the Sessions Paper.
We know that much finesse must be used in
discovering coiners ; but unfortunately this opens
a door to this abominable system of entrapping
.silly people in order to enable informers to get
blood-money. We will endeavour to give an ac-
e-aunt of the trial on Wednesday morning;
though it may then, unfortunately lie too late.—
We would give the report now if we could. In
the second volume of the Memoirc of Vidocq,
which forms Vol. 26, of Hunt and Clarke's
Autobiography, there is an secant of the direee
tions given to Vidocq by M. Hurry, at that time
at the head of the Police of safety in Paris,
which our Solicitors of the Mint, and all who
employ informers, would do well to reflect on.
Remember well (said be to Vidocq), that the
greatest scourge of society is he who urges ano-
ther on to the commission of evil. Where
there are .no instigators to bad practices, they are
.committed only by the really hardened ; beciuse
they alone are capable of conceiving and execut-
ing them Weak beings may be drawn away
and excited, to precipitate them into the abyss, it
frequently requires no more than to call to your
aid their passions or self love ; but he who avails
himself of their weakness to procure' their de-
struction, is more than a monster ; lee is the
guilty one; and it is on his head that the sword
of Justice should fall. As to those engaged in

the Police, they had better remain for ever idle
than create matter for employment."—Morning
chronicle.

That France and England are the two princi-
pal Powers in Europe cannot for a moment be
(1,2 ibted. if; instead of that perpetual rivalry
which has existed between them, a cordial union
had been heretofore witnessed, half the san-
guinary wars which have desolated some of the
finest portions of the earth would never have
taken place. Thirteen years of peace, however,
have passed away between these two countries,.
which appear to have ripened and matured a
friendship which, it is to be hoped, is not likely
to be broken. Mr. Canning tried his hand at
rendering them joint belligerents—an experi-
ment which, judging from the result, had
better have been let alone ; but, if we mis-
take not, both the Governments and the in-
habitants of each—the former taking, as they
should do, the tone froth the latter—
have no disposition to break through that
line of mutual amity and advantage, which
every day's improvement and experience speaks
the value of. Much as the late Lord
Londonderry was condemned, both at the
time and since, for the terms of the Treaty of
Paris, it cannot now, we think, be denied,•but
that it has at least the one rare merit of having
left fewer germs of discord behind it than any
pacification on record which had such discordant
interests to reconcile. Indeed it would be diffi-
cult to show that any just ground of hostile ri-
valry now exists between two countries, one half
of whose history, for centuries, consists_ of little
else. The battle of Waterloo, in this respect,
worked a new era for the world, and has been
more decisive than any similar event of ancient
or modern date. Such being the state of the
two greatest of modern Powers towards each
other, the rest of Europe is entitled to look up
to them for the same advantage towards them-
selves. That which is the interest of France
and England, in particular, must be the true
interests of all ; and, though the injudicious use
which has been made of their union in the
Greek affair may have, in some • degree,
palsied their efforts, by impugning their impar-
tiality, yet Russia must by this time have learnt
that they were her Allies only up to a certain
point ; and that, in her private quarrel with the
Turks, neither England nor France is her
abettor or her' approver. What precise tone the
diplomatic :Tents of these two Powers have held
towards the Government of Nicholas, the public
of both countries have yet to learn ; but common
justice, as wed as policy,. demands that having
held a high tone towards the Porte as regarded
its disputes with its own subjects, the Greeks,
.on the ground of the injury which those disputes
entailed upon other States, they are equally
called upon to resist a more extensive warfare,
which entails consequences so much inure ex-
tensive and serious upon the relations of the
world, and upon the intercourse of nations. We
are not without hope, therefore, of seeing France
and England the pacificators.—Morn. 'Herald.

The Marquis of Anglesea, it is said, was to
leave Ireland yesterday, and he leaves it with the
regret of nearly six millions of its population,
and, we believe, we may add with the unfeigned
respect of all parties, with the exception of the
very few whose hopes of being permitted to op-
press and plunder the poor people of Ireland
were so unexpectedly dieappointed by his liberal
and just administration of affairs. No one, in
fact, could have held the reins of Government
in Ireland with more equal and impartial sway
than the Marquis of Anglesea ; and if he has
acted imprudently in communicating his sen-
timents on the Duke of Wellington's letter
in such forcible terms, surely dome allow-
ance ought to be made both for the insult
which was offered to him as Lord Lieutenant,
in withholding the sentiments of the Cabinet
from him ; and the still greater disrespect which
was manifested in afterwards making them known
through a Catholic Priest. After such conduct
the Marquis of Anglesea could not have been
expected to remain in Ireland—much less to
have communicated his sentiments less freely
than the Premier had done. In the meantime
WO are assured from all quarters that the Govern-
ment experiences the greatest difficulty in finding
a suitable successor. Lord Melville has declined
the office of Lord Lieutenant, and we
.have
heard that Lord Amherst, to whom it was also
offered, hes likewise declined it. It is not, in
fact, a tempting bait to any one ; for while it is
all but impossible to pursue a middle course, any
leaning to one side or the other is certain of
kindling the flames of discord, and exposing the
Lord Lieutenant, whoever he may be, to all the
taunts and revilings and sinister intrigues which
the bitterness and malevolence of party spirit
can invent, In the meantime we cannot refrain
from lamenting the conduct of the Catho-
lic demagogues as pregnant with more
serious evils to the tranquillity and pro-
sperity of Ireland, and even to the cause
which they profess to advocate, than that of the
most inveterate opponents of Emancipation.
What benefit, for example, can accrue either to
the Catholics as a body, or the cause of Catholic
Emancipation in particular, from Mr. O'Con-
nell's declaring at a public meeting, that " it
would be a pleasant thing to see some five or six
dam bloodhounds," (meaning the opponents of
Emancipation), " marched off to Botany Bay 1"
from designating the same persons as "a bloody, an
infernal, an infamous faction ;" from declaring
their sole object to be " rapine, plunder, and
assassination ?" There is no ground for adopt=
ing such language, and if there were, it would
not be wise .to use it ; and if Mr. O'Connell
has the slightest wish to represent any portion
of the people of Ireland in the Imperial Parlia-
ment (which by the bye we begin to believe that
he has not,) lie may depend that he will never
have the honour of doing so while he continues
edopt such calumnious and irritating language.
—Morning Advertiser.

The Bow-street officers, Bishop and Led-
better, were, it is strange to say, as they passed along front
;Own to town, great objects of suspicion themselves. At
one i:iace they were met by two St. Ives' constables, who
followed them from house to house, and were constantly
comparing their persona; faces, and dresses, with the de-
scription of Stephenson and Lloyd in the piacards and ad-
vertisements. Although there was no more resemblance
between the parties than exists between fat and lean men,
or tall and short men, or handsome and ugly men, these
keen constables thought they had the reward already in
their hands. Bishop, who perceived what was Going for-
ward in the imaginations of his two followers, pulled out,
as if by accident, a horse-pistol, and the constables imme-
diately cried out to all present, " It's them, its them !
Help us in the King's name : lirdp us in the King's
name !" And •eiaing Bishop by the collar, said, " Alt !
Stephenson, you thief, have we grabbed you ?" "Yes,
you have grabbed rn,,," said Bishop, in a most trabasaker-
like tone, "but if you don't drop my toggery, I'm cursed
if I dos:t you up be; ,r: Sir TVA -.w..51 quite
a sufficient exp!aaation ; the constables acknowledged
that they were deceived by the resemblance, and very
willingly joined the Bow-street officers in the ineffectual
pursuit.

OLD BATLEY, JAN. 19.

COUNTERFEITING COIN OF THE REALM.

The principal circumstances of this trial bear a
very striking resemblance to those of the celebrated
case which was the proximate cause of the abolition
of the rewards formerly paid on the conviction of
persons indicted for capital felonies, which commonly
obtained the name of blood-money. In that case it
wid be recollected, that a police-effieer, named Rock,
if we recollect rightly,- employed a: man to decoy
three ignorant Irishmen into an empty house, and
set them to work colouring false money. - While
they were engaged in the process, of which they
hardly knew the meaning, Brock broke in upon
them, and took them into custody. The poor
fellows wtre tried, convicted, and ordered for execu-
tion, when, by the diligence of some humane indi-
viduals, Brock'S nefarious scheme was unravelled,
and the innocence of his victims indisputably esta-
blished. Brock and his confederate were tried and
convicted of conspiracy, and suffered punishment;
and the case created so great a sensation through-
out the country as to occasion almost imme-
diately the abolition of the reward which had in-
duced this horrid traffic in human blood. There is
reasonable ground for supposing that the prisoner,
whose case we are about to narrate, was the dupe
of a villain who did not scruple to hand a miserable
old man over to the gallows, in order to put a few
pounds into his own pocket. It is, perhaps, neces-
sary that the Mint should employ spies,- but after
this example it is to be hoped they will proceed with
due caution upon their information.
William Johnsime, an old white-haired mt.n, was
indicted for traitorously colouring a half-crows and
a shilling, made to resemble the current coin of the
realm.

It appeared from the evidence that the police-
officers, in consequence of information they had re-
ceived, proceeded to 10, Earl-street, Seven Dials,
and burst into the garret, where they found 'the pri-
soner with all the Materials of colouring about him,
anti in the act of rubbing a counterfeit half-crown.
The prisoner, on seeing the officers, exclaimed " Oh
God ! I have been trepanned !" A connte:feit
shilling was found in. his pocket.
Mr. Powell, the Assistant Solicitor to the Mint,
said the person who gave: the information in this
case came to him of his own accord. He was not
employed by the Mint to hunt after persons, or en-
courage them in the commission of crime.
Mr. CLARKSON asked whether money had been
paid to the informant, besides the shilling which
Umbria; had given him,in respect to this transaction.
Mr. Powell then said, that be had paid the in-
formant money since the pri:oner's apprehension.
He paid the informan: 51.

The prisoner, in his defence, said that the person
who had given information to the Mint bought all
the materials for colouring and the false coin into
his room, and asked him to assist hira. He then
said he %You'd get some more Over colouring, and
went our, taking the prisoner's key with him. About
ten minutes after ho was gone, the officers burst
open the door. He concluded by begging that his
life might be spared, and said that he would cheer-
fully submit to any other punishment.
Several respectable witnesses proved that they
had employed the prisoner as a smith for several
to ,I•thin a short time before his ap-
prehension. All these witnesses gave tile prisoner
the best character for honesty,industry, and sobriety.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Not
Guilty.

NEW COURT.

ALLEGED ROBBERY AT ROWLAND STEPHENSON'S.

115 ilium Fulker and Thomas Boreham (two
young men who had been footman and groom to
the fugitive banker) were indicted fOr stealing nine
bottles of wine and other articles, the property of
John Wright and James Gathorne Remington.
After evidence had been heard,

The COMMON-SERJEANT said—" Really, gentle-
men, there appears to be great doubt as to whether
this property was stolen; and as I understand they
bore a good character, I—"
Foreman of the Jury—My Lord, we are satisfied
that the prioners are not guilty, and We return a
verdict accordingly.
Arthur Win. Longford was indicted for stealing
ten neckcloths, and other articles, the property of
Peter Watson.

Mr. Serjeant ARABIN summed up the evidence,
and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
'Roma: Lloyd was indicted for stealing a quan-
tity of stamps, of the value of 5,000/., the property
of his Majesty.
Mr. BOLLAND (with whom was Mr. Brodrick)
applied to the Common Serjeant to have the in-
dictment quashed, as upon examination it was found
to be defective.

Messrs. PHILLIPS and CLARKSON, for the pri-
soner, could have no objection.
It was finally arranged for the prisoner to go at
large, upon entering into his own recognizance in
the sum of 1001., and find four swedes in the sum
of 251. each.

Daniel Heath, alias Lloyd, a young man of re-
spectable appearance, was indicted for intermarrying,
with Margaret Evans, in September, 1826, his for-
mer wife, Eliza Charioneaux, being then alive.
Mr. CLARKSON stated the case for the prosecu-
tion, and called the following witnesses :
Mr. Thistleton produced the parish register of St.
Pancras, by which it appeared that a marriage was
solemnized in the above-named church, between
Daniel Heath and Elizabeth Charioneaux on the
12th of May, 1823.
Thomas Ayling, a person of very gloomy appear-
ance, was called to prove the above marriage.
Mr. ADOLPHUS directed the officer not to admi-
nister the oath to this witness until he (Mr. Adol-
phus) had asked him a question or two, relative to
a matter of importance. (To Ayling)—Do you be-
lies ein a God? Ayling—l do not consider that I
have a right to answer that question.
Mr. Anommus—But you must ; and I now ask
von again, do you believe in a Supreme Being ?
Ayling--I do not believe in God, nor that there is
a place where future rewards are dispensed or pu-
nishments inflicted.

Mr. Anot.Ptius then submitted that this person
could not be sworn as a witness in a Chrialian court
of justice.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS—This is the new - light and
march of intellect. (Laughter.)
The Learned JUDGE said, the party could not be
sworn after making such declarations as to his disbe-
lief.

Mr. CLARKSON then called several other N% itneises,
to prove that the signature, " Daniel Heath," in the
marriage register, was in his hand-writing, when two
of them swore as to their belief in that regard to this
particular; and others swore more positively.
Miss AIM Sartie stated that she was sister to the
prisoner's first wife, who married him by the name
of Charioneaux, in 1823, and they lived together as
man and wife for a considerable time. Her sister
was living six weeks ago, and she had seen her several
times during the last five or six years.
Harriet Meredith deposed, that she was also sister
to the first wife, and in other respects confirmed the
testimony of the last witness.
Margaret Evans lives at No. 5, Eyre-street-hill.
On the 10th of September, 1826, she married the
prisoner at St. thles's church, having known him for
two years previously. The prisoner is an attorney's
clerk, and represented that he was entitled to seine
property.
William Taylor, the parish clerk of St. Giles's-in-
the-fields, produced the register of marriages, which
proved the prisoner's second marriage with the last
witness.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence,
said that there were family reasons for his changing
his name. The second wife, who no•tv prosecuted
him, had a full knowledge of all the circumstances
connected w nim ; the present pruceeuings were
only instituted in order to extort money from him.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly
recommended him to mercy.