The Sun.
London, England, 1811-09-24 00:00:00

SNCRILEGE.

Henry James Kriderburg %V 34 indieled for steal-
ing a lookin,;•glais, a set ..ftire-irons, 3 cortain, and
a bass rod, in Graitel Pits Chapel. situate between
Flonierton and tiaiknev,

Anne Boltwood tat ed , that she lived in a room
over the vestry of the Chapel in question. On the
:Enorning of the 81h of August she,wa4 awoke by a
'noise, and coming down :to ascertain the cause, the
fon.itt the niisoner in the custody of a person named
Shnbrrt, who, it appeared, saw the prisoner get into
small window coonemed h the Chapel.
exeinnnation, it appeared that the articles
specified in the indittment hid been removed from
the plice whete they had moon the night hplore
into a• pew, evtdenily for the purpobe of bOng car-
rivd

The prisoner, in his defence,. said, he had for-
merly been' proprietor of 'the Hampstead . stages.
pt► the tight when he was taken urn custody, he
/tad been supping with a friend at Stratford, and
was returning home, when it began lupin ; he ini.
Inediattly ran towards the Chapel for shelter, and
while he stood under the porch, observing the u in-
dow of the'vestrv-room open, he ,was induced, from
coriestiv, to look in, when his hat MI oft', act! he
Jumped into the window alter it. He was pro-
ceeding towards the door of the Chapel to come out,
and was illrt by Shubert, who took him into

The diarge, however, being sittisfaelorily proved,
the pi isoner was found Guilty.

DEFAULTING BANKRUPT.

Charles Peter Whitaker was then put to the bar,
to tkite his, trial upon an indiament, charging him
with tieing a bnikrupt,.and having ‘4 0414 and
omiiird to surrender himself according
to the form of the StAnte. :

Geeeo hevieg opened the case,
Mr. GuitNtiv addrereted the Court and Jury : he
Cibstflved, that the charge to which he had to tined"
Wen
,attention
.was of peculiar importance to the
iSOtier 1:1114.1 to the pubic, lansilltso as it went- to
affect the prinner's hle,, and involved the considers-
lion of tt questien ietimately comiee.ted with the
wifely of pubec property. -ne,- charge. arose 'out
of ateaCt which had been p4stred' by the Legislature
trt the fit'ih year of the reign or G,•oige the. Second,,
for the purpose of presenting the recurrence of
many frauds and dishonest parart ices, which were
committed under the Banks up! Laws, us they then
existed. The perticular •pareof this act, which re.
fried to- the pr boner's nest ondum, was that by
which it was provided, that any pet sons-who should
have been dealred a Bankrupt accordio4 to esta-
blished forms, and should o it to ‘Urrrtider him.
self to be examined by ills cteditors upon oath, with.
in tin ty.two days after he shall'have received notice,
itl that the Commission of Bankrupt, y
issued;.shall be deemed guilty of feluny, and shall
be punished accordingly,—That such had.been the
conduct of the prisoner would be his task to prole,
and he 'would be enabled to eat cute that task
ill a clear aid satiSfatitory tuaneer he had little
doubt. 'the prisoner, who resided in Great Si..
fief, to was it, partnership wi‘h a gentlettiati nam-
ed Gibs-ti, in coneeetion with whbin be tr.insaet-
e'd ;pert:atone business to a coi',4iderable extent, It
so ht•weyer, 'that their optmulatious,
Whateter they ought' hate been, were not at.
tended with the desired success, and the 'firm. be•
came' indt.hed ,o several persutts in very con,ider-
able fiutos. AniOngst otkietS who were creditors
on this ecc.:sion eas the firm of Messrs. Smite!
Jo.,eph, A 4ri-n Joseph, Joseph Joseph, and Co. who
sued nut .a Connuission of Bankrutitcy against the
prisoner and his pare r, of which due notice was
given In the Gazette, mid under this Commission
s'Aer,il ceeeems were held before-certain Commis-
Siotters, At these meetings, Mr. Grb.
son, the partner cf the prisoner, suirendered him
'serf ; 01).1 by'his candid and hop. urable demeanor
acne t respect both of his creditors and the Corn-
missionetie It so hippened, however, that the
pti-
toner did not attend any of those meetings save the
third;'' but on that
;occasion, owrg!to the lateness
.or the hour, be Waft broUght up toy
.the officer of the
King's Bench prison, in whose cliatge he was, aris-
ing out of sonic, tioloreseen nese.ke : he declared
himself unprepred, and. selietted further time for
preperat ion, whieh theComnifiaeeners readily greet-
edY and' anoonded the sunSeirient Monday tor his
, • , ,
eitattlinaliyn. out rrorn Louie su.ptctoni !bat were
eeterrairthl of his intention to Atbscond, as he" had
applied for his discharge from thelcertg's Bench, the.
Colurnissionere, before they separated, told him in
distmet terms", that if he did not attend on the day
so appointed; he would be guilty cif a capital felony,
and would be liable to sutler death without benefit
of 'clergy, it sitbsluently apprehended. ln despite
of this warning,
,howeter, as had been anticipated,
he obtained i,is discharge and did ab4cond, mid con-
trived to secrete him.elf for fire days.; but, at the
end of that (line, was tracen to Bath,altd there
taken alto custody. It tsas,wilh this offence the
prisoner stood cearged, and it would bc for the Jury
to say, opon 'hearing the evidence, under the do-ic-
on) of the Learned Judge, whether the accusation
was oot lolly warranted.
Mr. Guatsey then proceeded to cell witnesses to
prove. firstethe partnership, next the act of bank.
luptcy, toed the issue of 11:e conopissiOn, and af-
tetwe,ds the severe] meetregs of the Commis-
ettmeil, at the lam of eartiely, thief btli Of
terms, the prisoner- had attended and finally his
absence tin the adjourned day apillornied for his
eerrroinatem, when he was proclaimed. In ad-
ducing the proof of the detavh, however, it tallied
ow, ,-,t) the exa,t,i:i3tion of a principal witness, that
the pr seiner had Only received a written notice of
the issete Of the comtuissian OR the 16th, ut June,
which wns the last d;ty of eXarnitfkition,

•._
•
tipliti the ctscovery or this tact Mr.
_I
eutItISO tor ti•e. pris'oner, rrfarred to the Aix, and
fitiffing thaOt. was there apecitiA, that the 'bank-
rupt was nor boo d to Burivnder until th 42'd day
ltrr a writte43 lintice had been given to him of the
jostle (t the Commission, ha claimed the acquittal
'dt his client, Upon the ground that he had been
Olken' into custodr at Bn h long helore the ex..
Oration of the .fory-two days notice, to which,
by Low, tie wits: entitled ; at 7 ! coniequently, had

The Learned Judges admiited the ititice of Mt.
Knapp's claim, aild ilie prisonr accordingly.
acquitted,

LARCENIES

There were•no less than right different prisoners
acquitted on account or the non-apt earauce of the
prt,seLuturs,
proseLutors, who were tieyerakly called upon then
recognizances. ..'