The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-31 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, MAY 30.

Isaac Sutton, a cabriolet driver, was indicted for hav-
ing, on the 13th December, driven his cabriolet over a fe-
male named Harrison, by which her legs were broken, and
she was otherwise seriously injured. The Jury found him
Guilty, and he was ordered to be brought up on Saturday,
to receive sentence.

Edward Sturges, a young man of highly respectable ap-
pearance, the deputy organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, was
indicted for assaulting Jane Weaver on the 26th of March
last. The prosecutrix, who is about forty years of age,
stated that the defendant had visited her house fin• a consi-
derable length of time, as a suitor to her daughter, who is
a public singer, but she disapproved of his addresses ; and,
on the night in question, she discovered that her daughter's
clothes had been clandestinely removed, preparatory to her
being married to the defendant. Witness left the house at
twelve o'clock at night on the 26th of March, for the pur-
pose of bringing her daughter back, and she followed them
from the Rotunda, in Blackfriars-road, to a. house near St.
Illary's Church, in the Strand, the door of which was open
to admit her daughter. Witness placed herself in the door-
way to prevent her daughter from entering, when the de-
fendant struck her a violent blow in the face, which
knocked her down, and he also tore her shawl from her
shoulders ; she gave him in charge to the watchman, who
took him to the watch-house.

Francis Hartwell accompanied Mrs. Weaver in search of
her daughter, who struck her mother, and attacked witness
also; he interfered merely to protect Mrs. W. from the
violence of the defendant.-.-. Cross-examined :—He meant
to swear that he did not live with Mrs. Weaver at the pre-
sent time; he (lid not know how old her youngest child
was (Miss Weaver here said that the child was six years
old); Mrs. Weaver had lodged in his house about 13
months ago.
Mr. ALLEY, in addressing the Jury for the defence,
should clearly prove by the evidence of the prosecutor's
own daughter, that she was the aggressor. .
Miss Elizabeth Weaver, a young lady of uncommon
beauty and fashionable appearance, deposed, that she had
quitted her mother's roof in consequence of her connection
with the witness Hartwell. On the night in question she
was coming from the Rotunda with Mr. Sturges, and they
were going into the house near St. Mary's Church, when
her mother came up and struck the defendant twice in the
face, and afterwards her mother sent the defendant and
witness to the watchhouse for the night.
The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced the defendant
—Not Guilty.
The Rev. John Bolton, Minister of a Dissenting Con-
gregatilm in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane, was indicted
for assaulting two girls, named Fanny and Elizabeth
Mayers, with intent to violate their persons. The girls
resided with their parents, in Chapel-yard, Newton street,
Holborn. On the night of the 22d March, Fanny Mayers
went into the apartments of a Mrs. Duffy, where the de-
fendant, she said, took hold of her, placed her on his
knee, and took indecent liberties with her person. She
got away from him, but he followed her into the passage,
blew the candle out, and again took indelicate liberties with
her. Elizabeth Mayers said, that hearing her sister scream
she went to her assistance, and the defendant treated her in
the same indelicate manner.

Mr. Aocii.rmtJs, jun., for the defendant, said it was a
most infamous fabrication and conspiracy, trumped up for
the purpose of extorting money.
William Duffy and his wife proved that they were in
the room when the girls were there, and that the defen-
dant did not touch them. They went to bed before he
left the house, and defendant returned to his lodgings. A
paper, signed by Fanny Mayers, was produced, wherein
she stated that she did not wish to appear against Mr. Bol-
ton, but she had been induced to prefer the charge by her
uncle, to extort money ; what she bad sworn at Bow-
street and Clerkenwell was false, and she believed Mr. Bol-
ton to be an honest man.
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

THE KING against LANCELOT COOPER,

FOR FORGERY.

This culprit, to whom the Royal mercy was ex-
tended, greatly to his own astonishment, by commu-
tation, has been, it is ascertained, more extensive in
his plans of levying contributions upon the public,
and in his success, than any man who has been for
many years executed, with the exception of Faunt-
leroy. He was tried for forgery at the Old Bailey
last sessions, and convicted upon one indictment :
to another he pleaded guilty. It was not thought
necessary to proceed on a great number of other in-
dictments against him, which were just as easily
proveable, the committee of bankers for the preven-
tion of forgery having probably thought that the two
convictions were sufficient to bring down the extreme
severity of the law upon the prisoner. The cheques
were many of them drawn upon the following houses :
—Sir W. Curtis and Co. ; Messrs. Praed and Co. ;
Messrs. Currie, Raikes, and Ca; Messrs. J. De-
nison and Sons ; and Messrs. Coutts and Co.—
Some of them were paid away by Cooper to Mr.
Hawley of the Strand, Mr. Hamlet, Mr. Austin,
Mr. Hopkinson, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Gilbert, Mr.
Laurence, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Eddels, and the
names which Cooper chose to sign to the cheques
were—James Allison, Thomas Edward Crofton, Ed-
ward George Cook, George Crofton, Edward Jack-
son, James Cope, &c. Cooper entered the navy 20
years ago. In 1813., he was dismissed the service,
in which he had acted as purser, without court-
martial, for, forgery and general infamous conduct.
—His career from that time has been so depraved,
that those who are best qualified to calculate upon
the probable decisions of the Privy Council were
of opinion, that all interposition to save his life
would be quite useless. Indeed, we understand that
when he heard of his respite, he was near losing
his senses. He is a man of good address and of
impenetrable impudence, but he is without educa-
tion. Amongst his papers was found a letter written
in the French language, and addressed to the Prin-
cess Charlotte of Wales in the handwriting of the
late unfortunate Queen Caroline. It contained a
most affectionate request, that the Princess Would
use her interest to induce Lord Castlereagh to re-
store the bearer to the situation of Consul at Ve-
nice, from which situation it appeared to have been
the impression of her Majesty, through the misre-
presentations of Cooper, the fellow had been remo-
ved from pique. It is said that this letter was procured
for him by some person of high rank at Venice, upon
whom he no doubt imposed by the most egregious
falsehoods. About two years ago he paid his ad-
dresses to a young lady at Gosport, called himself
Captain Cole, and prevailed upon her to marry him.
He soon afterwards deserted her without leaving her
any provision. He played off an ingenious trick
upon the American Ambassador here, by which he
got hold of the sum of .501. He obtained some par-
ticulars of the domestic concerns of a Member of
Congress, and represented to the Ambassador that
he (Cooper) was brother to that member; and that
he was in daily expectation of a large remittance
from America, until he should receive which he
must be greatly inconvenienced unless some coun-
tryman would give him a temporary loan. The
Ambassador, finding that the story of his applicant
was probable enough, and that Cooper had a bill pur-1
porting to be drawn by the bank of the United States
upon Messrs. Baring and Co., gave him a letter of in-
troduction to that firm, who, upon the responsibility of
his Excellency, immediatelyeashed thebill,which,how-
ever proved not to be worth three farthings. Last
summer he obtained the sum of 5001. from Messrs.
Hawkins and Sons, of the Plymouth bank, for a
forged bill of exchange on the house of Baring and
Co. Cooper got this bill discounted by means of a
forged letter of introduction from Vice-Admiral Sir
John Gore, which introduced him as Captain Cole.
For this forgery a detainer was also lodged against
him in Newgate. The signature to the bill is a
complete fac simile. Upon Cooper's person were
found numbers of bills and cheques upon Baring and
Co., ready to be filled up, and an American passport
in the name Of Allison. It is generally reported in
the city, that this instance of clemency arose from
the recommendation of his Majesty's new Home
Secretary. Whatever may have been the cause of
so singular an exception to the, dreadful principle of
general executions for the offence of forgery, the
next person who undergoes the extreme sentence of
the la* upon such an indictment must be the most
inveterate and incorrigible of robber..