The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-05 00:00:00

Witness was directed to pack up the wine, which
was to he removed to Watkins's house before Sweet
come. She did not see Crook go out. She was
employed all the night in packing up the wine.
They were just sending more out of the house when
Sweet came on the Monday morning and stopped
it. The goods in the house were worth above 2,000/.
Henry Hale, Weston's clerk, also spoke to the
furniture, which he thought worth 1,500/. Witness
learned from Weston that he expected Machin and
Debenham's execution that day. Witness went to
the house on Sunday at one. The law library was
gone. Crook, -Watkins, and the two Langdons
came in the afternoon, and were in the back room
up-stairs, drinking wine, with papers before them.
Mr. Miller was there in the evening, Witness stayed
till after one o'clock ; the next day he took an ac•
count of the wine that Sweet stopped, there were
32 dozen and 10 bottles.

Charles Way called the hackney coaches until
three in the morning; there were 13 or 14. Crook
said he would send a waggon to take the wine away.
Mrs. Oke, a widow woman, proved that her hus-
band kept a horse and cart, and Crook's servant
brought an order for it to be at Weston's house at
five o'clock on the Monday morning.
James Wheel, the carter, went with the cart, and
received one cart-load, which he took to Watkins's
house in Castle-street. He returned, and was get-
ting another load in, when Sweet stopped him.
Mr. Town proved the two actions against the
Sheriff, and that he recovered and received the da-
mages in each.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that was his ease,
and he should not affect Miller with any knowledge
of the object of the parties. Mr. Miller was ac-
cordingly acquitted.
The COMMON SERGEANT, for Crook, now the
only living defendant upon the record, contended that
it was the most extraordinary proceeding he had ever
seen. Crook was indicted with some persons who
were acquitted, and with another person, Weston,
then sitting in Court, and who was certainly the
foundation of all that had been done. That same
Weston had given the documents and furnished the
means of information; he was not proceeded against,
neither was lie acquitted : there was no ?toll pro-
seq2ti entered for him, so as to enable him to be put
into the witness-box, and to give his evidence.—
Two other persons had also been pronounced not
guilty, because the prosecutor had received material
information from them ; but they had been included
in the indictment, and had not, after their ac-
quittal, been put into the witness-box by the
prosecutor. It was utterly impossible for his
client to call them under' such circumstances.—
If Weston, the arch-conspirator, were to go free, it
would be a most extraordinary spectacle indeed, to
convict Crook for a conspiracy with him, and yet
that be should not be brought to take his trial, but
should be allowed to say, " I will give information ;
but I will not come forward as a witness." But as
the Attorney-General had neither prosecuted nor
entereAl a noli prosequi, there Mr. Weston was, sit-
ting in court with his lips sealed. That gentleman
was a conveyancer in Ormond-street, highly trusted,
of a good character, and if he were able to obtain on
credit goods to such amount as he had done of Ma-
chin and Dehenham, he must be a person of some
manners and no small plausibility, probably far more
than would be sufficient to impose upon a man of
much greater depth than his client, Crook, who was
a respectable tradesman; and the Jury had a right
to presume that if he could have been called he
would be able to explain the whole transaction, and
exculpate Crook from all knowledge and participa-
tion in any fraud, if fraud there had been. In the
Court of Common Pleas, after he was warned by
the Lord Chief Justice not to say any thing tending
to criminate himself, Crook gave a clear account of
the affair, and there stated the bill of sale to have
been a real and Bona fide transaction. Watkins also
stated that Crook was a real buyer, and that the
sale to Langdon was a fair sale for a valuable consi-
deration which had been paid. The Common Ser-
geant, at some length, went into the details, endea-
vouring to prove that the sale of the furniture was free
from fraud ; and he contended, that unless Crook and
Langdon were both guilty of perjury in their evidence
on the trial, Crook could not be guilty of the charge
then brought against him. He lamented that the
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
had expressed himself so warmly, and had advised
.the present prosecution; and he conjured the Jury
net to suffer themselves to be influenced from what
had fallen from so-high a quarter, but to attend only
to the evidence. He should call witnesses of the
greatest respectability to the character of Mr. Crook,
the first of whom would be Mr. Alderman Crowder,
at that time Sheriff', against whom the action was
brought.
Alderman Crowder, Alderman Waithman, the
Rev. Dr. Rudge, Messrs. Wilson, Herring and Ber-
ridge, and Mr. Birchen, the Under-Sheriff, with
several other witnesses, gave Mr. Crook an excel-
lent character for honesty and integrity. They had
all known him for many years.
The Jury retired for half an hour, and then
brought in the defendant " Guilty," but recom-
mended him to the favourable consideration of the
Court on account of his good character.

ARCHES COURT, Nov. 3.

This being the first Sessions in Michaelmas Term
of the Ecclesiastical and Maritime Courts, Sir John
Nichol], Dean of the Arches Court of Canterbury,
and Official Principal, attended by the advocates and
proctors, after prayers in the adjoining apartment,
went in procession into Court.

No public business of any importance took place
on this occasion. An application was made, in the
matter of Lord Portsmouth, for the extension of the
term probatory, which was not acceded to by the
Court. _ _ _

John Joseph Munden, Esq., and Charles Toiler,
Esq., notaries public, were introduced with the usual
forms, and admitted of the number of procurators-
general vtercent in this Court (as supernumeraries),
by virtue 9f rescripts from the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, granted in consideration of their learning, pro-
bity of life, and good morals.

Capt. PIIIDHANI, the Worshipful the Mayor,
has follow up the notice he caused to be generally circu-
lated a week or two since, as on Saturday last, he seized
several pounds of butter, which were deficient in weight,
and had the names of the persons owning it published in
hand-bills. This step, will, no doubt tend, by the dis-
grace it inflicts, in a great measure, to put a stop to such
fraudulent practices. —Devonport Telegraph.
At the Dover Sessions, which commenced on
Fri(l4y morning, and did not finish until near twelve o'clock
last n►ght, Jolty Low, who was in custody some short
time since on a charge of stealing a bag of gold on heard
the Sovereigx steam packet, from Boulogne, and was ad-
mitted to heavy bail, did not appear to answer to the in-
dictment. The Grand Jury found the bill, and in conse-
quence of the non-appearance of Low, the recognizances
become forfeited.

On Monday afternoon, the inhabitants of
Bridgegate were alarmed by an infuriated stot, which rush-
ed through the street with a number of dogs hanging by it.
A. dog at length ran between its fore-legs, and seizing it by
the under-jaw, gave it a summerset, which brought it
to the ground, and it was secured. The people in that
quarter are often troubled with this kind of pastime,
and accuse the fleshers of wilfully baiting the animals to
improve the colour of the beef. It is not long since an en-
raged buil completely lifted out a window with its'
horns, and it cost the liesher five pounds. In another
instance, a man nearly lost his life. The bull rushed
on the pavement, and attempted to gore him, but
fortunately its horns struck each side of the wall, and he
was enclosed by its head, and it was with great difficulty he
was relieved from his dangerous situation. In another case,
an enraged animal unexpectedly entered a spirit cellar to
the great dismay of the tipplers, who made a hasty exit,--
one of them declaring he had been at Waterloo, but never
encountered such a formidable foe. The bull went to the
extremity of the cellar, and quietly laid himself down at
the fire. An adjoining door had to be broken open, and
the animal secured with ropes, It behoves the authorities
in every case of this kind to he satisfied that the getting
loose 9f the animal is accidental.-- Glasgow Chronicle.