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tionably, very great, but the surrounding jungle afforded the
enemy the means of carrying away their dead, according to
their custom in such cases. .Nevertheless, some of those left
on the field we recognised as persons of considerable influence.
Whilst I record my admiration of the gallantry and steadi-
ness of the whole force under a galling fire, sustained for a
long period, I must particularly mention Captain Lyster, who
directed his attention to the boom, and by whose personal ex-
ertions that obstacle was overcome.
Mr. Gibbard, mate of her Majesty's ship Wolverine, was, I
grieve to say, mortally wounded by an early shot, when gal-
lantly working at the boom with an axe.
I beg leave to point out to your Excellency the conduct of
Mr. Williamson, Malay interpreter to Mr. Brooke ; he was
with me during the attack, and was exposed to the whole of
the fire —I have, lac., CHARLES TALBOT, Captain.
His Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane,
C. B. , Commander-in-Chief.

Auckland, Durham, Dec. 11, at half-past twelve, and Jan.
14. at two, at tlfe Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court.
Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle. upon-Tyne ; Hoyle,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Crosby and Compton, Church-court,
,Old Jewry, London..
Mark Cooke, builder, Denton, Lan.cashire, Dec. 10 and
Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Manchester Planet Court. Fraser,
official assignee, Manchester ; Clarke, Medcalf, and Gray,
Lincoln's Inn- fields, London ; Brooks, Ashton-under-Lyne.
George Atkins, brever, Liverpool, Dec. 12, at WOW!, anti
Jan. 13, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caze-
nove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake,
London-wall ; Dodge, Liverpool.
PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro..
duce of the British Possessions in America, computed from
the Returns made in the week ending the 25th day of No-
vember, 1845, is 345. 43/ d. per cwt.

Detail of the Naval Force employed in the Attack on and
the Destruction of Maloodoo, under the command of
Captain Charles Talbot, H.M. Ship Vestal, on the 19th
day of August, 1845.
Her Majesty's ship Agincourt's (gig), Captain Lister; Mr.
Creswell, mid. • 1 petty officer and 5 seamen.
Gun-Boat (launch), Lieut. Lowther; Mr. Whepple, assist-
ant surgeon ; Mr. Burnaby, mid.; Mr. Barton, mid. ; 1
petty officer and 18 seamen.
Gun-Boat (barge), Lieut. Paynter ; Mr. May, mate ; Mr.
Patrick, assistant-surgeon ; 1 petty officer and 14 seamen.
(Pinnace, with rockets), Mr. Reeve, mate ; 3 petty officers
and 18 seamen.
(Cutter), Mr. Simcoe, mid. ; 11 seamen.
Gun-Boat, manned from Agincourt, Hon. East India Com-
pany's steam-vessel Nemesis, with Ist company small
armed men (Ist cutter), Lieut. Reid ; Mr. Hathorn, mid. ;
1 petty officer and 10 seamen.
Gun-Boat (2d cutter), Mr. Young, mate ; 1 petty officer and
10 seamen.
Gun-Boat, with Agincourt's field piece men, Pluto's (cutter),
Lieut. Heard ; 2 petty officers and 13 men.
Her Majesty's ship Vestal's (barge), Lieut. Morritt, senior-
lieutenant ; gun boat, Mr. Pym, second master ; 1 petty
officer and 13 seamen.
(Pinnace), Lieut. Pasco ; Mr. Ward, assistant-surgeon ; Mr.
Sanders, mid. ; 1 petty officer and 13 men.
Her Majesty's ship Vestal's, gun-boat (cutter), Mr.:Durbin,
mate ; 11 seamen ; (gig), Mr. Ecles, clerk ; 5 seamen.
Her Majesty's ship Daedalus, gun-boat (launch), Mr. Wilkin-
son, second master ; 1 petty officer and 18 seamen ;
(barge), Lieutenant Randolph, sen. lieut.; Mr. Huxham,
mid. ; 2 petty officers and 17 seamen ; (pinnace), Mr. Nol-
loth, mate ; Mr. Balcomb, mid.; 1 petty officer and 12
seamen ; (cutter), Mr. Protheroe, mid.; 1 petty officer and
8 seamen.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Vixen's, gun-boat (pinnace),
Lieut. Wilcox, sen. lieut. ; Mr. Dent, mate 9 • 1 petty
officer and 15 men • (Ist cutter), Mr. W. Sainsbury, mid.;
9 seamen ; (2d cutter), Lieut. Bonham ; 11 seamen.
Her Majesty's sloop Cruizer's, gun-boat (pinnace), Lieut.
Rodney, sen. lieut.; Mr. Cotter, mid. ; 1 petty officer and
12 men ; (gig), Commander Fanshawe ; 1 petty officer
and 4 seamen ; (cutter), Mr. Tuke, mid. ; 1 petty officer
and 8 seamen.
Her Majesty's sloop Wolverine's (pinnace), Lieut. Hillier,
sen. lieut. ; Mr. Johnson, mid. ; 1 petty officer and 12
seamen ; (gig), Commander Clifford ; 1 petty officer and
4 seamen; (cutter), Mr. Gibbard, mate; 1 petty officer
and 4 men.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, N0v.28.
itSittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and Common,
Juries.)
COBB V. SAVILLE.

This was an action by the proprietor of the Theatre Royal,
Brighton, against the defendant, who was lessee for a period
of three years, and it sought to recover about 40/. for alleged
breaches of certain covenants in the lease. The lease was
dated in 1841, and expired 13th April, 1844, at a yearly rent
of 400/., and the breach complained of was neglect in keep-
ing the theatre itself, and the properties belonging to it, in
proper and sufficient repair, as covenanted in the lease.
Counsel for the defendant maintained that he gave up the
theatre and properties in a much better condition than he
had received them in, having expended a considerable sum
out of his own pocket in repairs and embellishments.
A great number of witnesses were examined on both sides
as to this point, but the evidence was of a most contradictory
character.

Abstract of the foregoing Detail.
Agincourt—officers, 15 ; petty officers, 10 ; seamen, 99.
Total 124.
Vestal—officers, 8 ; petty officers, 2 ; seamen, 42.—Total
52.
Daedalus—officers, 6 ; petty officers, 5 ; seamen 55.
Total 66.
Vixen—officers, 4 ; petty officers, 1 ; seamen, 35.
Total 40.
Cruizer—officers, 4 ; petty officers, 3 ; seamen, 24.
Total 31.
Wolverine—officers, 4 ; petty officers, 3 ; seamen, 24.
Total 31.
Grand Total—officers, 44 ; petty officers, 24 ; seamen,
279.—T0ta1, 344.
Royal Marines Employed.
Captain Hawkins, H.M.S. Agincourt.
Lieutenant Hambly, H.M.S. Dzedalus.
Lieutenant Dyer, H.M.S. Vestal.
Lieutenant Kennedy, H.M.S. Agincourt.
Lieutenant Mansell, H.M.S. Agincourt.
8 sergeants, 8 corporals, 3 fifers, 178 privates.
Abstract.
Captain, 1 ; Lieutenants, 4 ; Sergeants, 8 ; Corporals, 8 ;
Fifers, 3 ; Privates, 178—Total, 202.
Total number of seamen, 344; marines, 202.
Grand total, 546.
CHARLES TALBOT, Captain, H.M.S. Vestal.
Return of Killed and Wounded in the Boats of the Squadron
employed in the Attack on Maloodoo, August 19, 1845.
H.M.S. Agincourt.
Killed-2 seamen ; 2 royal marines.
Wounded—Lieut. Thos. Heard (supernumerary belonging
to the Semarang), slightly; 2 seamen, severely; 1 marine,
slightly.

His Loupantp having summed up,
The jury returned a yerdict for the defendant.

LIEEL:-HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK

v. MATHEIN TRENDIER PEARSON.

This was an action for libel brought by the Duke of Bruns-
wick against the present proprietor of the Satirist, and the
Duke to-day appeared in Court and conducted his case in
person, in a Court unusually crowded.
The proprietor of the Satirist was defended by Mr. Cock-
burn, Q.C., and Mr. Hugh Hill.
The Duke opened his case by stating that he had, during
the greater part of the ten years that he had been in this
country, been assailed by the Satirist newspaper with charges
of the moat libellous and calumnious nature, and that feeling
their object was only to intimidate him and induce him to
purchase exemptions fcom this sort of persecution by giving
to the libeller of his life and conduct money, he had deter-
mined to prosecute the editor. There were two allegations of
libel in the declaration. The first was, that the defendant
had published on the 3d of November, 1844, a libel in the fol-
lowing words :
" Our Old Reader, who dates his letter from Charing-cross,
is assured that Mr. Gregory is better than, under the merci-
less and unmerited persecution which he has experienced, we
could be led to hope. He has been sustained under his
savage and unchristian' treatment by mental energy alone,
and we mistake much if he will not have abundance of energy
left to make his enemies quail, be they the worthless occu-
pants of great houses, or the grovelling dabblers in legal
filth. We understand it is the intention of Mr. Gregory to
give to the world a statement of all the facts in connexion
with this extraordinary case—extraordinary as being from its
commencement sustained in strong truth—extraordinary
from the legal injustice which has been done him, and most
extraordinary from the worse than' Bastile' treatment to which
he has been subjected under the tyrant sway of judicial and Tory
despotism. Mr. Gregory will be much gratified, we are sure,
by the generous and manly expressions contained in the
letter of An Old Reader,' and we shall take the earliest op-
portunity, after the termination of his unjust sentence, of lay-
ing the letter before him.
" Several correspondents have expressed a doubt en the
subject of the statement made last week of an attempt on
the life of the Duke of Brunswick, grounding their suspi-
_ _

cion on the improbability of some of the details. Many
things, however, seem improbable, which, nevertheless, are
found to be based on truth, and this, we believe, is one one of
them, and, with reference to the apparent anxiety for the con-
cealment of the facts, it would not be difficult to assign very

plausible reasons for such a course, especially when it pos-
sible that the ends of justice may, by that means be best
answered. We did not, our readers may be sure, publish the
statement in question on light grounds; and even those who
are most sceptical on the subject may, if they take the trouble
to make a little inquiry, easily learn that a rumour of the
leading facts was in circulation for several days before we
gave it the additional publicity of our columns."
The second allegation of libel was upon a passage which sub-
sequently appeared in the Satirist, relative to the examine-
nation of T. 11. Hocker, before the magistrate, at Marylebone
Police-office, when Hocker was charged with the murder of
James Deluxe, upon which occasion the noble plaintiff ob-
tained a seat on the bench by permission of the magistrate, to
witness the proceedings. The libel ran in these words :
" CONGENIALITY.—The Duke of Brunswick, the papers tell
us, was accommodated with a seat on the bench at Mary-
lebone Police-office, on the examination of the alleged mur-
derer, Hocker. The journals do not add whether his Sere-
nity:took a pinch of snuff with the prisoner, who, it is stated,
handed his box about in the most affable manner imaginable."
The plaintiff's complaint was that the defendant had by these
last-mentioned libels, or writings, attempted to cause it to be
believed that the libels for which the plaintiff had successfully
prosecuted Gregory were in fact not libels, but were true.
The necessary documents to prove the liability of the de-
fendant as the proprietor of the paper called the Satirist,
were then put in by Mr. Fred. Harrison.
An officer from the Central Criminal Court produced an
examined copy of the conviction of Hocker at the Central
Criminal Court.
Lord DENMAN observed, it was admitted on the record by
Gregory's conviction, that he had charged the plaintiff with
the murder of Eliza Grimwood.
Edward Scott, the policeman, who had taken up Hocker
to the police-office, said he saw the Duke at the examination.
Cross-examined—There were many persons present; some
on the bench as spectators.
P. Fell, from Marylebone Police-office, saw on the bench
but Lord Mountford and the Duke upon the 4th of March,

the second examination.
Baron Audlau, late equerry to the Duke, believed the two
paragraphs relative to the murder of Eliza Grimwood and
the Duke oflßrunswick were put in juxtaposition purposely
in the Satirist of 10th November, and he thought the impu-
tation was, that the Duke was accused in some quarter of
being accessory to it.
The Duke stated that was his case.
Mr. COCKBURN, Q.C., began by expressing his astonish-
ment and his pity at the exhibition which the had just
witnessed on the part of the noble and distinguished plain-
tiff, who had gone so far out of his way to tell the Court and
jury who he was, and what was his station. He could not
see what could be the reason why he had thus put himself
forward as his own advocate, or why the case might not have
been left in the ordinary way to one of the learned profession.
The only motive he could conjecture for this was, that the
plaintiff expected and hoped, by appearing thus in person,
that he would by his rank and connexion effect that which
proved to be the great object of his life—namely, the putting
down and crushing of the Satirist newspaper. He thought he
would, however, be able to show that there never was a person
of his high station who had so forgotten his own dignity ; nor
was there ever a more trumpery case brought into court than
that on which they were then engaged ; and if so, he was sure
the jury would not forget what was due to a person so ar-
raigned and so circumstanced. Whilst the plaintiff talked of
protecting himself, he (the learned counsel) thought that
the plaintiff had sought by this node of proceeding to put
money in his pocket; and he now, perhaps, could divine
the reason why he preferred advocating his own cause in
person rather than by counsel. He must have been induced
to aet thus because he could not otherwise secure to himself
an opportunity for displaying that rancorous and vindictive
feeling which characterised his present conduct, and which
blindly carried his animosity to the extreme, in the hope to
' crush, as if it had been an active responsible agent, an ins-
, -nimate paper, whoever might happen to be connected with
it. The plaintiff certainly had a right to come there when
assailed by a newspaper slanderer, and defend himself, and
seek redress by filing a criminal information against him.
He had come in that way into Court to repel the charges of
Barnard Gregory once and twice, and convicted, perhaps
ruined the libeller for ever ; certainly had driven him from
the paper. (Here the Duke expressed his dissent.) One
would have thought that, wrapped up in the mantle
of innocence so clearly established, he could have afforded to
say to the defendant, " I will treat you with the scorn you
deserve if you reiterate accusations disproved by a decision
of a jury in the Court of Queen's Bench, where my character
has been fully vindicated in the highest court of justice in
this free country. I have brought my defamer to justice,
and lam content." This, he should have thought, would
have been the attitude such a plaintiff might have safely
assumed. But not so thought the plaintiff; for instead of
proceeding criminally against him, instead of purging him-
self of the imputed crime by his own oath, he stood here to--
day a noble and illustrious plaintiff seeking by the verdict of
a jury, to put a few paltry pounds—happily a few paltry pence
—in his illustrious pockets out of the proceeds of this most
pitiful and contemptible newspaper. Did the plaintiff, by pro-
ceeding in this way, seek to offer the defendant an oppor-
tunity to prove the truth of the alleged libel ?—(" Yes," in-
terrupted the Duke, "that is what it is.") Mr. Cockburn
continued— It was not so ; that was not what the plaintiff
sought, and he could and would prove it was not what he
sought. There could be little doubt that if the jury should
give the Duke 40s. damages to-day, they would hear to-
morrow that his attorney had commenced another action on
his own private account. He trusted that the jury, whilst
generously disposed to protect a foreigner against any unjust
attack by fellow-subjects, would weigh nicely in the balance
the amount of offence offered as well as the atonement, and
by giving the lowest possible coin in damages, if damages
they must award, check the vindictive feelings of the prose-
cutor, and rescue a comparatively poor and weak party from
the grasp of his would-be oppressor.
Mr. Henry Crocker, attorney for the defendant, had called
upon the Duke's attorney, Mr. Graeffe, when there was a
conversation upon the contents of a paragraph in the Satirist
of the 9th of March last, and upon a second paragraph in the
same paper. The Duke's attorney said the actions had been
brought because the Duke considered it was a libel. There
were three actions commenced at once, and on the next day
of publication there was a paragraph inserted in the Satirist,
disclaiming, on the part of the editor and proprietor, any in-
tention to mix the Duke up with the offender Hooker or his
propensities. And, previously to the trial, the defendant had
been served by the Duke's attorney with notice that a copy
of the paper containing that disavowal of all such intention,
would be produced at the trial. The three writs were all
issued on the same day.
The Duke of Brunswick replied, disclaiming all desire to
reap pecuniary benefit from a verdict.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence with great
care and impartiality. If the jury thought the inuendoes
pointed to the plaintiff, this was a case of malice and not
of mistake, and therefore not contemplated by the statute
passed to protect publishers of a newspaper, who, without
malice, published a libel upon a party who brought his action.
Upon the whole, he would put the case to the jury upon the
plain intelligible ground of making the complainant's case
their own, and deciding accordingly.
The jury retired for nearly half an hour, and returned a
verdict for the plaintiff, with a farthing damages.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. -- Yesterday George Gamble, 31,
watchmaker, and Adolphus William B.odiU, 31, traveller,
were charged, the former with stealing eight watches, value
100/., the property of John French, and the latter with felo-
niously receiving the same, well knowing that they had been
stolen.
In addition to this indictment there were five others against
the prisoners, the whole amount of the property stolen being
in value above 1,0001. The case occupied the Court a con-
siderable time, but it will be more easily understood in the
form of a narrative than if the evidence were given in detail.
It appeared that the prosecutor carries on a very extensive
business as a watch and chronometer maker in Cornhill, and
the prisoner Gamble had been in his service as foreman, and
acted in a confidential capacity for several years, but on

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

the 16th October, in ci:isequence of some circumstances t' jat
had come to the knovjeile of Mr. Fr,a,l;, hi was
entertained agai.nst lim. Almost immediately
but at this time it appear that in, direct suspic ic;a
however, some further information was received • which led to
the prisoner Gamble b ein. apprehended at '
.he Waterford
Arms, in the Haymarket, by Hall, a sergean'.; of the C divi-
sion ; and upon his teling him that he wir, charged with rob-
af,te'rwards,
12.1 i; his master, Mr. French, he said the
.e it was all over with
him, and that there was nothing befo
re him but transporta-
tion. So far as this prisoner was
appear to be any doubt of his go-
Aft for after be was in cus-
tody, he sent for the brother
of the prosecutor, Mr. Win.
French, and told him he ad, . . d
• concerned, there did not
his deep regret for his conch-4,4.1
stating, at the same time, that
he had given a great nun- rtted his guilt, and expressed
din and another persc
..,ber of watches to the prisoner 80.,,,
.,,,
purpose of being • whr,se name he mentioned, for the
pawned, and he declared that neither of
those persons ever gave b,im either the duplicates or any
share of th-, proceeds. Vie also stated that he had repeatedly
applied, 'co Bodell to f.';',ve him the duplicates, as he intended
to -redeem the proper ty, but that he would not do so, and that
he had threatener', to expose him to his master if he did not
take more property; and this had led him to commit further
depredations. The prisoner Gamble, in addition to this, also
told Mr. Fr. ench that he should never have committed the rob-
beries if it had not been fiy: the solicitations of the prisoner
Bodill, who had suggested that they should open gaming-
roo:ns at a house in Pant on-street, Haymarket, for the pur-
pose of playing at French hazard, as a means of making
money, and that this scineme was tried. The evidence against
the other prisoner, Bod ill, was of an equally cogent charac-
ter. It appeared that. in consequence of information which
had been received by the police in reference to the robbery,
a sergeant of the C division, named Gray, went to the shop
of Mr. Rochford, a pawnbroker in Brewer-street, who ap-
peared to have acted in a most creditable and proper manner
in the transaction, giving all the information in his power
tending to convict the guilty parties; and the sergeant then
found the prisoner Bodill, who was at the time dealing with
two gold watches that bad formed part of the stolen property.
Upon questioning him, Bodill informed the sergeant that he
knew Gamble, and said that he had seen him shortly before,
and that he had an appointment to meet him at five o'clock in
the City. The sergeant then told him that he should take
him into custody upon the charge of being concerned in
the robbery of watches from Mr. French ; and upon search-
ing him he found, no fewer than one hundred and ten
duplicates, all referring to watches that had been
pledged, the amount advanced upon them being over
7001. In addition to this, it was proved that the prisoner
Bodill had been in the habit of visiting Gamble at Mr.
French's, and that they were on intimate terms; and it was
likewise shown that apartments had been engaged in Pan-
ton-street for their joint use, and, as there was very little
doubt, for the purpose referred to in the statement made by
Gamble to Mr. French. The watches, which formed the
subject of the present indictment, were produced by the
pawnbroker with whom they were pledged, and they were
clearly identified as being either the actual property of the
prosecutor, or as belonging to customers, and for which he
was, of course, legally responsible.
Mr. DOANE, on behalf of the principal, did not attempt to
set up any defence,_ and said that he was merely instructed
by the friends of Gamble to watch the evidence, and see that
the charge was legally substantiated. Having done this,
lie had no further observations to offer, than to state that
the prisoner appeared to have made all the reparation in his
power by confessing his guilt, and assisting in the recovery-
of the property.
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury on behalf of Bodill,
and called some witnesses, who gave him a good character.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN having summed up,
The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty against both prisoners.
Upon their being called up for judgment, the prisoner
Gamble declared that he had been dragged into the commis-
sion of the offence in consequence of his being surrounded by
a nest of gamblers and swindlers.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN, on passing sentence, said he was in-
clined to believe the statement of the prisoner Gamble, and
lie thought it very probable that he had been led to commit
the offence by the solicitations of the other prisoner. That,
however, was no excuse or mitigation for his conduct, but
merely made the offence of the other prisoner of a worse cha-
racter. He then sentenced Gamble to be transported for ten
years, and Bodill for fourteen years.
Mr. BODKIN said there were six indictments against the
prisoners, and as it would not be necessary to proceed with
the whole of them, he applied to the Court to order that the
whole of the property which formed the subject of those in-
dictments, and which had been identified, should be delivered
up to the prosecutor.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said he saw no objection to this
course, and the property, consisting of valuable gold and
silver watches, was accordingly ordered to be given up to
Mr. French.
John Williams and Robert Waywood, who were convicted
at the September Sessions, were then placed at the bar.
It will be recollected that the prisoner Waywood was
charged with stealing a quantity of tea, the property of his
employers, and the other prisoner was charged with feloni-
ously receiving the property. Waywood pleaded guilty, and
was afterwards called as a witness, and an objection being
taken by counsel as to the admissibility of his evidence
under such circumstances, judgment was respited, and the
prisoners were now brought up to hear the decision of the
Judges.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN, after having briefly alluded to the
circumstances, said the Judges were of opinion that the evi-
dence was legally admissible, and that the Recorder, who
tried the case, was justified in law in examining the witness,
and the conviction must therefore stand.
The RECORDER then passed sentence, and said that
the offence of the prisoner Williams was of a very
serious character. It appeared, that being himself a
dealer in tea, he had been in the habit of going
about with a horse and cart, and receiving property
of that description from persons who had plundered their
employers of it. He considered his was a very aggravated
case, and, therefore, he felt it his duty to pass upon him the
extreme penalty of law, which was that he be transported
beyond the seas for fourteen years. With regard to the other
prisoner, the sentence upon him was, that lie be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for six months.
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William Harding and 77annas Jones, notorious members
of the thieving fraternity, were brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with having robbed Mr. R. V. W. Williams,
of a pocket-book containing property to a very large amount.
Mr. Robinson attended for Jones.

Mr. Williams stated that he is a solicitor, and that he car-
ries on business at 3, Paper-buildings, Temple. That on
Thursday, at about half-past one o'clock, he was returning
from Masterman's bank, where he had received some bank
notes, which he had placed in his pocket-book, and deposited
in his inside coat-pocket, and that on his return to his cham-
bers, in about an hour, he missed his pocket-book. He had
passed through Cheapside, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Bort-
verie-street, to the Temple. That he had a bundle of letters
in his pocket, and at the top of Bucklersbury, in Cheapside,
he fancied he had his pocket touched, but upon feeling his
pocket and finding his bundle of letters safe, he concluded
that his pocket-book , with its contents, was also secure.
The pocket-book which he afterwards ascertained he had
lost, had at the time nine 101. Bank of England notes,
three 51. Bank of England notes, two orders for the payment
of 1,000/, each,• an order for 5001., an order for 501, and
several bills of exchange, which were overdue, and had been
paid.
Mr. Thomas Brand, cashier at Masterman's bank, stated
produced,
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ktnlien Cheapside and looked down Gutter-lane, and saw
o'clock,
t' crgjleeooeneht
the prisoner Harding with both his hands in his pockets.
Witness followed him down the lane. The prisoner turned
his head round and witness knew him. The prisoner then
began to run, and witness cried out "Stop him," and pur-
sued. The prisoner ran as far as Goldsmith-street, across
Wood-street, through Mitre-court, and back through Russia-
row, where witness saw him take a pocket-book out of his
pocket and hold it in his hand. The prisoner turned the
corner into a court, and witness gave him the double and ran
round to the end of another court, met him, took him into
custody, and asked him where the pocket-book was. At
that moment a boy came to witness and handed him the
book, which was identified by Mr. Williams, and contained
all the property described.
George Bell, a boy in the employment of Mr. Davis, of
Bull's Head-court, ewgate-street, as an errand-boy, stated
that as he was walking up Russia-row he saw Harding run-
ning along, and the constable in close pursuit, calling out
Stop thief!" The prisoner turned down Robin Hood- court,
and witness followed him and saw him drop the pocket-book
produced. Witness picked up the pocket-book, and when
he got to the end of the court he saw the prisoner in the
custody of John Coram, the policeman, to whom he gave np
the pocket-book, in Harding's presence.
The witnesses, Cdram and Bell, on being questioned by
Mr. Robinson, for Jones, stated that they had not seen that
prisoner at all in company with Harding.
Robert Andrews, Metropolitan policeman, A 36, stated
that he was in Cheapside between one and two o'clock on the
day in question, and he saw the prisoners, whom he knew to
be notorious thieves, together. He saw Jones pass same-
thing to Harding, who immediately crossed the road. Jones
ran up Chepside towards St. Paul's, and crossed to the op-
posite side of the street, and went.towards the Bank, and
witness pursued and took him into custody at the corner of
Milk-street, and lodged him in the station-house.
On his cross-examination, the witness said he had not told
the policeman who was with him that he had seen anything
pass from Jones to Harding, as the case was his (witness's),
and not his comrade's. Neither had he mentioned at the
station-house that he had seen anything pass between the
prisoners.
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Harding was committed to Newgate for trial.
It was stated by several of the policemen present that both
prisoners were constantly together, and that Harding had
been tried at the Central Criminal Court, in the name of
Stevens, for a robbery some time ago.
It was indeed matter of regret, that the testimony against
Jones, who is the elder and more experienced thief, was not
sufficient to sanction his committal tbr trial.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
SERIOUS CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.—On Friday, Henry
Spicer, a broker, residing in the Marlborough-road, Chelsea,
and Henry Stevenson, the proprietor of the Crown beer-shop,
College-street, Chelsea, were charged with conspiracy.
The circumstances of the case, as stated by Mr. Robinson,
and proved by the evidence, are these :—Mr. Thomas Docket,
of High-street, Marylebone, auctioneer and appraiser, who is
agent for a Mr. White, was desirous of getting possession of
a house belonging to that gentleman, at No. 8, Robert-street,
Chelsea, occupied by a lady named French ; but finding this
a matter of no little difficulty, he accepted the proposal of
the prisoner Spicer, who undertook, by the exercise of some
race, to effect that object. As there were considerable ar-
rears of rent due, Spicer was armed, on the Bth of Novem-
ber, with a distress warrant, but was distinctly told by Mr.
Docket, that if lie succeeded in getting in, he was not to
touch or move a single thing, but leave a man in possession
until he (Mr. Docket) was made acquainted with the circum-
stance. On Monday, the 10th instant, Spicer called on Mr.
Docket, and, to his great surprise, informed him that he had
made as entry, and had removed all the furniture, and im-
pounded it at Stevenson's. Mr. Docket then went to Chel-
sea, and in the presence of Spicer, and a gentleman named
King, the friend of Mrs. French, that lady gave up possession
of her house—Mr. Docket, from feelings of humanity, as the
lady had seven children, undertaking to restore the whole of
her furniture excepting eight articles named, which were to
be sent to Mr. Docket's house, and detained until the unfor-
tunate lady should be in a condition to pay 101, Spicer drew
out the list of these articles, and a note to the effect above
stated was appended in his presence, and read by him.
Shortly after the arrangement had been effected, Stevenson
was made acquainted with it in the presence of Spicer, and
told that on the lady producing the inventory, with Mr.
Docket's signature to it, the whole of her property, with the
exception of the eight articles, were to be given up to her.