Star.
London, England, 1812-11-26 00:00:00

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COURT OF XING'S Blink % NOV. U.
kr. Justice Ls BLANC, previously to the arrival
isf the other Judges, vela; occtipied for some time in
hearing the justification of bail, and in granting se:
*al Motions of Course.
Jn the arrival of the other Judges, Abe court
resided ti 3 the consideratinn of those cases set
then for argument, in what is called the ie A:ga-
ins* for
,Tha NM IL via INTAIRIA3III OP DENJIASS.
'Whit was akar arrant respecting the term of
issidence'netessary to give a pauper t.ft right of re-
Smiting parish relief. •
Mr. bioasxe contended, that a residence of forty
days, tbe con* of one pear, did not give the
11811 k
Ide.GauLat and Mr. Samar argued maim main-
NAND that forty days residence, even by- intervals,
kids one year's -Sae year's service, gave
the clam a and all *awes were to be found
in the presentlase. • •
The Court observed, that Is the argument went
to affect many decisions as well as the Acts of Par-.
Tramcar tespecting,patipers, they would take time to
*lnsider of their judgment in the case now brought
before them. Judgment deferred sine die.
'lle Coda then pinceeded to deliver a variety of
*menu.
TAB RING DANIEL EDAS'Goosos
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL prayed judgment herein,
the defendant having been found guilty at the Lan-
taster Assizes on an indictment of having bought
Five Guineas at an advanced price, namely, for
rts. 15s
The defendant put in an unvouched paper, which'
meted, that tllO offence had taken place in Septem-
ber! 1811, that he had answered to the indictment
In January, 1812, that he had been pint to great ex:
and distress since, *ad that the. present was
Isis grit offence,
GARROW expressed hie happiness that the
document just read was an unvouched paper, fbr it
had appeared in evidence that the present was not
his fist. offence. The offence of which he bad been
e,was the highest possible mis&impnor ; and
was the first time that the Court had b .mn called
to pus judgment since the passing of the recent
"cc to this bead, making the offence punishable as
t taisdetneaster
Mr. Justice Game delivered the sentence of the
Coin Considering the present state of the current
.cf ,the realm, it was highly necessary that there
sum, be such an Act in existence as the one under
loch* defendant had been tried. The object .
the defendant in offending as he.had done, was not
fweydble of a doubt I and as it could not be ques-
ra ed that the Guineas had been purchased with
1"` !le" of leading them nut of the kingdom,-the
+egniatape bad ,hewn Its wisdom in 'caning the
stem among the highest misdemeanors, for it was
not to be borne, that a whole nation was to be
incommoded by the conduct of such men as the
two now before the Court. With the view, not
dull of punishing die individuals before the Court,
lint of holing out a warning to others, to make
them beware how they committed a similar offence,
the Conn sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned
C
le the
endar Month Casde of.
Lancaster, for the space of Six
als
Tux &no v. =twit.
Sir W. GAMOW 3110 prayed the sentence of the
Lyon in this-ease. The offence was similar to the
Gus noticed iibove, Brown having been found guilty
el at Wean= charging him with purchasing Two
Geilliii at an advanced price, be having given for
.488. es.-.-An Affidavit was put in by Drown

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&Mit in the Castle of Lancaster.
aim IN CHARLES w. WHITTAIZaI wlLLtaltt Mani,
• -, ' MID OTlifill&
The two above-named defendants were &bad
guilty of a conspiracy against Mr. Gibson, with a.
view to defraud him, in having represented then-
wives as men of very co ' Me wealth and con-
sequent, as merchants. y were tried before
Lord Ellenborough, bat o above-named only
had been found guilty. o - is having been ac-
quitted. •
Lord EtAntraottoomi read the notes of the trial,
from which it appeared, that one of them contrived
to get himself introduced to a man of some conse-
quence in this town ; and from the tenor of his con-
duct, that individual felt interested in his situation,
and ultimately recommended him to. Gibson, Whit-
her having represented himself to possess. a capital
e4OOO. A partnership took place between Whit-
titer and Gibson, but failuie and bankruptcy suc-
ceeded. Sundry mercantile transactions had taken
place, and suspicions had arisen as to the correctness
of Whittaker's proceedings. Smith and one Lewis
had traded, and had been constantly concerned. with
Whittaker while ikpartnership with Gibson. Whit-
taker, after the faWre, had disappeared, and Smith
said he would gPortugal in pursuit of him. At
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Portsmouth Gib i ound some of the goods that bad
belonged to him arid Whittaker as partners; and
after various inquiries, *c. the defendants were tip-
,prehended, to answer to the present charge.
Whitaker put in an affidavit, stating, that he had
been in Newgate since September 1811, existing prin.
cipaily on gaol allowance, and throwing himself ou
the mercy of tho2ourt.
• Smith, alias Wilson, put in a similar affidavit; and )
t appeared from an observation that fell from Mr.
Gurney, that this was the same'individual who, un. 1
der the name of Shuckard, had been charged with
defrauding his namesake, a landlord at Brighton, of
considerable sum of money, and acquitted in con-
. uence of some doubts having arisen respecting the
Act of Parliament.
Mr. §PARLETT briefly stated, that this fraud had
been prictised upon a very honourable and frank
young man, and had been carried on with the most
consummate artifice.
Mr. GURNtY simply stated; that the fraud was to
the amount of several thousand pounds.
Mr. Justice GROSZ, in delivering the sentence, ob-
served, that the defendants had been very properly
convicted of the heaviest misdemeanor that posssibly
could be committed in a populous and mercantile
city ; and in rascal on the„case, he could not but
shudder at the almost unequalled. tissue of fraud and
knavery that characterized their case.
The sentence of the Court was—That they be im-
prisoned in Newgate for Eighteen Months, and that-
they stand in the Pillory, once within 4 month from
the time of receiving sentence, in front of the Royal
Exchange, for the space of one hour, between the
hours of twelve and two.

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