Star.
London, England, 1812-01-24 00:00:00

OLD BALLET, JANUARY' '2l

Sarah Slater was indicted for disposing of 20 coun-
terftit shillings for 10s. in Clare-markeve This pro-
socution was instituted by the Mint. It appeared
that a female named Hincuo had given information
of the prisoner's nefarious traffic, and describing her
as a wholesale dealer. Armstrong, an officer, after
having searched her, put into her possession, 10 mark-
ed shillings, and having waited whilst the witness
bought the base coin, which he found in her posses-
sion, and the marked money in the possession of the
prisoner. It Was next proved, that the prisoner war
convicted of a similar offence in October 1810, and
suffered I`2 months imprisonment. The record of
the former conviction was produced, and the prisoner
was identified, which made her uffence capital.— '
G hp —Death.
Frogley, a lighterman, in the employment.
of Messrs. Hogget, was indicted for stealing 201 b. of
tallow, the property of his employers, on the night of
the 15th inst. The prisoner had been employed to
conduct a lighter, loaded with tallow, which he moor-
ed at lion-gate wharf, and after quitting it, on his
way home, he was taken into custody, with a bag,
containing about 201 b. of tallow, in his possession.
and sent to the watch-lemse. Next day, upon the
prosecutor's heating that the prisoner was taken up
with some tallow, lie examined the lighter, and foetid
one of the hog,heais with the head broken in, and
about the same quantity of tallow gone that was fotlad
on the prisoner, and which he belitved to be part of
the same tallow. The prisoner, in defence, s..id he
found it on board an empty lighter.
Several respectable persons appeared to his charac-
ter, some of whom had known him 40 years.—Guilty.
'f he prisoner is 6 years of age ; but, notwith-
standing his years and character, the Common Ser-
jeant said it was highly necessary, consideting the
ceaseless plunder canied on by lighternem upon the
commercial property in the river, to make an exam-
ufe. He therefore sentenced him to 12 months int-
prisonment in the House of Correction, and to be pub-
licly whipped for 100 yards, through the street, near
Iron-gate what f.
• The following were convicted of felony : —J. alias
F. Brandon, fur embezzling ss. the property of his
master ; S. Steele and J. Lamb, for stealing a quan.
Icity of mother-o'-pearl shells ; 'l'. Johnson, for steal.
iiig two sheets and three blankets ; J. Roberts, for'
' stealing a quantity of oil ; S. W. Amos, for stealing
a waistcoat ; J. Drew and W. Holland, for stealing
a piece of beef ; Sarah Druce, for stealing a bed ;
' Elia. White, for stealing a bols Cr, a sheet, &c. ;
Martha Ashfield, for stealing two pewter pats ; W.
Budd, for embezzling E 6 ; Hannah Britten, for steal-
ing a silver sp on ; D. Davis, for stealing a coat ;-
1 Ann Shiers, for stealing a gown ; R. Wilson, for
I stealing a silver salt spoon and a saltcellar; and Ehiz.
Thompson, for stealing a child's pinafore. And four
were acquitted, viz. Y. Whitehead, Charlotte Latti-
more, Susan Lamb, and Mary Groves.
Same day the Sessions endetl, when sentence of
death was passed on G. Astardo and P. Bernard, for
• stealing goods in shops ; C. King and T. Culliver,
I fir stealing goods from a barge on the Thames ; R.
Woodhatch and E. James, for returning from trans-
portation ; R. Leach, J. Butler, J. Clayton, W. Jen-
' kins, and J. Catherwood, f r burglaries ; T. Wood,
W. Fowler, Mary Carroll, G. Lester, and T. Kite,
f for stealing in dwelling houses ; T. Wells and T.
Hunt, for highway robbery ; G. Skeene, for forgery ;
, and Sarah Slater, for selling counterfeit money.

G. Davey was sentenced to be transported for 14
years ; and 31 for seven ye.trs.
J. Brown and Martha Ashtield were ordered to be
iniprisoned in the House of Correction, at Clerken•
well, for two years, six for one year, one for nine
months, and 15 for six months each ; 13 to be im.
prisonesl in Newg.ste ior various periods ; eight to
be publicly, and two privately whipped ; 17 judg.
ments respited ; three tined Is. each and disthatged,
and '2O discharged by psoclatuation.

Sess;ous adjuurneCi to February 19.

At the General Quarter-Sessi-ns for the county
Hants on Monday last, Bridger Bradty, High Consta-
bin of Peterstield, was tried on an indictment tor an
assault on Christorher nutting, a ptivaze
who was on his march from the Portsmouth to the
Wo:ilwich division of Royal Marines, with a pass
from Lienten int-General atiorr, Cob nel C m-
mandant of Royal Marines at Portsmouth, with a
sick private marine under his care, and who upon an
application to the said Bridger Bradley, at Paertfield,
for a billet for the night, was brutally insulted by
him, and told that sick or well they might lie in the
strtet and bed—d ; of which indictment he was
found Gulty, and atter a svvtre aimonirion from
the Court, was sentenced to pay a fine ofklo, and to
be imprisoned until the same was raid.

biuttnEß.—Thomas Kenna, a deserter from the Cold-
stream Regiment of Guattis, charged with the mur-
der of a woman near Watet for d, in company with
whom he had been previously seen, has been arrested,
and h.ts confessed the crime. He said he had met the
woman on board a ship on his passage from Bristol to
Cork, on his way to visit his friends on a furlough, and
formed an intimacy with her ; that she induced him
to desert, promising to put him in possession of some
property left to her, by a relation in the north of Ire-
land; that he hid accompanied her so far on the way,
when his mind being tormented by reflecting on 11.3
desertion, he reproached the woman as being ti e
cause ! An altercation ensued, in which he gave her
a blow with a stick, that brought her to the gr•und,
and then, as he expresses it,—"• he was tempted to
finish her,"—and effected that horrid purpose with
a stone.

KINGSTON. JAMAICA, Nov. 23.—The Negro named
Peter, who was the principal perpetrator if the mur-
der of Mr. Peter Des Champ, was apprehended on
Thursday night, and has, together with his three
c-nfederate., been committed to take their trial at a
Slave Court. These Jam were purchased from oa
board a Guineaman.

Esrly on ,Sunday se'nnight the house of the Rev.
Mr. M'corbett, P. P. of 01.inomers, County of
Clare, was broke into by a gang of six robbers, who
after entering, met with so dreadful a resistance
from the Priest, and a Mr. John Purcell, then N ith
him, that after a severe conflict they were best off, 2
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