Star.
London, England, 1809-01-12 00:00:00

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SAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCIMY; JANUARY 4 f
This day the LORD CHANCELLOR sat on bankrupt
oauses, and the greater part of the day was occupied
by the hearing of a petition from a bankrupt in Man-
' chester of the name of Bamford, praying that his
Lordship would order a new trial, to determine whe-
ther he had been legally made a bankrupt. Su• far
back as August his Lordship had ordered an issue to
be tried for the decision of this point, which was ac-
cordingly done at the last Lancaster Assizes, when
the Jury found that the petitioner had committed two
several acts of bankruptcy. The particulars of the
case having already appeared before the public, we
shall only add, that the Lord Chancellor decided that
the bankruptcy had been sufficiently proved, and
therefore dismissed the petition for a new trial.

smallest knowledge of the prisoner'. The princli,
points of his evidence were c zroloratted by the t.cgt.
mony of his brother Thomas,sbx-Wiliiarn Jackson
(another officer) and others.
Peter Decau, a journeyman carpenter, whose wife
has the• care of the house of Laity Stewart, direct,
opposite that of Lady Morton, stated, that havi: g
seen five men lurking about the latter place, at a l•
hour, he passed them twice, in order if possibl•:t to
have a view of their countenances and persons—tha
he recollected the person of Carvell, one of th
thieves ; who had. formerly worked in the same shah
with him; he then called to mind :hat Carvell had on .:e
asked him to go to the Old Golden Hart, in Parker-
street, Drury-lane, to drink a pint of porter with him .
he accordingly went there the day after he had se"
the suspicious circumstance above related; from th
he went three other times, keeping himself unobserved
by the thieves, and listening to tkhat they said, unt.:
the plot was ripe for action ; he then gave informa-
tion to the elder Foy, and the sequel was such as his
already been related. The prisoner was always one
of the party, and took an active part in the conver-
sation ; but on the night of the burglary he remained
outside, whilst the others went into the house.

OLD BAILEY.
Yesterday the General Gaol Delivery for the City
of London and County of Middlesex, commenced
at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, before the LORD
MAYOR and some other Magistrates of the City, Mr.
Baron TizomrsoN, Sir SIMON LE BLANC, and Sir
ALAN CHAMBItE.

Sir ALAN Cie IMBRR informed the Jury, that they
had two questions to deside, the one as to whether it
was sufficiently light at the time to discover a man's
countenance by means of the remaining glimmerin;
of day I and, 2dly, whether they were satisfied as to
the identity of the prisoner, which rested entirely oa
the evidence of Decaux ?

John Stow Lundie.—lt may be recollected that se-
veral months ago this unfortunate young man was
charged with having forged a number of Bank of
England notes, purporting to be good and lawful
notes of the value of .51. each, the sum having been
altered from a 11. to a 51. ; or with having uttered the
same with a guilty knowledge of the alteration. The
trial was put off one Session en account of the
ab-
sence of a material witness, another Session on ac-
count of the supposed deranged state of the prisoner's
mind ; it was this day again put off with the consent
of both parties, in order to endeavour to prove more
fully if his mind be in that melancholy state in which
it is supposed to be.
Margaret Falley, otherwise Peggy Sullivan, otherwise
Margaret, the wife of John Harrington, was capi-
tally indicted for uttering a base and counterfeit shil-
ling, having at the time other money of the same de.
scnption about her person, and having been before
convicted of a second and similar offence, for which
she suffered two years imprisonment in Clerkenwell,
and found bail for her good behaviour for two years
more. The former conviction, sentence and punish-
ment were proved by the Records of the Court, and
by the Evidence of Mr. Bealby, Clerk to the prison.
The Prisoner, in her defence, said, she had gone
early to market to purchase apples ; she had a gui-
nea in her pocket, and, on going towards the Garden,
she met three or four women, employed in the same
business. They all went to a gin-shop, where she
treated them, and changed her guinea ; and got the
difference, principally in halfpence, and a 7s. piece.
She put her hand down to give the prosecutor the 7s.
piece, and found that she had lost her pocket.—
Guilty—Death.
J. Miles Simpson was indicted for stealing a great
coat, the. roperty of Dr. Temple.
On the evening of last Friday week, the prisoner
knocked at the Doctor's door, in Bedford-row, which
was opened by a black servant. The prisoner in-
quired if the Doctor was within ? and was answered,
that he was just gone out ; but would directly re-
turn. The prisoner then asked if there was any
one in the house who could give him in answer to
the letter lie had brought ? The servant said yes ;
and was going up stairs to his mistress, when, turning
round, be observed the prisoner take from a cloak-
pin in the hall, a great coat, the property of the Doc-
tor. He instantly jumped down, and pursued the
prisoner, who had nearly shut the street door : he,
however, got out, and took the coat from him, and
he was secured byihe watchman, as he was running
towards the King's-road
The prisoner, in his defence, told a most affecting
story. He said, he had usually. gained his livelihood
by private tuitions ; but that for a considerable time
past his pupils had decreased, and he was finally left
without any. He had a wife, with six small children,
and had been obliged to pawn all his little property
for their maintenance ; until at last he was bereft of
Monday evening as Mr. Mestayer, of New-Broad-
the common necessaries of life, and being involved in
street, was Ong to Wanstead, in a landaulet, accom.
debt, was thrown into prison, where he remained in
panied by his Lndy, they were stopped by two high-
the most abject distress, until released through the
waymen, between Laytonstone and Wanstead, who
humanity of a lady, who had been one of his pupils.
In this situation, and totally without employment, his ordered the coachman to stop, threatening to shoot
wife was delivered of a child seven weeks before her him if he did not ; one of them then went to the side
time, and in circumstances so wretched, as to be with.
of the carriage where Mrs. Mestayer sat, and, before
out the means of covering, were it not for the charity she could let down the glass, dashed the muzzle of
of a neighbour. At length, unable to bear the torture his pistol through it, and the other man having by this
to his feelings of seeing his children starving for food, time come up, they, with horrid imprecations, de.
without the means of relieving them, be went into manded money. They took between ..‘eo and three
the street, and took this letter to Dr. Temple, to beg pounds in cash, a£s Bank-note, and a gold watch,
of him to visit his wife • ' when seeing the coat hang-
chain, &c. then went off towards London. Mr. Mes-
ta
yer on his arrival at Wanstead, dispatched his foot-
ing in the hall, and urged by a sense of the misery of
his starving children, the weakness of his mind could man, on horseback, after the robbers, who, meeting
not resist the temptation, and he unfortunately cotwo gentlemen in a single-horse chaise, was informed
mitted a crime, from which, under any other rn-
they had just been robbed by them. The footman
=cum.
stances, his soul would have Bunk with horror.—
traced them to town, by the way of Mile-end, through
The witnesses to his character, he said, did not attend, which turnpike they had passed, full speed, without
under an idea that his trial would not come on before paying toll.
the 14th. The house of P. K. FORREST, Esq. at Bell-hill,
Doctor Temple appeared in Court, and said, he Herts, was entered by a gang of thieves, en Sunday
had yesterday received a letter from the prisoner, night. One of them descended by the kitchen chim-
Istating a similar story to that which he had just told. ney, and let in the rest. They were, however, dig-
Mr. Justice LE SLANE said, that the offence turbed by one of the servants, and escaped with a
amounted only to larceny. His story was truly af- small booty.
flicting, but there was no doubt of his having stolen BOW-STREET.—Yesterday William Leech was charg-
the coat. The prisoner had said, he had never been ed on suspicion of being concerned, with another man,
at the bar, nor before a Magistrate till now, and he not in custody, in robbing Dr. Bird, of Epsom, and
would certainly be entitled to benefit by these facts, another Gentleman, on that road, on Thursday even-
'when judgment is pronounced upon him.—Guilty. ing. Information of the robberies being given to the
The following were convicted of felonies : horse-patrole, in that neighbourhood, three of them
S. Goodman, for stealing apiece of Irish linen, the property of went different ways in pursuit of the highwaymen,
C. P. Joslyn. who were soon after seen to come towards the turn.
R. Gurney, for stealing a memorandum book, containing Ji-
vers receipts, and stampsoralue one pound, the property of W. pike, at Kingston Bottom, where they were atterep-
Pearson, from his person. ted to be secured, but one of them jumped off his
Ann GrundweU, for stealing a child's beaver hat, the property horse, and, owing to the darkness of the night, got
of T. F. Salter. away. The prisoner was followed by 'one of the pa-
Susannah Burnett, for stealing a piece of cotton,tke property
of J Harvey and J Lamming trole, almost to Putney, when he also attempted to
. . .
Harriet Johnson,for stealing a shawl,the aropaty of J. Harvey escarie, by getting off his horse, and running through
aid J. Lamming, and a piece of printed cotton, of G. Vipond. wine fields, but was secured. Neither of the parties
robbed being present; he was remanded for further
John Turnwril, otherwise Jed Me Baker, was tried
for the burglary in the house of the Countess Dowager exination.
of Morton, in Park-street, which has already been SHADWlLL.—YesterdayArin Wellenger, who passed
fully stated. himself as Mate, and sometimes Captain of a West-
John Foy, a constable belonging to Marlborough- Indiaman, was charged with several acts of swind.
street police office, described the entry of the thieves ling and thefts; the most prominent was that of en
into the house, and his severe conflict with them af- term the house of Mr. Dennis, in St George's is
terwards. He had belonged to the office about six the East, and stealing thereout some umbrelLus for
years and a Wit during which time he never had the which he was folly committed.
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One of the Jury asked, if the witness had had pre-
vious knowledge of the prisoner? and upon being
answered in the negative, they immediately pronoun-
ced the prisoner Not Guilty.
The following were also acquitted :
Ann Mason, Ann Green, Mary Cox, and John
Eversall, alias Evans, but who remains upon another
indictment.