Star.
London, England, 1809-07-20 00:00:00

SURREY QUARTER SESSION'S.

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(esterday John Robinot stood indicted for feloni-
ly appropriating to his own use a quantity of hand-
, entrusted to his care, by Mr. Elliston, of the
Royal Circus, to be delivered to the public, announc-
ing the performances to be exhibited in that Theatre.
The prisoner was erroneously indicted at Common
and was consequently acquitted.
Cardinal Wills stood indicted for haVing embezzled
'iis own use sundry sums of money, which he 'r-
ived on account of Messrs. Biggs and Bilrne'tt,
worn Coal-Meters for the County of Surrey.
Mr. RUNNINGTON, the Counsel for the Prosecution,
tted, that the indictment was founded cn the 86th
iuse of. the 39th of the King, which enacted,—
That all Clerks or Servants convicted of converting
their own use monies received on their master's

:count, without their said master's concurrence,

could be deemed guilty of felony." The prisoner,
a the present case, stated, he was employed by the
Prosecutors, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament,
assist them in the execution of their duties ; and
that service, as stipulated in the said Act of Par-
liament, he was to receive 20s. per week. It also
)peared, that the Coal-Meters of the County of
iurrey were remunerated for their trouble by a fee
each chaldron of coals measured within their dis-
(ct. The prisoner was stationed at Jamaica Wharf,
the Sworn Meter, to superintend the measuring►uf
as, and receive the stipulated lees for that duty ;
. the execution of which office he converted to his
'wn use sundry sums of money paid to him by Mr.
-.kinson, the Proprietor of the Wharf, as the legal

eters fees.
Mr. Notax, for the prisoner, took an object-ion to
the informality of the indictment ; and contended,
that the charge alledged against his dent,' did mot
come within the meaning of the Statte alluded to by
Mr. Runnington ; as the prisoner was acting, not as
the clerk or servant of Messrs. Biggs and Burnett,
but as the sworn servant of the public.
Mr. RUNNPIGTON, in an ingenious argument,
.ar-
gued, that the prisoner having been appointed by the
prosecutors, to execute a duty on their account, and
to receive for them the legal fees for the execution of
that duty, for their benefit and advantage solely, could
be considered in no other light than as their servant
or clerk.

In this opinion he was over-ruled by Mr. Serjent
ONstow and the Court, who were of opinion that a
similar construction might as Well be put on the ap-
pointment of persons n.:cler the Commissioners of the
Excise, or any other pubic functionaries. It did not
follow, because an Act of Parliament entitled any
body of men to appoint certain its;.istants under
them, that therefore those Assistants were legally the
servants of the persons who appointed them. The
prisoner was consequently acquitted.

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst. the Count‘.sspf of a daughter.
At Edinburgh, the 6th Instant, the Lady of William -Jackson
Esq. Solicitor of Excise, of a daughter.
At Duff-house, on the Bth instant, the Right lion. Lady Jane
Taylor, of a son.
At WOolwich, on Friday last, the I.ady of Captain Harrkae
Royal Artillery, of a son.
On the 11th July, at Edinburgh, Mrs. Lieutenant Middleton,
(Forfar Militia) of a son.

MA:)..R!EII.
Thursiay bet, at Donington,letteetershire,tir Wrn.Rumbalti,
Bart. to the Hon. Elizabeth Parkyos, cLugUer of the late Lord
At Mary-la-Bonne Church, Count N. du BourbLnc, to Met
Julia de Gott:vine, tlau2htir of Baron de tiourville, of Trinidad.

DIED. :•
At Thirst, aged 87, Wm. Daft, F.tt. one of his Majesty's
Justice; of the Peace for the North Hiding of Yorkshire.
At Brighton, Mr. Tilt, ivinte-mercli.Ant, master of the Castle
Tavern.

At Goadland, near Whitby, Nizry, the wife of Lieutenant
Sortie, of his Majesty's 68th Ke•,;itnenta Light Infantry.

At Edinburgo, on the 4th ho.tant, Mrs. Isabaa Murray, wife
of James Glassford, E. advocate.
On the 29th December hot, Henry Brown, Esq. Commercial
Reideiat at Ramnazd, in India.

Lately, the Rev. Mr. Henry C;Arke, ;.linister of the Associate
Congregation at Boghole, Nairn.
At tochnaw Castle, en the 28th ult. Sir Stair Agnew, Bart. at
an advanced age.
Lately, in a worNtouse at Liverpoot, a female pauper, at the
advanced age of 124 years. She retained all her taculties to the
last, except her sight, which, two months previously to her dis•
solution, bad been much impaired.