Star.
London, England, 1814-10-27 00:00:00

OLD p.4IL.Er.

Yesterday the Sessions commenced Were the Lora,
MAYOR, Lord ELLIOIBOROUGH• Mr. Justice CHAM•
BEIIS. Mr. 13 !Wl] Rienanos, the Recoteoett, and se-
veral Aldermen.
...Elisabeth Macdonald, aged Eis, was capitally indict-
ed for uttering a counterfeit shilling, s'ie having been •
before convicted of the like offence in 1813. She went
into a el ocer's shop and tendered a shilling, which
was refused. On the same evening she went into a
public-honse in Gray'sisin-lane, had a glass of gin,
and offered the shilling in payment, which was refus-
ed. it was recollected that the prisoner had been
there a week before and tried to pass two bad shil-
lings. The officer found upon her a had shilling and
three shillings in copper.. Guilty Death.
Far.-11 Carroll was indicted for robbing Jane Smith
of her pocket, an eighteeirpennee piece, a shilling, and
eightielepeece in copper. The prosecuti is said, on
the of September, between eleven and twelve at
night, the prisoner met her near the top of Oxtord-'
street, and accosted her in the manner he would any
dnfoitunate woman, and asked her to go with him.
She desired him to go about his business, and crossed
the read She eoetinued waiting ler her husband, and
as she was going down Perk-lane, the prisoner met
her again, gave her a violent blow on the head and
knocked her down—die cried out murder, and before
she could rise he repeated his blows, and knocked her
down again : he kicked her between the shoulders and
neck.; --she felt a violent pull at her side; the prisoner
tore off her pocket and a part of her pet:icoat. A
watchman said, he saw the prisoner running away ;
he was stopped by the patrole ; he saw the prisoner
drop a pocket and a pi: ce of a petticoat. The patrote
c ri oborated this evidence. The prisoner was found—
Guilty, Death.
Geo:ft. Coate: was tried for a highway robbery. Mr.
Mess seated, that at half-past eight o'clock last Satur-
day evening, while -he was passing near Shoreditch
Turnpike, the prisoner grappled at his watch, a great
struggle took place between them, when the chain
broke-and the watch fell to the ground. 4r. Moss
was knocked down and violently beaten by a gang of
bustlers. The prisoner was secured and his watch
was preserved. The prisoner was found—Guilty,
Death.

J. Wilson for stealing a quantity of flannel, kc . the
property of Messrs. Holland .and Co. from a 'wharf
adj lining the Thames, was also capitally convicted.
J. Parker was found guilty of homy( received some
articles of household furniture, knowing them to have
been stolen from the residence of Mr. Schneider, a
merchant, at Son:hi:ate. in August last. The tohbers,
for the theft, were convicted at the last Old Bailey
Sessions. : _

EVIDENCE or Tin DEAF AND DUMB.—Thwnas Pol-
led was indicted fer breaVng even the house ot Wil.
barn Green, and stealing thereo watch and several
silver Spoons, the property ot *his ph Mas 41. This
trial WAS rendered peculiarly ioteresting by the exa-
mination of a boy who was deaf and dumb, the prin-
cipal evidence in this case.
Henry Noel, the deaf and dumb bay, appeared to
be about twelve years of ag,, and had been in the
Institution for educating pu r children lab wing un-
der such infirmities for eighteen moni,bs. His heel.-
preter state.', that he was not yet perfect in his know-
ledge of lan..:uage. He was, how. ver, able to Mak-
hatsittm;blc •olvor• .n th. Isvgaitutinn,
and in a great measure to strainers, by kis action,
and the expression of his coolie .31,ce. The evidence
.was punt through with as much faciliiy as it the
witness spoke. The boy gave 'fie Cons t to timer.
stand that he did not know the meaning of t!:e %vied
"oath," but that he perfectly compieneeded the dif-
ference between right ate; n song. Upon being asked
what would be the consequence ot telling a lie, lie
shrugged up his shi uld,n and pointed to tie ground,
with an expression which rere.L•red his ineanii.g intel-
ligible to all. klaviiigbeen told to keep such a terror
in view, in the story he was about to tell, he pr teed
ed its hi, statement;—he was standing near the win-
dow r I she prosecutor, looking at the various objects
that presented themselves. Something prompted nine
but be did not know what, to look into the prisecu-
tor's parlour through the window. He knew that the
protecutrix was from home, and having ebserved.
that a man was in her room kept his eye on him, and
saw him take watch from the chimney-piece, and
several spoons from the drawers. Some of the articles
he pocketed, and sonic he carried in his hand. The
witness minutely described the different pans of the
property, and the manner in which tl.e prisoner dis-
posed of each of them about his person; he
also described she hurried and anxious look of
the prisoner while he was taking the articles, from
which the witness concluded that what he was
doing was criminal. He ran home and communi-
'Cated to his mother what he had seen, and.having
marked the prisoner, watched for him in the neigh-
bourhood, where he sour saw him walking about
as if nothing had happened. What the interpreter
called the Manuel Alphabet, was one ot the means by
which the boy became intelligent and intelligible;but
that by which he generally and Most furcibll expres-
sed himself, wits the countenance.
The Judge observed, that the clear manner in
which the evidence of the deaf and dumb boy Was ex-
pressed to the. Court, coinciding with the feet of the
evidence in all. the maerial particulars, was such as
he conceived was entithd to a very strong degree of
credit. He at the same time stated. that the Jury
must either find the prisoner guilty of the burglary
as well as the robbery, or acquit him of both. --The
deaf and dumb boy was out sworn. Verdict—Not
Guilty.

' Last Friday, a gentleman *arrived hastily at Dover
in it chaise and four, with a lady, a ward in Chancery,
and embarked for the Continent. The guardian fol-
lowed, but too late to take back the prize.
A few days since Abr., !lan Jeniimon was commit-
ted to Appleby goal, for stealaig six heifers, the pro.
perty of Mr. J. Simpson, of Ribb, in Rydail, West-
moreland. The risoner, nn road from Whitt:-
haven, found the cattle grazing near Grassmeie, and
drove them to Kendal, (upwards of sixteen miles)
where she said them.

se'nnight, William Higgiar and Thomas
Harold, convicted at the last Gl.a.;ow Assizes, of :is-
vault an / robbery, were executed on 4 new drop elect-
ed in froi.t of Glasgow Jail ; John Monaon, convicteJ
of a sleet robbery, and who Was LO Wile filleted at
the SUM time, received a respitki.