Star.
London, England, 1802-01-16 00:00:00

OLD 3.111.Jit.

Ye2erday fifteen v.rifoners %vele tried, taro of
whim, N zre capitally conrlacd, siz.
i:/ilbrai for b!!rglarioutly breaking and
circling the cfwelliog hailfe of 'l'. F.vill, and
llcaling 'her. in two axes, a taw, anal other
Xir fl-d
.7ohry7, as for dealing on the 9th intl. 25.
yank elf carpeting of tiro valiie td7i. the property
of Thomas Eyre and C. in their dwelling hank.
The profecutors art carpet mantifaduicrs, in
Oxford-ilreet. _ _

It appeared by the evalenee of Garrge Smith, a
young lad and a tailor, that laa Salina:or, as he
was paging by the loofa ofot Marra Eyre, the pro.
fecutors, he taw a man coming out of their ware-
bode with a piece of carpeting on his fhoillelet :
aa had not Font: far from the door ali;:n he drip
k. The prtfontr wa, that It ',hang about Mama'
raids before this rain : he leraaal sound, andiae
tog this carpeting an the la c.are up to toe
man, put upon his thoulaer e c.iraetay again,
and told him to go on, the prif .ner waiking along
fide of him. He, furpeaing they had tile
carpeting, went into the war eatoula ant informed
them of it. Mr. James went inimcdiately out,
followed them, and overtook them in Adam and
Eve Court, between three and fist} hundred yards
from the hook. The pralines. had then the car-
peting on his back ; Fare fecured and took
him to a wine vault, which is kept ley a man of
the name of Place, and eased for atlillance to fa-
cure them both, but this man refute! to Ai% him,
Laying he did not choraa to be troubled with any
Rich berates, upon which the witnefs kept the
amitotic. in his care, and the other made his efcape.
The prifoner was then committed.
Nine were convicted of felony, viz.
Bridget Rkarfarg for receiving goods, knowing
them to have been Mara, the puni(hmcnt for
which is tratifportation for liven years.
In this cafe, the prifoner had not bought the
goods, but taken them in, for the rumored purpole
of delivering them up agoin to the thief, aho had
been convided of (leafing them on a former
Seflion.
It was tubmitte,l, that as tae goods were not
bought by the priainer, the could not be fad to
have received them within the meaning of the Aft
of Parlament, which makes this a traniaortable
o T.:nee fecondly, that the was a married woman,
and lair hulband was forpacd a, lia VG nrch•ted that
the Mould take thefe articles in, of which there was
uu clear proof.
Mr. Jualce Roost' obfervert, arnorgft many
things, to the Jury, that experience, in this and
other Criminal Courts, taught thole who attended
them, that the nb jet% of the law which attached
tie poodhnunt of triraportation for (even years t:.
the offence of receiving Golan goods, kr...wi.7
them to be Wen, was to prevent any encourage-
m:nt being given to thieves, who certainly orala
not be to eager to coninat theft, it they aid not
know where to carry the pr. petty after they had
Nolen it. That as to the pri(r nor being a man iro
womao, the mull have been acquitted thischarge,
if it appeared that the received the goods in her
hufband's pretence. becauta the would, in that cafe,
in the view of the law, be aaing ander the cner
cion of her hulband; hut if One received them in
his ablence, the idea of her having been ordered
by him to receive them, was not that fort of coer
Ilion for which the law exalted a married woman
concerned in crimes in company with her hufband:
as to her now having bought the goods., that was
nothing. fire if the took them of him under any
idea that he was to have them again, at any
time he might call for them to fuit his con-
venience, that would be receiving them in a
way which the law prohibited, becaufe, din was
affording to the thief the encouragement which
the law prollibtted.
ylnye: Etre:, a private in the 3d regiment of
Foot Guards, for felonioutly ftealiog 6olbs. weight
of fugar, the property of Mars. Dixon. Ramfey,
and Allen. The Jury, after flintily conferring,
found the prifoner Guilty. The charge was not
capitally laid.
gossaikan Cce,pir, for Realing, on the lath of De-
cember, eaibs. weight of copper, value 275. the
goods of Mars. Jacobs, Brewer, and Co.
It appeared in the comae of the evidence in this
cafe, which, notwithaanding its apparent want of
importance, took the Court a confiderable time to
difcnts—that the prifoner was Mimi) by the prin-
cipal witnra, the Chief Watchman On the King's
Quays') with the copper in his poffeffion, in the aft
ofiveighiog it in an old iron where he .had
offered itloarale. The article in queltion was an
old copper (hip's utenfil, which lay for fame time
on ona of the quays, in the precinEts of the Cuflom
Hoare, and had been but recently miffed previous
to the detetlion of the prifoner. There fads were
clearly proved in evidence.
. In his defence the prifoner aid, he had only ac-
companied a man who had promifed him 6d. to
condutt him to any old iron flop where he might
difpofe of the copper. No wimeffes appeared in
his behalf.
The Rreastris,ya his charge to the Jury, ob.
ferved, that the efTta cf the law was, that if two
or more pet-inns combined, or affifted each other,
in the commiffion of fuch offences, it mattered not
which of their hands conveyed away the property.,
or offered it tar tale. The Jury, after deliberating
Come time, found a Verdict of—Guilry.
.Daftid Coe,er for (leafing- one ounce and one pen-
at weight of Myer, of the value of fix flailing:, the
property of Meffrs. Bateman, working gold and
Aver finiths, in Bunhill-row.
The priforicahad been an errand boy with the
profecntors, he afterwards became their appren-
tice, and ferved them in that chariftcr for (even
years, and then worked as their Journeyman for
a while, and was with them in all for about ten
years. • ,
In confeeptence of tome fafpicionithat were cn.
tertained of the prifoner, he was tearated; :at firat '
ineffeftually, orawhich he became a fitdeinrolent,
_hot the conilable perfevering, Mond at (alt the
(liver Rated in the indiament, which had been cut
ot from that, and was fees in the Ikin which,

receives the fragments of the work, half an hoot,
before; it was found conceair in his wailtband.
7. Col, for Beating three pictures, and other
articles; the property of F.. Oliver.
Goff, for 'leafing two cotton frocks, the pro-
perty of L. Thomas.
Jr. fretbenni, for Itealing a cheefe, the property
of N. Humphrey.
Reynolds, for (leafing a pewter pint pot, the
property of D. Neave. Royon, for Realing
forty yards of rope, the property of T. Cowley.
Alward Warms was iuttitted for a burglary in
the dwelling-hook of Mr. Turner, Brewer, at
Bow. Th..: Prifoner had been tried onThurfday for
a burglary, and acquitted. The offence now
charged nainti him was committed on the fame ,
night, and the witnclfes were nearly the fame
with rhofe who appeared on Thurfday's
Mr. Turner's Clerk' furore to his connting.honfe
being broken open on the night of the Nd of De-
cember ; and that a waincoat, lii guineas in gold, ;
two bags of halfpence, feveral papers, and other I
artiOzs were taken away. In confequenke of the I
Pritoner having the next day been taken up. when
he went to demand change for a note which he
received from Pritchard, the Officers went to
Cc itch his houfe, and there they found a wailkoat
concealed under a bed curtain. This was the
time that had been ftolen out of the Proficutor's 1
counting-houfe. itchard was afterwards taken
up, and by his direCtions the Officers went and
found a bundle of keys in the privy belonging to
the priloner's bottle.
Benjamin: Pritchard raid, that after he and the
Prifoner had committed the burglary hrthefirew-
haul: of Gordon and Hodgfon, they proceeded
Bow Fair Field, and at three o'clock the fame I
morning, they unlocked the wicket-door of Mr.
Tomei 's brewhoufe ; they then unlocked the
counting-houfe door, broke open the delk.andtnek
away the articles laid in the indiftment. When
they went into the seld, the Palmer took the
waiß-
coat and put it on him. They afterwards divided
the money: between them.
The Prifoner in his defence raid, that Pritchard
gave him the waiticoat, and mull have put 'the
Life keys into his privy, on pupae to fbove the
guilt away front himfcll; and with a view that, it
taken up, lie would nun King's evidence againfl
him, the prifoncr, in order to fare his own life.
He declared hi. innocence of the charge. He
:aid that Prir..tuuti was a moil notorious charaeter;
that h. had 1,4% been a common robber, and had
got fo much propel ty, that the Officers who went
to his houfe, were ationifited at the fine things
they faw in it.

The Loen Ct. lir BAUM told the jury, that the
queflion was, Whether the evidence of the accom-
plice was fulEcimtly corroborated by the fait of
the waincoat having been found in poffellion of
the prillinerl and in order to determitlit that
point, they mull confider the whole of his conduit,
and whether it might not have been a contrivance
to entrap the pnfoner into a fituatioa of appa-
rent guilt, for the purpofe of profccuting hem,
and facia{ hi.. own lite. '
The ja,; retired for about half an hour, and
brought. in a verdia--Gaihf of (leafing under the
value of 4.7. i. but not burglarionlly, by which the
capital part of the charge is done away.
Four tvere acquitted, viz. N. Ineh, 7.Coverand
7. Planck.--Janes Langley was indiaed for a bur-
glary and r, bbery in th • Houfe t ,f joreph Wheeler.
joreph Wheeler is a dull man, in the neighbour-
hood of Tottenham-cottrt-road. He was at a pub-
lic houfe in Tottenham court-road, with his fon,
on IVednefilay, the 23d of December. when the
prifoner came in with his daughters. llis daugh-
ters were at fervice, and their places were on the
prifimer's• way home. The prifo,ler had worked
with the profecutor's matter till within a fortnight.
The prolecutor's (on afked the prifoner for Sarah
Allen, a girl who had drank tea with them. The
prifoner Paid, the was with Mrs. Wheeler, and he
would run for hEr.

Sarah Allen fwore that the had drank tea with
Mrs. Wheeler. The prifoner came and told her
that Mr. \Vheeler wanted to fee his wife at
,the
public houfe ; that he and jofeph were drunk, and
that jofeph would not come away unlefs Sarah
went for him. The prifor.er faid he would not go
hack with them diredly to the public houfe. He
had occafion to call at the Middlefex hofpital, they
',night call him as they paired; they did call, and
he did not anfwer.

Hobart, a carter, proved that the prifoner had
come to the place in the abfence of Mrs. Wheeler
:and her daughters ; he knocked at the doer, and
finding no entrance, went away. The witnefs went
aw ty immediately after. When the pain:ter was
apprehended by Wheeler he acknowledged nothing,
When he was fearched by the officers, aI cum of
31.35. was found upon him. He Paid, he had re-
ceived this money from his mailer, a plaifterer, in
Mary-la-bonne. No part of the property was found
on him.

Mr. Jullice Room: informed the Jury, that there
was nothing but eircumnantial evidence againli
the prifoner ; but the circumaances were very
lirong.—Verdioft--Not Guilty.
•

On Saturday night an unfortunate affair hap-
pened on board a boat belonging to the Refinance
frigate, at Portimouth : in confequence of one of
the seamen not behaving agreeably to the orders
of the Lieutenant, the latter aruck him, in a paf-
lion, with the tiller, on the head, which fo
badly fractured the Mall, that hedied a lhort time
after. The Lieutenant was taken immediately into
entiody, and fence committed for trial. An inqueff
being taken on the body, the Coroner brought in
the verdia—Wilful murder.

A molt unhappy accident happened near Brent,
about fifteen mile. from Plymouth, lait week
At a Chriftmas feafl of tome refpettable Farmers'
daughters and their friends, a young man, out of
fun, prefented at a young woman, a Farmer's
daughter, a piece, left by accident in the entry of
the Farm.houfe, which was unfortunately loaded.
The contentt lodged in her thigh, and the lan.
palled feveral days and expired. To add to the
difirefs of her lover, one of the party, the was to
have been married in a few days: he is inconfol-
1. abla it her lofs.

On Weduefday lak In Vanpole-ftreet, the La;ly of the
Mr. Douglas, of a fan. -

MARRIED.-
On Sunday, William Henry Rowlete, Efq. of the Middle
Temple, to Mirs Mary Emilytof Great Chantleite-ftreet.
On the 3oth December, at Niton, in the Ble et Wight, Cap-
tain Tohn Taylor, of the ad Battalion, 34th tteghtfent of Foot.
to }.'lift Maria Billlnghurlt, daughterif G. Billingliturft, Erg(
Tharfilay, at Mary-ks-bonne Church, W. H. Butlers, Efq•
Birchin-lane, Banker, to Mifs Elizs Bard-a, youngrit daugh-
ter of Sir Charles Burdett, Bart.
At the Dtanry-houfe,. Armagh, the Hon. Captain King, to
Mifs Hewitt, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Myer
DIED.

On the s',-th nit. Mrs. Henderfon, mother of Colonel H.
derfon, of Foil*ll Bank. _ _ _

On Saturday the 9th infant, at her houfe near Cmydon, aged
forty-two, Mrs. Charlotte Matthews, r, bet of the late William
Matthews, P fq. of Green Lettice-lane.—A Lady fingularly
Mine= for her abilities in ltufincfs, and for her benevolence
and liberality.
'On the t ith inftant, at Hafting, Mrs. Blinfhall, mild of the
late Thomas Blinfhall, Efq. of Clarendon, Jamaica.
On the 14th ult. at Hawick, Mils Rachel Marianne Wilton,
fecond daughter of the late Dr. Andrew Wilfon, Phyfician in
London.

On the 6th loft. ar Exmouth, Deconfhire, John Hunter, Efq.
Sargon of the t tth Light Dragoons.
On Saturday left, In Prince's-court, Storey's-gate, after a
&art Uhler', aged t; years, Thomas Milner, fecond fon of John
Efq. of his Majefty's cuitoma.
Lately, on his pairagc to America, Thomas Matte Caron,
Efq. one of the heirs to the great l'h'. (tone's eitates of Norfolk
andSulfolk.

Early on Tuefday fe'nnight, at Strohm, near Ely, the Rev.
John Seraine, Reetor of Stretham.
On Saturday fe'nnlght, at Hull, Mrs. Nicholfon, Mid of the
late Mr. Nicholfon, of Woodboufe-bill, clothier, and filter to
James Armitage, Efq. of Hanna, near Leeds.

TO-MORROW.
Sun rifes I Sun lets Moon fits
oondsfutes after 7 minutes after 4I 32 minutes after 7

HIGH WATER AT LOND ON-BRIDGE TO MORROW
Morning - so minutcs after 0
Afternoon - 17 minima after r

VALUABLE LEASE, FARMING STOCK, CLAPHAM.
By Order of the AlEgncel,
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION—By Mr. HAWKES.
At the Plough Inn. Clapham, in Two I our on Wednefday,
Feb. 3. at One o'Clock,
rrHE very defirable and extremely beneficial
LEASES of thofe much-admired Premifes. beat'tifelly
fituated at the WINDMILL, on BRIXTON HILL, late be-
longing to Mr. Was. FowLett, called BLAKE-HALL an.:
HYDE's FARM, at CLAPHAM, in SURRY ; c.,mpriGng
Two Brick and Tile Dwelling Houfcs, with ewcnfive Out-
buildings, and upwards of s6o Acres of exccllcnt Arabic,
rich Pallum and Meadow Land, in g very fupericr Rate of
cultivation.

On the Premifes at BLAKE-HALL. the following day, all
the capital Live and Dead Stock, confiding of ten Root ufeful
Cart Holies, ten fine Milch Cows, l'lgs and Poultry, four very
large Ricks of Meadow and Clover Hay, a confiderable quan.
tay of 'Potatoes, exceeding good Farming Lloalfils, and a few
1.0 t.; of Hourchold Furniture.

To be viewed to days previont to the Sale, when particu:ars
may be had on the Wendel ; at th •• Pcoth Inn, Clapham;
Gr,yhound. Croydon ; King's 11-lead,lighAnt ; Rantlnn, tirr.ith-
field ; P.Sr. Vintes, Solicitor; Mr. Barron's, No. 79, Su .ind ;
and at Mr. Hawker's, Andlionter, Readira.

FOR CHII.I3I,AINi, RFIEU M.AI iSMS. BR U iSES.
Dr. STEERS': OF (33!.1.P0C.

Pi" Medicine has been 17mg a.cltncirledged tq
be ruPenn' te *very Preparation of the wind in the Cure
of Bridles, Sprains, Rheum:arms, Cramps, Nuntbnefg and
Stignefs of the Joints, and other cat,.. I Ciampi tints, as wdl
as in reitoring a proper Circulation !a, the lands, when in a
Paralytic State. It is aro 'titular v firrictable for Ch,,shibts;
but in thii Complai;'t It fissuid be diEfircd, and Aglicd warm.
On the Outride a isle!: Bottle of the tknaint pedeldoe is
paned a Stamp, in wltielt are airmail there worts—` F.
NEwer. ay, Noss. St. Paul's." Al othersare ea., att. itit.

Sold only by F.Nrwor R ,at the Wards Ask for Dr.
Powder, No. 45, in St. Paul's Church-yard, a few doors from
the corner C'oeapfide, l.unJon; and, by his appoiotment,
by 111rfrrs.le*Quh sod Co. No. rso, and J. Pid.d,,g, N 0.76,
Oclur.l-ftrect ; J. Wade, Old Burnt-Brett; Bayky and Co.
Co-' ur fire..t ; Gi.dfrcy and Cooke, Soutluupton-ftmt ;
J.W ird, Ml's Holborn; T. Tutt, R0y..1 Exchangc;
and W. Clarke, Borough, High-I/rect. Price as. 6d. per Bat-
tle,ineladin g the Stamp, or Six for 135.6 d.
. B. As the Opodeldoc fur Exportatioo is exempted from
the Stamps, and thercfcre deprived of that mark of authenti,
city, and as great quantities of counterfeits are tent out of the
kingdom; all perfons abroad, to prevev.t loch imp. fitions, are
defired to be particular in ordering their .tgents to procure this
Medicine from Mr.Newbery's.