Star.
London, England, 1805-01-15 00:00:00

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• Sethi-day ten prifoners were tried at the Old Bal-
gy, five of whom were convicted of felonies, viz.
- • IV. 167 am, for flealinv a filver watch, the proper-
-ty j. Fidoe ;Annah 7.919!An, for fle....hting a li-
nen thirt, the property of G. Neale, and
avis Clare, wlt WAS CA pi tail yindiaed for (leafing
a Myer watch, four cambric handkerchiefs,shree pair
of Itockinp, and'other articles, the property of
the Hon. Henry Arigtillus Dillon.
Toe Hong urable.l-leory AuniTits Dillon depofed,
that the pi ironer had came int) 'his tervice as valet,
• about a year ftnee, and hiving 'received an extraor-
• dinary good eharaeler with him, lie entriifted him
with the entire minarinsent of his houfe in York
•ffreet, Baker dreet, Mu latterly having miffed feve.
.aal articles, and his *fella a-ferVants having made a
. cur iplaitit again( the prifoner, he was induced to
-Aufpett him, and therefore appliecdfor and obosjaed a
rfearch warrant. A Police Officer was called in,
who, on opining the priii•ner's mink, found in his
pretence the watch, handketchiefs, and flockings
(laced in the indiament.
Juliet Burke, Enufekeeper 'to Mr. Dillon, faid,
:that the witch had been hnng•np in her room, for
the purpofe of regulating, the fervants, as there was
-no cloa in the hofife. When (he miffed it, (he ap-
,plied to the prifener to know if he had taken it. He
raid he had left it at his malleeslwatchmakees,lfor the
-,purpofe of being repaired.. Having reafon to raped
.the prifcner's honefly, (he went 'to the watchmaker's,
and was told that no fuch watch had been left there.
In confequence of this, Ilse again fpolte to the prifo-
Der about it, and told him fhe had made enquiry at
• the watchmaker's. He then told her not to trouble
'herfelf about it, that it was not worth a farthing,
•and he knew nothing. of it.
M !kw Morgan, with 1.-/oom the prifoner had lived
before he came into the fel vice of Mr. Dillon, gave
kim au excellentcharieter.

The Jot y found him Guilty of Reafing under 405.
and he WAS fentenced to be tranfported for (even
years.
A D•; mom MONEY lAnntes.--Irillians Morton
alias 7ohtt :Wafers, and 1 holnar Spra;,-er, were indided
far Ite.i:ing from Mr. Dickens, mailer of the Military
ActJemy at Marlow, a hill of exchange for 751. and
a prontaory note for 251.
h appeared in evidence that the profecutor, aurae-
ed by an advettifement in the Morning Herald, of
the tit September, entitled " Money," in which the
advertifer floe>, " that he has Boa. remitted to him
by a correfpondent in the country, to pay away, but
for which he finds that he can, fubltitute good bills
at two or three months, and is therefore willing to
accommodate perfons in poffeffion of fuch bills with
any fun not lees than sot. on moderate terms ;" ap-
ply by letter to " Mr. Morton, Duke-greet, York-
buildings," the addiels in the advertilement. This
application produced two letters from Mr. Morton
to the Frofecntor, in the latter of which he propofes
to pay the profecutor a vim at his houfe at Marlow,
" as more good may be done in half an hour's con-
'creation than by a month's correfpondence." The
prifimer Mafon aecordingly called for the profecutor,
agreeably to the intimation in the letter, and intro-
duced himfelf as Mr. Morton, acknowledging that
the letters which the profecutor had received came
from him. The bill whic6 the profecutor wilted to
dieconnt was one for 751. drawn in his favour by a
Mr. W .lkcr, of Marlow, for a debt jullly due to the
profecutor. Morton, as the prof:tenor then under-
finod the prifoner to be named, wifhed to have the
bill up with him to town. This, however, the pro.
fecutor declined, raying that he had no doubt Mor-
ton was a Gentleman, but he mull be excufed from
parting with the bill without value, as they were
A raogers to each other. Morton then objefted that
751. was an awkward (um, and as he Rill had tool.
of his correfpondent's in his hands, 251. of which the
diecouni;og of the 751. bill would render ureters, beg-
ged that the loan might be extended to the full tool.
The prowcutor accordingly drew out a promiffory
ante by himfelf for 251. in favour of a perfon whole
name was fitggeiled by Morton, but of whole ex-
faience the profecutor was entirely ignorant. Copies
of both thole notes the profecutor gave to Morton,
who flared that he was not legally entitled to take
more than 5 per cent. for dikounting, but that, in
addition, he fhould large the expences of his jour-
ney. To this the prokcutor agreed, and they part-
ed, having previonfly fettled that the profecutor
tkould come to town on the Thurfday following, be-
ing the tg'h September lan, to the Gloucefler Cof-
fee Houle, Piccadilly, to conclude the tranfaltion.—
The profecutor came to the Glnuceller Coffee.houfe
at the time appointed. He looked in, but Morton
was not there. He law the other prifoner, Spragges,
walking up and down in the front of the coffee-
/mule, as if he had been looking for fume perfon.—
The profecutor was led to remark him from his pe-
culiar appearance. A sew minutes afterwards Mor-
ton art ived, and Spragges and he took no notice of
each other. Morton laoked into the coffee room,
Paid it was too much crowded for tfanfafting
buft-
ttets, and propofed that the profecutor and he thould
go to the White Horfe cellar oppotite. This they
accordingly did, the other prifoner, Spragges, Rill con.
tinuing to walk up and down in front of the Glou-
cefter Coffee Haute. In croffing the Itreet, the pro-
fecutor afked Morton if he had got the money ? to
which he twice answered in the affirmative. There
was no company in the coffee room at the White-
Horfe cellar. Here the profecutor put his own pro-
miffory note for 51. into Morton's hands, afking him
if it would do ? Morton anfwered it would, and im-
mediately batched out of the profecutor's hand the
51. bill, which he had alio taken out of hi; pocket,
and went away, foying that he would he tact in ten
minutes, and was only going to James's-flreet for the
money. The profecutor was for a minute or two
aitonithed, and unable what conchal:in to draw from
Morton's conduit. He obferved him from the win-
dow, however, to make a fignal to fome perfon on
the other fide of the way, who it immediately occur-
red to him wa,, the painter Spragges, who was then
Randiol; tt:11 ; but heroic the profecutor could reach
the dor', but!: Morton and Spragges had difappear-
ed. R. hoard nn more of either tail the 13th of De-
cember, wheu he learned that a perfon anfwering the
defcriptinn of 1 k coriefpondent Mr. Morton, was in
euftody, at Bow-greet, wider the name of Mafon.—
He that day came up to town, in company with his
attorney, Mr. Hoary Guitifinid, and in palling along

Parliament-greet met the other prifoner, who, by
that time, from fomething he had heard, he pe&
ed to be named Spragge:. He accordingly accofied
him, inquiring it that was his name ? The prifoner
anfwered him in the affirmative, and ;Aced if the pro-
recut(); had any thing ,to fay to him ? He faid he
had not. but believed the Gentleman in company
with him had. Mr. Goldfmid then inquired of
Spragges if he knew Morton ? He laid he did not.—
Did he know Mal= ? He anfwered he did. Mr.
Goldfmid then entered into converfation with him
about Mr. Julien's bill, (a Fiction whom Mafon had
alto fwindled, and whole bill Spragges had procured
to be returned to him in confideration of a fum of
money) ; and asked if he knew any thing of Mr-
Dickens's hill ? Spragges Aced if he meant Mr.
Dickens's hills ? Mr. ,Dickens immediately interpof-
ed, and laid, " Bills, I never mentioned to any per-
fon that there was more than one bill, of courfe you
must know of the tranratlion." Spragges then laid
that it might probably be in his power to be of ler-
vice to them in recovering the bills, if the profecutor
would aft handfomely, and like a Gentleman. They
talked of going to confUlt with Mr. Julien. Spragges
advifed them not to go, as Julien could be of no
fervice. He had not ailed like a Gentleman, and
the doter and more fecret they kept the matter the
better. He declined giving his addrefs, but promifed
to mcet them the fame evening at the Golden Crnfs,
Charing Croft. He came according to appointment.
and was there taken into cullody.
The Landlady of the houfe in Duke flreet, where
Morton had lived, laid that he refided there only for
a week and five days. He then abfconded. A few
days afterwards the prifoner Spragge, called, wall-
ing for apartments, tout Are had none which would
fuit him. He at that time inquired :,Izer Morton,
and the fhortly after received a note, dt livered t. her
by a porter, %Odle, fat the fame time, the law
Spragges waiting in the fireet. written in Morton's
name, in which he pegs that no notice may he taken
of Julien's bufinefs, as it will be fettled ; that the
will not lay to any perfon who may inquire for Mr.
;Horton that he knows any thing of him, and alfures
her that her lodgings (hall be fettled, and the levers
loft there for Mr. Morton, taken away in a few clays.
This card was proved to be in the hand writing of
Spragge..
Spragges'a Landlady alto fwore that Malan fre-
quently, or rather, contlantly came to Spragges's
apartments; and a6ted as his fervant. And the wai-
ter of a Coftee-houle in Dean-fireet, Soho, to which
Maf m's letters were in general ordered to be ad-
drelred, fwore that Mafon and Spragges often came
there in company, drank together. and did not ap-
pear as mailer and le. want.

Spiagges, in his defence, entered into a long de-
tail, to thew that his conneainn with Mafon was
founded merely on motives of humanity, having
about a year ago relieved him out of Newgate, and
having (ince, without carrying on any other connec-
ition with him,allowed him to perform for him certain
menial fervices. He denied having been at the
Gloucefler Coffee houfe at /be time the bill was car-
ried off by Mafon, arid accounted for his knowledge
of the eitifience of Julicn's bill, and for his having
it in his power to retlore it, by timing that he had
incautiously been induced by Mafon to become the
drawer of that bill, had it in his potreflion at the
time, and had reflored it to Julien, the moment he
undertlond it had been fraudulently obtained, for the
fum, which, on account of it, be had advanced to
Mafon.

Mafom, in his defence, alledged that the hi.l for
751. to which alone the indiament was latterly re-
thiaed, not being indorfed, and, of entitle, not ne
ridable, he could not be guilty of any crime in
ttealing a bit of paper which could be to him of no
value. Spragges, allo, in fume meature built on this
defence.

The COMMON SERJEANT thought it ne:efttry to
difpofe of the point of icy fit fl, that the Joey might
not have it to divert their attention from the fads of
the cafe. The queftion t flaw on which the pr &me's
fcemed to depend was, that. the 751. was not includ-
ed, and, of coutfe, could not be converted into a
fund to their ufe. This, however, he had no hell-
4ation in declaring made no alteration on the cafe.—
To Mr. Dickens, from whom the bill was Bolen, it
was a fecurity for a jolt debt to the amount of 751.
and, to him, was worth that fum. Whether it was
worth any thing to, or could be converted to any
ufeful purpofe by the perfons who ffolE it, could not
alter the cafe. On the fads, he thought no doubt
could be entertained. As to Morton, alies Mafon,
the cafe was clear. The Jury would confider whe-
ther Spragges, having been prefent when the fraud
or theft in quellion was pradifed; having written
the card to Morton's apartments, as from Morton
himpf, when he was obliged to difappear on ac-
count of another fraud ; and having been found con-
!idled with him, both in his own apartments, and
at the place where Morton's letters were addre!Ted,
was not a party to the fraud pradifed on the prole-
tutor?

The Jury found both ptifoners Guilty. And the
Common Serjeant immediately fentenced each to
(even years tranfportation beyond the teas, as being
unfit for continuing any longer in this country.

Two were convitted of mifdemeanors, viz. Eliza-
beth Harlow and Mary Ann Goodman. And three
were acquitted.
Same day the Sertons ended, when fcntence of
death was pared on

Richard Hayward alias Reghid Harwood, row feionioully cut-
i.ng Benjamin Chantry ; .

Jobe Hollis, for returning frodldunfportation ;
John Tennant, for felonionny fit sling bills of exchange and
other property of Ruben Shane, Efq.
John Silk, for a burglary In the dwellhig•houfc of Charles
Taylor ;
Mary Johnfon, for privately Reeling in a dwelling-lioufe feve-
rsl articles of wearing apparel, the property of Andrew Thor-
bourn.

Ten were ordered to be tranfported beyond the
fear for.the term of (even years, viz.
James Sprints, John Mafon alias William Morton, Thomas
Kearney, Frauds Clare, Mari Harding, Thomas Smith, Charles
alias Chrittopher Cu:, Thomas Jones, lase Tiles, and William
Stapleton.

Eight were ordered to be imprifoned in the boufe
of correflion. at Clericenwell, viz.
Jofeph Blare, Ann Spittle, Daniel Savage, Benjamin Ayres,
Margaret Sullivan, John Broviter, and Martha Needham.

Ten were ordered to be imprifoncd in hi. Majelly's
jail of Newgate, one to be publicly whipped. and
liven diicharged by proclamation.

LONDON M.:11:10E7t:

CORN .EXCHANGE, MONDAY, JANUARY IC
RETU•RN of WHEAT in Mark-lane, Including only from the
814 of December to the sth of Jan.—Focal 10,609 (tarter..
Average 995 24.1.—.55. told lower than lalt [MM.
A RETURN OF FLOUR,
From the 29th of December to the 4th of January.
Total-8,717 tacks.—Average 945.
is. 51d. lower than laft return.

DROOL Tit LONDON GAZETTE. SATORDAT, JANUA T
Average Price of Corn in England and Walet, from the mums
ending the sth of January, sBu4..
Wheat. Rye. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. Pcafe.
s. d. s. I. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
86 2 52 9 43 to 26 48 s st 6

The average Price of Sugar, computed front the Returns made
in the weekending January 9, Is 58s. yd. per hundred wt;glit.

PRICE OF HOPS.
BAGS. POCKETS.
Kent - 41 os to 51 os Kcnt - 41 81 to St lit
Sulrcx - 41 os to 41 16s SuTcz - 41 Go to NI es
We: - 41 os to 41 16s Farnham 71 os to Si Os