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London, England, 1824-01-15 00:00:00

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AIMS 'Partin 4ed 22, was put to the bar, on an
indictment charging, him with burglatiously breaking'
and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Richard Till, of
Globe-street, Bethnal-green, on the 6th of January
last, and stealing therein a quantity of silver spoons and
other property. There was another fellow in comparry
at the time of the robbery, bat he contrived to escape..
On the prisoner there were found it phosphor us box, a
quantity of picklock keys, matches, and other imple-
ments of housebreaking.—A number of witnesses were
called to bring the charge home to the prisoner) and.
the Jury instantly found him Guilty—Death.
Yesterday, James Kerr was indicted for burglariausly
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Robert
Austin, and stealing a watch, seals, &c. value 40s. his
property; and Thomas Kerr for receiving the same, well
knowing them to have been stolen.
• The prosecutor's wife stated, tiiat on Saturday three
weeks, the prisoner, James Kerr, came to her lodgings
in Westminster, in the evening, and asked her to go
and have something to think. She replied that she could
not, as she expected her husband in shortly. He, how-
ever, pressed her to go, and she complied. While
going along, she told him she mast not stay for any
time, as she had left the key in the door, and her hos-
band's watch hanging over the chimney-piece, and
it would be a bad job if any one were to take it
away.. while she was. absent. They then went to a room
where Thomas was. James ordered a glass of rum and
water, and saying he had to go after a man, went out.
After an interval of seven or eight minutes, he returned
in a violent perspiration. Witness went home, found,
her door unlocked, and the watch gone. She returned
to the wine-vaults, and finding James 'there, she told
him no one could ha;e taken the watch but he, as he
was the only person who knew the key was in the-door,
and the watch there. He said he had not taken it; it
must have been her husband who had come home and
taken it. She asked him where his brother was? He
replied that he was gone out, on which witness told him
!it was a planned thing between him and his brother to,
make away with the watch. He said he could not
have gone up to her room without leaving the marks
of his shoes; but sett answered that he might have
pulled them off. She again Went home, and having
learned that her husband had nit taken the watch, she
returned to the Kerr,, who told her that if she came
there bothering them, the would iciolt her out.
On her cross-examination, by Mr. Pitman, the de-
nied most positively haring ever slept in the same room
with Kerr, or, having ever lived .with any man but her
present husband ; nor had she ever gone by the name of
Pusey, or by any other namethan Austin or her maiden
' name Yates. •
A pawnbroker produced the watch, which he swore
had been pledged by the prisoner James. An officer of
Queen-square, who took the prisoners into custody, found
a seal and a duplicate of a watch on Thomas's .person.
Robert Austin, the prosecutor, who is a private in the
Guards, identified the seal and the watch produced to
be his property.
Several witnesses were called for the prisoners, who
gave them a good character.
Mr. Baron -HuLnoce here asked the Jury if they were
satisfied ? They replied that they were perfectly satis-
fied, and instantly found a verdict of Acguittal.
Mary Strikes, Sarah Cons, and FJiza 11.PManus,
were indicted, the former for stealing in the dwelling-
house of Henry Sahsom, Esq. the banker, a variety of
articles of jewellery and plate, of the value of fire pounds
and upwards: and the two latter for feloniously re-
ceiving the same.
The prisoner Strikes was left in care of the prosecu-
tor's house in Wimpole-street, during the absence of the
'family in the country, during which period'she took the
pl-operty mentioned in the
.indictment, which she de-
posited in a box in the house of a person at Mortlake,
Where they were discovered by an officer. The prose-.
cution against the receivers was abandoned. The Jury
found Strikes guilty of stealing under the value of forty'
shillings, being at the time a servant to Mr. Sansom.—
Collis and M'Manus were found Not Guilty', but the
Judge directed their detention in' jail till the Grand
Jury were. discharged.
' Edward Cooney, a lad thirteen years of age, was ca-
' pitally indicted for committing a _burglary in the house
of 'John %Vales, and stealing therein nine pair of stock-
ings, gloves, &c.
It appeared that the prisoner went into the prosecu-
tor's shop about eight o'clock on the night of the 30th
Of December, under the pretence of purchasing stock-
' ings; he left without making any purchase, and was
observed to lark about the front of the shop for some
time, and to statid close to the window..
'Mrs. Wales came to her door, and on'lboking at the
'primer, he impudently said, "you will know me if you
ye me again," and then walked away. As soon as he
was gone, she observed that a pane of glass had been
Liken out of her window, and the property in question
tarried off. On the same evening Mrs. Wales went in
search of the prisoner, and on finding him she seized
him, and he instantly exclaimed, " I know nothing of
your stockings."
Edward Parton, a little boy, the son of a tradesman
living in the same street, stated, that he saw the pri.
sorter at the window of the prosecutor on the night in
question, and afterwards be went to a dead wall and
pat something into his pockets.
• -Mr. Baron. Hunnocx summed up, and expressed his
regret that so young a boy (he was so
.small as not to'
appear more than ten years of age) should be standing
at the bar charged with an offence affecting his life.—
He left it to the Jury to say if they could doubt that
his was the hand that abstracted the property from the
window, particularly, after his exclamation, " I know
nothing of your stockings," 'which was made to the wife
of the prosecutor before-she had told him what sort of,
property she had lost. Verdict--Not
Edward Burton, aged 15 years,was capitally indicted
for stealing a bank-note for 1:20, the property of Charles
Young, Esq. barrister-at-law. The prisoner is the bro-
ther of Mr: Young's clerk, who being indisposed, the
prisoner attended at the prosecutor's chambers in Gray's.
Inn, tostakecare of them in his absence. In the library'
drawer the prosecutor left the note in -question is'n'the.
Sth of January inst. which was found to have been stolen
on the following day. The prisoner was suspected, and,
on' being searched, in his hat was found a purse con;
taining fifteen sovereigns, and in his pocket 10s. A'
sovereign was found in the prisoner's bed, and he also
admitted that he had given a sovereign to a play-fellow ;.
-he eventually confessed that he had opened the drawer
in Which the note was-deposfted, with the key of a cup:
board (which-was subsequently'. found to.•fit the lock),
and that he got it changed, antspesti oft (tale 'money.

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The prosecutor said the pr;sooei. yei7 good
boy while in his service. A witness gave him t good
character. Verdict, Guilty; butAcototnebded ttimercY
on account of-his youth, in whie.li:teacimniendition the
prosecutor.most earnestly joined:
PRoBI RT..
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We umieritand that the Police are Ili active pursuit
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of the miscreant a rouvrt. We hear, on authority that
we deem respectable, that there are several serious
charges against. him. If this be. true, there can be.little
doubt than justice must speedily overtake him, for he
has no means nt escape. He has neither money nor
friends to assist him in his Right. Varioui rumours are
of cotirse afloat about the active pursuit of the petico
after this criminal. One is, that he is stispected•of tnc
murder of the Rev. Mr. Colton; another, that he call

give some account of
,the mysterioes diAppeayenee of
Mr. White the ironmonger, late of Itegertt•street, which
lace that Gentleman left about two years hack,-sittee
which period no tidings have been heard of Motu What
degree of credit may be dire to both, or either of the,
rumours, we do not know ; bu the quarter &din whence
we received the information is so respectable, eta we
have every reason to believe the. officers of instate are
tnakiag diligent inquiries after bim,...Brilish Press.
CA MBEIDGE SESSIONS.
At these these Sessions, on Monday, James Stich, a Student
of the University, between 18 and 19 years of age, was
indicted, for that he, " not minding to get his living by
truth, but being evil-disposed, and devising how he
might obtain possession of, the-goods of others,. for his
nnthrifty living,' did send a letter, or cause a letter to
be sent, in the nettle of William Henry Ord, which letter
was false and fabricated, to William Newby, of Cam-
bridge, for four volumes of Ilepne's Virgil.
To this indictment the defendant pleaded Net Guilty.
There was another indictment, charging the prisoner,
in the same form, with having sent a false and fabricated
letter, in the name of Thonias Lord Haigh, to William
Warreker, of Cambridge, for a dozen pair of black silk
stockings, a cfnantity of shirts, silk gloves, &c. •
To this indictment he also pleaded Not Guilty.
The defendant was permitted ;o sit at the table) net
tto his Counsel and Solicitor.
After several witnesses had been examined in support
of the indictment, Mr. Warr, the Counsel, took some
legal objections, which were overruled. The prisoner
then addressed the Court at considerable length, pro-
testing his innocence, and declaring that a Mr. Hales,
with whom he had becOme acquainted, at Newmarket,
had got him to order the books for which he, Mr.
Hales, said he was commissioned by the parties. Se.
veral witnesses gave the prisoner a good character. The
Jury returned a verdict .of—Guilty; and the sentence
of the Court was, that he be imprisoned for the petiod
of two years.

At a Court of Burghmote, holden for Canterbury oil
Tuesday last, a Petition for the repeal of the Duty on
Coal carried coastways was agreed upon, and the Mem-
bers of Parliament for that City are to be requested
to present the same, on the meeting of Parliament.
M. GALIANO, Deputy to the late Spanish Cortes, hat
published a letter contradicting a statement in a Spa-
nish Journal, that he and I.oext BANos had been pub-
lish* insulted at Gibraltar by the Officers of the garri-
son. " Were the fact true," says the Ex-Deputy, -s1 it
would be a disgrace to those who offered, rather than to
those who received the insult ; but the contrary was the
case, for the British' Officers of that garrison, feeling as
men and ail Britons for the suffering Spanish Patriots,
did whatever was in their power to ieliete them in their
miserable situation. To tee -they were so particularly
kind, that the Officers of the 45d invited me to an ele-
gant dinner, and those of the 64th, besides different acts
expressive of their civility and sympathy, went so far as
to ask of Lord CnaTimst (when I was, together with
some of my fellow-Countrymen and fellow Deputies,
sent out of the garrison), a pranission to spend a day-
with them ; which favouri I,am sorry to say, his Lord- .
ship refused. Nor 'Were these the only proofs of the
feeling expressed in • our favour by the garrison of Gi-
braltar. Following the example of the other inhabit-
ants, they
.contributed to the subscription intended to
facilitate the passage of many of us to England; and,
were it not for their benevolence, we isevershould have
reached this land of freedom and hospitality."
The French Papers of Monday detail the facts of a case
of attempted assassination, which was to be heard before
the Assize Court of Paris on that day. The accused is
a woman of the town called Rose Vivier-.her intended
victim is one Rene Lamorlette, a discharged soldier ;
and-the motive for the attempted crime was jealousy.
The manner in which this feeling was first evinced be.
trays the existence of a strange delusion) and the force
of strong attachment. Hearing that her lover was de-
termined to leave her, and to contract a marriage with
a more successful rival, she administered to him love-
potions, which failed to produce the desired effect. This
philtre was composed of a quantity of blood from ber
own veins, mixed with wine, which she prepared for
Lamorlette. Finding the love-potion useless, she re-
solved to try a different experimeia and on 'the 11th of
August bought a table-knife, which she ordered to be
sharpened on both sides. This was done, as she has
since declared, that she might not fail in her attempt on
her lover, nor afterwards on hem self. During the time
that the knife was sharpening( she appealed distracted,
and wept bitterly. Some time afterwards, she enticed
Lamorlette into a private room iir a public-house, de-
claring it was the last time she would demand an in-
tervia.v with him. When they entered, Rose Vivier
'asked her lover if he still persisted in hi, design to de-
sert her, and marry another? " Ye,,," replied he. " You
could rather see me die, then," said she. The same
answer was returned. 4. Believe, then, said she, taking
him by the hand, that I have told you thutrulh, and
that this is the last day: You know I hive alwayi told
you .hat I could not live without you: you therefore
prefer death?" " Yes," replied Lamorlette. Imme,
diately the accused lifted her hand and struck Lamor-
lette with all her force in the breast, saying,'" Since wd
must die, then, let us die." She immediately with.
drew the knife and attempted her own life.. Lamorlette
has recovered. The accused confesses, the crime, and
spews no signs of repentance.
FOOTE.—A person' talking to FOOTE of an acquaint-
ance ofhis,-wbo was so avaricious that he lamented the
prospect of his funeral expenses, and who yet had cen-
sured one of his relations for his parsimL ny—" Now is it
riot strange, continued he, " that this man would not
take the beam' out of his own eye, before'he attempted
the mote in other people's?"—" 49 I dare say he
would'," cried Foote, " if he was auto of belling the
timber 1" •

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