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London, England, 1815-09-15 00:00:00

for the payment of £lO, purporting to be drawn by
James Bailey on Thomas Borman and Co. Plymouth,
with intent to defraud James Bowyer.

The prosecutor stated that he was a groctbr,•re-
siding at No. 93, Newgate-street. He knew the pri-
soner, trbo had been in the habit of purchasing arti-
cles at his shop. So long back as 1809, he gave an
order for grocery to be sent to his residence in Queen-
square, Aldersgate-street. The goods amounted to
£l. 14s. and Mr. Bowyer did not get the money.—
I On the 6th of April last, he came to the prosecutor's
shop and said, Yon don't recollect me." The pro-
secutor answered " I know you very well, your name
is Bout."---a Ali ! Sir," said he, " since I saw you
I have suffered a great deal, I have been confined in
a French prison, but have made my escape. I landed ,
at Plymouth ; I have just come from thence, and
the first step I take in town shall be to discharge your
debt ; therefore I will thank you for the difference of
that note." Before he tendered the note he said,
" How you have altered your shop !" and engaged
the prosecutor in conversation. with a view to throw
him oil his guard as to the note. Mr. Bowyer gave
him the change, amounting to reti. 16s. which in-
cluded a check on Down and Thornton, his bankers.
Soon after the prisoner left his shop, he became sus-
picious, and went to stop his cheque, but the prisoner
had been there before him and taken the money.—
The note he had taken was made payable seven days
after date, at No. 4, Mark lane, and when it became
due, the prosecutor went to get the cash. He found
himself again disappointed, the counting-he se,
No. 4, in Mark-lane, was shut up, and no person to
be round. it appeared, on further enquiry, that there
were no snch persons as Bo: man and Co. at Ply-
mouth, and the prosecutor had reason to consider the
note'a forgery. Mr. C. Marks, belonging to the
Post-office at Plymouth, and the Post-master at Ply-
mouth-dueler both deposed, that they had never heard
of Borman and Co. or Bayley, acting as bankers;
however, in the opinion of the Learned Judge, who
tried the prisoner, the evidence of those persons was
too vague to convict the prisoner of the crime of for-
gery. The guilty knowledge with respect to the note
being a forgery was not made out, and the Jury, under
all the circumstances, acquitted the prisoner.
William Brown stood indicted for burglariously
stealing a quantity of silk, the propertyof W. Broom.
The prosecutor said he lived in Brown's-lane, White-
chapel. There was a fire next door to his house, on
the 14th of July. In consequence of the alarm he
removed all his goods. Many things were thrown out
of the windows with rolls of silks. That night about
twelve o'clock he saw some of his silk in the posses-
sion of Nathan Levy, a constable. The,siik being
produced, he had no doubt it was his property. The
value of it was £2O.
Nathail Levy, a city officer, said, on Friday, the
14th of July, he went towards the fire ; going along
Lamb street he met the prisoner with the bundle of
silk tinder his jacket. The prisoner was about f tty
yards from the fire, he was running fast. He as .ed
him what lie had there ? Prisoner said he did ,not
know. He took him to the watch-house. DOT
asked in die watch-house how he came by the sii!‘ ?
he said 1w was a poor man out of employ, and a nun
had given him the silk to carry ; he was to have a
shilling ; he did not know the man. Mr. Broom
CAMS to-die watch-house and saw the silk. The pc-
tuner, when taken, had a jacket on, and not a smock-
frock, which he appeared in at the bar.
The prisoner said he carried the silk openly ; the
officer, however, deposed again that it was concealed
under his jacket. The Jury found him goilty of
stealing.
Joseph Fidler was found guilty of breaking and en-
tering the fl• use of Robert Patterson, and stealing
therein two siiver watches, and tour gold brooches,
his property, on the 26th of July. The prisoner went
to the house of the pussecutor; who is a publican in
Oxford-street and hired a lodging t lie slept in the
garret, and from thence he broke through a skylight
into the prosecutiw's room, where the property was
kept. ['art of it was found in his possession.
.114 x Wilton and William Blachtose were indicted
for the transportable *felony of having a considerable
number of forged notes in their possession, purporting
to be Bank of England notes for one pound. They
pleaded Guilty.
George Merray was indicted for robbing Edward
Gilmore, on the King's highway, end forcibly taking
from him Mt 18s. 6J: This was a case of plunder-
ing a seaman, who gave his evidence in the true nau-
tical style. He stated. that en Sunday, about three
weeks back, he arrived by the Deptford coach, having
been paid off the day before ; that his compeion and
another man, whose name was Downs, led him to a
street somewhere, he could not tell where, as he said,
to his mother's, where there was the prisoner at the'
bar. He gave Downs a pound note to get eighteen.
penny worth a oysters ; when Downs came back he
did net like to return the change, and from whit he
overheard, hesmelt out and found it was not Downs's
mother's house ; upon this he said to himself—"• fi
was time to sip pia loom," so he slipped his cable,
meaning to run. Bat both Downs and the prisoner
cane! athwart him at the street door and wanted him
to go b ,ck, but he would net, upon which prisoner
pursued him close to the wall, and Downs made a
dive into his waistcoat pocket and carried off a sTlO'
note, a £5 note, and 18s. 6d. in silver. The priso-
ner then eat:sized him alongside the Ned e& which was
feeding at the door, and made off. He got up to
chars, but tt.ey made a sudden tack to to the larboard,
and he lost sight ; upon which' be dewed round, and
said to himself, d—n, &c. if I can't grab either of
you, I'll grab the Nedely, and so he seized the donkey
by the ears. The people came up to him and he
told his case, and just then the. prisoner returned with
a coat on ; he had a waistcoat and sleeves when he
ran away a few minutes before ; he recognised him
immediately and seized him. _
Cross examined—Sailors spend a good deal of money
in grog ?—A. " Yes ; what else is it good foe r
He had two or three horns of ruin that day, and some
beer, but that was not enough to equies his upier.
roseq. The house where Downs and the prisoner
took him to was chock full, fore and aft.
cowling, a watchman, was passing at the time, and
saw the sailor had hold of a donkey on his shoulder,
saying he had been robbed. The prisoner was coming
back with another donkey, and witness secured him.
A Witness who I'ved opposite heard no noise.or dis-
turbaneb until'he saw the sailor with the donkey's fore.
legs on his shoulder, hauling it about..
The pinnies in leis defence, said, ho 'hew notiting

of the transactions he had been out selling his gl eens.
and was coming home, when the prosecutor seized
liim, and charged him with the robbery.
Several persons gave him also a good character.—
It appeared, upon the whole of the case, that it was
doubtful whether the prisoner was at all a party to
the robbery, and, under all the circumstances, the
Jury found him—Not Guilty.
Jaws Franilin and JoAu Murat stood indicted for
breaking and entering the dwelling house of Edward
North, in the parish of islary.l4.bonne, and stealing
therein four coach glassesithe property of John Jones.
The prosecutor was the proprietor of a job coach,
which he had let to a Lady named Morgan It was
placed in the coach house of North, in Berkeley.
mews, when the glasses were stolen.—The Jury found
Franklin Guilty, and Thomas was Acquitted.
John Lilly and John Bradshaw, were tried for pri-
vately stealing, from the person of a sea Captain,
named Williams, two £5O notes, and several sel
notes, in the dwelling. house of Price, a publican,
keeper of the Marlborough Arms, on the 20th of
August last. The Captain was in liquor, and as there
was no evidence to prove that the prisoners were the
men who robbed him, the Jury acquitted both.

At the Middlesex Sessions, on Tuesday, George'
reardky was indicted for assaulting C itheriae Christ-
mas. It appeared from the evidence, that the prose-
cuti ix was a decent young woman, residing in Church-
wreet, Spitaliieldri and the defendant was a young
wan, who formerly paid his addresses to' her. Abont
18 months ago, however. he behaved in such a man-
ner to her, as convinced her, any further intimacy
with him would only be attended with misery and
' ruin to herself. She therefore insisted bn his diiconi.

diming his visits to het. Since that time, lie had
taken eves,y Opportunity of grossly insultitt her.
whenever he met her in the street. On the evening of
the day mentioned in the indictment, she was standing
at her brother's doer, when she saw the defendant
coming towards her ; she attempted to go in and shut
the door, but he was too quick for her ; lie pushed the
door open, and forced his way in ; and in doing so,
jammed her hand so violently as to disable her for a
month. He then seized her and threw her down,and was
proceeding to greater lengths, when her cries brought
some of the family to her assistance. Next day she
obtained a warrant for him. lie was taken before a
Magistrate, and ordered to find bail for the assault.
Saon after the prosecutrix had quitted the Office, the
defendant overtook her in the street; and coming up
"to her, struck her, and knocked her into the road, and
said he would do for her; and this threat he repeated
as recently as Monday last. On being called on for
his defence, he said he now wished to plead Guilty :
it was all true; and he was sorry for it.—The Collet
sentenced him to pay a fine of .410, and to find secu-
rities for his good behavioui, himself in £lOO, and
two sureties in seso each, for twelve wont' s.
Us tort HALL.—Yesterday a miserable loek'ng
mendicant was committed to hard labour for seven
days, as a vagabond. He was begging from door to
door, and had in his passession a. number of letters
ready written, and addressed to persons of known be-
'.nevolence.—On Wednesday Elizaktk lei/linos was
charged with concealing the birth of her illegitimatei
children. A respectable Lady, residing at Cavnbcr-
we)i, with whom the prisoner lived errant a- house-
maid, stated. that she observed an improper degree of
intimacy between her and a young man, *coachman
in a neighbouring family, and at length charged her
with bang pregnant, and.expressed a desire to pal t
with her. The prisoner neither confessed nor denied
the-charge, but went awry soon afterwards, and s'..e
heard nothing furtlwr of her till the present charts
was brought. .The wife of the coachman Eat" that
she suspected improper familiarities had taken place
between her husband and the prisoner, she had there.
fore watched them narrowly ; and was certain, the
last time she saw the prisoner, the was in an advanced
state of pregnancy, and it had been reported, that she
had since been delivered of twins in a hay-I,at. and
the coachman had been heard to confirm that report;
that the children died soon alter their birth, and that
he had taken the greatest care of her during her
illness. Oo one occasion he asked a female servant
in Camberwell to take a walk with him, and he would
spew her the spot where the children were buried.—
The prisoner, on being questiout d, denied the charge
in p )sitive terms, and was remanded.
ANOTHER FAMILY POISONED.--WednesdAy even-
ing Mrs. Newman, wife to a respectable butcher,
Kennington-cross, on going out to take a walk, gave
the maidservant 4d. to get some grits, to make gruel
for the children's suppers, with orders to put th;:in to
bed as soon as they had supped., The servant, 16
years of age, wlv.:n she went into the shop,remarked,
she could have but 3d. worth• that evening, as she had
lost a penny; and that all she could do was to make
the gruel the thinner. She then returned home, made
the gruel, and gave the children their suppers. Im-
mediately after they were seized with terrible painsi
in their bowels, attended with a kind of vomiting.—'
Mr. Willis, a neighbouring surgeon, was sent fnr,
who gave it ak his opinion that they were poisoned.
The servant was then examined, and she strongly
denied having any knowledge of the cause. The'
saucepan was examined, which was perfectly clean,
and consetauently it could not proceed Irons that.—
Mr. Willis was still of opinion that it was arsenic, and
questioned Mr. Newman if there was any in the
house. Mr. N. declared he had a large paper of it in
an open cupboard, for the purpose of poisoning rats ;
and on looking for it, it could not be found. The
servant, on being questioned if she knew any th;ng
of the arsenic, denied having any knowledge of it ;
but she was seat to go for something to the cupboard
whilst site was making the gruel ; and it is suspected
that, being short of oatmeal, she thickened the gruel
with the arsenic, mistaking it for flour. Notwith-
standing medical assistance was afforded, the eldest
of the children died in the greatest agony yesterday
morning, and the death of another was hourly ex-
pected. The unfortunate servant is now in custody,
waiting the issue of the Coronet's Inquest; though,
from her uncommon fondness of the children, no idea
of evil intention is entertained.

Mtlabit.R.—An atrocious murder was last week
perpetrated, at Leominstcr, Herefordshire, by a black-
smith, named Cadwallader, who, after a series of ill-
treatment, strangled his wife, by holding her throat
tiii life was extinct, and then threw the body of the
unfortunate victim of his savage cruelty on a hedge
adjoining his garden. An Inquest was held, and he
stands fully committed for the murder.