Star.
London, England, 1805-12-05 00:00:00

LIFT NYE :LICENCE.

MIDDLESEX SESSTONS._

Yellerchty Mark Colbach was indiCiaby the pari(h
officers of St. Ann's, Suho, for keeping a common
brothel in Little Portland-ftreet, Wardout-tireet. It
appeared by the evidence that the moil fhamefiil
fcenes had been exhibited at the Defendant's honfe
—women of the town, of the molt abandoned defcrip•
tion, had been feen expofin„et themtelves, na-
ked, at the windows, at all hours of the day. At
night men and women conflantly went in and came
out again ; and the frequent broils and difturbance
which occurred at unfeafonabte hours, kept the neigh-
bourhood in continual alarm. The Defendaut was
found guilty ; and the Court fentenced him to be
imprifoned in the Houfe of Correetion fir. months.

OLD BAILEY.

Yeflerdaythe Seffinnscommenced before the Lard
Mayor, Mr. Juidice Gans', Mr. Baron Groin AM, the
Recorder, &c. when twelve prifoners were tried,
two of whom were capitally convinced, viz.
John Leonard W/,.ie and John Rid:m.4lbn were in-
dieed, under Lord F.llenborough's An, for wilfiilly,
malicioufly,and unlawfullyeutting and maiming Wm.
sandal, with intent to prevent their legal apprelien-
lion. The offence took place at a gentleman's hoof: in
Lamb's Conchrit-Itreet, on the night of the and of
September, Richardlon efcaped for the moment ; the
watchman heard the words "(hoot him," repeated
from the gentleman's area at the time, but could
not tell fruits whom the words came. White after-
ward* came up from the area, !trick the watchman
firil with his fit, but not finding that to be ctfenual,
he gave him a violent blow with an iron crow, which
made a wound two inches long on his held. White
was in fome minutes afterwards finindleaningon a poll
at tome cliltance from the fpot from whence he had
efcaped ; he raid, that the thief had efcaped by ano-
ther way ; but his perfon was poi-nicely fwora to by
the man whu•h,ad received the wound. Several ins
plemeetof honfc breaking were anterwardi found
about,. the place.
Mr. GURNEY, for the prnfecntion. oreneci the cafe •
in a very able manner, Prating and einlaining the
courts contained in the indiarnent.
The Surgeon who attended Randal &Scribed the
wound to have been made by fome infirnment, and
canfidercd the crew as very likely to have produced
fuch a watirrl. The wound had not completely
penetrated the nor% but in certain circumitances
:night have been fatal.
Mr. HART, for the prifontrs, ()Mated to the re-1,
levancy of site indiChment. as it did not flare, accor •
ding to the law in inch cafes, that the pcofecutor
Randal had feized the prifoner with an intent to ap
prebend him, in cnnferprence of the charge contain-
ed
in the &ft corn. This objeCtinn, however, was,
07,er-ruled by the Conrt, when, after a very long
and circemtlantial charge from Barnes GRAHAM, the,
lary found agairift bath tar:foners a aertlia of guilty
—Death.
,I wry IrWfina :11ary Inn Korganb and Elizaleth Irnller,l
were inclined for privately thealinet in the ilinp of,
Mcfrrs. Lloyd insd Hyde, liaberdalner, Pal: Mall,
a filk thaw!, valved two guineas.
!t appeared in evidence that the prifoners had for
fiasse time been fufpened of the praCtice of theplift-
ing. On the Stir of November, Morgan and Wal I
;ter went ram Mrs. Phillips's thop in HollywellArcet,
under pretence of making plirchafes, and after a
good deal oFturning and looking at various articles,
took their leave by making f•rae trifling purchafe.
The thonman fill-peeing their deign, followed them
out, and refolving to watch their motions, dogged
them along the Strand, where they foon came up
with the prifoner, Wilfon, who appeared to have
been waiting for them, and continued their progrefs
weftward, till they came to Pail Mall. Here they
entered another haberdafhar's chop ; but the thop•
man from Hollywell-ttreet had previontly to this
fallen in with one Pope in the fame trade with hint-
fell, who joined alto in the put fait, and by the ad-
vire of his friend followed them into the thop, and
put the thopman on his peed, but found they had
done no hufinefs there. They then went -into the
fhop of the orofecutor rao Lloyd, wham the IA
charged in the inclinment was committed. Walker
and Mnrnan had taren before in this Ileop, and af-1
finned the cbaracterr, the one nfi lady's maid, and
the other of nurfe, and talked of my lady as a wo-
man of the firft rank and fafirion. On attempting
to leave this :hop they were detained by the witneffes
Pepe and Brifeoe, and on being charged with the
theft, the pi ironer Morgan took the thawl in•queaion
from her muff, where the had it concealed, and at-
tempted to convey it unperceived among Come other
articles on the counter, by artfully toffiug it round
behind her. This flratagetn, however, was not at•
tended with the defired niece's, and the whole three
being taken up (lairs and examined, were afterwards
committed.—verdin.--Guilty oftlealing, but not pri-
vately.
Mary Davis. for privately sealing feveral pieces of
filk handkerchiefs, the property of Mars. Mailer
and Betts, haberdafhers, Oxford•llreet. The pri.
foner was obftrvcd to drop a tingle (ilk handkerchief
out of her apron as the left the lon of the profecn-
tors, in conlequence of which a nnighbour informed
the tradefmen, who followed her to a public houfe in
Cntlle-fircet, where the threw a pair of aeckings into
a water tub in the back yard, and the paper which
cnntained them &non the privy. The prifoner mare
net defence ; and the Jury found her Malty cf het- i-
ing.—And one was acquitted.
Nine were entrained of finny, viz.
T. Burton, fur healing a bundle of derny paper.
value rs. the goods of Mars. Gala:sin ; W. Iloberts
for Itealing a brafs weight, the property of W. Cow.
land ; Ann Conolly, for fleshing no,nair of women's
gloves and mitts, the property of S. Burford; Mary
Stack, for fleshing four pieces of broad cloth, the
property of W. Loddon ; and W. Cooper, for hal-
ing 12 Leghorn hats, the property of Mars. Lucas
and Barber.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 4.
DUI TAM SPENCELY V. SCHULLIOIBUR.I.
This was an aßion brought under the Statute of
Ufury, to recover from Louis Frederick Count de
Schullenburg Oeynhaufen, vat ious Corns of motley, to
a very large extent, on ufnrious contraas entered into
by him with Bcipion Delagatile, Marquis de Cham
bona s,
Tbe's Marquii was proceeding to Rate the nature

()this tranfitlt;nr.: with the Defendant, when it an
pearing that the terms of their art:on:at had been
committed to writing, and the Marquis not Ifni- to',
the contraa to produce, the Plaintiff was nonfaite
SCHULEMBSUG T. THE I'l IEQSIS DE CHAMBONAS.
Hese the parties were reverted. The prefent
tiff was the Defendant in the lad, and the real r:ii
tiff in that, the Defendant in this—lt was an aff inn
upon two bills of exchange, tine amount of which wac
aot ;I. and of which the Defendant, the Matquis
Claiathonac, was the acc,:pzor.
The defence was he ufury which was before( tup
againit the.prefent Plaintiff; but that defence, n pon
another full bearing, was not made to apply .to our,
cafe, and therefore the Jury gave a verdid for the
Plaintiff—Damages 2,314.
JAMES SPENCELEI, QIJI TAM, T. GEM. DR water..
The Plaintiff is a Carpente:, the Defendant a
French emigrant.
Tae SOLICIT:Ift GESI7eRAL, for the former,
that this was an anion hro ur,ht on the stA•m, „r
lifory, which enafted, that the party fuing tho,td
recover thrice the amount of the font upon whic:i
illegal intereft was given. The Defendant had le or.
a French Nobleman (the Marquis de Cliatrbonas )-
various tams of money, to the amount of more th to
1 I goool. for Ilse loan of which he was to receive two
guineas a day, or at the rate of more than ieven
hundred per cent. The declaration confided of 18
counts, and each of them timed different fonts, with
which the Ma;-cptis de Chambonas had been accom-
tnodated, to carry on a fyftem of gaming, which the
Learned Counfel was forry to oblerve, that Noble-
man had in ide his prnfeeion. If he thould elpatly
, , fulAantiatc hi, cafe by eviJence, the Learned ;:ourt-
fel laid, he had no doubt but that the Jury would
: hand over the Defendant to that puniftonent which
. • the law infl;ael in cafes of this kind.

The Marquis de Cliambonas was then called, who
fated, that, in t; f 2. he held the fituation of Mini-
;ter for Foreign A traits, tinder the French Gov.-an-
t-nem, but that lie had refried in England for the LA
duce years ; that he had carried on the trade of
dealer in watches and jewel:cry in Air-lireet, Picca-
dilly, fince his yet lenient in this country ; that, find-
ing the perfons to when) he was indebted demanded
ufurions inter ea for money which they had advanced
to him, he }:ad robrter: to the gaming table, hoping
to retrieve the fortune tie had once poffetfed.
Unhappily, his expeCtatiears were difappointed, and
he involved hirnreif dill further in debt. Urged by
the repeated demands of his creditors, be at different
times borrowed money to a confiderable amount, f r
which he was compelled by the Defendart t r pay
hint whatever interett he recrired.
Mr. E. 125 KIN E., ;Or the Celendant, contended, thzt
the various lams which were placed in the Maivi;
de Charinhonas' hand, were fu &pelted for the ex-
neefs purprfe. of trade. On the application of the
Marquis to• General de Willot, he reprefented him-
felfto be engaged in a concern which would produce
from forty to fifty per cent.; and on that informa-
tion, the Defendant was induced to fupply the fums
which were required ; di:it:rating. however, that he
fhould be paid the preceet's et the bufinefs regularly
every monde. For nearly a year there tranfaCtions
were carried on, aad General Willot received what
were turpofed to be the profits of the funds he had
fapplied; bat in the in.onh of November, tBo+,the
Marquis ;IM-corded. Every diligent featch was made
f. - him, but without died; until he was traced to
Ids concealment in a cellar, in the houfe of the Plain-
tiff, and the Defendant procured him to be arrefled.
Dating his confinernent, in the pretence of feveral ;
witneffes, the Marquis told the General that he had I
gambled away all the money with which he had been
provided, at a both in Pall Mall; that he hai
ne-
ver entered into any bulinefs, and that 601. and his
watch were the whole that he poffeffed. On the
Officer's remarking to him, that he had a thoufand
times firleninly (worn, that he did not gamble, the
Marquis replied, that it was perfeelly true, yet that
he had been induced to play, fell the Defendant
should refufe to fupply his neceiii!ies: that he would
oive General de Willot a mortgage upon his eflate
of Chamboaas, in France, which was at pick= oc•
eupied by his mother ; and be added, that he paid
the different firms, which were dated by him to be
the proceeds on the money advanced; when aatrally
no profits could accrue, as he was engaged in no
trade. 011 General de Willot's threatening to pro-
fecute him as a fwindler, and for that pt' pole to
have him conveyed to Bow thee!, the Mat quis en-
deavoured to excite the Defendant's cornmiferati:',n ;
and, tor this purpofe, he ufed many pal:Ilona:: ex-
clamations, expreffive of the agony of his mind.—
He complained of the degradation which he fhould
fuller, and urged the painful fituation in which a
perfon like himfelf, who had held fo high an °flee
in the. Government of hit country, would be, at his
period of life, if he were placed in fo ignominious a
date. Under fuch cireurntlances, the Learned Coun-
fel tinned, that the jury would give their veediit in
favour of the Defendant, when he fhould have prov-
ed, that he was ignorant of the illegality of the tranf-
a,Ftion. Mr. Ersitixr then called
The Marquis de Cautendeau, the perfon through
whole medium the original ;col. was lent, who
fwure, that no fpccific firm of interell was agreed oft
for it, bia that it was to re:: on the honour of the
Marquis Cham'ortrias to fay what the recorweeic,e
iliould he, in proportion to the profits of the trade
in which it was to be employed. On his crofs-exa-
mination, however, he admitted that no half, Third,
fourth, or any other propottinn of profits WAS film-
lased; nor was any rifle. fpoken.of at the time of enr.
tering into tile tratifaetion.
Several witneffes were alt.° examined, who cows.
difted the Mat quis as to l.i, flatement of the expret.-
lions ufed by him in hi, coorerfatien with the Del‘n-
dant after his Ariel.
M. liertrard de 111olles1lle, formerly Minidcr of
Marine in rl ance, hill that he had frequently called
fur the Marquis Chamhopas, who reprefented hins!eif
to him as cartyiog on on immenfely eve:dive and
nrofitable bufmels. He has leen him furroundid with
heaps of guineas, great quantities of Bank Lutes,
watches, trinkets, miniatme piattres, and other at
ticks of various kinds. That-on enquiring how the
profits arole, the Marquis, pointing to the gaiiiea.
told him, there had all come there probably within
the last hour, and would tie all gene, and a feeond
cargo be in their place' efore ni:--ht. That he might
have given about 6d. each for them'- eha-
wcrild made of them fro:ei is. 61 to
at the rate of at leaf 5 per cent. fp

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