Star.
London, England, 1802-09-20 00:00:00

OLD BALLET.

On Satorday fizteen prifoners were tried, four
of whom were capitally conviEted, via :
Milian Totter, for being found at lam?, he
having been found guilty of felony in Auguft
floc), at the affixes for the county of Cambridge,
and fentenced to (even years tranfpnrtation. The
record of the prifoner's convidion_was put in and
read.--John Ray, Police Officer, apprehended
the prifoner for no other offence but being at
large. Mr. Parker, a Furnithing Ironmonger in
St. George's in the Lill, gave the prifoner a mot
excellent chandler. He had entrufted him at va-
rious times to collet money, and in general
placed the moil implicit confidence in his integrity.
—The Jury found him guilty, but recommended
him to mercy, on account of his gaud behaviour

ince he has been at large.
Demi: Burl, for atlanhing Edward Wan on
the zd of Auguß laft, and robbing him of four
half guineas and two (even (billing pieces.
The profecntor lodged in a houfe in Welimin-
fler, and on the zd of Augutt he went out between
five and fix o'clock in the morning ti his work—
lie returned foon after, being very unwell, atten-
ded by the prifoner. He went up flair: in order
to lie down, on his bed, and the prifoner accom-
panied him. When in the profecutor's room, the
prifoner atked him to lend him a (even
piece, which the profecutor refufed to do. The
prifoner then Paid he would either have the money
or his life, and immediately knocked the profe-
cutor down, rifled his pockets, and made his
efcape with the fun charged in the indiament.—
The prifoner was fecured the fame day. and the
eonftable who took him produced in Quirt a
part of the money found upon him; and alto a
bag, in which it had been wrapped up. The pro.
fecutor (wore pofitively to the hag, and the Jury,
withnut hefitation, found the prifoner Guilty--
Death.
Ye/maw Brady, for privately (haling from the
perfon of Wm. Fletcher nine :I. Bank of Eng,
land Notes, hi% property. It appeared that the
profecutor lived in Chancery-lane, and having
come borne one evening after the family were gone
bed, white be was Rending at the door, he was'
accofted by the prifoner who Aced him to go with
her,,_and the would provide him with a lodging a'
alluring him at the Came time that the was cham-
bermaid at the French Horn Tavern in Holborn.
The profecutor liftened to her, and went to the
above*Hotel, where he Dept with her all night.
When he awoke in the morning, he found his
amicable bedfellow had decamped with his pro.
Len". He inunediarely made enquiry of the
dlady, a purfuit was entered on, and the psi-
Caner taken, with part of the property in her pof
*Mon.—Guilty—Death.
iFalter &sad, for a highway robbery, committed
on the oh of Auguft lath.
The profeeutor, the Rev. John Wight Wickes,
Domeftic Chaplain to His Royal Highnefs the
Barite of Clarence, related, upon oath, the follow
lag circumftinees of the prifnner's crime :—On
the 9th of Auguft late, Mt. Wickes • dined at the
bode of a friend, in Somerfet.ftrect, Portman.
Amin. He walked in the evening, towards No.
so, Atkins's row, Bayfwatcr, where he has his
ordinary refidence; in company with Mifs Rofa
Lennard, a young lady, who was of the party in
which he dined. At a place. where the road makes
air angular turn, near the font of Craven-hill, two
men feddenly ruched out upon him; and while one
of them puthed him with violence from the footpath
upon the road, 'the Other fnatched at his watch.
A link in the watch chain broke ; and the robber,
a tall man, efeaped over the hedge with the watch•
key, a part of the chain, and two teals, which
were appended to it. The other, who was thou in
*attire, pulled out a pillol, and prefented it. His
tonspanion, in his efcape, called; " D—n him,
!hoot bimr' He who held the piftol, cried out,
I'll do - for him !" —Mr. Wickes exclaimed,
Thieves, the thief !"—That inftant, two Gen-
tlemen, whom Mr. Wickes and Mifs Leonard had
but three or four minutes before met, returning,
feized the perfon who had prefented the piliol, the
&oiler of the two robbers. !sir. Wickes related
to them rho(' particulars of the attack and mbbe-
ey, which the Gentlemen bad not themfelves feen.
The piftol was not then in die prifoner's hands;
nor could it be found by any fearch which it was
at that time convenient to make. While Mr.Wickes
conduaed Mifs Lennard, who was greatly ter-
rified, to her place of refidence, the two gentlemen
above-mentioned, with Tome other perfons who
had come up, carried the man whom they had
seised, and who was the prifoner at the bar, to the
Black Lion Public-bode near. There Mt. Wickes
foon after joined them. Though the pißol had not
been found, and though no other perfon but Mr.
Wickes had feen it in the prifoner's !lands, he, how-
ever, remained confident that he had not, in this
cafe, miftaken any other appearance for that of a
piRoL He defcribed it as being an old-falltioned
pillol, with a dark brown Rock, and a barrel much
refembling the nozzle of a common pair of bel-
lows. The prifoner was (earthed in Mr. Wickes's
?Terence, and a knife, a ball, and a letter, were
found in his pockets. Hp was then committed to
the charge of one of the Bow-greet officers.
Mifs Rofa Leonard identified the prifoner, and
confirmed the above evidence.
Mr. Joreph Latham, walking in company with
his friend, Mr. Sherwin, en the evening of the
9th of Antal laft, from Mr. Latham's tefidence
near Bayfivater, towards London, met, at a turn
of the road near Craven-hill, with two men, who
ran up firaight againft them, as if with a purple
to attack them. Mr. Latham, tieing their ap-
proach, could not but fnfpeEt that they meditated
robbery, and therefore railed a ftaff which he had
in his hand, and which he now exhibited at the
bar, in an attitude of defence. The two men, the
objets of this fufpicion, were the prifoners at the
bar, and another man considerably taller. They
palled Mr. Latham and his friend without accuti-
mg, dr offering to injure them. They had not
paled twenty paces farther, when they beard the

cape bitond the hedge, heard the prifoner cry out'
16 Here he goes!" " and. you ftiall go ton!" cried'
Mr. Lath2m,.feizing him. Mr. Latham, being
confiderably ftronger, grafped him hard,and lhook
him two or three times with fume violence. The
robber intreated to be Tpared ; and raid, that he
would go, without a ftruggle, wherever Mr. La-
tham pleated. Mr. L. and his friend, at Mr.
Wickes 's defire, concluded the prifoner to the
Black Lion. Search had been made for the piftol,

which, on account of the darknefs of the evening,
was not to be found. In regard to what palled
frern the arrival At the Black Lion, till the deli-

verance of the prifoner into the hands of the Bow.
ftreet nfieer, the evidence of Mr. Latham coin.

Bided entirely with that of Mr. Wickes.
Mr. Sherwin gave evidence of the fame Irani.
culars which were related by Mr. Latham.
James Mitchell lives on Craven-hill : hearing the
cry of a perfon attacked by robbers, he battened
to the (pot, and found the prifoner in the cuflody
of the two laft witneffes. He and John Goddard
fought for the piftol feveral minutes, but without
(=eels. It was then dark. He accompanied•the
prifoner, with the two hat witneffes, to the Black
Lion public houfe. He there heard Mr. Wickes
particularly defcribe the piftol which had been
prefented to his breaft. He promifed to rife next
morning with the light, and renew the (earth.—
With John Goddard he found the pato' in the
ditch by the road fide, at a few yards from the (pot
where it had been prefented againft Mr. Wickes.
John Goddard confirmed this evidence.
Cridland, a Police-officer, fearched the pri-
foner's pockets; and now produced the ball, knife,
&c. which he had found an them. In the prefence
of the Coust, be applied the ball to the pillol, after
unfcrewing the barrel, and it was found to fit:
The prifoner could offer nothing in hie defence.
The Jury, without hefitation, found him Guilty.
• The Rev. Mr. Wickes took occation to obferve
to the Judge, that his life had been for a moment
in the prifoner's hands, and had been Ipared by
him; and that he, therefore, anzioufly witted that
whatever mercy the nature of the cafe would al-
low, might be extended to the prifoner.
He is a (mall (warthy man, 28 years of age.
Nine were convited of felony, viz. 7. Cafp•
for healing's ehaife harnefs, the property of M.
Lundy ; Margaret Dough:, for healing fix pair of
men's filk gloves, the property of T. Davis; 7.
Emil, for haling a linen gown, the property of
R. liarrifon ; 7. Burrows, for healing a waift-
coat; the property of T. Standard, was fined is.
and difcharged ; E. Steven:, for healing +lbs. of
cotton, the property of T. Bolt.
Edward Foley, for robbing John Sole of his
watch on the highway. The profecutor, on the
t of Anglia, had been working for his matter in
Wapping, and coming from his employment met
two young men whom he knew, and they ad-
journed to a public-houfe, where they drank till
three in the morning. He left them in the houfe,
and in coming through Bluecoat-fields, he received
a blow on the neck from the prifoner ; a fcuffie
enfued, and he took him to the watch-houfe : no-
thing was found on she prifoner, who was then fet
at liberty. The profecutor miffed his watch, and
on the following Monday he gave the number and
defcription of it to feveral pawnbrokers in the
neighbourhood. The prifoner offered the watch
for pawn, and afited a guinea and a half upon it,'
upon which he was fecurel There was a contra-
draion in the tehimony of the profecutor to that
which be gave before the Magiftrates. On the
ririt occation, he Paid that he had received a blow
from the prifoner, and that be was huftled by two
others at the fame time. In Court he raid he had
been frock by the prifoner alone, and that there
I were no other perfons prefent. This difcrepancy
had weight with the Jury, who found the prifoner
guilty of healing only, which did away the capi-
tal part of the charge.
Yob: Rolf" for haling a box out of the Wandf-
worth Errand cart, on the 4th of Anal, while
the cart was flopping at a public honk called the
Flower Pot, in Threadneedle.ftreet. The box
contained feveral articles of wearing apparel. The
owner of the cart raid, he took op the box at an
eating houfe in Neweaftle-hreet, Strand, and when
he got to Threadneedle-ftreet, he left the cart
for a thort time ir, the care of a boy. This boy
Caw the prifoner take away the box • he followed
and held him by the coat, upon which the prifo-
ner threw away the box, and knocked the boy
down into the kennel, and ran away, but was
hopped by two Gentlemen at the end of Brozd-
Ilreet, and taken. The boy never loft fight of
him.—Guilty.
jobs Allot, and John Crew/an, the former for
healing a quantity of !hoes, and the latter for re-
ceiving them, knowing them to be !Wien. They
were tried on three feparate iudidlments. Alfop
had been an apprentice to Mr. White, who keeps
a lhoe-warehoufe in Bilhopfgate-ftreet : and Who
having miffed (hoes feveral times„furpeaed the
prifoner of robbing him, and at lall detected him
in the fad. The prifoner confeired his crime, and
Paid he ufed to fell the !hoes at an inferior price to
the prifoner Crowfon, who lived in Gub-ftreet.—
In confequence of that confeffion Crowfon was
taken np. Alfop was acquitted on the two firit
indiaments, which charged him with healing
quantities of 'hoes at two different times previous
to the time he was deteded ; and con(equently
Crowfon could not be convicted as a receiver of
them. The third indictment was for healing,
when he was caught with the (hoes in his poffeffion.
Upon this he was found Guilty : and as Crowfon
had not received thofe (hoes, although they might
have been intended for him, he was acquitted
upon the third, as well as the two former indift-
ments.
Peter Povey for healing, on the t ft of July laft,
two notes of the Bank of England, one for al. and
another for il. and one Chilling and fixpence in
money, the property of J. Coleman.
Mr. KNAPP opened. the pleadings, and Mr.
KNOW.LYS opcn:d the cafe on the part of the pro-
fecution. He laid, the prifoner wart indicted for a
grand larceny only, and could not, therefore, reach
his life, but it wail one.of the mod agrees?!

the prifoner baa carried on, of phihder of the wives
and other relatives of thofe whnm we ought, for
our own fakes, to prate& and cherish, thofe to
whom we were indebted for the prekrvation of
what we polrefs, thole who had (scared us from
danger, who fubdued our foes, and fprod our na-
tion's glory over the face of the globe. He meant
our brave feamen. By Ae of Parliament, provi-
fion made, by with thofe brave fellows could
leave behind them powers to relatives to receive a
, given portion of their pay—and which they did
receive upon the produaion. at the proper office,
in Somerfet Houfe, of the proper document for
that purpofe. The prilimer engaged himfelf in a
fcheme, the purpofe of which v►as to render intl.
feeual thole good provilions of the LegillAture.-
-His courfe was this, to make himfelf acquainted

with the perfons, chiefly women, who received mo-
ney in this manner, and then to get it from them by
praailing tricks upon them. Among the reit, the
wife of a man of the name of Coleman, who was a
tailor on board his Majefty's fhip the Excellent.—
She had her power to receive part of the money
due to her hufband, at the office, at Somerfet-
Houfe. She went there, and received of the pro-
per officer, Mr. Davis, the fum of 31. Is. 6d. with
which the went away. When the had got to Ex-
eter 'Change, the prifoner came up to her, and
laid to her, yout name is Coleman—You have
been receiving 31. Is. 6d. at the office. Yes, that
is very true, Sir, laid the. Yes, laid he, but you
have 41. more due to you for prize money. I know
you can neither write nor read, but you make
your mark, and, therefore, you muff go to the
City, or you will lofe that fum. The agent's office
is in Chancery Lane, and I will go and thew it
you. They went together, and when they had
come to the New Church, in the Strand, he laid
he had no change, but he thould be glad of a
glafs of fomething to drink. They went into a
houfe together, and this poor woman treated him
with a glafs of: rum : , Here he gave her a great
deal of excellent advice, (eying, now, when you
do get all your money, don't ipend it in gin, but
cloath yourfelf and your children tidily, Sm.—
which the promifed to do, and thanked him for his
friendthip. They then proceeded to the Baptift
Head Coffee Houfe, when he Lid to her, the agent
who paid you the money to day, is a very pod
and excellent/man, but he is very apt to pay away
bad notes : let me look at your notes, for I know
he is in the habit of paying away bad notes. That
was very odd, the Paid :I do not think fo. The
prifoner Paid to her, ie the public houfe oppofite to
you (pointing to the Bunch of Grapes over the
way) is the place where you are to receive--your
prize money ; look at it, and mark i:, that you
may know it again ;" upon which the filly wo-
man turned round to-look at the houfe, but when
the looked betide her for her friend and kind af-
fiftant, he had difappeared, upon which the made
ufe of an oath and laid " the was done." Shortly
afterwards the prifoner was recognized by another
woman of the name of Manning, of whom he had
Bolen money in much the fame manner as this.—
She collared him, and would not let him go until
the had affiftance, by which means he was fecured
and taken to Guildhall, and after the profecutrix
and others who had been the obje&s of his depre-
dations, had feen and (worn to him, he was com•
mitted to Newgate. He thould prove this cafe,
and abominable it was, although it did not reach
the prifoner's life, and then the Jury would find
him Guilty.
This cafe was clearly proved, exaaly as opened,
by the evidence of Eleanor Coleman, wh"m the
prifoner robbed, and by Mrs. Manning, who ft(ipt
him on a fimilar charge, and confirmed by the
teftimony of John Davis, Efq. Cathier of the Pay-
Office, in Somerfet Houfe, who laid, he recollefted
paying Eleanor Coleman the fum of 31. Is. 61 as
the had stated. With regard to the prifoner, he
(aid, he' did not know that he had ever feen him
before, although from what he had frequently
heaid, he had often withed for a fight of him.
The prifoner admitted that he had nothing to
fay in his defence, and the Jury found him Guilty.
Mr. KNOWLYS Paid, there were four other india-
ments, for fimilar offences, againft the prifoner,
and he fubmitted to the Court whether he should
be tried for any more of them?
The Learned judge Paid that was unneciffary,
and added, that he amid take care to recommend
that the prifoner thould be tranfported.
The profecutrix applied for the allowance of
her expellees, which the Court was about to order,
when the Solicitor of the Admiralty, who had hi-
therto fupported the profecution, Paid he thould
take care to defray the expenses.
Mr. Baron Hornaie laid, that the manner in
which this profecution had been taken ukand fup-
ported, reted great honour on the Admiralty.
And three were acquitted, viz. J. Crying and
7.4ayellisas,who was indiaed for felonioufly afrault-
mg, on the King's highway, on the fecond of Sep-
tember, Lomita Scott, putting her in fear, and tak-
ing from her perfon, and againft her will, a leather
purfe, containing three guineas and a half, a feven
chilling piece, and Tome flyer, her property.
The principal Witnefs (toted, that on the above-
mentioned day, while driving a cart on one of the
Commons in the vicinity of the Uxbridge road, he
raw a man, who afterwards proved to be the Pri-
loner, ride up and flop a polt-chaife, which was
proceeding along the road : immediately after he
law a Lady's hand out of the chaife, as if delivering
fomething to the Prifoner. The chaife was immedi-
ately turned round, and drove towards the fpot
where his cart then was, and the Prifoner rode of
acrofs the Common, towards the Bath road. The
Ladycommunicatedfome informat. on tohim which
he was prevented from relating, as it would be in-
admiffible evidence, but, in confequence of which,
he-purfued the Prifoner, and thortly came up with
him. On feeing theWitnefs approach,he drew out a
piftol, which the Witnefsobferving, inftantaneoul-
ly rallied upon him, put the pilot afide, and
pulled him off his houfe. A perfon who had jult
come up to the (pot, where they were engaged,
helped him to fecure the Prifoner. On fearching
him, they found an oil-thin made, a marked guinea,
a halkinnea, a (even Ming piece, and four ail-

curing the Panne', confirmed that part of the 1,1;
Witnefs's account, and added, that after fcmli•
ing and difarming him, they pinioned and cir-
tied him in a chaife. to Bedfont, where he w,,i
duly charged before Mr. Henderfon, a Magiarate
in that vicinity. _

Mt s. Scott was then called, but did not appear,
nor did a perfon of the, name of Bartholomew,
who was fuppoced to know fomething of the main
faet, that of the robbery. _

Mr. Jurlice Le BLANC, who tried the cafe, then
inquired refpeeing the recognizances and 44
dons; but being informed that none were retuntei,
Lit it incumbent on him to obferve. that there wa,
a great millake, or great rnifcondua, in ro,n,
quarter, with refpe& to thus affair ; it was the (1.;::1,
of Magifirates to bind over perfons to attend dr:(1
to return the informations.

Mr. Henbury Rated, that the Lady in gnellifiti
was the wife of David Scott, Efq. of Harley-'inch.
His Lordihip obferved, that he was iirmining try
impute blame until he knew where it could fairly
be imputed. He then informed the Jury, that ran.
withflanding what they had hear 4 againft the
foster, they mutt neceicarily acquit him, as theft
was no evielence before them of any robbery being
committed ; and he had to lament, that perks,
whatever may be their rank in life, Ihould net
come forward and at in the adminittration cf
juaice.
Accordingly a verdia of Not Guilty was forth.
with pronounced.
Thomas Batt was alfo charged with the dam
of highway robbery, in forcibly taking from the
perfon, &c. ci Richard Handicock, a gold watch
and real, value 21 guineas, his property.
This appeared from the flatement of the Prole-
tion to be a mere pickpocket manceavre ; which
was played off in a crowd which had aildnbled
near Sir Francis Burdett's bottle, dining the late
Middlefee EleElion, on the evening of the 26tlt f‘f
July. The Profecutor undoubtedly 101 l his watzh,
but fo flight was the evidence afaintt the Prifener,
even on the ground or his ftealtng the watch, that
the jury, under the obfervations of the Learned
Judge who tried the caul; found a general vettliZt
of Not Cieriky.

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Lancaller Gazetteer, a bottle of your truly inra.
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could in his life.—lf this cafe will render pat any
fervice, you are at liberty to publish it ; aal I caa
refer any applicants to the perfon :c•
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" Lancafter, September 4, ILL"