Star.
London, England, 1802-08-20 00:00:00

311'/AD, LRS.

T:e• ilreies we hear tool- day of fwindlers and
impeei s apl.etr li. marvcllons that they can
feel c: e:edit, however well anthentica;ed ;
but le, u. iii, giving ..iidenee in a Cent of Jul
Lice, eeor. (evils, mere won.let fat *Tiles a
f.reee:s!el ft and s. err L:id .•pen than any the put-
lie 7as vet•liieted of. lit ?he Lift Q:lerter Sell; ins
forth • Cetinty Simnel Celins, oilier-
ien'e Virein, at.d H. D. Face wine inereted, tnge-
ther nith a man of the name of Stocker, fur a
coefpire.:y to defraud, by attful Rratagems and
p;ienices, J -hn Ibbotion and several other
par T., of tee:: rtlnnies. goods, and chattels. The
;nuke:l;or sea, ?sir. lbhotfon, te:eits the hotel
is Vere-nreet, Oxleird-flreet. Ile dated, that in
Septcni:.er salt Colitis Cattle to hi, bmie in an ele-
gant chariot vith tees ladies, whom he call.:J his
ile ails! hie niece. 11c iiimftlf, he laid, was a men
o saes e fortune. was going to let up a bank, and
eve:4rd to he mon eteineil a Baronet. He pre-
tended that he was very intimate with Lord
Ken)on, and that to rivet his Lordfhip's affeflions
h: was gni,' g. to ',With a' ook agaiutt paper mo-
ney. rie left the hotel in a week or two, but con-
tinued occalionelly to frequent the houfe. Being
one day dining there with a friend, who turns nnt
to be the defendant Free, he declared himeelf to
be enraptured with the wine, and ezpreffed a de-
fire of buying twelve dozen of it. He offered in
payment a bill of exchange to 651. los. drawn in
favour of Samuel Colin:, Dip at fix weeks af.
ter date, by one Stocker, at Chafer, on B. D.
Free. Efq. No. 9, Harley-street, by whom it was
accepted, and made 'upside at Main. Williams,
Son, Drury, and Company, Bankers. Mr. Ibbot-
fon agreed to let hint have the wine, and next day
Mave him a check for thirty.feven pounds twelve
illings, the balance of the bill. However. the
porter in carrying hone fome of the wine to Mote
timer-Rreet. a here he lived, diicove: ed that he had
cheated the u-'enle of that neighbourhood; and
Ibbotfon enquiria).• at the banker's it' the bill would
be paid, was told that they knew no fuch perfons
as thole whore namee were Rated to be upon it.—
Colins was then apprehended upon a warrant, but
bailed by Mr. John King of Portland Place. One
of the partners in the Houk of Melfrs. Williams
and Co. produced Free's cant book, tiom which
it appeared that in Oaol.er he had only gs. 6d. in
their hands, to anfwer bills he had made payable
by them for t 1661. When he firti opened an ac-
count wits them, he came to their houfe in a very
elegant charier, with fervent% in handforne liveries,
and pretended he was recommended to keep cafh
there by his intimate friend Sir Gregory Page
Turner. was alto moved that Colin; had put
off a bill of five hundred pounds to a filverfmith,
in Bnnd-flt eel ; another of 3651. to a tavern keeper
in Covent Garden ; another of rO. to a coach.
maker, in Long-Acre ; another of 531. to an up-
holilerer, in Oxford-floreet ; anot!ier of 351. to a
holier, in the Arne dreet : and for others of tool.
eel. los. 1501. and KEIL to other tradelincn. For
there, by talk prete.nces, lie obtained goods or
money, or both. In the courfe of the trial it ap.
peared that his reel name was Virgin ; that he Was
the fon of a weaver at Taunton ; that he went
when verb young to Eve as a fcctruan at Bath ;
that he was afterwerds a clerk in one of the lhnli
Banks ; that being difeharged for improve con-
duel, he palled over to France; and that mine his
return he official.. .I :Is an ufher in feveral Acade-
mie,. in the iieit-,litnitiihmd of London. He Af•
ternetrds becam mailer o f a large laud at !Lim-
teerfinili, the e will of which he fold fee a
lerre turn of money. He next opened a day
feel •.ol in PoalaneLitteet, tinder the name of 11:e
!Zee. :i.unitel Virgin, a eke ~.yman of the Church
of England. This likewife tiourithing, he C-1:1 ;t.
VI; tf n veer.' and 0f.1.-iated as a curse at -i.en-
tineh•oiliiiry,...-ies!c, where be once mole edit:ding-
ed iChool. He focn •Een a number of youm,
Ce.tiemen at limy giih.-sas a year each, but he
was ,aged to leace tine ;:lace on ace:rand of his
dente He w: it appealed he the evidseee. a clerk
in tie: Cone:- When it tailed its was em-
p' •d hy !Frs. King and Co. to go to Choler
• 1.iv...-teioe, to try to ettablith a firm in each of
oen Wl' to COTI'4O' with the l'oetland-
pi lee Per% r.VC4 e ill I ':raved; his tritil.—
Prfelou; to hie %eine; to proctired the
} • • e'. e .n c!..tnlrc fi ern Virgin to
twice tee_ prolenee a: hewing b.a!
10 •lIIC ft him be a did:ter:elation of that name.
Ile rot the neeee.:try doenneene 4:ay....id at the
nerald's and ;angle.; hi, ctedi:o:s into e
bell:t of his good fortune. I ree was pored to
have been cdi.ietted at Oxford, and keen: lie wes
decoyed nra this scheme, to have been an atrelant
in tip-':r ;e tehools in n'` and.
• r. ti • matt in laid...eine the bill's., was
1..4' ',WM! ' Mactiii.er at ;%it. tiffright.'s Lock-
• el.• AC:

j.I. and ;old F►et, both Guilty;
th i, 11,•• (.relit harutdiately CcoLurt%i eq-