Star.
London, England, 1802-03-26 00:00:00

SURRY ASSIZES.o—KINGSTON, MARCH si.

Tog Kiio e. BAit, jum.—This trial excited a
great deal of attention both from the prifoner's
refpcEtable fituation in life and affluent fortune,
and froth the circumflance of Mr.Es skins having
been brought down efpecially to defend him.
The indiament was for felonioufly flealing a
confiderable quantity of fugar, which had been
configned to Meas. Morewood and Co. Mars.
Slider and Co. and other merchants.

Mr. GARLOSV, in Rating the cafe for the profe-
cution obferved,' that it was a cafe that called for
the utmoff attention, from its great importance to
the commercial intereffs of the city of London :
the prifoner was a man in affluent circumllances,
and aging proprietor of Simmons's Wharf,) which
is a very contiderable wharf oppofite the Cullom-
haute) ; that the fhip Neptune, from New York
to Lor.don, having been Branded early in inot,
at the entrance of the River, forty tons of Hi-
vannah fugari, being part of its cargo, and con-
figned to the different merchants before mentioned,
were fent to the prifoner's wharf; that it became
a neee;iry part of the prifoner's duty to repack
thofe tugars (as fume of it had been injured by the '
falt water?, and muff be feparated from iehat was
not injured) ' • that fo far from fairly feparating
the damaged from the found fugar, feveral pun-
cheons were made up of the very bell of the fugar,
and ter apart under the name of fweepings, fcrap-
itigs, and fludge, as perquifites for the prifooet's
ckrks and (enfants. That a turn of 921. could be
proved to have been paid for this fugar by thofe to
whom the prifoner's clerks bad fold it, but that
the whole lots on the weight of the fugar was to
the value of feveral hundred pounds; that there
had been a fliameful plunder of this fugar com-
mitted at the prifoner's wharf, was beyond all
quellion. Perry, the prifoner's foreman, had been
tried for the felony, found guilty, and tranfported.
Tate only quellion now was, whether the prifoner
himfelf was not participating, aiding, and abet-
ting ? If the Jury conceived- he was, whatever
evidence might be given of his good charafler -in
general could not weigh again ff pronf ; and the
Jury were not to fuppofe that, when a man his
affluent circurullances was charged with [leafing
fugar, it was to reit merely on his (leafing with
his own hands. If his fervants had (tole by his di-
reaion be was liable.
cohn Crey, a partner in the houfe of Hopkins
' and Grey, fhiP•brokers, proved, that the Neptune,.
from New Yot k to London, was Branded ; that
the e'argo had been configned to Morewsod and
Co. Slider and Co. and tome Other merchants—
that the fpgarsarhich formed part of the cargo had
been fent to Simmons's Wharf, of which the pri-
foner was a joint propietori
William Sharplow, a land-waiter at the Ctillom
Houle, had weighed 36ci chells of 'Cigar at their
arrival at the wharf, which weighed 866 cwt. iolb.
—When he weighed2them after they had been
reptielet4,*efe-araii ii'skftelency of near eight tons.
Cht.his cr4examjnitipp' Ile fetid,. the fugar was
etrtainly. Witch chuAised Itt' the Alt , titter, and.
there tinntl*AaVe been a 460 is Waite.
.-Geori,e'lltirevicitiel and Mr,SGder.proved the
conlignmenr of the foga" r to them. •
Peter Egan was . employed, on the prifoner'es
wharf, in putting this fugar into puncheons; both.
for the merchants, who were the proprietors of it,
and for the'clerks, who claimed tome as perqui-
fites. Thole puncheons which, were made up for
the merchants were placed in a waFehoufe under
the King', kat.' ; thole that were made up for the
Cki Ica in a tvarehonfe op Fite.
Perry, the foreman, fuperinttnded the tranTac.
tion ; the of the fugar swat' always taken for
the puitchealt, tnade up for the clerks; and, fume,
times, when a theft ran uncommonly good, they
would. ake the whole theft. This vintners Paid,
that the prifoner has looked
,into the vrarehoufe
where the fugar for the clerks flood, and has met
a calk going away from his Families for their ac.
count, without obfereation.
William ,Gexhan helped to Wail' the Paid pun:
cheons; nisei give a diiii4r Accouat of it, with what
the len viitnefs:had
joteph Hat; clerk to the prifinnw, Rated, that
Ire was =4;441 the tift year for sot. and.perqui-
lites; Oar faw the prifoner frequently in the
,yard, while the Agars were-emptying from the,
,xhelts theindie the prifunet . bid 41,32 4r tate ciire'
shin the coopers did not chgA, bist r. that the
cobjsers, :and -men* about, the; place, bad '041144
a quantity "offugar, Aside* the namterciiiiingli
hat peifonetwas tald; lir.Peety, his foreman, of
edits' ointhlifopr havirl ban foltfoi4o4Ai
•

that two puncheons more were afier that
titne ; that hispervaitn on this oct.:Vien ‘A.;:rc :51.
C./ft eziniard.—Coritifed that he had ben timr
years with the prifoner before, and that list per-
Tines from scrapings of sugar dkl not amount
in that to more than 31. its.
Thomas Schrr Rated, that on being offered ;51.
for his share, he told the prifoner that he had been
offered Tome Money by Hlt, and ;liked him, was
be paifiehle in taking it the prifuner btd him
take it:* It appeared, boarrirer, that Sow, hav-
ing mentioned tin. circumaance to two icfneda-
ble merchants in London, they Called on the pi-
toner refpeEling it, and he told one of them, that
if he had the lea( idea that the amount wa.q any
thing near fo confider-able, lie never flioulcf have
eonfented to it.

The prifoner being then called, upon for his de-
fence, predueed a paper, which his Counfel was
permitted to read. It Rated that lime walk in
the article of fugars landed, efpecialiy under fueh
eireumfbinces, was unavoidable ; but if the waite
at all exceeded what was ufually allowed for Waite,
the wharfinger was refponfible. The enaorn of
giving. the fweepings and fcrapings of flip'. as a
perquifite to the clerks *as by no means peculiar
to his wharf. After the experience he now had,
he regretted it, as an inducement to plunder. The
perquifites his men had had, were trillingtill this
tranfaaion t but there was not the flighteinhadow
of evidence of his being interefted in the plunder
that was committed by his clerks, of whom he
before entertained a good opinion. So far from
being interefted in the plunder, he, as Wharfin-
ger, was refponfible for the lots, and had alfo a
valuable intereft in the chara&er of his wharf.—
Another circumftance muff ftrongly fhew his in-
nocence : within a moth or two he difcharged
from his employment all thofe clerks and ser-
vants who were now the witnefies againft him,
and in whofe power he muff have conceived him-
fell, if guilty t but his fituation in life, and he
trufted his character would be found above the
fufpicion of afociating without motive with com-
mon plunderers and thieves:
In fupport of his character, a number of the
moil refpeetable witneffes appeatee ionic who had
known him from his infancy, others who had
large mercantile dealings with him : they all
agreed in declaring him a ie ift honourable man,
perfeBly correit in all his dealings, and of the
higheft reputation: as tome more witnelres were
going to be produced to that ate.% the Jury de-
clared they were perfeftly fatisficd, and acquitted
the in ironer.

A few days fence as fome labourers were digging
a trench at Ware Park, Hertfordatire, the teat of
THOMAS HOPE BEDE, Efq. they found four Bone
coffins with a lkeleton in each; one of which was a
female, whofe teeth and hair were in a perfeet
:late of prefervatio.n. There was a gold medal
round her neck, with the name CONSTANTIA writ-
ten upon it, which is now in the poticffion of Mr.
BYDE.

On Monday evening, as Mr. S. Cites, a trader
man in Oxford road, was returning to town from
Dartford,andwalking hishorfe gently upSheotees•
hill, two men jumped out of an avenue leading to
the wood, and feized his horfe's reins, dcinandiug
his money, while one of them prffented his pi:tor,
fwearing if he herttated a moment he would bloiv
his brains out. Mr. Giles inflantly gave them his
pocket-book, containing three tI. Bank of England
notes, betides 9s. in Liver, with which they MANIC
off, taking the road towards Plumflead.

On 'ruefday morning a labodring man, em-
ployed, in the repairs of a houfe at London war,
fell front the top of a two floret ladder, with a hod
of mortar, into the (Civet. lie was taken up fade•
lefs and conveyed to the hofpital ; but what is very
extraordinary, no bones were broken, fo that there
arc, hopes of his recovery.
A feu days ago a young man working at the
iron foundry at Rottmhithc, fell into the flatting
mill, when in an intlant he was cut into feven
pieces. His head and bones at length flopped the
mill, which was thought a very extraordinary
thing, which fet the seen toifeck into the caufe of
it, when they, found this (hocking fpcetacle, whoie
remains were gathered together and film interred.

Yeflerday as a genteel drafed man was tiding
up Fieet-flreet, his horfe flipped doWn andthre,,,
him under the wheels of a cart, by which accident
he had his legs broken, and was otherwiif to
much bruifed, that he was conveyed to Sc. :lar-
tholomew's Hotpital with little hopes arceovery.
Yeflorday two 'mermen's boys, of Shadwell
Dock, fearching for a broken palm of anfinkhor
Of Bell What f, found a long willing Ulf en-
iangked fornethinti when bawling up the fame
to the furfaoe of dieviiater, it drew up the body
of either a Captain or Mate of fame North
Country fltip, the tiring of the Bar laftening to
one of his clothes battens. A watch was fctind
on the drowned perfon, with the name•of Shields
engraved thereon, betides a knife and lccv.—Tile
boys immediately give notice to the Beadle of the
parith, who took the body under Ms care for the
Coroner's jury to take a view of it.
EM GI ISH lATTERV.—•TWenty-feconct )ay.—
No. r 9,4. F. 8,, apri ze t 000l.—Nos. top,. 2 813, a
prizee-ef sod. Nos. t 1,46 t, 15,468, 0140, 4613,
t,7tr, prizn

The Ticket No. 19,488, in the prefent,Lottery,
drawn ycllerday a Prize of wool. and No. 50,58 t,
a Prire of ioool. were fold and regiltered at the
Old Office of Swirl. and Co. No. 11., Poultry,
where Tickets and Shares continue on Pale, war-
ranted Undrawn.

Two-thirds of thofe who pnrchafed Tickets or
Shares before the Drawing commenced have loft
all chance of the Capital Prizes, owing to their
flaying in fo contrary to all calculation ; but thole
who purchafe Tickets or Shares now have an
immediate profp,d of fiiccefs, as it is itbpolEble for
'the Capital Prizes to remain much longer, there
being. &bite of ao,oool. two of to,oooi. two of
z,oool. fix of t,oool. &c. and the Lottery two
Ishirdi over i—the 'Choc, of a Capitkl. Prize now
Ong to one better than before he Lottery cont-
inued, and Tickets are under Twenty Guineas! !