Star.
London, England, 1823-02-26 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Yesterday, Samuel Dutcher was indicted for embezA
zling a £2OO Bank of England note) and divers sums
of money, the property of Mr. Baton. The note was
traced to theprisoner, who was apprehended at Liver-
pool. The prisoner was a young man of respectibla
appearance, and several witnesses gave him a good
character. He was founcl=Guilty.

Ann Connor and Elizabeth Wilmot were indicted
for stealing a shawl, the property of Messrs. Graham
and Nixon. Connor declined her entire ignorance.
Wilmot stated that she was urged to it by distress.—
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty againstWilmot,
and acquitted Connor.
• Joseph Benjamin was charged with feloniously
taking from the person of Mr. Emanuel Dias Santos,
a Roman Catholic Clergyman, on the 80th January
last, in the passage of the Pit of Drury-Lane Theatre,
a watch and its appendages.—Guilty.
Richard Clarke was put to the Bar, charged with
stealing, on the 30th of August last, property to a
very large amount, the goods of Mr. Thomas Flint,
of Fish-street-hill, haberdasher. The prisoner was
found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported for
fourteen years.

A Court of Aldermen was yesterday held at Guild-
hall. The Bishop of BRISTOL and Dr. BLOM FIELD,
Archdeacon of Colchester and Rector of St. Botolph,
Bishopsgate, were requested to preach the Spital Ser-
mons on Easter Monday and Tuesday next, at Christ
Church, Newgate. street. The Rev. Dr. Por An was
elected to the Rectory of St. James. Dukes.place, in
the room of the Rev. THOMAS MOORS, decea..ed. The
Court were occupied a considerable time in hearing a
complaint against a broker, which was adjourned.

By a Return made to an Order of the House of Commons, it
appears that, on the sth January,lB23, the total quantity of corn
and grain, of various sons, remaining in warehouses under the
provisions of 55 Geo. 111. e. 98, was 803,934 quarters ; that there
was sold of British wheat, barley, and oats, in Mark 4ane, from
31st December, 1821, to 28th Dec. 1822, 1 ,::15,28l quarters.

Abstract of the Revenue and Expenditure of Ceylon, the Mau-
ritius, Malta and Goza, and the Cape of Good Hope,. viz._
Revenue. Eependuuse.
Ceylon 1817 578,818 450,816 at Is 9d. per Hz dollar.
.Alauritius 1817 164,441 951,186 at 4s. Bd. perSpanlsh dol.
Malta &Goza 1818 108,356 103,761 at 11 scuds per X sterl.
Cape of G. H. 1819 116,115 119,087 at 10721 riz dol. for 1001.

.1767,704 ./926,850
A new arrangement is to be made regarding juvenile convicts:
the Bellerophon convict ship, at Sheerness, is to be wholly ap-
propriated to the reception of these youthful delinquents, where
they will be taught useful trades, by men who are also convicts,
particularly the trades of a shoemaker and tailor, by whom the
clothes for the whole establishment of convicts throughout the
kingdom will be made.

Bow-eraziv—Butsrznto os Sot rtaaa--(lmportant Decision).
George Pearkes, the proprietor of a shop for the sale of Britkh
wines, in Cross-court, Russell-court, Drury-lane, was yesterday
summoned to this Office to answer the complaint Of Richards, a
constable of St. Martin's Parish, for refusing to receive into his
house, or provide accommodation for elsewhere, a private soldier
who had been regularly billetted upon him. Richards stated,
that the defendant kept a shop for the sale of British wines,
ginger and spruce beer, and other commodities of that descrip-
tion, and as the precept delivered to the constables of Weetmitt-
ster for the I•egulation of their conduct in the performance of
their various branches of duty, and the printed forms of billets
for soldiers, with which they were also furnished to fill up ae
occasion required, both mentioned " venders of British
as persons liable to have soldiers quartered upon them, he bad
"felt it his dety to send one to the defendant, who had refused to
receive him, on the plea that he was not liable. The defendant
kept his shop open moil two or three o'clock in the morning for
the sale of his wines, while the proprietor of a public house was
compelled, by the fear of heavy pensitka, to close his honks
soon after eleven, and as he came strictly within the letter of
the law, witness thought he shoold be guilty of a breach of duty
if he did not deal with-him as the precept directed.
The defendant, in answer to the complaint, contended that
he was not liable, inasmuch as the license under which he said
British wines contained no stipulation of that kind, whereas
that of the Licensed Victualler expend, set forth his liability to
. have soldiers quartered upon him. If the Magistrates considered
him liable, every oilman and grocer le London, for they all sold,
British wines, would ,be equally uo.
Richards handed in his precept mid the form of billet, In each
of which " Doke in Brldab and Foreign *lnes" were 'mai-
. dotted as being liable. '
Mt. Basta said there estdd be no doubt 'tkurthedefiodent,
as wen as even' other person who sold Bridals.erhste, :as liable
to have soldiers quartered upso him. HeyA-mit[Te tki,g4m
who had been Stitt to hint or pay the tribe
statute upon refusal.
• The defendant odd beim*, at courilietiddt a fob,
awl ea stared wide the soldier. • • .
LUC* OF SUGAR. i
' Tie Awing* Preen ad Warne .or , Wisegovedist4 stow
pined from the Returns made in the Weals Feb.
- iseg, 141 per cwt. exclusive ot Bniertitiew

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