Star.
London, England, 1801-07-04 00:00:00

SHEERNESS, JULY s;

Sailed the PROVIDENCE cutter Lieut. COHAN,
for Yarmouth.—A Court-Martial was held this
morning on board his Majelly's lhip Isis, lying
in this harbour, Rear-Admiral Rower Prefil
dent, on WILLIAM SMITH, Boatfwain of his Ma•
jetty's (loop Ataow, for negle& of duty, contempt
and infulence to his Superior Officer : after a trial
that kited fome time, the charges again& him
having been clearly proved, the Court fentenced
him to be broke, but to ferve in any (hip before
the mart Admiral GRAMME mall think proper.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
D.s.aLo JILT v—AsTived the fleet from the
Well-Indies'under convoy,fame of which are failed
for the Riven-I-Wind W. N. W. _

G ii!, JULY s:.--raffed by the Bailey,
Ws Lsoir; front Ls:lbon; Algae., Goytisolo, from
Stockhciat ; Ceres, Read, hula Cork; and
fes, Fooeivsom, from Charleflom—Sailed the Sir
Andrew Hammond, Toon rsoo; for Jamaica;
Anna Juliana, GROSS, for Dantzick ; Louifa,
OIL Ku!, for Rotterdam ; and Major Somme,
for Bremen.

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GIBRALTAR, MAY sc.
On Monday lafffixty-eight prifoners of war, be-
longing to various'Englifh privateers which had
been captured and carried into Spanifh ports, ar-
rived in the rarrifon. They bring us the follow-
ing information, the truth of which has fince been
(volumed: On the 7th inßant his Majefly's brig
of war 'SPEEDY, commanded by Lord Coc MILAN`,
fell in with lbws Spain& veffils, under convoy of
his Catholic Majefty's xebec, El Carno. of a5B
men, and 36 guns. The SPUMY captured nine
(hips of the convoy; and, after having feat men
on board each of the prizes, there remained only
twenty-five men out of feventy, her original comple-
ment : the carries fourteen 4-pounders. In this
fituation the was chaced by the xebec which gained
upon her rapidly, until at lafi the SPEEDY found it
impoffible to efcape ; but her brave Commander
was refolved the (hould not be a cheap conqueft.
Accordingly a warm aAion commenced, which,
however, did not tall long, as the xebec, after
having loft fome of her hands, furrendered to the
Stunt.; and was taken by her, along with the
other prizes and prifoners, into Mahon harbour."

Extra of a Letter from St. Vincent, 9th May,
tt The running (hip Union Wand, Capt. Daum.
for Britlol, which failed from this place the t3th
ult. fell in with a French privateer of 14 guns,
6-pounders, and 160 men, on the 18th, near mile.
gads. After a dafperate engagement, in which
the Captain of the Union Ifiand and five men were
wounded, and two men killed, the privateer was
beat of, with the lofs of her Captain and a num-
ber of men killed and wounded.",

Ldor INTELLIGENCE.,

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 3.

ODRVELAND T. MEL!.
This aftion was brought to recover damiges for
a falfe dieters. A Mils Mackie had taken a houfe
in Welbeck•fireet from the Defendant, who is a
houfe broker. This flue let out in lodgings, and
one of her lodgers was Mrs. Cleveland, the Plain-
tiff. It fo happened that Mira Mackie was confider-
ably in arrear to her landlord for rent, and being
a good deal importuned by him flue took French
leave of his premifes. Mrs. Cleveland alarmed for
her property, began to remove it ; but while there
was (till a confiderable number of things remain-
ing. behind, Mr. Kepple fent a fervant with his
compliments to the lodgers, and defiled them not
to be at all uneafy,..as their effeas fhould all be
fate. Next day, however, he came himfelf and
diffrained them. Mrs. Cleveland was very anxious
to get, poireffion of her papers, and teeing a real in
the drawer of her cabinet, welted to take is with
her. Mr. Kepple ordered her to lay it down ; fbe
perfilled in feizing it ; he tried to wreft it from her
hand ; fhe fucceeded in putting k into her pocket,
1 and then fell into fits. He then went away, and
the fcnt for the Earl of Kinnoul, who provided her
With other lodgings.
The witnefs, who principally (poke to thefe faits,
was Mifs Douglas, a niece of Sir John Douglas.
This lady fubmitted with great reluitance to the
interrogations of Lord KRNYON and the Gentle.
men at the Bar.—She called out feveral times,
is. Will this have no end f Oh that I ever came
hire! I ought to be in bed, attended by a phy-
gciaii. lam to agitsited! What a (hock. is this
for my poor nerves ! '
Lord KENYON, upon confulting the Aft of Par-
liament, was of opinion that the Defendant's con-
duit was probably fanitiOned by law, and upon his
recommendation a juror was withdrawn.
HURST V. TYLER.

This aftion was brought by the Plaintiff, a
Dancing-ma fter, in the neighbourhood of Green-
wich, a man of much refpetiability, and who, it ap-
peared,h ad taught the daughters of Lord Thurlow,
and the young Ladies at averal Boarding•fchools,
to recover damages againft the Defendant, a n ir-
fery-man, for not repairing the path adjoining his
pales, in confequence of which he flipped, and re-
ceived a very material injury. It appeared, how-
ever, that the Defendant was not bound by his te-
nure to repair the path.
Lord KENYON walled that a Juror might be
withdrawn; but tae Defendant, who was in Court,
Rated, that his poverty did not enable him to pay
the coils, upon which his Lordfhip was compelled
to dire& a nonfuit; at the fame time recommending
that the Attorney would make out as moderate a
bill of colts as poffible ; and alto reprefent to the
furveyors of the roads for the diftrie, that they
were bound in juftice and humanity to make a corn-
penfation to the unfortunate Plaintiff.

DUST ♦ND NICOLLS ro. COWDEIY.

The fubjed of this contention was a warm one :
it was an adion brought by the Plaintiffs, who re•
tided at Bath, and were patentees of what they
called a new-invented mode of making portable
ovens, againft the Defendants, alfo of that city, to
recover damages for having infringed on their pa-
tent.

Mr. Easaists opened the caufe by extolling the
merit of this marvellous invention, which, had it
gone a Rep farther, and baked the bread without
fire, would certainly have reached the very acwJ
of perfeftion. True it was that nothing under the
fun could be Paid to be entirely new—the powers
of mechanifm, the properties of the elements, the
application of them, either to aftift human labour,
or promote the comforts and conveniencies of life,
had been fully underflood for centuries—it was
therefore only by the adaptation and combination
of tbofe powers and properties different from their
previous application, that an ingenious artift could
claim to have the exclufive right of making and
vending the °hied of his difcovery fbr his own pro-
fit, fecured to him by a patent. Of fuch a nature
was the invention in queftion ; it was framed on a
conflruaion fo portable, that a man, contemplat-
ing a long journey, might whip the oven under
his arm, metamorphoft himfelf into a walking
baker's Chop, and, whether traverfing the immea-
furable ocean, or the wide extended defart, could,
without the aid of magic, at any time, command
the appearance of a 'well-baked quartern loaf—it
was an article in itfelf not only elegant, but claffi-
cal—it was framed upon a tripod limilar to the
footftool of Jove, or the feat of the Sybilline Oracle
peculiar conftru,tion was fuch, that the cir-
eumambient air correfted the ardour of the pro-
methean element, and produced a fpecies of bread
of a flavour fo divine, that it refembled ambrofia
or manna. The Defendant, jealous of the merit
of fo extraordinary an invention, had pirated it,
and thereby defrauded the Plaintiffs of thofe im-
menfe profits which they bad a reafonable right to
have expend from the liberality and gratitude of
the public.
The firff witnefs produced was •the wonderful
oven itfelf ; it did not bear any external or internal
evidence of thole mighty properties afcribed to it.
The ATTORNET-GIMIRAL crofs-examined it,
and pretty clearly (hewed that it was not the firff
of its family, but a collateral ramification of one
which had for years betas/nil known in every coun-
ty of England, but particularly in the North.
Lord England,
vow thought that the pltilofophical
principles of this felf-baking oven were equally in-
herent in the conflitution of a chafing.difh.
The celeftial tripod proved to be nothing more i
nor lets than a three-legged trivet, common in
every but in the kingdom; and, as to the oven, it
appeared that a grate and fire were neceffary to be
placed under it; two things certainly not of the
molt convenient portability.
The Learned Counfel, nothing dill:flayed by the 1
Corry exhibition of his firfl witnefs, proceeded to
ea 'bore who were enabled to, give oral tellimosty
of the excellencies of the miraculous oven.

The vritnefres defcribed it in terms no lefs glow.
ing than thole adopted by the Learned Advocate.
From their account it would have appeared that
the inventor was intitled to little lefs celebrity than
the inventor of the iteam-cogne. The fpecifica-
• '•

don was alfo produced, and in the 113011 Ligh •flonni
and lealphaniclanguage defcribed the oven alt
equally adapted for ufe by fea or by land, above
ground, or under ground, on oceans, or on rivers,
in gulphs, or in bays, on mountains, or in vallies,
in rorelts, or in groves, in uplands and lowlands,.
hills, or dales; &c. &c. and fo on in a (Lyle of hy-
perbole, exceeding the molt flowery and meta•
phorical defcriptions of any of our moil florid
modern auaioneers.

Unfortunately for the invention, and for the
witneffes, and thofe on whofe part they gave their
teftimony, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, having pa-
tiently hauled for fome time, produced an old Ma-
gazine of the year 1761, from which it appeared
the terms of the fpecitication had been copied ver.
batim. He convinced this fury that the principle
of the fuppofed invention was as well known as the
article which it baked.

Lord Kt vow obferved, that the anion was truly
ridiculous ; and
Mr. beg KIN!, when he found himfelf too hard
puthed to contell the point any longer, feemed,
with the greateft good humour, tacitly to mirth,
that, in the country, on which he retleas no lefs
honour than he derives from it, this fort of ovens
had, from time immemorial, been.ufed to hake the
oaten cakes which have nurtured the infant an-
machs of fome of the greatell geniufes Great Bri-
tain can boat.

Mr. GAR ROW, who was one of the Connie' with
the Attorney-General, remarked, that patents were
now-a-days granted for the mot childifh and ab.
ford inventions. It was but the preceding even•
ing he had called upon his Learned Friend, and
had found him deeply engaged in perfuading
man, as foolith as the prefent Plaintiff's, not to,ap!.
ply for a patent for a new-invented implement of
domeftic utility; viz. a chamber-pot, as good as
ever was made of wood !—Plaintiffs nonfuited.

HICKS'S HALL, CLERKENWELL,, Jour 3.

GEORGE PURIM V. ADJUDICATION OS' BASTARDY.

Catherine Bailey laid fhe went to live with Mr.
Marfh as a fervant on the 2t ft of April, t 800.
About a fortnight after (he was there, fhe began a
criminal intercourfe with him, and was delivered
of% baflard child on the 3 t ft of December.—Upon
crofs-examination, fhe admitted that the had pur-
loined a filver table fpoon and other articles, and •
that (he never told her mailer of her being with
child until (he had left her fervice.

Mr. Cow s icontended,th4 -no credit ought to be
given her under there circumliances, efpeciaty al
the was delivered before the ufual courfe of nature
—in addition to this he called a Mr. Duncan, a
Surgeon, who Paid, that between the 22d and 29th
of April, fhortly after the entered into Mr. Marilee
fervice, the complained of fymptoms, which he
conceived proceeded from pregnancy.
The woman perfilling that (he never bad any in-
tercourfe but with her matter, the Court affirmed
the Adjudication of the Magifirate.

R. Pt/DDINGFORDV..II CONVICTION OF J. GIFFORD.

This was a convielion againft the defendant,
who is a baker, for expofing new bread for fide,
contrary to the provifions of the St.tle Bread ACT..
Hopkinfon, the Informer, Rated, that on the
28th of January lai he was with two others, and
purchafed three new loaves of the defendant. It
was on a Saturday night, and there were many
other loaves in the (hop, above the number of for.
ty. In his crofs-examination, he laid that he was
not an Informer, being paid byhim as an evidence.
Mr. Tranter, the Informer, was his employer.
The man had been convieted for felling the three
loaves, and had paid the penalty. The Court
thought that the bread being in the (hop at that
time of night, was not fufficient evidence of its
being expored to fele, they therefore quathed the
conviCtion.
OLIVIA v. A CON•ICTION OF MR. JUSTICE NASH.
This was an appeal from a conviition upon the
Hair Powder A. The witnefs in the laft cafe
proved, that the defendant had his hair whitened
in a manner, exaftly refembling a powdered head.
on the ath January lift. The defence let up
was, that it was not hair-powder he ufed, but
flab 41114 k—that he ufed it medicinally, as be was
fubjeft to violent perfpirations in the head. A
witnefs was called to prove the fad,and produced
tome of the white; but the Court thought that
powdering the head with flake white, to prevent
perfpiration in January, was too ridiculous a de-
fence to be fnpported. They accordingly affinited
the Convittion.

11. RICIIWOOD In • CONVICTION OF J. OtFFORD, ISQ:.
This was an appeal again& a.convidion upon
the Armorial Bearing AR.
Mr. Hopkinfon, the fame witnets, proied the
fact, that there was an armorial bearing upon the
winkers of the harnefs. The circumaances of this
cafe were, however, a little fingular. The defen-
dant was a poor man, and the bailie(' in queflion
was part of an old harnefs he had long ago pur-
chafed for his cart and horfe. The Magiftrate
who convicted him, thought that the words of th;
AR were fo imperative, that it left him no difcre-
tion upon the proof of the fait.
Mr. MAINWARINO faid, there could be no doubt
that Inch a cafe as the prelim was not within the
fpirit and meaning of the AR, which was meant
to attach only upon perfons who ufed arcnoajal
bearings, for the purpofes of oßentation or parade
—the Court concurring, the aonviCtion was quails-
ed. It Teems that the opinions of the fate Attor-
ney and Solicitor Generals have been taken upon
the conftruaion of the Armorial Bearing AR—
and they were of opinion that plate given or left
to any perfon, with the armorial beasiagi of the
donor engraver upon it, was not liable to the duty
in the hands of thofe who received it.

The Greed &Het of Anion, named the Frre
reap or Jaws and 160164 meets the utmoß appro.
betroth not only of the Public at large, but that al.
fo of . the firfl circles and numerous parties of the
Nobility, who every evening are beheld at the
Royal Circus, St. Georr's Fields, tettifying the
great pkafbre they receive at the Onprecedented
Scenes of Magnificence, Ste. which that produc-
tion difplays--thcir plaudits keep equal pace silo
with the tell of the houfeohrough the favourite
Pantomiine of the Blio

QLD B.Au.zr.

S •

Yederdey eleven prifouers were tried at the Old
Dairey, tit/0 of whom were capitally convicted, viz.
Witham Wilfiasu, for burglationfly breaking and
entering a dwelling-houfe belonging to Lornidul-
grave, and dealing therein a trunk containing fa
veal articles of men's wearing apparel, the proper-
ty of John Doling. who was Groom to Lord Mal-
grave, and occupied certain apartments over the
nobles in Harley Mews. The prilostr, who had'
been his' old fellow fervent, called on him in the
evening of the 6th of June, law him open hi, trunk,
and went out with him about half pat Moe. The
winters locked the door. and all the doors and win-
dows of tbs. cable were-faftened. In about an
• hour and a half afterwards he returned, and found
the door had been opened and the trunk taken
away.
- A woman, who was wife to efoldiera and lived
in Dorfet Mews, Paid, that the prifoner called on
her about ten o'clock on the night in queftion, and
afked permiffion to leave a trunk there which he
ezpeded from the country. The woman knew the
prifoner, becaufe (he had waffied for him. He
brought his trunk to her houfe at eleven o'clock,
and left it in a cellar, for greater fecurity.
Another woman, who lived in Harley Mews,
Paid, The law a man, on the 'night in queflion about
eleven o'clock, running away with a trunk from
the part of the Mews where the profecutor lived
The Paid there was a great deal of light at this time.
The foldier, with whole wife the trunk had been
left, went and gave information concerning it at
Marlborough-greet Police-office, as loon as he
heard of the prifoner being taken up; and this
trunk was (worn to by the profecutor.
The only queflion that now remained was, wile.
ther it was fo dark at the time the offence was
committed as to make it a burglary. The Learn.
ed Judge obarved, that if the goods Stolen were
worth aos. the prifoner could be capitally conviift-
ed without any burglary being proved; and as the
woman who Paid fbe law the man pals by with a
trunk at eleven o'clock, alto Paid it was a very light
night, he thought it was the fafeft way for the
Jury to lay afide the idea of burgiary.
The Jury found him Guilty of dealing the To.
lue of aos. which makes the offence capital.
marine or 113112-30T111.
Thomas Thaws: and Afar:arcs Theism, his wife,
were indided, the former for forging and counter-
feiting a certain note proporting to be a Bank of
England note for IL and the wife for uttering the
fame, knowing it to be forged.
Mr. Gas Row of Counfel for the profeeution fiat.
ed all the circumfienees of this cafe to the Jury.
The mercy of the laws, he obferved, provided th*
a wife was not anfwerable for any offence commit-
ted in the company of her huffiand, he himfelf cam.
rnitting the fame offence. He trufted, however,
he Arnold be able to fliew that the offence which
the woman at the bar was charged with bad been
committed in abfence of her hufband, and without
any coercion on his part. In confequence of the
iimmenfe number of barik-notes which the eircum-
fiances of the country unfortunately made it necef.
Eery for the Bank to iffue, a great many perfons,
slot ehoofing to apply.themfelves to honed induftry,
employ their talents in the molt iniquitous mgiu-
jurious praCtice of foiling the (mall notes of i
Bank of 'England. He fhould prove that the pd.
loner at the bar was a whole.fale dealer in notes of
this kind that he had made journies to Birming-
ham for the purpofe of procuring notes, of which
there was a great manufaCtore. in that town ; and
that he filled up with his own hand the blanks tbaa
were left in them for the dates end the fignaturea,
It was aftonifhipg to conceive the-quantities that
had been forged and circulated; bat he was hap-
py to find that this Odeon was likely to be put
$ flop to by a late Aft wlach.the wildoira of the
Legiflature had deviled for that purpofe. One of
the principal witneffes who Should be called was a
woman, who bad been the accomplice of the psi.
loners; but her evidence would be fully coarobo..
rated by that of the Gaiter wltneffes,
The fird witnefs c.alled, was John Murray, a lad
living with, Mr. Lageock, grocer, of Hampton-
. Court, who depofed, that on the Lids of May,
Mrs. Thome. in company with another woman,
came to the drop, and purchafed tea and fugue to
the amount of tea id. and tendered a I. note
in payment. Mrs. Lalcock ezpreffing a doubt 41p,
to its being good, defired the witnefs, to go out and
get change ; he went to Mrs. Hipperfon's, the
King's Arms, who changed the note ; he return.
ad, gave Mrs. Thomas the money, and She left
the Atop.
Mra. Laficock and Mrs. liipirerfon corroborates&
this teffirstony. and Dated, on us being dircovered
to be a forged note, which was in a very Short time,,
Mr. Laicock went in pur?uit of thefrefoner on the
London road, getting a man of the ranee of, Groves,
to purfue in a different direaron.
Elizabeth Pepperday, a linen draper, ofmp-
ton town, depofed. that Mrsabomas came to her
Shop, on the fame day, and bought force cottons,
end,ffie gave change for a 51. note, which was alto,
a forged one.
John Walker, waiter at Mrs. Hioperfon's,,feid„
he law the two prig:mac, and, anotbea womaiscat:
Hampton Court. In 2 chaife-cart ; that icy flop.
ped about zoo yards from Laffcook's, whell
woman got out and went into the *sop, leaeipt
Mr. Thomas in the cart.
Thomas Groves, a conflable, Dated, that he.
purfued on the food to Ewell,and after ridingatioutt
beret-quarters of an hour came up with tin carts.
flopped it, and fail " you are the psrrfons who have
changed a bad note at Hampton, and muff come •
Lack."' Thomas anfwered, Why did riser take '
the note if it was a bad one 1--My Dear. (addreff.
low his wife), we know where we got it !" He
was for dririsil on, but winters *filling on their
returning. Thomas faid, 4, let the women go back
as they paged it, I will igo to two'', and fend a
shade for. them." Mrs._s and her companion
of the cart to follow mimes, and rnas
the women had proceeded but a little
it being dark. Mrs. Thomas took
jumped over a ditch, and
off his hock to putfue her,

ercaPea, and when he returned the other woman,
Was alfwgone.
Miriont Egginton (the accomplice) was next
examined. who depofed that fome time back the
lived with her mother at Birmingham ; that the
became acquainted with the prifoners about three
quarteri. of a year ago, front ha.vusg fold her hat-
band a herfe. That Com after Chrolmas tall Mr.,
Thomas applied to witnefs, at Birmingham, to get
him tome forged notes, wbiCh (he had done from
a perfon in Livery-81;er. Birmingham, and for',
which the received two good notes in return.—
About three months after he came again and want-
ed more, which the procured from a' perfon in
genyon.ftreet, and gave them to prifoner; this
parcel was made of blank impreflions, and wanted
filling up. Winters law nothing of the prifoners
after this till the ad of May lA, when they ob-
tained at the latter place another packet, contain-
ing forty il. notes and fourteen 51. notes, which
the gave to the prifoner, and he gave the perfon a
guinea in exchange for them, being credited for
fornething more. When the prifoner had received
this bundle, he took two notes out, fealed them up
in g letter, and tent them by the poll to London.
The witnefs and her rifler walling to come to Lon-
don, let off with the prifoner, and arrived on Tuef-
day, the sth of May, at the Bull's Head, at Ewell,
flept there that night, and the next morning they
walked to the prifoner's honk at Epfom, where
the witnefs aid her filler were introduced to the
prifoner's wife. On the Thurfday the forged notes
brought from Birmingham were difplayed on the
table, and the prifoner let about filling them up.—
The witnefs law him affix the number and the
date, together with the cathier's fignatnre, and the
clerk's connterfign. After having filled up fome
of them, Mrs. Thomas conveyed them up (lairs
for fecurity. On Monday morning, the r ith of
May, Mrs. Thomas and herfelffet off in a chaife
cart for Hampton, Mrs. Thomas hiving firft put
a tk and two 51. notes in her purfe,.part of thole
which had been filled up on the Friday. On their
coming to Hampton Court, witnefs and Mrs. Tho-
mas paired off the notes, at a toy Atop and a gro-
cer's (hop, and at Hampton-town at a linen dra-
per's, for articles they wanted, the prifoner, Mr.
Thomas, waiting forthem at a dillance. Having
finithed their bufinefs they let out on their way
home, when they were o'rertaken by a confiable
from whom they had afterwards .leaped. and got
to Epfom that night. The next morning, the
lath, they all abfconded, and from that time, till
the t Bth, they wandered about, not knowing whe-
ther they went, till 'they were apprehended at
Gravefend. The day before they were taken,
l'homas learned that Legerwood was in cullody,
whet; he exclaimed. " that is the worn thing that
could have happened to roe."
Legerwood was then called. who &poled to his
having bought a conliderable quantity of forged
notes of the prifoner, for which he bad given ax
the rate of pas. for a il. note. He had received a
51. from the prifoner, on the Bth of May. which he
had paired to his initheis, who kept a butcher's
Chop at Epfom, for one given to him by Mr. Lad.
brook, in paynaent of a hill ; and finally, that he
bad confiderable dealing with the prifoner in forg-
ed notes.

The notes were then put in and read, and the
Infpeaor of the Bank slepokd as to their being
forg_ed ones.
jUalte LAWIIIIMeI fummecl up the evidence
to the Jury with great accuracy ;. and obferved,
that with regard to the guilt of the woman the law
declared that a wife was not anfwerable for ao of.
fence committed in the pretence of her hatband.
becaufe the was tußpoted to be awing under his
coercion. The principal quellion which the jury
bad to confider was, how far the Woman at the
bar was, fo circumaanced I They could not con.
via her molds they believed that the did the a 6
Ilse was charged, with endisly of her own accord,
and uncosuronled, by het kulband.
The
.rturfs without retiring, found Tbomasn.o.
ate+GaiRADCO6.; andftvgatet Tbonaassos GaAs.
Three Were conviaed of (Oozy. viz..
Pins loger for llealiog two dozen pair eileather
gloves, from Mediu Hopwood and Hamilton.
Glovers and Leatber•falters. itt Cheapfide., with
whom he had lived as a porter. It appeared that
in confequence of a fearch warrant, the gloyes:bad
been found at the lodgings of two young, women
inLeather.lane Holborn, to one of whom the pri,
foam had proti:i6d, marriage.. butwho were in no
cetpeS acceffary to or acquainted with the theft.
The gloves were foram to, and the prifoner was
fotual•-.-Osikt
A s,
risupieek for fiealing an iron.digefiti from
!obe fhop of . Lardner, Ironmonger, in Qzford.
Greet.
zfisdrsev Locke was tried oa a IRMA& of Parlia-
mem to prevent tenants from embezzling their
mailer's PrOPeatyr kit had hem jootruayroan for
one week with ;linker. named. Rabe% Wrightcia
the parith of St. Anne's, Salto. On the 25th of
June, while he and his mailer were fettling the at.

Connin,,the lamer perceived that a Gamlen:in named
Kyat2, who was always vory•pundual,, did not pay
his bill, wbich.amounted to tbs. iod. On the fol-
lowing do" the prifoner cookout bread and did•not
return till two o'clock the neat tootling, at which
tint be was intoxicated, and then negieeting the.
work he was defirod to perform, he went away and
did not return, any, more. His wafter, altar fere.
ral enquiries, found hini•out., and tithed him about
the account of the former day. and about Mr.
Ryan's bilk The prifpner laid the bill bad not
'been paid, and when the mailer took- bold of him
to prevent him from going away, the other gave
.10rpifeveral violeon brows.
• Mx. Thosnas kyan (wore, that the money the pri,
'fooer vms.charged with embezzling, had been paid
at the time he prefented the
And. fit. Wen acqnitted,
Einterd &or" Afaelaed Thessaal,,yeieet
.74.4
farmed &ohm.
yam comot wag indided for the waful murder
of Francis,Leees, on the 4th of June, at a public-
hoofe is Spital-fields. The prifoner and the de-
ceded were labourers belonging to the Eail-India
Company's Wzrehosfes. They had, been drinking
at a public-boufc, where they quarrelled, and
fought confequocc of ajt agreement between

, both ; while they were fighting, the deceafed re.
aired the blow which caufed his death. The Jury
found the'prifoner--.Nor
!fa.. Jay 'e was indiaed for patting off two Falk
half-guineas and two feven-flailiog pieces, to one
Dtranpby,nt the price of tos. for the whole, know-
Mg the fame to be fa* and counterfeit.
Damp/1y the witnefs fwore, that he bargained
with the prifoner for the foie of this counterfeit
money. He paid him in marked pieces, which
he received from Mr. Powell, Solicitor of the
Mint, and as loon as he concluded his bargain,
the Officers were reedy to apprehend him. Mr.
Pawell himillf was oxarnined, and Rated, that he
paid the witnefs, Dunphy, for his information,
and that it was cullotaary for the Mint to CiIICOII-
- informers againa titterers of bad r.vmey.—
Upon crofs.exammation, he admitted that he had
carried to be apprehended two wiurtfes for the
prifoner, as they flood aorged with a confpiracy
for getting Dunphy out of the way that he might
not give evidence in the prefent carafe.
The defence of the prifoner was, that the whole
was a confpiracy spunk him ; and that he had
lent Durnphy (mm mousy, who paid him in the
marked pieces which were afterwards found upon
him. _ _ .

Y'
The
Racoons" in fuanming up, obferved, that
the whole depended upon the credit which they
chofe to give to Dumphy's evidence, ac none elfe
was prefent when the contra& was Rated to have
taken place. He difapproved of lodging the cer-
tiorari, by which the indictment for the confpiracy
was removed, and thereby deprived the prifoner
of his witneffes, asit might as well hue been done
after the prefent trial.—He alio reprobated the
condu& of the Mint in laying traps to induce in-
dividuals to comtnit the aline of uttering and af-
terwards pro&cuting for that fad which they had
fednced the prifoner to commit. The jury re-
turned a verditt of—Not Guilty.
During the laft trial a man, calling hinsfelf an
Attorney, who was very much intoxicated, made
a moft outrageous difturbance in the Court. In
the attempt •to force him out by the Officers, his
cloaths were nearly all torn from his back.

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