Star.
London, England, 1806-04-14 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.

Ao appeal againß a conviftion by Mr. Bond was
heard before the Court. The porter of the Swan
with Two Necks, Lad-lane, had carried a parcel of
ame, which had come to that houfe, addread to
Colonel Bradfhaw, at Knighttbridge Barracks, and
had charged as the carriage from the country, and
for porterage to the barracks. two !killings and four
pence, being more than the AR of Parliament allow.
ed ; the conviftion had, in thefe circumflances, been
made by Mr. Bond. It was contended by Mr. GUS.
sax, on behalf of the appellant, that the appellant
was merely a porter, and that be bad wade no fuch
charge, that having been done by the clerk at the
Swan with Two Necks. Befides, the Aft of Parlia-
ment on the fubjeta did not extend to Knighttibridge,
or beyond half a mile from the Stoseeend at Picca-
dilly 'Turnpike. The Court, however, over.ruied the
latter objeftion, holding the Aft to extend to every
part within the City of Weaminfter and the liberties
thereof, one of which was Knightsbridge ; of courfe
the conviftion was affirmed.
OFFERING OF sass cora.
Vas Davin was tried upon an indiftment charg-
ing him with having, on the evening of the 17th of
February UR. uttered to Emilia Dignum, a certain
coneterleit piece, rambling a dollar circulated by
the Bank of England. well knowing the fame to have
been falfe and counterfeited.
Mr. Knape addreffed the Jury, and briefly Rated
the law and the cafe. The law, be Paid, which im-
pored penalties on uttering counterfeit guineas or
!billings, had been, nearly two years ago, extended to.
the making. fabricating, and uttering of counterfeit
dollars, or bank tokens in Ireland. That the dollars,
alluded to in the pretent indiament were counterfeits
would, he believed, not be queftioned.
Mrs. Dignum (wore that her btAband was land-.
lord of the Coach and Horfes public houfe, St. Mar-
tin's-lane, on the 17th of February lat. Between
nine and ten teclock on that evening, the prifoner
came in, and Aced for a glafs of beer. with which be
was immediately fupplied by the witnefs. In pay-
twent for this trifling refreffiment he tendered a dol.
lar, which the witnefs refuted, laying, fbe did not like
it. He then gave her another, which the Paid looked
equally fufpicious, and the kept both the dollars and
took them to her hufband, the prifoner having pre-
itioully paid her five farthings for his glad's of beer.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Dignum,
that on Infpating the dollars (hewn him by his wife,
he Paid to the prifoner, " My friend, where got you
thefe !” The prifoner replied, that he bad got them
in fames-Rreet, Covent Garden. The witnefs told
him that they were very bad, and that he could not
offer fuch ccin without knowing they were fn. He
added, that he would prevent him from endeavour-
ing to impofe on others, by disfiguring the dollars,
sod on taking up a chopper to do fo, the prifoner re-
filled his proceeding. The witnefs then went for Mr.
Smith, the conllable, and in his pretence he marked
the fpurinits coin. On his return he found that the
prifoner had gone out, but he loon after returned and
demanded rettitution of his dollars, when he was li-
med and conveyed to St. Martin's watch bottle.—
At the watch bottle, and before the MagiffrAte on
the following morning, he dcfcribod the places dif-
ferently where he (aid he hid taken the bate dollars:
at the one he (aid he received them in Houndi
ditch, and before the MAgitlrate he laid he had taken
them in Jame—tirect, Covent Garden.
Smith, the conttable, identified the coin produced,
as thole marked by the profecutor, in hl. pretence.
The conitable of the night, Mr. Nettleton' Rated,
that when the prifoner was brought before him, he
fearched him, but foutyl nothing but. a duplicate for
a coat pawned on that day. and a letter. The pti-
Cuter Rated to him that, on the day mentioned in the
; adkommt, be had bought come clothes of a Jew in
/tag fair, from whom, in change of a five pound
note, he had received the dollars in rotation.
Tfie prifoner here Rated, that in his way from
Rag.fair, he hid gone into a fhnp in Cheapfide, had
•Iliewn. the dollars, and Biked if they were good?—
The Gentleman in the flap told him they were. No
evidence to this glee, however, was adduced by the
prifoner.
That the dollars were bad was prova by Mr. John
White, one of the Tellers at the Bank; he raid they
were not worth twopence.
The prifoner then asked the profecotor, " Did not
the dollars look well ?".—" Yee," replied the prole-
enter, " they looked well by candlelight, but I have
bean fo much in the habit of taking money, that I
can tell by the feel, whether it is good os bad. They

looked a great deal better by the candle that, by day
light."
The ptifoner's defence Elated, that on the day fpe-
cified. he had been three days ont of a fituation' and
that he had guile to Rag-fair, and purchafed come
clothes from a Jew, whom he (hould not know again,
and who had given him the bad money. He de-
clared himfelf before GOD to be wholly Innocent of
the crime imputed to him by the indielment. He
called two witueffes to his charailer, which they de-
fcribed to be good. One of the witneffes had known
him for two years, and the other for twelve months.
The prifoner hated he was prnmifed, by feveral per-
fons of high confideration and refpalability, whom
he had ferved, to attend on his behalf, but that he
Ihad been unable to apprife them of the day on which
his trial was to take place.

The Jury retired for half an hour, and returned
with a verdidt of—Guilty. The prifoner was then
fentenced to be imprifoned for fit months, and at the
end of chat period to find fecurity for his good beha
viour for fie months more.