Star.
London, England, 1801-09-18 00:00:00

APPEAL DAY.

Yellerday being the day appropriated for receiv-
ing appeals, a great number of orders for the re-
moval of the poor were heard and determinu.l.
In one of the cafes a quellion arofe, whether the
daily renting of the Royalty Theatre gave a let.
tlement ? It appeared, that one Dyke, a perfor-
mer, whofe wife had become chargeable to the
parifh, formerly rented the Royalty Theatre, at
51. the night. He held it for about two months or
nine weeks, but as he was not a man of refponli
bility, he paid the rent nightly. He had the key.,
of every part, and complete occupation.
The Chairman was of opinion, that this unin-
terrupted occupation for two months, gave a fet-
tlement, and confequently his wife was fettled in
the parifh where the Theatre flood.
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The woman, who was the fubjeet of tltappeal,
appeared, and was of genteel addrefs ; very clean
and neat in her perfon.
W. MARSDEN appealed againft the Poors' Rates
of the parifh of St. Luke, on the ground, that a
bottle ufed as a Sunday School was not affeffed.
The Court, on the authority of a former cafe,
decided, that an inftitution of charity was not af-
felfable to the Poors Rate.

W. PRINER, Efq. appealed againft the Poors
Rate of fiction.

It feems the parifh of Hefton are in a sate of
civil difcord, refpeeling the Poors Rates.
The Court lamented that the bufinefs could not
he ad need by amicable reference to fome re-
fpeetable perfon. At prefent there was fuch a
cloud of objthions Rated, as matter of grievance,
it would take a whole day to go into the confider-
ation of them. It was therefore adjourned till
next Seffions.

OLD BAILEr.

Yetterday 19 pi ;loners were tried, nine of whom
were conviCted of felony, viz.
. _ _

BlGAMY.—Gbarles Dukriseux was indifted for
felonioufly marrying, on the 25th of April tail,
Elizabeth Provoll, his former wife being living.
The Counfel Rated the cafe on the part of the
profecution. He Paid, the Prifoner at the Bar was
indiaed for a crime of the moft dangerous tenden- •
cy, inafmnch as it plunged the virtuous and inno-
cent female into the depths of mifery, and pre-
cluded her from enjoying happinefs the remainder
of her life. Tile prifoner at the bar was married
on September 13th, 1795, to Either Fortier, at the
Para Church of Milton, near Gravefend, and
about twelve months finze he had defcrted her,
and having met with a young woman of the name
of Provoil, had paid his addreffes to her as a fingle
man ; and, after obtaining the confent of her pa-
rents, was united to her on the 25th April laft at
Whitechapel Church. What added to the crime
was, that the unfortunate woman is now pregnant.
—He was not inftrated to aggravate the cafe by
Rating any thing that was untrue, and was there-
fore ready to give the prifoner the credit of having
behaved in the moil kind and indulgent manner
to his laft wife: Rill his crime called for punifh-
ment, and the Jury would exercife their judgment
upon hearing the evidence he had to produce, and
he had no doubt would he fatisfied of his guilt,
and pronounce a verdict accordingly.
The marriage of the Prifoner to Either Forfler
on the 13th September, 1795, at Milton,•was then
proved ; as alfo that the was alive five days truce.
Elizabeth Provo% his 2d wife, was then called.
She Rated, that the was mai-lied to the Prifoner
at Whitechapel Church on the 25th of April hat,
with the confent of her parents. She acknowledg-
ed that he had treated her with the greateft kind-
nefs, and that he had not married her from any
lucrative nature. He informed her, a few days
before he was apprehended, that he had been mar-
t ied before, and that he Ihould be taken up for
having married her; he, however, continued to
live with her until he was apprehended, which was
on the ad July, in George-arcet, in the Islinories.
A Mr. Collins was called to prove that at the
time the firil marriage took place the prifoner was
under age ; this, however, he failed to do. It was
Rated, that a voluntary feparation had taken place
between him and his firft wife. The Prifoner re-
ceived an exceeding good charaaer, and is a young
man of great accomplifliments,wellacquainted with
the continental languages. After his apprehenfion
he offered to ailign over his houfehold furniture,
and to fettle an annuity of Sol. per annum upon
his laft wife, to whom it appeared he was affec-
tionately attached.
The Learr;:d Ju•lge fummed up the evidence,
and oblerved that the crime imputed to the Pri-
foner was of a very fcrious nature. He thought
the Jury would have no hefitation in finding him
guilty, as the evidence was pretty (hong, and ad-
nutted not of the leaft doubt. Sometimes crimes
lof this fort v. ere perpetrated for the fake of gain,
I and at others for the purpofe of getting polr...flion
'of the virtue ci a female who might rot he in-
duced to confent to a difhonourablc :talon ; in Inch
cafes it was of a very aggravated nature, and call-
ed for the fevcrcft punilhmcnt the law inflafts.—
In this cafe, which was a Ihade lighter, and in
which the Prifoner had received an excellent cha-
railer, it remained with the Court (if the Jury
Ihould be fatisf.ed of his guilt) to extend fomc de-
gree of mercy.
The Jury, after confulting a Ihort time, found
the Prifoner Guilty.
The Court, during the whole of the trial, was
uncommonly crowded with Ladies.
The Prifoner is 25 years of age. After the ver-
dift was returned, he bowed very refpettfully and
retired.
William Rawls, for flealing thirty-fix yards of
ticking, value 41. the property of James Henley, in
his dwelling-hook. It appeared that the ticking
in queilimi was put out at the door of the Prufe-
cutor for Pale, as many pieces are, half out and
half within doors, and tied within. The Prifoner
had contrived to Match it away, and being pur•
feed, drops it
Mr. Baron HOTNAM told the Jury that the
meaning of the As of Parliament, making the

Healing in the dwelling-houfe to the amount of
.;os. a capital offence, was not that this tort
roperty, put out for Ede half in and half out i f
the houfe, fhould prote6ted by this penalty of
Death. That was not, in common fcnfe, Reading
in a dwelling-houfe. The meaning of that At of
Parliament was, to protea a man from thole who
really come into a houfe, and (teal property out of
it, not againft ftealing that which was out at the
door, as this was. Guilty of ttcaliug the goods,
but not in the dwelling-houfe.
Charles Miller, for ttealing three-quarters of
pound of hyfon tea, the property of Mellis. Deakin
and Allinfon.

A'ichdat Witt, for ftealing 81b. of foap, on the
24th of July, in the parilh of Bethnal•green, the
property of James Taylor and William AVhitwell.
William Martin, for haling three pounds of raw
coffee, the property of Metfrs. Knight and An-
drews.

!knry Nein:, for haling from Edmund Brown
while he was atleep, in his lodgings, a (liver watch
and a Mk handkerchief.

The Prifoner dcnicd the charge, and in his de-
lalce Rated that the Profecutor had frequently
feen him fubfcquent to the robbery, but did not
take him up. The prifoner alfo hated himfelf to
be an American, without friends, or any perfon in
this country to appear to his charther.
The cafe not being fully made out, the Jury
found him guilty only of dealing, but .not in a
dwelling-houfe, which does away the capital part
of the charge.
Abraham Polder, for [leafing fix napkins, the pro-
perty of Ifrael Ifrael, on the gth of July, from a
hoofe in Manchefter-fqtiare. The napkins had been
fent by the Profecutor, among other articles, to
be fold by andion: while the goods were upon
view, the Prifoner was feen to run out of the honk,
and the goods being milled, he was purfued, and
during the purfuit, he was obferved to throw a
bundle into an area, which proved to be the arti-
cles mentioned in the indiament. A number of
refpeCtable tradefmen appeared in his behalf, who
Rated that the Prifoner had been their neighbour,
and kept a china-atop for many years in Newgate-
fireet ; that he had lately been unfortunate, but,
to the hour of his being taken into cullody, had
given them reafon to continue their good opinion
of his charaeter. Upon the plainnefX of the fats
the Jury found him guilty : on which the profecu-
tor recommended him to mercy, having himfelf
known him for feveral years, and had always con-
fidered him as a very honed man.
7 &mar Demi:, for dealing a metal watch with
a goldfeal,the property of Henry Reynolds Hinde,
Efq.
The Prifoner, it appeared, had lived as fervant
to the Profecutor, a Lieutenant in the tft Regi-
ment of Foot Guards. He miffed the watch fo long
fince as January, when in Barracks at Knights-
bridge. When he law it Lift, it was in a writing-
dale. In the courfe of fome months after, having
occafion to fufped the Prifoner, he had him taken
into cultody and fearched, when a number of du-
plicates were found in his poffeffion; one of thefe
was for the watch in quehion, which a Pawnbro-
ker in Jermyn-ftreet proved be had pawned under
the name of Polhill. The watch was duly identi.
fled by Mr. Hinde : indeed, when the duplicate
was taken from him, he acknowledged the watch
11 to have been his mailer's.
His defence confided of a written addrefs to the
Court, it was of great length, and contained the
particulars of his fituation at the time, and alien-
ing that. his mailer was confiderably in arrears with
hiss for board wages. He acknowledged he took
the aiticles, but with the intention of replacing
them when he had received his money ; that he
lived creditably with Lords Barrymore, PeLerlham,
&c. and finally threw hiruklf on the mercy of the
Court.
The Profecutor declared, that that part of the
defence which relpeaed the nonpayment of board
wages, was untrue, thefc he always paid hire re-
gularly ; and that he undentood the dittre:!es of
the Prifoner arofe from his having gambled in the
Lottery.
The Court obfervcd, that allowing the allega-
tions of the Prifoner to be true, it could be no jut:
tification of his conduit; and the Jury holding the
charge fully fubltantiated, immediately found bins
Guilty.
yoftph Iledf,rel for dealing from the perfon of
Richard Hadril a 51. note, eleven tl. notes, and a
leather pocket-book.
Mr. Hadril, an elderly gentleman, f.tid, he re-
fided at Canterbury. On the aoth of Atigutt lad
he had been in Gutter-lane, in the City, Where he
received the notes charged in the indiament ; atter
which he proceeded with an intention of Loing to
the weft end of the town. While he was palling
along Ludgate-hill, dna:fly oppofite to the Old
Bailey, feveral perfons pretfed round him in fuels
a manner that he was not able to ;:,,et away from
them. As loon as he put his hand into his pocket,
he milled his pocket-book, and immediately look-
ing down, he faw a pocketbook exactly like his
own in the prifoner's hand ; upon which lie charg-
ed him with taking it. The prifoner laid, he had
no fuch thing, and offered to be fearched. The
prolecutor not perceiving it any longer in the pri-
foner's hand faid--.. then you mull have frnitygled
it away to form of your companions." A Coml.'.
ble palling by at the time, took him immediately
into cullody, but nothing was found upon him.
Mr. Hadril had tied his pocket-book that day with
a black cotton tiring, and the book which he law
in the priloner's hand had jull fuch a firing tied
about it in the fame manner. He never found his
property lince.
A gentleman refiding in Gutter-lane laid, that
on the day in queftion he had given Mr. iiadril
the money Rated in the indielment, which he put
into fuch another pocket-book as that winch Mr.
H. defcribed his to be.

The priloner, in his defence, Paid, he was film'.
ing that day at the pieturc-fltup oppofite thc
Old-
Bailey, looking at the piEtures, when the profccu-
tor came up to him, took hold of his arm, And
charged him with dealing his pocket-book, which
he had never ken,

(Aid, he was by trade
called fosse perfous

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1, or aotrnrienv thing of. tie
ide a tallow-chandler. He then
us to give biro a charafler, atad

thofe did not know of his being a tallow chandler.,
—The Jury, without retiring, found him guilty;
but the indiament was not laid capitally.
And ten were acquitted. among whom were ;
George Bead, and lame: Milos were indifled for
making an affault in the King's Highway, on the
2th of June laft, on Thomas Otherl y, putting him
in fear and danger of his life, and taking from hit
perfon, againft his will, a red leather pocket-book,
his property.
Thomas Otherly, the Profecutor, fwOre that he
is employed in the hoop binding line ; that on the
oh June lafi, as he WAS coming from Stepney to-
wards his own houfe, through & fields, about half
paft two o'clock, as near as he could recollea, or
about equarter before three, in the fields of Stepney,
he was robbed by three men; it was light enough
for him to fee a man 400 or 500 yards off : he
difeovered the perfons of the three men clearly;
when he came up to them, the one of them flopt
him, ant? demanded his money. The man who
demanded the money had a velveteen jacket on.
The profecutor told them he had no money. The
fame man who demanded it, laid, with an oath,
" we will have money, or fomething ate." The',
Profectitor told them " so dm as they pleated ;"
upon which one of them knocked him down, and
took his pocket-book out of his right hand pocket,
it contained nothing but a few memorandums, and
fome receipts for rent. He never recovered his
pocket book again. He was lure it was the fame
man who demanded his money, knockedhim down
and took out his pocket-book. The man who flood ,
by when this was done, had a brown coat and *
blue jacket under it, and that man Paid, " It is of
no use to beat him any more, for he has got no
thing to beat him for." They then left him and
he came towards home, and made the hell of his
way. The man with the velveteen jacket ke del
cribed to be the Prifoner Beach. He kid hel knew I
the Prifoner Phillips, and he laid it was he made!
tile of the erpreffion " do not beat him any more.
It is of no ufe, he has got nothing to beat him for."
The Profecutor Paid, I was then perfealy fober as
,
I am now ; I had been drinking isit the evening,
but I had flept afterwards. After I left there
men I met Haynes, one of the Shadwell Police
Officers, jun as I came out of the fields near Rat-'
cliffe Highway ; I told him I had been robbed,
and if he would go into the field with me Ilivould
endeavour to take the thieves. He Paid, he could i
t
not go with me becaufe he wasgoing with a mand
he had the charge of. but he to me, if you will
relate it to my brother Officer e will help you.
13etween feven'end eight in the fame morning, I
went to the White Lido, where I knew the Police
Officers ufed to go, and I law Brown and Holdf-
worth there. I communicated to them that I had
been robbed ; I defcribed the perfons of the men
'alto robbed me, as I did to Haynes, and as I def-
cribe them to-day. f heard nothing afterwards
till they were apprehended, and I law them at the
Office, which I fuppofed might be a month after-
wards, and then I knew them ; I had never Peen
the Prifoners before, to know them; there were
three of them brought to the Office, but I knew
only two of them. As to them, when I law them,
I had not the leaft doubt they were two of the
men who robbed me ; I have not the teal doubt
'low, but I am pofitively Cure they are the two
men. •
On his crofs-examinatimi he Paid, among many
,other chings' that he had been drinking at the
Ship publ,c houfe, at Stepney, with Come bell-
ringers, who had a rejoicing oh the evening of
the Bth of June, the night before he was robbed,
that he had been the worfe for liquor, but had
recovered by fleep, before be came out of the
twee. which was about two o'clock : but that he
had net had any quarrel with any body in the pub.
lic-houfe : that he faw, on the following day, one
of the men he had been drinking with, but did
not mention the circumflance of his having been
robbed ; he thought it better to leave that to the
officer to whom he had communicateefehe whole.

Haynes, one of the officers of the Police, con-
firmed every thing the profecutor had fworn to, as
to the d-fcription he gave of the perfnns of the
men who robbed him, of their being apprehended,
and of the profecutor pointing the two prifoners
out when they were brought to the Public-Office,
before the Ma7iftrates : and alfo Paid, the profecu-
tor was perfectly fober when the witnefs met him
after the robbery.
Another officer of the Police, to whom the pro-
ferutor alfo related the circumitanee of his being
robbed, and to whom he had defcribed the per.
ions of the prifoners, gavean account which agreed
exatily with the defcription lie bad given of their
perfons to Haynes, adding fome things as to the
filature of the prifoners, kc.
On the part of the prifoners two %Amite: were
examined. They laid, thcy were two ringers of
bells, who had been ringing a peal to their new
ReEtor, on the Rth of June : that they had a meet-
ing in the evening of that day, at the Ship public-
&Jure, at which they all drank very freely : that
the profecutor came there much in liquor: that
he fat down with one Caley, who, it appeared by
their converfation, was known to him : they laid a
wager which of theta could chalk the furtheft on
the floor, from the fame fpot. This man beat the
profecutor confider:lbl y in chalking, but the profe-
etitor quarrelled with him, intlead of paying the
wager, and this man kno: ked the profecutor down,
giving him a blow that occafioncd a fwelling as
larg as a pigeon's egg in a few minutes. The
proreentor el as very much in liquor ; they all ,
e very trecly, hut the profectitor was by much
the di iiiikell man in the company ; he had dr.mk
a great deal of gin as well as beer. He went off
from the Ship public-Iv/vice, about two o'clock,
and it is about a quarter of a nide from the field
where the profecutor Paid he was robbed. One ui
thefe two ringers of bells met the profecutor on
the evening of the 9th of June, and afked him,
ow be got home on the night before f Ile (aid,
Very well, but that he fell in the field, ansi rolled
very much in fome cow dung ; but Paid not one
word about his being rohlicd.
Phillips, the father of one of the prifoners, was
then called.—lda fuorethat he is a wlseel.wright,
that his inn n AS brorght up with Lim, and lived
with bias up to the time of hi. being apprehended

upon this charge. He lived at Mile•end ; that his
fon at that time worked over the wen- ; that in '
his work he received In violent a blow on his head,
the beginning of the month of June laft, that he
was unable to work ; that he was for feveral days,
only in and out of bed, and could not (fir from
home ; that the Witnefs was lure his fon was not
nut any night during the whole of the month of
June. He would undertake to fay that he was
not out of his bed after eleven o'clock in any one
night in the month of Jane ; it was impoffible, for
he flept in the garret, and always went up to bed
about nine, and could not come down again with-
out the knowledge of his father, who flept in a
room below.
The Mother was called alto, and the gave the
fame evidence as the Father did, as to the fon being
At home—She added, that the nurfed him fur a
great part of the month of June; for three days
he could not come out of bed, without help ; a
Dalor whom the named, but whofename we could
not hear, attended him, for the greater part of the
month of June, during which he was only able to
come down to the yard, &c.
Mr. Baron Hoy eta fummed up the whole of the
Evidence, and obferved on the moil material parts
of it, firft as to the Evidence that the Profecutor
had given himfelf—He admitted that the day after
the robbery took place, he law a perfon with whom
lie had been drinking the over night, and did not
tell that perfon, that he the Profecutor, had been
robbed, and one of the Wimelles fwore " that he
I law the Profecutor on the evening of the 9th,"
when the robbery had happened in the morning of
that day, afked him, " How he got home?" Flt
faid, "very well, but that he fell down and rolled
himfelf in fome cow dung," without a word of the
robbery. Now laid, the Learned Judge, Gentlemen,
that is a very fiogular cireumflance, and weighs on
my mind very much. You are to fay what weigh' it
has okyours. I think that, if any man was robbed
oftiftight, knocked down and rifled by three fop,-
pads, and on the following day, met one of his own
companions with whom he had been drinking, but a
few minutes betore he was robbed, he would have
mld that companion of the robbery, and that the
more el-peeling as that very companion had afked
him how he got home that night ?—l'et the PrO-
reenter tells you he did not fay any thing -about it,
thinking it was better to leave that to the officer.—
This may be fo, but I own to my mind, it is moil
extraordina, y conduit, if he was robbed. So ex-
traordinary as to make me doubt whether what he
Pays is true. I feel this very ffrongly on my mind,
but it is for you to weigh it in yours. Another
contradiCtion of the Profecutor is this, he fwears
be had no difpute on that night, at the public-houfe
in queftion,whereas it turns out that he had a quar-
rel with a perfon who gave him a blow, which 1/
was extraordinary if he forgot it, for it brought
him to the ground, and caufed an immediate I wel-
ling as large as a pigeon's egg. The identity of
the perfons of the Priloners, the Learned Judge
fait), depended entirely upon the evidence of the
profteutor himfelf, for he was not corroborated in
that particular by any body. The only point in
which his evidence was confirmed, was that of the
defeiption he gave of the perfons of the prifoners,
and upon that tt was obfervable, that he certainly
gave the very fame defctiption of thefe men to
both the officers of the Police, and this was very
Orong, for it appeared that he did go into theft
fields at the time he Rated; and that almoft on
the inftant he made the alarm to the officer of the
Police, w'aom he wanted to go with him at that
moment in fearch of the robbers. If this was a tale
Made out by the profecutor, he muff have contriv-
ed the whole of it in one moment ; but it was poi
fible thathe was robbed, and that he was miftaken
in the perfons of the robbers; if fo, the prifoners
were of courfe entitled to their acquittal. Now
upon that fubjea, the Learned Judge obferved,
that the Jury would confider the evidence of the
father and mother of the prifoner Phillips. If they
were to be believed, the profecutor was wrong as
to one of the prifoners, at all events. If he was
wrong as to Phillips., it was but fair to conclude
that he was wrong as to Beach, for he fwore with
equal pofitivenefs as to both, and he had no bet-
ter means of knowing the one than the other of
them. On the whole of the cafe, the Learned
Jude faid, it depended very much on the credit
the Jury gave to the evidence of the profecutor.—
If they thought that the robbery took place at a
time of the morning when the light was clear
enough, and the prosecutor's head clear enough,
to diltinguifh the perfons of the prifoners, fo that
he could not millake them, then they would find
the prifoners guilty. If the evidence was not fatif
faCtory to them, that he was not wrong, but that
he was, as the laid he was, perfealy fober, and that
he had light enough to enable him to diftinguilh
the countenances of thefe men (who, by the bye,
he never law before), and if they thought that the
extraordinary eircumftance of his not telling his
companion he was robbed, was not enough to in-
troduce a doubt into the cafe, they would find the
prifoners guilty ; but if, on the contrary, they
thought it was very Orange that he did not tell his
companion he was robbed, and if they thought he
was not recovered from his drinking (fince lie did
not remember the blow by which .1c was knocked
down), fo that the cafe was doubtful at 'call, then
they would give the prifoners the benefit of that
doubt, and acquit them. All thefe obfervativs
were made on the cafe withot.t the evidence of the
father or mother of the prifoner Phillips ; if the Ju.
ry believed their evidence, the point would hardly
admit of any doubt, but the prifoners would be
acquitted.
The Jury deliberated for about half a minute,
and found both the Defendants—Nor Gv4tj.
Beach wys tried with two others, upon an in-
diament for highway robbery, near Nightingale-
lane, and taking away the watch of a perfon of
the name of Richard Groom, on the 7th of July laft.
The profecutor proved that he was robbed abont
eleven o'clock at night, by three men, but he
(wore tie could not undertake to identify one of the
priforiers. bic laid he could not fwear pofitively
to the perfon of any one of them, and therefore
they were an acquitted.
. . _

U',! as AFT, charged a ith a capital offence,
in violently ailaulting Ann Ikhnan, and forcibly

taking from )ter perfcin a 21. Bcnk Nom and i4s.
her property.
It appeared that the Profectitrix, a Negrefs; SV2,
a common creature of the town, And by the ac•
counts of one or two of the witnetTes, one of the
loweft and moll abandoned • !!. her kind. She told
a long, and certainly tattier improbable tiory,
with refpett to the charge. She hated, that be•
tween one and two o'clock in the morning of the
ift intl. the went into the houfe of the Profccutor,
(who keeps one of Oink low receptacles in Hedge
lane,) accompanied by two men ; that the had at
the time a 21. Bank Note, which (he received from
a Gentleman in Pall-Mall, and that the had alto
14.5.—a1l which the held in her hand ; and that the
told her companions the had the money. She then
ftatcd that one of the men gave her half-a-guinea
to change, and bny fume gin : this, the find, (he
put into her mouth ; the went down accordingly
to purchafe the liquor, and at the foot of the hairs
was met by the Prifoner, who the fuppofed mutt
have overheard her tell the men above (lairs of the
money the had in her pciffetlion. He tame up to
her, and faid, How came you by that money. ?
give it me; what bufinefs has fiich a blackb—h with
fo much money ?" He then, the laid, knocked her
down, and putting his knee upc••l her flomach,
forced the money and note out of her hand ; that
the then went out, bought the gin at a public
houfe, and returned with it ; that all that time the
made no mention of her being robbed to any per-
fon. Soon after the returned, the prifoner came'
with two watchmen, and forced into the room ;
on which the men ran out, and afterwards that the
was beat and abuled very much by the Prifoner
and the watchmen.
This was the fubftance of her limy as applying
to the charge againll the Prifoner ; the remaining
evidence on the part of the profccntion refpefted !
the condutt of the Prifoner when the Profecutrix
had fubfequently made tha charge againft him.—
Two Witneffes were brought forward in this view,
who were not apparently of the mat refpettable
defeription : the jet, however, of v teat they ad-
vanced was, that the Prilanci , while in cutiody at
a public•houfe, before he was taken to the Marl-
borough-fireet Office, had laid, in their hearing,
that he had fent home for a 21. Note and 14s. an
order to latisfy that infamous black woman who
had chaiged him with robbing her. Kennedy, the
officer, who was brought forward on the fame tide,
hated, that he heard the Prifoner fay he had fent
for a 4.05. Note, to give that black b—h, fooner
than go before a lititice.
The Prifoner, in his defence, lblemnly denied
the charge, and brought forward two Watchmen,
who hated that he had applied to affift hini in turn-
it,g two men and a black woman out of his houfe,
who he was afraid would rob him ; they went up,
on which the men went away at once • the woman
remained and had tome words with Berry, w!-Inm
the abufed very much, and laid (be had paid h'm
a !ladling for the ufe of the room ; that the was
not ftruck by any of them ; and that they never
heard her make a charge of robbery. •
On evidence to this effe(t, and under an appro-
priate charge from Mr. Jullice Ls BLANC, the
Jury had no hefitation in acquitting the Prithner.
john Wilfifon was indicted for healing three
tol. three 51. tour 11. Bank-of England Notes, two
7s. pieces, two half-crowns, and foUr
the property of Catherine Pugh, in her dKcllir -'
houfe. _ _ _ _ .

Catherine Pugh, the Profecutrix, /wore, that
(he lives at a place called Great-Garden, Seven-
flep-alley, St. Catherine's, and keeps a houfe there;
that the prifoner lodged with her for five week s :
that on the 24th of July (he loft her money and
Bank notes ; the money and the notes were packed
up in a drawer in a cleft of drawers in my bed-
room, faid (he, where I flept ; I faw the money
about halipaft five in the morning; there were
three tol. notes, three 51. four IL two feven
ling pieces, two half-crowns, and four thillings,
all my ownimoney; before eight in the morning, I
difcovered that I had been robbed. 1 went to the
drawer, and miffed the pocket-book in which the
Notes and money were, my watch alfo was gone.
The drawer was locked, but I left the key in it ;
I then gave information for the prifoner to be
taken. The reafon for it, that he was the only
perfon who flept in the houfe ; he flept above me,
and he could rot go down (lairs without going
through my bed-room. I had Peen him at fix in
the morning, he was then in my bed-room. I
allied him, what he got up fo loon for? He laid
he did not know, but he could not fleep. He
went down and he came back again in about half
an hour, and he drank with me in bed ; he fetched
me fome liquor, and he gave me fome while
another man was with me in bed. The man who
gave me the money, he is a failor gone to the
Indies, he always gave me all his money when he
came to my honk, the fame as if I had been his
wife.

Another woman (wore that the prifoner had
Tome converfation with her, and told her the watch
was with a perfon near Deptford Turnpike, but
was not fo.—As to the money, he faid h: would
Five Mrs. Pugh a re,te of har.d for the whole of it
f he was citA rttl.

The Pr ;I'.ner fiid, the honk Wai a houre of
ill-
fatne, that ',Aged in it a while a;.d went
away, but kriev: ne.thing of the money or in-Rec.--
None were found on Lim.

The Jury did nut think it (ale to conviek a man
and forfeit his life upon ft eh evidence, and, there-
fore, found the prifoner—/Vet

Laft week were committed to York-C*llle, Wil-
liam Peel, charged with having feloninutly taken
and driven away one ewe thecp and one lamb, the
property of James Brigg of Eafington ; George
Hobfnn, of Attercliff, wiredrawer, charged with
haling from the bleaching grounds of William
Garlick and others, fituated-at Barntley, Cenral
parcels of linen yarn, and with burglarioufly en.
teri the warehoufe of John Pickering, and Real-
ing thereout one piece of linen cloth ; alfo Jona-
than Haigh, late of Clayton, charged with having
at divers times bought of feveral different perfons,
great quantities of linen yarn, knowing it to have
beat (toles from differs perfons in Barak..

• tilerttS.
On Altolay talk, T.stly Csstb.iriue Grabsrs. el. fists.
.On Sunday, lu the wife of pais
of a stiubbtor.
Toefilay, the Lady of John Dent, rs+ M. P. of a
at bis hook in South AUdICV-Neare.
On (he gtb init. Mrs. Arbuthnot, Qii.:en-ftrect,
of a fun.
Iq Sacktrille-Rreet, Dublin, the if of Sir Doke
Bart. of a fon.
In Jervis-ftreet, Dublin, the wife of Dr. Lenrsigue, of a
laughter.
Sugtlay morning, In Stratford Place, the Lady of Richard
Johnfon,Efg. of a fo:s.
Tuefilay, in Laker•Rreet,'lhe Lady of Licut. Colonel Knot,
Firit Regimen, of Guards, of a daughter.