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London, England, 1814-12-07 00:00:00

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Yesterday Margaret Magary was indicted for tai
in* a quantity ot sheets, curtains, and carpets, thi
property of H. Wood —Mr. Wood is an officer of
the Court of Exchequer, residing in chambers
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Staple.inn, but having a country house, to which he
and his wile retire in the summer. The prisoner, who
is a very old WOMAN was their servant, and when thep
went into the country last summer, she was left its
charge of the chambers :n Staple•inn. On Mrs.
Wood's arrival in town, she found her apartments all
in confusion, and a great deal of her property gone.
There was a woman in them, whom the prisoner had
lett to take care of them ; but the prisoner had cone
away, leaving behind her the duplicates of the articles.
Three pawnbrokers men attended with the property,
which was as much as they could carry ; and all Of
them swore to the prisoner being the person who
pledged them at their masters' shops.—Gaiity.
E. Myers and J. Abraham: were indicted for steal+
ing a peace ot cotton net, the property of W. Hey.:
wood.—The peoseeittor is a haberdasher, in the New.
road, St. George's Fields. His wife observed Myers
take the piece of net out of the window by a broken
pane. When he was charged with having taken it,
he pulled it out of his pocket, and said he did not
mean to steal—he. only meant to buy it. He then
darted out of the shop, but was stopped by a person
passing. Abrahams had been in the shop a little be-
tore Myers, who, came on pretence to buy stockings ;
but, when Abrahams followed to the watch-house,
the watch-house keeper detained him also. Myers
Guilty ; and Abrahams—Not Guilty.
The REcouncit then called Abrahams back•to the
bar, and asked him why he did net leave the country?'
adding—" You kuow you are an old acquaintance
of mine here ; and I now advise you to quit this
country as scam as you can."—Abrahams said, he
was going on lizard ship to his brother, in order to
leave the country. He had tried to get away the kart
time ; but the American ports being shut, he could

not get to that country.
Mary Bacon, ao innocent looking country girl, WMI
convicted of stealing three pair of shoes, the property
of her mistress, who, as well as the Jury, having re.
commended her to mercy, the RECORDER ordered her
to pay a fine of one shilling, and immediately to be
delivered over to her friends to be scut into the coun-
try to her parents.
Rebecca Barber' was indicted for stealing plate, fur-
niture, icc. of trifling value, the property of Jonah
Simon, Esq. an Armenian merchant, residing near
Islington.—lt appeared by the evidence for the pro-
secution, that the sister of the prisoner lived 1:2 years
as housekeeper with the prosecutor, who is eighty-
three years of age, and the prisoner lived as timid.
servant in the house at the same time. The sister
left his service, and afterwards died. The prisoner
also left soon after, and the prosecutor missed his pro.
pert y, and it was found in the possession of the prig);
ner, it having been left her by her sister. The said
property was denied to the officer by the prisoner, but
it was afterwards found in the garret of her lodgings.
The case, when the defence was entered into, shewed
a different complexion. The prosecutor was dotingly
in love with the prisoner, and, on her leaving his ser-
vice, (which she could not stay in with safety to her
own character) he gave her £l2O, aod deiired her to
make herself comfortable by any thing further she
might require. He had often in treated of her to be.
come his paramour, either in his own house, or he
would take another for her alone, and she sbduld
have two servants. She had always refused these im-
proper proposals, and she went to reside with her
uncle, a respectable cheesernonger, in Gray's Inn.
lane, whither the prosecutor followed her, and, on her
refusal to countenance him, he struck her, and after-
wards preferred this indictment.—Thelnry, without
hesitation, honourably acquitted the prisoner, who is
an interesting young woman, and the Judge refused
the order to restore the alleged stolen property.—Mr.
KNAPP, the prisoner's Counsel, then gave notice that
an action would be brought for assault and malicious
prosecution against Mr. Simon.
Saturday G. While was indicted for forging an ac-
ceptance to a bill of exchange, purporting to be that
of C. Larkin.—J. Russel said, the prisoner was a far.
mer near Rochester. In July last, he told witness he
wanted 419. 10s. for which he would give him a bill,
accepted-by Mr. Larkin, a farmer, in Kent, which he
bad receiyed• from 'that. Gentlemansfor damages, in
consequence of an excessive levy. He had not the
bill with him, but he wanted the money to "pay into
the Gravesend Bank. Mr. Russell gave him the
money, and the next time the prisoner came to town
he gave him the bill in question. Witness immedi-
ately handed it to Mr. Collins, his attorney, who paid
LI it into his banker's. When the bill became due it i
leas dishonoured, and Mr. Collins wrote to Mr. Lar..l
`kin, as the acceptor of k, which letter fell into the
hands of the prisoner, and was found in his desk after
Ilhis apprehension. The prisoner immediately wrote
two letters to Mr. Russell, praying that he would get
Mr. Collins to stop proceedings against Mr. Larkin,
as lie was not at home, and Mrs. Larkin had not
money tcr take the bill up. Upon application to Mr.
Larkin, the acceptance was declared by him to be a
forgery.—The prisoner, in his defence, said, that his
wife got the bill accepted, beca'ise at that time he
was in digress, and expected an execution to be put
into his house. The Jury retired about half an hour,
and returned a verdict—Guilty of uttering the bib,
knowing it to be forged—Death.

Friday *night, about twelve o'clock, Mr. POPPLZ.
Too, of the New Road, was attacked by three men,
at the corner of Orange-street, Bloomsbury, one of
whom struck him on the head, which brought him to
the ground,: they then endeavoured to wrest a sword.,
stick which he had in his hand from him : in the
scuffle the sword was unsheathed, and one of tbe vil-
lains who had taken the stick part struck him again
on the head, whilst another stabbed him in the arm
with a sharp instrument : they afterwards made off.
The house of Michael M'Nichol, of Glask, with-
in four miles of Newtontimavady, Ireland, was
lately broken open by a body of armed men. The
merciless banditti, atter breaking his wife's arm, and
cruelly wopnding several of his children, murdered
him, and atterwards mangled his body in a shocking
rnanirer. Two causes are assigned for this barbarous
having refused to become a member
of a treasonabm association t, and his having taken
'We' faits 'he occupied, 'the.: another man kad been
dispossessed of it.