Star.
London, England, 1815-03-29 00:00:00

DEVON ASAZ ES.

John Josiah Chisholm was indicted for forging a
Navy-bill.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coall sail, she kept a draper's
shop at Plymouth. On the Bth ut August the Pri-
soner came to her shy, in a naval dress, and pur-
chased various articles, and had them packed up in
two parcels—one he directed for Mr. Palmer, and
the other for Lieutenant Gore. Prisocer thin said
he was going a little way, and would be hack in a
quarter of :an hour, and asked if she could clia!ige
Navy-bill for !:im, which t•hi; tht-i,;!!!it she .;. •
cane ahout. th 7

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c: things 11 id °ought, •intotitutott
auout X 9: the Pri,ont•r t.,eu I.ri...lte,:ed 4 Navy-5.11
for Cs. 9J. Mr. Westiak,, soak it, acd west
out, and the rrisaner a'.sa. They retutwal nPArly
to;:ctl.er, wit:a Mr. lVestlake pcii.ted on,. a .0 • -
hilts to fill up, v:ltich Inc did with the name of
I...kzabeth Coal! ; it was then given to witnesc, at.d
Ole return! 1 aLcut 413 in chaive. IL:- servant
took the p.trceL t.. t!‘c Commercial Inn ; 11:e bill pro-
duced in Court !,t.ie knew to be Cie SAW:: t.I.LL Wab
giV,MI her by the I),:soner.
Mr. We,tlake s tid, that on the Ith of olnst he
went to Mrs. Orth's who Lint to
make cut the hill of thing, the Prisoner had
bought. Shalt!). after the Pri,,,ner cattle in, and
tendered hint a Navy-bill fur /222 t;c. c' .1. 11e span.
ed the hill, and printing to the natale of P.( lint
Gore, asked the Prisote•r if that w.ts his name ? who
answaed his name was Gore. He Cam pointed to
another part ef the bill, and aske..l if that was C
Payee's sitznature? T 11:: Pi isoi.cr replied, Yes ;"
Vitae(' out the h?a,ik for hint to t.ll up, w 1.1,11 he did
with the name of Lhr.. Coall.

Captain Boyce, of the Zulu:, It: bad no
officer on 1 and of his ship of the name a Core ; ;ht•
signetere of his name on the N.tvy.bill pranced was
not his writ:ng.
!Ir. Ingram, CAptain's CIA of the Pr;nee,
whom the Prisoner had been an as ,ist.o.t,
the writing on the forgeel to be the Pris
Mr. Vickery apprehended the Prisoner at S'iaites-
bury ; when he apprehended him be denied 1.15 name
being Chisholm, but afterwards owned it to he his
name ; he found several articles in his lodgingswhich the Prisoner had of Mrs. Coall ; he broir.:.!‘t
the Prisoner to Exeter, where he escaped from him ;
he afterwards apprehended and lodged him in gaol.
The Jury found him Guilty.—Seutence postponed
on account of a point in law.

Friday, Mr. Justice Le BL ANC left York for Lan-
caster, but first was pleased to reprieve all the priso.
ners under sentence of death, except Joseph black-
burn, for committing a forgery and uttering a coun-
terfeit stamp—and William Roberti, for not surien-
dering to a commission of bankrupt, the epletition
the latter of whom is tespited to the 13th May net,
in order to afford time to submit a point of. I.t w,
arising out of the case, to ne opinion of the JudN.s.
WATERFORD, 11/1 A NCR :M. —IIIC foil°
melancholy list of sentences : T. Power, for horse.
stealing, to be hanged at Waterford, en Satutday
I%t Apt il. The prisoner, immediAtly after his sen-
tence, exclaimed, that lie hoped his Lordship tvoald
meet with as hard a sentence hintsclt yet !"—James
Sliney, to be hanged at IVaterford, on Saturday,
Bth April.—James Rea, James Shea, Fitz-
•gerald, and Timothy llrien, to be hanged iit
taylor, on Thursiay, 30th Mardi.—Atitew and
James Mullowney, to lie hanged at Wa;e:iotd, ou
Saturday Sth Wheal:nil, to I,e knitted
at Cappoquin, on Tbursd.ly 3Jth March.—Fortniog
a total of ten capital convictions --a iiiin:ber which
never has been equalled within our konwledgth