Star.
London, England, 1801-09-23 00:00:00

iLb PAIL:E'r.

Yellerday twenty-nine prifoners were tried, one
of whom was capitally conviaed, viz.
.701,4 Gotifried, a Oerman, for flealirg a gm-it
coat and var;ous articles of wearing apparel. i.f
the value of 41. in the dwelling-hunk cf Benjamin
Lay, at Small'aury Green. _ .

Prifoner was feen coming out of the honk
with the property in his poffeßioti.
The Prifoner in his defence, Rated through the
medium of an interpreter, that he is by trade a
blackfmith ; that he came horn Heffe Cath.l to
feek employment in this Country ; that he landed
at Portfmouth ; that on coming up to London, he
was attacked by three men who yobbcd and Ittip-
ped him of every thing he had in the world, ar,d
that he was induced to do this at to cover his
nakednefs.

He called no Witnefs, but produced a Paper,
purporting to come from tome Municipal Officer
in his own Country, being in the nature of a Cer•
tificate of the good charader of the Prifoner. Gado
—Death.

Eighteen were conviaed of felony.
Samuel Richartroa was tried for felonioully Real•
ing and embezzling a sot. Bank Note, in the courfe
of his employment as fervant to John Burrows,
the property of the Laid John Burrows.
The Profecutor being fworn,faid, " I live at Ken.
fington ; I am an Upholder and Cabinet-maker ;
the Prifoner was my fervant, employed to fetch
and carry, and to do every thingthat was required
of him. He was employed alto in writing for me
as a Clerk, or to do any thing that was requited of
hint. He was a weekly fervant. On Saturday the
sth or September, I trulted him with a Sol. Bank
Note, to go to London to take up a Bill of mine
due that day for zBl. made payable to a Mr.
Wright, of Bloomfbury. The Prifoner went away
from me about three o'clock in the afternoon ; he
did not return; on the Sunday morning I went to
my friend Mr. Wright, to enquire if he had been
there; I was informed he had been there, and re-
ceived inftruklion where the Note lay, which was
at Mars. Hodfol and Stirling's, Bankers, in the
Strand. On the Monday morning as loon as the
Banking-houfe was open, I went there to enquire
whether the Bill had been taken up. I found it
was not ; I have the Bill now in my pocket. Frem
thence I went to the Bank, and gave the number
of the Note, to put a flop to the payment. I then
went to the Tower, to inquire if the Prifoner had
been imps-did, or whether any thing of that kind
had happened to him. On fccond thought, I ima-
gined that the Prifoner might himfelfhave been at
the Bank to get the Note called. The Clerks there
fearched from my deferiptionof the Note,andfnund
that it had been calked on the Saturday. I then
went to Bow-ilreet and got a Warrant, and after
having made Come endeavours to find the Prifoner
without effea, I gave the Warrant to a Conflable,
who at IA apprehended him. Here is the Bill
which I direEted the Prifoner to take up for me,
and for which I gave him the pal. Bank Note,
which Bill the Prifoner did not take up, and which,
confequently I was obliged to pay. 1 have known
the Prifoner from a child, and he was in my fervice
for two years. I had no charatler with him ;he
was always of an artful and avaricious difpoti.
tion, but I had no reafon before this to fufpett his
bonen y."
[This tail part of the evidence was given in con.
fequence of the Prifoner having afieed the Profe-
cutor whetherhe had evcrdepended on him before?)
A Conftable who apprehended the Prifoner (aid,
he found him at a Public-houfe at Gravefend ;
fearched him, and found n•thing on his perfon,
but under the pillow where he flept, there was a
pocket-book containing fome gold and (liver, and
a Oue Pound Bank Note, which was produced in
Court.

The Clerk of the Bank then proved that the
Prifoner changed there on Saturday the sth of
September, about five o'clock in the afternoon, a
Bank Note for 501. and had fifty tl. Notes for it.
He was pofitite as to his perfon; the Notes he had
in change were numbered from 9151 to woo.
The 501. Note was then produced, and alfo the
11. Note, and they were both proved ; the pl. one
to be the Note which the Profecutor gave to the
Prifoner to take up the Bill, and the 11. Note to
have been givcn to the nil-otter in change for this
501. Note at the Bank, on Saturday th:. sth of Sep-
tember, the day on which he went off at three
o'clock from the Proferutor's honk.

The prifoner in his &fence Laid, tb.tt he never be-
fore this time did any injury to the property of his
mailer, but had alive) s lcrvcd hint faithfully.—
That he had, unfortunately, got into bad com-
pany, had loft, by gaming, a fortnight's wages,
and he was advifed by a man he met on the Sa-
turday, to take this note to the Bank and change it.
The COMMON St Itit•NT (*rimmed up the evi-
dence, and obferved to the Jury, that this was a
profecution upon a Statute pallid about two years
ago, making it Felony in any Clerk or fervant to
embezle the property of a mailer, by whom fuch
fervant was nulled, and employed, fubjeCting the
perfon conviBed to tranfpottation—a feverity
which the difhonelly of fervants had made abfo-
lately necefikry. As to the chant:kr of the pri-
foaer (for he had propofed to call witneffes to his
charaCter), as far as that could go, he mull be
taken to have a good one before this aet was done ;
the very circumfiance 04 the profecotor having
trolled him with the col. note, was a proof that he
thought him trua.worthy on the day when this took
place : but good charaeter, although very valuable
in the time of peril, was only valuable in a doubt-
ful cafe. When the jury were perfdlly fatisfied
on the fads, charalter was of no ufe, becaufe cha-
rafter could not alter the lefts. lithe jut y were
fatisfied upon the feels. as they were related by
the witneffes, he need not tell them it was a duty
they owed the Public', to pronounce the prifoncr
guilty. If they entertained any ferious doubt on
the cafe, they would give the prifoner the benefit
of that doubt, and acquit him—Gni/0. Aged a 6:
Was Aferzau alias Davit, for felonioully ttc.ll-
- on the tzth of September, a cloth great coa..
valued at ts. 6d. the property of John luois.
The prithner, it appeared. was pefil.ng one of
the turnpike toads tier t' U.l` tdc