Star.
London, England, 1802-02-22 00:00:00

OLD BALLET:

On Saturday twenty priConers were tried, one of
whom was capitally conviaed, viz.
Milian Beam, for burglarioufly breaking and
entering the dwelling-houfe of Meffrs. Edward
and John Troughton, on the night of the 9tlt init.
and felonkutly Ilealing therein an Hadley'c Sex -
tadt, value 81. a Compafs, value 31. two Hydro-
meters, value 11. los. a Turnhench, value 4 and
fome brats work of a Refleering Telefeope, value
3s. their property.
The Profecutors, it appeared, are Mathematical
Inftruntent Makers, and live at No. 136, Fleet-
Rivet. The cafe, from its peculiar nature, rather
one of intricacy, and the length to which the ex-
amination of fome of the witneffes ran, occupied
the attention of the Court a confiderable time ;
however, its leading merits, as refulting from the
evidence, will appear from the following recital :
Between twelve and one o'clock in the morning
of the loth, Mr. Edward Troughton, a feeble
and elderly man, was alarmed by the intelligence
that Come thie% es had broke into his back premifes
in Peterborough-court, which were tiled as a work.
thor, and in which one of his fervants, an errand-
boy, Rept. He immediately put on his clothes,
armed himfelf with a bayonet, and went out to
the neat watchman ; having aronfed this vigilant
guardian of the night, they proceeded together to
the back booth, but they had fcarcely entered the
Court, when a man rufhed out—this perfon, who
Mr. Troughton believed to be the prifoner, they
in vain endeavoured to fecure, and in the Ilion
and ineffeaual flru&gle, Mr. T. received a violent
blow on the face. -When they got near the door
of the back-premifes, two other men came roll-
ing, and eafily got by them ; about this time an
alarm became general—the rattles were (prune.,
and feveral perfons collefted in Peterborough-
court, and in a little time a Gentleman came and
informed the party ,he had obfet red a man of fur-
gi,;:iecms appearance run into IVine•office-court ;
of the patroles were immediately difpatched
alter him ;
.on fearching, they obferved the prifo-
ner endeavouring to conceal himfelf in the corner
of a yard into which he had got over an iron-barred
gate, and one of his (hoes and Rockings were off,
which rather extraordinary circumflance was not
accounted for by the evidence, nor noticed by the
prifoner in his defence. They obtained the key
of the yard door and got the prifoner out. He
was brought to Mr. Troughton, who, with fome
others, had been examining the -premifes in the
interval. When Mr. Troughton proceeded to ex-
-amine the prifoner's countenance, the latter put
his face confiderably out of form—however, he
immediately recognifed him to be a Journeyman
who had worked with him feveral month, and
bad left his employ about five weeks before. He
upbraided him with his condua, on which the
prifoner dropt upon his knees, and begged for-
givenefs of Mr. Troughton. The Rate in which
the .premifes were found was next defcribed : in
theft confiderable depredations were committed—
one or two doors were forced—a number of ma-
thematical inftruments were !tattered about the
Boor of the workllsop--all thole defcribed in the
indiamtnt wave either removed (tom their right
places in, order to be taken away, or were aatudly
carried off; the (errant lay jolt within the door,
&c. ; a drawer, in which tome gold and flyer
was kept, as materials for the ornamental parts of
the finer inaruments, was wrenched from the
bench, and near it was afterwards found a Rick,
which was afferted to have been the prifoner's ; but
the evidence of this fats not being fatisfaaory, the
Recorder would not let it go to the confederation
of the Jury. The various articles produced were
duly identified by Mr. Troughton, and all the cit..
cumflances above Rated proved by feveral wit-
neffes.

The Prifoner's defence amounted to little more
than a denial of the charge, and an attempt to
alter the fenfe of the words, which be admitted
' he had Paid to Mr. Troughton when brought up
to him.
The RECORDER recapitulated the evidence to
the Jury with clearnefs and impartiality. He oh-
(crud the indiament embraced two capital
charges againff the prifoner; firft, that of the bur-
glary, and fecondly, the Healing to an amount of
forty (billings and upwards in a dwelling-houfe.
He noticed the fad of Peterborough-court being
no thoroughfare as a very thong point in the
cafe; and if from a (hid review of the evidence,
they believed that the prifoner was one of thofe
who were in the honk, or were teen coming out
of the Court by the Profecutor, it was their duty
to cowrie. After a Ilion conference, the Jury
found the prifoner Guilty—Death.
Thirteen were convicted of felony, viz.
Ha lea, for Stealing a cloth coat, and othir
articles, the property or J. Carpenter.
H. StoriLua, for flealing four brafs candlefticks,
the property of U. Cherrelt.
7. Parana, for Realms four pecks of floor, the
property of J. and J. Surrey.
W. Heron, for (leafing 33 yards of velvet, the
property of F. Stubbs.
M. Ditrall, for Healing an oak plank, the pro-'
perty of El. and J. Fletcher.
G. Ofwald, for ilealing nine boot legs, the pro-
perty of & And R. Ware.
B. Kea4 for stealing a mahogany fool, the pro-
perty of J. Dennctt.
W. Yew, for flealing a cheek, the property of
T. Hicks.
novas Damervortb, alias Powell, and William
Sr/oorrgen alias ifilreeval, were indicted for flealing
a deal box, and feveral articles of wearing apparel,
• the. property of Richard Snell. ,
Richard Snell, the profetutortdepokd, that on
the forenoon of the 18th of January, between the
hours of eleven and twelve, he fet off from his honk
in Orchard-nreet, Portman-iquare, in a nne.horfe
*Lade, with a deal box aliened behind it with
rends, and proceeded down.Oxfuni-lireet, and that
when he came to Brrxid-ftreet, St. Giles% he found
the •box was gone; -that on the Thariday following
in oonfequeoce of an Adventism's*, he attended
.the office at bow Area, and there &mid his box j
—~ mozerttnnisiold kr it. • •

Richard Hearne fwore, that on the forenoon of
the 18th of January, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, he was going down -brforci..fireet, and'
law a tingle horle chaife driving along the middle
of the firm, and the two prifoners feemingly run-
ning after it on the pavement • that he fufpated
their intentions, and having fome property with
him, he went into a (Imp, left it there, and follow.
ed them. When he came out of the (hop, the pri-
foners had got the box from the chaife, and were
making off with it. He followed them up a court
and ftopped them : they made reftftance, and got
away from him; however, he Rill purfued them
to a mews near Bedford-fquare, where the prifoner
Dungworth let the box fall and ran on ' • that he
continued to follow him nearer to Bedford-fquare,
when a man came to his affillance, and they fe-
cured him and took him with the box to Bow-ftreet ;
that in the courfe of this purfuit, which continued
fix or feven minutes, he feveral times cried out,
‘• Stop thief!" yet, many people followed
he could get no afliftance till the man before men-
tioned came up to him. The box being produced,
he (wore it was the fame he had taken to and left
at Bow-lireet.

James Bowles depofed, that he taw the prifoner
Dungworth in Carlifle-mews, with a box on the
ground dole to him ; that the left witnefs had
hold of him, but he got away, and Hearne and the
witnefs put fued him, fecund him near Bedford-
fquare, and took him to Bow-ftreet.
Richard Snell (wore to the box and its contents
being the property he had loft.
nowgee, the other prifoner, was taken by other
perfons and carried to Bow-Street, but thole who
took him did not appear againft him.
Mr. Baron Hot HAM Summed up the evidence,
and lamented, that fuck a fad Mould exill, its, that
a perfon in purfuit of depredators of property, in
the middle of the day, Should continue a purfuit of
fix or (even minutes, and though he called out flop,
thief feveral times, and many perfons joined in the
purfuit, that no one would give him affiftance, till
Bowles came up to him. There was no evidence,
he (aid, againft Thompfon ; and, if the Jury be-
lieved they had gone out without an intent to heal
this box, as Thompfon was not proved to have
had hold of it, but only attempted to refeue
Dungworth, they would acquit him, and find the
other guilty ; but, if they thought he was privy to
the intent of healing, he was equally guilty, by
being in company.
The prifoner Thompfon addreffed the Court,and
Paid, 66 he was informed by his fellow prifoner, that
the witnefs, Hearne, had accepted two guineas
not to appear againft them."
Hearne was then called up again, and being
asked the queStion whether he had received money
from the prifoners ? he Paid be would relate the
whole Rory : he informed the Court and Jury, that
on the Thutfday following the day of the robbery,
the prifoners fent for him to Newgate, to which
place he went ; that feveral of Dungworth's friends
were there, interceded with him not to appear
againft him, and offered him money for that pur-
pole. He told him he muft appear, and refuted
their offer. On his return home, he found a two
pound note enclofed in a haled paper, but never
knew whom it came from. On being asked what
be had done with the money? he acknowledged
he had (pent ir.
Mr. Baron Hor HAM told the Jury, that it would
have been handforner if Hearne had returned the
money to the pnfoners, but he did not think it
made any alteration in the cafe. It would be a
very grievous and dangerous pradice if the friends
of prifoners, or prifoners themfelves, were at all
countenanced in Cuch attempts of endeavouring to
invalidate the teftimony of witneffes againft them. I
The Jury, without hefitation, pronounced them
both Guilty.
Barthokmeas Ritchie, a lad of about Is years of
age, and Dania! Richards, and George Gram two
boys under eleven years of age, were charged with
a capital offence, in burglanouily breaking and
entering the dwelling houfe of Mary Bleffings,
fpinfter, on the night of the ph init. and heal-
ing therein five pan of pockets, and two Shifts,
her property.
The Profecutrix, it appeared, keeps a haber-
dallier's &op, No. 123, Brick-lane : between feven
and eight o'clock in the evening of the 15th, the
Prifoners, together with two other young lads,
were obferved by tuts of the Witneffes, Police Of-
ficers, looking in very intently, at the windows,
and lurking about the doors of one or two Shops
in the neighbourhood of the Profecutrix : they ob-
(erred them narrowly for tome time ; however, for
a few minutes, they loft fight of the party, but very
&only they obferved the three prifoners coming
I out of the door of No. tel.. Ritchie bad a bundle
under his arm, and without his hat, which was
carried by Richards; Green accompanied them,
and they tan heftily acrofs the Street. The Officers
immediately purfued, and Shortly overtook them,
when Ritchie dropped the bundle : this was found
to contain the articles fet forth in the indiament,
and which were identified by the Profecutrix as
her property. She happened to be out at the time.
No evidence appeared as to the fad of burglary.
The Prifoners offered no defence, but a few wit-
neffes appeared to their cluiraders.
Mr. Joh ice Li BLAN c, who tried the Cafe, Rated •
to the jury, that, with refpea to the capital part
of the charge, they could Safely difrnifs it from
their confideration, as no evidence whatever ap-
peared of the burglary. The queftion then was,
whether the prifoners were guilty of the fimplefe-
lony ? this they were to collect from thetvidence;
but, at the fame time, to bear in mind, that if
they believed the prifoners were confederated to-.
gether, and drifting each other, for one common
puipofe, they were all implicated in the charge;
though the hinds of only one of them might have
removed the property.
The Jury found them guilty of Stealing only. _
One was convided of a nifderneanor, viz.
0417 a Rook, for having, on the sift of Apnl,l
795, at the Laberty ofliaveringllowerAn thel
county of Eire; unlawfully and violently &faulted:
Charles Wakely, an Seer in the &Price et thei
ite, in the due execution ofhis-datz, Itemi.
Excite,.
our Lord the ging scolb. wfthit wow,'

Charles Wakely, the profectftor; clearly proved
a moft violent affault by the prifoner, aided and
afllfied by his mailer, John Kiernan, and others,
and, of his feizing the foap Itotwithftanding, to the
amount of 7 cwt.
I Mr. ALLEY, as Counfel for the prifoner,-allow-
"' ed that it was impoflible, after the evidence that,
I had been given, to fay a word againft their finding
a verdia : but he took the opportunity of men-
tioning what might operate in favour of the pri-
foner, wheh judgment (hould be paired, viz. that
he had acted under the orders of his mailer, and
.alfo under a Palle and mistaken notion, Which had
been but too prevalent, that an Officer in the
Excife, not producing add (hewing a warrant, had
no right to feize goods, and might be treated as a
highwayman." That the prifoner had in confe-
quence been obliged to abfcond, and had fuffered
upwards of five years banifhment from his wife
and family, which he hoped'the Court would con-
fider as having been a very confiderable degree of
punifhment.
Mr. Mice Cusstsaa told the Jury, that the
fad had been proved in all its circumflances, as
clear as the light ; and that, unlefs they particu-
larly wifhed him to recapitulate the evidence, he
thought it unneceffary, and they could do no other
than find a verdia of Guilty; which they did ac•
cordingly.
And- five were acquitted, viz. W. Wbirtirir, fo
pbia Bon" 7. Adana, R. May, and T. Reditifortl•

Thurfday night,about nine o'clock, fix defperate
fellows, well armed, with their faces blackened,
milted into the houfe of Mr. WINP4kLLS, near the
Bald-faced Stag, on Epping-foreft, and plundered
it of nearly all the property, as alto feveral perfons
of their money. Mr. Fi.owres, a poor indttfirious
potatoe-grower in the neighbourhood, was, among
others, robbed of 3os.
On Saturday the Both ult. a young man attired
as a butcher's boy, went to the looker's houfe near
Richborough cattle, on the grazing lands belonging
to Mr. Th. Donne, of Up.ftreet, and faid he came
for•the 15 fat cheep his matter had bought, and
pointed out the particular field where they lay.—
The looker being from home,-his wife told the boy
as he knew where the (.beep were, to take them.:—
They were accordingly driven off,of which the wo-
man informed her hufband when he came in ; the
man fuppofing his matter had fold the (beep, took
no further notice till Wednefday, when Mr. Denne
calling to enquir after the weltare of his flock,
was told all was right, except the is he had fold
being delivered. Mr. D. taid he had fold no (beep ;
but reeolleding that a butcher at Sandwich, with
whom be had frequently dealt, had lately fpoken
to him about Tome fat (beep, concluded his being in
immediate want of mutton, had induced him to
fend for them, and that he would pay the value
the next market-day ; he therefore departed in
that convidion: however; the Saturday following,
on application to his fuppofed chapman, he had
the mortification to find he had been compleatly
defrauded, by a new mode of (peep-Re:ding, of
the fifteen , (beep, valued on the average at 4
each ; and eight days having elapfed between the
lots and its chfcovery, every fearch after the thief
has hitherto proved indict:Nal
The Beadles of the parith of St. Clement Danes
having obferved an infant, about feven years of
age, repeatedly caking charity in the Strand, took
the child to the work houfe, as they could not
then difcover her friends, or the place of her legal
' fettlement; however, they at lag found her father.
whole name is Richard Brotherton, and who refid-
, ed at a houfe in the New Way, near the Almonry,
in Wellmintier. The Beadles complained, and
Brotherton and his wife were brought before the
fitting magiflrates, at Queen-fquare : examining
the child, the confelfed that the was tent daily to
beg in the streets, and that if the did not bring
home money to the amount of one chilling, the
was beat by her mother, and otherwife ill.treated.
For the fafety of the child, the Magifkrates order-
ed that the should be fent to the parith of St.
Mary, Whitechapel, her fettlement, and where the
may be probated from the inhumanity of her pa-
rents.

A few evenings fince a perfon in woman's ap-
parel watt to the houfe of a refpeelable farmer in
Met, and entreated lodging for the night. It was
dark and rainy, and the road to the nearefi place
of public accommodation was almoft impaffable,
and the farmer was induced by thefe confidera-
tios to comply with the renueft ; the Oranger was
accordingly retreated, and furnilbed with a bed in
one of the ganc.s. The family retired to reit at
ten o'clock, but one of the female fervants having
fame needle-work of her own to complete, return-
ed io the kitchen, and fat working till near twelve
o'clock, when hearing fome one on the thin, and
fuppofmg it to be her millrefs, fhe ran to a clofet,
and for the purpofe of concealment, entered it.—
Prefently after, the door of the kiichen opened;—
the pretended woman cautioufly approached,
throwing off a gown and apron, difcovered him-
felf by has drafs to be a man. He took from his '
pocket -a pair, of horfe patois, and a large cafe-
knife, and. laying them on the table, proceeded to
the houfe door, which he opened, and then whitt-
led, doubdefs for the purpofe of attrafting his af-
fociates ; but the lignal not being anikvered, he
went forth a link for the purpofe of repeating ir.
The girl hearing him pals the window, and judg-
ing byhis fecund whittle that he was fome dittance
from the door, the fprang to it, and 'hut. andle-
cared it 'before he could return; the then alarm-
ed the family, whole lives were thus probably pre-
, Carved by hey energy.
Information of the circtimllance was communi-
cated to the low-fireet Nagifinales on the morn-
, ing following, and two of the officers were dif.
patched to the place, bat. we regret to fay, that
:this worft of ruffians I:as hitherto eluded difcovery.

611001 The celebrated Mrs. herrings* arks nu Thutf-
-slay /aft folly committed from the Poblic-OiSce,
Onion-Hall, to the New Gaol in the Borangh, to
be tried at Kiagilon, being charged -with robbing
-a gentleman in Bt.4)earge's Field. of his watch.
Aletaiwer was Ibtiged whirl Tier on a limber
iisaige-of robbfngamtaiter gentleman of a pocket-
,-ctattataingieMe valuable ptyperry.