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London, England, 1806-01-18 00:00:00

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TO A LACK or NAIL WIUCI! IitLONOID YO AN AC-
ARD, AND VIII ItAtllll,ll4 TOIJNO LADY, wno
RASA AGO DIZD 0► A DTCIIt4L.

reit& an Angel ft.d
realetta of realties Wits;
fpeak•R true—My KATlelar is dead;
flown a world like this.
thonfand fcenet of plcafurea o'er,
Thy pretence till, my mind;
tent me, K Vl* e—tbough 03 MIMI
tov‘ly once and kind.
whit'', ell. that th' angelic face,
i which thou fportive 0410;
every charm—had every gem.;
,*hat Nature e'er difilay'd.
raid to mind the witching faille..
. air tEat won my Wort ;
Mufick-volce, devoid of guile;
- looks, devoid of art.
mc, when the Hi av'niy power,
!judg'd my KATleltilkell death;
all my joys—my halcyon hour.,
with her parting breath! J. D. L.

. OLD B4nEr.
Yeßerday ty prifiners were tried) one of whom
spitally convicted, •iz. •
mr Addy, a foldier, was inditted for Reeling in
dwelltng•houfe of Edward Rimes, a publican
Napping, 51. t 25. in a (mall box, the property
Catherine Conrad, a fervant of the raid Edward
,imes. The prifoner tied been quartered at the
profecutor's hnufe for fe•eral weeks, and lodged on
• floor wish the fet want Conrad. She had
money in a (mall (crew box, in a Chet in
.men), and miffed it on the e4th of Novem-
Her firit fiiipicion of the prifoner being the
was excited by his going to the Playhoufe, for
ft time in his life, and treating two girls 'herr,
. he afterwards brought home and entertained
refrefhments. On being fearched by a Police
there was nothing found in his pockets, but
the (earth a box ettfwesing the defcription of
which hAd been Stolen dropped from under his
swaidenat. This box contained only one Shilling and
he having otherways difpolcd of the re•.
of the money.
prifoner alledged that the box fo found was,
profecutur's, but was one of the fix oozes, of
&ape of a lemon, which he himfclf had put.
• confiderable while ago; and, to corrobn.
affection, he produced another one loose-
. flmilar to that in qualms. This defence, how.
ingenious it appears, was not fiifficient to con-
the Jury of hi, innocence. They pronounced a
finding the prifoner guilty Death—Aged 24.
were con•kted of felony, viz.
Pees was tried on two indictments, the firft
logging and uttering a one pound note, and the
for having in her poffiffion fevers' forged
the Batik of England, knowing the fame to
'forged.
her firft examination, She had• plea Jed Not
to both charges ; but, on coming tip for trial,
ad•ice of her Counkl, Mr. GUINIY, the
tided Goat), to the minor offence of forging, and
rffeffing, which is liable to fourteen years tranfpor-
tation.
• Cooniel for the prbfecution declining to car.
!capital part farther, the jury, Pro forma,
in a verdi& of—Not cnilty—and the p,i•
twaits the fentence of the Court for the minor

Shaw, for Heeling eighteen yards of calico,
property of Wm. Davies ; T. Boulter,for
piece of lace, the property of J. Alexander ; J.
on. for heating a pair of boots, and other things,
property of Thomas Clerk ; Charlotte Grubb,
Healing a thirty pound bank note, the property
R. Gumbleton ; A. Felix, for Healing a pelifTe,
property of G. Tilbury ; Margaret Nichols, for
Healing a hand of p-trk, the property of R. Dolphin;
'ker, for Healing a firkin of hotter, the property
eph Butler ; T. Johnfom for Healing a cheefe,
property of WIN. Cuff at:l Dickenfon.
Merry Dow, Mary Yew, and yews Shaw, three
women, were all charged with Healing eigh-
anis of printed cotton from the fhop door of
.. Davies, a linen draper in Holborn, on the t 6 h
Decernher WI, at eight o'clock in the morning.-
- were obferved by Croaker, a Bow-greet officer,
tr together, and fttrnetimes Handing before the
crop. Soon afterwards he difcovered Shaw patting
fornethigg below bet Mtn, and crotliog over to the
fide. On this he apprehended her, and found
goods in her ptiffeffion ; the other two were
:el:ended, bat nothing was found npnn them.
timer Shaw alledged that fhe had bought a
cotton for a gown ; and the other two, that
(e intending to purchafe gowns alio, and were
aditiring the cottons at the (hop door when
r feized thew.
try fiord the prifnner Shaw Guilty, but ac-
he other two. It appearing, however, to
Chief li ttnn, from the evidence given by
that they mull have been all equally in
rith an intention in divide the flint , he i•b-
would be a fpecies of injulkice to condemn
iniatenent and allow the others to go tree.—
/probated the cottons of eapofing goods at
its, and upon the greets, which appeared now
;no much pradifed. he thought it
swould be
',per to put all the three upon an equality by
ing them. This his Lordfittp did after ■
tihortation to the prifonets to be more care-
air conduit in future, as any fecood acme
tut be paired over co easily.
were acquitted. among whom were
:reie Who was indiaed for privately Healing in
.Iwellinght feven t!. notesjand a 51. onto,
toparty of James Maholl. The poi-moor
'itafelf to he aC.rporal on board a man of war,
tve been in the late vinoty of Trafalgar.—
got leave Ut ilhti:llCZ ft,IM his Otip, and he
it tome time at the feat of the Marquis of
td, at Taplow, where lie had once lived fee-
He left Taplow en Cheillmas-eve, and came
; he needled into a public Inside in Blue an-
'd, Whimbapel, kept by the pillows-, the

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next evening, where he enquired for a lodging ; and
on his going to bed, he ordered fume ale. The pri
loner carried a plc of ale to his beVide, and the
profecutor flirted, that he then took the property
from his (mall clothes, which were hanging on a
chair by the bed fide. He was fearful at that time
of aecufing the prifoner, l• It he thould be murdered
in a flrannae place, and the next day he informed a
friend. fir left the horde after he had been robbed;
borrowed half a g*ea of the landlord, and did not
return until the next morning. The prifoner was 11
not charged with the robbery until the fecund day.
lit defence the prifoner laid, he had or ly kept the
haufe fix Creeks; and that he never attempted to
touch the clothes of the profecutor, nor did he ever
fee h m arr th any money.
"i.e SiL ward of the Marquis of Thnmord, and
the landlady of the pnb;ie lioule where the profeen• •
tor lodged, at Taplow•court, were called on behalf of
the pi &men They both concurred in laying, that the
profecutor was generally in very high fpirits, and (pent
cis m4ney very freely among° his friends, in whole',
company he often became intoxicated. Ann Mur-
phy, the prilinner's honfekeeper, all) Rated, that this
Mahony had taken a great deal of liquor on Chritt•
mss evening, at the pin ner's tap room, in company
with a man and a woman, and that, altet he had gone
to bed, he role and had a great deal more in the fame
place, and fat a eonfiderable time converfingwith all
the people in the roam about Nelfon's viCtory. She
haing furprifed at feting him again, having under-
Hood that he had gone to bed. the alked him the
realon of his having rifen, and he antwered, that he
'found he could not lie becaufe he rolled about fo.--
Henever (hewed the Inane( fymptom of having been
robbed. Defides his watch, he had nitrified her with
a liberty ticket, which he got back from her next day
for the purpofe of going to an agent to receive forty
pounds.
Several witneffes were in Court to (peak as to the
prifoner's charaaer, but the Lord Chief Baron Paid
he thought it unneceffary to proceed fur:her, 0 the
whole charge teemed to be merely a chimera in Chi.
Irifhman's brain, created by intoxication. It was the
moil extraordinary accufatian he ever heard of.—
He lamented that the perfon at the bar, tehn, to all
appearance was an honeft and relpeCtable man,
(hould have been brought into fuch a difagreeable
di!emma by the fontanel, of this Irish hero. It was
a hard cafe that an lionefi and worthy citizen's cha-
rafter (hould be fo expofed to irjury ;.but he trufted,
that, when the world knew the circurnflances of the
cafe, no imputation would be thrown out againll him.
The Jury, without any hefitaticrin found a 'redid
of—Nut Guilty.
Mr. Mahony again made his appearance, and
craved his expences. He was admonithed upon the
impropriety of his condud, and was told that he
might confider himfelf as exceedingly well off in be-
ing allowed to gee freely nut of Count.
Mar, Wa 1 was indi&ed for privately Cleating in
the dwelling houfe of John Dudman, forty-two pair
of gold ear rings, and thirty-four finger rings.
The profecutor is a imp feller in the Hermitage,
Wapping, and the,prifuner had been two months in
his fervice. On the morning of the sods ult. the
profecutor rung the prifnner up as ufual ; and (non
after the had gone down hairs, he heard the (hop
bell ring. Soon after this, the prifoner tapped at the
door of the witnefs's bed room, and informed him
that the (bop had been robbed, and that the had
picked up fome trinkets from off the floor. Witnefs
examined the failenings, which he found fecure ; and
was certain that every thing had been clad), fattened
on the preceding evening. He fent fur an officer,
and the horde was learched. . _

The fon of the profecutor ennfirmed the Rarement
that every fattening was left fecure on the preceding
night, and that there were nu appearances of any
one having broken In.
'Sanctity, the (hop boy, Rated, that on
ringing the bell, the prifoner opened the dont., when
the laid, " the door is on the tingle lock ; we (lull
have the honfe robbed." On the prifoner going
through the (hop, the obferved to witnefs that the
had picked up two ear-rings ; and he obferved the
dravrer, which contained the jewellery, half open.
Witnefs found the (hop had been robbed, and fent
the prifoner ro inform her matter. On the prifoner's
return (be went into the cellar, while witnefs took
down the (butters. Some time after, Gill, an officer,
arrived, and witnefs accompanied him in fearching
the lioufe; and, among a quantity of faw dun in the
cellar, the loft property was found, concealed in a
knife cloth. The prifoner was then taken into cull
tody. The prniecutor (wore to the property ; and,
in anfwer to a queltion from the Bench, be Rated,
that his family confined of a wile, two tons, and a
daughter, being the whole who lived in the houfe.
Several perfons were called, who gave the prifoner
good charafter. A f•er retiring half an hour, the
Jury returned a verdict of Acquittal.
Mary Sesitl) flood indifted for healing two handker-
chiefs from the door of a linen draper at N 0.306, High
11,,lboin, on the ad of Pule lath, at four o'clock in
the ev.iiing. The fhopman getting notice of it fol
lowed the prifoner, and found the goods concealed
under her cloak, and gave her into the culludy of a
bowaartet °Ricer. _ _ _

The ptifoner alledged that flee found there articles
lying in the iirecl, ili•a hocked them up as (he was
patting by the Omp door. There being no other wit-
neffes to prove that the had allnally taken the hand.
kerchief; out of the (hop, the Recorder, before whom
this trial proceeded, took nccafion to ()Wet ve the
great imptopt toy of babel thither; and linen drapers,
&c. ex poling their goods on the outride nt their Mop
-doors and windows, and even laying them upon the
pavement. Such people delcrved to have their goods
ttolen ; but their conduit alF,ndal an opportunity
Lod inducement to poor penile riding by their Jones
to commit thefts, when they otho wile would not he
guilty of Inch crimes. The prifoner was difchatged
The :idiom being ended, Sentence of Death was
paned on
_

Charles Harrifn. for flea log two *Arm weitte ILL owd rp-
worie, the property of Win. Ranyard.
Tho'oat Dongworth alit• Powell for returning from trxnfpor
titian before th.• expiration of the term of (even years , for *Melt
term lie h been ord, red to he traufported.

Robert Fletcher, for drinking M wearer Croydon nn the high -
wa7, potting her in fear, and taking fr.on her perfon a hundle,eoq•
tang a pair of Meets, a counterpane, &e her property.
Wm. Cotten, for flailing in the dwelUng•houfe of Sufsnosh
Williams s liver bread ballet, a filter Oop harm, and divers other
ankles of filter plate,her pn,nerty.
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Tkcstaa Sand, for pivot ely Qe ling front die per of Rarluel

Dancer tyarfe, co:,taloikt two tOLtWo atld two tl Dank not:a
the property of William Dellear.
John Addy, far Realms in the dwelling houfe of Edward Rime.
yl. t as. the property of Catharine Connd.
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Mary Pullen. for having in bar poffeflion a forged 11. note,
knowing it to be fu, was ordered to be tranfported for fourteen
years.

Fourteen were ordered to he tranfported for feven years, viz.
Charlotte Grubb, Juliet Shaw, John O'Connor, Mary Coiling-
wood, Elizabeth Stopthrow, Ann Harrett,Thorna.Wetdon, Mary
Burchem, John Burrows, Thomas Nichols, Daniel Carroll, Thus
Pryor, Elizabeth Boynton, Mary Saunders.
Seven to be itnprifoned in the Houfe of Correaion at Clerken-
well fur fix calendar months.
Two for twelve calendar months.

Seven to be imprifoned in Newcate for different period..
One to be publicly, and one prieatcly whipped and difc barged ;
tad I 7 were difcharged by Proclaniati in. •
Lawrence King. for returning from tranfportation, wan refer•
red to his former fcri ence of tranfportatiou fur life.
Adjourned to igth February.

An old City .T.litieunc, who is fregnently heard to
exclaim—" Who knows what may happen to•mor-
row r —was thus replied to, a few days fiuce, by an
acquaintance—" I cannot fay what may happen to-
morrow, but NI tell you what mufk happen in the
courfe of next month, namely, that a confiderable
'number of individuals will be then much richer than
'they are at prefent. If you doubt it, CM Ziirdnunc."
I continued the Gentleman, " look at the great and
opulent Lottery Scheme, which commences drawing
on Monday fortnight."

A beautiful Serrco,shassirhas remained fince the days
of Haw avVIII. in a building attached to St. George's
Chapel, at Windfor, built by Cardinal Wolfey as a
.Matifoleum for himfelf—the Sarcophagus was alto
intended for the reception of his own body. It is
.plainly formed out of a block of black marble, highly
,polifhed, but the entablature of it is embellifhed with
the mutt excpiithe fculpture, detigned and executed
by an Italian ;milt of the firti eminence, whom this
ambitious Churchman brought over folely for this
work. The building having recently been appropt i•
ated by his Majelly to a Chapter room for the Knights
of the Garter, this curious Sarcophagus has been
removed.

A Paymaller of Militia has been adjudged, by a
General Court Martial, to be difcharged from the
fervice, for infamous behaviour, unbecoming an
Officer and a Gentleman, in charging. at fundry
periods, for greater quantities of meal than were
a Really received for the ufe of the regiment, whereby
Government was fraudulently over-rated with confi
derable fume, which by the Court he has been award-
ed to make good.
Saturday a man was erecuted at Dublin for cow.
!leafing. At the commencement of the fatal cere-
mony, the rope broke, and the unfortunate a retch
fell upon the railing before the entrance to the prifon.
He was brought up to the place of execntion dread-
fully bruited and cut, and the awful fentence of the
law was completed without any farther obilralion.

A few nights fence, an officer belonging to the soft
Regiment of Light Dragoons, riding over Barnes
Common from Putney to Richmond, was flopped
by a Jingle footpad. The officer was determined not
to be robbed ; both their pillols (lathed In the pan,
and the officer rode off without being robbed.
Cosmoses Louise. Monday an Inqueh was
held at Mr. Benjamin's, in St. Catharine's lape, on
the body of Rebecca Manuel, who was drowned off
St. Catherine's.flairs. Verdie—Accidental Death.-
On Saturday fall a woman Role a child in Kent-
/ire:l, in the Borough. The child was found tome
hours afterwards, wandering about near the market,
(tripped almoll naked. The mother, who had juft
been brought to bed, upon hearing the loft of the
child, jumped out of bed, and ran about the houfe
in a dilly atled manner, whereby the has received fa
much injury that it is thought the cannot recover.
Fie rt.—Monday night the thnp of Mrs. Flan is, of
Sterpleßreet, Chelmsford, was difcovered to be on
tire, the contents of which were dellroved :—but by
the very prompt exertions of the neighbours, the
flames were lbbdued without effeeling further da-
mage. Mrs. Harris and four (mall children, flept
in a room over the fhop, totally unconfcious of their
dangerous fituation, till the former was awakened by
the operation of the lmoke which had afcended into
:he chamber. Hearing an alarm of fire given front
the fireet, Ike haflened to preferve her cf.ildren, whom
the found nearly fuffocated, and happily fucceeded
in carrying them one of the room to a place of fee-
l'', without any perfonal detriment occurring either
to herfell or them.
Private communications from Gentlemen and La•
dies coming to No. Is, Soho tquare, refpeaing the
benefit they have received from the adminiiiration of
SP ILS111.1W; PATeNT Danes, in Scorbutic, Eruptive,
Scrophulons, and other Complaints, Ecc. which,
throti,,lt deletcy, Mr. SPILSBVRY cannot avail him.
fell in a public way. yet he will not let flip the op
vttunity of thanking them for their recommenda-
tion in the circle of their friends.—The genuine me.
divine is fold as nfital at the Dilpenf,ry, No. 15,
Soho-fguare, in bottles of sc. 6J. los. and al. 2s.
duty included. 'avoid Counterfeit,, elk for the
Patent Antilcorlattic Drops, and obferve the (lamp
(the King's Duty) is printed in black ink inflead of
red ink. •

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