Star.
London, England, 1822-09-23 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

:ness . __
came backfrom the returned letter office. Goddard
never came to his service.
Cross-examined by Mr. Aunazwit.—Witness had,
lived in London probably before the Learned Coun-
sel was born. He relied in some measure upon the
judgment of the rough-rider, and also upon his own.
lie considered himself 'a pretty fair judge of horses.
The rough-rider was deceived as well as himself, but
there was not a fair trial.
Reexamined.—He parted with his money because
he believed the representations of Barber, and thought
be was dealing with a man of honour.
A Clerk to Coutts and Co. proved the payment of
the drafts for £5 and £lOO to Barber. As nearly as
he could guess by reference to the book, he thinks
the draft for £lOO was paid about two o'clock.
Mrs. Hart, of 5, China-walk, Lambeth, deposed,
that the defendant, Bat ber, lodged at her house in
April last, but left it in the latter end of that month.
Mr. Blozam, veterinary surgeon of the Second Life
Guards, said he examined the two horses, and found
them decidedly unsound. There was a thickening of
the skin on the legs evidently of long standing, and
they by no means answered the warranty given.
Mr. Lee stated in addition, that the two horses had
since been sold at Tattersall's for £27.
Ambrose Parish, clerk to the King's Bench Prison,
,proved that.the defendant, Barber, was brought into
!that prison on the 4th of May, for a debt of £4B 10s.
and had been there ever since, sometimes in the Rules
and sometimes within the walls. Barber was brought
here for trial by habeas.
Matthew Leonard Coleman, Esq. of the Wat Office,
proved that there had been no Officer in the Ennis-
kitten Dragoons of the name of Edward Barber since,
1811, when -there v.-as a Cornet of that name who was
,afterwards suspended. There was no Officer of 0211
name in the Invalids.
John Vickery, the Bow-street officer, deposed to
apprehending the prisoner in Hatfield-place, within',
the Rules of the King's Bench.
Thomas Elliot, of Red Lion-yard, Tottenham-
court-road, proved that Goddard lodged4this }lease
•for sixteen months, and that Barber. came there °eta,
sionally. Witnesi Nadi OUChis big for the iceep of
two horses, which Goddard brought to his stable in
the nami*Of the latter, aud he it was who.paid
WitnesSivas nikltfesent- when Mason, the officer,
came after •Gt;dilard, and heinmped out of the window.
John BaldroP, a!_cOachmaa to Mr. Robarts, the
banker, swore thai:Goddard,had not been in the em-
.playment of any branch: of that family for several
years past, and he believic never:
This closed the case for the prosecution.___
Mr. AND taws spoke at consideralke Iblikthibi the
defendants. Here was a Gentleritar, lie said, who
'declared be had .been forty. years in Lonslotb,and was
!a judge of horses, and yet he had suffertd birr.seil to.
be gulled out of his money; and ttowt fOrsooth, he
was to come into
.a Court of Justice An' prosecute
c these men for .a onspiracy.
..He- anfst inow per--
foctly well that he had his remedy-in aw
upon the warranty, and there he ofighttehife gone;
but the Reverend Gentleman, actoatrci by.* romantic'
feeling for the ptkislic,good, as he himself_ would terin
.it, had purified these men into a. COurt of Criminal,
Judicature; with an indictment for fraftd. This was
the first time that any man hadventured to
such a case into that Court, and; he trusted the ver-
dict of the Jory would say that it should by the last;
for, if otherwise, no tradesman, no man engaged in a
work of bargain and sale, would be safe, if he at-
tempted to get the best price for his Commodity.
The COMMON SERJEANT, in charging the Jury,
left it to them to say whether this was a mere matter
of bargain and sale, or whether it was not a precon-
certed plan on the part of the defendants to defraud
the prosecutor of his gurney ? .
-The Jury merely turned round in the box, and pro-
noonced a verdict finding the prisoners Guilty.
The trial lasted until half-past twelve at night.

it ternedoitecerwiTasiitTwereiVAlat." (ka4 tad 1
been paid. ne draft. was
_taken wail by fikt er
about half-past one o'clock. Barber had gives as his
address in town, No. 4, China-walk, Lambeth, and
witness wrote a truer to him addressed Oars, but it