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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, MA 1. 21.
Job: Stewart, alias Captain Stivart, a young man of
respectable appearance, was indicted for committing a
robbery •in the Pit of Covent-garden Theatre. The
prisoner was placed at the bar to take his trial on Thur.&
day last, when he took advantage of a defect in the in-
dictment, and he was then acquitted. He was, how-
ever, ordered to be detained, and a fresh bill of indict-
ment was preferred.
William Thomas Oliver, the prosecutor, went on the
night of the 10th of April, to the Pit of Covent-garden
Theatre, accompanied by two females. He was sur-
rounded by several well-dressed young men, and he be-
lieved the prisoner to be one of them, but he was un-
conscious of tl.e robbery being committed.
Macdonald, the constable, saw the prisoner, with his
companions, rush into the pit with the crowd, and draw
the pin from the prosecutor's breast ; when he saw be
-was watched, he threw the pin away, and several young'
men came up, said the prisoner was a gentleman, and
desired the °Ricer to let him go, and they would be
'answerable for his appearance. Macdonald, in giving,
his evidence, said the prisoner ran up against the pro.l
.secator, and most deliberately drew the pin from the
prosecutor's breast; and although persons were at the
time around, and in the dress circle, no one made any
alarm on discovering the robbery. Macdonald went on
to stale, that the young men in question knocked him
down, and beat him so dreadfully, that he was unable
to meve for several days afterwards. At this time also
a number of persons observed the outrage, but no one
rem!ereJ any assistance.
The prisoner denied the robbery.
The COMMON SERJEANT left the Jury to decide upon
the evidence, and they returned a verdict of Utility.
After the verdict had been pronounced, the prisoner said, " My
Wd, and Gentlemen of the Jury, I have been tried in this Court
awl honourably acquitted, and I consider my life is sacrificed."
Mr. Common Szenswr—There was a defect in the former in-
dictment, and you have been very properly convicted.
Joseph Sedley, a person 'bf very respectable appear-
ance, was indicted for marrying Mary Palmer, his
former wife, Margaret Dixon, being still alive.
Mary Dixon, the mother of the first wife, appeared,
and said the prisoner was married to her daughter in
1811, and they lived together as man and wife.
nary Palmer was called, and did not appear. The defendant
was therefore acquitted.

NEW COURT.
Emanuel Phillips pleaded Guilty to two indictments.
charging him with feloniously selling counterfeit coin.
Edward Aden, aged 21, was indicted for stealing se-
veral fowls, the property of Mr. Henry Knight, from
his outbuildings. The prisoner, in his defence, said he
bought the fowls on the 13th of April, at Romford
market. Here he handed up a bill and receipt for
the same.

The COMMON SERJEANT summed up the evidence,
when the Jury found him Guilty.
The COMMON SiatiZANT addressing the Jury, said he
felt it his duty to inform them that the papers handed
to him, purported to be a bill and receipt for the pur-
chase of the articles from one John Jones, but very un-
fortunately forthe prisoner that person was not brought
forward, and the date appeared to be the 19th of May
instead of April, therefore there was no doubt of its
having been written in Newgate. The prisoner was well
known, having been tried before for a capital offence:
Thomas Herring, aged twenty four years, Will capi-•
tally indicted, for stealing in the dwelling-house of
Abraham Samuda, of Spital-square, Norton Falgate,
a silver tea-pot, eighteen.silver table spoons, and other
articles of plate, his property. The prisoner was a farrier
by trade ; Vann had known him for above two years.
The prosecutor's servants saw the prisoner amongst
many other persons. Verdict—Guilty, Death.
Ames Lashirtaks was put to the bar on an indictment charging
him, on the Coroner's warrant, with killing and slaying Thomas
Day, by driving a coach over him on the 9th of April last, in the
parish of St. Giles in the Fields.
The evidence adduced went to prove that the prisoner was ex.
aeon* intoxicated, and was driving through the Seven Dials,
near Long Acre, when the deceased, while in the act of crossing
over, was knocked down, and the coach passed over him.
A number of witnesses were called to bring home the charge to
the prisoner, who, in his defence, said he had a young horse under
his care, which he could not " pull up," and that he did all in his
power to stop his horses.
Mr. Justice Piss summed up the evidence to the Jury, who
found the prisoner Cuing.
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, MAY 21.

John Williams, a lad, fifteen years old, was indicted
for stealing a jacket, the property of Henry Blazer.
In answer to. an inquiry from the POUR?, he said he
got his living for the most part by working in the Docks.
A respectable person, who was acquainted with the
boy, said that he had been deserted by his parents, and
.be believed had struggled hard to get an honest living,
and that it was distress which urged him to the com-
mission of the offence charged. Verdict—tiuilty.
The Cumastata' in the belief that the present was
his first offence, and that he had been driven to it by
the cause stated, and in the hope-that he would take
warning by it, sentenced him to pay a fine of is. and
be discharged. The prisoner appeared extremely grate-
fel for the lenity shewn him.
STRIPPING A CHILD.—Mary Fennigen stood indicted
for stealing a frock from the person of Ann Smith, a
little girl about five years old. The child very intelli-
gibly stated that she lived in George-street, Bethnal-
green, and that the prisoner enticed her into the fields,
by promising her some cakes, and that when she had
got her there she gapped her of her frock and then
lefther.:—Thomas Miller, pawnbroker, proved that the
prisoner pkedged the frock with him on the same day.
Veedict—Guiliy.
Six xaslathse imprisonment and bard labour.

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Lord HENNINER4S Claim to vote for representative
Peers for Ireland, after having heard Counsel and
witnessest has been admitted by the House of Lords,
The Treasury have granted till the Ist of August for
the payment of the Hop. Duty, witlisiut the planters
entering into any. bond.
The Bop plantations in the North Clays generally
are beginning to assume a promising appearance; the
late fructifying showers, succeeded "by fine warm wea-
shar, havecaused the bins to advance both in height,
rand strength to an astonishing degree. At present it
*mild be presumptuous to give an opinion as to the
pgrbability of there being a good crop in the ensuing
season, but there is cestainly every appearance of a strong
paid fl..usi,hing bi' e.
Governalient have made a purchase of the Golden
Ccoss' Charing-Crose, and the rest of the houses be-
tweea that and St. Nlartin's.lane. We hear that 50,000/.
was given for the GoVen Cross premises alone.
Ansong the alterations and additions about to take
place in the late (queen's Palace, a large fi.li-pond is to
are made in the gardens at the back of tLe Pa:aee.