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London, England, 1805-09-21 00:00:00

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Yeflerdav thirteen prifoners were tried, 6ne of
whom we-: capitally convitied, viz.
Jahn Burrovb:, for forging and uttering as trite a
chick for 301 p. 4d. with intent to defraud Metres.
Snaith, Sykes, and Co. bankers, and Melfrs. Little-
dale and Foy, brokers. It was Rated, that on the
22d of June. the prifoner came into the banking
houfe of Mats. Snaith and Sykes. laying he was
fent by Mr. Littledale for a check, as he withed to
draw, but had not a check about him. A gentleman
in the office tendered him a bundle of cheats, which
he rcliffeti, faying that Mr. Littledale wanted only
one ; j hi, he got, and went away. A perfon whom the
w:tnsfs believed to he the prifoner, came foon after,
anS•dafeived he had committed a miftahc, as he
...anted a bundle of checks, and on this occalion he
g!.l it me fheets,containing about too. Mr. I.yall,
another clerk, recollected a porter coming with a
check for payment, purporting to be from Littledale
tad Foy. The witnefs, on looking at it, firrpefted
the fignature was not genuine, and he gave it to Mr.
Watfon, a partner ingthe houfe.
The principal evidence, however, againfl the pri.
loner, way his own namefake, John Burroughs, a
porter, wham he fent to the banking honk to get
cash for the draft. The prifoner met him oppofite
the Exchange, gave him the check, and defired him
to bring the money to him at Garraway's. He was
to receive the cafh in the name of Foy, by the pri-
loner's direCtion. He met the prifoner in Change-
alley, and afked whether he bad got the Money, to
which he anfwered in the negative, affigning as a rea-
fon that the check was bad. The prifoner then laid
that the gentlemen who had given him the check
was at Garraway's. They went there, and to feve•
ral other coffee houfes, but the gentleman was not to
be found. At length they went to the John and
Turkey ccffee-houfe, and the prifoner went in. He
came out almoft immediately, laying the gentleman
was there writing a letter, and that he (the partner)
would come back when he had fpoken to him. He
returned to the coffee-room, and the witnefs recollce-
ing there were two doors, went round to the ont,
and there dikovered the prifuner running up Corn.
hill. He followed, calling out Rop thief, on sitich
the prifoner halted, and walked towards the witnefs,
afking what he meant by calling out to flop him ?
The witnefs anfwered this interrogatory, by afking
what the rifoner meant by running away ? He laid
be was going to Winchelter•ftreet, Bilhopfgate, and
the witnefs went with him. At lag getting impa-
tient, he threatened to call for alliflance, Wile did not
return with him to the bankers.
Mr. Nalder, one of the City Marfhals, took the
rifoner into cullody at the houfe of Mars. Snaith
and Sykes. He told Mr. Nalder he had received the
check from a perfon named Wilmott.
A number of molt refpeeable witneffes appeated
to the prifoner's good charafter, among whom were
Timothy Brown, Efq. partner in Whitbread's brew-
ery ; that gentleman's brother, S. Brown, and va-
rious other gentlemen of charaiter and integrity.—
The Jury retired for upwards of half an hour, and
returned a verdia of " Guilty of uttering the check,
knowing it to be forged," but in confideration of the
prifoner's youth, and the excellent charafter he had
received from his wituelres, the Jury recommended
him to mercy.
game: Rowe, a journeyman cabinet-maker, was is.
dieted for forging, counterfeiting, and uttering,
knowingly, a certain falfe draft of 301. purporting to
be the draft of William Staddon Blake, of Change-
Alley, upon the Banking-houfe of Sir Richard Car
Glynn and Co. Birchin-lane, with intent to defraud
the Paid Bankers.
Mr. Halifax, one of the partners, proved, that on
the day limed in the indiament, the draft was pre-
fented to him for payment, and he immediately knew
it was not Mr. Blake's writing. The !hop was much
crowded at the time, and the prifoner remained then
above a quarter of an hour. Mr. Halifax, as foon
as he law the bill, fufpeeed it, and fent his Clerk to
Mr. BlakeN to apprize him of the circumßance with
the bill. Mr. Blake immediately came to the bank-
ing•houfe, and of ced to fee the perfon who prefented
the cheque. The witnefs pointed him out as he Rood
near the door, on which he immediately ran off, and
Mr. Blake after him, crying flop thief, and took him
very Bawdy.
Mr. William Staddon Blake laid, that on the man
running nut at the door, he ran up Birchin-lane,
and he did not fee him until he had got half way up
to Cornhill, he was then running with his back to the
witnefs, who continued to purfne him, crying flop
thief ; he was flopped by a man named Elder, and
the witnefs collared him, and brought him back to
his own bottle. The prifoner was the man he flopped.
Mr. Melia, the Bank Direloc, came up at the mo-
ment.
Mr. Menial Rated that, as he was palling through
Dirchin-lane, he heard the cry of flop thief, and law
a man running very fall, purfued by another. He
&ft turned into George-yard, into which Mr. Mel-
lint silo turned immediately after, but loft fight of
the man running Ott as he turned the corner ; law
the partner taken immediately afterwards by the per-
fon (Elder) who purfued him, but could not be pa
fitive it was the fame man he firft faw run, as he 101 l
fight of him for a moment ; he law the pastier taken
to Mr. Blake's bottle.
Here doled the evidence for the prnfecntion.—
The prifoner adduced no witneffes, except thofe to
his charaecr.
Sir Simon ca BLANC fummed up the evidence with
the utmolt accuracy, obferving upon the defeeive
links of tettimony as to the pofitive identity of the
prifoner, in the evidence of Mr. Carter and Mr. Mel-
lith, and as amounting to a reafonable ground of
doubt ; in which cafe it would be the duty, as well as
the inclination of the Jury, to acquit the prifoner.—
Verdift, Not Guilty.

MUM!.
William Mei was intliEted for that he, on the
WI of September, on Benjamin Aris did make
an aliaolt, and with both his hands in and upon the
head of the laid Benjamin, telonioufly, wilfully, and
of bib malice aforethought at divus times did Alike
and beat, and on his head gave him divers mortal
uound3 bi uifes, of which he died, and therefore
that he the ptifouer the laid deceafed did kill and
murder.
Mr. Cow sr opened the cafe on the part of the Pro.
fecution, and detailed all the circumtlances of it; in

the courfe of which he obferved that the decreed
had been in the habit of trifitiog a woman of the
name of Elizabeth Vines, who hid lived with the
prifoner, and lodged in a court in Holborn, called
Feathers.coutt, looking into Limola's-inn-fields. He
had left her for fome time, and the deceafed bad re-
newed his acquaintance with her. There had been
frequent quarrels between them about this female,'
and on the night in queflion, the prifoner came to
the place where this woman lodged, and found the
deceafed there, on which occafion he alfaulted and
beat the deceafed, that he died in the area, of which
fcene a boy of twelve years of age, of the name of
Owen, happened to be a winters, he hearing the de.
ceafed groan as he fell down, and which be related
at the public houfe hard by. The prifoner, for that
time, made his efcape, but afterwards it happened
accidentally that an officer of the police of the name
of Croaker met the pi ironer, and alked him what he
had been about? and made Come other inquiries of
the prifoner, on which the prifoner &tick the Officer,
which prevented his being taken at that moment s
but he was ruined, and loon afterwards apprehend.
ed and taken to the watch-houfe. There Were be-
tween thirty and forty people in the Watchbonfe,
and when the boy came in he tingled out the prifoner
immediately, as the perfon who had beat the man in
the fireet. He repeated what he law. The deceafed
was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, where he
died. The Surgeon of that Hofpital examined him;
and he would tell the Jury, that the blows lie re-
ceived were the cattle ohis death. The •Jury would
hear the law from the Bench; he &told prove bow
the deceafed came by his death. Whether there el-
ated malice before that time in the mind of the pri•
toner againit the deceafed, or whether the manner
in which he had treated the deceafed on this occafion
would be of itfelf a fufficient indication of malice,
would be for thelory to conclude, under the direc-
tion of his Lordlhip. He fhould begin the cafe with
:he evidence of the Surgeon, for which purpofe be
called Mr. Hardy.
Mr. Juflice HEATH anted why the Surgeon was
called fiat ? Mr. Coosa laid, that without his evi-
dence the profecution could not be fupported, and it
his evidence was incomplete, much time might be
laved, by not preffing the cafe further.
Mr. Robert Hardy, Surgeon of St. Bartholomew's
Hofpital, laid, the perfun who WAS brought there
was dead before he law him ; he examined the body;
opened the head on the t zth atlas month, between
twelve and one o'clock its the morning. The man
had a great many bruifes on his face, and there was
a fmall wound on the left fide of his head ; it was
a (hallow wound. There was nothing unuftial la the
appearance of the body. He could not !peak. port-
tively of what, he died. He fhould fuppofe he died
of the blows he had received; but he could not
(peak pofitively.
Mr. Junice I-ha:rm.—Q. I want to know whether
you think the blows killed -the man ? In what way
could the blows kill him ?—.A. I cannot pretend to
fay ; I think the blows killed him, but I cannot ex-
plain how they killed him, becanfe there was nothing
to be teen in the examination of the body except ex-
ternal bruifes.
Mr. CONST.—WouId he have died at the time if
he had not received theft blows ! Would he have
died otherwife ?—A. I cannot take upon me to fay.
Q Can you more particularly defcribe the blows ?
—A. I cannot fay what the blows and the bruifes
were capable of producing ; they might have pro-
duced nothing in fome perfons.
After crofs.exarnination by Mr. GURU ET, and
Tome further qnellions from Mr. Jultice HEATH, the
witnefs concluded with faying, that he could riot
Rate what was the caufe of the death of the deceafed.
Thomas Owen, a boy twelve yeareof age, was then
examined ; and he fwore as follows "On the.' ith
of this month, I was (landing, about t t o'clock at
night, by the Red Lion, by Whet ton's Park, Lincoln's
Inn Fields, I obferved William Mofs, whom I knew
by fight—He came from Feathers-court—he (loud
nett door to the Red Lion about a minute, and turn-
ed back and went to look at Elizabeth Vine's win-
dow—he pulled off his jacket or frnock frock, and
looked in at the window—he then went up Feathers.
court, and I immediately followed him, and in going
up the court, I loft fight of him.
Mr. Jullice HEATH.—Might he have gone into
the house of Elizabeth Vines 3—A. Yes.
Q.... Was the door open, fo that he might have
gone in ?—A. Yes ; I went up to the top of the
court into Holborn, and turned back agais immedi-
ately ; I met him then coming down the court—l
walked on, and then heard fume violent blows—l
went to fee whence they came—l went to the end
of Feathers-court, and I law Wm. Mofs nriking the
deceafed leveret blows ; it feemed that Wm. Mofs
was holding him up with one hand, and (Wang him
with the other. He was ftriking him with his tt.—
The man made no oppofition or refinance. I heard
no words, neither did I fee the deceafed Mike a blow
—his body was not on the ground while Mofs was
(taking him, but be was on his legs. He was hold-
ing the man by the back with one hand, and (hik-
ing him with the other ; but I could not fee what
palled diftinaly. The prifoner ran away, and the
deceafed fell down on the ground—l cannot fay ex.
aftly how long this was. It was altogether a very
thou time—about a minute or fo.
Mr. Mice HEATH•••-I think we need not go any
further in this cafe—Prifoner, do you with to fay any

thing
The prifoner propofed to afk one of the witneffes
a quellion, but his Couriel, Mr. Guamsr, advifed
him to defift.
Mr. Jutlice HEATH—'8 Gentlemen of the Jury,
This offence, at the tamoft, amounts only to man-
daughter, and whether it amounts to manflaugher
or not, is for your confideration. What appears is,
that this boy happened to be coming by, and to fee
the prifoner beating the deceafed. The deceafed was
ftanding on his legs, and the prifoner holding him
with one hand, and beating him with the other.—
The furgeon tells you, that when he was brought
dead to the hofpital, it did not appear there were
any extraordinary marks of violence ; nor can he
fay the blows he received were the occafion of his
death ; but the fituation of the human body is fuch
that a flight blow may occafion death in fame cafes,
when it will not in others. If you think that the
blows did occafion the death in this cafe, you will
find the prifoner guilty of manflaughter. If you do
not think they were the occafion of the death you
, will acquit him ; for, in All doubtful cafes, that is the

proper can& ; it is,indoed, then your duty. as well
as it muff be your inclination, to acquit the prifoner."
The Jury fi.tv.d the prifoner guilty of ananillaugh-
ter only.
Mr. junke HIATII.•••••41 I have been extremely
lorry to find fuch abominable publications as have
appeared in fame of the newfpapers, and other print.
ed accounts which have been cried about the areas,
concerning this trantation, by which endeavour*
have been made to prejudice the minds of the pub-'
lie. Gentlemen of your underßanding wanof be
Prejudiced; but fuch publications may be attremely
injurious, and ought to be reprobated and punifhed
in a Court of 'office. If you had the true hißory of
the cafe, that would have been Something ; but in-
Read of a true hillory, you have bad a complete per.
verfion of it."
Cash. Ryan was indidted for the wilful murder of
Elia. Monaghan by knocking her on the head with a
poker, by which She received a wound of an inch and
a half, and of the depth of three :waiters of an inch,
of which the languinted for fix week!, and then died
in St. Bartholomew's Hofpital.
Mr. Hardy, the Surgeon, who opened and examin-
ed the head of the deceated, inclined to think, from
an abfcefr which had formed on the left fide of the
brain, that this' blow was the occallon of the death ;
but an intemperate habit of drinking, fuch as the
deceafed was accußomed to, might accelerate that
event.
It appeared by the evidence of Mary Cochrane,
that the prifoner and the deceafed had been drinking
together on the day when tht affray happened, that
they became intoxicated and furiouny quarrelfome
with each other, although until that time they had
been friends ; that they quarrelled about paying the
reckoning ; that a feuflle cattiest, they rolled each
other down upon the Root, and at Salt the prifoner
Bruck the deceafed with a poker; but fie was able
the next day to go to work. She complained, how-
ever, of a headache ; was taken to the hofpital, where
She died.
Mr. jullice Hearn Paid, there was no pretence
for calling this more than manilaughtet.-3ailty of
Manflaughter only.
Four were convieted of felonies, viz.
E. Roberts, alias Squires, for Sealing a watch,
and Several Bank Notes, the property of R. Dix.
Sarah I'apps, for (leafing three filter table Croons,
&c. the property of D. Windfor.
W. Gale, for Stealing two Bank Notes from W.
Henverey. and
John, otherwife Robt. Smith, for Realing fix Silver
dean fpoona, the property of Mr. Taunton, a gen-
tleman of the law, refiding in Effeveltreet, Strand.
It appeared that the prifoner lived with Mr. Taunton
as (errant, for about three weeks, tia the tith of
Augull, when the pi ironer having come home to din-
ner, found him in the cullody of his clerk. It was
proved by a fhopman of Edwards, a pawn-broker,
in Clare-tireet, that the prifoner offered the Spoons
to pledge, and demanded i Sr.on them. The
fhopman filtpated the Spoons were Stolen, and teen.
porized with the prifoner until he got a cannabis to
Secure him. Mr. Taunton Rated, that he got a
good charater of the prifoner from Admiral Bligh.
The Jury, in conrequence of the prifoner's fair fame
prior to this robbery, found him guilty of Reuling to
the extent of 395. which does away the capital part
of the charge.

Satan E6trolD' aged thirty-five years. When
firg cafe this ca of Scrophula made its appearance it
was in the abfnrbent glands of the neck, which be-
came rather thickened, and then advanced to a hard
tumor ; the applied to a medical gentleman who
brought it to fuppuration, he then opened it, and
the neck became ulcerated from the ear to the fhoul-
der ; tumors then formed in the falivary glands, un-
der the chin, in the parotid, by the fide of the ear,
and the abforbent glands on the other fide. She
was admitted an out patient of St. Bartholomew's
Hofpital for eight months, without receiving any
relief. At this time, by the advice of Mary Waite,
who had experienced relief at the Difpenfary, Soho.
fquare, the began taking the Mops, and continued
them for the fpace of a twelvemonth, when the ul-
cers healed, and the became pettedly well.
Crown Court, Flect•ftrett, SARAH Kt/VIM
Be careful to aik for Srmseuav's Patent Anti
fcorbutic Drops, having the words " By the King's
Patent" expreffed at length on the bottle, bill of di-
reainns, and outfide wrapper ; the Ramp alto, the
King's duty, is printed in black ink indeed of red.—
Bottles price ss. 6d. los. and 11. as. duty included.
Difpenfary, No. ss, SoboAnare.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTION.
The Bilhop of Norwich inftituted the Rev. T. Morgan, Preben-
dary of Wells, and Chaplain to his Royal Hieing:fa the Duke of
Cambridge, to the Retflory of Mills), cam Silverky and larding,
in the county of Cambridge, en the prefentadon of the Earl of
kiltdkiford.

Laft week, at Raptor, the Lady of John Archer, Efq. of Dublin II
of a fon.
At Brampton, the Lady of Charles Wm. Flint, Efq. of a foa'
At Rade Cattle. Mrs. Rofs, of Raffia. of a dasibten
At his hoofsin Bernaritroet, the Lady of John Campbell, Ilk
of a daughter.
Mrs. Sank wife of Richard Sank, of Carrick on-Suir, Efq.
Banker, of a fon.
The Lady of John Cruets, of Waterville, county Limerick,
Barham at Law, of a fon and heir.