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London, England, 1802-02-20 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FIE. rg.

Ag‘TCllllll OT JACKSON ANO NAM M' V. THE Sill-
RIFFS OF LONDON.
The Sheriffs were merely nominal defendants.
The :taints was brought to recover the value of
goods feized under an execution at the (nit of one
Jones, after the owners Jackfon and Harkey bad
committed aas of bankrupcy.
The defence was, that whatever aas of bank-
ruptcy might have been committed by Hankcy,
one of the partners, did not affea the other pan-
ner Jackfon ; that the only at of bankruptcy al-
leged against :.ickfon before the date of the execu-
tion, was, his ordering himfelf. to be denied to a
creditor of: the name of Lowe (who had tent a
meffage to hint in the cour(e of the day, to be his
bail for a debt of too guineas, and was refuted by
Jackfon). This creditor, to whom 8001. was due,
called himfelf in the evening, and Mr. Jackfon,
although at home, ordered himfelf to be denied.
The defendants' Counfel endeavoured to perfuade
the Jury, that the objea of the creditor's wait was
to induce Jack(un to go bail for him, and not to
demand. money ; and that Mr. Jackfon denying
himielf was, rather that hi did not choofe to be
preffed on the fubjea of giving bail for Lowe, than
for the purpofe of avoiding a :creditor coming to
demand money.
The Learned Judge Rated to the Jury, that al-
though the contras of one partner might bind
another, yet an as of bankruptcy committed by
one partner did not involve the other partner (in-
afmuch as an aft of bankruptcy was in the eye of
the law a (pecies of guilt) ; that if the jury be-
lieved, that Jackflan denied himfelf to Lowe as a
creditor, it was clearly an as of bankruptcy in
him, and they mutt Sind for the plaintiffs if, on
the other hand, they believed that the objeft
of tile vilit was not to demand money, and that
Jackfon did not deny himfelf to Lowe on that ac-
count, they fhould find for the defendants:—Ver•
ais for plaiatiffs--Damages 24701.

OLD BAILEY.
Yefierday twenty prifoners were tried, four of
. whom were capitally convifted, viz.
• yaw Yew. for fleabag g 4 yards of woollen
cloth, value Ssol. the property of Benjamin Oro-
he is his dwelling.houfe.
1.4 Datum, and yota Nat, for Reeling a bay
namc, the property of a Mr. Lookly, from Sudbury
Common, in the neighbourhood of Harrow.
The principal witnefs againft the prifoners was
• James Martin, who, on the evening of the id of
February, was going to execute a (earth warrant,
when heiobferved the prifoners on the Common,
and having Tome furpicion of their defigns, he re.
towed to watch their motions. In a lhort time he
, law them take the way to the place where feveral-
korfes were feeding, and after fine Malty they
drove the mare into a narrow lane, and then re-

get hold of fome of the other Mae% but without
effed. The witnefs had in the mean time procured
fome perfbns to of ft him in fecuring the prifoners.
When they found they met with no fuccefs in at-
tempting to catch the other horfes, they returned
to the lane to take away the mare, and after a
(hart purfuit they were both apprehended.
The perfons aft ling the laft witnefs corrobo-
rated his flatement, fo far as related to the pri-
foners' endeavouring to ride away with the mare
in the lane, and their attempts to make their
efcape.
The prifoner Heels, in his defence, alledged that
he had fold the mare a Rion time before ; that he
had been informed the had ftrayed from the owner,
and that he had driven her off the Common into
the lane for the purpofe of refloring her to the
perfon to whom the belonged. The other prifoner,
pretended that he had gone to affift Heels in this'
bonnets, but had no intention of being guilty of
Rettlisg the mare. He had feveral witneffes, who
fpoke to his chard:ter very favourably, and who',
had never hitherto heard any thing to his prejudice.
The Jury found them both Gnilly.
William Richardfon, a private in the 3d Regiment
of Guards, for burglarioufly breaking and enur-
ing the dwelling houfe of James James, a publi-
can in Prince's-lireet, Weßminfter, and haling a
(mall canvas bag, together with notes and cafh
amounting to 301. James Rated that the prifoner
had been quartered in-his houfe a (bore timt be-
fore the burglary in queftion took place, which
happened on the night of the Bth inflant. . On
that night he raid he was the laft perfon up in the
houfe; he faftened all the doors and windows, and
went to bed at twelve o'clock. When he got up
the next morning at (even, he found that his cup.
board had been broke open, and his bag of money
taken away. He had put money into the bag the
night before, and locked it up in the cupboard.—
He alto found that a window near his bar had been
broke open, and a hole made large enough for a
man to pats through. In confequence of -a fearch
made that day, the prifoner was, found at the
Marquis of Granby public houfe, at ,Charing.crofs.
He was immediately taken up, and a filver watch
was found upon him, together with a quantity of
money in cafh and notes, mach greater, (as the
Learned Judge obfcrved) than was ufual for a
foldier in the Guards to have in his polEffion
The profecutor not having taken the numbers of,
nor marked his notes, could not (wear to thnfe
found on the prifoner, nor could he (wear to the
cafh found upon him. But a canvas bag was found
by the conffable among his clothes, and this bag
was pofitively (worn to by the publican anti his
wife, as that in which their money had been kept.
A woman named Elizabeth Ward, who lived
at the Marquis of Granby, raid that about nine
o'clock on the morning of the gth, the prifoner
came into the •bar where Ate was, and gave her
fome notes and money, which he defined her to
keep for him ; he alto gave her a watch to keep,
but to,ik it (ion) her again.
A &optima belonging to a pawnbroker (wore,
that on the fame morning before nine o'clock, the
partner came and bought the very watch which
was found upon him for 31.
A ferjeant in the 3d Regiment of Guards (wore,
that he and the prifoner Lad on the night in grief!
tion been drinking in feveral boufes, and did not
part until three in the morning; the prifoner paid
only for his own liquor, and .appeared at that
time to have no more money about him than his
pay, which he had received on the Bth, that being
pay day.
Whenever he was Axed if he had any miellion
to put to a witnefs, be made no other anfwcr than
defiring that be might have his money back again
which the police officer took from him ; and when
called on for his defence, he made none, but re-
peated his demand.
Mr. Baron Rockall fummed up the evidence,
and on the fubjed of the burglary obferved, that
'as no evidence appeared as to the prifonees hay-
ing been teen near the, place, it was for them to
confider whether this entrance into the houfe, by
whomfoever committed, was done before it was
day light, or after? The profeeutor had fworn
that he weneto bed at twelve, leaving his prettifes
quite fafe, and that he came down at feven. If
the breaking the houfe, by whomfoever done,
was after day light, the burglary was done away.
He left it to them to determine.
The Jury withdrew for about ten minutes, and
returned a verdid Guilty—Death.
Eleven were convicted Of felony, viz.
D. AP.eflosex, for (leafing a filver butter-boat ,
and other articles, the property of C. Ibbetfon.
Yost fbr Realing a cloak and other ar-
ticles, the propestr of A. Butcher.
T. Strom or healing a pair of boots, the pro-
perty of S.
Ass *user, for Realing a pewter pint-pot, the
property of It. Everett.

O. Ikon, for Sealing twenty-four yards of rib.
bon, the property of S. -Hoc knell.
T. Cox, for Ittaling two quartern loaves, the
y of E. Olnan.
property of
for Sealing a quart pewter pot. the
property of J. Sutton.
nittk' for Sealing three pieces of bar-iron,
the property of T. Buffet:
7 &sigh, for Sealing a platform boot for a
chaife, the property of T. Holmes.
T. Spoor, for Sealing 361 b. weight of mutton,
the property of J. Boot; and
St/: with, for Sealing a linen Suet, the property
of T. Brereton.
And five were acquitted, vie.
T. Porter, 7. Dihrearrs, 7. Clown
Mary Loco was tried for the wilful murder of
her illegitimate male child.
The trial was of very Ihort duration, no circum-
fiances being adduced to bring home guilt to the
prifoner. Sufpicions had attached on the prifoner
after her delivery ; the body of the child was ex- '
amined, and though there did not appear any
marks of violence, the medical gentleman who
made the infpcilion was difpofed to think, from
one of the hands being found clenched, that the
child had not been Riliborn. It was on this opi.

trial for the 'fuppofed nuttier. Ai a fulsfeqient
confultation of Gentlemen of the Profefflon, it was
agreed that the circumttance on which the Coro-
ner's verdict was founded was no fatisfaaory evi-
dence that the child was born alive; it was Rated
that fuch an appearance had been in other cafes
difcovered in !till-born fubjeds, and that therefore
the account of the mother might be prefumed to be
true. Thefe particulars being laid before the Jury,
produced the prifoner's acquital.
John Maclenough was indiaed for affaulting
Thomas Prudence on the loth of January latt,
and robbing him of a great coat, and feveral
lings, his property.
From the profecuar's evidence, as well as that
of his nephew, it was clearly proved that he had
been violently Oinked by four or five perfons;—
that he had been cruelly beat about the head
with a piftol and Rick by one or more of thefe
footpads ; and that he had been robbed of the ar-
ticles fpecified in the indidment. Neither he, how.
ever, or his nephew, could fwear pofitively to the
prifoner's identity ; the latter believed him to be
one of the perfons by whom they were alfaulted,
but'would not go farther in his evidence.
On the other hand, the perfons at whore houfe
he refided, (wore pofitively that he was at home
during the whole evening when the robliry was
fuppofed to have been committed.
Under thefe circumftances, and after a direc-
tion from Mr. Juffice CHAMBRE, the Jury without
hefitation acquitted the prifoner.
On Wednefday laa, Daniel APAllum alias Ca:-
tabs Lyn:, was tried for horfe-ftealing. It was fworn
that he hired the horfe in qqefbon the 13th of
Auguß in London, on pretence of going to Dart•
ford, but went to Liverpool, where he borrowed
money at two feveral inns upon the fecurity of the
horfe, and there left him. The prifoner in his de-
fence Paid, he really went to Dartford, where he
met his brother, a naval officer, to whom he gave
the horfe in charge, with diredions to return him,
being obliged himfelf to go to Plymouth, and
confequently that it muft have been his brother
who pledged the horfe at Liverpool. His identity
was however proved by all the witneftes, while he
called none to fupport his ftatement. The Jury,
after force deliberation in their room, returned to
the box, and the foreman was juft on the point of
delivering the verdia, when one of them cried out,
44 No, no."—They again returned to their room,
where they remained from eight until near twelve
o'clock at night, and then brought a verdid of—
Acquittal.

Some time fine as Robert Lupton, of Mainesi
near Poulton, Lancafhire, was cutting turf on Pil-
ling Mofs, at the depth of nine feet below the fur-
face, be difcovered an entire fboe, of a fingular
conflruaion, being wholly made of one undivided
piece of leather. This piece of Antiquity, is hip-
pofed to have belonged to the Ancient Britons : it
is now, together s. ith a Roman Sandal, in fine
prefervation, found In Cheflire, in the Liverpool
Mufeum.
On the 3oth ult. an inquifition was taken in the
parifh of Ellington, in the county of Huntingdon,
on an infant-alittle more than a year old, whole
death appeared to have been oceafioned by ad-
minidering to it a (mall quantity of butter of anti-
mony, (a deadly poifon ufed by farmers to cure
the foot-halt in (beep, &c.) inflead of antimonial
wine, which had been recommended by a labourer's
wife as a gentle emetic.
A very (hocking accident happened on Thurfday
fe'nnight, in a place called Blankney Fen, in Lin-
colnflure :—A youth named James Richardfon, of
Heighington, near Lincoln, aged 16, and Abfo
lam Wray, a young man late of Stixwold, near
Bardley, aged 23, were attempting to crofs a deep
piece of water called BlankneyDelf,in a very (mall
duller, with an afs therein; when arrived at the
deeped part, the boat upfet in a moment, and the
two young men were both drowned. Richirdfon's
father was (Landing on the bank at the time, and
witneffed the aaliding fcene, without being able to
render any allidance.
Lad Thurfday fe'nnight the following melan-
choly circumliance occurred at the Blue Door
Public-houfe, near Maiddone. Two men, who
had been up all night watching rabbits, under the
direction of Lord ROMNEY'S game-keeper, were
fitting. in the fettle, whild the game-keeper, who
came in, went backwards to paunch one of the
rabbits hey had taken ; in the interim, the land-
lord of the houfe, Thomas Munn, who had been
for fome time in a deranged date of mind, took up
the game-keeper's loaded gun from a place where
he was accudomed to leave it, and fuddenly pre-
fenting it at one of them, named Swift, fired, and
lodged its contents in his right bread. The poor
man died inilantaneoufly. That evening and the
following the Coroner's Jury fat on the body of
the deceafed, and brought in their verdkt Lunacy.
Munn has fince been fent to London, and loaged
in a place of fecnrity.
Lail week was committed to York eagle, Mary
Jones, widow, charged with dealing from the per-
fon of James Booth, at Leeds, on the 4th of April
lad, a bill of exchange, value isl.

On Sunday fo'nnight, in the morning, the fol-
lowing twelve male conviets left the Caftfe of York,
in order to be delivered on board the hulks at Lang.
non or Portfmouth harbour, viz. James Lord,
Abraham Slinn, George Walker, Wm. Fofter,
Rob. Dean, John Hirft,-Rich. Firth, Tho. Brum.
fitt, Wm. Rickett, refpeetively for (even years—
Richard Grimfhaw, Edw. Hill, for ta years, and
David Whitaker, during his natural life. Alfo John
Place, from Oufebridge gaol, for 14. years.
GUILDHALL.—Thurfday Mary Moore and Sarah
Word underwent an examination, charged upon
the oath of a lad, who Rated, that as he was going
along Newgate-fireet, on Monday evening, he was
accolled near the Horfahoe pairage, in the faid
fireet, when Moor imnrdiately held him by the
arms, %chilli Ward rifled his pockets, and took
froni him his purfe, containing a 7s. piece and
other money, after which they ran away; but an
alarm being given, they were both loon taken, and
the money and purfe found on the perfon of Ward,
which ban idet_Lni.6_edil the lad, they were fully

Average Price

LONDON MARKEfiS.

CORN-EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IT.
A Rotuma of the PRICES of FLOUR, from the 6th of F i.

to the 12th of February inclufwe.
Total L 2.810 (acts.—Average 624. 84.
3s. x d.. lower than laft return.
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH

Zags 41 06 to 71 7$ I Pockets 41 cs to 51 r4l
SEEDS PER HUNDRED WEIGHT, February 19.
Red Clover 405 to loos
White ditto ,Soo to 147$ Oa Oct.
Trefoil .30, to 68s
Turnip z6s to son per bufhol
Rye Graf. 24$ to 36% per quartar
Cinquefoil 341 to 46s per ditto
Hs Od to 146 per bailief
Mnftard. c White
1 Seed. illrown stsod to r4s 6d per dote
Canary Seed at. to 12s od per ditto
Rape-Seed 341 to 381 per lalt.
. SMITHFIELD, February tg.
To flat the okal—per 'tone of 81b.
Beef 4s 8d to is 8d Veal - 5s 8d to 6s XI
Mutton -sq ikl to ys od Pork - to od to yi od
Stock at Market this morning, Beafta 750, Sheep moo.
NEWGATE and LEADENHALL, February 19.
Per Rose of 8111. by the carcafe.
Beef 3$ 8d to ss od Veal 43 8d to Is Bd
Mutton 4$ 841 to ss Bd Pork 6s od so 7$ od
RAW HIDES, February to.
Hides (per Rone) 3s 4d to 31 6d I Heavy Calf 9s od cods
Middling as sod to 3s od Horfe Skins s3s to so
Ordinary as Od to 111 4tl Sheep Skins 41 od to 8164
PRICE OF LEATHER, per lb: AT LEADENHALL.
Butte, so to 561 b each; - - 154 to 21d
Ditto, 6o to 661 b - . . 22d to 234
Mc chants Backs -28 d to tgdt
Drilling Hides . -14 d to r6d
Fine Coach Hides . 16d to 174
Crop Hides fur Cutting -18 d to zod
flu Ordinary - - 1541 to 174
Calf Skins, 35 to 4olb per dozen, - zod to z6d
Ditto so .w yolb - - 244 to 284
Ditto, .. 70 to Bclb - - 244 to 26d
Small Seals (Greenland) per Ih. 2s 6d to 1. yd
Large ditto - - loos to t4os per doz.
Tanned Horfe Hides - 18, to 3os each
Goat Aim - - 204 to 646 per dozen
PRICE OF TALLOW IN LONDON.

St. James's market as 4d Town Tallow 7as 6d tools
Clare market 0 3d Ruffia ditto (ca.) 6,51 od Woe
Whitechapel market as ad RuMa ditto (foap) 63a to 641
(per Ilona of 811 a.) White Candleßullia 65a to os
---- Melting Stuff 53a od
Its 94 Ditto Rough gla od to as
4$ 3d Greaves -19 s od tool
Good Dregs its to Oa
Yellow Soap, 725. to ca.—Mottled, Soa—Curds 84s,
Candlii, its. &I—Moulds, Tait. 64.
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, February to.
- Smithfield. Et. James's. Whitechapel.
o.Hay 3z0t05 5 I 2 as oto 5 8 0 4 00to S 5 •
N. do. 0 0 to o o
Straw azo tot 16 I z is 6to 2 3 0 1 52 r: Mlt 0
Clovers oto 6 6 5 so ow 6 6
COALS, February 19.
Bell Coals in the Pool, 21. os. 6d per Claldron.
Delivered 21. 9a. 64.
Sunderiand, 11. t 7s. od.
Del4vered 21. 6s. od.