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London, England, 1801-01-19 00:00:00

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Shit*fourteen prifoners were .tried at
the Old ffalley, one of whom was capitally con-
vi lid, viz.
illeeltrao Bramlif, a lad about thirteen for a
burglary .in the dwelling-house of Sarah Dane,
and dealing therein a filver deffert fpoon.
The profecutrii keeps a filverfmith's fhop in
Orford-road, and on the evening of the '24th of
December lad, the Palmer and two other bop
were obferved lurking ahout the fhop, The Pr.-
loner was fhorey after fcen in the aft of breaking
a pane of glaf,, and running off with the fpoon.
He was'immediatcly purfued and fecured, and the
fpoon dropped between his legs. Guilty7--Death.
Six were convielcd of felony, via.
ga6a Nat, for flaling a tin caniller, containing
coffee, the property of William Meffeuger.
fpoptim.ia ?oleos and
.7afeth Malone, for Reality g a
piece of. brown Holland, the propertf of Saran-
nab illatri. The plofecutrix being. a Quaker,
cold not, confidently with her religion, Quaker,
an
oath; but the fa* of the robbery was proved by.
her fhOpwoman and other wt es: The Pao-
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n -qit were both found guilty.
• Ne.fib for dialing a horfe Cart, be-
laming to a Mr. Springmore. Upon this india-
meat he waj acquitted, the proof with regard to
the hoife falling. He was thin indieted or Real
in ycart. .
APpe, sgekt, ;11,4 he. had hired the cart
e ot the profecutor, to remove (bine artielei ;
that he contrived to get rid of the carman upon a
frivolous errand ; and that, during his abfence, he
drove the cart off and fold it.—Guilty.
.afaa. Ely, for dealing a filver watch and a blab-
• ket, the property of Wiliiarii Gorman.
The Prifoner had aced's to the profecutor's houfe
and Role the watch froin over the fireplace.—She
was farpeeted, and the duplicate of thipratch and
feveral other articles were found concealed in her
Rays and her hair. The Rainer Paid the took the
• watch in a frolic.--Gitiky.
Efizakth Neale, for healing cotton gowns, blan-
kets, and fleets, from her employer, James Cole.

man.
-Ann Coleman, wife to the profecutor, flated,
that the had miffed felieral articles of -wearing ap-
parel, and that upon communicating it to one of
her neighbours, fhe was informed, that the Pri-
loner, whom fhe employed occafionally as a fey-
van}„ had depofited a number of pawn-brokers
duplicates with a perfon of the name of Ann Fore-
fides. That The went to her, and accordingit
found in her poffeffion duplicates of a variety AR'

articles fhe hacf loft, .which.being producede were
proved to be her hufband's property. •. •
Ann Forefides depofed, that fhe receiVed the
duplicates from the Prifoner. The feveral pawn-
brokers appeared, and proved the articles to have
been pawned by her, and the Jury-immediately
found her Guilty.
She implored the mercy of the Court, and the
profecutrix recommended her, in confequence of
her having four infant, childiea.
Atld feven wert,:tcqUitted ; among whom were
Ricbaril BrifloiuMr Sealing a brown gelding,
the property of jahn Cooper.
• fhe profecutorpon the 17th of December, mired
two horfes out of his liable, at Longfield, in Sorry.
On the rridai &flowing be found one of them in
Smidahaid, and the other at Kentifh-town. He
traceethem to the partition of Hall, the driver of
the Sage -coach at Kentifh-tcwn, who had pun
cbgesi them from one Msrtin.
e fart of Martin bringing the horfes to Hall,
a*d felling them, was proved ; and the Prifonar
was alio proved to have been in his company ; but
the Jury acquitted him.
It appeared upon the triAl, that a great number
of flolen bodes were taken to Kentifh Town, where
they fcound a ready market. A very inferior price
was given by Hall, who was defited by the Judge
to be more cautioui bow he made fuch bargains

in future.
George Dune tut, for ftealing two quarterns of oats,
the property of Mr. Simeon Thompfon.
The protect:it& is a coal-merchant, and the pri.
toner was employed by him as a watchman. He
had frequently loft coals ar.d oats from his wharf,
which is near London-bridge, but never till lately
furpefted the prifoncr, when on the morning of the
d inftint, having come into the clerk's office to
light the tire, with his A-Tree coat banging loofely
over his fhouider, which he laid down ; and the
clerk examining it, found in one packet a quantity
9f coal, and in the other a bag of oats, containing
*Non half f.pcck. Finding that the clerk bad been
wing bulsoat, he thought at to go away and
not call for it.
'llk was proved by Mr. Tiarnaby Thompfon,
virtho alto flared. that the plifoner,.when he came
as ufual in the evening to his watch, was taken
into cultody, whenhe aid that the oats were given
him by Neary, the horfekeeper.
Mr. Simeon Thoinpftm raid, he had employed
the prifoner upwards of ten years; that he corn..
pared the oats with hole in the ft-able, from'
whence he fuppofed they were taken, and found
that they eiaftly correfponded ; that the prifoner
having aced*: to. that (table, no dot was enter-
tained by him, but that 'they were his property.
Being, however, Aced, whether he lu'd
the quantity of oats Rated in the indiament, and
Whether be could pofitively fwear, that the oats in
quettiOn were aftually taken ont, of that (table. or
bins therein, he replied in the negatirea-s--The Rr •
coatis* was therefore of opinion, that there was
sot a cafe made mit againft the prifoner, but, as it
was'tlie province of the Jury to decide upon the
fad, he would leave it to their coulideration.
Thc rrltuner, when called on for his defence,
" My Lord, this Wall (pie, becaufe i would.
ant clean the clerk's fhocs." Veraitt—Not Gaikt.
ykkoifiatr, out a chirge 'lLaling a loaf of
*Pad fri:;ar, the property of John ()toile Roebuck,
Otarics ,tow, and Thothas
The p. ntuottort are u holtf4l4, Ater dealers and
racers, living at Esti:cheap. c prifencr was
t~seir" pewter. On the &rosin rT of the S it of January,
Richard Tipper. a cortitabk, was us Laftcheap,
ap4 gar,r via tLe ptifosict pafs him r.thcr heftily,

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about 'half-paft feven o'clock, rad' a parcel, he
(lopped him; this was about forty yards from the
profecutor's houfe, and enquiring what he had in
the bundle? he refused to' fatisfy him ; whereupon
John Read,. accompanied Shinitoe, two other
officers, came up, 'and they took him into ca.
tody. They found the bundle contained a lOaf
of refined fugar, and font brown fugar, and they
conducted him to the Campter. On his way thither,
he begged forgivenefs, but they performed their
duty, and lodged him there. When arrived, they
recognized him as the firvant of the preffecutors,
whom they immediately made acquainted with
the circurnilance. •
Mr. Kay, one of the partners, was called for the'
purpore of identifying the loafof fugar, but as his I
evidence did not produce that =ear), and legal
fatisfaaion; upon which alone .a Jury conld pro-
nounce upon the fast, and as he Rated he had not
taken Rock fince laft May, and admitted that fimi-
lar loaves of• fugar to that then produced, might
he in ettended circulation; thefe things added to
that of having a me excellent character from
several refpeaable perfoai, among whoni was a
partner in the very hoofe of the profeentors, he
was acquitted.

SESSIONS, JANUARY it 7.

Yams Murrell and Sarah Murrell were tried on
an indictment charging them with cruelly beating,
abufing, and ill-treating Either Rudy, their ap-
prentice. The defendants are tambour workers,
in the parifh of St. Luke, and have a number of
apprentices from the parifh. The preifecutrix was
turned over to them in June laf. She Rated, that
the defendant and his wife nfid to beat her with
a thong, an cl fometirtiei With a cane and nettles ;
that‘they did not allow her fufficient food for the
fullenance of nature ; that in confequence of her
sot having proper change of clean linen, the was
Minced to &moil miferable Rate ; that they had
turned hei out of doors, and that (be fat on the
leps all night, on the gth of Oeober, when fliel
Weis taken to the WoriCtonfe. Her evidence was
confirmed by three girls who were apprenticet to
the defendants at the fame time. The Suegean 1.
and the Mailer of the Workhoufe faid that file
was in fo deplorable and wretched a Rate when
brought to the Workhoufe, that the was not ex-
pelled to recover.
Thetefendants called two girls, apprentices to
thetti; to prove that they were treated with kind-
nes, and that the profecutrix had at all times as
much as the could eat. They faid that their mif-
[refs always afked the children if they had enough,
and that if they had not file gave them more. The
daughter of the defendants faid, that her father
went out to work every morning at five o'clock,
and did not return till late in the evening, and that
(he never faw either her mother or Either beat
them ; that they had a fufficient allowance of food,
and that their linen was changed once a week.
The defendants denied generally the charge im-
puted to them. The wife faid fhe had been the
mother of fourteen children, and it could not be
fuppofed that the would ill treat the children com-
mitted to her care.—The Jury found both the de-
fendants Guilty.
Rodent Pointer was tried for receiving, knowing
then% to have been itolen, two great coats and a
velvet jacket, the property of Richard Rigden.
Mr. Rigden hated, that he is a Taylor; the prifoner
was employed by him to make up clothes, which
he did at his own home : he. ufed to fend his
daughter for the work, and when it was finitbed
the brought it home. Having repeatedly miffed
things, he procured a warrant to fearch the pri-
loner's houfe, where he found the articles as Rated
in the indielmcnt, and feveral duplicates for arti-
cles pledged, and which he knew to be his property.
He alfo faid, that he had been robbed of property,
by the prifoner's training up his daughter to plun-
der, to the amount of 5 or 600l.—The prifoner
acknowledged that his daughter had brought the
things home, and raid he was afhamed to fend them
back. He called three witneifes to his charaeter,
who gave him an excellent oae.—The Jury im:
mediately found the prifoner

On Tuefday fe'nnight Come thieves entered the
Merchants Court in Newcallle, and took off three
gowns, one belonging to the Sheriffs, another (Cup.
pofed to have been nearly a century in exiftence)
belonging to the Governor of the Boatmen's Com-
pany, and the third to one of the Town Serjeants ;
they alfo carried away a quantity of linen belong-
ing to Mr. Storey. The Band of the Armed Alio-
ciaticm had been prailifing in the room on that
evening, and had negleEted to flint the door on
their leaving it, by which means the thieves had
obtained entrance.—Several other robberies, or at-
tempt at robbery,have been made during the week.
ht our in:lance a quantity of clothes were Molen
from the lines on which they were drying.
A few days finee, in the abfence of the mother,
a girl about 54 years of age, in Charlotte-ftreet,
MI-greet Road, unfortunately going near the fire,
the flames communicated to her cloaths, and be-
fore allifiance could be given, the was fo dreadfully
burnt, that it became neeeffary to take her to the
hofjital, where -Ilse expired on Sunday night.
toaster rr r.--There is now living in Aberfeldy,
Pet-Whirr, JOHN STIWART, who haslived in three
centuries, aged toll years. He was vifited by a
Gentleman from England on Wednefday len,
who fp eat ihe evening, and brought in the nevryear
and century *lit the old Gentleman, much to his
fatislaftion.
Curlew Colleam of &ob.—Rim:ln, Korfakoff
was elevated by fortune in a playful mood. This
man. wbo had aanally been a fetjeant in the
Guards, was declare/ Aid.de-camp General to the
Emprefi of Kutlia, Catharine 11. and was pre-
i.nted with the place of Vaffill-fehikoff. Mile
is the height of his favour, he began to conceive
that a library was ncceffary in a palace. He ac-
cordingly applied to Weilbrecht, the bookleTler ;
and on being aced for a catalogue of the authors
he wanted, the quondam ferjcaia replied-4, Oh,
as for that matter, I am not difficult ; only take
care to place great books at bottom, and (mall
ones at top, as you do fur the Lairds !"