Star.
London, England, 1802-12-08 00:00:00

7-77.17

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alarm recpeaing tote robbery was given, end on
coming up to the fpot, they found young M. Jerk
nings and Tome watchmen engaged in fecuring the
robbers.
The officer who apprehended the prifoner Rated,
that the.prifoner, on the Warrant being read to
him, acknowledged that be had given tome beer
away.
Mr. Common &WANT lamented that under
the particular circumftances of the cafe, the charge
could not be brought home to the prifoner, by the
evidence. There was no beer proved to have .been
loft, though the cafe every way had a bad colour.
The watchmen were very reprehenfible for quit-
ting their Rations at that hour of the night for the
purpofe of drinking ; there was little doubt of the
prifoner's being concerned with thofe who broke
open Mr. Jennings's houfe, but under the preterit
indiament he could not be conviaed. A verdia
of Not Guilty was of courfe pronounced.
Mr. W. Jennings, above mentioned, who figna-
lized himfelf fo highly on the affair of the robbery,
obferved, there was little doubt of the prifoner's
having opened the yard gates through which the
robbers entered for the purpofe of breaking into
the dwelling houfe. And Mr. KNOW Lis obferved,
that the prifoner, though a private watchman of
the premifes at the time, refuted to affift and arm
himfelf in order to ad againft the robbers.
Mr. COMMON SR RJEANT reprobated the condnd
of the prifoner, and told him, that though necef-
farily acquitted in the prefent inftance, he did not
go from the bar perfectly pure.
At the fame time, Mr. RECORDER pallid fen.
tence of death upon he following prifoners, con-
viaed capitally, viz.
Martha Smith, T. White, 7. Picker:, 7. Mahar:my,
Margard Rafhano, Sarah Bob, 7. Caudell, E.
Nelfon., and
F. Finlay, who had been convided of forgery,
and agairat whom fourteen more indiaments were
found: he read to the Court a paper, praying the
indulgence of the Court to his unhappy cafe, Rat-
ing, that he was deranged in his mind when he
committed this forgery, &c. &c. The RECORDER
told him not to expel or deceive himfelf, as he
could give him no hopes. Amongft there unhappy
cowries are three women, two for ftealing, and
one for uttering bad filver, knowing it to be bad.
C. Burn being fick, his judgment was refpited
until the next S'effions.

Between the hours of four and five, Colonel Def.
Bard, honuu Broughton, Samuel Smith, Arthur Grakarn,
:fobs Maciansara, Sedgewich ',rattler, and William
Linde, prifoners udder charges of High Treafon,
were brought to the bar. Their names, to which
they feverally anfwered, and the charges againft
them refpedively were read.
Mr. Know Las, on the part of the Crown, then
addrang the Bench, Rated, that thefe perfons
had been committed to his Majetty's gaol of New-
gate, only on Thurfday laft ; that the ATTORNEY
GENERAL had not, fince that day, been fofficiently
at leifure to prepare indictments againft them ;
and that it was therefore necefary to delay bring.
ing them to trial till a future time. .None of the
prifoners uttered a word more than (imply in an-
fwer to the call of their names. Colonel Defpard
wore a brown. great coat; and his hair, though
ikon, is not cut an the prefent fathion. The other
prifoners, his companions, were of decent appear-
ance ; none of them in- a foldier's uniform.
Thofe whofe guilt appears from the evidence to
have been committed in Middlefex or London,
will be tried at the Old Bailey. The reit, among
thefe, probably Colonel Defpard, will be brought
to take their trials in Surrey.

SESSIONS.

ESsodatif, Salmon was indifted for that The bad
eonfpired with a certain perfon or perfons un-
known, contriving by fuch a confpiracy unlawfully
to obtain and take away Aan Impey, the
dalighter of Jofeph and Eliza Impey.
Mr. SYLVISTIR proceeded to Rite the Gas to
the Jury.
Mrs. Eliza Impey Rated, that on the azd of
June laf, having then lain in a fortnight, a man
called at her houfe, Rating that he came from a
lady who had heard the was in dißrefs, to relieve
her, and gave her eighteen pence to go and buy
tome bread, offering at the fame time to hold her
child till her return; but on her return the man
had gone off with the child, and he has not been
once found ; that the went on the 24th to Mrs.
Salmon's, the prifoner, whole hutband owns the
houfe in which the witnefs then lived, and told her
lots to Mrs. S. who Paid that the had herfelf laid
in on the evening of the sad June, and defied
that the would be quiet, for that as loon as the got
about the would go herfelf and fearch the books of
the Foundling HOfpital, and there, no doubt,. her
a
child would be found. Having, however, fuf-
picion, the went main next day to Mrs. Salmon's,
and without fending up her name, went up into
Mrs. S.'s bed room, and Laid the had heard I:er
child was like the one the had loft, and the withed
to fee it, which was refufed ; but The witnefs pull-
ed down the clothes, and knew the child lying un-
der them to be hers, particularly by a mark on its
neck. The child was in ,Court, and the (wore to
'its being hers, and that Jofeph lmpey, then in
Court, was the father of it.
Mrs. Impey was croft-examined by Mr.
Ksowcze : when was you married, and where ?
At St. Sepulchre's. How long is it fine you-were
married ? about (even weeks. On producing the
certificate of the marriage it appeared it was on the
15th of November. Mr. Knowles contended that
this proof of illegitimacy of the child did away the
indiftment, as upon the record it was Rated to be
the child of Jofeph and Elise Impey, when in fad
it was no more than the reputed child of Jofeph
Impey. Mr. Knowles then Rated to the Court,
;that upon the former trial the had Rated berfeif
to have been marriedoither at Welt Wycombe or

High Wycombe.
Mr. MAINWARIIIO9 in his addrefs to the Court,
obfcrved, that be was happy this man had done
the woman inflict by making her his wife, an ac-
don highly commendable; at.was, however, pain-
ful to know that though there was every degree of
certainty as to the fa*. of the rifoner having taken
this child by the afdf itiNefoo sabown,