Star.
London, England, 1821-09-26 00:00:00

SCOTCH CIRCUITS.

GLASGOW, SEPTEMBER 19.
This day the Court of Justiciary was opened here
by the Hon. Lords Gtl.l.lEs and SUCCOTH.
After prayers by the Rev. Dr. RANKEN, and the
list of the Jury having been read,
Ann Wilson alias Moore, indicted for passing two
forged 30s. notes, of the Belfast Bdnk, one in the shop
of -Messrs. William and Alexander Campbell, mer-
chants, Salt-market; and one in the shop of William
Green, straw-hat-manufacturer, Nelson-street, on the
3d of May, pleaded Guilty of passing the notes, but
declared she did not know they were bad, as she had
got them for cloth. The declarations of the prisoner
being proved, there was called,
William Adam, salesman to Messrs. Campbell and
Co. recollects the prisoner coming to their warehouse
on the 3d of May, and purchasing somearticles which
came to 12s. for which she tendered a 30s. note of
the Belfast Bank. Shewed it to Mr. Campbell, and
asked if he might take it? he said- he might ; pri-
soner asked witness if he took any Irish notes? he
said sometimes, asked if it was good ? prisoner said
it was; saw prisoner have another Irish note at the
same time. After witness had taken the note, a wo-
man came the same day from Mr. Green's shop, in
Nelson-street, with another Irish note, and asked
change. Witness went with her and Mr. Campbell,'
and saw the same person from whom he had taken
the note, in Green's shop. Prisoner denied that wit-
ness had seen her before, and appeared surprised when
he told her she had given him a bad note that day.
,Prisoner said she got the note she gave in Green s
shop from a sailor in Greenock. Witness went and
got Police-officers, and when he returned saw Mr.
Campbell have the note she had tendered in Green's
shop all chewed and wet, as if it had been in a mouth.
Witness put the note he took into the drawer among
other notes, which were all Scotch. The note was
taken to the Police Office the same evening, which he
now identifies.
(Here Lord GULLIES advised the woman to think
seriously of her situation, and the plea she had put in,
before the case went any farther. Mr. DICKSON, her
Counsel, went and talked with her a few minutes; but
she Fersisted in her plea, and the trial went on).
Edward Langlands, clerk to Mr. Campbell.-1 was
in Mr. Campbell's shop when I saw the prisoner come
in upon the 3d of May. She bought some silk hand-
kerchiefs, and tendered an Irish note, which was
shewn to Mr. Campbell, and afterwards put into the
drawer. J am sure there were no other Kish note, in
the drawer. Ile identified the note.
Letitia Bond, shopkeeper to Mr. Green.—l recol-
lect the prisoner coming to the shop and looking at
a straw bonnet. She said if I could give her change
fur an Irish note she would buy it. She said she
would take 255. for the 30s. as she must have the
note changed. I said I felt for her losing so much,
and would endeavour to get the note changed. I took
it to Mr. Campbell's warehouse. He said he had got
one of the same that day from a woman, and it was
bad. Mr. Campbell and his warehouseman returned
with witness, and asked prisoner if she knew him ?
She said, no. He said she had been in Campbell's
warehouse that day, and gave them a bad note. She
was embarrassed for a moment, and then denied it.

Mr. Campbell stopped in the shop. and
.his ware-
houseman went for the Police. The prisoner then
asked for the note she had given witness to change ;
I laid it upon the counter, and the prisoner put it in
her pocket ; she afterwards put it in her mouth ; Mr.
Campbell said she had put the note in her mouth ;
she denied it, and said it was a piece of biscuit she
tad in her mouth ; she then went to a retired place
of the shop, and stooped and said her foot was stare;
Mr. Campbell took a candle and looked what she
was about, and found the note, which she had put out
of her mouth ; he then gave it into the hands of the
police, who had just entered the shop ; it was wet,
and all chewed like tow ; witness saw it afterwards
in the Police-office ; bad observed the number when
the note was first tendered, and when witness saw it
in the office knew it. was the same note, as the num-
ber was still legible.
Sarah Gardner, daughter of John Gardner, butcher,
and servant to William Green.—Saw the prisoner in
Mr. Green's shop early in May ; Miss Bun.l had an
Irish note in her kind ; witness offered to get the note
changed ; lamer said the note was wm th 30s. but
"she would give it ibr 275. witness offered only 265.
arid prisoner came back to see if witness would take
it ; she said I might, but it was robbing people and
taking the money out of their pockets. Miss Bond
then went and said she would get it changed. When
Miss Bond was out, witness was sitting beside the
prisoner. She said " I am very uneasy. I wish all
may be right. I wonder if she has gone to Camp-I
bell's warehouse." Miss Bond, Mr. Campbell, and
his warehouseman, then came in, and Mr: Adam said
she had given him a bad note to-day in Mr. Camp-
bell's warehouse. She denied it, and said she had
not been there that clay. When Mr. Cari4l,bell's
warehouseman went out for the police, she asked the
note from Miss Bond ; and when she got it she put
her hand to her pocket and then to her mouth. Mr.
Campbell asked for the ncte, she said she had not
got it, and said witness had it ; witness said she had
it not. She then went round the counter and stooped
down and said she had a sore foot. Mr. Campbell
said she had chewed the note, she denied it, and wit-
ness took the candle and went round the counter to
look where she had been, and Mr. Campbell picked
up the note, and said " I told you you had chewed
it, see what a state it is in."—(This witness was about
fourteen years of age, and Lord (iILLIES compli-
mented her for the distinct evidence she had given).
Donald Frazer, criminal officer, apprehended the
prisoner, and found on her person twenty-three shil-
lings and three half-crowns.
Two clerks of the Belfast Bank proved the notes
to be forgeries.
The declarations of the prisoner were then read. .
Mr. Hors raid the case was so clear that he would
not take up the time of the Jury in going over the
evidence. Whatever might be the consequence of
their verdict, such was the present .prevalence of
forged notes. in the country, that he could not take
upon himself to restrict the libel ; mercy must come
from a higher quarter.
Mr. DICKSON, Counsel for the prisoner, followed
the example of Mr. HOPE, and did not detain the Jury.
Lord GILLIES summed up the case in a very few
words.—The Jury retired for about an hour, and re-

turned with a unanimous verdict of Guilty, and by a
plurality of voices recommended the prisoner to mercy.
Lord Gttwits, in passing' sentence, observed that
that was just such a verdict as the Court had to ex-
pect; and he must say, with sorrow, that, consistent
with their public duty, they had no other alternative
than to pass upon t!•e unhappy woman the last sen- .
tence of the law. The multiplicity of the criminal
cases would not allow him to enlarge upon the enor-
mity of the crime of which she had been convicted.
He warned the prisoner to entertain no hopes of
mercy from man, but rather to prepare for her ap-
pearance before that awful Tribunal where her fate
would be fixed for eternity. She was then sentenced
to be hanged on the 24th of October
During the address the prisoner frequently cried,
" 0 mercy, my Lord !" and at last walked down the
stair with decent composure, saying something about
having been decoyed into the crime.
Michael Macintyre, William Paterson, or Kidston,
and Margaret Macnair, were accused of entering the
house of John Niven, journeyman tanner, Crawford's
Dyke, Greenock, and stealing therefrom three women's
shifts, a half sheet, a black coat, three waistcoats, a
pair of black breeches, a pair of blue pantaloons, a
bombazet gown, three printed cotton gowns, a cassi-
mere shawl, a cotton shawl, two women's caps, three
children's caps, two frocks, and two children's aprons,
and of being habit and repute thieves; they pleaded
Not Guilty.
Jenet Levingston, the wife of John Niven, had
occasion to go out of her house and lock the door; on
her return she found the house had been entered and
robbed of the aitides detailed above; gave informa-
tion to her husband, and heard the robbers had gone
to Port-Glasgow, whither she followed them, but 105 t
her object ; on returning she was informed by a wo-
man of the house (Montgomery) where the robbers
were ; went there and found some of the clothes, in
particular the black breeches that was worn by Kid-
ston at that time—searched Macintyre's lodgings and
found there the pantaloons, rolled up in straw, in a
corner of the bed.
John Niven corroborated the evidence given by his
wile in every particular, and added, that Monto-
mery denied having the clothes, and afterwards gave
them up by throwing them in a bundle, towards wit-
ness ; on searching the female prisoner, she wore " one
of his wife's sarks!"

George Orr, baker, saw the prisoners walking,
previous to the robbery ; saw Kidston, with a bundle
of-clothes pass the bake-house door, and. the others
followed or walkeJ with him ; the bundle was en-
compassed in a shawl. Niven's wifr. came to the
bake-house, and witness told her the persons having
the clethes had gone towards Glasgow; witness went
in pursuit of the robbers, seized one, and his brother
took another, and they were sent to the Police Office.
Bernard Montgomery, knows the prisoners ; the
last time (month of May) they were in his house, they
had a bundle of clothes with them ; Fraser, the Po,
lice-officer, and another, came and asked for the
bundle, which witness 4iewed him, it being lying on
the bed in the room ; never deniid the bundle was
there, , but rather told the officers that the bundle
was there ; the party changed clothes in his house,
but he was not present.
Malcolm Fraser, town-officer of Port-Glasgow,
proved the finding of the prisoners and of part of the
clothes being on them ; Macintyre was in the 2,1 Bat-
talion of the 2tith Regiment of Foot, with w itness,
where he was punished for being a thief.
Mr. Bremner, keeper of Madmen, .knew the
pri-
soners to be in his charge, and considers them habit
and repute thieves.
Donald Fraser and Donald Cameron, Police-officers,
said they were habit and repute thieves.
The ADvocATE-DcPurE addressed the Jury, and

rest! icted the libel against the prisoner 3lacnrir, and
urged the propriety of returning a verdict of Guilty
against all the other prisoners.
Mr. %APIZR spoke in favour of the prisoners.
The Jury was then addressed by Lord SUCCOTH.
After being a considerable time absent they re-
turned into Court, finding the two men (or boys)
Guilty ; and as to the female, Not Proven.
Lord SUCCOTH addressed them in a most appro.

priate speech, and they were afterwards sentenced to
be hanged on the 24th of October. Kidston shed
tears, and Alacintyre said he did not care a sl—n for
his &citation.
Lobelia IPGilvray, alias Mind, accused of utter-
ing a forged note of the Greenock Bank, on the 12th
of April, and of having a number of others in her
possession, knowing them to be forged, pleaded
Not Guilty.
Robert mnille, spirit-dealer, Great Hamilton• street,
saw the prisoner in his house on the 12th of April ;
a little girl, prisoner's daughter, came in before her,
and asked for half a mutchkin f rum at a shilling,
for which she offered a guinea note of the Greenock
Bank ; it was folded when tendered ; he called for his
wife to change it, who thought it was bad ; the young
girl went away home, and in about fifteen or twenty
minutes after tke prisoner came. to get the note his
wife had retained ; prisoner asked what was wrong
about the note? his wife replied; the note was bad;
prisoner asked the note back ; witness's wife replied,
that as the little girl said she got the note from a
man, she had nothing to do with her; prisoner said
she would not like to affront the man ; prisoner after-
wards said she got it from a man in payment for
washing; prisoner said she did not know the man
whom she got it from, having only worked for him
a fortnight ; prisoner seemed very desirous to get
back the note, and promised to give half a mutchkin
for it ; witness went to the Polite Offict, and had her
taken into custody.
The prisoner, after the examination of the first
witness, pleaded Guilty, and a number of witnesses
were examined in exculpation, who all considered
her an honest woman before the commission of the
present crime. She had been deserted by her husband,
and had two children to support by her industry.
The Jury found her Guilty in terms of her own
confession, but on account of her• former good chit-
teeter recommended her to the clemency of the
seven years transportation.
SEPTEMBER 22. _ _

Mr. William Les was charged with having per- I
suaded J. Mitchell, carpet-weaver, in the employ-
ment of Robert Thomson and Son, to leave this king-
dom and go to New York, and enter into the service
of John and Nicholas Haight, manufacturers. lie
was called to the Bar.
Mr. ROBINAION objected to the relevancy of the in-

dictment. The indictment went on to gate, that the
specific kind of carpets were unknown in 4mericit,
before the person alleged to be seduced went and
taught them ; but they would be able to prove, that
carpets of the same kind were manufactured in Ame-
rica long antecedent to this date. lie would also
bring the person who was said to be seduced, and he
would prove at the Bar that he was not seduced.—
The Public Prosecutor had laid his indictment in
such a manner, that Mr. Lee must bring all his evi-
dence from a foreign country. He hoped, as their
Lordships had a discretionary power, they would
allow time to the prisoner to make preparations for
his trial. He had only been served with his indict-
ment on the first September, scarcely three weeks ago.
The Public Prosecutor replied ; and Mr. Cocic-
BURN said, that as the libel stated that the manufac-
ture was unknown in America till Mitchell was sent
thither, the prisoner had a right to glove that that
manufacture was known just as well as the manufac-
ture of spades or ploughs, or anything else. The
prisoner had a right to prove,_ that John and Nicho-
las Haight did not set up that manufactory. He
found, as a matter of antiquarian research, that this
statute was passed seventy years ago, and only one
matthad been tried upon it, and that was at the in-
stance of a private prosecutor. It was notorious that
the manufactures of this country had gone on flou-
rishing without the aid of this statute, and surely no
resurrection of it could be of any benefit now.

Lord SUCCOTH proposed, that the case should be
brought before the High Court of Justiciary.
Lord GILLIES concurred, and the case is to be cer-
tified to the High Court of Justiciary. Time all
to the prisoner to prepare for his defence on the 19th
of November.

After a few words respecting the amount of bail
necessary, Mr. Lee left .the Cuurt, which WAS very
respectably filled.

INVERARY, SEPTEMBER n.

The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here
yesterday by the Hight Hon. Lord SUCCOTH.
Joky: .Done 1, riding officer of Excise, was then
put to the bar, charged with an assault upon the per-
son of. Alexander Faskin, another officer of Excise.
A plea of justification, on the ground of provocation,
was put in by the prisoner, and several witnesses con-
cuired in giving him an excellent character. The
Jury found the prisoner guilty of the assault, but not
to the danger of Faskin s life, as libelled, and they
recommended the prisoner strongly to the mercy of
the Court, in consequence of the verbal provocation
given, and of his good character. Mr. NM/win/v.4
his Counsel, read to the Court several most respect.
able teltimonials to character, when the ADVOCATE-
DEPUTE stated to the Court, that in consequence of
the recommendation of the Jury, and the very strong
certificate: of character, he felt himself at liberty, in
the due discharge of his duty, not to press the Court
for any judgment against the prisoner, who was there-
upon dismissed, after a suitable admonition from the
l lon. Judge.