Star.
London, England, 1820-10-26 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Sessions commenced yesterday, before the I
Barori WOOD and Mr. Justice Palma, the
ight Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the COMMON Slift•
JIIANT, BCC. &c.
D. Gentle and W. Reid were indicted for stealing
a quantity of China plates, ornaments, &c. to a large
amount, the property of J. Mortlock, in his dwel-
ling-house.
Mr. Mortlock is the proprietor of large China
warehouses in Oxford-street, and the prisoners had
been in his service as warehousemen ; and Gentle
slept in the warehouse. In 'consequence of a great
quantity of China having been missed, an inquiry
was made, which led Mr. Mortlock to send a person
named Sainesbury to a Mr. Cook's, a Chinaman, in
Wardour-street, where he found several China jars,
which he knew to be the property of the prosecutor.
Mr. Cook described the persons from whom. he had
purchased these goods, and suspicion resting upon
the prisoners, they were apprehended. While under
examination at Marlborough-street Office, they each
made a voluntary confession of their guilt, and ac-
knowledged that they had been in the practice Of
robbing their employer more than a year and a half.
Some keys were found upon Gentle, which he ac-
knowledged he had procured for the purpose of
plundering his master. One key fitted' Mr. Mort-
' lock's desk. He also said, that he had given most
of the property to the prisoner Reid, who disposed
of it, and brought him his share of the money. He
had received in this way about ES% which he had
iven to a young woman, to whom he was about to
married. An officer went to the house where the
young woman lived, and found several articles of
china, and a memorandum-book from a Savings Bank,
in which a receipt was entered for £75, which she
had paid into that Institution. The confessions of
the prisoners were put in and read, and a more 'ex-
tensive system of robbery has seldom been exposed
in a Court of Justice. Reid (who had three years
ago quitted Mr. Morzlock's employ) had kept a re-
gular mart for the sale of the most costly articles of
-China, which he advertised in the public Papers as
the property of a Lady who was gone to Paris. He
had in this manner sold stolen property to a very
great amount. Gentle attributed his deviation from
the paths of honesty to the persuasions and artifices
of Reid, who pointed out to him how easy such a
system of depredation might be carried on without
being detected.
Mr. Baron WOOD summed up the evidence, and the
Jury found both the prisoners Guilty--Death.
Charles King, of youthful appearance, was capi.
tally indicted under the Black Act, for feloniously,
knowingly, and maliciously sending a letter to the
Rev. William Johnson Rodber, without any name,
demanding money.
The Rev. Mr. Rodber, who is a preacher at fit.
Margaret's Church, and Secretary to the Society for
Building Churches, &c. stated, that on the Sd of Ot-1
tober he received a letter signed B. B. B. at his house
in James-street, Westminster, by the twopenny post ;
witness had no knowledge of the hand-writing or of
the prisoner. On receiving the letter he consulted
Pace, a Queen-square officer, and by his advice
wrote a letter and kept a copy—he gave the original
'sealed, to the officer. On the evening of the 12th
witness received a second letter by the twopenny
post, in the same hand-writing as the first. The
witness stated he was married, and that he had no
knowledge of any of the relations of the prisoner,
but he had since learned that the aunt of the prisoner
worked for his family.
Cross-examined by Mr. Arrriazws.—.The letter
gave me much alarm. Mrs. Rodber was at Wey-
bridge when the letter was received.
Thomas Pace, officer of Queen-square, deposed to
having taken the prisoner into custody at a coffee-
shop, in company with Cooper, to whom ha stated
that a gentleman, near the House of. Lords, asked
him to write the etter.

The first letter was then put in and read. The
letter observed, that the writer knew well that Mrs.
Rodber had gone to Weybridge with her father,
for, and that he would let the Gentleman and Mi-'
sisters know all about it ; that the writer had been
ill-used, and was in great distress, and if Mr. Rod-
ber would let him have 4.1. 15s. to get his clothes out
of pledge, he would bury the matter in his own bo-
som for ever. The letter was very ill spelt.
The Jury pronounced the prisoner Guilty—Death,
but recommended the prisoner to mercy, in which
Mr. Rodber joined.
Mr. Justice Pence -aid the recommendation should
be attended to.
C. Griffiths' for stealing a horse, the property of
R. Smith ; and J. Wilcox, for breaking and entering
the dwelling-hovie of R. Cozens, and stealing two
pair of trowsers, &c. were also capitally convicted.

The LORD CRANCRLLOR gave a grand Cabinet
dinner, yesterday, at his residence in Hamilton-place.
The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER gave an
elegant entertainment, yesterday, to the Marquis and
Marchioness of LAN/MOWN, and a large party of dis-
tinguished personages, at Gloucester House.
MANSION-Housg.—Pearson and Hart, who stand
charged with having robbed the Dover coach of 500
ounces of gold, were yesterday re-examined, when
J. Hillyer, the book-keeper at the Ship Hotel, Dover,
stated that Pearson booked himself for Gravesend,
in the name of Brown, on the day of the robbery ;
Hart also booked himself for London on the same
day, in the name of Warr, to go by the same coach.
The witness saw the gold deposited in the front part
of the coach. Hart had a small pair of saddle-bags,
and got up on the back of the coach. Pearson sat
in front, on the near side of the box. The reason
witness remembered them so well was, he had seen
them before, and had particular reasons to remem-'
ber them.—W. Slade, the coachman who drove from
Dover to Canterbury on the slay of the robbery,
stated, that he deposited the gold safely near the
bottom of the front boot. He had seven outside pas-
sengers, and he believed Hart to have been one of
them.—Mr. ANDREWS applied to the LORD MAYOR,
on behalf of the prosecutors,• to put off the exami-
nation another week, in order to give them an oppor-
tunity of bringing forward witnesses to prove that
the prisoners had been down to Dover often before,'
watching and making inquiries respecting other con-
signments of gold sent to the same coach-office.—The
LORD MAYOR acceded to the request, and remanded
the prisoners for a week.

THE QUEEN.

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I . Her Manny held another public Levee at Bran
denburgh House yesterday, and notwithstanding the
lowering aspect of the morning, and the muddy state
of the roads, half London seemed to be abroad; in-
deed, upon no one former occasion, since the outset
of this affair, have we seen the streets and roads
more thronged than they were yesterday; and as the
weather cleared up beautifully towards noon, every
thing passed off with eclat. Several of the processions
were composed of vast bodies of persons on foot, and
these were, •as usual, admitted to the lawn and ter-
race on the river front of the house, the Committees
only, of, each party, being introduced to the draw-
ing-room ; and the Answers to their several Addresses
being read from the balcony by Mr. Alderman WOOD,
' in presence of the Qtrtax and a numerous suite.
Her MAJESTY went through the fatigues of the
day with unwearied spirit, and appeared in excellent
health. She wore a dress of bright crimson satin,
trimmed at bottom with three distinct rows of white
fur, with a tippet of the same materials. Her hair
was confined by a diadem bandeau of diamonds, the
points filled up by the star and crescent alternately.
The following is a brief description of the Proces •
sions, &c. in the order in which they arrived at Bran-
denburgh House.

JOSEPH Hums, Esq. M.P. with the following Ad-
dresses :—Merchants, Burgesses, and other inhabi-
tants of the City of Aberdeen ; Merchants and In-
habitants of the Town of Kilmarnock ; Merchants
and other Inhabitants of the Royal Burgh of Ding;
wall ; Merchants, Burgesses, and other Inhabitants
of the Royal Burgh of Wigtown ; Merchants and.
Inhabitants of the village of Crief, -Perthshire; In-
corporation of Weavers, Borough of Easter and
Wester, Portsburgh, Edinburgh ; Female Inhabi-
tants of Beverly,Yorkshit e ; Male Inhabitants of ditto.
The Address from the Inhabitants of Dundee was
presented by the Rev. Mr. ‘VHITFIRLD, and a select
deputation.
The Address from the Journeymen Carriers was
attended by about one thousand respectably dressed
' men, on foot, all with white favo:irs, several flags,
banners, &c. with trumpeters and a numerous band.
Brecknock Address, presented by Mr. MADOCES.
Glasgow Trades and Middleton Addresses, pre-
sented by Major CARTWRIGHT and Mr. WOO L E
The Sudbury Address was presented by the Rev.
Mr. FOWICE, and a deputation of Ladies and Gen-
tlemen. This Address was displayed on beautiful
white satin, with an embroidered border of crimson,
and the whole tastefully decorated with white and
crimson rosettes.
The Wootton-under-Edge, Haverford West, and
Lanark Addresses, were presented by Mr. Hoeueusit.
ST. GEORGE, H A NOVER- sot/Aim—Upwards of
sixty carriages and four, the drivers in light blue sa-
tin, preceded by banners, and three trumpeters op
horseback. The Address was presented and read by
Mr. Hosmoust, supported by Sir GERARD NOEL and
Mr. P. Moons.
WEST HAM, EssEx.—The Parish Constables on
horseback. Two .trumpeters in the dress of yeomen
of the guard, on horseback. Two standard-bearers,
on horseback, clothed entirely, from head to foot,
in white silk. First banner (also of white silk) in-
scribed with the words Brunswick" and " Freedom,"
surroonding.a Var. Second banner of white silk, in-
scribed. 4, Address from West Ham to her Majesty
the Qualm" Six persons on horseback. Carriage
and six with the Committee, the Union Jack displayed
above it. Upwards of thirty carriages and four fol-
lowed. The Address was read by J. PITCHFORD, EMI..
JOURNEYMEN CA RPENTERs.—NearIy four thou-
sand young men on foot, walking four a-breast ;
with a multitude of flags, and five distinct bands of
music interspersed through the column. Some of
these flags were very handsome ; and about the
centre of the procession was borne a stupendous ban-
ner, on which was represented Britannia .crowning
her MAJESTY with the laurel wreath ; and overhead
the words di Britons, behold your Queen I" On the
reverse, the Civic Authorities were represented deink
/homage to her • MAJESTY. Another banner had the
representation of an enraged lion bestriding a pros-
trate Knight armed at all points. Others had the
mottoes appropriate to the occasion, the arms of the
trade, &c.

DEPUTY, COMMON COUNCIL, AND INHABITANTS,
OF THE WARD OP BRIDGE.---This Address was
brought up the River by a numerous Deputation,
male and female, in a splendid barge. The rowers
were all clothed in scarlet, with state caps of black
velvet; bands of music on the deck, flags and en--
signs displayed from every pan of the vessel, and
accompanied by a whole fleet of pleasure boats.
THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OP THE COACH-
MAKING TRADE —A numerous Deputation ; the
Committee in a coach and four ; the remainder on
foot, with wands, flags, music, &c.
THE JOURNEYMEN Saimaa—Between two and
three thousand persons on foot, with an-infinite num-
ber of very splendid flags, banners, favours, golden
wheatsheaves, and other appropriate • devices ; the
whole led by a person, bearing in his hand the- Ad-
dress, and mounted upon a beautiful white horse,
decorated with rosettes of white ribbon. • This party
had also several bands of music.
Sr. JOHN'S, WAPPlNG.—Between twenty and thirty
carriages and four, beaded by the parish beadles on
horseback, carrying the banner of St. John, and ann.
ther with the inscription, " Take away the wicked
from before the King, and his throne shall be este,
bfished in` righteousness."
Tug Gt.a.ss-BLOWERS.—This, perhaps, was the
most splendid pageant of the day. It consisted of a
great body of persons walking three abreast, and -
bearing an infinite variety of different devices, and
exquisite workmanship, in glass :—such as the crown,
sceptre, and cushion; plumes of feathers, gii andoles.
stars, vases, epergnes, &c. Some of the leaders wore
cocked hats, composed of entirely spun glass ; others
had caps of antique shape, made of the same mate.
rial; and many of, the flags, or rather banners, had
their devices worked in glass. This procession had
also music in abundance; and, taken altogether, they
made a very brilliant and glittering appearance?
Addresses were also presented from Huntingdon,
and various other places. - •

The Duke of WILLINGTON entertained the Mar-
quis of BUCKINGHAM and a distinished party, on
Tuesday, at Apsley House, PiccadWy.

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