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London, England, 1816-11-04 00:00:00

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LAW lifrEatOtifa;
ge lei__ .•
The *Juds- of the eft will •
Saturday xt.fierjeatrY-Inn.. • Theft
through the day fa Wearing rguments
points of law, none of which were of Pol
This day they *peeceeded to the hearing
for new trialestanding over from last Tern,
' woe. 1...-eArree kc. sr, etrueenw *NO OTOIOII.
Thi6 was a special case upon . the subject . o
onf the_
Jight of stoppage fe traniitu. Itecti pi
tower to recover 108 tons of wheat, under
thewere m follow-
-
int, circumstance.. The plaintiffs, wo er
chants at Westport, in Ireland, had sold the wheat
in question to Messrs. Kiernan and Co. merchants in
Deblin, from whom they received acceptances for the
amount; and at their request the wheat was sent on
board the Alnwich, to Liverpool, on account of
Messrs. Hodgson and Pearson, the factors and agents
of the Detain house, to be sold on account of the
latter. Before the bilk of the Dublin hoe'? beck*,
due, they bectime insolvent, and the plaintiffs imatee
diatela, sent off to Liverpool to stop the goods before
they came to the possession of the Liverpool house.
The Alnwich reached her destination on the 20th d
Jane, on which day the messenger of the plaintiff
arrived, and stopped the goods before they were de-
livered to Hodgson and Pearson, who had sent their
acceptance to the Dublin house in consequence of
the bill of lading for the wheat being indorsed to
them by the latter. On the 21st of June the Liver.
pwol house became bankrupts, and on .that day the
messenger under the commission took possession of
the cargo. The preseht action was brought by the
Westport house against the provisional assignee of
Hodgson anti Pearson's estate, and the question WAS
whether the plaintiff had a right of stoppage in tran-
s;ta as against the Liverpool house, InASIMUth as the
acceptances, of the Dublin house, the original ven-
.dees, had never been_ paid.
The Court, after hearing a very elaborate awe-
went, held, on the authority of Kinlocli v. Craig,
3. T. It. 119, that the right of stoppage in trartrata
was untouched by the circutnstaace of the bill of
lading being indm red to the Liverpool house, who
acted solely in the character of 'actors or agents, and
who could have no right of detaining goods which
had never come to their actual possession, and for
which they had never given any valuable considera-
tion.—Judgment for the plaintiffs.
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. Ot.D BAILEY SESSIONS.
Saturday, Andrew Savage and Berfamin Savage
were indicted fur forging and uttering a note for £l.
purpotting to be of the Bank of England, u ith on.
tent to defraud the Governor and Company of the
said Bank.
The ATToRbiItIt•GENERAL opened the case for the
prosecution.
John Charles was taken up on a charge of dealing
in forged notes. After that he was employed in de-
tecting the prisoners m selling forged Bank notes.—
He was employed on the 17th of August by Mr.
‘,Vestwood, clerk .to the Bank Solicitor, and by his
desire introduced a permit named Griffiths, Before
' that, I.e had bad many transactions with the prisoners
respecting counterfeit notes, which he Ihtuzhe at the
rate of 10s. 61 each for a Al. note, the odd 6d. be-
ing for their tteuble. After being appreliended,be
dealt with the prisoners See times for counterfeit
notes. That was between the 2411 t of August and
the 28th ; and he delivered all the notes he so pur-
chased, to the number of; 19, to Mr. Westwood.—
On the 29th of August he introduced Griffiths to the
prisoners at the Crown and Cushion, London.wall.
They came there in consequence of An appointment.
He had spoken to them of Griffiths before, and told
them he was a friend, whom he would lee glad if
they would serve. Andrew asked if be could be an-
swerable for the conduct of Griffiths; and witness
saide-." Do you think I would bring him to entrap
you r, He then ailed how many •was wanted ?
Witness said, four for himself, and two for his friend,
and gave him the money, amounting to AS. 35...-
Doth priseiners went out together, saying they should
not be long, and returned within three quarter of en
hour, when A. Savage gave witness six forged tel.
notes. They then parted,, and witness put the notes
into Mr. Westwood's custedy the next morning. On
the 30th of August he 'met them again at the same
house, with two .ethef persons, when he purchased
six more notes for hint6cll, and Griffiths bought two.
The other two persons also bnnght forged notes at
the same rate: When the money was paid, the pri-
sorters carried it 'away as before, and returned in
about an hour, and brought back the money, Ben-
jamin Savage saying there could be nothing done
that night. They waited a little longer, and drank
together, and then came out, when Benjamin Savage
desired witness and Griffiths to meet him at the
.Fountain, in the blinories, next night. between seven
and eight. Witness told this to Mr. Westwood, and
he was furnished with marked money to purchase
forged notes, to the amount of AS. Ss. in silver. In
the evening Griffiths and witness went to the sign of
the Grave Morrice, with 'Foy. the Offieeee and an
investigator of Bank notes. That public-house is
in the Minories, and from there the two last followed
Griffiths and witness to the Fountain. Andrew Sa-
vage, and another man was in the house, and soon
after Benjamin came in, and asked how, many wit-
ness wanted? He answered six, for which witness
isaid him in the money 'he had received from Mr.
Westwood, B. Savage said to witness and Griffiths,
sg It was a pity you did not stay a little loneliest
nights as Toes (the man that served them) ran home
'and' brought some." The prisoners then went- out,
and Andrew came back fit st, and Anon after Benja-
min came.; and gave witness his stx counterfeit notes,
and Griffith two. They all then came out Qf the
house together, and Benjamin said, " If you want
any more,-meet me at the White Swan, in Coleman-
' street,' to-ntoi row. at twelve." Witness said, if he
wanted any more he would tall on hint, but he did
net think he should. They then parted, and Gtif.
titlis and-witness went lti the Grave Mortice, where
the notes were delivered to Foy. On the'2d of Sep
Member they met the prisoners again, having been
furnished With a LI. nott, and XI. 2s. in silver; and'
Griffiths was furnished with a ail. note and aehil!ing.'
They went this time to the Fountain "gain, followed
by Christmas, the investigator.
and Foy; but the
prisoners were net there. They then' went to the
Rum 'Puncheon, ,cotornanly called the Gilley Pole,
iu Remelted Crown-court. where they stopped a little,
and'Obilt-prisonen came to, end said there emaki he
nothissi done till about eight- teti ck lit nistit.4-

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Griffiths, and

id eater 410trethey
e asked the vein
ibis said• four, and
furaislied with at
.4:01 to the sign of Abe
having told him to (tike'
.4- of. In about an
Naar - ssid."'" My darling
hays, you are •etijekying yourselves." ' He then gave
them their counterfeit notes, and they soon after came
all out together.
. Cross-examined.—He was imprisoned on a charge
of itteringforged notes, and having them in his room
_He was a shoemaker, and was considered, the
youngest and the smallest dealer invotes. The mn..
tire for giving his evidence was to save his own neck.
K. Griffiths, a gun maker, was employed by Iv7r.
Westwood to purchiie forged notes of the prisoners.
He corroborated fully the evidence of the last wit-

nest.
C. Christmas is an investigator of forged notes at
the Dank. Ile knew Cherles and Griffiths, and the
two prisoners, and had seen them ell in company
together. He corroborated the evidence of Charles,
as to his having received money to purchase the
forged notes.
Mr. Cuawoon, for the prisoners, contended, that
all the witnesses were participes criminis in this of-
fence, they having precoeceited the means of in-
ducing the prisoners to commit this offence.
Baron GRAIIAM was surprised that such an objec-
tion should be taken ; for these were persons not
partaking in any pre& arising from the offence, but,
on the contrary, their design was to detect guilty
persons, and to prevent any profit from arising out
of it to any one. •
Mr. Justice DALLAS concurred with that opinion.
The Prisoners made no defence.
• Baron Gemmel summed up the evidence, and the
Jury, withoet hesitatien, returned a verdict, finding
'both Prisoners Guilty.—Deeth.
The ATTOIO4EY Orti,KAl..saiti, there were several
other indictmeetts artist. she risoßets : but after so
satisfactory a conviction, ile.would nut press their
trial for the other offences.
Thomas Cam was also convicted of a similar of-
fence, on the evidence of Charles and, boy.
George Farmer stood capitally indicted for, on the
20th of April lest, at Westminster, fraudulently and
feloniously tearing or cutting, or causing to be torn
or cut off, a certain stamp, used in pursuance of the
55th of the King, and expressing and denomeettiee
a certain duty of two-pence, granted by tee sei,l
Act on every receipt for a sum amounting to ees.
and not exceeding 45, and affixing the same upon
another piece of paper, to wit, on a receiv. for
43 195. Id. Cuntrery to the form of the Statute.
Mr. ARABiN having opener:lth: case,
The ArroRNET GENERAL proceeded to state, that
the prisoner, at the time of committing the off: lice
imputed to him, filled certain offices in the parish of
Limehouse ; and it was due w him to state, eird it
could not be stated too early, that except as respect ed
the circumstance that was about to be laid before the
Court, he bad, throughout his lift., sustained the
character of ao unimpeached and meritorious subject.
The charge on Which he was now to take his trial
was of a capital nature, and. both as it affected the
prisoner and the public, was of the last imp:tame.
The substance of the offence was, that he being a
Collector of Taxes, and having occasion to give
stamped receipts on a variety of occasions, did take
from paper which had lest already used, stamps
I which had done their duty, and applied them to new
receipts which he was called upon to give in the
course of his duty, thereby defrauding the revenue
of the amount of such new stamp, and putting it
into his own pocket. For some time this practice was
not in the law considered as a ceeitil offer ce ; but the
frequency of the' offence, and the consequences
which arose therefrom, rendered it necessary that it
should be so. The paper upon which the present
indictment was .sounded was then before him, and
from the view which he took of it, nothing was more
manifest than that the stamp which. it bore had
been impressed. upon it, but had been cut off some
other piece of paper, and had been pasted upon it.
There was behind, however, a- still more important
question—a question which appertained to this, as
well as to every like crime, namely, whether this
operation had been performed with a criminal view
and for fraudulent purposes. It was suggested, on
thepart of the prisoner, that even admitting, for the
sake of argument, chat he had removed the stamp
from one piece of paper to another, yet there was
still no evidence of fraud, for that, in point of fact,
the stamps which were so affixed, were cut off of
spoiled stamps which he had by him, and for which
he had paid. If this were really the case there was
oertainly an absence of fraudulent intention ; but
whether fraudulent or not, it was a practice which
ought henceforth to cease; because it was extremely
improper and discreditable. It was ,difficult to con.
mire, however. any. other than a fraudulent pur-
pose on the part of the prisoner, for it was well known
that he had it in his "(Met to obtain, by making the
usual affidavit et the Stamp Office, within six months
after his first purchase of the stamps, an allowance
for all which he might spoil. Nevertheless, lie felt
it his duty to state, that in the course of his avoca-
tions he had occasion to know that stamps, in the
huffy of public business, had been cut off one set of
slips and transferred to others. This, ,cs lie before
said, however innocently effected, was extremely
improper, and he tinsted would never be repeated.
Under the circumstances of this case, the Commis-
sioners of Stamps had felt it their duty to submit the
question to the Court and Jury, who on heariag-the
facts would be best able eo judge bow far fraud could
with justice be imputed to the prisoner. He certainly
could wily prove the fact of the stamp being affixed
to tNe Piece of paper before him out ..f the ordinary
course.; but whether that stamp bad been used before
he had no means of forming a judgment.
perspicuous
this ll.itton GRAHAM said, that the Court was
,uglily indebted to die' Attorney General for the can-
did and Pictletts manner is which he had swell
ease
Upon weighing all he bad said. however,
considering the nature of the defence of the prisoner,
.411 that the Leal
and cerabining with that the excellence of his elm-
ruler through life, he apprehended, even suPposieg
wituedidAbettosrneu-
chyaharadtsitoantdediproved
theft there 101 wereoubt of his
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hwnntilismi siting fraudolant, however culpable and
' his conduct, that the Jury would feel it
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ineostilliert to gilt* lab the benefit or that
na,
acquit him. There could no proof be ad !need t 1,4%
the paper from which the stamp hid Itievn cut 1,,4
been used before, and it it had not been ustd
much as the prisoner niust have paid 1.1 th,
be could not justly be accused of trait&
The Arronan GENERAL said, he certainly trvi
offer no evidence of the stamp having i;eei, iv;
atny ether put pais than tout cu whith t tisd
pi{ by the In ironer.
Mi. Gunto!Y, Counsel for the prisoner, renrirt4q,
that the thing tad been d• ne tiv fipe:4y, „i 4
such an utter disregard to riitplise cr si•crir,y, t„,:
there was no foundation for believing the ictentit,4,4
the prisoner to be dishonest.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM agreting in this saggesici;
considered it unnecessary to call •Head.
dressed the prisoner, however, and after pointing oil
the extreme iinproritty of
hope that siniiiar pi aciices had put,*
to by any persons whatever ttr future. The kr
having found the prisr.ntr Not tiiill3, irisLorj4.
oicler_ci him to bu discharg:d.

Several persons ciAlipt:d, :sr.! !),:.ve oilier dm";
stations of joy at this of the tr ; ulon vhicit
his Lordship observed, that if sue!. iii.!ecent ribaldry
again disturbed the Court, he sbcarld order the t,
leries to be locked up alsogether.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL fa. , Illere were sevemi
other indictitiest.s against the ptis-)ner, but as he ~d
no better evidence to offer uu t:Wai Wall the 'kit.
should not press them.
The prisoner was then acquitted •.r. the remaili;t2
indictments, and quitted the bar amidst his !nest:
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
Saturday R. Hobbs, waster of the workhOest
Tut ninon Green, was tried lot violating the petu
of Mary Povey, a child twelve years of age, who vo
in the workhouse under hit care. It appearedtiyt
the youth of the girl had been abused by ar.odk, is.
Mae .of the workhouse k but from the
the surgeons, there being no doubt of the 040414
of the prisoner, he was found Girilty, and resift{
`by the Court to twelve months imprisonmset it tf,e
Rouse of Cori ection. The triad lasted fin hon.
Haernn GA nDEN.—SAturday fifigtkvw and Bair
„143 w ,re charged with Lae r. 4 emit/Aida
most aggra %rata degree of inhernan;ty to Ail a,>,4
cutting the animal in various parts o( the einat,;:i
ILlikewise indicting a deep votti,4l to the Leilt,e'let.
by the entrails became exposed. T:is
nrent rrarlted_ apparently from rooted /ie.,11:4;a
:ainst the owner, arisidg from former cirturnstoof
here boilig, utilortunately, no P41:1144:::Ifi
v.hich the parties were liatie to coarrnittnear,tq
were sever. ly reprimanded and •..•
MA it LISOICOL tin -sTioaT.--Sattirday Beeimit
alias j.•;efr, atias Johnson, an old man, about Tines
of age, ar..l who, by a moderate caltelatirrifit
spelnt nearly SO years of his file in the lime efts.
motion, was charged with stealing a varie:y of etiski
from the Red Lion public house, k Lave:.dislti.
The.prisoner pleaded the gteatest d
being searched, 17s. in silver were found al bit pals.
lie was ((thy committed.
LLlatrs Liad.c.--Satarday Re/tr! Cad] an
brought up by Harris. charged with ass:whinged
throwing fire-works at Milian Mier, a cialdebet
ten years old. Thecomplainsat straed,th.a ,
standing quietly in the street, at &vocal.
Saturday lest, when defendant catretatobintiab
+ a livltted squib in his h id, which he Allot ism
complainant's neck. Complainant endtagoatedlo
take it out, when it isuct•t, mud :.),trid his lind est
neck very much. The defend Ant did not der.•
tie
charge of having_ thrown the : sritttb, bet said 3 lel
no intention it should ne.ar the child. He ace
tremety sorry for what had happ-ned, and arm*
to pay all expenses.— The Magi.zrate raarke4i"
very severe terms, on his condurt, .1111 reirin.ltdi
that he was not only liable to be pro,..ciucti,or dl
assault co the prosecutor, but also to
let off lir2-wcrks in the street. Ile ari.sed Na l!
retire, and endeavour to accommadate twitters vi
' the complainant, which advice he adopted.
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ECCLESIASTICAL PROMO I lONS.
Resi. John Wickens, of Glanvills Wootton, Is presestedll
rectory of Swyre, Dorset.
Rev. W. H. Hawkins, to• be Master of the Fret Cl
School, Cheltenham.
Thurssiay the Rev. Mr. George Moirhead, trans'swi
Dysart, was admitted minister of Cramond.
CAMBILIDGT, Nov. 1.--The ;:earoniart vise is 'his lei
judged to the Rev. (;. H. Tarot, M. A. of I rinarcaell
lass poets' on " Hezekial and Sermacherih."
'the Earl of Bracknock, eldest son of ;Vlzrquiss Cool
admitted of Trissity-

Bliti'H.
At thriebabryan, the Lady of Major D. Gfrgencth,
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Driesen, General In the set vice of the Ernpi•rat of itssoil
Knight of the Military Orders of St. George, St. issa,Z4
MARRIED.
Thursday, at Hampstead, his Excellency Baron Frani&
MaisacvAilke.
Tweed,n, daughterto Eleanor,
Mr.oi ytiuk:gne,btofdaHliainzt
•Walford, of Hatfield-place, Essex.
• Rev. R. Bell, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambrier, "I
Taylor, of Thwalte Moss, Lancashire. :,..e.irtealuf the Itsti

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DIED.
At Hereford, aged 84, the ht.v. John 13arro11, 497(01
of Alwieley, in that county. •
Rev. r. F. Ckevalher, M.A. rector of BadiDgbgn, 5111111

his 7:11 year.
Rev.Aitx. Mzckerzie, of Cu megrattd, Perthshire, anti:
head. Yorkslt.re, and Mite4bter u: bg. Pain, Shan
the d:.
.114
Tuessily st'uttight, at Mete:llo.l..ans %teenage, iu
of Ma age, the Rev. it iehard C. Chilton, viol: tit that Orli'
AVElisktin PRICE of ZORN iniISOI.AND an' Sal
from the returns endng the 26th ut October, till
Wheat. Ry. &aria y. °avg. ASP" r"
• s.. el. 1 s. 41.0) s. 4. 1 6. d. Is. a. Li
1141 * 153 11 46 10 12961 4S 1 ,
The average Price Su;ar , computed from the return."
in the week tendln,g t 1 e sutb October, k 4116. 104 d. per ir.

amit Ilk it. 1.1) MAR Kk. 1 , NOVEMBER 4.
Eette
Muttnn ' L. o°l ::: 44: (4).i 1 Veal
44; 00:1 t:
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Bello 2600 .—sacet,, and I.antos 17,610—Calvet ;6 r--tc•
HAY AND STRAW, PER 1.06.
Meadow w Hay 42‘nil 0.44 a 51 I
11
I:, i Ctolovt.2l 51.4.1
.0,...........8 to II
PRICE OF 6 LOOKS ON SATURDAY'
Bank Stock .... _ • I.4cdia Stack, --
S per Ct..ltetl. 60161 f 1 Labs 'Mods 191514.
!Digo Cam, 611 64 63 Law 6 per B
firer Cents. htiff kscbtqaer ulk 7 1016
6311
S per Cent. p:suy 94 94;{ Coal, tot 10.
Long Attnat ii 13- t 6 I

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. bgcbeilchiorch, avetlei
I Batch 04 ate*, iesteledlouse., amis. I
were cc Mow holliattedt• and In
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pubrtc littera: Dank. Beniamhe.tOok them t
ing of motiont • • and Horses, :Andrew' having
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Andrew cane to them,ind ssi
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