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London, England, 1828-09-12 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS, Sam 11.

Mr. ADnz.PMVI applied to the Alderman, otsbehaffof
Me. W. Staley, of the Stock &change and Bonk Cam.
how) for a license.
Sir Joust Psalm° salt+, that he, as Alderman of the
W.idi had no obiretinn to grant the haw, lost 411
uncle, stood the Common Council . f the Ward'had.
wished to know whether due In tics bad bees semed
o on the anti wires? •

Mr. Anoi.enus said it had. Mr. Seeley hsd applied
in Match for the license. but it was objected to by tbe
Aldermen. that there was a billiard room on the premises.
Mr. A *MPH us said the balsa, d-room had Deis corn.
plet ly removed. He highly commended the *dour
*oh which the Court of Aldermen viewed any *jag
like a tendency to gambling; and certainly no two
things were mote inconsistent than an orderly pablic.
hoe e, and a gambling.table in one of the apartments.
The Aldermen wished for complete evidence of the
removal of the billiard-table before they could think of
granting a license.—The matter was then postponed.
Mr. Blackmore, the Solicitor. applied for a wine.
license for the proprietor of a new hi.tel in Monsmeatr
yaw.' for Mr. W. Nornianby. The house had been very
neatly fitted up. and was in every respect adapted. Mr.
Norman!), had the very highe.t testimonials as to cha-
racter, and an hotel was warted in the place above-
mei t,,,ned. •

S r PITIR LAWIIIi said that he had been privately
applied to by the Watd not to grant the license. He
shotsld treat ail private application. with .light. and he
thus publicly made that declar .tinn. He then i.bswreed,
that on Mary-la-bonne. of which he was a Magistrate.
the Bench were in the habit of viewing the premise,
hemselwes before they decided, and he shOald do so is
very case t f the kind.

As doe fffff ice not been gives of the application, the
cile With po►tlwerd until Adjoutnnbetu day.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

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'These Sessions commenced yesterday morning berate
the LORD MAYOR. Mt. Justice LITTLIMiLite Mr. illbtite
GASKLIR, Auld MI. Baton Vatronast.
Mary Ilay was cared with stealing's five.poosa
nett, the property of Mr. Ha.l, a wineieserchant,
te-
siding in bloodman's Fields.
The prosecutriessated, that the prisoner was a servant
in his haus-, and in coosequeuce of his repeated losses
by robbery, be had taken the number of some notes be
bad put in his desk. On his return, after a few minutes'
absent he missed one of the notes. He bad the pri-
soner, with the rest of his servants, taken into custody.
The prisoner was searched, and the ante was found on
her, as Nell as a 101. note, four sovereigns, and a key
which opened his desk. They also found the duplicate
of a silver snuffbox which be had lost.—Other
MM.s confirmed the statement of the prosecutor.
The prisoner did not make a, y defence, but two wit-
nesses were called to charade,, One olman stated

that the prisoner had lived seven years in his service,
and he had always foond her honest.
Mr. Justice GASILIt summed up the ease, and the
Jory returned a verdict of Gay, but recommended
the prisoner to mercy.
vial:MIL
Peter Fenn, alias the Rev Peter Fenn, late a school-
master in High.stteet. Bloomsbury, was capitally in.
dieted for forging and uttering to Thomas Penn a bill
of exchange for fifty pt sods, well knowing the same to
be forged, and with intent to defraud the said Thnmas
Pratt. The bill por poi ted to be drawn by J B Phillip.,
and accepted by J. Powel , of Colchester. It was made
payable at the batik of Hankey and Co. and bore the
prisoner's indorsement.
Mr. BRODRICIC stated the case for the prosecution,
and observed that he should have great difficulty in
convicting the prisoner of the alleged forgery, as they
bad no proof that be lorged it in the county of Middle-
sex; but with respect to the uttering, which constituted
the second count in the indictment, the charge would
be clearly made out. •
Thomas Pratt, the first witness, said he was an Army
Agent. He bad known the prisoner fourteen months
benne he absconded. He transacted business with him,
and in February last discounted the hill, which was the
object tifprosecution. The prisoner told him the acceptor
was a respectable person of Colchester, who kept cash
at Messrs. }honeys. The witness had no suspicion. and
advanced the money. He saw the prisoner some tints
after at a lockup house, who said he had something to
say to him about bis debts. The witness held out
uo inducement to make the prisoner communicate his
affairs. On asking him about the SOl. bill and another,
the prisoner declined to GOD they were good bills. The
nest day but one, the witness, in a Naha COOVenittioo,
made inquiry about the bills, and said be was afraid
the prisoner had deceived him. The prisoner then said.
lam sorry it is so—they are forgeries. He knew of the
prisoner having absconded, and that he was taken at
Calais. He brew a person named Alarm; but had
never employed him as an agent to obtain the bilk—
He took the bills supposing they were good. They
proved forgeries, there being no such person a, James
Powell at Colchester.
Tne next witness was Vincent, attorney for the
prosecution. After the pie ewes bad absconded fn m his
creditors, he went to France in search of him. He went
to Paris, but d d not find him there, but came up with
him at Calais. He was accompanied by Mr. Cook.—
The prisoner, when he found him, appeared like a Ne-
ne man; he said be was rained. The witness made a
memorandum of all that passed, and hwcoosidered it a
correct stateinest Tne prisoner said the person who
ruined him was a man named Milton, who had made
17,0001. out of him in abort twelve months; he raid he
would go quietly to Newg.te and plead guilty ; be
should then have six weeks after coademsiation; he
would see no one, and die a. Faiintlisoy did; be was
going when the a kiltss b and Lim to give himself up ;
tie begged the witness not to leave him; if hr was left
alone he should cut his thro4. The witness was of
opidion the acceptance, J. Powell, was the handwriting
of Pt ter Fenn, but was not intended to look like his
usual band•wiiting. He never held out any promise
to the prisoner to induce him to make a confession. A
person of the name of Hanbusp was with him.
The witness on his cress examination by Mr..ALLIT,
said he never sent any accounteof the(prisonet's life and
conduct to the newspapers. He Ilijll.ll9t the author of
a public •tion which appeared in the papers. It was
sesit to him for the purpose of leaving oat some names
which be did not wish to be published, aid he wrote
upon the back—" I believe this to be true an substance
and fact."
The article was headed the Rev. Peter Fenn, and it
imputed to him atrocious crimes, not to be found in the
annals of guilt. ; ... .
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• . The witness thought the article which Medi • above
Iteltelleent was correct, because be had found no less
il.klbiarnt7 forgedla sabitlishein twheit seirsrintetsobs7pssriceisn'aar in
el lest. He was his sober. The body of the bill
was labia hand writing. Hater:ate all but the situ-
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