Star.
London, England, 1819-11-06 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

Yesterday, ArtAur Ellington and James Dunn were
indicted for stealing a chest of tea, value 1:20, the
property of Robert Mathews.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner,
Ellington, was employed by Mr. Mathews; who is a
grocer, to carry a chest of tea from the India House
to. Mr. Chambers, of Sloane-street. Ellington re-
ceived the tea at the India House, but, instead of,
taking it to Mr. Chambers, he carried it to a house'
in Crown-court, Grab-street, whither he was accom-
panied by the prisoner Duun, who is a labourer.—.
These two prisoners broke open the chest, and emp-
tied the tea into a bag. Dunn then took a sample of
the'tea to his landlord, Anthony Maloy, a publican, in
Grub-street, and asked him to buy some, telling him
that he Lad.Bo pounds to dispose of. Maloy refused
to bny any, and suspecting that Dunn had become
dishonestly possessed of the tea, he gave information
of the circumstance to the Police, and the-tiro pri-
soners were apprehended at the house in Crown-court,
'ith the tea still in their possession.
Ellington, in his defence, asserted that Maley bad
ir..tigatcd him to commit the robbery.
Dunn adminad that he was in crimpany with El-
Eagton, and tl.at he had endeavoured to sell .the
tea, but denied that he knew that it was stolen.

The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty.
Jai n Williams was indicted for stealing a pair of,
breeches, the property of James Adams, a shop-
keeper, in Holborn. The fact was fully proved against
the prisoner, and the Jury found him Guilty.
After his conviction, the prisoner said that he had
been driven•by great distress to commit the thett.,,,
He had been in the Army since his infancy, and had
suffered much privation and hardship, but he had
never experienced so much hunger as since he had
been in England. Upon an inquiry being made by
the Court, it appeared tlot the unfortunate manhad
been lately discharged from the 85th Regiment, in
consequence of being wounded. The (25th were ac-
tively eng4ged diming the war. •
James Sullivan and William duels were convicted
of stealing a leaden cistern, the property of Edward
Saunders, of Stantnore-park.
Mary Turner was indicted for stealing two silver
spoons, value three shillings, the property of Moses
Levi, It appeared that -the prisoner had been em-
ployed as servant by the prosecutor, and confessed to
having stolen the property in question, under theln-
ilnence of a threat. it was not proved, however, by
the evidence, that the spoons did absolutely belong
to the person mentioned in the indictment, and the
prisoner was, consequently, Acquitted.

MANS/0 R•1101:73E.TIO ROSIERT AT MESSRS.
Lowatmes WAnnsouss..—Yesterday, the four pri-
soners, Necker, Broome, Harrison, and Sterta-t, un-
derwent a final examination. After some controversy
between the Counsel on both sides, Brookes, Broome,
and• Harrison, were committed for trial. Stewart was
discharged.
.Guttnam.t.;.i—Yesterday, James Hawley, John.
.lea on, Dank! Gaston, and Ckarks Priest, journey-
men printers, were brought up before Sir MeltAno
CARR GLYN, in custody of Smith the officer, on a
charge of having printed a considerable number of
Moote s AtOfaxoeks on unsumped paper. The pro-
secution in this instance was instituted by the Wor-
slipful Company of Stationers, and Mr. Rivington,
Who attended as their Solicitor, stated that the Com-
pany, though not possessed of any exclusive right,
were very extensive publishers of Almanacks ; and
that the four prisoners were pressmen in the service
of the Printer employed by the Company, in which
capacity they had the opportunity of taking impres-
sions of the Almanacks surreptitiously, whereby, not
only was the Company injured, but the Revenue also
greatly defrauded. This practice had at length come
to such an extent, that it was felt to be absolutely
rccessory to put a stop to it by legal means ; the
more especially, as there was little doubt but that the
parer also, upon which such impressions were taken,
was procured by dishonest means.—Mr. Thorne,
Printer, 'led Lion-court, Fleet-street, deposed, that
the prisoners were his pressmen, and employed wholly
ir a room set apart for that purpose, in printing
Meore's Almanac k for. the Stationers' Company; and
that they were not authorised by him to take any
impression of that .Almanack otherwise than upon
a 'mpcd paper delivered to them for that purpose.—
i.lr. a printer, said, in consequence of in-
formation they had received, he went to Mr. Thorne's,
accompanied by the Stock-keepers of the Stationer?
C snpany and an Officer; they found the four pri-
soners at work in the same room ; they proceeded to
s arch them, and found on Jackson and Hawley
seseral copies of the calendar sheet of the Alinanack
oa unstamped paper, and a comidczablc quantity

*as also 'found bid itra drawer in the room. The
prisoners, when questioned, confessed having printed
them. Several quires of the Almanack on unstamped
paper were also discovered at the lodgings both of
' Jackson and Priest.—Smith produced the copies'
Thorne's
nd tahnedshuepeot
sn
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dpriosonnsee rasr
tJhaicnkg-
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' 'and at
Hawley;M r.
the lodgings were also exhibited by the officer
, employed, amounting together to nearly 20 quires.—
The prisoners acknowledged having printed them.
The' impressions were upon paper of various descrip-
tions, and some of it Mr. Thorne stated to be part of
the same kind as another work was being printed
upon in his office.—Sir RICHARD (kite said, he con-
sidered the charge as completely proved against all
the prisoners, but as there appeared to be different
degrees of guilt, he should feel it his duty to make
similar distinction as to their separate punishments,
and accordingly sentenced them to hard labour in
the Houle of Correction, Jackson and Priest for the
whole term of three months, Hawley for two months,
and Gulston, as the least offender, for one month only.
William Nicholls and William Nicholls,jun. father
and son, were charged with felony, under the follow-
ing circumstances :—The prisoners, it appeared, were
in the employ of Mr. Smith, wholesale confectioner,
Fell-street, the one as porter, and the other as errand-
boy. Money had been frequently missed from the
till, and at length, on Wednesday night, it was de-
termined talay a trap for the thief ; and accordingly
a quantity of notes, silver, and copper, of different
descriptions, was marked, and deposited in the till;
a hole also was bored in the partition of the counting--
house, so as to give a view of that part of the ware-
house where the till was, and Edward- Dodd, the
warehouseman, secreted . himself in the warehouse,
yesterdu morning, before prisoners, who were the
suspected parties, came to their employ. Matters
being thus prepared, about seven o'cicck, yester-
day morning, the prisoners came to work, and
Nicholls, the father, went up to the Clerk's room for
the key to open the warehouse ; this was given to
I.hn by John B:ydon, the Clerk, who followed him
down stairs, and v.-eut into the counting-house, taking
his station to watch at the prepared hole, from
whence he saw the elder prisoner put his hand into
the till,and take somethingout ; he then called him
into the counting-house, and. charged him with the
theft. Dodd, n the interim, counted the money in
the till, and found there was one half-crown, a six-
pence, and four half-pence short. The prisoner de-
nied the robbery, and was willin to lie, searcbea,
which was done, but nothing was found on him but
four half-pence, which, however, proved to lie pan
of the money left in the till the preceding.evenihg.
--While Dodd was in his hiding-place, the younger
' prisoner also came into the warehouse, but had left
.it again. previously to :he detection of his father;
Dodd and Brydon therefore went to the boy, in an.
upper warehouse, and on searching him, found upon
him the marked half-crown and sixpence missing'
from the till. Both the prisoners were therefore given
into custody, and brought. to this Office. When
called upon by the Magistrate for their defence, the
father said, he merely borrowed the twopence from
the till tort him-. some soda, as he was ill, and meant
to return it. The boy protested his innocence, and
said his father gave him the money two or three
months before. Mr. Brydon and Mr. Dodd being
positive as to the marks on the money, both prisoners
were committed to Newgate.
Bow.STrtee. r.—. Mac ttra,y to pay old cletits.-•7leirti
'Prate Cooke, a yoinli of about seventeen years of
age, was brought. before the Magistrates' .charged
With striling a check, value £2O, froirt.--faul:ner,
the landlord of the Coach And Horses, Kensin ;ton-
square, Kensington. The prisoner boarded' and
lodged at the Coach and, Horses, and having run up
along account, the landlord became impatient for
his money. The prisoner begged his patience for a
few days; and, at the expiration of them, told him if,
be would accompany him to London he would pay
him, as he had some money -to -receive there. The
landlord came totown with him, andtdier some wan-
dering.about the prisoner left hiss in a public-house,
Whilst he went to fetch the cash ; and to the land-
lord's great surprise, be absolutely returned with it,
paid the bill, took a receipt, and they parted excel-
lent friends. The landlord returned home, hugging
himself in the thought of havirg recovered a hope-
less debt. But alas ! he had scarcely entered the
house, when his wife asked him what had become of
the check upon Drummond!, which had been put in
the drawer up -tairs? and after some little inquiry, it
turned out that the prisoner, having purloined it, had
actually been paying him with his own money. A
Mr. Kerr atterded the examination, who had-given
the prAnner cash for the identical check, it- appeared,'
whilst the landlord was quietly waiting his return;
and another trade=an in the Oilier, stating that he
also had a charge against him, be was remanded fur
hather examination.

M A Rl.llOllOlN3n-S-razEr..,—Yesterdav r'e attention
df the Magistrate was occupi.o e time respecting
the infamous impositions lately practised oy Thomas
Woods, the person who made a pretended confession
of having perpetrated a murder at Edinburgh. The
Magistrate, Mr. CONANT, received several letters
from different parts, which leave little doubt, by the
description given, but this is the same individual who
has been guilty of the same acts in various parts of
the country, for the purpose of being confined and
supported in gaol, instead of working for his living;
but, unfortunately, the nature of the circumstance
does not come mithin the. Statute of Vagrancy, in
such a manner as touutholize any severe punishment
but that exercised in the usual way upon vagrants.
- Harron-GARDEN.—Yesterday, J. Hill and J.
Beck were fully committed on a charge of stealing
thirteen sheep, from the pens of Mr. Bones, at Pad-
dington, the property of Mr. Dexter, of Padding-
ton-street. A youth in the employment of Hr.
Bones stated, that the prisoners came to him for Mr.
Dexter's sheep, and received them. The Officers
traced the sheep to the shed of a person, in Humble-
ton-row, Battle-bridge, where they found thirteen
sheep, except the skins, heads, and two quarters.
Oa searching Hill's house, they also found a quan-
tity bf poultry, deprived of the heads and feathers.

Tuesday night, an affray happened in Aston-street,
Birmingham, originating in an old quarrel; when the ,
parties went out into the street to fight, and one of
the combatants, a person of the name of Littlebales,
was unfortunately killed. His antagonist, whose
name is Brown, is in custody.

TO THE EDITOR OF. TIM STAR.

Sni—A Report of the cause tried at Hicks's Hall,
on the 27th ult. on the prosecution of M. E. Impey
against myself, having appeared in your Paper of
the 28th, and in other Papers, into which (through
misapprehension, I presume) some errors have; been
inadvertently admitted, I beg permission to correct
such of them as appear to be at variance with the
arguments and decision of the Court, and to make
a few occasional observations on the subject.
The only two witnesses on the Bill of Indictment,
were the prosecutor and Mary Ann Browne ; thelat-
ter of whom, although in Court, was not called on
the trial.: this was observed by the learned Chair-
man; and it was, indeed, worthy of remark, inas-
much as it would have given my Counsel an oppor-
tunity of adding another evidence, to supply a very
material fact, which the prosecutor, conscientiously
suppressed, in giving his testimony : and it might,
also, have brought out " the whole truth," which
every witness is bound, by his oath, to give, but
which was omitted by Mr. Oliver, namely, that pre•
ulcers to my removing
.the prosecutor's hat, 1 re-
peatedly, and, perhaps, imperatively, desired him to
taAe gy, or leave the room." Mr. Oliver might
also have added, as a further part of the truth, to
which ha had to bear testimony, that immediately
upon my beating off the hat, on the prosecutor's po-
sitively refusing to comply with either of my le-
quests, he struck the a most violent blow on the face,
and drew blood from my nose : this being remarked
by me to Mr. Oliver at the time, could not have
escap:d his notice or recollection.
It is stated in the Report, that "l 11,0" sureties were
required by the Court : 'this is not correct ; for, on
my pay ing•the adjudged fine, I was instantly dis-
missed, on my own recognizance, to keep the peace
towards the prosecutor for twelve months; although
the prosecutor's Counsel, with his wonted liberality,
demanded it for four years, until the prosecutor
should have arrived at age ; leaving me, in the inte-
rim, open to every insult and provocation to break
the peace, of which the prosecutor, and his abettors,
are capable ; but to this the worthy Chairman re-
plied, that nothing was likely to take place at the
ettpira6on of the twelve months, and declined
complying.
The prosecutor, in order to connect the above with
a subsequent occurrence, and artfully magnify the.
alleged offence (there being but one count in the in-
dictment), stated, on his oath, that I followed him
instantly up stairs, and continued the assault. Here
his memory is again fallacious—for the whole family
can testify that dinner intervened, and I had been
al tent from thehonse for a considerable time, before
any further altercation took place, or before I went
'op stairs, to insist on his leaving the house; when he,
repeatedly called me damned coward," and used
other opprobrious epithets, daring me to put a finger
on him, or to attempt to remove him from the room,
of which he held forcible possession.
An opportunity was certainly offered me of avoid-
ing a public hearing, by a voluntary submission to
conviction, and the usual recognizance ; but, con-
scious of my own rectitude, the propriety of my own
conduct, as the master of my own house, and the
degrading situation in which I had been unwarrant-
ably placed, I courted publicity, and scorned to
compromise my honour by a mean concession..
I have, Sir, greatly to lament that the gross line
of conduct, and the continued series of insolence and
indignity which I have experienced from the prose-
cutor, since try marriage with his mother, and his
return from the Military College, when he was kindly
:eceived under my roof; and particularly that conduct
• 1e..1 to the contest in question. I lament, I say,
that the etiquette of practice in the Court, and the
mode, n rules of pleading, prevented those undergo-
ing a more extensive investigation on the trial : and
I feel confident that, had not that been considered as
irrelevant to the moot point of law, although justifi-
cation may be inadmissible in criminal proceedings,
an honourable exculpation would have been the cer-
tain consequence, by a Jury composed of parents,
guardians, and masters of families, whose desired
object is subordination.
Being suddenly required to join my corps, on
ditty, the prosecutor, his colleagues, and tho,-e who
support him, must enjoy their momentary triumph :
but the Public (who I beg will suspend their opinion
for the present) shall still be my at bitrators :—before
that tribunal, on a faithful narrative and disclosure
of all circumstances, supported by such written do-
cuments as will amply meet the points in question,
and a full statement of such incontrovertible facts
as may be deemed necessary, I will stand or fall.
I am, Sir, your's obediently,
GEORGE NICHoLSON,
Lieut. Royal Veterans.