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London, England, 1820-12-15 00:00:00

THE KANO V. TYLER.

This was a prosecution instituted by the Society
for the Suppression of Vice against the defendant, a
bookseller, residing in Wych-street, for selling Painis
Age of Reason. •
Mr. G traNEY stated the case to the Jury, and called
J. Raynell, who stated that he was desired by the
Society for the Suppression of Vice to go to the shop
of the defendant, and discover if he was in the habit
of selling Paine's Works. He accordingly went to
the shop on the 4th of July. He purchased two or
three small pamphlets. The defendant asked him if
there was anything else he wanted? Witness said he
wanted Paine's Age of Reason; the defendant said
he had it not, but could get it if the witness would
pay £1 for it. Witness said this was a high price,
but ultimately offered 16s. for it. The defendant
desired he would call again. Witness accordingly
went away, and returned again on the 7th of July,
when the defendant delivered the book to him, for
which he paid 16s.
T.,Fore went to the defendant's shop on the Bth of
July last, and asked him for the Theological Works
of Thomas Paine. The defendant said he had not got
them, but could get them for the witness if he would
pay a large price. Witness asked how much ? He
said one pound. Witness observed that was an enor-
mous price; to which the defendant replied that it
was, bat that they were now so scarce, that any
money might be had for them. At length, he said
he would get them -for sixteen shillings, if he could
be certain the witness would again call for them.—
Witness assured him he would, but to make the thing
certain he would pay beforehand. Witness accord-
ingly did so, and returned again in about two hours,
when the defendant took the book from off a trunk
behind the counter, and delivered it to the witness.

Cross-examined.—Witness was at this time em-
ployed by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, as
clerk to Mr. Pritchard, the Attorney to the Society.

Passages-from the work were read.
Mr. ADOLPHUS addressed the Jury on the part of
the defendant. The Age of Reason was a work so
well known, that he should not insult the Jury by
supposing, for a moment, that they were ignorant of
it, or of its nature. The work had been repeatedly
condemned, by Judges and Juries, as destructive to
Religion and morals, and in that opinion he entirely
agreed; he was not the person, therefore, who would
become the advocate of such a publication. The de-
fendant was aware of that when he selected him for
his Counsel. The duty he bad now to perform was,
not to defend the work, but to protect, if he could,
his client. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to
comment on the nature of this prosecution. It was in-
stituted by a Society called s, The Society for the
Suppression of Vice." This was a Body which had
done infinite service to public morals; but, like all
other Public Bodies, its acts were sometimes wrong ;
such, in his opinion, was the character due to their
proceedings on this occasion. What had been the
!conduct of his client ? Was he one of those who
displayed Thomas Paine's Works in his windows,
or whose shop was designated by the appellation of
" The Temple of Reason?" So far from this-being
the case, so far from his inviting-the Public to pur-
chase these interdicted works, he was not ready to
produce them even when applied to by customers ;
and it was not till after an enormous price had been
offered for them, that he consented to obtain them
for the witnesses called on the part of the prosecu-
tion. The high price charged for the publication,
counteracted, he contended, the evil of the sale. He
was aware this would not alone entitle him to ask
for a verdict ; but he trusted it would operate in
mitigation of punishment when brought up for j udg, -
ment. The possession of this book in proper hands,
might be productive of the greatest benefit to so-
ciety. If the Bishop of Llandaff had not possessed
and read it too, and that with attention, the world
could never have had the advantages arising from
that Rev. Prelate's most excellent and conclusive re-
futation of it. He (Mr. Adolphus) did not scruple
to acknowledge that he possessed this obnoxious
work ; he considered it as necessary to illustrate some
parts of the history of our country, as were many
other works condemned by both law and morality
as works of general circulation. He doubted not
but if his library were examined, not the open shelves,
indeed, but his closet, and se:ect reposittiry, works
would be found amongst tht books which would
subject him to imprisonment as the possessor of ri-
baldry, or sentence him to the 'scaffold as the pur-
chaser of treason. In the present case he could not
'bin think kindness and a caution to the detendant,
would have had more effect in retaining him from
the sale of this work than the prosecution had had.
The Learned Counsel concluded by expressing his
conviction that even should the Jury feel themselves
compelled, by the evidence, to find the defendant
guilty, their verdict would be accompanied by a re-
commendation to mercy.
The Jury found the defendant Guilty, but begged
to recommend him to the mercy of the Court.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said, every attention should
be paid to this recommendation if, on enquiry, the
defendant should appear to deserve it.
Mr. GURNEY said, the defendant had been once
already excused from prosecution for selling this work,
on his promise not to offend again.

Yesterday, the Grand Jury for Middlesex found
another time Bill against the notorious Fletcher, alias
Franklin, for a misdemeanour, in obstructing ar

perverting the due course of justice, by writing,
composing, and publishing to each of the Jury who
were summoned to try Sir Francis Burdett, a letter,
calculated to inflame their judgment, and urge them
to find a verdict against the worthy Baronet The
letter in question, it will be recollected, was received
by the Jurymen immediately on the eve of the trial,
and not only occasioned a great sensation, but was
very severely animadverted upon by the Ministerial
Prints, as being the wicked effort of some crazy Ra-
dical, and one of them stated its opinion that it would,
'perhaps, be attributed to some Got►eroment Spy.

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OZD.BAILXV, DEC 1411,0.4.
P. Connell, W. 114 "Irindicted
for
.stealing three seals key, thelpropettlY of
C.:T. Ireland, from his Perm?.
The prosecutor was passing down DrorT"lgne,l
when-he was hustled by the prisoners, Who attempted
to snatch his waft's, but the chain broke, and. they
got only his seals..
The
who Jury
apprehendedfounde prisonersth em said,
th Guilty,e y
most desperate thieves in the parish of St. Giles, (n-
its neighbourhood. Connell was tried
.at the last
Sessions, with two others, for a highway robbery,
were e
and
the b t
Officer
and his companions in that offence. are now under
sentence of death in Newgate.
W. Saunders, a man of respectable appearance,
was charged with
.stealing. two books, the property
of Mr. Taylor, a solicitor, in Furnivars-inn.
The prisoner was employed as a copying clerk,
in Mr. Taylor's office, and being entrusted with two
books to take to Mr. Winyard, a surgeon, in Nas-
sau-street, he sold them to Mr. Callow, a medical
bookseller, in &who.
The prisoner addressed the Jury in a very superior
manner, and apparently labouring under the deepest
emotion. He acknowledged the offence, but de-
clared that he had been driven to the commission of
it by the direst distress. He had been five months in
prison for debt; and, in order to obtain his release,
had executed a warrant of attorney, engaging to
pay Ss. a-week. He had but a guinea a-week at
Mr. Taylor's, and when he sold the books in ques-
tion, it was to enable him to keep up the payment
be had engaged to do, or go again to prison. These
facts, added to the circumstance that he bad been
for the last fifteen years almost the only.sitipartof
an aged mother and a sister, would, he hoped, ope-
rate favourably for him in the minds of the Court
and Jury. He concluded his address in tears.
The Jury found him Guilty; but recommended
him in the strongest manner to mercy, and with
prompt humanity made a subscription for the pri-
soner, to which several Gentlemen in Court added
their donations, and a handsome sum was in a few
minutes collected, This scene produced an effect
that can be better felt than described. The women
were all in tears. Mr. Taylor prosecuted the pri-
soner entirely for the sake of example to his younger
clerks, of whom he had several. He had behaved in
the kindest manner to the prisoner, having taken him
in a state of poverty, and completely clothed him.
Thomas Lowick was indicted for embezzling £lO,
the property of Mr. Bodkin, Secretary of the Men-
dicky Society, Red Lion-square. The prisoner was
la messenger in the office, and in that situation was
entrusted to redeem some property. It appeared by
..
the evidence of Mr. Fagan, an officer of the Esta-
blishment, that he had redeemed a part of the pro-
perty, and applied it to his own use. Oa being
suspected, he absconded with the rest of the money,
and was apprehended by John Wright, the officer
attached to the Society. He was found Guilty on
the clearest evidence.
- William Cunningham, John Holdstock, and Wil-
iiain Russell, were indicted for stealing a quantity of
wearing apparel, the property of some seamen, on
board the Flying Fish tender. Cunningham was
found Guilty : the others were acquitted.
Fanny South was convicted of stealing apair of
sheets and a cennterpane, the property of John Wise,
from a lodging-house. The Recommit humanely
promised the Jury to place the prisoner in a situa-
tion where she would have an opportunity of re-
deeming her character.
Thomas Pearson was indicted for stealing a pair
of plated spurs, a great coat, and other articles, of
the value of £3, the property of the Hon. Grandy
Berkeley. The robbery was clearly proved, and the
prisoner made no defence, but Threw himself upon
the mercy of the Court. He was found Guilty, and
the RECORDER promised that due attention should
be paid to themerciful suggestions of the Jury, this
being his first offence.
Joseph Clark and John Dawson, alias Farrington,
two young men of apparent respectability, were in-
dicted for obtaining of Mr. Samuel Nock, gun menus
facturer, £2OO worth of goods under false pretences.
It appeared by the evidence, that a Lady, of the
name of Catherine Farrington, had lately died, leav-
ing property to a very large amount to Mrs. Trickey,
who is the residuary legatee under the will. The
prisoners represented to Mr. Nock that they were the
rightful heirs to this property so left by Mrs. Far-
rington; that Messrs. Blunt and Beaumont, the So-
licitors to Mrs. Trickey, had acknowledged them to
be so ; that they had an action in the Exchequer
against the residuary legatee; and that, in fact, in a
very short space of time, they would become pos-
sessed of this large property. As a further induce-
ment to allow the prisoners to have the property they
afterwards obtained, they referred Mr. Nock to their
own Solicitors, Messrs. Robins, Lincoln's Inn. Under
these circumstances he allowed the misoners to order
£lll worth of guns.
Mr. Samuel Nock proved the fact, that the pri-
soners came to his shop on the 21st September last,
ordered the goods, and described themselves as above
stated. A list of legacies was also left with witness
by the prisoners. amounting in the whole to £3800;
ind this was accompanied with an account of the
stock in the Bank, left under the will, to the amount
of £60,000. The property taken away on the 21st
consisted of two double-barrelled guns, value 92 gui•
neas, and their case, together with other instrumentso
is ounting to £lll. Becoming alarmed after he
had parted with this property, he went to Messrs.
Robins's office, in Lincoln's Inn. He there saw Mrs
Booth, representing himself-as the chief clerk of Mr.
Robins. By him he was told that there was no doubt
in his mind but that Farrington was the rightful liar
to the property; and this he knew from documents
in his hands. _ On talking to Mr. Robins on the sub-,
ject, he put himself in a rage at the idea of being re.
(erred to upon the subject, and. said that he would
.not be referred to even by the Bank of England. lis
,added, that, as far as human foresight could go, lei
believed that Farrington was the rightful heir. •
It was afterwards proved, by other witnesses! did
the prisoners had pawned one of the guns for £l2 at
a pawnbrokerk; that previously to the fraud the
prisoner Clark lived in a house in Greenfield-street,
nearthe deceased Mrs. Farrington's house, and that
the prisoner Dawson visited him,
Mr. Beaumont proved that neither he nor his
partner ever wrote any letter stating that cher were

ready to deliver up the property in coestion to ..te
prisoner: A dish-ages had-been. put upon 'the p.o,
party in the funds.. The will of William Farring:o2
Was read; and it contained not, a syllable respecting
the prisoner Dawson, alias Farrington.
In stating the fact to the Jury, the COMMON Stk.
iiinnyremirked dpon'the filet; that neither Robint
or Booth had been called by-the prisoners. The Jury
might draw a toletably cotreit conclusion as to the
' reasons which actuated these_ two Gentlemen in NA
appearing, and the pristmers in not calling them.
The Amy, without hesitation,-found both the pi.
soners.—Guilty.
The prisoners were again indicted upon a sepa:-,:e
charge of defrauding Mr. Nock, upon false preterce,i
of other guns, worth about £6O, on the 22d of
tember. Upon this charge also the prisoners
found—. Guilty.
The prisoners then received the sentence of I:
Court Upon the first indictment—to be puy,;c
whipped ; and upon the second—to be trati•portce
for seven years.
The COMMON SERJRANT observed, that he had ad-
vised the trial of the prisoners upon both indictment.,
in order that they might receive a doublepunidiniem,
and he hoped the corporal punishment would be ex.
emplarily inflicted. fhe pri ioners were mo-t dan-
gerous swindlers, and ought to be severely punished.

About four o'clock yesterday afternoon, a daric
villain dashed his hand through a pane of glass is
the shop window of Mr. A amsramso, pawnbro',ei,
in, Baldwin's-gardens, Leather-lane, and drex on: .1
valuable silver watch, with which he ran off; he %, „i
immediately pursued and taken, when he delibe-
rately gave up the ploperty.to Norris, a constable.
To a remark made, that it was surprising he did rut
cut his hand, .he replied, he took care of that, for he
wrapped his handkerchief round to prevent it; and
that his object was to get transported.
Yesterday, a young man called at the shop of :11-.
WiLk tics, a grocer, in Charles-street, St. George's
in the East, stating that he lived close by, and would
be a customer for the future ; he then requested Mrs.
Wilkins, who was the only person then in the slop,
to accommodate him with a shilling or sixpence of
the new coin, as he wanted it for a particular pur-
pose. Mrs:Wilkins, in order to comply with his
desire, took a small wooden bowl, in which the sil.
ver was kept, and placed it on the counter, when
the fellow snatched upwards of £2 out of it, and el-
fected his escape.
Yesterday evening, while the family were engaged
serving at the bar, some villains placed a laJder
against one of the first floor windows of the New
Globe public-house, in Mile-End-road, entered the
landlord's bed-room, and. carried off from his desk,
£2O in Bank-notes, £2O in silver, and some trinkets
Tuesday evening, Mr. P. WETHERS, a farmer, re-
siding at an inn in the Borough, was knocked down
in Artilleryrplace, St. George's-fields, by a number
of thieves, who robbed him of his watch and a black
pocket-book, containing £4O in Bank-notes, and a
number of memorandums.
A case of a revolting nature occurred at Colding-
ham, in Berwickshire, the beginning of last week.—
The carrier of the place was requested to take a trunk
from a house in the village to Edinburgh. From the
quantity of goods which he had previously engaged
to carry, he thought it would be quite impossible to
undertake it. The -person seemed extremely anxious
that it should not be delayed till the following week,
as there were articles in it u.hich were required ix Edin-
burgh immediately. The carrier was induced to take
charge of the trunk, and accordingly it was brought
to his quarter* It had not, however, remained long
in his possession before it was remarked that a very
nauseous smell appeared to proceed from it. A num-
ber of the inhabitants being collected together, and
some suspicions being entertained of its contents, they
insisted upon its being opened. The carrier resisted
their attempts to do sb as much as he could, but they
succeeded in forcing it open, when an old grey-headed
woman, who had been interred in Coldingham burial-
ground, some days before,, was found embalmed
amidst a variety of perfumes, but which had failed to
E beta
their intended effect, Three young men have
en
committed to jail, charged with the offence.
The week before last, as the Rev. JOHN Rota, Mi•
nister of the Reformed-Presbyterian Church, Laurit-
ton, was passing some carts laden with hay, at the
Boat-house Bridge, near Linlithgow, he was forced
fronehis horse, and.a wheel of one of carts passed
over 'his head. He was carried in a hopeless condi-
tion to a neighbouring house, where every attention
was paid to the unfortunate Gentleman; but he died
soon after.
An interesting Paper was recently mad to the Royal
Society, on the magnetizing influence of galvanism.
in which various new and curious experiments on this
subject were detailed, which clearly establish the fact.
that the galvanic fluid, directed-ins proper manner,
is capable of communicating mftmetse propetties to
bars of steel. If steel bars eh I.*lskeriksbed to the
galvanic current, placed in the dire tibn of the mag-
netic axis, no effect follows; bat if they be placed
parallel with the magnetic equator, they become
magnetic—the end placed to the Vest becoming
North of the Pole of the new magnet, and that to-
wards the East becoming the South Pole. And so
great is the galvafiic influence is producing this el-
fect,that it exerts its power at a distance of some
inches (even 10 or 12); so that 'if the steel bar be
moved in a circle round the course of the galvanic
current, but always kept parallel to the magnetic
equator, it becomes magnetic.

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Yeeterday, Mr. Robert Coolie, of St. ikides-paasege, fleet-
meet, aged SO; a mm highly respected and esteemed for Tile
faithful discharge of the various duties of pnhaicead prirte :if .
Tuesday, in Berkeley-orate, Theodore Hairy Broadhead,
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, to Upper Grosvenor -street, Arnie, widow of
1111119 grans, Esq. lete M.P. for the County of lf,inross.
At Omen, ea t►e ads Wet. Lieutenant W diiata Snalgran,
late of the Nth Reshape of Root.
At Demarara, on the pith September last, Captain William
Brown, of the ship Willam.Devreek- # Liverptd.

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