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don in tuinlaseing for Dir. flare, the mettle for Tralse, the Mite
town.
Mr. RAIWUNSON mused inquiry to be made at the F.arl's town
house; but his Lordship is In the Isle of Wight, and all that could
be learned was, that the porter, an old servant, knows nothing of
his name.
' When the prisoner was Informed of the result of the Inquiry, he
sail—" If I was let go miter (a word which he substituted invaria-
bly la a singular manner for Mr, and your Wiwi*. during both
esembastions), I can prove the truth of what I have asserted: my
father was the Gentleman I have described him to be, and the
Earl wiU admit It. - •
Mr. Itawcntson—Ton lave all the appearance of a deserter.
Prlioneo—l am se deserter, master; and if you wiU but let me
go, you will be convinced of It.
Mr. Rawtorson—For your owe sake I cannot let you go ; I
shall send you to the House of Correction, subject to your being
discharged, if you can be disposed of to your advantage.
He was committed.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A young fellow,named Picard,was charged with robbing the Lady
of Captain Harwood, of Hackney, of her purse and handkerchief.
It appeared that the property in question was taken from Mrs.
Harwood's pocket, by a fellow who was in company with the pri-
soner In the fields near Hackney. The robbers were seen running
from the spot, and were pursued by persons who beard the alarm
given, but the man who actually took the property escaped by
jumping over a hedge. The prisoner was stopped, and a little boy,
Mrs. Harwood's son, who witnessed the commission of the rob-
bery, identified him as one of the mean.—He was fully committed
for trial.
Two well-known young fellows, named Perry and Noble, were
fully committed for trial, on a charge of stealing a bundle of lines
from Thomas Summerfield, a little boy eight years of age.
Thus child was carrying the linen home to his mother, a lasoiroise
when he was met by Perry, who persuaded him to Save *s peo.
petty in his care and to carry a note to a bow, which he pubiod
out, promising to give him 6d. He immediately ran off Willi
tie
property, and in his flight banded the bundle W bli
Noble • but both the prisoners were stopped by persist=
the little bey running after them crying, and learned the cause of
his distress.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

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EDINBURGH, JULY 16.

Saturday, at ten o'clock In the morning, the Caere proceeded la,
the trial of Robert Rod, hackney coachman, mewed of the canna'
culpable homicide, in having, on the 20th of June last, on the read
between Edinburgh and blusselburgh, driven his coach with We
horses against and over the body of Robert Stretton, private sal.
diet in the Ist Dragoon Guards, in consequence of which he was
mortally wounded, and died on the 22d, two days after.
Reid, when called upon to answer to this charge, pleaded Guilty,
and said he was very sorry for what had happened.
The Jury found him Guilty upon his own confession.
Mr. Come addressed the Court in mitigation, and produced a
number of certificates of thecrevions good character of the priso-
ner, two from his former and late employers.
Their Lordibips, while they all expressed strongly their 'sense of
the danger arising from recklessness on the part of drivers, and the
necessity of protecting the lieges from such conduct, were willing
to give due weight to the good character of the prisoner, and
therefore sentenced him to the lenient punishment of confinement
in the jail of Edinburgh for nine months.
Donald Smith, late a letter-carrier in the General Post
Office, was charged with opening, detaining, resealing,
and, not till after a lapse of many days, delivering two
letters, directed to Bat tholomew'Fi y, from his daughter!
at Glasgow ; one of the letters contained a one pound
note, which was not abstracte.l. The prisoner pleaded'
Not Guilty.
Mr. Fry, his son, and a daughter, proved the circum-
stances attending the irregular delivery of the letters,
the appearance they exhibited of having been opened,
Re. and his two daughters from Glasgow satisfactorily
proved the times at which they bad been put into the
.Post Office there, one of whom produced pencil seals,
by which the wafers had been impressed, whereas when
delivered, the letters were sealed with wax above the
wafers; the one bearing the impression of the reverse of
a shilling, the other of a key, the latter corresponding
exactly with the key of the prisoner's drawer in the
Po.t Office.
A number of official persons, belonging to the Post
Office at Glasgow and Edinburgh were examined as to
the scrupulous routine of duty in both establishments,
most of whom stated the improbability that a letter
could in its progress through them be opened and re-
sealed by any individual unobserved ; but it was admit-
ted that (speaking of the Edinburgh Office) one letter-
man had ready access to the repository of another.—
Several of these witnesses distinctly swore that the office
stamp on the letters in question had been intentionally
obliterated. The prisoner had all along denied the
commission of the offences with which he was char*ed,
and Mr. Finlay, inspector of the department to which
be belonged, acknowledged that he had always cowl:
dered him sober, attentive, and active, but had known
him in arrears with his payments.
No exculpatory evidence was called, but Mr. George
Ross, one of the Commissaries of Edinburgh, in whose
service the prisoner was for a few months, previous to
his being employed in the Post Office, gave him an ex-
cellent character for sobriety and honesty, and a certifi-
cate was produced from Mr. Sinclair, of Ulbster, to the
same effect.
The Loan ADVOCATE addressed the Jury on behalf
of the t.:town, and Mr. M.Neill made an ingenious de-
fence for the prisoner, which he rested chiefly on the
ground that the four sorting clerks of the Post Office
had equal opportunity with the prisoner to commit the
offence of keeping up and opening the letters, and might
afterwards put them into the prisoner's hands for de-
livery, and on that ground he sought a verdict in favour
of the prisoner.
The LORD Jurotcg Cutax, in alluding to that de- I
fence, observed, that if the letters had been put into the
prisoner's hands in the crumpled state described by the
witnesses, such circumstance could not have escaped his
notice, and would have led to direct investigation; the
conclusion was, that the prisoner was the guilty person,
but if the Jury had any doubts, they would give the
prisoner the benefit of them, and throw his previous
good character into the scale.
The Jury, after a few minutes consultation, gave a
verdict of Not Proven, and the prisoner was dismissed
from the bar.—The Court then adjourned.
The following are the appointments for the ensuing Autumn
Circuits of the Jury Court :
N ORT 11.—Lord Piranyr.
Perth... ...... --Wednesday- ...... September.
Inverness ... ...Friday gist
Aberdeen Saturday.— ........ ...29th
SOUTH.—Lord Oman.
Jedburgh Wednesday.. ....... ....12th September.
Dumfries Monday 17th
Ayr... ........... ...Friday 21st
W EST.—Lord Manxman.
Stirling Monday sd September.
I y Friday 7th
Glasgow..." ..... Friday... l4th
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The Count de SATIN/MI, one of the richest of the
Polish Lords, has lately lost, at one piquet match,
20,000 acres of wood, with a magnificent mansion, on
the Banks of the Ester, to the Prince Dowonougt. The
ICount de SAVIN3II(I is the same who, on an embassy to
Constantinople, won from a Capitan Pacha, at Chess,
twelve slaves, with 16,000 leopard skins, which he af-
terwards sold in Hungary for I,6oo,ooofrancs. lie set
the :laves at liberty on the spot.—Q otiditnne.