Star.
London, England, 1820-09-26 00:00:00

OLD BAILED'.

Yesterday, John Goodrick, James Birke, John Sa-
muels, and John Thomas, were indicted capitally for
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of the
Margravine of Brandenburgh Anspach, on the 9th
of April, and stealing therein various coppers, and
-marble chimney-pieces, to the value of £lOO.
Mr. John Philip Roper, the Gentleman who had
under taken the management of the affairs of the
Margravine, was the first witness called. He merely
proved that the night before the robbery all was safe.
William Sparks, a lad who obtained his living by
looking after barges in the river Thames, stated, that
on the night in question he slept on board a boat
near Brandenburgh House. He heard the prisoners,
after the robbery had been committed, a short dis-
tance from the boat, conversing about the sale of a
copper, calculating that it would fetch about 30s. or
40s. The day before the robbery the prisoner (Thomas)
broke the windows of the Pavilion, and witness saw
him do it, but did not mention what he had seen or
heard until three weeks after the robbery had been
committed. •He had not heard anything of the rob-
bery until three weeks after it happened.
John Fowler proved that he was employed to take
care of an empty house, which had been previously
occupied by Goodrick and his father about eight or
nine days after the robbery. Several pieces of
marble were found in the house.

The property was completely identified. The pri-
soners made no defence. The Jury, after a short
consideration, acquitted all the prisoners.
John S►nith and Willia►n Tubbs, two young men,
were capitally indi.cted tor, assaulting William Storks
on the King's highway, and violently taking from his
person a watch.
The robbery took place in the night of the •29th
IJuly last, in Brick-lane, Bethnal-green. The prose-
' cutor observed a number of suspicious characters
huddled together in a knot, and being warned by the
watchman, he crossed over the way. He was how-
ever followed, and Smith snatched his watch from
his fob. The evidence against the other prisoner,
Tubbs, was so slight, that the Court did not think
proper to call upon him for his defence.
The Jury found the prisoner Smith " Guilty of
stealing from the person, not violently," and acquitted
the other prisoner.
The sentence of transportation for life was imme.
diately passed upon Smith by the COMMON SER.
.lEA NT, who was, at the same time, informed that the
rest of the gang might, if apprehended, receive a
more severe punishment.
During the trial a good deal of laughter was ex-
cited by the examinttion of a German witness, who
seemed to have very little regard for the decorum
or decency to be pi eserved in a Court of Justice.
While under examination by the Court, and while
proceeding in a long harangue, he was interrupted by ,
Mr. ANDREWS, Counsel for the prisoner. The wit-
ness, who spoke broken English, immediately cried
out in a loud tone, and assuming a threatening ges-
tute, " I did not speak to you, Sir." After some
difficulty the Court obliged the witness to proceed,
and he several times asked, " Who am I speak to ?"
When the trial was concluded, and the awful sen-
tence was pronounced, the dead silence which usually
ensues was interrupted by the German calling out,
and holding up the prosecutor's watch, " Who is to
have the watch, my Lord ?" He immediately re-
ceived a severe reprimand from the Court, and was
told not to be quite so officious in future.

Seafaring persons ought to be made generally ac-
quainted, that by the provisions of a new statute,
enacted in the present reign, a fine of £lOO, and im-
prisonment until it is paid, is imposed on any person
found running even a pint of spirits or wine, or a
pound of salt ; and so strictly is this enforced, that a
few days since a person was convicted at Plymouth,
and the officers would scarcely permit him out of
sight until the money was produced. The seizing
officers received £45 each, and the remainder accrues
to the Crown. No mitigation whatever is permitted,
and a very strict look-out is kept up in all directions.
Sunday, a daring robbery was committed in the
dwelling-house of Mr. BEAUFOY, vinegar-maker, at
South Lambeth, during the temporary absence of the
housekeeper, who was gone to Church. The thieves
obtained an entrance from the back of the_premises,
in Lark-hall-lane, and succeeded in carrying away
plate, wearing apparel, and ether articles, to a con-
siderable amount, without detection. Mr. BEAUFOY,
at the time of the robbery, was in the country, and
the housekeeper was the only person left in care of
the premises.
Monday se'nnight, a mob assembled before the
houses of the publishers of the o:sford Herald, and
broke upwards of 100 panes of glass end several
sashes. The alleged cause of this wanton outrage is
said to be, that Messrs. MUNDAY and SLATTER are
not zealous supporters of the QUEEN. Several per-
sons have been apprehended, and have given bail for
their appearance at the ensuing Sessions, in order to
take their trial for offences committed during this
riot. The Oxford Herald has prudently observed a
strict neutrality in regard to the proceedings now
pending against the QUEEN ; and the following good-
humoured jeu d'esprit shews that the Proprietors do
not cherish any feelings of irritation against the au-
thors of this most unwarrantable outrage:
" A urzieristsivai FITIAOADINASX.—Whereas several bushels
of pel,bles were on Monday evcning last left at the houses of the
Publi,hers of this Paper:—Notice is hereby given, that the
owners may have them again, on application being made to the
Ileis*d Office."