Star.
London, England, 1810-04-16 00:00:00

OLD BALLET, APRIL

Richard Cooky, alias Jana, was indicted for foiging
and uttering a receipt, purporting to be a receipt o:.
William Baines, late of the Exeter East Indiaman, for
£34.. .4s. as wages, with intent to defraud the East-
India Company.
Solomon Hyams said, he was a shipper of seamen;
izinew the prisoner at the bar ; he bad lodged with
him abOut three weeks. He first saw the prisoner at
the East India House, where he signed his name
Baines, (or the purpose of identifying a seaman of the
name of Green. He produced a certificate to the
witness, wldeli purported that his name was William
Dainc,, late of the Exeter, left sick at Sr. Helena, and
Wished hint to procure him his pay. Hiving presen-
ted the certificate to Mr. Churchill, the Clerk at the
India House, payment, it was required that he
should identify him, which he dad, from the cir-
cumstance of seeing him sign his name, and having
heard others call him Baines.
C. W. Churchill, one of the Clerks in the India-
House, stated, that when application was first made,
he refused payment, until he had examined the ledger.
The prisoner came again on the 2d of February, and
in answer to the questions he put to him, stated, he
was an American, upwards of 31 years of age, and
had an American protection, which agreed with the
report in the ledger ; that he was left by the Exeter
at St. Helena.

James Symons said he was Steward of the Exeter,
knew Wm. Baines, who did not in the least resernbr
the prisoner at the bar ; he also knew the prisoner as
Richard Cooley. They, with several others,, were
left sick at St. Helena ; he did not know what be-
came of Wm. Baines.

R. Brown, Steward of the Warley East Indiarnan„l
remembered having received the prisoner wi:h others I
on board, to convey them to England, they having I
been left by the Exeter, sick. He was received in 1
the name of Richard Cooley ; be recognized him to
have been in the Blue Coat School, and that his name
was Jones. He knew his father and mother well, they
resided in Whitechapel-road.
Edward Collins said, lie was a messenger to the
East India Company, that he weit to the house of
Hyams, where he saw the prisoner, who answered to
the name of Baines. He afterwards went with Mr.
Martin, of the Exeter, to the Poultry Compter, to see
the prisoner, who describecl Baines to be very unlike
him.—The Jury, after a few minutes' consultation,
found the prisoner—Guilty.
John Brljant was also capitally indicted for -feloni-
ously and maliciously stab!aing and cutting Edward '
Grove, w:th intent to murder, or do him some grievous
bodily harm.
The prosecutor stated, that ht was a publican, and
• lived in King-street, St. George's in the East. That i
on the night of the 26th of March, as he was sitting •
at supper, he beard quarrelling in the street before/
his house, and went out to shut his window, when,
the prisoner and the persons with whom he was fight-
ing, rn'hed into the tap-room. Wi ness, with some
difficulty, induced the prisoner and his party to leave
the house, and then shut the door ; but in a few mi-
nutes hearing his windows breaking, he again opened
the door, and at that moment the prisoner struck him
with some sharp instrument on the head, wounding
him most severely through the skull. A surgeon was
sent for, who, on examining the cut, pronounced it
extremely dangerous. In consequence a constable
was called, the prisoner was secured, and at three
o'clock in the morning, as it was apprehended death
would ensue, a Magistrate was sent for, who took the
deposition of the witness, and committed the prisoner,
to confinement.
The constable proved that in the prisoner's room
be found the blade of an old cutlass lying by the side
of his bed ; but upon a full investigation of the facts,
1 as it was not incontrovertibly proved that the sword
was the weapon with which the prosecutor was struck,
and as it was probable the wound might have been
1 given by some instrument not coming within the de-
nomination of an edged instrument, the Jury felt
themselves justified in returning a verdict of acquittal.
I J. Pope was capitally convicted of stopping J.
Hodgson on the highway, near Somerset House, and
robbing him of a watch, and gold appendages. The
robbery was of the most barefaced nature.
IV. Crouch was capitallyconvicted of stcalinga mare,
the property of J. Grove, of Shepperton ; as was
J. Ingram of horse-stealing. ,„,,
The following were convicted of felony, viz.
J. Macdonnaugh, fur stealing two dollars, the property of E.
Tyce ; and
J. Crifliths, for healing a XI hank note, the property of J.
Nicholson ; fined is. and discharged.
One was convicted of a misdemeanour, vii.
W. Seaton, for obtaining GB4, of Elizabeth Slayntaker,-by false
preance.

Yesterday morning, at a gnarterbefore seveno'clock,
a man descended the area of Sir Wm. Becchy's house
in Harley-street, and opened the window of the
butler's pantry, from which he took several articles of
plate ; the butler, then in bed in the pantry, awaking
at the moment, and noticing the theft, flung on a
flannel jacket, and, thus lightly apparelled, with great
activity puisned the thief several streets off, and at
last secured him in Portland-street, and took him to
Mary-la-bonne watch-house ; the* man threw d"wn
the articles he had stolen in ate street, when he found
himself to lose ground. '