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went to the Bank, and changed the £2O note i hd
desired a Gentleman at the Bank to write on the note,
Thomas Taylor, of Crinfoid." Witness -then ac-
companied prisoner and his brother William to- a
public-house near Hyde Park-corner, where he paid
them £2l, and kept the other £5, at their desire, for
his trouble. William then said the money should be
divided into three parts, hut did not say who was to.
receive the thud part. The prisoner Richard then
told witness that he arid hi 4 brother William stole
the heifers out of Mr. Mahou's field, and that during
that time the prisoner James stood watching on the
road. Th.!! prisoner James was not present at this
conversation.
The rest of the testimony produced went in corro-
bofation of the statement of the accomplice. By the
evidence of the officer, by wlipm the accomplice and',
the prisoners were apprehended, it was proved, that
nine of the notes given i changeat the Bank, for the
£2O. were found, tour upon Clement, and five upon
Richard Hicks. The account Richard gave of the
notes being in his possession was, first, that he had
taken them in change for a £5 note ; and, after-
wards, that he had received ten new £1 notes of his.
brother William, at Hyde Park-corner, and that these
were part of them. The Mistress of the Poorhouse,
where the elder prisoner slept, proved, that on the
night of the .sth of December the prisoner did not
sleep there, but added, that he had often about that
period missed sleeping there. One of the notes taken
in change for the £2O, was also discovered to have
been changed by the old man.
The CONINION SERJEANT, in summing up, re-
marked upon the weakness of the testimony against
the elder prisoner.—The Jury found James IliCks—
Not Guilty, and Richard Hicks—Guilty.
The accomplice, Clement,-received a severe repri-
mand from the Court, and was told that he was now
a marked character, and had better have a strict
guard upon his future condtict.
Mr. ARABIN, on the part of the piosecution, ap-
plied to the Court, tinder the late Act abolishing re-I
wards to officers, for an additional allowance to the
witnesses, under the peculiar circumstances of the
case : but the Curt refused, and the point was saved
fur the consideration of the Judges.
John Charles Cuthbert, who kept the Bell, in St.
James s-market, but now of the Goat, in Pall-mall,
was placed at the inner Bar, upon an indictment,
which charged him with wilful and corrupt perjury.
After the trial had gone on for some time, the
COMNION SERJEANT submitted to the Jury, whether
they were anxious it should proceed any further,
upon such testimony as had been adduced ?
The Jury instantly said, they were completely
satisfied of the innocence of the defendant, and pro-
nounced him so by the verdict of—Not Guilty.

UNION HALL.—DRURY-LANE AND COBURG IHR-
AntEs.—Yesterday, being the day appointed for
hearing the information which has been laid by Mr.
Ward, on the part of the Proprietors of Drury-Lane
Theatre, against Mr. Glossop, the Proprietor of the
Coburg Theatre, for enacting at his house, contrary
to his licence, the Tragedy of " King Richard the
Third," a great number of persons interested in the
decision of the question, attended at this Office. The
hour originally appointed for entering on the subject
'was eleven o'clock, and the Magistrates (Sir JOHN
PINHORN and Mr. CHAMBERS) were in attendance at
that time, to hear the arguments on both sides. By
an arrangement proposed on the part of the Counsel
for Drury-Lane Theatre, however, this appointment
was abandoned, and the hour of two fixed. Soon
after one, the worthy Magistrates, having completed
the ordinary business of the day, called on the case,
when Mr. Burgess, Solicitor for Mr. Ward, stated,
that his Counsel had not yet arrived, and that he did
not feel he should be justified in conducting the mat••

ter himself.
Sir JOHN PINHORN said, that as the question at
issue was one which would, in all probability, oc-
cupy a considerable portion of time, and as he had
business elsewhere, he could not, with convenience,
give it the attention which it would require. He
was ready then to proceed in the information, if the
parties desired it.
Mr. Burgess repeated his wish, that the matter
might be conducted by Counsel.
Mr. Rogers, Solicitor for Mr. Glossop, said that
he felt himself absolved from all blame, as to the de-
lay which might take place. The postponement of
the hour, in the first instance fixed, arose entirely
With the plaintiff. He agreed in the impolicy of
entering on a question involving so many nice points,
at so late an hour of the day.
Under these circumstances, it was agreed that the
case should stand over till that day se'nnight, at one
o'cloclip when all parties are to be in attendance.
A number of poor Irit.h labourers having, on Tues-
day, represented their distress to the Magistrates at this
Office, it was suggested, that they might find tempo-
rary bmployment in cleaning the foot-pavement, in
the Borough, of ice and snow; for which each of the
inhabitants would, no doubt, willingly remunerate
them with a trifle. They were accordingly supplied
with shovels, and sallied out, under the guidance of
one of the Officers. So few of the inhabitants, how,
ever, shewed any inclination to accept their services,
that, in the course of the day, no less than one hun-
dred informations were laid, for not keeping the foot-
, ways clear, and seventy-eight of the parties were
yesterday convicted in penalties of ten shillings each,
with costs.
A woman, named Martin, a servant at the King's
Head, Albemarle-street, was remanded, on a charge
of having, on Monday night, left her illegitimate
child, about three years old, exposed to the incle-
mency of the weather, with intent to deprive it of life.
Martinumouon-STREET.—A question of import-
ance to Parishes, and particularly to that of Padding-
ton, came on io be heard at this Office, yesterday, at.
the suit of Mr. Thatcher, a respectable parishioner,
and another Gentleman, against Messrs. Shill and
Grubb, Surveyors, relative to their yearly returns.
Mr. Thatcher made objections to overcharges in their
yearly returns: first,
.that an item of £8 6s. 9d. for
collecting the rates, was an overcharge, not sanctioied
by Act of Parliament; secondly, that a sum of money
had been charged for painting names of streets, Bcc.
and, thirdly, that thirty-three days had been charged
for labour, in wheeling mud from the Harrow-road,
which, in fact, it was the duty of the Harrow Trust
to perform, as they were paid £lO5 a year to exone-