Star.
London, England, 1820-10-30 00:00:00

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Situraa*, J. llfast;n-was capitally Indicted i'of
highway robbery. Mr. Green, a surgeon, stated, that
as he was passing along Southampton-litreet, Strand,
OD Thursday afternoon last, the prisoner ran ageing
him, and snatched his watch from his pocket with Oo
much force as to break a steel " safe-guard," which
.was attached to the watch-chain. He hatided the
watch to another, and ran away; but the witness
pursued and overtook him.—The prisoner was found
Guilty.
Susan Dillow, Anne Deans and ElisabetA Slater;
who had "pleaded Not Guilty, and were to hive beert
tried for the capital offence of uttering forged Bank
notes, begged to retract that plea, and be allowed
to plead Guilty to the minor offence of knowingly
having the notes in their possession. To this the
Counsel for the Bank made no objection, and the
plea of Guilty was recorded.
Elizabeth Burnham was next put to the Bar, upon
the capital charge, when she called out in a loud
voice, ,g My Lbrd, my Lord, I wish to withdraw the
plea, and plead Guilty.*
Mr. Serjeant Bosstrourr said, he had net the
slightest objection to the prisoner's request ; and
begged to add, that all the prisoners-charged at this
Session with the same offence had been allowed by
the Bank the privilege (if they chose to avail them-
selves of the indulgence) of pleading Guilty to the
minor offence; but they had chosen at first to adopt
a different course, under the idea, perhaps, that as
they were females, the severity of the law would not
be exercised upon them. This, however, was a fal-
lacious notion, because the public security required
that the law in these cases should be carried into
full execution. He rejoiced that they had pursued
another course.
Sarah Jones (aged 26) was indicted for feloniously
stealing the infant male child of Hugh and Mary Scott.
Mrs. Scott, the mother of the infant, deposed, that
on the 20th of September she sent her son, Hugh
Scott, on an errand with the infant, it was about
eleven o'clock in the day—shortly after the boy re- .
turned, stating, that a woman had taken the child
from him ; she went in search of the child immedi-
ately, and found it quite naked in the arms of a man
who was carrying it to Spitalfields Workhouse.
Hugh Scott, an intelligent boy, stated, that his
mother sent him into Bishopsrate.street,,that he was
standing at a pawnbroker's window, when a woman
came up to him and said she would kiss the baby ;
he said she should not, and would tell his mother ;
the woman then struck him on the head and knocked
him down, and took his little brother from him, she
gave a halfpenny to a boy bigger than him, to bold
him down while she ran away ; he afterwards saw
her in an alley, and told somebody to hold her, he
then went for his mother; he was sure the woman at
the bar was the same.
He was cross-examined by the prisoner, but did
not vary in his evidence.
John Chester is a broker,living in Widegate-street
heard a noise ; he went out and found the prisoner
with a bundle of child's clothes in her possession.—
With the assistance of another person he took her to
the watch-house. The little boy pointed out the pri-
soner as the woman that stole the child, without the
least hesitation. She resisted very much as she was
conveyed to the watch-house.
This witness was corroborated by Mr. Gregory, a
constable, and another person named Levy I the case
was clearly made out against the prisoner.
The prisoner, in her defence, said she found the
clothes, and accused the Witnesses of swearing falsely.
The RZcoRDIR summed up the evidence, observ-
ing that the case was clearly made out, and that it
was a most atrocious transaction.
The Jury immediately found her Guilty.

Friday, twenty-three more of Our unfortunate fel-
low-creatures were arraigned at the bar of the Old
Bailey, on charges of uttering and having in their
possession, forged Bank-notes ; sixteen-tSU whom the
k, in the ;diode of their mercy, have permitted.
to plead gut ty to the minor offence, which merely
subjects to the mild punishment of transgmtation for
fourteen years. The remainder will take their trial
for the capital offence, and, if convicted, will surely
die! Thus, Session after Session, are lives sacrificed,
and numberless persons expatriated, while month aftet
month is suffered to roll away without any effort
being made to render the perpetration of the crime
more difficult.' Surely, surely, if a radical cure uff_
this national stigma cannot be effected,' epalliativa
at least, might be discovered? Of the long-talked of
project we begin to despair, there being whispers
abroad of its failure, which receive current), front
the immeasurable length of time which has elapsed
since it was first spoken of ; and the number of persons
who have. suffered sinse-which would be far from an.
uninteresting calculation. • It is an old adage, that
great bodierinove slowly.; perhaps if the Loss sus-
tained through these forgeries, by unsuspecting trades-
men, were to fall on' the Bank, it might accelerate
their motions in seeking a remedy.
A . beautiful steam vessel, of 90 tons, *as lately
.fitted out at Liverpool, by some patriotic Gentlemen
connected with the Portugal trade, for the purpose
of plying on the Tagus. She left Liverpool on the
sth inst. and on the 9th was seen going into theitiiret
by the last vessel that arrived from Lisbon, bating
thus performed her voyage in less than four days.
-When the 19th Portuguese Regiment of Infantry,
whilst stationed at Tomar, received the notification
that the British Officers had been suspended, the
Officers and men sent a Deputation to their Com-
mander, Colonel HADDOCK, expressive of their high
sense of his distinguished merits as an Officer and a
Gentleman, and requesting him at the same time to
accept, as a testimony of their regard and attachment,
the fax months' pay which had just been transmitted
to the Regiment, which the gallant Colonel in the
most heroic manner declined.
Thursday, whilst the farmers of Beer-Ferris -were
commemorating the return of Sir M. M. Loris, by
bonfires, ice. on Whit Rock, opposite Maristow House. •
JOHN AYRES, a servant of Ricusan Toss, Esq. Hay=
rowell, a man of remarkable humour and mirth, fell
off the Rock, and was precipitated at least thirty . -
feet ; when, supposing himself to be at the hOttonq
he hallooed his companions in order to infosin the
that he had not received any injury; attempting, •
!.‘ however, to regain his former situation, be felt' a Eur..
• they depth of twenty feet perpendicular s and, gran...
to say, came up laughing Pad pelfacdy 4 ,

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