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London, England, 1827-09-03 00:00:00

threw or foor thikes daily Its his shop, for a long period
previously; there were others of the party whom her
could identify. but they had not been taken into Cu'el
Cody; when the police officer who had taken the pri•
boner into custody saw him, a few days after his appre—
hention, in the lock-up house, he told him he bad been
induced to) in in the robbery quite against his will;
that he had first entered the house, and let the others
• lc ; a nsm named James Hurst, had given him eigh-
teenpence as his share of the booty.
The prisoner, in his defence, denied having received
the eighteenpence from James Hurst. . .
the Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty—
• Dina. - • ,
• 'Rickard Herat, and John Keaap, were indicted for
sobbing on tke King's highway, Robert Marland.takiag
from him a quantity of Epsom salts, a case oftlanceti,
• and other articles, his property. ••• ....:, . . ..
The prosecutor is a veterinary surgeon. On the night
of Thursday. the 26th of April, lit was returning to his
own home, on the road from Wondh uses to Ashton.
This was between eleven attd twelyeat night. He was
nearly at an equal distance from these two places when
he heard some one running behind bins. He soon per-
ceived the two prisoners; as they passed hail he bid
them good night, but they mide him no answer. In a
few minutes they returned) and John Ketnp knocked
him down. White there ,be. held his hand over his
imOuth, and the other. prisoner ransacked his pockets.
The whole of their contents being removed, the pri-
soners left him, desiring him to make no noise. No part
Of the property lost had ever been discovered.
On the past of the prisoners, a man, who acknow-
ledged himself to be in the professien.of an astrologer,
deposed that the prisoners had been at his home on the
night in question from twenty minutes atter ten o'clock
till 25 minutes after eleven.
• A woman, who had been eramined on the part of the
prosecution, stated she had• seen them about date
quarters of an hour before the robbery took place,
coming out of a field into the high road.
Mr. Justice SAVAi left it for the Jury to say, whe.
•ther they thought there had been sufficient proof ad-
duced to shew the identity of the prisoners person?
The Jury having conferred for a shoat time, found
them both Guilty—Death.
GLOUCESTER, AINVIIT SI:
Last night about eight o'clock the commission was
opened in this city by Mr. Justice Ltrrueueea and
Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, The calendar contains the
tonnes of 76• prisoners, 69 for the county, and seven (sr
Use city, but the offences are chiefly of a trifling nature.
-Forty-three causes are set down for oriel, and not one
of theta maiktd for a Special Jury.
This day, of er attending divine service, between one
and two o'clock their Lordships proceeded to the Town
Hall, Mr. Justice latesaoAes taking his seat on the
Civil side, and Mr. Baron Vouaaas presiding ia the
Crown Court. After the Jury had been sworn in, and
the usual ceremonies concluded, Mr. Baron VAUGHAN
proceeded to address the Grand Juries for the county
and city to tie following eff.:ct t,
Gentlemen of the Grand Jery foe. the County of Gloucester,
It is with eons, dad:silty that; eatable to expresarbo doter*
aii
gratilicadon I• delve, frum tracet o second time so full and,
respectable attendance of the Gc men of thie Calmly asembh 4
for the purpose of performing the important and. inkilill dud
for the purpose of prrlornimg the lmporssit and. Ink'nsn dutky
lncldi.t to their issolisitorial cbagetrer; aind, it I may be allow
i
to say se. it is not only dishes proof-of that readiness siodolarif
with which you are anxious to discharge the duties of rosy nation,
but Os also evidence of the ardent respect and attarhAnt dial ,
ytth feel for the laws and Constitution under which we hive fbe
lumpiness to live, width we are all At-skeet to preserve, to perpe.
team and trato.;nit unalloyed to posterity, in that ;gist* purity
vigour with which it was banded down to us by our ancestors.
It was impossible for me is approechieg this beautiful hall, this
teMple aced sanctuary of justice, not to tweet with regret thee
infringers» which were marked in my. mind when 1 had last
... the' honour of addressing the Greed Jury of the County Af elip'._
teeter, Apd it brings to my rneollection the painful falewtesit i
at that time I *as omen* eriik a calendar, centers(
haloes of more that it/0 prisomes, many of, whose
were ebaracteeised by a malignity Which one would here but
*Odom occurs; and in the exercise of my duty, it became mellow,
foe me, fie the protection of the peace and property of the *Ahab!-
, tams of this county, to perform the painful task of making some
melancholy examples as sacrifices oo the altar of offended justice.
I now turn, however, with sincere pleasure from those painful 1
recollections, and eta happy to find that the present calendar does
me exceed one-third in point of number when compared with the
last, and certainly in point of malignity. as far as I have been able
to perceive, it dues not alarm me ; and I indulge in the hope 1
. that 04 the present occasion it will not be necessary to make any
be those dreadful examples that justice sometimes requires.—
While I am on that subject. I must mention that the depts.
shim* in some eases have not been returned as they ought to
have been ; and to that omission I am most particularly anxious
to call your attention, with a view to its amendment, because
ft is, and ever must be, the unions desire of those who have to assist
io the administration of public justice. to inform themselves as cor-
rectly as possible of the nature of the offences which are to Come
under their consideration. Gentletnen,within the last few months
the criminal code has undergone some important revisions and
amendments; and as it is the duty of the Judges of the land to
men periodically in the administration of justice, it is also their duty
at that season to expound the nature of the laws to all who are in.
Wrested in them. 1 shaU, therefore very shortly request your at-
tention to some of the provisions aetbe new Acts, as far as they ,
Mate to the offences enumerated In the calendar. The Acts to
*high I allude are them passed to take effect from the first
, deg of July last. It would (I am coascieds) be highly ins-
pope for a Judge of the land to toil' himself in any way
with questions et polities; aad although I feel I should be
pelleing the teat of entice by so doing, yet I trust, as an individual ,
at the conunualty..l may be prositted to wpm* my warmest ad.
adration of the Gentlemen who was the promoter of the bills to
which I have alluded. For himself lie has unquesdanaldf raised a I
Monotnent aereperennius in the minds of his countrYinen,' by Which
his name will be transmitted to posterity embalmed in the re-
collection of ill pod subjects. The great imam/enigma attcsdant
on the ancient law to away criminal cases could only be know*
to those who bad.frequent oeceslonto refer to the amine 'boob:—
The object of &me recent acts was to simplify int'idawie.
dew a iersity or those almost obsolete enactments. Net kis
Jan we hundred. aid thine .411..eics, of Parlismeot were re.
poled dories the IlessiostAn. frebitb. thee. Acts were pessed.-1-
,ffy those Acts the law .is einspied 'is it relates to larceny and
• athse crimes and is rediced to its "Moak a forte, that 1 *Witt
tat Yhose vibe rue may read, abitEall'men may know the laws-by
sellieb means tiny may avoid becoming transgewisore. One of the
.. . waA to abolish what WO termed * the beoebt of clergy," a '
pee, wines, In barbarous ages and intim
es,
a unlettered
olVta
ask t vebeen-Convenient, bat which, in the present enlightened
age, when know/ridge and literature are so gewerally diflused
mood, oil raokii of the community. was certainly an .idle and
sinesists coresnaay. ,The,dissinctious between grand and pent
4.s were also maul/ph and a martial 'hernias made in
• the law respecting bur .• As I don't think there also any
cams of stead'. Irliblti the esti:rinse in the resent eattndsr, 1
shall merely ii,Hatioe the ariesidatent under that head in a rise-
. rat why. , Its caws where an wale ceeding-house is broken into
in the niAlst, the tapers of AR inmates dieturlied, and their
bees possibly put iv ompardy, by the precast law, as well as by the
ferrule law, it was deemed necessary to prsirat • individuals from
saes dangers by makieg such a crime a capital offence, but the se-
verity of -the =mut law was not. mired for the protection of
property in authouseeilsecaisse their:ea/dug into them isnot attended
with ;booster:ming circumstances !Ala analtack ' UpOn a dw enema.-
110114 mint oscessarily inspire. I shall therefore shinty remark '
~. en the *object of.esinilage. that unless the bun dling. bream into
le wart of a dwelling house. or immediatey conosetsd with
ors hymn* covered passage, it is um entitled to the seal sea.
tostion which the law formerly emended to it. Tae reLst.
meats wiskii.foraterly existed• regarding the breaking aisd ems
, Wring a diooliketbosse in the night time are now removed by
' the new blw. To asostitate the crime of burglary, you are aware
• it was (emery oaceseary that it should be committed in the Aldo.
tier, mad then the question arose as to whether there was light 1