Star.
London, England, 1803-09-19 00:00:00

SEPTEMPER iL

Sailed the FURY bomb•veWcl, to join the fqua-
dron off Calais; and Srssawsil. iloop, with a con-
voy to the weftward.—Arrived the Fox cutter, with
difpatches from Sir Stow KY SMITH, off the Texel,
and reaming. Wind N. N. W.

YARMOUTH, SEPT. tit.
Yet erday morning arrived here, the HsCLA bomb,
with a fleet of merchantmen from Hull for Spithead,
to join the Convoy for the Mediterranean ; alfo the
Snits and Consrier gun brig,.-'-Sailed yellerday
afternoon the Hact,a bomb, and Chips under her con-
voy for Spithead ; this day failed the Swipe gun brig,
on a cruise I arrived a Greenlandman, fent in by the
North Sea Reet.—Siiled a large fleet of colliers to
the northward.—Remain in the Roads the GSLYZ.
Ua to, flag-Ibip, Rear Admiral TmoamSOROUGn, the
Courser gun brig, &DOM and HUNTelto revenue
mattes, and* !loop of War, juft arrived.

FROM LLOYD's LIST.

Ottt•tar ND. Sere iS.--Peirzd by the Henrietta (a prize)
trove China; Three Niters, Prougc ; —; Fraierkk
add Dorothea, —; Priendibtp, Dirks; and JeTrow Catharine,
from Rotterdam ; Conitantit, Waren. from Norway ; and
Yosng Angus, •—•;—, horn 14srwich.—.gelied, the Forum, Craw-
Li. for Haase; Elisabeth, Rcy. for Stettin ; San Mod'.—,
for 111Dm; Eat, Botts: and Magma, Meatosw, far Gibraltar.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 14.

I nna eorrea an error in my letter of yellerday.
Having been called out of Court before the Jury re-
turnea their verdia on the trial of *Dermot, I was
mil-informed as to the due. The prilouer WAS 4c.
quitted.
There was no trial today.

Emmet was brought up to plead to his indiament,
width charges him with having been the head and
main fpring of the rebellion (at lealt in this country).
It Rates him to have been the author of the rcbcl
proclamations ; of having colleCted the depot of
arms in Dirty-lane—having ferved the pikes out to
the Infurgents, and with heading them afterwards in
Thomas-itreet. Indeed I fulpetted all along that he
was the leader drelled in leaflet, with the cocked mi-
litary hat, and white feather.
_ .

The prifoner pleaded Not Guilty, and for trial put
himfelf upon Goo and his country. On being asked
if he was ready for trial, he replied not until Monday.
Being ordered to withdraw, the gentlemen who at-
tended for the Petit Juries were dircharged, but their
attendance at 9 o'clock on Monday was peremptotily
required.
After Mr. Emmet was removed. fentence of death
was natill feelingly pronounced by Boron GIORGI,
upon the following perfons : Walter Clare, John
Hay. (ntherwife -Hayes) Thomas Donelly, Lau.
Begley. Nicholas Tyrrell. and Michael Kelly. They
lillened to their awful doom, filent but not un-
moved.

Donnelly and Tyrrell are to be executed oo Sa•
turday at Palmerflown.
- - - • •

Emmet will be tried on Monday neat, to which
day the Court adjourned.
This day has furnilhed no other news worth de-
tailing t we continue perfealy quiet in the capital,
ead Ws fame tranquillity prevails in the interior.

M &LE►TT OF 711 E B.IYIC OF ENCLAND.

The Trial of Mr. Astrirr not having been Concluded on Satur-
day till long alter this Paper Went t• Pref., we were only able
to give the fabila-ce of the early ar; o' it: we have therefore,
as it is of great impa-lance, given the for.awind full and com-
plete account of the whole Proceeding:.

OLD BAILEY, SA: URI)AY, SrPr. 17.

Robert /Oen flood charged with an indiament, for
that he, oa the 26th day of February, in the 43d
year of his MAJESTY'S reign, was an officer and ter-
vant of the Governor and Company of the Bank of
England, and, as filch, was entrultcd with certain
effeCts of the laid Governor and Company, that is
to fay, a certain paper, partly printed and partly
written, commonly called an Exchequer Bill, as fol.
lows, No. 835, goof. which was then and there of the
value of goal. and which was then and there unpaid,
and unfatisfied to the Paid Governor and Company,
the holders thereof ; and another paper, partly
printed and partly written, commonly called an Ex.
chequer Bill, No. 6694, for toool. which paper was
belonging to the Paid Governor and Company, and
the money due to them as the holders thereof: and
another like paper, commonly called an Exchequer
Bill, for moot. and that he, being fuch officer and
fervant, and fo entrufled as aforefaid, did, then and
there, felonionfly fccrete, embezzle, and ran away
with the laid effeets, fo belonging to the laid Gayer.
nor and Company, of the value of zgool. againft the
Itatute, &c.
The fecond count Rated, that the Governor and
Company of the Batik of England had advanced the
lam of tool. on the credit of the &it paper, corn.
monly called an Exchequer Bill, which remained
unpaid to the laid Governor, &c. and the other bills
were fet forth in like manner, and that the ptifoner,
being fo entrufted as afortfaid, embezzled, fecretetl,
and ran away with Inch papers, commonly called
Exchequer Bills.

The third count was like the fecund, with the dif-
ference only,of calling the bills certain effeds of the
Governor and Company of the Bank of England,
partly printed and partly written, commonly called
Exchequer Bills.
The indidment contained eighteen mints, vary-
ing the mode of charge, as already Rated, upon each
of the bills which were fet forth, none Rating them
to be Exchequer Bills, but papers partly ptinted and
partly written, commonly called Exchequer Bills,
and certain effeds belonging to the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England.
Upon this indiement the prifoner was arraigned,
and he pleaded not guilty.
The jury was called over, and a number of chal-
lenges were made on behalf of the prifoner, and a
great number of perfons were fined for not appear-
ing as their names were called.
After a number of peremptory objedions, the fol-
lowing Gentlemen were (worn of the Jury :
Dadd Lane John Wrrne
Henry Cooper Winn* Williams
Joreph Saunders Wine Burton
norms Atkins John Deaphin
George Duffin NVlsiam Buckridge
George Gordon John Hoirfoo.
Mr. Gtt. es, the junior Counfel for the profecution,
opened the cafe.
Mr. GARKOW then Rated it at confiderable length
to the Jury. The Learned Gentleman took the ear
heft poffible opportunity to pay a tribute of refpell to
the charader and abilities of the unhappy Gentleman
at the Bar. He Rated that Mr. Allett had advanced
by regular gradations from the fituation of under
Clerk to that of Cafhier to that refpatable and. ex.
tenfive Company the Bank of England; and that,
from the highly eflimable and irreproachable charac-
ter which he had borne for the term of as years, the
utmok an Almon unbounded confidence was repofed
in him. He had alto (hewed himfelf to be more par-
ticularly converfant with the bufinefs of the Bank,
than almoft any other perfon employed in that con-
cern. He had, however, through an unfortunate de.
religion of the principles upon which he had fo long
aged, taken an opportunity, in confequence of that
confidence which was repofed in him, to feerete and
embezzle, in the language of the indiament, property
to an immenfe amount belonging to that Company,
by whom he had been fo long employed, and who
had fo amply rewarded his exertions and fidelity.—
He could prove that he had purloined property be-
longing to them to the amount of nearly zocoool. ;
but he fhould confine himfelf to thole bills or papers
Rated in the indilment as purporting to be Exche-
quer Bills for spool. He titan entered into a minute
dcfcription of the different tranfaCtions of the Bank,
and the manner in which their bitfinefs is concluded;
and gave an account of the cireumftances which led
to the fufpicion and apprehenfiou of Mr. Aflett,
which will be more fatisfaCtorily explained by a per-
ufal of the evidence given again( that Gentleman.
There was one point, however, to which he called
the particular attention of the Court and Jury, and
that was, that the Gentleman had been tried before,
and acquitted of the charge of purloining Exchequer
Bills :o an immenfe amount, as it was then proved
to the fatisfaSion of the Learned Jukes on the
Bench, for whom he entertained the higbeft refpea,
that they were not alually filch as might in law be
termed Exchequer Bills, in confequence of their not
having been Signed as the al direds. The prefem
indidments, however, Rated them as papers purport-
ing to be Exchequer Bills, which they evidently were
on the face of them, and fubdividing the charge, by
Rating them one time as fecnrities, and at another
time as cilia' belonging to the Company. This he
had no doubt that the Jury would be convinced of
upon bearing them read; and it was an important
duty which the Bank owed.to the Public, that they
Should not fuller to great a delinquent to efcapc the
juliice of the country in confequence of any want of
exertion on their part.
Mr. Eructs' rofe, and with great ability anted
and fupported his former °Nations. He Paid, that
he Should convince the Court that the trial of the
prifoner Rill ought not to proceed farther, on account
of the informality of the Exchequer Bills. He ac-
knowledged that the Counfel who had jug fat down
had given a fair, able, and manly Statement of the
cafe, and be agreed with him as to the neceffity and
propriety of his prefenting himfelf before a Court of
Criminal Jurifiliftion in a point of fuch enormous
magnitude. It was a judgment which the public had
a right to expel, but in his opinion he found himfelf
in a fituation per fatly (miler to that in the former
;rig The unhappy gentleman, at the bar,appeand

to to he arralgnad in the very fume manner as
for valy, although the prefent indielment affiimtd.
I dtfferent words, avowedly in order to charge him «ith
the lame crime. He did not fay this to make it ap-
pear that he thought this trial was a vexatious one,
nor did he attribute it to any want learning or
difeethment in the Learned Conned vho had fpoken
fo ably. That Costae! had ufed every argument in
behalf of the Bank, who had no doubt become
ferers to a very great amount. They appeared to
-hare imagined, that if the laft IntlAment had been
conceived-in another form, that a different jydgrnent
would have been given ; but although he fhould yen
cure to deny this, yet he fliould not pretend to Li
that their procedure was not highly proper in eves,.
reepeet. He intuted that there Siiis which had formerly
been (fated Exchequer Mlle, were equally invalid and
merely nominal, even as they were charred in the
prefent indietment. He Paid, he had in hrs head an

Aft of Parliament, by which they were declared not
to have been Exchequer Wis. By that Ae, however,.
Parliament in its jullicehaiing had the ufe of the mo-
ney, pronounced them valid to all civil pa rte" bar
with the exprers provifo. a that, mil* contained ;ado,
ilajboold extend or be confirmed to extend, to any profits:hot
trefently pending relative to loch Bils." The generoatT
and the jullice of Government could make no ahera.
tion upon thefe bills, with rerpeft to payment lief%
made upon them. From the moment thefe naushatu
Excheper Bill: became no Exchequer Bill:, they conld
not have been charged to Government. Not even
the Executive Government itrelf could have offered

to have paid them. They were, in he, nothing ;
land it was PailiAment alone which could recreate
or give validity, efficacy, or eziftence, to the infirm
ments now before the Court. Parliament had pur.
flied that cootie from that generofity, or rather jot;
lice, which every good Government, (itch as that of
Great Britain, ought to ohferve in its dealings with
the public. That lame Parliament, however. had
not contented itfelf with doing that bare all of jut:
lice, but it had alto very humanely introduced the
particular provilo to which he had alluded. and
which he hoped would ex tinguiffi the whole argu-
ment in its With. Until the King had given his
Royal Affent to that Actof his Parliament, the em-
bezzling or fecreting of there pieces of wee paper
could not even be accounted a pees lanyny. If loch
an Adt had not paired. then the Bank would have
recovered by profecution that money which they had
paid for the purchafe of fuch pieces of paper. The
Prifoner Rood indifted on the Bank Ad, of the rsth
year of his late Majeßy's reign. That AA was.
parfed in favour of the Bank of-England, on account
of its large and important concerns, but it was not
thereby in contemplation to make embezzlement by
any fervant of the Bank be viewed in any other lien
than a larceny at common law. It wasnot the intention
of Parliament to fay. that if any of their Lordthips'
fervants thould rob them of plate and jewels to a
great amount, fuch a theft &cold only be deemed a
mifdemeano-r ; but if a fervant of the Bank lbotdd
feeret or embezzle the mere Rump of a pen or is
(beet of paper, he Mould thereby become fabjeet to
a capital conviition. There pieces of paper were raid
to be fecurities, but they were filch as no perfon
could have come upon Government or the public for
payment of. It was impoffille for their Lordihips
to put fuch a bar& confirueion upon him. It was
laid down as law, that in order to make the Reeling
of goods felony, fuch goods ought to have Axe is-
tristfie swim in therefelves ; and fuch goods cannot be
efleemed valuable, merely on account of their rela.
tion to tome ether things. Suppofe that a meat were
to embezzle a bundle of Bank notes which were can-
celled, he would ant, would that be reckoned a felony?
He never heard of an inßance of an inefilltnent being
made again? any man, merelyon account of the value
of paper. Suppofmg any value to attach to Inch pa.
per, it could only be termed a pity larceny. It was
necefTary, therefore, for their Lordfisips to mane&
value with there nominal Exchequer Bills. ere fuck
a trial could proceed farther. The Prifoner had been
detained by the Bank for a civil debt, becaufe it was
their determination not to Infer any man to wisifper
away their reputation, by laying that they fill Goa
it. Boort in their money tranfietbosts.
Mr. Serjeant Bier followed on the face fide. He
alto adverted to the palling of the Ad of lag Salm
to make the Exchequer Bilis then pared, valid, and
from thence inferred that it was an bullied pm of
the idea which the Legiflature entertained that they
were otherwife of no value. He alto read a chafe is
the Bank Ad with rerpee to articles fecreted or ens.
bezzled by any officer or fervant of the Bank, which
enumerated " Bullion, Money, or other fads? and
contended that it was fuch an alkeiation of ideas as
mull naturally lead any man to confider the Cam.
pany in which thole words were found; the AMIN&
certainly mean other effects essiderazinwris. If a per.
fon was to pay for bate metal as gold, that payola*
was not (efficient to conilitutx its valet. or make it be
confsdered as gold ; be therefore coalidered that Ms
client was entitled to an acquittal, assail's& 11,4111146
bad been taken, notwithftanding it might be alreelnl
that the Bank had paid for them as tech.
Mr. GaillaoW was riling to reply, when
Mr. juftice Ls BLanc Aid. that if he bimfeif had
entertained no doubt in regard to the point of law
which had occurred in this cafe, be Ganda have
deemed it perfeftly (efficient, were be and his bre-
thren upon the Bench, to Rate their opinion to tba
Jury, but as it was a matter of great delicacy, be
thought that it ought to be niaturelr conGdr.red, and
deliberately determined. The queßten was, whether
or not the general two, gfatr, could be applied to
any thing but (itch as was of intriafic value, at the -
time charged ? This point appeared to him to de-
pend entirely upon the col:km/ion of the AA at
Parliament. On the whole. his Lordihip wise=
nion, that it would be more coofitent with
jultice, and the accommodation of both parties, to
allow the trial to proceed, leaving that nice point of
law to future and more deliberate difcuffion.
Here the examination of the witneffirssionmmeed.
by Mr. Gaaaow calling
Mr. Robert Berl, Secretary to the Bask. This
witnefs fisted, that Kr. Aden was elated a Chair to
the Bank upon the isith of March. :778 1-- dot ha
had known him ever &ace that time i—that as the
19th of December, 5793, Mr. Aflett Was
an *Cleat to Mr. Abraham Newland, &ea=
and that on the 57th day of January, Imo be was
made Cafitier, and had cootiassad to a& is that ear
parity ever dice.
Mr. Abraham' Newland (aide that be was wall ON.
(Tom arr.

inainted with the prifoner ever lince he was em-
filoyed by the Bank ; that within the laft four or five
years, when he was appointed Calhier, a great deal
of extenfive money tranfa&ions were cntruited to the
prifoner's Care. It was titli:r the wilr.efs or Mr.
Allen who were accullomed to give ord:rs for the
payment of Exchequer Bills, purchafeJ by the Bank ;
thefe purchafes were inferted in a Iraik adapted for
the purpose, called the bought bo..k, sshivh was kept
tonietimes by one clef k, and lUmetinics by another,
accotdinty, as leifurc permitted. When thefe Exche-
ouer Bills were thus purchaf:J, it WAS irapotrible for
t iem to come into the market, being always kept by
tie Bank till Government redeemed them ; they
were, however, very often lett to tLe cafe of tlse
Cathier, before they were dept lited with the Direc •
tors. Sometimes the witners conveyed them to the
cullody cf the Dircaors, and fornctimes of Mr. AI:
lett. Mr. Aflett was.the pertlin who conveyed thefe
bill. to the parlour of the Direftot s, upon ate 26th of
i'cbt nary 'aft.

Crof,-examined.—The pi ifoner has been in a con-
fidential !;Luation for many yearF, and has had va-
rious nl•plitunities c.f defrauding the Back. He
believed Mr. Aflett's whole conclun was faithful and,
honourable till on this occafl•Jn, becaufe furl frauds
would have been loon difcovered.

Mr. Abraham Goldfmid depefed, that the com-
pany, of which he was a partner, dealt largely in Ex-
chequer Bills, and that upon the 3d day of Decem.
ber, iflos, the witnefs fold to the Bank 85,0001. in
Exchequer Bills, which he was certain were paid by
the Bank. On being (hewn the order for the pay-
ment of thefe bills, the witnefs knew the fignature to
be the prifoner's hand-writing, being perfedtly ac-
quainted therewith. He alto identified the bill of
parcels as entered in the Bought Book.
Benjamin a Clerk in the Cafhier's Office,
faid, that he iffued an order for the payment of
115,0001. of Exchequer Bills, bought from Mr. Gold-
(mid. It was Mr. Affect's duty to fee that the
amount of the bills of parcels correfponded with the
order, by comparing the total amount. This witnefs
generally took the order to Mr. Aflett, to procure
his fignature,, and entered the bills fo bought into
the book. This witnefs identified the copy of the
bill of parcels which he bad made in that book.—
The eats were generally given up to Mr. Aflett or
Mr. Newland: thefe bills fo bought were generally
taken into use parlour, and delivered to the Direttors
in htrgefareels, either by Mr. Affect or Mr. New-
lin& Whole parcels fornetimes confined of 100,0001.
fir aoo,oool. furrounded with a cover, in which was
Marked the amount of the bills therein contained,
and particular fervicetfor which they had been granted
by Government.
Mars. Cole, Templeman, and Read, Stock Bro-
kers, levet-ally. depofed, that, on the t Ith of Decem-
ber, they fold to the Bank, Exchequer Bills to the
amount of 13 t,9851. ss. ad. which (urn was paid to
them by thAllank. The bikolparcels was alto iden-
tified. . Kiddel protect, that the entry of there
ro4scti4y la was made by him into the bought
- and the fignature of Mr. Aflett was alto
proved.
Mr. JOlhi Ouget, one of the Direelort of the Bank,
(aid, that he and Mr. Smith were the two perfoos
whore duty it was to be prefent and to examine the
pi the s6th of Febt nary. The parcels
were generally brought in by Mr. Affect, and the
irimefs thinks that he brought them into the parlour
that day. The bought book correfponded with the
parlour book. After they were compared, they were
put into the iron clofet, which has three keys with
•feparate locks. It is the prefent praSice of the
Sank Dire Ors never to open that clofet unlef. three
Diredors be pretests. The parcels were (day lodged
that day, after being examined and found to corre-
fooled with the book to which the witnefs and Mr.
Smith then Agned their names. There were four
(eparate parcels. that day brought into the parlour ;
firkec.vfkich was 200,0001. marked on the en-
ticlope. " b!pely, a 8os," and had the appearance of
teibl !lite/media the book.
M. &MO, the other Direflor, corroborated the
egnimony of the_preeeding
Mr:The:tip Bah faid, be was largely concerned
in the isurcbafe of Government feels' 'tie., and that
on tbs t-tth of March Lin, the prifoner came to him,
ancl.defited to know if the witnefs would perchale
ptack few him, as he (Mr. Affect) and fame friends
tatended to have a (peculation in the funds. The
wiinifs told him that be thought there would at
that time be confiderable &dilation is the Stocks,
and that the making large purchafes might be rather
hazardous. The prifonsr raid, that the witnefs might
be peffeftly fecure, as he could give him fufficient te-
ctonics. The prifonet accordingly next day gave the
witnefs an order to buy 50,0001. of 3 p-r cent. Oin-
k-4s for the next day uf lettlement. The witnefs told
him that there might probably be about 5 or 6 per
oent, difference on the Stocks in a fhort time. On
this the prifuner depofited three Exchequer Bills of
spool each with the witnefs, in order to cover any
eventual lots that might wife. The wit nets, on be-
ing !hewn the three Bills, identified them. The wit-
nut; laid, that loon after this tranfaetion 17,rne fitipi.
cinn occurred to him, and he went to the Bank, to
communizate it to the Direelors.

Mr. Winthropc, the Deputy Governor of the Bank,
fla:c4, that he was the perfon to whom litfh
communicated his tranfattiOn with Mr. Allem It
was on the sith'of April, about 12 o'clock at nocn.—
The witLcr, concurred with Mr Bill, in krntiag fur-
picions. Mr. Alderman Watfon being in the houfe
at the time, and alto a Magi:irate as well as a Direc-
ttr of the Bank, the depoi:ent communicated his in.
formation to him, and willicd to have hi, affittance.
They accordingly fent for Mr. Afktt, after the wit.
acts had fpolvn to Mr. Newland concerning the
mode of keeping the Exchequer Bills. He alk:d MI.
Aflett if it was puflible that that any of tlie.fe:
Could. et out of the Bank again after being Ten:cinch
from the Parlour into the IroteCheft :e priflicr
wrdwered, that he believed itiwas not pnflibir.
witnefs told him, that ncverthelefa it nppeared to ilirn
evident that there were tills nut ut the Ban::,
though purchafed by the Bank and their prolicity.
The witnefs then raid to him, that it bs-h0v.:.1
to go one flep further, and he was fort-) to fa; , that
Allett, was fufpaled of being the
thefe Bills being out of the Bank. The pi
being diced it lie knew Mr. Wilt, Paid he did ; :41,1
an being further interrogated, he laid he had !d.,.,d
flit Eacitriusr Bills Is the Leads of Usa4

nan, Isle begged to be exeufed telling the name ci•
the ;Arlon to whom thee Bills belonged, laying a:
the inme time that they were not the property of
E.ink. On being further queflioned, he laid they
wvre t!,e proßerty of a Mr. Holier, a friend of his
(the pinnaces), and a partner in the Houle of More.
land aid Co. Mr. Bith was then fent for, and Mr.
tol,l the prifoner that he thought it his duty
as a M to inform the prifoner that he was
i.ot obligLi to anfwer any quettion that might tend
to cr:nnoate liimfelf. Mr. Biflt then came into the
And fiated-what he had this day depofed
On this Mr. Watfon told Mr. Allett that he was un-
der the ucceffity of committing him to the Poultry
Compter. They examined the Bought Book, to al-
certain %%nether or not the Bills which M. Ilifh pro-
duced %%:re really the property of the Bank, and
could not find them inferted in the two fire/ books they
karehed. Mt. Newland then Paid to Mr. Mimi that
there was another book which he bad better go and
bring. Mr. Aflett went accordingly, and brought it
in, and Mr. Watfon alfo examined it and found the
numbers exaftly to correfpond. Mr. Aflett objefted
to being committed to the Compter, as the matter
might thereby become public. He rather withed to
be committed to Come private houfe, and he had no
doubt but he fhould be able to free himfelf of the fur.
picions which bad attached to him.
Crofs examined. Mr. Aflett was always efleemed
in the Bank for his complaifant manners,.and his
extenfive knowledge in the ufual bufinefs of the Bank.
His confidential fituation gave him various opportu-
nities of defrauding the Bank to a great amount.
Mr. Brook Wation corroborated the teflimony of
the lag witnefs ; he did not think that the prifoner
was fent out for the third book, but he retired of
himfelf.

Mr. Winthorpe faid, that he recolletled obferving
that when Mr. Aflett went out of the parlour, he
(Mr. NV.) faid 4, he is gone, and re fhall never fee
him more."

Mr. Boddington, another of the bireftors, raid,
that on the I ith r.f April, the prifoner's de& was
broken open byp fmith in the witnefs's prefence, and
that there was found therein a parcel containing log
Exchequer Bills. This parcel had an envelope, on
which was marked xoo,oool. and it contained only
bills to the value of 16,0001. This parcel the wit-
nefs gave to Mr. Hart, a clerk in the office, in order
that he might make a lift, which he accordingly did,
and gave to the witnefs.
Mr. Hart corroborated this teftimony, adding,
that he gave the parcel to Mr. Smart, a clerk in the
calls office, in order that he might diflate the num-
bees to bins, as he made ont the lift. This witnefs,
on being (hewn the lift which he bad written, identi•
fled it as his hand-writing. He Paid that he was pre-
fent at examining the iron theft, and that its contents
were 200,0001. fbort of the entries in the book, and
that there was no envelope enclofed, which carrel-
ponded with is.
Crofs examined. He depofed that be never had
accefs to the hong clofet, except upon that parti-
cular occafion.

Mr. Smart depored, that he dieated faithfully to
Mr. Hart. Mr. Mat kept the key of his own defk,
and nobody elfe had accefs to it to the witnefs's
knowledge. The prifoner put the parcels into the
iron chell. The prifoner's de& was not a proper
place for keepiqg Exchequer Bills; for as loon as they
were made up boo bundles, it was the ufual callous
to carry them into the parlour. Some time after the
pi ifoner had been committed, he faw the Direttors
examine the firong.clofet, and on that occafion there
was a deficiency of soo,cocl. Exchequer Bills.
Mr. Stewart, a clerk in the Calhier's Office, on be-
ing.lbewn the paper which had been found in the
prituner's delk two days after his commitment,
marked as being an envelope of soo,occl.• Exchequer
Bills, depo fed, that it was his own hand writing.—
The parcels v:ere generally indorfed by Come perfon
in the Calhier's Office,immediately on being made up.
Mr. Horton, a holier in Newgate-fireet, (wore,
that on the 2111 of M.lrch laft he lent the prifoner
I ',cool. Ct.nfols; and, according to agreement, he
received, as a fecurity, lowa' Exchequer Bills, a
memorandum of which he delivered in. One of
thefe was No. tent, contained in the indiftment. He
received there ficurities upon the 22d of March.
Mr. Chambers, a merchant in Dove-court. St.
Swithin's•lane, laid, that upon the 16th of March
laft, Mr. Atka depofited with him to,stool ; on the
17th t6,0c01. and on the 9th of April t 7,0001. Ex-
chequer Bills, in .dl amounting to 43,0001. as fecu-
rity for a loan of 5 per Cent. Confols.
Mr. Vandfammer, a Broker, laid, that in the be-
ginning of April 'aft, he got a depofit of 30,0001.
Exchequer Bills lions Mr. Mat, as a fecurity for
money borrowed by the witnefs on his account. He
dilpoled of ts,cool. worth of thee bills to the parties
he borrowed the money burn ; the other t 3,c0cl he
returned to the Dirc,sors. Mr. Downtown received
as a fccurizy Soccl. ; etc other 70001. was given to
Meas. Chambers and Co. and that circutuflance was
corroborated by themfelves.
Mr. Holler, a PArtner of the haat of Moreland
an.t Co. laid. that at the latter end of March he had
delivered to Mr. /Acts Sccol. Exchequer Bills. which
the prifoner afterwards told the witnefa he had de•
livered to Mr. Gold mid. The witnefs had depofi red
tilde bills with the prif.ner for the purpofebf railing
money.

He: e a particular cy.enii:l,:!ion cf all the bills which
had been depw.ed to and ider.toied by the above took
place. They wet.. cornpai.d ttiol the bought hook,
and Alf° with the cleicription 6.1 them in the
ment, and fume of them were call out nn account of
in:teem-ants in the ir.d,etment, hat moll of them were
proved to h tve bean parchaled by the Bank, and to
have been con!aincd in the parc..l mat keel w toc,ooel.
;,::d been taken into the par.'
lour, on the cf February lAft.

Mr. Bower, was hior.;-ht forward to prove that
no!.: of the thr:e 1;:lls-li•rsificd in the indielment
were am: -.7 tikul: Irtit by Mr. Hofier to the prifiner.
Aft, r h.ine further corroborative evidence was
roe throtta.li, t: e ;'s.nrr was called upon for his
itrrence. My Lo;J, 1 beg leave to
ieavr it er.111."

Mr. • there wcre many witneffes
attending, nl.acc,uld ivc th: I,:ifuner a character
of the higlt:!l ; bk.t in cold, folunce of what had
ali ea:ly trallis.ired r n t•:at witneties on
the putt of :Lc p:l.L;cr.tion, Lc fig,nlcl deem it mine-
utitari to tr. the Com t no 11,„4;

tl LLw• aticacbs a cic tlica inccrriansed be-

tweet, the Leading Coned on 131111.ftdel,, tcfpcnittg
the legal authority of Mr. Jennings at the time to
lign the Bills in qtteflion ; this was admitted in the
mgative by the Counfel for the profecution—but he
contended that quellion had nothing to do with the
bulinefs then under confideration.

Mr. Jullice BLAN c then entered upon his Charge
to the jury. He let out with defcribing the nature
of the Indifflnent : which, in lubitance, charged the
prifoner with, that he being an Officer and Servant
of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng.
land, and as Inch being entruited with certain effeEts
belonging to the laid Governor and Company of the
Bank of England, did felonioufly fecrete, embezzle,
and purloin certain papers, purporting to be Exche-
quer Bills, and particularly three papers, appearing
on the face of them to he Exchequer Bills, viz. a
paper numbered 2694 purporting to be an Exchequer
Bill for r 0001. one other Paper. numbered 835, for
sce. and a third, numbered to6t, fdr toool. all the
effedts, and belonging to the faid Governor and Com-
pany of the Bank of England. The Jury would, for the
prerent, take it as the law, that the Billsin quellionare
within the meaning of the wet ; and if it appeared to
them, from the evidence they had heard, that the
prifimer did embezzle, fccrete, or take away the fame
for his own ufe, then it constituted that offence which
' was made felony, by a fpecial A& of Pariament.
There points the Jury would take for granted at the
outlet. With refpett to the objaaions in point of law,
urged on behalf of the prifoner, were they found to
be valid, he would have the benefit of them hereafter.
In the prefent initance, it would be the duty of the
Jury to enquire whether the papers, effea.,
charged and fpecified in the indidment, were, as
Rated, the property of the Bank of England ; whe-
ther the prifoner, as loch officer or fervant, was in.
trufled with them ; and whether he did, as laid to
bis charge, fecrete, embezzle, or take away, and
convert to his own ule, the papers or e•leCts in quo:-
tion ; and this they would decide from a confederation
of the evidence. His Lordlhio,then entered into a de-
tailed recapitulat:oncf the evi,Ence which had been ad-
duced.—This he &tad into diary:lt heads, for the
farther illultrition of the cafe,and direction of the pity,
as applying to the dillind charges in the inifiCtment.
By the hill they would fee by what means and through
what channels the Bills in quetlion became the pro-
perty of the Bank. By the fecond they would lee the
prallice at the Banc with refpeCt to Exchequer Bills,
and the manner of difpofing of them until redeemed
by Government, and from this head of evidence
would appear the (hare the Prifuner had in thole
traufalions, and what his duties were ; and by the
third, hob/ the prifoner had difpofed of two of the
bills fpecifically charged in the indidment, and how
the third Bill was found in the pair:ion of the pi-
toner, namely, with a number of other bills in his
defk, when it was broke open for the purpofe of fcarch-
ing, and which lhould have been duly depolited in the
Prong clofet of the Company. From this evidence
they would decide whether the prifoner did fecrete,
embezzle or purloin for his own ufe and purples,
all or any of the Bills flitted in the Indillment.—
He called them, then, Bills, as the molt familiar
appellation. The point of law in that raped would
be decided hereafter. His Lordfhip noticed the flight
variation in the accounts given refi:eding the Pri.
toner's examination, by Mr. Winthorpe and by Al-
derman Watfon, in regard to the Prifoner's being
fent out of the room, in order to bring in certain
account books; taking this in the molt favourable
way, all it would amount to was, that the Pri•
Toner was afforded an opportunity (fuch as it was),
which he did not make ufe of, of endeavouring to
get away. He obfervcd, that with refped to the
puffibility of error or millake on the part of the
Prifoner, though foci might be made in regard to
one or two bilh, yet it was leareely polTible they could
he made with refiieCt to to large a number olßillsas
bad been traced to the pork:lion of the prifoner.—
With refped w clwrafter, it was unnecelfarc to fay
any thing, after what the Jury had heard from fume
of the st irnetres for the prorecution. They would
confider the matter before them, as the cafe of a man
who had long filled employments of a confidential
nature, and of high importance, and whole charafter
was deemed by his- employers to be irreproachable'
until the affair in eine Rion.
The Jury confulted together for abriu: five minutes,
and then returned the pg ifuner Gait>
The Trial lathed from ten a'clock in the morning
till fix in the evening, during all which time the Court
was extremely crowded.

Mr. Afidt betrayed neither a fymptom of fear nor
levity, but teemed to pay the nreatefl attentipn to
every thing that paired, and conduded himfeif with
a becoming firmnefs throunllout the whole of the
trial. When the verdi& was pronounced there was
a great hue in the Court ; Mr. Aciett waited F.r abnat
two minutes, then bowed to the Cowl, and wiaidrew,
accompanied by his friends.

The Point hi Law which is to be argued on behalf
of Mr. Aflett, is lhortly this : His Counfel infift that
thole Bills embezzled, not having been duly executed
and figned by the proper oflic.r, are not, in Law,
either Excheqner Bills, or ftcoriticti for money ; and
that as to fp':-.74 the inttinlic value of thole three
pieces of paper, cannot come within the meaning c.f.'
the AR, as on Jury could prralounce then; worth a
fatthiag, or lay any value upon th —
Three were convided of tck r 7,
Sarah Aar La and ../.1x Bca://, 1,.; it. al:o7 t.t yards
of black lace, die property r.f J. n C.t: vet ; and
IV. Oda, for Healing a quantity of tl.e i.ropet ty
of Peter Langdale.
And two were a:quitted, viz.
Gtgr:r mid char'er

BIRTH.
At Melville ort the lath ilia* the !lot:. :Vt., Derdas
ui r lwt.

MAR RIFIt.

Mf,Osy hit, Mr.DArid Nlv:oo.:lntrr zi)d book-
Mier, to Mr.. Rolm.' Normal.

On U-tanstlsy !AR, o cnvoc. Glimnrpell ,re, flal-t-rt ;co-
ney., MI. to Mitt Lakelles. yotoceft 4.torltter o: :be I.tc Gcuctal
I.3(c.eUe*.

DIED.

Wonefttay maralng at Upton. Robert Cltamaci, fq. of Sof.
bury-riquare.
bt:d‘ially. on Wedncfday rtr. William Murray, furrows of
his Majefty's dnek-yard, Wooly' Sch.

On S-unily Wt. M his inmohns oc Dttn:om: a-part, Yoe.; lire,
Miles Stlntaby Duncuenne.
On the ad infant, at Ncercaft,e non Tyrs. in t!e ecth Year of
ler are, I hzab,illt Elmer. Rriset et idea I la.- rf 5:. Pe-
waiters-h. and Garr of t%e 12•:: tient agkog, g:
la dig County ot Nortkundmhol.

?LIOVS COMM./IMT, iftid rafARTMUI to the
ST3MACH mil NOM
tr. JAMErs ANALEPTIC PILLS'.

THE Excellence of thefe Pills, as a gentle Purga •
A. nee, and as a general Prcfcrvative of Health, by alLiting Na-
tyre in the due Di:charge of the At.irnal Fund has eftablifheil
their Weputation .a a Medicine of the &ft importance. They are
admirably eideulated for diforders of the Stomach aid DOWdb; for
P.:rfons of a Bilious, a Gouty, or a Rheumatic Difpofition; as Welt
as for thofc whofe. Conititutions have been atfeeicd by a too adive
or too fedentary Life; or by a Refidenee in hot Climates. They
are likewirelparticuLuly ferviceable in Head-Atbs occationed by
Indicettion, and in removing the bad effects of Free Living; as
alfo in preventing Pallor and Apopiesia, fo often the to:Aqueous
of istemperance.
The tendency of there Pills is to open the Porn by Night, esti
the Body by Day: they moreover promote Beep, and require net?
ther Confinement attention or Diet. Accoutre Mould be had to
them ou the firti Attack of a Cold, or anon any flight Indifpofitions;
and th:y fhould never be omitted at Bed Time, after any Eseefs of •
eating or drinking.
As the Atiaterric ht.:A owe their Virtues to a peculiar Pre,
paration, which has never been divulged but to the prefent Pro.
prietors, the can only be tad genuine front them ; sod they arc
NM only by F. NeWBERT. at the Warehoure for Dreier Janieep
Powder, No. 45, thi Eat End of St. Paul's Charch-yard, a fevg
doors from Chcapfide, London; and at Dr. James's late lioufe to
Burton-Ireet ; in Boxes, Price as. 6d. each, Stamp included; or
the Quantity of SIT in One large Box for IL 45. M.-rave that din •
Words " F. TICWITILY, No. 4S, StPaid.4," are Cllgril•Clit Docks •
St um s. AB others are Counttrfelts.

1.A7 HEN Profeffional Men of education aid op!
"fponQbility deviate from the general fyllem by the Medleys
of a peculiar Branch, the (=Mon of long continued (seeds is the'
Nit criterion of fuperiority.
. _

Ten years have I devoted coy practice to the etehthvetreannent
of THREE DISORDERS, and the fueeefsful rcfuit of my plan
gives me additional ardour to trocie as tar as I am able the tn.
vases of thole complains which are the mod important Jo the cats. •
Ingot attain= infirmities. .

After Initiation into every branch als an Army Surgeon, .
formed a with at an may pLitad of Itrsake to rcfcue individuals
from the ignorance of uneducated Men, or the equally dangereite
precipitancy of general PraMitioners.
The THREL DISORDERS, to the core of which I have devoted
my attention, comprise eery fpecies of VENEREAL INFEC-
TION, wbcth.r of a rccert or long duration.--adly, All kinds •
of DEausry, whether selling tiorn the habits of Sella:titters, Of
the iodate/me of mature age, and laQly that derangeioent of the .
Iy it rai in Women whic hi c.IIcIBARRENNESSorsFERILUTY.
Numerous -difeafta are th.. n.fult of Ignorance or hafts in the
trarient of a Emple Gmtorrhea, and it not *infrequently biome's'
thit the feeds of Life are pulfoned bythe Indiferetion of an eommol. •
c hour. :Sy a fuperior method inch complaints are eatily curuk
and even where. others have failed, I truft that l mar prefome to
offer a radical r;-cllablldiment.

Fcw,howerer, are the cafes of complicated dithers In tie
order, compared with the mlamitours fituatkes of Mat, who from
indulgence in a SOLITARY VICE, or the prevalent Galedes o(,
3 faihiunable Life, acquire that fiats of Debility which is the
unavoidable confeepeo or afloat pernicious habits.
Where the unhappy radreret bloodspots his =Very. bat nada,
conceals h;= re, it may be fosse cosdniation for him to .
a ,tw, that although it be an objedt adocht or uneerainty want
0-her Ira xttioners, the renter-al of tbde DfiFICIENCIES by the
gradual prtgref= of renov;don is the acquiremeut of my aperients.
If the rites of Pace3E.A or Venus hare linos to reduce nuoly vb.
row, much ..nakty will he prevented by an early counteraditto sr
this languid hate, and in doge cafes no great ill/Ides will word
81.3 where this deficiency has for years =JAM, a proper Pm.
frveranee is indirpenfibly requidte to revive the lhanaboriagt rhal.
of Life. and to re-animate the Cooltitution.

MARRIED WOMEN, who have lan been difqcointed b
their expo-Rations of a Fundy, may bea eed, that is man ba.'
dances Nth delude are curable by bledieal

The SECRECY winch is fn &nodal to my undertaking, sod de
Qyalifeations which I have preformed to state, farm the Baas of ,
my pretenLons, and in coincidence with Each this Intimation is
given, that Mr. BREE may be confulted perforafig (or by knees
IncioEng a fmall note) at his Mee, No. so, Arandei-itreet, Sated..
near Temple-bar.
There is an additional entrance is Water-ftrai adjoining, and
the name is on both the doors.