Star.
London, England, 1804-09-13 00:00:00

II ISITV'r.

Yorterday the &RA, rummer:l at the Old Bai
ky, before the sight H.or. toe LORD MAYOR. fur.
R ••• n Horwata, Mr. Indite CH•WIRS, Mr. Recoa
Wt. Re.
The l'Annels for the Petty Juries of London aro;
Mid leer being called over, a cirenmßonce rather
remarkable happened, with tepee to one of the for.
ser, whole name, however honourable to his feeling,
rg. c"cr•nu.ance m•av ht., we do not think it proper
to motion. After anfwering to his name, he ad-
drawl the Court, and faid, that he flood under cir-
ca, ,hat inflead of being fum mon-
ed 'lron the Pannel as a Juror, his place ilsould have
swore properly been as a prifoner at the bar, to an-
swer a charge of the molt heinous nature made
him, openly and publicly. It was a charge
of the heinou. crime of perjury. Tel vindicate hi.
diameter, be had appealed to a Brit ifh judicatare, by
r•-• aBh,n againß. the 'perfon who had made the
tha ge ; but untithis charaCter should be completely
vioclicated from the foul fligma of such a charge, he
peel-timed the Court would be of opinion, as he wa.,
that he mutt be ineligible to perform the tiered of-
fice of a, Bi itifh Juror.
The ItftORDIR anfwered, that by the high fenfe
of honour and delicacy the Gentleman had now
flrewn, he Bad evinced feelings arid principles but lit-
tle likely to charafterize a man capable of the heinous
crime to which he had alluded. However, the Court
mould be eatremcly forry indeed, that Inch an idea
fh ,add gn filth to the public, as that the mere unfub.
satiated charge of a crime, however heinous, should
b: admitted in a Britifh Court •.f Juflice, to incapa
citate a mar, in all other teepees eligible. from dif-
charging the Irma office of a Brierfk Juror. He
could not, therefore, admit the Gentleman's objec-
t' againß his own competence, however honour:
able that objettion was to his own delicacy and feel-
i tg.
The Gentleman replied, that the peon who made
the charge was now in open Court, fummoned upon
t Pannel as be wiss and liable to be fworn upon the
fame Jury ; what then, he would elk, might be the
vinfervence in any difference of opinion, *riling up-
ess any verdiel ?
The Recounts anfwered, that the Court would
tote care to prevent the occurrence of fuck a circum-
-11 ince.

A number of prifonen were then arraigned upon
vaniaa. inibeiments. and pkalled—Not Guilty.

The &II mifaner pat on his trial, was
alfastrin Gunn. an aged man about testy, upon an
InflOntent. (or that believing been canoe/led of the
&loge 4 grand larceny at the Seams of oSober.
doe, and fentenced to tranfportation for (even years,
teas accordingly embrked on board a vele) for that
perpofe, on the ,4th of &homey, 403; but found
O. lance in the patine of St. Botolpit, Aldgate, on
• lir sth of July la&
The record of his ermvieion and fentence was pro
faced and read in Court, and his perfon was identifi-
- ad by the polies officer who apprehended him.
The prifemer had nothing to fay in his defence, and
(he Joey eif mole found him—Guilty—Death.
yew rabic and Jibs Toils were capitally indieed
bee a burghs'? on the 3d of Aoguft la*, in the dwel-
l:no-haute of Gent ge Daniels, Wild row. St. Giles'.
•in the Fields, and felonioufly Reeling thereout a 51.
a el. and two il. Bank of England notes, a pair of
Meets. four filver fpoons and other valuable articles,
lte goads of Frances White.
Tt appeared in evidence, that Francis White was
a worldng cabinet-maker, and lodged with his wife,
Frances White on the two pair of hits floor. in the
honk of Daniels and that Ifaac Tibbs lodged in the
fame lisofe, and upon the fame floor, with his re-
puted wife. wheife maiden name was Stevens; that
on the night of the 3d of Augull, the Profecutor.
Stevens, had given to his wife the Bank notes above
mentioned, which the had pot into a tea-pot, and
hiked op in her theft, together with the pair of
beets, and other article*, and being preffed by the
wife of Ifeae Tibbs, to go with her to market. about
half pall nine they went together to Covent Garden.
'here day remained together till fame time after
eleven, when Tibbs's wife parted from her, but did
sot come direely•home; when, however, the wit•
safe retained home, The found her room broke open,
and alfn her &ell, and the valuable article' above
.3lientioned. gone. Alarmed and diftraded by the
elmomflance, (he intrvated Mae Tibbs, who lodged
he dm neat room. to go for her hulband to the pay-
s elite (it being Saturday), which he accordingly did,
and form returned with him. Tibbs feemed much
concerned. and offered to render any aninance in his
pooer, beet force time afterwards obferved to the
pet (Know White, " that he hoped he did ndt ftiffseCt
ire of the robbery." He then advice.' White to gn
to Bowitreet, which he did, accompanied by Tibbs;
and not finding any officer there, Tibbs adrifed him
so apply to the coatable at ie moch-houfe, and
hetVO attain to ketch the honk of Daniels. This
the Predict:tor declined, but a fufpieinn occurred to
him, which induced him to go on Monday morning
to the public houfe of a Mrs. Prince, in the neigh-
boos hood of the Strand, • which he onderitood Tibba
sad his brother, the other priAnser at the bar, (*re-
viewed ; and white the Pmfetutorwas taking a glafs
of gin. the prifoner John Tibbs came in, and aflced
for change of a 51. Dank note, which Me gave him,
sad told him acthe fame time, that Ifaae Tibbs lead
been there eking for his brother. After he went
sway, the Prole/mot fignified to Mrs. Prince, that
he had been robbed, and lapelled the note the had
kit changed to be his, and requelled to fee it. Mrs.
Prince (hewed it to him in her own hard at a little
*finance, and he inflantly knew it, by the name of
Norris being written thereon. He went, therefore.
directly to Bow-dreet. and found Atkins the officer,
whom he took with him to the bottle of the Prim
• te Luber, and had them both apprehended. They
teen went to Mrs. Prince, and brought her forward
votth the note, and the proved that the perfon from
whom the hod received it to be John Tibbs. It ap-
peared Jib, on the evidence of Atkins, that John
Tibbs had volositatily declared en him in the Court-
yard of BomareetOice. that his brother Ileac had
given him the I. ante to change; that both had con•
cured together the burglary and robbery in White's
minims, and that be had gone to the Court with his
brother Iliac on the evening eared. and watched
‘..h'ir he went into the hook and reread with the
booty,