Star.
London, England, 1818-09-30 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

Yesterday William Hughes was convicted of steal-
ing eight brass-plated shade mounts, the property of
Messrs. Spode and Copeland, Staffordshire warehouse-
men, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Wiliam Ingram was indicted for stealing a £1
note, the property of James Murdoch, and five fa-
thoms of rope, the property of the East India Com-
pany. The evidence having been gone through, the
COMMON SERJEANT was about to sum up, when one
of the Jury interrupted him, considering the case so
dearly proved, as to require no comment from the
Bench. The Foreman returned the verdict—Guilty.
The prisoner was then taken from the bar, and two
other prisoners were then placed there for trial, and
the indictment was read.
Mr. CLARK, the Deputy Clerk of the Arraigns,
then• stated to the Common Serjeant, that all the
Jury had not acquiesced in the last verdict which
had been pronounced.
The COMMON SERSEANT.—" Do you not all agree,
434 ntlettien, in your verdict?"
• Juryman.—" Scarcely two of us, my Lord."
The COMMON SennaNr'recapitulated the evidence
to the Jury, accompanied with the usual comments.
The Jury consulted together, and remained for
some time hesitating what verdict they thould give.
The COMMON SERJEANT.—" Gentlemen, perhaps
you may be labouring under an error in this case. I
cannot permit the verdict to be reversed, the officer
having already recorded• it in due form. If you have
any doubt as to the propriety of that verdict, it will
most certainly operate in the prisoner's favour, as far
as regards the punishment to be inflicted ; but rho
verdict, having been once Worded, cannot be re-
versed."—The Jury were now unanimous in pro-
nouncing the prisoner Guilty.
James Turner and James Perkins were convicted of
stealing eight yard% of printed cotton, the property of
Samuel Hooker.
Some parsons were called to give the prisoner Tur-
ner a good charatter.
The COAMON SERJEANT.—" It is quite clear, Tar-
ner, that the witnesses called to your character know
very little about it. You-have been here before, and
I know 'you well if your witnesses do not."
Ann Adams was found guilty of stealing Bs. and
two sixpences, the property of J. Thomas.
Robert .4nderson was indicted for stealing a shawl
from tin; person of Susannah Jenkins.
It was proved in evidence, that the shawl in ques-
tion wa,, snatched by the prisoner from the ',boulders
of the ,prosecutrix whips she was walking along the
street. The prisoner followed her for a considerable
distance, and lifted up the shawl two or three times,
to see if it was fastened ; finding it was loose, he
watched an o?portunity, and at the.corner of a street
he pulled it off, and ran away: A person who had
closely watched his scheme, followed him, and he
was at length overtaken. When taxed with the theft,
'he said—" Oh! I only did it in joke." The prisontr
had a companion, who succeeding in Making off.
Jn his defeace, he repeated thatit was all a joke.
He said lie had no witnesses now -in attendance, be-
cause they V.-ere not aware that the Court sat to-day.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Court rose at twelve o'clock,-both the Illooa-
DER and Cosmos Saa.m.ist being obliged to attend
at Guildhall for the Election of a 'Lord Mayor rot
the year ensuing.

G
utt-.;„asLAis...—Yesterstay is case of the greatest
possible importance to all classes of the community
came on at this office. It was a prosecution by the
Bank of England against .111 r. Johnson, of South
Land. et'i, a coal-merchant, for a non-compliance with
the regiit aloes of the 47th of the present Kin The
informations contained 48 counts. The first charged
the defendant with delivering coals withont the
meter's ticket, and the remaining counts without fur-
nishing the vender's ticket 'countersigned by the
Meter, as required by the Act. Mr. ANDRI/W3,.for
the defendant, said, he was willing to submit to a
conviction upon one, two, or even all the counts, an .
leave the penalties to the Magistrate. The latter
served, that the Bank having determined to bring a
great culprit before the public, it was for them t
Judge how far they would proceed. The object of
the defendant's Counrrl was obviously to screen his
client from exposure. It having been determined to
proceed, Mr. FaKBIII,IELD said, he attended on the
part of the Bank, in support of the information
against the defendant ; and he begged it to be under-
stood, that they were not actuated-by vindictive mo-
tives, nor was it on any account of their own that
they had instituted the present proceedings. The only
object the Bank had in view was the protection of the
public, and although the defendant had incurred
penalties amounting to £970, they would be satis-
fied, and their object as well answered by a single
conviction, and a penalty of one shilling. In the
17th of the present reign it was thought recessary to
pass an Act for the protection of the public against
frauds practised in the coal trade. This Act required
that coals should be sold only in the regular coal-
market, and the venders were snhject to a penalty of
£lOO should they refuse to sell them to any indivi-
dual wishing to purchase. In order to insure legal
measure, the Vender was obliged, before the coals
were conveyed away, to farni,h a ticket from the
Meter, certifying, that he had measured them. Next,
as to the quality of the coals—for the protection of
those who chose to have them of a superior quality,
for there was a variation in the value of from Sg'. to
10s. per chaldron, the following regulations were
laid down:—First, the Fitter" at the place where a
vessel took in her cargo, was required to furnish to
the Captain a certificate of the quality of the coals
with which the ship was freighted. This certificate, on '
the arrival of the vessel at the place of discharging
her cargo, was given to the Meter, and the latter was
bound to furnish another certificate, stating into what
barge or barges the cargo was discharged, and to
what wharf they were conveyed. Thus the chain
was carried from the very mine which produced the
coals to the \Tender. In order to continue the chain
even to the purchaser, the Vender was compelled to
give a certificate that the coals served to the custo-
mer were the same in quality as those ordered. This
certificate was to be countersigned by a Meter. Thus,
unless improper means were resorted to, it would be
impossible that the public could be unfairly served.
He (Mr. Freshfield) would shew that improper means
had been adopted to evade' these. regulations. He
-should prove that tickets had been furnished by the

defendant, in which wac the name of an individual
who never existed as a Coal Meter. It could also be
proved that the tickets thus furnished were surrepti-
tiously obtained, and that they came without the
Meter's countersign. Mr. Freshfield went on to state,
I,h' at the coals served by the defendant were deficient
[both in quantity and quality : when Mr. ANDREWS
observed, that it was unfair to state circumstances of
aggravation which could not be borne out by evi-
dence. The Magistrate thought Mr. Freshfield jus-,
tified in stating any facts connected with the case in
his opening, although he should not afterwards choose
to substantiate them in evidence. Mr. Fattattriatb
again disclaimed any vindictive motives on the part
of the Bank towards Mr. Johnson, and said their only
object was the protection of the public. If the de-
fendant could prove that the omissions had arisen
from mistake, or even negligence, he Mr. Freshfield)
would be happy to withdraw the informations, as by
vtch an admission the ends of justice would be per-
fectly answered. Mr. Andrews having intimated
that the defendant would plead guilty, Mr. Fresh-
field field abstained from calling witnesses, and the de-
fendant was fined 10s. on each information, the whole
amounting to D 25. Mr. Andrews expressed his client
satisfied. Mr. F:eshfield said, that a moiety being
the property of the informer, he should thank the
Magistrate to order half of that moiety to the Spital-
fields poor, and the other half to the Society for Re-
lief of Small Debtors, which was ordered.
M ntao ito STREET.—Ekanurlirpu was claw-
ged with murder, in causing the death of a girl,
named Dugan, between five and six ears old, by
spirituous liquors. The prisoner lodged in the same
house with the mother of the child, and on Monday
morning, during, the absence of the mother, the for-
ma-, who is much addicted to drinking, took the
child out with her to St. Giles's. She acknowledged
that she had given her taco glassn of gin and aglass
of peppermint, besides which, she rook part of two'
pots of porter. On the child being brought home,'
she fell into a sound sleep, which was succeeded by
fits in the evening that caused her death. The con-
fession of the prisoner was corroborated by the land-
lord in St. Giles's where the first glass of gin was
had: He proved that he served the gin, and he saw
the prisoner give it to the child: he supposed that
she only meant the girl to taste it; but she emptied
the glass. The evidence of a surgeon went to prove
that the child died by excessive thinking.—The Frime
soner was remanded.
UNION Hata..—Yesterday I. heron and .1 Owes,
part of the Surrey gang, and Harriet Oliver and
Harriet 11Wcot, their cher mules, were brought up for
examination. A pearl necklace and a pair of ear-
rings, found at the lodgings of the females, were
identified by Miss Hull, as having been stolen from ,
her father's house. Several handkerchiefs on Oliver
and Wilcot were identified as having been stolen from
the house of a merchant at Camberwell. Another
Gentleman, whose house had lately been plundered,
took one of the handkerchiefs thea stolen from the
neck of Iveson. Miss Wilkinson, of Burdett-street.
Walworth, identified lveson as the man who at-
tempted to get in at her chamber-window on the first
Boor; but she jumped out of bed, and, giving an'
alarm, he escaped.—They were remanded.
The pickpockets of the Metropolis and its environs
made a pretty good harvest on Monday afternoon,
duffing Mr. Usiten s duck and cat expedition. Up.
wards of fifty informations of robberies were ymter-,
day laid before the Magistrate at this Office.
Wonsme-smear.— Yesterday .1. Fuller was
charged with killing J. Wakely. It appeared that
the deceased had been a pugilistic baker, and had
fought some prize battles. The prisoner is also a
baler, recently come from -Norfolk. They were
drinking at the White Lion, in Norton Falgate, in
humour, until the deceased got in his cups, and then
began to rail against Norfolk men, satins, he could
beat any ID= in Norfolk, or any baker in London.
They fought in consequence, and the deceased was
several times knocked down, till at last he rose no
more. A surgeon, who examined the body, proved
that two ribs were broken, and that there had been
a disease of the heart, which was rapidly healing, and
could not have caused death. The persons who saw
the fight considered it a fair one.—The prisoner was
remanded until the result of the Coroner's Jury.—
An 111g:test was held on the deceased's body last
night, anti returned a verdict of Manslaughter against
the prisoner and his uncle, the latter being present'
during the fight.
A ROBBER Sifor.—About one o'clock on Saturday
morning last, two fellows entered the rack-hill of
Messrs. WATHEN and Co. at Woodchester, Gloucee:
tershire, and whilst taking a piece of cloth out of the
rack', the guard of the premises called to them to
surrender, when they ran off; on which he fired at
the person carrying the cloth, and, it is supposed,
wounded him, as he exclaimed-a-A. Lord barn mercy
on me r and blood was found on the spot, and traced
to Woodchester. They nevertheless escaped, as the
guard was thrown down by a curd which they had
previously made fast across the road, for the purpose
of intercepting any who might follow them.

Where an assemblage of talent and experience is
concentrated in one line of practice, a success must
attend their application, not to be found elsewhere.
This has been, evinced in the Establishment of the
Medical Board at Charlotte-House, Blackfriars-road,
and at Woodstock-House, Woodstock-street, Oxford-
street, where cures are every day performed in cases
which have baffled the skill of eminent professors,
and excited their astonishment.--The Medical Board
have particularly attended to tilase consequences of a
certain disease, which entails the most distressing de-
bilities, and unhinges the constitution of both sexes.
They also remove the effects of those symptoms aris-
ing from juvenile indiscretion, from irregular living ,
and from a long residence in warm climates—of this
description they beg particularly to notice obstinate
eruptions in the skin, sore throat, pains in the head and
limbs, frequently mistaken for rheumatism, strictures,
fistulas, scrophula, &c.—Messrs. COOPER and Co.
after forty years practice in various Hospitals, are
consulted at Woodstock-street, Oxford-street, daily,
from eight till eight; and at the Medical Board,
Charlotte-House, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-
road, precisely from twelve until eight in the evening.
—Mechanics, and persons of moderate income, have
advice, gratis, if they attend at certain hours, namely,
'Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday mornings, until one
o'clock, and from six to eight every evpning.
LT A aide door, and private rooms for fomalt.