Star.
London, England, 1820-05-25 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIOYS.

Yesterday, Samuel Davenport was indicted In: ern.
bezzling £47. I2s. the property of his master, Bell-
jamin Whitaker.
The prosecutor is a Solicitor, and the prisoner was,
at the time of the robbery, a clerk in his employ-
ment. In the month of September last the prosecu-
tor had occasion to leave town -and during the pe-
riod of his absence the prisoner received from Mr.
Poundle, another Solicitor, the sum reerit:oned in
the indictment, being the amont.t of a bid of cn•.ts in
an action, w Lich had been decided in favour of a
client of Mr. Whitaker. • Upon the return of the pre-
. secutor to town. he found that his de: k had 4-
sconded, and heard nothing of him until the
March, when he was apprehended and committee
No defetsce was made by the prisoner, and the jury
found a verdict—Guilty.
The Commos; SERJEA NT then, after an approprfat
admonition, sentenced the pi i.orler to fourteen years.
transportation.
George Pelld was convicted capitally for stealirg,
in the dwelling--house of James Francis, a glass c see.
containing pocket-books, pencil-cases, and other
ticks. Some witnesses gave the prisoner a geed
character, and, in consecpence, he was recommended
to mercy both by the Jury an.f prosecutor.
John Johnstone, a boy of tender age, and More
Downes, a woman of ahout the age of forty, were st:-
verally indicted, the oae.tor stealing a scarf, belong.
mg to Mr. Baker, of F.:1: am, and the latter for re-
ceiving, it, well-knowing it to T)e stolen property.
The principal evid,:nce in this case was that of the
sister to the 1:1.1. 6!:e had herself stclen the tcarf, at
I the instr anon cf her, 'o-other, the latter stood
sy_;:r. The girl, while deli.:ciing her testimony,
cs very much, so as to b-.;- ~casctiy able to spe,:k,
and seemed much aticcwd by the unfortun.,te
situation of her. little brother. The scarf was fourd
by a constable in thl possession of the female pri-
soner, who keeps a shop for all kinds of linen and
woollen stuffs. It was inime.iately given up. The
Lcarf was worth ES, and she gave 6s. for it.
The male prisoner said nothing in his defence. The
female prisoner professed her innocence. At the tine
the scarf was brought to her, she took it because the
parents of the boy who brought it were in very, great
di stress.

To the character of Mary Downes some wi:nesses
were called, and proved her hoilesty and iespect..!,i-
lity. Mr. Smith, a coachmaker, of Cleikenweil;
Mrs. Maynard, a shopkeeper, of Hammersmith, and
others, had known the prisoner well. She had once
fired in the family of the Duke of Kent.
The (lummox SERJEANT said, in summing up,
that, tlivu,:gh defect of evidence, the charge against
the lad was reduced to a clergyable 'oance, and
therefore, in the event of a conviction, his life would
not be and ingered. This was, pethaps, a fortu-
nate circunistance, considerieg the tender age of the
prisoner.

The Jury fodnd a verdict of Guilty against John-
stone and acquitted the female prisoner. The Jury
wished the lad to be huminely disposed of, either in
the Penitentiary, or some other such place.
The prosecutor, being questioned by the COMMON
S%P.JCANT to the character of the lad, said that he
was a very bad boy, and that there was scarcely a
shop in the place which had not been robbed by him.
The COMMON SELIJEANT.—Then he must be sent
cut of the country.
The Jury wished that the unfortunate girl who
had given her testimony should be dLposed of in
some manner.

The COMMON SER:EANT observed, that the girl
had discharged her duty to the Public, and that she
was now out of the hands cf the Court. •

Mr. Sheriff RoTivittr, here observed, that he had
made application for her to be recLivcd into ti:e Re-
fuge for the Destitute; he hoped he sliould Succeed
in this endeavour.

Mary Downes stood again indicted for receiving a
pair of breeches, knowing them to be stolen. tile
was, however, again acquitted.
The following were also acquitted M. Cotton, J.
Austin, Elizabeth Wright, and Ann Linnell.

An extensive burglary was committed on the
premises of Mrs. BALDY, in James's-square.
Margate, on the night of Thursday last or Friday
morning. It is not ascertained in what way the
entrance into the Louse was effected, nor does any
suspicion, at present, attach to any individual. It
would appear that the villains w ere perfectly well
acquainted with the Fremises, as every room in the
house was visited, wirh the exception of those which
were tenanted. All the plate, a watch, and money
from three different places, has been missed ; some
plated goods were left, after an evident examination.
Three wax candles were hBlited; and so deliberate
were the operations of the parties concerned, that
they even emptied a decanter of wine, which they
met with in the cou:se of their depredations.

May i, Sir Wtn. Newry Clerke, Bart. to Mary Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of G. W. li2ndlizh, Esq. o' Mertyn, Flintshlne.
Thursday, at Norwich, 'Mr. Itlbinson Cruso, wine and spirit
merchant, to Miss Cur:is, daughter of the late Mr. W. Curtis,
brewer, of Lynn.

DIED.
On the 3d January, wL:n on her passafte from Calcutta to
Anjengo, in the 27th year of :aer ace, Amelia, wife of &Linz.
B. B. l'alby, of the 7th liei!ment ol 2.l..dras infantry.
At 'Trincomalee, on the 6th rf October, Caroline Godsalve,
the infant daughter, and on the 20th November, aged two yeas
and seveil months, Thomas Montague Wharton, the only sur-
viving child of lA.titenant itty:Ves, of the 73d Regiment.
March 25, at T0i3.40, in •!.le Wept-Luties, Liciltcuant Isaac
Baer, or King's own Rei;im.:itt, and seventh son of Mr.
Beer, of Canterbury.
At Dlegn, Va!!ey, Trinidad, on the 234 of Januarv,
after a pittful and Engerng illness, Robert Davidson, late sur-
geon in Paisle;r, in the tl.'7th you of his age.

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