Star.
London, England, 1803-04-16 00:00:00

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CMI.DIIAI I WESTMINs ft R. it.
Xx.m./..:- oel/ was indiaed for I.liv
firm the perfon of one Adam Ilinir,ev, a poc•
ket handkeichid. The profecii:,l Iwt.n
to t!,.: lois of his hanciketcl.icf in Cnv •r !idea,
on the t,th 4,1 May fall; he did ort t!.e
per take i', but a witnefs, of tlic tiani:: 0:- Timm,is
Frine, fwore that 11,- taw him out
of the prolecutor'i pocket. lie imtrc,!•.Rely
iu-
},rlrnrd Mr. Huntley of the circutiillance. and Mr.
Illinticy proceeded in ririljt of him i to, k Lim.
Upon his arpi clic:Winn lie drew a tbreaten-
ing to :dr.t,i his pnrliurs, if they did 1:.,t lit lam
6:ape, but he did not venture to life it ; the fats
of the cafe were too plain to admit of the leaft de
Free of doubt, arid the Jury, without hefitation,
Lois!, him Guilty.
The Court fentenced him to tranfportation for
fzve I year:.
Immediately after the Chairman had pronnunc
ed kiitence, the prirom.:r most audacioutly pulled
mmething from his pocket. which appeared to hi:
a to!ltccii Ilooper, and threw it at the Jury, and
at the lame time made a blow at the head of the
keeper of Tothiidfields Bridcwell, and infolently
addteiling the Court and the Jury, faid they might
all he damned together, fince they had done their
worll.—He was ordered :" a place of fecutity,
where he will have ample time for refleaion.
Tkomar itVir, was int-lifted for obtaining, by
, falfe pretences, a leg of mutton from James Gray,
a butcher. It appeared that the prifoner wept in
the name of Mrs. Ann Ellis, the matron of the
work imufe of the united parifhes of S. Giles and
St. George, Bloomibury, and laying that file bad
fent him, the profecutor delivered it to him with-
out the fmallefl fulpicion. It however turned out
that Mrs. Ellis never had givenhim anydireaionsto
obtain the article from the profecutor, and conk.
quently that he could only have been aftuated by
a fraudulent principle, and an intention to convert
the leg of mutton, he had fo furreptitionfly ob
tamed, to the inordinate gratification of his own
appetite. It was fisted by Mrs; Ellis, that the pri.
Auer had brit come into the work houfe in a (tate
of ill health, but that he loon recovered, and en-
deavoured to make himfelfufeful in every way he
poflibly could. Till this affair he bad borne an
extreme good charader. He was-a very clever
man, and had acquitted himfelf, while in the
work houfe, much to her fatisfaelion; he had not
left the work houfe above a week before this unfor-
tunate tranfadion took place. It was with regret
The was obliged to appear againfl him—for a man
more unlikely to commit filch an aCtion fhe hard-
ly ever knew.
The prifoner, who was really a young man of
poticularly decent appearance, was called upon
for his defence. He at once admitted it, but he
faid that the profecutor had delivered him a bill
for the leg of mutton, in which he had charged at
the rate of two-pence a pound more, than by his
contra& with the patilh he was entitled to. This
bill the profecutor had contrived to get deftroyed,
fearful left it Mould be proved as a fa& not cre-
ditable to him. With regard to the offence for
which he was under profecution, he was compelled
to acknowledge it ; at the fame time he had com•
milted it under circum(lances of derangement;—
which not only appliedto the Rate of hisfinances, but
of his mind ; for he was at the time, not only ex-
tremely poor, but in a Rate of intoxication. This,
however, he knew was no excufe ; he laid, he had
honourably ferved his Majefty in the capacity of
Captain's clerk; on board a man of war, during
the greater part of the lag war. He had been in
feveral adionq, particularly in that of the memo-
sable ill of June, in which he had pert finally exert-
ed his courage, andhad had themisfortune tofee his
brave Captlin fall in that noble contelt. But for
that event, he would no doubt have' appear-
ed this day, and borne teßimony to his charadte ;
he thought that, as he had known Mrs. Ellis, he
might make ufe of her name in order to procure a
dinner, and he had done it with a left remorfe, as
be really meant to make reftitution. It was his
firfl offence, he had never been in his lifetime a
moment in confinement, for any crime, or fufpi.
don of one, either on lea or on land, and he fin•
cerely trolled, that this, his &ft lapfe, would be
treated with lenity by the Court. He added, that
he was perfuaded he Mould have no difficulty in
obtaining employment from feveral Captains of his
Majay's navy.
The prifoner was found Guilty, and the Court
ordered hint to be put afide, while the sneafure of
his punifhment was taken into conildtration.
.7•bn Dor/tin:tom was indided fur fraudulently
obtaining the tint of three (billings from Mrs.
Mattocks, by falfe pretences. From the evidence
of Mrs. Mattocks it appeared, th.tt her hufband
was the Reward of the York Hofpital, and that
the prifoner on the day mentioned in the indiftment
Came to her and raid, her hufband had fent him
on a metrage to ‘Vellnlinfler, and had directed her
to .y hint duet Millings far his trouble; the ac.
cordingly gave ii him without the fmalleft hefita-
tion ; but upon her hittband's coming home fhe
dircovesed that the prifi.ner's glory was a mere fa-
brica Mtn, in contequence of which lie was appre-
hended. The pri:Octr had nothing to My in his
.defence, fur the, than that he was in want of three
fbillinr, and that he 1 ad mode ufe of this decep-
tion to pt.-curs it, fit mly intending to repay it the
fiat (pont tv::;'y. He had been a foldier, and
ferred leech r r eijht wears urn the Continent,
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f:fsr.ze T.l:f.,r,fir was indi6e.l for breaking the'
wjactows r,la Mr. Denman, with intent to (teal his
goods. The profecutor flirted, he kept a thop in •
the S rand, oi:pi the the Adelphi, and that he ob•
f:rve.l the prifisner (landing at the Chop window
with tometifing in his hand; he watched him, and
pretend y after heard the glats break ; he immedi-
ate!), ran out and feil::d him, and brought him
into the (hop ; upon ferrching him a knife was
found with the point of it turned, evidently by the
operation of listening it between the glad and the
frame, in order to force the pane out. He had nu
dcs!it r-hatever as to the prifoner's having broke
the ght, defignedly, and that Isis objestl was to
have Itolen his propert v, if he had nnt been timely
inset' (lined. The pnfoner, he faid, fell on his
knees, told him it was his fira offence, and that
he had never been before any Magiftrate in Isis life
time. A Patt ale coming by, he delivered him into
his cuftody, and he was immediatelytaken to Bow-
Ilreet, where he no fooner appeased than he was
recognized as a perfon who had, not above a year,
returned from trantportation.
The pritoner in his defence, made a general
avowal of his innocence ; laid that his breaking
the gl:sfs was accidental, that he had no intention
of stealing any thing, and that upon being charged
he made no refinance, but followed the profecutor
into his hoiste.

Upon being afked whether he had any witnefics
to produce in his favour, he laid he had declined
applying to any, fearing left the affair fhould some
to the cars of his father.

It appeared by the anfwers to fome quellions put
by the Chairman, that the prifoner's father was 1
tradefinan of refpe6tability, but we (hould be ex-
tremely furry to add to his feelings by the expofure
of his profeffion and vlace of refidence.
It turned out that he knew of his fun's delin.
quency, but had not thought him del-crying of his
coming forward to fay any thing in his behalf.
The Jury pronounced the prifoncr
Ralph Martin was found guilty of Dealing a loin
of pork, and ordered to be imprifoned two n,onhs,
and privately whipped.
William Lynn was tried for Dealing the holder of
a coach (what the footman holds behind the arc
riage) belonging to the Hanoverian Minifter
The proof of the fad was fufficiently clear ; but
Mr. ALLi r, the prifoner's Connie), afked the fer-
vant what was his matter's name ? 6. He could
not tell—he was the Hanoverian Ambafilador, and
they called him the Baron." Upoa referring to
the indictment it appeared, that his Excellency's
name as there infected was of conliderahle length,
viz Chriftian Julius, Ernell, itc. hut the witnefs
confeffed he knew not whether there words form-
ed any part of the Baron's name.
The Court fufpended the trial while the witnefs
went in quell of fume perfon who could prove his
mallet's name. He returned without any proof
of that kind, but with a written paper which he
laid he had received from the Baron. The name
of his Excellency, as written in this paper, we un•
derfland, differed from that in the indictment. In
confequence of the informality in the proof, how.
ever, the prifoner was acquitted.
George Evam was in.lieted for Dealing a muff,
the property of Mifs Elizabeth Chevalier.
It appeared !hat on the t 3th of January
the prifoner and another man came into the pro-
fecutrix's (hop, No. t, Qteen Ilreet, Edgewsre-
road, and looked at fume of her goods. While the
turned round to thew them fume thing., they went
sff, and form after the miffed her muff, which (he
had teen only five minutes before the men came
into her fhop. On the fame day, the prifoner was
taken for anc.ther r frence, in a fhop in hlount.ftreet,
and the muff found in hi, poffellion.
The Jury fcund him Guilty; and the Court fen-
tenced him to fix months imprifooment.
There were a variety of other trials for petty
larcenies, but the circumflanees were of a nature
too infignificant to merit detail.
The Foreman of the Grand Jury appeared in
Court, and Rated that two indictments had been
fubmitted to them for diftinet crimes, which ap-
peared to have been committed by the fame perfon.
but the delinquent was defcribed in the two imbid
menu by different names. In one he was defcribed
by the name of Furnace, and in the other by the
name of Fumes. The Foreman of the Grand Jury
obferved, that both the charges againft this perfon
were, from what appeared before them, of fo
atrocious a nature,that it would be a deep fubjeel
of regret, if in confequence of any error in the
indiament, he (hould efeape Himfelf, and
his fallow Jurymen, had confidered that as it was
evident one of the names muff be wrong, there
was a probability that both might be fo, and they
thought it a duty they owed the public to mention
the cireumflanee to the Coon, in order that the
millake might be reelified. The charges againft
the prifoner were nothing lets than that of Dabbing
a watshman, in a way which, had he not been
Drongly clad, mull have occafioned his death ;
and alto (hiking another man with an initrument of
violence. It would be, laid the Foreman, a fource
of infinite regret to them, if, in confequence of a
mifnomer fuck a man Mould be let look to renew
his aggreffions againft the public peace.
The Chairman and Juflices highly commended
the prudence and caution of the Grand Jury, and
direeed the neceffary enquiry to be made, as to
the prifoner's real name, in order that the indict-
ments might be amended.

BIRTH.
In Coand:gb-row, Debßn, Lady St. George, of a daaghrer.