Star.
London, England, 1818-02-24 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sir P. MORDAUNT presented a Petition from the Guar
dians and Overseers of the Poor of Birmingham, stating the
alarming increase of the Poor Rates in that Town, and praying
thatthe House would take the subject into immediate and serious
consideration.' Referred to the Committee on the Poor Laws.
Sir WILLIAM BURROUGHS gave notice that on Wed-
nesday he would move for a Return of the Number of Persons
that had been apprehended for Treason, and on Suspicion of
Treason • as also when they had been committed, and when
discharged.
Mr. Sheriff DISANCIES presented at the Bar of the House the
Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the
City of London, in Common Council assembled, against the
proposed Bill for Indemnifying Ministers from the consequences
of the mode in which they had put in force the Act of last Ses-
sion for Suspending the Habeas Corpus. Ordered to be printed.
On the Motion of Sir WILLIAM CURTIS a statement was
ordered to be laid before the House of the money paid by the
Chamberlain of the City of London, on account of the several
Jails in the said City, for the two years ending Christmas, 1817,
distinguishing the money paid on account of each jail.
On the Motion of Mr. BOSWELL an Account was ordered
to be laid before the House of the Fees now payable at the
Royal College of Surgeons in London, by Members taking out
their Certificates; as were also similar accounts with reference
to the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh, and the Royal
College of Surgeons at Dublin.
Mr. COURTENAY postponed the second reading of the
Surgery Bill to Friday.
Sir FRANCIS BURDEtT presenteli several Petitions front
Warwick and other places, praying for inquiry into the practices
of Spies and Informers. The Honourable Baronet said Mat he
would have given notice of a Motion to inquire into*thisinfa
mous system, hut that notice had been already given for thispyr-
, pose by an Honourable Friend of his (Mr. Pnifip9.
The Committee of Supply WAS postponed till Wedrieerla7.
A few *sum bailee eiglst o'clock the Howe adjoUrnild till
to-nip:arm

IMPOItrAND INQUIRY.

Mr. Alderman *Poop, to whom carious complaints
had been made since his return front France, upon
the subject of the state of Newgate, thought it ne-
cessary, after an. examination of that prison, to move
in the House of Commons .for a Committee to in-
quire into the causes of complaint. The Committee
was appointed, and Alderman WOOD elected Chair-
man. On the first day of inquiry, which was Thursday
last, the Committee were proceeding. to investigate,
and had already seen enough to convince them of the
very pressing necessity of making alterations in the
several passages and wards, when a prisoner named'
Lucas, upon whom sentence of death was some time
ago passed, but whose judgment was lately respited,
suddenly addressed Mr. Alderman WOOD, and begged
that he would attend to a recital which affected the
lives of Spicer and Kelly, the two boys who were in
the ground cells for execution fer passing forged
notes. Mr. Alderman Wools listened with the utmost
attention to the declaration. of Lucas, who said he
had been informed by a man named Parsons, the ne-
phew of a police officer, that there had been a plan
between that Officer and a wretch mimed Finney,
against the two boys; and that the bait had taken, for
the boys were condemned, and wOuldhe executed.
Mr. Alderman Wools immediately sent an officer
for Parsons, and having ebmmunicated to the Com-
mittee the information he had received from Lucas, h
determinatibn was made to efamhae into the particu-•
lars of the ttlansaction.'
'The first person examined was the convict Kelly.
He said that he became acquainted with a man named
Finney, about three or four months before he was
apprehended. At their first acquaintance, Finney
was a costerrnonger ; and Kelly being out of em-
ployment, was taken into sekvicaby him. They were
not long together when Finney told him he knew a
good way of getting money ; Kelly asked in what.
manner ? and' was answered, " By passing queer
notes." He consented to join in the plan, and Finney
Enrchased clothes to fit him out for the business, in
Field-lane. As soon as he was dressed decently (his
former clothes were in tatters, for he had been in ex-
treme distress), Finney gave him bad pound notes,
one at a time, to pass in different, shops. He suc-
ceeded in getting off a great many, and then Finney.
proposed that he should try notes of greater nomi-
nal value. It was the practice of Finney to wait out-
side each shop, when Kelly went in, and he exercised
the utmost caution. by never putting into the boy's
hand more than one note at a time. ••
When Kelly consented to try large. notes, Finney
proceeded to make new arrangements. Ile proposed
a plasterer's jacket and apparatus, having expressed
his opinion that such a dress would be a good secu-
rity against suspicion ; he also gave him the names
Of several persons with whom he had worked as a
plasterer himself some time ago. He brought the
plasterer's jacket of flannel, a white apron, and a pa-
per cap,' and put them upon Kell?. 'These articles
of dress were all splashed with whitening, as if the
wearer had been at work. In this trim, Kelly, ac-
companied by Fumej, his director, went out to page
the large notes. Finney shewed him three 'new 101.
notes, wrote names upon them, and rubbed them to-
Igether, to make them appear dirty, and as if they had
been in circulation for some time. The first place
they went to, upon this mere ITOMME plihr
Chenies-street, Bedford-square, where Pinney gave
him one of the 10/. notes, pointed out the 'house of a
large plasterer, with whom he said he had fbrmerly
worked, gave Kelly the name of the fOiemaii, which
he . desired him to use in passing-the note as. the`
business Wat managed by the foreman. The first
place he tried was the house of Mr. Bousall, a
publican, where he passed a ten pound note.—
In the same manner he passed another 101. at a pub-
lic:house, at the corner of a street in TottenhaM-
cOurt-road ; and another •he got changed at a Mr.
Taylor's, -a baker,, in the same road, Where Finney
said the plasterer dealt. :He gave Finney all the
money he got in change, and received from him the
reward of 2/. or 31. The practice was kept up for
some time, Finney always remaining outside the
door with a top coat, which he put upon Kelly, that
those whom he had 'deceived might not know him.
Kelly saw Finney talking-to the Officer above alluded
to the day before he and Spicer were apprehended,
and the Officer eyed them most closely. The impres-
sion upon Kelly's mind was, that Finney was talking
to the Officer about them. On the evening Kelly and
Spicer were apprehended, Spicer had been just enlisted
in the business, and never before that night was con-
cerned with them. Finney had 'obtained Spicer's
consent to pass the, notes, and desired that boy and
Kelly to go to Kelly's lodgings, while he went to
get some tea. After a delay of half an hour, Fin-
ney came to them, and they all went out together.—
Kelly was in the lasterer's dress, and Finney took off
Kelly's hat when they came near the butcher's in St.
Martin's-lane, and putting the paper cap upon him,
told him to go into the butcher's shop, use the name
of Mr. Creese, of Long-acre, and get change of a .5/.
note.. Kelly went into the shop, leaving Spicer and
Finney outside. He got change of the note, and on
corning out gave the five one pound notes he got in
change to Finney, who passed them into Spicer's
hand. They walked along as far as King-street,
Seven Dials, when the officer came behind Kelly, wko
was walking by •the side of Finney, and seized him,
calling at the same time to another Officer who ac-
companied him, to "go forward and nipper him,"
pointing to Spicer. Spicer was apprehended ; he and
Kelly were dragged into a shop, while Finney was
allowed to look on and walk off.
Spicer, the other convict, said* henlet Finney at a
-public house. He never went out with him until that
night, andhad accompanied Finney at his earnest re-
quest. While Kelly was in the butcher's shop, Finney
ran across the way for a moment, and after saying a
few words to somebody returned.
' The Committee having learned that Parsons was
in waiting, ordered him in. He stated, that he had
seen Finney and the Officers alluded to frequently to-
gether and suspected that something wrong was be-
tween Iliem;fortie could not conceive what inference
but a bad one, could be drawn from an intimacy be-
.weal a thief and an Officer. Finney breakfasted
with the Officer the day after the apprehension of the
boys, and had been out in a chaise together. Par-
sons mentioned this circumstance to a man, whose
name he did not know to be Lucas, but upon being
.confronted with Lucas, he immediately recognized
him as the person to whom he made the observation.

—The Committee, ttpon hearing all these tircdttt•
stances, sent a deputation to Lord SIDUOUTH, re
questing that the sentence of the law, which Was ap.
pointed to be put
,into execution to-morrow, should
be deferred, and stating as a ground fur the request,
that they had. reason to suppose from recent facts,
that Spicer and Kelly had been led to commit the
crime of which they were convicted, by villains of
much deeper depravity, and that it was the first crime
of Spicer.
The reply from Lord Stnmovut was, We are given
to understand, that the case had undergone the con,
sideration of the Council, who were of opinion that
the sentence of the law should be putt in force.
The Committee proceeded yesterday farther in the
investigation. A number of the friends of the Me:n•
bens were asseMbled, amongst whom we observed
Sir ROBERT WILSON, Mr. lioanousa, &c. .

, .
Mr. HAIIME!t, the Solicitor, had attended on the
first day, at the request of Mr. Alderrnaiffooe, and
was employed yesterday most busily in the 'investi-
gation. He suggested that the women who were
the usual companions of Finney and Kelly, should
be. brought to Newgate.-It was done with the
greatest dispatch. .
Emma Connor, who was questioned most particu-
larly by Mr. Bennet, said she lived- with Charles
Finney.; she knew he was in the habit 'of getting
forged notes for Kelly to pass. Finney told her he
was in company with Spicer and Kelly when they
were apprehended. Finney, and i girl named Rus-
sell, and herself, were taken up as disorderly, three
weeks before Kelly and Spicer were apprehended,
and taken to the watch-house in, Strand-lane, by one
John 'Bean, and -the next day, when they went to
Bow-street, the Officer before alluded to • spoke to
Bean not to say * any thing 'against Finney. Bean
complied; and Finney was discharged. Emma Con-
nor and RtisSell.Vere -ordered to find bail. Crin-
nor -learned from Finney that he had procured the
plasterer's dress from his father for Kelly to wear
as a disguise in passing forged Bank of England notes
-Three days after Kelly arid Spicer were appre.
hended, Pinney went and spent the evening with the
Officer at a public-house, where he remained until
the house was shut up, as he told her ; and when he
came home, he said he had seme expectation of bee
ing made an Officer. • Finney also, told her he had
the notes from a min named Scott, in the City•roade •
After Kellr and-Spicer were in custody, Finney fold
her hereeszt to lGelly's lodgings, and took from be-
.hind a glass the forged notes he had placed there.-&
He gave her one of them for 51., and, she was takes .
into cutody for passing it. . •
Kitty Connolly said she lived with Kelly. Me, •
Spicer, and Finney, were at the lodgings the night
of the apprehension of -the two former ; Finney left
the lodgings at the same time, declaring that they
would soon return. Finney returned in half an hour,
and said his two companions had been apprehended
for passing aV. note. ' He took Kelly's watch add'
some money, and also some forged notes, which were
behind the glass. . • .-
Israel Chapman, a convict, saw Kelly and Spicer
at the 'Ct-iiini. Hart,• He saw Finney with them the .
ni,glif O* were apprehended. He heard Finney tell
Kelly 'and Spicer to go to Kelly's lodging, and after
he had mketrtra -he Would join them. He had fre- ...
Wentl7 sego Kelly and Finney together, and knew.
item Ow conversation that took place between them,
that Disney had forged notes for-Kelly to pass,.
Chapman also said he twice saw the officer alluded fo
tiding in a chaise With Finney, and upon asking harp
ivbythe sventebtst•with such fellow ? was answered
that there wore reasons for it.
11-,. Braidley.thefrosecutor, said; that the officer •
had mentioned
..te hith, that he got SOL from the
Bank, as a compensation for his trouble; and thae.lie-
,had given part of it to the person who gaire hilif ifie
information. -. ' -- ' .. 1-. , ......
. The Officer acknowledged that he had received
his information from Finney, and that,he.had asso-
.ciated with that person before and after the appre-
hension of Spicer and Kelly. '
..., ' .. '
Finney did not make"his appearance. -
The Committee sent a second Depdtation totoe'd
Sinsiotrrir, to press the necessity of granting a respite-.7
upon these strong grounds ;.and last night a respite
for a week was granted for Spicer and Kelly. , ~,
It would appear thICTIZITT,ickets and Shares ht
the present Lottery, are travelling after the Prizes he
sold in the last ; for not only is the. demand at tits
Offices in London great; beyond all precedent, btft
his Agents throughout theKingdoni are equally busy.
'The Lottery will begin drawing on Wednesday,. thili
4th of next Month, on which day nearly 5,000 Tickets
will be drawn, each Number deciding its own fate,
and no other. By the arrangement made, ten Capi-
tals out of the one hundred, Which 'the Scheme con-,
tains, must be drawn in the first teri minutes, exeln-'
sive of what the chance of the Wheel may effertesrs
bring forth. This naturally accounts for the eager-
ness of adventurers to make their purchases before the
drawing commences, lest the whple of the Three
Prizes of £3.0;006 should be drawn- the First Day.
The very great satisfaction. the plan adopted in for-.
mer Lotteries gave to personi residing in the Country,,
has induced T. BosH, the Contractor, tot repeat ifiii
the present; and he hopes he has,.as in a recent Lot
tery, selected some of the Capitals amongst these
numbers advertised._Tll6under-mentionedisimbeis
may be had either in Whole Tickets, lialves,'Quiir-
ters, Eighths, or Sixteenths, at No. 4., Cornhill t •
1,2,109 10,212. 1V;088 7,412 21820
'17,..53. 6,826, 11;488 5,121 17,251 " -
11,486. 46,083 16,057 2,818 51,125
13,200 13,232. 10,185 8,323 • 2,757
11,456 10,213 15,074 114e2 3,110
The following 'timbers may e had either in -whole
Ticketi, Halves, Ata4iters, Eighths, or Sixteenths; ar
No. 0, Charing-Cross:
" 10,214 12,321 11,490 4,608 .13,553
13,234 10,215 4,511 11,123' 7,415
' 16,089 17,231 3,002 13,571 8,285
17,204 16,090 10,130 2me. 3,131
15,071 13,235 11,459 3,122 2,816
The present Lottery contains Three rrizes of ieSO,OC.O
-One Hundred Capitals-all Sterling
.Meirey-nf
Stock Prizes-no Classes--no re.draw. - 'III(
Drawing commences Wednesday, the4th oft MARK,
Ticket - - . £l9 10.0_ -
Half - £lO 9 0 I Eighth -
.411,13 6
Quarter 5 5 0 1 SiAteenth 1 7' Q
s„,* Letters (postpaid) containing Ban-hofes, or
• Post-Office Orders, duly attendettte: -
The last Lottery that contained ThreePltzes .c 1
£30,000, Btsii sold them all ! and 'last Lottery 4,
sold Three Prizes of 1:-.5),000, .111 in Sh.tres.