Star.
London, England, 1803-12-05 00:00:00

Qui- Bitur.

Friday Meet prifonets were tried, one of whom.
Mabydab Spalding, WAS capitally convielcd of an un-
natural crime, the particulate of which we decline
hying before our leaders.
Ekren were conviaed of feliny, viz.

EL.caltill Boot, for Healing three guineas and' a
liven Q,illing piece, the pri:perty c.f. Henry Jollifaint.
TGe prolocutor was walking along James.alreet,
Covent Garden. when the priloner, in company with
other females. accolled him. Having entered into
converfation with them, the prifoner requeileJ th t
he would 'attend her to her 11,nne ; at the fame mo-
ment the took from his breeches pocket the pro.
petty fpecitled in the iittli3ment. The profecutur
feized her hand and alarmed the watch, to whom he
gave her in charge. The prifoner, prior to her being
taken to the watch houfe called on one of the females
to take her pattens ; the female not being aware of
the feheme, took her patient, aid in the interim the
money dropped out of them on the pavement, trrbee
the profecutor picked part of it up, as did the watch.
man the remainder.
The watchman corroborated this evidence.

Wm. Broadji'wk, for felonioufly flooding leveed
yards of bed furniture, and other articles, the pro..
petty of J. Watfon. The profecutcr lefts feveral
furnifhed houfes to families arriving in town : as he
was going pail the door of one of the latter defcrip.
tion, limited in Gent ge.lireet, Welmintter, thee
unoccupied, he obferved the rifoner and a boy
come out of the palLige ; conceiving him to be a fa-
picious perfon, Mr. Wstfon demanded where he haJ
been ? he aufwered, to fee his friends, and endeavour*
rd to run by, but was prevented by Mr. Watfon, who
knew there was no perfon it. the houfe at the time,
and confequently the afferion to be falfe ; he there.
fore cried, flop thief. Several perfons came to his
aflillanee, and the ricotter was taken into cntody.—.
On examining the &safe the bed furniture was pack.
ed up in a bundle, and placed in the paffage leading
to the Greet door; a number of other valuabk
moveables were in a fimilar lituatinn, and a dark
',inshore and an iron crow were lying near. The
evidence having proved the above fads, Mr. Janice
Gaols explained to the Jury, that the intent on the
part of thelsrifoner if roved, to commit the rob-
bery, was as criminal as if he had taken away the
property—Verdict, Guilty.
' Eleanor Chard, for feloniooar Ratting two cot*
ton gowns, and other armlet, the property of Sarah
Hewen.

The profecntrix Rated, that the was a lace west.
ver, reeding in Henry-(trees, Old-firer, where tbis
prifoner came to her houfe, in the greatefi dillrefsb
begging for relief. Witnefs, from motives of hu•
inanity, took her in doors, and kept her for a conti.
derable time, fupplying her wants in the moll liberal
manner.

The prifoner urged in defence, that the bad been
deferted by her hufband, left deftitute, and had been
guilty of the offence more from want than dithonefty.
Elicabeti, Bradjrd, junior, for flealing two monis
frocks, and other articles of wearing apparel, laid to
be the property of Mr. Ford.
It appeared from the evidence of the Profeeutor,
that he lived at No. a. Chequer-alley, Whitecrofes ,
street; that on the tyth October, he hired the Pri.
loner, a very young girl, as a fervant, it being
agreed that the fhould go home every night to hot
mother's. She continued with him until the night
of the sad of OCtober. after which the did not re-
turn. He had not, however, any fufpicion of her
having robbed him until the 13th of November,
when his wife miffed Cenral articles. On this be
went to the place where the mother bad informed
him that the lived, but no filch perfon was to be
found. He then took an officer, and went to St.
Luke's School, where he had heard the girl fay the
was brought up ; but he found that equally untrue.
Upon his defcribing the gill; the Officer thought he
knew fuch a one, and taking the Profecutor to the
houfe, they found the mother, and the girl loon af-
ter came in : in this woman's apartments they
vend fifteen pawnbroker's duplicates in a cupboard,
whereupon they took the girl with them to the
pawnbroker's Chop, but it turned out that not one of the
articles fo pledged belonged to the Profecutor; they
were then proceeding to another (hop, when the girl
acknowledged to the Officer, that the had pawned
Mr. Ford's property at the one they had juft been at,
but that the had burnt the duplicates: on going
back the particularized the articles, and they were
immediately produced.
In her defence the bid her mailer bad promifed
not to hurt her if the told what (be bad done with
the things, but this he pofitively denied.
A queftion was fluted by the Counfel (though
there did not appear to have been any employed for
the Prifoner) whether the frocks fhould not have
been laid to be the property of the child but which
Mr. Baron Ga amass was decidedly again*, and Lord
A , to thew its abfurdity, obferved that if
Inch was admitted to be the cafe, a parent would be
liable to as affion of trover, if after one child (bould
have out-grown its clothes he should make ufe of
them for another.—He admitted that if the parent or
any relation had given a boy a watch, for inflame,
why then he would have a right in that property,
but this could not apply to the wearing apparel of
infants.

The Gas being fo clearly made oat, the Jury rand
her Gsilty, when the Profeastor begged from bar
youth to remanineed her to mercy
y'rri..cestori, for ilealing a pocket book, the pro-
perty of . Adams.
?haat, for Reeling a piece of bacon, the pro.
petty of D. Reardon.
And three were acquitted, among whom,
jwilait, and Matz. Dewy were indided foe
Reeling two fur tippets, the property of Mars Myers
and Cook, Fetter.lane.
The prifoner. Jordan, was a porter at the ware.
houfe of the profecntors, and cohabited with the pee.
loner Denny, who is a milk woman, and who offered
the goods in quellion for tale. There being no proof
of the prifooer. Jordan, ever having Role them, and
that Denny bad ever been at the wuehuufe, they
were acquitted.
The trial of George Smith, a Lieutenant Inleer
mg to the 3d Lincoln Militia. and who Asada in.
dined on three different charges for forgery._is
(erred until the neat feffions, on account of ‘ll6 GIN
huge of a material witacfs.

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