Star.
London, England, 1811-09-27 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, SEPT. St
ReSecea Reynolds was charged with stealing a straw
bonnet from a child, which, in the indictment, was
stated to be the property of its parent ; which state-
ment, the COMMON SERJEANT took occasion to ob-
serve, was inaccurate, and gave directions to the
Clerk of the Court, that in future the indictments in
such cases should charge the offenders with "stealing
from the person." The theft took place in St.
George's in the East, upon the 30th of July, when
the child being absent from home an hour and a half,
search was made for her, and she was fcund by a la-
bouring man hearing her cry out—" 0, that woman,
that woman, has stolen my bonnet !" The Jury
,found her Guilty ; and the COMMON SERJEANT ad-
dressed the prisoner, and expressed a hope that her
conviction would be a caution to others against com-
mitting.such art offence, which was of late becom-
ing too common, namely, that of decoying children
from their homes, for the purpose of robbing them
of their clOthes. It was a crime that deserved to be
very severely punished, but as the law now stood it
only amounted to seven years transportation.
Jahn Bradley was indicted for stealing two tea-
chests, value .50s. the property of John White, from
his shop ; but the capital part of the indictment was
done away by the circumstance of the shop boy hav-
ing seen him running off with them. Upon the boy's
calling out " Stop thief !" he was apprehended, and
called out for mercy. The Jury found him Guilty.
Thomas Smith and Michael Marshall, the former 34,
and the latter 35 years of age, stood charged with
stealing two geese and four ducks, value 13s. the
property of James Ford, at Islington. The prisoner
Marshall, in his defence, stated, that he had met
Smith on the toad with two bundles, one of which
he told him ha would pay him for carrying for him,
and when he agreed to do so he did not know what
it contained. 'the Jury found them both Guilty.
Robert Little was convicted of stealing a quantity of
clotheslinesfrom therope.manufactory of Messrs.Back-
ingham, rope-makers, at Pancras, in the morning of
the 26th of August. An officer who knew him to
be an old offender, stopped him, upon coming out of
a field, with the stolen goods in a large bag upon his
shoulder.
Francisco de Silva, a Portuguese sailor, was convict-
ed of stealing a jacket, a pair of stockings, and a pair
of shoes, on the 24th of August last, at Portsmouth,
from a mess-mate with whom he slept.
Hannah Cologhan, aged 44, was convicted of steal-
ing fuur silver tea-spoons, the property of Judah Pa.
riente, a merchant in Goodman's-fields.
T. Wick was convicted for stealing a shawl from the
person of,a Mrs. Taddy, is Exeter-street, Strand.
Charles Peter !Vanier, who was tried during the
present Sessions, for fraudulently absconding from an
examination of the Commissioners of Bankruptcy,
but who was acquitted from the omission of a regu-
lar notice being given to him by the clerk to the com-
mission, this day appeared at the bar, and stated that
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he could not find ili:iil (he being detained upon an- SEPT. 18.—Robert Wright and Robert Alexander, m-
other indictment charging him with fraudulently con- cased of breaking into the shop of JohnWotherspoon,
spiring to cheat his creditors), and was therefore re-
Caltonmouth, and taking therefrom £B. 12s. 6d. and
ntanded to prison. some other articles, on the 10th August, 1609. An
The following prisoners were convicted of felony :
alibi was set up by both prisoners, and they were Ac-
Robert Luckmore, alias L itimore, Ann Toulon, quitted.
James Bradford, and John Kelly. Margaret Smith alias Millar, in habit and repute a
The Sessions being ended, sentence of Death was thief, was brought to the bar, accused of having stolen
passed on D. Davies, for stealing a £lO Bank-note i from the shop of Mr. M'Farlane,nine yards of printed
out of a letter ; W. Betley, for stealing a quantity of cloth. The libel being restricted to an arbitrary pm
plate, the property of W. Rowlatt ; T. Burnham, nishment, the prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sen-
for robbing D. Green of a watch, his property • Elia. tenced to 7 years transportation.
Field, for stealing goods, the property of G.,4wkes, Sxrr. 19.—Jame: Ferguson and Idward Nadine,
privately in his shop ; Sarah Green, alias Clayton, accused of robbing Peter Gibson, master of the packet
for stealing a gold watch, the property of J. Cran-1 plying betwixt Glasgow and Stranraer.—Peter Gib-
bourn ; W. Bradford, for a burglary in the house of son, on Friday the 7th of June, between eleven and
Sarah Shepherd ; J. Johnson, for stealing the goods twelve o'clock at night, was in company, for a short
of W. Spottiswood, privately in his shop ; T. Skef- , time, with two girls, Hill and Harvey, in a house off
fington, for stealing a mare ; W. Bevan, for a bur.; the Salt Market. Harvey left him, and Hill walked
glary in the house of Mary Stratford, and stealing a 1 down the Salt Market with him, on his way to the
quantity of plate ; Mary Jones, for stealing the goods : Broomielaw, where his vessel lay. At the foot of the
of J. Thomas, privately in his shop ; J. Bond, alias Salt Market, he observed two men before him, one of 1
Smith, for a burglary in the house of J. Mackinder, ' whom pushed the other down, and a third person,
and stealing his goods ; M. Davis, for horse stealing; coming up behind, pushed him (Gibson) over the!
J. Kent, for returning from transportation; Mary fallen man. When in this situation, the whole three
King, for stealing the goods of E. Turner, in his fell upon him : and one of them, putting his hand
dwelling-house ; J. Connor, for stealing 025 in lairic- into the witness's side coat pocket, took out his pocket.
notes, the property of J. Sweepstone, in his house ; book, containing six five-pound notes, eight or ten
M. Brush, for stealing £8 in notes, the property of one-pound notes, a bill for £2B, and a memorandum
P. Collins; Jane Mills, alias Charlotte Groves, for book, with other papers of some consequence. When
stealing several articles of plate, the property of Ann he was k ocked down, Hill ran off. After this the
Brown ; and Edward Phillips, for setting fire to his whole thee set off, and he gave chace ; was half seas
dwelling-house. over, but knew the latitude he was in ;* but, seizing
1 Six were ordered to be transported for life, viz. J. upon the first person be met, who had nothing to do
Jones, A. Levy, T. Whitford, Johanna Brown, Jane with the business, he was so long detained, that he
Cockill, and T. Fogerty. lost all trace of them. Next day, he met with a girl
1
Fifty were ordered to be transported for the sof the name of Ann Kennedy, to whom he mentioned
term of Seven Years, viz. John Davis, Mary his loss, and described, as well as he could, the ap-
Thorpe, Judah Beer, William Wood, Jane Elvin, , pearance of the persons by whom he had been at-
James Butts, Eleanor Kirdy, C. Thomas, C. Par- tacked ; when she mentioned that she suspected the
sons, John Beverley, Lau. Matthews, John Long, two prisoners and one James O'Neal to have been the
Ann Kelly, Sam. Parker, Wm. Jones, Ann Norris, men. Saw Ferguson soon after in the Council Cham-
Mary Davis, John Brandon, Charles Heavry, James ber, when he had the same dress on as the person
Miller, Henry Scoon, James Thomas, Mary Lock, who took the pocket-book from him, and he thought
Eleanor Latnb, George Bassat, Thomas Forth, W. him to be the same person ; did not see Harkins till
Boler, Elizabeth Cuttleby, William White, John lately, when his dress was changed, and he is less
Williams, Edward Simpkin, M. Smith, Edward clear about him, but thinks he was one of them ; but
Crane, John Pass, H. J. Vanderberg, Mary Henna, he cannot swear positively to either of them.
Wm. Copes, William Cable, Henry Beaton, Eliza- Jean Hill, and afterwards Margaret Harvey, were
beth Deakon, Robert Luckmore, Elizabeth Yeates, brought forward as witnesses; but their evidence was
Richard_Peates, Richard Cleaver, William Winston, in every respect so unsatisfactory, that they were
John Watt, Louisa Wood, John Clipton, John Knell, committed to prison under a charge of prevarication,
and John Reynolils.:---Sarah Davis was ordered to be or peljury.
transported for 1-1 years. Ann Kennedy—knows the prisoners, and also
A great number were imprisoned for various pe- Capt. Gibson—saw him go into M'Lachlan's house,
nods in Newgate and the House of Correction; some along with Jean Hill, on a Friday night early in
were ordered to be publicly and some privately whip- June • next day, Capt. Gibson informed her, that he
ped, and many discharged by proclamation. had been robbed, that he suspected. it was by three
The Court was then adjourned to Wednesday, the persons of the name of Ferguson, Harkins, and
28th day of October next. . O'Neal ; she said she suspected them also. The wit-
ness was, next night, in company with these three in
Fairley's public-house, in the Saltmarket, when they
asked her what Capt. Gibson had been saying to her
about bis robbery; she told them that if he could get
back his pocket-book wit)) the papers in it, he did not
care for the money. Harkins said, it was a pity that
the Captain should not get back his pocket-book ;
O'Neal said, he thought the safest plan for whoever
had the book would be to burn it. In Fairley's house
they had two bottles of wine and some potter. It
was then proposed to go to the Calton; O'Neal ob-

Sittings arpointed in Middlesex and London, befot,
the Right Hon. Sir JAMES MANSFIELD, Knt. Lord
Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas
at Westminster, in and after Michaelmas Term, 1811.
1N TERM.
MIDDLESEX. LONDON.
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elliCUlf INTELLIGENCE. jetted, saying, that, after drinking wine in Glasgow
all day, he had no notion of going to drink whiskey
Goorsow,Serr.l7.—JeanLaidiewasagain brought in the Calton at night; did not see them have any
into Court, accused of the murder of her son John, a profusion of money ; O'Neal had got new clothes on,
child two years of age, by giving him laudanum on and Ferguson a new hat.
the 29th of March last, at Renfrew, where she lived. John Greer, in the Calton, recollects that the pr:.
She admitted the fact of administering the laudation' sorters and a WrM4ll whom they called Annie,"
in a small portion, but denied with any felonious iuten- came to is ho ise early on Monday morning in June
tion.—The prisoner, about two years ago, had a na- last, and knocked him up out of bed; Fcteitson gate
tural child, a fine boy, who lived with its mother, who ; him four shiilings to go out and get drink ; Narl.ins
was extremely poor, and rented an apaitment, in Ren- i afterwards fell asleep, when Ferge son poi his hand
Frew, along with four other persons, one of whom had iin Harkins' pocket, and took out some silver and
been discharged from the army, on account of the some papers; saw him count eight separate
On
of
VsTalcheren fever. This person had been greatly annoy- paper, which he suspected to bc bank notes. Har-
ed by the child crying during the night, and repeateuly kins waking. the witness told him what Papaw's
made the landlady threaten to turn the unfortunate i had done, on which he said, " that it Inside no odds."
lodger out of doors. In order to avert this catastrophe, Some witnesses were adduced to I.irguson's char
the poor woman bethought her of giving her child meter; from whose cross-examination it appeared,
laudanum, to induce sleep, and appease the clamours that he had formerly ken in Btidewell, and was Kiel,
of the sick soldier; and that she might get some work but acquitted, at last Circuit.--The July fctinsi
done. For this purpose, she applied to a person of the verdict of Not Guilty.
name of Carswell, who sold her a pennyworth of the
anodyne, and jocularly asked her, if she meant to poi-
.son any person, and was informed of the purpose for
which it was wanted. In administering the medicine,
the prisoner did not appear tobeacquainted with its fa-
tal qua! i ties, and gave it in sogreat a quan tit y,as to occa-
sion theboy to fall into a long sleep,and ultimately to pro-
duce his death. The prisoner, alarmed to findaliat he
slept so long, and could not be awakened, went, con-
siderably agitated, to consult Dr. Carswell, from whorl'
she purchased the drug, and requested him to call and
see it. He refused to go, and assured the poor woman
that her child would recover in a short time. A second
application met with no heLter success ; and in a few
hours after the child expired.
Lord HERMAND charged the Jury, directed them to
I find a verdict of not guilty, and lamented that Dr.
Carswell was not in the place of the prisoner.
The Jury unanimously found a verdict—not guilty.
John Houston, for s'abbing, Thom,: Houston, and
James Hall, were tried for assaulting Allan Anderson,
carter.
Allan Ar.derson was walking with Alexander
Lyon, on the road between Paisley and Elderslie, on
the evening of 23d February last ; and were attacked
by four men, one of whom, Thomas Houston, pushed
witness from the foot-path, and knocked him down,
with some heavy instrument. When down he was
struck by James Hall. Witness rose, and tried to run
away, but was overtaken by John Houston, who, wilt
a sharp weapon, stabbed him in the side. Witness
could not go home without assistance, was confined
to his bed durirfg three weeks, and was attended by
two surgeons.
The case was clearly proved, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict, finding the prisoners guilty of the
assault libelled, and Jobs Houston also guilty of stab-
bing Anderson.
John Houston was sentenced to be transported for
seven years ; James H4ll to be imprisoned in the Tol-
booth of Paisley for twelve monthil and Thomas
Houston for nine months.

Bow-STREET.—Wednesday a porter belonging to
the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, was oh trged with
feloniously stealing a parcel. containing three £lO
Bank of England notes, and a variety of papers, which
were seat by Mr. Dobree, tLot pawnbroker if In.
born, to the above inn, directed to Mrs. Dobree, At
Wor.hing. The parcel did not reach Mrs. Dobree at
the expected time. One of the notes Irici been traced
to the prisoner. He was committed for farther ex-
amination.

Yesterday J. Brinner, a bricklayer, vraf charred
with conveying spirituous liquors into the House of
Correction, at Clerkenwell. The Governor having
lately observed that intoxication 4:ad increased, in Aft
alarrnirg derr, ce, nmong the prisoners, ordered the
turnkeys to be on tl:e Alva in discovering th mews
by which it was procured, and in conseq,ience the
prisoner WAS observed to have a b!adder full iif fia
conc aled in the crown of his hat. He was convicted
in the penalty of 410.

'steer.—Joel Poron, a hackney
coact man, was charged AS this OlfiCe on Tuesda.,,
with issuulting two Ladies, from Cuvent GarJ:rt
Theatre, on Monday night. Tile Ladies refused to
pay an extortionate demand of two shillings more
than tte dlendant's fare, when he detained diem ha
an hour in the street, and bestowed on them the most
opprobrious epithets, in addition t,i the assault. The
defendant was committed till be found bail, to isomer
the complaint at the Sessions.
GLILDIIALL.—Mary Barer: and frarrift Steamer,
were charged by the master of a merchant vcsscl
with picking his pocket of a purse containing five
guineas, and eight pounds in Batik-notes, on Lud.
sate-hill, nn Thursday evening. The property has.
mg been restored, the prosecutor wished the busitil,ss
not to proceed any further ; to this, however, the
Magistrate not acceding, he was bound over to pro.
secute, and the prisoners committed for trial.
A baker was convicted in the mitigated penalty of
one shilling a loaf, for exposing to sale (any tno.
penny loaves, without having a W impressed on them.
Tuesday se'llight,aCeurt-Martialwasheld at Ports.
mouth,on Mr.G. Major, surgeon of theStenste •Lo, for
contempt and insolence to Lieutenant Ei.t.rwas, of
the same ship. He was found guilty, and seutenced
to be dismissed the service.—On the same d.iy,
Court-Martial was Meld on Patriri Moirraty, se.onim
of the THEBAN, for a foul crime. He WAS I( 3111
guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. Frank/ jit.
A Portuguese seaman, of his Majesty's ship Menelaus,
was tried for throwing a holy-stone, of a large site,
at James Quickley, seaman, of the said ship : he was
found guilty ; but only sentenced to received one
dozen lashes, on board his own ship, in consideration
of his excellent character.

The Court Martial on Mr. Burrowes, purser of la
RHIN frigate, who was tried for neplect of du'y, in
not keeping the ship properly supplied with fuel, has
delivered its sentence. The charges were adjudged
to be in part proved, but, in consequence of his ex-
traordinary good character, he was only sentenced to
be reprimanded, and was reprimanded by the Conn
accordingly.

The value of Dr. FR ERMA/ft GOTTA BAUMAN.
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.that attends saliva-
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DIED.
On the 24th inst. at Wootonal Common, Charles, the infazt
and Only e n at p. D. Stewart, Esq. Royal Artl'oar).
On the 31. t of July last, at Alphao, iu Por‘sgal, Major Balling,
of the Coldstream Guards.
On the 22d Instant, at Cheltenham, General Lyman,
late American Corral at London.

At Kingston, on the .:1.1 imt. aged 9e, Sarah, relict of the late
James Grahan, Esq. ut DAlstune, aad mother to the 11.0, Mr.
Baron Graham.

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