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ppetson of the circumstance. After Walford had f SCOTS CIRCUIT INTEL T.IGEN,I 5....,,f.
stripped the outward covers off, he went away, leav-
ingthe bundles behind him. At eleven, he returned, ' Iry mans, Apart 16.—The Circuit Cot= of Jas.
and told him, that he, George, must remove the
ticiary
bundles to a house, which he pointed out, as they Lord l A ...:
was opened here this day, by tie. kigitt ikii.
a ERMA N D.
were suspected. He replied, it was a job he had Malcolm Livingstone, tettent in the island of Ire,
brought him into ; he took the bundles to the home, accused of assaulting and defdrcing the crew of the
but there was not any person at home. He then Excise cutter Maria, was outlawed for not appearing,
went to several public-houses, for the purpose of and the bail bond granted for his appeat:in ee det.lat ed
leaving them, but he could not gain admittance, it forfeited.
being during service time. At a public-house, near John Graham, shoemaker in Oben, indicted lot /teal-
London-bridge, he saw a coachman going in a back- ing a sum of money from a lock.fast Mace within
way. He followed him, and asked it there were any the house of John M'Callum, cartwrit:it in Oban,
post-chaise drivers there ? he was answered there . was found guilty on his own conles;iiei ; but,.on ac-
were ; and he saw John Alshop, to whom he deli-
vered the parcels, and told him he would call again . of his crime, the Jury recommenoled him to mercy.
for them in the evening, which he would have done , He was sentenced to seven years transportation.
if his room had not been broken open by the officers,' Next day the Court heard and determined five ap-
and the parcel found, which he contended should ' peal cases.
clear him by its production. He was also taken into ,
i PERTH, APRIL 1 S.--Yesterday, the Circuit Court
custody.
! of Justiciary was opened here by the Right Honour-
The LORD MAYOR informed him he ought to be ; able Lord ARM ADAM After the usual p:eliminary
cautions how he spoke, for he had already made a forms were gone through,
confession of guilt, without being called on; he 1 James Ferguson, labourer in Forfar, and Thomas Fer-
therefore advised him to be silent. • gumn, his son, were put to the bar, accused of house-
Joseph, in his defence, said, That Walford had
married his sister, on Sunday morning. Shortly after breaking and theft. The Depute Advocate (Mr. Doti-
married on account of particular circumstances which
the ceremony had been performed, he asked him to i had just come to his knowledge, petitioned the Judge
take six parcels, containing six pairs of gloves each, to desert the diet, pro loco et tempere, and to. grant
to dispose of for him i he said he had bought them ; warrant for recommitting. them. To this their Colin-
and to sell them to the best advantage. He took sel (Mr. Hameirt) objected : stating, that they had
them to a Jew in Duke's-place, who only offered him been committed by the Magistrates of Forfar, with--
seven shillings for them, which he refused, saying, oit any person whatever complaining ; that the war-
they did not belong to him, and he was sure the owner rim of commitment did not beer the crime f-n- which
would not be ,satisfied to sell them at so low a rate. they were committed ; that consequently their com-
He then returned to the lodgings of Walford, and , mitment was altogether illegal ; that, in these circum.
found that he and his sister were gone out to walk ; ' stances, they had lain in prison si::ce the 10th of De-
he then went along London-bridge, and left the bun- , cember last ; and that it would therefore be a ca:ie of
dies at a public house in the Borough. He saw W. ' extreme hardship and substantial injustice if the
ford that night, who told him not to take any thing ywere not now dismissed simpliciter. After a very
like the sum ; for he paid six times more for them. ,
candid reply J
to the obection, by the Depute Advo-
On Monday he went to Greenwich fair with a party : tate, the Honourable Judge granted the prayer of his
of friends ; on his return, he called for the parcels, !
Petition, n ith 'respect to James Ferguson ;but ordered
and as he came along London-bridge, he was taken his son to be dismissed sintft/icitee, declaring, at the
into custody."
!
The LORD MAYOR directed that Mr. Stephens ' same time, his sense of the great irregularities with
which the commitment of the prisoners had been ac-
should make every inquiry to find out who the goods .
companied, and expressing his indignation, in a very
belonged to ; and, until he gained that information, ! feeling manner at the conduct of the Magistrates of
he wouldremand the prisoners for furtherexamination. 1 Forfar, in committing Thomas Ferguson, a child of
. GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday a young man, named Jo- nine years of age, for the purpose of being tried for
nathan Furlong, was brought up for examination, char-
'his life before the Courts of Justiciary.
ged with a variety of frauds of a novel nature, part 1 Hugh M‘Pherson, stabler, or lately stabler, in Rose-
of which bad come out upon a former examination. street, Edinburgh, was accused of having, on the 10th
The prisoner, who is the son of once reputable pa- i of August last, near the bridge of Kinkell, assaulted
• rents in the vicinity of Hoxton, has been for some
time in the habit of dashing upon the town, and hay. : Duncan *Farlane, who was driving his cart alongthe road, by demanding of him to surrender the
ing exhausted his ordinary ways and means tor— •I
(smuggled) whisky which he had in his cart, and, on
" carrying on the war," bit upon the notable strata-
gem of watching the newspapers for accounts of rob- i his refusal, striking him on the head with a sworn, to
the effusion of his blood and the danger of his life,
buries upon jewellers, silver-smiths, cloth merchants,
i and all this under the pretext of being a revenue off -
have warehousemen, and others, 'whose shops and storesicer, which be was not. The proof being led, the
have been lately robbed to a considerable extent ;—iJury were addressed by Mr. Douglas on the part of
and having found out the patty robbed, he immedi-
ately addressed to him an anonymous letter, propos-
the Crown, and by Mr. Haggart in behalf of the prlto-
ing to put him in a wi ay of obtaining his lost pro- ner.—After a charge from the Judge, the Jury retired,
and in a short time returned with their verdict, ~ find.
perty, upon condition of his inclosing to the writer a i ing, all in one voice, the prisoner guilty of the crime
bank note for a sum specified, to be addressed for
him by certain initials, and left at the bar at Lloyd's, ;libelled, but guilty of it under the impression that he
i was acting legally."
or the London, or some other Coffee-house. Several 1 The latter part of their verdict proceeded on this,
reputable tradesmen became the dupes of this artifice
at length information was given to Mr. Na!- 1 which appeared in evidence, that *Pherson had for-
-and
merly been a gauger, that he was anxious to procure
der, the Deputy Marshal, who waited during several
again
days at Lloyd's, watching for the person who should I again a similar situation, and that he had' beets in the
come for the letters so directed, but in vain. At I habit of acting as assistant to Mr. Shields, supervisor,
tand Mr. Shorthouse, excise officer, in Crieff, and that
length, however, the prisoner was taken into custodyethese
but contrived to make his escape from the Poultry. gentlemen had given it as their opinion, fotinded
on an Act of Parliament, that even when by himself,
Compter. He was again met by the Deputy Marshal,
who secured him a second time. and without any written commission, he was em-
powered to seize smuggled spirits wherever he could
Yesterday Mr. Leach, of the London Coffee-house,
and a number of reputable tradesmen, attended ; {. find them. It is proper to add, however, that this
opinion appeared to be a very mistaken one ; as little
but at the instance of Mr. Harman, the prisoner's So- sanctioned by the terms of the statute as it is agreea-
, licitor, the examination was deferred until this day
ble to the analogy of law or the maxims of personal
i se'imight.
HATTON GA RDEN.—Yesterday Mary Houston un- right.---To-day sentence was pronounced, ordaining
him to six months imprisonment in the Tolbooth of
derwent an examination, charged by Mr. James Wil-
-1 Perth.
kinson on suspicion of taking from his person, in St.
David Mitchell, manufacturer in Perth, accused of
Martin's-le-Grand, £5O in bank notes, on the morn-
ing of the 4th instant ; one £lO note of which was housebreaking and theft, was outlawed for not ap-
pearing.
stopped at the Bank, traced to one Richard Jones, a Donald Connachar, in Tomintianda ; John Deuchars,
coachman ; in the interim, Branch, the constable of
junior, shoemaker in Middle Benchill ; Donald, Duff,
that liberty, secured the party, who was committed
servant to James Duff, at Letham ; Donald!,Robert-
for re-examination.
A Gentleman was convicted in the penalty of 40s. son, in Grenichmore ; Charles Robertson, there ; and
William *Gregor, son of Peter or PatrickM4Gregor,
and costs, for forcibly pas'sing the turnpike-gate, in a
one-hoarse chaise, at Islington, as was another Gen- in Sleek of Strathgary, accused of assaulting and
deforcing the officers of his Majesty's revenue—Do-
tleman, on horseback, 20s. and costs, for not paying a
nald Robertson, Charles Robertson, and William
penny toll, due to John Boohoo, of the same turnpike.
UNION HALL.—Yesterday, a very long investiga- *Gregor, having failed to appear, sentence of fugita
tion was pronounced against them. The Jury round
tion took place of Thomas Bolton, his four daughters,
Donald Connachar, and John Deuchars, jun. guiltyof
and two sons, charged with a great number of
robberies. The main evidence was that of Sarah assisting in the assault and deforcement, and rescuing
and carrying off the cart and whisky, libelled ; but
Ford, an accomplice. She gave the evidence in a found the libel not proved against Duff, who was
very steady way as to his criminality and that of the
dismissed from the bar. Deuchars was sentenced ea
children. On this Mr. EVANCE, the Magistrate, sent
him, and four of the children, to the county gaol of six, and Connachar to four months imprisonment,the
Jury having recommended the latter to the mercy of
Surrey. The youngest two of the children were sent
the Court.
to Bermondsey Work-house, as they were too young
The Court gave judgment in two appeal cases; and
for a county gaol.
no other business depending, they will proceed for
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Abraham hart Brenham,
who is in custody on a charge of robbing Mr. Trumff, Aberdeen.
on the night of the 30th of March, of his watch, in
the Strand, was brought up to the Office for further
examination, it being suspected that he had commited
several other robberies in a similar manner. A Gcn-

AYR, APRIL 19.—The Circuit Court of Justiciary
was opened here by the Right Honourable the Lord
Justice Clerk, on Tuesday, when John MlWillan, from
Wigtonshire, was found guilty, by a plurality of
voices, of murdering, by poison, Barbara Mackinnel,
a young woman who was five or six months gone
with child to him. He was sentenced to be hanged
on the 25th May next, and his body given to the
surgeons for dissection.

tleman stated, that he was robbed in Little Queen-
street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, of his watch, by a man
who ran against him ; he pursued, and nearly came '
up with him,but another accomplicegave him a violent
blow, which knocked him down. The prisoner re-
sembled the man who ran against him and robbed
him of his watch, but he could not identify him.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
1 The two Jews, Davies and Cohen, underwent an-
! other examination, on a charge of robbing the house
of the widow of the late Archbishop of York, in
South Aodley-street, of silver-spoons.
'Counsel for both prisoners were heard at consider-
able leagth,, who contended, that the property being
found ktiffie possession of Davies, who keeps a silver-
smith's shop, and la 4 given a regular price, and he
having pranced Cohen, who acknowledged he had
;fold rite' spoons whim, and he stating how he became
possessed of them, neither of them ought to be de-
-1 tained. •
Mr. Mums, however, was of a contrary opinion,
and committed them for further examination,

Wednesday se'nnight, J. M'Donald stood on the
platform, at the Cross, Glassgow, with
label on his breast :—" Convicted of
.Eintiloyers—banished the City."—He. ha,
soap hung beside him, to shew m3re
crime for which he was thus punished.
Last week, two men 'sere apprehen4
rybridge, by the guard of the Carlisle '
and were carried to York for examinar
doubt is entertained but they are the
'tacked Mr. NAPIIII, of Mollance, as
the description in every respect.
Stoke fair, a grand treat to the nym)
of the neighbourhood of Plymouth,
Monday, and was well attended.

th the following
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had a wedge of 1-
particularly the
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hended at Fer-
sle heavy coach,
cation, and little
villains that at- •
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mphs and swains
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