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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, JULY 15.

Charlotte Lawrence was convicted of stealing a
frock from a link child, six years old. It was proved
by the mother of the infant, that she lived at Stam-
ford•hill, and had sent her little girl to school ; the
child had nut been gone long bekre,it returned with-
out its frock, and gave the whole history of the man-
ner in which she had lost it. The child said that she
was met by a lady (the prisoner) in Shacklewell-lane,
who told her that if she would give her that frock,
she (the prisoner) would make her a present of a new
pretty tucked white frock. The child consented, the
frock was taken off, and the prisoner ran away. At
shout half-past five the same evening the mother saw
the prisoner di inking tea at her own lodgings, and
taxes her with the robbery. At first she stoutly de-
nied it, but after, having been introduced to the con-
stable she then confessed the whole.
Several witnesses were called to her character, and
proved her honesty. Some of the witnesses also stated
that the prisonec was sometimes deranged in her
mind, and was almost an ideor. She had been a cook
in a fami!y, and might have stolen plate and jewel-
lery if she had felt inclined.
The Recon DER said, in summing up,:that although
the value of this article was small, yet it did not dis-
prove her guilt. The amount of the article stolen was
a very bad criterion to judge by—he had not for-
gotten the case tried not very long ago, where a man
worth 4:20,000 was tried for stealing a sheet of paper.
Junto•.; White, a very young boy, of respectable
appearance, was indicted for picking a gentleman's
pocket of a handkerchief. The fact of the robbery
was distinctly proved.
In his defence he told seemingly an artless tale,
that he had a poor mother who was at home half-
starved, that he had laid out hip last farthing in pro-
curing victuals for her, that the day before the rob-
bery he had lain in bed fOr many hours without tast-
ing any thing, and that when he came out in the
evening he saw the gentleman's handkerchief hang-
ing out of his pocket, and he could not help taking it.
He said he knew'he was wrong in doing it, but, at
the moment he could not help it. He earnestly begged
to be sent to the Penitentiary, or some such place.
The boy was found Guilty—and after the verdict
had been pronounced, Mr. Brown, the keeper of New-
gate, said that he knew him to be a bad boy, and
tnat the lad had before now been in Clerkenwell.—
The young rogue still keeping up the dissimulation,
denied the fact, and wept most bitterly, crying, " 0,
my poor mother' and was taken out of Court.
Elizabeth Robinson was tricd for stealing the sum
of 17s. from the person of James Jewell. The pro-
secutor said he was a sailor ; that he had met with
the prisoner in the Borough. and went with her to a
house of ill-fame, where he missed his money. He
acknowledged that he had been drinking a great
deal, and had been with other women the same even-
ing.—The prisoner was acquitted.
When the sailor applied for his expenses, the RE-
CORDER refused to grant him any, as the public were
not to pay for the folly of such men as the prosecutor.

Ann Schofield, aged 41, was tried for stealing two
books, three silver tea-spoons, and various other ar-
ticles, the property of Wm. Bignell, with whom she
lived as servant.

Mr. Bignell said, that this woman had behaved
very well during•the first month that she lived with
him, but that after that she was continually getting
drunk, so that he was obliged to give her warning to
quit his service. In the mean time he missed several
articles, and thought it necessary to search her box ;
this she would not agree to; and at last he sent for
an officer, who, on the 11th of June, searched the
box, and found in it die two books named in the in-
dictment, together with duplicates of the tea-spoons
and other articles, which she had pledged. The facts
of the case were further proved by the pawnbrokers,
with whom the articles had been pledged.
The prisoner in her defence said she was accus-
tomed to have the key in her box, and that she knew
nothing of the theft's with which she was charged.
Several persons gave her a good character—lfluilty.
Thomas Payne, aged 42, was tried for stealing on
the 90th of April, the sum of 14s. 6d. from George
Davis. These two persons lodged in the same house,
having separate apartments. When the prosecutor
came home at night, he found the key of his room
removed from where it usually hung, and lying in
the prisoner's room. The prisoner immediately ab-
sconded, and was not taken until the 13th of June.
He confessed his offence, and threw himself on the
mercy of the Court—Guilty.

Mary Dale, a married woman, was tried for steal-
ing between 4.:17 and £lB, from the person of Thos.
Jones.—The prosecutor said he was a waggoner, that
on the 28th he met the prisoner, and went along with
her into the Crown public-house, Lear Bagnigge-
Wells. They sat for some time drinking gin and
water in the tap-room, when he said he fell asleep,
and on his awaking the prisoner was gone, and he
missed the money he had in his possession—namely,
a £lO note, four country Bank notes, and three Bank
of England notes. As soon as he discovered his loss
he went in search of the prisoner, and found her
coming out of a pawnbroker's shop ; when taken and
searched, a one pound note, and 245. in silver were
found on her. She had bought a bonnet, for which
she had given another one-pound note. Previous to
the prisoner being taken before the Magistrate, she
took the prosecutor on one side, and offered to pay
him the whole of the money at ss. a week. The hus-
band of the prisoner made a similar offer.
All these facts being clearly proved by other wit-
nesses, and the note found upon her, as well as that
which she had paid for the bonnet, were proved to
have been paid over with other notes to the prosecu-
tor, she was found—Guilty.

The prosecutor asked what was to be done with the
bonnet, which the prisoner had purchased with his
note? One of the Counsel told himehe might give it

to his own wife ; and advised him net to go with
other inen's.wives in future.
Patrick John Sullivan was next tried for picking
the pocket of a Mr. Burcher, a tradesman in Oxford-
street, on the evening of the sth cf July instant, about
nine o'clock. The prosecutor said a neighbour called
out to tell him his pocket was picked ; he immedi-
ately seized the prisoner, who begged foigiveness.
The prosecutor desired to have his handkerchief given
back, when he said he would forgive him. The
prisoner then took him and a constable to a house
in St. Giles's where the handkerchief wa.; given up.
—The neighbour who saw the transaction said the
prisoner was accompanied by another pickpocket to
whom he gave the hankerchief.
The prisoner, when called on for his defence, burst
into tears, and with a look of great ingeniousness,
declared that his mother was on a sick bed without
any nourishment ; that he was himself unable to get
employment or food, and that he took the handker-
chief to relieve his mother from starvation.
Here one of the officers told the RECORDER, that
the boy had been in Clerkenwell prison, and wascon-
sidered a very bad boy—Guilty.

SCOTCH JURY COURT, JULY to.

FURIOUS•DRIVINO.-ALLAN J. NVLEItiII AND OTHERS,
This issue in this case was ac fullows:

" Whether, on or about the ‘2.sth dty of July, 181 ft, the W..-
cello° Coach, of which the defenders are proprietors or contrac-
tors, was overturned betwixt the North Queensferry and Inver-
keithing, in consequence of the negligence or improper conduct
of the coachman or guard, whereby the pursuer, then a passen-
ger in said coach, suffered bodily harm ?"
The damages were laid at—For medical expenses,
000 ; for solatium, £5,000.—1t appeared from the
evidence in this case, that the pursu°r, on the 2.5 th
of July last, was an otir_ide passenger on the Water-
loo coach, running to Perth ; that after crov.ing, the
Ferry, and between it and the old toll-bar, where
the road branches off nwards Dunfermline, a one
horse gig, having in it two persons, attempted to
pass the coach ; the coachman was excited by se
veral of the passengers, and amongst them the
pursuer, to keep before the gig, and put his horses
to a gallop, though desired by the guard to pull up.;
whilst driving at this furious rate, and turning a sharp
angle of the road, the coach upset, and the pursuer,
with other passengers, was dreadfully hurt. Ills left
arm was dislocated at the shoulder johlt, his leg dread-
fully maimed, some hard substance about the coach
having perforated it through and through near the
calf, lacerating the tendons and blood vessels so much
as to put his life in the most imminent danger ; and
Dr. Thomson deposed, that even at this time he was
not out of danger, and that he thought the amputation
of the leg must ultimately follow.
Mr.lllll-illtAY opened the case for the pursuer.
_ _ _

Mr. JEFFREY replied for the defenders, and called
three witnesses, whoe testimony was intended as a
mitigation of damages, and went to prove the fact
of the pursuer exciting the coachman to pass the gig
(by which the oveitfrow was occasioned). One wit-
ness stated that the accident occurred by the wheels
passing over a stone ; but on cross-examination, being
asked the size of the stone, he said, it was no size at all.

After Mr. FORSYTH had replied to Mr. JEFFREY,
the Loan CHIEF COMMISSIONER summed up the case
with his usual pezqicuity, stating the bearings of the
evidence on each side, when the Jury retired for a
short time, and returned a verdict for the pursuer.--
Damages, for medical expenses 1:200, and for sola-
tium £lOOO. The trial lasted nearly eight hours.

FARM SERVANTS' WAGES.

IMPORTANT DECISION.- MACGLASHAN V. TILE DUKE

OF ATHOL.
Macglashan engaged himself as a farm servant to
a Mr. Moon, tenant of the Duke of Athol, for one year
from Martinmas, 1817, to Martinmas, 1818. In Aug.
181 8, the tenant's crop and stocking were sequestrated
for rent due to the landlord. The servant applied to
the Sheriff of Perth to order the Duke to pay his
year's wages (I.:10) out of the proceeds. The Substi-
tute preferred the servant, but the Depute held the
landlord's'hypothec to be the preferable right. The
servant appealed to the Circuit Court of Justiciary.
Lord GILLIES, the presiding Judge, was of opinion,
that the servant ought to be preferred ; but, as the
practice on this point seemed to vary in different
Counties, his Lordship certified the case to the First
Division of the Court. It was there heard fully ; and
the Court have decided unanimously, that farm ser-
vants are to be preferred as creditors for their current
wages to the landlord, whose right of hypothec must
now yield through the whole of Scotland to this
equitable and preferable claim. Lord LIERNIAND
said the crop was created by the labour of the ser-
vants, and that it was the interest of landlords them-
selves that the wages of such labour should be made
preferable. Lord BALsitrro concurred. Lord Sue-
COTH remarked, that the rent is produced by the crop,
and the crop by the labour of the servants. And
Lord BALGRAY, and the Loan PRESIDENT, on more
than one principle, were of opinion that the decision
of the Sheriff should be reversed, and the Appeal
sustained ; the Court gave expenses to the servant.

Early on the morning of Thursday se'nnight, James
Scott, John :11‘11herson, William Dui,;, and David
Gall, confined in the Tolbooth, Dundee, accused of
capital crimes, effected their escape. These four
were confined in one cell, and had for some days me-
ditated their escape, Scott's wife having brought to
the prison, concealed under her clothes, the head of a!
pick. axe, to enable them to carry on their operations.
With incredible labour they cut a passage through
a wall of four feet in thickness, built of large stones,
firmly rivetted together with strong bars of iron. By
this means a communication was opened with the
east hall of the Town-house ; but as the hole was at
the height of about 15 feet from the floor, they were
under the necessity of fastening their blankets and
coverlids together, to enable them to descend.—
M'Pherson, Doig, and Gall, had already reached the
floor, and Scott was in the act of following them,
when the rope gave way, and he fell from a consi-
derable height, but without sustaining any material
injury. After getting into the hall, the fugitives
found it a comparatively easy task to force open the
lower door of the Town-house. Scott, before leaving
town, very deliberately went' to his own house to'
conceal the pick-axe. _ _

Bow-STREET.—Yesterday nine persons were con-
victed in mitigated penalties, for following their law-
ful callings on Sunday, by the exposure of 111'114 and
vegetables for sale iu Covent-Garden market.

COURT OF COVMON COU.VCIL.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was
by the Loin MAvoit, at Guildhall, for the g
tdivatch of busines, which was fully atten6d,
A Peti•ion was presented from Robert I:r(
relative to some proceedings that had been i:lst
against him for not being frt.,, of the City, a,
the costs of which he was confined as a debtor,
the Court directed the Chamberlain to p ty thzart
for his release from prison,
Tun 1.081) mAYoit's uottsrum.n.

Mr. 'l'. N. WILLI A ms rose for the purl;ose r,f
mitring a Motion, of which he had given Ix;
", That it be referred to the Sword Bearers Cw
tee to inquire into th-• conduct, At th 2 M :inr,jc„la
during the present Mayoralty, of the sevet:ti
composinn the Lord Muyo;•'s Household, an,:
their opinion thereon to the Court.--Tnr.
he said, could have but little rctercnce !,'
lie had attended in the Mansion I rouse but

having been turned out of his place by his i.
but the Court would recollect that certai-

had been made by the Lord Mayor resre
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of the Officers, and it was fitting that they
inquired into. His Lordship had stated t:.r.he
every day receiying anonymous letters, an2.ll?a.
ticularly charged him (Mr. Williams)
written some of them. Now he solernoy decl
he had written no such anonymous setters;
that charge was untrue, the other observations mi
on inquiry turn out to be false likewise.
The LORD MAYOR rose with much warmth,
appealed to the Court whether he was obliged
in that seat and hear that Gentleman accuse hi
his face of uttering false statements to that Cotu
Mr. SAutrct. DixoN rose to order. lie conic,
the language used by the Honourable Menthe,'
highly indecorous.

MT. OLDHAM reprobated in strong terms the
duct of Mr. Williams ; it was disgraceful to him.
and highly derogatory to the Court, to permi.
:.11:mher thus to insult the Chief Magistrate.
Mr. J. GHIFEITMS said, if the Gentleman lu
• personal respect for the Lord Mayor, he oug
respect his office, and not make use of languag
which a man ought to have his nose pulled.
Mr. WILLIAMS said, he was ready to apologi
he had used improper language; but what iv.
case to-day might be that of any other Member
morrow, if his Lordship might make observ:
reflecting upon an individt:al, and those oSservi
were not to be answered. lie again declared
accusations made by his Lordship with resp
him were untrue, and there was therefore rea
suppose

The LORD MAyon again interposed, amiu-
cries of " Order, Order !" and said he could nc.,
Comas, if he was to be thus insulted, and 5h.,41;
it his duty to direct the Mace to be removed
the table.

Much confusion ensued, during which some 1,
ber moved, that the Court do now adjourn ;
was carried, and the Meeting broke up.

The value of the lands belonging to the Corperr
tion of Liverpool, which have been recently al
priated to the extension of the Docks at that

amount to the sum of :C83,000 which the Duck

pany have to pay to the Corporation.
The Little Theatre in the Haymarket has, J_
the present week, been newly embellished, prep.x.
tory to its opening on Tuesday next ; and the - -
is exceedingly pleasing. But its p:incipai rec
mendations to the favour of the Public will be .
strength of its Company of Performers, and the mei
of the Pieces to be produced. The new Farce
nounced for the first night is highly spoken of br
the Actors and Actresses.

The Stuart papers, formerly in possession ef
dinal YORK, of Rome, are now undergoing an
mination at Carlton-house, by five Commissioam
appointed by the PRINCE REGENT.

The late Jamie Sutherland, of Montrose, who
death we announced on the 9th instant, was fors,
time an inmate and lodger in the house of anothe
pauper of eccentric character, Jamie Fairweather,
who was attacked with a dangerous distemper,
was attended by a distinguished member of t!::
culty, who had prescribed some pills to be tall.
night. In the morning Jamie Sutherland called
the doctor, to report the state of his patient.
soon as the doctor saw Sutherland he rather rai
interrogated the messenger, " How is he ; ha!
ta'en his pills ?" " No," replied Sutherland. '
hadna time." " What, not time?" "
tiered the peels to be ta'en at aught o'clock, buy
dee'd at seven!"

Extract from the Kingston (Jamaica) Clim
of the 20th of May.—A letter, dated 17th ult. at
Cayes, states—" We are all on the gni rive here,
account of an atrocious massacre that occurred,
night before last, about two leagues from torn.
persons left this is a barge fir Aiquisso, a little
to windward, who were .sailed during the nigh
five armed men in a small open boat. The !nen
literally cut to pieces by these ruffians; two worn
escaped. Their object was six hundred
specie, which were c.n board the barge. No disco,
has yet taken place."

ExEcuTionr.—lsrael Garnet and James colt:
found guilty of burglary at the last Assizes fei
Isle of Ely, were executed at Wisbcach on Sat'..
last. The novelty of a scene of this description
that neighbourhood drew together several thous
of spectators. The culprits tonfessed the crime:
which they suffered, and died penitent. Gamer
in his 24th year—Colebank only 20.

BIRTH.
On Sunday, the 11th instant, 'Mrs. Charles Clarke, of
hurst-street, of a son, woo died on the 14th.

31.UIRIFD.
At Stirling, on the Ist inst. Muncrieff Mitchell, Esq. roe::
GlastTow, to Christian, second daughter of the late Lev .11esz
dcr Moncritff, Muckart.

.Df:D.

Tn Dracember last, at Tomb: y, the Ro% Walter
M.A. formerly of Bailie, in the Crum), Bre,:qa, 3::,1
Cl!aplain of Cochin, in the East

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