Star.
London, England, 1804-01-16 00:00:00

SESSIONS.

Saturday aiiia Haile hood capit.tllyv indided for hat, I
ihg forged and counterfeited, uttered and puhliflted as
true,'in the city of London, a utter of attorney, with
the name Benjamin ABM awl euntii fubfcribcd, pur-
porting to have been ligned, foaled, and delivered,
by a Gentleman of that name, refiding in Gieen-
wich, in the colony of Kent. a proprietor of certain
annuities and flock, transferable at the Bank r,t
ngland, called Three per Cent, Reduced Annui-
ties, for the parfe of transferring the firm of sool.
of laid annuities to herfelf, with an intent to defraud
the Governor and Company of the Batik of England,
spina the Astute.
The Counfel fir the Frofecutinn opened the cafe
by Rating-to the Jury, that the Governor and Corn.
pany of the Batik • f England felt thernfelves bound,
both for their own f..cttrity and the inflict of the
.country; to btitig this pie/oils charge againft the
-oh:ippy young woman at the bar. The indiarnent
imputes to her a capital offence ; forgery, in what.
ewer manner it may be committed, being always
puni(hed with death ; and he had no doubt that he
.111ould be able to make out the lath of the cafe to
bees clear as the law upon this lubjeEl. If it do not
fuit a proprietor of Rock perfonally to transfer his
,property in the funds, it is the cuhlom of the Bank
to allow him to make out a deed, authorizing any
other perfon to make transfer. There deeds ate not
.prepared by the private folicitors of the parties, but
iffued by the Bank Dire/tors themfelves ; and it is
filed up and delivered to the party making the ap.
plication, and it muff be figned by the proprietor of
flack, in pretence of two witneffes. Such was the
watute of the deed which the prifoner procured, au-
thorities her to transfer 5001. 3 per cent. annuities.
On her offering it at the Bank, however, it appeared
evident that the fiseature of Mr. Albin did not cnr-
refpond with that infetted in their books, being very
dumbly executed, and the name Benjamin written
in full length, inilead of being contralled, according
to that Gentler/1...3's ufital cullom. From any exa-
mination which the primmer had previoutly under-
gone, it appeared impofUble for her to adduce any
proof of her having been impofed upon, or to (hew
that the did not know but that the deed was really
good, and a6ually figned by Mr. Albin. He then
proceeded to-give a Mort Satement of the fatls as
they came out in evidence.
George Francillon, a flock-broker, Paid, he was
acquainted with the prifoncr at the bar for fire or
fienunaths' and recolledei her applying to him on
Sitstrday else loth of December lap, at the Lank
e-Isenfroold requelting him to take out a power
attorney for the &le of !col. Reduced. She told
the wimeh it was to be taken out of the flock of a
bit. Benjamin Albin, cf Greenwich, who, lbe raid.
atop an elderly gentleman ; that the had been brought
opin his family from her infancy, and that her aunt
had been for many years houfekeeper and nurfe to
The prifoner then raid, that this soot.
loci was a gift made to her by Mr. Allin,for het-great
attention to him during leer flay in his honk. The
venter:, on heating this, took out a power of at-
torney from the Bank Office, and delivered it to
her that fame day, which he defined her to take to
Greenwich, in order to get it executed. She told the
efiessefs the .would have it executed that afternoon,
gad ritOrn with it on the Monday morning, in order
th transfer the, Rothe into her ewe name. Site ar.-
wordingly brought back the deed on Monday morn-
ing, at eleven o'clock, executed in the name of ben.
pone Alga. !The deed was here (hewn to the wit.
fiefs, who toe ted it as being the fame which the
ranter brought to him.) He then deßred her to
vtraiz sifew minutes, till he went to the proper officer
it the Bank, in order to have the power pallid, and
as the Led (aid the vas inclined to fell the Hoek,
be told her he would enquire the price of it in the
market, and let her know. Having left the power
of attorney at the Bank, he returned in about twenty
minutes afterwards, and the Cie; k of that Office toll
him that Mr. &Iceman, the clerk who paled the
powers, defired to fee him. He accordingly went in
company with the prifoncr, to that Gentleman, who
laid that the fignatore of Benjamin 'Albin differed
from that Gemkrean's handwt itib%, whist' they hart
toot the Bank. The witnefs told Mr. Bakeman he did
not know Mr. Min, that he only knew Ann Hurle,
*rho erifhed the power of attorney. She, on being
tquellimed fey Mr. Bakeman, laid, the had been
brought up in Mr. AllM's family from • child ; that
be was a very old man, nearly ninety
years of age, in
a very infirm Rate of health, and if the handwriting
differed, the could account for it in no other way,
bpt by Isis not being accitkomcd to writing, which
might necarion fi.me difference in the fignature ; hot
if it was neccflary the Paid Ilse would take out a fieth
power of attconef. Mr. Bakeman Paid it woull be a
pity to put her to additional expense in gettiog ano-
ther, and that as he had lane I ecollalion of au ac-
maintance with Mr. Peter Billie:, a cheefemonger in
Greenwich, (whole name he raw on the deed as a
Witnefs), he told her the might take it to that Gent!:
man, and get him to certify %A:a he r Mr. fluke/n.1.1)
would write upon the puss er of atm net. Mr. Bake
Titan accordingly wrote the words :—" The witbin
Benjamin ABM has been for many years petfonaliy
mown to me." He then delivered the Med ta the
ranee, and they parted. (in leaving Mr. bit .c-
-man's Ofc.e, the a !boned her more vitt i-
calmly. and raid her to give time am-wilt
tilt. She aril the had hat,, marled a itie day: be-
fore. When the witncfs heater tijs, he espreffed his
Cuprite, and told lee, that it fie was marred, the
power of attorney ought to hr tak:a out in her ma:-
reed name, and not ni her maiden name: and that a
f':h eows-r would on that aecomit alone be meal:iv.
She then told the wt (lie was vary lorry the hid
drepoed any thi about her hc;lig mar; ied,
bait CVCry realini 11 believe that ..er mat: iasr was
hut a good ate. On heirg rirti;:-.nr,l by thi.
'dative to it, (he gave I.:in III:. toi!ti.vony p.1:11,11.
la ra :—S1••• Cod, that in soin! r. to pr:it, I in
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riags, he took all t!ie • money the had with Mr,
arid even part of her cloatbs, and left her altogether;
that the afterwards heard he had entered on board
a (hip, and likeuric that he was a married man, pre-
vious to his marriage with her. On her return to
Greenwich, the arepiainted her friends in what man-
ner the had been (stied by limes, and the Paid that all
of them, and even Mr. B AWN requellcd of her to go
by her own name of Ann Hunk, as the certainly
was not lawfully married. Nothing further pared
betwixt the prifoner arid the witnefs on this ocration;
but the took the power of attorney, and Paid the
would fee him again on Tuefday morning. After the
bad left the witnefs, he was not fatisfied in his own
mind, whether the was antially married or not, and
not wilhing to run any ritk, in identifying a married
woman as a tingle woman, or a fingle one• as being
married, he called on Meffrs. Owen and Hicks, At.
tornies, who had recommended her to him, but they
could give him no information on that point. She
returned at the appointed time with the power of at-
torney, figned on the back " Peter Birney, Cheefe-
monger." He again delayed fettling the bufinefs,
and put her off till Wednefday, intending in the mean
time to make further enquiries concerning this power
of attorney. Having frund out where her lather
was, he went to him and told the cireionflance, and
they both went to Greenwich that fame afternoon.
They were loon convinced of the deception, On the
Wednelday he went to the Bank very early to call
on Mr. Newman, of the Reduced Office ; and on
going through the Rotunda of the Bank, he obfrv-
IViid the prifsiner and a man with her, (landing near to
the door. He raid to her," you have come very early
this morning: I'll be with you in a minute;" and
immediately left her. He did not fee her again till
apprehended. After mentioning the cireurntlances
to Mr. Newman, he accompanied that Gentleman to
the Accountant General's Office, and afterwards to
the Direttors of the Bank, to whom the witnefs
deli-
vered up the power of attorney.
Mr. Thomas &Iceman, Ineaor of Letters of At-
torney at the Bank, (wore to the power of attorney
leicwn tts him, as he had pi* a mark at theactner
of it. On this witnefs flitting his oblation to the
fignatme when the pri(oner called at his office along
with the loft witnefs, fir, laid the etpefted it would
be fo, and that Mr. Allin' had been fo long out of
the habit of writing, that her aunt had to fign all
his drafts on his Banker. The deponent obferved to
her, that perhaps her aunt had alto figned the power
of attorney. To this the replied, " No, you may
depend upon it that Mr. Allin has figned it himfelf."
Tire deponent then Paid to her—" If I may put the
quellion, what is this old Gentleman going to do
with this goal. I" To this the anfwered. that he was
going to make her a prelent of it, for the great attn.
tion the had many years paid him, and that her aunt
was willing he (mould do fo. He then inquired of
her how the power of attorney cartel° be in fuch a
mutilated hate ? it being torn acrofs and watered to.
gaber. She gave as a reafon, that jail as it was
going to be executed. the dog in Mr. Allin's houfe
had got hold of it,.and torn it ; but if that was any
objection to the paper, the would take out a frail
one. Tie witnefs recollefling (nine acquaintance
with Limey ore of the %iterates, Biked her if the
knew him ? She laid file did. and that he had been
many years cheefernonger to the family. He ob-
leered to her, that if Birney would certify what he
(the witnefs) would write on the bank of the deed,
he fhould then take the matter into farther confide-
ration. He accordingly wrote a certificate on the
back of the deed, relative to Mr. Birney's perfonal
knowletiFe of Mr. Allan, and gave it to the prifoner
to get Caned. Since that time he had had no con-
vett...don with her.

Benjamin Allin laid, he refitted at Greenwich, and
had a pertain of the name of Jane Houle in his fey.
vice, and knew Ann Antic, her niece, I t had not
been much in her company, nor in any company
a:hat/Ver. On being fhewn the power of attorney.
he &vied that it was not his hand writing, and
that he had not tuned any paper whatever, fume the
fi.ft day of December. He had no occafion to fign
any papers. hut receipts to receive money from his
bankers: he had not written his name at full length
for fcvcral years pall ; he never authorized any pc'.
fon to fell his flock. Did not know Peter Birney
by name, though he might, perhaps. know him by
fght. feet a perfou of the name of Nowland,
(the otlacr aficdged warners to the Deponent's (isms
sure) but could not fay that he had ever executed
any deed in that perfon's pretence. On being allied
if he cvrr fined any paper in prefenee of Peter
I irrer,,iiis %Riles, who was quite fuperannuatcd,
anivreitsi, 0 Lord, Ido not know that ever I did;
oh, no, 1 dA not t if I did, can't thole pealLno come
and fay it ?" When he had occafion to tign papers,
they west commonly prefented to him by Jane Huck,
has beat:keeper, an old lady who attended to all his
atrairs.

reter L;rney, a eheefeenonger at Greenwich, fail,
that 1:e ilcvsr tar: Mr. licrjamin Allin till this morn.
as that Castleman always confned himfelf to
hi: lireJic : he Lirther dcp les.l, that his handwriting
v..is not :he I„Aver of Jttorney (hewn
Tnon:a. N ticp;:fesi, Mat he never law Mr.
Al;:o 14:: nitre, anJ th.tt %%41, about metre years ago,
w!!c:t e au t-nmved liven one honk in Greenwich
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ititncired any polio' who llood:at the Bar that ap-
petite,' more affefted. The Court was obliged to
Rop feveral times in the murk of the trial, in conic-
qiience of the feces-al fainting fits with which the was
reused. When the verdid of Criay was pronounced,
the was carried net already half dead with terror.
John lielmot, a letter-carrier, was indifted for hav-
ing, on the 25th or -26th of November lad, ferreted a
letter containing two Bank notes of tl. each, the pro-
perty of Richard Maxon. In another count he was
`charged with the fame offence, laying the notes to be
the property of Mrs. Griffin.
Mr. Gaseow Rated the cafe to the Jury in the
mod fair and candid manner, °mitt ng nothing that
made for the Prifoner, whom he reprelimted as hav-
ing borne a mod unexceptionable &wader. The
fird witnefs called was . _

Lucy Maxon, wife of Itichand Maxon, who fail,
that, being dcfirous of fending fame money to -her
mother, who lived at Oakinghilmass in Berkthire, the
inclofed two tl. Bank notes in it letter, and on the
25th or 26th of November ran nut in the evening
when the heard the pofiman's bell ring, and, in her
anxiety to fend it away, and have it taken care of,
told the man that it contained money, upon which
he refilled to take charge of it. This was near Port-
man-apart, in the neighbourhood of which place the
lived. She then ran to wlsere the heard another
pot man's bell ring, and gave her letter to a tall man
(the Prifinter was tall) but could not fwcar to his
face, as the night was dark. She took down the
numbers of the notes at the time.

Mrs. Griin was then called, who &pored that fist
had never received the letter fent by her daughter.
The Porlmaaer at Oakingham !Wore, that he had
received the letters, as ufnal, in courfe port, and
fent them about according to their ditedions.
The tea of the evidence confided of perfons em-
ployed in various capacities its the Poll-office, who
Rued their rules and regulations. One sit the notes,
of which the number was marked by the Prifoner,
was paid by the Prifouer to the Receiver-General,
who, when challenged with it, laid lie had received
it from a Mr. or-Mrs. jennttt, who kept a public-
lion& near Portman-innate, to whom he was in the
habit of procuring calls for note..
Mr. and Mrs. jennett being callad, (aid that they
did not recoiled any calls being procured them by
the Milner for (mall notes.
The Prifoner, in his defence, fait!, tlint he had cer-
tainly received the note in quedion from Mrs. jennett,
as her name was on the back.

A great number of the mote refpettable people
attended, and gave the Prifoner a mote excellent
cliarafter.—Net
Iberia, Sim was indiffed for feloniotifly Dealing a
chaife, the property of Thomas Harris.
The profecutor flared, that he was a coaehmaker
in the City Road. 'On the 27th of 08ober, the
prifoner came to his (hop, and ailed if witnefs could
lett him a chaife for a month ? feveral were (hewn, '
and the prifoner liked one, which he agreed to hire
at the rate of four guineas per week ; after havirrr
lb done, he talked of buying it, and demanded the
price 9 • witnefs (aid 25 guineas were the lowa he
could fell it for ; the priforter then llipulated to take
the chile, and attired witnefs to draw a bill upon
him, of a thort date, for the money, obferving,
that he was an Officer in the army, and iefided at
Brompton.row, near Knightfbridge ; witnefs refufed
to take a bill ; but believing the prifoner, from the
account he gave of himfdf, to be a perfon of refpee-
tability, contented to let him have the chaife for hire,
and fell it him at the expiration of a fortnight, with-
not taking any money for
_the life of it during that
time, provided the 25 Fnineas were then paid. Opon
there conditions the prifoner fent for the chaife, and
thortly after, through the medium of a perfoa named
Sowerhy (one of the prifoner's agents), it was (laced
to be fold by autflion, in the yard of a Hr. Darner, an
Au6lioneer, from whence the prifoner removed it to
Gibbon's, a llable.keeper, in Tottenham-court Road.
Witnefs having ttifeovered the intcnti m of the Pri.
loner to defraud him, in confequence ut his not hav-
ing fent the 25 guineas, or the hire of the chaife, at
the time appointed, went with (rectal ("ewers to
Gibbon't, where the chaife was, and claimed it as
his property ; after which the Prifoner was arretted,
confined in a lock-up houfe, and finally apprehended
for a robbery.
Barnet, the auftioneer, being examined, Paid he
received a chaife in October late to fell, from a per-
fon named Sowerby, it was to be fold by auflion.—
It was a tingle hone chaife, with two wheell, the
fame that was lett to the prifoner. The next day, the
profecutor came and claimed it as his property, raid
it &mild not h~ fold, and wifhed to have it away.—
Witnefs would have delivered it,but as Sowerby had
Pent it, he did not think tit to part with it at that
time, without making inquiry :—tsl. had beer men-
tioned as the price it was to be fold for, which was
not objected to by the prifonei, who was averfc only
to the slifpofal of it at the approaching fail:, when it
was intended to be put rip. IVitnefs on the t9th of
November gave up the chaife to Gibbon, who came
with an order from the ptifoner.

William Gibbon, un Ling examined, raid he was
a (tahle•keeper in Totter,hara-Court Road ; the pri.
fontr came to him on the 17th of November; JAW
he had a chaife flandilg at Mr. Barnet's in Qiiecii-
ltreet, and d:ii-ed biro to fetch it :iway ; unnet's
went on the trih, and paid tt.). t^r t!,e nandirq.l. of
it, ?Iter which lit brotittll it to liis yrr‘l. The pri•
fon:r came two iilts)s to ad•
vine; him 61. on the v h:ch he did, en cAlt
diton of keepir7 it until the my Ile:: was rai3.
net; !•ad known the poorer two yc.t•s, but hid n
vcr heard he was at, (.r,ieer in the at-rot.t.

other the chaife was in the pi i;on of the
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cozrty. The prilO7c- trld :11e witneis it had
cola to him for 25 yttireas.

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enrortanate in not being able-to procure the evidence
of a witnefs, named Purquifs, who was prefect when
the chaife was bought, and heard rfillinetly whet
paired; that witnefs, he raid, was in Newgate, confin-
ed for debt, and he was deprived of his tedimony.

Mr. initice LAW/11E110E, after Cumming up the eve.
dance, laid, that the While's, whom the Prifoner had
named, might have been brought up, if he had dew-
ed it, and that his not being prefer); was the Prifoner's
negk& He then otafervcd, that in order to make the
precut ofFeuce fielding, it was necetEtry the Jury
Banold be fatisfied that the Prifoner did not hire the
chaise for his own ufe, but to rade matey on ir, in
which cafe they would find him guilty.—The Jury
found• him guilty, after a !bort deliberation. .•
The following prifoners were tried on Fliday, and
found guilty of felony. viz.
Yob, Thiltkorp, for &alias Soot. BAnk-notes,
the property 4- Mr. Barrage, a timber-merchant its
Pot tfmouth.

It appeared from the evidence that Mr. Bnreage,
f:n. was in Landon on the 26th of (Mabee 140, and
lodged at the Angel Inn, St. Clement's, and that his
lisn, at Partimnuth, had occalion to fend him a
parcel, containing the above film, in 101. Bank notes,
which the prifoncr, who was emplo)ed by the pan.
prietor of the Inn, found means to abflraft. The
money could not be traced for fame confiderablo
time, but at length the ill acquired riches of the pri-
caufed him to behave in a haughty and info.
lent manner, and to negleet his duty, which was
that of walking coaches and lighting lamps about
the Ism, which conduEt ncestiinned his difmiffal, and
excited forpirions of his having been the perfon who
committed the theft. He had retired to a country
refidenee at Norfolk, where he was apprehended..
and fame of the notes found in his eullody, being
nionly of the Portfmnuth and Hampfhire Bank, and.
it was proved that he had changed feveral of the
others at a Banker's in the City.
The Prifoner alledged that he had fnand the par-
cel lying amongft the thaw, which had been taken
out of different coaches, and thrown into the yard I,
and that it had been mired about by the
Thomas Towybeed, for Stealing a quasi tea of ccccalt
nuts from a barge on the river.
The watchman on the qnay having obfervedthe
Prifoner in the barge, afked him what he did tbere ?*
but receiving no anfwer, he went and feized him,
and found the nuts in his poffelSon. On his way to
the Compter, the Prifoner ,faid, it was a hard job.
and walled the Cnnflable to make it up another tray,
The Conflablc, however, refaced, and the Prifoner
was committed by the Lotto Mayo& for tsial.—
Guilty.

Ann Round, for dealing a piece of printed cotton,
the property of Meffrs. Whitehead anti Co. ; Rob.
Woodburn. for dealing a hammer, &c. the property of
J. Smith; Sufannah Harris,for dealing a velvet cloak.
&c. the property of Eliza Spencer; Wm. Walker.
for dealing a filver table fpoon, &c. the property of
Ann Robley ; W. Hartley, for dealing a fnuff bor
and other articles, the property of B. Smith; T.
ivlorps, for (leafing four fhorts, the property of J.
Young ; F. Clements, for !leafing zo yards of calico,
the p; ()petty of J. Burch.

BIRTHS.

On Monday, Mrs. Ilayli, of Bernard-ttreet, Brunfwtek-fquare.
of a fon.
Ai Rubrldge, Haar, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Griffith".
of a fon.
Wednefday IJ, ht Paettael-phce. the I.aile ofnerbun /arrett.
Fig. of a danebter. . i