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the hands of this person, into the Bank of England,
and upon which was written the name of the mistress
he had lately served.
The 'doubts which now arose were, whether Abe
£2O note so traced was the one stolen from the pro-
aecutor? and if the Jury 'aelieved it to be the note,
whether it was not 'given by the prosecutor in mis-
take to the prisoner, who, however wicked to con-
ceal it, had not stolen it ? In addition to these
doubts, the prisoner received, from several respecta-
ble witnesses, an excellent character.—Not
Joseph Solomon was capitally indicted for break-
ing into the dwelling-house of Henry Browne, in the.
day-time, no person being therein, and stealing a
-Bank-note, value E2OO. .
This trial excited -a great deal of interest, .and
lasted upwards of four hours. The prisoner, a gen-
teel looking young man, and apparently in a very
bad state of health, was defended by Mr. ADOLPHUS
and Mr. Attaxis, and Mr. ALLEY conducted the
prosecution.
The prosecutor stated that he was a Master in the
Navy. On the 21st of December last, he lived in
East-street, Stepney ; on the 27th of that month, he
and his wife went to church, leaving the door and
•windows well *cured: the front door was double
locked, and the back door bolted. When he returned
he found the back door open, and the front door
single locked; he found every thing strewed about
the floor, and missed a D.MO note, £42 In small
notes, and a considerible quantity of wearing appa-
rel. None of the notes had been found but the note
for £2OO.

George Dyer, a clerk in the Bank, proved, that
On the 16th of March last the prisoner presented a
£2OO note for payment. He referred to a book, and.
found it was a stopped note. He then asked the pri-
soner, " Who did you bring this from?" The prisoner
said, " ancf pointed to the name and'
address on the front of the note. Witnesi told the
prisoner to leave it till the morning, and he went
away. The next day information was sent to Mr.
Brown. When the prisoner came next morning, wit-
ness sent him to the secretary's office.
Mr. Christmas was one of the Inspectors at the
Bank, and produced a £2OO note. On the 18th of
March he saw the prisoner at the secretary's office ;
the £2OO note was produced, and he asked the pri-
soner from whom he had received it ? The prisoner
replied, " from Mr. John Phillips, 13, Bury-street,
St. Mary-axe."
Michael Morris, a police officer, apprehended the
prisoner on the 18th of March. Witness went to 13,
Bury-street, St. Mary-axe, leaving the prisoner in
custody, and found that no such person as Phillips
lived there. He discovered that a Mr. Phillips lived
at No. 25, in the same street, but his name was not
John, but Jonathan. •

The prisoner, in his defence, said he received the
note on the 15th of March, of a person named Phi-
lips, who stated himself to be a trader between. Li-
verpool and Ireland. He gave his address as descri-
bed, which he wrote upon the note at the time, and
the next day he took 'it to the Bank for change, when
he was told it was a stopped note, and was desiend to
call again on the morrow. He did so call, and was
then told the parties had been applied to, but had
not yet come, and he was requested to call again on
the following day. On the following day, therefore,
he called at the Secretary's Office, as desired, and
was again put off to the next morning at ten o'clock.
On his keeping this last appointment, he was again
told the parties were not ready, and one o'clock was
then appointed. This, however, was also too soon,
and he had to wait nearly an hour and a half, whets
an Officer was introduced, and he was given in cus-
tody. He had now been nearly five weeks in prison,
in a very infirm state of health, and he solemnly de-
nied all knowledge of the robbery. .
The following witnesses for the defence were then
called by his Counsel:
_ _ _

Coleman Levi, Sexton of the New. Synagogue, bu-
ried the mother of the prisoner on the 21st .of De-
cember last. It is the custom of their nation, at the
death of a parent, for the whole of their near rela-
tives to remain .in the house for the ensuing seven
days, and during that time prayers are said twice in
every twenty-four hours. The prisoner was so occu-
pied for seven days succeeding the 21stof December,
and in such an infirm state oflealth, that it was ne-
cessary t 9 support him whilst he repeated the prayer
enjoined by the Jewish religion to the children of the

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Anne Hardvvicke attended the prisoner's mother as
a nurse. She died on the 20th of December, and
was buried on the 21st, and the whole family sat on
the ground for seven days after, the prisoner as well
as the rest. She went to the house on the Friday
previous to the death, and remained in it 14 days--
during which time the prisoner never left is. Wit-
ness is a Christian. It was impossible the prisoner
could have lett the house on the 27th December, the
day of the robbery, without her knowing, it—he was
too ill. She remained to nurse him after his mo.l
ther's death.

Abraham Shannon is a Physician, and attended
the prisoner's mother for some weeks before her death,
and saw the prisoner there daily. The relative; of
deceased must not absent themselves fromsthe house
for seven days, and certain ceremonies n;:ust be per,
formed twice or thrice every twenty-four hours, due!
ing the whOle of that period. Witness was at, thi:
house frequently, during these devotional days, lig.,
consequence of indisposition of the prisoner, who
had been a diseaSed man for the last two /ears, but
at that particular tithe was-in a state of, general de-:
bility- so much so,. that he thought it his duty Of
advise him to abstain from his campulsory funereal.
ceremonies. • He felt confident that it would have,
been morally impossible for him to.-hve..walked pa'
Stepney at the time mostioied .iti the indictment; fili:
less he had been sep.ported byawn,
• These witnesses were moitstrezerey.resirstexaMined
by Mr. ALLEY, and during theicdnrte of hi; interro- '
gations Mr. Justice PAPE -- repeatedly. iisetfaied, by
way of remonstrance with him; And. 4t last; .whilst
he was cross4xamining thelast witness, the Learned
Judge again interfered somewhat peremptorily, when

Jury
!recd.?
Mr..Barpn WOODe-.." Very well, then, Gentlemen,
deliver your ver4ct."
The Foreman.--u We believe the prisoner is Not
Guilty."---He was immediately discharged.
At the termination of this trial, Goodwin, one of
the patrole belonging to Bow-street Office, got into
the witnesses' box, and begged that their Lordships
would be pleased to take on the trial No. 9, against
a girl named Paterson, in whose case he was a wit-
ness, and his application was grounded upon this cir-
cumstance: He held a warrant against Charle.s Ren-
net, who was charged with having stolen a child from
Mr. Horsley. Information had been received that
Itennett was hoixrly expected at Harwich, and It was
the anxious wish of Mrelforsely that he (Goodwie)

should go to'Harwich to escort 'him to town.
Mr. ADOLPHUS (con aznore) said there was no ne-
cessity for Goodwin to go to Harwich, as there were
plenty of for,
at Ifarwich equally capable of con-
ducting Rennet to town. --
Mr. Justice PARK condemned applications from
Officers to put off trials; and observed, that if such
practices were suffered to puss unnoticed, the Officets
of every Police Office would be making similar 4-
plications whenever they thought fit.
Mr. Baron Wool), refused to.gt ant the applicAtion;
but after a consultation between the Judges and se-
veral of the Gentlemen at the Bar, Godwin, (who
was the man that pursued Rennet on the Continent)
was again called up, and told that the trial of Pater-
son would be postponed until Thursday morning, and
that he might have leave of absence from the Court,
on giving the prisoner and her witnesses, and the
witnesses for the prosecution, notice of the same. The
witnesses for the prosecution were in Court, and
heard the order.
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

James Surarma---;,Vho is about eight years old, was
indicted for having stolen a waistcoat which was
hung to dry in a yard. The prisoner was seen in the
yard but how he got into it without having climbed
or been lifted over tire wall, nobody could tell ; he
'fixed the waistcoat very snugly under his pinafore,
and on being questioned, seemed wholly unconscious
of any offence. He told a pitiful tale about his mo-
ther's death, every word of which was false. The
officer who was applied to on the oecasion, said, that
the boy's mother had assured the Magistrate before
whom the examination was held, that har son was
devoted to thieving from the moment he was able to
walk, 'and that she had• laboured incessantly to cor-
rect the propensity. He,
.however, continued the
practice, and atoided every body who sheaved an in•
clination to serve him. The little wretch acknowledged
that' he had run away from all who offered him pro-
tection, and that he gained a livelihood by thieving.
He was, he said, in the habit of going out with a man
named Williams, every evening, for the purpose of
seeing what was to be done amongst the washer-
women, and- was particularly engaged on Fridays in
plundering that class, who were always busy in get-
ting their washing up at the end of the week. It was
, the custom with him, he said, to get Williams to
lift him over walls, from which he found it no dif-
!knit matter to get hold of the lines aerosethelards,
and strip them of the linen, which he and Williams
turned to the best advantage. Upon making inquiry
at the place where the boy said he and Williams
lodged, the officer found that there was no such per-
son as the latter, anclthat the former had not been
seen with any companion.
Theury found him guilty; and he was sentenced-
to be cortfined three mtinths, .and well flogged in pri-.
son.—He was neither affected at hearing the verdict
nor the sentence, and walked from the bar quite
unconcerned..

Several, robberies have been committed within the
last few days, by It gang who, according to informa-
' tion, frequent the Western part of Windsor Forest.
The first attack was made on a Gentleman in the
neighbourhood of White Waltham, by two fellows
armed with bludgeons, who robbed him of a valuable
gold watch ami_appendages, and his money. The
next morning a Mr. WISE was 'robbed by three fel-
lows, armed in a similar manner,. at the verge of
Maidenhead Thicket; but hand-bills of these rob-
beries 64194 been circulated through Reading,
Maidenhead,.&c..the robbers transferred their depre-
dations more to the Eastward, and Mr. Hoserwoon,
of Thorpe, was stopped in his chaise by three fellows
armed with bludgeons, on the Oakingham-road, near
Ascot Race Course, on Monday evening, at dusk.
The robbers got i.:37 in notes and money, tied Mr.
Hostrrwooo's hands, let the horse loose, and made
off towards Hatchets-lane. These are the men an-
swering the description of those who committed the
1 other two robberiet. And a fourth was committed
between Cobham and Chertsey, on Wednesday night,
lon a Gentleman of the name of GEORGE, who having
no more than a trifle of silver about him, they threw
him down and ill used him. There were four con-
cerned in this last robbery. Two of them, it turned
out, had lately tented a hovel on the Forest, and kept
a horse and cart, which they deserted last week.
G. Atoiosoo who was convicted at the last. Dur-
ham Assizes, Of a rape on the body of Isabella Ram-
shawl a child under the' age of ten years, has under-
gone the awful sentence of the law; in front of the
-new Cousszy,Voliris, amidst an immense crowd.
An inquisition was taken' yesterday at the Gate-
ohie, on -Abii Hampstead-road, 'on the body of S.
Weitons.. Tftideceased had got out of his cart to put
it clad into it. when kis horse ran away. He went to
stop him, when one of the shafts. struck him on the
bietrst, koOcketi him down, and then the wheel passed
tiver.hint. He die4iartintly. Verdict, accidental death.
• MonAay; as a pftion was sorting some scaffolding
at a newlouse in Getige-itreet, Glasgow, owing to'
the shifting of some of the boards, he was forced to
gm Jkap fa? the nd, from a height of three stOriat.
°Alai! befit examined 'at the-Royal Infirmary, the
fibula •iai ofindlractured, about three inches'above
the ancle joint, which was slightly sprained ;,iit he
rbad,,forturnitilt, received no 'other injury. Anbther
lust who:fell ,solci;, ah area,- io."Vaimvplae,e; amla
seven feet, mei* very considerable Injuri..it- the
hip joint. -

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4th of a arc that be Iscatored die loss of 14 theirk*Aclaimedig.44l4i d, let us cavil
note.. Upon the! discovery. he, p4pplied to, the difit;"aisidir.lhe realved' ." d seem§ end
miler know whether he has not given him, a. rif4E" Mr. ALireigitowee;' shme-privitece,-
instead of a £l' note, but the. Prisoner denied it. ,It Yersitioi with the Jig's, did not resume. kid•la
Was subsequendi uscertained.that the !prisoner, with bents, abd
a man named Hill, had clanged a ito note at a. Mr. Baron WooD was pro:Nip/ilk to sum up the
draper's .hop in Vigo-lane. The. prosecutor after- evidence, whe.d. the Jury informed his Lordship they
wards traced a £2O note, which had passed through were already agreed.,
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