Star.
London, England, 1811-01-10 00:00:00

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Yesterday these Sessiens.commenced, before the
Imam Mats, Chief Barcin Macnosai.o, Mr. Justice
.' Ls EL ANC, MT. Justice CILIA 'IM,, the RECOILDER, are.
when 15 prisoners were tried, Corte of whom were
capitally convicted, vis.
• dieSIS Neeliit was indicted on the oaths of John
Cobham and others, for unlawfully uttering n piece
ef false nnd counterfeit money, made to the likeness
if a shilling, as and for a poodutie, she well.knowing
the same to be false and counterfeit ; and having
been previously at the General Sessions of the Peace,
held at the Sesaions-Housis, Clerkenwell-green, in
September. 18(.9, 'convicted of a similar offence, and
seri:erred to a year's imprisonment, and ordered to
find sureties for her good behaviour for two years.—
The charge was clearly substantiated, and the pri-
soner was found Guilty—Death.
GU3StliArl Lowe, a young man of most respectable
appearance, was indicted for uttering a certain order
for money, purporting to be the draft of Colonel
Ramsay, of the Queen's Regiment, for the sum of
420 on Messrs. Cox And Greenwood, army agents,
well knowing the same to be foiai:ed and countet fejt.
j From the testimony in support of the prosecution,
it appeared that the prisoner formerly belonged to the
Queen's Regiment, in whisk he was an Ensign. On
e day when the offence charged was committed, he
was at the Cii cut Coffee-house, Illackfriars-road,
from whence he sent a man, named Parker, with the
draft in question, to Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, forj
payment. On its being presented, a clerk, named)
- Downes, discovered it to be a forgery, and on con-1
suiting with some of the other clerks in the office,
they agreed to send for some Police Officers, who]
accompanied Parker back to the Circus Coffee-house,
where they saw I.im give two £lO notes to the pri.
soner, with which he had been provided for that pur-
pose. They immediately advanced and accused the
prisoner of the forgery. I-le admitted having given
the draft to Parker, but said it was a genuine one,
and that lie had received it from Colonel Ramsay on
tit, preceding, day in Oxforel-street. He was then
taken into preceding,
and conducted to Bow-street,
where it was distinctly proved that the draft was a
forgery.
Colonel Ramsay did not appear at the trial.
The Counsel for the prisoner urged in his behalf
the legal objection, that he had uttered the draft in
Surrey, and was indicted for having committed the
offence in the county of Middlesex.
This was over-ruled, however, by the Court, npon
the ground that the prisoner, although himself in the
sounty of Surrey, had procured the utterance of the
draft through the medium of an innocent person in
the county of Middlesex.
The prisoner, in his defence, still persisted that the
pill which he had given to Parker was a genuine 0ne.,1
whether it had been changed after it was out of his
custody o: not, he could not say. He had written,
he said, to Colonel Ramsay, who could not attend„
from his being under orders for foreign service.
Sir SoaciN LE BLAC observed, that the prisoner had
ample time is obtain the necessary evidence to sub•
stantiate his innocence, if innocent he was. With re-
spect to the absence of Colonel Ramsay, if that gen-
tleman was unable to attend himself, some communi-
cation from Mtn ntialit easily have been made to the
Court ; that fast, therefore, could not operate in the
prisoner's favour.
The Learned Judge then summed up the evidence,
and the Jury returnea a verdict of Guilty—Death ;
but recommended the prisoner to mercy.
The prisoner was considerably affected at his dis-
graceful situation, and shed tears during the whole of
his trial.
Jane Holliday was next indicted for burglariously
kbreEking and entering the house of Thomas Forstick,
and stealing various articles of wearing-apparel to a
''considerable amount.
The prosecutor stated, that he lived in St. George's)
in the East, and was a slopseller, and having been
robbed several times, he determined to watch on
Christmas eve if possible to detect the thief, and on
Christmas morning, about •1. o'clock, lie was alarmed
by a noi,e in the kitchen ; having obtained a light,
he followed the sound of retreating steps to the back
yard, and from thence to the ruins of an old house,
'where he found the prisoner lying down on a bundle
containing the articles specified in the indictment.—
He immediately took her into custody, and sent for
an officer. She had formerly been his servant, and
Mid obtained admission to the hodse by gettinicover
the wall into the yard, and from thence through the
parlour-window.,
James Windy; an officer, corroborated the testi.
snotty of the last witness,as did Ralph Hope, another
'officer, who produced the things found in the posses-
aim) of the prisoner. Guiltya-Death.
Mary White was indicted fotfelonionsly breaking and
entering into the dwelling-hawse of Humphrey Var-;
nail in'the day time, persons being therein, and steal-
* two coats, a pair of breeches, a watch, gold chain
and seals, and other articles, the property of the said
Humphrey' Varnall.
The prosecutor deposed, that his house, situated int
Vere-street, Clare-market, was robbed on the 7th of
December, before four o'clock in the afternoon, of
the articles specified in the indictment. On discover-
iog the circumstance he gave information at Bow-
atieet, aitd by the activity of the officers part of the
goods were found in the'prisoner's possession, from a
pawnloAcir's in Drury-lane.
These facts were corroborated by the pawnbroker,
• and the Bow-street officers, who apprehended the pri-
soner. When the prisoner was taken into custody,
the watch belangieg to the prosecutor was. found in
her possession, together with wane duplicates for the
Other aitt.Jes which had been stolen, and a key which
fitted the lock of the Kann from whence the property
had hem taken.
'l'fn prisoner, in het defence, said she had received
the goods from-a young man who had absconded.
Baron M,Dotimeo summed up the evidence, and
t',e Jiiry_returned a verdict of—Goilty of stealing to
11,11: amount of tlUs.
Citrles Wait?, a squalid-looking lad, was indicted
for feloniously assaulting Bryan Fielding, on the
King': highway, and forcibly taking from his persose
four dollars aud three shillings.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor,
that he went into the King's Arms public-house,
•Wientwoith-street, Whitechapel, on the night of the
insuuni, kis drank some porter, in mutest of

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