Star.
London, England, 1810-03-01 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Monday, R. ffirrants, for. robbing J. Perry, on
the highway, of 225. 6d. -and J. Sealy for returning
from transportation before the expiration of his time,
were capitally convicted.
H. Clank was indicted for stealing, on the 2d of
January, promissory notes to the amount of £1525,
the property of Messrs. Large and Co. bankers, at
Wootton Basset. Mr. GURNEY stated, that the note,
were put up in a package and delivered at the Swan
with Two Necks, Lad-lane, to go by the Bath mail,
to Wootton Basset. The package was delivered to
the mail in town, but *as missed at Bath. Hand-
bills were distributed;.and the prisoner would be'
proved to have passed several of these notes .in Ceti-
does names ; a person would also prove that t to pri-
soner had said he had £l5OO in notes to dispose of,
and he offered a premium to any one who would
assist him in circulating them. The facts, as stated
by gr. Gurney, were proved in evidence, and the
prisoner was convicted. The two following objections
taken by 'the prisoner's Counsel, were left for the de-
cision of the Judgesl—artrst, whether the instruments
called promissory notes, after payment of them by
the London bankers, and being in a state of transmis-
sion from them to the country bankers, but never
having reached them, and, consequently never having
been re-issued, could be legally held to be promis-
sory notes, as stated in the first count ? Secondly,
whether the stamp upon these pieces of paper, as des-
cribed in the second count, was, before the actual re-
issuing of them, of any value, so as to be the subject
of a felony, or, in other words, whether it be felony
to steal a stamp, unless an Act of Parliament declares
it to be so, as in the case of lottery tickets?
Robert Jones was indicted for feloniously embegzling
£l5, the property of his master Thomas Davis, the
landlord of the Golden Lion public-house, King-
street, Westminster.

It was stated by the prosecutor, that, on the 22d
of November last, he sent the prisoner to Messrs.
Moreland and Co. bankers, in Pall-Mall, to get
change of two country bank notes, the one for five
and the other for ten pounds, with which be ab-
sconded.—Guilty.
Anne Cowen and Frances, Sibley were capitally in-
dicted for assaulting Solomon Abrahams in the
King's highway, and taking from his person, and
against his will, a pocket-book containing .€35 in
bank notes.

The prosecutor stated, that on the night of the 28th
of January, he met the prisoners in Whitechapel, who
were women of bad character, and while in conversa-
tion with Cowen, the other prisoner came behind him,
and seized him by the neck, while Cowen took from his
breeches-pocket the property in question—NotGuil:y.
William Jones was also indicted for robbing John
Vurley, in Whitechapel, on the night of the 7th of
February, of a silver watch—Guilty.
Yesterday Ass Flynn was indicted for stealing from
a butcher in Whitechapel a shoulder of mutton. It
appeared in evidence, that the prosecutor being busy
with his customers on a Saturday night, the prisoner
availed herself of that opportunity, and carried away
the shoulder of mutton.—She was, however, soon
seized and brought back, and an officer being sent for,
she was carried before a Magistrate, and committed'
for trial. These fasts being proved, the prisoner was
called upon for her defe4e,...and she told a tale
of woe that penetrated eveq oar :—She acknow.
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