Star.
London, England, 1819-04-26 00:00:00

OLD RAW', APRIL 24.

Thomas Jest. late a clerk in the Post• Office, was
indicted for a capital offence. in stealing from a let-
ter, going from the General Post Office to Bury, in
Lancashire, a Bank post-bill for £3O, and two £lO
notes, the property of E. Whitely or of J. Hurst.
Mr. GURNEY stated the facts of this-case on the
part of the Post-office.
J. Angus, clerk to Messrs. Longman, Hurst, and
Co. booksellers, on the 15th of October last gave to
Mr. Hurst a Bank post-bill for 30/. and two 101. notes,
one of which was numbered 1326, and dated the Bth
of September, 1818. He was shewn a 101. note, which
corresponded with the entry in his book.
Cross-examined—Those notes and the bill were the
property of the partnership.
J. Hurst, a partner in the house of Longman and
Co. got the money on his own account from the last
witness on the 16th of October. It was placed to his
account, and enclosed in a letter directed to his ne-
phew, E. Whiteley, Bury, Lancashire. He then put
it into their letter-box about four in the afternoon.—
Any man in the shop might have access to the letter
box, but not very conveniently.—Cross-examined—
Any of their servants might have had access to it.
J. Bousfield, clerk in Longman's, took the letters
out of the box on the 10th of October, and gave them
to the postman. A letter directed to E. Whiteley
was among them.
Cross-examined.—The letter-box was kept open.
M. Atkinson, a postman, delivered all the letters
at the post-office which ht received from Messrs. Long-
man's house, on the 16th of October.
Cross-examined.—He would not say it was quite
impossible to take a letter out of Otis box after it had
been put in at the slit.
S: Hurst received the ringing bag from last wit-
ness on the nth of October.
Mr. Wasivi, presiding officer in the Inland Office,
proved that the prisoner was in the same office where
the Bury letters are charged, but it was his peculiar
duty to charge the Norulch letters. He had an op-
portunity -o take a letter from the general mass, and
there being a Bury in Suffolk, the letter might have
been mis-sorted.

Cross-examined.—He described the great number
of persons employed in the Post.office who might
all have had access to this letter. He believed the
prisoner had been twenty years in the Post-office. His
salary was 200/. 4-year he understood. His conduct
was never impeached.
Witness proved that the bag to Bury, in Lancashire,
was made up in due course on the 16th of October;
that it was received at Bury on the morning of the
181 h of October, in the usual way, and that they
were all regularly delivered.
Mr. E. Whiteley received no letter containing a
301. post-bill and two 10/. notes from Mr. Hurst.
H. Adkins, an officer of Bow-street, was sent for
to the Post-office on the 29th of January last. Went
to the prisoner's lodgings in Norfolk-street, Strand,
on the second floor. Prisoner said he paid for it 65
guineas a year unfurnished. They were three rooms.
He said his salary was 2001. or guineas a year. He
had new and old furniture and plate; the new plate
about 401. worth, and the old would snake up about
1501. He said he had no other income than from
the Post-office. There was cut glass to a considera-
ble amount. Witness searched the drawer, in which
prisoner's shirts were, and found among them Bank
notes to the amount of about 2171. twenty-three of
which he had. received from.the Post-office. He de-
livered the notes to the Post-office soliettor. Before
witness had done searching the drawers, a gentleman
present told him he had taken something out. Wit-
ness then took two gold. seals out of his hand ; and
prisoner said it was crino use, " I have done wrong,
I am guilty."
Cross-examined.—The prisoner said he had no ob-
jection to being searched, or having his lodgings
searched also--he had no doubt as to the value of
the plate and furniture. Prisoner told where he had
bought the plate.

Mr. Parkin. Solicitor to the Post-Office, corrobo-
rated lidkins's testimony, and added, that he told
'the prisoner that he was suspected of stealing letters
containing money. There were nine gold seals found
on searching the prisoner's drawers. The £lO note
taken from Mr. Hurst's letter was one of those found
also in the prisoner's drawer.
The Priioner put in a written defence, in whiela he
asserted that Adkins must have been mistaken when
be affirmed that he (the prisoner) had confessed his
guilt ; but that, on the contrary, when his property
was strewed about the room in the Apt wanton
manner, and unfeeling observations made on the
quantity of his furniture, he became quite unman-
ned, and quitted the room, saying to -Adkins, “ You
are to do as you please, but I am not a guilty man."
The Bank-notes found iu his drawer were not extra-
ordinary, since he had been in the Post Office for 20
years, and since he defied the world to shew that he
was addicted to any extravagance or vice.
Several respectable persons gave the prisoner a
high character for integrity,. and the woman at
whose house he lodged considered him retired and
economical.

Mr. Justice PARE summed up the evidence, and
the Jury, after retiring for nearly an hour, returned
a verdict of—Not Guilty.
There was a partial expression of exultation among
the persons present; on which Mr. Justice PA nit ob
served, that if any noise were made, he would com-
mit the person making it. There was no great cause
of triumph, as there were four other similar indict-
menu against the prisoner, whom be ordered to be
detained and brought up again on Monday morning.
J. Arneld, G. Severn, and D. O'Hara, alias liaycs
were allowed to plead guilty to the minor offence 41
having forged notes in their possession without law-,
ful excuse, ivhicn subjects them to fourteen years'
transportation.
The Grand Jury of the City of London returned a
true bill against Richard Carlde, of Fleet-street,
bookseller, ti;ir a libel.

AP ML
This morning, on the Judges entering the Court,
Marks &roe& was brought to die bar, when a pe-
tition was presented by him to the Cent, praying
that his trial mien not be proceeded on this Session,
the lateness of hts committal having put it out of his
power to prepare for his defence. Ili: petition was
acceded to, as 4 his trial pct off' till the first day of
nest Cestion. •

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CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE,

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OXFORD, APRIL 24.
Yesterday the Rev. Richard Jenkyns, Fellow us;
&Mal College, was elected Master of that Societ eke Bishop of Peterborough, deceased.
The Rev. Charles Williams, Fellow of New Celleteatztl
chosen Fellow of Wiachester College, io the room of the
David AVilliams, resigned.
Weduesday, the firSt day of Easter Term, the fo2ost'os
greysre rd

NACU/LOU 0 MEL LAW.
John Brown, of Christ Church, Esq. Grand
Edward Henry Dawkins, Fellow of All Souls Collar,
WASIZRA OF ARM
Right Hon. the Earl of Clare, of Christ Church, Gn.ri
pounder.

Richard Potenger, of Pembroke College, Esq. Gr... 71
pounder.
Rev. John Jones, of Trinity Celltge, Grand
Rev. Henry Bolton, of Exeter Cotrle.
Rev. Williara Weston Deacon, ditto.
The Hon. George Well re Agar 1.41 r, cf Chrir.
Rev. Charles Henry Hutton, Fellow of Magdaku Cr
William Morgan, Demy of Magdalen College.

Charles Miller, ditto.

Rev. Lancelot Bello, Taberdar of Queen's College.
In a full Convocation, in the afternoon of-tae t wd;,,
R. William Wilson, M.A. Fellow of Queen's Colhp:,l
witted by the Rev. Septimus Collinson, D.D. Provos: ,
same College, was admitted Senior Proctor, and the Rev. I
Dodson, 111. A. of St. John's College, presented by the Rr,
char) Marlow, D.U. President of the same College,
nutted Juoior Proctor.

The Rev. George Porter, and William Jac:son, M.A.
Chaplains of Queen's College, were admitted tienict ?cr.!
tors; and the Rev. John Williams, Ur.A. Fellow of
College; and the Rev. John Radcliffe, M.A. Vict-P,'
St. Nary flail, were admitted Junior Pro-Proctow.
Thursday the Rev. Benjamin Parsons Symoce, Ye
Watiham College ; and the Rev. William Russell, 1,4
Magdalen College, Proctors of the last year, were achnirml
ehelors in Divinity.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Rev. Robert James Carr, Vicar of Blighter., it t.
to the prebendal stall of Hurstbourue and Burbage, in tie
thedral Church of Salisbury.
Rev. Arthur Edward Bowman, Vicar of Shiplake, is
pointed Master of St. Nicholas's Hospital, near Salisbury.
The Rev. The,. Burford Siely, M.A. of Caius Collsr,l
bridge, has been appointed Chaplain to the British F.-
Lisboa.

Monday, a Coutt-Martiat was held at
on Mr.IVILLIAN CROOK, Midshipman of his Majl
ship CAMELEON, for striking a seaman of that
when, in consideration of his former good
and his early Contrition for the offence, he was
tented to be only severely reprimanded.

Execution of Laws, Hilyard, and Ranson,—P
a very early hour on Saturday se'nnight every
leading to Ipswich was thronged with men, woe.and children, literally treading on each others '
and many pressing forward with a degree of
and eagerness ill suited to the melancholy
they were about to witness. After perforvoiaz,
religious duty, and receiving the sacrarm.;:,
three unhappy men ascended the scaffold at
of the Turnkey's Lodge, where they played
voutly for some minutes. They were ail very /1
tent, but made no confession at allto implicate&
in being the perpetrators of the several dz..7ing
lines lately committed in that neighbenth-et
Ranson waved his hand to the innumerable spe'
tors who were intevaly gazing upon the plati:.
among whom we were sorry to observe a nJarbc'
well-etryssed women, and emphatically said, ur.:
bye." They were launched into eternity iocra:
past 12. Laws, who was a tall athletic ran,
'geared to suffer much; the other two seemed tal
died instantaneously. In the bosom of Laws,
he was cut down, was found a letter addressed
his wife, in which he earnestly conjured her
teach his children their duty to God and
and to be sedulously; watchful for their •

The Rev. Mr. Paynsea Dissenting Minister,
Ranson in his last hours, and received from
three letters. On the Sunday afternoon a di
was delivered by Mr. Payne, in the Baptist _
upon these words: " I tell you, nay ; but except
repent, ye shall all likewise perish"—Luke, chap.'
v. 5. After this the letters were read from the •
Their purport was to warn frequentersof public,
and dissolute companies to desist from such pra,
which had led him to join in the perpetration c.t
crittie for which he suffered, and to state, that
principal, who planned the robbery, was a rtaa
hitherto has escaped. The bodies of the corn
after hanging the usual time, were given to
friends. Laws and Hilyard were interred in St.
thew's church-yard on Monday evening, about
persons attending ; but as usual without any
monial, and Ranson in the Baptist Meeting gt,
in Stoke Parish on the Tuesday morning.

MARRIED.
Thursday, at St. James's Church, the Rev. William
Vicar of Chaddlevrorth, Berk', to Mrs. Catlett, of Wan:
The Rev. William Ponsoubv Vicar of Urswitk. nrar
woe, Lancashire, to Agues, eldest daughter of dlr.
of Midtown, Urrsvkk.
At Taunton, the Rev. John Shoveller, jun. of MeHob
Miss Eliza • Honey yotmgest daughter of the Rev. r

Horsey, of that pla;:e.. -
Tuesday, at Chatham Church, Edward T. D. IT,Ncs,
of Rbchester, and of St. John's College,-Oxtord, to .:ane,
daughter of Richard Foroian, Esq. of Chatham.

DEED.
The Rev. Hector Bowen, Rector of LLenmadoek,
ganshire, and Vicar of L/andysal, Cardiganshir.c.
Rey. Anthony Pyne, Rector of Pitney, and ,
Somerset.
At his house, Somers Town, the Rev. B. /Mier.. aged O.
At Paris, on Saturday se 'insight, after a few days illness,
Lady of the Rev. I. Vanse.
Monday, in the 18th year of her age, Miss Harriet ILE:
'fourth daughter of the Rev. James Hastings, of 3EarikY•i'
count Yaaf Worcester.
Sept. 9, at Calcutta, is his 9.'2d year, of a fever, It. IL
row, second Officer of the ship Liverpool.
Lately, in the East Indies, at Bangalore, Captain Josfi'l• 71
real, Paymaster of the h.-4.1 licement Light Dragoons.
April 9, Mr. Henry ALions, of S:radhrooke, ;,fed •:i
And on the 14th instant, ;:god 7C, Mr. Robert ;:blauva=•:'
brook (father of the above,.
At Margate, Mrs. Sarah Jobw.on, in her 7Stli year. S'
blind, but occasionally a speaker in Me Pan:cola limit:'
nectiou; also Miss Gilpin, eldest tlaulhter of the Rev. sk.
tr,
pin, of Ilawle).square Chapel, 3largate, of a decline, i5l
15th year.
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The four following aped persons have reco7r.tly tried t 3,
parish of St. Peter, Thr.net, vit. Mrs. lllary I'lwarie, 4"
yeirs; Mrs. l'hilpot, aged 79 years ; Mr. John Sacker, ?i.:,.
years ; who had fur many years beta the porter to etc'l 1.1
Piedmont House ; and Mr. Kenny, aged 84 years, razor ‘*
master of the workhouse there.

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CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.
wasOXelFeetOedßD;histAPerßlL:txt4. Fteuow s 0 6,71,
BanYiestolejdonayege, the Rev. Richard Jenkyna •
Wp
cEtihos:cer:n.dtioroctfell 'kaenvyter,
oftboteNr‘uerzscihhaa,nterdyeceased.
Eater Term, Tof. ernaN6.7 thCepliegrfo2:l in"
The Rev. Charles Williams,
ge, morn 01 the
David AVilliams, resigned.
Christ Church, Esq. Grand Co act
greys twee conferred t
Dawkins, Fellow of All Soul rn.
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OF
BrdroZn r, ay
BACMELOU LTeLL LAW.
Ccl
JEdobwnal
wAtrtella 0? ARTA. FIVE
Right Hon. the Earl of Clare, of Ch • rut Church, Orzsi OE
pounder.
Richard Potenger, of Pembroke College,Es • wit
q.
pounder.die
Rev. John Jones, of Trinity College, Grand dC ra ornpoze
Rev. Henry Bolton, of Exeter College.
Rev. William Weston Deacon, ditto.
The Hon. George Welbore Agar cf Christ •
Rev. Charles Henry Hutton, Fellow of Magdalen Co'
..u*:
William Morgan Demy of Magdalen College. Charles Charles Miller, ditto.
Rev. Lancelot Bello, Taberdar of Queen's College.
In a full Convocation, in the afternoon el-the st--iv• de!
Rev. William Wilson, M.A. Fellow of Queen's Coll
seined by the Rev. Septimus Collineon, D.D. Provos;
same College, was admitted Senior Proctor, and the New,
F
Dodson, M.A. of St. John's College, presented by the - ••••`
chael Marlow, D.U. President of the sane College .".*•
rat W,
nutted Junior Proctor.
The Rev. George Porter, ard William Jackson, M.-,.
Chaplains of Queen's College, were admitted Senior iit
tors; and the Rev. John Williams, Itir.A. Fellow of la
College; and the Rev. John Radclffe, M.A. Vict•P•ier.;
St. Nary hall, were admitted Junior Pro-Proctois. rt•l
Thursday the Rev. Benjamin Parsons Syntone, P' • "
Wadham College ; and rite Rev. William Rowell, Fell.
Magdalen College, Proctors of the last year, were ad :.• •
chelors in Divinity.
I
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Rev. Robert James Carr, Vicar of [tighter., is ."
to the prebendal stall of Hurstbourue and. Vurbage, in the e. .•
thedral Church of Salisbury.
Rev. Arthur Edward Bowman, Vicar of Sbiplake,
pointed Master of Sc. Nicholas's Hospital, near SaiisburY• -be
The Rev. Thd,. Burford Siely, M.A. of Cries College,
bridge, has been appointed Chaplain to the British Emb Ira 11
Lisboa.
Monday, a Coutt-Martial was held at Po .0
on Mr.Wraaram CROOK, Midshipman of his Maje,
ship CAMELEON, for striking a seaman of that First
when, in consideration of his former good coed, •In
and his early Contrition for the offeece, he was
tented to be only severely reprimanded.
Execution of Laws) Hilyard, and Ranson,—Fr.
a very early hour on Saturday se'nnight every .
leading to Ipswich was thronged with men, wfr. HE
and children, literally treading on each others rad
and many pressing forward with a degree of
and eagerness ill suited to the melancholy can
they were about to witness. After perfarreinz ti
religious duty, and receiving the sly...lame-a-, `!;-irAi.;
three unhappy men ascended the scaffold at • ;„ is
of the Turnkey's Lodge, where they prayed
voutly for some minutes. They were ail very ILy r
tent, but made no confession at allto implicate 'rg •
in being the perpetrators of the several daring
glaries lately committed in that neighbentlyeA
Ranson waved his hand to the innumerable spa
tors who were intently gazing upon the plzt; a
among whom we were sorry to observe a nJinbe:
well-etryssed women, and emphatically said, ug• well
bye." They were launched into eternity aixra:
past 12. Laws, who was a tall athletic Innll•
peared to suffer much; the other two seemed oh a.,,:.
died instantaneously. Ia the bosom of Laws, ai
he was cut down, was found a letter addressed 114.
his wife, in which he eansestly conjured her .;
teach his children their duty to God and who
and to be sedulouslr watchful for their welfa Stu
The Rev. Mr. Parma a Dissenting Minister, art
Ranson in his amt hours, and received from .
:hree letters. On the Sunday afternoon a disc....• pis
was delivered by Mr. Payne, in the Baptist Ch.. ica
upon these words: " I tell you, nay; but except see h
repent, ye shall all likewise perish"—Luke, chap. N 1
r. 5. After this the letters were read from the pun
Their purport was to warn frequenters of public h.,. Nam
and dissolute companies to desist from such praetii
which had led him io join in the perpetration or .
trirsre for which he suffered, and to state, that .
P who planned the robbery, was a mac keen
hitherto has escaped. The bodies of the tonvi•
after hanging the usual time, were given to ca
Friends. Laws and Hilyard were interred in St. A "cc
laew"s church-yard on Monday evening, about f.,
persons attending ; but as usual without any c-
nonial, and Ranson in the Baptist Meeting gt zi)
.n Stoke Parish on the Tuesday morning.
MARRIED. It
• tl
Thursday, at St. James's Church, the Rev. William •
nllVicar of Chaddlevrorth, Berks, to Mrs. Gan ett, of Wang.
The Rev. William Ponsonby Vicar of Ursvrick. near •
vast
ton, Lancashire, to Agues, eldest daughter of Mr. AAtisii.
if Midtown, Urawlek. • iTe
At Taunton, the Rev. John Shoveller, jun. of Tielkshwee
.ilia
•
Nliu Eliza 'Horsey, yotalgest daughter of the lire. 111:
Horsey, of that place.
Tuesday, at Chatham Church, Edward T. D. Rats, •
• a
Rbchester, and of St. John's Colkge,•Oxford, to .:axe, ' • . t
laughter of Richard Fornian, Esq. of Chatham. vo
DIED. kit
The Rev. Hector Bowen, Rector of LLartmadoek, GIICU
le a
ranshlre, and Vicar of L/andyssl, Cardiganshire.
Rev. 'Anthony Pyne, Rector of Pitney, and Xii.pat
Somerset. p
At his house, Somers Town, the Rev. B. Allen. aeed •53. 'lye 1
At Paris, on Saturday se'obight, after a few days ihueu,
Lady of the Rev. I. Vanse.
Monday, in the 18th year of ber age, Miss Flamer /Le :_
ourth daughter of the Rev. Janes Hastings, of Martki•' :itt
:cunt y-of Worcester. IL
* •'" Sept. 9, at Calcutta, in his -_d year, of a fever, ,it.
row' second Officer of the ship Liverpool. •
Lately, in the East Indies, at Ilan/galore, Captain, iase_.
n•
oily l'ayelaster of the h.:el Regiment Light Dragoons.
April 9, Mr. Henry ALions, of Stradbrooke, sled 7..; a,
And on the 14th instant, ;:geil 70, Mr. Robert ;:h141.4,"
brook (father of the above,.
RI '4!,
At Margate, Mrs. Sarah Jobnon, in her 75th year. I!
in Patecala RaPtis•
Mind, but occasionally a speaker _
lectiou; also Miss Gilpin, eldest •late:hter nf .he 7 e
,in, of Hawk .> .squate drapel, Margate, of a cleave,
kir
15th year. tried i 3 rt.
The four following aged persons have rec-re.. v
parish of St. Peter, Tlirnet, viz. Mrs. :11ary Plicate,
ears; Mrs. I'hilpot, aged 79 years ;
)11'.
juhllSacker,
:hi: 1'1;1 wet
eears ; who had for many years been the porter to
Piedmont llonse ; and Mr. Kenny, aged 64 years, - .
naster of the workhouse there. des
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