Star.
London, England, 1804-07-05 00:00:00

OLD BA/LET.

The General Qoarter SelGons and Gaol Delivery
for the City of London and County of Middlefex,
commenced yeßerday at the above place. The Loao
Mavoa of London, the Recorder of the City, Sir
Guts Rooms, one of the Judges of Common Pleas,
and Mr. Ju!lice La lace prefided on the Bench.—
The following trial tied alma the whole of the
day.
7efeth jacifon, a young man of genteel appear-
ance, was charged with having forged the endork-
ment of two Bills, and alfo with having uttered the
fame, knowing the endorfement to be forged, the one
fort soot. the other fort 3001. in the name of Mr. John
Browne, a refpeitable merchant in the City. On the
latter note, however, the Profecution teemed to refl.
Mr. Cuewoon having opened the pleadings, Mr.
Gueirew, as Leading Counfel, detailed the flies of
the cafe. which were numerous, and rather compli-
cated. Without detailing the evidence feriaiim
' given, the following were the circumilances of the
cafe: The prifoner, Jackfon, it appeared, Vied as a
money lender, and dated his advertifements from
Spread Eagle-court, Gracechurch-greet. The Pro-
fecutor, John Browne, Efq. was a pesfon of conhi-
derable property in the WeR Indies, being but lately
arrived in this country. Not lnsig fince he bad pin.
chafed an elate at Nevis, which, according to the
mode of that country, was to be paid for by infkal-
menu : not being in ready money to pay an inftal-
ment then becoming due, and teeing the advertife-
rnent fent forth by Jackfon, he applied to him to
difcount a bill for :zsool. drawn by him on Mars.
Lear mouth and Lindfay, the merchants to whom he
was in the habit of configning his Well India pro-
duce. Jaclfon undertook to get it dircounted at to
per cent. but advifed him to feparate it into two hills,
as they were more cathable than one large bill.—
Upon this advice Mr. Browne divided the bill into
two, one for 1,3001. the other for 1,2001. and gave
them to the prifoner to get difcounted.
Mr. Acres, a Gentleman who lives in the Adelphi,
Rated, that the prifoner was employed by Mr. Browne,
to get cat for the two notes mentioned in the indift-
mem. They were given to him without being en-
dorfed on Friday the 16th of March. The prifoner
was cautioned not to take any Banker's notes or
cheques. but to bring Bank of England notes, or call),
and at five in the afternoon he was to have met him
and Mr. B. and to have brought the change for the
bills. About fix in the evening a note was delivered
to Mr. B. which he (hewed to the witnefs ; the note
was figned J. Jackfon, and Rated that it was impolfi-
ble for him to get change that evening, but that he
fhould infallibly get the money the next day by
twelve. Mr. B. defired the bills to be fent to hint ;
but about half after feven the prifoner came, and
Paid, that if he got the bills at nine the next morn-
ing, he would have them calhed by twelve
The witnefs having fume Weft India friends to dine
with him, and being engaged to go to the weft end
of the town at ten, thought it would be more con-
venient to let the pi iloner ke,:p the bills, and accord.
ingly he and Mr. B. appointed to meet the prifoner
next day at Baker's Coffee-houfe at twelve. They
went to the place according to appointment, but did
not meet the prifoner. He Did not fee the prifoner
any more from the rime of his coming to them at
feven on Friday the itith of March, until he was in
culludy, but could not fwear that Mr. B. had not.
At the time of his lea fecirg the prifoner the bills
were endorfed.
George Knapp, a young lad, who was clerk to
the prifoner, (wore to his hand-writing in the note
that was delivered on Friday evening, to the delivery
of that note, and to the hand-writing of fume memo-
randums which were found in the prifonees pocket,
at Eanifkillen, in Ireland. The memorandums were
a fort of journal of his travels from London to Dub-
-1;n, and from thence to Enniikillen. and contained
alfo a declaration of the_poverty and difirefs is which
he was obliged to quit London. The lad alfo iden-
tified the perfon of Mr. Browne.
Mr. Wm. Coon*" a Warehoufeman in the City,
related the particulars of the negotiation of the bills.
The prifoner applied to him to get the calls. He re-
commended him to try tome other houfe, and a bar-
gain was entered into between the prifoner and
Male Webßer and Corbett, for the purchafe of
Come frills linens. The linens were to be delivered at ,
the witnefs's houfe, upon the bills being endorfed.—
The 'tanner laid that he would go to the City Col.-
fee-honfe and get them endorfed. Upon the prifoner
letting of for that purpofe, as he Paid, the witnefs
*braved that he took a wrong direaion and endea-
voured to follow him, bet (non 101 l fight of him.
Mr. Corbett and iris fon Rated the particulars of
the bargain, and proved the delivery of the goods.
Jof:p-b Browne, a banker's clerk, proved his havin
given a Bank of England Note, No. 335, value wool.
dated the 7th of March, to the prifoner, in change.
Mr. balder, a City Pilatlliall„ deputed that the

p, +ion er rat delivered into his cuitedy in the city of
Duhlm, that t►e memorandums %Lich were laid to

be taken front the prifoner at EMl;*Wen avert deli-
vered to him ; the Kilmer a(ked him, afterwards, if
he had the memorandums which were_iaken,from
him at Enrafkillen ? He told him he bad, and the
prifoner then declared that he had OM very wrong
indeed, but added, that he was never guilty of the
forgery with which he underflood he was charged,
nor of any other. ' The witnefs alto dated that he
took a Bank of England Note for toool. out of the
pocket of a female who accompanied the prifoner as
his wife. This note bad the fame number, and bore
the fame date, as that above mentioned.
It was fwnrn by feveral witneffes that the endorfe-
ment was not Mr. B's writing.
Major Alien and Mr. Rofs depofed that Mr. B.
dined in their cnmpany on Friday the 16th of March,
at the houfe of Mr. \Vebb, in Thayer-llrect, Caven
difli-fquare. He flayed there from half after feven
till ten o'clock that night, when he went home in a
coach. No perfon, they believed, could have feen or
fpoken to him on bufinefs during that time.
A Mulatto (errant belonging to Mr. B. (wore that
he attended his matter to Baker's Coffee Houfe on
that day ; that he went in a coach from thence di-
reel to Mr. Webb's and returned home in the fame
manner without flopping or 'peaking ri any one.
The prifoner's Cotmfel, Mr. Kate, and Mr. Bea•
la, called feveral varieties, none of whom anfwered.
The prifoner then made a long defence, in the
cootie of which he confeffed that he had afted fo im-
properly, that, if lie were indided kr a fraud, the
charge might probably have been made good againit
him, but in the molt folemn manner pro:efted his in-
nocence of any forgery. If his friends had come for-
ward as they ought to have done, or if he had had
the benefit of Mr. B.'s evidence, it would have ap-
peared that he had aged in the molt open manner,
and that he bad endeavoured to repay the money as
far as was in his power.
Mr. Jußice LAWRINCB informed the prifoner that
it was not in the power of the Counfel for the prole-
cution to call Mr. B. to difprove the validity of his
own bills; but if he was aivifed by his own Conn-
fel fn to do, Mr. B. might b: called on behalf of the
prifoner.
The Court then waited until Mr. Danizl Simon
Mereereau, oae of the witneffei called for on the part
of the prifoner, was lent for by the requeft of the gus-
demen engaged for the prnfecution. He is a clerk to
an eminent banking houfe in the City, and hated
that on Saturday the 37th of March, at ten in the
morning, he faw a perfon fign a paper in Baker's
Coffee Houfe, with the name of John Brown. A pa-
per was produced in Court purporting to be a receipt
from Mr. B. for the fum of goal. in part of payment
of the two bills whiz's were canted at the houfe of
Meffrs. Newman and Co. and which were proved to
be thofe laid in the indiElment. When the prifoner
was brought to Cie Manfion Horde he fent for the
witnefs, and he there law the Mr. Browne in whole
name the bills had been paired, but he was not the
perfon who figned the paper at Baker's Coffee-houfe.
The prifoner w-•s after the examination before the
Lord Mayor fent to the Compter. He then fent for
the witnefs and had a flatement drawn up, declaripg
that he had feen Mr. B. fign the receipt for part
payment, which the prifoner defired him to fign.—i
l'his he refilled to do, and Paid that he was not the
fame perfon. The witnefs then tore the paper. He
law the prifoner feveral times after that, both in the
Compter and in Newgate. He endeavoured to draw
a difelofure of fome lath from the prifoner at there
meetings, but he always carefully avoided entering
into any explanation, and frequently threatened his
life if he would not swear to the receipts being fairly
figned. He fa.d that he did not know that he had
been Called in Court before the time he had jolt now
anfwered, but had been fomewhere elfe about bull-
net's, was not even at the counting houfe, nor did he
know that he was then fent-for.

James Harris, waiter at Baker's, declared that Mr.
B. was not there till twelve.
'l.'he witneffeswho had declared a knowledge of Mr.
B.'s hand writing, were again called into the witnefs
box, and in general declared that if it was not for the
circitmflances that attended the produetpn of this
paper, they timid have believed it to be the hand
writing of Mr. 11. It bore a much alder telemblance
to Ids real fignature than the entiorfenient on the
bills did.
Ms. Jullice Lawiteacs delivered a very minute
and able charge to the Jury, in the courfe of which
he adverted chiefly to the contradiAion as to the
point of time at which Mr. B might have been fop-
pored to have endcrfed 11‘:
The Jury deliberated a few minute% and pio-
nnunced the defendant Guilty of utteriug the bills
knowing them to be forged.
Four were convieled of felony, viz. Mary Ankine
for haling eleven, one-pound no:es, the property t.(
T. Collins ; Ann Bolton, for flealing two :twain
handkerchiefs, the property of R. Jones ; E. Prit-
chard, for fleeting five yards of linen cloth, the pro-
perty of R. Dixon; and G. Mann, for flailing fix
cotton fhirts, the property of R. Dixon.

TuefJay fennight, a dram-boy belonging to the t
Regiment Aberdeen volunteer., was ttied by a Court
Martial for a breach of the articiss of war. in having
given intuiting language to, anJ repeatedly truck the
Drum•istajor, hit topmosr officer, which being prov-
ed, he was fentenccd to reedit e 2CO Whet. The fen-
tence was pot in execution on WednetJay morning.
After receiving so lathes, he was taken down by or-
der of the Commanding Citicer, and chfcharged from
the regiment, as unworthy after wat ds to ferve in it.
Fts I.—Yeßerday fe'nnight feverai cottages were
eonfumed at Codfrrd, in ‘Viliihire, as were alfo the
premifes of Mr. Fitz, fhopkeeper, with the whole of
his flock.

The following account of the dearunion of Han.
nape chinch, in Btu kinghamfhire, by lightning, i.
from • letter dated Isom th it town, June :
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On Sunday IA WM erg, tier,ccd Isere one ~t the rioft tremen-
dous forms of thyilder atol lightning evcr centrist...o,d by the
olden. inhabitant living. It (rein, father is the W S. W. with
molt afinniffslne ranCoiy, wl r it Lt.:.g for a cnnlidcratA time in
Mitt and bloomy horror; when, no a ft Alen, a dreadfid real in
thunder burn over us with a molt rrenterdyys roar. wl.i.-b was
fucceed dby others ttlll mere loud and awful. .linnit halt raft
el, ht 4, the form was :if goiro..k, more dreadful; and while
the affrighted Attain rs ware feet?. ; for ghetto in the humble eft,
Of r PritC.rifne a fur •ive cr, w. w.rc alarmed by ihs falling
of the for-. and of our Vehl .-able and sneisnt church. which was
1a..1 in rmn, With a ni.•ll ass:o yid tremendous crab. .1 his wags
▪ r riot beautiful G• ehi. ovlure, whits has II oil the telt
11,'WArki4 ni three rr..orri,•, and w. 4 IC b•glo, t 1 a, in a
less fluidity. WS ro a to:doled Leal. o' I :r.5.

LONTIW lIMRICBTS;

MONDAY, JULY 4.

Thorn Weft not many bed arrivals of Wilma this d. 7 t Sna
fannies had a better rale. Bart 27 and Malt are dearer. P, re
and Beans continua to reteb Bad prices. Good Grey Fare 3%5.
per /putts. Oats area trifle dower, and but a allddlin tply.
Hoar is meted higher, fine American nearly as laR wet*
GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER
Wheat, 32a. 444 564
~imcr qr. Whit. Peale, 381. 40.
Fine Ditto, 574 595. 6d. Bono/ 372. ar. od.
Rye, ass. 27.. od. rick Ditto ps. 365.
Barley, 234 sBa od. Oats, spa 225. ass.
Malt, 585. 645. od. Poland ditto, 265. 275. c/L
Ping ditto,oos. ao4 od. Rape Seed, 371. to 591. per la%
PRICE OP FLOUR.
Floe Floor sos. to 455. Seconds 354 to sos. per fat*.
PRICE OP HOPS IN THE DOROUGH.
Bap st nos to 61 6s I Packets 51 15s to 61 66

PRICE of HAY and S ICAAW in SMITHFIELD. s
Meadow Hay. pa Load. 31. Its. to 3L
Clew• 41 4s. to 31. .31.
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&fIW, pee Load

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