Star.
London, England, 1803-01-31 00:00:00

MANNING O. HUTCHINSON.

Mr. GIBBS raid, he was to thew carafe againft
this rule, which called on the plaintiff to thew
canfe why the defendant thould not be difchargcd
on filing common bail, on the ground that the Was
a martied woman, and that the plaintiff knew her
to be fo at the time he gave her credit. This was
very true, but the defendant had impaired on the
plaintiff with many artful tales ; fuch as that the
was the filler of Dr. Lettfom, and that the was
very refpeetably crinneeled, on the faith of which
an acquaintance commenced between her and the
plaintiff's family, and they vifited her, and gave
her credit of courfc ; but when they found that
(le was not the filler of Dr. Lettfom, and that the
had fraudulently impofed on them, the plaintiff
arrefted her.

The Court laid, that if the plaintiff knew the
defendant to be a married woman at the time of
giving her credit, fh: ntuft be difcharged ; and
therefore the rule was made Abfulute.

She was detained upon another fait. under the
fame circumftancts, and therefore (he was dif.
charged upon that alfo ; but the Court °blared,
that as Ilse appeared to have impored upon thefe
plaintiffs by falfc tales, the Court would not allow
her colts, and therefore the rules for her difcharge
were made abfolute without colts.

THE. SING V. WATIRMOUSI.

The defendant, Richard Waterhoule,was brought
into Court to receive judgment on the motion of
Mr. Cowry. He was convided of wilful and cor-
rupt perjury, in giving evidence in an adion be-
tween his brother and a petiole of the name of
Skinner, in which it became a queffion whether
five quarters of oats were delivered in execution of
a contra& between them I and in which he (wore
that which was falfe ; and the Learned Judge ob-
ferved to him, that he did this after warning given
to him that he muff be on his guard, for that then
a perfon was in the aft of tilting down his evi-
dence, which was confirmed by the notes of the
Learned Judge taken at the trial, and wllich were
correct. By this the Learned judge fa'tl 'be de.
fendant gave wilfully falfe and corrup, 'ence
, againit his neighbour in favour of his bi ••.her
broke the Divine ordinance, which dints that
man thould not bear falfe witnefs againft his neigh-
boor ; and by which he committed an ad which
was contrary to all rules of jußice, and of civil
and moral obligation ; and if inch apradice was
permitted with impunity, the life, the liberty, or
the property of no man would be fife Even the
prifoner's own life, liberty, or property, might be
as liable to be taken away by the falfe tetlunony
.of another, as the property of one of the panics in
this cafe had been affeCted by his. The Learned
Judge obferved, that the errors which happened
in caufes from want of judgment or proper atten-
tion, or want of memory, were to be lamented ;
but they were difficulties which we mull meet as
well as we can ; they were brought upon us by
our natural infirmities, but not by our evil pal-
lions ; the cafe of the defendant was of the latter
kind, for it was from a determined intention to
defraud his neighbour in order to enable his bro-
ther to fucceed in his caufe. It was true that fume
cafes of perjury had been more injurious to the
parties than the prefent ; bat reconciling what
evils may refolt if the pradice of giving faffe tefli
mony be not checked, the Court mull endeavour,
as far as it could, to Rem the torrent of corrup-
tion, and by exemplary punithment of one perfon
deter others from committing the like offence.—
It was not forgotten, that when he was lall in
Court for the purpofe of receiving fentence,
alfida-
vits were read that were favourable to his charac-
ter ; to this the Court paid as much attention as
they dared, recolleding that on the fuhjed of
charader, there was too often reafon to raped,
that the perfon g:ving it, knew it to be falfe; and
I there was an intlance recorded in that Court, in
which a Gentleman had (worn to the good cha-
railer of a man who was conviaed of a great
crime, at.i with whofe convi'lion he was well
acquainted when he made his affidavit. The
'Court having eonfidered the whole cafe, did order
that tLc defendant be imptifoned in the county
gaol of Eller, Chelmsford, for two )ears.

POLICE. &e.

MAR LROILOUG H-STR r IT.—On Saturday Nara!
Two was brought before the Sitting Magiftrate
charged with opening the door of a refpeifiable
houk in Marlborough-Meet, by the means of a
falfe kcy. It appeared that the prifone: went to
the hook about eleven o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing, and after letting herfelf in, was polling along
the 'mirage, with a bundle concealed under her
apron, a perfnn belonging to the houfe faw her
enter, and demanded her balinefs, and by what
means (he E;ot in, as no one had opened the door
to Per ? Isot being able to givn any faliNf..gory
account of heicelf, a police t !ricer was (Lunt for,
who took the prifoner into t: ans.! conveyed
her to a contiguous public I fa where he Willed
o7on Ica; ching her. This the ftiungly reifted,
laud rapreircd mow iud.;,znativii at WI as at-

tempt. He, however, fearched her, and fnund a
bundle placed under her apron, ccntaining the
dead body of a female infant, about two ye.,rs
She was immediately brought before the 1130'
trate, who ordered her to declare how the came in
poffellion of the body, and her motive for entering
the bottle with a falfe key. She pretended that a
gentleman had given her half a crown to carry
the bundle to a Mr. Carfew, and that the key was
alto given her for the purpofe of going into the
houfe. She faid (he was a Rranger to the contents
of the bundle, and did not know there was a dead
child in it until fhe ftw it opened. Very luckily
for the deteaion of this myfteriotts affair, a wo-
man, who laid her name was Anne Harney, hap-
pened to be prefent, who informed the Mag,iitrate
that fhe knew the prifoner, who lived with her
ov.-n ht.fband in 13trcher-row, Whitechapel, and
that he Lad long bccn engaged in the hot rid prac-
tice of ll:tiling the dead from their h',rave< to fell
the bodies to the furgeons of St. r3airholomcw',
Hofpital. She had frequently known the prifoner
carry fuch bodies about to houfes in different parts
of the town ; and that (he was a dealer in dead
bodies, otherwife a Refurreelion woman.
The teflimony of this witnefs appeared to carry
every mark of probability. She produced a certi-
ficate of her marriage with the man the prifoner
lived with ; and further Rated that the had long
fince left him from the terror occationed by the
horrid trade he had chnfen to follow.

A fiirgeon examined the child, and found it had
died of the (mall pox ; no marks of violence were
feen about the body, or any appearance to indi-
cate that its death was occafioned by any other
circumdance than the diforder.

The Magiarate committed the prifoner until the
Coroner's Ingneft Ihould lit upon the body.
Mr. Charles Newman, the pr:yrict tor of one of
the Richmond coaches, was chargtd a ith affattlt-
ing John Boaden, the man who takes the toll at
the Sunday Bar at Ken(ingtoo. The profccutnr
awed, that lati Sunday the Richmond coach
palled through the bar in the niorning, and the
driver threw him down fixpence. When the coach
returned in the evening, he demanded another fie-
pence, which was refuted : he then flopped the
horfes. and Mr. Newman, who was on the roof,
jumped down and flruck him. ,For this alfault,
Boaden Paid his mailer had defr•.ed hires to prefer
his complaint to the Magiarate.
Mr. Newman laid, that when the coach had once
paid fiepence, it was entitled to pals and repafs
throughout the day without paying any thing fur-
ther. The profcciltor had no right to flop him ;
in fall he had been the means of breaking the
reins, nearly overturning the coach, and endanger-
ing the lives of the pairengers.
Mr. BRODIE, the Magiffrate, very properly dif-
miffed Boaden's complaint, and fevereiy repri-
manded him. He recommended Mr. Newman to
retort the charge of the illegal detention of the
coach, although the toll had been paid, and to in.
diet Boaden for the ktffault upon him. 1-ic did ft),
and Boac*n was committed to prifon till he Ilsould
find bail.

HATTON GARDE3I.--Saturday
.706.0 .Dire the
highwayman, was brought up for re:exambuttiOn,
on a frefh charge °farms:spring to robfeveral gentle.
men, and particularly Charles Poole, Efq. of So-
merfet Houle, on the Edgware road fome time
fince. He was remanded for re-examination.

our men, •iz, Bylmp, Bader, and two others,
were charged by Thomas White, a conflable, on
fufpicion of robbing the warehonfe of Mr. Thos.
Shaw, cheefemonger, in Cow-crofs, of a quantity
of bacon, and other things. They were commit-
tedfor re-examination.

A woman of the name of &Mean, refiding in
Fox.court, Gray's Inn-lane, was charged with an
affault upon a young woman who was out of fer-
vice, whom the (educed into her houfe under pre-
tence of employing her in her (entice, but it turned
out, on the tellimony of the young woman, that
the was detained for the purpofes of proftitution.
The offender was committed to the Houfe of Cor-
reaion for want of bail, to anfwer for her condat
at the enfuing Quarter Seffions.
MANSION-HOU/AL.—Saturday, ••••-•• Powy, a
watchman employed about the Cuftom•Houfe, to
watch the property, was brought before the LORD
MAYOR, charged with having ftolen from the pre.
mites, at various times, a quantity of China. It
was Stated by George Parfons, who is alfo a watch-
man in the fame employ, that the prifoner had
frequently mentioned to him the manner ir. which
he was enabled to take the Chiaa, which was by
means of a long Rick, fitted up for the purpofe,
which, in the middle of the night, he ufest to put
through a warehoufe window, and hook nut dif-
ferent pieces at a time. The warchnufeman de-
poled, that China from the warehotife in queltion
had been frequently miffed ; but, as the (1.1,n. Wei .
always found locked, it could never be. accounted
for in what manner it had been Rolm. A third
perfon proved, the; part of the China taken Away
was found on the premifes of the prifoner. The
China was further identified, by comparing it
with fame of the fame kind which had been Gold
to a tradelman. At the clofe of the examination,
the prifoner was fully committed for trial. Mr.
Reynold attended on his behalf.
A eagle,. well worthy tl:e attention of all Maf-
ters and Miftreffes, was brought befewe his Lord.
11 Alp. Meths. Hatwell and Braman charged Re
terra Morph, their ;crown, with having Rolen
trcm.them three yards of dimity, and feveral rem-
nants of muffin. It was Slated by het matters,
that from time to time they had 101 l property
from their warelioufe, and not being able to point
out the thief, they had been induced to turn away
a warchouienian, horn his fituation with
them, the oily pction on whom they could
rest their tap:cion. A (hurt time ago, however,
the prifoner ap,,cari!o: ith child, and not willing
to give any aicotiut . the father, fome endeavour
was trade to trace the matter, by any ktters (be
might I, rye in h.r pedeflion. While making the
feareh, a key was found. eit.ich had for a lci.ztli
of time lieen loft, and wbi..!, orerzd th:
cellar. TI .is excite] Ani.l a cinfer
fetich was the key of the tale
ohich is the gcniral dep.a for the
warthoalc kcy, other tint was ere

guardian of property. It was no longer dni hTti
but they had found the perfon who had °neat-ion:A
them fo much trouble and uneafinels. Marrs.
Hartwell and Beaman immediately took fins.k,
and found a deficiency of goods to the amount a
631. The dimity and muffin produced were a
part of their property, which had been found in
the ponellion of the prifoner, and proved tube fo
by it 4 matching with other goods which they had
to thew. It appeared the had a hufband a porter;
on (arching his lodgings.nothing was found hut
a handkerchief, which was exaelly of the fame
quality as fome that they had Lia. The pritbnfr
was fully committed for trial.

Ann Maria Fkkiv, an unfortunate young
Who %sae fume nigldts ago found in Pope's,
ad-
alley, iu a depiciable 11:nation, • with her eau&
tied behind, and a crape over her eyes, sed-11.i6
day .ip palled to her pvidi.•