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constituted the pair. I then went away. I did not see any pat-
terns or good pieces of money used to make impressions for casting
from. The male prisoner told me, a little before, that a man bad
ordered a score of bobs, by which he meant counterfeit shil-
lings. I went to my lodgings, and was standing at the street
door, when Mary Bishop came up to me and said she was
going for some gin for Dick, meaning her husband, and asked
me to go and partake of it. I accordingly went with her to
the public-house at the corner of St. Anne's-lane, where she got
the gin in a cup. I drank some with her, and she asked me to take
the cup with the remainder to her husband's room, and to take my
pack of cards and play with him until she returned from Goswell-
street, where she was going to buy the " stuff " for making the
things. I then went to Bishop's room with the gin, but did not
take the cards, as I did not intend to stop. Having left the gin, I
came away. He asked me to stop, but I refused. About three
o'clock the same afternoon, I went again to Bishop's room, and
found him there. The door was locked, and he opened it. There
was a large fire in the grate, and a pipkin on it, containing a quan-
tity of white metal in a fluid state. On the hob of the grate I saw
two plaster of Paris moulds. He began to stir the metal in the
pipkin with a tobacco pipe, when we heard footsteps on the stairs,
and be called out, " Is that you, Polly ?" and getting no answer,
he put the pipe aside, and caught hold of the moulds on the bob of
the grate, and began to rub the faces of each side together, and at
the same moment the room door was forced open, and the officers
entered, and took myself and Bishop into custody. Tyrrell asked
him what he was doing, and be said be should answer no questions.
Sir li. Brawn asked Bishop, if he had any thing to say to this
statement?
Bishop.—Why, that fellow is a counterfeit himself, for he calls
himself by a wrong name. His real name is Rosc—l have seen his
marriage certificate.
Bradbury admitted that Rose was his real name.
Sir. It. Brartm.—Well, you will have the benefit of the alias on
your trial.
A man, who said his name was Adams, and that he was a
dealer in metals, in Goswell-street, came forward, but re-
fused to be sworn, on the ground that he was a Quaker. On
his affirmation, he then looked at the prisoners, and said he
sold some tin and smeltor to a woman very much like Mary
Bishop, on Thursday se'ennight, but he could not say she was
the woman.
Mr. Field, the Inspector to the Mint, examined the moulds, and
said they were intended for casting half-crowns and shillings, in
imitation of the coin of the realm.
Sir. R. Biaini.—l hzd thought the process of coining required
great ingenuity, but it seems very simple and inexpensive.
Mr. Field.—The misfortune Is, Sir Richard, that it is too
simple.
The female prisoner was discharged, and Bishop was fully com-
mitted, " for feloniously and traitorously having in his possession
certain moulds for the casting of counterfeit coin." Mrs. Bishop
fainted when her husband was removed.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A respectable looking young man, named Thomas Day, who
stated himself to be a tailor by trade, was brought before Mr.
Ros, the sitting Magistrate, charged with the following audacious
robbery :

Mr.'Gunn, landlord of the Marlborough Head, Licensed Vic-
ivaller's house, exactly opposite the door of the office. stated, that
he had just been down in one of his cellars, and while there heard •
noise in the kitchen adjoining, and knowing that there was no per-
son in the kitchen when he passed through there, a minute before,
he looked to see what it was that caused the noise, when he ob.
served the prisoner ransacking the drawers of the kitchen dresser.
He, Mr. Gums, immediately called out to the prisoner, to know
what he was doing there and who he was ? but instead of answer-
ing, the prisoner ran off up the stairs as fast as be could, and made
towards the street ; but he, Mr. Gunn, pursued him, calling out
"Stop thief," and the prisoner was stopped by Avis, the officer,
just as be was darting out of the street-door, and brought him at
once before the Magistrate.
Avis, who had charge of the prisoner, said, that on searching
him he found in his coat pocket the four glass tumblers now pro-
duced.
Mr. Gunn said, that the tumblers were his property, and bad
been standing on one of the tables in the coffee-room of his house,
where the prisoner had been sitting for some time drinking a glass
of ale in the fore part of the day. He (Mr. Gunn) knew nothing
whatever of the prisoner more than having observed him in the
coffee-room some time before he went down to the cellar.
The prisoner, who was very well dressed, and wore a large sur-
tout coat with very capacious pockets, in which the glasses were
found, pleaded poverty as an extenuation of his offence ; that it
was the first he had ever committed, and that nothing should have
urged bins to it, but the disc d state of his wife and two
children.
The Magistrates said, that if this was the prisoner's first at-
tempt at robbery, he had at his beginning shown as mach fearless
audacity, as if he were a long practised thief, for, not content with
robbing the coffee-room of the glasses. he had the impudence, with
these stolen articles in his pocket, instead of making his escape
from the house, to go down into the kitchen, in search of more
plunder.
Mr. Gunn very humanely said, that although this was a species
of robbery by which persons in his business were great sufferers in
the course of the year, and very difficult to be guarded against ;
yet he should be sorry if the prisoner were really driven to the
commission of the act by the distress of his family, to press the
matter severely against him.
The Magistrate said, that it was an offence which ought by no
means to be passed over, and committed the prisoner for trial ; and
so quick was the progress of the whole case, that in the course of
about five minutes the prisoner perpetrated the robbery, was taken
into custody, placed before the Magistrate, and fully commit,- "
for trial.

H ATTON GA R DEN.
A lad named Sweeney, was charged by Naughton, No. 64, of
the police, with having a bit of bacon in his possession in Field-
lane, on Saturday everting,for which he would not properly account.
Mr. Lasso—Did you search the prisoner?
Naughton—No, your Worship.
Mr. LAING—You ought to du so the first thing, when you take
a prisoner on a charge of felony.
Lincoln, the Inspector—They have all been repeatedly instructed
to do that your Worship.
Naughton—Your Worship, there was so great a crowd round
at the time I took the prisoner, that I could not search him.
Mr. Luna—Why did you not use your stick, and beat them
back?
Lincoln.—Your Worship, it is a strict injunction of the Com-
missioners, that constables should nut carry either a stick or an
umbrella.—Sweeney was remanded.
Charles Comity, of No. 24. High•street, St. Giees, was charged
with assaulting Edward Earl.
The prosecutor, who is very deaf, stated, that on the Saturday
night the prisoner was very riotous in his own house, and as every
one In the place were in dread of him, prosecutor went to speak to
him for the purpose of soothing him. Prisoner did seem friendly,
and shook hands, but he immediately commenced an assault with
something like a poker. Prisoner is a heavy strong man, and the
prosecutor rather aged and feeble. Prosecutor's head was dread-
fully cut ; be lost about three quarts of blood, and was taken to
Middlesex Hospital, where he was told it would require great care
to effect his recovery.
Field, the constable, No. B. 4, stated, that when called upon he
burst in the door upon the prisoner, and found a large screw-
driver in his possession.
Coveney was remanded until the situation of Earl be ascertained.
Dankley and Edwards were brought up for re-examination,
charged with stealing a watch. Edwards is well known as the
person who some years ago assaulted Pople, of Union-Hall.
Mr. LA/NO ordered all the new Police in the office to he shewn
the two prisoners, that they might know them again, and to see
them with their hats on.
Mr. Lasso told Edwards that he was well known as having
been often tried, and having been twice in gaol in Surrey.
Edwards.—That is false, Mr. Laing. What am Ito do, thus
surrounded with people ready to swear my life away ?
Mr. Laura—lt IS not false, Sir.
Edwards—lt is as false, Sir, as Gon is true.
The prisoner gave vent to some bitter remarks, and insisted on
being allowed to speak in his defence, but Mr. LAING ordered him
to be removed, which was not easily accomplished, as the prisoner
clung to the bar, and vehemently contended that he had a right to
be heard. With some difficulty be was removed, and, with the
other, was remanded for fourteen days.
UNION—HALL.
William Mann, the proprietor of an intermediate beer shop in
Blackfrian-•oad, was summoned for pursuing his worldly calling
on the sabbatb.
Harris, the witness, statedothat on Sunday, during the hours of
divine service he saw several persons standing under a pent-house
erected in front of the defendant's shop, and also observed that one
man in the crowd was served with beer out of the window, which
he drank at the time.
Mr. Curium' said that the proprietors of intermediate beer
shops were not justified in keeping their houses open, or serving
customers at any time during the 'abbot's. They were not in the
situation of Licensed Victualler', who had the privilege, owing to
their being licensed persons, to open their houses during the inter-
vals of service, and after it was over.
The defendant said, that on the day in question he did not serve
any person with beer, ad4ing, that he gave his servants strict or-
den not to sell a thimble-full.of the " totermediate" at any time,
during Sundays. He then called his man, and having questioned
him on the subject, the latter admitted that he had served a man
who was occasionally employed on the premises with half a pint of