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OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

SAtarday Elizabeth Denham was pat to the bar,-
chvged with stealing two keys, the property of the
Governor and Company of the Bank of England, on
the 28th of August.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the -fact of taking
the keys, but would not admit that it was a theft.—
She wa. respectably dressed, and while Mr. BOSAN•
QOM was stating the case, appeased to pay great at-
tention to him. He said the only object of the Bank
in bringing forward this invocation was, that the
prisoner might.be sent .to a place where she could be
taken roper care of. It appeared that when her
room was searched, there were found not less than
four thousand keys. Among them were the keys
of the Church Missionary Society, Bell's-buildings,
of the counting-house of the Duke of York's School,
the padlock of Greenwich watch-house, the key of
the College. of Physicians, of the Royal Exchange,l
the Temple-stairs, County-prison, Maidstone-jail, the
Council-room, Guildhall, and many others. 'They
were all ticketeJ, and the day carefully recorded on
which they were taken. Mr. Bosasieuee having
closed the case,
Shackwell, the porter of the Bank, was called for
the purpose of identifying the keys, which having
done, the prisoner requested that they might be put.
into her hands for the purpose ofascertaining whether
they were the same found in her room. This being
allowed, the moment the poor woman got them into
her pOssession, she exclaimed, with an air of high sa-
tisfaction and triumph—" Now I have got them, I
shall hold them for the rights of my King and coun-
try, and myseil." She then wrapped them up care-
fully in a pocket handkerchief, and said nothing
should induce her to give them up, but a free par.
don from the Prince Regent.
The constable who searched her lodgings was then
'examined. Ile stated that he found there not less
than four thousand keys, all of which were labelled,
except about 200.
Being called upon.for her defence, she said, that
she had done all this ; that she had taken all the
keys for her own rights, which she could not other-
wise obtain. She thought that by doing so she
would secure her own rights as well as those of her
country, as the per Sons who own them would thereby
be obliged to come forward and do her justice.
Mr. Justice RicnAansoe.—Have you any wit-
nesses to call ?
Prisoner.—l don't know that I have ; I see no wit-
nesses. I have got many relations, but no friends.
The Jury, under the direction of the Court ac-_
quitted the prisoner upon the ground of insanity.—
She was, however, detained, for the purpose of being
taken the proper care of which her unfortunate situa-
tion required.
Samuel Mills, a man of gentlemanly appearance,
a Captain in the Army, was put to the bar to take
his trial on an indictment, charging him with vio-
lating the person of Hannah Whitehorn, a spinster, at
Chelsea, on the 29th of July last. Hannah White-
horn, the prosecatrix, an interesting-looking girl,
was put into the witnesses' box, and sworn. She
stated that she was 15 years of age, and went to live
with the prisoner, as servant, on the 28th of July.—
Shethen went on to describe the circumstances which
preceded and followed the violence of which she
complained. In the course of her examination, how-
ever, she made such disclosures as clearly proved,
that if the offence had been at all committed, she had
been herself a consenting agent, and did not make
the slightest resistance, nor did she make any dis-
closure until the 12th of August, of what had passed,
although she had many opportunities of doing so.
Mr. Baron GRAH 4bl said, it was impossible to give
credit to such a witness, and the prisoner was in-
stantly acquitted.
• Mr. Baron GRAHAM, under all the circumstances,
was of opinion, that the whole was a foill imputation
on the character of the Gentleman at the bar.
Mr. Mills bowed and retired.
Mary Ann Buller was indicted for stealing four
bottles of wine, in the dwelling-house of Sir Robert
Seppings. The prisoner lived servant with the pro-
secutor. It was observed that wine was frequently
stolen from the cellar ; but, notwithstanding the ut-
most vigilance, the thief remained undiscovered. At
length, on. the 3d of June, the prisoner and the foot-
boy being in the house alone, the tatted detected the
former in opening a wardrobe door, in which the
keys of the cellar were deposited, by means of a piece
of crooked wire, with which she drew the bolts. The
boy remonstrated with her on what she was doing ;
'upon which she said, she thought it was no sin to rob
her mistress, as she was none of the best of mistresses.
She then took the keys, went to the cellar, and took
out four bottles of wine. She afterwards returned
the keys to the place from whence she had taken
them, re-fastened the door by the same means with
which she opened it, and on returning to the kitchen,
drank one bottle of the wine.—Guilty.
Mary Wybrow was charged with stealing £lO, in
half-crowns, and a live shilling piece, in the dwelling-
house of Matthew Harrison, green-grocer, Long-
alley, Shoreditch.
Several persons proved that they had received
half-crowns of the prisoner in payment, or had seen
her in possession of them.
Mr. ADOLPH as called her late master, Mr. Ran-
som, of Crown-street, tiasbury, to prove the pri-
soner's general honesty, and that she had received five
.half-crowns of him in payment of her wages.
The Junes observed upon this, that there wasevi-
dence of her possessing and disbursing more than 16
half-crowns.
The prisoner's general character was further esta-
blished by Mrs. Hopkins, from whose service the
prisoner had gone into that of Mr. Ransom.—Guilty
of ;waling 395.
On Friday Samuel Doll, Richard Bruin, Thomas
Owen, John Simpson„ lames Binding, William Gil-
,;ert, John Brathry, C'hirlcs King, -William Wood,
Browne, Dahl(' Donovan, Daniel Arnett,
;tifjaraix Gnin, Jo..' ID:if:hard, and Samuel &Ise".
.rd, severally pleaded
,(:iii: y to the minor offence of
-lying Forged Bank of England Notes in their pos-
tession, knowing them to be forged.
Mr. REYNOLDS, as Counsel for the Bank, then said,
la it was not the intention of the Directors of tbs
Ar.k to proved against the prisoners on the capital
,arge, they having pleaded guilty to the minor
kence, which sub',ected them to 14 years' trans-
tatriu. pi iseners were then taken rrota the bar.

INDICTMENT FOB, SEDITIOI:8 LIBEL
An indictment has been preferred again John 'lock-1
ley, who, it wilt he recollected, is the person who held
the Placard at the door of the Crown and Anchor.
Tavern, at the Meeting of the 21st of August. He
was committed from Bow-street, on the charge of
publishing a Seditious-Libel, by exhibiting the said
Placard. And was imprisoned for seven days in the
House of Correction, Coldbath fields, until bailed
by Mr. Carlile, by whom he was employed. He was
also threatened with Maher imprisonment for non-
payment of a sum of 4s. 10d. fees. The Grand Jury
have thrown out the Bill.

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