Star.
London, England, 1817-08-23 00:00:00

JODGMUT.

The LORD Csinticituant-1 have, Mr. Moat Ague,
minutely ex mined the papers in the case of ez•pArte
Brown in the matter of Chambers, a Bankrupt, which
was on some time ago before me. I observe you
apply for the removal of Mr. Brown, the assignee,
iin the ground of his having Allowed some debts to
be lost by his negligence or indolence. No evidence
whatevtr of the slightest satisfactory nature has been
shewn me, of Any indolence or negligence on the part
of Mr. Brown, for, on the contrary, 1 think he hasl
Atted as An honest upr.ght mini should always do.—
If you choose you may take anotner assignee to act
along with him, but you must not on any account
remove him from his trust, because
.he is as good a
man as you possibly can have in that place. As to
costs, I think you bad better pay each of you your
own costs. The creditors I SCII have divided Among
themselves, therefore let them pay their costs, but let
Mr. Brown be exempted from paying one farthing.
You have forced him here, therefore you must pay
for it.

Those who complain that our Adzes are become
wit:, should know that formerly the best preachers in
the pulpit, did not disdain to becoMe pourers 1
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Lord and Lady ELLgrenottouou, and the Hon
Misses LAW, lelt town on Thursday afternoon,. in
two of his Lordship's carriages, for Dover, twin
whence they embark for France. Their return from
Paris is not expected before the Lauer end of Oc.
tober.
Among the cases brought forward yesterday at the
insolvent Debtors' Court, was out which called forth
the marked animadversion of the Beach. It was that
of a poor labourer, nearly seventy years of age.
named James Ede, of Dorking, in aunty, who had
been more than three months in confinement, for a
debt of dIS 10a. claimed by'a person of Dorking.
It WAS the balance of an account which had stood
over since the year 1780. The poor man had oast-
tects whatever : be was discharged.

ISSIZPS.

CARLISLE, AUGUST I L

TOMMY OF BANK OF KNOLAND NOTES.
Mar, You's Wai indicted and put on trial, f r
having in her possession, the Bth of October,
several forged Bank of England notes, knowing the
same to be forged.
Mr. RAINE, in stating the case for the prosecution
obs-nved, that the offence did not affect the Prisu-
ner's lite. The Legislature had affixed to it the pu•
nishment of transportation. The case was a very
short but a very plain one. The prisoner had, in
the month of October last, come to Carlisle; and,

in consequence of some iniormation which it would
be improper to state, she had been closely watched
by certain active officers in th,! town. On the Bth of

October she had tAken her seat in a coach, for the

purpose of proceeding further North ; but, instead of
proceeding along with it out of town, she had walked
on before, with a view to be taken up on the road.
Two Constables went with the coach, and on corning
up to her, took her into custody. On searching her,
they found in her pocket a tin box, contain;ng forged
Bank of England notes to the value of rilt6o, if they
had been good. That the prisoner had this quantity
of forged notes in her possession without some rnis
chtevous intention-it WAS not very easy to lien, ve.—
The account she gave before the Magistrate wa.,
tnat she had picked up this tin box on the road, just
before she was taken into custody. That story, how-
ever, would be contradicted, and whether she raeaot
to set tip another defence that day he did not know
One of the Constables who watched the prisoner
was then called, and stated, that in consequence of
some iuformation, the prisoner had been closely ob-
served, at the time of her coming to Carlisle, by him-
self and another. Having learned that the prisoner
had taken her seat in a coach, with A view to pro-
ceed further North, they went along with the coach,
and took her Imo custody on the road. On searching
her, they toutid the box with the notes. He had
observed the prisoner some time before corning up'
with her, and was sure that she had not picked up
the box on the road. He had marked the box and
the notes ; and, on their being produced to him, he
identified the notes.

An inspector of ncoes from the Bank of England
proied that they were all forged.
For the prisoner two witnesses were called, who
swore that about tv,o o'clock on the Eith of October,
they saw the prisoner pick up a tin box in Abbey-
street, in Carlisle. She was at that time walking
slowly towards them, and they were only five or six
yards from her when she picked up the box. She
asked if that was their box ? they answered no. They
never saw her before. One of these witnesses de-
scribed himself as .a collier—the other witness was
his wife.

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Rntsr then proposed to read the prisoner's
examination, in order to Arse that she had then given
a different account of the matter. This WAS objected
to by the prisoner's Counsel, who argued that the pri-
soner's knowledge of the forgery was part of the case
which the Counsel for the prosecution was bound to
have made out Al first ; and that now, when the de-
-1 fence was closed, he could nut supply the omissi. n.
I This was the stronger, since Mr. !Utile WAS not taken
I,lyv surprise, ter he had, in fact, of e,,ed the prisoner's
,erefincri4. the less•
Cbief Baron Itictiniths was clear that the examina-
tion might be read, and it was read accordingly.
The Account given there was, that the prisoner had
picked up the box on the road inshiediately before
she was taken into custody, which was about three
oleluck on the afternoon to the Bth of October.—The
Jury without retiring found the prisoner—Gu hp.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE•

Tvh. boldiers,' Darned Had and Morrison, were en

the 26 In July tried for a highway lubbely, at the
Stafford Assizes, Wier Baron GARROW, convicted,
and ordered to be executed. They were prosecuted
by a man named Read, 2 bricklayer's Labourer, who
swore that they knocked him down, and robbed him
of d shilling and a penny, in church-yard at Wol-
verhampton, on the tejd of July. The evidence et
the woman in whose house the prisoners resided went
to prole that they did not sleep at home on the
'sight Witte imputed robbery. To thole two wit-
'mimes the evidence was confined, nd against it thete
appeared nothiog upon the trial, except the decla-
rations of the priaoners, containing facts which were
atterwaids sworn to by others, and which, alter the ,
utmost labour of a lew benevolent persons, were the
means of saving the innocent prisouers from a death
which appeared to all to be inevitable.
The two soldiers were upon the 23d of July drink-
Ins till too late for admission to their lodgings at Wol-
verhampton, and aftet applying in vain to be allowed
to gd into the guard-room to sleep, walked about thel
vilLage to kill time. In loitering through the church.
'yard, they met a man who seemed to be in want of
work, and, like themselves, without :a lodging for
the night. A conversati.o ensued, and the suanger
told Mem his name was Read ; that he WAS a brick-
layer's Labourer out of employment, and a Hertford-
shire Mb& It happened, that in his description he
hit upon the part ut the country from which one of
the prisoners came. A j:sting dialogue took place
between them, and at length it was agreed that they
should wrestle. Hall was the friendly opponent of
Read upon the vccasion, and he was thrown in the
first round of wrestling. In the second, however,
Hall was more successful in the teat of activity. but
his triumph °gaily robbed him of his life. The van-
quished man dropped a shilling and a penny from
his pocket. Morrison immediately picked up the
money, said it would do for beer, and put it in his
pocket. 'file soldtera quizzed Read about his loss,
and were heard by a watchman near the spot, ac-
knowledging that they had the shilling, and would
certainly dispose of it in the most convivial way.—
Read growled about his money, and shewed x dispo-
sition to quarrel, but did not utter a word about his
being rubbed of it. At about five o'clock in the mor-
on, the three were seen near the market-place by
another watchman, and the soldiers were bantering
Read upon the same subject. The good humour Of
Redd, however, at this time, appeared quite broken
up ; he spoke of having the soldiers taken into cos.
tody, but was answered by a laugh from them. A
grocer, named Powys, saw them all under similar
circumstances, and heard Read complain of no at-
tempt at robbery, but saw that he MU not pleased at
being laughed at. The grocer soon atter met a man
nutted Roberts, the keeper of the House of Cortex-

tioa at Wolverhampton, and mentioned to him that
Read said two soldier‘harl got his morel. The an-
swer of Rollers, which did not strike .•e pr,cer as
extraordinary at first, was... I n:ust se• .-..r man ;
this is a good job." The event, how.ve, sn,in ex-
plained the ltnguage. Roberts immediate' • •goired
after Read, goestica.ed him upon the loss Ile 114,1 sn.-

twined, and in a very short time apprehende the
tw•o eoldiers, opiin the charge of rohni ig Read in
the highway inf a shilling and 4 penny. Betore the
Magistrate. Read swore that they knncked him down
and robbed him of his money in the church yard.—
Their commitment was immediately made (Jut, and
they were sent to the Assizes of Staff ird, where, ott

the. Saturday following, they were tried and con-
demned for the capital offence. The inhabitants of
Wolverhampton knew nothing of the intention of
Read, upon the interkrence of Robert/ in this trans-
action. It was generally concluded amongst them,
that the angry state of Read's mind would have in-
fluenced him to swear a common assJult, but nothing
serious was at all apprehended from tae wrestling
hoot. There WAS consequently no interference upon
the part of those who were acquainted with many PI
the circumstances; and the matter died away, until
the village was struck with horror at an account in
the StaffoiLi Paper of the proceedings at the Assizes.
An old man was reading the Paper in an alehouse to
number of who were not much affected
'at any thing they heard until he came to that part
stating the number of persons left tor execution—
amongst the names Weft these Of HAII as;d Morri-
son. The whole population of Wolverhampton in-
stantly showed liuw they felt upon an occasion so
dreadful.

The Rev. Mr. (:card, one of the most venerable
characters in that part of the country, who odie;ates
in the village where Hall's family resides, op .in hear-
ing the event of the trial, set out for Wolverltamp.
ton, where he found the people already meeting :led
acting cpon the subject. The men were to be tialged
this day (Saturday), and not a moment was to be
lost. Mr. Guard, who had known Hail from his ic-
fancy*, and would Ir ive staked his lite upon the tote-
grity of the young man, made a quick but deep in-
quiry into the facts, and having found every thing
confirmatory of his i...nocence, tollowed Baron Gar-
row on his circuit, to state what he had learlie, from.
the very best authority, and obtain it respite. He
SAW MT. BAIOII Garrow, but his Lordship appeared
to see no reason to alter the opinion which he had
formed from hearing the.trial. The worthy clergy-
man. however. was so well convinced of the truth of
his own information, that he could not help exclaim.
ing, with more zeal than di-cretion, '• I see you are
determined to hang these poor men." Mr. Baron
Garrow WAS naturally offended at this intemperate
observation; and an eminent Barrister rematked,
Mr. Guard's object WAS wholly defeated by the
use of it. -Mr. Guard was not, however, to be turned
lrom the endeavour to save the lives of the two sol-
di•Ts s there WAS another quarter to which he could
apply. He immediately came to town, and went'
without ceremony to Lord Sidmoutb, to whom he
obtained an easy access. He remained iti converia-
t4.l with his Lordship between three and tour hours,
and Lord Sidrnouth afterwards declared, that he never
in his life saw such A,l•intercst taken in the tate of
men who were nut related by domestic ties to tbe
in-
dividuals whom he was labouring to save. This
meeting gave Mr. Gourd hopes ; though Lord Sol-
month had observed, that in casts ,:f this kieti tae
Judge WAS oecessarily better acquainted with ail
hi:allow a! the evidence Altair the Secretary of State,
therelOre his power was seldom interbred with
except . under circumstances of strong fact. fslr.
Gu ird posted biitlc to WAverhampton the moment
atter he parted from the Sectetary. A meeting cf
the inhabitants was called. at which Mr. Islander and
all the other respectable residents of Wolverhampton
attended. l'he w knew's were sworn, and a petition
to the Hate Regent WAS signed and delivered into
the hands of Mr. Guard, who, accompanied by Mr.
Charles Kinder. very soon *tier arrived ill towu.
_ _

Chose two gentl,men went, with Mi. Pearsall, of
Cheapside, to Load Badmouth,
and pm into his hands
the evidence ot the innocence of the ~11.1iers. His
Lordship requested that Mr. Pearsall w. old relate
the circumstance. Tam gentleman then repeated the
manner in which Ra.ad aii.l the two soldiers had ac-
ted in the presence of the watchmen and the grocer.
Lord Sulmoutli WAS just going up with the Recorder's
report, and said, that upool his retort' he would exa-
mine the affidavits and act upon them.
' Upon the next meeting Lind Sianouth said there
had been no Lecessity for laying the Affidavits before
the Attorney-General. The case, he übsetved, was
one of the most interesting that ever came before him.
Indeed, such WAS the effect of the affidavits upon
hint, that he was not only immeliately convinced
that the soldiers should not be executed, but in the
absence of his Clerks he wrote the dispatch for their
iespite with his own hand, and sent it to the Sheriff;
because, said h.s Lordship, " could not endure the
thought that the soldiers should have one hour mere
of unnecessary anxiety."
Mr. Pearsall said, there was no doubt that the men
had Do intention of felony ; it would also aiy.ar at
another time that the prosecutor had no intention of
indicting them until he was instigated by Itf.herts,
with the view of gaining the reward called " blood-
money." which was ac,:ordingly pocketed by Read
and the keeper of the pri-am to the amount of 4€Bo.
Lord Sisimonth dechueJ, that under such circum-
stances an immediate investigation should take place.
He coincided in the opinion ci the impropriety of
Roberts's conduct, and said a pardon would be in-
stantly granted to the soldiers. He also compli-
mented, in the warmest mat nor, the conduct of Mr.
GuArd and the other Gentleman, who had exerted
themselves. In the course of his observations to
Lord Sialmouth, Mr.
*Guard said he would give u 2
halt his fortune to save the life of H.ll, so convinced
was he of his honesty.
While these operations were going forward in Lon-
don, affidavits copied from those handed to the S-
ecretary were brought to Mr. Baron Garrow, by
Lieutenant Buchanan, of the same Tegument as the
soldiers, and a respite was instantly granted by his
Lordship when he read them.
The Officer stated, that Baron Garrow, upon read•
ing the affidavits, said, it the facts had been known
Wore, their is:spite should hese been granted, and
; asked ehether they would, upon pa...toiled, be
tak,•n into the regiment ;win? Lau ..:11:tnt Bochanan
, ionoetli4itly lep!!eti, that they would 1,...11).;51.