The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-22 00:00:00

BETTING AT DONCASTER.

DERBY, 1824.-6 to I agst Swiss.
Sr. LEntR. 1824,-10 to I agst Swiss-12 to 1 apt Re
former-14 to 1 sot The Miller of Mansfield-20 to I apt
Diadem. br to Coronation-20 to I agst Sireatnam-20 to I
apt colt by Octavian, out of Evan's dam-30 to I apt colt
by Kubens, out of Maid of Lora.

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Mr. Wright's bni Doubtful, aged, 12st tilb • 4 3 2
Mr. Wilkie's g (Chance, 4 yrs, lOst llb . . I dr
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heat, end before returning to the weighing stand, and. there•
fore, according to the rules of the turf, incapacitated frogs run-
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Sam &mitt wan intliderl.fbe stealing a wretch sad wale
from the person of Richard. Lamb.
▪ The preocetior deposed, thet,onthe evening.of the Ist of
.July he was going throogh, Matatnersmith chureiv-yard
where heioioed.cmnpany. with a woman who wasWalking..'
in the Pillletliree,tion inwhiols bewail proceeding. WMIIt
ill .was anrrining with . her... the prisoner' came 'up :and.
.turd the proovestor'aswatch t and, notwithstanding his
resistaoce. took.it-froei.him, The woman and the. prisoner •
then walked twee, • Tito prosecutor slid net fay Wild of,
the 'rimester; stor did be cell foe assistance. Whilst the pri-
eoner,ead the woman' were yet cleat to him, the prosecutor
met a man pained Walker, o whom he told what had bap-
pened. Walker koew the prieor4 and spoke to him, but
the preemptor did Pot even then attempt to seize the pri-
soner, wha,presently ran.off with the.wotaan,snd the prose-
cutor lost sight of. that: The prisoner was afterwards ap-
preheaded.- The preseentor was sot drunk, and ditlwot
15061 the WOlnife be. a comma prostitute.
The Recommit here remarked that the witness Lad told
averyextraorditiary story.
piTheproseeetor underwent a cross•examination by Mr.'
Mromatcx,in• the course of which he arse gutty of the
most dwelt prevarication.
The Jury exhibited an inclination immediately to arquit
the prisoner ; bat the Recorder having . requited them to
bear another witness,
Rick. Willow was essmined, and deposed that on the 11
evening of the lit of July he saw the prosecutor in Hass-
silversmith church-yard in company with a woman who wee
well kntion ih Hammersmith as a coramon prostitute. He
beard the proticutor say. WWl:it:he was walking with the
wonven; that lie had lost ltis watch, but he did not accuse
the prisoner. who Kos following. him. with having stolen it.
The prosecutor and the.wousan walked together into the
village. The church-yard is eorronniled by houses.
The Joey now observed that they would not give credit
to any part or the prosecutor's statement, and " acquitted"
the prisoner.
Mr. BRODBRICK prayed the Conti to direct the prosecw•
' rue to be indicted for perjury, which, however, the Court

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refused to do.
Niehaus Bullock, was indicted for stealing a handker-
chief front the person of Turner.
tleo. Waddington, a constable, deposed that he saw the
prisoner lift up the prosecutor's coat pocket in Pickett.
street, Strand, and then pass the prosecutor through Teo:-
pie-bar, and go np Shire-lane. The witness asked the pro-
secutor Whither be had lost any thing, alai the prooecntor.
after searching his pockets, saityte had lost his hanolk
chief. The., witness then followed the prisoner up .Shire-
lane, and when he came up with him. said " Nick, I want
you." The prisoner said, What, for George Fie The wit.
rim replied that it was for taking the prosecutor's hand-
kerchief, and searched the prisoner's pockets, hot did not
find the property. The prisoner then said, 0 You see.
liegrge, I've not got it." Witness replied, "It won't do,
Nick: route along with toe." Whilst the prisoner was be-
i lig conveyed to the watch-house, the handkerchief dropped
from the bottom of his trniesers.
The prosecutor identified the handkerchief.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Court sen-
tenced him to he transporttd for lire.

FRAUD Epos; THE POST-OFFICE.
Juk.n Cerell was indicted for having frati.bilently em.
her-.led the sum of one shilling and eight-pence, with intent
to convcrt the monies to his eon use.
51r. Joseph Monte stated, that he 111.1.1 an inspector of
letter* et the General Post-Office. lie knew the prisoner
at the hie. Ile was employe-1 as a letter.carrisr by the
pest-:raster General. It ws:. the prisoner's duty to receive
letters. aud if the postage was pal:, upon them, to mark it
un tl.e ont•-ide, and te.wonl.l he charged ith it the next
morning. The prisoner had been in the office since March
I MS. His walk was in Wardour-street, Soho, and its vici-
tity. The letter produced ought to have been sent up in
the paid bag the same day on which he received it. The
letter in question was addressed to "J. K. llophand. Pri-
vate, 10th regiment' Light Dragoon Lancers, Calcutta, or
thewhere."
The prisoner being asked it he had any thing to ask the
witness, said that the letter in question was a abip letter,
and ought r.ot to have been pnt into the bag with the other
letters. This the witness positively denied.
WM. Hopland said be lived in Poland-street. On the Bth
of January hot he wrote a letter to his son at Calcutta, and
on the Saturday following he delivered the letter to the
prisoner, a'ul paid for the postage. Some months after he
met the prisoner in Poland-street, and upon questioning
him about it, he said he could not he answerable for packets.
Witness oaid two shillings fur the postage, and received
some halfpence in exchange.
James Austin was an assistant inspector of letter-carriers.
On the 231 of May last, inconsequence of information, he
went to the prisoner's department, and searched his drawer.
Ile found the letter in question in that drawer, and several
other letters. The letters were deliverable in the neigh-
bout broil of the prisoner : he found as many as 56 letters ;
out of this nemter six were letters upon which the postage
had been paid.: witness himself delivered several of these
letters so found in the drawer, to the places where they
were directed ; all letters not delivered (the directions not
beirg found) were always entered in a book.
The prisoner here repeated,that the letter in question ought
not to have been put into the general bag.
The Court recalled Mr. Hopland, and asked him
wl:ether he had, given the letter to the prisoner as post-
man or had merely intrusted him with it. The wit-
r ess answered. that. he gave the letter to the prisoner. be-
cause he had always thought him to be a very trust-worthy

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be Comwo:v SER4EANT, upon referring to the Act of
Parliaz.neut 5 (;eo. 111., c. 25, s. 19; under which the prison-
.. r was iedicted, thought it would be impossible, upon this
evidence, to coovirt the prisoner, he nut having. been em-
ployed by the prosecutor loathe capacity of a carrier for
tie Posvothee.
Me. LAW. who was counsel for the prosecution, endea-
vored to snow th tt the evidence fully supported the in-
dioctment, and the Act of Parliament upon which it was

tamed.
The COMMON SABOILANT was however; of a different
opinion. The prisoner was &letter carrier in two points of
view—first, Car the distribution of letters in the morning ;
and, secondly, for receiving letters as bells tutu in the evethe
n-
ing. The witness Hopland had riven the prisoner
letter because be thought it would be safe in his beman
ands,
awl gave it to him in the same manner as a gentl
worth' have given it to his servant. In his opinion, there-
fore, the prisoner had not received tbis letter to the course
of his employmeat and iutrastoteut as a letter-carrier.
The of Parliament was a severe one, sad care should
be taken not to include those who did not come within its
meaning.
Ti.o Jury found a verdict of—Not Guilty.. .
The ('o>131(113 &VIGILANT told the pretense that
might consider, himself a very fortunate man. IRs haft
been found guilty. the court would have felt itself bonnet
to pass a severe sentence upon bite. There was nothing
upon earth mote cruel than such rolibcritte upon
Indio L
Two lads of a respectable appearener.at the names of
Grentand 11144 were indicted' w picking the pocket of
Mrst. E. Jacinto,/ of a silk handkerchief.
The prosecutor was in ;Bartholomew fair en the,4th of
Septenther. and was walkingaunt, warn he informed_
that two boys bad.pick 41 his pocket of his handkerchief.
Cullebn, an officer. who happened.,to be in the fair.„ paw
1101 draw the handkerchief from the.piosecutor'a pocket r
(hint was theain company, and had been so fur some
thus, Witness bad observed the lads followisgethei prose.'
tutor fa a considerable time, and when witness saw Gar