The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-30 00:00:00

LOURE OF KINWS BENCH, JAN. 29.

THE KING V. BENBOW.
The defoidant appeared in Court to pleadto an indict-
ment preferred &Oust him by the Society for the Sup.
pres4ion of Vice. Pis ply.. of Not Ouilty was re.
col del

TUB iEY6 +. NITTIATOLD AND BALL.
51r.fttorks moved that these defendants shobild be
brought up and discharged from the county gaol of
Norfolk. At the la.t 'smiles fur that county they were
convicted of s conspiracy. and had evar since remained
in gallon. No notice bad been given by the prosecu.
for of his intention to wore forpt,lgutent.and therefore
they were now entitled to apply to the Court for their
discharge.
The Court granted a rule to stew cause.
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COURT OF EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Jan.

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Before all the Jridges.
VIZ KING V. WAIT.
The defendant in tibia case w is convicted on the 7T
of December last, at the 0111 Bailey, of forginv tie
name of John CoN and the defendant, as trustees under
the will of a person named Jetties Fitrhard. The con.
vietion took place principally in consequence of the
evidence of Coe. to whose testimony toe prisoner's
Counsel objected, on the ground that he had such an
interest in proving the instrument a forgeryoic render.
ed his an incompetent witnesS. The learned Judges,
Mr. Justice Bayley. and Mr. Baron Darrow, overruled
the objection, and_ the prisoner was found guilty, The
point was not reserved by the Court at the trial but is
consequence,wa understand, of an application in it titian.
quarter, a writ was directed to the Twelve Judge,
directing them to consider the point. Accordingly,this
day. Mr. Campbell was heard by their Lordships in
support of the objection, and Mr. Sergeant Bonet/art
argued against it.
When the arguments terminated, the Court was
cleared, and the Judges remained in consultation for
some time. Their Lordship, retired from Court a kiw
out pronouncing their opinion.

THEFT BY A RESPECTABLE FEMALE.
A few weeks ar o Mrs. Sigley, the t!singhter of a re.
spectable independetit gensleasass, and the .rife of a re-
spectable druggist in Charlie's How, to whom sbe hail
been married but a short time, went into the shop of
Mr. Watts. linen draper, in Deansgate, under pretence
of buying lace. Whilst attending to her, Mr. Watt i
missed a piece, and felt confident that she had secreted
it. He 'endeavoured to look ieto a small basket she Lad
in ber band. bat could not effect his wish. However, his
suspicions wets so well confirmed by. her manner, that
he took the desperate resolution of detaining a woman
of lady like appearance. Her basket was eearrhed, and
the lace, (raise about a) was !mead in it. Thus pub-
licly detected, lar, Watts had no alternative but that of
prosecution. She was carried before the Magistrates,
who, in consideration of her family, admitted her to
bail. Last Thursday she surrendered herself, and was
pot to the bar, where she pleaded goilry. Mr. ARM*
lITRONO then, on the part of the prosecution, having de-
tailed the facts of the case, and the necessity which
Mr. Watts had to bring it forward, front depreda-
tions of a similar kind being oaten committed in his
shop, said, that baring learned the respectable con-
nectsoneof the prisoner, and witnessed her contrition.
he wished to recommend her to the merry of the Cour.
Mr. Wiattams, who had been retained on the part of
the prisoner, said that the Learned Counsel for the pro-
faction had anticipated Lim in what he has to say, fie
should only add to his statement of the prisoner's coll.
nexinos, that they were all plunged into the deepest dia.
,tress by her unhappy error. They were people of ac-
knowledged character, whilst she was as yet too young
to have established one (she is not twenty years of are)
and Ire hoped. for the sake of her distressed. respectable,
and deeply affected basband, who stood by his sad .
and under the circumstances detailed, that the
Court would pass a lenient sentence. After a short con-
sultatioa, on the part of the Bench, the Chairman said.
that the Court had cossider-d the cage, which was simi-
lar to fear or five which had come before him since he
bad been Chairman, and he did not see that he could
Jeetly pass a different or more lenient sentence in this,
tbanin the cases he bad allnded to ; since he saw no-
thing like extenuation in the conduct of the prisoner.—
A desire to appear above her real situation in life, by
dressier finely, had evidently induced her to steal the
lace.
.To steal so light an article as valuable lace, was
a crime easily accomplished ; and he knew that many
drapers in this lowa yearly suffer to considerable amount
, by depredations of this kind. The Court certainly took
Into consideration the youth of the prisoner, but still
were obliged to keep in,view the duty owing to the publiil
its sentence therefore was, that she " he itnprisoneiLand
kept to hard lahoitr, in the House of Correction, for rite
space of Six Months." The prisoner, who appeared to
be far advanced in a state of pregnancy, and wept inert-
randy whilst she was at the bar, then retired.—(Man•
4.4 eater Herald.)