The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-14 00:00:00

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OLD BAILEY. ,
" FrißoVi) nAltik NOTES.
Yesterday &orge Smith abed capitally indicted
for feloniously uttering in payment le Mashie
Easley, p forged and,counterfeited note, as a note, of
the Governor and Company of the Bank of Engketel,
knowing the same to be forged and. conetee.
felted, *lth intent to tieTratuP the said Goiernorund
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Cosnilany.
The,Prisoner, ft appeared, Went to the shop
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the' Prosecutor; us Crtiwn.street, Finsbury-equare,
_on, the 26th of November last, and purchased W
yards of gingham, for which he paid the-ten ;mimed eote
ipeeiSsd in the
indictment, and received the 4sapgfil
TMa`nOtawas afterwards discovered to Wit torgery,
iistardet to prove the guilty knowledge of ttib PA-
saner, that the note in question was ennuterfeited,
Mr; Judson, a linen-drager, in Sun-street, :Bishops.
gate-street, and Mr. Jenkins, shopman to Mr.,Mac-
; karell, of Crown-street, Finsbury-square, were
Called, who proved that on the same day the Prisoner
uttered to them two other ten pound notes, which
also proved to be forgeries. Other persons were
examined, who proved that on two days subse-
quent the Prisoner uttered a 101. and a 51. forged notes.
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The Prisoner, in hill defence said, that he was '
totally ignorant of. the notes in question being coun-
terfeit. He received them as legal issues from Thos. !
Braye at several times; first 1001. in ten pound
!notes; next one ten pound note, then four five
pound Dotes, *pin three ten pound notes, then six
I two pound notes, and finally eight one pound notes.
! A week before his apprehension' be had some con- ,
versation with Braye, who said the Prisoner was a.
bad judge of good notes, for the whole which he had
passed were forged. A seetire altercation then en-
sued, when the Prisoner, indignant with being so
villainously imposed upon; burnt the only two one
I pound notes which he had, before Braye's face ; and
ilia Min he did not think he had been capable of such
a terrible imposition. Braye upon this gave hint, a
good 201. note to appease him, and went away, hop- !
I ing all would be well. He was in a few days appre-
hended2 and Braye was so afflicted with the thoughts!
of hiving been the iustrptoeut of his views died of
grief in a week.
Mr. GURNEY said, be I"..s' instructed t 6 offtwez-
tenuation to the offence; by showing the death-bed
declaration of Braye, wherein he wholly acquitted
the Prisoner of a reify knowledge.
The Beackrefused to listed to posthumous evidence,
and having summed op the evidence to the Jury,
they, without hesitation, returned i verdict
fixed a guilty knowledge upon the Prisoner. .
The most striking difference between the forged
notes passed by the Prisoner and genuine Bank of
England notes, is, that the water-mark of the for-
mer is much clearer than that of the latter. They
all seemed to be of the same manufacture with those
passed by Flannagan, who was tried on Friday last.
When the Prisoner was apprehended 1491. in good
notes were found in his possessioi—of this money
1091. remained in the bands of Mr. Glover, the In-
spector of the Bank, for Which the Under-Sherif
applied, on behalf of his Majesty, it having been for-
Ifelted in consequence of the conviction.
I Mr. Kay, the Solicitor of the Bank, expresied a
hope, that as many persons had been defrauded by
; the Prisoner, the sum in question might be appro.
I priated to their reimbursement.
The RECORDER declined making any order, the
money consequently becomes forfeited to the King.
John Martin stood indicted for having, on the 6th
of April, feloniously entered the shop of Edward
Barry, and stolen property to the value of 18s.
Edward Barry' and his brother proved the truth of
the indictment, to which the Prisoner. who was an
old grey-headed man, tottering with years, pleaded
total insensibility. He said he was an old feeble
creature, long borne down by vexation and disease,
which had impaired his understanding. lie had
spent all his means by endeavouring to repair his body
with medical applications which bad only assisted his
debility. On the 6th of April, he had searched the
whole city for employment iu vain, and had only
tasted two mouthfuls of food, and was ready to fall
with bufiger. lie met some young men who took
awaytbe little understanding he had left, by giving
kiln a small beverage of liquor. Re had nothing fur-
ther to offer in extenuation, and burst into tears.
The Jury returned a verdict of stealing only.
Notwithstanding all the mournful and apparent
Isincerity of the Prisoner, Cave, one of the police.
officers, knew him very well as an offender of long
standing, and whom the Bench declared, on the pre-
sent occasion, to be too old for transportation& 1

sertencea them,
in4he llastse

ialdey Elitabells Hogg (mother and
.diughter, Wire also harscted for cruelly beating, al:
"°4 s6!"hifer.and otherwise abusing, four children,
pazist apprenlices. The • former not appearing to
hake her 11;"thi !Ater' only was arraigned. The
-Prisoners *tire lanshotir-workers, residing in the
parish of Ste ',rich also this prosecution
was institutid,' Oct the children were( put out ap-
prentices to them by, the parish of Sit Olave, South-
wads.
Fiom the evidence of several of the neighbours, it
appeared, 'that these children were not allowed suffil
tifsrent toed of raiment ; that they were kept to work
wadi very late hours In the night ; frequently alarm-
ed:the ueighboUrhood with their screams, from the
i violent manner in which they were beaten; and upon
one occasions the Prisoner, Elizabeth Hogg, was
' seen draggiog one of them along the ground by her
hair.
The Jury found her Guilty, and the Court sea.
fenced her to One Month's Imprisonment in the House
of Correctien, in consequence of its appearing that
she was instigated to those acts of cruelty by her
mother. The Worthy Chairman, at the same time,
regretted, that the mother had not been tried, as he
should. have visited her offence with an t xemplary
punishment.
Some petty larcenies, of no public interest, were
than disposed of, and the Sessions terminated.

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__Jae! Fzitoussox, 47Tii FOOT.—This pro-
mising young Officer died in February last at Cadiz,
in consequence of, a wound which he received from a
Spanish celitinel at ant of the gates. The particulars
are these: Lieutenant Fergusson was returning to
Cadiz, and had already passed the outward gate, but
oa attempting to get through the inner one he was
stopped by the centinel. A scuffle ensued, and, on
the•centinel striking the Lieutenant with his musket,
the latter knocked him down, and then proceeded
into town. He had not gone many paces when he
was fired at, and received the shot in his back. He
lingered two days, but, before lie expired, he was
sufficiently collected: to state the particulars. The
aentinel was tried by order of the Cortes, and con-
demned to death, which sentence was carried into
execution before the garrison of Cadiz.
Professor Davy, now Sir Humphrey Davy, means,
it is said, in future, to attend to curtain, instead of

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public, lectures. ,
A Correspondent wishes to suggest the idea, that,
'doling the very high price of provisions, every master
l'ir a family should allow his servants a stipplated
m of money per week, to _provide themselves.
is plan, so simple in itself,. would-diminish consi-
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rably the waste that is made by servants.
Last week was married, iu Lincolnshire, Corporal
Dupre, to Miss Nancy Trollope, wins a fort /Ile of
12,0001. Miss T. fell in love with him while he wail
en, parade with the soldiers, the neat morning she
communicated her sentiments to him, which he joy-
fully accepted, and on the following day she was led.
, to the altar of Hymen. s
At Warwick Assizes, on Thursday morning, Wm.
Brooke, clerk, charged by the Coroner's Inquest
with the wilful murder of Hannah Miller, was
brought up and arraigned. After several witnesses
(hod been examined for the prosecution, his Lordship
Intimated to tho Jury that there had long been a strong I
-hawression on his mind, that the Prisoner was in a
state of derangement at the time he committed the'
act ,• if the Jury thought so too, they would acquit I
the Prisoner; but, if any one of them had the least
doubt In his mind, he would go through the whole I
of the evidence. They expressed themselves perfect-
ly
satisfied, and, after consulting for a short time,
acquitted the Prisoner, believing him to have been
insane. His Lordship then ordered him to be con-
fined during his Majesty's pleasure.
Mr. John Wade, sea. of Panne!, has a cow,
which has had eight calves in the course of the list
one hundred and fifty weeks. The mother has been
milked one month four tithes a day, and is now
milked regularly three times daily, giving upwards
of 10 gallons of good milk.
Btu, Roce.—ln. Lloyd's Marine List of the 17th
ult. the following notice is given, which has created
considerable anxiety :--.44 It is reported that the
Fountain, of Lynn, bound for Greenland, is lost on
the Bell ;Lock, and the crew saved." We are at a
loss whether to congratulate the friends of the crew
of the Fountain, or to lament their fate ; tor, if they
hare suffered shipwreck, it does not appear that they
came upon the Bell Rock, or any of the shores of the
Frith-of Forth. This was ascertained on the 2d inst.
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. by the landing of the boats of the lighthouse yacht,
--sess-. under the direction of Captain Wilson, who, upon
William Hawkins
sod JO An Dosing Two severalty f examining the lightt-leeperay-fouud them wholly ig-,,
indicted, under a late Act of Parliament, for making stOrant of the circumstances', which could not possibly
their escape from Cold Bath-fields Prison. The for-lhave been the ease, had a vessel suffered shipwreck
mer had been sentenced to a year's imprisonment last ow the rock, especially if the crew had been saved, as
Sessions, and the latter had only a few weeks of the stated in Lloyd's List. At the Bell Rock light-
period of his imprisonment unexpired at the time he house there are four keepers appointed to the duty;,
made his escape. It appeared, on the evidence of three of whom, in their turns, keep watch in the
the Governor of the Gaol (Adkins), that by some 1 light-room day and night, and in foggy or snowy
means or other, the Prisoners had contrived to get to ! weather two very large bells are kept constantly tote
the top of the wall which surrounds the prison, and ! ling by machinery. het light-keepers report', that
(as he supposed) let themselves drop on the outside. the spray of the sea rose o the height of DO feet up:
They were almost immediately missed, pursued, and on the building in the late gates of wind ; and suck
taken in the Westminster-road. The Jury found I was the general state of the weather for some weeks
them both Guilty, and-the Court sentenced them previous to the 2d inst. that the Bell Rock tender
(the Act or Parliament being peremptory) so Three i could not approach the light-house, so that till the;
Years' Imprisonment, the Chairman (Mr. Naive), of the light-house yacht lauded, a degree of!
,at the same time intimating to them, that they might uncertainty prevailed as to the safety of the people
petition the Secretary of State to commute this sen- la the light-house, the weather being so hazy that
tence. . • the day:signals could not be seen from the shore,
CR tir,LTY, TO 'CHILDREN. which is twelve miles from the rock.
,Although
Mary Ann Derry anf Andrew Hardy were in- i large• supplies are kept at the light-house, yet if a
dieted, at the prosecution of St. Giles's Parish, for crew of 30 or 40 seaman found their way to this so:
violently assauking and abusing Mary Ann Hardy, Bevy abode, they might unite& famine before they
the infant daughter of the Prisoner Andrew Hardy. testild be got off tbli sock ~—( Edinburgh Courant.)
It appeared, on evidence, that the Prisoner, Hardy, A short time since, a- Gentleman in a Public Of
resided in Chaeles-satrrt, Drury-lane, where he co- , lle.e reedved It 60 poinwl Bank-note, which was re-
habited with the other Vilsoner, Mary Ann Derry, ;caved, pa/4 end filed by the Bank, without the
and they were seen repeatedly by the neighbour Ap 4 ses4llebetimplaten, and it was not till eleven months
treat the child in the most savage and unnatural men, 'afterwasa,,Allus, essosissr note, of the same number,
jner, scarcely allowing her sufficient, food to sustalitilt joi, *a first note, on a careful coniparison
nature,. and beating her with the mole barbarees j*f ozg, fed to be a forgery. The ageuts.ef tbel
cruel violence, that upon one of-thesegentleoryeen I first biked loudly, and insisted on the Gen,
i lions the Prisosier, Mary Ann 1)0/17 Weise el -t'Aelidaing the• velee of the note, bs !seta;
on
, unhappy child's atm. These' faelkieshei peel** belhiltieo) thought rotor to let ti a mattp
I the satisfaetion of tbi-JB7 PT 19.40mAistier
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