The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-06 00:00:00

Saturday, Woronfrer 4.

A boy was indicted for stealing two pair of
stockings and two handkerchiefs, the property o
George Henzell, at Shacklewell.green, Hackney.
The Prisoner, it appeared, had been servant tO
the Prosecutor, whose service he quitted first oa
the 101 h, and filially on the 13th of October. Oa
the 17th he returned with an officer, having a war.
rant against his master. The Prosecutor took
this opportunity of having the Prisoner's box
searched, and in it, which %cis without a lock, or
other fastening, were the stockings and handker.
chiefs found.
Among other evidence for the Prisoner, cos.
listing of many. respectable people in the
a Mrs. Burge,a swore to a fact ukteh oceer►e•d in
her presence a few days previous•to the charge in
qiiestionl ,wlsen the Prisoner deli►ered to Mrs.
if coach x bundle which he had found in his box,
and whielv,.he said lie did not know how it got
there. Mrs. IL then said, it wait of no come.
quence ; she supposed Sally had put it their, but
they were nothing but rags. When the present
charge was made, Mts. Derge,s called on Mrs.
Ilenzell, reminded her of this circumstance, and
observed, that the articles found in the box •► hen
the charge was given were r 448 st4n. The Jury
immediately Blond the Pres •m•r Net Guilty. They
also male a subscription among themselves for the
poor bey ; en example which was followed by
massy persons in Curt.

OLD B.4ILLY.

Saturday, November 4.
Samuel Taverner stood indicted 01, suspicion
of feloniously and publishing, as t. u.
and offering ita payment, divers forged awl coon-
ter&ited Bank ',notes, purporting to If notes of
the Girvernor and Company of the Biak :of I.:ng-
find. It appeared in eviJetice, that tbe Pi t•uoce
bled paid away the notes in question (thrtA: tie.
imam! and two two-pound notes) to a Mr. Job
Cbles, a grazier and farmer, in part payiurti, 1,,r
B.bullock ; and on their l!eing paid into the sink
of England, they were discovered to ow forgeries,
and were traced bark to the possession of the Pit.
loner, who was a butcher, at Ilviii)11 Jr..
The defence set up on the pit of the Prisoner
was, that he revelled the notes in the course of
his business.—lie nas aCquette.l.
John Sly and Eliza Hempstead pleaded guilty
to an indictment, charging totem wiur having is
their possession an engraved plate, purporting to
be a plate fur printing one-pound awes of the Go.
vernor and Cumpany of the Bank of Enid Ind,
well knowing the same to be forged.; mil also far
having divers impressions of the said plate in their
possession.
The Counsel for the Prosecution, in conse-
quence of their pleading :Wily, did not pleas
Another count, charging the Prisoners with titter.
ing several of the said notes, knowing them to be
forged.
Charles Rutherford was capitally convicted of
burglariously entering the dwelling-house of lien.
ry Davidson, a pu.il'ean, in Wilti.str to, St.
and therein s 'era! bottles of
trine. The Prisoner was found in the cellar by
the watchman, and pretended to have fallen in
there by accident.

A lad named Bronyate, 14 years of age, was
Jast week committed to York Castle, charged by
the verdict of a Coroner's Inquest, with the akar.
der of Catharine Finials, at Selby.

A s was hanged at &leen, near Lisbon, on
the 'Nth ult. pursuant to the sentence of a Court.
Martial, he having Leen found guilty on a charge
of rubbing General Reresford of several valu4ble
articles. All the British troops at Lisbon attended
on the occasion.
On Saturday, at the Bow.strcet Ogee, Jotter
and 'Valiant:, two well-known characters, were
fully committed for stealing two watthes. Sere-
ral other persons were exainined, and remanded
a •
for another hearing.

A man of decent appearance was taken t., Union
Hall, charged by the CM. ers of the Surrey Roads,
with having been guilty of indecent language end
behaviour to so uc 14,tilies. He expr,•sed much
contrition, and the Magi,trates, after • severe re-
primand, discharged hint.
A woman who sells rabbits about the streets was
taken into custody, in censequenec of giving fent
counterfeit shillings in change for a seven shilling
pieee, aii.l after undergoing an examination at the
Union 06ce, was committed for trial.