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peewit:it over which he presided : and. therefore, Me.
Pearson and his friends made their how and retired.
Late last evening Mr. Mit:slat:ll annoanced to Mr.
Pearson, at Bow-street, that, finling the tale of Ad.
dersfield to be erne. and :11:0 he had been made the
dupe of the design. of other., he ( Mr. litt:ht:11) had
shown compassion to him, and had up/y tined him 5/.•
and sentenced hint to hard I.:buur in the huuse of cur.
rectiun for three months.

It will be recollected that A.blersfield could nat
read, and was, therefore, ictinra,it of the cootent4
of the handbill which he was the mere itt4truinent .4f
circulating: meanwhile the avdp.r of the bi,l has been
suffered to escape wiihont reurtris.

CO CRT

'L\ G'S BENCH, Orr. 9.

London Adjourned c,ittinett after Michaelmas Term, before
Mr. Jt arms: BAILCv sad a %peels' Jury.
THE KUNO.: C. RENJAMIN COVEN AND TEN OTUSEIS.
This was an indictment against Beujamia Cohen,
Williain Levy, Richard Wilkinson, lieut., Jacob Mato
nun,
non, Joint Kees, Murk Nathan, Joseph deneamlien. Ns-
than Datis S .1 Sh , Barnett Solomon, and
Charles Levy, alias Lewis, for a conspiracy to prove fic-
titious debts under a Commission of Bankrupt issued
against Benjamin Cohen, by means whereof 3lark Na-
than and Jacob Shannon, should be appointi..l assignees
of the estate and vtfects of the Batahrupt, so as to de-
fraud his bona fide creditors. In several other count•
the offence was &Hedged in a different way.
The prosecution was con.lin tr.l by Mr. Master, Mr.
red Mr. ARAB'S; Iles Serjeant Vain:nix and
fir. PIOLLOCK. fur Mark Ntw ?Nathan throuttx
SEHJEINT, Mr.ilruTisco am! Mr. LAW, appeared fur
[tame* Solomon; Mr. Juane'. and Mr. Wss.renn, ap-
peared for Jacob Shannon; Mr. mlxnenres appeared fur
Samuel Shannon ; Mr. At/mantra and Mr. 11110DairE
appeared for William Levy and Charles Lesv (the de-
fendant, Richard Wilkinson, an Attorney of ilee Court,
was without Counsel, and defended himself; and the
Counsel for the prosecution consented that a suite pre-
rep; should be entered in favour of John Reeves, in
order that Lis evidence might be receives, far tb*Crosta.
Ilie trial of this ease occupied the whole day. and en-
gaged the attention of the Court until a Lt.flmour of
the emeniug.
It appeared, that the majority of the nefeadants acre
of the Jewish persuasion. The weight of the eridt.iere
was against the deft•ntiants Cohen, Wilkinsim, Jar.ob
Shantou, and Mark Nat ban, and the principal witnesses
to support the prosecution sere, Laurence
John Rees, and a youth named 'fbollllloo. The leading
facts deposed to against the Aare-named defendants by
these witnesses were the toL.atitig:—
Benjamin Cohen, the ItaW.rupt. had hero a wamo,.
inaker its Alie.street, (louden in's-fields, awl basilic lie-
-00000 r embarrassed in his affairs in consequence of altered
losses in trade, a mee:ing of his creditors was called for
the purpose of executing- a deed of composition. At that
fleeting it was staled that lois debts unmounted to 3is.ati.
and Inman's, and that Lis credit• did aot sacred 'AP".
The defenslasit, Jacob Shannon, 'n as the bankrupt's
fatlser-in-law ; and it was proposed, that the creditors
assembled should accept a dividend of four shillings in
the pound in satisfaction of their demands. This was
refused by Clark, Watson, and other creditors, who M-
aisie,' upon receiving s. in the pound. Oil the other
hand, Jacob Shannon, Nathan, and others, resisted this
demand. and after the lo.na fide creditors had departed,
it was suggested (telsi.-11 ryas Ow gravamen of the
conspiracy, that Cohen should be made a bankrupt,
and that his friends and relations fiscal.' cOliN fic-
titious deists, so as by their numbers to or tire
the amount of the Ihma Ale debts, and thereby ap-
point dark Nathan and Jacob Shannon the assiAces of
the estate and effects, amid thus defraud the iivaa lids
creditors. In pursuance of this conspiracy, it was
proved that Jacob Shahnon, and some of the other de-
fendants, caused bills of exchange to he tsianufaetned
as evidence of debts due from the bankrupt ; that Joh
Rees, amongst other persons, ba.l gone before the Cow
missioners and sworn to a debt of twenty seven plumb,
when, its fact, nothing was due to him, and that in cos.
sideration of his perjury, he had received a pound note;
that a warrant of attorney bail 'wen prepared and es-
rented iis the other of Wilkii.son, the Solicitor of de
Commission, to confess judgment for a debt not due,
and that the defendants above particularly ntentiooed,
were more or less parties to this fraudulent transaetioe.
'llie principal witnesses to support the prosecution, tinder-
went a severe eroas-examination by the defendant's Cote-
sel, which tended to throw considerable discredit aped
their testimony.
The leading Counsel for the tlefeanants severally ad•
dressed the Jury on behalf of their respective clients.
Mr. Wilkintusts vindicated his own conduct in an ap-
peal to the Sallie tribunal; and after a full and impartial
consideration of the case—
The Jury found the defendants Nathan Wilkinson,
Charles Levi, and Jacob Shannon, Guilty. The (Alia
defendants were found Not Guilt?.
NA 1'77C.1b INTELLIGEWE.

The Sea Nymph, Jambs, frau; ('ape Coast Castle to
London, put into Princes Island, i ► distress, and !us
hecn rondeffened.
The Wallace, Eakin arrived in the Downs, lost Ler
mainmast in a hurricane, off Bermnria.
The 'Magnet, Barn ood, frost; Bristol to Philailelphts.
put into Cork on the etith ult. having sprung a leak,sei
►s discharging.
The Ike, of and from Chepstow to Malin, strurt 0
the Naas Sands, in the Bristol l'hannel. en the :3.660.
and foundered ; three of thetrew drowned.
FA LUIPVTH, Bemoan li.—The Ida, of Nee-gasr•
Sleentan, from Plyuto►tth for Patistow, fonndered abort
one o'clock this 00000 ruing off Belford ; the moan
haring taken to the boat, ►vas picked up in a Tel ex-
hausted state, the remainder of the crew, three in suric
were drowned.

Wednesday morning, between t awl 3 &duel:, a►
alarming fire broke out on Il►e remises of
Ming and Co. nialtsters and bNivels, Jacob-street.
St. Phillips, Bristol. It was souse tine hebre
ince rottid be procured; but on the arrival of the es
sines the progress of the flames was stopped, awl
their destructitto cuutiuetl tu the premises in whidi

erigivate4.
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Ana II ilbrehern. 4.f • rm. _
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