The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-03 00:00:00

'l'llE STATESMAN.

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Cross exaosined.-11e said he had known George
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'Harris for about three years onliy in the capacity of
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Ti,e trial f Conger, 4:ten, Knox, Winter, Harp an attorney's clerk. Silk was requently smuggled,
and people were sometimes forced into money ; but
Hs, aiiil ' thot,.. wets this day resumed at nine o'clock.
iLouisa Uhl, a feather-maker in Cannon-street, St. in the silk trade the name. of the principal and bro.
Geerge. in th, klabt ; knows the Prisoner Cooper; ter were rusaally given op. Mr. Prater knew Geo.,
. liarrit tcebe an attorney's clerk, and that, and the
lives near her;, she went to Cooper's about three
months ago, in consequence of a message, and saw , !pawner in which the silk was brooght, induced him
him: Ile shewed her some white ostrich feathers; 'to refits.
be offered about Sibs. at 40s. per lh. and said that if i Mr. William Prater further substantiated the facts
she liked them perhaps there might be .some mom—. , detailed itt the, evidence of the last two witnesses.—
She iequestrillim to walt half are hour, and returned He sent back
of t die
he silk n
o the account of the
delivery, suspicious
and
with her partner, Miss Illoomfieldi and in aback-back. appearance bulk, mode of
room looked over the feathers,entialterwardi offer- i the irregular packages. Re believed it to be part of
ed him 41.10 r thews': Cooper efusecs to take it, say. ' the silk which had been stolen out of the boy off the
ing that-the feathers were not his, but told them hir' Custoa.bouse.
would accept 51. ' M. W. Ballard deposed, that he knew George
Frend the officer produced -some feathers found in Hargis, .the Prisoner, but he had never offered him,
the stable hired by Norman. Mrs. Uhr swore that or 'hewn him, any sample of Valencian raw silk
the feathers offered to her were like those now peerless ttithe 14th of July.
shoe n, in anestmanufaetnred state. I Cross-extuttined.—lle admitted, that on the sth
Cross-examined by Mr. KNAtr.i.t.She added. that of December, 1810, the Prisoner was in company
Cooper throughout declared that he was not selling , with another person who offered him a sample of
them on his own wheel. . ; , : silk. It was bought for 5191. for Mr. Joseph Hot-
James Genege, he thia employ of Mr. Gibbs, silk. ' land.
Ina.mtacturer, was seat, iek July, with. silk to a Mr. ' Mr. Simmons, of the Thames Police-office recalled,
Green, in the tam trade, and delivered it just as he said, that on the 9th of July, Hampton and Knox
had received it. Being cross-earnined, he said that were apprehended. On the 10th, Winter and
° -he had gone five or six times with quantities of silk. Brown were apprehended; amid on the 11th, Wil-
Mr. Gibbs deposed, that he did send the silk by j Liam Henry Winter. At the second examination, on
George, the last witness, and that it was the samelthe 17th of July, Samuel Harris attended profes-
silk he had bought of Cooper. I sionally for the Prisoners, but he could not tell if
Mr. Robert Grant, a partner in the house of Reid, . George Harris was or was not there. He did, how.
Bell, and Co. on inspecting a bill of lading, depoied I ever, attend several of the examinations ' • on one of
that his house was to pay the duties on the silk, spe. I the examinations,, George Harris was fold, that sil-
icified in It. His house sent Mr. Robert Arnett to I, though there wai no regulaltrcharge against him, yet
PaY '''le defies. and in consequence of. the robbery ' lie was placed in aaiswkward situation, and that
called Cooper to be taken into custody. 1 ndw an opportunity' ems afforded him for clearing
I'.. W. Simmons, Clerk to the Magistrates of the his character.
Thames Police Office, produced the examinations Mr. Harmer deposed, that he was present at the
taietson the 20th Aggust, among which was no de. time alluded by the last witness. Mr. Harriet, the
elarstion made by Cooper. He was net preempt, but 1 Magistrate, Odd to George Harris, " As a quantity
or this silk appears to be brought to your possession,
Mr. Pell, the Second Clerk, took the examinations
of that day. A discussion between the Counsel on -do yea chose to offer any explanation ; if you do, I
both sides consequently ensued upon the point whe- am ready to heaeit." G. Harris then consulted with
that Mr. Grant might be permitted to give parole his ',notice and Mr. Belles, who was attending as
evidence of a declaration madety'Coeper, whist was Attorney for the other Prisoners ' • and after five or
not entered on the minutes of thatday. The-Court ten minutes, Gorge Harris said, that he made up
decided that the evidinee of Mr. Grant ought 'to be his mind, and that the only hesitation arose from
received. . professional etiquette. No threat or promise had
lkeleposed that be was.at the Thames Police Of: beets given. He then began his narrative, which Mr.
, lice ot Simmons took down in writing. the 20th August, as well as Mr. Gibbs, and 1
before Cooper was lag to the bar to be examined, Mr. Simmons produced the writing he had made.'
he declared that he: never sold any silk to Gibbs. it "um follows :—About the latter end of June, II
Some of the silk .being produced, the witness de: - received &sample of silk from the Prisoner Cooper,'
posed, that in the-beginning of July raw Valencia which I was to sell for him at 2+ per cent. commis.l
silk was worth about 345. per4b. • don: that sample I left at Mr. Farrow's—l saw him
Cross-oivnined.—lle said he did not know that a some few days afterwards, and asked him if he had
rod deal of silk of nat kind had beet; smuggled. a customer for it: he asked me how much I wanted;;
I told him 20s. a lb. I saw him again a few days after,
His house expected to get 355. per lb. Thitre was at
that time no Valencia raw silk in the market. Mr. when he gave me the direction of Mr. Prater. lie told
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Thomas .Arnett, a Clerk in the house of Reid, hell, me that Mr. Prater would purchase the silk, and that
and Co. entered the silk at the Custom House, and it was to be delivered to him the next day. I saw
paid 4501. as a deposit for the duties. Cooper in consequenCe, and gave him Mr. Prater's
3. Farrow, a silk-broker, 30, Cornhill, it July direction. I understood it was not delivered the.
last, 'hewed Mr. Prater a sample of Valencii raw-
next day,aud called on Cooper again. Cooper then
silk; it had bees left at his counting-house when said, it was some few miles in the country, that it was
smuggled silk, and he was i
be was absent from home. G. Harris called upon obliged to bring it as pt-i-
-him ors the 10th of July ; he told witness that he Irately as he could, for fear it should be seized. I am
bad left him a sample of silk, and that he had two most certain I intimated to Mr. Farrow, that the silk-,
cwt. of it to dispose of, at 265. per lb. ready mosey ; , being a few mileiln the country, and being smuggledil
adding, that he had refused 255. from Mr. Ballard, ' I was the cause of its not having been sent in. A few
of Little Love-lane. On the 14th of July, witness mornings afterwards, the prisoner, Cooper called
*hewed the sample to Mr. Prater, a silk dealer= in at my brother's office, and told me the silk had been
i sent in. I went to Mr. Farrow, and told him the
Noble-steet, reel told him the price Harris had put
on it. He had known G. Harris for a year and a person had sent the silk :—he said, "go on," mean.
half, by his brother Samuel, the attorney, having I ing to Mr. Prater's, " and I will follow." I went
worked a commission, under which he was creditor. I to Mr. Prater's ; some of the silk had been delivered
After that, and before the silks were delivered, he —and whilst I was there an Irish woman came with
saw G. llArria at his brother's office, and mentioned la bag of silk. Mr. Farrow called on me 1 think,
td him, in presence of his brother, that Mr. l'rater 1 the same aftarnoon, and said Mr. Prater did not ap.
would take the silk 'at six and twenlyeshlllings ;to ' prove of the silk, and desired me to tell the person
which George Harris agreed. He said, at the same to fetch it hark again. I immediately went to Mr.
time, that it could not be delivered for two days.— Prater's, saw Mr. Cott, and wrote ne). name—saying;
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This was on the lath, and this was also agreed upon. that I thought it was proper to sign my name on
t ~Witness, the 17th, attended the delivery, George j eeper, that if any person came with a note from me
Mr. Pra-

Darns being present. It was delivered at

ih N-eitle-street in the city of London. On

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with my name, appearing like that, the silk might be
iered. ----

re-delivt .. (The note was then produced to hito
—That, said he, is the note. I did not see any of

Jury should'receive the evidence of accomplices with

great caution, and to look for other evidence to con-
firm the main points of their statement. It was not

.we 18th, witness saw Mr. /Tater, and had before re-
ceived a mes,see from him, to desire the silk should
be fetched back, as he would have .uothing to do
with it. Upon this, witness went to George Harris,
and saw him the same day at his brother's ofce, •and
told him the message he had from-Prater; and as
to himself, when he saw the day before at Prater's,
that the silk was so like that he had seen at,. Union-
Mall, he bad declared he would not meddle with it.
This he had s-id before G. Harris and Mr.Cott, Mr.
Prater's clerk. The silk he had seep at Union-Hall
-was that found at Norman's stable. "„Pn giving Pra-
ter's message to Harris, he repeat same ob-
servation. h s •
Qn being cross-examined by Mt. KNAP.et aft; !kr
mess said, that he had hefts in the business *bon 80
years. A good deal of raw Valencia silk had coat*
to market lately, that had not paid the duty ; be•
could not swear that the silk produced in*Court was
the identical silk sold to Mr. Prater.
To some questions from the Jury, the witness an-
swered that it was the general practice, for the
Broker to give the tame of the seller to the .buyer,
but Mr. Prater did not ask the name at the outset,
but he did afterwards. The reason. he .did .not give
up tie name of Harris to Mr. Grant was; that he
had done business for some respectable silk houses,
and he should be sorry to estate their names. - The
manlier iu which the yak was brought to Mr. bitter,
did make him think that the silk did not belong to
honourable men.
Mr. Cott, clerk to Prater, confirmed the WS-
mooy of Mr. Farrow, as far as respected the dell.
very of the silk. He added, thit -on the day that
Mr. Prater said he Weald have soothing to do With
the silk, George Huai called gold ten or eleven
o'clock. He said he knew the sick must go back,
and he left his signature, desiring that it should be
delivered to a person bringing a note corresponding
• with it. It was delivered accordingly shortly after-
wards to the same woman who. had left it the day'
before. She brought an order in these
" his. Prater, Please to delver the goods
bearer- —George Mauls." She -did not tal
sacks is-which it was originally delivered '
time, but afterwards took the second pareeti
imply sack.
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ball/ Ile, _ not see any .
the sia except the sample, before or after--4 saw
the bags at Mr; Prater's.
Mr. Sanders proved, that the Saqd called the Lap-
pell, in the river Medway, was in the couuty of
Mr. Richard de Baufre, a silk-broker, proved,
that the silk taken in various situations was raw Va-
lencia silk.—Oa the 10th July, it was worth about
325. or 331.

_ said he knew that a good
deal of raw Valencia silk had lately been smuggled,
into the country.
Mr. Gee. Gonger deposed to the same effect.
The eviabsu4e for the prosecution being.now ;fused,
ilte:Vrtiers witte-a/ktl open-for 1141:defence • -
Mr. Azure, in behalf of Knox, submittedithat he
' could neither be considered a principal nor accessory,
before or after the fact, since the original project to
which he consented was not executed, and therefore,
that the law would not presume his assent to the last,
but allow him a focus peositenag.
Mr. PooLev, for Ivey, submitted, that there: was
no evident, to affect him as an accessory before the
fact.
Baron Tnostesoti decided that there was evidence
sutieieut to go to the Jury, and over-ruled the ob-
jection. The main fact was the. robbery. If one
tuan.Xonnciled another to tnurder a man on his way
to Margate and he was murdered on his way back,
it wositi.be a monstrous proposition to say, that the
adviier Was not to be considered an accessory before
the fact.
Wiliter Ahem headed is a paper, in Which he posi-
tively declare' M innocence, and begged for mercy.-
Mks 440 hooded iu a paper, making a similar as-
sertion, an secialing Brown, the accomplice, of per-
jury.
Taller 'veiveisted the aseeition, that he had not the
least cencitett ht. the robbery. &own was a most
abandoned character, and would not scruple to say
white,
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;but be thought it smuggled.; .He sold it to. Messrs. evidence of Brown, Bnnptoe, Banton and
Gibbs and Stephens, being ignorant that it was stolen. ' the accomplices, evidence which it ' P.
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himself
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and he asked if I would give it up? I answered, as . no enquiry could take
liana as I came down to the Office I would let him
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nation to the Officer, and my wife went with Mr. for the kind mutter in which they had been treat
knowwe r e underwhether t
'Golly and brought the silk to the Tbames Police- . said, that as in this important cause they felt f
office. Having two houses, one in Ratcliffe-high-
way, where I was turning 10,0001. a-year, and an-
This was accordingly granted without
other in Piccadilly, where I turned 70001. do you, street of the indictment.
my Lord and Gentlemen of the Jury, think I would,
in my respectable situation, he induced to commit a tion, and the Jury then withdrew.
felony? I have myself a wife and five small etildren 1 The Jury remained several hours out of C
under seven year's ; and another family of 13 chit- and on their return, which took place exactly °lnt' . at it
dren, left destitute, under my care." ; o'clock at night, they delivered the followins ,e,
George Harris read a written defence, in which diet :—Hinicr, Allen, and Taylor, Guilty-11 'h.
be affirmed his innocence, declaring, that he had , hey and Cooper,_Guilty—Trwesportation. "1
1,-,lox
consented to take a part in the disposal of the silk, and Harris, Not Guilty.
only in the supposition that it had been smuggled. I Judge Teomesoti then observed, that the pow
: Winter, Allen, Taylor, hey, and Knox, but more ' were mach indebted to the Prosecutors for their vic
especially the latter, produced several witnesses, who ertions in this business; and that their ex \-
pencei
gave them a most excellent character. should he allowed them.
,• . Mr. James Tatlock deposed, that it was altoge- The Foreman of the Jury requested the Court
liter impossible to distinguish between one parcel of that in consideration of the fatigue which they ii,„l
raw Valencia silk and another. A great deal had undergone, their farther attendance might he ills.
i been lately smuggled into the market. pensed with during the rest of the Session. With
1., "Award Jones, a linen-draper, said, that Cooper, ' this request the Court immediately complied.
In May last, asked him to sell for him a quantity of 1
Fink, 1201 b. which he did at 2sii. per lb. lie did not.
know what kind of silk it was. The silk now in
question was offered to him tike, bat in consequence
of
.the public notice he refused to buy it.
Mr. Sam. Thackray produced the proceedings on
two prosecutions against Cooper, for smuggling trans-
actions in silk.
Mr. Mayo, Solicitor of the Excise, proved that.'
Cooper had been prosecuted as a smuggler, and for
other offences against the revenue laws, such as pri: '
'Tate distillery and assaulting revenue officers..
•-. Benj. Freideberg had known George Harris from
his birth, and had seen him sell for a Mr. Samson
Crevana to the amount of 70001. Being cross-na-
-1 mined, he said that Mr. Creme was gone out of the
country, but he did not know that it was in conse- I
quence of advertisements from the Society for the
Prosecution of Swindlers.
Mr. Durlacher swore that he had seen Geo. Harris
with samples of silk for sale about two years ago..
The Evidence for the Prisoners being closed,
Mr. Baron TIIOMPSON then addressed the Jery.—
The present indictment had occupied the attention of 1
the court much longer than usual, but not longer
than necessary, and had exposed the Jury to priva-
tions which they had submitted to with cheerfulness. i
It was for them to decide whether the charges in the
indictment had been made out to their satitlection..l
The. indictment was laid against five persons as prin. !
cipals in the felony,, of whom only three were now
in Court, Joseph Simmons Winter, Benjamin Allen,
and William Taylor. These three were indicted for
capital felony. The Prisoners, John Ivey and Jo-
seph Knox, were indicted as accessaries before the
fact. Another Prisoner, Robert Cooper, wa- in-
dicted as an accessory after tne fact, for receiving
the goods, knowing them to be stolen.—George Har-
ris was also indicted for recziving part of the goods
knowing them to be stolen. The offence imputed to
these four was nos of the same degree as that imputed
to Winter, Allen, and Taylor, and was tint capita,.
This case, in its investigation, had disclosed a scene •
of
.the greatest iniquity ever beforelaid open in a
Court of Justice. The story told by.the accomplices
was indeed a most dismal one. It appeared from
them that this robbery had been the fruit of long pre- I
conceived schemes, and that the parties concerned
were not intimidated by one failure in their designs,
but determined at all events to accomplish their
purpose. The establishment -of the charges woukl in
a great measure depend upon the credit given to
these accomplices. It was always necessary that a

POLICE.
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Maulers-House.— Mr. Seamen:, a jeweller, from %;.iilL
fields, am charged with having a hal. note of the 11:,nk of I
Lind traced to him, the same-having been stolen time sin;
from the bunking-house orMessrs. Roberts and Cum path. T.„.
nerrUdant pretended he had given a valuable consider:vino tor
this note, but did not know from whim he had takm. it, he has,
ing taken many fifty potted mores, without snaking :Inv memo-
taettJam u hotu he had theta from. Upon being alleed frmy
whim he bought his goods ?—he said he mode all hiv goods him.
oeff with the asslssauce of one man, who lodged at a public.

The Loan Mason, with the consent of the parties concern/4,
admitted him to give in bail for his appearance next Tkutqlus,
alsawritoucts•STßErT.—Georee Kitchener and— Danrii,
apprentices, were charged with disturbing Mr. Watley, a le.
censcd preacher, at his room in Howland-metes, Toutenhan.
court-road, Whilst preaching to his congregation. It appeared
by the statement of the Complaittant and others of his sect, that
Kitchener in particular had des tubed the congregation for the
last six months. On Wednesday se'nnight he repaired agairth
the meeting-bottle, an l disturbed the place by unnatural roes.
iegt, &c. alien the preceptor left the desk and turned him dust
stairs. The Defenthett, by his conduct at the door in challenein-
Mr. W. to.fle.ht. swearing, &c. prevented the congregation Iron;
being quiet, and he made a promise to send 'same raking tautens
the next Sunday. , On the day promised a ran; of hackney
r coachmen made their appearance, and after forme the
k;eper from his station, they proceeded up stairs, uteri the
stools, struck at the preacher, and threw tile place Mtn Uth nu-
most confusion, by singing flash songs and swearing. The l's.
fondant, Kitchener, was ordered to find bail, but the Prosecute
consented to his release, on condition that the countable shell
hold the warrant to apprehend him again if required. Then
was no case against Dimono.
Circrixou.tu..—Vionsas Spencer was charged before fie Sit.
sing Alderman with being found on Sunday night in the eiurch•
Valli of St. A udrew's, Holborn,' where it was alleged he tenth
tor the purpose of removing dead bodies. It appeared from the
; statemeet of the watchman wit', took the Prisoner into custody,
that a dead body having been removed on Friday night, and an-
' other on Saturd .y flight; from the church-yard in quiestion, he
de•tertnined to oases on Sunday night, to see if the offender
would repeat his visits. For this purpose he conc.'al. dhi :ad
. In or et aer of the char h-yard, and about twelve o'clock the
Prisoner made his appearance, tnrrying ,11 large filmset, in which
was a chissel sti.d other tool'. Tele- watcaunale on seeing him Im.
- inediately seised him, ...rid conveyed lain lie the watch house,—
The ;Prisoner, in his def.mee, said he weir St carpenter, and that
the. basket anti tn:)l6 were necessary far carrvieg oa hisleusicree
! he had been sliending tile evening of Sunday p jib none
' and in his way home, gut some now or miter, se did not ham
wi:ich way. into the church-yard le hen: se wa stopped In the
" watchman. He was reatunded till to-nairrow, s to Let as
! opportunity for his friends to come forward turd speesktouis cue
racier.
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From the LONDON GAZErI'E, OCT. 31.
CER.TIFICATF.S—Nov .21.
J. Pap" Berkingloa. Somersetshire, dyer—J. Cm v ,
Cloutester-street, Quees-square, tailor—l. Jebks, Gray lii
lane, victualler—S. Hanks, St. Ames-lane, Cheapdr, sl•k-
mercer—R. Cattle, Manch&ster, merchant—T. Alu.ed, &Mod,
Lancashire, cotton-twist-dealer—J. • Jolley, jun Vere-Ntre,“,
Clare.market, carcase-hatcher—W. Teamiale, Lit, pool, fat-
tor—C. Hall, Chrapaide, milliner—D. Coss:, jun. Ma h.lmr,
hrondy-W.—W. Williams, Russia-ma. litmet-laia,

nark .14 er—R Ne% rat !. St. G. °lv 4
; Dickson, Woollertoo, Sal- won{!l.4lrr- T. jula

cooper—.r, . roalop,
Kirk, Kingdon-upon-dull. linen-diaper-. 1. Pope, Twat
Cornwall, —E..Adams, Beilkl.mhard, Southaan

indeed necessary that unexceptionable witnesses ro.=. 1. ‘ .. ..•
ihip--h'u-ifderg-Lcer. Tolire, ti..._ ,odtnal nches;;, c0re.1;117,..._11".:4a1:::
should he brought forward to concur, in every de-' Wakefield, grocer—T. Freer, Lcicesor ironmoryer-m.
tail, with the accomplices. It was enough that their 1 Marsli,.Deatuark -street, Soho. goldsmith-I'. Chalmers, ~ .11,a,:rt,-
evidence in some. of the material. points, was con- -
firmed. It was not necessary that the evidence of wV4treet'::tt!rrehlsile.'circamst-te-igr,ldrk"rt:e.i.:ner;:ir,.:eZiaii•
the accomplices against all the Prisoners should be : et,lat•
jeweller-N. liaubs Ingraham, jug. Threadoeethe-athvt, taco
PARTN in
confirmed by unexceptionable witnesses—for it was I 'if' IPS DOSOLVED
to be considered, that crimes of this nature were al- manufacturers-T. Peniston and T. Flint, Lincoln, lime-Mor;
most always carried on in secret. With these general ] Ellis, diillic- aid J. 'Plymouth, 'earthenware-
en-. Ssi Sher
ason ltillandHl., Foster, trur
Yorkshire,t.lliezellyto.
observations he would proceed to detail the evidence i harem-4i. Adam and 717 Willis, fish,,n-gtartlen, jetrellen -.1.
to them with as much brevity as possible. his Lordship then proceeded to recapitulate the evi- 1
' and R. Wright, Loath, Lincolnshire, mcneas-M. Aiugerao
;I'r'fl::.rdThitiarrtf.a,lllVs,:tt4iodi street,
iCrohncianioTdric,-, T.Atatillael: andl IL.
dence at considerable length. The evidence of Perrimg, Strand,' mitlinen-B. Winter' um! .1. Perkin. 1 ilat-
Sayers, he observed, was.very material, as lie was I ,Itr-s„,:n_ztet'
arryiteseeptionable witness"; Conti tiled the -- riizfl -an- nn l.'. Hathbone place, upholsterers-A. Fry and te.,
itirpt?.4 .117.41411dcP NelisrilPer9-11:Orifol., IPioertamtigit:l., r,erchaais
demo of the aeComplices in 'some very import int ! -T.kradsliaw and W. Gibson, Aidgate, woollcii4rarers--\`:
ponts. With respect to the defence of the Prisoners, 1 Vraoelt and J. Urquhart, Clansman-street, Wapping, l'i,:.
)eskers-J. Thomson, A. Gordon, J. P. W ilson, L. H0m0...,
all of them, except Cooper and Harris, bud rested their i and L. Roscoe, Liverpool, commission-merchants-R. "".'
i cause on the improbability of the evidence from the ' 1,,..10°5ci E. Ival"h"se, a"1 A.43lincan, Halifax, Yurk4l.
bad character of the witnesses. Cooper said lie had and J. Ilischot, and J Kigley, Leeds. mortis
bought the silk, as smuggled, and argued that it was ' mer-tvanis-M. Whitfield and J. Fores, Piccadilly, faary.do--
extremely improbable that, possessing a house in _T; Sykes, L. L. and R. blackroorto, Leed
s.
i onaken-J. Day, J. Itokerts, nod 3. King, Nertnu-t'algate 41
Ratcliffe. highway, which returned ten .thouFand i Tuatenharn-court-road, lead-merchants.
n
pounds a year, and a house in Piccadilly, which re-
turned seven thousand pounds a year, he should- be I
induced to have any concern in a robbery like
it
the present. Harris also pled totally innocent to
the charge, and said that he conceived the silk to i it
be smuggled. All •
the Prisoners had brought for- 3
ward a number of 'witnesses to their character ; and 1 i
Cooper had even brought forward two witnesses to
prove that he had been formerly prosecuted for smug-
gling, as if a breach of one law &mid ever- 'be a ft
proof, that a man could not be guilty of a breach of 1
another. Having gone through the evidence, ,it was
now for the Jury to decide on the charge against the d
several Prisoners. Ist. With respect to the three
. charged with a cap' al offence, it was for them' to en- .
quire, whether in point of fact they hadbeen guilty , 1
of plundering the hoy, on the night eliergedlin the
indictment. If they should be satisfiedef tire guilt
of the Prisoners charged with the capitol offence, it
was then for them Ito enquire into the change against
the ether Prisoners, those who were said toJeneetessa- •
rieebefove, aetilitese who wire accessories after the '
•J
o fact. P The charge is *greet meatitre depesicted on the
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Tbe. Transport Board intend to supersede tfit'se
Li tenants who command prison-ship,, that 1I
hold their appointments more than three )01`.
Eleven vacancies occur at Portsmouth, in m
quence. his believed, that it will he eventuaJy
found expedient to place the ships on the reul csl
tablishment of the Navy, and to appoint Coo-
manders to them.

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iiiita's Wharf'. :4iverd. 71
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Fliesbire (Milli.* Leith I r.. 5 Oct. I 5 NOV. —2, P. .
Cqueet (Comatilings), do, ••1 28 M, —4, A.

MARRIED.
On Thursday sennight., At Templemote, in the visor,- of
trim, Daniel James Webb, Esq. to the, Miss
of Vistount hlonck.

On the 47th olt. in Dublin,.lllra. Gapdiner, mother a de 411
ViscounfliounOny.

t.ONIIION ; ertoted itml Pi!blished tiv 9 Loo: 1,6 ria'
STA 10111* VI/TICS. Bi. Meet-st vet,
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words, black wits white. -
i - .
Is to the Jilin t,ey maintained that -he was innocent, and
Late tie sistelthit tie bet Welk aid Ave children deptadiat
the lest DOUstill*.
L aid the LW, kiiliasake,.declared be as guiltless.,
• • Como gdimittol that lbSteaslig p)-eifee,.. of !illy