The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-12 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

THURSDAY, MAY it.
Edward Webb was indicted for burglarionsly breaking:lnd
entering the duelling-house of flannel Mendes Dacosta, Foy.
and stealing therein plate, linen, and apparel. The Proseemor
resides in Prescott-street, Goodman's-Gelds, and the Prisoner
was formerly his servant. On the night of the 14th of April, the
house was broke open, and the property as laid in the indict-
ment stolen. A female servant was awoke by the ringing of
the kitchen bell at four o'clock in the morning, she went down
stairs with another maid servant, and a person from without
desired to see the master of the house, but the servants at that
time took no notice of it, and they retired again to led. Soon
after the bell was pnlled.agaie, and the servants then under-
stood that something in reality was amiss, and they found that
die kitchen door had been forced and the property stolen. The
Prisoner wag detected by Forfeiter, an officer, in making of
with the booty.—Guilty, Death.
Ann Rooke was capitally convicted for stealing *sheaf,
valise lb. the goods of Richard Taylor, privately in his shop.
As Were also Joh. Cherch and Thomas Beckenham, for
trailing 14 pair of woollen blankets, value il. ss. 6J. the pro-
perty of Robert Guuson. in his dwelling-house.
George Brown, a youth, for privately stealing, in the shop
of J. Hupp., a quantity of silk, value bs. was also capitally
convicted.
George Sherrington Was indicted far stealing two Bank of
England notes, of the value of 11. each, in the dwellieg-home
of Thomas Martin, in Peter-street, C.Jerkenwell.
The Prisoner, it appeared, west he the keine of the Prose-
cutor. wins is an iniffrnt old man, and'repnrarating himself as de
aont of a benevolent society. proposed obtaining relief hr
him and his family. To this his wife Matte some objections,
thinking others more deserving. The Prisoner, however, de-
scribing the institution to which he belonged to he one on a
liberal scale and to be patronised by the Prince Regent, the
proposed relief was accepted. The Prisoner then desired the
woman to sign a paper, and to put op a little money for fen,
Ice. and to come with him. Sire accordingly put some Mier
and two 11. motes iu a bag, and while she was putting on her
cloak, the Prisoner contrived to take up the hag, and draw
out the notes. She observed his hand tremble, and baringlook-
ed into the bag missed the notes. Upon asking the Prisoner
what had become of them, he run out of the shop; bat anakarra
being instantly given, he was secured, and the notes wen
taken Irons his hat by himself, and delivered over to the
woman, saying, " here is your money, I hope yon don't think
1 meant to rob you." The notes were identified, and the Fri.
saner was found guilty.
Richard Patch was found guilty of embezzling the rum of
801. on the Bth of February last, the property of Stevenson,
Remingtous, and Co. of Lombard-street, bankers.

SIR, MY BROTIIER,—If I go aside from the ordi.
nary and established fprnss used between Sovereigns
in addressing *this letter to your Royal Highness, I
trust you will only sec in my determination the
homage which I wLb to pay to the nobleness of your
character, and the iuterest I attach to the establish-
ing a direct and personal intercourse with your Royal
Highness, although at the same time they may not
perhaps have all the solemnity which they ought to
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possess. I also pray you, Sir, my Brother, to con- COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 11.
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....The
.siegular circumstance of MAATIS and C'''•
sider, that I fiud myself, with respect to gagland, . wi issioss Eft.
ALIAS
;hating shared and sold, in shares, the only fl(Vg'l
hi a situation quite extraordinary, and which may IN THE MATTER OF ALEXANDER LAIDLOW,
!Prize in the last Contract, induces the strongest tr
require that I should seek, by an act of mine equally I ALEXANDER LAIDLAW,' A BANKRUPT.
lief that they will share and sell the only £3o,:;etl
extraordinary, explanations and assurances netts. ! This very curious and interesting case came on this
Prize, the greatest in the present Lottery; indeed,
airy for the regulation of my political conduct. ! day, upon an adjourned motion from the last Term,
the annals of chance furnishes repeated instances of
I am, by my inclination, by my principles, by ' and excited much wit and humour at the bar between this
my most evident interests, the friend of Eogland ; Sir Samuel Romilly, supported by Mr. Montagu, fornature, for it will be found (list a run of good
and on all occasions, even in the midst of the most the motion, and Mr. Leach,supported by Mr. Cullen,
SIIAKERPEARE evidently was of this opinion, when
terrible war, every Englishmap, who has had occ,a- ' against it.
he said, " There is a tide in the affairs amen,"
lion to know me, has found in me a friend. I The motion was for an order to supersede the first
&c.—No. 8, Cornhill, and 110, Oxford-street, are
My kingdom can find,, in the alliance with Great of two Commissions sued out against the bankrupt
Fortune's Imperial Offices, where Tickets and Shares
Britain, nothing but advantages the most positive, , in the' last monthv within a few days of each other,'
the most immediate, the most completely exempt :on the ground of misnomer in the first Commission, are new on sale, and where the Gol len Prizes will
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from inquietude ; and it is manifest that my alliance . in which the sirname was made Laidlow, instead of . be paid in Guineas, as soon as drawn, by MARTI.
and Co. Stock-brokers. To-morrow the Lottery
with the English Government can be equally ukeful. . the true sirname Laidlaw, which the supporters of .
Filled with these ideas and • these sentiments, I the motion contended, on the authority of many afli- gins and finishes.
trusted without reserve to the faith of the British davits, was the real addition of the hankiu twho . usi"."
13 s rollectiti4 clerk iii the e :.ploy ..t 51,--rs. Barclay and to. ay i
Minister, and I took in the last war a part which lived and traded long at Hull, in Yorkshire. 'sn •rsortaay charted with be
IEOI. the proPell f
A I.L.—A. younc min, who has been for sorn,r 1117_
The PriAmer.
was not without influence on the destinies of En- I On the other side it was argued that this was al lii' enTi"Ye"'
cort-Ilioney °WY. and la the cour::,- of the cwt two yeitr ID"!
rope. . ! race run by two Solicitors, who had each striven to received
a ,Isos of not les:. (ban:ROAM. Go Altling• his arcing!
I have had under my orders English troops; they have the whale profits of the Commission, the latter 1 on the tifli of last month, tber, appraied to be n deticierac.Y4":
have fought and conquered with my troops. But al- having been taken out without leave of the Court, in ; 11301. for sa hid' he e,•ii:d ii t 4ereannt ;he was aet.t?rdit..
though the war has now been terminates) many the self-confidence that the name in the first Commis- , iass., into custody. and hrought up for a mud examinatiam
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at :iipeztrecl, wits colledor c,
. Solucit..r attended, niA conseret. d that Otte was no itrrn t;'1:
months, and a general peace is established in Europe, sion was wrong, while on the ()the; side there were :
yet no aothentic stipulation. places me'state of many affidavits produced to show that in Scotland, . whatever on the part of the Primmer, feloniously to eetz_ -,
I spy pare of his employer's property. It vin a mere owe
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friendship with EuglarnL I have no accredited bli- and the contiguous parts of the North of Scotland, ! intricate and exte.sive account :old the deficiency is'.
some itriccoraev which, if tint,:ons allowed. inaht he rern!r*
nister at London; there is no English Minister at the letter A was pronounced or sounded as 0 which i The Pri'""" "s*
, t i A.siz-i., on a specific charge of embeszling4s:. the pmp- 3
Naples; and although already the commerce betweeu constituted the difference. 1 itis employers.
the two States hns assumed great activity, and though The Loan CHANCELLOR observed, that it world —..w...._•--
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however, fiiiv e,anmi«,d fur tri:,l..ar:, r•;1
my harbours and eofrepots are 'filled with English bellificalt to God a Yorkshire Jury to give a verdict LONDON . Pritsed .std putaiihed to, D. 1.,),„&. a'
tenets and English prisehicts, no •conventioe has re- upon such 'evidence of Scotch pronunciation in Eng. '- eisicnisse *Orrice, $7, Fleet-st-eet

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