The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-31 00:00:00

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XICCGM)II, Manes O.

The Asdies for the comity if ;Uri were opened
this miming. by Jostle. Bayley mid Sir J. A. Perk,
who, at an early hour, after hearing INvine Service,
at once proceeded to hosiness. Sir J. Wilde, took
his east in the Nisi Pries Court, and Mr. Justus
Fork ea the Criminal Side. No law bosineu, bow.
ever, was proceeded in, in this former; but the
11.eartied Jodie undertook to fatalists the business of
the Assise by assisting Mr. Justice Park is the trial
41..1 prisoners. _ .

'rho Calendar confabs' the names of more than 140
prisnnevs. and many of the caws a►e of a heinous
Grater*. The majority are capitol. Throe are charged
with murder, 16 with forgery, 16 with bighway rob.
&Pry, 16 burglary, it. boose-hreakings 10 steeling
dwellings, 1% sheep and cattle stealing, together
with diaries for sacrilege, embesslemeet, pritately
stealing, receiving, stealing oat the Thames, corm.
terfeit coin, _ _

Mr. ionic, PARE, in charging the Greed Jury,
lamented that the Calendar should present so inter-
ning' a catalogue tof criminality; for, although the
numbers it contained were not so great as they were
It months since. the offences were more deeply malig.
nowt. Ilia Lordship called the particular attention
of the Jery to the alarming loonies of public-bosses
throughout the country--e thing which, If not
checked, most inevitably sap the foundation of ell
virtue silh the lower orders of society. Ile elleded
also to the very prevalent practice there was at the
present time of capering for sale, in every little petty
shop, or disseminating blasphemous, 'mensal, or
obscene publications. The redundancy of these were,
as far as their numbers went, the natural overflow.
bogs of vice from the metropolis. His Lordship neat
adverted to the stale of prisons, which at present
occupy so much public attention, and quoted various
Acts of Parliament to show that the Legislature had
wisely provided for almost every evil which might
arise; and it only remained for the Magistrates sod
Grand Jurors of counties to see the remedy applied
by pettifog (bylaw in estreetioe.
The following was the meet important este which
was tried in the coarse of the day :
Charles Whittaker, aged 22, was indicted for bee.
gloriously breathsg into the dwelling.hoese of Mrs.
Sash Paul, of Bermondsey, on the 9th of February
loot, and stealing a silver watch, • table spoon, Eve
tea-spoens, awe pair of sager-toorg., bracelet., rings,
necklaces, and other articles of property.
Sarah Pael said, she heed at No. 4, Maids-place,
Dermendsej. On the night of the Sib of February,
she sow all her doors sod windows mods fast, when
she retired to rest. Attest four in the following
awning she was alarmed by the opening of a deer
between her parlour red the shop where she eloper.-
She immediately jumped from bed, end in ping le.
wards the portage pasted " • youth." Upon reach-
ing the parlour she perceived all the doors and who.
dons open, and while esdearooring to easpethreegh
one of the doors, the man rushed sport, and 'track
her three eitelent blows. After ransacking the plan
of din/cuticles, be made his escape fees a window
isle en adjoising ground, over a well.
J. Evans said, he was a Serveyor of the Thames
Police. Os, the wooruing of the robbery he west to
the house of the Preeecotria, where he got a hat and
a pair of shoes, left behind by the men who, commit-
tal the robbery. Ile went at night to the lodgings of
the Poisoner, and found him lying is • room, with
two females upon the floor. lie charged him with
the robbery, but the Prisoner denied it. Upon look-
ing armed. he foetid several 'aisles lying about the I
sewn, such as beads, bracelets, ribands, Aye. lie
found a pair of stockings also, which appeared as if
some one had walked in them through the med. A
silver brooch was else found in the bed with one of the
women.
W. Painter, Night Constable, saw the Prisetter et
the Black Ball poblic-hoese, near Mrs. Peel's, at 10
end 12 o'clock at night, and again at four oo the
mourning of the robbery, in company with two on.
men. Witness went nest day. to the Prisoneo's
lodgings, and among other things picked up a watch.
WP".
J. Simpson, a wetchasen„ said, that about 2.0 mi.
netes after four on the morning of the robbery, he
saw the Prisoner run by him without shoes or a hat.
lb went into his lodgings in Marygold.street.
Mrs. Peal being recalled, identified the brooch
and other articles found at the Prisouer's lodgings;
nod it wet also proved that the tut and oboes found
at her house were those which he wore on the w-
eeding day.
He was fogad Guilty, and received sentence of
Death.

HOR sit M, 111 27.
Lydia Astelt, a dashing Cyprien, of prepossessing
appearance, was indicted for having in her possession
a forged Bank of England Hots for the payment of
31. without lawful , knowing it to be forged.
The Bank bad preferred a capital indictntest against
her, for uttering a forged note, knowing it to be
forged; bat, In consideration of her sea, and the pe.
cellar cireerastatmes of her case, it was thoeght ad.
visible to abandon that charge, end proceed opoa
this indictment, for the minor offence of basing a
forged note is der po inn without lawful excuse.
Yesterday mousing the anfortonste fair one was put
to the bar, for the purpose of pleading to the
moot. This morning she was brought up for trial.
j[er appearance was striking: she was in fell dress;
ber bait la the first style of reships, covered with a
hoedowns black veil, and the rest of her costume
Fuitr4l more to the gaiety of a ball-room, than the
*total solemnity of a Cavort of Criminal Jessica.
Mr. Aiontws, he, Counsel, applied to the iadol.'
yore of the Court en let behalf to be permitted to
retract her plea of Not silty, and plead guilty to
the minor offence.
Mr. Gurney, Mr. Serpent Toddy, the Comasoa
&rifest, and Mr. Rolland, Counsel for the Crown,
consented to this proceeding, and accordingly a plus
of guilty was recorded.
Mr. Jostle. B•vastr, in passing the sentence of
the law, addressed the Prisoner in an impressive
moaner, and led her, that it wee by so means, of
smarm, that lba Bank of Eaglasd had forbore, to
prmecnte ber for a capital offence, and it was owing
to their indulgence that she had been permitted to
I.ieed to he minor it was their duty, be•