The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-24 00:00:00

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tont** George predeN, a young man of fel;
specie. ble appearance., was -indicted (or stealing lit
Silver WitthAers, trio pie es. tif4liceyeewlk Wend
other:articles, the propitsty eke'
Bth of t;;-.,, • -1:
The Pebsecutor 'stated, that, his was *hawker, and
resided in Tooley-streetreet•the,mistning of the Bth
of Jeilit be went oat, about ten tearing his
wife at home, sod On his return in the afternoon he
found .lilitrunk broke opeu,..and. his. wife and the
articles in
.coestiou absent t he went di reedy to tile
pawithrokers' in- the> neighbourhood, described the
things le'lted 'heir; and desired It any such were
offered to pledge, 'the person offering tivem might
be stopped ; on the 'following day the watch-keys
were offered to pledge by the Prisoner, and the Pro-
secutor was sent for,—the Prosecutor did not know
the Prisoner's person, but on hearing his name, he
• knew him to be thewian with whom he had been in-I
formed 'his, wife cohabited during his (the Proseee.
tor's) occasional absence from town ; he immediately
procured a 'search warrant, and in the Prisoner's
. apartments found the two piece& of lace, andseverel
other of the article-ale had lost. lie had not seen
his wife since the day of the robbery.
.1 The defeneetet up was, that the Prosecutor's wife
had breught the things to the Prisoner's lodging.--
The Priseher acknowledged he had cohabited with
the wifel.'but said, he took her at a time when she !
land her infant had been deserted by the Prosecutor, I
and 'did not, for sometime after, know she. was a
; married woman. The Prosecutor was afterwardi
taken ihto dustody.by the Parish Officers, on a charge 1
of desertitieris family, and liken before the Lord
Mayor, When he 'promised to treat them better, and I
provide for them; She accordingly went home again,
and the Prisoner, to 'avoid giving any cause of unea:
siness to there, shunned that part of the town where
they lived ;lie had not seen her for some weeks till
the Bth of 'Tube, when she came to his lodgings in
the afternoon, in great distress, saying the Prosecu- I
Mr had again been:using her ill, and would not even
Fey for the maintenance of her child where it was
at nurse. She brought a bundle, containing 'the
things in question, which, she mid, she would pledge
te raise 'money for that purpose. She staid with
: the' Pilsoner that night, •and, at her request_ it was,
that he' the next day offered the Watch-keys to
!-pledo. • . •
The Officer who seerehed the apartments proved
that the things he found there were not concealed, I
and iniverat respectabhapersons gave him an excellent:)
character. '
The CUAlnstAst observed the only question for!
the Jury to consider was, whether the Prisoner or
the Prosecutor's wife had forced open the trunk? if
the latter, there was no felony, as a wife could not,
in the eye of the law, be guilty of robbing her hug-
! band ; and, therefore, however guilty in a moral point
of view the Prisoner:might be in receiving the pro-
, perty so obtained, yet, in a legal point of view, he
must be acquitted.
I- The Jury, after a short deliberation3 acquitted die
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POLICE.'

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BOW-STREET.
FRAI.'D ON* SILVER PLATE.--CAUTION TO TEM
Puactc.—On Wednesday last a. silversmiiis, of, the
name of William Harrison, was committed for trial,
on the prosecution of the Board of Stampil, for a
, in transposing or removing the duty mark
from bottle labels to some cream ;pots, thereby eva-
ding the duty and assay on the latter articles. This
fraud is effected by cutting out the'King's duty and
assay marks entire from the smaller pieces of plate
land letting them into larger ones, by which means
not only the revenue is d, frauded.of, thO duty, but
silver of • baser quality is uttered, as it avoids the
assay at Goldsmith's Hall, where all genpine silver
plateis taken by the maker, not only for the duty
stamp, but to be assayed, to prove that the silver is
r of the proper standard.
Frauds of this description have lately been com-
mitted.to a ►ery considerable extent, not only to the
injury of the Re►enue, but to the Public, and Go.
vernment are determined to prosecute all persons de-
tected in coennittingthem r:the device is so well exe-
cuted, that it is difficult for any cue not in the trade
to observe it; but it is to be discovered by breathing
round the duty and Hall marks, when the junetionsl
n ill plainly appear.—The offence is made capital by
the Act-of the 24th Geo.

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MARRIED.
Yesterdly, td St. George,* Church, the Rteht Hon. Lotd
Walpole, to Matt 7, eldgit.tlatlhter of the late Wa. Fawkeaer,
Es Clerk ova ilajesty'a 'Pnry Masud. • -
kristerdayr at Mary-.le-booe Char* Fretmain.W.. Ek.
Jo Marrero, daft daughter.; and Williais Rosierre, Esq. to
Maria [lobelia, rossigattlaughter of the Rev. Dr.Straises, Pre-
bendary et ,R,ftlA", ; , . '

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Os tile Vet**. irs Bath, in the iiilllearkilsge, Sir Robert
Ainslie, Bout, 3,, 1 ChM,, .
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