The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-10-30 00:00:00

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I rTsit tot Foltcr, Plirras.—Nararelay, au t►e
lodges taking their seats, Sums Dellow was pat to
,he kar, charged with •ttering forged sows of the
Bank of England. She bail yesterday pleaded not
filthy, but this scorning she wished to retract that
'tea, and plead guilty to the minor offence, •Lich
t-Jbjects her to be transported fur fourteen years. his
' Icing acceded to by the Court, and the Counsel for
she Bank oiEngtand, a verdict of Not (Aunty of the
.capital offence was recorded.—She was taken from the
bar dreadfully agitated.
Alsta Dcass and Elissbeth Slater nimlsell to pursue
•the same course, and a corresponding verdict was re-
I ...riled by the Jury.

Eli2abrik Dies-Anne was next put to the bar, also
elsargeti with altering forged notes.
Mr. Serjeant BOtgANQULT, in (Telling the rase,
observed, that the prisoners under the prosecution of
the Bank of England, had all of them the
opportunity
given them of pleading to the minor offence, if they
chose to avail themselves of it, but many of them re-
lied on their being treated more favourably, on account
cf their being females ; however, the security of 4he
public required that a different course should lie pnr-
sued. The Learned Serjea,-,,t was proceeding, wi-n
the prisoner exclaimed in a loud voice; " Jlv Lords,
wish to retract the plea I made yesterday." Mr.
S.'rrjeant Bosanquet said he had no o.hjection, and the
prisoner pleaded tinilty to the minor offence. A ver-
dict of acquittal was then recorded on the capital
charge.

Tfie prisoner was tried last Sessions for a similar
o !knee and discharged.

Slrnh Jones, aged !6, was put to the bar on an in-
dic•rncnt charging her with feloniously stealing the
infant male child of Hugh and Mary Scott.
Mrs. Scott, the mother of the infant, stated, on the
of Sertestiber, she sent her son out with the
child, It was about eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
In about half an hour afterwards he came back, say-
kg.that t woman hail taken away the child. She
weld in search of it, and in two hones afteroards saw
a wan taking it to the workhouse ; it w.is quite naked,
and the man said he had found it in that state under
agateway, in Sun-street.
Hugh Scott, an intelligent boy, Deposed, that hr
*as going on an errand for his mother, having his
little brother with him ; as he was standing at a
pan•i.broher's shop in lii.lwpsgad•.strrrt, a noinan
came up to hiss and svid she would kiss his brother:
lie said she should not; she then ran away with his
brother; he saw her soon after, and told somebody to
hold her while be went to fetch his mother ; he was
hues the noman at the bar was the ..uie.

lie was cross-examined by the prissnier, lint he did
not vary in his testiiniany.
John_ I. heater is a bruiser, residing. in Widegote•
strerr, heard a noise, and went out wtil saw the pri-
sener with a bundle of child's clothes ; ter little b.,y
said she was the irouun that had stolen his brother ;
with the assistanee of a'wther person lie esiii‘c:teil her
to the watchhouse; she resisted very Hindi. The,
tilts's:as was corroborated by Gregory, a riii.stahle, and
saJtker witness muted Levy.
The prisoner, in 14r defence, said, ale Gland the
clothes, and accused the witnesses iiith swearing
falsely.

't he Rrcoans c recapitulated the evidence, Amen--
ing it was a most infamuua case. The Jury pro-
nounced her Guilty.

George .Ilostroa w- as ►apitally convicted for as•ntl:ing
T.icl►. Green on the Kinkel► highway, •ru,l taking from
his person a watch, her. Judgment revlted for the
opinion of the Jt►iges.

Saturday, at the Old Bailey Scssions, a trur bill
WU found be the Loudon Grand Jury against William
Fletcher alias Forbes, fur publishing a and
imiansinatirry placard, with intent to excite sedition
and disaffection in the minds of the liege subjects of
our Lord the King,

There were etimmitted to the connty gaol, on Thor,-
alay Last, the liith instant, by Hilliard Power O'Shea-,
E.g. Patrick Roche, Bridget Hickey, anal Bridget
Donovan, for aiding and assisting a numerous body of
armed men, and making prisoners, on the night of the
day of September last, of James Barron, of
lieorgetown, Earl. and six of his w ?dime++, one of whom
t'ary fired at, aith the intent of killing hina.—(Water-
ford .111 r rug.)
Tlae coachmen of Mr. Fauntleroy and Mr. Disnoy
Lave been bound over in their own reeognizanets of
200/. each, and two sureties of 100/. each, to appear,
when called upon, to ans er any charge that may
,be
larotig'At agaiust them, fee furiously driving on the
ni4lit of %Wednesday se'unight. It was themr coach-
torn who drove the carriages, which, on she above
evening., knocked down and run over Capt. Tweedale.
Wa' regret to state that that gentleman still lies Ilan-
g: rously ill from the wounds anal fractures he received
or ttixt ornivibit.""—(ffiightWi llered).
•flte-Ceuibrian frigate, with Viscouut Strangford,
Ambassador to Coostantiuople, will sail front • Ports-
mouth on T. ariaday next. The Cambrian afterwards
fr3cceds to Malta, to relieve the Glasgow frigate, the
lion. Captain Maitland, whose period on that station
is expire-at..
At the Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of
Warwick, on 'I uesday last, in the County Hall, Mr.
Spooner wu nominated by Sir It. Peek, and Mr. Law-
. I. by Sir Grey Skipwith. The election commences.
or Tuesday next, at Warwick.
• Ter DierminThem eisruniele xayv—" We are sorry to
• •hs..e this week to record one of the st wanton and
bra:al outrages, which to the disc: rare of Birmingham,
w as committed on Tuesday, on the friends of Mr. Lan .
la-y, whilst proceeding to the nontinatioa of a Member
u! Parliament at Warwick. 'I he popalace who bad
hoed the road from the top of Bradford-street, to
Spark Brook, is expectatioa.of Mr. Spoloser'ai peaces-
s•oe, hieing armed themselves with Stunfa and other
t:; can a violent attack am every carriage
a ontaining Air. Lawky's friends, anal, we Lament to
tbat many very respectable inhabitants were most
severely hurt, and several of the carriages nearly
Weak. n to pieces."
Faiday forpnoon, one of her Majesty's Campion
obtained a passport at the Austria(' .tnibasetaillies In
Chandu-atteet, and iialuediiielv set out tar Dover on
way toMllat.. •' • •