The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-07 00:00:00

STATESMAN.

.wlitcht with which he afterwards attend al at Bow.
street, where the Prosecutor swore to it as being
his property.
Thu Prisoner, a young man about 19, who was
stated to be i journeyman plasterer, endeavoured
to find a law in the indictmetit, and obtain a-point
of law in his favour, by asking the Prosecutor
how he had put him in dread and fear ? The
Prosecutor answered, that he was not in dread or
fc..r. The Prisoner then, addressing himself to
the Court, said, 44 Well, my Lord, you'll please
to observe; that it was mentioned in the indictment
that has been just read against me, that I did put
him in dread and fear."
Mr. Daniel Kennedy, late a publican, but who
has now retired from business, and lives in Cross-
court, King-street, Drury.lane, and three or four
other credible witnesses, here testimouy to the ge-
neral good character of the Prisoner.
The COMMON' SeItIIANT, who tried the ease,
lamented to find at youth who had previoesly
borne a fair character, as far as the knowledge
of these respectable witnesses estended, appear to
be such tut adept in the ways of thieving, as to
pot the sort of (pebbling rptesiion he bad done to
the Prosecutor. But all the Judges had repeat-
edly ruled, that notwithstanding that old farm of
law was very properly adhered to in the framing
of such indictments, yet it was by no meatrs ab-
solutely necessary to prose the existen.c of such
fear ; all that was requisite in such cases was to
prove that a sufficient degrbo of force had been
used, so as to render the person so assaulted in-
capable of resistance by any ordinary means. In
the present case, however, avoids, hardly be said,
that any violence bad been made use of ; the Pro-
secutor had been merely jostled, so as to take up
his attention for the moment ; and he swears that
he conld very well have prevented the Prisoner
from doing what be did,, if he was aware of is hat
he was about. The offence, therefore, he be.
Hewed, would amount to stealing only.
The Jury immediately pronounced the Prjscruei
Guilty of Grand Larceny.

POLICg.

BEFORE ALDERMAN SCHOLET.

Guit.oliii.c.—Yesterday Mary Ifrrazyll was
charged by a pawnbroker of the name of Beeves,
residing in Barbican, with having obtained at his
shop, at various times, several sums, amountuhj
to above 161. upon certain watch chains, pre.
tended to be gold, but which were in reality only
'copper, and not intrinsically worth two shillings
each.

It was proved, by Mr. Reeves's shopman, that
he had advanced altogether the sum of 60'. upon
chains of this description ; part to this young *o-
men, and part to a young man whom he saw in
her company, and ts ho was waiting for her out-
side his inasto's door, at the .time she was taken
into custody, last Thursday evening. He said the
Prisoner first came with one chain, upon which
he, supposing it to be gold, advanced 21. She
did not actually sav it was gdtd ; but v. hen he
asked her if it
.wsl, she answervd. he ought to
know best. The chain, if gold, would have
been worth 31; He examined it and weighed it,
aml from the weight and fineness of the work-
manship, he took it to be gold. She afterwards,
within a short time, brought him eight other chains
of the same description, and obtained from hint
upon each 21. The Prosecutor's Solicitor, Mr.
lIUMPURIVIs rested the criminal part of the
charge on the Prisoner's; coming is often to the
shop on the like business, and obtaining sums of
money greatly beyond what she knew to be the
value of the chains, and thereby using a false pre.
teuce or false token.

The girl, in her defence, said that she knew no.
thin* whatever of the value of the chains ; she I
meltly carried them to Mr. Reeve,. to pawn, at
the request of a young man of her acquaintance,
named James Lawrence, a chamber - working
watchmaker.. She merely asked upon theta the
money he desired her, and she never said the chains
were gold, nor knew any thing of the matter.
She readily gave tha address of the young man in
Fetter-lane; but said he knew she was in custody,'
and she had reason to believe be was run away. .
The girl's uncle, however, iiho was in Court;
went out, and shortly after returned wish Law.
rence iu custody. Ile made no hesitation in de-
claring he had sent the girl to pawn the chains, sad
named to her the sums to ask, and that she had no
knowledge,whatever of their inftrior vrlua. hie
acknowledged he had - himself pained a number
of similar chains in the same shop ; that they were
of inferior gold—bat that he had himself allowed
two pounds each for then to the maker, in ti.
change fur watches, and that he did so because he
wanted money, and found chains pawned to more
advantage than watches could. Ile had a great
• number of real gold chains in pure in dill:meth
parts of town.

The female prisoner was admitted to bail, anti
Lawrence was remanded fur (Water in►estigation
of the affair. -

The affairs 61 Spain are drawing within a small
space. The Emperor Napoleon ho lower dis-
quiets himself about the 'natter. We are„ as wo
have all along been dning, ',reputing the work to
his hands. In the anxiety- to cooler a title on.the
hero of Talavera, it %las nerebswry to cast an obe,
loquy on the Spanish trouos and Spanish Com-
mander, as being of no use in the field ; and this
stigma has given just offence to the '• univcrial
Spanish Nation." The Junta has been cuunl:ell.•tl
to resent the affront, in which the SupreuseCoun.
cil partitipates ; so that the Noble Marquis asati
very well be spared to return to his own country,
in order to put its concerns upon as good a•
footing as he will have left those of our Iberian
I allies.

The London Company, who hare the Dul. of
Gordon's forests on lease, have determined to try
the experiment of Tar making in the extensive to.
rests of the Spey. Three Danes pilled throUgh
Bervie, on their way to the forests, about six or
eight weeks ago, for the purpose of begioning
the manufacture, and lustructins. the iphabitanta
in it.