The Sun. — 1801-03-18 (London, England)

ROB I:Z.. SON, Esqrs. on' a charge of robbing the Rev. Dolor R. Hamilton, in KensingtOn-Gardens. Do6tor Hamilton stated, that on Tuesday, the loth inst. as he was walking through Kensing.. ton Gardens, about three o'clock in the afternoon, he observed the prisoner, White, standing in one of the alcoves, at the distance of about loci yards from him, 'when having some suspicion of his intention, .he turned back, on which the Prisoner followed him ; and, -- finding- •he gained ground upon him, .Pro;ecuLor stopped, when:the , Prisoner came up to him,- and asked him to give hint somethiog, saying, he was .a Soldier in distress ; that, after expostulating with him on the impropriety of his eoralutt in begging, he gave him sipcnee or a shilling, which the Prisoner recei,-ed,i but telling him that would not do, land at the site time hoidinta bludgeon he. had in his hand, in a threatening position over •Vrose. tutor's head, demanded his money, and .swore he, would murder him, unless he instantly delivered .it ; that, after giving him his money' to the amount of about il. Bs. the Prisoner demanded his watch, which was also delivered to him, and he went away, ordering him to return the way he came, and, that if he looked back, he, the Prisoner, would follow and murder him ; that he did not see the Prisoner again till the pre-. sent time, but: was positive he was the man that robbed him as before described.  james.-Piercy,. a boy employed to look after His 'Majesty's Sheep, in -Kensington Gardensg saia, that he saw the I'risoner:there on the afternoon of the Toth instant, and lent -hiin a knife to trim a stick, he then had with him ; that, haying heard of the robbery, and seeing the Prisoner again this day (Monday), in -the Gardens, he told two men at work there of it, who secured him.  ,The two men -alluded to corroborated the boy's testimony As to the apprehension of the Prisoner, and produced a large bludgeon they took from him.  .The Prisoner on being—asked by the Magi.. strate if he would wish to make any reply to the' charge, denied it in toto, but the fad being so strongly supported, the Parties were bound over to prosecute him for the highway robbery, at the next Old. Bailey, Sessions. James Daft lilliaix Trulogaodi David Evans, Diana BAd, Margaret Cogin, and Ann bogini were brought in custody on auspit:ion of rob.. bing the calico grounds of Mr. George Sucher.. land, at'Miteharn, in Surrey,. ,of a quantity of /printed calicoes. By the testimony of Revett, Jones, and other ,oflieqrs who apprehended the PiisonerN, it appear.. ed, that 'in consequence of some private informa_. tion, they had received, they went on Monday evening to a house -in Rose,street, Long-acre, where they found the Prisoner 'thy, and the several remnants of printed calicoes now pro:. duced, together with a. loaded pistol, and that the Prisoner Diana Bond was in company Wiih him. That they went to a. house in BainiiKidge.. street, St. Giles'snin the passage .of which they met the, l'risyntr Twogood, who made a deope. 'rate resistance, and en;w:{voured to draw a loaded pistol, from hi's pocket to shoot Revett. That 'in a room off the ground floor Of the iainellobse, they found the Moiler Evans, Margaret Cogin, ;'and Ann, Cogin, and in -a box several remnants or printed calicoes, a quantity of pick lock kers, an iron crow, two loaded pistols, and two, cut.. :lasses. The remnants of ealico exadly cdrres. ponded with the patterns of those stolen from Mr. SUtherland's grounds,' which were only rob. bed On• Sunday night '• and, Prisoners not being able to account how ;hey come possessed of them, were coMniitted.foi further examination.  During the remainder of the Drawing of the present State Lottery, Tickets and Shares war. ranted undrawn, will continue On sale from eight to nine in !the morning, and from two till eight in the evening, at -the .Offices of RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. No. toy., Cornhill, and facing:the King's Mews,- Charing Cross, where the two last Prizes of Thirty Thousand Pourida shared, were 301 a.  "