Star. — 1821-06-08 (London, England)

OLD BAILEY-THIS DAY.  The following prisoners pleaded Guilty to the minor offence of having Forged Bank Notes in their possession :  John Smith, Jane Carter, Charles Peelc, John Dark, George Kemp, Robert Hitebmore, Gi.orge Pike, George Baker, Thomas Stevens, Edward Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Fllribeth Webster, Thomas Clare, Richard Lynch, Sarah Stewart, Sarah Reading, Sarah Appleton, Frances Gray, Elizabeth Pascoe, Catherine Taylor, Charlotte Thorne, Elizabeth Rutin, and John Shelton. Joseph Smith and John Low remain for trial—the former on the capital, and the latter on the minor offence.  Elisabeth Hyde was tried for the murder of her infant child, on the morning of the 6th April. According to the evidence of Mrs. Taylor, in whose service the prisoner lived, the latter was delivered of a child on the morning of the 6th of April, but from the circumstances adduced in evidence, there appeared no reason to infer the crime charged. The Jury returned a verdict of—Nut Guilty. Algernon Disney, Esq. and Prier George Patynrr, Esq. were severally arraigned, the first for v.olcirly beating and maltreating Anne Banting, spinster, of which said ill usage she died in the month of October last ; and the second, for the wilful murder of John Scott, Esq. who was killed in a duel at Chalk Farm on the 16th of February last. Mr. Baron GARROW, on looking over the list of the witnesses in Captain Disney's case, discovered that several of them were not in attendance, of which he strongly complained, and said that justice to the Public as well as the prisoner required the fullest investigation of this case.  The constable in attendance, who had been examined before the Coroner, said some of the witnesses were here. ,  Mr. Baron GARROW remarked, that they ought to have been all in attendance.  Mr. ALLEY said that he was Counsel for the pri. saner, who had taken all the pains in his power to have in attendance the witnesses who were examined..., before the Coroner. The Court would recollect that the Grand Jury had ignored the Bill, and that it was upon the Coroner's Inquisition the present case came for trial.  The first witness examined was Robert Coates, the Mary-la-bonne constable, who merely proved the summoning of the Coroner's Jury, the apprehension of the prisoner, and the removal to an hospital of the deceased.  Hannah Coles, the midwife of the Hospital, proved the death of the deceased, as she thought at the time, of labour after-pains. Susannah Dawson deposed to the ill-treatment which the deceased described to witness she had received from the prisoner, by blows from a stick on various parts of her body. This was a fortnight be. fore she was taken to the Hospital. Mr. Guddeyer, who was a surgeon and apothecary to the Hospital, said that the deceased had been admitted as a patient laboui ing under a common cold. At the time of her admission, ho. had no idea she was pregnant, and immediately before her death, she appeared to have a great accession of fever, St. Anthony's fire, and a constipation of the bowels; the last two symptoms did not necessarily follow de. livery ; but in this case they led to mortification, which caused her death. Verdict— Not Guilty. Mr. Baron GARROW condemned the impropriety of sending such a case as this from the Coroner to a Jury.