The Sun. — 1822-03-19 (London, England)

LENT ASSIZES.  CHELMSFORD, MARCH 16.  CONSPIRACY.-THE XING V. JOSEPH CHURCH.  This was an indictment against the defendant and two other persons, named Brown and Archer, fora conspiracy to obtain, under false pretences, 152 sheep, from one John Davis, with intent to defraud him of the same, at Harlow, on the 9th of September, 1820. The other defendants did not appear to take their trial. . _ _  The case proved in evidence was this :—The prosecutor, a Denbighshire grazier, was attending Harlow Cattle Fair in , September, 1820, with 152 sheep for sale. The defendant en- , tered into a treaty with him for the purchase of them at the price of 1201. He gave him a' bill for 501., accepted by a person named P. H. Harley, Grosvenor Hotel, payable at the banking-house of Messrs. Hankey and Co., and drawn by the prisoner. Whilst they were in treaty, another of the defendants, named Archer, came up in agig, and the defendant Church borrowed of him a bill for 751., drawn upon and accepted by Brown, in the name of Lord Viscount Montagu, of Storrington-hall, Sussex, payable at Mr. Champ's, Baptist-chambers, Chancery-lane, two months after date. The prosecutor took these bills, but when they became due they were respectively dishopoured. The defendant Church had. sold 70 of the sheep to a horse-dealer in Goswell-street-road, where, it appeared; Mr. Brown, alias Lord Viscount Montagu, had applied to know whose sheep they' were, and desired the horse-dealer to sell them at his peril, fur they were bought and paid for with his acceptance. Before the Magistrates, Mr. Brown acknowledged the acceptance, " Lord Viscount Montagu," to be his handwriting. It also appeared that Mr. Brown had made claim for some years past to this title, but had not succeeded. There was a house in Sussex in which he resided near to the estate of Lord Viscount Montagu, but, was not a freehold. The question was, whether the case proved amounted to a conspacy ? Mr. ANDREWS submitted, on behalf of the defendant, that , there could be no conspiracy in the case, inasmuch as the mere .non-payment,of bills, bona fide accepted by real persons, was not sufficient to support such `a charge. Mr. Baron GRAHAM said, it was for the Jury to decide whethei or not the defendant was a • guilty participator in the fraud by which the prosecutor had sustained the loss of his sheep. His Lordship summed up. the evidence for the Jury. The Jury found the defendant Guilty, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the county gaol. This afternoon the assizes finished. Seventeen capital convicts received sentence of death. The only persons left for execution were, William Tigner, for uttering a forged 51. Bank-note ; Daniel Say*'ard, for murder e and John Palmer, butcher,for stealing ten sheep, the property of Isaac Humphrey. The others were reprieved.  Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a young woman engaged in cleaning the windows of a house in Bedford-square, slipped her hold, and was precipitated into the area, and killed on the spot. This is another melancholy instance of the impropriety of permitting female servants to perform such duty, instead of employing men whom habit has rendered familiar to the task,