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Trial Of Vice-Admiral Cornwallis.
the lugger getting aground , he was attacked by a corvette , and some gun boats , by which he , with Messrs . W . More , R . Kenyon , P . Burrowes , and five other inferior Officers , and 24 privates , the entire of his force , were taken prisoners . Lieutenant ierson , on whom the command of the Diamond devolved , sent a flag truce , which brought information from the Governor of Havre , that Sir Sydney was well , and should experience the respect due to so distinguished an Officer . Sir Sydney , after being examined by the commander of Havre , Was sent to Rouen , under an escort .
14 . This day Henry Weston , the person who stands charged with forgeries on the Bank to the amount of 17 , 000 ) . was brought to town from Liverpool , where he was apprehended on Tuesday night , by two of the Bow-street runners , who found him in bed at Bates ' s hotel . Soon after he was taken into custody , he made an attempt to put an end to his own life with a razor , which induced the officers to take every instrument of offence from him , and watch him as narrowly as possible . At Hounslow , howeverwhere they stopped to change horsesbeing permitted to into the yard
, , go , accompanied by one of the officers , he turned his back upon him , and cut his throat with a knife , which he , afterwards , acknowledged he took from a house Where they had stopt for refreshment . It being dark at the time , and getting into the chaise immediately , without returning into the house , this circumstance was not perceived till they got to Mr . Addington ' s house , in Vine-street , before whom the prisoner was immediately taken , when he appeared all covered with blood : a surgeon being sent for , the wound ( which at present has no very danger rous symptoms ) was sewed up , and he was ordered to remain in custody at the
house of an officer in Bow-street , until sufficiently recovered to undergo an examination . It appeared that he went to Liverpool with an intention of going to the West-Indies , having engaged a passage on board the ship Hector , bound for St . Vincent ' s which put to sea on Tuesday , but was obliged to return , on account of the wind having changed . All the money found on his person was 160 guineas which , with twenty paid by him for his intended passage , was the whole sum he was possessed of , though he had received 15 , 000 ! . out of the 17 , 000 for Which he had the Bank has latel
forged on . He y lost considerable sums at a gaming-house . On Friday , April 15 , he underwent an examination before Mr . Addington , the solicitor of the Bank , and others , at Carpmeal ' s House , in Bow-street . He ingenuously confessed all the various forgeries of which he stood charged , except that of his aunt , Mrs . Harris , which he solemnly denied , declaring , in her presence , that she herself signed both the warrants and assignments for transferring her Stock , which that lady , on her part , as positively contradicted . At the close of the altercation , he burst into a flood of tears , and said , this extraordinary and illfounded charge from one of his own relations , was the only thing that affected him . He is to be re-examined to-morrow .
After being again examined on the 16 th , he was fully committed for trial at the next sessions . REGRATING . —At the Quarter Sessions , held at Aylesbury , Bucks , Thomas Battams was indicted for regrating . The offence alledged against him , was buying , in OIney Market , fourteen quarters and a half of oats , and selling the same again at sixpence per quarter profit ( whereby he gained seven shillings and three pence ) in the same Market . The Marquis of Buckingham in the chair , and a Bench of Justices , mostly clergymen , tried the cause . The prisoner
acknowledged the fact ; but had no intention by such act ( which we understand is too common in most Market Towns in the kingdom ) to raise the price of corn , and ubmitted himself to the mercy of the court . After the Court broke up , each Magistrate was to give in his judgment in writing ; some were for a fine of one thousand pounds , and six months imprisonment , others for less , and some few for a trifling fine only proportioned to the offence . The Noble Marquis urged , in mitigation of punishment , the Prisoner ' s zeal in enrolling his sons in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry , and then pronounced the sentence of the Court , viz . To be confined in the common gaol fourteen . Ways , to pay a fine of two hundred pounds , and to remain a prisoner till paid .
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Trial Of Vice-Admiral Cornwallis.
the lugger getting aground , he was attacked by a corvette , and some gun boats , by which he , with Messrs . W . More , R . Kenyon , P . Burrowes , and five other inferior Officers , and 24 privates , the entire of his force , were taken prisoners . Lieutenant ierson , on whom the command of the Diamond devolved , sent a flag truce , which brought information from the Governor of Havre , that Sir Sydney was well , and should experience the respect due to so distinguished an Officer . Sir Sydney , after being examined by the commander of Havre , Was sent to Rouen , under an escort .
14 . This day Henry Weston , the person who stands charged with forgeries on the Bank to the amount of 17 , 000 ) . was brought to town from Liverpool , where he was apprehended on Tuesday night , by two of the Bow-street runners , who found him in bed at Bates ' s hotel . Soon after he was taken into custody , he made an attempt to put an end to his own life with a razor , which induced the officers to take every instrument of offence from him , and watch him as narrowly as possible . At Hounslow , howeverwhere they stopped to change horsesbeing permitted to into the yard
, , go , accompanied by one of the officers , he turned his back upon him , and cut his throat with a knife , which he , afterwards , acknowledged he took from a house Where they had stopt for refreshment . It being dark at the time , and getting into the chaise immediately , without returning into the house , this circumstance was not perceived till they got to Mr . Addington ' s house , in Vine-street , before whom the prisoner was immediately taken , when he appeared all covered with blood : a surgeon being sent for , the wound ( which at present has no very danger rous symptoms ) was sewed up , and he was ordered to remain in custody at the
house of an officer in Bow-street , until sufficiently recovered to undergo an examination . It appeared that he went to Liverpool with an intention of going to the West-Indies , having engaged a passage on board the ship Hector , bound for St . Vincent ' s which put to sea on Tuesday , but was obliged to return , on account of the wind having changed . All the money found on his person was 160 guineas which , with twenty paid by him for his intended passage , was the whole sum he was possessed of , though he had received 15 , 000 ! . out of the 17 , 000 for Which he had the Bank has latel
forged on . He y lost considerable sums at a gaming-house . On Friday , April 15 , he underwent an examination before Mr . Addington , the solicitor of the Bank , and others , at Carpmeal ' s House , in Bow-street . He ingenuously confessed all the various forgeries of which he stood charged , except that of his aunt , Mrs . Harris , which he solemnly denied , declaring , in her presence , that she herself signed both the warrants and assignments for transferring her Stock , which that lady , on her part , as positively contradicted . At the close of the altercation , he burst into a flood of tears , and said , this extraordinary and illfounded charge from one of his own relations , was the only thing that affected him . He is to be re-examined to-morrow .
After being again examined on the 16 th , he was fully committed for trial at the next sessions . REGRATING . —At the Quarter Sessions , held at Aylesbury , Bucks , Thomas Battams was indicted for regrating . The offence alledged against him , was buying , in OIney Market , fourteen quarters and a half of oats , and selling the same again at sixpence per quarter profit ( whereby he gained seven shillings and three pence ) in the same Market . The Marquis of Buckingham in the chair , and a Bench of Justices , mostly clergymen , tried the cause . The prisoner
acknowledged the fact ; but had no intention by such act ( which we understand is too common in most Market Towns in the kingdom ) to raise the price of corn , and ubmitted himself to the mercy of the court . After the Court broke up , each Magistrate was to give in his judgment in writing ; some were for a fine of one thousand pounds , and six months imprisonment , others for less , and some few for a trifling fine only proportioned to the offence . The Noble Marquis urged , in mitigation of punishment , the Prisoner ' s zeal in enrolling his sons in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry , and then pronounced the sentence of the Court , viz . To be confined in the common gaol fourteen . Ways , to pay a fine of two hundred pounds , and to remain a prisoner till paid .