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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



dictment. After an investigation of 

 17 hours, in the course of which 30 

 witnesses were examined, and many 

 circumstances transpired at which 

 human nature must shudder, the 

 jury, without a moment's hesitation, 

 found the defendants guilty of all 

 the charges stated in the indict- 

 ment. 



22d. At the Old Bailey, J. R. 

 Turner was tried for forging a re- 

 ceipt for the sale of 70001. stock, 

 the property of W. VV'althani. The 

 prisoner had been several years a 

 clerk in the house of Messrs. Sto- 

 nard and Ryan, cornfactors; by 

 •which he knew that Mr. VV. had 

 10,0001. stock in the three per cent, 

 reduced. He procured a rcconl. 

 mendation to a stock-broker, to 

 ■whom he applied to sell out 70001. 

 stock, and the prisoner gave him a 

 receipt for the value. Mr. Alley 

 and Mr. Gurncy, for the prisoner, 

 argued, that the stock not having 

 been actually transferred, the cri- 

 minal action was not, in point of 

 fact, committed, and that therefore 

 the prisoner was entitled to his ac- 

 quittal. — The court, however, over- 

 ruled this, and said, that if the 

 mains animus was evident in an ac- 

 tion in an inchoate state, the person 

 whose mind was so discovered, was 

 as guilty as when it was completed 

 by any subsequent proceeding in 

 the same act. It was for having 

 signed the name of another man, 

 with intent io defraud, that he was 

 indicted. Guilty, death. 



John Hodges, Edward Mahon, 

 and John Rumball, were tried for 

 assaulting Mr. Edmund Lodge on 

 the highway, and under a threat of 

 accusing him of an unnatural crime, 

 taking from his person two bank 

 notes, value 101. and 51. his pro- 

 perty. Guilty, death. 



The circumstances of this case 

 were of the most horrible nature ; 

 and it was not until the prisoners liad 

 received considerable sums of mo- 

 ney from the prosecutor, and had 

 made a further demand of 2501, 

 that he had courage to lay open the 

 transaction. Mr. Lodge is a gen- 

 tleman of unblemished character. 



23d. This morning, at 6 o'clock, 

 a fire broke out in the house of Mr. 

 Mayo, an upholsterer, No. 8, Que- 

 bec-street, Oxford-street, which de- 

 stroyed the premises, and damaged 

 those adjoining. — Mr. Mayo pe- 

 rished in the flames. 



This day wasappointedfor the con- 

 firmation of the election of Dr.Charles 

 Manners Sutton to the see of Can- 

 terbury. The ceremony took place 

 at Bow-church, Chcapside. Soon 

 after ten o'clock, the commissioners 

 under the great seal, the bishops of 

 Winchester, Bath and Wells, Exeter, 

 Chichester, Chester, and Rochester, 

 the arch -bishop elect, sir W. 

 Wynne, and sir W.Scot, chancellors 

 of the province of Canterbury ; sir 

 John Nicol, the king's advocate ge- 

 neral ; Dr. Lawrence, and twelve 

 other learned doctors, and about as 

 many proctors, in their full robes, 

 assembled in the vestry-rOom. As 

 soon as the procession entered the 

 church, a grand performance on 

 the organ commenced ; after which 

 was read part of the morning ser- 

 vice ; the commissoners then left 

 their pews, and took their seats 

 round a table in the middle aisle. 

 The bishop of Winchester, as pre- 

 sident, in an arm chair, with his 

 back to the altar, read the appoint- 

 ment of the commission under the 

 great seal, and several other docu- 

 ments. Sir W. Scott then present- 

 ed himself at the foot of the tabic, 

 and said : 



