RECORDER'S REPORT.—At the King's Council on Wednesday, the Re- corder
of Lendon made his report of the convicts capitally only hoed at the Old lIeiley during the February Sessions. The cases of William Mealing and \ ti I ui isstdams, from the January Sessions, were also reported.. 'The sentenca of the law was ordered to be earried iuto effect on Thomas Sales on Wednesday next, The rest of the convicts in both Sessions, thirteen in number, were respited during his Majesty's pleasure.
THE WEsT MINST En. S ESSIONS commenced on Thursday. The their- man, Mr. enlist, stated to the ,Grand Jury that the ealeudar was a heavy one, and dint many of the offences to be tried were of the most revolting description.
ExT RAO itnINARY IMPOSTOIT.—A curious case is now before the Police Correctionelle in Paris, in whiel: several Englishmen hove appeared as wits nesses. It appvars that some months agi) a native of Seotlaud, calling him- self the Baron de St. Clair, end preteni1ing to have under that name served in tile British army in . puldialted a pelophiet, in whielt he imputed to the Duke de Coats, anti ether persons of milk, participation in a plot fiir assassinating the Duke de Perri. For this Imputation, which had not the slightest Imo:dation in feet, this calumniated parties commenced an fiction, tvlifeh has been pending for months, and was heard on the II0th ult. before the Tribunal. The defends et was confronted with the. real St. Clair, a Colo- nel in the British army, whose name he had aseumed. This gentleman hap- pening to be at Paris, and hearing of the process, came forward, and recog- nized the defendant :Is Captain hi-Lean, of die 1st Regiment, who had left the British army with a cheided reputation. Colonel Arbuthnot also gave evident-0 as to the ideetity of M‘Leati; and one of his own witntsses, an English clergyman residing at Versailles, when asked as to the character of Mtbean, replied that he was generally con:ddered to be an impostor. The most curious part of the trial, however, was the examination of Sir .Sidney Smith, upon win an AP Lean had imposed so am weessfully by relations of his pretended ill Egypt, rec., that Sir Sidney gave lihn two certifi- [sites, stating thet he lee: served in Egypt, and that he had been de/or:twit with the order ef the Crescent by Senn/ I 1 I. At the request of IIISLean's counsel, the cause was postponed for a week. During the trial, two docu- ments were read, from which it appeared that several days previous to the assassination of the Duke de Berri, a connemdeation was made to the French Illieistry of the intention to assassinate him, and that no attention was paid to it, fmrn the impressien that the communicant had merely in- vented the account to give himself importance. Upon this neglect 3.1=Lean seems to have founded the libellous pamphlet for which he hums been prose- cuted.
SACRILEGIOUS OUTRAGE.-011 Sunday evening last, a most disgraceful outrage took place in the church of St. Luke's, Chelsea. A charity sermon had been preached by the Rev. Mr. Blount, and the donations had been ga- thered from pew to pew, after which a hymn was sung. During this time, a gang of about fifty fellows gave an alarm of fire, the congregation became alarmed, and immediately rushed forth to the door ; the gang then seized the plates containing the money, and in he =fusion made off, after having stolen several. shawls, reticules, and watches. REsuRIVECTIONISTS.—A few days ago, a man was stopped in the parish of Newington, carrying the dead body of a woman in a sack. The Magis- trates of Union Hall bound him over in recognizanees to appear to answer the charge. In the interval, an inquest was held at the Red Lion in Wal- worth, on the body of the deceased ; when it was ascertained that her name was Christy, and that for a considerable time previous tO her death she had laboured under a complaint that baffled the skill of the faculty. This latter circumstance, being well known in the neighbourhood where the de- ceased expired, had the effect of bringing the resurrection-men about the house, and some attempts were made to steal the body before it was scarcely cold. It was, however, interred in the burial-ground belonging to St. John s Chapel, 'West-lane, Walworth. At the conclusion of the inquest, two noto- rious resurrection-men stood forward and claimed the body of the deceased, alleging that they were her relations. The impudent lie was immediately detected, and the intruders ordered out of the room.— Times. SHOP ROBRERY.-0I1 Wednesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, a daring attempt at robbery took place in the shop of Mr. Fox, a hairdresser in the Strand. His daughter, who is just sixteen years of age, and in delicate health, was sitting alone in the parlour, when she heard a noise, as of the rattling of silver, in the shop. She went out immediately, and saw a man on his knees behind the counter, with both his hands in the till, engaged in emptying it of its contents. She ran up to him, and, seiz- ing him by his shoulders, called loudly for help. The ruffian gave her a heavy blow with his fist upon her face, which nearly brought her to the ground : the courageous girl, however, kept her hold, and redoubled her cries, until a shopman of her father's came to her assistance, and seized the assailant, when a police-constable came in and handcuffed him. Seven half- crowns, and other silver, were found in his pockets ; and, on examining the till, a sovereign, seven half-crowns, and some shillings, were missing. The policeman took the robber to Bow Street, where he gave his name Thomas Jones, and was recognized as a well-known character. He was committed to Neivgate. BURGLARY.-011 Sunday night, a fellow named Brawn was found se- creted in the shop of a shoemaker in Castle Street, Leicester Square. A hackney-coach that was observed to halt at the door (No. 9) about half-past nine, ex-cited the suspicion of the policeman on duty. More than a hundred pounds worth of shoes were found ready packed up when Brawn was seized.
The barque Egham, lying in a dry dock at Bermondsey, was plundered yesterday morning of property to the amount of 200/. On Thursday, an attempt was made to rob the premises of Messrs. Thomas and Joins Rogers, ship-chandlers, Wapping-wall, Shadwell. Be- tween two and three in the morning, Mr. John Rogers heard a noise in the back warehouse. He proceeded to the spot, armed with the handle of an adze, and saw two men removing a large cable. When he advanced, one of the men hit him a blow on the breast, which he returned by a blow of the adze. . The thief fell covered with blood. His companion attacked and over- powered Mr. Rogers, and succeeded in carrying off the wounded man in the boat, from which they entered the warehouse. The premises of Mr. Drury, cutler in Liverpool, were robbed, last week, of property to the amount of 1500/. On Thursday night, as the York coach from London passed the Leeds waggon near Newark, the driver of the latter told the coachman that a woman in the waggon had lost a child of fifteen months old, on the road. The woman declined going back to look for it, but stated that the coach- man might send it after her to Newark. The coachman, accordingly, did find the child about four miles oil', one of its feet crushed by a cart-wheel.
Ile picked it up, and sent it next day after its tender mether. • AN INFANT N.—At the Monmouth Assizes, a girl, about ten years of age, was tried fie stealing coals of the value of one farthing ! The cul- prit was of such diminutive stature, that the governor of the gaol had to hold her up in his arms that the Court and Jury might have a view of her while she pleaded to the indictment. During the trial, she stood on the seat appropriated to the solicitors, as her person was lost sight of in the dock. Her counsel took an objection to the prosecution, on the ground that she was of that tender age from which a want of guilty knowledge was to be inferred ; but the Judge was of opinion that the presence or absence of guilty knowledge was a question for the consideration of the Jury. The Jury accordingly exercised their judgment upon the case, and returned a verdict of " Not Guilty." [Who was the notable gentleman that committed this child ? Whether guilty or not,a whipping was more than suffieient for the offence.] Moans:ft.—On Monday, William Shaw, who had been convicted, on Friday, of the murder of Bitched Crossley, by throwing her down a coal-pit, was hanged at Thorncliff Green, in front of the Castle-walls, York. This is the second conviction and execution for murder by so singular a means, that has taken place during the present Assizes. In both cases the miserable sufferers were women,—in one the wife, and in the other, the sweetheart of the murderer.
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