At the Surry Sessions, yesterday, Benjamin Hancock, a horsedealea well
known in the vicinity of the Elephant and Castle, was sentenced. to transportation for life, for stealing a horse from James Batchelor, an old man of weak intellects. This trial excited much interest, and the court was crowded. The prisoner had endeavoured, by paying is part for the horse, and giving a fraudulent bill of exchange, to escape the charge of felony ; but though he managed with great adroitness, las was unsuccessful.
Popsy, the notorious Policeman, has been fined a shilling, at the Surry Sessions, for assaulting William Dean, another discharged Po- liceman.
James Dobbyns, a porter in the employ of Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Company, was sentenced to fourteen years transportation, fee having broken open two desks and stolen upwards of a hundred Ande from his masters.
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