Noah Pease Folgar, the American Captain, who shot at Mr.
William Mellish on the '18th February last, was tried on Monday at the Old Bailey Sessions, and acquitted, on the ground of insanity. He is or- dered to be imprisoned till his Majesty's pleasure is known.
William Guest junior, was indicted on Monday, at the Old Bailey, for receiving a 100/. Bank of England note, a 20/. note, and four other notes of 3/. eacb, the property of T. Holmes, Esq., well knowing them to have been stolen. The prisoner's father was sentenced in February last, to fourteen years' transportation for the same offence. Thomas Kennedy, now a Corporal in the East India Company's service, deposed to having picked Mr. Holmes's pocket on the 5th of July 1832, of the notes in question. He was in company with two thieves, named Gim- bey and Smith ; and they took the notes to the prisoner's house, in Eagle Street, Red Lion Square. The prisoner accompanied them to "old Mr. Guest," in Belvedere Row, near the Coburg Theatre ; and he gave them 90/. for the notes. The witness, Kennedy, had been par- doned since his evidence at old Guest's trial. Evidence was given to corroborate Kennedy's statement, and the prisoner was found guilty.
On Tuesday, Richard Coster, and Edmund Smith, the former well known in the City as being concerned in fraudulent bill transactions, were found guilty of uttering forged Bank of England notes.
On Wednesday, J. W. Peppers, a native of Holland, was found guilty of forging a cheque on Williams and Co., the bankers, for 50/.
On Thursday, George Byers, charged with uttering a check for 150/. knowing it to be forged, was found guilty; and sentenced to be trans- ported for life.
George Williams and James Rogers were tried at the New Court,
• Old Bailey, on Wednesday, for attempting to murder Mrs. Elizabeth Lower, on the 22d February last. Erom the loose and prevaricating manner in which Mrs. Lower gave her evidence,.—and it having tran- -spired that she was the wife of another man, though she at first had • sworn that she was the wife of Lower,—the Jury refused to believe her in any thing, and acquitted the prisoners.
On the same day, John Parker was found guilty of knowingly utter- ing two forged Bank of England notes. From the evidence it ap- .peared, that he went to two tradesmen—one a tea-dealer, the other a -wine-merchant—and bought articles in their respective trades to the -amount of about thirty shillings, for which he tendered the forged notes in question, and received the change, upwards of 71.
George Coney, an old offender, who was found guilty of burglary and robbery at the Old Bailey Sessions in February, is to be hanged on Tuesday. The other convicts have been respited.
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