CUMBERLAND PACQUET 12 November 1816 / London Gazette, Nov. 2

[Barb Baker]

LONDON GAZETTE, November 2.

 

 

THE SAVOY.

 

MOST readers know the origin of the Savoy, part of which is now pulling down to make way for the entrance to the Waterloo Bridge.  Before the institution of parish rates for the support of the poor, the great men of the nation, together with those of the priesthood, were the only supporters of the indigent and distressed, and in this place was an Hospital founded by HENRY VII, for a master and four brethren in priest's orders, who were to officiate in turn and stand alternately at the gate of the Savoy;  and if they saw any person who was an object of charity, they were obliged to take him and supply him with food.  If he proved to be a traveller, he was entertained for one night and furnished with a letter of recommendation and as much money as would defray his expences to the next hospital.  Notwithstanding the many millions now raised for the maintenance of the poor, not a less number of objects of charity than those in the pious HENRY's time, would be found to avail themselves of his benevolent establishment.

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[Barb Baker]

LONDON GAZETTE, November 2

 

OLD BAILEY.

 

SATURDAY, ANDREW SAVAGE and BENJAMIN SAVAGE, (brothers, and shoemakers by trade) were indicted for forging and uttering a note for the payment of 1 L. purporting to be of the Bank of England.  It appeared by the evidence of JOHN CHARLES, an accomplice, that he had long dealt with the prisoners for forged notes, and being apprehended for the same, he became an evidence for the Bank;  and for the more effectual conviction of the offenders, a man named RICHARD GRIFFITHS was introduced for the purpose of becoming a purchaser of forged notes.  The parties met at various places, and there the prisoners furnished quantities of forged pound-notes at 10s. 6d. each, which were paid for with marked money, obtained from the Bank.

 

MR. CURWOOD, for the prisoners, took a legal objection, and contended that his clients could not be convicted upon the evidence of accomplices, unless such accomplices were confirmed in their evidence by competent witnesses.  He held that those persons who were called upon to confirm them were particeps criminis  in the fact, by procuring them to purchase the notes, and he cited the case of VAUGHAN and DONNELLY, tried last Sessions, as illustrative of the fact.

 

MR. BARON GRAHAM was surprised at the objection, which he over-ruled, by observing that these persons were not participators in any profit arising out of the offence; on the contrary, it was their duty to detect such offenders, particularly when their ingenuity, in such cases, overpowered almost every other means resorted to, except by the assistance of an accomplice.  It was true that the case alluded to (that of VAUGHAN) was of a novel description, and was yet to receive the consideration of the Judges.  He confessed, however, that the case had gone farther than any of the same nature which had come under his observation.

 

CHIEF JUSTICE DALLAS concurred in opinion with BARON GRAHAM, and the Jury found both the prisoners Guilty  -  Death.  aGED 42 AND 28.

 

THOMAS CANN, another wholesale dealer in forged notes, was also tried on a similar charge and on nearly the same evidence, as the two prisoners above mentioned. - JOHN CHARLES, employed by the Bank to detect him, purchased twenty of him at one time, the prisoner promising to throw one forged note into the score.  The Jury found him likewise Guilty  -  Death.

 

SAMUEL BAILEY was tried for a daring robbery in the house of R. HALES, a publican in Barbican, in April last;  the prisoner was one of a numerous gang, and was rescued by his desperate companions, at the time of committing the offence.  He was found Guilty  -  Death.  Four of the gang have been sentenced to two years imprisonment, for aiding his escape.

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[Sarah Reveley]

Thanks Barb!  The Old Bailey is searchable online:

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

 

Found several mentions of Reveleys.

 

OLD BAILEY.

 

[Barb Baker]

Well !! that's neat-O

[Stuart Cresswell (z)]

And it is not only criminals – sorry accused – that you can find. I found one of my gg-grandfathers as a victim and witness.

 

 

Stuart