"Your most obedient humble Servant,
"CHA. BICKNELL.
"P. Colquhoun, Esq.."
[75] An instance of this kind occurred about two years ago in one of the principal yards, where a large quantity of new and valuable Cordage was found concealed within the coils of a large unserviceable Cable; which composed one of the lots in the Catalogue of the Sale.—And thus a connection was discovered between the Criminal Purchaser and the Labourers employed in making up the Lots.
[77] It was held in the trial of Moses Pike, at the Old Bailey, in May, 1784, that to steal from a Barge aground in Limehouse-Dock, was not within the meaning of the Act of 24th of George the Second, cap. 45, which makes it felony to steal from any vessel or craft upon a Navigable River, &c.
[78] Mr. Serjeant Adair, then Recorder of London.
[79] The general rule of the ancient Law is this;—that Accessaries shall suffer the same punishment as Principals. If one be liable to death, the other is also liable. Blackstone.
In France, (before the Revolution) the offence of receiving stolen goods was punished with death.
[80] Vide Act 30 Geo. II. cap. 24.