Star. — London, England, 1818-03-27 00:00:00

:d, person, Id • .. . . ' . ASSIZES. 1 ' At the Assizes for Lancashire, which commenced on Saturday last, at the Castle in Lancaster, there \ were one hundred sand twenty-eight prisoners for trial, twenty-thiee bf whom are for forgery and uttering forged Bank notes, six for murder, 254 for burglar'', 1 '2l for highway robberies, and two for maliciously wounding. MAIDSTONE, KENT. CROWN sip& i Walter Watcharst and George Dunk were indicted for having, at Gillingham, on the 4th of February, feloniously uttered forged £l. Bank (Votes, knowing the same to be counterfeited, with intentto defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. The facts was fully proved, and the Jury found a ver- dict—Guilty. Sentence of death was immediately I passed upon the criminals. William Holysran . was indicted for having feloni- ously personated the name of one Hugh Campbell , a i petty officer on board the brig Maria, who was enti- -1 tled to certain prize-money for his services on board ' that ship, and with having falsely forged and cows- , 1 terfeited a certain certificate of service of the said Hugh Campbell, and uttered the same as true, with intent to defraud the Commissioners and Governors I of the Hospital for seamen at Greenwich. i 4 It was proved by Mr. Richard Smith, clerk of the Cheque Office at Greenwich Hospital, that on the II 13th August last, the prisoner came to the office, and stating his name to be Hugh Campbell, born in Scot- land, demanded a sum for prize-money, but did not name the amount. The prisoner had called on the i i i - • 9th of August, four days previous to the present ap- plication, and had on that occasion presented a cer- tificate to a junior clerk in the office. Witness told , the prisoner that he had reason to think that his name was not Hugh Campbell :the prisoner still persisted •t 1 1 that it was, hut was ultimately taken into custody by one of the constables belonging to the establishment. The prisoner, seeing that the deceit was detected, confessed that his name was not Hugh Campbell, I and that he was instigated to do the act by a man of the name of Shipley, who had stated himself to be 1 ! ' the brother of Hugh Campbell, and that he was au- thorised to receive the money for him. The prisoner .4 I also stated, that Shipley had offered to give him 21. upon the receipt of the money. It was subsequently proved, that the prize taken , 1 : was the " El !)or de Mayo," by the Maria, on the ' 1 6th Novem'oer, 1812 ; Hugh Campbell being at that , t time on hoard the ship. The certificate was also • proved to be a forgery in every respect. The prisoner being called upon for his defence, re- peated that he had been instigated to do the act by 1114 I Shipley, who was now indicted at these Assizes for a simi'ar offence, under the name of William Shipley 4 Creswell.—The Jury found a verdict Guilty, but the prisoner was recommended to mercy by the prosecu- . tor, believing his defence to be true. t 1 ' William Shipley Creswell, the person alluded to as ere instigator of I lolyman, was then put to the bar . under an indictment charging him with having felo- niously personated and falsely assumed the name and character of one Joseph Walker, late seaman of his ' Majesty's gun-brig Swinger, in order to obtain tlw payment of prize-money, with intent to defraud the •Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. i It was proved by the witnesses called on the part of the prosecution, that, on the 12th July, in the last year, the prisoner called at the Prize Office at Green- wich Hospital, and declared himself to be Joseph Walker, an able-bodied seaman, having served on board the Swinger gun-brig, and claimed prize- money on account of the vessel ; the prisoner at the • same time gave two certificates :he was informed t that the money due to Joseph Walker had been paid to Mother Betty, as administratrix of Joseph Walker. The pi ironer persisted that the money had not been / paid. Oa the 20th of the same month the prisoner called again, and reproduced the certificates which had lie,•n returned to him, and was again informed that the money had been paid. The certificates were sent up to the Navy Office, and they were . I found to be forged instruments. The prisoner was immediately apprehended. It appeared that Cres- , I well had been a Captain's Clerk on board the Swin- t ger, while Joseph Walker was a seaman onboard the same ship, and that the latter had since died. The July found a verdict—Guilty. William Bright and Jeremiah !fill were indicted • . for stealing a pony, value 401. the property of John 1 Bicknell, Esq. 1 The horse in question, together with a bay horse belonging to Mr. Young, of Greenwich, were taken out of a field belonging to that gentleman on the night of the 12th November, and on the next day they were seen at the fair at Epping. The pi isoners there offered the horse for sale, and asked 12/. fUr the pony, and 131. for the bay horse. It appeared that Bright was the acting manager of the whole, and had employed IEII to commit the robbery. On • the apprehension of llill at Greenwich, on the 15th • of November, he stated to the constable, that on the 12th he met Bright, whom lie knew before, and by whom he was asked to go to Epping with a couple of horses, which he had to take out of a field. To . this he consented, having nothing to do, and at night they wo.n:t to the field. Upon finding the gate locked, Bright said—" Good GOD! this is strange; the ser- vant knows lam coming." The gate was taken off 4 the hinges, the horses caught, and taken to Epping Fair. Mr. Baron WOOD stated to the Jury, that there I was little doubt as to the guilt of Bright, and the ! . only question was, as tow hether Hill had a know- ledge that he was doing a felonious act? The Jury acquitted Hill, and found Bright Guilty. ) CIVIL SIDE.—BECEINGTON v. BODLE AND OTHERS. This was an action of assault and false imprison ‘ smut against the Overseer of the parish of Plumsted, . the constable of the same parish, and another person, for taking a young woman before a Magistrate, and compelling her to leave the parish. Thil father and mother of the plaintiff were exa- mlnedrwho stated that their daughter lived with , them, and gained her living by honest industry, and that neither she nor any of the .family had been chargeable to the parish. Notwithstanding this, one morning in July last, as she was going out early to work, the defendants lay in wait for her, and seising her, said she must go with them. She said she had done no wrong, that she had neither robbed nor mur- -,t, . • : 1 1 . )1 . ~, ~ . . . • been one to a LI LOCK-MINTING. dered any one. They however persisted in taking her away., and carried her before a Magistrate, who dismissed her upon her. promise to leave the parish DZIMPaIATE RIOT AND 1/01,11PIRSONS SHOT.-"lte . S. and go to West Ilazn, in Essex, where she was 1e- tsr d ay G eorge Yardley, Joke Howell, and Jae Rep gaily settled. 'pen, three notorious characters, part of an extensive Mr. MAInTAT, for the defendants, stated, that the gang, were brought up in the custody of Dalton, parish officers were legally justified in what they had Fortune, and Foster, officers belonging to Lambeth , done under the circumstances of the case. The s t r eet office, charged under the following circum plaintiff had been pregnant of a bastard child, which ' stances :—lt appeared that some villains, on Wed was likely to become chargeable to the parish, and ; nesday morning last, entered the back part of the the officers of Plumsted had regularly removed her 1 prem ises of Mr. Sheffield, butcher, of High -street, to her place of settlement at \test Ham, in Fssex, Aldgate, and stole three fine bullocks, which had where she was brought to-bed. By the statute of . been brought from the country the day previous.--s 17 Geo. 11. commonly called the Vagrant .Ict, l On the evening of the same day, about dusk, about amongst other things it was enacted, that when a 1 800 or 1000 persons assembled in a field near Step person had been regularly removed, if they unlaw- ney Fair, and had the bullocks secured with halters fully came back to the parish from which they had round their necks, till an appointed time ; they were been removed, they were thereby declared to have let loose and hunted by men, dogs, &c. through committed an act of vagrancy, and were liable to be different streets, the whole of the gang pursuing punished as a vagrant. The plaintiff, after her re- them, being armed with sticks, bludgeons, and other moval, did come back to Plumsted, and the parish weapons, and pelting stones, to the great danger of officers, finding that she had renewed her cld prat - t h e p assengers . They took their route towards tices, and might again endanger the parish to the Whitechapel, and several persons on the road were charge of a bastard, took her up under this clause of tossed by the animals. Mrs. Williams, who lives in the Act, but being unwilling to deal harshly with her, Lambeth -street, walking with her child in her arms.l they let her go, upon her promise to depart the parish. was tossed ; and herself and infant injuredin a dreadful The former removal being proved, manner. A porter, proceeding along North-street, Mr. COMMON SERJEANT made an ample reply, in Whitechapel, with a chest of drawers on his head, which he contended, that her return to her parents was I.kea tie tossed; the drawers were smashed, and' was not an unlawful return, and commented on the I himself injured in a terrible manner, having one of oppression of the parish officers with considerable his arms broken. Seieral oilier persons were tossed, severity.—Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 51. and materially injured. The villains drove the poor DUNN V. BECKLEY. beasts about the town for a long time, till they be- This case occupied a considerable portion of the came in a state of madness. They drove them to time of the Court. It was an action brought to de- wards Hare -street, Spitalfields, on entering which,' tide the question as to the right of appointment to ore of the aniriali which was more infuriated than the office of Parish Clerk for the parish of Bromley : the others, lushed into the warehou,e of Messrs. l whether such right was vested in the parishioners or Roscier and Jacques, dyers, of that street, being fok in the clergyman of the parish? °The parties in this lowed into the shop by a number of villains, who suit were both candidates for the office, and the commenced an attack ; the whole of the windows whole of the testimony adduced by the plaintiff was were smashed, and the pannels at the sides of the to shew an immemorial custom in the parishioners to shop, and great injury done to other parts, as like appoint the parish clerk. To make out this custom, wise the property. The persons employed on the a great number of witnesses were called; but the premises a ere dreadfully injured by the animel, and plaintiff completely failed in making out the case, were infaniously maltreated by the robbers who fol and a verdict was given for the defendant. lowed it. At length the men who worked in the shop HILTON AND (ITIIERS V. BALDOCZ. succeeded in turning the villains out, and managed - _ This was an action upon a bill of exchange drawn by Messrs. Burton and Matthews, and accei ted by the defendant, to the amount of 471. 13s. 6d. given for flour delivered. The plaintiffs are assignees un der a commission of bankruptcy issued against Messrs. Burton and Mathews, who were formerly millers, residing at Faversham, and the defendant was the acceptor of are bill. The defence set up to the action was, that no deli very of the flour took place, a-. I that the bill having been given under that i !ca, ti r defendant was not answerable for the acceptance. It appeared that Mr. Baldock had been induced to accept the bill for a Mr. Diprose, a baker, residing at Faversham, whose credit was completely gone, and whom the defen dant was anxious to set up in bu s iness. It also came out in evidence that Mr. Diprose was now confined as a prisoner in Dozer Castle, for a debt of 1001. ow ing to Messrs. Burton and Mathews, and that the bill in question had been drawn by these millers the very day previous to their failure, and had obtained the signature of the defendant under the promise of sending ten sacks of flour to Diprose, which stipula tion was never performed.—A verdict was found for the defendant without hesitation. to shut and bolt the donors. The prisoners and a great t body of their companions, however, broke open the place, and acted with the utmost violence. Finding All measures to quell the riot and prevent them from robbing the place ineffectual, the persons in the warehouse, who :were furnished with fire-arms, threatened to fire on the depredators, if they did not desist from their purpose, and being disregarded, they, after subsequent entreaties, fired upon the mob, four or five of the villains received the contents of the fire-arrrs, and were carried off by some of their companions. The other two animals were hunted by more of the mob round the adjacent parts, and information having been received of the diTraceful transaction at the above office, Diltoh, Fortune, and Foster, were dispatched instantly to quell the riot, and appre'oeild the delinquents.' On . their Iping to the place it - was in the utmost consternation, but, with a party of the Worship-street officers, they suc ceeded in dispersing the rioters. Dalton, Fortune, and Foster, at the peril of their lives, rushed in and seized the prisoners, who were armed with tremeti-: dous bludgeons, and appeared most active in th affair, and brought them in custody to the office.—: During the time the mob was in Hare-street several A Court Martial assembled at Portsmouth on Wednesday, on board his Maj:sty's ship the QUEEN CHARLOTTE, for the trial of Captain JAMES ARTHUR MURRAY, late of his Majesty's ship SPEY, on charges preferred against him by Admiral PLAMPIN, on the St. I lelena station, when the charges not being proved, he was most fully acquitted. persons had their pockets picked, and sonic com-. pletely cut off. An officer of Whitechapel, nanteff Richard Plunket, was knocked down and braf,b_g, some of the villains, with sticks and bludgeOrs, they almost murdered him, and he now lies in a de plorable state, at his residence in Vhitechapel,. The two animals that were drove about the greets during the transaction at the above warehouse, were with difficulty taken home to Mr. Sheffield's .premises, but the other was in such a dangerous state that they were necessitated to have it slaughtered in the ware house. The prisoners are all well known by the offi. cers. On being searched no property was found on them, but their sticks, which appeared to have been much used in the affray. The prisoners were com mitted to Newgate to take their trial. Wednesday night, as Mr. Millet, of New-strtet„ Bishopsgate, was proceeding to town, lie was attacked in the Kent-road by a gang of five or six men, who knocked him down, and robbed him of a gold watch, chain, and three seals, and also a pocket-book, con taining two bills of exchange of a large amount.— Same night, the counting-house of Mr. Harris, hat manufacturer, Winchester -street, was entered, and the desks were plundered of bank'notes and cash to the amount of 151.—Same night, the coach-house of Mr. Wilkins, Montpelier, South Lambeth, was broken open, and a set of chaise harness, several horse-cloths, and a variety of other articles, were stolen.—Same night, a burglary was committed in the house of Mr. Prince, Camberwell, and a quantity of linen stolen. WILD Doc.—A most destructive animal (supposed of the mastiff species) has for a considerable time past infested the neighbourhood of Roehampton, and committed great ravages among the sheep and lambs of persons residing in and near that place ; twenty belonging to Lord ELLENBOROIJOH, eleven of Sir C. PRICE s, ten belonging to Mr. LEADER, and one of Mr. JONES'S (the Marshal of the King's Bench), have been destroyed by this animal within the last three weeks. His attacks are always made in the night ; he seizes his victim by the throat, mangles it terribly in that part, and sucks the blood ; it does not appear that he eats any part of the flesh. The farmers and labourers in the neighbourhood are indefatigable in their endeavours to find out the haunt of the ferocio ous beast, but their efforts have proved unsuccessful. Tuesday evening, as a young woman was passing through the back yard of Mr. Blake, at the Half way-house, in the Kent-road, a dog, belonging to Mr. Blake, furiously attacked her, fastened upon the fleshy part of one of her arms, and literally tore out a large piece of flesh, which was afterwards picked up by Mr. Blake. Her screams brought persons from the house to her assistance. The surgeon who was called in stated, that the wound was one of a most dange rous nature. • It cannot be too extensively known, that the law provides, that—" A dog going ia the street unmuzzled, being from its nature dangerous, and cause of terror to his Majesty's subjects, is a com mon nuisance, and the owner may be indicted for suffering him to go at large." There never has been remembered a season which has proved so fatal in many cases as the present one. The great mortality has been principally confined to the distemper in dogs, the rot in sheep, and the typhus fiver in human Leings. A female child, now living at Kirkland-how, in the parish of Alecdon, was horn on the 23d o f March, last year ; of course it saw two Good Fridays and two Easter Sundays, before it was a year old! MANSION-NW:SP.—Yesterday Thomas Arundel,Jo seph Dawson, Thomas Impett, and John Blacken, four boys, the oldest not more than 14 years of age, were charged with a robbery in the shop of Mrs. Willis, jeweller, &c. in Bishopsgate-street. Thee 'boys, it appeared, formed part of a gang of young thieves, with which the east end of the town hasbeen for a considerable time infested, and Arundel, who is only 13 years old, was one of the leaders. About three ' weeks ago they were "on the sneak," in Bishops , gate-street, when the shop of Mrs. Willis, from its having no person in it, attracted the notice of Arun del, aul he proposed an entrance. His companions, however, being rather backward, the young delin quent boldly opened the door, and creeping round the counter, opened a glass-case, from which he took a parcel of gold fancy rings, about twenty-four in number, and effected his retreat in the same manner. Ile gave each of his companions one ring, and kept the remainder. Having sold part of them, he squandered the greater part of the money at Step ney-fair on Alondiy last.- On Wednesday the prisoner Blacken had a quarrel with Arundel, and in revenge for something the latter said, went to Airs. Willis the same evening, and made a full confession of the robbery. 'The other prisoners were in con sequence apprehended at the house of.krunders father. Aiister of Arundel attempted to effect the escape of her brother, while the nicer was at the house of her father.—Arundel did not deny the robbery, but, with an impudent grin, said he had sold some of the rings, and made a scramble with the rest among wine of his companions. —The prisoners were remanded. SU/LOWELL OF/Wt.-R. Digrom, 70 yeas of age, was reman ded, charged by Mr. Johnson, of Turfing-street, St. George's, with an attempt to violate the person of his daughter, nine years old. MARLIIOROUGH-STRETT.—POLYCANT—Jdiah Ablintiah, a jovial looking man, was brought up for eta:inflation, on a charge of having married Rachel Cape!, 'tiering the life-time of his first wife. The prisoner said, that he supposed the wife, to whom he was married in the Abbey-cht.rch, at Bath, 35 years since, was dead, ind to remove his doubts, he took to wife Rachel Capel, in 1814. Another woman, to whom he was united two years since, now appeared, and Kenunish, on being interrogated by the Magistrate, candidly admitted that, being tired it the second, he wished for a.third.—lle was remanded. lificha el Kirby, a workman in the employment of Mr:Dupre, one of the Commissioners for Paving, in St. James's parish, was fined 40s. for wheeling a large barrow, laden with pavel, m the foot-way, oppos i te to the Police-othee. ACClDorr.—Monday as Wm. Anderson, a labourer, was assist ing in placing the body of a coach in the loft of a coach manufac tory in the Westminster-road, his foot slipped, and be was pre cipitated Aran* the trap-door to the pavement, by which be was bruised in to dreadful a manner Ulla be insinediatelrezpirsd. IRELAND. In the Limerick County Court Mr. lams mil, of Kanturk, was, on the I7th h.st, arr.: tried for perjury—which alleged charge out a prosecution at the last Assizes of Cdik. Charles Bastable, a respectable attorney, ted of conspiring in uttering a proaniss:n'y 1001. of Mr. O'Conneirs, in order to deft. r 4! Bruce, of Charleville, Ilankers.—yM r . Q c „ the case, and a great part of the day scat 0 in reading affidavits ; when at a late lit,„ ; evening, the court adjour.,ed till the nest I „ when the investigation was rcst.nied. the respectability of the partly., lia excitcd wrest, and is of import. Several of the :eay sons at the bar were engaged.—At eleven 0 - CL SOLICITOR GENERAL deckled the incomp t;e . the examination of a witness, on the gr.nul e was convicted of conspiracy. The Jury A• Mr. O'Connell, who was d/..,liarged. Thursday sennight Captain Wic.:ock e , ceived information that Finnegan, the under sentence of death from tile Kt.lC: 4 l,i• and known by the name of Capta.l: f seen at his old walk near before, sent his chief constable, Mr. I.Z-il!y, few of his own men, in disguise, to 0.-e • ;e i & hood, and they sncceded in the apprei:e::sio:l l negan, in a public house, armed v:ith a higiily blunderbuss, which he had not time to patty. instantly on Mr. Keilly . s upon him, and effectually prevented aai The populace, from that place intc the tc-m, ted a shocking instance of sympathy with tl lain, the crowd following him with shouts (A cations at his Captain.—Clonstel I lerefil MURDER OF THE Lvicrir r e.--It is eel; Devon, one of those who lately suffined bolical offence, was Clerk of the Chapel town. Mr. M'Cann, the Parish Priest, uer officiated there. On the Sunday after the ht the Lynches, he proceeded to that place of penetrated with the most indescribxble concern: He, ascended the altar, rub e d ments, and "with accents which will nes $t ear, cursed the author, abettor, and asciqa crime ! He then came down from the: ;1, from his feet his shoes and stockings, desired gregation to follow him, and he and they procession round the Chapel, calling aloud to I for vengeance on the murderers. Guess u next the Minister of Religion in this av ta! sion ? Devan, the Clerk ! the planner, the tor, the mover, the commander in tin , . Larritil sactiou 1- -And, of the whole co:Tregati•x:, peared to he the. person who reiterated Arne, the mostNehement devotion." wee las A t i v n ery parts great a s u e antity t o ie f s sn o .r t fell. r•n , t „ h h e of and LtintlL • In scone places it was and, in iithers,ien, and upwards. In the. higher districts of the Highlands, d. has fallen withi n last fortnight to a great than It has-for years, and sheep store h F.; fered greatry, Theexteut cannot be ascertair.e.'..l...ll the storm abates. In Strathconan, the dead c.,::./ses which have already been found have tire vascl corn. plettly eaten off by the starving flocks. The sailing of the expedition for discovering the 'orth Pole, aild Northern Passage betwee.s the Atiasuic and P I ceans, has been deferred for days longer. ; . d MaLvILLE visited the sis . .ps Iliesday at De , • d, for the purpose of inspect. ing:heir condition, aud the efficiency of their prrpi. rations. His Lordship was entertained by %vitas. sing :the activity and courage of the Escp.intra, who goes' out with the expedition as an in:cpreer, its case of any communication with the corns; o: as; , ' Strait. 'This Indian Ins his canoe on board, witi.is fishing apparatus. He is not tall, but his I:rs, thoughclumay, denotes great strength. His :Reis clear and fair, and being dressed like an Ella: sailor, and working with the other men, he asigkrA first view, be mistaken for a native of these is!...n; but his features are large, and the breadth as,.i Far. nets of-his countenance betray his origin. The Officers of the expedition seem quite r 7 that the DOROTNIA and the TRENT. under L.e:cm mand of Captain BucitAN, destined for the,. et) of the North Pole, will attain their ohi , .--c; r fee are by no means equally sanguine . the ISABELLA and the ALE:ANDER, u Rosa, who is instructed to attempt the 1 .: •.. r , (t Davis Strait. As the ultimate SUCCe NS 1 dition must necessarily depend upon t: tion and discipline of the men, the crews , e s are placed under Martial Law ; but :s 11. e rer. ire all volunteers, and are provided with ever: .2- tage whicit the most anxious solicitude I.g (::e!r fort and safety can afford, we trust tl%it will arise for enforcing the strictness "fits pr,vist.).3. lIIRTIL Oa the 7th {want, at Teabridge Welli, the Llay Of U 4 .4 Macdougall, of a thinker. ------ DILL). At Edinburgh, on the 16th in►ant, Sir John •;.. Glerat, Bart. • ' ' Friday, at Bristol, Lieutinion-Colonel lirnry the East India Company's serlacr, Lienr.sl rstab;s , At his seat Kilgobbin, comity iiale.ar, of a r • -• Lieutenaht-Colonel Hoysteast, late of the 50th At Gaifirld-square, on .he 15th inst. Niars. of Henry Pontos, Esq. lion. East lola Co ?. it. Helena. On the 13th nut. in Galway, the Rev..T. 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