The National Register. — London, England, 1818-02-02 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY. Triehael Fox, aged 60, was put to the bar, npnn anintlirt_ relent charging him mith,ptitting off and disposing of .ix pieces of counterfeit coin., made to resemble the current coin of the realm , :ailed shilling, on the 10th of December last, in the parish of 6t. Gilcs.in.the-fielols, to one Joscpu Prior, at a lower rate of value than their denomination imported, name. ly, for 3g. The facts •of the case were proved, in an examination of :toe hours, to the satisfaction of the jury, %lit, ill a tow se. 'cools found a verdict of—Guilty. TUF.SDAY. The Old Bailey SessionscosirTMil;irl this slay, when the Re. • corder passed sentence of death upon the following:— Mary Al.ler, for stealing in a dwelling house ; Jose's!" Thompson, for privately stealing in a shop ; Ann Jones, for stealing in a dwelling house; Nloses Daniels and Joins Smith, !Or konsebreakine ; Charles Wood and John Vale, for horse atealing ; Lawrence Denley, for stealing in a tly.s•lling hous e; John Norton,for burglary ; George Scott and Israel Chapman, for highway. robbery; William White and Julius Read, for sheep stealing ; Mary Gililersleve, for stealing iii a dwelling. house ; W illiam Kelly and 'ilioinas Spicer,for forgery ; Thm rum' Casey, fir sheep stealing; Win Henry Rawlins's,' and 3111111 RA161411‘011 ; the younger, for stealing from a Mg bust on the river ; Henry Hall, fur stealing in a dwelling house ; Ann Cale, fisrprivately stealing in a shop; Wm. Grace and Charles tilt burglary ; Charles Russell, for housebreaking ; Jas. Bennett (a boy), for stealing in a dwelling home ; Isittltew Sidtivan (a boy only 11 years of awe), John Limas, and Win. Green, for stealing in a dwolling honest ; Daniel Stockwell, for burglary ; Rose O'Hara, largaret illimplsrles, and Han nah Ilrian, for highway rubbery; and John Fanner, fur pri •vately stealing. Messrs. 'Theodore O'Callaghan, Thomas Joseph Phealan, and Charles New bolt. the duelists, were ordered to be fined a shilling. and to he confined three calendar mouths in his :'la jelly's gaol of Newgate. Rleven were ordered to betransported for life, 15 for fonr teen,and 60 for seven year.; and numerous others to various terms of imprisonment. fUWARKOW.—A Russian Itioeraphical account of &mar 'row contains some singular and curious details. 'l'houghtlie, -.general cruelty of his disposition WAS evinced My the horteute massacres of • Oczakoff, ,Ismailoff, and Praga, (where 00,000 roles are said to have been eacrieeed to his vengeance); yet. ly e semetiniesahowed et more peculiar ardour of ferocity. To Ike French, in particular, he bore a sort of fanatical histred—' a rage of detestation. A proof of this passion way:vett ex.. Iribited in exercising his men. In commanding 'them to' snake a charge with the bayonet, they were to understand his directions 'in three differesit wo.ye, according to the nation' which they were snppnscd 'to combat. When he gave the! word to march against the Prr.ssians, they charged straight! forward with the point of the bayonet—against the Poles, they rapidly repeated the thrust—against the execrable French, they turned round their bayonets after the second thrnst, treeelarge the wound. Original in every thing, and even erecting originality, this send -barbarian sometimes ap. l peered wrapped up in sheep's skin, like a Cossack, and at other times covered with crosses, •with bages of orders, and portraits, which he had received. These latter ornaments, seined to his little grins countenance and bis lank figare,.gave 'kiln more the appearance of an Italian charlatan than the' ' ,general of an army. Although he gave the world'reasento •otpeot hiseanity, yet, •from sharing their dangers, tbelefa-. Mena, end their 'frugal .fare, he was always the laid of Lis • a. ldicrs . The anecdote of his quelling a mutiny aoint Ids ' 4 - reops .in crossing the Alps, is well I. flown. Ills soldiers, overwhelmed with fatigues, and dispirited with hard-;hips, no longer obeyed his voice, or observed their usual discipline. lie ordered a ditch to be dug, and stretching 'himself in it,' cried out to his nuttiness soldiers, " Cover me up with earth, year General desires here to he interred since yon abandon bias r' They all threw themselves at his feet, and followed biln with devotion and enthusiasm. The. Emperor Alexander has cameo' a statae to be erected to his name, and the Grand Desire .Constantlue has pronounced a public elogitim on his actuary.; brit such honours will not remove the stain of ca pricious ferocity from his character, or induce history to paisithien in any other colours than those of a.fcrtionate mi litary mailman, or an enterprising savage. —(Glieter raper). DITRAOADINARY CIRCUM ,, TANCI.—On the lath instant, as Illir..Blakeney was walking between Chepstow, and the 'village of St. Aryan's, he observed bare run into seine brush•• wood and long grass, situate in the centre of a field, and: whieheurrounded a small stagnant pool. He immediately, repaired to •the spot for the purpose of driving out the Itare, when,ou. lookile; cantiouslj about, his attention was arrested by the ,fret of a man above thesnrfaae of the water, and in snob e;position as led him to believe that the body must be kept down by a .weight. In .endeavouring to extricate the body /nitwits filthy bed, the head and flesh separated from it, and from the patrie•ttate which it exhibited, there can be no doubt but it must have been abere many ntoutl ► s.— Our Readers must recollect, that at the lust Assizes for Gletices• ter, till , CP Weall were tried for. the oturder of Mr. Thompson, found guilty, and executed. Aline Tuirrwr, a funrtli, then large, and fur whose apprehension a eonsiderablereward has beets offered, WAS about that time seen its the vicinity of Clicpstow. Conjecture, therefore, has pronounced that the unfortunate individual is au other then the murderer ; and the circumstances of his having about hint a black handkerchief, readers it estremele probable that, t is so. A:few days slimed. Blackburn, alias Marsden, was appre heeded by Mr. Tithinj, the Constable of Deighton, iiear Iludilerstield, on a charge efrobbery,and lodged in al room at an Inn, whence he escaped out of the window. At the constable repaired to the image of the offender, under All expectation of boding him, and 'hero. fruitless search was about to depart, when he discovered a communication be tween the chamber and au adjoiarieg hay-loft. At this open. ing lie-seterad; andwhat then occurred we are incapable of etatingAirson the following morning -the constable was found est.the berieflour a lifeless corpse. It is suppli-ed 111,11 a eon teSi took place,. in the constabie was throw's fill the barn floor. When ftitirel,Lis person exhibited the appraraner cf a ataiiewho Lad died by otrangitlatien, and the cap of hi. knee ass hrehanan three places. The eukorit has.abscunded ; and from some carcumstanees that have transpired, it is con jectured that 11114.1 of .his aressowas either brukcitoridislocated in ile; fatal reneontre. iTne.GlANTEss.—Many °four readers have doubtless seen a geolitmoty sighs (yaiterd ai oil) of a very large woman, op- PeoilesN. , rfolk Slice'. Sei sStrand. The Surveyor of the Parish, um Wednesday ,proetatled aiiist Cook, the propri ekr o f t i ns exhibition, for a , ui oulketiog crowd* by a Bier cautretry to the act. Cock ee:s aces ieted, and Lod to 43'11. TITE• NATTONAL lIEGISTF,R, POI, IC E. --do- GUILDHALL. - The keeper of a brothel not far from Cheapside, appeared to.answer the complaint of Lydia Langston. a Cypriau, for detaining her apparel, and some entitles of jewelry. The voinplailiant, who WilS about Id, stated, that *lie was the daughter of respectable parents at Cheltenham, in Gliniees tershire, wheat. she set ved an apprenticeship to a dressanaker. About eighteen months ago she attract. '1 th e ii„ti ce o f a gentleman of rank, with whom, after a courtship of some 1110/1,114, she COOSelltell to Collie to 14011t1.101. admirer placed her it. the house of the definition', and, after visiting hoe for abort a month. his fancy tired, and she was deserted. Chi quilt ug the house her landlady had detained the property fur arrears of rent. The defendant lefwing to give up the property, the Magistrate solid, he should advise the consplails ant to enter au action, or indict the Is iuse, as she knew ilithe complainant cued her IQOI. for loilgirig, she (-odd not legally recover oue farthing.—Defendant, " So mach for law.; that's precious hard though !"—Magisti ate, "Go home yon infamous hussey, unless you .would wish to be sent to prison." The c plainant declared she would act on the Alderman's advice, and the part k‘s departed. Thursday an information was laid against Mr. Isaac', Cir. colt, hay salesman in Smithfield 314rket, tinder the following Piingin stated, that un he put•- chas:d a load of hay of the defendant lor 31. 111•, and on opening it on Smithy, he discovered a quantity of manure, stones, and other ruhhish iii the centre of Iti.of the trusses the total of the rubbish weighed upwards oft; cwt. The de fendant expressed his ignorance of the fact. The hay, he belonged to J. Roberts, Esq. of. Clay Hill , and the fault must rest with the binder. Cases of this kind frequently occurred, and the salesmen were exposed to unmerited cen sure. The Alderinaii (Sir M. Illoxliani) said , it would be hard on the salesmen to tine hire for what he was by no Melt ns ' blimicable4 but Mr. Payne, the Clei k, said, the Act empower ed him to recover the fine from hit principal; on which he was ordered to pay 3s. per taus-, amounting, with the costs, to 41. Bs. MARILBOROUGU-STREET. On Saturday week a case of inucli.interost occupied the at tention of the Magistrates, in a amumons by the Bank of England against Mr. Ransom, an engraver, for refusing to deliver up &forged 11. note. ilAained at the Bank, which Mr. Ransom had paid to Mr. Miteliener, of the !tole in the Wall, Fleet Street, and on Mitehener summoning Mr. R. to the Court of Requests, for the.secovery of the amount, Mr. Fisk, one of the investigators, produced it to the :Chairman (Mr. Rogers) who hooded it to the defendant .for his inspection, and he put& into his pocket audwefused:to delivered it up.— Mr. Fish applied to the Chairman for it-to be.restored tokina, but the Court declined making auy order. Mr. fish them demanded the note of Mr. R. who walked out of theUoint with it, and declared lie wettld shoot any one who attempted to molest him. Mr. Mitchener proved that Mr. Ransom had a pistol in his hand, and he saw him stoop down in. Court as if to cock it, and he kept his eye c lose upon defendant's hands to prevent mischief. —Mc. Westwood slated, that he had no, further desire than he should give up the note.—Mr. Ransom, " Under what Act of Parliament do son claim possession of the note.—Magistrate, " l'he 45th ofOeo. 3, cap. 89, which states it to be felony, to bold possession of the note, which you now persist in."—Defendant, -"I cannot.leave my profession to go from Court to Coast, without vein to myself : and my szbjectin keeping this acee is, by way of a becou to me to dis cover a forged note, hy.comparison with .good ones."—Mr. Westwood, "I: all notes were made alike, hut it is necessary to make alterations, to .frustrate the plans of fabricatora."— Mr. Ransom here showed Mr. Fisk three notes, which were de clared good. " Then it is by eumpairing the had note with these that I can point out where .the forgery exists," which he did to Mr. Fish, aud.conti tttt ed, " I have written a letter to the Goveruors of the Hank on the subject, and I am de• termined to proclaim to the world how the forgery is coin initted, and in doiug so nay head and heart dictate to me that I mu right in causing a revolution in the Bank, and informing the public how to detect forgeries of hank notes." Mr. Westwood, " The Rank will thank you or any other person for any suggestion that would tend to prevent the circulation of forged notes t bat if the public were apprized of the means of detection. it would tend to benefit the fahrieutors of these notes, who would immediately change their plan."—The de fendant refused to part with the note, and cared not for fail ing in the attempt to do good. Persisting in this refusal, the three Magistrate's held that he had re-possessed himself of the' note with a pistol in his hand, and held it without lawful cause.—Remanded for the felony. BOW STREET. Two boys, named Samuel Stanton And Joseph Barnett, were apprelwntled on Saturday week, iu the pit passage to Co. vent Garden theatre, in the act of picking pockets; they belong to a gang whohave long Infested both theatres. They were remanded, _ . Mr. Milner preferred a complaint against Perry, the officer for having %bleed him by time culler, and turned him out of the Revel Exchange. It appeared that a gentleman, whose name Perry slid nut know, though he was acquainted with his person, lied told Perry that one Wheeler, a emotions thief, was on. the 'Change, and had insisted that Perry should send him away. Perry accordingly went, and Irons the strong resemblance which Mr. Milner bore to Whecier,liatl acted towards him iu the way complained of. The Lord Mayor had berm applied to, but haul given no redress; and Ilicks,of this office, remar,:etl, that lie did not see how Perry could have acted differently. tic hail no doubt that Perry would endeavour to bust out the gentleman who.bed FED. I QUEEN.SQU 1R E. J. 'Paste, a ‘y11111147 10,01 of respOctable appearance, Was charged by J. Gleanering s servant to Ir. Serirant Best, woh stealing hie watch. gold cli i,i, and seals, value 101. nailer the folio win:: circumstances : The prosecutor stated. that hr• was at the Star and Garter, Old Palaee.yard, on Friday night; lie .eciit into the yard, anti theme polled nut his watch, pot it itown, and forgot to take it np Aid. not miss it limit lir got home: lie instantly raterned, and.on making inquiry, disc:overeat that no one hail been in the yard atter him but the ,risiirer • i - eiialltted 4.60 votii bar Litz. it, I.iit the other de nied it. An G'fier•r was sent for, wid ►took him into custody, .111.1 found the watch upou'hitn.—Rt•m.enited. J. ALtsouot .liatreue,tlse.oo.w, who was hntnanelyprovided with food, clothes, t'ec. 41141 bent on board the I . :41011 . re re eel y lug htip, in the.ttiver, cow ri (-41 to e.tter U cabin a the o:§cers o asti.tre Jte •bIUIC table spoon,, two tea spoons, and two 4all With these, and .some forhiNhed r. by the Goo: tnittcc,tc,quitud the.sLip, calla, act 4ia‘c I.etz beard ot. BOXING. Another of these disgraceful scenes took place on Wednesday, for sOguineas a tide, at dooinbe Warren. amidst as disorderly a set. to uscour reporter's own phrase. as Ncwgate itself could prodoc:•. eouaboLons wer , ._Purcell, and one 14• Carty, an II iberinan, whose first appearance it was in the pugilistic field. The seconds were— Randal and Torn Jones for Nl•t;arty. and Oliver and Shelton for Purcell. Betting six to four on Purcell. The fight lasted two hours and twenty ininutes, in which l lit rounds were contested. In the two first. but little execution was done. In the third, Purcell drew first blood, but ll'Carty floored him. In the ,next round, *Carty ina le some excellent parries, and returned heavily at the right hand at the body ; at times. when he did riot parry, lie broke ground • and made a rush with both kinds in succession. In the sit round, there Was treinendousfighting, and when nature was exhausted they drot.- ped, ;mil their faces bore strong marks of violence. The 9th I%as tirught with equal ardour, and espial advantage, until the 311th, win a Purcell had only a glinuner of light; Nl•Carty was then backed at tour to one, and he led with fury Cite several rounds. Purcell's se • condo then doctored him, and gut him a peep at his work again, and he made the most of it, but was too much elated ; M•Curty then the best of it till the IsOth round, when Purcell turned the h.:!. nag three and four to one in his favour. Victory was, however, doubtful• till the Pits% when Al• Carty visibly declined; and in this next 11 rounds, received more punishment than all the preceding ones : and the welcome round of No" from him, at the close I' the I letn. gave victory to Purcell ; when their heads exhibited such spectacles as to defy all description; l'urcell's being, if possible worse than that of his vanquished foe, and they both have richly merited the technical tens among the Gernmen glebe Fist, of first rate Glut. tons.—Gudgeon the Jew, and Duggan. an Irishman, next turnedau, fur a purse of 10 giuneas. Our informant waited upon them one hour and forty minutes, and they fought the whole time ; but from their weight,•their execution was not equal to the List battle. The Jew was decidedly the best fighter. and particularly wh en i n at t i le body ; but his adversary was heaviest. They were at it at dark, and seemed inclined to pass the evening there, so that use reporter left them engaged. OD Saturday week an liiqueit was taken at the Apple Tree, in White Hart yard, on the body of.). Connor, who fell down in a state of complete exhaustion in Clare•conrt, in which state he wairfonnil by a Gentleman, who lifted him up , and had him conveyed to a brothel, in White Hart yard, in which two of the deceased's daughter., one It; the other 13, are har boured a. prostitutes. The keeper, however, veftiseal to admit him into her house, and before a surgeon could attend, the deceased expired. His body exhibited symptoms of great emaciation. Verdict—Died by the .isitation of God. 'On 'Sigurd:ly week a female infant, appaseutly about a mouth old,was founded the door of kir. Hest of /adman Street, Holborn. I note was suspended limn its arck ; on which Was written •" Poo: Muria chouipsun." It was taken to the Workhouse in Glity's inn Lane. l'he canoes entered in the Lord Chancellorts book for this Tenn already snout to 390, which are exclavive of those to be heard at the Rolle. and of all petitions and motions. The Register'. and Master's offices were never known to be so crowded with important bilainexs. kespecting the seat at Cutinels, a singular anecdote :a known of the late Mr. O. Rose. As lie was travelling early on life, on the top of a stage coach, from Portsmouth, he re— marked, "that if ever lie could hope to have a country seat, ov.a bit of laud, that was the spot (meaning the site of Cuff_ nets) he should wish of aU others." He lived, tu.vealixe hie- wish. An inquettbss been held on the body of Mr. Barnes, of - the Coop ers' Arms. Lower East Smithfield. who on Friday night, during a castration with his wife, threw a bone at hie, ;which she returned and ran towards the street door. He then •pursued her, when she turned and gave him a push. on which he fell a lifeless corpse. There be no marks of violence, and a Surgeon stating that h e di e d o f apoplexy ; the Jury returned a verdict accordingly.. Wednesday morning a son of Mr. Knight, of Hackney, in throw ing& terrier dog into the river Lea to wash it, fell in himself. A Newfoundland dog which had accompanied him immediately plung ed in after !fun, and seized him by the clothes, but had nototrength to bring him to theland. A man who had seen the dog struggling in the water came ..to she river-side, and was apprized of the fatal cir cumstance by seeing the youth's floating hat; he had, however. sunk. and.though drags were immediately employed the body was not found at 12 o'clock. ‘Vednestlay, while a man was exposing for sale a quantity of de -1 tonating balls, under the gateway of Gray's Inn. some mischievous wretch threw a piece of steel into the basket, which, caused them to explode, and lacerated the man's face in a shocking manner. On Monday, a man employed on Mr. Hill's wharf, at Maidstone. in removing large stones, one of them fell on him and broke. his back. Ile lies in a dreadful state, with very little hopes of recovery. J. Ransom, a thresher, being suspected of stealing wheat fronting master, Mr. Penton, of Borden, was on Thursday night week fol lowed home, and a quantity of wheat was taken from him, which he had deposited in two quart. bottles that usually contained his drink for the day ; and on the fallowing day he was committed to Maid stone gaol for trial. CONTARIOUS FEVER.—A Dublin Paper says, " The rapid in crease of fever cases in this city begins to excite considerable anx iety. We understand that a number of Medical gentlemen are about to meet at Cork street hospital, in order to take the state of coots:sign in Dublin into consideration. las Idaysitieth, the Quarter Sessions has been postponed on account of tiarßasvalence of the fever in that town and county. Lord Portarlington is ;laudably active in causing precautions against typhus fever to be adoptod iu the vicinity of limo park. Ito has puhlished directions for the observance of the lowr cl a sses, who hare, through means of his Lordship, free,access to use diced advice. ei/eni,n; J Lticktnan, a in irate in the Royal staff Ono, till into titeltoy.4l 31iht.0 y CauaJ , at 113 the, drnKned. The French-roe/bet boats continue to purchase with avidity the herrings caught off Portsmouth. They were sold last season so low as 9d. per bushel; but our new friends gave, on Tuesday, taking at once 304)0 bushels. 3s. per bushel. There arc now upwards of YOO ve,sels and boats employed in this fishery. TLe Mad Coach which left Glasgow on the evening of Monday week for Edinburgh, upset at Colt Bridge, in consequence of. tbe wheels coining against a large atone, which is placed on the bridge for the purpose of protecting the parapet wail. An outside passenger. Ross, the t llasgow Police Oilicer, on the very first indication of danger leaped . from the driver's box, and Cie coach falling on him he was killed on the spot. A few evenings since, as a child belonging to a Serjetint of the 57th regiment, stationed at Cie Heights' Barracks, at Dover, was playing before the rite, its clothes caught the flames, and before assistance multi be procured. it was at: 4044114 4 buret, as tq cause its death the next morning. The Doiva,eer Eirepre , s of Russia ha; erepreased a sw,ng desire to visit E ngland, and we l,.ar that a few weeks a rice arrangements were making In 1441.34 AW fur that purpose; and a f ema l e , t h e d aug h ter of an English woman who has resided its Rus is a number of years, was in treaty to acamipany the Empress to England. The business of the Somerset County Sessions has engaged the Grand Jury scvetat days longer than usual. A Gentleman who attended on the Grand Jury laments the ve:y. ..rilling crimes for which several of the prisoners were detaina k j, ;last, arraigned at the tublic .bar. having bt:eteua inmates a a gaol, PtIMPOI them may hove acquired .notinns of depeaviiy with which they were . presiously , unacquaretted, ask: .6111314 tat for indultutokip