The National Register. — London, England, 1818-07-13 00:00:00

TULY 13 paid for he did not know ; he did not think that :the pone= was . even then in a- advent state. Mr. Scarlett-called a witness of the name of Wilkins, who con.; tradicted the evidence of Thacker . , that there had been no dealings in goods b e tween Choke and the pl aintiff subsequentiu the partner sh ip with Gray. The learned Countel then addr e hitttsalEtn the.l ury, observing that there could be no safety in esiminertial transactions if the plaintiffs did not obtain a verdict : sleeping pacmera must be re.. spoissible for the debts c retracted by . these whom they tmsted with the manageineat of.the business: he insisted Oust Mr Gray had been attempting a sort of fraud ulna the plaintiffs, by resisting.the pay. ment of this debt under pretence that Clarke had obtained the accept . anew with a view to make them a part of his capitaL Thacker had aimitted that the sa.sca wet wusth 7,0001 and it might be inure; .aid than perhaps was the capital of Clarke. Me. Justice Abbott summed up briefly, leaving merely :the sines .tion to the jury, whether thepruduce of the bills in question had been applied to the general purposes attlic trade, or other 'The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs. POLICE. AiWNSION HOUSE. 'Abraham Jacobs. au extensive dealer, residing in Petticnat• lane. was charged as follows:—In the night of the Itth of April last, the preinises of Mr. Young, paper-manufacturer .in Carter.lwite, 'fooley-street, were broken into, and paper to a largeationitit taken away. Since that period the officers .lied hueu actively engaged in endeavouring to trace the pro perty, and a few days•3ince a part or it to the value of alumni .931. was found at the house of a *respectable •tradeamais in• purchased it of the prisoner. The Aulgste, who sa id h e .latter being applied to, could give no satisfactory account of the possession, and was therefore taker into custody. He; svas fully committed for trial at the ensuing Surrey Assizes. 'Bail to any amount was tendered, but refused by the Lord hlayor. Thursday Ann Ebbs. a young girl, was brought up charged under -the following disgraceful circumstances . The prisoner lived servant with a poor wan named Dupree, and . had the care of two c hildren. one Pre, and the other 17 nionthsold.lr slut , Werit.esday morning, her master desired her to take the children v to their mother, who sells frisk in the street. in order.that the younger one might receive its usual nutriment. She, howevcr, went another way, and remained absent all day. Towards night the lather be came alarmed for the safety of his children, and went in search of ithe prigmer. After wandering about fur several hours, he at. :length found her near Shoreditcb church. in a state of intoxication. surrounded by a mob, and the children in the care of other persons. 4 The youngest appeared to be dying from want of nourishment, and from the effectsof a wound in the back part of the head. which he learned was occasioned by the prisoner suffering it to fall front t her anus upon the graund. A surgeon to whom lie applied acixised • a warm bath at the only means of preserving the life of the infant.; and the father hastened house to procure one, but the child died soon after his arrival. Mr. Edintiorough, surgeon. of Fore-street. who: , attended the child at house, attributed its death mainly to the wound; the head. The prisoner did not deny the clumce, and seemed to treat the cir cumstance with great levity. The Lord Mayor observed, that the charge was one cf a very serious nature, and demanded ample investigation; and the.prisoner must therefore be remanded until a coroners jury could tietagaline upon the matter.—llerasoded accordingly. .Bow STREET. . Tuesday William Charker underwent a final examination before Mr. Birnie, an a charge of uttering a forged 11. Bank note, knowiug it toJ%e so r and with having others is kis pos• -session. The prisoner has hitherto beets a very respectable 7oung titan, an?. there is some mystery attached to the charge ; it has been under investigation since the t till of June, on which daythe tendered note to Mr.lobn Brown, the, landlord vf- the lionthamptou-arins public-house in Camden town, io paymeet f o r souse liquor, through.the waiter; and there being some doubt as to the note beirsg.good, from the' paper being thick, &c. it was refused being-taken. He re qtfeted Mr. Brown, the landlord, to advance him is., as he had not money enough to pay his reckoning, which was done ; but the landlord having some doubt as taxis conduct re. specting the note, he informed J. Smith and his party of the patrol of the circumstance, who searcheil•bins and found 'fifteen shillings in silver, two 11. notes, andowt of•atiother, in •a pocket-hook; these were sunning numbers or segue-ids, .and another loose in his pocket ; this has proved to be num; be red next to.a.note be had uttered at 31 provers in the city. —He accounted for asking fur the loan of ss. on his watch, whets he had. lis. in his pocket, by saying he wanted to pay the lA4. to a -shoemaker. Mr. Brown did not give him in charge of the uttieecti, a n d there was no proof that the notes foetid upon him were fm genies ; he was not detained in cuss tody ; hut lie ..voluntarily attended .at the office at the time appointed, when the account lie gave of himself, being iu Ake employ of Mr. Jones, a jeweller of Coridsill, proved to be correct. The notes foand Nom him proved to he furger;cs v and he said he took them limn his uo►•ter for wages, which was denied by blr.•Jon, s ; and he having no other account to give respecting theta, be was I'lllly-committed cur trial. QUEEN SQUARE. Tuesday 3. Billington was hilly committed for picking the pocket of ,liiimitters, of Bout-street, of his gold watch, chant, and aeols. The prosecutor was near the gale of Burlisgton-house whets Sir S. Itamilly's chanting procession was entering, and feeling his watch pulled irons his fob, lie seised the prisoner, who was nearest to hint. Au officer of this office saw the vl honer drop the %awl. UNION HALL. G. King, a prisoner.-in the Cotenty• Gaol at Newington, upon a charge of felony, was on Tilesday•charged.bv a fellow prisoner, named... Joseph Warrington, with knot:S.4w bin: down anal rubbing him. It appeared that Wart ington was coin. milted to prison as a vagaraut ; s few days a tteevvarils King, aohen no person was neat. knocked Min clown and robin I Inns •of ii. Or. 211 Which was concealed in the hitting of his wait- Coat. Wstringion made his complaint to LIM LIU% trawl . of • the prison, who ealised:Ning to be searched ; but nu money being found sin , and he st retool) denying the theft, it was considered that the charge wilt a fabrication. Warrington, ..bow ever, Us his omit' I solicit:snow:, iletimed the Superin. tendent of the gaol to go to the . f of whose he was kinarktd down; and obseiv ino a hole tit the slone..lloiir full at ulster, I while the other pal is of the pavement ars :.dry, be lotil in his hand, and with a tin:mitt y tit mini, he posh it out the money. A detainer wa. lodged acaimit hint fur it e rehltery. Hoon v. !Nita-01.-11ns VW an information nitiler the new act, Liar regtuating the charges to be /UAe ey uremia,. in keying distresses .Sra rent. The plaintiff is owner of a considerabl.: number sit homes. and the defendant is a broker reading a. Clapialim and hae. ,nurally boon -fispployeil by the plaintiff to levy upon *kWh tenants as were in arreat fotrent. In May last 111: sit instructed to seize the guotis oh a poor woman. with six children. who were unable to pay Mr. Hood the money she owed him ; but his Welings of compassion being laths! ..10/0 .aetino by lliw flisLuasta sausauna W We tissioem.ouc. Janata, THE 'NATIONAL REGISTER. he omitted to levy the distress accordiwg to his instructions, but allowed a fature ttme fur the money to ha pummel, and when it was ,paid into his hands a fes dap. afterwards, he deducted ss. flhr his trwuble, mid handed to the landlord (the plaintiff') the remainder of the money. For this deduction the landlord exhibited his ia tianr.ation. Mr. Tlaunuu, solicitor for the deftaidant. .conteraled that the Act applied only to cases where a ten:nit had been overcharged; and then only where.a distress had actually been levied. In the presentia stance, the complaint WWI by the landlord, anti .nl.l distress had ever hew nutde. . Mr. Carr, for the plaintiff stated in reply, that the solicitor for the defendant had only given lib attention to a part of tho Act. The Act hail made it highly penal.fora broker to charge either tenant or ilandlonl, or any other person,,••• for any act, ossaten,or diing, unless such actalsall have been really done." In the Cabe Urine the court. the defendant had perforinul no act of bro k er e, and yet he had made a charge as if such act had been really onaed. The Magistrate ai,rreed with Mr. Carr in, via constructi,n of the statute, but stated Ins unwillingness to inflict the penalty, when it was evident that the defendant kid emit, partly from ignorance of the law, and partly from a feeling of virtuous compassion. He should, , therethre, direct that Mr. - Ingrain should make repayment of the overcharge, and defray the.custs of the proceedings. LAMItEIM Wednesday John Watson, a young man whose address and appearance bespoke that of respectability, was brought tip for final examination, charged, in several instances, with beluga common 'meter of forged notes. and defrauding the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. Mr. Samnel Henry Leah, watchmaker, of 17,01 d—sheet. St. Luke's, being sworn, said, that on the evening of the 2111, of April, the prisoner came to his shop dressed in file!fe a different style to-Attain which be now appeared before the Magistrate, and bargained for a silver watch, worth four guineas, mid offered 31. 10s. for it, which being refused, he left the shop; bnt shortly after returned, and tendered 31. lOs. for the watch, which was received, and he went away : soon after, it was ascertained that the three notes were all counterfeit;. information was instantly forwarded to the po lice, with a description of the prisoner's person, and he was taken in auseelly, at which time -.a person •in a drew similar , to that which the prisoner wore on purchasing the watch was • with hut lie escaped. Prosecutor identified the pri soner. 4,:everal other witnesses under similar circumstances identified. him. The Solicitor of the Bank attended in support of the prosecution ; and also Mr. Christens*, the inspector, mouth proved the whole of the notes produced to be forge. ries. The prisoner protested that he was innocent, and exclaim ed, " My life has been sworn away." He was fully committed THAMES POLICE. (Charles Williams, dealer in mariac•atores, and who it was stated 11.1 d hitherto borne a re.speetable character, residing in King street, Rotherbithe, was ellarged willubaving received $ cwt. of rope ship tackling, the property of John Walker, a pilot, knowing the same to have been stalest. The facts, as they appeared in evidence, are as 4.allases:--On the 24.Je11y inst. Mr. Walker left the rope in the hold of a cutter e avith the hatches down and properly secnred. On the 4th he found the hatches forced open, and the property stolen; he gave information at this office, and subsequently ascertained , that a quantity of rope answering the same description was in the possession of Mr. %Valium's, whose premises he caused' to be searched, and there fo ttttt I it, beside a quantity of other rape of which he could.give no „account. On Monday last, the case came Oil to be heard, and Mr. Williams came for ward voluntarily: but the ll.sgistrate, on bearing the ease, committed him till now, when he was finally Isrostglit up.— Mr. Alley and Mr. Price attended to defend him, and strong_ ly .contended that the property came honestly into his pos session 4 that he bad purchased it of a man, whom however they were unable to bring forward; but they had. a bill of parcels and A receipt for 301-19 s. 4d., which was paid for the rape. The Magistrate said he would give the defendant an opportunity of clearing sop the imputation against him at the Sessions ; but he would require him to find two sureties in lOW. each, ansl himself in. 2001. to answer to the charge.-- A second charge was preferred against him, under the bum boat act, for having at the same time in Isis possession a quantity of rope of which be could notgive alproper account. IN QUEST ON • PRISONER IN NESVCIAT Inquisition was taken at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, before Thomas Shel ton, Esq. coroner, in the Keeper's room. at Newgatc,.on the body of Patrick Rawlins, aged about n years. Joseph Sevier. an assistant to Mr. Box,. surgeon of Newgute, said, that the deceased had been six weeks in the irifinuary, and had .died from a dewy of nature.— The jury were about to return their verdict upon the above evidence, when an officer of the prison said that a gentleman who had viewed the body bad remarked that there were some very singular appear ances upon it. The gentleman alluded to came Marren!, and said that he did make some /observations upon the arms of the deceased. which.appcared to have had sonic cord or string tied very tight round them, and round the body. The coroner ordered tbe.assastaat sur geon to go and re-examine the body; having done so, he returned in a short time, and said that there were deco marks on the arms and body ; and upon inquiry, he found that the deceased had tied him. self, a shorttime prior to his death, with a silk cord, and said that he should never be able to die unless he had the cord upon his arms.— Mr. Brown, the keeper of Newgate, said that the deceased was com mitted Newgate about tame months ago, for the term of three years, upon a charge of,an assault upon a girl : he had several times before been convicted of similaroffences. lie was.a schoolmaster in the neighbourhood of Hatton.garden. Verdict—Natural death. On Saturday week a disturbance took place in the Fleet Prison, occasioned; by a party of drunken prisoners ; when Mr. Nixon, the .keeper, judged it necess try to lock four of them up in the strong :room. Their imprisonment in this place gave offence to another ,party. who determined to disturb the prison until. the men were liberated; and this they did by breaking the lamps, and rolling lure stones in the staircases. On Sunday moruin n o• Mr. Nixon iiberateil the,originaltrisoners..and confined in their places amt.-tithe ring leaders of this seuend tumult. '('he last so courmed tle'ermined ton to remain in their degraded situation ;.and at tuitiklt on 14 t 2 5; , ./ they broke the iron liars that contioed Meal, llowered theirselves by their sheets into the yard of tl.c prison.tratio. their v. ay, t their respective moms, and went wised. On'Mr. Nixon being ofortned of this on Tuesday morning, lie • rent to tic Secretory u: . State's Office, and a detachment of the 3d regiment of Guards were ordered to his assistance, and will remain in the prison until the strong-room is rendered inure secure. The three delinquents were carried back to the strong-room, an.l oa Toesilay evening continued there, with eight soldiers to watch the windows, from which the prisoners have 'lung a Hag, andleig!it more soldiers guard the door of this apartment. The eliapel.of the prison is for the preseut converted into is barrack -Wain. Wednesday ninwirg tV , I) fellows, isa w io,, the h ome of Mr. Good. liff, 12, Southampton eared.. CainkorwS, so: .erved..a mahogany writing dc,k At3ndill just inbitle. the trindow.of a front room. t h e sash of.which .was thrown up. A female servant was in the garden ;n front of the house, and, in order to draw her attention away while their teloatou., project war carried into execution, one of them went' into the fore court of the next house, and entered into convenasiom with her over the separating wall, while his accomplice drew the desk from is place and decamped. licAdia other valuable articles. it taaiwair-d lSi. iti ldauit aotsa. ASSIZE COURT OF PARIS. THE COVItT OR awe CONVICT ?—,t curio's case founded ;OR the following circumstances, is now before this Court : In the year 9 of the Revolution a man named Coignard, eon v.eted along with several others of robbery, was condemned the Criminal Court of the Seine to 14 years' imprisonment. He was sent from the Ilicetre to Tonkin to be employed there with the other convicts. From Toulon lie escaped to Spain, where he formed au intimacy with a young and hand. some female. who was attached, if not by love at least by gratitude, to. Count de Pontes de St. Helene, a French emi grant. Thetwunt died, and Cuignard having cot possesien of his papa', assumed his name. He removed with the fait . Spaniard to another province, and they afterwards repaired to Madrid, where the false Count solicited and obtained a captaincy in a provincial regiment. He soon rose to the rank uelsieatenant•coleuel, and was decorated with the eider of Caitit rave. During the war of the Spanish independence, be lilt Ilia. corps awl joined the French army. Marshal Soult readily, received a deserter sho sacrificed rank and emolumeiita rather than tight against his countrymen, and appointed hint. chef de battalion in a French reg . •nt. He was one of the first to join the Doke of Amgosdeme when he arrived at Itourtleaux in ISt 1, but solicited no up. pointmeist. After the return of Buonaparte in NUS, he was. employed through the interest of a cleik iu the war-office, who had married a lady of the Roily of Ponies. At the (tattle • of Ileums, which preceded the battle of Waterloo, be was. severely wounded. lle then repaired to the King. and stated that he had been lift victim of kis altaeltsisent to the Bourbons, and that he had received his wound from a party of doitaniers, while he was endeavoui lug, at the petil.vf hie: life, to join the friends of the Royal cause. When the King returned to Paris, ho was appointed 'to •. depot of detached troops which wet e assembled at the Refits• Peres. He acquitted himself well in that duty, and was ap. pointed Chief of battalion of the Legion of the Seine; but,, as he secretly followed another. course thaw arms, it was con venient for him to-retire 011 half-pay, with the. tank of Lieu.. tetiant_colonel. It is said that he took advantage of the op portunities which rank gave him, to facilitate the admissiva of robbers, of whom be was the chtsf, into respectable houses. It happened, however, that•one day, while present at - fa: grand review in the Place Nenclome, he was recog►ised by one of his fellow convicts at Toulon. Lung success had: rendered hint confident, and he was imprudent enough to re pulse,. in a very rude manner, his old friend.iflae police mos got Information of the story, and the Count: was ordered under -arrest, but escaped. He was long moisten for in vain, but was at last taken, with other depredators, in the act of breaking into a house. He was on Tuesday brought• berms! the Court, where he insisted that he was the 'eat Count Ponies dr St. Helene. Witnesses were called.to prove that be was the convict Coignard,long examinations took place, And. the further hearing was postponed to Friday. Saturday week an inquest was lieldat the sign of the India-house... :Barton, near Glocester, on the body of Thomas Hick, 21 years age, son of the landlady of the above house. It appeared thatab. the preceding evening Hick was in company with two other yewng. men, when souse persans came in who bad been shooting Rooks, and. havingput down their gun, it was talueesep by James Ravenhill, whet.. pointing it at the deceased in a jocular way, said. s• Mind 1 dews shoot you," when, the piece instantly went off, lodging-the whole ofe ifs moments in the heads the deceased, who hugest:din the met estauciating agony for about an hour tend a ball, and then expired. • The Jury returned a verdict of manslaugliser. and Ravening . has been committed for trial lathe approaching Assizes. Thursday an inquest Aso, held at the London Hospital..ll street, before John Wright Unwin, Esq. Coroner, on the body of David Terri n, aged 22. whose death wig occasioned by his. drinking tsar - huh* a gallon of ruin. John aickinte, surgeon to, the London 'Hospital, sworn. said that the deemaed was brought ta, the hospital on Saturday last, in as state of insensibility. in whichht renunned for two days, smelling very strong of spirituous liquor : -on the third slay, when he recovered from his stupor, Ise said hiewas labouser in use West India docks, and beiug thirsty, ran to a measure contwaing upwards of three pints of rutn,which he drank all. off, and dropped down in a state of. insensibility. On the fourth day the de messed became quite deranged. awl died mad on Tuesday night: on opening ins body idler death, his stoatach was found in a high state of inflammation. Verdict—Died by excessive drinking. An Inquisition was taken on Tuesday, beibre Thos. Shelton, Emit Coroner. at the house of Messrs. Curteis and Cooper, Angel-court,. Friday-street, on the body Of Mr. John Scott, merchant, ef Angel-. court, Friday-street;Cheepaide. Mr. John -Sant seated that the . deceased was his father. and that he resided with lum : he had been very much depressed in his wind ever since that day week, in con sequence, laeiclieved, of an acceptance having become due which he was unable to take up. On Saturday morning lest he did not wine down to his brcallest as usual, witness went to him and asked him if • he should come down? Ile said that he was unwell, and should lie in bed a. little longer. Witness went several times to hap between . that awl. twosu'eloek ; about two o'clock, witness went to the decease) I to ill tiArlll him that a gentleness waisted to see hint, and said he should come down directly; andethout Yin inn:suites after he went tis. him again. and tieind hins lying on the beet within, throat cut in a dreailful tanner, and a bloody razor, lyiug on .the woad. efr. Maples, surgeon, Cheapside, said that he was called in to see the dee ceased. end found that he had cut throngh the windpipe; the set et .. and all the veseiels of the neck, were sevettel ; in fact the head wee: nearly severed trout his body. Aumber .eithess spoke as to '.tbe ceased beiag in a despondiug stay a Ike days prove w ins Verdict—lnsanity. Tuesday night as NlreNitagle e tthoohnister to duet a LolieSehool.. in Dean-street, Soho, and a M Wu; 1' I 11.41 AV.• s Lead, on passing by the !Segues:es Canal Ote eerie:6 wither infant ;Mos.t six. months 1 tiii . on the !mint ni I.rrrii mating hersolf and child into the water; flees Wei, ser.lseppills ter rem' her executing he:edge:ail:el purpose, and el t. fsanig!,s e eis !.. child its his anes e weitst Mr. Bei.dy sal:pone) the uessistew fee en the Culon 'Envecii, in Jolin.ata:4, 1/xl,mi-street. s hii*s 'lieu s As a criirterly n.eeung of the ietntlethen of the l'athuo.: for eitatiteble purposes, to which Mr. N. is Secretary: *hen bar Cit.`,C was invest:getee a deputatiemof the members : after which. she was supplied with money te./WV.VCI' her iientelinte vita e : en 44 her address taken (town, in outer to snake tettbereatquitY dine OW 4.11 on a levalrwitlittie • truth of her setter:eau. As the Paddington coach was swine at &quack pace itp , Cow- lone,, ten C:a mc ch 'i. 1:41 111 w e , t e n e t efi e ue e n Tuesday I : l l , l s t s e i n n i g os b n: 3_ ,. n tli guttlJfatßaec pa ie, it n . sinyk, (liihtischwwasa.ovrecrtr ) urnill. 'rwo persons evere thisewn *eh r e *, ele maul!) , has.... vw :: ( . : ! e a ; : s e eTc 4 7,i l : 3j y n i t gi tield, theses.bielecelfoureasw lie in .4 , very dangerew new. '..e Journal of sCannerte welate.. that ee a wn ic amtar " am open la) nut long since, at ,Dossipietay.ooy. somo ,,, tn a ldia tin hooly upon a farmer named Decennia—The Inure gsuy pod the animal by the throat, and struggled courageously.t. tone time. 'Pie iehabitaistedwarine the anise, time asp, mid the wolf. disengaging uwaelf fio.s- his vigurova advert s aulaAlitrbo nut woo*"