The National Register. — London, England, 1817-01-27 00:00:00

JANUARY 27, the pre cent hinder•. The late NlLtrquis of lint:kingham's had act-0)&11;41i eersed! the others would also cease ere limg,and now altogether in amount did not much exceed 209,0301. per airinm, making a 'rirthen of hermit one fontilt the prier of a quartet' loaf to earls individaal, or about id. e:u•h per year. He did not see that ret4in in l'arliautt•nt was n"•ressarv' to the reduction of expenditure; he personally knew not the present iniiiister4, or ,‘ as ill aliv Way 114/1111Cril .. 1 With thrill but I:e knew that in pr:valc life intlividnals, when leaving off business, could not wind op their sift iirA, especially it crten• sive. in a very short time ; he therefore must cmicludr, that in 'triaging to a close tic machinery of sot it a mighty eon crrsi as th.. , late war, sonic time mast first elapse ; he should, however, soon see tlii•ir conduct in this respect, and if he saw no sincere emleaver.r to effect retrenchment and economy, he would join heart and hand with the gt•tttletitett opposite, in petitioning fur such objects. For these reasons he should , thus efore vote against the question. _ _ Mr. S. Dixon professed, that for the last 2) years he had nut heard from the worthy mover the same moderate g.tage that they had heard to-flay. on the subject of ref .rm. This was the first time h had recommended a calm, stem!y and moderate prosecotion of that object. Probably gentle men are now become afraid of their having formerly appealed too much to the passions of the multitude, who were far.v li terally acting on notions which proceeded from them. This was the first titu^ he had heard of any thing specific, and that neither annual Parliaments, nor universal suffrage were the wish of these gentletnen. I.lverting to tile speech of the last worthy gentleman, wh i m, however, as a new speaker, he would not wish to discourage, he must say, that were he the patient lie should be aft aid of those physicians who differed so mach as to the mode of cure, and should prefer rather trusting to Nature than to their skill. The symptoms of a change from violence and e‘aggeration to a Oiser conduct were sn favourable, that, with a few alterations, he likeulf would support the resolution;. Mr. Pavell was surprised at the altered tone of the last speaker, and attributed the favourable change to the elo quent speech with which his hononrahle friend had ooetied the present discussion. It would be superfluous in him to say how much he admired Ora speech, and how worthy it was of the attention of, this court, and of the country. It contained a sufficient reply to all the objections against re form which had been conjured tip by its opponents. Mr. IVaitliman replied at sonic length, and with consider able warmth, to the observations of Mr. Jacks and Mr. S. !)Ron ; at the same time re -.toting and enforcing some of his falner arguments, The Resolutions were then put, and carried by a great ma jority, only about a dozen appearing against them on the show of hands, though the Court was pretty crowded. A Petition founded upon them was then agreed to, and ordered to be presented to the House of*Commons by the Re presentatives of the city, accompanied by the Sheriffs; and to the House of Lords by the Sheriffs, The Members of the Court, who are Members of Parlia ment, were requested to support the prayer of the petition in their places in the House. OLD BAILEY. TRIALS OF THE RIOTERS. On Monday, the Judges took their scats on the Bench, when J. Hooper, J. Cashman, It. Gamble, and J. Carpenter, were indicted for stealing 29 fowling-piece•, value 29J1. the • property of Mr. A. Beckwith, in his dwelling-Loose, C. Grit= tin and others being therein, and having been put in fear. Mr. Gurney stated the case for the prosecution. He *id, this case differed in nothing front the eases of stealing in dwelling-houses, above the value of Ins. except that it was committedlwith more than ordinary s iolence in the face of Inc, • Mille presence of numbers, by a mob, commanded by lead ers, whose orders they received and obeyed. He then de tailed the different parts the several prison••rs took in this transaction, as it was slated in the following evidence : J. Roberts, apprentice to Mr. Beckwith.--On the 2 , 1 of December a young man came into the shop, alums 20 minutes a'ter 12, who wa+ taken into custody. In a quarter of an hour about :1 or 100 persons came, and rescued the young man who had shot Mr. Platt. They broke the windows, and began to take away the guns and pistols. They then came into the shop, and took the guns out. Cashman was then., k and opened the drawer., and took some steel shut-cliarges. He also took guns oat of the shop to the amonat of about a dozen, which he dictrihnted amongst the mob. E. Hone, and H. Beekwith.l.riyard, and Griffin, were in the sleet at this time. There Wits a pi , ' ol fired at the window, white Cash. man was in the shop. Witness was alarmed. The mob hail eolonni- flying. lie thought Gliona broke the w ioducv, but i e would not be certain. Cross-examined.—He was always certain of Ca,hinan hav ing been in the shop on that day. Be-examined.---B was a person dressed like a brewer's ser vant that first broke the window. There were three or four persons there so dressed. G. Lydyard deposed, that lie lives on Snow hill, and is a hair dresser. On the forenoon of the 20 of December, hear ing the report of a pistol, he went to Mr. Beek with's shop, where he timid abut eight or ten person , abort the door, which iii a few miautes increa , eo to about 240. They had a flag, with the wo:111" in,tiee" oa it. They seemed to ask for their leader, who had shut Mr. Platt ; but the shopman said be was goae, ulthoogli he was iu fact up stairs. A person dressed like a drayman broke the cast window with a broom stick, and a sailor broke the other. Boys took oat the guns en the east side, and men took those on the west. Five or six persons rushed into the shop and seized the gun: in the glass eases., The sailor and two others Jumped in at the window he had broken. The shop was nearly rifled. The Bag was brought into the shop, and lie saw Hooper gave it to amoher man before the door, and before the mob entered the shop. He saw Cashman in the shop, holding Mr. Griffio, a neigh- Wm' of Ali . . Redo% tit's ' who hail gone to get handeuffis for the man who had shut Mr. Platt. lie saw Cashman take anus twice out of the shop. which he threw out to the mob at the door. Willies , saw Gamble up:iosite the ',hop before the windows were Woken. Hi: hail not then any thing in his 1 amt. Shortly after witness saw him in the mils, with a gnu in his hand. lie could nut speak to Gdnucll or Carpenter. When they left BeAwith's shalt the mob went towards New- Ste-street. He was not alarmed for Isiminif or Air, B ec k. property ; but he was for his wife and children. '.:. Griffin, a perfumer its Skinner-street, was at Mr. Beck with's shop on the Yd Ikerinber, where he saw Worrail, the searching the man who shot Mr. Platt. AVitneSs went for a pair ; and Oil his return, found a mob about the shop. Soon after the west window was broken by Gunnell with a broomstick. Witness was sure he was the Lau. Hooper and Cashman came iu with a flag in the street, TILT NATIONAL REGISTER. wdsich lie had before seen in Hooper's hand, in the Old itaili:y. 'ioniser collared witness ; Cashman came up mid asked Aqlat was the matter, and collared witness also. 1 tki-d also Caine isp, hot he has uo recuilection of him. Uefure they came in, Hooper called nut, a follow one ! follow me !" 'nacre wa• no window broken at that time. IT:moss said to them. it Jo you want with me i I came in to rescue the man, as well as eau." IL...said so for Isis own safety ;11:1i1 they flits' let him go. Witness then presented a blunderbuss s but !haulier palled a pistol from the du ddast of his coat, and said, " I can play at that as well as you." Witness was so terri fied, that he weal up stairs, and did not clone down again. The moll went away in about a quarter of an hour. Witness thought he saw Gamble 11/ the mob. J. Middleton, a wholesale stationn in Skinner-street, saw the mob :shout Mr. R'.. chop. lie heard the repos tof a pis tol, and the mob left Mr. ll's, lost soon returned. Hooper eras most certainly among them: stud was eqll%ersing with thdd luau who carried the flag; stud appeared to be 'coding the moil thought Ilouper to •k the flog. He Is id a tri-coloured cockade in his hat. The 'lag was al•ds tri-eu. loured, with gold letters on it. He see:ned with a sword or stick to he directing the persons about him. When the mob went towards Mr. It's shop, Hooper was very near the flag. The dad; was produced, an i had un it, " Nature to feed the hungry ;Truth to protect the oppressed; and Justice to punish crimes." After the mob laid token out the arms from Ala% li's shop, they went away, and Hooper still accompanied the flag._ . J. Page, a .Irayni In, had known Gunnell six years, and saw kilo in the mu in Newgate-street, Ull that day with a gun in his hand. S. Levi, a city constable, was on duty on the 2d of Decem ber nt the Royal L•ehauge, lie saw Cashman among the mob with a gull. He took him , amd the goo, which was loaded with powder and small shut. D. Cartwright, the larslialinan, assisted in taking Cash man, and he produced the gun which Levi took from Cash limn. Witness, when he unloaded the gun, said " there's plenty here;" and Castimrn s tid " I know that, I orought i t for the purpose of killing, or bring killed." Mr. Beekwali had eight or ten such guns as that taken from Cashman is his cuauting•house, which were stolen on the 24 December. J. Goff, an officer of Union hall, apprehended Gamble about two o'clock on the 2kl of December, in Queen-street, in the Borough, with a gun onier his arm. Witness asked. him where he got the gun, anal he said he had picked it up in Skinner-street ; lint the gnu W4S nut dirty except on the butt e T. Friend, an officer, produced a pistol which he received from Hill, :diopinan to Mr. Willis, a pawnbroker in the Bo rough. Witness apprehended Carpenter. Elizabeth ()wen got the pistol from .1. Carpenter, who desired her to pledge it. She went for that purpose to Mir. 11 illis's where it was stopped. Mr. Beckwith bought a pair of such pistols at Mortimer's sale, which were stolen on the 2d of December. J.Hodgettg, a wholesale silk dealer in Paternoster-row, was on the l'Achang,e on the 211 of Dee •iither ; and seized Hooper by the colla. Ile found in his breast a brace of pistols. One was loaded with powder and ball. Mr. G. V. Dowling was in Spa fields on the morning of the 2d December, when he Naw a mob assemblvil round a waggon, in which was liooner but none of the others. J. Limbrick, an officer, was stationed in Coppice row on the 2(1 of December. lie sawirashonan and lioo;wr in the waggon. Cashman had a tri-coloured flag with reading on it. Hooper had a tri-coloured cockade in his hat. J. Winderniude lives at Horseferry-road, and is proprietor of the waggon that wis in Spa fields on the gd of December : it was hired on the 27th of November. Hooper came with the person who hired the waggon on the (lay before the meet iftZ, and directed him to he at the top of Chancery-lane at half past nine o'clock next morning. lie was there, and • trooper and his companion came to hint. They put colours and poles, wrapped (tit in blankets, and a small bundle, into the w4ggott ; the bundle contained powder, bullets, allti lead cut hi pieces. Hooper rode In the waggon to Spa where a large mob a.sein4led round the wagon. Caslinciu wits in front of the waggon, with oue of the colours. When the mob went away, Hooper and Cashman went with them. Cailtitiati. in his defence, said, he took a letteron tlw morning of the riots front the London Hospital to Vlotiral Nlartiti, at the ; and on his retort] lie found the mob in Cheap side, where he took a musket from a man, which he carried till he was taken. Hooper said, that at first there was no material evidence against him, but now there was frightful evidence against him —t hot of Griffin especially. He declared he did every thing in his power to prevent the people from plundering ; and his object was, in coining into the city, to call on the Lord Mayor to keep the peace. He wanted to take the colours froni.v (mug Watson. A. Harding, carver and gilder, in llarsham-street, West ' ster, gave Hooper a good character. J. Bennet, a shoemaker, in (iraftou-street, Soho, knows Hooper to be a journi*ln in shoemaker, and that he was a sober. honest, and industrious man. 3. Geary, a milor, had known Cashman ciglit or nine years, who bore an honest character. Gamble said, he went to Holborn to look for wook, and went to Spa fields M hear if it was any good to the poor. W lien the b left the fields, he came to Skinner arevt, where' he pick ed up this gun, which he w gotitt; to put ibto Mr. neck - with's window ; but two men said, 1)-11 his eyes, shoot him." Being timid of his he neat away with the gnu. Gunnell denied being in the shop, or having been in the molt. Gtrpentor said, he was goimt to look (r employment, viten a matt gave him the pistol near the Alawoott-Iton.e. A 'mother witne , se3 gave aloalrie a good vharaettl. Mr. Justice Park, in stlanyniti4 UV the ei.itlenee,stated. that this indictment was framed on a statute of N'illi.un 111. which make; it a capital felony to rob a ii r elling-home in thi daytime, the persons therein, or any of them, being put iii tear. It was not necessary that etch imli%idual hand com mitted this felony, if they were all present aiding, awl abetting, and comforting those who did. Neither was it neeesiary that it should he proved that tie prisoners did not commit this felony fur the sake of gain, provided it was slime against the will of the rightful oWm.T. lle then proceeded to to detail the evidence of the Jury. The Jury retired for two hours and a half, and then returned R verdict, finding Cashman Guilty—Dcathosed all the others Not Guilty. The Recorder was the only Jtidge present on the Bench to receive the verdict, and seemed by his manner to express come surprise at the acquittal of the four lest. When the foreman of the Jury ret tinted John Hooper Not Guilty. the It murder, thinking he had nut heard him di , Nnetly : said, !.‘ Iluover no: guilty !". Tbe Recorder tt en said," Let the font last be detained and tried for the mistli meanor :" and sre understood him to add, " Let number Lo..fou Jury be Inn:cloned fur to-morrow at 10 o'cluc::." Tuesday, R. Siintucnt was indicted for stealing 20 swords, and 10 fowling pieces, the proper:; ot• T. Rae, in his diva ling-hoose. Air. Gurney, for the rroeentii.n. stated this to be an indictment for :-tcaling above tit salve of Jos. in a dwelling he use. T. Rae gen.sraltlt, at 95, Minories. On the 2tl of Dr. cember his house was broken. He, nor any of his servants, s!ept in the house. [Here Mr. Gurney admitted that that removed the capitnl putt of the indictment.] About two Welt - irk 150 or 200 persons were destroying Messrs. Brander and Pott's premises. Witness barred his doors and windows, and went np to the window of the garret, and saw the mob with swords and pistols; the latter they were tiring in the street. Witness stopped till they demolished his windows, and then escaped by a neighbour's house. On his return, he. mud his shop almost destroyed, and goods taken to the am mat of Mal. The goods consisted amiss of all kinds. Witness could not distingnish any of them. J. Kill, a merchant, saw the mob in the Minories bre.lkiug °pro the shop of Brander and Potts; at first not mote than 12 or 15 armed. They increased as they went to Mr. Rae's. The prisoner was among them, and had a sword in his hand. lie seemed to be very active, and brandished his sword, as it he understood the use of it well. He was near Mr. Rae's alien they smashed in the south window, and took tint arms ~fall sorts. They then attacked the back part of the house, and gained admittance by breaking down the door with pick uses. The prisoner was all the while brandishing his sword to keep any one off who might he inclined to stop them. They were there upwards of half an hour, and made a clear patenge through the house ; and all of them came out full handed, with pistols, swords and wearing apparel. He only heard the prisoner shouting. In his defence, he said he had drank half a pint of rum. and some one put the sword in his hand, which he flourished about ; but never went into the shop, or handed out pistols from the window. . _ Mr. Justice Iturrongh, In summing up the evidence, said, the prisoner had been fortunate in its bring discovered that neither Mr. Rae nor any of his servants slept in the house. It therefore was not, in 13w, his dwelling-house ; and that did away the capital part of the charge. He then detailed the evidence to the Jury ; who, without hesitation, found hint guilty of stealing, but not in the dwelling-house. W. Matthews was indicted for stealing a pistol, the pro perty of 'l'. Rae.—Guilty. J. Hanson, guilty of a similar offence. I'. sheen was indicted for stealing a sword, the property of T. Rae. _ Mr. Gurney stated this case to be exactly similar to the hot. The prisoner, in his defence said, he went to look for work, and met a parcel of armed men at the top of the Minories, where he picked up the sword. —Guilty. H. Holdsworth and Irwin were indicted for stealing a pi , tol, the property of T. Rae. Mr. Rae lost some thousand of flints, and about 3 cwt. of sh»t. A. Samuels proved, that when the soldiers came up the mob de-persed in all directions, and threw away their arms. J. Griffiths, an officer. received information about three o'clock, in consequence of which he went to the George, its Whitechapel, where he found the two prisoners smoaking an a little box. Under Irwin he found a pistol and a sword, which he produced. A person named Woodwind brought witness a shot belt, flints, and balls. The sword and pistol were quite clean. Freeman found on Holdsworth two flints and a small quantity of shot, ini‘ed with powder.—Both Guilty. IL Jones was indicted for stealing a fowling piece, the pro perty of Messrs. Brander and Potts. The prisoner in his defence said he picked up the gun as lie was going along. Several Iv iinesses gave hint a goo• 1 character. —Verdict — Guilty. J. Thompson was indicted for stealing two blunderbusses, the property of T. Rae, Mr. Gurney said they had been apprised of some circum stances favourable to the prisoner, and he should therefore otter no evidence against him. By t h e direction of Mr. Justice Park, the Jury acquitted the prisoner. TEN. OF THE ELDEH WATSON. J. Watson wa:si i(•tf.ll it; st.11;1;i11g and riutin7, J. Elio le.. with intent to kill him, or do ililll .so:ne grievous Lodily harm. NI. Gurney stated the ease to the Jury, lie said this in dictment was of a very different nature from those %skirl' they had been trying. It was founded on a recent Act of Parlia ment, which was furnish to be iude•pensibly necessary for the protection of his Majesty's subjects. The prisoner was charged with cutting and stablmig which was a capital offence, provided it was such a cutting and stabbing, as, if death hid ensued, the offence wool(' has e amounted to mur der. Mid, a horse patrule, 04) , Crteti si:ree persons on the confitois of Vint-Hey Common, who unsss ered the descript: , of three who li.til committed a robbery un rise highway. He rode by tbrw, and saw in one of their bosoms a pistol. The p aruir seined UM/ his companions tired and fled. He said Ile was a mechanic, going to Northampton. 11 fitness letl the prisoner in s h ame of two persons, named Rhodes and Golding, witom the landlady of a public-house, to o Melt 1111 haul taken the prisoner. represented to he honest. The patrol , then pursued the prisoner's coinpailions, but 41,d not come up with them. While lie was gone the prisoner slie wed a dispo sition to escape, and lie attempted to stab Golding a ith a tool stick, but he missed his blow. They then lird a struggle, and all MI!, in which Rhodes received a wound in his thigh from the prisoner. Ile Illr. G. must, however, admit, that after the minutest examination he could give the witnesses, ha should not be able to prove that the stabbing was dime il fully or maliciously by the prisoner. Mr. Justice Parke here interfered. II- submitted to Mr. Gantry, otter what he had so candidly •tatcd, that the wound was outs indicted in a struggle, and that none of hi, witnesses would lr.• able to prove its hallo; been done wilfully aid nealiciomsly NI r. Justice Burrongli and the Recorder concurred in this opinion. Mr. Gurney said, it was impossible for them to have abs.o lutcly withdrawn sink a case as this, without having the , O k i nn t woo ion oh' their lordships upon it. !Int as he could carry his case, us against the prisoner, uo further than he had stated, he must bow to their lordships opinism.—Acquitted. Wednesday, J. Freeman was imlicted for robbing J. Judd, on the flights ay, of 100 shillings, awl other monies, the pry rusty of Ow Severely' Lord the