The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-17 00:00:00

810 dwelling-house ; 1. Davis and M. Jacobs, for a robbery on the highway, on Margarat Quinland, and taking from her person goods and money, value its. 6d. the property of J. Oninland ; Thos.Haley (tar a burglary in the dwelling-house of P. Gibbons, and stealing goods value 11. the property of E. Gibbons ; T. Smitherman, for a robbery on the highway on It Bitters, and taking from his person goods, value 21. Is. Bd. his property ; Win. Gardner, for returning from transportation ; J. Smith and J. Scullen, for stealing goods, value 10 1. and upwards the property of T. Gorrod, in the dwelling house of T. Clarke ; and Mary Stoneham for stealing Bank-notes, value 45 1. the property of P. Aimsham, in his dwelling-house. The Sessions were yesterday brought to a conclusion ; the cases tiled were of very little interest. Alexander Rosetta was tried for stealing on the 2d inst. from the London Ducks, 751 b. weight of quicksilver, value 101. Jolni Spencer, one of the warehousemen,deposed that the prisoner was seen walking through the Dock, and waS seen to drop a parcel which was found to contain the quicksilver, which had been de posited in the warehouse No. 3. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was a seaman out of em" ployment, and had been engaged to carry the parcel in question by n man whom he met.---Guilty. The Sessions then ended, and sentence was passed on the fol lowing convicts :—Twelve were ordered to be confined for one month ; one for two months : nine for three months ; 214 for six months ; 12 for one year, and two for two years ; 48 were sentenced to seven years transportation ; 7 fir fourteen years, and 10 for life. Twelve were ordered to be privately and one to be publickly whipped. Forty-three were ordered to be kept at hard labour in the Houso of Correction, and to he imprisoned for various periods. several were discharged by proclamation, The Admiralty Session will take place on Tuesday next. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 16. ST EAR' V. BORKETT and RAMSEY. —•-- The plaintiff in this case was a coppersmith, the defendants were distillers, and the present action was brought to recover .23 , 21. 45., the price of a still, which, it was stated, the plaintiff had made for defendants, under the following . circumstances In 1809, the plaintiff's men were employed to repair a still he longing to defendants, on which occasion the workmen gave it as their opinion, that though the old still might be patched up, it would not last long. Upon this representation the still in question VieltS ordered, and was to be ready to supply the place of the old still when it should leak again. 'Hie still was accord ingly made in five .weeks, and ready for delivery, hut it still continued on the plaintiff's premises; a short time since howe ver, the plaintiff gave the detimdants notice to fetch it away. when the defendants for the first time said they had never or dered it. On the part of the defendants, it was stated, that the old still which the plaintiff's men had condemned in 1809 was still in use ; and further, that in 1 8 1 0 the plaintiff set down the price of the new still in the defendants' yearly account, but deducted it previous to the account being settled ; the same thing oc curred in IRII and 1812; and, under these circumstances, Lord Ellenborough held that the plaintiffs could not maintain their action ; they were therefore non-suited. C tkitßOL v. CRESWELL._ This was an action in which the plaintiff sought to reco vet a compensation in damages, for a violent asault committed upon him by the defendant. The defendant was chief mate of the Thames East Indiaman, and the plaintiff was servant to the second mate on hoard the same ship ; on the 18th of January lasi, at which time the Thames was lying at Yampoa. The plaintiff was employed in coiling a rope upon the deck, when defendant called to him to . know what he was about, and not receiving an immediate answer, betook up a large billet of wood and threw at him. It however fortunatellmissed the plaintiff; who quitted the deck ; the defendant followed him, and struck hith several blows with his fist : he then doubled a rope's end and beat him about with it till he was himself exhausted, swear ing at the same time that he would have his " ti—tud Irish life." The plaintiff gave him no provocation whatever, he only said, 1 - have not deserved this treatment of you, Mr. Creswell." The plaintiffcomplained several days after of the inconvenience he felt from the ill treatment he had received, THE NATIONAL REGISTER. DEC. 17 On the part of the defendant, the Captain's surgeon, second mate, boatswain and several other witnesses were *called to chew that no complaints bad ever been made by the plaintiff of any ill treatment he had received from the defendant till after he arrived in England. After a summing up by his lordship, the jury found a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. DEr. 1. MULLET V. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE COMPANY. This was an action to recover 27001. upon a policy of insurance on the ship Mullet, at and front Surinam, from thence to Berhice, and from thence to its port of discharge in the United Kingdom. Upon the part of the Plaintiff it was submitted, that the ship in question was perfectly sound when at Berbice ; but that having gone from her anchor she grounded, and was so much injured as to make it necessary to break her up. On the part of the Defendant it was proved, that on a survey of the ship, after the injury in question, her timbers were found (mite rotten, and that she was not sea worthy.—Verdict for the Defendant. DEATH OF TilE DUKE OF NORFOLK. Yesterday, at nine o'clock in the morning, in his 70th year, after an illness of some months continuance, died at his house in St. James's-square, the Most Noble Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, Earl of Arundel and Snriev, Baron Fitz Alan, Multravers, Clan and Oswaldestre; Premier Peer and Chief of the Noble Eamil) of Howaid ; Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Sossex, and Colonel of its Militia ; High Steward of the cities of Gloucester and Hereford, and President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures, E.R.S. and F.A.S. Ste. &c.—His Grace is succeeded in his titles, hereditary honours, and principal estates, by Bernard Edward !Inward, Esq. of Fornham, in the county of Suffolk —The late Doke was a de s cendant in the fourth degree from Charles How ard, the fourth son of Henry Frederick llowArd, Earl of Arundel, who lived in the reign of Charles I. Mr. Howard descends in the same degiee from Bernard, a younger on of that Earl. who was the great grandson of Thomas -ward, Duke of Norfolk, beheaded and attainted on account of Mary, Queen of Scotts, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The Dukedom of Norfolk, and other honours, were restored to the family by the, reversal of that attainder in the y ear 1661. DRAMATIC REGISTER. DRURY-LANE. Thursday night Beaumont and Fletcher's Play of Beg gars' Bush was revived under the title of the Merchant of Bruges. This Comedy, like many of the productions of the Old School, has long of necessity lain dormant, from the (now corrected) irregularities which it contained. Though in many respects defective, if tried by those rules which rigid criticism would now dictate to those who prepare theatrical entertainments, it boasts, in some of its scenes, a strength of language, and an energy of thought, which rarely greet us in the original productions of our age. In the structure of its plot a powerful roving fancy is dis played, which at times awakes anxious interest, and at others affords the most agreeable surprise. The alterations which have been made are highly judicious. Much of what is unnecessary has been omitted ; and all, or nearly so, that was interesting, most carefully preserved. The scene in which Floret, struck by Wolfort, draws and disarms the insolent tyrant, was very effective ; and the answer to the sarcastic " Thank ye" of IVolfort, 66 Thank her for your life ; and now go and pick up your sword," made a most powerful impression on the audience. The denoue_ ment is remarkably striking. The vindictive tyrant, ax:. ' ulting over his supposed victim ) becomes in a moment de- 1!