The National Register. — London, England, 1818-09-28 00:00:00

tcl PC LICE. MAI`PION 'lons Osnootk—AVednesiloy, et the teepee-of the Lord Mayor, the American Couetil.attetled at the Alaiistun Host t, for the par i suse of taking the ca-e of the above person into :.e,mittler,itioa. It will be recollected that Osgood, who is 74 ' :ear* of tile, applied to tho Ltd May or. to :,waist him in air yo , r di en li on for the hand of this etiarecas 7..lizabetli in mar visge, and also for men to work a gold wine, ne 'aid puoresst 41 is. America :Lappoars that the poor man, who, though quite bisect. 11;14 Attlee his confinement conducted himself with the utmost ivietue.4, hat a wish to return to his native ccuntry, but not h a ving :be means of paying his passage, the Lard Mayor s.ilDed to iwiew if the Aaierican Consul. would take upon Icovielf to esaist him out. Cueroil said, he would tua4t willingly assist him, hnt he had no proof that he was All American subject, and lie had noreowei .:night hi the Loyalist army, which excluded him from this 14enefita of citize:iship. T!ie Lord Mayo:. said, a ;footman hail been with him who hoots 04gpt.43 to he an Arre.ican horn subject. Under these c ictlive•tences he thous ht the Consul was bound to assist hums, en I wondered he should retusu to do so. 'rite Coaxal.—l mu willing, but I have not the power ; the lea a rurtoi.l it. The Isird Xlayor.—You ought stew a little out of the usual -ban in this crkse,,t think. The Consul replied, that he fight much hurt at having his pakhe conduct arraigned without any MISC. It was net in his paver officially to assist Mr. Osgood, but es o n i n di v id ua l he world do every thing he could fur him ; and that, if a sub acription was art on toot, he srAild, fern bit own purse, subsciihe don hie the ailment of any other Wail/Waal. He ' , weld prove that, in 1817, lie had sent I,noa distressed sub jeots of Ainci ica to their homes at the expense of that Uri 'eminent. The Lund Mayor said, he meant no attack upon the public eharaeter of the Consul; Osgood alreaily possessed t en gni. nets, and about _double ulna stun would cuaele him to reach home. The Consul again expressed his willingness to af f ord every aid, and here the matter for the present rests. kOLDING TAR HOLYHEAD MAlL—tit:my Harris, guard to the Holyhead and Birmingham snail, was broug h t sip and charged with stealing a pal ut.!, conittinitiu 101., 111 c properly of Moses Joel. This wail, of hhich IV a t ea tion 3e , of t h e Swan Two Necks, Lail-lone, Is I.ir prop; te.or, has for a Jou; time past beer r epeateilly runbcd, and Mr. W. has been outlet tri . to a ceus.deranle amount. Suspicion at length falling upon Ain rh, fu. was apprehended. The following was the only ei , se entered into upon the present occasion : Muses Joel, dealer, in New-street, Birmingham, stated, that oD the 7th Inst. he took a parcel, containing a tin box, with one 51. and dye 11. notes, to the coach office at that place, to be confeyed by the mail. The parcel was directed to his tun, wh s. carried on his liminess in London. Abraham Joel, the soli, swore that he never received the parcel in question. Mr. J. Pollen of Lambeth, cheeseruonger, produced a 51. note, which he had received from Mrs. Harris, the wife of the prisoner, a few days ago. The note was identified by Mr. Jut l Ili the one he had sent in the parcel. Kr. Waterhouse proved that the prisoner came sip with tlic coach, as guard, on the night of the a ohberi, and that the rated in question never came to the couch otuce. I larris deals:Put saying any thing, and was ful!y committed • t 9 .\ewgase for that. lIATTON GARDEN. • !., W.llifion Travers and John Horne were brought up and nndr reason a timilvicniaination, charged, the first with teloni. tiAt 1•• stealing, and the tatter with receiving, well knowing it PO be stoma, between 30 nod .10 pounds' worth of gold in 4, 4%st, dipilbors, filing,. alibleltle-r, the property of Mr. Thos. "gard, of 31, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, jeweller. The prisooer Travers was a juisruey.nan of the prosecutor: Ilarbe, the receiver, kept a shop in the iteigealrliood. rho case being inide oet, '...avers was eamatitted to New gale for trial.. mod being a ba,1.1'.01 silence, lit gave 1...3 to auswer the rotnplatiot at the nest Sessioos. !MART:lSf)'.ifft't3N s EET. A complaint of .a most ai.gravated nature Was'sntrnitle4 to the Megistrates of this otllce. Two geottemen, Ito said 'hey were parish officers, represented, that a person, living at 10, bioelsatreet, retired to rest in perfect bealth Tiasisday week lest; as he did wit appear at his usoal hour to break fist, t to landlord weat to his bed chamber, and (amid bias quite dead. Oa the Friday and Saturday application eras made to Mr. Lewis, the coroner; lie was in tlic country. Mr. Gall wis then sect fur: tie also was ab - sent. Oo Monday an ap. pixel mt was made to Mr. Stirling at Battersea, and that gen t einaa with engaged at an inquest 12 miles distant. (lade r tiese reams tan ces, fileb es it impossible t;) elo air, the attend elee of a entailer, the tiveise.,.l . regnested the of the ' what coorse to pursue, the body 13.:iag Li so !ni trified a stale as to be quite dangerous. Mr. Fat cant deprecated the uegligenee of the coroners; tie luttql aii matey for the body be e el : t we e d to the k. lto.iimeinletl that the bady should -ha exa.eine.! by a surgeoe, and that the. depositions of the braille should . made ifeb-re a Magistrate. and that a vestry should be i atuediettly convened to take this origligeoce of the coroners into con itlesawl% These measures were delayed until fues d .y. As no coroner had then appesred, it became impure live on the parish a:tiered to set decisively. UN inv. HALL. Widneaday ahoy. mica so, of most deplorable appearance, Was Woolen bowie the Magistrate by birch, the constable 01Clirieleiluirb, who 'Wien that lir foand him sulicithtg eh.*. city in Blarkfriars - roed; the only ardete of coveting whim; he had was a piece of einaar, filthy sacking, which was w.ap ped rouAd Oiti body, anti fastened with a piece tat. tope.—Upon beiag lac ebil4l3bll4::l, isitltout hesitation, that iliA tathei name %vas .Stiaw, lie lived in Fur:if-court, Gia.y's len ient., and was ily trade a carpenter; his mother was a book ate! licit:j built bad plenty of emplayment; hinoseit and ha eroiher, who was about nine years of age, were regu larly sent oat e very tidy by their par•uts to get all the money they posaibly ‘irold by b. gging 1 the whelp of what they pro- ec.. t a •l,er gave to their httner and motto r. The elireettd the constebie to take the child to the otheess of )3ollourn parish, where theirieuds of the child lived, and 'worm 'hem of tacs intermit's cooduci. Tilesdio Hai sly-a as Coni,lsoiltA for Saul Of bail, fur . threat , . lag lice ilk et' his brother. It allies' eil Obit this pri‘ sears Cad a wife 4 11 . 1 • four Chi (17C11 in biistol, and ilsiokies: hi. cm. imeaanees would be bettered, a. he pretended, by . cesium.; to 1..0..1.1%n5, bt ,i) e °sett of the bulky pail uf Ida tonne ton. LA 111(e pkepatied toriecompaity bhu witiallgueeppet *>>;: .1 *.'r• :11".11 infant at her breast; hot on their way to the rime!, office, he sent her back, ott preteneeof paying* debt whielt he owed to d a stanundker. He took ads-I:nage of her absence, and cause to than with the wife of atimiter man, and In ought three of the chii.lirit with him. Pis toll,, wed, and .awe to the hintse of his hrether, in town, who went to the ptisoner',lnnise in his absence, and !nought away the y11;41111', whirl' Mrs. 11. only i 54111 d to remove ;root the It til etsamillt• their rat Inc " I !hell), Wheat the prisoner rettirtiesi home, and finind th..t his children wet o removed, he caws to 1114 brothei's house, and obtained admittance under a ti igned and effeminate voice, asking for a light. He then rushed into the purloin- where his brother's wife was, threateniug to bury his knife ill his bro ther, who was fortunately from home. Immediately atter the commitment, his wife, accompanied by a coi,siable, proceeded to the late residence of the psi soner, in ender to obtain possession of her youngest eland, an ittfint sis years of a.e. The door of the horse was fastened, and the persons within refused admittance. ,% Iddier was procured in the ncischnuarhood mid placed against the house to facilitate tai entrance through one of the windows of the film door, and Mrs. Hardy ascended in the most dauntless manner, determined not to rutin n without her child. She succeeded in obtaining ii, and carried it to the residence of her brother in law, Mr. C. Hardy, and placed it for the re cent under his core. WORSHIP STREET. J. Love was charged with attempting to murder his wife, a yonng woman apparently only about .10. It appeared, that after the Imneyinooti had passed, they disagreed and separated. and that she went lu.service at the house of Mrs. South, at Stroud. prisoner came there on Sunday night and Mrs. Smith admittad hint into the house to see his wife. tie wanted to take her away ; but she refused; CH VFhielr he snatched a knife from the tattle, and would have stabbed her. but for Mrs. S. and a nother female, both of whom he knocked down, broke the wihdows, and behaved very outrageously, until Its was taken to tht.cage.—Ordercd to find bail. LAMBETH STREET. Isaac Non is, n yorie min of genteel appearance, but who. is eitineeted with an infamous gang of thieves, was brought op from watch house, charged with an attempt nt ni;lltway robbery on Mr. Chitty. barrister, of the Inner Temple, on Wednesday night last. it apps tied from the evidence of Mitigate, a-watchman and James Harrison, post-boy, that on Wednesday night Mr. Chitty, accompanied by his sister, set ont in a post chaise. abont eicht o'clock. to go into the country, as far as Bury St. E mould's; the post-soy hiving fastened their trunks, which contained considerable property, to the chai.e, proceeded on as far as the Mile-eud road ; the prisoner, with three other notorious characters, Was seen by Dongate, the waklimati, tossing after the chaise. When Onngate came up with the chaise, he fund the prisoner cutting away with uis knife.— He knocked him down with hiristiek ; the prisoner dropped his knife. Mr. Chitty °Meted bias to be taken to the watch house ; the other villains, when the watchman came top, made off as fast as possia:e and escaped; two of them are well-known eliaracters, and no doubt will soon be in custody. The knife, a strap, and rope which fastened the hunks, were preduced, the latter:cut in several places, but fortunately no property was stolen. The ptisliter had nothing to say in his defence, and lie was remoulded for the attendance of Mr. and Miss Chitty. A singular circumstance took plae-e , lately at Knightsbridge barracks:—One of die Ist troop of Life Guards observed, in cleaniug his horse, that the animal seemed particularly fond of !taring his face and head continually rubbed; in doing which the soldier discovered Something moveable as he pressed the cheek of the horse. He accordingly communicated the same to Mr. Bloxhasn, the Veterinary Surgeon of the troop, who took considerable pains to examine it; and having made every necessary preparation, lanced it, in the hope of discovering the enure ; when, to his sarpriae, Jteestrseted a grape .slust, weighing nine ounces, front the horse's head, which he receiv ed at theabattle ut aterloo, where the wound was immedi ately dressed in the usual manner, after the engagement, and Was considered only as a sword cut. A curious eireumstauce happened about three weeks ago in Paris. Ail English boy, alma 14 years of age, of genteel inannelP, was found in Ow streets, wittiest, any money in his pocket, and who could not speak a word of French. He was brought. to the worthy and Res. Dean of St. Asaph, who was theu.in Paris. The buy told a story that his father had been dead some time : that he was placed. under the care of a guardian at Shepherd's Bush; that he was eutitled to a small tat time an coming of age; that his motor r, a widow, had Sled a Bill in Chancery against his guardian, to get hint, her son, out of his hands; and that he bad been brought down to Brighton by Its guardian, awl under pretence of a sail on the water, had been put on board a packet and landed at Dieppe, where he eras It ft on the beach with only les. in his pocket. SW:11 Witt; the story. The worthy Dean had the boy taken e Ire of, asad wrote over to Euglasid to verify the account he gave; when he leatued that there was scarcity a word of truth in the story he Lad trumped up. The little rogue bad rim ay, ay from. the school where he was eiliteed ; that the gcntlenusn who Widths care of I • lied icier been at Brigh ton; that he had several times run away before; and the Doc; or was entreated louder: soot , mean. of send' hi k .sig -.US -fac— to Eaglaail. Accordingly the Bev. Dean entrnsted him to the rave ref his nephew, who brought him he for as Boulogne.— There Mr.Shipleyeaga,;ed for his wen sa i d the passage of the boy on hoard a pac'..et.abosit to sail fur lies. r, and while he was pre:parole to go.on board, the little rewire contrived to maws, Isis escape, and has not since been heart of. In consequence of aporagrapts winces apottared in most of the Papers, hiditillt, that " Mr. lit Alain, tits a late visit to his wifr's relation's at Matteliester. was, from the splendour of his equiipage and re • t, inist.iken for the Grand Duke Michael!' ,1 Jr. graham has written a letter to the Editor of a Morniug Journal, is, sari>h he ,says, " I have up coach and fur horses; I have no outriders ; and I have no superb liveries; nor was I paying a visit to Mrs. Graham's relations at Manchester. But the simple .and plain truth was, being engaged to perform at a provincial Theatre, and being pres sed for tune, I was obliged to put leaders t. my garriage horses, and this cuonsuulneidellt is maliciously exoe.;erated into a ridiculous adeetatton of aping the magnificence of a Duke! Tree it is l keep iny carriage (anitso du many Blears i eel performer's). which ithlidgeisee I owe to the fostering kindarees of a genetotia Public." The tows, ut Tavistoet. lia• lately shown a morn laudable 'sample as to parochial velem by hissing its monthly expos, db.& e published rept, ny which means, everatishiones has an ,appitrtunity of inspecting it, sues to point unt .where saving ought to be made. Last week a 911 may of tnenips was shipped at Berwick for Losidon, the first slispotent of that kiud ever made at t Last oft. COIiOXISIiS. On Thursday week no inettien was belt) at the White Lion inn, Bartundspon Humber, byMarmadiske Dixon, gentleman. Coroner of Castor, on the !roily of Anil Jubb. widow of that place, aged 83, who was found dead, in Isar house the preeed. ink tlar. From the evidence. produced, added to the testi music of Mr. Hayes, surgeon, the. Jury, without hesitation. returned their verdict—Died by thr visitation of God, et apoplexy. After the verdict had been recorded, one of the Jurors climatical the proreNstooal advice or the Coroner on the subject of inquests. He observed a very general opinion prevailed that it was a palpable absurdity in sending for the tlorosier en Ole present e ....tsars), c..peeTr as the de ceased wa- aztvaireed in years, said it was bt) decidedly apparent to her relatives, arid many of Use inhasoitants also, by what means she came to hen death. Some of she assembled Jury questioned the propriety of shat hail been done, and the discussion which had taken place thereon subjected the person with whom the present inquest originated to much severe anisnadversiun. It as' also imagined, and the seee position had been acted on at Barton, that pt•rsoo andilenly in the presence of friends, assoviates, or ...hire le spectable witoesses, rendered a coroner's eq ally unnecessary. Mr. Dixon immediately- replied as follows : am glad that this opportunity is afforded itie to deliver my seadirnents on the subject, because I find erriosessist opinions are entertained corner sting inquests, and without .ac taprom doll, Might probably hereafter produce very Unpleasant ram - sequences. In reference to the present imam trine, the per_ son who took the trouble of sending tqr me, I am greatly obliged to; be is justly deserving of my thanks, fur baying as it appears, feariesaley taken the responsibility on himself. In doing so, I beg distinctly to state before you, that he li Is performed a necessary and imperious duly. I boldly assert, without fear of contradiction, and it causret be too generally known, that in all cases of sudden .loath, whether happeniug when the person is alone at the time, expires before hundred witnesses, the Coroner is to he acquainted therewith, drat lie may have the opportunity eifinqrriting and ascertain rug by a jury in the ordinary way, how, wiser). entity. whet ,n -ails, owls death is oecasioued. Placed at a distance, as I generally rim, from such fatal occurrences, I must be supposed a stranger to the particulars relating thereto; and I beg to inform, you, that by neglecting to comply with this specific regulation of the Act of Parlianieut, shoals] it come to my knowledge, I possess the power of demanding the disinter ment of the corpse and of holding list inquest thereon; the parish is also liable to an indictment and severe penalty.— . Gentlemen, the law .1s peremptory, and . by virtue of my oath as coroner, and us a inatter.of conscience. I AM bound to do my duty. You will constautly. understand, in reference to the cas,s ,which have been very properly stated to sue, that an in q uest on all such occasions is indispensable. I have not given you garbled extracts in furtherance tif pry sinister views ; the sines' entol ttttt ent derived frosts my office renders it no temptation to exercise my privilege arbitrarily, was I so disposed. I trust,therefor c, Gentlemen, you will be *lined to obey the explication I have given, and join with mein adopting Use maxim, that the obligations of daty are, anti might to be, paramount to every pecuniary consideration.— Jortraster Gazelle. Private letters Wave been received front the ifistnovery Ships under Captain Russ, dated the let of August, la lat., 75.43. N. long. 61.20. W. They state that ilie ice %sae cleat ing away, and that their prospect of success was improving. The must extrauodinary phenomenon of the variation of the compass had gone on cucreasing ; it was ES. 13. on the Ice I we say on the ice, for on board ship, owing to some peculiar inineuce not yet ascertained, it was much inure. The tenser letters, of which we have already given extracts, mention neat on board ship the variation was at one time 95 degrees, that is, the needle pointed instead of north, to the southward ;if west. This differeisce between the real 'vitiation mot as ap pal ent variatim on board ship was first observed by Captains Flinders, but it was supposed to be an accidental peculiarity in his ship : it is now clear that it belongs to. all ships, and varies in all, aud there would he little iloubt.elrit it should be attributed to the ihliaeoce of the iron shoot the vessel, except for a cations fact which we understand has been ascertained. —namely, that the compasses called footnoted compasses, which are placedto boxes of ironiand which are onisititieueei by externatiron, when breughr near to them, are affected by the sleip-variation in the same legree as the common com passes. This, which is now called the deviation, has been found to be :mach greater as the experiments go northers''. This is accounted for front the circumstance of the dap of the needle diminishing what is initially called its polarity, and al lowing it, therefore, to be 'bore easily affected by the local inflnenee of the ship. The Duke of Bourbon is nearly recovered from his late accident. It is a curious fact, that the eltate of the wild boar had once before nearly proved fatal to that Prince, in the same forest of Chantilly. He was then only 26 years of age ;, and seeing one of hue own huntsmen thrown down defenceless, rushed to his relief, and engaged the furious animal with no other weapon Mau a dirk. The contest, though perilous on the extreme, was nut long, and before any pernoo of his :mite coull come up, hest, etched the wild boar dead at his f v ei, Two boys, convicted of stealiii; apples, v rue ordered to be publicly whipped in ..lioniouti. floc Mier emiatalilea em ployed were convicted of dips: tog the it vs:.4...mile tans Data i)100(1, to deceive the spaet a t 0.., and .0 : 160 It the 'moot.- ment into ridicule: they twee tined tan go'll, as for the trick. Captain Hawkins, of tee F.aerthorpe of Hull, ....bite a . 7:11e Davi-4 StraMnshery, being .aig.a,ol with .4 110.4e* Zre in ..Lt!:11411.4 13 kilt a bear in the water, a ins snat...i 4' 4 . : ipmin H. 'e z: IDM by f ar thigh, dragged limo out of the ::st.t, and inadt. oft won hut ore of the crew throwing a oullet hu toe beat, awl zimset. but., to lort go Cant. 11. whom the.:.4o. cc. a Euie....14...• ut reweek mg. It is to. :tt:11 that the ;foamy:lea •srpenwo4 in the city of rsslstel struck fora- in,"reaseof tilde 4.ages on use right of Satorrilo week. WINDUW TAX i574.--A. !Lc' sa)a, 10 . ) ,, r of 'axes fin this dyad... , has, we andel - ..LitEd, tece i ve , l directions to make an immediate :mu coy of boosts ant. wiinlowi, Rua charge ' all windows ettosstritcled with. divisions of stone,' as so moo) separate hula.. All windows, known under the t awe at Vraetiaas, will thenceforth be deemed three lightsl A carriage, of which the box, the body, the harness, and the horses, are white, has excited f.sr some days the curiosity of the Parisians. The coachman and foot• men wear white hats. and are dressed in whi;ei liveries. Inside is a child, aged about to years, dresse.i its white, as is also a female servant who accompanies him. Wednesday evening, the Grand Duke Mickutti ar rived at Stratford Ilmise from Brighton. S . '