The National Register. — London, England, 1817-03-03 00:00:00

LEN 1' AAA' IZES. HOME CIRCUIT. Before the Chief Baron and Sir Robert Dallas. licriforelshire. —Thursday, March 6, ut Hertford. .Em.r--11lentiay, March 10, at Ch: Imsford. Kt at—Monday, March 17, at M3itlatone. St.vcr- -Moaduy, March 21, at Horsham. Sarre j Ittinday , March 27, at Kingston-upon-Thames. NORFOLK CIRCUIT. Before Lord Elletilcirumdt and Mr. Barns Graham. Duckiviattashire—Sattirdav, March ft, at Buckingham. Bedford:fare—Thursday, March 13, at Bedford. I lunt ingdongliirc—Sattinlay, )larch 12, at Huntingdon. Cane., idge‘hire--Tuestlay, Marrli 1.4, at Cambridge. Nor fulk—Saturilay, \larch .22, at Thetford. S:titai,;—Tlitirsday, March 27, at Bury St. Edmund's. OXFORD Before Mr. Justice Park and Ale. Justice 11tirrougli. llerlAtire —Monday, March 1. at Ileadiagr. Orfardvltire—Wednesday, March 5, at o , ,ford. Ortwersterskire—tinthrolay, Maid' 8, at IVoreester. y of Woreeder--The same day, at the City of Worcester. NialthrflOire--Tharstlay, March 13, at Stafford. Shrarhirc —Wednesday, March 19, at Slirewltry. licri:foril hire—'Tuesday , March 25, nt Hereford. itfoantaiiiiis;iire— Monday, Mai eh 31, at Monmouth. Gloacestershire—Wednesday, April 2, at Gloucester. City of Gtoireoter—Same day, ut the City of Gloucester. 'WESTERN CIRCUIT. lkfore Mr. Justice Abbott auJ Mr. Holroyd. Sonthansmol—Monday, 3litrelt 3, at the Castle of Winchester. Wills—Saturday, March 8, at New Sdllllll. Durna—Fridny, March 1.1, at Dorchester. Devon—Wednesday, March 19, at the Castle of Exeter. Ci! , / and County of Exacr—Sanie day, bit the Guildhall of the City of rxeter. Cenral'--Thursday, March 27, at Launceston. Somerset—Thursday, April :t, at the Castle of Taunton. OLD BAILEY. Monday, W. Holmes was tried for feloniously forging and eoninerfeiting a transfer for the sum of 2001. with intent to defraud the Governor r o d Company of the Bank of Englund. The circumstance of the case were these :—The prisoner, in eouniesion ssith a ,Ir. Crip, invested 2,6501. in the Navy 5 per cent. .Ammities, and made it joint stock. On the 271 h May, 1811, without the consent of Mr. Crisp, he sold 20(11. out of this stock, and sobsequently 5001. obiaining a person to forge the name and hand-writing. of Mr. Crisp. The case was rendered peculiarly interesdng by the culmination of the hroLer who sold the stock, swearing, that the person who, on May 27, Itill, signed the name of Crisp, was the same person, to the best of his belief; who appeared in Court and contradicted the assertion by positively stating, that he was not in London at the time. It farther appeared, that the prisoner had three different times attempted, and in one in stance succeeded in e-raping from the clutches of the of who apprehended him. The case for the prosecution being closed, Mr. Coro ood, for the prisoner, took an objecs•on, that as Mr. Holmes and Mr. Crisp were joint proprietors in this stock, the law authorised one of them to e.eceive the stock its well as both. The custom of the Bank was other wise, but that was not the law of the land. The point was reserved for the decision of the judges. The jury finind a verdict—Guilty. Mary Swain was also convicted of forgone transfer for . 281. Nagy 5 per cent. Annnitie%, being the joint property of Mary M'Ouire and Bridget Minimal. Friday, J. IL Hannay was indicted for trafficking in and feloniously carrying 3Way twenty slaves from Calabar, on the coati of Africa In the year the prkoncr sailed from Liverpool as Mate to the coast of Africa, lon the Captain having died in the course vf the voyage, he succeeded him in the command of the vessel called the James. The vessel sailed from Liverpool, with a schooner upon deck, and st hich, on the arrival of the ve.scl at Calabar, was tilted tint for the purpose of trafficking in slaves. The tarts of the c3rryil.:: away and trafficking in slaves were eleatly proved, and tire Jury. without hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty.—The punishment is transportation. POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. Tuesday three men named Dennett, Martin, aati Brown. underwent a long private examination, charg•A with various roblywies in the Post office. Miatin and Brown were in 111.2 situation ofletter•earriers, and I)efincit was their acquaint ance, but on the estabLshowni. His brother, liqweverr had been there tools considerable time since, and milt the dl'•co very of the robberies, was also apprehended, spar it did not appear that 1w was implicated, and he was discharged. The robberies have been carried on for more than two years past, and consisted in opening letters, and plundering them of bills, drafts, &e. to the amount of mare than 10001. The • discovery was made a few days since, when I)ennett, pre senting a bill thr 1201. was apprehended. lie represeats himself as the agent of the other two,:unl offered iu dis ulge the whole transaction. Bills to the amount of 0001. were fmnd w tin possession of one of the prisouers.—They were tilanded The Earl of I'Vmouth, who is at his scat, Vernell - Worcestershire, has sent a letter to tl.e Magis mites oldie public-office, Bow -street, infuming them of inflammatory bills, threatening destruction to his house and himself', having ken posted about his premises.— From the number of them, his lordship became alarmed, awl, an his servants were unable to trace the authors of them, he requested assistance from the Magistrates.— Lavender has been sent down to tise his endeavours The Bel/:at News Letter says, "A letter from Ga ya, dated the 19th inst. received in this town yesterday say• :—From same intbrmation, last night about ten eel, Mr. Sampson, assisted by some other Gentlemen in this place, tool-, 11 or 14 irrsons prisoners, on ac count of the &maim' Assurialihie. Mr. Sampson also THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, tSr. RivititldoNsiTn.—Extract of . • Leiter from neTIAPCI, 6th- May, 1816:•-- Since you tell me you wish to hear about native /customs atamanaers, I must mention a fellow who has been lately hung at Calcutta, and stuttered for an offence which I think never was heard of in Europe. Ile was•rm admirable swismner mid diver, and used to frequent the chants and places win re the similes' wed to bathe in the tit cr. Ile would make his way along under the surtace of the water till he cot close among them, anal then seising oue of them by the legs, AVOIIM drag her under the water, and drown her for the sake of her muniments, for the women of this comuty al. ways bathe in t h e it valuable gems and pearls. Meanwhile the newspapers teemed with horrible accounts of alligators carrying away !millers; and these monsters of the. flood woe talked of by every one. At last, one day a Li, I disengaged herself from-Iris gs asp, rope to the top of water, and screamed out that it was mu Least bust a man ! lie was then caught, and confessed that he bad carried on that trade tier seven years. Of the num:icr of victims he bad kept no reckoning ! Avnoctous Muiturns.--Thursday morning, Win. Harris, hostler at the New Inn, Leillmry, rot op at forte o'clock to brew, and was in the act of lighting a tire, it is supposed; vte.en sonic villain unexpectedly rushed upon ' him, with a hatchet almost split his Lead in two, and afterwards euti!ie throat of the hapless victim from car to ear! The smock frock the deceived were, and a silver w ateli, (makei's name It. Itullingford, Liverpool, No. 1818.1 were taken from his person, and with this booty only, the murderer decamped. The poor snthaer wit: a vet y intlte;t; ious and careful man ; he laid the preceding day paid the rent of his inothet's house ; and the idea that this money was abort his person; it is ima gined, led to the perpetration of the murder. A man, named Richard Underwood, was , anprellended at an Inn, at Worcester, Friday sennight, on suspicion of having committed the above savage monde:. .He persisted in as sorting his innocence until Monday, when he mule the fol lowing enuft•ssion:—" I entered the yard at the Nita Ina , on Wednesday morning last, about eight o'clock. got into the hay loft immediately, and remained there until four o'clock nest morMng, when the ostler arose to brew, I then went down to him, ss Ito asked me what I was doing there so early ? said I bad been in the hay loft all night , he said you most be cold and hungry. and promised to give me something when b e h a d lighted the tire ; while he was in the act of stooping to do so. 1 took up an hatchet and cut Nun over the head, so that he kit ; he asked me what I did that for? I followed np my blows on the head until I left him for dead. I then robbed him of Ilk watch and money, left him -end went into the stable; broke open a clipboard, and sound C. Ind. in copper, went into the kitchen and took his smock (nick, and proceeded to Worcester; at Malvern I buried the frock and watch; proceeded to the Red Linn and took some ale, and arrived at my brother's house in Watercourse-alley, Weir. cester ; I informed him I had murdered the ostler at the New Inn, Ledbury ; changed my dress, had my hair cut, and was shaved."—The assassin is tills committed for trial. Another murder was perpetrated on the tith February last, near Birmingham. Mr. Pennington, winemierelmet, of Loodon, about twiliglv started in his gig, from ltirminghato to proceed one stage onward to sleep; but he bad not ad s auced more than a mile, when he was attacked, and mur dered by some ruffian or ruffians. He was found • stripped • of his loose cash and bilk ; but the bulk of his property be. ing secreted in the linicg of his coat, escaped the assassins. Mr. Pennington has left a widow and Mx or sesen orphan children. A reward of OM it ott's:red in die Gazette of Saturday for the apprehension of the assassin. On Monday last, an industrious man, Jacob Hale, and his flan's., consisting of a a ife and five chiidt en, were duos ing front !Militia'', to Ouroeyslade,Sonierset. when, by some immagement, the cart, which w as loaded with howebold fur niture, and on %Well the wife and three children were riding. was unfortunately overturned. and, shocking to relate, the• woman and her children being entangled in the loadme, wet. so crashed by the cart falling on then,. that the ruAlit r anti two of her infants were taken tip quite dead, and the , bird child so mangled and bruised, that little hope is entertained of i s Tyco% ery. Friday se'nnight, Stephen Langford, Jas. Douglas, and W,n. Perry, servants to Mr. Jonathan Passinetam, of N 0 e tit Hyde, were committed by Peter Henderson, Eq. of 11(.1 font, Middlesex, to Oddball] Fields prison, for one month, to be kept to hard labour, for getting so intoxicated as to ren der them unable to drive their -teams home on their row.' limn St—James's Ilayinai Let. It is much to wished that masters would follow the example of Mr. Passingliara, and then they mould have better servants. Itreonurn's REPORT.—On Saturday the Recorder made a report of the whole of the convicts under se tarn .e or death In Neweate (except those convicted at the last hes/nuns), when Andrew and Benjamin Savage, be hers, Tho - ias Cann, Ei;zabeth Flicker, William Kelly, James Gates, and James Baker, were ordered for execution on Wednesday next. It is stated in the papers of this day, that ere of these unhappy n has been reprieved ; but, on emptily at N:os gate this • 'month..., we find the report to be Wenn& el. It Jody have had its en igin in the circumstance of o.ie of • the b - others named in the report having most solemnly declared that the other is perfectly innocent of the crime for whirl, he is about to suffer. Both last night and this morning he asserted, "as in the presence of Almighty God." that, though himself his brother neither participated in his clime, net shared in b• profits, beyond that of a single glass of beer; and that he did in ignorance. It' this is finked the case, whit-11,1mm the manner in which it is asserted by th e unhappy man about to be Plumed into eternity, and from which statenn nt he him sell eau derive no possible benefit, we are strongly inclined to believe it is worthy of the malt serious consideration. Tut: ItnrEns.—At the last Old Bailey Sessions, Richard Gamble, Wm. Gunnell, and John Carpenter, were hied and acquitted upon a capital charge, of having broken inn and entered the dwelling-home of Mr. Beckwith, of Snow hill, and with having stolen therein a vast quantity of fin -arms. After their acquittal, they were, upon an application spade to the Court by Mr. Gurney on the part of the Crown, ordered to be detained, to be tried for the mistlemeniumr. On Satur day, Mr. Newman, the Governor of Neu gate, receiveil communication from the Secretary or Stnte's Ake, aithorisio g lu an to discharge them, on condition of their cutter , mg inio their own re cognizance to appear at any filth, e period, should the la w -othcers of the Crown require thle111:•0 in do. This they instately did, and were shortly afterwards discharged. ST. JAMr.tt'S \Vu &Tit:CHAPEL SMITHFIELD 'MARCH 3. AGI?ICULTURE. found a box of Pupers in the house of one of them.-- They have this day been sent from hence uuder a strorrj guati for th 6 guol of Derry. 7 •MONTHLY REPORT FEBRUARY. The month of.lannary, with the exception of a few days, the mildest within memory, and dry to a consitletable degree, pi 'wed this s car a phenomenon on alt acconnts—the most busy and interesting instead of, as lomat in the country. the most doll anti uninteresting month of the 12. Oats of the crop of 1'46, in the north of Scotland, stood until January 11th, and were - then cut. In tic same month n butterfly, was seen nu the wing, in full health, in the' North; also a hawthorn in bread leaf, and gootcherrY bushes in blossom, in Lancashire —the her) ies The mildness of the season has been thus far most favourable end fortunate, in the critical stop of the national husbandry ; the ss beats in gencial look healihy and luxuriant, with the exception of those low lands %%Melt were visited by the calamity of floods; all the wheat: •art up rshicb WTI 0 sown befine Christmas, and wheat cow ;o r hits proceeded so briskly tin oughout lht• last and present month, that no doubt now remains but that the Atli nnantity of ant mimalwheat-seril will he got into the riot:: parts. the singular circumstance has occurred. of a self tVIT crop of wheat being stained to stand for seed. Ntitch •cprin,g w heat iQalso proposed to be sown, that, granting pro. pitions seasons.we are truly laying, foundations of abundan t —, The fallow% for Lent sowing are generally in considerable forwardness. Upon warm soil: the young beans and early pease have a healthy and flattering appearance. Voting cln rers are exeellent ; and rye, winter tares, and role. are Mt. proving fast. Soft beans and black barleys are much di-. trusted for seed. Much barley will ho sown without clover, from the scarcity and dearness of that seed. Turnips have succeeded well, and liva stock has done 50 wnll abrorid, that witch hay and fodder have been spared; the rot lit.wes et in sheep is almost general in some part; of the midland counties. 'rite vast quantity of greens has helped to econo mise the stock of potatoes. 'Wont in some quarters, has im proved in price. 'floe poor labourers, both agrienitnral and tnarititieturinv, arc still, great numbers of them, in want ot• employment, and the rates in trimly parishes at a. radium, height. I'e are credibly informed, and we have no doubt but a little inquiry will satisfy any one of the fact, that se veral persons in Lecas arc quitting comfbrtable situa tions in life to embark on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem ! There, they arc filly persuaded, they are to live without money, or lalxmr, or sorrow, or pain, fur at least 1,000 years !—Leeds Intelligencer. Wednesday morning Castles was taken by Mr. Nod der, the Governor of the Muse of Conection, to the Secretary of State's Office for the Home Depart 'lent where he underwent a long examination before' f•rd Sidmoutb, the Law Officers, the Heads of the Sm. LONDON MARKETS. CORN-F7CCITANGT, I‘fARC/T 5. We had but a few fresh arrivals this morning With x heat from F,..set, Rad Rent, the 'ale of which was brisk at an ad. vanee of Bs. per quarter f,ttnt thi; day week.— liarlev %%a: also in demand, and fine. samnlea from 2s. to 3;. oer plat te , r dr.rer Grev 1 3 1 , 3%C and Oats have also advanced 2.. per onarter ent this day week —Winne' Pease and Beans are dull, in all other kie.l4 of grain there is no alteration. s. s. 65 3 7t; Fine ditW Bre fra a Fine Barley 5 $ a I , Malt. 8. 8. WhitrPons"r7 a 71'1 Poland flats eft a I'l r.-ey Pease 4/ hn Pata , "Aitto 42 a 311 R •ana 2ll a 34 rine nem. ARO alai Tv•lcs Oats 14 a 22 . Rare Sccd... 5"1 a 51t PRICE OF RE FAD. The highest price of the best Wheaten Tirea.l throughout the me tropolis. is st.ittal by the Bakers to he tile. the Quartern Loaf.— Some Rakers sell the Quartern Loaf from td. to Sd. lower. AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN PER ()CARTER, IN ENGLAND ANT WALE!. FOR THE WEEK ENDING FE13.1". MN:at. I Rye Raley I Oats Beam; I Pease 100 R 44 7 '22 11 I 35 6 41 4 AVERAGE PRICE OF SrGATI, Computed from the !If:turns made in the week ending Feb. 26. is 43.. /.1. per cwt. exeht‘ivc of the Duty of Ctwom, paid or parable dun,. on on fini protion thereof into Great Britain—( .Saturday's PIII( . 1. OF MEAT, MOXIMY, NIARcIr 5. Smithfield. ,v,,,.....0,. aw l Lear?rah7ll. a. a. s. cL Ilcada of Calllc at C:- . ..m.b ,t. d. s d. Reef 30 a 4 6 Siaillipld. ii,cf 28 a 38 Muttas _3 9 a 3 0 Beasts, about QM) Mutton -3 4 a 4 0 'cal ......4 4a 6 0 S:lecp 13(11) Vrtl 4 4 a 6 0 Pork ......3 8 a 5 0 Calves 1.amb....0 0a 0 0 Pigs 290 (.ani!)....0 (P a 0 0 HAY AND STRAW I'ER LOAD. I:. s. d. £ e. d. Aver..C. s. d• Hay 3 3 0 a 1 0 0 Clover 3 0 0 a 6 9• 0 5 15 Straw 2 2 •0 nel2 y 7 5 Hay 0 oar 0 0 310 o Clover 6 10 0 a 7 10 0 7 0 Straw 1 18 0 a 2 ri 0 2 3 fl Hay 3 0 °ASV, 0 5 3 0 (lover i 0 0 a 8 0 0 6 5 0 Straw 1 100n230 2 2 C COAL MARKET. Ships at Market. Ships sold. R. d. s. Vainki - , Fen. 28 65 Newcastle 22'1 from I :33 03 4.2 0 9 I Stitaitelnild I! I I :73 6a 39 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS D.Y flank stock 3 per Cent. Iteductd 3 pc r Cent. Corc•olb 4per lent. 5 per Cent. Navy 246 LoNDom :—Printed ptiLltsbeil by It. WIT aM. at NV. .1 t. ty.T . U. opposite Exeter 'Change ; and foivar,t,,l into !'“ Country by all Clerks of the Roads, and bunks. Ilta free of Postage.