The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-22 00:00:00

NOV. POLICE.. MANSION HOUSE. Mr. Junes, of the King's Bench, applied to the Lord m,, soe to assist him with a body of constables, to take port st•s•ion of a house in Cheapside. tOrinerly the property of a worth y Alderman. He slated, that a pers.''', who had been age nt in the upward• oh 20 Veal - 5,114d taken possession n; 1111 l the ;hound of being a partner, a. well as ma the pre. tel of• has made a ontelease of goods In it to the 111101131 t Or 29,7001. Fie also said, that te•n gentlemen, who were the teal poreltasers ut• the goods, had been shoved snit of the hull.'• hey 1 w h o now held it, stilled by five others. It Nee; apprehended, that in the hands of a person cap dile of /OWL violence, the pi opert yin the house, amounting t•t between 60,0001. and 70,0001. could not be very secure; e+peci Illy a• lie had, by his own arknowle.gment, sent out of •the house at night part of that property. Mr. Joiteshinted, that the case was of that class to which his Lordship's alien• iioll was MOO frequently directed, and declared that he shmild indemnify his lordship if a legal process should he institnivil in coiniegiterice of his direct• s to the police. He added, that 2,5001 been offered to the person com plained against, as a compensation for his services in the louse, drc. ; and that the offer had been cheerfully complied with at host, but afterwards rejected. The house was now -shut up, and the present possessor had no claim, either as a partner or purchaser. The must etrectual way of doing jus tice appeared to Mr. Jones to be opposing force tu force, if a direct warrant shoals' he ejected to. frlse Lord Mayor agreed that .it would be a summary w ty, Ent •relmied to give his sauction to any proceeding ot• the ;kind. A solicitor was theyerson to wham suet, di case ought 4u he referred. Hip Lord.hip rent to the alverie party. who politely aunwered through a grate that he could not wait upon him. BOW STREET. Mt.&lay, alleles Roberts, • pressman, in the employ of Mr. Thorne, was examined on a charge of selling shintoist k widow stamps. It appeared from the evidence produced, that this injurious and unlawful practice has been earned on t.p a very great detriment of the revenue as well as injury to the frir wider. 'l'he case having been clearly made out, the Alilgi,llAte 1001 about to commit Roberts to 1161011 for three months, iu compliance with the Act of Parliament, a ken Mr. Rivitigion, solieitor to the Company of Stant )))) eta, inter fered, and got the sentence mitigated to a week's imprison ment ; intimating-at the cline time, the determination of Ilse Company, strictly to watch these nnlawlitl proceedings, and in case amity future nonvictiou, to enforce the full penalties of the law. The number of alinattackittoond in the possession of Robust' exceeded 130 copies, subjeciiiig him to a penalty of 101. fur each copy which he printed. besides to three months' imprisonment for every separate offence, in the sale of the same. The stamp-ditty on each aleitanack is one shilling and threepence. A young man of most tespectable appearance, whose name we understood to be Cooke. was brought into the office on Monday ty J. Kinsey, an offieor of Southwark,charged by a man of she name of Kay, With an •ttempt to seduce him to commit warder on the person of Messrs. Sheets and Sou, coppersmiths,. its Fleet-market. He stated, that hay, aim had bee,. its the utmost distress, was standing, about a NI t• night ago, nudes - the walls of the Mansion-house, asking alms, when she prisoner stepped up to 'Who, and asked loin if he •wanted a job ; his answer was yes ; lie was then requested to call iu Blackfriars-road, at his lodgings, and he would employ him; after which the prisoner left the written particulars of 'his address for Kay with an old woman wltukeeps a stall close by where the parties met. He accordingly wont, when the prisoner t •id him there were two persons he wanted to have disposed of, that were spending his property, and laughing at it, and that he would point them out. Kay undertook the assassination, and had several interviews with the 'prisoner, in the coarse of which he had obtained from him a 21. and note, about Ss. in -silver, a shirt, cravat, Sze.; finally, the persons intended to be murdered were pointed out e and t,vo pistols were procured, balls, and flask of powder,(all of which were now produced,`, except the powder, which he bad emptied while following Ihr gentleman, which lie had ce peatedly done, hi the neighbourhood of Fleet-market. Kinsey, the officer, proved the state ufhay, before his con nexion with the. prisuar•r, to be extremely wretched, without shoes, stockings, or shirt. Tuesday, the investigation was resumed, and the prisoner,. in answer to !heal:age, gave the same account ohich he hail given the preceding night. He stated that Kay stood at the front of the Mansime-'iouse, asking alms ; and .as he often gave sock fellows.lialf.peuce and penny-pieces, he stopped to conv-erse with hini,.o ills an.intetition of giving hien a ticket of the rudely fat the suppression .of menoicity.; but he arc. knowledged that lie Alia not.give him a ticket. He inquired his business, and was intOrmed that lie was a gmismilli and a piste : 1114.4!1"; and having ii„pistul that w;aited repairing, lie li#l , iii!4l him if lit would repair It, thinking Kay, being our of work, would to it cheap for him. He bad lately bought the pistols iu Lanulmi-wall, tot .1 I.ls. k,r his brother, who re; rides at Gillatt, anti who having frequently to travel to Merton, &c., where there have been so many rubbesiesiately, ver-b4.41 to travel armed. Since he had purchased the pistols, to. 11.4;1 the misfortune to let one tall, which put it so notch r. it of repair that it would not act. Lir left his direction with the woman who sells but gingei bread at the Mansion...house, 'or Kay to call an him to repair the pistol. He denied giving him any powder or the flask; he admitted giving Kay the di.Jies hail stated, but assigned .his reason to be pure ciiaTity, Kay having hail only part of a before. .He 41e. li.ed givi ng .Kay the different sinus of money lie bad stated.; aid said he had only given him two shiliings. (1 11 Ids being asked by Mr. Millie if lie was any relation to 11:s mastras, or had any expectation Isom them, he replied in negatke to both noestions ; he stated .publicly, that he was n o t ail at tided clerk, hut received a salary hour them. This was confirmed by 'Messrs, James and .Henry Shears, sviio were present; and a Wadded, that hislatlier and brother were also iii their employ at 31ertimousi very considerably.in tie it confidence. W 4 OO Cross-examiocd, and told an many circom. st,,nt:es wlii;•11 were proved un the f,put to be absolutely fame, and was altogether so contradictory and incon,istriii, tilat nut the slighteat ciedit was attached to any part utAtis narrative. The Ale ism Shears spoke in the highest possible terms of the pi jointer, mitt said, they did not believe Win eitp4hleot such an act, bolt did they believe atuy thiug that had been said agaiiist hint. _ _ P.I r. Tustin applied to the Magistrate for Kay,.Culeman, and Kilo Key to be lield to bail, to gusher what should lae•briseght .Igaittst them at the emit's:s. • Mt. Bifuit: :speed to the ,prsipositiosa so far .as relstod to THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Kay llh Coleman, but nut as to KitiaPy. titiserving. that he did not see ally thilly Vii•oll2 in bii euti.hiet. ku to Kay, the nits% of eontradieti!lili aid itieunsisteiteter, as to linen and place*, tittered by hint. exceeded any thin; he had evet heard. The Maci.drate expressed Ititn•elf at a lons to account for the convir.:ey, except its object wer the life of Mr. Cooke, the poisoner, who was of course discharged. It was hit determination no withhold his assent so slip 11111'1'N suit a satistamory escplauat• had been made to Into on the subject, and reasonable cause assigned for privitsg she poor prisoners of one third of their allowanee. The officer said, he would endeavour to find out the re.isini for the alteration, unit surmise Ilse Magistrate. J. liart w as Olaf Keil %VOLlittering forged 11. notes. On the .7tli inst. the prisoner passed a nine to Mr. Kell', landlord of the king's !lead, Gravel-Lute. Ou she tills lie repr,s till the offence; and on Friday week he attempted to pass a third mite ; had Mr. disrovevrd those esbu•b lie had previ 111 l sly uttered stere Gngcrie., detained him when he dined to the tire-place, and thrust a paper into the fire,wld( it was instantly con-owed. Mr. Grrgory, a hosier, of Black friars.' mid, ktated, that the prisoner sin Friday applied at his shop to por•hase is pair of glov.rs, and while Mr. G. was gone for change, he quilled the shop, leaving the note in Mr. G.'s possession.— Fully committed. STOLEN CHILD.--A report haying been circulated on Thursday, that Ale Horsley's child had beeu discovered, and that the robber was in custody, u crowd was attracted in Bow -street, and in the office; it tweed out, however, to be another stolen child. who had been re. covered; a woman named Mary Anne Gregory having been bnitigia to the (Ace, charged with stealing Mr. Iledgway'a child, only 19 months old, from Kent-street, in the Borough. William Nisbet, the street keeper behmstine to St. Clement DAM'S, stated. that on Thursday afternoon about two o'clock. hetet serving a crowd of people assembled in the Strand near St. Clcuteet's church. and going among than, found that the prisoner had been stopped in consequence of her answering the description ..Wen in a hand bill of her having stolen a child ; and on hi s r ea di ng t . lw minted bill he also suspected her, and took her into custody, When she con- in stint of the proceedings at the Mansion House, a house fessed to hint that she had dropped the child in Chuncagy.lene, and on searching her he found a bead which she confessed to belong tea is Mated toe ac to ct hav Ls:linseed to late worthy etl lerman. are litt;liorind to say, e that - the late a Aldernien(swe' lbe ( iter - e — was We noe til -- & necklace which was on tlre chill ife soon after learnt that the child person alluded to. had been found in Chancery lane. Mrs. Plush, the wife of Mr. Plush, a plumber, in Chancery-lane, SUDDEN DEATH OF ALDERHAN GOODBEHFRE —About three o'clock en Weelnesdey atternoon. Alderman Good . be . here re stated, that on Thursday afterneee between one and two o'clock se- turned to his house, China Terrace, Lambeth, in appare nt good venal persons were collected about her house. whish she discovered to health, to dress as lie was going out to dinner, and hirnmediitely be inconsequence of a child having been left in her passage, the went up stairs. Soon after the servant heard a violent noise, aa if street deer bong open. The child was nearly dead with cold. She something heavy had fallen ; she immediately ran up, and found he r wrapped it in a blanket and laid it before the fire, and in a short master lying on the floor its an apoplectic fit. Medical aid was im time it began to recover, and shortly after a woman entered her house, mediately had r rse to, sod Dr. alatoo. of Spring Gardene . ' 'ted claiming the child as her's ; she was, howev e r, det e rmined not to him twice in the course of the day. An express waa also .- sent for part with it till she described it properly, which she accordingly did, and the infant, on hearing her voice, raised himself.and knew Ina nom Dr. Bankhad, to Brighton, who bas been five someyears the phy i they, who had been distracted since Tuesday afternoon at thetas of ea' to the fa il ; but before the latter gentlen s snivel, 1 4- sfo n rehi , Magistrate nly had breathed hie last. He died in the afternoon, him. The mother stated that she key a lodging house in Kent- at. wort hy past three o'clock. Dr. Bankhead honestly returned to street, in the Borough. On Tuesday ftfternoon she sent her ion, le Brighton to cominunicute the sad .intellig ence to the lady and son years of age, out with the child, and the prisoner met hint in the. of-the dec . eased. both of whom, we are sorry to learn, are there in a street, and obtained die clitid from him by a false representation.— very delicate state of health. Alderman Goodliehere had been for She, her husband, and a friend were out till four o'clock the following nearly thirty years a distinguished member of the Corporation of morningin search tit the child; they were out again at seven, and London., and represented the Ward of (heap. Ile acquired a eon- • had been in pursuit of her and the child nearly ever since. They sides-able for ti tie by um:mined industry anpersevertince in bust had frequently heard of hey in St. Giles s, Westminster. &a The ness. and was justly i etteetned for integrity and punctuality in all his child had been robbed of its shirt, boota, petecoat, feather from the. dealings. Mr. Goodbehere has left a widow and a eon his only hat, and necklace, only the frock remaining; and the feet, alleles, and child, about twenty . years of age, who is a member a the o University legs were a most shocking spectacle from scars and blisters. From of co ' lob gg i. , o. what cause these were pnitliteixt could not be ascertained, but it was Another 'account says—it was in the morning just after breakfast. supposed they had been occasioned by excessive cold. The prisoner that he fell down. A female servant heard him tall, and seeing him: was committed for further examination. gasping for breath, ran for Mr. Hyde, the surgeon, who immediately HATTON GARDEN. attended. The worthy Alderman so far recovered, that he was able R. Cooper was finally examined end fully committed, on to walk up stairs to his bed rani, where he was cupped. Every suspit•ioit of' stealing 100 bottles of wine •from the cellar of thing that skill or attention could do was tried, but a secood attack of Mr. Fulferd, of Cute brook-ro w , leliagton. apoplexy was fatal, and he died about three o'clock in the afternoon. Short us the interval has been since thealeinise.of the worthy Alder- MARLBOROUGH STREET. man, a most active canvass has commenced for the proseseion of the A singnlar charge of robbery Was made on Monday against vacant civic. gown. l'here are no lose than serge candid/ow...among Maria Cornish, servant to lie. A. Thelcber. ot Edwa ril-st rein, wheni we Notice the names of Sirs T. Bell. G. Alderson. F. Derange*, Portman-square, by her master. Mr. 'l'. staled, that he was and R. Kirby, Esq. (late Sherifflo, and Alesera. Bothwell, Tltotsp front home with his wife on Sunday eve ' g,antl Miss Stewart, eon, and another. 'F. Wilma, Esq. the new city member, hasbeen kid lodger, lied gone out also, desiring the prisoner to keep a become upon ene most respectable citizens, who invited him to good fire in her room ; and on her return, about the same Extracat candidate..a letter received by a geademan of Rath, dated ledtb. . lime as witness, the lire ordered to be kept tip was Ont.— Nov. 1e.—“,1 yesterday witnessed the most heart-rending scene I ever Nothing wet said about the house having been robbed that' beheld. The passage-twat. while crossing to Fife with twenty-five night ; but in the morning the prisoner alarmed the family by passengers on board, at the distance of about a mile and a halt. upset, . statute. that she hari found a Initeltel'a cleaver at the door of owing to the obstinacy of' two boatmen, who were drunk, crowding Miss S.'s dining room, that several places had been broken too much saiL Though so near shore, and generally suds shallow open, turel also her box, front which several articles had been , water, the aea an 60 heavy, and the gale was so strong, that no as- . takeo. Air. 'F, found his wine cellar had been broken open, sistance could be.allivided.shem, and every soul on board perished" and three bottles taken away, and nuotherliall drank. On A young Newfoundland deg, belonging to apaseenger. swam ashore. Miss S .' s gel deg top, i p, she missed several articles of little value I cannot detail t he pa rticulars of who were in the boat, my fright being so get: indeed I scarcely know how to describe my feelings, out of her drawing room, and two mlniateries. Her dressing whether they the excess of joy or grief, perhaps both combined; case had also been broken open ; but there was on mosey, for 1 purcha s ed my ticket as a passenger in the boat, but owing to . and the articles had been car deity ri•ld 4 eed• The enly. the evident intoxication of the men, I would not vent u re. 'I have appearance of an -entry was at the landing place on . this moment learned that a Nesse' beating down perhaps to assist the the first floor, where the mortar had been removed ; .anil the unfortunates, a Newcastle smack, struck upon ale bar Minch Koife. -street door. whirl's had been barred and bolted, the prisoner and upwards of forty poosons perished ! We have heard continual : said, was lointel open in the snoraing. There was no alarm tidings of mischief for this last week, it blowing tremendous gales." in the course of die night An Officer examined the place, The following is copied from a Chester : About; four • and was of opinior, that it was only an appearance of .robbery. years ago, a man. possessed of very considerable property, died. ho- He was convinced no person had eructed the wit:time room eueadung his effects to his daughter..in exclusion of Ms son arid "rife. . whence the mortar wee torn. flail any thieves been there,. His wit!, it seems, fell into thehan f t ; o l t: e h tn is . wife, et t e r t iull n w to le e 7 . the son the . ' they would not have troubled themselves wills the servant's favo urite ; and iwpreventtittowhatm mdse her value& papersehe Id collat. box, when plate untoutited was . lying about it. The prisoner burie d f it, in the coffin with her husband. A few weeks ago, being on bar • pleaded total ignorance, and acid she had no followers, eke.— death bed, she confessed the pariculars to a female friend, enjoining Sae wall remanded, until the mystery shall be disclosed. her rot to disclose the fact till after her death. The widow is stow 'QU EEN SQUARE. , dear), sad application is making at Doctors' Commons to take up the C. Smith, of Bennen'e-conrt, Drury-lane, appeared to an' deceased man, whielldt is understood will be granted. information, charging him with having sold a quantity of fire. A letter was received on Friday at the office in Bowetrest, from • works on the ant tilt. which subjected hint to it penalty of 51. Goodwin, the constable, who is employed to pursue Charl e s Bennett of Mr. Horsley, act:outputted by Mr. Horsley ,nephew , that 'ercuse-examination of the informer's witness, it turned out and t e h n e t el i ify il d l ie ch il d. The letter is dated trout Calais, end sates nu; that lie was persuaded to go to the defendant's shop solely for to they had Charles "Sennett and the child, who hat! arrived at the swerpose of purchasing three squibs on the day mentioned. Calais on the Wednesday ae'nnight. and that he had taken ha place for stritivis he was tO receive las. The Magistrate ow this in the Diligence for Dunkirk weedier' the information. On Wednesday afterunon, Nov. 18, an inquest was tekeri at the - W. Burn. was remanded. on a charge of embezzling 181. Green Gate, City-road, lit Luke's, before .1. Unwin. Esq. on the body with which he had been sent by his employer, Mr. Kemp, a afJohn Sunday, shoemaker, aged 75, of White doese-coutt a who put baker, at •Chelsea, in outer to give change to a neighbouring art end to his existence by hanging himself to a eupboard in his . pawnbroker. He wee taken liter Bath; when he +aid he apartment; when it appeared in evidence that the deceased had been . bad lost the money. in a deranged state for some time, through drinking. tiridalia t stint. as had been reported, as it was proved by the forema i n w ,trct . LA MRETH STREET. produced duplicates to the amountof 21. asatal. of articles that had Monday G. Andereon was charged on suepicion of otteeieg lem pledged in eight days, together with ;is. ed. per wee.k Allowed a forged note to .I. IVakety, A cheeeemonger, in East Smith. b)II the pansh.—vertlict. Insanity. field. When %Fidgety asked Anderson his address, he gave it t Coroner' 'rluest on Friday returned a verdict of manslaughter at the home of a,person who knew him, but where he did not ag 'nst a Mrs. Hill, who, by her cruel treatment of her niece, an in- , lodge. He also state d, the; he received it of Hoorymaii, tent child, committed to her care, had caused her death, accord & carpenter, for whom he had worked. Hoileymett, when ing to the declaration of several witnesses. She was committed to - applied to, denied that he had ever paid the prisoner a note. Tuthill-fields. Appearances, th er efor e , were against the poor fellow; when A letter from St. Thomas's, doted Sept. 1.2, saye—m A few Honeyman appeared in the office, w i t h a Mr. Lucas, and days ago arrived here, Captain Brown, of the ecititoner Elias, stated, that he had paid Anderson a note, which he had re- of New York this schooner was bound from here to (tin de ceivell with seven others f ro m Mr. b leat , e re had at first le Hatcha or St. Martha. Near the coast-she wee overhauled • denied -having paid the wagoner a note, beettitee it was tons • by a Royal sipanish.privateer, commissioned by the governor pleasant to have a !breed nine traced to him. Honeyman of Rio de Is Hatches, sa Ito wantonly tired iisto her, after having was reprimanded, and Anderson dischaiged, the Bank-Sulk:is t a k e n i n an s ail s While the captain was in hula boat, ;tiling . for proinisiog to pay his expenees. front his schootter on hoard the privateer, they were ; ing UNION HALL. ' vollice of mosketi yat him, and on board the Eltlta; ewe of this • Application was made to the Sittind Magistrate by owe of Spaniards deliberately tuck Hi m at and shut a Mr. %Villain«, the o ffi cers belonging to the alarshalseb Prison, for his signs- part owner of the Eliza, through the heat t. They then -tune to several orders, addressed to. Mr. W. F. Hope, the plundered the vessel, and CAI fled leer into Roo de IA Dale 114, . person appointed muter the Statute 53 Geo. 111. cap. 13. to where Captain Brown made a protest, and pat atm tof lice distriteite certain monies to the poor prisoners in the King's things stolen Ilion hint restored ; Ina 4ellOnner was so tom to . Bench and Aloe shalsea, requir:ng him to ;say the sum of 4d. pieces that he lied to sell her. I mules easel Captain lit owls . per day to each of the prisoners named in the orders. By the has stunk the proper commuriieatiotts t o the President tit 4,1 1 . • Act any ps•istmer ronfitted in the al e rsh a l s en, up o n making United states,. and I hope suds a toed der w il l .oot be -oath that he is not wortiu 101. and that he valued snbsist with- millet ed to pees oithout proper satialactron heiug given, mad out assistance, is entitled to an allowance not exceeding nil. the injury, as far as possible, redressed to Ile fatuity of this per it° Y' to tie p a" ° p un the prwinelion of en or d e r si g ned unfortunate man." by a Magistrate, and atlikelisci to the pc. Non appointed uncles A genuine Bank of England elate, without any clerk's sig. the Act. For a coendarabln time 'past the emit of 041. was stature, has lately been found in cireclutiou ; and below us paid ; bat receinly an alteration has taken place, and tie roam gentsinetwes.weis &seta 'anted at the Bank, the ;miaow. to ivies.' eifnel subente tett. 'Flue MitgiS; I ate refused to blot] the orders it had bee, paid los labour (Hap:vs and others uf Paildiug ton in their .present foie', issieming as his Evasion, that no cense 1 wharf) wet e delaMed As priennersonsou 4 energy of attempt deadliest; Asusvii to-Iliat sell the Alb/Mt:Me alumni be reduced. - nig, to,pstes ',vital was crtosormorlyvonaisliexads 'Urged note. 375