The National Register. — London, England, 1814-12-11 00:00:00

i I 594 there, found him wilt his hat off, jumping lip di the eha ,, deliers. and emleavonutua to break them with his hat ; alter some difficulty they prevented him from breaking them. He then proceeded to the second and first cit ., le of boxes, where he endeavoured to force himself into boxes that were , mite full, by breakintz open the doors. In the (wit eire:e Mr. Stride, the box kecper asArrd him there tsar not room for a sinele person in the whole e'rcle ; notwithstand in2 he persevered in endeavonring to break open some of the doors, in which be sneceeded to tlie “'neat terror and an....eby:ince of thoce who were in tiiem; at owe bIN in the centre of the hemie 1w broke the door to pieces, a 11::rt of which ma.: produced in !be Ortee he. fore Mr. Nitres. the .sitting Miwistrtte. -• The constable , aLtain in tear red took site into custody, aw: -I.llvevt4l him (210 of the Iroise. When they got hio, tf:sttir. end ot' strt et. a friend of the pri• soner's prevailed I.:I 111111 M•t to take boo the watelihowe. a,111._ jog them he weld , ' ll' me emit w;frit they consented. hilt tin v hail not ri !•-imal into the theati e above ten teinute‘ before they %-ere ;ivaio to take loin, into ete,toclv, in roweque..re of hi, illy in ! ! ttlicied iiaain and making a (I;•tnl•ba , .ee on the cranes qtaircaw. fniteavrarietz In fore. , his way past the cheek takers. The constables then secured him and eonveNed him to tho watchhon , e. Lure be remained all night. The M a visirite I 'in to be detained till he had paid for the dama.4e done :o the 'j l!entre. priqoner neknowledred the impropriety of his conduct, as hi• fr;end in the public (Bice, and appeared extremely penitent. Mr. N;.rt•c said he ought to think himself very well off, that he did trt bim to hail, and that he was not prosecuted by the Ma gero of the theatre. Xl'sl SION 1101. NE. Mary Dome, >t respectable .soinan. exhibited charges of assinit and enmity avehist her husband Isaac Ilunre, from whom, as well ;IA a vonn.• man, son about tirlitoen years of are, she Lad received nothing hot Ilmse, ill treatment, and titre:its for the last four year-. The stilt , egs was in the fruit trade and by her in dustry prudence uttO flit' 0111 V means of support to the rekt of the fttnily, and for this a!tentiou on her part. she received in re turn the tr..atieent complaiber4 of. 'Me husband appearing to be a drunken awl itiir character, the Lord Mayor ordered him to find mi leties for his flame good behaviour, but failing so to do, he way commit 'cut. John Fenton was remanded for another examination. ehareed with an assault upon his wife in Feather-lane, on gunday evening WelliAn lies at present in the hospital, with little hopes of recovery, and until her fate is known, the pritouer retudius in custody. OLD BAILEY. On Thursday Yo'•cpit Powt.!l. the fortune-teller. was tried on an in dietnien, fur delrauding 13. Smith of Is. aid. under pretence of foretel ling future events.—Having been twice before convicted of a similar crime, the p•e;:nit charge csas laid as a felony.--The prosecutor detailed the cilcutii‘tances, and 1..,y the °Ulcer deposed to finding a number of instruments and apparatus fur telling fortunes, as well 811 a prodigious %miss of letters, many of them from remalts living in respetintle spheivi con•till Me this CliieC of the ;Vogl as to their present thought• and future tort unes.--T;le ; , risortg?r, in his defence, said, that this was a most unjust persecuti•nt ; 111.4 he had long given over answering qu a b !inns ; and t hat he Never did it but through distress. He now had a wite and child starving, and he was himself 70 years of agr.—The Jury Inland Mr. Gurney then very properly directed the letters found at the pri• son, is ludgihgs to be destroyed, fur the sake of the friends of the writers. The Sessions heirg ended, the Recorder proceeded to pass sentence of death in the usual awful manner upon the following prisoners :-- .Tiiiin litivphy, alias Gale, for stealing in a (Iv:Piling-house, Bank motes and other monies, to the amount of 1401 ; John Leary, a boy only 11 ve •rs of age, for stealing in a dwelling-house ; Charlotte- St:?n!ev, alias Mdler, Mary Ritsconib,a/iiis Nliller, and Mary Russell. for uttcrintT c ointvrfesit coin, this being C‘e .third Comic6 , oo ; Patrick N larr, alias 1)..1an, for a burglary ; Widiam Green, for stealing in a ciwt.liitic huts e ; Catherihe Frere and Eliz.ibeth Denham, for privately te!thng in a shop ; John Hedger, for stealing in a dwe!ling-house ; Viz.ibetti fur stealing a log. 'rove in a dwelling house ; James Se a grim, for a highway robbery ; George IVldenianus, for privately stenlinu in a she;. ; Thomas James, for a like (Jen( e ; John Hengler, for a burglary ; Thomr.s Cagle, for a similar offence ; George White, for forging a bill of exchange ; Robert Roberts. for cutting and maim ; Robert Turnbull, fur ttealiug from a wi.arf; Mary Cco!ey, for TUE N'ATIoNA-T, REGISTER. DEC. 11. steati!ig in a dwelliowli ,u.e; and Joseph H, are, alias Wptepi, fur a bnreliry. Trannortation--N;otir 1 life, William Rire and lii-nry Chapman. Fianricen tears—William Smith, Stephen Gurraii, ("a via Turner. 1-I , liyht :1),(1 John II ttfirlrl. SeVrll ear% •Wlltil M Ei;z, Maltlrrl„Tam , • Connellv, jo.apph Br‘twve. Ht't ry (;ret:n, P ittersou, Geor v e White CA,lm , q3,lolsu •:tretcli, Jitnes 111.0 r.. Jan.'s Roberti, Perry, Henry Wes:on, F.lzithetli Reed, Ann Wither, Wallin] Browne. Jane Ctements, R. rimpwou. Ttiumas Saw. Thomas Brett, Tionuan (izihi VI J lin Shirlev, Brock, Citireritt llilec, Anti An drew,, ii.ae Junes. Ann 11Toorman, Daniel Williams, George Hare, G., , 0m0 Porker, and Henn. earlier. ji.wpll Powe!l the fa' time letter, was Ael.tetiercl to two years 'mini• ionment, and a iitimber of others to imptisontoe tit, whipping, &:. CORONER'S IN.,'JUESTS. ThurvdAr art was held at thy Cr)ivn, Wehtmiutiter-hridee, on itt.• b..tty o hi Stevenson, late a s.tritllcr in Westtiiiiiste!-rand, who wat, 1011 , A on'Tnestlay he Zephyr, the Atag at As,ley's Th• titre Mr. Parker, r ne of the proprietors of Ilse Theatre, sta•ed, that he I t id the ear,. tit th • slog, w hie,' belongs to a loreivne- named Gamier now in Frntt-e. r had heels applied to set era! ti.res to take the aitiutal away. h:lt ar i deeted to do so ; it ;vas kept in a stall near the stables. tht tsday las wit..es. was preparing to teed it with tur nip., V 4 hen he haw tie. deceased, who had been employed last summit to make a collar or It Iter for the sing. Findioc it was tight, the wino .1 having grown fat, he called to Stetr-nson, and a,ked whether it could not be altered. Deceas d said it could. After a leo• minutes converia tiro, they went towards the stall, and on the approach of 11r. S. thesis; made a dart, fixed hint with his horns against tit , wall, anti cored him. The %..itness /sari g a stick, bent the ' , tag and forct d hint to quit the de ceased. Stevenson then appeared with hi. hotly bent to the cround, a rrotstsiou of blood issued front the wound, and in a shott time after the accident he expired. Witness had previous to the ..cident told hint the animal we. dangeroue. Mr. Cook, surgeon, Westminster•road, deposed, that he was required by a messenger, about one o'clock on Tuesday, to go to Ashes's. a se rious accident having taken place. He found Ur. Steverson lying on a %hinter, he had received a wound on the superior and anterior part of the thi , h, in the dimwit' artery. taro inches and a half in depth, and had rig rktibt there was a division of the femora! oriel!, and femoral vein. Arterial action had ceased. and from the nature of the injury, he con. tidered the wound mortal; deceased was placed in a warm bath, but not by the direvion of 111 , . Cook.—Verdict, Accid , :ntel Death. The stag is forfrited to the Archbishop of Canterbury as a deoddnel. Ton pounds are to be giv.en as an equivalent. Satitaly se' t inight an inquest w f a i s i !i ei r i ld n) a ilch ttlitrevi t, Secretaries' .hn wastaries'oiii found dead in Grty's Inspscoare, on the body of dead in his bed, in his chambers, on the secant doll, at No. 9, in the square. It appears that Mr. Hinckley was between fifty and s i x ty years of age. and of a most eccentric wanner of liviu ; lie provided every necevoiry he wanted, and hardly tver permitted any one to enter .34 chambers ; lie bought in whatever he vvantigi at night, such us his etals, Are-worst, bread, kle.c• and if lee heard bread was to rise next day, he went the precedinu evening fur his half-quartt rn loaf, to save a far thing. Ho. always went to the cheapest chandler's shop to buy his butter, or rasher of bacon, and wa; 'consequently wel!'known in the neighbourhood of Gray's inn-lane. All last summer lie was known to be up at three o'clock every naori:ing, with a plaid clua; over his shoulder.; in this manner he walked rotted the square, went into the eifferent passages and seeress cries. in order to pick tip .ny thing he found lying there. Part of last summer lie had an old woman aho officiated as his laundress, lighted his fire, and cleaned his chambers; to this woman he paid 2d. for each morning he required iu r services ; to save this txpence, during the later part of the summer he did all himself; lie (leeried his place and emptied his own •lops. lit. wag heard talking of going to Scotland during-last summer; and iu tl.e latter end of A -gust \lr. Hinckley being missing, lie was supposed to have gate t Scotland. Days, weeks, and inoliais, however, passed, and his chambers remained shut, nor vas there any ioqeiry tide by any of lei. friends. It at length began to be wi•ispered Nowt* the porters of the Intl, that pet-linos be might be dead in his bed ; and to satisfy their own ctniot.itv they agreed to get a ladder end rear it against the window of his bed.rooot, tt latch looked into the geed ns.— James Hubbard, one of the wirers of the Inn, deposed. that he and three more of the porters procured a lone laddar, and placed it to Mr. Hinckley's bed room window, which they opened and went in, and on nsuirawnie the curtains at the bed feet, he saw the appearance el a person lyi n g in the bed: the face was as black as ink ) and complett ly li