The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-03 00:00:00

THE DRAMA. HAVMARKE'I"ri!EATRE. The Merchant of realer was played '.sera -on Tues day night, and introduced Mr. IV mae in ~.S'Oyloefr. His scene with Tmial was very well executed,. and the ;11dgment Scene contained some masterly poi:at:, which, if strewed a little more thinly, will soon introduce hint to the foremost ranks of his profession. Mrs. Glorzr played Portia with great judgment awl kteling: ne regret to state, that this deserving actress was se'ae,l with a sodden -indisposition, near the tern - tin:l;lc n of the fourth .act, which fer a short time suspended th e p • - • e rfoatan-eI and afterwards went through th s. ploy Isith extreme difficulty. The sympathy of the audience vas much excited by this event. Tokely wa s ver y happy in Launcelot Gosbo, and Jones's Gratioeso was• -eseremely gay and spirited ; the representativ e •of the AO:ike was net comme 11 faut, the tace was a littl e Thorn of its dignity. The rest of ch, play west respc e t.. ably cast. TRIAL. OF HUSSEY, 10k THE AILTROP.I( OF MR. RIM) AND M. SIAINION • %T GREENWICH. NIAIDSTINE, VnbAT. AUX al. _ _ ----- The Court was this ,norning enr.vtleel at an early _hour by .people attracted by the interest of Ilusseis against whom a true 101 l was !build on'Wednesdny fee the murder of M'. Bird and his housekeeper, ut Greenwich, on the 7th of February lust. littesey was brought to the bar mid arraigned un two indictments. far the murder of 11.1 r. Bird and his maid-servant. The prisoner was well deeeeed in a black coat and waistcoat, and mixed pantaloons, and appeared com posed, both in his manner of entering the Court, mid in his mode of anewering the questions put tallim on his.arraignment_ lie is rac►ter a tail man, with a mild fool:leg countenance, and possessing much the app.eir awe of a person above his rank in life. When the Clerk of the Arraign& put to him the usual questions, " guilty or not guilty, - and how would he be tried, hennswered with u firm tone, and with something like a practised manner, " Not Guilty," and he would be tried by God and his country. He was accused, as is stated in his arraignment, of the murder of Mr. Mid, of Greenwich, by giving him several mortal blows en the hotel on •aturday the 7th of February last. A model of the premises was exhi bited in Court, representing the situation of Mr. Bird's house with respect to the academy where Hassey de posite•l his box with Litton, and the other buildings mentioned in the eviden,!e. The plan was on a large scale, but the Court remarked .that if not necessary it would rather tend to perplex .and.distract the minas of the Jury than to enlighten theta Mr. Sergeant Ouslow, in a luminous statement, de tailathe circumstances of the case, gave a connected view.of the evidence which 'he was to bring forward, showed how it bore against the prisoner, examined the weight of every part.ef it, and laid it before the Jury in a very methodical and distinct manner. He dwelt particular►y car •the late discovery of the hammer, and the evidence • which contradicted the statements made by Hussey in his own defence, both in his ex amination befiire the Magistrates, and in two letters found on his person when apprehended, the one ad dressed to Mrs. Walmaley, the mistress of the Tiger's Head Publie House at'Greenwich, and•the other to his brother. Those•tetters stated, that he had embarked for America, though he was then in Oxfordshire—in the heart of England ; and tied lie had been all the Sa turday niglit,from e 7 o'clock downwards,when theinur der was committed, at the Tiger's Mealnimonrdie t 4 ociety.that met there, called the lodge of Odd Fe lows. This last statement he wouhl disprove by the evidence of persons who were there. •I'he whole evidence, he reminded the Jury, was circumstantial ; but according to a trite obxrvation, circumstantial evidence was sometimes stronger than direct testimony, as circumstances could not be so easily falsified. I helearned Sergeant prozeedel to ca!! 1% it .nes:;es. ..itvio.u t lake some plate out of the lontrao, obit* was n. o . o%l6ex:omitted by Mr. Kolan.—lt was at), • ”ne o'clork trial he we ut if. Mr. Binh , . Tile 11.1111.1 r had bel u broken a• if Ma: y •itouumus had laid hold of it. There were several wound. 1.11 1, , •r head, made apparently by a bl wt it.. stl timelir. Jr. ILA n ot% iu the rat kur ; poke net-, empty, bnt not turned altogether out. All i!,e plarots whirr he i.l.tered aopealed to have bees examined. lie enosloi say so of the bark parlour. The thivf, whoever he was, int,ot have inspected the rooms Examined , iy Camino - is Serge:int.—Richard Smith is aV, Citrate. Heard of the discovery of the murder about oi.o nick, iinasediately idler morning service. when he was Us tli.• vest,) room. He then wtnt immediately to the bowie, where he erased in abort two minutes. Mr. Timms', the last witness, let him in. Lie described the house. H.- observ ed a W. 1111.111 lying on the floor in the passage. 'there was much blond on the door, which was spread over it by the , nosing of the .body. The body lay in the way to the fro, t door. Her Lead lay just at the foot of the-staircase, and he noticed that the lower banister was broken, and this masts ,iart whirls could oat be laid bold of by a person in an erect I».ition. There was a candle lyintt, near the body in the hall which :vat aged new, only to have been 114hted and then blown old. He went into Mr. Bird's parlour, f taint Ur. Bid lyiug on his back evidently dead, Ii fee' near the (Idal. scarcely enough to let the their open, and Ills he of near the fare place below a chair. e was .1 little tab.e upset ht. hind the door, and ua the table steer his head %I . :mess saw a pocket souk. Toe spectacles lay net the ei tt.e pockets appeared to base heels and. •edi, he found below the door of the parlour the mask of a Ilaalaler s which had just grazA the lints I. nail left the Hatt k of blood. He marked ,rectal wounds on the bodies of both, apparently inflicted by the saute instrument ; sonic of the %sounds being seemingly inflicted by a hammer head, and the ot he rs mo derately sharp end. lie saw the hamini I sate' nerds, and such an lost :•111111.1it lutist Boor been employed to inflict these wo n Is. There were several wounds on the head oldie vita min,, and on Mr. Bird's. The skull of Mr. Ilird was fractured. Witness went .up stairs, tryst 4110 lb: . Saadi It a 1111 roor.. where "li. Bird hail a bureau desk. -He thosight that a pe t. 4011 sitting near the window of this roam, as lie mast do when the flap of the desk was down, might be seen tN ni the 1 iger's 'flume was a sma l l table with a portable desk neon it nearer to the window. The flap of the bureau was down when witness stew it. Many papers were scattered alma on it, and some down oat the floor. They appeared to have been scattered about as if stone in a hurry to ni l .. et tie drawers. The bureau had a seriet drsu er, trot a huh 51 one pound Batik notes were taken out in the piesenCe Oaf wiS mcas. He afterwards saw plate taken out in a iievi roost. .9:11(11 hoot escapeitthe notice of the person whit, hail pie uttered the other things. Mr. Bird's bed was made and tame.' down. in that bed room.there had been the same setteti fin articles of propm ty, and the same mitifasion as in the othur pea is • tin" house.' Witness went then to the attics, which the saute scene of confusion, Witness then examined the premises on the ground floor, beginning with the back pal ' lour, and it did not appear to have been entered at all. Thyre was a sideboard later° with some plate, which had Ina betas disturbed. After that, witness went to the kitolien, laiale lie saw thy servant's work on the table, a limier box ins alit table, and a table cloth en a duair in the room, anal Mr. I.tirePa slippersattar the fender. 'lv o watches were delivered to witness on the 13th of .March, by Godw yet, a tidbit at Peek heti, who represented himself to be prisoner's brother j 3 Wi:. nes, produced the watches, but could not speak to their pan - vious ownership. lie was present at tee examination at Hussey, u hen prisoneremittrd a statement which was taken down from his lips, by Mr. Biel:Dell, which the prisoner was recnesteil to sign, but wh:eit he a clitied in do. Gross-exatnitied by Mr. Adelpleas.—Witness said he I vet examined the house arid the di ceased persons. le.:lu=. trade was drawls dow n by a, per.da streiggliugenn the gentled , Five rooms laud been ransacked, and at least a dozen .dritweu.. examined. So match had been done that it took witness soux time to examirie it—about-au hoar. IVitoess said, that Arlie:, he mentioned that Mr. Bit d's room could be s ee n from t! 'tiger's Head, he meant from the float of the Tiger's Hear). and not from any of the rooms ef the it a, He never went i!:;/., Ihu tap.toom to try wliethet he conks see from it or not. Frederick l'ineli is at surgeon. 'Resides at GI eettwich.- - Went to Mr. 131 rd'S 110.113 e on the Tilt of February last. found Mr. Bird slaughtered in the twist but ri ble mantle:, observed two remarkable imliritations on the forth, atkaboh: the size of a it:a-penny. Ile oh ,esvcd at fracture from 11.., front to the ocripittim. Auy of the %It:tends would dm ye pro iisived death, and Ilia pa , lets! bane. the keno had coped. Ile hail no doubt 1/EA the wounds were inflicted an instrument, like aMs ainte e , wiJu it blunt cutting edge, ::oat a smooth. He observed , din the,head of Mary Simmons...- lie o b served a ilepre..slon on the es froutis whi^ii woulai have produced death. lie obsessed other severe woltuds-s They werFt es ideut!e ()seduced by tee same instrumeitt as the wo:iii is were of tee side of flag , eluting edge of the ham mer. He had area the hammi r, and lie thought it would exactly taro dile..! ate monads he liad described. lie s.tw ;he hani:mrr its the ett Hakes, the eunst.lble, Ts" , s'' , v. O " yr" • wott•atit. tl Ist the jugular vein. au.! had *vi . dently • waiter fror.t•the Nympothy between the head and the stoottarit. Cross elm' mina;] by h/r. There wan is member of blows on b mil ilia der ent.e.: I•cr.t.o.t. He thooalit no lustre loco! lint A immoter caul.) it„ • thee It • II Kesitt i .; 13.11 Ael.osed, tha.t she lives at GI. I nu it'll .r. Ist she O %A-tit ,• 11501 to gee tu.flr. Etirlra w as-.t.t ;ta •cus! , ;74, bete itroll,, yteich hviyeuctl welt. o!!12:10.so ";;o• Mr. Bird izener.lll2, t weal Poo atesit al d simnel lle %%rest • 11 bid at. lw o dreg. o ,e oif his rhoes •atter %nigher. e hr.s; the dulls was.r , - rmoed. Wittet ss et/ended e‘•try, ir.nDnt. -fa Mr. BOW* tot th.c Monthly helot e :I:* ;:soetle T, nett it*Ll s atilitql Situ sate InII shit ts I,.rodeee , l Dy Holie%, the csiustalt:e, alst(r the nottrileis, and !Ile mass t ery AIM* dice 11.1:! •A loth U thten ca the Joritlo invogiotted. A la....ahem:i.e . ise pro duced. which she iltestOtt itir. BitcPs. Cross •exantiard by .Plr.'Nokau.—Deporrtl that Mr. Biril was 4 11Vg11141 111411,. 4 Vat to Odd at 10,0 leW naikllltts out or ill, lit. meet 1011 g• Hwnosh Cooper lie • es on the Woolwich row!. si!ont half smite fret.' Mr. Birti's house. She r.,5:.! Mr. Biro's 1•.. eon Sattmiay eight, a little TA. eigia , eaa ibg:v. She I..ft.e:. loose at tio'clr:ik, 31,0. aligl!t h.: ..hont minus sn g,iog Ole dis tance. Sir know :sir. it,rd Sit , Atokr WO , n Man ta;kiasou alto was thr•l r. • saw Nile moto a, per etly as if toning. Wi.nist. Neel. VI-dour a4in at 4.11 t ten.u. • • , loor shits. an d mo j amg 1,&:+3t144 etyAlit the NAM. ";:r. Bird quite wall ; he wee hertather's tantatird. Cross easy:dried by NI:. ,Nola::.—Deposed that she e.c.;'liwt AI:G. 3 ENGLISH OPE I I-1 HoU4E. Tho,proprictor of this theatre appears t o be d e te r -. mined to keep up the spirit-of the old mite .t,'" Industry must prosper, ' anti has re-produced the t . isourite opera of the Anericatu, ins style of exeeilence superior to its or i g i n ., :nye:ranee. The music, by Bra7mm and M. P. King, is well known, having been fr, luently intro duced in the first Concerts, and in e! nay new operas since ‘• The Death of Nelson,' " Wanderer's Home," " The Echo Duet, ' are fatriiiiar to our cars, hut never have they been so exquisiteiy sung as in this .revival. With such a singer as Miss ,Carew. Indifferent music would be made pleasing by ,her superior vocal powers—but when excellent compositions like the above mentioned arc placed at her dispreal, the science and taste which she so eminently p( cisme:, render 'hem, indeed, a delightful trait. She is, in her line, the most important acquisition this theatre has ever gained. Mr. Pe:mean seems to be daily rising in frablic estima tion, and, in addition to a sweet voice and correct style, has always the 'deportment of a gentleman. The opera was announced for repetition amidst great applause, and, with the talent disphiyed by Miss Kelly, Mr. Bartley, &c. will have a ctmsiderable run. We must not omit to notice the fine effect of the War whoop chorus at the end of the first set ; the wild shrieks of the Indims, with tha most powerful orchestral accorn paniaments, rendered it truly-sublime. We hear that boxes are spiericiilly fitting up• for the Royal Dukes and their illustriou- consorts, who. we hear intend to pay a visit to this theatre to-morrow evening. Teeslay a Meeting of the Scribers to Drury-lane 1 heatre 1:211, at which a Report of the General C)Jami(ted iwonrn,mling G..C.dman, Esq. to be Stage and informing the Meeting, that they had tl:e consent of three*Surths of the creditors to zr:ipt 10-. in lie potul, %vas read. Tt was tuove,i, Alla: the Meeting shmild a;11.41 jn thia Report; but :.:.nother Report fr.im the Select Committee, rccounuead- inn the raising of a loan of 17,0001. to enable theta to EVIDENCE. 1 ,;:t on, was also r,•ad ; which was agreed to in prefer- Day t•d Thomas lives next door to the late'Mr. Bird, in Lon cue to the first Report, on a division of 126 to 72. don-street, Greenwich ; was ampiainted with dlr. Bird, who Lies.lity the Captain of a British trader stated on was 85 years of age, Ile latterly kept only one servant, Ckatl-e, time on his voyage home last week, he met in Mary Simmons, On the Sunday morning of the Bth, he oh served the house of Mr. Mid slint,tilsont 20 minutes before I :, fr. li r 'altie four Ainerican vessels in ballast, the Cap- 'cluck at noon. Mr. Bird's brother gave him information of . . te.:r, of one of which informed hiut that their destina- tits eta rm at the house being shut up. M r . Bi r d a sked him logo La,: Was to St. Petersburgh, to purchase 1000 tone of •to the back of the premises, and see Wall was set-a 1..... All was hemp, who which they were to return with all possi- . seemie ; the windows closed; and be recommended to Mr. 'Bird to pick the lock of the front door, which could nut be t . .e. expedition. done because the key was inside. 'I hey then need a door An American Journal says, "It is stated upon au- between Mr. Bird's house and witness's, amid broke it open ; "genii)' of the most intelligent navigators, that upwards a passage co 1111 l twoicated from that 4100 r to' the beck pelt Of 0: 20,000 square miles of ice have disappeared from the house. Throu g h. that pasra . ;e witness end two or three . others proceeded to the back pert of- the house. They then the (; i ~.a:and seas within the last two years. The I w . ' . raised up the sash of the kitchen window ' and broke open mtim proxiat of such an im Itmense 1 strut _ot.y of ice to the t h e s h utters . lie th en rut throu g h time window to the ti-.ores of Europe and-America, may in a great measure kitchen. When in the.kitchenote went to the hall through a ;.:,aunt fir the astonishing changes which the tempera- passage. lie opened the back door to let in light, and then sow the body of Mary Simmons lyie 4 .in the passege, with t.;:e of both hemispheres has tni,lei t ,nte." her head tem:rids the stairs and her feet towards the street. -ii. • . loss:an bonds to the atiiount of 2,500,0001. sterling dour. Witness stepper! over her bodv,-and .opearesl the hall• r.:_-veil on Weaneseitsy mot Mug, in the card of 176 Es- wine.ow, and then saw Mr. Bird lying dead on his bark in the: re.lency (:,iti nseller Eckhard, who has delivered -them parlour, The door between the ball ~aid perlear Wil , open.• ..•o Messrs. Rothschild, to be distributed among the di& Upon esamiumg further, he observed blood•on the floor iii the hall. It was near the , body of Macy Simmons. There was `went subscribers to the lean with that government. etrack of blood by drawing the body. The bead was ret, "fret remai iiii_, , , , bowls may be expected to arrive by the ear was slit in two, part of the banisters was broken by t..e latter cud of August, They tvill be brought to her ; a C-1111 , 11e A:01,111g beside tier, w illCil was niqirly.a WhOlt• this co ati t r y b our. About one eighth Al the caudie Ayes host. •Viiim he y Privy .CcunFo!lor Bornemann. i John W mt k e G e ld, E arl . t h e th a i rtnan o f M r . Keough- saw 'Mr. Bird, he saw 3 eall.iie.tiO, urn 116 karts ; beeiseco his:nine lay his spectacle s, widen wale tirokea ; en the table I am's Kendal Committee, has given orders for the was a small pocket book and a lottery ticket. 'Ellei c was tie execatain of a medal, which he intends to present to watce lii his fob. II -s pockets _Jere starched, and no• the 111,!eoendi.nt Electors of 1k estmoreland, who sup- win g was in mem. • Witoeis alt.'Mttik cent np stairs into ported th a t , the tittle room over the psilour, andmhorrved there a large gentleman's cause tat the last election. List nuoox, awl a pildleek On It, ai.d some paper. lying loose uti, the donation will not •be confined to the electors whose the floor. S oh the e'rawers of the set - notary %me opt A. votes were accepted, but to those whose•rights were Witne•s did not examine them, lie went to Mr. hittl'h I e...t. i d a (fume . ! li t -host of drawers open, aqd th. r) sheeted by the errors of the land-tax aseessment, .rid rn". cud „ , 1 ‘ 1. 1 3' n i ... drawer e, tiir lff ne.d . , : vi.l 7 . l 4 o: l l , l l . lefiii .i i i i ti , Z i h r i r li 1 4 1;: i li t t h a e pr .. a i tlebc..l Srl hake also also to those freeholders who were prevented, by the 1.,. Anexpecred close (it the poll, li'ora giving their su • raga two Or ta I ree keys, awl user teem, up the roestiteet..s .4., 14,..rk s to their tiivourite candidate. of weed. Th e 6 1 . d es as made anti 111111.4 ti..v:sysex.l , , f.oi The im.kriel of th e D u k e k arenc e's Ho . old Aecian..: in. lie fild 101 g o lino the servariN I nuit,. C,Ci, 1,., 110..1 d „,, r . 0 „ . . 0 , imai „, thole ‘5 ,„ a chaise. ula . 1 , 0 . 1 one .e .nd t' t int . _ rior servants , w ill mbarked to-tr. OW pear to have twesi mai glint oiLdit. The lo c k se ;%S,l . .41:.. 1..e1., at Blad.wall on lamrd a tra rt which is w .i i and hail not oven fuels, d I,.. ) .iiid the sprin g . WittieiX t eii7at!,i d then: to receive them, .and will mewd direct to .a- in the kii. neti the servant's needlesvoi k on the w i de, and , e , l l, l .ife Iw o , anti tm• t.t., , -eloth Coiled on oitc two. , • t not e , the Household, baggage, and horses of the . Duke of Cumbridge will be barked at the same place t i . e t ' m a d s ,l l , l: id l : . :;, lll , ll , ll , e n . ; 0 1. „„ q ;:d wil l .; , K o edi r " lr o l i ud i " l i i, l ' e Pe. l :-„ N :k . ", cute ehnt.:t the 15tb inst. I was NI, of eater. lit. tutoi.ed 11$40,t1ser L 0416.11/, 11114 I.Y. • THE 'NATIONAL REGISTER