The National Register. — London, England, 1818-04-06 00:00:00

BOXING. 110 sr ." The county of Fitrrey was on %V etinitiday disgraced by one of those swatches, which supinincs,. are too often suffered to base Once .it this boastcd age of r:tinetiten! ; wMit is ir.L.re asto. wishing. the acct.,. of aetit,:i was fixed en NI!. kie . .i,tni Down, near 1 esiherhei.d. almost in tint vicinity :If the spot where the Judges, /ex. woe ataemi..)l..ll for the purpose ofhoiclingthe A sees fur the County. we ihail proceed to detail dm cirewmatances. for the amusement of Nudi as can be anwit..tl thereby. It is is us a nail...eons and painful duty. fainter said spring u e:e the combatants; Harmer and Itelelter seconded the fernier, and Crib and B; rime the latte:.—hers so $ and ton the former.. . . ilmrrn L. The men vatted for three minute: witliont a hit being exchanged. spring., in planting a blow, hit short ; long warring occurred, whin some hit., were exchanged. anal Painter received a blow or the side of his cheek that sent him staggering, and in falling the back of his head and part of his shoulder came in : Lontact with one of the stakes: of the ring. 1. Painter seemed somewhat steipified from the effects of this ac sident. but appeared quickly to his time. Spring again hit short when Painter planted a sharp facer vi nil hies left hand. More lung sparring occurred—some blows were exchanged—when Painter re ceived a hit and slipped down. I. Spring planted a hit and got away; Painter made a hit, but Spring followed him Met the sin;;. Tao sharp counter hits °enured in the body. Spring laughed and gave Painter a noMer and got away dexterously . Painter made play and put in a severe facer ; and, in closing, the latter endeavoured to attire his antagonist, hut in srruggling the strength of Spring prevailed : lie not only held Pain t,r's hands, but extricated himself in a gallant style, and planted a hit on him as he was going down. In many parts of die ring it was Lien even Mating. t. Long sparring occurred. Same hits were exchangwl. In closing. fpring held his opponent's hand to prevent being ;wired. both down. Spring uppermost. S. The fOrte of Printer seemed to have materially changed. There was 731.re . scienre exhibited than ::vr.S. performed. In closing Spring threw Painter. severe minter nobbenc occurred. Painter hit short, when Spring returned a sharp blow on his mouth. In dosing String got Painter down. Painter commenced this round by planting a blow on the head, and one on the body of hi. opponent. But in closing Spring tell heavily upon him. 8. Painter put in threwfacers and got away. It, closing both hung on she ropessnid went down. n. I'ainter planted several fuses with success, aad one was so se. vere duet had it not been for the ropes, Spring must have gone down. In closing both went down. in. Spring hit short several times, and Painter planted a good itobker ; but in return he received some sharp hits, and went down.— Great applause for Spring. I. Painter endeavoured to punish Spring in the act of closing but the latter instead of holding him up as lie might have done, let Painter down, and put up both his hands, and he now became in a great measure the favourite. The remaining YO rounds were of no interest, Painter having be come so weak as to fall almost every time he gave or received a blow, and resigned the contest after lighting one hour and ttP4 minutes. A minor fight, and a bull-bait, closed the ignoble sports of the day. F.tEcurtow.—Friday morning being the time appointed for the execution of John Little, for sheep stealing. at Waltham Holy Cross. Ewa, anal Wm. Petting, fear venous burglaries at Westliani and Wanstead, at an early hour an unusual number of persons asses bled. upon the melancholy occasion, expecting, no doubt, to witness the evmution of Judith Hale, but who, however, with Win. Brown, h;d previously received a respite during the pleasure of his Royal ilisgi~ eras the Prince Regent. Petting was deeply affected at his awful ,u w ass t e. Link, on the contrary, betrayed throughout the greatest indifference , and appeatedlost to every feeling of repentance. Whilst the executioner was tying the rope about his neck, he called out to a person among the crovd, whom he knew, "Jena, ho w are you , my b o y. wet you come up and shake hands with me before I start.”— 'flie man was actually preparing to asccald the ladder, for the pur pose of complying with the prussm'a request, but was very prudently stopped by the gaoler, who immediately ordered him out vet the yard. After shaking hands aryl kissing tech other, the fatal platform have way, and she unfortunate men wereraunched into eternity. Little Was 57 year: of mic, and Perriaget. It is a curious tact, which is not generally known, that the body of the celebrated Laurence Sterne, which was interred in the church yard vet St. George, was taken up shirty atter his burial, anal devoted to the purposes of the surgical professon. Madame Fouclie. Duchess of Otranto. has (doped feseu r eague. sh e w as carried off by the son of the conventionalist, Thibaudeati• •fhe two fugitives are initialling in Germany : they were last seen at Irankfurt, at a concert, where the new Helen attracted attention by her jewels. In taking down the south west tower of Northumberland House, it was found, that one of the main beams felt a foot square, was nearly decayed through, and must iii a short Sine have given way. Ni1.11,11/El4. OF Mat. BlllD.—Wedoesky worctins, the sup posed to have been an accomplice with klinisey, in t his horrid trans action. was sent off to Maidstone jail. Fiat:.—On Monday a tire broke out on the premises of Mr. Janus, a blacking-manufactiuct , in Somerset-place, Hackney-road. in con sequence of a 'pacleaettle boiling over, by which the interior was destroyed ; and we are sorry to add. dim the mother of Mr. Jones, and his daughter, 13 years old, were so severely injured as to be taken to the Hospital, with but faint hopes of recovery. There were one hundren and eighteen prisoners fc,,r trial at the Assizes for thnecatuity oft.loarcester, whab commenced on Thursday morning. One day last week, while the sexton Ills Billing up a grave et I/artinoutli, he fell into it and expired. The chimney sweepers have been very active of late io publishing exaggerated accounts of the danger of tool china- Inca, and amide traced many tires to this source. On a can- ' did examination of this stiLjett, which tke late benevolent exertions of I,ord Auckland have suggested, it appears the: th e f o ulness of ehinnties is generally owing to Hie boys not Ast ir, able to clean them fully, and leaving the upper past of ' the chimney tinswept. This circumstance is only to be ob viated by 'mechanical chianti , ricreping. The machine cannot deceive its employer ; and the persons eppaitated to inquire into the business. dud oho hate suggested [Leis a‘rticie. cannot find a siiiitle well Authenticated example of a chitsiney beaog co tire which was regularly swept by the machine. i.%ICeASTEN.- 0 /1 1,0 111/ V. kirTl.Elt OIL/ 5..-. This was an ac tion Mr eompen.astion in damages for &breach ofromiseofmarriage. . 'T no , jury awarded the lady 7, 09 01. duniage , •--Fvensnr rdpee. The ,ailicitors of the flank hate had to conduct, on the cast Mid mai • areuit„ no fewer than 82 prosecutions. z'suct is the distress Willi is felt at receiving Bank of England paper at Leicester. that tee y few with ro receive it, and all prefer tbe notes of !Aral &tanks. r. tertian . AXE ty SlClLY.—Letters front .•icily sk a several 111'.:• ..-s,i% e eurdatutakes which task place shout the m4o pea f February, i - the environs at . Catania. By the Past; neati.y tfl`the homes were dar.aged, and sesair-aa ware thrown down. From sixty to seventy p:nons perished. Itt the second and third. thi< cathedral and ! tbe 'tad seminary of Cousair., with more than half of the city, wise reduced to a heap drains. A rya number ii the-Inhabitants, and aaistima then several Faciesuesties of distinctimi, were buried in the mins. Al! the nautili* papidation had encamped dl the plain. havactv s.stmeala iw Socruereax.—Nearly the ilia , of the marsh side of Union-street, Bonsogh, has beak 'sKin by the v Fauthwark Bridge Company, and die houses are now •i ' s detrib• Lsited. Is nuke way for the frannation of the grand oversee barn jbe is too, of Surrey to the bridge. TIM, NATIONAL REGISTER. POLICE. MA KSION HOME. EATrNSIVE Rostanity.—Wednesday Edward Benvon was charged with plundering his employers, Ntesors. Pearsmis' and Pritchard, vvarthousemen, in King-street, Chcapside, of property to the amount of upwards of :1001. Mr. Pritchard stated, that the prisoner had been for more than two years employed in the firm, and that the utmost confidence was teposed in hint. From tic extensive nature ut their trade it was almost impossible to detect any depre dations upon their property except by accident; and the pri. stater would never have been suspected of dishonesty had lie not suddenly absented himself from the warehouse on Mon- pay selmight. Suspicion being thins excited, the stock was strictly examined, and it was thought that a large quantity of salnahle stuffs was missing. Inquiry was made at several pawnistokers' shops, and at some of them were found pieces of stuff which had been pledged by a 111311 answering the de scription of the prisoner. By dint of further inquiry, the rout of the later was also ascertained. and the witeicss,aceom panted by Hawkins, the Marslialm in, saccreded in tracing him to Alton, in Hampshire, where he was taken into custody. Hawkins, nu searching him, found a waggon-office receipt• for three large boxes, which had been sent from London to Birmingham, and also some krs, which he acknowledged to belong to those boxes. 'the officer then proceeded to Bir mingham, where h, found the boxes, which were tilled with studs. 'these, from their being of a very peculiar leathern and manufacture, were immediately identified hystlic witness as the property of the firm, and the prisoner was brought to London. He was accompanied by a genteel young woman when he was apprehended. lite exact amount of the property of which he had plundered the firm could not be ascertained, , but it was more titan .1001. Hyatt', of BisioPsgate-street; Reeves, Redeross.itreet ; Fleming, Neweate-street ; Fie ::: i t Fleet-market ; Russell, Fore-street ; and several other pawnbrokers, produced whole pieces of stuff, which the prisoner had pledged. The whole of these were Identified by the prosecutors. Mr. Harmer, who attended fur the prosecution, complained, that three other pawnbrokers, to whom be had twice given notice to come tarward with property pledged by the prisoner, had neglected to attend. The Lord Mayor commented with considerable severity upon this reluctauce to ai.l the ends of justice, and observed at the same time, that they were generally much too eager to receive Kends of value in pledge. Pawnbrokers ought to in terrogate most strictly any person bringing property of the description now produced; but there did not appear to have been the slightest question put to the young man at the bar. He (the Lord Mayor) could not help Wl:king that the fre quency of crimes of this nature was in a great measure to be attributed to the facility with which stolen property could be disposed of. The prisoner was tally committed fur trial. GUILDHALL. The young man in custody on a charge of robbing Mr.Knott, of the Harley Mow, in Salisbury-court, was again brought up un Monday; when a' entleman stated, that alr. Knott Mad not yet arrived, and begged that the prisoner might be fur_ thee remanded ; bet Mr, !farmer opposed die application, saying, that the prisoner and his brother had remained in the prosecutor's house a considerable titne after the supposed theft, without any uispicinn being whispered against them ; aud he was prepared to show that the.charge of felony was now made with a view to compel the payment of the debt, and that the prosecutor had actually compromised with the prisolier's brother, mid accepted of a sum of money to re• lease biro.—The prisoner was therefore discharged. J. Hutchinson was a few days since brought to this Office charged With a violent assault upon a gentleman ie the street. On being interrogated, lie betrayed evident symptoms of de rangement and it was ascertaizied that he was a native of Hastings, where his father, a respectable tradesman, resides. A letter was immediately sent to the latter; who, in couse essence, arrived to take charge of hisson, intending to place loin in his owil neighbourhood. The above unfortunate indi• vidnal has for more than two years excited the attention of the inhabitant* of Hastings. He has, during that period oc cupied a sort of cave hewn out of a solid rock, and in mail_ ners resembled the hermits of ancient tunes. He had sery little furniture, and altlioueli possessed of a tolerable income, scarcely allowed himself the common Necessaries of life. He was constasitly.to be seen with a bible in his ham!. He re cessed almost/hourly visits from the inhabitants suid visitors of the place, but lie very seldom took the slightest notice of them. He bad long since obtained the appellation of toe hermit. Constant endeavours had been made to induce hien to return to the house of ids father, but he was always tiro in his refusal... short time since he suildenlytlisappeared,andtlie genet al supposition was, that he had laid violent hands upon himself, moil his father received be kotelligence that he was liere in custody. HOW STREET. Monday, Capt. Walter Alarritois was.brought to this Office, charged with violently assaulting and wounding Nlartitalun, a seaman, oat the high seas ; and souse extraordinary circum stances were,connected with it. In the year lsls, the ship 4tlas, of Whitby, was hired by the agepts of Cos eminent to carry convicts under sentence of transportation to Botany Bay. At the beginning of the month of December, cleared out from Gravesend with convicta on board for Botany Bay, where she arrived safe in the inossib of July following : the convicts were landed, c. The A ilas.remained at Botany Bay till 1142 month of Septem ber, when it left, the prisoner taking away with him on hoard his ship four woortu and two men etsavrcts, who were sc• cretcd until the ship bad completely got to sea. When the Allas reached Batas ia, the prisoner took one of the female convicts, who was a young girl, un shore with him. 'Do. three other female and two male convicts were allowed to go on shore at Batavia, and did not return to the ship. They remained at anchor some time at Batavia, to take in freight, and while they were thus stationed, one night, which he had every reason to believe was a Saturday bight, but he could not tell the day of the month, between ten and eleven o'clock, the prosecutor was practising a song wheels he had learnt at Botany Bay, when Mr. Mackey, the mate of the skip ordered him to go below : he excused himself from going by telling the mate it was his watch. The mate then left him, and in a short time. after the prisoner come to hint with great .speed, and seized him violently by the throat with both his hands, and held him so tight and so long that he wa► pearly choked ; sad after he let. go his hold of his throat, he ordered the prosecutor to leave the ship and get toto.the boat, for the purpose of being put on board one of the East India.eroirers: the prosecutor refused to go, nnless Lis wages were first,paid, and be• had time to pack tip his.clothes, and take them with him. The prisoner then armed himself with a pair of pistols and.a cutlass, audyroseated opt of .theyiatt.43 at the proaccu- APRIL R. tor, who still refused toleave the ship, except= heirs& paid his wages, and being allowed' time to take his clothes with. him; . the' pi ionner then aimed widow at his head with the cutlass,. wh;ch rut open the right 'side of his head just above his ear, calegid him to bleed profusely.; and being thus wounds ed, he was obliged to comply with the orders of the prisoner, and get into the boat without either money or clothes, and with nut!Ong on but ajagket or trowsers,.bring without shoes or a hat. The prisoner proceeded with him in the boat to the East India Company's cruiser; and when the prosecutor got 0111"lEdilid ctuiser, the onnernf that ship put hint in irons, at the desire of the prisoner ; he was only allowed to be on the quarter•dcrk, where he was kept all night, without any covering, except the clothes he had on wizen he left the Atlas. The weight and coldness of the irons' remaining on his legs such a length of time, he was completely disabled: The prosecutor sailed in the East India Cosopanys' cruiser to Calcutta, where the prisoner was with his ship. When the prosecutor arrived at Calcutta, he found Mere was a new master, Captain Mountcarr, with' the ship ;•andthe people oa board said, the old master had left the ship at Angero Point, and had gune houfein another ship. and that the mate bad returned back with the ship to Batavia, where the new caps tain, blountearr, took possession of her. - The prosecutor's statement was'confirmed bra sailor, who was one of the crew of the Atlas at the time, and sowed the prosecutor on board by order of the prisoner, bat on account of the darkness of the night be could not see if the prisoner was armed, and he was not allotted le se ott board the cruiserr The prisoner was ordered to find bail to answer the charge at the next Admiralty Session,. Tuesday a long investigation took place before Mr. Rita ie, respecting the robbery of the Earl of Mansfield's house, at Caen Wood. No person was in custody, but a man volson. tarily Attended at the desire of one oldie patrol belonging to the office, is consequence of an instrument being found.— Mr. Hunter, the land-steward of the noble Earl, attended, and stated that the' a lug of the house at Caen Wood, which he occupied, had •beesi'brokeis open, and robbed of a large quantity of linen, wearing apparel, sovereigns, silver coins, and other property to a considerable amount. The man was slot detainedin custody. Mr. Nelthorpe, of Temple-place, Blacktrlars-road, on his way through St. Paul's church-yard on Tuesday, lost his pocket-hook, containing, among other papers of value, two drafts to the amount of 751. He immediately went to the hanker'S to stop peyinent, and hid been but' iii a short time in the whop, when One James Leith entered, and presented the two drifts for payment. The clerk in his hurry did not gise•stion Itinshow he became possessed of them, but irnme diately gave them to Mr. Nelthurpc. Leith, however, was taken into custody, and' eouveyed to 'Bow-street. lie stated himself to be a carver and gilder,'residing in Chapel-street, Soho, where lie had lived fOr 12 years; and the account he gave of the drafts was, that he.Plelted them up in Leicester= square., in which place Mr. Nelthorpe had not been in the course of Tuesday, The drafts were in the same state as when Mr. Neltborpe had been robbed of them, and perfectly clean ; whereas at the tiane,• as the prisoner said, he had picked them up in LeiceStcr.saseare, a heavy shower of rata had just fallen ; and Consequently the drafts must have beeh dirty, had he picked theui up in the street as he described. • Lack, the patrol, was dispatched to ascertain if the prisoner was the person he described'himself to be, which was found to be the case. On searching Isis residence, he /baud threw pocket-books, and brunt:lit them to the office, but neither of them proved to be Mr. Nelthcrpe's. Mr. Birnie ordered the prisoner to be'detained. MARLBOROUGH STREET. DIATRESIED CLERGICMAN. 7 A clergyman, whose name we forbear to mention, was brought to this office charged as a mendicant, with having entered into several shops and asked alms. He appeared in the lowest state of misery, of about the age of 5d years, and described himself as having 'filled several respectable situations, as tutor and citrate in this country, in the West bithes,its Flanders, and on board of a mart of war. lie said he was ordained di•acon by the Arch bishop of York, and priest by the Bishop of Winchester, and that he mitered snuck from illness ; but that being unmarried he hoped yet to pro Cure some situation in which he could earn Means of subsistence. The'Magistrate expressed math regret' at being unable to offer any petniasient relief to a gentleman of so respected a profession, whom he was much 'concerned to see in such a siiiiatiOn. He recommended him to return to his native county,' from' which tie had been libsent 12 years, and Offered to remit him in the usual' Manner. The unfortunate gentle mais4Conientesi, and he was conducted to the house Of cur , rection in Clerkenwill. Ü bb L i f n A g ß J E . ( . ;raha fu of his watch F. Jones was cliarg ( t U d E ss E it N h r S o and appendages. The prosecutor is servant to a Dragoon Offiom , and came to town a few days ago with his master.— He was crossing theSeven`Dials about dusk iu the evening, when lie was knocked iluwn, and the Prisoner ran off with tai's watch, but was suissequeutly taken.—He was fully corn.. Miffed. ..Allary Buckland, a Cyprian, was fullY . committed for rob birgV. Baguet, Whom she enticed to a house of ill fame in the Alpidnry, of a 11. mote and same Silver. " J.),farber, charged with stealing a quantity of lead, the property of 314:.:4r5. Maltby and Co. of Thimes-street, was finally examined, the particulars of which have been already stated, and he was folly committed. J. Townsend, remanded for uttering fotged notes, boiler went a final examinatiun on four charges, and Was fallyietma. nutted. At the Quarter Sessionz fur this town, on Thu:sday, after the I)eputy Recorder, Mr. Sergeant Blossett, had delivered his charge• to the - 'Grand Jury, the Vice. Chancellor (the Master of Clare4all) entered the Court, attended by his solicitor, preeccied by the Esquire Be dells, and followed by the Proctors, and demanded of the Mayor, John Purchas, EN. the situation which he then occupied as cluiirman ' •'wilich the Mayor posi. . tively and unequivocally refused, observing, that he considered himself' entitled . to the Situation, it having always been occupied by his predece s sors in o ffi ce, an d that he should conceive it an abandonment of his duty to resign it. The Vice-Chancellor •thert quitted the Court.--Cambridge Chronoe. The Drapers' Company, on Thursday, gays a most sumptuous dinner to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, at theix noble Hall, in Throginortort-stieet. U