The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-17 00:00:00

OLD DAILEY SESSION& MONDAY, Dac. 10.-4111Gnwsx ROnnshir.--Thomas Bertrand was capitally indicted fur assaulting Evan James, on the highway, and taking from his person 4s. ltd. in monies. Two persons gave the prisoner a good character for in dustry and honest:'. Tile Jury found biro guilty—Drat h. Aged 19. He was recommended In mercy by the to osecutor, on ne• count of his youth and former good character. Richard' Wood, aged 15, was capit illy indicted for ma liriously cuttiug and maiming Charles Sat c hell Mattock, with intent to murder him- Torre were other cauots varying the manner of charging the utreuire. The prosecutor laird prisoner were fellow apprentices, and haying had a quarrel some blows took plrce, and the prisoner switched up u pair of seissors, :and inflicted no has then II wounds upon the prosecutor, in his breast arms, and legs. Mr. Justice Bayley, however, was of opinion, that this was nut a case, which, upon the evidence would, in case death had ensued, have amounted to murder, mid he there fore &teeter' an acquittal. ROIIIIERT AT Ala. Ostnes.—Richard Jago and This. Beck were capitally indicted for hurelarionsly breaking and entering the d wellong-house of William Orde, Esq. and stealing thi-rein a vast go:stalky of jewellery, wearing up. panel, household furniture, rind other property, to the normal of several hundred pound.. Henry Lewis and Mary Beck were also put to the bar, charged with receiving part o; the property, kimo Mg it to have been blOllll. Mr. Cursrood for the prosecution stated, that this was a 'sinus Milt lamentable arse, 11111 often equalled in the annals even of this Court.—Ali. Grdr a as a gentleman of raiik, re siding in Bri ki•ley-square, and the wife of the prisoner J ugo had been the confi wine:ll servant of Mr.. Orde fur 1 I or 15 years. la June last slit' married Jagu, and on that account Indy M rs, Mile discharged her, still has iog the best opt,* tttt of her. About that lime Mr. und Mrs. Orde were going out of town, for some 11111111 W, and Mrs. Jago and her husband *ere left its possession of the house. They continued there until Octonert nu the 10‘11, about half-pitst ten in t lie even ing, J ago and Isis wife havoc: been nut, returned, and after mg, or pie coiling to try to open the door, he culled the watchmaii so his assistance, suyilig that the minor was fastened insiae, trod he was sure there were thieves in the house.— The watt hinau tried with the key to ripen the door, and finding it was fastened inside, he called to comeot her watch men, who with difficulty forced it open. They entered the house, ahete they sound every thin% in confusion, and every rano plundered, even the lookigx glasses and souse of the beds were removed. In our of the ro ttttt s they found a cut lass mid a bludgeon, a lighted candle, and phosoliormis box. J ago, a site the search was gulag on, went to the hark part of the house beloo, and called oat that the thieves must have escaped by a "ludow there. for that the bar had been re moved from it, sod it was strndin z open. 'llllO was found to be the case. Tae next day informr.tion was given of the robbery, rind tile Mirlhorrich street officers having exa mined the premises, and interrogated JaAo and his wife, expressed a decided rq ti tt ion that the lonise had nut been broken into, but that toe robliers had been let in to plunder it with the conieivance of Mr. rind Mrs. J igo. Their sus picions *ere comunicated Mr. Scott, a friend of Mr. Orders hut he could not give credence to slick is charge against Mrs. Jago, whose tires jou, excellent character wits w. II known to him, arid no steps were thereiore taken lit that time. Some week, elapsed, during wilich Jago had the lau d icily to charge a man, wllOlll he 111,111'e he saw in possess' of some of tire stolen properts, nod that Irian was nppme headed and kept in custody ten days, hut then dischrrged, there not being an atom of real proof At length a ciretotwi.toee tseCurrecl which threw some light upon tais myster.uus &lair, unit led eventually Its the deices 0000 of the poisoners. The prisolwr, TimlllaS Beck, lodged at the house of one Gases, mud had prevailed upon hint so take it guilty part in the execution of lire robbery, which and brew long planned, and part of the stolen rroperty was conveyed 111 (Lite!. • house. G mtes, very imprudently for himself nod confederates, skewed some of the property to a man named Pugh, who immediately gave information nt Alarlborough.street, and stir eisqiiii y was set 1111 C.Ol, hurls tr rinittated tut the apprehension of the prisoner and Gates.— All of them, upon their apprehension, _ confessed the whole transaction, and each sought to be admitted an evidence, by endeavouring to throw Inc greater weight of guilt upon the others The man Giles, eras finally admitted an evidence for the Crown, and it was then elici eil, that from the day that Jago fist took charge of the house the rohnery hail been going im, ant g Is were daily removed, with the as east mace of Tatimas Beek, an.l others. When the time ap proached for the return of tn family, it was agreed upon, "tat by on.- grand matoeuvre the wor k of plunder should be completed, and in such u manner as to remove till suspicion Jago and his wife. 'Titton.is Berk and inners, not yet a custody, were admitted kilo the house, and carried off the remaining property. Jago and his wife went out, having previously thrown the furniture, &c. into ernifu , and mule oilier preparations to induce a belief that the house It id beet' entered in their absence. The prisoners, Ahoy flick and Lewis, were detected to parsing a great number of the sittleit article', and an intimate connect' was found to subsist between Jago and the female primmer. The learned counsel then proceeded to call the a itnesses in support of his statement, soil among them G des, the ac complice, who underwent a rtgtd eruss.elainitiatton on be halt of the pris•na:rs. No a itnesses were called on their behalf, and they merely protested theie Innocence. The Jury, after retiring nearly an hour, returned a verdict, finding Jaen stud Thomas Wick Guilty, and acquitting Mary Beck and Lewis. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 1. William Crichton • man of respectable appearance, was put to the bar, upon 11. e capital charge of feloni onsiy assaulting Charlotte Williams on the highway, and stealing from her a shawl, her property. 'flue prosecutrix was a girl of the town, and of the very lowest order, residing in Lucas square, Whitechapel.--- Her statement was, that she met the prisoner about seven in the evening, of the silt of November, and they went t3geilier to the Star public-house, where they remninett in the same box iintill one o'clock in the mornitic, at which tinir he was stupidly drunk, and she was intoxicated, lint nut much. She asked him to go home with tier, and lie consented, but she round him so h in liquor she endea voured to leave him. The prisocer came after her, in sisting on going home with her, and w lien at a short dis tance from the public-lionse lie caught hold of her shawl, and it being unpinned it came off. The watchman came rip asd took bold of the prisoner, but she gave no charge of Into. THE NATIONAL REGISTER rise Common Serjeant.—Gentlemen of Jury, there is no 'pretence for calling this a highway robbery. In his opinion the Jury agreed. Mr. Andrews, Counsel fur the prisoner, said, the whole of this prosecution was the getting tip of the watchman, and the parish (night to know what sort of a guardian of their lives and property they had. One of the beadles said said he should take tare to re present the conduct of the watchman to the hoard. The watchman who was quite • young fellow, had the audacity to apply for his expences, although he had heard the Common Sergeant say, just befure, that he should nut be allowed them. The Common Sergeant indignantly refused, and told him kis conduct had been infantotr. to the last degree. Twa ROBBERY or Ma. °Rms.—Richard Jago, who was convicted yesterday of the burglary at Mr. Ordes's, in Berkeley-square, was , again pot to the bar, charged with stealing a silk 'pelisse f that gentleman; and Mary Beck, who was also tried yesterday, on the charge of receiving, was indicted fur having received the same, knowing it to have been stolen. 'rise evidence was nearly the same as in the trial of the former day. . Jdgo was convicted, and Mary Beck was found not They were win ti ied on a similar charge, and the same verdict returned. Mary Beek was then discharged. THE CASE OF MR. SASELEVE.—In the course of this morning, Iwo of the witnesses for the prosecution against Mr. Saxrlhye, fur the alleged forgery of a will, were in troduced by Mr. Bosworth, the Attorney for that prose cution, and made application to the Common Sergeant to be allowed their expellees trout the Court. The Common Sergeant said, lie could not attend to the application, for he did not try the case, and the request should be Made to the Lein ned Judge who did. Mr. Bosworth said, he had been with them before Mr. Jastiee Bayley this inoiniug, and that Learned Judge bad referred thrust here. Mr. Andrews, the Barrister, thought it proper to inform the Count, that a 'tar application had beets made be fore by the same parties., and they had been told that the cap would not toe allowed unless upon affidavit. Mr. Bosworth said, they were now prepared with the necessary affidavits Mr. Andrews.—" Yon ought to know, my Lord, that these persons were refused their expellees at the trial at Yon k." Mr. Ruswo•th.—" Butt there is an answer lo that in the affidavits, which Mr. Justice Bayley has read over this morning." The romsnon Sergeant.—" I shall not grant the ex penees until I have had the opinion of Mr. Justice Bay ley from himself." Mr. Ruse urib.- 1 . But are the witnesses to remain in London until yuii have decided the I t, my Lord ?" The Common Sergeant.—" I shall certainly take care, Sir, that the expenses are not paid to any person but the witnesses." . _ With this answer the Attorney and his witnesses left the Court. FRIDAY, Dec. 14. TEE ROBBERY or MESSRS. Col.—Thin ease, which has been so often before the 'tootle, was once more brought tinder the consideration of • Jory in the shape of an indictment against John Lung, late porter to Messrs. Cox (who was convicted twice this session by a London Jury), for stealing, and John Hideout for receiv ing, 12 yard 4 of paper hanging, the property (.1 . William and Thomas Cox. _ _ . The facts of the prosecution were briefly these: — 'Messrs. Cox received an anonymous Ii tier, infor eee iee g than that Long was plundering theist to a considerable extent, and some police officers were employed to watch his mo tions. They followed I one morning lions the warehouse with some paper in his posseation, and saw 11118 go into the Lion and Lamb public house, in (/olden-lane. The officers followed him closely, and saw I deliver the paper to the prisoner hideout, who pin it tinder the coun ter. The officers waited until Long was gone, and then Asked Rideont whiere the paper was lee had just received from the titan who was gone out. Rideinit affected sur prise, and said, " What paper ?" The officers said lie wit.' know what they meant, for he hail oiny just taken it. lie still, however, declared he knew Nothing anion it, and 'Oat lee had not received any paper di that person. The officers then vouched tinder the et/Miter, and found the parcel which they hail seen long deliver to ltideoin. The walls of the house were f d papered entirly with paper belonging to the prosecutors. Ilideout was not the land lord of the house, but lie resided in It. 'lke prisoner► were found guilty. COKONEfee INOUL3r.-VeKVICT OP WILFUL MU RDER.-0.1 %VedisciAlq night list, at eight o ' clock, 311 intioest was held at the sign of the Grave Maurice, I 2 ..tid Itoad, before J. W. Unwiii, E• 1. coroner, on the oody of Richard Neads, aged 3i), whose death was occasioned by the blow of a stone, iiiflicted by Dennis Mahoney. A number of witnesses were closely rg o mitted, and their evidence corresponded with each outer. Mahoney, it appeared, had been acqitainted with the deceased for some time past, and had quarrelled with hint. (ht the night that they met at tor Green Mall, in Caule.strei t, 11' hi echapel, Mahoney quitted the place first, and waylaid the who identified him at the hipspital, and said he thrill.* hill) with the stone, which hail a formidable appearance. lie said there WB3 another mail with Nlaitouey, whom lie did tiat know. A A siiraeoii from the hospital pros d that there was a dreadful injury on the back part of the head, which caused death, and it being proved to the satisfaction of the Jury that the blow was given with a deliberate and malicious intention, they returned a ve.diet of " Wilful Murder" against I)eitis Mahoney, who will be COlll - to Newgate on the Coroner's warrant, to await his trial -- - Early on Monday morning, as Judd, game-keeper 10 Mr T. A. Smith, of Tidworth, near Andover, ac companied by six assistants, were on the I k .-out for poachers, they were soddenly attacked by a numerals gang in Ashdown Coppice. A de- prime skirmish imme diately ensued, in which Robert Baker, one of Judd's assistants was shot dead. Every one of the ga me-keepers were badly wounded. The poachers all escaped, leasing their hats and two gnus behind them. DRICADIPUL ACCIDENT••••• 011 Friday aftenwor while Mrs. Goodriche, of Chapman-street, Islington, ran across the street to commiserate with her o ppo- site neighbour on the dangerous illness of a child who was labouring under a brain fever, the clothes of her own daughter, a very fine girl of five years old, caught fire; a person passing the door, which was happily left open, rushed in and extinguished the flames, but not until the poor child was so se riously burnt as to render her recovery very doubt ful. We need not add, that her parents are in a state bordering on distractio A curious medal has lately been offered in Inver ness, by a poor man, as a penny, the description of which may entertain some of our readers. It is aboot the size snd thickness of a penny. On one side is the Pope's head, with the triple crown, which, reversed, displays the head of the Devil:— motto, " Ecclesia peruersa tenet faciem Diaboli;" on the other side is a Cardinal's head, with hood sod hat t reversed, this gives the head of a fool, with cap and bells —motto, " Stulti aliquando sa pientes," or " Sapisntes stulti aliquando," as the legend may be read. • The execution of the piece upon which the heads are stamped is ancient and uneven round the edges; but the heads are ex tremely well executed, in high and well roundel relief, and display in the sour faces of the Pope and Cardinal, and in the folly of the fool, much spirit of caricature. The piece is probably of the period of some religious ferment, such as the r :for mation, or revolution. Perhaps it is foreign, and it is certainly uncommon. Though corroded and , worn a little, tt is in good preservation. • " Sapientes Multi aliquandu" is the reading, when the Cardinal's, head is on the top "Stith i aliquaitd,. sapientes." when the fool's bead is uppermost, which makes a double meaning, fit fur both cases. Sunday morning last, between nine and ten o'clock, Charles Cartwright, about 15 years of age, who resided with his parents in 151usetim-street, Bloomsbury, de stroyed himself in his tattler's house, under distressing circumstances. It appears that his lather, a short time agn,proctireci for him a situation at a grocer's at the west end of the town, and in the course of his employment he met with a serious accident, which caused him to lease Isis situation. lie subsequently became wore, and found that hr was totally unable ever to torwartl himself iii the bustness that his lather iii embed hint for, from the weak state of his health, and his spirits appeared to be very notch preyed mein. Oa Sunday morning he was in his apartment along with his mother, who re- quested him to go and etc in himself—he kit her, but went to the kitchen, instead of complyitig with his mo ther's request, and in about half au tutor afterwards he was discovered by the servant hi the kirchen suspended by a thin cord ; an alarm was made, and he was in stantly cut dawn, and a surgeon sent for, but on his arr vat the (Jammu lie youth .vas quite dead. Friday itsornitig considerable bustle was created ar the upper rod of St. J ime.%astreet, Brighton, in ei nse queliee of the Towit Commissioners having directed the Irmo of a house, erecting by Messrs. Lashinir, of Middle -street, and wine!) nail been carried tip two sit ries to he taken down, the slate encroachment on the ht is. way, contrary to the provisions of the LUC II Act: The Cur missioriers' agents had only performed part of their task, when resistance was tittered to them by the work men, who, having mustered in superior numbers, look possessi in of the house, and prevented the deinolisttiog party from accomplishing their oayect. lligit Constable and his officers were in attendance, as \5..11 as 1. 11. Bates, Esq the Nlagistrate, who recommended a suit at law in preference to the course adopted. 'Luis the matter rests at present. DREADFUL. FIRE.—Ott Sunday evening last a most destructive fire broke out in the extensive woollen ma nufactory helnuailig to Mr. Thomas El worthy„ of %Vet lington, Somersetsliir:, by which the whole premises, with the stock in trade, nearly .50 packs of wool, a great quantity of oil, :soil tile machinery, %sere entirely de. stayed. By this lamentable occurrence nearly 300 persons have been thrown tint of employ, and our regret iiwreased by the cotivictioti that it was the wok of sorrie.vile iticendiary, as no fire ur I of ant kin had been of toe premises since the ineceditig Friday, dli.i o of Mr. Etworthy's sons had be.it round the works within di; hour of the appearance of the Err.—lt is sap . posed that the diabolical deed was a.:liiesed by throwltig a bundle of combustibles through one of the end vviti dows. About half-past three o'clock on Sunday morning, a most.alarining fire broke out on board a fine %Vest India m. , about 300 loos burden, mimed the Budilivirses, matured off St. Calcimine's stairs. The ship W.I. 111 the middle of a tier when the tire broke out, but by the ac tivity of the sailors they were enaoled to move every vessel from the ship on fire to a Idace of safety. 'l tie floating fire-engines on the river came forward with great promptitude, and the firemen commenced playing upon the slim, while s shipwrights wad busily employed iu cutting holes through her sides to facilitate her Iseitig scuttled. Notwithstanding the 'miter' exertions of all the men engaged, it was near tell o'clock be!Ore her main-deck was tinder wa,er. As the tide ebbed, the ship heeled towards the middle of the river, and abom twelve o'clock it was found necessary mein her main sad Intern lIIJSIS by the board. The tine-mast and IN,wsprit were standing about four o'clock. The Bislilinglim had been fresh coppered about Iwo months, ago, and had oir'y her ballast, edibles, and riggiug tin board 'lnc rigging was nor stretched, but sowed away between iteck•, which greatly lessened the danger to the shipping iu .hat of the river.