The National Register. — London, England, 1816-08-04 00:00:00

AUGUST 4. time b.l.ll:te missal several silver sprats, aryl suspecting the maid-,er rant (elearlotti Anthony), sac ruzused her, when she acknowletl:al Laving ttken them to the pri-oner, who is a fintune-teller, in Frying tem.all Soitalti , kls. ah.o went there, and enquired for INarlmte A.id , ony, but no pelson knew he-; she then said she had wine to have her fie:tune told, when, &I_r paying sixpence, they pro ceeled to the divination ; in the coarse of which, the old woman in form .11 her of every circumstance refitting to Cie stolen plate. She that tAI the Acct of her inisinon ; that her servant had informed her the spoons were, or had be-n , in her po,se..sion , and demanded the dupli cates, pron e,4,,g not to pros.xute; bat she swore !Utterly bile had not got the.n, and ~.msectitrix went away ; but in about half in hour the Sybil lef. the eluplieate4 at her Wm.:, when site gave information to J. Armstrong, the Officer, who took her into custody.—Remanded. UNION 11,114,. Benlamin Burdett was yesterday broil:. ht up . by Shear . gild charged on suspi , ion of b:ing concerned in stealing a variety sf articles, the pro of Mr. Itriant, of the Horns Tavern, Kenningtou. It ayp.ared from t l .: evidence, that within Cie List three niJntlis, Mr. Bruen has been pliind.:reil of near twelve dozen pewter pots, twenty dozen of knives as forks, and various ot!&er articles. The prisoner is one of three or four men who are constantly loitering about the premises of Mr. Bri an." and u'iout the coach-stand in the front of the nouse ; and liim4elf and one of his companions getting into a quarrel together, one of them pulled out a knife, the pro,ierty of Mr. lin:mt, to strike at the other.— This led to suspect Ciey were the thieves who had robh,il Mr. Briant ; the other man escaped, but the prisoner wa► secured. He was commit vd for re-e%amination. Wodnes.:ay a French Gentleman attended and stated, that on Friday night i tit he had been at Vauxhall Gardens, and cone from thence ah•-• ; o'clock; while crai,ing over the mail he was assailial by live or sac men, who knocked him down, and he became If nsrless ; when he recovered, he found himself at the Vauxledl Watch-home, and dis covered that his watch (a gohl one) and two seals were stolen. A watchman attend.xl and stated, Mat the Gentleman was brought to the wiach-houx in a state of insensibility; he was lying in the road; and in consemtence at incomiation given by a boy, who observed him in that sane, he was tak.ai to the watca.lioase. The boy alio attended, awl stated, Chit observed several men collected in the middle of the ram!, and wns go!o , to the spot to see whet they were about. when t' iey ran away, Rath!. liscoverai the coamlainant lying insensible in the road; wnen he went to the watc4-house, mid gave the inforniation Above st.ontL Gent! .caan had I 11. in Rank-notes in his pocket. which e:car.i the sr:Heins. The Nfogiatrates directed the Officers to use every exertion to .4Krehend them ; and, from the description which the gentlem in and the boy, who saw them, was able to give, there is every probal.ility 01 taeir being AU xolifuL As UN r:II 4 lin e. gentleman of respectability, nam It., ss, a Oil Saturday charged by his female servant, Diary Fla:•ris, with assaalting her and violating her person. The pr , seciorix staled that she had been in Mr. Hicks's service thr-e weeks ; on Sunday morning the 21st instant, her master ca.ae home late, and going up to bed, immediately de sired she would take him a little gin anal water up to his bed room; she accordingly did so: when she went up stairs, her master was partly undressed, and she also had some of her clothes off as soon as she entered the room, her master took hold of her, threw her damn ou the bed, anal notwithstanding her resistance effected his purpose. On being questioned by hlr. Sellon, the Magistrate, she con fessed file should not have brought the charge against her master, if he had not turned her out of his house. Mr. Hicks denied the truth of every part of the girl's state ment ; anal the Magistrate ffeliug convinced it was not founded on fact, dismisse . the charge. Mr. Hicks said he had now a very scrions charge to prefer against his accuser, who, upon this iiiti:natioti, took the place of the accused. Since Mar) Harris had quitted his service, she had been frequently at his house; after she went away, one day a pawnbroker's duplicate was found in one of the rooms in which she had been, and near it a silver milk jug, belonging to a friend of hie, who was gone into the country, and had 101 l his plate in his (Mr. Hicks's) care ; he strongly suspected the prisoner of having taken it front its proper place; he had also missed several other articles;and had no doubt, if the prisoner was committed fur re-examination, lie should be able to pro. duce such evidence us would induce the Magistrate to commit her for trial She was accordingly committed fur re-examination on a future day. Au accident which we have long anticipated, happened on Friday night at Vauxhall-gardens to Madame Suqui : as she was dancing on the tight rope, which is substituted for the cascade, she tell; and, twit herself considerably. In the Court of Chancery on Thursday, Mr. James Coomb s a bankrupt, lately a banker in Windsor, in partnership with Mr. Brown, who had been committed to Newgate by a warrant of the Commissioners of Bankrupt, dated 2sl of July, fur not an swering to their satisfaction the interrogatories put to dint on his examination, was brought before the Lord Chancellor by a writ of llubca Corpro. After the return of the writ was read, embodying the warrant of the Commissioners which contained the interaogatories anti the answers to them, which were de clared to them unsatisfactory, Sir S. Bomilly, the bankrupt's Counsel, moved that he be discharged, on the ground that his answers were not improbable nor evasive, and what was not thought satisfactory by the Commissioners should b. declared so by the Court. The bankrupt had declared on his catmint* tion, that on the two slays prior to his bankruptcy, and one of ter it, he had burnt 17,0001. of Bank-notes, and could give no account of his motive, but such a one as the Commissioners declared unsatisfactory.—Mr. Cullen was likewise heard for the baukrnpt. and Mr. Hart and Mr. Montagu for the assig. flees. -The Lord Chancellor did not then deliver judgment; but the next day ordered him to he liberated. T. Thorpe the younger, who a few days since was com mitted (ruin Bow-street Office ou a charge of bein7 concerned with three others in breaking open the house of Mr. Franklin, at Ivor, with their faces disguised with masks, &c. and armed with pistols ' was tried on Friday at Buckingham, and found guilty ; Sir Vicary Gibbs, on passing sentence, in a suit u hie abess, admonished hint to make the best use of his time, as it was but short, and ordered hint for execution nest Wednesday, giving him no hopes of mercy. The prisoner denied the charge, a, he slid at How-street. G. Thorpe, his node was cried and acquitted, on an indirtinent charging him with being one of the gang, and concerned with his nephew. T. Raison was found guilty. at the same Assizes, of the wil fill murder of an old Lady; he was executed on Friday morn ing at Aylesbury, conformably to his sentence. A melancholy event lately occurred at Derby. Two young men, Joseph Flutings, the eldest son of Mr. Holmes, cutler, of that place, aged 23 ; the other J. lisinfotd, son of Mr. B. of Itemon, aged el, were unfortunately drowned in the river Dement. They went togethea early in the morning. with the intention of bathing; and, notwitlistand. ing the river was considerably swelled by the late rain, it unfortunately slid not deter them Loin their purism!. They entered the water at the to ast bathing-place in the old meadow ; and it is supposed they were ianueliatAy carried beyond their depth by the incr.ataing bulk and ea pidtty of the current. A 'errant of John Atkinson, Esq. of Marie Bays. near Lichfield, was killed by the lightning on Thursday evening, near Lemonslcy. Monday. Captain T. G. alarmy, of the East India service, cm his throat, and afterwards discharged a double-barrelled pistol through his I- A, which caused his death ins few minutes.— The unfortunate Gen ii:us-Ss Ic:t town t!.e 7-a:ding c:enins on a friendly visit. TM. NATION-If, tr.Gl.-Tr:rt. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. -ow Friday an Inquisition WAS held at the Crow% Tavern. Clerkenwell Green, on the bady of William Ruby. Wm.! -.mei was occasioned by the earth falling Mon him, and bariing him, waist in the act of sink ing a deep giave. Mass Patty Bacon, samm and etamined, said, she Ilya at No. 17. It al Lion-street. Clarkenwell; last 'heat ten minutes put one o',doek. last Wednesday aftnnoon. the we. standing besith a Ti:made grave in the wen part of the buryhq-gcom33 of tit Jaim e 's, Ch-ken well; the grave we very deep, and AI , fie tl. cee r;, ltuby, u the bottom of it, an.. an;o:aer man. ns.ned St,:phs abou half WiV dryara ; she shortly attar heard a crash, ozeasionAl by of the boar.ls used itt shoring it, an I me falling in a the earth, whien ,filled it up and weed co n:detely over them ; ah. SST there was no time to t, as several roam were inam aliately eni2loyed in shovelling away the earth: she reiashied for consideriede um: looking on, but the crowd inereasi.. ;. she -_tiros into the church, where sae remained until ten animates pas thre • o'clock; when Steel in Butcher, who was released froai his peraoas , nation, was brought tote the vestry-room, where he was attendel by Ntr.Chamberlaw, t I,urgatra, and he shortly afterwards partially recovered : but ea., und, ratold tha; *lie body of the deceased WAS not found until lia'‘'-past ten o'cl:A th .aine night, and the.: he was dead. Miss Hanna% orgAnist to the church, and elstzr to the lest witness, &posed. this. she ./14/1 ...Analog with her sister et tile time, end 11 , 111 thc ardent, aol thAt the :tceount her sister gate is perftntly cor rect. W:fliarn Clayton, being sworn. said, he lieu at No. 4, Frwich-yarti, Bowling-green-Lux, and is grave-digger to St. lam ..s church well, , Clerk enell, in which situation he ti been emp!oyel . nine years ; that Stephen Budder had Seca ensployad by him to ..t ike grave. more t'i to three years. and die deressed, William Ruby, mile About two months ; that it is a (volition thing tt it burying-ground to sink dean grtves ; he had made &Lae as dee,. es tie fa'.4 ; it was the order of the families, to: ta • niece of kezetive • gru I'd fur themselves, and by sinking deep, the more r00:16 w0....1 rem un to receive frish arrpoes, without diata:bing those air •Aly intsrred. pleety of boards aad thither for shit:ire! to etweat ...damn; ; he newer had an accident occur nelnre he ...wars sapainteade i the dig e fne of deep graves, and fixed Cie shares hiniitli"; he never eatrastal say of Ins inen to fix the shores, far fear of aceident. Stephen Butcher, who :tad been upwards of ears years in his employ, never attempted to fix tie shores in a deep grave. Toe grave in question. intended for Miss Burrowes, of Lion-st. was la feet deep, and within thee:feet of the brick-wall. About six inotteu before there was a Mias Griffin buried, about ten feet deep close to the wall, on which account he was the more careful to have the preit grave well shored up—knowing that the earth between it and the wall was fresh and very loose, and was therefore more particular in his directions to the deceased and Stephen Butcher, at their peril:, not to fix any of the shores, but to call him fur that pur pose: and that always when they sunk two feet to call him to fix them, which he did until it was beyond ten feet. lie then went home, being up the preceding night, to have half an hour's sleep, giving them orders, when they stock two feet more, to call him up, in order to fix the shore, but by no means to attempt it themselves. Instead of com plying with his orders, the deceased, without calling him, fixed that shore himself, and then dug two feet more. When witness returned and found what had been done, they assured him it was perfectly se cured ; at all events, it could not be remedied, and witness himself fixed the remainioe shores to the bottom. About one o'clock on Wed nesday afternoon, as he was standing at the grave, when the deceased was at the bottom of it, and Stephen Butcher about midway down, he ordered them to do no more, but cone up immediately. NVitness, hearing the approach of the funeral of Miss Burrowes, went to bring boards and ropes, and was not five minutes away, when he found the ground had fallen in and buried them: they were completely covered : there were several men instantly employed in clearing away the earth, and it was about 23 minutes before they succeeded in uncovering the head of Stephen Butcher, whom they found alive; but being closely jammed by the timbers. some of which were across his shoulders, and pressed on various parts of his body, they did not suce;:ed in extricating him until in minutes past four o'clock, during which interval they were frequently obliged to give him some refft'ShMent to prevent his htinting. He is now confined to his bed very ill fmm the bruises he received; it was half-past ten the same night before they found the body of the deocased, who was at the bottom of the grave, and who, he supposes, was killed in the first instancy from the timber, his head being found turned on one side and closely pressed betweeti the w.)11, and several marks on various parts of his body. The occasion of the length of time in digging for him was, that, after extricating Butcher, they had to shore again as they dug, or another similar accident might happen from the weight of the loose earth and coffins on each side. The Coroner and Jury expressed their entire satisfaction at the pre caution used by the grave-di:eeer, and attributed the accident solely to the deceased in fixing that slio..e which is s ipposed to have given way, and returned a verdict of—Accidental Death. THE DELUDED IRISH COINERS. The three It ishmen lately stated to have been inveigled by conspirators, and convicted of coining, still remain in Newgate. The following is the account they give of the transaction : Thomas Connell, who is about 15 years of age, and James Quin, who is about 20, are natives of Headfort, in the west of Ireland, and have been in England about ten months. They left home iu consequence of the difficulty of obtaining any em ployment, and the poverty of wages when employed, which, in that part of Ireland, is generally not more than 6d. or Bd. a day for the most severe agricultural labour. Hence they emigrated, and in the hope of being enabled, through a better remuneration for their labour in this country, to spare something for their aged pareuts (each of which is encumbered with a large family) to assist in paying their rent. Both are extremely ignorant, and, as may be presumed, very imperfectly acquainted with the English language. Dennis Reardon, who is about 18 vears of age, was born in the vicinity of Timm, anti was urged to emigrate by the saute considerations as the other two. He hail been only three weeks iu England at the time he was taken into custody. To this youth, whose r'mplicity is obvious, one of the conspirators (Barry) first applied at the market in Cheapsidc, where the day fabourers assemble to wait for employment. But Reardon being totally ignorant of the English language, Quin became his interpreter. Barry then asked Quin himself whether he wanted a job,telling him that be would also hire his companion, Connell, who stood beside him. 'The three were accordingly engaged ; but each having a hod and shovel, in expectatima of being employed by bricklay CfP, fur whom they usually worked, they were told by 'Barry, and two of the other conspirators, to leave their hods and shovels at home, as they would have no occasion for them. The conspirators accompanied the prison ers fur some distance on their way home to Guiden-lane, where they lodged. On leaving them, the conspirators desired the prisoners to get some breakfast, and to meet them again at nine I o'clock at Cupplegate church. The parties met according to appointment, and proceeded together to the room in Moor-yard, where they were immediately set to work in filing copper. This copper was cut by scissors into the form of buttons, by Barry and another conspirator, who is not yet iu custo.ly. Two of the prisoners were 'tarnished with a tile each, and directed to tile the edges of these copper pieces, while the third was oc cupied iu rt.bbing each piece with sand paper. Thus the con spirators and the prisoners were employed till about one o'clock, when the prisoner (Council) expressed a wish to go with his comrades to dimmer. But, upon this expression, Bat ry and his coadjutors ' , MI they should not go, us they lied pruvid -d for them a better dinner than they were likely to get at home. With the professed view of bringing this dinner, Barry inune. r' diattly left the room, 6111.1 the other conspirators farnal d , sa• ing that they would rein with the dinner. lint the conspira . tors had not been absent above five minutes when Brock and itelham, with the Police officer, Taylor, entered, and took the prisoners into en,tody, 6iarli is the 1111011l111911q statement of thn prisoners, confirmed, a, we have alreath said, in every material point by the coact. ~ 1 the conspintiors. priamerc satisfactorily account the n' Inger in which they have been einaloyed since their arrival in Eng: intl and several respectable bricklayers, under whom Connell and (1in . .., worked, have voluntarily ribose for we'd to bear u.stilnony cm their industry and honesty. itnerdon, Navin, been only three weeks in England, is not of course so welt known. • His Royal Highness the Duke of having condescend ed to !Jerome Patron of the Dartford Mete A:sociatiott, in connexion with the British and Foreign Bible Society, honoured the first annual meeting with his presence on S.aturda♦ se'smi7ht. The place occupied on the occasion, was the spa cious Steam Engine Maunfactory Is-longing to Mr. John which was fitted up with every suitable accommodation, highly to the pleasure and Natisliketion of 1.14 Royal Higlmes% and the convenience of a sexy numerous mind respectable assemble. His Royal Highness addressed the meeting at considerable length, with much (mercy and effect; noticing the results which are sure to he effected by a mare gen^ral diffusion of the Scriptures, particularly among the lower orders of society; and expressed his cordial concurrence in the object and ten dency of Ruble Associations, the good to he effected by them as resulting from the combined energies of all elassns towards effectuating by their instrumentality the conversion of those who " •talk i I darkness mina have no light," and ultimately the Conversion of the heathen world.—The Report stated. eve in the course of seventeen months, 1631. 9s. hail been collected, 7;1 2+. of which arose from contributions of ono penny and two-pe.me per week. On first canvassing the tows, no less than :1J fatuities were found destitute of thft Scriptures ; and 121 Bibles and 91 Testaments had been distributed up to the present time. The number of persons present was between seven and eight hundred. CHILD no isTisn.—Elizabeth Hunter and Rebecca Jervis were arraigned at the Essex Assizes upon an indictment for stripping a child naked and roasting it before the fire until it was badly scorched anti burned. The unfortunate child was ono put not to them by the parish. Wednesday evening, as Mr. Brown. a pendant-maker. in St. John'e stre:t, Clerkenwell, was sitting in his shop at work, he suddenly clapped his hand to his forehead, saying. " Good God, what ail s me ?" and al most immediately expired. The servant was di.spiitchu.l to inform hiss daughter, who lived in Falcon-square; and on her return, in her hurry. she stumbled over a loose stone in the street. and broke her arm and dislocated her collar-bone. She was carried to St. Bartholomew's hos pital. A short time since Mins Sarah Butler, dau Thter of Sir R. Butler, Bart. of CSarrylturden, Carlow, amusing herself in a swing, fill on hoc head, and was so dreadfully injured, that she died in two days. Mr. Myer, is trade,enan of Chatham, was recently found hanging is his wash-house, and every effort to restore animation prov_al inc The evidence adduced on the inquest enablNl the Jury to bring in a verdict of Lunacy. Same morning a man lodging at the Eight Bells, in Little Denmark. street, put a period to his existence by hanging hims-dt. MARRIED. The Res. B. Philpot. Fellow of ('first Col. Cambridge, to Letitia Marv. den. of the late W. Philpot, Esq. of Huntingfield.--Major G. H. Hewett. eldest son of Sir G. Hewett, Bart. Corn. of the Noresz in Ireland. to Loai,a. fifth d sa. of the Biskop of Bangor at E. G. %Wakefield, F..q. eldest son of E. Waken:lT, Esl. of Pall-Mall, to Eliza Ann. only child of the late T. C. Pattie, of Canton.—ln Shrewsbury, Mr..l. Brown, of Crispin Hall. to Miu Maria Hill, of Clod HalL The height of the bride and bridegmom it about 4 f^-:t inches; age of former 17, litter 37. They w:re eon:la:nisi to church by a mon:rout company; and on the return of the bridegroom (through the church windows he w greeted with aeclani itions, was planed in 3. chair and carried throu;th ths principal streets in town, attended by music, &c.—At Edinburgh. .1. Ross, Esq. Capt. R.N. to Chri s ti an , dau. of T. Adair, Esq. of Grenock. Cl..rk of the Signct.—ft. Ramsdell, juts. of Carlton Ilall, Notts. to Eranzes Matilda, third dau. of J. Plumptree, Esq. of Fredrille, Kent.—Caps Hood Knight, R.N. s:rond son of Adm. Sir J. Knight, K.C.B. to Louisa Augusta, only child of lat.: Adm. Keppel.—T. Dax. Esq. of Doughty-street. to Eliz. Ann, eldest dau. of the I:ue Rev. T. Lloyd, Minor Canon of Hereford.—J. Spurgin. Es 4. of Caius Col. Cambridge, and Brad well, Essex. Eliz.t Welshman, only (tau. of T. Dix. Esq. of Acton.—Lieut. h. Blaquire. 11. N. (author of" Th:. State of Sicily. Tanis, &c."), to Miss Emma White, late of Southampton.—At Cheadle, Staftbrdshire, T. Mackenzie, M.D. to Elie. eldest dau. of the late J. Child, Esq.—..lt Beiltelert, William, eldest son of J. Jones, Esq. of I.lys, to Mies Ellen William. of liatbdrufyild.— ‘t Camberwell, A. Eyre, Esq of tie Surrey Brewery. to Misi Nicholson. of Camberwell -grove.-14. How. ard. Esq. of Kcnsworth 11411, Ilerts, to Eliza. widow of the late Sr J. Trenholm. K.G.—Rev. W. Heath, of Eton Col. Vicar of Islcworth, to Miss Elko King, deli. of Capt. W. King, R.N. _ _ _ DIED. Capt. G. Waite, of B ',vat Infantry. He was on his way from nits to join his reg. at Ehunar, when he anal his wi:e were taken in, and Cart. W. died at two in the morning of nth De% an Mrs. W. sic hours after.—ln Bath J. Ervini4 EMp aged nu. His win: oniy a few months bdurz him. after living together upwards of fo y..ars.— B. Patkar. E;,t. of Dudley. prop. of the eetatuve iron ':works in that neigh!iourho.l.l.—R. Buchanan. - Esq. of Glasgow, civil engineer. —At Harrowl'ate. Mrs. E. Hamilton, well known v.) the world as an author. T. Sandys, Es.i. of Eversholt, Kenneritert, a•;edtS, Mfr. R. Bick.—ln his 614 year, H. 11ii:klow, Esq. Co:l-ctor of Customs in Port of Londan.—After two hours illness, the Rev. (;. Saesee. M A. Vier.r of King.ton and Richmond. Surrey. and Rector of St. Mar), Aldermary, ou.t Thom: Apostle, Lendon.—Mr. 1.. Mertens. of Well. elose.smiare. refiner.—Veit Havre, Mrs. Ft. Heuthsote. few years ago (when Miss Sale) the Columbine at Covent Garden Theatre.—A. Turner. Esq. Aklenuan of Leeds, and twice Mayor.—ln Portland. place. in his 6341 year, D. P. Watts. F-I.—The Rev. T. PriCJ, Matter of the Free Guntuer School. Cann :alien. Vior of I.lngunnar. marthenshire.—At Camberwell. in her riTit year. Mrs. Serib.7, ralirt of the late J. C. Scrieber, E..1.—1a Hinle.street, .Mun:lureter, 'Ss Rev. E. Dieskins. MRS. JOHNSON, 40, NEWMIN•STREET, OXFORD STREET. lIONOUR D MA DA Nt,—I'ERMIT me to state the Cat of my dear Child: 1 being in the cour.try, he WWI at nurse, and bo iii with cutting his teeth. that the bons came throug:i both his ilboa and knees, so that they were bound up witn raga to keep thou to t'oer, and was obliged to be carried on a yillow ; when taken to Hospital. the Docto:s were very angry with the nurse; they tr',l to tike him home and let him die quietly, for lie Wali in a . An out-door patient told her to bike lone to you, and gt , ts ~ , r ate,: of American rloothingSyrupj the tir,t t:m.: the child's gums owe tabbed he went into a fine sleep, wllich lind been a stranler to Ii in for some weeks, and before the bottle was iiird he could sir en li t our.e's arm ; and, thank boa, he is now a tine boy. f atu, h0m , 11701 Madam. with many thanks, yours respe:tfully, M. HIDE, 12, bloomsbutY Market.To be had m above, and of all the principal Medieme Venda! iq Town and Country, at V+. 9d. a bottle.—N.B. M:s..foinson the infant poor as usual, at her house every Ti stlav and iatunlay in 'ming. from nine till ten o'clock, b 7 brivinir n letterfrwr: ho:Leacep , ..r, U zertify cal oltet, , U. 4.4nrity. .1.111111