The National Register. — London, England, 1816-12-30 00:00:00

TIE C BER 30. but ,it was causer' by acridcut.and he thought the only blame 'Wes attached to Mt. Prone for siof informing the last witness, that he hail placed the bottle of arsenic solution in the place where formerly stood the Goarey's cordial. He thought that something might be dose to prevent a recurrence of such an mrfurtunate circumstance. A short time ago a per son IV3i pOi%olloll Yt the east end of the town, now at the west end. He wished that apothecar ies. ate. would keep their poisons in one particular part of the shop, or in ',articular °loured bottles, mid the word •• Poison" to be written upon, them. He hoped thst this event would cause the profession to use such precaution as would prevent any such unfortunate circumstance again occurring. Verdict —Died in conse quence of Wising a solution of arsenic administered to him its mistake for (ludtrey's cur dial. Ivat:Etrs.—An inquisition was held on Tueaday afternoon, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. at the house of Mr. P. Gordon, the sign of tits Barley Mow, Dorset street, Marylehone, upon the bodies of Thomas Durbin, of No. 4. Blandford-mews, Biandthrd•street, aged 12 years, and John Brooks, the son of Mr. Brooks,of List-street, aged 10, who were drowned on Naturday selinight, in the New Canal, at Marylebune. The deceased and another boy, whose hodh is nut yet found, w e playing on the ice, at what the children cull horses; The above boys were tied together with a cord, and the boy who is not found was driving them, whet: the ice broke and let all three in. Durbin and Brooks were got one of the water the next day; they were found tied to a cord as described by a boy who saw Item drowued. The Jury returned a ver dict of accideutal death. Tuesday afternoon an Inquest was held at the Loudon Hospital, before J. W. Cowin, Esq. Coroner fur Middlesex, on the body of an aged man unknown, who was found with his leg anti aria broken, lying in the street, opposite White chapel church, on last Snud.hy night, between 11 and 12 o'clock. It appeared front the testimony of the watchman. and of the night beadle, that having discovered the deceased, the former brought hint to the road side, and applying at the wreck-house foi assistance, he was conveyed to the London Hospital on a shutter. He was exceedingly deaf, and no aceount could lie obtained who he was or whence he came. He appeared in much pain, and cried out that his arm and leg ware broken. Ms. Higmot, the surgeon's beadle, demos ed that he died shortly after coining into the Hospital, and that lie could gain no information re s pecting him ; that it was OVilielll 9J1111: carriage had passed over him, and that he died from the injurie6 he received. Deceased was dressed in a b:ue jacket, light jean pantaloons, and grey worsted stock ings ; be was about live ket three inches high, and apparently So or 70 years of af:e. 'rite night beadk thought it probable Le was coating to the watch-house for warmth and shelter. Verdict—A.:rid/mei Dead. There was another Inquest held the same day, before the 'gine Coroner, at the Alfred's Head, Silver-street, Stepney- green, ou the lioJy of John Morgan, aged three years. Mr. Jonathan Mitcham deposed, that he was in his own house at ten o'clock on Thursday evening, when he heard the shrieks of a child. He ran out and saw the deceased with his clothes ill flames at hi.: Caber's door ; he Kut the fire extin guished, but the child wa, so much burnt, that he died on the secoad day after. The father was out ut work, and the ano ther had gone out to buy some articles site wanted in the house ; site haul nut been absent above three minutes before the accident occurred. Jane Morgan, an interesting little girl six years old, sister to the deceased, said her little brother got a sheet of paper to male a lantern, which he set on tire with a candle, and the flames can gist his pinafore. Verdict —Accidental Death. An Inq u isition was taken at the Olive Bush Tavern, at Hampstead, before Mr. Thomas Stirling upon the body of Mr , . Sarah Freeman, a widow lady, aged 64, who died on Monday last, in COII4VNIICIWC of a horse and cart passing over liar body. Several oilier riles were broken, there were black marks of internal violence, and the neck M.lB *boy:kingly la cerated. It appeared AVM the evidence of several persons, that the deceased was standing before a horse and cart belong ing to a Mr. Allen, of Hampstead, which was loaded with a hay was holding the reins at the hors's head, when soother korse and rat passed along the road, and the noise affrighted Mr. Allen's borne, he set off and threw the boy against the' deceased, she Cell down, and the wheel oldie cart 'oved over her hotly. The boy had a very narrow escape. Verdict .dcrideatel death. ' -. ..1 . ........ Whitehall, Parliament-street, and all the adjacent puts of Westminster, were on Tuesday night in a state of " darkness visible," from some accident having hap pened to the gas ligiat grand conductor. FlRES.—lletweenthree and four o'clock on Wednesday morning, a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Daley, the sign of the Canterbury Arm , , tower Marsh, Lambeth. A number of persons load been keeping ('hristmas.eve, aid they re mained in She house when the Hanna were seen bursting out of the bar, which projected into the street. Fortunately they all escaped unhurt; but the flames spicad so rapidly, that Mr. 1). saved eery little of JliS property. The whole of his ebildren's clothes were burnt, MA be It4i coMpelted to buy VC*lVCring fur them after their removal. The al:lElllunit mills .oion which prevailed in the Marsh when the fire was dis covered Catlllat 1w described. The inhabitants arc all poor le.borious people, and as the ancient buildings, which have been standing inure ehan two hundred bears, were threatened with total destruction, e'.cty one was afraid of losing his little all. The dames soon reduced Mr. Daley's home to ruin, and the devonring column of fire had darted through ' the lath and plaster walls of the adjoininglionse, uccapie'd by Mr..rield, a was chandler, when the engines arrived and checked the fury of the contagration. Mrs. Field, whose aeconchement occurred about three weeks aiace, was carried out in blankets, and is consequently new in a state of danger occasioned by the fright. tier meld .servant haul scarcely time to quit her bed, the flames having seised the curtains.;, Fortunately a quick supply of water enabled the firemen to extinguish the tier before eight o'clock, and to save half of Mr. Field's premises. The public house is entirely destroyed, and the damage, independent of bit. Field's house, is very considerable. The parties, we understand, were insured. Wednesday the neighbourhood of Deverenx,conrt, near Temple-bar,. was thrown into the greatest consternation about •hall=pakt QM' o'clock. in the morning, by the die. , 'os cry of a tire in the second floor of the Grecian Coffee loose. oceaeiet►ed by a canthe bring incautiously left too near a bed, the furniture of -which caught the Mate, and set the . room in a Wage. We are happy to, :ay, that by the nioNt ptsinipt excrtions, its progress was arrested time enough to cAlfitie it to the room in which it originated, though not -sadit cti , ..stilerable damage bad been sustained. MANSION HOUSE. Pnatrow.—Tburstley Preston was brought up, the City Soliritor haring signi.lied to the Lord Mayor that sufficient bed hail been offered for his appearance at the neat seuious, to answer the indictment fur misdemeanour. His solicitor attended, and gave in the names of Hark Ilk man, of 85, Oxford-street, straw hatmaker, and Charles Pea droll, of Newgate-street, bootmaker, as the persons who were security. The Dubs having been administered, his Lordship mentioned that Preston was no longer to couider himself in charge of the officers. _ _ Preston said nothing, but bowed to his Lordship, and left the (Ace with his bad. Mr. Virtue and NI:. Pendrell have been bound in the sum of 501. each, and Preston liu entered his own recognizance of lOW. We understand that the act upon the part of the bail was, as Preston seemed to expect, voluntary, no other application having lieu made than that public our• which intimated his to maintain his iudepeudence throughout the transaction. Preston's solicitor, who has exercised a very extraordinary vrero.er kis 'Aleut to preventing Win from addressing the Lord Mayen in a long speech, has been applied to by the coadjutors of Preston to act iu their behalf. The event is considered by them as likely to contribute more to their re putation than punishment, Thursday a sailor, named Edward Baker, was brought op by an officer, charged with being found on London-bridge begging from the passengers, The Lord Mayor having seen the prisoner in tits , aiWation described, ordered his appre hension, and directed that be should be sent to Bridcwell to undergo a whipping fur having returned to the begging post three or four several times, notwithstanding that he had been repeatedly passed to his parish by an order from the Mansion House. His Lordship said, that he hoped this proceeding would check the impositions upon the public, now beginning 'a be so frequent; and declared that he was resolved to chas• Use every offender of the same kind. John Pearce was brought from on board the ship stationed off the Tower for the reception of foreign seamen, charged with passing himself as an American, he being an English -111411. Being asked by the Lord Mayor Isis reason for this misrepresentation, he answered, it was in order to procure a mouthful to eat. His Lordship replied, that, as an English man, be should have something to eat, and ordered hint to be sent to .he House of Correction for seven days, and then pass ed to Isis parish. On Friday the City Solicitors attended at the Mansion house fur the purpose of receiving Hooper's bail. Preston's solicitor gave in two names out of six which had been offered as Hooper's security. The city solicitor, upon examining the paper containing the description, perceived an inaccuracy, which rendered it ne cessary to defer the liberation of the prisoner till two o'clock yesterday. Hooper was not brought into the justice-room. Saturday Gunn-I, the tirayntan, was again brought np and underwent another examination. Joseph Dynan was the first witness. He was sure if the testimony of Woolridge was correct, in which he stated that Gunnel had broken Mr. Beckwith's windows with a gun, the witness (Dynan) must have seculiiiss. Joseph Page, drayman to Calvert and Co. repeated a part of what he stated at the last examination, regarelssig the pri soner at the bar. He stated that he was at the side of Isis horses in Newitate-street on the day of the riot, when lie saw Gunnel in the middle of the crowd coining dawn that street, towards Cheapside, behind the colours. The Lord Mayor observed, that as there was so much pre varication in the evidence which Woolridgc had given, he could not receive it against Dynan further deposed, that Coronet had need very inflam matory language, declaring Le would not leave a single win dow in the bloody house k Mr. B.'s n unhrokea. To a spiestion from the Lard Mayor, Joseph Page replied, that Ganne.-I did nothing mare when he saw him than strut :slang x ith a gun upon his shoulder. He was not sure whe ther it was a single or double barrelled gun. A coosidesable sensation was Isere felt in the Justice Room, by it Laing ascertained that Woolridge, the chimney sweeper, who codeaeoured to implicate Gunnel, had made his escape while ill , • eye of the officer, Kinuersley, who had him in Nis todv, was turned off from bins. It seems this gentleman was ,diffidently acquainted with his trade as to be &wising, which lie effected by creeping by degrees be hind Gunnel, who is a very larg e mass. The Load Mayor sent to Mr. Beckwith's, in Skiunerstrcet. for the attendance of Geitfin his shop - nail ; but as this person - was not then to he met with, Dunned was again remanded until Monday, when it is expected that lac will be counisitted. l'he Solicitor fur the city attended at the Mansion House to-day, to receive or object to- the bail offered for Hoo per. They were, John Collett, of 13e, high Holborn, up holder, and Iliontas Harrison, of the Cock public house, Gs-Inuit-street, Soho. the lust of these was admitted , but as the latter could not conscientiously swear, that after the payment of all hiS debts he was worth 501. another person was required in his stead. We usiderstand Hooper will be liberated on Monday, as his Solicitor says he stall be able to procure another name this evening. . Among the persons present at the examination this spurning was Preston, who was bailed is day or two ago. Several foreign anamen made application. for accommoda tion on board the Helder frigac this morning. {ls this vessel has more. than her compliment, the Lord Mayor wits under the necessity of refusiug assistance at present. • Way NATIONAL .ItE6ISTER POLICE. BOW- ST EET. Friday morning a men applied to Mr. Birnie, the sitting Magistrate, for permission to see Mr. \Voisin', sin. who is con fined. in the house of correction ; say ing be had several things to convey to him. The Magistrate declined granting the . permission, hut referred him to Sir Nathaniel Conant, who committed Watson to the house of correction from the S..ere , tory of State's noire; this being the customary etiquette. The applicant, after lie had left the office, was recognized by Murray, the constable, to be Prestos, of Spallehts unto rim y. The proceeding,' of. the Magistrate were sever.d times in terrupts(' by persons applying in consequence of it.great 'number of tradesmen having refused to tale se spent-es of any deseripti )))) „although they were the-regular cults of the realm. Tlie Magistrate lamented that it was not in his power to give them any redress, as he did nut know of any law to compel people to part with their goods for ony coin unless they CIPL.X. It is feared that some poor people went without the common =ossifies of life ip cossequtuce. Upon e. arooe at the to tike then (row the letter carriers. A prisoner of the name of Jolla Gods, a eabisiet-ntaker, was brought up, charged with robbing theta/Dia Kenn. Starch, Boobhyer, and Stureb, Ironatoigers iu 4tinhops street, Clare-market, where be had beewhis the babk if deal ing for la years past. Mr. Boobbyer stated, that they had long suspestad that they were robbed, particularly since the month oflllay LW, Out could not detect the thief till the day the priiidelr was stopped the act of robbing them, In the alt 4 'Re plin duced a lint of articles which filled a large sliest of papir„ which he positively swore had been stoien from bla praises; particularly from part of the sbop-marks remainbps, and they never selling them in that slate. He prodocectiticidier lbA list, which lie very humanely declined sweating to aslis and partner's property, although there Was siarefy a tfoupt upon it. Clarke, a constable of St. Clemeat's, proved his finding the stolen property upon the prisoner at the time of his ,detectile as well as a very large assortment which was found on Ms premises in Porter-street, ou searching them. The affluent (mind in his house was not leis than 01.. The prisoner wis committed for trial. The prisoner was carrying on business in a respectable line as a cabinet. maker, and had three apprentices. MAR LBO ROUGH-STREET. EXTENSIVE Roman If.—OnTuesdayeveniugJames Denis the foreman of Mr. Lee, carpet manufacturer, Aibeinarte street, was charged with stealing a quantity of yarn, fringe, and other property. The prisoner bas been two years in the employ of Mr. Lee, and had the care of the *town:men stock. A few days ago Mr. Lee applied to the Magistrate for a warrant to search the prisoner's house its Tash-street, Gray's-inn-lane. Plank and Jeffery. searched the premises, and found forty pounds of yarn for weaving, in a back rams, and a loom at work, also I hearth-rugs, which the pri soner had manufactured at his house, with his master's ma terial, and had also sold several to a Mr. Weaver, of Loup acre. Mr. Lee estimated his losses, daring the two years the prisoner had been his t, at several hundred pounds. The solicitor for the prisoner wished to know how Mr. Lee could swear to the material after it had been wove, when there were so many manufacturers in town who worked the same kind of material. Mr. Lee said be could swear to the property.—Reinaoded. QUEEN SQUARE. HIGHWAY Roonzity.--Wm. Barker, John Henderson, a boy about C.l years old, alias Jack Ready, and John Coch rane, were brought up by Ethuouds, ogre of The parish cousta- Ides of St. MaNarees, Westminster, charged by Elizabeth West, wife of Wm. West, of Tothill-street, tailor, with rob ing her of a bundle, containing a cotton gown, a pair of sheets, a shirt, a shift, and some small articles of ham Prooreutris stated, that ou Tuesday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, as she was passing along Totbill-sireet, she saw prisonerCkwhnstre iu company with two boys, and as /90011 as she came near them Cuclu - ane struck her on the face and knocked her down ; he then took the bundle out of her hared, and gate it to the boys, who run off one way with it, and Cochrane ran off the other way ; she immediately went and informed EA'Woods of the robbery, and described the boys. On this descriptionhe took Henderson int ) custody, who has for some years post been employed by the full-grown thieves in Westminster to accompany them in depredations, for the purpose of running away with the stolen property, by which feats of activity he had acquired the name of Jack Ready. Hendersou having iuformed him that Cochrane committed the robbery, and offered to show him where he lodged, witness procnred as sistance, and went to No. 4, Duck.'" ard, where he took Coth cane, and lodged him in the watch-house. Henderson begged he might nut be confiped iu the same place with Cochrane, so he took him to Tothilitields Bridewell, and soon after be was lodged there Barker came voluntarily to the prison, and desired he might be contined with Henderson. The two boys confessed now what Henderson told the constable, and completely confirmed the testimony of the two last witnesses. Stephen Oath and Thomas Duznall, both resident in the neigh bourhood, being desired by F:dinonds to accompany him, as sisted in taking Cochrane and lodging him in the watch-honse. Cochrane was fully committed, and the parties bound to pro secute. The two boys were remanded till Monday, when it is likely they will be admitted King's evidences. WORSHIP- STREET. Friday, William Tayler was brought up for a final exami nation before Mr. Sketchley, charged by his own sister, Ann Tayler, with stealing a gown, petticoat, 2 shifts, and other articles of wearing apparel, and pledging them at various pawnbrokers : the property was produced and sworn to. — rally committed. John Stragnell, John Clark, and John Williams, three boys, neer lolly committed for stealing from Mr the counter of Mr. Cant, grocer, Suu.street, Finsbury-square, the property of Mary Roberts, %slr stated, she went to the shop to buy some sugar, and left the money on the counter whik she spoke to a friend at the floor ; on her return th money was gone; she accused the shop boy with taking it, not hazing obsert•ed any one cuter the shop, there being two doors to it. Michael Mu'hell, the shop boy, said he saw two shillings lie on 'counter, while he was weighing the sugar two boy, owe in under a pretence of purchasing something, he turned his-back for a moment, when they immediately left the shop, taking with them the ,25.; he gave the alarm at th e (low ; Edward Wittington ram after the prisoners and caught Strae nell, and gave him in charge of 11 nun the constable, who look the others out of a public-house near ttridgenater-sTmo. Uyall, the presie.ied chairman of the Spatiehl committee, excited the risibility of every one prevent by his c • . gri maces and violent rstures; he appeared ll inebriated, auhl deplorably ragged and dirty - , demandln g in a lofty tone, justice; hs complained of the palish officers of Spitallields refusing hint parochial assistance. Mr. Sketelney advised him to come when sober, and if lie had oily reasonable cuitoploint to make, he should have a pa tient bearing. It may be of importance to mention, that the grown wheat of the present season, which cannot be mann t:teturcd into whJlesome bread, stiakes excellent biscuits with the addition of a little oatmeal, without yeast. Several bakers, iu Swansea, arc now selling this kind of biscuit as 3a. per lb. and the demand is very great. The Marquis of Lansdowne has purehasel at Rome, of Lucien Bonaparte, the fine statue of Venus, by Ca nova.