The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-24 00:00:00

AT'Cr. 24 INCENDIARIES. A eltort time since a number offiree broke out in the vila loge ofExtiine, attend two mileirfrom Newmarket ; there were •1114 less than five tires to a mouth. One of thesis wee at a barn attached to u house lately beloitgine to the Earl of Vermouth, in which there was wool to Ilse value of Vial. 'llse parolee. age house, and all the premises attached to it, were destroy e d. Several voltages have been destroyed; and at all the fires very little property was saved. The frequent flee created a eon. •aiderable degree of alarm its that pert of the country, and •there was very strong snepiciou that the tires did not happen by accident. An inveitigatien took place by some of the ineipel gentlemen of that part of the county, but without creel ; they therefore applied to Bow Street for an officer, and Selman wan dispetelted. On his ass lent at I:ening, lie received every possible .aesistance and informetion upon the snhipr of till' Fermat alarming tires from Mr. Parr, the agent •to th e Pit t enix Fire tare in that' pert of the country ; in a short time he observed sitcheoespieiona eireassie'reices against at moo anti his %Sife ut' the name of %frith, as to inifs, a him to take them into emit ~, !yr; a townie:: of megirotesti was • celled iu conseipieuce, and Weld) anti his wife were exetuiti eil before them. 'fis t 'es amiustion leased nine hours, at the •elo,eufwhieh, the eircuinsteaces which came out iteeiiist the prisoner. were sufficient to induce the marri.trates to commit - them to Busy St. Ealinund's prison. In a few days after, cir. cutest:mere treil.pired which induced Selimet to :apprehend. Joint Webb, the suss of the ptkoilerq, who, upon piing iule r• .rneeted, confessed emit to Sehnert, ia the presence of Mr. Fide, a riullit'el.aNt• farmer, and Colt his bend actilaiiy net fire t • the premiers with a candle, by ile.dre of Isis niather.7, At the close of the examiami tttt , etiiilence eppearine I neaind Wtelob, sen., he was dirchargettl, the wle,le of Ike I inlanunu crime appearing to have heels perpetrated by Mrs. ' and her wen J din, who were both ei ttttttt itted to Bury prison for trial. awl the parties were bustard over tie prose- ' cute. John Web!) vet% roininittitil into the custody of. Mr,' Ilorwiela, the keeper ut Bury pr.l um, vi twee:llo4mm convey.' ing him ther e fe a laugh. Istir.o chaise, when jive a 6 he held prOeeelleol Abdilll &Mile us, Newmarket Heats, Julie Webb WaS seized with a lit. anti fell 0111 of Ilia chaise. Mr. !lore ich twilight it eight to to turn wiilt him, and a sloe tor was sort for, wise edvised that be should nut be removed on that Meld, mid the prismicr was placed ender the care of the ism jets roe...table at the poor house; hare lie took an °moor, is. ti.ty of eluding the attention of the constable and escaped out es' sloe poor ;vette. A untriber of peewits were dispatelie‘l io different directions is, remelt of him, and it was discovered flit the roves of' the well in .the yard (69 feet deep) of the pour house wet open, and thorope of it iu, ; sot looking slewit the well, he wag observed neatly at the bottom, there Letag bet hide manic its it. He was strewn op out ut the well, end given into the custody of Sehnert, whom the gentlemeii tacre ;Nee:teed to convey the culprit to Usury prison, not con. eiderling hist safe in any otheeperone. restudy. 'fhe suer were •0 mach satisfied with Salmon% conduct milli it forgone. flint they are about to resew d hint liberaily. The feet fire broke out on Smiley afternoon, J tree :lei, between eke t. - Jars of one and two, in a barn belongh;g to Mr. G. Brooke, a fairaer, stud rage u l with great fury fur a ceinsiderebie time, laying waste several cottages, barns. stables, and other outbuildiegs. and Land out no lees than seven fit:lilies, who had time to save but 4 , :e• little property. The second fire in the same village broke out tee the Tuesday evening fisliosving the eoth of June, between the Peare cif sena and eigat; it was discovered when it was breaking e .0. in some beelike belenging to Aft. Martin, which coosureee. seve ;wl other buildingt, este, le:sides a large quantity of weal. other operty to a consiavne,le amount The flames also communicated to ties Parsonage-hound. and deetroyed die whole of that building, ttgether with the whole of the stables, coach home, and.ether out. stealth:lgs, to .a considerable steacuet. A third fire broke out at on Friday evening, Cie te di of July. which wee discovered ta die home of Mr. Charles Webb, al:etcher, but haepily, an early .....run being given. the tire was seen retinguisheti ; but the incest eries were so determined in their diahelicel purpose, that they ac !.a.tly attempteil to set tire again to the cane rtenlitei WI the fulloiv tee meat, in two different parts at thZ tune. The Kenna Grout gives the following additional particti !ars respecting a man whom we Jately mentioned as:having Leek( apprehended at Maidstone on his own ronfession of murdering a s g woman :—" We lately mentioned that' a considerable degree of sensation was esperieueed in Alaid_ stave nn Sunday 44% ening last, ow ing to a 1111111 acknowledg. Ina; himself to be the imirderer of the young 140111411101111 d id the River AledwAy, a: Banning. in Miser!. 140. Tne name of this young woman was Mary .baker Sand*; she came from.. Stroud to this town by Burcle's cowls, and was _proceeding on her journey to Ticeinurst, witt•re her friends resided, and:: slie bad a I Ile containing articles of Wral apparel. When foundoshe was supposed to hat e been in th e w a ter a irtnight, and exhibited tuo.:t •liock log. spectacle, having a severe w lon the right temple, apparetuiv indicted st a liammer,.ottil also several other contosiosic on different ports of her body.• 'flue Coroner's -iniorst redwing{ a verdict of willulmork against some perunvor pc mum unknown. );.t•k• Cling 1144 since transpired to discover the perpetrator of this horrid deed till Salida* last, whet', as a soldier of the teeth likgiment was passing by the Head, he was called in by the luau above Alliolt.l to, whom lie knew, having enlisted hint on the preceding Friday to serve. in the Marines; they asked for a pot of porter, moil while drinking it, the soldier observed that the man looked very injected, and asked him what was the matter? if he repented being enlisted? if an, he might easily get out of it : to w Weis be replied, Von don't know Dick —I deserve banging moue than Hussey:' Upon his %vier tens, the soldier was a+tornsh. ii , .tnd said,' Good God! what have yon dente i' He ensweted, ' I knew Horsey, a n d I might to Ink confined in the sakoe dungeon that lie Was la—as iI time or other, 1 tray as well tell you-1 Ran the inorderer of Ele )ollkig 14001011 found in.the Kiser Medway: The soldier then asked him if hr •wiskild voluntarily give himself into the suds of Justice? He said,. • Yes, and let tut be .cnntined where 1111411.y.wa5..f0l t vtulateil tier 111:141:11, and 1111411 (nor detect her— I anistaiie for it, and s:tutitsl he glad if it Was 11/- 144Cirtow. The Zorshiildes was then sent fur, .vvito took him tutu custintv, cunve, ed bin to the Nlayor's pries :.m Ins WA% thither lie alialle Ilse 6414114 eXitreacinlls : lie up 1 , ea% ed 11,1 in 1iC11.11141 , 11/1 11411 been 11111461112 111 U hest pti...l of the day. Ihe was on Miniday ttttt roiog tasen to tier Town Clerk's Office, and underwent a short edallailialioo, 0 Well WI , post polly.i till %Volts...day, in order that the wltilesses. 0110 live al a (listener, might iw atde to attend. Ilc now di tier es his illoorettre of nit. eri•Nr, Altd Soya, 111,11 °Wine 10 his 1144 :11. . drank so lt on Soak's., Or knew-001 Akhoi he said. lurk is the information we 114 v I. or. a ante 1/i, t' dem of tuts niys tenons ease, .Whicki at present Neale, 11:4 eh interest. We 11100111111 front givi a, tile 1141.11 e of the (tulip(' • murderer, WI Luber evidence has berm produced of We gun.." THE NATIONAL REGISTER.. POLICE. MANSION-HOUSE. T. Roberts was brought up no the following .clearge of forgeryt—Mt. Roberts, landlord of the Bell puttlie-honse, in Nohle-street, said, the prisoner contracted a debt of about a guinea nt Ili* house, and nu Saturday ni.lit he gave him a bill f 41.125. Ga. saOtie Ito would call for the balance on Monday. The bill, upon being prvsented at a banking house. was discovered in be a forgery. The prisoner decamped, and trill not sevat until Wednesday, when wiliness mei hint in the street and stopped him, lie denied any knowledge of the bill briar forged.—Remanded, 'Margaret Meredith, far advanced in pregnancy, was cltnrg • etS with an blling. Prestige, gill officer, deposed that be met the prisoner in London-a all, with two large parcels of tea concealed limier her apron, which, mom entiniry, he di's_ coveted belanecil to Smith awl Son, of Chearside. A yonng MASI in the employ of Um above limn stated, that two women came to the warehouse, and ordered twenty right pounds of tea to lie scut to a lonise in Fell-street, iviits a bill and receipt. 'lle porter accompanied them with the goods, and when arrived in Fell street, he wua persuaded to leave Wein with one woman. wink he went wish the ether to a public house, as she said, to find her husband, who was to pay the money. The woman gave hint the slip by time wny, and on Isis return to Fefl.stria t, he faunal the other had also gone away with the tea. Tlit house hail been hired the day before by a man ahe has nut slime 111461 U hu appeataucc.—The pri -691.er was remanded. Tborsday, Mr. Benjamin Smart, jeweller and dealer in coins, at 55. Mince's-street, Leicester.square, applied to the Lola! MAy or R,r.wlrice under the following cirennistancev In the cOlll .oi . business, his son had taken a Bank Post Bill for :531. in paysitent.for coins. Ile neglected to ask the name or address ..I the person who paid the bill, and upon pa-yen - in; it at Ili: , Bank Isar payment, it was declared to be wie whirls hail been lost t's,• stolen some time before, and of which .pr.yineut had 1n.5.:0 stopped. The original owner or the bill was Mr Norri. 4, surgeon, in the Old Jiwry ; and when the loss tx it was Jit.:over,A, application was made to the Bank, and the amouar of the bill was paid by the latter to the owner, npun his K;sZig, a bond of indemnification. The clerk or the Bank, after *Wing these circomstithres, took the bill. from Mr. Sairrt, and r.erosed to give it np. These .were the facts which had given rise to Ike appleration,and he t Mr. Smart) wiiheii to know aio. Orr Ike Lori Maytir had power to compel the Bank to give up _the .. Bill, or what other remedy- he had ? The . Lord Maiur.—l cannot take sties, a view of the pre. sent ease. I ccrtainly do not think the Bank have noted criminally, anti it appears to me that yen have no other tente d)* 111411 IA eater an action a- ' ainst the Bank fur the recovery of the 11E4 ,inlets you can find the person of whom your son received it. He should nut have taken a bill fur such an amount without kuuwing the statue and address of the per. son who paid it. Mr.Soutrt.—The ideaof contentlingsat law with so power. rid a buds as the Bunk of En:flail:l is so appalling to on humble individual like mpelt, that 1 would sooner entrant to the lass than commence an action. I do think, however, that toy cane is one of excessive hardship, and that the eon duet of the Bank is oppressive and unjust. The Laid Mayor.—l agree with you perfectly that the case is a hard one; but for my own part I think that the conduct at the ilsak quite justiirrhle, the amount of the bill haviug been paid by the Bank to the uwnar. 1 I:411110i iu coy way interfere. Mr. Stuart withdrew. BOW STREET. Werlacsday,nlward Jackson, who although mere!? a lad, is well known to the officers as a illiOt; was brOnilt to the Obey and underwent an examination before hl r. Birisie, charged w:tls robbing the shop of Mr. Williams,* linemiraper, in the Strand, of a V13610/14' shawl, lie was Co3llllliitCli for trial. James Bray, of liarctield, Middlesex, was charged with selling hay short of .weglir. It appeared that W. Bartlett, a man in the employ of Mr. Benjamin Thomas, who keeps wiin: vaults. in the Haymarket, purchased half a lost of hay on the 30th .July last, iu Ilse Haymarket, for which he paid M. 17s. ,It being suspected that the trusses were under weight, Mr. James Towns, the assailant clerk of the market, was entplo3eil to weigh them, when lie found three trusses overweight, surd underweight, for which be was coovicted 2s. Bd. u truss, amounting to 24 2s. dd. and 15s. costs. HATTON 6 VZDLN. Wed!le.ility Eli. Reardon was charger: by a merchant in the city, and w Iso lisisrl 3 .•bersse in l'entenaville, with breaking six panes of glass it: his counting louse window, following him in the 'tenets, and c)ltecting a mote round him; also wills coining to his house at Pentonville, and collecting a mobsand putting him in tear of his life. The prisoner some years ago lived servaLt in the eomplAinsent's family, wheic she became .pregicuit ley hint, and was 44 , 5 vered -of a daughter, which she swore to him. lie-thou gave bee.:01...t0 go to Irekind and anise the child, allowing lit is,;:sl. a year there; promising leer when the child was Ida lit age, to take itassader hisown ell e ; kilt s6;11 to allow Ilse prisoner her awned' , for lure. sWavis the chilli was As years old • the prisoner esteemed to England, .ausl delivered it to the complainant ; when he gave leer VI. s.to take her •back, win:resins was to receisso her •antsitity, on cora:talon of her remaining tliere.and nettr seeing the chill 't he complainant V&A, the. child to boarding bengal, mid she is now 11 years of age ; the complainant (new about s'in years of age. having Ilerer ana-ricel, the mhild is gives , . to under stand that she is the complainant's daughter. by a.wite who died imireland. About twelve months ago, Ilie prisoner came as- m ain to London • mid repaired tee the eamipiainants lion se in Pentonvilke, Insisting on sAseing her child. This the complain ant, from prudential seasons, :erased. The prisoner, its eon serpusatee, kept follow ing the complainant, sod ilioati3 . !iig him, by collecting mobs round his house ; and. be therefore bad err Illetli tororglit to this office, when alio, consented to return :o Ireland. The complainant then gave her 101. to bear her espenees, and one of the officers money to pay her fare to Liverpool.. l'reem Liver; I, however, she retained, and repaired to the conifilainant's curveting house, whine •he retie O eil her entreaty, Jun to no etit.o. Iler supplication ru mmies' a molt, sun! she was taken before the Lord Nlayor, where sailers were again its ranged, by eititiz her 2111• on 4 itmoilliw.tir rctorsein4 he the country, w lees e she was to revere leer annuisy ; and au °diem. was Call with her to Liverpool, to see liar cuss board the packet. This was sweorelicaly done, and the 'apemen; twilic complainant was near 401 ; hot she again returned. and again a 00000 )yrii 11111 i. In defence, she said she only walitP4l our • iglit i llies child, and she a nold reuse', soil she rOliteiltrsl. Tilt% tetitielli Stir e illisiiistill persisted in rilusiag. The prisoner, in the most ligUlle illstlister. en claimed, " She is my child; and you arc not Iscr fatlict , " • 211 74, 7 .40 1 .0 p. 4 4 Flom not yon sworn the child to hitnil— " Sh u e i 4 not his daughter (she repeated); she is mine r- The pi kotier was then committed to the house of Correction, for o ant of hail. QUEEN SQUARE. Wednesday-Sarah Lem, Ss alley Williams, and Mary Mnr• pin, wer- charged before the Magistialco with 'savior robbed several children. Mrs. Hartley, who washes for some o f t h e antiliern at Knightsbridge barracks. sent her .1/tighter. a child iir ehnut 10 years of of for sonic linen.: On her return the child vas stopped by the prisoner.. who asked her to fetch them a loaf, and to itireet the baker to mend change for a note. Ha•ina prevailed upon the child, the prisoner• decamped with the linen. A tiny, named Lambert, afloat seven years idil, had a hamlet of linen taken from I • the Lime day. The articles have been owned, and traced to the prisoners, whO were remanded. WORSHIP STREET. Monday H Nash ow' !iron:lst up on the Coroner's warrant. for soatislntightrr, in I, aline and aiming his wife 1-1 P was infbriuril by the T%logistrate, thkt as he had exhilittril nn w irked nr nialirinua intent, unileu.oble bail would he nrrepte.l 1 . 4' hint. Not bring provided with that, ho woo is the meat' time committed. J. Matthews, a baker in Shore(!itch, was enuvicti•.l in this penalty of 604. fur selling four loaves doli:ient in weigh: IQ winces. john Ilurge% was committed to the Ilcome of Correction for 7 days foe a breach of contract in not reaping a field of wheat helot:chi:: to n fat mer at Hackney. The greatest isenieauten; is one month. Amos Mangler, a Russian seaman, complained of a bal:ce in Wappint:, that in 1811, he 111(1 entriosted him, vlten he (complainant) was about to !sail for Rn-71:., with -WI. to be placed ter him in the stocks. On his refine to England a few months since, he found the baker had not invested hid momey in the funds, had become a bankrupt, and could pay him eie;tlter principal nor interest. The mm:istrate recom mended au amicable adjustment ; and put otY the further hearing INION lIALL. Mandny li.lirown, anti Maly Dalton were Cony committed fur uttering a forged note to a shopkeeper at Newington. J. Gouge wit.' held to bail fur jumping from the gallery of the Surrey Theatre into the orchestra, by which meting he bwike the double d , and other musical inortutteut4. Tito audience were of course much alarmed, and it 11 :19 . 11 wonder that he or 'tome of the UMSidani were not killed. It. Lewis was charged with wounding tiaras► Thrones, with whom he cohabited. Ina tit of jeition‘y he eat tile bark of her head °pets with a pewter mit, tm that her skill was visible, Fie %vas remanded until her situation is ascertained. DlsTarssten Case.—A gentleman in yes,. rope:4;l6le cie. entnstanees had a *on in bitAness, fur whom he was can. !inure; but his sou becoming bankrupt, he was unable to answer the demands on him, and beimme bankrupt also. -- • Immediately after this, one of the daughters died of a con. somption.. Soon after, an:ether was seized wills the some comphsint, and followed her sister. .The St;r2, having gone • abroad, lost his health, and died also. The father, wishing to renesve another and • favonrito daughter, now beemue doubly dear to him, to a little distance for change of air atel scene, was conveying her in a gig along the side of the eatell leading to Grangemontb, when the horse, bee - ea:mg restirc .• fell w ith the gig into the canal—the young lady uas dross ur:4l; lie with difficulty got ashoie. All these calamitous cvents happened within the bleat period of one year.— Pee..'sa7sree:er. CAUTION TO StAGE•COACII MASTE,HR.s•-ell Saturday and Monday last, beiore a full bench of Magistrates, sittin.g at Elstree, in.and for the liberty of St. Allinn's, William Clarke,the owner of the Luton stage-enach ;George Caswell, owner of the Barnet coach : Amu* Packwood, on nor of the Coventry ;mach ; William Mountain, oirsier of ;ire:Liverpool enach ; William ‘Varerhosisse, ember of the tircrpeol roach; William Smith, owner of the Bedford coach and I3enjam7n Bowers, owner of ;he Nottingham conch, were convicted i n • the penalty of fire hundred and teu pounds, for carrying inure passengers on their respective coaches titan what is al lowed by act. of Parliament. Monday .morning, about four o'clock, as Mr. Wilcox, st hatcher, uf•Ptstaty, was coining to town to attend Smith field Market, he_ was met on the I; and.wurtls mail be three ruffians, also stopped Ishii, and widls horrid impreral foot demanded his money. His compliance net being an er.pc ditions as their wish, they beat him with tdatb.7roas until he fell senseless. in that sieration lie was i'dllllll 41.01.11 an haw afterwards. by Mr. Eve-sett. a fishmonger, of Waiistsworl:i, who knew Min, and cane eyed hinviii a chase cart io kis .rest- deuce. Hi s pocket-bunk se ac found lying near hint. • Saturday week, as Mr. Make, of the flamestead.road, was going throng!, 6mile-bridge, Ise sele.erved ass eidesly female walking apparently ill a very perwerbeil state. At length she approarlied the Fleet River, and pa cc ipitated ,herself in it. Mr. Blake dragged her net covered wish 11111 l I, and with some severe voa!slsietlS on her Ilea I. She 11.1 d Filled in a Et... etable way sit Pentonville, but Lad lately become ember russet, Old tail btu: a=signed as a reason fur the rush nttecite• •Mr. - et' Anglasea-street, .copper-phaM2 engraver, was, on the night of the I Ith lust. appiehended lite very artvf :fitrginz yule. on the Bunk of Ireland. He had in his poseessios; toe plate* o: the Ralik of I.rkud, one of Sir W. Ake:miler. anti another of dleifaar, avbich acre all takenao the Heml Polieeesiliecovlsere he ittelerwesit a close examination, and was fully commiued lot trial. A few days wince aeshoplare.per at Eattaiiili wisvonvieted Nelms! two Magistrates, and tined is; also mitigated pima lath- for giving turret :7 , 4.-Bauk-tokeus and two 18.1. ones in part oh eliange ibr.o note. . Mine' ela and Cs-sage, echo batty escaped from es lent when l ea .cit,!itee of .Al4lllll, Mire .beers Keine heeded; :les; wise fault is olt•Ariterate a. t. %i Ito lately r /0.1.,.,1 yi c . Mal riot, of Oversew Deasiery, nears six town. Thy whole of the gang has been serstrosl.alti cc of 'Elio ti have tn r o w sworn to, and inoitrrt v fiend Ilte.ss wat.-...Ntarthamptok+Apfr. A respite, till further orders, 11 4 5 &men reeelreil and George Ashereft, Awn of the malef.sessre muter •enlimec of death in Shrewllmey gaol, for Isorse...a v oli sig ._ John Richards. for "lieep-otaltrzg,4v.l% espeeted lii metier. !3 , 1 ,„„1,, y oe rk , d emo hall-oast :fovea o'clock, W. Knight.. • cost WAS eysrellif d at the New I)rms, behind lire k Cusise, fur quantity of 11,% •.I. ukelasa us ils, ul Arketsilale, near Borougiebrielge, wills auintent to morlder 0.; F u d us , th. ith in.,. Cook Clew.. at, inhabitant of the I n.of Shaoonot ton, was lhotmt..l through th..t town .111 .104111 t.l weint•stre pgssetl on hint at the List county ,e%stons, hohicts at Aylertnt..y, asnatiliing tat: Rev,!'. Lotus, Vicar et that ylact.