The National Register. — London, England, 1813-06-13 00:00:00

J.UNE 18. • • •COVENT GARDEN. It was our intention to have given a detailed critique on Mr. C . KEMBLE'S performance of Musbeth last Friday, when Mrs. Sill- DONS re appeared as Ludy Macbeth, but want of room compels us to delay it till our next. ‘Ve shall, at present, only state, that he rose in several passages to originality and superior eminence ; and that time, which levels palaces, and sweeps away nations, seems'poWerless against the great elpomene, whose talents con tinue to Shine in the Intl bloom of excellence. At the end of the play, a shower of bills descended - from the galleries into the pit, others were spread out along the sides of the boxes with inscrip- - lions in • large letters, demanding the " Re-call •of Mrs. Sinnoss to the Stage :" the " Restoration of the legitimate Drama." 'nese were received with many cries of bravo, much applause, and some hissing. NVe we're sorry that the ad mirers of Mrs. SinnoNs, (and who is not ? ) who wish her to re sume her ancient place on the stage (and who does not ?) should have hail recourse to such an expedient. It looked too much like a stage trick, and con d not fail to be attributed to Mrs. SinnoNs herself, who, we are convinced has too much sense to countenance such a proceeding. S..e has lately felt the public putse twice, and •has had occasion to be satisfied that it will be a welcome for her whenever she openly chores to appear. Let not the injudicious inr patience_olker fiends, therefore, lower her in the general estimation. VAUXHALL. These gardens are aglin opened for the Peacon. Our cord climate, it nut,t be cotife-sed, is little adapted to night-fetes in the unsheltered air : et one i, co.itent two or three nights in a year to risk the horrors rata rheumatism, in order to witness a spectacle which almost realizes the rich fancies of Arabian fictions. The encip-d'xil on entering gardene is sdlenditioind excites at once delight and amazement. The dark_ walks area well nuAgined contrast to the garnish magnificence to which they are, opposed ; and the large and superhly fined saloons offer an oppearance of comfort re pose w hen the miud is fatigued by the de-phy of the external decorations. The fire-works exhibit much variety on.l tasteful far.cv. and the orc ht:strit - is skilfully managed under the dircctiou of Mr. Hook. LAW INTELLIGENCE. • Major Nicholls, of the Marines, on the 4th of A r rii, sitting on his horse before the dour of Sir John Douglas, at Blackheath, so com pletely occupied the footway, that a farmer, named *Uyler, having two ladies with biro, was obstructed passing, and desired the Major to rein back his horse : this the latter refused, and an altercation mined, when :he Major, after using words neither becoming the officer nor the gentleman, knocked Tyler down ; fur this otience, a vei diet, with 1001. damages and costs, went against the Major on Wednesday, in the Court of King's Bench. In the same Court Thursday, an action was brought by Matthews, driver of the Liverpool stage coach, against the West Mid(lle.:ex Waterworks Company, to recover damages for injuries sustained by the overturning of his stage, in consequence of the negligent con duct of the defendants' servants in throwing up, and carelessly leaving mounds of earth, heaps of stones, &e. in Tottenham Court road ; which hijuries are of so serious a nature as to render Mat thews a cripple for life. The damages were laid at 61. , 91. but the Jury returned a verdict thrfive hundred guineas. ASSAULT AND FALSE IMPRISONMELIT. LT OYD U. DEERING. Mr. Park stated that +he Plaintiff in this case was Mary Ann Lloyd, a young woman tinder 21 ye-rs of age, who sued by her mother, her nearest of kin, and the defendant was a gentleman or considerable fortune, in who'se family she had lived servant, and she now sought to recover a comt.ensation in damages for one of the most cruel and un provoked injuries that herd ever come under the consideration ail Jury, in the shape of au .action for Nse,imprisonment. The plaintiff hid Enid her damages at five hundred pounds. It appeared that this young woman had been lady's maid to Mrs. Deering, in September last; at which time the assault complained of was committed. On the 28th of September the plaintiff was charged by her mistress with having par - batted a table-cloth and pencil-case. The table-cloth, it however ap peared,' was in an open trunk: belonging to the ptaititik which was standing in the housekeeper's room, and from the evidence it would he seen, there had been nu intention on the part of the plaintiff to steal it; notwithstanding this, the plaintiff was by her master and mistress given iu charge to a black RIM servant, who was charged to keep watch over het all the night of the • 28th of Sbptember, and the day and k TILE NATIONAT, RECISTER,_ night of the 29th, without her going to rest, or taking any refreshment during that time. In the intermedia!e (pace a police officer had boeis sent for, the plaintiff, boxes and drawers had been searched, but no thing was found to criminate her. Yet the street dour was kept lock ed, and Mr. Deering himscli had the key. At length Mrs. Deering told her, that unless she would confess that she was a thief she should not be liberated.-- Mr. Doering hi'd during' this time search warrants to search the houses of two A,r tlree of her friends, but nothing Was round there which coul d in any way substantiate the accusation; -at length exhausted with her mental and bodily siltferiturs, the said slut would coet'ess any dung they chooser], if they would only let her go • and she did accordingly confess upon this; the unfortunate young woman was taken betore a Magistrate at Marlborough-street, and by him discharvd. Her persecution however was not yet over, she was taken hack to her master's house, and fresh charges' were brought against her, first of stealing six gowns belongieg to her mistress, them' of stealing a pair of stockings, and several other charges of a similar na.tire, all of which were ultimately confined and the plaintiff was at lest suffered to leave the house. In Michaelmls Tern last the plaintiff fil d her declaration in the present action, and the defendant put in his pleas. A tier this he laid by till the January Sessions at the Old Bai ley, when he preferred his bill of indictment a l rain‘t her foe a felony, and she took her trial. and. as might have been foreseen, she was Ito— nourahly acquitted. Under all these circumst:inces, itt was. persuaded • the Jury would giie, rot vindictive, damages—such he did nett ask-- but site:: damages as the justice of the case required. Mr. Park then prisees:dzd to cell his Witnesses i t snpirnt ef the case. The Attorney General shortly addressed the Jury on the part oftise defendant, and submitted that though Mr. and Airs. Deering might have gone further than was quite consistent 'with prudence, yet them was nothing vindictive in their conduct. After an enliOiened summina up front his Lordship, the Jury retired (or about a quarter of an hour, and then returned with a verdict tug ihte plaintiff.—Damages 4001. • OLD BAILEY. • Yesterday the Session at the Oki Bailey concluded, when the Recorder sentenced the follo‘ring °Milder* to suffer the punishment of death Badcock, for forging and' littering a counter feit order for the payment of 5901. ; James Smith, for burghtrivtAy breaking and Merin. - a dwelling-house ; Josepli Nash, CorAorging a bill of Exchange ; P.itrick Innes, for forgiN a bill for . 40(ff. Thomas Pontine, for forgery; Edmund Birkett, forging • u biH of Exchange; Thomas Ilratly, for counselling Bit kett in the wins mission of the crime, and also for publishing as true a e q r g cti order. for 5901. ; Joseph Richardson and James Simons, for bkmdationsly breaking and entering the dwelling-house of the Marchioness of- Downshirc, and stealing her Ladyship's plate and jeivels; William Smith, for feloniously secreting a post-office letter containing mo ney ; and James Harman, Mary Hooke, Sarah Ruth, Norali Ant - - and sonic o hers for larcenies in dwelling-Lowies. Potirteen were sentenced for felonies to fourteen. years transpor.., tattoo; twenty-one received sentence for seven years.; tell we:e• ordered to be transported for life ; and fort y-nne offenders were ordered to be confined for Aome time in the House of Curt cajun. DIM 411 ATIC REGISTER: v e CONFESSION OF NICHOLSON. We arc happy to relieve the public mind from its doubts and anxiety, with respect to the perpetrator of the atrocioirs mordersat Chislehurst, by stati n g ; that Nicholsoo, the suspecied person, luurat length confelsed his guilt. We learn, that on Monday, in conse quence of the numerous visitors (among whom Nvere Cord Cast'e reag-h, Lord Camden, and Lord Robert Seymour), wh went to contemplate the supposed murderer, lie slicwed repeated I. , ymptorus of annoyance and agitation : this circumstance, together with the attempt to make him look more clean/y, caused his wound s\itidenly to bleed afresh. This happened about seven o'clock in the c‘•rning. The hemorrhage being of an alarming nature, an express was ;imme diately dispatched for Mr. A. Cooper. Ile arrived at about e. ',even o'clock: Mr. liramston, the priest, came about the same time with Mr. Bonar. The wound was dressed, and nothing tinther 1 lien took place. Yesterday morning, at half-past six o'clock, Nich3i ison voluntarily requested Mr. ltraniston, who nod - bi-ienwith him a 4 iat time, to bring Mr. Bonar to Itim immediately: _ Mr. Ronal. A to him, when Nicholson burst into - tears, mid begging pardon of j .Ir. Bonar, expressed his wish to make a full confession. Mr. We !1%. the magistrate, who resides at Brieklcv-house, in the tieitf; , g hood, .was, sent for ; and in the presence .of the . an other gentlemen, Nicholson made, an d aftei >igned,