The National Register. — London, England, 1815-08-13 00:00:00

reefi PRO VINCIA LS. .At the Somerset Assizes, I'. S. Chimpneys, Esq. with Ralph epp.ier and Thomfis Atkinson. two of his dohitstivi, were indicted for a violent assanit on White, a sheriff's officer, and his follower, who cone info the house of the first Defemlant, to execnte war t-aids mr two excentiona, ihnomiting to about 3AI. ft was deposed, on behalf of the prosecution, that the officers were violently es s.oilted—their warrants taken from them, and thrown into the tire by Mr. Chanioneys, and consumed, While *late was collared, drag ged violently through the passage by the order and assistance of Mr. C for the purpose of being thrown into a pond. He beg2.eil for his life, and said, if they would let him go, he wrthd give up the process. Mr. ('hampneya &feuded his own cGuae in person, in a speeds of considerable length and interest, in which lie complained that he was ms injured person, and marked out lot ruin for twelve wars past, by the Under -Sheriffs of the county, through whose hoods many ihousamb of his property had passed, On account of Vtl rions litigation% instituted by members of the legal profession. He had been in the commission of the peace for twenty, five years, and as,4 t fed that Ids conduct lead alwavc burn that of a man of honour and integrity ; his farni'y had also borne that character for seven centories. He denied the whole of the charge, and insisted that the officers had been guilty of the assault.—Mr. Champne)'s house keeper and poptillion were examined, who swore positively, that the officers were drunk and extremely rude—one so excessively drunk that lie could hardly sit on his horse.—The Jory found the Defendants guilty ; hut application is expected to be made for a new tri L A eit.e of considerable importance to all proprietors of waggons and horses kept in or near London, was heard before the Magis trates of this Office on Saturday, the 3tlt inst. concerning the forci ble detension of waggons and horses for the conveyance of military baggage. Upwards of twenty waggons and teams of horses were impressed in Surrey, the owners of which are warfingers in Middle sex. The Magistrate gave it as his opinion, that no carriage or horse belonging to any person not residing in the county in which the iinpressment is made, can be legally detained; and in ease of rout iletensinn, a penalty may he iecovered from the Commanding Offieer, and that it is the duty of the constables to furnish carriages and harses for the conveyance of military baggage, from the dis tricts only in which they reside. On Saturday, the puni•liment of the pillory was inflicted at Man chester, on a fellow called Samuel Halliwell, who was convicted at the Quarter Sessions of that town, of the too common but immoral, and barbarously indecent act of exposing his wife for sale in the public market, like " a beast which perishes." He was or dered to he imprisoned thres months in addition to the pillory. At the late Assizes of Castlebar, a man was tried for murder. — After the Jury brought in their verdict Guilty, the prisoner was ob served to drink out of a bottle, which be had during the trial con• coaled The auditors conceived it to be poison, but it turned out to be rood whiskey ; when lie had drank it out, he thing it at the Lead of the pro , eclitor—the bottle broke. After the consternation which this caused in Court, Connseller Radcliffe observed, it was the first time lie ever heard of a criminal and a prosecutor cracking a boltle tog - eller. _ _ .• COUNTERFEIT NAPOLEONS. —The trade in this commodity has ,of late become very successful, and the children of Israel have .4:a& Some pretty gleanings in this way both on the continent and in this country. A respectable innkeeper at Hastings was on Thissodav last induced to give VOL in Bank of England notes for a ionnt wi or these «porions coins, which were scarcely worth twenty pence. Vise mode in which these frauds are practised is this : some preteaed or real foreigner arrives by the packet, or says he has, et.nd apetly proceeds to the first Tavern, where he obtains re fre.hmen t :suit «tops the night, and the next morning offers the land lord an aavasitageons bargain of his Napoleons, for which the land lord is happy to give a fair price, as he can re-sell them at a good premium to persons departing for the Continent. Many of the bargain., were undiscovered, and the landlord has innocently sold his spurious coin, but of late it has been ascertained that the coin ill a great number of instances is base. Birmingham has the credit of heist: engaged in this manufacture. In our lat paper. wit shortly mentioned the apprehension of two per.oits, char:led with murder at Portsmouth. The following is a ief of the eiten : --James Anderson, a se aman, married Jerome, ii:,vi t ter of - Jerome, who keeps a binkcr'• ship itt !lie w Portaea ; but throock the inoleht iistelference or his wile% mother, Anderiion had not been ,Mitred to I;%e with his Mile. • In the night of Saturday se'unight, A THE NATIONAL REGISTER; AUG. 13. Anderson went to Jeroint's house to demand some proper , %; witch George Jerome, one of her soil:, fired at him .sift a •iiii tied been kept loaded t*.r the lintpolle; and killed Anderson on the spot. the CoroneepJury retorned a vecOielt of—P Wilful Murder hgaitixt George JerCnie, and against his Mother, Eliz;beth Jerome, as aiding, Comforting, addising, and abetting het son in the saint mui der." ACCIDENT'S AND 0 FITYCE§. • ANOTHER FAMILY POISONED. An event df a most melanilioly nature had nearly occurred on Saturday last, in the family of a Merchant of the first: respktability, in Aldersgate-street, from the fatal effects of arseuic.—On the day abose !mentioned, time Gentleman in gue-tion hail a seleCt party of friends (twb Ladies and two Gentlemen) to dine with him. The dinner passed over, and Wine and fruit were placed on the table, as usual, when in less than ten minutes, the Lady of the house felt her self so mitch indisposed, she was obliged to quit the Won, and was instantly followed by the Other Ladies. The indisposition Of the Lady was almost instantly succeeded by that of the Master of the house and one of his guests, who were seized with violent sickness and every symptom of being poisoned.—Mr.Wheelwright. of square, was immediately called in, and On hearing the symptoms of invalids described, declared, without hesitation, that they had taken strong poison. The medicines proper ter expelling the poison were administered, and an inquiry was instituted as to what they had eaten. 'The kitchen was visited, and the cooking 'utensils were examined, but nothing was discovered which could at all point out the cause of the accident ; and what rendered the circumstance more perplexing was, that the cook and housemaid, neither of whom had partaken'of the dinner sent into the parlour, were both at this period taken ill also. 1)r. Babington, who had arrived in the interval, suggested that the deleterious ingredient must have been contained in the wine which had been drank, and to account for the servants being ill, charged them with having done that which is too frequently practised, tasted their master's wine before it reached his table. 'This was at first stoutly denied by both, but on being told their lives depended on their speaking truth, they confessed they had each tasted a very little drop before the Butler took np his tray. This led to a discovery of the source from whence the evil had flowed, the wine iii the-decanter was examined, and was discovered to be a strong solution of arsenic; the bottom left in the black bottle was also analyzed, when Dr. Babingion took nearly a desert spoonful of the powder out of it, which from ap pearances had been in the bottle before the wine was put into it. Two of the ladies and one of the gentlemen had fortunately not taken any of the wine, and the rest of the company one glass each, when the providential indisposition of the lady of the house pre vented any more being taken ; had any one taken a second glass, it is the opinion of the medical gentlemen that the cfleet must have been fatal. At present, the sufferers, thoitglt still: weak, are consi dered out of all danger. THE BoLr, IN A CHINA SHOP —On Monday evening a drove of bullocks were driving down the Minorite, and on passing by Mr. Staine's glass and china shop in that street, a large bull turned out of the drove, and walked deliberately into the shop : the two coun ters were covered over with valuable articles of cut glass and chins ; and at the extreme end of the shop there was a lung glass ease filled with superb Instres, and several other valuable articles of cut glass. The consternation of the shopmen, at the intrusion of their unwel come visitor, cannot be expressed : as he advanced into the shop lie smelled to the articles on both time counters, and walked tip to the glass, which lie likewise nosed all over: when he had sufficiently satisfied his curiosity, he turned round and walked very quietly out of the shop, without his doing any further mischief than what lie accidently done, by breaking three squares of glass in the glass case with his rump in turning round. INQUEST.---Friday there was an inquest held at Mary-le-bone Court House, before G. Hodgson, Esq. one of the Coroners for the County of Middlesex, on view f the body of -- Solomon, who suddenly dropped down on Wednesday evening and expired.—The deceased was a jew, and an eminent gold and silver refiner, residing in Mead's Court, Lombard-street, and he came to see a friend at the Court House, with whom lie was engaged in conversation when he dropped down in a fit, and notwithstanding medical assistance was immediately procured, lie expired on the spot. The surgeon gave it as bet opinion that he died of apoplexy, and not having previously complained of illness or even spoke since he dropped down, the Jury 'chimed their verdict, that he died by the visitation of God. Al 6.•