The National Register. — London, England, 1816-06-23 00:00:00

J 1 - NE 23. 1' utr cherish'! favorites ?lOW on older stages, le: e grew' beneath y our sinites—t hear neulest wages Extend those smiles, o hick tear such valued fruits, To cheer the lo hours et' our new RI ea lia• ! Support the timid. who hum di cad may st.,l ver, And louse their talents, by your generatm favour. So mayaiat2ir zeal repay the boon we clot sic, And leant to merit what your kindaess gave. Ye Gods who reign above in ar•taut wender-- Vor Gods we know you, by y.ur dreadful Thunder! Not always dreadful due—this' Inud—because Here firs! Sltsl your thunders ti jipasia v 1 Ye It tsar! ,ay, are yew well eranuo'al. (en she I.ie,) and you ? Pray sir, sit close--there's room emu:sit for two! " The :ran who leis not Ilusie in himself, la Is fit far" —Doering good, a peevish elf! So Sliakespear t-ays—and adds, pray Critiele• note him, (We must not act him here, but wa- may quote blau,) Let no inch man he trusted"—each we tear-- So those that don't love Magic—don't come here. Is there a spot through all the varied earth, Where Nature triumphs in a human birth, But yields to Music unalispeted sway, And owns the magic of her Heaven-born lay! Thine! Nluste thine! to strike with powerful art Responsive chords on every feeling Heart! To lift the soul nu mock Devotion's prayer, To solace sorrow and to soothe despair ! From lisping Infancy to life's decline, In every age, or state, the art divine Still claims o'er Man, its soft yet strong controul, And sways, at will, each passion of the soul! Who has not mark'd the Infant's playful smile. While sonic fond Mother's Song its pains beguile? Its eye! which strugttles still to wake, and hear The sounds which lull its pangs and charm its ear? Who has not mark'd that still reluctant eye, Chafed by the Mother's plaintive lullaby? The rudest sav ge of the rudest clime, In some wild measure, and discordant rhyme, Provokes the mutl'niug dance ; or warrior throng; And rules man's passions by the charm of Song. The lowliest peasant who prepares the soil, ith cheerful ditty, half beguiles his toil! Anal labour alone, around his evening blaze, Recounts, its Song, the decals of former days.— So on the sleek, the sturdy seaman takes His patient watch, and spite of nature, wakes, And as the darkling waves around him swell. The Helmsman chaunts the cheering sound, 0 Ill's Well lv Rut now a nobler subject we disclose— Behold what Misery to Music owes! This Isle, so fain'd wisereer our Wart ions roan, Is scarce less failed for Charities at home, Of all its noblest mansions—those the chief, Where Age, and Hunt, and Sickness, find relief ; It'here youth is snatched from crime—the hungry fed, And Vice itself, is back to Virtue led, Of these—the proudest acts, by man display'd, how few, but draws their funds frosts Music's aid? Thus Music, " Heavenly Maid !" alike bestows Joy in our Gladness--Comfort in our Woes! her, then, is this modest Temple due.: Worthy of Her—lf but approsad by I au! POLICE. MANSION-HOINE. FORGERT.—Yesterday Newman was again examined, and three new charges of forgery exhibited against him. Mr. Bannister. the Warminster bar.ker, stated, that he dis counted four bills for the prisoner in person iu May last. One which was drawn upon Messrs. Percival and Willis for MM. Ss. and another on Robarta anti Co. for 2911. were dirseovered to be forgeries, and pas 1111 nt refused.—Pt rsons from the house iu question this fact against the prisoner. N'arine other persons were in ettendance, to :illedge - similar charges against lirm ; and he was again remanded. RIOT IY THa NEW Plitios.. -Monday Thomas Belcham, one of the keepers of the prison in Whitetross-street, exhibited a complaint against a prisoner for debt (John Vipond), for as saulting hint. It appeared, that for sonic time a disposition to resist certain regulations were manifested by the debtors on the !Middlesex side of the prison. One of the most salvo (a Ma jor in the Army) was therefore locked up in a strong room on Saturday afternoon. The consequence was, that the remaining prisoners combined; awl a threatening letter was smitten to the keeper, Mr. Kirby, declaring the intention of violence if the Major was not liberated. '1 his proceeding followed by some outrageous conduct to the °Ricers about the prison. such as pumping eater upon one, throw inn stone', gin-s bottles, striking with quart pots (one of the acts of Vipond towards Brrlcliaani, raid otherwise a...igniting them, it sm.' found ne.as sary to send to the Lord Mayor; win', accompani...l by the She riff., m a r,u 4 l., and about Pm Caultanbles,reeaired to the pri von ; when the first step taken was to lock up the priaon, .s. A general scene of riot and outrage ensued; and in endeavouring to force them into the lock up places, many of the Ofticere re ceived much injury. Cartwright, the Murshainian, was ',lobbed through the railing with a penknife in the thigh, and liege. another Marshalman, was tench beaten. Ake' a short straggle, however, the refractory were subdued, and chwely locked in. The Lord Mayor instantly ordered that thee shuuirl he •o kept the whole of the following, thq (Sundry 1, and that they should be deprived of the pis:dere of seeing their friend.. Severel of them has e since. we understand, expressed their contriti n, arid solicited pardeni brit the person who stabbed Carte right i• not yet discovered.. A warrant, however, has been sent to detain Vipond, in case of a discharge on his civil action. HATTON•GARDF.N. In consequence of information that a number of thisves and disreputable felonies, resorted to a common brothel, No. 4, George-street, 11lounnbury, John Hutt, with assistants, went there, and timid several buys and Aids in dilleretit beds, and brought them to the office bat nothing appearing partieiderly against them, they were reprimanded and discharged. Among the number was a Miss 11-, between 14 and IG Years uld, daughter of a Solicitor, who expressed much aver sion at her present course of life, and espressc•f a desire to be received into some place of reform. The !Magistrate sent the officer to her father, that he might get her into the Mag %filen, or some other asylum, as it appeared she had been only three mouths in that unfortunate situation, but he w.rold not listen to his message, and she was in consequence discharged, again to pursue her dissolute career. QUEEN SQUARE. T. Clegg. a mendicant, whose pitiful tries have long annoyed the inhabitmits of Spring-gardens, and who pretended to be THE NATIONAL REGISTER. blind and lanie, was bronght up, and ordered to b•' committed as a rogue and vagabond. He was taken to a public-Ito:1 , e op posite the Office while his commitment w as made out; but not liking the pro•pert of a gaol, he thrgot his corporeal and visual defects, noel, watching an opportunity, started with the speed of a greyhound. oat ran his pursuers. and got cl ar off. On Monday the whole of the Otheer.4 belonging to this Ot Ace received instructions from Mr. Fielding to make a search in that nett of infamy in the neighbourhood of Tothilbf ebla, and bring on all persons to the Office whom they fume! Thi.4 they did etle•rtually, by introducing 130 t'y• primas of the lowest order, and 20 men of smoicioua charac ters, before I'. Colipthoun, D.C.L. W. Fielding, and T. B. l'lcalow, &qrs. the Magistrates appointed to this division.— The Officers stated, that they commenced their search at 19 at night, and continued it until six in the morning. The anot her of unhappy creatures they found was so great, that Tothill-fields prison could not contain them; they then flitd the watch-house, and their last resource was to chain a parcel of them together, and leave a guard over them, and that they were obliged to link 20 or 30 ut them together to bring them to the Office ; some of them were in such a state of intesicati that they were obliged to carry them. The greater pal t of the men they knew to be notorious characters; ene of them was the son of the well-known Mother Abbess, of Newton-coot t, Strand. The prisoners were then severally examined ; hen it appeared that they rented miserable apartments in Py e- Street, Duck-lane, and Duck-court, from 3s. to :.s. per week, the chief of which belonged to Mts. Wilkinson. The watts. testes com:nilted to prison all tinder the age of 17, amongst whom were two sisters, in a most deplorable state from disease. The other females were discharged, with a suitable admoni tion ; and inthrmed, that if they did not)cove their wretched abodes before foin days, they should be sent to prison. '1 he men were also discharged ; but ioforitted, it they were seen in the same neighbourhood again, they would be sent to prison as rogues and vagabonds. A man named Durant, residing In St. Margaret's, Westmin ster, was charged wilti seducing his apprentice, a girl appa rently about 11 years old, but who was stated to be ltt, bound from the Doke of York's school to the prisoner's wife previous to his marriage. The girl being sworn most solemnly by the magistrate, declared the prisoner to be her seducer; that she had suffered almost martyrdom until he Oh eted his purpose ; and that fear alone prevented her telling her mistress the situa tion she was iu; but at last she was compelled to go into the workhouse, is hire she remained until the Ist of May, %%lieu she was brought to bed. The magistrate observed, it was a most Islet d transaction: the person under whose protection she was placed was the tint to ruin her. He must, however, be ac countable to the parish, and pay all exp•uees incurred, unless his innocence could be inure clearly manifested. MARLBOROUGH4TREET. F.VATUNG A T01.1.-GATE.—TWO gentlemen of title, and 18 others, were severally convicted in the penalties of twenty 'haling.; and costs, for evading the Green Alan tell-gate, Port land-road, Alarylehonc. It was proved that the defendants had broken out of the road by going down Warren -street, and avoids d the gate b y getting into the road again at Fitzrov-street, which just clears the gate. It was stated, on behalf of the lessees of the gate, who pay a very considerable sum for it, that they had no other desire than to enforce their rights by virtue of an Act of Parliament, which provides against slick evasion out of the turnpike-mail ; and which, if not put a stop to, will involve the farmer of the gate in ruin. L It LE I'. On Tuesday night B. Twig, a private in the 3d Guards, was stabbed in St. Catherinesdane, Tower-hill. Before he could be carried to the i.mard-house he dad. About the time the murder was committed, the throat of J. Moody, a private in the same regiment. was tut, near the same spot. J. Peru. a Spanish sailor, was charged as the perpetrator. S. Bath swore, that he was sitting at the White Lion pubiic-house, in St. C'atirerine's-lane, and the prisoner was there drinking. tiann after he left the house J. Moody ran into the house, saying that his throat was cut ; the blood was streaming over hi, clothes. Witness asked him who had done it; to which Moody replied... The sailor." Witness ran and secured Peru. who was running down St. Catharine's-lane. nere had been some noise in the house previously to th is event, and the pri soner had acted with viol: nee, holding his hand in a threatening atti tude to some of the Guards. Ile could not tell w Nether the deceased or Moody were amongst those whom the prisoner menaced. Ile believed the prisoner was turned out of the tap-room. The soldiers were on Tuesday celebrating the Anniversary of the Pattie of Waterloo at which they had been present. W. Douglas, a boy, same, that as he was going into the White Lion public-house, he la.* t7ie prisrme olraw • a kntle across the throat of Moody, within a few yards of the pu!ilic house ; Moody immediately put his hand to his throat, and ran into the White Lion ; the prisoner ran down the lane: Ann Stephenson had been drinking in the pri•oner's company on Tuesday night, and he,...d him say that he would kill somebody that night, and then cut his own throat. He hail struck her with a fork in the early part of the even ing. Serjeant Whittaker chposetl, that he went about the public houses mar the Tower on Tuesday night, to preserve order during the celebration cf the Waterloo Anniversary. He saw at three o'elock the prisoner ni the nrighboui hood of St. Catherine's-lane, who took a knife out of his pocket. anti, without opening it, drew it across his neck, say that •• he would cat his b-y throat. and that it shoold net be the only throat he would cut." Miller, the (Meer. produced a knife which was bloody at the blade, and which had been foand on the .pot where Moody's throat was eat. Tie SLrltalilt wits positive that the knife proluced was tha: which he saw with the prisoner ot the early part of the day.--The pritorar was remanded. He he about 50 years of age, and Las lost los right hand. SunsPty, the widow of an Aker, who resided in Mead's row, 1 ambcth, w cut fur a pint rf port( r for her dinner to a public house opposite; and on the door bring opened, she fell down and expired without a groan. Od Thursday, throe of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity. house were in the most imminent danger of losing their lives in the River 'lllaines. A. Chapman, J. Nloring, and I. Robin- E•qt.. had been down to the Nose to examine the Light Vessel on that Sand, and, returning, took a wherry oft' Lime house to come up the riser. They overtook a hi i 4 then dropping down, and near it was a barge heavily loaded with g one s. By smi t e accident these sheered so as to conic to gethei, snit crushed the boat and sunk her. Ily much agility, the (]rntlens•n and the iv:dermal' escaped. Mr. poring caught a rope hanging over the brig's side, and hauled up into Ow. chains ; Mr. Chapman gut on the barge's rudder. and Mr. Robinson, by the tiller, got with difficulty on board the baige, with the watt limn; all thankful for an eseape so providential, and at one moment so unhoped for. Wednesday, Mr. S. R. Ratline. of Nlerton College, Oxford, while bathing in the river, at that plave, was drowned. He Wd4 the only son of the Rev. R. Roiling, Vicar of Malden, in Essex. and formerly Fellow of Merton College. Inquisition was taken in Little Partlanibstreet, on the b:iitv of H. Arnold. who eiit his throat. Thi4 case has excited universal commiseration. 'lke poor mast hail a sick and dis tressed wife in the workhouse; and to relieve her he pawned a sheet for two shillings, which lie had taken from his lodging. room. He was taken to Nlarlboroogh-street Police , and committed under the Yawning Act. Atter having been Incised up for a tone, information was given to Marsden, tha gaoler, that he was dead: and it titrlie,l out he cut his throat with a razor, which waa found by Ida Ludy.—The diary returned a verdict of Lunacy. W •dre•dav an Ingnest was held on the body of I'. Howie, a private in th. late Vi ter an liat!alion. who died in consequence of a wound lie recili eil in a scuffle at the /fed House, Baiter in w!iielt Serj• ant Kendall w•as also so seven I 7 0unt1...1 as to cause his death. The other soldier ineols IA in the fray left town the folio% lug murniii;, and the deceased was appre hended on suspicion of being the murderer. E. Clarke, a Constable,deposed, that lie removed Howie from Hurst bragger. lane Gaol to Tothil-fields Bridewell ; w hen obsert ion; Ii in limp, he enipiired the cause; he replied, that he received a wound il l the scuffle with the Serjeant ; that he had three razors at the time about him, and wondered ally the fixed on him .I!ay more :han the other men ; that they were all drunk together at the time•. Mr. Hambray, a Surgeon, stated, that his assistant bail visited the deceased on hi, being brought into the Prison, awl found him in a bail 'tate. Proper necessaries acres:lit to hint until 11Icnday, when ness found a dreadful bruise on his thigh. A slight mortification bail Colllllll.llCed near the knee s which increased until Tuesday moreing, when he expii ed. lie hail no doubt that the above caused his death. The Jury im mediately returned their verdict, that the deceased met his death in conseqnence of the injury he received iu a •cuflle with ser. jeant Kendall. Monday as Inquest was held at the Apple-tree, White-hart yard, DEllrydalie, •m the buds of a nail, 'lamed ,),.b o a journeyman printer, who died suddenly, in the above house, a fens minutes after he had entered appeared in evidence, that the deceased was a native of Ireland, and had, ill COM... (pence of the dearth of business in this country, beeu unable to obtain regular employment—mid illness, occasioned by want of food, terminated his existence. Such was the opinion attire Surgeon who examined the body, and the Coroner's Jury returned their verdict accordingly.— It did not appear that he had made known his very distressed situation to any one. Thursday Wu:light, a sister-in-law to Mr. Bolter, past ry-eook, in Shoreditch, who has been in a state of mental derangement thr some time back, jumped out at the first-floor window, on the pavement. In her descent, she struck against a piece of lead projecting from the front of the house, by which her fall in seine degree was broken, and she was pitched upon her head ; she was instantly taken up and a surgeon procured, who declared her in imminent danger, her head being most dread fully cut and bruised. A daring burglary was committed early on Satnrday morn ing last by seine armed men, who forcibly entered the dwell ing house of Mr. W. Neal, near Hinckley, Leicestershire. Mr. and Mrs. Neal (both 130 years of age), a servant girl, an old labourer, and a grandson, named J. Holyland, constitute the family. About one o'clock they succeeded in getting into the house, one of them entering Mr. N.'s chamber, with a torch and worse-hook in one hand, and a pistol in the other ; the second with a bludgeon and gorse-hook tell upon the bed, in which were J. Holyland and the old labourer Holyland struck the villain, and a scuffle ensued, when he threatened to kill them both; the third followed into Mr. and Mrs. Veal's room. Mry. Neal cried out, " James, they are murdering your grand father," upon which the villains rejoined, " Lie still, James, or w.• will murder you ;" another entered the girl's room, pre sented a pistol, and took from her two on"-pound notes, a three shilling and eighteen-penny-piece ; Mrs. Neal entreating them not to take the poor girl's money, he returned her the ts. and locked her in the room; while this was going on above stairs, a party below ransacked the house of Vll. in money, a watch, plate, elec. and then made off, leaving two to guard the door until the others had got away with the property. Lately - as Mr. Otham, of Tidd, near Wisbech, was loading an old gun, fur the purpose of shooting magpies, it accidentally went off, bulged the contents in his side, and caused his death iu a few militates. He was in his Gist year. Monday morning. the Aylesbury coach was overturned near Watt's): d, and several ut the passengers were so severely hurt as to be unable to proceed on their journey. They waited at Mratfor.l fur surgical assistance. Others were slightly bruised. •On Same'lay an Inquisition was In-Id at the Rodney's Heal, Whitechapel-road, on the body of Mrs. Brown, of 11. th-street, who poisoned hera•lf on the preceding clay.. A large paper of arsenie wa- found limier her pillow.— Verilict—lnsa..ity. A monster entered the chamber window of a farm-house, near Bexley Hill, Kent, called Robin's ICswd Farm, at nomi, aml with a dung fork wantonly wounded and lacerated a pour child in the arms of its mother. The woman gav e an alarm, Wit 111.1 brute escaped. The Chat, r CLroriae states, that " the subject of dismissed workmen has b^en thoroughly investigated ; and. in emue gnence, his Lordship [the Earl of Grosvenor . ] has iliieeted as of them (except two, who have behaved imploperly•) to Gr tf stqred to Weir work, and Nome compcasation t o b e mad e f o r the luSs wbiclr they have !tonere,' by-suspensiou. In consequence of the sentence passed upon Mr. IL:e Go de, fur fraudulently receiving taxes, the Cm paratims ~1 Coe curry have expelled him from Isis situatian as .tidetniatif Justice ut the Peace, and C ~, mon Councilman. Wednesday .s some children were playing u ith bows and arrows, in Chariot street, I'M!, one of them had tot eye stain k -out by an arrow carelessly discharged by another. Distress-warrants have been lately executed on some indi viduals belonging to the Yeomanly Cavalry in Huntingdon shire, for not pay tug the horse-duty with which they wile sur charged. because. through 50.41 e otnis-ion, they vs ere not ca 1..t1 upon by their comatandingmfficer to perform Ili:: atede ut tin patchy 41:4'.‘n in the best year; in one instance, in the hood of St. Sect's, as amt . :timer was called in t e sill 4 cart and some sheep which had been thus wined; and al though nearly a hundred individuals were pieseat, nut one balloting was offel ed. ATTE NI PT TO CR D Wedri,:slay as ff:e gr.rms of Lurd Rivers was riding after his master out t,l Park, a ruffian just by the gate strack him sr:vcral Islaws I with a stick : the groom st.lggered from Isis horse, awl the brutal as:adlant immediately plunged a dagger into Isis side. The blade broke, and part of it remained in the body of the poor fellow after he was covered away for surgical aid. The crowd was so great, that the us satin was discovered only trots' the handle of the dagger having been found in his pocket. lie was taken to Marlborough-strict ()thee ; but all that transpired was, that he had fonnerlv been is butler to Lord Nliddletun, from whose service he had been dischargtd ; and accor ding to one 'account, he has ever since conceived the most deadly rancour against the i.Joatn, as the suproscd caused of his dismissal. It is, hov, - ,:•.*gr, tb' general that the assasiu insaae. 4