The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-21 00:00:00

334 Poltre. BO VV-7,TREET. Tl-31R1) EXAMINATION or BENJ. BLOOMFIF.1.1). On hid ry, at one o'clock, Benjamin Blojmficld, the person cliar 4 ed with practising extensive fiends, under the pretence of procuring situations under Government. was hi.aii:4lit tram the Marquis of Anglesea tavern to th• l'ablie Office, and iinderwt tit a third examination before Sir Richard Birnie and George Rowland Minsitull, Esq. the sitting magistrates. Before the ileum appointed for the re-examination, the office and its avenues were much crowded. When the prisoner was placed at the table in front of the liar, Sir R. Bit use asked if Mr Shearley, the original prose cutor, was present. Mr. Shearley presented himself, and Sir It. Millie then desired the clerk to read over the evidence. Mr. Harmer wished to save the magistrates the trouble of forther considering filr. Shearley's case. Since the former examination lie (Mr. It) had hail interviews with his client, Mr. Slicarloy, and had been very particular in questiatiiiig him as to the inducements under which he parted with his money, and Mr. S. had declared that he should not have given Ike money lee the false pretences atom), without the howl %%Melt lie had received from the poisoner; and, as Mr. Shearley load admitted that, lie (Mr. Harmer; did not feel justified in advising him to proceed feather with the elan ge. Mr. said, lie ilitinght the bond did not alter the ease at all, for the false pretences remained the seine. Mr. Harmer said, the false pretences undoubtedly re mained 1111511i1k1:11 ; but, in an indictment wider the Sta tute of False Pietences, it use necessary to allege that, by certain false is:presentations, the prosecutor lied been defrauded of a certain sum of money ; those representa tions must be all negatived, and nputt the trial of the cause, in order to support the Colic tment, the prosecutur must swear that upun those representations " alone" lie varied with Iti. money. Mr. Olinsholl said, it appeared that the pi isouer had 'itemised to pi octal e a situation for a certain person, which situation he had nu power whatever to obtain ; that, un doubtedly, was a false pi (truce, and as to the giving the bola', it was merely a show ot candout, and nothing else, in his opinion. Mr. shearley was then examined by Mr. Afinshull as to his knowledge of the prisoner, anti the Mr. Dunbar, who hail joined in the bond. Mr. S. stated, that he knew Dunbar was a pupil of Mr. Chitty, and a young man rising in life, and of highly respectable character and connect 10118. He was the nephew of a Major I)itithar. Mr. asked, if Mr. Shearley knew all this of his own knowledge, or his personal m u ltily. Mr. Sheatley said, he only knew it from Mr. Bloom field's representations, lint believed that person hail informed him roriectly. 'The prisoner had represented himself to be related to Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, and that his ova 11 name was Benjamin Bloomfield, and this he (Mr. S.) believed to be the case. lie lied corresponded with Disiabar's father upon the subject of the bond, and the :Atte' acknowledged the relationship, but said he knew nothing of the transaction its question, and desired not to be tumbled any more about it, as lie should not into fere. A gentleman, who stated himself to be Solicitor for a person who had been defrauded, here stepped forward, and stated, that he had it charge to prefer against the prisoner, but not beiug aware of the intention of Mr. Shearley to withdraw his charge, he was rather unprepared at this moment to go on. He requested that the poisoner might be remanded for two or three days, in which time he should he prepared. The 1111soner het e observed, that, in the case for which this Si licitor appeared, a bond had been given which was not yet due, and lie had every reason to believe that be. lore it became due the matter would be settled. Stu R. Biliiie asked the Solicitor if Isis client had re ceived a howl, and lie said he (sad ; but it was the bond 10f the prisoner only. Air. Harmer observed, that Mr. Sheerly had no wish to semen Mr. Bloomfield from justice, and his only motive fw nut pressing the charge was,lliat lie believed hes Mould site succeed in a criminal prosecution. Mr. Shearley also said, he was perfectly wittil ' y. to do all in his power to promote the ends of justice; but he had leason to believe that Bloomfield had been in a great measure the dupe of more designing persons, who had taken advantage of his youth, his name, Isis person, and his 'NAHUM. Mr. 11Iinsbull asked if Mr. Shearley knew those persons, Mr. S. said it would act be prudent to mention them new. After some further conversation, it was agreed that the prisoner should be brought lip again on %Vednesility.—The pm isimer was ac rurdingly committed until Mat day. IMMtl,lloltOtleill STREE r. 01.TRAGE 151 CIIA iti.r.i.writ BET.— Übe tour prisoners concerned in the above outrage were to have undergone a further examination on Friday at this office, bairn: Mr. Alaiiiviaraig, who despatched a messenger to the Middle sex Huspital, to ascertain the condition of 'lliayers, the wumided mail. Ile retarned with the following bulletin: " James 'f !layers still continuea too weak to bear t tmo val limn the Hospital, though in other respects he is completely recovei ed. " J. SWEETNIAN, House Surgeon. " Middlesex Hospital, Oct. lii, Is - A." The prisoners wet e accordingly remanded. WOItsHIP STREET. CHILD STEALING.—JerniIIIII Mi(tin,/ was brought before M. S's :they, jun. Lit., charged with conduct a Inch excited astonishment at the depinvity of human stature.— John Barret, one of the parish coostables of Spitailields, stated, that through toe complaints of several parents who had lust their children, lie proceetled last night to the resi dence of the prisoner, in Upper Cate-street, and in a room on the ground-Moor be found the %retch at the bar surrounded by eight children, a ith whom she was then enjoying the fruits of their iniquity. A supper, consisting of a satiety of meals and vegetables, bilile111)) , the hands of these little 011 Cb, N I she bad trained to thieving, was making ready on the fire. Three of these children named Frederick Clark, John Clark,and Joliet Bailey, sere owned by their parents, and the officer took them and the wmnati to the winch house; Plum thence lie brought them to the office in the morning, and it teas with great difficulty lie could save Memel( and ettarge from the Milignation of the populace. The father of Bailey, aged eleven scan, appeatiql at the uthce, nod, tears t, Isis eyes, related Imo be ha I lost hie child two months sign, how he had sou„tht fns hint every a litore, had ;Mir!' istd, toad sit leielb believed him tii be lust ; and now tt.a.htak,tl to I..:.uzit the tU C:111.4 Of this vilc t%mean • THE NATIONAL REGISTER the child had been daily committing felonies. The ehildten seemed .0 much on& r the contri.l of tlik infamous unman, that they were afraid to speak the twill unt,llshe eat cc moved from the hal-. Little Bailey then told how they were employed every day, being sent out to steal what they could uud bring it home in the evialiog t wilco they could gel nothing else, they stoic meat from time butches'., and vege. tablet from the green emcees. She• had a pack of card•, by which she told them their fortune in the morning, whether they would succeed, or whethe, they would be taken by an officer. _ _ Mr. Swnbcy observed, that since he had nttended this office lie had never witnessed a vire of to much iniquity. The prisoner wits nnnmitled for fusilier examination, when the Mai.eitiate intim:ilea lie should desire the parish to pre set uie her fur the misdemeanor, in exciting these children to commit felonies ; and the children are detained in custody at present with the intention of having them prudu.ed us itnesses against lu r. Some disturbances have lately taken place in the loan of Douglas and Peel, Isle of man. The corn dealers having conspired, and put an unnecessary advsoce on the prier of that article, the lower classes assembled and demo lished the houses of several bakers and Untie vendera. A good deal of property was carried off by the mob, and wines and spirits were set flowing hi the streets. As there were no military in the island, the gentlemen in the different towns, being joined by the half-pay otkcers, associated under the command of Major Nicholl, late of the 91 tit regiment, and having obtained anus and ammunition from the King's store, they succeeded in restoring order, after wounding two or three of the timers, and securing the ringleaders. Troops have been ordered from England: the cons dealers have lowered their prices, and the exportation of grain from the island is inhibited for three months. On Friday se'nnight, at 12 o'clock nt night, t h e Airmail:iv:dry and half-pay soldiers were still on duty, and nil was quiet. There is now sojoutning at Brighton a gentleman, 92 years of age, who was never befora ten miles from Lon don, and who, it is said, fr,luented an inn in Bishops gate-street daily for upwards of 60 years, and at which, it is further reported, he latterly ailowed himself fire bottles of port wine per diem, and that upon calculation and proof i t appeared he had actually drank at the above mentioned house no less a quantity than 35,609 bottles, or .57 pipes, of that generous and genial juice! A MAN OF BUSINFAIL—One of the most auda• cious robberies we have had to record for some time past took place in the neighbourhood of Leicester, on Satur day morning lust. Between seven and eight o'clock a young man, dressed in a smock frock, entered a close of Mr. Unison, of Bistall, and drove therefrom eighteen sheep, which he brought to market and sold to Mr. Brown, a jobber, of Blaston, before Milne morning. After he had disposed of his ill-gotten booty, the depredator went to the Lion and Lamb inn, where, having undisguised himself by pulling off his frock, he partook of breakfast with the utmost composure, and then disappeared, and has since not been heard of. He had on a dark green broad cloth coat, and was other wise tolerably well dressed, having altogether the appear ance of a respectable farmers son. He said his name was Forester, but where he resided Ile refined to tell. It is said that on passing Belgrave gate he left his whip in pledge for toll, which is very probable, as he changed a Al. note after lie sold the sheep, to pay for the pens in which he had exposed them for sale. We understand Mr. Cialson, or his shepherd, had seen the sheep on the usual place at seven o'clock in the morning ; so that it would appear that the audacious thief bad cute' ed his close, stolen his sheep, drove them two miles, got a purchaser, received the money for them, regaled himself, and got cl ear away, in little more ikiill two hours. On Wednesday, the lath instant, at eight o'clock in the morning, his Majesty's steam packet, George the Fourth, sailed from Holyhead far Dublin with the mail and passengers; when within a few leagues of Howth, a frightful crash from the engine was heard, which, on examination, proved that the main shaft had broken. The vessel having become unmanageable, the signal of distress was hoisted, and although several vessels were in sight, only one brig came to her assistance, into which the mail was removed. The George the Fourth remained in that situation itinit the arrival of the Meteor steam packet, which took her in tow to Holyhead, where they arrived at half-past twelve that night. MARGATE, OcT. 16.—We have here a resident, an extraordinary character, Mr. John Gyles, who completed his u9th year on Saturday last, and is now in perfect health. Tins har:ly veteran has been a warranted gunner in the service hi years and a half. He fired the first gun when 11 airke received his flag; and on the Ida October, 1747, was in the general engagement with the French fleet under that Admiral. 'the next actions was off 'Coulon under Boscawen, its 1759. The last service was in the taking of the Dutch fleet, in the year 1770. Gyles was the first man at Ramsgate Pier-head, when the King sailed for the French coast, and gave his Mo narch three hearty cheers on the departure of the Royal Sovereign yacht. lie walked alone from thus place without even the assistance of a stick, which, in fact, he never uses. SMUOGLING —An extraordinary seizure was made at Inverness on Saturday week by the Excise. Mr. ling gan, Supervisor for the Beauly district (appointed in room of Mr. France, who is ternoved to Inverness), informed Mr. Davidson, acting Supervisor there, that when off Arbroath, in the smack Rolls, he picked up 36 casks of gin, and had nut the vessel been labouring under a strong gale, he could have secured many wore, a number being seen Boating about. He gave information at the same time, that a vessel (then supposed to be the Janet, of Inverness) was seen to secure a number of the Heating casks; immediately upon which, Mr. Davidson, accompanied by a party, proceeded to search, and disco vered seventeen ca,ks concealed in a garden near the New Bridge. There were no spirits found on boatel the Janet, but she was seized on =COMA of not reporting the circumstance, amid lodging the illegal part of her cargo in the Excise eel s. We regret to state that an unpleasant accident hap pened to the Tunbridge coach coining to London on Saturday evening. It was upset at Brumley, anal the coachman, and a lady, an outside passenger, were sc• verely hurt. The rest of the passengers, both inside and outside, received sonic bruises. Dreadful Fire.—Ou Friday night last, about half pats 10 or 11 o'clock, a fire b►oke out on the south side of Valentine Place, in the Surrey Road, about half way between the New Cnt, from Westmins►er Bridge, and the Magdalen Hospital. It began in an oil and colour shop, and soon enveloped the house in flames. We have not heard how it originated, or what was the fate of all the inmates. One woman, we are toad, who was in the third flour, after the flames had caught the lower parts of the house, and blazed out of the windows around her, threw herself down, and was caught in a blanket. The fire rapidly involved every part of the house, and communicated with the next. Assistance was promptly sent for, and two or three engines soon arrived; but either from want of water, or front ignorance, where to find the plug, the firemen and the neighbours were con demned for more than half an hour to witness the pro gress of the conflagration, without being able to take a single step to impede or arrest its course. About half past I I the fire was at its height. The long stream of flame and smoke then appeared from Black friars as if it arose from the Surrey Theatre. The two houses that first caught fire were rapidly destroyed, and a third was nearly burnt down, when (about twelve o'clock) water was found, and the engines began to play, and in less than half an hour the activity of the firemen had tri umphed, and the inhabitants of the neighbouring houses, who !were trembling for their safety and beginning to remove their property, were relieved from alarm or ap. prehension. In the confusion we are unable to learn the extent of the damage, or even to ascertain whether any lives were lost. As far as we could see, only two or three houses have been entirely destroyed, though others may have suffered a partial injury. On Thursday evening, the lslcworih coash, on its arrival into the village, for the purpose of setting down, •it their respective habitations, two females, one an inside, the other an outside passenger. The coach hav ing arrived at the house of the former, the driver got down, leaving the reins upon the backs of the wheel horses, and before the lady could alight, the whistling of some mischievous boy set the horses off; they ran through the village with great speed, turning the sharp corners of the streets with the saute exactness as if they had been under the guidance of the most skilful coach man, but the vehicle was at last thrown over, and the unfortunate female on the outside so dreadfully injured, that she expired at one o'clock on the following morn ing. One of the horses was also killed. Firs.--About 1 l o'clock on Wednesday night last, the neighbourhood of Calthorpe-street, Brunswick-square, was thrown into the greatest alarm, and on discovering that the upper part of one of the new houses in that street was on fire, and knowing that a man and his wife had the care of the house and slept on the third floor, the whole of the neighbours assembled, and the rattles were sprung, and several persons kept knocking at the door and called aloud " fire, fire " but receiving no answer they broke open the dour, and proceeded up stairs, when they extinguished the fire. Skocing of Ilona.—A discovery has been recently made why that useful animal the horse, has been sub. ject to so much lameness by the shoeing of the smiths.— The blame is not totally to be attributed to the shoer, in commanding the smith to complete the shoeing of the horse in a limited time, which consequently would oblige the smith to put on the shoes before the iron is cold ; and which, if the least degree of warmth is re maining within the iron affixed to the horses feet, must unquestionably occasion them to become more heated for hours, and produce a tenderness in the feet. Our correspondent observes, that the shoes, when prolierly made to suit the size and shape of the foot, should be put into cold water for a quarter of an hour ; and were proprietors of coaches and carriers to adopt this system. the complaints of the badness of the roads would then subside, from the improved state of the condition of the feet of their cattle. Marriage Loitcry.—lt has often been said, figitrat;vely, that inartiage is a lottery; but we do not recollect to have met svti h a practical illustration of the truth of the simile before the Mllowing, «Rich is a fiee translation of a❑ advertisement in the Lousiana Gazette :—" A young man, of good figure and disposition, unable, dm' desirous to procure a wife, without the preliminary tum ble of amassing a fortune, proposes the following expe dient to obtain the object of his wishes :—he otters him self as the prize of a lottery to all widows and virgins under 32. l'he number of tickets to be 60U, at 50 dol. tars each. But one number to be drawn from the wheel, the formate proprietor of which is to be entitled to him self and the 30,000 doll trs." Ott Wednesday last, the daughter of Mr. Honeyscet, wheelwright, of Luton, near Chatham, aged 21, Way missed from her father's house,and after a diligent search (or some time, Was found in a well in Lutou•strt•et, quite dead ; a disappointment in love is conjectured to have been the cause.—Saine day, a sailor, belonging ut one of his Majesty's ships in the river Medway, %Val found hanging in a wood near 112Mb:um A note or paper was Minot in his pocket, signifying that want of employ had driven him to it; but as two sovereigns were found in his pocket, and he was at that time in his Majesty's service, it is believed that was not the real cause. In the neighbourhood of Hamilton, in Scotland, an experiment was made this year to try the ditTerenc2 be tween the spade and the plough. A field was taken, which was in beans last year, and oats the year before; two ridges were dug and two ploughed alternately, awl the whole was sown on the same day ; a part both nit the ploughed and dug being drilled with the garden hoe: the whole was reaped the same day, and being thrashed ant, the result was, that the dug sown broadcast was to the 'sloughed sown broadcast as 55 to 42. The dug and dulled was as 204 to Igt, upon the ploughed and drilled. The additional grain is not the only beneficial result A oned by digging, as in this instance there was also a great deal more straw. The land is free of weeds, and will be easier billowed next year.