The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-02 00:00:00

Volta. GUILDHALL. The neighbourhood Doctors' Corn mom, was all in an uproar about nine o'clock on Sunday morning, in consequence aim alarm of thieves; two men were seen making their escape in great baste out of the house of Mr. Hill, a green grocer; the cry of " stop thief" was immediately raised, and a general pursuit took place as tar as Ludgate Hill, wh , re two men, supposed to be thieves, were overtaken, and brought back in custudy. On inquiry it appeared, that while Mr. Cox, a lodger of Mr. Hill's, with his wife and child, were dressing for church, two fellows broke forcibly in through the window and made the best of their way down stairs. It turned out that the Excise officers having received information of an illicit distillery being carried on at No. 10, !Sennett's Hill, were watching near the spot, and the door happening to be opened, they rushed in, the knot of distillers dis persed in all directions, and two of them finding no other means of escape, had broke in through Mr. Cox's window, the premises being adjoining. The two men taken were brought before Mr. Alderman Cox, at this Justice Room, on Monday ; they gave their names Samuel and John Peppard, father and son, and Mr. Langliam, a solicitor, attended on their behalf. Chas. Land, an Exciseman, stated, that in consequence of itilurination received, he and a brother officer entered the house, and found in the loft a still, capable of holding 150 gallons, a large quantity of low wines, and • tub of wash really for working. There was some wash in the still which was warm, as if it had lately been at work. He and his partner could identity the two prisoners as being on the prerniveri, and the being on the premises where there was a private still, reudeied persons ameua- Isle the statute. Mr. Langhans inquired under what statute the officers acted ( Land requested time to go to the Excise Office, to furnish himself with the law upon the subject. This was allowed, and on his return he shook his head and said, lie feared lie was done time. On hmking into the statute he found, that the persons must be seen in the still room to make them liable, and the fact was, that lie and his partner had seen the ptisoneta on the premises, but not iN the still room. This pot gll cod to the case, as far as the Excise was cooccruvti. Mr. Altlerm.in Cox thought there was still a charge against the prisoners, for breaking into the adjoining house; but atter some discussion, they were discharged. BO W-SIR B lit Thomas Caddingion, Thos. Ingram, and Edw. Caseman, privates in the Coldstream Guards, were brought before 'he Magistrates, in consequence of the complaint of Mr. Cbam• bees, a salesman living in Broad-strcet, St. Giles's a ho stated that the prisoners had bean drunk all the niorniug, and in sulting every person they met with in the streets. They were guilt) of the most disorderly conduct, and broke too panes of glass in Mr. Chamber's a indow. Ile then had them apprehended, and it required four in —five constables to lake them into custody. One of them, Ingrain, struck him two or three times, and also shuck one of the con stables. No charge appearing against Caddinglon, he was dis charged. I agram having pushed Cuseman's shoulder against one of t re passes of glass, and Gasman having broken the other a jib his fist, were ordered to pay ss. 6d, each, the price of the glass, or be imprisoned fur fourteen days; and Ingram was further ordered to find bail for the assault. Mr. Chambers stated dial his neighbourhood was greatly annoyed by the numerous soldiers of the Guards, who were constantly drunk from morniug to night, and behaving in the altlA disorderly manner. FRIEN Dftl tl, ROBBERY, AND Cam. Co a.—Jeremiah Simpson was placed at the bur, charged atilt being an ac complice in robbing Sampson Holbrook, and also with feloniously receiving the property stolen from the said Sampson. Mr. Sampson Holbrook, who is a tailor, told a long and remarkably incomprehensible story, about gratitude and gold rings, broad ribbands, a ten pound mite, satin spencers, kolshuc:,"and fardeigales, and things," all of whit h, lie said, hurl beets IstOlea from him by Mrs. Sillipioll, aided tutu :Melted by her husband, the pi isoner. Plit lie ended by deelarieg he had " nu ts i-h to earl him." " Thee what did you !Honig him here for ?" asked the magistrate; to %halt Isle. Simpson Holbrook replied, " Only that your Worship might give him a bit of advice about giving rite the things again." The prisoner, Jeremiah Simpson, better known by the appellatiun of " Dismal Jerry," now chinned to be heat d, and his speech threw a con-idei able light on S inipson Hots brook's obscurity. Ile spoke of having laud aI One time a warns heart both for love and ft iendship, and tit Ins suscept i • bible., in those matters having been grossly outraged.—lle lied taken unto himself a wife, who was dearer to him than his life ;and a friend who in he valued above till things except his wife. Teat friend was Sampson Holbrook I In the sincerity of his ow n lienrt he had taken Sampson into his awn house us a bosom counsellor, and Samp-thi had availed himself of this confidence, by rem i , cos.isa littack• upon his wife, dazzling her eyes and bew itd,•l tug her bruin by the splendour of his presents; and at length persuaded her to elope ts ith him to a lodging be had ;nut/Med for her in a dilferent part of the town. Repentance, how, ver, took possession of the lady, and she returned to her husband, bringing w nth her all the presents she had received front Sampson, her seducer. Th s doubtless, cut Sampson to the heatt,aud um his rage lie charged her with stealing the said present-, and her unfortunate spouse ssith receiving them.— le conclusion, he declared, that though Sampson had thas injured him, lie freely forgave him, and had no sort of iitiirctinii to admit him once more as his friend. fee Magistiate observed, that this being the case, he would recommeed them to depart in peace. Tim seducing 84111001 i testa ugly extended the right-Mud of fellowship " Dismal Jerry" received it with a Ilea. ty shake, and they depaited the office Sarin in arm, to the great amusement of all present. UN lON-HALL. J'•eph Decker, a man attired in u cloak wrapped round hi, body, a le:tiller girdle round his loins, a long heard, bare. footed and bareheaded, w ilk a stall in his hand, a native of Boston in America, who has for some time resided in Vir ginia -court, Elisabeth-row, Dock bead, and gone about the villages in the neighbourhood of London preaching and bap tising in the open air, was on Tuesda) charged by the Rec. toes Warden of Gainful-well with being an impostor and a vagabond. The following are the fuels connected with the charge against the prisuuer as they appeared uu the iuvcs tiiatiuut-as On Monday afternoon a female, one of Decker's followers, appointed to meet him at Camberwel., for the purpose of being there baptized by him in the Surrey Canal. On the tirrival of the ',slimier on the bank of site canal, be com menced preachin4, and he 60011 had oe large cungregatinh, who at lint paid great attention to his address, a hick was at first delivered with a peculiar style of simplicity. Oa the arrival of the female who was to be immersed, lie offered up a pray er on her behalf. The people paid great attention excepting some rude boys, bad women, and some low fellows, till he took the woman by the band (she having fastened her clothes down to the lower ptut of her legs), and led her into the conal, where they began to shout aud Mazza, and throw dead dugs and cats Into the water. He requested the good people to be quiet • few moments. Silence being a little rector. d, he took his station in the water by the woman's side, and baring put uric hand on her shoulder, and held her hands with his other handl, he addressed her—" Art them a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, awl that lie died to save sinners ?" The female answered, " I believe in Jtsus, my God and my Redeemer." He then, lifting up his eyes to !woven, exclaimed—" My dear sister, as a follower of the divine example of the crucified MIN Stud us a believer in him, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." lie these dipped her by gently forcing her into the water bum kwards. She was plunged under the the water, and came oat dripping wet. A clack was thrown over her; she shook hands with Decker, and a alked home four miles in her wet apparel. As soon its she was gone, the crowd assembled begin* to play tricks with Decker: they pushed him into the water, trod upon him, and buffeted him about ; and the churchwarden interfered and brought him to Union Hull ; hut it being eight o'clock before he arrived, tho Ma..isti ate was gone, and he was ordered to be taken to a watch-house until nest day. Clamant, the officer, who keeps a public-house, took h:in under his protectiou, dried his clothes, and gave him a bed. He diluted water only, and edits the coarsest food, mid that very sparingly. Oa his being brought before Mr. Chambers, the Magistrate, it appeared that the prisoner had committed no legal offence; lie had not begged alum; a ben money was offered him, and some persons did offer him sovereigns, be refused to touch the money. If any one asked him lit eat, lie would lake a little, just eiteugh to support nature ; but if motley Was put in his lap he would put it aside, and leave them, wishing the " good speed." Mr. Chambers said the man was a foolish fanatic, but his conduct was harmless, and ordered him to be discharged. The prisoner said that for four years he hard been called to preach Christ, aud he had gone on his master's business it ithout purse or scrip ; he hail not touched coin for that pciiud, and yet he never wanted food. Elijah was feed by ravens, and God also provided fur hint. His object is restore primitive Christianity; and his mission, which he had received from God, is to go ainung the Heathen, the Greeks and Turks. to convert them to true Christiatiity. He is soon to set sail for Greece, and will visit Jerusalem. His pas.s.ige has been paid by • gentleman, a friend of his. He was asked to prosecute the person alas assaulted him at Camberwell ; but he replied," Nu I God forbid that !should put any man in bondage. God forgive them, they kuuw nut what they did." MYSTERIOUS DEATII.—On Sunday, the 25th inst. Rotate servant, named Eleanor Tritton, who lived as ' cook with Mr. J. Curling, of Osengel), near St. Law rence, in the Isle of Thanet, left her master's house on a visit to her sister, at Sandwich, and wes expected to return in the evening of that (lay ; but the hour of nine had arrival, and not making her appearance, two of the men servants of the house went out to meet her, and in a quarter of au hour afterwards, when near the direction post, where the road from Sandwich diverges in dill rent directions, they observed a gig or one horse chaise ap proaching, in which were a man and a female, and • having made themselves known, the woman called to one by name, earnestly , entreating they would stop the horse, and adding, '• For God's sake take me out ;" but the man who was driving instantly whipped the horse, which set oft at lull gallop, so as to preveht any attempt to stop it, One of the persons, however, pursued the chaise on foot into the direct road lemliog to Ramsgate, and followed it in that direcrion till h. perceived th a t th e driver having passed Nether -court, hail turned nut of the turnpike roan into a lane on the right, IcadinA to Pciovell, and accordingly crossed the Gelds, the more readily to Intercept it; nut being unsuccessful, he soil conanued the pursuit into Ramsgate, where, by the light of the latnus, he first discovered that the female was ini,sing, and the man win) (hove directing his course through Ramsgate into the road leading to Margate, all farther trace of the chaise seas lost ; and it being now ten o'clock, he gave up the pursuit, and returned to his master's house. An i 111 l neiltate search was in consequence made in every direction, doting the night, for the finale who was missing, but without success, till about five o'clock on Monday mottling last, as a man named ‘Vood, was proceeding from the vicinity of this city, with a cart load of Lavine, to Ramsgate, he discovered a female lying life less in the road, within a few roils of the grounds of Nether.coort, which upon further examination wiS found to be the body of the unfortunate woman, with several bruises in her face, as if from the effects of him% s. Assistance being procured, the body was carried to the workhouse at St. Lawrence. It did not appear—from a purse, containing a sovereign and tome silver, which was mumd in her pocket—that she had been robbed ; and it is to be lamented that the person who pursued the chaise should, in crossing the fields whit tine gi totl intention above described, have left the main road before he reached the spot where the body was fouod. The de ceased was about thirty years of age, and had lived with Mr Curling, at Ozengell,upwardsoi live years,by whom, as well as by his family, she was touch respected tor her good conduct. Since writing the above, we learn, the man slug drove the chaise has been dacovered, and committed to St. Augustine's gaol, till the result of the inquest shall be known. The stake-money for the fight between Hickman (the gas-light man) and Neate, the Brisiol hero, the hest men of the day, was made absolute on Wednesday, by staking the whole of the 200 guineas a side, or the battlr for the championship of England, on the i I th of 1):-celiibt-r. There was much ceremony over the staking, and has was backed at six to four, until the takers vew A poiut won: is about the betting. .• • EXECUTION. Tuesday morning was ushered in by the melancholy spectacle of the execution of the following convicts : Samuel Hayward, for a burglary at Somers Town; Joseph South, for passing a forged 101. note; and Ann Norris, for robbing and beating a man in a house of ill.fame, in IVentworth.strcei, Whitechapel.—John Jacobs, for high way robbery ; and Amy Steele, for a similar offence for which Norris suffered, were reprieved at a late hour on Monday night. . . The unfortunate co nvicts who suffered, ever sines the warrant arrived fur their execution, paid the most fervent and respectful attention to the religious consolations of the ltev. Mr. Cotton, who was unceasing in his attendance on them. At half past seven o'clock, the Sheriffs, Messrs. Garrett and Venables, arrived at the prison, and immediately pro ceeded to the press-room, where shortly after South was brought from the chapel, and had his irons struck off; he appeared perfectly resigned and penitent, and said but little. Hayward was then introduced; he was fashionably dressed in black, and wore a black handkerchief. This young man was most respectably connected, and bad served iu the army. Every exertion had been made to procure the remission of his sentence from death to trans. portation, but without effect. He assisted the officer to strike off his irons, and conducted himself with moderate firmness, although he evidently appeared depressed; he shook hands with South, and thanked the Sheriffs for their kindness towards him. The unfortunate woman, Norris, was brought from her cell, dressed in white, and con ducted into a rolls: adjacent to the debtors' lodge, where she was attended by the Rev. Mr. Baker and another Dissenting Clergyman, to whom she repeatedly acknow ledged the justice of her sentences and said she hoped in the strongest manlier for mercy, through the intercession of the Redeemer of mankind. She joined the awful pro cession to the scaffold at the room door; she was so weak that she was assisted along the passages. South ascended the scaffold with a firm, deliberate step. On his appearance a considerable sensation was maul tested by the immense crowd at his extreme youth, he being only 10 years of age. He took little notice of what was passing. Hayward followed, and on being delivered into the bands of the executioner lie burst into tears, but soon recovered himself, and repeated the responses of its. Rev. Mr. Cotton. The woman Norris Was then placed by his side; she trembled violently, and frequently thanked the reverend clergymen for their religious consolations,. The whole of the melancholy preparations being com pleted at twenty minutes past eight o'clock, the wretched culprits were launched into eternity. Norris and South appeared to suffer considerably. The concourse of per sons assembled was immense. DREAD/UL AcciDeNT.—ln consequence of the high flood on Monday the I yth inst. seven inert in the employ of Mr. Finch, at the mustard mill at Staines, got into a boat to go to their respective homes to dinner. Unfortu nately one of the seven was a new comer to the mill, and had that morning been pavihg his footing, or treating his new acquaintances with beer, which rendered then► more wanton than prudent ; for though the part they had occasion to go over was not more titan leg-deep, they by some playfulness got into the mill-stream, where the rapidity of the current upset the boat, and precipitated the seven men into a depth of ten feet; by whieh acci dent four were drowned. The other three would have inevitably perished, but for the intrepidity of a roan who witnessed the catastrophe. This person, who had for merly been a sailor, es need the true spirit of a British tar on this unhappy occasion ; having a rope fastened round his middle, he plunged to the bottom of the river, whence he brought op, one after the other, three nut 0F the seven nien, who are by hint, under Divine Provi dence, restored to their families and friends. The scene on the edge of the water, upon the accident being known, was truly heart-rending. l'he families of the unfortonate men rushed to the spot, and it WJS with great difficulty that the wife of one of LIICIII Coil Id be reedited throwiug herself into the water, to share the fate of her husband. Toe sautes of those lost are Thomas Fenner, William IVarder, Robert Childs, and %William Black. We hear a subscription is set on foot to reward the person that rescued the survivors (tom a watery grave. 4 Gong of Kutiers raker.—A short time av the house and shop of a respt:cialtle shopkeeper at HingtOn, near Northampton, was entered in the night, and property to a large amount stolen. Application was made to S:r H. lintue, at Bow -street, for an officer, who dispatched liolyland. The latter soon discovered the robbers, but had no property or evidence to commit them. Holyland directed a proper person to attempt a purchase of certain property from the suspected persons, and to give i tifor. 'nation, to Ball, a constable at Northampton. The plats succeeded. A first and second purchase was made, anti the property identified by the person robbed. The pur chaser then, under the direction of the officers, proposed to purchase the whole of the stolen property, consistio* of valuable 'mishits, gown pieces, &c. &c. The parties a..:Teed to meet at a ham three miles from Northampton, in tile night. The purchaser, with the officers in the rear, adjourned to the barn, and after the robbers had produced the goods, and a price agreed upon, the pur cha-er withdrew, when the officers rushed in upon the tine% es. A desperate resistance was made, and the lights put out, but the officers succeeded in capturing them, and carried them and the stolen property toNm thampton, where three of them were tinily committed to North ampton gaol, for trial at the ensuing assizes. Ball, the constable, acted iii the most praise-wormy manner, a nd missing his way ;n the dark to the biro, he plunged over head in a large pond, and with difficulty got out again. Out Saturday be . ottighi,Sir J. Altky's s;og hounds ran a do: Icon die covers of Mr. Wiight, of Bunton, which,. after takine a circuit by Stratton and Frenenham, re turned to Buxton, Hevinaltam, and Stratton, when she challenged the turnpike road, and ran in full view to St. Faith's ; from thence she took across the country, by Spizivorth, Beestota, Crostwick, aud - finally in W ham ; at which time she had fairly beaten her pursuers, having included in the circuits not less thin 31) miles. This is the third time S.r JACO!) Itstlcy's hounds have tuu the saute tlve. • :~, 1 r. .• • 7 '4 • !i