The National Register. — London, England, 1821-11-05 00:00:00

MIDIII.E•S'E Y SESSIUNS. EiTItEME Dena s•liv.—Jemirnit Matthews, t middle/ aged woman, of the lose,/ order. wt., indicted fur receivil from Frederic k Clarkey a sheep's Mehl and liver, knowin them tit be stolen. z.s. .o.r. Walford statetrthe case fotelse 'wassail& ion.-1 le said, that however ditheultlt might tte.ta give credit to the fact; yet lie war iusitucird it would he clitaily proved that the prisoner w.o in the hahil ut bedUCillg rbilJren Iran (hair pnrelliS, kind them to. live situ her, and insiructiog Went in all the arts id thieving, nod .ending the in tla its) about the streets In practice the lesshits she gave them. He would prealuer Ills aiuicscs, nod the' Jury *heir iirothillilde on the guilt or innoectite of tine prisime:'itechrdintler'ilte deuce‘ A number of children, who had heen reduced by the wretched aromas at the bar, were stow brougUt•iuto court to give evideace. Trey were mostly under 10 years of loge—. two who Here examined as winless°, were bow hat older, Frelci ick Clarke stated, that about a mould ago a younger ut!ier of his .t. 13 !nal, and could nut be foulid.--, Vet:it n fortipight after the wi torsi met him in file ,l l eet, When lie told him I(the Witness) that lie and sevcial other boys lived with the prisoner, who sent them oat every day t.? steal, and was very good to them when they 1.1 uur,4t Inint4 limns. Tn.!' boy asked the tows* to *it wills hlm us ine pri,osier% Hosts, which he did, mitt was persuaded by li-r to lire with h, r, nod du us dm other b.. tl3l. She maid she'd pay him (in wlialt•Ver he'd hi hog loom., :.um char t e him only three penes Itweglit for lodetine. (lit the third day nf.et he weal, hetiig the I 1 th of October, hr stole frog V.I. !lop. wood, a butcher's shop in Whii , chata.l. a sheep's heart alai liver, which he broigid'hii•ne to tile pri4tioei, who owl be was a eh vet •fellow, nod would certiiisily do welt—that a hat lie bcought was worth sixpence, and he sheuld have ta a night's lodgiit4 for it. j"1111 T.,' rell said he w, .t to live with her ou before-he was taken up. The pri.oner's ton used to come to iik father', home,and toeckon to hi I/ t I gri out, would Wen take him to the pi Wooer'., *no coaxed him to live u ilk her. lie aae pre,ent alien Chit - ke hroii4l.t home the stireCb heart and liver, and cinrohorated his evidence. Mr. Hopwood, a hotelier, of Whitechapel, proved that a sh-ep's twurt and liver wi:re oinlen (ruin hi. shop on the I Ith alt. • ,—••••••••• C:urs,a cowituble, proved that he received 'arum unction art ,t the prisoner cm the tits ult. and apprehended Iwo and seven boys, who *ere in her room at lee time; bhe was fryioe, a sheep's boort acd liver. There was craw in a oorner of the-room, on which they all Jay tugclbet oa the 11. like tits. . . . . The w Tyrrell wnsbAsin ruled, owl Aoted, rrory • uornistg, helots. they went out to %teal, the prtsuett.eitild them *bat would !mimeo to liter: , daring OM day, w bleb knew Ity a pork cat alloi she naurgiugnf iie , lay i u:,.jerken up, she told hire , " there was vlutp ift,4arrist him, and he wnwld certainly be Inkett, lull there wit, tt heart for him, and Le might to. Aire he'd e.cape. The pr Nii•we eivide no d. l'erer, and the Jury, w Mama he sitation, fumed hvr The cliwrinitii .enteneed 11-r to twelve mouths' itorriaud went iu the haute Of correct;on. 440 k tEe. DO W...siliEET. ERIK...QUOIN 4 RICA SR.-011M44(14y,Charlotte Briggs a :liltkit felony °'"a", " 4 S b ,0 "4 1 4 befure Sir Iticliar,l . Binds char lony anderetreamstanct4 a very,4l44ga. lar antriagravated flame. - • • The %AS set in the fain;:y of Kensington Lewis, Esq. of George•Areet. A dpiphi, and had heen so tor more• Mau two years. Mr. Lewis has lour children i two or thiee of his se►sauts were occasionally left with the children at his country house. 14 tieu this was. the rase; the sole management of the children was left to the prisoner. Notwithstanding all the care which the paresis themselves bestowed upon their children, they eves) , day grew more weak and sickly. At length the tense was 41.• entered. About six weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Lewis took their eldest daughter, about seven ears old, to Pat is, and when there a f•w days site gee w unit lively, a. it one dry In formed her mintier, 01.1 l as she w.. 1 tint afraid now nt being skinned alive; she would tell her something. The child then said that she and the othiZr cneidten, w lieu they w etc at the coniiiry house. never had any milk, bat were fed upon bread and wale•,. just a lit tie (.Ao:fled w ilk milk, and of that they had imie!) - surficient t :did that the prisoner was cens!:mtly be.ding thein—and thir s t of the ser vants nail, ilut they *Mal: " Skili there kthe children) elite" if they eves.tuld ia.irA to Ihrir parents. (Jun this idteliitzeht e, and Mrs. IX% it* teak (tiled home, and httou 11 . 1 4tiry they learned that the yttsfitivr had never token more than one quart of milk per thouigh she 'sal ordered to lake three, and always charged in het hills fur ham. in the course of the ingairy. stone multi, ion arose tl it the ',stingier Lad robbed as well as defrauded mein, and Mr. Lewis procured a warrant iu search her unlit..., ss here he and the limier officer foam' a viiiitahle net silk shawl, a garnet ring, and ti considerable quantity of lace And other sulkies, belonging to Mrs. LEN and Ili also fount's gold aid, wadi hulked:4, and -sovereigns, winch the said welt , het's. She now said, when pietiuncrl by thell. itglitree, that she Iliad t ;Arnett the Homey. She also s.nrl , thsit the proud sing aas her own, a n d that the other things weir: given her by Mrs. Lewis. This was dvoird, mud she was fuliy committed to News gale let trial. ,lIANSION HOUSE. The Lord Mayor mentioned lit the Justice-roots, that the publication which the sloe of a poor girl who had been robbed of Stil. had so promptly received in theriewspapers produced the dean ert eirret iii a very shot t time. Atreatly it larger iaibed, had been tecetved for her benefit. A lady, apou trading the aceonsit,txpressed a wish that the Lord hi..yor n 9111 d take the It isle asnutilit at her hands. 116 lordship teftnied to do so, but was obliged to accept of Is' the applicatien of whkii was placed at his lordship's dtopueal Jur the set vice ui the girl Mr. Car . 011, upon serintr, the article, wcot to the Stuck E%elhilige,•sila 111 a let" 1111111flob t (like led 2il. The Lord Mayor intimated that he should, of courac, expect uo farther disuatiOlis. On Monday a her of trait mistri in the city attended at the Jusliee.roam to state charges against two person., who are in custody under suspicion of having oatained goods feloniuthdy to a considerable amount. The tit at I.ouer wa ,Charles P.thper, who Was brought op on a p w, NATthiAir •• • nEGisTitt'T charge of obtaining goods from Mr. Roelifort, a grocer, Aldgate, to whom a written order was tent for it quantity , o f gr o orrh . whi c h w as , to he packed up tin the country, to No. lg. .L.itne-street. The porter wilt. the sw t'alitteratt Lime"' sect, wito . uppetsceil . to :act )0,d11.0 City : ol.llW Of,Oloris , and said that his ens idoini. was, (Mot !mine, bui r would rattiest !don. Painter induced the potter to leave the goods, linden the return of the letter they were not forthcomittg, Palmer hieing Os.' mired Mot that 'Mr. - Taylor had pot !liken them Imo the country atal•lled4ortpattett to• leave the value.—Palmer *us sent re prieonyead ottlereet•to be brought up fur fur. dhow 4.xamitt sloe. Th e other prisottor, Isaac Cons 4, alias Taylor, waa then ,plat to.the bar, Loargesl by. Mu. Cole,. car pet manufacturer, of N.ewginees t s,eet, with hariiig obtained goods under falso pretests:es. Cole stated, that un the 17th the prisoner carne to his shop, and , stated that lie wanted a carpet for the breakfastsronin of his comatry loose at Blackheart'. .1 l'44tatstity - was shown to him, mid at length be chose a piece of 38 pods, which he said world answer the dimensions o f vs 'root, and ordered a rite se correspond with it. Witness had none by him, but said he would get one made widow/n(1 it alter the carpet. 'll,r prisoner orders (1 the carpet to be sent parked %loin No. 12; Lime-street, eta that afternoon, as Inc ioleodesl to take it for abs house in his elteise. lie gave the 11.11110 of Ta)lor, of the lent of Taylor and Cu., wine merchants. Tits toilet who was sent with the carpet was desired to be no , pat tieular its observing the h‘• tuft the goods, Wit the display of ham . pt. rs sad ba,kebs was'sucli at the warehouse as convinced the totter stlgt,The fu in was tong established, and was earrying oft nil extensive Invite-Bs. li e accordingly iota wintry-, Ilt . athe had nothing titaisprelsend. On the •23d the prlsouer•eame agsitawitit mfrotaleaf reepeetable nit. Immunise; :room he uuratlased as WS Wile, anti had brought, he said, to attest a carpet for the &awing ruu:n us their house al litackhealli.. A carnet of W Yards was chosen h the lady, and ano to correspond. The whole were to sue sent to Li-oolitic...l by fuer o'4•l4tek toe siftet neon, when Mr. Taylor would talc., it home its his gig; 6111 of iritecla wills a Stamp receipt was to be sent 01111 it. The properly wits sent A•ii'ay, hit these was some excuse for not making the payment, which had Mot been oinainid since. The valor. was 451..',5. A day ot two after, a persost who said his name was Cole; and of the fires of • Titylor and Co.. came and stuted,that lie knew the brother sit the prosecutor, and formerly had had tsims:tetious with . the strut. lie wanted a carpet for his country house, which he •ond he would take house that afternoon in his chaise, but the wituess hesitated about line order, and ramile, empiric) , which opened his es es. Twu other men, notwithstandistg, came to ;.•ive moles.. tor carte is next slay. .Wiloess fat flier awed that the prisoner t laylor) had taken some cedars atNo. 12, Martites•lanc, Ca:Mon-street, which belonged to a friend of has, who had a day ot two since seise seven or eight men of the description in deep consultation. Soon Brier he was shrorised sit hosting that ' the firm had been atiered Slum Halt and Palmer to Hon, Watt rs, and Co. 'Die next charge was preferred by Mr. (dux, agent. to the house of F. and J. Lea. ;: teuict-comrt, Newgate street, ho stets-4.1 that Vas proioner l'aylor) had obtained R out hits three I.IVCe: oil carpet, %%skids he raid he wattled to scud slows. to a cottony dealer. ile referred witness to Mr. Carter. w ho lived ill Catmomstreei, and to Mr. Adams, a silversmith, in St. Anne's-lane. Thus teem, w ere to be half cash, and a hill for one tannth. Witness slid rot li,eet Wilt! Mr Carter; 1)1.1 by Mt. Adams's pholionith be was intui flied tir:st the oti.sos.nr we••• toe neottew or a respecta ble country dealer, who had written to them to advance money, and do ant thilig that wordii some him. W.toess did md.liesitate to lel Ibis prisoner hare the good.. Ile received half the amount au cash, but the bill was never osid. he prisoner was rystiausled till Tintrielay. Friendly Societies.—A question or considerable interest was recently brought loravard bernrc the Justice of P.:ace Court, Giaigusv. A (Heather of toe Tradesion ants Gor bats Associated Friendly Society, tinder the pretext ut being unwell, and ctuditted to bed, claimed taql•last ail meta ; the Saieae:y gat* him two weeks bed-fast ailment, but, it hay itig collie to their k okra let.:e that the claim- Iti was abroad, refused to pay iiitr , l demand upon them. They, however, called the member before them, anti ,j.izstoined him as to the truth toi the ieport the/ lisld heard, but lie:teing uushic refute what was Sititietr, ;I was revolved that he•iistl no claim, and, agreeably to the snicks, expelled him the society fOr AI/posing upon thetti. Not rotheined with this deosion, he summoned tore Preses and Collector to the store Coati. When the case came to ue heard, tile defenders hrolittlit forward six witnesses to prove 'lice d...fistace. but two any were ex amined. The Justices declared theniseli es satisfied, ap proved of the proceedings of the soeiel; arid, after a tery set ere admonition to the Cittaildni, dismissed the aet:mt, and Mum! hum liable in all expetices. Cohost:ll'd 1 N 11111:41IT —An inquisition ails held on Mon des diclit, before T. Si at the 'tonic of Mr.Usi is in di out the hotly of %V. Bourothis, no 11: stuntrl hula If by cutting his thritat. ft appeareu slim the de:re:shed, a lea years :L,ti herii lin. ti shaper at Upper Cl:t i ding, and lived in the highest respeet• arstla ) , but lento mato. in hitsidess, to,f-titer with his lar A e fa ..t.y, Itar:ii i t a wife and nine child: so, lie A ve reduced to a very sit% a.it , and was obliged a, vise i.i a hack ruins, ueisikv it slate of sthi s.itiino. The unhappy slide, to I•l'o cure snowt wag for his fatuity, enyloye d loop If in setting oysters ut the 'Lifers:ill publie•hri......, and ianse who knew hint would now unit then ashaiiiistet lit 11.1 lIV3IIIO. So we lime lamb itis acut ieto a decline, nod il.se been it be. then to lain ever since, winch tact' ellbed 111 ,, griatly, uwf Lc wits /dell:0S observed to be in 11 - 11111, Stilly. 011 SAIIrll:ly 111,011 I;,t, the tide. y were ur..rinen at t:is not coming Iturrx imittl• and in the morning the - nielanchol neaa reached the ear of the sick wife, that her tonfortisnoie husbiaid irid beta found w ft brloi4itic to Mr. Usher, at Paige green, Totteuhant; it's Ids iliri:at cut; a razor, covered will, blood, ass fund by his Zi tl r. The Jury IL:nailed a sertlici tat insanity. . •. . . f A p.atr to to nl .ala tvay 1101/Ile 011 Tuesday night, abou elevrti o ' clock. Slipped OIT the I - omit:nit a! the corner of Calthorpe street, Gray's Inn Read, and bloke his I.;. — lie WAS c,netyeti to I.l.atitulonseor Htts gre , L Mu ,t%V.ty in tins piaci. is in a si1.101.:101 being at least two feet above the hrirse-tray and gone abrupt. so 'accidents arc fregtietAly occortiog at night, 5 ,........ Ar er • .• BONING. - ~.- The famous tlAitys.p4Atettistay rat were again the wm alerde off itt•i?ti Ati it between two other boxers in niiffiriftir`e, — fitlicitsing the qualti . Ica aittliattnitt • the' /rinse ' weltthiti ?Li Certia and .•.Letiney. • Young Brown, the costertnong,er, the itn• media: e,dttswatlant chips of • I tLiak0111;11 _nature (and we ucelsay no mere of the breed), anl Blind.— Brown had been vanquished br Curtis ary a . game battle, -bat he bout his attvcr sacy,Buttro,, the. uhttinpioa,4 Bow and the western part of E:;scx„in rociai [more than -a year 'Ago. The to itch was flir 109 41titteas in a 21• feet roped *pare. The seconds were Spring arid Gas fur Brown, and Randall nutl Josh. El utLioufibr Bunn. Betting 6 to .1. on Brown, In the first mend Bunn'.; hits were avoided. When they r.a together a !uilianing rally took place, to which Brown's eyeslimli open, - and he bled freely ; but he had the best of quit'. bitting, and throw f. llunn npaile the play, but a game rally he rec.:lst:a a sej yore right handed hit upon the eye,•which act the chiret flawirue unmercifully, and he tell from a blow, not coosiclered a knock flow% 3. Brown hit his adversary over the ruse twilit the left and broke :sway, and this crim,med tae whole fire. Bean muse. aI, and a numly rally thilowixl, wind[ caddie bosh being down. •. &owls led most decyclocHy in this round by artlerior tactics. He plae.nl tar.: separate hire u_pon tn.; head. whiz groggified him Po much that EC was a lunatic in - action, and her adversary run Win down.— r r i to ipp 43 t9 wp. • & 'Brown oderated with his telt land upon eh° head, until the features wtrelOgkeliqPir nibtortelL lb Bucir Ins adversary. G. Brown male a left handed poke at the body, a Is awl he received ham upon the.ear With , the right. A inaoly rally tidiowesl, and Bann w.is•scvetely punished, and fell from vrealunaisi 1 Buna fell from weakness, and the battle was reduced to a certainty, barring an accident. b. Burin wai,lairlot knocked /ban) in 4galsia4play.. 9. 'Drown got his adversary's bead under one left hand. and wehyati!iralorneitth the 'divorced fatourtv of the head were nearly hidden by its t.wollen state, mid i:re eye was elosc.l ; but be slurred giuneneso in ant ettraonlimiry dir;ree, and It never fury.' hitn. 10,iunt It, Bunu Mile :he fight, and although he blink, d with ap t : eye, and was darnesed in the other, he male the play on' y to receive, :smile was lut down in both rounds. Weir vveral rattat4.:Bann emir wirier, or was weaved down, and to some of totem, wncii a•:•-•ersory felt upon him. thaw** linnet intinutring and '• Fair!' t'ci: I" wa- , tae cry, jn foe 1 3* round Bunn was bit neavy with the right goinkdoion: In the 11th :ounal Bono. with R face. tartly, h i ithaiuss and. Welling front every pore, 4 a s - tatu of saitior.sa:d •• The Be.t tiny for a lin:hired ;, in ref irn for which h.: le.:Aural a hit in the head awl was thrown. I&.h and Iliac reap 1.-3 Own pitik.il hi; :flscsary LJ a stand still, add three his adVeasary, and fell upon hiin. Buon's se cond.: called out tbul, and that Bar 411 Lad f.. 11 wiilrhis knees upon ton, sad r N j , took I ?away. The clamours between the partisans were and whilst setae fight. and utlt :r bye ploy was hour . , ' on, the tintp.res saw no pretem;ons for any roar-c of and dulled die.haule in favo u r of Broihn.via.l.withUni ping and the referts:.• .A wag gave K.:nil-di credit fin Ins ini4 Inanity in taking or rather lilting his man away. Ilrown is to Curtis the same as the latter is to Randall. They are, of their weights, three the most accomrlished tacticians ever saen. The Little lastatt twenty rnirtutt:s. - A second, and a very gr,ilunt fight, took place fur u Subscription between Young Belase°. brother of the known bnxcr, an:l Harry Sanders, a .tnais who has exhibited .at. the Fives court. Bela - co's science I,•avc hint the lead, and he puoished his adversary severely with his left haul, us he was running in. Tlict ,right hand of. S:Jlcrs however oftcp.told, and it ch:sed olte. of Belivco's elm and the left was 11 . 0 t inactive. there were. ,sevoral changes in the battle, which last , :a Irslf an. hour ; but Sanders could not keep the best of it. Belasco's science g.tve his adversary a most frightful head. After the boxing matches, and the fancy had elk f•ti.•,,left the villa of Ilanipton, smte of tl.c outside, alike fund of the bottle and mischief. pro posed that Abbot shJuld fight Jikihtla Hudson, who was present then and there, for a purse to the amount of ten guineas. —Joshua excused himself, from a match he had on to fight in about six weas with the Sussex champion, when Hopping Seel, the father of Little Brown, *lto beat Bunn, elated with the Tusetia grape, 6hne.7.1 op, swore there was plenty of time to fight and „et we 1 in six weeks, and Josh. was ra..ye.cd. This stor,a blew over by Josh giving th?.m all a /limbs, athl inviting them to cull upon hint when sober. Shortly after Oliver was leaving the village, when Neel hail a turu at him, and asked if he was in fighting order—" Not to day, thank you, NA" was the reply. " 11.:eatise," continued Ned, " AMA shall tight you for teat guineas." " Ile will," said o.:ver, getting .out his chaise, " wh t now on the Hurst—l'll go over and bring your . mun and the inoaey, and it for a pint of gin, here ant I." A pause etisti , -1, and Oliver went into one ofthe Inns, when Brawi 4 eat down two guineas fur Abbott tdfiglatOliver on next Tuesday for the ten guineas, and the oth;,.r eight to lee made good o a Saturday eveuitig at Criho's The battle is safe of taki,tg plug , Acid it wia be rather a novel one_ Hickman and ,Peale.—The stake money for the great battle, who shall be Champion of Englsal was made 100 ornineas on Monday evening. The battle to h& fought on Tu.,s.lay r tite i Ith of Dec.sn:lLltldo.i, as nearly half way as a plAtle can be found. Gas was b»eL a, freely al to 4; 'ltu,l It etas lAbttik;:ti to eviu to minutes at odds--taleu.