The National Register. — London, England, 1808-01-24 00:00:00

JAN: 14. 1.7 ---- up a little brown paper parcel ; he observed that somebody 1 meat have lust it, and he vi ished the right owner bad it ; she said , she w ished so too ; hut she added, the wondezed what it cuutaiued. lie said foes , would go into the Green Park, where it it as a little private, and thdy would e twine. The) accordingly View through the rate to tie sceond seat; and there they oa.Ted the pareel, and it contained a red leather case which inclosed a glit tering cross; a man passed by at that motnent, and the prisoner twilit. to hitu, telling him what they had found, anti produced a receipt a hick was also in the parcel ; the man read it, and -aid it t sas a receipt fur 2101. for a brilliant diamond cross; • he said rho% 11 ere both entitled to it as they had both found it. and pro p.t.ed that the prisoner slsould give the lady a suits of :matey as security fur her half when it wit; sold : the prisoner said, there was a roan in Loan a ho had 501. of his mitney in his hands, and proposed that they should go and get it ; but the other man said it would he better to put the cross in the lady's hands, and she should give what moue) she had as a security fur her pro duciag the cross the nett day' : she said she had but ST. which would not he ethnigh ; the man said, but :son hate a Watch, 711ariam. and shdaccoldingly gave up the 5/. note and the watch, and she was to he sure to take great care a the cros•, anti pro bre it the next day When he called upon her. She %teat home with the cross, when she discovered she had been duped. She inoilediately went to Bow-street, and, having described the man, no Officer took tier the next morning to Leicester-fields, and There saw the prisoner passing ; the Officer immediately appre hended bins. Colonel De Watteville proved that he paid the prosecutrix the a/. *tote produced. Verdict—Gniky. . At si v o'clock, when the Jury were to be changed, only eleven Juror.: appt•dred, alai neither of the summoning officers were present ; the Court wa: therefore obliged to adjourn, having first tined the summoning officers 10!. each. tovitsniv, JAN. 21. This day sentence of death was parsed ou the following pri sourN,, v i/.. ; ,Mary Carroll, alias Mitchell; .Joseph NVebb, John Davison, Jolla .Adams, George Russell, Idizath Minster, Martha Davis ' Ceurge ltudd and Thomas Douavan, Isaac C;.stle, Elizabeth Crosby, George Humphries atal Charles Brt»rn, John Coates and Robert Badger, and John Matthews. Sarah Ward's judgment was respited un account of Hitless. — Ttt entv-six were ordered to be transported for seven years; three were ordered to he imprisoned in the lionise of Correction, Clerkenwell, for two years ; si v for twelve months; sixteen for six months; one in Newgate for tw 0 years; nine for lesser pe rirds ; two to he publicly, and six to be privately whipped ; awl eight were fined onr.shilliug a:iti disc h arged. The Sessions were :oljourned to Thursday the ISth of February next. IVednesrlav mnrning was executed, in the Old Bailey, John Alni , md, fur the criaie of for; t;ie will of a working man, ;•viiaititance, appointing hiin:elf sole executor, and reecis- Wiz ?Ai the Bank of Limland, under that w ill, 3001. ctock, the Layil earned savings of his friend. The unhappy culprit hailer! hint a wife far advanced in pregnancy. In Ilk last iu terva•w n ith the Sheria he acknowledged the justness of his seirenre. ' , owl.' N I.: WS. •--.01.-- P 1.1" mom' tt tv, 90 —Arrived from oil Rochefort, the Defiance, 74, Captain liothato, to refit, with the Neptune, a merchantman, leer prize--She having been nut on constant ser vit'e nearly twelve months. — Came in a. tine French West India nian, of near -WO ton, burthen, with an extremely rich cargo of gum, collet., sugar, indigo, &e . bound from the Isle of 'France to L'Orient ; captor; on the sth of thi4 mouth cloy. in Nsitlt the enemy's coast, by the Cambrian, of 14 gulls, Ctlpittill l'azet.—:.itie sailed from the Isle of France about live n tt ii' svo, in company ith a corvette of •16 gusts, and parted cum- Fan is a gale of wind. —.She had money on hoard, need the. rench ()dicers of the above prize, L'Acteon, are ,ery pus for her safet y .---Th, Revolution:tire, of -14 gune, parted rompany with the Cambrian but the night before thy above rich Caw Admiral Lord Garduer, under whose (orders the Cam• briau sailed, is of course entitled to the 1-Bth of the above t o ti:thle prize. LLOYD'S LIST. _ _ .• _ . On the night of the 14111 and the morning of the 15th was ex erwmced a most violent gale of wind, at about WN W. The iliciuing• accounts of loses and accidents to shipping, o,:ca inw by - it, have already beta received.--The Lovell, Lake, I TIT E NATIO:STATa REGISTER. 61 1. on London'to Weymouth, was deserted by the crew in the Downs, having been run foul of by the Flora, Salter, Master; it is supposed she sunk.--The Nottingham, Hawes, from Dept ford to Portsmouth, run on shore on the Goodwin Sands, and as abandoned by toe erew ; she was afterwards gut off by Cm, boats from Itams,:;ate, but had received so much damage that she sunk in eight fathoms w ater --The Betsey, Melhuish, from London to Portsmouth, f.itul.!red in the Downs; three of the; crew drowned.'—The Lesaut, Miller, from London to St. Ali-j chael's, was run foul of in the Dossus by a large loaded collie which carried away her bowsprit, foremast, and all h moan rigging, and broke loth her cables; she then drove foul of three other vessels, and stove in her sides ; in which state ele wa-i abandoned by the .Barter knli the crew, who escaped most proyidertially in the boat. The Master is of opinion the Levaut 'cundefed soon after he quitted her.--The Ketch Hope, of Southampton, John Miller, master, was driven on shore near Walmer, but expected to be gut off—The Venus, White, from shields to Gibraltar, was drisen un shore at the North End of Dal Town, end is full of water.—The William and Henry, Selks, from-London to the Cape of Good Hopes lost her fore mast and bowsprit in the Downs, and is on shore near Rams ,ate.—Many vessels cut or slipped their cables in the Downs, and went to sea ; among them the Plural x, Bum, bound to the Cape of Good Hope.—The Betsey, Lesby, from Newfoundland to London; the Frederick, Taslor; the Jenny and•Phcebe. Er skine, both belonging to Sunderland; and a large Dutch-rigged boy, were driven on shore near Margate.—The Mary awl Ann, Coach, from Surinam to London, was lost between the Downs and Margate. The Isabella anti Ann, Ruokes, from Newfound land to London; the Earl Percy, Meek, from Quebec to Lon don ; the Richard of Chepstow, Fisher, put into Margate isith loss of anchors and cables.—The tolaida, Newcomhe, from Cork to London, was driven on shore in Westgate Bay, near Margate, but is expected to be got off after taking out part of the cargo. —The American ship Union, Jacobs, get on shore near Mar gate, knocked off her rudder, lost an anchor and cable, but was carried into the Dowus by two Margate boats, and is since got into Raniso-"ate.—The Shannon, Daniels, from London to Limer ick; the Alin, Ball, from London to Akira; the Nile, Nndrews, from Archangel to Falmouth; the Thomas and Judith front London to Portsmouth ; the William from Cork to London, put into Ramsgate, with loss of anchors and cables.--The Success. Martin, from London to Portsmouth ; the James of Sunder land, Livcrstuue, bound to Weymouth; the Nancy, of Blake ney, , bound to Plymouth; the Baron Nelson. of London, For ;ter, bound to Gibraltar ; the Y are, of Yarmouth, llo:latid. ACC I DLN fn. A fire broke Ant at one o'clock ye steritty mornia; at the Bed. ford Colley-house, Cowtit Uarden, which is i-ituated coutignou:: to Covent Carden . Theatre. The flames were discovered by a tt aiter issuin e ; from a bed-chamber V 1 here a goo leinitti had re cently pone to bed; 'but by the e ell ions of a hosi oc atteralant , , - and there bein•4 a plentiful supply of water, the tlittuei ecu subdued after the room and furniture had been destroyed. Early On Thursday morning, a ouitg man of the name of , Scott, :on of Mr. Scott, Stationer, in Knigh!ilfritlge, \V est :Master, left hi , .4 house for thy• puroo.e of skaiting on the cannl in St. Jaine.'s Park, anti iu two L tors after he w:t• eimve,ed in his father's lio..be a corer. it appeyrol th.• 10% e „ nay from the number of lu.rsolus who incaution-lc ventoz e! it, before it was sufficiently strong to hear the weiy,:lit, ;ell the ileceawil, in plini4iug to reach the. shore, got under the we, from w latch situation the spectators could i.ut extric:ite :1;1n. BIRTHS. On Wednesday, the •?Oth int.t. the Lady of Bociton Long, Esi. of a sou, at Coombe II tube, near Cro‘do;; ThurAiy, iu Boner-3treet, the Lady ut .1. 11. Deossell, of a esuaghter. MARRIED. At Edinbur4h, nn the rth inst. Willi:int Scott, Esq. of Witnpson, in Hampshire, Barrister at Law, to Istreue, young e3l daii:•later of William Gleudonwyn, Eq. of Glendonwvn. On the lsth inst. at St. James's Church, Mr. Matthew lion (nth, to Mrs. Ann Campion. D LATII3. The reigning Duchess of Mecklennurgh Schwekin, died on the Ist irt. On Sunday last, in Grosvenor-place, the irfant son of Colonel Wilder, M. P. ; and on Neduesday, Frederick, another son, in the 3d year of his age. SmldettlN, at her house i 3 Cork-street, :%.tr. Turner, mote: of Genuta'. Turear, who is rt.:tufa Morite I_ l .J, 1 s'•~i '1 1 t- ae I