The National Register. — London, England, 1818-03-15 00:00:00

MARCH 15. to t'ie ohiection of hii•bijitot rectil ileStir, that only required to be r.antioual is order to bd 1.1.14:le lat ; kioi 'cif Ii tica if the Livery found a person more comersant with the pria.ziples of the Constitution, and better qualified tc be their Ilepresentattve, lie would most most cheerfully give up any claims, but he was persur.ded they could not find worse. take who ibLy chose, than some.of the present Rer-esentatives. .whose insults to them on the hustings, he bad often ha n 1 with disgust. Ilis great object was to shssw, the world that the Alderimuitc gown war nu appendage to the honour of a Nfonberef Parliainent, but that even a common Member of the City Council W 23 r,s justly entitled tc complete for this lionocr, as the Aldermen were. and it 5h0u1t.1.1 , ..! Isis !ugliest glory,tuttl c.ritte to „Acct, th a t shrink; he u tte:*d, lie bail beet the first mati.te break the i line, and to show society that London had men sit leart equal in • talent to three who sat or the Alderman Beech. Nothing would y gain the object hut time and determined perseverance. and while he 'gratefully acknowlcalged the honour this day danc him. he implored t hem not tc relax, hut, oil the a inn ary. double their effints [loud and !ring applau.osi. With regard to himself, the qm:stion was of little n..iment. for it was the sue CA Of UP' cause itti.itti at heart. .% Resolution lids agreed to fir appointing district Committees in , 'lin:termer of the cause, and after tit:mks, the )levilw.which • was utkizA revoctabk, adjourned. . POL ICE. 'GUILDHALL. K. Horne.and,J. Green were re•eiremined, charged with • stealing a mare, the property of Mr; Elliott, i,f Reading, and . a poney, the property of Mr. Merliev, of die same place. H. Tertipestity, depot eel, that on the morning of Fri. . day week, he saw the prisoner. cutter Smithfield inarket.with . the animals in question, and ot6.r them for. tale at very low prices. Stispeetingiiixt they had been stolen, he (Ineglielled them, and receiving such answersas strengthened his ss:spis done, lie took them into custody. Handbills, describirg the animals, wcre circulated, au,: on AVeduesday tine reppective owners claimed their property. The prisoners made two des vrate attempts to escape while conve: hug to the tompter, . and uttered the insist horrid threats and impreretions. Mr. Elliott stated, that the animals, were stolen on 'Thursday night ..week float Hurley common. The prisoners being ask, il it they hailany thing to say', Horne,. with great coolness, said, • We were out together •on the cowmen ove.'llsoirstlay night, and seeing the: two horses loose, we caught theta and rode them up to town, hoping to make n thing of the trip, ..but we have been disappointed, stud that's all *bunt jt, your Worship." They were fully co ttttt slued. HATTON /GARDEN. On Wednesday the four wenn' custody fez infissing nosh . on; drugs in ;Mlle, beer cshicli they gave to five young women, a; already stated, were brought up for re-examination; when • Swab WOOt1114:111 repeated he: former evidence, and adder'., . that neither Dawson a^r Renton.dratik after 'Lauding the .. beer to the wou:en, are: that she observed the heir had a re. .•markably street and pleasant taste. Being asked if ehe ever observed any particular nue:lacy between Dawson and either of the young women, she answered, none whatever. -Site had no acrpiaintanee with the two servants. Mary Ann Wieldiest:, sister to the above, colifirmed the fiaregoing; and . added, that she Ads ised the women nut to drink of .the beer, in consequence of being told by a man than,Renton had put • soniethiug into rota. anal water, which trade him very sick. The matterwhich.Betsey Fox. emitted. hat: been analysed. by 1)r. Darling, but 1w had nut, been able to diacovee any thing particular therein. A'. &Meer confirmed the .depesition, , that WI flue state of the girls be diseov.ered, he heard Rea•• • ton say to Dawson, " Be staunch, and say. nothing. about it, . as we know a...thing about ;" and that Dawson answered, • "To be sure , a' no ;serum knows any thing about it." Here .z paper was I Sallet: to the Magi.trite from Dr. Darling, cer . tifying, that .Flizabeth FOK was out of immediatealanger.— :The Magistrates then coati-act!, and atterwas (Is agreed, that as 110 malicious intentiott was proved, :tuid no poisonous mat• :ter discovered by analieatien, the prisoners 'eight lie admit ted to bail; when the as reants were isemedlately.bailed by their masters, but Renton and illawson not. being provided, . were remanded. . Litwin:l6mi having bees received at this office that a meet :llg was to have taken between. Richird /obligor, Esq. and Benjamin Abler, l'sq. hotteof Windsor terrace, City -road, for the purpose of fighting a discl„Wie.,ltemi.juu. one of the offi. errs, with proper assistance., was immediately dispatched in order to prevent their figlating, stud • with iv warrant for them and their seconds. 'llse officers succeeded in apprehending the principals, both of totatun they...hrought befureithe:Maryis tratee, where they were bound over. with their sureties to keep the peace. MARLBOROUGH STREET. Complaint was made by a servant of havingkeen knocked clown and robbed. o 1 his watel: and a silver tankard, by a igkag of ruffians, on .Wednesday Night, in Nlecklenbergh square. 'Elie gang consisted o:several youthful depredators, •:•.ne of whom arrested the servant's attention by pretendieg to have been lost, when a luau knocked him, downs There were people in the street at the.tince; the tankard has been trace !:a a pawnbroker's. QUEEN SQUARE. CAVT!ON TC TR kIIfsMEN.-411r013117tiOrl. was • received at this office oat, V.'editesday, that a fellow about 2$ years of age, about five feet low incises high, full face and fair coonplexiou, dressed in. hine clothes, and black silk handkerchief round tors neck, is going about the town passing bad notes, purport. :.ng to be otalie Bath, Exeter, and Somerset banks, and made rayahle in Loudon. On Tuesday night he purchased a watch at zee shop of Mr. Faller, in.Duice-street, Chelsea, and passed a had 51. note of the above description. He represents him s•df .to be a Lieutenant in the. S7avy. Turf, PAGODA ST. JA St Es's PA It K.—Ddififig the early part of Satorday.the metropolis was visited ,by another hum , rime. The wind increased in strepgth so much, that the sen tinels on thu• Pegeda Bridge were obliged to leave their :tenons, mud seek shelter kit the body of the building. In a moment after *sodden gust of wind blew fi orn the S. w. with LoCi:, tremendous fury, that it carried away the sentry boxes to the other side. where they were daslsed against the battle ment and broken to piectir.. Nearly all the bells that were hang along the. side for ornament, were also blown with the iron fastening; and carried some distance in the air. One of sue wooden pillars on. the Westanester .side, - which stands about 10 feet high, was blown down, and, striking its ponderous weight against all oak, was .11:1*ered to pieces, leaving the tipper pal t stuck in the Lice. „No other damage was dune to the bridge. lo clearing the scite for the erection of a new el:lunit at Dumfermilue, a tomb has been discovered which is supposed t - . 0 be that of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland. A hough of polish stone contains the skeleton. The body, which is six feet two inches in length, appears to have been wrapped to • .iine damask ' interwove witb EM I of which 39me frastuent• remain. TIIENATIONAL REGISTER. COUNTY .11ZES. WINCHESTER, MAMA The Assizes for the County were closed this evening, by the assistance of Mr. Sergeant Pell, who yesterday morning,, iron the number of prisoners rein fining to be tried, was ap pointed to assist the Judges, .by opening a third Court ; Mr. J mince A bbott having been with r the necessity of leaving its° Special Jury e‘ve,es as veus:,uls, to be trued at the next Assizes, that he miut.t try,et the criminal har. Francis nesse, alias.. rancis Hen. Parsucus. aged 31, for stealing, urn the ltst ougust, lipwrids of tell 11.0 .rites, for the paymeot .of 51. mod also divers purrs of money, amone:ing in uthe ,wlinle to the value of 3,31. 1.. I td. the prorn :y of duis Majesty. The prisoner was a clerk, in the NAVY .1 1 ity-office, in the Dock-yard at Put tsitutottll; and to him being confided the office of paying pemi a , he %yrs in. trusted with a•considerable sum, for the proper appu °pH'. lion ofwhich it was nsunl for him at certain periods, to ac ennui to the chief clerk. On the morning on which his de fieirite: ..was detected, being that on which,lse was to hand oyer,ltis balance, he produveul sundry notes, assorted is par_ eels M . 531., composed severally of five, two, and outs pound 110iE•ii 14011 examination of thieve, it was diseuveted that two parcels which he produced as each consisting of ten 31.. notes, were arranged with a .51. note at the top and b u tt ons of each, the intermediate enter bring only those o, 20s. On further rximin. , tion, it .was:fonottl that be was deficient in tiro sum of 31:1S1. Is. I Id. en .being told ins halance wet nut correct, he replied would make it so ; instead of which he immediately left the office, took a post (*Use, and ab sconded to London, whither he was followed, amt,afterwarch traced to Dow ; .where he embarked for France. lii.linp, the 119 w-street officer, having been sent iu 11111.16 i of hint, appreltentietthiun in Paris,and brongbt him back to this COlllO . try.—Se vett years'Araitspoi tation. Orlando Lockyer and Hobert Hand, charged with the mur der of Jobe Sutton, at Not atwood, in, the Isle of Wight. John ibdtling, a sturgeon, was. 44 • g to Synth America with ths. prisoners out board the ship Grace. (le the Oth Deceuel ber Ite,wat; with them at.the !Dolphin inn, West Cowes ; they sat together fur two boors, when Sutton zeal:lrked that all the company were in debt. Major Lo^kyer replied. "Do you,meatttosay that tam in debt?" Sutton said lie did. Ma; jar Lockyer,ausreret!, " Whoever is in debt, I ant Sutton replied, " We. are all in debt to.cutr Creator." Major Lockyer lett the room, and messages passed between them and it Kr. Reulesdale, moodier v.tssetiger. Sutton said, if lie (Major Lucky et; called hint out he would Wet 40. Next morning they met to settle theolis;tute fielitiogut duel.— Hand awl .Kedesiale measured the grisind. Hood called Sutton ainkgave him a pistol, when he and Major Lockyer took their ground. I.ijoir Lockpur fired, and Stitiou clapped Iti;Juted on hit, breast, staggered forward two or three ; paces, analfeld out his hand ; Major Leckyer advanced and tuck it. He it 1111 l ethately tell,. and the pf,suntrs reo,awuy. Sutton soon after expired. ,31r. Fitzgerald (brother to the owner of the .-sessel)deposed, that Hand seriously pressed Ss non to settle the affair, when flap:, were going to the field; all was said that cot:hike said to induce him to make concession for tbewords he lost! used, and not fight; ,this admonition, he re peated several times. Several other witnesses were examined, butt their testimony added .1m new fact to those already known. Major Lockyer Basil both read. a very Ions; and able delcuce. , The Judge, iu ttauttilult up e evi deuce, told the juicy :hey lutist nut litsteu to the appeals front , the prisoners, nor let any reports or statements before, known to them prejudice the ease,—they must judge ascot deg to the evidence then ;civet!. Verdict-3lustislangliter. Threc moths imprisonment each. James Hubinsoe, a black.for stabbing Wm. Mitchell, with intent to nun tier him, at Portsmouth.-1) ea th. . Hugh I lin, a corporal in the 18th foot, for the murder of James Rainey, a private in that regiment, on Monday last, near Titchlield. The prisoner and tho deceased had taken a deserter to Bristol; on their return, at Crofton, two miles from Titchfield, the conversation turned on the party having overstayeit their time, when the deceased said, that it was the fault of the prisoner:, he not liking neither the taunting manner nor the clusrge, desired the tlecemcd not to repeat what he had Ijid ; the deceased said, he sl.otild do uo other than repeat it ; immediately. after winch t h e pi 'wooer struck him in the back. with his bayonet, and lie died instantly. The bayonet was nearly doubled by the act.—lJoa.tL. To befl• ecutod on Movilay..ces.t. CHELMSFORD, NIARcr 10. 'Joseph Mays was .indictsil for bigamy, in otarrjing E)iz. Hazlegrove, his former .siWe being then alive. The facts of the case being proved, Mr. Curwood objected, that this case was no fclopy,Wt. Li the evidence it appeared, that the parties had been absent from each. other for ten years, and therefore the prosecutor ought to Have adduced in proof, namely,- that the prisoucr knew his former. wife to be living at the time of the se cond marriage. .Me. Baron Graham said, upon his present consideration he thought it ought to be proved that the wife was the party who left the other: bat if he shoodd alter his judgment liereafterolie prisoner should have the benefit old; Thy :iiry found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to three months imprisonment. The following prisoners were capitally convicted, viz. Luke Spiiitgliani, for stealing two sheep, yalue 41. the paopetty of W. -Fitch, u(df.navestock ; Ridgely, for stealing of Theutal Baker, county tiotes and silver to the amoen cf. Vl, ;Os., a Colchester ; 'l'. Frost and .0. Frost, fur stealing sheep ill, property of W. C.'mr.ing, of Henliam.—C. Frost was recom mended to mei cy, Lt:t the Judge said, the eircumstance of their being indicted for I:everal other similar offences, renderes; it extremely doubtful whether the tilefey at the Crown could be extended to them ; Isaac Witheat, fur robbing this dwellidg house of E. Hughes, at .Orinstead. C. Miller, S. Tyler, J. Cooper, and G. Hopwood, for having forged notes io tneir possession, were sentenced to 14 years transportation. :HERTFORD. W. Edwards, was indicted for burglariontly breaking the divelliog house of John Howard, of Buck wc.v, and stealing therein a quantity of bread, cheese, bacon, and other proper ty.--Guilty Death. R. Ruskin wAs indicted, for stealing on the 2d Oct. at Ches hunt, a gelding, the property of John Owen.—Guilty, Death. J. Milton iv.ts indicted fur burglaimusly entering the dwels ing house of W. ()dwell, the elder, of Bennington, and steal ing therein a quantity of bacon, bread, wearing apparel, dec. —Guilty Death. Anoc Cook, aged 21, was indicted for having, on the Ist of February, under false pretences, obtained from J. Musgrave, a large paatity of child•bed Awes : aad variou, Ober moiety., tlw property or S. WO 0.11. C•q. of :§i•it ' , ions., I'fll• I aSNI V4ritl .1 111 , •111,14 Z, •1 1. 4.11.•::• . 4 . 0, the snort 14016. 011: ; —llll' proseentur had pros obit' an establishment ter supply nt the poor with clothes, and indi gent females with child •hed linen, &c. The prisoner went to his house, and representing herself to be the sister of one Collins, at Rostock, who was in child bed, entreated, that she might have the necessary articles for her raker. She was supplied with the articles to the 101 l extent ofoi lier request, but iu arlay or two it was diSCO%ercut that the whole was a fabri cation, and that the prisoner had sold the goods. To be confin ed 12 the in the county gaol. W. Fountain was indictor: r. stealing. on the II lh Dec., at Henley, one ewe sheep, the property of I'. Hadow, Esq. of Cohn- y Chapcl.—Guilty, Death. T. Baker was indicted for stealing, on the 19th Jan., at Rickniansworth, one ewe sheep, the,,p,roperty of Humphrey Bache, &al.—Guilty, Death. Another indictment against him, butt Mr. 13.1 run Wood declined trvinchint upon it. B. Bradshaw, aged vO, was indicted for stealing, on the 2711 t Aug., at St. Albans, a black gelding,uxoperty of gr. fj. Nl.irston of tisat place.—Guilty Heath. W. Dyer, aged 19, late a deserter, from the depot at Chat ham, was indicted for a violent 44/14nit upon T. Clerke,,qii the king's highway, and taking from Ins person a, silver yotsili and 71. in Bank notes and other property, on tlo. at Braughin. The prisoner wax it remarkably handsome young nom, and of genteel appearance, but his conduct throughout the trial was extremely unbecoming, and bespoke a degree of insensibility to the awfulness of his gitilAlial!, Mad' even the must hardened and desperate (Amide: would scarcely have betrayed. He was laughing almost all the time of his trial, and not withstanding the humane stigge.tions of Isis Counsel, Mr. AdUlpllll%, he persevered to the, tost its his indecent levity. Guilty, Death. --He was left for execs lion. J. Little,and J. Martinovere capitally indicted for break ing and entrriug the dwelling house of W. Chapman, of Tlitair dlridge and stealing sixteen live fowls. The pri s oner, notwithstanding the humane remonstrance of the Judge, per sisted in a plea at his guilt.—Mr. Baron wo,te immediately pronounced sent(3ice of Death upon the prisoner, who bay ing exclaimed, " I trust my Loi d, knoll spare toy life;" the Judge replied. " Yes, I think for this offence, I may venture to promise, yon mercy, but front intimations which have been made to m.. it seems you must he removes' to the next coun ty, to tibiae your trial upon capital eh ages." John Mertin was then put ti; his trial. Mr. Jevsop, said, that the prisoner, ill cuu j nnctitnt with Little and several others, foricing a gang ut depredators long the terror of the county, had at length beet' arrested in their guilty career. Some of the parties, it is true, had fur the pi esent escaped the vigilance ut pursuit, but they were . known. and dare nut ith imp y practise their utlences, appear is:. :hat counti„witich they had so long ravaged. —Guilty, Death. B. Bothwell was convicted of stealing from the premises of Thomas Deacon, Esq. of Whatfuril, a valuable mare, his pro pert.s.s—Guilty, Death. wit convicted for hawing burglarionsly entered the dwelling house of CI. Grissel , and stealing from thence a large quantity of leather and other property, Guilty Death. T.M'igsloy was capitally convicted for breaking the (heel ing house of a poor tanailynamed A geerson, at Thetford, and stealing ther,iti divers articles of wearing apparel.--Gailty, I Death. Mary Davis and Catherine Pearce were indicted for steal_ ing from Henry Gibbs ,. Gl. in Bank notes, and other property. Cettitty.. 7 years tramp/it tatitm. Mier several trials for minor offences, the Assizes, pre senting the heaviest calendar known at this place, having con_ eluded, Mr...4.irnti Wood proceeded to pass sentence of Death upon the following convicts, viz. B. Rodwell, R. Ruskin, and lt..Bradst.aw, for horse stealing; T. Baker, and W. Fountain, for,sheep.stealing ; J. Andrews for house brrak lug ; J. Milton, J. Martin, J. Little, and E. Harper, fur burglary; and W. Dyer for highway rubbery. Mr. Baron Graham who assisted in the trial of the prisoners passed sentence of Deatli upyn Wells, Wigsby, and Edwards. Dyer,, we undtestautl, is the only criminal left tur executiou. ; BERKSHIRE. On Monday last the Assizes fur this county commenced at Reading. at which the following prisoners, among others, were tried and eon. victed :—George Holloway, for stealing twelve sheep, from Charles Pocock. of Cholscy, and eighteen sheep, from Peter Matthews, of NloulstOrd ; George Stockbridge. for breaking open the dwelling. house of Lazarus Grove, of Bra.) , ; John Ednuinds and Williams Smith, for robbing in:a dwelling-house at South Ilincksey ; Sarah Spokes, for breaking open and robbing the dwelling-house of 11 illi Shurwell, of Remenliam ; Thomas Cottrell, for a like offence at Brightwell; David Sinn, for a like offence at Crookhana ; John Hall, alias Pitikett, John Bowles, for a burglary at Stanford ; Wm. Bowes, and J. Bowles for the same, likewise for sheep stealing and other offences; Thomas Wren, for breaking, into the dwelling -house of Ann Marlow, at Bradfield; and William Wilmot, for stealing from the dwelling-house of Sarah Goodell., of Speenhaulland ;—the whole ofthe above were found Guilty— : Beath, but were all after wards reprieved. .IcQRTHANIU)NSHIRE. ...*attec. Cubhett and George Wilkin, for felonicilsly tattering a forged Bank note, received sentence of death, and are left for execu tion. NVilliain Franklin, for highway-rubbery ; Richard Walters. and Thomas Lee for burglary ; Joseph Wilmore, fur stealing iri a dwelling house ; and J. Helton, for house breaking ; mi.:civet; sen tence ot, death, but w ere all reprieved. Ftnce—Wedaesday night a tire broke ,out in at; apartment at the House of Mr. Grout Thomas, the sign of the White S vs an, Mile End Road. The servant maid, who was going to : the linen, went up stairs with a_ lighted candle, to the first floor apartment, awl gathered up all the articles she wA.: go ing to wash, but in consequence of the candle falling ci vil the candlestick, they caught fire,and ilie,sin her iliarm, pulled some sheets and blankets off the bed, and threw ahem in the flames, thinking to extinguish them, which added to th e i r fury. dames rushing th r ough the door up stairs, .pr e _ vented a,ny of the lodgers in the tipper part of the Louise five making their escape Jowl , stairs, and most of Egan uved A man who lodged inn the s ecu p d floor, an d who was asleep,ia their lives be being t out of the back windows into th e yar d . bed, not being alarmed till the flames Lad reached his apart_ awoke, unit 011 opening his door the flames rushed is iynuu I' in , • lie had nu tither means of escapi ng b ut by jum p ins out of th o uindow, to which he rail several times before lie could dud resolutien, at length he got o u t an d stppd pn wf window Crest vane!) he jumped down to the ground. s ev esa! persons made.to,,the spot, who picked him tip iq s t a te of insensibility; they carried hin t t o th r L on d on HospL tat, where he was shortly revived; he had his leg broke n and received several severe bruises. The upper tiaet ,o /JJ ais w oe was completely destroyed,