The National Register. — London, England, 1816-06-16 00:00:00

JUNE 1(. 00 en conduct:el himself towards his %tie while lie was at tvailitig her for the illness. While the pl distal was :hits exert ing himself for th o re cot ery of his wife, this Heal Ap o thecary hail left. his business, and .vas Mutating Gee lodging !tithe holy, is Loudon. Her health being restored. end. Oven ret rased to Heal; and theft, tot the first time, Sii. Edward oas iolormed lay his servant of the critithod emitivetiou. The momelit t h is v i iii mitilivation was smote. nit Edward determined to ia vesti gate the business closely —but the Lady. lieuriog thi,t au in quiry was Joao to tale place, eloped from her husband's hems. with the defendant. Sir Edward Owen, them :.h as a man of 'amour he could terser live with this Lilly again, 51 14 ansions to rescue her from that ruin which this tblicildill4t was pi elide big for her. H • sent an old servant *tier her, for the portrise of directing her steps to a place where she might be &ascii front the misery which her counection with the el.:foldout WAS likely to produce. The servaut found her—mad be exerted all his zeal to induce her to return. Aumons to get her away from her seducer, he said to bliss , "Sir, you had better lease this Lady; fur Sir Edward Owen will soon be, 'MCC.' He begged the Jut y to pay ',articular attention to the answer of the deft :Maul —" I don't ca. e," said he, " for Sir Edward--1 bave pietals itootit me; ail , ;I . he 'vines , I wilt sli . ot him." Su that, after he hail sedtteed this tinker s wife—miter he had as leaStilleited his peace—he NW ready, if the injured hushotid Caine to rescue this lady front his adulterous snag:tee, to be come the assassin of his pei sou. The parties, from Mat period to the present, hail not separated. The detimelunt contifiard to live with this unfort nitrite st Oman, i.ushoesds did vsitl. their ives. After auunadtertiag with much severity on the con duet of the defendant, wha had taken the opportunity WtlPll. as a Illediedl man, he wus employed in attendance on this lady, to debauch her i, and seduce her affections front her hus band, lie proceeded 141 cad his witnesses. Admiral Sir Geo. Campbell, A thoiral Lord Keith, Rear-Adini /SI SCOU, Admiral Sir W. Young, and Admiral Sir Filch. Lee, spoke in the must decided terms, of the affectionate attachment wnich scented to subsist between Sir Edward and Lady Owen. A seree• of witnesses proved the mode adapted by 411.• defen dant and Lady Owen, hi carrying ou their correspondence through tlie.• medium of a female servant.. . . - Tle• elopement Was proved by a post boy—aml the fact of their having slept together at the inn at Sandwich was deposed to by a female servant. Here the plaintiff's case was closed. Mr. Brougham !hell addressed the Jury on the part of the vlefernlatil, in nu eloquent speech; is which he comniented, with gi rat force sand upon the disparity of years be tween the parties (the Lady being between 30 and 40 years of ' age, the defendant only 22) ; and thence inferred, that the se duction 11111,t hose been, in point of fact, committed by the elder. lie then impressed upon the Jury, that no breach of medical confidence had been committed; as the father of the youth was, in reality, the professional attendant, and not his son, who was the udurtutiate victim of this attachment ; be now a beggar, the partnership with his father dissolved, and his own prospects in lite ruined and undone. 'Else Deputy Sheriff then mounted tip the evidence to the Jury, wliii retired for 29 thiantes, and brought iu a verdict of Tifton //railcar Pounds damages for the plaintiff. OLD BAILEY. •...Qii.m... Monday, the Recorder passed sentence of death on the fol lowing. capital con% iets Phillips, I'. Jonas, S. Solotioins, J. Ditunage, W. Fellows, J. Brown, G. Mickel.% ille, W. 'tuber. W. Colv ;lir, W. Ci1.1;1111.111, I'. Fox, It. Johnson, awl J. Davis, fur higliwAy robberies ; W. Gregory and J. Boyce fur forgeries ; J. Williams, G. Atkins. J. Pritliruse, W. Grv, J. Harvey, and P. Herbert, for burglaries; Esther Sampson, Sarah Gilbert. C. Butler, W. with, C. Rogers, W. Bei ves, A. Nlacilonalil, J. t %trey ,J. 11.111,1111.1 J. Slay man, fur stealing in d eiling-houses; J. .t inter, tar sheep-stealing; and May cock, fur putting siv. ay a forged gl. baak•noti . 'Tuesday. J. Brooks and T. Williams, two boys, and J. Brad , is re coavieted ofpicliug pockets at Brook-green Fair. When the verdict of tne Jury was returned, the Cum iiiii tt ttl rjeant observed, that there could be no doubt that Itr.ailley was the Callae of diluting the Younger prisoners into their pre sent situation. lie telt it his (hay, therefore, to leave him re proved loon this country !VI life. SAUDI. day the Srssirois ended ; when sentence was passed on W. Smith, F. Riley, h. Neal, J. King, J. Williams, G. Wil son. J. Mulder, M. Merret, W. Truelove, S. Davis, Mary Ann Hoot, J. M*Carthy, Jane Cross, and J. Br stl.ey—to be trans ported fur life; It. H. Dye, H. Dye, A. alias T. Small, B. Hail, and S. Nash alias kluilter—tiir It years; W. Graves, Elizabeth Fordice, T. Myers, Mary Coventry, 3. Martin, G. Gray, Jane Carter, Mary Davis, Elizabeth Sorel, T. Wilson, 11'. Glyn, 11. Avery, C. Gregory, M. Kelly, W. Barker, J. Hol loway, J. Foy, H. Jenkins,. IL Christian, L. L. Clifford, Mid get Conway, Margaret Hill, Sarah Bennett, T. Compton, Sarah Hardy alias Sullivan,. Irwin, Mallet Collins alias Hill, 11'. Harris, W. Griffin, IL Jones, W. Thompsoa, F. Gasket% J. Waisterbourne—for seven years; is to be imprisoned an the House of Correction fur Use City of London, and tit) in the I louse of Curs tenon fur the Comity of bliddlesex, for various periods; 4 to be iniprisoneil in Newgate; YO to he privately whipped; ti fined Is. each and discharged ; I 3 judgments were respitt : :and 17 were discharzeil by prociainatiou. --Sessions adjoin bed to the Intl& ofJitly nett POLICE. GUILDHALL. C. Hawkins, alias fir rhert,l t years of n ge, was charged with being concerned lu robbing 111 c 11.111 , e of Mr. Wilson, a .itaster of Nlei chant Tailors' School, tit a ipsantity of jeachery, the yroperty of Miss Moore. A lad 04114.41 Singleton, anti a C ll l s la gged lladdne ks, sersant to Mr. Wilson, were ids , charged as being concerned in this rotibery. It oppearril, that a few weeks since, the tidiet drawer at Miss Moore, sister to Mr. Wil•on, was broken firm.% tiad rubbed of the property. No trace could be iili• of the depredatuis g but it desesiption of the stolen articles was circulated, and in u new days went to the house of Mr. )hater, t. pawisierokr, and tendered a &amend Ong for pawn f.r lilt ; this w 44 refased, and the prisoner departed. 11:ing know n, linweves, as a constant Yisi t.ir in pkdanag goods ( r iepresenting that he did so on 110 1 part of his parents t , it was deemed inn essaey to give notice to Mr. Wilton, and be was taken into , whim the brooch belonging t o miss 3loore was fount iu hi. possession. it was discovered, that lie was d illy enip:oyed in the eminlin2-1 • re,peetatile films in St. Mary-at-11i11, where Mathews, the clbeer, cauutn..l his de , k, and Maud in it it fluidic tie for a diamond ring; and that winch haul been refused to hr. take') by Mr. C:1414.r. Resides this were found in his possession nearly 2 . 4 other duplicate 4 for Frooerty of all descriptions, principally Jeweller v. Se•n•ritl hooks ketaimed by his mother), a ease of pistols, a telet•cupe, silver tea•ipoow, au I numerous other THE NAi'IONAL REGISTER. tirades, whim li.he been alvertiseel in the hope of bringing the ON firr, likeo hi: a phosphorus box, and instil o n:root caked:stud to open the lo.•:.s of drawers, Sr. All the things, except the Milks, lie said he had from Singleton. The latter admitted that he 1141 given him, to uiy inontii 4 since, one Or 1.4. P trifling articles, but denied mast solemnly having scut 01 kI2DWIS of the mucks beltmeiog to ltl.ss Moore utdbre; neither had he coil cised with the prisoner since Fen/miry. Nut the slightest proof, ho ...ever, could be aldneed to crimi nate the female, and she was dibrilargell; 411.1 upon the Solici tor fur :i•iglettin undertaking to produce !Ma upon the trial, Ac ss is also discharged, and Hawkins fully committed. Mary Williams, awed was brought to the oilier, upon a charge of picking tile pocket of Mrs. Beech, in Fleet-market, of a poriset-book. containiug two 11. notes and a number of iumniaandiaius. The coiuplaivaoit Wilt purchasing lists at one of the stalls, and upon puttin_ her hand to her pocket missed the property. At that moment her servant-maid told her, that the prison•r, win) was sneaking away, had been very .busy about her person. Mary Williams was instantly secured, and the pocket-hook foam: 11;1011 her person. Bond, the orLter who se c ured her, knew her for a long time as a veteran in the art, and a s cry dexterous band. She was fully curituittyd for trial. _ Robt. Townsend was charged with forging or uttering apr 'ssory note far 7(11. purporting to be drawn in has favour uy Mr. F. Crisp. The tittering of the note •.,tving taken place in Middlesex, the prtioner was remanded to the county Magistrates. BOW-STREET. Friday, J. A. Evlertim, who e Alva himself a Member of Parliament, and said he resided at an Hotel iu Pall M4ll, was fulls committed, charged with a must detestable offence with J. Jarvis, a youth, who is a groom. Weduesday Les inia Smith, about 14 or 15 years of ace, was charged with exposing her naked person in St. James's Paik. It appeared that the prkeller, in COMpany with two other girls, rather less than herself, about 12 o'elock, stripped themsetvCi naked on the grass by the side of the canal, near the Mall, and went into the canal to bathe; and when they came out ran about the grass, anti behaved in a very indecent manner, both as to actions and language, to men Mid hoes who were collected in consequence. On the approach of the constable they ran of into the Green Park, where he seemed the pci. soner, but her companions made their escape. She appeared callous to the Magistrate's remons.rances, refusing to give any account of herself, only that she had no hillier and mother; the hirmer, a soldier, had been killed in battle. A girl, who had followed the prisoner to the *Alice, was interrogated, and proved to be a companion, although nut one who had stripped herself. She described who the two girls were, and front her it was ascertained that Smith hail not slept in a house fur a month past. The Magistrate committed them both. D. Day was charged with violently assaulting Mary Ann Smith, with whom he cohabited. On being ordered to find bail, he attempted, In fore the Magistrate, to strangle himself by twisting his neckcloth as tight as he could pull it, but was prevented by the exertions of two officers. lie afterwards en deavonred to tear his jaws open. His condnet was altogether so violent. that it was found necessary to pinion and iron I • ; and on his being taken into the strong room, he appeared to be in an 113 stoic fit, till a flood of tears rendered him calm. QUEEN SQUARE. Snocxtt& Drptt Avery.—tl. most distressing and disgrace- fail spectacle was, on Friday, exhibited at this office: it arose out of an examination of a petty assault. The complainant was the son.in•law of a WO:11411 who is the owner of a considerable number of little houses iu I'ye4‘lll.4 and the Broadway, Westminster, which are all occupied by girls that have been debauched and devoted to prostitution. He stated, that his wtfe, who was the daughter of this woman, tell his house on Tuesday night last, nod ltd not return home till the next morn ing: he and she had, in consequence, unpleasant words ; and she directly after left the house, and returned with lair mother and two sisters, who set about him anti beat him, and tore Ins face. lie now wished the Magistrate to bind them over to keep the peace towards him; for he knew, if they were nut bound, that they would come to his house, backed by about it hundred bad women, and he should be in danger of losiug his life. Mr. Fielding asked him why the bad women would assist her iu such proceedings r Ile replied, that if they were to refose, she would directly turn them out of their lodgings ; that she had at this time, he supposed, at least tail ludgeis, all ptos litaites ; and he knew that some of them were nut more thou 12 years of a ze, and snore uf them younger. Mr. Fielding ordered the ufficeis to go to the place, and to bring all the girls whom they might find in the different moms. They went accordingly, and in a short time returned with :ilium SO. They said they could have brought 300. Four of them were children übitt:t 12 years of age, a.td one; only between 10 and 12, was shuck ingis disorder. d. Mr. Fielding ordered the officers to take her to St. Martin's workhouse ; and for thy other children they were to provide I.4lgingts till they could In sent to their friends. One child, onl fourteen, %silo bad lately left Hampstead workhomse, and bad been harboured in one of this vile W0111411'3 rooms, was so d teased, that Mr Fielding said he would get her Tutu the Luck Ilospital. then adth•essed the woman, and informed her, that if an indictment id Id be preferred against her, she miciit depend upon it her punishment would be pillory and Colititle in -at for life ; and if she or her daughters went to the house of het sun-iu-law to make soy distnuhatcc, hr. would, upon his complaint, send them all to prison. UNION-H tLL. John Wrialit was oil 111;:(1,:Y r011;ilt Up for final esamina. Coo, charged weds assaulting 311 . N. 'l'a) for awl her Llaag:iter, with burnt to murder them. _ . Those ladies, though iu o very weak Mate from the woun'ls they received, Now atreudvil. Kutttingmew w 71.4 .:Tact to fire evidence already before the politic ' exeept that the priseuee name %.1M not Wright, hut Whaley. Miss 'Taylor was so weak as scarcely to be able to support the fatigue of print: through the necessary till'4ll6 of evidence. 'l' h e risourt was fidly committed for trial at the ASSILeS• lIATMS-GI:WEN. Ed/Atilt Prier W•ls broll.4llt up by the two 3. Smiths, Bea dles ••1• It:Johisbury. and e•a.uiuttl on the following charee:— It appeared that the priNusier tt,l her husband occupied u smtll room at Nii. L't, Ditetter..court, Bionl street, St. Giles's, where they had been oon t ten going out est ty awl returniti; sat night ituseen ':y any persons its th•• the street-door being Kiwis> s lota open for the to,l,t,•rs: that the snu•:l of carrion proceeding f•ro•n the room wa• so offensive, that atl the inmate* went to the lanais ly, intim tins: their in tent ~,, of quitting the house, unless the 'sauce was removed ; the gaff daffy ile:•41.111411led them up stairs to the toem•door, which th••e cantri.r.l In open, when the 'Alpe of the militancy liteseatett itvelf. Ta room had all the I:i.pealanee at n slaugh ter-house. In one corner were laid user eacu other the car casses of 13 d );%, all vl.inacil, even the !wails and fee►, to as to prevent the bodice briug ideittilied. Jill the skies were Ti. I ClllO% I'd. The Maeisinite lamented that there tV , lb nut a case mule out, so that he could punish the prisoner. As Goole of dogs were identified, a charge could not be made out ; anti for the nuisance, there was no Act of Parliament to authorise Intl* to take cognizance of it. The prkwier teas diacharged, ExEctoTios.—Fridov manual:, P. Sirret, for burglary, was executed opposite the Di !dors' d for of Newgate. J. Blunder. a south, for a highway robbery, WAS to have heel' executed wdli I t 11l ; but lie 'recited 31 I o week. The un happy culprit, Street, conducted himself wi:li coming 1.4 • tit ode and re.ignarom. Niue of his brothers anti t,krer, kslw hint ou Wednesday, and took their limit leave of hi to. Tbur,dny lie received the Sacrament, and devoted the whole of the day to his religious duties. 'fiiewlay about three o'clock, a • serious accident had nearlf occurred to the men employed in working the Itezent's sewer into the Thames ut Scotland-yard. 'the tide broke in, and with great difficulty they succeeded in getting tint opposite Drit ;;;;; the hanker, at Charing cross, being so close ly pursued by the deluge that they could nut wait to carry off their tools. On Saturday last, a corporal and serjeant, belonging to the 7th scicrut battalion, were drinking at the lted 'Louse at Bat. tenet►; when, in consequence of sofue trifling dispute, the cor. poral pulled out a knife, and plunged it into the body of the serjeant, who Wits carried on a shutter to the Doke of York's Hospital, without any Lopes of rQcovefry. The corporal is in Ou Tuesday an Inquest was held at the Green Deacon, in York-street, Westminster, on the body of Charlotte Finch, aged about 2 t, who was found drowned off Westminster brid l e. A watchman on duty un the bridge that morning, beard rustling noise in the water, and conceiving some person had fallen inn, he called for assistance, when a watermark came up, and having procured a drag, he took up the body, which Nat removed to the bone house. A 51. note and a bankers' draft were found iii her pocket; and soon after she was recognized be her sister, who resides in Great Peter-street. It appeared that about two years hick she was confined in a private mad house in Bethnal green; but there was no evidence to spew how she came into the water, consequently the Jury retuinsAi a verdict—Found Drowned. There was another Illyite4 held on the body of Ann Heath,. au elderly woman, who was found dead at her lodgings, in Blue Auclwr•alley, on Tuesday morning. Verdict—Died by the Visitation ut God. Monday, an inquest was held at the Coach and Horses public. house, Blue-Anchor-alley, Bunhill-row, on the body of Mt. G. Crew,huilder, of Twiss-row, Finsbury-square, who was found hanging in his workshop. It appeared that the deceased lust his wife and three children, about six years ago, by the falling of sem! premises in Ironmonger-row, when tire others sutlers - A likewise ; since which he had been in a &spending way, and which hail been increased by the loss of two more children. Verdict— Lunacy. An inquest was also held at the Peacock, Bethnal-green, ou the body of Mr. Brickinan, a gardener, who was found ti lug. It appeared that the deceased hail beer upwards of twelve months in a desponding state.— Verdict, 111.2110 y. Scicing.—A melancholy airair of suicide occurred in West minster. A youth named F y, had barn committed fir trial at the last Old Bailey Ses s ions; and information was carried to nu aged :nether that he was capitally convicted, when in fact he had not been tried. It, however, preyed so much sport the mind of the poor woman, that she hung herself. BIRTII. The Countess of Cowper, of a son. MARRIED, E. Bliquiere, Esq. R.N. to Miss White. of .Acton.—. 7. ife e mos. Esq. of M.lrlbormigh, to Miss harbor, of the Charter.house.—.l. Pa tient, Esq. to Miss Barnes, of Cullingbourn.—A. Bourlierett, Esq. of Willingham, Lincolnshire, to Louisa. youngest ilau. of F. Pigou, Eiq. —C. Bloxhism. Esq. of Amesbury, Wilts, to Mary Hope, dau. of J. Esq. of Vicars Hill, Hants.—B. Browne, Esq of oak. iaghatn, to Anna Elia, vilest dim. of the late Jacob Hoak, EN. of -....—....------ DIED. At Malta. where he had gone for his health. Gm. T. Murray.--AA the College, Sandhurst. aged S 3, W. Priorruu, Lieut. G.L. in t French .Armies.—Licut. Cob 1.. Mackven. Major of the Tower of Liiiii: • don, and resident Governor......At Kite 1141. Isle of White. aged Styr • J. Po jharn, Esq. bring the hat male branch of the ancient family of . Popham, in Ilan; shire, which is descended from the celebrated Lord l'nlet Just. and Coons. of Quern Elie. lie was uu Ablenn...fr.stice of Peace, and many years Major-Can. of the Isle of Wight Militia, and one of the Deputy I.ieut. of the Isles. do Ablemattibury, in his feed year, Mr. C. K. lieechey.--.1. .Nlontriro do Almeida. Esn.idate of the X city of liparto.—.Aged e.l, laml F. Campbell. brother to t I " te. and uncle to the present Duke of Argyll.—At West Cows : Is Wight, Mrs. Eliz. Sunnis., who, by her will, directed her coffin to lade of thick oak; no covering or ornarniit whatever; if poesilde. to • niado without nails; to be made very large and roof top; the lid not haiovy oar &stencil; the I:l4de to he mattres'nl and a to Rena for the body to lay on; irvtead Dia shroivd, a Hanna prrn and stockings.—.'.;; d 73. the Rev. W. It. Banter. M.A. Vicar of tto. Peter's ea:inert/on. tuna Master of the Free Graintuar S:hool in that town.—Mrs. ' Collier, of !Li m " near &affirm. av i 101.—Tlw wife of iiiournvyiniut baker. in gernerset-street, Itnth. I.l.ing suddenly called down .t ors, and whet. IwilwdlY ov:ctilig tar iari, ju-t returned titan London, the joy had tu:h an ell. et tr,ion her, that sheslied whilst taking Lin by tit:: 1 a 1.1.-. At fialifaxJ.lVeFtmamtt.F..q. , C r ap. of the Itoa! s aft'orp... Ili...leads VIM the conwapience of saxames reeeieed w id.: di.,charrang hi. duto. in wslting the gaerii.on hmards raly on the morning of t'.e r;th of April hot, from two men whmn h. 'net ne,ir t.'.1,.. Pre:4llo4l3n XL- dog house, carrying articuis which he fiemected they had come dishonestly by. which he charged chats with having guilt, and itilicli. as 1/;:5 cute. sentiently p- ......d. had Is:. n stolen than the store of IL-a...sp. Jouot!iari and Joon 'fr.:main. II . was on nor-nib:l:k and alone; the dna.' at detection urged roe villams to abandon thair p 1 toiler, and to snarler this etcellent *dicer. in w:orni the;: sowed a *dna* of thiar crime: !hey ilrag4ed him front his law.e, wait a sword strivk him the &lay Lbw. and departed. Taint ~ , li faint and weak from the lessof Woo I. he s 1:C.4.+.1C41 iittv:M:l7.li i:i pinia; the King's scnn.rf riar.l. fnu witom he received the assistance n.ieuriary to enahle him to reach his lodgings, where, until the ti..i.i.if bis dead I. lw langlish.d in extreosa pain. whica liaidly f/t :4 11:Y.14 , 3a IV.IS tailgated by the con.uling laths u:recovcry.- . -tOr " In vain. Itoix's whispnr i i siruggl.-.1 with ilsisrair." Capt. Wet.noseurt was a native or Er,daint: L. ellittc't the army in spring viol'. served is Po:t val and SAint at the siege of lie&jus greatly distingitLititet likr.self p; his bravery, and received a screw wound from a grape-shot. whi. , :h confined him to his qual era 19 months, and from which he nev:t perfoctly reeove•reil.— Aged ki, Prince Charles .Torun' de Palfy, Chief of one ref et:• toott illostrimi Douses of llongaly, and formerly Stipreilit Clianeill.w of the Kilo dram.-.T. Muir, Lso. nicahard. of Nitta. Park, Glils.!mv.—ln his i r..jg year, G. Seel, only sun of the late M:. Sul, booksellrr. of die St-sod. ..-". Wr‘fot, Eel. p.m ;.:.st son oldie hat:S:ir .I. Wr4,iit, Ban. and formerly of the ri4tli reg. of folit.-4..1t ' l ...thl.ingnen, NfWaycx, h i hi ; 6.'ith year, J. l'rutchdeld, F. 4.1. ...-At ilaverfordwest. liAtt. ralond Vaughan.—in his ti:hl year, .1. Newton, of Griiiund-stoat.—At st.u.z. ford, Miss M. Simpson, third dau, of Alderman Simpson. on a .A. 114« tn.! interesting girl. aged la. She expired at one 0 . 6 M k. ...I the funeral of her lirs,•lar, a hat yauth of it, r:dotst this Ja‘t 414 .14 hoar infore.