The National Register. — London, England, 1818-06-07 00:00:00

JUN I: 8. GUILDHA LT, rATEN,IV!! PFPRED(Tlll , 4i.—Tuftflay J. Sit/11110114N It soling man of respffetablis fatiolt, was brought up charged w ith stealing various articles of property to the annonor of 39)1. Ifom the warehouse Of Nlocc Watinrd„ Gardeetse and Co. INlartrilester dealers, in IVallintkstr,.et. I lie pi i.imer, it a rpeareti,oe is in the employ of the prOSeell'OTS for nine n unthv, but had left their service about a f or t a H i t s l uice consegni-nee of their refusing to aie•ment his salary. A f. of days after he had quitted them, something call(' to their t_: ; qw ledge which ted to a suspicion that be had robbed them, .01 1131 t'ie trslitt van, was employed to apprehend Titii officer discovered his lodgings to be at the ROW. French Horn politic-house, where, with the landlotd . % permission, he %Penciled his hoses and a cold:oar/Land foni,d them tilled with !sown pieces, SIIHWIA, %carts and other ptu• perty, all of whichbore the private marks of the prosecutors. The same evening he OA the prisoner into custody, and found on his person more article% of the saute description, to' other wills several letters from two young women, .ae_ knowledging the receipt of divers handsome presents. He also blend a number of ilnplicates of property pledged at different itawnforint •rl. At the residence of Sarah Cable, one of the yawng women minded to, Harrison found several. articles, and, among others, it beautiful dress, which she said the poisoner, who was about to antral her, had presented to hoe to wear on the nuptial day. Toe other female Ann Fry, re ided at Woke Newington. amt haul several dretwes,-&.e. in her possessi fit. A sister of the prisoner living in Surrey, had more goods, which %ere sold or given to her by her bro. flier ; and the landlady of the Rose and French Horn had also purchased a Considerable quantity of him. The whole of the property traced by the exertions of Harrison was identified by the prosecutors ; it amonnted in valise to about 801, bits it 'A as tali:ld:Ns:, that his depredations most .have been to the -_,eount of at least 5001. Sarah (411e1 a very interesting sattng girl, was present, and gave evidence as to the articles ,thich haul beau found in her possession. Her agitation was ru tiolent as made it necessary to support her; and ; ,t t h e t eachesion el - her testimony, she fainted. The prisoner, who - -tas in tearsthe whole of the time, was taken Wow the bar •,t.arly senseless.—He wasinflv committed for trial. liArdON bAItDEN. _ _ Monday Dercey. pest-boy to Mr. Clare, or the at Hampstead, was charged by his mistress with rub .1; her of 201. in notes and cash. The prosecutria deposed, cm Fri lay morning she brought a bag down stairs, eon_ Rank notes and cash to a consideratileiameum, which :lie put into a drawer in her bar, but senu after discovered v.at part of the, property had been stolen. Suspicion failirl the prisoner, she had him taken into custody. W. Re. u, a. the (Aker, deposed, TlM:Tater haii taken the prisoner . . custody, he confessed lie had been in the habit of robbing pis mistress for a considerable time, and that wills part at ..vhet he had stolen he bona h: clothes and a watch ; and what had stolen out of the hag, he hid in the coal cellar, until en opportunity offered for his takiug it away. On examining , :!le cellar, he (mind al. 9s. aril three !Litotes, part of which psesecutrie swere to have beets stolen from her, and the ori•oner was fully commitied. - .Vedneseee Vanier, a master chimney-sweeper. of Cha 1-street, fe.i.l.egton, was charged by Miiry Carr, of the Broadway, di ptfu a, with deeeining her son, 1 t years doge, Um. her, on pre *.enCe bt his apprentice. She stated. tire she had been left ..vielow with two children, which she maintained by selling Unites :A • .'er.; that :Moat seven months ago her son was sedeced from her ::another boy, dering her absence from home, and •ia a dew days .i.• he was b04111:1 apprentice from this ()thee to Peuifer, without her krowledge, the child being first instructed to-till the Magistrates that .1L; had neither lather nor mother, and theeit was his wish to be a sweep. That as soon as she:discovered the circumstance, she re paired re his house to claim him, erne:Metier that so young a toy coal not be legally bonnet without the consent of his parents ; but Pottifer refused to deliver him up, and she watched au opportunity and took him Maitre. E a few days after he repaired to Deptford, and in her ahs. net -carried him off; telling her neighbours he had settled with 'demetle.e. She was able to maintain and clothe him. Laving a little caeital to work.en, an 1 wished to have him .under her tern care. e!tild was never sent either to school or to chervil; he had neti.ve s tint. Fleece, nor sto.kingi on. end was not allowed 'Sundays to was:t 07 'Llita himself; but was employed on that day • ,a sorting soot in ti. anat. whe-.: he usually had his victuals, and at night slept on .rout lags. The &Sat:List strongly denied every part of the charge ; mid said the: complainant only wanted to • ,e e him easy now. ea he understood his business, in order to get money front another master far him; that in the tint instance, his mother dee; trted Lira : , 11 Blackheath, where she lefr him to provide fee himself. and that he did not know in what part of the world she was its; and on this statement he was bound apprentice. The boy net being present. the parties were ordered tea enema agein, and bring `aim with them. MAREIIORWIGH STREE'r. T. Ward was churned with stealing a dead body. The sia• fendent, who is porter at St. George's Hospital, was detected in Arlington.street,4emerretown, with a male body in matting. His load being heavy, he pitched it ; and on takiug it np again, the arms and legs were visible. and come persons pass. Inc, followed him, when he threw it OV or a wall, and in tele off; but was pursued and taken. Lt his defence, he said, it was a remit ry sobject, and lie was on his way to Dr. Brooltes's with it, at ho had ordered it a week agu.—lie was.ordered to Mid bail, and sent for Dr. Brookes for that purpose. SINGULAR CH 41:GE.—A Mr. John Eagan charged his Jeueliter, a girl of 19, with assaulting hint and threatening ti.s life. The complainant stated, that the accused had ab sconded front her home in lielait,l, and she having been at-- ..used of Witting a gentleman of 7UOI. lie mane to ',melon to tied her, his residence in Ire land having been snatched for the stoical proper;.:. Plank, the officer, fumed. her in Rieliag Hoaseedane, when she denied her 130.'1., venom she had 3track...end threatened to plunge a knife into Mei if he made an3"iseeotures. Capt. APCiatan was the person she was charged s.:th •rehisiter mod who has a process against her in • Malin far th- f; luny . The debilities': was mili.red to find bail,. and information was Avat to 1; a blin. WORS nTh saturdsy week, George Jlul.iu, eliareed with Tittering a forged 11. note at the shop of ;MR Rogers, hosier, in Alders gate-street. was fully esominitted. • Charles Lowman, one of the inmates of the Refuge for the T;estittite, at Hesston, who ansconded with a snit of clothes belonging to another youth in the !infinities., was fully cum_ mitt«l. THREATENING To Weerle„ a ft Aloe:dile dressed lady, was charged before .Williain son, Esq. by her husband Mr. J. G. Van Weede, n gentleman residing in the City-road, with acting towards hint with great wiolesiee, and threatened to murder him. The gentlemen stated, that his wife god up in the middle of the night, went to his demising ease mot took out a razor, whirl: she placed tinder the ; he awoke, and she vowed she would des fro/ ,him—be escaped from her. 'she defendant said, she • . ie....1.1.11 0r husband. They agreed tc THE NATIONAL REGISTER. UXION HALL. FXTEWSZVE linnatity.—Wm. Parke was brought up for ex amination under the following charge:-91r. Wunam Broomfield, of New Bridge -street, Vauxhall, stated, that the prisoner, for a con siderahle tine just, had been employed by hint at a jcurneytuan. On the mil) of May last, I'e discovered that his strong box bad been plundered of ha contents, consisting of 3351. in Bank of Eng land notes ; the property was sure or. the preceding evening about six o'clock. It was Li, custom to put the key of his tnonc•y box into dig till in the shop, and he was induced to open the box for the purpose ot• aae:ng that all was safe in oonsequenee of finding the till opec, recollecting distinctly that he had skit it when he last placed the key there. He was much alarmed when he dim:livered the rub bery, and immediately cwirtnunicatial the circumstance ut' his loss to the prisorcr who was on the premiser, and engaged in carrying on the business. lle prof . ..sisal to be much amazed at the event. ex pressed greet sorrow. and racomniended an active search for the rob ber. A few days aficrwarls the prisoner omitted to come to work as usual, when Mr. Broomfield hearing that he was riding about in hackney-coaches, and squandering away large siuusof .money, in• formed the Police officers. I hall itnd Guff, of the circumstances of the caae, and they apprehended him at a brothel, in Dover-street. Part of the property was found upon his person, and he confessed that be had con:witted the rabbi:rya—Committed. ECUTION.--Jo...ph Davey, a young man, who was con. eicted at the Session' in April last, for forging a certain or. der for payment of 1201. with au intent to defraud Messr%. Stephenson and Co., bankers, Lombard-street and Genre Chapman, alias Claxton, Int having uttered as true, a forged note, purporting to he that of the G rvernor mid Company of the 11 4 1,k of England, were executed on Tuesday rimming, in front of the Old Bailey, in presence of a Irv; numerous assemblage than has heel) observed for many years past on a similar occasion. Both of the unfortunate men conducted thutu.selves a ith great propriety, and met their fate with for. wade. FENsir.ox.-4 person talking to Permlon neon the subject of the -criminal law of Frsuce, and approving of the many eseentions tallish had taken place ender it, in opposition to the arguments ut the Archbishop, said, " 1 maintain that sneli persons are unfit to lice."—" BLit my friend," said Fr nclnu, " you do nut retket, that they are still more unfit to die ." A few evenings back a waterman, in a state of inebriation, imprudently attempted to row his boat, containing his wife and child, thiotigh one of the arches of London bridge, at high tide. The consequence was, that the boat overturned and they were all precipitated iuto the water. The woman held the child a. long as possible, when it was carried out of her arms by the streilth of the current, and drowned.—The in n held his wife tilt assistance came from the shore, and fortunately saved them both. They were conveyed to a neighbouring pnhtic tenure, but in such a weak state, that they were unable to walk home. While the funeral cf Mr. Lush, who lately died in the Tower, was proceeding from the door, his aged wife stood on the threshold, and drout down dead at the side of her luisband's CO:ffin On Tuesday night an inque-A was held at the City of London rifo lie house, City-road, on the body cf Christiana Beams, aged 37. The de teas was in tie employ of Mr. Tbomas, of Fleet—treet. A young man named Blake, residing with Is:c father, in Sidney 4treet, Islirgton, paid his addresses to her, but having at length discovered that.the had been previously married, and had one child, he became cent ut his attention. On Thursday she went t.) his sister's, at Bat tle Bridge, where alic was met by his father. who took her home to his house. and there not being a spare bed, sat iap ; but the deceased and Mr. li. jnn. acre left together. On Sunday morning she com plaints' :if Mktg unwell, and at one e'clock was observed by the fa ther in a dying state, and a surgeon was sent for. N' could render 'no assistance, and she lingered till about three tie."eck. when she -expired. On the. body being opened, about two ouncearElaudanum were found in the stomach. Verdict—lnsanity. Another inquest was held at the .:acne house, en the body of J. arim.ton, who was found by a labouring man in the Shepherd and S:tepherdee-tields on 'Tuesday mowing.. about Tout o'cloek,with his lama cut nearly front ea , to ear. The neec.iled was emp loyed by his brother. who is a cabin: t maker in Crown-street, Finsbury-squarJ: who on Saturday night paid him 11. wages, and he bad not boen seen afterwards until found dead. It further appeared that the family had been sithjat to insanity. Verdict acc..mlingly. An infamous hand bill was on Monday circulated in the neigh. bourhuod of Drury-lane, aecusing a por'.:-butcher of the horrihle practice of porch:Lang dead kw oun bsdies to use as a substitute fur pork; told this most tmprobable caltur.ny drew. a inismitied multi tude to the spot, where they indulged in wanton ext., 0.4 to a Lite . hour.; and it was with. no little difficulty that the peace officers were able to Ewe the preinisys from destruction. Thursday Morning a Richmond steam packet boat met with a slight' accident at Chiswick, on its passage to lstmdon, owing to one of the rods of the v(&sel breaking. The pastrrii; : rs were conveyed to town . in boats. happily no injury was rustatucd by any person on board. Con.iderable diversion was allbrded to several water parties on Wednesday, by the appearance of a porpoise, of a proditnous size, between./ .ondon and Blackfriars.Bridges. A great many shots were fired at it without Amt. The sport bad nearly been attended with:. fatal accident. A nuiskrt.shot passed through the hat of a gentleman who War n a boat, within an in , ll of his head. . . . An uatowartl accident lrinpenal on Monday night to the Mtirchi onessof C. ortiwalEs, while alighting from her carriage, at the Prince's grand party. The coachman baying slackened the reins, the hoists moved on, when her ladyship fell with her side against &step; by which she was se :::cur hurt as to be rendered inser.sible for a time. She was carried by the Marquis and assistants into the house, where proper restoratives being ort.tiod„ she speedily recovered. The 'Tribunal of Police, at Parts, has Pried, to a considuable amount, several wine nicreiacts and tavern kaTers far ?e ...tentin g their 'fhe liquors were orderesi.to be thrown it:o the street. A bate, containin„; nearly tonOl. is. English r - ,:tl coin, was lately picked up nom low water mark, on dr.c af h..s.e'tt ncat Ileal, by a Lustom House o:ficer, who was patrolint; :.!;at eohst. It is stipppsA to have been thrown overboard by . borne ,T,ltg 4 rling boat whilst elias ed. A claim has been thrown in for the money in question, but upon what ground tee 'l3ve no: heard. Monday mornix, %Ir. T. Moore, a half-pay aMiler, residing hi Orchard-stre-t, W....ti.iineter. attempted to put an end to his exissenee by thwart; !Mild]; with a pistol. The report was head I y therers vant, who instaltly went into the room. and found him lying en the floor bleating profusely from a wound in his side. • A surgeon was calbed in ; who, on examination, (mot shat the bellhad taken a slanting direwx ien. and p used .through see side between bis ribs. I lopes are entertained of his recovery. A dreadful accident took place at Wentworth House, Yorkshire, last week. Four girls (sisters; having ascended a swing chair, the chain M w'aich it was fixed being fastened at each end to a stone lanip-post, their weight brought crown a ledge stone, which fdl upon when one of i.i. r•irl, was "tined instantly, and the other three ta ere terribly cre.saed, ' 'ene hav'mg both faleihs and enetl._r a kg broken. A horse belonging to Mr. Batchekr, of Brighton, a fen days since yin away with a cart, and went over to the cliffnear the Crescent, a perpendicular descent of about to feet. The cart was dashed Ft pieces; but the animal escaped apparently unhurt, and was led home immediately niter. The late fine weather has enabled many farmers to sow their Lent grain,which the wetness rf the weether their petting tu r.t the usual ••=tc. • AGRICULTURAL BEPOItT. Sowing the spring corn is at leNfitt finished, end the most fatiguing, and expensive season within memory. leisure of the limits which were (Cu long sodden kith wet, tuna remain tinsown. made by floods, in those parts exposed by situation, ha. been tint. versal, not only in this country, hut upon the continent ; and the losses have been to a great amount. The dry easterly winds which have pre7ai/ed of late, have been beneficial to the lands, but several accompanying fruits have checked vegetation, and it is apprehended. haveinjured the fruit blossom, which is generally very luxuriant.._ In some of the northern and b•wkwartl districts, the ren:aining stock of turnips has come into request, 'from the ba•knarillii ss of the spring grasses and scarcity of hay ; end the Snots's are found of the highest eon•equence as a substitute for spring herbage—this root getting annually more and more into repute. l'otatoe and turnip fellows foul, and their seasons will be unavoidably backward. 'loth wheat and springeorn look sickly, not having recovered from the ex treme wetness of the spring, and variableness of the weather. The doves, where the plant is good, have resisted the wuttlier and look well, as alas eo lucerne and saintbin. Rape, and nutter tares. are a light crop. In the must fertile and be. , tilled oraudrita the r.ports are more favounsole. both in South and North Britain, spring . r ing haring beet finished moult earlier. and tinder .i.ea:•-oral . • spices; and the corn and pulse upon the ground . u , the exception of wet and inferior souls. Great ,• • •:, and the present fivounible for the coining crop. , strong. and hops a dull and filling market in cor.serp l ei l e,! :terabit: importation. The hunhirtg season more favoural , '..• :h at , could have been expecaed, excepting in the most exposed ilistrictr, where the loss of lambs has been heavy and ruinous. Store ez.ttlt :12 great plenty. and high in price; en acknowledged') mptoiti of ores-. peaty. Wool, timber. And bark, still c,u the alvr.ace. Straw pigs. arks cows, and good horses of every description, fettit very - 13W' prit...es. Corn on the deelir.e, front the extencave spring importation. which must continue to have an effect on the sus/kegs, /tad still amass should she crops on the ground improve. Flosit.—A few days ago a 111R1i, in the dress an marine., went to the house ot Mr. lateas, tailor, at Faveisham, and said lie was sr reant to Capt. WeMarkin', then at Sheerntes, late from Gibraltar; that Capt. Jones, of Chatham, had re commended his apartments to his master, which he was to agree fur; that the family minister! of the master, mistress, and two boys,and a horse to run in a gig, and two ponies for the bnv to ride.—'Plat price was agreed on, and lie requested Mr. Lucas to recommend him to the tradesmen where h.s master could get best served. Mr. L. did so; mad th e f e ll ow ordered fa meat, wiue, liqors, earthenware, tea, smear, spices, &e. to a large aliment. In the evening he enjoyed himself, had- beefsteaks for supper, tasted the porter ans. other liqnorm, till he was quite mellow ; the next morning he got up, made a large fire, boiled a ham and a tonene, and art the ham in the yard to cool, as his master did not like it hot.. He was soon after missing, and no such person as Captain Richardson has made his appearance.—lt is supposed the fel low belonged to a party oftnarines just returned from Franey. and had formerly ,been quartered at l'aversham. i.arttrixo.—An extraordinary, as well a , novel, foot met to a place a few days since en Loco's Grimed, Mary-le- Bone. Mr. Wildboar, proprietor of the Green Man aril! Still, Oxforlstreet, a man of at least fourteen stone weight, and advanced in years, challenged Mr. Bentley, a gentiner-s: of light weight, and well linoveu ford& agility at crickel playing, to run a race of 100 yards, tinder these eirentr.- stances :—Mr. wlio botiats of being able to step two yards at a time, proposed trying a match of 100 yards with Mr. Wildboar, on the principle of moving but oae yard in stead of two. The challenge was accepted ; hot the pro poser was at a loss to know how :lie yard should be measured. Mr. Wildhaar said heliad hit upon an expedient for that. and would bind .1117: to the purpose, by havisig a rape cf a yard's letigtli t iteplay, fixed to a swivel, from kg to leg. Toe race was far leol. and much beUlog took place. The parties seemed each very confident of. success upon starring; hot Bentley botintled along and too.: the lend for the lust Erie yet - 4s. Before he reached Ca .sixtieth, however, his tram mels interrupted his toroe,re3s, but he nevertheless continued to run at shorter distances, occasioned by the rope hecomieg ertengled with his feet and toes. Its.conaequence of this Mt. Wildboar kept the lead and eventually-won Use suker,actilst the laughter and shouts of the multitude ruled:tided. 31r, 11 •alley attributing his defeat to accident, has again dial. leuged the wintier,and his offer bas been aocept cal. The resident•: a Sir W. Sutitb,Bart. ut Eftediston, • Wor cestershit e, was on Suuday last discovered to be on fire, dim; itst intimali•an having been given by the falling of a latice. alarm bell.whieli was hung near the top of the house. By the prompt exertions efthe inmates and th ighbones, h owever , the flames were *subdued without etieetieg. :midi further mischief than the aseroofing, of the house. This Is the secor.sl time these premises have been neat ly destroyed by fire. AFONIA'fIe CAMPIIIRE. • FEVERS PREVENTED from being CAUGIIT, relieves I:cad-eche, prevents Faintness and Ilystertes by only smell ing at i'. Centur:es ago Camphire was apfroved of sicoveallatlat• r.. - !mediey ova preventive against taking , ofeetien ; but it should be known, that common Camphite does not poFSCPS that vitt ue, nor yet the agreea ble fgagiance the Aromatic 4 . ...tiphire does. .1n short, tbe.Artnintic Czmpliire is preferable and i leaaanter than ally other remedy, for resit mg the spirits, prevcntin. • infection, and it ought to be sprinkle...! about in rooms where persons gre not well; in short, very one ought to !Laic it little in a bottle abo thon.as it often 14psraeil that when any friend has gone to see usher who it confinr .1 with it cold. as in general by colds there Is mere or •Itet ...time fever, std often toe person who haa, come to . see hint. 11:.: caught the fever, and been very ill; But b 7 having the Aronn.tic Ohre. about them, and smell.sg to tt, will prevent ti,a infect and ci.ght ba used alien going Into crowded plap.too.; tits breath, one :remanether is very unhealthy. It i, rlso .eckarninen44l to ail 11 , 2 r A r.s who travel, ste.atal sichne.ses ampfgen caught .in coaches. strange btds, 8:e. but by 'riving the Cigtxphire about them. and using it, tt will pr.:relit them, froir. rating ..rfetion. Physicians and other tientlyw.en *ugh: to have it al:cut than:, aS will prevent their takingatfcraior...vgan ene hone to another. Ask for l'rince's Arg.,natic Can.:thira. , n:r bottle. • One bottle of Aromatic Camphire coats:Lb t..c-quantity of ;ix bottles Shot is sold fat the genie. Sok! by the sole Propriettr, Prinae. n John street, Oxford Street --as there are two Numbars 9 in John Street, one oppoelre the other. obs-..rve, Pnnca's home is the segronti from the Cogelto...ker's.. Solii also by Bacon hr.,' Co. 150, Oxford Strret„ciaa.:te 21st bond Street ; Trutt. v 99, Uarison. 59, Fleet .4t.-act g 'higg e . g 5 Cheaptgig , ,-. Johrgthf . .e. Ge, Tote. lltyal Exchtmge ; Arai by most pv.r..•i:w! liend, vs. To NV( itunostme those who reside in theeountry.ly cnciosscg, money ;11 a letter t0351r. l'rinee. 9, John Suva, fjxford Street, Leas don, will soil them t y return of coach to any part of the kingtlen..-.. Will keep in all ;limp tea. Merchants std Captains will receive a liberal allowance for ga. • portsdon. CAIIT row.—Pe r articular to ark for Prince's Aromatic Camphirr, and observe " PRINCE" on the ler:prier and seals of each bc.4, without it is pr gcrl tliac r sad ca mot all wcz the rurpoec . • • I S 3 ~~