The National Register. — London, England, 1822-10-06 00:00:00

POLICE. S's ._ BOW STREET. IMPORTANT CAUTION AGAINST ADVERTISING - MO N EY• LEN HERS. On Friday last, George Chartegis, a middle-aged man, of dashing appearance, was brought before Sir K. Birnie and Mr. Milislanll, by Bond, a Constable, on a charge tin der the statute, of having unlawfully, and in violation of good faith, embezzled and converted to his own use a hill of exchange for euittrary to the special purpose for which smelt bill load been hut "tried to ham.. The complainant in this initiative was Ilse mistress of a seminary for young ladies in the west of Englaud; and it •ppeared aunt her statement, that being some time ago hi very argent want of a particular NUM of money, she wrote to a friend in London to endeavom to procure IsC• cominotiation for her hi that respect. This ft lend, shortly after the ieceipt of her letter, saw an ailveitisement one of the 'twining newspapers, contaioiug otters of pecu niary accommodation to any amount, and on very mode rate terms, upon good personal security being given. The complainant's friend wrote to her immediately, itiforming tier of this advestisement, and she in answer authorized . bun to negotiate with the advel tiser for the loan of 2001 ueulkiiian, in conserpience, went to a house in New ' Palace Yard, the place of reference given in the adver tisement, where lie found the prisoner living apparently in considerable style, with an establishment of servants luta other appendages usually found in the house of it substantial man. The subject of the visit was discussed, the prisoner professing his wish to treat on this occasion, as (lie said) he invariaoly did, on the most libetal terms. H.s ifenhoid was no more than 7t, per cent• for the luau whatever it might Ire—a rate of 'merest so moderate in • MOM" lender, that it was agreed to with some avidity. :Then came the question as to bow or in what shape the loan was to be advanced; and the prisoner proposed to furnish the coMplainant w itlt a bill of ',whinge ter 21) I. at two months, drawn upon a banker and accepted by liinisell; and as a collateral security for the repayment of the loan, the complainant should give him Item acceptance for the came amount, and at the same date. This arrange strut was agreed to, and the bills were exchanged, of Cuoise ou the express condition that her bill should be reignited upon the completion of bar part of the engage- Plead. It was by no means to lie negotiated. At the end of two muitilis the complainant Nand how completely she Lad been duped. 'I he hill which she received from the prisoner was re-tinned to her trUnk the banker's as not being win th a fat thing, and her own acceptance was about the smite time presented to her for payment, the prisoner having, in violation of good faith," as the sta: nite has it, negotiate': her bill, and apply the proceeds to his own use. An inquiry was .diate ly set on root as to the respectability of the poisoner, and it was f I nut truly that he was what is genet ally mimed a wan of straw, bat that lie had not lung calm-nett (rum Botany Bay. The complainant, upon these discoveries, woe advised to pro ceed et ionistally against him, and a warrant was taken out for his spin eliension. In ritswer to the charge the pi:soner declared with a very confident air that she train,noion was a fair mid ho nourable one, and that he ',tumid be able to meet the de mand upon I • •1 it were double the amount. After a eeinversiSlioli of sonar tempts, the prisoner ob tained leave from the magistrates to retire with the com plainant and her friends, and a comproutise was offered by Ingo, which was refused, and he Was sent to the watch- Iroise for the night. On Saturday morning he was again brought up, when Mr. Witmer, solicitor for the complainant, stated, that spottier i n terview had taken place between the parties, and that his client did not intend to proceed further with the charge. The pi isoner was shoat to be discharged, when ,Major Carpenter, an officer on half pay, stepped for ward, and said he bad a charge to prefer against him.— He had given his bill for YOU]. to the prisoner as a colla teral security for one of the same amount given by the prisoner to hum fur his accommodation. The prisoner's bill was returned dishonoured from the banker's, and his (Major Carpenter's) bill was paid by the prisoner to Mr. Hillary, a wine merchant in the Strand, to liquidate a debt if V 41.; and he was on his way to Mr. Hillary's Louse in Somers-town to receive the balance, when he was apprehended by Bond on the chat ge of the limner complainant. Mr. Hillary refused to give up the bid tin less his debt was raid. 'flue mice:flier in answer to this charge denied that there was any ILiuq unfair, and said it was a mere exchange of accmintiodmion between them. Mr. Maislitill.—Major Carpenter has been swindled out of his money, th.it is the plait' fact. Prisoner.—O dear no, Sir, not at all; quite the reverse, I assume you. Major Carpenter is nay debtor fur inte rest, arc. (Sir. Minsbull.—Yes, upon a bill not worth a single farthing. Why do yon not pay the money, Sir? No answer was returned to this very plane question. Sir K. Birnie was clearly of opinioir - tliat tin; ass a ease of fraudulent VOIll ergion under the statute, and he Will p epaied to act upon its provisions if Major Carpenter intended to proceed. Major Carpenter said lie would wish to avoid the Iron• ble of a formal prosecution, if he could get his own bill returned. Mr. Ilillary was present, and he said he should not give op the Lill toritil Isis debt of it. was paid, as lie considered Major Carpenter's acceptance as a Nutt of security which be did not choose, under the circumstances, to part with. • 'flee prisuuer lir se whispered to Major Carpenter and M►. Hillary, and they all retired together. In a few mi nutes they returned, and Major Carpenter stated that an atraul;etuent bad been made between him and Mr. Htl lary, which presented the necessity of his proceeding f Igniter. The prisoner was then discharged ; but the moment he had paid the usual fee, two sheriff's officers presented themselves, one on each aide of hies, std bulk attested hint almost at the sante rrmstx•ns. They took him out of the office, and wisest in the street, the contention between the officets as to the right of possession of his person ran so high, as to collect a considerable crowd. He was at length taken away to a coach, accompanied by bath. We have it firm anthotity upon a Melt we can rely, that the ptisoner went splendidly attired to one of the last levees at Carlton-house, and in the hurry gut admis sion to the royal presence. Cambric o► Agsus.—On Tuesday, Mrs. Neville, a very r , speetahla looking woman, apparently about $0 years of age, war brought before the sitting magistrates, in the custody of THE NATIONAL. REGISTER Shlells, si petrel, charged on suspicion of having wilfully and maliciously sal fire to a certain dwelling-house, belonging to 'thorns Glenton, of whioli she was the occupier. The defeudaut was accumpluied by several respectable per sons, and was allowed to mend at the table in freed of the bench. She was taken into custody on a warrant issued on Monday, at the suit of Mr. Glentun. Mr. Adolphus appeared for the prosecution ;and Mr. Harmer on behalf uf die defendant. Thomas Glenton, of No. 1, Wilton-place, Groiiveuor• place, Phulico, bricklayer, sworn.—l have a house, No. 40, Chapel street, Groaveour-plane, which I let to Mrs. Neville, in No vember last, on an agreenieut for a lease of years. She was to give nie a premium for the lease, and I had lately pressed her for die payment of it ; bet no legal proceedings between us had been threatened, nor had any angry words taken place between us upou the subject. The house was partly furbished by Mrs. Neville, and partly by a Mr. Forbes, who 'edged on the first dour, but who quitted the house on last Friday or Satur day morniug. On Saturday evening last about eight o'clock, my foreman said there was a tire th ere. 1 went to the house, and found the furniture in great disorder. The whole of it bad been removed from the upper to the lower part of the bootie, with Cie exception of a deal ,hest of drawers and an old bed steed sod muttress, and trilling things in the back gaffed.— Synie furniture, 1 believe, bad been removed altogether. Two or three persons were with me when I went into the house.— I went up into the back garret, and saw Mrs. Neville sitting on the bedstead, seemingly much distressed.—The bed-curtains were burnt, and the wainscot appeared to have buttered from lire. There were s.nne pieces of under un the floor. I asked her what was the matter and she said she came up stairs to the hack garret, to tuaLn up the niattreas for a piling mail who was to sleep in the house fur protection, as Mr. Forbes lied left her, and when she opened the door she saw an apparition. She said she retreated, but retuined to the room, cud then saw something tall move behind the curtain, which so alarmed her that she dropped the candle and fall down stairs. She said also that she bad been robbed, and that a great deal of linen, two 51, notes, and two sovereigns had beeu taken out of the deal drawers. I then examined the drawers, and in the bottom one I funnel several pieces of rags burnt, not quite to tinder, but they hat suffered by lire. The drawers were a conaiderable distance from the bed. There was a young lady (who is now present) with Mrs. Neville, and I asked if she was any relation to her, and she slid she was nut, but that she had known her for some years, and that she had heel. there fur a short time only. She (the young lady) said she had seen the bottle of oil and a cap, which was pertly burnt, in the kitchen below. My im pression was, from all that I saw and heard, that the house had been set nn lire on purple e. Li answer to a question from Mr. Harmer, the witness said, Mrs. Neville objected to paying the premium on account of some doubt as to the title of Lord Gro venor, the groand landlord. Mrs. Neville told him she bad called in some of her aeighbuurs. George Whiting sworn.-1 live at No. ti, Chapel-street.— On Saturday at ening Mrs. Neville came and said she had seen a man in her house, and begged me to come over and see. I went up stairs with Mrs. Neville and her friend, and saw the room in a Caine. The door was shut when I first went up. saw on man nor ghost in the room. I went down stairs to get a pail of water, hut Mrs. Neville said she bad no pail is the house, and I got one from a neighbour's. More persons came iu, and water was brought to put out the tire. The bed curtains were buret, and the lire had caught the wainscot. The body of the wood had, in my utilities., been caught by the fame. By Mr. Harmer.—! think the wood had actually caught fire. Mr. Harmer said, the wainscoting ought to be taken down and produced ; and Mr. Adolphus said this should be done. [This point was must narioeely enquired into throughout the bit astigatiou, 'weenie to establish the capital charge of arson, name part of the budding itself must be pros eel to have suffered by lire ; otherwise it amounts (supposing the proofs to be con- i clasive against a defendant) uoly to an indictable niisdemeauour in attempt* to set the house me tire.] Charles Puce, a am vent oat of place, living in Chapel-street, said—l went to the house in consequence of en alarm of fire, and saw Mrs. Neville standing at the dour. She said there was a strange man in the house, and requested my assistance to detect him. I ran up stairs, and when I got to the second door I smelt lire. It was dark; tied I called for a candle and water. 1 found the door of the back garret shut, but nut fas tened. When I opened the door a volume of smoke issued from the room, and as soon as I could I got some water and threw it in. The matinee was the only thing then ou lire, but the bed furniture was buret. The wainscot in my opinion had not actually caught lire. A brother to the witness (Whiting) gave the sane opinion upon this point. Elisha Williams, foreman to Mr. Clenton, gave it as his opinion that the wood had been on lire. James Shiells, the Mow-street patrole, said be was called to the house about twenty minutes past nine. lie saw the wainscot, and observed the paint was very black ; but did not examine it minutely enough to give any decided ()plume. W abbess pro duced the burnt raga, oil bottle, and bit of candle fennel in the drawer. Ile saw some tallow iii the c. f..re of the drawer, which appeared to him to have been dropped there for the per pose of making the oandle stick. John Scott, souther patrule, said. he thought the wainscot was only searched by the lire being near to it. Mr. Whiting ben. said, he broke open t .e drawers by desire of Mr. Neville, and found the thiligs produced. The bottle was lying on the rags. The magistrate's thought that spon this evidenoe the place should be e.aamined must minutely, by competent persons, and, if necessary, to bring away the wainscoting, in order to set the question at rest, as to whether Mrs. Neville was to be charged with a capital offence or a misdemeanour only. For this purpose the hearing was adjourned till the evening, Mrs. Neville reeneiniug in custody. Soon after coven in the evening the case came on for hearing again, when Ellie and Jones, two officers, deposed, that in per sll3llCe of ivatructions bum Mr. Halls, the magistrate, they had been to examine the room in which the lire took place, which they heel dune most minutely, and they were enabled positively to butte, that no part of the wainscoting had been actually on lire. It was scorched, and the paint blistered, but .be wood was not burnt. Limn this evidence Mr. Halls said, the offence amounted only to a misdemeanour, and he should therefore call upon Mrs. Neville fur bail for her appearance at the sessions. Mts. Neville was not asked to say any thong in answer to the charge. She made no observation. Two gentlemen who came with her immediately tendered themselves bail, and entered into a recognisance of 501. each for her appearance at the sessions. MAItt.I3OIIOISCII-STREET. Mr. Lowtsdes, of East Indle:House celebrity, appeared to answer to a deinaud of 69/. due to the Parish of St. Pancras for the toriutetiant e of two illegitimate children. It appeared that au awsre was made for the payment of ten shillings a week for each sLild in Ildlat, slid the ..du sought after was arrears due. Mr.. L. contended that the amount awarded against hint was injustice allogether, and that it was physically impossible Thal lie could hare been the father of the youngest child ; that the mother was a would,, of the worst description, whom he had picked up under the Piazzas at Covent-garden. The Mai.:stiate said he had no power to alter the award, and the way would have been to have appealed to the Sessions when the award was made. Mr. L: left the olgce much dis satisfied. UNION-HALL. The neighbourhood of this office was crowded, perhaps, beyond all former occasions on Satnrday last, in conse quence of the apprehension and examination of a lady, who had thought roper to dress herself in the clothes of a military gentleman while he was asleep, and to adopt the manner and conduct of those offensive characters by which the whale me tropolis isin rested. :Mary Palmer, the woman who thus distinguished herself, has been some time on the town, and possesses a very fine lace and figure, but both are of the ma►culine order. She had in the course of her speculations in St. George's fields on Friday night, met with an officer in the army who was a little far gone," and secotnpatited her to her lodgings, where be fell asleep in a very short time. As the hour at which he retired to bed did not suit Mies Palmer, she determined to leave him to himself for a while, and to join her companions in the Lent road, where she bad left them envying her good lortune. She felt an inclination, also, to ascertain bow far they would be likely to carry their jealousy towards each other, by going in the midst of them in the character of a dandy, and hay. ins observed that her military friend was not likely to cause any interruption to her plan, she slipped on his trowsers, boots, anti spars, shirt, waistcoat, coat, hat, and silk neckerchief, and sallied out thus equipped in search of amusement. Although aim had drank very freely of strong waters in the course of the evening, she was able to deceits her old companions, by whom she was soon surrounded and caressed. And after having for some time caused a very strong feeling of animosity amongst the girls, to each of o hunt ithe pretended a sudden fondness, she started , way from them, and, calling the watchman, desired him to clear the road of all women of bad character, upon pain of being complained against tefore the Magistrates the next morning. The watch man, alarmed at the tune and dashing appearance of the per son who gave this order, proceeded without delay to put it into execution ; and the Kent-road was soon in such a state that any modest woman or drunken man might walk there without danger. So far her sport was not calculated to do any great mischief; but she 60011 began to show her powers of imitation to perfection, and was considered by numerous spec tators to be the greatest ruffian they bad ever beheld. Every one who approached her came in for a short ►bate of her abase, which was composed of oaths and epithets that terrified even the guardians of the night, who so seldom know fear. At length a sense of duty prevailed over their apprehensions, and they sailed her by the collar, and, notwithstanding all her efforts, lodged ber in the watehhouse. As soon as she en tered the room in which the constable sat to receive the charge, abe whispered to him that she was no man ; and that officer in astonishment informed the watchman, who bad jnst described the prowess of the ‘' gentleman" over whom the, had obtained a victory. She begged very hard to be permitted to depart, and promised never to offend again ; but the consta ble would not listen to the request, and she was obliged to wait upon Mr. Chambers and Mr. Swabey at the Dice in the clothes in which she had offeadod. The defendant begged to be forgiven. declared that what she had done she had done in a frolic, when overcome with drink, which disguised her conduct as much as the clothes did her sex ; and declared that she would never more distarb the peace in the character of man or woman. The magistrates, who were apprised that site was not knows as an old offender, very sharply reprimanded her for the impro priety of her conduct ; promised her upon any future occasion of ill-behaviour to make an example of her, and lined liar 5,t. for drunkenness; ether which they desired her to appear as quickly as possible in the dress of the sex to which she might have been an ornament instead of a disgrace. The defendant appeared grateful for this lenity, and imme diately drove home, where the military gentleman was waiting in anxious expectation for her return. GU I LDHA LL. ATROCIOUS CASE.—A fellow who gave his name George Massey, and described himself as a servant out of place, was charged by James Lockwood, a very respectable looking mar ried man, between the age of 40 and 50, residing at No. 8, Broadway, Blackfriars, with an offence of the most atrocious nature. Mr. Lockwood stated that lie and his wife were living upon a small properly they possessed, the result of former industry, anti were at this time employed in taking care of a house No. 27, New Bridge-street, in the absence of the family. On Thursday be had occasion to go to the Conuercisl-road, and on his way stopped for a short time, certainly nut a minute, at the picture-shop in St. Paul's Church-yard. On his turning away from it, the prisoner whom be bad not before observed, and whom to lair keowledge he had not seen before, addressed him and said, " I suppose you neon to steed something: . He did not at first think that the prisoner spoke to him, but on Ids repeating the words, he asked him what he meant, %healthy prisoner replied for the indecent liberties lie had taken aid' his person, and immediately applied the most approbrious epi thets to him. Ile (Lockwood) turned away, and the prisoner followed him, occasionally addressing him with such language as already hinted at, the whole of the way to NN iiitechapel.- On his return he found the prisoner had wailed for him. when he immediately recommeticed the Wile sort of attack. Finding that he could not succeed in frightiting him (Mr. Lo. kwood) out of any thing, the prisoner changed his tune, and offered to treat him with some limier if he would go into a public-Mats* with him. This, however, he refused ,• the prisoner continued to follow him the whole of the way back, repeating occasionally his atrocious accusations, till be arrived at the house in bridge street, and was let in by his wife. The prisoner then knocked loudly at the door, and created a great molt round the house. by renewing the ulrensive charges. He (liotkw nod) went out by the back door leading into Water-lane, and gave directions to Potter, the officer, to go round end take the prisoner into custody. Potter, the officer, bore testimony to the nature of the charges the prisoner was making against Mr. Lockwood. and stated the desperate resistance he wade when lie found himself in custody. Two gentlemen in the crowd , which the p risoner resistance had collected together, recognized him as having previously made a similar attack upon them severally, and ex pressed great satisfaction at seeing him secured. The prisoner, in his defence, renewed the hot rid eccusatiou against Mr. Lockwood. Sir James Shaw was proceeding to consult with Mr. Payne, the clerk, as to the precise mode in which the prisoner's com mitment should lee made out, *ben kir. Alley, the barrister, who 11114 in atteudauce upon some other business expected to