The National Register. — London, England, 1816-01-07 00:00:00

1101,10 E. UNION HALL. Peter Perrott was again brought up en tt charge of stealing a Fair of horses, the property of Mr. Mortlock, or Cineen's.row, Ken nington.' Mr. Mortlock now stated; that im the Ist of November the prisoner, who he had formerly known as a coachman at Mar gate, came to h; ..n and told him he wanted a pair of job horses for the eclehotted Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke. Some conversation passed Loh%► en the in on the subject, and the prisoner came again on the nd, sr hen, in consequence of a letter he produced, the prosecutor tr; reed to let him have a pair of horses, for which he was to be paid at rite r,:te of 1901. a yei,r, and Mrs. Clarke was to pay when she cam was.e 1..0 tots!) from North Down, near Margate, where she then As the prosecutor had not at that time a pair of horses which , %onl4l suit snch a job, he went to Mr. Able's, in the Borough, and bought a pair, and they were delivered to the prisondelivr, not on his fi.vn account, but nn account of Mrs. Clarke, tobe by him conveyed to North Down; and if she did not approve of either of them, they c: ere to Le changed by the prosecutor when they came to town aoain. Perrott accordingly took the horses down, and it now ap peared they did not please Mrs. Clarke, and that Peter was dis, patched with them back to town. Some information which the ► prosecutor received induced him to suspect that both Peter and his horses hood quitted Mrs. Ciaoke's service, and this and other circumstances induced hint to go down to Canterbury, where he roan discovered that one of his horses had been sold, as stated in a fanner examination, to , N; CSSFS. Chitty and Co. proprietors of 111 A. - Union coach. May and Goff had, in the 11Wall time, traced the other horse to the possession of Mr. Turner, of Park-lane, to whom the prisoner had sold it. They had also discovered the prisoner, stud taken him into custody. Mr. Alley now attended for the prisoner, and contended that in this case there was no felony. There was no torteous conversion, although there might be a fraud. As the horses had been entrusted to Perrott to take down to North Down and to bring them back, aed it was before that special trust had ctipiretl that he sold them. Tulare was, therefore, no taking in this case. It was exactly like a case which had been :ironed before the dodges, where a man hired a horse to go a journey into Surrey, and sold it before be got Luck to London. Tit; !lodges, ir this case, held that it mai no feleny but a fraud, sieve the pa:oiler hail done that for which the honte was entrusted to him if lie had not gone into Surrey at all, hot so!d the horse in London, it would lava been a felony. Magistrates, Mr. Serjeant Sefton and Mr. Chambers, howes or, held that here was sufficient evidence to go to a Jury, and the prisoner was therefure.committed for trial at the assizes. • GUILDHALL. DARING TtfErr.—Ye•terday John Davis, a notorious character, • was charged with stealing n quantity of paper the property of Messrs. Harrison of Smithfield, stationers. It appeared that a troy, the service of the prcseeattors, had been out to deliver a quan iity of paper on Friday evening, wh .n the prisoner met him, i.nocked him down, and having stopped his mouth with a handker- Pdhial; rail off with the prepztrty. Being observed, however, he was pursued ; and retreating into a passage, ‘vitere there was no thoroughfare, he was secured.—Fully committed for trial. MANSION HOUSE. Several complaints having been made to the Lord Mayor of the treat nuisance of the itinerant fruit and other vt tilers in ilte neiglt boarhood of the Bank, Exchange, &c. his Lordship on Tuesday tli;patched several of the officers, when about twenty of the ven ders were brought up, awl fined ss. each. Several who had deserted their baskets on the appearance of the officers, Were bubjected to the loss of their contents. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.—S.vrtimAY. A sailor was examined, who was taken into custody for throw jug stones at Carlton House :rid abusing the B r inee Regent. The poor man avowed his intention to continue every species of hos tility against the Prince Rei.ent, who he said was not the right heir to tine throne.—The Court ordered the prisoner, who was evidently deranged, to be detained un:il he could be properly disposed of. The sham Duke of Nei folk was again brought up and dis charged, after a remonttrance from the Bench on the impropriety of his conduct in rioting near Norealk House.—The prisoner, in a long speech, insisted upon his right to the estates and title of the Norfolk family, a right which he would never relinquish. ItaronTasrr TO FAMILIE4.—:I lady named Roberts yesterday at/tonic( a.t the Court of Reyest-t, in contcquence Of a turmoils NATIONAL REGISTER. JAN. 7. a obtained by her late footman, to pay him 3:)s. for wages. Mrs. ROBERTS, who came in her carriage, assigned as t reason ear her not paying this sum demanded, that James, the footm tn, while in her service, by his carelessness, had brok en u p wards of 13/. worth of glass in tlitee months. She frogorntly told him she would de duct the va!tte out of his wages, but never entered into any posi tive agreement on the subject. The COMMIFSION ERS Wi've of opinion, that as there had been no positive agreement with the plaintiff, when hired, that he was to pay for sneli glass as he broke, he could not be considered as answ croble for such accidents as might occur in the course of his servitude.--Mrs. ROBERTS was in Consequence obliged to pay the demand. This should operate as • a warning for masters and mistresses to make a special agreement with their servants on the subject of breakages. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. dom••••111011POMMO DREADFUL CATASTROFIIE.—It is our melancholy task this day to record one of the most calamitous events that has hitherto oc curred in this city, within the recollection of its oldest inhabit ant:— About a quarter past two, in the morning of Sunday last, a fire was discovered in the house of Mr. J. Goddard, shoemaker, opposite the Butter Market, Burgate-street, which, in a very short space afterwards,was completely enveloped in flames; and by five o'clock, such was the fury of the devouring element, that the inter nal part was wholly consumed, with all the furniture and the stock in trade; and, agonizing to add, with the loss of the lives of Mr. Goddard and his eldest son (William), a lad thirteen years of age, whose bodies, in a mutilated state, were, about nine in the morn dog out of the ruins. Front the concurring testimony of the neighbours, it appears, that about the time above mentioned they were ahirmed by Mr. Godtlard's voice and the cry of " Fire!" and on proceeding to the house, perceived him, with his son, at the window of the first floor, imploring and caliing for a ladder, " or else they should be suffocated:" but before that or any other as sistance could be afforded to them, they had disappeared, a'id were seen no more! The shop-door was then forced, and the internal part, with :he stalrcase, appeared a body of tire, the flames of which shortly after linti . st out through the door-way. Previous to this, Mrs. God , lard, with four young child,am (one an infant), and the nand-servant, effected their escape, by a trap-door on the 'top of the house, into the adjoining one of Mr. Po ell, havin:!: been directed so to do by her husband, who, with his son, had left her for the pur pose of obtaining his books; but it is conjectured they were pre vented from followinft her by the rapidity of the flames, or the effect of the smoke.-1 Coroner's Inquest was yesterday afternoon taken on the remains of the unfortunate victims, and a verdict re turned of—Died by suffocation, occasioned by fire.—Nothing cer tain is known as to the cause of this dre fitful calamity.—C otiterbury Paper of Ttlesday On F r iday last as Mrs. Hague, of Cecil-street, was walking in the Strand, accompanied by her daughter, she was accosted by a young woman of genteel appearance, who, apologizing for her ob. mishit] said she was in the grea test distr.ois, and begged Mrs. H. to purchase of her x diamond broach, which she produced. Mrs. H. from the aillessness with which the tale was told, had no sus picion of intended fraud, and without hesitiaton, gave a two pound note for the broach, which the young woman assured her cost five waineas a few weeks before, :Ars. H. anxious to know the real value of her purchase, went into a jeweller's shop to ask the pitts tion, when, to her surprise, she was told the intrinsic w'or'th WA§ about ouc TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZSITE. --011110-- War-Office, Jan. 2. 2Sth reg. of Font -.1...ient.-Gen. Hon. Sir E. Pagct, Cr. C. B. from the 80th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Prescott, deceased. 37th Ditto —Major A. Tilt to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Hart, de. , ceased —(;apt. T. Fenton to be Major, vice Tilt. 60th ditto—Major A. Andrews to be Lieut.-Colonel by purchase, vice Marlton, who retires—Capt. C. Gardiner, from the 72d fotit, to be Major, by purchase, vice Andrews. 80th Dino—Lieut.-Gen. Sir A. Campbell, Bart. from the York Light infantry Volunteers, to be Colonul, vice Sir E. Paget, ap pointed to the command of the '2Bth Foot. moth Ditto—Lieut.-Col. W. M`Bean, from half-pay of the Staff in Portugal, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Marquess ufTweedate, who exchanges. Watteville's Reiment—Major H. Oglander, from the 40th, Foot, to be Litut.-Colouel, by purchase, rice Fischer, wiiti topires. 862 ...--•-• OM.. G. ro