The National Register. — London, England, 1817-10-27 00:00:00

2", POLICE. MANiION HOUSE. - Monday, 'slr. Guyard encoded upon sumniona to answer t 1 a emapirlida ut the penult's %s ho had taken their passage on board the as mentioned tit the police intelligence in our last 11011100'. Mr. Gityarifa proved the story of Mr. Reynolds the iiroker to he false "is far as respected list deuial of a r ahip 111 (flit u. - fanioll , 4 44444 I, and confessed that the taking up of the lsobeli• to eat ry out passengers to New Turk was Cahill:. a apeculation, but a hick, from the warthog held out by the Newspapers to persons disposed to emigrate had cioupletely failed. He did hope, however, although ruined by the spe culation, to make up the money yet to lie paid to the owner, and tin:lefty euable the vessel I 0 proceed. The Lord or comicutt if to give Mr. Guyaril farther time to make his arrangements, assuring him at the tame time that if complete justice were nut dune to the passengers, a criminal piose cetioll wooild be instituted against hue. I:coecath6r.—Ttiesday. Mr. Blown of Fleet-market, ap plied to the Lord alay or for information in what mautier to proceed against a gentlemen of large fortune, also resides in Wolverlianiptou, and has destroy ed the happito ss of a family by atealing away one of the female members of it. The young lady is 18, the 111411 upwards of file Lord Mayor said, he had waited 111 analety to hear the result of the application he had suggested in private to Mr. Brown, and the father of the young lady. All that he could do iu this adhering 41141 r shoinld he lane ; and if the acetified was in the City of Loudon, lie should be responsible at a mu nient's warning. Mr. Brown said, the only addition he had to make to the ae. count stated in private, was the melancholy one, that the mother of the young lady was 011 her death bed ; that her malady was a broker heart, indicted by. the Pt tot, and that knoll was added to the irreparable injury the had already sustained. The Lord Mayor.--You told me that the man.to whom the family owed all these obligations was lately.couceined in All affair which I eflected the greatest Swoons. upon I —that in which the inaalittants of Wolverhampton were SO much in. ferreted. 'Luse you any doubt us; to the identity of this be nevolent person Mr. Brown.—None: the father of the lady mentioned to sae his suspicious of this gentleman, and put her tinder my ea re. She is my wifes near relation, and received front both of us the most earliest entreaties to guard ag ainst his sulici tationa. I know that he was one of the advocates of two pour men who were condemned to die, and that at the very time lie pretended to be so deeply interested in the cause of humanity, he was planning the destruction of Miss Jackson. .1 lie Lord Mayor.—l wish above all things to serve you in this case of extremity. Have you such evideuce as may an thoriae me to issue a warrant? Mr. Brown.-1 apprehend nut, my Lord. I have no wit ness to prove that she went off with him, or that she was seen with to state may be considered important in the stew your Lord. ship takes of this plan of iniquity. I saw the seducer in a hotel opposite lo my house holding up a letter, evidently to catch the eye of Miss Jackson, which cireunistauce con itected with hia former practice of following her wherever she went, coatis toed me lit the opinion that lie took her away. The medical attendant upon her mother, whose deplorable state is to ne attributed to this event, called upon this man to beg for the love 01 Heaven that lac would give back the child of whom Ins patient had been robbed, as the only means of presets nig her life. 'llse roomer was, that he was really sorry, and would convey to the daughter a letter from father or mother with imuctitality, but as to her restoration not the slighest hope was held out. The Lord Mayor.-1 regret more than I can express that this case dues nut come tinder my authority. 1 should punish such villainy with the utmost severity. A public exposure may at any rate he expected here. Are the tugitives now in London? If so, 1 shtall grant a warrant. Mr. Brown said, the men was certainly at Wolverhampton. Mr. Hobler suggested that a habeas should be immediately served upou The Lord Mayor. —That is the most advisable course. It is only necessary to make affidavit of the facts you have stated, and to procure au affidavit of the medical luau's de. claration, in order to übtaiu a habeas. If contempt follow. the hand of Lord Ebenborough will bill with a great weight upon him. Mr. Brown seemed delighted with this intelligence. He presented from the father of the girl a letter of thanks. it consisted principa'ly of incoherent remarks upon the loss of his child, the dispair of Ida wife, and his own feelings, mid 410 entreaty to the Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor observed, that if any feeling was to be food in the seducer, that letter would bring it furvnerd. He desired to lie informed of the consequence of the summary proceeding lie now recommended. On Thursday, Mr. Pearsall of Clicapside, stated to the Lod Mayor, that lie had seen au acomit of a distressing case of Reduction, in which it was mentioned, that a peraou rest_ ding at Woke' hamptuti, and who had exerted himself in lilt Case 01 two men lately convicted at the Stafford assizes, WAS Colletl used. In the report of the circumstances connected with that case, the names of two gentlemen, of highly re• spectahle characters, wet e mentioned; the one the Reverend Air. Garde ; the other Mr. Mender, a relative of Mr. Pears all. It was due to the characters of these gentlemen, who took so prominent and sincere a part in the prevention of an unmerited I *shmeut, to declare that the charge of so un principled a transaction was very remote from application to either of them. 111 r. Brown, from whose house the yonug lady had been taken. was at this moment iu the justice room; for the pen pose of procuring the aSSlStallee of au officer, to search a house iu Northampton square, where it was positively asserted she was concealed. Resent the gentlemen just spoken of were by no means 'alluded tuba the account he had given. He had never heat d of their names moil that musing, when one of them called upon hint fur 101 . 0r111A11011 upon the stilkaect. With the name and person of the seducer he was well aellllBllllCll for sometime, and the public would one day have a ler litowledge. M:\RLBOROUGH•STREL•'T. EXTR AORDIN AR Y CASE.—Moulluy,Jubn Morgan, a young man about one or two and twciity years old, was brought nir to this office miller circumstances of avery singular nature, iu company with another person named Bt Mr. Brookes, sin gem', of Blenheim-street, Oxford-14feet, was the first Witness examined. He stated, that about seven o'clock ou Sunday evening, while sitting ia his ttrawing.tooin, the soau-bervaot Locked at the door, and informed ham, gAlottlhAT. that there was a person come from Chapsnau, th, celebrates' 11-Nlll'l'l.olols Mall, with A subject. Mr. Brookes gave orders that it should he taken in atilt conveyed to the dissectinc town. 111 live minutes sifter a coach strove up to the door, and departed Sinissediatety. A man then, whom he suspected to Bottomley, entered the house with a sack upon his shoulder auJ 11.1111114 depu , itrd built the Sark and the euntenis upon she ground, neat away in a weal burry. Mr. Bruukrs was ,19ilis after vs ry much 8'14.6,441 by his servant exclaiming that the mass sis the Aack a, alive, and said that if lie was alive his had to uu.urr.s there. lie CAMP alit of the parlour, 411,1 tit'l'illg iv hal hr cousidered a corpse lying near the step, Trading to the ilisseetisig room, he gave it a kick for the pur pose of rolling it stoats. 'Ds- sack, with the person in it, tumbled AA tar as the thirst ,tep, when, much to Isis astonish most. he heard a voice " I Min put dead I l aw not dead!" mid by ,time dexterous mauagessient, the subj ect li for ilissertion iississeiliately loosed the string, and poppe his head Ills ough the upper part of alie stlck, sitting very com osedly upou the step where he hail lauded in Ids fall. Mr. p Brookes, apprehending that the fellow had entered the house for the purpose of robbery, or pm haps murder, was very hutch alarmed, and arming himself with an iron shatter-bar, the first weapon that presented itself to his view. hr threat ears' to knolls out the inains of the man in the sack, if' he attempted to stir ur make any resistance. Fortunately ' sNacre happened to tie twu pupils in the house at the time, and they having furnished themselves with pokers, came to lit, assistance, and kept guard fur a time over the man iu the sack. One of them was dispatched fur the keeper of a pub he house, who lives near, and upon Isis arrival, the other was ,cut. tit t in search of an officer or constable. Mr. Brookes its the. mean time armed himself with a case of pistols, with which, though not charged, he ondeavoured to keep this ex traordinary visitor in awe, until the arrival of the Coll` ,stable, woo took him into custody. When first he made his appearaure from the sack, Morgan showed some disposition to resist, and the witness had nu doubt that he must have beets overpowered. were it not for the Sate' ference of Isis pupils, who happened fortunately to Ire in the house .at the time. Toe Magistrate.—ls it wont with von, Mr. Brookes, to see or to pot any goestiona to time persons wit° bring sub jects to your hunse? . . Mr.llrookes—Somet;mes we do see, and spook to them but it often happens that they come and leave a subject, as this person leas been left, .r throw it over the back wall into the yard, calling for payment at some 'Aber time. The witness went on to state, that on his return home from the watch-house he ohserved two suspicious looking charac ters standing near a post ant for from his house. One of them, Ilottuiuley, the prisoner, wore a blue jacket, with red plush breeches; and the.llll7ll/ f WIIO bad deposited the sack with he. servant hieing d d iii Ilse same manner, he was convey ctl to the viateli-hquat on suspicion. One of the pupils resident iu the house detailed the circum stances in neatly the same words, and said that, from the dress of Buttoulley, lie should suppose him to be the person a lin brought Morgan in the sack. Mi. Brooke's footman gave the same account of the t ransaction. The prisoner Morgan stood all this time at the bar with no 'other covering on him but the sack. He appeared quite un concerned ; and being called upon for his defence, he said, that he went souse time back to the country, nut tar from London, for the purpose of procuring work. He remaii.ed dare fur two or three days; and on his -retard to town Sunday, drank a little porter and gin upon the road, which niade him somewhat merry. In passing through the Pink, he met a luau *hum be had never seen before. They got into conversation, mud this person invited him to take something at a public house iu Osford-read. They went in bat lie could not recollect where, And took seven quarterns of gin. 110111 that munieut he recollected nothing of what occurred to him, until he was frightened out of his sleep at the place from which he was bikers to the watch-house. He war surprised, and almost frightened to death, on seeing three or tour people standing with pokers and pistols, and only begged ut them to spnri his life, and that he would do 110 harm. He hail three shirts and half a crown in his pocket when he met 111 e SIMI ill the Park, and was uow left quite without a single penny. Übe intended to do any mischief, it was not likely that lie shonld enter the house either with. out clothes or arms. The MastiStiatc.— Tilough you had no arms, .you • might have admitted your assoeiates in the course of the night to rob or murder the family of Mr. Brookes. Bottomly said he was a coachman, stud drove No. 1052 for a Mr. Magher, of Leatlier-latie, in whose employment he had been fur tour years. He and his brother, with Harry Stuart, another coachman, had been talking If:tether at a watering-house opposite to John-street, Oxford-street. He believed it w.us edited the Feather!. His brother went in there, and they were waiting fur I • when Mr. Brookes came tip, amid had them conve)rd to the watch-house. He made no resistance, :mil could swear most so'eninly that lie knew nothing more of the business. He never saw Morgan 'mil he met kiln in confinement A person present stated, that he knew Bottondey to be a companion ot• Chapman's the resurrection man. 'f Ile Magistrate ordered this man to be brought forward when he could be Sound, and after a few words on the serious and very dangerous nature of the charge. remanded the pH molter for auother exa iii iii atioo, desiring that the keeper of the Feathers public-house and other as itnespes should attend. N lON - HALL. Itlnas been lately stated that several families in the neigh• bourhood of Wandsworth, Brixton, &c. had been defrauded of articles of plate &c. by a young woman representing herself the servant to certain friend* of the parties to whom she Applied, that they were aboot to have panics, and re quested the luau of plate, &c. On Thursday she applied to a Mrs. Field of Itrixton-place, requesting to borrow a dozen table and desert spoons; hat Mrs. F. saspecting .1 trict, sent her under the care of her gardener to a Mis. Child of Stockwell, who had been defrauded of IYsiher spoons in this manner, who immediately recognised her, and she wa. given in charge of a constable. Monday she was bi•oiagle to the office ; when several pawnbrokers, with whom she had pledged plate ' identified her. In Addition to the evidence of Mrs. Child aforementioned, was that of Mrs. Dowson, of Acre-lane, of whom she obtained six desert and a gravy spoon ; and Mrs. Desburongli, of Wandsworth - road , whom she had defranded of a dozen silver table spoons. On Thursday she was brought ap fur re-examination, win i a great ;umber of persona attended who had been ileiraii"ed in a shaileir way : but as the persons who appeared on Mon• day were not in attendance, she Was remanded to be brought up again. SHOCKING DlSTlMA.—Thursday two respectable diessell perm= applied to Mr. Evaace, the Magistrate, f, r I;is ad. IST.F.N. 0" 1) • • 44. vice under the following circumstances about ten o cluck that morniug, a poor a ...u, •• 4/ the 110111S0 of Mrs. Maddens, a lodging house. of George-yard, Kent-street. Borough. in coliseum t having paid her rent, having be , n confined to t o . `•• d trout a fever, was turned out of her lodgings into the 'et by her inhuman landlady in a dying,state. The neigh ts who saw the inhuman act venoms rated with Mrs. ala,l , Nois for thrusting her wit of doors, allele she was was 'mole to walk, and were going to carry her iota the house again, when Mrs. Maddmis held tip a knife, and swore that she would thrust into the lion person that crossed the thresh old of her door. They, die apddicinds, stated, 11141 they then went to the overseer, and he gave them • letter t., the hemile to request his immediate atteution to the poor woman The beadlt. came and saw her lying on the ground..i.;,l alter he had some conversation. with Mrs. Maddons, weal end as he was going, • said es have nothing to do with her, she may lay and die if she likes." The Magistrate said, that such condurt was very Mittman, and ordered the clerk to write to the overseers, to admit the woman (whose name is Rosetta Lockley) into the worklion-e immediately. The applicants said,that.they expected to hod her dead when they cetaisned to her. LATE KING ow SwEDsN. —ln a YOll/1110 of Miscellanies lately yultli,hed at JellA, there lids appeared a tract Irons the pen of this eccentric man, entitled " Reflections on my first Military Actions, by G. A. Gnstasson, late king of Suedes," wills the following laconic advertisement:— " I submit thane reSectians to the examination of an enligbtaned public, if such is to be found ; I at least wish that sume persons of seal anent, well verso* in *burgles:ion, may •consitnplam them with on expaiumed eye, " G. A. GUSTASSON, late King of Sweden." DueseY get Damss.—The following has ;spine*, d tinder the itsnal head of " Fashions," in alt the newnmapen s •- " Afoawuso CoeTuwE.—The Cobourg acconehernewa robe ap pears to be making a general appearowee ih the higher circles; it is made of the filestl?rench Cambric, rattier in ths•themisc stye, heavily to meet in front." — The American Journals 'mention that the great serpent which they spoke of has been taken by 17 men. Its leagth.is 93 feet, and its thickness the same as that of a flow barrel. At the Surry sessioes on Tuesday, James Brown.and then • • were indicted for having indecently exposed their persons on the hanks of the Surrey canal, whither they had resort ed for the purpose abashing. They all pleaded guilty and threw themselves us the mercy of the Court, snit Mr. Nolan begged of the - Court, in consideration of their contri tion and the confinement they had already tinder one fur the want of bait, to pass for the present only such un admo nition upon them as migilet be hoped would operme, not only upon thinn,Amt upon ail wltos heard it, as a warning s t to subject themselves to thevinialtmeat which such an offence against decency and the laws would' being upon them; and that they should enter into reeoinizanres to appear, when called upon, to• receive the judgment of the Court. The Chairman, after a moat excellent admonition to the defettil upon the indecency and immorality of their offence, and the intolerable nuisance it occasioned to the neighbour ing inhabitants, ordered them to be diseharged, n ~,, their entering into recognizances,as before stated, ileabring it to be his determination that Asks. &Weld be the last case of a similar nature, while* contitmedi to preside upon the Bench, in which lenity would be shown, and that any future offence would be visited with the severest punishment the law e nid inflict. At the Surrey adjourned 6911110219011 Tuesday, Sarah Bancroft was in• dimed for an assault OD Lucy Lawrence, an the 27r. of June ILK The prosecutrix. a woman apparently 'bout 60. ..tated that she lives in High -street. Lambeth, nearly opposite the defendent, who is mar ried to a lighterman.andleur two ehiidsen. On the day in question, the proriecutrix crone to the door to take in bee milk, when defendant came np at the same time, and accused the proseastrix of having distributed acertainaottg oontaining abuse of her w the psosecutrix denied the charge in rath er strong language, upon a hich the defend ant took her basin from her, struck her overtire head with it, thspw her down; and bent and kicked her about the heal and loins, and continued to do so till some person came to her rescue. This W , 4, the assault complained of. Cross examined by Mr. Bolan.—The gods have made rat a . unet. have they not • you wrote a muff called ••• Moggy Lors , unse. ' and distribotcd it about, did yawner' e—Ldid, I can compose any thing. Yew. any thirig but your own temp er ; you made that 'un i t on the defendant, did you ?—No I made it on myself. for ple:isure.—Why, is your name Moggy I. roughage ?—My motive: gave me that nick name when I was a girl. I have a long nose as well us Mrs. Ban croft—Listen to what I mad, and then say whethe: you made it on yourself? •• My name is Moggy. I have a long now • For whichtbe men love me. as you may impase, • The first man that lov'd me was Jemmy I;. name, If you ask all my neighbour's they'll tellymi the same ; But be went for the Locals, and a. n we-did par, I sigh'd and Lcried, till I near broke my heart." Do these lines apply to you; was your first swe et heart, ji mmy , in the Locals ?-411 swear I made that song on myself Jemmy w a s in a Load Society ; he got drunk and was dismissed, and we Fatted on that account —I see you married a lightennan, it is so stated in the next verse; do these lines appl'y, so you? •• Two children I brought him, which I think no disgrace, . But some think the chandler put a nose on weir face: Do.,you mean to say these lines apply to you alito..good Mrs . La w .. fence. —Such things will happen. The Counsel then proe , edid examine the rest of this s poetical et fi tsion. which. w a s a ll i n the sane style. Ile then put a w ritten paper into toe witnee's hand. Is this your hand writing ?—1 don't know ; I don't think it is. Wiil y o u swear it is not ? I can't say; I wont sweet ; many people write alike, many people have been executed for forgery throtazli irista/ce. man.— l' have your answer to this quotion ; look at tl:at 1)41 1 / 4 ,4. read it, and then say whether it 14 your a or sill conindryou ? It is no toe my looking at it : I can't my, it may- he my writ.ty: L can write, but I can't read what I have•wriuen. Two other wuncsaes were examined, who corroborated the statement ,ii* peosevator Ys to the assault. Mr. Nolan caller witnesses to enti.dyour to 1.10 ,••• the first assault was committed by the prosecuteis ; br anal. l'ea. ever to do so, and the Jury found the defencian , Are. 8411- Croft hdng in a state of pregnancy, the Chaim o said., the COUTt would allow her to zoirpnnaise the case with t;;,. prosecutiiit.-4bic, indulgence was =mined. and the proseetunix havin i ; consented to receive a sours of namey, the defendant was ti!ell a shillieg, and die charged. The ('oxri€r announces an improvincut in the old Exci..e duties for the pr. sent week, to compared with the corresponding week of the year preceding:— The pioaitee List s%• ek • • ..... .6461,titiCt The Cu" vs•Nsutitioa; es k Ott 1 ~: . . s i..,, , ~~,75~ So grout has been t),e re , cut last week six hundred toes were tiisit4tt:!:etl iTetz .11roitsvich.