The National Register. — London, England, 1816-06-02 00:00:00

.11;74E . _ . SOCIETY OF ARTS. :('heat praise is due to the Society fur their very judicious removal of their annual distribution of rewards, to a place that admits SO considerable a number of visitors exceeding that of their Igreatroom iu the Adelphi. The inconvenience having been .ong temp I,' .41 of, the distribution took jstacc this year at the Freemasons' Mall, Great Queen-street, and was held on F r id a y last; when his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the worthy President of the Society, took rifle Chatr; and a most anincrotis and respectable meeting assembled on the occasion. One of the Candidates was the Duchess of Rutland, who at teaded in person to receive the gold medal adjudged to her for the best method of raising oaks. There was gr.al ap otiose when her Grace came Ij)rward, and when his Royal highness delivered her the pre:lom Mr. Curwen t M P. and a Vice President of the 6oei,ety, re mised a gold medal for his method of bringing cattle to tally maturity. Mr. C. nmile a speech of comiderable length on receiving this premium. Admiral Sir Moine Popham also ad •.s.e.4 the Society oa receiving a gold medal adjudged to him for the invention of a telegraph and a marine vocabulary. A gold medal and 100 guineas wire given to Mr. Ryan, of lletherton colliery, near Dudley, for a method of ventilating cold istiuct. foeventy-seven versos s received premiums, and we we: e happy to bear it :tuns unced, Owl so great a number as SOO nets metithers .aul been •eletted since the distribution of sew aids Last yisai. I'l7'7' CLUB. The Pitt Chili had their anniversary dinner on Tuesday. 1 t %WM less attended than on foriacr years. Mr. %% iihembasu Bootle wilts in the Chair. After "the immortal memory of W. Pitt" had been drank, the health of "his 11.1jesty . % 3linisters" was givt n ; when the Lord Chancellor, 111 1115 on II name. and that of the Ministers, returned thanks to the alerting for the lionenr that had inst been done them : _ n 1 his tevimony of approbation Prom a hotly of nienlike tbypresent, rould be pzcoliarlyagrecable in any circumstances; but a !len he re collected that that approbation was hetowed on them for their endea vours to follow the pruici,iles of the great man whom birth they were this day met to eximinentorate, he wanted language to express his gra titude and hi , sense of obligation. Ministers had fur a lone; alum of yea , ,rultessJured to follow the course marked out by that great .states • man, who was now no muet,ibut whose name and finite would never die. 'lie ::uutituned that ins principles would save his country and Gump:, and 111.1 W111.;.701/114.41 onfidenee lad not been disztypointed. But t tough we had Downed pe.ke, it would be forming exptations inconsistent with the usual state ot humanity to imagine that we had stivaintel ultimate -tettrity and exiniptitni from future trouldoi. ff, bpwvret. we adhered to our admirable constitution, and maintained a loyalty to the throne, as theessary for the privileges of the people as to the rights of the ,oveream, he did not (-Are to hope that, though he Lad -svn YS years of confusion, he should yet iive to behold a period bless d beyond all brmer example; when this *unary. able to prn'ect itself and to secure the liberties of the -world, would enjoy in trim cp.tility the frults of all its labours, and would be held out as the mark of the admiration of mankind. He LessurA the meeting, that if the present goveromt nt tea 1111;11 any t,.vvsur, it was because they had fol. Jotted the maxims of that great man whose memory they were now celebraslng." Severai liew songs Were sung during aim afternoon, appro. _Fria's: to tlie occasion LONDON S ESIONS, Mosiday these Sessions wow held ; •hetx T. Daintry nud J. Gregory were indicted for it.riot, conspiracy, and assas,lt VII J. 'Pitcher. S. Pitcher, and otte...rs. Mr. Pitcher deposed, that lie is a carpenter in Dorset-street, Salisbury square. In February last he told his wetkmen Ie should reduce their wages 3s. per week; they all left their svork, And he gave them a week to return; but nom of them returned. Oo the AtL of March, 1•.:' or 15 other men came to work fur him; but they were taken away on the ath, and re turned en the 6tn. Oa the 7th he saw 20 or 30 journeymen loitering abut.( his premises. On receiving information that about 70 of them would come on the 9th. and take hi s men away, lie got some Officers in readiness. They came, and die prisoners were among the ringleaders hail got his own Melt in die back way, and went out. WWII they found that, they seired a man named Dad, who sus coming to work. for him, and pulled his coat off his back. Witness's nephew was attack ed by seven or eight others, and he thought at that time his lit r e 'was in danger. When the o:ficers made their appearance, they tell dispersed except the prisoners, who were delivered over to the Constables. Pitcher, jun. and two of his journeymen, corroborated the prosecutor's evidence. Tic , Jury found titeln both Guilty ; and the Court sentenced (heat to be imprisoned one year in Giltspur•etrect Compiet. .111/DDLIS EX S.ESS/0/1 b. TRIAL OF ROBERT ROBERTS. Yesterday this notorious character was put upon his triad, charged with a conspiracy, together with Willi ins IV hitt., alias Kankce Mall. in puttiag of a certain quantity of Wink, Ntlieg, of the finn of Brown and Comb, of Viindeor, tu the amount of I.L.•which had been stolen from the Windsor coach, in Piemdilly„ iu the month of October last. W4;te, alias liookee lit, it will be recollectod, was convicted of the felony in the mo.lth of February last, at the Oid Bailey ; and a record of iris tviiwc!ito was now put in and read. It was confirmed also by omit tratiniony. . . . A ntuulwr'uf witnesses were then call,tl, who proved the cenfederacy tithe said White with the prisoner, their nopciation of The stolen' notes, and tin• purausse, by the parties, with a part thereof, of a hill or bills upon a resptxtabll house in town; where the prisoner having pre aciltt4 Lure fur 4911. it was clopped, and a (lOC thus innae•tu the discove ry of"the offtlalers. • Several objectives were taken in the course of the trial by Mr. A Ida itit its, the prisoner's t.Nonp-4 . 1 ; which were ably repiicd to by MeShIS. Al. T rind r 0 0 LI: Y, for the prostvutioil. The trial lasted the whole of the day ; and after an able charge from the Chairman (Mr. AVATsoN). use priontr was futon! Goidy. - The antetwe of the euu:t was postponed. OLD BAILEY. rednesdor these aessions commenced before the Lord Mayor, Mr. Justice .Bayley, Mr. Justice Park, the Recorder, and 14derno EA.,. S4l npsan wam of stealing a ritiontit) of %mirin atipurcl and Jewellery, the property of R. Pollan, in Ge, ire ‘i.enii.rril:e na% al.o capitally ronvieted of nigaulti nu Wiliam Toile n Hoe,' en the Kitig's highway, putting Lim in f ra y. „ 1 , 1 1 reoni ippi sine it %alai, gold chain, three va *eats, eee. Lis property. luarAry, Juba Prpnro.e, aged 22, and Gam, aged 'lf, nete eapit4JlS , Convicted of a utifglar,y in the ilool4ni4- NA.TIONAL REGISTER. house of the Earl of Darlington, (tlic stable connected pith the d wellinc.house) in St. Jamcs's.sqoare, on tho 17th instant, and stealing a table cloth and some wearing apparel, his ',rope rtt , Welber with several other article% the property of his servants. —Guilty, Death. . . . _ _ John limey, aged 19, anf Peter Herbert, aged 20, were capitally convicted of a burglary in the dwelling-house of Mary Davis, of Sun-yard, St. (lenient's, on the Ili of April and stealing a 9 . inuitity of wearing apparel her property. Deatli.-1 hey were recommended to mercy on ac count of their youth and former good characters. Surat Giber( was capitally convicted of stealing on the 11ths May, in the dwelling house of Sir Geo. T. Smart, of Portland 'street, Int pieces of plate. linVienn I,aber, aged 18, was convicted of assaulting John' Morgan WI the King's( highway, and taking front hie person a quantity of silver on 7tii April last. John Dannoise And Williams allow, were capitally convicted of assaulting John Burton, on the King's highway, and taking from his person four penny pieces, a pocket-book, 6ic. Friday, Killian lJela and Sarah Mars ware capitally in dicted, charged, by so inquisition taken on the body of John fewley, with the wilful murder of the said dohs Hewley. The following witnesses were called to make out the case : John Slllaii was a pupil at the London Hospital, and had been so for seven years. He remembered Ote deceased being brought iu on the 7th April : he examined him, and found con - . t usions on the body, and a fracture on the leg, which appeared to the witness to have been produced by violence. The lad was so young, that it was impossible to say within a day at what time the fracture wax done, but it could nut hive been above a day or two: he ascribed the mortification to the frac ture : there were al.,u some exeoriatious about the knees of the lad ; the leg was cut off subsequent to the mortification, but the deceased did not live more than a quarter of an hour. Tile death of the lad could not be ascribed to nothing but the yip- • lence done to the leg and the mortification. The emulations on the knees arose, as he believed, from climbing chimneys. Mr. Richard Clement Headingtuu taus surgeon to the Lon don Hospital, and had examined the deceased when he Caine into the hospital : he then saw that the left kg and thigh were prodigiously swollen, and hindering upon mortification. In about three or four days the leg was almost gone ; and ou Sunday there was a considerable bleeding, and the only thing to be done was amputation; the comequente was almost in ' scant death. The child was about five years old, but witness conceived that the age of the child was in his favour: the in jury done to the kg was the cause of his death; there were no other marks of violence besides those on the leg upon the child, except npou the forehead. It was possible that the leg might have been broken edertnieht. Elisabeth Ware deposed, that her husband was a bricklayer. Out the Yd April she recollected the male prkonor and the de ceased coming to leer Mime in Passion -street, Spitaltields. I hey went into a room over head, end in a short time she heard the violent cries of a child : she immediately got out of bed, and went up intp the room above stairs with Mr. Reeves, and saw the male prisoner strike the deceased violently with a sweep ing brush : he then took the child by the feet, and dashed it down on a large flagstone ; the prisoner then put the child tip the chimney, with :mot% er boy after it. Witness then went down stairs, zs she could hear it no longer. Mrs. Sarah Reeves recollected the prisoner and his boys coining to Mr. Jackson's house when she lodged. In (muse quence of being called by Mrs. Ware, she went into the room up stairs; she saw the prisoner, at the time she tittered it, ex. tending his arms up the chimney: he took the deceased by the le4s, and dashed him on the hearth. The prisoner then put the child up the chimney Again. The boy cried, and said his knees hurt hint : lie then came down and the prisoner again took the child by the breeches, and dashed him on the ground.: be them pat the child up the chimney, with another boy after he child, after having tiuisheil the chimney, came down, and us he was standing on the hearth shaking the soot from off his clothes, the prisoner hit him with the brush on his back and loins. The boy put ou hie shoes, and trembled very much. The prisoner put a black rag on the boy, take walked down stairs resting his haul on the wall all the way down; and as they were going down, the prisoner turned round aud said to the ehtld, " I will serve you out yet." Witness saw the boy walk dawn stairs, and the leg was nut broken at that time. Anu Chandler deposed, that on the 23d or glth of April the prisoner came to her house with the deceased to sweep the chimney ; they all walked to her house. Mr. Justice Bayley asked the learned Counsel, whether there wins any evidence to prove the fracture on the leg by the pri soners; and being answered in the negative, the keened Judge then addressed the Jury :—He thought it his duty to stop the proceedings in this case, understanding that no evidence could be produced to prove that either of the prisoners had bnoken the child's kg. Most inhuman cruelty had indeed been proved en the part of the male prisoner towards the boy, but that was not commit ; it was absolutely necessary to pnitc the fracture of the leg by one of the prisoners, and it had been positiv e ly sworn by the last witness, that on the 93d or '2lth'ut . April the deceased walked to her house; at that time, therefore the leg could nut have been broken. He therefore recommended the. Jury to acquit the prisoners. The Jury acquitted both the prisoner's; but Mr..lnstice Bayley detained V. ni...Thdes for a misdemeanour in beating the SATURDAY. Fobor.bits.—Joarph Boyce was ina:led capitally fir: feloniougly forging a deed, or Power of Atterbey. for the trimisfer of "P511:4.11(1. in the 3 pr Cent. Annuities, and with feloniowly uttering the ante, knowins it to be formal, with intent to defraud the Governor and Com pany of the Rank of Eng Land, or John Tuber, a DartrOrd, or Wm. Smallhorte. Th? indictment contained nine counts. 7 1fita trial lasted several hours; but the evidence was far from inte res‘ing. John Tasker. Esq. a brewer, residing at Darford, deposed, that in the month of December last he saw the prisoner at leis home, who avplied to him on the part ofune Austin for the transfer of the property. Itrtnes.s raused to do it. The s;gnature Jno. 'Poker" to all the instruments, were not in witness's hand-writing. The prisoner made a lon;.; defence. the purport of which was, to deny the charge of forgery altogether ; avowing that it wus a most wicked proseci a Tun. Mr. Justice B %it.r.sr summed up the evidence, and the Jury retired for :al hour, and returned with& verdict of Guilty—Deat/a. John Gre.Torii all() was capitally convicted of having forged, made. and nounterfenid, or caumxi to be forged, and counterfeited. • transfer bill for %al. in the Navy 5 per cents. in tl.e name of Eli/AIL/1i Coward. with intent to &taut! dis: Governor arid Coropon of :Le Bank of Ergk.nd. QUEEN SQUARE. FINAL EXAMINATION OF MARY ANN KING. Monday this person wait again brought up,Wll en the following persons gave evidence Miller, a pastry-cook, of High. Holborn, said, nn the last day of January the prisoner engaged a bed-room and drawing•romn in his house, at 1,1 guinea per week, saying, she had ran away from a boa . ding-school to be married to a Mr. Thomas on that day week. He was to find every thiag for her, and at the end of the week area to send in his bill. After dinner she expressed a wish to base sonic 'err. son to sleep with her, as she was not in the habit of alceping alone, and his wife laud (Milliken shpt alternately with her, until about the middle of the week; when she expressed a wish to go into the country, saying she came ;.teas' sentient any money or clothes, and requested Mrs. M. to lend her £I ; she only lent her six. All the time she represented herseittu be a Lady of immense fortune, and on Mr. 'fliotrte's arrival lie al Id he paid. She ordered wedding cakes, and directed hint to to and meet Mr. 'Thomas ; but in his absence she decamped, taking with her a silk shawl and a pair of silk stockings-belosigina to Mrs. M. ; she also got A pair of shoes from a shoemaker in the neigh bourhood, for which she was obliged to pay ; and from a bed warehouse property to the amount of La, besides other trifling articles. J. Simpson. in Portman-street, said, the prisotier came to his house on the 18th of April, and wanted lodgings, saying, she bad property to the amount of 2.1 too; and said she had taken no refreshment, and had been taken ill on the road, having rim away from her father, near Margate, intending tat be married to 'Air. Thomas that day week ; she took apartments at four en Incas per week. In the course of tlie week Mrs. S. lent her ale, and at the end of the week I presented my bill, which amounted to C 25 ; when she put it into liar pocket-book; and ordered me to gu to M r. Thomas at the White Horse Cellar; in the mean time she order( d four wedding cakes at Mr. C.'s, a pastry•rook, in Berkeley-square, which were sent; and at Hey it:tura, nut meeting Mr. Thomas, she was gone. Mr. Pocock, a limo, draper, in Oxford-street, said, lie is acquainted with her father, who lives in Gloneestei shire ; that she received a li beral education, although she denied being• able to read or write. Witness here produced a pair of sugar tongs she lead left at his horse, which he suspected the haul stolen from some person. G. Scott, a baker in Winehester-street, deposed, that the prisoner came to him with a similar story ; she conti nued with hint about eight days, during which time she borrow ed of Mrs. S. A'S, and while he was gone to meet Mr. Thomas, she decamped, having in that short period drank about two gallons of gin. A Surgeon in St. John's.street, stated, that about five ytarssitece he was called in to visit Ler at a house in .(liteen-street, Percival-street, by a Juan named Biggins, who nth:tied great tenderness for her, and requested he wo u ld call in a Physician, which stay done, and on her recovery be was induced by a plausible story to take a bill for .1:21, giving hies as a balance La in cash ; but this bill had never been honoured. Mr. Tilt, of Ludgate.hill, stated, that she took lodgings at his license, and her behaviour was so extraordinary that he taxed her with being a swindler ; but she told the story of her seduc tion so pat h etically, as to obtain the commiseration of Mts. T. to such a degree that she wished to continue her in the house. She said her father was brother to Lord King, and nephew to the Earl of Kingston, hut would not give a reference to any per son in town, and decamped without paying any thing; but she lett a duplicate for a Broach,. pawned for leiss and a cap and tippet for £2. 2s.—titre was thou committed, and the parties hound over to prosecute. MAI iH-STRF.I7I% R. Donald and S. Tu lk were charged, the fiirnier with steal. ing, and the latter with receiving, four pair of suutiiirs, three locks, and other article! , , the property of Itt essrs. Summers, of New llund.street. It appeared, Donald bad, for the last two years,been in the employ of the prosecutors, who,having lately missed various •rticles, were led to suspect him; and ou his being charged with it, he confessed the whole trammetion,and stated, that about live months since, he went to sell some books at an old iron shop in Gee's court, Oxford -street, kept by Tulk, who told him nut be afraid to bring things to hint at any time, a, he would always purchase them of him ; in con sequence of which, he had been induced to rob his employers ever since. Talk ga% c hint very little money for them, amt was constantly desiring hint to bring more ; that he frequently Icft things with Ins wife when he was not at home, and received money from NM at anoth e r time : upon which the (Meer searched TOWN house, and found various articles, and dupli cates for eight locks, which had been pledged by his which were sworn to by the prosecutors as part of their property that had been stolen. They were both fully com mitted. Several of the seamen implicated in the late slots at Shields: came to the Court of King's Bench on Monday last, and plead ed guilty to an indictment against them. They wrrc all suf fered to go at large upon their rccognizances tUr future good behaviour. An overseer of a parish, and his wife, were indicted at that late Quarter Sessions for the county of Cumbci land, fur hav ing conveyed a pour Irish woman, on the eve of urcouchartiout. out of their parish, into a neighbouring one, where she was left, and being soon after taken In, was Conveyed to the work house, bringing en that parish consideralde expense. The overseer having made pecuniary compensation, the parties ap peared and pleaded Guilty, and expected to have been &•- charged ; but the !knelt, determined to punish a practicewlach is in the highest degree reprehensible, and which, as is said the provincial statement, has of late been much psletiseet, tined the parties I. and to remain in prison until such fin. bs paid. What gave a deeper shade of unfeeling cruelty to this above case is, that the removal was made by the overseer's wife, wko, io the absence of he r husband, conveyed the pauper in a cart; and n hen within the limits of a neighbouring rarisN i , hantaarly turned her adrift to shift for herself! Wednesday, a girl, six years old, daughter of - Sissons, of Wileohnlee, felt into the river Hull. Near ten minutes elapsed lir fore she was taken out, when all efforts to reatora animation pro% ed unavailing. Another child of the .ante pa rents was drowned in she same place six or seven years ago. A daughter of J. Poole, blacksmith, of Drypual, to years old, a law days since, while stirring the tire, set Ler clothes is a blame, and was so dreadfully injured that she died the nest day. •••••••• John Bull, lodging at the honse of W. Booth, Parai .tattle-hrittge, ilti!la confined to his bed for a weds with a br.iin Meter, gut uv on Wednestla), ntor tt ill and, ettnniug tIliJ lil otypet.in aatate of mental dcraitgtontitt, want as/rd itii a tit wad expired. Friday night, or cart , aw Sahtrchry morning, the warehouse. Inoonging to Mr.W addle. Mercer, iti Lii arrnce-la nr,* tut toolto " l ien, and robbed of •et e;dl hnwhtd pin 44 N• rth uf balk 44 tua shnola, itaa kerchitts , and tth rattwita. 'RPM 'NI.. !ity evening an invest wits iiciti at On o .,,klitw i Llieredt, liz near Islin6-ttiV i rtr4 4 .- t tos, tliff f 4 AiniisV44lllllt, Of St. Jobeloitrert g Sit S -a t Naylor': tibm - frist in it .oi t te ol . neental tti.riistorossitt, Siitattlity night ettiticil the v.gilitnei• of brr irittls, and I,i , fotmdiOrtr..nesi the folinoing inutnist; i-Ihr ; i i; /gnu iti:ti..s. $ t.rtiict tit Isisau.ty.