The National Register. — London, England, 1822-03-31 00:00:00

-. • glizig 2ntettigence. SUSSEX. HORSHAM, MARCH 45.—The Assizes fir ihkeounty commenced here to day, before the lion. NI% Baron Graham on the. Crown Side, and the H on Mr. !limn Wool on the Civil Side. The business of this county i s of an avera , ..te amount, 36 eases in the calendar, and 15 causes entered on the Nisi Prins Side. ( - Row:NI sing. ; • - Ora.— Andrew :grime was indicted (or htirglarionsly break ing entering the dweiling-hottse of Goori.e Pipott, Esq. at ilmhton, on the night of the 49th of November List, with iniett to steal. It appeared in evidence that the prosecutor, an officer in the dragoon guards, rented a Morse in Jenny'', place, Brighton, in November last. On the night of the Dills of that month, after the family had retired to bed, the home was disturbed by a strange noise of some person moving up and down stairs.—The prosecutor got up, struck a light, and saw a man going down stairs. Ile fo:lowed him to the dravving•roonu floor, and the man hauteg eotered the drawing, be closed the door upon him and went to the dining room to get some weapon of defence. When he entered the dioing-rwnom he found one of the windows open, the air front which blew his candle out —however, he seized a poker, returned to the drawinng-room, opened the door and seized the man I.v the collar, and struck him two blows, in the second of which the poker broke, When he was about on strike a third, the man said he would surrender if the prosecutor would not murder birn• Tiie into oder tooled out to he the prison .r, who accounted for his midnight chit by saying that he was a distracted lover, and that he came only to visit one of the maid servants. The pro secutor's female servants were confronted with the pri soner, and they denied all knowledge of him. Tire isauer then said that he had mistaken the house, and that he had intruded to visit a female iu a neighboarina house, with whom he had been junt o tic. No property was missing, nor had the prisoner made any preparation for carrying off any. The prisoner, in his defence, tepeated the same story as vs hen detected, but called no witnt4ws. lle had c ;me front the sister kingdom about two months before the transaction in question. Mr. Baron Grah 111 left it to the Jury to say whether the prisoner had the attinaut Arrnek when he entered the house. if lie came with an intention to steal, the bur glary was sufficiently proved. The Jury found the prisoner guilty—Death. Tine proseeinor recommended the prisoner to mercy. CIVIL SIDE. THE. (IN• V. PESKETT AND OTTERS. This w, s an indictment against the defendant and five other persons, for riotously pulling down a dam on the liver A.rilit, and for as-a:thing Thomas Dyson, at Chi chester, on the 30th of December last. Tne defendants were inhabitants of the suburbs of the city of Colchester. lit 1817, an act of parliament had passed for making a canal connecting the river Aron.— The prosecutor, Mr. Dyson, had been employed as en gineer to conduct the work. It became necessary, in the close of 1821, to dam up a rivulet, which interfered is ith the progress of Ilir work, in order to prevent too great an accession of is atcr. The country about Chi chester beit,g overflowed with water from the moisture of the season, it was alleged that the defendants ha I 1111. lawfully assembled to pull down the dam in question to carry off the excess of water, and iu cousequeoce of their milawful purpose had threatened the prosecutor with viiilence, but had not, in fact, committed any personal injury. The Jury, after hearing the case on both sides, found the defendants guilty of the assault only, and acquitted them of the rio'. iiORSHAY, MARCH LB.—Geo►ge Barnett and George I;iilbeck, two victims under the age of 15, were indicted under the Black Act, 9 Geo. I. for wilfully and mali ciously setting fire to and destroying a rick of wheat, on the 27 iii of November, at Payliatn, the property of liwthirdstm. It appeared in evidence that on the day mentioned in milictinetli the prosecutor had a rick of vetches and a rick of wheat completely destroyed by fire. The pri soners were seen near the prosecutors premises shortly alter the fire commenced, going away from the spot ap parently in a great hurry. The fire had commenced with the rick of vetches, and artt•rwartls communicated to the corn rick. Suspicion hating fallen on the prisoners, they Were apprehended, and they made a voluntary con fession of their having deliberately Font• out th it day for the cxpless 'impose of doing smite mischief of the kind in miestion. They hail taken out wnh them some tinder and niatcaes, and havin , struck a licht on the hick of their knifes, lighted a piece of paper, and set fire to the ptosecinor's fetch rick. They seemed to it:tie no determinate object at first, and one said to the other that they most not uo home until they set fire to something. I he pri-ouer litilbeck proposed to set fire to NI r. Richard son-s rick, because lie was an ill-natured person. This was resisted by the other prisoner, but they both joined afterwards in doing the mischief, which appeared rather to be the result of wantonness than any premeditated anddeliherate imention. .lure Mood boil) the prisoners aot;ily—Polth but reeottimeutlett them to mercy ou Liceount oi their )(unit. DOE dint. TIIWATTES W. UPPERTON. was all action of ejectment to recover possession of a cottaue and !sardtli at Itotherfield, in this county. The pLintiff, Mr. Tilwaites, had het•n a trademiati J.ondm, who having amassed a considerable fortune, p.irchased a large estate in the year 1808, at Itotherfield. 'rile defendant held a cottage on the edge of cue of tile firms which uas included within Thwaite', pur chase, hut he itts'stetl that the cottage had been originally built On the waste of Lord Abet,...c , iventiv't; manor, :mil was no part of the estate purchased I , y r. It appeared by the evidence on the part of the plaintili tliJt Air. Ilarriscm, of whom Mrifilsviiitts imichabtd, ... ,~ . . _ ~~., 103 Holland asked the Jury of they thought either of thew only eighteen, and of their small make, could have forced the grating ? " I firmly speak from my heart, my con science would not let me du such a barbarbarous act as sticking Mr. Smart with such an in,trument." ftnyle called his sister and another woman to prove an alibi, but failed. The Jury found both the prisoners guilty, and the Judge told them to prepare themselves, as he could give them no hopes uhatever. The two great Ironing matches, for 160 guinea; aside, made on the 12th inst. took place on Wednesday merit ing, in Marson I'ark, an enclosure in Essex, over a two-mile piece of ground. The first match WAS between M;ijor Iliwbrey's brown mare and Mr. Phillips's Ara bian, ten miles, to carry 9st. each, The two mules were done by each as follows :—Mr. Hawbrey's, 39 minutes. 36 seconds—Mr. Phillips's, 38 minutes, 4K seconds.— The match was lost by Mr. Phillips's horse breaking into a gallop, which detained him for more than half an hour—The other match, (or a like sum, was made to do the ground in less time than the winner in the former race. Mr. Wilkinson to ride his own horse, 11 stone. He did the first two miles in 6 min. 32 sec.; second. 6 min. 33 sec.; third, 6 min. 34 sec.; fourth, 7 - min. 14 sec ; and the filth, in 6 min. 29 sec.; mak ing, in the whole, 33 min. 19 sec. The horse broke into a gallop in the eighth mile. STREET Rotuma 1 Es.—On Tuesday evening an elderly Lady passing through Great Russell -street, Bloomsbury. was attacked near the Museum by a stout young fellow, who snatched her gold watch from her side, and fled. Sonic persons who witnessed the robbery quickly pnr sued, and the fellow being clos e ly pres se d on. pl an t e d (dropped) the watch in a garden, where it was found and delivered up to the Lady, who, on recovering her watch, and on the thief lacing secured and brought back, declined to pnisecute hint, and he was, after a short de tention, liberated for want of evidence against him:— Otte evening last week, as a Gentleman was passing through Holborn, between seven and eight o'clock, a fellow made a snatch at his watch-chain with the seals, which were valuable. A few nights afterwards, in the very same place, another Gentleman was served in the same manner, and supposed by the same fellow. It is dangerous after nightfall to expose their watch-chains in any of the public streets, whis.h swarm at all hours with thieves of every description. MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—The neigh bourhood of Whitechapel has for the last few days been thrown into the grea:est ferment and agitation, in con sequence of a barbarous murder committed there, on the per.on of a highly and respectable middle-aged gentle man. Mr. George Hare, late an extensive boater in High -street, Whitechapel, on Friday night last, it ap pears, was on his way home, after spending the evening, with souse friends, and schtas passing up Nell-street he was attacked at the private door of the Royalty Theatre (which was then closed in consequence of its being Fri day in L Att) by three ruffian:, woo. after anoekina down, kicked flint about the head and body in a most ft ghuitl manner, and in their brutal treatment bmke his left lee, so that the bone protruded through the skin. Tlte villains having thus disabled him, filled his pockets of a Clli-diaity of silver. Out the watchman coming on duty, about nine o'clock, he found the unfortunate gen tleman stretched its the kennel, quite insensible, and in stantly sprang his rattle for assistance, and had hien taken to the Star public-house, close by, where, ones°. Initiation of his frame, his injuries were found too seri ous to he benefitted by any temporary remedies, and it was therefore deemed most prudent to convey hint to the London Hospital, wnere all efforts which the fa culty could devise were resorted to, but in vain, and be lingered until Sunday morning, when death put a pe riod to his sufferings. lie was perfectly collected a short time previous to Isis (leant, and related to the sur geons the connected with his death, the substance of which we have given in the forgoing state ment. Mr. Litwin, the Coroner, with a respectable Jury, attended Thursday morning, at the Grave Morris, Wintechape:-road, to hold an inquest on the body, which lay in a shell at all undertaker ' s. and presented a frightful spectacle. Several witnesses were heard at great length in explanation of the dreadful affor, but malting to throw light on the subject transpired ; and the Court, in the absence of other witnesses, adjourned to a future day, when, it is hoped, some 1111:Itcri.11 eel. (knee will be nildoced, and 'cad to the discovery of the murderers. TM. Pollee of the district are very active on the occasion ; and it is st singular, that not the slightest alarm appears to have peen heard when the murder was perpetrated, front which it must be con cluded that site deceased was s;unned by the very first blow. Ott Thursday night, Thomas Thompson, a constahle of Clerkenwell, the terror of all the pickoockets in town, to w h om h e i s w e ll known, and consegnently shunned, disguised himself by muffling hOuctell up in a great coat, and tying a handkerchief round his head, as if troubled with the tooth-ache, with his hand before his face to prevent his being known, walked up liothorn on the look-out for pick pot ke:s and shoplifters. At the end of Middle-row he saw John Johnson and John Christo pher, two well known prigs, whom he had before its custnly, and v.-ere tried Mr picking pockets; suspecting their Intsims., lie watched tin m attempting to p:ck the pocktit, si %era! L , ,:tletilett; they tinned into Great l'urris:ile, towards I.atteoln's-intafields,and in passing by Int:chi:Cs shop, where there is usually a cony(' col lected, and many depredations comtnitted, he saw John- SOU lock a gentletnati*s pocket of a silk hantlks.rctiiec which he handed to Christopher. Toompsou atvly pounced on them, sectired them both, and cal:ing to the gentleman, he gave his 11.1111 e and address, %%hick was limos Upton, 62, Wood•strect, Cheapside. Ile bilged the prisoners in the 'NJ telt-house; they were exa mined on Frit:ay heiore the stains m vgistrat.! at !tattoo. aml the charge Leit.g prated, they aex fu.iy co:unlined Isa - TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER had possessed large iron-works in the county, and that the forge stood close to the cottage of the defendant. In the year 1760, a person named llinde, who was foreman of the fonndery, occupied the cottage in question. That for 14 years after the works ha:l ceased, he continued to occupy the cottage, and newer paid any rent, but that he continued to do services fur Al r. Harrison particularly; he attended to the locks, and opened them in time of floods to let the water off. Upperton married Hinde's maid, and when Ilinde died, Hyperion continued in the cottage, and did occasional services in the same manner as Hittite had clone; that Mr. Harrison held his audits in a room in the cottage, and had a dinner for his tenants there ; that he also had a cellar in the emtage, where lie kept wine and beer, and at length, iu isne, he sold the whole estate to Mr. Thwaites, and by tile description in t•te deeds and the plan of the estate, the cottage in ques tion was included. It further appeared, that after Mr. T. took possession of the estate, he put his bailiff into a part of the cottage, and afterwards took another room when the bailiff Ma rr ied Several declarations of the defendant were also given in evidence, that he paid no rent for the cottage, but that he thought the services he rendered in other ways were more than equal to the rent of the cottage. At length he set itp a title to the cottage, claiming it as his own, insisting that he had been long enough in possession to give hint a title, and he rel•used to give it up, saying, it was built on the waste of the manor, and that the plain• tiff had no title to it. Mr. Fullager, the steward of Mr. Harrison, stated, that he was the person who chewed Mr.Thwaites every parcel of the laud that was to be sold; that he pointed out all the cotti.ges, but did not point out Upperton's, as Ice did not consider it as below.ing to Mr. Harrison. That with resp-ct to the audits Lein ~t held there, lie had requested permission of Upperton t o h o ld th e au di ts there ; that Upperton and his wife assisted in prep iring the dinner, and that they had the remains of the provi sion for their trouble; that Ite collected all the rents, but never required any rent of Upperton, because he did not consider it to belong to Mr. Harrison, and that lie paid Upperton as he would do any other man when he worked for Mr. IL without any set-old for rent. Lord Ahergavenny's steward also proved that, in !Ell I, Mr. Th wanes cut down sonic trees near the cottage, upon which Lord Altergavenny made Nlr. T. pay 511. Is. 6.1. as the price of the trees, claiming them as standing upon his waste. 0 her witnesses were called to prove that the place in question was part of the waste attic manor. The Jury, under the direction of tile learned Judge, found a verdict for the plaintiff. lionsit A M. Al A UCH 28 —The bnsine.s on this side finished to d.i 3 , Wood two o'clock. The only caw o aseutioniug was the folio:. DEW V. LATTER. This wits an netion rtivtin,t th•' defendant, tti the author of a libel, puhlished of and conerrunig the pi:dotal* to the Brighton Chronicle, on the 2J of Nov. last. Mr. Gurney and Nlr. Tn' ton conducted the plaintiff's cat.e, and %1 r. Nlarratt and Mr. Canty tne defendant's. Tire plaint ittwas (IC,Clifted as a resnerfahly snit..eon and dent t of Brighton, and ;Witched to his 51.1j,st's household in that capacity ; and the defendant nas trine:twitted to be an attorney's clerk in the same pla.T. It was all-grit that the defendant having taken some offeare at the plaintiff's conduct towards ltim , published in tae Brighton Chronicle, of Ihe 2tl of November last, the follow% in; paid tor adver tisement " shortly will he published, the Liic and Adventures of a certain Knight of toe 'J'aih, now living at Brighton, accom panied with anecdotes of entertainments given at Nnaggte. Louth Hall, and Reflections, by an Observer. When a mato has Boost himself into respectable society before lie has learnt good manners, what shall be done to him r—Paint his portrait, that all the world might know him." A copy of the paper in which this paragraph was pu• Usher' was sent, under cover, directed to the plat ntiif in the ileftm- Janes luoul waiting. huh ,us U. F.'s/. surgeon ilea. list to his Majest:,'s him-sleds], Kr. etc. etc." the paragraph being scored with pen and ink. It wits proved that there was no other person in the town of Bi iglitoti to whom the paragraph could apply. When the libel was read it excited burst iii laughter in the Court. Mr. Liorua Wood charged the Jury, Ihit the paragraph wits certainly 'Mellow is u hits degree, hut it was for the Jury tit wisea the damages fur the irjury done to the The July immediati ly found their verdict for the plaintiff —damages, one bil;111114, coos 404._ A , 'fER. f N•ocri,2o.—John Holland:awl Jnbn no) le wrre dinged o lilt a buc;lary at be howl: of Alt. C. G. Smart, diaper, I), , aaszao., Maaclostur. Nit. Smart stated, I hat previously to taking his repose on a Saturday lie, according to custom “as poil , ing the paper. It u:is Iwo the latch of the sitting-room door ss as to ice touched then opened is nh a good deal of gradation, and 11.:saw the two prisom.i,; lie made a bolt iii order In gist• a general alarm, rind on•• of them said," don't be alacineil." Ile said, 66 I think I hate occasion to bet" they then closed, and threw him upon the bed; Holland took a sharp instrument from Ids person, hod plunged it into r. Smart's face, who then shouted " Murder Thiese•!" The cry providential!) caught the ear of his niece up stair,; she opened the window and repeated the cries; this iutimi rhard the a•saihutls, and of course encourag.al ; Ire forced himself out, and got In the whitlow tip stalls, and ut cotisequenre of shout.• the %snit:hum' sprung iii, ra , and t!), house become Ii led with peepie on aelirchiii; it was di,covru•d ern aio roue had berm made in a gratiog i the cellar, which had been ced by a cross liar ;at elliod a hat, and h pa:r of quarter boots ss, re limml, and all gild'. into the hands of the officer of the night ; lie nos certain the pt•nw IS are the men. J int s limith, of the Manchester police, provrd that he and kilbie apprehended the prisoner: to Angsl-iticadows.— Ito% le b;iid "Thou ba•l.t I that sli rt and put that dealt inc, 011 ;" ;11,41 11011,4,111 111,1 so. fetched the dilly shirt to tae 1)oke of ink , `lttolehill, and asked Holland ho:s he got the blood whit It un-. upon i: lie sisal, 1, li c hting on Saturday bight last, at the buck of the theatre. hitbie afterward, salt be had seen thrill at I)eintsgate, near Me. Snout's, on Satindas, the pri.nau r, denied thi , , mud 110 1 1:111 , 1 tLea slid he V. as at Maccl. stied on S.aturday. 'it' pi 1:0144:1* RV., le dt.cliacd sa) an) o:ins. NI lb c. ~_ '~-m