The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-21 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. Thursday the Sessions for the City of Westminste r com menced before Mr. Const, the Chairman, and several other Magistrates. RIOT IN WESTMINSTER. THE HMO V. WEARS'S', ROEROTTOM, A ND OTHERS. Mr. Adolphus stated, that the defendants, M`Carty and tire others, soldiers belonging to the Foot Guards, were tried last Sessions at the Old Bailey for murder and ac quitted. They had sitter been indicted for the riot on the lhth of June at Westminster, but those who had prefer red the indictment did nut mean to proceed ; he therefore had to request the witnesses might he called, and ou their not appearing, the prisoners would be discharged. Mr. Alley, Counsel fur the prosecution, stated that he received no instructions to support the indictment for the misdemeanour; and after the defendants had been ar raigned, and pleaded not guilty, they were acquitted, there being nu evidence to lay before the Jury. The Chairman, then addressing them, said—" It is better before you go from the bar, under the particular nature and circumstances of your case, that your atten tion should be called to theimpropriety of your conduct, Your behaviour, subsequent to acquittal at the Old Bai ley, would almost lead one to suppose, that in the corn ms-ion of your offence, you had the intention of doing bodily mischief, for since you were acquitted, yon have nut wily considered yourselves justified, but although you were under bail you have gone and abused the officers of jostice, one of whom narrowly escaped with his life.— You all know that yon have boasted that you glory in a hat you have dune, and that you have said you would die rather than make any concession. This is not ca p' e•sing a proper respect ror the law. You have not been visited with punishment, and the Court think the lenity chew a you should be taken hi a proper sense. However, yon may have been prompted by high spirit, and recollec tion of the battle of Waterloo, the danger in which you have stood, and the consequence of being again placed in a similar situation, should have impressed upon you, re spect for the civil laws of the country. Persons who sup port the dignity of the military profession, and under whose authority you ate placed, feel the necessity of as skting and protecting the officers of justice, and, I hope heroic you leave this Court, you will du the Same." Mr. Alley trod, it was impossible not to feel with the Court that the conduct of the officers of justice had been stood correct. Mr. Const observed, that he knew nothing of the facts; but the subsequent conduct or the defendants looked like a malicious intention. _ Mr. Reynolds, the magistrate, said, he had occasion to know that the soldiets, iu the riot alluded to, were guilty of violence. He was tinder the nechssity of send ing for the Horse Guards. Without their assistance the consequences might have beet' more fatal. Au attack was made on the officers, who where only doing their duty, and one of the defendants had gone so a public-house and abused the officers in the grossest manner. The defendants were then discharged. John Roberts was indicted for assaulting, on the vith of June, Peter Maslen. The prosecutor with his wife, were walking along St. James's -street, when the defendant, without any piovo cation. struck him a violent blow. The defendant called three witnesses to prove Martin Was the aggressor, but they all told different stories. The Jury found the defendant guilty, and he was sen tenced to two mouths imprisonment in the House of Cor reetimi. The Court was occupied during the peeler part of the day with the trial of two men for a misdemeanour, dis gusting in the details. atuAlf, 00T. 19.—Mary Torpin was indicted far re ceiving, knowing it to be stolen, a harness, the property of George l'opeland. It appeared that the defendant. who was a dealer in what lire called marine stores, in Broadway, Westminster, had the harness in a box in her parlour, where it was found by the prosecutor in the execution of a search-warrant. The ac count she gave of it was, that the box was left there by a young mail who had burrowed liive-shillings upon it, but she knew nothing either of the man or the contents of the box. Verdict—Guilty. Sentence-3 months' imprisonment in the Bowe of Correction. The Court was occupied during the remainder of the day in trying petty fiat4tilltr. Watford applied to the Court to entreat the recogni zaticcs of John Fly and William itfitlis, who were ehttrged As it la riot at the funeral of Francis and Honey, at Knights hi idge, on the 14th of -August. Ile said that the parties were b , iund to come in and bike their trial at this sessions, but they had neither appeared nor given notice. The Court said that the learned Counsel might let his Mallon stand as a notice, but that the recognixances could hot be at present estretacti. The potties, while the beSsiutis continued, might yet come in and demand their trial. The UN N TV It AI. MOTH EK.—Nial Mason, the wife of Wiiliant Tomlinson Alasun, was put to the bar on an indict ment, charging her with havio; ueposited two of her intimt children, both under the age of Iw,, years, at the doors of the house of Mr. Knight and another inhabitant of 'Marl borough-street, the sth of .Tune last, between the hours of 10 and k tit night. Mr. Alley condurted the pro s, cut ion oil behalf of the overseers of St. James' parish, to whom the children became chargeable. Edward Thew, a servant of Mr. Knight, stated, that on the night set forth in the indictment, he answered a knock lit the door, and an opening it found a child sitting on the threshold about IS months old cry lug bitterly. Mt. Knight came and viewed the child, and rri examination found that a scrap of paper was attach , d to the clothes of the little out cast, with an inscription, of which the fulloN lug is an exact copy " IVith reluctance I am obliged to leave these two poor helpless diddle') to the care of the Almighty, being as I alit unable to provide fur them, and they are forsaken by their unnatural father ahu refu.ts to do anything for them. Their father is a bakes, tirl comes fi um Newark, n:ar N oiling ham, his name is Tondiusem" This note cowed a (either search. At the next door was rotund tut infant about four months old, anti Mr. Knight had them conveyed ton plaice ofseeurity till ..... Liken to the 11orktiouse, and front thence removed to 11 jou. Heflin' to be nursed. talkers made every iimgaii), and lit leugth a ream it of 5101. is ;is id. ed , soon iifter which tim utinatui ii other mid net busltuud %vie apprs Iterated. Seueral witnesses vivre examined, among whom was Litz. Bali., a neighbour of the pii-rowts. It appeared fruits her tout uncut that the ptisucer had told bcr ul bet dropping the THE NATIONAL REGISTER ehildreu and said that her (the prisoner's) mother was with her at the time. There being a link wanting in the chain of evidence, namely, that the prisoner was the person who so deposited iliem, • and that she did so with the view of forsaking them, the Chairman Is. ineated that it was ; Ihere being no doubt but that the prisoner had been very inhuman, but without evidence the Jury could not convict iu•r. The parish had acted wish great piopriety in instituting the prusecu- lion, but lie was bound to charge the Jury to acquit the prisoner. Mr. Alley said that a woman who had burst asunder the most tender ties of nature was not to go unpunished, and he wished Slit Magistrates to detain her as he b huuld proceed against her under the Vagrant Act. The defendant, who is a young woman of gond appearance, was taken from the bar with the young rhad in her arms, and sent back to prison. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS. The sessions for the borough of Southwark commenced at the Town-hall on Friday, before the Lord Mayor, Ald. J. J. Smith, the acting magistrate of the borough, and Mr. Common Sergeant. Several individuals were con •icted of trivial offences, but the following were the only eases worthy of notice:— William Ladd, a decent-looking young man, was in dicted for a violent assault upon Elizabeth, the wife of 'll . . Humphries, a smith, in Baron's-place, lackfrlars•road. The prisoner it appeared lodged with Mr. Humphries, and was in arrears fur rent to the amount of 31. 17s. 3d They gave 1l i 11l notice to quit, and finding at length that he would not go, and there was no chance of getting paid they at last locked the door against Mtn, and refused him admission. The prisoner gave them no annoyance at that time, but about six weeks afterwards the prisoner cams and demanded a tub, which Mrs. Humphries said she had sold. He, however, got sight of it in the coal-hole, and insisted on having its and in his endeavours to obtain it struck her several violent blows, particularly in tile ab domen. She was pregnant at the time, and the violence committed on her brought on premature labour. In con sequence of the blows the mother had received, she was considerably bruised on the aims and hack, and had a large tumour on the groin ; and it was stated in evidence that the child when born exhibited similar appearances of violence upon its back end arms, and a swelliug in the groin corresponding to that upon the mother. The prisoner in his defence denied having struck her, and said the bruises on her arms, &c. were occasioned by herself in her struggles to prevent his getting the tub.— The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Sentenced to 1 months imprisonment. Stephen Tyler was also indicted for an assault on a mar ried woman, tee w ire of Mr. Newton, a respectable builder, residing in Wellington street. The prisoner was going along the Borough-road on the evening of the 13th of March, drunk, amusing himself with beating the lid againq the side of a four gallon saucepan, which he had just bought. The prosecutrix happened to come out of a passage at the mo ment the prisoner was passing, 1111 d lie, without any provo• cation s struck her a violent blow on the temple, which felled her to the pound in a slate of imensibility. The prisoner attempted to make big escape, but will stopped and secured by the watchman. Mrs. Newton was in the eighth mouth of her pregnancy at the time of this outrage. Site was put to bed with every symptom of pretnatnre labour the HUM evening, and suffering great agony for four days, was at length delivered, Wlieu, as in the former instance, the child was found to exhibit marks of violence similar to those that appeared on the mother. The side of the temple corres ponding to the part on which Mrs. Newton had received the blow showed marks of violence, and thecye was turned in its socket. The pi isoner's counsel had nothing to offer in his defence, but in mitigation of punishment, pleaded the state of intoxi cation lie was in at the time, to a Melt alone this wanton act was to be attribrited. He had been annoyed in his way home by some girls of the (owe, and drunk as he was, his rage had been indiscriminate. lie was a married man, and had a wife and three children entirely dependent upon him far support. He had already offered the only recompense in his power, that of his services in the way of his trade as a painter, to any reasonable amount, which had been refused. The Jury vs idiom hesitation convicted the prisoner, and the Court, taking into consideration his penitence, and the help less situation of his faintly, sentenced him to Duly six months' impriso iiiii eat. W. Canham was indicted for starling ISt cat, of what is technically called Spanish tare, being the wrappers in which Spanish wool is brought to this country, fro) n the warehouse of Mr Griffiths, in Fell-street, Wood-street. From the evi dence stated, it appeared that the prisoner having a know ledge of the premises, hired a regular cart on the afternoon oft he Ist of June, in broad day light, removed the property, and disposed of it to Mrs. Palmer, a dealer in marine stores in Bermondsey, for 51. lOn. With the money hs proceeded to that scene of dissipation, Dover•strect, among the common rumen, where he was taken into custody by the peace• sinkers, it liapeeninr,z to he a search night. Mr. Griffiths basin? got some information respecting the robbery, ap plied the nest morning for a warrant to search the premises of Mrs. Palmer, where the ;mods had beta disposed, when he karat that the prisoner was already in custody on another charge. Tile carter who remove) the goods, and the son of Mrs, Palmer, who) purchased the .1, stated those facts and iden tified the pi isoner. The prisoner made no defeuce—Guilty. Sentenced to seven years tramportation. Matrimonial Caution.—The following advertisement appeared in the last Eater Alfred.—" Whereas Eliza beth, the wife of Ambrose Shere, of Columpton, De von, did, on the 29th day of August last (being the 20th time! )—Elope front her said husband without any other just provocation than that of her own procuring, and that she thought her said husband was too o!d to deserve (being 78) ; and she being lost to duty and virtue, as also insensible to shame and brutality, her adviser had occasioned her disgrace and urn. This is to caution all p;rsons not to trust her On my account, as such debt or dc!gS will not he paid by me; and as the said Elizabeth Slit re itlay assume sonte tuber name, it i. proper to ob wrve, that she is abour li4 years of age, short in stature, thin its race, flattish arse, wattry eves, bad teeth, squints a little, and capasot read ur sew without spectacles; she condoned about Columpton until the 14th of Sept. and then kit the wwit. Wituch my hand—A. Shere." 331 LOVE AND MA DNESS.M iss —•-•-••••• daughter of a respectable professional gentleman, of 11--, near Grantham, had for a considerable time, with the appro bation of her family, received the addresses of the Bev. Mr. clergyman of the same village. This gen. deinan lift his house on Friday evening last on horse. back, but shortly other called on Miss who accompanied him, as was supposed by her family, for an evening walk. Her not returning home at the usual time only excited an ordinary degree of surprise; her absence was accounted for by aupsing, from their extreme intimacy, that they had gone off to Gretna-green, as their intended union had not met the entire approba tion of the gentleman's friends. The gentleman s horse having been found turned tip in a neighbour's close natu rally strengthened the above supposition. Inquiry was then made at all the public inns where it was likely to obtain post hurPes, but no intimation could be obtained. The mystery was not of long continuance, for at five o'clock on Sunday morning the father of the young lady was called from his bed, and to his soul-sickening sur prise was told that his daughter would be found dead in the neighbouring plantation of Mr. A candle and lantern were immediately procured, when the information was found to be too true : the lady lay as if asleep, with her head upon her arm, which was bloody, wrapped in Mr. —'s surtout and handkerchief. It appears they had both taken a large quantity of laudanum. he laudanum swallowed by the unhappy lady bad taken ...fleet, but the stomach of the gentleman had rejected it, while he lay in a state of insensibility by her side, on recovery from which, it is said he made an ineffectual attempt to cut his throat, which accounts for the lady's arm being found bloody. He is now at his own house.— The affair will undergo the scrutiny of a coroner's inquest, which will be attended by two physicians and tvvo sur geons, when this melancholy and distressing affair will meet further elucidation. As the young lady was its the habit of compounding her father's medicines, her access to laudanum is easily accounted for. Toe reverend gentleman, who was only curate of was, it seems, originally brought up to the law, which, from consci entious motives, he left for the church. His character is exemplary. The age of Miss was 25. When she was removed to her father's house she was not quite cold, appeared asleep, and as bloom ng as when alive, but in a short time her colour Hal, and s he °stinted the appearance of death. By this dreadful affair, the de ceased's family, which is large, is involved its great sorrow and distress. The second steeple chase match, between Captain Smith and Mr. Hnneywood, took place on Tuesday, from Hawthorn Wood. Surrey, to Kitislake, for 20U guineas a side. The distance was 20 miles, and it was done by Mr. Honeywood in one hour and twenty-nine minutes, over a rough country. Captain Smith took a circuit through Crane Wood, and swam across the Bad. del-river, his adversary keeping the high ground in the direction of Leith-hill, each had many leaps, and the Captain lost the match by about a quarter of a mile, his horse refusing to leap a hedge. SHOCK INO ACHI DENT.-011 IVednesday eveninglast, as a van was going along the Strand (near Northumber land-street), the near fore-wheel came in contact with a post, the force of which broke the fore axletree, and pitched a young man that was sitting by the side of the driver, from his seat, on the post, and killed him on the spot. The manner of loading vans in general is very dangerous, and requires some better or effectual regula tion to iirevent accidents, PROCESS FOR COUNTSRACTING CONTAGION:•••At the moment when contagious maladies are causing such ravages, it cannot be superfluous to make known a dis covery which is due to hazard, and which has for its object the application on a large scale of the process for counteracting infection, invented by the celebrated Gorton de Morveau, of philanthropic memory. l'he following is the manner in which the author of this dis cove•ry describes the circumstances which led him to make it :—Being lately employed in the decomposing marine salt, by means of sulphuric acid, in order to obtain soda, he observed that the tnwn near which Se resides, was in a few moments, covered with a thick cloud formed by the vapour of the muriatic which was escaping from the furnace. The vapour wnetrated every where, and extended to a considerable distance. lie besides observed, that it acquired great intensity in pro portion as the air wa• more humid. It then occurred to him, that sets of apparatus, so prepared as to be capable of being moved to points whence the wind might drive the emanation on infected places, would be or great utility, while the expellee of the experiment would be inconsiderable. SINGULAR ROBBERY.—On Monday night last, about 11 o'clock, white a hackney-coachman was asleep oil his box, in Holborn, waiting for a fare, sonic rogues took the horses front the carriage and escaped with them, leaving poor Jarvis snoring with the whip in his hand.— On the poor fellow being awoke, his surprise and con. sternation may easily be conceived. On kriday morning the animals were found stripped of their harness in a field near Nest-square, Lambeth. link RID MUSE/CC—lt is with painful feeling we we h ice to slate another dreadful act of atrocity which ha, hcen committed in this county. On Monday last, in the pari3h of Crathic, Brackmar, a young woman residing with her aged mother, a widow, who had been lon c ; bed-rider, was found barbarously murdered in the house, her throat being cut in the most shocking manner. From the reported intimacy between the parties, and other circumstances which, in the present stage of the business, it would be impioper to enter upon, suspicion fell upon a young man of the name of Thomas Mackin.. tosh, who, after undergoing all examination before some of the Justicee of the neighlomrhood, was brought to town and 10-iged in jail here on Wednesday. The Sheriff Substitnte of Aberdeen and Fiscal of the county base in the mean time, we learn, gone to the scene of this sad catastrophe, to pursue the legal iiivestigation, so as to lead to the discovery of the guilty perpetrwor.—Alstrdeen Papa. - $ I 0. •