The National Register. — London, England, 1822-11-24 00:00:00

374 ELECTION OF A BP.IDGE MASTER. On Tuesday last • moat mimerous meeting of the Livery took place in Gnildhall, in consequence of • precept issued by the Lord Mayor. for the Election sof a Bridges Maater. In the loom of Nr.Ttiodey, deceased. The Hall being opened by the Town C:ier, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen proceeded to the Court of Alder men, and the Sheriffs proceeded to the Election. Mr. FAVIELL proposed Mr. Norton, as a tit and proper person to petrol ni the dillies of the situation. The inject of the Livery, in filling the situation of Iliiiige-Masier, was to set se mune respectable, hut decayed fellow-eitiam. It was a pain to him to appear opposed to the other Cain who, lie understood, am it ail of them meritorious individuals, ;mil he a islied from his sould that they could all be supplied ander the Corporation; but as that eualil nut be done, lie only had to select the must eligible, mid give to that person his decided support. He knew Mr. Norton to be • respectable end honourable man upwards of forty years, and there a ere, independently of the former prosperous, mid the preamit adverse condition of his life, claims - which no doubt had weight with the Livery. lie had been twice disappointed in his applications, one of %%kith 1:all nearly succeeded when lie yielded to the call tor Mr.Thirdey.—(This nomivation was most watinly re . ceived.) Mr. Beeoas seconded the nomination ; in doing which he elated, that lie 11441 known Mr. Norton upwards of 30 yenta, and had the highest respect for his character. Mr. Carmvuun stated, that he stood forward to put in nomination • person well known and greatly esteemed by his fellow-citizt ns, Mr. Lewis Lewis.—(Bepeated cheers.) —That honourable individual Lad once been in cii cum mances which 'seemed calculated to di:lV...lige the freaks of Marine, but the circumstances of the times, which had pioduced suck general distress, visited I • heavily. Hi, cruse would speak 'nose to the hearts of those around him Ulan language. Mr. OLDHAM seconded the nomination of Mr. Lewis. lie had in his early life been in the must Haim hag cir cumstances, having been the proprietor of the New Lou don 'lateen, and to his fostering hand many who were now rnjoyitig the sweets of prosperity owed the means of present enjoyment ; and tifteeti years of Isis life lie had devoted to the service of that Corporation to which be slow looked for assistance in the day of calamity. ((Irma applause.)—Mr. Lewis was now fallen into decay, but had paid every farthing lie owed. He must sink under misfortunes, it the suwails of turning want into control sad hitteruess into joy, were not supplied by those aruund Lim. The neat two candidates were Mr. Aubrey and Mr. Shorter, two very respectable men, whose characters were highly spoken of by the gentlemen who put them in nomination. Mr. fit ESNAR 0, another Candidate, then stood forward, and said he begerd to withdraw his name. The names having been put up, and the Town Clerk having called upon the Livery to hold up their bands as they favoured each Candidate, there appeared an immense majority tot Mr. Lewis. Mr. Nortou also had a great chew ; but the Sheriffs immediately declared that the election had fallen upuu Mr. Lewis. A pull was thee de manded upon the part of the other Candidates, and com menced at half past two tet lock, each Candidate having called upon his friends to use their utmost exertions. DEPORTANT C A lITIOV TO INSOLVENT DEBTORS. W. Donnet, an insolvent, who had been discharged under the act in June last, came up on Wednesday to be re-heart:, in obedi-nce to an order of the Court, which had been obtained on an affidavitmade by the insolvents' assignee, stating that since the insolvent's discharge be (the assignee) had ascertained that the insolvent, who Issas arrested in Dover, on his way to France, in the niontit of January last, had a few days before his arrest invested 301. in the public funds, in his own name, and the name of Charles Dikzd, a young man in hisemploy mem, which reinained standing in their joint names till the day after the insolvent's discharge, when it was ttansferred. It appeared the insolvent's schedule did not contain any mention of his having money in the funds. The insolvent, who is a Frenchman, and has been in London Gtr some years, as a fitter up of gas-light ap. prams, stated on his examination, that the 501. invest. ed in the funds, 11,1 the joint names of himself and Mud, was the sole property of the latter, who was a young man, at present about nineteen years of age, a foreigner. who came into his employment about two years ago, and ever since in his house, and received wages at the rate of tss. a week. In the month of Sep. windier last year they calculated the wages due to Dikz.f, and it amounted to 501. 17s. which was then paid him; and when the insolent was going to Paris, on business, in January last, Diked asked him, before he went, to go with 111111 to put his money in the funds, that it might be safe. The day after he (the insolvent was discharged, Dikzd asked him to go with him to sell but the stock, and he coniplied with his request on both occasions— but he positively denied that he had any interest in the money, or that he received any part of it ; nothing more than a share of a pot of beer that Dikzd gas e him, alter they had sold the stock. • Charles Dikzd was examined on the part of the in solvent, and told nearly the same story. On being ques tioned by the Court why he demanded payment of his wages of the insolvent In September, when he was so long without requiring any part of it, he answ. red that he was in want of it: and being asked how lie had disposed of it Imiti the time he received it to the month of Jatiu try following, when lie placed it in the Minis, he said, he kept it locked! tip in his box the whole lime. l'he Court, in pronouncing judgment, said it was tit erly impossible to gise credit to the story told by the insolvent and his witness ; die judgment of the Court therefore was, that the itindvent's discharge should be revoked, and that he should be remanded for g months (rum that day, fora concealment of his property. A very lamer title account is given in the Irish papers of the multitude of causes brought before the Quart , n. Sessions in some of the Irish counties —lt is stated es a fact, that out of sixteen hundred civil bill processes at Nlacroont, in the county of Coil, 1,300 should hate originated in tithes. THE NATIONAL Ml dti ONLY 8111 It is our painful duty to record a &simians , dlich IS LIM 0 0.• following detail of s. IC the . _tug event wl. occurred off Diinchor - ch, Kent, on Friday morning last (the 18th inst.) About half past three o'clock, the wind Wowing a hurricane - from the S.W. by W., as— Sims, a fisherman, was going to his nets on that coast,- he heard strange voices in the distance, but from thee boisterous state of the weather could not ascertain Irons whence they proceeded, daybreak, whet' lie p revised a small sloop in distress, lying on tite flat sand off that place, at a very distance below low water mark, with three persons (two men and a buy) apparently lashed to the vessel ; but front the tee metlous sea winch incessantly broke over them, he was tonally unable to render them any assistance ; they were then also seen by Other persons Nom the Wall, who en deavoured w swat to them, but t!te waverwere so heavy sad followed each other in such rapid succession. that they were reluctantly compelled to relinquish their hu mane darts. By this time the inhabitants of the village, with the officers and men of the Coast Blockade service, had assembled on the beach, and -Mr. Joint Sheriff, an ' officer in the above service, immediately procured borate s ' and despatched them to Martell° Tower, No. 23,•t0. drag our of the blockade boats alo n g the sand. lii tha interim, a small boat belouging to Slink having bee* procured, Mr. Sheriff, with two seamen of his party, launched her and made two attempts to reach the - - wreck, river which the sea was breaking with great fury but at the moment when they had nearly gained their object, and the by-standers successively indulged the pleasing hope of the rescue of the distressed marine's, their boat was each time overwhelmed by the surf, once by the thowls breaking and the gallant adventuters narrowly escaped the sail fate which awaited them for whom they had risked their own lives. • At this moment the blockade galley, from the No. 23, Tower, a distance of three quartets of a mile, was brought to the spot, and Mr. Sheriff, accompanied by Mr. H. Jul 1, another officer of the same service, and four of their seamen, all of them being nearly naked, in order to be ready to swim, in case of need, launched her through a most tremendous surf, after being swamped several times. Hope was again cherished that Provi dence would have crowned their generous efforts with success, but it was otherwise decreed, for when they had approached well towards the objects of their JIM. OW solicitude, a most awful surge struck the wreck—it was thrown over, and the devoted crew were sum moned to eternity, almost at the moment when (It:1'- I'o4lWe seemed to be within their reach. ittarsivinit RECORDER'S REPORT. On Friday last his Majesty held a Pricy Council, when the Recorder made his Report of the following, convicts, who were capitally convicted at the last Sep tember sessions, viz.— Samuel IVilsott, Isaac Knight, and James Simpson, for horse stealing. Thomas Hayes, Joseph Bartier, Edmund Musine, William Williams, Joseph Williams, Joseph Mackrell, Daniel Cotterell, John Brown, Walter Blachard, Alex. Brown, Frank Purdom, William Corbett, alias Watson, John Bridget:wan, Coaches Robinson, Stephen Tool, Mary Gengell, and Frances Waddell, for stealing in tue dwelling -house. William Reading and John Roberts, for burglary. %Vi. Callaghan, for returning from transportation. Richard Milford, for uttering a Bank post bill with a forged indorsement. Robert Ramsey, John Levy, James Gardner, William Bright, George Viginton, Thos. Gordon, Wm. Milton, and Samuel Greenwood, for highway rubbery. John Holland, William King, and William North, for an unnatural offence. William Adams, for cutting and maiming. The Recorder then reported to his Majesty the cases of the convicts tried at the October sessions, via.— W Cromber, Charles Henunaton, Theodore Constantine, Edward M' W 'Hiatus, Ttionias Fearby, Wm. Whitton, Wm. Leicester, John Currey, and S.ll/11. Raven, for stealing house. Win. Holland, John Barnett, John Smith, and Ceo. Brindle, for burglary. John Burrows, for highway robbery. William Townsend. altos Pocock, for a like offence, accompanied with extortion. Henry Day, for turgery; and Edward Ethridge, for a rape. When John Holland and William King were ordered for execution mi Monday, the Willi inst , iiit, and William Reading, Frank Ford ttttt t Wm. Corbett, alias Watson, John Roberts, Samuel C;reeilwooil, and E. M'Willianis, on Wednesday, the 27th inst.—The others were respired during his Majestv's pleasure. Fite case of %Vi.liain North stands over for further consideration. INGENtoUS Ronetta Y.—Ou Friday night the shop of Mr. Gillett, pawnbroker, ,o. 36, Old.strect, ht. Luke's, was robbed of a variety of articles, principally jewellery, consisting of gold 'tugs, brooches, ear-rings, neck-laces, eze. to the amount of between lob and ft!. The effect their propose with much ingenuity, piercing the stall-bond or bottom of the projecting shop-window frame, with a centre-bit, exactly beneath the articles purloined (the part having been previously marked with chalk), and by weans , it is supposed, of wire hooks, suc ceeded tit drawing down their booty through the aper ture. The gold &c. were forced front the cards they were fastened to, and with so much nicety was the whole exectEed, that not a stray article was left behind. It was upwards of an hour alter the shop was opened th..- the depredation was disco% ered. AIIiLANCIIOLY CATAsTaorne.—On Sunday, the 3d inst. a boar upset betwixt Kirkwall and Shapitishay, by which twelve persons, returning haute from church, were last. Tim melancholy event has left the relatives tit must of the suticrets dependent on public benenlcitee AcclOSNT.oll.hionday last. Henry Williams, Esq of the firm of Williams end Goddard, in having left town to attend a 'peeling of magistrates at ChaStout, in Bucks, proceeded from thence to his coon. try house, near Berkisampstead ; and when tipou the top of a sery steep hill, midway between that place and Cheimans, about ten at night, it being extremely dark. and the rain falling in torrents, his horse wok fright at some object in the hedge, and galloped at a furious rate down tile hill, Instil at a turn in the road at the bottom, where some alterations are making, he stumbled over a batik into a slough, and rolled over Mr. Williams, who became senseless (ruin the shock, and, upon con to his recollection, he found himself iututersed iii mod and water, and covered with bruises. his horse still lying by his side. Won great difficulty he go. upon his feet, and alter several inefiectual attempts to get his horse up, it made a sudden spring, and in rising, extricated itself Irons the 'oldie, and 'rotted away. Mr. W. knowing, from the loneliness of the road, there WAS no hope of ah sistauce, and that he must remain exposed to the incle inency of the weather during the whole night, unless he c0u1..1 reach Urrkisanipstead, a distance of nearly two ilitiCS ithill the spot, made the attempt ; and in about two hours succeeded in walking, or rather crawling, to his I . Coeoseit's Istelltmars.-00 Thursday evening, an inquest was held at the Lord Hood, hick -street, Poplar, by J. W. Unwili, Esq. Coroner ' on the body of an i n . Pant.—Gorge Sully Hood, of No. 1, Ebenezer-piaci:- I,llllOlOOSe, stated, that the deceased was his ciiiid. Oit Tuesday monsieur, about eleven o'clock, lie went home. and ongoing into the bedroom, finding the bed had not been turned up, he turned it sip; in doing so. he did tint perceise that his child was in it. Soot afterwards lie inquired for the child, when the horrible fact instantly burst on his mind; he flew to the bedstead, and, on let ting it down, discovered the lifeless body of his child, winch hail been suffocated aniong<t the bed clothes. Tile deceased was only eleven weeks old. The lather was oveiwitelmed with grief at the time of giving his evidence. Verdict—Accidental Death.—On Friday an iIIqUISIIIOII was taken at the D'Oyiey Arms, Hlackland's Lane, Chelsea Common, beture Thomas Stirling, Coroner, Oil the body of Alexander Scott, a floe boy. two years and a half old. It appeared that the mother of the deceased, who lodged at No. Y 5, Cumberland.steeet, lett him in her room while she went dowo stairs to fetch some water. and had not been absent trout him above two minutes, when the whole house was alarnitil by his • screams. His mother and the woman who kept the house ran up stairs, and found his cotton frock entirely burnt from his back, and his neck and arms very much burnt; medical assistance was immediately procured, and every thing was tome that the case required, but the infant lingered in great agony for about 12 hours, during which lie neser spoke, and then died. Verdict—ALct deutally burnt in death. On Wednesday evening last, whilst Mts. Kiss, the wile of Mr. Kiss, an attorney, in Gloucester-buildings. Walworth, was sitting in the trout parlour alone. the heard a noise in the anti-room. Site opened the door of toe room Innis wl.ence the noise proceeded, and there saw a tall fellow, with a dark !author's, ransacking the drawers. She rushed into the room and endeavoured to secure the robber, but he got out at the window into the garden, and made his escape over a high wall. His hat 'cal Winton' were left behind, and under the window was found a bag, filled with plate, apparel, /cc. which he had dropped in his hurry to escape. A CAUTION TO RESURRECTION MEN.—On Sunday last, the 17th illiit3lll, a ;Jour woman. of the none of Westmore, and her son, who had both died within a few hours of each other, were buried in Peveral church yard, near Ealing, Middlesex, and a suspicion arose by persons present that an attempt would be made to peal the bodies. In consequence, two men watched in the night with fin:nil-ins, atid about one o'clock, three men were observed to open the grave, when one of the men on watch fired off with three slugs. and one was seen to fall, whom the other two conveyed to a coach, and made off, without being pursued by the watchitien.—a Tisey remain unknown, and though disappointed of the bodies in the grave, they might not disappoint the stir• geous in a subject of their own wretched crew. A woman named Phoebe Harris, residing at Hanley, in Staffordshire, had a soh in the army, whom she had not heard Mho some time, and supposed him to be dead. —A tew days since the post brought a letter from him. stating that he was alive anti well, and would shortly be at home. Such was her joy, that site broke out into alternate fits of laughing and weeping, and in a few hours expired ! On Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, the Sheriff of Edinburgh, accompanied by the superintendent of police, and a body of officers, proceeded to the Cordiners' Hall, Putter-row, where about 160 persons were as• scudded, engaged, as was understood, in the discussion of doctrines subversive of christianity. Ott the Sheriff being announced, the persons assembled endeavoured to escape, but they were pietented by the police officers until tile whole of thoi names w ere taken down. Two or three perbuns, who appeared to be the conductors of the meeting, were apprehended, and several Atheistical books, which they had been using, were secured by the pul Dante° BURGLARY.—On Monday night, a most singularly dating robbery and extemove burglary was committed in the house of the I lon. Admiral Lake, No. Baker -street, Portinau-square. Soule damn% thieves obtained an euirance by geitiog over the area rails and breaking a pannel of the kitchen-door, with apparently a centre-bit, and thus entering the premises. Alter ran• sacking the lower apartments, they proceeded through several rooms up stairs, and took from thence every port able article that could possibly he carried away; they also entered the Lutler's pantry, where a bttValli Was asleep, and from thence they tuck the valuable dinner and breakfast services of plate, worth about juOl. The villains left behieid thew two ccotre•bns, a girnblet, cord, and crow-bar. The whole of the siker ?late beat , : the creau tit a loan 111 armour oil horatkeek.