The National Register. — London, England, 1809-11-19 00:00:00

NOV. 10. THE NATIONAL REGISTER, tally convicted at the Old Bailey Sessions preceding the last,' of a rape, and were. under orders for execution, on Wednesdas last. The convicts were both . Irishmen; and during the w. hole of Sunday, their friends and acquaintance, from all quarters, crowded to visit these unfortunate men, in numbers, as Mr. Newman stated, scarcely credible; namely, from three to four hubdred. Amongst a levee so very numerous, the disposition could not he wanting in some of the visitants to contrive, if pos sible, the escape of one or both. On their trial there was no want of - hard swearing for that purpose ; but failing in this, the forlorn hope of their friends rested on the success of the montou• vre concerted for Sunday. in the evening, a number of those persons, men and women, who had been with the Prisoners all day, came in a body to the interior door of the gaol, as if taking their last farewell of their friends, and we re . allowed to pass through to the next door, the keeper at which thought it neces sary to be somewhat more circumspect, and sutler none to pass without being first informed whether the Prisoners were all safe. Upon enquiry, it was found that Sullivan was missinl. Another turnkey then came and examined all the persons waiting between the doors to get out, but could not at first discover the missing convict amongst them. On exanfining a second time, he laid his hand upon the arm of a person in woman's apparel, which wins agitated by a strong trepidation; and passing his hand down, felt something concealed under the petticoats, bulky and hard„which was-found to he the irons of Sullivan, s Ilion he instantly recog niied, 'and who, being stripped of his disguise, was conveyed back to his cell. Some endeavours were thin made to diacover the person who furnished the Prisoner with the disguise: and strong suspicion f 11 upon Joanna Flynn, who was obscryNl to come into the gaol with a bonuet, which site then had not. She W ILS accord ingly taken into custody, but positively denied the charge, and said the dress was furnished by another woman, w hos game she did not know. There being no positive proof to establish the charge agaiust Ater, she was discharged. BOW-STREET, MONDAY, NOY. IS. Richard Stevenson. No. 3, Red Lion-court, Bell-alley. Royal Exchange, was charged, by Mr. Brandon, with cre ating a riot in tke pit of Covent Garden theatre. Mr. Brandon deposed, that he saw the prisoner, from one of the side-boxes, running up and down the pit, with • a red night cap on, and a glaring O. P. in gold letters, on pur ple silk, in the front of the cap which caused a arela riot. Se veral persons were about him, one of whom took nut a paper, with a great number of 0. P's. on it; after separating them, he distributed them. The witness pointed' the defendant out to the officer, who. took him into custody; and, since he had' been in the office, he acknowledged that he was sent into the 'pit by a Mr. Turner, a salesman, in Leadenhall-market, who gave him four shillings, to pay for his admission, on condition that he wore the cap, and the 0. P.; and that there was another man, who wore a white cap, in the pit, that was also paid by him. The defendant, in his defence, said, he was born and bred a poulterer, aad was as good a workman as any in the city. Three gentlemen called upon him, on Saturday last, and asked him if he would go to the theatre on this night, and wear his red cap. Ile told them he would, if they paid for his .admis - - Con. This they agreed to. Their names were Turner, Davis, And Morris; they were salesmen in Leadenhall-market ; they gave him four shillings, and he had no idea of doing any harm= by having the O.'P. in his cap, and as to that, he could prove, that he had not worn . any thing for years, but a red cap. lie was ordered to find bail. Lecon was charged with making a disturbante in the pit of Covent Garden Theatre, by blowing a n histle. lie stated, that he livCd at No. 13,. Windmill-street, Ha!Anarket ; that he was in the service of the Marquis of Chantilly, No. Charles street, a foreigner; he acknowledged that he had blown a a whistle in the pit of the theatre, but it was between the acts, and not during the perfOrnaice.—Ordered to find bail. He was dressed as a groom. William George Nimes was brought up on a similar charge, and dressed in similar attire as the last. witness. He gave the following account of himself ?--4 - ain a gentleman, and reside at No. 14, Berkeley-square ; I am not servant to any person but itayself ; I did blow a whistle; - but it was between the acts, Oat so faintly that it could not diputb any person. • Mr. Rea . d.—Have yoti given a true account of yotirself bn ite ; lam well known; i atn particularly intimate 'with Pucheio of Maucheiter, 743 Mr. Read.—Are you not a clerk in Cox and Greenwood's ofrice ? am. 'itr. Read.—After this, do you insist you are intimate with he Duchess or Alonchester ? I do. Mr. Read.—h not yuur mother a servant to the Dnchess? She is. r%lr. Read.—" You must find hail."—The Defendant--" wish to know w ho charges me?" Mr. Hortmer stepped forwnni, and said he was the lemon; that he resided in Porttnan-squarel and he was also acquainted with the Duchess of 51ancin..ter. A CCID EN 7S AND 0 04:ATE& C 1111.1) STEALING.—On W ednesday evening. about dusk, two elderly women called at the shop of Mrs. Trost, in Wardomr Street, and bargained for some trivial article, whilst at the same time a little girl, three years old, was decoyed away frogs the door by another - woman, and she was not heard of until twelve &clock at night, when she was brought home by a watchman, dad in a filthy rug; her apparel, whit h was not worth more than a few shillings, having been stolen. It was ascertained from the child, that a woman, w ho called herpidfattkr aunt, had enticed her a way from her mother's door under pre tence of boying her some cakes, and that two other women (sup po4cd to he those in the shop) joined her, awl she was taken to a house in St. Giles's, where she was stripped. - The watchinas found the child in great distress at theend of Oxford-street. WeilnesdaN tunrning, Corneliu, Sullivan, Dennis Fitzgevilly and Richard Oak4en, were execut;:d pursuant to their bententry° it► the Old Bailey. CORO N Eit'S I NQUZST.—Thursday evening,. at four o'clock * un Inquest was held, before Anthony Cell, I‘l , q. Coroner for Westmin=ter, tin the body of a woman, name unknown, mite was foamd dead on Tue ,, day night.,. in front of the George' public— boast, in Rrury-iane, near Linig acre: The pour unfortunate creature had seen better days; she had formerly kept an inn and livery-stebles, in a principal city in England, but failing is tisimess, had ecitne to London, where, after undergoing a long series of misfortaue4, she lest her husband. Shortly after this she was itillicted with e. cancer in her left breast, which a constant source of 'trouble 'to her until the moment of her death. After the body was. found, it was discovered that the constant. discharge from that mo,l tender of all parts.of't he human frasne, bad ex hausted nature and occasioned her death. —Verdict s Diet by the Visitation of God. IIARFtIEI). On TneAny, October 31, Francis Ludlow Holt, Esq. of the !fiddle Temple, barrister at law, to Miss Bell, of Southamp ton-street, Strand. On Saturday sennight, by special licence, at •the %mese 4,1 r General Layas•d, at Greenwich, by the Rev. Mr. Layard, Chap lain to his Royal highness the Dnke• of - Kent, the Right -Hon. the Earl of Lindsey, to Miss Layard, eldest daughter of tivelatte Deco of Bristol, and niece to the late Duchess of Ancaster. • On Wednesday, the Isth last. -at Langshaw, near Gretna green, John Barker, Esq. of Darley-date,-Derbyshire., to Miss Smith, only daughter of the late Eaglettield Smith, Esq. of tote former plate. On tat 4th inst. at Madeley, Mr. William Aston, iron -founder, Coalbrookdale, aged 50, to Mrs. Ann Finch, of the same place, 44, after a courtship of 21 years. DIED. On Tuesday the Marquis of Lansdowne . His Lordship 'ewe ing no issue, is succeeded in his title and estates by his . brother Lord Henry Petty. Her Imperial Highness Maria Anne, late Abbess of the Royal Nunnery at Prague, sister to the Emperor Francis. A few days ago. Mrs. Goad', of Autbncire, Lincolnshire, in a fit of jealousy, she threw herself into a horse-pond but was got out : being determined on suicide, she afterwards took two ounces of sublitnate, *hid' 'terminated her existence. Last week, at North Shields, .Mrs. klanter, of the nisi% Sun public house. She lost her eye.sight when only three years old, notwithstanding which she•could perform several kinds of dle work. and wasso - exact in the arrangement of herlosaie, the smallest article, to in inch, .clout of its place, fru", but that the stnallest article, even to an inch, Iset out of its plate, and could not escape her scrutinizing .researches. - On Friday se'nnight of an infatuation in the bohttels, liti ?-1 . 'Jobe Maucherd, - of Thohpei mar Ideshdeo. tie had the qiisj the forteue la he'Tevereg 'gored by a ba g **yr "Hai ago, fru* which he oeverrecovered.