The National Register. — London, England, 1818-02-16 00:00:00

1 . 5 do. 10. , M awl , If sr tit h es, at arch N. ~ March at Wia- arch 24, l'hrog- Eteading Feb. 17. h-rtreet. I Guild- S, March , March at Don• Colmaz. tt-attF4, welt 3. itch 6. 4. ' FE& Li. POLICg. --OP GUILDHALL Oates al. print - Nbcs, Mato!. 'braying te.itteet one mat f know - tbey de r to bay, kin. His , ho told , to fetes ix • •‘); 11#.. 54. i • vatikes—: ie 'Hirt? , ' 4 *1 Mint dittedett,‘• Itiel . 4C 5 s', utt*eil tit, Veal the boat' and the? otsti the together, e centre. Esq. oh , several he 0:s -assed the ult by the IEII milts iescuing whom he whaelf." le v•ellt in t dtghation anti that h a 'astir hrgh and tiding nrar V incherter, , which was 'hid' had a e piece I.:L auded, and rng it in a where ion he bc:e A . the Mt to fall over of neatly 344 tuabtt picked up his suffer , by falling spot, some; in the body to bed ea nituy nityn. :ould ATTII e. corgc•etrec:. J the *slue A young female, named Wilstm, was brought before Alder man 13wilits •here, by J. Singlrmo, an officer, who stat e d. on Mo,tilay morning about three o'clock, she accosted hi m i n Bridge-street, and said bile was nearly perished with cold. He advised her to go home ; upon which she burst into tears, awl raid she d,ired not until a certain hoar, and implored hun to convey her to the Compter, and to take her before a Magi's. trate, who would perhaps pr , tect her, as she was disgusted with the Coarse of tile she had been pursuing. She stated that her patents were respectable oersons at the west.rnd of the town, and that she was born at Pancras. She had been iu her •preseut condition about 12 months, the principal part of which time she had lived at a house in Doeer.strect, St. George's.tielda. She was at first treated kindly ; but latterly the mistress of the house had rotted her to gn .nit at an early hour in the e vesting, and it she returned before four in the morning, unless whit a certain sum of money, she was beaten. and tamed out again. She related many other circumstances equally distressing, and with tears implored the Magistrate to procure her a reception in some asylum, where she might re. form, and become respectable in society. The Alderman de sired the officer to convey her to the Committee of the Guar dian Society, who, he had no doubt, would willingly provide for her. 0. Sullivan. a watchman of Fariagdon Within, was brought up by an officer, who stated, that *a the night of Mantillay week the prisoner was bronght tap by a Gentleman to the watch-house., in a stela of most beastly intoxication. The gentleman stated, that as he was passing along, the prisoner seized hold of him in a rough manner, insisted on his going to the watch-house, and str nek him several times. His conduct baring been represented to the Deputy of the Ward, he was instantly dismissed, and the gentleman whom tie assaulted, coosideriag this a sufficient punishment, declined proceeding *sly further nviinst him. The Magistrate having commented upon his disgraceful conduct, lie was discharged. MARLBOROUGH STREET. J. W. Parkinsou, Riding House-lane, Portland-place, ob tained a warrant to apprehend I) Nl' Vesey, his servant, who had absconded, after robbing of 00 Louis (Tors, a quan tity of guineas, gold pagodas, a large pearl, 400 small ditto, a diamond ring value 300 guineas, and a lumber of other valu Isles. Mr. Parkinson went out of town on Thursday week, stud on that eveuing Parry, his confidential servant, went into the city. and on his return, at 10 o'clock, Mr. Nl'Vesey told him the house had been beset by thieves, our of whom passed by hint as he was making his bed in the parlour, and -escaped through a window, which is 13 feet from the ground, that he tired a pistol at hint iu his descent, and followed by the seine way, but without effect. The next morning he clandes. tine's , left the house, and has not since been heard vf. Setae further circumstances of simple-ion were adduced by another party; but as going further in detail might defeat the ends of Justice, we forbear to state them at present. A case was heard sgaiust T. Wheatly, a constable, and J Dawson, on the complaint of a Mr. Bull, of Mitford place, Tottenham Court Road, who stated that the defeuilants knock. a.l at his door en Wednesday evening, and said they were come about a separation between him and his wife (she bay. ,rig left his house without provocation.) They forced them selves into the passage, the wife being present, and insisted on his taking her hack. He desired thesis to leave the house, when they pushed him from one to the other. At this time there was a doublekuock at the door, and a boy banded in a constable's toad', with which Wheatly struck Bull on the breast. and turned himont of the house. He then called the watchmen who sicnred them. Three witnesses, who lodged in the house. proved the facts. Dawson said, that Bull's wife had applied to himprofessiosially, to prepare articles of sepa ratists:. he hawing ill used her and drawn a knife upon her. He had written to the co mplainant, informing him that he should call upon bim to settle matters ' and lie took Woeatly to preserve tke peach. He was struck, and also Wheatly. The may witness he had was the wife, bat she was not a com petent one. Wheatly urged the same defence.. Mr. Bull gave a melancholy statement of the depravity of his wife, hr having discovered that frequently in coining home from &isi sass to his 'steals, a paramour was concealed in another room Mtil he was game, and she had even received the. embraces of Yip oe,areMeelative : at length she decamped of her own ac cord. Tile Magistrates ordered the accused parties to bud bail. HATPON GARDEN. S. Smith, Mr.. Tierney's (001111.111, WAS charged by the hul ler with a very molest assault. The complainant stated that he was in his pastry, when he heard the breakfast bell ring sn an unusual masher ; and ruimiiig up stairs, he Mutts, the ladies dreadfully alarmed, and the prisoner strutting ahem the rums. apparently very much intoxicated. Upon his attempting to ceinonstrate with him, he was saluted with a box ou the car, which made his eye strike file;" and lie [lieu thought pro. per to withdraw: but the prisoner followed him down stairs, ktrack him repeatedly, and behaved in so outrageous a man wer that he sent for au officer. and gave him in charge. The ivris4)lWr was iu a state of intoxication when brought to tin office, lti,t tad igistrate ordered Will so !lad eau, and its default whereof he was committed. Faturday week an inquest was held at the erinee of Orange, Mill- Duckhead, on. the body of D. Ntilne, Esq. whose remains were ic and in .the river.—S. Varney, a Waterman, deposed. that on Friday ristning !Asa*. smnethin t • on the surface a the water, and found it was the ally of a min ; he conveyed it on show, and searening the tattloits found 6s. 6d. in silver, a pair of gloves, and a Handkerchief. hat no Bink limas, pocket-book, or vtatco ; neither wire t iere any marks of violence Oa his person. Two gentlemen, sabscr bens to Lloyd's, sLual, that , the deccas,d had dined at the Tavern, Aldersgate street, on Viursday ; ne was chairman to the porty,am; left them about f t o'cli,csk ; in a hackney coach. the •ceachanin put him down near the Bricklayso's Antis, and it wit, ~up. raw , uh quittinr die coach lie had lost his onf, and had got down to D.wk.iead. There beiug no other evidence ra,dueed, the Coroner shortly addressed the Jury. who zetutned a eeruN.. —Found Drew n. al. tine of foe Jury informed the Coroner, that then: tee wtiere the &cadent .appened was a puldie nuisance, and that si.iting twelve v‘as. hid railed in the neighbourhood. faurreen pe..souf had perfillis: it that ;pot, wilicii was left quite u 'protected. A..n• circumstance occurred on Saturday week i. , the ftang.m i'ost coach. on it, journey from Liverpool to Sinninghs.•ii. Is oilalaal, in the last stage of a consumption, had been ad via, • 'Olio • •.; the eiFect of her native sic, and was proceeding to Binuirv, ' purpose . in cc.mairly with her grandmother. Alter travOia,:apearthi of forty mites the becimm quite exliataited.? anti on that th - :1 - :,3: a..ane next stage shw took a 'Ultima, and snortlyntl.:r• wait, . ectitaaLtm ifearm of her grandmother anti expttai., without g,043.... So unee !sem. was licr grant/if/outer of her ,eeparture, eiat sO only became acqueitued with dila' the approaeli.of the coaca to Newcastle, when a genilc,nan who had bort oolcep, perceived.the .altetation winch had taken /dace. TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. HORRID MUTDERS AT GREENWICH. It is a painful tusk for us to record two auto.t shoelciog nutr• dem, in some respects resembling those of Nee Marr%, whirl, were discovered on Sunday, at Greenwich, ea the persons or Mr. Bird and his housekeeper, evil° resided•ia a•house• near the Mitre. Mr Bird was near 70, and bed lived a great many years in Greenwich, where he corrierl'on the berisess of a 'allow chandler, and argeired sufficient property% retire, and live noon his optimise, arising 'nom houses and. owstrey in the funds. His wife died two years• nell, and since that time no person has resided with hisa•but his housekeeper. He was a con. stain attendant at Glerowich church. and was always in his pfwerail soon a• Are service began, accompanied by his house keeper.—On Sunday morning it was noticed by the beadle of the parish and others, that they were not in their seats in the church as usual. At the conclusion of the service, the beadle mentioned the circumstance to some neighbours, arid they having observed that the shutters of Mr. Bird's house 11411 not hero opened, went with the beadle to Mr. Bird's house and ktiorkeil at the door, but received no answer. They now had no doubt bet that something dreadful had happened, and determined ow forcing an entrance by the garden at the back of the house. On their entering the passage, a most shocking spectacle presented itself. The body of the housekeeper w as seen near time street door ; she was lying ow her face in a bloody state, her head drove in, and eat open so a most inhu man imusiter. The horrid act seemed to have been perpe trated he a large blunt instrument. Ou 'proceeding front this terrible scene, another, equally horrible. presented Rimini' a patlowr adjoining the passage, en viewing the body of Mr. Bird, who was lying on his hack, his arms stretched out, and his head in a still more shocking state than his housekeeper's. His forehead was drove in about an inch deep, and the %sound as large as a crown piece. 'The wounds of Mr. Lird also were inflicted by a large blunt firth omen[, supposed to be a blud geon, by a powerful man, and some inspect, a left-handed one. A candle was (mind is the passage close to where the house keeper lay, and it is snpposed that the ders werecommit ted late on Saturday, or at least before ten o'clock, as that was the hour Mr. Bird constantly went to bed, and the house keeper alwa” tail the chain of the street door up. There being no doeuht that the murderer entered by the door, it is supposed that she must have been induced to open the door, and let down the chain wider some pretence of bringing a par cel, 3cc. It is supposed that Mr. Bird ,was passing his even ing, as was his constant practice, in reading, aged that. hearing the attack upon Iris housekeeper is the passage, he lef►ttis fireside to proceed to her assistance; as hos body w:.* found between the fireplitee and the door of the room,. with his spec tacles close to one hand, and a candle close to the other. The discovery of this dreatiffil wise rreateda.very consi derable agitation and alarm in the town of Greenwich' ditring the whole of Sunday. Mr. Bicknell, the solicitor. sent off an express to the Public Office, Bow•street, for assistance ; and Adkins and Lavender, the officers, arrived there with all possible speed, and proceeded to examine the pretwiaes, and find suspicious characters; but we arc sorry.to *ay, williont being able to discover any thing to lead to detection of• the murderer. There is no doubt but the object °Abe attack Willi plunder. The keys of the drawers and boxes had bees. pro cured, supposed to have been taken from the pockets of the deceased, as tiny were bloody, like tlaelsioda, and other things. _ . has not yet been ascertained what property the persons and premises have been rubbed of. 1114 drawer, which had nut been opened, Mere were found Batik notes to the amount of 311. which was ascertained to be the• amount of a dividend Mr. Bird had received at the Bank, on the Binh ofJanuary last. The murderer also left four i.ilver salt, at table mid otber spoons, EMI a soup ladle. Mr. Smith, Magistrate of Greeiiwich, was in attendance on the spot, to act with promptitude in rive any person should he discovered who was suspected. On the dreadful intelli gence being commnoizated to Mr. Bird's son, he hastened to the house, obis ivis.overwhelining grief and distraction, on viewing the mantled body of his father, can be better Slangier ed than described. CORONER'S INQUEST. Monday morning *Coroner's inquest was hold at the White Hist Tavern. Greenwit.ii, before Mr. Carter, the Groner, en the bodies of Mr. Bird, aged att, and his housekeeper, Mary Simmons. TII4I Jury, after being sworn, went to take a view of the bodies. They next took a view of the premises :—A back wall, about I t feet high, divides the deceased's gardeasfrosu another iss the rear, called Powa's garden. In Powis's garden the markets( matey Seats:cps were traced, the tile of a summer house lay on the ground, and applared to be newly broken by some person in climbing ever the wall, at the marks of footsteps appeared quite plain in the meld on the deceased's gar den. In this garden the old gentleman chiefly passed theslay, and took much delight in beautifying it. Two bottles, which appeared to have been recently emptied, and a tobacco pipe, lay on the parlour table, lumiag the marks of blood on them, from whence it is oanjec- , lured the murderer or murderers must have regaled themselves. The jury then returned to their room, and adjourned till seven o'clock in the evening. The jute , then re-assembled and the following evi dence was adduced :—Mr. F. Finch, surgeon, swore that the wounds in his opinion were inflicted with a bricklayer's hammer.—Mr. U. Thomas swore--I reside next door to the deceased. On Sunday about a quarter before one o'clock, the brother of the deceased, dlr. Bird, called at my house, and said that he wished to get tato his brother's house, which was locked up, Ile told me that his brother's hair dresser was ordered to attend upon the deceased on that morning at nine o'cloek, and he had found the house closed, and he wished to see if they were gone out .0 he suspected. The deceased's br6ther wished to get over my rand, which leads to the deceased's back door ; he did so. FAilnts had been previously made to get in at the front door by knocking at it and rizsging. The parties who endeavoured to get in were, Mr. Biter, Ms. Richard Bird (deceased's brother), Smith, the beadle and many others. I went round to the back of the house with sonic other persons, and . opened the kitchen window by forcing the shutters. I then entered at the window, and went to the back door, unlatched and unbolted it, and let several perians in. We walked towards the stairs, and there I saw the body of Mtiry Simmons lying at time huttomof the stairs, on tier back, quite dead, her head beat in a must dreadful manner, and a vast quantity of blood on the floor which' had issued from the wounds. It nearly reached to our hoe tops. in the trout parlour I Saw Mr. Bird Icing on the floor; Isis wig was off; on one side of hint lay his spectacles, which were broken. On the table lay a pocket-book, wit'a some papers in it. and a Lottery ticket lying on the side of it. A candle and stick stood on the ground. A pen knife lay on the floor by his right hand breeches pocket. There was no watch in his foli pocket. I remarked the fire which was in the kitchen, the coal on it appeared to have been put on within tirehoura. it was not burnt at all. The tire would have last • Lin hour or. two longer. The female, Simittons,slay with her head ag. 'io,lthe stairs and her feet towards the fr?lit door. The hotlines of r::e. stairs were broken. I weat,cp stain the beds appeared :at to hove been bad in. Some of the bed fornitures were bloody. The draw% '5 were all open, and the articles thrown out on the lime.: some of thes e :. were also bloody.—Juryman—lt appears that te pCr.- petratork.:ltha murders catered the house on Saturday night h before • ten o'clock, and remained there until the watch was gone of dreir duty on the nest (Sunday) morning.. --Witness continued—The face of Simmons was covered with blood, and appeared to have lain l a c e downwards in a gore of blood, an d had been turned afterwards face upwards ; her pockets had nut beets rißed.—Mr. Wm. Buer, butcher, sworn—l was with the last witness when he entered the house, and his evidence is perfectly correct and true.—Sarah, wife of Wiliam Bro die sworn—l was passing by the house of the defendant on Saturday nibs, about a quarter past ten o'clock, and saw the gate before Mr. Bird's house open, and a women with a boy standing before it. Mr. Bird's street door was a little open ; I discovered it by the lamp whirls was lighted. I was going to a butcher's shop to buy some meat. When I returned from the butcher's, the woman was gone. The woman had a black bonnet on. I h a d no concept i on s h e belonged to the home.—Mr. J. L Bicknell. an Attorney. resident at Greenwich. went te the house of the deceased about half pastone o'clock on Sun day afternuon, and searched to find the weapon which the wounds had been inflicted with, lie searched all over the house, but could not find any thing like it. In the attic. he found lying on the Boor, a Bank of England IL note. There was a trunk on the floor. which had been rifled. It appeared that some person had sat on a ch a ir which stood n e a r th e t run k, an d had honed over every article in the trunk. There was also a number of letters lying about in confusion. A bunk stock receipt was lying on the bed. The bed hail not been lain in since it bad been made up ; but there was an impression which appeared to hare been caused by some one sitting on it. At this part of the investigation the beadle told the Coroner that the watchman of London-street (the stem As which tbedecused residet4osamed Sid ney. hail found a candle and stick in the cellar of the deceased's house. placed under a wooden utensil, apparently for the purpose of setting flee to the house, and was placed there after the murders were com mitted. The brother of Simmers, who works at the cement menu. factory. Rankside, went down to Greenwich, and stated. that his sister had in her hos, to his knowledge, seven guineas, and some silver. It is supposed that gold, silver, and bills, were stolen by the villains. belonging; to Mr. Bird, to a great amount. The Coroner aid. that no evidence had been adduced to flit the murder on any particular ; and if the Jury thou g ht proper. as it was late t i o'clock, person adjourn the inquest to a future day. The Jury were of' 'opinion such a imeceediag would be best, and it was adjourned ac cordingly. The Jury entered into recognizance, of 401. each, to ap pear at the time appointed to eenew the investigation. The Gazette of Twee* night. contains the promise 4ifs pardon to ;any person concerned in the minders at Groenwich (ateept the actual perpetrators) who shall discover, and lead to the apprehension of the murderer or murderers. A reward of 300 guineas, with the same exception. is added on behalf of the inhabitauts of the parish of Greenwich. Hvneostionta.—An experiment which has been recently made in France, seems to confirm what the German Journals have already announced, that the alhonapienfago is a remedy against this disease. two cows had then bitters by a niaJ dog, and this remedy was applied to both of them. One of the rows could not be forted to takers doae suffiriently strong, and it perished is the esteem akydrnphoblaa few day. after. The other. which received the deepest and most numerous wounds, but which was compelled to take an adequate dose of the dried plant, had no symptoms of the malady six weeks after it was bitten. This successful experiment deserves tht; attention of the Government, and of every friend of humanity; and it is to be hoped, that whatever uncertainty remains as to the efficacy of this simple remedy against so 11.44441u' a dia. ease, will he removed by experiments so our hospitals within the coarse of thin y ear. Fostc en Nares.— Alluding to the late ease of Mr. Reasons a writer in the Dublin 41krarrial says of Ireland Wr order these matters Metter in thiacturniry : sothe hauclor of-our Na tional sank, the principle on .which they proceed is directly the reverse of that of theakink of England. Instead of de . clinisig to communicate the genet, they rake every possible means to inform the public ; instead of demanding possession of the forged notes, and punishing with imp rent and • expense the holders of then,. they invert* return thr note when such appears.—lnstead of the necrs.ity of varying their notes to deceive the fabricators, which is. in truThs dereiviug the politic, they wish to preserve an identity sit character, by which the public soon become competent jitilges -on question of gennineness ; and in place of cencealinent, they bath , actually furnished the Postmasters, .Magistrates, and ' to her srauspectable persons throughout the kingdom, with lac 'similes or proof impressions of their mles, as permanent 'statutes& fur public reference. Thus • they have a security 'to their Notes, beyond even what gssinessemild possess ; and the fabricate's'', or utterer', are detected on the first attempt to deceive the peblie." Is consequence of AOTE depredations havnig been disco. spied to base taken place in the vault hi-longing to the Bap tist Chapel, in Fetter Lane, several. persons, whoa, friends and clauses had been interred in the vault alluded to. had obtained pi-emission to search for them; but to their grief, tiiiind nothing put empty corns*. Mr. Somerville, &Somers tow n,was Oar orthe.appliewo, hi, wife' and child N ho were de posited there bat a abort time since, ate also gone: sod to add to his distress, the Niteroi raptures had nearly deprived him of his last shilling. The above eircomatances, it seems, induced the proprietors to append- Me. Pembler, of Shoc-lane, and another person, to examine the voids; and oust of 40 cof fins 16 were found without bodies. Some af .brew contai ne d a quantity of earth to avoid detection. It shwild lie under stood, that the vault, to all appearance, is perlectly secure the whole being under lock and key. Towards the end of last year, Mount Vianyisis Vegan to throw oust torrents of lava; happily they fell. upon the ancient beds of volcanic sobst mews roaad ifs. months oft volcano. Su PPOSZD 741111/Dgit.-.About a fortnight agOthebodgnf a rein was found in the River. near Pickle Herring Storrs, and conveyed to the bone-house of St. John', Southwark.. No . persol2.o9ol"Jkg froward to claim the corpse, the Coroner held an Inq uisition. There were se veral bruises on the neck andtace; but it being evident that the body must have lain in she water two or three weeks, it was supposed that they were occasioned by it being driven with the tide against ves sels, and a verdict was pronounced of—'. Pound Drowned." Ay • memorandum found in the pocket of the deceased. it appeared t h at his nainowas..lones. The body wainterred in the burial ground of lat. John'a;- and for Iwo or three days nothing transpired relatiee to the business. At length M. Sena. abetter in Flees -steel, Unseeing the memorandum, recognized the hand-writing of..his swa brother. Mr. Rob. Jones. many year , a Merchant in the AnseriCan sad .I,t agn . burgh trades ; and who having made arrangements lota c o nnnerc ia voyage to to South America, was supposed to have gone to Liverpool, there to embark. The last that was seen of him w.is oil be *VI of Dee. whed, after continuing with a friend till midnight, lie parted with him in the old Jewry, saying, that he had not determined where he should sleep that night. Under all the circumstance, of the ease. his f r i en d s believe, that. in order to be near the shipping, he procured a lodging for the night in the aighbourbood of '.Pupping, and that his genictd appearanoe attracted sthe DOOM 01.60104 of the 'hie vei or pats- - tows with sruiel. *hotpot* eistlimmet ropoilievie ansa,,,s,a; 4,6 1 1 4! jus robbed and murdered, and thrown into the !liver. The inhabitants of Wolverhampton have bestowed a badge Oh the paupers of that town, being '• an outward and visible sign" of their dependency. This decoration has :mud awe some hundseds from the pauper list.