The National Register. — London, England, 1816-09-02 00:00:00

/I SF.PTEIf Ft 2. REPORT ON TILE POLICE. The Report of the Committee of the House of Com pions up' u the Pollee of the Metropolis, has been printed. Among the praninent points to which the Coramittee have direezed their attention, are the effect of rewards for VAC cow:le:dm of °..:n lers—the existence of li:•enced pabiie houses. alth.mgh possessing a bud replite--the conluct of watchmen—and the imnwal practices con ne.eted with night-houses, gin-shops, &e. The evidence rclaing to these subjects contains much curious and in teresting matter. The following is the substance of the depositions given before the Con nittee, on the subject of what arc email) ntly called Tyburn Tickets:—'sir N. Conant stated, that persons apprehending a burglar, horse-stealer, or shoplifter, are entitled, by Act of Parlia ment (10th and 11th of William), to an exemption fco:n parochial duties, in the parish where the offence is com mitted, The certificate so received is once :usignable, and is commonly assigned to SUllle inhabitant of the place to whom only it is valuable. In case of burglary, this ticket is super... Wed to the 401. reward. The saleable val , m, he imagined, was about 201. When there is any dispute, the produce of the sale of it is apportioned by *lie Judge —Townsend, the officer, stated, that he had sold these tickets so low as 121. In such a parish as Hano ver-square, the people were of so much consequence that they would serve themselves. They were highest in Covent-garden, where they were worth 251. each, as the constable of the parish was obliged to sit up, he believed, one night out of three.—Townsend, the officer, thought if Judges and Magistrates lent a discretionary power to reward the appreltendera of offenders according to their exertions, it would be preferable to the law of rewards now in existence. POLICE. MANSION-lIOUSE. Saturday John Jonrs .-- aniJaMesliiseiy were charged with making nevi rat attempts to commit felony, and with having picked the pockets of two siillerent persons on Friday night. .1. Lagau deposed, that he was proceeding in the direction of • liolaora on the night mentioned. and seeing the prisoners rather suspiciously in conceit together, hr watrlied them a considerable distance. During their prozrtss, they '• tried tie pocket: of several gentlemen, and at length succeeded in stl'aling rlOlll the pockets of two perso.ts, their silk himilker . e:tiels. The witness noon perceiving tlhi•, pursued them into a retired count, where they were st•enred. and the properly • found upon them. They were remanded fur a final esami i nation. Armstrong and Ginn, the two pickpockets, apprehended by I the Lord Mayor on Thursday night were I, might up tor a r second e‘amitiation, but in COilltelitlefiCC Or the absence of another Magistrate, and it being necessary that his Lordship t shouid himself give et idence, the prisoners were again re , mantled. GUILDITALL. Saturday a notorions young fellow, named 'fiddling, but who is better known by the title of Jack th Whims, was charged with stealing fr.)9l the person of Mr.' tt'aiihnian. (sun to the Common (onimilin.to), a silk handaerchiet, while ll:ism:l.4 thronall Fleet-street on Thursday night. The primmer was fully committed fur trial. lIATTON-GARDEN. Mt'anrtt OF Mt. DILAPEK.—AfoncLy a farther investigation into this m)••terions alfir nick place before Mr. liuyissforcl, the Sitting Ma gistrate, whets several witnesses were ...stamina!, whose evidence was at considerable variance. The only new testimony of moment was that of the old nether. William Iloberts. who stated that be assisted in taking the deceased out of the well, and did not think that a man might fall into. the well and his hat remain on his head. In consequence of the difference which occurred in the rle:wisitions, the prisoner suggested that the watchman, who cried the hour, might be sent for. To this the Magistrate consent, l, and head was dispatched for the watchman, and the prisoner was remanded until seven o'clock. At eighto'ciock, Win. Read, gen. the officer, returned f on; Enfield, with the watchman. Thomas Ifillian, when he gave the following cvi , diner, Mr. 'fuck having been previously remanded to be brought up I on another day :—I live at Cockioster, and am a watchman, employed by Mr. Paris; my extent is confined to mural his house and premises; I go on at rive o'clock. and tome off at fire in the morning. On the night before the 111311 was found drowned, the night I mean tile job was done, they lef; sue between ten and twelve o'clock, and went down to the thug. I .:0 not recollect waether Bricken, Austin, or Johnson, asked sue what it was o'clocit : they arc all &avant); of Mr. l'aris. I think, in half an hour after they left ine, I Cant d the hour of twelve, and did nct see any trove of Om all that night ; it was n.ar the stable I parted with them, to the best of my reoallectioa. Bricket and Austin were going to London next morning with a load, awl they desired use to call them, which, I bilieve. I did. I rever heard Ilti:ltc.r. Austin. nor Johnson, make any imsntion of what had passed. I went to bed about rive in the twining. I lan allowed eight hours sleep; I returi red back to Mr. Paris's to work a little after one o'cloele, when I heard tint a man was found drowned in the well of de Bald-faced Stag.. TaUr;,lay J. Tuck was a, a sain h- ,light up; when Church (the pu gilisst and three other witnesses were exam:mil; but no facts in ad dition to what we have already stated were adduced; and after the prc wious evidence was read ..M :7, the prisoner was fully committed. 1 110W-STIIEET. 1 631MGCLISIC..—Teteitiay Pearkes and Vislecy arieed at the Office, with a man of the tame of Bard in their custody, front Deal, on a charge. on suivis ion of being a smuggler, and shooting a marine about 11 month since, on the beach at Chad, when attacked by the marines belonging to the frigate, stationed t!wre by the Commissioners of the ' Customs. to prevent sinualing. The marine. we are happy to say , did cut die of his wound. lad is still confined in the Hospital. The prisoner is the brother IX t:se man v.sho was admitted an evidence against Fokt and other smusah.rs, convicted at the Spring Assiz:s hs Ksnt, foi I . ..erismdcr iii several Revenue Ofhcers. The prtsoier was brought up on Friday. and uiderwent an examination. Ile most positively deli. d the char4e. The Solicitor to the Custom-nonce attended. and the partis s were hound over to pmiccute in Lutalon, the Act of Valhi'. anent allowing them to pzoass ute any where. ST E. \ 311•1ittAT5.!....1 , 54. day Cie qu•st , in as to the legality of 'Boats . wozloll by St.wsu, w'sie.h hsvi 11 ten few . sonic ti re in agitation, came on to be }ward 'satire Me. itirnie and Sir 'Willis' Is Parsons. It coated tesswideraiie iiit:re , t, past; " . .I.aly &using the :intern na numbers of whom attended. Tim qu.atsua came before the Nlngigtrates in the ! shape of Si ine'orsuatian lid against Mr. John flicking. a ea:don-sr chant in Surrey, clusrmSa:.. iii with being:: pro,,-i. tor of a certain 0.4 , or &awl, kao en by the raine of" et* fticonural *man Yacht." whir:: was let out ror hire leawe'n Gravi:s,ad and Windsor, an t‘'.l. Wee , ?name", lie not uias.... a fie: WAtaillsin, contrary to the Act of nobs -4 tam at the 0 Goa. 11. cap. 26, passel for thiLsir.ntection of vtatenuar on el! aiV'T T.1::11 A. Af..f.or a Vai::7 Cr Cilth=CC having bra gone inst., the gotuidisitt was diandiseel. TIIF. NATIONAL REGISTER. BiLITAL MAAlSLT....Pllillpel. a lIIST-Vt.1 1 )13 young man. was leo:sett rip. ehinee with assaaltinst Ann NI o es. It atop:lanai, that the posecatrix live Ise vs It at the King A.' nor. p tblieshoits El-mutt, snl on the cv ni ig of Tuesday sne went ai u.ual to fasten the outward (Lair of a iii passage Weei led; down to the This was net twlvs o . .doelt. aid she had a candle in iter hand. In th :pa wage she was ra ,t by a per on who knew to be the defendant, who knocked is light out u: her nand, and, throwing her down, kilted her about the .teat an.! holy in a matt bratal nt Her ceies inshritt so. t • p -Finns who were in the hoase to 'iv- a•sistance. who band her an a state of ins en nsaility, and ble most preasely. A carg.va (M... It owley) One attends!, hr. oil viritesl she pe.ut ; woman at Cis desire of the defhod.mt, and cand - lered her at preset. in such a .4 state of dsngert as would render any irritation of mind of most serious ems:name% lie, therefore, r. o, that htr examination s:iotild be postponed till Fi iday nett, by which time he thought she would be oat of dan;:er.—Taedefartan; now denied having any know ledge of the trans action. ii e shoal!, he he able to prove an a/V,I. and coald bring lhrwar I evidence to skew that Ii weat to bed by nine O'CI4PeC on Cie itigst is quest'on, and was not ont of his own house after that hour. Ile tellered most respe.nable bail for his appearance on Friday. and the Magietrate, under all the eircunutances of the case, thought proper to accent it. A BLIND Balton was on Tuesday brought tip, chard.,,,] by Mr. John Blum with stop-oing hint on the highway and robbing him of his wmeh. Mr. Binn sated, that lie had born spend ing the evening on the previous Friday with some friends, and was on his way la:ion:between one and two o'cloek on Sistunlay morning, when he was stopped by the prisoner in Little Guildford-street, who seised the prosecutor by the enllar with one hand, and with the of ter pulled• his watch out to his fob. The proseCutor had been drinking freely ; but perceiving what the prison.:r was about, he seized him in his turn, :ind called loudly th r the watch, when Willi tras, a watchman, came up. Oa Williams's approach the prim, 'r threw the watch away.— Williams stated, that he thtond the prosecittor struggling with the pri soner. On hearing Mr. Ilinn's story, he teak the prisoner into etraody. The case of the watch he found within a sew yanls of the place, and the wntch itself' was picked up near the snot by a woman who came up at the time. It now appeared, on farther investigation, that the prisoner was a blind mendicant, well known to the officers. On being ques tioned by the Magistrate he denied the charge altogether; but not being able to account satlfactorily for being out at that late hour, lie w,.5 committal fir re-examination. ATTEMPT AT Mu annit.--Mary Bradley was brought up by the nfi ec. chn-;,red with att...npting to murder Thomas Casey. It appeared from llolm lies statement. that on Sunday moruing, about I one o clock. he Mai smt tor, and informed that an attempt had been made to neiriltr a man at a house in Duke-street, St. George's. He immediately 'nett to the house in question, where he found Casey lying on the floor. weltering in his bloat. having received a severe wound by a sharp instemnent. wMeh had passed through both his checks and lacerated his throat in a de:vein:is manner. From the account which the woanded man gave, it appeared that the prisoner, who Leal with him, and with whom he had tor some time past cohabited, was the .per son who wounded him, and fiat site did it with an oyster knife. Upon this statement llohnes took the prisoner into custody. On searching the back premises, an oyster knife, covered with blood, was found ; which, on being shewu to the wounded man. he recognised as the knife in question. Casey was taken to Guy's hospital. when.• he remains in a dangerous state; and the woman was committed, by Mr. Chambers, for re-examination. I.arnan, the M2l in custody on a charga of embezzling various sums of money, the proper . y of his employers, Messrs. Cosnyii and Donald son. coopers, was ag an brought up, and Mr. White. agent to toe Car rot Copper Company. liasin,r prefernal various speeifiz charges azainst him, he was fully committed for trial. CORONERS' INQUESTS. -....w.- Monday, an Inquest wa, held at the Trintnphant Chariot, Halken•street, Grusvetior.plare, on the bodies of Mrs. Mary Kirby, and Geo; ae, her infant, 19 months old. who died in run:rgnenoe• of being tiret by . a coachman. 1.11 Stind.iy night, tie.tr Hvtle-park corner, when its 4 gie with Mr. Kit oy. Mr. W. Pittlitan„house suraeoit at the hospital depti.ed, that the mother and child were brought to the hospital on Sunday ta•t. lie ctia.ohied Mary Kirby. awl found several fruettivem of the rises on either side. also a ft arture on the left th•g l i. Ile perceived something wrong dhow the of the infant, witty!' he cmild not at that time speoitieally determine PI). Wit n' attended them both till they died —the child on Motrhy morn- WWI the toothier the same evening. lie 11 el silll.t• operv.ul their bodies, and disrovet rd in th it of thu child two of the bonus of the back ac .ti and A rapture 1,1 the liver, &Wit produced profuse Wee:ling, and whir li WAS the range of him death. lii • both , o f Mr . Kirby live ribs %ter fractured im the right Mile, and four on the left; the broken part of some of the ribs had ulcerated the lungs. . . T. Henry deposed, that on Sunday eeeling he was on the top of Smith's Chelsea coach, going from town. The evening was dark ; the C:l4Cil pas , ed a little falter than ostial ; thew was ;mother roach a hem I of them with lights, which ke:it on the Lett sill.: of the raw!, Alt S cos- 'man pr , wee led ra ter to Cie right, hut di,' n it go so fir t ) right as he might have done tiil he ran against stritethiliz. hoz witness could no! see what. II • w 3.4 cer;aia that ntp• r. n spoke to the conch mom to m tice way. Fl., coahl nut 4ly w'ziet!ier the thing which was roil it4aitio W:l4 triset or not, lit • rireo ostaace isai so momentary. The coachman did not stop ; he a speared merry ti:l the aceident, but scarcely sooke at cr it liap:moe.l. Hr wa , a hoot 19; W. 14 more to the right than to the aiidd'e .)f the road, end the witness imputed n ) titslt to him. except his no! being 00 the proper ride sit the road. Th... coachman WJ4 eer soher. _ A tjentleinan who resides Cliar . wq street, St. Ja:ne.ol. stated, that he was na:•ily: in knizat•ariilze, on the hospital Side of the w iy, about 111, yams of the turnpike; it WO not so 1141 k but he could ,ee eareia4e.: 'Ai the Other side of the war. heard a halal et% front the 0n 7 ,,,,,,e side of Or ‘4 ay. as also a crash AIM which he in.tandi r a n ~eroy, the was, and saw a lao se in the shafts Of and the on 'lnv side. lie saw noth coach sad :it; before illy Accident; th e coach was on the wrong slit.• of the road—it was going at a good sudoging trot, faster than lie thott:ht N roach oltiht to DI, at that Haw of night.—This was all the evi,J•nee the Coroner asked Mr. )(wily if lie wooly wish to say any thief; to the Jure. Mr. tin fly said, he in •;•ely wished to state that he did ea‘i wit to the co...chat in, and hail ..e stopped at th at time, he gas scn.itle that nollong fatal %%wild have occurred. Notwaltstan hoz this, however, onwit d lava. W:l4 to to are been appreheallytl 1 . 1 . 0111 the eokeihsion between the vein' ;es they at that time so near each other. The Coroner tlieo reeapitillatei the evidence, and the Jim . Lirouttlit in a verdiet of Manstaughter .1-4tCo it A •so Wright, the caaeluntii, anal a warrant was issned for hi.(l,•ten.ioa, he hae•u:h..ea eu'remittril av ifs Magistrates or NIA. I:torough-street Odiee. A lone: din -ian then ansaaist the Jary.ia , n.r:latiso• tq the vante In lae fist I on !Iv! (-)4711 a...1113it6e4, as WhiCil was at fi v•II at Wednese.sy an inquest was held at the Mitre pul,V.e.lion , z. in Niare.co Ely-plac". Holborn. on the lrxly Sqttir !I, of Ely place. Mr. lir.rne t , . a sur : t.on, St..lohn-street. s aid—" On Man lay morning I ; ta visit Mrs. of is, Tara.uill-strze. who was in dot,;-!rous labour; Eel I fn ri i tout it was ii:ussary t redeem arao2aratiost. Dr. Squires was ant tor, WllO lipeclily arrival; he looked as well as I have seen him for several years; in fact, I COM. pliirientisi him on his looks. We consulted on the subject, and agreed on the openition. The Doctor than sat on the bed-side to observe ths operation, which was performed by me. In about two minutes after he fell en his fax on the bed; I lifted him up. and found he was in a fit; I plaied him on a chair and bled him, bat he expired almost hum :lately." Verdict—Died by the Visitation of God. Wednesday an inquest was held at the Black Horse, Blackwell, on the body of le Itutcaitison. M Ste of the Traveller, of Peterhead. A boat in ,viiich the deceased was returning to ki 4 ship on 8-indity even , ing, was driven on a ship's cable, by which he VIM precipitated into the water and drowned. Verdict—Accidental Death. Wedneiday an inquisition was taken at the Sotted Dog, Strand lane, uixei toe body of T. Holmes, a porter, io t he service of Mr. R. Diu; ridge, wireonanufactater, in the Etorout•h. who fell on Monday afternoon. on the steps of the late Temple Coffee-house, in Devereux court, an -2xpircl in a few minutes. It is supposed the deceased died for warn; a, it appeared on the inquelt, that he was only employed oc-arionally . by Mr. Mimi:ridge. and he only had 3s. per week allowed by the poriso of Chr . • Chure:i to aipport himself and a wife and two children. Mr. Radnor, surgoon, Surrey-street, Strand, saw the de emsed about 13 minutes after he was taken ill; all pulation had coarxl, and he was getting cold; the means he used were ineffectual. Sarah Rowland, of No. 8. 1141*rd-court. said ,he saw the d„weevied fall; it was on Monday afternoon; she ran up to him, and caught him her armi; he app fired to be dying; a surgeon was sent for, but he died before the ioirgoon arrived. The Jury returnod a verdict of—Died by the Visitation of God. Monday evening, an inquisition was taken at the Magpie public house, Wood -street, Cheapside, upon view of the body di% Braham, who cut his throat on 4 iturday morning. A servant girl, residing in the house, stated that she was awoke about four o'clock on the mom- ing mmtiooed, by the deceased going down stair to the kitchen. where he remained same time doing something with the knives and forks, and which were afterwards fowl I strewed about the floor. He men returned up stairs, and witness came down about six o'clock. A short time before seven, the deceased again d.seendei from his bed ruom to the kitchen; but finding the witness there, he retreated up stairs to the tap-room. His look at this time were wild, his shirt collar unbottoned, and he hold a razor in his hand. The witness then followed hint to the room, but the windows wore not then opened to atthril her an opportunity of seeing him. As she entered tie door, however, she heinsl a gush, like the noise of a water-cock; and sus pecting it was blood, site alertned the house, when her master and one of the lodgers mine down, and found the deceased weltering in his blood, with a razor beside him. on the floor. He had cut himself hi three several places in the throat, so effectually, that although medical assistance was iminalietely procured, he did not survive many minutes. The witnesses all bore testiinony to the melancholy state of the mind of the dmeased, who cunstantly expressed a wish to be reLssed from the world, owing (as he stated) to the ounduet of his wife, by whom he I had twenty-one children, I,at who, it appeared, loft him to cohabit with another man. Verdict--Insinity. Satualay sennight, an higuost was held on the laxly of T. Smith, of West Fide, Sussex, w!io. in a fit of desperation, shot liimaif thmugh the heal. Vonliot—lnsanity. Ile had conceived a man violent passion for a young woman in the service of Lady Gage. which alio slighted. la one of the letters found upon hhn, lie amuses her with having trilled with his affection, with having driven him to the public-house, and finally, to self-murder. Ile was a tizio young 'nat., about 23 years of age. The girl is only sixteen. Serelnc.—Wednesday, a man of genteel appearance was seen loi tering about Park-lane. in a very dejected state; he was observed ga into the Park at Grosvenor-gate, and to walk round the Queen's Itasin, occasionally putting his hands in a posture of prayer. In this mintier he cantinual about two hours; but at last he sprung over the railing into the water. Some persons who saw the trauma-alma-Tea to his assistance, and got hint out• but quite dead. SINGULAR St:len - ie.—flaw of the most singular suicides ca'r heard of occurred lately at a boarding-school near liirmiughtun. A young Ludy, it appears, bud been set a task, and felt indignant at being ob liged to learn it oat of an oil book, while to me of the other scholars were indulged with new ones. She went next day to an old woman in the neighboarhosal, and told her, that she had had a singular dream, vas. that she was dead, and had been ear:Lxi to her grave by such and snen pun.; ladies, naming some of her companions and young friends, and cited the old woman what she thought of it? who replied, " that she pat no faith in dreaous."—A few days aft •r, when walking with the other sehalars, she loitered behind. and malting her escape from the party, drowned herself in a pool near the school. She left her hat (or bonnet) art the edge of the pod. wawria was pinned a letter for her parents. eatreating their forgiveness for such a rash act: she therein re quaNted to have thr bearers tie lAery ywitig ladies who she had said she dreamed hail carried her to her grave, and enclosed some locks of her hair a inzatnnoi of frienishija She was oily stoat eleven years of an:, an I the dan d hter of very ecliptic:able panenti in the raighbourlicaxl, won are roes ns iabla for tie doer of their child. A - Ire:star AT Stiletl3l:.—.t few nights ago, a person informed the parole of the Town Hall. Hiseoton, that an assistant to a chemist, in Great East-steect, had alai-mai the family by his menacing car - Auer. and required their immediate interposition. Two of the patmle, con sequently the premises, and foottat the person in ow of the upper roams in his shirt, with a dirk in his haled. On perceiving the parole, 1w called oae of them by name, and presented his weapon, smith tile 01:40: struck aside with Ids sword. 'nasals:ale!, he plunged the dirk into hi. ova sreast, and instantly fell. On raising him up. and questioning hint. it was found that lie had swallowed Laudanum and arsenic mixed, but from the elnets of which a timely emetic in the end relieve(' him. The dirk had struck against a rib and glanced. or his destruetion hart ben certain; bolt hopes arc entertained of his reeavery. A love atFair is the catia of the catastrophe. Wednesday morning, about six olelorls, a decent drained man, ap parently an paws of age. was iinnight into the watch-house, at London Midge, where h: camplained of severe illness. A physician was im mediately sent for, hat 'ere his arrival the man expired. Previous to his dissolution it was unaerstool from Jinn that he was from the neighbourhood of Ipswich, but this is all that has been ascertain al csoncerning him. F.`CECUTIONS.—P. ated 21, car:vides, at the Winchester Assisi-4 of violation, anti W. Nayler, aged Y 5, of a burglary, were executed, pursuant to their sentence,. at the tiny in that gaol. Tliese unliskqes men diet trait' penitent; and were so deeply alfected in their Lat moments as to be serve aide to support themselves. Stith and Andrews, left foe eaccunon et Guildford Assizes, sue ea. this Oay. Tourslay last the awful sentence of the law was carried into effect. at Pennen.len-heath, on eight criminals who have been coavirted at the late alaidstane Assizes. Amelia them w Brown, Connor, and Curby, far noishina; the Coromandel hoy of Cie dollars; Vowyer. fior cantina and stabbins(,; Wens, for &to-glary; Mafiris. who powned eat forget( Rank of E nglund 11. Imam at Chatham; Donald. who inters" a forged check on Alas Ntirier, 3 draper at Salem-Mai; heel anothsr fur forgery. They all beintscd with grad penitefiee, it cs Per ts run cv.ds: It \V Als 11.-1111'1 ion for ton ate voting W in. Wilt/ W.VA expected to salter trailottinisterang poison to her slat. run-law, has had the +if lies senteoteci past tamed slit the Isar uf Seattimber, conseameame of ao in her favour, 114YiliZ bean forward. d finial her native place anal its auciality. sieved by mane than tuner lanouleed people. A gentie 11411 ILI the tieiglanimrhaaad of 1 - 111 k teas the %ni s i ptw not-or of this humane pi ' , reed:roe; and whilst we appaand the ate& we nanot aulonire the Imitatively and uo , de getinrasiay which armaateil his estalotet. Mr. Jamieson went °sir wth the aeoitao a to Carlisle, alai branalit the reviille 164 , 11. Lord b ... 11.- e!"ltes, the forem in of the late Oranal Jury, Lard Mutton an I tile li.rl Leeson:l are represented as Milli!' haul - cat the pri.oater's behalf, whose emetic' i. penitent mil re• itm d, We tr.i:t that a 1411; ceaoricre may vet be graiateit, partiettl4rty vheu it is that 113 life was forielie•l by ! a .!, which sic now is fill) ccnsisle was berth cruet ad ihaatJoistol. Paper.)