The National Register. — London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

_ -OP • A , few minntes aftgr - eiglrt oclock on Thursday inorninL 3: Wilk, for forging a cheque for A(tOl•with au intent to de fraud Lis einalaves itessrs. Hreueliley and Co. Rankers, nt Gravesend. G. l'eariro i for torgi its a ws rraut hit the payment of 31:51. n ;tit illreill to deft and Nessre. 11/35 and Co. t go d c ,•,.., 1.1 li,rchie.latie i and T. I).iltin,, for a highway rob. bevy tut J. thwaits, on the 1311 i of Or tuber last, were et:t ented pursuant to their sentence at the trout of Neirga:e.— Thactowd We , nat• near so great as we usually observe ou these occasions. The • first of these iiefustimate young men, some of who it exceeded 2$ years of axe, that- era, Itrosight straffold, was Vat tii• : lie was dressed in a blue root, with gilt TM:tee', grey pantaloons and half-trouts. Delfts was ur%t_t lie . wore 're grey emit, white stockings, and half boots. Peartion i.vas last. They were attended by the Rev. J. Cotton*. They died penitent, awl met their fate with be coming fortitude. Vartie wrote upon the wall of his cell the tollawing lines - Thou hapless wretch, whom justice calla To breathe withiri these dreary walls ; Know, guilty nun, this very cell • May be to thee the porch of I felL • Thy guilt ornfera'd, by God forgiven, Mysterious change ! it leads to Heaven. . • Vartie and Pearson slept until five in the morning, but Daltry was restless. The following letter was addressed by thy' unfortunate Vartie to the Rev. Mr. Budge of Limelionse. It was written immediately after the order for his execution was C 01111110• nicated to him; and displays the amazing fortitude awl self. possession which a returniiig sense of religion infused into the mind of this youth, tinder such awful cirrumstanc es My Dealt sta.—rerinit ins to avail myself of the present opportunity of testifying the gratitude due to your humane and be nevolent exertiuns. So tar supports ins, the enivaragement which I derive fro.o the Sacred Word of God, that I ma the Herald's of Death with a fortitude bordering upon indifference, and heard the awful ertairity pronounced in form:il solemnity without the least dis. composure. l'ublic Opinion, like igni.r inight have drawn the unwary aside; but prudence taught me to beware of the delu sive meteor, and steadily to prooseil in the beaten path to salvation, regardless of the alluring objects on either side. To say that my sole hope is rested on Christ, would be but repeating what the above fact implies, joining effect to cause. Prom whenix, indeol, could such composure, such peat% of mind flow, bin from this fountain of Mercy. .' My few remaining hours are employed in that preparation which shall befit me to join the choirs of Angels, where praises are offered au God and the Lamb for ever.—My dear Sir with unfeigned thanks, the dying " J. VARTIE." " Eter..lannes Rudge, Liinelioute." " I need not add, I shall be happy to see you, when convenient." The following very sensible letter appeared in the Times of Friday. ladependent of the awful warning to Youth, which one part of it holds out; it contains observations on the crime for whicii Vartio antrered, well deserving the attention of the legislature of the conntry. n.—This day the fatal sentence of the law has been executed upon pour Yank; lie is no inure. No one unacquainted with the interior of a prison can sufficiently feel for the excruciating anxieties and karts. the tormems of lingering hope, which await the con derailed criminal ; he had his shire of them, butt as., ore at an end. His fate, however has awakened refiectious in my Mind which I am desirous of pressing upon politic attention. •• lie was born in Westmorland. of respectable and now almost distracted parents. The abilities lie early evinced procured for him a gratuitous education ; and he successively obtained by his good conduct, his decent and gentle manners, the situations of tutor in a noqle family, usher at a school, and clerk in the Gravesend Bonk. —ln all he was highly respected, and • considered to possess very pro mising talents. Unhappily his mind became tainted with infidelity, and this paved the way tor that temptation to which lie sacrificed his hopes, his character, fuel his life. " Ile fled to France, and urged by his ardour for literary, acqu•ition entered the College at Abbeville. " I saw him yesterday ; lie was free from every kind of nervous agitation, and perfectly caha and oullerted in his deportment. He said, that his mind was at ease, that he dopenchal upon his Saviour; that he was going from art earthly to a heavenly tribunal, and that there, and there only, he had hope. He left a sketch of his life, draw n up by himself. in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Cotton, which concludes with this paragraph : In this innocent and ainasing manner (alluding to his literary parsuits), nearly two years paved sweetly over, when a vacancy oc curring in the Gravesend Bank, I was engaged a, a clerk by the firm, who considering my general good character as a sufficient se curity required no other. Noir becoming more public, the sphere of my acquaintance was extended, and its a consegitence my former habits of my retirement began gradually to wcor offs The pleasure that I had hitherto found in the closet, was now sought in the gay circle of my compaoions. Thc seeds of infidelity which had been sown, began now to make their appearance. Christianity I con sidered a grand political scheme. invented to preserve order And sub ordination among the people ; but, thank. to its author, I now view it in another light. I, it to be wondered at, that one standing on glltit fallacious ground could not withstand the temptation by which I fell ?' " I pass by his personal endowments; his talents certainly of no ordinary description ; his senility in the prospect of inunediate death ; his humble religioth confidence t—tiiese are topics which isnot as memorials of a youth of nineteen years of age. for whom at this moment the bell has hardly ceased to toll, would be cal. eulated to interest the feelings, but my object is to address the judg ment. " If the security of commercial intercourse demands such a sacrifice, if trade cannot be conducted without the terror excited by such a dismal example, we must perhaps give our sorrowful appro bation to the event; but where is the proof that such severity is calculated to accoinplish its object ? Certainly not in England, fur hare forgery is punished with death, and here forgery is alarm ingly frequent. Certamly not in America. for there it ispunished with perpetual imprisonment, and there it is an otfence of rare oc currence. Allow me to draw the attention of the public to the singular contrast exhibited by these two great commercial nations. Till the execution of Hr. in 1 777, tnis trial was not always visited with death; but the law has auginenuril its rigour, and forgery has raultiplicil in proportion. In America about the same period it was a capital offence; it is now expiated by confinement ; sad as the pu nishment oss become more mild, the crime has become inure rare. !low then does this strange anomaly arise ? The answer is simple, the crime is practised here with companuire impunity. There are few who will prosecute in Ca•eth of forgery. Many are 'deterred by the hot ior of inflicting death on those with whom they have been in the habits of familiar inn:it - nurse, their dependents and cLrits. Many tarn their eyes inward, and discover actions of flair own as flagrant—less culpable indetal at the Tribunal of Man, but as d.eply atrocious beihre ticir God—as that for which they one to call down the dreadful visitation Of the low. This examination of their own hearts will often turbid the demand of suet stern expiation aura crime, often. as in the case betere us, me first which has horn root. mitten, the effect of sudden temptation, and not o.liremetlinitcol and prat-41(.0d villainy. " Omens there arc, and I trust no inconsiderable number, who utterly deny the right of the commtunty w inflict a punishment so drinoportioned to the (deuce, and who therefc•ic refuse; to be the in 'strutneutlf of What they consider legal injusties. 4 Whatever bathe 'cause, .nu 'non cunvonarn with business in London is unacquainted with the fact, that in cases of forgery persons are try unwdliag to piodecutt and yet each of th.ic trprobably eager that stoneware pcnulty shmihl lw indattal upon the. invader of their property r and would prosecute ii that penalty were less than death. " Surely tlw this. , is not distant in which the British public will see. not meiely the injustice and cruelty, bat • the irapokicy of our irresent systmt--a ey.tein which directly cncouragcs crhue, by the impunity it proihwes--u system by which the many who are guilty escape, and the few suffer out of all proportion to their guils—..a syn. tent which robs public execution of their hest and mealnoting effect; fur abhorrence of cruise (this desirable effect) is too often lust in corn. passion fur the criminal. " A dispassionate consideration of these topics,' thus inadequately urged by one ahoardently desires that crime should always meet its recompense, and the example of America and Holland (in which murder ;tl9ne is ptiniskal with death.) may lead us to consider that our . property will bendy more secure by abolisling thus: scenes of periodical anverity. " I ant your obedient servant, "Dec. 11. •• A 'FRAI)ESNIAN UP LONDON." POLICE. ROW STREET. STREET. A few days ago 'Vickery, the officer, arrived in town from Richmond, with Mrs. Anne Marshal Dobson, a female of re spectable appearance, in IliA custody, having apprehended her at Kenyon-house, Richmond, the residence of JUIIII Met eallearleton, Esq. her brother in •law, she being charged on suspicion of falsely personating the mother of Joseph Mar. shall, late a seaman on board his Nlajesty's ship the Alphea, which was blown op in the Channel some time since. A sister of the prisouer was mart ied to a man of the name of Marshall, about 20 years since ; she died, and left tour children. The prisoner soon after married her brother-in. law, 11-. Marshall. On his death the prisoner married Mr. Dobson. On the decease of Joseph Marshall, she adminis tered to kis effects as his lawful mother, to receive his wages and prizi-neine, and as such signed a pinion to the Trea inter of the Navy. John Nleteatie Carleton, Esq. the prisoner's brother-in law, :mewled, and admitted flint he had attested the prison er's signature of the petition, e:aiming the wages and prize money of Joseph Marshall as his mother. The other attesting witness was Mary Fisher, now a governess and housekeeper in the Marquis of Cornwallis's family, and who at that time was in a similar situation in the family of the Earl of Shaftes bury. . . . . . . _ prisoner admitted she was the person named and de• scribed in the warrant. Mr. Carleton stated that he was known to Lord Sidmouth and SCVellti other public characters, and hoped his sister would lie admitted to hail. Mr. Itirnie informed him the offence was not bailable. Mr. Bicknell and Mr. Jones, Solicitors to the Admiralty, stated, that they considered their case to be complete; they, however, bad no objection to the prisoner being brought to the office ler anotherexaminatiou, provided she wished 11,10 enable her to be prepared with a defenceothich wasaccepted, and she is to undergo another investigation. Mr. Carleton accompanied her in a coach to prison. On Monday evening a second investigation took place re. stisetiug Mr. J. Nesbitt, Mate of the Swallow packet, pre seating a forged bill tor Ann. lii the Victualling office for ac • ceptarice, which purported to be drawn by T. Pipoitn, Com missary General at Lisbon, and payahle iu London at 30 days after sight. Mr. Nesbitt's father, having been informed of his son's detention, came to die office in the eveiiiiig, and confirmed the account given by his sun of the purchase oldie bill in question of David Pacifica), an agent at Villa Nova, and confirmed the other circumstances, except as to the number of spaLisli dollars paid for the purchase of it ; the father said 1000, and the son said 2000, or there might be 3 or •100 inure. On the father being asked if he did not- think .night be mute, he said, probaoly it was lA. A liberal allowance beim; made for the distance of time at which the trausactioo took place, it being eight niontlissince, and in consideration of their regular mode of sailors doing business, all proceedings were drupped. Mr. Neweil, a butcher, of Pantotustreet, in the Hay. inayke:, was tined in the penalty of 411 s. on the complaint of Mr. Thompson, the inspector, for her rails and hooks pro jecting beyond the limited distance. Mr. Newell admitted that the inspector had given him notice to alter them, and that his neighbours had altered the fronts of their shops. A case was also brought forward on Wednesday by Mr. Duncan Campbell, a public-spirited Gentleman, against Mr. 8411, a ti•hnmiucer in West street, for placing a tow with water in it to wash fish in the horse road opposite his house, and a small barrel with a board aud fish on it on the lout pavement. The charge was clearly proved. The defence set tip to it was, that they were for the purpose of unloading a curt; but it was proved that there was neither cart nor cat. riage there. An objection was taken by a Solicitor attend ing for Mr. Bull, that Ilse proceedings were irregular. Ali. Campbell not being the inspector, 150 r authorised in writ ing by the Commissioners, which w•as over-ruled by Mr. Ilirisie, who considered the elite completely made oat. Mr. Campbell said, he ►food 'you public grounds ; and if some were obliged to comply with the Act, all should; and he pledged himiellto make them, or he would take them into ' custody. He called witnesses to prove where it had been enforced iu the extreme, partienlatly in Montruuth•street, where shoemakers wet e not allowed to hang shoes outside their houses, or cellars: and a fishmonger in Store•streel had been put to the expellee of 1301. to alter his house. In the evening J. Hearn and Sarah Bridget Turner were brought to the office, and itudervient an examination, charged with uttering forged Banknotes, and being cuinnoul titter ers. F. Etilershaar, a mien draper, of Clare market, stated, that between Ii .c end six o'clock the prisoner came into his soup, aail purchased some trilling at titles, and in payment ~ot.irreil a 11. note, winch he suspecting to be forged, sent t t Ili. sage, the landluid of the Fist gem' Arms ; ttttt tic House, m Bolles-street, for his opinion, and he also buvi et• e.i at to he uud. llie .sot.er Hearn, said, lie had just taken it, and gave another nole, which hail riviy apite4i.ilice of he• mg A gO.lll mote ; this, how e ver, did not satisfy Mr. bile/ and be• said tie most know alien- Hearn had taken the b id lame. !Stowill, coo-tame, entered the shoo. aud refits e i to let him go. Heal 11 then said, the prisoner •liir:a r. whom he called his %%di., should go a ith Into to ati, D. my • tam., whet c Uc took the stole, mid accordingly gave it to lieu ; and Mt. Eldershan's nephew ace pained het ; out she avoid, d cuing there, and soon rent' tied and gave the note ...ick to the orisuser Beare; lb, inaleavottred to tai cc it from him, but Hearn tieing too russet lin, and getting it loth his mouth, swallowed it: On the prisoner trims tie ing searched, 20s. in silver were fonnd. On Bears being searelltd, 31,105. 6d. in 30* or were found: they lasi also with tliernsomA bet goose and pod ling , P silkor patch, a ctrairs, !gold cal and key, a metal seal, two gold rings, a pub of gold tops and drops, lke.—They were remanded. UNION HALL. FORGlRY.—Tuesday, George Wood, a youth afloat 17 years °Cage, was brought before Mr. Serjeaut in the custody of the beadle of the parish of Christchurch, Surrey, charged as follows: :I'. S4lllllO SAO' cer, coal-merchant, Upper Oround.street, in nopertnership with Mr. Peter Davy, stated, that on ills 26th Nov. the prisoner 01111 C to the counting-house of the firm, and asked fer the bill of parcels of some coals, wheels kid sheen delivered to .111 i. Basset, of Nelson-square, Black. ; I bill, amounting to 311.76.8 d. was accords i ugly delivered to hint. On the 28th of November the pd.. saner came again to the counting-house of • Sawyer and Co. and producing a promissory note, purporting to be the note of Mr. J. Pritrliard, of Nelson-square, for otn. r•quiested that the amount of Mr. Bassett's bill might be deducted from it, and that the difference of 33i. 12s. 4d. might be paid to him [prisoner.] A check upon the banking-hause of Curtis and Co. was given him for that soul, and which was presented 'and regularly paid. At the time the prisoner received the check for 331. 12s. Id. he ordered three ehaldron emits t# be sent as heftier to Mr. Bassett's, in Nelson-square, and •stated that it would he inconvenient to the lamdy that they should be sent in before last Monday. Ott saturilay last, the prisoner again went to the cowting•heuae of Saw yer and Co. and tendered another promisaory•ltote, parpor•ting to be the note of Mr. Pritchard to Mr. Bassett, for 501. at tett days after date. The conduct of .he prisoner being suspected. he was detained at the connting•house while a poison went fur the purpose of making inquiry of Mr. Pritchard, when it was discovered that the notes were forged. Mr. Pritchard stated that lie had seen the notes, and•that they were forgeries. The prisoner was extremely alerted during the examina tion; he wept nearly all the house; Its youthful appeara•ee, the respectability of his connexions, and the awful situation in which he was placed, drew fourth the pity of every person present. He was fully committed for Kingston Assizes. DATION GARDEN. D. Stockwell was on Wednesday bronglit up on the follow ing charge :—A constable, 46011 t right o'clock on the pre ceding night, observed the prisoner, in company with another walk up and down past the door of %Vanden, a shoe maker, in Cromcr•street,Gray's Wilima a conc e a l /. ed himself• in a house opposite. 'fliey tied the liand.r of the door to the iron railings, and then either th e pris ..... r or hit companicui ent a pane of glass in the• shop window, and made a grab at span of boots, which being tied, they of them. The prisoner's companion made off atilt the hoot; but the former was apprehended and fully comilitted. IRISH APPEAL OF MURDER. -.4.- A case similar to that of the murderer of the unfortunate Mary Ashford, occurred some time since in the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, and has not been decided. It is the elm of a man named Clancy, who, about two years and a half ago, in the broad day light, and in the presence of twee ral persons on the high pad, near Mellinger, with his own band, shot through the lean Bryan O'Reilly. Esq. formerly a distinguished Officer of Marines, under the immortal Nelson s and, at the time, agent to Mrs. Talbot, of Malahide, to whom he was nearly related. The intirtiei er wash dial el) , ;wpm` . itended, and brought before J. Chas. Lyons, Esq. a Magis trate of the county of Westmeath, to wli he 'mule a full confession of the fact, stating, Bun he had heel, eal i doyed to commit the horrid crime by a tenant of Mrs. Tatoot's, who was then considerably in arrears for rent, and who had peo. Rinsed loin 39 guineas as soon as the murder was air oily iislied„ 10 of which had been paid him in advance. Mr. Lyons had this confession drawl up in the form of a deposit ttttt , and signed and sworn lii by ilie murderer. He wag brought to trial at the Mullingar Summer Assizes, in 181.1, at the prose cution of the Crown; when, on account of the oven conies.. sion lie had made to Mr. Lyons, no living witness was pro .iiiiced against him. On the trial, Mr. Nl•Nally, Coiti.sel for the prisoner, objected to the confession being received iu evidence, on the ground that it bail been sworn to, and according to law, was therefore inadmissible. Si.'. Aden, for the prosecution, was heard at great length in support of the evidene.., or, at least, to be allowed sufficient twit. 1.1 e.,able him to procure the attendance of those will,. s.es %he could prove tip- fact. 'fhe Conti, however, toted iii is soul of Mr. M•Nially's objection, and as the prisoner had oven given in charge to the Jury, the trial, of cour.e, could neither be delayed nor postponed. The consequence was, that Clancy was acquitted. A brother of Sir. O'Reilly's Demi; neat of kin, appealed to the Court of King's Bench, withiu a year and a day from the date of the first trial, awl alter several special plots and comiterplras un both shies, aim numerous arzumeuts and adjournments, the pristine' was advised uy liis Counsel to wage battel.—The Cunt Justice strongly ui•geil his Counsel uut to ad s ise so lash and dangerous au and the sensation this plea seemed to make upon his Lordship's mod, had a must extiourditiary ettect throughout die Limn. On the motion ut Mr. Allen, the first sitting day fir Nose H. tier term was appointed to oat* the prisoner brought up to the Court, and to receive the eminterplea of the appeilautm 7 Since that time several other days base beesi appointed; hut the business lieVCr tiro. ceded father, in t oust queue'. id the Coutisei oil both sides agreettig, that the prison. shoold with. dia w his plea of battle, and plead , sun uuw ig to trans portation. in order to save his We. i:1411e, is, we ballebe; to this day, a prisoner in ode of tile celis tit tlie t our COMAS MC,. About two o'clock on the morning of Saturday week, at Cherlion, near Alrestord, !tome vlllilllllleniered the dwelling- • house or Mr. Richard Frill, uy mean. •of placlll4 a ladder agrin4 the eh: 11111 l ind,w : they then said, st c waut ludgings." Mr. Fi lit opened the east:uncut to Sveak to them, nail one of the villain , pat We ladder bei nevi, iltc V 1 iwitow fe. am ,. an d Ike ea.:talent, and gut into the chamber. tie then told hint, it' he did out give hint 291. uuotedtalety. he would blow lint hiatus out. Mr. F. untie Into a quantity of notes, which he Ittis since ascertained to minium to 2.51. isi,c villein thous ,41d, L know yoo'be got .1 quantity ors gold w your .:4113 %%11 . 4(.11 you 11111 a glee we d.rertly, or l wilt kt.l le then gate hint hie giiint•.l./. Out- tit the .111'0111141C s that v6.itclitiog DI ilebascti 4.3 prituer to tic expedi tions, as these were smut. 'tropic mu.; IN; 4111, at the sante Ate untiti- , ert Mgt Iditl 11.10 the 1411 till to 414, - 111 White uf ii 1,114,4.111 3: uul ltutOre they coult render 4.1 Asat.tillier, the vi 441.65, lima mu , cnue 1, made their escape. Highly to the credit or this tithe, a single lit 'sow. 01 Nu' thtembcrland, there a Rot, at let tu the county gaol.