The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-01 00:00:00

LoxiA . c. Thersdsv. Mobley Hurst *is again the seat of action bt levee Eales And Tale of IVigilt lIaII, men ir.i.sessing science superior to most, and equal to any 011 the boxing list. Their weights are something more than eleven stone. There wt re .pet above 2000 persons present ; and those of the lowest order. eseept a few of the high fancy unidtetirs, and the F!evell Gem. Om gaud. At one o'clock the 111101 tied Bleb colours to the stakes, and turned to. Seconds, Belcher and Harmer fur Hail, and Oliver and Jones for Eales. —Average -betting 7 to 4 uu Eules. ....... THE c:,t•rri.E. 11r.und I.—Then was no atuirring ceremony. but Eales made play eather away from distance, and inirsed hir objciet. H,dl returned upon liiin slightly with the left 1:3n1, and the masterly science which followed was perceptible only to those close upon the men; so . quick and precise were the motions. that until the combatants set-to in the next round the mischief could not be asiiertained. Ilan iull ou his knees on missing a hit. 2. P§,!mu..! - Arig round commenetl offensively by flail, itha drop ped claret profusely front the forehead. Several camter hits were ci.ehanged in a galliait rally s . after Hall had returned upotiyand ,parricd I;ales'r right hand. The blow, were measured with such prz;:isi , 3n., and the Farrier were so expert, and it was so muds a u.nster-piece of lighting altogether. that a common observer could not tell who had first got into the chancery line Eales was hit hard on the left jaw, and both went down in a close tired with ltisen betting. 3. Hall got a fine li:ft•handal hit at the head, and, lie followed in with the right, which toll also. Eid:s. applrently stunned by the bits. btoke ground, and had the worst pert of the round, but he chewing but trilling marks of hitting, whilst Hall's nob was a con tused nrtss of blood. . . . . 4. Hall went in to take all his adversary's fight out of him. He went with it , bravery up to his adversary's head. and after making his left-hand d lilt tell, he pursued to the ropes, when both fell. S. This was a gallant fought round, but it chewed the good judges tlat rates was tile heaviest hitter. although the advantages were reciprocal. Eales went down, and both telt the ehiscts of seven n.irut z,trong exercise. Five to 4on !fall. Eales p,atle cautious movements to get wind, and Hall was so tired that he dropped his hands in !Tarring. In aridly hales had his adversary suspended acres; the ro,:es, mot part of him being grased ; he raised both his hands, and left him a character worthy of a pro fessor of national sport. Hall placed a good hit on the jaw of Eales, but he tell on his knees in pursuing his luck. Even betting. 8. bales parried some good hits, and saved himself most sci entifically. but he h.ei the worst of the round, anti he fell , with his adversary alike distressed. _ _ . . 9. 11311 had the best of this round also, and after tcceiving two bits he went down. in. A gallant onill at counter hits, which told, but the die:. ts chewed that Eales had most length. It was altog,•ther slaught•iring round to the advantage of Eales, who placed his hits home aud heavy. Throe to t on Estes. 11. Three to one upon Eales went a begging, aruhlones asked Hall if he meant to give in P—To which Itekher replied, '• We shall win it; we have scarcely a scratched fate." dial l affected a ghastly smile. and turned to, as if inspired with confidence be his si..cond's stroke of the of brush. uliae gammon ; he floored his adversary by a blow on the jaw, which was the first knock down. 12. Bales gathered himself for mischief. and hit some heavy home blows. Hall was dead beat, and he fell, hugging his adver sary's legs. Hall made a gallant stand, but he was hit senseless; and so n i ttch abroad was he, that he fought with his back towards his ad versary—he fell senseless. it. Bales placed three bits and broke his ground ; Hall, in endea vouring to return. fell. 15. mall went in with much gallantry, and placed two hits; but in falling, his seconds raised his head. which was like a stone, and ha could not be brought to time. Victory was proclaimed for liales, alter fighting 17 minutes auti 52 seconds. - - seeond battle was fought be s tween Tuck, a bntelter, and Dent, for a trilling pw.e. Dent had the worst of it through. out; he Linke lois arm above the wrist, after lighting twenty minutes, hr hitting. Ile did not find it out uuta he tried to fight anotber round. A person who offered two cows and seven balers for sale in Witiolsor. last week, has been apprehended, on suspicion ef having stolen them. On his examination begin e the Mayor, it Has stated by Mr. I'. Woolley, that lie asked the price of the two cows, and was answered by the prisoner, 301. for the two, adding, he had been bid 211. for them ; after some further conversation, the price finally agreed upon was.2sl. Mr. Wodley, on heating the price in the fair, at which the pri soner had sold some other cittle, was sespicious that the poisoner had not come honestly by them, and therefore stated his suspicions to the poisoner. who said be' bad 'bought the cows at Hamill fair; and they had since then been at grass at Warner's, at Stanmore; that he was well known at Ir:ibuon • ton, and agreed to ride there with the deponent to, receive the money. 'fhe deponent went to teed his horse that they tnight start together, but on returning in about ball an hour. learnt that the prisoner !tad di camped, leaving his horse behind at the Hope public house. This deposition was cow firmed by the testimony of Mr. Thomas Langliurst, of Thorp, Surrey, Coroner. It was also stated in evidence by Mr. l'urner of Chertsey, that he hail seen the prisoner come into the tkir with two cows and seven heifers; that he had inquired the price and was :eked 301. for the two cows. His master, Mr. Goring, of Staines, then came up, and asked the price of the heifers, for which 101. a piece were demanded. After talking snore time, Mr. Goring agreed to give till. pe till Ins. for the seven heifers, and gave 11. as earnest. 'llm deponent thinks the heifers are worth 40s. each more than Mr. Goring gave for thrift. I n c00 ... 111(41re oh tile general opinion in the fair that the heifers were sold lo under their value, the prisoner was susreteoll of having stoles, them, anti lie after wards absented himself. James Wye. of Shand-green, was at the Hope poiblic-bouse, where he I .leolli. 'Mule remar k s stn the conduct or the prisoner, and that he had gone loom the house across the flails. The w imess followed, en overtook him about half a mile fi the town. When .:aestiono d, the prisoner said lie bought the cows on the rout hetiseee Stailinore and Barnet : but he afterwards ow ne d that the cows wets stolen, Awl that he was sore to be banged if' the deponent did rot let him go. lie then offered hies a 11. note to let him escape. The deponent, however, succeeded in lot ingino loin. back to the town, where lie was put intr. the custody of the constable. 'nor above•nanied persons are bound in 201. each, fur that appearance to give evidence if called on. The prisoner, when he attempted his e•r4l.C, itlt a black galiowav, rather low in desk, and an old saddle and bridle, behind him, at the nape Fluidic-house, which ate now ito charge of the constable. A 51ini.st,i IA paper rays—" It k reported that the lilier which bia Ill.:hues.' the Prince Kelpnt omit to Lord Elleohoronr,ii. ou lii• rverivungth,it ghat I.lw 0 fieerr 4..... g nation of t. le •iinatioti his Lordship h kso I,oig ou account of bit ill hrallh , dui a the !sight:l6i credit to the henit and bract of the Royal %titer, and honour to the Learned Lord to whom it was addreased." Tilt NAT/i A , THE MURDERER DEAN. The fallowing ere particulars of the conduct of R. Dean, prior and stabstipietit to his murder atte female infant, Ann Melia Halbert :—On the morning of Thursday. Ilse 15th in stant, Dean. instead of going to his employ at toe au; fac tory of Mr. Tyne!, engraver, Ali;gate, went to the Red Lion. Chelsea, and he vine taken refreshment, he addressed himself to Serjeant Farr, of the 15th Hussars, who was sitting in the parlour. He said he had a great incliestion to etth.t into the regiment to which lie (Serjeant Farr) belonged ; that he had been in his Majesty's service before ; was tired of working at his Unite, and he believed that he never should be comf.irt able again till he was a soldier: for formerly, when he lie• longed to the 13th Light Dragoons, lie hail sever.l favourite females at one time, but latterly that was not the case. and he thought regimental!, had a great effect in winning the offer -114)114 of lathes. The Seijeant took him before Lieut. Hick ma* far approval, and afterwards he gave him le. as enlist ing Dean then iscromponied Serjeasit Farr to his pi:triers, at the Ship, in Wardour-street, and there he wrote Lie subjoined letter, alai ed Oct. t, ;-- " Duatt Jost:en—l shall not be able to come home to-night. for lam engaged upon mine other business. You need not be alarmed about myeb.ence, as I am endem‘ouring to procure a situation. I was sent by Mr. M'Devitt to the house of a gentleman at Pimlico, who wanted a servant ; the gentleman being from home, the servants requested me to stop all night at the house lint' sleep. I shell be at home to-morrow morning. Yob may tell Mr. Tyrrell the cause why I have not been at work, and du not, either hint or you. be alarme 1. I am your's. " R. DEAL" " Mr. Williams• Engraver, 5, Cbitreh row, Aldgate, Whiteelmpel." The above letter Dean gave to Serjeant Farr to put in the post ~flier; and after taking an ptler, he went to bed. On the following morning he went to the York Hospital, and was there inspected by the Seri:eon and paged. He wrist from therm. to Queen-square Police Office, and was attested be fore the Magistrates. The Serjeant paid him the usual rum, and after lic was sworn lie went to the Robin Hood, in Mks , stri cl, Westmin,ter. He remained thinking with the Ser jeant and nlheis until mails live o'clock ; the Serjeant and Dean left together. Dean said that he had some linen at his WasherStOikan's, and the Serjeant told him that it would be as well if be could preemie a shirt from her to pot onto go to the Colonel's next day for his inspection. Dean sniff that he would go to her, and went down t:oekspnr•sireet. Dean most have gone, when be parted Iv the Serjeant, direct to the house of Mr. Halbert, for it appears that he arrived there before six o'clock. Atter Dean had committed the murder, he went to the Ship, in Wardieir.sts ect. Oii his arrival Seijeatit Farr asked him if he had got his HOPI) from Isis washerwoman. He replied, that she had not got it dime as he bad expected. The Ser jeant asked him to drink some beer, is litch he did. Dean then celled fin a pint of porter; he solaced himself beside Farr, and entered into conversation with the persons in coin patty, and seemed as much at ease as he had done daring the former part of the day, and 'lid not betray the least derange ment of mind. He iiifornied the. Sr rjeaut that lie visited at the Grapes, in Church-row, Altigate, and lie expressed his affection tin• the landlord's daughter; but lie did not say one word about their having quarrelled. On the Saturday (the morning after the murder) he rose at eight o'clock, and she Serjetiot lent Ishii, a clean shirt to uppear in before the Colo nel; but in cousequetiee of the Colonel's illness, his inspect' Lion was pot off till the Monday. At ten, on Saturday, Dean went with the Serjeent, and saw the Guards parade in the Park, and there passed his opinion upon their evolutions.— Auer the soldiers were dismissed, lie went to the Itobin Hood, and thence to the Serjeant's qicirters in Wardour street ; lie went to bed at eight o'clock, ;mil rose on the fallowing morn big before seven, went into the tap-room and asked for the newspaper, which he read, and immediately went up to his room s aud aid not come down again for a considerable time. Towards evening he sat down in a dark box, and went to sleep, and was awoke by the landlord, who advised I • to gu io bed. lie accordistely rose up mid went to his bed room, and when a young man named Heck, who slept with him, went to bed a short time after, he found him fast asleep. On Monday morning, Dean alone at Klima halt past seven o'clock, itsg agreed to wait fur the Serjeant to accompany him to the C )loott's. A little before 10 o'clock Dean bor rowed three halfpence from the landlord, fur the purpose, as lie said, of baying sums tobacco. Dean then lett the house, and was not seen afterwards by the Serjeant, tab came at the appointed time to intet him, till lie was in custody. Dean bore nu excelltut diameter in the tinnier regiment to which lie baliniged ; his father is a respectable farmer residing about seven Mites from Bury St. Edmund's, and to procure his discharge paid, airont two years iigu, 101. for two substitutes. WEST KENT QUARTER SESSIONS. John Curtis, who had been amt on bail, appeared, charged with olfences of a complexion too dm k almost for conception. The indictment contained several counts, severally charging hint with all SRN Mit on Mary Olivia Turner, • child, with an Intent to violate—with an assault, with an intent to gratiiy lets inordinate lust—to defile her mind and injure her morals— with In assault on her .prrhou—atiitl with indecently exposing his person to the said Nliity Olivia 'fattier. Mr. Adolphus midi esseii the J ry in this ease, in a speech replete with feeling and energy. He stated the following feels : Turner, who is a timber niastei's ino.istant, fm the 1)ork-yeril of %Void (which situation he ha. held for 20 years), had long been in bahiea of the closest intimacy with the tlefentlatit, who was Use 16(4.4 in the same yard. The latter, alienl three years age, went to Ntr. Towner under very distressing c. canistances —that is to ski, not with tespeet tie eeminiary matters, but as regarded his feelings as a Inismini and w Whet. lie, had two children, and his wife was at the WAN orlYing-in, and he conk! proem 0 no habitation Its which he misfit place his family. Mr. Turner, impelled by friend' ship, took him into his house, mild Mt's, menu had taken place. itisteisti of i.unit gt•tefiel for sties act of friendship , the intendant plumed a line of conduct the tm.st diabolical that can be conceived. He had not been long in Ili.. ions..e of his Iriend , liet.re Atiry Olivia, a (*lliad 01 Ali. Tllmes . ' , , under 10 years 4Wf age, a:flamed his notice. tile began by taking liberties with her poll 11, which be contiou ed with ince eased crimiindity tOr upwat it. of t‘% 0 3 edl 4 I),ir ng period, the conduct of the defendant was sm.. as We Cannot polliiteintr columns by describing; :11.41111e n .11 tem which, delis (Ted ny Mr. Ailooplitis with a.) e , 0 . 1 e f" i ni . u. miletatire, caused insoluntaiy exclmomtiol.s f r 1 oat In,eny of his 4stoitsqltril and inelega amt hem eta; we s ) 4,10 ii.lied, became die ;vow' W.V. til dual nature, .hat it it"v dahcolt to soppose thy salmi existed who could devise and Walt:trete such mirth:Wes. The child, pecvcuted by the de- NOV T fend:stirs injtinctions,at hod. mentioned the affair to no one ea' slept Miss NI usitett, a young fentale companion, a little eider than heist:ll. That young lady, at the expiration of two years, made inquiries of Mary Olivia Turtle' as to e heater the d e . fendant colitinswd his abominable practices; and being intinaistel that lie did so, site, being by her own advanced age become aware of the evil tendency of the defendant's rue d eet, told the story to a Woman, who very propel ly COnininhied3 el it to :he parents.—The father was it first inetim d to hush op the matter, to prevent a public exposure of his child; but it being known to two or three persons, the story soon became a geiteral theme of conversation. The Dock yard ens placarded, and the defendant was universally execrated as the monster of the age. The father, by this untidtunate pub. lieily, felt compelled to bring the matter into a Court of Jus tice, though it wits with the greatest pain he did so. In the course of his narrative, the Learned Gentleman made many oleiervations on the several parts of the case as they arose.— He said, that he wag addressing au assembly of Christians ; he need not tell them, that man is horn in sin 'but regener ated by baptism. By th a t H o ly Sari amen'', a ;lOW is render ed pure, mad noshed from the original sin in which It was con ceived and born. The man will, c.,nld step fur th to conta minate a child regenerated—to defile its pure mind—to break down the moral principle—was guilty of a crime of the MOM dia:)Olieill stature that could be imagined. It was the act of a demon. The defendant hail been guilty °filial crime. In minty other criminal cases, the reistembianee of a man's guilt might die away, but the wickedness of the defendaat's conduct was Such, that nothing could (planet ate it—even the flood of time could not wash it away. His offence was attended by every passible aggravation. He was a snaffled man, and had two children aids owai—lie was iii the house of his benefactor—the object of his brutality ails the child of that beneliselor—he had, by a series of etas, dm tug a lung period, dune all in his power to defile the mind of an infant— to mule:mine every feeling of modesty, propriety, and morn. lily, which it is fur the welfai e and happiness ofsoriely should be int:ideated in the mind of a female. He could not tell what defence would be set np for the conduct of the defeude alit. It might he said that the behaviour of the child was improper —that her keeping the matter so loug a secret im plied eousent on her part. It might be attempted to show that she was guilty of levity. Bat suppose all that was proved, how C0111(11 it extenuate the conduct of the defendant ? If she Iced been guilty of improprieties, who aas the cause of those improprieties?—the defendant ; be wilt) had by his nauseous einninality poisoned her mind, and led her into the paths of immorality. As to her consent, what could he drawn fa UM that in Insane of the defendant? In law she roold nut consent ; she was an infant under ten years of age. She knew nut right from wrong, and could not be sensible of the evil ten dency of the defendant's acts. Here was it Min in years seducing a child to oonsent to acts, the criminality of which her tender years presented her from conceiving. The Learn. eil Gentleman said, he remembered an observation made by a late Jude, whom he always quoted with pleasure and ho. noise, nut inure on account of his legal knowledge than fur his exquisite acquaintance with the human heart, and human atfairs—lie meant the late Chief Baron Macdonald. The observation he alluded to was made is, a ease of ataluelloo„ where the deleutiant was an °likes, and the victim of ,isms due • a female about 14 years of age. It was attempted to be set up as a defence, that the girl had been guilty of great levity ut conduct ; amongst other things, th owing stones at the defendant's window. His Lordship said, tbat such 4 defence was a very unjustiffable one. The girl was but a child : her acts ought to have been considered by a man as those of a playful child; and he ought not, as a man, to have condescended to agree to her seduction. In the case he had just alluded to the girl was 14 years of age ; in the present instance, the child was under 10 years of age ; she could not consent in the eyes of the law, and her silence could lie no palliation of the defendaut's offeuce. Mr. Adolplais, having concluded his address by some animated observatious on the criminality of the defendant, called Martha Olivia Turner, the object of the defendant's brats. pity. She was an interesting child, about 13 years of age, and gave her testiinony with great precision ; and from her an. savers, evinced a considerable deg ree of intelligence. Her iP evidenc went fully to prove the lam stated by Mr. Adel pins; they were so inconceivably disgustiug, that, as we ht fore observed, a repetition of them is impossible. It appeared, that the defendant did not perpetrate the actual crime for which so many Men have suffered the extreme punishinerit of the law ; but his conduct towards her, from the age of 10 years up to July last, was, perhaps, more deinuralizingeetuare pornicimis to the mind of the child, than au act, the repetition of which, by its speedy detection, would have been Inevented by the p Awing of the offender. To add le the guilt of Curtis, it appeared that he had not confined his criminality to Mimi Turner, but had ou one occasion scandalously es.pwed himself to her, in company with his own ele t Miss Musket,, a young lady of 17 years of age, was next called, and depaied to the amenuincation of Curtis's conduct he ink made ro her by Miss Turner, two year; ago; and of her info:ming Lae child's parent, of the circumstance in July last. Mr. Turner. a very respectable looking man, the father of the child, was next called. lie deposed that, previous to this horrible discovery, he Ind the defendant were on terms of the closest friend ship. they having formerly been on service together. lle was inform ed of tite defendant's vile conduct on the evening of the 6th of July. The next day he went to hiss house, and charged hint with his crimi nality. The defendant acknowledged that he had acted improperly. and expressed great contrition fur what had pawed, offering to make any reparation in his rov:er. Witness told him, that the injury he had done to hint by the destruction of his child's purity and innocence , was beyond the reach of repasation. After loathing him with re proaches, he left the house, trod had not spe d to the defendant since tlatt day. Witness, in the first instance, resolved to hri.l.4 the of fender to justice, but his wife prevailod on him to abandon his inten tion, she being at the time in a state of great nervous debility (to which she was occasionally subject), and de:lared that, to have her child exposed in a Court of Justice, in such a case, would deprive tier of reason. The matter has since b:comc so public, that he was duati to take use necessary steps for the puni: Ilium of the offender. The Jury deliberated for a short time, and returned u s enact et— Guilty of the arsatilt with intent to violate—which was, in fact, a verdict of guilty on all the counts or the indictment. Toe Earl of Itoinney, the chuirinan, its passing thesentence of the COUr on tow defendant, ohs reed, that he had men found guilty of an off-tic,: of u far more criminal nature than onlinarily came before a Coe, tof Quarter Sessions. As a legal offence, it wa; one of a moet serious nature, and in a moral point of viZ!v, it was almost the worst that could be committed. Ills conduct was atten. ell ity every circuinsance of aggravation; he. had injured his benefactor. acid, having:. thmily of 1.i5 own, he i a ui endeavoured to effect uie de struction of all moral principle in the mind of the child art him who had ever treated hint a.: a friend. The punishment whicti the Court lead it in its powser to indict was very inadequate to the defendant's guilt. but his Lordsdip hoped, that the imprisonment he would or &ego. would Wing him to ref ection aad repentan t eof his crime.--. Ills Lordship theu sentenced Lint to-tvro years imprisonment m Maidstone taaul. OF :150