The National Register. — London, England, 1817-10-13 00:00:00

1R" F. OLD BAILEY. MOS DAV. 3. Axam, O. Williams, L. French, and R. Roberts, were indicted for stealing 320 ewt. of the property ofJ. Atkins. J. Jaokson„ W. Rock, J. J. Allen, Sir K. Wigram, Bart., W. Taylor, and W. Sims. It appeared that the ruble belonged to tlic I)os•er Castle I•:.tst Indianian. Tlie prisoner Asa in, was ship keeper to that •essel, whirl, tens eie property of Alderman Atkins and Co. :Ina in. employed Williams and Roberts, two black men, to convey the piece of cable before meat . .41, in a boat in which French, a boy, went to get a sail. They were detected by some of the officers of tile Thames Pollee Office. 'fbe facts in suoport of the indictment against and Roberts being satisfactorily proved, the Jury brought in a verdict against those prisoners of Guilty, but acquitted French. _ .• J. Goodwin and C. Fynness, were convicted of stealing a bowsprit, the property of Messrs. Kay and Co. The prisoners were observed by some 'petite Officers of the Thames Police towing the bowsprit near Biscktriar,s-bridge, tin , l on being questioned, they said it had broke adrift. 'flue Officers not believing the story, took them into custody, and it was afterwards discovered that it bad been cut away from the yard of a Mr. Bond, a mast maker, at Blackwall.—Ver dirt —Guilty. The Common Serjeant told the pi isoners that they inigla expect to leave the country, as the robbelics on the Thames were too frequent not to call for exemplary punishment. The following were also convicted of felony, oak Lee, for stealing a cloth pelisse; W. Kelly, *Or - stealing a watch ; W. Cirittnett, fur stealing a watch ; W. Holford, for stealing a watch; Catherine Caton, fur stealing a haunch of venison ; J. tliekey, for stealing ss. in copper money; and J. Whitcomb, tor stealing lelbs. of lead. T CESD:Vi. Thew scs►ions, declared by the Recorder (in Isis address diNcharging the petty jury :ion) further attendance) to have been the longebt in Ms recollection, ware this day brought to a termination. . Catherine Anderson, for stealing six silver tea-spoons, the property of John Rotfan ; Benjamin Hughes, for stealing a pair of lireeches and trowsers, the property of John Harman ; John Weaver, for steeling a Aheet, the property of James Wildmayor John Roebuck, for stealing a pair of stockings ; Anne Tate, fur stealing a shawl ; and James Ingrain, for steal ing a silver tea spoon, were severally con deed of grand lar ceny. The Recorder then proceeded to pass sentence ton the convicts. Judgment Of death was pronounced upon George. Pearson and John toe forgery and upon 2.3 ethers for house•breaking, horse-stealing, highway robbery, and stealing from dwelling-houses; 4 were ordered to be transported for life, I for I I years, and 59 for 7 years ; 66 %vete. sentenced to different periods of confinement at home, either in New:tate or the House oe Correction, aermnpanied in many easeswitle the infliction of whipping and hard labour. There were more prisoners fot: trial at the Old Sessions which terminated on Tuesday than at any preceding session. The number was 476, of wifich there were 1; Convicted of capital offences Felonies 'Manslaughter Frauds Acquitted 'otal tried Remains to be tried at Atkin alty To be removed for trial at the Assizes 'Remain for trial next sessions Dkeharged for want of prosecution Ditto by Proclamation, the Grand Jury having thrown ont the bills 99 476 Total A few weeks ago, as an elderly lady, accompanied by a young female friend, was proceeding in her own carriage on .the great roast leading front Eslinhargh to D fries, within a mile and a half of the village of Broughton, that part of the dicky on which the coachman was seated suddenly gave way, and precipitated the man among the horses' feet, by which mseitlent his thigh-bane was broken. 'flue horses set off at full speed, and the lady's waiting-maid, who was on the othe part of the slicky, was also thrown down by the concussion of the splinter bar, on which, and the pole alternately, she main. twined her footing ; wad at last, with wonderful presence of mind, and singular dexterity, ved along the pole betwixt the horses, seized the reins, and arrested their progress, aftet they had galloped for half/ mile. A poor fellow, a hair dres ser front Edinburgh, going to Dumfries in qcest of work hav ing got up behind the carriage, unknown to the coachman, and attempting to leap off, at the time of the accident, had his clothes so entangled about the springs, that he was drag ged along the road for a comaderable space, and seceived very svciouz4injowv. Fortunately a surgeon was at hand, and the broken limb being property set, the coachman is in a fair sr y of recovery. - - - • - - TUE 14 NI: LOT'S I'llo6nEs , .—On Wednesday night last a woman.mha has beentrill know ntime sonic years in St. Sa s iour's parish as a person of abandoned character, was found abent o'clock lying on the pavement iu Kent Street, Ito rte4t, in t s!Ate Of insensibility, by the watchman. She was taken to the watch-house, and put in the kickmp house. Out the following morning she was found dead. She was very thin, weak and emaciated. Some years ago the deceased a Miss-- —•-, and lived in the Borough wish her fiiends. She was tit:4llll'l'd by an officer. When he was tired of her, she -was turiwd out, aud became nil inmate of a house of ill taste of the first style. She was then a woman possessing some claims to beauty. She lett her lodgings in debt, was arrested, and found a ft lend in the sponging-ions., who kept her for some time. She then becalm. a woman common on the town ; and, having roblied a young fellow, she was tried for the of fence, and imprisoned. She afterwards became a prostitute of the lowest description ; and vice, disease and want bienght Ler to a lamentable and miserable end. CONJUGAL ATTU um:yr.—Capt. Frcgeiiirt sail e d lat e ly from the port of foision is the ship Ll:rainy in a voyage ruiwd Abe world. Sonic days utter his departure it was discovered that his wife %alio h.id aceouipatiieti hien to the port, and a lio ha l sitilden:y disappeared, had PAlCcreded io jt Wing the ship in the habit or a seaman, in defiance of the regnlatioa prohibited all Nyoulcu froin clubarkini. 'YYW NATIONAL RI6IfTER. POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. RomErtl' On Wednesday, 11. Burt, and T. Clarke eharri•d with stealing Ili goat skins, value tOt. and upwards, the property of all eminent leather Seiler in the neighbour. hood of Cloak-lane, were, after another examination, fully committed for trial. Thursday, a young man, showman in the house of George Franks and Co. hat manufacturers, Reilcross.street, applied to the Lord Mayor for a summons against one of the clerks in the Inspector's Office ol• the Bank ot• England, who bad violently assaulted hint. The gentleman stated: that a 11. note alledged to he forged, had come into his possession by way of business, aid that the clerk having demanded it, he, after a minute. inspection, insisted upon retaining it, knowing from whom it had been received. The clerk, however, was not determined to give op Its point, and jumping behind the counter seized him by the collar, tore his shirt and neck-cloth, and otherwise aboard him During the elnimissin wont this outrage, one of the principals of the house entered the shop, and advised the immediate assistance of an officer. Belpre this latter, how ever, could he obtained, the clerk of the Bank decamped. The Lord Mayor said the otli•uee hail been comnitted in the C•aiidhall, and not his district. Wt re it otherwise, be would not hesitate it moment to grant a summons. His opi. Ilion on the subject was already well known,and lie considered the present ease et' a serious nature, mid it fit subject of indictment. iiis Lordship considered the latter proceeding as most proper to be pursued by the complainant, who might otherwise, however, apply to the Sitting Magistrate at Guildhall, who n•uuld no doubt render him that justice which the extraordinary circumstances of the case demanded. GUILDHALL. Monday W. Clackstone was charged with aiding in the escape from custody of his brother, H. G. Clackstone. The latter has been several times examined at this office upon va rions charges of uttering forged Bank notes; and on Satur day it was determined upon that lie should be fully commit ted, but at the earnest solicu ultimo of his lather and brothers he was remanded tOr smother week. On his way to the Compter, lie contrived to make his escape from J. Darnell, the constable, in the follow ilag manner :—The constable left the office about two o'clock with the prisoner, accompanied by his father, the present prisoner, and a younger brother, On arriving in Wood-street, sone of the party requested the constable to allow them to go into a public-house to take some refreshment, to which he consented, and they went into the Angel and Crown and called for some porter. In a few mi nutes the present prisoner got op, and said," I mast go to Fore street," and left the house. lie had scarcely closed the door, when his brother, the then prisoner, jumped up, cried out, " William, I want to speak wish von," and before the con stable (to use his own words) could look round him, he was off. Every endeavour was used for his re-capture, but in vain. The present prisoner was apprehended at his lodgings. He denied any participation in the escape of Ids brother. The constabletould not say that he saw either of the bro thers running, The Magisuato severely reprimanded the countable for suffering a prisoner to cutter a pnblic•house. The whole, he said, was evidently a concerted plan between the fattier and soils ; but, unfortunately for the ends of jus tice, there was not evidence sufficient to bring home the charge against the prisoner. lie must therefore be dis charged. BOW-STREET. Naos underwent an exa mination before Mr. Hicki, the Sitting Magistrate, charged with being a sturdy rogue and vagabond, by falsely pretend big to be in a famishing state, and to be afflicted with tits, &c. in order to excite compassion for the purpose of obtain• ing money from his Majesty's subjects. On his being placed at the bar, he refused to till where his parish was, or to give any account of himself; it was, however, drawn from hint that he was borit in .Devonshire within fifteen miles of Exe. ter ; that he was apprenticed to Mr. Blackwood, asurgeon and apothecary, at Barnstable, and served out his apprenticeship within a quarter of a year, when he entered into the North Gloacestershire militia. No other particulaus would lie give respecting his life, or how he now gained his living. He was committed to Tuthill fields Bridewell AS a rogue and vagabond. Pariah, a waterman, was brought to the office, charged with being concerned with a female of the name of Taff, and four other men, in committing a violent assault and outrage upon Lady Colebrook, and her ladyship's three grauddaugh ters, on the 23d of September last. It appeared that Mrs. Taff, the mother of the young ladies had applied to Lord Ellenburough some time since for a ha beas corpus, to bring the young ladies from the possession and control of Lady Colebrook, who was educating them under her own immediate protection, with which Mrs. Taff was not satisfied. In her application to Lord Ellenborough she did not succeed in outaining possession and emitted over her dairghters, slit. therefore ; had recourse to a stratagem, and on the 23d day be Sept. she employed Joseph Parish, and four other men, to accompany her in a carriage; they pro ceeded towards Hampstead, the residence of Lady Cole brook, at a time. when Mrs. Tall' expected her ladyship arid the three young ladies would be out in a carriage. This ex pectation proved to be correct, as they met them OD Hamp stead-hill; it lien Mrs. Taff got wit of her carriage, the ;nen accompanied her, and, tinder her direction, stopped Lady Colebrook's carriage, and endeavoured forcibly to take the Noun. , ladies out, amid give them into the possession of Mrs. Taff; the tine and spirited opposition of Lady Colebrook's coachinau and footman, together with the assistance of some persons passing at the time, win) were induced to act ill Assist ance, from the distress manifested by Lady Colebrook and the young ladies, frustrated the design of M . 's. Taff, and the young ladies were coat eyed back in security to Lady Cole brook's house. Mrs.'tait wits on the fillowing day held to bail for the courage, but the men as lio accompanied her could out be discovered them J. Pettish, upon Ids being brought op to the office, was identified by Richard Cann, Lady Colebrook's footman, as our of the party, who with Mrs. Taff attacked his mistress's carriage. The prisoner did not deny the charge, and said, he was in the employ of Mrs. tie ti ax oi tiered to find had to mower the charge at the eii,ming sesitiiis for Aliddlesex. HA'rION-GAR DEN. On Sunday night last, a 111,111 named lainsbnry, formerly a soldier In the ;is NV:I4 found Nvdtki isis in his blood, in Hornsey-wriod, with his throat rut to two places, one of the %moan& having penetrated the u:suphagus. The wretched man was forthwith carried to St. liartholoinew's-hospital, where he declined, that he had been wet iu the.wood by two men, knocked down, and robbed by them; and that among other thinv which had Inca taken Irwin hun, werstwu du- 5'27 plicates ; and further, that on leaving him, the robbers had atte:liptcd in destroy him, by r u tting his throat ui a .1 razor, which had b-en picked up bloody limn under his head alien he was lmild He sieuied having himself had any razor with him at the lime. To all these circumstances hr deposed to the Lord Mayor, who ettentled him in tbr hospital ; he es en gave a very particular description of the persons of the two men. lii consequence of his deposition, a wan named Flan nigan, was on Wednesday morning brought np to this office on suspicion), for having in his possession the duplicates, toge ther with a razor and lase which precisely answered to that found bloody near the w Jed moo. These articles he de clared lie hurl found in the wood, a short distance from the place where it appears, Lunshury had attempted to destroy himself. Some suspicion as to the truth of the unfortunate wretch's deposition having arisen in the Magiatrate's mind, from-the circumstance of all the other apparatus for shaving being found in his room, with the exception of razors. and button which fastened the razor case being a similar ouli;ory button with those worn by Luosbnry, be ordoied Flannigan to be taken to the hospital, for the purpose of CJII• fronted with lilac, when the wretched man COlifeigieti before the Lord Mayor that he bad himself committed the act. He stated, that on Saturday morning, the eth of October, 1817, he came down from Islington to Smithfield, to get a job; could not find any thing to do; he walked back to the Sluice-house : had a pint et' beer, and went from thence to Hornsey-wood ; he took with him the two 'woes iu the case, . with one of which lie cut his throat twice; he was on his knees when he committed the act; lie could not get work; be did dot like to beg or steal; and had resolved to destroy'. himself. This lie declared to be the true state of the case,. and that his former declaration before the Lord Mayor was false. MA RLB 0 RO UGH-STREE T. Tuesday, a man named Mackee, who had lately lived in the employment of Mr. Sink'', of llama . ..crescent, was charged by a genteel looking young woman, with a daring species of robbery in York-street, Middlesex Hospital. It appeared, that she was passing along, between the hours of 9 and 10 on Monday night, when some person Caine suddenly behind, and snatching off her shawl, ran away with as much speed as lie could. She immediately cried out " stop thief;" and a watchman in the neighbourhood, taking the alma', went in pursuit of the prisoner. Mackee, finding himselliu dan ger of being taken, dropped the shawl in Mary -le-laine- Street, and it was taken up by Thomas Simon, a buy who happeued to he passing at the time, and who ideutitied the prisoner as the pie:sou in whose . possession it was. The watchman still continued his pursuit, but the prisoner being a more expert runner, would have probably escaped, had he not accidentally met with a fall. His pursuer tumbled over him, and lie was immediately secured. The prisoner was fully committed. Two wretched looking men, M illiam Nevel and Robert Prunery, were charged with disorderly conduct by the keeper of Hyde-park. He stated to the Magistrate, that they had been in the habit fur some time, of retiring at night to a little slued, which had bean erected for a watchman in the park, with a miew to prevent the many robberies which occurred. These men had been frequently found asleep there in the morning, and were often warned not to repeat stick conduct, but they still persevered, and were found in the saute sitna. tion on Tuesday. The prisoners in their defence said, that they had been at sea many years, and not being able for some time back to procure any employment to pay for their lodgings, they were obliged to retire to this place at night, to shelter them selves from the cold. The poor creatures had a most wretch ed appearance. The Magistrate ordered them to be passed to their pa rishes. UNION-HALL. INFAMOUS CORSPIRACY.—Mr. Smith, who has a wifesard large family, who resides at No. 5, Orange-street, Nadi friar's-road, was brought by Birch, the constable, from Christ church watch house, aml was charged before Thomas Evince, Esq. by Mrs. Payne, a washerwoman, residing in Green street, Illackfilar'ssroad, with having violated the person oP her daughter, Ann Payne, a girl only nine years of age. Ann Payne stated, that on Saturday night, between six and seven o'clock, Mr. Smith spoke to her near Mr. Rose's wine-vaults, Blaek-triars-road, and in a passage near the bridge lie forced her on the ground,and committed the crime above-mentioned (the particulars were unblushingly stated to to the Magistrate): lie left her, and she went home and formed her mother of the circumstance. Mrs. Payne, Ilse mother of the above witness, stated, that her child informed her on Saturday sight of the prisoner's conduct towards her, and upon her csaininatahrof the child, she believed her statement was correct. Mr. Mare, who srsides in the Borough, stated that Mr. Smith was at his house on Saturday night from half-past five till seven. Mrs. Payne said, it must have been Friday night, instead of Saturday. Ann Payne, the child, said," 0 yes, it was Friday night, I remember." Several witnesses proved that Mr. Smith was at home, and in his business on Friday night, at the time stated by the girl to have been passed in her company. Birch stated, that on Tuesday night the girl was in Black ftiars.road, and Mr_ Smith was walking along towards his home, when she desired Birch to take bin; into custody, and charged him as above stated. Elizabeth Avis, aged lii, stated, that she was in company with Ann Payne, and heard her say that the first man that came up, she would give charge fes• violating her person. Mr. Smith came up and she gave charge of 11411 44/ Birch, and he was taken to the watch• hyuse. Magistrate.—" Are you not ashamed Mrs. Payne, to suffer your girl to charge a man with a crime which affects his life, when you know she cannot be believed? I am afraid this is a base conspiracy. 18 she nut a girl of abandoned cha ' ranter.? Mrs. Payne.—" She certainly is a bad girl; she ran away from home ; I cannot tell what to do with her." Mr. Aldir, a surgeon, stated, that he had examined the child, and to his great astonishment, (being intormedot her age,l found her very much affected with the foul disease ; he thoughts the charge false, tnr Mr. Smith was in -perfect heal tit . Ntattistrate.--" I Did not think it Itopsible for one so yoang to be so depraved.; 1 am satisfied the charge is without foun dation ; I wish I bad the p..vra:r of intlictinga punishment upon bee. The prisoner was discharged. The musical festival at Birmingham has been mere proine tive this year than on the last celebration. The receipts were. 80001. being 10001. wore than oa the last occasion.