The National Register. — London, England, 1820-04-23 00:00:00

At the late Gloucester Assizes, the trial of Henry Bradley, for a burglary in the house of Mr. Wilson, of Lastgaie-street, in that city (in company with two other who ate still at large), and stealing thereout two che , t• of tea, his property, and of George Martin, tried unfit the same indictment for receiiing the said tea, knownig it to have been stolen, commenced on Thursday soon after eight o'clock, and was not brought to a close lid half-past five in the afternoon. The highly reputab!, situation in life which the latter prisoner had filied, to the period of this unfortunate transaction (twin.: long resided there as a grocer), excited a very consider s de degree of interest ; and at an early hour the Court was crowded with spectators, anxious to hear the trail On dellveriag in their verdict, several of the ittry were risibly a fleeted, front the personal knowledge which they hid of the prisoner Nlartm's former respectalultty. Mr. Justice nolrovil nutlit•diately after, in the most impres sive manner, proceeded to pass sentence upon the pri soners, antithelverting in the strongest trims noon the enormity of Martin's offence. He had been cotnicien unto .ee el •arcst evidence; and the good chirac;••i -w telt had been given to him by the very respectable w messes examined on his behalf, tended rather as an avravation of his case, the event of this clay suewina how 'mien the. had been deceived, and evineih4 the great kedity with which he could pwsue such a nef.- nous tradie unsospec ed by his neighbours. It was the encoora2.etoent held out by such persons that led whets to the commis:wit of deprcdittiotts which ftureitial tlieu lives to th- .aw ; .1.“1 wiitt, ilopposol or re sisted, 'night tt e•t o toit ,id. mare born I crime of murder! Sentence of transportation was then passed in the usual form. Ott XV, tittesthy evening, about half a dozen vin lains, dressed as mechanics, went to the public house at the corner of Moor Street, Seven Dials, and pretended they wanted to look at the 'lob room, as they were about to form or remove a club there. The young couple who kept the house, had been there but a kw weeks, and they were glad of an opportunity or inereating their business ; the fellows engaged the room, which is next the land lord's bed room. They called for porter and pipes, and Ca. bit IT the house waited upon them, and soon atter wave o'clock they paid their reckoning and left. The landlord having his fastnings good, went up stairs to go to bed, when he found the door of his r,,on, which he left locked, open, and his drawers and trunks ransacked of 801. end upwards which he bad received since lie took the house, besides a watch and other articles, and unfortunately not one of the thieves are known. A pipe was left by the bed side. A Fool Race Sweepstakes for 100 Guineas.— A singular race took place on the Woodkrd road .early on Tue.alay morning, which wits made on Monday evening °vet the bottle, between a Captain Fry, and Messrs. Adams, Lee, and Jones. The listance was five miles, and Jones, who is rather corpulent, was to receive one at starting, Lee 400 yards, and the other two to start together.— Lee was overtaken at the two miles, and he gave in. It was a good race between the two first until they had done four miles, when Adams was beat 50 yards and resigned The Captain knocked himself up in endeavouring to catch Jones, who beat him, and won the race by 50 yards, The Captain did his ground in 30 minutes. Vickery. the officer arrived itt London on Monday, with Mr. Hunt, formerly a wine merchant in city, whom he has been in pursuit of abroad fur about five months. Hunt left England considerably in debt. first having converted every thing possible into nuatey ; in his absence he was made a bankrupt, and his deficiencies were so great that Government rendered every possible assistance A letter was written by Lord Castlereagh to Sir Charles Stuart, the English Ambassador at Paris, and t,) Lord Clan carty, at the Court of' the Netherlands : Baron Fogel, the Ambassador from the Netherlands to the British Court, who was abroad at the time, rendered every possible assistance. Vickery was accompanied by one of the assignees and the solicitor to the bankruptcy. who knew Mr. Hunt's person. They traced him to Dieppe, where they found hint in a diligence„just going to start for I lav re, the prinei• pal port titan ',hence vessels sail for America It was dark, and they could only distinguish hint by the assistance of it lighted lantern. Ile denied that his name was I loot, havin. , procured his passport by the name of Hardy. H e, ' however, afteruards confessed that his name was Hunt ; anti for his false representation of himself' the French police sentenced hint to be imprisoned' three months During his confinement a correspondence was car ried on between the different government-officers, as to his being given up at the expiration of his confinement. On his hieing released, the French police sent him to a village on the frontier, wheac Vickery stopped him, and he received assistance from the police-officers of the Netherlands. It is expected that his creditors will recover "20 Vickery sailed with hint in custody from 0-i and arrived in London with him on Monday. I •:• officer wished to lodge him in Newoate, but keeper doubted his power to receive hint 0141 warrant, it being issued by the Lord ChLf Justice Abbott, which directed that he was to be lodged in the prison where lie was taken. The Lord Chief THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Justice Abbott being engaged on the State trials no Tuesday, application was made to Mr. Justice Hofray& who sanctioned his commitment. Forinnote Escape front Poison.—On Sunday last Lord Alvanley, in consequence of indisposition, or dered his servant to procure him a dose of Epsom salts; but instead of getting them from his Lord ship's apothecary, the servant bought them at ano ther shop. Lord Alvanley had no sooner swallowed the medicine given to him than he became very un easy, which, along with the peculiarity of its taste, led him instantly to suspect that he was poisoned. Mr Wanin), one of his Majesty's Surgeons, saw Lord Alvanley immediately. Emetics and proper antidotes were administered, and we arc happy now to be able to state, that except some slight weakness, his Lordship has perfectly recovered. On enquiry it was found that the supposed Easom salts were made up by a mere boy, and in place of that medi cine it had given au ounce of salt of zinc. As this is one of the many instances of dangerous suffering, from the carelessness or inability of persons employed in chymists' shops, we sincerely hope that it will not only afford a useful lesson to the public, and render them cautious in the manner they obtain medicines, but that the legislature will interfere in this country, as it has done in all others of civilized Europe, and establish regulations to guard against such dangerous mistakes. the impartial and upright manner in which Mr, Justice Bayley conducted himself in the judgment seat, on a late memorable occasion, will always, indeed, be remembered with gratitude. osi sic omnin ! Then indeed the people would look up with their accustomed reverence to the laws. But, un thrtunately, a new system of administering justice has lately made its appearance among us, of a very different character. Our readers know to what we allude without our entering into particulurs.—lt is against this system that Parliament, we hope, will declare itself. Sure we are, that if the people are not brought back to their former confidence in the laws, the laws will soon cease to afiltrd that protec tion to the community for which they are intended. A Cheap Methyl of Doing Good.—A flintily in the East Riding of Yorkshire give to every poor woman, during her confinement, gruel made of two quarts of water, a pint of' ale, a little ginger, and a spoonful of oatmeal, sweetened with, treacle. Let it simmer farce hours. This they give three or four times, with two suits of baby.linen, and half a gui nea in money. The milk of three cows when very scarce to those who have a child under two years. About six bushels of coals to Si) families, and at Christmas ;01. in money. The lady gives a woman 51. for teaching 50 or 40 girls ; three times a week, an hour a day, come when they will ; and on Sunday three hours of her time ; and all this fur a total ex pence of 451. Is. Pugilism v.Wallzing—A recent publication draws a curious line or comparison between the indecency of the two exhibitions in the following manner:— te have extreme pleasure in writing the series " Boxiana," and we know that it is excessively popular. It is mil that one elderly maiden lady has written us stn eXpostulatory epist!e on the subject, and expressed he.- sell' shocked by the indecency of the spectacle of two norwous porters (such were her very words) exhibiting themselves stripp.A heft re 40.4100 spectators. We an swered that letter privately, and assured the nun that pu gudists tight in flannel drawers, and that they are vet, little more exposed than young ladiei. in a ball-room. We also veniured to state it as our opini.at that it is less indelicate in such a man as mut Bc;cocr to give Cropley a cross buttock, than officer of litroars to put ;one timid on lite bare neck of a virgin of 18 years, anotiter mond tier waist, and thus to whirl h r about or quarter of an hour in his arms, till both parties ate thmil, and that too in presence oaf JO) spectators. A scaltaiug match is, we humbly sii,:4ested, a more inde• glue exitibition than a boxing watch. What can be mow so, mail to silt ready stripped into the nue, and me in socceeein a long series o military It occa sionally frlieved by civilians The :linazon dismisses Ir tit tier embrace CJp:4lll and colonel, and an ns, all pt g and perspiring and reeling, while she ~I,IIICIS victorious and onexhatisied in the ring. And wao Collip,),C u 1 • rlll3l J Ittiges, senators, maids, and allloilf4 their Our tort shneclled rorrespotelent. l'abitna, to Monkey !host, when Fortier tighis yount; Cabbage, and th,ll, uta your conscience, till its their colt-111m 14 :IA indecent a, Iltat of COI lOA S.l bretache aml Miss Julia Os - away." SMUGGLING OF CONN.-4; appears to he the ',Lic hee at Ltierpnid to ship veer or, ,ef I'orckll tvit.al Irons the bonded wareimuses there, for the I-k of elan, %% here hey are landed, and immediately alter re-slopped for is markets to' this country, (although smut w foleigo corn), under the name of Mark's produce. The has practice also l ei-veils in the Isiailtis of (inernsey and Jersey. 'fr. Dunlop, of the Isle or Mati, has writti:i lo :;iihnooto on the subject, from whom h'e has learnt that effectual orders hate Oven issued to place the ports of toe Isle of Man under shit:Lir rei4adamius with too , e 01 Great Bream, wit' respe ct to foiri•. yom 1. meeting was held at Bridgnorth on Saturday east, wain it was resolved to petition Parliament to etse the state of the country into serious considerae time and to adopt such measures as may best contri bute to relieve the distresses of the agricultural and• commercial distresses of the country. 13S A Coroner's Inquest was held at Trowbridge, on Wednesday last, on a poor child named Adams, nine years of age, who met with her death in the follow ing. :mild manner :—Ou Saturday night her parents put the rest of the children to bed, and locking the door, went off to the ale house, leaving this child up, to clean herself, ready fir school the following , morning. By some accident her clothes caught fire, and with difficulty she got to the back-door, and alarmed the neighbours; but before assistance came, she was in a dreadful condition, and her clothes nearly consumed. She languished till Sunday even ing, and expired. The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, but considered the conduct of the parents as peculiarly reprehensible. A SAGACIOUS JUDGE.-At the late Lancaster Assizes, a woman having been placed in the wit nesses box, who 'erom a natural defect or momentary timidity, did not give her evidence very audibly ; the presiding Judge (Mr. Justice Perk) addressing the Prothonotary said Mr. Cross, I order that when ever an attorney does not instruct his witnesses to speak out properly, or his witnesses do not speak out properly, the expences of that witness shall net be allowed." Mr. Flaldimand, the Hanoverian messenger, who arrived in London on Friday, with letters from the Duke of Cambridge, also brougitt letters from the Duke end Duchess of Cumberland, at Berlin, to the King, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess &pia, and others of the Royal Family. A fire broke out in the shop of •+essrs. Grace and Freeman, at Millbank, on Friday morning. It was a white lead manufactory ; the greater part of it was destroyed. The damage is computed at from three to four thousand pounds. On Friday, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, an escape of gas from a fractured pipe having been discovered in the chemical warehouses of Messrs. Savory Ind Ca , of Bond Street, one of ihe workmen incautiously took a lighted candle, to find out the situation of the leak ; when an explosion took place, which singed the hair of the man, and broke several panes of glass in the ,hop window. The conununicaticn through the Bank of En gland from the front of that building to Thregmor• ton-street, passing the Bullion Office, has been closed during the State trials, by a general order from tl►e Directors. CORNISH WANDERER: Mr. 1V iISOTI, a gentleman of Cornwall, who inherited an estate of about 10001. per annum in that county, at the age of '23, and in the year 1731, the year after his father's death, set off for the Continent on his travels. He rode or. horseback, with one servant, over the greatest part of the world. He first viewed every European country ; in doing which he spent eight years. He then embarked lbr America, was two years in the northern part, and three years more in South America, where he travelled as a Spaniard, which he was enabled to do, from the facility with which he spoke the language. The climate, prospects, Sic of Peru, enchantedhim so much, that he hired a firm, and resided on it nearly twelve months. His next tour was to the East ; he passed successively through all the territories in Africa, to the south of the Mediterranean, Egypt, Syria, and all the domi nions of the Grand Seignior ; went twice through Persia, through the northern and southern provinces, over Hindustan, and part of Siam and Peru, and made several excursions to the boundaries of China. He afterwards, on his return, stopped at the Cape of Otrid I lope, anti penetrated some distance into Africa ; and, on return to the Cape, he took the opportunity ofa ship going to Batavia, and thence visited most of the Islands in the great Indian: Ar. chipelago. Returning to urope, he lauded at Cadiz, and travelled over land to Mo.cow. in his way to Kanisehatka. In 1783, he was at Moscow, healthy anti vigorous, and though then in his 66th year, was preparing for u journey to Siberia. Monday afternoon, a decently dressed female W. 13 observed walking backwards and tinavards by the river side at Chelsea, in , uch a way as to excite su4- picion that she had some design upon her own lite. At length she jumped in anti sunk. A lad named Dumbleton, ion of a putatee merchant in Drury• lane, who beheld the act, immeli itely came up, took off his coat and waistcoat, and fearlessly* sprung into the water to rescue her. Aft, r considerable difficulty, he succeeded in getting the body to the shore, where it was laid, exhausted and insensible on the bank, till some persons ivere procured who carried it to a neighbouring. public house, where animation returned, and by the kind persuasions of several persons, site c.msented to return hotn,2; bu wcadd not tell tha cause of her rash conduct. Tht intrepid Isw a' plied to (and we understand receive , from) the Humane Society, the usual reward —la" such cases. There arc at present in .Whitecross-street for del',- apwar.ls of 45( in.:goners, male and lc male, nit waitiog; in• anxiaus expectation of being released by an Act of (;race, ar Insolvent Li:!, st.vs. Alta the meeting of P.lrlinme,:t.