The National Register. — London, England, 1808-01-17 00:00:00

r ♦ 1 I' t -. rE!IMIP JAN. 17 , THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 4c ___• prisoner in the tap-rooms. On her return the prisoner was Rune;' ani having occasion to look into the till. she found her money also gone. uposs which she -suspected the prisoner, and immedi ately raising a hue and cry after her; she was apprehended, and taken before a .mstgi Irate. Here the pr otter threw he rself on her knees before-the prosecutri asd p rulacing the bag with the money in it, confessed tirtt itad t , tuleu it. 'l' he magi:- trate, however, felt himself bound to commit rite prisoner, and the fact b•ing thus clearly established, she was found guilty, hut re commended to mercy by the jury.. Before the Londoti3Ury hve di:tine( cadges were herd, in all of w bicit the pri% ners were ender the isige of 18 ;_and What Is mart retnarkohleoltey were all found guilty, ilia al 4 e xcept uue, recommended to the humane cattsideratiOn of Chi Curt - ; - I'IMILSDA , JAN. 14. John Little was indU:trd for burglariougy breakinrani enter• lug the house of Mary l'a%ey, abd stealing therefrom several articles of _wearing apparel.---V erdiet John Coate.; and John Badger, two ver y 'ming boy!, were in dicted for a burglary, in breaking and entering the dwelling house of John Dowat, and stealing a piece of Itich cloth an d two Mk handkeechief,, 1,6 property.—Roth Gratty. George Rudd and Thomas Donovan were indicted fur stealing twenty-fire sheep, the property of •Jamee Burnell and Robert ?;wain, •ou the WO of December Inst. 'Eleven witnebses gave Ithdd (who is a butcher at Piadirol a most excellent character. The Jury withdrew, and ut Ir ngt h found a verdict of Guilt y. FRIDAY, .1111!1RY 15. Ann Thompson was indicted for the wilful murder of Joseph Walker, a black sailor, on the '26;11 of December last, in Den mark-street, Itataill Highway. It appeared in evidence that a quarrel had arisen between the prisoner and the deceased, in the course of which the former was much bruised ; that she endeavoured to exclude him from her lodgings, but that he at tempted :quiff to get in. when a scuffle ensued, and the deceased received the mound which caused his death. Several persons gave the prisoner a good character. The Jury found her guilty of Manvlaughter. The two following were capitally convicted : Martha Davis was convicted of tile robbery of Charles Tits• well, a lad about 15, puttinghim in fear, and taking from his per son a half-crown piece, in Dyott-street, St. (;ilex s, on the 11th inctant. Elizabeth Minster, for F teal ing 12 yards of muslin, 25 bards of ,arsnet, &e. of Thomas Nlorltull and Price :lames Lsani, in their d►tielling-house. ed the meeting, and Paster drew up resolutions, requiring aa advance of stages; which, on being presented , to Mr. Limebeer, were rejected, and a general strike was the consequence. All those who had struck were to be allowed seven shillings, pro vided they chose to go into the country, and an alto trance male to their wives and children,lmm the shop fund. The 'ease of the journeymen was represented as dangerous, and on Mr. Lime bear applying to Northampton for workmen, was disappointed. The journeymen there baying corresponded w ith those iti London. All the prisoners were.foand Guilty. ACCIDENTS, &e. A serious accident happened on Wednesday to Mr. G. B. Hearn, a young gentleman who resides in Portland-place, oc casioned by the restiveness of his horse. Mr. Hearn had pur chased the horse, which had a good deal of blood, sn recently as Saturday last, and he had not mounted him but twice before. On taking - him out of a stable in an adjoining ;news, the animal began to play as usual by rising gently before; and a gentleman who accompanied Dlr. Hearn advised him to dismount, to pre vent an accident. The horse went quiet for a short distance and began to plunge, and on his rider clapping spars to atm ue reared, and fell over on his back. Mr. It. was taken front under the animal with his shoulder dislocated, and his head thaigeroasly fractured. Ile was taken into the house of Mrs. Hearn, bat we understood that apprehensions were entertained of the accidana proving fatal. An Inquisition was taken last week, at a public-house near Newington, on the body of a young man of the name of Turner, who met his death in the fields, by following a companion with a gun, on Sunday morning. —It appeared in evidence that the deceased was clerk in a wholesale house in St. Giles's, and ho went out with the porter belonging to the same house, on Sunday morning, to shoot small birds. The porter was making a leap don ti a bank over the ditch, when the butt of the gun dashed allainst the hank, by his missing his step, and it went of. The deceased was standing on the bank, ready to get over the ditch also, and he received the charge about the head and shoulders, and survived but a few minutes. A bye-stander witnessed the accident, and corroboreed the testimony.-4ccidentol Death. A yotiug man, 22 years of age, the son of an opulent liquor merchant, stands charged with having committed a rape on a woman, 45 years of age, and a widow, in St. Anne's parish, at wltose house he had apartments for the accommodatioa of tt favourite female. The young damsel had recently eloped front her father, a shoemaker, in Bloomsbury parish, and her retreat having been discovered, she was taken home l'y the father oa Sunday etening, w hich fact was not known to her protector until the following night, w lien he called for her at eleven o'clock; it was then that the rape is said to have been committed on the landlady of the noose. The affair will be publicly int es tigated itt a day or•two. f.tTVIMAY, .T.llll. 16. John Ada.ns was indicted under the Ellenhorough Act, fur wilfully and maliciously cutting and maiming William Bennett, a police °nicer, with intent to murder him. William ii•linett, the prosecutor, stated, that on the 19th of June, he went with Lee a brother officer, to quell u riot in Noble -street, Stepney, and whilst advising a woman who stood in the street, to go house. a man, whom the prosecutor could not identify, rushed from a court, attacked him with a weapon which he suppoced to be iron ; he was knocked down, and had several cuts and bruises on the head, one of which fractured his 4;111, and he was several weeks undrr the hands of a surgeon. A surgeon proved that the prosecutor had sustained a serious injury from the wounds and bruises he had received.--The pssi soucr was found Gaut". MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. SAITRDAY I JAN. In. CONITIR tr .—The following fifteeu pio-iieytnen boot-ma kers, in the emp l o y of Mr. Limebeer,. Loot-maker, in Fleet street, viz. talhert, Weston, Poster, elford, Thompson, (;rise!!, tirimbev, Curtis, It Criiiibc:, Baker, Stuart, kobson, and Beikor, were indicted for un lustfully cotepiring together to prevent utter journeymen from working at their trade, withiitttan iiieroase of wages. it appeared; by the statement Of Air. Knapp and the te3timo- RN of witnesses, that the dell•tulaiits were workmen in the cm- Pio) of Mr. Limeheor, sonte'weeks previous to September last, whein a gement strike took place,' In cowequence of the prose cutor not ehoosiwg to submit to sonic resolution, passed at a shop-committee, in order to obtain an increase of wages. till bert acted as c halms* of the shop-meetings. By the steps taken kit these jourueyinew, the evil extended through the Metropolis, l'i'orthanipton, and other provincial towns, and to the. United Kingdom. 'the shop -comfit] itter:.iat at theCrou ked Billet, in S !I ire hue, and every considerable shop in London' gent two lidegittei h flair Cunaatittec sit their epresen:Ati:(:s. aciiltegg• MARRIAGES. Lord Keith led Miss 'fliwale to the Ilymeaial Altar. at Rams gate, on Sunday last. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Joshua Sydney Horton, Earl, Captain of his :N.lajet.ts's ship Princess of (range, to Mrs. NVltorwood, widow of the lute H. NJ. Whorwood, Esq of Headington House, Olfordshire. '• • Lately, the celebrated jockey, Mr. Francis Buckle, of Long Orton, and late Neusinaisei, to Mi,s June Thornton. youngest dattg,hler of Mr. T. Thornton, of Litchfield. • DEATHS. Lord Alexander Isiordon, 60(.0/111 -on of the Duke of Gotdon, at Edinburgh, in the 24th year ..f his age. In consequeece of his death, the Houses of Gordon, Bedfirrii, Richmond, Manchester, and Cornwallis, go into mourning - . . liredneAuy, at her hou..e ia Parslatel-place, the Hoe. Mrs. S. Vortlev Nltickenzie.nf;.•E n long illnoss. On the tith instant, at flit. Fif-hire, Sir Philip An struther, Bart. lie is succeeded in his title and estates by the Right Ilotioura.blc Sir John Aiitiutlior, Bart. late Chief Jus tice of Bengal. Philip CoOpy, Esq. Admiral of tile Red, at his house in Alfred-street, Bath, on Sunday moron g la.t, in the tiOth yeir of hip age. . . Angelica Kaufman, a celebrated artist, at Rome, on 7th Nov. last, in the filth year of her age. Her Nacre' *vas at tended by several Nobility, 104 ":.e - elesiasties in the habits of their orders, and a great number of Members of t Littler, Societies at Rome. Some ut' her host picture; were displayed in the procession, borne upon the shoulders of the mousers. At Paris. on the 24th ult. Nladante La Fa)ette. She was the daughter of the Duke D'Aven. son or the Minitel De Nuelle.s, and wife 4.;trtetal I'4; ette. k