The National Register. — London, England, 1818-07-06 00:00:00

JVI,Y 6 FOLIC E. GUILDH i LL. H. Walker and J. Robert, were charged, the former with sle.tlic.o•, and the latter with reeeiving, gotautitity of cloths and ot her at licks, the property of Mr. wholesale dealer, in Nlooonforol's court, Milk-sheet. Turnpenuy, au offi cer, stated, that he was employed to watch the conduct of the prisoner, who was the prosecutor's porter. On Saturday he saw him leave ilea warehouse with a large package, and fol. towed him some distance ; when the prisoner, observing hint, ran 44. Wiouess, however, traced Ilion to it public house in Moor-lane, w Item he took him into custody, and proceeded to the house of Robert', in New•conrt, Miele he wits informed the property was deposited. Witness desired 31rs. Roberts to produce the property, and site at first denied having any; bat on being threatened, she directed him to smite drawers, where lie found goods to a considerable autumn. Roberts ensuing in, lie took hint with Walker to the Cusupter. Mr. Thomas said lie hall reason to believe that%Valker had for some time been carrying on these depredations ; and the prisoners were remanded. BOW-STREET. Tuesday, at 12 teelock,the office was crowded to excels, in conectlatmee of Mr. Hunt repairiag thither to prefer a con. plaint against Mr. Lee, the High Constable of Westminster, Mr. Mint stated, that on Saturday evening the High Constable went up to him, anti in a tin - retelling and nit 'lacing manner, bell his stuff of office to his face; that afterwards he laid down, and with both his hand. clinched said," now, you, you scomsdrel, I will tight you," using language of the most abusive description. The foregoing statement was con firmed by the testimony of Mr. West and another person, who were witnesses of the defendant's conduct ; and Sir N. Coss: ut held Mr. Lee in recognizance' to envier the complaint at the Westminster Sessions. %Vs - I.m issme Et.etreoe.—On Monday erening John Bates was brought up to the office, and charged with being an in stigator and ringleader of the riots which took place at Ct). vent G trden and its neighbourhood., being concerned in the first attack 'em the car or cutter which was drawn about lawn by the party of Sir Murray Maxwell. tie underwent a long examination before Mr- ilirnie. John Blazey, of 76, Struttoirground, Westminster, said, that on Monday afternoon he saw the prisoner in Oxford street, carrying away a pole belonging to the cutter which bad been drawn about London in the course of the day, with the colours of Sir M. Maxwell. The prisoner's hat was a' the top of the pole, with a :lag attached to it, and he was carrying it about in triumph, calling out " Burdett for ever," &c. The pri- me r was committed. James Goulhoarne and Thomas Watkins were charged by Mr. Lee, the High Constable, with spitting on Mr. Edward Dailey and 7.1 r. Edward Baldwin. The charge was not pressed against Watkins ; but on Tt•esdity morning Mr. Ed ward Baldwin stated, that Gotilbottrue was on the hustings at Covent• garden, after the poll had closed on Monday evening, and stood near the spot where Mr. Gale Jones was speaking, from wkence Mr. Gale Jones pointed him out of the mob, us the person witt was litter, lining him in his speech, which caused several men among the not, to spit at him, and throw several things at him, among them was a piece of the boat belonging to Sic Murray Maxwell's party,witich had been de stroyed ; he having received a blow fi . olll it, he jumped from the hustings among the crowd, stud seized three men, and he contrived to hohl them till some constables came to Its assist ance and took charge of them. James White, of the Thames Police Office, stated, that the prisoner uas painted out anioug the crow.' as one who had been throwing various hard substances,hallooing, and making a great noise among the crowd close to the hustings, near where Gale Jones was speaking, and that Mr. Baldwin, the prosecutor, had bold of hint when he took hits into custody.— Ordered tolind hail. _ _ The several persons who were taken into custody on Mon day evening in Covent Garden, and secured in Richardson's Hotel till they way sent off to the house of Correction, were on Tuesday morning brought from that prison to the Office, and underwent examinations before Mr. Birnie, four of them at a time being placed at the bar. The first four aci e Thomas Farrant, lfillia,a Jefferies, William Smith, and Wil- Lan► Dead. John Ileggins, a special constable, stated, that he observed one of the prisoners active among the crowd. He first told him to go about his business at six o'clock, but he paid no attention, remaining about the crowd till the soldiers arrived hetwern sever, and eight o'clock, when lie several times called the Life Guardsmen " Piecuenly butchers," booted and hal looed at them, &c. Ys itneos warned hint to go away three or four times before lie took him into custody. His evidence was confirmed by George Judge,oftheThanies Police Office, and John Chesworth, a special constable r who also stated, that he saw the prisoner Jetftries heading the 7uuli about seven o'clock ; and a little after seven, he saw him armed with the handle of a birch broom, and striking at 11uw constables with it ; be made a snatch at the handle of the :in broom to endeavour U. get it from him, but he msfortais rtiliCly missed it. 'flie priw►er then struck him with it ; he at length succeeded, witq assistance ; in forcing the hitudle of the broom fi urn hint. firm ge Dalton, an officer licloaeinz to the Whitechapel Police (office, stated, that he saw the prisoners, Farraiit and s cry attire U 1110111: the crowd, and he saw theln butt pelting at the people with satin 'Saul substances; which he stated to Ilelee taken place about ten o'clock. Facrant, in his defenre, Is nai. a Idioms , iug tuan, and had bus,, employed dui 11. e election at,i a pu. tide, Sir I". Dutelett's Cnmmincr, nlid the tw.s:ne•s that called lilts, into Covent Garden on Jiuudrj evi %%.1‘ tlli , : --lie had been aenthy the Committee at the IteilLion public-house in .Pi atree!, Westrainstt r, with a letter to Mr. Brooks, at the iJcd ford-coffer house ; lie produced the letter, anti alr. Biride ordered one of the constables to take the letter to the Bed. ford cotlee-house without loss of time. rarrant said lie was Inerely passing throne') the uw b, i1144..1! . 11:ts token into ens . tody at 7 (remelt, and therefore the °fiver must he mistaken as to bum as he bad stated what his conduct bad been at ten o'clock. During the examination of Ow', men, limit, Lei only tnied by Ills son, and Ur. We,t, 'Lc w:re-utuker, of tl'cch_•trer•t, entered the office, and remained In: the Ckiliimsktiuses had concluded. Mr. Hilo anal Mr. West then lett the office, after taking Irate of !1... Maffistraie, but retorned again immediately . ; and Mr. Hoot slated that, as lie was leaving the °thee, a 0.1.1 behaved veg . ) now..peel, it. ►tiu'ing to two mct. MI.. the uflice, who bawl they bad tome to hail Ear :ant. wh..ut Le had heat d examined: rod the want.% agaium him hail ,tid. the mh.conthiet which hr had eltarg..tl him with having te..ii guilty of took place at ttu o'clock, whereas the Juan .aid Lc %he iu cubtoll)as 4tvta. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Mr. Kirnie ordered the roust:dole to be brought before him. when Mr. Hunt repented his charge of the bail fur Farrant being refused adisiittanceiiito the office. It turned mil, how ever, that the matt had slot come to bail Farrow, but another who had cot then been examined. Meseta! were ordered to find bail, and some were di-. charged. ki . etinesday Henry Williams, who works a ferryboat over the Thames at "Acworth, was brought to the office charged with a most outrageous sus:atilt on ?dr. Sim, 'Strickland, w Ito resides in that neighbourhood. 'fbe siefeace set up was in toxication ; hut the Nlacistratv Onto veil, that the charge was so serious, that he should expect very good bail, and com mitted him for want of it. A person calling himself William Charles Gregory• under went lung examination on Thnrsday before Sir Nathaniel Conant and Richard ilirnie, E.g. the Sitting 31agistrates t bring charged with having committed a great sariety of frauds and deceptions, probably as by ingenioas means, and to as great an extent, as ever was beard of. He has been forging franks of the Members of the Home of Commons, which ' twatig discovered at the Post-office, the solicitor and others belonging to that establishment have been exerting them selves to discover hint. Ile has engaged binuself at a Curate, and acted as such, although not in Orders. The following are some of the particulars the month of Deer-miter, in the year IMO, Dr. Forrester, the Rector of Droseley, Salop, being in want of a Curate, wrote to Messrs. Jackson, of Wardrabe.place, Doctor's Commons, to recommend him note; and in a few days after, he received a letter upon the subject, which proved to I.e writteu by the prisoner, offering to take the curacy, which he deemed so satisfactory, that be agreed to engage him, providing the testimonials as to hisnbint:es as a clergyman, and mural character, wet e satisfactory. In answer to hiv letter, lie received one from the prisoner, referring him to a Rev. Dr. Lawrence, who was then in London. and a letter addressed to him at W. I. Brown's, Esq. Barnard's-ism, would reach him, which he accordingly did, and received far answer, signed by A. Lawrence, giving the prisoner the most naexceptionable character. This letter was dated Jan. SOSIT. A short time after, Dr. Forrester had a strong suspicion that the whole was a fabrication. The letter purported to be franked by Sir Wiliam Garrow, at the time he was in Parliament and Attorney-General. Dr. Forrester engaged the prisoner as his Curate, and he continued to perform the duties of that office for about 4 months. During that time he had in formed Dr. Forrester, that the Dr Lawrence who had re commended hint was the father of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the portrait painter. Dr. Forrester, however, having reason to suspect the prisoner to be an impostor. came to town, and waited on Sir Thomas Lawrence, and found his c:... h acion realized, for Sir Thomas informed him that he had been ire posed upon by his citrate. The prisoner was committed. MR. AUNT itatistneMTVEn. A singular although not unexpected scene was exhibited at the hustings, Covent-gardens, on Friday. Mr. Hunt, it appears, in his ray irons Covent-gat-den on Thursday halted with his party in front of three Newspaper-offices. in the Strand, where after certain dentmciations against the conduct of these journals, lie delivered copies of each to certain friends in attendance, by whom they were immediately burnt. Ile next proceeded to the office of a Sunday paper. where, after some allusions to the character of that paper, he went on to state, that this newspaper, as wed as every other throughout the country. had ketonic venal end corritpt,and had been bribed to calumniate him (Mr. Hunt). He attributed the change which had taken place in a paper called Thr Oluervcr, to the cir cumstance of an individual being (as he termed ita at the head of its reporters, of the name of Mr. - Vincent George Dna - tisk " This was no other than the well-known Spectsch• Dowling, the spy.— The person he meant was Mr. Dowling. who had been employed by Lord Siduanith to take notes of the speeches of the two Watsintz, in Spafitdds, and who afterwards gave his .evidence upon the State trials." This calumny was zepeated more than once. The circum stance having been commuhicated to Mr. Dowling, lin proceeded to the hustings on Friday as early as ten o'clock. provided with a horse whip. Soon after twelve, Mr. Hunt. atanimpanied by his son. his dumb brother, Mr. West, of Wych-street, and others of his friends, entered the south door of the hastings, when instantly Mr. Dowling advanced and struck him severd blows over the head and shoulders with his whip. to a moment the conflation became general, the crowd closed npon Nit. Dowlieg.. and Mr. West and others seized him by the collar, and depriving him of his whip, prevented on his part further violence. During the fracas the dtuub blether and the younger Hunt contrived to strike him souse Wows upon the thee, across the shoulders of those who surrounded him. The civil power had by this time so effectually interfered that all further violence was suppressed. Mr. Dmvling soon afterwards appeared at this office, where he inferred a charge of assault against the dumb brother of Hunt. This person, together with Mr. Henry Hunt and his son, entered the office, and Mr. !limit: paseeeded to hear the charge, which was simply that of Mr. Dowling having been struck by the ilefeadant while in a situation in which he was unable to defend himself. In answer to this charge, the defendant, through the medium of his bendier, who acted as interpreter, asserted:that he had beets first struck by the complainant. Mr. Rhine observed, that if there was to be a deLace, Mr. Dow ling must enter more at large into his ea-e. Several gentlemen now Caine forward. and declared upon their oaths .that they had seen Mr. Dowling strike Mr. Henry Hunt sever.al blows on the head and shoulders with his horsewhip, bit deified most . positively that he struck the defendant. Mr. Henry Hunt said, that he had beehinfortned, one hem before he came to the hustings, that he was to he horsewhipped, and was advised to bring his stick to defend hineado. but that he had deter mined to some to the hustings unprepared with any warm what. ever. Mr. Dowling. in reply, said he did net mean to deny that he had come to the hustings for the express purpose of horsewhipping Nln 11am, and iulndited that he had effected that intention Ca. as :t necesuiry to evince his feelings, and to cheat:se a person whose ca lumny was as nialienant n; it was.false. Mr. !Urine &tic that sitting as a Magistrate. he had tett one course to pursue. and that was to bind both patties ower to Me Ses . skins, Mr. Dowling for horst-whipping .sir. Henry Hunt, and the • dumb Hunt for assaulting Mr. Dowling. Mr. 11. Hunt here produced a letter, which he sthd he had re ceived about five months since, in which he was informed that Mr. Dowling had declared that he would horsewhip him wherever he .net ' him ; and that be (Mr. Hunt) was prevented from appearing at the el eliou fire Lord Mayor in the city, in consequence of that threat. Mr. Dowling (leaks! most positively that he had ever expressed such an intentiam and entered into an eamanation of circumstances connected with s former transaction between him and Mt Hunt. from which it appeared that it was the opinion of his friends •• he would de grade himself - by taking any further notice of an individa. I si'm had tamely submitted to the epithets applied to him in a letttr publisind by him (Mr I hitt ling) in all the newspapers thrnughout the kingilm This letter was %%anti 1. one I lerethnl, and was in answer to an at. trek made upon lam by air. I !lint at a public dinner, at the Crown mil Anchor Tawern, when Mr. Hunt coupled his name with the mesa infi.mous of characters. Mr. Dowling also begged to state, that these attacks arose nut of the circumstances of his having been a aitnese upon the St ate Trials. That he had the misfortune to be a wit 11 .2 , -' was erne, bat he declared in the most solemn manner that it was solely fzunt accidcilt, and that at the time he weyt, t o t4va-fills 213 he had not the most remote anticipation of what subsequently tuok place. Mr. Bimie now said, that having heard Mr. Dowling so fully. he was ready to hear Mr. hurt in explanation \lr. Hunt first inquirul by whom the expressions alleged to have been used by him in trunt of the Sundae Newspaper-office, respecting Mr. Dowling. had becu communicatert ? Mr. Dowling replied. that one gentleman was then prewnt. who. together aith others, wan prepared to make affidavit of the fact. A gentleman then stepped forward, tort bore testimony to the ex pre,ions which had been used by Mr. hunt. The latter, after a dein hesitation, admitted that he had used sonic such words, and that he had said that Mr. Dowling was the person who had given evidence of 'peaches upon the state trials, which no body but himself could hear. Mr. Birnie new •said that he felt himself hound to call upon Mr. Cowling to find se reties to keep the peace towards Mr. II enry Hun: ; and at the same time, he must also call upon Mr. William Hunt to find similar sureties with regard to Mr. Dowling. Mr. Hunt immuliately said he did nut WMI that Mr. Dowling should be held in an: sureties. Mr. Bit-Me—What ' Gut for horsewhipping you, M. Hunt? Mr. hunt—No, it we: a mere nothing ; in;; brother received the blows ten times hard,r than I did ; and I should not now even be afraid of Mr. Dowling and too such Irish bullies I Mr. Dowling now said, that the latter remark of' Mr. Hunt was not one which perhaps could viroperly be replied to in the presence of a magistrate, but that since 'Mr. Wait was so courteous lie was in clined to be equally so, and should not insist upon Mr. Willia-a Hunt being put to the trouble of entering into recognitancea. as, if he considered it neceicary, he could take other steps lir. rudder. Mr. Birnie thought both gentlemen had acted in this respect with great prudence, and particularly camplimented Mr. Hunt on has for bearance after the manner in which he had been horse shipped by Mr. Dowling. He could not, however, dismiss the case without re commending Mr. Hunt to teach his sa , :t. and his brother more par ticularly (whe was unfortunately dud and dumb). habits of peace and good order. The parties then withdrew, and Mr. Hunt upon his return to the • hustings was saluted with some very unpleasant sounds mixed with • laughter. HATTON , GAR DEN. J. Dalby was charged on suspicion of steal* a double set of coach harness. O. Davis, a harness-maker, of hay•street, Clerkeuwell, deposed, that on Monday morning the prisent.r came to his shop, anti offered the harness for sale, t o r w hich he demanded 40s. Witness, suspecting they were stuktua t told him he would give 20s. for them. The priattner 'rent, abe pretended, to inform his master ; and in the ener a t i me w i tii a procured a constable, who took him iota"Zaudodv on his return. On being asked bow he came posss esse d of th ew, h e said, he met a man that morning carryinq the harness, who asked him if lie wanted a ,job ; the prison*" sa id h e did , and the man then gave him the harness and Aesired him to sell it for 40s. and lie would wait for him in e't. John's-square; that • alter leaving the harness with the kist witness, lie returned to aril the mat: In. could get no r ore than 20s. for them, but be we; lone u." ( t ^tl leis ret'arl he was- taken into cu.,- t044.---Aeinandosi, . orrrN-souAnr. Wednesday Michael Noland was filially examined on charges of issuing various 11. and 51. notes, purporting to be the notes of a batik (called the Exeter, Souse; set, and IrelalllP` bank) which failed some years ago. A great number of tradesmen, who have received the notes in payment, ap peared against the prisoner, who in 'passing them off bad represented himself as belonging to Sir i'raticlr Burdett's committee. Anions; others the landlord of the Red Lion in Prince's-street, where a committee is held, stated, that on Tuesday is eek , the prisoner being in his house, said lie wanted. to give money to a hand of itinerant musicians, and asked change for o 51. note for the purpose. The witness, on seeing that the onte he produced was a country note, at first hesi tated 4n giving him change; hut on considering that it was election time, he thought all was right, and gave him 51. in Bank notes. The Magistrate informed the prisoner that the offence with which he was charged was bailable, and that it he found two sureties in 1001. each, and himself in 2001. for each case, and gave 21 hours' notice, it would be accepted ; or in default thereof, lie must be committed. 'file prisoner bowed, but made no reply, and lie was committed. Friday he was re•examinedive when the wife of LI, Sinlry,. watelionaker, in Duke-street, Battersea-bridge, stated, that on the 10th of March the prisoner bought a watch and seal of her for 31. gave her a 51. note of the above Bank, for which she gave him the change: Mr. Hands, gunsmith, of Green- . wick, took a 51. note of the above Bank from the prisoner,,in payment fur a pair of pistois. The wife of. Mr. Douglas, of Peter-street, NVestminster, pr:litsellet, took a 11. note of the above Batik from the prisoner, in payment for ...mut, prints.— Several other persons deposed to suwlar frauds, and the pri_ sinter was fully committed. There have het n redo utty discovered in the parish of Mot - testssti, on the south side of the isle of Wight, the bones of that stupetidou , animal supposed to be the Al a minoth, or Mae. to don ; several of the vertebra, or joints of the hark bone, measured Sti inches iu cirottinferenee ; they correspond ex actly 111 IC/1 so, colour, end texture, with the bones found in plenty on the Ranks of the Ohio, In North America, iu a ale called by the•lndians Big bone Swamp. Also, iu the pal ish of Northwood, On the uoeth side of the island, the boots of the 'crocodile have hero funnel, by the Rev alt. 1111g:tea, of :.•sretiort. They seem to have belonged to an anima! ut that specie's, whose body did not criers d teelse fee t in lenath. Their calcareous natlu.e is net alseicel . het the bones ut the Ilastsdan (found on the south sole t.:l the island) contain it oil. An inquest as held at thesFiee Beth, Old Forel. on the Led/ o f master .1. Hunter, 14;e1 ten years. pupil at 1/r. Lindsey: , Academy, at 11ow, who died by a pistol shot. 0. W. %lure, a know pupil, said, that the deceased and himself borrowed a pistol to shoot at a mark. in a field. !laving tenekd it. they retinal to their chamber, when the deceased lay on Isis heti suseieng himself with a fiddle'. AVitness placed the pistol on the window seat, and fel teao a dose.. horn which he WAN shortly aroused by the report en a pistol, and perceived the deceased end on the weltenng in hes Wand, and the (pistol lying by him. Surgical assistance was iavtanLy procured. . but the earth WA.. dead. lie apprehends: that the Accessed had removed the pistol titan where wetness had placed it, and laid it on its limn the sti c it o e n l i l i . the heel; that the how of the fiddle might have touched the trigger, hi. baring and cau not the sed it to e sl!ln le, deceased had tin wouralis in his r sol o one of which. near temple, he had no dint, t eansud his death. V e nhet--.% ,, :idelelpily "lint al";Itirg7:111',.i1:71.1r:111. A eensi.4l:4ldc ferint at exists among the Mikes at Tipton. War wickshire, and neiulthourhand. Without givin . their onspiuyer, any misspelli previiow notice, rat number left their work. with the view of ng II eke m their wages. s and 45 of them have its consequence been stet for two months to the llouseof Correction, for so leaving without due notice given. Th e re w.ts lady gathered, at WarminAer s a cowslip having buds, all blown upon a sinzls sum.