The National Register. — London, England, 1809-10-01 00:00:00

OCT. 1. James Hew it, an old man nearly 60 years of age, was indicted for a misdemeanor, in having in the month of August last, con- , trary to an Act passed in the reign of George IL. seduced an Ar tificer ilft his country to leave the kingdom. From the testimony of the witnesses examined, it appeared that the Prisoner, although recently from America, is au Eng lisionao, and sad lately frequented a public-house called the York Minster, immediately in the vicinity of the cotton-menu factory of Messrs. Hughes and Lewis, Bunhill-row ; to which the men employed in the service of Messrs. Hughes and Lewis usually resorted ; and amongst others a an named Hutchin•oa, 7 who had been formerly apprenticed from the parish of St. Mar tin's, to a cotton-manufactory, near Manchester, where he re mained till he arrived at the age of 21. He then came to Lon don. and was employed in the service of Messrs. Hughes and Co. in the by old-dying business, and was in fact returned a fair work man. This man the Prisoner frequently met, and by glowing representations of the advantages and great wages he was likely to obtain, by going to America, induced him to agree to emi grate, for the purpose of being employed in a cottononanufac to- ry, at a place culled Cooper's Town, within two miles of New It - Ork, and a short distance from the residence of the Prisoner. Messrs. Hughes and Lewis having heard.of this negociation, sent for the Prisoner, and remonstrated with him on the illegality of the steps he was pursuing, fore-warning him at the same time, that it' he persisted in his delinquency, they would punish him with the rigour of the law. The Prisoner then declared his ig •noratice of aoy criminality attaching to his conduct, and pro mised most faithfully that be would relinquish his intentions. In a few days, however, Mr. Hughes discovered that Hutchinson was making preparations for his departure, and that his passage had actuail:. been taken on board an American ship. The Pri soner wits then apprehended, and on being, brought before a Ma gistrate, produced a receipt for 191 dollars, paid by him to the mate of an American ship for Hutchinsun's passage, and also a promissary note of liutchitison's for that sum, and for other monies which bad been advanced to him by the Prisoner, to be paid out of the produce of his labours in America. The Pri sutler's defence then was, that Hutchinsou came a second time to him, and said he had naditis master's permission to leave the country, and that from his solicitations, lie was induced to pay his passage out. The Common Serjeant, who tried the case, in summing up the evidence, dwelt with peculiar force on the raischievousaendency of the crime with which the Prisoner stood charged, which, he 'said, was most materially connected with the manufacturing in terests of this country ; and aas deservealy punished by law in a most exemplary manner ; the laigislature having decreed, that persons, convicted of such an oftener., should be subject to 12 months Imprismonent, and to a penalty of 5001. The Jury, without a tnomenes besitatiuu, returned a verdict tif Hutchinson, the artificer seduced, war then tried under au Act, passed in the sth of George the First, w Lien enacts, That any ar tificer, particularly in the tnaaufacinres of cotton, wool, silk, &c. who should be convicted of, or detected in, pre paring to leave the kingdom, for the purpose of devoting his knoa ledge for the benefit and advantage of foreiga countries, not IV it the British Dominions, should he bound to enter into re cog,nizances himself, arid two sureties, fur remaining in the country. The evidence in the former case was again gone through, and the Prisoner was found Guilty. Sarah Martin, a decrepid old woman, 65 years of age, was !ikewise convicted of stealing AI yards of printed calico, from She shop of a linen-draper, iv Xottenham-court-road. The trials having been concluded, the Recorder passed the • awful sentence of death upon •the following convicts:— Robert Wilson and Thomas Simpsoti:for house-breaking— John Devine, for horse-stealing—John Sexton, for feloniously stealing in a dwelling-horse—William Sheppard, for forgery — John Briant, for cutting and tnaiming—Richard Oakilen, for an unnatural crime—Susannah Beeson, for house-breaking-- Mary Tyler, aged thirteen, for horse-stealing—Anne Campbell, for stealing in a dwelling-house—Anne Kennington and Matilda Dyer, for highway-robbery—Robert Arnott, for house-break- Iog• in the day time—Thomas Mayne, for horse•stealing— Thomas Rhodes, a servant at the Post Office, for secreting a Ptter and embezzling Bank notes—Robert Jefferson, for stealing in a dwelling-house—Cornelius Sullivan and Dennis Fitzgerald, • fur a rape—and Jane Urowae and Mary smith. fur waling privaoly in a shop. THE XATIONAL. REGISTEtt, John Jones, an old man, aged 00, and of respectable appear. ance, was indicted for a most outrageous assault, with intent ti perpetrate a rape on the person of a respectable young woman, named Elizabeth Stevens on the di h of September in,tant. The Defendant is a carver and gilder, residing Ei Bream's buildings, Chancery Lithe; a artrried man, with a family of grown-up•children. Tice Prosecutrix had been for the last eight years an intimate, sometimes a resident, aid occasion 1117 a visitant in his family; to which she had been oriinally traduced by the name of Mary Blundell, through the m (limn of a draft in her favour for 201. remitted to her by a rcirad abroad, and payable to the Defendant. The Prosecutrix win?, some time afterwards, induced to become a resident doinestic companion in the family, still calling herself Mary Blaisdell. In about three years, she left the house, but continued occa sionally to visit there. O. the day,' above stated, she called t r y see Mrs. Jones, and her children. 'rite for Mer happened to be then in the country, and the eldest son h u 1 also left Loudon that morning. The Defendant, however, tle Prosecutrix in; iisal it should seem, deternsiced to %dz.. the present opportunity for his criminal purpose: the better to facilitate which, he sent his daughter and servant out upon frivolous in - fleeces, and he went down to the kitchen, where the Prosecutrix was ease pl()) ing herself iu some domestic occupation; and itnmediattly began his advances in a way that astonished the y oung womaa and could Out fail to excite her apprehensions of his intent. She remonstrated n ith him upon the indecency of such condct, in a man of his years, :tad the father of a farttily---hut io vaina he proceeded to use force, dragged her out of the kitchen to the foot of the stairs, tripped up her heels, stopped her mouth with one hand, held hot h her's will' the other, and 11.cd evtlry effort of strength and stratagem to which such a purpose could urge the violence of an sad Satyr. At one time, he seized her fly the throat; and, in the endeavours to stifle her cries, nearly strangled her. Her repeated screams of " Murder!" mid " Help!" were at length heard, by the passengers theme) (bye lonely neighbourhood ; a crowd was collected round the ors several persons endeavoured to force in through the window, hot without effect ; others rank incessantly at the bell ; and, at length, the Defendant was so alarmed, as to discontint I his attempts; when the intended victim of his brutality belt g e,, (Heated, opened the hall-door for the admission of her delivoi 0, who, on searching the house, found the Defendaut concealed a a cupboard in the hack kitchen; upon which he was t:skett into custody, and brought beCore a Magistrate, who couanittod him. The Jury e and him Guilty ; aid the Chairman xfte.r a .11 . 1- able lecture At thr occasion, senteuced, him to milky LuJutus imprisuutueut iu the House of Correction. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. On Wednesday a Coroner's Inquest was held at a pnblie-house in Blackfriar's, on the body of an Want supposed to have been murdered, found by a watchman in the Temple the eveuinebe fore. The watchman stated, thetas he was going his rounds oil Tuesday evening, about eleven o'clock, he observed something standing on the steps of No. 2, Fig-tree-court, which, on ex timing, he discovered to bean eart hen) jar, covered with brows paper; thinking he had found a prize, he took it up, but did not immediately open it. On doing stio sometime after, he saw it was tilled With something white, which he took to he tallow; but which, on a closer inspection, proved to be the body of an infant. A medical gentleman and several women, who were ex audited, stated it as their opinion, that it was thr body oi*au in fant about six da y s old ; and from several circumstances, that the mother must have been delivered by a midwife. Thejae was int small that it must have been with some difficulty the body was squeezed into it, and on its being taken out a considerable goal.- tit yof blood was discovered at. the bottom of the jar. Under all the circumstances, the Jury returned a 'Verclict of Wilful Mu:•der, against some person or persons unknown.' The jar Rs not a common one, bur is made of finer earth titan they o,ually are, and is ornamented- with a variety of fi,Atres oa the outside_ Mr. Barret who was accused of assaulting Miss Latham. at Worthins:, is honourably acquitted. _ On Friday se'nnight, as Col. Bell of Berwick, was shooting on the Lowhatighs, near that place, with. a double barreled run, having fired ata bird, and loading agajn,.tta o t . t ic e barrel, w hi c h was charged, .w e nt of, ale cuateuts in his WO: :he . sous an r; OLD BAILEY, -ow. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. 63