The National Register. — London, England, 1809-01-15 00:00:00

r ~, JAN. 15. .._, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14. Yesterday Margaret Barrington, alias Grinies alias Graham, •. - - _ was indictea capitally for feloniously making a fa'se affidavit, and thereby obtaining letters of administration to obtain Is. 6d. prize-money, due to the next of kin of Thomas Rotton, a soldier, who died on board the Eurus. frigate. It ap peared in evidence that the prisoner was concerned with Yang han, who was executed a short time since fiir defrauding the Chest at Greenwich. She described herself as the wife of the deceased Rotton, to whom she stated she ►, as married at Dum fries, in Scotland. Her conduct excited Eoqiicion, which was increased by the production of a tnarriaT: c►•rtiticate, purporting to have been issued at Dumfries, and (. - :1 this being discovered a forgery the prisoner was apprehended. She confessed her guilt at the Police (Mk*, and said Vaughan had written the certificate, and led her into her present situation.—Guilty—lleath. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. HICKS'S HALL;CLERKENWELL,WEDNESDAV,JAN.H. 11 II PERJUR. V . .-TIFIE KING V. BI7RDON. I I The defendant was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury, li arising out of a cause in the Common Pleas, under the follow- I ing circumstances. The defendant was a money-lender, and had agreed with Browning, late High Bailiff' of Westmin ster, for I the purchase of an annuity of 4001 . per annum , to be secured on I Browning's place of High Bailiff', and his other property. The sum stated as the consideration in the memoria l was 2274/. I Browning afterwards applied to the Common Pleas to set aside ! the annuity, on the grounds that it did not set out the true con sideration paid for the same. That he had agreed to give six Nears purchase for it, viz. 240 D/. ; but that Burdon kept back i ll MT. as insurance, and 2 61 . for his expellees ; and that instead of 1 the annuity being for Burdon's life only, as agreed, he had in serted another life, namely, the additional life of his niece. Mr. Burdon, in his answer to this affidavit, directly denied all the allegations, namely, that he had not kept back any money on the grounds alledged ; that Browning had made no objection to the life of Miss Burdon being inserted, and that the true con sideration was only 22761. as inserted in the memorial. For this affidavit he was now indicted, and those contradictions as signed as perjuries. To support the case of the prosecutor, himself and two other persons, a Mr. Gideon Fly, and a Mr. Monkton Hale, swore distinctly to the facts as stated for the defendant.—Mr. Serjeant Shepherd made a most able defence, and insisted, that Mr. Browning came to swear away his liabi lity to pay the annuity, and that the other witnesses ought not to be credited. lie then called an eminent Conveyanur, who proved that he had been consulted on Browning's securities, and he advised that they were not valid ; and Mr. Saul, the Attor ney, denied the statement as sworn to by the prosecutor and his witnesses. Several persons of respectability also spoke to the rood character of the defendant. The case lasted the whole day, and at a late hour the Jury foun4 the defendant—Guilty. SATURDAY, JAN. 14. Mr. Andrews, of whose traits of swindling the public heard a good deal of a twelvemonth ago, moved the Court during the week for judgment, and he was yesterday brought up. The Chairman after some forcible remarks on the prisoner's conduct, observed, that a multiplicity of petitions had been presented to him on the prisoner's behalf, but he had returned them unopened, as the case was too flagrant for his interferene. The long con finement of the prisoner had been the only thing taken into con sideration by the Bench, and in consequence of that imprison ment, ti►e Court sentenced the prisoner to two months further con fiuc►nent ita Ncw•gate. POLICE. 'Bow-STnrr•r.—The footman who was behind the carria g e of 111 r. Mestaer, of New Br oad-street, at the time he was robbed by the highwayman, on his way to his country house, at Wan titead, in Essex, on Mcmlay night, suggested to his master that he suspected one of the robbers to be the coachman who lately lived with him ; and giving; sonic satisfactory reasons for his sus picious, made some inquiries respecting him, and learnt that he was in the service of Mr. Braham. Inquiries were accordingly made of Mr. Brabant, on Tu?sday, who had just arrived from Bath. Mr. Braham waseonsiderably alarmed at the inquiry as he had launched an elegant new chariot, to go to Bath, when! be went a few weeks since, accompanied by Madame Storace. WT iM . I.v 47 REGISTER. On Saturtkiy morning he sent otrthe coach'lntsi, pith their lug gage and the carriage, from Bath to go to London, with direc tions to be in London on Monday afternoon; and his not haring arrived on Tuesday evening, gave some re:lAm to suspect from the description of the footman, that his (.mlOllll3ll had taken one of his horses to commit the robbery. On Wednesday morning, on its being known that a man had been taken by lite horse-patrole, for the robbery of Mr. Mestaer, Mr. Brdham attended at the office, till the tr.an in custody was brought ,in ; he was then con's ineed it *as' not his coachman'; his alarm was increased for the safety of his carriage, and he employed Ad kins to go in search of it. A post chaise was ordered for that purpose, and about four o'clock, when Adkins was ready toset off, Mr. Brabant came with great speed to the office, to say the coachman had ,just arrived with the carriage safe ; and the (awe assigned by the coachman for being sueh length of time was, that the roads were in such a bad state, be -could nut tra vel any faster. • _ Thu.7...lay, William Luck, the man apprehended on Tuesdav evenin?. last, in Surrey, on suspicion of various highway rolibe ries, was re-examined before James Read. Esq. NI - hen Mr. Da,:iel Bird, of Epsom, attended, and gave an account of his being robbed on Tuesday last, about two miles this side of ).11 ? som, by two highway men, one of whom he believed to be the prisoner at the bar, and positively identified a receipt the pri soner was seen to drop, soon after he was 'alien into custody ; the circumstances of his apprehension corroborating the suspi cion, the parties were bound over to prosecute him for this of fence at next assizes for the county of Surrey. Mr. and Mrs. Mestaer nttended, and related the particulars of their being robbed on Monday evening last, between Layton stone and Wanstead, but could not possitively identify the pri soner, though Mrs. M. believed him to be one of the men, and spoke positively to one of the horses produced at the Office door ' as being the same the robber was upon at the time. Some other person appeared, who had been robbed on Mon day and Tuesday evening, but they did not know the Prisoner; he was ordered to be brought up again on Thursday next. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. Thursday morning ai the workmen were clearing away the ruins of Covent-GardeeTheatre, at the Piazza door, muter the place where the Phoenix engine was so unfortunately dostroved with the firemen attending it, by the falling in of the arch, w ben they came to the cistern, they found the body of a mon. not bun:- ed, but much bruised. Mr. Webb, of Tottenham-Co-art-Row% had missed his only son since the unfortunate catastrophe of the tire. lie had made inquiry, but in vain—advertised him, but to no effect; he flattered himself and his anxious family with the hope that he had been impressed into the navy, or trapanned into a regiment of the line. As soon as the body was found, word was sent to Mr. Webb; he arrived in about ten minutes on horseback, and exclaimed, " If he he my son, he has laced hoots on, and a silver watch, chain, and seals in his pocket." This descrip tion was correct, and the parent appeared lost in affliction. The body was removed in ashen, at twelve o'clock, to Covent garden watch-house. A Coroner's Inquest was held on the body yesteaday—The Jury gave a Verdict of Accidental Death. A curious species of robbery occurred in the mail coach last week between Edinburgh and Carlisle. A Gentleman had taken his seat in the mail from the former city, and on paying his fare, pulled out hl4 purse, which contained about twenty gnineas, and then returned it into a breast pocket of his waistcoat. An arch rogue observingthis, likewise took hi"; seat in the mail to Car ; lisle, on speculation. Before the Gentleman had arTiied at Mosspaule, he fell asleep in the coach, and the fellow dexter ; ously picked his pocket. At Mosspaule the pickpocket de -1 camped, and the Gentleman did not miss his purse until he ar rived at Carlisle. BIRTII. Friday last, at the Par , onage, Hampton, the Lady of the Rev. Dr. Morgan, of a son. In Cork, the Lady of Brikadier•(ieneral Graham. or a son. Saturday, at Ilampton, Middlesex, the Lady of Sir Charles Edmoustoue, Bart. of a son ; the infant died soonafter. DIED. At Gijon, on the 9'lt7a November last, while servinz with the BriliA troops in Spain, George Asiotti, 1.6 q. Deputy Com „.rv-General for North Britain. lii the West Indies t on the 14th September last, in the 234 sear of his age., of the yellow fever * .. Mr. John Christian, Cittnetiv of Ounehaven, Purser, of hjs Majesty's ship Pelican. 1 1