The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-11 00:00:00

OCT. 10 to be the property of a young man of the name of Kull. ma il , whom the prisoner travelled with ; and they put up at La Sabloniele's lintel, in Leicester Square, where Kollman's box waa broken open and rnblJed. A pass.' port was also found upon him, which he had obtained from the Martinis D'Osmonil, the French Ambassador, three days after his arrival in JAndon, which would enable him to leave the country at any time ; and if he had gone abroad, lie might have ;messed the notes. In the passport he describes himself as a naval , otEcer, and a native of Brest. He said his family lived attlitend. Committed for further examination. HATTON GARDEN. j. Moore, of Tottenham-place, Tottenham•court Road, a seller of breed, was disrged with having sold eight half-guar. trim loaves deficient 20.1 minces of the weight ordered by Act of Parliament. The charge being proved, be was convicted iu the mitigated penalty of ss. an ounce, amounting in the whole to 51. 33.6 d. MARLBOROUGH sniEFT. _ . Wednesday 111 r. Goddin, of the firm of Stretton and Co., brewers, charged -- Glatlison, a shopkeeper, iu Rupert_ street. on suspicion of stealing beer casks, their property.— Mr. Ooddin represented that they were losers of nearly ; 4,0001. per annum, by casks, many of which be beiieved were* illegally disposed of. In the present case, his house supplied the prisoner with table beer, and it was usual for their ens tnnteis to return the empty casks, on full ones being delivered. On Monday last, as complainant was coming to town, he saw one of their casks in a cart belonging to Mr. Jones, proprie tar of ilea flax mills at Feltham. Oil application to the Ma gistrates, Plank, the. officer, was sent down to Feltham, where he found the cask in question, and learnt that it was conveyed from London by a servant in Mr. Jones's employ This man !misfile had borrowed it of the prisoner, his brother. in•latc, to till with elder wine. Plank immediately went to the prisoner, who denied having sent a cask into the country. On.examining the premises, several casks were found in the cellar or the prisoner's house. The defeetlant denied any criminal , intention, and expressed much regret at his having thus acted he offered to make a public acknowledgement of his offence. (I c on this, Mr. Goildia4ititi lie would notairo ceed farther, but wished to be understood, that if he found any one else offending in like manner, he would prosecute to the utmost. Ths Magistrate signified to the defendant that 'he was tot tunate in thus escaping : for had lie been convicted,,, his ptinist unt would be transportation for seven years. Friday four gentlemen were brought to this office charged by Boosey, a watchman in Tottenham-court•Boad, with assaulting him while oil duty. He represented, that he offered no provocation to the gentlemen, butt being attacked by them, he with difficulty sprung his rattle, and secured them. Mr. Ayton, the first defendant called upon, said he resided.at t 6, Tottenham-cotsNsioad ; he had been speeding the evening with some friends he 101 W-returning home, and seeing a .man sleeping on the pavement, he observed to his friends, that some accident might befit him if he continued there; net conviving him to be a watchman on duty. he lifted up the man's foot.. and tesired him to move; upon which the mail rose and struck him violently on the forehead with a large stick, and inflicted a wound of six inches in length; he alsostnick Mr. Dean, his com panion, anti fractured his skull. Toese two gentlemen exhibited the marks of the watchman's violence, and called a gentleman to anbstantiate their statement, when Mr. Brookes. of Euston Square, stepped forward. He said he had left the gentlemen in custody a minute or two only, they were perfectly steady and not the least in toxicated; hearing tile watchman's rattle, he went to the spot; he saw the watciuman strike Mr. Ayton, and knock him down with a stick three scrend times. Mr. Ayton, Mr. Dean, and Mr. Johnson, •ot Chapel Street, another of the gentlemen in custody, were earned off to the watch house. Witness accompanied them; when they at ..rived there, the watchman perceiving that he only had seen the transaction, and to prevent his evident, being received against him, he too was accused of being concerned an the affray. Atter some time it was found necessary that medical assistance should be obtained for the two wounded gentlemen, and they were conveyed to the Middle. sex Hoepital, and were compelled to attend the office to answer the' etatchusan's complaint. Mr. Baker regretted the disastrous treat ment the gentlemen had met -with. and reprobated in energetic terms the infamous conduct of the watchman ; he told the gentle men they were discharged, and addressing himself t o the wa t e l una n, he said, '• I shall hold you to bail to answer any chargethtse gentle men may prefer against you." The gentlemen expressed their de tertninauon to prosecute the fellow to the utmost. W 0 RS HI P J. Molls, a baker, in Tabernacle-sti ref. St. Luke's, was charged with selling bread short of weight. The informer proved having purchased five loaves at his %bop short in weigtst nine ounces. Convicted in the penalty of .is. per oz. which amounted io 21 ss. and costs. Jasper was charged with being a common utterer of forged notes. The prisoner was apprehended at Croydon' fair, and five forged 11. notes were found on I —Remanded. Hannah Bland, of Brirk•lane, Spitaltields, complained that her strvetAbari bad robbed her of all her clothes. Site said his name was J. Smith, residing with Mr. Pitman, bootmaker,. LWOW] Wail. She received his addresses for sonic lime past, and a speedy anion was anticipated. On Tuesday even ing he CAM(' •to her residence, brit rent away rather abruptly. 11e was been by a boy carrying away a bundle, and she missed two silk shawls, value 41. each, and several silk dretises, a golf: snuff box, and several trinkets. On enquiry at Mr. Pit. !troll's, it was ascertained that lie had only been a journeyman, and had conducted himself in welt a manner that Mr. Pit man would not employ hint again. She gave a description of him. UNION HALL. Atedneaday 3. Iveson and J. Owen, and Maria Oliver and }tartlet Wilcott, their female amaciates, were re-examined. The evidence of ~eventeen per.ons was taken. The principal charge against ler‘on and Owen were for rut( rine the house of h. Dliooge. F.,q. in TiWIIMCIIJ Street, Kent Road, and t tr 4 vanote, at titles of Intel), plate, a it ri eat inz apoarel ; a offence at the house of Mr. Hoare, in Bedford Street, ftwn whence they stole plate ;11:(1 trinkets; a like depredation .it the regidetare of Mr. MA, at Preklirm, and stea:ing a Loge quantity of Otte ; and an attempt to bleak opt it the house of Wtlkiu.nn,uf Bartlett Street, Walworth. Upon all the above chat gee the in isoners lvtwon amdf)ocei wore committed. The telltale prisoners were ad mitted as evidence for th. Crown, and gave ittrarmotion of a most int portaiit nature. Witter is. 1.7 anti Walcott 18 sears oh age. Being linable in find hail for their appearance at the meta A v,ive evidenee,they were oecesurrily re.coin. milted, hilt are ;a prehent separate f the felons. They were informed, taut upon sureties being provided for their up. profaner, they would be art at liberty. J. Cowell, a table-ale and beer brewer, at Camberwell, d tiled guilty to battling omitted to ink casks of ialilt lice: h 1 witielt, tinder the. Art of Parliament, he had Met/ire:4 pr.. tiolti t .. 3 to the amount of 11001. The information was laid by a bopervi.or of Excise ; who at the s t time exPrea.rd Ins .opinion, that the niniminii wan, froindnailvertener, null not, ilmotiutal. The shlagistratea, oatleretiauding ills Linton'. Tin NATII ',4 7gATie missioners of Excise did not mean tco , press for the full penally, fined the defendant 121. 10s. Several persons resident at Camberwell, Norwood. and Peckham. were charged with retailing table beer at a higher rite than is allowed by Act of Parliament, viz. 41. per quart. It was pi oved, that the defendants bad, in many instances, vemled table beer at 20. and 3d. per quart. J. Clark,J. steward, W. Wrrford, A. Smith, J. Robins, J. Staple, E, 'Thompson, J. Wilson, J. Rogers, and R. Cooper were sevet. ally Cued 30s.—Fur the information of the Public, the Super. visor laid before the Alaeistrates a cominnnioation which he had received from th Board of Excise, which stated, that the Board had in no instance ordered proceedings., sunless it appeared (fiat the beer in question was sold at a price ex ceeding Cis. the barrel and the duty, makiag together 265. the barrel. The heer referred to in the above iiitOrmations was sold fur 30s. sad upwards the barrel. Lines written in the title-page of Flame's History of England, presented several years ago to Mr. Henry Johnson, now of Drury Lane Theatre, by the late Mr. Lewis:— " It matters little what one gives, The matter's in the cause of giving: While he that gives this book still lives, Remember you've a friend still living." M.G. LEWIS. -On Wednesday last, a well dressed female called at Mt. Sergeant's, in Great Et. Thomas Apostle, to look over his house, which he wished to dispose•of. Miss Sergeant showed the house to the woman, who expressed herself rrfeetly fled. She left the house; in a few initiates she returned, and said she hail left a meet up stairs, Miss Sergeant went up stairs to I i • k for it, and not being able to find it, she return. ed, and the woman said she supposed she had left it elso. where. She had not been gone more than a quarter of an hour, when it was discovered, that while Miss Sergeant was looking f:r the parcel, she had entered the counting house, and carried off 281. in Bank notes, which Mr. Sergeant had left for a gentleman who was to call upon him that morning. It has been ascertained that the notos have beet: changed as the Vault, and the address written upon them proved to be fictitious. By a report of a Committee of Parliament, it appears that the turnpike roads of England and Wales extelid 19,755 miles, anti the other highways 95,104, making a total of 114,859 miles ; also that 1,415, 8331. is annually expended on them; and that the area of England and Wales is 57,6G9 square miles, or 37,094,400 maces. A few mornings since a Freud' row-galley, with a crew consisting of 11 men, arrived on South Sea Beach, near Fort Cumhei land, anti immediately landed a quantity of 'French silks and other proltilrited articles of considerable value.— There was no Custom-house officer in sight ; but they did not escape the notice of the officer commanding the troops at the fort (of the 18th regiment), who, very prudently, did not at. tempt to interrupt their proceedings until lie saw one of theta move up the road-way. He then sallied trona his post, and took possession of the following artieles, all the men having retreated into the boat, in which they got away :-1132 yards of French silk, 10 Angola shawls, 11 dozen pair -of Angola gloves, SO pair of silk stockings, 42 summit-lioxes, MI dozen pair of kid gloves, v 26 yards of cambric, one petticoat of fur, and 111 silk sashes. Barnet, the veteran pedestrian, who is now in Ilia 76th•year • for a bet of W. to 501. has undertaken, itseeems, to walk 300 miles in 1200 quarters of hoots. This sporting match is to take place on the pith of this month, at Cheitenhem. - GAII Liotees.—A Gentleman has just obtained a patent for an improvement in the purifying of gas, which promises to be of great public utility. By the plan he his devised, the noxious smell arising from the use of lime and other solutiems, which has so long been the subject of public complaint, will be entirely removed. A few evenings ago the house of Mr. Heiden the owner of Printers' Street. Earl Street, Blackfriars, was robbed of money, plate, clothes, and other articles, to the amount of 3001. It seems that on the re turn of Mr. Border, who had been during the day at Croydon, to his house, at 9 in the evening, he heard a noise and strange voices on knocking at the door. He went to the watchhouse to get assistance, and on his return found the door open. On entering the house he saw every thing in disorder, the desks and drawers forced andritied, and the rooms stripped of every article of value that could be re- moved. The maid servant was absent, but the chairwoman, whom site had employed to take care of the house while she visited her sweetheart, made her appearance in great agitation. The story she told was, that the female servant had left her alone in the are of the house in the early part of the evening.: shortly after she heard voices up stairs, and listening attentively she heard sornebotly say, 6` Ann, arc you gone out yet ?" Frightened dreadfully, and fearing that she should be murdered, she crept into the anal-hole, where she remained locked up until the return of Mr. Bonier. The servant, on her return, seemed astonished on hearing of the robbery, but being suspected was taken into custody. The person she h:ul been to visit was also apprehended. They underwent long private examinations at Guildhall , but were discharged after a confinementsf two days.— Among the property stolen are the following articles:—A gold watch, ten silver watches, several gold chains and seals, four dozen of silver spoons, four massy silver candlesticks, three silver mugs, a number of ancient gold and silver coins, and from Go to ttio guineas in geld. A reward has been offered for the apprehension of the thieves. At the last Wells Assizes a cause was tried, for the second time. respecting the warranty of too sheep, which the seller, who lived in Soineisetsiiire, engaged to deliver to the purchaser, a gentleman of fortune, at his seat in Kent. One thing soon became certain, and , that wia, that all the sheep had the rot soon after their arrival at the place of their destination. The proof of this was most positive, for within a very shoo. time ohey all died of it. A question here arose, whether the sheep had contracted this -fatal disorder before or after the delivery; the purchaser refusing to pay because they were un sound, and the seller claiming . the benefit of his bargain beer-use he t maintained that they were sound. Witnesses were drawn up against, each other in flat contradiction, and the Jury would have been puz zled in their decision, lerd not Mr. Justice Burrotigh addressed a few, questioes to two of the deft:talent's witnesses. Of the first, a Kentish. fanner, he enquired, if he did not know that land which would roe sheets in open weather, would not rot them in wfrost ?-0n the fruitier declaring that his experience did not extend so far is that, hi, Lordship said. " Then I would not give afire fur your evidence in &sheep cause !"—Of the second witness, a Norfolk farmer. who professed to keep MX) sheep as his regular flock, his Lordship en • (mired if he was aware that lambs and ewes in milk would thrive upon land that world rot all ether descriptions of sheep—" No 1" Was the reply.—" Then," said his Lordship, "my good friend, you know teething about sheep.; we need not trouble you any fur ther 1" It is needier.* to say on which side the scale preponderated. At the Cineuit Court at Glaigow, Margaret Kentrily was con • victed of issuing forged notes °Utile Stirling Woking Company. owl sentenced to be executed on the 4th d 4 of ”ovember. The pour woman, wito is young. wit: totally una A l i or write, and was earnestly recenitnandsd to mere/ by iliegitry. ' his is the only in stance of any pawn being tried in Glasgow toe forgery since 11,05, Llwhen two yoling roan were convicted of engraving the plates for forged notes, and issuing the notee .She is the reify individual now in custodyin Scotland on a similar charge, and only caw has been executed the kg .16 year: for forged-metes. CORONER'S INQUESTS. An inquisition was taken on Monday, at the Swan Inn, Carslial- LOl2. before C. Jammu, Esq. Coroner, on the body of James Harrow. The deceased was employed in the paper mills of Means. Ansel' and Moggridge; on Friday week having unfortunately got entangled among the machinery, he was carried under the water wheel and dreadfully crueed. He was taken out alive, but died tea the follow ing day. Verdict—Accidental death. Another inquest was held at the Jew's Harp, before T. Stirling. Esq. on the body of Mr. James Fox, found drowned in the Regent* Canal. The stockings of the deceased were tied round his neck wide two large stones in them. The son of the deceased proved various acts of insanity on the part of his unfortunate parent, and the Jury returned a verdict accordingly. A third inquest was held at the sign of the Camden Head. Mulch lane, Liinehouse, before J. W. Unwin, Esq. Coroner, on the body at Mrs. Elizabeth Slate. aged 47, found drowned on Thursday week is Liinehouse cut. In her pocket was found a little book, with her name and address, 11, Crane -court, Fleet.street. The beadle of Limchouse parish inquired according to the address, and found the deceased's husband. who appeared to give evidence before the Jury. Thomas Slate said that the last time he saw his wife wason Wednes. day week ; she had been low and desponding for some time pet. (Here the witness was so much affected, that he completely lost the power of utterance, and all effints on the part of the Coroner and Jury to gain further intelligence relating to the event were of no avail ; and having na further evidence to show iu what manner the dt came in the water.the Jury returned a verdict of •• Found drowned!' An inquisition was taken on Wednesday night before Thomas Shel ton, Esq. Coroner, at the tV trite Hart, opposite the Post Office. Ab. church-lane, Loinbard-street, on the body of Jane Cranstone, age d 20 years, who put an end to her existence by hanging herself with a piece dwelt cord. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased bad been servant in the Foreign Post Office. under Mrs. Newton. the housekeeper, for nearly tour years, and was much respected. About three weeks ago she visited her fattier, who is a rope maker at Li:ale house, and she then learned that a young man, who had paid his ad. dresses to her for a considerable time, was on the eve of departure for a foreign country. Ever since that period the deceased had been greatly distressed in her mind, but she did every thing she could to conceal the misery that preyed upon her. 11cr eye, for the last tee night were constantly filled with tears, and 61 • could not do her work. On Monday she was missing for sonic time ; Mrs. Newton cilkd repeatedly for her, and, in consequence of her not making any an. ewer, she went to her apartment, and found it locked, anti the key insid The door was broken opm, and the deceased was ibu,ndll hanging t she was quite dead. Verdict—Hanged herself in a Wes of insanity. On Monday afternoon, a party of French gentlemen, lately arrived in England, being invited to spend the evening with some friends on board an East Indianian now lying in the Docks, they repaired so Aldemiates-stairs, Wapping, and hired a boat to convey them thither.. The waterman had not towed far, when one of them stood up in the boat; the watenuan cautioned the others who were going to follow his example, on the impropriety of it, but not understanding hist, they all stood up at one side of the beat, by which it was upset, and the whole of them. consisting of five, exclusive of the wateriness. were thrown into die water. An alarm was instantly made, and se. vend active watennen made to their assistance, and suceresbel in foie. sag up two of the panty, while the others swam on shore. Those picked up were apparen..,• dead, but by the means recennmendadJey the Royal Humane Society being resorted to, they were recovered. Drags were used the whole of the night in search of the hody of Frederick Augusta Anwny, a foreign merchant, and Mr. Jones,* private gentleman, to no avail; but the body of the tanner was found on Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock, and was conveyed to tei -nearest public house, and on Wednesday an inquest was held en du I body, when.the Jury brought in their vt rdiet—Accidental Deer. On Friday an inquisition was taken in the Committee-room, de. Olave's workhouse, on the bodies of Cordelia Hubbard and Ants Mailing, two fernales,who lost their lives in the dreadful conflagretion in Tooley-street, onWednesday morning. William Haynes, Wreades,Lsoe, Tuoley-street, one of the poled of St. Olive's parish. statsai, that at two o'clock en Wednesday morning he heard the watchman's rattle ; he went towards him from the watch-house ; he pointed out the house op fire. and saw die smoke issuing from the top of the door. Witness loud open she door. Mrs. Carter, wife of the watch maker. next doorlo Aft. Mill. pack's house, which was on tire, was then up removiog her progeny Witness assisted, and returned back to the other house *Atritude. when lie perceived a woman in the stet of throwing her child out of the window ; he caught the child in his urns, and a lamplighter coming by at the moment. lent his ladder and got outthe woman; witness then returned to assist Mrs. Carter in removing her property, and then opened a plug : the watchman went loran engine. Sousa after the door was opened. people showed themselves at the windaw. but the flames baring got ahead, ,the front fell all at once; bad not kept the key of • the tire ladders, it not being allowed by the officers. Coroner.—The keys should be left where any person could readily find them upon such an occasion. Juryman.—lt was net thought of to get the ladder at the it was too late. Mr. Edward Palmer, painter, in Tolley-street, was present when the first body was found ; it was near the street door. One of them was the (laughter of a lodger on the first floor. and the other was the niece of the landlord,they both slept together in the fralst attic-1 there was nothing but the trunk of the laxly.; the sell was close to it. The other body was found onThursday evening. about *o'clock, in the stair hole, in the same mutilated state. Neither could be identified,. and. they were carried to the bone house. The watchman stated, that he observed the second linor window. opened ; when he first saw the fire, be went for an engine as soon as he gave the alarm, and at his return.enslesvoured to find out the plug hole, which for some time could not be found. although it was right under the shop-window of Mr. Hillpack's house. The Coroner said the watchmen should always know -the ping holes on their beat. The evidence of Mr. Hillpack, who kept-the house, and his•wilb. described the manner in which they escaped with great difficulty from the back parlour in which they slept, but they could notmeouas fur the origin of the fire. Vertlien.-Amidentally burned elks:h. AUTHENTIC ANEMOTE:•••••Whiiiit the French Royal Pandit resided at Winstead-house, Essex, an English trade:mous, who had seen them at tlinner these once before, having got into the grounds, met the Prince of Con(le, when not knowing loin, lie asked if any of the French nobility were there?—•• I have the honour." said dab Prince, who was very plainly dressed. *6 to be .one of th e F r e nc h nobility." -.6 You ono ni then' !' exclaimed the ill- manner 'illy doubtingly, " I think too 1 knee seen you here at dinner. Olt, ap e . I remember you ladling up the soup, wh..n I was here before—and you are reek/ one of. them ?" •• Yes," replied his Highness. " am.the real Prince of Conde, and 1 bolieve you are the real John DWI." Extract of a letter from an officer on hoard his Majertrasisip Cherub, aff the Ilavr.nuali, Cuba, klfc..t Indies. dated August Ms.-. " We hare jut captured a valuable Snani.di ship for a breach of *a late Treaty on the Slave "frode, and have received orders to take tier to Sierra Leone, and therefore arc Out likely to be in England barn next year Mrs. Hart. the wife of a re- si able farmer and grazier at Raven thorpe, in Northamptonshire. 'AAS last week sattly (delivered of Skeet tine female infants, all of whom, with the mother, ate likely to do well. A n unfortunate Scutchnian,whos:: 'tante Feyentan. aas obliged. in pursuit of fortnne, to scut:: among some Certneres in New York. r.aine not exactly suiting their cars, they translated it literally into Gerinan, and called him Feiterstein. On his return to an English zeighbourliond,his new acquaintanealdisoavered that Feuer stein in Gentian, meant Mice in English. They re-translawl ic,tead of restoring his name ; and the descendants of Peyerston fin'..lse name of Fliut to this day. 9e7