The National Register. — London, England, 1816-06-17 00:00:00

JUST: 17. Owen culla:let...l himself towards his wire while he was at tending her for the illness. White the plaintiff W. 14 thus evert ing himself fur the recovery of his wife, this INritl had lull his bitsiness, and was liatinti..4 the helailig °film Lids:, in London. lice heaith being restore.% Lady Oweis isdomed to Heal; and tiara, fur the first time, Sir Edward was informed by Isis servant of the ttttt iection. 'rite moment this communication was made, Sir &Nerd determine-I to investi gate the boom Ns closely —but the Cady , hearing that as in quiry was shout to take place, eloped from her hit•hittill'. house with the defendant. Sir Edward Owen, thosi•li a• a o,an 4 ,1' Limonr lie could never live with this holy dizsitt, was MS 50514 1.. rescue her from that nun which the defendant was ',cellar int; far her. Ii • sent an obi servant after her, for the purpose of directing her steps to a place where she might be saved flout the misery which her connection with the defend...a was likely to produce. 'the servant found her—and lie exerted all his seal to induce her to return. Anxious to get her away from her seducer, he said to him, " Sir, yl.ll is id better leave this Lady; for Sir Edward Owen will soon he here." He begged the Jury to pay particular attention ill the answer sof the dcfeuilain.—" I don't care." said he, " tbr Sir Edward —I b,kve pistols about me; and, it' he comes, I will 14161dt hlid." So that, after he hail seduced this officers ire—after he had as sassinated his peace—he was ready, if the injured hush:mil Calls,' to rescue this holy from Ins adulterous etioltrace, to be came the assassin of his pet sot.. The parties, from that period to the present, had not separated. The detioplant continued to live with this unfortunate woman, it, oushands did with their wives. After animadverting with much severity on the con. duet of the defemlaut, who had takes. the I)ll4lrumity whets, as a medical man, he was employed is attendance on this lady, to debauch her shod , and seduce her affections trout her bus. band, lie proceeded to call Isis witnesses. Admiral Sir Geo. Ca+npbell, .I(lmintl Lord Keith. RearsAdmi r d Scott, Admiral Sir W. youn g , anti Admiral sir Niels. Lee, amike in the must decided tern's, of the affectionate attachment Winch seemed 10 subsist between Sir Edward mush Lady Owes). A srrie+ of witnesses pro%.-d the mode adopted by the th. 6.11- dant and Lady ()%en, in carrying, nu their curra•>poodcuce through the inedi 1111 l of a female iervaut.. . _ The elopement was proved by it po•t.boy—:end the fart of their having slept together at the inn at Sandwich was deposed to by a female servant. Here the 144;1114's ease was closed. Mr. Brougham then addressed the Jar/ on the part of the ei..fethlanl, in an elopient speech ; its whirls he commented, watt great force mid togimmtv, npou the disparity of e ars be twee•u the parties tthe Laay being between 30 and 10 years of age, the delendant only ggs , and there e inferred, that the se duction must have been, in point of fat 1, committed by the elder. He then impressed upon the Jury, that nu breach of medical einifilltime hail been committed; as the I . .it her of the youth was, its reality, the professional attendant, stud not his son; who was the nitiortimate victim of this attachment; being s t ow a beggar, the partnership %villa his father dissolved, and his own prospects in life ruined and tillione. The Deputy sheriff then summed sip the evidence to the J.,ry, who retired for 20 minutes, and brought in a v trthet of Fifteen lianfilrod Pounds damages tier the plaintiff. OLD BAILEY. Monday, the Recorder passed sentence of death on the fol lowing capital convicts :-11. Phillips, T. Jonas, S. Solomon*, J. 1 Monage, - W. Fellow., J. Brown, I Na-kerville, W. lowlier. W. Colville, W. Chapman, F. Fox% It. Jolieemn, and .1. Hawk for highway robberies ; W. Gregory and J. Boyce for forgeries ; J. Williams, ( I. Atkins, J. Primrose, W. Gow, J. Harvey, and P.llerhert, for burglaries; Esther Sampson, Sarah Gilbert, C. Butler, W. Smith, C. Rogers, W. Reeves, A. Nlaedunald, J. Carey, J. Hall, and J. Slaymati, for stealitig in doelling.lsou.es; later. for sheep-stealtug; and G. Mayeuck, fur putting away a forged 21. bank-note. Tuesday. J. Brooks and 'l'. Williams, tun boys, and J. Brad ley, were convicted of picking pockets at Brook,:reett Fair. When the verdict of the Jury was returned, the Common- Serjeant uleerved, mat there could be no doubt that Bradley was the cause of deluding the younger primners into their pie *mit situation. He felt it his duty, therefore, to have him re moved front this country for life. Satae day the Sessions ended ; when sentence was passed on NV. Smith, F. Riley, S. Neal, J. King, J. Williams, G. aan. J. Molder, M. Menet, W. Truelove, S. Davis, Mary .Ann limit, J. M'Curthy, lane Cros , , and J. Ilradley—to be trans ported for life; K. H. Dye, H. Dx e, A. alias T. Sin 41, B. Hari, and S. Nash alias Quilter—for II years W. Graves, Elizabeth Further, T. Myers, Mary Coventry, J. Martin, G. Gray, Jane Carter, Mary Davis, Elizabeth Sorel, T. Wilson, I'. Glyn H. Avery, C. Gregory, M. Kelly, W. Barker, J. Hol loway, J. Fox, H. Jenkins B. Christian, L. L. Clifford, Bri.l- ret Conway, Margaret Hai. Sarah Bennett, T. Compton, Sarah I lardy alias Irwin, Harriet Collins alias Hill, W. larris, W. Griffin, C. Jones, W. Thompson, F. Gaskell, and J. `kV interbourne—for 1 , C%V11 years;•ti to he imprinoued in the House of Correction for the City of Loudon, and 60 in the HONSC of Correction for the Comity of Middlesex, fur am' periods; a to be imprisoned in New7ate ; 20 to its privately whipped ; b lined Is. each and discharged ; 13. jud,:ments were re.pited; and 47 were discharged by proclamation.—Sessions adjourned to the lOth of July next POLICE. ......00..-... GUI ILDH LL. C. Hawkins, alias HerbW,lgYears of age, was charged with being concerned in robbing the house of Mr. Wilson, a Master of Mt ichunt TMlots' School, of a quantity of jewellery, the property of Miss Moore. A lad named Singleton, and a girl named M..dilocks, sera ant to Mr. Wilson, were also charged as being concerned in this robbery. It appeared, that a few weeks since, the toilet drawer of Miss Moore, sister to Mr. Wilson, was broken open and robbed of the property. No trice could be made of the depredators; but a deser:ption of the stolen articles was circulated, and in a few days Hawkins went to the house of Mr. Chatter. a !raw nbroker, and tendered a diamond ring for pawn for 101, this was refiased, and the pri oilier departed. Being known, however, as a constant a 'si tar t o pools represrntiug that he did so on the part of his eirents), It was deemed uecessiry to give notice le Mr. I, itsun, and he was takeu into custody; when the brunc h belongiliv to Miss Moore was twin.' in his possession. It was discovered, that he was daily umployell in the counting-Imam. of a re. pectable firm in St. Mary -41.11111, where Mathews, the officer, e >satinet! his desk, and found in it a andlivate fur a diamond ring; and that whirls had been refused to be taken by Mr. Ouster. Besides this were found in his possession nearly 2d other duplicates for property of all descriptions, primeipal;y jewellery.. Srve:al :woks (claimed by his mother), a ea•e of pistols, a telescope, silver tea-spoons, and 111.1WeIOUs other NATIJN.U. articles, h.tve• beeu advertist•d in the hope of bringing the owners forward; likewise a phosoleirus box. and instill. ute•nts calculated to open hie locks of ilrii wet 1, &c. All the things, except the nooks, he said he bad how Singleton. The latter admitted that he had given him, Illitey . .ht since, one or two tridiug articles, but denied most sokimily having s• en or I,nown of the atticle•s belonging to Miss Moore nefore neither had be conversed w ith the prisoner shiest February. Not the slightest proof, however, could be adduced to crimi nate the female, and she was discharged; and upon the Sobel tor for Singleton nudertaking to primitive him upon the trial, he w. 1% 411:0 desrhar,ed, and Hawkins folly committed. Mary aged 66, was brought to the (Afire, upon a charge of picking the pocket of Mos. Beech, in Fleet.marlet, of n pocket-Look, cuutaining two tl. notes and a sunder of memorandums. The complainalit was Inuch.esilee ti•h at one of the stalls, and mum putting her hand to her pocket ntis•ed the property. At that mono tit her scream-maid told her, that the plistnier, who was sueaking away, had been Very busy about her person. Mary Williams was iustantl) . ►ecured, 41.11 the pocket- book round neon her person. Bond, the officer who secured her, knew her for a long time At a veteran in the art, and it very dexterous baud. blue was folly eminnitted lien trial. Rolit. Townsend was charged with forging or uttering a promissory note for 701. purporting to he drawn in his favour by Mr. 1•'. Crisp. The uttering of the note having taken !thee in Nliddiesea, the prisoner was remanded to the euuniy Magistrates. BOW-STREET. Friday, J. A. Eglcrton, who called himsrlf a Member of Parliament, and said he resided at au lintel in Pall Mall, was fully committed, charged with a most tlete‘tAble offence with J. inrvi4, a youth, who k a groom. Wednesday Levinia Smith, about 11 or 1I year% of age, was charged with exposing her naked person in St. James's Park. It appeared that the prisoner, in company with two other girls, rather less than herself. about 12 o'clock, stripped thcnrelvrs naked on the grass h 3 the side of the coral, near the 311111, and went into the canal to bathe; and when they came out ran about the grass, and behaved in a very indecent manner, both as to action' , and i-cage. - tla'4e. to men and boss who were collected in consequenee. 'On the approach of the constable they ran off into the Green Park, where he secured the pri soner, but her companions to le their escape. Sir appeared Callous to tin. Magistrate's reinunstrauces„ refusilg, to give any aecount of herself, only that she had no father and mother; the former, a soldier, bail been killed in hattlr. A girl, who had followed the prisoner to the office, was interrogated, and proved to be 4 rompmnion, although nut one who had stripped herself. She dcserined who the two girls were, and from her it was ascertained that Smith had not slept in a house fur a mouth past. The Magistrate committed them both. 1). Day was charge', with violently assivilting Mary Ann Smith, with vi hum he cohabited. On being ordered to that bail, he attempted, hi fore the Magistrate, to strangle himself by twisting his neckcloth as tight as lie could pull it, but was prevented by the exertions of two officers. Ile afte-wards en deavoured to tear his _jaws open. His conduct was altogether so violent, that it was found necessary to pinion mud iron him ; and on his being taken into time strong room, he appealed to be in au hysteric tit, till a flood of tears rendered lino calm. QUEVN-SQUA It E. SHOCKING DEPRAVITY. —A most distressing and disgrace ful spectacle was, on Friday, exhibited at this office : it arose out of an examination of a petty 44.14111 t. The complainant was the son-in-law of a woman who is the 0% nes- of a considerable number of little houses iu Pyc-street and the Broadway, Westminster, which are all occupied by girls that hose brew debauched and devoted to prostitution. lie stated, that his wife, who was the daughter of this woman, left hi, house on Tuesday night last, and did not return home till the nest morn ing; be and she had, in consivenee, 11111kleiwint cords ; and she directly after left the house, and returned with her tiler and two sisters, who set about kiln am{ beat hint, end tore Ins face. lie now wished the Magistrate to bind them user to keep the peace towards hint; for he knew, if they were not bound, that they would come to his house, backed by abont a hundred bad women, and he should be in danger of losing his life. Mr. Fielding asked him why tutu bad women would assist her in such proreedings ? lie replied, that if they were to retiose, she nook{ directly turn them oat of their lodgings ; that she hail at this time, he supposed, at least !so lodgers, all pros titutes ; and lit knew that some of them were not more Loon 12 years of age, and some of them younger. Mr. Fielding ordered the officer, to go to the place, and to bring all the girls whom they might find in the different 11.01114. They went accoriliogly, onii in a short time returned with alfout O. They said they could have brought 300. Four of skein were children about 12 years of age, and one ; only between 10 and 12, was shock iii .y disordered. Mr. Fielding ordered the officers to take her to St. Martin's workhouse ; and for the other cliil6 en they were to provide lodgings till they could be sent to their friends. One child, only fourteen, who had lately left lloilyst•ad st orkliouse, and had been harboured in one of this vile w oman's room', was se diseased, that Mr Fielding said he would gt t her into the Lock Hospital. He then addressed the woman, and informed her, that Wan indictment should be preferred against her, she might depend upon it her punishment would be pillory and confine ment for life; and if sbe or her daughters went to the house of her Win-in-law to make any disturbance, he would, upon his c plaint, se•ld them all to prison. A man named Drawnt, residing in St. Margaret's, Westmin ster, was charged oil!' seducing his apprenbee, at gip! apps. rently about Ii years old, but who was stated to be Ito, hound from the I)tilse of York's school to the prisoners wife, 111.V1011% to his marriages The girl being swim,' must solemnly my tun• magistrate, declared the prisoner to be her seducer; that •Le had s uff e red almost nrutyrdom mita lie elfi ellql his por e ose ; and that fear alone presented her tell.ng her iiie.tress Inc situa tion she was in ; but at lost she was contralto( to go into the workhouse, where she remained moil the Ist of May. when she was brought to bed. The magistrate obserted, it was a must iel ed transaction: the ',foam under whose protection s h e was placed was the first to rum her. He must, howe er, be •c -c table to the parish, and pay ail exrnees incurred, witless his iinsocence could be mut e clearly inauifested. L: N I ON-lIALL. John Wright was ou Toem.day brought 91 for final elimina tion, charged with assaulting Mrs. Taylor and lira daughter, with intent to murder them. Those tidies, though in a very weak state from the wounds 'hey received, now attended. Nothing new waN added to the evidence alre oly before the public, \ tsept that toe prisoner aow sail, hi. name WAi not Wright. not Whalcy. Tailor was so weak as scarcely to be able to support the fative of going through the uecessary form. of evidenee. The pasouer was fatly conuuitteJ fur trial at tac 1111 TON-GARDEN. Elizabeth Price was oroualit op by the two J. Smiths, Re • ales Itliminsbury. mid c,..x.i.incd on the following charge It appeared that the prisoner and her husband (recopied a small room at No, S, prigget's-court, Broadearect, St. Odes's, where they had 111111 about teu days. going out es ery morning and returning at night unseen by any persons in the house, the stem +-door being itlw:i left oven for the lodgers: that the smell Ili carrion piiiceeding f•t the room was so offensive, that all the inmates went In the landlady, intim ling their in. tention of quitting the hon.., unless re+•tnved; the landlady a••eoutpanied them lip stairs to the rimen-d which they contrived to open, when the t an-e errant nuisance presented itself. The room hail all the appearance of a all,igh tur-linme. In one corner were laid over earn other the car. crises of 15 dogs, all sk . .41, even the heads and feet, so as to present the bodies being identified. lilt the skins were rerouted. The Magistrate lamented that there was not a case made out, so :Tom lie could punish the prisoner. As uo:n• of the dogs were alentiticd, a charge could not be made out; and thr the nuisance, there Wit no Act of Parliament to authorise him to take cognizance of it. The prisoner was discharged. EXECUTION.—Fridav morning, P. Street, for har7l.irT, was executed opposite the Debtors' door of Ne w gat e. J. B. a yonth, for a highway robbery, was to have been executed with him; but he received a respite for a week. The no. happy culprit, Street, conducted him.elf with [wonting for. Wilde and resignation. Nine of his brother% and sister% him on Wednecitay, and took their thud leave of him. Thur%day he received the Sacrament, and devoted the whole of the day to hi% religion% ditties. Tuesday aliont three o'clock, a serious accident had nearly occurred to the men employed in working the Itegeurc sewer into the Thames at Scotland-yard. The tide broke in, and with great difficulty they succeeded in getting out opposite Mr Drinunion,P4, the banker, at Chariog•eros%, being go clo*e. ly pursued by the deluge that they could not wait to carry off their took. On Sattirdav last, a corporal and serieant, belonging to the. 7th c, trait h Mellon, were drinkint: at the Red Hon-, at Bat. ti tNea ; when, in ermsequicuce of s ome trilling dp.ioite, the cor poral pulled out ■ knife, and plunged it into the body of the serjcant, who was carried on a Allister to the Duke of York's I lowital, without any hopes of recovery. The corporal is in cu-touly. Oil Tiles,lac an Inquest was bed at the Green Draron, in York-street, Westminster, 011 the body of Charlotte Finch, azetl about 24, who seas fooilri drowned off Westminster bride. A watchman no ditty on the bridge that morning, heard a rustling noise in the water, awl conceiving ionic 'person had fallen inn, he ealleil for assioance, when a waterman came up. anal Navin„ procured a drag, he took up the body, which was removed to the bitne house. A 51. note anal a bankers' draft were finind in her pocket; anal soon after she was recop."ted by her sister, who resides in Great Peter-street. It appeared that about two ears hark she was confined in a pri a ate mail honse in Bethnal green; but there was no es idettee to shew bow she came into the water, consetptently the Jury returned a verdict -Found Drowned. There W 33 another lioreq held on the body of %nil Heath. an elderly woman. s' ho wa. t oto , l dead at her 1011;:ing,, in Blue :turbor•atley, on Tuesday morning. Verdict—Died by the Vkitation of Gout. 'onday, an inquest was held at the Coach and Horses pold , r. house. flue Anetior-alley, Bonhill-row, on the body of Mr. G. 'rew,liiii;der, of Twiss-row, Finsbury•square, who was found hanging in his workshop. It appeared that the deceased lost wife and three children, abont six years by the falling of iotne premises in Irontninitt..r.rovr, when tire others sutiered likewise; shire which he had been in a desponilinc way, and which had been inereaAed by the loss of two mute children.— Verdict -.Lumley. An itupereet way :111.n held at the Peacock, Bethnal-green, on the body of Mr. !trackman, a gardener, who WWI found h ing intr. It appeared that the eleee.t.leelleael been tepwitrdv of twelve tetonthi in a desponding state.—Verdiet, Insanity. Suictne.—A melancholy affair of suicide occurred in West minster. A youth n.tmcd Fitmay, had been committed for trial at the last Old Bailey Sessions; and information swam carried to an aunnl mother that he was capitally convicted, wlicti in fact lie hail not been tried. It. however. preyed an much upon the mind of the poor woman, that she hung herself. Nothing of interest OCCUITed in alp/ of the Courts in \V,•ct. minster ILJI mu .441111 . 114 V. TilV Coors rose earls. mi.. j us . tire Abhor, from the Court of KilleS Bench. e nd Mr..lostire 'Morrows from the Common Plea., left town yesterday for lEly, where they will this morniox op. n the Sperial Commis sion for the tri 41 of the persons at present in confinement on charges of rioting. - - - - • - _ .4:R3E4NT 1T TAW.-011 Satßtfily this d, • ree wmt taken bY stabil Htillock. Barrister at Law. A public breakfast was elven to the Society of Gray's Inn, of is hich Mt. Hulloek is a Member; after which, supported by the Treasurer and the he entered the hall, made th. circuit of it. and delirered a valedictory address in a very ti•eline and impressive tone. lAN nos SEssioss.—Jahn Mills was on Sarni day convicted. orlon the clearest testlniony, of attentoine to commit a detesta ble crime, and was sentenced to close confinement in a retired et 11 in Newzate for twelve months. We think it proper to call the attention of the farmers in the neighlemi hood ot London, or of anv other per whom it may conecr,., to the daily practice of the men who are entrusted to h. i!:g tares to town in cart... The driver% 171,1 y be ohserved •in the rov.lv, every morning they are vent to town. opening the bundles of tare... and making them over again into smaller one... On an average they mat e three bundle: into four. and thus the pn eluaver is cheated nut of about one-tinirth nt hi. coutraet, without any benefit accruing to the lamer. The Tottenham road is the nitwit convoitatms for this fraudulent ettatoni, where t h e f e llow% A re vo an.laciosiv as to threaten c.,omly to mark any person in a dark night who dare+ to trouble himself with their bovioews. The purchases of tares in town would do well tO look to the weight, and not the n n mh••r of the hoinalev. It is enmputed that not le.u. than 12,000 persona in the coon tie' of Stafford an•l Salo" have le•en divinissed. to wander in vearch nt' wthvivtence, in consequence of the falling off in the iron trade since the peace. _ _ _ l'ltursdav sennicht a boy GA from.' the foreenole of the Queen Charlotte hulk i n to rart.meetti harbour: %‘l.leli being perceived by Mr. 6. Griffith., As , i‘tant Surgeon of that ship, who was stand; nSt upon the main-eltaiii., he inenediAtel v proceeded to the lower deck, anditimped out of one of the ports into the tide, and 1141%141y reached the bov iae he ave..ired fait apprnal•hinu 1. the la q nhaucitti Of Idu.. 1k a' new pee. fectl; recu►trt d.