The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-29 00:00:00

- Ike prisoner, accorcligsy. Isissrice, and was discharged. Several other trials took place, but of no public importance, Sidon Wednesday the Sessions ended.,- OLD BAILEY. Mcinday, the only prisoner capitally convicted Was /If Brush, -for stealing eight 11. notes, the property of P. Collins, in the house of T. Brannan. Abraham Levi was found guilty of pick ing pockets at the time of Mr. Sadler's ascension in a balloon, at Hackney.—C. P. Whitaker was capitally indicted, for that he, being a bankrupt, did not surrender to the COmmission issued against him. After examining a few witnesses, however, Bennings, the messenger, was unable to swe ar that he had nerved the regular notice on the prisoner to appear before the Commissioners ; on which account the Learned Judge directed the prisoner to be acquitted; which the Jury did accordingly. He was detained, however, on a charge of conspiring to defraud his creditors. Wednesday, Edward Phillips was put to the bar, charged with having set fire to a certain dwelling-house, in his posses sion, with intent to injure the Phcenix Fire Office, and there was also another count in the indictment, charging him with wilfully setting fire to the said dwelling-house,; With intent to turn the dwelling-house of Henry Cohen. The case was dearly proved by a number of witnesses, and the Jury , found him guilty —Death—but recommended him to mercy on account of his former good character. The Sessions terminated on Thursday, when sentence of • death was passed on the following prisoners, Daniel Davis, for secreting a letter containing 101.; William Beattehamp, Sarah Green, William Bradford, Mary King, John Connor, Magnus Brush, and Jane Mills, alias Charlotte Groves, for stealing goods in a dwelling-house; Thomas Bernard for high _ . Johr Johnstone, and Mary Thomas Skefling and illiam Bevan, and John 7ent, for returning from the time for which he setting fire to a house, for life ; one for fourteen years, to be imprisoned two years, twenty-one tor one year, twenty-one for six months, three for three months, two for one month, 2nd thirteen to be whipped, confined for.fourteen days, and discharged.' I POLICE. • - BOW-S"rREET. tILTRAORDINARY STORY OF A DARING ATTEMPT AT livAi, wr i tt - y hal SW, roi two person appeared spiv he ' tHE NATIO. , ehtered into the necessary recog- i_ way robbery ; Elizabeth Field, John J Jones, . for private stealing in a shop ; Morgan Davis for -rorse Stealing, • Willi Bona, alias Smith, for burglary; John ltc epitisportation before t 1 expiration of t w* transported, aud.Ettward Phillips for wilfully and maliciousli. • Six were ordered to be transported fo years, and sixty for seven years, seitcli • REGISTER. • it wounded companion, but which way they went he could • tell, hut believed at the back-door. Hep• winced a number bludgeons, which he said the rcibberi had left behind them, • ich Bacon, -on t”.atniniog them; discoVered .to be faggot- od, and inquiring if there was not a faggot-pile near, Was armed there was one at the back of the house ; on comparing m with the faggot-pile, he had nn doubt but they were piirc the same. Bacon requested Mr. Ulyeate and the gardener to end before the Magi-trite in the evening to give the partial- s, which they accordingly did as follows : Mr. Samuel R. Ulyeate, of Shepherd's Bush, writing-master, posed, that about half-past one o'clock on Monday morning was awoke by his wife,, who rid him she Suspected there !re robbers in the house, from the noise she heard, and hay- seen the reflection of a light ' • he told her she must have en mistaken; and supposed the light she had seen to be a flash lightning or a running star. He went to sleep for a sgort ire, and his wife awoke him again, telling him she was positive me personi were in the house; he listened for some time, and wring a noise, which appeared like something rolling about, got up and went down stairs, having first procured a light, d found at the bottom of the stairs a knife, which had the pearance of a shoe-maker's working knife, in a very bloody ate. The kitchen-door was open, and Wm. Read, his servant, the act of coming out of the kitchen, with only his breeches id great coat on, and armed with a bayonet. The kitchen- Apr did not appear to have been broken open, but was wide 'en. He did not discover that any thing had been stolen, though a number of silver spoons and other articles, and trious property, were lying about; he found a large blu d g eon the kitchen. He and his wife went to bed between ten and even o'clock, leaving the female servant, and Wm. Read, the irdener sitting in the kitchen. He denied hea r i n g the re p ort a pistol, or any forcing or breaking into the house. The. gardener was then called upon. He said, his name was Read; but on the book being presented to him, he refuted r be sworn, and persisted in his refuSal. No threats or entreaties id any effect in altering his determination : the only answer ha; -ould give was, that he would tell the truth without being . worn. It being impossible to hear him in any other manner in matter of !elony than on his oath, Mr. Read ccininlitted him pr the contempt. Mr. Bacon, belonging to the office, was sworn, and stated the articulars which he had heard from the gardener. Bacon produced four bludgeons, which Reid told him the obbers left in the house, their appearance occasioned mich , .aughter by all srespng from their enormous size, particularly . wo of them, w ell w re as big as a stout man's thigh s and a person must take wra ; nds to enable km totipe them ; they appeared to have • 41 4 : . • ain s • . 46 , on them, to • mover some par 1 ' ,e •. • baton 4 ,„ Mood on the fl oor • - p *A , • and bteod spirted against the wall, said to be in consequence of the wound he had given the robber with the bayonet. BO ING. .• Yesterday the the long expected battle between IVoi- LINEUX and CRIB took place at Grantherm, in Lin- colnshire. The result had not arrived in town when our paper went to press. Tom BELCHER AND POWEAS.—Friday the well known scientific pugilists met at Gregson'ss when the friends of Powers formally presented to Belcher a written challenge. Unused to the novel etiquette of exchanging such compliments from one parlour to an adjoining room, Belcher personally communicated with Powers on the ground which he was induced to offer a combat. Pure ambition for the honour of contending for su- perior merit, being a satisfactory answer, Belcher agreed to fight with Powers, and the match was immediately made for 100 guineas aside. Articles were mutually signed, and ten gubieas deposited. The stakes to be made good in a fortnight, and the battle to be fought ou the sth of November. • DIED. At Marden, in Kent, aged 85, the Rev. r. Andrews, L.L.13. He was presented to the vicarage in the year 1767, by Arch - bishop Seeker, and, with few intermissions, performed the whole duty of the parish till a fortnight before his death. On Tuesday the 24th inst. the infant son of George M. Hoare, Esq. of Morden. OHN FISHER, No 5, Pickett-street, Strand., near Temple-Bar, ooksellere throughout th United Kingdom, free of postage & Jaw •. , ROBBERY. - - On Sunday night, the house of Mr. Robinson Ulyeate, writ ing -master, at Shepherd's Bush, was broke open by a gang of robbers. The circumktance was reported about in the neigh bourhood, and reached the ears tif Mr. Connie, the landlord of the house, in Southampton-buildings; after which Mr. Ulyeate called on him, and stated, that his wife was so much alarmed ante time, and her fears continued so strong, lest the robbers shJuld pay them another visit, that he intreated Mr. Con►rie to allow intn to give up the house, as it would be impossible for him to remain in it with any degree of comfort. Mr. Connie inquiredif he had given notice at Bow-street. Office of the rob bery, or taken any steps to discover •the robbers ; to which he replied in the negative. Mr. C. informed him he should, and accordingly applied at the above Office on Thursday afternoon ; and Bacon, the conductor of the patrole in the neighbourhood of Shepherd's Bush, was desired to attend him at the house ; on the examination of which, no act of violence appeared, either in breaking in or breaking out. The principal account of the robbers was from Mr. Ulyeate and his gardener. The gar dener gave a particular account., stating, that the roam where he slept was very near the kitchen, and, hearing some men in the house, he believed four, but was positive there were three, .he armed himself with a bayonet. On his approaching the kitchen, which was perfectly dark, a pistol was discharged at him, the ball of which fortunately missed him and went into _the wall; he instantly thrust his bayonet into the robber, which entered his body about four inches, from the bloody state it was in. The robbers then made off, supposed to be carrying off Edited by E. 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