The National Register. — London, England, 1820-05-22 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, Friday, May 19• BANK PROSECUTIONS. The following 'trimmers were this morning brought into Court, and severally pleaded Guilty to the tumor offence of having forged 1/. notes in their pus. session : William Cooper, aged 25 ; George Thorpe, aged 24 ; George Henley, aged 28 ; Joseph Lenney, aged 24. They were informed by the Court that they would be transported for fourteen years. Samuel Benjamin Meredith, Robert Ireland, and George Seymour, pleaded not Guilty. The following were arraigned, and pleaded Nut Guilty to the capital charge:—George Midfield, aged 25 : and Henry Brown, aged 28 ; for tittering five tot. and five 51. notes ; James Gardener, for uttering thirty five I!. notes; Jane Harrison, for uttering seven 11. notes ; and Peter Miller, for uttering two to!. and one 51. notes. The prisoner who had pleaded Not Guilty were then informed that their trials would commence to-morrow, at ten o'clock. EXTORTING MONEY BY A CHAOS OP AN UNNA TURAL OFFENCE.—WiIIiam Wilkinson, a wretched looking man of colour, was indicted for an assault upon Edward Hodder, on the King's highway, and stealing from his person three half crowns, and two one-pound Doles. Mr. Bolland opened the case. He stated, that this was a case of peculiar importance, and required their utmost attention. The Learned Counsel proceeded to detail the facts of the case as they were afterwards proved in evidence. Mr. Justice Bayley summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The prisoner upon hearing the verdict, exclaimed, " I'm murdered." Baron Garrow—Gentlemen, the observations just made by the prisoner calls from me this remark. I have attended to the course of the evidence, and I think myself bound to say, that had your verdict been different, an inroad, and a fatal inroad would have been made upon the safety of society. Mr. Justice Bayley also expressed his concurrence. Benjamin Constable and Elizabeth, his wife, were indicted, the former for stealing and the latter for felo niously receiving, a number of valuable pistols the property of Mr. Riviere, the gun-maker, in Oxford- Street. The male prisoner was a workman to Mr. Riviere, and it was proved that he had from time to time stolen a number of pistols of the most valuable kind that the shop contained, and his wife pledged ihein for trifling sums at several pawnbrokers* shops. It came out in course of evidence that the prisoner was in great distress, in consequence of having a wife and children and a sick father to support. One of the pistols produced was stated to be worth 4L 365. at prime cost, and this was pledged at a pawnbro ker's for a few shillings. Mr. Baron Garrow, in addressing the Jury, animad verted in very strong terms on the negligent (to say no worse of it) conduct of the pawnbrokers in this case. It was owing to the facility with which the tan. happy couple at the bar, could raise a few paltry shil lings, by pledging articles worth as many pounds, that they had been placed in such a situation, and Mr. Riviere had been so great a sufferer in his property. — His Lordship directed an acquittal of the wife on a point of law. The Jury found Benjamin Constable Guilty, Death —and the Foreman begged permission to recommend him to mercy, and to state the grounds on which they did so, which were—first, the circomstance of this be ing his first offence, and the good character he had borne—and, secondly, that they conceived his guilt was in a very material degree owing to the readiness with which he could raise money upon she articles at some pawnbrokers. Baron Garrovr.—" I hope this opinion of yours, Gentlemen, entitled as it is to the highest consideration and respect, will obtain a very wide circulation. I shall direct that toe pawnbrokers do not receive one shilling of their expences, and I hope that in future they will attend to the interests of the public, as well as to their own." His Lordship then desired Mr. Clark, not to give the pawnbrokers one single In the course of the day Mr. Baron Garrow took occa sion to remark, that the public business in this Court, as well as at the Assizes, were much retarded, and the Judges put to much inconvenience, in consequence of the neglectof Magistrates' Clerks to furnish the deposi tions taken at the Police Offices. He now requested Mr. Clark, the Deputy Clerk of the Airaigns, to make wit a list of all the prisoners in whose cases die depositions had not been furnialied this Sessions, with the particular office from which each was committed, and transmit the same to Lord Sidmouth, in order that measures might be adopted to put an end to so alarming ant evil. The servant of Capt. Davis, who, as our readers may recollect, enabled his master to escape from Giltspur.street Compter, was tried on Monday at the London Sessions, and sentenced to six months imp prisonment. We understand the Jury were ex tremely reluctant to find a verdict against him, bet without violating their oaths, they could not acquit him. Last wed: a servant at Mr. Dunn's, Firling, Holder ness, being about to light the fires, and having no matches, got Nit.. Dunn's powder flask, and after strik Mg some sparks of fire among the tinder, scattered a small quantity of gunpowder upon it. This immedi ately taking tire, coinintinicaird with that in the flask, which exploding, carried away all the glass in two windows, and left the thumb of the young woman's hand, in which she held the powder flask, hanging by a piece of skin. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. -40- EPSOM RACES. wtrurcava2—FlitllT DAY. These Races eoinnienced on Wednesday. but as usual, on this first day, the ground was attended by those psesons only inter , ested, and there was no betting excepting upon the Derby, .as follows t -13 to 8 against Pindarrie 4to 1 Kill Devil filly 3 to 1 Sailor It to 1 Brother to Blucher . 12 to 1 Duke 13 to 1 Abjer 20 to 1 any other. The Craven Stakes for all ages was won by Mt: Mill's Moe tuner. The Gold Cup, value 100 guineas, Subscribers of to guineas each, with 20 guineas added Irons the Racing fund. The winner to be sold, it demanded, for 430 guineas. Mr. Walker's bl. I. Gem., beat Sir. Stevens's Charming Molly. Five other. started. but two only were placed. The Wooticet Stakes of 30gs. each. tor two yr. old colts, Bst. 61b. and fillies, ttst. 31b. was won cleverly. by Mr. Rush's, b. c. by Hadley. The Sweepstakes of lOgs. each was won easily, by Mr. Walker's Shoe-horn. Although but few persona were ass the grow& the road was much thronged by persons going down to be present at the Rams to-morrow. THUBSDAY--LECOND DAY. Such a Derby Race-day was never witnessed by the oldest frequenters of the turf. 'The rainy morning kept more than halt' from there, who enjoy this fine race as a holitle), and instead of the first display in the world of equipage. beauty, and fashion, the ladies were kept in their close carriages, expecting to be blown over by the stormy. element; and as to the booths, many were unroofed on the preceding n;ght, and those left shared the sense fate this day, and sign-posts and canvas were flying in all directions when the horses started. The Derby Stakes of 50 guineas each, for three year old colts, to carry Bst. 71b. and fillies est. 21b. (a 4 Subscribers) half forfeit. The owner of the second horse to receive 100 guineas out of the stakes. Mr. Therhill's ch. c. Sailor. by Scud, dun Gosseander, beat Mr. Udney's br. c. Abier, and Lord G. A. Cavendish 's c. by Middle. theme, out of Cat. Three only were placed. It is necessary to place two, but the race was won in a canter by more than two tengtheSam.Chifiney, rider.)—Antigallicen and Arbutus bolted sit *fottenham corner, towards London, irons the storm, as mane say. Arbutus being on the near side of Antigallican, and close at bins. drove that horse out, anal Pindarrie swerved there, and got out of his place. The Kill Devil filly and Pindarrie were fourth and fifth, and the owners were a lung distance behind. It was a fast run race.— Betting three to one against the Kill-Devil filly-12 WOW against Abjer-16 to one against Arbutus—and 20 W one against any other-15 started. A great number now left the Course from the inclemency of the weedier, without waiting for the other two races. Sweepstakes of logs. each. with tugs. added from the Racing Fund, for all ages. Mr. Forth's Admiral, 4 yrs. old, Tat. 41b., beat Mr. Dilly's Shee.hom, * years old, vat. 4lb" and Mr. Hobson's Fitzcloddy. The last Race was a Sweepstakes of lugs. each for all ages. Mr. Dilly's Shoe-horn, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 21b., beat Mr. Batson's colt by Walton-out of Camelia, s yrs-old, est. Six started, but two only were placed. These last llama were interesting to the patties only, as they were run in.rhe storm, and thew was no betuug. EXECUTION.—On Wednesday the gth instant, T. Collery, convicted at last Sligo Assizes, of ailionism, burglary, and rubbery of fire-asms suffered the awful sentence of the law in the front Of the prison there.— There was a vast assemblage of persons, among whom the strictest order prevailed. For some time previous to his execution the culprit evinced the utmost contrition, and attained a frame of mind which befitted his situ ation. Having ascended the platform, he addressed the multitude—confessed his having deprived persons of fire-arms, and thanked Providence that it arrested him in his wicked career. He exhorted the spectators, as they regarded the approbation of God, and the peace and tranquillity of their fellow-creatures, to desist from evil courses which brought him to his disgraceful end, and which must, if persisted in, inevitably Involve diem in a similar fate. A beautiful fast sailing, French lugger, called.Le Lan cies- was brought into Portsmouth out Thursday last by the'liper, tender to the Rum/Misr, on suspciion of basing landed a cargo of smuggled goods on the coast of Sussex, but them not being sufficient proof of the fact, she was liberated. An illegally constructed galley, .10 feet in length, and calculated to pull 12 stars on a side, which the vessel bud with her, was seized and sent to the custom-house. Another attempt to. set Fire to Ilerci;rd College.—On Friday List (the 12th inst.) another attempt was made to set fire to tile College, in this city. About II o'clock at night, a lighted candle was discovered in an unin habited room adjoining to the apartments occupied by Rev. Henry Pearce, placed in an aperture between the laths of an old partition. A small part of one of we laths was burnt, but no material injury was done to the building. A minute itsvestigatioa of this mysterious business has taken place before Colonel Matmews, auu some circumstances of suspicion having attached titem selves to R. Carpenter, a youth of 16 years of age, oue of tile Choristers of the Cathedral, he has beets co is mined to prison till our next Assizes, to take his trial for the offence of having set lire to the building. Some labourers who were lately employed by Mr. Neatne, its trellCbing the land adjolllll% tile 1)011 John Field, in Canterbury, Cattle in contact with a steamed grave containing the pectect skeleton of a man, woo, from the teeth which remained sit the jaws, appeared to have been of great age. The grave was steamed in chalk, and from the composition ut the mortar with which it was worked, as well as limn Will(' old found-1.- 11011 S near it, is conjectured to hav e een wuliiit the site of the Church of St. John, which it us said formerly stood thereabouts. From the appearance of the grave, it is supposed to have remained undisturbed many cen turies. Mr. Dytnoke, the King's hereditary champion at the coronation, died a few days ago at his seat in Lincolnshire. The office of the King's champion was enjoyed by him as Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby, in that county. His motto was pro res.( dinuco• 107 On Wednesday last, the tOth of May instant, the Commissioners of Appeals gave their final decision in the case of Roger Coleman against Joseph Quelch, ' grocer, of Diibitis. The nature of the appeal was one of peculiar singularity, and this singularity created much interest. On Saturday the 24th day of October, 1818, certain officers of Its I.ljesty's Revenue entered Mr. Quelch's house, and seize,' 011 C chest of tea as spu rious tea. A trial took place boom the Cominissione a of Customs, which continued for several days, when they, after heating evidence on both sides, pronounced judgment that the tea was genuine as imported into this country from the India House. Against this judg ' mein the seizing officers appealed, and during the pre , seat and two last Terms, the Commiissioners of Appeals were occupied, day after day, 10 hearing the arguments of Counsel. The UO.OIIIOOOS PIdt4MCIIL of the Court wits tins day pronounced, COlOll Ming the judgment of rue Court below, and estaulislitng that the tea was. ge nuine, and fairly imported lions the sales at the India l'huse, and ordering the tea to be restored to Mr. Quelcii. NVe forbear to make any remark upon. the injstry that Mr. Q,tielch must have suffered in property, feelings, and character, from this business, as we•Ull. derstand their is an action pending. . . _ A most daring burglary was committed on Wed• • nesday night last, about eleven o'clock, at the house of Mr. Thomas Homewood, a licensed victualler, . sign of the Hope Tavern, Pollard's•rmv, Bethnal green. The villains watched the opportunity of Mr. H. being busily engaged in the bar, serving his customers, and placing a ladder against the. bed room window, entered. Mrs. Homewood howl* occasion to go up stairs to the room, could not open the door, and called Mr. H. to burst it open, when, to their great surprise, they found every closet and drawer ransacked of their contents. It is supposed the villains were in the room when Mrs. H. endea voured to open the door. The thieves succeeded in escaping the same way they entered, taking with them cash, plate, and other articles, amounting to 1501, At Boston great sheep fair on the 4th instant,. the show was very large (estimated at 50,000 . sheep). They went off slowly at first, but ulti mately the chief part were sold, and brought as good prices us at Lincoln fair. The show of beasts on Friday was large; fresh beasts sold well, and.. stores obtained fair prices. We understand a Committee has. been appointed at Westminster Abbey, fur the purpose of arranging the business relative to the intended coronation, and installation of the Order *Nile. Bath. Arthur Young, Esq., the venerable Secretary to Boar d o f Agriculture, whose dea th took place at his residence in Sackville Street, London, on the 12th ult. in the 79th year of his age, had the misfortune to be blind for the last to years of his ife, and his death was accelerated by one of the must painful disorders incident to the human frame—the stone; but the coin fort he derived from a firm reliance in the Christian Religion. enabled him to bear the most ucate snaring* with pious resig nation and patience. His. remains were interred in the church yard of Bradfield. near Bury . St. Edmund's, where a small property has been in the possession of the family above 200 years. rho funeral was attended by a large :isemblage of poor lout the surrounding country. all anxious to testify their &MOW for the loss of so benevolent a benetattor; hit kindnesses must be long regretted both by The young who labour, andthe old who rest;" as few men. with so limited as income. confernal greater benefits in their neighbourhood.—Nlr. Young is well known to the public as a voluminous writer on Agriculture and Political Economy. One of his earliest,works, and which first culled the attention of the country gentlemen of England to the value of their lauded . property, was published about 50 years ago, entitled "A Farming Four through the East. South, and North of England, in 9 vuls. Sr.." and it is believed that most of the modern improvements in agriculture originated front this work. liis account of Ireland. drawn up after a most minute survey made in the year 1776, is allowed, even by those most inimical to h;.; writings, to contain a fund of intelligence rarely found in any single book; and it is no slight proof of its merit that Miss Edgeworth remarks, that "it was the first faithful portrait of its inhabitants." The " Annals of Agriculture" were commenced in 1784. and he continued to conduct it, as Editor, till the period of his blindness. inserting from time to time his own ingenious and interesting cape riinents ; for the information coot:Usti:id in this work he re ceived the late King's approbation, and personal thanks, on the Terrace at Windsor; and his Majesty afterwards sent sonic accounts of the late Mir. Ducket's farm at Ether, which were inserted under the signature of Ralph Robinson. and have been copied into , all the published Memoirs of Gorge 111. In 1790. his " Travel* in France" appeared. the result of three journeys performed through every province of that kingdom, in 1787. nn. and 159; it was translatett into the French. language, and gave the inhabitants a higher idea of the value of their own roil and climate, than they before possessed.— Nearly front this period Mr Y. became Secretary to the Board of Agriculture 1,1793) and his time war chiefly devoted to the objectt, of that Institution, though he occasionally vented seine politiesil pamphlets, applicable to the disturbed and distressed state of the nation ; amongst the most conspicuous was " The E.t:ample France. a Warning to Britain." He also drew up tie: Agricul tural Reports for the counties of Lincoln, Noefollt. Suffolk. F.,sex. I liwtford. and Oxford. Of the last pamphlet which lie wrote. *. On the Depreciation. of Money, &r. the " Etlinburgh.Review.7 lately printed says—" We are indebted to the researches of Ma. Young, far much valuable intinniation respecting the tate of wages at different periods." Mr. 1' sang Into been a Fellow of the Royal Society nearly 5U years. and lus name will be found inserted to the list of most of the Agricultural Societies of the United Kindom ; anti it. tuanyof the Academical anti Economical Institution g s on t he Continent . of Europe, asid also in America. The striking features in this gentleman s per sonal qualities were an ardent industry. indefatigable per.eve ranee, and a lively imagination. His manners and address a ere peculiarly pleasing ; his conversation highly animated awl instructive; his countenance strongly marked his decision of character, and the strength of his undxstamling. After the near tragedy of Virginias had pawed the ordeal of the Lord Chamberlain's office, the manuscript was demanded for inspection in a high quarter, and returned with snue pencil erasures. P - ,14