The National Register. — London, England, 1822-01-21 00:00:00

POLICE. MANSION-HOUSE. SINGULAR CARR OF ROBRERY.—William Watson was charged by Mr. Miller, of Lower Thameq-street, upon suspicion of having committed a robbery on Thins day night, under circumstances of rather an extraordinary nature. _ Mr. Miller's evidence was to the following effect : lie has a cut glass and earthen warehouse iu Thames street, but does riot reside there. On Thursday he found that thieves had been on the premises, and he supposed th it on the previous evenittit some one of them had ind deli himself behind the packages, and remained till all was quiet, for the purpose of giving admission to Isis as sociates. The thieves, however, dui not get much, but white they were in the house they enjoyed themselves.— They lighted a lire, anti paid a visit to the wine-cellar, from which they took three bottles of wine, and three bottles of perry, which it seems they drank warm with sugar ; anti Mr. Miller received a very polite note from one of them, acknowledging she obligation they were under to bun for the excellent beverage his cellar had supplied. Upon examining other parts of the premises Mr. Muller found that his iron chest had been forced open.— The instrument (a large chisel) with which the feat was performed, was lying on the premis s, and a dark Un thorn. The petty cash drawers of the iron chest Ity open empty, but when lie left the warehouse there was a sum perhaps not exceeding 91. The bills and papers were not t iken away. Some silver cruet tops were taken, but the cruets were left behind. The letter, which was written in a good hand, began with the word " and stated that they (the writer and his friend') had called ; regretted that there was 1.0 " Wassel in toe lob;' (money to the chest) but exprassed the highest opinioti of the wine; begged par don for dis , tirbout the papers, and expressed how happy those who drank it would be to visit toe premises upon a future occasion. TII rre was a postscript, slitting that all iron chest would be of no utility where the visitors might uuuk proper to go. Upon examining the letter, Mr. Miller was of opinion that Watson, who had lived as servant in the concern, and cm ttttt hied some disho:iest acts, for which he had been lately imprisoiled, was the writer. Wheo the prisoner was apprehended and charged with the offence, he suddenly horned rotund to the ser vant of iNtr. Millar's Mother, and charged him with having been concerned in the robbery. %Vat ►he view of having the matter as clear as possible, Mr. Miller caused the servant to attend the justice-room, anti he confronted by Watson, although convinced that there had beets no intercourse whateter between the prisoner and the servant, and that the latter was a person of integrity. The servant declared in the most solemn manner, that lie knew nothing of die robbery, and that to the best of his knowledge he had never seen the prisoner since he had seen him tried at tin) Old Bailey, ulna the morning after the robbery. The prisoner was remanded for some days. HATTGN GARDEN (hi Friday , two livens d victuallers residing at Hamp stead, appeared to answer infOrinations brought aeanist them by the officers of the excise, tor selling ale and spirituous liquors without an excise license. It appeared that the defendants had allowed the time prescribed for renewing their excise licenses to elapse upwards of three months, without paying the necessary lees, and taking them up, by which negligence they subjected themselves to a penalty of fifty-pounds each. • The magistrates mitigated the penalty to the hiwest sum prescribed by act of parliament, namely, four pounds each, and costs, which the defendants paid and were dtscharged, on renewing their licenses. ARLBOROUStei I STREET. Martha 13ette1,:y, servant to Mr. Atwell, oldie Edge ware roil, was charged with robbing her master ut I in'. conta.ned in a box. Mr. Atwell went out on Sunday se'unight, and on his rvtiii II he foetal two doors kroken open, and a chest con taining the money, in a 3111311 box, front which it had been taken. The prisoner, wit° was kit in care of the house, with a young child, said she had taken a walk, and the robbery was then comm tted. She was suspected and taken into custody, and by the ti A ilauce of some officers helompog to this CSlablishment she was traced to have carried the box, containing, the treasure, to the holden Cross, Charing-cross, on the Sunday afternoon, and at her request the cle:k wiote direction on it to her sister, and it was sent off. This led to an additional clue, alid the prisoner still denied any knowledge of the robbery, until the box was ex hibited before her, when sbe gave a piercitse shriek.— Finding the prisoner was in CUStOdy, the bort was re turned to the owner by some of her frie..ds, with 6ul. in it. The prisoner was remanded. Another instance of the unhappy mistakes which aritte from the Similar appearance of oxalic acid to Epsout salts, occurred on Tuesday night, the I6th inst., but hap pily without those effects which it has so often been our painful duty to record :—The coachman of Mrs. Mount, of Forest Farm, W inkfield, on retiring to bed, had mixed %vhat lie thought a dose of salts, to be t ken in the night, lie awoke attain three o'clock, and swallowed the draught. From the acute pain be immediately ex perienced, he became convinced of his mistake, and recollected that he had half an cunce of oxalic acid in his possession, which he had taken. With great pre. settee of 'Mud, lie immediately got up, and saddling a horse, role at hill speed to Windsor, a instance of four note s. Ile was Gunman. in obtaining assistance without delay, Ito it Mr. Chapm : who, by the most judicious treatment, succeeded in saving him Iro.n the ordinary effects of this dreadful poison. Mr. Chapman prescribed talented magnesia, and haelog succeeded in producing copious %miming, afterwatils took 'l4 ounces of 1.410 d from his affrighted patient, %rho is now WO. THE NATIONAL REGISTER CORONZR'S INQUESTS., DUELS.—A duel was fought in Dublin, on Saturda On Wednesday afternoon, pursuant to adjournment, last, at three o'clock in the afternoon, between Mr• an inquest was resumed at the Barley-mow, Mount- O'Meara, Oil the half-pay establishment, attended by street, Grosvenor-square, before A. Gell, Esq. coroner, Nit. Crooke, also of the half-pay, and Mr M'Luughliu, on the body of a female infant that was fun id Homing of the Treasury, attended by Mr. Bayley. On the on the Basin, Hyde Park. second fire both shots took effect. Mr. O'Meara was A woman at M iribormigh-street, was charged on struck on the side, bin the rib bone offered sufficient suspicion of having disposed of her child under suspicious resistance to prevent it front entering the body. The circumstances.—Clements, the officer, received instruc- would is severe, however. Mr. M'Lotighlitt was less Lions to make every inquiry, iii the hope of ascertaining fortunate. The ball of his antagonist entered a little how the child was disposed or,—and, hearing that a below his hipbone, and has not been extracted. NVe child answering the description of the prisoner's had state, with much regret, that the wound is considered been found in the Basin, in Hyde Park, he alentled the dangerous. He is attended by the Surgeon-General and inquest on Tuesday night, allj cause(' an adjournment, Surgeon Kerin. Mr. O'Mrana is attended by Surgeon for the attendance of material witnesses, who were then Roney. It is a lamentable circumstance, that tnis is the absent, it being strongly suspected that Me deceased was third duel fought during the last week, arising from the the prisoner's child. same original cause of quarrel. The first was 011 'r ues- Nathaniel Ellis, of the Engitte.house, Hyde Park, day, in the Phasing-park, between the same principals. was the only witness examined ;as it was his usual Alter exchanging shots at fifteen paces' distance, the custom he went to ex 'mine the Basin in Hyde Park on parties and their friends quitted the ground without any Monday night, when he found the body of the deceased adjustment having taken place. At the moment of Boating therein ; it was wrapped tip in flannel ; there I quahog the ground, souse altercation arose, which pro ' were no marks of violence on its person, and lie took it duced a meeting on Thursday afternoon, in a field ad to the win knonse. joining Lord Charlemones demesne, between Mr. After the adjournment Clements returned to the office, I O'Meara and Mr. Clarke, also on the half-pay, who , Marlborough-street, and the prisoner underwent a second acted as the secitud of Mr. Nl'Lotighliti its the former examination before Mr. Conant, she being i,morant of I case, when, on a discharge of shots at ten paces, Mr. a child having been found. Oil being furtherquestioned, O'Meara firing in the air, the affair was amicably ad she stated to the magistra:e that she would tell the truth. jiisted. The third duel was fought on the same place, On leaving Mr. Huntley's lodgings, its consequence of I between the original principals, with the unfortunate not being able to piy her rent, site was under tile tieces- I result already stated. log stood at the distance of 12 sity to wander all toe night about the streets. She sat paces. The same gentleman was second to Mr. O'Meara down on the step of a door, nearly tarnished, when her i•I the three duels. child died in her arms. She kn e w not what to do with P EDESTRIAWISK .—A matc h o f 12 m il es f or SO gu i nea s it, until site at length determined on laying it near the was run out Friday morning over a mile piece of ground. gate at Hyde Park Corner, that some o,w might welt it at Honing, near Citerisey, and it was a fine treat to the up. Site laid it down and remained at a short th,tance spectators. The contemporaries were a Capt. Griffiths, from the spot, and she saw a :,ientleinan pick up the and a gentleman of the name of Barrington.—Each two child, on which site fainted away it the street. Mr. miles were performed as follows: Conant informed her, that a child had been hound in the N. 111, N. 5. basin. The prisoner answered—" Sae had tint thrown First 2 Griffiths did in I I 2 Barrington it in the water." The officer attentltd and stated the Second do. above facts to the Jury. Third do l3 4 Ditto Mr. J. Howsitip, surgeon, stated the deceased to he Fourth do. three weeks old, and was perhays dead three or four days; Filth 11 ° l3 SO Ditto l3 32 he would not state whettier the deceased had been dimwit Sixth do into the water when alive or death, nor could lie trace the cause oh death 'lliere were no marks of violence nu the person. A flannel wit ch was wrapped round the deceased resembled one which the deceased used to wear. Mr. Hurley, who kuew the child, was not in attendance. The Jury returned a verdict of " Found dead in the Basin, tau Hyde Park." On Thursday afternoon another inquest was taken at the Brit:mina, Gulden-lair, Barbican, before Tnoin as Esq. coroner lin London and Southwark, nit the hotly of Charles S.eplien Hickson, a tine nil, mily three years old, smi to Mr. Hickson, corner, of Golden. lair. Tue deceased havitig got hold of 4 bOlde COIIIIIIII - snow sulphuric acid, umortutiately swallowed great part of the contents. Mr. Gower, surgeon, of 35, Chiswell-street, said he attended the deceased shortly after the accident had oc curred ; opened the body after death, and found the stomach, throat, and other parts much inflamed and cor roded. lie was intormed, that from what remained in the phial, the deceased must have drank about an ounce, but half a drachm would produce death. V erdict—" That the deceased (.121111e to his death from his having accidentally drunk sulphuric acid." DREADFUL Accr Dr:ar.—On Thursday night at seven o'clock, au Inquest was held at the Crown, Duke's court, St Martin's lane, before T. Higgs, Esq. coroner, on the body of Elizabeth Branch, 45 years of age, house keet,er in the employ of John Hearne Tremayne, Esq. of New-street, Spritig-gardeos, who came to her death under the folloWlllg CliClllllslUOCcb : George Beckham, of No. 14, New-street, Spring gardens, stated, tit it on Weduesday, about our o'clock, his fellow snvatet. culled him out of his master's house, his cousequence of a body of smoke issuing (min the upper part of Mr. Tremayne's house. 'rite Lundy were I out of to.vii, anti the deceased hail been taking care of the house; and wittiest being aware that there was no *lie rise in the house, suspected there was a fise, and endeavoured to gain admission into the premises, but could receive no answer. The sh o oters were closed, which was slot usual, and lie alarmed the pt nsuns 111 the mitt house; lie then proceeded to the root of the house; the place was very hot ; tne garret 0111110 W wis fastened anti he broke iii the glass, when the flames rushed ; by this time the Kamm engine had armed, and the flames had considerably increased ; the houses adjoining were itt a dangerous state ; about two o'clock h.: heard that the body of the deceased was itiond, and on going up stairs lie saw her lying at the side of the bed, burnt almost to a cinder; there was a lamp lying near the deceased, out the cotton was not all burnt out ; the fur niture slid tipper purr of the house were completely destroyed. Tne litatise appeared to lie ni remlitiess for the reception of the fatuity, and witness did not conce.ve that thieves had been in the house ;on aeareiling notimig was missing. The Jury returned a verdict of—" Accidentally burn . to death." Hour I I 6 52 I Hour I 16 It was one of the closest matches that has taken place for years, by about sixty yards, gained chiefly by strength in the last half mile. Sir. Barrington was backed at even at starting, but it was 2 to I against him after doing the second mile. Riot at Fronse.—A few days a:to the master ery hien of Frome reduced the wages of the weavers from 1.5 d. to 134. per yard ; this caused a cuthiderable agitation, all the men uumrtliately refused to work, and assembled in the streets in so titinulttioris a manner, that the ma gistrates, very properly, caused all public-houses to be closed. The uteri, however, in a day or two again re turned to their work, and nothing serious occurred.— The knowledge of this was soon circulated among the weavers in Trowbridge, and the adjacent manufacturing places ; and, oat Saturday, the town of Fronie was coos.- pletely filled with weavers from all the surrounding country, who came with the intention to deter those or Floine from peaceably pursuing their employ at the re duced prices. This tinateisse concourse of people con tinued to crowd the streets of the town until about three o'clock in the afternoon, when Ilse Riot Act was read, and some few of uteru soon departed. The town was still, however, crowded at the tune our informant left at four o'clock, attd die magistrates had just ordered the public-houses to he closed, fearing the consequences which might ensue. in case the populace should become inebriated. The following extract is fr a coin' tttttt cation of o u r Entine correspondent. dated Saturilsy even me, six o'clock :—" Acts of violence were prevented by the timely interference of that worthy magistrate, the Earl of Cork, who was as usual at his pm, and by a suitable address to the deluded 111C11, ill which, in the mildest manner, he expressed his determination to keep the peace and put the laws in force, tney left the town. dial returned to their respective homes ; it is but justice to add, that there appeared no disposition in t_le tow n weavers to join them, or to sanction urea prueee<lihes. We think it should be pat►icularly impressed upon the minds of this useful class of society, uta: to get any arkvatice redressed, is not by breakimf the laws of their country, which triatik 'jail, are at tons tune sufficient to protect all Classes." SUItRISTSESSIONS.-TIICCOIIrI were occupied, durisig the forenoon of Friday, tit hearing parish a;ipeals. Case Of Ilford v. Lattptrd was argued at considerable lett:tilt by Mr. Torun', for the resimuidents, and Mr. Heath, for the appellants. L was a case of cotis'flerable interest to parishes, and °tie out which the Judges of the Conn of were divided in opinion, Anil hail reterred back to the Sessions for a re-hearing. The go. a non was, whether loving a servain. at monthly wages was a general hiring. that entitled the pauper to a settlement ii the parish where site had sertril oit such luring fur tiimarda ofa twelveitiotith.—The Court constiLed for a. considerable now, and at length decided, by a w tjority itione vo.ce toile, that Ill;itig by the 111011th nits 4 good service, that cutitivd the pauper to tier settlettieut at Wool. The great increase of houses of ill-fame, and of prostitutes parading our streets, have induced the committee of the corporation, to whom it was re ferred upon the petition of .2000 respectable inha bitant houselichlers, to consider the subjmt, to turn their attention to the practicability of introducing a bill in Parliament to facilitate their conviction by some more summary mode of proceeding than the present laws ath4rd ; for which purpose they are about to confer with his Majesty': law-oftizers, to obtain their sanction to a measure so highly de sirabile to every well-wisher to the murals of the rising generation., A remarkable occurrence took pi ce a short time ago at the ()Wield Culltuy, Siatiordshire : happening in the night of Sunday., none of the men were at work, nor ally Freon near the place. exc,nt a young Mall at tending the engine to work the pomp, who at that time h had down by the boiler, and was :tsleem About two o'clock in the morning, a tfailirsolOUevllitOOOll of the liyilrogan sat in.ik ',Lee in the pit tiniersicatit, winch agitated Ntr cam' to the surface so as 10 cause tIIC Wan to roll ostr ; it shook the iithabiseti Lb 11l utrtr t1V416 at Wine th-tinice, creating a lea. Mitt Iht:11 11.161601011 r would tall uu thew. liail at hap lIU any otl.et u•ght most likell the lit es of many ul the pour ckilltate. would haw:: Ulm a 3acr,ii:e. _~~_ h