The National Register. — London, England, 1818-04-13 00:00:00

APRIL 73. tfawcet say to her son,'" John, I think I have seen . l'aweet pass, I h a v e got a knife in readiness for him, and the moment he comes in I'll certainly plunge it into his heart." lie saw her at the same tune .!:owing hint the knife. Mr. BaromGrahant summed np at considerable length, and with rucii discrimination. That the prisoner had killed his , bon was be yond all doubt. If he did so wilfully it was murder ;r if he did so .unintentionally. . but meaning to kill Bush or any other perdu, it was murder. No censure was adequate to the prolligate couduci. of Mrs. Faweet and of Bush ; hut still if the prisoner sent to limb's house with the intent to kill, the jury most find him guilty. ' It appvared to him very. difficult indeed to find any one circumstance, which to found•r. suppo :incr. that he had not such an intention: 'Ate law could find any alleviation only in the momentary insanity apposed to arise from instantaneous and violent provocation. lie felt it extremely difficult to extend the belAt of this construction •if •law to the prisoner ; but it was for the jury to judge fur them selves. The try ooatinued in anxious and earnest consultation for nearly Inilfourbuur. At length they turned round, and assumed their places. Their foreman pronounced the verdict—Not Guilty. Marks of satisfaction were evident within the bar. The multitude without could not be restrained from expressing their joy and appro bation aloud. iflie prisoner, who had been deeply affected during t h e w h o l e ( Abe trial, was now completely overpowered. lie wit.s moliately discharged, and he hurried away from Me bar. so3u:RsErsHittE. PITMAN V. MORGAN.—This wit; In - might to recover a compensation. in damages, for the injury sustained by the plaintiff, in Atte , seduction of Lis daughter by the defend. out. Th e pl a intiff reminded the I/Hsi:less of the defvedant's father, us sumo-boiler and tellow-chandler, at Bath. The se. duction took placribere. defendant's daughter was not vet sixteen. 'Dies damages mere laid at 10001. For the de fendant "Mee witnesses were loaned, who alleged levity in the conduct of the girl. The Jury found a verdict—Damages 2001. Among the prisoners capitally -onvicted at these Assizes was Mark Sheppard, for the imirder of Wm. Cornish. The )fn it'! Mercury observes, thae , ti.ere never was a villein who stood before it Judge with sit hardihood. Even when the •wituesses were giving their evidence against bite, lie was frequently seen to smile:, and when Judge Abbott was pass ing sentence, lie did not appear the least affected; and he told the Judge, he had nothing to repent of, as lic was inno cent. He was to be executed on Monday last. LANCASTER. FORGERIES.—The be ;loess of the Crown End tcriu:nated on Friday week, when the Chief Baron passed sentence upon tl:e momeruns prisoners who had been convicted during the 4 sizes. The following among other unhappy men, received sentence of death :—W:Ovenliam. for forgery ; W. Stewart, Curry, Margaret Dowd, R. Wardlow, lt—Moss, Hannah tlayhall, and J. Vanghati, for uttering forged Bank, of Eng land notes. _ _ It was almost linposeihle to Is itness this spectacle without - being almost petrified with horror ; and the progress of the painful ceremony was occasionally interrupted by the frantic exclamations or piercing shrieks of some wife, mother, daugh ter, or sister, of the unhappy delinquents. Ovenham was so ill that lie was brought into Court wrapped in a blanket, end was obliged to he supportcd•by two attend ants while sentence was pi‘scd upon hint. G. Steel, E. Gc•ran, J. Walks r, E.Berry, J. Jelly, Wm. • Connolly, J. Scholelield, M. Steel, E. Walton, W. Taylor, mod Edward Moores, convicted of having forged Bank of England notes in their possession, were sentenced to be tratexported for 14 years. IllfSll ASSIZES. MURDER OF THE I.YECHEF. Adjourned Assizes fur the county of Louth commeaeed at Dundalk on Tuesday. J. Smyth, P,:trick and Lawrence Gayssor; were pat to the bar, and were•arraigued for setting lire t0+6,.• house of Edward Lynch, late of Wittlgoose-lodge, Mole county of Louth, in October, !SIG. Also •for the. murder. of the said Edward Lynch, 'nuts. Ronm.y, Jas. Rispand, Eridget Lynch, Elizabeth Richard, a child of Zi years old, and others, amount ing to eight persons. Alice Rispand saw.,.on the morMng of the ratsrtic-, the bp • die,: of eight persons neta•ly am:sinned by tire, its the house of Lynch ; one was the body of her son. Three informees, Milroy, Peter. Cology, and T. Gubby • ,Acta:tied the ',riskiness as having been present, aiding and assisting at tho hunting. Those who acted with them mer•o one hundred at least. Tbe motive by which they were ac_ :nate& was, that Lynch had defended his house, when at. tacked ow e. former occasion by robbers, and brad defended itis family, beat the assailants, and prosetated three to cut. v teflon. _ . . Judge Fletcher, in a strong, legal, and discriminating :to git :neat, charged the Jury; d after four hours' consider:l6mi- Pat. M'Quillon and James Smyth were (mind guilty, and L. iiaynor war.-siegititted. COUNTY+CF A~NPft M. Late nn THesday,the l a ill ult. the several !terming convicted were brought into4.4ourt to receive judgeneut, when sentence of death was passed on 13 of them.' Among these was Samuel Dick, for ruicilngeway.wititatul violating Elizabeth Crockett. In addressing Dick, the Hulk Judge was particularly bums: sive, and dwelt at considerable length on the enormity of his offence. He observed, that-be lied been guilty of cwt. of the greatest crimes that ever waseemmitted in a civilized country, tn forcibly takieg possession of a poor young defenceless girl, carrying her away.ft out her friends, unris:•eating !multi chit most cruel pawner here declared he meant no harm to her, and that he bad endeavoured to make all the compensation in his power - for the injury he had dom.:. He added, that it had heen repot ted that it was for he: money alone that he took her away, hilt licked offered to her relations to marry her without asking fur any part alit. His Lordsliiii here emphatically. said, " lwould nouatl vise her to marry you, were von to live a thousand years!" 'The prisoner then said, " Since it must he se, T. entreat you Lordship f..r a long day." His Lordship then observed, that the time allowed to all the prisoners would he long ettouglt, .and he hoped they WOllll employ it in makieg their peace with Gad ! lie teen proceeded to pronounce the awful .cute nee of the law on the 13 nnfortu nutter convicts; but no time was fixed lor•tiseir execution. Hulsey, the supposed inn ruercr of Mr. Wril and his hon. , • keeper, ii thin in 'scrim's, mill, and even. effeminate in his masinera., apparently Was:lfni, and his counter:am:a .pm.seases an air uldnieli The Assizes for the County of Surrey. wii;c!: commenced at Kingston, on luisilay, Mai eh IV, ended un Saturday last, at nuuu. 'f l'irty•nine per•ons received sentence ut Death. Thu number tried fur criminal utiences were giraffe' . than ever before known, and the dnration nt the AssiAes vs as many days lutiger., than au) furrier one fur that county. THE NATIONALRF,GISTER. :POLICE. CULDIIALL. CHANGE ' , V Em REn M .—A 111811 named Rahhoth was charged by Edward Gainsford, ebeesemonger, Ludgate-hill, with having einlotiz!ed the amount of :UM. in bank notes. 'file romplaivant said, he sent the prisoner to the house of Sir W. Curtis ;mil Cu., bankers,to lodge the above. stun. The prisoner inwer•rt,iiirtied, and upon inquiry, it was found that nn nanmy had !met, ueeeived at the banking house, iu the name of Mr .4iainsford, an the day siecitied. An officer was iiiiinediately sent after the prisoner, who was soon appre hended at Oravesend. 3001. was found upon his persun.— lie was temanded. BOW STREET. J. elute, a chisoney sweeper's•hoyewas charged with steal ing a wars•b from the house of Lord Francis °slim n. The bos was committed, and the master was ordered to find hail. Aliorray, E. Holmes, and W. Cook, were r barged with robbing G. Harris, a sailor, of his watch. ill the course of the exaiuinaliuu Mr. Birnie directed a search to be made at She lodgings of Cook. Two officers went to his residence in the neighbourhood of Tyburn turnpike. They found the further and manses living in very great po vet ty and distress. In the room inn which the prisoner Cook slept they torpid an old box, And in it two old . ..male pock ets, containing coins, .consi►ting of dollars, three iug tokens, half crowns, &c. to the amount of upwards of 1501., and in a large pocket book were bank notes to the amount of upwards of 2001. Finding such weattlr at curls a plat emt misery, the officers thought it right to take the wo. man with them. Upon her examination before Ale. Birnie, site said the silver wits her properly, saved from the gains of selling apples in the streets, she affirming that she took us notch as Irfs..in a day sometimes. This, however, was not credited, as she was literally only clothed in rags, and ap peared an object of real misery. The account she nave of the hack notes was, that her son, t h e prisoner, and another boyovere playing in Reusbugton Gardens 31)011t three .ears ago,: when they found to the amount of 7501. in the Grotto; therhad advertised it, but no person bad claimed it. The prisoners were committed for further examination, and itro.ufry it to.br. trade respecting-the wealth in their pos session. .01 1 EEN SQUARE. 14100 TONG AT &Olt D PALMERSTON, AT Tr F. WAR orrice. Lieut. David Davies, on the half pay of the ik.ul regiment of foot, was on Wedircoila:.• bre:?glit to the office in custody of Lavender, the officer, charged by Mr. Wm. Owen of the War office, with lowing tired a pistol at the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, Secretary at War. Witness is a messenger in the 'War office. Between I and 2 o'clock nn the afternoon, he saw prisoner in the passage of the War office, at which time Lord Palmerston was going up -stairs Into his own room. :Witness heard the report of a pis -tolyand looking immediately. round, saw one in prisoner's hand. Heard Lord Palmerston .groan heavily, on which tie seized prisoner's hand which field the pistol, and prisoner dropt it. Witness took it up, and saw it had been just tired off. Prisoner then cried out, " You know me, and you know my wrongs; I have killed him." .Witness said, he kiw.w nothing; and asked whonute meant as having.killerl. Pri. soner asked, " Is not that Lord Palnserstoni" ...Witness an swered, " Yes." Bird, Lieut. Col. of -the. 2d Vest India -regiment, slated, that wishing to see Lord Pal, erston. he weld to the War office, and mentioned his whirler last witness, who answered, he was very lucky, for LorthPalmerston was then just going up stairs. Witness at the moment heard the report of a pistol, and coining into the passage saw last witness have hold of prisoner's hand, and a pistol lying at prisoner's foot, who said to Mr. Owen, " Yon know nay wrongs ; he has killed me." .On the prisoner's being searched at the War .atfiee, nu other tire arms were found upon him. Mr. :••4steuel, a geutleman belonging to the War office, stat ed, that he had. been present when Mr..Astley Cyolier e•a. mined the wound of his Lordship, and he said AL: ball had passed, and-that taom present appl'aral/CVS, he had hopes the wound ,was not dangerous. The coat worn by..Eis lordship was now produced. and the ball scented to have Arnie red the middle of the back, and diviog tired from below had passed upwards, when his Lordship, teeing at ,the moment ut the turn &film staircase, hail most probably given iithat oblique turn winch caused it to glance:W.l'ot the shoulder blade. The prisoner said his family. I% ved at Monmouth, and he had a brother in the uavy. ~V.e was generally remanded, till Lord Palaiset!,tooznil Mr. A.Cooper can attend, MARLROROMti STREET. _ T. Jones was charged with threatening to stab the lady of G. Butcher, Esq. of IViginore-street. It appeared that Mrs. lt. occasionally walked ont r fsellowed by her servant. The defendant had repeaiedly annoyed her by begging; hist in this instance he pet sisted he wauld have alms, and if the lady slid not give him snuctbing r .h^ wonld.stab her. The footman interfered, the del:cadmic-was taken and committed its default of bail. : UNION HALL. s.A.%Wrsud was cl ~reed with etioliearitoss. divers sums of autney,.the prope► ty of Air. W. Southall, ofCliarlotle - street, Blacktriars-road, propri••ter of seetral hackney coaches, and with► damaging a pale/ f 1:04.es and u coach. Alr. Southall stated, that the primate. ha. een Pits ploy ed to work one of his coaches. On We Jnesday week he went out with it, and never ..turned till the maturday evening. Thee horses were st, jaded dint they could not stand ; one was lamed and com pletely spoi►e::, the harues.s was broke in various parts, and tin:Tunnels mid sin iugs of the coack much damaged. He had been kiformed that the pitsoner had been semi raci:►c and driving the lee 64:S iu a most furious manorr along the streets. Birch the constable took ,hilis-iota. custody but as l►e was conducting, him to this office,-.lle. knocked him down, and a►ftet>crnelly beating him, effected Itls escape, assisted by some lubourers who •Wete passing., The prisoner conducted himself in aninsoient man►►er, awl said lie should slut trvithle himself to make any clefence.—He was committed. A few tights ago a:Titl'r.lionn;rin. u:Williarn-street, Lambeth, ui London, he was stepped by three Motprali, o;:c of whom the appearatux of a soldier. They rifled hi piatets of all the money.i.elal about and took (mitt him a valuable et ~raving whit: lie had in his 11:ind. Mr. I). not part ing wi:h the lauer.article so readily as the villains wished, the one in the garb of a soldier stabbed him in the arm with a impart. Mr. 1)onovon was badly wuanded, and is still in a dangcnotis situation' , A Lady waned llames, with her son and dwightcr, wean shopping in Portland-street on Wedneulay, and after getting inv.. her chariot, one ef the hones became restive. Before the cocci nos., wasproperly seated, he was thruv.n ca, and the whsle passed over liiwbody. The horses darted of: full speed, and the tharini was driven against 3 coal waggon, and dashed to pieces. The lady was shockingly rut anti bruicii about thc head and fate, and her daughter aged 12, years was taken up r.pparcitly lifeless. 119 MRS. Enwtm.--:The public.will hear concern and sympathy, that airs. Edwin has recently been . deprived of a large sum .of money, laid by as a resource against the casualties atten dant nn api olessional life, to bestow (mince' ton an aged parent, and an infirm and necessitous imele. through this vittailly ut a stock-bruker r to whom she. bad eau listed its ma.. wrgement. A short time back Mrs.,Ealsrier wished to ap prove iate 12,5001. stock in the English fends to the purchase of a tiovernment annuity, and instructed her stockbroker to do what was accessary for that purpose. The regular transfer was accordingly made by her, and the broker received not merely the sum ',motioned, but 1001. more, in order that the a onnilv procured should amount to the particular stint of 1501. He affected to have tirade the purchase an.l.presented Ed w i n with a d oe 1111 l e ll ', apparently perfected with every ne• (..,ary tinmalitv, and ushich, hr .aid, would entitle her to rcc .ive the annuity at the !lank of Etiglrrid. Some time art. rwards this !stoker was fottint a defaulter of the Stock ' Exchange ; but the circumstance was nu soisseriol cease of anxiety to Mrs. Edwin, as she sappo.ed her money had been disposed of beyond the reach of any.fraailident Contingency. :she remained under this impression until her first halfitear's annuity was applied fur at the 'Bank of ER14141111, . when the claimant on her behalf was informed that, uo such name u hers appeared on the books. This intelligence led to further inquiry, when it tinfortititately appearril that the looker Lad cow/cited Mrs. Edwin's money to his own use ; that the do violent lie gave her, was a fictions one; and that all she had saved from the earnings of a laborious professional lite, to provide tier the period wilco effort may be no longer practi .rable, and to give:repose and contentment to Ow declining years of two relatives, was irredeemably lost.--Fcestacm's On Tuesday, Mary Hutoheson, charged with fraud, was committed to Atlasgow Jail. The hilly on the 0110 hand and Me duplicity on the other which are llCVeloped in thil; vase :We sufficiently singular. The prisoner acknowledges, that about four years ago she began to tell fortunes by milling of cups. A servant girl began about a year ago to call on this spe - wife,(hope.giviog wife!) fur the purpowt of getting her deStinies unfolded. She told the sympleton that she was to receive some money, concealed in the corner of her master's room; and in order to show her where to look fur it, she went to the house slung with the gill, and laid down some money in the place where the premised !min was to be got. So con.- plete WAS the ascendency which she had over this young woman, that in the COMM: of three week she got 1 . 111141 her 271. assuring her that when the money promised was found, it would he increased twentyfold. The ceremony of depositing the money wiis remarkaide—it was laid down in the presence of the girl, and Mary after telling her to retire, read several passages of Scripture, and prayed. To a blind person she pro mised to give sight, receiving a considerable sum as the re ward of her promise; and to a person affected with deafness she was to restore heaving. ..'These are understood to be only a few of her tricks. She maintains that the servaut's money will be •returned when site time of its rising comes. She has very tri.;ll prefrations to preternatural powers; and when imprisoned, asserted that she would escape from jail; for she was a witch. Hence had James VI. been her King, she would Lave had a good chance for the scaffold. A fire broke4nd on Monday morniag, aLont five o'clock, on the premises of Mr. Levs oilma,, Church.roail, St. George's in Cie East; in a short time the whole interior of the building was in a blaze, and bore an alarming appearance, front the quantity of ee:a buatible matter on the premises. The family had foitunattly ti:ue to escape from the couthigration withont rec.eiving any in‘sson4l in jury. The whole of his stock, furniture and premises, acre destroyed; and we understand he was not insured A wretch of the name of Win. Bailey,- alias Knighton, haa ab sconded from Arkindale. M the neighbourhood of Itoroug:.-bridge -Yorkshire, who stands charged with wLui oisturing poison to his fit theronother, and two other persons, on Thursday week, whereof his .4 father has ulready.died. llc was seen at East Keswick on S,,turday. enquiring for the nearest port to take shipping ti n • America; front which it is inferred that he would make his way to Liverpool. Active nu have been reaorted to for the £2/ZUre of his person, if pos. reule. Moans OF THE .LYNCHES.—From the Weekly Freenean's 'Journal of Saturday last.—" The Nekq Telegraph contains the trial of a man of the name of M'Callough, who is described as possessed of consider able property, fir the murder of the Lynch family, The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty,. without hesita tion, and the prisoner was ordered to be executed.— ' WheniVl'Cullnugh,'. says the ,Newry Paper, heard his awful sentence, he suddenly. plunged his hand, in a h u r r i e d muliner,into his coat. pocket ; and now the cry of A pistol ! a *pistol!' was uttered by .niany voices...- Judge. Fletcher, alarmed by the exclamation, s retreatFol precipitately from the Court. The lawyers • fled pani passu. The jailor histoaitly seized the hand of the con vict--the police-gL.thezed ruutal.bint with drawn swords —reiterated cries Seize lint! seize him ! A pistoll a pistol A rescue ! a rescue!' resounded from all par ters. M'Cullough, who is a strong man, mad...wine re sistance. At last he was overpowered, and the jailor drew from his pocket the object of all this bustle and terror—a little book ! Parturiunt niontes nasoctur ricliculus mus.' On thin book he had intended to swear, that he %vas innocent of the. crime for whickhc had heen s. , ::Rcneed to clic.' " The public we have mi.:4lOOA .will ha much sur. prized to learn that one of the' Norwich Mail coaches is discontiaued, sad that the Mail is actually cirried one hqrst car', as fartnerly. • This inixlc of conveyance ought not tl be pr,mitteil, an arynint ()fit.; insecurity, andif—tbe co:Ow:aster t. snot make it his intercst.to continue caw c tiL, tile Putt()n it ice should f a r m some arr4ngeineut.to prevoit the chance of mischief; and t..J provide the public with that acconiniodatii,n they have so long enjoyed. To improvs?, is alwayr cucluraging, but to aid,: batik iig,ain is worse thau.disagrceable. A borough in an Eastern-county is raid to have bctn recently sold by its pats= for 32,0001. The lute Mr. Wortley is said to have died possessed of real and personal property, to the amount of 60,0001. per annum, which devolves. to his son, J. A. S. Wart. ley, Et