The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-14 00:00:00

aunt hopeless. Ile brad out indeed dent ired her of thu etoistioushess of virtue, fur this she had herself preser(( but it via: all he 1:11:1 It It her id the vi mid ( Damages at ete au iouthen tat hallo for feelings wen, ded like her's; but they wt te all els a ltich the care admitted, and these that Jury acrel,nnnd to renaler. Afits n (mild, lout e% et , toe,ider tee t irettetst•ieves of the (kit 'Omit , and taut lot t,s hint, with the 1:1 uha ly innocent pill Iner of his joys and sorrows, to litter trait.. . . . • tt TI.P July retire t in a short little, and WIWI) They re lurceil hit° Court, gave it tivrtitet thr the plaintiff—Da utaw,es, r6lll. ....- WESTMINSTER. The Sessions for this City and Liberties commenced on Thursday last, before F. Cutts', El. the Chairman, and & lull bench of magistrates. The Petit Jury being tlieCom t proceedeil to the trial of traverse causes. William Kelly was inflicted for obtaining bs. out false pretences front Mary Burt. The prisoner was a wretched lookitig old man. .Mr. Korot stated the case far the Crown. He said the prosecution sway carried nit by the Lords of the Admi ralty. Mary Burt, the prosecutrix, stated, that she haul a son, a Iranian on board the Topaze frigate, in the East [tidies. Lt February last she went to the Navy (hike to Myhre tirtlier the Topaxe was coi n ing home, and was ill.. fin Men that nu aecouut had been received from her since May. She was in great distress at the tithe, and met the prisoner under theareliway of Somerset House. She told lint what she went to inquire fir, and the result, and said site nag greatly distressed. The prisoner said, that for 35. 61. he t. - ould get her information about her son, and if site had all the necessity papers, he could for 6s. tel. procure her four or five pounuls. The prosecutrix in consequence borrowed a gown from a friend, for the pur pose to pawning, to procure money to give the prisoner, by which Meant{ she obtained 54., winch, with her pa pile, she gave to him the next day. He made many appointments with her, but Whenever she saw him _lie a I ways made excuses for not getting her the money, or taking law to Lord Melt We. At length she went to the Admiralty, and inquired for the prisoner by the name of Smith, anti was inhumed that there was a person of that name employed there. She then wrote a statement of the prisoner's conduct to Lord Melville, in consequence of which au otlicer was sent with her to apprehend the pisoner. The Chairman shortly . charged the Jury, and they immediately lon id the prisoner The Chairman told hull, the joulginent was, that he should be imprisoned ill the house Or Correction for six sinutiths. FUNERAL OF FRANCIS AND HONEY. THE KING V. JOHN FLY. This was an action against the defendant for having, on the IGIh of August, with a considerable number of oilier persoos, riotously assembled at Kiiighisbridge, ama committlng an assault on Francis Dalicat. This prosecutiuti was instituted by the Lords of the Treasury, and conducted by Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Watford, and the defence was conducted by Mr. Alley. The fol lowing evidence was called ou behallof the prosecution : Joseph Fleck, a trumpeter of the Ist regiment of Life Guards, deposed to his having been at the Brown Bear public-house, Knightsbridge, on the day Milled in the Indictment, when the funeral of Honey and Francis was passing; it was about seven o'clock; onne of tile parsons assembled said ". here cornea one • them" (tneahina witness); he was instantly aitackea, bianen, and bad his medal torn front his breast; sonic other soldiers res cued him, and he was taken into the barracks, leaving Delicat at the Brown Bear. Francis Delimit corroborated the statement of the last witness, and in addition, that the whit:caws of the bar racks were broken after AlderniatiWaitliman had ordered the stainers into their barracks. He reined towards Ilvtle Park.curner.'when quiet was shortly atter restored. James Hadn't:in and 'laminas a) fur, also belonging to the regiment, c“rroborated the statement of the former witness; amid also that the win.lows of the barracks were broken—hi number of squares 284. To a question from Mr. Alley, whether the windows were broken before or att<iwaids—the witness (Taylor) said before; then, said - the learned Comisel, " There is nething like swearing tatinigli a Mick wall;"—for the witness had stated him stated himself to hate been standing at the barrack gate. 'fins heitig the case fur the proaccution, Mr. Alley commenced the defence. The learned counsel cen sured the gross immorality of bringing this prosecution forwatd at the length of tune months, and ridiculed the idea of a " Waterloo" mats coining there to complain of a slap on the cheek. After declaring it to be a mere quetatun which they ought to look at, as between a sea aenger and lamplighter, and decide accordingly, 1 be Chairman sun iced up with great minuteness, and the Jury, after conaultiug a hew minutes, returned a ver dict Not Guilty. : ais was received with loud ex pos:Mit' of satisfaction by a very crowded court. George tiorbes Atkinson was indicted fur obtaining, from Lawaril Howell mid John Reed, one coat, two waistcoats, and one pair of tna.esera, on false pretences. Joliii I(eed deposed, that he delivered the clothes mentioned in the indictment to the defendant, at No. lb, Great Grine-street. The defendant them told him he had left Colleite, and was going to take chambers to the '1 ample. The witness stated, that he was Mr. Howell's foreman, not his partner, and had no property in the clothes lie delivered to the defendant. Mr. Adolphus, who was cowls?' for the defendant, ttibutitted to the court that 'lure was An end of the case. The indictment charged the clothes to be the property of Edward Howell Mid John Reed, and it was now proved that John lteea had no property in them. The Chairman said, the objection was fatal to the indictment, and directed the Jury to acquit the deleta data, wine!' was accordingly done. SOUTHWARK. The Sessions for the town and borough of Southway'', cousins:awl ou Thursday ixiorc Ow Lord Mayor aid THE NATIONAL REGISTER Alderman J. J. Smith. Mr. Kuowls presided as Re corder. SINOULAR COINCIDENCLA young man, named John Welsh, was charged with stealing 11 sovereigns, We property of Mr. 11. Robinson, Nu. 15, Fitzosburne sue.l, (iulden•sgnare. It appeared that the prosecutor had an acceptance for 111., which became due ou the 14th of March last, on which day a notice was left at his house, that the bill lay at Mr. Joint Welsh's, No. 37, Lom4dane. A boy was sent with money to take up the bill, hut instead of calling at No. 37, Loug•lane, he called at No. 37,White street, which is in a line with Loug-tare. 'l o ne Loy knocked at the dooi, and asked for John Welsh, when the prisoner, whose name is John Welsh, was called down, and the boy him he came to pay a bill of 111. The prisoner said he did not recollect what the money was lOr, hitt his foreman had beets out tha► Running col. leciing bills, and he supposed that bid must be one of them. The boy gave him the money, and also the no tice which had been left with the prosecutor, stating that the Liil lay due at No. 37, Long-lane. Tue p.isoner read the paper, counted the money, and said that it was all right. The boy, on his return, was asked by the prose tutor for the bill, and on his explaining that he had re ceived none, he was sent back to get it, when he found that the prisoner bad decamped. Au utli.:er, however, apprehended him a day or two afterwards, to whom he coniessed he had spent the money, but declared that he repented when it was all gone, and sought the prosecutor to beg his pardon. The J nry found the prisoner Guilty, but reeommended Mtn to mercy, on acct ttttt t of Lie stealth ss of the tempta tir) suddenly thrown in his way, and the appearance of more money within his power man probably he had eve seen bzhire. The Recorder took this very strongly into considera tion, and sentenced the prisoner to imprisonment for Ate month. _ . tiliain Becket was tried for having stolen 7 pounds of rags. the property of Messrs. Scovell and Co. rag user chants, Snuthwai k. The Jury found him Guilty, and the Recorder said he was a bad know, who could not with safety to the com munity remain in a civilized country, anti 'mould ga into another country for seven years. RGhicry and Escape.—On Monday night last, after the family of Mr. Flemming, nurseryman, at Ball's-pond, hat retired to bed, Mr. F. thought he heard an unusual noise in the garden, and going to the back window, saw two women who had sculud the wall, in the act of pulling down some linen which hung on lines to bleach. Mr. F. called up two of his men, and rushing suddenly into the gar den, secured the two women ; it being too late to send for a constable, he locked them up in one of the outhouses all night; but on Tuesday morning, when the constable came, it was discovered they had both escaped by taking oft' some of the tiles of the roof; carrying with them the clothes they were ap prehended for stealing. Maven TO Covertrair.—Mr. Courtenay, a farmer, undertook on Tuesday to start to Cuteutry, from Mile End New-Town, near Bow, and return in three days. The distance is 188 wiles,front the place of starting, and time was hacked at 2to I. He started at two o'clock iii the morning, and was at Dimstable at 12 o'clock, Sto ney Stratford at 4 o'clock, and passed thro' Tovecester at dusk, and took two hours rest, after accomplishing 70 miles at 12 o'clock. lie touched on Coventry at 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and did 30 miles on his return at 2 o'clock, amid halted four hours ; he was lame at starting again, which increased, and he reached Dunstable at 3 o'clock on Thursday, sad rested until CX. lie had eight hours left to do 38 wiles, and lie iesta,nvil the task. SIIEEPLE CHAlle —The Sweepstakes match of twenty gamin as e.,ch, iketWeell Mr. Coxinrad, Captain N. Peters, and Mr. ltoelmontn, took pl. cc on Friday morn ing. The start was from Fronk) , nose, near Mack water, to Ahafield, Berks. The race for the first five miles was over heath, and the horsemen kept the steady cuts until they came to Topham Covers, when they se parated, and pursued their own course though a woody country. They left the rise of Gm,leit Fanner Billet the left, and were within bight of each other again on Shinfield Common, when Mr. Coxitead made all play. and reached Aberfield church-yard in one hour and three minutes, a distance of 18 miles, in a straight di rectum, Ceptain Peters lost by six minutes, and Mr. It's horse tell, and he was thrown out altogether. PeuesrataNtsm.—Ten inks within an hour, which has always been considered a master-piece of fleetness, is now booked upon as mere seCond-rate performance. from the frequent occurrence of soca fears lately. A . young-man of the name of Beldam, backed himself oif nand, on Monday last without training, to perform the ten miles within an hoar. The bet was five guineas, and halt the distance was done in 28 minutes, and the whole in b 8 minutes, with great case. The pedestrian was unshed for 50 guineas to walk, heel and toe, 16 miles in two hours and a halt on Monday next. On Saturday last, at the Castle of Exeter, 16 French men were brought before S. F. Milford and J. Croswell, Esqrs. magistrates for the county of Devon, charged on an Information preferred against theta by the COIIIIIIIS - of Excise, with being found in a French lugger of about 50 tons bonnet). otl Oiterion 11. ad, with hav ing on board a considerable gitantiiy of smuggled brandy and genera. 'lucre appeared little (multi Irmo the tvi „deuce, that they sometimes employed nivinselves . fishing; but after a long investigation, and an onetime hearmg of the exceptions to the information, .they were all fully convicted of surogglitig, and necessarily fined in the penaly of 1001. each, which not being üble to pay, they were COlUMilleti to the county gaol. The 1113- -j:trines intimated on intention of applying to gortro w.ot for a ualugatiou of the seumuct. In ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. A fatal accident happened on Wednesday morning last, in the neighbourhood of Brighton. Mr. Briggs, a hatter in Castle.square, accomininied by Mr. Knowles, a farmer at Cowfoik, who had coupe from thence to spend the day with him at Brighton ; after dinner, on Tuesday, took a driVe in a gig to Rottetibean, where, it is supposed, they spent the evening, and were on their retain to Brighton very late, probably about two o'clock. They had evidently ascended the hill on the Brighton side of Rottenbean, and proceeded as far as Black Rock, nearly opposite the gasometer, when the horse must have missed his way and precipitated himself and gig, in which were seated both Mr. Briggs and Mr. Knowles, front the top of the cliff to the shore, where they were discovered by the officers from the Preventive Service, all dead, and in a dreadfully mangled condition. Mr. Briggs had long been an inhabitant of Brighton, and Was much respected ; he has left eight or ten children behind him. Mr. Knowles was also a very amiable man, and has left a very I irge family to lament his loss. We sincerely imploie those persons entrusted with the stiperintendance of the carriage road between Brighton and Ituttenbeati, and even beyond there, to be awakened to the obvious danger and insecurity of this situation, where accidents are so frequently occurring. On ‘l. 7 .:duesday morning bat, a most dreadful acci dent was discovered to have happened in the house of Mr. Bradford, No. 12, 11.yansto,te-street, Manchester square, which involved the family in the greatest die. tress. It appears abet Master Edward Paget Bradford, came front a boarding school in the country on Siturday last, for the purpose of spending the holidays with hi* parents, and on Monday, after passing the evening at home, he returned to his chamber in his usual health and spirits. The following morning the servant pro ceeded to the apartment to call hint to breakfast, but re ceiving no answer, she made an alarm, and the young gentleman was nits-dug front his bed. Every search was made after him, and at length he was found in the front area quite dead and dreadfully injured, as if from a heavy fall. There was no account for the fatal occur rence ; but it appears that the unfortunate young gentle- Mill must have arisen from his sleep, in which state he made his way out on the ledges, and was precipitated into the area, and killed on the spot; he was only IG years of age. A coroner's jury was called to sit on the body, and after hearing a mass of evidence, they return. ed a verdict of—accidentally killed by a fall. Ou the same day a honse, adjoining the slaughter houses in Porter -street, Newport-market, suddenly fell with a tremendous crash. Fortunately no person was in or near IL when it fell. The house bad been con demned by the surveyors, and was about to be taken clown, and the workmen had removed some of the-orbs terials, and weregoinA to work after dinner, when they were met by their employer, who said they should nut go to work until he had given them a treat; they accord io*ly accompanied him to a neighbouring public-house, and had not been many minutes seated before they heard the crash ; had they been itt the house the consequences might have been dreadful. PARRlcips.—Some days ago, a barbarous murder was committed at Kilsyth, twelve miles from Gla . gow. A quarrel took place between father and son under the fol lowing circumstances :—The father, coming into tile house, found the son lying drunk, awl w angry with him. Soave words ensued, but the father, aware of the vindictive temper of his sun when in that state, left hots and went out to a little distance from the house, The sun soon after got tip, and seizing a large knife, which knife, which he was accustomed in his drunken fits to wield, rushed out, and going straight forward to the place where Ins father slum!, seted him by the throat with one hand, while he made three stabs into his bowels with the knife, which lie held in the other band. Tue poor Mall who had some distance to walk, reached his house with difficulty, literally carrying in hi hinds part of his bowed; which had obtruded through the wound. The cruel m o nster fled, tout had the savage hardihood to return ou Similar/ last, go into the house, and survey the stead body of his father! The murderer has for a moment escaped ; but the racers of Justice are in searcit of hint. It is a lameutable tact, and une which al lords another - instance of use barbarous and brutalising effects of illicit distillation, that the oufortu nate young man had, for some tone previous. been deeply engaged in the system of sinuag,ling, ut late be. •, conic so prevalent in Scotland. STRIPPING CHILDREN.—On Wednesday morning last, about 12 o'clock, two little girls, one aged 9 and the other 11, belonging so Mr. Turner, of ‘b helmone Park, Lincoln's Itin.li.:l4ls, were playing in the fields, near Bignigge-wells, when a woman, who, the children say, was dressed like a lady, canic up and ink{ them she would give them some cakes and barley-sugar, if they would go with her. The children ‘ieided, and she took them, one in each hand, to the sae of the Flees-ditch. under the wall of the !louse of Correction. The wretch then stripped the children of their pelis,es, and the necklace Irons one of their necks, and the frock from the other. and then left them s , )bbing and crying. On Thursday morning, some labourers di p ing near Carmarthen-street, Totteuilam court-road,bdis covered a box contaiuin,, ,, the laily of a child about six or seven months old, having several marks of violence upon it. An inquest was held upon the b:Elv iu the evening, and a verdict returned of— Wiitia murder agaioat some person or persons utt. known. It is calculates .1 that the silver lead wines, now at work in Cornwall, and others about to con: ,a -nee, will in a few years, raise sufficient silver for the use of the kingdo►:t. At Sir ChtistOplier Hawkins' mine, in that county, a plate of silver has been extracted which weighed nearly 4001113. This mine produces two and sometimes three such pieces a month. ~. . _.S