The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-16 00:00:00

P I , ROI • • ~y 01.1) 11.111.EY SESSIONS. AVEnsr. fin Y. Seer. I L—Thrse sessim‘s comm.!' red This 111..r10 , i1, onioc the 1.00 Mallor, thr • r"rler, Mr. II win GrailJlll. Nli. Jushee and Ale. Ju.tice rite jiffy were sworn ionevil prisoners were ar rale:ova mutt plea Mil Not GuiLy• Thom is [.e ttht. u k :1 (Ireton looking flan, ‘V.,` ntpna U y in Itc r.l for lorgoittr awl comiterleiting the the G•sill.4111111s . .14.1i1 want In toil! sifter ()wile labels. In the jars the och ewe with %%halt the initanwr slow: citargill. TM re %VA'. au. doer ill'Ifel• ninlll for a moon otleher, to wh.cli the prisoner had plemleil godly. :tittl which would subject him to INII:S• 1 , 11131:' , 11 our 14 yea' lii caniwynein i e of t h e prisoner ei%en s, tar inform:woo to the Si 'nip (Mier. he vaminil Myr. hire, with the permission al the Court, plot ta!: aily es Melo: on Iheiharge. N., evidence loving. called. me prison , r was arginionl, lint ii pl, a of Gillity to the WilSll3.3lldell, mitt tinder that lie was del.. A. \Lay IVdtis leas indicted for rol.liiita It Pomona Prom 'lie evi.lcuive mil Itl plobt•ctitor n dim,areil, thin be was hustled by soot • git IS Of I Iletown 111 linty-sire i, WIIO .JOllllll down anti took his :,.y oat 111 Ms pocket; lost i- tie admitted :I)Ji he had been drinking rely freely tit t 1:1110. alitl Ills esiilrliCe against the pribotier not beim./ tery ch.iir, the Jury uud r the recommendation of Al,. Janice autpusticil her. lio 35E STEALlso.—Sinturl Wilson was capitar.v intl:c.ecl for stealing a a.elding, valoe forty puuuds. the poverty of John crtobert, a harmer, at Soweto, in War wickainre. _ From the evidence of Limbrick, the officer, it appeared that, WI 111 C ijtll 11i Atoutist last, he observed ti 'e prisoner near the Peacock, at Islington, on the horse it) question, without saddle or bridle, which from, its j idett aprar melee, and the prisoner cottoning, for a stai,!e-yard, he swam Ned bad been sullen. Prisoner was IlifeClel.l to the yard of 3 Mr. Brown, to which Limbrick :"ollowttl hint, ante • liked 11 the horse Was to lit sold. Prisoner replied iii the aflirinatite, a!ttl said the price would be 48 tut was then, tinder the pretence of b..reaiiiing tsith him, (oak him to the public-house calved the Blue Coat Boy, gave him iii a charge to a 111311 named Mills, and theta told him his sulecions. Limbrick left the house Gera few minutes, and slmitiv eter saw the prisoner mo tion; and pursued by several persons calling'' stop thief." Alter a lona chace lie was secured iti Leather-lane, when be conles.ed that he had stolen the horse from the fields o: Mr. Gibbert. in IVarwickshire. Mr. Gibbert poised the horse to lie his property, and the jury imutediately found hint Guilty. The prisoner was a good looking young mall, only tweuty one years of lge, and had formerly been an Mr. Gibtiert's employ. Isaac Knight was indicted fur stealing a bay horse, the property of Thomas Lewis. Mr. Lewis was a livery-stable keeper in Whitechwel, and oil the Intl of Atirust last the prisoner came to his yard with a break anal a pair of Ihirseq, anal caul lie swotted to look at two or three horses for Mr Fagg, the roach plui.netor. Balboni- Mr. Lewis said he had but okie, tt hich he might take, if he chose, to spew to Mr. ragg. The prisoner took the horse away, but at it was afterwards discover,d, he never rook it to Mr. Fagg, nor did he rettiro it to Mr. Lewis. Oat the 5:11 of Sep. lea t h e r th e 'noire (((((( hearth 11131 the prisoner was at a i•asile-yard at the West-end of the town. lie teem to see hunt, and he immediately confessed hawing sold the horse to Messrs. Dean and li•tice of liamplicatl s in whine tiossessiota the austual was. lie then gate rue pm manlier into custody. Mr. Robert Fagg, proved that the prisoner was not coitituissiotted by him to p'.l) 10 Lewis 101' 1111111eS• The Jury found the ',moiler Gitilly—Death. *I hoinas Hayes, a smartly dressed young man, but of notorious character in the !mime annals, was capitally iodic:et! for stealing, in the tiweilti4L-hottse of John Mortimer. 17 dimity bed curtains, value 50i. his property'. Th e Jury found hilts Guilty—Death. Aged 22. .1411111 Cocker, aged 14, was indicted Ihr stealing a watch, the property of a Mr. ‘V.audwaid, in whose Bart ice he W.lsl. Th.: Jury found him guilty, and the prosecutor reeogn. sti,mled lOU/ to mercy, oil account or his riui h. Justice Best said it was a srry primer ircnitimen datiou, and should be attentlrd ; but lie sviAtrti Mr. ‘1 twxlttard would Cu cat our tort hoot ailmi.sion to the latige fur the desinitte, and iuliow hiw ( Mr. Jwnice 11 , -s;) of the result of ti:s application. Jlr. Woodward • 6.11t1 tie Wou . d do so. ( nyore the I(scord r and a Load(os Jury.) 3:Alml:hard, a young teas outwit-it lin 'telling lif writ mine, s oftea, the property (it Thomas 411111 John Croisley. The \lrssrs. Crossiy are wholesale lea fleJlerS in Nicholas-Lune, Lornthird-stteei, and the prisoner ttas wax all porter in the warehouse. On the 13: July the oitdiseinaii, in taking hi- survey hound a con sile in their stock. Siispiciini rested upon lite prisoner as the cause of that di ficiency, but no op portunity tit tliscoverou t his guilt oco recd wild the I5!il of August, when Mr Thomas t;ross.y, early in the morning, concealed himself on the stairs of the ware end SAW bit, put a parcel of shoot three•rptariers of a pound its lois placket. He Was then t oireio olio the ciptoity of Driukwater, of the lather, sent' found see, rat tosore pals Is of tva at hi. He also moist ten sot ereigns in his box, anti •t• miptiry in hit pocket.. The jury filinol Iliw godly. Hr pleaded ior mercy, • he hail a wife and two children, and that tl:s ti,•, a.lttue had itithiccO him to lob Itil 11•AfilelA. ,ftecor•lt r said, this eosin not be, as a considerable suns n s iotuhl iio his possewiiiii. lie iiudlit in lac win out o! the cooniay, but nit. court %%Wild ( .1 111.1119:f 'ref U. tic itSDAY. jt. Pl. IV,—.bolo, B..iij insist B oukrs was • l'.14(11171i r {or uneriiig Utile a elhefll SACCII/1 tor lite situ of 15;. (0,. purportin il . 111 Trerila ul Clarke, well knowing the same la forged. A is, ..Le :adieu:mei had been read, :twrpt tut= ad. :~ IIIE NATIONAL KE•G sTEs the Recorder, and requested his trial might he arrap HI•d„ !et consequence of the absence of a material %tombs. .I . oe Recorder replied, that no snotimt for the oostpoiwitit 11l of (Ii Ii could me in de until the wIt•ill• of the iodi.'tnn•ol heri I've.% read. Witco the ci rk of tile e r i i„ l is was Tea nog oter the ttallieS Of the Ju ry, prirmiter said he sci•bed to chant-lye some of num, as lie tinders:o9ll they came Irons }hi iiiii et, It, atm be lit•ced that a pertnit named Grepaiii was intimately ac• rpennted with them. Sev, ral nt the Jury observed, at their illottes were called, in reply 10 questions from the prisoner, that they certainly I,new the person he hail named, bolt hail no acquanitatice with hint of the nature sr.6,t. of. This appeared sansfactoty or the prisoner, and the Juty wire sworn. Ile was 114,11 reinnsed trout I the bar. .„ . Boiler( Grote, a young man of genteel appearance, ova. Indicted for sic.' hog a 91:9 er watch, the property of 1. Hien:oils. from his person, on the 1 1 110 l) Atigia,t. 'the Jury foaltl him godly. Ile was the!' called lip for judgment, and set :enced to be trainyorted for life. Stephen Tool, as IC), W 39 ellti3lly C4olViCtell 4111 all indictment charging 111111 WIIII breaking. the shop window of Alr. Joint Scott, horn-draper, 01 Raliattient-street, and stealing thertoot Is silk hand kerchirls, Ms property. R. Ramsay, aged Ig, and S. Greenwood, aced 25. were capitally indicted for assaulting Richard 1 tes, on the King's InJiway, and taking Irmo fits person, five gold seals, his property. It appeared that the prosecutor, who resides on Bah. nal-green, was passing through Church-street on the I tit or August, and when near the Flower Pit public house, observed the prisoner, Ramsay, coining towards him. At that mituieot he heard some one behind him cough out. At that instant 11 unsay snatched at his Seals. hut the 119119CC1110( /1391149 talk ell lie precauti 111 l to ieellfe It-s watch, a wrens snatch, accompaiii..d by a violent blow in his ride, was made lk fore the seals were detach ed front the chain. Ramsay Meet ran up a court, fol lowed by Greenwood, who exclatined, " 1)-11 him, 111 have him , but they both escaped. 'floe prosecutor then, ill pally with two (officers, went to several flash-lioti.es,atid ultimately fisond the prisoners iu coin patty at the George, in George-yard, Whitechapel.— Rtnisay, immediately 011 seeing, the t.a.:ers cuter, ett. deavouted to art away, but WAS soured and identified by ' the prosecutor. Mr. Justice Best summed up at great length, when the Jury returned a verdict of guilty against Ramsay, and acquitted Greenwood. 'fête itrisotier, on hearing the verdict, said he hoped the prosecutor would rec 1111 l itieud him to mercy. Mr. lees replied, that lie should be doing an act of injustice to his country if he did. THE cAsii or BROOKES —John Bmijimin Brookes, was again brought to the bar about one o'clock, and pin in an affidavit, swearing that he had 110 t ileellatlie to pro cure the attendance of a winless material for Ins defence. Upon thnsJaid.i.n Mr. Platt,ct iiiii sel fur the prisoner, rumen the cour, fur the po.lposieinelit of the trial instil next sess,nos. :11r. Alley said• lie should off:r no opposition, if the ceort thought suilicient had hero oltrred to induce it to comets% to a Asa man (laying his liati.l upon Ii s heart) lld wished moot heartily the prisoner should have es:. ry possible facility ali)(rde(i into to eatable him, if he could, to wipe oil lite Slain Which W as at present affixed to his character. The atlidatit was then handed to the prisoner, who Sigurd it, and the trial was ordered to Stand over until tile tli XI sessions. Tne priqmer, meanwhile, Will re tilaill 111 custody pursuant loan order of the (Nowt. %V. Lester, a bl.:ck seaman, was indicted ihr siealing twt.hc SUS errigiis and nine cuineas, the property of Devi tick Settenhurg. Jurrawitio him not guilty. J. Ranier, aged fett, was capitally indicted fin break ing and entering the dwelling•hoose of Thos. Langford, and steal dig therein eight knots of silk, his property. Tne prosecutor [Nes at Bethnal-I:leen, and is a silk weaver. On the Bin of August. his house Was broken open, and plundered of a quantity ()I' silk, and other property, which was traced to the possession of tile pri soner. lie was folind guilty dra , ll. E hound Nltastoe„ a young Will 20 ye: rs of age, in the dress of a scatilan, wait inilleted cavil Ily, for steal ing a gold I:rotalt, valor 31. a µtll,l tvalCil value 201. a mull box va!tie 31. and other property to a counderalde JlllOlllll, in toe dwelling house Mt F. Ihlce. Mr. li is a geioleillall ill fortune residnitz iu li;ives bt. Mary le-hoire. lie hel at tile Licit of lIIi Illaill3lll a slime, user seinen there was .01 apartment ti.ted as a steepiti::-rootii, to u hick Mr Boyce himself oceasion•ll itkpt. Ili lite liner end of June iie well out or [own fora fortiogill, lea%ing in a burro' in u e sleepiti4.r:ion) the properly in gur , uuu. 0.1 his oeturii to London, lie found Ins Macao locked as he had left it, but o•I opening it the whole ill his property was MIS -311.J. Mr. Boyce itiat!la inquity :damn the matter, and ascertained that tile roamer, INha Was 111 , plIvW 11/ NI r. icb.llollSekeeper, had, during the absence of Mr. 1.1.)CC, Sig IA set•trdl uitihis 111 tile room, and IM, victim naturally tell mum I , and Mr. Royce on the ere gOl the•aih of idly (Mind 11 , tit Itl lisuat:-street, Golden splal(•, and 101 e Iwo tit charge to a WatClititaii. On toe %say to I • • vs Incii.iitiose, the prisoner sold to Mr. " fir, 14111'1 lalse use to lit waten house. I snail return all your property to-noirrow."-- r. Boyce told inns tint to say any thing to coot. et Mill %Viten the prpiontr was searched, three thy; mates were lowed 1111 , 111 Imo, one of whicit was for a pearl brooch, urlouguir to Mr !Stayer, which hail been I.leogeti at the mullet Nlr. 1)n, a 141 A tibruker. w St. Martin's-lane, by a boy a leW 11J)Y Li nie courfe u, tile it tile prisimer confessed to the eoo..tahle Mat lie nail sailrai aillCiet, lit Tiest . o•ii, mid • .1 6 , 'le wad paw nett the watch at :.Jr. I)ty•s, and sold 1 ,,a 1.1 a Mr. I'lll/6 %%.IS 1011111 l 1111011 Ilallltay ILI he lilt tat, ; it la a, lIA.lllil Mal 1.11•• urr Ua.l K.itu ,jl. 111 we prisoner tot tile duplicate, .111(1 had teUceuted Me watch, witicit is as pledAed for 141. aNit. Wye. iu his ea:annum/on *mid, lilt watcii Wait winch 40 gnifteaa. The key of the part of the titleott in which tile property in question was de l i ob a c d, *tag its ihe top of Ilse bureau. wit.eit could only he by attlJll or d was 111 d S.seral •ery respec:able witiosses e:is • e the iitison( r good character, :toil siaied thin tit br rt pinat.l) Colitelerf. Thr imry ossiitt lIIr 1 1 , 5„111 r µMtn ; t,w recoil:in:lora hint to mercy. on account 111 his protons good character, Al r .ll,, )ce be.getl to elate the sruuuda 111/0111 he totted to jinn nt the reconotietidinott. Ist thscotered the robbery, the frit•los of the ptisiowr tx -1r.•5.t(1 their earnest :nixie!) . that he alioUhl Ire brought. to justice, and Kat e all the asa:.tance 1:1 tin ir 1111 w r pr.. Cure Ilia arrerl. ile (\ll% Buyer) had di:cost:red Glatt that one prisoner a•as truly peuitcnt irefore he totind hint„ and that he would have g iv.. II 11111151 Ifiip lite n. x: morn. lia-1 lie not been srresied the the ut, Iu 111C11111111e11. Mr..lostice ittcharticots said, the ret:iitititieiifltllloll of the jury and prusteutor, should mint certainly be at.. tended to. tit/116E1(Y Or MR. LAURIE . / HOUSE.—Citarirt binson„ a genwel-looking and well•dteacd boy. about 16 years old, was indicted for ste aliu t a Lug containing 48 s9vertig,n,‘„ and nine, property, lit lotigiti.6 10 U r. Latinit, 01 Fit et-street. Mr. 4.4ilphus stated the case to the Jury.—(We hire alreadylciteu the ii.ir,teulirs of the robbery, and the hit& mg of a hag, entwining: the sovereigns, by a C11111111Cy•' 3Werper 111 a tine s in our POIICC facts InUCCLI Olt the ttial Wire Kee a. ty thr little.) The prisoner, when called on for his defence, said. its a clear and ti,ut soice, that he tvoind leave it all ltl Nlr. John Gill, a ebyrnist and apothecary, rated, that the 'mature :lord IWO years and a halt - %%MI /11111, which time he eirtidtscted himself %rah the Inmost pro priety; wuures rrpoied the we:blest co, fideoce and ilveays mood Mot extremely correct in MI Ifol.l4ate, a siik dye?, had know:, the !moiler since his I n fancy'. He always Ire an excellent cha. lacier. 'lite Recorder summed up the evidence. and the Jury, alter euusniting together for about los mottoes, returned a verdict of Guilt)—Death. Toe Foretnatt Pa , d, " We very strongly recommend loess to lot icy nu account of his pre% ions excellent cha racter and Ins youth." The Recorder said, the recommendation should cer. tail/1y be conveyed in his Nlaje•ty. ' ltie trial lasted front s z till nine o ' clock, and 111.,. Court was crowded in every part miring its progress.— T Ile prisoner throughout appeared !perfectly composed. FK I DAY, SEPT. 13 —TIII2I MOM na, at the tiprinita of the Com t, J 0 1111 Nlorr,sou and Eitz 11).:111itfitei were ar. raigned fur the wilful murder of a new burn child. Butts pleaded uRDUII.-11101113S Prior, who stood charred upon the %collet of a coroner ' s jut) , with the wiitu,l minder of Elia Ihrlil M• 111111, was then placed at the bar. ' fur pet. sinter, 011 ads:lo6o2 to the har, waved his hands dhoti!, .11141111 a huts I time tittered sonde mind Iligiule 10011114. The iitiontintate unit i• ahout 20 years of ate, and Ins comitetialllCC FXllllllls all the appearance of ithwcy. he has root nis iitiaticy been considriet a per ust of weak intellect„ and the old uells.lll Whom he is charged wilib 111101leflog was l'lllplUyVd as his keeper. Air J lustier Best informed the Jury that the duty they were called mans hn per lint WAS 1110 10 try when her the IWlSoiler WAS 041.1ty or the crime I.tid to his chi 1.111 wilellicr he Was at the present 1110Iheal iu a SOUli,i s ate ut mind. Aim Shelton was then sworn, and examined by Mr, All.le. vet —Stir tirpostql that site knew Elizabeth Nlar. till. Site mil 4 ed in the same room tt 101 her from the tue egin or 11111111 the Btll col Julie, when the uttfor titled te event occurred. he prisoner Wall usually nut. all day, and came home at I I at night. Site always tiont4iit that Use pr.bunti Was Itol ill his right srn•es. He Ir yuelel Y danced 460111 the 11111111 hirillee the pic.ur.•s, 411(1 Ititalleil wnnoist any Calif!. the wanes, tho gilt that he was not capable of knotviii4 right Irons wronu. He went out to work, and returned • again unattended. lit answer to questions front Juilze Best . , the witness detailed several instances of extravagant conduct, which induced her to form the opinion that the prisoner was not capable of tlibtinguislsing between right and wrong. Dr. Conon, the ordsmiry of Newgatr, state, that itt the perturandi.ce of his ditty he haft visited the lot -anger dhow three or ilium tithes a week. From What lie had obwrted or In, co:nitic., he conceived hint to be an idiot, and incapable id ft-plating his conduct. JOllll l i iie(aCk 1101111( a, the surgeon in Netvgate, stated that site prisiliter Was a complete idiot. He did nut !levy ttlll lie could ins% er to all indictment. lessrs. Andrews and Adolph u. declared that they could produce l i mner e%idence. Inn they considered that Mal which had already been ploduced 14*J1 tuilicient to saucy the Jury. JUJIICC Bat summed tip the evidence to the Jury, who immediately found that the prisoner was nut Ndhe Alr. Justice Best directed that the prisoner should re. main on custody wad his Majesty's pleasure respocutog Ituat shall be known. Tile unfortunate prisoner was removed from the bar without Inkling a sound. •MUKLEIC—Macharl Cotme and Thomas Cline were indicted for the wil.nl Murder Of J.lllles Minty. oil the 30th of Jolly, by striking him on the head with a piece of non; aoother count charged thrill will aiding and assisiolg tit the murder ul the said James Minty. It appeared, from the evidvtive, to .t Atm( In o clock oil die night of the 3thli July iIIC decessed was drinking ocer In a poldteMouse, called the Coopers Arms, 111 \Vest,ereet Solontoncld. In the same room, but not 141 comproy with the deceased, were the two ',flume's and anotner 111411, named Gandy, who hail quarrelled wilt' toe deceased some tla)s Irelore. Altirty ruse to leave I e room. when CiJiiilry also rose and gut into the INIUIC 111 W, and as soon as Murty cattle up to holm to the -.ft