The National Register. — London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

P - At the late Gloucester Assizes, the trial of Henry Bradley, for a burglary in the Ineise of Nlr. Wilson, of Eastgate-street, in that city (in companv %volt two tier • who are still at large), and stealing therenut two chests of tea, his property , and of Georg: Marlin, tried un d er the saint. indictment for r?ceiving the said tea, knowing it to have been stolen, commenced on Thursday soon after eight o'clock, and was not brought 10 a close till half past five in the afternoon. The highly reputable s it u ation in life which the latter prisoner had fillet!, up to the period of this unfortunate transaction (hinny, long resided there as a grocer), excited a very consider able degree of interest ; and at an early hour the Court was ernWillqi with spectators, anxious to hear the trial. On delivering in their verdict, several of Cite Jury were visibly affected, from the personal knowledge which they had of the prisoner Martin's former respectability. Mr. instice Ilolrovd immediately after, in the most impres sive manner, proceeded to pass sentence upon the pri soners, animsdverting in the strongest terms upon the enormity of Martin's offence. He had been convicted upon the clearest evidence; and the good character which had been given to him by the very respectable witnesses examined on his behalf, tended rather as aggravation of his case, the event of this day chewing how much the‘ had heed deceived, add evincing the great facility with which he could pursue such a nefa rious traffic unsuspected by his neighbours. It was the encouragement held out by such persons that led °Met s to the commission of depredations which forfeited their lives to the law; and who, possibly, ilopposed or resisted, ight be induced to commit the still more horrildt crime of morderl Sentence of transpottation was then passed in the usual Rita,. On Wednesday evening, about half a dozen lains, dressed as mechanics, went to the public Louse at the corner of Moor Street, Seven Dials, and pretended they wanted to look at the club room, as they were about to form or remove a club there. The young couple who kept the house, had been there but a few weeks, and they were glad of an opportunity of increasing their business ; the fellows engaged the room, which is next the land lord's bed room. They called for porter and pipes, and the boy of the house waited upon them, and soon after twelve o'clock they paid their rec koning and left. The landlord having his fastnings good, went up stairs to go to bed, when he found the door of his room, which he left baled, open, and his drawers and trunks ransacked of 801. and upwards which he had received since he took the house, besides a watch and other articles, and untiwt una•ely not one of the thieves are known. A pipe was lett the bed side. A Fool Race Sweepslakes ,for 100 Guineas.— A singular race took place on the Woodfiird road early on 'Tuesday morning, which was made on Monday evening ove- the bottle, between a Captain Fry, and Messrs. Adams, Lee, and Jones. The distance was five miles, and Jones, who is rather corpulent, was to receive one at starting, Lee 400 yards, and the other two to start together.— Lee was overtaken at the two miles, and he gave in. it was a good race between the two first until they bad done four miles, when Adams was beat 50 yards and resigned The Captain knocked himself up in endeavouring to catch Jones, who beat him, and won the race by 50 yards, The Captain did his ground in 30 minutes. Vickery the officer arrived in London on Monday, with Mr. limit, formerly a wine merchant in city, whom he has been in pursuit of abroad for about five months. Hunt left England considerably in debt, first having converted every thing possible into money ; in his absence he was made a bankrupt, and his deficiencies were so great that Government rendered every possible assistance A letter was written by Lord Castlereagh to Sir Charles Stuart, the English Ambassador at Paris, and to Lord Clan carty, , ut the Court of the Netherlands : Baran Fagel, the Ambassador from the Netherlands to tio British Court, who was abroad at the time, rendered every po,sible assistance. Vickery was accompanied by one of the assignees and the solicitor to the bankruptcy who knew Mr. Hunt's person. They traced him to Diuppe, where they fi,und him in a diligence, jest going to start fin• Havre, the princi: pal port from ,\ hence vessels sail for America It was dark, and they could on'y distinguish him by the assistance of a lighted lantern. He denied that his name was Hunt, Navin_; , procured his passport by the name of Hardy. He, however, afterwards confessed that his name was Hunt ; and for his ..... false representation of himself the French police sentenced him to be imprisoned' three months.— Daring Ins confinement a correspondence was car ried on between the different government-officers, as to his beicg given up at the expiration of his confinement (in his being released, the French police sent him to a village on the frontier, where Vickers stopped hint, and he received assistance front tine police-officers of the Netherlands. It is exp2cteil ikit his creditor:: will recover 20 Vickery silted with hint in custody from Ostend, and arrived in Landon with him on Monday. The officer wished to lode hint in Netvgate, but the keeper doubted his power to reieive hint upon the warrant, it being issued by the Lord Chief Justice Abbott, which directed that lie was to be lodged in the prison where he was taken. The Lord Chief THE NATIONAL REG! STER. Justice Abbott being engaged on the State trials no Tuesday, application was made to Mr. Justice Holroyd, who sanctioned his commitment. Fortunate Escape ,froin Poison.—On Sunday last Lord Al vanley, in consequence of indisposition, or dered his servant to procure. him a dose of Epsom salts; but instead of getting them from his Lord ship's apothecary, the servant bought them at ano ther shop. Lord Alvanley had no stainer swallowed the medicine given to him than he became very nn • easy, which, along with the peculiarity of its taste, led him instantly to suspect that he was poisoned Mr Wardrop, one of his Majesty's Surgeons, saw Lord Alvanley immediately. Emetics and proper antidotes were administered, and we arc happy now to be able to state, that except some slight weakness, his Lordship has perfectly recovered. On enquiry it was found that the supposed Epsom salts were made up by a mere boy, and in place of that medi cine he had given an ounce of salt of zinc. As this is one of the many instances of dangeroas suffering, from the carelessness or inability of persons employed in chymists' shops, we sincerely hope that it will not only afford a useful lesson to the public, and render them cautious in the manner they obtain medicines, but that the legislature will interfere in this country, as it has done in all others of civilized Europe, and establish regulations to guard against such dangerous mistakes. The impartial and upright manner in which Mr. Justice Bayley conducted himself' in the judgment seat, on a lute memorable occasion, will always, inrkeed, be remembered with gratitude. osi sic oh.nia ! Then indeed the people would look up with their accustomed reverence to the laws. But, un fortunately, a new system of administering justice has lately made its appearance among us, of a very different character. Our readers know to what we allude without our entering into particulars.—lt is against this system that Parliament, we hope, will declare itself. Sure we are, that if the people are not brought back to their former confidence in the laws, the laws will soon cease to allinal that protec tion to the community thr which they are intended. A Cheap Method qf Doing Gotxl.—A family in the East Riding of Yorkshire give to every poor woman, during her confinement, gruel made of two quarts of water, a pint of ale, a little gin! ; er, and a spoonful of oatmeal, sweetened with treacle. Let it simmer three hours. This they give three or four times, with two suits of baby•laten, and half a gui. nea in motley. The milk of three cows wh.la very scarce to those who have a child under two years. About six bushels of coals to 30 families, and at Christmas 101. in money. The lady gives a woman 51. for teaching 30 or 40 girls; three times a week, an hour a day, come when they will, and on Sunday three hours of her time ; and all this for a total ex pence of 451. Is. v.li'dizing—A recent publication draws a curious tine of comparison betwe,:n the indecency of the two exhibitions in the following manner:— " We have extreme pleasure in writine the serie " Boxiana," we know that it is excessively tiopmar. It i, 'Cu,* that one -utterly maiden lady has written us all eyos;ii!atory epist:e oil the subject, and expressed bet • self stioc Leo i,y the indecency of the spectacle 01 two noritious porters (such weft her very wools) exhibiting alit mselses stripped belie 20,000 spectators. We an swered that letter privately, Jild .1,00%11 the Min that pit willists fight in flannel drawers, and that they are vely little more exposed man young ladies in a hall-room. We also ventured to state it as our (*awn that it is It's indelicate in such a Mall as Tom Belcher to give Croi,:ey J cross buttock, than an officer of Ilus3sTs to plat one nand on the hare neck of a virgin of 18 years, allot der wood her waist, and thus to whirl livr about Isor a quarter of an hour in his arms, till both parties sire and that too in presence of 300 spectates. A waltziag match is, we numbly suggested, a more mile ceni exhibition than a boxing match. V'itat Can b e inure so, than to step ready stripped into the Flag, and hug in succession a long series o military melt, OCCa• sionally relieved by civilians t The amount dismisses from her clilbraee Captain and colonel, and ku gilt at :trim, all pitting and perspiring and reeling, while she stands victorious and unexhansted iu the nog. And wan compose the ring.? Judges, senators, soldiers, e rmdinothers, matrons, maids, and among them our own shrivelled correspondent. Go, Twatha, to Monkey Hunt, when 'Corner fights young Cabbage, and then, oat your conscience, tell its their conduct is tuidecelit as that of Cornet Sabretache and Miss Julia UplWay." • SMUGGLING 0? CORN.-. 41 1/I)eclrs to lOC the . tics at Liverpool to ship cargoes of foreign wheat front the bonded warehouses there, for the Isle of Mall, where they are landed, mid iinntediattly aiter re-shipped for the markets of this couittry, stint to foreign corn), under the name of Malik's proluee The like practice also prevails in the tslamls of Gaernsey and Jersey. Nlr. Duillop, of the Isle of Arms, has written to Lord Sidinimili on the subject, boot w hom ire 11.1 i learnt that effectual orders hive been issued to place the Isom of the Ilk of :Mao tinder similar regMations with those of Great Britain, with respect to fore.eit ellf A meeting was held at Bridgnorth on Saturday last, when it was resolved to petition Parliaincnt to take the state of the country into serious considera tion, and to adopt such measures as may best contri bute to relieve the distresses of the agricultural and commercial distresses of the country. 115 A Coroner's Inquest was held at Trowbridge, 41il Wednesday last, on a poor child named Adams, nine years of age, who met with her deaia in the follow ing awful manner:—.On Saturday night her parents put the rest of the children to bed, and locking the door, went off to the ale !muse, leaving this child up, to clean herself', ready for school the tidlowing morning. By some accident her clothe, caught lire, and with difficulty she got to the back door, and alarmed the neighbours; but betiire assi•aance came, she was in a dreadful condition, and her clothes nearly consumed. S!le languished till Sunday even ing, and expired. The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death, but considered the conduct of the pavents as peculiarly reprehensible. A SAGACIOUS A/GOV.—At the late Lancaster Assizes, a woman having been placed in the wit nesses ixix, who 'root a natural &recr or momentary timidity, did not give her evidence very audibly ; the presiding Judge (Mr. Justice Park) addressing theProthonotary said " Mr. Cross, I order th.tt when ever an attorney does not instruct his witnesses to speak out properly, or his witnesses do not speak out properly, the expellees of that witness shall not be allowed." _ _ _ The communication through the Bank of En gland from tli.! front of that building to Throgmor. ton-street. passing the Bullion Office, has. been closed during the State trials, by a general order fro.n the Directors Cult PUSH WANDERF.R.-Mr. Wilson, a gentleman of Cornwall, who inherited an estate of about 10001. per annum in that county at the age of .'23, and in the year 1731, the year after his fiither's death, set off for the Continent on his travels. He rude on horseback, with One servant, over the greatest part Of the world He first viewed every European country ; in doing which he spent eight years. He then embarked for America, MIS two years in the northern part, and three years more in South America, where he travelled as a Spaniard, which he was enabled to do, float the facility with which he spoke the language. The climate, prospects, Sce • of Peru, enchanted him so much, that he hired a farm, and resided on it nearly twelve mouths. Ilin next tour was to th• East ; he passed successively through all the territories in Africa, to the south of the Mediterranean, Egypt, Syria, and all the domi nions of the Grand Seignior; went twice through Persia, through the northern and southern provinces, over Hiudostan, and part of Siam and Pegu, anti made several excursioas to the boundaries of China. He afterwards, on his return, stopped at the Cape of Good Hope, and penetrated same distance into Africa ; and, on his return to the Cape, he took the opportunity ofa ship going to Batavia, and thence visited most of the Islands in the great Ar chipelago Returning to Europe, be landed at Cadiz, and travelled over laud to Moscow, in his way to Kamschatka. In 1733, he was at Moscow, healthy and vigorous, and though then in his 6Gth year, was preparing for a journey to SibLria. At a meeting of the Clergy of rit , .! Areluieacon ries of Norwich and Norfidk, the Rev. Ralph Ta tham, B I). Rector of Colkitk,with Stibbard, was elected their convocation Proctor. :BIMle. At the lady of I). Lewis. I. D. of the Bengal medical edablidisueld, id tuins—a suit 611111 dlin4llfrr. `Ott. t. "Imo, or' Sotl,lk pitta, I.linittnt, of a too. I he WI) Ot U. It. Ituil.t, et+ sorgedii, 11.'11watt:ed. of 3 daughter. 3auscb. At Walcol. Somerset, C. Bowles, esq. of Mount prospeet, in :lie county ut Cook, to Mts.. Cashel iite .I.llors 11.111, of 14111. At MAU) leilurit• licav clan eh, 1.- A ppleth wane, esq. to Judith, (AO) danghlcr of the laic I. st oial, 1,111 I. W. Simons, jun. esii. of the terrace, hackney. to II u Het Amelia, eldest daughter of the late .1. Vat ket, 111 Beviuo.o, hone, Essex, At NI. Mary's, Lambcilt, Mr. W Wilson, junior, of Bernard street, Russell square, to Naralt, avail th datightet of \Sailer Ilentlen, twg- of Stockwell. At tt. l'4llCrA3, G. West, esq. of the royal engineers, to Louisa, eldest datieldei of It. It evell, eoq. of Bruton Oak, storey. At hackney, taw. W. Is. Ilasiswood, It V., to Louise I lenrietta, only dati2.litcr 11l I . Voile, esq. At l'aniewicl, ikteestrisliire, I. J. l'ainis!cad, esti. i. A. of Oneeti's college. (cyan., •rano), second daughter of the late It. Swat, esq. ul Mown w.alwroili. At 4. MaiLacet's, We,tininster, It. SAW-age. esq. of Rally, to A tetlin Sc.ia kat. secuoil daughter tit A. Nearlett, esq. ot 111., ii;asol of Jaltalea. At Iflooinsimry chinch, W. Pitcairn, csq. of lokrolgoosc )srl, to Miss Itichanlnm, of Will. Diet. At St. Mao's. near Cadiz. Mr. Frederic (Irellmt. In I.iucolu's 1,.,, nein., W. Ut lie. you :114tsi %%illi4m, the elder, rust sat yi. Wm:Orr, of Ilrent Corm!' street. At Fo,nbam green, Nary, timot dilliglster of Mr. J. S. %Sii.stantey, of tootinz. .Kid 14 years.. daughter of the 17.1 e William Rob Woo, esq. of W.h.llltsl,l, t.eoutal William Minim., of the royal artillery, neaten:to Goves not of the rtsyal m,h6irl ae.olemy al MuolWirli, ot.C. Al the 5 sni p, liar hiuratou, Jnianie t, J. 11. Ltinloo , esti. start 00015140 t too'Ketot to his InJesu)'s forces. Anu , arat,, wile of E. Merl it, caq. of Prince's.. plume, Kennington. At Itr.:,.els, M. 11. -,l4. , iinwr, can. lai. nn l 'rrs Ossu, surrey. In Fehsuary fart, .1 I , s.ll'er:try, Canoe, tr.,. lout lit et A. I lissoille, ray. 1,1 t rein,, - ‘herlirtlll4.44 . • MIL. J. It. I...V.tia, 6anitenrwnaa, 01 street, a=ril 45. .1"/111 Callte:01. Ntltt.s' hall coml. in rp l ier ton kill:L.l4o 87, CliOot Ito:Awn, ctoomou, the Rm. C. rector of Little W At her in SOtiIII Autlley stavet, Mrs. Mumma Long, its the 15;:l51 year of her ago. In t ,trert. Ilanr.urr sips ire, W. Mlestitnara, ea,,. proprietor ut 0, 0 floe t:lno. troika. At her Is,"-'in oxisotl to, i, 104174, ii, Dovret.o.r 1, 1 4 ) . ! .. " . C.') 11. SOolicy, tr.!. ut Globe ft.tiss„