The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

NOV. 16 Against him, and despatched the most active, intelligent and per severing principal officers in pursuit of him, to Dover. Margate, litighton, and other parts; and to pursue him wherever they could gain any information respecting him. They were accompanied by li r Horsley and some friends, who can identify Charles Rennet' and the child. It is feared that he has succeeded in getting out of this country with the child, and carried it into France ; but the known dilligence of the French police encourages strong hopes, that before many days shall have elapsed, this monster of atrocity will be in the hands of justice. It is stated, that upon the life of the child depends the sum of 20,0001. A man in tattered garments, named M•Vie, was charged with D epeatedly anaoying Mes,rs. Greenwood, Cox, and Co. army agents, a nd refusing to leave the house when desired. Tile unfortunate man bad been an officer in the 77th regiment, and fancies that he has same demand upon the house in question. but for which there is no foundation. He has been for several years in the ,:onstant habit of going to the office, using threatening language, and otherwi.e mis condu:ting himself.—Committed for want of sureties. soung man, genteelly dressed, calling himself the Hon. Gordon, of the Royal Navy, was charged will; feloni ously stealing Li Bank of England notes and 18r. from Mr. Richard Mn n n, a haberdasher and hosier, in Great Russel. street, Covent Garden: also silk obtaining flow hi:n various articles of hosiery. It appealed that the prisoner went to the New llmmoinins, in Covent•garden, on Monday, and ordei ed a bed, eke, by the name u e:b e Hon. W. B. Gordon, having handsome cards, ele gantly engraved, with this address. On Tuesday morning between nine and ten o'clock, he desired R. Jones, one of the porters belonging to the New H 1111111 l ums, to send a hosier to w in with some blaok and white silk stockings, some cotton stockings, &v. porter in consequenee went to \l r. Muntes shop, anti gaVe the order. On tits reborn the prisoner seta him with a draft for .11. drawn on Messrs. Esdaile and Co., in Lombard-street, which was refused payment, the answer being "No effects." Mr. Mann waited upon the prisoner, in h s bed room, and sold him several pairs of stockings, also drawers, &c., to tit...amount of 41. 2s. The prisoner desired Lite to frlidi him change for a 201. Bank note, which he ac. cot dii i tydid,and gave the prisoner fifteen 11. Banknotes, slid eighteen slittling'. The prisoner counted the notes care. folly over, Mr. Maim remaining at the door, when the pri. sutler steldenlv eselaltned, that he ter-eloact, and It ft his room. Mr. Munn waited about three or four minutes, when a suspicion :nose in his mind that the prisoner was an imposter: and lie went to the water closet and found he was not there : he diem proceeded down to the coffee room ; witere he learnt front the head waiter, that the prisoner had ordered breakfast, hut had left the holseiii haste, saying lie should return in a few minutes. The suspicious against him were directly afterwards increased, by a porter belonging to the house hiving met ban in Tat istock-row, entitling ith g rest %peed. He not returning, Mr. Harrison, the proprietor of the New Hui 11111 l anis, entered the bed room which the prisonei occupied, when his found that lie had b.f . ; several articles of wearing apparel, and a new leather note. case, and a LI. Bank, note lying loose on a piece of paper, which proved to be one of those he had obtained from Mr. N unn , I n the evening, one of the waiters belonging to the New liumumens was passing along the Strand, when lie saw the prisoner enter the Sans Pared Theatre, of which Its gas e inforinationtO Mr. Harrison and Mr. Munn, alio made appli cation at the office, and Thomas Mayhew, a constable, accom pained hint to the Sans Pareil Theatt e, where, on describing Lis per‘on, they wei e. informed he had just left the theatre, but was especteorto return; and after waiting in the passaee a short time, the prirm or returned with two dashing females, One Oil each arpi.:::kle was token by Mayhew to Covent-gar den watch house, 'where lie searched him, and found seven It. Bank "lutes ; live of them proved ta Le part of those he ob tained trout Mr. Mu who could not identify the other two. On his being asked what he had done mid' the remainder of the money lie had obtained from Mr, Munn, he replied, he Lad given titter:of them tonne of the females who was with Lim, and had paid his landlady in Crovs•court, heiween two and three pounds. On his being brought to the alive, and placed at the bar, lie said his name was Thomas Haldivicbe. He did not make any answer to the charge. lie Was coin :bitted fur trial. _ _ _ GUILDHALL. ANOTHER CHILD STOLEN.—JOIIII 110111SIOCk, describing liimsed to be a seafaring man, out of employ, was brought before Mr. Alderman Sehuley, by Everett, an officer, charged, snider very inspirit:its circumstances, with having stolen a little boy about !tine years old. The mother, Maly Connelly, wife of a stonemasOn's la bourer, resifting No. 2, Long-walk, Chapel-street, Grub street, said she was fluor home some time tin Wednesday ',writing, and on her return she missed her little boy; she nick cuyuiey among several of her neighbours, but could get am titliogs of hint. A woman, residing in the sante walk, at length leciiilected having seen the child eat ly in the morning, in company w ith the prisoner, who was well know' about the neighbourhood, living chiefly upon the chat ity of the inhabit • amts. luguivy was immediately made at the hothe where lie slept, hitt lie had not been there all the day. The hour at which he generally came home arrived, but he hover made his appearance, nor did lie come home all night, leaving the father atm imam r in a state of ansiolis suspense, too dreadful to be described. As ern!) , as it was light, snatch was again node tot the prisoner, but it was out till ten o'clock on Thurs day morning, that the mother IC4 I lit that he ;lad been seen it the neighbont hood ; she immediately went in search 011111i1, at d charged him with ha viiig stolen her child. He at first atiected ignorance, and denied bating seen the child ; but oil the mother's telling him the information she had received, am d giving him into charge of the officer, he cotifesst d the 111-11(1 had heel) out with Liin for a walk, and that he had kit 1: in behind. Under these circitinst a 'ice., the officer It It it lvs duty to detain him, and bring him before the Sitting Ma o skate. On being questioned by the worthy Alderman as to what he had dime with the child, he said the boy walked wills him on %ednesday morning down to Harking, where they both went on board the Mercury smack, Capt. Thomas Carter, and re mained there till the et clinic ; that be, the prisoner, kit the vessel to go on boai il another to sleep, ut which time the ebild was asleep iii the cabin of the 'Mercury, and the Cap. tarn allowed him to leave it there, as the smack was COlll-. illg Op to Black wall the ite‘t morning, hum whence he thought the boy could find his way home. He slept on board a vessel, and walked home in the morniti,i, when lie arts met by the mother, and given into custody as before rdated. The worthy ;Magistrate thought his coedeet rather mysterious, inure especially as he had tivloliell all knowledge leapt: ding the child. He theretoi e directed that the prisoner should be detained in custody mitil the truth Of his story Was IlbCCrtaincol ; and in the :twilit time ori.c.'ed immediate unpin y should he wade alter the Ale:it-my ut Ou Friday he was again bionght up, wlieu the story told THE NATIONAL REGISTER. by bins, it aPpeareil, was true, so far as related to his taking the child to Barking, and also on board the Nlewcury smack ; hut it was not the fact that lie left the boy asleep in the cabin, or that he at all recommended him to the care of the Captain ; un the contrary, while :he child, whom he had represented to have neither father nor mother, was playing below deck, be watched an opportunity amt withdrew privately from the smack. Captain Carter had taken care of the boy, brought hiln op to illaek wall iii the vessel, and was making the necessary inquiries to %%hum he belonged, when the father and mother arrived, and the Captain hail the heartfelt pleasure of restoring the elii!il to his overjoyed parents. The sole object of the prisoner seemed to be that of decoying the child away. but fur what purpose did not appear. It was alio stated that lie 114 ti endeavoured to decoy away several other cWlilren in the neighbourhood. 'flue worthy Utter:nail reprmiated in strong terms the de pravity of the prisom•r's conduct, and lamented it was not in his pow er to punish him severely for such au offence ;as how ever, it appeared he was a disorderly character, and had no visible means of getting Ms living, he should commit him to hard labour for one month. UNION HALL. Mr. Horsley and hi+ friend attended at this office with an application similar to that lortle at flow-street. Carter, the witness who followed the filon nho carried away the child, represents him as very stunt, a. , ,nit 5 tact 5 inches high, be tween thirty and fort y ye,4l 4 of age, Ye! y 1141 k eony.exion, dark curly hair, rultoLl fare, no whiskers, esse,l in a short blot cunt, w ith yellow nation+, yeilow breeches, with a piece of notched leatn.lr tinder the strings at the knees, half Wel. lington or anele bouts. His appcataace altogether was that of a groom. Mr. Horsley expressed his suspicion of a man named Ste. yens being al , u concerned with the above named parties in stealing the child, lie having been in the habit of meeting the servant gii I, when she n , is out with the c h ildren, and walking with her, and having been seen in her company the day or her absconilinE. FRAUDS NY i•tmEMEN.—George Kilby, a fireman, belonging to the Sun Fire-office, and two other tiremen, applied to the Magistrates for an order to rt.c.:ive the rewards to which they claimed to be en titled, under the Act of Parliana .it, for attending with their engine; to extinguish a fi , e, at tac hawk! of Mr. Wedd, of Shad Thames, in the parish of St. John, Southwark. Mr. Wedd, a gentleinan of great respectability, opposed the claim of the firemen, and sated the particulars of the whole transaction.— Oa the 3uth of October, his cook went up stairs and informed him that toe kitenen chimney required cleaning, for that a considerable quantity in soot had cedlected at the lower part, and there was an appearance of Wale of it being on fire. He gave directions that a entinney-sweeper should be sent for, and the necessary operation performed. The sweeper arrived, attended by a boy ; the soot coi -1 vied at the bottom of the chimney, amongst which several sparks of tire were perceptible. shovelied down. Tile boy was immedi ately sent up, swept the chimney in the usual manner, and then de mended wituout having iliscaned any appearance whatever of tire in any other part. Kilby, the fireman, came into the house at the same taw with the chimney sweeper. in the most ituthOotis manner, and after the lapse of several minutes, said he should go and fetch the engine. Me. Wedd reinoustritted upon the absurdity of fetching an engine when there was no tire. Kilby replied, that there was tire enough fur him, and saying something which implied that he should nut harry Mimed*, went away, and in about half an hour after the departure of the sweeper three engines arrived at the door; of which, Kilby's was the first. There had not been the least appearance of tire on the outside of the house, either by a greater quantity of smoke than usual, or any other means. There was no al:tr n whatever in the house, but Kilby =mesh' unrequited, and, without asking permission of any person, nninethately upon his entrance ran down into the kitchen. In consequence of Mr. Wedd's refusal to pay the rewanls, application was made to the parish officers, and to them he trans mitted an account of the affair. They, in reply, informed him, that this particular species of imposition had increased to a mod alarming degree ; and requested him, on benalf of the parish, and for the be. nein of the public, to lay the particulars of the case before the Ma gistrates. John Livel, master chimney-sweeper, residing in llorsleydown, after being sworn, stated, that he was the person employed by Alt. ‘Vedd on the day in question, and by the whole of his testimony cor roborated the statement made by that gentleman. Kilby, the fireman, said nothing in support of his claim, but that he considered he had only performed his duty. The Magistrates rejected the claim, and cautioned the firemen to be more circumspect in future. WORSHIP STREET. A Mr. William CO,oiorolo.;nitbooiiglltiothis office, for an assault on the person of George Dale, a messenger under a commission of bankruptcy. It appeared let in the evidence, that Mr. Henry Gompertz, late ut 'lrukenhouse Yi.rd, wooklealer, now a priso.er in the Fleet Pt isun, had become a bankrupt, and a commission had issued against him on the ash of October last. lie had also a private residence at '29, Nelson Terrace, Kingsland Road, which lie had, previous to his becoming a bankrupt, made over to Mr. Gurney ; arid which the assignees under the cominission di.covered to be in the occupation of the defer. dant ; and on Wednesday the 4th inst. they vent a messenger to take possession ; and on the following day the defendant, with the assistance of another person, forcibly turned the messenger out of the house. Mr. Reiley, a saddler, ill bury Puce, one of the assignees, went on the 6th, with the complainant (I)ale) with proper authority, and entered the house by the back door,which then accidentally was lett open. Upon the defendant's beating that possession was again ob tained, he immediately Calfle down stairs to tiie kitchen with a pair of pistols iu his hand, and desired Dale to show his authority, which Dale instantly did; 411 ieitioustrances on the part ut the assignee wine inetfertnal, and after disputing about lit minutes, defendant discharged one of the pistols at Dale, and finding that had no effect, instantly tired the other, Which slightly struck him on the wrist. Illefendalit then Hew up stairs, and seized a cutlass, with which he made a blow at Dale ; but by the timely interference of Mr. Reilly. they succeeded in taking the cutlass from him ; snit they sent immediately - for an ufficer, and had him iaken into custody. Mr. Cooper, in his delence,stated, that he had poi chased the house and premises, and paid the purchase money ; arid that it was a bona fide purchase; yet, nutty itlistanding, the assignees appeare d to be determined to take possession, and accutdinely on the 4th inst. sent a man to take possession by stratagem, when he, by diteetions froin his solicitor, gently put him out; and the assignees then resorted to the means 01 111ipuhillg 50111511iillg like terms to lull his suspicions, alibi any future intentions of their retaking possession ; but on the bib the assignees employ eel Dale to retake pussesaion, and rioting the absence of ills female aervaiii, Dale got 0501 the kitchen Willi ut an:adjoining house, and entered by the back door into the kitchen; lie, heating a noise, went into the kitchen, and saw Dale with a pistol in his hand 11:iif hod moiler his coat; lie enquired Ins bie. n uia an d a „;n o o i -ooy, wind' D a le t ciMoeil to answer, and took tins pistol tt ono wider etia. He (defendant) then, and nut till then, retutoen up stairs to In s bed wow ; and brought down a pair of 367 pistols, loaded only with powder; and being flirt a retied by Dale, he fired the pistols of r. Itcile ) • and his brother then came to Dale's assistance, and they ill-treated in a mufti scan dalous manner, awl struck him a violent Wow on the temple ; and when. being stunned, he became unable to make any tea sistance they sent far an officer, who brought him here. 31r. Cmiant, tile sit tiny Ningisti ate, told him that he con sidereal it 4 most 42ge.isdleil and unjustifiable assault, for ,shish be should demand respectable bail for his personal ap pearance at the next Session, to answer the complaint of tile assignees. The defendaiii immediately entered tutu recut'. nivinee, and was dischmgcti. conosEirs INQUESTS. On Tuesday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Duke of Argyle public house, Great Windmill -street, St. James's, on the body of Sarah Pearce, aged tt, who came to her death under the following melancholy circumstances : Mr. James Pearce, of No. :8, Great Windmill Street, stated, that the deceased was his daughter, and halgial at a friend's house oppo site his own. She was addressed by a young man. named John Hill. who is a harness maker,working at the corner of Soepherd Street anti Oxford Street, and who lodged in witniais's flume. On Sunday three weeks, lie told her that lie was going to St. Ann's church, to pnblith the butts for their marriage. She sent a female friend to the church to ascertain the fact, mid the folloanng Sanday went herself, but found that her name was not called. Sue returned home quite me lancholy. and was observed to be in a state of dejection. trout that day till the hour of her untimely death. On Sunday fist the deceased was with witness and her mother all the day ; auout the afternoon 11111 came home, bringing %vita him a young woinao, whom he desired his landlady to tell tile deceased was his intended wife ; and, as it further insult to the poor girl, lie kept the femme to tea, during which the deceased was IM a state bordering on frenzy. Witnexi detained her in his house till near one o'clock in the morning, trying to south her, but to no erKet. Neu morning .)Irs. Junes, with. whom the deceased lodged, same to witness, and said she feared something had happened. as she could not make her hear when she called ber. Witness, full of terror, ran over; the door was locked; he forced it open maanilv , and ran to toe berg; no one was there, nor had it the appearance of having been siept in. Thinking she had waadereil out. he was about to retract his step., but as he turned round, was horror-struck - to see her hanging by a silk iiandixrelner from a railing against the cupboard. Snatching up a kuile. that Lay on the table, he cut the body down, and then ran into me street, not knowing what he did. Mr. E. Dixon, of 6 i, Wardour Street, surgeon, stated, that about teu o'clock on Monday morning he was called to see the deceased. There was a deep inatk rbund the neck ; the tongue protruded, and was much swolu. The body was quite cold, and she had been dead some hours; consequently he did not attempt to administer any re. medics. She had alt the appearance of a person strangled. M r..lones, of No. 2n, Windmill Street, with whom toe deceased lodged, deposed that Site worked at stio.-bunling, mud that on Mon day inorniug some work was sent to her from Mr. Puzey's, is Picea dilly. Witness went to call her but received no allWer. (This witness here confirmed the evidence of Mr. Pearce.) She was a modest, prudent, good natured girl, and much respected ; but lately her conduct has been that of a lunatic. On being asked by the Jury to give his opinion at to the cause of her meLincholy, Mr. Junes said, •• I have no doubt but that rascal of A fellow (I fill) deceived her." The Coroner briefly summed up the evidence, and the Jury, through the medium of NIL Savage, their foreman, returned the lid lowing verdict :—** The deceased hanged herself in a lit of insanity, produced, in the opinion of the Jury, by the culpable, and they add. etiminal conduct of John Hill." The London Dock Company have taken down the house lately occupied by Mr. Hurt, which fronted the basin, on the outside of the Cofer-dam. With the exception of a slight raihnt; fur aoout twenty yards along the margin of the excavauon, the whole, as far as the river, is destitute of any defence, and the materials and rubbish front the house have raised the ground upon a level with the railing ; so that along the whole line there is a precipice, front which an indivi. dual in time dark may meet with immediate. destruction. An inquest on the body of Esther Dutton was held on Thursday week, who was found dead in the basin on Wednesday. H. Angel, the minister of brig, heard a plunge tow time water the preceding evening, but imuki see nothing; there was twelve feet of water. J. basun, surgeon, saw no marks of violence to occasion death. Other witnesses were examined, and the inquest adjourned; but it was impossible for the Jury to ascertain whether the deceased met her death by accident or suicide. The Coroner said, the facts should meet the eye of those immediately concerned. Verdict—l'otuid dead, apparently by drowning. Lord Chief Justice Abbot has male the following new appoint menu—Clerk at Nisi Prius vice the lion. Cuarles LiWCAll6l.)l:l4te and Marshal of Causes, vice W. Jones, Esq.—Cryer" tits; lt. Esq.—Clerk at Chambers, vice Thomas flat. . Esq.—Clerk of the Errors, vial: It. Smith, Esq. The names of the Gentlemen who have been appointed to succeed to these °dicers Loos dismissal by me new Lord Chief J usher, have not yet transpired, nor the /caroms as signed for their removal in a way so unprecedented. FATAL. ACCIDENT Turtotrun Poison. A shocking accident happened to Mrs. Richardson, landlady of the Three Compasses, Little ttsiltl.street, Lincuin's Inn Fields, in consequence of tier taking oxygenated salts, for Ep.on. She had desired her husband to take the salts from off a tlwlf in the bar and mix them; when he, un knowingly, took those used fur boot tops, and sent them up stair; by his daughter. Mrs. It. swallowed the whole, and shortly after ex pired in great agony. C l / 4 1i . acteriatic Trails.—Every nation has its traits; the Spaniards aleep on every affair of importance; the ltaliiimifiddle upon every thing , the tierinms smoke upon every thing; the French promise every thing and do nothing ; the British isliuiders eat upon every thing; and the windy saliyeetsof American colocracy, folk upon every thing ! Mr. Duet. according to his address to the people of Westminster, is determined to stand the contest at the ensuing election. Mr. J. Roghurst, of Itochester, has been actively employed in hay-making for the la , t fortnight, and on eaturday week finished the making and sucking of upwards of 50 acres of meadow-hay, in very lair condition. An apple-tree in the garden of D. Sutton, Esq. at Kensington. opposite Holland !louse, is now covered with a ibeCtillii crop of apples ; and there are several others in the sane garden which have also 114(1 a second produce this year, though not in such abundance. 'There is now in the garden of Elden, at Fulkstoite, a months cherry-tree, which bore fruit at the tumid period, and has agent blossomed and bears five small cherries. Report says, that a great pnpui :ion of the discharged Black Soldiers will be sent to .tfriea. It is perhaps unknawn even to the commercial world, that two vessels at leaA are completely laden annually on the coast of Hampshire, near Lywington, with a tine red gravel, for tile purpose of supplying the me tropolis with that article, to strew on the bottoms of bird c.iges. This, like other articles of trade, has fre duently had a considerable rise, in consequence of the st:pply not equalling the consumption. The fine estate of Clietden, on the banks of the Thames, with the site of the ancient mansion a il two entire wings, came to the hammer on Thuralv, and . was knocked down for the such of 39,50.01.4