The National Register. — London, England, 1818-05-03 00:00:00

MAY 3. tam young man answering their description, and nwasengers were dispatched to Mrs. Cook to identify them. and for Donaldson. the aonstable. They discovered, however, that an sotemat was made to d e t a in them in the house, and nutted out:. but the porter of the house pursued thorn, calling, " Sop Oliver they separated at the upper end o Cliariagamas ; the prisoner ran towards the S:rand, and his co:a im:tit/a towanle Coekspur-street. The prisoner was warred and la'tea,at the corner of St: Martin'a-lane. The priauner most positively denied arty guihy knowledge that the cheeks were Ithriented : and dezlersal than all he knew of the young man. who was; with him was, that he was =Wee-haute acquaintance hit name was Mort, but he really did not know where he lived. It, declined goiug to the h )%eli with him, as hie circumstances would hat ad tit of his paying the expences. On his helm; called upon to give as acce.s.e. Itasalf, he replied, he coat u gentleman. lie was• an Officer is the East India Company's service at sat, he served or. board the Weimer emi.h: and the Canuarthea, and bad diem to India twice. Time landlord, in whose house in Saha ha was lolgiama at the time hr was apprehended, atteaded. and gave him a good eharaeter,lining the tim ; had lived in his bens,: he paid every body, and be te e:awl a very good character w him front his termer lodging. HATTON-G RUM. W. Blake, a baker of St. Ptlllrr.l4, was charged with selling a rposmitlov of breed deficient 221 owes of weight, and was convicted of the mitigated penalty of a's. per ounce and cots, yunnnilug Io 51. I Is. 311. J. Tioampsou, a ha kerale Latham-glare, Somers-town, was convicted in the like penalty, fur a delicieucy of 401-ounces, amounting to 101. Is. 3d. MARLBOROUGH STREET. Manday, J. Ps-arson. an elderly man. was brought up and • 1 ea:nisi:led before 11. M. Dyer, Esq. on the following caarge Emmerson, a mastertailor, raaiding in doe neighbour• lased of Swallow-sr. stated, that on Suuday morning he left his Ouse mod shop property faslaated, and went up into the first oor with his family. In the afsernoan, whilst they ware at tea, some bread was wanted, which his son went dews to fetch, and in a moment afterwards winless heard him coy, " Thieves I" two or three times, upon which he ran down: stairs, and found the boy, who is only Irmo-teen years old. at:nem:bog with the poisoner and another man, the latter of . Vi!icom contrived to get away; but the had. kept richt hold of the prisoner till witness secured him, ale took him to the as arch house. On his•retorn he found same waistcoat: tied np in the bag now produred, which the thieves had peaked top.' to call y away. W. Emmerson, con of the last tattoo::, said, that about four o'clock on Sunday he went into the shop for some bread, and saw the in ironer • and another Mall taking • down some toilenet, which they put into a bag ; witness seized the prisoner by teat throat, upon which the other struck Lino a blow on the bend, and knocked knot down, but he rail' kept his hold of the prisoner till his father came. The other escaped. The officer proved•that the thieves gained entrance by tioreing the iron bar and padlock. The ;prisoner made no -defence.—Fully committed. Gumtree on Volterra—Samuel Tunbridge was charged -with forging-and uttering a hill of exelmuga, purporting to be of Ike value of twenty pounds, with intent to defraud J. .loyceast baker, in Rupert-street, Haymarket. The prisoner-I.as released at the Court for iaaolvent debt. era, a short time since,. he having been opposed by the pre ; sent posaventerosto charged him withrfrand. The prisoner paid the bill to Mr. Joyce, but it invited out, that the mierept. :once was forged, and there was nu 0.101 person to be found as the aoceptor, whose rime was aubseribed to the bill, and the , prisoner as time drawer, bad made a mark, instead of his •signature.— He was remanded. Cribber, IVelstr,and •Cline, were charged arth outrage awl riot,on Saturday and Sunday, in Peter-street.—The follow ing are the facts of the case :—Mr. Lee, a tradesman in Pe- • ' tir-strect,St. James's, was engaged in litigation with the bro ther of Ilrihher, and this led to a tumult opposite the door of the promeettor on Saturday, and which was repeated on Sun day, with the defendant Gibber at the head of an infuriated Haub. They proceeded to evesy extremity, except entering the house, nod Mr. Lee escaped by aback way, and obtain rola warrant at this office. :Plank ARA! Bagster served the Isumese, when the other two defendants assaulted Plank in. the eftwericom of his dotty. ether witnesses corroborated the facts, and the defendauts were severally committed in default of hail. Qt EEN-SQUARE. .Wm. Major, James Greenfield, Robert Selby, and. Jam es 1 Iwaekton, tour well known and desperate characters, were, charged by T. Turner, with robbing him of his watch and 34.64. in silver.—The prosecutor stated, that on Tuesday week. he-went to Tuthill-fields to see the bull bait. He. had not beta :ong there before lie found hinetellassaitiA by a gaht; of tellnws, who hustled, and shoved him about, and at last prc eeeded to beat him about. the face an] eyes. Ile particularly Gbserved the four prisoners at the bar, but the most active was the prisoner, Major ; whom4.c knew by theirliaving been •echeollellows. Major strnek him several blows in toe face, so that witness repeatedly oc!led.cnt to him, for God's sake not to kill him, but all in Vrtill, and he belicvm; to inictt have fallen a sacrifice to their fury, had nut some hamaue per sons limited him into a cart jos: as he was sinking and faint ing under tln. usage of the prisoners and their pug, which consisted of _about Vi or When he got into the cart he Alias Re mire exhausted that he could only say lie had !oat .his watch, bat could give no areonut of his money. \Viten fer •ther ,recovered, he found the prisoner hail taken from him f;5.134..in silver. Win. Pocock, of William-street, Pimlico, haker,depomed,that he went onTitesday week, in the afternoon to see the bell-bait in Tuthill-fields; ..that for the purpose of -seeing with greater convenient e he got up Lute a cart, u here he Iwd not been lung befog:: he .aaw the attack cattle upon the prosecutor by a nmm erons.!,;ang, among the ino,t active of, which were the four prisoners. He then confirmed the whole of last wanes/es testimony, adding, that when the prosecutor was driven by them near the cart he was in, he prevailed with so:ne porous below 1 , 0 assist iu lifting prusemnor up, while witness and others in the cart da..iw liain in, and he uehieved thereby • saved hit life. T. Hugger, of 1:Ala:a-street , Pim :leo, owner of the cart into. which prosecutor was drawn up, toofirmed the testimony of both the former witnesses, with the addition, that just as they were about to draw him up the. prisoner Major made a desperate dash up to the prosectitor'n _person, seizeti.,!!is walch-ehain, pnlled the watch ont of his pocket, and called out," I've get it ; I've got it," On which the whole cane matched of, to the great satisfaction of wit ness and all around him. The iv:fainters were fully commit ted to hi eweate lot trial.—The whole four behaved with the graatest.atitlacity, and openly threatened the witnesses to do them mischief it they appeared agnitiq them. Leamington, near Warwick, has been almost inundated during the late rains : the consequent damp of the atmosphere was co great, that several families, among which were those of tile Duke of Portland and Lord John Beatiack, were ad• nsed by their physician to leave theslace. THE NATIONAL REGISTIM Friday, the 7.ltkinst. theComnsisoioncrsofhwekney coaches convicted the following coachmen : Robert Tnoley, the dri ver of N 0.2, in the penalty of ;Ills. for following and chitsing a gentleman :it Little Chelsea, on the IKtht of April. Henry Pearse, the• driver of No. 32, in rho penalty of 20s. for being drutik, and incapable of driving without endangering the life of his fare, on the 13th inst. Joseph the driver of No. .1,2011, in the penalty of 214. for Ming drunk and iticap4. Isle of driving, on the .tl, of April. The drivers of four other coaches were fined in sundry penalties, for exaction. A poor man who ritvides in Bid tle.strect, Manchester, was, a few dad. ago, gathering herbs in the fields, and unfo, t o . timely picked up (it is ,opposed) sonic hemlock, of which ho ate a part, and his tive children also partook of it, one of whoni died on Monday evening, and the other. arc still lin. going nailer the fatal effects of this deadly poison. At elate sitting of the Royal Inntitnte Of France, M. Biot, in the conrso of a dissertation on thr ;ern) of the earth, and of the voyeges for the purpose of discovering it, took occasion to pass a warm eulogiam on Sir Joscpti Itati!.:l, whom lie called the Nestor of the s-ientille vs :slid. The notice Int as received, says the respectable Editor of the ..feti-naldex Debuts, with an enthusiasm which ti l honour to the auditors. We agree with the Editor in hi• c•entiontint, which is worthy of the enlightened libel ality which praises. W. Okenham, who received sentence of death at iasncoster Assizes fur forgery, died iu .Lancaster Castle on Thursday semsight. The roogregstlow at Hampstead climb were on Sunday thrown into confusion by cries of in:order, and other picrc anti ay:Hi:touts of distress, resonuiling from one of the pews. The service was suspended, and all eyes drawn towards the spot, mail they were found to proceed from a re's:won:lle looking woman in a stale of mental derangement. The bea dle, Hided by some • gentlemen, at length got her out of the church. The poor creature confirming to vociferate, that she had got into a slaughterhouse, and was about to he murdered. The service was afterwards resumed without further inter ruption. NVeduestiay an iuguest was kld at the London Hospital on the body oft). Reardon. It appeared from the testimony of several wit. ne.!es, that the deeensed on Sunday week. after attending an Irish funeral, got intoxicated, and quarrelled with one Keller, who was sober, left the house, when the deceased followed him, and was soon after font d lying on the ground, apparently a corpse. and was taken to the turpihil ; a surgeon form which stated, that he found a wound at the base of the skull, which might heve been caused by a blow from an obtuse instrument, or a fall against the edge of the pave- ment. Verdict—Died in consequence of a .blow ; but how received does not appear. 'fhc following singular occurrence took place in Shoreditch chinch yard on Sunday afterieLut woman brought there the corpse of a child to heluried ; but after the ceremony was conehaded, and the corpse laid in the earth. she demurred w payins the fees; upon which the builder of ." the narrow hauae" again dug up the °atria, and the woman walked off with it ! Wedimilay as a gentlemen's servant was riditv: a spirited horse in Finsbury-square, the animal fell, and lulling on his rider, broke his leg, and otherwise severely injured hint. At the Ship Inn, et Hastings, a few days ago, a fisherman, far a trifling wager, attempted to jump upon a table, but his spring only tarrying him to the eke of it, he fell with great violence, and the t..ble upon him; wlieretr he was so dreadfully. injured, that he lin gered until the next day..and expired, leaving a wife and family to stifrcr for his indiscretion. At lia•usgate, on Sunday afternoon. about four o'clock, there was a most severe hail storm, with thunder and lightning, which lasted about a quarter of an hour. It was precalcu by an April shower of heavy drops, aid rather unusual heat, for the season., in the early part of the day. The hail stums.which f‘ll were of a larger dcscnptiiu than any ever witnessed by thu (4.1.3 inhabit nt—,maoy of them ac tusily inausured tao inches in cireitinf:rerkT, and had themmear ane •of solid piece: of ice ; several windows wer2 broken by them ; and had the wind been high at the time, the destruction in this way must have been great. The evening proved fine, but the lightning Wa.i vivid and incessant for some hours. A schooner has been built at Belfast upon a new -construction, without any keine timber, breast hocks. brain;, or knees, and with out any metal larder water, except her rudder braces, add a few bolts in her keel. 'TM: advantages which are hoped to be obtained by this novelLy in naval architecture are—chei4:aess, strength, duration, tightness, buoyancy, sailing and safety. 'Che b.xly of Afarstral Vey, it:tetrad-hi the eemetry Pere la Chaise, at Paris. has been taken up arid conveyed to his -country seat, .where it has been detioited. and an elegant monument erected over it. A magnificent chinch is erecting in the Rue d'Anjou, Paris,.on the spot where the itafortutrue Queen of Prance was interred, the altar of which is placed immediately over the grave. l'uostiey night a lire was discovered in the upper part of the house of Mr. Seal, toy-manufacturer, Kent -street, Borougo, which by the aim* arrival of the engines, and an immed.ate supply of water, was soon extinguished. A TOO was on tire. its which were six children in bed, and apprehension.; were entertained Ice their safety ; but they were all fortursately got out taihurt. The beds and bed clothes were destroyed. A daring attempt nt robbery was made on Tuesday-night on the Watford-z.nd, by two fellow; one armed with a bludgeon and the other with a pistol. Mr. Wirstron, of Ac.lam-street, Park-N.le, was returning home early in the Peening %Oren the attack was made, one holding the home's head whilst the °Vier menaced him with a pistol. The horse threw the ruffian who held his head and M:. W. rude away. lle was tired at without effect. Tuesday night, netwcon ten and eleven 6'clock, Mr. John Doyle, of Lawrence-street, Bloornsbuf 7, pcsing along Gray's Inn-lane.twas attacked by a gang of fellaws, who knocked him down and rubbed him of his watch and hat. _ _ _ Wednesday. about eleven o'clock, a man of very dseent appear ance. about the middle age. was obseeved walking some time by the Paddington car:al./end at length to throw hirmelf into the water. A bargeman, who w 4..; passing hy, with the assistance of another man, succoteall in bringingdart out with life. They took him to a neigh . Iwurirg pul4::, house, :::ere he was .put to bed. and in the mean time iuquinesseere made after . 1. , f:tends, who were traced to Cr' w- . ford -street, Montague-square.. The unturtunate man was formerly a publican. but by . a series of suisfortunea lost all his property, since which he has been in al state of mental derangement. Monday ni4,llt, or-early on Tuesday morning. some villains broke . open the parish ehutch of 'vet., Bums.. :aid stole from the Vestry room a silver chalice, a silver parer ornamented in the ecutre, a ad t ice fl agon weighing :3 ounces. and several otherartieles. ' The house of Mrs. Howse, in I. isumplace, Gower-street, was ' broke open on Wednesday night, hy feting the back parlour shutters and above 40 picas of plate conveyed away. 1 lie robbers effected an entrance by gettinz over a 16 feet wall from a mews. and they retired by the'front 'door. Another burglary was committed in r:,_ radiseplace.rortland read. on the same night. at the lionise of M:. &.immons. by slipping the bobs of .t.1:1 front :nor and picking the lock. '['he thieves were alaranl by the wivididnews of tlyseviwiat, and they decamped takii-g away a tea otriy only. A sinquiar motion was made unWednamay in the Court of King's Bench, for a rurzelvvis to the governors and company of the Bank of England, ordering them to proceed to a dividend of all the profits. It appears that, according to the Arts on which the Bank is founded, that body has no right to ac.cumulate a capital. But the applicant has reason to suppose that a capital is retained by the dircetors, of which. therefore, he demands the partition among the proprietors. The Court granted a role to chew CaIISC. TilC name of . .11r. Brougn . em's client did net nprar. 143 EcursE.-011 Tuesday next there will be a visible . eclipse of the sun in London and its vicinity.—lt will begin on the right hand of the sun's lower limb at 58 minutes after five o'clock, the greatest obscuration will be at 51 minutes after six, and the whole will close at 47 minutes after 7in the morning. The suit will be centrally eclipsed at noon day, in lat. 53,36, north,. nut total but annular, and will be visible in Russia, Turkey, and the annular is the most beautiful of All the eclipses. The digits eclipsed apparent in this latitude are .4 41. 31 min. The following intelligence [from Hanover we should reluctantly believe ..to be true:—" The Censistory in Aurich has enjoined the Superintendants in the Pro.• vinces of East Friesland to cause the Clergy and Schot,l.. masters, whenever an opportunity occurs, to in:l4os upon the minds of youth, the necessity, the value, and honourable nature of the military profc.ision." W e have no wish to see a military life, held up. to the ardent passions of youth, as something more peculiarly honour. able and pr tiseworthy than civil occupations. It argues badly for the happiness and tranwillity of matik:utl. States that maintain disproportioned armies are not only more willing to go to war, because they arc mere ready ; but they may be often thrced to do so, as a remedy for thoi,.e. evils at home, which arc so apt to be endangered by the turbulence and impatience of men who feel that they are useless when they are not destKoying. le r Istiows.—lt appe.ers that there are immense bodies of ice now floating in the Atlantic, as there were during the last spring and summer. The packet, which - has arrived from Halifax, saw one CDO yards in height, - and .apparently seven leagues in circumference, stand.. lug southward with the current. Capt. Qttercau, of the Creed Turk, which has arrived at Derry from New York, states, that on the 15th of February, in lat. 43. he passed through several immense islands of .• ice, some miles in extent, and from three to four huts.. • dred feet high. The ship, with strong westerly gales, was two days getting clear of them. norm. ACADEMY.--The annual exhibition of this splendid Institation was opened en Friday to the Royal Family first, .and afterwards to the friends of the Kea. detnicians.and the patrons of the Fine Arts, as usual. Tire historical pieces are very few, and those not perhaps in tkat high style of excellence which will jus:ify their • being classed together, and mentioned here in primity. The portraits, on the contrary, are most of fient mast terlv productions, and are rendered still more interest. hag and important by the eminence of the persons whom they represent. There becini to be na doubt that the piracy committal on the Prin cess Elizabeth Post-Alec packet from Rio it, Janeiro to Falmouth, can be brought home to two Spanish merchantmen. By the report of the people on board the packet, as stated at Lloyd's, it app pears that the crews con,isted of Spaniards, itp4 that the name of the ship was understood to be the Five Brothers, and that of the brig Chico. The Cadiz shipping list.:hews. that on the t,th of Feb. there sailed from that port for Vera Cruz the ship, Nuestra Scrum de ice Dolores, alias the Chico llernaanos. (Five Brothers,) Captain l)an Antonio Larragerty, and the brig San Jose, alias the Ramoreito„ Capt. Don Juan itamon Cortina; and as the outrage was committed on the 21st of March, in lat. 17. 55. North, and long. 3.5, Sri. West. it will be seen that the time :did place agree truth the regular course of these ,vessels. M KLAN CIIOLY SHlPwar.cK.—By a letter from Iceland, lisp pears,,that the ship Aututn, D. Batchelor, master, belonging to Dun dee, was wrecked on that island on the night betwixt the 13th anti 29th of October last, when all on board nnut have perisited,:nti only five dead bodies were found on deck. She was an aucommonly strung ship, of 330 tons burden, had a crew of 18 people, besides two male passengers on board ;..and as she sailed font tit:rest ow the 27tli uf August, being only two months 41. fore on shore at Iceland, it ii con jectured that she had been dismasted to the northwartivf Shetland. during the heavy gales of southerly wind that prevailetl so long at that time and had bore away for thatjadand. . _ CHIMNEY CLIMBING _ABOLITIO.N HILL.—One obsen k to pas sing this bill is the imagined necessity of cureing new chininios they are used. The operation consists.of taking pieces of mortar and fragments of bricks which 41.. workmen, whet' building chintnie , , lee fall down onthe sloping part of the Hue (when such exists), and Ij. we understandr.die cause of much pain to the infant chimney:met p en employed for this purpose. order to nrevent ness,eore eerunme hang, a very simple contrivaare may be 'resorted to: a box tho dimensions of the Sue is to be eaced in it, and moved up a.; tne bricklayer places the btits; into .bis box the pieces of mortar, will fall, and thus no Me wilt be formes!. A model for this purpteu i:as been deposited in the• Committee-room at the House of Lord::, . with modelecicontrivances for sweeping ehininies. As the eldniney-sweepers at this time, and at Christmas, collect several small aims, it would bean act of great kindness end humanity in the parish-oficers, or any gentlemen, to receive their little proper.. ty. and place it in a savings -bank, which would ons!:Jr: them to pit. • cure situations at the expiration of their time. ant' prevent that misery they then su frequently experience for went of such it5144.11-e. The Spenc..ans met on Wednesday might at a punlic-house ro Neweastie-street, pursuant to a notice which had bt en given. :Young Evans addressed the pasty, and disclaimed cur the suciety.all manta - ion with the Spafields meetings, and treated Cener.'..tieston" and his ideas with a degree of ritlicuje. which that di,,nitied niromage wiil no doubt resell: at a proper tine and place. Ile speke strongly against the-next Spatields meeting. and exhorted those present not to go to it thents‘lves, and to use their eminence to prevail upon others to keep away, as he considered those who called it to be the innocent stools of ministers; he would not go solar as to say they w ere i n tile pay of government: but they were playing their genie, as nothing wanted bat some popular coma:non to enable then to get the gagging bill renewed, which must otherwise expire in July ! the &wet:trot* . - her: ere,nent patriots; Wntson and Presten were stated to be reach opposed to the Spencear.s.— Evening , Palier. 8063.011, April ee.—Frern tight until eleven &clock on Sunday night. this town and the ruseniiourhood were visited by a nio.t drewdtid storm of thunder did when tholatter 'VAST:I O r.! extensively thlfuses: titan any that 1:-r.s been witnesses in this per. o; the kingdom since month of July, tate). During great In:a the time torrents of rain fell. Ninny sheep, et eposed to have been f4;lttened by the lightning, were fqund drowned in ditches adjoining their paselres yesterday morning. Wednesday night as Mr. lease, was waltdog along James-street, Oxford-road, in which he re . : , ides, three or four men hustled hire, and after knocking him down, rifled his pockets of its. tid. A collector of taxes in the parish of St. Paul, Coventlardea, at a recent investigation of his accounts, has been found deficient nearly