The National Register. — London, England, 1822-11-25 00:00:00

r: r 374 ELECTION OF A BRIDGE MASTER. On Tuesday last a most numerous meeting of the Livery took place in Guildhall, in consequence of a precept isoted•lsy ihe Lord Mayor, for the Election of a Bridge- Master, in the room of Ur. Thodey, deceased. The Hall being opened by the Town Crier, the Lord Ittayor and Aldermen proceeded to the Comet of Alder men, and the Sheriffs proceeded to the Election. Mr. FAI'ILLL proposed Mr. Noriou, as a fit and proper person to pet furni the duties of the situation. The object of the Livery, in filling the situations of Bridge-Master, v as to set ve some respectable, but decayed fellow-citizen. It was a ;min to hiw to appear opposed to the other Can didates. who, he understood, were all of them meritorious it dividuals, and he wished trims his sould that they could all be supplied under the Corporation ; but as that cosold nut be.dutie, he only had 1.. select the must eligible, and Ore to tit person his decided support. He .sear Mr. Arlon to be a respectable and houotorahle man upwards of forty years,aud there were, independently ;Mlle former prosperous, a n d the present adverse cundition of his life, claims whirls no doubt had weight with the Livery. He hail been twice disappointed in W applications, one of v Melt Lad neatly succeeded when lie yielded to the call Nlr.Thudry.—(This uousinatton seas tonal watmly te ceived.) Mr.,Bnooes seconded the nomination; in doing which be stated, that lie hail known Mr. Norton upwards of SU years, and had the highest respect for his character. Mr. Cnomosit stated, that lie stood forward to put in nomination a person well known and greatly esteemed by his fellow-citizens, Mr. Lew is Lewis.—(Repeated cheers.) —That houourable individual had once been in circum stances which seemed calculated to challenge the freaks of fortune. but the circunktauces of the times, which had produced suck general distress ' visited him heavily. His easier would speak more to the hearts of those around him than langnage. Mr. °tousle seconded the nomination of Mr. Lewis. He bad in his early life been in the most datieriug cumstancee, having been the proprietor of the New Lon don Tavern, and to his fostering head many who were now egjoyiag the sweets of prosperity owed the „likens of periwigs enjoyment; and fifteen years of Iris - fife die bad devoted to Use service of that , Corperatioa to which he now looked for assistauce in the day of calamity. (Great applaisse.)—Mr. Lewis was now falkn nits decay, but bad paid every farthing he owed. He must sink under iliti.furiunes, if the erwitus of turning want into comfoi t, and bitterness into joy, were nut supplied by those at ouud hint. The next two candidates were Mr. Aubrey and Mr. flintier, two very respectable linen, whose characters were highly spoken of by the gentlemen who put them hi nomination. Mr. Maar alto, another Candidate, then stood forward, and said he begxed to withdraw his name. The names having been put up, and the Town Clerk having called upon the Livery to hold up their hands as they favoured each Candidate, there appeared an immense smyority fur Mr. Lew is. Mr. Norton also had a great slievs t but the Sheriffs immediati ly declared that the election had fallen upon Mr. Lewis. A pull was then de. wand. d upon the part of the other Candidates, and com menced at half past two o'clock. each Candidate having called upon his friends to use their utmost exertions. THE NATIONAL REGIS. MRLLNCIOLY SMIP WR ECK. It is our painful deity to record the following detail of a distressing event which occurred off Dimchorch, Kent, on Friday morning last (the 18th inst.) About half past three o'clock, the wind blowing a IIUITICJIIt front the S.W. by W., as— Sims, a fisherman, was going to his nets on that coast, he sward strange voices in the distance, but from the boisterous state of the weather could not ascertain from whence they proceeded, mud day-break, when he p wetted a small sloop in distress, lying on toe flat sand oft that place, at a very distance below low water mark, with three 'lemons (two men and a boy) apparently lashed to the vessel; but from the Ire mentious sea which incessantly broke over them, he was totally unable to render intent any assistance i they were then also seen by other persona limn the Wall, who en deavoured to swim to them, but the waves were so heavy aad followed each other in such rapid succession. that they were reluctautly compelled to relinquish their hu mane efforts. By this time the inhabitants of the village, with the ollicets and men of the Coast Illockade service, hail assembled out the beach, amid Mr. John Sheriff, au officer in the above service, immediately procured bottles, and despatched them to Martell° Tower, No. 23, to drag one oldie blockade boats along the sand. lit the interim, a small boat belonging to Sims having beeu procured, Mr. Sheriff, with two seamen of ilia party, launched her and made too attempts to react. the wreck, five' which the sea was breaking with great fury but at the moment when they had nearly gained their object, and the bystanders successively indulged the pleasing hope of the rescue of the distressed mariners, their boat was each overwhelmed by the *sal, once by the thowls breaking and the gallant adventurers narrowly escaped the sad fate which awaited them for whom they hail risked their own lives. At this moment the blockade galley, from the No. 23, Tower,. a distil ace of three quarters of a mile, was brought to the spot, and Mr. Sheriff, accompanied by Mr. H. Jell, another officer of the same service, and four of their•seanien, all of 'bean being nearly naked, in order to be ready to swim, in case of need, launched her through a most tremendous surf, after being swamped several times. Hope was again cherished that Provi. deuce would have crowned their generous efforts with success, but it was otherwise decreed, for when they had approached well towards the of of their ansi. OM solicitude, a most awful surge struck the wreck—it was thrown over, and the devoted crew wt sum moned to eternity, almost at the moment when deli verance seemed to be within their reach. 'TER -~;~, .. 7 IMPORTANT CA lo"TION TO INSOLVENT DEBTORS. \V. I)onnet, an insolvent, who had been discharged under the act in June last, came up on Wednesday to he re-heard, in obedience to an order of the Court, which had be, it obtained on an affidavit wade by the insolvents assignee, stating that since the insolvent's discharge he (i he assignee) had ascertained that the nisolvent, who was arrested in Dover, on his way to 'l:rauce, in the month of January last, had a few days before his arrest invested 301. in the public funds, its his own name, and the name of Charles.llsltztl, a young man in his employ silent, which remained standing in their joint names till the day after the infolvent's discharge, when it was transferred. It appeared the insolvent's schedule did not c.aitain any nient,on of his having money in the funds. Tile insolvent, who is a Frenchman, and has beets London for some years, as a fitter tip of gas-light ap paranis, stated on his examination, that the 5d.11 invest. d its the funds, iu the joint names of himself and I.iikad, was the sole property of the laud, who was a yuutig matt, at present about nineteen years of aAe, a foreigner, who came into his employment abeiii two ear: ago, and ever since its his house, and received w.Pges at the rate of 15s. a week. In tl.e month of S..p• haulier last year they calcislated the wages due to 'Mad, and it atimunted to 51ti. 17s. which was then paid hitn; and when the insolent was going to Paris, out business, in January last, i)iksil asked him, before he went, to go with Min to put hi: motley in the funds, that it iiii,.;llt I.e safe. The day after he (the insolvent was discharged, Dikad asked him to go with him in sell but the stock, and he complied with his request on both occasmns— but he positively denied that tie had any interest in the money, or that he received any part of it ; nothing more Vaau a share of a pot of beer that Diktd gave him, atter these load sold the stock. Charles Diksd was examined on the part of the in solteitt, and told nearly the sitne story. Ott being quest tinned by the Court why be demanded payment ot his wages of the insolvent its September, when he was so long. te iihout requiring any !hill Id it, he *slaw red that lie was in Want iii It: Jad being asked how he had dispo,ed id' it limn the time he rick-Steil it in the month ol JAW fry when he placed it in the funds, Ire said, he kejat -it locked tip in !its box die wbole time. Ti l e C:iiiri, in prourrincing judgment, said it was 'wetly impossible to gt.g credit to the story told by the insolvent _and his witness ; the judgment of the Court II arefor e was, that the iiipdsela ' s dlSellarge 51101111 d he revoked, and that he stinnld - be remanded for 9 111.11101 s hrotu taat day, fur a euncealmeistiof his property. FATAL DUEb.—A dud was fought on the 18th Kilcouly, county of Kilkenny, bctt...ct n I,ac of the llr, Cuuke'6.uf Yuinstuw•n, uud a M. atturmy, frow Killtnaule, which proved fatal to the latter c,-eutletnan, Le Laving Levu shot Cad un the spot. RECORDER'S REPORT. On Friday last his Majesty held a Privy Council, when the Recorder made his Report of the hollowing{ convicts, who were capitally convicted at the last Sep. tember sessions, t SAlllUtl IVIISOII, Isaac Knight, and James Simpson, for horse stealing. Thomas Hayes, Joseph Ranier, Edmund Mustoe, William Williams, Joseph Withains, Joseph Daniel Couerell, John Brown, Waller Rhaetian', Alex. Blown, Frank Purdoni, William Corbett, alias Watson, John Bridgenian, Charles Robinson, Stephen 'fool, Mary Grilled', and Frances Waddell, for stealing in tit* dwell sang-house. William Reading and John Roberts, for burglary. Win. Callaghan, for returning from transportation. Richard Mutual, for uttering a Rank post bill with a forged indorsement. Robert Ramsey. John Levy, James Gardner, William Bright, George Illignsion, Thus. Gordon, Wm. Milton, and Samuel Greenwood, for hi;tiway rountry. John liulland, William King, and William North, for an unnatural °Glace. 1b lIIIJIII Adams, for voting and maiming. "l'he Recorder then reported to his Majesty the cases of the convicts tried at the October sessions, s tz.— Williain Croniber, Charles Ilemitiatost, Tmodore Coihaantine, Edward NP\Villiattis, Thomas Feurby, %V in. ‘V tlOll, IV in. Leicester, Joint Currey, and S4llli. RiVell, tor tteal int: house. 11 in. 110Eand, Jonit liarnett,John Smith, and Geo 'Lind h., for burglar). John Burrows, for high war roldreiy. Villtam Towi..eoil, alias Pocock, for a like offence, accompanied with extortion. Ili.nry Day, tur forgery; and Edward Edridge, for a rapo. When John Rolland and William King were ordered for execution nu Uonday, the'Sth 11115C.1111, alio NVilliatit Reading, Frank Porilimi, Wm. Corbett, alit. \ Voisin), John Roberts, 5.111111,1 Green and E. NP‘Villtairis, on Wednesday, the ..e7tli inst.—Tne others ‘‘ ere respite , .. during ills Majesty's pleasure. l'ise case us cl . t.liarti North stands sit er for further consuleratiou. INGENIOUS 1101311 ER Y.-010 Friday night the shop of Mr. Gillen, pawnbroker, No. 3ti,lwreer, hl.l.thse's, was robbed or a variety ol articles, principally jeuelit consisting, of gold rings, hrtiocht.s, Car•rings, stuck-laces, &c. to the ainniilit of between WI. and 121. the V: l• tli s ,cl the ir p u rpose win much ingenuity, picrciiig the stall-bond ur hottutts of the phjecting silol).Kindow 'ratite, with a centre-hit, exactly ueneath the articles purl 'd (the part hawing het') pre% tinisly 'narked with chalk), and by means, u is supposed, o f wi r e ho o k,. sue. ceedecl in drasstritr down their (sooty through tl'e hire. The gold rings, llc. wtre forced front the cants hey were fastened In, and wiiit so much nicety was the it hole eseett etl, that riot a stray article was len beierid. It %%as lipll3ftla of an stone :Ilk, the Silty W 35 opelleti 411.11 the depreda.ion was ii scoured. MLLANCHOLY CA rAorkonts.—On Sunday. the :id ;lit.t, a 1).,,a apyrt lii Ist Kirkwall and Shaptindlay, 114;:1 IVIChe person+, ream - 1;11ot home 15(511) cioncla, a+ ere ;wt. Tao+ os-Lat,cinaly c+eot ILA left the relanveb k) . .' the an 1k es a tli I,..kti; off 6,:ilocka;c AccIDENT.-011 Monday last, Henry Williams, Esq, of the firm of Williams and Goddard, in Gray's.imi, having left town to attend a locating of magistrates at ell:ilium, in Hocks. proceeded Irmo thence to his coon. nd c a t t r i y i p h h . o s o i l l t a t i s s n e s:7 ry a n w e s:t t r 7 , 1 8 1 ) k i miiiiiiiiigjdsistive::lyd it Lebeat being when all extremelyelin! u place r atthidark,de en at and the rain falling in torrents, his horse took fright at some object in the hedge, and galloped at a furious rate down the kill, until at a turn in the matt at the bottom, where some altetations are making, he stumbled over a batik into a slough, and rolled over Mr. Williams, who becaine senseless (ruin the shock, and, upon coining to his recollection, he found himself immersed in mud and water, and cosered with bruises, his horse still lying by his side. %Volt groat difficulty he go. upon his feet, and after several ineffectual attempts to get his horse tip, it made a sudden spring, and to rising, extricated itself from the brittle, tool trotted away. Mr. W. knowing, Irons toe loneliness of the road, there was no hope of as statance, and that lie must realism expoted to to Mete inelicy of the weather during the whole night, unless lie could resell fielkhanipstead, a distance of nearly two miles hum the spot, made the anemia; and in about two hums succeeded in walking, or rather crawling, to his I . .COROWIR'S IWIIIIUSSTS.-01) Thursday esening, on imolai was held at the bard flood, Heck-atreet, Poplar, • by J. W. Unwiti, Esq. Coroner, on the body of an its, font.--Gaorge Sully Hood, of No. I, Ebenezer-place- Linienouae, Mated, that the deceased was his child. Ott l'oesday morning, about eleven o'clock, he went home. and on going into the bedroom, furling the bed had nut been turned up, he turned it up; in doing so, he did not perceive that his child was in it. Sochi afterwards he •liiquired for the child, - when the horrible fact instantly burst on his mind; he flew to the bedstead, and, on let. ting it down, discovered the lifeless body of his child, which had been suffocated amongst the bed clothes. The deceased was only eleven weeks old. The father was overwhelmed with grief at the time of giving his evidence. Verdicta-Accidental Death.—O° Friday an inquisition was taken at the IrOyley Arms, Blackland's 'Lane, Chelsea Common, belore Timms. Stirling, Coroner, on the body of Alexander Scott, a fine boy, two years and a half old. It appeared that the mother of the deceased, who lodged at No. 25, Cumberland.street, left him in her room while she u ent down stairs to fetch souse water, and had nut been absent from him above two tuinutes, when the whole house was alarmed by his screams. His mother and the woman who kept the house ran up stairs, and found his cotton frock eutirely burnt from his back, and his neck and arms very much burnt; medical assistance was immediately procured. sod every thing was drille that the case required, but the 'ottani lingered in great agony for about is hours, during which he never spoke, and then died. Verdict—Acci dentally burnt to death. On ‘Vednestlay evening last, whilst Mrs. Kiss, the wile of Mr. Kiss, an attorney, in Gloucester-buildings, Walworili, was sitting in the Irmo parlour alone. she heard a noise iii the anti-room. Site opened the door of the room Mini wi.ence the noise proceeded, and there sew a tall fellow, with a dark lantliorn, ransacking the drawers. Site rushed into the WOW ant: endeavoured to secure the robber, brit he got out at the wilidow into the garden, and wade his escape over a high walL His hat a .d :author° were left behind, and wider the window was tumid a hag, filled who plate, apparel, lac. which lie had dropped In his hurry to escape. A CAUTION TO RESIJKRECTION Mew.—On Sunday last, the 17u1 instant, a poor woman, of tau neine of aVestniore, and her son, who had both died within a few hours of each other, were buried in Peveral church yard, near Ealing, Middlesex, aild a suspicion arose by persons present that an attempt would be nestle to steal toe bodies. In consequence, two men watched in the flight will. fire-arms, amid about one o'clock, three men weir observed to 014.11 We grave, whets one of tile iitCil out watch lited tad with mice slugs, and one was s. eta to fall, whom the other two conveyed to a coach, anal Wade oil, without luritig pursued by the Tiny rel114111U111:110WII, and though disappointed ot the bodies in the grave, they 'night not disappoint the sllf• h ellIIS ill a suoject Of their UWII wretched crew. A W(1111311 113111 ell Plabbe Harris, resoluta at Hattley, in S.alfordsnire, had a mot, tit the army, worm' she not heard of same tone, and supposed Inds to be devil. —A tew dais Slllee the post brimi 4 iit a letter !ruin bun, stating that he was atty.: awl well, and would snot by be at home. Such w.o, her joy, that site brake out loot alternate fits of laughing and weeping, and 111 a test hours expired ! Ott S lay afternoon, about four o'clock, the Shelia of EthuourAo, aceouti..utied by the suittrottentlaut of . police, andbully at officers, piuceeded 4.3 the Girth:wt ., 111.,11, Potter-tuu . , where about 15U IWlbOll3 Wt re rug:qv-it, as Nits understood, its the disctosaill 01 docttotes suuversAe of cinistianity. Ou mite •-siteiiti Lein iillllo4lllCt d, the persons assembled slid... Avow. escape, but they were prevented by tile police vllia-eri; mull tile u hole of their Italltra us etc taken 1101V11. .1 . ‘16) or thire person., us.o appeared to be the cuaLluctutb mil the meeting, Wlle apprehended, and set era! Atileistic.ll books, willeri they had Liven using, were secured by tic DARING BURGLARY.—On Monday night, a nnet s'iigulaily doing itrUbery and reirioeve burglary was co.imintrd iu tine house of the lion. Admiral Like, No. I, Baker -street, Forilliall•Milljit. home daring title. es obtattied au etiorance by will% over the area (alb a nd breaking a patine' of lute kitchen-door, with app.ireibly a crone-611, and Must-wiring the premises. 111ter ran sacknie the lows' apart1111:1116, they proceeded several MOMS up stairs, and took Ir ttttt thence es cry Abele that CO4llll liosnibly be Carried away ; they ,t;stt eoleted the tallier'. pantry, %litre il scram was /1. 't he end die la P rel " f l a a fi t u sTr teissi-Jv logy tin f k the or b % eiliaosas left two crime-bits, t, Ulna: 0 1 1 e dinner rind, and crow-tar. 'line Mode of the siker ',law beaus WC Crest ()1 4 111411114/441 4/11 - • '