The National Register. — London, England, 1822-07-28 00:00:00

Philip Alartin and T 1 1111 l tas list Fri itch were indicted for assaulting John Cook on tile Kin e .'s highway, in the parish of Steeple Bummed, nit the 4th of April, put. ling him iti fear, awl taking from his person a fl. note and ss. in silver. The prosecutor was a school-master. and on the day nientioned in the iudncuurnl, had been attending au annual meeting at Stambourii, of au .osociation for the prosecution of telons, for which he had acted as clerk, and allies receiviiii; his animal salary, lie was rentriiiiig I •in the evetiing. about iiitie oclock, when he was met-taken by the prisoners, who dragged tutu down on the ground in a byefootpatii, anil demanded his mootey• lie begued for mercy, and cited our for help. Otte of the prisoners thrust Isis handkerchief into the proseett torss mouth, whilst the other rifled his pockets of in moitey, and both rail away. The prosecutor knew one of the prisoners from the circuit stance of his hav ing been formerly a scholar of his; but positis ely swore to the ident.ty of both. lie was cormborated by tile testimony of two wit nesse?, one a constable, who over heard a cotiversation hetweell the primmer, when in cus tody, hi which they talked the matter over, and declared that nobody could say any thing against them if they kept their own counsel. T he prosecutor did not take the prisoners up mini 14 days after the alleged robbery. Mr. Jc-sop. fur the prisoners, called some witnesses to prove an ; but on their crosrexamination there was a good deal of contradiction Tile Lord Chief Baron d up the evidence on both sides. and left it to them to say to vs hich class oh witnesses they would ascribe the greatest credit. The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found the prisoners both guilty—death. There was nothing of public interest on the civil side. NORTHAMPTON, JULY 19.—Wilitaun Meadows the younger, William Gent the younger. Edmund Middle. ton,l'homas Bates, It. WWI, and Charles James. in dicted for a rape on Ann Newman, were put to the bar. The particulate of this oftener, cot 111 l itted on the person of a young Wolllljll, near \Ventilator., in this COllllll. 9re already before the public, and must be its ge neral recollection. Ann Newman, the proseciitrix, stated the facts of the outrage committed ill 1 111.1:Iller which excited universal spur any. Tile learned judge was indefatigable in sifting the testi 1111 l wi:11 the ino,t scrupulous caution, and alter elahotately detailing to tlw jury every lact which had been st•ued in evidence. and pointing out the weight and bearing of it, as well ill favour of the prisoners as against tnem, the jury, under the directions of his Lor.lship. yuiucd 11'arit, and found a verdict of Guilty against the other five, on whom sentence of death was immediately pawed. BEDFORDSHIRE. A LASS OF GREAT HARDSHIP.—JOIM Carroll, Pa trick Carroll, and Thai. Ryan. three SOOply-lookinit young Irishmen. were indicted for having violently and feloniously assaulted ‘Villiant Stokes On the King's high way, puttitig Itiin iii fear of his life, and taking from his person one sitilltiig and some articles of wearing apparel his property. :stokes was a boy of tender age, and, before the case went to the grand Jury, from some intim stion given to Alf. Justice Brat, his Lordship si iiiii atoned the boy before hint. On examining him without an oath, he ack now h•dge,l that he had been guilty of foreswearing himself, and begged his Lordship to lorgive him. His Lordship, ill a most I. ling manner, adminiislied him vim the pecu liar malignity ot thee i he had committed. Ili* Lord snip then scut for one of the grand jury, and explained to him the grounds on which the bill was i'rsurcd. Mr. Utile, a respectable farmer, living at Odell, set a collection on loot, and collected upwards of five pounds for the poor men, which was equally divided, and they wete s, of on their way with gratitude to their utnefacioni depicted on their countenances. IMPORTANT TO SECONDS, oa BOTTLE HOLDERS. —At the Berkshire assisei., Franklits was tried on the charge of manslaughter. The case arose out of a pugilistic contest, which lasted Torun hour and a hall. The surgeon, who examined the body of the deceased, was ofopittion that he died of apoplexy, brought Oil by the exertion of the contest, as there was no external marks of violence, but. a considerable elitism') of blond upon the brain. The prisoner was consequently acquit ted. The origin o: the above fight arost tram a contest between two boys, in which Franklin and the deceased were panieularly active. The Judge warned the witness, who was second to the deceased, and all parties con. ceriied, that, by a recent act of Parliament, they were liable to the punishment of transportation for life. ItOUBERY or THII WIIITSY MAIL. YORK, JULY 'lb.—Roger Dobson was capitally in. dicied for a rubbery committed on the person of Ltiward Coss, on the Itiirliway, and forcibly taking irons him the nt ill bags trout Wimpy fur London, York, 111altuti, Lid Pickering. The post-mistress at Whitby, Mrs. A. Rogers, gave the prelonstraly es silence of delivering the bags to the mail bust-boy, nn Monday morning, the 11th March. Else. Cab§ was employed it conveying the mail-hags above mentioned. On the road from Whitby to Pick ering, between lb and 17 miles from Whitby, his horse's bitille was seized by the prisoner, who said, " If you don't immediately give use your money and 'your watch, 11l kill you." Witness said, " I have tun gut any, our mn watch j" on Which the prisoner dragged him down, and, 11111iUlallIA his horse, rode off lull speed with the Lags. Witness saw some men at work in a field—he wen: and told them what had happened to lbw, and bow the planner was dressed. Ile told every body he (mild see all the way to Pickering, where the postmaster printed smite bills, which were sent about in all three. I , olls. A few days alter lie saw the prisoner lii a chaise, and knew him again directly, although he never saw hill& before the rubbery. T. Kitchen was at work on the road oil the 1 ith of March, and recollects the priAoier asking litin wizen the mail passed, and which way it would go. lie went the road that lie was told it came by. NVillicss had said It would Lome about three {,'clock, - 7 - EEC ISTER Thomas Coulter —Saw a man on that day near the top of the hill, crossing the road on horst-Luck. lie wis at work in a Soon alter the man gut off and ran away Iron his horse mwarkls timeoinhe Hole, user the moor. 1\ lien he heard of the rolinery he told this. of the rubbery, went in quest of the robber. Two wen went with ono. They went to I lurcom be I I Me, where it was sail he was seen eoilig. —l, a l a bourer. Going along shy found the horse tied to a gate. When they got to Il oreoutbe Hole they billowed a mall's lOotsteps to retired place, and found the bags in the little brook that rims mere. IN, xi day they went again, and in two holes in the dry dyke tuund a great many letters, but they were all opened; th.re were no loose papers its them. The landlord or the Hare and Hounds public-house, near Airkby Nloorside, of the name of Noun ; remem bers the prisoner hating route ale at Ins house (which is at S:iape), about five °clock its the afternoon of the Monday; he wanted change for a 51. note, but he could not give it, and lie went away. To a question from the Court, he said the prisoner was known to him. lie had lived at a gentleman's house ut the neistibourhood, as servant to Mr. Green. A constable, named John Clarke, went, on hearing of the robbery, to Hambleton, and tomtit the prisoner at the Butcher IMO. lie was in the act of iburtsning a note in hi, hand when witness entered, 3 Ittol. note, And eras a:reaping with a travellin4 doctor about it. Said he wou:d hold Will a Watp r he would be back again at that house in 3 week. Took the prisoner before a justice, and, on seaming% Intu, they found a heap of notes to a great value. Mr. Lawson and Mr. Pardue proved their having sent letters f %V hithy, where they lived, by the post of the I tit of March, enclosing notes, &c. which were not re cei‘ed by the persons to whom they wire directed. The prisoner, who throughout the trial showed an utter disregard of the evidedice, on being called upon for his defence, said nothiug—nor were any witnesses called on his behalf. Mr. Baron Wood, shortly recapitulating the evidence, said the prisoner's guilt admitted of no doubt, and the Jury immediately brought in a verdict of Guilty. The prisaner appears to have been a daring offender, as he was also under confinement for burglary. A few days ago, William Goodwin, a mechanic, and his family, ,consisting of a wife and lour children, had been intrusted with the care of the house, late of Sir Nlattliew 13loxam's, in the IVr[worth-road, for some time. About seven weeks ago the eldest daughter, who is about 15 years of age, had been in service, tenoned home ill, and was soon pronounced to be in a brain Inver, which speedily affected the whole faintly. '1 he father who was the last and the most violently attacked with the distemper, before Ite felt the effects of it, ap plied to the officers of Newington work house to take ills outlet titeir care, but the malady was of too for mutable a nature to justify the I•artsli in permitting the unfortunate persons in ht were afflicted to come us colt. tact with their poor. The wife and chilitren began to recover, but Goodwin began to feel the disease in its most violent shape. When the fury of the lever had abated, a iierso.i no fortunately called olio.' Min and spoke on some pecuniary subject, which, wneil the tisuer dim appealed, so violently affected poor Goodwin, that h.: dashed his head against the wall, becatm: on.rageoudy mad, jumped out of the window upon the lawn. anti threw b>nystll into a pond. Smite persons saw thus dreadful occurrence front Inc road, and oluer•ed his wile struggling in her feeble state with him to prevent him trout destroying Mansell; btu was overpowered in a short time from his great strength. A young man who was amongst the spectators contrived to enter the lawn,and leaped into the water a:ti rGood win, who had sunk, and remained about lime ttt tt Lbws under the water before he was reach,d. Life was for a short time preserved. Pour Guthman was made to breathe again by We means sug gested by the Humane Society, but Ins fever return ed with aggravated violence, and lie died ou Wednesday last in a state of delirium. The wife is wretchedly poor, but we believe the respectable in the nen.libouritood hate beeo kind to her and her cbildreu, and supplied their presets wants. ATTRAIPT TO DROWN.—On Thursday last, a man of very sham/ appearance was seen to soma , 'outsell from the feeeSs on the tilhd arch of Waterloo-bridge. when a couple of wateranen row nig up, Caine just in time to rescue the unhappy man from his perilous Inflation.— On one of thy watermeti seizing him, he exclaimed, let me alone—let me alone, and Wade J desperate struggle lo escape from his grasp. li e said li e had been to SO itierset-imisse, in hopes of 13, tling same money, in which lie was disappointed, Distress was not the cause, as he tad some silver in his pocket. A subscription was im mediately set On loot fur the waterineii, which amount ed to seven or eight I)ngt..-011 Friday morning a meeting took place at IVorniwood Scrubbs, between Mr. B—k--, a medical student Intn i c within less lil.lll a hundred miles of Sloane -►tern, aiul Air. K—, a private gentleman, tea ptettitic a dispute winch took place at a billiard-tams at the west end of the town. Mr. IS. had lust a large sum at on! ;pine, Mr. K. king his parlour at the 11111 e, anti WV thy it was talked of Ma the latter had been paid to sell him On other words, to lure the game.) All ACCIISI.I. lion followed; Mr. K.'s explanation was nut thouglit satisfactory, and a challenge WAS the result Mall. They ltred two snots, and in toe LA fire built being slightly wounded, ilk affair terminated. Alt Alum, hostel, who resided with his siste.., in Ru , stil-street,Covetiogartlen. was found drutvite,l in the liegent's Canal on %Veil iies4lay afternoon. lie 11.14 i grille out to dine with a party of Int:tills on Sunday, at Isiing. too, and had not been heard of until the autcal Os a i tent% intelligence. llts death was, no doom, occa si JJJJ eil by accident. His body now lit.* at liattic-badge fur the torpectiou of the Jury. • - - THE NATION. BOXING. Tuesday last, was a real display of jollity and dis pointment. It was a day, too, when one cf the best men in England had to fight for a stake of 100 sovereigns, and that tried and approved man was Dick Curtis, a lad about gst. 21b. His opponent was Peter Warren, a supposed clever fellow, who fancied fighting better than working, and full a stone heavier than his adversary. It was found out &gain. that glove-work is theoretical rather than operative upon the nicer feelings. Coluhrook, Bucks, was the spot fixed upon, am/ the toll-collecter had a good market. The fight took place within two miles southward of the town, fur the benefit of the white bag =en, who gave the farmer thick fora ten acre field. The seconds and bottle-holders were, Belcher and Shelton for Curtis; , and Tom Owen and Josh. Hudson fur Warren. THE B.iTTLE. Warren made Fires Court play, but Curtis avoided him ; • rally followed, a n d Otitis gave a left-banded mu•r.zler at fu3 per cenlage, which drew claret invisibly between the grinders, and his jollity in griintre told truth about firm blood ; Warren was floored from the weave. 2. Warren was upon a waltz to get at his adversary ; but Curtis seemed to understand breaking ground better than , dancing, and in a rally both were busy al work, and Warren was thrown from the close.-3 to 1 on Curtin. 3. Warren's head was in piclle,hot he fought this rotted most gallantly ; he only went in to receive, and it was evident Curtis would win it. In a separation from the rally, Warren's head was so multifariously exehequered, that even Somerset House could not in its exquisite sensibility have relieved him. Pound age on Curtis. 4.:l bit of a stop was made to the gaiety of Cu,'., by • Iln.h hit over the mouth. In a rally, Warren played tbe harle quin:lde very naturally, his ideas being in a style of nothingness. 5. Curtis had brought his adversary's stonage down to his mark, and here he commenced his finishing . His adver sary was as wild as a March hare. Strength was displayed by Curti!. in a bugging-match at the ropes, and Warren was floored _ _ 6. Warren was hit to ill parts of the ring, and, as it wasp emphatically observed by a man of eminent abilities in the ring, Warren lost the " fay dawn." Ile was dead beat ; and the smile on his countenance was changed to that of a misarstkrepe. The 10th round settled the light. Curtis bad knocked his adversary shwa till he was himself tired, and got a slap in the mouth fur his pain.. This happened in the Stit round, and some odds were taken ; but Curtis had the best of &wrestle, and threw his adversary. In the 10th and last round Curtis was not content with one and two, hut he let loose with his left-hand. which told upon the bridge of the nose; his right followed on the jaw, and his left was again at work upon the eve, and his ad y was. deaf to " time." Curtis won the battle with • solitary slap of the month, anti be is undoubtedly the hest man of his weight that ever palled, oil' a shirt, of which the Waterloo party, bis backers, are satis fied. The loser proved a good •rut as far as game went. The second tight was between Parish the waterman, and. Laslibrook, gingerbread nun at the best. It was a robbery so palpable that the ring became outrageously outraged. Poor Parish died away like a swimming duck, without the happy knack of throwing his head on his second's *boulder. He bad Dot a scratch upon the head or body, and be wade • grand mis take once, and was nearly 'sapping his man. lie laid prostrate in a past chaise, as if lafelc+s, ■nd Spring, his second was warned of the peril of an indictment for in snslaughter. (Blatt( shy, the pedestrian, undertook his match ors Friday last to ruts fifteen miles it, an hour and thirty five minutes, in Ashford Park, Inc a bet of 100 guineas. He did his first three miles within 18 minutes, and he per formed five miles in 29 minutes and 12 seconds. He continued at a winning rate, and did tern miles in an hour and one minute. He was at this Lime backed at 6. to 4 to win, but he fell !ante in the I 4th mile, andconld tun get on, having more than steel' initiutea left for the last mile. Ihe lam, mess was a sprain in the right ancle, which lust him the match.—Another race of 100 yards was run for b guineas, between Cartwright and Fielder, which was won by the former in eleven seconds. Mr. Yates, of Covent Garden Theatre, un!onunately broke one of his leas on Tuesday, at Vauxhall-gardens. —lt was only a simple fracture, and he is Lkely to do. well. He fell Llirott‘it an opening which had been left at the rehearsal of an entertainment, of which he was. apprised, but tinfortimately forgot.' AL the Warwick Q.tartzr Sessions. Henry Wadsworth was indicted for pri tttttt g and publishing at Birmingham.. on the .7th May last, a certain wicked, obscene, and scandalous libel of and concerning Wuhan) Wright and his wile. The prosecutor and prisoner were both printer: at Birmingham, aml the libel complained of was 311 ob scene song, its which it was set forth that the 'unseen , cmor's whe had been guilty of adultery, whilst he was confined in prison. Toe libel, and its intended applica tion to the prosecutor and his wits', were clearly proved by c•veral witnesses. 'Fite prisoner, in his defence con tended that the blanks and inuendos of she song might as well lie applied to any other person as the proseentor.— The Jury, howeser, found him guilty, and after a most impressive addre... Iron, the Chairman, who dwelt with. j,ist sews ity on the enormity of his offence, and sentenced him to be imprisoned she sibmihs in she gaol, to find blirCile. for his good behaviour fur one year, himself In Co!. and two in 101. each. SUDDENT DEATH.-011 Tuesday night, abont eleven o'c!, , ck, limo 19 had been 32 years Clerk of the P.dpers, and Dimity Marshal of the king's Bench prisini, went home to his house in the Lambeth-roatl, after spending his evening at the Britannia tavern r oppo. site the prison, and about half an hour after he had beers in bed, Jumped up, and putting. his hand on his head, exclaimed, " Good God! what's that 1" Ile gradually got worse, and notWIlhtl.11111111; all the efforts of several gee' lumen, hie:lined his last about half past ons o'clock on Wednewlay morning. His head has beet► opened, when a vessel was found to have been ruptured. and a mialitity of coagulated Woo I Aimed on the Iwain, which produced apoplexy, and caused his dissolultoth 4419