The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-03 00:00:00

ttrE NATIONAL 11.WISTER. when they knocked him down with the ris*.ol, and secured ;Am. The pistol, it appeared, was loaded with sit 42, thr(x or four of which entered his side, and when brought into thi Office he seemed in extreme pain. and was obliged to be seated in a chair. Mr. READ strongly reprobated the conduct of the men fur firing at the prisoner under such circumstances, conceit in that being two of them, they might have.. been able to secure him without proceeding to such violent means, especially as tie was well known to them, having lately worked on the premises. The fact of the felony being proved, the prisoner was fully committed for trial, and ordered to be sent to the 1 - louse of Correction, Coldbath-fields, where there is an infirmary, and a surgeon in constant attendance. UNION HALL. on Friday, Joseph Hum, a hackney coachman, was brought before the Sitting Magistrate, charged wit h tealing a bundle of cloaths, the property of Sophia Bousefield. The prosecutrix stated, that she took the coach in Mile End, and the prisoner put her bundle in for her; she ordered him to drive to Black man-street in the Borough, where she got out, but forgot to take her bundle; the coachman, whose memory was equally treacherous, forgot to give it to her, but immediately mounted his box and drove off. The prosecutrix, however, instantly recollected it, and nui to the next ,coach-stand, about twenty yards from the spot, but although there were several coaches on the stand, the prisoner was not amongst them, and a gentle man, who witnessed the transaction, informed her he drove off at a quick pace immediately after having set her down; she fortunately, however, remembered the number, by which means he was discovered. He was fully committed for trial. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. Coßom:it's INQUEST.—An inquest 3.vc.ls held on Friday after noon at No 11, Burleigh -street, Strand, before Anthony Gel!, Esq. the Westzninster, Coroner, on the body of Mr. Lee, when it appeared on evidence that he met Lis death on Tuesday morning by falling through the ceiling of the workshop belonging to Mr. Lotchford, 1,-ridle and stirrup-maker, in Little St. Ma: tin's-lane. when the jury, after a short deliberation, brought in their vir diet —A eel - dental death. He has left a wife and three small chit.* dren to lament his loss, without any kind of support whatever. RECORDER'S REPORT.—On Thursday the 2sth ult. the Re corder made a report to the Prince Regent, of the convicts carimlly convicted in December and January Sessions ; when T. White, and J. H. (for an unnatural crime) were ordered for execution on Thursday next. BIRTHS. On the 7th ult. at Fermoy, in Ireland, the Right Hon. Lady Sondes, of a daughter. On Wednesday, in Lincoln's Inn-fields, the Lady of Robert Robbins, Esq. of a son. On Wednesday, at his house, in Portland-place, the Lady of John liornby, Esq. of a sun. MARRIED. On Thursday, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Fortunatus Dwarrla, Esq. of the Middle Temple ; to Miss Brvreton, of Ber nard-street; Russell-square. • On Thursday morning Lord and Lady Thanet were re-mar ried at St. George's, Church, Hanover-square. 2.-\'cr the cere mony they immediately left town for Hothfield, Kent. DIED. On Sunday last, Mr. Charles Forster Burder, of Oxendon streetl aged 37. At Mattldslie Castle, the Right Hen. Thoilla Ear! of iiind ford. PRICE OF STOCKS. 3 per Cent. Reduced (7.51/ 6G 5 per Cent. Consols (7s, ! ti 5 per Cent. Navy Annuities... 98 97i Bank Long Annuities l7i 13-101, India Stock ..1773 178 India Bonds Exchequer Bills, :d. • 10-,. i3s. pill. Consols for Account etS . , The above are the only Funds that are _open. ' • - •IGMIALWZNIMIN, . . ..Lcindon : Printed and Edited by E. ROCI-fIE, and Published by JOHN FISHER, No 5, Pickett -street, Strand, near 't en: and forwarded by all the Newsmen, the Clerk 4 et Roads, and Looksellers throughout tlatUulteii Kingdom, free of portage, int! the cuuntry at 10s. 3id per quarter. A T 44 LAW REPORTS. COURT OF KING's BENCH, MAICII Y. TTARRIS V. COItEN. The plaintiff in this action is an Attorney, the defendant was lately his client, and the action thus brought against him was for the amount of a bill and costs incurred by defending him when he was charged with a felony, of which charge be had beer. acquitted. A great deal of contradictory vldence was heard on both sides; the defendant contending that he was protected by law from the plaintiff, because he was under age, and the bill was not tor necessaries. On the other band, the plaintiff's Counsel argued that his infancy did not save him, contending, that the fact of saving him from the vengeance of the law was the most valuable of all necessaries. This was again repelled on the part 4,i the defendant, whose Counsel argued, that as a Mrs. Simeon bad employed the plaintiff, he ought to look to that lady for pay ment of his bill, and not to the defendant. Lord ELLENioltoucii, in summing up, remarked, that Juries kad at times very difficult tz.sks to perform, when they had vontradictory testimony to decide on, because the hardship was, which side was most to be credited ; " But here," said his Lordship, " the task is different—it will probably be, which ilde is most to be discredited." He made several strong oh ser vati(ans on the whole, and left it with the Jury, who found fur the defendant. • . SATURDAY, MARCH 2. In consequence of Lord ELLENBOROUGU'S being obliged to attend the Queen's Council at Windsor, .the Special Juries which were fixed tor this day were postpomd to Monday. Mr. Jus tee LE BLANC, in his Lordship's absence, sat at Nisi Prius, when several Common Jury Cases were disposed of, but of no pubhe interest or notoriety. OLD BAILEY. The Sessions terminated on Monday, when sentence was passed on the following persons DEATu.—Samuel Edwards for burglary, Thomas Stewart for a similar offealce, Edwani Deacon fur high treason, Thomas Thorpe for Burglary, John Lawler fur stealing goods in a dwel ling house, value 111. 155.; Win. Oldham fora highway robbery. Tleanor Divine, for stealitig goods privately in a .hop, value :.;1. ; Ellzabeth Browne, for a burglary in the day-time; Da id Kelly, for stealing goods, value 181. in a dwelling-house ; Lawrence Jotta and Josef Francisco Cardona, for cuttrig, with to do some grievous bodily harm ; lirtsi.or., for a highway robbery ' • John Lee, for bur glAry ; Joseph Mason, for stealing in a dwell ing -house ; and Catherine J outer, for stealing goods privately in a shop. David Atkins, for receiving goods knowing them to he stolen, was s•fa;enced to fourteen years transportation. And Mary Swaine James Farthing, Eleanor Wise, Thomas Churton, Charles Williams, Suss* Broom, John Holmes, and John Nonrnus, to seven years transportation. Thomas Smith, for a misdemeanour, was sentenced to stand in the pillory ix! West Smithfield, in the open market, time, fpr wo hours. I'ULICE. BOW-STRF Er. John Kent was brought before J. RP:An, on ft charge of stealing four deals, the property of Geori:e Robert ' of Twickenham. Mr. Holmes is a carpenter, and his premises having re peatedly been robbed in the night of timber and various other articles, two men were placed there to watch on Wedneday :light, and took up their station in a work shop, when early in the morning they observA the prisoner in the premises, .anci who went to a barn, from whence he took the four deals, with which he was going away, when one of th,: men, and who was armed with a pistol, went out and seized him, and a des perate scuffle took place, and though the oth er man ass i ste d, t h e prisoner extricated himself from them both, and was running .away, bait the man fired the pistol at him, and he fell, being wounded in the side ; notwithstanding which h: ;;till nz,sistesi, arid jumping up, endeavoured to get a knife out of hiip.;cket, ~:~