The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

OCT. 5 47th of the King, to protect the public against what was called in the act, "the fronds of the coal trade." He would not designate the present case by that name, but certainly the public were liable from their carets:wines, to impositions in the trade of the I.7russest kind. It was regulated by the act, that coals contained in any ship should he publicly ex hibited, tinder it penalty of 1001. It was required that the meter SWAIM, after he had measured the coals, give to the waggoner a ticket, which ticket, if Mid countersigned, %seed be a security to the consunter that the article purchased Was that to which he was entitled. It was most important to have the quality of tl:e ecal also properly attended to, it being ituown that coal varied front five, six, to eight shillings per ehaldron, as to quality. The coal mei chain woe '," d o it must serious injury to the consumer, by putting upon him coal of a quality inferior to the sum at which he had purchased. Fur the purpose of guarding against such an imposition, the act had a!irerted that the ship should be furnished with a certi_ ficate of the quality, which certificate was, e,am the l an ai" of the coals, to be examined by the land Coal meteor, that he might ascertain whether they were of the quality mentioned in the ticket directed to be delivered by the vendor to the purchaser. and the meter was required to countersign the ticket, if he Was satisfied that the coals were as described iii it. Thus by regular stageit, from the working of the coal-mine up to the .sai,., the qeality was preserved. ME. Fre, litirld then stated • the contrails of the meter's ticket to he sent with coals to the coominio., observing, that it should be signed by One of the priticipal laud coal.rnetete, and countersigned by the labour . leg cual.meter attending and delivering them ; and that the peualty iitfixral it, She eventof not complying with the regu lation was LW. 'it was here that the fraride contemplated by the legislature ategan. The vendor's ticket was presented eta the delivery of the coals to the purchaser, ,butit was On( countersigned. If the provisions of the art were complied with, it WA t imPossiine that the politic could ne d, frateled, sillier as to tl:e quantity or quality of the coals they purchased; but it was his duty to state, the t in tl.e ease new-before the emu a meter's ticket accompanied the coals, but it was not t•oun tersigued arc:orbit?, to the act of Parliament, ter it contained the 'name of at person not in existence. He cued call a meter, the only one of the name stated in the ticket, who %Toed prove that lie had /lint countersigned tie ti , ket ; amid there were other circumstances tenting to show the gross Irregularity oldie proceeding. Hr coed also prove that appli cation had Ivrea inade to the person who shoed have tersigned, in order to induce him to do so, and that the per son bed refused, in consequence of not having seen the ship's - certificate. In fact lie could, if it a as allowed in such a state of the ease, pruve that literates were deficient both in quality add Timmy. Mr. suggested thene.cillessness of proceeding to :the test, and uhserved, that er.:Freslitield had no right to .410 so. Sir Clemilins Hunter was of .opinitin that Mr.- Freslifield was justified in steiug what lie had evidence to support. Mr. Fieshfield Said, he did not iutend to go to circumstances of aggravation; lie had no wish but to protect the public. The defendant hail declared that his fault was negligence. If that defendant was able to prove thatille coals• were oats . quantity amid quality stet:milted in the ticket, and sold to the, Hank, lie *tumid upon the part at the Bawl: withdraw every large:nation, and .be mote liajapy in discharging that dusty than the piiittful one he Morbid probably be old ged to ex. - ..mute. He eourludrd with stating, that the alagi-trace was at liberty to reduce the titie to Is. if he pleased. The Walk Avoilid bus satistiml with his derision, ramfidetit that the Witte service wool l be the tiod consideration with him. Mr. Andrew. having intimitted t h at the tlartiflAnt would plead guilty, M. nallitield aliott.tiucd trues m esses.. _ _ Mr. Andrews said lie-was glad of befing.spared the duty tit . lielainis.g Inc Magistrates long upon this investigation. Mr,' Freshfield had mentioned what, he had no doubt, was the motive of the Bank in uppeatieg in this case, namely, for the purpose of pfrovin4 the control which the statute hail over merchants in this trade, and the necessity at calliug the pith fie atwotion to a matter which Silliowerfully interested Mein. Ile (Mr. Andrew s) stionld advise his client to. confess himself guilty ; awl he thought it his duty to add that, in his opinion:. the Rank had acted with great linerality in not pri'sainu the fines to the extent allowed by the Act of Pal 71'; was, however, to be considered, that the offelice was not of such a natiorcas to authorise the indiction oI silch a punish. ment, it being the fact that the crime was one of mere olllia sion. True it was, that if the defendant was guilty of taking advantage of the opportunities which might have ',resented themselves, and supplied a hal mate, ial,lllA offence welsh' be of the most serious kind. If the merchant had himself ats tended the delivery of the coals, and acted us his own WIII4II - nothing could excuse the neglect that would subject the public to so serious a disadvantage. Rut the defendant was 1101 his own wharlinger. He wusa great dealer. and al- Maya intrusted his tickets to his whartitiger or sonic other per son undo,- him. Sir Claudius Hunter.—That surely can be no justification. Mr. Andrews admitted that it was not a justification. He confee.sed the penalty. But im circumstances of at could be stated in such a ease. It was evident that his client . . . had an exc.-tient character, the Bank (so re-pectable a hotly) haviug emplo3 ed hint, if there werenu other reason for saying' that his character was unimpeachable. It was, Mr. Andrews observed, in the power of the Magistrate to reduro the line to the smallest possible coin, and considering all thexii cum atances. of the ease, and the lirmatise that neither the Ronk nor the Pohlte shunt.' he subject to similar inconveniences, trusted to the lenient lleei, , mn..ft;oe Chair. Sir Claudius Binder said, that he bad a few words to say on this imputtant ease., to show that the course the Bank had taken wasiltatw.l. i Cll was roust calculated to strve the pi:4hr. The Bank had detected a most palpal.le and nbotninable error, to say the least of it t and, if they hail proceeded to prove it, 50111 e thing mete I error *mild liare been tumid • out. II has not en o ugh tusac, •• i leave Msy 641/1111rini IU my Ivharfimier, and I thei clore a .a not responsible ;•• there was no excuse in submitting to the direction of soother who :lilted wrong. Comitiermgial: the circumstances of the Case, tar Claudius limiter thought proper to floe Mr. Johnson los. _oil each information. The wilole amounted to 251. Air. Andrew. expressed his client to be satisfied. Mr. that a moiety hying theproperty of the inforiner,,be ahuadd thati:., the magistrate to older one half of hat moiety .0 thy Spualtields Pour, and the Miser half to the S iciety far the Lit tie er :Small Del, tors. A man, named Jett;•.ias, was brought up on snspia:an of insint: been cavv.efuell in riab cog Mtn. Kendal „laudla.ly of the Mitre, in Chancery late, of IL 1. all the iminey she wata, worth In the world, the bard cawing& of upwards of thirty years. Mit. Ken 1.111, o lin it llotit' ,yeskrt of age, ttaitnl, in very 4 , en t it at thy . ia W . . 14 , y to Bonk TII% NATIONAL REGisTEn. notes, silver, and halfpence, in a box which she kept in her bed room locked; that on Friday evening, at 7 o'cluek, she added to her previons stock in the box the sum of 151.1 and, on going into her room.at it, found that the box had been broken open, and that ail her money was gone. Several articles of dress were also missing. Tlie..alarin was given. oth eeis entered the house, and searched the rooms of the lodgers, but without fimting any of the property. They imwever found a small crow bar in a corner, malt which it appeared the box had been broken open, and which was so constructed as to convicce the officers that the business had been done by experienced thieves. Mrs. Kendall then recollected that between eight and nine o'clock Jenkins and a stout 11•111 came In the bar, unit asked for a glass of gin ; that some whispering took place bet vreen them, part or which was heard by Ms's. Kendall, and Was cer ta n'y a denlated In excite snapieimi. "Do you," said the stool man to Jenkins, ".go into the tap.riiiim, and go up stairs." Mrs. Kendall perceived that they lingered about ;be house, hot had DO idea that coy trick had been meditated he. wards l:er. They had,she saidoeparated, the prisoner going into the tap room, and the stout man walking towards the stairs. After some time they went away. The officers having received an accurate description of those who were suspected, accompanied Mrs. Kendall to Cow-cross, where they laid their hand; upon Jenkins, Wiwi' she immediately identified as one of the visitors of Friday night. De.e.titoitttql it, and said he knew the stout Weil well, on , refused In mentim his name, lest, as he said, he should implicate hinire;l. Ho was ttutended. The other pet ,on is kuo All to the otEcers esautost infa mous slept eilator. BOW-STREET. On Friday several .persons, who had porchesed tickets for the English Opera on Thursday. but had been excluded in eonscluence of the great overflow usual °a bandit nights. applied to this onto to obtain the redress. One gentleman stated that he had taken places, but on proceeding to them found the box full. and the boxkecper could not provide him with others. After waiting .a considerable time in the iobbv, a Gentleman was poimed out to tiicin whom they were told was Mr. Grove, and to whom they complained without success. They wore afterwards told that they would be shown into a private hex, and a door was opened to them. after passim• through which, instead of entering as they expected into a box, they found themselves to their mortification in the street. Tile Gentleman stated, that he was aware that he must look for the re-payment of the price of the tickets from the person from whom he purchased them, and not from the Managers ; but he came to support, as a witness, the complaint of' the other two getitleinen and a lady, now present in the office, who paid their money at the door on an as surance that there was plenty of room, when there was not a seat to be got. On demanding that their money should be returned, it was refused. Mr. t'cake, the treasurer of the theatre, and the box keeper, were sent for. Mr. Peaks, with regard te the latter ease, re gretted that the money-taker had refused to return the money. and paid over the 15s. to tit complainants ; as to the other case, he was sorry for the inconvenience which the gentleman and his family had experienced, but in the situation of the house it was ithpossible to find them accommodation. The Magistrate informed the box-keeper that he ought to have taken measures to turn the persons out of the box who had improperly taken pos;ession of it. George Beck. who was sea:et:red to transportation for burglary in the October Sessions of tai a, and who sailed to Botany Bay with other convicts in the ship , Faany, was charged with being at large be fore the expitation.of his sentence. The prisoner's defence was, that while the Fanny was lying at anchor &re miles on' Rio Janeiro, one evaning he was leaning against the heal-railing,, which broke, and he fell overboard unobserved by any porsou on board ; that he s•.yahn for six hours and a half with an iron on one leg, and reached the op pmite shore, but did not know the name of the place. He returned to England in a brig, the name of winch he did not tecullect, and landed at Liverpool. He was committed for trial, arid the parties bound over to protc este, . _ _ HATTON GARDEN. Wednesday, in consequence of an anonymous letter re ceived by the Maeistratee at this 03. ice, stating, that the von of • Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, (about seven years of age) of Fished -street, Red Lion-square, had been kept tied up to the foot of a bedstead for tie ec menthe in a flow garret, the Magistrates, though not giving credence to the story to its full extent, dispatched Read, jun. the officer, in order to make eneeiry. The officer got in by akin( for Mr. Elliott ; and alter 60471 e converr,ation, asked Mrs. Eiliott how many children ske bad, and where they were She answered, three, and they were all cult at play. lie then asked where they slept, and slag answered in the garret; the officer expressed a wish to see the place. She then told him he could nut, mail asked his business; on which the officer pulled out his stair, and told tier he Cattle to make a search. She in stantly lan up stairs, followed closely by Read; who, when she had run over. the bed in the garret towards a nartow corner of the room, pulled her back, and found the pool child fastened by a strap to the bed-post,ll only a bit it sacking to lie on, uncovered, and in a must filthy state. The °diver called np the lodgers in the house, ;Ind a itli difiiculty unlooseried the leather strap with whim' he was fastened to the tied-post. Read brought the nufortunale clitA carefully wrapped tip, to the office in a cuaeir, aid the father and mother ha:Moulted together. The child, however, was pro• duced at the office naked, and with the strap lotted its buds ; and two persona in the house deposed to its has iii f ir tlirre months Leto kept in the Cate already described. .The parish officers attended, and directed the child to be taken proper care lif ; and the prisoners were conveyed to Clerken. w oil Prison, amidst the riser:rations of the populace, that they may give 2$ hours notice of bails Thursday Edward Newman. vim) charged by James Wilcox, stoup:Dan to Messrs Rratlg , 4 tck and Cooper, ironinoogers,St. Johnte lane. with fraudulently ontai 44 iag a quantity of iron and metal spum; to the amount of 151., the property of his em ployers. IVititess dc,uhted that the prisoner came to him on the 1 Jib of Sept. witla w ritten order. for the propeety, as , coining from Mr. 'Caller. 11011111/011SC1', WwOd•SIIPPI, side, and witness delivered the goods to lieu. There wits a "termite charge preferred against the prisons r by Mark ner, sheltie m to Meese's. Warner, brass founders, charged with &gaining a quantity of brass cocks to the amount of 71. 55., by 011e4011 of a fallie order as coming drum the above named eieson. Mr. Barber oat:mud, and identified the prisoner to 114 t,e been his servant, but had beset Alischtirgeti fourteen months since, and did not riallierise the pi isoi.er to go witti ally other writer trern 1 oat of lite propel ty was trateed to the possession of a man who keeps au nil iron shop in the neighbourhood ui Hatton Wall. The piopurty awing b.rom to, the prisoner fully committed tor trdal. Daniel Morris .was CiCtigefil lay Mr. HO&NOII, landlord of the Plassa entice house, Crivent Garden, ou suspicion of steeling a valuable tortoiseshell stand:box tritiunted woo gold. his properl‘. The prisoner had Used with Mr. feutlgson as waiter, but end been discharged nine months since, in eons( qneace of missing several valuable articles; and hearing the prisoner had here sepreheibiled on a eharge of feloity.ltvit ness caused his lodgings to be seat cited : when the above r.1:1 property was found iii his box, whirl', produced, was identified by the rust rittor. isoner ws IIlii) COMUilite4 for SHAD W ELL. A GItOST.—Mrs. Jervis, of Regent stre..t. Poplar, applied to the Magistrates on Thursday last. in consequence of frightful noises beg every night heard in her liaus.!, Olt MIS:: of whit t cAnnot be dis covered. These noises have been heard, she said, for three weirs pa,t, and 1110 bi now assemble in the street to hear the ghost. • l'os session having been taken of the house in this strangi way, nu tenal:t can he thine', and irreinains on the owner's hands. The Magistrates immediately directed sonic officers to occupy the lions-. and to appre hend, as soon as possible, the evil spirit, which, however, tbcy have not been able tc catch. UNION HALL. Friday William Smith, a most da7i.ig robber, was brought Score the Magistrate, by Lewis, a coastable of C.tinbzrweli, and was identified by sevaill persons as the man whose numerous deprrda. tions have eattsetl-coasiderable alarm in the neighbourlioNl of Cam. berwell and Peckham. The following charges were preferred again,' him : On Saturday evening about 7 o'clock, as Mrs. Tyler, of Peckham, was crossing a field near Lothbury bona 31U was stopped by the prisoner, who with imprecations of t h e most dreadful nature, demand. ed her money ; she begged him to use no violence and he should have all the tnoaey that she had in her possession, and handed Was 6d. to hint ; he then seized her hand. in the toot brutal manner, and forcibly stripped a ring from one of her fingers, and in so dui g bruised and hurt her hand so violently, that it has been in a , tat.l.! of great inflammation ever since. He then made off On Mohday, stopped Mrs. Powell, of Camberwellot an early part of the evening. and took from her au umbrella; her cries hastened the approadi of Mr. Powell to take him into custody. Ott Tuesday tusk, about eiAlit o'clock, Mrs. Downes of Kennington, was stopped •by the prisoner on Kennington Common ; he thrust his ham! into L.: pocket, anti took out all the money, and a silver fruit knife, aid eau WV; threatening at the same time to return and murder her if she made uny noise. Oa Thursday morning, at 11 o'clock, he accotted Mrs. Jones. of Rosemary-branch Lane, I'eekhatn, in a held near Peckham, and .before she had time to reply to a,t4uestion heasked her about the time of day, snatched an umbrella from her band, tore a ring front her finger, and demanded all the money She had about her, and threatened, with horrid oaths, to murder her if she offered the smallest resistance. Mrs. Jones was in the act of drawing the mcney from her pocket, when he observed the approach of come per • sons and made otf. • Information being given to Lewis, the constable, of the above rlars• ing robberies, he procured assistance, and commenced a search after the lierpctratox. Perceiving the prisoner loitering about in a field, he took him into custody on suspicion ; and upon searching him found in his possession the ring that he had taken from Mrs. Jones. and a pawnbroker's duplicate of an umbrella, which was n•cettained to be the one belonging to Mrs. Powell. and in another field the Lam be:ilia belonging to Mrs. Jones was found concealed under the hedge. In the pocket of the prisoner were found tiurnennts reli A inus tract!, warititt, , , most iinpres..ively the readers Io n an evil coins: of lie , and containing in front the representation of a man upon a gallows. The prisoner made no defence ; he was committed. A lady in appearance called at the house of Mr. Canatiie 1, in Short. street, .N - loorfieltls, on Monday afternoon, under pretence of lueting at the apartment:, which were to be let ; but •during tie absence of Mrs. Campbell she contrived to secrete several article: of value, v:ith which she got off umletected. This is only one of several attempts made by her that day. She appears passably genteel, of a moth( rip look, and is about 36 years of - age. She pretends to have a mothe4 for whom she wishes to take lodgings, &c. In her hand was a couple of black ostrich feathers. and a market two-handle basket, into witch she mast have thrust the articles stolen, vie.: a silk shawl, 2 tea spoons, 3 gold seais which were attached to a watch, lying on the mamk-piece, (not stolen ,) 2 others lying loose, and a gold watch. key, together oith a small table-cloth. About one o'clock in the morning of Saturday week two villains enteeed the rack-hill of Messrs. Paul Itiathen and Co. at Wool chester. in Glocestershire, and whilst engaged so taking a pCeee cf superfine black cloth out of the rake, they were discovered hy a person employed to guard the premises. The latter.who was fumed. called out to them to surrender, when they immediately ran of ; upon which the guard fired at the person carrying the cloth, and it is supposed wounded him severely, as he eselaimcd, " Lord have mercy upon me !" and a great quantity of blood was aftcrwa-ds found on the spot, which was traced as far at Woosicliesicr. '1 he robbers succeeded nevertheless in making their escape for the prere as the guard, who instantly went after them, thwoxri down by a cord which they had previously tussle fa.t across the roa,!, for the Fr pose of intercepting any person who might follow them. A re 7:. d has been offered lin their apprehension. The Darkar .1 eraser tats, .• Last week W. Prield, kzeper to C. Lion, 1.. q. of Binchester, tired at a covey consisting of fourteen p•ittridges, and actually kilhal eleven of tile nuirVlcr at a single shit. However incredil.ie this m,y apri.r, we do not doubt the fact, placing full cotifidda..:i4 tlie vaulty of the Gentleman who handed us the information." - On We.incaday night, the house of Mr. \finislay, the eneine-r,, in Lambeth, was broken open by sonic robbers, who carried o!f a variety of drawing uteisils, and about 31. in silver, which was de posited in a writing ticsk. The same night, ilie of Mr. Col. ling, in Lambeth, was broken open and plundered of 671. in flank notes. Grapes far making wine are now so plentiful,that they ate brought by cart load; to Cov.nt•garlen-marJeet, where they are sold by the hundred weight at about sevenpenee halfpenny per pound. Several publicans, we understand, have lately applied to the Co railer of the City, to know whether they arc legally obliged to receive dead bodies into their housez;; to which„i; is said, ha has replied, that they are not ; bat, that parish officers are by law obliged to furnish a place fur their ree..ption nil inquests can be held on them. The return of our countrymen from France is unusually great ; f ro m 30 to 40 arrive at Brighton every packet. The Russian frigates Legroy, Propeaoy, and Pmvernoy, now de tained in Portsmouth by foul winds, are, it is mid, intended as a cimptiwration to Spain for the bad tiLlte of the Russian squadron, formerly purchased by that Pow er. Th: re have been considorahlo importations of onions front France into Portsmouth, so that they are now sf , l: , :g for 14s. per bushel, a few days since they sold for double :.hat - - • 'Fues.l,iy ei ening, bet %reel' i . olll* a:.l five o'elock, the pre_ mimes of Nie:W'S .I.llllls. Wiftld, ana James, oil merchants, College-hill, took file, which W.l/1 SO rapid in its progress. that. not will:shim:big :►.Gil situp)) , of water to the numerous engines, they Were utterly (testes/so: in lia'fan hour. AL the im u ks and papers were fortsuottoly prem. re ed. The Stock, which consisted print ipmly nit, WdS entilely consumed but we ore happy to learn ill it the great. r lis rosin% d. w ei h ie ,d e y no 'mines' Was held at t h e Sproul Eagle, it. Giles's, on the body nf•,ioh:utna Disgain, a child, whose death was occasioned by stising,liquirta given to her by a woman named Bryan. It, appeared from the e e id ee ,ee of the varenis -i.trr..f . the deceased, that Rryac took the child 01 0 a!•ont h.r:f• past 7 no Sunday morning, and returned about 9 o'clock. Coo setting down the child it could not stand.— Waif ii%kril what she mad dune, and the child said, " I laic drunk two glasse•s ut Lin, nnc .I,rlllll, out. of peppermint. and o'l.ll eol two pots tit porter.' Ihe elold grew very ill. mi d died in the eonrse of the they. Bryan had taken her cot Allot made tier drink, in conseeptence of which she had been ver y ill . Tlie body of bite opened, and the stomach :Mimi to lie early thflame.l. The jury returned a verdict of —Wilful Nltil der.