The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-17 00:00:00

?fIIiDLESEX SESSIOYS. Thege selo.ions cr rr.r .enced m ..londav,':)eforc N. Co nant, Esq. chai-sian, pad a fi it :,encl, of -oagistrales. COI:SPIRACY TO DETA7'E A SURGEON. John Ravet.scrcft, Sarah (his wife), Daniel(his son). Hanna! Ravenscroll. an•' Na:-.cy '‘. - .'oNletsck (his datteh ter.), anti another, were indicted f•or a conspiracy te injure John Ltoby, in his 2rofession tau! credit, as a surgeon and apothecary. Dir. Alley stated t7ic case for t'•e prosecution will great force. lie said the prosecutor was a ycung gentle man properly (paltrier% and 'tad canimenced the practice nit his own account, as a s•trgeon and apothecary, in Old street, the parish of St. Luke, aiwout tie . years since, and had exercised these or •fessi• N" I great credit and s.•evess. ...bout four •ntt'.s si::cc t;:e defendauts had, as it appeared, united together to -lo itir•- the greatest jsossible injury, by representing t•• his customers that he was n. t qualified to act as surgeon and apothecary, nor entitled 1-y to crake any charge P•t• having so acted, /wing nothing better that, an impostor, and that no oue who employed hit need ?ay hit 1, as he could not recover by law. !Ir. Roby was the first • •ittiess called. :fc stated that he •ass carried on the business of surgeon and apothecary at Old-street for two years. Ile bad previously, from the ear 1815, lived as assistant with surgeons at Chathat . and Plaistow, and at the for-ier place had practised for himself &Mtn; the former part of the year previous to the passing of the Act of Parliament in that year, which re qoired that all persons who had not practised as apothe caries before the 1 , 4 of August in that year shoald obtain a certificate from the Apothecaries' Gall before they should be allimed to do sc. Ile stated that he had several patients, one of ho,. ,of the name of Davis, left him Mel;•. On his cross-examination by 'air. Adolphus, stated, that he served his apprenticeship at Ketinilwortl., in %Varwickshire; that he was articled in the year 1810, and came to town about four years after itlr. Charles Boiler Greatorex, surgeon, stated, that he practises at %Vest liana, near Plaistow, in Essex—that the prosecutor lived with him for about a year, as assist ant, about the rat. 1816—that he conducted himself its ev•:ry respect with credit, and that he (witness) has ever since thought highly of his abilities and honour. Dr. Forbes, of Arg) le -street, deposed, that he knew the prosecutor year 1815, and considered him perfectly peteut to carry on the business of an apo titecary.—On his cross-examination, he stated, that his opinion was founded on the knowledge of the prosecutor. in cons, quence of his Mg attended two courses of witness's lectures at the Surrey Dispensary, and also frmi his having attended several other Aledical Institu tions. Mr. f.;harles I syde, rurgeon, stated, that the prosecutor lived with hire, as assistant in the year 1818, during wl,icl. time he allowed him to attend the poor at Lam where he saw 30 or 40 patier's daily, and witness considered him a very clever young man. Catherine Collins,o married woman, Gee-street, St. Luke'. , , stated, that the prosecutor attended 'ter dining au illness early in the summer; that some time after tl.e den:odium, fauna'. Ravenscroft and Nancy 'woodcock, er of vrhor. she kite... , at the time, came to her house, inquire!! whether the prosecutor attended her. tieing answered in the affirmative, they sail; tl•ey came to tell her that he was neither a surgeon nor alto the.z.ary ; that he might be clever, hut could not recover any paymflit in a court of and she should soon get a printed paper lion. the Apothecaries' Hall to prove it. Collins, the husband of the above witness, confire-.ed his wife's evidence, and stated, that soon afterwards Da niel Ravenscroft called on him, and brought hint to the George public-Louse, where he found the defendants John Ravenscroft and Thomas Hopley, who asked hint whether he had paid the prosecutor. Hopley told :tint, if he should he pressed for payment, I e might defend it in the larshalsea Court along it, two others, and the costs would come light on all. Eliza Davis proved that she 'ad e- .ployed the prose cutor, and f:unitl great i:enet:t h•ota his prescriptions. Hannah Ravenscroft and Nancy Woodcock, neither of theta she kite: • at the time, called on her and told her the prosecutor was no doctor, nor any thing of the soil, but a good-for-nothing fellow frot, the country, and that she would never pay hint, as he could not rtcover by law. Davit, husband of the former witness, stated, that ltivenscroft, the father, called on 'in.. and desired hi! I WA to p.iy the prosecutor ally thing. lie welt to R.I. venseraft's house t. fe‘. days after, Wan§ he saw all the family, who said the prosecutor was an inferind villain and good-for-nothing scoundrel, in consequence of which witness ceased to et :ploy him. J. W.Bickerton stated, that he called as Ravenscroft's in conseqt.ence of their reports respecting the prosec.tt r. They odd hit:, the prosecutor was not a professional matt, and could not recover payment ; and Hannah tta vensereft said her father and Is •0 ether gentlemel were determined, when they came from the isle of Wight, tr ruin I•int. The defendant Hoplev was there, and atiered witness a note to an attorney in the titles of the King's Bench, who, he said, would defend him against the tiro sectitt,r, should he sue for paysaent : llaplcy at ne time refused to tell witness las name. Here the case For the prosectuit•to cl 'set!. Alt. Adolphus wade an intrertiotts address to the Jury for the defendants. lie attributed the expressions that had het it ',seed to ti e to.• wane resentment of a female, who sol i :posed herself injured, and the excusasle sym pathy of her friends lie called no witness. The Chairman idiortl charged the Jury. He said a cluster case of compiracy could tat.t 1w f irmed, and a more honourable character could not be T.tiven to any man than I.ad been given to bin: who was the of of it. 1 he Jury found all the pri.oners The prosecutor requested that the female risoners might be allowed to re m a i n a t l arge on t h e i r un dertaking to come up to receive the judgment of the Court. THE NATIONAL REG I STE R TlieChaitman complimented the prosecutor, and com plied with his request. James Thompson was indicted for perjury, alleged to have been committed in giving evidence against Burnell, the prosecutor in a case tried in this court. lir. Andrews stated the case fiur the prosecution, which he opened by stating, that Thompson was an upholsterer residing it Davies-street, Berkeley-square; that he had a female lodger 'mired :larrington, who lived • by means not at all credits! Ic, and left his house in deft. . as t (commended to employ the prosecutor, Burnell, to pr :cure payment, am! afterwards he had, in confor mity with his instructions, received part. Thompson "let 7 liss :larrington in the street, and learned Freon her that she had paid h art i,f the delft to !r. Burnell, tl:e agent, hut instead of preventing payment I. the rest by wit hdrawing the authority i.e had given, he brought : ' iss Ha-rh'gton with him before the Grand Jury, and pre ferred a hill f indictment against iitirnell for having obtained money on false pretences. On the joint evi dence of these two the bill had been found, and the present prosecim r -as aftersvmds (nun I guilty of an offence which might be punished by transportation, To prove that the evidence givers '.y the defendant, swore that he had never said he had employed the pr:.- 'editor, Burnell, to collect money for into, was false, the I Learned Counsel called a number witnesse• tc drove the f ,Cl 3 Mr. Alley made an eloquent speech in defence, and called several witnesses, who gate an excellent character of the defendant. The Jury found c verdict of guilty. LANCASHIRE ASSIZES. CROWN COURT. MANSLAUGHTER.—John iiampson, aged Ig, was • charged with killing James Naylor, at Walton, on the • 16th of August. The deceased and the prisoner had quarrelled about a sovereign, and at last agreed to fight in regular rounds of pugilism. In the fifth round, the deceased received a bow on the right of the head, which laid him stunned on the ground, but he persisted to fight, saying he should come round again He was at length carried quite ex hausted and speechless off the ground, and died in a few hours afterward. The surgeon had no doubt that death had been causer' by the external violence applied to the head. The fighting had been quite fair, and the deceased had first begun it, and persisted in prolonging it. Mr. Justice Bayley said, that by law no fighting was allowed ; and if the blows given by the prisoner caused the death, he must be found guilty.—Guilty. The sentence was imprisonment for 14 days John Robinson, aged 46, was convicted of manslaugh ter.—He had allowed his cart to drive on before him, and in the middle of the street, in Liverpool, the horses had trampled upon a child of Vo months of age. The prisoner got the higl.est possible character for steadiness, sobriety, and humanity ; but AIL Macdonald, the sur geon, shewed in the clearest manner that the bruises given by the horses were the cause of death. His Lordship expressed great regret at sentencing so excellent t character to imprisonment for six months. BURGLARY: Job Ellison, aged 20, was Charged with having burglariously entered the dwelling-house of Thus. Sandif , srd, a calico printer, at Tottington-higlier-end, on the 18th of July, and with having stolen a watch, four gold rings, four sovereigns, two guineas, a necklace, a ruby, an amethyst, and other trinkets. On the night in question, two men, one with a light in one hand, and a pistol in the other, another with a large bludgeon in his right hand entered the bed-chamber of the prosecutor, at half past twelve. They demanded where 'us property was, and he told theta, and gave them some keys. They compelled hist' to get out of bed, and open some desks for them. Upon his getting into tail again, they fastened his hands to the posts of the bed. Ohservina. while in the act of dairg so, that he had gold rings on his fingers, they palled them off. They pro ceeded text to Miss Sandiford's rotor.): she •ATered resist ance, but was soon overpowered, and such trinkets as were to be room! in her room were carried away. While the robbers were thus occiipted, the prosecutor enntrised to disengage his hands, and to escape out of the house to alarm the neighbours. The robbers soon discovered this, and fled. They were pursued, but not taken. The ' prosecutor went afterwards ni Black bona, in order to see whether he could recognize any of the robbers. The .prisoner he saw there at his mirk as a sawyer, but in a light dress. lie was asked if he had a dark coloint d dress, and was then satisfied that lie was one of the men. Ile was more convinced no hearing him speak, for one of the robbers had repeatedly spoken to him. The prisomr had been seen near the place on the night of the rob hem—Godly—Death. The i .ressecii tor hegged that liis Lordship would reco.'l - his: to mercy. Cur:mu 70 PuttLlcArt , .—A circumstatre lately occurred in the neiglitants hood of Bethnal-green. which nay serve as a caution in the landlords of public houses, not to refuse, under ap,.reheitsions of loss or i•ueonve• nieuce, their ready assistance in cases where h 'man bie is endangered by sudden accident. A !nail was taken nut of the Regent's Canal with enure feeble signs of lite, and was conv'ey•ed to a public.house in the iseighb mr hot.d, the landlfrd of which, ttotwithstandiug the lost earnest Mire:Hies and ref inslranees, obstinately refused every accommtalation and assistance, excepting what a talkie in the (per skittle ground afforded, where the small remains of vitality iu the unfortunate man beesul• soon extinct. The landlord was severely eeprimmded by a .7tagistrate, and was told that his licence htight not lw renewed. I' is perhaps not stifliciently known that the Royal Htimatie 1e ciety always rewards landlords and every other person who lake in a body ler such cir cumstances, and pledges itself to indemnity the pat) , atiortiong stub humane assistance against all reasonable charges for buual, in the event of tirade. 291 EXTRAORDINARY STEAM BOAT. Union Steam Boat —Tbis boat, the most unique, and perhaps the most splendid ferry-boat in the country, was tried or. Saturday, and upon Tuesday began to ply regu larly at the ; and, were the piers such as to admit of her touching theta at all times of nue, there is no doubt but the intercourse by the ferry would be rendered hiore frequent, in catisequet.ce of the increased eta-don and safety of the conveyance. The Union is a twin-'ioat, composed of two hulls, each seventy.six feet keel, eleven and a half feet !tette , . and a eleven and a hall• feet asunder. They are hand somely and sithstatitit.ll) built, am, ',tardier, by !wag fortified with tem.; and the :anal(' atid eaten. nun do owl: credit to the taste and skill of ..lt. Brown (of Perth), the 'milder. Tie whole length upon deck is ninety-two feet, aiiil L' e breadth about thirty-four.— Thirty-two. feet :1 the one end is left about two feet !ewer 111.111 the rest of the deck, a•:d railed in for e•tr. riages and cattle ; and the daors at the middle of this space are constructed as to serve for platforms in load ing and unloading. Twenty-two fret in the centre are eccupied by the niachinety, an engine ieiug its each beat, and the paddle-wheel acting in the canal If I..iedi ately between. The engines are of 15 rses power each ; and as they arc connected with the sat•:e wheel, they act conternooramantsiy. So stoma vdo t 'try work, that even now, when the parts may be supposed to be stiff, there is hardly any tremor in the :oat; and, when the doors which inclose the machinery are slim, there is very little noise. The paddle-wheel has wooden dams, and is so divided, that tiniugh each half has ostly eight floats, the whole acts with the saute smoothness as if it had sixteen, and yet the power is not diminished. Notwithstanding the immense size of the boat she obeys her helm very easily. Tnere are two helm•, each constructed of a rectangular iron plate, four feet and a half in the horizontal direction, such three feet and a half in the perpendicular. The tiller of each is almost ten feet long, and requires two men to manage it properly.— The machinery is so constructed as that either end may go foremost; and thus the boat eau arrive aticl depart without the tabour or space required for turning round. The reversing of the notion is effected by reversing the action of the valves of the engines. These are open, d and shut by an alternate rod, mined by an eccentric blotek oil the shaft of the paddle-wheel. "l'his rod acts, upon a double :ever, fastened to the rockiitg shalt of the valves; when it acts on the lower end of the lever, the paddle wheel moves the one way, and wnen it ac:s on the upper end, the wheel moves the other. The lever is made broad in the middle, with a fl inge round it, which retains the stud, oil the alternating rod during the time that it is chaitaed from the one end to the other. The rod is raised or lowered by means of a toothed sec tor, into which a pinion works. The two pinions are on the opposite ends of a nal, wind pa,sei tinder the index table, below which it has a bevel wheel, acted on by a simila: wheel, connected will, the reversing index. sly simply turning this Oulu:, tie boat passes in less than one minute from ••lotion iii one direction to motion in that directly opposite. The boat • sty be steered by either hello ; and by working both itel.i.s at the !Wile time, it :::ay be turned round in a vt•ry small compass.— Indeed, though the boat t- , ect!,s ".are and unwieldy, yet, in consequence of the ie.pelling power he Mg in the centre, it can be turned in a much smaller compas that, a less boat with two w:.eels. Its c•uuon, too, Militia a breeze, or across the swell, is moult tn-te steady, as a good deal of the disagreeable rolling of a two-wheeled boat at ises from the unequal hold which its wheels take of the water. A dreadful fire broke out oil Monday roaming, a lit tle after twelve o'clock, in a large five-story house in the Cowgate, immediately op:x.site to t . ..e iii-it of the Par liament-stairs, Edinburgh. I'he fire originated in an apartment ou the scrotal floor, and, burning with gre it fierceness, sotto commulticated to the floors above, and the one immediitely h.hav, Al out half an Lour alter, the stair, a wooden one, was cove-taped in flames; but previous to this, all the iohalastauts, except one in the third floor, escaped to the street, many of hem half naked. The faintly which remained consisted of a man named Batmen!' its, his wife, and three children. Bannerman hittise.f leapt over o.e whitlow, with acidic! M his arms, anti est•apiid with sonic ' , light hurts; but Ins wife was less fortunate; .titer tlt.•pl•iug a child front the window, s!.e le.yed over herself with another in her aims. 'l''•ey were all tnree tai •n tip alive, awl the poor woman, who was far olvanced in pregnancy, was canted to the iiifirmary tt oh one of Ole children, wher e they soon after expireil. The oi!ter was taken into a neeilthouring house, and survived but a few minutes. Mr. Joseph Phillipson, limner of Algakirk Fen, left Ilorneastle on his retur•. home nue evening during the fair, in emnpany wits. three strangers, all on hors. hack. When they came to a part of the road which is murh overhung with trees, in the parish or Schrivelshy, one of them called out, " Purl tap, dmi'l ride so fast ;" another at the sante moment struck Mr. I'. a violent blow over the side of the head, which brought him to the ground, where he remained tor some time u•uscless. When he recovered !ti•uself he found that his late companions bad rubbed hint of his pocket-hook, contain' Ile aa, Mr. Phitlipson is the ;iersoi who was robbed of 4001. on his return to leak irk frein Boson, FATAL AI isrAKE.—An unlucky circumstance oc. cams: un Friday even ng oil Kerry end. In:lend Ilis 3la- I jtstv's sloop of war iiedwitv tell in with the Harriet revenue cruiser. Captain Mott stqtposing it 19 be Filitiggier. fired sevettil shots into her, anti cu.:ft:lt:ell to slit rsi tier a eansitlerehle time. it was not wail the traits of the Redwing were preparing to hoard the Harriet. thnt the • tiralte discove:eil. One of the crew WII4 killed. rle hee., hut very lately toms t only tit her tirst e u.z:, was furlierl) u f l inch lugger, in whit+ erall tar is rit.4lPH. .11e phial: (1.1,t1111/1A ILe ca taio of the Redwing in Es I het Iniag a smuggler s having rever bcture :seen het ou ts.ttist. The fisirx was braid distinctly foe a eolisitien t l„ e ti nt , iti...11101.1 4 r fhPre. and upwarns of 40 shots were Si,ttl, by sei cited cheers row each veaseJ.