The National Register. — London, England, 1818-05-25 00:00:00

MAY t 5. them an ailitiouiticil. Mr. Merceron replied. 1 liete Mk( ii stereo( that, Sir Unit, I ; l have seen them. Witness was sworn ; lir W:l3 1101 At'ked to n.ute the houses, ailil nq inure guesti•ms were put. The vi cut:tilers were then called in. If it had out heen for what Mr. Mercpren said to him he should have presented these houses on that day. Tile licenses were renewed to the same permits. WIIIIrB.I visited the same honso'ngairttainidid not hurl their hehaviour at all improv. ed. He was treated afterwards with insult, and lie was less atiended to Ilit4ll before by the landlords. M. Cadonx, J. Smith, .and J. Field, Headboroughs of the parish, in 1815, gave evidence to the same effect. 1. Reynoldsou, a constable in .1816, said, un the licensing day in that year Mr. Merrecon asked him if lie had any corn plaints to make against public houses. Ile•saiil he h,d , and named the Seven hum, the Adam and. Eve, the Rain and Mag the "furkond Stave, and the Golden Hey. Mr. M. said, e should he careful what he • said, us he might deprive the ‘coupiers of their living; and that if lie would leave it to him Jo would see slid talk to them. Witness asked him , whether, whet, he cone before the Magistrates, Ur Alionkl not be oh-, li dto take an oatb.as •to the publieaha. Mr. M. atiswereil, that he would but that was merely a !matter of tbriii. Wit. urn told him, he could nut take the oath that the publicans ortere orderly, when lie knew to the contrary. When witness went. before the Magistrates, Mr. AL,Sir 1). Williams and two or three others were present, and witness was asked if •he had any complaint to make. He told .him the. Golden Key waso disorderly house. That was all he was asked.— lie did siot mention the rest, because Mr. Merceron Said he would see the parties and admonish them ; he did not know that Mr. Merceron was the propriet..r of any public house. J. Lefevre, J. Gardiner, J. *cease, J. Eases, and W. Fish • • wick, corroborated the testimony of Reyholilson. Mr. Gurney proved that be took the minutes before the !Committee of the House of Commons in the year isle. Mr. Mercerou had access to those minutes. On the 17th June 1816, the minutes appeared to hr corrected by Mr. Merceron; he sometimes corrected them with pencil, mid sometimes with • Mr ;Topping snbmitted, that if any of these minates‘ were' read, the whole of them ought to be ; and that they could net be received in evidence, it not being a voluntary deposia Lion of Mr. Mereerm, hut compulsory. T. Common Serjeant followed on the same side. Mr. Justice Abbott was of opinion, that the evidence was receivable. _ _ . The evidence was then received, fears which it appeared that the defendant was the owner of several, public houses among whieli were.tbe Seven Stars, the White Swan, and the, King's Arms. He also produced 111t4 of other pnbeie houses, of which he• received the rents, including the ITurk and . Slave. "flais was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Topping then aderessed the Jury for the defendant, and said, the evidence he proposed to call was, for the pur pose of sheaving that he could not have any corrupt motive, inasmuch a+ he hail ne other interest in or controul over the houses than what arose from the right of a landlord to distrain for mat. lie then eAlleil Mr. C. Lush, a solicitor, who prow. ed that Mr. Mercerou had sub-let the houses in question to. Banbury and Cu. the brewers, and others. But the Jury re. ,turaril a verdict finditig the defendant Guilty.! . ;Monday, u Frederick nod Georre Somerset. brothers i the rider unly.l7. who resided with their parents, in swan-place, . Stepisey,were driving a chaise on the Ftowford•road, in en. deavourtng to avoid .a lime cart, they upset their vuehicle, -when the wheel of the cart went over the body of Frederick, and killed bias ea the spot. George escaped with slight 'flie guarder a two white men io a .host at Demerara, as stated in our last, look placeponder the following ciremu. stances :—A negro and his boy were engaged to row two Engliabairn to a retired creek, where a smuggling slavr•vese oil was to disembark her cargo. Ile landed his two passett; gets but in instant he seised a billet of wood, and with one bluw be .anartiered one of the two. A isattle• then took' place between him mail the other, whom in the cud he alto killed—auddie then deliberately bung himself on a tree. This la the acconnLgiveti by the boy. We trustiliat a strict invea tstation will take plaee at to the contraband dealer in human beings as a commodity fur sale. IN' ere happy•to state, that tranquillity ha: Aeon restored si WittcheateriCollege, that the business of the school has been reaninial with order,anddhat 9:4 young gentlemen have .aincesisown perfect resignation to the will of their able teach -em. Almost 40 of the Gentleman Commoners have been •allnwrd to resign. There were only sin (out of 230 who Mil net join in 411 e revolt—the two motor and tour other College Prefects. The heti:lour at Burlington Quay, !rr.Yorkshire, is about ltt leave a new pier erected; the present one baking suffered, -MO much front the violence of the sea, as to becoule in a very .unsafe state. Amongstm any ether instances of ass extriordinarydestrne. • Coo CAaised by the-distemper amongst animals this year, is to be reckoned the mortality amongSt the rah. In twiny Valagrs in the North of Entrust not one of these animals is The Kaleidoscope has been rereived by the Public with no • mach pleasure, and so great is the eagerness of: femil4es to proeare them, that it is thonglit the ingenions Dr. Brewster. aroald have made an. immense onm by the toy,if he had used mote ',retention its -bringing it forward. We doubt, however, whether be could have maintained his claim to the originality -ST the iuvention. Indeed, c arepursuaded he mild not,thongh from oar ithowledge of hie integrity of character, we-believe tie thought the invention original. 41 vehicle, however, printed in 1710, describes the invention litetsib, and gives a plate, by which any person might make the instrument.—The book is entitled—" New Improvemente of Planting and Gardening; by Riehant .The tneustoirett is described to lie" a new invention for the more speedy signing of gardeisplats ; whereby we may prodttee more vorieq of fiettree thug than are to be found in all the modem of gArdeaing :tow extent." The olficiol Gazette it Christiania, in Norway, contain: the following a 'elute " Aboat tt week before the Raster holidays several men who wens rut on dieted &hely perished in the storm. On Easter Dzy, in the seen*, some fishermen took a shark in their nets. They found its Ins stomach two bowels of nets. and a man in a sailor's dress. with tioeheeimatteof skin and sea boors, but without a hat. As his fee tures teete-pot chanjed, he was recognised to be one of the persons . ten° hed•perisited in the tempest 'which sok place several days before; 'ewe; diet:fore delivered to his family, and was buried at Hero." Jane Wells. nine years of age, who resided with her parents. in t ^ .huzeh-street, Bethnal-green, being left in emote. on Mo.olity, by herself, fell asleep by the fire side, when a spark hew on her gar ments, whirls nteekly kindled to a flame, by which she was so dread - rui:y blirot that sac dirt, just oa hez,amiesl at the London Hospital. THE NATIONAL /LEGISTEn. Lloyd's-row, near Sad'er's Webs, has been for some time in a state of collusion, owing to the Following circumstance :—A Mr. Bushey, who keeps a chandler's shop in that place, being in arrears of rent, had, aboot three well's since, a man put in possession, who one evening accompanied Mr B. to a neighbouring public house, wh:re he contrived to give him the slip, fas tened his doers and windows, and refused to admit old Cerberus on his return. 1:c consequence, he applied at Hatton Garden Office far authority to forte the door: but it appearing that he hail voluntarily left the premises, he was refused. He then, in conjunction with the broker who had employed him, determined to blockade the fortress; and in hopes of starving out the garrison, refused e ntran c e to any su p p li es w h atever. Mr..B.'s friends, however, have contrived to supply the family with necessaries by means of a rope thrown from the. two-pair-of-stairs Iv in Llow . Wednesday Mr. Ellis, landlord of the Coach and Horses, Islisigton road, was brought to the r Office, charged with supply ing them by this means with porter ; but was instantly, on the case being stated, disFbarged, and the parties bringing him up severely repretnanded. They imme diately returned to the spot, hoping, that as they are neither allowed to storm or starve out the garrison, they may be enabled to take the opportunity of some moment of relaxed discipline to obtain admission by stratagem. in the.mean time, the police : have been or dered to attend, to prevent or nip in the, bud any at tempt at riot. The. Hampshire Cironick contains the - following ex tract of a letter received last week by a. gentleman resident in Winchester, from an officer who has joined the Patric t cause in South America. It was written from the island of Margaretta, and dated 18th January, 1818 :—"Out 0180 individuals who embarked with me I i n the enterprise to South America, I lelievel am the only one whose expectations have been fulfilled. w e I began to separate at St. Thomas's, some directing their course to Amelia Island, to join 'General Sir Gregor M'Greger, who has been starved out of that island, rand his troops disbanded ; others went to Tortola. where I lsome obtained situations, some died of fever, And one, arrived on the Island, who has since proceeded -So St. Domingo, to return to Ehgland. Many setnrried to England from St. Thomas's, and übout4o accompanied me to this island in the Two Friends (the vessel we embarked in). About two months back a schooner arrived here from England, with 146 more British offi cers fur the Patriot service; but on hearing the allow alace for officers of all ranks Isere was nincpcnre per diem only, they immediately proceeded to Trinadad for the Spanish Main, and ti ok with them all the British officers on this island, combined with the exception of 16. On their arrival at Trinadad, from the very un favourable news they received there of the patriotic cause, and the littleencouragemeut given them on this island, combined with the advantageous offers made them by the Spanish Royalist Agents, at Trinadad, many of them, from necessity, were compelled to enter the Royalist service, and the remainder returned to England, But of the 16 officers left here, four have embarked for thei- native country, And the other 12 are starving on ninepence.s day." MATH VP TUE i'lliNCl OP. CON 111C.—Mny 13, aged £2, died hie Serene Highness, the, Vrittce of Conde. Shia Prince was raised by public feeling above the level of his illustrious rank—a distinction whiels*.he owed, in part, no dooht, to his personal character and noble.qualities; but partly also to the times in which lie ;lived ; to the prominent station which he filled throag!iont the revolution ; and to the-. calamity which overwhelmed his declining years, and extinguished for ever the prospects of the house of Contle.—He was born in 1738, two years before his 31iljesty King George the Third.*He married, at the early period of 15, the Princess Charlotte of 'Behan- Sonbise ; by whom he had the Disc De Bourbon, a Prince fa miliar with many inhabitants of this metropolis,.and Made moiselle De Comte. He commenced his career of arias in the seven years' war, and fought suecessfully, say his Fs emit . Biographers. against the Hereditary Prince, after...cards - Duke of Brunswick. 1k was named Grand Master of the King's Honsehoid, and Governor of Burgandy..whieh hateeollice he held fur 3S years, and endeared himself in it to the listrinn. ; dials , ' by his liberality.`:ram the Peace of 1763,-40 the tweaking oat of the. Xeivolutioe, lie eultiveted letters and literary men. His Serene Highness is well knaves toliave published a History of the life of his warlif e ancestor, the Great Conde." which. is- spoiiieit 01, as a work of equal modesty and merit. At the opening of the revolution he signed the famous " Mensiai•o d.a Princes," addressed to the Kin( ;.and in-July 1189, retired fount natter with his flunk to Brossels, and thence to Turin. The earlier years of the Prince De Conde's exile oet c einplmtall and enuobled by hts elti.h)4ol at the head of the army of French loyalist.. which followed his standard and bore his name. Atter the eainpaien of 1810 this corps woes disbanded, .sad the Prin. e 2. repaireditn Englond o wlieso• he tie edit' the enjoyment ot oze moral respect,. nutil the Rine's reoloistion to 1814. "Ilitik greater portion of his time sou. e his return in Fiance has been spent we believe, nt Chnnlillx , -where the a small bniltling, the u reek of owls ancient and unignticent italare. His town reviiii.nce was the 1 3 :dais Houston,. ormA since the noiriter to his two oir grandson. the Der . titEogiiieti, the last blanch el a glormitv house, bad tinbile-ii a deep tinge of sadness. ant from this affliction he toos refine in habitual piety, WO looked4or comfort where the, hest comfort is to be found--in the,exereise of MI religious duties to which he devote d a large portion of -the latter years , (Whit life. He may, without exaggeration or inkistice, 1..- entitled to a Prince in the highest degree brave and polite atTitante. zrorrons,aeoi A ye 1.11.111, iweeed FloWera, from BllSirtstnke, has ander mkent to g 0.3.5 niilrs per 01.. y-for 15 socteessive.days. Bra tatted from Oxford-,tree.t, Jown tai Western road, ttt fawn by Way of Taunton, Somerset. POLICE.' tel HATTON GARDEN .--,.- Lake, a chimney sweetie', residing .in John-street, Tottenhans Court-road, was summoned to appear befell' the Magistrates to 4115% er a CWIIO.IIII against 6uu icr letting oat his climbing apprentice boy on hire. It was stated, that W. Itlutmur, the boy, had hero seen in a very crippled rind ex - liiiiisted state in the street in company with one of Lake's journeymen, or a postai to whom be had lent the clind, to obtain soot at 2i. a sack, which you'll afterwards be ►old by Lake fur es. The master at first. sliselairnial the bey, con tending that lie had taken him out of charity, hot ...t l:e Iliad never been appreidieed, and thereupon neg:ected /!:e magistrate's minimum' fur his appeal auce in the morn a w'tis the boy. In the eveuing, however, lie hriaight hint ;rod the indenture, bear lug date in December, HSI 1, sta tirig :bra Pia 'hat the child was right} tars of age ; hill it %v.' , e%i•irlit, from the appearance of the boy, that be coals! rot Hee he teal years Mal. The magistrates inspect. tl the knees and dIICINII of the boy, and foam. them in ti shock his. ►tare rd.: , thunination. Mr. Sk;niter, siirgemi of Ilatton Garden, aa. examined upon oath as to the state of the wounds, and 4.1 ~ 1 lie considered them as very highly iiihaineci ; but with pi u per washing, oultising, and rest, lie thought the limbs tug tt he restmed ; he also del not think the boy could br tars of age. The pour boy, who could hardly support music during the examination, was evidently int• • hated by L s master into a state meut. of unqualified goad dotage, though lie admitted that the preetdiug day he hail been employed iron. four o'clock in the morning iu sweepieg 24 flues with little ii any clothing to tuner him, and no blase plate en his cap to avoid deteetion.—The master was elaiuorteas in his own dc. fence ; to which the worthy magistrate, Mr. Sellusa, paid little attention, stating his fnhi impression to be, that the child %pp now scarce ten years old, though he lord beeu uurkcdfour years ; and also that there was strong groand to suspect that at the time of the execution of the indenture a larger Lay had been substituted and produced to the magistrate, who wonitlAtherwise have rejected so small a child, as.eviiltutly within the age of eight, prescribed by the act. Mr. Tooke, who attended in behalf of the Society, requestrit leave to inquire further into the age of the child, with a view,tu•cancel the indenture, should helmet" been tattler eight at the elate of it; he aim prevailed on the 'magistrate to retails the inden... 'mein the. tithe*, And to have !tar child protected during the investigation : nyon which Mr. Schou delivered the boy to the care of Mr. fouke, who undertook to lodge bun in the workhouse of St. Midi ew, Holborn, whither Mr. Tooke had buts carried, and saw him safe in the care of the Matron, stlio would wash and poultice the wounds; and,Mr.Skiqner. pro mised to visit bits, and report thereon totlif magistrate. arum lIMIATTn.II sePws n '.' One of the most diabolical attempts to murder a young roman. was the subject of investiganuo on Thursday. The person charged is John Dr.nnet, who keeps a green grocer's shop in the Edgwaro. road. and the vie iin of premeditated injury is done Rogers, a good lookiag Aromas, between twenty and thirty years of age. hap pened that the woman had cohabited with the prisoner .for .the last nine years, but on May-day last she was married to Rogers, a work ing gardener ; she baring, according to his statement, left hius wham she went out to market, for. the, purpose of matrying Rogers ; and from this time,.accordirooto his statement. he harboured hatred and revenge in his mind, but he was at y Joss how. to edict his purposes ; he at length resolved on zmnder. And he took the opportunity of making the attempt on. Thursday morni, calling the woman up tiller her husband had gone to work. Two men, of the names of Goodchild and Court, stated the circumstances dif theme as feller:, from the prisoner's confession :—They were at the Conch and !forms in the Edgware• road, soon after seven o'clock on Thotoday morning, when the prisoner came in, and observed, with much ,coolness, that he had killed a woman at Wenbourae Green thit morning. They ~disbelieved him from his easy manner of relating Mg story, but he gave them some gin. and then stated that he had been long unhappy in dais mind about Mrs..Regers, and that he bad called her up at .jeven o'clock that morning, uneer pretcoce that he wanted loom roots; when she mine.down stairs. km requested a few minutesun , vienaziou with her. Be observed to her.'that her cap was on wrong, and on her turning round to kink io a glass, the monster seized a bill ; hook, and indicted *severe wound at the bock of her head : he then drew from hia.pocket a razor, with which he cut her threat in most shocking manner, aid in resisu4 the dreadful attack her fwgere mare nearly cut off. The p4soner was delivered over to the handset justice and conveyed to this office. The .ssountled woman was coosrryed to St. George's llospitiJ, and an officer was sent to ascertain heratate. The surgeon described the manner in which ha throat and fingeqwere satobesidas which. there were' as tinny its twenty serious wOonds about. the back of her head. The unfortu nate woman misted the story, which corresponded with the prisoner's confession, when she was brought into the hospital. • The oat:kris of Mr.' Cronin, the, house sur geon, to the Mattistrate was, '' 'that the sufferer could sot fang aorvive." Her husband stated, that the , prisoner, so far from.not haying..hoen reconciled to their marriage, was present at the testival, acid drank somas to than I hiking'. Rogers describeilit to be a kntte with which the wound in she throat was inflicted. The prisoner appeared with his waistcoat and his hands imbued in blood. He complained of the woman having plundered snit ill-used him. and on heating that she was not dead, he unproved hie sierow at it, as he went, nn purpose to gratify hle revenge, and had he completed his work ha Would met mind then as cending the seattold. Mr. Gayer attended at the Hospital from this oftecin the e'refiilig to take the davaiihuas of the wangled woman. which were in sub- SLAW. wont the prisoner had confessed to Goodehild and Cuts t. She elated, for: hetalked yen calmly rd her for sometime after shr Thad. let him in. sod he had used kind langusige.w het before the ht hiin in. On • a sudden he gait her a severe blow• with a cutting weapon en the baekolherlierd, which knocked hcr down; he reverted Aeatikhelt upon her and cut her throat.' lie then cioaped. and w:teess with owed. difficulty clay/led which was opte, and goons-St_r a twin who ii ar pas 'h.,: assisted.j oi . nod gave do . Wenn. %Vint's; stated, iivcd and he had often threaten:4,w kill her, 1.n.: length she led him fi r safes v. and married ntigeti it &Notate entente married afta r living sonie roue won Ile -els, but he r....nr:tied with his wife or.:v 'is weeks, and hied with dtii,;ers. I 1 swodareusanded trill next Nlonday. —ersoo— . At. tiorsion, of the witty, 4.116•1414: "dung the road ;trading to ,„, t•oWikik 1 .141,Mt11144y w. 04 stooped by .1 sii.ek• wtn.,cysltong 1f IP rriw Of the d emma l„.l money. 31r. f.A. , ,,ITLIVIIAY 4to Inok after 10.1 ?Wiled tent a pocket ti.istipt,' the Itiggre of winos he rbilud, limit it flashed to ibe lisp; hetore hr ”nnid itikeharge, it,-the mutter "krockrit it oat o f hi s it., Ki and hint mid InOttosse; reikt ag we ,rny muck.. (the entitgur h.tuistg a c hiute liis haw', with he thee:O -r: r : id:i urea In mnril.-r hint if he did not gire hits ilia Janney), anti he.ddircieth Is 61. note and 34. its silver to his assailant, who wiliy4 dressr I lii,e a tailor, mint is a short .toot lrpow , wilts dark fentines. Knistosson was Diet by a man answering h 'lest ttption on Sunday night, who atter Ito4kiag Moo Own owl severe!) beating: tato, ( ebbed him otom. oiraerettili Ur. • • .