The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-29 00:00:00

!. • 414 SCsSEI ASST ES ( LEWES. DEC. 23.—The winter assizes commenced here this wonting, before the lion. Baron Graham, and the Bon. Mr. Joustie , Bayley. At It) o'clo.k the Commiasions were opened, after wlsiets the halm.' Joolges sincoded Divine Service. The Calendar C 0111.11,15 filly cuunuituwnts, several of which arc for capital (CM..., David Eagles •as indicted for having feloniously uttered forged Bank of England note, for the value of 31. ma the 27th of July. Ise knotting it to be forged. On the day in question the prisoner had gone to the sloop of the pres,cotur, • shoemaker, of Marlielsl, and purchased a pair or boots. In payment he tendered a 51. note. Before the prisoner gave the c .unge to the prosecutor, he asked where I e boot got it 1 lle said be received it from his master. sooa after the note wa. discovered to be forged, and the prisoner was apprehended nt some distance from the house of the pro secutor. When the consit,:de also took Isim into custody told him the vessel ui Illy Ilritecetllll,:,, be iue•nediately said he had tee. Owed the note from a person to whom he load sold a horse at last Crinstead fair. NVitnesses were also called, w!so proved that, on the Ist of June preced tog the last trnossaction, the prisoner had called at a chandler's shop, al tirridge Green, Near Tunlortslge Wells, and asked the shopkeeper for change of a 51. utile, ►aging, M the same time, that Ise wanted it for the purpose of paying a number of Issbourerto in Ilia eolith'''. anent, then waiting at • public house, called the Green Mau, in do, riei4lllmushood. The change was given, tool the in-i -somer said his name was Russell, and bred at Yabling, One of the inspectors of notes of the Bank of I:oVand proved that the too notes, thy subject u!' the indictment, were forged in CI respects. The confession of the prisoner, stating that be had bought the note. knowing it to be forged, was now put in and read. The Jery found the prisoner guilty—ele;44. Leutry was indicted fen sealing, on the 25th r f October, a bay mare, and a black gelding, the property of T. Hewitt, at Ilenfield. On the evening of the 2.5 th of Octoherr, the servant of the preseeator /eft the two 'Menai* mentioned in des laliettslul eere in a ckuoinear the house. The nest limning the prisoner was seen riding the eeliliag, and leading the mate, at the this-: (once or IN miles from the place where they were iiiiesed. Ile was perste d and taken. W lieu asked how lie had at:aitied possea,a of the horses, he said they had ben tuttmstrd le his cure by a person whom he did nut know, and that not bk. log the job, lie bail left them, and gone into the wood. 'f lie Jury found the primmer guilty—death. J. Joitoson, \Y. Pike, and W. Paine r were charged with listing, on the night of the 4th of September, burglariously • broken into and waived the dwelling house of C. Newington, at 'ficebtirst, and with having stolen therefrom IS silver apoons, red other articles, his property. The et 'deuce ageinst it: issuers in this case was also eir • eue.ntantial ; they had b..en seen together in the neighbourhood of Ticelmist fur the two preceding (ip', and they were also seta together nt about live o'clock in the HMI Hill alt. r the rubbery. Suspicion hat Mg arisen, from these circumstances, that the prisoners knew something of the burgle: v, they were pursued and taken, when there was found on the person of Jolintem a pocket-lnife, the tip of which appeared to hate been broken otr, end in the wooden sash of the window, out of which a [bane of glass Ned been cut to facilitate the entrance of the runbers halo the house, was found the lip of the knife, which when produced in Court fitted exactly with the knife found on the person of Johnson ; is the person of Pike It' clt e salt er•tiflOOna were found, and on Payne a limning knift ; iu a ditch, where Payue had been, es he said, resting himself just b. fete they were tnLen into custody, was found two silver spoons ; the whole or the property was identified. The July found a verdict guilty—death. Lets Le, Parser wait indirted for stealing. ea the 4111 of November. a brown mare, the property of Ben. Clmilen, at Cocking. Oa the night ut the lilt of November. the mare in question was placed in a stable belonging t• the prosecutor, by one of his sen atilt.. The nest moreine, the animal was missed. the enquiries made at la.wee, it appealed that the prisoner hail gone to that place with the mare, and booked it for sale at the °nice of an auctioneer. The nest day, a person named Eagles purchased it. For greater security, Mr. Eagles asked the tam er tioneer who was the owner. The prisoner was then pointed out to him. When Eagles heard of the prosecutor's lota, lie immediately sent to inform him, that a similar mare had been bought by hint from a person at Lewes. CLvllen came to Eagle's Loose, and identified the animal as his own. The prisoner was pursued and apprehended on the 10th of Novi:tabu. The prisoner in his defence fetid, that on the night of the robbety, be was sleeping at the house ut his washerit ~,,, ;.n, and Lad never seen the witnesses nuts eaalaiued ugainst him.— Guilty—Death.` Jobe Haywood was indicted for stoppinz. Samuel Pettit on the highway, and feloniously taking flow his person • Batik note, a silver watch, and otter pup( rty, , un the 23d ul October, at ileatbfield. The prosecutor, who is a labourit; man, bad on the 23d of October, gone to a place called Palmas,. ; on his return lie called at a public-house, for the pOrpose of getting some re freshment. There he saw the ',dauber, and remained drinking v ith him fur some time. Ile and the prisoner left the house in company. When they had 'woe. etled together aboat three or fuur miles, the prisoner left him, slid returned towards the public-house they hod left. Whet. the prosecutor had walked same distunce farther, he turned dotsn a lane leading from the swain road. Ile hail not gone far before the prisoner seined Lim by the collar, and by the assietance of mutter Mao Ihu ew bon on the ground. They immediately put their knee on his breast,'siel took his watch and some money then in his pockets. The next day, as the prosecutor knew the residence of the pri aont-r he went there end demanded his %doh. This was re feseit. A warrant was Viet. obtained, and the prisoner taken LA" ra,tody. iti:esses were called, on the part of the prisoner, who swore Cm, on die night in queetioe, the prusecutor had git en Lie N‘ Ullll to a woman. The learned Juke lilting stemmed up the et ii!t nee, re 'nailed that they acre of opinion, that tl e story told by the witneeses on the part of the prisoner was • fabrication, then ellen their verdict ailed dep. mi on the evidence for the ; but if they thought that it alas a sallicielit COldradiciton to the eV itlenee pru ;weed by the prime:Jou, they must acquit We pr.sener. The Jury iminetliately acquitted the prisoner. Jul,. ILuN it and Charles Smith were indicted for ntraling on (lie 22th of August, a gold watch, bum the person of Siuteuu Balm., at Brighton. Ou the et erring of the day in quention, Mr. Batts, a reepectable druggist at Brighton, was walking. Best street, in that town, atom he saw the prisoners. They L a d e ppe, ecbed very near bite, whta Brown meth lied the watch front his person and eau a icy, is company with, the other / t_ .~ mar- THE NATIONAL REGISTER jiri , oner.—As they proceeded down the sireet, he observed the watch trunskrred from Brown to Smith, and the letter put it into his packet. Both the prisoners were stopped just as they were eutei Mg on the Clitf, and on being searched, the watch was found ou Smith.—Guilty—death. PAUPERS Y. SELECT VESTRYMEN. David Saunter, Williiun Saunter, and John Carter, Blood in dicted for having, on the 2il of November, uillaw lolly, riotously, and lumultuon.ly assembled top ther, with several other pau pers, to the number of 110 or more, in the parish of Northium, in this comity, for the purpose of preventing and hindering Franoia Tress Curtis, George Sptingctt, Thomas Rooks, Francis Tress, Mules Greenwood, and Thomna Field, six of the select vestrymen of that parish, in the due esecutiou of their duty. 'the case, On proved is en idenee, was simply this :—The select vestry in the parish of Northisne had met in a room in the workhouse on the eventing of the 2d of Novenik r ; they had entered upon the business of the evening, and having considered arid decided upon the case of a pauper :tamed Tree, lie was was shout leaning the room, for the purpose of making room for a successor, it being an arrangement of the vestry that but one pauper should he in the room at the time; N% addle, the muster of the workhouse was at the room door, and opened it fur the purpose of letting Tice old, awl sending another of many who were waiting in t:.e passage into the room, when shout 16 or IN of them pushed the door open, and rushed into the room, and insisted upon being there, in greater numbers than had been customary ; they also refused to leave the room, without receiving greater relief than they had hitherto had ; the vestrymen insisted upon their leaving the room—the paupers pi rsisted, and the gentlemen subsequently adjourned, and left their refrartory interlopers to arrange their quantum of parochial relief, without their supply of the ways and means. The in • traders quietly seated themselves—espressed their determine dun to become fixtures, contrary to the express will of Mr. Waddle ; and it was ultimately found necessary to call in the aid of the civil power to restore older and remove nuisances.— It al: u appeared, that in the rush into the room air. Waddle had suffered some serious bodily injuries ; and for the riot mid assault the teethed counsel fur the prosecution, Mr. Courthorpe, csikd for the verdict of the Jury. His Lordship ably comm. used upon the impropriety of the prisoner's coralu , A, and the Jury found a vetdict of guilty.— They were sentenced to bard labour in the House of Correction for three c: ender months. Lewes, Dec. 26.—Daniel Murray was indicted fur stealing, on the .ith of December, a gold watch instil the shop of %11.Cela at Brigh on. The prisoner, who is only fourteen years of age, came to the prosecutor's shop on the day in question, and purchased a srusll gold pin. In the course of the same day lie came into the shop en two other occasions with different excuses. About lire u'clock, in the evening, when the sliopman w as removing Or the different articles from the window, for the night, according to the usual custom, lie missed the watch. Recollecting that the prisoner had h run so often in the shop in the course of the day, lie suspected him to be the person who had taken it. lie immediately wen► in pursuit of him, and found him at a short distance from the shop. When lie had seized the prisoner he began to cry, end said if be were allowed logo lie would give.up the watch. He then produced it, and was taken back to the shop. A constable was seta fur, and the prisoner taken into custody. Guilty—death. Richard Gardner was indicted for stealing two feather beds, a pillow, and other articles, the property of Sir Richard Bur rows, on the 3d of December, at Brighten. It appeared that Lady Burrows, having occasion to leave Llitou, desired a house agent in that town to take possession oilier house, st Ades, and furniture, until she should return.— This•he did with regard to the house. it now only remained for him to reetit c possession of the coach house and stables.— The enaclimpn, who lived over the coach-house, having take!, away his horses, sent the prisoner with the keys of the stables and his own rooms. Not having any occasion to go to this place, until the cnachman of Lady Brow nlow came to look at the premises, the keys remained in the office of the house agent until that time. On the aforementioned a ccadon, alien he. tried the keys with the different locks, lie found that they all fitted, except the one leading to the coachman's room, in which the property tniationed in the indictment was deposited.— Finding that the key would nut nnlock the door, a smith was sent for, and the door forced. On entering, they discovared that the property. was removed. Halal bills were then published, stating the circemstsnces of the case, and distributed about the streets of Br'evon. Amongst the places at which one of these bills was left, was the shop of a broker, lie immediately re collected !tat ing purchased similar articles f a stranger, and accordingly sett his infonnstion to Lady Burrows's agent.— The coachman a as then sent fur, and lie perfectly recollected the pillow to be the one be had left in his room. The prisoner was then :emelt. oiled. In his defence he said, that they were his property, and had ants them for the pupose of obtaining the means of going to London, and was perfectly innocent of the crime laid to his charge. Guilty—sentenced to six months imprisonment ins the house of correct on for the county. His 1,0111.11 qt then proceeded to pass sentence of death upon the six fullowit g prisoners :—David Eyles, for uttering forged litotes; NA Ham Agair, William Sadden field, and denies 31iller, for burg ty , and Moses Chandler, and James Crossing ingham for ho se stealing. Robert Kelton mod George-Eastwood were indicted for having, in the night of the 10th of November, in the parish of Bur , sarda, set Ire to a barn, the property of John henry. The prosecutor resides upon a farm, near the tuwu of Bur wash. On tl.is lams was lately standing a barn, coulatitine nearly all the hay and coin w..ieh had been grown by 31r. Fleury in the present year. A little before midnight, otu Sun day, the lent' of Nuveiniii r, it was discovered to be on lire, the themes is,uin . trout the tup, and different parts of the sides. The prosecuti.r, his servant, and a number 01 persons from the town were •coo assembled at the spot, and every possible ex ertion was made to extinguish the formes and sane the property. Their endeanOl.fi were, how, vu r, ineffectual, except as to a load of wheat shear( s, and a few Oliphant. ruts of funning in s ~,,, e of the out-huuses. Time remainder of the property and premises were compirtey destroyed. Among the persons assenthled on that (wealth r , were the two prisoners, who assisted in putting out the lire, au, saving the property. The prosecu r 'mune tit the overseers of the parish of Bur a ash, and in ;11. kibit of atirmling- the select • entries held there. The prisoners ti.e paupers in the parish, and receive relief.— magisti at en Inning strongly reconiniemled list the over seers it the p.sri hum slumLl not irrent puruckul relief to pau per*, who had g own up dauJiters nil home, dressed in a nian ner superior to t eir ennuition iii life; and the prisoners living situated in then antler. the ?entry frequently refosed to relieve them, until Ilit it daughL•rs went into the Imo, house. On Sa tuitlay, Nov. 2, ‘N erten appli d kr relief to the select vestry, aed it vas reins:a to him uu the aoutre grounds. The prisoner suspecting the prosecutor, Fleury, to be the cause of the refu. sal, hecanie greatly enraged against him, and in a conversation which he had with Mr. Westover, the assistant overseer, in the ensuing week, be used the must abusive language towards the character of Mr. Fleury. On Thursday the 7th of Nevem. ber, be was heard to say," I wish I knew my friend (meaning, it is supposed, the prosecutor), d—n seise my blood, if would nut do a job for him. and give him the length of my tongue!" On Saturday, the of November, Weston was at the house of Mr. Gilbert, one of the select vestrymen, and there said to a yonng woman Denied Lucy Wood, a servant of Mr. Gilbert, OA l• Mr. Fleury was more against him than any Lady else, that he should not starve, mid that he should gn about in the day to see what he could hook at night;" and on Lucy Wood's asking him why be did oot do it in the day time, Weston answered, " because I shall be seen." In the evening of the same day he said to Westover, " I think iMr. Fleury is the man who has prevented my being 'dieted," atidgafterwards, " if there is any one of these great starving the poor, I think they will have a great deal to answer fur;' and as he was leaving the house, he said, Mr. Fleury is my enemy ; d—n his heart." In the afternoon of the Nth of Nov ember (the day the barn wan burned), ‘Veston was again at Mr. Westot er's house, and when fur the same cause lie refused be said in a very malicious manner, " be d—il to hell, if I be not a match for him (meaning the prosecutor) befere to-morrow eight." It also appeared that on the eight iu questimi lie had gone to Eiistwood's house after eight o'clock, A ',ergot. named Linton, now proved, that un the nth of Nov, Eastwood beta 6111 d to him, that if he could get a couple of stout fellows, he would set lire to the barns of Fleury and Button." Thomas Ilumphrey's stated that he was at Eastwood's house 1.111 the Itith of November, when Weston came in and said, " he was come according to his word, to know if EsAwoud hod been to Mr. Davenport, the magistrate." Eastwood said lie had, but could get 'lolling from him. \% eston replied that he would have a living by fair means or foul, and that be had just given old Jack Ketch (metitiing 1 , 1 estover) a good blowing up, and that lie should lilt, to send old Fleury, and all the rest of them to hell. ElPoiNnuAl said if lie had a gun he would go and shoot twenty of them, It was on these grounds that the prisoners were both apprehended. ilia prisoners made no defence, except declaring their innocence. The learned Judge hating summed up the evidence, the Jury. after deliberating tur a shout 11111 C, returned a verdict of—Nut Guilty. Ills Lordship tben addressed the prisoners in a feelinz, ncr upon the unjustifiable espres,iuns they had used towaitis those who had contributed to their support iu timer of great distress. The Jury was discharged at about half past three o'clock, and the court was adjourned to the Judge's chambers. James Patterson was charged wish having, en the 16th of December, telohionsly stoles, 18Ibs. of pork, value ss. the pin. peity of William Berkshire, of Brighton. lerdict—guilty. Two months' imprisonment. This being the last case tried before Mr. Baron Graham, his Lordship proceeded to pass the aw fat seutunce of death upon the 1011 owing prisoners:—David Eagles, aged 36, fur passing forged notes ; William Again, aged 24, for burglary ; William Stubberlield, aged 18, ditto; Jam v Miller, aged 41, ditto ; Muses Chandler, aged 21, for horse stealing; James Cres:•inglietn, aged 24, ditto ; and Daniel Murray, aged 14, for felony. If to these be added the 15 nnfortunate men on whom sen tence of death was passed on Monday and Tuesday, there will appear to have been convicted at these assizes, for capital offences, not less than half the prisoners that have been tried ; the calendar originally contained 611 prisoners, but true bills were found by the grand jury against 33 only, and the number of those capitally convicted is 22. The learned Judge having thanked the Jury for their attention the Conrt adjourned at two o'clock. police. MANSION HOUSE Robbery of the Exeter subscription Coach.—ln the first account of this robbery it was stated, that the par ties in London, who were ruts rested in the bale emit ey ance of the tunes from Exeter to London, had not taken the most advisable measures for the discovery of the of fenders, and the restoration nt the property.' We have since learned that Messrs. Ilaiikey and Co. to whom the parcel containing the 1,0571. was directed from the EXChrllk, hed, the nut iumeu it they reevived notice of robbery, proceeded in the investittattun. Robert Baker (the guard), was brought up for a final examination. Mr..llloy attended as his Ciamsel,and asked whether there was any more evidence than had been brought for ward on the hornier occasion against his client. Mr. Andrews said, the only additional evidence he h td to produce, was that of Mr. Hankey's clerk. Mr. Cock, clerk to Messrs. Ilaiikey, was then exa mined. Ile staled (nut he could not speak positively to Baker in ally particular way), that the house was in the habit of aettiog parcels I the Exeter Hank dirmigit the guards of the coach, and that some one or other of the gentlemen of ti.e house was in the habit of ripping them out of the pocket. Ile. howeser, could nut by any means say that it boomed a condition of the convey. twee. that the guards showd never remove - the parcels front the pockets. The Lord Mayor.—You have already said one former examination, that your home often received parcels as liras y as that which wasstolen from the coach, and that a complaint was never .made of the weight. Have you receivedany of heavier weight? Mr. Cock replied that they had.,There were but 40 guineas in the parcel alluded to, and the house at Exeter sometimes sent Ma, Oh and 7e..-the weight had never been complained of. Mr. Alley hum stated, that it was a very strong fact that the prisoner rail oft to Mr. Hankey's Bank to tabu- Lion the loss. It was evident, that this attempt to pre. vent the had consequences of the robbery. was incom patible with a participation is it. Mr. Andrews übseived, that the prisoner might very easily, and without prejudice to the passing of the notes, give die notice describid ; but that notice had not been given nil past ten ;at nigh', notwithstanding that the rubbery had been committed at seven. Mr. Alley questioned Mr. Cock, as to the probability that lite prisoner was aware of the fact, that the house was not in pusstssiuti of the numbers of the notes. The _ - . ose shill toy I‘ as II jun the yet, , bvt cm li i 1 I _ ____-.J. ~ ~~ MEI