The National Register. — London, England, 1822-10-06 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIOICS. - Tessisee. Orr. I.—The Adjourned Sessions for the City commenced this day before the Lord Mayor, the Re corder, Aldermen Ainsley, Waithinan, Thorp. and Smith. CartEt.tisti Datvisio.—Geurge Ewing, Wall tried on an indictment for liaviug assaulted mid driven over a carpen ter named Be'borough, It appeared from the evidence called by the Common Sergeatit, alto conducted the prosecution on behalf of the city, that on the 31st of July last, in the afternoon, Mr. Belhotough, after having been at • dinner where lie drank rather freely, was returning with a friend, cold as they crossed Ludgate-hill, near the Old Bailey, the wit ness (Belborongli) was suddenly knocked down by the pole or by the horses of a carriage, and was fins over ; he did not kuow whether by the coach or by the horses. On recovering his senses he found himself in a surgeon's shop wills three of his ribs In aken, and one of his fingers &bat tened to pieces. A surgeon proved, that it was found necessary to ampu tate the shattered finger, and that the injury Mr. 11. had received would debilitate I for life. A porter belonging to Lincoln's-inn saw the defendant driving away, leaving the prosecutor on the ground ; witness pursued the defendant, who, though evidently intoxiceed, appeared sensible of what he had done, and put his honors to their utmost speed to get off, but the witness, who was on horseback, swore he would hollow bite to the J-1 sooner than let hint escape, cud with the •ssistance of ensue by-standers, had line secured. In the pri.onees defence, it was set up that the prose cutor, Mr. Belborough, was too much intoxicated to get out of the a ay, and the owner of the coach, Mrs. Jones, proved that one of the horses of the coach was so spirited as not to be likely to stop readily. It was also styled that his family bad been ruined by his coufiurtu•nl on the charge. The Jary found the defendant guilty, ha: recommended trim to mercy in consideration of his distressed family. The Court said, the criminal carelessness of coachmen bad been manifested in so many instaucea lately, that it was necessary to check an evil so dangerous to the public, •nd sentenced the defendant to 3 mouths' imprisonment. Jahn Dutton, a Bow-street officer, was indicted for Laving assaulted Mr. Watson, proprietor of the floating bath, near Mealtimes Bridge, on the Oils of July last. Mr. Watson stated, that the defendant rented a house from hits , froom which be fled by night, having, in his (the defendants) own phrase," slot the moon." The witness sued hint for his relit and recovered it, and in conseettesice incurred the defendant's hatted, which lie never tailed to display When they met. On the day of - assault, witness was returning truism his bath tip the stairs of Blacktriars Bridge, when lie was accosted by the defendaor*, who poured forth a volley of abuse. The witness took no notice of the defendant, but proceeded to give Rome enders to a boy who was with him, who n the delendant ap proached him, and, as if accidentally, trod on his toot, in such a manner that lie scraped the skin from his shin. Witness remonstrated on receiving such treatment, when . the defendant seized hint by the collar, took out his staff of office, and beat hint about the head milli it in an unmet citiol manner. 'fo anticipate any complaint the 'es Might make, the defendant immediately went to Union hall, and obtained a warrant against hint for an assault, and actually preferred a bill of indictment before the Grand Jury of Surrey, that he might, to use his own phrase, `• have the first of him." Two wittiessea corroborated the defendant's statement. Mr. Alley add d the Jury for the defendant, and called two of the patrol of which the defendant was the conductor, alto agreed in saying that the prosecutor had delentled himself as well as lie contd. 'the Jury instantly found the defendant guilty, and the Recorder senteoced him to four months' imprisonment. Weirs nee , OCT. 2. Synononds, a boy appa rently not more than twelve years of age, the son of a respectable watchmaker, was tried npon an indictment charging him with having assaulted another boy, named Lewis Hart, who is about the same age, and with having bet a dog on bins, which dog tote and injured the „prose cutor. Mt. Alley, for the prosecution, in the coarse of his speech, vehemently censured the conduct of the defen dant's father, who had refused to allow the dog to be exa mined, the consequence of which refusal was, that the wounds were cauterised, ha the appreliensiolo that the dog was mad. The learned counsel also said, that the case was one of the greatest cruelty. The evidence was hiieAy this : Lea is Halt stated. that as he was going along Halliorn the defendant struck him on the head with • bag, and said something abusive to him, to winch, when the witness replied, Symmonds again struck lion. A strange boy, alio was 'passing, told Symmonds that he would bit him if he struck witness again, and Symmonds then said," I will sluew him mid you tutu that I can serve you worse." Hating said this he called out a large dog, and set him at floe aptness. lie dog seized him as he would seize a rat, worried him, tore a large piece out of lois groin, and tore hi. belly dreadfully. Witness screamed, and the people from Fleet-market saved kiln from tine fury of the auiu usl. Syminonds, after the dug had been taken from the wit ness, set him upon the boy who had first interceded fur his protection, butt the people prevented the aillitial from doing ally more harm. Witness was taken into 11r. Syur• munds's shop, and a chair requested for him to sit upon, when hlr. ss ds said, `• Poh , pith, oak• him away I loiter children enough of my own." Witness was carried home in a coach, and was unable to follow his occupation for a month after the violence. The witness was cross-t x-anineol by Mr. Phillips, but he denied having given any provueation. Simonet Samuels, the buy who interceded in behalf of the prosecntor, confirmed this statement. He denied any previous arensiniance with the prosecutor. IVilliain ',Smoke; eine, w lio keeps • stall in Fleet•market, mad, that he saw Spumoni's set the dug at the prosecutor. Mr, tainstat, a Ism gross, of St. dlaryA xe, desci 'ied the eusiilio nue in which. he t I Lewis. There was a bite on the vroisi, where • piece of flesh, more than an inch in length, had been torn out. 'floe belly was dreadfully bit ten. WitilesS Said it war the duty of a surgeon in a Case where the ammo's proceeded from the fangs of a dog to cauterise the wounds, unless hue was asset ed that the dog Ras not mad. The absutption of the imbue would 01her• wise be ineviteble. Titr a novas, therefore, sent for the d"lt. to efiatnisse it for this very important purpose, bat a ref tsiel WAS gives.; he sent his card, replesling that Ili.• animal should be sent with all possible dispatch. 'fli• doe was again refused, slid Witness, after having waited two hours, began to cauterise the wounds. The operation . THE NATIONAL REGISTER was excruciating to the deli Cato Chad, who was obliged to be held down by fonr men whilst the fire was applied. The father of thetroaecutdr stated, that he went with the card of the surgeon to Mr. Syminongh, to request thet his dog might be sent to be examined. He refused to pen lit it to be taken from his home, notwithstanding the most earnest req.test of the witness, hot s a id h e wou ld allow it to be examined in his own linos,.. ' He treated with some contempt the idea that it WWI mad, slid said it ran about and played with his children, a thict which he would not sutler it lie knew it to be mail. He said the dog was a ferociona animal, that would Hy at any person in the shop if they only spoke a loud word, and that he kept it for the purpose of protecting his children, for the times were so depraved that they could not go about with. oat some protection. Mr. C. Phillips, for the defence, stated, that be was instructed to slate that there was evidence in Court that would prove the whole cave to be unworthy of being lig. tenrd to in a coon of justice. S I witnesses, one of whom prevaricated greatly, were then examined, with the view of contradicting the evidence fur the prosecution, but the defence wholly failed. The person who prevaricated was detained till the end of the trial, in the custody of an Officer, The father of Byounonds said, that his son was a boy of great humanity, and never cosh) have acted as had been described. He added, that the father of Hart had not, when he called for the dog, told who he was, or the dug should have been given up to him. The defendant was found guilty. The Recorder, in addressing the defendant, said, that his father had shown great want of feeling towards the poor buy, and he would now have an opportunity of skewing whether he bad any feeling for his own son, whom the Court were detersnined to punish with ity proportionate to his offence, if remuneration were not made. The Court, the Recorder added, would allow the payment of 301. to the prosecutor as remuneration. fltr sum was paid, Anil the boy fined a shilling and dis• charged. THURSDAY, OCTOBER S.—Richard Clerk, a Ash salesman, in Billingsgate-market, and William ferry, his servant, were indicted for haring wantonly assaulted an old Scutchman named Furzun. The complainant, it appeared from his own statement, which be made with great eccentricity of manner, Is an excisem-n, and on the day mentioned i■ the indictment he ventured into Billingsgate-market, for the purpose of being some fish for his dinner, but it was that day too high in price for his pocket, and he was making the best of his way out, when the defend ants, the master and the man, seised him with their fishy paws" and dogged hint to their baskets to buy. From the manner in which he was seized, be thought himself in the hands of robbers, and pot his hands upon his pockets to protect them, which excited the laugh of the market, and he was im mediately marked out as the subject of a spree." Whilst be was remonstrating with the two defendants for their con duct to a stranger, a Oying-fish gill bit him on the cheek, and the whole place was in a roar at his confusion. lie tried to make his escape, but the defendants, and a number of other fellows, surrounded and prevented hint, hustling him from one to another. knocking his hat over his eyes, and one of them wished to possess bimself of some documents of 4,000 value, which the prosecutor bad sticking ont of his bosom; nor was it until they bad exercised every species of Billingsgate mamaal wit upon hint, that they allowed bim to make hie escape sorely bruised. Mr. Adolphus, in an entertnioing epeeist', which be made in behalf of the defendants, contended that there was no evi dence to convict them of an assault. There was at any rate no malicious attack of the proseentor on their part. The seizure of the person and dragging him to their basket noleru Wows to induce him to buy, was only the ragged manner of enforcing the claim of a tradesman. ff the Jury wished to know how their ancestors used to solicit custom, they should go to Ril - where they would hunt the only remains of those manners which were described in the new novel of the " Fortunes of Nigel," to belong to the city tradesmen of the reign of James the First. On that acoomit they ought to be respected. The Jury found both the defendants guilty, when the Re corder addressed them on the folly of snob conduct, and the injurious effects of it to strangers on the market. When would the ignorant see the policy of using courtesy to induce person, of respectability to go to the market, instead of de terring them away from it by riot and brutality? The Court viewed the outrage of which the defendant► had been guilty as an offence against the good order of the market, and therefore were not disposed to treat it lightly, and to teach the place, if it were capable of being taught, that no stringer was to be annoyed for their amusement, they fined the defendant Clerk 51. and Perry big maim, 40s. BEST MODE OF LUSIITINO A FIRE.—FiII the grate with fresh coals finite sop to the upper bar but one ; then lay on the wood iii the usual manner, rather collected in a 1/11113i titan acatteued. Oyer the woad place the cinders of the preceding day, piled op as high as the grate will admit, and placed touchy in rather huge frag ments, in ord,,r that the draft may hr free t 4 bit or two of flesh coals may be added to the ciutte►s when once they are lighted, but no small coal mast be threwn on at first. When all is prepared, light the wood, when the cinders in a short time hem ii iii g thoroughly ignited, the gas rising float the coals below, which wall now he atiecteil by the brat, will take tire as it passes through them, leaving a very small portion of smoke to go op the chins. ney. One of the advantages of nits mode of lighting a fire is, that small coal is better suited to the purpose than large, except a few pieces in limn, to keep the small from falling out of the grate. A fire lighted iii this way will burn all day, without any thing bring done to ir.— When appuently quite out, on being attired, you have iii a few minutes a glowing tile. When the sipper part begins to rake it must be stirred, but the lower must not be witched. An awful and melancholy circumstance occurred at the City of London Tavern, at the tt••neral meeting of the friends of the Pension Society, on Wednesday inx!ll last, for the election (I pensioners into that excellent institution One of the candidates, B Gray, aged 7 4 . %vas suddenly taken ill of the room; the Dr. ittsulse, tile chJirinan, not finding that. any medical gentleman wig present, inuttediately directed that one should he sent lor. Mr. Pugh of Gr.iceciiiirch street, attended, hut before he liaised the poor man had expired. 011 the rebuilt of the elect being ki10.% ii, it was ascer• tamed, he was one 01 the sucCesslial cailulidat(s. lln widow will be a candidate at the next election in April, when it hoped, from the pewit:telly of tier case anti the respectabtl.ty of her claim, she will succeed. 311 EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMBTANCR. On Friday afternoon at three o'clock an inquisition was takes before Jades Wright Garin, Esq. one of the coroners for Mid dlesex, at the rigs of the Ruse and Crown, in Colwell-street, on view of George Clifford, •.ed 13, who destroyed himself under the following singular circumstanoes : The first witness, lit. Bonnel Williams, a surgeon, deposed to the cousu of the boy's death, which, he said, was evidently occasioned by hanging. All the means of resuscitation were used fur nearly two hours without effect. lie Ltd no previous knowledge of the deceased. Mrs. Ann Bocock sworn.—l am housekeeper to Mr. W. Vase. On Wednesday last, between one and two o'clock, 1 had occasion to go into the cellar for some water, when I saw the dec e ased twisted tight in the jack towel, and in a kneeling posture ; I was terribly alarmed, and shrieked out for assist ance, when my master and one of his men came down etaira.— The demaased was released from the towel by my master after much difficulty. I then went up stairs and ran for medical assistance. The deceased was between 13 and 14 years of age. I hare heard he had often before pat his head in the towel, and twisted himself round till he was quite giddy, bat I cannot state this on my own authority. . _ . • Coroner.—Ha•e you any reason to suspect that the deceased intended his destruction? Witness.—Certainly I have not, I think it was done acci dentally. He must have twisted himself round fill he was senseless, end so lost hi. life. Mr. W. Waste sworn.-1 am a butcher carrying on business at No. 149, Goswell-street ; the deceased was my Fervent, and had been in my employ about 18 months. On bearing the screams of the last witness I ran down stairs, and found the deceased in the cellar, with his head In the towel, which was twisted very tight round his neck. lie was lying with his face towards the ground. He was quite dead and cold. The deceased was often in the habit of twisting his head in the towel, and had often been warned against it. Coroner.--Had you any reason to believe that he meant commit suicide? Witness replied in the negative. Julio Litiniusl, servant to last witness, sworn.-1 went into the cellar with my toaster, who took the deceased oat of the towel. He was on his knees, with his bands hanging down.— is head was in the towel, which was twisted very tight nand his neck. My master could not release hint without taking the towel off the rail. The deceased had ►_•ea missing about half an hour, Ile was inite dead when he was found. The de ceased had been in the habit of twisting his bead in the towel before in a playful manner, and I had often told him he would do it once too often. The Coroner, in addressing the jury, observed, that it plainly appeared the deceased was in the habit of trying experiments of this description, sod it was quite evident that he did mot contemplate suicide. The Jury consulted for some time and retarned &verdict-- That the deceased strangled himself by accident, and sot with the intent to commit suicide. - _ - - ESCAPE TROY PRISON.--4 moat daring attempt to escape was again made by the horse stealers confined in Aylesbury gaol on Saturday morning last. About five o'clock, four prisoners (who afterwards proved to be Henke*, the two Cribbs, and another horse-stealer manned Cokes) were observed by some persons in the market plaice to slide down from one of the windows of the Sessions House by 'nestle of blankets tied together:— When they reached the ground, they made for the part of the town in which they were least likely to be meeta. pro ceeding directly through a bye lane which leo& to the fields. One or two persons who had seen them descent', lmwever, followed the.,, nmieterred by She menaces of Banker', who threatened to slab them with a clasp knife which he held in his hand. Two or three other persons joined in the pursuit as they passed through the lane; the alarm become general; and in a few minutes. moth to the credit of the people of Ayleabetry, the number was so great a 4 to render their escape almost impossible. At the distance of about three quarters of a mile from the lawn Banker was struck to the ground, and the kitife wrenched from his hand; Cokes and one of the Cribtre were dragged from ditches, the other Cribb was also secured; and in hulk mote than an boor they. were all safely reconveyed to the place from which they had escaped. It appears that the prisoners had been left by the turnkeys, at halt past 19 o'clock on the preceding night, when they were perfectly secure in their respective cells. Soon after his departure, Cokes (who being eon. lidered in no extraordinary light, had been secured only by the usual mean%) commenced tonsctewing then iron grating that forms the top of his cell, which he effected, and got nut at the top into a lobby in front of a rouge of cells; with the assistance of a skeleton key. ingeni ously made from a stiff piece of wire, he then tamed the luck of liankes's cell, and broke a padlock, that fastened him by a chain to his bedstead, with is piece of iron taken from one of the gaol grates, and secreted far the purpose. Their neat step was to get to their companion*, who were in a range of cells on the floor above their own ; and at the .not of t h e staircase which led to theist was a door secured by a very large strong lock ; it 'Peres probable that the resistance which this door offered for two or three boors to their further progress was the cause of their being discovered, by defei ring their escape till day light. Atter inetleettaal attempts to break this lock, and to wrench the boards of.the staircase, they tried to force the staple, which after some time yielded to their efforts. They then went tip stairs and pocked the locks of the cells in whirls the Cribb* were confined, and with the iron bar broke the padlocks by which they were Ingested to their bedsteads. 'fun passage doors were the next ob stacles that presented themselves t the lock of the first was picked, and the second broken open. Between these duos-s they found their clothes, which, since their previous attempts, had been taken from them on going to bed. They next with the assistance of their bed-thillies, got on the toe of the cells, which remitted them to reach the floor of the Sessions Chamber, through which they made their way at the spot where they had been inter rupted on their lest trial to escape, alftionch it hail been mended in a manner t h at satoned alinoat to prelude the possibility of being broken. Adds, who has be en committed In Alsidstono gaol. charged with the wilful etiorder of E.lets bdiCarthy. at 11.tling, has impeached his companitnis. seven in num. her, who have been apprehended, and oil Wednesday last they unilerwelit au examination in the Jubict mum at the New Bison, before James Jacobson, El. one of rte M.gisiraies lor the county. Owing to the absence of enter material witnesses, they were remanded for re-eX:1111;111tion. Their names are George George I: ssendeti, David Day, James Masten, Jona Sears, Edward Baker, and Richard Burgess. •-•- "1. •-t : - .10 4,-;;‘. • \