The National Register. — London, England, 1822-10-07 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS. TUVID4Y. OCT. Adjonrned Seasinna for the City commenced thk day before the Lord 11.tyor, the Rs cord.a., Al.lermen Ainaley,lVaithman,"lhorpond Smith. CASIELES4 DRlViNa.—Groige Lenoe• Nab fried on an indictment for having aaaanlied and duvet) over a carpen ter named Bel borough. oppeared from the evidence called by the Common Seigeant, who conducted the 'trot-et-nth'', on behalf of the rity , t h a t o n the 31,,i of Jody idAt, iu the afternoon, Mr. Brihorottr.h, after 11.1 v tug heels at a dinner where he drank fatherfrrely,wa. returning with a ti tend, and a, they crossed near the Uld ISailry, the %d -m..., (lielliorottgli) was Andtlenly knocked down by the pole or by the horses of a edf i:lge j 1111 d n as 111111 over ; he dill 1111)11 know whether by the coach or by Me hoises. recover ing his ItellAe4 he found I. i ... self in a sorgeon'r. shah With three of his ribs broken, and one of his lingers shat teted to pieces. A ant geost proved, that it was found necessary to ampu tate the shattered finger. and that the injury Mr. B. had received would debilitate him for life. _ A porter belonging to Lincoln' •inn saw the defendant driving away, leaving the prosersitor on the ground ; itairxs pursued the dettaidint, who, though evidently inmate:veil, appeared sensible of what he had dune, and -rat his horses to their Inmost speed to get cif, but the witness, who was on horseback, swore lie would tallow him to the d—l sooner thin let him escape, and with Ilte •ssistance of some by-slanders, hill him secured. lit the prisoner's defence, it was set rip dial the prose cutor, Mr. B. thorough, was too much iiitorticrted to get oat of Cue way, and tile owder of the coach. Mts. Jones, proved 'bit one of the horses of the couch was so spirited as not to he likely to stop readily. I; was al,o ...talc(' that his family had been ruttied by his confinement on the Charge. The Jnry found the iletenolan , hui recommended him to mere) in Consiilei atom of his ilisliesseil fa•uily. The Gatti said, the eri 11l Mal carelessness of coachmen had been manifested in so ninny instonces lately, that it was necessary to cheek an evil so ilasigerints to the public, WO Sentenced the iivieliciniit to 3 months' imprisonment. Julio 1),1! toll, a Bow-street officer, was indicted for Laving assisulued Mr. Woolson, plow ietor of the (foaling bath, near Blackftiors Bridge, on the Jlh of July Mr. Willson Slated, that the defendant rented a house from hint, fr which he Iled by alight, having, sal liis (Ike defendant's) own please," shot the moon." The witness stied I for his tent and recovered it, and in conseschence incurred the defendant's hatted, whirls he never failed to display when they met. Oil the day of assault, witness was tettinsing trout his baili up the stairs of Blackfriars fridge, when he was accosted by the defendeat, who ponied forth a volley of abuse. 'flue winless took no notice of the defendant, but proceeded to give some °osiers lo a boy who was with him, when the defendant ap proached hint, and, as if accidentally, trod on Ilia foot, in such a nullifier that lie scraped the skin flout his slim. Witness irmonstrated on receiving such treatment, when the lit feuds It seized him by the collar, hunk out his stair of office, and beat him about! the head with it its an unmer ciful manner. •ro anticipate any complaint the witness might wake, the defendant immediately went to Union boll, and obtained a warrant against Iti , tl fur an assault, and actually preferred a bill of indictment before the Grand Jury of Surrey, that lie might, to use his OWII ploilse, " have the first of him." Two witnesses corroborated the defendant's statement. Mr. Alley addrested the Jury for the defendant, and called two of the patrol of which the 81.411440 t WAS the vondurtor, oho agreed in Adlyill that the prusteutur had defended hins.ellas well a, he could. The Jury instantly found the defendant guilty, end the Records r ventenced him to tour months' inipiisontin W cosmos Y. OCT. Y.—Charles Sytinnotids. a boy appa rently not snore th.sii twelve years of ege, the soil of a respectable watchmaker, was tried upon au indictment charAing hint with having assaulted another boy, named Lewis Hart, who is about the same age, HMI 'Altai buying set a dog on him, which dog tore and injured the .prose castor. Alt. Alley, fur the prosecution, in the course of his speech, vehemently censored the conduct of the defen dant's fattier, who had refine to allow the dog to be exa• Willed, the consequence of which r. insal was, that the wounds were came' iseil, ill the apprehension that the dog was mail. 'Flue learned counsel dill° 5.1111, Illat the case was one of the greatest cruelly. The evidence was buirily this:— Lewis Hart stated, that as he was going along Holborn the defendant snuck I on lie 11144 Willa at hag, and said something abusive to him, to which, when the witness replied, Sy almonds again struck him. A strange buy, who was passing, told Sy rummids that he *bold hit hint if lie 415 tick wutues, again, and Symmonds then sold, " I will shew hint mid you too that I can set se you worse. " Having said Ibis he called out a large and sit hint at the athiess. ' flue dog seized Min as he would seize a rat, worried him, tore a large piece out of groin, and tore hit belly dreadfully. Wittiest screamed, and the people hum ricet-market saved him front the fury of the animal. Symittonds, after the dug had been taken from the ssll• Ht.*, tiet him upon the boy who had hist interceded fur bus protection, butt the pr "phi preveoled the :tonna' ti 0111 doing ally enure basin. 111111e511 was taken into stir. Syut mobds's shop, and A ell Ale requested ftlf 1111:1 to Nil 11, 111 l When Mr. Sy said. " Pull, putt, take hint a* Ay I have child' ell enough (limy own." IVi 0000000 *46 1:4111ell home in a roach, and was unable to follow his occupation fug a moult after the violence. The ais nran was CIOSS-;1181141(.4 by Mr. Phillips, but he denied having given any provocation. Samuel Samuels, the buy who interceded in behalf of the pi owl:taut coatis used this liatrinent. He denied any previous acquaiiiialice a tilt the prosecutor. William vine, IA 110 keeps a stall in Pleet-market, said, Dial he sea Symisioudi set the dog at sue prisierniiii. Mr. Coustai, • aurgews, oh St. Mary-Axe, deice hied the eoutlitifill ill %litchi he found Lewis. There was a bite on the groin, where. a piece of 110111, more than au inch in Is tigth, had been toils out. The belly ass dreadfully bb -IPIII. Willies» said it was the duty tit a surgeon in a case where the wounds proceeded Item the tango, of a dug to eanierise the wounds, unie,s he wits amused that the slog was not mad. The %WWI WIWI of the poison would other wise he Ineviiable. The %itorss, therefore, sent fur the ho examine it fur ibis very important purpose, bat n Tatuml was given; lie sent his card, requestiug Ilial 1110 auiolal 01011111 be sent %1111 all possible dispatch. Thr dug »sus a‘ain refused, and 0111101,, after having waited two hours, hegatt to tautei tie the %%vomit. The 9perstioo THE NATIONAL REGISTER_ was eXeruciating to the delicate child, who was obliged to be held down by Nor men whilst llse hie was applied. The father of the prosecutor slated. t h at lie went with the card of the mire ''on to Mr. Spittoon.ls, to request that his don: might he sent to be examined. He refitted to prima it to be taken from Ilia titular, notwithstanding the mug earnest request of the witness, but said l ie would allow it to he examined in his own house. He treated wills some contemn( the idea that it was mad, and said it rail airfoil and played wills Ilia children, a tlatig which be *mild nut slain if he knew it to be mail, lle said the Jog was a ferocious animal, that would fly at any permn in the shop it ' they only spoke a tuna word, sod that he kept it for She purpose of protecting his children, for the times were to deplaveJ Sisal they could not gu about with out some protectiuti. Mr. C. Phillips, for the defence, stated, that he was instructed to state that there was etislettee in Cunt; that would prove the whole case to be unworthy of being lis tened to in a court of joatie... Several witnesses, one of whom p icated greatly, watt then examined, with the view of contiadicting the evidence for the prosecution, but the defence wholly failed. The person who prevaricated was detained till the *nil of the trial, in the custody of an officer. Tilt• father of Syminunds said, film his 11011 was a boy of great humanity, and never could have acted as bad beets described. lie added, that 1111` father of Hatt had not, when he called for the dug, tub' who Ise was, or the dug sl Id have been gi.en op to him. The defendant was I 1 gnilty. The Recorder, in ailditoising the defendant, said, dm , his father had aliewn great want of feeling towards the boy, and lie would now have an opportunity of shewitig ~hither he had any feeling for his own sots, %shunt the Calm were (Niel mined to 'mulish wills severity proportionate to his offence, if remuneration were not male. Tile Court, the Recorder added, would allow the pavtlient of :'Ol. let the prosecutor as lemiiiierviutt. Tow sum wa. paid, and the boy hoed a shilling and dis charged. THVIZSDAT, OCTOLIR 3.—Richard Clerk, a fish salesman, in Ifillingsgate-market, and William Perry, his servant, were indicted for having wautuoly assanlied ta old Scuteinuan na:ued Foram'. The complainant, it appeared from his own statement, which he made with great eccentricity of manner, is an exciseman, and on the day mentioned in 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 fur his pocket, and be was making the hest of his way out, when the defend ants, the master and the men, seized him with their •' fishy paws" and dragged him to their baskets to buy. From the manner in which be was seized, be thought himself is the hands of robbers, and put his hands ut,ion 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 flying-fish gill hit him on the cheek, and the whole place was in a roar at his confusion. lle tried to make his escape, but the defendants, and a number of other fellows, surrounded and prevented him, hustling him from one to another, knocking his hat over his eyes, and one of thou wished to possess himself of some documents of 4,000 value, which the prosecutor had sticking not of his bosom; nor was it until they had exeicised every species of Billingsgate manual wit upon him, that they allowed him to wake uis escape sorely bruised. Mr. Adolphus, in an entertaining speech, which he made in behalf of the defendants, contended that there was no et i deuce in convict them of an assault. There Ivo; at any rate no malicious attack of the prosecutor on their part. The seizure of the person and dragging him to their basket nein: trts:on.l to induce him to buy, was only the rugged manner of enforcing the claim of a tradesman. If the Jury wished to know how their ancestors used to solicit custom, they should go to Oil lingsgatemarket, where they would find the only remains of those exploiters which were described in the new mild of the " Fortunes of 'Nigel," to belong to the city tradesmen of the reign of James the First. On that accoout they ought to be respected. 'l' lie Jury found both the defendants guilty, when the Re • corder addressed theca oil the folly of such continct, and the injurious effects of it to strangers on the market. When would the ignorant see the policy o. using courtesy to induce persons of respectability to go to the market, instead of de terring them away from it by riot and brutality? The Court siewed the outrage of which the defendants had been guilty as an (dream., 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 stranger was to be tomoyed for their amusement, they hued the defendant Clerk and Perry his man, 4ds. 13EST MODE or I.IIIIITING A El the grate with flesh cork quite lip to the upper bar but one; then lay on the wood in the usual lllaltlll . l, raiser collected in a Illd•4 than seattei ed. (her the wood place the cinders of the preceding 'lay, piled up as high as the grate will admit, and placed It.sody in rather later frog meats, in ord that the draft may he tree; a bit or Iwo of flesh coals way be added to the cindris when once they are lighted, but no small coal most he the call on at first. lien all is peeparril, light the wood, when the enlaces in a short time !Wet/11111,g 0101 ignited, the gas timing from the coals below, which will now lie atlectril by the lira!, will mke tile as it 'lasses Ilitotigh them, leaving a very small portion of ,mike to po up the chilli. lie,. One ut the advantages of this moue of lighting a tile is, 11i 1 small coal is better vatted to the purpose than tinge, r weld a hew pieces in twin, to keep the autall trots talhiug out of the wale. A file lighted to this way ohl barn all day, without any thing being done to it.— Wlicii apparently quite out, on brunt; itiiired, you have In a few wits men a glowing fi l e. When the upper part begins to cake it urn.t be mined, but the :wet must not lie touched. Au :awful and melancholy circumstance occurred at Ilse City of Loudon Tavern, at tile iteneral toecting of toe friends of the Pension Society, on Wednesday i. til last, tur the electum r 1 pen►iunus 11110 that esacellesit it ttt i t mums. One of the erndidates, B Gray, agt-il 73. wits SUlllfrilly taken ill ill the room; Ihr Bev. Or. Runge, the chhirmaii, not finding that any medical gentleman Wall present, i tttt ordiattly directed that one soookr be sent tor. Mr. Pis 6 ii ul Gracechurch•sireet, attends, hut byline lie armed the poor matt had expired. 01. the result of the election b eing kiiown. it war dace:- wined, lIC WJS one ou the successful danthilates. widow will be a candidate at the tux& el, • in April, when it hoped, km the Ifeet:hinny of her CM gust We respecubiliLy ui her claim, she will succeed. 11$ EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE. On Friday afternoon at throe o'clock an iimoisition was taken before John Weight Ilnwm, Esq. one of the coroners for Mid dlesex, at the sign of the Rose and Crown, in Doswell-street, on view of George Clifford, a. ed IS, who destroyed himself nailer the following singular eireuenstences : The first witness, Mr. funnel Williams, a surgeon, deposed to the cause oldie boy's death, which, ha said, was evidently occasioned by hanging. All the means of resuscitation were used for nearly two hours without elfect. He had no previous knowledge of the deceased. Mrs. Ann Bocock sworn.-1 am housekeeper to Mr. NV Wase. On Wednesday last, ►etween nue and two o'clock, 1 had occasion to go into the rillar fur sonic water, when I saw the deceased twisted tight in the jack towel, and in • kneeling posture ; I was terribly alarmed, and shrieked oat for assist ance, when my master and one of his men came down stairs.— The deceased was released from the towel by my master after much dilllcultv. I then went op stairs and ran for medical assistance. toe deceased was between 13 and 14 years of age. I hate heind lie bad often before put his head in the towel. and twisted himself ronud till be was quite giddy, but cannot slate this on my own authority. Coroner.—lisps you any reason to suspect that the deceased intended his destruction t Witness. —Ceitunily I have not, I think it less done acci dentally. Ile most have twisted himself round till he was sensek.s, and so lost his life. _ . Mr. W. %Vase sworn.—l am a butcher carrying on business at No. 119, Goswell-street ; the deceased was my and had been in my employ about 18 mewl's. On hearing the screams of the lest witness I ran down stairs, and found the deceased in the cellar, with his head In the towel, whirls wu twisted eery tight round his neck. lie was lying with his tine towards the ground. lie was quite deed and cold. The deceased was often in the habit of twisting Lis head in the towel, and had often been warned against it. Coroner.—ll id you any reason to believe flint he meant to commit suicide Witness replied in the negative. John fain:lard, servant to last witness, sworn.—l went iota the cellar with my mister, who took the deceased out of the tow.l. He was on his knees, with his hands hanging down.— tlis head win in the towel, which was twisted very tight round his neck. My master could not release him without taking the towel od*the rail. The deceased had beeu missing about half en hour, lie was quite dead when he was found. The de ceased had been in the habit of twisting his head in the towel before in a playful manner, and I had often told him Le would do it once too often. . . — The Coroner, in addressing the kitty, observed, that it plainly appeared the deceased was in the habit of trying experiments of this descril"ion, and it was quite evident that he did not contemplate suicide. The Jury consulted for some time and returned a •erdict— That the deceased strangled himself 1).1 accident, and not with the intent to commit suicide. EscAre EROIII PRISON .—A most daring attempt to escape was again made by the horse stealing confined ih Aylesbury gaol on Saturday morning last. About five o'clock, four prisoners (who sties wards proved to be liankes, the two Cribb+, and another horse.stealer maimed ('ok's) were observed by some persosis in the market Wile.. to Slide down front one of the windows of the Sessions House by means of blankets tied together.— Whets they readied the ground, they made for the part of the town in which they were least likely to be seen, pro ceeding ditectly through a bye lane which leads to the fields. One or two persons who had seen them descend. however, followed them, mole tee red by the menages of Hanky., who threatened to stab them with a clew knife which he held in his hand. Two or three other persons joined in the oursuit as they passed through the lane; the a 141115 bee:taste general; and in a few mtnnles, much to the credit of the people of Ayleshory, the number was so great as to render their escape almost impossible. At the distance of about three quarters of a mile from the lawn liatikes was struck to the gr 1, and the knife wrenched front his baud; Cokes ;11111 one of the Criblfs were dragged from ditches, the other Cribb was also secured; and in lit le mote than an hour they were all safely seconseyed to the place from which they had escaped. It appears that the prisoners hail heen left by the turnkeys, at 1141; past 12 o'clock no the preceding night, when they were perfectly secure io their respective cells. Soon after ilia departiere. Cokes (who being con sidered in no extraordinary light, had been secured only by the tumid means) co ttttt wowed un.ciewing the iron grating that forms the top of his cell, which he effected, and got out at the lop into a lobby in front of a range of cell.; with the assistailee of a skeleton key, ingeni. ously made from a stilt piece of wire, he then Sallied the lock of Hankes's evil, and broke a padlock, that taste used him by a chain to his bedstead, with a piece of iron taken 1;io ll o o r of the gam grnies, and secreted las the pm pose, "their next step %vas. to get to their companions, who were in a range of cells sill ill.' toor above ; and at the foot of the staircase which had to them was a door Arcing...l by a vet, large slims:: lock ; it seems probable that the resistance *bleb this (loot utf•ted for two or three hours to their thither progress was the cause of their being diseovei ell, its &Teri mg their escape till day light. Alter tortleetonl attempts to break this lock, mid to a rench the boaril• of the staircase, they tried to lance the staple, which *leer some time )lethal to their dimes. They then went op stabs and picked the locks of the cells in *Melt the Cu ibtis were emitim d, and with the iron bar Make the padlocks by which they were fastened to their bedsteads. 'two passage doors were the next ob stacles that presemeil j the lock of the first was picked, and the second broken open. Between 11110111 they foniol their clothes, *loch, since their previous a ttelopts, had been token hoof them oil gitiog to bed. They next with the assistance of their beil-clothes, col on the top of the ce,l., *loch roasted them t • tench the 11,mr tit the Sessions Coaciiier, thrtioJi which they lio•de turn' way at the spot *hero they ;cid b e en lots F. rowed on their last mail. to escape. 41•1.wieli it had het n mended in a manure that seemed almost to prelude the possibility of being bi %Ant. Adds, who 11.11 Ut VII committrd to Maidstoti,e gaol, charged with the wittiti mord. r of E at 13.rling, liar illipeaCiat hi: • imitating * warn its num. tier, wim have been appreitetatte.l, and on Vs edsiettlay lust they iattaritt all 01.11 1111 l atom it il.c Justice* rums at the New Prison, 11C.•11$ 1111 l one of the Itl..gi.tratea tor toe county °wow, to the absence of some titan:fiat wittiebses, they were 41 for re-exattotwion. 'their name. are Cileurge George Footett.lestittOrmid Day, Jostles Marius, JIMA Sean, Eutt ard tialt.r. and Wetted bursts. , If