The National Register. — London, England, 1817-05-05 00:00:00

MAY Seven were ordered to be transported for life. viz.—Wm. Drams. 0. Wilson. E. Betony, T. Vickers, J. Kirk, J. Williams, and W,o. 1111wchsm—Nine for IS years, viz.—Mich. Ford, J. B Wet., J. Cooper, Susan Courtney, A. Marcus, N. Jacobson, Sarah Howell, Martha Thatcher, and T. Edgcombc; and 5i for seven years.-- Eleven were ordered to be imprisoned in Giltspur-street House of Correction; 64 in the House of Correction, Clerkenwcil ; and nine in Newgate for various periods. Nineteen to be privately. and seven publicly, whipped; eight were fined Is. each. and discharged; 10 jedgment respired ; and 4e discharged by proclamatien--Seetions adjourned to the Ylst instant. LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS. Friday the London Adjourned Sessions were held :it Guild hall, before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder and Aldermen. MELANCHOLY VASE.—Mary Brown, alias Ryan, (the un• tertian tie wife of the man wit I had It et ex•-coted is the morning), WAS put to the bar, charnel with e leaeouring to procure, and to aid and abet t hel escape of her husband, and two other persons named Hallard and Handley, from his Ma• jests': gaol of Newgate, on the 13th of April last. The prisoner. as might well he supposed, ezliih . ted the roost wretched appearance; she was convulsed in agony, and bad an infant at her breast. The pariciders of this case have already appeared. The prisoner, had no counsel, but Mr. Barry humanely volunteered to plead. He observed, that if in the minds of a ' Ilritiri jery, whom be then bad the honour to address, con vials° should be established scatted the prisoner, he would then turn to the Court, and, appealing to its merry say, that the pangs. tho maritime, the arse; and the sorrow, that at present inundated the soolettbis ttafortunate.widow and mos titer, were to her a far greater punishment than all the pains and penalties of fete Law. 'the Recorder having summed lip the evidence, the jury after some minutes consultation, pronounced a verdict of , Guilty, but strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy. The Court having cousuised a few moments together, the Recorder proceeded to pass eantence, and ordered her to be seufined in Renate for one calendar snot th. The prisoner, in a Hood of dears, begged the Court would suffer her " to go to the melee of her husband (he being an Irishman and Roman Cathafie), sad see the last of him." The Court said it was we in their power to grant smell a gegnest. She was then conveyed in custody from the Court ; the Jury, however, and almost every individual in Court, psa. vainly bestowing upon her sumo( money. ACAVEMIC SOCIETY. Friday, application was made at the London Sessions foe licenses to open public rooms for leetares, literary, Odious- . phical,&e. The' Recorder, Alderman Domenic Alderman Alias, and Alderman Cox were on the Beech. Before the several petitions were read, Alderman Sir William Doraville rose, and said he Amnia take that public opportunity of making some observations upon circumstances which had been either misinterpreted In another elate, or misrepresented in the public journals, a d erhich had gone forth to the world in a shape calculated `aprepidice his character to a very serious extent. •' My • sea t iv ea," said Sir Wm. Dormant., " for refusing my assent to riming the license when applied for at the Old Bailey, have been eausid•sred in another place as improper. I insist sac, I still think the words' clearly .ex pressed, create a doubt Wire. Thar the license asked for was so expressed. 4 have s'ner bad inure time to look at the act, with the dairies allowiu : the presence of Magistrates at 11w debate, and revokine the license-1n case any improper subjects were debated. I think I roieht have jj oined in grataing the licen.e, but deny most Mersey any imprinter motive .it my part, and trust Inv oostilitet Is a Maziserate upon all occasions will bear me out in that declaration." Alderman Atkins stated, in effect, that the' motives of ells worths. Alderman were by 110 means cou.idered its so injori. was a 1 0 41 it in the House of Commons. When the *object was entertained in the MIAOW Of Commons, he rose to o p t ow..r tome onservatiot a made by Sir Matthew Ridley relative to the conduct two brother Aldermen, who had oltWrted to the appl cation made by the Academics. His motive in rising was to instill, their conduct, knowing that they were uninsured by the must pore considerations : and that they wield, moiler no circumstances, act upon any oilier incitement than that of pi ',triple. The Rerneoen observed, that It had also been reported sh i t h e (the Iteroviler) was on the Beech when the decision inifi.voui aide to the application was made. Alderman Arlo NS.—I denied in the House of Commons Olt you , tIEIC there rae Recoi der.--I am aware oftliat ; but T .lerlare, that ;f I h id been there I should have given my opinion without fhe slightest liesitatimi. In the face of Parliamilit I WOHili give ins opinion upon the subject, whatever might be the renames is which I should be exposed. The licensee cur the societi•li were granted immediately. POLICE. • BOW s itEET. Monday morning two of the lit ster Police Officers ar rived iii Londatst, by the unlaces , h from Nlanoliestrr, with bent alias Wrßims Pi[kimono in their custody, ironed a 1 ,1 ermined. charged with politicist Aimee., He was court. t e ,i to tke Secretary of State's Office for the Home Departmern about one o'clock, where he underwent an examination before xir N•attianitd Conant and other official Gentlemen ; he war a ft er _ wards committed to prison for a further investigation. On Saturday night, at a late I J. J. Smith a Constabl e belonging to thr Office, traced out J Lindsey, late the Man.' g inu Clerk in the office of Messrs. Frusta anal Co. its Searle strret, Lincoln's lire fields, at an obscure house in Paddinet on in a room am a second floor, where he hail Meets concealed since he had ensconded f his employers' office, when the foige7leit and franils were discovered to have been committed Monday Lindsey was brought to the office lay .1.3. Smith t and after undergoing a private examination, he was committed for a liir.lier oticstattation. Wednesday J, Collins, N. Atkins, G. Court, and = Ranger, were charged with aiding and assisting in the murder of three of the crew of the Ranger Revenue cutter., in an action between that v e s et and a smuggling lugger, of which the prisoners formed port of the clew. Cullen, Atkins, and Ranger have been several time. rxri- Rental on the same charge, but Court was apprehended °sly a few stays since. The discovery of his delinquency was n u de in come. smelter of his being obliged to apply for surgical assistance. having been severely wounded in the arm during the cngagt-nent. At il.e Eque,t of Mr. Alley, Counsel for the prisoners. they were re minded. T. Brown was charged with inhuman conduct to Mary, his wife. Mrs„ M'Kenny, a lodger in the same house with the prisoner, stated ghat .he had been repeatedly alarmed by the shrieks and cries of murder, from the apartment occupied b b Brown. A few days hack THE NATIONAL REGISTER. the neighbours were alarmed by the aboard* unfortunate woman; and as she had not been seen for some l tag : apprehensions were en tertained that sl.e was confined in her An Of was in con sequJnee procured. and the door was forced - open ; winos they found her with a straight waistizat on, and bar hands and legs tied toge ther, sitting on the boor, and kept in that posture by 'scans of a strong rope tied to each arm. and reaching from her to tne wall. where it was fastened to a staple axed in the frame. Her head was shockingly beat about, and ale was seurcely able to stand. It seems s'oe had at times been afflicted with derangement of intellect, and that circumstance had been urged by her in'itt,nsin husband as a pretext for treating her in tne manner described. The Magistrate, in strong terms,. reprehended his brutal conduct, and committed him fur want of bad, MANSION HOUSE. Saturday week a min u•uaed Harwood was charged with robbing the house of jr.N Moss, of Brood street, of a quontity of plate, on Friday evening, under the following extuiordinare circumstances :—Tioe daughter of Mr. Moss. it appeared. snout dusk in the evening, hearing a strange noisy upon the stairs, like the tweaking of glass, rushed 0111 of the silting room to anemia the cause, and observed a man going towards the door with a bundie under his arm. She diately ea. e the alarm, when the prisoner, in his hurry to eseape,Ationbled and fell. The parcel which lie held also fed from him, the contents of which were scattered about the postsge. and proved to be a large quantity of plate and other article* of value. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Nzw Mont or SWINDLUIO.—The shop-keepers of the city have born for sots days in a state of alarm in consequences( the dar. - rag conduct of a gang of swindlers, who have adopied a plan of ope rations difihrent (roue any within the memory of the Para Tame pascals set up different offices and firms in thfiiment Ram of the me tropolis, give references to each other, and get credit to sit renown's amount. la the event of proceedings at law being taken for the re. asvery of a debt from any one of them, another calls upon the aredi. tor. threatens him with violence of all kinds, rad if he does not suc ceed in deterring him from stopping tile proceedings, arrests him upon a false affidavit. In some instances the contrivance has suc ceeded. and the rafonunate creditor bee giv.m up all claim to his debt in the apprehension of an Repeals at law which he "Quid be unable to debts. Numbers of persons appeared at the Mansion house who have wired by this desperate villainy. One of those, a respectable sbtrkeeps ne whom sae of the Fag wee indebted. was arrested at hie blase Cbeecakie. ss night, non a writ for xduL issued by another of the gee& with wens the alitpteeper never had any dealings. Another be. been tis beep sat of the way, in consequence of a oread of the insiableasomeriesci l o o lfiving =alit to any of them. They espeeeent thanedres as mer chants, timber-merchants. rionr-merchante. One of ,keeps a coffee shop, and passed ass West India merchant. Two of them, named Evans and Coster, were brought bets the Loci Mayor. He ordered them to find unexceptionable bail, for threatening the lives of each other's creditors. Mr. Mariner, the solicitor, attended, soil was instructed by several of the Junkers to proceed against the prisoners for conspiracy. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR APRIL The last meth and the early part of the present I, have been particularly ficvourable, as a sued seam, for the various crops ; the cold and drought, however sue ceeding, have retarded the businets upon binding clays, the cultivators of which are waiting fir warm showers, with the aisistanco of which the rowing of spring corn would be speedily and happily eompleated. Of the ap pearance of the wheat generally, the reports are far from thvourable ; those sown at the regular autumnal season are said to wear the worst aspect, being thinly planted, yellow, and sickly, ;;neatly injured by the wire-worm and slug, to such a degree in some parts, that the re mains have been phuglied up, and the laud re.sown with barley. On light and sandy soils where wheat has been risked, the roots have been laid bare, and great part of the plants destroyed, by the driving winds.— Wheat on fallow has universally succeeded best, as must ever be the ease in mild winters ; the roots and foul tUth of clover leys and bean etches forming a most prolific hot-bed for vermin of es ery ,:escription. The present breadth of wheat is said to be gse.ater than in any former year ; with respect to spring wheat. such is unques tionably the ease. The spring-sows autumnal wheats look as favourably as can be expected in so cold and droughty a season, and want nothing but warmth and showers; the cane may be said of spring core and pulse. Hops exhibit a strong and healthy bine ; in warns situations, quite luxuriant. 1 t was supposed some weeks since, that the ',Dung shoots or tendrils of the hop-plant were injured by the slug—and uncommon oc currence. The fruit-trees and gardens have sustained considerable damage from the cold winds and severe nights. Turnips have failed some time since, the Swedish excepted, of which a sufficient quantity is not cultivated. ACCIDEN'TS, OFFENCES, 4c. • A few days since. Capt.STeWart; of Beverley, had it num ber of silk er spoons stolen, %imposed to have been thine by some one entering Bre house during the momentary abweice of the family from that part of it. A talt genteel Woking 111811 in Mack, the same slay, walked very deltueratety into Sir W. l'enityman's, but encountering sir William kitaself at his entrance, enquired if another person did not reside there and apolo..;izril tor his mistake. A person of a similar des cription also mitered Dr. lierkeley's house, and uss met by a servant, and excused bleu>cii touter the like pretested. Several ps rsons have &leen apprehended at Market Har sun suspiciuu of having purchased a consideraith quantity id lace of the pour manufacturers in the vintinity, and for it with forged mites of the Bank of England. A miller, named Ittrption. caber resided at Olar'dis, has been emimittcti to liodmiu gaol, fur mixing white sand witi ti .111% Out Tnesday afternoon, a ttentlimian, apparently betwee• 10 and 70 years of mat , was discovered by one of the BriLdi ou fishermen in the act of drowiiiiig himself; but oil per eciving Bali, approaching to It . ,1•111.! Aug, 111` orew front It • meket a knife, st Oil which he instantly put a period to hr , •xistence, by statibiog It i 000 self in the Mt oat, vt hieh /o.!ver• wooed divided the jogoilar vein. Air. Coleman, maven, 01 it. James's-street, aad another medical gentleman, were ini mediately scut for; but before they could reach the dreadful 143 s,av, life was extinct. It has not yet been discovered who was. He is a short stout man, and apparently a French min. at inlay an Inquest was held at the Rose Tavern, Great Rissel.st reel, Bermondsey, before C. Jefrnelt, Esq. Coroner f r Surrey, upon the body of Jane Spencer. The deceased loved servant in the family of Mr. Williams, tanner, at Her. mondsey, and about a fortnight previous to her death, sheep. p-..red to be lit A low and desitondiug state of mind. It was n marked by the other servants, and %lien they inquired the rause of ha.r unhappiness, she always answered them very is. coherently. Tuesday moaning last she did not go to her work as usual ; one of the other servants went to her chamber, and fond her lying on the bed with her clothes covered all over with blood, her throat being ant in a dreadful manner from ear to ear. On lifting the bode up, her master's resor, with Willa h she had perpetrated the fatal act, was found ander her. t medical Gentleman was called in, who sewed up the wound, nut she survived only a few isiontes.—Verdiet—La ti are. The most active and unremitting onetime have bees set en toot by the Magistrates of York, for the discovery of the persons who rubbed the Stamp Office at that place, ns men toned in a former Paper. One of them was taken et Selby tar Sallie afternoon, within ten minutes after his arrival. A second was apprehended at Hall, iu the act of landing from the steam packet t and a third was taken in bed at Hull the same evening. Search was made in every plate where there was a possioility of any prareirry bring deposited. On Sue. Jay the church-yard of Pafford was examined, and an open.... tug a tombstone, some middies and bridles, stolen on the 2.irtb of 3larela last from Mr. Jones of Fulford, were discovered; and under an adjoining tombstone was band, a large quentity of cloth, of the value of 1001. the property eta hawker, stoleu front the Fleece Inn, in Ferment, on the 11114 of Fe. briars fast. These discoveries having tended to streng.bei • the probability that one of those depositories, which have been hitherto considered sacred, might in the present kb stance have been 'iced for the concealment of freed, Moeda, mid Tuesday were employed in searching variants chards. yards et York, and within two miles arouud , and attest Awe °thick on the latter Jay, the whole of the stamps, tied np is parcels wok handkerchiefs, were discovered under a tomb. stone, tu the church-yard of St. Cuthbert, Peasebohn-grese, and were immediately conveyed to the Mansion House, in that city. The valve of the stamps stolen from the **tee was, at first, estiinated to be 00001.; bet on the reanalaing stock r ra being taken, we understand it roves to be upwards of 1111001. The stamps are me Capable of ins identifies' as those stolen, except so far as they may agree desuininatioo and amount ; but one of the wt uppers luclusing a parcel of stamps belonged , Ara the office ; and we madentand that a bundle of Papa% belonging to Mr. biewsteed, aunt seine depositions is Black barn's trial. fur transposition of stamps, which bed bee* peeked up by the thieves, along with the stamps, in the hurry . of their removal, and were found under the same tqmiastoise, • will prevent say possibility of doubt upon this subject. • * LONDON CLERGY. • The famine case, published by the Lciadon Clew s t? will best explain the nature of the ditpute bargee* them and their parishionors : " 1.3 y very ancient custom the Lambe clergy, over and shove personal tithes, were emitted to receive on Suridapu,. as I holyddys. Awe the weepier& of the houses in ifieir re spective parishes, certain oblations is proportion to the rests, ,• which at one time were settled by arbitration sad cunaellta r• ss. it in die poud, and were, after subsequent (Initiate , litigation, finally established by 37. H. VIII. at 2s. eel. in the pound ; the saute being understood to be a compensation, not • 1, Otis for oblations, but also fur personal tithes. " Such was the legal claim of the London Clergy wise. the dreadful fire in 1614 laid the greater part of the city is . • ashes, burning down or damaging 83 parish churches. ' " Jo applying a remedy to this grievous calamity, the le • - gislatitre of that day enacted, that tbirty•fonr of those churches should not be rebuilt, but that the parishes to which' . • they belonged should be united to others; and, by a 'Wade. rent net, they fixed the maintenance of the ministers of die fit y-fine churches which were restored, at certain specific 511.113, 1.1 be assessed and levied by an equal pound rate as the houses in the respective parishes. " Whilst, however, the reel en of those parishes wave thus restrained to specific sums. in lieu of their tithes, the rectors , and inspropr•atorit in (hose parishes in thrtity of London. which remained unifijiteed, were left in full possession of their ancient right to Ss. 9ri in the pound , and so were ins peopeinters in those parishes which were beret by the tire; subject, nevertheless, to the eperation of a proviso in the set of 37 itenry VIII. by which their demand was limited to the twits reserved cloying the lean of the rebuilding leases. " The 1131'11 PUMA appointed by 2.2eand 23el Charles If. which the' Clergy at that time, in their petition to Parliament, stated to be a slender and inetnansetrnt maintenance, had con tinued for trprards Cl sae hundred and thirty years, (a pe- • nod morer thim doable the term of rebuilding leases, entitled &in the fire of London), when their successors, finding it al together inadequate, applied to Para:anent for an amendment of that act, and succeeded to a certain extent, by obtaining as increase of the old specific su as ; increase which, in the progress of that bill, was admitted to be insafficieot, and a hope held out, that some future Parliament would more im prove the situation of the clergy: With the augmentation then granted, there are only seven livings above three hundred „ pounds, the highest of' which, In eonst•gatence of the union of two opst•cnt parishes, since the tire net, is 3661. Lie. 4d. ; whilst nineteen were fixed at no mote limo 2001. It is but too apparent that the...sums are an incompetent maintenance for an incumbent in the metropolis, even as a single min ; and It more, if be boa to support the dignity of leis character with a family. But this the cleigy need not urge : for thefr present application is no, grotinded on this insufficieniy, but on the equity of reclining to them, in sonic degree, their nst (lent rights, which it cannot be imagined that Parliament, when it afforded a temporary relief' to the then distressed state of the city of Loudon, could hare meant to extinguish for ever. " Though, therefore, not more than thirteen years have elapsed since the last applicatiou, the London Classy feel theateelvee ender the necessity of at,ein petitiening Paulun nent for relief. They have made diltigent inquiry into the value. of the tithes in their respective polishes, and are fully prepared it show that, he raisang the lowest 1101123 to 4ttul. and the highest to 670. parliament will not impose a rate of more than eleven pence in the p•it std, an.l in many cases is such less, on the fair rents ut' the teatse.. " The clergy, thrill . ; to, trait amt, in requesting to be restored to sue third onl of unit mac,ent claim, they sham have shown themselves not end. 'erring of the lovotiralske consideration of the Legishititre." • " Sion College, Feb. 1317."