The National Register. — London, England, 1823-02-24 00:00:00

. '~ L~.~ r , '+r..~~,~ti...... 1.. OLD DAILEY. -(SATu Rimy.; SATURDAY, Fen. 22.—Tionothy Davis was indicted for stealing a silver watch, value 30s. the property of, Joseph Higgins The prmecutor stated, that he left the watch over his I fire place--his dan.liter saw the prisoner go out, and gave the alarm, when vvnuess pursued hint, and the watch fell from his person. The Jury returned a verdict of guilty, but recom• mended the prisoner to mercy. The Court said it could ton listen to their request—it was a case of aggravation. lie was sentenced to be pub licly whipped, and be imprisoned one year in the House of Correction and kept to hard labour. Charles Cliffe, a respectable looking young man, was placed at the bar, charged with feloniously uttering five false and forged 101. notes, and seven forgei 51. notes, all in imitation of notes of the Batik. of Eitglaud, well knowing them to be lorrd. The prisoner was brought up at the opening of the Court to plead ; lie put in the plea of putty, when the Recorder advisd him to wait till the arrival of the Judges. lie was now put to the bar a second time, when Mr. Baron Graham addressed him in a very feel in;: manner, •iid advised him to plead not guilty, as suring Mitt that that plea of guilty would nut avail hiss ally tiling. The prisoner still persisted hi his plea. Justice Park.-1 hope the prisoner knows the consequences which will 'mitt. The last man wind' pleaded guilty was executed, Mr. Woniner said he did ; and that he had made up his mind several days ago. The lidges again interposed, but nothing could in duce Min in alter his determination. The. Clerk of the Arraigns then recorded the plea of guilty, , MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. MONDAY, Fate. 17.—These sessions commenced be fore Mr. Const, and a full bench of magistracies. SINGULAR CASE.—Samuel Jacobs, one of those Jew duffers who invest the east end of the town, was tried for defrauding a countryman, named Lawrence Bartell, of the sum of 31. It appeared. that as the prosecutor. who is servant to a gentleman, was walking along Whitechepel with his master's gun on his shoulder and sonieother property, he saw the prisoner and another persoth apparently quarreling. The prisoner Kid to hint, that a vagabond Jew wanted to give him 51. for a watch that cost 131., and prevailed upon the prosecutor to go into a pawn broker's shop, and actually to pawn ha master s gun fur 31. to givo for the watch. The watch was. soon found to be worthless, and the. prosecutor had the pri loner apprehended. NIL Broderick, for the defence, void, chat the money was the proseeutor's.master's property, and not the pro. perry of the prosecutor, as the indictment stated ; and, therefore, the defendant must.be acquitted. A similar case had been decided by Lord Elleuborougb, and ap peared in Campbell's Reports. . The Jory found the prisoner guilty.—The Chairman sentenced.bim roimprisnitment for six months. On Friday last the King held a Council at Carl ton Palace, which was attended by all the Minis ters. His Majesty appeared in good health, and perfectly free from the attack of the goat. DREADFUL. FIRS, AND DEATH OE IWO FEMALES. —On Sunday morning, about la° o'clock, a fire, which created great alarm, broke nut in the ArVard, No. 20, in the Quadrangle of the Fishmongers' Alms-houses, situate opposite the Elephant and Castle, Newington.— The Governor, Mr. George Gardner, proceeded to the spot with the least possible delay, and immediately brought the engines of the establishment to play on the premises; and in a short time, by his exertions, aided by assistants, the fire was subdued. We are sorry to state, however, that Mary Wainman, aged 71, and Ann Powell,. aged 79, unfortunately lost their live* the former was , the occupant of the ward in which the fire broke out, and front the position in which her remains were found, must have been reading the Bible near the fire, as that book, partly burnt, with her watch, and a favourite cat, ware found among the ruins; the other unhappy sufferer resided in the adjoining apartment, and was sutlircated by the smoke, which penetrated through the wall. This is the first conflagration that has occurred in this ancient building silica its erection in /618. ORANGE OUTRNGE.+AbOIII 100 Orangemen assem bled in Mountmellick, Queen's County, on the even tug of Tuesday last, to celebrate the acquittal of their Dublin brethren. Having assembled at their Lodge -10010, they proceeded in the most tumultuous manner, housing and huzaaing through the town. They bore in the cavalcade what imported to be the figure of a law yer dressed in his robes, with the words •ea ooaia' in large letters taxed to his breast. The effigy was drawn by an ass, and tomported by a person dressed in the cha racter of a hangman, with his (ACC and hands blackened. The ear was preceded by a man of the same order, in the character of a sheriff. After proceeding through the town, when the procession arrived at that part of the - town where the Orange flag stands, a gallows was erected, and this miscreant sheriff spoke thus:—" Conyugham Plunkett, you have been found guilty of treason; have you any thing to say for yourself, why you should not be hanged ?" To which another of the mob made answer, " No;' when the said sheriff auin said, " IVilliatu Conyugham Plunkett, by the laws of our town you are condetnned to die, and your sentence is, that you do hang by the neck until you are dead, and then your body shall be committed to the flames."— He then turned to the hangman, and ordered hint to do Ins duty. The effigy was then hanged, and set fire to, and, when nearly consumed, the hangman cried out— " 114 old tlaa hod 4f a Traitor! • MI r - THE NATIONAL REGISTER . ' • DREADFUL AUCIDIINT,..We have this day to inform our readers, that a great portion of that large tenement five stories high, besides the garrets, situated in Silt market -street, and on the north-east corner of Prince's street, known by the name of Gibson's Land, Glasgow, fell on Sunday morning last, from top to bottom, with a most trennauluue crash. For same time past suspicions hare been entertained that it was tiot in a sufficient slate, which was indicated by the lintels of the doors and fire places ciriug way ; and on Friday afternoon the Frisco. rotor Fiscal applied to the Dean of Guild, who ordered tradesmeo to inspect the premises, and to give in a repots of their proceedings. These gentlemen accordingly vi. sited the whole property inimechately, and so convinced were they of its insufficiency, that It was very . properly condemned. No time was lost in giving notice to the inbabitatits speedily to remove themselves and furniture, and a person was sent round on Saturday, desiring them to do so without delay, as there was every probability the house would soot, conic down. During the whole of that day, the inmates were busily employed carrying away their properly; but in a land which contained so many families, it could hardly be expected that the or ders of the Dean of Guild could be literally complied with, and a few were hardy enough to remain in their lotuses during the night betwixt Saturday and Sunday. As was anticipated, a little after eight o'clock, the whole tenement fell, p.snly into &halal art and partly into Prince's.sueet. As the latter street is narrow, that por tion of it which came down in it fell on the tenement on the south east corner, to which it has done consider ' able damage, having nearly destroyed the whole front of the building, anal in which several of the itiliabitants who had moved tail taken refuge on the preceding day. As snots as this melancholy disaster was cominuoicated to Mr. Cleland, the superintendent of public works, that gentleman was instantly on the spot, where he con tinued Ibiza% the whole of the day. Oat his arrival he found the appearance of the.whole so awful, that he instantly sent away for a number of tradesmen and other skilled persons in order to consult what was best to be done with the ruining state of that part of the building which had not fallen in ; and on their reaching the ap• . palling scene, it was resolved immediately to set about ,propping the house wish logs of wood. and removing the rubbish, in unt.er to ascertain whether of not, any of the unfortunate tenants were buried in the ruins. number of workmen were employed, carts and horses procured. and they proceeded to business; but such was the vast quantity of stones, timber, kc. that it was sonic time, notwithstanding their best exertions, before they could make much impression on them. Beffire one o'clock, however, the voice of a woman was heard un der part of the ruins which it,wes highly dangerous to. approach, and this was a period of great anxiety to-every person concerned. At length, John Love, a carpenter, with Messrs. Scott, and Grieve. courageously went in quest of the woman, whom he found in a space just large enough to contain her, with one of her arms jam med in between two pieces of wood. A glass of water having been handed to her,. she was faint. Love pro cured a saw,anci after an hour's hard labour he succeed ed in exnicatitsg her from her perilous situation, a little after two o'clock, when 'Se appeared to to a girl of the name of Mary Hamilton, servant to one of the families. —She was immediately carried to an &dr' • g house, where she was attended by 1)r. Jeffrey of the College, and Dr. Frazer of the 77th ; aisd after some cordials bad been administered to her, she was conveyed to the Royal Infirmary in the easiest manner, and we are happy to say she is doing well, though her arm is broken.— No other persons havc,yet been found. About half-past eleven o'clock on Thursday night. a young man anti woman. respectably dressed, were seen walking together its Wellington-strt et, Waterloo-bridge, seemingly differing with each other; the young woman exclaimed she would drown herself, and, bursting Irons her companion, raps down the steps of the bridge and plunged into the river. The young man followed close after, and, being an expert swiniiner. plunged in after her, and secured her near the first barge and swans. with her to the steps. She was taken to Dr. Stituion's, its the Strand, where every attention was paid to lief; she was afterwards removed to ilia Sun and Apple-tree, White Hart-yard, and is in a fair way of recovery. The young man is the sun of sit eminent stock-broker, and he lady a dress-maker of the most respectable con tectiona. Last week a shoal of fish of the whale kind appeared to St. Ives bay, and approached very near to the land.— Sotne boats put out and attacked them with file-arms, and other weapous, and two were killed and brought on shore. The largest, after having been exhibited. for a day or two, was cut up, and 'produced a great quantity of oil. Perhaps, with proper management, the whole might have been driven into shoal water and captured, which would have made a good prize for the fishermen. At daysbreak on Wednesday, the 12th instant, a small French fishing sloop was discovered on shore in Rye-bay, soon after which a sailor was seen swimming among the breakers, by Mr. O'Reilly, Admiralty Mid shipman, who, prompted by humanity. rushed into the water, and brought him safe on shore. Two men were then observed at the mast-head of the vessel, when Mr. O'Reilly, assisted by Mr. Finch, Admiralty Midship nisi), and four seamen, proceeded to the wreck, and rescued them front their perilous situation. One man was found lashed to the shrouds, and another hanging to the dead-eyes, trite dead ; a boy, 15 years of age, was drowned, and his body washed on shore. She proved to be La Oaring, Louis Poitel, master, of Dieppe. The unfortunate stiff-rers were Writ:Ll in the church-yard at Rye, by 11 , 1 r. Clianerton, the French Consul, and Mr. O'Reilly followed their remains to the gra% e. Several details of extraordinary shots have late ap peared ; but we pledge ourselves for the accuracy of what we now state. A servant, in the employ of the very re apectable occupier of Hazell, at one shot last week knocked down 17 crows and 13 magpits, a total of 30" at oua discharge.—Briaa Mercury.' , . ' AI NORWICH NAVIGATION., A meeting of the owners of marsh land lying ' between Norwich and Lowestoft was held at the Swan Inn, Loddon, on 'Thursday last, to take into consideration the propriety of opposing this pro ject. The meeting was well attendee. On the motion of the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Neville, Sir Edmund Bacon was called to •the chair, and he de clared his opinion against the navigation, consider ing the property adjacent to the cut would be morq sinecure, the price of wheat not improved, and that of coals lessened, whilst Yarmouth would be almost ruined. Mr. Neville spoke in favour of the desigrr as an improvement of general benefit too great to be relinquished on account of injury to a email part of the country. He referred to the opinion given at Norwich by Mr. Harvey, of Alburgh, that that land adjacent would be worth is. an acre more per annum. Mr. Farrow and the Rev. H. Wilson concurred with Mr. Neville. Mr. Harvey addressed acre in the neighbourhood would at least gain Is. on every quarter of corn. J. J Bedingtield, E,q. asked Mr. Cubitt whether any danger was to Ix feared of the sea breaking through the works, and inundating the marshes, when the work was finish ed Mr. Cubitt said the quantity of earth thrown up would be a sufficient security. At the highest tide the sea was never known to be more than five feet higher than the water in Luke Lathing. The sea many years ago had broken over the lands, and caused considerable alarm ; but it was intended to make a bank higher than the tide ever yet flowed, so that the lands would be much safer than at pre sent. There was no danger of a bar forming, as at Yarmouth, because there would be a means of sav--• ing the water, and letting it out at low tides, which would carry away whatever might have collected. —Mr. Merry doubted whether any bank would las strung enough to withstand the force of the sea, and would oppose the plan, until there was suffi- • cient security given. Mr. Cubitt said the same water would run to Yarmouth as now. It would be better if the sea should encroach four or five hundred yards further—it would save the trouble of making a harbour, and save at least 20001. expellee. —The work would take two or three years, The Rev. William Gilbert said there ought to be a food tomake good injuries by accidents to mills, marshes, &e. the projectors ought to find bonded security against such injury. J. Harvey, Esq. proposed re solutions declaring that the navigation would be highly beneficial,. and would afford the means of drawing off the•water from the meadow lands ad jacent ; and that an addition should be made to the • committee of several gentlemen of the landed inte rest. Mr. Gilbert urged the necessity of some pledge for indemnity against injury. Mr. Harvey asked if 90,0001. was no pledge. The Rev. Mr. Gilbert P proposed a series of tesolutions, declaring that the district bad already a navigation of the best descrip tion, without locks, tolls, or impediments, that Yarmouth Port was capable of much improvement, that the present watermen would be deprived of employmeht, and that the property adjacent should not be endangered without the joint stock company giving adequate security. Mr. Arnold and Mr. Crisp Brown argued against them, and the original resolutions were put and carried. Thanks were voted to the chairman, who said a great many of his objections had been removed by the present dis cussion. - Rreoanza's aaPoaT.—On Friday List the Re. • corder made his report to his Majesty in Council, of the prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate; when his Majesty was pleased to order the following fur execution :—William North, convicted Septem. ber sessions, on Monday morning; and Mark Herd, William Watts, James Brown, Thomas Fuller, John . Harris, and John Wait, on Wednesday next. STAGX Coscuss.—The following is a correct number of coaches which daily go out of; and come nto, Brighton:—To and from London, 39; to and irom Portsmouth, 2; to and from Southampton, . fo Hastings, 2;. to Oxford, 1 ; to Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone, 1 ; to Windsor, 1;. to and. from Lewes, 6;, to and from Worthing, 11.—Total,. 62 The Gazelle of Saturday night contains an Order in Council, dated Friday, Feb. 21, revoking a former order, which. prohihited tor six months, from Nov. 15, the transportation of " arms and ammuqition to any port or plat* within the dominions of the King of Spain, or to any port or place on the coast of Africa or in the West Indies." Within a short period 25,000 musquets have been purchased in this country fur the use of the Spanish Constitutionalists. *1 On Tuesday last was shot, in the river idle, near Baw try, a penguin, a native of the southern tracts 01 the Pacific Oce in, and rarely seen beyond the Cape of GAO Hope; the penguins arc badly fitted by nature to navel in the air, the water, or on land, a distance (roue home. A gentleman in Bawiry, s great amateur in natural cu rios' les, purchased the bird for the purpose of shilling it ; but his housekeeper, the next morning, asked hint if he would have the wild (owl. for dinner, lor, says sun, "1 hate pulled and hum! ittindy for field Independent. Air • . ; ,„ - • 4