The National Register. — London, England, 1816-06-03 00:00:00

JUNE 3. SOCIETY 01' ART.Y. —wow— Great praise is due to the Society for their very jurliciet.s removal of their annual distribution of rewards, to a place that admits so considerable a number of s i , itors execetlinz that of their great rtout iuthe Adelphi. The iticouvenience having been laity compl acted of; the thstri Mahal took place thin year at 11:11cina , •nis' Hall, Great Queen-strret, and was held on Frith:. last; when bia Racal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the worthy President of the Society, took the Chair; and a most numerous and respectabie meetiag asocuibled on the occasioe. One of the Candidates was the Duchess of Ratland, who at • tended in person to receive the gold medal adjudged to her for the best method of raising oaks. There was great ap plause when her Grace came forward, and when ki s R oya l Dighoess delivered her the premium. Alr. Curecu, 31. l'. anti a Vice President the Society, re scued a gold medal for his inethad of brint,ii 7, cattle to early outtnri , y. Mr. C. made a speech of considerable length toi revei% in; this premium. Admiral Str Home Popham also ad t.ll the Society oa recei yin* a gold medal adjudged to him fur the invention of a tolegrapCand a marine vocabulary. gold medal and Ill.) a11ia1..1% a erc gives to Mr. Ryan, of Me therton colliet y, near Dudley, for a method of ventilating coal mines. Seventy-seven persons received premiums, and we were liappy to hear at announced, that NO great a nuntaer as • 3.W new members bad been Oct Led since the distribution of .rewards last year. PITT CLLR. The Pitt Club hal their anniversary dinner on Torsday. it was IeSS attended than on former years. Mr. Wilhraliain Bootle was in the Chair. After `'the immortal nu more of W. had been drank, the health of "his :Majesty's )linisters" was _« . r n; 1:C it the Lord Chancellor, in his on n nano! and that of the 'Ministers, returned thanks to the meeting for the irinioor that hail jo•t 11(4'11 dune them: " This testim.whv of epprolemon from a body of men like the present, would be peculiarly a:tree:U:4: in any circumstances; but when he re tollected that that aliaohation was bestowed ona them for their endea vours to follow the prasetples of the great :van whose birth they were rots day met to commemorate. he wanted languale t« eepresi his gra. made and his Seli , C of obligation. Nliiiist,rs had for a long course of years . ntleavoured to follow tharourse inarkiel out by that ,ereat states !Tian, who was now no more, but whose mune and fame would never i 11.% Ile maintained that his prineildes would save his country end Europe. and well-groundecl confidence had not been disappointed. nut thou;h we had obtained peace, it would be turn - ling expietatstais 'neon:is-tow. unit the usual slate of humanity et imagine that we had at...tined Mtiniate security and exemption from fawn - , troubles. If, t:nwever, we adhered to our admirable twastitutkei, and maintained a loyalty to the throne. as necessary for the privileges of file people as to the rights of the sovereign, he dill not cowed° hope that, though hi lted sten '45 years of contusion, he should yet live to behold a period blessed buyeria all former example; when this country, able us protect itself and to aceure the libertitsi of the woild, serial enjoy in tran quillity the fruit of all its labours, and would be held out as the mark of the admiration of mankind. Ile assured the meeting, that if the present government deserved any tievour, it was because they had fol lowed the maxima of that great man whose memory they were now -celebrating." Several new songs were sung during the afternoon, appro priate to the occasion. LONDON' SESIONS. Monday these Sessions were held ; when T.Daistry and J. Gr wory were indicted for a riot, conspiracy, and as sa ult o u J. leitepr, S. Pitcher, and cohort. Mr: Ti'llehar deposed, that he i.e a carpenter in Dorset-street, Salisbury•square. In February last he told his workmen he _ should velure their wager ts. per week; they all lett their work, and he gave them a week to return ; but none of them returned. On the 4th of March, 1 , 2 or 15 other men came. to work for him; but they were taken away on the sth, and re turned en the tith. On the 7th he saw 20 or an journeymen loitering abont his premises. On receiving information that abort 71:1 of them would come on the Yth.and take his men away, he got some Officers in readiness. They came, and the _ prauneis were among the ringleaders: be had _et his own men in the Mick .way, and went out. When they found that, they seized a man named liafl, AVilt , was coining to wink fur him, and polled his coat effhis back. Witness's nephew was attack ed by seven or eight others, and lie thought at that time his life was in danger. When the Officers made their appearance, they all dispersed except the prisoners, who were delivered over to the Constables. ;dr. Pitcher, jun. and twu of his journeymen, corroborated the proseeutor'i. evidence. The Jury fuund them Loth Guilty; and the Court sentenced them to be.iinpristmed one year in Giltspur-street Compter. MIDDLESEX S'ESSIOA S. TRIAL OF ROBERT ROBERTS. Saturday this notorious chararter was put upon Ilk trial. charged with a conspiracy, together w ith 1•C://it , m hit,,W alias ktotkte BAin, in putting off a arum tplantity of Bank Notes, of the firm of Brown and Comb, of V indsor, to the amount of Wool., which had been scam .from the Windsor taw:tell. in ri.eadilly. in the month of Octither last. tioniA4 limn. it will be recollected, was (..onvieted of the felony in the month of rebruacy last, at the Oki Bailey ; and a retvrsi , of his conviction was now put in anal read. It was continned also by oral testiormy. A number of witnesses were then called, who proved the confederacy ttf the said White with the prisoner, their negotiation of the stolen dotes, and the imrelia-e, by the parties, with a part thereof, of a bill or bills upon a respectable Lome in town; where the prisoner haring pre so2nt: done for 4.0 t it was stopped, and a clue thus ,f.ade to the discove ry or the ollentkrs. Scverd objections were taken in the course of the trial by Mr. Aunr.putts, the prisoner's erninsel ; which were ably replied to by Assts. ALL EY awil l'ool.r.v, for the prow:m.4m. _ 'fl trial lasted the whale of the day; and niter an aide charge from the l'itairman I qtr. We the prion-r was fatrad Guilty. TLC ben tr.nce 0.1: ( and was o.,:t‘orittl. OLD BAILEY. Wednesdw these Sessions comweneed before the Lord 'Mayor, atr.Justlee Bayley, Ms . . Jostice Park, the Recorder, awl vdetanto. sawpsaa capilkelv convicted of , tcaline a qsiantity 0 . 1 .vtllting apparel anti jewellery, the property of It. Pullen, 18 • N u nker t ille mt+ also raritailv renvlcted of ;muthing NV ilium/ T0d.... Hole, or stir K.s4 4 's iugl.way. otottowi hint in 'fear, and t• Vol% fr , I,i ilia arson gold chain, Wive vu- Ina.:.e, 500%, &c. his voperv. Thumday, N.l( Paco n!e.t '..z.., : • • d rerr. /Its, v%vi, cunifigt,c, , tit A 4..aokkey W tue 14Alailflo- VIE NATIONAL itEGISTETt. house of the nut (the stable connee‘ oil with the is St. James's-sip:are, on the t7th instant, NW) stealing a table cloth and sonic wearing appar;!l, his property, together with several other articles the property of his servant.. —Guilty, Death. , . Juitm agNl 19, and Peter Herbert, aged 20, were capitally colivact , ..l of a burglary in the ilwelling-horse of Mary Davis, of sun-yard, St. Clements, on the I lth Of April last, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel her I .roperty. Death.—They were recommended to mercy on ac count of their 3 °nth and former good characters. Nardi (Wert was capitally convicted of stealing on the llth May, in the ilwdliieglionse of Sir Geo. T. Smart t of Portland street, 101 pieces of plate. Wiitia»s Intber, aged IS, was convicted of assaulting John Morgan on the King's highway, aad taking from his person a quantity of silver on Ith April last. DaNvergi unit IViWairt Fellow" were capitally convicted of assaulting John Dorton, on the King's highway, and taking Crum his person tour peony pieces, a pocket-book, &c. • Ft-14'y, InTimis Motes an.l Sneak .Mules were capitally in dicted, charged, by an inqui s ition t a k en ot. the body tit . John liewley, with the wilful murder of tke sold John Howley. The following witiit4aea were called to make omit the case:— Jones small waft a pupil at the London Hospital, and had been so for seam, years. Ho remembered the deceased being brimight is on the 7th Apr!l : he examined him, and found cot , t usions on the hotly, and a fracture on the kg, which appeared to the wituese to have been produced by violence. The lad was ro young. that it was impossible to say within a day at what time the fracture was done ' but it could net have been above a slay or two: he ascribed the mortification to the frac ture : there were also some excoriations about the knees of the lad ; the leg was cut off sule.equent to the mortification, hut the deceased did not live more than a quarter of an hour. The death of the lad you'd not be ascribed to nothing but the vim knee done to the let; and the mortification. The exceniations on the knees arose, us lit li...tiered, from climbing chimneys. Mr. Richard Clement Leadington was surgeon to the Lon don Hospital, and held e %ambled the deceased when lie came tutu the hospital : he then ow that the left leg and thigh u ere prodigiously swollen, and hindering upon inortincetiou. lu about three or four days the leg was almost gone; and on Smoky there was a considerable bleeding, and the wily thing to be done was amputation; the consespemei se as shaost in stant death. The child was about five years old, but witness csmceived that the age of the child was in his favour: the in jury done to the kg was the cause of his death; tloese were ne other marks Or Vitilellee besides those on the leg norm the child, except npou the forehead. It was rassiale that tae kg might have been brokeo a fortnight. Elizabeth Ware deposed, that Ler h ;band was a hr. s 6 layer. Ondhe d April she recollected the u ate prisoner and tee de ceased coming to her house iu Passion.street,Bp - tal. , -Ids. hey went into a room over head, end in a short time she sward the violent cries of a child : she immediately ,:eit out 4 lied, and went up into the I'oolll above stairs with Mr. Reeves, and saw the male prisoner strike the deceased sioleetly with a sweep. ing brush : he then took the child by tit" feet, and dashed it shown on a large flagstone; the-prisoner thel put the child up the chimney, with another boy after it. Wink.. then went dawn stairs, as she could bear it no longer. Mrs. Sarah Reeves recollected the prisoner and his boys coining to Mr. Jackson's house where she lodged. Ia comas querte.e of being called by Mrs: Ware, she went hub the room up stain; she saw the prisoner, at the time she entered it, ex tending his arms up the chimney: he took the deceased by the lens, and dashed hint on the hearth. The prisoner then put the child up the chimney again. The boy cried, an.l said ibis knees hurt him: he then moue down and the prisoner again took the child by the breeches, and da-slied hill' out the ground: be then put the child op the chimney, with another boy after him. The child,after having finished the chimney, slime down, and as he was standing on the hearth shaking the soot from off his clothes, the prisoner hit him with the brush on his back and loins. The boy pat on his shoes, and trembled very inneh. The prisoner put a :,leek rag on the boy, who walked down stairs resting his liana on the wall all the way down: and as they were going down, the prisoner turned round ane said W. the child. " I will serve you out yet." Witness saw the boy walk demo stairs, and the leg was not broken at that time. Ann Chandler deposed, that ou the gad or t. Mt of April the prisoner came to her house with the deceased to sweep the cininuev ; they all walked to her house. Mr. jestice Bayley asked the learned Counsel,whether there was any evidence to prove the fracture on the leg by the pri souers; and being answered in the negative, the learned Judge then addressed the Jury :—He thought it his duty to stop the proceedings in this case, understanding that no evidence could be produced to prose that either of the prisoners had broken the chills leg. Most inlnunan cruelty had indeed been proved on the part of the male prisoner towards the boy, bitt that was not enough; it was absolutely necessary to prove the fracture of the leg by one of the prisouers, mid it had been positively sworn by the last witness, that on the tad or 24th of April the deceased walked to her house; at that time, therefore the leg could not have been broken. He therefore recennmeuded the Jury to acquit the prisoners. The Jury acquitte d both the prisoner; but Mr. Justice Raw ley detained Wm. Moles fora misdemeanour in beating the child. SATI RDAY. FORGERiES.—jisseph 110ips• was indicted capitally for felotrion.sly forging a deed, or Power of Attorney, for the transfer of 780. 3s. I Id. in the 5 per Cent. Annuities, and with &lonian sly uttering the sante, knowing it to be forged, with intent to defraud the Governor and Cont pony of the Hank of England, or John Tosker, of Daubed, cr WM. Snutlihone. The indictment contained nine counts. _ . 'l'he trial lasted several hours; but the evidence was far from inte restinn. Joh Tacker, Esq. a brewer, residing at Dartford, deposed, that in the month of December hat he saw the prisoner at his home, who epplicd to Min on the part of one Austin for the transfer (tithe property. IVitne.ss refused to do it. The signature " Jne. Tasker" to al di, instrumenta, were not in witness's hand-writing. 'l'he prisoner made a long defence, the purrort of whicii was to denv the charge of forgery altogether; ate .ing that it was a must tricked prosecution. Mr..histice A.ttt.sy ermined up the evidence, and the Jury retired for an hour, and returned with a verdict of Guilty—Deoth. Jules Gngory !so sae capitdly convicted of having forged. made, and counterfeited, tw caused to be fbrpd, and counterfeited. a transfer bill for Ysl. in the Navy 3 per cents. in tie name of Elizabeth Coward, with intent to defraud the caranor and Comlntny of the link of .-...1119. , Twistlay evening an ingtiest-was held at the Prince Regent. neer biiiroun Church, on the body of Seralt Restall, of St. J.ihu-stor.iet. The deceased had been for sonic time petit in a •••• of mental derangement, and na *April night eluded the ..g lAcee of her frienda, and vie. found drowned tile folivwinig übauiug.—The,lory returutd r vet diet of J.Lhaul!y. ICIITHYOPOGY. 135 The fdlowing fiefs may be worthy of record—the authen tic:!. i. uu,irniaLl As Mr. John Wane, groeer, Penrith, was lately following his favourite recreation of fishing with roan, in the river Eminent,. :Ater taking a quantity of trout, in a part ofthat river near to the Giant's (;ise,hc found an 1111118113 i attack made at his bait, and immediately discovered he had hooked a young otter about 7lbs. weight, and apparently about four months old. Owing to the good condition of his tackle, he was to tbreinate as to bring, it w ithin reach of his band-net, but no sooner did he do so, than the young savage bit the rim of it in two, although made of bass wire about three•quarters of an inch in circumference; he nevertheless contrived to throw it over his head on the bank, and pursuing his success by intervening between the animal and the water, he, after repeated attacks, and not without con siderahle difficulty, seized upon it. Finding itself in a very animal element, the animal made a loud whistling noise, which brought to it (no doubt with a view of relief) the parents, and with them five or six young ones, which immediately swimming to the edge of the water set themselves in battle array, by rearing themselves on their hind legs, and following the example of the captive by setting up a whistling noise, spurting water at Mr. W. and spewing every symptom of the most savag e ferocity. They duet not, however, make any personal atta c k, and Mr. W. content with his prey, made the best of his way along the banks to a neighbouring house, about 300 yards distant, the old oUers following him the whole way, evincing the most parental affection. Having safeiy lodged his captive, he resumed his sport, sad, before live o'clock in the afternoon, having commenced fishing about six in the morning, he actually killed bllbs. weight of trout, which probably is the greatest number ever taken by the rod in the same space of time. He has now thy otter in Ids possession; and the animal appears in a state of domestication. Soot , . time ago Dr. Machin exhibited to the New York Phi losophical Society a s;weimen of American Elastic Marble, measuring Our feet in length, three inches in breadth, and ou t in thickness. The slid, was of a snowy whiteness, of a grAined structure, and of remarkable flexibility. He had received it of Messts. Norris and Kain, who got it from the quarry in Pittsfield, Mes‘aelmsetts. Since the receipt of this extram di nary sample, another one of a far more considerable size, has been procured by Mr. Moyher, from Stockbridae. This he is preparing t 4 a place in 1)r. Mitchill . s.eatiinct of mineralogy. The dimensions of this stone arc as follow : breadth one tout and ten inches, length the feet, and thickness two inches; 1.1,0: Mg a. mare of two tionsand six hundred and fatty .cubic inches of elastic marble. This slab, when shaken, unthilistes smisibly backwards and forwards: when supported at the to extrentities, the middle !Mini a curve of about two inches flow a horizontal Mot; and when turned over .recovers Itself, and inelmes us much the other way. It has many other curious properties. The substance under consideration Ines been alreai:y :escribed by Mr. Made, in a Memoir winted hi the American Mineralogical Journal ; and New York pi isbably now contains the largest piece that the world can produce. B. Ferguson, Esq. bas sent to. the Museum of the Heifirt Academical Institution, a curious antique pot, containing a numbcr of copper coins, of.Janics 11. which he issued when in Ireland in 1C059 and 1690. These coins have the month in scribed un them in which they were coined. The pot was found in au old ditch at Flora-grove. the residence or sibs. Ferguson, about six miles south of the Mack Rack, GRANT, THE IRISH ROBBER. The following is an extract from a private letter, dated Dub lin, .Hay YGI :—" A person, generally known by the mote of Carttlin (i rant, whose extraordinary endowments rendered him competent to achieve much good or evil, after having escaped, by means which appear miraculous, from 11111011 A gaols, was some time since lodged in that of Mary borough, the capital of Queen's Comity. Here, being abundantlystipplied with money, lie treated the prisoners with such good filings as the place afforded ; and repeatedly told the Sheriff, as well as the nu merous persons whose curiosity induced them to visit him, that he would chide their vigilance, in defiance of every assertion they could make. The discovery that he had cut his irons nearly through. leaving oulpsufficient remaining to keep them together, anti the substitution of others of singular weight and thickness, did not appear to disconcert him: he laughed at the zeal of the Officers of the detachment, which had induced theist to take lodgings opposite the gaol, as a measure of increased security. The night after the immense irons wi re put on is in, he cut through -them, cud through those of 23 other moo, charged with capital offences; and, rushing forward at their head, knocked down too soldiers stationed in the passage, the n the turnkey., and lie assistants : and, opening the door, the key of which he had seized, knocked down two soldiers were at the outside of it, and taking their arms, as. he had dune those in the passage, ran down the street, with six of his asso ciates, crying, • stop thief,' till the darkness of the night rev tiered pursuit unavailing. On the first Marini» the prison, a man, coldined for debt, and who was taking tea with the gaoler, ran into the passage, and with great presence of mind shut the iron gate, by which means the flight of in of the feltris wet te fortunately prs,:vented, and they were remanded to their former quarters.. •-The escape of Grant was almost immediately pro claimed throughout the country by his depredations. The eight sifter, he carried oti*Mr. White's coach-horses from Scots wieth, between Moktrath and Abelaix, he comonitted a rob_ berg near Waterford, 60 English miles distant and returning with nearly equal rapidity, plundered the house of Mr. Horan, close to Maryborough, of every article of value, as is Ins.ge tweet practice. lie is sometimes numerously attended, and on other occasions only by one or two. Hcobserves,thathenever broke into any house, but that he walks into all, which is liter ally the case; for lie depredates at Mght-fall. whet• persons are off their guard, and by the time his business is accomplished darkness favours his escape. So general is the alarm occasion ed by this esteem dinary delinquent, that most of the houses in the Queens County, and ',limy in the counties of Kildare, Car low, Kilkenny,. and Waterford, are barricaded ut dusk, and till the MI/owing morning scat eel) , any circumstance could ()yeas sien a door to be opened in a district so justly celebrated for hospitality, and still so animatedly alive to it.—At one of the houses visited a few days since by Grant, attended by 12 nun, well armed, • the Captain' amused himself at the piano-forte, whin( tea was prepiiriug, and his associates were packing up all the things they conceived worth being carrietbott." Jahn Bull, lodging at the house of W. Booth, Paradise-street, Battle-bridge, being confined to his bed for a week with a brain fever, got tip on edtiesdav morning, and, running into tha street in a state of mental derangement, was StiAed with a 61, awl capitra.