The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

^,l st OLD BAILEY. No trial of the least interest took place on Monday or WEDNESD 4Y. Richard (terrine a _rey•headei old non, 74 years of axe, WO indicted for stealing 45 pounds of fat, the property of• John Jackson. - The peoseentor keeps a slanghter-honse in Marshall Street, Cat natty market, and carries on a very extensive business.— The prisoner used formerly to sell eats meat ashen' the streets, lint had latterly worked in slaughter•bottscs. On the morning of the 21th July, Mr. Jackson saw the prisoner in Broad Street. Caritaby_maiket, with something ii ;:e a sack neon his shoulder.; but he atterwards discovered that it was n round frockotsually worn by butchers, with the sleeves tied op. 'Elaine:lt one of the boles in the frock be plainly saw some fat (timing out. The tit issmer deposited flm fat at l'aintl's melting house, in Wardoor-street, and received a payer front a rlcrk in attendance, authorising hint to receive Is. Is 411 (the value of the tat deposited) at Mr. Brinti's shop, in 0 sfurd•street. The prosecutor followed the pti• boner, having previously obtained au officer, to Oxford-sto eel, stud took him into enstutly in the act dif rot esenting the paper in the shop. Plank. the officer, Edit to 6itn , "My friend, where slid yon get that fat from; how did you come by it ?" " Conte by it," repeated the prisoner, " why how should I come by its' I bought it to he sore." The prisoner aftet wards lowereil his tone as he was going to the watch-house. and told Mr. Jackson he would tell hittehow he came by it. -••• " Why. to tell you tlin truth," he said, "I did not buy the f t, lint I haul it of two men at the Maidenhead public. vtlio gave it sue to dispose of." 1u eonvequence (Willis information, the proseentor and the o' err event to the Maidenhead puldir.honse just by. and sa w two meet, which the prisoner said were the two from whom lie received the fat. They Warm tha next inuruing all three taken before a magistrate, nod the prisoner dien lief loosed titat these were mat the two men he meant. The magistrate in consequence did nut detain them, and they were ordered to appear en the next examination of the prisoner. At the subsequent examination oae of 'the hula did , appear, but the other absconded. s . • Mr. Adolphus-here concluded the *toe tbe part of the prosecution. The prlsonett.-1 must have all Bat whitest's called; there k en. I wish to be examined. Mr. Adolphus.— Whit. is his name rc The pm ironer,—l) d—n the moan, I don't know his name, bit here he is (pointing to him) n him a bald head. The witness being eailed,stated that he was in the den head pulilieJmotrum when the prisoner called for a bundle, and at the same time saw two men with him. He could m•; tell what was in the saek, or what size it was, or what r oloimr, A roan ut the name of Bailey helped time prisoner up with amid then he did observe its size and colour. He knew nothing snore of the Ital!SaCtiffil. The Jury found the pi isoner Guilty, after a Short consul. 'The nffirer told the Jury that the pilsoner w'.•as a notor;onsly bad character. The Recorder.—Oli yes, Gentlemen, I have tried him be_ fuze; I recullvet him well. Several other trials of little interest to the public occupied the Com t until five o'clock. The Recorder thou dismissed the Jury, with thanks for their unremitting attention. Mr. Armstrong, one of the Jurymen, wished to take this opportunity or applying to the Court in behalf of Samuel Mason, a little hoc, who had been tried and convicted, on l'riday last, of picking pockets. He had enquired into his and had found out several circumstances which tt go much in mitigation of punishment. Tie sister of the oo• fort11111:111 . lair was at present in hk Nervire, and if the Court VI 0041 discharge the boy; Ire Iraii rio objeetion to take him into ert ice at all cis►s. The Recorder observed that it had born fonnil necessary to punish tlime found guilty of pirk'ng pockets very .evrredr, b :cause the number of offenders id that particoilar branch or infamy had so much increased. Transportation aas gem tally the piiiii.lintent far such erimiiiii:s, and the reason wily so many ni re sent out of the toll 111 y any, that hasiuG lost their character here, au opportunity was given to them to bogin (art it wen:l a new life in a foreign country. The ritatl Fault ♦vaa, that this was not made a capital offense. He wont(' certainly attend to the recommendation. . . The Joi 'lllll 1,T•15 uldl,l t•d to attend to.tnorrow morning at nine o't lock. The ‘i hole of the trial% having been zone throe:zit, the Recorder proceeded to pass sentence upon the ,cvcral pri. toners. Ur. I...iwrcnce Halloran, who had been convicted of fort. inc a flank in the 11.1111 C of t 4 ir Garrow, M. P., ear :mow: other pi isoilers brought Up to the bar to leccire the setitrnre of the law. Mr. Shelton, the Clerk of the Ai raiml, lI t hi?, demanded in Ilse moat fain wilt-titer any of the pri.ouers li,td any filing to aav uliv Sentence alifoild not be paced upon • Lawrence Halloran alerord forward, and humility begged perraisciun to addremi the Court for 4 few minutes. lie spoke nearly in these words :• " I beg leave timid re.pectfoily to sirgzest to the Coort. that the present prosecution against me is the tii'at that ha% taken plare 'miler the statute ; and, altliongli I profess not to de• 'elope t he. motive% by which this prosecution may have been indueneed, yet I hope I may he per miti ell tam till fur a niii,nrint to the cruel awl rmpist suf}tia ai a i have experienced, and Which I burbly siebniii, have been •e than %v le erpii • ta;dy proportioned to the utfetitio committed. 'Lucy have, jell eed, been to me more distressilig and dreadfully appalling than even death itself. Under the snppo.SUou o f ha yi p , you feited a frank. by which the Font Otfleeli ;l % be t o dc frau:l. il, I have hero torn from my Itinne,_f the truant,' of trimly, and have been incarcerated for more than &Ince reowlis in a tlnageou•among the I rinse of mankind : and ills though the warrant of the Magistrate extended only to the apprehension of ally person, my lodgings wet e searched. my trunks were rifled, and my limier% were Arista arid carried away by an oftiver altlii nab, Indeed, %mate of them have been rt turned. °theta have oven Will withheld, whieh have se% recd (lire to the cbarge in creation. 1 liiimbly hope that the CCIll!l wa ll he plc.:wed to restore those documents. For the violent Milliner in which the officer with five or six athirs t] lids burst iron toy apartments; an ample jti%tifiratitin has b(ta afforded by the fnla. dn.! midieintes slittotwists i01..e c4l in 111411,014 th by the promoter of I ,.n•ecittiogl, ic ires.o.iner me a% a dan2eriiiis (+a t aet t r, alwai eariying Liaded p;steht about my person; hes ria%, alit the e 011; tat y„ I have not hail a pair of itIISIOIA ;II my posseision for 12 wombs prior to up a t. 'These malicious molt% et: could slot, Ivor ' be Fuceided, cud the zubAlueut ccuduct ui the oflccr THE NATIONAL RtGISTER I die honour to his feelings and character 141 an officer of tie.. I stand here greallt injured in health, in reputation, and in eiretinistanccA, and the Pole charge against me ix that of having defrauded the Poet (Mee of 10d. l'his ix the ac. cosation isgainst me, after having gone throtigh an active useful lire of more than 50 years, during whirl' I have given very considerable sums to private and public cliar?tiee. The greater part of my existence has been devoted to religious' anti classical instruction—with what Credit and sticee , s it does nut become me to declare ; but I hold in my hand te-ti monials of my moral character for more than 20 years, which I am extremely desirous of submitting to year Lordship's ennsideratlim. The sinthent icily of these testimoidals can tmt for a moment be doubted, and I hope they still have some influence on the Coln t in mitigation of the puidslionent to be inflicted. I hope I may also be allowed to state, that many gentlemen edueeted by me, now fill the most respectable si tuations in the army, in the law and other professions. The pfesent Solicitor (intend, Sir Robert Gifford, was for nine years my pupil,and received from me the ts hole of his echo eJuration. I have alto wholly formed' the minds of litany gentlemen who are now an ornament to the various situations which they fill. 'the frank, which it has been alleged was forged by me, is dated January°, ISt7, and I beg leave to state, that it would have lain dormant. and not a syllable weidil bare been known of this transaction, hail not an WHEW tamale quarrel with my Rector introduced it to the noire of the public. The death of the only person who (Told have proved my innocence, the total ruin of my circumstances, my long confinement, and the unjtort detention of a considerable portion of my stipend by the promoter of this prosecution, having deprived me of an omsorniiity of engaging a legal ad titer, I felt that I had no other alternative than to allow jsidg men, to be recorded against me. not fraireat most humbly the attention of his L it dstliip to alit single consideration—the insprobAilitv that a man, not in a state of actual infatuation, would voluntarily commit such an i.frmee as that which is now laid to my elm rge, for the sake of tenpence, and that lenpence not to pass into his own pocket but into that of the promotes of this prosecution. Havingsaid thus much, I feel the fullest confidence that time judgment which awaits me will be regu lated by the most Mt ict and impartial justice. Stith _ _ Bevie s peccatis gum pcenasTmTget rquae ; Nc erud:a dignum horribiliseztare flagella. a It now only le plains respeetfolly to I our to the judgment of the Costrtorthich I hope I shall he cuah:eil to meet with the fortitude of a tuan,.:lnti the resignalien of a eltristiati." The Reeordes.—The address which you have now made to the Court would have been extremely proper at the time of your trial, but at thisstage I can only pats that sentence upon you which I am hound to pmis uncles 'he authority of the law. le is not in my power to alter it. 'rite Legislature gives the i,vttrni e, and it is solely my duty to pass it. 'llie sentence of sevan years' transportation was then pass oil iipou Lan rune Halloran, Samuel Dukes, John Jones, Jos. pli Saunders, Lydia Green, and Lyon Levy. Dr. Halloran actin eddressed the Count. "I most ear nestly implore hi.. Lurd‘hip to recommend my case to the humane elemcney of ilre Prince Rearm. in or her, if possible, : it: evilit the dreadful necessity of a parent being torn from a ntmerons , arnily whielt has no other trend on eolith to which it ran look fit sliapiirt. It will be g separation which I feel tun smisibly I cannot survive." The Recorder. —Whate% or application you have to make to his Royal Hight ess, it must be done thrtinab the medium of his Majesty's 51inisicrs The prisoner boviert and left the Court imam diately. The Recorder then proceeded to pass sentence upon the other prisoners. William Jones was sentenced to transportation for his na• turd life. SCIITetIVP of death was passed upon the following 35 pri soners. The 13 sithscquect prisoners, having been convicted of putting away forged note., knowing they were forged, now received suntence of iiimth : Wm. Gi acey,ioilllJo , l4'S, George Gracey, Richard Mime!, lobo Di iseoll, William Welter, George Cashman, John Hood, Thomas William Sinitli, WM. Barnes, Sarah Ward, Jeremiah B. vent, and Elia. Brookes. The following 22 prisoners, making 33 In all, Were also seilitmecd to death fur various other capital otlences : —J. Higgins. David Rettatt, Henry Meat liaise S impson, Wm Edward Fletcher, Hubert Freeman Thompson, J. Noakes, Wm. Sattoders, Thomas Webb, James White, Elia. Jimes, Sarah Betcher, J tines LAWI'PIICIP, J. Burgess, Marga ret Iteadttig Rebecca G odd, Mary Seimilers, Richa rd toff, John itiontait LittleYtt, Burton Williams, Hugh Linch, and Benjamin Jacksoit. On Tim silay the following 21 prisoners were sentenced to transportation for life : Jiditi Fitzgei old. Sarah Spencer, John Clarke, W. Bruce, jiillll Bishop , Jahn Cooper, Thomas Gardner, Samuel Massey, James Riehards, Geolge Mice, I3cujamin Farr, William Smith, Anthony Murphy, James Neale, Juba Nelson, Ann Jackson. Thomas Judd, Jultn Porter, Ruuert Aoderson , Mena rd ItiAllead, and John Edwards. hamster was sentenced to transportation for 14 sa s. Seventy pri! , nnerl were sentenced to tran(portatinn rm. 7 ye.if .tud d 6 were scummed to inwrisonsnent for arians iu rind Tht Court Own adjosirned until Weduesday,Oet.2Bth. Quaker itt Paris. was waited on t,, fonr work men esti:oy employed by him, having for their ioject to make their compliments to him, and ask f. , r their new year's gill..—•'t Well, my Friend*," said.tbe Quaker, •' here ate gifts ; chose 1.; tines or it I don't know how io read," said the first," to I take the 15 ft aties7- 1 ' I can read,' said the second," !mil hate prvp.ing wasitt." tic took tile 15 ftAnot. The third mho made the same elmiee. lie now came to the 451 i, a lotto): lad about 13 or 11. The Quaker looked nt I' with an air of ginolness.—" Will tin tun take these three pines, which yeti may.oritaiii at any time by rune Indoistry?"— " !is yon say the hook is to gond, 1 411411 lake i:, an I read it to toy anoiliei•" 11r wok the Itihle, opened it, :nil found beim ern the leaves st gfilil Mere of 40 frames. The dithers linnir their heads, and the Ullakur told theist he was sorry they had not sitodcs better elimea, It is aitid. that the Iv:lowing least-two% are to take place he fore the sat ethic. of I'4l li.wiesat ;—lnfatilry regitiomta are to he brotight dim n to the PP It Foot t and it is that thy Cavalry la to rote as low as the 16‘11 Li%lt• llrtcoou•.— All the second Field 0/fieer% of recionchts ate to trotovett to lartifspay. The %%little et the Royal Attillery Dri v cos, togi:ther with tht• 1-lota• Astillet y, two loottallotat et F4)1.1, A rcillery, and vile et' At tlltyr Aloe fail untie, the neeractly ' , tutting itund of Eeiiiionv. CoioLliteritiale re rictions ore to he mode iu ail the 31illtrtry De par Ittlelll4. FOLICE. OUILOHALL. George Partiham was bronglit up on a warrant, he being charged by the parish officers of Farrinatlnn Within with having deserted his wife and•family,and leaving them charge. able on the parish. _ _ _ One of the Churchwardens of the parish stated, that the defendant received an annuity of 11. per week, besides which he earned a consiae eable stun as a drot er in Smithfield market his wife and her children were in the parish workhouse and us he. was able he ought to be made to remunerate the parish for the expellee they hail been at for their support, as also indemnify them against any future expellee. The defendant, whose look and manner ponthrayed the greatest ignorance and stupidity, said he would not with the children to starve, although they were tinue of his; but no 'tower svoutil fu, ee him to live again with his a ife. !t. Stephen Cho:dins Hooter, theaittieg Alderman—" Yon are ri o t : A sked to live with your wife, bet if yon do not pay the parish for her support, yon will be committed as a va grant to the Horse of Correction." The Defendant —" I have offered to pay something to keep the children front starving; but mat, I never wear a badge again if I pay a doil for her support." The Churchwarden-•-" ri is not the wish of the parish to be harsh with the defendant. He is but a poor simpleton; he was left an estate, which he sold tor an inutility of 11. per week for his life. He is also, at the death of his fattier, who is is ignorant as himself, entitled to 5001. lie went to Lewes. and the woman who is now in out worklion:e sttz...•o 4 child 10 him, at the same time having two children provided tor 14 the parish. The parish officers at Lewes, tee get rid of the woman and children. perstiatliA the defendant to marry her, and gave him 51. Ott conditimi that he shoulr i l l il e ii k s i o .: The moment the mart m iage ceteony was over at Lewes, the pa t i s h o ffi cers cleric pie.sed her awl her children to our p ac being that of her liiishoio:\ defcritt tut). I think the paii,ti officers of Lewes might he indicted for a rt.r.”.iraey, in tnveiglio§ the defendant to marry the woman, to ('liable limn to gel 'idol her, and to throw the inconthrance on another parish." Sir S. C. Hon ter—" No steels indictment would lie. Tho office's of Lewes ought to lie commended for giving 51. to make o womma wllOlll they knew to be ('mail, an honest woman. They married her to the defendant;, and how wet e they to knew hut that she would make a good wife And she may be • very gond kind of woman for ss hat I know." 'l'h; biureliwarden—" Will you undertake, "'Arnhem, to pay ow 15e. per vet elk?' The defendant—" No, I will not, to sapport other men's children ; but yon inay have mil of the 16 a week which I receive, or you may receive the 11. weekly if you like, and baud me over 10s." The wvrthy Alderman observed lie thought this was a very fair The Ciinrchwartlen concurred in that opinion, and the de. fendant %%us discharged. THE. BANK OF ENGLAND V. JOHN JOHNRON, COAL MERCHANT, This case, which had been tr toy to day promo. , dto the came on on Tuesday before Sir Cla nolo% Banter. Th e defendant W:l4 a coal-m.4'lmm to the I ink. an d „ p ow, several ',itemise establishments in aril at/am :lie metropolis. The Directors of the 'link having ascevaini d th it the A c t of Parliament tOr the 'collation of the dative'' , of roods had nut been complied with by Mr. Johnson, cod aware of th e possible bad consequesices of inattention Upon the part of' the public to a statute so important, ordeiett that the defendant should be s tttttttt oned before a inagiatrate, upon no less than So iidarniations. 'rite fines allowed by the act in cases of conviction would am Ito nearly 1,0001. The greatest interest was naturally excited, and while the Case was going forward, the utmost attention was paid Meyer". e tad that fell from those immediately concerned. _ Mr. Freslifield, of the is:ittAr of Frest)&lll, and Co., attontted fur the Bunk; Mr. Aolitevis atteutlrd for the de frtuktnt. The defendant's Connie! , admitted that his client had done w ong, but said that the °Wetter had been unintentional...— Under such a representat' it would, he suage,ted, be as well eel 10 press the fines to their full extent, the public werviee being 101iikl - l) lo be tls much adVellired It) the exercise of the magistrates' !privilege, which cumin diminish pounds to die smallest ruin of the realm in this ease. Mr. Fresh&lit observed. that the object of the Bank W3S to show the pitldie, that they gad a •yearily tat the act of Parliament ag mitt the practice of impositions of is. very serious nen 'C. He thought it due to them to state in the office the probable consequences Of Wit implicit itliance, and he trd•ted that the le%son would prove of general utility. Mr. Andrews urged its the strongest mann. , , that the in. fliction of such a piiiirdiment upon the mime of inadvertence would be ttlimereitill, and strengthened his argument by say. ing, that the very reading of the matter on which they wet e to i.roceed would occupy bra hours. Hit object lie said, was to save the inagisii ate trouble. Sir Claudius Hunter let/nested that hie time or attention should not be considered as ill bestowed is the investigation of what lie heard was 11 1110 , 11 flagrant rag,. lie %timid as dPrtake to attend to every statement that should he made with ihe most scrupulous care. itdr. Andrews suggested that a penalty might he taken en one information, and an acquittal oiven upon sII the rest. Mt. Freslitield said it was a mistake, il• want of liberality to the deti•ndaut was presumed by his Counsel. The Batik wouiti prove that the very reverse was the case. Mr. Freslitield and die. Andrews then withdrew into a private roma, m lien it was arranged dist the defendant plead auilty upon the re huhi 60 inforittlltials i and that he should abide the decision of the magistrate as to the tines under the lenient hand of the ',Rigel:mien. Mr. Freslatie:d then stated that he attended the office en the behalf of the Bank of England, by whosa. instructions he had lodged the in los ataaflons. The tarsi accused tin• defendant with swing sold and delivesed coal. without a vendor's ticket, emintersigned by the teeter. I . llOfC informations carte kid without any view but the benefit of the public. The Bank had pi ()tragical without at all consiaterio 2 the tees they might have sustained by the COlialtct or the defendant, and ming well able to afford the es pence* of a prosecution, were 411( rmincd to maintain it in consideration of the pit blue alone. The case W;l6 a most important one. The penalty. in the e%ent of conviction, would amount to na arty 1.0001. 'Mr. Fteslifteld then Mated, that it nes most u. Ct scary the pull is slutuld have full aneaqtre and quality it: Weil an ite:lf.o .-aal, and that it was hot jn>licr to the coal trade to pro• c Mat the peactive he had to complain of was the mere act of ihe d ditinfaist himself; and not COIIIIIIOII to the triode. It was not his intention to dilate on a subject so well undorstia". - He should but mention a few that it would tie imps per to OMR. It 1143 fonati atect•sa7 to vats au act nt lilt ocP 5 :~ -.