The National Register. — London, England, 1822-06-03 00:00:00

A•ESEX S-SSIOXS. Stry.,,,AY. M* 21—Richard Desbrow, • man advanced it . vears, was indicted, conjointly with John Davis, who did not appear upon being called, for keeping • common gaming-house for lucre and gain, in the parish of it. James, Westminster. Mr. Andrews stated the case for thc Frosectitiou, as it was afterwirds proved in evidence. Peter Berrard stated, that he had been in the Commissariat Department in the army. He knew the house at No. 10, King. street, St. James•s. flail been there frequently between the 20th of December and llth January. It was a common gaming bre:se—the gaining was carried on in the brat floor. All who were known were admitted freely—the street door was left ajar, and there was an inside door sub a window in it, through which a person looked when admis.ion was demanded. Rastas et Noir was the game played. 'Home was some-Ling more than 20 persons present, anal they were gentlemen and tradesmen.— The company generally went away at twelve o'clock. The game was played at all times of the day. Witness was generally loser. From the lath December to the 31st he lost 1501. The players generally lost. Davis appeared to him to keep the house. Heard the defendant say he was one of the proprietors, and always said •• we" when speaking of the proprietors. 1 On his cross-examination, he said, he was dismissed from the army, and rendered incapable of serving his Majesty in any rapacity, civil, or military, by the sentence of a court-martial. IlVas charged with having embezzled 20,0001. hut was acquitted of that charge, anti foamed guilty of disobedience of orders.— That was iu the year D 413. He was then Deputy Assistant Commissary General. Was a witness under live indictments, and had brought two actions—one for a penalty under the art of Anne--the sum claimed was 11001.—got a verdict in one action for money lost--has a brother an assistant in a gaming house, in Pall-Mall, who allows him two guineas a week. Henry Compton, clerk in the Stamp-ollice, who had lost 2001. or 3001. confirmed this statement. Mr. Alley wade a speech for the defence, but the defendant.; were found guilty. MONDAY, MAY 27.—Joseph Guthrie was indicted for a fraud. Mary Browne, servant to Mr. Levy, Great Prescott-street, staled, that 1111 the .sth of February, the defendant came with a note 10111 r. Levy's house, and said he was sent by their washer woman, who lived at Clapham, for the clothes. The witness, by the mistress's disire, gave him a considerable bundle of doilies. The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses, and addressed the Court and Jury with great effrontery. The Jury found the prisouer Guilty, and the Court deferred passing sentence. John Jones (a lad) was prosecuted by the parish of St. Giles, for a riot and assault. The Jury found the prison r guilty, and the Court sentenced him to he imprisoned six months in the house of correction. Samuel lielasco, brother to the pugilist, w as indicted for as saulting TIM/IMS Elliott. Mr. Elliott stated, that the landlord of the Cress-keys public. house, Whitechapel, being ill, he (the witness) attended to his business for him. The defendant, with some others, came to the house and commenced gambling. The witness, knowing how contrary such conduct was to the wish of the landlord, civilly requested that they would either dimontinue their play, or leave the house. The p•isooer took great offence at the request, and immediately assaulted the witness; he both struck him with his list and kicked him, The Jury instantly found the defendant gnilty. Ifs was lien tetwed to two months imprisonment in the house of correction. MONTHLY AGRICULTVRA L REPORT. The appearance of the crops throughout the country is ge net ally eromising ; and, although the wheals, from the nature id . the season, have sulfered universally in colour, and in many pouts by loss of plant, a tavottrable summer and harvest may yet produce an abundant crop. The wheats upon cold, un wound hind, which had in course starred most, are visibly re covering both strength and colour. The fellows and lands for the spring crops have been worked with much labour and ditli rutty ; but the crops are sufficiently forward; and wear a healthy and thriving appearance ; not however so luxuriant as they are seen at the Caine period in more genial seasons. Po tatoes have planted well. All the green crops are of good promise, and it has proved a most abundant season for tares.— The hay harvest will probably be early. The vast quantity of grass this spring has produced a memorable abundance of milk in the metropolis, and a u'eneral reduction in the price of milk and butter. In Kent and Sussex great complaints are made of the weak and blighted state of the hops. The appearance of th.. Ily is general, and the hedges and fruit trees are covered with the webs and nidos of inserts. In the inland counties hop plantations appear more healthy. Fruit in general has antlered much in blossom ; pears more than any other species. The bark harvest is near!y and successfully linialied, but the fall of oaks has not been so considerable as in hornier years.— 'I eat and uncommon swarms of mice are said to he milling a most destructive havock in the barns and stacks of the farmers in many counties ; and in one of the reports an easy method of destroying these vermin is requested. At some of the great Ides cattle amid sheep hate been sold at prices the most de : redact! ; whilst, lentil some peculiar circumstances, at some few others, satisfactory bales have been made. The sales under execution of farming properly have rather increased of late ; and there exists the strongest symptoms or a farther de pression of farming produce. The deplorable systems of tenants quitting their farms, and driving off the stock, Ista taken place to a considerable extent in the principality. THE FAIR CIRCASSIAN. —TIti+ celebrated beauty, who was purchased by the Persian Ambassador, on his way to this country, at Constantinople. and who wan so much an object of attraction during her stay in England, was sent back to Persia by her lord and master, under the care of a favourite eunuch.— On her journey it appears she was met by Sir Robert Kerr Porter, the British traveller, and recognising him as an Eng lishman, ithe immediately rode up to biro with an intention of addresain; hint. This was, however, according to the notion of her attendant, coot. a bones snores ; and in . rder to rewind her of her din), he struck her a violent blow across the shoul ders with Ids stick. She instantly dropped her veil, closed her lips, and proceeded is sad silence. and no Mudd was thus depril rcl of the opportunity of expressing those feelings of gra titude which her heart dictated no seeing the native of a king dom where she had bees so hospitably received. A melancholy accident happened at a colliery near Dalkeiih, on the evening of ihe 24111 oh. The ruiners Living accidently, in working, wine ninon an old shalt, the Wabot rushed tscltlctily m upon diem, by which si:e.os. five ,11111 IWO WOIIICII. the WittliC Wilt) WCit a the kit it till; table. W1:14: (11441WilCil. NATIONAL REGISTER Volta. MANSION-HOUSE. On Wednesday last a man. named Bache. was brought before the Lord Mayor, on a charge of embezzlement, and under sus picion of having committed a robbery. A respectable sugar baker, named Miller, in wham employment the prisoner lived, i* the prosecutor. The son of Mr. Miller stated, that the prisoner had been taken info service merely becanse he was poor, the symptoms of which were very strong upon him when he presented himself.— Ile appealed to be grateful for some time, but his dress soon began to outstrip his salary, end certain delieiencies were dis covered in the sums placed in the desk of the counting•house, get at which sums a false key was indispensably necessary.— The prisoner was not suspected of the robbery until the accounts were found to be irregular, and that irregularity was traced to acts of embezzlement by the prisoner. 1..p0n being accused of the lesser offence, the prisoner confessed it in tears, implored pardon, and as he had a wife, who had no other source of pro tection, not only succeeded in obtaining that, hut was actually replaced in the situation which lie bad abused. His promises of amendment were. however, forgotten; cash again disap peered. On Friday last the sum of 51. 2*. 3d., in marked money, was left in the desk, and on the Monday following a deliciency of If. Bs. was discovered. The day after this die cos ery, seven of the shillings which had been stolen, were, to the surprise of Mr. Miller, found in their proper place. Of course the prisoner was accused. lie denied the offence to the house, but admitted it to the beadle, whom he also intermed, that he had thrown away a false key, which he had procured for the lock, and which enabled him to exercise a cookout over the property. The prisoner fainted while the investigation was going for ward. He begged to be forgiven for the sake of a pregnant wife, declared that he was truly penitent, assured the Lord Mayor that lie returned tl a seven shillings from a principle of integrity which operated upon him while lie was taking the money, having merely used it as a loun in the midst of distress of the most intolerable kind, and promised to reform and refaud to the utmost farthing. The Lord Mayor commended the humanity that pardoned once, but thought the principle of forgiv corns carried to a degree of weakness, by the complete restoration of the prisoner to his former employment. Tire prisoner was sent back to prison in the midst of his tears sad entreaties. ROWING MATCH —1 a hard contest took place between Mr. Hodson and Alt. Webber, gentlemen who were formerly members of the Funny Club, for a bet of 501. to row in two pleasure-boats trout B ittersea bridge to Fulham-blidge and back again. Toe match was kept a profound secret, except to the friends of the parties. Front the celebrity of the opponents, who are at least 40 years old, it however created a considerable degree of interest, and a great number of boats filled with their friends graced the river, and attracted a vast concourse of persons ignorant of the affair, who were upon the banks. Mr. Hodson kept the lead mostly all the way, but iti passing round Fulham•bridge, and shoot. tout back wards through the arch, Al r. NVebtier got first, and in a few minutes shot a-head at considerable &s -uite., which he maintained apparently with great ease till he came to Battersea-bridge, where it was announced by the umpires that he won the bet most fairly. 1111RACU LOOS Esc*/ e.—Last week, as a man was at work in a well ninety feet deep, at the new Parsonaae hotise, at Priston, near Bath, n feet of the upper stone work, weighing, it is calculated, full ten tons, fell in upon hits:—there was also 30 feet of water below hint. Eight men were ittiniudiately enyloyed to remove the voite and rubbish, and after the greatest exertions for six hours, to their great astonishment, they found the 111311 unhurt, with the exception of a slight bruise on the head, from the fortunate circumstance of the large stones locking one in the other across a piece of timber, that was a few inches taxere his head. MURDER Or MIS. DONATTY.—Lite on Wednesday night, a person aroved front Birmingham by the coach, in the custody of Mr. Goodall, the hign constable of that town; and on the following (lay Mr. Taylor and several gentlemen attended at Bow-street office, and the accused was brought into the presence of the different witnesses, and a private investigatiott took place in the magivrate's room. He fully established his innocence; and, therefore, we retrain Irons givaig his name. No thing whatever appearing against hits, he was of course discharged, hut appeared very indigo int at the proceed ing, and said he wound seek redress. There area variety of reports in circulation respecting the murder, b tt they are not worth noticing until something att.neutic tran spires on the sulject. Uu Tonisilay last, John Gerard, Esq brother to Sir W. G. and, Bari. or Garswood, near Preston ; the Rev. Francis Cratnortie, Catholic Caplain to Sir IVilliam, and Mr. Adamson, of Ashton-in-the-Willows, and his eldest SOH, went out in a pleasure boat, belonging to Mr. Ger:lf.l, Willi a fish•illl3ll, hadn't(' John J.•ekson, to enjoy the diversion of fishing. About eight o'clock in the evening the boat was seen a considerable distance out at sea, and was shortly al terwards missed by tue 'Ar sons looking from the shore; hut as no one saw it actu ally upset, a hope was entertained that the patty had passed over to Lytham. N..xt morning a messenger was sent to the latter place, who brought back intelligence, that they had not been seen there; but the dreadful tid ings of their fate were announced in the course of the day, by two of the lifeless bodies, those of Mr. Adamson, jun. and the fisherman, being washed on shore. The other bodies had not been picked up when the last ac counts left Southport. PEDESTRIANISM —On Monday last, at three o'clock, a man of the name of SMipson, a gardener, commenced walking 96 miles in '24 flours, on N. , wcastle race-ground, on nearly the same line as ‘Viison walked 90 miles iu the same time, on Easter Monday and Tuesday. Simp son appears to Le upwards of six feet high, is a good looking Man, thin, but bony and strong. The rate of wanking to accomplish Ili, task is four miles an hour, but lie walked for the first two hours, on all average one mile in 13 mitititcs, which will be nine miles in two limns, leaving a minute to spare. The general opinion is in his favour. lie walks steadily and (nutty, with a little leariiii 4 to tout side. llis gait is military, and it is said he has beeu a soldier. 175 /Hons./AY Rossini es.—Ott Monday night last, as Mr. Campbell, a young gentleman residing in Somers Town, was passing through one of the new ueritiliabned streets in Stepney fields, on his way home front the fair, he was attacked by two militia, one of whom, with a desperate blow of a bludgeon, felled him to the ground. They then, having thus stunned and partially disabled him, rifled his pockets of his watch and smile money, A% ith which they escaped. Ott Tuesday evening, Mr. Robertson, a gentleman residing in Waterloo-road, was attacked in returning from P.ckhatn into the Green wich road, by three villains, who knocked him down, and rifled his pockets of his watch and souse silver.—A Mr. Rtiodes was also attacked at New Cross, returning from the lair early in the evening, and robbed of three sovereigns and some silver. INQUESTS IN THR PENITENTIARY MILBANS:011 Thor clay last, at five o'clock itt the evening, an ingnest was held upon James Patkis, a convict, who was sen tenced to transportation at the Old Bailey in 1820, which was commuted to five years' imprisonment i s the Peni tentiary. He was in good health when he entered the prison, and died of a consumption.—Verdict, " Natural eath." The Jury, after returnini the above verdict retired, and were about to leave the prison, when they were itnutediately called back again, and re-impan nelled to hold another inquest on a convict named Barnet Dan, who had died while the former inquiry was being holden. The deceased was 28 years of age. lie was convicted of bigamy some years ago, at the Old Bliley. tie had several wives, was a notorious ch .rac ter, and was commonly called " Barney Dean." Ibis sentence of seven years' transportation was committed to five years imptisonment in the Penitentiary. Mr. Pratt, the surgeon of the prison, was examined by the Jury, and deposed. that the deceased persons were daily visited dining their illness, by surgeon and physician, and th it they had fish, fowl, wine, sago, and every thing that they, in their indisposed state, could desire, or that was necessary for them. Verdict—" Natural Deaths." A COMMANDER OF BRIGANDS TAKEN _A darn Maillard, Lx-Adjutant \lajor of the imperial Guards, condemned to banishment by the Court Royal of Lyons, and who some time since resided upon the frontier of the Lower Pyrenees, where he raised an armed baud, was surprised tin the nights of the 17th and 18 Is of May by a detachment of the 38th regiment of the line, and ar rested with part of his baud. They 'are now lodged in die prisons ofSt. Jean Pied de Port. On Saturday last, between one and two, the me tropolis was visited with a most tremendous storm ; the light ning was vivid, and the loud peals of thunder must have been heard at a conaiderable distance. The hailstones were remark able for their large size. A tremendous storm of hail took place at Kensington, by which the destruction of property was immense, and most of the houses deluged from top to bottom. The Kensington lace manufactory had almost the whole of the windows broken, and it was with difficulty the work-people escaped f the broken glass and pieces of ice, some of which were three inches in circumference, which were flying about in all directions, to the destruction of a large quantity of valuable lace ; and such was the accumulation of ice in the gutters of the building, that it was not wholly melted till Sunday evening. In the garden attached, some of the trees were stripped as if it had been winter, aid on sweeping the leaves together next morning, sparrows were found under thane killed. At Malcolm*, nursery 1,200 squares of glass demo lished, and the destruction of valuable plants incalculahle.—ln Kensington palace gardens 1,500 squares were destroyed, and great damage done. At a nursery near Tratalgarplace, the damage is estimated at :WI., besides innumerable other instances of its destructive effects. The dissatisfaction amongst the masters and crews of the vessels trading from Hoyle to Wales, in consequence of the determination of the copper companies to reduce the freight of ores, has manifested itself in acts of riot. A.. agreement, it seems had h..en come to by the toasters that no ore. should be shipped at less than the usual price, and to this they for noise time adhered. Seeing, however, that the dispute was nut likely to be soon adj , ,sted, sonic of the captains consented to accept the terms &feted, and two cargoes were sbipped. This was considered a direct breach of the agreement, and resented by the crews of the other ships, who forcibly dismantled dm loaded vessels, and elrectually prevented their sailing. The magistrates interfered and explained to the seamen the ille gality of their conduct ; but finding their remonstrances in vain, they made application to the officers of the neighbouring yeti !usury for assistatice, and dispstelied a messenger to Truro for the dragoons stationed in the barracks. On their appearance the rioters desisted front further opposition, sod the vessels were suffered to proceed on their voyage. His Highness Prince Nawab Meer Shaw Khan, of Delhi, arrived at Blackwell, from India, on Saturday, in the ship Linoc4. His Highness, with two of the principal ladies of his Harem, immediately proceeded to the Plough Tavern, where lie remains until his arrival is known, and can be properly acknowledged by Government. Every attempt during the voyage and since his arrival by gentlemen to see the ladies has been abortive. The ladies who have been admitted describe the females to be low in stature, and pitted with the small pot, and very uninteresting. A statistical account of the department of La 31eurthe has given rise to some curious nbservatiorrs, which, doubtless may be found applicable elsewhere : —There are 113,939 young women is the department, and only 102,8-19 young men ; from which it appears there is a surplus of 11,110 females, for whom, it is to be feared, the toa-eh of Hymen will never be lit, at least is the department, The return, indent, otters as a resource, 510(i widowers ; but, alas! 16,102 widows also placed their holism iu them, which must be disappointed, as far, at least, as regards 9996 out of the whole number.— This is not all ; it might be supposed that the number of married women was equal to the slumber of husbands—alas ! no such thing—in the department there are 68,382 of the former, sad only titi,l3l of the latter. So that there are 238 stray husbands (and God knows where they will be foetid!), 258 women to be added to the list of widows, and a total of:1,86-1 mows to the lair sex, whose fate is more f.,r less to be litayseed. We abeuld Lave some reason to be apprehensive for she esimieui.e of a posterity did we nit know that in visit of ?hie ads's ebuly state of affairs, the population France of is esery day iu creasing, and that M. 3lalthes affirms, that in the coarse of sixty years there will nut by astficient room io Yratme fur ll* pepalatius.