The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-23 00:00:00

AUG. 23 INCEVDIAIZIES. A short time since a of fires bruin out in the .:,;• o f ['suing, about two miles N-wmai ket ; there rest than fl ee tires in a month. lilies of I hem was ;it a Mien attached to a house lately belonging to the I.'„, e i n t' y i ,,, noinh, in whirls there was wool to Ilse settee of toal, 'ro e in ,"„ r . :„ge house, and all the premkesattitelted to it, o ere di stroyed„ teeveral cottages have been destroyed ; and at all the fir e , very The Irequent tares cleated a coo . little 'nolo-Hy was saved. siderable de .ree of alarm Ili that part of the country, and thou uas „ try Ar c ing sospiciou that the fires did out by accident. Au iiivestieation took place by teone of this principal gentlemen of that pact of the cnitivry, but without e let ; -th e y therefore applied to Raw Street for an officer, . ;1 ,0 s a lmon was dirmitched. On his arrival at Evaing, he ‘ ,. ce t we d ...cry possible assistance and information upon the ' , o hj ee r or the recent alarming tires from p,,,r; the agent to the linomie Fire 'Ace in that part of the emit:try ; in a time he I,,,erved sue h sitspieions circumstances ag Mist a man and lI'S wife of the 'same of Webb, as (0 hill !I Cl' kiln to lak.! 011111 into _custody; it merlin:; of ntaeistn,its was called in consequence, and Webb and his wife were examin ed before them. The examination lasted nine hours, at the close of whirls, this circumstances which came out against the .piisoners were sufficient toil/dace the magistrates to cuminit them to Billy St. prison. lc ale w drys after, ch.- . ramstaiices transjiii eft which induced s.tlmun to apprehend John Welsh, the soil of the prisoners, who, ripon being inter. wis L ottell, confessed his guilt to Salmon, in the presence el Mr. Fisin, a resvrtable farmer, and fiat his hand actually set fire to the premises v. a nautili:, by desire of his mother. At the close of die csaamind thin, nu evidence appearing 4415in 4 t sell., lie sv:ls dischaeged, the whole of the ilifammis crime appearing to have beim perpetrated by Nits. W o w, a n d her sun J dm, who were both committed to Bore prism' for trisi, and the panics were beiind over td prose cute. John Webb WAS committed into the custody of Mr. 1-lorwieli, the keeper of Bury prison, who was about colliery tag him there;in 4 s illgle horse share, when jest as he had proceeded about r. mile out Newmarket Heath, John We!di alas seized with at tit, and fell out of the chaise. Alr. il,o wich thinight it right to rehire with him, had a doctor was scut for, who advised that lie should not he rennet% eti on that night, and the prisoner 11%13 placed under the care of the parish roost:dile at the poor house; hem be took an opportu nity of . .. Meting the attention of the constable and escaped out °filo, poor house. A Illliober of persons were dispatched io elitteresit directions in pti rmit (Whim, and it WAS discovered fleet the ruler of the well in the yard (GO feet deep) 01' the pour house was oden, and the rope of it iitavime ; slat lookkg down the well, he was observed neailr at the bottom', tiles e b-ing bet v.:tier in it. *He was drawn op out of the well, land given into the custedy of Salmsit, whom the geotholieui there engaged to convey the cn'prit to Bury pi ison, not con sidering him s Ile in any oilier p.• l ssfne3 enstahly. The g e ntl e _ men w ere so lunch satisfied with Salmon's conliiet and eNertions, that they are about tot ew aril him liberally. The first flee broke out on Sunday afternoon, June ge, between the friars of one and two, in a barn belonging to Air. G. llrooko, a fanner, and raged with great fury for a considerable time, laying v-a-te several cottager, harm, stables, and other uutbaililiogs, and burnt out no le,s film) Sc een funili..s. who had thee to was a but very little property. The second fire in the sittue village brisk: out the Tuesday evening following the 30th of June, between the bran; of seven and eight; it wa; discovered when it was breaking o'n in sonic stables belonging to Mr. Martin, which consumed seve ral other buildings, and, besides .a large quantity a weal, other property to a ciniaderable aluotint. The flamer also communicated to the Parsoitage-hoube, end destroyed the whole of that building, together wish the whole of the stables, coach house, and other out buildiogs, to a considerable a 'wont. A third fire broke out at Exiting, on Friday evening, the t7th of July, which was discovered at the limo: of 'jr. Charles %Vel), a butcher, but happily, an early al :r il l being given, the fire was soon extinguished ; but the loco:- saaries were so de:ermined in their diabolical purpose, that they ac tually attempted to set lire again to the same . premises on the follow-. Mg ought, in t t parts at the same t ime. The Kentish GazcUe gives the following additional particu lars respecting a man whom we !,stely inenri:nitil as having been ispprelicitled at ftlaidstotie on his own confession of mortleritig a young woman:--" We lately mentioned that de. , ,iee of seikation was experienced in Maid stone on Sunday' evening last, doing to a mail itektiowledg. ing himself to be the miird.."rer of the young woman foand in the Ili vat Medway, at Harming. in March !apt. name of this young woman was Mary N./iIt,PS Sands she came from ;•;trood to this town by Burch's coach, mid was proceeding on her journey to 'needn'tat, s% here Iter la instils resided, and she had a bundle containing tirtieles of wearing apparel.— When'f d,she was supposed to have been in the water a fortnight, and exhibited a most shocking spectacle, having a severe wound Ott the right temple, apparently it.flicted with a hammer, :roil also %eves al other contusion,: on different parts of her body. Tite Coroner's !ugliest retllefled a %ertliet of **lfni mitriler agairret acme person or persons unknown. No-' thing ha. since transpired to discover the perpetrator of this I.mritt deed till Sunday last, when, as a soldier of the 9th regiment was passing by the Kitigsley's Head, Lc was called in by the man above allotted to, whom he knew, having enlisted hint on the preceding Fiiday to serve in Marines-. they asked for a pot of porter, and while .lainking it, the soldier observed that the man looked very t i cleeted, and asked him what was the matter? if he repented trmg cithated? if so, he might easily get oat of it : to which be replied, s V.., don't know I)ick—l deserve hanging more than Hussey:. • Uit4.ll iris saying this, the soldier was witch astonished, and said,' Good Goal! what have you dotty ?. Ile answered, ' I knew Huasev, and I might to be confined in the Same dungeon that be was in-11; it isiiiSt come out some time or other, I may as well tell you—l am the murderer of the y oung found in the River Nlel way.' The soldier then asked hint it' he would voluntarily give himself into the h of Justice? He said, ' Yes, and let me he confined where Hussey was, for I violated her person, and that tam' 'bled her— l a's'st die tor it, and should Ire Oita if it was to- The liorsholder was then scut for, oho took him ' 4O ctistod, , anil conveyed filmtn Ills M.iyor's prison on 1-s way thither he made itse mi the 'wine expressions: he op. t"'al ed to lie in liquor, and had been dunking the best part of toe tidy. Ile was un 11011.1ily 411.1111111 g t tken to the. Town t_lerk' s Offiee, diid underwent a short examination, which was postponed fill Wednesday, sat order that the itoesses. who live at a distauce, might Ire able 10 attend. He now &rid& vs his tniturehee of the crime, arid says, that ooing to his drank 1..5 much out Sunday, lie knew not what be said. Such 1 ' the istformation we have hero able to etilteci of this mys truisms ca.e, which at present creates nisi haul est. We ahstant front giving the name of the suppose I murderer, till out tiler evideuee this fravn produced of ins gad ." THE NATIONAL REGISTER POI. CE. MANSION-HOUSE. J. Roberts was brought up net the fullowing charge of forgery:—ale. Robots, landlord of the Bell puldie-house, in Noldiastreet, said, the prisoner contracted a debt of about ;i guinea at his Louise, and on Saturday night lie gave hint a bill f" , r 41.125. Gil. saying he mould call fur the hale:tee on Monday. The bill, upon being presented at a banking house, Was discovered to be a forget y. The prisimer decamped, and Was not seen until Wednesday, a hen witness met hiw in the street and stopped him. lie denied any knowledge of the hid being forged.—Rensanded. Margaret Meredith. far advanced in pregnancy, was eltarg eat with swindling. Prestiett, au officer, deposed that he met the prisoner in London-wall, with two large parcels of tea concealed under her apron, which, upon enquiry, he dim. covered belonged to Smith and Son, of Cheepsitle. A young man in the employ of the above firm stated, that two women came to the warehouse, and ordered twenty eight pounds of tea to lie sent to iS house in Fell-street, with a bill and receipt. 'file porter accompanied them with the goods, and when arrived iu Fell-street, lie was persuaded to leave them with ore woman, while lie west with the oilier to a public house, as she said, to find her husband, who was to pay the money. Time woman gave him the slip by the way, and on his return to Fell.streer, he found the other had also gone away with the tea. The house had been hired the day before by a 111 , 111 Who bas nut since made his appear nee.—The pri soner was mammies!. • 'Thursday, Mr. Benjensin Smart, jeweller and dealer in rein., at 53. Prince's-street, Leicester -equator, applied to the Lord M iyor for advice under the folloa iaa cia eninstaiwes : La the comae of husiness,liis son had taken a Batik Post Bill for 531. in payment for coins. He neglected to ask the 'name or address of the persoo who paid the hill, and upon presen ing it at the Batik for payment, it oat declared to be one %hick bad 64441 lon or stolen souse time before, and of which payment had been stopped. 'flue original owner of the bill was .llr Norris, 31'r:tem), in the Old Jewry ; and wheu the loss of it was discovered, application was made to the Bank, and the a.mmint of the bill was paid by the latter to the owner, noels his giving a band of indemnification. The clerk of the Bank,afies slating these eiectunatinves, took the bill from Mr. Stuart , and refused to give it up. These were the facts which had gisen rise to the appliration,and lie (Mr. Stuart) wisheato know whe ther the Lord Mayor had power to emunimel the Bank to give tip the Bill, or what other remedy. be had The Lord Mayor.—l cannot take suck a view of the pre. sent case. I certainly do not think We Bank have acted eri 11l inally, and it appears to me that you have smoother reme dy than to Winer enaction against the Batik for the recovery of the bill, unless yott can find the person of whom your son received it. He should not have !eke,' a bill for such an amount without knowing the nettle maid address of the per son who paid it. Mr.Sina rt.—The idea of contending at law with so power. rush a bade as the Bank of England is so appalliog to am humble iddividuel like myself, that I would sooner submit to the loss than commence an actiou. I do think, however, that my case iscue of excessive hardship, and that the con duct of the Bank is oppressive and unjust. The Load Mayor.—l agree with you perfectly that the case is a hard one.; but for my own part I think that the conduct of the Bank quite justifiable, the amount of the bill. having been paid by the Bank to the owner. I cannel iu any way interfere. • Mr. Smart withdrew. BOW STREET. Wednesday, Edward Jackson, who although merely.a lad, is well known to the officers as a thief, was brought to the office and underwent an examination before Mr. Birsiir, charged with raking the shop of Mr. %Vali:Aim, a linendraper, in the Strand, of a valuable shawl. He was conunitted for trial. James Bray, of Harefield, Aliddlesex, was charged with selling hay short of weight. it appeared that W.Barilest, a man iu the employ of Mr. Benjamin Thomas„ w h o keeps wine vaults in the Haymarket, purchased half a load of Jay on the 3atli July last, in the Haymarket, for aim mcli he paid 31. his. It being suepected that the trusses were under weight, Mr. Jaines To was, the assistant clerk of the mat km, was employed to %%eight them, when he found three trusses overweight, and IT underweight, for which lie was convicted 25..6d. a truss, aniumiting to 41. 2a. dd. and 15s. costs. ITAVCON GARDEN. Wednesday Fliz. Iteardou was charged by a merchant in the city, and who has a I.edsqe in l'eutonville, with breaking six panes of glass in his vaunting house window, tenoning him in the streets, and (-sneering a molt round him; also WWI emoting to .Isis house at Pen tonville, and collecting a mon and pitting him in fear of his life. The prisoner some years ago lived servant in the complainant's family, whet e site because pregnant by him, and was delivered of a daughter, which she swore to him. He then gave her 291. to go to ',reload and nurse the child, allowing her 251. a year there; promising her when the child was of a tit age, to take it under Ins own rare; butt still to allow the pri.uoe r her annuity tOsdife. Wiles the child was six years old, the 'slimmer returned to E.sg:4 • and delivered it to the euloplaillaot ; when lie gave her 201. to take her hack, where she was to receive ber annuity, an condition of her 'email:dig there, and never seeing ILI , child. '1 . 1.e complainant vent the child to boarding school, and she is now 14 years at age ; the emnplalnasit (now abort AO yea's of age) Misting never married, the child is given to Guilt stand that she is the complainant's dastahter, by a wife who lieu in Ireland. Aboot twelve nioneas ago, the pri , oner came again to London, and repaired 10 the comolainant's ho u se in l'e titan ville, insisting on seeing her child. This the complain. alit, flow prudential rea•ains, refs:sett. 'flie lii cm scqm•oce, kept following the complail-.‘111; litsl :titan lug lion, coaecting mobs ruLtad his house awls he ilwradoie her Ilint brought to this other, u nen she consented to retort, to Ifelaml. The complainant then gave lie; 101. to beau her expellees, and one of the officers money to pay tier tare to Liverpool. l'i am Livers I, however, she returned, and I ep.kik ed. la the complainant's counting lionise, edict e she reoPss ed her entreaty, but to 110 effect. tier supplications collerted a snob, and she was taken before the Lund Mayor, where matters were again rota:lprd, by giving her 2)l. on a promise of schussing to lite ensile, Where Ali,: was to screi% her annuity ; and as tarwer was Aral with her to Liverpool, to s.'e her an host .1 the paohet. This was accordingly stone, and the expellees to the f•oitiplitiocint was near 401; but she again returned. and again 4iitioyed Inm. In defence, she said she only waisted one sight oilier child, and she a mild re's urn and die contented. This request the complainant pet seded in refusing. The prisoner, in the most frantic mautuv, ex. claimed, " She is my.einld i and you ate out tier lathcr 2n 31a;:istrate. " Hare 11,4 you sworn the child to him sit, is not his daughter ;..he repeated) ; she is mine !" Tlic pi i-nunr was thCU committed to ilie llouse of Correction, for %%an; of hail. Ot; EFN SOU It F.. ‘Vetlties.ly Sarah T.ens.B dopy 'Williams, and Dean Mur phy, w eh treed belbre the Nlagistt ittes with haring robbed .coral children. 'Ales. Ilarid•y, who wilS11( . • for Avilae o f t h e l lie s at Kill:410.ln idge barracks, sent her tiattchtee, rt chiht of about Itl years of age. for omr linen. (Th her rotten the child is as stor pe l by the priAClllers, who ask til her to fetch tlll',ll it leaf, and to direct the baker to gelid change for a note. 114 ...Ina pie% ailed upon the child, the prisoner. der:united with the linen. .1 limy. named I.ainheri, about seven years had it htitidei of linen taken front hint the sante day. 'rim a r ti c l es ha v e been owned, and traced to Lite prisonets, who were rewwaudrd. WORSHIP STRP,I7.T. !%lonrhy Tl. Nash wn bronght np 4)11 the Coranee,, ae ß r rant, (or manslaughter, in Win!! and sla int: his %%ire. lie was inrartned by the llagisteate,thA as he It:141 exhibit, d ar malicious intent, undeniable bail %%1 , 111.1 be accepted far 111111 Not being proiicied nith that, he %3.4 in the nic.in J. natth-ws, a baker in Shorediteli, was convicted in the penalty of 504. fur selling four loaves doticient in weight 10 ounces. John committed to the Hong of Correction for 7 days for a breach of contract in not reaping a field of %%heat helotzinT, in a fainter at Ilavkitey. The greatest 'winch:tient is n11(.1101011. Amos 'Mangler, a Russian seaman, complained of a baker h i that in ISI I, lie had eon-mord him, when he (complainant) aas about to sail for Russia, with .121. t o b e plarrd for him in the stocks. On his reopen to n ie b io d few months since, he found the baker had inn invested his tummy in the fends, had become a bankiiipt, and could pay him neither principal nor interest. The magistrate recom mended all amicable adjustment ; anti put of the finthee hearing UNION HALL. Monday. H. Brown, and v Hattori were fully committed for utTet ing a ferged note to a •hopkeeper at Newington. J. Gouge was held to hail for jumping from the gallery of the Surrey Theatre i.,to the opthestra, by which means he broke the double drum, and other musival lost% 'talents. The audience were of course much alarmed, and it was a wonder that he or some of the musicians were not killed. lc. Lewis was charged with won:tiling Samll 'flionaas., with whom he cohabited. In a tit of jealousy he cut the back of her head open with a pewter pot, CO Olathe' skull was visible, He was remanded until her situation is ascertained. INITRUSING gentleman in very respectable tic. cumstances had a son in fondness, for Whom he was can tioner ; lout his son becoming bankrupt, he was una ble to answer the demands on him, and became bankrupt also:— Immediately after this, one of the daughters died of a con , wino. Soon after, another was seized with the same complaint, and followed her sister. The son, having gone abroad, lost his hoaith, and died also. The father, wishing to remove another and a favourite daughter, now become dim lily dear to him, to a little distance for change of air and scene, was conveying her in a gig along the side of the canal leading to Grangemouth, when the horse, becoming restive. fell with the gig into the canal—the yonn4 lady was drowned he with difficulty got ashore. - All these calamitous events happened wit hill the short period of one year.— Perth Courier. CtUTION TO ST IGE•COACH MASTERS.--.On Saturday and Monday last, before a full bench of Magistrates, sitting at Elstrce, in and for the liberty of St. Albans, William Ciao ke, the owner of the Luton stage - coach;George Caswell, owner of the Barnet coach ; Amos Packwood, owner of thee Coventry coach ; %Villiain Mountain, owner of the Liverpool coach ; William Waterhouse, owner of the Liverpool coach; William Smith, owner of the Bedford coachl mid Benjamin Bowers, owner of the Nottingham coach, were convicted in the penalty of five hundred and ten pounds, for earryinc more passengers on their resptuive coaches than what is al lowed by act of Pat liament. Monday morning, about tour o'clock, as Mr. 11 . ; lens, a butcher, of Pinney, was coming to down to attend Smith odd Market, lie was met on the 'Wandsworth 10411 by three itiflians, who stopped him, and-with horrid imprecations demanded his money. His compliance not being SO C:ilM ditiollSas their wish, they beat him with bludgeons moil be fell senseless. In that situation he was fnmul about %111 hair altarwards, by Mr. Everett, a fishmonger, of Wandsworth, who knew him, and conveyed him in a chaise cart to Ws resi dence. His packet-book was' found lying in ar him. Saturday week, as Mr. Blake, of the Ilampstead.road, was going through Battle-bridge, lie observed an elderly female walking apparently in a very perturbi d state. At lengfis she approached Ilia Fleet River, and•precipitatcd herself in, it. Mr. Blake dragged her out covered with mud, and whit some severe contusions on her head. She had lived in a re spectable way at Pentouville, but had lately heroine embar russet!, and tois odic asdgiiedalt a reason for the rash attrnipt- Mr. Madden, cf Anglesca-street, lAthlin, copper-plat( eti4rover , aas, on the night of- the I Ith inst, apprehended in the very act of tinging notes on the Bank of Ireland. he ham in his pre.;sessiun Iw o plates cf the Bank of Ise:AH.l,one Sir W..A4rxisiiiler, and another of &yeast, which acre all taken to-the Head Police-olSce, where he underwent a close exatnination, and was lolly ccaimitted fur trial. A few days since a shopkeeper at Ex 1111 l ath was COIIS;Cted before Iwo Ilagistralcs, and lilted in the mitigated petoilly el 111. for giving three 54. I:a4;;.-tulixais and two 1t3,1. ones in part of change for a note. Mina; ills and George, who lately escaped from prison w hen motel tem.-ace of &ails, have hi ; aril like wise four other: of a ile , eperate game, who lately tubbed tir. Marriot, of Overton Deai.e; . y, near csis town. 'Elie whole of !lie gang .1411 beet St:Ctia el, thus Ot• or miss hum 114Ve Ils-s-fi set urn to, and properte f nunl on the t. :t.—A apton paper. A respite, till farther eiders, has lie. ii received for Charlet Timmins and George Astir' oft, t‘o of the malelartors tinder sentence of dealio w Alirew-hilly gmli, tor horse-stealing.-- dololl 1tie114111.4. fur siorep-stcalitug, W eN p, tied to softer. . ....... __ .... Sahli day week, ititotit hall-pa-t eleve:i o'clork, %V. K oit:ht soar was ekeeouri at the New 1), no, ht•himl York Cit•lle,. for administering a triantity or a‘seide to lIL brOther.ill law, J. 00,1sworth. c.I Arkeittl.tle,hvAl rs4VJU,,elui idge, with All intl. lit to murder hint. _ _ ... On I.riday, the 7th inst. Cook F.lois, an inhabitant of the sh,sidmigton, was flogged through that tows i ousnant to sentence passed nn him at the less' county at Ayl , ,hor;, tot a!sautting the Rev. .Loo g , of that_place.