The National Register. — London, England, 1811-06-02 00:00:00

Was the prisoner then . thing to affect his life or liberty (continued Mr. Garrol.v), high iu - employ, and respected by friends. The Jury would remember ,the prisoner had left-his employment and connections, 1nt , .1 sought refugee in an obscure village near Ipswich, where he :aid daily see himself advertised, with a full description. This ...Jae a circums:ance too strong to omit stating, as it was a corm- Itoration of guilt, by the prisoner's own conduct.—After some farther observ.ltions, witnesses were called. .Here several witnesses were examined who corroborated the 4ove .tatement. ;4.'1;c1-el-persons spoke well of the prisoner; and after an elo quent addres.; from Baron GRAHA!..I, who descanted on the de pravity Of and Rdberts, the lory retired for four hours, ;and returned a verdict —On/My—Death. The trial lasted till twelve o'oclock. TAT - V, NATIO - -4- ings betwixt her paramour. the prisoner, and Hudson, and also the , forgery Itself, in which she also would be confirmed by witnesses and documents, which could not be false. Mr. Gar- tow continued, he would prove the prisoner's signature i which might be termed his death-Warrant. It would also be proved, that the prisoner expressed his fears to Folkard, who chided him tor putting himself so much in his possession when the priso- nersaid it was too true, but ke had no other friend to confide in. FAkard would also be protirgliti be the bearer of a letter from the prisoner to Roberts IA confinement as follows:- Bth Liter, produced and wad. Dr. A R R.—The motley you shall . have immediately. I shall esteem it a great favour if you will commit to paper what is !ALI respecting mt . . Mont al , it over, as I wish tt, have an opinion, and the least deviation will lead me into great error. Signed with an initial. Wa,s the prisoner then doubtful whether he had done any POLICE. 14.0E1111 MS AT THE OPERA. ".•••-• ie. ?. a :ran who has moved hi thefirst circles of fashion, • . 41. r .!'• 4 (•;.!: , ,, Own and otbfr public p; ices of resort, wa4"nrought • for further examination, -on a charge a being the robiier who - has for some time past perpetrated thernblieries that have lately been committed - at the Opera, without the least suspicion against Mm, he being supposed to be a man of consequence, from his coostantattendance lit those places. Mr. Harrison, the Manager of the Opera, attended, when the prisoner claimed acquaintance with him as serving him and' his brother with coals, and also as a frequenter of the Opera for 20 3 cars past. Mr. Harrison recollected him as a constant fre rewriter ofthe Opera so much, that he used to bow to him ( but denica any knowledge of serving hirg with coals. Humphries, s(-arching him, found a silver lhmnting watch iA ithout a mak .'r's name, but with fast' and slow' on it; a double row gold i~air:, with a slider, two large oval gold carnelian seals, one pl;:in, and the other with G. N. engraved on it, and a gold key ; a silver Opera Ticket, No. 42, G. with an admission on it for . ffftcen yearF. from May, 1794. Mr. Aldhorough Richardson, of Portman-square, attended andidentified the snuff box as his property, and that he had been robl . cd of it in the Opera House, on Thursday night. The prisoner was committed for trial on this charge. ACCIDENTS, 'OFFENCES, ‘ST. On.the eBth, a violent storm passed over 'Worcester, in the afternoon. 1: came from the east, and lasted above an hour ; &rin k ; which period, hailstones of an enormous bulk fell, break ing, windows and destroying vegetation. The damage is reckoned by some at SDM. and by others is estimated of ho less a sum than 10,0001. The h ilstones perforated the windows like bullets, }caving round apertures indicative of the force with vvhirh they were driven against the glass. Owing to the burst /iv of a cloud dm-ing the storm, Nicole and other brooks within ten or twelve miles, in a S. W. direction from Worcester, were So rapidly swollen, as to almost instantaneously overew their banks to a most astonishing height,extending for miles over tire adjoining country, art by its velocity tearing down and darrylng off every thing in its course, stock of every descrip tion. In the neighbournood of Minsterley and Pontesbury, tram/ persons, we have heard to the number of 16 or 17, have peilshed. At Mr. S. Heiphwav's, of Pontesford, the scene was indeed lamentable; not fewer than ten person*, intrAinfbitit Lokidoo : Printed and Ldited 1w F. ROCHE, and Published by JOHN FISHER, No 5, Pickett-street, Strand, near Telnple-Bar, and forwarded by all the Newsmen, the Clerks o, Roads : and Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom, tree of p o ,ta ge , into t he Country at lOs. 34d. Fercltiarter .4 0 11;i ? .4. NAT. of his own fartlily rable grandmother, vants, all of whose short distance from Blower and Mr. Pick the stock of flour, Meole, we are informed, carried away. Monday se'nnight, as 'Miss Charlotte Townsend. of Wood stock, with two or three other ladies, were walking hrßlenheint gardens,' an artat of one of the trees, by the violence of the %find,' was. torn oft, and fell on them, and somuch injured them, dint the above-mentioned lady died on Thursday, and her :eotnpa. pions are very much bruised. A soldier is in tustody, on his own confession, at Ilford, for the murder of Lieutenant Johnson, some time ago, on the Greenwich-road. His accomplice he states to be dead. Our readers may recollect an account of the fall of part the Cliff, near Dover Castle, by which a mother and her chil dren were killed, whose bodies were found next day. A hog, was buried in the ruins at the same time, and was supposed to have also perished; but, strange as it mar appear, the workmen in removing, the rubbish, discovered it afire on Thursday, mak ing it exactly five months and nixie days since the accident. At the time of the accident the animal weighed about seven score • he is now wasted to about :s0 pounds, but is still likely to do well. Two young men, clerks, of the names of Gregory and Waller, undertook, on Monday evening, to swim; for a wager of ten guineas, from Breutford towards London, with tide. Gregory got awe; from his adversary in a short time, and continued to . swim six miles, when be was taken up in a boat ; but Wailer suddenly disappeared, after having gone three miles, and the -- body has not yet been found. Tuesday night, a house under repair, at Bethnal Green-road, fell down; fortunately no lives were lost. An unfortunate • accident occurred the same day, by the fling of an old- house, in Craven-place, at the back of Wild-court Wild-street, Which was pulling down. One man was completely buried in the ruins, and on being dug out was found dead ; and another war II ZRTN. On sundae last, the Lady of G. Miiiiott; sq..of Lincoln's Inn-fields, of n son. MARRIED. Sir John Carr, K. C. of the Middle Temple, to Miss King, of Goldinghain Hall, Essex. On the 11th inst. at Cowley, near Oxfohl, the' Right lion. Viscount Killcounie. son of the Earl of Cavan,' to Miss Coppin, only daughter of J. P. Coppin, Esq. of Cowley. • On Thursday last, Thomas Le Mercer, Esq. of Vauxhall, to Miss Stone, only daughter of the late. Wm. Stone, Esq. DIED. • Agee 7G, at his Lordship's seat, at Castle Mary, Ireland, the Right Hon. Richard Longfield, Viscount and Baron League vale: his Lordship's titles are extinct. In Upper Grosvenor-street, Sir James Hamlyn, of Clovelly Court, Devonshire, Bart. In Great Pulteney-street, in his 82d year, R. Bisset, Esq. late • Commissary-General to the Forces at Home. At Richmond, in his 76th year, R. Peen, Esq. grandson of Wm. Penn, one of the Proprietaries, and formerly Governor of the Province of Ptiisylvania. At New Hall, Essex, Miss Hales, eldest (laughter of the late • Sir E. Hales, Bart, and sister to the present Sir Edward. On Thursday last, Mrs. Grant, wife of George Grant, Esq... of Waltham Place . , Berks. On Tuesday last, at New Hall, Essex, Mias Hales, eldest daughter of the late Sir Edward Hales, Bart. and sister to the present Sir Edward. On Saturday last, at lii house, in Queen-street, Berkeley square, the wife of Mr. S. Field. On Thursday last, flatly Charlotte Pelham Clinton, sister to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle. Lately, at his house, in the Bridge-road, Lambeth, in the 70th year of his age, William Henry •Higden, Esq. formerly of of the Secretary of State':. Office or the Home Department. PIt:CE OI• STOCKS. Banff Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced • 163 ii $ per Cent..Co ntiois?, ..64aiii.. • 4 per Cent. Consols'. . 700, ~. ..;. '. 5 per Cent. Navy Annuities , ~..064 7 ei . . . _ . . • STEII. - •' _ ',were swept away, and among them hi , ; vene- r, Mrs. Elia. Heighway, and two female set:: e bodies were found yesterday morning at a m the place. At Hpwood, the mills of Mr. ?lckering vraregreatly damaged, together with kr, &c. thereon. Mr. H. Wrarter, of Crick nformed, had 26 cows, besides other stock, EBEL w• ~