The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-04 00:00:00

OT. 4 • 4111; of the King, to protect the public against what was •called in the act, "the-frauds of the coal trade." Hos would not designate the present - cage hythet name, hitt certainly the pablie were liable from th,lr cart lc ,, s.:ess to impositions iii the trade 4,1 the grossest kind. It it as regnlat r ; ,I- by th e net, that. cords -contained in any should he publicly ex- Iti hited, under a penalty of Flak !t was required that the meter sh , mld, Lifter he hail inensnrcil tli ,, coals, give to the waygoiler a ticket, villicirtirl,et, if signed would be a security to the ronsetn?r that the article pe rebated was that to which I, WWI entitled. 1t mr:v nowt i n op or t mi o to Lave the quality of the real alto properly attended to, it king known that eoatwaried front five, six, to eight shilling. per ,1, 4 1,1e0 t i, a, to reality. The coat merchant would do a moot ser:on , injury to Ike consumer, by puttin q g wpm) him coal of a T iality bat:rice to il:c aum at whieh he had pert:based. For peirpo•c of guaiding agair.st such an imposition, the act Lad dirt eted that the ship should Ire famished with a cern. Beale of the liitaiity, which eertifichte was, lapel) the landing of the ceals,to be examined by the land coal meter, that hemight ascertain whether they were of the quality mentioned in the ticket directed to be delivered by the vendor to the purchaser, acid the meter was required to countersivi the ticket, if he was satisfied that the etials were as described in it. Thus by regular stages, front the working of the coal-initie np to die sale, the quality was preserved. Mr. Frmlitield then stated • the contents of the meter's ticket to be Sent with (*OAS lit the consumer, observing, that it should be signed by one of the principal land coaleneters, and countersigned by the labour- I tug coal-meter attending and delivering them ; and that the 1P - • tidally affixed iu the event of not complying with the rc gt i. knoll was 101. It was here that the frauds contemplated by the legislature began. The vendor's ticket was presented eat the delivery of the coals to the purchaser, bat it was net countersigned. If the provisions of the act were 00011)11rd with, it wa; impossible that the public could he defrauded, either as to the quantity or qttality of the coals they purchased; but it washisduty to state, that in the case now hellos the court a meter's ticket accompanied the coals, but it was not coun tersigned according to the/set of Parliament, for it contained the name of a person not is existence. Ile could call a meter, the only one of the name stated in the ticket, who wonld prove that he had not countersigned the ticket ; and there were other circumstances .tectliiig to show the gross irregularity of the proceeding. Ile conktiiku prove that appli- • cation had been made to the person who should have coon. tersigiteti, in order to induce him to du so, and that the per son had t ifiised, in consequence of not having seen the aliip's certificate. -lii fact lie could, if it•was allowed iu such a state of the ease, prove that the coals were deficient both in quality and . . MI Andrews entggested fix needlessness of proceeding to the test, and observed ; that Mr. Treshfield had no right to do so. Sir Clan(litts Minter was of opinion that Mr:Freshfield eras jostitlisit in stating wharhe had evidence to support. Mr. Fresii.ielii said, he did not intend to go to circumstances of aggravation ; lie had no wish but to protect the public. The defendant had th at hie .all. t was neelieenee. If that defendant was able to prove thattlie coals were of the ()naiad.: and qatality described in the ticket, and sold to the Bank, he should upon the part of the Rank withdraw every information, 41141 be more happy in discharging that ditty than the ',Maul one lie ,•1:9111,1 probably be obliged to exe cute. He concluileti u.th swine, that the Magi,trate was al liberty 111 IT(liive the tine to if he pleased. The Bank would be satisfie.l with his decision, confident that the public service would be the lirst con-aleiation with him. Mr. .intivows having intimated that the defendant would plead guilty, •Air..+reslifteltl abstained .trout calling wit. peeal S. Mr. Andrews said he-was glad of being spared the duty of detaining the Magistrates long 4)114111 II:4 investigation. - Vl...snits-Id hit.' mentioned .SllllO, ,no .dents, -was the motive of the •Itotik in appeal ing ca.:o, namely, for the purpose of proving the control .whicli Min statute. Mail over merchants iii.this trade, and theateeessity of calling the pub lic attention to a matter which.° to()Wf.l fijil2. Ne (Alr..lndrews) should adyise his client to. conic , — liim‘eif guilty ; and be Ilion:Ott it his duty to add that, in his opinion, the Bank had ni tel with •great y itt not pry' , in.; the floes to the extent Misiss•eil by tliv.Act of Pai Lament. IL was, however, to br considered, tdai the.oileni a nas. nut of such a nature es to authorise titu maks:ion •i,l :melt a .puni,ll. meat, it being the fact that the crime was out ni otrrr. oinis• Mon. True it. was, that if the detimilaut was guilty of taking advantage of tlic.opportunitili•switieh might have IPlCAttli.'ll themselves, end supplied a hal material,kis utlenci, of the most serious kind. the merchant had himself:if tended the denvery of the coals, and •icteiies his own wharf., finger, nothing could excuse the neglect' that would subject the pithlicsto so serious a disadvantage. Rut the defendiatt Pas not Ida emu wharthiger. lie was a great dealer, and al ways intrusted his tickets to his wbartinger or sonic other per son under him. Sir Claudius Hunter.--1 hat surely can be no justification. Mr. Andrews admitted that it vs as not 1 0 1 SiltiLat: 011 .. He confessed the penalty. But no ciretimatmecs of ag:zravation couki he stated in such a case. Itwas evident that leis client Lad au excellent character, the hank (so respectable a body) having, employed him, if there were no other :season for saying that his eharacter was unimpeachable. was, 711 r. Andrews observed, in the power of the Magistrate to rtarce the Sue to the Antallebt possible coin, and considering a!! the circum stances of the case, and the promise that neither the Bank nor the Public should he sub;est•.;.> similar iii.zonvenieiwes, he trusted to the lenient ilecisma Ftlie Chair. Sir Claudius glinter-card, that Le iiad a lcvwsvords to SI:V on this important ease, to slime that the course-411c Bank had taken was that which W 4.1 must calculoted to serve tbe The Bank had detected a most palpaLle and cbominoLle error, to say the least of it ; •useit, if they had proceeded to prove it, something more than error would have been found out. It was not enough tosay, " I leave illy bli,itiebs to my wharfitiger, and I therefore am not responsible;" there was no excusz iu submitting to the direction of another who acted wrong. Considerin4 all the circiiinsvances of the cwt.:, Sir Claiutitis Hunter thought proper to fine Mr. Johnson lUD. on each informatibii. The whets amounted to e. 51. •Mr..Amleews expressed !ii4 eite.PUo be salithed. - Tar. fret ltiirld s:ud , 11141 t a moiety imiug the property•of the irfoimier,.herroohl thatik the magibillite ic-ori!er om half of that.me: , .ty tort:e Soitaitieltie•Poor, and the other h:tli to the Society fir the.it •lief uf Small 'ltch tom A man, irstuetl.•.t.tet - itei. wa: bcc!!!:lit up an sugptoieL of llama becti o,...niug tat , ilady or the Alitre, it, ChAtteeey-a.:t, of I• 241, zit tut. ott site Will worth In the %%0;1.1, the hard earroogi riiief.trdr; of thirty 3E81'5. . . `dr s. Ken 1411, vhn isnbout 7:1 yenzikef ize, stated, in very gent The. ILAti depp.rneti.lliv liaak Trie NAMMAIL littitylVMAL notes, silver, sod halfpence, in a box which she kept in her bed roots locked; that on Friday evening, at i o'clock, bile hid added to her previous stock in the box the sum of 161. an'l,• to ening into her room at 11, found IMO the box had beim Lick:moven, and that all her money was gone. Several artie!e* of dies* were also missing. The alarm was given. Officers entered the house, and searched the rooms of the lodgers, but without fiuling any of the pr.•perty. The) h6aever funnel a small crow bar in a corner, with which it appeared the box had hetes broken open, and which was so constructed as to eouvinee the officer. that the business had been done by experiences' thieves. Mrs. Kein . 1:1111111:11 recollected that between eight and nine o'clock Jenkins and a stout man came to the bar, and asked for a glass of gin; that some whispering took place between them, part of which was heard by Mrs. Kendall, and vs as eer• ta4sly stale:slated to excite suspicion. "Do you," said the . stout man to Jenkins." go into the tap.rooni, and I'll ~o up stairs." Mrs. Kendall perceived that they lingered about the house, hut had no idea that any trick had been nteditat e l to. wards her. They had, she said, separated, the prisoner going into the tap room. and the stunt Man walking towards the 3tia i ra. A lies - .some time they went away. The officers haying received an sw.strate description of those who were suspected, accompanied Mrs. Kendall to Cow-cross, where they laid their limit's upon Jenkins, whom she immediately identified ns one of the visitors of Friday night. •He admitteti it, and said he knew the stout men well, - but refused in mention Isis name,lest, as he said, he should implicate lsins:elf. He was remanded. The other parson i known to the officers as a most info- MOW: depredator. BOW-STREET. On Friday several person , , who had purchased titikets for the English Opera on Thursday, but had been excluded in coasequence of the great over fl ow tist.al b:netit nights, applied to this office to obtain the rewires:. Ow gentleman statedshat he had taken planes, but on ,procetaling to them found the box full, and the beekeeper could not provide him with others. after waitin; considerable time in tin: lobby, a Gentleman was pointed out to them whom they .were told was Mr. Grove, and to whom they complained without success. ilCy w ere afterwards told that:they would he shown into a private brie, and a door was opened to them. after passing through which, instead of entering as they . expected into a box, they lomat theinselses to their morti fi cation In the street. The Gentlenim stated, that he was aware that he mast look for the tc-paymtiu of the mire of the tickets from the person from whom lie put...lrked them, and not from the Managers ; but he came to support,'as a wim :ss, the complaint of the other two geutlenien and a lady. now present in the office, who paid their money at the door on nn as surance that there wits plenty cf room, when there was not a seat to be got. On demanding that their money should be returned, it was refused. Mr. Peake, the treasorer of the theatre, and the box keeper, were sent for. Mr. Ectike. with regard to the latter ease, re gretted that the money-taker had refused to retort: the money, aad paid ever the 1.55. to the complainants ; as to the other case, he was sorry fir the inconvenience which the gentleman and his family had experieneed o but in the simation of the house it was impossible to find them • accommodation. 'The Magistrate informed the box-keeper that he ought to have taken measures to torn the persons out of the box who had improperly taken possession of it. George Beck, v - .ie was sentenced to transportation for burglary in the October SessUass of lata, and who siel!ed to Botany Bay with other convicts in the ship Finlay, war ehargerlarith being at large be fore the expiration of his sentence: , The prtsoner'sdatei.ce was, that while the Fanny was lyingat ancherfive miles off Itio Janeiro, one evening he .was leaning a%einst the head-railing, which broke, and he 1%11 oveituard unobserved by. any person or. board ; that be swam fur six hours and a half with an iron on one leg, entireached.the op posite shore, but did not ki..w-the name of the place. He returned to England in A brig, the name of which lie did nut recollect, and landed at Liverpool. Ile was committed for trial, and the patties bound over to prose. cute. I ATTON G RD EN. Wednesday ' its couseeneace of an anonymous letter tee eeireil by the Magistrates at this Office, stating, that the son of a Mr. and-Mrs. Elliott, (aimed seven years of age) of Fishes-street, Red Lion-square, had been kept tied op to the foot of a bedstead for Moee months in a front garret, the Magistrates, though not giving credence to the-story to its full extent,!dispatelied Read, jun. the officer, in order to make.euquiry. The officer got in by a , kint , for Mr. Elliott ; :toil after some conversation, asked Mrs. fli;itift how litany childreushe. had, and where they were? She iinswefed, three, and they were all out at play. He then 441 , ..i d where they slept, and she mists ered hi the garret; the officer expressed •a wish to see the place. Site then told LiIIT lie u , st, and asked his business; oa which the efficer pulled wit his cal, and told lier he came to make a search. She in• st itif!y lair up stairs, followed closely hy.Read who, when she liad run ever the bed tn. the garret towards a narrow cuuu of the roam, pulled her back, said found the poor .chilii iastencil Lyn strap to the bed-post,iwith only.* bit of sackinr, .to lie on, llPC•overed, and in a tenet filthy`stete. .The officer called up the Irdgers in the house, and with difficulty unloosened the !wiles - strop with which he was fastened to the iced-post. llcr l lircoglit the unfortunate child carefully wiappe I up, to the office in a coach, and the father and mother handcuffed togedhor. • Thu child, however, was-pro. duced at the office naked, and with the strap round its body ; and Iwo persons in the house deposed to !tsteCtig for three months been kept in the state already described. The parish officers am:fried, and directed the child to be takes proper rare of ; 411 , / :he prisoners were codvcyed to Clerken., ler ll . Prison, amidst the cxecrations of the populace, that they illity.give 24 hours notice of bail. 'fiatlreclo w.ird,Ne.vrit:4ll was charged by Jetties iVileort, slterrnan to Mew's Htt‘h:.t . tvk and Cooper, ironmongers, St. Jolto's I.inc, with frauriolvistly obtaining a quantity of iron and natal spoett• to the amount of 151., the property of hilt cm. ployers. Witot,ts rie i tosed that the prisoner came to him on UtsllahofSept.witha written order, for the property, as corniug from Barber, holmium:sr, Wood-street, Cheap strie,and winters .dclivered the goods to wi t/ . These wa s a second charge preferred mg:011041m prisoner by Mark Hul ner, shopusair to Mesas s.Warnrr, brass fothiders, charged with c,htiOotog a quantity of bi ail' cocks to the amount of 71. 53.; hr isse,tus of a false order si con g from the above named person. Mr. Barber atierided,• and identified the prisoner to have been his servant, but had been discharged fourteen mouths since, and did riot authorise the prisoner to go witn any other order from hint; Most of the property was traced to the possession of a man who keeps an old iron shop in the neighbourhood of Hatton Wall. The property being sworn to, the prisoner was fully committed for mat. ' "Tlikaniel Morris was cluirgeli by Mr. Hodgson; landlord of the !Piazza rilive liutmr, Covent...Gar,len, cn suspicloa cf stealing valuable tortoiseshell .tend' L o x I MI tinted Willi gold, his property, 4 1.4wi prisoner had lived with Mr, Hodgson as waiter, but had been discharged nine months since, in corm qoenca of missing several valuable at titles; and hearing the prisoner had been apprehended on a rh4rge of felony, wa aeaa.calard his lodgings to b•; seat died, when the above property was found ill lii box, which, brio , : produced, was itlent•fied the pro:" ra:ut. Prisoner ila fuliy combritted for iri.d. SILIDWELL A Gircs.v.—)fra. Jervis, or It • , ,t 7rit Niagistritte.; on Thur.day List, in coust.oc.. every night hear,', hi her !Ly, •, o •• . covered. These noises havc !weal to ird, Fad, for three y-ars past. and'itiobs now aisciuhle in the street to hear the ghost. les session having been taken of the Iteu,e in this str.e)ge way, no ten tat hefountl, and it teuntinsllM the otalwr's Nutt! The .Nlagistratt•s innrediately directed .nine °livers In holso, and to appre hend, a. SUM as poisible, the evil spirit, however, they !lie.'e net been able to catch. :t. l'Aplar, applied to tf:t! noiseA UNION HAI I . Friday William Sir,l.th, a most dar7ng waK hrright h,f , re the Magistrate, by Lewis, a con.dalle (7amb,:rweA, identified by several persons as the man whose numeroo, if:prod.:- antis :lave caused considerable alaim . in the neighbourho of Cam.. ber well and Peckham. The following charges werepreferredagoinA him On Saturday evening about 7 c'elock. as Mrs. Tyler, of Peckham. wits crossing a field near Letlibury.hous?, she was stopped by the prisoner, whc with imprecation,. of the mot dreadful man re, demand ed her money chic begged him. to use no violence and he should have all toe inoni.v that shc le d hi her possession, and 1im.1.11 lid. to hint ; he then seized her hand in the tuoi.t brutal manner. and forcibly istripped it ring from one of her lingers, mid in so doing bruised and hurt her hand to violently, that it has been in a state of great inflannuatior. ever since. Ile then made oft. On Monday, he stopped Mrs. Powell, of Camberwell, ut an early part of the evening. and toi,k from her an umbrella ; her cries hastened the approach of Mr Powell to tate him into custody. On Tuesday night, about eight o'clock, Mrs. Downes of Kennington, was etoppd by the prisoner on Kennington Common ; he thrust Ills hanl into her pocket, and tank out all th e money, and a silver fruit knife, and ran loft threatening at the same time to return and murder her it' she made any.neise. On Thursday morning, at t t o'clock. he accosted Mrs. ibores, of Rosemary-branch Lane, Peckham, in a field near Peckham, and before she had time to reply to a question headed her about the time of day. snatched an umbrella from her hand, tore a ring from her finger, and demanded all the 'annoy she had about her, and threatened, with horrid oaths, to camder her if she offered the smallest resistance. Mrs. Jones was in the act of drawing the money from her pocket, when he observed the.rmproaeh of some per. sons and made off. Information being given to Lewis, the cooetAble, of die above dilr ing robberies, he procured assistance, and commenced a search after the perpetrator. Perceiving the prisoner loitering about in,e he took him into custody on suspicion ; aed upon scantling hien found in his possession the ring that he had taken tivin Mrs...fones, and a par nbroker's duniteate of an umbrella, which sea.; ascertained to be the one belonging to Mrs. Powell, and another field the um brella belonging to Mrs. Jones was found - concealed under the hedge. In the pocket of the prisoner were found numerous religious tracts. :waning most imp.sessivoly the readers Non an evil course of life, and containing in front the ►epresentation of a man upon a gallows. The prisoner made no defence; he was committed. A lady in r ppearancc calledat the house of Mr. Campbell, in Shoat street, Moortields, on Monday afternoon, under pretence of looking at the apartments, which were to be let ; but during the absence of Mrs. Campbell she contrived to secrete several articles of value, with which she gat off undetected. This is only one of several atter:nor made by her that day. Shea ppears passably genteel, of a nuthuly look, and is about 38 years of' age. She pretends to have a 4:other, for whom she wishes to take lodgings, &c. In her hand was a couple of black ostrich feathers, and a market two-handle basket, into which she . must have thrust the articles stolen, viz.: a silk shawl, 2 tea spoons:3 gold seals which were attached to a watch, lyirg on t h e mantle-piece, (not stolen,) 2 others lying loose, and a gold watch., key, together with a small table - cloth. Aboitt one o'clock in the morning of fistanlay we.ik two villains entered the rack-hill of Messrs. Paul Wathen and Co. at Wood chester„ in Glocestersliire, and whilst engaged in taking a piece of superfine black cloth oat of the racks, they were discovered by a person employed to guard the premises. The latter,who was atmed, called out to them to surrender, when they immediately ran. oft; upon which the guard fired at the pecan carrvng the cloth, and it is utpposodarounded him rererely..as he extlaitimd, " Lord have mercy upon me !" and a great quantity of blood was of :trwards found en the spot, .which was tray rd as far at %Vonlichester. The robbers succeeded reverthelesc in making , their esezpe for the prete - U, as the guard, who instantly went after them, was thrown down by a cord which they had previously macto.fast acros.s the road, for the plir poie of intencyting..itty perAn who might follow them. A reload has been offered for their apprehension. ; .Ta t iillphaai ifdie,tl."W says, •6 Last week W. Friend, game kemer. to C. Lion, Esq. of Ilinchester, Fred et a covey caul:wig of fourteen partridri, and actually killt.ll cloven of the timber ut.a single diet. however incredible this m.iy appear, we do not doubt the tact,.placing full confidence in the veracity of the (;endt•man wbu handed us "lie infortnation." Op Wednesday night, the house of Mr. Mauthiny, the engineer. in Lambeth, was broken open by some robbery, who earriosl oil a variety of drawing ute.ssils, and about 51. in Alva, which was de posited in a writing desk. The seine night, the house of Mr. CA linge, in Lambeth, was broken open and plundered s j7l. iu Bank notes. Grapes tot making wine arc now so plentiiul,tbat they are brought by cart loads to Covent-garden-market, where they ore sold by the hundred weight at about sevenpenee halfpeany per pound. Several publicans, we understand, have lately applieti to the Co roner of the City, to know whether they are legally obEgell to receive dead boiliet into their hotetes; to which, it is said, be has replied, that they are not ; but, that prrish officers are by law obliged to furnish a place for their re coption till inquests earl be held on them. • The return of our eumaryineti from France is unusually great; from 30 to 40 active at drighton every panket. The Ru•siart frigates Legloy, Pmpestoy, and Provernoy, now de taMed in Portsmouth by font winds, are, it is said, intended to a cqmpensation to Spain for the b. 1.1 state of the Russian rquatitoti. formerly purchased by that Pewer. There unt been consider:ll)k itopertations of oni.ms from France into l'orttmouth, so that they are how selling for I.ls. per barbel,* few days since they sold for doubt,: that trice. 'Tuesday evening, bet ‘vein four and five o'clcek, the pre_ mists of Niessts Jruit s, Wood, owl James, oil merchant., Co:lege-hill, took lite, vhiele wan ro rapid in its progress, that, notwithstanding a fill liittply ~r water to the numerous eogines,•they were utterly destrey ell in halt . ,ut hour. All the bouks and papers were fortiminely pr served. Toe stock. Which consiated.inim ipa.,s cif lie, was entirely eatimmed ; but we are biro) . le leaf the gi emit r part is Maimed. 1W ethiestla , 411 111.104 w.i he Id at th Sof eall Eagle, St. Giles's, on tin.. !poly j'l.l%llltsil a thildovitose death was oewioned by strong iiriem•t givece la Iter . by.a Wel l nan 114111.. d Ellell it appeared from the evidence of the " few , a wl .inter of the deceased, that Bryan took the child oat anion ionic past 7 011 MUlle4y Mot cud returned. about 9 o'clock. On setting down the elstkd it could not lfiyYo wil.t si.a hail choice, and thin child said, -' have drank two aLog,ve eiaim , en" of rum, one. of peppermint, and shale of two pot* of porter." 'I lie child greet very ill, and coed In the course eel the day. Bryan had taken her out aced made her thank, in consequence of which sh e t ee d l iter very ill. The body of the child was opened, and the stomach found to he many inflamed. Wag jt.ty returned a rtraict ig Wilful Mira r, •