The National Register. — London, England, 1816-01-21 00:00:00

TETE NATIONAL REGITSTER. JAN. lie fall reparation for the loss incurred by the plaintiffs. In a few days after this decision, prosecution was entered into against the pri soners, and they were taken into custody and committed for trial, charged with forging the pretended order of P. Broadmead, which formed the - grounds of the present prosecution. Mr. Justice Dallas now asked Mr. E. Taylor whether he had any thing to offer in his defence ? The prisoner begged permission to read his defence, which he proceeded to do in a tremulous voice, frequently Interrupted by the atyruish of hi 3 feelings, of which the following is an extract :-- "1 had no view of unjust gain or acquisition of the property of Messrs. Lubbocks-1 could have no purpose to injure the prose eators—l meditated no fraud against either. Had Iso purposed, I should have solicited from Messrs. Lubbocks an order to sell the property in question; but so far from so doing, the solicitation, nay the order, came from them to me. The greater part of this property coniracted for was already in my own hands ; and under an` - controut I might, at any time, have made sale of it ; and if dis honestly incliaed, might have withheld the price, at the risk only of loosing their favour, and subjecting myself to their right of ac tion ; and what is, I trust, still more material, the Court will learn, that, fraoi September 1811, and up to the month of January 1815, there remained in my custody skins belonging to Messrs. Lubbocks to the amo:. tof more than 10,0001. not bulky like the hides in question, hit comprising a great value in small compass, every on, which I could have sold, and possessed myself, in the same manner, of the the produce, had I entertained a criminal intent against the property of my principals. But I acted with perfect fidelity; and shall it be said that I meditated the loss of their fa vour, of my reputation and life, for the smaller quantity, which were obtained after great delay, acting, at the same time, with perfect fidelity with regard to another part of their property of ten times the amount? The portion of the hides contracted and paid for by me, was that of double the value to that remaining in the Docks; it was subject to no delay Tor non-payment of duties, to the forms of weighing, or to the necessity of orders. I did not dis pose of this parcel without full payment to Messrs. Lubbocks, though with great loss to myself; and the hides which were in the Docks would have been paid for at the same moment if the duties had been paid by the clerk of Messrs. Lnbbocks. I protest, before the Almighty, that this is the truth! and I trust, that promptitude of payment of the greater sum, will be proof, in the mind of every dispassionate person, that the lesser sum would have been also paid', if the duties had been discharged at the same time; namely, on the 29th of October" 1811, when the larger payment was, as I have above stated, actually and punctually made." W. Mellish, Esq. M. P. Governor of the Bank of England,—J. L. Dumont, a Merchant, J. A. !tucker, Esq. H. Bevington, and a number of other most respectable men in business, with whom he bad extensive dealings, gave Mr. E. Taylor an admirable charac ter for honour in business. Mr. Justice Dallas summoned np the evidence with great feeling and impartiality, directing them to acquit R. W. Taylor, there being no proof against him. The Jury then retired, and after an absence of a quarter of an hoer during which the whole court was in an agony of suspence, such was the interest the fate of Mr. Taylor excited, returned with a verdict of Not Guilty. The moment the verdict was pronounced, the Court was filled with the loudest acclamations of joy, cheering, and clapping. The two brothers fell into each other's arms, and for a moment all was lost in an extacy of joy. Friday, after hearing a few cases of petty offence and misde meanor, the Sessions terminated ; and the Recorder proceeded to pass sentence on the several individuals who hail been convicted ; when Three were ordered to be confined for fourteen days--three for one month—one for two mon:!.i —two for six weeks—three for three mootils—twenty for six months—eleven for one year—and three for two years—Twenty-six were sentenced to transportation for seven years—Elizabeth Heieltine, for having in her possession a quantity of forged notes, was ordered to be transported for l t years * Mary Jones, for stealing from the person of Mr. George Charmay, a watch, &c. was sentenced to transportation for life. Sentence of death was then pronounced upon the following per-' sons, viz.:— John Seymour, John Thompson, Malt Pollock, Thomas Batts, Robert Re wley alias Conelly, John Farthing, Augustus Travers alias Miranda, and Jemima Treadwell, fur stealing iu a dwelling .bouse ; Thomas Mulcock, for heifer stealing • and Collins, for sheep stealing ; James Baynes, George darter, George Clarke, 11,14•Oha for burglary gad jOkil a:tets, %alp Walker, and Charles Craig, for highway robberies. Thirty-two were ordered to be kept for different periods to hard labour, in the House of Correction; three were ordered to be pr.h. hely, and nine privately whipped; the judgment of ix were re_ spited, and seven were discharged by proclamation. The Sessions then adjourned to Wednesday, the 11th February next. The adjourned Admiralty Sessions will be bcld on Monday neitt i the 22d iubtant. POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. Yesterday William Evans underwent a final examination open a charge of stealing a large box of house linen from the cart of Mr. Danca, in Lower Thames Street, and fully committed for trial. Holloway Hatfield, a boy fourteen years of age, was charged with stealing a large twelfth cake from the shop of Mrs. Earl, pastry cook in the Minories, on the preceding evening. The pri soner was recognized as belonging to a gang of young depredators of his own size. He was seen creeping into Mrs. Earl's shop en hi s hands and knces, and to bring out his spoil in the same way. He was sent to Bridewell for a month, and ordered to be well flagged. John Doyle was charged with violently assaulting Mrs. Bond, Great Prescott-street, Goodman's-ileitis, and committing some in decency on Friday night in the Minories. The prisoner rosbeil out of a dark passage upon Mrs. Bond, and seized her in a most inde licate manner, but she screamed out till she got assistance. As sonic doubts were entertained as to his real intention,, he was re manded till he can find some person to speak to his character. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Henry White was brought up on a charge of driving his cart furiously through the Old Bailey, and thereby overturning Leadbcater, the marshal's man, who, in consequence of the wheels of the cart and the feet of the horse going over his body, did hiss very serious injury. Leadbeater being confused to his bed, and una . ble to come up, the prisoner was remanded. HATTON-GARDEN. On Saturday morning instant, Hancock an Officer of Halton Garden Police, stopped a man on Saffron-hill, carrying a bundle, and on examining its contents, was led to suspect it to be the pro. duce of some burglary; he clapped a pistol to the man's breast, which so terrified him, that he confessed the fact, and led the Offi cer to a house on Saffron-hill, where he chewed him the room in which were the offenders. The Officer burst open the door, and found three men and a woman in bed together ; and, speaking as if accompanied by others, he desired some to remain at the door, and others to stand on the stairs, and before they well knew what was the matter, he clapped a pair of handcuffs on each ; he then locked the door, and went out for assistance ; and soon returned with Brown, a brother Officer, and secured them in the strong room at the Office, in Hatton.Garden. They afterwards returned to the house, and found between two and 3001. worth of property, which had been stolen the preceding night, out of a clothes-shop in Field. Lane. They afterwards succeeded in taking two others of tkq party, who were committed for examination. • • ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. The Carlisle Journal says,—" We have this week to relate one of the narrowest escapes from destruction that we ever had occasioni to notice. For some time past, the bridge over the Pettcrill, at hotcherhy, near Carlisle, had been in a very inefficient state; and was rendered still more insecure by the late flood, as it appeared almost to have separated longitudinally into two parts, th e wa ll s and arches on each side considerably declining from the perpendi cular, so that it was deemed impossible to bang together during any length of thane. On Wednesday, as R." Dixon, Etna. was pro. seeding from Carlisle, with two of his sons and the female branches of the family, to Warwick, the carriage, in which were seated Mr. Dixon, sen. and the young ladies, had only passed a few minutes, and one of the young rrentlemcn on horseback, had scarcely cleared the extremity of the liridge, when one halt' of the structure tun. bled into a mass of ruins, leaving, on the opposite bank, the other gentleman, on the very instant of his getting upon it ! Indeed, so very instantaneous Was its ruin, that the Messrs. Dixons had no other notice of the peril. They almost miraculously escaped, than the tremendous crash by which it was accompanied." A few days ago, at Sheriff hill Colliery, the brattice (a wooden partition to direct the current of air) took fire from the adjoin jog stmei NtArly•so 'lneu Were at vrod• but instantly rescued, Y 1 w-i -. ~.