The National Register. — London, England, 1822-01-21 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. MONDAY, JAN. 14.—This Court was crowded at an early hour this day, in consequence of the expected trial of Mrs. Baldwin, which was put off from Saturday, to enable the I)uke of %Wellington and the Nlarquis of Londonderry to attend on the part of the prosecution. The Court did not sit till past eleven o'clock. Mr. Const, the chairman) took his seat at that time, accom panied by two or three other magistrates, his Grace the the Duke of Wellington sat nit his right. tiristiati, the wife ofJohn Charles Baldwin, was then put to the bar, and indicted for unlawfully and %validly bargaining, with one John Champion, to sell the office of store-keeper in the island of Guernsey, and taking I the said Champion 501. upon the said bargain, as part payment of 1,200%, for winch she agreed to sell u him the said ollice, contrary to die statute made and pro aided, &c. Tne prisoner, who was elegantly dressed, pleaded Net Guilty. Mr. Alley stated the case for the prosecution. Mr. John Champion, the prosecutor, stated that he was formerly in business, as a leather-seller, in Bridge water-square, Barbican. In June, 1820, he put an ad vertisement in the Times newspaper, offering 10001. for " a permanent mercantile situation." In answer to that advertisement lie received the letter produced. The letter alluded to was then proved to be the hand writing of the defendant by her attorney, Mr. Curzon, anti was put in as evidence; it was as iollows :—" if A. B. will call upon C. B. at No. 9. Alalcolui-place, ing'sadace, kitig's.road, Chelsea, on Sunday next, at three o'clock, sae will talk to hint on the subject of his advertisement." Chc witness proceeded to slate, that in consequence of this letter lie Wrlll to the place described, and at the hour :Tritiated. The dart was opened by a boy, and he was onevisti into a room on the ground floor, where he saw the at lentlatit. She asked hint the nature of the Sll.llalinil which lie desired, and he said he could not exactly define the precise description of the place he wished, but was only anxious that it should be permanent. The wetness then went on to detail the circumstances opened by Mr. Ailey, omitting, however, those observations which were attributed to the defendant, as to the motives by which ins Grace the Duke of Wellington had been influenced. Culn oss-exammation by Mr. Adolphus, he said that be thought at the time he inserted the advertisement in the Times newspaper, to have settled his property and obtained a permanent situation. lie titver said he wanted a pi ce tinder Government, nor were his views particularly directed to such a situation.—The day he gave the defendant his cheque for 501. he hail made tip ,fait mind to take the storekeepership at Guernsey. lie gave the defendant 501 bt•cause she said if there was;any want of confidence in her there must be an end of all transactions between them. Mr. Adolphus then addressed the Court for the de fendant, and observed on the conduct of the prosecutor, vlio was himself porky of all offence under the same Act noon which the present indictment was finnitled, coining forward to seek vengeance on au .unfortunate woman, to whose guilt lie was himself instrumental, lit she induce ment which he had held out in his advertisement. Time Chairman then summed up the evidence, and having explained the law on the subject, left the Jury to form their oviin conclusion as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Tut. Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty. The Court sentenced the defendant to be imprisoned Itt mouths in the House tifC'orrection. Immediately after the Jury had returned their verdict, the defendant was put on tier trial lOr liming obtained luol. from another person on false pretences. Mr. Alley proceeded to state the facts of the case, hut as they were not allowed to be proved in evidence, we shall refrain from giving them publicity. As soon as Mr. Alley hail concluded his statement, Mr. Adolphus addressed the Coint. The Mit lice charged in the indictment was made penal by the 55t.1 Geo. 111 which Act referred to the 37th Geo. 11. Mr punishment, which was to be the same as for similar offences under that Act. The learned gentleman read the clause from the Act of the 524 of Geo. 111. and also the concluding words of the indictment, which were " contrary to the statute." He then submitted, that it was as Clear as A, B, C, that where the offence was made by one statute, and the punishment was fixed by another, the words id the indictment should be " contrary to the statutes," in the plural numbs r. re-examination by Mr. Alley, the witnesses said, that the defendant had taken the 501. as a security that he should not fly from his engagement. Mr. %Wilkinson, gun-maker. of Ludgate-hill, was ui xt called, and corroborated the statement of his friend, Mr. Champion. In his cross-examination, he said lie could not swear that the defendant had mentioned the name of his Grace the Duke of Wellinaton. He might hate beard his Grace's name from the prosecutor. The Duke of Welliogton was then examined; he deposed that lie is Master General of the Ordnance.— Tha office of swot-keeper, at Guernsey, was vacant in the yam in& That oilier was in his gift. Ile iieVer 11.1C1 any ecntimuttication w nh the defendant on the :ob ject of that office. The office Was gi 1111 to a gentleman who had served as Payntasor nutter him 011 the Penin sula. Mr. Wiaiam Johnstone., head clerk under the .las. ter General tit the Ortle nice, moved that the oilier in question was vacant in the t-ltillitier of 1820, anti had since been filled up. The Chairman said the rule was, that when it was illilsoSible to pass judgment without referring to INO hurtles, whien was the case in the present instance, !b.!. terms of the indictment st.ould be co itrary fu tile si t ' totes, the plural number being in such case c. :...stay necessary. And as the present indictment was t . ".I,t;LIVt in that point, the defendant could out possibly be coat . tinned antler it. The Jury were then called on for their verdict, pro ..aisa, and protiounesicl a verdict tat Out guilty. ~-- . -. ~ e• THE NATIONAL REGISTER Thomas Burrell and Niaria Anfel were put to the bar, charged with assaulting Thos. Thayer, by throwing him out of the window of a noted brothel kept by the delendant, iu Charles-street, Drury. lane.—Our readers may recollect, that the circumstances of this case have undergone repeated investigation at Bow-street.. Mr. Alley moved the Conn that the trial should be put oil till next sessions. The application, he said, was grounded on an affidavit made by the surgeon, who at-' tended Thayer, which stated, that he (Thayer) was wholly nimble to attend the Court, and was in lmen( danger of his life. The prisoner Burrell addressed the Court, and ex pressed his hope that be should not be kept longer m confinement without being tried. The Chairman told the prisoners, that after having all hut murdered the prosecutor, they tiout not expect that they should be allowed to have their trial take place, when, in consequence of the desperate assault they had committed on him, he was unable to appear to give evi dence. They must remain in prison till next Sessions ; and they might think themselves more happy than they deserved to be, if the prosecutor's meat cry should allow them to be tried for an assault, and not for a der. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. MON DA Y, JA n. 14.—Elizabeth Clements was convicted on an indictment charging her with feloniously intermarrying ith James Tounsend, her former husband being then alive. Sentenced to six mouths imprisonment to the house of cor rect Chitties Fred. Scutts,n genteel looking lad, was indicted fur stealing at honk, value 3s. the property of James Lowe. The pris o ner, it appeared, was a clerk in the employment of the prosecutor, a Ito is a respectable solicitor in Chinicery. lane. Several hooks having been missed at •arious limes, and suspicien falling on the prisoner, he was discharged.— About a month aims arils the partner of Mr. Lowe met him in Fleet-street, and in emisiqueace of infersnation he received took the prisoner to u shoemaker io Breads-buildings, to a hom lie had sold the books in question.—Guilty. W. Bentley was converted of breaking and entering the coach house and stables of N. W. It. Consort], L-q. of Ii ill street, Berkeley-s q uare, and stealing therefrom several articles. Isis pruperty. The capital part of the charge was not made out, but the Jury found him guilty of stealing only. He wits thin culled up for judgment, and received sentence of transportation fur seven years. William Lyons was capitally indicted for stealing, on the flits of December last, in the dwelling-house of Miss ♦rabella Watson, a quantity of silver desert-forks, table spoons, mid other plate, her property. The first witness called was Mr. Baker, a pawnbroker, re siding at No. I I ; George street, Portman-square, w ho stated, that on the Wit of December, the prisoner cause to his shop and tittered to pledge two silver desert forks, upon a hieh he asked tsetse shillings. Suspicion being naiikened iu the mind of the w Mies , as to the means by which the prisoner became possessed of the plate, he sent his assistion to make enquiries al the plaCe mentioned. While the young man was gone , the prisoner ran cut of die situp, anti witness jumped ' over the counter, pursued, and brougat him buck. Me was , given in charge to it coililable,. Mira Wacom deposed that the pri.oner hail lived a ith her as foot Int ui t about there week•, and she was a4sesut from 'owe at the time the articles were stolen. Witness identified the plate as her property. The prisoner, a lieu called upon fer his defence. sa;cl, he should throw himself upon the mercy of the (lutist and Jury. The Common Sergeant complimented Mr. Baker on his conduct on this occasion, and directed the July, that there was no proof of property to the amount of 40s. having been taken at any one tiiiie. The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing under the value of 404. and the COIIIOIOO Sergeant immediately sentenced Irian to seven years transportation. John Croker, a youth of Di, apparently of Chinese de• scent, was capitally indicted tor stealing wearing apparel, are. value 41. and upwards, the property of J. Solomon, in his dwelling-house. 'Flit Jury, after retiring for half an hour, foetid the prisoner guilty of stealing goods of the value of ads. only. Tituesnay, JAN. 17.—Blelaste.4—John Crooks was indicted for feloniously intermarrying a ith Mary Nelson, his lawful wife being at the time alive. 'rhe Rev. Wignion produced the register of the prisoner's mart Mgt with NI sty Nelson, the pru,ecutrix, at the church of St. George's, Bloomsbury, iu ISIU. Jane Saunders deposed, that she is sister to the prose. c ntrix, and the lalsoilvr lodged at her house about three 1110111111 i before lie Merl led her sister. Vl'ittiess was pre sent at the marriage; her sister was then IT years of age, and was living and earning her livelihood with her father. She returned to her lathe, three days after the marriage, bat still cohabited with the prisoner, and had two chill. Men by him. They were now partly supported by the parish. Mary Aim Nelson deposril, that she was married to the prisoner in I SIO, and alien she had been ;untried about four months, and was preginint, lie de►erted her, hitt af terwards retuned to her. In the interval she was stip purted by her lather stud 'twitter. She became again egilaili, And lie once Inure destitcd her. He, however, tenoned to her smut time alter, but again ran ;away, and never came back, and she was obliged to support her children by her own industry, assisted in a trilling degree by the pares.. In his last absence she received a letter hoot lion, telling lies that the was not his lawful wife, and advising her 141 ot etpi t.f the lust offer of marriage that she might meet with, 11, was about taut y eats since he , has left her. All. Taylor, the parish idea. of St. (idea In the Fields, panltleiol 11,4• it t;ioi . l or tits prisout is Bast marriage with Mary 'Vining in I •I•he signature, " John Crooks," wits proved to bus ennuis;;. William Bead, she utheer of Hatton Garden, swore, that when he Ntilircliciitlyil Una 1u isaurr he confessed to him alias lie aAS worth to Ahtry 111 tat;. The Jury, a ithuitt a moment's hesitation, found the prisouer Guilty. The Contemn Serge:est sentenced him to seven years trairportation. James Smith and Atm Nichols were put to the bar, on au iiiiiietment eharguik shear with 11101i11,, ,, stufeu, 011 the 42 , 1 Deeviiihei, fiUlll the house. of W. c, Esq . the enduent Chancery barrister, a variety of Felicity, coy- ; • - • 4 .1*-4( 41. - -~►'t •.- °e :; sisting of six sovereigns, a valuable tea caddie, and a con• siderable quantity of culinary utese.ils. 'llia facts were proved by Hancock, an officer, and the propel ty was identified by Mr. 1)iellit , 181, a liftman, v.ho sold them to Mr. Pliiiiimore on like k2ill of heel O c t o ber. Smith, upon being called fur his defence, said, lie bail been employed by his cousin (the female prisoner) to carry the articles in question, mad had uo knowledge of their being motto'. Aline Nichols stated. she had married in April last, and was about to settle, and had bought the articles for her own use; but her mistress being rather short of such iiiressils, she had used them from the motive assistin; to accommodate the family. Several respectable witnesses %gave Smith an excellent character, as did others the female prisoner. After au imps. tial as 111 l ming up, the Jnry consulted for a short time, and found Nichols Guilty, but acquitted FRIDAY, Jail. 18.—The Sessions this day concluded, and sentence of death was passed mi the following 13 p. isoners : Wm. Rivers and John Tye, for forgery—Jas. Tuffnell Win. W ilson, George Bryan, John Redgrave, and JIMVS, for burglary ; John ...ine and tirorge Williams, inr house breaking; Edward Smith. Robert Kitt, Let ii in Williams, and Mary Scott, for stealing in a dwelling bongo. Six were sentenced to be transported for lite ; 2 fur I t years; and 26 for 7 years;—in were ordered to be pri vately, mid four publicly whipped. The Sessions then adjourned so Wednesday, Feb. 26. Among the trials at the late Court of Ass se at Rinm, wits that of a faintly called Salgues, accused of a dread ful assassmation. Maurice, one of the sons, had for three years been deeply enamoured of a girl named Ca tharine Pondegoire. She had long resisted hint, but at last, yielding to his promises, she became pregnant. His father and family would not hear of a marriage with the 'mar git I, who confided her situation to her lover, and to the Curate of the parish, at whose house they were to meet to arrange matters for her support. In the mean time, she was seen one evening near Salgues' house, and loon that moment she disappeared. Suspicion then arose that site had fallen the victim of stone horrible crime. Search was tit-de in the house of the Salgues, and in their garden. in the house was found a knife. in the form of a stiletto, still covered with blood ; and in the garden, which they dug all over, they found the body of the unfortunate girl. The inspection of the body shewed that several blows had been given in the throat with the knife, width) stifle the cries of the victim, they had put a gag of straw, forced sit strongly into the mouth, that it Was with difficulty withdrawn. They had also attempted several times to strangle her, first with a cord, then with a handkerchief, knotted, and drawn with force. A great number of witnesses were ermined nn the trial, which lasted four days. Saigon, the father, died in prison three days before the verdict was retooled, and two of his sons, Peter and Anthony, have been ac quitted. A crowd of circumstances gave the fullest conviction of the guilt of Maurice Salgues, who has in consequence been condemned to death. Another trotting match, of two miles, for 900 guineas aside, took place on Menday, on the Bagshot road, be tween Mr.‘'‘'ells's roan mare awl Mr. It. Painter's black horse. The mare made the play, and kept it the first half mile, when the broke into a gallop, and in turn ing the horse passed her. At the mile the horse broke, when neck and neck, and got four lengths a.beatl.— Every inch of the ground was contested, and both were together when two hundred yards Irmo home. The snare won by two lengths in 6 !phones, 31 seconds. EititAORDINARY FEAT'S.—Ftitlay, a matt, for a small consideration, undertook to run 17 miles in two hours, from Runisey market-place to half a mile on the Southampton road, which he performed with apparent ease in ten minutes within the time.--One of the most extraordinary feats of exertion was made by a y matt, Mark Fork, who bad been employed ou a new road making by the Rev. W. Gartner, in the parish of Wickham, Hants; who, for a trifling wager, undertook to wheel a barrow that lie had been accustomed to work with on the road, w ith a hundred weight of gravel in st, 40 miles in 12 hours, via. Irmo silt in the looming to six in the evening. This tlisla lice he performed tin g measured fur the purpose, on the turnpike road, hall a mile in length, in 10 hours rod IPS minutes, without being very lunch distressed. On Monday toning an elderly female, who resides in the Kent-road, who by tnisfortinte had heel, reduced from a state of affluence almost to depeudence, went to the hank to draw one hundred vomits, for the piorpo,e of fittiti li up a little situp ill a fancy business, by die profits of which she hoped to be able to support herself in her declining years. This possessed. tie motley was paid to her hi s cVeii lull pound notes, and the remainder tin sovereigns, which site pot into a blue clasp purse, which containtal a prowls pity none--She hail not left the bank five tontines, when between Threadneellle and Lootbard-streets, situ was siattimided by a gang of thieves, Who, it is SiippoNol, had previously witched tier lino the Lank, who busded her, and une cf the villains thrust his hand into her pocket, and look ma the purse, and w i t h his associates decamped before site had recovered from her alarm, or discovered her loss. As soon as she found that she had been robbed, She returned to the bank, where the notes (the numbers of which had been taken) were stopped.— The unfortunate wootrati hastened home in the great e st distress, aunt her friends gave information to the magis trates of the dillerria police oflicep of the robbery. DAttistti lliuttwAY ROYYKRT.-- Wedtletday night, as Mr. Robert Dowlitig, ntiivahtre.p 1111er,of Great Portland-street, was retwithig home from Keitstught,di lie was stopped near die former extr. unity of Hyde Park, by a fellow who knocked down his head eante agaitist a stone with { treat violence, which reodered hiw yoke insensible; WllliSt 111 that situation, the villain and his coot it uuiumt robbed hint of his watt b, motley, and some other property. The Rev. Robert Steele, Rector of Muntlesley, et his late tithe autli • , has deduet.d 10 per cent. in COiiSc• (thence of the agricultural depression. - W ;