The National Register. — London, England, 1808-04-03 00:00:00

101'111I, POLICE. Pll/11.IC OFFICE, lOW-STREET. While a funeral was going into St. Clement - 4 Church, several strpicioa,, persons were observed lurking about, one of whom held up hi- tist in a menacing, way at a Centleman, who watched I pa. Application was made to Row-street, and some Officers sent, h. lean one of the fellows was taken and brought to the Other, and who proved to be the notorious Harry Woodford. A Gen tlcinan wit.) was in the crow! identified Woodford to be one Or the mo,:t active in the gang in hustling the people belonging to the funeral as well as the spectators, and stated, that he was the fellow who had the audacity to hold up Isis fist at hint in a me nacing way. Mr. Read asked Woodford what he had been doing since he was last liberated, but he could give no account of himself; on being asked what lie was doing in the Strand, he replied he had been to the Transport Office to endeavour to go abroad but could not meet with Mr. Stew art; he could not say whe ther he had seen any body. M r. Read pointed out the impossibility of his story, and said the only question with him was, whether he should convict him as a rogue and vagabond, or an Incorrigi ble rogue, and sent for all the Officers and Patroles to ascertain whether he had ever been convicted before, but that could not be proved. To prevent this difficulty in future, Mr. head or dered. that all the Officers and nitride should procure books, and make memorandums of the conviction of Woodford, and all the other pickpockets, to be brought to the Office, and directed (oat every possible exertion should be made by the evening, to ascertain whether he had been convicted before. which was ac cordingly done ; but it could not be ascertained. Mr. Read therefore, convicted him as a rogue and vagabond. VIE NATIONAL REGISTER. RI.BOWOUGH-STREET. Thursday another of those depraved women. who entice the ni w sy into their abodes and rob them, was charged With rob bing a rung wan, seventeen years of age, of eight shillings and hi , watch. The prisoner, who was stricken in years, had en vcOelt him through a court or entry to her subterrapeous abode. at the luck of Crown-street where she put him in fcar,and rot& d him of his property. Be was then hurried into the street another passage. but obtained assistance, when the prisoner was *Num!. She %las committed for trial. ACCID EN I'S. OFTEN C ES, &c. A melancholy occurrence happened on Wednesday, on the Landon side of Illackfriars Bridge. A spirited and dangerims animal, in a single horse ►art, loaded, in descending the bill. slatted at some unknown object, and reared up on his hind legs, and continued to plunge for sonic time in the most furious manner, he then dashed furiously towards the side, and came in comact with a very respectable woman of the name of Dingle. a A her aunt, who, in endeavouring to make their escape, both f •II under the wheel nearest to the kirk-stone, when the unehl beast, at the critical moment moving forward, the near-wheel i ~ zanily passed over the head of Mrs. Dingle, who died with out a groan, and over the arm of the aunt, which it shatte, ed b piece , . The aunt was carried away in a haeknev-eoach, tie mangled remains of the niece, to the disgrace of the sur f :iiertators, was allowed to lay for sotne time on the I r a shocki ig and most lamentable spectacle The furious amihil ►vas stopped without doing further mischief. The owner • the horse is highly censurable for allowing so vicious a bear t lie driven by a man who appeared totally unlit to manaLle him ; and more particularly so, as we have been informed by • of toe relatives of the deceased, that the horse was always considered ungovernable ; the animal had, previou•,iy to its reachii: i the bridge, ran against a horse, and rendered it proba bly moit for service. The above calamity is lamentably dr ‘m1141; the vices of the horse must have been known; and, theierore, proper measures should have been adopted to prevent the possibility of accident. The body of the unfortunate suf ferer was, at last, taken to the burving-ground of St. Anne's. illarkfriars, where it was soon owned by the husband, w ho, are informed is totally inconsolable, as well as her family an I 16 Tuesday in the of ernoon, as a labouring man W2S passing turn La lot, park twl()%itig to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kew, jo• was attacked by a ferocious hull, and o •ed in swell a nitamer, as may to survive a short time ; the keeper of the P.o k ieteived orders from hii Royal Highness to shoot the snout( !NG Ace; orair.—An Ingnisition was taken ycsterda at the 1 1:a-way-house at Newington, on the body of .%tain Matilda Pealet, a young lady who met ith her death ouTriday afternoon, by a violent fall. The deceased was walking on the leads of the house of her annt, at Bowyer's-rents, near Newing ton, with an infant in her arms, accompanied by two other young ladies, "%I lien a trap-door, over a lumber loft, gave way. and the young lady with the infant was precipitated into the loft, from the height or Ili feet. The inftnt did slot sustain any injury, but the -young lady pitched on the back. part of her head and fractured her skull. Site survived the accident but two hours---Accidental Death. Early on Thursday morning last, the shop of Mr. Fisher. mercer, Great Newport.sire.a, Long Acre, was robbed in the followin , : manner:—haying broken the fanlight, the thieves, by means of an instrument, supposed to resemble the ram-rod af a musket, with a warm-screw, reached the goods upon the shelves, and, by twisti n g the instrument into th e goods, drew them to the fanlight. Tey succeeded in getting silk to a eon -iderable amount, and probably Would to a much greater extent had not the family been alarmed by the falling of the goods of the shelves.—The thieves made their escape. Thursday night, between six and seven o'clock, as Mr. Max'. builder, of George-street, Grosvenor-square, was returning in his gig from West End, Hampstead, the horse took fright and ran of with hint between Kilburn Wells and the Hill House. passed Mr. fallow, of Oxford-street, and another gentleman on horseback, extremely frightened, and emnplained of his inability - to stop the animal. in corning opposite Mr. Marvin's farm, he made a spring from the back part of the chaise, but unfortunately pitched on his head, and was killed on the spot. He hiss at the Portman Arms, Paddington, for the inspection of the Coroner. Thr.'e noted characters on the town were )esterday takes into custody, and examined on the charge of having extorted upwards of SW. from a very repntable trade man, by charging him with an offence, the very imputations of' yy hick tills the mini with horror. The complainant was attacked by the parties, ih the Park, about two months since, and, rather than a charge of such a nature should even be falsely :Wedged against nim, he was induced to comply with the demands of the rob bers, until their repeated solicitations fur other sums compelled hart to seek redress. ('1111.1) STEALINn.-- little girl, three years old, the daughter of Mr , .. Pen , toue, a In idisv in Portland-street. was stolen from the door of her parent on Thursday morning, and has met s;nce heeu recovered. She was seen in the arms of a %vomits in ONford•strcet, by a servant who lives next door to Mr , - Penstime, but ha. lug no suspicion, it was not until the child had been missed that shc communicated what :he had Wed. A little hop was also taken from the door of Mr. Rivers, in Berwick-street, on Wednesday morning, and after having been stripped of his cioaths, was left at the door of his parent at ten o'clock at night. A wontan has been taken into custody. on iuspicion, in consequence of her having b-Ta fdtued possessed of a frock, supposed to ht.lom: to the child. „ll On Thursdav f'l . ntlight the 1% ifo of John Garnet, weaver, of L ~ ne-Top in Ni v near Halifax, was sai;•ly delivered of /bur laving girls. One of the childr. , n died soon after the hirth ; the other three are likel:y to do ts ell, and have been baptized. MARRIED. . . On Wednesday, by special. licence, nt Meibury, the seat of the Carl of Ileheter, by the lion. and Rev. Charles Struage.. ways, the Right Honourable Lord Henry Petty to Lady Louisa Strangew.L3s, si:ter to the Env: of Ilehester. - DI ED. Sir IT. Crev, elder brother to the late, and uncle to the relent E irl Grey, on Tuesday, at a very advanced ago having never been married, Earl comes into possession of estates to the value o i:ear :31,000t. besides a fortune for each of his younger ehil drun. Ilk :.,,rdship's brothers and sisters also have large lega cies; and all Sir ll's. old servants are left comfortable annuities f their lives. About eight o'clock on Sunday morning, Mr. 1.. Bologna, of the Theatre Ro';al Covent Garden, after a lingering illness, at his apartments, at Brion - pion. March 5, at tioodoesione next Win:-'.gym, in the one hundred and first year of her age, Mrs. Catherine Storks. The old lady was horn Ja n. '25 and baptized at Winghatn; Feb. 1-1,111:08 ; and during her life was never thirty miles from that place. She has left three daughters, whose ages united to hers exceed three hun d•ed )ears. Fifty-two of her grand and great gran! children a c now living. and about the sr Kle number have died ; she re t fined her facultts to the day of her death, and ou tFr ce:e!..r-a- Von of her uizietz. k year, suns .several ion4s to her fatuity.