The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-24 00:00:00

prisoner himself was one of the first to mention the discovery, hut when his" duty paid ledger" was examined, It was found that the certificate 202, had not been entered therein, and that the certificate itsel was missing. Upon searching the prisoner's drasser iii the office, the missing certificate was found. The certificate, 19d, was found to have been regu larly entered in the prisoner's ledger. Enquiry was made for Grant, and he was soot to be found. The prisoner about this time was absent for a fortnight, on account of sickness, but the officers who were employed to apprehend him as the accomplice of Grant, found him at his lodgings in Gray's Walk, Lambeth. In a few days after the discovery • 61. note, which was part of the money paid by Grunt's em player to him. to pay the duty . , was traced to the possession of the prisoner. These were the leading facts of the case, as they were stated by a great number of witnesses. The p, homer, in his defence, declared his innocence in the insist solemn inamier, and said, with respect to the 51. note. that he hail lent some ttttt ney to Grant in the early part of the surname, umi Grant, in repaying him, gave him among others the 51. note in question. The Jury retired fur some time, and returned a verdict of guilty—death. Manasseh Goldstein, the person convicted on Wednesday of a forgery on the Prussian G.iver iiiii ent, was put to the her, when Mr. Platt, as junior counsel, moved all arrest of judg• meat, on the ground th it the instrument alleged to lie forged aught to have been set forth in the indictment in the English language. Judgment post potted. David Barton, a young man of respectable appearance, was indicted for stealing four packages of roots. seeds, bulbs, stuffed hirda, and insects, the property of his Majesty, from on board the Venus, a ship lately arrived from the Cape of Good Dope. It appeared that the prisoner was a tide-waiter on beard the Venus. On the 21st ofJuly last, the goods had been landed in tin Kiag's wharf, auttl had been marked with the broad arrow in mile' that they might not lie removed without the payment of ilaty. On the night of the 41st of July last, it was proved that the prisoner had removed four of these hose, which haul been so lauded, to the ship. The psi. *once was heard by the mate of me ship in the middle of the night, witlkiag on the Jer k. " What are you about ?" he cried. " Never whirl," replied the prisoner, " it shan't fall nn your neck." The next morning the prisoner told the mate—. 1 ss dl give you it pound note to way nothing about hat pawed last night." The mate replied. " A pound note won't save your neck, nor me from transportation." On cross-exa iii ll :tibia of the witnesses, it seemed that no one of the passengers, who ow tied the goo ds said to be stolen, was present as a witness for the prosecution. The prisoner was very drunk on the itidlit of the 21st of July, anti the next day being asked, said that he knew not what he did. The primmer, in Ins ilrfence, said that on the night men tioned iti the indictment he Was much inebriated, and was not conscious that lie nail dune any thing imptoper. Several respectable witnesses give the priranwr a very good character. Otte of them said he saw the prisoner at half past eight on Sunday evening so much intoxicated that lie appeared lit- mi insane itersun. The Jury returned a Ter diet of Nutt Guilty. Bic., Mr.—Wm. Manners, aged 23, was inulirted for fe. ltatiously marrying Susan Anderson, ou the bta of September, 1820, his Gilmer wife being alive. Mr. Aulnlphus slated the case to the Jury. Edward Lewis deposed that lie bnew the prisoner, lie was present at his son riage with Elia theth [teak imam. lle acted as father, and gave the bride. away. The marriage took place at Lawrence church, Reading. in Berkshire, Jan. 13, hut in what year he could ant recollect. Elizabeth Renkinson was a maid servant. He saw her alive on Mon day last.. _ _ Susau Anderson deposed that her father kept a cook's shop in Warplane. She was married to the prisoner on he Bth of September, last year. She was possessed of a small sum of money when she married the prisoner. ►be lived with the prisoner till the 11(11 of January, when she left hint and returned to her father's house, having heard that lie had another ss ife living. 'rile prisoner in his defence said that he was married to Elizabeth Itenkiinno. but she misconducted herself in many respects; and about three years ago she ran away from him, and he had never since been ante to prevail upon her to return. Under these circumstances he married again, be cause he thuught a ss ife was necessary to a young man like himself. The prisoner during the delivery of this address appeared dreadfully aAitnteil. The prisoner called nn witnesses,and the Jrry immediately found him Guilty. On Thursday the launch of one of the East India ships, of 1,350 ions borthen, took place from Mr. Bay ley's II alifax Shiplard, Ipswich, a new minutes after 12, marly an boor before high water, by which many thou s.did persons were disappointed of viewing the same.— • Jost previous to the lallitch the ship was named " The Sir D,vid Scott,'" by the daughter of the Rev. Dr. lVard, of Coltishall, near Norwich, with iiifinite animation and grace. 1:1 a moment afterwards the ship made the first start, and accelerating is motion until her stern retched 1112 water, amidst the tvavin; of hats, the music of the bawl, and the shoots of the surrounding spectators, she glided rather than plun•Aed into her 'littoral element, with a steadiness and in.j.:sty which no words can de scribe. Owing to the violence of the wind the stem of the vessel grounded on the the side of the dock about 200 yards from where she was launched ; she, however, floated with the flowing of the tide, but unfortunately soon after got again upon the edge of the channel, whew she remained immoveable. At the next tide the ship was got into the channel, and was towed down the river by the seam packet, on her passage to London, 11111 hating received the sli g htest injury from her grounding. The river was hued with boats and vessels, and both of its sides were thionged with spectators. On Friday w •ek a duct was fought on Plumste.ol Common, near Woolwich, between Lieut. of the Royal Artillery, and a Mu. C--, a gentlentai. of respectability ; after exchanging ,‘vo shots each Mr. C. was wounded by the Iwll of his antagonist going thro' the upper part cit one thigh and through the wrist of his lett hand. Lieutenant U. escaped with having the skin on his forehead rased by the ball of Mr. C. It is some what remaukable, that on the first exchange of shots, the balls came in contact with each other, and both of them fell about three feet from th e feet of Mr. C. Mr. C. is convalescent. THE NATIONAL REGISTER THE LAW RELATIVE TO VAORANTS.—By a statute of the last session of Parliament, Ist and 2tl George IV. cap. 64, nearly all the provisions of former acts relative to vagrants have been repealed, they having been found inadequate to the prevention of vagrancy, and a new system of treatment adopted as an experiment, to be in force for one year from the Ist of this present month.— By this statute no reward can now be claimed for apps betiding a vagrant; but the magistrate may, in his dis cretion, order a sum not exceeding ss. to be paid by the parish offic e rs, as a reward in such case. To direct the passing of vagrants to their parishes the presence and consent of two magistrates is required; amid no person convicted of an act of vaurancy is to be committed to the House of Correction for less than one month, nor longer than three months, except by the Jurices in general or quarter sessions. Discretion is allowed the magistrate to discharge a person brotight before him for acts of va grancy if he should think fit; hot in the case of a con viction, he can no longer send the pity to prison for seven days to be passed to the parir4li, but mutt commit the person so convicted, to actual puilisliment, hard la bour, for at least one mouth. T:ie lull punishment of the new statute was inflicted on 11'editesday by Mr. Ald. Brown, the sitting magistrate at Guildhall, upon a sturdy liblooking fellow, named M. Manley, who infests the city, beg;ing in the guise of 3 distressed sailor. Smith, street-keeper of Fleet -street, found him that moriiing at his usual avocation, be ,,, ing, at the corner of Bull , yard. When desired to desist and go away, he became allusive, impudently refitted to stir, told the officer it was his duty to look after thieves, and not beggars; and that he would beg in spite of them, all over the city. When brought to the office he was immediately recognised as au old offender in this line. Ile had, it appeared, been several times at the Mansion.house on similar charges, and when last before the Lord Mayor, about a fortnight ago, hail been clothed to enable hiin to get a situation on board sonic ship ; he had, however, sold the clothes, and resumed his old occupation. These facts being proved, and the fellow himself declaring he had no way of getting his living but by begging, Alderman Brown adjudged hum to be a vagrant within the meaning of the statute, and committed him to hard labour in the House of Correction for three months. _ _ Falid Boning. —At the Lancaster assizes, on Monday, Joseph Rayner was found guilty of killing Peter Fisher. —The learned judge, in passing sentence said, that the deceased had certainly borne an towards the pri soner, and had actually struck him first ; and, if the battle had been nothing but fair fighting Le should have deemed a very !Len punishmentsulficieut for the offence, but he had, with deadly weapons (the clogs which he had upon his feet), brutally kicked the deceased on the breast, which had deprived him of life. The prisoner had said, in his defence, that he had served his Maj sty many years, both in the army and the navy, and that ought to have taught hint what true courage was ; and that it was unmanly to take advantage of another man when he was on the around, and unable to defend him self, and to inflict such punishment on him as to occa sion his death. lie w.is sentenced to tell months sonment. . _ Singular Escape of a Convict —On Wednesdiy after noon, about live o'clock, the Bedford Teleuraph Coach arrived i❑ London. Amongst the pamtigers were live convicts, accompanied by the gaoler and his man, who were placed in the dickey. The prisoners, some of whom were desperate fellows, were double ironed, and through the links was passed a strong chain, the extre mities of which were fastened to ►he coach. When the coach arrived opposite Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell green, one of the prisoners, who was a very dexterous fellow, and had b...en sentenced Mr tittering forged notes, slipped, by some means or other, his feet front the iron fetters, Mopped to the ground, and took to his heels up Compton -street, towards Goswelbstreei. A great num ber of people j tined the officers in pursuit 01 him, but in vain ;he got clear off. He is well known to the Police offices. Highgate Murder.—Since the last examination of Wa rett aunt his wife, before Dr. Owen, of Highgate, every thing has been done that was likely to cause a discovery of tile mysterious affair. Persons have been employed in diaggiiig lie various ponds about that neighbourhood, it being thought 'minable that tie murderer might have thrown things theiem in order to prevent discovery; but nothing was found. A man named Murphy, who yeas before Dr. Owen ou a recent occas , on concerning the horrid alr,tr, his been again brought up to account for some %cry suspicious circumstances brought against hint. It appeired that a min, named Field, who was employ ed to drag the 'mods, oil searching near a hay slack on Mr. 1-Tale's premises, tie discovered sit old shirt buried under one of the stacks ; the sleeve of the shirt exhibited marks ul blood, and the colar was torn, apparently in a struggle. 'rite shirt was found near Mr. Hale's g and was very filthy. Tisere was no mark to wove it to be Bat Nut's, and the only suspicion that it might be is, tilt lie was finind near the gar hen, and lie being under gardelier. The shirt was order,tl in be left in Field's posmsion, the 111311 who Mond it. Dr. Owen eulogized the on - leers for their activity, and thought tile deset yeti suspicion. There was no direct evidence that the shirt belonged to Nltirphy, and lie was 114• charted, wider promise to come forward at any future terns{ if rerun i eil. 'llse Litaki-Meney Cenqpirators.—G. Vaughan, togeihn with Brocc, Pelitam. and Power, who, our readers may reeolieci, wera hied and emtvieted at the ad Bailey S. ssiosis, in Se:ltemiser 1616, and sentenced to five years imphsiminent, elt.mzetl with swearing away the lives of ;moment venoms, for the sake of the blood-money, have ir•rved out the luviti of their int prisonmeilt, and were on Wedoes.iay treil, on emeriog hull. recognizances, themselves in 801. and two sumies in 4ul. each, for their good ltzhavioitr for three years. A navigable canal is about to be cut between Ly, mington, in Hampshire, and the city of Salisbury which will form a junction with the Avon and Ly mington rivers. 305 During the career of the celebrated pickpocket Bar rington, an alarm was one night raised in the box lobby of Covent-garden Theatre, that he was in the house.— The news spread from box to box like electricity. One gentleman had lost a snuff-box, another his watch, one lady her purse, another her smelling-bottle; in fact, every body had lost, or said they had lost something.— Beliind M rs. J--mias, the sister of the late Earl of C—, sat a gentleman its black, who with much politeness communicated to her the most dreadful intelligence.— " The villain," said she, whipping a splendid pair of brilliant ear-rings out of her ears and putting than care fully into her pocket-book, " shan't have my ear-rings, I promise." When the play was over, Mrs. Jas adjourn:al to the route of my Lady Upon en tering the drawinkrooin she flew up to her " dear, dear friend," and after embracing her with transport, told her Ladyship W:1:It an escape she had had of that " horrid villain Barrington," felicitating herself that only for her amazing ingenuity and cleverness she must most cer tainly hare lost her drops. As she could now with per fect safety hang out her gems, she thrust her hand into her pocket; but, after a poke or two, she changed co lour and started—" He has them," said she in an agony. " Impossible," said her sympathetic friend, "impossi ble I " Alas! it is too true; after the most scrutinous rummage, they were not to be found. Upon diligent inquiry, it appeared that the very gentleman in blacic, who had sit politely cautioned Mrs. J--s against Bar rington, was Barrington himself As soon as the lady had deposited her brilliants in her pocket, that able artist skilfully extracted them. Tuesday anent° ~,,, one of the Paddingtoncoaches hail pulled up at the King's Head puhlic.house, the coruer of the Hampstead-road, and the coachman Mad incau tiously left his seat and went into the house, without previously giving the reins to ally one. During his absence, which was very short, the horses took fright at a horse and cart that were passing, and ran acrosas the road their progress was stopped by one of the hind wheels coming in contact with a post, but the contusion was so great, that the passengers on the oust. side (consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Moore, ofCharles street, Hampstead-road, and Mr. William Ridett, of No. 37, George -street, Portman-square) were precipitated into the high-road. Mrs. Moore fell with her stomach, on the wheel, by which she was so seriously injured, that on Fridsy she was given over by the physician.— Mr. Moore, her liu,band, fortunately received no ma terial injury. Mr. Ridett, who was conveyed home mediately, lingered in the greatest agony till Thursday evening, when he died of the injury he received. The late fire in Grecechurch-sirecr.—Besicles the two firemen and turneock, there was a fourth man lost Ms life at that calamitous fire, whose oaitie .vas not knows until Thursday; his name was G-orge Ross, a journey man carpenter, and lived at No. 40, Parker -street, Dru ry• lane, where he bore a good character. From his wife's staieinetii, it appears that he and site were at market, alter which they went into a public-house at a late boor ou lash . Saturday was a week, (the night this dreaM,.l fire broke out) ; she went home, and left him in the public-house, since which she has nut seen him. Nut comung home that night, she dreaded he might get its some scrape, and she made inquiry at different watch houses; hearing no account of hi in, she inquired next day (Monday) at the different Police•oflices w ash equal success; she afterwards inquired at the various prisons and hospitals, but her s:arcli proved fruitle,s ; at length, from the circumstance of his being missin; since the fire, she supposed he might be the person whose body was not owned. An inquest sums the bodies, aod they were buried last Sunday. The disconsolate wornaa repaired to make the necessary itiqu'ry, and front ins stockings and some fragments of his clothes, she was convinced they were those of her thifortnnate hnsbaa I. She stated that they lad 'wen thirteed years married, sod that that Saturday night was the first he was ever absent front home. It is conjeestired that, like a great tita!•/ citrioas persons, he must have accompanied the Are eti gioes, and assisted the ("rootlet). Singular Esnape.-1)r. Palmer, of Tainworth, expo rienced a providential escape a few days ago on the soot. wit of Armitage-hill. It:turning fruit Poleswortis iit his gib, woo his groom, the liiitse suddenly took fright, and went MI at lull speed ; on reaching a part of the road bounded by a precipitous sonic-pit, one of the rails being broken, the animal slitting with a desperate leap into the pit, at least 15 or 16 feet deep. In the descent 1)i. Palmer %Van piichrd iteadlotvg front the carriage, and though stunned my time fail, he sou it recovered his m eat, and cent to the assistance of his groom, who lay appa rently lifeless, mist wilt) was at lenath (timid to WIC recoved no very material injury. The horse lay at the lor.tier end of the pit, WILil ile body of the gis upon Mill, which being removed, lie rose up wholly unfrl-, nor hail the carriage any marks of violence, with time exception of the sotrits being btokeis. Both the Doctor and time groom sittr,:fe.l j 140,./t1 deal twin the shock, bait arc now perlectly recovered. DRAALIFUL AT rEPAPT AT SOICIO6.OtI Wednesday evening Mr. F. a young Wild:Min CaltiltVlrti with • respectable Calmly in the treighboarisooil of Clerkenwell, made a desperate attempt to destroy himself. It appears Wilt Mr. F. won is 22 years of age, (unknown au hie family), had tutored a sir g attaetrinent for a youmg lady, wheels was disapproved by his father, who forbid the hums. Wednesday eventisa he went to White Conduit House, wrote a letter to the young lady, the object of his affections, and sent the waiter to deliver it to tier; EMI afterwards she arrival in the company tit female friend, he met them at the door and sutured them up stairs, and requested them to accept of some negiss, which they assented to, and lie said he would go. amid taster it ;he wets' dower stain, b u t instead or ordering it s etc went into the middle of the road, placed a pistol to his head, and discharged the contents, by which !tart of the 1::t side of the scull was carried away; he rill ou the road bid.: insensible, medical aid was instantly pot. cured, and he was placed in tied, bus wiilbousvile least hope of recovery.