The National Register. — London, England, 1812-01-05 00:00:00

JAN. 5. bound to the Brazils, its an ordinary seaman. The ship having been dee.; tained a long time at Rio Janeiro, proceeded aftern ards for a carp it) Demerara, from whence she returned on the 3d or 4th of October last, a t which time Williams was di s cha r g ed, and was p aid upwards of 401. the balance of his wag es . Capt. Hutchinsop supposes, as he possessed an address superior to his situation; wrote a good hand, and had gone to sea at an advanced age, that he must have been driven to that line Of life by his former bad conduct. As sailors on a long voyage, under strict discipline, have not opportunities of doing much mischief, Captain H. cannot relate much of Williams's misconduct ; but mentions hisattempt ing to impose himself upon a man at Rio Janeiro, as secondniate of thee Roxburgh Castle, and by that means obtaining a small sum of money. It was this circumstance that drew from Capt. H. the expression attri• bated to him, " that if he lived to go on sherd, he-would certainly be hanged.' Williams always endeavoured to pus as a native of Scotland; but Captain H. who is himself from that country, easily discovered him to be an Irishnlan, and suppohes him to be from the county of Down. When paid his wages by the owners, he represented himself to them as coming from Campbehown, in Argyleshire. Besides the . fraud committed on the second mate of the Roxburgh Castle, Williams was engaged in a Captain H. in his late voyage, had altogether a very bad crew ; and, whilst proceeding from Rio Janeiro to Demerara, when. of Surinam, they broke into open mutiny e upon which Capt. H. anchored under the guns of the fort at Braam's-point; and applied to Capt. Kennedy, of his Majesty's brig Forester, who, by threats and persuasion procured their return to their duty. Three of the principals.in the business were sett into confinement at Surinam, for 25 hours • one of whom WailWillieni Allblas., the same petson who was - apprehended on suspicion of being • concerned with Williams in the late murders. Williams, pn this sion, escaped punishment, having pleaded that he wailed Astray by his companions. , From the evidence adduced*before the Maglstriies,'it,appears, that I two men were represented as having been seen nipping fray the batiste of Mr. Wiiliamson, When the murders were conimitted,—sne a man . six feet high, the other shorter. (or Williamson,) was 'five feet eight inches high; and Allblas is a stout mart about six feet: So ' far these two men answer the description of thefugitives. Feether, All bliss states himself to be a native of Dantzic, but speaks very good Eng- Bell. at his examination on Saturday week, before Mr. Merhland, at Shadwell Office, he acknowledged 'he 'bad been drinking in company with Wiliiacos, at three or icily pebliceleotteei, on the nigbt of the mur ders at Mr. Williamson's. He said, that he left his comrade, Williams, •at half-past eight, schcu he went home, and sat up till twelve,and then retired to bed. Being aslicd by Magistrates if he could prove this, he said he could, by nleans c.f his landlady. She was sent for, ar.d at tended vrieh another woman. Her story was, that the prisoner came. home from halfspast nine to ten o'clock, and went to bed at twelve. It was remarked to the Magistrates at the time, that the woman who at. tended with the landlady of Allblas, had been in the habit of coMing to the counting-house of the owners of the Roxburgh Castle ' to receive a monthly allowance cf Allblas, and alway s represented herself. ar.d signed the receipt as his wife.. Allblas denied, previous to this woman's coming forward that he had any wife, and appeared to wish not to claim any intimacy with the witnesses. Upon being asked . how he had sup ported himself so long without empiolmeht, be said he had PaWned his clothes, and lived upon the bounty of some good friends. Under these cireurpstanceS, and upon the word of theses women (for we are informed • that they were not sworn) Allbla3 was diseharrd. John Harrison, the sail-maker, who was the first to communicate his suspicions of the guilt of Williams, served an board the Roxburgh Castle in that capacity. He had the best opportunity of studying the character of the man. Having been the only means of pointing out one of the au thors of these barbarous murders, and bearing a character from the Captain the very reverse of that of Williams, no doubt he wild be rewarded. POLICE. GUILDH ALL. Yesterday proved a maiden day at this °Mee, there not being a single charge on the books from the day before. The Sitting Magistrate (Mr. Alderman SctioLev) congratulated that district of the metropolis; that the vigilance of the Putice had produced so singular zn occurrence. Some light bread, which had been seized by an Inquest at Shadwell on the preceding day, was condemned, the owner not appearing to claim it, or prove to the contrary. MANSION-HOUSE. Ye4erday Henry .2Vrayln. , rry, a cownwiiore (porter); bAonging to the East I tv-li7t Warehouses, was brought before the LORD Mnvoit, charged pith stealing about lib. weight of Indigo from the Company's stores. A brother commodore stated that entertaining suspicions of the prisoner's honesty, be watched him, and a little before dinner hour (twelve o'clock), observed him go to a parcel, containing a quantity of indigo, and put some in the crown of his hat, and was retiring with it, when the witn•!ss informed the head* porter, who detained him with the property in his possession, and he was immediately taken. before the Lord Mayor. ° TIIE NATIONAL ilt6ISTEtt. 13 senessawne.n— Mr. Thompeoit, •the Superintendent of the Warehnuse, attended on the part of the Company, and expressed their wish to prosecute in thin cl,se i . from the timber of, depredations committed of this nature. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, •and the parties being bound , over to prosecute, he was fully committed for trial. • • BOW- STREET. We have to record one of the most premeditated robberies - that ever Was committed, as well as the greatest perseverance and exertions by Police Officers, to detect and apprehend robbers. Read, belonging to ~Perry's party of the Patrole, received private information that the house, No. 4, in Bury-street, St. lames'i, kept by Mrs. Martin. was narked •to betrobbed by a zangetf thieves who had contrived to know that she liageneralwentotit every:evening, principally to the play. They arrived at this-information by the thoughtlessness and imprudent conduct of her female servant, who had admitted one of them, of the name of Clay nin, to visit her, as a, sweetheart, who had got acquainted with , her by stratagem, under a false representation that he was a truck-maker, living in Oxford-street. Monday night se'nnight was the time fixed on fqr the perpetration of the robbery. Perry, Read, Littiberick, and others; applied to a neighbour opposite to Mrs. Martin's house, to ac commodate them with a room, to watch the proceedings of the night; they went there ah.nit half-past seven 'o'clock, and in about three quar ters of an hour after, three or four men anti two • -women came and walked up and down in the front of Mrs. Martin's house, and after nome time, one of the men knocked at Mrs. Martin's door ; the ser vant girl answered it ; the man who knocked at the door proved to be Cliyton, who pretended to be the girl's sweetheart; the others crossed over the way; Clayton and the girl talked together, h' kissing her. Clayton expected to be admitted that night,. but the girl was not aide to fulfil her promise, "tataing to her mistress being unwell; stideonsretiently did not go out For several nights an intercourse was tarried on be tween this girl and Claytoaidunnewhich time Mrs. Martin et as con- I fined by indisposition. Tuesday night the girl told Clayton that her mis tress was so much •recovered -that she expected she• "would be iced 'ebous - b: to go. the following night to the play. On Wednesday night Nibs. Martin, accompanied by a Peale and female friend, went in a coach to tbe Theatre. In a few minutes after-tile servant girl catite out, ar.d - returned shortly after with Clayton, arm-in arm. They talked to gether several minutes at the door and then went into tpe hour_. In about a quarter of an •hour weer Clayton came outennd returned in. Moon - five minutes, accompanied by another man. Cleyton knochel at the door, and the girl °rued - it. She appeared to refuse tuning the other •man in; but•t layton forced open the door; and the other n:aa rushed in. The Officers, who had been upon the dose watch every night, then went over to the house, and heard all three taiklng very l&ud tithe kitchen. From the noise and what they saw s throegit k - hole, they Er,scertaitieti that the two men were drar ging the girl ue stai etf r against her with and she wts exclahning 44 Lord have inerty upon me, what shall I d 0.," One of the men told her if she- made nich a noise he would blow . her brains out, and presented a pistol to her head, arid kept it there. They forced- her upstairs, she continuing the above exclama tion in ilefiance of their threat' ; the Pikers heard doors broke open, Etc. and in a few minutes after the other man, whose name is Jenkins, came down stairseand returned with the kitchen poker; they then heard other doors break open, but not hearing the noise of the girl con tinued, the Officers were afraid she was murdered, and were proceed. ing to break open the street-door with an iron crow, which the girl hearing, eectaimed it was her mistress,. gave a sudden spring, releised herself from them, ran down stairs, and the robbers atter her; they pt into the passage jtest as the Officers had broke open the dome and got into' the passege. Clayton and Jerkins appeared as if nothing bad happened, and! wanted to get out. Perry and Read seized them : the, villains made a most desperate resistance, which they were enabled to do, being very tall, stout, powerful men ; the Officers however, soon te cured them. On searching Clayn n a large claspinife and a bad dorar were f0w1.% Chi Jenkins were found a pistol, two had damn, &c. On examining the house, the Officers discovered that a large ittetntiLy of property had been packed up ready to be carried off. Several rooms and closets• were broke open, andthey were in the act of breaking open a chest wie2n they were _disturbed.---1 hursdity Clayton cud Jenkins underwent an examination, and were committed for further examine- tior; Mrs. Martin is the person who was robbed of her gold watch and nine seals, sonic time :.ince, 14y a grocer's porter, dress -a in big Slluday deaths, pr,:teading he was a Gentleman, and bad often visited her. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. STOI.F.N CHILD FOUND. - - Monday morning the unfortunate &ill of Mrs. Deflow, whose and. den disappearance from his parents in town ha - excited so much interest, anti for the supposed stealing of whic'► Mrs. Russel was tried at the Old Dailey, was identified at Gosport, a; , ...1 the. woman by whom he was aecorr.panied immediatets arrebted.--At the latter end of I•cr w:t•k, a woman at Gosport oh , .erved a neighbrur of her's in • osse•sion of a boy, beating, tat! marks &tests - late ', and answei ii►g to the age of three years oia. She ianne-Jiately thw,ght it was Thom Is Dellow.- who h.. 4 been so long tie nmre so, ai she had re.t..or :t ve prttendc:d itroi her had n•w•..r bor,e a child. She c ALA !:er sus piciu;:s to the nearest 11--i,tgiArAte, who s4nt for n.s. Maw :es, the pre- r . I. I I