The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-15 00:00:00

NOV. II - - him, and despatched the most Active, intelligent and per- Z,i r i ng pr i nc ipal officers in pursuit of bin. to Dover, Margate, B r i g hton. and ether parts; and to pursue him wherever they could in any information respecting him. They were accompanied by Mr. Horsley and some friends, who can identity Charles Henaett and die child. It is fearod'tbat he has succeeded in getting out of this country with the child, and earned it into France but the known dilligence of the Prench police encourages strong hopes. that before many tiara shall have elapsed, this monster of atrocity will be in the hands of justice. It u swot, that upon the life of die child depends the awn Of 20,0001. - • A man in tattered garments. named M• Vie. was charged.wiC nepeatedly annoying Messrs. Gra:lnwood. Cox. and Co. army agents, and refusing to leave the house when desired. The unfortunate man had heen an officer in the 77th regiment. and fancies that he has ewe demand upon the house in question, but for which there is net lona:aim. He has been for several years in the constant habit of r ing to the office. using threatening language, and otherwise ans. conducting himself.—Committed for want of sureties. A young mail, genteelly dressed, calling himself the Hen. W. R. G triton, of the Royal Navy, was charged with feloni ously stealing 1. , Bank of England notes and lbs. from Mr. Richard Mono, a haberdasher and hosier, in Great Russel. street, Covent Garden; also with obtaining from I various articles of hosiery. It appeared that the prisoner went to the New Humusums, in Covent.garden ' on Monday, and ordered a bed, *Sec. by the name of the Hon. W. B. Gordon having handsome cardi, ele gantly engraved, with this ad dress. On Tuesday morning between nine and ten .':lock, he desired it. Jones, one of the porters belonging to the New Huntsmen* to send a hosier to him with some black and white silk sto ckings, some cotton stockings, Ste. The park:Eh/ consequence went to Mr. Motto's shop, and gave the order. On his return. the prisoner sent bunt with a draft fur 51. drawn on Messrs. Esdaile and Co., i n Lou,i mrikareet, which was refaced payment, the answer bring •• No effects." Mr. Munn waited upon the prisoner, in bit bed ruoni, and sold him several pairs of slot kings, also drawers, ice., to the amount of 41. 2s. The prisoner desired hien to fetch tam change for a 201. Rank uote, which he ac cordingly did, aii4 gave the prisoner fifteen it. Rank notes, and eighteen The prisoner counted the notes care. fully over, Mr. Munn remaining at the dour, when the pri *otter suddenly that be insist run owa ter the wa ter-closet, and left his room. Mr. Munn waited about three or four minutes, when a suspicion arose in his mind that the prisoner was an imposter; anti lie went to the water closet and found he was not there : he then proceeded down to the coffee room, where he learnt from the head waiter, that the prisoner had ordered breakfast, but bad left the house in haste, saying he should return in a few minutes. The suspicions against him were directly afterwards increased, by a porter belonging to the holm h I i arm sat him in T4siMitek.l . llll, with great speed. H • s returning. Mr. !I t.ris..o Ike rs• .5 , e •: r f the New Hu.n pr:ntsliti 0ZC1441i.41, .01 . !I ••••ii • several at tir.PS 01 wcariP • , .• • • •: cnoi a 1.. Iss-.45 5.. . 1,1041. 11 roved to be wt., ;ie had .•t):A.::,ect fra , : - . Mt. M:::r.:. in the evening, onr t„c w4ite:it neouging 14 , New iltitainnias was pasting along the wile!) ae earl 1:..:;)! .. pi0a0r enter the Sans Parcel rheatre, .7f, which i.e :n:itipre to Mr,. Hatrkos and Hr. Munn, VllO attk • • cation at the office, and Thomas Slaylaew, constao at , co‘n. panied him to the Sacs P3rei: Theatre, where, on cleat riOtog his person, they %vet t:if 'rood be bad just left the theatre, but was expectel to return; and after wailing in the assa rye a short time, the prisoner returned with two dashing females, one on each arm. He was token by Mayhew to Coeent-g..r. den watch house, where he hed him, and fmind seven I Bank notes; five of them proved tit be part of those he ob seined front Mr. Munn, who could out identify the other two. On his being asked what he had done with the remainder of the money he had obtained. from Mr. Mann, he replied, he had given three of them to one of the females who was with him, and had paid his landlady is Cross-court, be ween two and three pounds. On his being brought to the oni,.e, and placed at the bar, be said his name was Thomas Baldwiehe. He did not make any answer to the charge. He was Ma. ruined for trial. GUILDHALL. ANOTHSR Cairo STOLEN. —John Holdstoek„ describing himself to be a seafaring rain, out of employ. wos brought before Mr. Alderman Seikoley, by Everett,an officer, charged, ander very suspicions circumstances, with having stuleu a little boy about nine years old. The mother, Mary Connelly, wife of a stonemason's la booker, residing No. 2, Long.walk, Chapel-street, Grub street, said she was from home sonic time on Wednesday morning, and on her return she missed her little boy; she made enquiry aniongseveral of her neighbour., host could get no tidings of him. A woman, residing in the same walk, at !ength recollected having seen the child early in the morning, en company with the prisoner, who was well known about the neighbourhood, living chiefly upon the charily of the inhabit ants. inquiry was immediately made at the borne where be slept, but he had not been there all the day. The hour at /which he generally came home arrived, but he never made his appearance, nor did he come home all night, leaving the 'father and mother in a state of anxious suspense, too dreadful to be described. As early as it was light, search was again made for the prisoner, but it was not till tele o'clock on Thurs. day morning, that the mother learnt that he :rad been seen a the neighbourhood ;she inunediately went in search of him, and charged him with having stolen her child. He at first affected ignorance, and denied having seen the child; but on the mother's telling him the information she had received, and giving hien into charge of the officer, he confessed the child had been out with Win for a walk, and that he had left him behind. Under these circumstances, the officer felt it his duty to detain him, and bring him before the Sitting Ma. gistrate. Oa being questioned by the wostliy Alderman as to what be had done with the child, lie said the buy walked wills him oa Wednesday morning down to Barking, where they both went on board the Mercury sutack, Capt. Thomas Carter, and re. mitred there till the evening; that he, the prisoner, left the vessel to go on board another to sleep, at which time the child was asleep in the cabin of the Mercury, and the Cap tain allowed him to leave it there, as the smack was com ing up to Blackwall the next morning, from whence he thought the boy could find his way home. He slept on board a vessel, and walked home in the morning, when he was met by the timber, and given into custody as before related. The worthy Magistrate thought his conduct rather mysterious, more especially as he had denied all knowledge respecting the child. He therefore directed that the prisoner should be detaiired in custody until the truth of his story wee ascertained; and iu the mean time ordered immediate inquiry should be made after the Mercury at Blackwell. On Friday he was again broasht up, when she story told THE NATIONAL REGISTER' by him, it appeared, was true, so far as related to his taking the child to Barking, and also on board the Mercury stnack ; but it was not the fact that lie left the boy asleep in the cabin, or that he at all recommended hint to the care of the Captain; on te contrry, while the chil. whom he had reresente to have h neither father nor moth er , was playing bel o w deck, d he watched an onportunity and withdrew privately from the smack. Captain Carter had taken care of the boy, brought him up to Blackwell. in the vessel, and was making the necessary inquiries to whom he belonged, wheu the father and mother arrived, and the Captain had the heartfelt pleasdre of restoring the child to his overjoyed parents. The vole object of thesprisoner seemed to be that of decoying the child'avray, but for what purpose did not appear. It was also stated that he had endeavoured to decoy sway several other cbjldren In the neighbourhood. The worthy Alderman reprobated in strong terms the de praVityof the prisoner's conduct, and lamented it was not in his power to punish hint ly for such an offence ;as how- ever, it appeared be was a disorderly character, and had no visible means of getting his living, be should commit him to hard labour fur one month. UNION HALL. Mr. Horsley and his friend attended at this office with an application a' •lar to that made at How-strert. Carter, the witness who followed the talon who carried away the child, represents him as very stout, about 5 feet $ inches high, be tween thirty and forty years of age, very dark curapiexion, dark curly heir, round face, no whiskers, .Ires.seil in a short blur coat, with yellow buttons, yellow breeches, with a piece of notched leather under the strings at the knees. half Wel lington or sack hoots. His appearance altogether was that of &groom. Mr. Horsley expressed his suspicion of a man named Ste vens being also concerned with the above named parties in stealing the child, he having been in the habit of meeting the servant girl, when she was out with the children, and walking with her, and having been seen in her company the day of her FSAUOII BY FILLKEL...GIIOI7t Xilby, a fireman, belonging to the Sun Fire-office, and two other firemen, applied to the Ntaigistrates for an order to receive the rewards to which they claimed to be en titled. under the Acted Parliament. for attending with their er.gines to extinguish a fire. at the house of Mr. Wedd. of Shad Thames, in the parish of St. John. Southwark. Mr. Wedd. a gentledida of great respectability. opposed the claim of the firemen, and st till the particulars of the wLdie ttansaction.— On the 30th of Orrode., Ms cook went up stairs and informed him that the kitchen undia.,7 rsluired cleaning, for that a considerable quantity u(soot nad cted at lie lower part. and there was an appearance of al ue ot it oc,:cr 0.1 fire. He gave directions that a enitincy s.vestp.r the, and the necessary operation perdartu.at a4Z sweeper ar...41, attended by a boy; the soot col t 461.40'11 •if tat: coianney. amongst which several sparks sdovelled down. The boy was iniraedi , - ;It the coiaciey in the usual manner. and then de • ...ving ttiscaned any appearance whatever of fire in toe fireman, ioture into the house at the same sweeper, in toe most audacious manner. and • mugs, sail he should go and fetch the - " • - . e.:i. iv^ 14Lt'•' UP !pQ{4: xl::(1,1 tem! • do.,_ 1, .on the absurdity fetching an - engine wa,a va,s replied. that there was Ire enough f..: arta. sitylac, sont.2otn4 which implied that he should net i;.trry trruse:f, wen: a vay, a.id in aouut half an hour after the • a 3f the zwQriter three engin;:s arrived at the door; of which. e There hal not been the least appearance of K.. • of the .se. sitter by* greater quantity of smoke • ,ay other Tu.:aaa. There was no alar n whatever is the unrequited. and, without asking permission ,A ..n .I..alately upon his entrance rah down into the katcueo. In consequence of Mr. Wedd's refusal to pay the rewards. application win anode to the parish officers, and to them he trans muted an account of the affair. They, in reply,:informsd him. that this particular species olimposition had increased to s most alarming degree ; and requested him, on behalf of the parish, and for the be atffit of the public , to lay the particulars of the ease before the Ma. gistrates. John Live!. master &homy-weeper, residing in Iloeskydown, after being sworn. stated. that he was the person employed by Mr. Weldon the day in question. and by the whole of his testimony cor roborated ate statement made by that gentleman. Yilby. the fireman, said no th in support of his claim, but that he considered he had only perforated his dtity. The Magistrates rejected the claim, and cautioned the Armen to be more cucumspeet in future. WORSHIP STREET. A Mr. William Cooper was brought to this office. for an assault on the person of George Dale, a messenger under a commission of bankruptcy. It appeared from the evidence, that Mr. Henry Goinperta ' late of Tokenhouse Yard, wool-dealer, now a prisoner in the Fleet Prison, had become a bankrupt, and a commission had issued against bins on the sth of October last. He had also a private residence at 29, Nelson Terrace, Kinpland Road, which he had, previoas to his becoming a bankrupt, made over to Mr. Gurney ; and which the assignees uuder the commission discovered to be in the occupation of the defen dant; and on Wednesday the 4th inst. they vent a messenger to take possession ; and on the following day the defendant, with the assistance of another person, forcibly turned the messenger out of the house. Mr. Reiley, a saddler, in Fins bury Plate, one of the assignees, went on the 6th, with the complainant (Dale) with proper authority, and entered the house by the back door,which then accidentally was left open. Upon the defendant's hearing that possession was again ob tained, he immediately came down stairs to the kitchen with a pair of pistols in his hand, and desired Dale to show his authority, which Dale instantly did ; all remonstrances on the part of the assignee were ineffectual, and after disputing about 16 minutes, defendant discharged one of the pistols at Dale, and finding that had no effect, instantly fired the other, which slightly struck him on the wrist. Defendant then flew op stairs, and seised a cutlass, with which he made a blow at Dale,; but by the timely interference of Mr. Reilly, they succeeded in taking the cutlass from bum ; and they sent immediatelffor an officer, and had him Wren into custody. Mr. Cooper, in his defence,stated, that be bad purchased the house and premises, and paid the purchase money ; and that it was a laniefide purchase; yet, notwithstanding, the assignees appeared to be determined to take possession, and accordingly on the 4th inst. sent a man to take possession by stratagem, when be, by directious from his solicitor, gently put him out ; and the assignees then resorted to the means of proposing something like terms to lull his suspicions, as to any future intentions of their retaking possession ; but on the 6th the assignees employed Dale to retake possession, and dimming the absence of his female servant, Dale got over the kitchen wall of an adjoining house, and entered by the back door into the kitchen ; he, hearing a noise, went into the kitchen, and saw Dale with a pistol in his hand half hid under his coat; he enquired his bailors' and authority, which Dale refused to answer, and took the pistol from under his coat. He {defendant) then, and not till then, returned up stairs to his bed room, ogtti brought down a pair of :367 pistols, loaded only with powder ; and being threatened by Dale, he fired the pistols off. Wiley and his brotherthen embus to Dale's assistance, and they ill-treated him in a most scan dalous manner, and struck him a violent blow on die temple ; and when, being stunned, be became unable to make any te • sistance they sent for an officer. who brought him here. Mr. Couant, the sitting Mugistrate, told him that he coo• sidered it a most aggravated and unjustifiable mauls, fur which liesleould demand respectable bail for his personal ap pearance at the neat Session, to answer the complaint of the assignees. The defendant immediately entered into recog... nissoce, and was discharged. CORONER'S INQUESTS. On Tuesday afternoon. so inquest was held at the Duke of Argyle public house, Great Wind:mil-street, St. James's, on the body of Sarah Pearee t aged te. who came to her death under the following melancholy arcumstances : Mr. James Pearce. of No. ‘2B. Great Windmill Serest, stated, did the deceased was his daughter. and lodged at a friend's house opt.. site his own. She was amM by a young man named John Hid, who is a harness maker.working at the corner of hsherd Street Oxford Street. and who lodged in wituess's house. n Sunday three weeks. he told her that he was going to St. Anp'a church, to publitils the bans for their marriage. She sent a farldle friend to the church to ascertain the fact, and the following Sunday went herself, bat found that her name was not called. She returned Lome quite me lancholy, and was observed to be in a state of dejection. horn that till the hots of her untimely death. On Sunday List the decea aea was with witness and her mother all the day ; about the afternoon, Hill came home, bringing with hint a young woman. whom he desired his landlady to tell the deceased was his intended wife ; apd, m a further insult to the poor girl, b e k e p t t h e f ema l e to tea, during which the deceased was in a state bordering on fftnsy. Witness detained her in his house till near one o'clock in the morning, trying to moth her but to no effect. Next morn i ng M rs . Jones. wigs whom the de ceased lodged, nuns to witness, and said she feared something had happened as she could not make h er h ear w h en s h e called her. Witness. fu ll of tenor. tan ova; the door was locked; he forced it open instant's. and ran to the bed o no one was there, nor had it the appearance of having boas slept in. Thinkingsbe had wandered out, he was about to retrace his steps. but as he turned round, was honor-struck to see her hanging . by • silk handkerchief from a railing against the cupboard. Snatclung up a knife that lay on the table, he cut the body down. and then ran into the streecnot kno what he did. M wing r. E. Dixon, of 66. Wardour Street, surgeon. stated, that about ten o'clock on Monday morning he was called to see the deceased. There was a deep mark round the neck ; the to protruded. and was much swoln. The body was quite cold, saddle had been dead some hours; consequently he did not attempt to administer any Op medics. She had all the appearance of a person strangled. • Mr. Jones, of No. 16..Wsodmill Street. with whom. the deceased lodged, deposed that she worked at shoe-binding. and that on /floes day morning some work was sept Miser from Mr. Puzefs. in Picca dilly. Witness went to call her but received no answer. (This witness here confirmed the evidence of Mr. Pearce.) She was a 111011 CM. prudent, good natured girl, and much respected ; but lately her conduct has been that of a lunatic. On being asked by the Jury to give his opinion as to the cause of her melancholy. Mr. Jones said, " I have nodal* but that rascal of a fellow (Hill) deceived her." The Coroner briefly summed up the evidence. and the Jury, • through the medium of Mr. Savage, their foreman. returned the Id lowing verdict :•—•• The deceased hanged herself in a deaf insanity, produced, in the opinion of the Jury. by the culpable, and they #4 es criminal conduct of John Hill." The London Dock Company have take' down the .bense lend, • occupied by Mr. Hors, which fronted the basin , os the outside of tim Cofferdain. With the exception of a slight railing for about teen* • yards along the margin of the excavation, the whole. as far as iki river, is destitute of any defence. and the materials sod subbleh tam • the have have raised the ground upon a level with the r ;so • that along the whole line there is a precipice. frona.which an M*l4- zdual in die dark may meet with immediate destruction: An inquest on the body of Esther Hutton wan held on Thursday week, who woo 'nod dead in the basin on Wednesday . R. Angel, the Master of it brig, heard a plunge into the water the preceding evmsft,'lnit coda see nothing; there was twelve feet of water. J. surgeon, . ' saw no marks of violence to occasion death. Other witnesses wen examined, and the inquest adjourned but it was ioeskie fee dap Jury to ascertain whether the deceased met her by accident or suicide. The Coroner said, the facts should meet the eye df• • Idiom immediately concerned. Visdiet—Pound dead. afforest', by. drowning. Lord Chief Jastiee Abbot has made the following new. apple,- • moots—Clerk at Nisi Prim vice the Hon. Charles Latre-Assochtee and Marshal of Causes, vice W. Jones, Esq.—Cryer, vice It. Smith, &in.—Clerk at Chambers, vice Thooae Platt, Msg.—Clerk of the Errors, vice IL Smith, Esq. The names of the Gentlemen who haft been appointed to succeed to these Officers thus dismissed by the new Lord Chief Justice, have not yet transpired, nor the reams iw - signed for their removal in a way so unprecedented. FATAL ACCIDENT TllllO4/011 Poison.:• A shocking aikido* happened to Mrs. Richardson, landlady . of the Three Compasses, Lints Wad-street, Lineohes Inn Fields, in consequent of her taking oxygenated salts. tor Epsom. She had desired her husband to take the mks from off a shelf in the bar and mix them • when he, tc. knowingly, took those used fur boot tops, and sent them upstairs by his daughter. Mr.. IL swallowed the whole, and shortly afterelo pired in great agony. Characierietk Traits.—Every nation has its traits; the Spaniards sleep on every affair of impurtante; the haliansfiddk upon every:- thing ; the Germans smoke upon every thing; the French promise every thing and do nothing ; the British islanders eat upon every ththinging ; and the windy subjectsof American colocracy, talk upon every - ! M. Hunt, according to hie riddle's to the PeAllsof Westntinater i . • is determined to stand the contest at the ensuing efeCtion. Mr. J. Beghurst, of Rochester, has been actively employed in hay-making for the last fortnight, and on Saturday week finished the making and stacking of upwards of sit acres or meadow-hay, in .a very fair condition. An apple-tree in the garden of D. Sutton, Esq. at . Kensington. opposite Holland House. re now covered with a second crop of apples ; and there arc several others in the same garden which have also bad a second produce this year, though nut in such abundance. There is now in the garden of Mr. fakir. at Folkiatnic, a womb" cherry-tree, which bore fruit at the usual period, and has again blossomed and bears rive small cliewries.. Report says, that a great proportion of the discharged Made c Soldiers will be sent to Atom. It is perhaps unknown even to the commercial world, that two vessels at least are completely laden annually on the coast of Hampshire, near Lymington, with a fine red gravel, for the purpose of supplying the me.. tropolis with that article, to strew on the bottoms of bird cages. This, like other articles of trade, has fre• duently had a considerable rise, in consequence of the supply not equalling the consumption. The fine estate of Cliefilen, on the banks of the Thames, with the site of the ancient mansion and two entire wings, came to the hammer on Thursday, sad was knocked down for the sum of 39,5001. A