The National Register. — London, England, 1818-05-04 00:00:00

MAN 4. ',co young m'n answering their adeseripnoti, and nrssvigers were dispatched to Mrs. Caok to idnent;ty them, arid for thgnildlon, the eaustable. They _discovered. however, that an ietempt was made to detain them in the he. use, and rushed out : but the porter of the house Farwell them, lulling. " Stop thief;" they senalavd at the upper end of Charing-cross ;' the prisoner ran tnwares the Strand, and his com panion towards 'Cockspur-street. The prisoner was stopped and taken at the corner cf St: Martin's-lar.e. The prisoner nso.t poiitivaiy denied any guilty knowledge that the checks were fabricated : ar.d declared that all he knew of the young tr.oan who was with him was, that lie was aroiree-house acquaintance ; arose was Short, but he really did not know where he lived. Ile declined going to the hotels with him, as his cireatustanees would rot aul,mt of his paying the tap:nett. On his beintr called upon to gist, an account et Itnottelf, he replied, he was a gentleman. Ile ta as an (Hiker in the East India Company's service at sea, he served beard the Waliner Carat and that Carmarthen, ant had beer. to l::dia The landlord, in whose house in Soho he was loiging at the ti:e.e Le was apprehended, attended, and gave hint a gaod character drring taz time ha had lived in his hone; ha paid every body, and hst rt csit ed a very good character with him frail'. his fernier lodging. HATION-GAIII)EN. - - W. Slake, u baker of St. Pancras, was charged wiih selling a quantity of hread deficient 224 ounces of weight. and was convicted of the mitigated penalty of Cps, per ounce and costs; asnoiniting to 51. 1 is. 3d. isoulooti, a bilker, in.Latiiam-pines, Somers-town, was convicted in the like penalty, fur a deficiency of 40; ounces, aniussatiii; to 101. Is. 3d. MARLIIOROVGII STREET, Monday. 3. Pearson, an elderly man, was brought np and examined •baore H. M. Dyer, Lse,. on the fallowing charge Emmerson, a master tailor, residing in the neighbour hood of Swallow - sr. s tated, that on Sunday morning he left his Louse awl shop properly fastened, and went sop into the.first • floor-with his family. In the afternoon, whilst they were at •tea, some bread was wanted, which his son wentdown to fetch, aud in. a moment afterwards witness heard him cry. •" Thieves!" -two or three tirne•s, upon which he ran down ttairs , and fmind the boy, who is only fourteen years old. straggling with the prisoner and another man, the latter of whom ecutrived to get away; lest the lad kept deist hold of the prisoner till witness seunred darn, and took•him to the Watch knew.. AM his return he found smite waistcoats tied up in the bag now proctored, which the thieves had parked up to early away. W. Eminerson, son of the last witness, said, that about four o'clock on Sunday he went into the shop for some [aerial, and saw the prisoner and another man taking down Wine toilenet, which they put into a bag ;-•witue4 • seized the prisoner by the threat, upue which the othetstrnek him a blow on: head, and knocked him down, but he still . !,ept his hull of the I:fit:osier till his father came. The other • escaped. The ettilee: - proved that the thieves gained entrance by forcing the iron bar and padlock. The prisoner made no defence. —Fatly consmitsed. CSC lIG It•OF Ff)ll6 Tatrill'idttC was charged • With forging and Ettering a bill :of e:Arliange, purporting to -be of the value of twenty pounds, with intent to detrandJ. Juyce, a baker, itattupeat-street, Haymarket. The prisoners v. as released at the Court for imoleent debt ors, a short time since, she having been opposer! by the pre. • cent prosecutor, who charged him with freed. The prisoner paid the bill to Mr. Jo?te, but it turned- cut, that the accept. once was•forged, and there was no such person to be found as the acceptor, whose name was subscribed to.the bill, anal the prisoner as she drawer, had made a mark, instead of his signatiore.—He was remanded. Cribber, NVelsh,aurt Cline, were (-barged with ontrage and riot, on Sasurday and Sunday, in Peter.streeL—The follow jug are the facts of the case :—Mr. Lee, a tradesman in P.-. ter-st• - m.CSt. James's, was engaged in litigation with the bro titer of Cribber, and this led to a tumult opposite the door of the prosecutor un Saturday, and which was repeated on SOH day, with the defendant Cribber at the head of an irii . ariated - mob. They.proceeded to every extremity, except entering the house, and Mr. Lee escaped by a back way, and obtain. ed a warrant at this office. Plank and Bag:;ter served the . process, when the other two deleadants assaulted Plank in the exe•cuticn of his duty. Other witnesses corroborated the facts, and the defendants were severally committed iu default of jail. QT triX-SQUARE. Win , MR*, James Greenfield,- iiobert Selby, and James Lociston, tour well known and desperate characters, were charged by T, Turner, with robbing him of his watch and 3s. Oil. in silver.—The prosecutor stated, that on. 1 isesday week, he went to Tethill•tietds to sec Abe bul l -bait. He lead not :seen long there before he found himselfassaileel arring of fellows, who hustled and shoved him about, and at last pro ceeded to heat him about the lace and eyes. He particularly observed the four prisoners at the bar, hut the most active was the prisoner, Nlajor, whom he knew by their hosing been school-fellows. Major struck liins several blows in the face, so that witness repeatedly fulled out to• him, for God's-Like • :sot to kill him, but all in vain, and he believed he must have fallen a sacrifice to their fury, , had nut some humane per sons pelted him into a cart just as lie was sinking and faint ing theill usage of the prisoners and their gaeg, which consisted of about It or.!::. When he got into the cart he was so much exhausted that lie could only say he had lost his watch, hut could give no acconnt of liie money. When fur ther recovered, he found the prisoner had taken (ruin him :;s. f!. in silver. Win. Pocock, of William-street, Pimlico, bakerolepused,that he went on Tuesday week, in the at to see the boll-bait in Tothill-tields; that for the purpose of seeing with-greater convenience he gut op into a cast, wh!'re he had not htscts long heroes. he saw them made noon the prosecutor by a numerous gang, siosecg the most active of which were divines prisonse . s. lie tl•tu confirmed the whop • of last witness's testimony, adding, that when the prosecutor was driven by them near the cuthe was in, he prevailed with •some persons below to assist in lilting prosecutor up, while witness and others in the cart drew him in, and he believed thereby sawed his life. T. Hugger, of William•street, Pitu lieu, 0 %tier of the cart into which•proseotuor was drawn lip, confirmed the testimony of both the former witnesses, with the addition, that just as they were about to draw him up the prisoner Major madv a desperate dash up to the prosecutor's person, seised Isis wateli.ehaiss, pulled the watch oil of his pocktt, and got it ; se gut it," sin whirls the whole gang marched of. in the great satisfactiuu of wit ness and all astound 1 • . The priseuers wire Icily commit ted to Newgate for Wale-The whole :our behaved with the greatest authority, and openly threatened the witnesses to du . them mischief it Alley nippy:arm] against them. %tiarwick, has been almost ianntleted '.dming the late rainh the consequent d.uni, of the atmoapltere was 4o thugs[ veral Among which were those of the Duke of Portland and Lord John Itrutiack, %cur ad % %dud by their phyaiciturto lease the place. TILE NATIONAL REGISTEU. Friday, the 2 tth inst. the Commissioners °Cheek ney coaches convicted the following; coachmen : Hobert 'Cooley, the dri ver of N 0.2, in the penalty of Os. far tUllouing and almsing a gentleman :it Little Chelsea, on the leith of April. Henry Pearse, the driver of No. 52, is the penalty of 20s. for being drunk, and incapable of driving without endangering the life of his fare, on the 13th inst. Joseph Bawling, the driver of No. 1,•.:n0, in the pribiliy of 201. fur being drunk and incapa_ hie of driving, on the.tith of April. The drivers of tour other conches were tined in sundry penalties, lb.. exaction. A poor man who resltles•in Bottle-street. Manchester, was, a few days ago, gathering herbs in the fields, and mifortu. Lately picked op (it is supposed) some hemlock, cf which he area p art , ; and his five children also partook of it, one of . . whoa; died on Konday evening , . and the others are still lin gering under the fatal effects of this deadly poison. At a late sating of the Royal Institute of Franee,llt. Riot, in the eunrsot of a dissertation on the form of the earth, and of the voyagts•tur the purpose ofiliscovering it, took occasion to pas.; ti'ssarm eulfightin on Sir Jateph — Banks, whom he called the Nestor of the scientific world. The notice was received, sass the respectable FAlitor of the Journalcits Dcbats, with an enthusiasm which did honour to the auditors. agree with the Editor in his sentiment, which is worthy of the enlightened liberality which he praises. W. Olteuhnin, who received sentence of death at Lancaster AsNizcs for forgery, died in Lancaster trestle on l'hursday se'imight. The congregation at Hampstead chard' were on Sunday thrown into confusion by cries or murder, and other pierc• in; symptoms of distress, resounding front oue of the pews. 'll-e service was suspended, and all eyes drawn towards the spot, until they were found to proceed from a respectable looking WOlll4ll in a state of mental derangement. 'file bea dle, aided by some gentlemen, at length got her out of the church. 'rite pour creature continuing to vociferate, that she had got into a slaughterhouse, and was about to he murdered. Th3 - service allerktardx . rtbutned withuut further inter- rupt inn. Wednesday an inreet was held et the London llospiad en the body ofle. Reardou. It apaeared from the testimony of several wit nmees. that the deceased on Sunday week. after attending an Irish funeral, got iatoticeted. and quarrelled with one Keller. who was sober. left the hoase, when the deceased followed him, and was soon after found lying on the ground, apparently a corpse. and was taken to the hospital ; a surgeon from which states,, that he fatted a wound at the base of the skull, which might have beer. caused by a blow front an obtese instrument, or a fall aaainst the edge of the pave n:ent. Venial—Died in consequence eat a blew ; but how received dues 110. Or pear. The following singular occurrence took place in Shoreditch church yard en Sunday afternoon : A woman brought there the corpse of a flak' tobe buried ; but after the ceremony was concluded, and the carpse laid in the earth. she demurred to raying the fees ; upon .which the builder of a the narrow house" again dug up tile codin, and the woman walked car with it Wednesday as a gentleman's; servant was ridine a spirited horse in leinebury-square, the animal fell, and rolling on his cider, broke his hg. and otherwise serenely beaired him. At the Ship Inn, at Fleeting% a taw days ago. a fidarmaa, for a trifling wager, attempted to jump upon a table, hut his spring o n ly carrying him to the edge of it. lie fellewith great violence. and the table upon him ?. whereby lie was so dreeeifully injered, that he lin gered mail theeseat day, and expired, leaving a %kite and tamily to ;eater for his indiecretion. At ttamegate, on Sunday afternoon, about fonr o'clock, there was a most severe hail storm, with thunder and lightaing, which laded about a (tweeter of an hour. It was preceded by an April shower of heavy drops, and rather unusual heat, UM the seusoo, in the early pate of the (ley. The hail stones winch fell were of a larger description than any ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitant—inany of than easily tneasuree! two inches i s einmmtarence, and had tie meet ar enae of solid pires of ice; several windows wore broken by them :mil had the wind been high at the time, the destruction in this way must have been great. The evening pursed fine, but the lightning was vivid and inaessara for • ome hours. A schooner has been balk :It Belfast upon a new construction, without any frair.e timber, breast hooks. beams, or knees, and with out any metal under water, except her rudder braces, teal was sv bats in her Lee'. The advantage; which are hoped to be ebtained by this novelty in naval architecture ere—eheapness, strength, duratien, tightause bnovaney. sailing and safety . . ahel;dy of Marshal Ney, interred in the cernetry Pere la Chaise. at Paris, has been taken up and conveye:d to leis country scat, where it has been deposited, and an elegaat monument erected over it. A tnwiticent church is erecting in the nue d'Ataou. Paris, on the epee where the unfortunate Queen of Frente was interred, the altar of which is placed immediately over the grave. Tuestley night a fire was discovered in the upper part of the hcese of Mr. Seal, toy-manufacturer, Kent-street, Borough, which t. the timely arrival of the enginee e ami an immediate supply of water, was soon extinguished. A ecoin was-on Ale. in which were six ehildrerr in bed, and apprehensions were entertained for their safety ; but they were all fortuaetely got out unhurt. The beds and bed clothes were destroyed. A daring attempt et robbery wee made on Tuesday night on the ;Watford-road, by two fellow:, one armed with a bludgeon, aut the other with a pistol. Mr. Westren, cf Adaiu.street. Park-kn.,. was returning home early in the evening when the attack was inasita one holding the horsiar heed whilst the other:menaced him with a pistol. The horse threw the ruffian who held ha. head and Mr. W. rude away. Ile was fired at without effect. Tuesday night, between ten and clever. (*clock. Mr. John Dos le. of Lawrence-street, Bleolnebury, pa sing along Gray's Inn-Lune . was :.nuked by a gang of telloivsaitho knealtea hint down end robbed him of his retch and hat. Wednesday. about eleven o'clock, a man of very decent appear ance. ahem. the naddlc age, was observed Walking /Oral: Moe h. the Paddington ea .al. and at length to throvehaitself into the water. A bergeman, who was pawing by. with the aasixtattee of another man, succeeded in hringiog ht. i out with life. They teak him to a neigh burring public house, where he was .pit to bed. and in the mean lase inlet:eat ...OTC axle after his friends, who were traced to Craw feed-street, ai.entague-square. The unfortunate maa was formerly a publican. but by a series of .teisfortuncs lost all his property, since which lie has been in a nate tai mental denuasement. Monday night, or early on 'atiesaay morning, tome ;Aniline broke open the parish chinch of leer. Bucks, and scale fromahe Vestry room st silver chalice, a silver pater ornamented in the (*nue, a silver flagon weighing 55 ounces. and several other article,. The house of Mrs. Howse. -in Liston.piece, Coweresteeet, was broke open on Wednesday Right, by forcing the back parlour shutter's and above 50 pieces of plate, eonveyed away. 'I he robbers effected an entrance by getting, over a 16 feet wall front a mews. and they retired by the front door. Another. atirglary etas committed in •Ic a. ratlese-plece, Portland read. on the :a night. at the ho..tic of Mr. Sininione, by slipping the bolts of the from door and nicking the lock. The thieves were alarnierl by the wialifulness ef` a aerreita, and tbcy decamped taking away a tee cuts only. A satenlar inotinn 1 , a3 trade of Wednesday 411 the Court of Ling 's Bench, for a rworefignms to the anvareors and erompany of the Bank of letieland, ordering them to prneeed.ta n dividend of all the vans. It appears that. according to the Acts on which the Bank is founded. that body has no right to acetimidate a capital. ' hut the applicant has reason to suppose that a capital is retained by the directors. of which, therefore, he demands the partition among the proprietors. The Court granted a rule to shoe cause. 'fate tame cf Me. Brough am's cli..nt did not appear. 133 - - ECLIFSC—On Tuesday next there will be a *risible eclipse of the sun in London and its vicinity.—lt will begin on the right hand of the sun's lower limb at 58' minutes after five o'clock, the greatest obscuration will be at 51 mintocs after six, and the whole will close at 47 minutes after 7in the morning. The sun will be centrally eclipsed at noon day, in lat. 53,36, north, not total but annular, and will be visible in Russia, Turkey, and Asia: the annular is the most beautiful of all the eclipses. The digits eclipsed apparent in • this latitude are 4 ilge. :; I min. The following intelligence (from Hanover we should reluctantly believe to be true :—" The Consistory in Aurich has enjoined the Superintendains in the Pro vinces of East Friesland to cause the Clergy and School masters, whenever on opportunity occurs, to impress upon the minds of youth, the noeesiity, the 'mare, and honourable nature of the military profession." W e Lace' no wish to see a military life, held up to the aidert passions of youth, as something more peculiarly honour.- able and praiseworthy than civil occupations. It argues badly fur the happiness and tranquillity of mankind.— States that maintain disproportioued armies are not only more willing to go to war, because they arc more ready ; but they may be often forced to do so, as a remedy for those evils at home, which are so apt to be endangered by the turbulence and impatience of men who feel that they arc useless when they arc not destroying. lon Ist. a N DS.—lt appears that• there are immense bodies of ice new floating in the Atlantic, as there were during the lost spring and slimmer. The packet, which has arrived from I hilifax, saw one 9,00 yards in height, and apparently seven leagues in circumference, stand ing southward with the current. Capt. Quereau, of the Grand Turk, which has arrived at Derry Irma New York, states, that on the 15th of February, in lat. 43. he passed through several immense islands of ice, some miles in extent, and from three to fear buny dyed feet high. The ship, with strong westerly gales, was two days getting clear of them. .... ROYAL ACADEXY.--. Ihe annual exhibition of this splendid InstiVition was opened on Friday to the floral Family first, and afterwards to the friends of the Aca. demicians and the patrons of the Fine Arts, ac truss. The historical pieces are very few, and those not perhaps in that high style ofexcellence which will itlaity their being classed together, and meltioned here in priority. The portraits, on the contrary, sre most of t . fent mar.. terly productions, and are rende' .0 still more interest. ing and importantby the eminenokof the pawns whom they represent. There seems to be no doubt that the piracittotirnitte.l on the Prtr.- cess F.litateth laaa-oflice packet from Rio &Lieu., to Falmouth. can be brought hum to two Spatuall taetehrintines. B 4 the report of the people on board the packet, as stated at an , i, ,4... i pears this the crews consisted of a2paniaras, and that the net - din ship was understood to be the Five Brothers. and that of t e brig ' Chico. The Cadiz shipping list thews. that on the raise . Feb. there sailed from that port tor Vera Cruz the ship. Nuestra Senoraade :us Dolurea, alias the Chico Ilerw.anos. (Five Brothers,) Cantain Lora Antonio Larree"arty. and the brig San Joie, alias the Ranionaito. Capt. Don Juan Raman Cortina; and as the outrage was cointnitted on the a tat cif March. in lat. i 7. L 5. North, and (ong.a.a. 36. West. it will be seen that the rinse and place agree with the regular canna of i these vestals. MELaNaitor.y Suirwarax.--By a letter from Iceland, It ap peara, that.the ship Autum, 1). Bachelet. inastet. helanging urlaun dee, was wrecked on that island on the night betwixt the 28th and 29th of October last, when all on board must have perished, as Daly five dead 11o:hes were found on deck. She was an uncommonly strong ship, of silt) tons burden, had a crew of Is people, besides two male passengers on beard ; and as she sailed from Qtlebe , :. on the 47th of August, being only two months before on shore at It is . .and. it is con lect• ured thist shellad been dismasted to the northward cf Shotlaaa, during the heavy gales of southerly wind that prevaied 60 long at that tune and had bore away for,: hat Weald. CHIMNEY Cain's:Nu ABOLITION'Ait.t.—One obeisale to pas sing this bill s the imagined necessity of coming new chirnnies hefote they are used. 'The operation °masts of taialaig pieces of mortar and fragments of bricks which the wurkmea, wild': building chimnies, let fall down on the sloping part of the hue (when ouch exists), and is. we understand, the cause of much pain to die inapt chatnuey-,,a-cr err emploaett toe the purpose. la order to praventaaay core act iI,U.LI Irging, a very simple contrivance may be restarted es crictax :,i.tll .disoen.siolis of the hue is to be placed in it, and. moved up raft... bricklayer places the 4:ricks ; into this. box the pieces of rnorta4Eae. will fall, slid thus.no core will be formed. A model for this putrate Las been deporited in the Committee-room at the House cf Lards, with int dela alcontrivances fat sweepoaa, chinintes. As the chimney-sweepers at this time, and at Christmas, colect several small stuns, it would be art act of great kindutsa and hutment., in the parish officers, or any gentlemen, to receive their little prop .. te, and place it in a saving..bank, which would enable thou to lac-. core situations at the expiration of their tillle. and present that mi• • I y they thole: , frequently experience for w a nt o f 4u eh .e.r.lstan..c. The Sp , •rterans met on Wednesday night at a publie-houte aa Newcastleastieet, pursuant to a notice ethieli had been given. )'sung Evans addressed the party. and disclaimed for the sox n.ty all connex ion with the Spafields meetings, and treated .• I:corral Preston" lad his ideas with a degree of ridicule„ which that dignifiedpersonage-w4 no hula recent at a pmpeT time and place. He spekaaatrongly against the peat t , ilatiilds meetin , g, exhorted exhoed those present ii:t WI was CO it themselves.. and to me t wit , influenew to prevail upon .ctiurs to keen away, a.. h: wt.:laced thiao who called it ta be the innocent tools ;if miiiisters; he world rot ga se. far as to say they were in the pay of government i bwt they were playing their,gme, as nothing, was wanted but comeliaptilar aanso.a.ien to eta:At item to a a t,h e gagging bill renewed, tallith tat,: •alterwisea aaireiin July I ifuefi ig the sagacity. uf these eminent patarna; Watson and thetann site mated to be much oppaaal to the tawataeans.—NotaiNg Paper. ROSTON, Apra •aa.—rrom eight untl a:keen o'clock an Sunday night, this town aid the ne t ig h h „t ba t t i i ix rhood. ;,,,, ; . e u r . : l. . s is . it ii rd in b o y lis a ra u.. n r i i , s , t t dreadful storm of thunder and lightutag a• i the 1 t ib li: 1 111 4 :11% '.q . July.... -dr a I Wring great part c r f ti t e r :l g e ete l t i nk :i i, . li n i lv it d t.:ll : : u" l : l : y r ii,h . s t n iii h t nbe t 4 ce : l n l ig r h n tn iis i i n f it il w . er Z e l fou rt , t n . d sl ar k...qi: n i sl lt n ii: is p oll . ., n t i t t :,, 1 . ;;, : :: :: ::: their pastures yesterday morning. Wednesday might as Mr...lcaacs was walking along James -;tact. •Oxfoul.mad, in which ahe resides, three• cr four men hualed hi:a, sad after knnekino, iiinta.awn. rifled h,,; pocket. of as. ttd. A collector of taxes in the parish•ef St. l'atil, tali-eta garde,., at a recent investigation of his accounts, has been tumid defaicht nearly !Atari.. ve all iv it, ~~ / ;t