The National Register. — London, England, 1823-01-06 00:00:00

tl a •••. I i' r L i '~ ~~ I. II I ,f ; `-. I, THE INUTTOWAL itteraTEß ASSIZE INTRZLIOENCE. KilroyTow..ra h. I.—James Sparks, a regrettable stiller awe. and farmer, residing at !Mulford, near Guildford. was its suartET. I dieted kir atalicioutily shooting at Henry Harrison. a he/ - lib toloone . Dte. ea —The commimion for this ceenty ' almost twelve years Of ace, on the Cith of Angelo last. wit • was 1111011,11 I hi% 8110111 kt if before 1 / 1 P 11'.11• Harms Grisham. the Inteetim of doiez him sonic grievous bodily harm. et the Session's Howse. Horsetail's:zee Lane, after which Iflary Harrison, the mother of 11. s. buy deposed to havitag the learned Jailer alipmthe I to this town for the snore gone ki n a barley field belonging to the pikoner, allow • convenient 11114114101 of liosinea-, there being nu serum- two o'risiek its the adierutron of ii.. 1551 s of Angus , last; reollation at N. inform for the iittiug of the other Judge. she w a s aref ullltallied by her ' 0 " I h 'i lr Y Ilse"-"", sad a Ilia Lordship, was received at a short distance from Ike "al l " of the "MA of Briggs; as 'they wets Passing • titan by a iinuterues attendance of t h e gentry sad um. I 1111 11•11 the first field. witsie•s saw the prisoner to across • pisteeey. and ',seemed to the ditilges'e lodgings, wheeler, , the *divining Morley-field tiowerila his honor; witness then after .pertakitig of sefreslitneet, tie went to churrio, and went into Ike !miry-field, and hail not been there long Lentil 1111 approprirde semen preach 41 by the High Site' wh e ts s i te b ea r d t h e gelwi iii. a gr a n ; Willie" ran In Stir • riff ' s chaplain. assistance of heeling), who was Iderdiite very motels at the After tun o'clock the learned Jailer. weut Into Conti, right eye. Witness went sip to the prisoner, collared litm, • when the Growl Jury were railed over and swum.— and Auger' him with having shut the L0y...-Prinnier Them was a numerous altearlinee of gentlemen. 'l'ie replied, •• I wish it had been you." The little buy was were Bane.. forpusail—the reit a slip Greed Jury al" w"und"l in the kft leg ' were the gentlemen alto iisesally ahead the ..ees. Henry Harrison milkman, the testimony of his mother. ?Er. Heron Graham delivered a vety short address to He dill tint see the 'trimmer when be tired. %Vitoria was file Grand Jury. He observed that many ititelliemit and t al"nuing when lie "a *min" ' rerellent prearsaa had meet...led the espediency of a gaol ' Mary Blimp confirmed the firrerithig evidenee.-IVii delivery at this seam, of the y ear. in r „,,, qopoc , o f iiVa , iliOlight Ike Ilii•01101 mi;lit have been ithont 40 yards which his ?slake'''. Ga vet •iiiiont bail directed a third (min the boy whet, he tired. lie lint Ile gi st , ti p l ii hi. •ei mull. T hemp pert..., would now h are an opportunity . "' " 'elder as if he as. taking aim—Witness slid 11111 C4ll of laminae a juileineut AS to the wimlum of "pelt a men. oat, Weasels, she did not viper - I the prisoner would tire. sore. His Lerdship, however, tumid not help ohserviog, 1/111111 . 444d11131 4. a setraenn, was 11.111 fur to intend the ' that however advisable it wield lie, as respected the boy is/ the al ( Pm" ~,, of the 1 ith of Angus'. ** he was baser's . % of pisklic jastice, Ike erasion chosen for this going to him, lie met Ilse prisoner, who said he hail had a „p„t„ w n‘ „mid not b e d eem ed immoomilim, to Homy most nnlecky accident; he then told him to pay every tiersmw wham , ath . iida „„.„ „ ri i siia. This was it attention In the tiny ; the lad had a bruise on she right season of the year ofwerved 'Motorboat all Christendom temple. it hail the appearance of a small Aim having b y 11,„b„oho m y and j o y , and was ill ~s ited to d m d ut i es passed into the skin; the bruise was comilderahle, 111111 as a Inch this proceeding imposed upon 'lto gentry and yea. She shot hail his • vein three was a sonsiderettle slush:in mew, of lim„mmodey. }La 1 . .„,14,1 1 , „ mi ld say use snore of . blond; witness slid not think it necessity to celestet the upon this subject; and after shortly adverting to the shot, es the boy was of a very scrofulous Italia ; there ass priacipal cases in the calendar, be dismissed the Otaad • similar wound on she shin of the left leg. front which Jost' to their room. witness 'enacted a 111101 i (the shot was pioduced in Dew. :11.—Jobs Howell was indicted for stealing la the Court. it was of the size of No. 01 witness um' to see Berengh of s,„ffi,„.,i, In the ds„;;;„/.bome of J o i st , the boy the neat day, list he was gone to the magistrate's; Davis, .IS sovereigns and 111. its silver, the property of went ain on the dry folloo lux anti found hint plalyiwang' • the p Woe. witne a ss g 111111 known the pr is oner for li years, he ays It appeared in evidence that the prosecutor was a pub• sh"" g i ' l hi"' a "'an" sod ( " II " "Isn' lit en ru the Huroneb. On the slay in question, be had lii him defence the prisoner sell that he did not mean to ad sovereigns and 111.1 n silver in a bag. A woman came shoot the boy; he did not know that the gen was loaded to the house eta asked for diatom of sovereign. He took nor did he pat the bull to his shohider ; lie fired It loosely, dews site bag which he had placed ON a shelf; gave her and in consequence of Its recoil, prisoner's Sager was , ehenge. and replaced the bag in its former signalise. """'ll ' 4 ' tOM time the prisoner was in the home and saw whet Tilt learned Judge slimmed ni• the evidence. and the • Slimly afterwards the prosecutor went our, leay. I Jery returned a reedit lof not guilty—the primmer not mg hk meet, in the taw place, and his wit., in the l iar , knowing the gum was loaded with shot at the lime be fired :'slip Wet happened to fall asleep, ilium whirls the ;mi. It °IC emser. who remained in the house, diapatched a man H. Lordship said, that it was highly satisfactory to loner, a waiter in Ike house, upon some errand know the grounds upon which We Jury had arrived at the prosecutor's kept him out of the way for Iwo subtitles. When enti e ln a l i nt ealtre t i n ed in their aeAdi' t. prosecutor's wife awoke, she asked the prisoner if Charles liockett was indicted for stealing, at Reliant, r linshand bail taken away any thing from the bar. 'the nee replied that her Milhaud had gone inn with • In 'Angelo Imo. a deal plank, the property of Honer' ' Staples, a timber merchant. In Angela last the plank pining taxa, and had taken away something from the shelf. , W 44 stolen, in the night , i 000 e, front the prosecutor's pre - Mho, the prosecutor returned he found his money gone, •' • Ile -.4- October i t was traced to the et-- anises. and on I in tof sinner's home, where it was found Lowed up in deals, and wad the primmer led. Suspicion falling on the latter he - was apprelitrusled. It appeared that in the course of the identified by Ihr prosecutor, I L !morning of the robbery the prisoner declared be bad but The Jury found the primmer guilty, and being an old Woarponce In the world, bat la the course of the peculiar et/ender, lie was sentenced le be transported fur 'even "aged a sovereign at another house in this Buroineb; . Yea r '. , speared in a great burry; asked for Daly two slut. ; S.srali Clements was indicted foratealing hilliedwelling ben. and said be would call for the remainder of the , house of Thomas Harris, at Richnitissil, on the flat el Oct. e another lime. Upon these facts the case for thie 1 ninete so to !, so . errsigns and 100 lialliwevereigns, the property rotten was (minded. of At 4an. 1 Jury, tinder Ills ;earned Judge ' s direction, found It appears that the proaeentrix occupied the lower part Issuer gnilty-D wth. of Mr. Harris's home, and carried on the 114/14114.1111 of • Ilona Bendel' was biateted fur steallog at Btocklend, bisberdealwr. Oil the els! of October she suinsed Mom bar 111th of December, a shiver the property of B. till al. of which the 'sovereigns its opttsiion farmed a part. -- __,moot. ..411 the course of the same day the prisoner, who was a The ease was proved tryst 'lse voluntary confession of tit in the lionae, laid ulna sovereign in the shop of a Alleeiprisauter, and lie was foa ti goodly—Death. linetnalraper at Illetimontl, to whom she said Were was a , James Cux mid George Bane later, convicted of stealing piece of 14111 k al be, mm.ter ' s bootee, and begged that be tar Betchwarth, on the 19th of Deceinlier, 23 rod Is, she would POI say any thing about her laying out any looney, •.property of Thomas Duod were sentenced to be tran rs. Thomas Wiliun, Edward Riede and Thomas Brown, lima:- log and entering the dwelling-home of Timothy Belly, i i , f o l i t i e de si: l o o lli n i li t s it e risked concerning it. He gave itiformotioa sported fur seven yea ' to the proiticult ix, and in COusequencr a covetable Ipso It in the house; the pristmer. of her own aeesiw were indicted under the Statute of Elisabeth, for ign concealed in the cellar; and node, the table is the roars:worthies silting-rousts wet. found IT la the pariah of St. Giks. Calltherteell, in the day time of sovereigns and two lialfssevereigni its a bag. Upon these IF the Btilt of August, no peison hriag therein, and stealing face" the ease fur the prosecution was founded. ela sliver teaspoons and other article* of plate, the pro- 'flu. l e Sra ed J ud g e la m m ed en the case, mold liteln7 perly of Margaret Metier Bull. found the prisoner Getilty—Deaths; but they recommended Thu breaking, entering, and stealing were proved, and her to mercy. when the probecutrix was called to prove She loss of her The 'tweet:Orli also recommended her to mercy, as property, she admitted, Its true - .examination, that she she had been for Iwo years in her place, and had, daring ' had beets married to a men named Conde, but basin that time, borne a good diameter. hated that he bad been married to another woman, she . Sentence of death was passed epos' her, but hopes of left kiwi aud teittined tier eneiden name, by which she was mercy were held nuts dear, ibed in the Indictment. George 1 14111 CS was indicted for stealing, at Lambeth, The prisoner's coned then objected that the prosecutor • i nt the Il d of November, a mace, file prupes Sy of Richard should have been.described in the indictment by the name Clockel. of Conde, there being no legal evidence that she was not i Ilse cave was Measly made oat, and the prisoner WIIS properly married to Conde. She had curly heard that the ' found guilty—if. 'lli. latter was monied to another woman, and thought that ' LIM. Bay, alias Darby, an eccentric looking creature, wits put so the bar in a it raight waistcoat, charged with misfit be inificient to justify her in resuming her maiden alone, yet for the present it must be preausued that site stealing, in the dwelling-house of Lord Viscount Middles was legally married. ton, at Paper Herm , , a sliter jug, a silver "having Eros, Mr. Baron Graham thought thcobjeetion, for the rca - I and ether articles of plate, exceeding the value of Jae. Use soot offered, a ere well founded, -erslered me acamilat, i properly of hi. Lou dihip, The Jury fusind the primmer* not guilty ; but they were I The Jury found the 'misuser not guilty on the ground of 'detained fer the burglary, without regard to the charge of insanity, 41111 she was ordered to be detained to await hie steelier. I King ' s pleas-ere, pursuant to the swam. Frederick King was indicted for stealing from the Edmund Cairoil was indicted for receiving. at Walton, of Nove in December la it, Rye fowls, the properly of Thomas person of Frederick S Smith, on the 13 1 1imber , at Kingston Fair, his watch chain, seats, and key. Tapuer, tattooing theist to have been itulen. It appeared that the prisoner was seised in the 11C1 of f The Jnry forted the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen. attemptitty to pick the pocket of the ;pruners:tor (an tented to one year's imprisuonient • aud hard labour iii the , atiorney's clerk) in the fair at Kingston, of his match, House of Correction. but the chain breaking, he ineceetted only In stealing the Daniel Pickett was indicted for amatilting tVm. ',ruing chain and its appendages. He was immediately secured, Lupton, on the King's Wilkes), al Co oyikou, on the Ist ot and threw the chain away. February last, and lin cibly hiking ,from his person a The case been made out, the prisoner was tonsil entity metal watch, gimlet mid sliver seal. and he was sentenced to be confined in the Home of Cur. The progenitor was a woe boy, about twelve years of recline% and kept to hard labour for four mouths. age, the son dila farmer in the neuelilsourisisoil of Croydon. Joseph Milikin and J. Jonea were Indicted fur stealing. On the Ist of February last he saw the prisoner at a ;Mo at Egliam, on the 19111 of September, a watt•b, chain and tic house its Croydon. who prevailed upon Il i 11l to take pait xst . In mow', from the person fW . Ghats% The pro. of a pint of beer, and wait until he should accompany him eta gator wean bargeman, and had been drinking at a booth home• the pi limner hying shepherd to a gentleness' in she during the last Relearn fair, and had fallen asleep, The Iteighboarlitrod. The prosecutor accordingly waited until pa/oilers who were alsO in the booth, availed themselves Ilse P lil a w i er i en the public kettle with I • • On Slur way of the opportunity of picking his pocket, bat in the set the privoner knocked him down, and forcibly took the of taking the chain the promentur awoke. The prisuneis watch ire lineation front Isis 111.1 . 4411. The prosecutor par. eau off, bat this Peat day were apprehended with the sued hint a considerable diitance, when the prisoner greater part of the property of the prosecutor upon them. threatemed to asinder him if he followed hint any farther. The - pri ours 110111111 ifedhfence, and were fo sa d phi,. lie gu.c tip the imprint and went home, when be fold his find sentenced to be treelperted le: life. • father of the swum' le which be had beau sobbed. 'the ~:.-~' .. r+' % -. COKO?ER3 rtique.sr. OeMesclay last, Mr. Cutter, the Coroner, and fininry. aiming of tw.•lve respectable inhabitants, assembled ■t the I Green Man T , on Illackhenth, to enquire into the death al/ J.llll{l Smith, Esq who was shot by a rubber on Sunday, the 22d ult. Mrs. Jendma Smith, widow of the deceased, sworn. Oa Smutty morning, the 22d alt. shout three o'clock, I was is hcd with my titiabarol, and was awoke by a very strange noise. I awoke my husband, and told him my suspicions, when he im. mediately got up and put on his coat, and went into the adjoin- Mg room, and I followed hint ; before I could get iota the room I heard hint raise the sash of the window, sod at the same time I hoard the report of a gun or pistol. The deceased immediately screamed out, and emit LIU& shot ! I am shot through this heart! lie then walked into the bed-room, and I observed • Rohl deal of blood had Moved from the wound. He presently told me he had seen a Juan in the garden, who most hare dies charged a gun or pistol at him, and also another man under this window, and that both immediately ran away. He said he did not know either of them, but one appenred to be dressed in • pepper and salt coat. Marna was im.•.ediately gives in lb* neighbourhood, and proper ineditial mistime was. ehtniaird.— The deceased languished from the time he was wounded until Saturday night last, and then expired. Rt. Clement Rose was then called sad sworn—l am a laripha. Shout three o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the darl2d alt. I was .called to the deceased ; I west imam 'Gately to his residence, and found him on his bed; he had been wounded by a gun-shot is the biceps muscle of the left arm, was enveloped is gore, and in a very distressed slate.--I continued to attend him, with M . Sheriff and Lucas, till leis death, on Saturday evening last. Since his death I opened the body, in the presence of the aforesaid medical gentlemen; I discovered that the ball bad passed through the left ann. entered the left side, passed undir across the chest, it then dipped the thorax, fracturing the fourth lib on the left side, is its passage wounding the left lung. passed out of the (bores on the right side, and was found deeply seated me the eaiiha. I am of opinion that the above wounds were the immediate Miss of his dissolution. Tire• investigation being closed, the Comer ausaurod ap tb• evidence, and the Jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a verdict —" That the deceased had been inhumanly murdered by some person or persons at present unknown to as hirers. On Tuesday last, a horse in • gig. containing a lady and a gentleman, took fright in Hyde-park, near ibe Serpentine riser, and proceeded with peat velocity to the ire ; oat si hich the animal slipped, and the violence of the cu,scossion precipitated the lady out of the vehicle, and so seriously injured lwr, that it Was some minutia before site waSsofficiently reeliverel to be conveyed to a *moon. Tiie gmetleisisto rectiscd a seVereconesisiciu ws the temple, and the horse was much cut about the knees. Between 3 and 4 &chart in the afternoon of Christmas day, the inhabitants of Handsworilf, near Birmingham, were thrown into great consternation by an alarm being given. th it a her of boys and girls were 'drowning till the opposite to the gates of the Soho Manu factory, the ice me winch they had assembled liatieig broken and let them in. A considerable number ol ;ser ous immediately hastened to time spot, and every assist• ance wee promptly afforded in estricatina thelsiolisriumue sufferers, and in endeavouring to reeovcr them as they Were taken from the water. Though the means used to restore anima were in several instances successful, we regret to add, that five out of the number were found to be pass recovery. The parties who thus unhappily lost their lives were two girls sod three boys, from 13 101 17 years of .ige, all of them belonging to (amide& of the workitig ttretx• Ice.—On Sunday a great number of per. sons ...ere assenibled on the banksol she Regent's CHIA, limn the City Road to Lime! ((((( se. to witness a novel mode of connate the ice. so as to open the navigation of craft, which have born delayed between the locks sere. rap days. An old ferr a te was procured, and clinkered, in a similar way to the Greenlanders; at the stern. mons plates of iron were fixed very strongly, and its the shape of a kirk, three hawsers were then fastened to the ves sel, to each of which three horses were yoked nu !hove. and Ivy these•theaiss the vessel cut through the its a manner that surprised all who witnessed it. In tide way the whole of the ice between the City lb. d, and Limehouse-hole was loosened, and the craft were Cu. abled to proceed thug far on their voyage. CAtrtisg.—Oss Monday creating last, one of the sons of Mrs. Woodman. residing at Green Elid e ylesimiY. had borrowed an old fowling piece, whicit the person who heist it assured him was not loaded ; he was acorn& ingly, in a cnviess manlier, doing •soinething to ilia to when the piece went off, the situ tale being at the ttttt mem poiined towards the wall of his house, but so close to matte of his sisters, that WOW of the shuts re. h.iiiieded, and passed thrusiah a shirt she was sewing. The y g nvsit had a few minutes before been po g the gun at his Waters jocosely threatening to sheen them. PEPESTRIAYIIII4.—J.Brown, a native of Salisbury, 40 years of ale, having he' a waxer of 11. that he would pertorm 64 miles i.• 12 litlectro‘t hours, undertook the ta-k on Friday last.'and started at li.illpast four in the •g, f the Piteasaiit public house, in that city, to the distance of a nirasor;:l mile, on ii ie Old Sarum road. fir went the hat two miles in 15 minutes, and completed the whole task two inii.uies and a half within time. Although lie ran the ert•ater part of it, and al. lowed himself but a eery few minutes for refreihment, he diddidappear notch ilktressed. fie d e cli ne d go i ng to bed, sat down, drank, sang a song, and smoked a pipe for half an hour, but by that tithe the effect of his eXerlloll2 was such 111,011 hilt Ititibs , that he could not walk home. A number of per.outs who had attended. subscribed a small tutu for hint. He is a well suede aii.lll4/1b With felliiirkilble ease and liantpees. • 4111." . - _ —-— father went In pseud. of the prisoner, but be nbotowded, and Ito woo not hoard of trosiii the month of Anita. last. The father of the prosecutor, oud another alums, cow firmed his testimony. Mr. Jamie'. Boyle, rimmed op the evidence, and dui Tory innuediotily foment she pristmer Gstilty —Death. ' I 7... . _., I I MII