The National Register. — London, England, 1812-05-31 00:00:00

336 ....._ . • • Fe; tit? plaintiff \ Ir. Jervis t übniitted, that as the defendant had re- ' tained tne hay, and d:d not retAlrr it, whereby the plaintiff lost the sale of it eihewitele, he (:he defendant) was bound to pav for it. Lord !LLE N BOROW Gii o'iierved,th.At the defendant had already appeal ed to law for the damaged hay, and there got all,the satisfaction which the law could give him ; and it might he presumed that he sho•-14 go no farthe-. Them was, however, a maxim in law, which wisely this in- says, " That be who will seekju stse e, must de justice."—" Now, in stance," said his Lordship, " the defendan: sought justice, and obtained it ; and I think, G en tlemen of the Jury, he must do justice. He has kept the plaintiffs hay, ard must pay tor i:. ' The Jury, without he.,hation, round a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, 61. 6s. POLICE. • • HATTON-GARDEN. Wednesday a young man was brought up, and underwent an et amination, being charged by a woman, who keeps a small chandler's shop in Peter-street, Saffron-hill, with having, accompanied by two other men, come to her shop, showing her a harp halfpenny, and telling her, if she had any of the same kind, they would give her a penny for each, upon which, the woman, having got by her near 21. in halfpence, placed them on the counter to look them over, when the prisoner was very active handing several to his accomplices; the prosecutri it. noticed their pocketing some of the same, and begged of them not to rob her, she being but a poor woman, and that was money put by to pay her baker with. The two others immediately run off', and she, with assistance, secured the prisoner, there being near ten shillings' worth stolen. 'l' ha fact was sworn to, and the prison& r not making any reasonable defence, was fully committed to Nel,vgate for trial. Thursday Wfiliam Manning, alias Captain Manniag, a well-known ciquacter, seed a woman with whom lie cohabited, of the name of Davis, were brought up, and underwent a second examination. They were charged with being in the habit of taking lodgings in various parts of the Town, and stripping the same of bed-furniture; and this i• ;appeared the prisoners had pr:lctised to a large extent. A vast num ber of duplicates were found upon them, several persons lately robbed attended, and two of the charges beit%t substantiated against them, they were fully committed, but are to be brought up agt.in, when it is supposed other similar charvs will be exlihited against them. - - S AND OFFENCES. A battle took place at Ascot Races, between a begging rtilor with I one leg, and another with one arm. A sixpence had been thriao.n down by a Gentleman, and a daptite are between the combat aats who the sixpence was intended far, and who should have it. On the set-to, the one-armed sailor instantly closed, arc': thaw his adverseo y, and which, without more ado, decided the battle in hi s favour. One of a gang be hinging to a booth, where the gatae of prlckiag at the hclt wao, •-•arried on, picked a getleman's pocltet of his peeizet-boa'.c, contaiaiag 501. The book and its contents were recovered; the culprit .:as 1,,k to a sheet of water near the race groun d, and ducked till nearly e aaasted. Mar quis Cornwallis witnessed a part of the saraaa and oar asted li', other abatement of the punishment, tl . a:n to preserve the ollandar's life. In addition to ducking, they cut the fellow's haic •• fr. Last week, at Yarmouth, \V. Harnalotiv i ., of Yarmouth, wherry-man, and his wife, playfully throwing potatoes at - each other, one of them hit her on the head, when site, witbeot any evil intent urn, tirt-W at hit'.' a clasp-kllife, which urfortutlately pei'€tratc(t through hi Lis heart, and caused almo,t immelLte death. The Coroner's Jury the next day brought in their verdict Manslatlghter against the wife, and she was committed to take her trial. Wm. Bowden, labourer, is cornta!tted to Bodmin goal, for the mur der of his wife; he was detected co: pse with turfs, having previonsly stabbed her to death Nal::.:lla.ay wawa's. A clerk to a banking house is in •custody, on a charge of stealing 12001. in notes from his er.2loyers 11001. has been recovered from a female wih whom he assoaated. On Monday, ten deserters art iv el at the Savoy, from Tilbury, alzen at the island of Java, in the East Indies, for being in t: c ea.ploy of the French Government, previous to :he taking of that Island by Sir S. Auchmu - y. Tuesclay morning, at e i g ht o' clack. a Ere hroca out in Hog-yard, Broad-street, St. Glles's, which hated w:th con aleral • fat; foa a i'ew hours, and consumed two houses and a carpenter's averha..hap. It v. 's got under, however, by the prompt arrival of the eni;ines, and a plen tiful supply of water. Tuesday. a Paphiat: nymph, natanal Miber, voluntarily sorrel:- dered hervlf to take her examination bafeta ..u+ r,la!!,•or. cn sus _c_on of la ira eoaceriitai a robaary to am ao I.aaal. euarait Whit ted upon a Sulfalk drover, 'paled a., of Iv .vold. in that coo•• ty, a b hi•rt tone saute. The lair aa ;tit , ail,. tliai N! herself to f!:.t '.-F ;asfice, was remanded until N'r. c,:ri he brought up to t fAt'n. SWICI n Coroae. '7 lary stit at Mr. th? Raoul:tab . ..! : ts, b , fare A. V.restminsttr a - •;. a body of Si RICK: AND, who ,was TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. MAY 34 toomm•maasamr-- drowned it the Tiiames L - j r her own act on Saturday list: It appeared, by the testimony ..)f a banker's clerk, and also an artist, that the de ceased, who residd in respectable servitude in W.ehminsteri bad been in their company . it;. one o: the public -house hops, the neighbourhood of the fair, all night, instead •.f beit: at home in the evening The tax o young men had accordpeaied het t'..om Bow, and.whila walking along Milibank, at an early hour in the nkoniing, the unhappy girl re• qu*sted ot her male campanions to walk cii ; and they having gon e on a few paces, eke plu herself off the 'wink into the river. Assistance, by meaas of boats, was i• atty affarded, and the body was conveyed to the shore with si ;ns of life, after ha • ing been eight minutes in the water. No doctor c )uld be had, however, and the spark of life soon became extiec: . Under all the circumstances of the case, the Jury were of ooinion, the act proceeded f, o.r. reproaches of conscience, which led to despondeeq, and they del...a:Jul a verdict of—lnsanity. CORONER s B.(oE:sr.—Destroying « Cond.—An adjournen inqu,At sat at a I'ubl'c-house, a li, on Wednesday evenin;, on a view el the body ot a newly-norm infaat chi:d, who died in consequence of the inhumanity of its •rather, on nonday last. The fallowing are the cir cumstances attending the case, as proved in evidence, before A. Gets., Esq. the Coroner for Westminster Ihe mother of the infant was cook in a gentleman's family, in Pall-mail, and her pregnancy was a secret to all but another maid servant. The mother delivered herself secretly in the privy, on Monday ; and, on the other servant hearing an in fant cry, she ran into the yard, and inquired what was the matter. The unnatural mother had put the infant down the privy, but it did not ad. mit of secreting it; and ti , -o next deposited it in the dust-hole. The other servant followed thither, with a candle, which the mother put out; and whilst the tortner ran up stairs to give an alarm, she lastly concealed the inf. r. - . in a coal-hole, where it was found touch bruised, and it survived only a few hours. The Jury adjourned to get further professional evidence as to Cie cause of death ; and after Surgeon MGR* RIS had been examined, they returned a verdict—Killing and Slaying. , The mother was conveyed to St. James's workhouse. THGC BARCL AY MATCIL—The Some! setshire pedestrian, who undertook for a stake of Five Hundred Guineas, to perform the thousand miles, at a mile every hour, failed on Wednesday, after having proceeded at his Her culean labour thirty Jays, and brought betting in his fa vour. He is said to have wasted twenty pounds, and he is much injured in his feet and hams. This is the fourth faihre. but - no one has gone so near it as the present destrian before or since Captain BARG L AY. The Author of the threatening letter, for whose disco , very a thousand pouns was offered in the Gette, is said to have been discov d ered. He turns out to be the in sane person who hits so long persecuted the Duke of Noa- FOLK by claims on the title. A few days since, the day before the threatening letter was received at Carlt-,a House, this Mr. H. called at JEFtelittY's, the bookseller, I in Pall-mall, and begged of him to stop a letter, addressed to the PF,INCE R I.:GF.NT, and which was in the General Post Office-box, in the window. He was of course told, that his request could not be complied with. Monday it occurred to Mi. JEFFERY to :communicate this circurn staii:e to Colonel BLOOMFIELD, when the discovery fol lowed. - Dl:r D. On Tuesday afternoon , at her bewie, in Wimp°le-street, aged Bc2, the Right Honourable Dowager • Lady Forteseue, mother to the present Earl. E. Malone, C.sq. a well-known Commentator on Shakespeare. `t: 7,4•lunt,treet, !_lrosvelior-square, the Rev. Louis Dutens, aged 83. At Herne Hill, Camberwell. Mrs. S. Winstanicy. of Paternoster row. A: Epping. Alfred, the son :I I. Payne, aged six years ; this is the third i:t ,ciiild out : f four in the same family tha t has been carried off with' co weeks, by that drc•adtul disease, the croup. Mr. Turl,er, sen. i.xchequer 13ill-broker, of Bartholomew -lane .4i. 1. w:.1. - iding with a friend near S. Alban's, and had parted W ; th him only bout a quarter of 'an hour; whr.ii he was found mad `: his J must dreadfully fracturc.: , • 'put whether he had Wen the. restiver•ess of his hov.e, or in zonsdquance nf a tit, cannot be dei y : he was t.:ken to the nearest i nn, and surgical advice procure, , • but ne c.lntinued speerhless, except /nen under operation of trey ring, when he exclaimed — M 44 ercy, mercy !" 3ru, about fivc o'cluct eXut' ed. Al her hohse in Lover Berkeley-street, in her 86th year, the Coo . toe Dnwaire• of 0.0..c1e.e1d. In kA•e.:t. Mary- r le-boile-z s treet, Mr. Wudfl, the celebrated piano-"ate pI.Ly MAY 31 Painted by Day Lino Engraving a the Death of Wol E Painted by WI graving, from thi inches long. Pr N 0.90, Cheapsid Also a Compao engraved by Burn Nr.WILIErrs OPEN, at No. 13 .113111.4.C1PS I place. The Little Loi Selling by LADY The Name of Bra Marty on this a TAM 1 3 42(1.5u1ti-- Or first Prize of NOR to mention 1 N. B. The Put Bars, is the Only Just published b 3 by ail Books& • -- The: GARDEN 310DERN PRA play of all the Get laiptenteuts. By dener. IBERCROMI3 IIAYINVIS on t and GOOSEBER %MO abundant t to)al Gil._ A TREATISE W. GILIFFIN, A CONCISE 'I perienee.intervei The Eigioth Editi ilia in Angling., WELLINGTO teen who are fond Wellington Ponds Boats, safely eons the Deeps. The Premises Hackney-road, a ham-street, Welt. Apply to Mr. H will show the Prei The astonishing' FAMILY MANE abroad, minCe, ii am hold in estimai chase them : but i ire worked, and :no,: beautiful glc To be had oft Dill. Price iii gu There Is now of street, a Child of o hare not been eql P rPri of mind, a This Boy, total' l'aiag and rt-solvi oulr adds, multipl ''tract the square without the aid of the square or cub dues to minutes o a seeming I ni this Child by pert fivers on each hat i 4 Zerah Colborn 5 V erinont called I'''ra erhibited in admiration of the mendation of the if to various eminent As this Child is e community, it i th“roore especiall , 6 ' 4 1 faculties Grin, that tbl re ken this Prodigy Peeled. N. B. Price of t B4 ndaY excepted. N 5, New E MI ~'