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

THE NATIONAL RECISTER. 14 • • ten , led mother. The moment she was interrogated on the subject, she ceeilfesssd the whole affair, and her motive for the robbery, wnich she stated to he as follows :—Her husband, who was a gunner on board one hU hie Majesty's ships hid often expressed his most anxio us Wish to have a little darling. his wife, not less anxious to gratify him in this respect, wrote to him while at sea, that she was in the family-way. The eu niter, highly delighted, sent home the earnings of many a cruise, amounting to 2001.. with a particular charge that the infant should be well rigged, and want for nothing: if a boy, so much the better. The reef letter front his hope:'ul wife, announced the happy tidings that his brat-born was a son; and that she would name hint Richard, after his father. 041 Magnes's arrival, however, ieetead of seeing his child, he was informed it was out at nurse; and in this way she had cajoled him several times on returning from sea; hut being at length determined to see his child, Mrs. Magnes set off to fetch !aim, and the Metropolis oc curring to her as the hest place where she could steal one, she set off for town, and stole •Femmy Dellow, in the manner already known to the public. It is no exaggeration to say, that poor Magnes felt a parental affection for the boy; aid that when the imposition was discovered before the Magistrate, he was grieved to the heart at being obliged to part with him under all the circumstances of the transaction. Friday, Harriet Magnet was brought before the LORD MAYOR at the \ iansion-House, and wider.% cot au examination. Thomas Berber attended at the Bar with the prisoner in his custody, and stated, flea he was the keeper of the House of Correction at fatAe port ; that seeing a hand-bill, advertising the loss of a child, he made every inquiry atom: that town, and was informed, that a child of the ,teseriptioe mentioned in the advertisement was seen with \ire. Magnes (the prison( r), of that town. He communicated this intelligence to the Palagistrate, who ilesirad him to bring the women and child before him; he accordingly went to the house of the prisoner, and asked her, bad she got e'er a child in the house ? She said she had. He aelsed her Slit was her own ? She at first fahaly replied that it was ; but when he pressiel her, she admitted that it was not. but thaeshe had found it In a street, in London He asked to see the child, to which she readily conseeted, saying she would show him what good care she had taken of it : the child eves at that time in bed, but shortly after she brought it to him : at appeared in good health, was exceedingly well dressed, and seemed to hose every care and attention bestowed upon it. She had botight a quantity of clothes for it, and appeared much attached to -- In question front the LORD MAYOR, he said the house where the pi isener lived was a very neat, clean, comfortable dwelling, tit for way respectable tradesman whatever to live in. The witness afterwards brought the prisoner and child before the Magistrate, who directed him to convey them to London, and bring them before the Loan MAYOR. . Mrs. Dellow, who attended with the child, then identified him as the child who had been lost. The Lours MAYOR asked the prisoner whether she wished to say any thing for herself t but she was so much affected, she could not intim dietely give an answer. Barber, on her behalf, replied, that she was 'el - Mill to enswec any quese!ons his Lordship wished to put to her.—' Wht n she reenveied a little, she said, she had taken the child from a little girl, iii tile street, an I carried it to Gosport. She was proceeding to say something more, hut her convulsive subs would not permit her words utterance ; however, we understood her to say, that Mary Rus • sell (who had been formerly examined on suspicion of having committed the offence) had nothing whatever to say to the transaction, nor any connexion with it—She was then remanded fur further examination un til Monday. The prisoner is rather below the middle stature. and appears between 30 and 40 years of age; but her face was so concealed by her handker chief, which she kept constantly to her eyes, we were not able to deli neate her features. She was dressed in a large dark green cloth mantle, trimmed with for, wore a straw poke bonnet, with plaid ribbons, and her appearance altogether was that of a respectable tradesman's wife. During the whole of the examination' she appeared most poignantly af fected, sobbing and crying allelic time. She was attended by several respectable looking persons, her friends; and, on leaving the lair, the LORD MA ?OR most humanely directed tiret she should be taken care of and treated well. A vast concourse of people surrounded the Mansion-House during the examinetion, and numbers followed her from thence to the Poultry Compter, where she was lodged by the Officers. FRAUDS IN TilF. NAVY-OFFICE. On Wednesday la,t, d0c.....,cms appeared More the Board of Admi ralty, which led :o ;i that improper transactions had taken pl.sce at the Navy Office; a conference was immegiately t,1.1 by some of the Lords of the Admiralty, the Comptroller, and Secretary of the Navy, which led to a search-warrant being exccutA upon the apart ment,* cf a uir. Gawler (late extra ch rk of the. Ticket 011icu,.Navy Office), in which were found many oiliciA books and papers, and from some of which a str , picion led to a Mr. Needl , ant„ also an extra clerk of t)f-r:rou.t.t. who was immtdiately arpreh.'nided, and ex.unined by Mr Graham, lire 80r..-street agistrAte, and Mr. Croker, the Secretary of the AdmirLCl y. On y, Mes , rs and T 'wt.,. son, Chief Clerks of the Tick • et . u ffi etr e . a r,,,_ded at (he ..- drni: a ty, W:1(211 it 1V;:; di,covert d thze. many of s -rvi•ptle. er ,:amen to he received into I 10,1 p r wf re up. and in Fume instwices the name of the iitlef Clerk had been forged. Officers were ia.mech. JAN. 6. ---- I' d ately dispat, lied in pursuit of Gawler; but we have not heard of his being apprehended. A reward of fifty pounds is offered by the Lords of the Admira . ty for the apprehension of Gawler. HIGH TREASON. A special commission of Oyer and Terminer, under the statute :35 Hen. 8, fur the trial of treasons committed out of the realm, has is -zed, under the Great Seal, for the trial of several persons in custody, ch.►rp..d with having entered into the French service at the Isle of France, ai4i with being found in arms at the capture of that Island. The first meet. lug of the Court will be on Monday, the 20th instant, at Horsem. lane, in the Borough. The following is a list of the Judges and Con.. missioners named in the Commission : The Earl of Onslow, Lard Lieutenant of the county. Sir Archibald Macdonald, Lord Chief Baron. Sir Simon Le Blanc, Judge of the King's Bench. Sir Alan Chambre, Judge of the Common Pleas. Samuel Shepherd and W. D. Best, King's Serjeants at Law. Charles Runnington and Arthur Onslow, Serjeants at Law. John Silvester and Jerome W. Knapp,lisq. Thomas 0. Knapp, Henry Hughes, and John Stafford, Gentlemen. After the Bills are found, the Colin will adjourn; as copies of the in• dictments, and lists of the jurymen and witnesses, must be delivered to the prisoners ten days before the trials can commence. A scaffolding, on which were eight persons, gave way, on Tuesday, in the King's-road, and a poor man, named Smith, was killed on the spot. Two others received broken hones. On Sunday afternoon, as the son of Mr. Weil, of Pancras-road, a fine boy twelve years of age, was sliding on a pond in Islington-fields, with a man-servant who had the care of him, the ice broke, and the youth in appeared. The servant had a momentary escape, but on approach'ul the edge of the ice to endeavour to rescue his young master, it aea'a gave way, and both were drowned. The bodies were found in akw minutes, but life was extinct, and all attempts to restore auimation prov ed fruitless. Dennis Connor and Owen Connolly were exat i nined at Marlborough street, on Wednesday, on a charge of counterfeitieg the coin or the realm. The officers apprehended them in a room completely fitted up for the purpose of coining, with a furnace, crucibles, rollers, mouh:s, and all the other necessary apparatus. Trunks and packages were al-o found, one of which contained nine dozen counterfeit sixpences, and other articles most material evidence. The barn of Mr. Samuel Taylor of Sloothby, in the Marsh, was bro ken open on Tuesday night, the 17th ult. and on the Saturday foilow ing, about half-past ten at night, their house was beset by a pe e of . villains, who attempted to break in through a chamber-window, by means of a ladder, which trey reared against the wall; hut in this ,hey I were disappointed, for the Almighty forwarned the family of thi-ir danger, by Mr. Taylor's eldest son (aaed 18 years) dreaming ihat yon e vtliian had broken into the house, and was going to murder trim. "f he perturbation of mind occasioned by the dream awoke him ; and, to his great astonishment, the first thing he saw was a man at the top of the ladder, endeavouring to take out the chamber window. 'llie young man, without giving the least alarm, got out of bed, took his geit (which he had by his bed side ready loaded), and fired it. liistantiy the man upon the ladder dropped down ; and the report of the gel alarming the father, the whole family were soon up • but no one. eland Ito open the door, as the son saw two men about the house, and was afraid, if the villains got admittance, the whole family would be mile. dered. With great impatience they waited for day break; and the fire 10lu • ng they saw was a quantity of blood on the ladder, and several places in the road leading from ihe front of the house into the yard stained with blood; but no trace of the wounded man could be found, so as to lead to any discovery. Mr. Taylor is perfectly well satisfied that the villain was severely wounded, and believes that he was con ► veyed away by his accomplices.—This gentle: au has been continually robbed for these twelve months past. One of the Glasgow coaches was overturned last October, in cons-- quence of running a race with 1 post-chaise on the road from Edina burgh, whereby a Mr. Brown was kitied, and his wife so bruised, as to be in imminent danger. A verdict has since been found, in coe:e• qeence of an action brought in the Court of .Sessions, ageinst the Pro . prietors of both the clad' and chaPe. Lord Nleadowbank, Ordi nary, has kiwi(' the defendant: lialea to the following ;dam' To Mrs. Brown, in comaensation ai daeeiges suffered by her et rson, ! 3C01.; to - her, for the loss of her husband, t2eol; anti to each (4 1 the 1 children, eight in number, 1301. each, Intel—Total, 15401. With fall exi,ence of process. !kir. Wilson, an ingeni . ms mechanic and iron-fqunder of I,eicester, li2.3bt en erecting a thrashing machine, to he worked by wind with hurizontiil sails, upon the farm of Mr. Wright tit Exton, at the expence of Colonel Noel. Its powers were trieJ.l on Saturday se'ruitglit, and thou,;ll there was hut a trivial brt.eze iu the morning. it thrashed tl admiration, and with a power ervial to two trashinz machincs. late Mr. Long, apotht cai . y of Lyit t st , r, w,i4 tie inventor, uini win) received a premium for it front ai:d i.tutland ri~ui Ural S )ci ty. The machine is apili‘able to a vaiety of uses a.) Wcii thrashing. JA" SC are r Suu '1) Qui! Wit! jr:Ct ;Arid Eic N t: pa CI, 1) pii