The National Register. — London, England, 1816-07-14 00:00:00

JULY 14. OLD BAILEY. Wethwiliy, W. Dodd and A. Barton wore capitally indicted ander the act commonly called Lord Ellenluirough's act, for cutting and maiming a person on known, in Newton's-eourt, Strand; who, it is supposed, died of the svomids he received, nod he has not since been heard of. The case hal. already been detailed in this paper. There being no evidence of auy thing more than blows of the band given by the pri•oners, they were acquitted.—James Mahotry, Elizabeth Isis will, Mary Mitchell, the elder, and Mary Mitchell the yomiger, were in dicted for coining counterfeit sixpences. The Jury found Mary Mitchell the younger, Not linilty, and three other pri soners Guilty—Death.—Cathcrine 111nlvv, Ate wiss Nil`Nlanus, urged 53, and Margaret M•Manns, aged 18, w sewise ca ',Baby convicted of coining counterfeit shillings Thermlay, Solomon Bowerman was capitally indicted for stealing a horse, the property of Robert Buff, and 4 cart, the property of Mr. Bonen. The prosecutor state:l,llW lie lived at lierstham, in Surrey, about Iri or 20 miles from London, WWI that he was robbed of the horse oat of his stable on the looming of the Isth. The prisoner was apprehended in Tut tenhain-cmirt-road, on that day, with the horse in his possession. Guilty—Death. MURDER. Friday, Jemestlt Pent, a Spaniard, was capitally indicted for basing wilfully 1111 l rdered Benjamin Twig, by maliciously stab li:ug him with a knife in the stomach.--l The particulars of this case as they transpired at the Police Office, have been already detailed Its a preceding paper. They were fully made out by witnesses on the trial.]--The Jury found a verdict —Guilty; and the Recorder passed sentence upon the prisoner, th a t h e b e executed on Monday next. Esther WeYI(.II Stood indicted for the wilful murder of n new born male infint. The particulais of this tire having been already fully before tile publie, in the report of the examination of the witnesses before the Coroner, we shall only say, that the Juty acquitted the prisoner. SATURDAY.—CO INING. Dennis Reordan, Thomas on•rolly 410 James Quin, were indicted fur feloniously counterfeiting a quantity of pieces, called shillings, purporting to he the coin of the realm. The prison-rs, who were unacquainted with the English tongue, had recourse to the medium of an interpreter; and it appeared, that in the month of-May last, sonic of the City Officers received intOrniation that the business of coining going on at a house in Angt I-alley, floor-lane, Cripplegate.— In consequence of this information, tin.) , went to the lonise in question, where tkey found the prisoner- at work, tiling and rubbing shillings ; w bile at the same time there was foemil in the room every article used in purposes of coining. together with a quantity of finished and unfinished pieces of money of the same satae. The prisoners in their defence stated, that being destitute of employment, and es en bread, they ag reed to work for a man who put them to the employment in w hich they were. found. During the trial it was announced that the k)erson to whom the prisoners alluded was taken into custody. Mr. Joqice Park informed the Joey, that, however melon chaly the situation of the prisoners, they were found comet oed in a fact which was so recognised by the 14W, that dine justii e must he administered. The citeninstanees favmrable to the prisoners would be considered in soother piece. The Jury found the priu.nc.a Guilty, Lut recommended them to marry; when the learned Judge assured them their recom mendation should be attended to. Thomas Attwood . Elgertnn was capitally convicted of the commission of an abominable odence upon tat person ofJaines Jarvis. The particulars are too indelicate to relete ; but the trial having lasted nearly the whole of the clay, the prisoner was found Guilty—Death.—When the verdict was returned, he fell into a Hood of tears, and besought the mercy of the Court um behalf of his wife and family. It commit' Blundell was capitally convicted of stealing a 51. mote in a dwelling-home, llw property of Mary Martin. --He was found Guilty—Death ; but recommended to mercy on ac count of his extreme youth, and former good character. John Hardy. aged 19, we. also convicted of stealing a mare, the property of John Payne, of Leieester—Death. The trial of Tawnsend. for the forging of a promissory note for 7251. in the name of Fortunetue Crisp, lived fm this day, was postponed upon affidavit to the neat Sessious. THE SEMAPHOHE.-1 his improvt ii machine began working on Wednesday, between the Admiralty . and Chatham. 'I he communications by this means very far surpass the Tel-graph recently in use both in celerity and perspicuity. One among the great advantages obtained is the di,tineteirss of obser‘ing the apparatus from one station to another, %%Inch is accounted for from the late one being of a square (twin, and thereby holding the density of the atmosphere, and the pi e , elot simply an upright hollow mast. The Telt graph, at is a ell• t noun, consisted of six shooters or flaps, and timid not by any means produce one hundred cmnbinatinur. So superior ate the powers possessed by this machine, that with onto two atta. it produces nut merely letters and words, but whole sentences, and upwards of two thousand different symbols. The iiige away displayed in the arrangement is exceeitingly great—and it may be said that communicating by characters in this man ner has rear-lied its ntmost 1 . • s. The powers of this machine are not confined to the naval service, and its construction is upon such simple principles as to admit of its being adapted to all the uses of an army, and can be conveyed in five minutes. in a waggon from place to Aare, as circumstances require. His Royal Highness this Duke of York, Sir Henry Torrens, Sir H. Calvert, and several noble and distinguished officers, have inspected it for this pur pose, and pronounced their approbation .nt . its powers. The public are indebted to Admiral Sir !tome 'Amhara, for the improvement and adoption of this important in, ention, Mikadoy morning last, during a severe nullifier-storm, a tine brood mare, the property of Mr. John Knapping, of South Shoebury, Essex, was struck dead by the lightning. The poor annual bore evieleut marks nioun its withers and wider its throat, of the irresktible power of the electric fluid the part+ appearing as though opened by a kiiite, in two or three directions. Sunday. VI the son of Mr. flrooltson, of Dolly's Bocf•steak-prase. in Queen's tlead-passage, Newgate-street. was bathing off Kea-biidge, he was unfortunately drowned. Every effort was inade to save him. but without effort. The following melancholy catastrophe occurred on Thursday last, at !. ‘mberhurst :—Edward !limey, Esq. an acting ma gistrate tor Suss, and Kent (the castle standing in both counties), in a parwayinti.of to 4 derangement, put a period to his existence with hltnitlerbw-s ' 4 barrel of which, it is rather singular. bears the in scription,— • oe me. if you can." Cvmner's verdict—tr./mow. A woman ...tax . num, muck advanced in years, the wife of a w•gch. rnxn in Lynn. in t insequencc of some domestic troubles, drowned her self on Tuesday e' ening, in the river, Act deliberately tultind citt'her alums, and plan her snuff-box in a state of =tufty. THE NATIONAL REGISTER POLICE. BOW-STREET. J. Fountain was charged with a horirLiry in the house of the Rev. F. Winthrop, of Hawley, near Dartford and stealilg therein a writing. case, a pocket-book, three .el notes, awl a quantity of half-erow Tee prisoner had lived servant with the prosecutor ; and in consequence of his having been Keen near the house the night previous to the rob bery, suspicion fell upon hint; aad Godfrey. an Officer, found out that he had applied to a Gentleman in Ruellersbury for a situation, iini hod persuaded that Gentleman to write to Mr.Wintlimp for his chase. ter, after the robbery had been committed. While going to Ittekirs bury to enquire about the situation, he WAS apprehenclel, wearing the identical boots stolen front the prosecutor; and on his pgrem the pocket book was found. In his lodgings other articles were found, all of which were sworn to by Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop. He was fully com mitted. HArFON-GATIOF.N. Thomas Fulk, landlord of the Fox-under-the-hill, Fox-mint. Strand, appeared to a summons to answer to an information laid against him by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, for suffering persons to be tippling in Iris house during divine service on the Lord's Hay. It appeared in evidence, that between i t and it o'clock on Sunday, the 21d of June, there were between forty and fifty persons smoking in his house. The defendant stated, that Ins house was situate close to the water side, and that the people found there were watermen and market people from the country. He was convicted in the mitigated penalty of ins. and costs. Henry Skinner, of the Blackamoor's-Head, Exeter-street. Strand, was charged with a similar offence about tt o'clock on Sunday, the of June. The defendant stated, that there were several workmen employed in the English Opera, wine that worked all day on Sunday is under to complete that building; and that 12 o'clock being their dinner hour, they only cause for that purpose. The Magistrate observed, that their doing as illegal offence could not be a sufficient excuse for Mtn in a breach of the Sabbath, and they were liable to have informations laid against them; but it being his first offence, and the Society not pressing for the penalty, on his promising not to offend again in like manner, he was discharged on paying the costs. Friday, George Farney was bmught up and examined, charged with assuming the character of an Attorney, and thereby obtaining and defrauding several persons of various sums of money. Mrs. Abraham., of Gough-vutre, deposed, that in Fchruary last the pri soner was recommended to her as an Attorney; to consequence of which she employed him to defend an action for her, and paid him fol.; since which witness had disescered that tile prisoner was not an Attorney. Mr. James .lay, of Sugar-Loaf-Court, Swan-yard, M inis ries, deposed having paid the prisoner the stun of al. under similar circumstanosa. There Leing other charges expected against the pri soner, he was remanded for further examination. UNION HALL. T. Wood, a vagrant, whose appearance pm - seined a striking picture of mi'ery, was brought up by W. Snow, the Constable of Newington, who stopped him in the act of begging from door to door. On search ing him, money was found concealed carefully in various parts of his rim, to the amount of £' 3s. and also a valuable silver hunting watch, capped and jewelled : it also appeared that the prisoner was in the weAly receipt of 3s. from the Parish offic e rs of St, G e orge's, to which Parise he helotb,ss. The money. watch, and some papers and memo randums found on the prisoner, were handed over tothe Churchwardens; and on furCier inquiry. it appeared, that this miserable impostor was Ow proprietor of several small tenements, the rent of which he receivma weekly.—lle was committed to the House of Cornx.tiou for seven day's, and ordered to be afterwards passed to his parish. The nine convicts at Ely As,rtes, whose sentences were mi tie tied to transportation, were last week conveyed to Newpate, front %%hence they are to be sent off to Botany Bay by the fir VC!.3 , 4 that Naik. At Lady Jersey's lateentertainment, a man in a good evening dress, and a tolerable appearance. came to the door, out of a hackney midi. and having announced himself to the sersant as Captain Kehy, was permitted to go up stairs, with the usual repetitions of his supposed name. On approaching the door of the ball-room, he stopped, on a pretence that his shoe-buckle was loose; and, affecting to find great dif ficulty in fastening it, he desired to he shewn into some separate apart ment. 'nth was done by the servants ;he was shewn into a dressing room, and was des.•ending foam that to leave the house, when the ser vants suspected him, knowing that he had not been in the principal apartments. He was searched. and a silver ink-stand of her Lady ship's being found upon him, he was taken to the watch-house by La vender. At the Countess of Shaftesbury's hall, a man fashionably dressed, sent up his name as General Gore, or Gower, and actually entered the ball-room. In such a company no person with the rank of General could long remain without being known to some one. It Is as observed. that he did not present himself to the Lady of the mansion, nor speak to any person. The suspicions of the company soon became apparent to him, and he left the hall-mows, but not the house. Si.arrh being made for him, he was found concealed in one of the apartments under a sofa.—We have not heard that the Police Officers knew him, but he acknowledged btaiself to he an impostor. As he had taken nothing, he was dismissed. A girl. I I yeivg of age. was run over by the Prince Regent's carriage, in Beak-street. on 3loralay evening. pordace followed the car riage ; and the Regent, on being informed of the misfortune, sent back his footman tJ take cue of the child. A most dreadful ant of suicide was committed about nine o'clock on Tuesday :norning, by Mr. Roullan. Rouse Steward to his Excellency the lii.ssipm Ambassador to the Court of the Brarils„ (now on a visit to this country). The unforternitte man retired tohi., apart ment, where he put a period to his existence by blowing his bea d to atoms with a donhle barrelled pistol, the report of which brought some of the amnesties to the room, where they found him in a state List shock ing to be described. A brace of balls. which passed through his head, lay near the body on the bed. In tile evening an Inquisition was held on the body. It appeared that the as...eased was a pleasant cheerful man, much in the favor of hie master, and esteemed by all who knew hint ; that within the last fortnight he complained of a pain in his sto mach, and was also troubled with headach ; that he used to lean with his elbow on the tilde, and his hetul resting on his hard ; that he grew melancholy, and exhibited evident marks of derangement. The jury, without any hesitation. returned a verdict-- That he shot himself is a state of mmital derangement. FATAL Erectes or IV' WATIO,L—SIIIIIiIV morning. Wil liam Morris. a private in the z I foot Guards, and who was at the bat tle of Waterloo. was removed in a dreadful state of intoxication from the donr ofthe flee. Ttr. Nl•Clotta. in Dean-rt. Soho. to St. Anne's watch house. and renntinea in a state of insensibility fora considerable time ; when about tire o'clock he rose from his stupor and said he should get uncle reprimmilell when he returned to the regiment : after which he re:insl to the p: ivy in the locit-up room of the watch-loose ; and about twenty minutes after was seen by a woman who was locket! in the same room (through n wicket in the privy doom, to be suspended by his belt. which he had cut and spliced to ether to answer the purpose of a curd. On its being discovered, he was immediately cut down, and every as sistance rendered him. Mr. Bryan, surgeon, of Compton-atreet. was immediately rent for, who exerted every eflnrt to retort animation, but without IIICTCSI, the top.irk of life being extinct ; he was a fine i.ming m-a n . about 23 years nf age, and hail sevend sears about !limo—Mona:la cy:ming an inqnest ern held on the body; when it appeared. that the deceased received some wounds at the battle of Waterloo. which at times had ems:hirable effect on his int:fleets. lie had been several *irks confined in an basiatal, ana only twine oat last Saturday to join hog regiment; when he naicived arrears of pay abowt 31. Whoi found in the street. all his money was gone. but 1:c had his mead. The ex amination of witnesses lasted fur hour% and the Jury returned a verdict al-aostaniev. A horrible instance of Jealousy lately occurred at Hem Heath, Std. fordshire. Rewbottom, lodging in the house of one Bedouita. erlIC home rather late, and was admitted by Bedston's wife ; he sat down, and the woman, who had purchased a ballad, unwittingly began to sing it with Bewbottorn. when Bedston came down stairs, and stabbed him in two places in the belly with a knife. No hopes are en. tcrtained of his recovery. A decent middle-aged woman went into the shop of Mr. Way, a baker, living in Low er Sl oane . s treet, Chelsea, about elev en o'clock on Thursday evening; when she fell down in a fit, and expired without speaking a word. On Thursday, Mr. Bonham, an engraver, in Soho, dropped down suddenly, in Than -suet, ar.d expired on the spot. BIRTH. At Lowesby Hall, Leicestershire. the Lady of 'Sir P. G. Fowls*. But. of a son and heir.—l'e Marchioness of Dounshire, of a scot:'—in the neighbourhood of Leith Fort, the wife of J. Clarke. late a num-- petit in the royal artillery drivers, of three sons. 'l'he children are all doing well. !MARRIED: At Brampton, the Rev. 11. Palmer, youngest eon of Sir J. Palmer. Bart. of Carlton, Northamptonshire, to Eli. younwestdau. of the Rev. S. lleyrick, Rector of Brampton.--Capt. Donaldson, of 44th reg. to Miss Patterson. dau. of the late A. Patterson, Esq.—At Edinburgh. the Rev. C. Lime, third son of T. Lane, Esq. of I. trim, Essex, to F. C. dau. of Bishop Sandford.—At Londonderry, Lieut.-Col. 'fliontp. son, of 27th foot. to Harriet, dau. of Wm. Lecky, Esq. tbrmerly M.P. for that city.—Wiu. H. Russell, Esq. of Slaughter'3 Court, • Worcest. to Frances. dau. of G. Thornhill, Esq. of Diddingon, Hunts.—Joha. Allen Shiner. Esq. of Southwark, to eldest dau. of Capt. Chcruenant. of Croom's.hill. Greenwieh.—John Lawford, Esq. of Antwerp, to 2d dau. of Mr. liowring, of Ilackney.—Resr.Adin. Sir H. Hothani, K.C.B. youngest son of the late Beaumont Lord Hotham, to F. A. J. eldest dau. of lord Rous.-I'. Chadlsss, Esq. of Portman-square, to Miss Rowe, onls dau. of John Rowe, Esq. near Brendlerd.—November; at Madras, Capt. J. C. Ilurdis, of 19th Native Infantry, to Caroline, eldest daa of the late Thos. Jeffreys. F.sq. of Brecon. Smith Wales.-- Count Jule: de l'olignac, to Miss Cainpbell, sister and co-heiress with the Hun. Mrs. .t. lisetkinald.—T. Cutely. jun. Esq. of Pimlico, to Arabella, only dam of J. Fishhske, F.sq of Salisbury.—Alex. Nicoll. Esq. of Baliol Coll. Oxford, to youngest daa of late A. Anderson Feld berg, Esq. of Copenhagen.—Lieut.-Col. B rownrigg, eldest son of Lieut.- Gen. Sir R. Browarigg, Bart. G.C.B. to Emma, dau. of the late Ma jor-Ger..• Nesbitt.--At the house of the English Ambassador at-Paris, I.ieut.-Col. Wylly, Assist..AtijoGen. to Mary Anna, one dim. of M. Keating. Esq. of Lower Brook-strut, Grosvenor-square.--Major-Gen. Sir Dennis Pack, K.C.B. to Ley E. Beresford, daw of the late, and sister to the present, Marqui.".„ of Waterford.—Sir Andrew Agnew. Bart. of Locknaw, to Madalene, youngest dau. of the late Sir D. t'fane....*.• Wart. of Southisko- , :l Milligan . F:sq. Capt. 25th reg. foot, to E. Mar garet, only 1. 1. 4 u. of M. :sulk IM ELL . Lady Wray. widow of the Rev. Sir W. 17. Wray. Bart.—lfki Gen.c.r. Coningliam, of the India service, Bengal - listab.—W. Cent, Esq. surgerm, formerly of Sheertmis.—The Revs W, Payne, Per petal,' Curate of Plymptortand }tenor of Colridge.—Aged 613, the Rev. A. Austin, 30 years Pastor of Baptist Meeting, Fetter.lane.—At Mu g? .to (the day after his arrival from Africa, having been absent from I.tigland 27 years), in his 49th year. E. W. White, Esq. late Gov. of British Sett. on the Gold Coast.—The Rev. T. Webster, D.D. of the Estab. Church of Scotland.—The Rev. T. Goodinge, I.L.D. Rector of Count, and formerly of St. John's College, Oxford.—ln 77th year. F. 'Towne, Esq. landscape painter.—ln Sloane-st. in 31st year. the wife of F. I.ovell, Esq.—At Camberwell, in her 64th year. Mrs. Sherer, widow of the late John Sherer, Esq.—At the Cape. Major-Gen...los. Baird. brother of Sir David Baird. Bart. G.C.B. and K.C.—The Rev. Patrick Hare, l).0. Rector of Geolden and Templetooby, many year , Vicar- Gen. of - Cashel.—Aged SO, T. Neale, F. of Charlotte-row, New road.—At Woolwich, Lieut.-Col. Sir John Dyer, K.C.B. of the Anil lery.—At Colgaeth Park, Westmoreland, at a very advanced age, the Right Rev. tiuhard Watson.. D.D. Lord Bishop of LaMar, Resin* Protbssor of Ilrainity in the University of Cambridge, and Asehdeseern of Ely. Ile proceeded to the degree of A.B. 1759, A.M. 1762, and D.D. 1771. He was a Prelate no less distinguished for his theological than chemical knowledge. and one of the greatest ornaments of the Episcopal Beech.—Mrs. Epic. Litchfield . , many years housekeeper of. Council Office, Whitehall.—ln 70th year, Mr. It. Tyas, late of the Stork Exchange.—The Lady of T. Harris. Esq. Chief Proprietor of Covent Garden Thcatrr.—At Kensington, T. Harris, Esq.—At Dar lington, aged 5.3, Attain Parker, better known by the name of Blind Adam, having been blind from his birth. He possessed a strong me mory, win& he particularly applied to registering thenumberof deaths. he. which occurred ter upwanls of the last 40 years in Darlington. Without hesitating a moment, he could tell how many deaths had been in any given year or month, the exact day when the individual died, to whom they were related, Ac. He was noted for keeping e[ poultry, in which lie greatly excelled ; his hens, owing to his superior management, laid their eggs in the winter season ; he knew them from each other, and could tell the nam,a colour, Ac. as soon as he got theta in his hand. Although he descended from poor parents, and 1.1 but a stnall pittance, called the blind's bounty, with the benevolence of .rfews charitable individuals, the profits arising from his poultry, he. enabled hi m to r ea lize 2(cl.—At Paris, the flight Hon. Arthur, Earl of Mount norris. The Earl is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest mo o Arthur Viscount Valcntia. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissary in Chu/': Office. Great Gaore-street, 28th .1 UV!, 1116. NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons desirous ?f Contracting to Sußtily the pllozeing Articks,fir Me use of Me Amp ; BM?. AD. To hie Majesty's I .and Forces in Cantonment., Quarten, And Barracks in thounder mention. ed Couutiesand Wand*: arrir and murrox, To his Majesty's Land Forces is Cantonments, Quarters. and Barracks in the under imer.ti °nod Counties. Guerra v, .Terwy. Stafford and Worcester. Ctmiberlaid. orceater. As also brc*d to the Household Troops in London and its vi cinity. That the dentieries are to aromnsenee en and for Me twenty-Ara day of Auenst next ; that propirioh in -iting, sealed up, and mark d, 'Tender for Annv Supplies, will he reerived at this tyke, an or:kfore Thursday the 45th day af July (but none will be reeved alter twelve d'elock on that day ), and, ifseut by post, the pottage watt bepaid. l'ropouals Milli be shade ^privately fior each county and iskiitif, or also for !trend to Vic Ifousehald Troops; and each pnytoesi must hare Me letter which is annrred to the tender property fill .d rip, by two penult: of knemn property, eta pies .t. &row bound with the party tendering, In the amount Anted in the printed rat !trawl. .fcr thr due p win-nu:over of the cunt, act ; and no poly" • •nrals will be noticed unksa nyid^ on u rirst , d tender, and the priers expressed in ur,rde at leigth; and should it so happen, that during the continuance of the contract, no troops should be etirti,incl or supplied in Vic .uunto, the expense of the earth-rot and bond, paid in the first inrtance by the coatrachr, to be re:Junk:al 10 Aim by the Commissars/in Chirf Particialurs of the contracts may be had ?ryas application at this Wire, ktscen the &arc of eleven and five; at the OPT Dipady (lonutiesery ,irral Wright, Jersey ; and at Om Ojtar of Deputy Caw "'assoc.!, (:meat Ceope, Guernsey. - - , N.B. &Apia of the household bread und "sea ?nay Oe sew it this else.