The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-05 00:00:00

NOV. 5. TTIE NATIONAL nrmsTrn. able. Her, it was discovered, however, that payment had been already stepped, nod a representation at the same time made that Mr. Holt was robbed of this and other property on Tuesday night. The residence of this gentleman being ascertained, he was found confined to his bed, dreadfully pot„and bruised bf the attack of his as sailants on the night mentioned, when he was rubbed of the whole of his property. He stated, that about ten o'clock, when returning from a house in Dlackfriars.rand, whelp he had dined, he w a s at t ac k e d b y Live persons with bludgeons. &c. Au) knocked him down and deprived him of his senses. About three o'clock the following morning, he found himself seated in a ',untie. !muse in the Through, and a seaman seated by his side. He was then conveyed home, and his physicians &dared that he could not with safety be removed to give his evidence for some days. The prisoner doling the examination affeCted to be insane. lie con. ducted himself wit h much violence,. used the most incoherent expres fons, abused the Magistrate, and tittered the must shameful blasplie. roe.. He was remanded until Mr. Holt shall be able to attend his next ex amination. J. Smith, who was brought up on a former day an a armee of having robbed a gentleman named Helr of 1,3001. in valuable securities, was yesterday ag.,iii brought up. Mr. Harmer, the solicitor for Mr. Holt, attended, however, and stated, that on the night of the rubbery his client had been so severely handled, that lie was not yet silk to leave Lis bed. The prisoner was in cutisequence remanded till Wednesday. John Griffin' the father, nod. Jo a n Griffin the son, were yesterday hum& up on a charge of stealing several bottles of Constatitiu wine, Iran i the premises of the Cornmerrial Hall Company, in Skinner-street. The pii'oners were porters in the employment of Mr. Abbott, ai,d sus picion having arisen, their lodgings were searched, when five pint bottles of Constantia were found.—They were remanded. UNION HALL, James White was brought up by Goff, charged with stealing a bridle, the property of Mr. Smith, of Blackfriars-r. ad, Wm. Sparks. the ostler, staled, that he left the bridle in question hanging up in its place in the stalk, about five •o'clock on Saturday evening last. About seven o'clock lie heard a noise in the stable, and went in to see what was the matter, when be saw a middle lying on the ground, and at the same time perceived the prisoner attempting to conceal himself at the further end of the stable, who, on seek; he was discovered, attempted to rush out of the stable; the witness however seized him, and ?dreg. gled with him for some time, but finding the prisoner too powerful tUr him he called for assistance, when Mr. Smith came to him, and the prisoner was secured. On looking round the stable the bridle was missing 11 appeared from the testimony of a publican in the neigh bourhood, that at an early hour in the evening the prisoner bad brought a bridle to his house, and requested permission to leave it there. The Landlord, tm hearing Mr. Smith's stable had been robbed, delivered the b ridle up to Golf, when it turned out to be Mr. Smith'. „ The prisoner, therefore, it appeared, was d e t ec t e d i n hi s second visit.' to the stab:P. The prisoner now said it was not his intention to steal the bridle, he had only borrowed it for a short time and would have returned it. He was fully committed fur trial, IL GARDEN. Thursday a man, who, refused to tell his name, or answer any gees lions put to him by either the Magistrates or Officers, was brought ti p • hi the custody of John Barnly, the constable, for examination, charged with attempting to murder Jane Turner, a poor woman who keeps a lodging-house in lower West-street, formerly known by the name of Chick-lane. The complainant, who was hardly able to speak from the excessive injury she had received from the prisoner, she being covered all over with wounds and bruises, stated, that about four o'clock the preceding evening the prisoner came into her house and asked her if she did not let lodgings, she told him she did ; he asked her what she would charge him for a good bed, she told him sixpence ; he put his hand into his pocket and took out sixpence, which he gave her ; in about half an hour after he said he had been ep all night, being locked out of his lodgings, and that he was loth to disturb the family by calling, for which reason he should OA to go to bed ; site told him be might,• and conducted him up three pair of stairs to his room. After shelving him his bed she lucked him in, and taking the key oat site returned down stairs; about six she was greatly alarmed by the cries of mur der, and she went tii\. the street door to learn from .whence it pro ceeded; she saw several r of the neighbours, seemingly Irma alarmed, standing at their doors looking up at her house; she also looked up, and saw the prisoner leanin g oat of his window, crying out Thieves, thieves murder, murder ! She returned iii, and taking the key went up stairs to learn what was the matter. On going into the room she found the prisoner standing in the middle of the room in his shirt ; she asked him what was the matter; he said that some persons had come to rob and murder him, but that be would ape tbepe the trouble if be had a knife, ...~ 717 fpr he would cut his own throat ; she being lunch flighty• ed though to entice him with her down stairs, for wlticle purpose she. told him 'he Nulty, knife abont her, but that if he would put on his clothes at.d go with her down stairs she would give him a knife ; en her saying so the • prisoner gave her a violent blow on the moult' ;it'd knocked lir , &PAIN the candle went out, and he then kneeled on her body and kept kneel ing and thumping her until he made every part of her body bt"ck and blue ; he endeavoured to strangle her, and inflicted several wounds on her wink his teeth and nails, iansenting much he Lad not a knife to cut her throat; her cries at length brought several of the neighbours to her assistance, among when% was John Flarniey, the constable, who took the prisoner in custody and - lodged him in the watchbouse. The prisoner refused to toll his name or answer to any questions put to him. The prisoner was committed, and the Officers ordered to make strict inquiry concerning him. MARRIED. Captain Gambier, a the Royal Navy, nephew to Lord Gambier, es Friday Ism, to Miss Caroline Browne, daughter to Major-cren. Browne, tfieuteaattt•Governor of Plymouth. n DIED. ' Wednesday morning, at his house in Sarnbroo k-conrt,l3asinghaft 'itreet, aged 71, respected by all who knew him, for the goodhess of bis heart, and venerated by the world for his medical and literary ta lents, the celebrated John Coakley Lettsorn, M. D. a Member of the Society of Friends. On Thursday week the Doctor ft It some indispe. sition, but setting too little value on his own personal comfort, henol withstandiag went in his carriage to visit sundry patients and friends • , till he was literally unable to walk out of it. His illness then turned to, a decidtld rheumatic fever, arid was followed by great debility. OA Tuesday lie was so much worse as seriously to alarm the most sanguine of his friends, and between two and three o'clock ou Wednesday morning he departed this sublunary scene, having happily remained in a sensible stale almost to the lost. Doctor Lettsmn is said to have left behind him a great variety of iuteresting MSS. which is likely to he published. On the 13th it stant, Thomas Harrison Pinks; and on the 240., William John Pinks, Sons of Mr Thomas Pinks, late of Birmink,- ham, now of Blackfriars-road, in the County of Surry. Mercury is the bane of many, and kils more than the sword. Dr. VENEL.'S truly incomparable VEGETABLE PILLS; for Scurvy, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Leprosy, a nd a ll Di so rd er s.proceed. ing • from an impure state of the blood, are the only Medicine ever in., vented, whose salutary effects on the human frame remove the most dangerous diseases. At the same time give tone to the nervous, sys tem, and additional vigour to the body and mir.d. 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