The National Register. — London, England, 1818-04-05 00:00:00

BOXING. The county of Surrey was on Wednesday disgrareet by one of those matches. which by Nbegisterial supineness, are too often suffered to take place in this boa..ted age of refinement ; and what is more asto nishing. the scene of action was fixed on Mickleham flown, near J.eatherhead. alii.oe in the vicinity of the spot whore the .Igdges, .te. were assembled ter the purpose of hold:rig the erizes for the County. We shall proceed to detail the circtimsbuiees, for the amusement of such as can be amused thereby. It is N us a nauseous and painful duty. Painter and Spring were the combatant:: Harmer and T. Jicleher seconded the former, and Crib and Byrne the latter.—Bets ta 4 anti o g to 1 on the formez. Roust, 1. The men sparred for three minutes without a hit being each:mged. Spring, in planting a blow, hit short ; lung sparring occurred, when same hits were exchanged, and Painter received a blow on the side of his check that sent hint staggering, and in }lilting the back of his lead and part of his shoulder came in contact with one of the stakes of the ring. X. Painter seemed somewhat stupiflcd from the effects of this an• indent, but appeared quickly to his tine. Spring, again hit short when Painter planted a sharp facer with his left hand. More long sparring occurred—some blows were exchanged—when Painter re nerved a hit and slipped down. .1. Spring planted a hit and get' away ; Painter made a hit, but Spring followed him over the ring. Two sharp counter hits occurred in the body. Spring laughed and gave Painter a nobber and got away dexterously. Painter made play and put in a severe facer t and, in closing, the laver eadv,.voured to %ever his antagonist, but in struggfunr the strength of Spring prevailed : not only held Pain ters hands, but extricated himself in a gallant style, and planted a hit on him as he was going down. In many parts of the ring it was then even betting. 4. Long sparringoccurred. Some hits were exchanged. In closing. Spring held his uppenent's hand to prevent being weaved. Both down. Spring uppermost. 5. The forte of Painter seemed to have materially changed. There was more science exhibited than work performed. In dosing Spring threw Painter. t,. Two severe counter re:bbei r occurred. Painter hit short, when Spr:ng returned a sharp blow on :us mouth. In do:a:; Spring got Painter down. 7. Painter commenced this round by planting a blow on the head, and one on the body of his opponent. But in closing Spring fell hem ily upon him. a. Painter put in three facers and got away. In closing both hung on the ropes and went down. 9. Painter planted several firers with success, and one was so se. vae, that had it not been for the ropes, Spring:mitt have gone down. Ir. closing both went down. to. Spring hit short several times, and Painter planted a good robber ; but in return he received some sharp hits. and went down,— Great applause for Spring. 1. Painter endeavoured to punish Spring in the act of closing ; but the latter instead of holding him up as he might have done. let. Painter down, and put up both his liandc, and he now became in ia great measure the favourite. The remaining to rounds were of no interest, Painter Lavin"„ be come so weak as to tall almost every time he ga v e or recei v e d a blow, and resigned the contest after fighting one hour and gtt minutes. A minor fight, and a , closed the ignoble sports of the day . RxrcuTtow.-e•Fnday morning being the time appointed for tke execution ofiohn Little. fie sheep stealing, at Waltham holy Croes, Essex, and Wan. Peering, for various buiglaries at Westbarn cid Wanstead, at an early hour an unusual number of persons assembled upon the melancholy occasion, expecting, no doubt, to witness the execution of Judith Hale, but who., however, with Wm. Brown, had previously received a rw.pite during the pleasure of his Royal High ness the Prince Regent. Peering was • deeply affected at his awful situation. Little, on the contrary, betrayed throughout the greatest indifference , and appeared lost to every feelinte of repentanee. Whilst the eXeitioct *vas tying the rope about his Deck; he called out to a person among the crowd, whom he knew, “Jeni, how are you, ray boy, won't you come up and shake hands with me before I stare"— The man was actually preparing to ascend the ladder, for the pur p me of complying with the prisoner's request, but was very prudently b opped by the gaoler. who munedietely ordered him out of the yard. Alter shaking hands and kissing each hither, the fatal platform gave way, and th= unfortunate men were launched into elernity. Little was yt ars of sae, and Perringel. It is N curious fact, which is not generally known, that the body of the celebrated Laurence Sterne, which was interred in the church yard of St. George, was talom up shortly after his burial, and devoted to the purposes of the surgical prole -sion. at aria : Fonche. Duchess of Otranto, has eloped from Prague. She was carried otl by the son of the conventionalist, Thibaudeato The two fugitives are traaelling in Germany: they were last seen at Frankfort, at a concert, where the new Helen attracted attention by her jewel. In taking down the south west tower of Northumberland House, it was found, that one of the main beams fell a foot square. RAS martyr decard through. and must in a short time linve given a ay. m ormut or 1111 . Br no.—Wednesday morning, the man, sup posed to have been an accomplice with Hussey, in this horrid trans action, was sent off to Maidaume jail. F l a u,—On Monday a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Jones, a blacking-manufacturer , in Somerset-place, flackney-road, in con sequence of a pitch-kettle boiling over, by which the interior was destroyed add we are sorry to add, that the mother of Mr. Jones, and his daughter. 13 years old, were so severely injured as to be taken to the Hospital. with bui fain; hopes of recovery. There were one hundred and eighteen prisoners for trial at the Assizes foe the County of Gloucester, which commenced on Thursday Ilk inning. One day last week, while the sexton was filling up a grave at Dartmouth, he fell into it and expired. Th e c himney sweepers base been very active of late in publishing exagemated accounts of the danger of tool ehini nies, and lease flared many fires to this :armee. On a ran. did examination of title subject, which the late benevolent „ w i ne: , o f Lord aneklarel have suggested, it appears Ma: t h e t oo lue s s of elnienies is aeuerally owing to the boys not be ina able to di an Ilion hills, and leaving the rip pea- part tit the chimney wise% fait. 'lbis di ennistailee is only to be ob viated by mechanical weeping. The machine cannot deceive its employer , and the persons appointed to infinire into the business , and who have suggested this article, cannot ti e d a a i1121.• well authenticated example of a chimney being on fire which Wits regularly swept by the machine. LaNcAnren.—tlaironn Y. BUTLER forts.—This was an ac tion for eampensation in damages for a breach of primula:of marriage. The jury awarded the lady 7,0101. damage , ..—Eoarieg parr. The solicitors of the Bank have had to conduct, on the last Mid. and (anent, no fewer than si Prosecutions . Such is the distress which is felt at receiving Bank ot England paper at Leiceeter, that very few wash en receive it, and ail prefer the notes of Local Banks. EARTHQUAKE Is BICILx.—LCIL.rs from Sicily speak of eeveral successive earthquakes which tool: !dace about the end of liehruary, in the environs of Catania. fly the first, nearly all the houses le, le chunagctl, and several were thrown down. Front sixty to sevemy persons perished. In the second and third. tire cathedral :111d the grind seminary of Catania, with more than half of the city, were reduced to a heap of ruins. A great number of the inhabitants, and rantinga then' several Leeletiaati.a of nistinctiun, were buried in the ruins. Mt the reimiiiiingpopulatinti had encamped on the plain. I atraoir exeras is Soul lIIVACK.—NcarIy the whole of the earth side of Onion-street, Borough. ban been purchased by the Southwark Bridge Company, and the houses are now being denio• Word, tomake way for the formation of the grand avenue from the county of Surrey to the bridge. TIM NATInSTAL isrrn. POLICE. -o- MANSION HOUSE. EXTENSIVE Bourne x.—• Wednesday Edward Bengal" was charged with plundering his employers, Messrs. Pearson sod Pritchard, w irelloitsrmen, in King-street, Cheapside, of property to the amount of upwards of 5001. Mr. Pritchard stated, that the prisoner had been for more than two years employed in the firm, and that the utmost confidence was reposed io him. From the extensive nature of their trade it was almost impossible to detect any depre dations upon their property except by accident; and the put. soner would never have been suspected of dishonesty had he not suddenly absented himself Irma the warehouse on Mon. pay se'nniglit. Suspicion being thus excited, the stratk was strictly examined, and it was thought that a large quantity of valuable stuffs was missing. Inquiry was made at ses era! pawnbrokers' shops, and at some of them were fontid pieces of stuff which had been pledged by a man answering the de abription of the prisoner. By dint of further inquiry. the rout of the later was also ascertained. and the witness. ACeittl• puttied liy Hawkins, the Marshalman, succeeded iii tracing him to Alton, in Hampsiiii e, where he was taken into custody. Hawkins, on searching him, found a waggon-office script for three large bolas, w Lich had been sent from London to Birmingham, and also ~ ;c-..keys, which he acknowledged to belong to those boxes. Tile officer then proceeded to 11;&. iningliain, where he found the boxes, which• wee...lilted, with stuff's. These, from their being of a4l peettlitir , vattern and manufacture, were immediately identilredliANtr w lints. as the property of the firm, and the prisoner was bronglii to London. He was accompanied by a ,genteel young woman when he was apprehended. The exact amount of the property of which be had plundered the firm c0,r141 not be ascertained, but it was snore than 3001. _ Hymn, of Bishop.sgatc.street; Reeves, Redeross•street ; Fleming, Newgate-street; Fleming, Fiket-mark et ; Russell, Fore-street ; and several other pawnbrokers, produced whole pieces of stuff, which the prisoner load pledged. The whole of these were identified by the prosecutors. Mr. Harmer, whit attended fur the pro.ccution, complained, that three other pawnbrokers, to whom he had tasiee gkell notice to come forward with property pledged by !lie prisoner, bad neglected to attend. The Lord Mayor commented with considerable severity upon this reluctance to aid the ends of justice, and observed at the same time, that they were generally much too eager to eeeive ,ocials of value in pledge. Pawnbrokers ought to ia •lerrotatr most strictly any person bringing property of the .lescription now produced ; but there did not appear to have been ►he •hfibtest question put to the young man at the bar. lie (the I Ilayorj could not help thinking that the fre quency of erimes of this nature was is a great measure to be attributed to the facility with which stolen pi op , sty could be disposed of. The prisoner was folly committed for trial. GUILDIL A I.L. The young man in custody on a charge of robbing Mr.Knott, of the 8.,i ley ,flow, in Sslisbery-coort, was ac.uin brought up on Mmiday ; when a gentleman slatted, that thi . Knott had not yet arrived, and twitted that the prisoner 'night be fur titer remanded ; but 4r. Homer opposed the application, saying, that the prisoner and his brother bad remained fu prusecitror's house a considerable time after the . supposed 11. eft. without any suspicion being whispered against them ; anil'he was prepared to show that the charge of felony was neve smile with a view to compel the payment of the debt, and thtt the prosecutor had neteally compromised with the prisolier's brother, and accepted of a sum of money to re• lease him.—The prisoner was therefore discharged. J. Hutchinson was a few days since brought to this Office charged with a violent assault upon a gentleman in the street. On being interrogated, he betrayed evident symptoms of de rangement and it was ascertained that he was .a native of Hastings, where his father, a respectable tradesman, resides. A letter was immediately sent to the latter,.wlio, in conse quence, arrived to take charge of hisson, intending to place him iu his own neighboarbood. The above unfortunate indi vidual has for more than two years excited the attention of the inhabitants of Hastings. He has, during that period oc espied a sort of cave hewn out of a solid rock, and in man. ners resembled the hermits of ancient times. He had very little furniture, and although possessed of a tolerable income, scarcely allowed himself the common necessaries of life. Hr was constantly to he seen with a bible in his liatid. He re ceived almost hourly visits from the inhabitants and visitors of the place. but be very seldom took the slightest notice of them. He had louse since obtained the appellation of the hermit. Coustant saideavonrs had been made to induce him to return to the lionse of his father,but he was always firm in hisrefusal. A. shoit time since he suddenlydisappeared,atitlthe gener al supposition was, that he had laid violent hands upon himself, until his father received the intelligence that he was here in enstody. ROW STREET. Monday, Capt. Walter Marriton was brought to this Office, charged atilt violently assaulting and wounding Matti') Lynn, • seaman, on the high seas ; and some extraordinary circum stances were connected with it. In the year 181.5, the ship Atlas, of Whitby. was hiredity the agents of Oovernment to carry convicts under sentei.ce ' of transportation to Botany Bay. At the beginning of the month of December, she cleared out from Gravesend with convicta on hoard fur Botany Bay, where she arrived safe iu the month of July following : the convicts were landed, &c. The Atlas remained at Botany Bay till the month of Septem ber, when it left, the prisoner taking assay with him on hoard his ship four women and two men convicts, who were st• crrtc.l until the ship had completely got to sea. When the Atlas leached Batavia, the pri.esner timk one of the female convicts, who was it :10tolig girl, on shore with him. The three other female and two mate convicts were allowed to go no shore at Batas na, and did not worn to the ship. They remained at anchor seine time at Batavia, to take in freight, and while they were tints stationed, one night, which he had every reason to Indic% e was a Saturday night, but lie could not tell the day of the month, bet wtett ten and eleven o'clock, the prosecutor was pearti.ing a song which he had le arnt at Botany bay, whet M tier mate of the ship °role' ed telling, the Mate it was his watch. The mate th en kit and in a short time after the prisoner came to I' with great speed, and seized him violently by the throat with both his hands, ae.d held him so tight and so long that he was nearly choked , and after be let go his hold ()flits throat, he ()Mei ed the ptoscentor to lease the ship and get into the boat, for the purpose t,!' being pot oil board one of the East India cruisers. the proseentor refused to go, unless his wages werc first paid, and he had time to pack up his clothes, and take them with him. The prisoner then armed himself with a pair of pistols and a cutlass, and presented one of the pistols at the prosecu- ArYITT, X. tor, who still reused toleave the skip, es ci pion being paid his wages, and being allowed tato. Isis clothes with. hies; the prisoner then aimed a Wow Mt hie licad with theinillass, n harm cc; nln r. the right side of his head just above ids ear, cdeseil him to bleed profusely ; and hying thus wound ed, lie ve:i obliged to comply with 11. • in der. of the prisoner, and get bout eilliei moue) Or clothes, and with nothing on but Aid( or trowsera, being without shoes or a hat. prisoner proceeded w ittr him in the boat to the Eavt Tpote Conipait's cruiser, and when the prosecutor got on bolt Mils Cruiser, flu 2uniii•rof that sbip put iiim in irons, at the Jest. e of the prisoner; lie was only allowed to be on the quai ter-deck, where lie was kept all night, without soy coveriair,, except the clothes be had on when lie left the Atlas. The %veight and coldness of the irons remaining on his legs such a length of time, he was completely disabled. The prosecutor sailed in the East India Company.' el iiiser to Cisletitta, where the prisoner was with his ship. When the prosecutor arrived at Calcutta, he found there was a new motet', Captain Motinteal r, with the ship; and the people Ott boatel said, the old master had left the ship at Angell) Point, and had gone home iu another ship, and that the mate had returned hack with tin ship to Batavia, where the new cap- Mouutearr, took nosvession of her. 'flier prosecutor's stdteinOnt was conlirmed by a sailor, who was one of the crew of the Atlas at the time, and rowed tile prosecutor on boatel by order of the prisoner, bat on account of the darkness of the night he could not see if the pi isioner was armed, and he was not allowed to go on board ow is niter. _ _ _ _ - The primmer was ordered •re find bail to answer the charge at the next Admit alt Ses,lons. Tuesday a lung investigatiou took place before Mr. Birnie„ respecting the robbery of the Earl of Mansileid's house, at Leese Wood. No prison was in custody, but a man veleta. ;dilly attended at the desire of one of the patrol L clongieg to le e office, iu eose.eursence of an instrument being fulled.— Mr. the I..ad -.tee ard of • the noble Earl, Ai temletl, and stated that the wing of the lions( at Wood, a hitch he occupied, had beet; brokers open, :led . %stilted of:* huge quantity of listen, entitle pp 3111, go% el gus, -ils tr coins, and other p; °petty to a mishit:l elite ailment. The man was nut detained in custody. Mr. N relative, of l'emple.place, illackfriars-road, on his way throe is St. Paul's chut cl.-yard eu Tuesday, lost . his pocket-hook, containing, attsei,a,other papers of value, two drafts to the amount of 731. lle immediately went to the banker's to stop payment, and • had been hut iu a short time in the shop, when one James- Leies entered, and presented the two drafts for payment. Tie elect. his hurry did not question biro how he became possessed of them, !sus imme diately gave them to Mr. Nelthorpe. Leith, boa ever, suss takea into custody, and eons c, est to Bow-street. He *tat (d himself' to be a carver mei elide;, residing in Chapel-street,. Soil°, where he had lived Jet 12 years ; and the account he gave of the drafts was, that be picked them up in Leicester. square, in which place Mr. Ns laterite had trot been in the Course of Tuesday, The chuffs were in the same state as when Mr. Neithorpe bud been robbed of them, and perfectly clean ; whereas at the tune, as the prisoner said, he had. picked them up in Leicestcr—square, a heavy shower of rain hat!.sest ; andsrunsequently ere thefts must have bees dirty, had he picked them up in the street as he described. Lack, the patrol, was dispatched to ascertain if the prisoner was the person he described himself to be, which was timed to be the case. On searching his• residence, be found dare pecket-b.soks, and broueht them to the office,.bat neither of Went proved to be Mr. Nelthorpe's. Mr. Bircie ordered the prisoner to be detained. MARLBOROUGH STREET. DISTRESSED CIA: Y M AN. —A clergyman, whose name we forbear to mention, was brought to this office charged as a mendicant, with having entered into several shops and asked alms. He Pppeared the lowest state of misery, of about the age of SO years, and described himself as having fille.i several respectable sittratiens, as tutor and curate in this country, in the West lushes, in Flanderi, and on beard of a mall of war. He said he was ordained deacon by the Arch bishop of York, and priest by the Bishop of Winchester, and that he staffed snuck from ; bet that being unmarried he hoped yet to procure some situation in which lie could cans means of subsistence. _ The Magistrate expressed mneli regret at being unable to offer any permanent relief to a gentleman of so respected a profession, whom he was h concerned to see in such a situation. lie recommenied him to return to his native county, from which he had been absent 12 years, and offered to remit him in the usual manner. The unfortunate gentle man consented, and he was conducted to the house of cor rection in Clerkenwell. QUEEN SQUARE. E. Jones was chargvd with robbingJ. Graham of his watch and appciiilaizes. The prosecutor is servant to a Dragoon Otticcr, and cone to town a few days ago with his waster. — He was crossing the Seven Dials about dusk in the evening, when he was knocked down, and the prisoner ran off wi th his watch, but was subsequently taken.—lie was fully coni. Mary Buckland, a Cyprian, was folly committed for rob_ hint 7'. Bagnet, whom she tmticeil to a house iif ill faint in the Almon ,of a 11. note and SOllle silver. J. Barber, charged with stealing a quantity of lead, the property of Messrs. Maltby and Co. of thames-street, finally examined, the particulars of which have been already stated, and he was fully committed. J. Townsend, remanded for tittering forged notes, 'ailer went a final examination un four charges, and was fullylcum• mated. At the Quarter Sessions for this town, on Thu:sda', after the Deputy Recorder, Mr. Sergeant Blossctt, had delivered his charge to the Grand Jury, the Vice- Chancellor (the Master of Clare-hall) entered the Court, attended by his solicitor, preceded by the Esquire Be dells, and followed by the Proctors, and demanded of the Mayor, John Purchas, Esq. the situation which he then occupied as chairman, which the Mayor posi tively and unequivocally refused, observing, that he considered himself entitled to the situation, it having always been occupied by his predecessors in office, and that he should conceive it an abandonment of his duty to resign it. The Vice-Chancellor then quitted the Court.—Cambridge Chronicle. The Drapers' Company, on Thursday, gave a most sumptuous dinner to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, at their noble Hall, in Throgutorton-street. ELVIN 110