The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-16 00:00:00

I _ , • " 4 0 4 Atc;.• 16 10 t .% . i .~. ~. J. - the Judge's address, the prisoners, appearing both fatigued, were allowed to sit down on the aides of the dock, Chaleraft had no Counsel. Mr. Co: ~uou Sergeant and Mr. Andrews were Colin , el for Menne!. The Connael hir the pi oseeuniiii were, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Holland, and Mr. Heath. .-- We observed the lion. Grey Bennet, M.P: on the lett hand Serge.tut Lens during Ow trial. CHARGES OP MURDER. Mary Stone, aged 29,wits charged 01l the oath or her sister, H inlet II impten, with havltig wilfully 'murdered her female Held, in September, NIG, at Richmond. Toe prisoner, a most interesting young woman, was placed co the seat 'err the table, as she appeared too we a k t o su p. hurt Itm st If in die 113941 glare where priso ners stan d . She s:ooned dejected and worn down ; her features, Whit:4 Were imelligent and expressive, indicated C.:in:me anxiety and emotion. tto bail;; arraigned, she pleaded in a faint mid a 4 .,nixed tone, " Not Guilty." Mrs. II mipton was pot into the witoesses box. She en. geared a time voting woman, about 19 or 20 years ti,'age. oit casting her eyes to where the prisoner sat, she burst late tears, and exclaimed with great apparent auguit "0, nay sever, my sister t"ree prisoner (Muted during her sister's agitation, hut War speedily recovered; the latterofzer having li-en taken out into the open air, was soma well erough to give her evi.leuce, which she aid with less ent•preot entireness. meant than mi4lit have bees expected. "In the month of , September. PIG, she said, I slept, as was my custom,with my sister. About too in the. morning she said she wire in extreme pain, and shortly after she was delivered sir a female child ; it cried, and I wanted to call in assistance, Ilnt she. would nut 111:!, Very shortly after the child was barn, my sister forced bar brad into the infant's 111011111, anti rhaaked it, and then thrust the bndy into a tyro under the bed. She threw herself, on the bed, but got tip in at moment; I then said I'd coil fur somebody; my sister replied, that it' I attempted to dose she "took/ kill rue, snit !lieu herself. I WAS SU frightened that I desisted. My sister left the bOdy in the pan that night, and •tin the following 'nor ii iii made up a tireiu the rouin,atici tried' te bluetit, but the dash made such a crackling noise that she was emid it would be heard, and she took it .olf the fire acid re placed it in the pan. The neat morning she took it .duwe stairs,and burnt it in the copper to ashes--she then cleaned the Copper onl , and threw the ashes on the dunghill.' Cross-examined.-1 first told this about twelve months ago, or.shortly after I got married. I let it out one night in my size's, and ou my being questioned by my husband, I cosi- Afeased the truth. My sister kept the house we lived iu ; it had only three rooms, and being thinly partitioned, so that what passed within might be heard by the neighbours. My sister sod Isle pt in the same bed; my sweetheart then, but husband Vow, in the opposite room to ours ; a 311411 named Kenyon *ad my bristlier geoerally slept in the hard room. I never said my sister, who MIS iso unmarried woman, was pregnant, before this matter took place. I don't know that any body c.stieed it. My wisteria ill usage commenced about a fortnight after it hap ;seneil ;the then threatened to turn me out ot doom: She disliked my liii•trriage, tlimigh I never 1141 ill-will to her or expressed myself to that etket to any body. I never said to Mrs. Wilks that I'd ruin the prisoner, or that I wished her dead to get the 5001. out of the bank. I lieVer said that is I was not of age, I could not get the money yet, or hoped that sere might die first. I believe we are entitled to 5101. which , is in the Bank. My sister bad a child before this last, it Isn grown boy, has always lived with her, and she heats ft well. .This was the sole witness fur the prosecution. : - Mrs. Wilks said, that in September,' 1818, she lived at where sue knew the prisoner. Witness repeatedly .heard the prosecntria wish ter her sister's (the prisoner's) death swing that site wanted her money. She remeni. tiered :ie.• •ay Mg on cae tic:Asian, " I wish she was dead, due then l oruid.l have the worry, and my hushand'aud me valid get into business on our own account." Mr. J:10 ice Aishott eoininvited upon the improbability of -the whole story ; twit no one had observed the prisoner to be pregnsut ; tlist wine in the hunse heard any noise, and that proseenirix should have-su long coaccnied the der it i ue, and concluded by observing to the Jury, that if the wi se:pa. had really conswitted.the act in the manner described, nothing wan more unlikely than that she should have q garret:cif, . and almost on:liediately after the fact, with the pesson who balanced tier life in her hands. • The Jury without hesitation returned a verdict of Not . Citi;ty. Mary Pnisiter,oahr thirteen years of age. last Junary, stood charged with the der of hie bastaid child. Several wit nesses proved the bit th at' this child in a healthy state, on the 21 11 1 Julie. The prisoner seeiued fond of it, but it was found dead will/her two days afterwardsoud with some livid marks about its mouth, which the WOllllll who assisted in dressing it, after its birth, attriluited to aossietising like a convulsive tit. The chief witness to prove that the child died a violent deaili, was Mr. Newman, a surgeon, who was decidedly of opinion, that it otet its death by crangnlatiuti and fractures in the head; lint two witnesses, who eisirily-reniained with the pri soner and child, repeated their declaration, that her trtyt- Saint of it seemed materially kind and attentive. Not Mr. R. 'tampion wasslotlieted for eseapkig from tbe.ro!es of the king's B The facts were merely these:—The defendant's debts were over:Ml.lle broke iliernles,was at Hamburg!), and other parts of the north of Europe; and was out retaken mild two or twee months ago. Mr. Adolphus, for the defendant, contended, dent the pri. woe,' cutdd be only amenable to indietenead for nu actual en tape from the walls of a prison. A breach of this contract Man merely a departure from a morel obligation, and not breach of a legal yeti-tract punishable as a ntisnetut•anor. The Learoeil Judge disseuted from flis view of the ques tion, lulu de•t•iated that what were termed she tales legally Imported act teal cotoluely, and that a breech uI them was a mis deal, ithor in toe eye of the law. fin Jury found the defendant Guilty, and the Court sea• teamed b u m to blur impliso 000000 The Manchester papers state that affairs there still continue in a menacing posture. A small portion, and only a small portion, of the ref:ma:tory workmen have availed themselves of the protection of the civil power, to resume their labour : the great body of the discon tented remains in open defiance, subsisting oral preca rious bounty, or upon funds will. h must be rapidly di minishing. From 12 to 15,000 parson:4have Len now nearly five weeks voluntarily Cregoing the ineuns of supporting themselves and their families. ;le ":IIE NATIONAL REGISTER; POLICE. MANSION HOUSE.. - - few days since a voting Gentleman attended. and after relating the siiddel death of his father, directly chin-get! his tense with hav ing been concerned in lisstening his disi.erution. The charge was treated as the chimera of a disordered mind, but fully to satisfy all Partici it was agreed that an application should be oriole fur the disk]. terment of the bodZ, which hal been buried in the I h trehlard of St. James's, Mix:0111y. The Coroner for IVe‘tminster wits aecordiagly applied to, ar.cl answer regretted, that withoin stronger grounds of ‘usoicuits.%:-rauld not grant a warrant for taking ty the body ; if he did so it must be to have the matter inve-tigated b, a Jury, and from the distance of time, as well as the corrupt state of the d !ceased when interred, it would be impossible for any man to come to a coo- Flusam upsn a vie..v of the body. The matter remaining unexplained, It tem r?soliietl to apply to Dr. Meyer, who attended Cie deceased a snort time befare his death. The Doctsr immediately declared the deat:i peen natural In order. however, to set the question at rest ha went to the Justice room, and was sworn to the following . —" Looiden to wit, I, John Meyer, M I )., do hereby make oath, that I att.q2;l:Al the late ‘Vm. M—, a few clay; previous to his death, and in he died of the daarra modals. Signed, Jour Evt: it." 'file uncle of the young man stated that this would be satisfactory to all parties, althou g h Mr. M. jun. sand continued iu a state of imad distrts,sing to Lis friends. GUILDHALL. Thurs.'s)* Jame; Elli 3 chargzi before Nfr. Alderman Good- Inhere, with plundering the Paddington Canal Warehouse, in Lon don Wall, of Manthesta and other goods, to the amount of more than 21101., the prop:rty of Afes.trs. Turner and Co. the proprietors. Elizabeth Ellis, daughter to the prisoner. was alb° put to the bar, charged wit't being concerned in .the robbery. At the re ptest of one of th proimeit•wii, the prisoners were both remanded. to give time for further imiu.ry, and fur the pawnbrokers to attend-with the property. BOW STREET. On the Ist of March, 1817, the Edinburgh rraail was rabbed of bank notes to the amount of between 4 and 5,0001. which were in a parcel seat by !nail to Messrs. Elie and Co. at the Stirling bank, from the Edinburgh bank. On the arrival of the mail coach at Stir lin ;, the panel was missing. Theplesengers had all left the coach, and it was strongly suspected that some or me whole of the inside paseengers were concerned in the robbery. An inquiry soon took place rasp:Tung them and their Proceedings on the me f, when it was as certained that all the inside places were taken previeus to the mail starting from Edinburgh, and that three persons, of the names of M'Allister, Ilamilton and Carter, got into the mail coach at the inn, previously to its starting, and the four passengers were taken up on the road. As the mail was passing the top of Prince's.street, Edin burgh, one of the pas:engem who had hooked himself by the name of fltunilton, suddeely stopped the snail, and said he had forgot won important . papers, arid as it wouici be of no use pursuitig his journey without tacen, he was obliged to retern home, and left the mail, taking his emu coat over his arm , and saying he must pursue his journey the next day. 'fne passenger who had booked himself by the name of Al.AT.stert act out.of .he mail at l.ithengrovc, and did not return into the meat, ehhougb he had taken his place to Serlin e. e. A full description of me ten's pawn; and conduct was o'otairetel from a young woman of the mune of Brown, an outside pas.steger. who was admitted into ale t coech in consequence of Ilemilion puma; out at the top of Prince', st , ect, Edinburgh. and abeattloning his iaat in the coach, and she :ode at far as Lithengrove. Tile proprietors of the Bank-notes have been making every possible exertion, and sparing ne expense to discover the robbers, and to recover the int. menu; suns lost. Among ote tr places they applied at Bow-street, and in consequence Adkins, the officer, has been fur some dine ce ening but without success, till a law months Mice, when a man was detected at the Italian Opera, in robbing the competty there, by means of cutting their pockets with a sharp instrument, and which practice it is supposed be had pursued for mime time with out suspicion or detecton, owing to his being genteelly di:se—el, and reaming to toe pit. On searceing 14:at and his residence some articles of property were found, which led to a suspiciou.tl;at he was one of the paeeengert in the Edinburgh mail, and had beenconcerned in the robbery. Jnfonnation being sent to the bankers, theownera of the valuable parcel, they sent .\ I tsa Brown the fellow-female pee senger berme mentioned, to London, when ebepoieuvely swore to the num apprehended at the Itaitan Opera house, as being one of. the paeseagers. Hit name is Hamilton, alias Grey. Ile has been tried fur the rubberiefs at the O t etra-louse and bas been sentenced to semi yeas' transportrizioa. Li the mean time A ikins has been exerting himself' to apprehend the other suppc-eel robber.;, and has succeeded in tracing out and securing one of them of the name of M.Ailister alias Criaseler ; and Miss Brown has been sent 3g tin from Edinburgh to London, anti has also identified this man as one of the passe mgrs in the tient at the time of the tobbery. A habeas corpus has been obtained for the removal of Hamilton alias Grey, from Navigate to Edintergh ' to take his trial for the robbeey .of the ; and Adltine has left town with him and Allister dies Crowder, for Edinburgh, to t:.he their .trial for the ounce. HATTON GARDSN. Thursday Pesci:tier llosher was brought 13 tus office by one of the officers of the Society for 0.. c Suppression of l'vlendicity, upon a charge of va;, , araney and gross imposturo. It appeared upon, exammation, that tile prisoner was a foreigner, who had frequently relieved by the tnendicity society, but refused to ;Gail himself of the means adopted for his .future support. Ile was this day found standing la Holborn, with a paper pinned on his breast, stating that he was a de , :ayed tradesman, avid that he was blind. The latter circumstance was evidently . au imposition, and the worthy Alagistrae, concurring . wi,li the views of the society in punishing gr..is imposture, committed him fo: eat: month to the liousc of Cor rection, Coldbittli• fields. MAEO.B01101:G11 STRI;;ET. Elizabeth Key. a young gypsey, was reexamined, for di:finding two female scraints of tQI. and upwards. The prixiser had often consulted the planet 4 as to one of the females : but her promises not having been realized, she pretended to hare been intcited with greater powers. T 1 s Litclien window-•-butters were elesed, and the prisaners began to work the charm. by bottles el different coloured liquids. Besides other great promises. the girls wen to. luoie 4001. in three weeks, by the Sybil depositing a certain rt•.m of.money wider ground in the , artlen ; but unicus ileac with secrecy the charm would be broken. The credulous girls advanced tin 1 shut the back wini:ow-sinittent, while ti:e prisoner buried the trea sure, which was to produce the WO/. This Was two years ago. and she was to return to raise the ground iu Viree weeks ; but licaring no tidings of her, the girls began to dig, but in vain.. One of them wet the reamer, a few days since, in the street, and caused her to be r.p prehentied. The parties not appearing, she was let.loose again. UNION HALL Wednesday.— Collett, the property man at thr Coburg Iltratre, charged nlauchard, the Pantaloon, with disfiguring !tit' free. Hr Plaid 131auchard hail called his Vide u Gee ; end When he spoke to hies he Rireek hint. Bl4llClillrd raid, they had heen on bad It rim, sines a Piece of Colleto's•load and .The of liir It.tti mkt is r that Mrs. C. had wantonly Ills ;dared tome of hts appara mt. ills winch I}e eltargtil ; ;Imo 111,11 Colet put himsoir iu au attitude to fight t tint be told him he MI 414 au old mom, anti he would not strike I .-- Go:let then used a usual auu iiiiii able exiormothuo lea ant. hum uu which ho dud atrikr I iiiii 41111 the Magist•Ate considered that a pryli0C1111(41 . . ll•her, tire Quota, deposed to the truth ut !LAIICII4I%I'S statement.—Complaint disililllllol. Dnorrs.—h appeals from the accounts relating to the Molts of the Crown and of the Admiralty, which have been printed by order of the !tome of Commonv, that the enm tot• I received to the present time amount to eight million:lsis hun dred and vi.rtu-4ix thousand right hovered a n d firt ; low' pint 14• Is and a fraction, out of Mind, the following extra items have been paid, besides the sums appropriated to tne public sec. vice: PAYMENTS. To his Majesty's Physicians. X 16,679 10 0 To <Harem branches of the Royal Family 209,648 La 9 Buildinrs and Aqcrrttiotu at the Pavilion. Brij;li• ton, and ror Furtritter.• 58,360 10 I To Expences in different Departments of the Royal licrocholt, occasioued by the Visits of Foreign Princes to England To the Prince Regent's Du :lotion to the Poor of Spi ealfields &,00 o o To the Lord Chamberlain, on account of Expenees incurred in that Department for the A r chd u k es o f Austria and the Prince df the Brazils To the Paymaster of the Household fur ditto To the Mager of the horse for ditto l,lO 19 0 OFFICIAL PERQUISITES. To the Lord Arian, Regi.irar. for Politylace To King's Proctor, Admiralty Proctor, and others 103.383 7 9 Marshal of the Admiralty -46,975 7 10 Total Payments Extraordinary. X 456,758 2 1 MURDER AT Ent/M.—T. Osborne, who aas with four others, examined before the Magistrates at Epsom, last weel., and was discharged, was again apprehended on Sundae. fresh eirrimistances having transpired tending to i oplicar him in the murder of E. Cox. The Magistrates assem bled r, Sunday at Epsom ; when O•hortme was brought befoit• them. Subsequent to-the discharge oldie prisoner, after the first ex amiliatiou, a baker's boy at Epsom cononanicated to the officers that lie had seen an apron all (MA blood at the cot. tage of Osborne the day after the mord& r. It was likewise stated, that the prisoner's wife exclaimed, when ilie report of the pistol was heard on the morning of the mui der, " I hope that it is nut my husaand who is shot." Cutler theae dream • stances the officer considered himself justified in again taking him into custody, and he was renniuded. The officer set off with his prisoner towards London, and on the road enquired if he ever wore socks in his shoes made of an old list; to which ho replied in theinegative. The officer deals eel him tin pull off his slices, and then discovered that he hail two sock& we of that kind, one of which appeared newer than the other. sock was fettle/ near the booty of Cox, cut nut visit old hat, which as nearly as possible fitted to Osborne's shoes When Otibollie was first apprekended, his cottage was searched, but nothing was found that could support the sus piekii of guilt, which led to his being taken intastistody Subsequently to the discovery of the bloody apron which was found in a dirk room at his residence, and which mowed him to be taken into custody a second time, another search lied Leen at his house, mid a pair of pantaletess extreina:y bloody, and a waistcoat, with several marks of blood upon had been found between the seeking of his bedstead and the bed,; a place which was searched in the first histance the Lost careful manner, and where the bloody apparel conic' not havo been deposited without being discovered. Tic pantaloons anti waistcoat were very much lime and a shirr, which had been newly washed and was concealed in the same place, W 45 literally acat to pieces. Exertions for the deter_ hum of guilty persons continue to be carried Oil with iinaliatLd vigour. Osborne is confined iva room by iIIIDSCH. SIiAUEFUIt. TRANSACT/DN.—Oil Tuesday a negro, :n sa il o r' s ares, i , applied to the Magistrate* of Union. Hall, and complained that he had been robbed of 151. in bank -cotes. Ile explained to the Magistrates in broken English, that on Thursday seamight he was paid off &omit vessel at Chatham, called the Ann, and on the same evening arrived in tolln with at shipmate, named John Ifarris Never having been iu Eugland before, and uuderstanding but lit:le of the English language, tiring a native of Surinam, he eagerly accepted the proposi tion of his comrade to go with him to a house where they should find comfortable lodging and plenty of provisions at a reasonable rate. He was conducted to a house in Black Liturcourt,Tooley-sti eel ; the woman of the place behaved remarkably civil, and a quart of gin was sent for, Harris iust.sted he would himself may for. /le reenllecte..l making inure that passed, heist; seized with a stupor frontantoxieation: flit on hiday morning found laimel ly ime un the stones in flout of the house, without the jacket, , or neck-kerchief, and all his money gone. Ilh2 made sore, prisons in the iseighbom hood understand that lie waisted a constable, and he was directed to one, w in) aria to the hours and took Harris into custody, lint in: toad of taking him be fore a Magistrate sutlei eil lust to ese4;m. i 141. note seen in i n, posse ,,g on 4. ,1* mt....astable a rt.lll' iiimutCs - Will CIS, anal the pour complainant conyec to red, wef t some show of reaaon, that lie had shared the plunder with his tl;s, • honest shipmate. Magistrate desired the officer, to make immediate inquiry, and discover, if possible, the parties concerned, mid take diem into custody. A few dayssince, an extraordinary interposition of Divine Providence was evinced in the deliver:lime of William Salts., of St. Cross-mill, in the Isle of Wight, who, being eniplo . i t J in the mill, lotil ()evasion to. make some alteration in the car. While so engaged his foot because entangled In the di esiing strap, and lie was instantly drawn up ender the thrum, aim suspended by one of his thighs, expecting every monism in be tore to pieces ; but, to his greet astonishment, the swap, whicli.etas three incite* wide sod proportimiably thick, anif three of the cgs, gave way, by which lie oas protitlenlisilly rescued fruni Ige situation without lOW y. It is stated idian American paper, that a ship of about 37.1 tons was ready to be launched trouceine of their ship-yards, which is actually to .be titted.aa with a sacaul engine and as aatteam packet ship for crossing the Atlantic. A IVOIPaII has been lately coavieted at Antwerp, who set fire to her taat4netir nekingbllle;italdle ki'n7iiti-bh:.:l::"l'encart.neti you. I told e house out of revenge *gaunt her husband , wita used to go and drin his pinta beer at a neighbouring alehouse; she had often threatened to tleprive him of the means of rs'ealiag hi:at-elf, and has now earrast Th e husteual m , tra te r l i oui rgd i l l i g at til l ii : i t s ti l y m o us n e . was A. nitsfortune ? tae her threat into exectitiou. I will ttll; ou srnm „.. at - Limed. y rasevl, tha J did it; you know I have tan and yit Ills wire • evil! nlr mare go : , Ind drinl dour pot." What lul.la to atroiny o l n a r: t 4 t g6 e h r rebo :iid„ •• dotec ais , nv a e , s it be A l i act of insanity) is. that beture ti ; t i re to t he house. she desired lief eliikleen to go to heel, saying, " (a) to bed throaty, Mr I mil guin u g e t n o t I; o urn bvi tl:e s l i .n o nse si .: pu l t a t l i ac ke t t , h o ird ne 17, the e e rll ° le t . a" l ij 'h y a e t a o r f s i:i i ii: g y e LlD. 411 age yerisi.ed in the iLines: oat 17 escaped with difficulty II remelt me theme and smoke. In aMC • inelomy fit of sensibility the creel mother rushed inn" the 'mini. g base waive the youngest (Ado, crone mu holding it in her arms. It vu IMMC(ii•ittly DAM 4,5 aua calf., as 46114•4 {DOSS an sign of femme. - -n.caG ' ; LF