The National Register. — London, England, 1815-01-15 00:00:00

46 ROBBERY OF THE SWANSEA• MAIL. Charles Weller, the guard of the Swansea mail. was next tried on an In tlerinent, charging hire with ►tealing a parcel of country bank notes, the property of Messrs. Freeman mid Co. bankers, of Newport, iu the c.•'tnty of Altromoutli. The faces of the case, which have already been publicly detailed, were shortly these :—On the '2d of October last, a pater, was made op at the banking-1 ttttt se of Messrs. Foreman and Co. cumaitinig the 110IPS , specified in the indictment, which w. re first directed to Messrs. D.loln • r.nd Co. and afterwards enclosed in a box. which was directed to Mr. Fothergill. at Mein!. fibers, in Lawrence Pountetes-lane, The parcel •tas recei►ed as directed, but the notes were taken out. The thief re tt►eined undiscovered till the month of November last, when the pri , &later was apprehended, and while in conSnent. tit in the House of Cor -rection, he confessed that hr• had committed the robbery. and had riven the notes to it old woman named ilickinast.at Totterduwn, neat 8.-iOOl, a n d afterwards brought iliem to London. These !acts were tairly substantiated by evidence, and the prisoner fend Guilty. BURGLARY. Joseph King was indicted for burelari••nsly breaking and enteriug Vie dwelling-house of the Hoyt. Mat y Broderick, with intent to steal The facts of this ease have already been before Itie public. The prosecutris hr.. in Grosvenor place, and her house was entered on the right of the 16 It of November. by the ;fret floor wirednws. The butler being alarmed by a oit.e got up end loaded a pistol, after which he went to the top of the stairs, wh••re lie saw the prisoner looking at the clock, with a wax light in his hand, upon which he discharged his pis. tot at his side. The prisoner tell. and the light went out Witness then heard a noise like p • rsons going out at the street door The watchmen then carte up, and traces ..f blood were found Irma the passage into the street. The prisoner was afterwirds apprehended at Birmingham, and be there confessed l►is POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. EARLY DRPR AV I T Tradenham, a boy apparently not more than ten years of ale, was yesterday charged before the Lord Mayor by Mr. Grven, a country gentleman, with having robbed him of two valuable gold seals. The prosecutor, it appeared, was in •Leartlealiall market engaged in his bnsiaess, when he was repeatedly interrupted by the prisoner hanging about amt shuttling against him. At length, on putting his hand accidentally to his watch ribband, tie discovered it was tut, and his Seals were gone : he,• at the 'trine time, missed the boy, and immediately suspecting him, went into the market in pinsuit of him. He soon discovered and seized him. and'on searching his pockets, the two beals were found. A pair of seissars were also discovered lying near his feet.—He was fully cernniitted. GUILDHALL FORCER NOTFII.—ThOM44 Giles and Martin Brown were yester day bronicht up. charged on suspicion of bring concerned with Wit. .ham Sumner. who, wa% examine.] on Friday. in littering a forged note to the landlord or the Plough. in West Smithfield. It ap peared. that at the time of olierisil the notes there were.two men in company. In consequenee of information since rferived. the two prisoner-, files and Brown, were apprehended, and. Mr. Herbert now ;wore to them.—They were committed for ie.examitiation. 'Miss H. B was charged on 'risetalay at Hatton-Garden Office, %Ph forging and titttring Bills of Exchange, one for 151. two for ltd. each, and one for 181. drawn by herself on a Mr. P. and purporting to he accepted by him, which she discounted with Mr. Greig, baker in Hyde-strcet, Illoonisbnry, who, when the first became due. applied to Mr. P. for payment. but lie declared he never accepted t;trtn ;on which Mr. Greig took the lady into custody. Mr. P. not atteuthine, the prisoner was remanded till the Tuesday following, whet) the Othee was elowded in expectation of the lady being again examined; but the Magistrates receiving a certificate from the o nrgeon of the Hnuse of Correction, where she is confined. stating that she was so extremely ill, she could not be removed without endangerine her life, the litrther examination of this interesting case WP*poStponed. DREADFUL Ftns.—Three houses, those of a tallow-chandler, a tailor, and a grocer, adjoining Isiortlitunberleutl-house, Charing-Cross, were destroyed by fire on Sunday morning last ' • to escape the flames, broke out between one and two , an old Lady jumped from a p.:ir ofstaits window, and was caught on a featherbed, a young , n 1. 71 ;,14n jompe,l fioiri a tirst floor, IRtt fortuiattely neither 'received e , • • • Y. 116, '. 1 - ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. ......ap-- FA VIE Ca A IRA vtaa.-.-A short thsw since Mr. J. Meyer, of NOTWOnd. hour. Surrey, saw an advertisement m a Newspaper, by a loran's!' wanting a islets, which he answered ; when a mate calling himself T. Ifsrris applied fur the place, stating that he last lived with Mrs. Mary !linden. a widow lady, at Runaineh, with whom he had been two years and a hale Mr. Meyer on ute far hischaractsr, and received an answer, signed Mary Mellen, representing Harris to be very honest. saber and in every to srct an excellent servant ;. the letter contained the mark of H mnslow. Upon this Mr. Meyer hired him, and he entered into his service on Tuesday; the 34 instant. and appeared perfectly to under stand the business of a footman. On Friday, after dinner, during the absence of Mr. Meyer, he went out, t-lling the roller servants he was going to meet the Norwood coach, as Ise tweeted in receive a parcel from London s but not• returning for some bo s un after the aspects d time, the house *es examined. when it was ssircovered that he bad snide off with two 101. Bank of England notes which he had stolen out of a drawer, besides a great quantiey of wearing apparel and other things--Enquiries where made, and it was learnt !list the patrnle of flat neighbourhood, observing him with two bundles, stopped hint, to enquire what he had got, where ha was going. do. when he made some eawniva answer, and was foolishly suffered to roared. CAUTIMI 're Famteles.—Sunday last Mr. and Mrs. Shelcay. of Bethnal Greets, sent out in their garden for a stick of horse reddish, and the •ervantbeonght in a root, called pope's root, which exactly resembles horse reddish, and unfortunately was used instead of it. Tue consequence was. that they both found themselves very ill that evening, and the next morning on sending for a Medical Gentleman. he declared them boils to be dangerously poisoned, They remain extremely ill. Its the slight of Vl'edneaday se'itaight, a Dutch schnyt, named the Twee Gebrorders, on her voyage from East Friesland to London, with a cargo of about thirty lasts of oats, was wrecked on the Lincolnshire coast, near the. loathing homes at Frieston. The vessel basing received damage in the late storms, her Captain went on shore on the Norfolk coast for a pilot, but before he could find one awl return to his schuyt, she had driven out to sea again, and tke first tidings the unhappy man heard of her were communicated by some fishermen of Frieston, whom he met at Lyon, and who had seen and visited the wreck on Thursday morning. The wife of the Captain. a fine young woman, to whom he had been married only eight months, was found drowned in the cabin, and an inquest was held on her body at the. Anchor inn, on Frieston Shore, en Saturday. Two seamen whom the Captain left on board the schuyt when lii took to his boat for the Norfolk shore, are supposed to have been washed off the wreck, sad to have perished. Friday, one of the Portsmouth night coaches .was overturned near Guilford, and most of the passengers materially Waved. A sailor on the outside was thrown through the window of into a room in which a man and his wife were sleeping ; and in his:fall dislocated his shoulder. One of the horses was killed.—The With. man was the only person who escaped injury. 1 On Thursday last. the following melancholy accident occtired at Whitstable, Kent :.—As Robert Newing, one of the Company of Dredgers of that port, was out fishing, accompanied by his son, aged 16 years, he accidentally fell overboard ; his son immediately threw a rope to his insistence, which he fastened to Isis body, and with which the lad ineffectually attempted to haul him into the boat, but not having strength to accomplish it, the unfortunate mar, after beiug dragged by the boat nearly two miles, was drowned. He has lett a wi!e and nine children. On Wednesday an Inquest was held at the Queen's Head, Lower. street, Islington, before G. Hodson, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex, on the body of a woman arise, was found drowned at the New River Head, Islington, name linknown. •It appeared that a woman, the widow of Mr. baskwaith, a butcher. of Islington Green, was mis sing since last winter, in the time of the great frost, and front the putrid state of the present body it we** supposed by many of tee neighbours to be her. In consequence every inquiry -Was made to: asece tain the fact, but nothing could be collected to substantiate the supposition—J. Lucas deposed, that he lived near the Thatched House, at Islington, and was inspector of the New River Water Works, it being his ditty to take care that the water was regularly on, he discovered a certain pipe deficient, he in consequence broke open the place close adjoining the River Head, and found in the pipe the body of a woman in a complete state of vitrification. The body was removed in a shell to the honeleonse, where the Jury new to see it, and.afterwards returned ,to the eleteen's Head, to. de. aide their Verdict, which was given milder the diiectiun of the C., , . ~' inner- l'unsid tlrow&d.