The National Register. — London, England, 1821-07-30 00:00:00

OLo BAILEY SES,SIUAS. MONDAY, JULY 23.—Hector Munroe, ty . ,cal 17, related to families of tile highest repectithilit y,w as capitally 'aid bled for stealing iwu valuel3l. it/ the house of M. W. Troy, Esq. Mr. Outs lin...stated, Ilint the prosecutor was intimately acquainted with ihe prisamer's family. The prisoner Sonic Hate ago had gained his fathei's house is conseopience of some family diui•rrure, and the prosecutor lanolin?, I • in a blatC of thitret. , , invited him to Lail at his house, which he did several limes. Oii the :id all. he called it Mr. Troy's absence. that when the latter gentleman retuned he missed a musical and an agate smelt box, which Oad been placed an a t oble in the non, iii whica I lie pi isomer sal, mid could he gaiiird of lion until I helSi it ofJ unc,wOen he was fout7tl by Mr. Maniiiii - ; of the Adelphi, tit whose house be had also neut.,. :illy called, in a most wretched state. Ile taxed oito with rohliao; Mr. Tray, aml lie iwwediately gave up two implicates for the hoses, which he bad for 3i. the day after they were ttolen. Mr. Al:wining nad missed twu silver snalr-lioxes nual s ome spoon, at time, w i l e ' , the prisoner had called, anal tie accused liiin of stealing them, upon alttch lie produced duplicates for all of them, and made a full confession of ids guilt. The facts were full) proved in evidence. The prisoner made 1111 defence, but appealed to Mr. I law kits, who was stun; at the barrister's table, as to character, who deposed that lie bad known the prisimei since his child hood, anol was intimately acquainted with his family. Ills conduct, as far as the wittiest had an opportunity of oiliservilog it, was that of n gentleinahls yours; man, And lie is as much beloved by those who knew him until this unhappy or• currence. 111 r. Jos ice Uniroyal.— W hat is his father's situation in life? Mr. Hawkins--He is a gentleman of considerable fortune, any Lurd. Mr. Justice Holroyd vomited up the evidence, observing that the charge of stealing Wills toe cleat ty made out to admit of a doubt ; but the Jury, in con:Micron; the value, would recollect that the snutl• boxes mi lit have been lab eii at Oillerria and the musical boa was merely valuable as a fant•y article, and perhaps it Might nut be intrinsically worth 40s. . _ _ The Jury returued a verdict of guilty of stealing to the amount of 311% John alias Jones Patterson, a sturdy I libernian, was capitally indicted for breaking into the lio.:sc of J. Proctor, and stealing t herein a quatittty of silver spoons, and other articles, his ill ()pert y. Ile said in his defence, that lie had been to the fire works, and on his return home lie picked up the things that were found upon hint. Ile dewed that tie was the person who was in the area. Guilty—Death. '11413 LONDON GRAND JeitY.—Ai half past four o'clock the London Grand Jury came into Court %%Oh the list of of th• it bills; and has Mg presented them, the foreman be,;,- get/ permission to oddness a lox words to tile Court. The Court —" We shall be happy to atteud to any thing you have to say, Gnat Witten." The Foreinati—" We have 110 K, my bards, presented all our bills, and have gone through the whole olonr duty, save and except that a Inch a e consider a most important part of it, namely, visiting and inspe• I ing his M jest'', gaol of !Seagate; and we now wish to know front your Loidsilips whether this is a putt of out iimierative dui) or not r' Mr. Justice Ilolruvd—•• Geutlemen, the .ypiestion which you base put to the Cow t. has already undergone the sill• cousideration of the to dive Judges, to iv biniii it wits sehoOl led sonle sessions ago ; and it was then decided, hat all hough a Grand Ju. y may claim the privilege of visiting the gain. On the _round of immemorial custom, yet that they eatinot ul 't as a matter of right. That decision, a inch was hue result of mature deliberation, was communicated In the Grand Jury a ho made the first a pplietii ion upon the subject." The Foreman—" We thank 111 e Court; will having tits sanction of so high an authority, we can depart perfectly sail•tied that we have 14'1 formed the whole or our duty." Mr. Justice Ilolruyd—•• You have periormed your duty, gentlemen, and you me discharged, ankh the thanks of the public for your services." TRIAL OF THE SOLDIERS FOR THE FATAL ItIOT IN I,II.:.S'IMINS TUFADAY, JI.11.1( ))))) ruing the (.01Irt Ara, crowded in owl t. At ten o'clock 31r. Justice 11M. ropl, Mr. Justice P.m one ond I lie Common Sergeant. took theirseatauutie bettelt,attended th e eh) nukes~. l. Richard liucbouom, agctl 22 ; Jones, n; ; Thomas Lce, acrd 21; and James thy, a di iimmer, aged 21, were then ',laced at the liar, aml pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment charging them with sembling and beating several of his Majesty's subjects; a second count charged them, on the col oner's inquest, with the wilful rum dei of William Cngle, on the I zit! of Jute lust. Mr. Alley stated the ease for the prosremion in a eery fat eible manner, and called toe rullowing wllHNall its support of his ease:— Mrs. Mary Cogle, an infirm old lady, was called, and staled she was die widow of Ilse deceased ; uu lise 1 , 111 ul Jane lest she and her husband we se 11a. lrunl parlour; hes husband was reading the " of Abel ;" hearing a isuise in the au eel, shut the navel dual ; ske haul one of her lodgers, nerved Pat tersun, cawing in at isle door, dreadfully healen; he WAs followed by Ili,: " this is the way we slid at %V eterlou—nissrder the .ste. &e. She was pushed down ; on her recovering lier senses, she found her husband in die palluur with a dreadful WOllllll on his head—he was wel tering in his blood ; Ise was speechless, and remained su until lie vied in four slays alter. Ann [huh) slepusess As to the riotous ni ocecilie ' as attic soldiers, and the ailed: on the nolortunese 111411Paller snll. Sue IffogniZell Al'Catilly as acing very acsive iu the riot, alit; PAW him lit as o. g i r ea moue. thin r witnesses (until stied tise situate evidenee. . . Mr. !•levensou, Of the it es,mimter Hospital, deposed, that the deecit.ed was lit im;il4 there, and witness UN .1- man J him. Ile had a wuunJ over the iighn rye, Ithiti IWO iurhre in length. non Mai an The t.ktd. was gimlet! ed and Weetessi.it upon the brain. ilr il;eil ni three nr inur Wass. limes ,114:Attily, cio . ;iirg caged 'won fur .lerciwe said lie o.'s itinocent, awl put in A Mrirun pApAi, %snit Mos read. It bet iottit tlrri Ilie riot I•oliiineut cii "y to o druuken *oldie's wing mitociail by two young men to ;lie Almoury s Itoebutioni and the other prisoners declared 'hey were innotilli p said pot in Millen defences, varying but little from the former one. Several wheeling were emulated is behalf of the tith. TrrE NATIONA L REGISTER sailers, most of ilolllStilied,that the atilay watt begu n b, the people, and that the soldiers acted WI in the defen sive. _ _ . The learned Judge haying amulet' tip the evidence, IhcJilly Ic iii i, nut 11411.110 d atilt a verdict littilm; Nlq urlhv utid Itueboi tom w 'lilt y AlatislAu;iiiler, the miler 111 isoilet s. 'rite that lighted ul,Nal is of ilfhleen hoary, i:• , lt Y, Jll I.Y kTrTIIPT TO A SSA SA, A 1 .1: (4:N• L. nov:l% Palmore, aged 41, a man of colour, stns capitally Man - tea for can iin t; %, illeam Bailin', a suluect u. unr I.ord Ike liar,. it ail . ..omit to kill and molder heats LI Iw,, 111 UricOnlll , ll ,. t,arged oitli the saws offence, nnty slating the inient id ac id nu slim some ;frictions noddy ha, In, or In di:midi. him. 31r st air d the ca• 4 fn, the punsectit ion, and sel nett, ili.ti lae clone alleged by the isi 'voter the despe rate net, was the supposed sirthiction mil tin wife by 11m Cies 'anal, flail he mentioned this circuutsuutce opruly and candidly, in or.lei that the counsel On the alb. r side might, if I hey chine, ...be the mailer to the vi rylhabini. Lk:Hr.-Cell. Emilia deposed, tUat the prisimer had been in his ser vi c e a t i o u i yea. ain India Mid o h e r places rib. natl. 11 odes! , had a sister i'tried Sisa t emi, with s mist a goon; winnaii lived as her maid, and the prisoner itcroi ed her, nail i hey left 'loch re•liceiite siurtt ion% Some after this tile prisoner's s,ife was ire. eft .rack by MIS. Simpson. The pr isimei left ais sersire in 1614, and Wanes* irad since Deell travelling on theComiuenl. IC relboiled w IMAM) IN the lAst IV May last, in his sister, Mrs. Si 11111,111), , 4 11.0 re silks near limovertstiitare. thi the lid mil Jute lie was informed (11 1 iarisimer wedied to vett. ris hen, 1140 t% Nit ilito the hall noil asked biro n Mil he named. Ile aIISIS !red, you have seduced my wife, and I am come di deinand 11'itness declared the are Mal inn was false and desii int the pi isoner to leave the douse, which lie refwei to do, and believed in a very violent manner. lle their ordeleil the seiValits lis turn him out. Ott the 14th of June lie caute again, and lie again went In him in the hall. Ile repeated his fanner accusation, adding, 1 can bring proof ~; IV othess replied, Upon my word and lintimuir it is false, and if you have proof of it bring it forward.' 11 e reiterated the charge of s,rduetion, whit Ii witness again denied and hid him quit the louse. Witnt ss was at i his time ri treating to wai tis the parlour door, n lieu lie tan the prisoner had a large but cher's knife in his left hand. Witness was left handed and sn was the prisoner. Upon seeing this he stopped And fared the priwiler in his defence. lii a fuometa the prisoner rushed upon him, and stabbed him with at kiiife in his riga( beast, ma kin.; a winiiid or !lace inches in dz..plll. Witness giappled with him and got hold of the 1.-life, and in the struggle they hallo fell, the primmer uppermost. lie gut ilte knife from witness's hand, and made tiller: or four stabs at him is various parts. M itness again got hold of the knife and the prisoner drew it through his hand, and cut him most severely. At this inuinent William IlitatillOO, a servant of Mrs. Sitopsoids, interfered, amid Sir %V. Lamm, w itnes's nephew, touring iii, the prisoner Sias secured, and the knife taken I, oin him. Be afterwards expressed Mai) sorrow for what had happened.—The General nere produced the knife, the irlad• of is hicii was about (0% inches iii length. fie also exhibiteti some of tile scars renaming from the wounds he had received. ost -ek:alliined by Al is. A lid re u s.—W i nessv had not seen the prisieler bum the tune lie {Wetted his service, in 1814, mail tile 31 of June Lust. lle appeared pi rfectly calm and collected ext ept AI il.e lir•t inlcrvicn, %%lien he %las ertiiik. Sir xx 'Wain i nloa ilepii,ed to coming into hail, is here the prisoner iias uncle, aural drsrlibe.i iiie Later part of the haus:Letitia in the baltiC wa mcr ikb I ..0 last W Il IIeSS. 11 illiant Hamilton deposed, that he was servant to \l.a. •itn : oaal, the &islet in lieu. I . .adon. Tilers - isomer had e.slled mho) tones to ask so are the Genes al. The witness Hen described she ennvertatioss and subsequent attack upon the (seheial, siea.ly in the .:11111! ...water as the linter had pre viuusly done. After the prist.sser W:111 ,scout Ste sa.ii, '• It is I . ollle to sonwlliing all last, " and expo esseh ttttt ( - spas it ion. Cross-exasninsid.—'the isri•niser ' s ss tie alit her sister both lived at f 11.5. 61111i15011% mid had dote Sll for slimy years.— prisoner had often called lo see Isis a ife, h ins oars SOISIC 1111 CS dctitd so hon. Some 11111 C lq,ll the prisoner ' s Is de was absent Iht so.he ISwe from the house, m coliseqns - ist eof ill Less. Site heat to a I) sug-iii hospital—iu fact, she bail a casks, e. hit It Is stow Iltusg, ash. was 51.1111C111111•D 11110411 L 10 toe house In 11. 111.1111e1'. Htl ~stet, the other servant, tad also hail a child salve she hail heels in the fatuity. Tie• prisoner ' s wits was IV.. 111 OCCClllbel . lag. Gen. Ladiiis never gave oldess shoat the pra.,ossee should slot bv person tell to see Isis a iie, isr her .1.1511..1'. Mos. tssistiisois had gised otdos that Isi. e nsould t it lie sidles cd to come in Lou isou-e. Mr. tienine, a vor„eou, devil ibed the naiare of titr Cenc i-ars wound-, anti usid, that the one in the t citt ht ca,t cuivt have liens fatal, had t nut hieen lust the kllile shuck “gaiabt, one 0, the Ida,. Gen I:adon was rewalled, aml by Mr. Atitilpinii if lie It id ever any intercourse ii btuetet, either wit', I ill' 11, 13,0 ties', wife or tier bible' s , or if he had ever given ostlers Out tue prisinier should ton see his is lle 1 'lO each of (Item: questions the Genet al answered ticully.'• Never." Ile 'sever Milw the Water until lie cause to Loudon oil the 31st of May last. Hese the case fur tile prosecution closed. Tiie pi iston r left ttis tiereiwe it hotly to ids Counsel. Mr. Andietis called Chas lotte Leaven. sister to tlte pri soner's a tie wins stateu unit tile prisoner sad urea vonwlitetics refs .d per .tission to see on, wise. Witness had tad ii (11110; she 11':u it man ied WOlllil.l. _ Air. Jnatice liurrough refused to take n note of the last answers, as Oeing is holly 111111111pOltaut 111 the Cause. linlressa teg,ett must distinctly to et .u•, that he non r mended ai the slightest degree to cost an • imputation upon the Comiuct nod clamor tel of Gem. Latoti. Ile only attempted saea eltal there were grounds (ii,INCVCC falla cious) titrjculousy wt teic part of the presoncr. Twee tespeetanle witnesses gave ill, prisoner n gond eha. rat ter •au isumanii). I hie of titem said lie ss e.s x little laity Ms temper, but nas geiteraly mild and huatime. A ) o11 , •; win nad know it ono intimated) said, lie bad seemed vet y melancholy for tile la•t few Intuit lb. \lr. Ju.iiec lieu Do r n :mowed up tile evi.i,ixe %kis suitable row sk,,and ,heJ ii Without ~, proaouuccd a rentict s ioi Fr WAY, JIA I.T W.—James Hawkins awl Henry '1',,...er %.cic btv.ding a 101. Hole, Lite t..c J „ems Cooper. e roseetnur W.ls a gen:lrman's sereaut out of ptc.ce, on:l um the 6111 instant, as ue was luukuq; m a ik.ut inaLer's 1111014 Middle-row, Holborn, tic was accosul! Hawkins, who tepresented himself as a c ntiedc.lcr itout Use consul, and Asked Cooper ii he w..s um a couthry awn too. lie said he was; upon whicii Hawkins said, 239 he was glad to meet a countryman " in Lutinon," and asked him to take some beer. They adjourned to a house in Southampton-buildings, where, in a kw mi.. touts, they tve.e joined by Turner, who said lie was a ti..deton...ii from Herefordshire, and was come to London to consult the Doctors concerning his health, which had been very bad lately. Soon afterwards a third man came cotiverse with flawkiw, and offered him a met 4)1 some subject, which Hawkins declined; upon which die stranger said, in a contemptuous tone, " You arc all poor iellows, and can't raise 101. among,t you." A this Hawkins allecital it, be very angly, and swore he could prodoce 101 and aske , ' the prosecutor if lie could. Caner sail lie had 101. al ;10111e, upon which the stran ger said, he would bet lelll all 11. each, that they could not produce 101. within half an hour. Cooper swal lowed the hait,and ran 111/111c with all speed to fetch his 101. note, with which he retortied, and found them still there. The two prisoners eaten pi - winced what appeared to he a 101. note, and Coupe' prrrtlitect, his in his hand ; tile stranger acknowledged he had lost, Inn did not offer to pay. A dispute theft arose oetween Hawkins and the stranger as to the definition of a particular word, and the stranger offered him a diet of 11. upon it, which was ac cepted. Cooper aiiil Turner we; e invited to join in the wager; and the former said, he did not want meal ry any money away, and therefore he would bet " double or quits" with the stranger. Cooper then, at the stigAestion of the stranger, put his 101. with the limes which the prisoner had produced into a hat, to bind the bargain. A Dictionary was fetched and examined, and Cooper was informed he had lost. He said he did not care, and desired to have Ins lolt note; but this request WaS ridi culed even by rs friends, the prisoners, who joined the stranger in declaring he had lost the whole 101. He re monstrated warmly, but it was of no we; the notes were scrambled out of tile hat, and the whole three ran out of tile house, in spite of the cltitrts of (roper, who placed htinself in the passage, and ant iiiptetl to stop them. He followed and c Wed for assistance, and a constable pur sued and secured the two prisoners. \ Vitae he was holding diem, the prosecutor's 101. note dropped from the hand of 11.iwains. !trail, the Constable, produced the 101. note, and se veral flash notes, used by fellows of this description, wbieil lie 'build upon the prisoners. The prisoners, in their &teary, de , lared, they won the motley liirly.--I'hey were lotmd Guilty, and the Com incti Ser6ertit dcclired they bituti be most severely pu nished. Iknj. Jaoncey, a genteel looking youth, was intlie.ed tor s 'cling a poise, contuntity, a gUllied anti a sovereign, the property of Mr. limes Ascots, from his person, and iound g a ily. I)ARING II IGHWAY ROBBERY.—A few evenings since, as Mr. Legrous, of Kennington, was returning to his residence across the fields which (ionic Kennington from Camberwell, he was stopped by our men, who with dreadful imprecations demanded his money, Mr. heing inninidated by their numbers, delivered them his pocket hook, con:sitting hills and notes of con siderable value,. also his watch and appendages. The %Mains hot content with this deitherately rifled the gentleman's pockets. On this being done, one of the ; t an/ suddenly struck Mr. Legrous a blow on the back in Vie !wad, which felled hits to the gt ound. On his re.:overing instil himself in a few n1;111114:9 he found the rotabeis were gone. He piocceded home, making en yni y, but no persons answering ;he description Fiven sad I,,s•ed through the Kennington gate of the Com mon. It is supposed they are pall of an organized gang of inotpails woo have latter y commuted sevetal robbc ties in that direc.ion. Cu RlOOll HossasY.—One 17ednesday night some thiev;:s entered a it um LIN. of new houses in Portland New Maryletatnie, the properly of Mr. Titherly, and stole all the panes of WilllthW glass 110111 the sashes, I 'UV lig every titittg elsz behind in the usual state; they decamp :41, lcayiti nu clime witich in'ight lead to their ; yr e•iens‘on. This robbery has excited no little sur mise its that dirt:coon, as toe thieves St 'lave been a enititleratile 114:floal ett•ctiog, and the glass hail beets firmly placed in the s,:slies for several weeks past. 'lne salute of the glass was about 2111. SHOCKING 00TRAG5.....-I'WO gentlemen, passengers front Dublin to Limerick, took a walk to the extremity of the town of Mr/swath; one of mem remarked, as two young girls passed, "observe these pretty girls,, ' and continued their walk ; some young uuien accosted thesis, and enquired " how they would dare to speck so those girls; Mr. T. Lawrence, of Nesiagis, and 11r.--, oho were the gentlemen in question, mildly observed tilat they had not oliered the slightest otrence. Mr. Lawreme seeing four ►nfFians asivaiscing, observed." If you advance I shall life." Ile theta presented a pistol ; at this moment his trend seized iiis arm and lowered is, which proved an unioruniase eireutissianee, fur at that instant, Mr. Lawrence received a ulinv of a stone on the skull, 1• !itch occasioned a dreadful fracture, and a stab ofa flesh fork, which caused the lo•s of one eye, and lacerated his lace is, a shocking in sitter. The four vii laius nave not yet here apprenended. Mom° Bou, We have great pleasure in stat ing, that all alarm respecting this awful phenomenon is now at un end, as progress bating been act tualhr stopped. The. mining engineer of the Duldin So ciety, has returned lo Dublin with the acemtat. Ihe Maria, Captain Thornthw.tite!arrived in Dublin on Thursday, having on hoard Sir Greg,r Mac Gregor, his lady, and family ; they sailcd from Santa Martha in an armed schooner bound to Gree nock, but falling in with the Maria, about 130 leagues to the West of Ireland, and being short of water, they went on board, and arc now at Gre shata's hotel Sackville.strcet,