The National Register. — London, England, 1813-05-30 00:00:00

TAB NATIONAL REGISTER. so LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26., THE KING e. TAYLOR. The Defendant, the diumager of the Opera-house, was bronght up to receive the j , dgment of the C - , , dirt, for a libel on a Mr L'Eceine, calling him a mnsieal monster ; and stating. that the Theatre had been burned down by Carivalli, an Italian ; that e was also an Italian, and, like him, a disappointed would—be—manager, and Sully capable of the same act. An affidavit of I.Tcen , e was then put in. stating, that although Iw had se%cral times avplied to be admitted into the Opera-house, am! for that porpn.e ,Ir!-cred money and ebscription-tickets, he had been refused admit two:4• by the express orders of Mr. Taylor. • Lord ELLENBOROLGII asked if the detiendant had any thing to say M . r. Taylor replied, he had not any thing to say. Mr. Ju4tice Guosr. pronounced the sentence of the Court, which was, that the defendant should pay a fine of 501. to the King and rd main in the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea till the same was paid. Mr. Taylor immediately paid the fine. Six persons of the names of Davis, Lewis. Bow, Waite, Gege, and Gale, were brought np to receive judgment, having been found • guilty on an indictment brought against them by the Commission era of the Excise, for a riot made to terrify and injure a perw , n of the name of Coates, who h A appeared as a wltiics against a malt ger for penalties for breaches of the Excise laws. The Court adjudged the two first to be imprisoned four months in dm House of Correction, and the others three mouths. FRIDAY. MAY 213.. W. Dyer was brought up to receive judement, having. been found guilty on an indictment for asaulting two women. It appeared fl om the evidence, that the Defendant broke into a room where vd or 30 persons were engaged at prayers ; that he did assault the two women ; and that he swo-e lie won khi the preacher. a Mr. Grind ley, of the age of 80, but was prevented, by being forced out of die room. One of the women was tar gone with child. The Defend ant was intoxicated. The indictment had been removed icy the Prosecutor. from the Ses-imis, into the King's Bench, by certiorari. The affidavit of the surgeon,.wlio had attended the %roman who was with child, was put in to prove that she had not received any ma . tot i& .1. jury. Mr. Justice GROSE having remarked on the impropriety of De fendant's conduct, and having ako stated that the removal of the indictment, weighed with the Voiirt in his favour, did order and Pdjud , that the Defendant should pay -1 fine if tol. and remain in the custody of the Marshal of the Marshalsea till the same was paid CONSPIRACY.-THE KING AG %MST WSI. GEO. HARRISON AND ELIZ. ELEANOR ST. JULIEN. This was an indictment tried at the last Assizes for the County of Kent, wherein the Hoii. Basil Cochrane was tile prosecutor, and it chafged the two defendants with en:lspiting together, by means of threats and other undue courses, to extort from him the sum of 10.0c01. • Our readers are already in po , sessicit of the particulars of this case, as published in this Journal during thy last Assizes tor the said County. At picsent, therefore, tt will suffice to say, that the defentlaut4 were, through the activity of Mr. Henson, the prosecu tor's Solicitor, both convicted of a conspiracy ; having but n proved to have. attempted to extort the above NMI, by threats, stich charging Mr. Cochrane with advising the defendant, St. Julien, who live* with him as his mistress, to use vaputir-baths in order to pro cure abortion, when in truth. and in tact, 110 sti4 h charge against bit Cochrane could possibly be Hipported, but which uriminated in the basest motives and contrivances. _ _ _ On the contrary . , it appeared from the notes of the Learned Judge, taken on the trial, that the kindest attention and regard, as welt as atiectio:i, had been uniformly manifested towards Miss St. Julien by Mr. Cochrane, mild he had the must nnequivocai proofs that her int'ulolity was of that description that his protection. must necessarily he withdrew'', for ail his servants testified to beii'g eye-witnesses of it. lie therefore. ceased (*wilier to consikr her, but tends - red his best services, and in the most liberal way, to the • children, desirous, however, that theti should be sep.iratcd from her. On the part of the defendant, Hari ison, who only way called up for jution ot, several affidavits were pia in. stating his humble si tuation in life, and complainine of the severity d f the priisecution, mid he :old ox,bt ti the Cuuit himself, iuot having, - as la said, the • MAY SO. means of employing Conn•el, which address occupied nearly one hour, wherein lie conducted hithself in a manner that indicated , much sorrow for his ••itiuttion. _ _ _ Mr. Common Seijeant, Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Spankey, were heard in reply, on the part of the prosecution, and the last men tioned Gentleman clearly demonstrated not more the laudable pro prrety of the prosecution, than the stubborn perseverance of the defendant to provoke it. Lnrd ELLENBOPOUGH directed that he should be brought up again on Monday to receive sentence. Mr. White, jnn. Editor of The Independent Whig, was. brought up on Monday fur judgment, when Mr. Justice GitosE passed the following sentence upon him :—That he be confined in Newgate fur 15 calendar ►honths, and pay a tine of tOol. to the King. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. Sonday morning, between two and three o'clock, as a news-vender, named Newstead, was passing the end of Essex-she( t in the Snead, he was attacked by three fellows, one of whom gave him a viiiient blow with a sick ; they then seized and threw him dawn, and having sin& d his mouth with hay and mud, took his pocket hook out bola his cost, containing 71. in notes, and various memorandums. On Tuesday evening a daring rob!iery was committed in the reigbourhnod of Clare—market, upon William Chater, a servant in the employ of Lady Slater, who, between nice and ten o'clock was forced into a passage in St. Clement's—lane, by two footpads, who ant open his breeches, and robbed him of his pocket—book, eontain hig bank-notes to the amount of 61. &e. His cry of murder brought some persons to his assistance ,• but the robbers made their escape. From the deseriptioa of the villains, however, one of them was soon after taken into custody, by Humphreys and Cave, belonging to Bow-street office, and was on itiednesday examined before Mr. Nitres, at tic office, identified, told committed for trial. The daughter of the Postmaster at Ste)ning has - iieen committed to Horsham goal charted with Wahl stolen notes to the amount of 151 out of letters sent through her father's office. Friday se'tieighr, an eminent tradesman in Newgatestreet was brought for final examination before the Lord Nlayor, under suspicion of forging the indorsenmets to two bfilsot exchange for upwards of 4001. each, with intent he defraud Thomas Cobb, or the Governor and Co.e.piiny of the Bank of England. The- Lord Mayor's Clerk read over the evidence of the witnesses, as taken at the former examinatime, which they signed, and swore to respectively. and the prisoner was full committed. On Friday, the i lilt inst. 1 honing Masters, 'a labouring man, working in the turf grounds in the Hamlet of Wimblington, Cam bridgeshire, was struck dead by the lightning. The man was tumid the next morning by two of his children, with his bread and cheese in his hands. His feat had a hole in it, and it appeared that he was struck above the ear; his cheek and beard were much scorch. d. He has left a wife and six children, whose daily support was front his earnings. On Friday se'unight, a Coroner's Inquest was had at Hainford, by the Corum r of the DuChy of Lancaster, on the bodies of Dinah Maxey. aged 60, and Elizabeth Smith, aced ?2, her daughter by a kriner husband. Atter a minute examination of witnesses, and the bottles tieing opened by an ambient surgeon, the Juror's verdict was —Killed by poison being admihislered by a person or persons unknown. It appears, that on the Thursday morning poet eding, these unfortu nate victims breakfasted at their usual hour, and made their tea from water out of a kettle which it was their custom to till the evening berme, and place in a closet, and into which arsenic, or other corrosive poison, had been infused. The young woman ob served the water being white as it was poured out, but took no farther notice. She was soon after taken soddenly ill ; the mother was atfackeil in the'same manner, and a few homes terminated their existence. No clue has yet been given to discover the author of Allis horrid catastrophe. FonnEo Cil A n Ar I 1. HS --••• A. man of the name of Green was hired in a gentleman's faindy in Saville-row, .s lout MAI, about three weas since, who described himself as having just kit the service of Mr. M.:ntague, at Briaol, and on reference. to character rg•ea bl e to the addiets, a very favourable answer was returned. After Green had been a fortnight in his new set.% Ice, he decamped wi!h gild and slicer articles to a very great ainomit, and has not once been heaid of. it was then discovered that nu such person as Mr. Montagne coulei be fiboul at the stated address, and that the letter was altogether a fabrication. Ai:other trick of the 3I me sort was played off *llion one of the Foreign .Il.ba.sadors a short Itime since, which also led to the robbery of the hoarse. This was also a character hung Bristol, purporting to Lave been written by • At. i Ballot:L.