The National Register. — London, England, 1811-10-13 00:00:00

_ committed for trial. A man-w►as apprehended on Friday, at Chatkam, on suspicion Id 'being the offender, but was afterwards liberated. _ POLICE. MANSION-HOUSE. Crib, the noted pugilist, charged a young man with having assaulta:d him in For.-street. He stated, that the prisoner had struck hien a violent blow, without any provocation, that he did not return the assault, but brought him before his Lordship for redress. The young man made every apology for his imprudent conduct, assuring his Lordship he did not know at the time the than he had insulted was Mr. Crib the fighting man : he was sorry for what he had done, and was wiring to make every apo logy, which he did, and was discharged. MARI.BOROUGH-STRF.ET. Monday, William Lester, manufacturer of agricultural imple ments, was charged with having embezzled monies to the amount of a thousand pounds and upwards, entrusted in his hands, as Overseer of Paddington parish, in 1810. It appeared , in evidence that the defendant had omitted to make up his ac counts to his successor in office, within 14 days, as specified by • the Act of the 37th of Geo. 11. On being pressed so to do, he decamped, and was afterwards taken into custody in the neigh bourhood of Croydon. None of the money has been refunded ; and the prisoner was committed to Newgate without bail, to remain agreeably to the Act stated, until he shall regularly make over his books, and account for the deficiences. Cecil &sr/op, alias Graham. underwear a ,final examination, on the same day, at this Of fice, on the charge of poisoning The Dandy and other horse.. The evidence against him is, that ne was at Newmarket a fortnight before the horses were poisoned, by the assumed name of Graham ' • that he often made enquiries about the poisoned horses, and that on three occasions he re turned rather liver than usual to his lodgings, and was particular in washing his hands, which only happened on,the three nights named. Under these circtunsc!nces,, , Atitia , icitne slight addi tional ones, the prisoner was fully committed to Cambridge gaol for trial. ROADERY OF LADY CAMPRELL.—P.Fhard Rippin, who stands charged with stealing a box, containing tiinkets and jewels, the property of Lady Campbell, to an enormous amount ; and John Pekin!, a jeweller, with whom the prisoner lodg ed, wlio is charged with receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen, were on Tuesday finally examined. pippin is the hackney coach man in whose coach the property was placed, and at the first examination several articles were produced which were found in Pollard's house, and others which he had sold, and which Miss Farrin, Lady Campbell's •maid, swore to. Other articles were produced on Toesday, and a novel circumstance occurred Juring the examination. William Jones, a jeweller, who had bought a ring of Pollard in which one of the stolen stones was mounted, gave evidence to that effect at the List examination, and it was ascertained by tile officers who have the business in hand, that Jones not only permitted this r:ng to go out of his possession, but he had also had alhc simile made, which none hut one skilled in the trade could tell from the original. On this being communi cated to the Magistrate, Foy accompanied the prisoner home, and got possession of both rings. Jones's excuse was, that he had received an order for a ring of er the original, and he was bound over to give evidence at the Old Bailei, and the prisoners wei - e .fully committed for teal. BURGLARY AND RODBERY.—Some time since the house of Colonel Wouding, in Duke-street, Manchester-square, was broke open and robbed of plate to the amount of about one hundred pounds. Every inquiry has since been made without effect, until a few daes since, when a maid servant, at a house adjoining the Colonel's, threw sufficient light on the subject as to cause the apprehension of the footman in the family, by John Foy, and ales a jatiriey;ran painter, an acquaintance of the footman. The servant maid's evidence was, that she was clean ing the step of her master's door, when she observed Colonel Wonding's door open, and a variety of plate on the benches in the servants' hall, which she thought strange, but took no fur ther noiire at the time ; she saw a man leave the house, who afterward stopped in the street, and tied his shoes, but she could nut identify I From this discovery, it was ascertained amongst the servants that the juin n , yinati painter had visited the footman on the evening preceding the robbery, hut it. was 11:*: generally known t hat he had slept in the house, until the footman (who had lived es 4 THE N shown into the room of the George Inn, and identiii. the man who shot his father.—He ha, been committed ATION,AT, RECISTER. him as ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, Bc. in the Colonel's service until the present day) confeased that fact. Und-s these suspicious circumstai.c , :s, the prisoners were remandud for another examination. it porter, belongi•?g to the wareh-use where the Woolwich coaches book at Charing•cross, was fined. with costa, for an offence of which the Public have much to comp!ain, that of not delivering a package within six hours after the arrival of the coach at the Inn, aBreeable to Act of Parliament. The prosecu• tor was an Officer, residing in Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, whose object, he stated, to be fur the public good, and he gave his share of the fine to a Charity. The defendant's excuse was, that the property was not spoiled, but he omitted to add, such was not often the case. In consequence of private communication to Bow-street of fice, that unlawful gambling vir.ts practised at a house in Sr James's-street, Lavender and a numerous party of officers and* patrole, went on Saturday se'nnight, and after much difficult/ forced an entrance into the house, where they fouod two per sons, and atttrwards detected five others endeavouring to make their escape by a private way. A number of dice were found in different parts of the house. The persons appr hrnded were conveyed to the above office, and held to bail in SCOI. each, and two securities in 2501. each. Monday a most deliberate !milder was perpetrated in Ply. mouth harbonr, by a marine on board the %rethusa hulk. A waterman, of the name of Patrick l'ennT, went alongside the hulk, which has tiv. crew of the Arethus.. fri,tate on board, while the vessel is undergoing a repair. The man was ordered off from alongside by the lieutenant on (It'd:, and was endea vouring to get away as fast as possible, when hi. rudder caught in a hawser, which impeded his progress; and while in the act of disengaging himself, the marin:! took a thiiii;errte :aim with his piece, shot the unfortunate man through the body, and killed him on the spot. The offender was 'immediately put in irons by the I .ient,nant, who it ;eeins, had not given him any orders to firm • The diet aseci was a man of . most industrious habit 4, and has left a wile and six young diildren, who were afl dependent on him for support. He was formerly rivver - iu His MJjesty's dock yard at that port. The fellow who shot him is a Hanoverian or German,.taken into our service some time ago. The Coroner's Inquest has returned a verdict of Mbrder against the marine, and he has been, accordingly, lodged iu Ex eter Castle for trial. . • BIRTHS. A.wo man of the name of Hobbs, wife of a chimney sweeper in Pod's-lane, Portsea, was, about twelve months ago, delivered of a child, seven days after which she was delivered of a second, both of which died. On the l9th of List month she was again delivered of two children, and what is extraordinary, on the Fhe was delivered of another, all of which are since dead.—. Harty; ire Chronicle.) DIED. •On the 1.5 . . h of September, of fever from excessive fatigue, at Portalcere, serving with the army under Lord Wellington, In the t:cih year of his age, Ensign Aleximder Hay, Of the Soth regiment, eldest son of Wm. Hay, Esq. of Russell square; his remains were interred with military honours on the _I 7th, and his 'n ible and excellent character impressively mat ked by the beanie It regret with which his companions in the service of his country attended film to an early grave. The Right Rev. Doctor Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, :it the See Home, on Monday sennight, in the 83d year of his age.-7-ie , was one of the most amiable and revered Prelates in private life, and, as a literary character, his Lordship - was not unknown to the Public. In 1761, be published " Haw Kim Chozean ; or, the Pleasing History," a Cik:nese Romance, in four duodecimo volumes. This literary curiosity is a transl3tion front the Chinese language, which his Lordship had revised from a manuscript (dated 1719), found among the papers of a gentle man who had large concerns in the East India Company, and who occasionally resided much at Canton. In 1765, his Lord ship presented the Public with a very elegant and curious col lcction o: reliques of ancient English Poetry, published by Dods ley, in three duodecimo volumes; and six years afterwards he published The Rermit of' Ir - Orkworth, a Northumberland ballad. the class of Divinity, we believe, his Lordship has only printed a single sermon. 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