The National Register. — London, England, 1816-06-30 00:00:00

JUNE M. POLICE. TiAlk;!ilON-110USF. Yesterday, two cvprians, named Nash and S:dley, and a male companion, named ilarrison, were charged on suspicion of lies. big stolen a watch, chain, seals, ef.e. a great coat, a brooch, and lot. in notes, tic property of W. Thomas, a tradesman. The prosecutor stated, that on Wednesday evening last, lie went to have some drink in a public housein Bistupsgate, where he met the prisoners, who pretended much friendship towards him, and invited hint to join them. He did so ; and after remaining suine time in their company they departed. Soon after he missed 111•4 p operty, lint the party had escaped. A descrip• tiou of their persons, howe% cr, being given to Sapwell, the °Ri cer, they were soon seemed, but mine of the property found upon them The prosecutor thought a delay might lead to !MIA' discovery ; and, as lie was certain of their persons, they were accordin • ly remanded. John Pianory was folly committed for trial, charged with stealing sonic teas from one of the East India watt:houses, where he was employed as a labourer. 'Tuesday, Mr. J. Richardson, a dealer, charged Mr. H. Ri chardson, a bill-broker, with assaulting him on Saturday. The prosecutor stated, that having called 111)011 the defendant, and used s words relative to a bill between them, the latter knocked him down. The defendant denied that he had knock ed the prosecutor doss u ; bur saitl, that being irritated by the latter calling him a " swindler," he gave biro " a d---n good blow on the chops," and with intieli warmth appealed to his Lordship, whether lie would not have done the same? The Lord Mayor coolly replied, that he was neither disposed to as sault an individual, nor was he in the habit of nit, ring impre cations. He could not, therefore, but express his indignation at such intemperance iu a Court of Justice.—'llte defendant was held to bail. ALA .TIORROUGH-STRr.ET. We stated in our fast paper an attempt to assassinate Lord River's groom. in Hs de Pat k. The man who committed the otienee is named Roberts. He has been brought to Bow-street Mir examination ; when It. Jackson, a private in the 3d gnarda, deposed. that on Wednesday evening he was in Park-lane ' and observed the prisoner crossing, the road, when Hall the groom's horse came close to the prisoner, but did not touch him; on which the prisoner struck at him with a dagger, and the aeavant stri!A in return. In a few seconds the prisoner made stab at the groom, and appeared to strtke him under the right shoulder; on which he pulled back his horse. The pri soner then put the dagger in his pocket, and ran into the Park —(The prisoner here enquired, "is the Secretary of State here?' and seemed to be in a frantic state.—J. Morrison con firmed the above evidence. R. D. Blackwell, Esq. said, the prisoner struck the groom with au instrnment first; and then walked away through the trees, with the dagger under his coat, when he laid hold of hint. He put his emit aside, and saw the dagger, which he pulled out, and gave it into the baud of a constable, who took hint to Mount-street watch house. -- The prisoner, in his defemee, said his name was Roberts; that the groom was a common killer, began to communicate the number of great personages he bad killed, and continue in such an inconsistent manner, that the Magistrate ordered hint to be taken off to prison. The wife of the prisoner informed the Magistrate she had been married to him about two yeas s, during which she suffered a great deal in coneeguence of his violent conduct; at one time she got a person to break off the point of the fatal dagger. His derangement having increased, he went to his friends at the Isle of Anglesey., where he re mained until he recovered ; when lie came to town and got a situation at Lord Middletuna. In 4 short time his disorder returned, and his Lordship ordered Medical Gentlemen to ht tend him. Since that time he has continued in a state of in sanity. remanded. John Roberts, was en Friday re-examined. The wounded Irian appeared in person. hut he seemed at times to be very unwell. His evidence differs in many instances from that which was stated by other witsteaseson the former occasion, and we give the prominent parts of it trout the informant's details. The prisoner met hint near Stanhope-gate, when riding behind his Lordship, and he made a stop as it to seize the horse's he-ad. Informant checked his horse to prevent it ; when the prisoner struck the horse w ith his left hand, and assailed informant with the other. Hall believed he struck the prisoner with an ash plant, but not until he was first assaulted. The prisoner got bold of the horse's bridle, and plunged a dagger (produced, about thirteen inches in length) into mtOrmant's right side. Mr. Kitchen, a surgeon, believed from the appearance of the wound, which was on the right side, about tour inches deep, against the third or fourth rib, that it was inflicted with the in atrumeut produced The prisoner went on most incoherently. lie called him • self Prince of this island, said a jinlic;al bench had nothing to do with such nonsense, and that he should he tried by counsel ; that he was a descendant of Julius Ciesar. Augustus, arc. ; that the Secretary of State ought to have been there, a,:e. Ike. lie was thlly committed fur trial. The prisoner was closely ironed on the hands, to prevent his doing mischief. Ma looks were frantic iu the extreme. In the Court of King's Bench, Wednesday, the King e. Smith, which was a case in the Crown Paper ' occupied the whole morning; it was a question whether tliedefendant had been duly elected as Mayor of Colchester. The Court held, atter hearing the are •nt, that be was not duly election according to the charter. The parties had liberty to turn the case into a special verdict ; and if, upon the result, the judgment of this day be affirmed, it will, it is said, hose the elect of dissolving the Corporation. 'Tuesday night, or earl., on Wednesday morning, two pri miners confined is the Borough Compter, namely William itrylett charged with stealing a watch, and Frederick Shaw charged with a burglary in the house of Mr. Evaus, of Web ber.row (both of whom were folly committed for trial), made their escape out of the above prison.. The Fisoners, having contrived to get of their irons, succeeded in scaling the wall el' the prison, and effected their escape in a manner which left no traces whatever behind them. About In o'clock on Monday night, ?hr. W. Woo Thatch, of Mat climont-strect, Tavistock.stinare, arrived at his house, from the country, leaving his horse at the door in care of a boy ; when a villain came, mounted, and galloped off w it before the boy could give the alarm. No account has been heard of it since. Mr. Sharpe, of the Covent-Garden Theatre Orchestra, was robbed a few days ago of four table a n d three dessert silver spoons, by two thieves, who obtained admittance of li;s servant to his house, under pretence of corniest In examine the water pipe s, as servants of the Water Wen he Gc n•pauy. Wednesday tiornin as Mr. Whits chi': eh, clerk to Mr. Cal. sett, an Oporoa merchant, was going down one of the gateways leading to the quays, lie was jammed against the wail by a Mt, and had both tut , aims lapin. TIM NATIONAL REGIRTER. ALARMING FIRE. Thursday T. Condly and T. Dixon Were charged at the Mansion House, on suspicion of baving set fire to the preini , ,-s of Mr. Dunkin, tallow•chandler, in Aldersgate-street, on Wed nesday when the who!e of the dwelling, furniture, &e. were destroyed, together with the upper part cf the house of Coekerton and Sou, oilmen, adjoining. These two houses, with another on the North side of Mr. Disiikia's, it may be rrosem beryl, were also destroyed last year by tire, and hail just been _ ..... Dunkin deposed, that on Wednesday night, about half past twelve o'clock, two men entered his bed-room, and having drawn aside his curtain, one of them seirol hold of him, and showing a knife, threatened to '• do for him," if he made the slightest noise. The other placed a pillow upon his face, and prevented his crying out. They then asked tun for the keys of his desk, money-chess, tte. * He said he did not remember where he had placed them ; and finding that he was not willing to satisfy them, they dragged him from bed, and brought him to the lauding-place of :he stairs. Here one of them proceeded to tie his !ow, bawls, and arms, to the banisters, while the other fastened two handkerchiefs about his eyes. One of them then proceeded to search for the keys, and soon after called out to his companion, who 114.1 remained with winless, that he hail got them. The parties then informed him, that they would soon leave the house, but that if 1w attempted to call out pre vious to their closing the street-door after them, they would has e his life. They then left him; when, after remaining short time, he hearth the dour Mutt, and instantly called for help. (Inc or two persons, who slept at the top of the house, immediately came to his assistance, and he was released from his situation. During the whole of the outrage, lie never dis. tinguished the frees of either of the persons, not even in his room, where lie usually burut a rush light. He thought,howe ver, from their voices, that the one was an Irishman, and the other an Englishman. Conelly was an Irishman, and one of his day porters, who had lived in his service sonic years. Sus. picion fell upon him; and Harrison, the Officer, having gone to his lodgings in lbw-cross, he mnd Dixon (an Englishman,. Condiy was apprehended at the fire, but nothing of a suspicious nature was fonnil either at their lodgings or on their persons. A porter and two of the servants of Mr. Dunkin deposed to the alarm given by the latt.w, and the state in which they fuuud hi.,,. After releasing him front his situation, they opened the windows which looked into tle• street, and discovered a smoke, as if from a tire, issuing from the cellar. They instantly gave an alarm ; but the night acing wet, it was some time before as sistance was procured ; and notwithstanding every exertion of the engines and inhabitants, the fire continued to burn until the whole of the jute, ior w:is destroyed, including every article of furniture, Ac. and leaving merely the walls standing. The iron chest in which were deposited the books, money, was found to have been opened. and a quantity of bank-notes. and four hundred gold Napoleons, were stolen there 'rum. A bag, con taining a considerable situ, in silver, was left behind ; as were also the account books, five of which were saved. During the lire, about three o'clock in the morning, the times communi cated to the house of Cuekerton and Son, next door, where sonic gunpowder was deposited, when an explosion took place, and *he top rooms and roof were utown into the air. Nearly the whole of the fitniiture in the latter, howeser, was saved. The fire was not completely subdued till five o'clock. After thoroughly investigating the Case the Lord Mayor was of opinion that there was not the slightest evidence of suspicion attached to the prisoners, and ordered them to be discharged. How the two persons described to have entered the chamber of Mr. Dunkin got into the house, has not hi en discovered ; as no violence of a particular description was manifest mom the locks or bars of the dunes, front or Wok. Mr. Dankin was hitt lately returned trout Paris, and about a week since had stocked his cellar with a quantity of new tallow. During the last fort night he also laid in several articles of new furniture. Mr. Dunkin, we understand, was insured to the amount of above 50001. The Lord Mayor visited the premises on Thursday evening, and made several inquiries ; bus we did not understand that any new discovery took place as to the origin of the tire. Friday, the Lord Mayor having summoned the attendance of Mr. Dunkin, his servants, the patroies. constables, wateinnen, and several others, an insestigation again took pace, and lasted to a late hour, in order to ascertain the causes, and to discover, if possible, some eine to the detection of the incendi aries. An immense crowd was assembled ; anti among others there were a number of gentlemen from the different tire offices. _ •J••••.V.S , Mr. Dunkin was first called. He gave a detailed account of the manner in which the two persons, as has been above stated, catered his bed-room, and subsequently ill-treated him. From the present account, however, It appeared that the par tics bad blindfolded him by tying two handkerchiefs around his eyes previous to dragging him from his bed. They also made an incision in his breast with a knife, and would have proceed ed to further violence if one of the party had not cried nut,— " Don't harm him, for he is the friend of an Irishman." His wrists also were much marked with the cord used In tying him ; he could not account for such an outrage, as be had never done an injury to nay individual. Messrs. Thompson and Jones, two gentlemen returning from the theatre on the night of the tire, stated, that they passed the premises; they perceived a smoke, but did not, at the moment, apprehend any thing dangerous. One of them went towards St. Mario's-le-grand, and the other went up a court at the bark of Mr. Diod.in's house: they were soon, however, re-called by the alarm of" fire" from the watchmen ; but they did not pre viously hear the slightest alarm from the lemse of Mr. Dunkin, nor did they see any persons about : the night was exceedingly wet. Deane, a watchman, was in his box near Mr. Dunkin's. He did not observe. tier seine time previous to the fire, any sus picious persons about, nor did he hear the slightest alarm of tire proceed from the house of Mr. Dunkin. Somebody (whom he thought to be Peter Harold, another wntehmat) desired hint to spring his rattle. lie did so, :11111 immediately perceived a smoke issue front the cellar of Mr. Dunkin. Peter Harold, another watchman, saw the lest witness in conversation with two other persons, about half-past one o'clock, and heard the rattles spring. lie went to the srt, and saw a smoke issue from the lower part of Mr. Dunkttes house. lie bad been on the heat previous, but heard no alarm, nor did he see auy sus picions ch traders or other persons about. There was no tho roughfare up Shaftesbury-place, nor was there any ladder or other articles seen about there. .1. Herbert, a patrok, in pas sing Mr. Dunkin's observed nothing particular, nor did he hear an alarm. After he hail gone some distance, he heart! a rattle spring, and returned towards the horse, front whence a smoke issued. He was the third person who reached the spot, and as sisted in knocking at the doors and shutters of the place, and calling out loudly. A man got in at the fan-light over the door, which he opened, and Mr. Dunkin taut into the street in his shirt, crying," Good cud, they tied nic hand and foot, Ikea IiPV covered and robbed me." Mr. Dunkin then fainted, fell down, and was carried to the doctors. When wituess and others en tered the house by the front door, there was a great deal of smoke, but they did not perceive any dente. Mr. Dunkin soon after came buck naked, and wished to enter the house, but he would not suffer it. No flames appeared in the front until a con siderable time after Mr. D. t (pitied him the street. The con stable of the night stated, that be assisted in breaking the fan light. When he entered the house, there was no flame apparent. lie saw Mt. Dutikiu naked in the street previous to the burst ing tent of the tire, and picked up two 'handkerchiefs nearly opposite ;he door. Price and another servant, inconsequence of the alarm of their master, came down stairs and released him. Price, in cooling down, saw the bed-rooin open, and a rushlight was burning; could not say whether the eloset•door was open ;.nor did he see airy plate. W. Taylor, street-keeper, assisted Mr. Dunkin in taking five books from the iron chest. lr. 1). said to witness, " he did not know what lie bad done that lie should have been served SO." Mr. Fairbrother lives opposite Mr. Dunkin. He heard the springing of rattles, and has ing looked oat of the window, he twice heard the cry of murder proceed from the house of Mr. Dunkin. He imme diately went into the street, and semi after Mr. D. ran out. AVitnese had heard the knocking before thin. Price, the servant to Mr. 1). WAS recalled, and stated that he had not heard the rattles spring ; nor did he distinguish any knocking at the door. T. Robinson, a fireman, lied examined the ruins. Do the third staircase of Mr. Covlertona house he found a quantity of plate; sonic was perfect, the remainder was injured by the tire; the former belonged to Mr. Cockerton, the latter to Mr. Dunkin. A party wall which stood between the two houses remained firm; end how the plate of Mr. D. was conveyed to the adjoin. ing premises cowl not be conceived. Mr. Cockerton deposed, that he saw his plate tit hie closet the night before. Here the Lord Mayor abler% e 1, that the case seemed involved in more mystery than ever, and wished to know if Mr. Dunkin could throw any light upon the circumstance. Mr. D. answered In the negative. Sophia Drown had the care of Mr. Dunkties plate; she usually lucked it up in his cleeet ; it was not used on the day before the tire, nor did she see it. Witness beard a noise the street before the servants came to alarm her in her bed-room ; site slept on the floor over Mr. D.; she and her fellow-servants escaped over the heads, and saw the Haines proceed from the rear of the house in Shaftesbury-place. Another female domestic deposed to being alarmed when the servants came to her room: she instantly thuueht her master was murdered, as he had said in her hearing, that the dog had barked the night before. The other servants, hewever, did not hear the dog bark, and though it was stationed about the cellar and passages, it escaped the conflagration. The persun who entered the fan-liglit, anti enbsequently opened Mr. Dun. kin's door, was called, but did not appear. This the Lod Mayor regretted, as his evidence would be material, to show how the dour was fastened. The Lord Mayor, having now heard all the evidence that could be adduced, wished to know from Mr. Dunkin what he vet • Id wish further to have done. Mr. Dunkin wished to offer a tewatd of 1001. for the appre hension of the perpetrators. The Lord Mayor then held a cousultatiou with several persons belongitie to tire-offices (particularly the agent of the Pilo:nix, where Mr. Dunkin is mostly iesttred), who retired to deliberate, and who are to mike known their determination of joining Mr. Dunkin in his otter of reward. The Lord Mayor added, that lie would write to the Secretary of State upon the occasion, and, independent of a reward, would endeavour tie procure a pardon for the accomplices in this nefarious outrage. Here the investigation. closed. NEW PENITENTIARY, MILLRANK. The quadrangle of the Penitentiary house on Millbank is completed. 'flit Governor, with khe Task-masters and Mis tresses, &c. have taken possession of their apartments. The rooms in which the convicts will reside, are as comfortable as call be expected by individuals who have forfeited their claim to remain at large; they are about It, feet by 6, lofty, with au arch. Each cell is furnished with an iron bedstead, a matrass, a coarse sheet, pair of blankets, bolster, and a rug ; also a table with a drawer in it, and a chair. The windows are glazed inside, and iron rails, or bars, outside. The whole of them are warmed by means of dues placed in the passages, and rrort. r measures are adopted to multe regular ventilation. Tile rooms all look towards the centre of a circle (which is divided by brick walls into court yards for exercise), where the principal Task-master resides, and commands a complete view of all that is doing. chapel is also erecting, which, when the whole is corkpleted, will form the centre of the building. Women are to act as turnkeys to the female prisoners, and all comumnice Lion with the male convicts will be entirely prevented. Thurs day morning, at three o'clock, 41) female couvicts under sen tence of transportation were brought in caravans, chained, from Newgate to Markt; Tars Bridge, and there put MI board a barge stationed for their receptim, and conveyed by water to Mitlhank ; when they were conducted by a strong party of the police into the yard allotted tior atm ;• aft. r. which each was shcwn to her respective cell, which are all nutabered. They are to he classed, and such as do not know how to read are to be taught ; and are to go to chapel daily. Tay are to lie kep to work : one eighth of their earnings will be given to each prisoner on being disehat ged, bet none during their imprison ment ; one third will he appropriated for their task-rnastern,. as a remuneration fur their trouble, aud.the ruuriuder to ray the flunkeys, &c. Friday m wiling, the body of a stoat aridSe aged man era• found drowned in Ce, Regent's Canal, close to the bridge on the Hampstead read. lie wore a black coat and waistcoat, cord b r ,, c hoi with 014 Tashi weed silver bugsiles on this knees, coloured worsted stockings, new sbuce, a Belcher banillseccuia runnd hie neck. nu bac, and his linen lUlll'ked L. M. Trier.e were nu papers about kiintu lead to a tii(cov cry of who he wise. The body was conveyed to the Mother Red Car, in Caaidi.o Town. - - - --- Thursday morning the body of a woman wag 4onnl drowned. in the Belti4)11 Of tilt: Canal in the 6egentss Y.O k, near the J egg's Harp home. When she was xiigeoveled, she otandlnl: an upright po‘ition ill the water Val! dead. The body was taken to the Jew'' 11,041. - - INQUEST.—On Thursday an Inquest was held at the Quhrgell Heat!, Lower-street, Islip:Jon, on the body of A.. Brown. w boss death Will occasioned by his elating his thro..t. Eliaat.etts Watkias said, the deeel•ed was her father. tie had for length Of time shewit symptoms of derangement. On the fatal mornin; her little buy said his grandfather was groaning. SM went to his room, and found him weltering in his blood, Verdict —Lunacy. St; unt:N DFATII.—A few days azo, a potter. of the note of IVilson, while carryin' a load tom 1,4.1 th to Loinlimati.•insit under it, and shot tly alter expired. On it was 1 . 0.104 that. for want of employinAii, the poor Luau bald been s(itlb out food from the day before. Dal* Sam is sti.l living, tboegb nut iikety to leafy,.