The National Register. — London, England, 1808-08-07 00:00:00

AUGUST 7. fl ing, uiiich cat ried away one of the sails and the back, nearly blew tin' the roof on both sides, burst the two iron hoops with the win.l shaft, injured the wind wheel, and split the wind shaft from the neck nearly to the tail and gudgeon, and set the roof on fire in two places ; then descending, it tore up the trap-doors awl three boards adjoining, without doing any further injury to the miller's father, who was sitting about 18 inches from the trap doors at the time, than scorching his hands; his watch %%as also stopped. Another man was coining down the ladder fr:rai the upper room at the time, who did not receive any in jacy. It blew both the doors of the round-house open, and too a large piece f:om the bottom of the shaft. fevers may be e xpected to be very prevalent during the pre- Sent hot weather, it may not be unserviceable to remind our Headers, that .cast, 'taken frequently in small quantities has hitherto been found an excellent remedy. A labouring woman, at lsleworth, laid her child in the grass, to sleep, while she pursued her work ; on her return she found that during her absence a snake had attacked and killed her A STO N ISII I NG PRODUCE.--A part of Tweedmouth common, rontainin;t• about twenty-three acres, the property of James Yor , ter, Poqinaster of Berwick, was bought a few years fiAo for four :n • res of which have this season produced the antaving q.noitity of 150 U stones of hay. It stood so thick in the held, that the mowers would not cut it down at the ordi nary prices. lion' TO at.r,lcr PAPER FIRE PROOP.--tuunerse any kind tit h.,per i❑ a strong solution of alum water, then thoroughly dry it: immerse, and dry it again and neither tire nor candle ill hum it. HOME CIRCUIT. HERTFORD ASSIZES, TUESDAY, AUG. t George and Thomas Shepherd and William Freeman, were indicted for stealing on the 1-.2th of July, three !liver tea-spooos, a -I! ver poach ladle, a glass pepper castor, and a wine glass, from the l'edlar's Arms Public-house, ou Hertford Common. Cnrwood, as Cotorsol for the prosecution, called for the serious attention of the Jury, inasmuch as this case was attended uith singular circumstances, and it would he a question of the iiacntiuu of the prisoners, for of the fact of their taking the ar ticle, alleged, there could be no doubt. Of the three prisoners at he bar, Freeman %vas the son of a most respectable trades man ; the tu o others were brothers, the eldest of whom was pia n:o..a. than IS, and the other Ili years of age ; they %%ere the f.ntis of a getaleomn of great respectability and of large fortune, • ;Ind mere nearl•,. allied to persons who had held a must exalted units in the country. Ln pity to the agonized feelings of their telati yes, 1w could not be expected to state more explicitly their sminectinns ; they h ere, under their father's will, though nei the, t t them was the eldest son, to inherit a fortune of `20,000t. each oil coining of age. The facts of the case uere very short. On the VOth ut Jets' the three prisoners left London as early as II"' " - dock in the morning, on horseback, and took the road to llrtttord. They called at several public-houses, and drank at eara. u ;vole of their conduct, in hard rioting and drinking, v%as not ta.it of persons decorously pursuing their pleasures in a inainicr betittiog their stations in life, but rather that of persons gt% ing way to the unrestrained pursuit of their irregular ca prices. They anis et! at the house of the prosecutor some time ill the foreamn, where theN had some ale and bread and cheese, and soon iiCtec departed. Immediately after they were gone, the haplla t t v missed the articles stated in the indictment; she gave the al.trin to her ‘.41-diaud, who pursued them, and they were apiirc:iended iu IValtham Abbey Alarshes. They were search ed, and the articles found upon them. With respect, therefore, to th.• fact, there could bena doubt; but the question would be, with what ' l o cu ti on t h e y took the articles. The Learned Coon " said it was not every taking against the will of the owner which was a felony, hut it mu•t he done with a felonious Wen tiln--55itlt an inten:ion of secretly taking front the owner witn view to convert it to the use•of the taker, with no design of ever accounting with the (miler. It the Jury helieveit they acted with that intention they must tied them guilty. But it, forth 11.11ely for the prisoners, it should be thought that they did it as a mad frolic, in the wildness of momentary whim', with an in tention of returning the articles, it would be no felony. he 'mallard of the Pedlar's Arms proved the fact as stated. IV Itch he pursued the prisoners, in company v. ita a constanle, the% ►ccre found in Waltham Abney A'arshrs. They were there th:ir horses backyard and forward. fie addressed them, and said they were the persons who had taken his spoons. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 503* They replied, he did not know they had them. lie said, h° would be certain, for he would search them. They did search them when they got to Waltham, mid he found his three spoons, a glass pepper-box, a w ine glass, and a punch-ladle, all of w hick, was his property. lie told them at first that he did not believe them lobe thieves, but if the% would give up his goods, he would take nu further notice of them. They said they had often heard of persons who had made such promises, bitt who were the more severe afterwards. After the articles were found upon them, they were carried before a Magistrate; and committed for trial. The prisoners being called upon for their defence, Freeman put in a written paper, in which he stated, that he had no inter• tion of committio,-; any illegal act ; that on the morning of the 20th of July, the other two prisoners came to his lodgine,s and knocked him up, lel I him they had hired a horse for him, and 'lie must go and ride with them. They accordingly all set of to gether. They breakfasted at ingsland, and afterwards drauk at several public-houses. until they came to the prosecutor's at Hertford Heath; that when they were there. they saw the ar ticles in the clipboard, and they proposed to take them away to frignten the landlady, and to send Own) hack by the stage the next day, with a note to her, to beware of stranger; in future. He concluded, by solemnly denying any design of .lealiwg the articles. Several witnesses were called. who gave the pris Alen an ex cellent character for h o nesty. Mr. Alexander, a Solicitor in London, stated, that he was the Trustee for the two young men indicted by the name of Shep herd, and that their fortune, on coming of age, would be at least '40,000/. each. Ile flintier added, that their father was recently dead, and since his death, being left w ithout p; op •r controul, they had behaved with great irregularity, and com mitted many wild excesses. Another Gentleman. their father's late agent, stated, that their fattier, during his life-time, allowed them 40s. a week for poc ket-money, and he continued the ,ame allowance, until the Lord Chancellor should make an order what was the proper stipend to be paid them during their minority. The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, said, that their rank and fiirtune ought nut, and would not, with the Jury, place them in a better situation than the poorest culprit they had tried. — On the contrary, if the Jur:. thought they had au inteation of stealing the articles they had taken, it was an aggravation of their case that they were not teinptt.ti by want, which frequently impelled tho,e of the lower totters to guilt. It was a singular case, and therefore they would atteial minutely to the evideme. (Its Lordship here summed it up, and observen, that many - ports of it were very hard agaillSL the,u. HO t Welty comineated on their conduct w hea they - %ere apprehended, which he thought marked rather guilt than a youthful frolic ; but it was fur the Jury to decide with what intentiou they took the goods. If at the moment of taking, they intended to convert them to their own use, they were guilty of telony ; and any after intention of restoring could not wipe away tile original otrenee. The .Inry deliberated a considerable time, and then found verdict of Nut Guilty. TUESDAY'S LON DON GAZETTE. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Fletcher and Taylor, Liverpool, merchants.—lrazell and Webb, Great Surrey-street, Surrey, hair-dressers.—Edmands and Spackman, Tyer's-gateway, liermondsev, hair-manufac turers.—Ew ins and Roe, Bermondsey-street, dealers Dawes and Colman, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, surgeons. —Hayes and Williams, Scarborough, Yorkshire, primer;.-- It, Harrison, 11. Harrison, and Hayman, London, merchants. —Wright, Touly, and Priestley, Derby, Nleyrick, and Jackson, Leadenhall.Areet, stationers. —Lax and Kershaw, Halifax, Yorks!mire-mete!iatits.—Bateson and Hartley, Leeds, Yorkshire, ham and bacon factors.—W. F. Handley, J. Handley, and Re% ecldsoi% Newark-upon- Trent, merchants.— fl'. Hope and P. Hope, Liverpool, woollen and linen-drapers.—Docker and Blissett, Birmingham, japan elem.—Fisher and Deake, Bristol, rope-makers and ship ehandlers.—J. 11. Hole and W. Hole, Islington, surgrons.—J. Hillier and Joseph Hillier, Itathboac-place, Oxford-road, carvers and gliders. BANKRUPTS. Thos. Smalibridge, Stoke-in-tinheA, Devonshire, butcher, to surrender Auguat 5, x 2, and September IS, at clever:, at `~ I