The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-23 00:00:00

prisoner himself sot onset the first to meanies the discover y, but when his" duty paid ledge.' lk &se:mimed, it was found that the certificate YU, had lot been entered therein, and that the certificate itself was missing. Upon searching the prisoner's drawer in the o(bce, the aisles certificate wt found. The certificate, Ihd, was found to base been rep lady entered in the prisoner's ledger. Enquiry was made ' for Great, and he was not to be found. The prisoner about this time was absent for a fortnight, ou account of sickness, but the officers who were employed to apprehend him as the accomplice of Grant, foiled him at his lodgings in Gray's Welk, Lambeth. In a few days after the discovery • 51. note, which was part of the motley paid by Grant's em ployer to him, to pay the duty, was traced to the posse - ion of the prisoner. These were the leading facts of the case, as they were stated by a great number of witnesses. The piisuner, in his defence declared his innocence in the most solemn inansie , , and said , with respect to the 51. note. that he had lent some money to Grant in the early part of the summer, and Grant, in repaying him, gave him among others the 51. n o te in question. The Jury retired for some time, and returned a verdict of guilty—deatb. Man:twills Goldstein, the person convicted on Wednesday ofu forgery un the l'..3loollllC•rvernment, was put to the hat, when Mr. Platt, to jetnior counsel. moved an arrest of judge ment, on the ground that the itralutnent eileged to be forged ought to have been set forth in the indictment in the English language. Judgment postponed. David Burton, a young man of respectable appearance, was indicted for stealing four packages of roots, seed-, bulbs. stuffed birds, and insects, the property of his Majesty, from on board the renal, a ship lately arrived from the Cape of Good Hope. It appeared that the prisoner was a tide-waiter on board the Venus. On the 21st ofJuly last, the goods had been landed on the Kities whar f, and had been marked with the broad arrow in older that they might not he removed without the payment of duty. On the night of the 21st of July last, it was pt wed that the prisoner had removed four of these Mmes, whichhad be. • 11:7-lad, ••• ship. The pti soeer was heard by IAC mate of the ship in the middle of the night, walking on the deck. " What are you about ' he cried. " Never mind," replied the pris o ner, "it she ith .1 on your neck." The next morning the prisoner told the mate—" I will give you a pound note to say nothing about what passed lust night." The mate replied, " A pound note won't save your neck, nor me from in ansportatimi.' On cross-e‘i mitint ion of the witnesses, it seemed that no one of the p: -rengers, who owned the goods said ill be stolen, was present us a witness for the prosecution. The prisoner was very drunk on the night of the 21st 01 and the nett day being r sked,said that lie knew not what lie did. The prisoner, in 11'5.h-fence, said that on the iii,ht men tioned in the indictment he was much inebriated, rid %sus not conscious that he had dune any thing improper. Several respectable ssi. iesses gave the prisoner a very good character. One of them paid lie saw the primmer at half past eight nn Sunday evening so much intoxicated that lie appeared like an inseite person. The Jmy returned a ver dict of Not Guilty. Bin A MY.—Wm. Manner', aged 23, was jindicted for fe. lonionsly marrying Susan Anderson, ou the tith of September, 1620, his fo. ncr wife being alive. Mr. Adolphus stated the case to the Jury. Edward Lewis deposed that he laaew the prisoner. He was present at his marriage with E 1 abetlt HenLitison. He acted as father, and gave the bride away. The marriage took plc at Lawrence church. Reading, in Bertrhire, Jan. 13, but in what year he could not recollect. Elizabeth Renkinson we s a maid Sc, want. He saw her alive on Mon. day last. Susan Anderson deposed that her father kept a cook'. shop in Drury-lane. She was married to the prisoner on the Nth of September, last year. She was possessed of a small sum of money when she married the prisoner. She lived with the prisoner till the 16th of January, when she left him and returned to her rather's house, having heard that lie had another wife living. The prisoner in his defence said that he w:. married to Elizabeth Renkioson. but she misconducted herself in many respects; and about three years ago she ran away from him, and he had never since been able to prevail upon her to return. Under these circumstances he married r;ain, cause he thought a wife was necessary to a young man like himself. The prisoner during the dente.) , of this address appeared dreadfully agitated. The prisoner called no witnesses, and the Jury immediately found him Guilty. On Thursday the lam ch of one of the East India li ships, of 1,350 tons Written, took place from Mr. Bay ley's Halifax Ship-yard, Ipswich,a few minutes after 12, nearly an hour before high water, by which many thou sand persons were disappointed of viewing the same.— Just previous to the launch the ship was named " The Sir David Scott,' by the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Ward, of Coltish°ll, near Norwich, with infinite animation and grace. In a moment afterwards the ship made the first start, and accelerating is motion until her stern reached the water, amidst the waving of hats, the music of the band, and the shouts of the surr,undiug spectators, she glided rather than plunged into her natural element, with a steadiness and majesty which no words can de scribe. Owing to the violence of the wind the stern of the vessel grounded on the the side of the (lock about 200 yards from where she was launched ; she, however, floated with the flowing of the title, but unfortunately soon after got again upon the edge of the channel, where she remained immoveable. At the next tide the ship was got into the channel, and was towed down the river by the strain packet, on her passage to London, not having received the slightest injury from her grounding. The river was lined with boats and vessels, and both of its sides were thronged with spectators. On Friday week a duel was fought on Plumstead Common, near NVoolwich, between Lieut. 13--, of the Royal Artillery, and a Mr. C— —, a gentleman of respectability; after exchanging two shots each Mr. C. was wounded by the• ball of his antagonist going lino' the upper part of one thigh and through the wrist of his left hand. Lieutenant B. escaped with having the skin on his forehead rased by the ball of Mr. C. It is some what remarkable, that on the first exchange of shots, the balls came in contact with each other, and both of them fell about 0 -ee feet from t'',! feet of Mr C. :Ir. C. b coavak-cciv. THE NATIONAL REGISTER THE LAW RISLATIVe TO VAOr 1H rs.—By a SICHte of the last session of Parliament, Ist and fzd George IV. cap. 64, nearly all the provisions of former acts relative to vagrants have been repealed, they having been found inadequate to the prevention of vagrancy, and a new system of treatment adopted as an experiment, to be iii force for one year from the Ist of this present month.— By this statute no reward can now be claimed for appre hending a vagrant; but the magistrate may, in his dis cretion, order a sum not exceeding ss. to be paid by the parish officers, as a reward in such case. To direct the passing of vagrants to their parishes the presence and consent of two magistrates is required; and no person convicted of an act of vaarancy is to be committed to the House of Correction for less than one month, nor longer than three months , _ except by the Justices in general or quarter sessions. Discretion is allowed the magistrate to discharge a person brought before him for acts of va grancy if he should think fit; but in the case of a con vicieon, he can no longer send the party to prison for seven days to be passed to the parish, hut must commit the person so convicted, to actual punishment, hard la bour, for at least one month. The full imoishment of tile new statute was inflected on Wednesday by Mr. Ald. Brown, the sitting magistrate at Guildhall, upon a sturdy iil-looking fellow, named M. Manley, who infests the city, begging in the guise of a distressed sailor. Smith, street-keeper of Fleet-street, found him that mowing at his usual avocation, be4iug, at die corner of Bell yard. %Viten nesired to desist and go away, he became abusive, imptalt ntly refused to stir, told the officer it was his duty to look after thieves, and not beggars; and that he would beg in suite of them, all over the city. When brought to the (mice he was immediately recognized as an old ollinder in this line. He had, it appeared, been several times at the Mansion-house on similar charges, and when last before the Lord Mayor, about a fortnight ago, had been clothed to enable nim to get a situation on board some ship; he ha* however, sold the clothes, and resumed lt.s old occupation. These facts being proved, and the fellow himself declaring lie hid no way of getting his living hut by begging, Alderman Brown adjudged him m be a vagrant within the meaning of the statute, and committed him to hard labour in the house of Correction for three months. _ _ . lioxing.—At the Lancaster assizes, on Monday, Joseph Rayner was found guilty of killing Peter Fisher. —The learned judge, in passing sentence said, that the deceased had certainly borne an towards the pri soner, awl had actually struck hint first ; and, if the battle had been nothing but fair fighting he should have deemed a very punishment sufficient for the offence, but he hail, with deadly weapons (the clogs which he had upon his feet), brutally kicked the deceased on the breast, which had deprived I of life. The inisoner had said, in his defence, that he had set ved his Majesty many years, both in the army and the nary, and that ought to have taught him what true courage was ; and that it was unmanly to take advantage of another man when he was on the ground, and unable to defend him self, and to inflict such punishment on him aq to occa sion his death. He was sentenced to ten months impri sonment. ..... Singular Escape of a Cunv:cl —On Wednesday after noon, about five o'clock, the Bedford Telegraph Coach arrived in London. Amongst the p.senaers were five c 3nvicts, accompanied by the gaoler and his man, who were placed in the dickey. The prisoners, smile of whom were desperate fellows, were double ironed, and through the links was passed a strong chain, the extre mities of which were fastened to the coach. NVhen the coach arrived opposite Aylesbury -street, Clerkenwell green, one of the prisoners, who was a very dexterous fellow, and had been sentenced for uttering forged notes, slipped, by sonic means or other, his feet from the iron fetters, dropped to the ground, and took to his heels up Compton -street, towards Goswell-street. A great num ber of people joined the officers in pursuit of him, but in vain ;he got clear off. lle is well known to the Police offices. _ _ Ifigkvac Murder.—Since the last examination of &a rea and Ms wife, before Dr. Owen, of Highgate, every thing has been done that was likely to cause a discovery of the mysterious affair. Persons have been employed in dragging the various ponds about that neighbourhood, it being thought probable that the murderer might have thrown things therein in order to prevent discovery; but nothing was Ibund. A man named Murphy, who was before Dr. Owen oil a recent occasion concerning the horrid affair, has been again brought up to account for some very suspicious circumstances brought against him. It appeared that a mall, named Field, who was employ ed to drag the ponds, on searching near a hay stack on Mr. Hale's premises, he discovered an old shirt buried under one of the stacks ; the sleeve of the shirt exhibited marks of blood, and the co.lar was torn, apparently in a struggle. The shirt was found near .Ir. Hale's gal den, and was very filthy. There was no mark to prove it to be Barrett's, and the only suspicion that it might be his, is, that he was limn(' near the garden, and he being under gardener. The shirt was ordered to be left in Field's possession, the Wan who found it. 1)r. Owen eulogized the officers lor their activity, and thought the affair deserved suspicion. There was no direct evidence that the shirt belonged to Murphy, and lie was dis charged, under promise to come forward at any future period if required. 7 la Blood-Money Conspirators.—G. Vaughan, together with Brock, Pelham, and Power, who, our readers may recollect, were tried and convicted at the Old Bailey Sessions, in Seincniber 1816, and sentenced to hive years imprisonment, charged with swearing away the lives of innocent persons, for the sake of the blood-money, have served out the term of their imprisonment, and were on Wednesday discharged, on entering into recognizances, themselves in 801. and two sureties m a.il. each, bur their good behaviour for three years. A um:gable canal is about to be cut between Ly, niington, in I himpshivc, and the city of Sisi;sbuiy wii;ch will fohn a juno;on with the Avon P'ld : .11 "12 308 During the carter of the celebrated pickpocket Bar rington, an alarm was one night raised in the box lobby of Covent-garden Theatre, that he was in the house.— The news spread from box to box like electricity. One gentleman had lost a snuff-box, another his watch, one lady her parse, another her smelling-bottle; in fact, every body had lost, or said they had lost something.— Behind Mrs. J —s, the sister of the late Earl of C--, sat a gentleman in black, who with much politeness communieated to her the most dreadful intelligence.— " The villains," said she, whipping a splendid pair of brilliant ear-rings out of her ears and putting them care fully lists) her pocket. book, " shan't have my ear-rings, I promise." When the play was over, Mrs. J--s adjourned to the route of my Lady D—. Upon en tering the drawing-room she flew up to her " dear, dear friend," and after embracing her with transport, told her Ladyship what an escape she had had of that " horrid villain Barrington," felicitating herself that only for her amazing ingerwhy and cleverness she must most cer tainly have lost her drops. As she could now with per fect safety hang out her gems, she thrust her hand into her pocket; bus, after a poke or two, she changed co lour and started—" lie has them," said she in an agony. " Impossible," said her sympathetic friend, "impossi ble! " Alas ! it is too true; after the most serutinons rummage, they were not to be found. Upon diligent inquiry, it ap i 'eared that the very gentleman in black, who laid so politely cautioned Mrs. J— —s against Bar rington, was Barnugtote himself As soon as the lady had deposited her brilliants in her pocket, that able artist skil:ully extracted thesis. Tue. lay afternoon, one of the Paddingtoneoaches had pulled up at the King's Head public-house, the corner of' the Hampstead-road, and the coachman had incau tiously left his seat and went into the house, without previously giving the reins to any one. During his absence, which was very short, the horses took fright at a horse and cart that were passing, and ran across the road; their progress was stopped b,/ one of the hind wheels coming in contact with a post, but the contusion was so great, that the passengers on the oat side (consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Moore, ofCharles street, Hampstead-road, and Mr. William littlest, of No. 37, George -street, Portman-square) were precipitated into the high-road. Mrs. Moore fell with her stomach on the wheel, by which she was so seriously injured, that on Friday she was given over by the physician.— Mr. Moore, her hu.band, fortunately received no ma terial injury. Mr. Wien, who was conveyed home im mediately, lingered in the greatest agony till Thursday evening, whets be died of the injury he received. 7 Ise hue fire in Gractscliurch sireei.—Besides the two.• firemen and turiicock, there was a fourth man lost his life at that calamitous fire, whose name was not known. until Thursday ; his name was George Ross, a journey man carpenter, and lived at N 0.40, Parker -street, I)ritry lane, where . lie bore a good character. From his wife's statement, it appears that he and she were at market, after which they went into a public-house at a late hour on last Saturday was a week, (the night this dreadful fire broke out) ; she went home, and left him in the public-house, since which she has net seen him. Not coining home that night, site dreaded he might get in some scrape, anti she made inquiry at different watch houses; hearing no account of him, she inquired next day (Monday) at the different Police-offices with equal success; she afterwards inquired at the various , prisons and hospitals, but her search proved fruitless; at length, from the circumstance of his being missing since the fire, she supposed he might be the person whose body was not owned. An inquest sat on the bodies, and , they were buried last Sunday. 'l'he disconsolate woman repaired to make the necessary inquiry, and from his stockings and some fragments of isis clothes, she was convinced they were those of her unfortnnate husband. Sic stated that they hail been thirteen years married, anti that that Saturday night was the first he was ever absent from home. It is conjecsured that, like a great nutty curious persons, he must have accompanied the fire en vies, and assisted the firemen. Singular Esat:se.—Dr. Palmer, of Tamworth, expe rienced a providential escape a few days ago oti the multi unit of Armitage-hill. Rewriting f Polesworth its his gig, with his groom, the horse suddenly took fright, and went off at full speed ; on reaching a part of the road bouuded by a precipitous stone-pit, one of the rails being brokett, the animal sprung with• a desperate leap into the pit, at least 15 or Bi- feet deep. Its the descent Dr. Palmer was pitched headlong from the carriage, and though stunned by the fall, be soon recovered himself, and went to the assistance of his groom, who lay avpa-- rently lifeless, but who was at Itmatis found to have received no vet) , material injury. The horse lay at the further end of the pit, with the boay of the gig upon 111111, watch being removed, he rose up wholly tritium, nor hail the carriage any marks of violence, with the exception of the shafts being 'stoke's. Both the Doctor and the WHOM suffered a good deal nom the shock, but are now perlectly recovered. llkeAurur. ATTEMPT At' S u c Wednesday evening NIL F. a voting gentleman connected whit a respectable family in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell, made a desperate attempt to destroy liiinse . f. It appears that Mr. F. who is V 2 years of age, (unknown to his family), hail formed a strong attachment fur a young lady, ankle was disapproied by his father, who forbid the banns. ‘Vednestiay evening he went to White Conduit !louse, wrote a letter to the young lady, the object of hits affections, and sent the waiter to deliver it to her; soon afterwards she arrived its the company of a female friend, he met them at the door and ushered them up stairs, and requested them to accept of sense oe g ias, which they assented to, and he said he would go and t"iler it ; he went Jowl; stairs, hut instead of ordering it, lie went he n we middle of the road, placed a pistol to 11;s head, and tl;scharged the contents, by which part of the lett side of the scull was C.ll4;Cti away; he fell on the road side insensible, medical aid was instantly pro ett-cil, and he was placed its lied, bit, without the least of recoveiy.