The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-16 00:00:00

sitilfiii in silver, four bail sixpences and a bad 'billing. Mr. Puivel, the 'lint Inspector, proved the four six pences were counterfeit. The Le:lntel' C!tairmitt, in 11;s charge to the J u ry, said, the la .v of tile ea.ie was Flisl, be 'me sia:iites of the 15.1 i anal lb It of 6%1/fgt. khe Second, if any person shall tender coo:tit:tient kit twin. it to be enutiterCeit. lie shall stir. 1. - Fix mouths' imprisonment, and find security lot good behaviour. Linder another Oat's..., if attv person shall titter countcrfe it coin, with the kiiiiwkaae it i, false and counterfeit, twice on the same (lay, tiff wit ;lilt tett d iys slier shall have about Mtn or her on: or wore pieces beaiiles what was so tendered, sitelt per..on to dewed a emit :11(111 titterer, and stiffer one fear's iiii rrisoniiient. Iftue Jury in this case were satisfied the primilers acted in concert, and that a;I tney did ivas but one joint act, they wool.) find theth .fury found meat Guilty Of the joist offence, and the Co•irt sentenced them to be hair...oiled one )(An in .Newgate. NV ARWICK SessioNs.—On Tuesday the 1 1111 iust bite Grand Jury rettimed true hills against T. %Yells. fur tittering setlitions words at K1111111;0 uu ; against J. 11. Beatnik, for uttet awl publishing . a seditious address to the Belo titers of and its neigh bourhood ; against .1. Ostiortie, Imikseller, for publishing a seditious tram, entitled the lah number of the " Black Book ;" against G. li•lintinds, 64ml:seller, for a libel on the magistrate; 111 13.111110011111 , IWO 111,1111C1 indict ments against G. Raga, bookseller, for plittlishing the ltth untidier of the " Black Bank." and the 9iti number of the " Itepublican ;" and against I. \\'uut,orth, for ptildishing a seditious Address to the U HlOll Society of These indictments, with the cxceptiaii of that a-,ainst have been reamed by ecrtiurgoi into the Court of hittg,'s Bench, and %tall he tried next I.t!tit Assizes. WLUNESDAY.—THE KING V. WELLS. The derelllllll, T. Wells, was iii dieted fur a mistle• na:•anour, in speaking seditious wools. To this the defendant pleaded not guilty. On the Ist of .1 inn ity fall, the defendant, with seven or eight other persons, of whom three or four were soldiers, was drutkiti e t at the Star public-home, in I.3lr !Magi:34ll, and was much intoxicated. otfensiv e words were 4. 00111 . 1.11 11 . 11 10 the King mid Gitivernment ; ii' I had a number of men of omy c,v i thscosition, 1 would lay 111111 allow as a vagrati; that walks the streets." f one of the soldiers saying to Wells that he must not use such language while he was present, the defendant added," 1)-- you and the King to ; I cantot curie lam I hope God may." Mr. Adams- mode a very able speech fur the defendant; and Mr Reader eloquently stated to die Jury the leading facts of the case, too toe part of the prosecution. Tin: ['anted Ch - iirman 3111111allvetted at some length on the evil tendency of such expressions, and on the flange: that was likely to arise from using them in public homes, when the minds of the people were not upon their guard. The Jory found hint guilty, wed the court sentenced Wells ut three months' iniprinitietit in the county gaol. Tile court expressed their approbation of the conduct of the soldiers, who, they said, had acted very properly, and lied dune their duty.• CORONER' , !SOL E.T. On Saturday seimight, an inquisition was held at Smith itt Essex, before C. G. Parker, E.4q. coroner, eit the view of the body ofJ. Mingay, a lien it appeared in et idence, that the deceased not being a poison qualified to carry a gun, for the purpose of killing guile, was, about tire o'clock in she aft volume of the e9th of last month, in Dag Wood, in the parish of DOdditigtoirst, with a goo, which he had lire) cif, vs hen 11.1aiiiket, the gamekeeper of Col. Hamilton, came tip by the side of the wood, within a rod and a ball or two sods,aud paid, "Hallo!'' 'lts you is it ‘Vliat are you iking e?—'the deceased n plied " as lie had said so Looker pus his gun to his shoulder, and filed both barrels at the aleceased, when a bolls I, with Milich one of the barrels ryas loaded passed almost through 11b1 body, and some small shut stenek his hand awl aril.. the deceased givtativil, and held his body, and Locket said "-If you olict to stir l'd blow ,your bloody blahs out." — The deceased replica, " You have killed isle ; I ant a dead man." Looker then weed array, and the deceased , tiaras soured to go home ; 1)111 when he got as far as Mi. Day's farm-house, about 011 e milel ' llllll Dag IVoud, being very Hatch exhausted, lie wt'llt in, and stated what had hap pcntil to him. 'rite deceased was then conveyed home, )rile the pal ash of South Weald, and r. Butler, of Eirent • wood, .I.lls genii, extracted the ballet, and iiiessed the wound, but Intel stied the deceased, the' e was nu chatter or leis recovery, and recommended that Me: A rclidearon IVollastoti, • tot the inagistialrs rot Essex, be stmt for.— About it goat ter bellow eleven the same slight, on receiving iiitia 'nation, Mr. Woltastoto immediately loos ceeded to the house where the deceased was lying, took Lis deposition, and issued a wa mint for the appteliciision of Looks r. A 4:itarter be iot iltret•,ills I . olllll%%iisg mot the constable 111 might Looker into the presence of Ntiitgay, who, pointing to Looker, said, "'fbat is the man who shia the." Dot nig the lion Looker and the deceased weir ill use room together, Li.oher said to the deeeasi it " 1111 y didn't you r 1•1111 1, sit' the d ecea sed vi-ed " You would tr., give tile time," and the deevast•,l ahu " 1 don ' t say 0111 alost I 111111 d love gin out 01 the way. " 1.01i151 . 1 also said 1114, 0W1411'4,0'11 11011 11, tiled lIIM goo at b t u, mill he saw the brass; when the 111 . f1•44..11 rel/111..11, " 111.11 Vl.l , illli103 , 11111•, because the gust tad , . 111111e1 11.3 N'lltlf Tae dee e.iscil also stated, that it was or 110 use L %chili: 4 llls ;;.1111 L.inkei, a• it was not loaned ; and rue di et as, also said to Looker, " 1 near 110 1:0 , 1111 , 101‘1111'11:: yua, 111111 11 111, Will had he'll rmitap• I )tan..:.: has' shot you." The let ea-ett suer p.ali•il, mist tin person was w 111'11 111111 e soul. :ilitigisy Inlet trod unlit toe fuhlut , nig day, tin et died. The ciiiwi 1 livat tog tile evidence, and explaMing the b ats to the. pity, le.aiive to the daft it tit kiwis tit bu suicide, &Wins, as Lis opioion, that Cary had to deter- .. TILL NATIONAL REGISTER. mina whether, from the evidence adduced, the act com mitted by Looker was that of wilful der, or justifiable homicide, left the jot y tu theinselvt coo cou•ider of their verdict, which they boon after monied as " Jusiifi ode Homicide." DARING ATTE,ArT AT iIuIt(iLARY.I3CIWCeII the hours of 12 and I, oil:into:lay night, Ilse II -mse of Mr. ('orotiek, a respectable hooter, at %V realties., near Sou•hall, Nliddiesea, %vol.:mem:3yd to 1.-broken into by fire viilaiiissopposed to belong to the Gland June hum Canal) Sru.nil with lame iron crows, slerf , e. hani inept, &c. with %%hien they io:ently ettaeked, and nearly forced open the hoot dour mid parlour shutters. Alarmed at the noise, Mr. Cornock threw op tile win dow of his bed-room, and thieakeed to shoot them they thil not immediately desist ; but this, instead of deterring the villams, they with most horrid oaths and expressions menaced ter of \l r. Cornock if he made the lea,t leSislail?e, and continu.ll the assault, %Viten Mr. Curoock, beiti t t well armed, fired amongst them, and one of the gang instantly fell, wbri is ticketed 1 be mortally ...omitted, if hot killed, aim was carried into an adjoining field by his compaMtms, sweating, they would return and be revenged. Mr. t2airoock, With great presence of mind, instantly dispatched one of his lads from a back wunlow to Southall, for assistance, Irmo hetice several of the neighbours, and their ser vants, with great alacrity accompanied the lad, but being seen by Übe robbers to approach the lonise, they hastily decamped, .taking whit LI11:111 their wounded or dead compaiins.• A NECUOTE.—The night after King ( harks the Virt was ihdiea led. my I.o3lSouthatopion and a Itit•nd of his, eau leave to sit up by the bed) , in the hampientig-house, at Whitehall. As they Wile s4tilht %cry anchor:holy there, taboo' two o'cloek in the toorhing, the% heard the tread of somebody coming very slowly tip stairs. liv and by the dour opened, and a (Thin entered, very much notified tip in his cloak, and his face quite hid in it.— Ile approached the Ludy, consideted It %ere attentively tor some time, and then shook his 11.• ad and sighed out the words "God necessity!" lie then departed in the same STOW and concealed manner as he had come in Sumba ' , pion ant *. to say, that he could not dis tio4ttash any tiling of his free, Inn that by his voioe and gait he look hint lobe Oliter Cromwell. A few da i s since, the schooner Medina of Liverpool, Thomas Adams, masttr, from Cuba to Br slot, was watmed near Mations, mid became. au e l ute wreck; but the crew, We are happy to slate, Mere !a% cd by means of Captain Maisby's apparatus for pries:Ring the lives of bhilm reeked seamen. In the course of the last six months have died, 5 Admirals, 7 Post-Captains, 5 Commanders, 21 Lieu. tenants, 11 Masters, 4 Surgeons, 10 Assistant- Surgeons, 16 Pursers. There have been promoted during that period, to the above ranks, '25 Admi• rids, 14 Post-Captuins, 19 Commanders, 31 Lieu tenants, (no Master,) 3 Surgeons, 1 Assistant-Sar grim; 1 Purser. Auout three o'clock on Tuesday morning a fire was discos ered to have broken out in the Tree ury of the Satoh Sea-house, in Inreadiseedle Street; it was first observed by the louse watchmen, who gate an i tttt diate alai in by calling up the chief emitter, whose duty it is to take charge of the keys of that department.— Fortunately, by the very active exertiens of the firemen, the fire Was gut wider, 24,7r:doing con ttlerable A kw da)s ago, a boy named Harrington thrust a quantity of gunpowder into one of the hollow irons used for snioothmg linen, caned Italian irons, aid Ravin, set lire to it with the poker used for heati.,g the iron, the explosion of the powilCr drove it compit through hits band, which was Iticer Ilea hi a tire.stlful manner. 'Fite boy is, however, in a fait way of recovery. Smuggling has so much increased on the north east of Scotland, that the Lords of the Treasury have, it is said, found it expedient to adopt means for rendering the preventive service more efficient on that coast. Three new stations arc to be formed in that line, including Aberdeen; at each of which a naval officer will preside, who will instruct the revenue offieemund cruisers on the coast, rs advised by Government, or according to his own local know ledge and observation. The three superior officers appointed to fill these situations, are two of them Captains, and the other a Post Captain ii) the Royal Navy. They will retain their half-pay, which, with the emoluments of their new duty, will tuainant to between 4001. and 5001. a year. A coroner's inquest sat on Wedaesday night .at the Cumberland's Head, City Road, on the body of gnu Vender Tresson, whose death, it was stated in some of the papers, was ozcationed by an im proper removal. subject had given rise to much discussion, as did some of the police reports to much controversy.—The subject underwent a patient investigation, and it appeared from the evidence of a woman, who had pita much attention to the deceased previous to her death, that she was afflicted with an asthma, and had swollen and sore leg's. Evidence wow also given as to the mode of her removal ; and after the testimony of two surgeons as to the cause of her death, the coroner soma ed up the evidence, at the same tiale remark ing on the manner of Ler renioval, s o il saying it Was time a stop shoull be put to the practice of not I nut receiving persons in a d, tug state situated as t e deceased teas. lie lett the evidence to the jury who brought in a verilict—“ Dies' a natural death." A c 4414111 Lliela runt pith:, &ken y aqo throty,ll MI I;, loa , l 1 , / 1.01111 , •11, last tv.,k : t. ts bebeted the C:111.0 bow the 7. , uitivrtt part tit Ntbit"lk A new lawillOd has been th,Cuteretl to OC adopted uv ate poaChille. b Wry, of Lining game without the aid of a gun. ~_T' Y." TU 111 E &I , 11011, M . o. EDlTott,—At you have expressed your approhn lion at the prutsea of the Noiwlch School of Art,l cannot forbear relating an a ll , cdote of one of its %sootily cilia, tri, whose taste as an had 11 tig been cousideivil sit the fires-rate outlet : hail lie brand ut Pi icier'. alliance :in nt to the Legion ut it :night l• ai e :termini% for the step HE took , but I conceive it itillyt I e attsi b wr cl to his having lon gi cat a di-siding mem of Sporklicini's oi gall ut op lif•I 0105111 0:11IellVlal lit 111 of NI. Ste phen's, he commenced his sign by cleaning and paiutieg the elms ch, and at the icy mhos of hs.labours, h. wiled - his es e 'iron a pietni 4. Of Ille Lertre Slllll4 I hi the Vestry --- '• painters ran in, and the glaziers ran on., • " They could nut conceive what their chief was about ;" and with Isis " eye in a fine frenzy rolling." he thus ad diessed the painter, " Bioy, consider myself wind hag iu ilaiy and sync ralion did I sutler this chinch to be eit'allell and leave our Sat iour Sitting before so ditty a table cloth ; therefore take your brush, and paint it all over with sit he." lei the I (nit se of five minutes this or der was executed, to the great satisfaction of oar sapient Churchwarden. A few days after, this inutilation was discovered he the Rector, who scut the picture, v hip teats in leis eyes, to an artist, to be restored to its pi istints state. I reninin. Mr. Editor, your's, eke. Norwich, Jan. iE2O. %i'A R M Err. 14:011%$ LCII CITY SLSbIONS. The Semions fur this City were held on Tuesday hot,•• and after she usual formalities were gone ilsrou,:ls, slot Learned ligeordir deirdered his•eharste lit the Grand Jury, in ss hid), airs . stasim: that on the mouse of the tolleimes In be bi ought bi•fort. them, :toy olmerrali,.o Inuit would be uonecesmry, he said lie was ell 3Uure taut tic Gen lemen he wits then addres,ing, and iedeed all Cie tiessils mess connected whit that t mill had dime Iheir duly in cutlea sssui IN to put 11 slap to the deprealutions cumuli( led by Ju vettile (Arendt rs; but ite ol as soot.). lii (observe, it had ow! produced the desired s tb.r I. He Fisd that the Proclaims von .just feast, (the Proclatutitioto fur the lev ee ohservatisos of the Lora's Da)s, and for puisisLitig prs.foomams. nod int nuns alit, ) lie o persuaded toy saute, was treated us a mere mat of form, hut lie um. sure !hot by it being prop -sly istlentit d to, it would trod greado to the d • of es ime, and tsierefore eulicd Dicer put ticul utteistiost • to V.. _ ?FilsonEns. Maria Smith was -ir d!cied for or taitilog udder falw pruw testers. of Mr. John Jay, a baker, '2 tin puns a Oh bietid u. them, the propel Iv of If nhcrt llarinaii, and convicted, Y 11.011111, impi is 111111 l eni.--T bare were 11%0 utht•f• charges ut a biw.lar Mita - c niaritist this a °man, which a eie iihandened. William Davey, for stealmg, on the 4th December last, a vat iety of carpentes's tool,, limn a new building at Btu. conduit., the property of gibed Overt on, was convicted gni received stain:nee of 7 y exult train-put tatium—Antrilh r t harge of the tame 11'111/11! abandourd. John 1 rceinan and Benjamin. Barnard, for stealing, on the 17th December last, from Cie shop of Mrs,t,. grocers, 2 cheeses, u err sentenced to 6 months impi imminent Brideuell. Soria Beckett and Ann Todd were indicted fur s soling on 4he 3d December last, front Sarah low kroliain, aitn • al limy lodged two colnuit 41 cotton gol iga, a black cloth . base, and uttwr articles of wearing apparel ; the turner was convicted, aad sentenced to 1Y confinement in tiridea ell, but no hill a vs lound übanist latter. ' 11 it tam Woods, fur stealing on the 30th I)ecenibcr 1 .st from is Yowl-house of Joseph I tune., 1- rrp at laikamiliain chickens, which he killed trite, 6 thoolla imprison me.;, in Bridea ell James Bill and Charles Rieke', for stealing, nn the Sits .faituwi y intdatil, front the shop of Andrea flows in St. Beilet.list',, 4 kaive,, a pocket comb, and tither articles ; she former senteint•il to 2 111111 l fits imprisonment in Ili Ide— well, and the latter was argaittcd. • Thursday night, as two young men, who resided at Tw, Mai; were returning hoot Tewkesliry, they inn inuZleittly atunipted to walk Mune upon the ice fits the river .Ivon ; Lot. when Iliey whin,' a snort distance. of Ts%itilog Fieet I no, tile ice broke, and they both . souk. One of them, great &tali:oily, extricated hiniseif, and Tall W•th as omen expedition as his Citizen woiliii iaamit, to ti:e nearest house, to Mitaiit issistaace for ti.s companion ; and t;tttitot the post ittlintv . . head was above sealer %%hen los arrivi.ii, his C 4:11 11,1ing 11,011 the ice, he smik to rise no no.re Mime they' could get loos mat. Tile nalle of this iiMortuttate s.tiileter was Weav er,aod he had been in...riled 'mi... a shill( tiaie pievions. Tuesday night the Swansea mail was oversct near Pyle, owing to the severe frost, by which ttvident Mr. Brown, junior, of Bristol, who was an outside passenger, bad both his legs broken. IL was con veyed to the lodge of Sir John Nicholl. where he was human:Ay received, and every ai.t a intinistrtal which his truly deplorable situation require& aLcr or FKOsr.—Last week a Iliq.let's -.art was oliserte.l standhig aciws tile W4.llVtr!".ll %Ail the &her sitting on the sha!ts. .% stage coaennian, hit way impeded, callid to the non: Ott the cait to draw out M the way. .11..ceis ing no gnawer, he swore, and • used the I•inguage usual fin the road, to make the carter move. Ail tas threat- and persuasionsbeilig Ile gill down, and allowietliti r i the tail, lotat.tl the In its fillitAt still' his seat. Pe was quite t!eatl. The house had stopped, oil f eh, it i .int the re,lis. Oa the Sllst •uf May, us tht\ Malay vvoincti, weft.: fishing in ti'tt Sit:1110y Draka, to the oppmite Show, withia the comnany'S th e n', was suddenly seized by alit tllleJ.ii,actidy Lage ti=er; s the tries of her coutvailions, it ~ p re.r:s, Litiolidated the ferocious :tidal 1, when lie yiittcd the sr:tins and made off fur the woods the ...111 . ...ittitl.ate W0.11:111 expired short l y alter. 00 Fr. las: I ist is - , persons were standing on a piece of tee hear %% hell It 6as e way, and !At tom' oat of them. Wits titoA-11C4., .. .. OW - oat'