The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-30 00:00:00

MAY SO. OLD 11.1/LEY BESSIU2I.S. WEDNMD t If. MAY 26. The 'hove Req,iong rommenre.ltlik ine. nine., at Jiisiire )1.11,.01,1 Bailey, heforei Mr. Justice Bayley, Mr. liaiva Barrow, Om !teem tltr, tee. INFAMOUS AND EXTF.NSIVIt ROBBERY. lulu) Bettie, Patrick M'Couri, Hobert Rhodes, and Michael Aigen (low privates of the 19th Regiment, leaswer«), were capitally indicted for stealing in the dwelling house of oar Suvereign Lord the King (namely, the Barracks of Hounslow), 481. and upwards, in Batik Rote , ' earl cash, a watch, gold chain, seals, and divers whet a r ticles, the property of Thomas Enlit id. :Beams. Alley and Arabia appeared for the prosecution. Mary Enfield said, due was the wife of the prosecutor, who ass a Corporal in the 19th Liners's. On 11w 21s1 tilt. they were stationed at Hounslow, and on that evening there was a chest placed tinder the bed, in which was de rosi'eJ about 501. in Bank notes, a limiting watch, two Lo p( seal,, chain, t o ng. sad kvy, F ie or seven half-crown pieces, some silk handkerchief's, and oilier articles. On the following morning site was alarmed by a man, aho iii fut rued her ale! her box was carried out of the loons into the passage, a here it lay, broken open and iolundel ed. David Anderson said, he belonged to the 19th Lancers, and substquent to the rubbery lie was cosi:will in the black-hole of the barred-Ls as a deserter. During the lime 51'emirt and Rhodes wets placed ever him as guard. About 11 o'clock ar night he oveilieeril 111 , Court sell Wmudes that he hod taken 361. out of Enfield's hoe, and he was afraid, if there wete any mote tne 'owes," they would be found nut. The prism:en were not then *wete of the twitiwits's being «o near. He nn a sudden tose imp ; upon seeing which il!.'Court enc•died if he bad uvertward %bi l e! ti l e, tad Jost been saying. He replied tint, APCottit then said lie should want 13e nothing while he was there. Modes subserviently iliteatemeil, if he did know, and said a word :.bout it, that lie would knack him down. Serjeant-Major Lloyd said, that in CC:MO*I4I'IICP of in. fit illation, lie 'watched Rhodes, and found concealed in au old glove lie lied in his possession, a 101. note, and (no It. notes. lie also warcheil ill• Court, mid hound concealed iii the " tnen•isp leather"of his cap, two notes fur 11. 111111 Irre half- menu. The prisoner tub! him of o.olllc more property be Mg concealed in die stable of Captain Nlonr tray,of the same regiment. Upon going there, witness met Serjeant Olissmou of the adios teicintelit t who in formed him that the prisoner Meese 11:1.I 101.1 him of Ow property being also placed there. Bre rte was a acts:tut of Captain Mouriray, and under the rorn-biun of his stable was ruined 121. Winne«, received from the wife 01 the length prisoner, Meer', 114 and five lealf-crowns. The willow -re had items. to the room of the prosecutor when they pleased. Enfield said, he had seen his box and proper ty a day tsetse.) briber ; and Mary Enfield sail, she had seen theta the Jay presluna to the robbery: Each identified part of the poverty produced. Mr. Justice Reale) summed np the evidence to the Jury, who retitled for more than half an bout, and thou re. turned. she follewing verdict :—Breese and Alamo, Nut Guilty—NPC,ouirt and Rhodes Guilty—Death. The July recommended Ilse two latter to mercy. Mr. Justice Itayley.—" taw !loam' to aA you, Gentle men upon what gronmk." The Foreusan.—. 6 Upon the ground of their lung ger- Itiee%," Mr. Justice Bayley then ordered that all the property should be restored to the prosecutor. Corporal Enfield. VaIDAY, MAY 28. imE4tres PIM lAt.tiE. This morning, at buff-post eight o'clock, some of the gen tlemen coiniected with the diurnal press havaug taken their seals in the students box the sii u.it km selected for them fir► a numb-r of years), Mr. sheriff Roberts came up in his robes of 03ire, and staring at the gentlemen %shoo were there, said, " What's this about i" As soon as the natural surprise w hich the self-iutroduction of the Sherif occasiamed had elapsed, one of the gentlemen otaser.ed--" We belong to the nets s paper..Nir." The S:t.•rrtf then waill—" All! all! who is The nresest 6 " Neither of us," was the nyrly. '• Be a are," rejoitsed the Sheriff, "w lauever e ntries here should represent things farrly : that affair the other day Nab DM stated as it occurred" (alluding, we suppose, to the scramble for the property of a convict felon ) One of the reporters imme diately said, that if any error had occurred, toe pat lit n'ar paper was responaihlr fur it, but that he had mailbag to do with at. The Sheriff thrn said," I want (hit box for inysa If to-day ; I can accommodate my friends nlisreser I like." The reporters, as ithout disputing this asked the Sheriff whether they were to stay or goo, hinting, at the same time, et the ass k card appearance it would a we to the pub lic, to annievire that they were excluoled from Sae place they have invai y "occupied, and by the_ aid hot ity of the Stu coff. The Sheriff darn said, that the body of the Court was open to them. The orporter., natura•ly aasiuto to retain their usual place, still pressed upon the Sheriff the nrces,aly of ileternitniog whether they should go or stay ; when the taller said, •• If you threat,. you roust walk out. 1 don't care for none of your threats." The reporters du chimed ally idea of uciig thirsty, and added that they were fully aware of the authority of the Shea iff in that Court, anal waited his decision w briber they were to stay or go. The Sheriff then said, " I have some ladies, and I must accom modate them ; I have a right to put who l please in here. I Anall wunt every accommodation fur try freutli to-day." On the arrival of Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Sheriff Roberts ;applied to him for lamination a Wive to We right of the reporters to he in the b hos, and was told by the worthy Milirini.t4 that from long 1:1111411111 they had. au andantatila right to be there. Not coateuted with the :shove exhibition, the worthy and mcdfte Sho'riffposted to the box allotted to the constant use of the. Gland J y which he filled with " his ow n friends." On the arrival of the Greed July they sent fur Mr. and corm•. ted hilts aos to his " right to occupy the %hole court as he pleased," by declaring Sisal their duty to their successes US Grand Jurymen, nade it accessary that they should assert their privilege, by insisting on Mr. Sheriff's clearing their box, which he after touch thee of sesistature was reluctantly forced to do. BANK ronnemin. The following prisoners, bong Hine in number, were TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. rrraigned, and pleaded guilty to the minor Wiener of haring forged notes iu their 1004*(44,6:M :-.4l•llnilltlit it s , (teurge Michael Mailing, Julia Martin, Theavas Puiter, Julio &loom, James Shaw, David !Diary, and Lyd , a John Malin pleaded ovt guilty genrially to the utikjur and minor udeurr. TRIAL OF CR ill Le! RRRRRR Chillier ]enact was put to the bar, and charged in the indietimait with bar Mg, un the bib of November, maliciously and feloniously curried stony a certain male child, under the age of 10, and about he ag,e of three yearn, Joseph Churls Horsley, the son of Joseph Horsley, and Sarah Elig,heth his wife, with Weal to deprive lbw parreats of the pouessiou of the said t Mr. Alley staled the ease on the part of the prosecution. Mr. Horsley was the first %salmi. called. He was a mar ried man, Michaud to Sarah Elizabeth..and had four chile dren.• The child in question was born after the marriege.— On November 8, be intrusted to a servant, named Elizabeth Colhrook, two children, Sarah Elizabeth Horsley, and Joseph Charles Horsley. She took them out in a little chaise, and was to have returned at half-past four. hut tiever did so. On the Monday morning he Nand the child Sarah Elizabeth in the hands am publican's a ife. (In . 1 hursiday, I lth of November, Maws uNfor.tha contioent after the pi i roner, and went by Hover to Calais, ana from thence to I lollond. Ile found the prisoner al Wart). in Gel maily. (Si seeing a dams, the pi Molter eaclaimen" 0 God,Goal" enihraced his legs, and asked fin mercy. Witness, IN Whoa; reply, left the r00m... He afteraards taw the child which hr had lost, at the home of hlr. Whiainart, the Cranial.— (A letter of the pi donee* was then handed to a ducal, and • is Bums believed it to be h.s hand- w riling ) Eliaabeth Culhronk lived in November last as servant to Mr. Hanley. She first became acquainted with the prisoner about tau months beforeN ovriub4ir,aud became*, aequanited with him by walking not akb the childiro. Witting was not married ; and the prisoner, about it week before Nu. ve.aber, mule proposals of marriage to her. On Sunday, Bth November. she was out a sth the children, nod Intl the prisoner at Canonbury. Ile accompaided her to Islington, and said that he um: Ms banshee weue going to Birmingham in a port•cluiae; he went away fur a short time, sayilig lie was gum; to Ms brother, and a hen hr returned, told her that she must gn to Birmingham that night in a coach : he gave wauestt. for that purpose: he took her place in the mime of Jac ma. itnesa t h an arm away, and left the children with !trawl at Snow-hill, telling the to take them home. II linear a idled to go home with the children herself, but the prisoner refused. That night she wrid to Biriniughaiii, and did not see Hie prisuoer there. She returned to London un I/ethical:if and „tam information of what had happened. 'rite letters imploring merry, written by the prisoner to Mr. M' samara and Mr. Horsley, were then put in and read. The care for the prosecution was then closed. The prisoner ails then called upon for his defence. lie immediately took from his pocket a roll of paper and opened it. Mr. Adolphus, aho was his counsel (with Mr. Andrews), begged to say that he was igitaiant of the coutents of bit paper. The prisoner then rend ths paper, of which the followin; i• an extract : Let me cub eat you, my Loud n o d Gentle. men tit the Jury, to listen to a persecuted and much-wronged iiidividuitl, and decide a Bit that mercy and lib. faddy which sit eminently characterise it itritish cue' tof justice. I am the giaiidson of Mr. Cnarles Iteiniet, late of the Inner Tem ple. In the course of his extensive and re-pet table praca ice he reultaal a considerahle fortune. He possessed several estates, real and personal, independently ut muney iu the full& to the amount of several thousand poundr. The prin cipal freehold estate was ertinsated at,2o,oool.,situate la and including the manor of West hleun, in the county of South ampton. was given under my grandfatlier'r trustees in trust fur nay father (the only son) and heir of his body. lie amply provided for his other cluldreu out of the leta-titling estates aid funded property. " At his decease, my father entered into possession of the rstate.hequeitthed to lone, and continued in the rejoy menu of it up to the time of h death, which happened at an early period. Ile left a widow, a (taught, r, amt mywif. From that tune I date all my nuiscrers. Mo. Chas. Higisam, the the abate', had mar ried toy taunt, that stater of my father, who, was extent' i x miler illy gtandfattier's will, and trust, e of the estate bequeathed to my father, who nt the time of tilt tea tator's decease was under age. Upsin her death, Me. Di.:- nu:n, as her le g al representative, acted as sole trustee. My futher several-years pievinus so his decease was of imbecile mind and debilitated come talkie. Ile in tile a will ea 1t4. 1 .3. Ovine the whole of his property to his wife, daughter, and myself, namiiii his executri c. and two respectable gentlemen kin executors. 'I his disteihution of property 1101 swede( the vii ws of Mr. Dignuns. he, in ISO), in collell I w.ll. Mr. Janice Agee, of Hare-colas, Temple,a man known to my grand father by being often .al his table, taking advantage of in) father's mental weakness, gat him to sign at Agar's cham ber. a paper, previousls prepared by Mr. Agar, which gave all his real estate equally between toy sister, self, nod Air. Agar's illegitimate Mr. Alley.. here interfered on the pai t of the prose ration, and put it lit tl:e Cowl whether individual• should be suf fered to be thus calumniated an a court of justice. hl r. Justice Bayley said he teak' not stop the prisoner in Itiwdcfenee; and the wise:ter proceedt 41:— . . '• His wag giVrll to a prostitute, who had been Diatinin's servant, and fitful cohabited with my fa ther. '1 hey nom d her executrix, and themselves execu ting, inaSinii his wife, no* improviiltd for. This scandalous %till answered a dunide purpose; in the first place it was calculated to increase my difficulties in recos vet Mg my With-sight, the seizure of %%Inch was even Cien in constiliplatitm, as my father's demise was an eve nt sup posed to be not very distant isecondly,iii e ase I iiiihnaiely sncesieileil in obtaining my tight, it might afford a coni• futable provision for Agar* illegitimate offspring. My fattier died surrounded by his Nile and children, limier the impression that he had provided for his family by the will male in 1805, the only one lutowu by them to be in csiiitclice, he himself (saris WWI iris metti4l 111C4pAltil V) hating no mice on his mind 01 the one tit it deserved the name) made in 180). Judge or our and i n di g nation "Oen this vilhiuuu, %Leninism t.i prediired and read to us at Agar's eliambeis. Digtottitt acted alone as execu t o r. After paying the I rilinie or crocodile teats to the memory of his departed bomber, and vowing he would be the friend of the widow and children, his first act was to 1:1;• dull:LI tv and take rtitses.i...:a of the fainily 1 estate. lie teen pat lip to sale all the personal property left by my tattier, 'menthe:lg every article of furniture, which having acruinplialied, the widow and children arr. turned nut of &nue, to do the best they could her thefts edam" . The prisoner here became so much agitated that he could scarcely proceed. After a f•w moments pause, he Continued : " The property included the revijue of the lease of some houses iu G. afton-rotirt, the deeds thereof toeing Ile Dig num's possessioa, which, on being pot sits foe sale, found no bidders, it being stated tinst•the securities were loal. Digimm, the eserntor, became the purchaser at one fourth of the valise. Whenever I endeavoured to remota. straw with him on the injustice and cruelty of alepriviag sue of my bittli•right, he stopped roe by tauntingly asking„ why I did not take legal steps for the recovery of it. well knowing.in addition to my being under age and willow' • guardian, that I had not the means of purchasing the necessaries of life, much leseto defray the expense of law proceedings. Ile knew lie ought to have given tee pois 'elision as heir-at-law ; independent of which it was his legal as a ell as moral duty, as trustee, to institute a 154 ill • come of equity, if lie dotilsted my right to the pro. peaty. Aker a lapse of about 5 years, I alyttied 10 & &Oa. filol', who at first warmly advocated my mama; bait after • ....feting heist at the chambers of my proseeator's legal adviser, lie abandoned toe, and berate° the solicitor of.my prima rotor, ale, about this slow (he bring helmetlike cir cumstances) mart ird Dignuoi's (laughter. Five years had then elapsed since my radices death, daring which my poor aged mother and myself underwent all the miseries attend-mit on the lowest State of poverty. " 1)i nom, taking advantage of any distressed condition, proposed to me that if I could give • release to toy claius on the f state, he would oar his interest to proonre tee a simation in the East India-house, of some °thee under go vet moult. I indignantly rejected Mi. piuposal. " :oink in poverty, sad despairing of the restitation of my right, I had no resource hot to propose to these up pa visors to tett; e a small compensation for my clsiiu. The business was negotiated by my prosecutor on behalf of DIgIIIIIU, myself, said a Miss Farnell, who also churned an Interest 111 the property. Eveay circumstance that atipearcd calculated to bring rue to so act eptance of their Oun terms was eacesly paid hold of by any prosecutor. bly fatlirev will of 1809, and any poverty, and consequent in capacity uf procei ding vigorously with legal proceedings, %%etc coutaacted with their ability to protract the suit fur a number of years, a hick Mr. Hot sley assured mr it aas their deter - 1114,46am to du, if wr could not come to terms. 'thus situated, I was arduced to the deplotable neces sity of disposing of any title to an estate, for a sum not amounting to une-half tlm-proces•ds thereof rived by my oppressors since hay rd!Lret death." The prisoner thou detailed aoothet story of a similar sort. The prisoner then rebutted the accusation of having used the children et mily, by dechei log that he requested t..e servant to take our child Irvine, but she ; she like'VVige refused to leave it at the greengrocer's at which Mr. Huisle)'s family dealt. So careful was lie of the child u Melt lie left behind, that before it left his sight, lie saw it in the hands of three respectable iudividuais. lle them proceeded:— " I have only to add, that I have suffered siz mouths' confinument,five of whicn have barn ut a forego country; and that a belove,4 infant has peri.lied in a prowl, %hest: its mother was taken Oil 6114.11'11M at being ass uccuanplher. " Rtl)ing, soy Los it 41111 Gentlemen of the Jury, uss your candour, I throw in) self upon )our tao►t humane cue stderatiou." . _ The vrioncr read this defence with great tnarks of agi tation. - _ No witnesses were called on behalf of the prisoner, and after • • g sap ti out Mr. Justice B•yley, the Jusy without hesitation pi °Holiness,' a s el diet—Guilty. ►ir, Justice Bayles, immediately after the verdict was giseii, addressed the prisoner to Ilse follow ism effect:— •' You have been found guilty by a July of yoni COW - try, upon such evidence as t 110 slam lit as to your guilt. It is aco kite of enormous magnitude, and it you look back upon your out: cusoluct, mid consider what would be the feelisigs which would pastorally be excited in the minds of the poi ents 01 the children thus tarn from them, if you have any feelings 'oat self, if you have any remorse, you will be conscious of the enurinitv of the otlence yam base commitsed. if its at moment of agony the pail-111F of otiose intaista had been baonOst to :4 ;life asistla, which inialit base Isappsiied, ur if they bail been 41(1,6 veal of I e4SOII, whet compensation on earth could ylila 11.1Ve Made to these miliamy iu•illsl 'floe de fence which yon have read it, that yon have received family wrong•; but is this the M e). in wrongs ought to he iedatessed? Are you 43 be the judge in your own cause? Ate you to be the avenger of these pier sores? You have forfeited the pub... Aims of the laws, and :ion most prepare to,nseet sour punialissient. The sa am II r., W.ll:Ci# will te passed at its proper time (fur I should inn [poverty sli•etiorge guy ditty unless I infuisnell you of sour foie), wall be Irat)sportattoll tor ses (II ye 4115, the highest punishment which Pic law alimaa." e pa kosser was then remos est front the duck, awl will, at the conch% 41011 of the sessions, Ise brought up oolong the other pi isosieta lot excuse the sentence of the law. Its did nut seem hooch affected. HIGHWAY NOBIW.RY. William Knight and Jame Knot ttioid indicted capitally fur assaulting Wen. Walker on the Kiiig't hip , * ay, on the 'lsth of April, nod taking from 111141pe , sott a watch, chain, and wait, ha pa ulterty. Tito Jur.t bout.% r, round butts the priskune I Nut Guilty. cun low e tor. Illahnah yours.; otil an, attic eripit:4l) indicted far stealing a nag, valste 11s. 01. privately,. ite the shop at Jos Brooks, liit.propert). The prvstcutor's %sire livers a jewill , r's shop at Edmon ton. Oa the 3cl of April the pin:oiler and a girl, 'shout 14 ;Pears of age, came to the shop, and asked to lank Pet tome ring.; they acre:4lloW.. solo. • and the prisoner inked the gill if she had the nue pound n..tr ? Ti.e gar, mid %lae Lao nat, that the verso., °au-We of the is in;loa had it, n.r pri sailer said they %%mild he back in a few minutes, and trey went to a third person outside. Mr. Brooks tarn mns•al the ring, and icrused the ;prisoner and the gip: ss it h hiving' r,irry it; they ilecls.ed the; had not, all unete:l to be searched. '` Y ~, w,