The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-10 00:00:00

lAN. 10 POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. I.aar• Levy, a well known 'latter, was brought on, antler the following novel elm' of felony:-11r. Stone, of S:teer, Snow Hill, said, that he kept a teddy-made clothes warehouse, and that on the littli of I)eceinber the iwistmer cainit into his shop. 'tressed like a sailor. He asked if lie carnet have a few tSllksna to put on his 141 . 141441 8, Mille* seen 80811* Aetvice. The prosecutor replied, yet, ith,o priscner turned some halfpence. out or Sets pocket to pay t .„. them. With the roppee, however, these fed about t'w roomer, as it hv accident, some small pieces of metal re. se mliiiitg gold. The pi (weldor took one up, and aer•ing characters cut upon it, asked what coin it was, Ilia we i g n, sattsit log him it was gohl. Die prisoner answered, that ii era , a is.woi . • • is owl if weight, was worth 6.. till. lie added• t. , it he should have no objection to part with all lie bird, about SO or SD, fur other money. The prosecutor said lie would 'Ouse him a fair price for them if they were good,aand the prisoner might wait some articles in his line. Toe laver r •1,, th at lie was in want of a gee at coat, and chose one fur :1, The prosecutor, not to be imposed upon, dispatched his 141411 It/ Cox and Merle, refiner., in Little Britain, to *Keel'. tail alt^tht r the pagodas vette good, tend w hat was their value. persost having cursorily viewed and handled a few pro. nosinc edthilm genuine. and said, if 101 l weight, they :Wald go fur U.. 6J. On this She peosiTtit'ir agreed to take then' from the pri•oner, on his mak Me an abatement in the minimal value. The prisoner ace" did, and banded over the pagodas, which, at the rate they had agreed opOn, its. 3d. each, amounted to opera' 'ls of 111. The in isuiter was then paid 81. in cash, with the coot. He thee, sailor_like, remarked, that it was " rather a bard bargain tits poor Jack 1" and peckish' lip hit coat, wali,ed aw ay 50011 after the prosecutor became anxious about the pagodas, and ag4ill W`lll 1111. M 141 Cox and Merle's to be assayed Having bean tried by aqu a fortis, th e y peostd in !te but brats gilt. ''bey were, in fact. notions b u t what are called " Birmingham pagodas !" r• WOW .11 was given to the Police Officers, a lin watched for ner'r. ly three week+, w! en, ou Fri Jay sentsit.itt he prom enter saw him at thr ember of Phil's Buildings, Housisilitelo, and he was appi Their was no propel ty found upon hint. The prisoner, in his defence, called tiod to witness, " dat Ire thought the pagodas vas gold. He look them in payment for two watches, being al•etistonitel to go about and • ell slogs beneath iii the strew t."— Ile 81 - 1818 11 - 111•41111*41 Tnesda,, wisest the Lord Mayor, who was not pi esesit at the former examina tion, asked itim, whether be could show that lie bad received the spurious pagodas in a lair and open tmniner ; he replied, that lie had taken them Iruin al*** WllOlllll. diJ not know, at the East India-30mm, in exchange for two wat•-hes, which he bad sold bill,. As he could not in °dove the slightest proof (rt . his ass.-rtion, his story was disbelieved, and the matter ,p ruceeded. The prisoner was attired in a carter's frock coat, and had the 11151.1.411 . 711145 e of n Hat honest rovtie. rather than of a sharp knowing Jett ; tint on the 19th 111 December, day on which he den - ended 31r. Stone, hue was habileol in a sailor's jacket aml is owsers, and i iiii tilted " poor Jack's" phrase so completely, as to deprive the proseco 1r of all suspicion of any tialtiluteut design coo his (the Jew's) part. Had he known the pilsoner to have Anvil a Jew, (of which he did not exhibit much appearance,) he would g ate bees up to him, 181141 would hare looked notch more sharply after hint. The fond Mayor here said, that from the statement of thin transaction iiimasited in the different tewspapets, lie was in .elisseet to ask Mr. Stoue, what i•eavin hail induced hint only ,to give els. li.l. ter a coin, WI/Wie 5*111:: WAIL fere/A:lSt r.l to ad. Mr. Stone in reply observed, t h at a complete misstatement of this part of his case had been given so the world; and he was glad, fur the sake of hir own character as au honest and respectable tradesman, that his Lordship had now piveis hint an opportunity of contradicting it. Ile never had been told, as was stated. that these pagodas web worth Gs. Gil. each. Cox And Merle had sail that a pagoda was worth Os. English turrenvy ; but as he wished to hare other opinion on the blab jret before lie parted with his money, he till not feel very ens' jOll4 to take the pagodas, of who.e worth he knew nothing. The Jea , however, offered to exchange your of them for one guinea r this viler he (Mr. Stone) accepted, teiling the Is: Tactile at the same time, that Kite would call on him ilieSil.Xl day, he (Mr. Stone) would refund the overplus, if the pagodas should turn out to he worth more thou is. 3d. each. Mr. Levy, however, very cat efoliy forget to call ou him for iwlur -0151104 11141 subject. 'lle Lord Mayor then observed, that this was a very gross ease of fraud ; but that it was lINCI43Ity, before he could cons. suit tire plisoner, that home jeweller, actin:tinted with this kind of coin, should attend, to swear that the pagodas pro. dared were nut worth niece titan so many brass ',MMus. Mr. Thomas, of Luriihill, was therefore sent for, A 3 ,1, sun as, elm/ two of the coins paid to Mr. Stone, said that they were mere counters, Oi W 11446011 IraguilAsi but still they were the best 4) the kind that lie had ever seen, and were calculated to rte. ceive vies the best judges on a cursory lAilittilliitlllll. It being, honeser, sageested by the Lord Ague, that the ea eamiatiaa of two pagodas Wag not Seib:alit to prove thle whsle to be iinpudars Mr. Stone went and fetched the re inani.ler of thus which he had received, alt of which on in soeetion weir declared to be a: great forgeries us their pre. Tile proof against Levi being thus 'node conclu sive, be Was 43:14011ited to Newgate for trial. CAUTION Ti) Poni.icaNs. —.Finlay, several publicans illitared to me,wm a uulnwu,ea which h•d het u gait/tied oltatitst them, for permitting tippling at no r4rly hour on :54M4y Imo 111117. Net, in ir trip uteri. Immo:4. Agaiu,t rumr of them tor prm.f*.lN det• n tr d isrmilicieut, hut agaitart (IVO n was deemed conclusive; and they were ace°, slingly hued ill the malgated penalty of llli. eAck. Lord Mayor toad them to beware how they offended stt a 14111114 r 1114 tiorl i 4 1111141 4 i because, it he had enlist., to press the sere' ity of ttr Iry a antis them, Ise coi:o;al h4vc pie vented them ltoot keepos4 ally publ.c house dining the nest 3 years Has Lording, west telerred to all Act of Pethalurtlt, VI James 1. c 11. •. I. whichas to be found ill Barn's Llloittee, Vol. P. .141,1 which contains, among others, the following ctansr : —" It Any alehouse-keeper ilsa.l sutler any person or persons to continue drinking or tipplma iu tie house," except under specifications which are previonsay escritied algrcrii length, ' 6 no shall he incapacitated room keeping any taverh, isINII4/11%t• &C., fur the space of tin ee years next etisotug." 114 Lei dssup then added, 11$41 he 511.P11141 lair officers, tliv) dlaCuY erect any pu ssue.sts w,lll los hustieops al oulussiss4 4usist, to report tt iu uso Atio.neie. uu P.smAls- Muosiay, stud lir Isiomeit %tumid Itsen us , s kis tsidest%utar. taut iltlitstitteu4 should be propvily punished by this loss of Ills license.. TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. ROW STHEE CteuFt xen.—A few dayriaitiee,a female, whose !Hamlets and conduct evidently proved that she had seen better sl,iys, applied to N:r. !Conk., stating her name to be Bland. slit is blow of ass attorney who died a few months sitter, and let her wi five children, wholly tioprovided, and allogethei In great erstress. Its a abort time after she became aetptain.ed wish a man who had the appearance of a gentleman, a; is friend's house at Richmond, to whom she related her tale of not ; he after wards cultist Noon her at her teatileore at N. Bridee.roatl, Lambeth, end appearlsig to sympathize with her is her slider's, told her its could get her eltle•I sots, a smalls About 10 yeas aof ewe, provided for, if she could precut e the snits of 1301., for a place under Government. She replii 11 that site had no means of he own, but would uy ainciag her tirends, a• it omelet be a eat comfort to lier if her s on wa s In a way of gelling Ilk living. The 111431 represented his name to be Jllllll LlOy4l, that he had been hrosight tip to the law its the office of the late Mr. Holloway. its Chancery lane, amid that he was related to that Gentleman, and also that he had :Wiled as an alto. ney at Newark. She exerted herself among her friends, and in consequence of her sepresentatiun,r /I.IIIIC/11,113 very humanely prourif•ed her the aunt of 1301. The fellow shortly after called and tell her to have llie money ready by the 21tli of December last, na he had plOCllled she promise of as appointment of a Page to the King ; she accordingly went to the gentleman, her ft tend, who had prottit%rd her the money, and he gave her a 1001. and a 301. Bank note, which she handed over to Mr. Lloyd when he called upon her on the morning of she 21th of December, he desiring Mrs. Blahs' to accompany hint, and he would give her the necessary d oe's . meats and warrant of appointment for her son; she ilee,llll - palsied him to the %shun he deflect! hoe Its " fuddle" about the passage fur a few iii i i intes, anti lie %stolid return to her ; she saw hiss, go up the great Mao case, and retorts a itlt some papers in list hand. She afterwards accompanied tow ilk to St. Jamceis Palace, where he told her he was going to the Lord Chamberlain's Offsee for the win rant of appointment as a Page to the King. (to their arrival at the Palace he desired her to " kick her heels abort fir a shim time, and lie would reins it to her wills the wit runt from the Lord Chamberlain's office." She waited het wenn a and 4 'mart, till she became c7t haludrit, anillist is ventured to go to the Lord Chamberlain's Office, and inqnired fur 'dr. Lloyd, but neither he nor any thing of the pretended traesacttun was known there, and she then !mama to suspect that she had been duped by Mr. Lloyd. After many inquirks, not being able to find him, she made her application to Mr. Itirnie, who grassiest A warrant against Lloyd for a fraud. Mrs. Bland had fortu nately gut the numbers of the notes : 17,410 is that of the 1001., and 11,011, the 301. and the payment el theist has since been stopped at the Bank. Adkins the officer very kindly ituderiouk the serving of list warrant, and going in pursuit I.luysi, whom Mem. Bland tic-tribe.' to be about 33 years of age. five feet five inches high, bald bead at the two, vocal slag powder, pale face, lain anti very lung nose, and when be defrauded her of the money he was dressed in a 'due coat, black silk waistcoat, blue 11411141,0113, brow, and a mixed great coat. Adkins has nut yet succeeded iu apprehending MARLBOROUGH STREET. William M'Glashan, a dascingmia.ter, in Riding-40114r. lane, was charged by Mr. Davies, a cum .tharid!er near I'itz. roy Square, with robbing him snider the following circum stances : —The prisoner had been en:tat:y.l to :Mewl in his pi ofesnional rapacity. It happened that Mt. LEiv was ise crier:lay from hums t and lime pi isoner availing himself of the opportunity, look the children into the counting house, and, under pretence of ►hown.g them slight of hand tricks, commis ed to seed them into IllifTeresit parts t.f the house. Its their an.enee, he opened the till :Ind desk, and helped himself to its contents. Mr. Llavies said, he had missed 1111111 e, to a considerable amount, and was at a 1034 to account tor the thief: at length, suspicion attached to the prisoner ; aud , on obtaining a search-w arrant amid proceeding to his lodgings, he found a bunch of key., on which was a key particularly marked, whit h Mr. Davies identified as belonging tp the ide,k in his counting-house. Upon the poisoner wet t• found du plicntes of a time piece, pledged at Mr. Grovels, in Greek Street ; and a diamond, at a pawnbroker's in the Strand. His servant also found the key of the till concealed under the carpet. Mr. Davie.'s nephew and servant confirmed the statement, and the prisoner was fully vonainitted. Thursday Murgas et Edwards.* young woman of interestiut; appearance, was charged with obtaining cowls of dive's trades people by false ptetenees. it appeared that the prisoner went to the shop of Mr. hosier turd ha• bet dasher, in liond Street, stated herself to be in the sec•ice of Mrs. Massey (lawsuit, of Gloucester Place, anti ordered silk stockings, ant senets, &c. Pour 11411 of stockings of the fullest size she had art In get possession of, as she impressed the shopkeeper with au idea that they were wanted amine. diately, and eh the sarsenets tieing taken house to Mrs. DaW- We, the fitted was discovered. Stephen Callus, a Mai Yielome con:table, t.n/k Ilse prisoner in the shop of Mr. Matthews, haberdasher, in Hulks Street, Cavendish Spare, with the four pair of silk stockings she had obtained at Redo...rites a quarter before. She dropped the parcel and supplicated surrey. Miss - Matthews, daughter or Mr. Matthews, stated that the prisoner obtained of her tone silk handkerchiefs, stating herself to he the servant of Mrs. 1311M4011, and, as in the odic' ease, she ordered she Slung, to lie taken home, but as the fraud at Het/W.IW% was known round the trade, she was detained and a constable aesit (or. There wire other charges against hue prisoner, bat site was fully committed for trial on Mr. Itedinain's change. ClintoPs APPLICATION.—A respectable looking couple applied to the Magistrates : the tresitleinatt stated, that himself and his wit'ecould slot agree, they therefore wished that the Magists Alta would separate them. Magtatrate.—Separate yourselves—one go one way, and the other another. The ponies, however, persisted in their application, end it was %lilt some difficulty they were et last convinced that the power of the OlLigistrates did cot enable thew to dissolve :caviusonial contracts. WORSHIP STREET. Tuesday John Junes alias J4llles Tamer, belong; ng to the 9th Dragoons, was brought to this office charged with uttering for ••d Mink ut England notes. J ones Anderson, busier, re.iiling at No. 9, Susanna Row, Cui tali, Rued, Shoseditelt, filed !lasi the prisoner came ono 110 , sliup, end purchased sevei..l articles of memory, said lrndrtell al 11, 11011: 4.4)11011. %kir!' lilt 1.1%.1 I.IS proved 10 or • fa. gel one. He pm Sul d 11111/ 611111001. 010111110 C10.10 , 1y, 41$11 Cul3tA . ed 11110 0401, 10 his Shop, and then 6am to otstiip Street Lidice fur an officer. LlAaintu Autlersoli o wife of tile last witness, correbozated her husband's stateinrut. She said, that while her hn tutu i was 10110 for an officer, she observed the pr, tier pu t.. note+ front Ilk pocket 31111 A% .llow florin ; . t.e challenge) Lim with it, but lie denied it. He was retnatideit. A 'Lust PrtoreLs.—Tharsday William Johnson, alias Wise, and Dorothea Neaves, a very inlet esting girl abmit 17. who lised with him, were charged with uttering forget holt s, poi porting to he of the Bank of England. The prisoner's (Johnson's) method of passing the totes was at °ace grand and ingenious ; he hired a large house, 7:, Gulden-lame, and passed himself off to his neighbours as oi respectable mail : but his assumutt characters when he went about the town to pass therm:es wet P Is numerous, as various, as often played oft, and asernek'y ovoinied, as most of the tannins 01,1 Patch. He passed Wt. notes in one day to Mr. Cooper, a 1)11614-an iu Golden-latie, with whom he was a gentleman's servant. Lt an hour or two after lie was at Lamb street, Spimlfields, as one of the first Dandies of the day; :.on alter as a arrvanl in livery, and lastly, as a country bumpkin ; and in each case be proved successful. Finding, howe•er, that the notes were daily returning from the Bank, and !list his retreat was getting extremely un-afe, lie one night decamped, and succeeded in concealing lintindlt till a few . venings back, ellen he vial. apprehended by J. Arm strove, the officer, at Nu. PS, Radnor-street, St. Luke's. ri l e pi istmei Med bilk log passed any lor4ed note, Lou'.'. ingly. y were reuriatied for tutu ther examination. UNION HALL. John Smith, charged with robbing and beating 3lr. Lynn, A #4.1011'1)1111 at Book liain Common, Surry, on Saturday last, Via'. CI, charged %%lilt being a deserter from the 18th re iturut ol Diagoim4, and being concerned iii the murder of 'Fasint, near tiornsey Wood. The officers, May and God; ascertained, that Smith was in Ow Borough on the tiny preceding and eticeeeding the inuriter,and that three persons, one of whom misweis the prisoner's description, were seen within • abort distance of Hurnsey the day of the murder. Another circullltliaUCt which 01/. (Accra remarked was, that twee persons:marked two gentlemen's houses near iho place WIIVEI: Mr Taylor was murdered, and there were three per. •ons also in the gang who so barhairiusly attacked Mr. Lynn: II is supposed their intentions were to throw Mtn into a pit, which i• close to the spot .% here they left hilts; bat the ap proach of some persons caused them to desist. 'Toe otheers they had fusilier wounds of suspicion against Smith foe th• 'mit der at Hortisey, t[l4ll It WUllttl be proper at present to ilimlose. He was con .... itted. George Johnson, a• fellow of tremendous appearattce, was charged on su.picion of c 'Wog several highway rob beries, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday digit**. —slr. William Walton, a gen!le•mxo fortnne, deriding at King noir, stated, that onTiror•clav morning lee• came iu town in his chaise, and alighted at the {loose of Sramford, paper hanger, Blackman Slit 13,:tongli ; he ha .1 br e•u in that person's house aLou I ir •nirni tes, when lie heard a cry of " Robbery ! Stop Iniei fie run not 61 the bon's. and ',Hissed his box coat Front the „ ark ni his chaise, and was rillinmed that a rasa had •tole.. It and 1411 away. Ice a few initiates the prisoner was ortingin to rem by a number of prisons, who bad pursued an:l steered bon with the ccast in Iris I.assession. Tba prismatic ass 4'olllll6lllrd and orderevi to be twoqrrit 141 again, on a charge of stopping Mr. Kirkpatrick in 13..•• Street, and with rol•b.ng Mut of his w.nclh and 51. ill Bank notes. EXTIr.)I , •IVE IIuBBERIE6.--)01111 Smith MI4 J , lin Holland, decent looking men. once charged with rafritic the stables of the Rei% A. C. (Nish: w, at Sessitigton ; of Geor,4e Ahnon Hitt, Esq. of DtiLe Street. Bliorastrirry ; arid of 1% , . L. Robs , bite, Esq. Lincoln's Inn Fields, of swireral sets of chaise, coach, and horse !winos++, and several saddles, their property, and a very reipectable dressed titan, named William Potter. Willi keeps tS shop ice the Lamb.rill Road, and iii a very large way of bit:auras in the coach IMAIIM'SS line, was err abed with being an accessory. Sliergold and ,otlicers, stated that, from hit - urination . they received, they leaf nr•d mat lire prisoners wer e concern ed in several robtreiies • f gontlente•u's atirliks ; they lay in wait for them, and stopped shear Is ...II a ;meat balk af pro_ perty in a hackney.coach ; they secured them, sad conveyed them and the pnyerty to Girton Hall, and.discovered that it had Oren stolen from two or tire above gentlemen. Further infOrtuatiou induced them to bean ft Mr. Potter's premises. and there they found a vat icy of harness lirlosiging to the Her. Mu. (hollow, uccm•tlnte; lo the intormatrair they had previonsly obtained. The arrns and crest had been taken from toe harness, and they hail evidence to prove that Potter was implicated in the varinirs robberies. The witnesses *sere orient forward and examined, and Smith arid Holland . were fully committed as principals it; the robberie., and Potter as accessory. A Rev. Mr. Davie, ID South Carolina. is finite sure (haying found oat the grand clue) that the Milessimn is to commence in 1811'. Most of the modern prophets have placed the date of the above sbra an remote, that they, as well as their pro phecy, will he likely to be forgotten long before the time apectfied ; lust this favoured Seer , :entstres to predict,t hat the new order of thou:, trill take place in tv.ll years alter this time! " My reader (says he) is not to accuse vile of arro ganee. Let hint think of Columbus's egg. Although twee of the gentlemen around 11w tatsle could make it stand on its end, till Christopher gave it a tap on the table awl strewed thins lion—and then they could oh do it easily." This is a thvoursible specimen of our prognosticator's prose 4 the follow. ing nosy serve as o fair sample of Ina poetry In fats-screw we may hope To sae the world without a rope. The glorious dawn of forty-seven Will introduce new Earth . and 11:aTen !" A. root of potatoe in the garden of the Rev. Dr. Ridley, of Herthigtotiluory, near Hertford, was du up in December last, winch produced 230 potatoes, besides which wile seve ral smaller potatoes attached to the harder •Aivs of the same root. Some of the lacier potatoes weighed 'upward. of a pound. la the same garden an apple WAS gAll'es rd in the last season, the circumference of which pietism ed thil teen inches and a half, and its weight was one pound and three quarters. Several of the apples on the same itre.were neat ly ot equal size. to morrow the Sessions for tho County of Middle's% .coat. mince at Hicks's Hal', Clerkenwell: and on Ike same day 'here told be an Admiralty Se...onslielsi in J nal tee U.. 1. 04 .1 1141,ey, when too Cases et murder, commilirn ou th. kigki Lie me crd. Otte of tilt ill l• • prison coiluwcien with tile gill.. ofsiltilggleis, IWO Of Whom stali . real A. b soon. yea‘e • 41'.14.at0i hunk.. are now ha n ging in clinsuis..l kilitesaraa, rot tiung in , o a KtVeline clutter, cud Aiding two officers. We rev, et to Stile, that three eminent hew s is sh r C,:y havertupped pryiessot this weak. Au itnputtatillimiete Ustio• • also taken place at H.antnt/411.