The National Register. — London, England, 1820-10-01 00:00:00

THE PRINTERS' ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. .0.1..p5 , . A mimerous and respectable Meeting of the Journeymen Letter press Pi-inlets of London and the curium's, was held on Monday night at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, for the purpose of voting an Address of Condolence rind Congratulation to the Queen. Mr. Johu Simmons took the chair, by the unanimuus con sent of the Meeting. 1t was then proposed to read the list of subscriptions in aid of the undertaking. The list was accordingly read, which which gave general satisfaction. Mr. C. Waterwm next proposed nn appropriate Address. Several of the phrases were opposed by Mr. Forbes, but the Address was ultimately agreed to with applause. Mr. Mercier then observed, that it was necessary to make some arrangement for presenting the Address in a ri spect able manner. He reminded the Meeting that Printers were entitled, by an Act of Queen Llizabt th, to wear hag wigs and a sword, but he did nut recommend them to assume those external honours. He proposed that a Deputation should go in coaches with white favours at the breast. . I his proposal met with some oppo si t ion.—A cry was raised of •' No 1 nu! we will pi on foot iu t body." Mr. Mercier reminded the adverse party that It might rain, and a wet jacket wig not the costume they ought to wear In the pr,•sence of Royalty. Ile concluded by moving at reso luti iiii ,—That the Address be presented by a deputation of the profession: that such deputation be conveyed to the Queen in roaches and pairs, mid that each Member wear a white favour on the jell breast. Mr. Waterton strongly supported the resolution, which was agreed to. ft was also resolved that the Committee do sit at the Three Herrings, Bell-yard, on the Stith and .47 I h instant, from eight o'clock to ten, fur the purpose of receivang Subscriptions, and the names of those gentlemen w ho wished togo up with the Address. A person proposed that Mr. J. T. Woolcr should be no. minated to go up with the Address. Mr. Waterton opposed the proposition, on the gronnd that they had no desire to give the proceeding a political character. ISO proposal n as negatived. It was Busily resolved, that the Address be printed on satin, nod presented to the Queen by the Chairman, the Mover, Se ler, and others. A deputation was also appointed to wait on the Queen, and enquire nlie.i she will be pleased to receive it. After some further business, during which it was under stood that the Master Printers had no concern whatever with the pruceediugs, the Meeting sow dissolved. We lately mentioned a most brutal attack which was made upon Mr. Wakley, a surgeon, residing in Argyll -street, on which occasion the villains set fire to his house, which was entirely consumed.— The following correspondence has taken place be tween Mr. Wakley, and Mr. Sheriff Parkins:— Kentish Town, Sept. 21, 1820. Sin,—From the period of my late catastrophe in Argyll Street. to add to my anxiety, 1 have been currently charged by a multitude of malignant slanderers, as being the person who decapitated Thistlewood and his deluded companions in May last. Your official contradiction of this disgusting falsehood as Sheriff of London, will touter a lasting favour on, Sir, your oblige') servant, THUS. W .1K LEY. J. W. Parkins, Es q. Sheriff of London and Middlesex. No. 10, New Bridge Street, Sept. V 5, 1820. Sitt,—ln answer to your Note of the 21st instant, I feel myself bound to comply with its contents to the almost of my power; but I am sorry to kaftans you, that the whole of the disgusting business to which it relates was conducted with so much privacy, and pertinacious con cealment from me, that I was not even made acquainted with the order for the execution until the day after (Sunday, when I went to Newgate accompanied by a clergyman) it had been determined upon, and orders given for erecting the scaffold, &c. by the Lord Mayor Bridges, and my colleague Mr. Bothwell, who, accom panied by his Deputy, had, I terstood, been the pre vious day at the Secretary of State's Office arranging the same. And as to the mail who decapitated the unfortu nate Thistlewood and his companions, tie was procured for that purpose by tile Prison Surgeon, and his terms 201. agreed for by Mr. Turner, Mr. Bothwell's Deputy, and which wages, Mr. Turner told me, were reliant to him by the Home Department, as also 61. lie paid to the man who held ❑p toe heads. I did out see the men %%lie pre Ito-toed the ditty until lie appeared en the scaffold masked, and di essctl as a sailor. By the notice 1 then took or hint (which W 33 very particular) 1 pei eciveil I to be in height about live feet live or six inches ; and in answer to my inquits the other day (in conseipwitee of your note) alto the fellow was, 51r. Tut ner informed me that lie was a Resurrection Maw, who oloaMed bodies ter the hospitals , and that when lie asked him if lie could perform the tag!: of cutting off the heads, he replied, Oh yes, that lie could do it very well, as lie was in the habit of cot' tig nobs (beads) for the purpose of Harlars (lec111).—.1 irtri glad, for the honour of our cone try's huntauity, that it was no person of respectability, but a most illiteaate and degraded being, as was also tile wretched individual who held up the heads of the unfor tunate men. In addit lett to the abuse, 1 am credibly Wimple(' that the individual who decapitated 'fillstie• wood and his companions was engaged by the I. tiller Sheriff ' from Yorkshire to go 'Jere for a similar put pose, but in the performance of winch sanguinary work, Mark Provideuce, lie has been disappointed. I cannot con clude this letter without beau iiig testimony to the humane disposition of your heart ,uwartla the depraved young moo who robbed you of your watch ott the total when crossing the road, and bleeding Isom the wounds indicted by the assassins and iucentliaries who laud set tire to your horse iu Atoll Street. 1 hope this convince every one, eves' the most mitliguant of your enemies, that it was totally impossible any one could mistake a gentleman of your appearance and height (winch 1 conceive to be about live feet teii inches) fur the person (five feet five or six inches), alto perfermed the sauguivary duty oat 'lliistlewood and the utlieta in May brat. I am, Sir, • Your mat obedient humble serv4ut, Thomas Wakley, Esq. J. 11. PARKINS, Simla. THE NATIONAL REGISTER 319 of saving him:from dying nit the gallows, was to transport. him, aid accordingly, he sentenced him to trampertatiots for life. Joseph May house was nest put to the har, charged with. stealing a watch, on the g-ith of July, the property of Chris topher Bennett. The prisoner slated, that his Counsel (Mr. Adolphus) wars absent, and Mr. Law supplied his pace, and cross-examined the witni sses with considerable ability. Several witnesses were called, who gave the prisoner a g I character, and contradicted the testimony of the prosecutor. The prisoner was acquitted. Thulium) Potion was indicted for stealing a gun, and after wards fur stealing a rabbit, and was acquitted upon both indictments. The following prisoners were convicted :—Mary Smith,. fur stealing three sheets ; Mary Cook, for stealing a 11. note; Dennis A1e,,,,, , ,, for stealing six pair of boots; and Charlotte Webb, fur stealing a gown. PERJURY.—Late on Tuesday evening, Thomas Derry, an elderly man of respectable appearance was indicted fur wilful, inalichius, an tort upt perjury, in swearing an affi davit before Mr. Justice Bailey, the allegations in which were totally false and unfounded, fur the purpose of procur ing the arrest of Mr. James Ltoyd, a respectable butcher residing iii Bethnal Green Road. Mr. Wells, Clerk to Mr. Justice Bay ley, deposed, that thus /affidavit now shewn to hint was sworn to by the defend:mt. before the Learned Judge, at his chambers in Sergeunt's Inc,. on the 6th of October, 1519. The affidavit was read. It stated in substance, that on Saturday, the tStli September preceding, the defendant having had some words with Mr. James Lloyd," was violently pushed, assaulted. kicked, and kitockt d down, by the said James Lloyd; that be received a violent contusion on the right arm, which totally deprived. him of the use of it up to the time that this affidavit was sworn; that he had a wife and two small children entirely dependent upon hint for support. and that by the aforesaid kicks and bruises, &e. be was rendered wholly iucapable of procuring a livelihood." The defendant, it appeared, hart entered au action for the alleged assault, and the object of this effidavit was to pro. cure the arrest of Mr. Lloyd, 10 order that he might put in. bail. He so contrived matters too, aist Mr. L. was taken• into custody on Saturday evening, to the :reef incoavenimace and detriment of his business; independent of which he wao kept in confinement until Monday morning. A suntamas was also issued by the Judge for the defendant to she, cause against the affidavit, which be did byliis attorney, and the result was that he was discharged oat of custody without. giving bail. Mr. James Lloyd stated, that he was a butcher io Bethnal Green Road, and the defendant lived next door to him. It was his custom to put up a shutter at one end of his shop in order to keep the dust and wind from his meat and lamps a 4 night, and on the evening of the 18th September, 1519, the defendant, who appeared to be intoxicated, came up to the shop-door where a aims was stlinding, and in an authoritive tone, desired him to take down the shutter, or he would take it down himself. Wititess tusk no notice of him, but stood with his h olds in his apron. The defendant walked to and fro its a great passion, pulled the meat about, swore that witness had no business there, for lie had butight the premises, and caul' al the people not to buy meat of hum, fur, if they did, they would be sure to go to eternal d—in—t—n. Witness told him to go in like a Al) , old man,. and mind his business. This only enraged him the more, and his wife Caine out and told bins 10 come in doors, and not get himself laughed at. lie at length pulled down the. shutter, and threw it into the road. In tin tiling round he fell down, la consequence of the exertion of throw ing the shutter. Wit. ness went into the road and picked up his shatter, and replaced it, but never once touched the defendaut. Ills wife and a man came out and p i cked hint up, and conveyed Mm between thins into his own house. Witnesss was at the dot. mice of two or three yards from him when he fell, and also. when he picked up the shutter, and he would swear most positively that he did not touch him in any way. The de. fend:tut returned in about half an hour with his right arm in a sling, and renewed his furious abusive language. lie took up a chopper from the block with his left hand. and swot he would cleave witness's scull, and let nut his brains.— Witness took the chopper from him, but used no violence and then sent for a constable. B..fore one arrived. however, the defendent went into his own house, and placing him" self at the window, harangued the people, bestowing a plen tiful quantity of abuse upon the witness and laughing at the constables, The defendant had entered an action. and also caused him to be taken into custody, and he was is tnitspar-street Coinpter from Saturday evening till Monday morning. Cross-examined by Mr. Andrews.-11e and the defendant were unfortunately m•xt door neighb..om Defendant's wife keeps a h.therd.t,lier's shop. Ile koosss Mr. Staineshy, the NW goon, io the same street, and 'tunas that lie joined in tins affidavit, but lie had not pio.ccuted him fur perjury. The defendant was zenerally at liume drunk. Witneis knew lie had fordo:11y been a clerk to repectable solicitors, but he had not het'll so kid). A number of respectable is itnesses confirmed this evidence. Tile Jury merely tiirmilig mound in the box, pronounced a verdict of Guilty, and the defendant was ordered into cus tody to await Ills sentence. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. lltcnwAY —l,aac Woulfc, S. Wherry, and I). LI waick, wile put the liar, charged oil an in thctinent with stealing now the person of J. Teasdale, a watch and appendages. The cireittnstancet of this Case were peel harly atrocious. Time prosecutor was walking down Portland-road on the :alum of July, chile brim at that utile a procession of the Glass-uloweis Coaipany proceeding tu White Conduit House, when lie t%,is attacked by a gang of nearly fifty lilies es, wit.. fore. lily took from luiti his property; not content with fir: ~ taey commenced and followed tap a iieties of the . . OLD BAILEY SESSIONS'. Late on Saturday evening a trial came on before the Common Sergeant, which, from its eve aordinitry nature, excited a more powerful feeling than has perhaps been witnessed io a Court of Justice tor many years. Nancy Dane!, a young female, elegantly dressed, and evidently of superior manners, ens illtheleil capitally, for steeling 81. in notes, one guinea, and wearing apparel, the property of C. Falek; and sonic silver spouses, the property of W. Ball, in the house of the said W. Ball. The first witness called for the prosecution was C. Falek, the prosecutor; lie was a well•looking young man, and very smutty dressed. The moment lie mounted the witness's box, the prisoner shrieked out, " Oh, guidons God! is this possible and was nearly fainting. She was ordered a eltair.—Falck then, with a flippancy which called forth the repeated animadversions of the Judge, proceeded with his evidence. He lived in the house of Mr. W. Ball, No. 2, Little Union-street, Moorfields. The prisoner hail lived with Idm about a week previous to the robbery. They lived as man and wife, but lee never authorized her to take the money or Wearing apparel in question. He never said to the people of die house whether she was his wife Of not. hire hired the lod g ing, and lie 'relived she represented herself to he his wire. she laid wit money fur provisions, and lee gave her Motley every day, or so, a few shillings at a time. He had lumen her three months before she lived with him, and gut ac quainted with her by seeing her at her lather's house, where he was at work for some days. On the 24111 of Julie lee went oust, leaving every thiug safely lucked up, and when he returned in t,ee evening he found the door of Isis apartments locked and the prisoner gone. He got in and found that all the property mentioned kJ the indict. ment was gone. He found the prisoner the next mo g at the Fox and Huuuds public-44.mile, in Charter-house lane, and Brown, the officer, whom he took with him, searched her, and found pawnbrokers' duplicates for his missing clothes. There were one waistcoat, two pair of pantaloons, and two coats. Cross-examined by Mr. Andrews.—Are you a cockney? —No. I came frotu Fahnotath, in Cornwall, three years ago. You got acquainted with the unhappy girl at the bar at her father's house, did you ?—Yea. And you had known her three months when you seduced her, and took her to your bed; and scow you come to pro secute her fur her life ?--L did not seduce her. Did you not, Sir, promise to matte her your wife?—No, She came from her father's house, where she was living in comfort mid reputation, did she not?—She did, but it was her wish. Did you. slut pass her as your wife I—No ; I never said one way or the other about it. What are you ?-1 am a journeyman carpenter. How muscle can you earn ?—'lliirty shillings a week. I work ter a Mr. Rolle, a builder. I gave her money cm). day. The witness then went on to state that lie had, at the request of the prisoner, visited her while in confielemeut. His only object in visiting her was a hope of discovering where the remainder of his property was. He visited leer three times in the Gilt:Tor-street Compeer, and once in Newgate. He paid Its. out of Sets. fur lodgings at Mr. Ball's. He gave her souse money, but did nut know how much. He was not at all ashamed at taking her away trout her Whet 's house. She enticed hive!—A murmur ran through the Court. lee Gnomon Sergeant—And are you really not ashamed of the conduct you leave pursued towards this young wu urine ? Falek—Not at all, my Lord. Mrs. Ball, the landlady of the house where the parties lodged, was called, and identified the spoons pawned by the prisuuer. They came as a new-married couple; and the prisoner told her that she was married without her fa ther's consent. Brown, the Officer, said, that when he found the pri m/Her he told her she was charged with a felony ; and she iitilliediately said she would give up every g she had. The prismier beieig called on for her defence, addressed the Court lee great The prosecutor, she said, had cone: to her father's house, and gut leer away limn her home by the must metal promises and persuasions. When be visited her ill prison he promised solemnly that he would nut indict her.—She said so him , " You know, Charles, 1 do not deserve it; you knew yon had a share of it;" and he again declared lie would not indict her; adding, that he would not have proceeded so far, only that " his ()nil character was at stake."—The prisoner, at the conclusion of her address, was again neatly tainting. A sister of the prisoner was called, and stated, that the latter had lived in comfort and happiness at tier radices house maid she knew the prosecutor. F.elck had begged nemesis often to assist hint in übtainiug access to her sister Tun latter never co )))))) nii:cated to %%riling her design of going away wish Falek. A Solicitor, who had known the prisoner's family many years, described it to be exteeniely respectable; and spoke to the character whuci she had unifOrnily bottle beiiire this distressiog uectac,;i.re. Her lather was a housekeeper iu the in istleouterhood of the Court. The c. 11111 l oil Sergemst, iu steenniang tip the evidence, remarked with great sever ily on the conduct of the pro armor, Falck, and told the Jury, that it the case rested, solely oat the evidence of that pet soli. they ought to acquit the prisoner. They had it its evidence, that the prisoner was ilVelig happily with leer lather; that she was seduced by the prosecutor; and was now brought to (Ilia unhappy sitteateon by lie: artifices. 'flee Jun." consulted about a minute, and returned a.yer• diet ut Nut Guilty ; which was ptatiouuced aisle seismic emphasis ley file Fineman, and received with applause by tier Whole Court. _ ._. _. l'lte prisoaer, with an hysterieal sob, said, " Mt, Gen - most cruel and brutal treatment, which put his life in U4'111011,1 thank you I. - and was borne out of Coml. great danger. This evidence was corroborated by i'ali k asked it he 'ingot take 11 1 clothes. Smith, the watchouse-keeper of St. Paneras,and others The Continuo Set ;cant said, lie was ct.mkinly entitled to who proved the prisoners to be connected with the gang. them; but, in las opinion, tome Jury bad, by their ve r di c t . spoken of by the pros e e i c ti r. Torre were no kss titan expressed au uptown that th ey were paaned okb his fifteen of thtse desperadoes taken into Custody at the consent, and therefore the pawnbrokers would pet haps &lint: time, and whet 'thy were in the watehonse, an demand the payment of the sums advanced Illn•.1 them. attack was made by ups.aids of iAt robbers, with au lie (the Cot:unite St:pp:ant) should certainly not rualst it intent to rescue the pitsolicrs. The vrisoners made nu if they dol. defence; two Jew , gave Wthdie a Aood character-omi The pawnbrokers took away the clothes. WEDNIILSJAIi, SEPT. V. of them swore brio lie had known him 20 years ; the William Ricketts rein indicted for stealing a watch, volute prisoner, however, on being wird his age, caul lie was 40, , . the p,upear yor William Thorn, a seamati. Ile u.‘,l been i 6. 'rite Common Sergeant inflamed up. aitil the Jury an tad delis. scut although a very young wan, nA.I out being un t ur , diakiy found toett, Gu il ty; t h ey were seuteuca. kual guilty, mime C.)111'11,41 Sergeant 5.11 J, that the only Ithall 4 10 be trittisronctl fur lite.