The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-31 00:00:00

MAY 31. OLD EXLEY SESSIONS. WEDIRIPAY, IRV 26. The above Seskions commenced thin tate, at Justice U iii, t )Id Bailey, before Mr. Justice Bailey, Mr. Baron borrow, the Recorder, Ar. INFAMOUS AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. John Breese, Patrick NPCotirt, Robert Rhodes, and Alichael Aigen (four privates of the 19th Regiment, Lancers), were capitally indicted for stealing in the dwelling house of our Sovereign Lord the King (namely, the Barrarks of Hounslow), 411 t. and upwards ' in Batik Dotes and cash, a watch, gold chain, teak, and di vers Adler 'uncles, Sim property of Thomas Enfield. Mewls. Alley and Arabia sweated for the proeeculion. Mary Enfield said, she was the wife of the prosecutor, who *Ana Corporal in the 19th Lancer*. On the 21.1 ult. they were stationed at Hounslow, and on that evening there was a chest placed eerier the bed, in which wars de posi'ed about .101. in Bank notes, a bunting watch, two go ld seals, chain, ring and key, *ix nr seven half-crown pieces, some silk hanillsereldr fs, and other articles. On the following morning she was alarmed by a man, who in formed her that her box MAP carried out of the roaminto the passage, where it lay, broten open and plundered. David Anderson said, he belonged to the lulls Laurent, and subservient to the robbery he aas confined in the 1)141k-hole of the barracks a. a deserter. During the lime M'Cuart and Rhodes were placed over him as guard. About 11 o'clock at Main he overheard NPLoni t tell Rhodes that lie had taken ISt out of Etifi.l(l'. box, nod he MAP afraid, if there were Eby 'store " iii the litepP," they would be found out. The prisoners were not then aware et the witness's being so hear. He on a s o dden rose up ; upon seeing which M.court enqnired if he had civet heard a itat they lead joist been saying. He replied not, APCourt then said lie should want 13r nothing while he was there. Rhodes SithwAqUently thleiteite4l, if Ire slid know, and said a word about it, that he would knock him down. • Serjeant-Major Lloyd .aid, that in consequence of in- Urination, he searched Rhodes, and found concealed in an 01,1 glove he had in his possession, a 101. note, and two 11. notes. He also learched M`Cutirt, soil found concealed in the" torn-up leather" of his cap, two notes for 11. and two half-ernwns. 'floe prisoner told him of some more property hi Mg commuted iu the stable of Captain Moor tray, uf the same regiment. Upon going there, witness met Seryeant 6lnusion of the same regiment, who iu formed him that the prisoner Breese hail told him of the properly being also placed there. WPesa was a servant of Captain Mourtray, and under the corn-binn Of his stable was friend 121. Witness received limn the wife of the fourth prisoner, Aigen, 11(, and five half-crowns. The prisoners hail excess to the room of the prosecutor when they pleased. Thomas Enfield said, he had seen hit box and property a day or two bethre ; and Mary Eutield said, she had seen them the Jay previous to the rubbery. Each ideutitied part of the property produced. Mr. Justice Bayley sururnrrl as the evidence to the Jury, who totted fur more than toallan hour, and then re. turned the following verdict :—Breese and Aigeu, Not rmilty—NPCutirt and Rhodes Guilty—Death. The Jury recommended the two latter to mercy. Mr. Justice Bayley.—•" 1 mu bound to ask you, Gentle men Ilpoll what grounds." Tile Foreineu.—.. Upoo the ground of their long ser i, ice... Mr. Justice Bayley then ordered that all the property should tic restored to the prosecutor ► Corporal Eufielti. PRIPAY, MA If 28. stic.,lrv's PRIVILEGE. This morning, at half-past eight o'clock, some of the gen tlemen conarcted with the diurnal press having takes their seats in ►he students' box (the situation selected fur them for a number of years), Mr. Sheriff' Roberts came up in his robes of other, and staring at the gentlemen who were there, said, " What's this about 1" As soon :as the muural surprise vs hid) Cie self-introduction of the Sherillocrasioncd had elapsed, one of the gentlemen observed—" We belong to the new se papers,*Sir." The Sheriff' then said—" Ah ! ah! who is rha Theirs ? I ‘ " Neither of us," was the reply. '• Beware," rejoined the Sheriff; " whoever comes here should represent things fairly : that affair the other day was not 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, the particular paper was respomihle for it, but that he bad nothing to do with it. The Sheriff then said," 1 want this box for myself to-day ; I can accommodate my friends wherever I like." The reporters, without disputing this proposition, asked the Sheriff w het her they w ere to stay or hinting, at the VIM(' Cities at the awkward appearance it would have to the ;vb. I , c, to announce that they were excluded from the place t ley have invariably occupied, and by the authority of the Sueriff. The Sheriff then sib!, that the body of the Court was open to them. The reporters, naturally anxious to retain their usual place, still pressed upon the Sheriff the necessity of determining whether they should go or stay ; when the latter said, " If you threat, you must w alk out. I don't care for ',wit: of y unr threats." The reporters dis claimed auy idea of using threats, and added that they were folly aware of the authority of the Sheriff in that Come 5, and waited his decision w hether tin y were to stay or go. The Sheriff then said, " I have some ladies, and I must accom modate them; !I hare a right to put who I please in here. I want every accommodation fur my friends .tu-day." On the arrival of Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Sheriff Roberts applied to him for information rslistiVi. to the right of the repo.ters to be in the s usitots' boy, and was told by the „ thy A Idtrmiin, that from long custom they had an indubittbit right to be there. lint contented With the above exhibition, the worthy and e►udite Sheriff pt..ted to the how allotted to the constant thy of the Grand Jury, which he hlkd a lth •' hi. own friend..." On the art ival of the Grand Juty they sent for Mr. Sheriff and corrected him as to his " ri the to occupy the h hole court ns he pleated," by deriving thaft their du 'y to their successors its Grand Jurymen, made it ne. r•sary that they should assert their privilege, by i 000 i o tieg on Mr. Sheries clearing their boy, 14 bids he after much thew of resistance was reluctantly forced to do. •t MK VOROBRIEs. The &Hots log prisoners, being uime is num*, viiis• THE NATIONAL REGISTER; arraigned, and pleaded 7,uilty to the minnr offence of having forged notes in their posscioion :—Hansiltun Rums, George Young, Michael Altilliog, John Martin, Thotwis Porter, John Moose, James Shaw, David Sharp, and Lydia Iltman. John Martin pleaded not guilt) geiteridly . tu the major and minor offence. TRIAL OF Clitatri RICSNIT. Charle: Rennet was put to the tsar, and eharxed in the indict Meld 11 ail the bat of Noseinher, maliciously and let ' :pay eAt 4.41 antsy a certain male chili, under the age of 10, and about the age of three years, Joseph Charles Horsley, the son of Jos e ph Hor•ley, and Sarah Eliz:beth his wife, with intent to deprive the.parents of the poirc►sion of the-mid bi!d. Mr. Alley stated the ease on the part of the prosecution. Mr. Horsley was the first witness culled. He war a mar ried man, husband to Sarah Elizabeth, and had• four chil dren. Tile child in qisestion was horn after the marriage.— On Sunday, November S. he intrusted too servant, named Elizabeth Culbeoulc, two children, Sarah Elizabeth Hostelry, and Joseph Charles Horsley. Site took thrice out in a little chaise, aud was to have returned at half-past four, but never did so. Oa the NI meday morning he found the child Sarah Elizabeth in the hands of a publicans's a ife. On 1 hursday, Nth of November, he set tailor the continent after the pri soner, and went by Bove r to Calais, and f thence to Holland. He founal the prison. r at Brach, in Germany. On seeing witams, the prisoner exclaimed '6 0 (Mal, 0 (hall" embraced his legs, and asked for mercy. Witness, a Wand reply, left the room. Ile afterwards saw the chile which he had lost, at the house of Mr. M'N. u nare, the Consul.— (A letter of the retainer's was then handed to se ituess, and wetness believed it to be b.s ha/1,1-w 66140 Eltzvbeth Co!brook, lived in November last as servnt.t to Mr. Horsley. She finst became:acquainted with the prisoner about two mouths before N oven:hero nil been:mem acquainted with bun by walking out with the childien. Witness a ds Out married I and the prisoner, about a week before No vember, made proposals of marriage to ber. (In Sunday, hth November, she sans out with the children, and ant the prisoner at Canouhury. lie accompanied MI to Islington, and said that he nod his brother were going to Birtnitialimn in a post-cha:se; he went away fora short time, soy Mg he was going to his brother, sued when he returned, told her that she must go to Birmingham that night in a coacn: he dare witness '2l. for that purpose: he took her place an the name ofJacksism, Witness than Welli away, und left the children with Rennet at Snow-hill, tell.ng them to take them home. Witness wished to go It with the children herself, but the prisoner ramed. That night she oval to Birmingham, and did not see the prisoner there. Ski returned to Laudon en Wednesday and gave information of what had happened. The letters imploriag miTcy, written by the prisoner to Mr. 11'Nrinattrarrud Mr. Mosley, were then put Wand read. The case fur the prmecution was tbeu closed. The prisoner was then called upon for his defence. He immediately took from his pocket a roll of paper and opened it. Mr. Adolphus, who was his commie! (with Mr. Andrews), begged to say that he was ignorant of the conteuts of this paper. The prisoner then read the paper, of which the following has extract :—" lait ine er.t. cut you, my Lord and Gentle men of the Jury, to listen to a persecuted and much-wronged individual, anti decide with that mercy and liberality which so eminently characterise a British court of justice. 1 am the graiiiiala of Mr. Charles Rennet, lute of the I nner Tem ple. In the course of his extensive and respectable practice he realised a corsideiable fortune. He posseawd several estates, real and personal, iedepeudently of money in the funds to the amount or several thousand pounds. The priu t estate was estimated at :10,0001.,sitirate in and including the manor of West Meta), in the county of South ampton, was given under my grandfather's trustees in tins' fur my f father (the only son)and heir of his body. lie amply provided for his other children out of the remaining states oust funded prop. t ty. " At his decease, my father entered into possession of the estate bequeathed to him, and continued is the enjoyment of it up to the time of his death, which happened at an early period. Ile left a widow, a daughter, and myself. I rom that time I date all my miseries. Mr. Chits. Dignum, the the singer, bad teat tied my aunt, the sister of my father, alto was executrix under my grandfather's will, and trnatee of the estate bequeathed to my father, who at the time of the tcs lator's decease was under nee. •ii her death, dr. Dig num, as her legal representative, acted as sole motto-. y . father several years previous to his decease was of inikicile mind and debilitated COliFt lotion. lie made a will iii 18. 3, giving the whole of his property to his ode, daughter, :told myself, naming his executrix, and two respectable gentlt men his executors. Th 4 distribution of property nut meeting tile views of Mr. Dignum, he, in 1809, inc. •ert wills Mr. James Auer, of flare-coot, temple, a man known to my grand father by being often at his table, HAM, advaistne of my father's mental weakness, gist him 14 si,.,a at Agar's cham bers a paper, previousls prepared by Mr. Agar, which gave all his real estate equally between my sister, self, and Mr. Agar's illegitiwate child." Mr. Alley here interfered on the past of the prosecution, and put it to the Count whether individuals should be suf fered to he thus calumniated in a court ofjowice. Mr. Justice Bayley said lie (mild not stop the prisoner in his defence; and the poisoner proceeded:— " His pei semidry was given to a prostitute, who had been L./lament's servant, and then cohabited with my fa ther. They named her executrix, and themselves exerts. tors, leaving his wife, now living, improvided for. This scandalous will answered a double plumose; in the first place it was calculated to increase my difficulties in reco vering my With-right, the seizure of whit+ was even then in contemplation, as my fathei's demise was an event sup posed to be not very distant ; secondly,in case I unionately succeeded in obtaining my sight, it might offend a coin• fortable itrovision fur Agar's Illegitimate offspring. My father died sin rounded by his wife and children, smiler die impression that hr livil provided for his Camay by the will made in Iboa, the only one known by them to be in existence, Use himself tondo was his mental incapacity) having no llace WI his i of the stasis,) sonde in Judge of our aslotei-lonent and indignation woes this viltninuns oluctimcnt was produced and read to us at Agai's cliambrrs. Manna' acted alone as executor. After pas Mg the tribute of crocodile teals to the memory of his brook r, and vowing he would be the friend of the wialow and children, his float act was to lay claim to nod take pvasswioa of the family 175 estate. He then put op to hale ell the pentiumd property left by my Esther, ineludini every &Wide of f.moOnie, which having acconspliNhed, she widow and children were turned nut of doors, to du the beat they could for tin:m adam" The prisoner here became so h a t :itaird that he could scarcely 'sleeted. Alter a few moments paa be, ho confirmed:— "The properly included the resi.lue of tlie lease of som e houses its Grafton.euurt, the deeds thereof being in Dig. 011111's 11066111114111, which, on being put sip fur sole, found sin bidders it being mated that the securities were lost. Moulin, ;he executor, became the purchaser ut one fourth of lite value. Whenever I endeavoured to remon strate with him on the injustice and cruelty of slept icing me of my birth iielio, he stopped me by Nominal) asking, why I did not take legal steps for the ornately ut it, well knowing, in addition to my hying swdr r age and without a guardian, that I had slot the means or pinehasaig the necessai its of life, much less to defray Inc cspen. e of law proceedings. Hr knew lie ought to have gives me pos session as helr-at-law ; independent of which it was his legal as %ell as moral duty, as mister, to institute a suit in a court of equity, if lie dot.hted eny right to the pro perty. After a lapse of about 5 years, I applied to a soli. eitor, who at tint warmly advocated my cuti.e; bat after a meeting held at the chambers of my proseentor's regal adviser, he abandoned me, and 'serape the toliedor of ply prosecutor, alto about this time (he bring in ballade cir remnant.%) mai ried Dienum's (Wielder. Fire yews bad then elitism' since me tathei's oldish, daring which my pane aged mother and myself underwent all the miseries attendant on the lowest state of poverty. " Dien ))))) , taking advantage of my disarmed condition, proposed to me that it I co u ld give a release to my claim on the estate, he would use his interest to to ',cure isle a situation in the East India-house, or souibutfice touter go. veranda. 1 indignantly rejected this ',tropisms,. " Sunk iu pot erty, eat despairing of the sestitittion of my right, I had no resource but to propose to these up. 111.1101111 to repulse it small conspeonostion fur my claim. Tlin lewdness was negotiated by my prosecutor on 'mina of Dignimi, myself, and a Miss Fat sten, who also claimed all Mann iu the property. Eves y sircuutstaure that appeared calculated In bring me to an acreeianre of their o~sn terms was eagerly laid hold of by my prosecutor. My fathei's will of 18011, and my pot erty, 411 d con‘espient eapaedy of preens ding vigorously with legal petieeeilings, were contracted with torts ability to protract the gull fur a number of yeas, se bids Mr. Horsley assured me it was their determination to do, if we could not coi,d• to terms. "lass sitoeted, I was !reduced its the deplorault needs. illy of disposing of soy title to an estate, for a amounting to one-lialithe proceeds thereof recessed by my oppressors since my fathei's death." The prisoner 11101 ' detailed another story of & similar sort. _ The prisoner then rehtitted the accusation of haring! used the children cruelly, b) declaring that he regulated tie servant to take one child Mime, hid she relosed; likewise refused to leave it at the greengrocer' , at whit it Mr. llorsley's family dealt. So careful. war he of the child which lie It ft behind, that before it left his sight., lie SAW it in the hands of three respectable intlividtrais. Ile then proeceilvdt—ss " I have miry to add, that I have suffered sin months' confinentent,tive of whicn have been in a forego COlitit I ; and that a beloved infant has perished in 0 prison, '1 Ii C its mother was taken on soviet tttt of being " ktßinr, my Lord aura Gentlemen of the Jill, yolirrantloirr, I throw tayself upon >our most Imoritue con sideration." The prisoner read this defence with great :narks of agi tation. No witnesses were called on behalf of the r ianner, and. after a ming tip from Mr. Justice Bayley, the July without hesitation pronounced a vet diet—Uuilim. Mr. Justice Bayley, i iiiiii ' , Lately otter the verdict was given...adds-eased the prisoner to the folios% ing eflect ; " You have been foiled guilty by a Jury of your eosin. try, upon such evidence as could allow of no deribt as to your guilt. It is a crime of enormous magnitude, and if yens look back upon your own conduct, and consider what would be the feelings which world uaturally be excited in the winds of the parents of the children thin, boo from them, if you have any feelings yoniself, if you have any reinoi‘e, you will be (mist ions of the enormity of the oftener yon hove committed. If in a moment of agony. the pas it'll! of these itifints had been hi ought to a forma- • tore death, which Wight have happened, ur if they had been deprived of reason, what compensation on caulk could you base made to these unhappy beings? 'lle de fence which you have read is, that you have rues used family wrongs; bet is this the way in which such wrong* onclit to tic redressed? Are you to ise the judge in your Owls eause> Are yowts be the avenger of their anees lon have forfeited the protection of the 144411, and you twist prepare to caret your punishment. The sentence, which will i•c passed at its prope r time (for should not properly discharge my duty unless I informed you ofyour fate), will he tsan•putlatiuu for seem"' )tats, the highest punishment whirls the law 6.116 W A. " 'Vice primmer aas then.rentoved.ftesn yo dock, and will, at the conclusion of the Sel.giOTlS ho hrnug l,t lip among the other prisoners to receive the senteuce of the law. lie did mei stein much affected. 111011 WA Y ROBREIIV. William Kiiip.l.l and dailies Knot stood indicted eapitlity for usaulting Wm. WlLL:neon the King's highway, on the 25th of Anti!, and taiciog (rain hip ite.soit a watch, chain, and kah, h.► p.operty. The Jury, hoverer, found both the priroue.s Not CV3IOOO C hit. Hannah Dowling. •)0 aii: ; a - 11111;;4 was capitally indicted for stealing it nag, value Us. 0.1. privately, its the shoji of Jon Brooks, hi. property. The provecutrer' w ife keeps a jeweller's shop at Etlinon. tua. On the :)d of ,%p, I the p,iotter :tad a girl, about 14 ' years 01 a g e. come tv the thlop, an ed to look at some ring t they were .hont, thine, and irisouer asked the 'girl if she bad the rne ',mind note P girl said she had not, that the pervou vtd,i.le of the low had it, the pti # sooner mil they 00 , ,1d he b trk la agew mlrna.tiothil they *cut to a third Naval eut;ide. hl r. Ilrattha Meal Illic , !Nli the ring, and sertt.ed the pri.,,,cr and iheki.l *IA h 6 ,, 1 , ,fi.i1t u it j.t:try tleautt the: had oat, ard otiei ed. eV& 'seale.w.l.