The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-01 00:00:00

nit 1 POLICE. GUILDHALL. Joseph Dowdy, the sham postman, was fully committed on several charges of frond, in delivering fictitious letters and receiving money for then/. Smith Powell, a viry young girl, was charged with stealing *box, containing 601.1 is Banknotes, ant C. and Anne Powell, her father and mother, with receiving the seine, knowing then to he 4110e11, the property of Mr. Goff, of Aldeisgate Street. The prisoner Sarah was in the employment of Mr. Golf, and stole the box from a room over that in which she worked. Mr. Shepherd, it Intend; aper, deposed, that the mother and daughter purchased goods at his shop amount. km to 41. n payment for which they changed a 101. note, which Mr. Got .wore to as one of the notes taken from his him. Mrs. Hotham , the wife of a pub;ican, stat •d, that Mrs. Powell had offered her, in payment of some porter, * 51. note to change. but having braid of the robbery. she told her she would keep the note, and send fur Mr. Goff, when the pri soner ran out of the house. Soon after the husband came and demanded the Dole, alleging that he had received it in payment. On this UCC4 , 1011., he denied all knowledge of at, or twat he had ever Maimed it as his. Mr. Goff identified this note also,aad the prisoners were committed for trial. MAIO. BOROUG H S'fltE ET. Thursday' M. Sheen, a youth, was committed for cutting a piece out of a p.ine of Oa's ni the shop window of Mr. West, a haberdasher, an Newport market, and stealing Elk hand kerchiefs. He was detected by a hell rigging to which the ►andkerchiefs were attached. MOW STREE r. Robert Fletcher was eh iro.d with robbing the Rev. George King, a prebandaiy *1 Ely Cathedral, on the south side of Covent Garden. He wa, caught in the act of stealing a printed sermon ma the prosecutor's pocket.—lls was com sated for 11141. HUNT IN MANCHESTER. [FROM THE COURIER.] MANCHNITIR, Jan. 25.—Since the suppression of the cora ilistion of the cotton-spinners, this often disturbed town had been in a state of quietness, bat the appearance of Runt anson.;st us has again thrown Nlarichester into confusion. it was generally belie% ed by all respectable persons, until Hunt'. appearance at the Theatre on Friday, that he had left ilia" neighbourhood. Of ahe affair that then occurred between Lord Uxbridge with several ether °dicers, and fhint and his party, I presents yen hove area the accounts in the Manches ter papers. The following day a placard was posted about the town, headed. " Fifty guirieas re ward— R int, assault, and rob bell!" It slated, that as Mr. Hunt, Mr. Chapman, and Mr. Whitworth, were peaceably seated in the Theatre, they were attached by Capt. Frazer, LorJ Uxbridge, and 20 or 30 other ruffians, one of whom robbed Mr. Chapman of a diamond broach, and also attempted to take his watch. The reward mu promised en conviction of this person; and--as to the •othera, they shetild be dealt with according to law, " if there be any law left." [FROM THR STAR MancoasTen, Jan. 25. Air. Wont and Ile friends having we ati r known their intention of *kiting 5Ae theatre this even iag, vast !lumbers of his admirers had made preparations to repair to the AMA place aeltis adherents in ibis town, there was a wetei: sTferusers from Oldham, Ashton, Stockport, heuristic towns. The 3laatstriates.however. ateildditstalis* gallon "tithe dim. graceful orctiri micas of Fridgsp, • • • their authority I and induced the nranagtrs. tArtskparp r agfirentre for the even- jug : in ennemptritce t mbeti to: litrpotau Wreath at ri wed there was no admission: the *Wir weer rimed, and all was silent and still as the temple of Jane*. It is net my •hasiness to canvass the propriety or impropriety of this singular inter listener of the polt• e ; out, independent roc the disappnint• mem to many respectable individuals who intended to have witnessed the performance Of Miss S. Hoith, the circum stance has oceasioiredmo ordinary deciee of seriatim]. Mr. Hunt was accompanied by a numeroos retinae ; but on kind. Hag the door, of the Theatre closed, he addressed them in a short and emphatic speech, advising them Sc return quietly to their respective homes. 'lltere were soma passage* in her s p ee ch which are not worth repeating: but the weather being' ea r r i e rnely boisterous, materially comiibeited to the - diapers , .on of the crowd, and Mr. Hunt returned beck with Lis friends. Up to this hour (II p. m.) there has pot hew tire least indication of any disturbance. Front Arles we are informed of the following remarkable occurrence:—" snore inhat items of the lowa of Arles hate , n g dug a spot of ground which the diminution of the water, of the Rhone had left uncovered, anal which haul been Muir. dated Corn time immemorial, have formd, ani,og other relies ~f atitiqiirty, a vase three feet 'high, and not less remark•hh for the elegance of its shape than the perfection of it., orna ments ; a noble fragment of architecture, several reins, and a medal struck to celebrate the marriage of Constantine, w Oh giro lumber of faneral urns. lacrymatories, and earthen lamps. The Prefect of the Dr partment has immediately or rlervil regular excavations to be made in that piece of ground, in the neighbour:rood of which it may be reculierted, that the Eno ttatoe known cinder the appellation of theVentra of Art.. was found many years a¢°, and whieli probably still contains many priciest' chefs (Pewee of antiquity." In A private *holm, which took place a few days since a! Paris. the Mar We Brame of Madame Letitia Itiamieparte wa, sold for the sum of 36,000 francs. It was purchaird by order. writ on azcartirt of the Duke of Devan , hi , ere A Itit-sien Prince had given a comenitsien for the porch . e of the C u.-At object, bat he hal iiiiiiiit4 hi. offer t o 2,1,0 rm ir ill S. It is uni• really 11,owa that the stato .of /*Warn Letitia aim., 'parte, c05..1 work of rheeclehrated LW ova., as 13 •thISI Ihe rt.ic toe of Napo ii.i,a Itairriaparte. has lot. I. p o ..ril fit?. . he baud. of ,he Pruner I ( ' gent of Esteem, to chose of the LluNe of ...Veiling I a Gn.: , tte de Fro, to A ociiiiiii woo had l ust Lindell at TV ever from France, on Saito deo. 1,4 i, Wrt. US viit.l.ltti bey the tido -vitrveyor tli ihr Ci-s -itoms, itioi ib gold watches :anti a."),:olti Illahl.lll ',Jill taken 1 . 11,111 thi 11111 sioli iI. a &hie anis vi titbit' a 4 ,41111. 111 d.ll 111 . 4111 I,oull/. The itasseu t tet4 liahte IS Swlti AO be Lerg, mid ill" .ii iris welt turiolisi:i cuiteeated 1'4.04 ililleieiti 1.111 , of hi. hu.l y . • Tl.ll/PT AT Sulturic.—Mr. Andrtws, a rola:et:side and in. in mewl! derange:nazi!, cot t• Tow, Mt t.td reaui-niti at t.iiialunt, n.lr Dort , h evi.nin6; las %kite 111i.b ill Lai WI ett ti C t i nt. ; and 11.;111, , , alulurd by the cit‘asitill 11.44 C 1114 , i1l by hint on the in stil:lily. got Trantpt and by that mans, sitou..ih lti witAprie vas In Fart se icrctl, hr is noes thought 10 tog in it lair way of rixia% sty THE NATIONAL REGISTER. SURREY SESSIONS. —•lisim— CHILD DROPPlNG.—Wetlue•il,sy a ease was tried here, which excited the tstino4l interest. It occupied nearly fire hours. Mr. Turtou conducted the plosecuttou, Mr. Coil's, the defence. Anne Atkinson and Thomas Stephens were indicted for having conspired to defraud the parish of Bermondsey, by exposing their male bastard child opposite the workhouse of that Jane Johanna Stapleton said, she lived at 36, Brunswick Street, Illarkfriars Road. The female defendant came to take a lodging at her house ; said she seas the wife of an ex. cisensan. In the evening she came again with the male de. Pendant, and paid vainest ; both took possession in attain a waek, and lived togetilef as man and wile. The woman was far advanced in piceinsucy. The man said, that when the child was burn, they should take it to his mother's, as they were going to America. The child, a buy, was born ow the Stith of July. Witless was at the birth. Mrs. Lewis was 'misc. The child remained in the house three weeks, niter which it was taken to Lowdell's Court to nurse. The father and mother left rue house the same day, end returned in about n week, and sent fur the child. They then took the child nut with them; they iciunied at half past ten at night without it. The man was in a very avated fainalag state. Witness asked where the child was. The woman said It was very well, and well taken rare di, at his grand...tin-Cs. Witness was not satisfied, but e.wuinued het baronies fur several days. The female defeudant told her, that she mud the man took the child, and bought a rush liashet mid a piece of new flannel, wrapped the child up in it, put into the basket, and that the lean tied it to the knocker of a door, opposite Bermondsey workhouse, while the watched at the top of the street. Sarah Lewis said she nursed the female prisoner on the 13t1 of July in Brunswick Street, in her coefluement. Site nursed the child a week, after which she left it with them; afterwards she saw the child at Bermondsey workhouse. Maria Clarke, in August last, found the door on opening it rather heavy. She gas e a seeoud pull, and was then knocked en her knee, by something falling monist it. She screamed, slid Mr. Huss opened the door, whets there appeared a basket, conteining a child about live or ail weeks old. Tittle were 'child's clothes in the basket. 'Lire child was taken to tile term khouse which was opposite, and delivered to Mr. Stephens, the master, the defendant's, Stephen's father. Mr. Cowley requested permission to ask a question of Sarah Lewis, the forrner vritoess. The question was a very important one, fog the answer was as follows : Sarah Lewis.—Mrs. Stapleton said, before she and witness went to Union Hall, that witness must say as she did, or they would not get the reward—that she must sot split. Witness was e itemised at Bermondsey, and gave suck testimony as she gave to day. The father of the male defendant said, he expected his son was married, but never heard at what church, nor saw the certificate. His sea told hint so four years ago. 'the female prisoner was not the persists to whom lie said he was married. Witness had a young child Weight to hue in Au. gust. He was master of Bermondsey workhouse. He neves saw the person who brought the child, but that child was ac companied by 40 or 50 others. Tue Until bad been in the house ever since. . . . Verdict—Liuilty. Sentence, Tie months' imprisonment. Disturbers of the Dead,.....011 Mantas, the Borough gang of Resist rectioe-tnen were stopped uearGroysiun by Baker, cog stable of Walliagton, with • horse and cart. Baker with a• a.sieteot, apprehended tine of the w retches 'Mani Martin. the others effected their escape. The day before, Mr. Bakeee oil ter, Mrs. Roots, was buried in Wallington church yard, aid upon the covert abie searching the cart lie fossil two dead bodies mad one of them he recognized as his users sister: The ether was identified as the body of • Mr. W---., a tavern-keeper, at . Wallington, who was buried the Cain. day. The bodies were again interted, and the prisoner conveyed Lehr . ? the Magis trate, and committed for trial at the next Kingston Assizes. lie was bruught to town, and dodged in Hiersesnougerdane. The Birnsinghans Chronicle says--•• In a village in Staffordshire nma butedted miles from 1.--g—n, on examining the parish accounts ' bees following cuticwities appeared r—one ofthe Overseers had sixty-three weeks in the year ; an item in the other Overseers' ast was, for a sum of money paid is aid of the County Rats ; 'this caused e good laughter, in which none joined more heartily than the Constable ; who immediately afterwards produced his Account., in which was/ charge for holding a conquest our a man found dead. CAUTION TO SW s. About a fortnight sine* two young men, one named Joseph Gmelett, a sailor, and other a coal-pence, in company at a public-house. engaged, fur a pot of beer , to trh which could swear the most diabolical oaths; when Go% let, after using the most abominable expressions for a short time. became exhausted, and could net utter a syllable. and has remained speech less ever since—a liseng example to those who take God's name in vain—eVorwich Paper. A waterspout which lately broke at Tscherchine, near Smyrna, has dune imneetist damage. Houma were quern down, trees rooted up. a men and so cattle washed into tie sen, the garden; and fieids w.. 4 laid waste, and the promise of the —ineyards wholly de greyed. The damage is reckoned at 1000 puns& • INTEILIVITING TO GAIDENC/LS.—A gentleman in Oxford. shire has lately tried some experiments with the ammoniacal liquor, produced in the manufactory of gas from coal, for the destruction of the grub, and other worms, which so often deetruy the tieing hereof the gerdners, particularly in his earls crops. Tile result has satisfactorily proved that the use of this liquid entirely destroys them; aid so feris it from injuring the tenderest plant, it seems rather to invigorate it Curti othereise, Deuces or let:Liter.—At a parish church not many miles from Lieereoul, 12 coolie appeared one morning.to he married ; but, to consequence sf the suddeu intlisposidon of the clergymen. the weddings were obliged to be postponed till the next day. Accord. ingly, the detgyinan was in regular areendence the fallowing day. .4 at et same hour, when, out of those twelve cetples. only emit inark their appearance. The marline of the remainder has been put utf sine der. Fonr men fell into a lime kiln at Tregotbad, on Wednesday evening. Two iif then) extricated themselves., but the other two were burnt to drult. The tollowing i. the a cairns which the sur virors ga , :e tO the Equest :—They were hired to discharge the cargo of tee brig Canada, of Loudon. On IVeilrertlay they came to Ttur 0, w.;ete they got intexiceied, arid ion their return hailed the Canie:a. and di:erred to be teeen oti board This mad not be &c oulee' duel. as the Cepte n hail gore to Trwo in the only boat rant we*, kept with the vessel. In Lei- 4thm:l . ,:t. they _repaired to ' tie ten • kiln. On the edge of ties they =to d to shy theinselve, when the gee overpoweeed them, amid they fed wooed the ignited .sass. On: of the survivor. has tee iwealknee 01 Lying scalded ell over, su;ipostel to be :from the cll.:cite of the heat on his wet dot :e.e the other i .. badly burnt; but there 11. every expectation that aeir lives will be prteerved. The July returged a verdict of—Aeuitiental Doxfu. aafetj. : 4 i St S'IIIP NEIVS. , 1,.:1.11. , (, , fit. Dam., J AN . M.—Whitt S. blows har d .—Put bite night, the whole of the outward hound that sailed yea ' ?I'' except the Tribune frigate, which still keeps to sea. h.., blew hard at times last night, dosing which Ilse E.sex, Eggs. , Indianan, parted trout her anchor : the John and the Lyra,. Sihan•seasinta, ali parted and drove athwart each other, 'eat - t im bolls ships Wit. . . About eleven a.m. a acisa;connell on r (Nancy) dr art of a collier brig, which forted tbierl latter to rut, ti • „ b went to Ratielgote harbonr—listo p. ta w , , wind S. blows habit *ilk a tremendous sea.—The Prince of Orange has just pealledand gone far Sainsgate harbour. no *1 Eliza. Ann has lost anchor and cable, and got oiliest datange,,,. l having been run tool of, but remains in the bowsia. Fort d o'clock.—The Vansittart East Indianan has {wird twits •,4 this afternoon, and has just let go another anchor, which ak „ pears to hold her at presto. Five p. m.— We do out bear s' any other damage at pianist. The reinainder of the ouria . -" , ward bound appear to side well, most of tiseisi.witli twegass - :-) chars down, and top gallant masts, and yard• down... h RAMSOATN,JAN.2S.—Wend S. blows hard. Die Itenewat s , „, fain London to Barbailues, arrived here in the heavy gut' '',,, of this morning, with the loss of her foreinast. bustsprit,4l4 . •. other damage, having been rim foul of by the Ranee at. Al Orange, in the DO V( II s . : 41..0 the Diana, r e ins I.ols of anrlsore,,,{ 11414 cable ; Nancy, with loss of ditto • the Prince of Oranges;_ with loss of anchor and cable, and damage, Issuicroonded at the entiauce of this harbour, and lies athwart iu. &thusly/mg e' situation. PuitTsstimett. JAN. 25.---It list blown a heavy gide all day, with tit mi nJuus guilts Irons S. and 3 S.W. and. stilt continues.. Arrived his Majesty's ship, Revolution:4re. Iran Plymouth. and Pheasant, Irons a cruise. Two wherries upset in the . . :~ Barbour tide during the gale of last night and this naming., and three persons were drowsed. The ships in. the Esa,da have got yards and topmasts down.. and appear to rids is The Regulator from Belfast to Liverpool was put to 'bore lllilt inst. at LamleHoot , vessel and oargo damaged tile latter is 'Wu-barging. Ott !Slowly/. the llth inst. a fine Uteri...an, the Kitty QC Norfolk. ahuut 31)0 tons burden, was &peen on shore la Alnico tte, near Ftshguard her cargo. co 111i3i ingot tobacco, is strewed for miles, and the vessel a most auw , plrte wreck the crew having deserted her, and taken alt.papeisont of tier, it is not known where she was bound the pieces of the vessel are collecting under the supelintentlence of tluwo petsons, one of a ilOlll Jaye claim as Agent for she *oils ant" Admiralty, the other as Agent to Lloyil:*„.and the third as Agent for the manorial ri2lits. In this state the matteereate mail something is settled; at all esetua,they serve to Ave" each other honest, and combine to prevent prifering, ate cargo lies in lAtre heaps, and has the aepeariuscrof yea *e.4 being sodden with salt water, it is completely wiriest pose it was in hugskeadv. bat not one is to Ire seen. 21140 water within 100 'mills, is quite diseutonted, and a veal number of fi,ls Gating in, poisoned toillt. tolvaccojuice.-Ys Tie Cumbria*. On Tuesday the tirehlake blatiusilian went over Carlton. house, together with its armoury, stables, and lilts; spitnra. tenanees. T . . he tellawhig en address delieerittby`the manager of* small theatre in Ireland, where ;tIF.. Rae watt nitgaged to per form. There were but. 3 people in, the house :.--e`• Ladies and Gent leruen.—As lucre is nobody hue, I'll dismiss you all; Out performances ulthie night will net be performed ; bnttbeper. turmances sif this e i g ht will be repeated Wm:arrow. gearing." The following is an extract of • letter from Colenella—,„ in that. service of the 1 1 4 .41Wi11s 'Vetirailla—" 1 have been ape pointed Adjutaut Genera( lathe Nieces, and 1 lUD now aces. pied in a systeiu talettseiplitur adapted to existing Cittillir • stances, aid to the „remitter character of the people. in a few days I shah accompany the Supreme Chief oil a tart through the Missions, for. the purpose set reviewing rim troops that are cantoued there. The news from the luta iur is very favour able; the province of Casenere is free. The iudttatigablo. Parr, though the plaits ate inundated, has, since the terininaa tion of last campaign, surprieed the Spaniards in several places, and killed a great nutimer. The Llaneres, or people oldie plains, are a terror to the Spaniards; they are the must perfect Guerillas inexistence; they require hardly any cloth- , ing, and are very deateroas iii the use of the lance, the MAO ageinciat of their horses, and the catching of cattle, which is their only food, and of which Ji• . .1114ias supply. than with. abundance; they are vigilant and brave ; in fro t,theie cannot be a better material, it not for a disciplined soldier, fur a, Gael OLD BAILET,—.TIU! 5e41110116 ended week baturday„ when the• Recorder pseud sentence of death on E. Dent. T. Watson. .J. Attains, sod Dorothy Greases, for putting away counterfeit Back. noun; D. Sharp, W. Pitt, J. ltlaneliard. and W. Jones, for atealioe us dwelling houses ; J. Wilk', fur sheep stealing I T. Webb. tut steelier two cows; J. Flemming, J. Dowdier g and J Alexander, ter liumie.breaking in the day-time J. Wangle, J. taker, C. Dewitt, J. Driscoll. sad P. Sullivan, for burglary; It. Risley. star liorsoeteelirig; W. Martin, R Selby, J. Lyrics., P. Lynch, T. Lyne::, W. Lynch (four brothers). and W. Murray.. • toe highway eh hs;ries.—Teti ether prisoners were sentenced to bit teen-ported for life; six for fourteen years; and foray-six to avow, years.—St!venty.one other prisoners were neatened to flu lesson punishments of fine, iinprisecanent. dtc- I a un 'sr.—An Inquest was on Wednesday held at the Turf Tap. Giosvenor.place, on the hotly of the infant thrown out of a. hack:icy-coach winder. by Mary Newton. its mother. No ace. theta appeared in addition to those stated in our Marlborough-street. rep art„ except that a surgeon deposed, that it was Maximal:de to say what a woman mi ht do to the paias of child-WM ; io conseauence of which, the Jury returned a .verilict, that they ootom. not in their conscience find Mary Neatuna guilty of wii t ul murder. During; a storm a few days a Haan of letlitning entered the. house of Mr. Edwards. Solicitor, of Merthyr Tidial, and Shwa,: taneinisly killed his ton. a Lae boy se; years of a,;e, in the preseaket uf his agonized parents. For a cans:dent& time past robberia and burglaries le ale b een so frequently 11.,.ai•Li in the ne,ghbourhood of Stoke :a-mint:tan and Stamford ;till, that alastat evtry home of res!...e.tahility ham found h. lieelussary to procure the e.sistance of a private watehana. Sonia: evening the 11011 , .: .1 Mr. LAWICIIV, of. `tutee Newingtoo, was borglarioudy entered and rubbed of about 2u guineus in cash, several articles of plate, a valuable gold wiw.4l. anti cartons errata of removable properly . to a coasiderat•le anaerit The leanly of Mr. Limn:nee. mete, it app.Wad, pr. We Nglit.llll 'mint. of going Cilapet ; the dephedztgs. deatre of ibi". had preVivualy Santtay atterlinea connived .t 2 tax. a piece of ..tiek into ma c 0 ; a u; i .e.-ovia set u e back winkle*, %high Itialerett it inionsible to close * Metiers. The Min,-;, however, appeared more ha,: attiring draw. des,gu, anti Mr. Lawn.nec sad Ins fondly lett the window thus use. fastetrat without sunlit ion. The result ch d a leady. and means of eon • :iesye to the marauders. ' • 4 ~ i}