The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-10-25 00:00:00

■ I OLD BAILIE Yesterday these Sessions commencedlaefore the Lord thief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Jug-' tire Palm, the LORD Msvon, Alder Men, &c. at the .:ustice Hall, in the Old Bailey. James Eddenees was indicted for stealing on the lSth instant a quantity of wearing apparel, the pro pt.ry of Lucas Bull, a poor working man, whose lodgings the prisoner stripped of nearly the whole of their contents. Ellis and Wright, the Bow-street Officers, stopped the prisoner with part of the stolen property shortly after, about half a mile from the premises. Guilty— Death, aged 18. 3: Grady was indicted for stopping on the high way Joseph Walden, and taking from his person a watch, seal, key, &c. valued at upwards of 13/. The prosecutor was met by the prisoner in James-street, Oxford-street, who struck him violently on the breast, and having snatched at his watch made off, but was pursued and taken, having first thrown it away. — Guilty—Death, aged 17. Ana Nueriv and.llary Palmer were indicted fur vio lently assaulting, in a certain place near the King's highway, James Thompson, and taking from his per son 35. This case arose out of one of those infamous seene.<.: that frequently occur in the vicinity of White chapel, through which the prosecutor was passing on the day mentioned in the indictment at noon-day.— 'the prisoner Palmer came up to him requesting he would come with her to the help of a person in the greatest distress close by ; he did so, but had no sooner entered a room where be supposed he was to exercise his humanity thin Norris came in and de. manded Is. from him ; this be refused, and conse qeently with a dreadful oath was threatened not to be suffered to go out of the bouse alive. Ile with difficulty, at lentil, escaped, and had the prisouers taken into custody. In cross-examination by the Court the prosecutor po,itively denied that be bad entered the house under any other impression than be bad stated. He was per fectly sober when it happened, and had not been intoxi cated for thirty-two years. Ile was most certainly put into bodily fear. Other witnesses corroborated this statement, and the Learned Judge, in summing up, said it was a fearful consideration that such scenes should be suffered to take place in the metropolis at noon-day ;it was a subject that deserved the most serious attention from the :Magistrates of the District. Guilty, aged 16 and 21. Mr. Justice PARK—Gentlemen, I fully concur in your verdict, for if it • had been otherwise the conse qtwnees to society must have been most serious. :bay Steele and Elizatetlt Duels were put to the bar on a similar charge as the above, and in the same neighbourhood, on the person of John Disbury, Davis hal ing inveigled the prosecutor into a brothel, the other prisoner came in, and was followed by her companions to the amount of four or five, when thev beset him, and ill-treated him very much, and then robbed him of N. 10s. Guilty, aged 19 and 22. Catherine Jades was tried upon two indictments for robbing her respective masters of property to a large amount. The first indictment was preferred by •Mr. Humphreys, late of Plicenix-street, Spital-fields, with whom she first lived, and of whose property there was f.:end in her possession a 10/. note, a watch, LI/. 6s. in silver, &c. &c.; the other indictment by Mr. Smith, to whom she had gone to live after leaving Mr. Hum phrey's employ. Of the latter person's property up- wails of 131. was also found. .Under the circum stances of the case there was a doubt as to whether the prlioner had stolen more than 395. at one time, and the Jury, in both cases, found her Guilty of stealing to the value of 395. The Court would not try the prisoner on the third indictment, which was not laid capitally ; but Mr. Justice Palm said, the prisoner was a most wicked woman, and had the charge been made out against her, on either of the indictments, it would have been the duty of those whose province it was to advise iklajesty, to recommend the punishment of death. :-;!.0, however, would be visited with the greatest pu eis:onent the law allowed. Alma! llay;eard was capitally convicted of a boo glary in the dwelling-house of Ann Stebbing, in the parish of Pancras, and stealing 11 table cloths, two o :itches, &c., and ifc4rg Judd, a coachman, was also indicted for re re-:wing. the same, knowing it to be stolen. The gang appeared to be at least seven in number. The incipal evidence against Judd was that of au accom -01...e named Elkins, who had been received as King's evidence.—The Jury found Judd Not Guilty, and ft ward—Guilty, Death. The following is the state of Newgate, Oct. 23, 1821 : MALES. FEMALES. • 20 2 0 1 Co”victs under sentence of death respited • - - upon whom the judgment of the Court has been respited - ---- under sentence of transportation for life - - - - 10 4 0 under sentence of transportation for 14 years • - - 3 17 under sentence of transportation for 7 years - - - 3S 3G Prisoners under sentence of imprisonment for felony and misdemeanors 13 3 for trial at present Sessions 142 37 —at the Admiralty Session - 2 0 committed by the Commis sioners of Taxes - - 1 0 23J 114 Statement of the number of prisoners for trial at the present Old Bailey Sessions, with the offences with which they stand Charged:— London. Middlesex. - 0 2 - 0 3 - 0 2 - 0 1 - 1 7 - 0 2 - 0 2 - I 1 Eurzlary - - • - liousebreaking - - - Rigl:way Robbery - An unnatural offence - • Stealing in a dwelling-Louse Stealing on the Ricer Thames Forgery - - - - Uttering forged notes - - Vorse stealing - - - Fravately stealing - - - 'Maliciously killing and slaying Embezzlement - - - Receiving stolen goods - Larcenies . . . Stealing from the person - liana - - - - - Uttering counterfeit coin - . U 1 . 0 1 . 2 - 0 5 - 9 S 2 . 9 3/ - 2 '0 . 0 1 - 152 sukatY SEASI — ONS. . 7 . 4 0... — John Baker and Jqnset Bradley, two boys, were convicted, and sentenced to seven years transportation for pickinn• vodka in the Borough. Hannah' Ford was indicted for feloniously atealingi on the 25th of August, some money, the properly, of her master, Mr. Jennings, a butcher, at Walworth. The, prosecutor stated, that the prisoner was in his service, and had been so for nine months. He had repeatedly missed silver, and in order to discover the thief, he marked a crown piece and other monies, which he put into a bowl with other silver, and placed in a cup board ; having occasion to go out on the day men tioned in the indictment, he left the prisoner in charge of the house. On returning the next evening, be :aissed some of the marked money; be taxed the pri -1 soner with the theft, and sent for a constable, who opened-the prisoaer's box, where he found some of the marked money in a bag, and a key that opened the cupboard. The prisoner declared at the time she had not done it. Snow, the constable, corroborated the evidence of the prosecutor. The prisoner, in her defence, denied the robbery, and called some persons to character, who did not ap pear. The Jury found her guilty. The CHAIRMAN—In order to prevent depredations of the like nature, which, he was sorry to say, were very prevalent, and to deter others from committing similar offences, sentenced the prisoner to transporta tion for seven years. She was removed from the Bar in convulsive fits. POLICE. ----sos--- OcitrtnaLL.—Entous Pratt, a very intelligent look , jog child, scarcely eleven years old, was brought up yesterday before Alderman Charles Smith, the sitting Magistrate, upon a charge of felony. The girl, it appeared, from the statement of Mr. Stevens, cheesemoncer, No. 45, Fetter-lane, was em ployed by one of his lodgers to assist in taking care of an infant, and since she bad been in the how many mail articles of ditretent descriptions had been miss ing, a circumstance which had never happened before she came there. They bad suspected some time that she was the thief, and Tuesday afternoon, one of the lodgers having gone down stairs on some errand, pa her retarn into her own room missed a petticoat, upon which the child was at once charged with the theft. — She denied it stoutly some time, but at length, in con-1 sequence of threats, and the actual sending for an of ficer to take her to prison, she confessed the fact. The petticoat, however, was no where to be found, nor could threat or promise, for a long time after she had confessed stealing it, induce her to give any account what she had done with it. Story after story was trumped up by her to the number of four or five, some of which destroyed their own credit by their improba bility, and others were detected to be false by imme diate inquiry. At last she said she would tell the truth, and with every appearance of contrition ac knowledged having taken it to her mother, who lives at No. 12, Richards's-buiidinss. Shoe-lane. The in stances of parents tutoring thwir children to theft are unfortunately too numerous to render such a story im probable, and thither the parties accordingly went with the officer, when to their surprise they learnt that the mother had been out at work the whole of the day, and that her character was hi : rlily exemplary. No re liance being therefore to be placed on any thing the child said, she was taken to the Compter, and kept from all communication till brought before the Ma gistrate yesterday. Mrs. Pratt, the mother, attended, and appeared greatly agitated at the obstinacy and depravity of her child ; but all her tears, threats, and persuasions, were unable to get from the prisoner any new or satisfactory account of what she had done with the petticoat, she persisting in the repetition of one of the improbable stories which bad already been ascertained to he false. The endeavours of the Magistrate were equally fruitless. The prisoner was wholly indifferent and unmoved by his threats of punishment, though he tried to alarm her, by giving, with a grave countenance, di rections in her bearing that slie should be taken hack to prison, and whipped every day till she told the truth. Even this, however, produced no confession, the child remaining obstinate to the very last. The Magistrate accordingly remanded her until Tuesday next, with directions that she should be kept in a se parate room by herself, and subjected to such little de privations as might be deemed proper to bring her to a proper sense of her wicked and obstinate c onuct. Bow-sramr.—FlNAL EXAMINATION OF MR. BLOOM rtELD.—Yesterday at two o'clock Mr. Benjamin Bloomfield was brought to the office in the custody of Avis, and Westbrook the gaoler, from the Marquess of Anglcsea public-house, where he had been confined since he was brought from the House of CorrectiOn in the morning. He was very genteel} - dressed, but his health appeared to have suffered from his confinement in the prison. Sir R. IltitNlE and G. R. Mtseut:LL, Esqrs. were sitting to bear his further examination. Another gentleman attended to prefer a charge; but his transaction with Mr. Bloomfield not amounting to any thing criminal, it was not proceeded upon. The investigation of the charge of "tr. Win. Shear ley, of Rockingham-row, New Kent-road, which has hitherto appeared the most serious, was then called on, but Mr. Shearley did not appear; a letter, was banded to the Magistrates from Mr. Shearley, Stating that be begged to withdraw the charge which lie bad pre ferred against Mr. Benjalnin Bloomfield, 'having had since reason to believe that his suspicions as to the non payment of the money were premature, and in conse quence by the advice of his alto: ey, he was satisfied to make it a debt. In addition to the letter, Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS, the Barrister, attended, and addressed the Magistrates at considerable length on behalf of Mr. iliootOplti, and contended that he had no intention, nor was there any evidence to prove that he inteicled . tatiefrend Mr. Shearley. As to the 2001. which er. Bloomfield had received of Mr. Shearlef, he had glien his bud • for it ; and after that Mr. Sheailey so' inCeasently . gestered him to be put in possession of the 'p • fade or ausant meat, that he scarcely missed a day Without calling upon him. One' day when Mr. plo s tntleld Was SiinF e his bids, he having two 100 1 . .. B o tts in hip desk, tendered them to Mr. thearley, on . 61ndition pf t gibing' up Ili, itOnd ; 'bit NW.' Sheit7l ~ lit "iliviffi . it Abou t,s. t hiin preeesiteti the hAfaa 00 i:b l us % .0. at 444 , time. - The Magistrates, notwithstanding, ordered Mr. Aheatlees nape.to,be called over three tines, .11V -1109‘0111y dope, and he Apt iimaxbig, 411r4 f lllef,fielO_was ordered 40 . he disckarged.; Ip‘eNer, they aftetas directed that he,alMuld find ,bail 1p ao. swer any c mge that might he prefaced "Omit him at the Sessions, himself in 1001. and two sureties in • SOL each. The Act of Parliament under which .these charges .kaTe been brought forward is commonly called Mr. Veceeval's Act, having been brought in by him during the time be was Chancellor of the Eichequer. It h entitled, 49 Geo. 111. cap. 126, being an Act for the father prevention of the sale and brokerage of offices, Under this Act, persons buying or selling offices, or receiving or paying money or rewards for offices, are made guilty of a misdemeanour. A Court-martial was held on board the Impregnable, on Thursday (18th inst.) to try Mr. Higginson, mid jsbipman of the William and Mary yacht, at Dublin, on _charges of drunkenness and improper language to the ,'tstScer of the day, on the Ist of January last. Three Courts of inquiry had been previously held, and the :present Court-Martial, at which the Hon. Sir A. 1. pocbrane presides, is ordered by the Admiralty. The Court adjourned yesterday (Friday, 19th inst.) at one o ' clock until this morning, when the prisoner will enter upon his defence.—(Plyntouth Chronicle.) The Abbe Mably used to contend, that the class of society in which he found the greatest number of" re spectable men," was the hackney coacitmen.—How ever oppussive the times, be said, they preserve a per fect freedom of soul ; they support their rights with their fists ; and say on all " proper" occasions the most abusive things to all that fall in their way, without respect to rank or sex. Friday night, a little before seven o'clock, as one of the Bath coaches was coming pown from London, the off wheel came in contact with the near wheels of the Cheltenham coach, which was going to town. -The concussion was so great as to overturn the former coach, which was full inside and nearly full out. Au unfortunate woman, on whom the coach fell, was very much hurt. Several others were more or less injured. The horses of the Cheltenham coach, which was not upset, having broken the pole from the coach, ran off therewith, at full speed, but were stopped at Colebrook turnpike. The Cheltenham ceachutta, we hear, was most seriously burt.-- 7 (Batit Journal.) We regret to state that Mrs. Mountain, whose pro fessional talents have excited much admiration, has met with a very serious accident. On Friday evening. as she was returning to Hammersmith by the stage coach, she was overturned at Brook Green, and had ,the misfortune to break her right arm, and received some severe braises on the head. She was immedi ately taken to Mr. Bawling's, a surgeon, in Hammer smith, who set her arm and put her wrist io, which was li:iewise dislocated. We have, however, the pleasure to add that she is entirely free front fever, and is going on extremely well. FATAL. ACCIDENT AT KENSINGTON.TiIe young gentleman who was killed at Kensington on Sunday evening last, by being thrown front his horse (as is supposed), was yesterday owned. The advertising that his linen was marked with the initials "A. 0." led his friends to a discovery of his lamentable fate. His name is Archibald Douglas, the son of Douglas, Esq. of Dorset-street, May-fair. It was sup posed that be had been robbed and inhumanely beaten, from the circumstance of his seals and keys: being missing, but his watch being left in his fob, and his purse, containing six sovereigns, remaining in his pocket, it was concluded that the former were lost at the time he fell from his horse. It appears that be dined on Sunday at a gentleman's house near Rich tnond, and left for town in the evening. A Jury sat on the Es q. last night at Knightsbridge , before Thos. ig Coroner ; and there being no witness to prove bow the accident occurred, they returned a ver dict, "That the deceased's death was caused by a fracture on the skull; but bow the injury was pro- duced, they had no evidence upon which they could determine." Yesterday morning an accident, which occasioned considerable alarm, and might bare been attended with dangerous consequences, took place in the house of M. Mortram, fire-work maker in Westminster-road. — It appears that one of the boys employed in making composition stars for rockets had placed a number of them on the fender before the tyre to dry, a most im prudent measure, and set fire to one of them, which falling amongst the others, the whole exploded, by which a little girl was much burnt in the back, and so frightened that she ran to the window of the first floor, but Was prevented jumping out. The boy es caped up the area with his jacket on fire, The neigh bours were now much alartned, fearing the fire might spread to more combustible matter in the house, and so on to the workshops of Madame Hengler, the cele brated artist in fire-works to his Majesty ; but, through the activity of the workmen, who ran into the adjoin ing house for buckets of water, further damage was happily prevented, or the consequences might have been dreadful. An accident of a shocking nature, it will be recollected, occurred about three years since, in the same person's repository, when two men were killed by the explosion. ExecuTios,—Saturday se'nnght, James, alias Big Wll, left for execution at Cardigan, underwent the dreadful sentence of the law, in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators, who seemed very much affected at the sight, no execution having hap pened there for 20 years. He ascended the ladder with a firm step, and from thence continued admonish. ing young people to beware of sin, and lie prayed for upwards of three quarters of an hour in a manly voice, and very affecting manner. Ile acknowledged the justice of his punishment, and confessed that he had stolen 601. from a person, for which another man being suspected, be signed a letter to acquaint the loser of his guilt; he also confessed that he stole four horses from the county of Cardigan ; but from whom be could not tell. His inducement for coming into l Cardiganshire to steal was, because a fortune teller had shown him in a glass the church he was to be buried at, which had a spire ; and as no church in the county of Cardigan answered that description, his dad was Satisfied that be should not die there. He made three desperate attosats to break prison; when he food he could not get off, he began to be penitent the San t day before his execution ; and throdgh the anemias ofi,• t he Clergyman, he became very resitened-and reli git us, and•declared he bad been guilty of almost every crime except murder. MO PAL .04111114.58. On Vireapeaday last we were witness to the setts pf an affray,• isgraeefil . tolumanity, and s oek .. gt e all who are in feelings above savages. •We areotold. ;bat about .twenty 'lrishmen came down Iroal.the China,Cap4, on. which they are labouters, .and ,1 0 4„ lengefl near the-windmills, any Canadian to ecoacfo.. paid, and uith their champion, or cbampioas...; (the affray at the e , mmencement of the emit went still to be kept in mind). The Canadians accepted sh e challenge, and procured persons to enter the ring ; but individual combat was :Man entirely relinquish e d, as the spectators of each party soon joined battle in tie. fence of their friends, and Aatiothil hopo.• : the fight. ing was iodise:imitate ; but here, the Irish Fortier: conquered, being more numerous, and combating wig; clubs : they followed the Canadians towards the town, where in some instances, they attacked inoffensive men. At the lower corner of M‘Gill•strset, the rout for a time subsided—thus far we were informed by others. About four o'clock we saw collected at the above-mentioned point, about two hundretiCanadians; for some time we did nut perceive any I lislimen ; but at about half-past four, the whole body of Canadians made an attack on (we should suppose) eight or ten Irishmen ; anti so eager were they to revenge their de feated countrymen, that they behaved in a most brutal manner; in one particular instance, we perceived an old man attacked by five or six Canadians, who having thrown bins stunned upon the ground, bestowed kicks and blows upon him in a perfectly lifeless condition: a great crowd of spectators were collected from all parts of the town, and the expressions of disgust at this shameful sight, were general ; the. ardor with which thissontest was prosecuted, with unequal nntn bers, is a proof of how easily men lose all sense of de cency or justice, when inflamed to outrage.—Such a ' scene, we hope we may never witness again in this city.—(Montreal Paper.) A steam vessel will very soon ply on Lough Neagh. The vessel has already been built on the Lough, and the engine, boiler, &c. have been forwarded in a 'lighter by the Lagan navigation. The engine is of 30 horse power.—(lriali p per.) CORONILR'S INQUESTS. —Yesterday morning an In. quisition was taken in the Board-room of the workhouse of the Liberty of the Rolls, in Bream's-buildings, Chancery-lane, before T. Stirling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of %Vip. Clifton, ayoung man, between 18 end 19.-1 t appeared, that on Monday last the deceased at. tended the funeral of a person who committed suicide in Clare-street, Clare-market. lie afterwards went amongst his acquaintances, and, shaking Lands with theni,took his leave, saying, that he had done something, that when they were told they would be surprieed at, and they would see him no more. lie then went home to his mother, who lives in Swann yard, White's-alley, Chancery-lane, where lie was seized with violent pains and vomiting : he laid biro. self on the bed, and calling his mother, told her, that on his way house) from the funeral he had purchased a pennyworth of arsenic at a cliyiniat'ssbop, which he had eat out of the paper as he walketla\oug. The deceased assigned no cause for the rash act, Nat the circumstance of having attended the funeral above related, together with the observations of the persons assembled to witness the interment, which had worked on his brain in a manner he could not account for.— Mr. Owen, a medical gentleman, in Chancery-lane, at. tended, and administered a strong emetic, which, al though it operated very powerfully, had no effect, the deceased expired in great agony about an hour after wards. The Jury retained a verdict—That the de ceased poisoned himself in a fit of derangement. An inquisition was held at the Coach and Horses, Isleworth, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. on the body of Mrs. M. Hopkins, of Isleworth, a widow lady, who was killed by the upietting of the Isleworth stage on Thursday morning last. The first witness examined was the coachman who drove the coach from London to Isleworth on the morning the accident happened. lie stated that he took up the deceased in London be tween seven and eight o'clock on Thursday morning. About nine the coach was stopped by him opposite the Catholic chapel, Isleworth, for the purpose of letting a female out of the coach. De opened the door, and at that instant the horses set off. The lady drew back into the coach again, and he ran as fast be could to endeavour to stop the horses, but he could not overtake them. The horses gallopped near to the side of the road, and the coach came in c.mtact with a post. The shock was so great that the roach was overturned in an instant, and the deceased fell epos her head at some distance from the coach. filer head was much injured. In cross-examination the witness ' admitted that there was no person at the horses' beads at the time he opened the coach door to let the lady out. There was also another female besides the de ceased injured by the accident. She kept her bed oa the day the accident occurred; but is likely to do well. Her illness was produced more by fright than any thing else. The evidence was corroborated by several other witnesses, and the Jury returned a verdict —" Accidentally killed by the overturning of a stage coach." MARRIED. At Walthamstow, on Tuesday last. James Wm. Fres4" field, E. of Sto ke Newington, to F - ances J. Si of IIIS. Churchhill-house, Waltbatnstow, eldest daughter of the late Joho Sims, Esq. of that place. DIED. In Charlotte, Bedford-square, yesterday, Mrs. Roberts: aged of years. At Brae-side of Audileuchries, on Sunday, the 30ih Isabel Vlight, in the thia year of her age. and Of he r married life- In her younger days she was a feithfil se vant at the house of Dunwick ; and till .6:lda the last tvo years, continued active in the discharge of bar household ditties, and in her charities to the poor. 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