The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-18 00:00:00

APRIL 18. Volice. itiAltsinstsflausc—ErrEsision ROBRZRIN-02 Ines (Li) the 30th of March, a basket was stolen friim the b a r o f tic tap at the inn, containing a parcel of of England wiles, and bills, to the amount of I 1,000/. sir° t alter the robbery the bill* were found iu an urea ‘,40 / borne-lane, into which they had been dropped. None of the notes base been traced. The flank of baugland motes were for the sum of DOW. the local notes fur upwards of 5,0001., and the bills far upwards of 7.0001. A middle•ageil man, named Crowder, was on Wednesday charged on suspicion of basin participated in the robbery. William Goodall, guard of the Worcester coach, stated, that he was iii the habit of hrin- ' ing parcels from Worcester for the house of Curtis and Cll.b.inkers, iu Imodint, to the ; that on Monday, the Lath of Mauch he, rce,iived one parcel trum the old banking-house mid :mother from rirley's banking-house at Worcester; Unit he t.ou'r. t:se.ll where he lodged in Worcester, and enclosed thew, ta,Tether with a bag C.ll/iailiih,g silvrr awl old notes of his own to the amount of 801., in a basket, which lie secured oath a padlock, after *loch lie took them to the coach and placed them ill the hind loot; that lie arrived in town *all the coach un "fuesday, the 30th of March, at eleven o'clock, took the basket to the tap at the Hull-and-Mouth, and gate it to Mr. V iles, the liindlord, saying, " Take care of my child" (the usual caw' with respect to parcels of govt value); that Mos. Viles was in the bar, and the landlord, who was standing at the doer, said, Very well," and took it into his tare; that he (witness) returned to the yard at the Bullmad-leloutli for the purpose of aiming the hill, and that on his return to the bar, is Judi was *Ohm the space alright famines, the basket was gone. Ile added, iht. b:isaet was looked for, hut could nut be found, and Shut he believed the landlord bad not missed it till that IN in. Taylor, a constable of Aldersgate, said he knew the rrisoner well; saw !um twice un the maiming the robbery was caininitts it, tli first time a qusrter peat 10, blaming at the curlier of Little lit dant, near the Chinch, with a bundle i n his b a nd, and dressed well to a blue coat. (Here it was stated by the Guard, that the roads passed through Little Britain.) The prisoner, on observing the witty so, walked otf, but was seen by him in about half an hour after in Holl and-Mouth-street, abuse the Inn-yard, looking at the horses, and loitering. At th.s time be bad uo bundle with him.— Taylor heard that a great robbers had been committed at the Bull-and-Mouth half an blur afterwaide, wad imme diately Neal after the prisoner. Jane Sisley said she knew the prisoner. On the morning of the robbery saw hint bet st ern el.,ven and I welve o'clock with a great coat, Ktaildiig near the Nag's 11e3.1, and talking to a tall gentleman. He was dressed in a blue coat, and hada iglu coloured gray coat over hts aim. The person with whom he spoke was a stranger to the witness; was dressed in a dark coat, and had a dark complexion. Pros minutes after she had seen bum, she beard of a great rubbery at the Hull-and-Mouth. Ldward Voles, owner of the tap at the Bull and-Mouth, confirmed the gaard's evidence w.tlo respect to the leaving of the parcel in the bar. Upon the guard's return to the bar, when tne property was mia.ed, witness iinmedian ly suspected two men who had come onto the house a time before. Fr in the time the guard had left his basket till his return, nobody had called but a neighbour's little girl, fo► a put of beer. taut there were two men in the tap-rimmi when the basket was brought in, - sitting in a bus opposite the bar dour. o.le of them hail come in about ten minutes before eleven, and called for a glass of ale; the other soon after, and called fur a glass of beer. Both paid, but witness did lint we them iii conversation. They sat in the same box, down by each other. The first who came in was dressed in a blue cost, ;toil topped two its, and had a light drab coat over hi, left arm. [Here the prisoner was desired to put on his list.) Witness believed him to lie the man who called too tha glass of ale. Witistw's wife was in the cellar, and witness hannelf took a poker out of lb.• tap-room lire, and ran up stain to light a Bre. 0t his rent, a, which WAS too about a Inmate nod a hale, the two men were gone. Three parts of the ale were left in one of the glinses, and it small (yummy of the beer remained in the other. W hen ait uess left the tap•iiioni to light the e, the basket was iu the oar, but he ilia not think of looking, for it mail the guard Caine to ask fir it. Jacob Gam!deb, a helper in theyartl, said he was in the tap-room at the same time the catch arrived. 'Three men, named Reload, Titmouse, and Charlton, who were well known to the liouwi, were in tire tap-room. '1 hey sat in a box firma which they could nut see the bar. Two other men, who were strangers to a lilies', sat in a box that had h command of the hat, and a great rout was spread upon the table at which they sat. Oue of these men turned round to I aft into the hot in which they sat, and warn meeting his eye turned qwickly away. The other handed a newspaper to Charlton, who sat in the npro,ite bor. Mrs. Vids was skimming the pot at the time. Within it couple of minutes after, the newspaper, which had not been asked for. was given to Charlton. Witness heard that the basket hail been stolen. There w.ts.some difference between this witness's eatement and that of the other, as to the ti.-ne Lod colour of the roar, he having stated that the robbery must hate bec u "Mniitted soon after tea, and that the peat coat w as a very dark one. The Lord Mayne ordered that the further evidence should he brought before him on Monday. GUILDHALL—HARD WOllll UPON TUN Penn RMS. PERS.— Sir. J. 4 11111 V, WRS occupied with a Min which hr by 110 means relished. He was obliged to put into force the Act of parliament which Presses wills such pecniiar weight upon hair-dressers, and line one for sbas ins a cos timer after eleven o'clock on Stintlay last. The poor man, whose name is Horatio Roberts, pleaded for himself and ids blethers with notch seal, fotplaftillell. ter the slagi.trates had &elan d that sharing was an act of tiro essity, and nobody could :riy that beards wet. not as likely to glow in London as in the coontry. Iparbrrs had hut Iwo days in the week, Saturday and Sunday. All the rest of the week was a dies asn,aud *hat a conirertable thing Will a rll4l/1 fire, a 1111111 E 111/1 to be found without has ing first undergone the rosin. Stir J. Shaw mid he had not made the Act; assured the barlict that no hue ,bould bast been imposed upon him had TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. h •.shaved before or alter church, and regretted the übliga• lion to impair the penalty. Roberts re•prctfully submitted that the necessity appeared more imperious when stage coat lies came olio 1014 U to church time. The refusal to shove those who bad just ar rived, misAit be visited with a murellelious punishtuerit than earthly Magnitudes could Mai. t, for the crime of preventing people from going to chinch might lie upon their fiends. Ile said lie should let the matter go to the utmost. Ile should nut pay the fine but let t,ers thing go to wreck. The Inquest, whu stated that tar iubithitants of their Ward were constantly desiring them to do (twit tlut.s by tin. ip g working barbers, arc to proceed abainst tioratiu to au gural:slim'. EXECUTIONS. SCOTL AN n. —Wetlitehtlay, Alexander Robertson was executed at Glasgow, conformably to big sentence at the High Court of Justiciary, for rubbing the vs shut se of Mr. John Love. At live • lee helm.. tssu o'clock the magistrates enured die Town-hail, whistir was crowded to eteeP4, and Bailie Alston, acting chief magistrate, or dered the criminal to be produced. lie was attended by Mr. Macgregor, the gaoler, and the assistants, and walkvd with considerable firionesa. The Rev. Ur. Lockhart, who had paid peat attention to him during his confinement, was seated at the head of the table, and read loom the 511 i velar of the 22.1 Psalm, and the greater part joining in the singing. The set etched inset paid great atteritiurs, arid the Doctor then offered up a very appropriate prayer, during which the prisoner seemed s cry much affected, and the per Poll sitting next him wiped his lace with a hand kerchief. Psalms were again sling, in which the prisoner jollied with firmness, but without rising any gesticulation; and the service vas finished by an affecting prayer from the Rev, Mr. Ewing, whose feelings were much moved, Dr. Lockhart then stated to the magistrates the prisoner's gratitude fur their Lind attention t and trip essed his con s lotion that such a change had been effected on the pri soner as was likely, bad he been spared, to make his con duct very different. At • quarter before three o'clock the hall was cleared. The unhappy prisoner Robertson mounted the scaffold with a firm step and a calm counte nance. The Mop was very considerable, sad the crash excited a miring, sensation throughout the surrounding multitude, not less, it is supposed, than 30,000 ; but it was his own request, as, from his being a light man, he was afraid of struggling. He had been in business ou his own account, and had made a voyage to America as a merchant; but soon after 116 return home, lie gut ac quainted with loose company, and was tssire tried before &Ito perpetration of the crime for which lie suffered. Some time after his rotten fiuur Lilinburgh, where lie was con s icted, be was rather Magner ellt to his late ; but when all hopes of a reprieve haul vatii.lied, he became all that his clerical attendants could wi-11, and they seemed very in terested about him. He was genteel looking, and was only 24 years of age. After hanging 45 minors. the body was cut down, and the crowd quietly dispersed. IRELAND.—Mund4y, O'Hare and Brennan, who were capitally convicted at the last assizes of Roscommon, un derwent the ass fill sentence of the law al that place. On Sunday night, March ZU, about six o'clock iii the eveninlr minediately after the clergyman left Omni, the ttuderf gaoler, who was most Inintanely kind to them, went as usual to lock them op. He sat a few minutes with them, when they sent hint for some turf, and on his return to the cell, they knocked-4nm down and unordered him in a cruel instiller, by ',li.rangtilation. He has left an unfortunate widow and 10 childrete to deplore his loss. After they unordered hint, they took Rom him the keys, by which Means they got to the top of the prison to effect their es• cape, when fortunately one of the 16111 Regiment,. who was sentinel, perceived them on the top, by the noise of their !Adis, and ease the alarm, when they were immedi ately secured. 'Duey solesitely declared their innocence of the minder, and nitro brought out to see the dead body, called on God to witness their innocence, but at one o'c►ock in the morning they confessed their guilt of the• murder, as well as the robbery for which they were to stiffer. These men's relations in Roscommon are respec table farmers, far above the lower orders, but they have always been men of bad character. They scented un concerned at the awful fate which awaited theist, wail the day before their execution, on the morning of which they seemed penitent, and ascended the fatal platfui with much s!easliness. They spoke at some length to Ilse populace, which exceeded in ttttt nber tiny Odin; ever wit nessed on a Sumter OCC.IblOtl, and warned them against illegal meetings and bad company, which brought them to the gallows. At hall-past 12 they were launched into eteinity. They did nut suffer much. Their bodies were then, by the dirt-cairns of Goverimeent to the Sheriff, bu ried is the gaol-y urd, which seemed to have an equal effect with tie execution on the popnlace. Previous to the ex ecution, the Sheriff, n tau received an order from Govern ment to remove all the convicts under sentence of Ira les pus 'idiot' on that day, to Cork, caused the convicts all to be put on cars, chained together, in fimit of the prison, to witness the execution, when their friends attended to lake leave put them. moment the execution Willi over, they were marched off under* strong eseuit. SOAIRWE7' IMSIZAS. COOK, V. DOBYM. This was an action brought by Air. Cooke, upholder, of Bath, against the defundant, fur seducing his daughter, Harriet Cooke. Mr. G. F. Williams opened the case on the part of the plaintiff. by stating, that Mr. Cooke was a respect able tradesman of Bath ; was father of a large family ; and lived in comfort by his exenions in trade. Miss Cooke, the daughter of the plaintiff, was an actress of some edebrity at the Bath theatre, and who, until the unfortunate acquaintance with the defendant, was of unblemished reputation; that the defendant became acquainted with the pia' 'IN daughter by attendiug he I the scenes at the theatre, its January is $B, whet. he enacted the part of Iloilo, fur Mr. Cuttway's benefit, and he had succeeded in accoinplistaing his designs AI its Cooke was then examined for a few minutes. when M. Sergi:Jut Cousiad far the ddeudaut uffcred 1'27 3001. and eons. which the plaintiff% Couti,el accepted ; and the learned herjealit stated, th it Mi.; (.unk appeared to have heea otherwise taut etr.uotts except with the delendant. SUBREI THE HIRE. AGAINST RICH 4. RD MINCH IM, CLERK, nucur I.RWIS, GNAT. AND CHARLES lIA WA INA. UPON A ItIIICINRAT SOH A CONSPIRACY AT UDAPOIIT. IN HAmrstiouE. This indictment whirh had been removed from the limp. shire Quarter Srviuus, ss as tried on Veld's,' last, at Klll l OlOll, horiire a Special Jury. The pleadings bus jug beet' lotaltd h) . NIr. , PIIIII, iliejtonior Counsel, Mr. Sergeant Oaf'slow, iii a luminous and perspicuouti speech, staled the rase at large, a hich was certainly of sin e %Aram - dank) nature, am/ had ereaied VC:aNillerabte interests The learned Sergeant detailed the circumstances •as fol lows! —ln ilk tistrinis of May ,1115,11.eilefendon•, giuOtara, having failed in lois *milli-at' to the Court of Beach, to set aside an eatTilliall that had been taken out against him, and executed by the S'an ilf of Hampalike, at the suit of his late anoraks, Nlessrs. Homer. and gm:kw, for a sum of 1.16.11., and the She rid being ordered by the Court immediately to satisfy the debt (though the ef recta of the defendant had nut been sold, the sale having been su.prialed by the previous orders of the Court), another of the defendants, Mr. Lewis, the delmidatit Bingliam's there attorney, applied to Messrs. Warners, respectable brokers, living in Fleet•market, for a loan of boot., which they :tested to make, mid Mr. Hollis, the under sherilf, &drained the remainder of the tttttt wy, to satisfy Bose( II and Buckle's execution ; and a bill of sale of all the defendant Bing.. • hunt's effects was made nom the sheriff to Messrs. W•rlters, in trust to repay themselves the sum cif 5001. so advant ed by them, and the eipences of the side of the ellects, which nas undertaken and agreed by the defendant lireghisin should lake place within two MUM It‘ fruai ;irat time; and In further trust, to account for and pay over to the Sherid the balance of such isle, to be applied to him in satisfaction of Mn,.ess lhissi ell and Buckle's debt; and of such ocher debts to which the lame was liable muter several writs of fieri facial. The sale was accordingly bxed fur the 19th of June following, when Messrs. IS:alters attended at tinsport to conduct the , auction; but on the morning when the sale was to have commenced, the defendant. Bingham and Lewis applied to, and earnestly entreated Mr. 51 Miens Warners Hod Mr. . Hollis, who was attending at Gosport, to postpone the Mir, assuring them that a person who was earn at Gosport, having accompanied Mr. Lew is from London, would advance tlke money necessary to d,-charge Mr. Warners' claim, and the vitreous executions.; and upJtt a pay meat of 1001. on account to Warners, the postponensf ut o: the wale was agreed- ' to, and at Use repeated and earnest. en- eerily of Messrs. Ilitigharn and Lewis was limn time to time prodpourd, to give the defendant, liaigham, a,i °ppm tunny of rrising the motley; and it-was nut until September, 1516, that Itre whole of Messrs. •W ai !ter, demand was paid to thews, and upwards of 15001. was still left due tu Mr Hollis, no accinaut of the money advanced by him as Under Sherilf. blessrs. Warners having bum wished in their demands, the conspi racy to get the man out of possession c ••iseed, and risme the dates mid other circumstances become very material.— • The commencement of the conspiracy aas as followa:—On Sunday the 2Uth of October, 1016, unmediately after deli vering theevelliug lecture at tioripart Chapel, a youn t ; man of the mune of Justus 7 will, who had at tad as grave-digger under his father, who was the triton, happening to stay iu the Chapel-yard with a youri,g woman after the service WWI over, had his attention coiled by healing soak inquiries made at the chapel door by Biughuin and Ha a kite, one of the chapel-wardens, whether any person a as i ear enough to hear them, went and stood close to the vestry-room-window, and distinctly heard their cimetrsatiou, w hit h was of such a nature, that he told it to his brother the next morning, len committed it to writing; and which was nothing less than a plan to postpone dhe payment of Mr. Hollis fur a year and a half, and fur Illawkiiis to join gingham in the occupation and management of a small feria at speedheld, by ankh 1111),.:leaen insinuated that they were to clear 113/01. per annum between them. Whilst this preparation was making at Conpurt, on the Monday or the Tuesday following, the `2lst or 22d, Lewis's clerk culled at Messrs. Warlters, and told Mr. 'I Lamas IV mile's, the senior partner, that " Lew is was gone 11l (;,.sport to meet lair. HoUia ; and, finally, settle Jliu ham's businea, and discharge the man out of possession; and that Mr. Len is requested he (Mr. Warlters) would a rite a letter, direcied to him at ltia tsuwS , authorizing him to discharge Percival, the nails who was holding possession 'miler the bill °fids), as lie expected lie would not quit st iiliont his (llr.. Wart- • tees) order." Mr. Thos. Wm hers, confiding in this recite sentation, inutiedia; cly wrote Lewis a short note, saying, •• When Ale. Hollis is satisfied I win, and Pee rival may quit the possession." On the of Oi•tolier, Hingham wrote to Mr. Hollis's- clerk, Mr. Thresher, (tur Mr. Hollis hid for saute lime berme refused to toertiiiinil with him, stet- - log that lie load authorised Lew is to settle the/remit with . 111 r. Hollis, and to pay lam what be bad aileauccd as Ud der-Slim and that he would come to Winchester, me. • companii d by line kits, as gingham's friend ; and the new _ roma vas •tat..(1,i11:‘,%%. vd, mill signed by 31r. Milts, aastk by Mr. teen is, on behalf ut Hingham, apron a Welt there haiance dole !tom 111114111. en of upwards of NDol This balance was pool... Axed to be paid in the following ex. kaordinary wanner: 3091. by gingham's bill at thorn months, drawn VII and accepted by John Lcuisnau, the turnpike gate-keeper, at Ilsuelthisrst, urea Gosporti ono; it was !brocaded, had bought the crop at Speettlitrld ; 2uol to be secured to Mle. Ilona, by au assignment of the lists • and dead stock at Speeutield, hitt ss Web he was not to well .- till the farm could be let (and which w ere included its the hill of sale alroarly in possestion)s. .and the balance of 3001. mad upwaids, was to be wild. by the resit uf the household goods and furniture at Sperolticld, which, if let, wnoW have taken seven %earn to pay it in. .'Poise terms were of course rejeried by Mr. Ifollis, anti Lewis and Haskins wont away without interesting Mr. Hollis of Hi e re t e temt ;,. cation be t veil LeVlia and Mr. Themes Warners or bus. . mating to Ismm any intention of disehargiog nivel Ilona the ii•essiuti usider•the biil of bale. .(lath. aril day, S lay the Nils, the plan 0r lb. conspiracy was completed by ail she parties, ningiiasie, Lents, am! Hawkins, ammodsling together at Billgilleitea calling l'ascis al mw Ilse par;uar,. Wbuu Lc rill pretend.— 1 f L-:)1 • t 4 5,4 ►~' Parr'