The National Register. — London, England, 1819-03-01 00:00:00

I IVA 11( OLD BAILEY. SATURDAY Pas. to. in tL• pr: s . Cadav, alias Philibert, Joseph Amend rrovsgv, and Leith' Amend Cleransac, were indicted fix havioL; brought from Mocambique, in Africa, to the island of Mauritius, certain person , , to be sold as slaves. The Attie Hey-General stated the case, and the law as applicalde to the juryt C. M. Campbell, a lieutenant in the Bourbon regi ment at the Mauritius, was Aid de-camp to General Hall, the Governor. On the Sd of March last, by order of the Governor, he went to Madame le Brun's islantati sn with a detachment from the "2nd. Poly iinre was their guide. He pointed out to them a wooden building, and two small leas. They got there near I I at night. Polydore told him the huts contained new blecks, and whites that brought theta were in the wooden building. Witness divided his Ltachnient, and with one party surrounded the huts, and with another the wooden building , . He timnd the huts filled with blacks. male and female. to the number of 92. Grea:est p srt were naked. One was dead, another dying, and nine so weak they could nut be moved. Alatost all were covered with the itch, and appeared quite astonished whoa the edition; sur rounded the huts, and came up to them, and examined their clothes and arms. They appeared quite uncivilzel, were all Mozambique blacks, and he was positive they were newly imported negrocs. He secured the huts fur the night, and went to the wooden building. He knocked and requeseel it to be opened,when a woman's voice said she was with her two daughters, and that she would not open the door at that time of night He molested her no farther, taut desired the soldiers to let no one escape from the house. He then went about the plantation, and found another hut, in which were eight or nine blacks, who told him in French that they belonged to Madame le Brim. He returned to Sis detachment, and found them were he had left them, and remained with them till the next morning. the Commissary came next morning ; and when the noise of his paletiquin bearers was heard, the people in the .house opened the door, and they went in and saw the prisoners Cuvillier, Quanta, Madame he Brun, her two daughters, and Victorine. Witness took the prisoners, but at the desire of the Commissary, he allowed Cu villier to remain. with Madame le Brun. It is 20 or 22 miles -from Souliac to Madame le Brun's. There are large forests, between. Crors examined.—The island has been governed by the French laws since the capitulation. Polydore confirmed this testimony. The prisoners, Phillebert and Tregrosse, put in long written defences, in which they denied the charge, and asserted that they had been to Madalascar for a cargo of bullocks, which they were obliged to throw over , board in a stonn, and . that accounted for there being no cargo found on board the schooner. They wandered about the island, and met Clearansac accidentally, who took them to the House of Madame lc Brun. The defence went on o state, that their treatment during their voyage to England had been teal. Clearansac's defence was, that he was not on board the schooner nt all ; that he had been in the French navy, and was of a respectable Family in Bouruon, but was out of ens ployment; he only acted as a guide to the other two to bring t lent through the woods Baron Graham sumined up the -evidence, and the Jury, after a quarter of as hour's consultation, found all the prisoners Guilty. The Common Sergeant (th , . Judges having retired) sentenced them all to three years imprisonment is the House of Correction,. and during that time to be kept to hard labour. The following is the Address of the Grand Jury of London, previous to their discharge : " We, the Grand Jury of the City of London, having reporter! on the several hills presented to us, and being ',auntie:l by your prince officer that nation's ore fourth cming, now wait upon. the Court for our discharge. " We have been much gratified that the oflinices which have come hcti•re•us have been marked by RO cir cumstances of pzxuliaratronity, although we cannot but lament that the notoival punishment attaching to many of them, ucr•ordi•s„ to our protein erirnioal aide, and the highest which can be indicted on the greatest delin quents I " In the course of our duty we have witnessed the w gate throughout, and are happy in the• ‘, . sal -rtiell lc+, of hearing ample tes , imony to the prism- achy conciuct of Mr. Brown, its keeper, evidetice.l iu the general cleanliness of the place, uml icral health and orderly behaviour of the "T le eircanstoce so utlen.deplored by former Grand Juries, we arc sorry to find stiil to exist, in the absence of all clomilication of age or•crion: ( with some few ex ceptions) ; salt we :Ire well convinced tli,tt, if it were possilix to devise employment for the mole prisoness, sinti:ar go Al elkets to those so visible un the female side of the gaol would be the result. " We do not wish to trespass further on the time of the Court; yet wo c;:inot but regret tha; it Leah! be THE NATIONAL REGISTER necessary to commit so many, mere children to a place where they must of consequence become the associates of the most vicious and abandoned characters. Grand Jury-room, Old Bailey, Feb. 19. (Signed) "JAMES PEARSALL, "Foreman of the Grand Jury." " To the Right Honourable, the Lorl-Nlayor, and other of his Majesty's Justices of the . peace." MONDAY. porsons were tried, rior of whom were capitally rot, vieted ; viz. J. William% and W. Jones, tnr a burglary in the dwell iocshoitse of J. liawkiiis,aml stealim; two handkerchiefs W. Ward, for stealing a rtte. p, the property of S. Keene ; and .1. for assault tog I). %Vomit:m.l, ,111 the King's highway, and stealing from his person a pair of breeches and a waist coat. W..tennivies WAS indicted for hiving a lnintity of gunpow der other colnincitatiles to Mnry Conduit ; tuns causing the dee' of %toy Ann Coristack, a child outlet her r.tre. Mary Cornioil stated, that she hail known the prisoner about fortnight keine the tiainiaction. She attended Covent Oar den Market to sell soup. He offered to help her bring out her things, and lie cam.- for three mornings, hot on tke last re rift need to the ii'use ruder a 111 - oleure of gitting kis stick, and after he had gone a cook fr the water hint and he was told nut to come again. Some lime after. he brought her a 1)411 of *Wt . lint he called a composition coal, and said it would mike a good fire, and gentlemen hariit it in 'heir pat lour•, b ecaitsc it produced nosuu.ke. Witness carried the stuff home with her, and placed it about half a yard from the tire place, and took 3 piece about as Lii.; as an egg. Immediately she put it in the lire, it Wl.lll Off With a Inuit report, and CMll ',tunic:lied to that in the basket,and in an instant that went oil also, and ker children's chillies caught tn• and they were taken to the hospital. Witness herself was much burnt, and the little child Alary Anne died in 1110 hue iital The prisoner in his defence said, lie foinol the composition near Rolllll,l Conl . t, 111 the Strand, 411 d did not kuow 'ghat it wag.—Guilty of Manslaughter. Mr. Havuo Gotham delivered the opinion of the 12 Judges on the ease of lye Csrr, convicted last Session of maliciously drawing the trigger of a blonde buss ag a inst W. that the convict tust ou% had ; but coufirined the capital convic tion of• it. Taylor, in December last, for cutting and destr,iy. lug cet lain fruit-trees in the garden gi mind of S. Kaievett. IUEsI)AI(.. _ W. Green was indicted fur stealing money and other arti cles, ansouutiag iu the whole to z.'.21. the property of W. Stevens.- FrancesSteventstattil, that her husband was a publican In Marstial-street,Carnaby Mriket. On the 22d ult. shout eight 11 theeveniuq,the propel ty was stirlen Isom the bed-room. Slit was Silting in her bar, soil heard a 'toile ap stairs ; when she took a candle and went and listened at the iinition of the stairs, hut did tint hear any further n:Ose. Witness opened the tap-roan sloar. Prisnnrl 11•4 , m . down %tails, and came up to witness, who said to hit " Where hat e yen been?" He replied, "Up sighs." Witte, as tejnined, " Where to " He said, " In the Iwo 1' r." She asks him to whom there; and he eimer said,it was 40t nW eonseipsence to her, or no business of her's. Wiine-s th a laid hold of bins by the collar. I sersant gist also came oil, and hll , l Mild of MIN and said, " Olt! mistress, he is a thief." A general confusion ensued and the room tor, - was funud btukeo open and the clubdrox standing 00 the landing-place. The primmer was searched, sad on hint were found len skeleton keys, a crow liar, a dark lantern, and a pliuspeortis box, but none or her pi operty. he prisoner, in ins defence, sail, he knew notolog of the robbeiy, the keys and impleinents of house-breaking nett ci en NM by a h lend of bus, who was a locksinith.—Gailty— Dcatii.—Aged 4ti. The Recorder otisersed to the Jary, that the prisoner was an tilt acquaintance ; he had been these before. J. Frost and C. Arintield were indicted for assaulting J. But t. no the King's highway, and takiiig from hint a waled and putitit book, his property. Jury Wend them butts Guilty—Death.—Aged • and 21. Elizabeth Patching, for stealing a snit of boy's clothes, and other ea ticles, the property of J. Hodges, us his tiwelliiic house ; and J. theriton, for a burglary iu the house of H. Spicer, and stealiug two watches were also capitally con victed. WEAN LSD AY. J. Doran was indicted for stealing • mare, value 501 stud a bridle and saddle, the property of G. Wynne, of Patents's' tea -row . lis. Wynne said, he had a valuable mare, which he adver tises, 6.r ...Ale. the the 15th instant the prisoner stated, that lie *mold a tali to have last days trial of the :nitre. Prosecutor tut A him he oat a stringer, anti lie could not permit him to have the mare ; but he was about to. take a ride upon atwitter, and it tir priausmr thought proper, he might accompany him ; they aeettrtlisegly rode to Tettersel's, when the primmer said he waisted to commit n friend about the snare, and westt it,to the yard ; bust I rillrllell in about five minutes, and said his li ielltl was nut there; and he would accompany the ptoseeutur home, awl send In. servant for the ware in the OIUI 1111 l g. PrO , Cellior told hiss, that as he knew institute of him, he /hold not let the mare go, hot that be would send the servant wits nes, it he geee hots his address. 'file prisoner accord iss4ly lot e iron the address of " J. Horns, at Mr. Young's, 23, Parliament - slier'," and proitectetor mi. ee I, upon the re p,esehtion of the primnier, titAt lute friend would he al Mr. V outie's the 'text 4 iy, to Attud the mato. PI thlerlil 01 41, Curd' (ugly sent his groom with the mare, aid On !lig/lily he was not their t but %title he was riding her up and iso Ais the str eet, the prisoner come up, and tool him he esott!st take Ilse snare to his (I i , lllil, o 114 !Willi tier smelt. Toe groom gave the snare Mho Ins etllS.lssly kAltistusg , s not :maws Med to du au), and the presumes dot nut remit With it. Mr, Atleu phis. immted an oitiection in favour of the prisoner, that it wet a uarg 4111, 1111,1 Hot aft lo ..s. It was, lio a eies., erern used, it ithold going to .411 Araussietst, Mr. Young, 'N . POI ii.t.iietki—urcet, proved that the primmer td lised with him about tan )eate elect. et nett said he Ii to - 1, , est Ishii atilltursiy to bare a letter directed there, lot . a g 'o hms:us, hot he hod nut given btu► any fits user authority. 'l;se Jury I,lolnm:iced the iss istmer Gain y-o.:at h. J. Hubert*, tor ate.' g int) piecta of II marl, salt.e 401. • the properly of J. EV.1115, its his tiV/eil:114 Iloll3e NOS al•u eaii/14/illy Cllalltiell. TiiIIIISDAY. . . . Hymn Alexander and Ant.il:;tui Phillips were charged picking the pocket of Lora Foley, vitae his L ,, •l:ip was al it tiding tlio .lectioa Wetatittiottei on the Pith init. of a v.t laaine gold %valets, three gold ►eals, and a pocket-hook con toinotg t6l. to notes. 'lice prisoners were found Guilty. Julio Payer, alias I)yew, was indkttd for :um:no - 13i s w:t'r Ann Baker, his former wife, Ann 'layer, being ttili alive. Es idence of boils marriages were folly substantiated. The Prisoner, in his defence, admitted that lie hail nisei iv, Ann Baker, tint said he had never consummated the marriage, nor had lie ever cohabited with, or seen Ann Baker since they quitted the church. In support of this assertion. he calk.' the witness Jane Roberts, who proved that lie had never seen Ann Baker ;ince they were married. The Court intimated to Blur, that tt at made no &Wei ante sr d'stin lion; and Melo'' , foam' the pi i-cmer George Knight was indicted for stealing 301. of bitter ••bie 11. Pis. the propeity of George Lamb ; and Janie, Voodley, was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing it to base been stolen. The prisoner Knight was entrusted to card a waggon, bar on the arrival of the waggon at its 1,14 re of destination the" butter Wilt and it o as la proof that iltri;glut look a but to ri place in Aldersgate-strcet, and left it with a watchman, for Woo Iley. who hail been a watchinan on that heat. Wind-. les received it. and it was proved to cow ain butter, %bleb ha • sold at Is. 311. per pound. The Jury protioni.ceil both the ',limners Gui:ty. A private letter from Paris mentions, that the Mi. nistry have resolved to keep no further measures with. the Ultra-Royalists ; and that the majority, small as it was, which enabled Government to pass the law on the financial year, was the consequeuce of a declaration to. the above effect, announced by the Keeper of the Seals in his speech; the left side, or party of the Liberal's, immediately uniting themselves to Ministers. M. Laine was reckoned among the minority on that question. A numerous meeting of merchants, manufactarers, and nth, rs, was held on Thursday at the t its of Len don Tavern, for the purpose of taking into considera tion the necessity of petitioning Parliament. in order to obtain an equalization of the Daty on (*mils ; \ir. Al derman Wood in the Chair when, after a very able discussion, several Resolutions were passed unani• mously ; and Petitions founded upon them, to both . Houses, agreed to. Alderman Wood was deputed to present that to the Commons. G. Smith, a teacher of fencng in Carrubber's Cale!, Edinburgh, was lately charged as being the miscreant. whose conduct has for some time back been so grossly shocking and annoying to numerous femat a in various places in the vicinity of flat city. He was clearly iden. tificil by a number of young allies, as the person who had behaved towards them in a manner too indecent to describe; and the Sittiag Magistrate, considering it a case deserving of more severe punishment than ha was warranted to inflict. remitted it o the Sheriff. DARING ROTIFIERY.—M r. Cornby, of Beddington Sarry was attacked by a gang of seven or ei b h: per sons, early on Thursday veiling, on the (''astern side of Blackfriars road, between Ro,vland Hill's Chapel and Dover street, and robbed of 171. his watch, and . his hat. He was attacked by a violent blow upon the neck, which levelled him, and his property was gone in a few seconds: These ruffians are part of a desperate. gang, who turn out from their vile haunts in St. GeLrge's-fields, nightly, and pariahs the upper part of, Blecktriars road, in defiance of the watchmen. Wednesday a'Cauat of Directors was held at the Ea • India how.e. when the following ships were thus sta g tinned and timed, viz. the Bridgewater, Marquis o. Ely, and Larkins, for St. Helena and China; an:.f Aplle, Cornwall, and Matilda, thr China direct, to be riloat on the '23d inst.; sail to Gravesend on the Ist Mardi ; stay there A) daps; and be in de Downs oh the I Oth of April. A f dal disturbance took place a few days since, at the New Inn, it Fresiifird. A number of young men and women were drinking. it.d ab tut nine o'clozli a violent quarrel took place among tic m ; the can dies were extinguisle.; and tic room rendered a seenc of disuubance. Mr. Mareham. the lan dlord. with some ditticulty succeeded in clear ing the roots. and shut his street duot against them. '1 hey th,n • began to beat at the door, and threatened to do mischief to the landlord; one yo mg man said, he should le murdered if lie woe not whn'tte.l into the house; upon which the landlord op...ned die. door, when a young nwr, named .1. Kelson, swore lie would enter the house,.and was in the a. tof doing so, when t!-:e landlord stre.dt lint down with a stick. The blow 'roved a fatal one; and after lingerin:t in errat pain for a week, he expired. Mr. Mareh-nt 'Mgt been commi te I us :Hallett ctoal. A frnin p.a attempted on Sir 11. Carr and his (th widow of the late Minister. Mr. Percival), by a letter Fit-porting is be written by a poor Clergyman named Racenarr. ft. with a wit! and Liege fintilyovoo were very distr:,red, ad 4, di au.liti m N. that. 116 misery was Increased by . having been thrown °tribe onside of the liGwd cinch, and oue of has kg. was broken. In con!iitnati in he enclosed a letter from Lord Binning. desiring i= aceertance of an en-baed ILA( note. The letter was se.ded with tlx arms of l.m-il Binning. Oa enquiry thefellow tiirtettout to be an itnivatt.r ; rhos tithed emelt had not broken down. nor tr..l Lind Bninteg redo id ia Bank note to him, nor did limns o,ly thing of the impostor. Its; lordship 16 at a lees to gttcu how be could obtain the unpreasion of The Rtr. Mr. ',lnman, a Nu,. 11:1 1 1 lately &aunt beta 1.14 a h r es ablislibig a genrial N. ' , dime Saving Mpg: for •emnro, which is about to be submitted I. - the Lords of the Admiralty. - - - - A few days shire a Kinat,n, lately eahilli nt in a es ritvan noon the Ca•tle D;tehes at Nino telt, eloped Iron, that place' w th the WI-fair eneWnyed as bay' kr I. We &bow. A lever 1,, ar ..1 itat tier. of the N. rith..eite art , tEttr:l I.ls tat issa. December 4, 1818, P ales, that oil day before,* pi. 113141011 r 4111 nlowieri every snip hat wan 101 g there they after.% at ilv went , a $ ore A rnitotir.eil tie inhabitants and the t'uvlotr.anntse ; at. y *No ninnies - ea rune nit he inliabitaitt•, and then lett the place. The Nelwit (1,,1 not arrive till atter the eiresmishinee. Oil BmitiAy r•ruing farther respite was received by the Keeper of N( vo-zatc for J. Egerton (nt tiered. for , xectitioncn Teeslay Int but then revited for one werY) during I.sa Royal 1116 hut the Prince RegenOt pleniutc.