The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-19 00:00:00

APRIL 19. Polirt. MANIIIOIO-110VSR.-.EXTENSIVIC ROMIERY.-011 Tues day the 30th of Nlareli, a basket a:is stolen from the bar of the tap at the Bull-and-Mouth, inn, containing a parcel of Kink of England notes, and hills, to the amount of 11,0001. Soot after the rubbery the bills were found in ail tura iu Slum horne-lane, into which they had been dropper!. Nom of the notes have been traced. The Bank of Eio;Lind notes acre for the sum of 90" f. the local notes fur upwards of 3,00.)i., and the hills for upward* of 7,0001. A midclie•itgeit WWI, owned William Crowder. was on NVcelnescLey charged on auspiciou of having pat tbeipaied ibi the robbery. William Goodall, guard of the Worcester coach, stated, that he was in the habit of bringing parcels train W orcester for the house of Curtis and Co. bankers, in Ln ,clim, to the Bull-and-Mouth that uu Monday, the '29th of Nlaich lic, received one parcel Irma the old bansoigshouse, and another futon Foley's banking-house at Worcester ; that be took then where he lodged in Worcester, and enclosed them, taxcther with a bag containing silver and old mutes of Ibis own to the 1111011111 d of SOL, iu a basket, which he secured wllb a padlock, after which he took them to the coach and placed them to the hind boot; that he aro iced iu town with the coach un Juesda), the 30th of 'March, at eleven o'clock, took the basket to the tap at the Bullsand-Moutli, and gave it to Mr. Vacs, the landlord, saying, " Take care of my child" (the usual can' ion with respect to parcels of great value); that Mrs. Viles was to the bar, and the landlord, who was standing at the door, said, " Very wall," and took it into hie care; that he (witness) returned to the yard at the Hull-nod-Mouth for the purpose of timing the hill, and that on his return to the har, which was within the apace 'sleight inmates, the basket was gone, Ile added, the basket was looked fur, but cuulJ nut be found, and that he believed the landlord had nut missed it till that moment. Wm. Taylor, a constable of Aldersgate, said he knew the priienier well; saw twice on the itiiirning the robuery was committed, the first time a quarter past 10, standing at the corner of Little lit atilt), near the Chutch, a 'all a handle in his hand, and dressed well Ia a blue coat. (Here it was stated by the Guard, that the coach passed through Little Britain.) The prisoner, on observing the witness, walked but was seen by him iii about half an hour after in Bull and-Nlouth-strtet, above the Inn-yard, looking at the horses, mud loitering. At this time he had no Ituudle with him.— Taylor hearth that a great robbery had been committed at the Bull-and-Mouth half an hour afterwards, and imme diately cent after the plisoner. Jane Si.ley said she knew the prisoner. On the morning of the robbery saw him between eleven and twelve o'clock with a gr eat coat, standing near the Nag's Head, and talking to a tall gentleman. He was dressed in a blue coat, and had a •ight coloured gray coat over his arm. The person with whom he spoke was a stranger to the witness ; was dressed in a dark coat, and had a dark complexion. Five minutes after she had seen him, she heard of a great robbery at the Bull-and-Moutn. Edward V Iles, ON ner of the tap at the Bull and. Mouth, confirmed the guard's evidence w.th respect to the leaving of the parcel in the bar. Upon the guard's return to the bar, when the property was mimed, witness immediately suspected two men a ho had come into the house n short time before. Fr.iin the time the guard had left leis basket till his return, nobody had called hut a neighbour's little girl, fo► a pint of beer. But there were two nieu io the tap•ruom when the basket was brought in, sitting in a box opposite the bar door. One of them hail come in about ten minutes before eleven, and called for a glass Of ale; the olber soon Idler, and called fur a glass of beer. Both paid, hut witness did not see them in conversation. Tiley sat in the same box, down by each tither. The first who came in was dressed in a blue coat, and topped boots, and hail a light drab coat over his left arm. [Here the prisoner waadesired to put on his hat.) Witness believed hau to be the man who called for the glass of ale. Witness's wife wits in the cellar, and w itoess himself took a poker out of the tap-room Are, and ran up stairs to light a tire. Ou his return, which was in about a minute and a half, the two men were gone. Three pin, of the ale were left in one of the gla.iscs, and a small quantity of the beer remained in the other. VI hen witness left the tap-room to light the fire, the basket was is the bar, but he did out think of looking for it until the guard came to ask for it. _ . . Jacob Goodrich, a helper in the yard, said be was in the tap•rourn at the same time (hr coach arrived. Three men, named Bennet. Titmouse, and Charlton, who were well known to the house, were its the tap-room. They sat in a box from which they could not see the bar. Two other men, who were strangers to uitnass, sat in a box that had a command of the bar, and a great coat Was spread upon the table at which they sat. One of these men turned round to look into the hot in which they sat, and upon meeting eye turned quickly away. The other handed a newspaper to Charlton, who sat in the opposite box. Mis. s was skimming the pot at the time. %V it hin a couple of minutes alter, the newspaper, which had not been asked for, was given to Charlton. %V line% heard that the basket had been stolen. There was snitie eliiterence be tween this witness's statement and that ot• the others, as to the time anti colour of the coal, he having stated that the rolh1). ry mist have here committed ,non after tell, and that the me...a coat a us n very dark one. The Lord Mayor ord. red that the further evidence vitould be brought before him nn M GUILDHALL.— HARD WOOR UPON THR POOR BAR. BRIM—Sir. J. Shaw wa: occupied with a MP which he by no means relished. He was obliged to put into force the Aet of Parliament which mist.% wills such peculiar weight upon hair-d , and tine one for shaving a coo. tooter after eleven o'clock on Sunday last. The poor mail, whose mime is Morality Roberta, pleaded for himself and his lumbar. with much era,. lolMarsehes. ter the Magistrates hail declare d that shaving was an act of necessity, and nobody could •ay that beards were not as likely to grow in Lonrho, a: in the ministry. Ittsidesolie barbers had but two slays in the week, Saturday and Smulay. All the rest of the week was a dire noa,and what B comfortable thing was a Oran f:ste, a ilmtg not to be found without having first undergone the razor. S•e J. Shaw a lid he hail not mode the Act; assn rtl•lhc barber that no Sas should have beru improved upon Mau had THE NATIONAL REGISITIL be shaved before or alter church, and regretted t h e obliga tion to 11111/O\C Ilse pelt illy. Roberts respectfully su b mitted that the neces•ity appeared more Imperious when stage coat hes came into town in church lime. The rrfosal to shave shone who hail just ar rived, might he visited With It more be, ions pmts-hinent than earthly Magistrates could t, for the crime of presenting people I ' llllll gOilig to chinch might lie upon their lien,,!. lie said lie should let the matter go to the utmost. lie should nut p.ry the nor hut lel every thing go to wreck. The inquest, who stated that Inc inhabi•ants of their Ward acre constantly desiring them to do their duty by lin illg working barbels, ate to WU( eed asainst ilotaliu by formation. LXECCI 70A S. ScorbaNts.—Wednesday, Alexander Robertson was executed at Glasgow, conformably to his sentence at the High Court of Justiciary, for robbing the willehlelse of \lr. John Love. At ti re minutes before two o'clock the magistrates entered the Town-bail, which wee crowded to excess, and Bailie Alstun, acting chief magistrate, or dered the et inainal to be produced. He was attended by Mr. Moiegregor, the gaoler, and the assistants, and walked with considerable firmness. The Rev. Dr. Lockhart, who had paid great attention to hint dining his confinement, was seated at the head of the table, and read ft he sth verse of the 32d Psalm, and the greater part joining in the singing. The wretched man paid great attention, and the Doutor then offered tip a very appropriate prayer, during which the prisoner seemed very much affected, anal the prison sitting next him wiped his face with a hand kerchief. Psalms ware again sling, in which the prisoner joined with firmness, hot without using any gesticulation; and the service v-as fini s h e d by a n affecting maser f the Rev, Mr. Ewing, whose feelings were much moved Dr. Lockhart then stated to the magistrates the prisoners gratitude for their kind attention ; and expressed his cue viction that such a change lied been effected on the poi soner as was likely, had tie been spared, to make his con duct very different. At a quarter befoie three o'clock the hall was cleared. The unhappy prisoner Robertson mounted the scaffold wills a firm step and a calm counte nance. The drop was very considerable, and the clash excited a strong sensation throughout the surrounding multitude, riot less, it is supposed, than 39,000 ; but it wag his own request, as, from his being a light man, he was afraid of struggling. He had been in business on his own account, and had made a voyage to Ames ice as a met chant; but soon after his radii, u home, lie got ac quainted with loose company, and was twice tried before Hie per petration of the mime for which lie suffered. Some time after his return ft Edinburgh, where lie was con victed, lie was rather indifferent le his fate ; but when all hopes of a reprieve had vanished, lie became all that his clerical attendants could wish, and they seemed very in terested about I . tie was voted-looking, and was only 24 yea's of age. After hanging -15 minutes, the body was cut down, and the crowd quietly dispersed. IREL.IMU.—Monday, O'Hara and Brennan, who were capitally convicted at the last assizes of Roscommon, un derwent the awful sentence of the law at that place. Ou Sunday night, March SO, about six o'clock in the evening, diately after the elergvistan left them, the nudes - - gaoler, who was most humanely kind to them, went as usual to lock them up. He sat a few minutes with them, when they sent him for some turf, and on his return to the cell, they knocked him down and dered him in a cruel manner, by ;strangulation. He has left an unfortunate widow and 10 children to deplore his loss. After they murdered him, they took from hint the keys, by which means they got to the top of the prison to effect their es cape, when fortunately one of the 10th Regiment, who was sentinel, perceived them on the top, by the noise of their bolts, and gave the alarm, when they were immedi ately secured. They solemnly declared their innocence of the murder, and wheat brought out to see the dead body, called on God to witness their innocence, but at one o'clock in the morning they confessed their guilt of the murder, as well as the robbery for which they were to suffer. These men's relations in Roscommon are respec table farmers, fir above the lower (wale's, but they have always been men of bad charaeter. They scented Un concerned at the awful fate which awaited them, until the day before their execution, on the morning of which they seemed penitent, mid ascended the fatal platform with much steadiness. They spoke at some length to the populace, which exceeded in number any thing ever u it tiessaol on a former occasion, and warned them against illegal meetings and had company, which brought them to the gellows. At half-past 12 they were launched into eternity. 'l' hey did not suffer touch. Their bodies were then, by the directions of Government to the Sheriff, bu ried in the gaol-y Jail, which seemed to have equal effect with the execution on the populace. Precious to the ex ecution, the Sklar, who received an order Isom Govern ment to remove all the convicts under sentence of trans. pal talian tat that flay, to Cork, canard the convicts all to be put on cars, chained together, in front of the prism, to witness the execution, where their friends 'attended to take leave of them. The moment the execution was over, they were marched off ender a strong escort. 30.11ER.SE7' AsSIZES. COOS, V. DOBTW. This was an action brought by Mr. Cooke, upholder, of Bath, against the defendant, for seducing his daughter, Harriet Cooke. Mr. G. F. Williams opened the case on the part of the plaintif f , by staling, th-t Mr. Cooke was a respect able tradesman or Rath ; was father of .a large family ; and hued in comfort by his exertions in trade. Miss Cooke, the daughter of the plaintiff, was an actress of some celebrity et the Rah theatre, And who, until the unfortunate mequaitstatece with the defendant, was of unblemished reputation; that the defendant became acquainted with the plaintiffs daughter by attending hehind the sernea at the theatre, in January 1818, whets he enacted the Nil al nulls, for Mr. Com,. ay's benefit, and he haul succeeded In accomplishing his designs.— M iss Cooke was theticxamined for a few s, when Mr. Sergeant Yell, Cutumel for the deleutLut offered IQT 3001. and roses, which die plaintifFs Counsel accepted ; and the learited-Serjeant statrd, that Nliss Cook had not appeared to have been otherwise than virtuous except with the defendant. SCHHEY aSSIZES. TUR KING •GAINST RICNAItU BINGIMM, CI.EIE, nucti 1.61V14, (ILPAT. ANL) CIIANL6S HAWkilho, UPON •RI VaLticrllENT- FOIL • coAiWilth.CV CO,POItT, 1111. 11•NP3111HE. This indictment whirls had been removed from the Hemp. shire Quarter Sessi .. its. was tried on Froday lA.rl , ut lksiogsioe, • befure a Special Jury. 1 he pleatisosga nay iug °eta stated Icy Mr. Plait, t he,i 0000 los Cagliari, Mr. Sergeant Gunslow, in a • luminous and perspicuous Speech, waled the case at large, a hich was certainly of an r %tram-dinar) Wine, stud had created considerable interest. • The 'raffled Sergeant detailed the circuonstsoces as ful lows:—ln the moot:, of May, lily, thedefendani, Biughare, . having failed in his application to the Court of Kia,es Beach, to set aside ass execution that had been taken out against Motu, cud executed by the Shes itl of liumpshire, at • the for a anon of 13631., sod the Sheriff bring ordered by the Coast immediately tso satisfy the debt (though the ef fects of the defendant had nut been sold, the sale having been , witendeil 11,!, the precious orders of tile Court), another • of the defendant", Mr. Len is, the defendant Binghasn's the:: mummy applied to Messrs. Warners, respectable broker-, luring in Fleet-min het, for a loan of 5801., which they agreed to make, mod Mr. Hollis, the under theo•itf.advanced the remainder of the money, to satisfy Boswell and Buckle's execution; and a bill of sale of all the deseudant Meg ham's effects was made from the sheriff to Mew's. Waiters, trust to repay themselves the twit of 3001. so advans rid by then', h.tt the expences of the sale of the edicts, which .t n as undertaken and agreed by the Jet . ..whist Iliughain should lake place within two moot hafroin that time; and in furies - 1i trust, to account for and pay over to the Sheriff the balance of men tale, to he applied to him in aatisfautinio of Messrs. Memel' and Buckle's debt; and of such u her debts to w tilch the same was liable under serHal writs of feel facius. The stile was accordingly heed for the 19th of June following, when Messrs. Warners attended at Gosport to conduct the auction; but on the ns'tnting when the vale was to base commenced, the defendants Bingham and Lewis applied to, and earnestly entreated Mr. 11 illiam Warlters and Mr. • Hills-, who was attending at Gosport, to po•tpone the sale, a'soring them that a person who was then at Gosport, having at cumpanied Mr. Lewis from London, would advance • the ttttt ney necessary to discharge Mr. Warners' claim, and the various exec idiom; and upon a payment of 4301. On account to Messrs. Warlters. the po,tponesuent ethe sale sifts agreed • tio, and as the tearatcd and earnest en , reaty of Messrs. Bug tam mud Lewis was Gum time to time postponed, to • give the defendant, Bingham, es opportunity of raising the money; mod it was not until September, 1816, that the whole of Nlessrs. Warned' demand was paid to them, and moan's& of 6001. was still left due to Mr. Hollisoon account of the icy advauced by him as Under Sheriff Memo.- Warners having been sati'fied in their demands, the conspi- - racy to get the man out of pu,sewsaall esominesiced, and now • the dates and other circumstances .become very onsiteriat The commeucement of the conspiracy was as follows:-0o Sunday the NOth of October, 1616, immediately after deli- • vering the evening lecture ut Gosport Chapel, a young man of the name of Justus Touts, who bad acted as grave-digger under his father, who was the sexton, bappeniug to atay in the Chapel-)nod with a young woman after tie service was over, had his attention called by hearing made at the chapel dour by Bingham nail Hawkins, One of the chapel-wardens, w het her any person wasa.ear etwough.to hear them, went and stsisal elute to the vestry-room inctsra, and distinctly heard their comarvatino, which tins of pith a nature, that he told it to bin brother the next moraine, who committed it to w t • • g; and which was nothing less than a plan to postpone the payment of Mr. Hollis for a year and a half, and fur Hass kilo to join Bingham in the occupation and management of a small farm at Speedield, by which Bingham insinuated that they were to clear 1000 t. per annum between them. Whilst this preparation was making at (import, soil the Monday or the Tuesday following, the 21st or 2111, Lewia's clerk called at Messrs. Washer', and told Sir. Thomas Warlters, the senior partner. that " Lewis was gone to Gosport to meet Mr. Millis ; and, finally, settle Bingham's latrines, and discharge the man out of possessiou ; and that Mr. Lew is requested he (Mr. Warlters) would write a letter, directed to him at Bingham's, authorizing him to discharge Percival, the man who was holding possession smiler the bill abde), as he expected lie would nut quit without his (Mr. Warl ter's) order." Mr. 'rhos. Washers, confiding in this repro natation, inomediaiely wrote Lewis a short note, saying-, . " When Mr. Hollis is satisfied I ant, and Yeo•eival may quit the possession." On the 20th of October, Bingham wroto to Ale. Hollis's clerk, Mr. Thresher, (for Mr. Hollis had lot sonic time-brim e refused to correspond with stat ing that lie had within lied Innis to settle the arentint w ihlo 11 r. Hollis, and to pay him what he bad advanced as Usi- - der-Sheriff, mail that he wroth' conic to Who-limiter, aca. - companied by Hawkins, as Bingham's f.lend ; and the ac count was stated, allowed, dud signed by Mil. Hulks, nod by Mr. Lewis, on behalf of Bingham, upon which there was a balance due front Ilins.dism of upwards of 8001 This balance was proposed to be paid Sadler following ex trata•distary inamier : 3001. by Bingbam's bill at three months, thaw', on and accepted by John Lewirnan, the turnpike gate-keeper, at Brucklitirst, near Gosport, alto, . it was pretended, hood bought the crop at Speedfield ; 2001 to be secured to Mr. Hollis, by an assignment of Sloe live anti dead stock at Specdfield, hot which he was soot to sell till the farm could be let (and aide's were nu-bided in the hill of sale already in possession); and the Wanes. of 3001. amid upwards, was to or paid by theeent of the household goods and furniture at Speedfield, which, if let, would hare tithes' seven years to pay it in. 'Purse terms write of course rejects-41 by Mr. Hollis, and Lewis and Han kin. went away will ttttt t intorming Mr. Hollis of the muai eation bet aeelr IWO is. and Sir. Thomas Wainer', or jun. • mating to bun An) Intrilillun of dischargiog Pereiv•l from the posstgsaison under the bill of sale. •tho the next day, Newsboy; the 20th, the photo of the eutospitacs was completed 'by all the parties, Bingham, Lewis, and Mao kilos. assembling together at Boigtoom's !muse, and lino the WneOLOWill pretend.