The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-31 00:00:00

JAN• SI POLICE. GUILDHALL. Joseph Dowdy, the sham postman, was folly committed on semi charges of fraud, in delivering fictitious letters and 1 eceiving money for theta. Sarah Powell. a very young girl, was charged with stealing boa, containing 631. in Batik timea, ant C. and Anoe Powell, er father and mother, with receiving the same, kaowins ion to be stolen, the p-operty of Mr. Goff, of Al4ersgato ii ,. e i. The prisoner Sarah was in the employment .•t "Ar i o n, and stole the box from a room over that in whit., she fo rsed. Mr. Shopitord, a linendraner, deposed, that the l oser and ilaaglocr purchased goods c h a nge is shop ainuni.t. sg to 41. in payment tor which they d a 101. wite, , ich Ni.. G ,11' Swore to as our of the 11. , 1tS taken from his Mrs Hotham, the wife of a pablican, stet A, that Mrs. Powell had dfered her in payment of some porter, s 51. note 0 e,,,, i ,....e. but harin.. heard of the rubbery, she told her she % alt.l i....,,,p the note, and send for Mr. Goff, ulten Me p, •- ner I,io rot of the house. Soon after the hilsoand ram i d dem ~g .1% %I the note, alleging that he hail received it Ito aval e..“. Ott this occasion, he denied all knowledge ut . irilist he 114.1 eve. Cill:Red it as his. Nis. Goff j i l en tifi, ,2 hi s ou t'. oho, ,ta M il IltLB Ihr pr OROUGH S'lREETisoners wefe committed for trial. Timtsday M. Sheen, a youth, was coinmitttd for cutting a oiece out of 4 pane .of glass in the shop window of Mr. West, lobt rda.her. in Newport market, and stealing silk hand. ierelliefs. He was detected by a bell ringing to which the landkerchiefs were attached. BOW STREET. Bober rt Fletcher 1,4% charged with robbing the Rev. George ,tig, a pi eheadary of Ely Cadseilral, on the moil nide at' rinot Gsrdea. He was caught in ils- act of stead iig a inted sermon ((rots the prosecutor's pocket.—He was en in itted for trial. HUNT IN MANCHESTER. FROM THE COURIER 3 IdasCH ESTER, Jan. 25. - Since the suppression or the gem ination of the cottenwpinni•rs, this often distimberl town had een in a slate of (linemen, bet the appearance it limit non :st os has actin thrown Nlatichester mto confusion. It as generally "elle% ed by all respectable verso's., split Hunt's ppeatanec at the Theatre on Ftiday, that he had left this eighhourhood. er the affair that then cieci.rred betwe. II ord Uxbridge with several tither officers, and Hint and his arty, I prraitins you have seen the arconuts its the Man. hes e, papers. Th• folios% ing day a placard was posted abort the wn,hearied„" Fifty gllilleaa reward-- Riot, assault, and i oh berg lt stated, that Hilti, Mr. Chapman, aod Mfr. luivrorth, wee peaceably seated in the Theatre, they were attached by Capt. Fraser, Lord Ustiridge, and 20 or 30 ut•ier tuffians, one of whom 'ohne.' sir. Chapman of a iliamouit brooch, and also oltrillpIP(I to take his watch. The reward as promised en coovieden of till: person; and as to the theta, they should be dealt with accordrug to law, " it there be any law left." [FROM THR STAR MANCHISTER, Jso. 2j. Mr. 'tent and his friends having Wade known their intention of visiting the theatre this even ing, vast numbers of his admirers hail made preparations to repair to the slime place; and. is addition to his a•lhei elite in this teem, theft was a coma !enable muster of refortners from Andhant, Ashton, Stockport, and other neighbouring town& 'The Magistrates, however, anticipating a repetitiou oltlte dl.. graceful incurrence' fir Friday, interposed their anther* and induced the managers to close the theatre At tie soon. tog : in imiscqueure, when Mr. Hunt and his friewtts at rived .there was no ad,i-sinie: the doors were eletttl, and all was silent and milt as the temple of Jatins. It is not my business !tit canvass the propriety or imp oprit ty of this sinaular inter ference of :to pith e ; bat, toidrendent of the disaiipeitti meat to may respectable itoltridttals wlot ihtanded to base witnessed the performance of Ths. S. lt , m , h, the circnna etaece has occasion , d no ordinaay dectre of sersation. Hr. Bunt was art ,onpanied by a notto•rotis retinae ; bat oft fi.ll - the d"'•' • c: the Theatre closed, he addressed thsin in a a l ert at , t. etitiOss tie speech, advising theta to return quo tiv to thew cespocttve homes. There were vim* vassat...• it , h.', speech soh eli ale 11101 worth reveatitic : but the weather being extremely IiIIiCIPITIII , , materially contributed to tie dispel atost of the crowd, ant Mr. Hunt returned track with Ids f r iends. Up to this hour (It p. ,n. there has not been the least indicatitui of any d:turinince. Front Arles we are informed of the following remarkable Occurrence:—" 'some 11th. Owl's of the town of Arles ha: is lag dug a spot of ground is hid' the diminution of the waters of the Klein - had i• ti n ii overetl, and n Melt had been moo. dated fi in time :rmternerial, hare found, smug other telic• a sase three feet high, end not less must kith'. for the elegance of its simile than the verfection edit, 0,, s. tient , ; a .olt iragiii•lit of ateliit,Tivir several eenti, and a medal strut... to .rlebiair the tnsu ia.e Jf Constoidnie. o•ith Meat number of funeral turns. fact yinatories, and wa..hten h igi p s . The Prefect of the Department has immediate') o r. d ere .d t ezt I.ir excavations to be made in that piece of grim. in the m y t iihr tr tnod r.l which i• may be reerthetinA • al t o s he fine !tame .tin tinder the uppellat ton of the Venus of Arle was foou. many years ago. and which probably still•contain stony petioles chi:t:r &over, of antignit: Iu a private trios ii• 11 »Well tank place • few days since a' Paris, the 'wit st.t.:t.• of Ila.laine Letitia llinieuporte was sold far the in a t.f 16.000 banes. It was purchased by order. and on ace Amt . ,it die Duke of Devonshire. A [( s poilt.. Prince had given a commis•ien for the purchase nl toe •tine obje. t, bat he had limited his offer to 24,000 cranes. It is imiscrsally known that the state, of Madam Letitia Buonsparte, as a work Of 'he eelebra 1.41 Cantor:is, as Is also the statue of N..po Iron Sti lt • l•parte bas lately I t front the hauds th•• Pria -gent of England to those of the et We tar Gat tied. &ores. A pets. I. woo hau Just landed at Dower from France, 0111 Saterale Wt., was ovetaa , Jed by the tide-aartst.or ot the Cull toots, aid , ygpid watches and 33 gold musical seats liken fro th his pi I ; t ewa lue of ilia whole is w an t s:tied al nea myl.ooo/. The p..set , ker% name if said to he Limy, and the Anil:lW wets •iturieus y concealed round dirk. 040 s of h t . i le a, A. TIPl• AT .SCICIDE.--Mr. Andrew's, a respectable and in depend IA u.t.11, In it l amaystu tactual derangement. at his now , at Ms tesiMt.‘e at Cloart , m. near Doeec. en Monday even,: 3 ois Arne sus in bed wide him at the Mae; and beiti4 altrumi bylue liteadiLli !Wise made by inns on the turasion. in wattly g yruulyt a hi:mace; land by that IWand, thou:* his ail dpil e area Ul part semen, Int is .now thought .to be in a fair way' -41 most, THE NATIONAL /tEdISTEIt. SURREY SESSIONS. --..ip....- CHILI) DeoPelee.— Wednesday a ease was tried here, which excited the utmost interest. It occupied nearly five hours. .dr. Turbo conducted the prosecution, Mr. Cowles the defence. Anne Atkinson and Ti101111%9 Stephens were indicted fo r having coo:spired to defraud the parish of Bermondsey, by exposiog their male bastard child opposite the workhouse of that patch. Jam. Joliana t Stapleton said, she lived at 56, Brunswick Street, Markt', Oars Road. Tile female defendant came to take a lodgiog at tier house ; said she was the wife of an ex. ciseinan. lu toe eve ll ll g •he came again with the male de and paid earnest ; bath toots possession in *brut o mask, and lived together as titan AA wife. The WOIII4II was fat :. , 1 , 1441red in pregnancy. Toe Mall said, that when the child was burn ' they should take it to his mother's, as they were ;burg to America. - fhe child, a boy, was bore on la!' Aim of Jolly. Witness was at the birth. his. Lewis was Tne child relearned in the ionise thtee weeks, slier is it was taken to Lowdeil's Court to unrse. The tithe, uJ mother left the house tile same day, and returned io ~anal week, and sent for the elitist. They then took the Vold Ist with tli•on; they returned at half past ten at night wirnout it. Toe Mall was in a very agitated fainting stale. 11 ithess asked where the child was. - Itie woman said it was very well, e l m %cell taken care of, at his grandmothers. Wituess era. not satisfied, but continued het issquit les tor several days. The fein•le dereoilant illal site mod the man to ,k time ciiilit, and bough a rush Ilaikut and a piece Of tit iv flannel. wrapped the eitild rap to it, pot into ii.e basket, and that the man tied it to the knocker of a door, uppositi Bermondsey workhouse, while stir watched at the top ut the sits et. Saints L^a.is said &helmeted the female prisoner on the `.13,1 Jails sit Brunswick Street, in her conifitieinent. She noised tha child a .seek. sties which she left it with them; afterwards she saw the .•ii‘ol at Bei inosidsey workhouse. Marra I_lo at . , in August hod, (moot the door on opening it retain L1C4%.!/ • She gat e a second ;otel, mid was then knocked on her k .ee, ins somethiug faltitig against It. sue screamed, and Mr. Russ opened the door, when there appeared a basket, route - thing a child Ismaili live ur six weeks old. 'llitre were child's clothe* in the basket. The eitild was taken to time woo khoitse which was opposite, and delivered to Mr. S•epheiss, the master, the defendant's, Stephen's father. Mr. Cowley requested permission to ask a question matt Lewis, torn former witness. The qui anon was a vei'y iinpurtant one, lot the answer was as fdlows : Sarah Lewis.—.drs. Staoleton said, &feline she and winless w. tit to 011011 Hall, that witness must say as she did, us they wool(' not get the trward---inat she en tot not ',silt. Witness was exatsiteed at Bermondsey, and gave such teatime/it) , as she gave to dad. The father of the male defendant said, he expected his son was married, bit never heard at what cotarzlo, nor SAW the c•itilkate. fits sell fail klal Ilit pout - years Aga. Th*: (.mate prisoner wait not tile person to w Mini he .aid ue was Mat I ied. Witness lead a young chil.. brought to him w Am, gust, He was master of liermoodsey workhouse. He ties er saw the person who brought the child, but that ehil4 was ac companied by 10 Or a others. Tae child Mot bete in the loose ever since. Verdict—Guilty Sentence, six 'flotillas' imprisonment. I)islurhers of t h e Deal.—.ou Moi.da v, the Fiurongh genic( Dom tee:ion-men wet o stopped neer Croydon by halter, con stable of W•dingtott; with a horse and mer,. ileker with an assistant, apprehended one of the wretches named Martin, the others effected their swept- The tray betlire, Mi . . Baker's sis ter, Nits. Root., WAS nutted in Wallington churchyard, led. apoit the constable searching the cart he foisnd two dead Wadies and one of them be recogothed as his ovsli sister: The other was illeti:itied as the lovely of a Mr. W—, a tos et ii-keepe., a, Withington, who was Owlet' the same des.. Jibe bodies were again 'wetted, and the prisoner con seed intice the Slaps.. trate. and cuuututted fut . trial at the next litmutoa Assizes. Hr us. brought to town, and lodged in li•rseniurige -,tie. The Birmingham Chronicle say.--" In a tillage in Sutaiirds'iire . nut a hundred miles from uu examining the parish accounts' the three following curitnitim sweated r—ote of Me Oecseers nut made sixty-three weeks in the yew; aratem tr. the other Overseers account was, fur a sum of money paid in aid of the Coat p Ruts ; tail: caused a good lauglivr, in whim nuac joined more heartily than the Constable ; who immediately afterwards prod teed his accouats in which wasa charge foe Minding a congirest over a man found dead. CAUTION To SWE•NERS.—ibout a fortnight since two young men. one named Jose oh Gowlett, a sailor, and o th er a coat-porter. in company at a publie-house, engaged, for a pot of beer, to tri which could swear the mo.t diabolical oaths; when Gowlett, after using the most abominable expressions for a short time, became exhausted, and mull not utter a syliab!s. and has remained spveeli lino ever since—a lie mg exith.pte to toose who take God's name in vain—Norte:A A waterspout w.nicii lately broke at Tschstchine, near Smyrna, has dome antnense lani...ge. Houses were threwa down, tiers :cned up. 'a men and au cuffs washed imo the sea, the garden; and Eelds w:ie laid waste, and the promise of the vineyards wholly de nt eyed. 'lns damage is reckoned at Wong purees. INTERNSTING TO GANDLNELL—A gentleman is Oxford shire has lately tried some espeti.neuts with the ammoniacal liquor, pro.luced in the manufactory of gas from coal, for the destruction of the gmb, and other worms, which so often destroy the rising hopeso. the ge.rdners, particularly in his early crops. TM: result has satufaeurrily proved that the use of this liquid entirely destroys them; and se far is i , tram injuring we tenderest plant, it seems rather to invigorate it than otherwise. Dawai:e or MA-Av.—At a parish thure"i not many . miles from Livespoul, 12 coups: , appeared one morning to be married; but. in consequence of the widen intliTei: ion of the clergyman, the weddings were obliged to be postponed till the next day. Accord ingly, the clergyman was in regular attendaace the following day, at the same hour, when, out of th•sse twelve couples, only seven made their appearance. The marriage of the remainder has been put off sine the. Four men fell into a Inn : kiln at Tregothad, on Wednesday .wring. i wit of than extricated themselves, but the other two were burn , to death. 'file following is the account which the sur vivors gave to t:ie liquest were hired to discharge the cargo of •.e • •.A .a. of L•ulon. 03 We. Aside. they game to Tm:c. ine.ai...ved, and On th.•i.. return hailed the Cana.". as.d &wired so be thkett on board. This could not be accom. , h.,a;vl, wile: Caput a had gone to 'fru.° in the otily.boat that wa kept with the vessel. In this tit y repaii Al to the linth kilo. Du the edge of this they :* to d.y Omni when the gas overpowered them, and they fed au : n .. the i,..;0t ed masa One of the survivors has the apramnor et -tang oil over, soppozed to be hem the effects of the neat OAI his co at the whet is badly tunnt ; but there is every expectation -that their lives will be pteeertal. The Jury returned a caulks of—Actilental Death. SHIP NEWS. DEAL, JAN. 2.s.—Wind S. blows hart.--Put back last night, the whole of the outward bound that sailed yesterday, except the Tribune frigate, *melt stilt keeps to sea. It blew hard at times last night, dining which the Essex, East- Indiaman. parted Irons her anchor : the John and the Lyra, South-5...a lien, all parted and drove athwart each other, and hurl, ships got damage. About eleven a.m. a schooner (Kane)) drove athwar t of a collier twig, which forced the latter to cut, and both went to Ramsgate harbour—Two p.m. wind S. blows hard, with u tremendous sea.—The Prince of Orange has joist parted and gone for lititinsgate harbour. Tha Eliza, Ann has lost anchor and cable, and gut other damage, iiiiving bean run foul of, but remains in the Downs. Four Vatisittart east Indianian has parted twice Wig aft,:rnoon, and itas just let go another anchor, which ap eedis to hold her at present. Five p. m.—We do not hear of any other damage at pi esent. The tematuder of the out. ward bound appear to side well, most of them with two an. chars down, end too gallant roasts, and yards down. RsfrtaGaTE,JAN.2.l.—Wind S. blows hard. 'fhe Renewal, from Loudon to Itarballues, arrived here in the heavy gals of this morning, with the toss of her foremast, bowsprit, mud other damage, having been rim foul of by the Prince of Orange, in die Dawns al-o the Diana, with loss of anchor and rabic ; N alley, with loss at ditto; the Prince of Orange s ith loss of anchor and cant, and damage, has grounded at the poll mice of this harbour, and lies athwart in a dangerous situation. PORTsMotITEI, JAN. 25.—1 t has blown a heavy gale all day, with its ndous gnats from S. and B.S.W. and still continuos, Arrived his ISlajesty's ship, Revolutionare, from Plymouth. and Pheasant, from a cruise. Two wherries upset in the iiaroour tide during the gale of last night and this morning, and three persons were drowned. The ships in the Roads have gut yards and topmasts down, and appear to ride it% safety. The Regulator from Belfast to Liverpool was pnt on shore 18 . 1 i inst. at Lande!toot ; vessel and eit go damaged ; the latter is discharging. On Monday, the I' !h nut. a fine American, the Kitty of Nin folk, about 300 tons burden, was di iven on shore Lt A berea tie, near Fishrt•rd : her cargo, consisting of tobacco, Eiewrd fur males, and the vessel a must complete wreck ; t .0 crew having deserted her, and taken all papers out of her, . .. is not known where she ass bound; the pieces of the vessel are collectin s the superintendence of three prisons, one of whom lays claim as Agent for the druits of Admiralty, tile other as Agent to Lloyd's, and the third as Agent for the manorial riehts. In this state the matter rests thitit something is settled; at all eveots, they serve to keep each ..ther honest, and combine to prevent pilfering. The cargo tits in large heaps, and has the app RRRRR ce of sea weed; being sinlieu with salt water, it is completely useless ; sup pos.. its hogsheads, but nut one is to be seen. The tilt) yards, is quite sliscolouted, anti a great inm.,er of fish lactating in, peionied with tobacco juice.— ' Ihe Cambrian. O;. 'Tuesday the Archduke Sloximilian went over Carlton het .4e, together milk it. 41 .mury, stable... and other appal- Wieners. The foi.owio; akbiie.6 delivered by the - o,6itatter efa saw' Die•tre ire iiel..-id, where iLlr. Rae sv.r. ent:dxen a per• fortis. There yew bait 3 people in the house :—" La to , dud Genalenien.—A , f ue l ris nobody here, %flank,. .‘i : this perforsimuces of this night will net performed ; but the per, formadores of tinh ingot will be repeated , :eirang." TIM 11+110 a lit is as extract of • letter fawn i i• the &enact - of the Pairiuts Venexiila—" I h•. •• u ap pointed N..juidu: G....erai to the forces, and 1 data onw pied in sy•tr.o ui latiitPd to r% ram stances, .i.ad to tor in-:aborts:greeter of the 1.6 • few ••a) s I shall a.•rodipany the iimpreine Clitcfma x tror.ntones the Missio.o., for the purist em of.d.e%lessinag this troopar lladt are catitoned thrive The new Ito-66 the lutr: - tul as by 11 lA+ utlr ,oilt.; the pr , trinee or CAPIUsiA4 r IC fire. The 111 U, JdllgAh{O eras, th..ugia tile plains .1 e anuodat , (l, use. store Iha usitia of es; ernuipaigo, pria , Al the Spahiards to peferal places, anti kiherl a great hthobcc. The Lhoiere.-, u. people of the plains. ale a terror to the I its; Alley use die. pet feet Daiquiris to existence; they reipiire hardly a .) Cwtly lug, and etc sery (festoons iu the use of toe a•tire. It I: MAU aigeniclit of their horse •, anJ the entchisig of cAlilu, MIHCL is their only (chid, And at ,he supply turn with abundance ; uu mei/4014W .alei blairt in fa t, lb. to Cannot be a heater inateroil, it uot 'Of J.sio;.itised soldier, fora Devi ilk.' OLD BAILEY,—The Sedions endei Week Saturday. when the Recorder passed sentence of death en E. Dent. T. Watson. 3. :Warns. and Dorothy Greaeed, for puoing away couaterfeit ifarilt notes ; D. sharp, W. Pitt, J. is:oat:hard, asi..l W. JOl.-4. fat s,ealing in dwelling lIOUSeS ; J. oar sheep sseAl.ei; ; T. - Webb, for stealing two cows; J. Fleuiniii,‘„ .0. J Alexatide:, for house-breaking in the llay•tiole; J. :.fins, J. Baker, C. Hewitt. J. Driscoll. and P. Suiur.n, , R. Risley, tbr horse-stealing; W. Maciu. It J. Lynch, P. Lynch, 'F. Lynch, W. Lynch (four bothers,, 5.... e.lkardy, tbr hig4way robberies.—Ten slier prisune:s ware te ba tren ported for We; six for fourteen years; sad itnepsax tc .seccu • years—Seventy-one ether p.riseners were wakeaceo ID the fessis Dunedin:tents of doe, imprisonment. &c. INtauteT.—An Inquest 111111 on Wednia lay held at the Test 'lax Giusvenor.ploce. on the body of the intant thrown out of a I,,,,k n , y .. caac b w i n dow by Mary Iltw on. its numan .No orty foci. appeared in addition to those statea in our Mat•bo:onali-asre.st report, eaupt that a surgeon deposed, tast it ia. to say what a wountn ins I.t do in the Laing of child-birth; consequence of which, the Jury returned a seruic,. a: tiny roce not in their conscience rind Mary Newton guilty of ',Stu witrtit y. Dating a Sturm a few days since. a Hash of liciai:og interof.ritt. house of Mr. Eawards, Solicitor ' of Merthyr Titivi4 and ii..v.-.:i tisneously kialstl his eon, a tine bu y is years doge. in the prcricazo of his agonised parents. For a considerahle t me past robberies and our,...;•irs ..are so frequently practised ia the sic;ghboar4tiod or Sante Nesingter:. and Stamford Hill, t ost Inmost evsry of respectiwiti• ,f:e hand it necessary to procure the as.isLance of a private Sunusy ereaing the noose of Mr. Lawrence. of tufa. Nosun was burglarious" entered aotl robbed of about C 3 • ; several articles of plate. s saltia'..le gold watch. and a of removal:4c property to a co.. ~ .erable arnoout r.. Mr. Loweence were, r. astp,:a '., in t.ie constant i Chapel ; and the depict I 0 0I 1 rrcet . Sunday afternoon ettatrive .to inaa. a piece or ii to gruvoe of t;•51 nave ‘.111,01, whwit tenueied it iith:oss.ole 5. • 'hinters. t L. amain, and Mr. Lastence aua . ..ity t..t th e wind.., • Worm! without suspicion. Thu tosalt taihrd...ti a ivy. ; weans of plunder and escape to tie suatatuicis,