The National Register. — London, England, 1820-10-02 00:00:00

IP THE PRINTERS' ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN. .....,011•..... A numerous and respectable Meeting of the Journeymen Letter press Printets of London and the environs , virati held on Monday night at the Crown and Anchor 'favern, Strand, tor the purpose of voting an Address of Condolence out Congratulation to the Queen. Mr. John Simmons took the chair, by the unanimous con sent of the Meeting. It was then proposed to read the list of subscriptions in aid of the undertaking. The list was accordingly read, which wWeli guise general sal isfitction. Mr. C. Waterson next proposed nn appropriate Address. Several of the phrases were opposed by Mr. Forbes, but the Address nos ultimately agreed to with applause. Mr. Mercier then observed, that it was necessary to snake some arrangement for presenting the Address in a respect able manner. He reminded the Meeting that Printers were entitled, by an Act of Queen laizabi th, to wear bag wigs and a sword, but he dad not recommend them to assume those external honours. He proposed that a Deputation should go in coaches with white favouts at the breast. Thus proposal met with some opposition.—A cry was raised of .• Nu 1 no I we will go on foot in a body." Mr. Mercier reminded the adverse party that It might rein, and a wet jacket was not the costume they ought to wear lu the prcsence of Itoyalty. Ile concluded by moving a rest). lation,—That the Address be presented by a deputation of the profession: that such deputation be conveyed to the Queen in coaches and pairs, aid that each Member wear a white favour on the left breast. Mr. Waterson strongly supported the resolution, which was agreed to. It was alsO resolved that the Committee do sit nt the Three Herrings, liell.yard, on the 21i11, and ,27th instant, from eight o'clock to ten, fur the purpose of receiving Subscriptions, and the names of those gentlemen who wished logo up with the Address. A person proposed that Mr. J. T. Winder should be no minated to go up with the Address. Mr. Waierson opposed the proposition, on the ground that they had no desire to give the proceeding a political chewier. The proposal was negatived. ' It VMS litaiilly resolved, that the Address he printed on satin, and presented to the Queen by the Chairinao, the Mover, Salmaster, and others. A deputation was also appointed to wait on the ,Queen, asd enquire when she will be phased to receive it. After some further business, during which it was under stood that the Master Printers had no concern whatever with the proceedings, the Meeting was dissolved. We lately mentioned a most brutal attack which was made upon Mr. Wukley, a surgeon, residing in Argyll-street, on which occasion the villains set fire to his house, which was entirely consumed.— The following correspondence has taken place be tween Mr. Waklcy, and Mr. Sheriff Parkins:— Kentish Town, Sept. 21, BYO. SlR,—From the period of my late catastrophe in Argyll Street. to add to my anxiety, 1 have been currently charged by a multitude of malignant slanderers, as being the person who decapitated Thistlewood and his deluded companions in May lost. Your official contradiction of this disgusting falsehood as Sheriff of London,•will confer a lasting favour on, Sir, your obliged servant, THOS. WAKLEY. J. W. Parkins, Esq. Sheriff of London and Middlesex. No. 10, New Bridge Street, Sept. 25, 1820. Sla,—ln answer to your Note of the 21st instant, I feel myself bound to comply with its contents to the utmost of my power; but I am sorry to inform you, that the whole of the disgusting business to which it relates was conducted with so much privacy, and pertinacions con cealment from me, that I WAS 1101 even made acquainted with the order for the execution until (lie day alter (Sunday, when I went to Newgate accompanied by a clergyman) it had been deter m teed upon, and orders given for erecting the scaffold, thee. by the Lord Mayor Bridges, and my colleague Mr. Bothwell, who, accom panied by his Deputy, had, I understood, beeti the pre vious day at the Secretary of State's (Mice arranging the same. And as to the man who decapitated the unfortu nate 'rhistlewood and his companions, lie was procured for that purpose by the Prison Surgeon, and his terms 201. agreed for by Mr. 'rimier, Mr. Bothwell's Deputy, and which wages, M-. Turner told me, were repaid to him by the Home Department, as also 51. he paid to the man who held up the heads. I did not see the man who performed the duty 111111i1 he appeared on the scaffold masked, and dressed as a sailor. By the notice I then took of him (which was very particular) I perceived I to be in height about live feet five or six inches ; sod in answer to any inquiry the other day (in consequence of your note) who the fellow was, Mr. Turner informetf me that he was a Resurrection Ma•, who obtained bodies fur the hospitals , and that when he asked him if lie could perform the task of cutting all the heads, lie replied, Oh yes, that he could do it very well, as lie was in the habit of cutting off nubs (beads) for the purpose of obtaining sackers (teeth).—l am glad, for the honour of our coins- ' try's humanity, that it was 110 person of respectability, lint a most illitetate and degraded being, as was also the wretched individual who held sip the heads of the ittitor- Innate men. In addition to the above, I am civil - tidy MI timed that the individual who decapitated Thistic wood and his companions was engaged by the Under Sheriff from Yorkshire to ga there for a similar pm pose, but in the perlormaisce of which sanguinary work, thank Providence, he has been disappointed. I cannot con elude this leper without bearing testimony to the tl aaaaa WIC disposition of your heart towards the depraved young mail who robbed you of your watch on the fatal eight, when crossing the road, and bleeding frem the wounds Inflicted by the a •sassins and incendiaries ono had set fine to your house in Argyll Street. l hope this assurance will convince evety one, even the most malignant of your enemies, that it was totally impossible any one could mistake • gentleman of your appearance and height (which I conceive to be about live feet ten inches) for the person (five feet five or six inches), who perli.rotted the sanguinary duty on Thistlewood and the Mhos in May last. I am, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, Thomas Waklev, Esq. J. 11. PARKINS, Sbera. THE NATIONAL REGIST'EIi. OLD BAILEY SESSIOAS. Late on Saturday evening a trial came on before the Common Sergeant, which, fa ono its extraordinary nature, excited a more powvrli.l feeling than has perhaps been witnessed in a Court of Justice for IllAily years. Nancy Darter, a y g female, elegantly dressed, and evidently of superior moaners, was indicted capitally, for stealing bl. in notes, one guinea, and wearing appal el, the property of C. Falck ; and some silver spoons, the property of W. Ball, in the house of the said W. Ball. The first witness called for the prosecution was C. Feick, the prosecutor; lee was a welflooking young 111411. and very ►wanly dressed. Tile moment lie mounted the witness's box, the prisoner shrieked out, " Oh, gracious God ! is this possible t" and was nearly fainting. She was ordered a chair.—Falck then, with a flippancy which called forth the repeated animadversions of the Judge, proceeded with his evidence. He lived in the house of Air. W. 13a11, No. L!, Little Uilime.sireet, Nluoitields. The prisoner 11411 lived wiih him about a week pr evious to the robbery. They lived as man and wife, hot he never minimized her to take the money or wearing apparel in question. He never said to the people of the house wheilier she was Isis wife or nut. She hired the lodging, and lie belived she represented herself to be his wife. ' , be laid out o ney for pi °visions, and he gave her money every day, orso, a few shillings at a time. He had known tier three months before she lived with him, and got ac quainted with her by seeing her at her father's house, %lucre lie was at Jamie fur some days. On the •24th of June lie went uut, leaving cc cry thing safely lucked up, and when lie returned in the evening lie Mond the door of 103 aparuurulx luckedand the poisoner gone. He got ill 41111 found that all we property mentioned in the indict inent was guile. He found the prisoner the next morning at the Fux and Hounds public-house, in Charter-house lane, oil Brown , the officer, whom lie took with searched her, and found pawnbrokers' duplicates fur his wisswg sloths-a. There were one waistcoat, two pair of paid:nouns, and two CI uss-examined by \i r. Andrews.—Are you a cockney 2 —No. I caine from F..lmouth, iu Cornwall, three years ago. You got acquainted with the unhappy girl at the bar at her father's house, did yi u 2—Yes. And you had know es sir three months when you seduced her, soil took her to you bed; and now you come to pro secute her fur her lilt /—I did not seduce her. . Did you Hui, Sir, promise to make her your wife?—No. She came troin her tither's house, where she was living in comfort and reputatiou, did she not?—She did, but it was wish. _ _ _ Did you not pass her as your wife ?—No ; I never said one way or the oilier about it. What are you ?—I sin a journeyman carpenter. How much can you earn ?—Thirty shillings a week. I work fur a Mr. Rolfe, a builder. I gave her money every day. The witness then went on to state that he had, at the request of the prisoner, visited her while in confinement. His only object in visiting her was a hope of discovering where the remainder of his properly was. He visited her three times in the Giltspur-street Compter, and once in Newgate. He paid 12s. out of 30s. for linloigs at Mr. Hall's. He gave her some money, but did nut know how much. He was nut at all ashamed at taking her away from her father's house. She enticed murmur ran through the Coml. The C Sergeant—And are you really not ashamed of the conduct you have pursued towards Lids young wo man? alek—Not at all, my Lord. Mrs. Ball, flue landlady of the house where the parties lodged, was called, and identified the spoons pawned by the prisuyer. Thsty came as a new-married couple; and the prisoner told her that she was married without her fa flier's consent. Brown, the Officer, said, that when lie found the pri soner lie told her she was charged with a felony ; and she immediately said she would give up every thing she had. The prisoner being called on for her defence, addressed the Court in great agitation. The prosecutor, she said, had come to her father's house, and gut her away from her home by the most artful promises and persuasions. When lie visited her in prison lie promised solemnly that he would nut indict her.—She said to him, " You know s Charles, I do not deserve it; you know you hail a share of it ;" and he again declared lie would not indict her; adding, that lie would not have proceeded so far, only that " his own character was at stake."—The prisoner, at the conclusion of her address, was again nearly fainting. A sister of the prisoner was called, and stated, that the letter had lived in comfort and happitiess at tier lathes's lonise until she knew the prosecutor. Falck had begged witness often to assist him in obtaining access to her sister The latter never communicated to writing her design of going away with Falek. A Solicitor, who had known the prisoner's family many years, described it to be extielliely respectable; and spoke to the character which she had uniformly borne belote this distressing occurrence. Her father was a housekeeper in the its hood of the Court. The Common Sergeant, in summing up the evidence, remarked with great severity on the conduct of the pro" seentur, Frick, and told the Jury, that it the case rested, solely our the es idelice of that poison, they ought to acquit the prisoner. They had it in evidence, that the prisoner Was Its lug happily with her father; that she was seduced by the Huss cultic ; and was now hfutigiit to this unhappy satiation by his artifices. The Ji.ry consulted about a minute, and returned n ver dict of Not Guilty; which was ptimutineed with struiez vutivba.by by the k'orenhtn, and received wills applause by the whale COlllt. The prisoner, with an hysterical sob, said, ' 6 Oh, Gen tlemen, I thank you !" and was borne out ut Coon t. Fait k asked it' he union take his clotii-s. he Common 'Sergeant said, he was es% taints' entitled to than; !Mt, in Isis opinion, the Jury had, by Shell vertt't exioressett dm opinion that they were peened with his COilatlit, and :hilt:fore the paunbrol,ers w maid perhaps dein:mil the payment of the sinus adi.ince,t iiptdi them. lie kilie Common Sergeant) alumni certainly nut resist it if they did. 'file pa willirokers took away the clothes. seer. 27. William Ricketts was inducted for steatiug a watch, value 10.. toe p.o l lerly of William 'lhurn, a seaman, lle had been an old aci . biquent although a very yuttu4ratan, a'.ltl Oa being loud guilty, Ca* Cunneen s:•rgestas said, lira Lac tEily :eases 319 of saving himlfroin dying MI the gallows, was to transport him, and accordingly, rte sentenced him to transportation for life. Joseph Maylinuse was next put to the bar, charged with stealing a watch, on the 2-Ith of July, the property e f Chris topher Bennett. The prisoner stated, that hi. Counsel (Ur. Atioiloll.l,4) was absent, and Mr. Law supplied his place, and cross-exam ined the a iiiiihses with considerable ability.! Several a itnesses were called, who gave the prisoner is g I character, and contradicted the testimony of the prosecutor. The prisoner was acquitted. Thomas Plums was indicted for stealing a gun, and after. ward, for stealing a ral.bit t and was acquitted upon bath indictments. . - --------------- The following prisoners were convicted :—Mary Smith, for stea!ing three sheets; Mary Cook, for stealing a 11. nate; Dennis Alcourt, fur stealing six pair of boots; and Charlotte Webb, for stealing at gown. I'count:tr.—Late ou Tuesday evening, Thames Derry, an elderly man of respectable appearance was indicted fur malicious, an. corrupt perjury, in-sweating an affi davit before Mr. Justice Dailey, the allegations in which were totally false and unfounded, for the purpose of procur ing the arrest of Mr. James Lloyd, a respectable butcher residing in Bethnal Green Road. Mr. Wells, Clerk to Mr. Justice Bayley, deposed, that the affidavit now sheen to him was sworn to by the defendant before the Learned Judge, at his chambers in Sergenat's ou the tith of October, 1819. The affidavit was read. It stated in substance, that on Saturday, the 18th September preceding, the defendant having had some words with Mr. James Lloyd," was violently pushed, assaulted. kicked, aud knocked down, by the said James Lloyd; that he received a violent contuse to on the right arm, which (totally deprived him of the use of it up to the tittle that this affidavit was sworn; that lie had a wife and two small children entirely dependent upon him for support, and that by the aforesaid kick• and bruises, &e. he was rendered wholly incapable of procuring a livelihood." The defendant, it appeared, hart entered an action for the alleged assault, and the object of this affidavit was to pro. cure the arrest of Mr. Lloyd, in order that he might put it,. bail. He so contrived mutters too, Cut( Mr. L. was taken into custody on Saturday evening, to the greaf incoevenlence and detriment of his business; independent of which be eat kept in confinement until Monday morning. A summons was also issued by the Judge for the dereudant to shew cause against the affidavit, which he aid byhis attorney, and the result was that he was discharged out of custody without giviug bail. Mr. James Lloyd staled, that he was a butcher in Bethnal Green Road, and the defendant lived next doer to him. It was his custom to put up a shutter at one end of his shop la order to keep the dust a n d what from Ids meat and lamps at night, ni.J on the evening of the 118th September, 1819, the di fendant, aha appeared to be intoxicated, came up to the • shop-door where a ituess was sthailing,aad in MI authoritive tone, desired him to take down the shutter, or he would take it down himself. %Vaness took no notice of him, but stood with his hands in his apron. The defeadant walked to and fro in a great passion, pulled the meat about, t. ..:re that witness had im business there, for he had bought the premises, and cautioned the ;ample not to buy meat of him, for, if they did, they would be sine to go to cereal d—in—t—n. Witness told lain to go in like a silly old man, and mind his business. This only enraged him the mare, and his wife came nut and told him to coin in doors, and not get himself laathed at. lie at length pulled 'loan the shutter, and threii it into the raid. In turning round he fell down, is, cousevience of the exertion of throes jag the shutter. Wit. aess went into the road and• picked up Isis shatter, and repiaced it, but nevcr once touched the defendant. His wife and a man came out and picked him op, and conveyed him between diem into his own house. Witnesss was at the dna ance of tit o or three yards from him when he fell, and also• when lie picked up the shutter, and lie would awed meet positively that he did not touch him in any way. The de- fend.tut returned in about half an hour with his right arm in a sling, and renewed his furious abusive language. lie took. up a chopper from the block with his left hand. and WWI be would cleave w itness's scull, nod let out his brains.— Witness took the chopper (ruin him, but used im violence and then sent for a constable. Before one arrived, however,. the defendant went into his osi n house, and placing liiisi" self at the window, harangued the people, bestowing a plea. tifid quantity of abuse u; the witness and laughing at the constables, The defendant had entered an action. and also caused hint to be taken into custody, and he was is. Giltspur-street Cot/spier from Saturday evening till Mouday mariner. Cross-examined by Mr. Andrews.—lle and the defendant were unfortunately next door neighbours. Defendant's vibe keeps a haberdasher's shop. Ile knows Mr. Stainesby, the surgeon, iii the same street, mid kiwis* that he juiued iu this affidavit, but lie had not piusecuted him for perjury. The defendant was generally at home drunk. Witness• knew lie had formerly been a clerk :o repeetable solicitors, but lie had not been so lately. A 'limber tif respectable a nutcases confirmed this evidence.. The Jury merely turning round in the box, primuunced a verdict of Guilty, and the defendant was ordered into cus tody to await his sentence. SATUKDAY, SEPTEII4IIIiII 30. litanw.tx ltouatitY.—Lsaae Woolre, S. Wherry,. and D. 1. 2 , lsvards, were put the bar, charged on an in dictment with stealing from the person of J. 'feasible, a watch and appendages. The circout,:ante3 of this Case were peculiarly atrocious. The prosecutor oils walking down Portland-road nu the Lli.h of July, eh: re tiring at that time a processiint of the Glass-umwers Company proceeding to White Conduit House, is lien he wad alLe.ketl by a g,:ing of nearly filly thieves, won forcibly took front hen his property; not content want this, they cominenced and funowed tip a series of the most cruel and brutal treatment, wino' put his life in great danger. Tins evidence was coiniborattd by Smith, she watclioos'_,•keeper of St. Pancras, and others wtlo proved use prisoners so be connected wait :he gang spoken of by the proaccutor. Taere were no less titan fifteen of Its. se desperadoes taken into custody at Use Sallie time, and when th,y were in the watchouse, an attack was turd,: be upwards of 150 robbers, %visit an intcht to rescue the prisoners. Tue prisoners made no defence; two Jews gave ‘Voolfe a good character—out of them swore that lie had known him 20 years ; the prisoner, however, on being °sited his age, said lie was • Id. Toe Citintiton Sergeant summed up, and the Jury iinnsediately ioand them Guilty; tiny were seciteUceet I •u be transported kit li.c.