The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-11 00:00:00

JAN. 11 POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. I-ace Levy, a well known duller, was brought up, under the ( 0 11,,, e i li g novel charge of felony:.—Mr. Stone, ot .sklimee cit PCI, Snow Hill, said, that hr kept a ready-made clothes warehouse, and that 00 the I 1011 the i.risonee Caine into his shop, esset like a sailor. Ht asked if lie could have 4 few Luttous to put on his eld Jae k i r, .Mail had seen soon! 4Celflee. The prosecutor r e pt h ..i, yes, %then the pi i•oner turned sonte hallo nee out ut his 1;••ket to pay for them. With the copper, however, these tell about tile counter, as it by accident, some small pit yes of m e t a l re sembling gold. 'file piosecntlir took one tip, and suing characters rut upon it, asked what coin it %V AZ., the weight satisfshig him it was gold. The prisoner answered, that it was a pagoda, and if weight, was ssot Ili 6s. I. He aided, that he should butte tio •hjectton to part with all he harl o sbotit or 50, tor mho motley. The pi osecuior said he would allow him • fait price for them if they were good, and the pr i s o n er ...iglit remit some article% in his line. Toe latiei re plied, mat lie was in want am great coat, and chose one for 31, The ulose , sitor, not to be imposed upon, dispatched his wan to Cox and Merle, refiners, in Little Britain, to asee.. tain wleither the pagodas were good, knd w hat was their value. A person having cursorily viewed and hautlled • few, pro nuanced them genuine, and alit , if hill weight, they sl l Id go for (is. 6J. On stria the prosecutor aet eed to take them front the pi isoller, on his making an abatement in the nominal value. 'The prisoner acceded, and 11:11111e11 over the pagodas, which, at the raw they had agreed upon, ss. 3.1. each, amounted to upwards of 111. The pi Isom., was then paid 81. in cash, with the coat. He then, clam ked, that it was •• rather a 1111'11 bargain for pour Jack !' and packing up his coat, %talked away. Soon after the prosecutor became anxious about the pagodas, and again sent them to Cott and Merle's to be assayed Wising bean tiled by AVIA fort's, they proved tote nothing but !it ,sun pit t. Tiwy were , ~, nothing but what are culled " liir.uinihana pag o das !" liih.e. inati ‘llWilll given to the Police ()dice's. who n at ceed tb. neat. ly ;here weeks, w en, ott Friday sc . :l.llod she pi ost cuteu saw hiiii a the coiner ot Budding., ilenosdiieh, und lie was appichended. le was nu pruiwrty funsid upon 111111. Till. prisoner, 111 his delence, called God to with. ss, " dot ke thought the pagodas VAS /old. He took theta in pay ment tor two watches. being ae.•ustomed to go ~bust and sell imp honesty in the streei."—He was remanded till Titestias, whtui the Lord Mayor, whit was nut present at the former examitia• Linn, asked 1.1111, whether he could that lie had ret7elVell the :pinions pagodas in a fair and open manner; lie replied, that Ire had taken them Irma a 111411 whom lie did not kilow , at she List Indm-liidise, in exchange for two wit. hes, which lie had sold lion. As lie could not pi °dace the slightest plum of lii• assortion, his story was disbelicacul, and the matte' p roercdcd. The prisoner was attired in 11 carte is flock (-oat, and had the appearance of a Hat hunt-st rustic, stiller than ut a sharp knowing Jew ; but un the lOU, of I)et...tither, the day on which he deli:sided Mr Stone, ate was 'whited 111 a sailor's jacket and irowsers, and Mgt:olA "pour Jack ' s " phrase so completely, as to deprive the proseoutor of all StIVICIIIII 111 any fraudulent design oil his (the Jew's) pert. Had trek:mon the pi isoner to have been a Jew, (of width hr did not ettaliii attach appeal uniee,) lie *Quid hare bees up its him, and would lave looked much Inure sharply atter him. The Lord Mayor litre said, I hat from the statement of this transaction publishet is the different newspapers, lie was in clined to ask Mr. Stone, what reason haul induced him only to give 6%. 311. for a coin, whose intrinsic value was represent ed to be 6s. 6d. Mr. Stone in reply observed, that a complete misstatement of this part of his ease had been given to the world ; and he was clad, fur the sake of Itie own character as an Itunevt sod respectaide tradesman, that his Lordship had 1104' given hint an opportunity of contradicting it. He never haul 'tech total, as was stated, that these pagodas were woriii 6s. 64. each. COX and Merle hadsaid that a pagoda was worth 64. English currency ; but as lie wished to have other opinion on the sub. ject before he pasted with his money, lie thins)t feel very anx ious to take the pagodas, of Zs hose worth lie knew nothing. The Jew, however, uttered to exchange four of them fur one gaineit ; this offer lie (Mr. Suisse) accepted, telling the Is raelite at the same tisae, that Kite would call on him the heat day, he (Mr. Stone) would refund the overpliis, if the pagodas should turn wit to lie worth mare thou 31.. 3:I. rack. Mr. Levy, however, very easefully forgot to call uu him for infor mation on that subject. The Lord Mayor then observed, that this was a very gross ease of fraud ; but that it was necessary, berme lie could cone. fist the prisoner, that mime jeweller, acquainted with this kind of coin, should attend, to swear that the pagodas pro duced were nut worth more than so malty brass buttons. Nit.. Timm:ay of Corolla!, was therefore sent fur, and, na seeing two of the cuing paid to Mr. Stone, said that they were mere counters, oi• imitation pagodas; but still they were the best (Witte kind that he had ever seen, and were calcidated to de ceive even the best jnilges on a cursory examination. It being ; huneser, suggested by the Lori Mayor, that the ex amination of tw•o pagodas was not seificient to prove the whole to be iiiipo-tors, Mr. Stone went and fetched the re. Yu:tinder of tltu•e which lie had received, all of which on in speetion were declared to be as great forgeries as their pre. aleCessUra. The proof against Levi loping thus made conclu sive, he was committed to Newgate tor trial. CAUTION TO PuItLICANS. P iday, several publican. appeared to answer summonses which had been granted against them, for permitting tipping; at eh early hour on Sunday morning last, in their resp ctive holism Against some of them the proof was deem. el insufficient, lint against twu it Was deemed eeliCiiisiVe ; and they were seem disigly fined in the mitigated penalty of 10s. each. The Lord Mayor told them to trs..evare how they offended in a similar Manner is ; because, it ho hncl eUosell to press the severity of the law against them, tie could here prevented them (sum keeping any public house during the nest 3 years. His Lordship then referred to an Act of Peril:sinew, 'll James I. .6. IT. s. L which is to tie .found in Lliiro's obstiee, Vol. it. and which contains, alining others, the fol.owilig elapse :—".lt any alehouse-keeper shall setter any person or persons to continue di inking or tippling in his house.," except under specifications which ere lore% moonily desierilied al glee' length, " no shall be incapacitated Irons keeping any tavern, - alci 1111 l ac., jar thee .pace of three years next ensiling." His Lot-sloop then willed, that he shown' c end the officer., whenever Intl discovered any publican with lon house opened at Hopi tam! holies, to report it to the Magisitates on Piongli) Monday, and he himself would tuen use his itildee•lnies h a lt 'the elciiiiiiticnt should be . propett punished by the loss cf , his license. IA L It r.Gtwrtn. BOW STREE T' CnCee, Fit AV t).—A few dayssince,a female, whose mantle, anti conduct evidently proved that she had seen better day'', applied to Mr. liirnie, editing her 114111 s to lie Bland, the widow of an attorney Id 111/ died a few months since, and left her with five children, wholly unprtivided, and altogether in great distress. In a short time after she hersaint acquainted with a man who had the appearance of a geutlemati, et a friend'. house at Ilichinund, to whom She related leer tale of woe ; he afterwards called upon her at her residence at Na. S, Bridge-road, Lambeth, and appearing to sympathize with her its leer distress, told her hr emilil get her eldest eon, youth about ID yea, s of age, provided for, if she could pi omit, the sum of 1301., for a place under Government. She replied that she had no menus of her own, but would try aino.ig her friends, as it would bra peat comfort to leer if her 4011 was in a why of getting his *Bente. The 1111411 represented his name to be Juni) Lloyd, that he lied been brought lip to the law in the office of the late Mr. Hollowas, in Chancery dime, and that he was related to that Gentleman, and also that he hail acted as :Ili .nlot tiey al Newark. She exerted herself among her friends, and in einieutpee nee of her represent:nil..., a emitleman very humanely promised her the 41101 of 1 3 01. The fellow shortie after called and told her to have the money read) by the 21111 of Lleectisher last, as lee had proemed the protiti•e ut au appointment tile Page to the King ; she accordingly went to the gentleman, her friend, who had promised her the motley, and he cave her 4 lOW. and t 301. Batik nude, which she handed over to Mr. Lloy id when he called upon her on the inuraiing of the 24th of December, he demo itig Mts. Blend to acoonlp.iny him , and lie would eke her tlie neerstary docn mu•nts mid wart ant of eppuintmem for her sou; she !mole(' him to .he Treasury, when he de•ired her to " toddle" about the passage for a low 11111111:1A, and lie would return to her ; she 6 In him go up the great skin case, and return with some vane.% iu lies hand. Slur aft, rwards uccumpanied ieim .across the Pn k to St. James!. Palace, where lee told her he was going to lite Laid Ciiatelbei I °thee fur the wart 4111 el appointment as a Page to the King. On their arrival at the Pelace he desired her to " kick leer heels about fir d short time, and lie would tem. 11 to her with the warrant from the Lord Chamberlain's oilier." She waited between 3 and 4 h mrs, till she became exhaii4ed, and tei sl ventured to go to the Lord Chamberlain's (tidier, and inquired for Mr. Ll.xyd, but neither lie 1101' any thing of the pretended iraesaetion was known there, and she then lived° to suspect thel she had been d iped bs Mi. Lh.).l. Aftc n nauy 411 p: dies, slut bring able to bud nun, she made leer application to Alt. lin Me, win, grimed .1 W4l rani against Lloyd tor a fraud. Mrs. Bland had tot tii gol the number.: of the notes : 11,410 is that ut the 1001., and 11,04.1, the 301. and the pitynient of diem has since ocen stopped at the Bank. Adkins the officer very kindly undertook the serving of the warrant, and going in pursuit ut Lloyd, whole Airs, Bland deseriiitil to he ahuut 3a years•of 4gr fiat' fret fist niches high, bald head at the top, weaiing powder, pale tare, thin and VCI3, long nose, and wheu lie deli amled leer of the mime) tun wa• J.essed en a blue coat, black silk woi•troat, blue poutalnons, bums, and a mixed great coal. Adkins has not yet succeeded in appreheuding Mut. THE N. PdARsLBOROUGH STREET. William M 4 Giasiiiiti, a dancing-master, in Riding-4)ll4e lane, was charged by Mr. Davies, a coma:handle' near Fitz roy Smiare, welt lohniug hint under the following circinits stances : the pi ironer had been engaged to attend in his professional capacity. It happened that Mr. Davies was frequently from Louie : and the prisoner availing himself of the opport 'ty, took the eladdrenitito flit' count,ng house, and, tinder pretence of showing 1i14.111 Slight•Of bumf tricks, contrived to send them tutu different pat is Or the house. In their absence, he opened file till and desk, and helped himself to its commits. Mr. Davies said, he had missed money to a considerable amount, and seat at a loss to.areonnt for the thief at length, suspicion attached to the ptisonet ; and, nu obtaining a search-am emit and proceeding to his lodgings, he found a bunch of keys, on which was a key particidatly marked, which Mr. Dasies identified as belonging to the desk iu his counting-house. 'Upon the pi isoner neve found tin plicates of a tune piece, pledged at Mr. Grovel's, in GI vek Street ; and a diamond, pledged at a pawnbroker's in t h e Strand. His servant also fount: the key of the till concealed under the carpet. Alr. Davies's nephew and servant confirmed the statement, and the prisoner way fully committed. Thursday Margaret Ed wards, a young woman of interesting appearance, was charged with obtaining goods of divers trades people by false pretences. It appeared that the prisoner %cut to the situp of Mr. 10ditiant, hosier and ha berdasher, in Hood Sit eet, stated herself to he iti the service of Mrs. Massey Dawson, of Gloucester Place, and ordered silk stockings, satsenets, Sic. Four pair of stockings of the tallest size she bad art to get possession of, as sin- impres,ed the shopkeeper w iilt an idea that they were wanted 1111 l W diately, and on the satsenets heitig taken home to Mrs. Dan son, the fraud was discovered. Stephen Callus, a Maly lebutie constable, took the prisoner in the shop of 31r. Matthews, haberdasher, in Hones street, Cavendish Square, with the tem. 'tale of silk stockings she had obtained at Iletlivain's a quarter before. Site dropped tile parcel and supplicated mercy. Miss Matthews, daughter of Mr. Matthews, stated that the prisoner obtained of her four silk handkerchiefs, stating herself to be the servant of riles. Dawson, stud, a. to the other case, she ordered the things to he taken home, hilt as the fraud at Hedmain's was known round the trade, site was detained and a constable sent for. There were other charges against the prisoner, but she was fully committed for trial on Mr. ltedinain's eltaigt. Cuntons APPLICATION.—A reepectahle looking couple applied to the Magistrates : 4he Hentlemati stated, that himself and his wife could not agree, they therefore wished that the Magistrates would separate them. Magistrate.—Separate yourselves—one go one way, and the other another. The parties, however, persisted in their application, and it was with some difficulty they were at last convinced that the power of the Magistrates did not enable thew to dissolve .tiatrilisonial contracts. woitsim , sTREET. 'ruesday John Jones alias James Turner, belonging to the 9th Diagnoses, was brought to this office charged with uttering forged 114iik of England notes. James An.lelaim, hosier, residing at No. 9, Stumm% Row, Gni taio Road, Shot ethic!), stated that the prisoner crone into his shop, and purchased several articles nt• hosiery, and tendered a IL cote in payment, which afterwards proved to hr a forged one. He pursued him and wok Inia into Clibloily. and couvectl hint hack to his/Lop, and then weal W Waibinp street office far au odium witueso o coiroborated Ler litisbaod's staleincut. She :aid, thmt while her linslimint W 43 Cl/Ile for all Officer, site observed the pri,,,ner pit!l some macs ti.,nt his pocket and twalluW them , site challenged hint with it, tint be denied it. lie %vas remanded. A VEI:11 PROTEIVe.—Titni - Aday William Johnson, alias Wise, and Dorothea Neavia, a vet y interestnie girl about 17, who lived with biro, were t !weed tittering forged Botts, ;importing to he ut the Hank I 1 Toe prisoner's (Julistiott's) method of passing the ;lutes was at once grand and ingenious ; lie hi: eil a large house, 72, Gulden-lane, and passed himself 01l to his ht.ilhe.ol4lll MS l'eaprelhitie mall: butt his aystinuid chat meters when lie went about the tow it tu pass the tio:es were to oninerino:, to curion., as often played att . , and as iinitkiy a 'ranted, as most of t h e. tannins 014 Patch. He passed two i.oies lu one day to Mr. Cooper, a publican in Gultletulatio, a tutu a loan Ile was a gentleman's sir emit. 111 an boor ot two abut he was at Lamb street, Sp it allidds, as one of the lirst I).nolies of the day; saw' after as a servant in livery, and lastly as a country bumpkin ; and in each case lie proved successful. Finding, however, that tilt. nutea were daily retaining ftuni Iln hank, and that his retreat was getting extremely unsafe, be one bight decamped. and succeeded iii concealing hini,elf till a ten evenings back, when fun waa split chewier' by J. Ariu s!: ou., the officer, at N. pi, Itaiduor-street, St. Luke's. ('he prisoners denied having pas.et.l any lurked notes knowingly. They were for further examination. UNION HALL. John Smith, charged with robbing and beating Mr. Lynn. a gentleinau at 13.10kb:tin Common, Sorry, on Saturday la , t, st as on Thursday charged with being a descrier front the latb trgiutent ut Dragoons, and being concerned in the murder of Mr. Taylor, tear Itornsey Wood. The officers, May and Golf, ascertained, that Smith was in the Borough on the day pi reeding and succeeding the morder,ond :hat Bite(' peisons, one or whom onswers the prisoner's description, were seen without a short distance of Hut nary the day of the murder. Another Cil cainstance ts hid, the officers remarked o as, that three tiersonsattacked I o gentlemen's houses neat !tie place wheie Mr Taylor was murdered, anal there were three per. sons also in the gang who so barbat misty attacked .'lr. Lynn: It is supposed their intentions were to throw him into a pit, which is chute to the spot where they left !Mu ; but the ap proach of sonw persons caused them to desist. The officers said, they had further gromids of s i ispiejo ut a ga i ns t smith for the murder at floilisey, !but it would be proper at prebeat to disclose. Ile was committed. George Johnson, a fellow of tremendous appearance ; was chat ged on suspicion of committing seveia: highway ,rob items, on ;Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights.—Mr. IValton, a gentleman of fortune, residing at King. 'don, stated, that on Thursday morning he came to town in his chaise, and alighted at the house ut Mr. Stamford, paper Blackman S!teet, Borough ; lie had been in that prison's house about ten minutes, when lie heart; a cry of " ltolihery ! Skip thief!" lie ran out of the house, and missed his box coat Crum the hack of his chaise, and was 1041)1u3ed ilia( a Man had stolen it and ran away. In a less Initiates the pit-one/ was brought to Witt by a uisisilier of persons, who had put sited and seemed hint v. ith the coat in his possession. The prisoner 443 committed, and ordered to he brought np again, on a charge ut stopping Mr. Kirkpatrick in Dover Street, anal with robbing Iniudif his watch and 51. iii Bank noten. EXTENNIVE Hoznanies.—Jolin Smith and John Holland, . (lucent looking MeII, were charged with rohhing the stables the Rev. A. C. Otislow, at Newington ; of George Allmon Hill, Esq., of Doke street, Bloomsbury ; and of W. L. Rob bins, Csii. Lincoln's lun Field*, of several sets of chaise, coach, and liaise harness, and several saddles, their property, . and a very cespectable dressed 111411, flawed William Potter. vino kacpa a shun in the Lambeth Road, and in a very large way of business in the coach harness hue, nas cu al ged with u. nig an accessoly. . . Shergold and Hohnesofficers. stated that, from information they received, they learned that the pi isoners were concern... ell iu several rubbeties of gentlemen's stables ; they lay in wait fir them, and stopped them with a great bulk of pro_ petty in a hackney CUblell I they se-cored them, and couveyed thew and the property to Union Hall, and discovered tlrat it had been stolen from two of the above gentlemen. Further information induced them to search Mr. Potter's premises, , and there they found a variety of harness belonging to the itev. Mu. Onslow, according to the information they had previously obtained. The arms and crest had been taken from the harness, and they had evidence to prove that Potter was implicated in the 101 l iull6 I.4,6(wries. The witri r ssorx., were hi ought forward and examined, and Sitnitla and Rolland were fully committed as principals iu the robberies, and Potter as accessory. A Rev. Mr. Davis, in South Carolina, ia quite sure (having f 1 out the grand clue) that the Martini:et is to emonteuce iu 1817. Mont of the modern prophets have placed the date of the above sera so remote, that they, as well as their pro phecy., will he likely to be forgotten long before the time specified ; but this favoured Seer ventures to predict, that are itew order of things will take place in 1.:0 years alter this time! " My rear.l.!r (says lie) is not to accu. , e me of al . gaiter. Let ilitu think of Columbus's egg. Although none of the gentlemen around the table could make it stand 911 . 113 end, till CLristopber g.a c it a tap ou the tattle and easevbed them hew—and then they could all Vu it easily." This is tt . fa vourable.sperimen of our prognosticator's prose ; the listless- - ing tua) serve as a fair sample of his poetry In forty-seeee we may hope To see the world without a Pope. The glorious dawn of tarty-seven Will introduce new Earth and Heaven !" A root of putatoe in the garden of the Her. Dr. Ridley, of Hertingfindbury, near Hertford, Will dug up iii December List, which produced '240 potatives, besides which here erne. ral smaller potatoes attached to the larger tem s of the carne root. Some of the latecr potatoes weighed upwards of pound. In the saw gsrdrn 1411 apple W4lB gatheied iu tSis last season, the circumference of which measured thirteen inches and a Milt*. and its weight was one pound and !hies • (platters. Several of the apples ou thu saws: tree,were neatly . of equal sista. 1e morrow the S. , ssionii far the County of Sliddlecen coo. metiee at Hicks's Hal!, Clerketivrtll; and nu the pante due there wia bean Admiralty StAsi(lll6 111.141 is Justice flail, Oil. I Bailey, when two caseb of murder, committed on the high •eila, will tie tried. One of tiirw i. a p•ismu ellfilit vied with the peg ofentiggier,, Into of whom ,ntereti d yea P • ago, and theie butler All: Hew ha u. lug in chain , it B,allk wait, foe thing live a Revenue cultic', alio killing tau oti.eera. We siNtet to elate, that three eminent Mimes in the City • have stopped payment Ihis week. An impurtasst har also taken place at ilasslOurgis.