The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-21 00:00:00

Bow sm Ert.

W. St.ievy, who was only aia.clarged from Neweate last
week, was eoisitnittvd nu Monday as a reputed thief, charged
with gurcriug the house of Mr. of CrliViell.llllllcett
Its-curl, with intent to commit trines.
On Thursday Henry alias Tueky Wells underwent an rumina-
tion, on a charge of being concerned with a number of smugglers in
the wilful murder of six of the revenue offizers belnogiug to the Fox
revenue cutter, of Deal, between two and duce yeats since. Gilliam
and Brock. two of the smugglers conr.eitied m Ow murders attic
revenue tinkers b:hiahrin4 to thi Pont` revenue cutter, were trial at
the Admiralty 5C6,1011/4 in the 014 .Bailey. and daring their trials
the pnsoner alas hay/wady afforded to ait 'rushy With.. lie had
then abseo.aled from rals rtilAtellet at Deal, and no doubt wasenter-
tr.iiwa but that Ike was then out of Mrighuid. Ile lately returned to
tVtal, and Wa, taken Mko custody.. and brought to Condos, Me
tiee led edge charge.
Mt. KX,-..t4iti to the &Attic,
,attchueu ; utittl, Ail the

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prisoner had no legal adv:ser present, humanely advised him not to
make a defence then, but to reserve it till the time of his trial.
A bill of indictment was found against the prisoner at the time
Brock and Pelham were indicted.
MT. Mayhew informed the prisoner, that his trial would take place
on the 11th of January next, when the Admiralty Sessions would
COMIllell CY.

On Friday two men were brought up by two of the patrol belong•
ing to the Mice, on suspicion of hdng concerned In the ►ate horrid
murder at Hornsey. The particulars which transpired are for the
present withheld from the public. They were both committed'

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

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On Thursday an information was exhibited against Mr. Fames. ••
of the Waterloo stables, in the Haymarket, for driving a lath of
horse, in the Haymarket, and Pall Mall, for the purpose of breaking
them in. on %Vain/relay the Mb of November last. Mr. Eaines sub•
mined that he had a license of 251._per annum ; if the practice of
exercising young horst, was to be presqntsd, the stable keepers mini
discontinue their business, and every Keitleitem be liable to have
their carriage destroyed, and perhaps hi. neck broke, for want ef the
hones being properly trained. The Magistrate said, the practice
complained of was notorious, and he was compelled to fine the de-
fendant in the penalty of -sot. and costs, winch 11w defendant imme-
diately paid.
,11•Vey, late the servant of W. Parkins, Esq. was fully
committed for robbing his master in February last, of a
quantity of diamonds. pearls. guineas. Napoleons, Etc. an ac-
count of which we gave at the time of the robbery. The pri-
souer, during the absence of his master, in February last, ..
pretended the house bad been robbed, and affected to fire a
pistol after the robbers, but that was disproved by the neigh-
bours.—lie had got away, and escaped to Upland, where lie
was apprehended at Rostrevor, and confined in the house of
a constable, mid notice sent to Mr. Parkins, who immediately
umbel keel for that country; bat previous to his arrival there
the prisoner hail contrived to escape in a manner which does
not reflect much credit on the pat ty monceresed. Mr. Par-
kins, however, porsued him as far as Glasgow.; but not ob-
tainine" any intelligence of him there, he retunied to Ireland,
and a hue and cry being raised, lie was again taken by the
Postmaster of a town called Banbridge, and condeleted to
Downpatrick gaol; but when brought out to be shipped for
England, an armed mob came up to rescue him, and iis the.
scuffle hir. Pinkie's found it necessary to resort to his pistols, .
and to call in a military gnard. When he had crossed the
British Channel, he was very heavily ironed, and tied ua the
'nail coach. Mr. Parkins carnet with bins till they were set
down at the Peaeock,al Islington ; when the passengera went
into the parlour, ands the 'prisoner was for a moment disen-
cumbered of his irons. Finding himself at liberty, he seized
a poker, and swore ho would kill• Mr. Parkins; but that gen-
tleman presented a pistol„and• threatened him with instant
destruction if he did not submit, which had the desired effect, ,
and lie was again secured, and lodged in the watch house.
UNION HALL.
Mr. Frederick William Sounder., of..the 7th Regiment of '
Dragoons, applied to the sitting Magistrate, and requested •
that he would assist him in regaining possession of a young
lady wl he had married, but who wax then detained by
her flicieds, and was by their means deprived of the hakw- -
new and comfort which had been by him and Iteraelfainticr"
pa tett from the matrimonial state. He further *talc diet the
inarciago took place in a clandestine manner, at a church in •
the eity, about five years ago, that lie went to North America
with his regiment two days lateral's ds, and subsequeutly to
France, from whence he had lately returned. He had de-
manded his wife from her relations' who were persons of &resit •
respectability at Camberwell, without success. She was en-
titled to considerable property;, but it was not her fortune
that lie was deeiroua of obtaining, herself alone was his object.
lie had. applied fur advice to a Proctor,: who.recommended
bins Stioblein a Magistrate's warrant. -
The Magistrate intiumed the applicant, that ha had no in- -
risdiction iu this case, aud consequently could render bins no
assistance. He retirediapparently much di. appointed.
A constable of Lambeth apprehended four men belonging
to a gang of disturbers of the dead. In ronsespience of in- -
formation which had been given that a plundering expedition
was on foot towards some place in the lower part of Surrey,
the officer coacealed himself near the tornpike to the Kent.
load, and coothitied to watch till between five and six o'tdock
oat Wedoesslay mew • g ; when observing a ha.iuley coach,
he (NAr ed the to atop, and enquired who oo what
wattles the coach. The coachman replied, that three 'calif-
men were his passengers, whom he had taken to at the As-
sembly House, Blackheath, where they had been at a ball, ,
and that he was conveying them to Charing Cross. The offi-
cer opened one of the doors, mud observing three mess
dresses, with ropes, spades, and other articles, used
interring bodies,elosed it again, and with a pistol isi.psteltaisst •
and a cutlass in the other, threatened instant death if they
attempted to escape. The coachmen, obeyed his directions
to tutu roam) and drive towards the turnpike. On his arrival
there the officer proenred.aseisemsee, and conducted the three
men, who were Inside the coach, and this•dei ver, to• • watch-
house. The coach was searched, med in the bout iu a sack
the body of an unusually tall man was found. The pilsoneis •
were brought the same day to this office, followed nearly I.v
1000persuna, who literally covered them with 'lindens' filth
of every description. l hey stated their talnell to be R. Tour
Unison, J. 'Dumas, W. Davis, and J. Bedell. They were •
committed for further examination.
Os; 'Thursday they were apia brought to the office to un- .
dergo *nether examination,. in consequence of further evi-
deuce sashes! them haring been produced. Wortley stated, ,
that on Wednesday tweeting lie ascertained that a grave lead •
been opened and plundered in Plunsatead churchyard, in .
Kent. Mrs. Mary. Ann Pienherry informed the Magistrates, ,
that on Saturday atternoms her deceased husband was in-
terred in Plumeteati chisrohyard ; having been ineorined that
a grave had been opened, she went to the burial grunted, and
these observed the coffin in which her linstemil lied been de-
pneitest 'Oen and empty. She bad subsequently been to the
bone bonne, to which the officer had taken the hotly famed hs
the coach, and immediately recognised it es the corpse et bee .
deerneed lets•beini.

THe Minist.•r of Plornstesof attended to prove the bacilli .
of Mr. Ponaherry. The pariah officers of Pionotoul wets
oh* in tutesolst ce, awl stated. their tlotertittec.t..•u to prose. _
cute the prisotoets to the oslsset of the 14M.
. .

'Der ilisinterineni having tahrn place in Kiln, the priaosiers -
were committed to the grid.** Dartford, in Ands, to takit.titett •
trial at Use Maidstone Sessions.

At 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon,. as some boys were Pmki,irg
therusclves on the ice, in the Car..l in the ltegeney park. thee di. • -
covered something under the ice. which thtt thought was t':,•ctre,.a
or a dot; ;. but on putting in some st eks ihty hmtight i•
on tic sun-
tree tithe water...when it proved to he the b a:trltenfly new
bora male inkant, conmletely naked r on. U: them 410111C4 it to the
Jews' liarp public boson. vim it raw remains. It appeared gum;
Ectfect,.with the inception of aeretel bra :a on the

MYSrEmovs DE.17111,

Our neaders will recolle,-t that an extraordinary
,evirge sea.: recently made at Row Street, against a
vonlor man of respeetaryle connexions, named „Henry
-s
(-mike, by 11 wenn Key, who accused him of having
employed and thrnished hint with sistols to murder
Mr. Shears, poprietor of Copper-mills at Merton, and
halving a counting -house in Fleet packet, together
with his whole family : Cooke was Mr. Shears's clerk.
The Magistrates etinsider.xl the charge unfounded, and
lihcrateil Cooke, who subsequently prosecuted Key, who
3- now toiler et:tence of transportation. On Wednes-
day morning, Cooke, who is about I S. years of age, died
Mier an illness of a few hours, under (Art:twist:tie es of
suspicion that he had been poisoned. The body was
()roved on Thursday last, when it was ascertained that
L.- died hy pois,o. Thursday night an investigation was
tekett uu the hotly at the George. in George Street,
( hristehtireb, Illatifriars Road, bethre C. Jeminet, Esq.
coroner fur Surrey, when evidence to the following
eifeet was givt-n :
Mr. John %Vet man, of Christchurch,. said the deceased
had been several years his lodger. Tuesday evening
last he tame home at half-past six from the counting.-
house compiaining of sickness at the stomach ; he vo-
tnited very much ; the sickness continued violent, and
1:c went to .Ir. Pollard, a neighbour fur medicine; he
went to bed about ten. At eleven witness found him
inore cffiaposed ; he saw no more of him until live next ,
wiem being awoke by a noise like the tidlieg
of some persim he ran into Cooke's room, and found
hint pros:rare on the floor, but not senseless ; he assist-
ed him into hod, and then called a servant to light u
fire and make tea, the deceased having complained of
extreme thirst. ‘Vhde dristkinztea he said to witne:,s,
—" Those It-llows pot something in the been"—
A hout seven :a'clock, a man who was going to Mr..
Shearti's mills at stertost, called to know if Mr. Cooke,
whose fuller was a threman there, had any message '
send ; deceased desired his father might be informed '
that he was very ill, but hoped to go to Merton on the
Monday. Ten minutes afterwards witness went into
his room, and found him with his head out of hed over
a basin, as if he had been vomitting, and leis„ upon
his side ;. he gasped nine and exaired. At the time he
te.mtiimed ." those fellows," he muted no particular
person.
. Mr. Wetman further stated, that after Cooke's death
la- waited upon Mr. Shears, at the counting-house, to
biforan him of the circumstance, and acquaint him with
thb allusions of deceased to the beer he had drank, and
tit request the mug might be searched for. Mr.
Shears's son made immediate inq tiro for the mug among ,
tl.e servants, who could not tinit it. He then called in
the clerks, and d.• -est they would endeavour to find
it, which they did immediately under the desk of de-
ceioed. There appeared in it a Tenuity of white
powder mixed with dirt. Mr. Shear., scaled it up and
delivenal. it to witness, by whom it was transferred to
Mr. Pollard.
Mr. Pollard, of Christchurch, stated, that the de-
ceased applitsi to him on Tuesday evening, complaniing
of vomitting, and pains in the stomach and head. He
said that he had only drank a little table beer. The
excessive vomitting continuing, witness again asked
what he had taken; and he then said, that when he
drank the beer he observed white powder at the bottom
bf the lung, and thouliht some of his companions had
been !playing tricks acme medicine WAS then given
st. him, with proper direetions; and he was desired by
witness to send him what might be thrown from the
sitanuch. Ile saw no more of him until next morally,
whets he' was called in great haste, and fitund Cooke
.dovl. • Mr. IVetmati delivered a tin mug to witness,
-st Ida contained a quantity vf wltite powder, and which
ts:ing analyzed, proved to he myte of arsenic. He
subs,tquently op tied the holy, and tinged in the sto-
mach a quantity ofsimilar powder. which he also tinned
to be an tow& of arsenic ; it had pnwineed a great in-
flammation and ulceration in the stomach, Imo occasion-
. death.

Dr. (•,ilaway wax present at the opening of the body,
awl corroborated Mr Pollard's tcationony
Mr. Shears, jun. stated, i.e had b in indefatigable
•rin his exertions to discover by whom the beer had been
drawn whiell Cooke had drank without success. Ile
had about 50 pet smut on the premium, I.ut could obtain
no evidence upon the subject
Nlorgan I);asey nits warehonsetnan and clerk to Mr.
stussers. Ott :fileatitit, at taw o'clock, he dined with
• deceased at nu eliting•-litlinte in the Old Bailey. Wit-
)40.41 peon-tied to busittes.,, and &teased went another
war, stiY ill!' lie ilad a place to tall at Iwtitre he retnnic.l.
IsVitnesa ball been twettautitted to driak a pint of table-
yith the dere:4,4ll after dinner : ill ivnacti for him
,:t
.-ma,idursble tintetitid tinkled b,y to draw smile
which be im.mediatt.ly did in a pewter pot, and
svitte•ss draink it. Cooke irblVIC in Ablills three o'cltal.
tto,-1, shut tly afterwards went Into the counting-
hott.e, with the iatenteutt .14/1ilt: Is er with
saw the tilt pia which had liven pro.letcol by
ltdr. chianti si)14111.11%:, on the 1201.11.:r of the sitive, fitii
oll.rer wlrta. Iva, immediately callzd away
,
bosun sitivo o,;it the twig wa% not on
tie: -.tore 1.. et it) tie It MIS

the same 'nag he wmillv drank out of, and was gene-
rally placed under Couie's desk. The witue:l knew
not by whom the beer was drawn, nor by whom placed
on the stove. It he had not been culled away he should
have drunk part of it himself.
Frederick Wilson, another clerk to Mr. Shears, re-
membered deceased complaining at five o'clock of being
' excessively sick, and said he had been so ever since four
o'clock ; he put his kind on his stomach, and said be
felt a burning heat there.
The Coroner observed, that the best evidence that
could be produced had been brought forward very fully.
So doubt deceased had died in consequence of taking
the uxyde of arsenic in the beer ; how it came there or
Ity whom given remained unknown. All possible pains
had been taken to bring forward every person likely
to have any knowledge of the circumstances. It re-
mained for the Jury to deliver u verdict according to
the best of their judgments.
Tbe jury remained in consultation about four hours,
and at l o'clock on Friday morning returned this ver-
dict.—Pical by poison, administered by souse person or
persons at present unknown..

, Accounts have been received from CeyTon, by Nfadraa,
of so late a date as the Ist of July lust which repre-
sent that the unhealthiness in the Cundian country has
been as grt-at as it was it was in 1803, and that many
Europeans had fallen victims to the fever. It is also
reported, that in consequence of Ceylon having been
plimed under tilt ecelestivaical jurisdiction of the Bishop
of Calcutta many alterations will be made in the situa-
tion of the Government Chaplains on that island, and
that, aniong-st others, the Clergy will not for the future
be permitted by the Bishop to hold any civil situations ;
this will more particularly affect that Chaplain, who
now, in addition to all the offices which he holds, is
superintendant of the pearl fishery.
It is currenly reported, in the best informed circles,
• that. Sir limhon Lowe is appointed to succeed General
Sir IL Brownrigg in the Government of Ceylon. No-
thing certain is vet known as to his successor at St.
Helena. Mr. Arbuthnot, our readers are aware, left
this country sonic time ago fur that island. The ap-
pointment of Lord Melville, so often talked of, to the
Governor Generalship of India, is now. ennsideeed as
certain, and will take place as IT 0 very remote date.
His Lordship will, h rs ruinunrcd, be succeeded in his
situation, as First. Lord of the Admiralty, by Mar-
quis of Buckingham.
At a Court iu Ntirth Carolina two men were con-
victed of podgy, and sentemaxl to have their cars
cropped. "We did not know (says the Editor of the
New York Paper,) that any State in the Union still
maintained in (perm' laws so.sanguinary and unjust.
The object of punishment is retnrmation, and laws are
intended to operate more from their certainty than
from thtiir severity. What reformation can be expected
front a titan who rendered is insensi de to Amine by the
loos of his ears—who carries to the grave the marks of
a Sitvim course of justice upon him—who wander*
thronA the World an object of scorn and contempt—
and who carries upon him a mark like Cain Such a
man, thus mutilated, never can be restored to society.
The Hut:Luis have abandotiett the knout anti slitting of
the nose, and yet the most humane and liberal nation
on earth continues to cal nif cars .f.'"
Yesterday, letters were received at the Secretary of
Ststc's (Ace, in Downing-street, frmn Lora Castlereagh,
at Dover. Ha Lordship, *sump mied by his Lady,
was expected to arrive at his seat at North Cray, in
Kent, yesterday, to dinner.

Earl of Aberdeen has received the Prince Re-
gent's permission to use the name of Hamilton; in
addition to that of Gordon, as a nietnt6al of respect for
the Lte Marquis of Abereorn. .
It is said that the Earl of Harrowhy's nomination as
An-tbassador to Paris will be followed by a change in
the home department also, Lord Sidnitattit resigning
the ollice of Secretacy of Stat,•, and sucecodiug Lord
liarrowby as President of the Council. Should the
above arraugement take place, Mr. l'eel is talked of by
some persons as Lord Sidmou th s successor.

The Chrism's Pantomimes are in an aetive state of
preparation Itt both the Winter Theatres. The sub-
ject of that at em•cot Garden is hounded cm the we}l
known miraculous atly,ittures of Baron % tinclumen ;
;mil the new Dory rate on a circumstance nearly hs old
as the creation of the world ; and in wlreh Bradbury is
to be the Ciorn.

LATF NOHTIIKIIN EN PEDITInN.—The attt•ntion of
the pubic for some months oast, has !icon anxiously
directed to the adventures and diseoverios of thank en_
tirprising navi,4•ators, (many new being- su!iieets cr
Natural Ili,tory were enacted) which hope we are
sorry has not been realized ; however we bey; to say,
the greatest field of animated Than re tin' the onitemplit-
tive 11l i l id to explore, where multitudes of the rareA
Brill,. Birds and IleaStS in the habitable world from the
I
,
tairolog oesetts of Arabia to the dreary regions of the
Northern Pole, ere 1111C(14.11 in endless variety by the
exertions of the inderatiguble proprietor of the !loyal
Mentigere Exeter 'Change. The salinity, cleanliness,
and of emu ry tiling in this traly grand narks, is
sat+ us motets it a peculiar ornament to the metropolis.

An affray, which woe likely to have been-attended
with serious consequences, occurred about 9 o'clock ott
Wedneiclay evening, between the I t tit Light Dl:iguana.
and Nth Lancers, stationed in Cinterbury. It arose
out Of scone reflections cast by the 12th on the character
of the 11th while on service in Prance ; and each re-
giment armed themselves, and wore marched in Ali.
visions, under the ()niers of their nun-commissioned
officers, to the scene of action ; and bud become regu-
lar combatants, when by the intervention of the iniatt.
try depot, who were called out, the quarrel was sup.
pretsed, with some loss blood on both sides► A mintbcr
of the Nth, fia.mingpart of 260 to be disbanded from
that regiment, had received their discharge on; that day.