The National Register.
London, England, 1818-07-06 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Tuesday, at 12 teelock,the office was crowded to excels, in
conectlatmee of Mr. Hunt repairiag thither to prefer a con.
plaint against Mr. Lee, the High Constable of Westminster,
Mr. Mint stated, that on Saturday evening the High Constable
went up to him, anti in a tin-retelling and nit 'lacing manner,
bell his stuff of office to his face; that afterwards he laid
down, and with both his hand. clinched said," now,
you, you scomsdrel, I will tight you," using language of the
most abusive description. The foregoing statement was con-
firmed by the testimony of Mr. West and another person, who
were witnesses of the defendant's conduct ; and Sir N. Coss: ut
held Mr. Lee in recognizance' to envier the complaint at the
Westminster Sessions.
%Vs-I.m issme Et.etreoe.—On Monday erening John Bates
was brought up to the office, and charged with being an in-
stigator and ringleader of the riots which took place at Ct).
vent G trden and its neighbourhood., being concerned in the
first attack 'em the car or cutter which was drawn about
lawn by the party of Sir Murray Maxwell. tie underwent a
long examination before Mr- ilirnie.
John Blazey, of 76, Struttoirground, Westminster, said,
that on Monday afternoon he saw the prisoner in Oxford-
street, carrying away a pole belonging to the cutter which
bad been drawn about London in the course of the day, with
the colours of Sir M. Maxwell. The prisoner's hat was a' the
top of the pole, with a :lag attached to it, and he was carrying
it about in triumph, calling out " Burdett for ever," &c.
The pri-mer was committed.
James Goulhoarne and Thomas Watkins were charged by
Mr. Lee, the High Constable, with spitting on Mr. Edward
Dailey and 7.1 r. Edward Baldwin. The charge was not
pressed against Watkins ; but on Tt•esdity morning Mr. Ed-
ward Baldwin stated, that Gotilbottrue was on the hustings at
Covent• garden, after the poll had closed on Monday evening,
and stood near the spot where Mr. Gale Jones was speaking,
from wkence Mr. Gale Jones pointed him out of the mob, us
the person witt was litter, lining him in his speech, which
caused several men among the not, to spit at him, and throw
several things at him, among them was a piece of the boat
belonging to Sic Murray Maxwell's party,witich had been de-
stroyed ; he having received a blow fi.olll it, he jumped from
the hustings among the crowd, stud seized three men, and he
contrived to hohl them till some constables came to Its assist-
ance and took charge of them.
James White, of the Thames Police Office, stated, that the
prisoner uas painted out anioug the crow.' as one who had
been throwing various hard substances,hallooing, and making
a great noise among the crowd close to the hustings, near
where Gale Jones was speaking, and that Mr. Baldwin, the
prosecutor, had bold of hint when he took hits into custody.—
Ordered tolind hail. _ _

The several persons who were taken into custody on Mon-
day evening in Covent Garden, and secured in Richardson's
Hotel till they way sent off to the house of Correction, were
on Tuesday morning brought from that prison to the
Office, and underwent examinations before Mr. Birnie, four
of them at a time being placed at the bar. The first four aci e
Thomas Farrant, lfillia,a Jefferies, William Smith, and Wil-
Lan► Dead.
John Ileggins, a special constable, stated, that he observed
one of the prisoners active among the crowd. He first told
him to go about his business at six o'clock, but he paid no
attention, remaining about the crowd till the soldiers arrived
hetwern sever, and eight o'clock, when lie several times called
the Life Guardsmen " Piecuenly butchers," booted and hal-
looed at them, &c. Ys itneos warned hint to go away three or
four times before lie took him into custody.
His evidence was confirmed by George Judge,oftheThanies
Police Office, and John Chesworth, a special constable r who
also stated, that he saw the prisoner Jetftries heading the
7uuli about seven o'clock ; and a little after seven, he saw him
armed with the handle of a birch broom, and striking at 11uw
constables with it ; be made a snatch at the handle of the
:in broom to endeavour U. get it from him, but he msfortais

rtiliCly missed it. 'flie priw►er then struck him with it ; he
at length succeeded, witq assistance; in forcing the hitudle of
the broom fi urn hint.

firm ge Dalton, an officer licloaeinz to the Whitechapel
Police (office, stated, that he saw the prisoners, Farraiit and
s cry attire U 1110111: the crowd, and he saw theln butt
pelting at the people with satin 'Saul substances; which he
stated to Ilelee taken place about ten o'clock.
Facrant, in his defenre, Is nai. a Idioms, iug tuan, and
had bus,, employed dui 11. e election at,i a pu. tide, Sir I".
Dutelett's Cnmmincr, nlid the tw.s:ne•s that called lilts, into

Covent Garden on Jiuudrj evi %%.1‘ tlli, : --lie had been
aenthy the Committee at the IteilLion public-house in .Pi
atree!, Westrainstt r, with a letter to Mr. Brooks, at the
iJcd-
ford-coffer house ; lie produced the letter, anti alr. Biride
ordered one of the constables to take the letter to the Bed.
ford cotlee-house without loss of time. rarrant said lie was
Inerely passing throne') the uwb, i1144..1!. 11:ts token into ens.
tody at 7 (remelt, and therefore the °fiver must he mistaken
as to bum as he bad stated what his conduct bad been at ten
o'clock.

During the examination of Ow', men, limit, Lei only tnied

by Ills son, and Ur. We,t, 'Lc w:re-utuker, of tl'cch_•trer•t,
entered the office, and remained In: the Ckiliimsktiuses had
concluded.

Mr. Hilo anal Mr. West then lett the office, after taking

Irate of !1... Maffistraie, but retorned again immediately.;
and Mr. Hoot slated that, as lie was leaving the °thee, a
0.1.1 behaved veg.) now..peel, it. ►tiu'ing to
two mct. MI.. the uflice, who bawl they bad tome to hail Ear-
:ant. wh..ut Le had heat d examined: rod the want.% agaium
him hail ,tid. the mh.conthiet which hr had eltarg..tl him with
having te..ii guilty of took place at ttu o'clock, whereas the
Juan .aid Lc %he iu cubtoll)as 4tvta.

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Mr. Kirnie ordered the roust:dole to be brought before him.
when Mr. Hunt repented his charge of the bail fur Farrant
being refused adisiittanceiiito the office. It turned mil, how-
ever, that the matt had slot come to bail Farrow, but another
who had cot then been examined.

Meseta! were ordered to find bail, and some were di-.
charged.

ki. etinesday Henry Williams, who works a ferryboat over
the Thames at "Acworth, was brought to the office charged
with a most outrageous sus:atilt on ?dr. Sim, 'Strickland, w Ito
resides in that neighbourhood. 'fbe siefeace set up was in
toxication ; hut the Nlacistratv Onto veil, that the charge was
so serious, that he should expect very good bail, and com-
mitted him for want of it.

A person calling himself William Charles Gregory• under-
went lung examination on Thnrsday before Sir Nathaniel
Conant and Richard ilirnie, E.g. the Sitting 31agistratestbring
charged with having committed a great sariety of frauds
and deceptions, probably as by ingenioas means, and to as
great an extent, as ever was beard of. He has been forging
franks of the Members of the Home of Commons, which '
twatig discovered at the Post-office, the solicitor and others
belonging to that establishment have been exerting them-
selves to discover hint. Ile has engaged binuself at a Curate,
and acted as such, although not in Orders. The following
are some of the particulars the month of Deer-miter,
in the year IMO, Dr. Forrester, the Rector of Droseley,
Salop, being in want of a Curate, wrote to Messrs. Jackson,
of Wardrabe.place, Doctor's Commons, to recommend him
note; and in a few days after, he received a letter upon
the subject, which proved to I.e writteu by the prisoner,
offering to take the curacy, which he deemed so satisfactory,
that be agreed to engage him, providing the testimonials
as to hisnbint:es as a clergyman, and mural character, wet e
satisfactory. In answer to hiv letter, lie received one from
the prisoner, referring him to a Rev. Dr. Lawrence, who was
then in London. and a letter addressed to him at W. I.
Brown's, Esq. Barnard's-ism, would reach him, which he
accordingly did, and received far answer, signed by A.
Lawrence, giving the prisoner the most naexceptionable
character. This letter was dated Jan. SOSIT. A short time
after, Dr. Forrester had a strong suspicion that the whole
was a fabrication. The letter purported to be franked by
Sir Wiliam Garrow, at the time he was in Parliament and
Attorney-General. Dr. Forrester engaged the prisoner as
his Curate, and he continued to perform the duties of that
office for about 4 months. During that time he had in-
formed Dr. Forrester, that the Dr Lawrence who had re-
commended hint was the father of Sir Thomas Lawrence,
the portrait painter. Dr. Forrester, however, having reason
to suspect the prisoner to be an impostor. came to town, and
waited on Sir Thomas Lawrence, and found his c:...hacion
realized, for Sir Thomas informed him that he had been ire-
posed upon by his citrate. The prisoner was committed.

MR. AUNT itatistneMTVEn.
A singular although not unexpected scene was exhibited at the
hustings, Covent-gardens, on Friday. Mr. Hunt, it appears, in his
ray irons Covent-gat-den on Thursday halted with his party in front
of three Newspaper-offices. in the Strand, where after certain
dentmciations against the conduct of these journals, lie delivered
copies of each to certain friends in attendance, by whom they were
immediately burnt. Ile next proceeded to the office of a Sunday
paper. where, after some allusions to the character of that paper,
he went on to state, that this newspaper, as wed as every other
throughout the country. had ketonic venal end corritpt,and had been
bribed to calumniate him (Mr. Hunt). He attributed the change
which had taken place in a paper called Thr Oluervcr, to the cir-
cumstance of an individual being (as he termed ita at the head of its
reporters, of the name of Mr.-Vincent George Dna-tisk " This
was no other than the well-known Spectsch• Dowling, the spy.—
The person he meant was Mr. Dowling. who had been employed by
Lord Siduanith to take notes of the speeches of the two Watsintz, in
Spafitdds, and who afterwards gave his .evidence upon the State
trials." This calumny was zepeated more than once. The circum-
stance having been commuhicated to Mr. Dowling, lin proceeded to
the hustings on Friday as early as ten o'clock. provided with a horse-
whip. Soon after twelve, Mr. Hunt. atanimpanied by his son. his
dumb brother, Mr. West, of Wych-street, and others of his friends,
entered the south door of the hastings, when instantly Mr. Dowling
advanced and struck him severd blows over the head and shoulders
with his whip. to a moment the conflation became general, the
crowd closed npon Nit. Dowlieg.. and Mr. West and others seized
him by the collar, and depriving him of his whip, prevented on his
part further violence. During the fracas the dtuub blether and the
younger Hunt contrived to strike him souse Wows upon the thee,
across the shoulders of those who surrounded him. The civil power
had by this time so effectually interfered that all further violence
was suppressed. Mr. Dmvling soon afterwards appeared at this office,
where he inferred a charge of assault against the dumb brother of
Hunt.
This person, together with Mr. Henry Hunt and his son, entered
the office, and Mr. !limit: paseeeded to hear the charge, which was
simply that of Mr. Dowling having been struck by the ilefeadant
while in a situation in which he was unable to defend himself. In
answer to this charge, the defendant, through the medium of his
bendier, who acted as interpreter, asserted:that he had beets first struck
by the complainant.
Mr. Rhine observed, that if there was to be a deLace, Mr. Dow-
ling must enter more at large into his ea-e.
Several gentlemen now Caine forward. and declared upon their oaths
.that they had seen Mr. Dowling strike Mr. Henry Hunt sever.al
blows on the head and shoulders with his horsewhip, bit deified most
. positively that he struck the defendant.
Mr. Henry Hunt said, that he had beehinfortned, one hem before
he came to the hustings, that he was to he horsewhipped, and was
advised to bring his stick to defend hineado. but that he had deter-
mined to some to the hustings unprepared with any warm what.
ever.
Mr. Dowling. in reply, said he did net mean to deny that he had
come to the hustings for the express purpose of horsewhipping Nln
11am, and iulndited that he had effected that intention Ca. as :t
necesuiry to evince his feelings, and to cheat:se a person whose ca-
lumny was as nialienant n; it was.false.
Mr. !Urine &tic that sitting as a Magistrate. he had tett one
course to pursue. and that was to bind both patties ower to Me Ses-
. skins, Mr. Dowling for horst-whipping .sir. Henry Hunt, and the
• dumb Hunt for assaulting Mr. Dowling.
Mr. 11. Hunt here produced a letter, which he sthd he had re-
ceived about five months since, in which he was informed that Mr.
Dowling had declared that he would horsewhip him wherever he .net
' him ; and that be (Mr. Hunt) was prevented from appearing at the
el eliou fire Lord Mayor in the city, in consequence of that threat.
Mr. Dowling (leaks! most positively that he had ever expressed
such an intentiam and entered into an eamanation of circumstances
connected with s former transaction between him and Mt Hunt. from
which it appeared that it was the opinion of his friends •• he would de-
grade himself- by taking any further notice of an individa. I si'm had
tamely submitted to the epithets applied to him in a letttr publisind
by him (Mr I hitt ling) in all the newspapers thrnughout the kingilm
This letter was %%anti 1. one I lerethnl, and was in answer to an at.
trek made upon lam by air. I !lint at a public dinner, at the Crown mil
Anchor Tawern, when Mr. Hunt coupled his name with the mesa
infi.mous of characters. Mr. Dowling also begged to state, that these
attacks arose nut of the circumstances of his having been a aitnese
upon the St ate Trials. That he had the misfortune to be a wit11.2,-'
was erne, bat he declared in the most solemn manner that it was
solely fzunt accidcilt, and that at the time he weyt, to t4va-fills

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he had not the most remote anticipation of what subsequently tuok
place.
Mr. Bimie now said, that having heard Mr. Dowling so fully. he
was ready to hear Mr. hurt in explanation
\lr. Hunt first inquirul by whom the expressions alleged to have
been used by him in trunt of the Sundae Newspaper-office, respecting
Mr. Dowling. had becu communicatert ?
Mr. Dowling replied. that one gentleman was then prewnt. who.
together aith others, wan prepared to make affidavit of the fact.
A gentleman then stepped forward, tort bore testimony to the ex-
pre,ions which had been used by Mr. hunt.
The latter, after a dein hesitation, admitted that he had used sonic
such words, and that he had said that Mr. Dowling was the person
who had given evidence of 'peaches upon the state trials, which no-
body but himself could hear.
Mr. Birnie new •said that he felt himself hound to call upon Mr.
Cowling to find se reties to keep the peace towards Mr. II enry Hun: ;
and at the same time, he must also call upon Mr. William Hunt to
find similar sureties with regard to Mr. Dowling.
Mr. Hunt immuliately said he did nut WMI that Mr. Dowling
should be held in an: sureties.
Mr. Bit-Me—What ' Gut for horsewhipping you, M. Hunt?
Mr. hunt—No, it we: a mere nothing ; in;; brother received the
blows ten times hard,r than I did ; and I should not now even be
afraid of Mr. Dowling and too such Irish bullies I
Mr. Dowling now said, that the latter remark of' Mr. Hunt was
not one which perhaps could viroperly be replied to in the presence of
a magistrate, but that since 'Mr. Wait was so courteous lie was in-
clined to be equally so, and should not insist upon Mr. Willia-a
Hunt being put to the trouble of entering into recognitancea. as, if
he considered it neceicary, he could take other steps lir. rudder.
Mr. Birnie thought both gentlemen had acted in this respect with
great prudence, and particularly camplimented Mr. Hunt on has for-
bearance after the manner in which he had been horse shipped by
Mr. Dowling. He could not, however, dismiss the case without re-
commending Mr. Hunt to teach his sa,:t. and his brother more par-
ticularly (whe was unfortunately dud and dumb). habits of peace
and good order.
The parties then withdrew, and Mr. Hunt upon his return to the •
hustings was saluted with some very unpleasant sounds mixed with •
laughter.
HATTON,GAR DEN.
J. Dalby was charged on suspicion of steal* a double set
of coach harness. O. Davis, a harness-maker, of hay•street,
Clerkeuwell, deposed, that on Monday morning the prisent.r
came to his shop, anti offered the harness for sale, tor w hich
he demanded 40s. Witness, suspecting they were stuktuattold
him he would give 20s. for them. The priattner 'rent, abe
pretended, to inform his master ; and in the enera time witiia
procured a constable, who took him iota"Zaudodv on his
return. On being asked bow he came posssessed of thew, he
said, he met a man that morning carryinq the harness, who
asked him if lie wanted a
,job ; the prison*" said he did, and
the man then gave him the harness and Aesired him to sell it
for 40s. and lie would wait for him in e't. John's-square; that
•
alter leaving the harness with the kist witness, lie returned
to aril the mat: In. could get no r ore than 20s. for them,
but be we; lone u."(t ^tl leis ret'arl he was- taken into cu.,-
t044.---Aeinandosi, .