The National Register.
London, England, 1817-03-03 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Monday, W. Holmes was tried for feloniously forging and
eoninerfeiting a transfer for the sum of 2001. with intent to
defraud the Governor rod Company of the Bank of Englund.
The circumstance of the case were these :—The prisoner, in
eouniesion ssith a ,Ir. Crip, invested 2,6501. in the Navy 5
per cent. .Ammities, and made it joint stock. On the 271 h
May, 1811, without the consent of Mr. Crisp, he sold 20(11.
out of this stock, and sobsequently 5001. obiaining a person
to forge the name and hand-writing. of Mr. Crisp. The case
was rendered peculiarly interesdng by the culmination of
the hroLer who sold the stock, swearing, that the person who,
on May 27, Itill, signed the name of Crisp, was the same
person, to the best of his belief; who appeared in Court and
contradicted the assertion by positively stating, that he was
not in London at the time. It farther appeared, that the
prisoner had three different times attempted, and in one in-
stance succeeded in e-raping from the clutches of the of
who apprehended him. The case for the prosecution being
closed, Mr. Coro ood, for the prisoner, took an objecs•on,
that as Mr. Holmes and Mr. Crisp were joint proprietors in
this stock, the law authorised one of them to e.eceive the
stock its well as both. The custom of the Bank was other-
wise, but that was not the law of the land. The point was
reserved for the decision of the judges. The jury finind a
verdict—Guilty. Mary Swain was also convicted of forgone
transfer for .281. Nagy 5 per cent. Annnitie%, being the
joint property of Mary M'Ouire and Bridget Minimal.

Friday, J. IL Hannay was indicted for trafficking in and
feloniously carrying 3Way twenty slaves from Calabar, on the
coati of Africa In the year the prkoncr sailed from
Liverpool as Mate to the coast of Africa, lon the Captain
having died in the course vf the voyage, he succeeded him in
the command of the vessel called the James. The vessel
sailed from Liverpool, with a schooner upon deck, and st hich,
on the arrival of the ve.scl at Calabar, was tilted tint for the
purpose of trafficking in slaves. The tarts of the c3rryil.::
away and trafficking in slaves were eleatly proved, and tire
Jury. without hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty.—The
punishment is transportation.

POLICE.
MANSION HOUSE.

Tuesday three men named Dennett, Martin, aati Brown.
underwent a long private examination, charg•A with various
roblywies in the Post office. Miatin and Brown were in 111.2
situation ofletter•earriers, and I)efincit was their acquaint-
ance, but on the estabLshowni. His brother, liqweverr had
been there tools considerable time since, and milt the dl'•co
very of the robberies, was also apprehended, spar it did not
appear that 1w was implicated, and he was discharged. The
robberies have been carried on for more than two years
past, and consisted in opening letters, and plundering them
of bills, drafts, &e. to the amount of mare than 10001. The
• discovery was made a few days since, when I)ennett, pre-
senting a bill thr 1201. was apprehended. lie represeats
himself as the agent of the other two,:unl offered iu dis ulge
the whole transaction. Bills to the amount of 0001. were
fmnd w tin possession of one of the prisouers.—They were
tilanded

The Earl of I'Vmouth, who is at his scat, Vernell-
- Worcestershire, has sent a letter to tl.e Magis-
mites oldie public-office, Bow-street, infuming them of
inflammatory bills, threatening destruction to his house
and himself', having ken posted about his premises.—
From the number of them, his lordship became alarmed,
awl, an his servants were unable to trace the authors of
them, he requested assistance from the Magistrates.—
Lavender has been sent down to tise his endeavours

The Bel/:at News Letter says, "A letter from Ga-
ya, dated the 19th inst. received in this town yesterday
say• :—From same intbrmation, last night about ten
eel, Mr. Sampson, assisted by some other Gentlemen
in this place, tool-, 11 or 14 irrsons prisoners, on ac-
count of the &maim' Assurialihie. Mr. Sampson also

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, tSr.

RivititldoNsiTn.—Extract of. • Leiter from neTIAPCI, 6th-
May, 1816:•-- Since you tell me you wish to hear about native
/customs atamanaers, I must mention a fellow who has been
lately hung at Calcutta, and stuttered for an offence which I
think never was heard of in Europe. Ile was•rm admirable
swismner mid diver, and used to frequent the chants and
places win re the similes' wed to bathe in the tit cr. Ile
would make his way along under the surtace of the water till
he cot close among them, anal then seising oue of them by
the legs, AVOIIM drag her under the water, and drown her for
the sake of her muniments, for the women of this comuty al.
ways bathe in the it valuable gems and pearls. Meanwhile
the newspapers teemed with horrible accounts of alligators
carrying away !millers; and these monsters of the. flood woe
talked of by every one. At last, one day a Li, I disengaged
herself from-Iris gs asp, rope to the top of water, and screamed
out that it was mu Least bust a man ! lie was then caught,
and confessed that he bad carried on that trade tier seven
years. Of the num:icr of victims he bad kept no reckoning !

Avnoctous Muiturns.--Thursday morning, Win. Harris,
hostler at the New Inn, Leillmry, rot op at forte o'clock to
brew, and was in the act of lighting a tire, it is supposed;
vte.en sonic villain unexpectedly rushed upon ' him, with a
hatchet almost split his Lead in two, and afterwards euti!ie
throat of the hapless victim from car to ear! The smock-
frock the deceived were, and a silver w ateli, (makei's name
It. Itullingford, Liverpool, No. 1818.1 were taken from his
person, and with this booty only, the murderer decamped.
The poor snthaer wit: a vet y intlte;t; ious and careful man ;
he laid the preceding day paid the rent of his inothet's house ;
and the idea that this money was abort his person; it is ima-
gined, led to the perpetration of the murder.

A man, named Richard Underwood, was,anprellended at
an Inn, at Worcester, Friday sennight, on suspicion of having
committed the above savage monde:. .He persisted in as-
sorting his innocence until
Monday, when he mule the fol-
lowing enuft•ssion:—" I entered the yard at the Nita Ina, on
Wednesday morning last, about eight o'clock. got into the
hay loft immediately, and remained there until four o'clock
nest morMng, when the ostler arose to brew, I then went down
to him, ss Ito asked me what I was doing there so early ?
said I bad been in the hay loft all night , he said you most
be cold and hungry. and promised to give me something when
be had lighted the tire ; while he was in the act of stooping
to do so. 1 took up an hatchet and cut Nun over the head, so
that he kit ; he asked me what I did that for? I followed
np my blows on the head until I left him for dead. I then
robbed him of Ilk watch and money, left him -end went into
the stable; broke open a clipboard, and sound C. Ind. in
copper, went into the kitchen and took his smock (nick, and
proceeded to Worcester; at Malvern I buried the frock and
watch; proceeded to the Red Linn and took some ale, and
arrived at my brother's house in Watercourse-alley, Weir.
cester ; I informed him I had murdered the ostler at the New
Inn, Ledbury ; changed my dress, had my hair cut, and was
shaved."—The assassin is tills committed for trial.
Another murder was perpetrated on the tith February last,
near Birmingham. Mr. Pennington, winemierelmet, of
Loodon, about twiliglv started in his gig, from ltirminghato
to proceed one stage onward to sleep; but he bad not ad-
s auced more than a mile, when he was attacked, and mur-
dered by some ruffian or ruffians. He was found • stripped •
of his loose cash and bilk ; but the bulk of his property be.
ing secreted in the linicg of his coat, escaped the assassins.
Mr. Pennington has left a widow and Mx or sesen orphan
children. A reward of OM it ott's:red in die Gazette of
Saturday for the apprehension of the assassin.

On Monday last, an industrious man, Jacob Hale, and his
flan's., consisting of a a ife and five chiidt en, were duos ing
front !Militia'', to Ouroeyslade,Sonierset. when, by some
immagement, the cart, which w as loaded with howebold fur-
niture, and on %Well the wife and three children were riding.
was unfortunately overturned. and, shocking to relate, the•
woman and her children being entangled in the loadme, wet.
so crashed by the cart falling on then,. that the ruAlit r anti
two of her infants were taken tip quite dead, and the ,bird
child so mangled and bruised, that little hope is entertained
of i s Tyco% ery.

Friday se'nnight, Stephen Langford, Jas. Douglas, and
W,n. Perry, servants to Mr. Jonathan Passinetam, of N 0 e tit
Hyde, were committed by Peter Henderson, Eq. of 11(.1
font, Middlesex, to Oddball] Fields prison, for one month, to
be kept to hard labour, for getting so intoxicated as to ren
der them unable to drive their -teams home on their row.'
limn St—James's Ilayinai Let. It is much to wished that
masters would follow the example of Mr. Passingliara, and
then they mould have better servants.

Itreonurn's REPORT.—On Saturday the Recorder made a
report of the whole of the convicts under se tarn .e or death
In Neweate (except those convicted at the last hes/nuns),
when Andrew and Benjamin Savage, be hers, Tho-ias Cann,
Ei;zabeth Flicker, William Kelly, James Gates, and James
Baker, were ordered for execution on Wednesday next. It
is stated in the papers of this day, that ere of these unhappy
n has been reprieved ; but, on emptily at N:os gate this
• 'month..., we find the report to be Wenn& el. It Jody have
had its en igin in the circumstance of o.ie of • the b -others
named in the report having most solemnly declared that the
other is perfectly innocent of the crime for whirl, he is about
to suffer. Both last night and this morning he asserted, "as
in the presence of Almighty God." that, though himself
his brother neither participated in his clime, net shared in
b• profits, beyond that of a single glass of beer; and that he
did in ignorance. It' this is finked the case, whit-11,1mm the
manner in which it is asserted by the unhappy man about to
be Plumedinto eternity, and from which statenn nt he him-
sell eau derive no possible benefit, we are strongly inclined
to believe it is worthy of the malt serious consideration.
Tut: ItnrEns.—At the last Old Bailey Sessions, Richard
Gamble, Wm. Gunnell, and John Carpenter, were hied and
acquitted upon a capital charge, of having broken inn and
entered the dwelling-home of Mr. Beckwith, of Snow hill,
and with having stolen therein a vast quantity of fin -arms.
After their acquittal, they were, upon an application spade to
the Court by Mr. Gurney on the part of the Crown, ordered
to be detained, to be tried for the mistlemeniumr. On Satur-
day, Mr. Newman, the Governor of Neu gate, receiveil
communication from the Secretary or Stnte's Ake,
aithorisio g lu an to discharge them, on condition of their cutter-
, mg inio their own re cognizance to appear at any filth, e
period, should the la w -othcers of the Crown require thle111:•0
in do. This they instately did, and were shortly afterwards
discharged.

ST. JAMr.tt'S

\Vu &Tit:CHAPEL

SMITHFIELD

'MARCH 3.

AGI?ICULTURE.

found a box of Pupers in the house of one of them.--
They have this day been sent from hence uuder a strorrj
guati for th 6 guol of Derry. 7