The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-02 00:00:00

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DARING OUTRA.II.—.AII Mr. Chall.Williallkiol3 and
his wife were, late on Saturday evening, returning to
town from Highgate, they were stopped nearly as the
bottom of die MU by a single fii,,spad, armed with a
!miry bludgeon. The fellow se zing the rein. of dia
horse, anti uttering many sum:Swig impseeatunis, de-
mantled his money ur li.r. .slr. W. ho.vever, jumped
out of the gig, and is ,ng Sit? ns liis lady's
hands, manfully ats ekt-, t'ito i 0,411.0 wit the bi:tt-end
of a whip. Tne slaaiu i• costa ;hiss roughly
dealt with, roared ow, woe's two ‘,..se- roffirtis came
running up, and bet. ;de Mo. W! Laolsoo, with
tearing her clotdes, boa tit..gad:g tier Cl,va.: and scarf ofi
her shoulders; tier sit:. is s bruit. us Mr. W.
to her assistance, alter ir:ohos Ilse r .41 oppo:ed to him.
He now luckily tin tiown•otic us toe tidier villains. who. •
holdiug 1,0,t by u.s co..t. otward nos prevent his
wife being bris: ally 'oi. ed ua. the ve:i.eie, and canted
through a S(J;,I ui :.se sic ote e..,10 by. tar.witintantling
her criea and issis. suet. A,: I •St3llt, a cart cattle
down the hill *An no.s in it. Hcastiig the
disarmers scre:'s.ss of a woos to. they cried " We
are coavni; I we sa.e ',shed sip, leaped out,
and tau up to t 61g. suss{ ruaaii Mr. W'tiSitousoss !calv-
ing on the N'IOI tate rein: to his ham's, qtt:te ex-
hausted. Tsiie:• 1,,A :so mil:, tkw to the lady's re-
lief; they so os .I.3CONere3 tier tit a fainting state. con- •
veyed her iminvo.a:en: to toe cat ftisge, placing Mr. W.
with her, an.: silt 6,1 of inea way to a chynsiet
airs droggist in K,l6,ii-town, venue s,ie was relieved.
Mis. W. lost het ci.salt, szar and one shoe; her ons- •
side dress and petticoats were witch cut and torn, has
she most fortunately sustaiiied sin material hurt. Tne
villains made weir escape across the fields on the fist
alarm.
Mr Adkins, the governor of the House of Correction.
Coldbatii-fields, died on Friday morning, after a long
illness. Vickery, the senior principal officer of Bow-
street, waited upots Sir R. B.rnie in the course of the
day, to inform him that he intended to become a candis. -
slate for the vacant situation, which is- in the gift of Ilse
Middlesex Nlagistrates, and to solicit his sanction and
support. S:r R. Birine • (timely promised both, and
took the opportunity of bearing testimony to the intelli-
gence and activity uniformly shewn by that officer in
the performance of his duty. He had been 25 years in
the po"ice, and 13 years of that time a principal officer of
Ma Bow street establislxnent, and he hid several times
been desperately wounded in the execution of his duty.
Upon out occasion, in endeavouring to apprehend two- '
men charged wail murder near Finsbury-square, his
scull was fractured, several of his fingers broken, ansi be
was left for dead.--A recut ..... endation to the rest of
the county magistrates, on behalf of Vickery, was imme-
diately signed by Sr R. Biritie, G. R. blinshull, T. Halls,
and W. Beckett, Esqrs. the magistrates on the bench ae
the time.

BersToL MAIL.—As this mail from London on
TursJay last was changing horses at Frosfield, owing to '
some altercation betw, en the coachman and horse-keeper.
the horses set off without coachman or guard. An out-
side and inside passenger were injured, but two-gentlemen
(Mr. Ricketts, of Wino!, and Or. Somers, of Mendip-
lodge,) keeping their seats escaped unhurt. The horses
went On at a steady quick pace, till they reached the gale
at the entrance to Marlborough forest, where one of the
leaders struck against the gate, and broke from the rest :
the coach was dragged by the three renting horses into
the forest, and brought to a stand-still among the trees;
in about Ott minutes a Bath coach came up with coach,- •
mail and guard, and with proper asaistatice the mail•pro.
ceeded ; the coachman not forgetting at the end -of the
stage to ask for hisfeefer titeitlion.
On Thursday night last, about half-Oast ten, as Mr.
John Morgan, lxnsholder, of Tunbridge, was on his •
return from Maidstone. where he had been to convey a
prisoner, he was stopped on the road betweee'filtibridge
and kiadlow, near to Green Trees, by two footpads. one
of whom was tall and the other short, who immediately' •
attacked hint, and after beating him in a most inhuman
mouser with thick pieces of hop-pole, robbal him of:
property, consisting of one half-sovereign. 15 shillings
um 2.ilver, a meinoratidom book in. a marble cover, con- •
taMing some appraising accounts, a receipt for the afore-
said prisoder, a steel shot charge with powder in it, and
(M organ thinks) likewise two t I. notes of the Tunbridge
• bank.
There is a new plan beginning to develope itself, of
ruffians assembling and threatening persons who prose-
cute thieves to conviction. 'the metropolis swarms with '
housebreakers, and it is forsooth considered a great of-
fence by these villains and their connections, if persons
do toot stiffer themselves to be robbed and plundered with;
impunity. %Viten fellows are loured assembling (or the
purpose of injuring or insulting those who proseuee of--
. fenders, we hope to find the police officers on the alert,
and that niffians an conducting themselves will be dealt
with according to the utmost rigour of the law.
EIH urctrioN.—An application of attaffecting nature
was made to Sir George Foram, at Marlborough-street,
by the sou of a gentleman in consequence of his father's
corpse hem.; disinterred. The gentleman stated, his
fattier was buried a (lay or two since in a church-yard its
the country, and the same night Re body was removed
from its peaceful habitation by some resurrection men,
who had been seen in the night coming down on the
road front London in a light cart, which they had driven
into a field, while it is supposed they plundered the grave
of his lather's remains; every article whirls was placed
in the coffin was left, and the shroud, shirt, Bcc. were•
taken from off the body. The gentleman had bpplied
to several eminent surgeons, anal had been. admitted to
many dissecting rooms, but could not find his father',
body among the many which he saw;, his object was to
procure an order from the magistrate, and the assistance
of an officer in searching the premises of those surgeons
who resided immediately within the district of the office,
The magistrate gave him a letter, and dispatched Jeff-
reys, a very intelligent officer with him, btu hitbette the
search is unsblCClOlul.