The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-17 00:00:00

THURSDAY.

Domingo. Robins was Pni to the bar tinder nn indictment,
charging him with having, on the Silt December lest, stolen
from his master, Lord Beresforsk three 11. Bank notes.
The prisoner was d d in Wadi, and bore a very re-
spectable appearance. He appeased to be between 40 nod 511
years of *tile. A jury of half foreign and half English was
empanelled.
Los d Beresford was the first witness called on the part of
the prosecution. He said that the prisoner had been in his
service 8 sit 9 years, and had accompanied him from Portugal
to Eacland in July fart. The business of the prisoner imme-
diately was to attend I in his dressisig-rooin. and ke of
roane hail the care of his clothes. It often happened that
his los d-Itip lefehis money in his pockets. The prlsosser had
therefose an opportunity of knowiste what ease was thus uy
accident left its his pockets. His Los ilship haft firms time 1..
time missed nioney in this was, an.h suspected the prisoner of
having taken it. For the purpose of ascertuialog the fact,
lie tusk the precaution of marking three 11. notes, the nuns •
leers of whirls lie 5.1.0 put slows. 111 his pocket-hook. He
roiled these notes nit, and put them into one of his puekets.
On the morning of the Bth of December he missed the notes,
and seat for Foy the officer. As soon as the officer came, .he
celled the prisoner before him, and asked hint whether lir
sd any money, and to pi-mince it. The prisoner
polled out a poise containing a quantity of Portuguese
e•. 1.1 r oin. He a.kell the prisoner whether lie had any oilier
...sues, and lie replied that lie had nut. His lordship repeal-
ed his question. end asked. "Are yon store yon Ware IM
paper money either in your pockets or among %our sic gage '
The prisoner again denied that he had any. The day bet ole
this transaction the prisoner had said that he had no money.
Foy, the officer. immediately proceeds d to scotch, and from
sine of the prisoner's pockets a roll of Bank notes was pre-
slowed. It was opened and the notes were compared with
the bets which had keen put down lit his Lurdship's
pocketbook. He Ismail these to be the same is. all partial.
lairs. The notes were here piodneed.
After some confirmatory evidence, the jury without hesi-
tation found the prisoner guilty.

EIECUTION.—Tuesday inwitilig, the three criminals.
Knight, Morris, and 'lntim, who were capitally convicted in
October sessions, underwent the sentence of the law opposite
Newgate, in the presence of a great crowd. Win. limited,
who was not inure than 17 years of ag , was tried fur a high-
way robbery and convicted. Tire ofleurie tor which Almeria
was convicted is, no dontst, fresh in the recollection of our
readers. Hr was a watchman of Camden Town, and in eon
junction with the servants of Edward (Arnow, Esq., tJosepti
Braid and Emma Oweii,) who were made evidence for Oro
Crown, alatiaged to rob the house of a great quantity of piste.
! Tougay. alias Cripps, was convicted for stealing three heifer*.
The Rev. Mr. Cotton attended them at an early hour sit the
romantic, and found them so resigned. that he felt no hesitation
in administering tire Sacrament to them. Soon after half ims.
seven o'clock 1)r. Gwi 00000 i, one of the Sheriffs moil -Nil.
Tenter, the Under Sheriffs arrived. and shortly softerward.
proceeded to the press-yard. When the authappy men as-
cended the scaffold they were remarkably penitent t but the
lad Knight declared, that although be hail Led a most dissolute
and profligate life, he was innocent of the crime for which be
on. snout to snlfer.—Alter praying a few moments on the
scaffold, he ejaculated —" 1 am ionoreett I lam innocent 1
Yoh see All innocent man cutler!" He then requested that
a handkerchief mielit be tied over his eyes, which living dune,
and all the necessary arcingeinents being comPlete, the fatal
signal was.given by the Rev. Mr. Cotton, and the nut*, Innate
malefactors were plunged into eternity. fraud, died almost
without a struggle. • • • ••1 110
II t: an i.a II t Us, Ronn E a I ES. &c . —.The • IWO% and adjo Wog
premises of Mr. C. Marsh, miller of Itnehairiptint. QM Putney.
were broken open on Wednesday night: fawn • wrgitsbop
.a large ,
'titmice chisel was taken, and used by she thieves to break mot the
house ; and after they had elfwetel an meanie. thiy curled off
linen, wtaring.apparel, and othtr property, which they hart tam
from drawers that they had rifled to a eonsidensbit, amount. The'
outhouses of Mr. W. Brown. al Ptituey Meant, were broken'
open on the same night. and a fat I.ii, sad a lOW seeredriven away,
it is supposed, by the saniepecion or persons Who robbed Mr. lluvill
of Brixton. Tile peernines or Mr. Soteter, of itaithanipioa, were
!woke open on Tue.iluy nig'.t, soon lifter eve faintly were Font to
Fwd, (it is supposed) nail pie:Acted of insiperty, of dirfarni Moos by
the villains, who, withoot giving any Alston, carried off tent booty
and effected their escape. Os. Tuesday night the residence of atom;
demon of fortune, at East Sheen, irional Steers, was broke open
by some thieves, who riiitd ,cveral iiiartniento, and packed tip
propny to a great iunoard, which they canve}ett to a 119 eel at sonic
distant: Masi the home, for the purpose (as it is conjoetnred) of
in•we easily removing it without tiLtection to a cart, to be carried
off. They returned to the house to teary away a second lead, and
made a noir-, which awoke the butler; he moved the hardly, and
the villains made off with ail possible speed. 'Chi: Keynote pursued,
and disc in.r.,l all the p:oputy win .11 lad been carried from the
louse in t't, :+•.e el ; thet.tieves.h4ml not time to carry it Away. They
carried about their
.perao;ls a :WAIL qunitity of silver plate only.—
Oa Wzdatisdiy eveniug the stashes of a i;enticnian, residing in
IWell Square. Wh'elu arc situaw near Ely Place, Prospect Road,
Southwark, were woke open, and arblied of three valtrable riding.
coat, a bet of gig.l.arness, and other property.
One 01 the CliriiillS dogs Irons the Arctic ret;ions. was last
week scut front London to 'l'. W. Coke, Esq. at Hot/nna.

MIDDLESEX SES',VIOIIIB.
FRIDAY, JAN. 1R ' ' •
Friday the trial of the wretches whose offence win lately ::.-447ed
in our. police report, was brought on at these semsions. The names of
the prisoners are Wm. Harvey AVasley, Edward Amino. W 9). 'mails
Win. Jenimet, Harvey Ternmaa, Jo:in Donovan, James Nicholson,
John Trill, John Ferguson. henry Watford, Charles 'N in.
Mitchell, Wm. Ando*, Charles Liinmers, James Howl, and Wis.
Kitchen. They were indicted for conspiring together to commit an
abominable entre and in this part of the indictment these were Ire
counts; and besides. Came, there were two other counts, charging'
theta with a misdemeanour. in assembling together for a crimittal
purpose. .
Mr. Adolphus, for the prosecution. which was carried on by thy
parish of Nlarylebone, addressed the
sita..y. it wee isonecescur foe
hint to anticipate any of the detail cim:ll would be produced in
evidence; they bed heard enough from the reading of the indictment
to explain its nature to them. lie was aware that leartielfrierld
would conduct his case with all that skill and ability for which he
was distinguished. and at the erme time with the manly cindear
which belonged to him.
Evidence was then mlled, and the facts proved.
Mr. Alley, for the prisoners, contended, that there tow no proof of
the conspiracy. A conspiracy, he observed. should be to do some
act which was to bring injury to others ; but the prisoans wen only
injuring theniselvo.: and it would he a solecism w law. to suppose
that any roan, or set of men, could conspire against himself audition-
selves. As to the ineocence of the prisoners on the two other counts,
he bad nothing to say.
The Chairman (Mr. Conlin. in remarking on the evid.rne, fdl:y
concurred in the objection which Mr. Alley had made, as to the wane
of proof in support of the conspiracy ; hut said, there was sufficient.
if the jury believed it, to convict thou of the of charged in the
6th and 7th count..
The jury accordingly. without Imitation, found them Gehl, of
the taftnee In the Whaled 7111 wants.
The Chairman. after consulting for a short time with his brother t-
Magistrates. delivered the sentence of the Coact wit4out any cons-,
nest. It was, that Wm. Homey Wesley mid Jatues liowe should
be imprisoned in Negate for 12 moathr, and all the others be ins - •
ptisoned in the same gaol for 6 months.
As soon as sentence was pronounced, and the culprits were about:
to be removed from Court. the crowd, whether from regret at the
great lenity they had experienced, or indignation at the crime, or
both, set up tremendous shouts and hisses. •and it was with great
difficulty, that the officers succeeded in conveying their charge Stung
the Hal/ As each prisoner descended the steps he was earaileei with'
loud hotintle, which seemed to be only a prelude to .the dreadful.,
storm which was about to burst upon them. From the ball.ther
were, with considerable difficulty. conveyed to die strong room Mc
the end of the Sessions house. Whilst the ornatebin were making,.
arrangements for the conveyance of the pri.artere trans the woos.
mom to Newgate, the assemblage of persons outside. which nasals".
immense. were not less busy in making their preparations to nubs.
them on their coming out. The streets laying near tie Court Name.
which are at all times in a very dirty state, were at this time rather
more so than usual, and every thing that lay upon them more porta-
ble than a perringstone was coon gathered up. A /urge cart thaw ap
to the door. The moment it began to move. showers of .AM gram
thent from all sides. and the constables wereohliged to Kt,
pasted through Smithfield, it being market day. there was. as
a large collection of every kind of filth. This 'Refound ape
until they became a shapeless mass, which could net ho easseturiesed„,
without the utmost horror On their arrival A Newine many or-;-
them (16 in ally were apparently lifeless. which *ay watill wort hank;r:
beast in reality. if they had not been speedilysialliOrtod beyond
reach of their assailants.

•
A considerable degree of alarm wu wetted on TteNNW%
night, about eight o'clock, in the neiahhoosrhood of I.lWisry..:-
lane 'fliestre, by the appearance of the tirdeogieu. A greet
round colluded around die stage-don. The accident bap -
pined he that put oldie budding apploptiated to the this.. -
sing-rooms, but by the assistance of the persons present woe -
Ito under without doing any mondial The earliest*.
were not aware the alarm that load been given without the
Tiusatre till some liaise after it had subsided.
The Earl and Giantess of Grey and tesity, it is said, will .;
shortly leave Engloond for the Cootinent, where they Mood
to reside fax VA° years.
The Duke of Welrmgton, by his appointment to-the
high office of Master General of the Ordnance, become .
ex-officio Colonel of the Royal Artillery, and•as a point
of etiquette Lis Grace appeared in the .unifurtn of the
regiment when he was presented to the Prince Regent. .
The officers are in high spirits on the change, as the
Duke has had better opportunities of appreciating their
brilliant awl valuable services than the noble Lord big
predecessor in office. The Duke is expected to visit .the
Royal Arsenal at Woolwich in a few days, and to in-
spect the Artillery at their heal (porters, when the
officers will give a grand entertainment to his Grace on
the occasion.
We regret to state that Lord Erskine was suddenly
taken ill on Saturday night, while on a visit x) his
Royal Highness the Doke of York, at °attends. The -
attack happened after the family had retired en run.—
The Earl of Lauderdale, who was also a visitor, was
called up, and raid every attention to his afflicted friend.
Medical assistance was immediately procured, and 40
ounces of blood were taken from his Lordship, un ope-
ration by which he felt himself greatly relieved, .This
is the first serious illness experienced by his Lordship
during an active, and for the greater part of ii, a very
laborious life.
l'untuant to a warrant from the rrinca Regent, dated

the 7th instant, the Lord Chanzellor has issued a writ .
of summons to the Right Hon. Hans Francis Hastings,
as Earl of Huntingdon. Lord Htintingdon's pctitim
was only presented to his Royal Highness on the •2'.!d of
January lust: and since that period tht m u t satio:,ctory -
evidence has been adduced the extinction of 1‘; an- -
ees:ors, whose male descendants, consisting of rixty
nine persons, it was necessary to prove the sus lute
removal of, in order to mike ‘vay for his Lon:staffs
succession The present Noble Lord is tLe eldest lineal
male descendant of Sir Edwe.d Hastings, fourth son of
Francis, second Earl of lit:nti:lLtdon. by Catherine,
grandda,ghter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Gas
rene,!„ brother to K.:ig Edward the Fourth.
The Hon. C. Iktcy is about to proceed to Corfu,
having boon apoointA Treasurer of the. tepublicof the •
lonian Ishuids.