The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-11 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

Atedneaday 3. Iveson and J. Owen, and Maria Oliver and
}tartlet Wilcott, their female amaciates, were re-examined.
The evidence of ~eventeen per.ons was taken. The principal
charge against ler‘on and Owen were for rut( rine the house
of h. Dliooge. F.,q. in TiWIIMCIIJ Street, Kent Road, and t
tr 4 vanote, at titles of Intel), plate, a it ri eat inz apoarel ;
a offence at the house of Mr. Hoare, in Bedford Street,
ftwn whence they stole plate ;11:(1 trinkets;
a like depredation .it the regidetare of Mr. MA, at Preklirm,
and stea:ing a Loge quantity of Otte ; and an attempt to
bleak opt it the house of Wtlkiu.nn,uf Bartlett Street,
Walworth. Upon all the above chat gee the in isoners lvtwon
amdf)ocei wore committed. The telltale prisoners were ad-
mitted as evidence for th. Crown, and gave ittrarmotion of a
most int portaiit nature. Witter is. 1.7 anti Walcott 18 sears oh
age. Being linable in find hail for their appearance at the
meta A v,ive evidenee,they were oecesurrily re.coin.
milted, hilt are ;a prehent separate f the felons. They
were informed, taut upon sureties being provided for their up.
profaner, they would be art at liberty.
J. Cowell, a table-ale and beer brewer, at Camberwell,
d tiled guilty to battling omitted to ink casks of ialilt lice:
h 1 witielt, tinder the. Art of Parliament, he had Met/ire:4 pr..
tioltit..3 to the amount of 11001. The information was laid by
a bopervi.or of Excise ; who at the s t time exPrea.rd Ins
.opinion, that the niniminii wan, froindnailvertener, null not,
ilmotiutal. The shlagistratea, oatleretiauding ills Linton'.

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missioners of Excise did not mean tco, press for the full
penally, fined the defendant 121. 10s.
Several persons resident at Camberwell, Norwood. and
Peckham. were charged with retailing table beer at a higher
rite than is allowed by Act of Parliament, viz. 41. per quart.
It was pi oved, that the defendants bad, in many instances,
vemled table beer at 20. and 3d. per quart. J. Clark,J.
steward, W. Wrrford, A. Smith, J. Robins, J. Staple, E,
'Thompson, J. Wilson, J. Rogers, and R. Cooper were sevet.
ally Cued 30s.—Fur the information of the Public, the Super.
visor laid before the Alaeistrates a cominnnioation which he
had received from th Board of Excise, which stated, that
the Board had in no instance ordered proceedings., sunless it
appeared (fiat the beer in question was sold at a price ex-
ceeding Cis. the barrel and the duty, makiag together 265.
the barrel. The heer referred to in the above iiitOrmations
was sold fur 30s. sad upwards the barrel.

Lines written in the title-page of Flame's History of England,
presented several years ago to Mr. Henry Johnson, now of
Drury Lane Theatre, by the late Mr. Lewis:—
" It matters little what one gives,
The matter's in the cause of giving:
While he that gives this book still lives,
Remember you've a friend still living."
M.G. LEWIS.

-On Wednesday last, a well dressed female called at Mt.
Sergeant's, in Great Et. Thomas Apostle, to look over his
house, which he wished to dispose•of. Miss Sergeant showed
the house to the woman, who expressed herself rrfeetly
fled. She left the house; in a few initiates she returned, and
said she hail left a meet up stairs, Miss Sergeant went up
stairs to I i • k for it, and not being able to find it, she return.
ed, and the woman said she supposed she had left it elso.
where. She had not been gone more than a quarter of an
hour, when it was discovered, that while Miss Sergeant was
looking f:r the parcel, she had entered the counting house,
and carried off 281. in Bank notes, which Mr. Sergeant had
left for a gentleman who was to call upon him that morning.
It has been ascertained that the notos have beet: changed as
the Vault, and the address written upon them proved to be
fictitious.

By a report of a Committee of Parliament, it appears
that the turnpike roads of England and Wales extelid 19,755
miles, anti the other highways 95,104, making a total of
114,859 miles ; also that 1,415, 8331. is annually expended on
them; and that the area of England and Wales is 57,6G9
square miles, or 37,094,400 maces.
A few mornings since a Freud' row-galley, with a crew
consisting of 11 men, arrived on South Sea Beach, near Fort
Cumhei land, anti immediately landed a quantity of 'French
silks and other proltilrited articles of considerable value.—
There was no Custom-house officer in sight ; but they did not
escape the notice of the officer commanding the troops at the
fort (of the 18th regiment), who, very prudently, did not at.
tempt to interrupt their proceedings until lie saw one of theta
move up the road-way. He then sallied trona his post, and
took possession of the following artieles, all the men having
retreated into the boat, in which they got away :-1132
yards of French silk, 10 Angola shawls, 11 dozen pair -of
Angola gloves, SO pair of silk stockings, 42 summit-lioxes, MI
dozen pair of kid gloves, v 26 yards of cambric, one petticoat
of fur, and 111 silk sashes.
Barnet, the veteran pedestrian, who is now in Ilia 76th•year •
for a bet of W. to 501. has undertaken, itseeems, to walk 300
miles in 1200 quarters of hoots. This sporting match is to
take place on the pith of this month, at Cheitenhem. -
GAII Liotees.—A Gentleman has just obtained a patent for
an improvement in the purifying of gas, which promises to be
of great public utility. By the plan he his devised, the
noxious smell arising from the use of lime and other solutiems,
which has so long been the subject of public complaint, will
be entirely removed.
A few evenings ago the house of Mr. Heiden the owner of Printers'
Street. Earl Street, Blackfriars, was robbed of money, plate, clothes,
and other articles, to the amount of 3001. It seems that on the re-
turn of Mr. Border, who had been during the day at Croydon, to
his house, at 9 in the evening, he heard a noise and strange voices on
knocking at the door. He went to the watchhouse to get assistance,
and on his return found the door open. On entering the house he
saw every thing in disorder, the desks and drawers forced andritied,
and the rooms stripped of every article of value that could be re-
moved. The maid servant was absent, but the chairwoman, whom
site had employed to take care of the house while she visited her
sweetheart, made her appearance in great agitation. The story she
told was, that the female servant had left her alone in the are of
the house in the early part of the evening.: shortly after she heard
voices up stairs, and listening attentively she heard sornebotly say,
6` Ann, arc you gone out yet ?" Frightened dreadfully, and fearing
that she should be murdered, she crept into the anal-hole, where she
remained locked up until the return of Mr. Bonier. The servant, on
her return, seemed astonished on hearing of the robbery, but being
suspected was taken into custody. The person she h:ul been to visit
was also apprehended. They underwent long private examinations
at Guildhall, but were discharged after a confinementsf two days.—
Among the property stolen are the following articles:—A gold watch,
ten silver watches, several gold chains and seals, four dozen of silver
spoons, four massy silver candlesticks, three silver mugs, a number
of ancient gold and silver coins, and from Go to ttio guineas in geld.
A reward has been offered for the apprehension of the thieves.
At the last Wells Assizes a cause was tried, for the second time.
respecting the warranty of too sheep, which the seller, who lived in
Soineisetsiiire, engaged to deliver to the purchaser, a gentleman of
fortune, at his seat in Kent. One thing soon became certain, and
, that wia, that all the sheep had the rot soon after their arrival at the
place of their destination. The proof of this was most positive, for
within a very shoo. time ohey all died of it. A question here arose,
whether the sheep had contracted this -fatal disorder before or after
the delivery; the purchaser refusing to pay because they were un-
sound, and the seller claiming . the benefit of his bargain beer-use he
t maintained that they were sound. Witnesses were drawn up against,
each other in flat contradiction, and the Jury would have been puz-
zled in their decision, lerd not Mr. Justice Burrotigh addressed a few,
questioes to two of the deft:talent's witnesses. Of the first, a Kentish.
fanner, he enquired, if he did not know that land which would roe
sheets in open weather, would not rot them in wfrost ?-0n the
fruitier declaring that his experience did not extend so far is that,
hi, Lordship said. " Then I would not give afire fur your evidence in
&sheep cause !"—Of the second witness, a Norfolk farmer. who
professed to keep MX) sheep as his regular flock, his Lordship en •
(mired if he was aware that lambs and ewes in milk would thrive
upon land that world rot all ether descriptions of sheep—" No 1"
Was the reply.—" Then," said his Lordship, "my good friend,
you know teething about sheep.; we need not trouble you any fur-
ther 1" It is needier.* to say on which side the scale preponderated.
At the Cineuit Court at Glaigow, Margaret Kentrily was con-
• victed of issuing forged notes °Utile Stirling Woking Company. owl
sentenced to be executed on the 4th d 4 of ”ovember. The pour
woman, wito is young. wit: totally una Ali or write, and was
earnestly recenitnandsd to mere/ by iliegitry. ' his is the only in-
stance of any pawn being tried in Glasgow toe forgery since 11,05,
Llwhen two yoling roan were convicted of engraving the plates for
forged notes, and issuing the notee .She is the reify individual now
in custodyin Scotland on a similar charge, and only caw has been
executed the kg .16 year: for forged-metes.