The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-26 00:00:00

THE NATIONALREGIgTEW.

ous, and,drew the attention of some of the peace officers, he
'moved into the centre of the pit, IN Mere he renewed his incite•
smut to riot, and annoyed the peaceable part of the audience
by his violent and unmannerly behaviour; and whilst thus ev-
erting himself, the officers rushed forward and took him into
cus:ody.

This charge was corroborated by a Mr. Davis, the Surveyor
of Bloorusbury-square.
Mr. Robson, in his defiance, said, that his coughing and
sneezing were purely natural, and originated in the cloud of
dust that Was thrown up by the violent motion of the people in
the pit ; be said, he felt no concern for his situation, as, how-
ever obnoxious his conduct night have been, it was dictated
by a desire to support a righlecus cause.---" Ordered to find bail,
which he did immediately, an was discharged.
Wedesday a man was brought before Mr. Graham the Sitting
Magistrate, charged with having taken Mr. Winholt's hat from
hint a few evenings since in the pit of Covent-Garden. Theatre.
It appeared that the . prisoner bad pawned the hat, and con-
verted the moll-'y in his own use. The pa..vnbroker, with
wham the prisonerbad pawned the hat, appeared and. identified
his person ; he was therefore convicted in the penalty of 40s.
and It. 4s. pd. the value of the hat, which the prisoner paid.
W ihholt received the value of his hat and half the penalty.
Mr. David Forster, of No. 66, Basinghall-street, was
brought before the Magistrates at seven o'clock en Wednesday
evening, charged by two persans, the one named John Goddard,
and the other George Farmer, with riotous conduct in the pit of
Covent-Carden Theatre, towards the termination of the first
act of the performance.

Mr. Forster behaving improperly before the Sitting Magis-
trate, he was reprimanded in the strongest manlier fOrhis con-
duct, and was ordered to find bail. Two gentlemen, his friends,
Mr. Robson, and Mr. Bryan, instantly came forward, and
became his sureties, and he vas discharged.
The next persims brought forward were Mr. James .Tohnson,
grocer, Cracechurch-street ; and Mr. John Tvler, fish-sales-
man, of Billiwzgate, they were charged by Mr. J. Binii:!on
with repeatedly crying, Silence! in the back boxes, wiiii in-
tent to create riot, and interrupt the performince; the charge
was further supported by two other persons, attendants of the
Theatre. Mr. Johnson declared, that his cries of silence arose
solely from a wish to stop the tumult that existed, so as to
enable him to di, tinguish the voice of the performers ; and Mr.
Tyler swore by 6—d, that the charge exhibited against him
was erroneous..—Ordered to find bail.

Mr. Graham then fined Mr Tyler two skillinA.s, for profanely
swearing one oath in 1113 presence, which, with three shillings
costs, be immediately paid.
Mr. David Forster was brought in a second time in ctF•tody
from the pit, and char4ed by -Mr. Egerton Cutler, of 'Blooms-
bury-square! with haranguing the people in the pit, and pro-
moting riot nod distuthanee by his general conduct. Ordered
again to tod hail.
Goddard, the witness against Mr. Forster in :be first charge,
then applied for a warrant to apprehend a person named 1:-yan,
one of the bail for 7,11 r. Far.,ler, for an a:-cult. he !•tlicil,
that on his return to the pi:, Mr. Bryan poimed him out as an
informer, and they tore the skirts of his coat nearly off, Which
he exhibited in a very ragged state as a proof of his assertiau.
Mr. Graham granted the warrant, and at the coneltv.ion Of
the performance, Mr. Br\ an was brought from the Theatre by
some of the Officers, !attended, by an imm:oise crowd of the O.
P.'s who made a tren;eodous noise at the fiont of the (Mice, in
proof of their displeasure.
Mr. Bryan was ordered to .fiod hail. Two gentlemen
offered to swear that the charge was fal,e; but as the informant
positively swore to the correctness of his statement, their evi•
deuce w as not received.

Several persons were then brought in from the door of the
°slice fur disorderly conduct in the
.street, some of whom were
discharged with a reprimand. and one was ordered to Lind bail
for attempting to strike an officer.

Last Sunday morning, a poor woman, the wife of a bna:swzia s
mate; was most infamousl/ plundered of br.l* all, being her hus-
band's three years wages, and a proseat from the Captain, amount-.
lug to 2001. besides wearing apparel, &c. by two villiaus (one of
whom is a watchman,) by the folowingdeep-laid scheme, she
arrived on Saturday evening, at Charing-cross. and took her
place by the Liverpool Coac:i to proceed immediately to Ire-
land, and being called in the morning, waited for the coach under
the gateway : the (mkt- ordered her to follow him, which slie

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but it being dark lost sight of him—when t 0 men accosted be•g.
and said they .sere going by the same coach she was, and as the
coach would stop at three places before it got off the stones, ad-
vised her to walk on with them, which she foolishly consented to. •
They set of, and proceeded with her to the Cock public house,
in Dyot-street, St. Giles's. She treated them with some liquor,
and having put her bundle on the bar, in expectation every mi-
nute of the coach stopping, w hick contained her 200/. one
'if them decamped with-it, the other said he sup p05:741 he was
taking it to the coach. In a few minutes he told her the maw
had run away with her bundle, and that he would pursue him,
and bring him back, but never returned. Thos left %I. ithoot
knowing where she was. ora single person in England, and rub-
bed of the whole of her property, brought her into such a state of
mind that she immediately cut ber throat, but the knife did not
penetrate far enough to endanger her life. In jostilication, she
said, she might as well lose her life as her money. In th
Airlorn state an houest sailor took compassion on her, and tom.'
tier to his apartments, where she fared as he and his wife did
during Sunday, and on Monday took her to Row-stress, w here
'Treadway, the constable, undertook to istvestignte the business;
and in the meantime took her under his protection and procured
her a lodging. He learnt at Dy ot-street that one of the men's
name was Daley, a watchman, the other man was only knouts
by sight. Daley underwent no examination, tied acknowled;reil
being one of the men who was with the prosecutri x, but de-
nied knowing who the other man was, or where he nos to he
found. He was committed for further examination.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

A woman of the name of a pretended prophetess, hat
been committed from the Marlborough street office, for defraud-
ing Ann Smith of 11. 17s. under pretence of disclosiog future
:'vents. The Sybil obtained the money at various times, and
she also got posseision of the greater port of the clothes of thq
credulous girl. The prosecution was instituted by the com-
plainant's mistress.
As a hackney-coachman of the name of Hiveson, who haft
taken up a fare at Covent-Garden Theatre on '.lontlay night,
and who w:.! inebriated, was -proceeding along Belton-
street, he fell from his hoz, and fractnred his head io so silo, k-
ing a manner, that he died on being conveyed to the hospiioi.---
The boys; proceeded with the coneh wi:hout the %now ted:te
the person 3 within that the accident had happ,.ned, 'lntel it 1,•;;::
-turned over in St. Giles' but no erson was hurt.
A man of the name Norton, i 3 a custody, for stealing ;a ---
horse from the livery stables at Mourg:ite. Chi A:ooday he emit
his throat: he perpetrated the horrid deed with a td zor, and to
enable himself to have power to effect his purpose, ite tied the
blade fast to tiie with ,osne worsted, with w air!' he halt
hung a fowl to roast on Friday se-nolo:4M. lie remoias in the
House of Correction in a very dangerous state.