The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-22 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

On Monday, .I'. Rnberts was arraigned tisr snalieioncle stab.
bing the servant of Lord Hirers, as lie s as lea% ing Hsdc Palk
a few weeks since: the particulars of the affair we gave at the
tissue. 'the prisoner, when put to the bar, behaved in so in-
coherent a manner, that a Jury Nas to try if he
was in his sound mind. After examining a number of wit-
nesses, they returned a verdict to the effect that he v.as ise,ane,
and he was in consequence ordered to be detained

Wednesday,James Ilay,a butcher's watchman with a wooden
leg, was indicted capitally fur committioz a rape on Elizabeth
Pike, a child under ten years of age, on the 4th ulJanuary last.
Mr. Alley stated the case, and said, that the prosecutors were
the officers of St. Bride's parish. The child and her father
her mother being dead) lodged in the prisoner's house, in
Black Horse-al:ey, Fleet street ; and the father was a labourer,
who goes mit to work in the morning at six o'clock, and Gene•
rally returns late at night. On the lilt of January the prisoner
desired her to go down to the cellar to feed the dogs--he fol-
lowed her, and there accomplished his purpose. It !night
be necessary to mention to the Jur•, that the prisoner had been
examined at Guildhall Police Office ; and that the Magistrate
who presided admitted him to go at large on giving bail as a
misdemeanor (conceiving it to be only an assault with an at-
tempt to commit a rape), and he had surrendered hiutselfthis
morning to take his trial fur that offenee; lint the parish, after
investigating the business, had indicted him capitally. The
unfortunate child, in consequence of his crime, was at that mo-
ment one of the most miserable inhabitants of Bartholomew's
Hospital. It was not necessary for him to say nue word more;
except that it would be admitted, this child had been allowed
to go of errands for a woman who kept a brothel in the same
court; and that she did not communicate what had occurred,
until she was net able to walk from di'ease.

The child was examined, and confirmed Mr. Alley's state-
ment.
John Pike, the father, proved that the child was not ten
years of age till the 2-Jel of,litimary last.
Mr. Justice Park strongly reprobated the conduct of the
father in allowing his child to have any communication a ith a
bnithel.
Several witnesses belonging to the faculty were called ; but
it was inertly us to their prufessiosial judgment It 4 qlrgTolls.
Abraham t:ressw•eiy the street•keeper of S:. Bride's, deposed,
that lie took the prisoner into custody on the Pith of done; he
hail been in search of him fur some time, had been at his house
at almost all hours of the day, and late at night; at last found
him watching some butchers' stalls.
The prisoner, in his defence, asserted his innocence.
Mr. Arabi'', Counsel for the prisoner, called Mr. Paine,
Cicnk to Guildhall Police o...tgee, to prove that there was a con-
iv:idle:ion in the child's es idence, between what she had de-
pieed this day and when at the Other ; but it appeared they.
corresponded. Ile accounted why the Leartuil Judge had
not the dopositime4 taken at the Office, Lel. we him ; as they
never were in the habit of doing so, when a prisoner was coin-
milted for a miArmeauor ; hut the custom should lie altered, if
his Lordship thought it would he proper.
Mr. Justice Park nh•ei veil, it ass Hot for hint to give direc-
tions"; but it would he most desirable that it should be done.
Ilannah Nicholl., an unfortunate eyprian, was called to prove
Cost the °Gime n.ls committed by another per,on instead of
the plrisoner.
Wm. 'fhamas Heston. a compositor, deposed, that he heard
the lad witness say, she would, cleat tie prisoner, ‘slictbel she

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swore false or not ; that she did not care about taking a false
oath, as it would not he the first, second, or third time she had
taken a false oath. Ile told her the consequence of taking a
false oath if she WM fmind out. She answered, she was d
if she cared, to; ►he was determined to clear the prisoner at
all events.

Mr. Justice Park summed up the evidence with his usual
perwicuity.

The Jun• then retired for half an hour, and brought in a ver-
dict uf Guilty—Death.
The prkouer is 33 years of age, and has a wife and three
children.

JUIIU4 Wellden wail indicted for marrying Jane Hemming ;
his former wife, Ether, being alive at the time.
J. Barlow, Deputy Clerk of St. 01le4, Cripplegate, produced
a regliter of a marriage in 1793, between J. WeWen and
Eqlier May.

J. May, the prisonce.4 father-in-law, proved that he was pre-
sent when his daughter vias married to the prisoner: she is
sti!l lisinz.

Cross•es:unincd.—They had been separated 20 or 21 years;
and witness had had no correspondence with her these 13 year,
E. Price, Clerk of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, produced de
marriage reaistrr between J. WelWen and Jaue ilelliiilillgo on
the 27th of October, 1811.

J. Wcllden was present when his brother, the prisoner, was
married to both the women.—Guilty.
'l. Glover was indicted for stealing five knives and a silver
spoon, the property of W.Ttiorit and J. J. Cuff.
The prosecutors are proprietors of the Freemasons' Tavern,
and the prisoner was employed there as an occasional waiter.
On the .!tith of June they missed a silver spoon; the prisoner
ts as suspected, and the nest day he was apprehended. Salmon,
the officer,searclied the prisoner's lodgings, and found the arti-
cles named in the indictment.—Guilty.

Thursday, John Fisher %%.1, found g- I.;ity of bigamy; and the
case being a flagrant one, hr Will be sentenced to seven years
transportation. In the emirse of the trial, one of the Jury
asked, whether it were not liCeC,A3ry to prove the consumma-
tion of the marriage ?—'l he Common Serjeaut said, that the
law did nut require it; the ceremony of marriage at the altar
implied the consummation, and that had been held fur the last
century to he sufficient. The Recorder that night passed sen-
tence of death on the following capital convicts; viz.—
Abraham Mendoza, James Magrah, Thomas and John Clay-
land, alias Clayton, Richard Mintsey, James Hickey, Morice
Ealey, John Copses., and W. Lewis, for highway robberies ;
Dennis Iteordaui. Junes Quin, 'Thom-is Gunnell, J. aid, mtfi
Elizabeth Maltutfy, Mary Mitchell, Mary M'Manns, and Ca-
therine M‘Manns, alias Mulvy, for high treason (coining); John
Hardy, Solomon llowermln, and John Harrison, fir horse
sunning; James Huy, fur a rape upou au infant under ten years
of age ; Edward Curling (a boy ), fur stealing to the anioialt of
105. in a dwelling-house; Margaret Welch, for privately steal-
ing in a shop ; John Atwood Eglertunn, fora detestable offend• ;
Benjamin Blauden, for stealing roods, value 40i. and upward•,
in a dwelling-house; and Thomas Gulliver, fir house-breaking
in the day time. Those for high tecason were ordered to be
drawn to the place of execution upon a hurdle.

Friday, James !meand aas found guilty of stealing from the
person of James Butler, 601. iu notes, acd other proeurty.
Tristram, atm! of 14 years of aLte, was indicted fitr
having, on the 2 ttli of June, stolen from the person of Charies
Hiltless, an infant, the property of Hugh Bathos, certain wear-
ing apparel.

It appeared upon the evidence of the prosecutor, and Wm.
She vil, a tang lad, companion and accomplice of the prisoner,
that on the day mentioned in the indictment, in St. John's
row, the prisonci saw Charles Ilutlass. lie decoyed the child
down into a cellar, and told it to take off its clothes; but,
neon the infant saying that it MUNI not, the prisoner answered,
that he only wanted to look at them, and would return them
ulterwat ds. Upon this the child was stripped, and it began to
cry. The prisoner told refhevil to run away with the clothes,
and he would follow. Shevil did as he was told ; but upon the
child coming out of the cellar naked, some boys rau after hint,
and be dropped the clothes. The prisoner was taken in
Gulden-lane, and at the time confessed the crime, cried, and
said he was sorry fur it.—Guilty.

SATUILDAY.
Thomas Davis and were indicted for stealing on the
2dofJune a quantity of linen, wearing apparel, and other aicales, tae
proptity of John Disinan.
The prosecutor, it appears, was a seafaring man, and the two pr:-
goners were his shipmates. On the day stated in the indictment they
were all travelling from lever to Canterbury, when the prosecutor was
taken ill, and Davis tati:red to take charge of his property. The pro.
seeutor consented and gave him five shillings for his trouble. The
party went afterwards into a public-house in Canterbury, but the pro-
secutor rclused to drink; and, upon leaving the pious., the prisoners
outwalked him, and he lost sight of them. About eight days after his
arrival in town, however, he met the prisoners in Spitaltields ; and,
having inquired :Or his propoty, they replica!, that they lost it Ilion
the road atter parting limn him. This story however was not believed,
and they were given in charge; when, upon searching them, sEn:.O
shirts belonging to the prosecutor, together with the haversack
contained his property, were found in their posscirsion.—The prisoners
were both found

J. Phipps ana William Sherwood. two men ti colour, were con-
victed of stealing a gold watch. a silver watch, and a (iwintitv of wea7-
ing apparel. the property of %% illiam South, mate of *West Indianuoi.
on board of which Sherwood serval as u sailor.
John !leery was convicted of stcaliUg a quantity of nimble boas
the property of the lion. Mr. Noel, hunt house of Mr. liv:;3 y
Phillip,. the auctioneer.

After hearing a fees• other coxes, but no: of an interststing nature,

By an Act of Parliammt passed at the close of the
Session, the Receiver-General is authorised to receive the
half-year's Property-tax now due, by two instalments, ex-
tending the last payment to the sth of January, 1817,
provided the first moiety Le now pia. fly a similar Act
the followig reduced rates of duty have been granted for
two years on husbandry horses, in lieu of the present as-
sessment of 17s. 6d. each horse

A iamb under £7O per 4110. Sc. each horse.
Do. £7O and under £l9O
1)o. J. 109 and under A. 13a 7s. 6d.
Do. kl mum' under 10..

Anti the ahoy.; persons arc allowed mcasionally to rile
a husbandry horse without paying the riving-hone duty.
A tenant quitting his Etna, a. or after Nlitiqutuncr,
on appeal, be relieved front one moiety of the anuaal
sessment.

1 SS

01,14( J• OF WIDN.-INCE, f July,

TIIE I'riaci pal OffixrA. id' Ilan )16esig's Ordnance
heretty notk•et that praposai.l be rer..ivrd their Viet IR
Pail ifolt, on or klbre IFedne*lay, the 51st ittsfoof from srett per-
•rmig tada Pa' retMo,•• to tt,tdr,t,,l., the sw.'y 01: Writ I iE
NUI OTHER PAJ'E lid. Pr a Mt* .bpartlitemt,fitr a pe.
;.n1 rf three years. tht.rtobothh• after th • eroirothot at the jirst year.
*pm: titre• rmotths. et the eptiatt aft' either paritt.
!lotto** githr Paper may he rie:erd upon oppltott;on la the Comp_
trotter 4..1 the Mooed Lohorat,ry is the .11;:pil .1,..rtm1. ; and
tettulsfm tritit Me frrm* um! tomlf**ws Me

.••••••:ea,l„ wawa/ I at • S.•,•n•lary'n CV,. in Pull
•1;1. city d.ty between ii 4."! !wars, of ten 40'1 fun, ',Work, :dare the pro.
pns.ots lynst dclii•rred imaled rap aail en:Awned, 6. l'rupositk Car-
tridg.• ;" bit prneasa: can tr: inbuilt:7i after the arid 31.1
i a.rl, 1.:•1e o'rlo * 11 AM of the framr day, ',tither will any tender
6. nnti...nlainlassgh, ?nay otok;ng it, or ouout i i h >r hrl".ty shall
Wt.", t4_' Bow d, N. 11. CRI:11-, Si:rectory.

* unfbresccn circumstance has vcrasiuned vs again
An postpone oar inletakd the Loup eIIIEC
JUSTICE (// the KING'S /3ENCII.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON :
..MONDAY, JULY 2,.4.

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WE have received the Ptuis Papers of Wednefklay
LiNt.

An arti:le from Alghieri, in Sardinia, announces a
rawcessful enterprise against some Barbary corsairs which
hal landed a denwhment of pirates upon the coast of
Sarainia, with the view of making prisoners. They adi.

vanced into the country, and were successfully attacked
cm passing through a wtaxl. 111eanwhili• a laxly of Sar-
dinians attacked their vessels. TILe men left in charge of
them mistook them fa- pristoners taken by their comrades;
they therefore remained trinquil, and the vessels, 17 in
number, were captured. Success bad raised the spirits of
the Sardinians.

The Kin,, of France has corr.rr-scl ih s digniry of

Grand Crossi% of the Order of on NiOnsieur,
.the Dukes of Angouleme and Berri, the Prince of Conde,
Duke of Bou:kni, and Duke of Orleans.
These Papers continue to infirm us of the damage
_done by norms of hail and rain, by lightning and thun-
der,. in almost every part of Europe. WhoLt districts
have been ravaged and. Lid waste ; houses have been
blown down; the labours of the husbandman destroyed;
rivers have burst their bank', anti inundated vast trusts.
The greatest .damage seems to have been done in Ger-
m:lly.

The French Funds continue falling—they are under
fifty-eight.

The Paris Papers of Monday last state, that on the day
preceding, twelve of the Marshals of France took the
va:h of viegiance according to ancient usage, between the
hands of the King. After a general promise) of fidelity and
goad service, it binds the taker to have no intelligence,
or intimacy, with any persons to the prejudice of his
Majesty, or of his kingdom ; and to reveal whatsoever
may come to his knowleJ,•e, that would be injurious to
either. The Jarshals were called, one by one, into the
mycl presence, and the Oath Was mai to each by the
Minister at War; except that, in his own case, the Duke
.41c Richelieu read for him. Monsieur, the Duke and Du-

claw de Berri, told all the principal officers of the Court,
were present at the ceremony. It is added by the Monifrier,
th:a these of the Marshals who did not take the oath were
i. 2, or abitent, applying the latter phrase, of course, to
those who are out of the kingdom. The fidlowing are
the names of the Marshals who were not exiled, and yet
it:dant appcar—Massena, Victor. Davoast, and Mancont.
Considering that Suchet was permitted to be one of the
swearers,—a man whose butcheriesin behalf ofusurpal ion
were iidlowed by treachery to the lawfid Monarch who

yartlonetl hint,—we are uthmihhed that the ceremony
.should haVe b. cn a public one. The humiliation of re-
tiving the oath of each a man bet7omcs servility, when
:any. unnecessary distinction i given to the scene ; but,

peihaps, it Was thf:ught that the di-grace is lessened,
of IriLiat many partake. %e recollect reading, soon after
the King's fost restoration, of the attentions which were
paid to this Sachet by the Duhe of A wontleme ; of his
Tiding. in the same carriag e with the De through the
Fouthern departments ; and of his being present with
him et eNry cereir.ony and entertainment. No sooner
tuonaparte appear. than he was again the enemy of
the liorabnel! Now the King takes his polluted hands
between his own, and suffers him, in that attitude to re-
pe:it the sokemaity, which he has almady profaned. Of
ulait strauge.materials is French dignity composed.
The Paris Parers say—" We learn frmn Berne, that
the ct.ntiattance of the rains and the accumulation of the
watcrs for want of proper drainage, have caused new de-
v.Autions in varitms parts of the Cuatinent. The small
to an of Nydau was inundated tier several days by the
1. • t•rlowing of the 'fiddle. It is sdded that the Neuville

bolt bever.ii other places notr the lathe of Bionic and
MOrnt, are tiatilarly rimm...tanced. The cause of
:te rivers Thitlle and Itroie, between t 1 three Lakes,
z.;%. uo lurgcr visible; the low plains ere erged.
la the vicinity of Berne the Aar h. pawed its ordinary
inandatvd the plantations on the bants of the
wale r~..l.i.the,moutitaineus districts the snow ii,not yet