The National Register.
London, England, 1821-09-16 00:00:00

CROWN COURT.

MANSLAUGIITER.—John Hampson, aged 19, was
charged with killing James Naylor, :it Walton, on the
16th of August.
The deceased and the prisoner had quarrelled about a
sovereign, and at last aareed to fight in regular rounds of
pugilism. In the fifth round, the deceased received a
blow on the right of the head, which laid him stunned
on the ground, but he persisted to fight, saying he should
come round again He was at length carried quite ex-
hausted and speechless of the ground, and died in a few
hours aftcrwaid. The surgeon had no doubt that death
had been caused by the external violence applied to the
head. The fighting had been quite fair, and the deceased
had first begun it, and persisted in prolonging it.
Mr. Justice Bayley said, that by law no fighting was
allowed; and if the blows given by the prisoner caused
the death, he must be found guilty.—Guilty.
The sentence was imprisonment for 14 days.
John Robinson, aged 46, was convicted of manslaugh-
ter.—He had allowed his cart to drive on before him,
and in the middle of the street, in Liverpool, the horses
had trampled upon a child of 20 months of age. The
prisoner got the highest possible chancter for steadiness,
sobriety, and humanity; but Mr. Macdonald, the sur-
geon, 'hewed in the clearest manner that the bruises
given by the horses were the cause of death.
His Lordship expressed great regret at sentencing so
excellent s character to imprisonment for six months.
BURGLARY.—Job Ellison, aged 20, was charged with
having burglariously entered the dwelling-house of Thos.
Sandiford, a calico printer, at Tottington-higher-end„ on
the 18th of July, and with having stolen a watch, four
gold rings, four sovereigns, two guineas, a necklace, a
ruby, an amethyst, and other trinkets.
On the night in question, two men, one with a light
in one hand, and a pistol in the other, another with a
large bludgeon in his right harul entered the bed-chamber
of the prosecutor, at half past twelve. They demanded
where h rty was, and he told them, and gave them
some k compelled him to get out of bed, and
open so . for them. Upon his getting into bed
again, they fastened his hands to the posts of the bed.
Observing, while in the act of doing so, that he had gold
on his fingers, they pulled them off'. They pro-
cet..,ed next to Miss Sandiford's room: she offered resist-
ance, but was soon overpowered, and such trinkets as
were to be found in her room were carried away. While
the robbers were thus occupied, the prosecutor contrived
to disengage his hands, and to escape out of the house to
alarm the neighbours. The robbers soon discovered
this, and fled. They were pursued, but not taken. The
prosecutor went afterwards to Blackburn. in order to see
whether he could recognize any of the robbers. The
prisoner he saw there at his work as a sawyer, but in a
light dress. lie was asked if he had a dark coloured
dress, ;‘nd was then satisfied that he was one of the men.
He was more convinced on hearing him speak, for one of
the robbers had repeatedly spoken to him. The prisoner
hail been seen near the place on the night of the rot•
berg.—Guilty—Death.
The prosecutor begged that Lordship would recom-
mend him to mercy.

CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.—A circumstance lately
occurred in the neighbouthood of Bethnal-green, which
may serve as a caution to the landlords of public•houses,
not to refuse, under apprehensions of loss or inconve-
nience, their ready assistance in cases where human life
is endangered by sudden accident. A man was taken
out of the Regent's C:111.11 with %nine feeble signs of life,
and was conveyed to a public-11(m in the neighbour-
hood, the landlord of which, notwithstanding the most
earnest intreaties and remonstrances, obstinately refused
every accommodation and assistance, excepting what a
table in the open skittle ground affordeil, where the
small remains of vitality in the unfortunate 111311 beCalll9
541011 exhort. The landlord was severely reprimanded
by a magistrate, and was 11,111 that his licence might not
be renewed. It is perhaps nut sufficiently known that
the Royal II ttttt atm Society always rewards landlords and
every other person who take in a body tinder cir-
cumstances, and pledges itself' to 111.1011110 y the par,y
affording such humane .I•‘i n;.!aitc-t all reasonalde
ebony..., fur burial, in the el t in if &Ali.