The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Alderman J. J. Smith. Mr. Kuowls presided as Re-
corder.
SINOULAR COINCIDENCLA young man, named
John Welsh, was charged with stealing 11 sovereigns,
We property of Mr. 11. Robinson, Nu. 15, Fitzosburne-
sue.l, (iulden•sgnare.
It appeared that the prosecutor had an acceptance for
111., which became due ou the 14th of March last, on
which day a notice was left at his house, that the bill
lay at Mr. Joint Welsh's, No. 37, Lom4dane. A boy
was sent with money to take up the bill, hut instead of
calling at No. 37, Loug•lane, he called at No. 37,White-
street, which is in a line with Loug-tare. 'lone Loy
knocked at the dooi, and asked for John Welsh, when
the prisoner, whose name is John Welsh, was called
down, and the boy him he came to pay a bill of 111.
The prisoner said he did not recollect what the money
was lOr, hitt his foreman had beets out tha► Running col.
leciing bills, and he supposed that bid must be one of
them. The boy gave him the money, and also the no-
tice which had been left with the prosecutor, stating that
the Liil lay due at No. 37, Long-lane. Tue p.isoner read
the paper, counted the money, and said that it was all
right. The boy, on his return, was asked by the prose-
tutor for the bill, and on his explaining that he had re-
ceived none, he was sent back to get it, when he found
that the prisoner bad decamped. Au utli.:er, however,
apprehended him a day or two afterwards, to whom he
coniessed he had spent the money, but declared that he
repented when it was all gone, and sought the prosecutor
to beg his pardon.
The J nry found the prisoner Guilty, but reeommended
Mtn to mercy, on acct ttttt t of Lie stealth ss of the tempta-
tir) suddenly thrown in his way, and the appearance of
more money within his power man probably he had eve
seen bzhire.

The Recorder took this very strongly into considera-
tion, and sentenced the prisoner to imprisonment for
Ate month. _ .

tiliain Becket was tried for having stolen 7 pounds
of rags. the property of Messrs. Scovell and Co. rag user-
chants, Snuthwai k.
The Jury found him Guilty, and the Recorder said he
was a bad know, who could not with safety to the com-
munity remain in a civilized country, anti 'mould ga into
another country for seven years.

RGhicry and Escape.—On Monday night last,
after the family of Mr. Flemming, nurseryman, at
Ball's-pond, hat retired to bed, Mr. F. thought
he heard an unusual noise in the garden, and going
to the back window, saw two women who had sculud
the wall, in the act of pulling down some linen
which hung on lines to bleach. Mr. F. called up
two of his men, and rushing suddenly into the gar-
den, secured the two women ; it being too late to
send for a constable, he locked them up in one of
the outhouses all night; but on Tuesday morning,
when the constable came, it was discovered they had
both escaped by taking oft' some of the tiles of the
roof; carrying with them the clothes they were ap-
prehended for stealing.
Maven TO Covertrair.—Mr. Courtenay, a farmer,
undertook on Tuesday to start to Cuteutry, from Mile
End New-Town, near Bow, and return in three days.
The distance is 188 wiles,front the place of starting, and
time was hacked at 2to I. He started at two o'clock iii
the morning, and was at Dimstable at 12 o'clock, Sto-
ney Stratford at 4 o'clock, and passed thro' Tovecester
at dusk, and took two hours rest, after accomplishing
70 miles at 12 o'clock. lie touched on Coventry at 5
o'clock on Wednesday morning, and did 30 miles on
his return at 2 o'clock, amid halted four hours ; he was
lame at starting again, which increased, and he reached
Dunstable at 3 o'clock on Thursday, sad rested until
CX. lie had eight hours left to do 38 wiles, and lie
iesta,nvil the task.
SIIEEPLE CHAlle —The Sweepstakes match of twenty
gamin as e.,ch, iketWeell Mr. Coxinrad, Captain N.
Peters, and Mr. ltoelmontn, took pl. cc on Friday morn-
ing. The start was from Fronk), nose, near Mack-
water, to Ahafield, Berks. The race for the first five
miles was over heath, and the horsemen kept the steady
cuts until they came to Topham Covers, when they se-
parated, and pursued their own course though a woody
country. They left the rise of Gm,leit Fanner Billet
the left, and were within bight of each other again on
Shinfield Common, when Mr. Coxitead made all play.
and reached Aberfield church-yard in one hour and
three minutes, a distance of 18 miles, in a straight di-
rectum, Ceptain Peters lost by six minutes, and Mr.
It's horse tell, and he was thrown out altogether.
PeuesrataNtsm.—Ten inks within an hour, which
has always been considered a master-piece of fleetness,
is now booked upon as mere seCond-rate performance.
from the frequent occurrence of soca fears lately. A.
young-man of the name of Beldam, backed himself oif
nand, on Monday last without training, to perform the
ten miles within an hoar. The bet was five guineas,
and halt the distance was done in 28 minutes, and the
whole in b 8 minutes, with great case. The pedestrian
was unshed for 50 guineas to walk, heel and toe, 16
miles in two hours and a halt on Monday next.
On Saturday last, at the Castle of Exeter, 16 French-
men were brought before S. F. Milford and J. Croswell,
Esqrs. magistrates for the county of Devon, charged on
an Information preferred against theta by the COIIIIIIIS-
- of Excise, with being found in a French lugger
of about 50 tons bonnet). otl Oiterion 11. ad, with hav-
ing on board a considerable gitantiiy of smuggled brandy
and genera. 'lucre appeared little (multi Irmo the tvi-
„deuce, that they sometimes employed nivinselves .
fishing; but after a long investigation, and an onetime
hearmg of the exceptions to the information, .they were
all fully convicted of surogglitig, and necessarily fined
in the penaly of 1001. each, which not being üble to
pay, they were COlUMilleti to the county gaol. The 1113-
-j:trines intimated on intention of applying to gortro-
w.ot for a ualugatiou of the seumuct.

In

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.
A fatal accident happened on Wednesday morning
last, in the neighbourhood of Brighton. Mr. Briggs, a
hatter in Castle.square, accomininied by Mr. Knowles,
a farmer at Cowfoik, who had coupe from thence to
spend the day with him at Brighton ; after dinner, on
Tuesday, took a driVe in a gig to Rottetibean, where, it
is supposed, they spent the evening, and were on their
retain to Brighton very late, probably about two o'clock.
They had evidently ascended the hill on the Brighton
side of Rottenbean, and proceeded as far as Black Rock,
nearly opposite the gasometer, when the horse must have
missed his way and precipitated himself and gig, in
which were seated both Mr. Briggs and Mr. Knowles,
front the top of the cliff to the shore, where they were
discovered by the officers from the Preventive Service,
all dead, and in a dreadfully mangled condition. Mr.
Briggs had long been an inhabitant of Brighton, and
Was much respected ; he has left eight or ten children
behind him. Mr. Knowles was also a very amiable
man, and has left a very I irge family to lament his loss.
We sincerely imploie those persons entrusted with the
stiperintendance of the carriage road between Brighton
and Ituttenbeati, and even beyond there, to be awakened
to the obvious danger and insecurity of this situation,
where accidents are so frequently occurring.
On ‘l.7.:duesday morning bat, a most dreadful acci-
dent was discovered to have happened in the house of
Mr. Bradford, No. 12, 11.yansto,te-street, Manchester-
square, which involved the family in the greatest die.
tress. It appears abet Master Edward Paget Bradford,
came front a boarding school in the country on Siturday
last, for the purpose of spending the holidays with hi*
parents, and on Monday, after passing the evening at
home, he returned to his chamber in his usual health
and spirits. The following morning the servant pro-
ceeded to the apartment to call hint to breakfast, but re-
ceiving no answer, she made an alarm, and the young
gentleman was nits-dug front his bed. Every search
was made after him, and at length he was found in the
front area quite dead and dreadfully injured, as if from a
heavy fall. There was no account for the fatal occur-
rence ; but it appears that the unfortunate young gentle-
Mill must have arisen from his sleep, in which state he
made his way out on the ledges, and was precipitated
into the area, and killed on the spot; he was only IG
years of age. A coroner's jury was called to sit on the
body, and after hearing a mass of evidence, they return.
ed a verdict of—accidentally killed by a fall.

Ou the same day a honse, adjoining the slaughter-
houses in Porter-street, Newport-market, suddenly fell
with a tremendous crash. Fortunately no person was
in or near IL when it fell. The house bad been con-
demned by the surveyors, and was about to be taken
clown, and the workmen had removed some of the-orbs
terials, and weregoinA to work after dinner, when they
were met by their employer, who said they should nut
go to work until he had given them a treat; they accord-
io*ly accompanied him to a neighbouring public-house,
and had not been many minutes seated before they heard
the crash ; had they been itt the house the consequences
might have been dreadful.

PARRlcips.—Some days ago, a barbarous murder was
committed at Kilsyth, twelve miles from Gla.gow. A
quarrel took place between father and son under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—The father, coming into tile
house, found the son lying drunk, awl w angry with
him. Soave words ensued, but the father, aware of the
vindictive temper of his sun when in that state, left hots
and went out to a little distance from the house, The
sun soon after got tip, and seizing a large knife, which
knife, which he was accustomed in his drunken fits to
wield, rushed out, and going straight forward to the
place where Ins father slum!, seted him by the throat
with one hand, while he made three stabs into his
bowels with the knife, which lie held in the other band.
Tue poor Mall who had some distance to walk, reached
his house with difficulty, literally carrying in hi hinds
part of his bowed; which had obtruded through the
wound. The cruel monster fled, tout had the savage
hardihood to return ou Similar/ last, go into the house,
and survey the stead body of his father! The murderer
has for a moment escaped ; but the racers of Justice are
in searcit of hint. It is a lameutable tact, and une
which al lords another-instance of use barbarous and
brutalising effects of illicit distillation, that the oufortu-
nate young man had, for some tone previous. been
deeply engaged in the system of sinuag,ling, ut late be.
•, conic so prevalent in Scotland.

STRIPPING CHILDREN.—On Wednesday morning
last, about 12 o'clock, two little girls, one aged 9 and
the other 11, belonging so Mr. Turner, of ‘b helmone
Park, Lincoln's Itin.li.:l4ls, were playing in the fields,
near Bignigge-wells, when a woman, who, the children
say, was dressed like a lady, canic up and ink{ them she
would give them some cakes and barley-sugar, if they
would go with her. The children ‘ieided, and she took
them, one in each hand, to the sae of the Flees-ditch.
under the wall of the !louse of Correction. The wretch
then stripped the children of their pelis,es, and the
necklace Irons one of their necks, and the frock from
the other. and then left them s,)bbing and crying.

On Thursday morning, some labourers di ping
near Carmarthen-street, Totteuilam court-road,bdis-
covered a box contaiuin,,,, the laily of a child about
six or seven months old, having several marks of
violence upon it. An inquest was held upon the
b:Elv iu the evening, and a verdict returned of—
Wiitia murder agaioat some person or persons utt.
known.

It is calculates .1 that the silver lead wines, now
at work in Cornwall, and others about to con: ,a -nee,
will in a few years, raise sufficient silver for the use
of the kingdo►:t. At Sir ChtistOplier Hawkins' mine,
in that county, a plate of silver has been extracted
which weighed nearly 4001113. This mine produces
two and sometimes three such pieces a month.