The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-29 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

jiri,oner.—As they proceeded down the sireet, he observed the
watch trunskrred from Brown to Smith, and the letter put it
into his packet. Both the prisoners were stopped just as they
were eutei Mg on the Clitf, and on being searched, the watch
was found ou Smith.—Guilty—death.
PAUPERS Y. SELECT VESTRYMEN.

David Saunter, Williiun Saunter, and John Carter, Blood in-
dicted for having, on the 2il of November, uillaw lolly, riotously,
and lumultuon.ly assembled top ther, with several other pau-
pers, to the number of 110 or more, in the parish of Northium,
in this comity, for the purpose of preventing and hindering
Franoia Tress Curtis, George Sptingctt, Thomas Rooks, Francis
Tress, Mules Greenwood, and Thomna Field, six of the

select vestrymen of that parish, in the due esecutiou of their
duty.
'the case, On proved is en idenee, was simply this :—The
select vestry in the parish of Northisne had met in a room in the
workhouse on the eventing of the 2d of Novenik r ; they had
entered upon the business of the evening, and having considered
arid decided upon the case of a pauper :tamed Tree, lie was
was shout leaning the room, for the purpose of making room
for a successor, it being an arrangement of the vestry that but
one pauper should he in the room at the time; N% addle, the
muster of the workhouse was at the room door, and opened it
fur the purpose of letting Tice old, awl sending another of
many who were waiting in t:.e passage into the room, when
shout 16 or IN of them pushed the door open, and rushed into
the room, and insisted upon being there, in greater numbers
than had been customary ; they also refused to leave the room,
without receiving greater relief than they had hitherto had ; the
vestrymen insisted upon their leaving the room—the paupers
pi rsisted, and the gentlemen subsequently adjourned, and left
their refrartory interlopers to arrange their quantum of parochial
relief, without their supply of the ways and means. The in •
traders quietly seated themselves—espressed their determine-
dun to become fixtures, contrary to the express will of Mr.
Waddle ; and it was ultimately found necessary to call in the
aid of the civil power to restore older and remove nuisances.—
It al: u appeared, that in the rush into the room air. Waddle
had suffered some serious bodily injuries ; and for the riot mid
assault the teethed counsel fur the prosecution, Mr. Courthorpe,
csikd for the verdict of the Jury.
His Lordship ably comm. used upon the impropriety of the
prisoner's coralu,A, and the Jury found a vetdict of guilty.—
They were sentenced to bard labour in the House of Correction
for three c: ender months.
Lewes, Dec. 26.—Daniel Murray was indicted fur stealing,
on the .ith of December, a gold watch instil the shop of %11.Cela
at Brigh on.
The prisoner, who is only fourteen years of age, came to the
prosecutor's shop on the day in question, and purchased a srusll
gold pin. In the course of the same day lie came into the shop
en two other occasions with different excuses. About lire
u'clock, in the evening, when the sliopman was removing Or
the different articles from the window, for the night, according
to the usual custom, lie missed the watch. Recollecting that
the prisoner had h run so often in the shop in the course of the
day, lie suspected him to be the person who had taken it. lie
immediately wen► in pursuit of him, and found him at a short
distance from the shop. When lie had seized the prisoner he
began to cry, end said if be were allowed logo lie would give.up
the watch. He then produced it, and was taken back to the shop.
A constable was seta fur, and the prisoner taken into custody.
Guilty—death.
Richard Gardner was indicted for stealing two feather beds,
a pillow, and other articles, the property of Sir Richard Bur-
rows, on the 3d of December, at Brighten.
It appeared that Lady Burrows, having occasion to leave
Llitou, desired a house agent in that town to take possession
oilier house, st Ades, and furniture, until she should return.—
This•he did with regard to the house. it now only remained
for him to reetit c possession of the coach house and stables.—
The enaclimpn, who lived over the coach-house, having take!,
away his horses, sent the prisoner with the keys of the stables
and his own rooms. Not having any occasion to go to this
place, until the cnachman of Lady Brow nlow came to look
at the premises, the keys remained in the office of the house-
agent until that time. On the aforementioned a ccadon, alien
he. tried the keys with the different locks, lie found that they all
fitted, except the one leading to the coachman's room, in which
the property tniationed in the indictment was deposited.—
Finding that the key would nut nnlock the door, a smith was
sent for, and the door forced. On entering, they discovared
that the property. was removed. Halal bills were then published,
stating the circemstsnces of the case, and distributed about the
streets of Br'evon. Amongst the places at which one of these
bills was left, was the shop of a broker, lie immediately re-
collected !tat ing purchased similar articles f a stranger, and
accordingly sett his infonnstion to Lady Burrows's agent.—
The coachman a as then sent fur, and lie perfectly recollected
the pillow to be the one be had left in his room. The prisoner
was then :emelt. oiled.
In his defence he said, that they were his property, and had
ants them for the pupose of obtaining the means of going to
London, and was perfectly innocent of the crime laid to his
charge. Guilty—sentenced to six months imprisonment ins the
house of correct on for the county.
His 1,0111.11 qt then proceeded to pass sentence of death upon
the six fullowit g prisoners :—David Eyles, for uttering
forged litotes; NA Ham Agair, William Sadden field, and denies
31iller, for burg ty , and Moses Chandler, and James Crossing-
ingham for ho se stealing.
Robert Kelton mod George-Eastwood were indicted for
having, in the night of the 10th of November, in the parish of
Bur,sarda, set Ire to a barn, the property of John henry.
The prosecutor resides upon a farm, near the tuwu of Bur-
wash. On tl.is lams was lately standing a barn, coulatitine
nearly all the hay and coin w..ieh had been grown by 31r.
Fleury in the present year. A little before midnight, otu Sun-
day, the lent' of Nuveiniii r, it was discovered to be on lire,
the themes is,uin . trout the tup, and different parts of the sides.
The prosecuti.r, his servant, and a number 01 persons from the
town were •coo assembled at the spot, and every possible ex-
ertion was made to extinguish the formes and sane the property.
Their endeanOl.fi were, how, vu r, ineffectual, except as to a load
of wheat shear( s, and a few Oliphant. ruts of funning in s ~,,, e of
the out-huuses. Time remainder of the property and premises
were compirtey destroyed. Among the persons assenthled
on that (wealth r , were the two prisoners, who assisted in putting
out the lire, au, saving the property.

The prosecu r 'mune tit the overseers of the parish of Bur-
a ash, and in ;11. kibit of atirmling- the select • entries held there.
The prisoners ti.e paupers in the parish, and receive relief.—
magisti at en Inning strongly reconiniemled list the over-
seers it the p.sri hum slumLl not irrent puruckul relief to pau-
per*, who had g own up dauJiters nil home, dressed in a nian-
ner superior to t eir ennuition iii life; and the prisoners living
situated in then antler. the ?entry frequently refosed to relieve
them, until Ilit it daughL•rs went into the Imo, house. On Sa-
tuitlay, Nov. 2, ‘N erten appli d kr relief to the select vestry,
aed it vas reins:a to him uu the aoutre grounds. The prisoner