The National Register.
London, England, 1814-08-21 00:00:00

CROSS DROPPING.

T'NtoN HALL —George Waller was charged by William Millar
a skljeant in the Royal At tilicry, with having defrauded him of 101.
hy the old trick of Croli• urvil,vitoz. 'tile prosecutor stated that he
was some days ago walking it) Lae Boroneli, %%Itoe 1w oloervcd a de-
cent looking elderly man w.ill.log. just !refine itim, who stooped and
picked lip a small 'med. lie tinned to the prosecutor and ob-
• v•.'4.1, " Sir, yen ere in luck ; !wit' this, be what it may, i y'our's."
h. well, into a pnbhr house to examine the contents of their Gad
They .t found it was aln I illhtlf CrOSS wrapped up in a receipt for
owlet, ali ..ntleman who was sitting in the room, as if by accident,
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inl itlittusted permission to look at it, saying he was a
o!)Arvcd it, ' •liirt d the price of it, and on being thld 2-...01. said
lapidary. He cart ,) at that sum. The oily difticultv now re-
it was rstreniely cher,.
'lies should divide their prize, f neithero
wanting war. how the pa. t
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them kivill4 money soticieu.. tlawst it as agt ced that they should
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anu in the mean time the prwecutor
mvut again in the afternoon,
was to have the cross, and to Jewish' MI- in the hands of the finder.
'Chi' arrangement having been made, th:lY were abont to separate,
when the proxeentor suddenly recollected be had a friend in the
neinhinairliond who wool-1 settle the business innitui'iately fur them :
aril I t was agreed they should set mit for Ili. !louse directly. 13 the.
wav the prisoner took Vie (Toss again, but forgot to return the lok
and on arriving at the Elephant and.Castle,lie said he wanted to step
in, but wood!' not he a moment, terpcs;ing the prosecutor svoidd %%ait
for him. This was aareed to. 'Die prosecutor continued to wait
till his paftence was crihausted, and at length went in to iminire for
his friend, when he found to his great mortification he had long been
gone, having oily enteved at one door and made his exit at the other,
quite forgetful orifice ft iend who was waiting for him, and the busi-
ness they were going upon. Information was immediately given to
Colliughourn, who yesterday took the prisoner into custody, and
brought him before the sitting magistrate, by Whom he Was com-
mitted for re-examination.

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nil at I. --W. Parker was chareed by Win. Fielder with sten/-
ine an ingot silver. It appeared from Mr. Fieli'er's statement that
he 13 a watchmak r, ;Awl '4atiirday lost le l;r.il si-nt his I,pretotce
with an ittuot of siti.ur UI :1 trig to a sdvers h ire it heat out into
watch-cases. On lii way the boy was .iiet by the Prison• who ~ti•pt
him and took tlie hag and its contents away. On Monday morniiia,
however, as the I.e,\• wiio walking Ir. Newgate.market. with his 'moiler,
lie saw 11i Prism.. . ..n•I ki.ew nil% and gave this alarm; thy Prisoner
ran oil, btu the boy pursued him closely, when the villain turned round
»nd linockud /silo down. The boy. howeet.ic, still persevered in his our.
suit, and traced Lim nil. ‘4•11..,..• he was secured v.hilst 11(-
1(919061g to riiiiceal ntinsclf belii•Jl some corn:. He was yesterday
hrtmeln up fir res-ex.o.oralion, and lolly eteniiiitted for trial.
HAT TON Ak Latz.—•PlllrS'ldy, John Dunn, abed ; Mielniet
Walsh, a sv%,:ri), :iget! it; Ja .ies Tucker, a sw- ep, agc.l 12 ; The.
mils Willie, a; •-d ; George 10 ; James Norris, 8 ; and An_
,trety 12 rais age, were brought up, as syss Sarah Broad-
field, otherwise Gillttian, (-he hJVitl cohabited with a man 0.014
natty...), charged, the I nes with ste an 4 the latter wi'll receiving
knowing the same to be stolen. It was stavli that the priainers were
l',;;rt of a gang of pickpockets and young thiesr?s, who were in the
habit of going to various shops about Holborn, and rot-bing them.
They con!essed having stolen several pieces nt bicon. from &IF!.
rent shops, which they sold to Mrs• Broadfreld, or Gilman, who
keeps a clothes-ihoo in Field-lane. w!ii..re they disposed of
every thing they stole. Three pieces of bacon ware produced
which were produced which were found in her possession, and were
identified to be part of the setup n property. All the boys, excel);
James Norri,, who was deli veted to his friends, were rem3oded to
the House of Corr-ctio.!, and Sarah Broadfi Id to Clerkenweil prison
for re-examination.

Mow'ay, the Recorder made a report to the Prince Rtgent in Coun-
cil, of twenty-eight convicts remaining u:tdcr se.ten.:e of death in
Newkite, when the following six were ordered to be exec und on
o morrow, viz. Henry Lye and John Field, alias Jonathan Wild,
for burglary ; J hn Mitchell, thr f,-;rgery ; arid Francis Sturges,
Maroney Maloney, and John Ash., lot hign way robbery.
others were .411 r durin; pleasure.
Friday s,fimight, Edward Clark, William Potter, at:d )usse Pal-
mer, capitally conv:cied at the lore Escx At 6.4.-%., were executed at
Chelmsford, purs,ii-, to'rheir sentence. When on the t•c:il101d, they
appeared penitent, a:vi rer4ned to their awful Lte.—Ldward Clarke
clamed to his fritilds the tol!„ singular letter :
" Condemned Cells, Friday Morning,
Aug. 12, Ifll4.
" I, Edward Clarke, now- in a few hours expecte' g to die, do
eercly wi,h, a, mv last request, that three of im fingers betaken
from my hands, to he given to my three children as a wrarn..i;
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them, as my fingers were the cau.ze of bringing myself io .;lows,
and ntv children to poverty ; and T also request that it
lis and Mr. C. 1;:own, two brother prisoners, will b:t so koal as to
see it dot. , they ::nosing which they are, by their marking t!iern at
• my request with ink ; and 1 acknowledge with sincere thank 3 their
• being so good as to sit lip in prayer all night before toy execution
• with rite and my fellow prisoners in the condemned cells, w Inch I
hope the Lot:1 yin 1,1,-ss them for."—'l :pis iequeat was. strictly corn-
lied with by the Surgeon, ac
Saturday sennight, a womai. rained Numphris, the wife of a man
who ke •s a disur.terly house at Cheltenham. terminated her life by
thinking tea cup-full of the oil of vitriol, an.: directly after a quanti-
ty of we.ter. The avowel cause of this ;anal :!ct was, that her bus-
h ;nd h.:.1 forgiven a female named Wood, who had in dtreat,tl her.—
Verdi( telo de se.
Olt Wednesday last, a coroner's Inqiie,t was held in Leicester, upon
the body of John Scott, who was kilt d by the k'ck of a horse. it
siopearcd that the &ceased was ',toting the horse with a stick over
liis loiinz. having at the same time hold of his tail and standing behind
' him, which of:ca.:toned the alioral to I. ick, and his heels going with
full force against the stomach of the untortunate man,
he exvired
scantly. We wish this m operate as a caution against treatiin, hor-
ses with similar !totality, which not untrequently recoils in ti;is %vaY
upon the otender.

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Basra NoTrti.-- The eznet :mount of tie LiAnk Notes in ciictilalion
is now very Inaly abeertaii,ed ;an al incalculable number ot wiich
Mill, of ctur.e ne handed over by the proper authorities in 'how. who,
at this ions seinom, hive the prudent f re eight to purch.i.e Tickets
or Shares in the adrairohle• Lottery, which draws on the hi at
teinber, in which twenties and tel.a of thousands %sith other gr t's•
pitals float in prolusion, and the lowest Prize exceed, the clot of a Ticket.
13 N son AND MA RC!! ANT v. liusnv, MA) --Oa all ,'l4l,hcatwa
lately made t ► the V ice Chaneeror, ot: belt ill of the painti,l,, who are
the 4:minuet and l'iinter employed by the Defendant
tion of his Lucretius, an ir.j..netion was Granted preventog the De•
Pendant and- Son from receiving i lth
W any of the Uiandlltg, bUit,Criptinal
until the tattler order 41: the Cw as.' flee publics-

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