The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-21 00:00:00

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ant; he Printed &om. It was put in evidence, and read.
Crux-examined.—lt cause to him in the usual form. The hand-
bills were te be given to the members of the institntion.
George Clarke took a copy of the paper to be published in a news-
paper by order of the defendant. It was published; the paper was
the British Ltuninary." The institution consisted of stow mem-
bers. . .

William Cliamben. publisher of the " British Luminary," pub-
lished- this paper isquestiou. The circulation dike day was 2,000.
It was a weekly paper.
Mr. Bignold, defend-vies son, said his father had been secretary to
the institution for 20 years. Hesitating to say whether his yearly
income was 4 or .5.00111., or whether his last year's income was not
(~Kilt.,. he was asked if he was not a math of conaiderable property,
and answered in the antrusative.
Crussexamined by Mt. Serjeant COPLEY.
What ! D., you direct this action ? No.
YO.l are not on ,voil terms with your P—lf I must answer
that question. I rather say my father is iet n good terms with ma.
Your father is not now secretary?—\v.
Was net Waldegrave's action defcntkd at the desire of the Direct-
ors P—No.

Are you sure of that, Mr. Signals{ ?—To the best of my know-
ledge.
You are not sure then that it WAS not P—l am; became. if it
had bean, I should have had instructions from them, and I had
none.

Who were the **townies 11—Lamb and Hawke.
You area professional man yourself ?—I am.
Here Mr. &titans Lens interposed: and contended that this er. .
amination was calculated rather to injure the on than to sene tl e
tither.

ChiefJustice.—My brother Copley conducts the case extrenic'y
well.
Did you give no Manic.' ins in the cause ?—I did not.
Were you DOW consulted upon it ?—.l DelTr was. I never had
any thing to do with it.
W u your father in town at the time ?—Was he not at your elbow
understood he was.

your father never speak to you of it ?—.Yes. once.
What was the date of the uieeting at the George and Vulture ?—1
cannot tell.
Was it not advertised previously foe a considerable time?—lt might
for perhaps a fortnight.
Mr Serjeant Copley now addressed the Jury for the defendant.
and with great ingenuity attempted to show, that the sole object of
theblication was, nut to calumniate or injure the plaintiff, but to
justify Mr. Bigoold lot having defended Waldegrave's action.—
Thisbecame necessary for him.. in consequence of the meetings held
for the purpose of censuring hip conduct in that case. Reading the
summary with this view, they would find that it only contained the
reasonable suspicions or impressions. which. whether right or wrong,
if they really existed, justified Mr. Bignold in r•esistingWaldegrave's
action.
CHIEF JUSTICE.—It is irnpo sible to suppose. that a circulation
of thousands of hand bills, of which some might be handed to passen-
gers in the street. anti of which a copy was published in a newspaper.
was a privileged circulation. We can judge of meaning; as to
motives, they are beyond our province. We can judge of meaning
only by what a man says. lam of ?pinion, that ti,e object mani-
fenly is to impute the fire to the plaintiff. It is impossible not to
asl thin the object of the whole publication is to deprive the plaintiff
of the protection which the verdict of ajury had afforded. It is fur
you exclusively to estimate the amount of damages. But I lament
that a son, en bad terms with his father. should ever be brought into
a Court of Justice to prove the property of his father, for the purpose
of obtaining heavy damages. Any one who brought him in this ease
has done ill. • if he came of his own accord, it is to be deplored in
deed.
Wadies for die plaintiff—Damages 5001.

CHILD-DROPPING.—About eight o'clock on Tuesday
evening, a fine male child, apparently not a week old,
was found in an old basket, having on a shirt, and wrap-
ped up in a piece of blanket, lying at the door of N: rs.
Mary James, 24, Tash Street, Gray's Inn-lane. The
poor child was nearly dead from cold ; it was taken in
doors,where every kind attention was paid to it ; and
after it was warmed and fed, it was carried to the
workhouse in Little Gray's Inn-lane. Friday the
parish officers, who have taken up the case, attended at
the Police Office, Hatton Garden, where a private ex-
amination of all the witnesses took place, which lasted
npwards of two hours. It appears that a young lady
in the neighbourhood was delivered of the child in
question on Saturday afternoon ; it was shortly after
taken away by the midwife, to nurse, to a poor woman
in Clerkenwell, where it remained until Tuesday after-
noon, when the midwife, who lives in Kirby Street,
went to the nurse for the chill, telling her the lady
wished to see it before she let it go to the country,
where she intended to send it to nurse. The midwife
satisfied the nurse for her trouble, carried away the
child, and the same evening the child was found as
above described. The nurse hearing of the circum-
stance, and having some suspicion, was induced to go to
the workhouse, when she immediately identified the
child to be the same she had to nurse. She knew it by
having a particular mark, and it having on the same
shirt ; but all the rest of the baby clothes were
changed for the worse. She then gave the information
that led to the examination. Two other women, who
saw the child at nurse, proved the same. The midwife
was sent for and closely examined, when, to exonerate
herself from the charge, she was compelled to disclose
the unfortunate young lady's name who is the real
mother of the child, and whose family are of the great-
est respectability. A warrant was granted to take the
mother of the child into custody.
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For same time past a fine French dog has been ob-
served at the west end of the town, going from door to
door, begging. His practice is, if he perceives any
person in the shop, to lift up his paws, and remain in
that positiOn until something is given to him. 1f he
does not see any one, he will enter and carry uff some-
thing. On Monday night, at dusk, he was seen going
into Mr. Finney's shop, in Peter Street, and run off
with a piece ofeatenet, which laid On the counter. It
is evident the dog has been trained to the practice.
The Gallery of, Pictures at Dulwich College is now
s,loised,. and the several works it contains have been
taken down for the purpose of being cleaned, under
the directions of the Royal Academicians.

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Teesday morning, at 3 o'clock,
e the usnal,maei
prairiett4it.s.noptriet.:,„
paratory to the execution of• criminals, miaw
yard to the front of the Debtor's•door of isiewgate. • Prima
this moment to the time of execution the crested increased till
the Old Bailey and all the avenues to it were coonpletety
tilled. At lialf•past s the Sheriffs entered the inner yard,
when the prisoners, Driscoll, Weller, Williams, and Ca•lsitiati,
had their irons knocked off. At b o'clock the bell tolled as
usual, and the prim:nets were brought out.
A Quaker lady (Mrs. Ripley), who, on application to the
Keeper of N etxgo te , lusd been admitted to the prisoners 444
Monday, and had taken much pains to give thesis religious
instruction, was with them again by six o'clock in the morn.
ing, by their own desire, and administered such con*ulittion
tu them as 'teemed to tranneillize their spirit* considerably._
Driscoll ssas the first who mounted the platform, which he
lid in a most hurried manner. and with great agitatine.
Having ascended it, he gazed wildly around upon the spec.
raters, and once or twice pushed his cow from his mouth.
Weller was the next ushered to the scaffold, and lie exhibited
.1 considerable portion of firmness. Williams followed, and
his condor% throughout has been must exemplary. He Ili'.
mined the justice of his punkt:meat, and his whole lime lice
seen devoted in pm eparive his soul for an awful eternity.—.
J 4.11111111, alias Emanuel (fur this we midetstaud to be his
.lathie) Wow ; he was a Jew, and by the tenets of Ilk
Mosaic religion .1141101 permitted to sleep dining the night:
was attended by a priest of ha ow* persuasion, and Mesa
itipley, the Grater's, who manifested peat anxiety for his
future state. Site accompanied him Oren to hit 'cadets!, but
there her feelings overcame her, and she burst into tam.—
l'he priest vs h., attended 111111 fill 4111111C.1 Nme es,ecui Muer with
.4 gremlin kind of rap, which was bubstite teal toe the ordinary
one used upon such occasions. The WY Mir. Coitus was
in attentlanve from an tally hour. By a quarter past eight
o'clock, tell the unfortunate malefactui• were duty arranged,
Driscoll labouring ender great emotion and ugitation. The
Mosaic Priest, lime Rev. Mr. Devi-tens, amid the Reverend
Mr. Cotton, continued fur a new es aitilreiolog prayers
to the wretched delinquents, when Mr. Conon gave Ile fatal
signal, and thus they werr launched into eternity.
Immediately upon the unfortunate culprits Li iota lassalbed
out. some of the populace vociferated—" Shaine! attune !
Murder ! murder I !!"

After hanging the usual time, their bodies wart cat down,
a given over to their friends for interment.

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It is worthy of nut ice, that the Dank bad a holy of "nerds
town especially for this occasion, lest any disturbance night
.i.ise been oceasiutied by the people after the execution of
•;4•lnnaii, Weller' and Driscoll. Within the walls uf Newgale
',reparations had al..° been made to resist any attack which
might have been made by the mob. For this purpose 50 or
GO constables had been expressly employed ; and if any
.ittark 1E4,1 hero made, the populace would have been foiled
io .belt attempt.
The petition purporting to be signed Gy Cashman. Weller,
and Driscoll, inserted in a Sunday paper, was never even
seen, much less signed, by these unfortunate individuals. On
the day previous to the insertion of this petition into the
pipet, it nits sent to Mr. Lie own, keeper of Neweate, enclosed
iu :1111111011111011, letter. requesting him to get it signed by
these three men. Mr. Bruen did not even show the petition
to them, but i 11111 l edit' tely transmitted it to Mr. Capper, of the
Secretary of State's Other. The next day, however, to his
surprise, lie saw this very petition in print, signed wills the
names of Cashman, Weller, and Driscoll. The petition there-
fore was All far a fabrication that the very men who purported
to sign it did not even know of its existence.

At eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, a most alarming conflagration
happened on the pralines of Messrs. Crane and Murphy, turpen—
tine-manufacturers, Marsh-gate-lane, Stratford, by toe bursting of
one of the iron pans, containing a large quantity of hot varnish,
which in a few minutes communicated to some hundred* of barrels of
pitch and tar that lay in the yard ready for delivery. The whole of
the building was entirely consumed, and also the dye-house of
Mews. Cullum; in fact, it threatened destruction to the neighbour-
hood. The immense iron receivers were melted by the excessive
heat. _

Tuesday evening some persons were alarmed on passing through
Essex.strtxt, Mile End, by hearing a cry of " fire, which con—
tinued for a length of time ; at length a woman•who occupies an
apartment in that street, on looking through the window, saw a
mass of fames in an opposite room. She ran as fast as possible, and
informed the people of it, and went up stairs, and on opening the
door, found an elderly lady, who was in the house by herself, sitting
in an arm chair by the fire all in a blase. Several pails of water
were thrown over her, and the flames were soon extinguished. it
appeared that her husband had just gone out, and she. being feeble
and unwell, when her cloaths caught fire she was unable to move,
and remained in that dreadful situation till assistance arrived, by'
which time some parts of her body were burned nearly to a cinder.
She was taken to the London Hospital, where every asinstanee was
afforded, but she died in toe greatest agony soon after her arrival.
J. Urmston, charged with the wilful murder of Mary, his wife, at
West I)erby, and H. Nloncrieffe, charged with having violated the
person of Anne Helene, near Lancaster, have been committed to
Lancaster cas,le.
Wednesday morning, during the heavy fog, as a gentleman was
crossing Lincoln's Inn, and tak-mga pinch of snutf out of n valuable
bux, a young villain snatched it out of his hand, and got clear off
with it.

Birdseye, a Butcher, at Bermondsey, was. on \Veduesday
summone.l betere the Surry Magistrates, and fined for exercising his
trade on a Sunday.
Thursday morning, between three and four o'clock, a man catered
the bedchamber of Mr. Fox, a student at St. Thomas's Hospital.
through the window, went to an adjoining room, broke open a
writing desk, and stole 151. He then returnee to the room where
Mr. F. was in bed, and stole from the poceet of big pantaloons
purse, containing a considerable sum, and was t..kMg a 'yawn twat
the bedside, when Mr. F. jumping out of bed btlitial pre robber :
and after a struggle regained the watch.—Having disengaged him.
self from Mr. le. the thief escaped through the window, and in his
hurry he (flopped the purse, but retained the 151.
On Wednesday evelung, between five and six o'clock, a person of
very genteel appearance, and good address, sent into the shop of
Mr. Coventry, brella manufacturer, 3a, Ludgkte s re-et, under pre-
tence of purchasing a silk umbrella Several *ere shown to tom,
and objected to, as nut sufficiently good in quality : at length he fixed
upon one of a superior kind, tor which he agreed to give 845., and
took oat his purse apparently ior the purpose of paying for it,• when
he pretended to discover that he had *Wheaten elusive: be, how.
ever, said it was of no consequence, as he was at the London Coffee
house, a few doors lower, audit Mr. Coven's". would send his boy
with it, and a bill and receipt, he would payhito directly. He awn
gave hi, name, Mr. 'Dolor, and praewleci Immediately towards the
London Cuffi:e house. A few minutes 'Bent ards Ms. Coventry's boy
took the umbrella, as directed, and found the gentleman sitting in
the Coffee room, who told him to leave it, and gn back and bring him
an unrurella tit for a servant. The boy went back to his °vista, and
returned with a gingham umbrella of leak value ; but fe the interim
the swindler hod decamped with his booty. Ile was nut stall knows
at the London Coal bowie.