The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-04 00:00:00

I ATTON G RD EN.

Wednesday' its couseeneace of an anonymous letter tee
eeireil by the Magistrates at this Office, stating, that the son
of a Mr. and-Mrs. Elliott, (aimed seven years of age) of
Fishes-street, Red Lion-square, had been kept tied op to the
foot of a bedstead for Moee months in a front garret, the
Magistrates, though not giving credence to the-story to its
full extent,!dispatelied Read, jun. the officer, in order to
make.euquiry. The officer got in by a,kint, for Mr. Elliott ;
:toil after some conversation, asked Mrs. fli;itift how litany
childreushe. had, and where they were? She iinswefed, three,
and they were all out at play. He then 441,..i d where they
slept, and she mists ered hi the garret; the officer expressed
•a wish to see the place. Site then told LiIIT lie u,st,
and asked his business; oa which the efficer pulled wit
his cal, and told lier he came to make a search. She in•
st itif!y lair up stairs, followed closely hy.Read who, when
she liad run ever the bed tn. the garret towards a narrow
cuuu of the roam, pulled her back, said found the poor
.chilii iastencil Lyn strap to the bed-post,iwith only.* bit of
sackinr, .to lie on, llPC•overed, and in a tenet filthy`stete. .The
officer called up the Irdgers in the house, and with difficulty
unloosened the !wiles-strop with which he was fastened to the
iced-post. llcr l lircoglit the unfortunate child carefully
wiappe I up, to the office in a coach, and the father and
mother handcuffed togedhor. • Thu child, however, was-pro.
duced at the office naked, and with the strap round its body ;
and Iwo persons in the house deposed to !tsteCtig for three
months been kept in the state already described. The
parish officers am:fried, and directed the child to be takes
proper rare of ; 411,/ :he prisoners were codvcyed to Clerken.,
ler ll. Prison, amidst the cxecrations of the populace, that they
illity.give 24 hours notice of bail.

'fiatlreclo w.ird,Ne.vrit:4ll was charged by Jetties iVileort,
slterrnan to Mew's Htt‘h:.t.tvk and Cooper, ironmongers, St.
Jolto's I.inc, with frauriolvistly obtaining a quantity of iron and
natal spoett• to the amount of 151., the property of hilt cm.
ployers. Witot,ts rieitosed that the prisoner came to him on
UtsllahofSept.witha written order, for the property, as
corniug from Barber, holmium:sr, Wood-street, Cheap-
strie,and winters .dclivered the goods to wit/. These was a
second charge preferred mg:011041m prisoner by Mark Hul-
ner, shopusair to Mesas s.Warnrr, brass fothiders, charged with
c,htiOotog a quantity of bi ail' cocks to the amount of 71. 53.;
hr isse,tus of a false order si con g from the above named
person. Mr. Barber atierided,• and identified the prisoner to
have been his servant, but had been discharged fourteen
mouths since, and did riot authorise the prisoner to go witn
any other order from hint; Most of the property was traced
to the possession of a man who keeps an old iron shop in the
neighbourhood of Hatton Wall. The property being sworn
to, the prisoner was fully committed for mat. '

"Tlikaniel Morris was cluirgeli by Mr. Hodgson; landlord of
the !Piazza rilive liutmr, Covent...Gar,len, cn suspicloa cf
stealing valuable tortoiseshell .tend' Lox I MI tinted Willi gold,
his property, 41.4wi prisoner had lived with Mr, Hodgson as
waiter, but had been discharged nine months since, in corm-
qoenca of missing several valuable at titles; and hearing the
prisoner had been apprehended on a rh4rge of felony, wa-
aeaa.calard his lodgings to b•; seat died, when the above

property was found ill lii box, which, brio,: produced, was
itlent•fied the pro:" ra:ut. Prisoner ila fuliy combritted
for iri.d.

SILIDWELL

A Gircs.v.—)fra. Jervis, or It •,,t 7rit
Niagistritte.; on Thur.day List, in coust.oc..
every night hear,', hi her !Ly, •, o •• .
covered. These noises havc !weal to ird, Fad, for three y-ars
past. and'itiobs now aisciuhle in the street to hear the ghost. les-
session having been taken of the Iteu,e in this str.e)ge way, no ten tat
hefountl, and it teuntinsllM the otalwr's Nutt! The .Nlagistratt•s
innrediately directed .nine °livers In holso, and to appre-
hend, a. SUM as poisible, the evil spirit, however, they !lie.'e
net been able to catch.

:t. l'Aplar, applied to tf:t!
noiseA

f 7,491

great Dumber of workmen arc now employed in
alt. rn!ions at New Palace. The temples and alcoves,
suffered to fall into a %cry ruinous
litive been repaired and decorated ; and it is
in-
d.nwn a tetraber of spacious gravel walks,
intersecting tle.: lawn at several paints. One very
s laves v:allc, needy lean toile in length, is already
in great fiirwardneas. It is to extend from the Aviary
gata of the home shrubbery over the lawn, to the cover
11011 y-walk, near the Pagoda : and front the
luxuriant growth of the !lollies, and other evergreens,
in this plrt cf the plantation, it will form an admirable
and must picturesque winter promenade.
The cciebrat,:d Abraham Thornton is now in Liver-
pool fa* the purpose of emigrating to the United States.
The Contiance, Capt. A. Montgomerie, sailed from
.P..rtsmoutli on Saturday se'unight for the Jamaica
station. Perryman, the Indian Chief (who arrived in
the Semiramis), is returned home in her. We under.
stand be was supplied with what money he requested to
have (a trifling sum), three 'suits of clothes, and two
chests of wols fur his brother. This was the extent -of
Ids deinaud ; but he departed very angrily, because he
was not setfered to land in England. fle was removed
front the Semiramis previously to her being paid off,
to the Centiance.

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ten!.. to 1

The of .he Fox smngcling cutter, captured,* short
time ago. on the coast of Ireland by the Vandeleur revenue
aaiuntetl to 83791.155. Ind. after deducting all ex-
petters, nirieli has been thus divided t—Sir B. Hallowell,
Militia! Of the station, 10721.1)4. 5.1. Mr. Iloskings, Com-
lumpier of the Vandelenr, 21411. 18s. 11d. ; Mr. Spencer, first
Mate, 19721. 9s. 5d.; Mr. Collins, Purser, 4251. Lis. Btl. ; the
(tanner, Boatswain. and Cat lientt r, 2251. 155. thl. each; and
to the remainder of the crew, I 17s. Ithl. each.

The Homan Catholics of Leland arc nhont to assemble in
Csoiieral and County Meetings, for the purpose of piepacing.
Petitions :o Parliament for the total repeal of all laws sub-
jecting their Catholic countrymen to civil disabilities, in con_
sequence of their maintaining certain religious opinions.
Lord Ebrington met with au accident on Friday last, at a
stag-hunt near fremington, in Devon,liire, by his horse
f Mine, by which Ida Lordship received some set ions britises,
and bad one of his :melee violently strained. The Earl of
Fortescue and Sir Arthur Chichester, who were parties in the
immediately procured surgical aid, and his Lordship'
is in a fair way of recosery.