The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-11 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

John Smith, charged with robbing and beating Mr. Lynn.
a gentleinau at 13.10kb:tin Common, Sorry, on Saturday la,t,
st as on Thursday charged with being a descrier front the latb
trgiutent ut Dragoons, and being concerned in the murder of
Mr. Taylor, tear Itornsey Wood. The officers, May and
Golf, ascertained, that Smith was in the Borough on the day
pi reeding and succeeding the morder,ond :hat Bite(' peisons,
one or whom onswers the prisoner's description, were seen
without a short distance of Hut nary the day of the murder.
Another Cil cainstance ts hid, the officers remarked o as, that
three tiersonsattacked I o gentlemen's houses neat !tie place
wheie Mr Taylor was murdered, anal there were three per.
sons also in the gang who so barbat misty attacked .'lr. Lynn:
It is supposed their intentions were to throw him into a pit,
which is chute to the spot where they left !Mu ; but the ap-
proach of sonw persons caused them to desist. The officers
said, they had further gromids of siispiejout against smith for
the murder at floilisey, !but it would be proper at prebeat to
disclose. Ile was committed.

George Johnson, a fellow of tremendous appearance; was
chat ged on suspicion of committing seveia: highway ,rob-
items, on ;Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights.—Mr.
IValton, a gentleman of fortune, residing at King.
'don, stated, that on Thursday morning he came to town in
his chaise, and alighted at the house ut Mr. Stamford, paper
Blackman S!teet, Borough ; lie had been in that
prison's house about ten minutes, when lie heart; a cry of
" ltolihery ! Skip thief!" lie ran out of the house, and missed
his box coat Crum the hack of his chaise, and was 1041)1u3ed
ilia( a Man had stolen it and ran away. In a less Initiates the
pit-one/ was brought to Witt by a uisisilier of persons, who had
put sited and seemed hint v. ith the coat in his possession. The
prisoner 443 committed, and ordered to he brought np again,
on a charge ut stopping Mr. Kirkpatrick in Dover Street,
anal with robbing Iniudif his watch and 51. iii Bank noten.

EXTENNIVE Hoznanies.—Jolin Smith and John Holland, .
(lucent looking MeII, were charged with rohhing the stables
the Rev. A. C. Otislow, at Newington ; of George Allmon
Hill, Esq., of Doke street, Bloomsbury ; and of W. L. Rob-
bins, Csii. Lincoln's lun Field*, of several sets of chaise,
coach, and liaise harness, and several saddles, their property, .
and a very cespectable dressed 111411, flawed William Potter.
vino kacpa a shun in the Lambeth Road, and in a very large
way of business in the coach harness hue, nas cu al ged with
u. nig an accessoly.
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Shergold and Hohnesofficers. stated that, from information
they received, they learned that the pi isoners were concern...
ell iu several rubbeties of gentlemen's stables ; they lay in
wait fir them, and stopped them with a great bulk of pro_
petty in a hackney CUblell I they se-cored them, and couveyed
thew and the property to Union Hall, and discovered tlrat it
had been stolen from two of the above gentlemen. Further
information induced them to search Mr. Potter's premises, ,
and there they found a variety of harness belonging to the
itev. Mu. Onslow, according to the information they had
previously obtained. The arms and crest had been taken
from the harness, and they had evidence to prove that Potter
was implicated in the 101 l iull6 I.4,6(wries. The witrirssorx.,
were hi ought forward and examined, and Sitnitla and Rolland
were fully committed as principals iu the robberies, and
Potter as accessory.

A Rev. Mr. Davis, in South Carolina, ia quite sure (having
f 1 out the grand clue) that the Martini:et is to emonteuce
iu 1817. Mont of the modern prophets have placed the date
of the above sera so remote, that they, as well as their pro-
phecy., will he likely to be forgotten long before the time
specified ; but this favoured Seer ventures to predict, that are
itew order of things will take place in 1.:0 years alter this
time! " My rear.l.!r (says lie) is not to accu.,e me of al .
gaiter. Let ilitu think of Columbus's egg. Although none
of the gentlemen around the table could make it stand 911.113
end, till CLristopber g.a c it a tap ou the tattle and easevbed
them hew—and then they could all Vu it easily." This is tt .
fa vourable.sperimen of our prognosticator's prose ; the listless- -
ing tua) serve as a fair sample of his poetry

In forty-seeee we may hope
To see the world without a Pope.
The glorious dawn of tarty-seven
Will introduce new Earth and Heaven !"

A root of putatoe in the garden of the Her. Dr. Ridley, of
Hertingfindbury, near Hertford, Will dug up iii December
List, which produced '240 potatives, besides which here erne.
ral smaller potatoes attached to the larger tem s of the carne
root. Some of the latecr potatoes weighed upwards of
pound. In the saw gsrdrn 1411 apple W4lB gatheied iu tSis
last season, the circumference of which measured thirteen
inches and a Milt*. and its weight was one pound and !hies •
(platters. Several of the apples ou thu saws: tree,were neatly .
of equal sista.

1e morrow the S.,ssionii far the County of Sliddlecen coo.
metiee at Hicks's Hal!, Clerketivrtll; and nu the pante due
there wia bean Admiralty StAsi(lll6 111.141 is Justice flail, Oil. I
Bailey, when two caseb of murder, committed on the high
•eila, will tie tried. One of tiirw i. a p•ismu ellfilit vied with
the peg ofentiggier,, Into of whom ,ntereti d yea P •
ago, and theie butler All: Hew ha u. lug in chain, it B,allk wait,
foe thing live a Revenue cultic', alio killing tau oti.eera.
We siNtet to elate, that three eminent Mimes in the City •
have stopped payment Ihis week. An impurtasst har
also taken place at ilasslOurgis.

posturtpt.

►fONDAY, TIFILI'L O'CLOCA".

In the course of last week, we had to notice the
failure of a commercial 1100143 of some note ; since that,
an embarrassment has taken place in the affairs of an
establishment of the highest credit and respectability.
Men of the fist cons,:quenet in the city, who no less
esteem the members of this concern privately, than
they have been accustomed to venerate their credit as
British merchants, have immediately wall forward in
their support ! An investigation of the books took
place, and the Bank was in consequence applied to
for A4l (At Friday List The caution necessary in all
cases of this kind, induced that body, we believe, in
the first instance, to decline interference, or perhurs
only to suspend its decision ; for we have since learned
with pleasure, that a fresh and more minute examina-
tion of the concerns is to take place ; and if; as there
is every reason to hope and suppose, this second investi-
gation should agree with the first and be equally favour-
able, (the examiners themselves also being answerable
to a limited amount fir the strict impartiality of their
report', the Bank will, in that case, advance the TILTCS-
sa:y as3istance. We trust that such will be the issue
of this affair; for we know of no instance wherein the
good wishes of all mercantile men have leaned with so
much sincerity, or with so much apparent reason and
justice, to the side of the embarrassed party.—Times,