The National Register.
London, England, 1818-09-27 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION HOUSE.
Moses osenria.—Wednesday, at the reqnest of the Lord
'Mayor, the American Consul at:ended at the Mansion House,
for the purpose of taking the case of the above person into
consideration. It will be recollected that 04good, who is 74
years of age, applied to the Lord Mayor to assist him in an
application for the hand of the Princess Elizabeth in mar.
ridge, and also for men to work a gold mine, which lie said
he possessed in America.
It appears that the poor man, who, though quite Insane,
has since his confinement conducted himself with the utinost
quietness, has a wish to return to his native country, but not
having the means of paying his passage, the Lard Muyor
wished- to know if the American Consul would take upon
himself to assist him out.
The Consul said, he would most willingly assist him, but he
had sin proof that he was an Anserican.subject, and had
vioreover fought in the Loyalist army, which excluded hint
from the benefits of citizeitship.
The Lord Mayor said, a gentleman had been with-111ns who
knew Osgood to be an Amer icon born subject. Under these
circnmstauces he thought the Consul was bound to assist '
am' wondered he should refuse to do so.
The Consul-el ant willing, bull have not the power; the I
laws forbid it.
The Lord Mayor.--Yoe might step .a little out of the pintail
line in this case, L think.
The Consul replied, that lie felt mach hurt et leaving his
public conduct arraigned witliont any cause. It was not in
-Isis power officially to assist Mr. Osgood, betas an individnel
be mond do every thing he could fur I • -,•anitthat, if a sub-1
ecription was set -on, tout, he weight, from his owl' purse,l
subscribe donhAe the amount of any other individual. He
could prove that, in 1817, he had sent 1,308 distressed soli-
jects-of America to their houses at the expanse of that Go-
vernment.
The Lord Mayor said, he meant no attack upon the public I
.character of the Cousin; Osgood already possessed ten gui-
aseas, and about double that sum would enable him to reach
home.
The Consul again expressed his willingness to afford every
aid, and hi re the matter fur the present rests.
WASHING THE HOLTMEAD MAlL—Henry Harris, gnarl to
the Holyhead and Bir aaa i t igliatit snail, was brought up ant(
charged with stealing a parer!, enntaitiing 101., the property
of Musts. Joel. This mail, of which Mr. Waterhouse, of the
swan with Two Necks,l,4l!-latie, is the proprie or, has tar a
lone time past been te-eateill) robbed, and Mr..W. haisbeen
sufferer to a considerable amount. tits pieitni at length falling.
norm Hai I is, he was apprehended. The following was the •
only case enten,edinto upon the present. eccasiou :
Moses Joel, dealer, in Newastreet,-Biruilfighain, stated; that
en the 7th inst. be look a parcel, containing a tin box, with
one 51. and five 11.. notes, to the coach office at that place, to
be conveyed by-tile mail. The parcel was directed to his
ken, veto/ carried on his business in Loudon.
Abraham Joel, the son, swore. that he never received the
parcel in question.
a1r..1. Pullen of Lambeth, cheesemenger, produced a 51;
smote, which he had received from Mrs. Harris, the wife of
the prisoner, a few days ago. The note was identified by Mr.
Joel as the one he had sent in the parcel.
Mr. Waterhouse proved that the prisoner came np with the,
coach, as guard, on the night of the robbery, and that the
parcel in question never came to the coach office.
, Harris declined saying spy thing, mid was fully committed
to Newgete for trial.
HATTON GARDEN.
William Travers and Julio Horne were brought sip and.
underwent a Mal examination, charged, the first with telonio
mule stealing, and the latter with receiving, well knowing
it to be stolen, between 30 and 40 pounds' worth of gold in `
dust, (tipple:pp, filings, and solder, the property of Mr. Thos.
. Dagard, of 31, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, jeweller.
The primate' "Travers was a journeyman of the prosecutor t.
Helve, the receieer,-kept a shop hi the neighbourhood. •
The case being ..mode ont,,Te•avers ws: committed to New-
gale for trial, and rlorne's being a bailable offence, be gave
bail to answer the complaint at the next Gessinus.
MARLBOROUGH. STREET.
A complaint of a most aggravated nature was submitted to
the Magistrates oftliis office. Twieeentlemen, who saidahey
were parish officers, represented, that a person, living at 10,
Noel-street, attired to rest in perfect • health on Thursday
week last: as lie did not appear at bid limn! hoar to breakfast,
the landlord went tit his bed chamber, and found him quite
dead. Oa the Friday and Saturday application was made to
Mr. Lewis, the coroner ; he was in the country. Mr. Gell
was then sent fur: lie also was absent. On Monday an ap-
plication was made to Mr. Stirling at Battersea, and that gee-
tleman was-engaged at an inquest 12 miles distant. Under
these cireninstaisems,finiliag it impossible to obtain the attend-
ance of a coroner, the overseer requested the advice of the
Magistrate what coarse to pursue, the body being in so pe-
trified a state as to be quite dangerous.
Mr. Forgant deprecated the negligence of the.corisuen: he
• granted an °Merlin the body to be removed to the work-
house. He recommended that the body should be examined
by a surgeon, and that Use depositions of the beadle should
be made before a Magistrate, and that a vestry Amid be
immediately convened to take ihie negligence of the coroners
into consideration. These measures were delayed until files-
• day. As ao-euroner had then appeared, it became impera-
tive on the parish officers to act-decisively.
UNION HALL.
Wednesday a boy, aged 10, of mold deplorable appearance,
was breught.lagore lhe Magistrate by Birch, the constable .
of Christehmolt, who stated that he found him soliciting Chia- •
rity in Illackfriarssroad; the only article of covering which
be had was a piece uf euarse,.filthy sacking, which was %Slap-
ped roams his body, and fastened with a piece of rope.--Upon
being questioned, the child stated, without hesitation, thui his
father's name was Shaw, lie lived-nm Foev-emirt, Gray's lan•
lane, and was by trade a carpeoter ; Isis mother was a book-
binder, mud ahey• both hal plenty of enipkyineut; haunt(
:tad hi. 1-enther, who was about nine years of age, were rtgle•
rly St Dt eel every day by their parents:to get all the money
k.wsihlY c. 141!!! by It..ggin.;; the whole of what they pro.
(-Iced .1 ry gave t(s their lattice and mother.
:ki,e4ssir..te Oliveira the constable to take the thild
to I Ito tas ir.h of.:‘ v ift dimllsorti parish, where the friend,
of the chit,' is veil, and of their M111,0'1%41 reunite'.
Tuesday J. Hardy as coinotitted tor main iif bail, Air
threates time I.fe um hit brother. It ;iiii,cat col that the prix
• bud a wife and tour old dree tit i;E:smel, and %Wilting
itis m•Mrm omnstanct% aueitt be bet.ereil, :It he pretended, by
to London, di-poseO of the Mello. pant of bid furni-
. mit 1.10 wits:pi:past toacte.ovsity al4! with Wayoungest

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infant at her breast; but on their way to the coatih office, he
sent her back, on preten.reofpaying a debt which he owed to
a shoemaker. He took advantage of tier abseare, and came
to town v ith the wife ofanother man, and brought three of the
children with him. His wife followed, and came to the home'
of his brother, in town, who went to the prisoner's hawse in his
absence, and brought away the children, which Mrs. H. only•
wanted to remove from the bad example their father at t
them. When the prisoner returned home, and found that his
children wercremoved, he came to his brother's house, and
obtained admittance under a feigned and effeminate voice,
asking for alight. 'He then rushed into the parlour where his
brother's wife was, threnlening to bury lila Inifein his bro-
ther, who was fortunately from home.
Immediately after the commitment, his wife, accompanied
by a constable, proceeded to the late residence of the pri
saner, in order to obtain possession of km; youngest child, an
infant six years of Age. The door of the house was fastened, I
and the persons. within refused .admittance. A ladder was
procurcd•ia the neighbourhood and placed against the house ,
to facilitate an entrance through one of the windows of the
first floor, and Mrs. Hardy ascended in the most dauntless
manner, determined not to retina without her child. She
snereedild in obtaining it, and carried it to the residence of
her brother in law, Mr. C. Hardy, and placed it fur the pre-
sent under his care.

WORSHIP STREET.
J. Love was (-barged with attempting to ninrder Ids wife, a
young woman apparently only about 20. It appeared, that
after the lioneyntouubm! passed, they disagreed mud separated,
sod that she went to SellaCC at the house of Mrs. South, at
Stroud. The prisoner came there on Sunday night, and Mrs.
Smith admitted him into the house tutee his wife. He wanted
to take her away ; tat she refused; on which he snatched a
knife from the table, and. would have stabbed her, butt fur
Mrs. S. and another female, both of whom lie.knockt:d down,
broke the windows, and behaved very outrageously, until he
was taken to the cage.—Ordered to find bail.

LAiiIRItTH STREET.
Isaac Norris, a young man of genteel appearance, hat who
Is connected with an infamous gang of thieves, was brought
up from Whitechapel watch house, charged with nn attempt
'at highway robbery on Mr. Chitty, barrister, of the, Inner
Temple, on Wednesday night last.
It appeared from the evidence of Dungate, a watchman and
James Harrison, post-boy, that on Wednesday night Mr.
Chitty, accompanied by his sister, set out in a post chaise.
about eight o'clock, to go into the country, as far as Bury St.
E the post-boy having fastened their trunks, which
contained-considerable property, to the chaise, proceeded on
as tar as the Mite-end road; the prisoner, with thrae oilier
notorious characters, was seen by Dungate, the {MC111141)11,
running after the chaise. When 'Mitigate cause up with the
chaise, be faind the prisoner cutting away with his
He knocked him down with his stick; the prisoner dropped
his knife. Mr. Chitty ordered him to be takento the watch
house ; the other villains, when the watchntin came lip,
made WI as fast as possible and escaped ;• two of them are
well-known clinragiers, and no doubt willsoon be in custody.
The knife, a strap, and rope which fastened the hunks, were
produced, the latterjcut in several places, hilt fortnnately no
property was stolen. The prisoner had nothing to say in
his defence, and he wee remanded for the' attendance of AI::
and Miss Chitty.

singularcireumstance took place lately at Kelghtsbridge
barracks:—One of the tat troop of Life dearth observed, in
cleaning his horse, that the anginal seemed particularly fond of
having his face and head continnally rubbed ; in doing which
the soldier discovered something moveable as he pres.ed the.
check of the horse. .Be ace°, dine! communicated the same
to Mr..ntozham, the -Veterinary Surgeon of the troop, who
took considerable pains to examine it ; and having made every
,necessary preparation. lanced it, in the hope of diseuverinic
the cause ; when, to hitesoirprise, he extraett d a grape shot,
weighing Wale owncescfront the horse's head, which he receiv-
ed at the battle of Waterloo, where the wound was immedi-
ately dressed In the usual manner, after the engagement, and
was considered only as a sword out.
A curious circumstance happened about three weeks-ago
in Paris. An English boy, about 14 years of age, of genteel
manners, was foetid in the streets, without any money in his
pocket, and who could not speak a word of French. He was
brotightto the worthy and .Rev. Dean of Si. Asaph.,who was
then iteParls. The boy told a story that his father laid been
demi some time: that he was placed tinder the care of a
guardian at Sheplicrirsiltish; that be was entitled to a small.
fortuce on coining of age; that his mother, a widow, had '
filed a Bill in Chancery against hie guardian, to get hits, her
son, out of his hands ; and that lie bad been bronght down to
Brighton by his guardian, and ender pretence of a sail ou the
water, had been put on board a packet and landed at Dieppe,
where he was left uu4he beach with only Inc in Isis packet.
Sack was the story. The worthy Dean had the boy taken
care of, and wrote over to England to verify the account he
gave; whets he Iratned that there ivas scarcely a word of
truth in the story he had triropedap. The little rogue had
run ass ay.from the school where he was placed; that the
gentleman who hail the care of him had never been at Brigh-
ton; that he hail several times roan away before; and the
Doctor was entreated to take souse means of sendiug him back
to Eaglet-O. Accordingly the Rev. Dean entrusted him lodic
care of Xis nephew, who brought him as far as Bonlogne.—
There Mr. Shipley engaged for his own and the passage of the
boy on board a packet about to sail for Dover, and while he
was preparing to go ou board, the little rogue contrived to
make his escape, and has, nut since been heard of.
In cout-equenee of a paragraph which appeared in most of
the Papers, stating, that "Mr. Braham, on a late visit to his
ielutious at Manchester, was, from the splendour of
his equipage sad retinue, mistaken ter the Grand Duke
Michael!" al r. Brabant has written a letter to the Editor of.
a Morniag Journal, in which lie says, "1 have no coach and
four horses; lhave no outriders; and I have no superb
liveries; nor was 1 paying a visit to Mrs. Brahans's relations
at Manchester. L'ut the simple and plain truth was, being
engaged to perform at a provincial Theatre, and being pres-
sed for time, I was obliged to put leaders t, my carriage
horses, and this common incident is maliciously exaggerated
into a usdiculons affectation of aping the magnificence of a
Duke! True it is I keep toy carriage (and sotto many theatri-
cal performers), which indulgence I owe to the fostering
kiminess of a.goneroua Public:*

'Ulm lima of I avistock has latelyshow•n a most laudable
example ~. to parochial system by having its monthly expen-
ds; UiTe i.egiihorly, by which queue, every pat isbioner
hag au oppot utility of inspecting it, so as to point out where
savics, ought to tie made.
Last we. k a quantity of turnips was skipped at Berwick
for Lool,m, the sliipr.tent of that liud ever made at
thc,t