The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-03 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER..

EXECUTIONS AT THE OLD BAILEY.

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Thursday having been the day appointed for the execution
of Ed. Voss, Dennis Keaton, Wm. Connor, William Frith.
Peter Rainer, and Thomas Rrams4rove, convicted in De-
cember and January sessions, an immense concourse of per-
sons, amongst whom were many well-dressed females,
assembled in the Old Bailey to witness the awful scene.—
The two latter were respited during his Majesty's pleasure.
When the respite was communicated to them, the whole of
the unfortunate men were together. Rainer tell on his
knees, and could scarcely sustain himself, and Brainsgrove
appeared equally 'erudite of the mercy which was extended
towards I . They eartinued with the other malefactors,
and joined in singing and prayer during the night, and until
the time arrived fur the execution of the others. Voss, who
was only 18 yaws of age. and Keaton, who had not attained
his seventeenth year, and a leo was of diminutive :Ware and
boy ish look, were found guilty of tottering various forged
aI. notes ; and although these were no less than Pf nubs t-
wins against them, the whole of the offences were elfected
in ninth the same any. They had a horse and chaise, and
took w nit them a female companion. Voss wore a naval
uniform, and the lady was supposed to be his wife. Keutnu
represented him-elf as the servant, and, dill alighting at a
country tau or tavern, his first inquiry was," if his master
mud mistress could be itectimmolated w nth dinner f" The
;Minna ve being given in reply, an eleAant dinner was pro-
- 014,4. a f.-w bottles of a ins consumed, and all expenses
a:i charged by the payment of well-executed forged notes.
%V. Connor was convicted of stealing a great malty articles
of plate, in the house of J. Jones, Esq., of Norwood, with
hum he lived servant. lie packed the articles up, and had
them conveyed ton temporary residence, in the neighhour-
hood of Manchester Square; and, as an excuse for steaiing
them, he said he had been dirt eted by one of the members
of the family.
Frith was found guilty the same session, of n burg-
lary in the house of Fran;. tiregg, 4.f Doagate-hitl, and
stealing therein bank-notes aod articles of plate, amoutain,;
in the whole to upwards of 7001., the property of Mr.
Gregg and the Skioners' Company. Ile had lived confidea-
tia I servant a ith Mr.Orelfg for six or seven years.
The unhappy malefactors were attended early in the
morning by the Rev. Dr. Cotton, the Rev. Mr. Devereux,
anti Mr. Baker; their leinds appeared perfectly resi.:ned.
Tim boy Keaton wept mock. Ile has, it apeared, been n
thief since he aas tall :lion.: h to put his hand in a pocket;
and he ha, admitted that i❑ a crowd, in one day, he stole
four watches, and a pocket-I k containing a 1001. note,
a hie le lie after turd, sold for 101
A few minutes atter eight o'clock, the awful preparations
being completed, the fatal sierial was given, and they died
without lintels boil' iy sulh•riug.

LONGEVITY.—An instance of it occurs in an old
Flighlantler, of the Royal Artillery, now in the cita-
del of Plymouth, he was born on the 14th of
August, 1719, and who, if he lives to the same
period of August next, will consequently be one
hundred and one years of age. He is a pensioner
in the garrison at Plymouth, at two shillings per
day, and his rent free. He has a sickly, infirm
wife, who has been painfully afflicted for thirty
years past, to whom he is very attentive and kind.
He was at the battle of Culloden in 1745, walks
perfectly upright and strong, and has all his faculties
I clear and good, excepting one eve, which he lost at
the battle of 13randvwine, in the first American
war. lie is much remarked for his attention and
cleanliness, and regularly attends the Dissenting
Meeting House at Plymouth on Sundays. Among
other events of his life, he is proud of relating, that
be fired a gun on the days on which George the '2d,
George the 3d, and George the 4th were proclaimed
Kings of England ; and particularly on this last
occasion, when the Commanding 'Officer of the
garrison, out of respect to his age aal long service,
delighted him by desiring him to tire the first gun.
The Duke of Waling:ton, on his late visit to Ply-
mouth noticed him much, entered into conversation
with him, asked several questions, and presented
him with a 11. note. lie is, as may be supposed,
an object of interesting curiosity to the inhabitants
of Plymouth and its neighbourhood ; and on taking
leave of his visitors, generally requests the favour
of being permitted to kiss the hand of the Ladies,
which he does in the most handsome soldier-like
manner.

Mr. Fenian, the editor of the peri,dical work,.
called Leitres Nornumdes ; and M. Leon Thie..se,
the writer of an article in it, condemning the prae-
tice of performing an expiatory service on the 2:st
of.lanuary, the anniversary of the death of Louis
XVI. as a mark of part\ triumph, reprobated by
seven eights of the French people, were recently
tried beiirre the Paris Court of Assiza, on an in-
dictment which charged the offence--Ist, As an
outrage against public morals ; .‘2,11y, As an attack
on the inviolability of the royal person; and 3dly,.
as an incitement to disobey the ivs; the expiatory
service having been estahlishea by a regular Act of
the Legislature.. The Jury, after being nut two
hours, returned a verdict, dc.'claring them Guilty en
the third count only ; and each of them was sen-
tenced to one month's imprisonment, and a fine of
2000 £
Oo Wednesday morning, about 9 o'clock, n fire
broke out in the wine vaults of Mr. Rossi, under-
neath the South Sea Chambers, in ThreadneLdle
Street, which', at the first onset, threatened very
dreadful consequences; but the engines having
arrived in a very sho:t time from Me.-srs. Gye mot
Baltic's, in Gracechurch street, it was in a v, ry short
time got under, yet not before it had comninnicated
to the Chambers above, occupied by Mr. Waster.

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APPREHENSION OF A DARING GANG O
ROBBERS.

A short time ago a communicat• was received by Mr.
[Striae, the Magistrate of Bow Street, from several gentlemen
in and about liadleigh, iu Sulholk, stating that numerous
burglaries and robberies, attended; in some instances, with
circumstances of great atrocity, had been committed lately
in that neighbourhood. The object of the communication
was to request the.assistance of one or two of the must active
officers of Bow Street. and Mr. filmic immediately selected
Salmon, and ordered him to go down and use every tact-tom
to Ming the intrados to justice.
Salmon, on his arrival at Dadleigh, assumed the deem of a
country farmer, and went about at night to different public-
houses, where he understood the suspected persons were in
the habit of re-orting, and at one he Mae. ved four suspicious
looking men drinking together, and remarked that they re-
peatedly looked at the clock, and at ten at night one said
to the rest "It is time to go," and they &pat ad. This
lowing onus • g it was Mscovei cd that a mill 'whinging to
Mr. teaks, in the neighbourhood, had been broken IMO
during the night, and plundered of lino and meal to a large
amount. It appeared that the thievt s forced no entrance
through the brick part, w hick was e than to u' feet thick.
They were also, it seems,.provided with horses to carry the
stolen property away. Salmon being acqurinted with the
circumstance, caused the tour men wholll he had seen the
night before t the apprehended, and they were handcuffed
and placed In separate MOODY during the succeeding night,
with men to winch over them. Before the morning, WIC of
them, named William Basket, voluntarily confessed the
whole of the transaction, and stated, that the entrance into
the mill was effected by means of a plough counter, which
they look on they way from a plough in a farm yard. lie
also stated that the property was depositud iu a barn on
Ilsolleigh Heath, where Salmon en a seurels tumid it, and
also found the plough counter in a ditch. near the
Molten also confessed a number of Oilier robberies, to w high
he and his compitaions had been concerned. lie arts admitted -
•an evidence for the Crown, and the other three, named
' Jocelyn, Mann, and Simpson, were committed to Bury gaol,
a hither they were conveyed in be custody. of Sal/UOll.

BOROUGH Or 1.; a hurgage-
tenure borough, and the county town of Westmor-
land, containing 120 houses, and 711 inhabitants,
exclusive of Lungate, a separate parish, but part of
,the town. The right of voting in this borough,
although there is no special resolution of the House
of Commons concerning it, is admitted to be in
hurgage-tenures. These burgage-holds are now the
property of the Earl of Lousdale and the Earl of
Thanet. Hog-sties have been deemed freeholds hem,
and purchased by the Thanet and Lousdale families,
at a price exceeding all belief. The contention be-
tween th2se two families has given the borough its
only consequence ; but they have now agreed that
each shall send one member. The electors of this
place, therefore, bit down quietly to be represented
by whomsoever its noble proprietors shall think• most

proper.
DiiounErtLY ASSFNIBLY.—Friday, as usual on
Good Friday, a scene of the most disgraceful nature
took place on Kennington Common ; all the bad
characters of the metropolis appeared to be drawn
there as to a common centre, and presented a scene
which bafiLs description—jackass racing, gambling,
throwing with -sticks at boxes, cat hunting, dog
fighting, and cudgel playing, thrilled the amuse-
ments of that sacred day. The whole appeared to be
arranged
for the convenience of pickpockets, a Iw-
merous gang of whom were on the ground, and were
particularly successful in their depredations, anti
many persons were robbed in the mot daring man-
ner of their watches, hats, handkerrhiefs, Stc.
DU L.—Another divutc has taken play, at Gibraltar,
hAween au American naval officer and t.t (411(: r of the
British army in that garrison. The parties acre Lieut.
of the ':7th regiment, and Lieut Dowlibg, of
the Hat y, ease was reported by the Canner to the
conitnainkr nf tie garrison, with a request that lie
iiMtlit be tried be a Court Martial, he conceiving that
his conduct hail been perfectly correct. This request
will refused. Toe AMC( ICJII ()Aker was brotight 14 a
Gam Martial by order of his Commodore, :anal acquit-
ted, but it is uuderstooll that the Commodore, disap-
proving of the acquittal, has traiiitnitted the verdict. to
the Prclident of the United States. A few ;lays after, the
parties met, when the American Milccr threw out some
reflections on the testi IllOny of Lieut. S—, ill cunse-
quence of the act& The result was, a message was
sent by Lieut. S-- to the American Officer, which
the latter relosed, ;n the first instancy. Imo Lient. S—
having insisted upon honourable satisfactitai, a meeting
took place call the atonal gsotto I. Tile valises stoo.l at
Mae paces distance, and by the fast lucid the America's
tile British officer was woutted slightly in the leg; tut
the second lire the ball of his adversary's pistol grazed
one of his cu r 4,... ; am!, 011 the third shot, the ball
passed through bts thiab, and brouaut him to the
r0.,a(1. The bus lavas here terminated, and Lieutenant
S--, ,vas tom eyed to the Military Hospital, where
he was left in a fair way of recovery at the departure of
the Roctilin., whivii has brought home the account of
this allair.

Pulmomary complaints have been very prevalent
for some time past, in consequence of the severe
weather and harsh winds; but it is pleasing to re-
mark, that from the lust monthly report of a Phy—
sician of practice, that in the number of ca:•cs of
actual consumption„so peculiar to our climate, there
Las been u considerable diminution afloat!, compart
to former periods.
Cneshire Ass:zes commence on Wcihie,ilay iicxr.—
The trial of Bruce, i tin.s. and PC031,11, rOr siaaning.
at Ilircii, the coristatile, will probable take I,lace 411).
Fs 'Way ; that of Sir Charles ‘Votsely, iar sedition, &c.
uti Saturday and Parsee Hari ison's on Mt:mail.

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