The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-18 00:00:00

M IRLI101:0110H STREE C.

Randall, the celebrated pn;ilist, by way of finish to a night's
spree, was charged with tiisui derly con:lino, early on Wed-
iieeday 'naming, with others in St. Giles's. There was no
mischief dotie„ nil the defendant said he had been Ill'illk;114
With Some friend., who 114,1 kept him out late, and he and
soine other genilenit n were first abused. The case was ills..
e ut ged.
Jelin Teather was brought to this office by one of the
officers of the Society tiir the Seppression Men dieity ,
charged with begging in the hold. at manlier from every pc!.
who passed him in the Hampstead road. It appeal
upon examination. that he had more than 5..,
pence, in his pocket, the fruits of his dab's begging : lie had
till lately been a silk-stocking weaver; hot the trade failitiche
could not obtain any but interior workoi hich lie relinquished
in favour of the more lucrative employment of begging. The
prisoner hail two children. one in arms, evidently fur the pm,
101,4 e of %citing compassion, which were transterreil Icy the
officer to the mother, anti the Was committed by
Esq. fur I 1 flays, to Tothill.fields Itiidewell.
The Rev. Mr. S•1111;111, who l'ormerly performed clerical
ditties at St. Anne's parish. and also at St. Paid's, Shit I %veil,
.vas eltereeil by Mr. 1 eivi•. Vestry Clerk of St. Aisne's, be fore
G. Portant, Esq. with riotous and disorderly conduct, in
knocking at the doors of the inhabitants, and ties:ging. Mr.
Davis stated, that the defendant had formerly performed ,I.e
burial /WRIST at St. Anne's, hut of I ite had given way so
mulch to drinking, that he was not only an annoyance to
the elerey of the parish, from whom lie had at dales •nt
!i:iies ie. rived sums of money, but to the whole of the
riodaaris. He was continually knocking at their doors a. k-
ing eleiri.y, and he even went so far, 55 to advance into tht it
pat lout., and rather demanded relief by Ilninl the names of
uio cie poen of the parish and others in office. He had
been times very troublesome at Mr. D.'s house. and h
Comlb,s WAS such a house in Soho- qii ire, on W editesila
that tie 1%:1S biked to the watch-liousu in a druulsen atAtC...•

OCT. 18

The defendant stated that slr.Davis should get him ern- '
ploy in the church, and he talked of gradations and de-
gradatillus.
Mr. Davis,—" I sin sorry to say the latter appi es to yon ;
I eonld not for shame recommend yon, as you know very
well that when performing duty over the last corpse, you
were so di fink that you had ararly fallen into the grave."
The deceneant seemed to acknowledge this by .111W-Ilt, and
talked of his knowledge of Latin, Greek, Sze. and stated him-
self to be a Welch Magistrate.
Mr. Ftrrant.—" Then why not return there?"
Mr. Davis.—'• He did; but following the same coune, he
got into Swansea gaol."
The deleatiatit talked of hiving bled at the Nile, and went
on very incoherently, and asked if there wits not a pistol in
the ()lifer. Mr. Farrant feelingly endmvonred to impress on
the defendant the impropriety of his conduct. He was an_
wiling to commit him as a vagrant, if he would promise the
several persons present, whom he had annoyed, not to re-
peat it.
This he promised, and it being accepted, he was released.
The defendant receives a guinea a week, as a half pay
Chaplain of the Navy.
John Gustavus Lieut.-General Crosbie charged a noted
pick-pocket, James Thomas, with robbing hint of a mot rucco
small book, and a card case.
MA. Ware proved that lie observed the prisoner's hand in
the General's pocket ; and Mr. Jackson, butcher, of Bond-
street, also saw it. He immediately seized the delinqueet,
• and two compenions who were with him escaped. The
articles were found down an area. The prisoner was cum.
untied for trial.
UNION HALL.
Mrs. Morris, wife of Capt. elorris, late of the 7th ilunars,
attended before the Magistrates of this ',Rice, to answer a
charge preferred against her, by Miss Eliza Johnson, for
assaulting her and threatening her with personal vloleuce.
Miss Johnson stated, that some months back she formed an
unfortunate connection with Capt. Moms, in Ireland. She
was not aware that lie was a married man. She accompanied
-him to England, and was then visited by the defendant, who
abused her in the Mail viuicut mautier, and alarmed her by
her ontrageone conduct. Since that period Capt. Mantis had
been iu custody several tithes' charged bay parish o fficers, to
wham Mrs. Morris had applied for maintenance, and for a
considerable time abe (complainant) had discontinued her
connection with that gentleman. She at present resided in
the parish ()ISt. George,Sonthwark, and the defendant (teen-
pied aparttnents at no great distance from the same platte.—
Tliey frequently met accidentally in the street, anti upon all
-such occasions Mrs. Morris assailed her with torrents of
aldose, and raised a mob about her. She was hunted by the
defeutiain wherever she went, and considered that her per-
sonal safety was endangered by such cotiduct.
Mrs. Morris said, that she felt towards the complainant as
any other female would feel ender similar eircumstauces.
She had deprived her of her hueband, and had been the prin-
cipal cause of herself and family being reduced to so deplor-
able a state as to he compelled to apply to a parish for sub-
sistence.—Slue had reason to believe that the statement was
untrue respecting the tbseontinitilice of her cumiection With
Captain Morris. It was a subject of inexpressilde mortifica-
tete to witness the squandet tug away upon a worthless anneal
that property, which ought to be appropt iated to the uses of
his own fentily, whose wants were numerous. She could not
repress her feelings, and wherever or whenever 'he met the
complainant, silt' should r d her ot the intently rise le wrongs
which she had been the means of heaping upon her finely.
The Magistrate lamented the surforteiate and deserted
situation a MI,. Morris, but remitted her that she must not
•adapt such a conduct towai cis Miss Johnson as tended to lead
to a breach of the peace. Under the circumstances, he
should not then call upon her to find sure les. 'Cite dicer
Aiould hold the warrant, and bring the patties before hint, it
a similar OCCIIITCUCC slit/11111 again take place.
WORSHIP STREET. - • •

Two collectors cf tolls on the St.roford Fill trust appeared at this
Crice on 'Thursday, to answer to informations exhibited against them
for taking toll of a respectable inhabitant living iii Shorethich, of the
name of Parker, not being authorized by the Local Act of Parliament
so to do. It appeared on the evidence of Mr. Parker, that on two
bey, nil nights passing through the gate on the '.aid r" id. with a
common cart laden with potati.,:s, which he was Ong to deliver to a
cu.toiner, the collector demanded night tell : he stated, that ids was a
cartof burden, not a carriage of pleasure. and therefore, arzording
to the Act of Parliament. had no right to pay night tell. The col.
lector refused to allow him to pass without paying sixpenc.e, which he
was obliged to tio. lie exhibited an information against the collector,
and on the hearing the Magistrate considered that as it was a toll
imposed upon persons who travelled for pleasure, it could nut apply
to the present instance, as it appeared the plaintiff was solely un
business. Upon this case he must convict the defendant in the
penalty of 4os. and cos a for taking the said toll, he not being
authorized by the Act of Parliament so to do. The defendant said
he should appeal against this conviction to the Quarter Sessions.

A very singular case of sudden obliteration of the deepest im-
pression occurred in Oxford, somewhat later than the middle of the
last century. It was narrated by the late Mr. Wyndham, and the
fact is well known to many persons yet living. A woman, who was
fie re executed, was restored to animation. Shecompletely recovered
Ler health—married—bore children—and conducted herself reputably
through life. But the (fleet produced on her memory by the shock
which her bodily frame had svitained was most extraordinary. She
reaollected every t.,ing distinctly up to the day of her trial ; but
from that day she reeollected nothing.; and the period between her
trial and execution for ever after remained a blank in her memory.
She had behaved in prison with great composure and resignation—
had partaken al the sactrunent on tire morning of execution—sung a
hymn on the scaffold—oaken a calm farewell of her friends—and be-
trayed no symptoms of terror. But all these scenes were for ever
effaced from her mind—nor had she ever afterwards the faintest
glimmer of recollection that she had been placed in such jeopardy.
/ler m, mory with regard to every thing else was unimpaired. It
woutl seem a if the ideas that possessed her mind during her im-
prisonment, and were uppermost on it, had literally been all wiped
away.—Blockwood'i Erthiburelt Miron4ine.
Thunahty morning, about two o'clock, a watchman observed the
garden door iopen belonging to Mrs. Lucas, Trafalgar Place, Kent
Iload, and going in perceived a man getting over the wall into an
adjoining garden. He sprang his rattle, aryl occasioned considerable
alarm in the neighbourhood. One gentleman hn d at the robber
-from his chamber, as be w'ts proceeding from garden to garden to
effect his escape, hut missed him. Nca ly twenty other gentlemen,
half dressed, joined in the pursuit, and followed the depredator over
the walls of their neighbours gardens. The thief at one time at-
.tempted to get through a deep muddy ditch which sup rates the
gardens from sate meadow Lod, hut finding himself in danger of
suffocation. be returned and renewed his endeavours to escape by
.climbing the giuden walls in succession until he arrived at an open-
ing. Ile at last secreted himself in an out home belonging to Capt.
Thompson, of Dover Place, Kent Road. where ho was vita overeat
and taken into custody by the pursuers. afterward.; appe wed that
he had stolen a vast number of bras-. cocks from the *met butts
;belonging to the houses in Trafalgar Mut.

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110X1 N
Lest Tuesday a s battle was fought in a large roped.
in ling, in the Urorge Meadow, at Battle, between Joe, lire
Montan, and an It ishinan, named Doglierty , aeuro ire, and com-
monly called the Town Bully, ter two guioicas. 'lnc combat-
alas, with Ills it seconds awl bottle holders, entered the ring
at right in the morning, both confident ot victory, and after
stripping set to, showing some clumsy sparring, in imitation
of their betters, but no science. l)ugherty nias the heaviest
man, but Joe possessed the longest arm, u Well gave him the
advantage when his antagonist hit short, which he frequentiv
did, having no notion of measuring distance, and thereby cot
.marlly punished about the bead and face. No pluck up.
peared wanting on either side, the battle haviag lasted au
hour and .5.1 urinates, and produced ;2 rounds sustained with
as much gluttony as might have been expected from the
hardiest veterans of die Fancy, when the Irishanitu gave in,
and yielded the victory to Joe, which was at one time de-
spaired of, in consequence ot his having badly sprained his
wrist. In one cluse Dogkerty had got the tiantau's head in
chancery, and was paying anav lustily at his wind, when the
spectators, tire want of knowing better, exclaimed, "Foul!
foal I no Bantling I" Must present were glad to see the bully
butane—Two pugilistic contests finished the spurts on Nion-
day un 1)11,1111am D own : one between -- Fawley and Old
Cottle, comioonly called " the Sandman," who fought Dick
Murton; his favourite play was at his antagonist's bread
[whet, which he put into a lowed, and family botched I
up. The other was a milling between two glititaas.
Last week a conflict of * most de peruse nature took
place at Tunbridge, betweeu some smugglers and some Ex-
cise Officers. The officers were the victorious pa: ty for some
lime, when one of the smugglers aimed a desperate blow at
one ot the officers, which obliged him to drop his spear. The
smuggler seized it, which decided the battle, and the utfieers
were obliged to snake off with the greatest celerity, to pre-
serve their lives.