The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-16 00:00:00

MANSION HOUSE..

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few days since a voting Gentleman attended. and after relating
the siiddel death of his father, directly chin-get! his tense with hav-
ing been concerned in lisstening his disi.erution. The charge was
treated as the chimera of a disordered mind, but fully to satisfy all
Partici it was agreed that an application should be oriole fur the disk].
terment of the bodZ, which hal been buried in the I h trehlard of
St. James's, Mix:0111y. The Coroner for IVe‘tminster wits aecordiagly
applied to, ar.cl answer regretted, that withoin stronger grounds of
‘usoicuits.%:-rauld not grant a warrant for taking ty the body ; if he
did so it must be to have the matter inve-tigated b, a Jury, and from
the distance of time, as well as the corrupt state of the d !ceased when
interred, it would be impossible for any man to come to a coo-
Flusam upsn a vie..v of the body. The matter remaining unexplained,
It tem r?soliietl to apply to Dr. Meyer, who attended Cie deceased a
snort time befare his death. The Doctsr immediately declared the
deat:i peen natural In order. however, to set the question
at rest ha went to the Justice room, and was sworn to the following .
—" Looiden to wit, I, John Meyer, M I )., do hereby make oath, that
I att.q2;l:Al the late ‘Vm. M—, a few clay; previous to his death,
and in he died of the daarra modals. Signed, Jour
Evt: it." 'file uncle of the young man stated that this would be
satisfactory to all parties, although Mr. M. jun. sand continued iu a
state of imad distrts,sing to Lis friends.

GUILDHALL.
Thurs.'s)* Jame; Elli 3 chargzi before Nfr. Alderman Good-
Inhere, with plundering the Paddington Canal Warehouse, in Lon-
don Wall, of Manthesta and other goods, to the amount of more
than 21101., the prop:rty of Afes.trs. Turner and Co. the proprietors.
Elizabeth Ellis, daughter to the prisoner. was alb° put to the bar,
charged wit't being concerned in .the robbery.
At the re ptest of one of th proimeit•wii, the prisoners were both
remanded. to give time for further imiu.ry, and fur the pawnbrokers
to attend-with the property.

BOW STREET.
On the Ist of March, 1817, the Edinburgh rraail was rabbed of
bank notes to the amount of between 4 and 5,0001. which were in a
parcel seat by !nail to Messrs. Elie and Co. at the Stirling bank,
from the Edinburgh bank. On the arrival of the mail coach at Stir-
lin ;, the panel was missing. Theplesengers had all left the coach,
and it was strongly suspected that some or me whole of the inside
paseengers were concerned in the robbery. An inquiry soon took place
rasp:Tung them and their Proceedings on the me f, when it was as-
certained that all the inside places were taken previeus to the mail
starting from Edinburgh, and that three persons, of the names of
M'Allister, Ilamilton and Carter, got into the mail coach at the inn,
previously to its starting, and the four passengers were taken up on
the road. As the mail was passing the top of Prince's.street, Edin-
burgh, one of the pas:engem who had hooked himself by the name
of fltunilton, suddeely stopped the snail, and said he had forgot won
important. papers, arid as it wouici be of no use pursuitig his journey
without tacen, he was obliged to retern home, and left the mail,
taking his emu coat over his arm, and saying he must pursue his
journey the next day. 'fne passenger who had booked himself by
the name of Al.AT.stert act out.of .he mail at l.ithengrovc, and did
not return into the meat, ehhougb he had taken his place to Serline.e.
A full description of me ten's pawn; and conduct was o'otairetel
from a young woman of the mune of Brown, an outside pas.steger.
who was admitted into ale t coech in consequence of Ilemilion puma;
out at the top of Prince', st,ect, Edinburgh. and abeattloning his
iaat in the coach, and she :ode at far as Lithengrove. Tile proprietors
of the Bank-notes have been making every possible exertion, and
sparing ne expense to discover the robbers, and to recover the int.
menu; suns lost. Among ote tr places they applied at Bow-street,
and in consequence Adkins, the officer, has been fur some dine ce
ening but without success, till a law months Mice, when a
man was detected at the Italian Opera, in robbing the competty
there, by means of cutting their pockets with a sharp instrument,
and which practice it is supposed be had pursued for mime time with-
out suspicion or detecton, owing to his being genteelly di:se—el, and
reaming to toe pit. On searceing 14:at and his residence some
articles of property were found, which led to a suspiciou.tl;at he was
one of the paeeengert in the Edinburgh mail, and had beenconcerned
in the robbery. Jnfonnation being sent to the bankers, theownera
of the valuable parcel, they sent .\ I tsa Brown the fellow-female pee-
senger berme mentioned, to London, when ebepoieuvely swore to the
num apprehended at the Itaitan Opera house, as being one of. the
paeseagers. Hit name is Hamilton, alias Grey. Ile has been tried
fur the rubberiefs at the Otetra-louse and bas been sentenced to semi
yeas' transportrizioa. Li the mean time A ikins has been exerting
himself' to apprehend the other suppc-eel robber.;, and has succeeded
in tracing out and securing one of them of the name of M.Ailister
alias Criaseler ; and Miss Brown has been sent 3g tin from Edinburgh
to London, anti has also identified this man as one of the passe mgrs
in the tient at the time of the tobbery.
A habeas corpus has been obtained for the removal of Hamilton
alias Grey, from Navigate to Edintergh' to take his trial for the
robbeey .of the ; and Adltine has left town with him and
Allister dies Crowder, for Edinburgh, to t:.he their .trial for the
ounce.