The National Register.
London, England, 1822-08-05 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

Caroline Slee, a girl of about 19 years of age, was
char6ed with haring stolen a quantity 01 household lion,.
The search which look place for the Ih,eu, led to the
discotery of another offence, which ii likely to produce
more serious colistquences.

The prisoner was only servant to Mr. Ford, of Nine
Finis, Hattirrsea. Some days ago a quantity of linen
%•S iii I, rd. An application was made at the ()thee for
a srarch•warraut, winch was placed in the hands of an
talker. When lie told her his business, and that he
%isheil to put his hands into her pockvts, to ascerain
li;:ther stir had the linen, sit:: uid it was 11111Katible

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that she could carry a bundle of linen In her pocket, still
she would per iii i i any man to search her. Ile se.zed
tier by the waist, and endeavoured to pull her pockets
off. She scratched and beat hum in the antis and hailds,
but at last he succeeded. In one of the pockets wis a
red morocco pocket-nook, whi. h contained some papers,
amongst which. was a check on a batil,mg-house to the
amount of 961. Nothing was loomd upon her to lead
to the discus cry of the linen ; but the desperate defence
she made was accounted for by the sudden and unex-
pected appearance of the chet.k.—Ttie officer proceeded
to search her trunks, in which he found acute Of the
property which had been missed, cousisting ul Wine old
towels, Liu!, grc.
When site sea. brought before the magistrate,
r. Fuld stated, win' reference to the s COlid charge,
that he had occasion to draw a check upon his bankers,
Messrs. 1./ariett and Co. for 961. 1:1 latolle of a Mr.
Dixon, and enclose it to a Mr. Ilayes, of INtettileall,
lierniondsey. The check was dated, '2sth of February,
and witness enclosed it to Mr. Hares, and tee Inc lei.
ter contaiiiine it to the prisoner to pot int • the posi-
"dice. 'lnc check had not come to hand, and inquiries
were made •t the posi-othee, the banking-noose, and
other places, without effect.
The prisoner said mat she had unfortunately permit-
ted the child, which site canted tit her arms, to play
with the letter, which became so torn and blotted that
the was ashamed to put it into the post-atlice or return
it to her master.

The unfortunate young woman, who was about to be
married to a decent tradesmen, and who had been rut
Sunday called in church, was fully col 1111 l turd.

BOX:NG ON WIMBLEDON COMMON.

The battle between J. Teasdale, as good a lad in
nature us ever peeled for the ring, and J. Lenney,
the tbrmidable and brave competitor of Curtis, took
Flace on Tuesday, on the spot stated, for a stake of
50 guineas. Su good and manly a tight has seldom
been witnessed; and without going into particulars
of the starts upon the road, we proceed to detail.—
An Amateur and Achille seconded Teasdale, and
Spring and Curtis acted tin. Lenney. Betting two
two one on Teasdale; and weights about equal.
THE BATTLE.

it lasted one hoar and fifty minutes, and after the first Uwe.
rounds it was all hard lighting. These rounds occupied more
than a planer of an hour in manueuvring, breaking ground,
&c. to endeavour to get at each other, and no blood was spilt,
or a hit of any consequence placed, until, at the end of the third
round, Teesdale placed a hit upon the tip of his adversary's
" smeller," from which " claret" New in abundance, and in a
trial of strength both went down ; bat Lenoey gained the fall.
Hound 4. Lenney placed a good right handed blow over his
adversary's left eye, which drew blued in streams : • rally fol-
lowed, from which the combatants paned, and returned to
work, and both went down, but Lenney spewed must strengths
5. Teesdale was piping, and be dropped his bands, as was
!supposed, to draw his adversary to first lighting, Teesdale
having the length ; a rally followed, bits were eschaaged, and
Teesdale was thrown.

G. 7, and N. l'enAide stood engnarded, stroking his breast
down, and evidently distressed for wind. Lamey bad orate
some excellent parries of his adversary's left hand, but he had
the worst of the rounds, and was kept constantly bleeding with
left-handed nabbing," but his confidence remained uo,.haken.
Teesdale led until the I lilt round, Looney being too abort to
get at him, but here he chewed some rare genie qualifications,
and had the best of the round, and threw his adversary. 'the
claret blew in all directions.

The 17th round again produced extra play, and Lenney had
none the worst of a smart rally, and in the 18th both were toJ
much tired foi destructive work.

The 19th was a gallant fighting round upon casualty, and
Lenney threw bin adversary.
211. In this round it was no difficulty in naming the winner.
Lenney was hit to a stand, and his head was one contused
mass. lie, however, fought on, and fought some of the rounds
succeufully until the -12 d, when he was floored with • rum
right banded Is,,rger, and was deaf to time.
Both %hewed themselves brave men, bat Teesdale out fought
his adversary, and bad ountidenue to keep on in tranncient au-
verso), ; but he is not the slashing hitter he was supposed to
be, although be finishes well. He has received has quantum
of punishment. A minor light followed, but few stopped to
see it.

MeLANcslioLY AccloeNr.--On Tuesday, the 231
ulna, about eight o'clock no the morning, as Mr. Joseph
Bateman was procuetiotg in a gig iowi,r,:s Nwurbridge,
his horse, which was a apirlleil atlllll.ll, and unaccus-
tomed to harness, took fright heady opposite Bellevue-
house, at au attempt made by Mr. Bateman to raise his
ititibieila, and galloped furiously dilisu the steep hill
leading 1010 Halts thril. Mr. B. being much alarmed,
dropped the reins, by which the speed of tie horse was
fearhilly increased; and seeing a Carl approachl from
the bottom of the hill, dreading a COlielisa.oii, he leaped
from the gig about Yv yards I..elore they met. 'like wan
driving the cart laid hold of the shaft horse, and endea-
voured to get mu ul the way, but tic lure
horse turned spurt round at the moment the g g was
Massing, and received title of the gig shahs in his body,
near the hip, which almost i iiii nediately l.aded him.
'the concuss on was 5.i I iultw, that. the Carl, which was
laden with casting pots, was overturned, and the Matt
thrown nutlet the iIUnICS, by which lie had several of hits
ribs broken, and was otherwise seriott,ly injoreil.
horse, dragging a part ui the gig alter huh, was ton
stopped Wall lie reaCiieil the turnpike mi the Sii.urbridge
road. Mr. Bateman was taken up by UMW perawis woo
wituriesed the accident, and carried to a collage war al
hand. Medical assistance was speedily piocured, when
it was found that hits lent leg was 50 oddly traciured in
two plates, that amputation above the knee was ouliged
to be resorted to; tie also received a severe COIIIIISIU/I oil
the back ill his head—we arc, however, happy to say
that lie is recovering; the di iver also is hopriollig. Tile
cart and horses belonged to Mr. Ittillord,o: Siumb.idge,
and the animal killed was a very valuable one. Mr.
IL:telltales horse, as might be yapected, sushi,:lyd consi-
derable injury.

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TOMS, JULY 4.—.41/enspi to Friday la st
a policestiata named Plonket, was brought in here from
13allindattgaii, by a party of police, soul lodged in the
Breulewell, Irum whetter he was tratitiMited to Galway
on Saturday morning, in company with the prisoners
cons icted at our sessions. He is charged with having
conspiru it to take away the life of Mr. Tobias Burke, jut'.
of Alusicfield, im the county of Mayo, by attempting to
have a poison administered to him. The circumstances
attending this extraordinary and wicked detign have beets
related to us in many shapes ; but without Wedititig om-
it-Ives entirely for its atithetiticity, we give the following,
which we deem hest emitted to erei.i. :—lt appears that
Mr. Burke had not been many months married: that
prior to his happy taitioti, his wile, who was a young
widow, and a native of Clarcinorris, had formed an ac-
quaintance with the prisoner, who is a handsome young
iellow of eigtreen, when a mutual attachment ensued,
and an attempt at an elopement was the result; snit the
watchfulness of her friends unfortunately frustrated the
attempt. Snort ly a ter this, Mr. Burke paid his addres-
ses to her, and succeeded in gaining her affections. and
an elopement, which led to the happy union, was the
consequence. It •t be here oliserted that the young
widow was entitled to SOUI on her coming of age, and
has not yet become entitled to its 1003Sebb14/11. Since her
marriage with Mr. Burke. who resides within a short
distance of Ballusdatigaii (where the prisoner was
sta-
tiunrd) she cutitrived to pay llaquent %kits to that vil-
lage, which at lentoli excited the stispicirms of her hus-
band, and led li:m to the resolution of confinisrg her to
the house until such time as Plintket should be removed
front that place. Thus debarred from persor inter-
views, a correspondence commenced, and wit kept tip
until a few tats ago, when Mr. Burke obs•rved some
paper in his set vain 111Jites hand, and on asking whet it -
was, she sand, " Netisnit," and atteinpted to destroy it,
when lie seized hers an./ Meet, the paper bolo tier, which
poised to be a sealed letter, without signature, auldnesse3
to Mis Burke, hating two small papers of arsenic en-
closed, with proper instructions how they should be
administered to Mr. Burke. Under these CIrCIIIIISLInces
Mr. Burke took the necessary legal steps, which led to
the apprehensant of the prisoner. A circumstance
which strongly attaches guilt ho the wile is, that after
Mr. Bunke had quitted the house to have Runk,' ar-
rested, both site and the main had absconded, and were
found concealed in a shrubbery, several miles frinwthe
house. We are further itilortned, that on searching her
box, several letters, without Slalla ore, and in the same
handwriting. were found therein. .Mr. Burke is a clever
handsome young fellow.
COMBINATIO N.—On Tuesday last, in consequeuee of
application made by Nlessrs.Soulstry. Holmes, and Evans,
coal merchants, lighternien, and whartingers, at Mt.foro-
lane; Strand, to the Police Magistrates at lictomgardeti.
that all Ike Coalheaters, to the amount of six howbeit,
on each side of the river, struck for an increase of oases,
(at present, oil all average, each man could Carla near 31.
a week), anti would not permit other men to work. W.
and E. Reed were semi to protect the men taiiployeu,
itiostls Irishmen. Etch labourer was paid live shillings
in the event ng, for working front eight its the marmot;
to five tit the evening.
ANECDOTI Or A SCOTS GREY AND A COLLIER—
During the escoutiter het merit the Scots Greys and the
colliers at ClWltiliii, one of the Greys was in the act 4,;*
siruktog a collier unit his sabre. " fluid, Alex Bider,-
sala rite collier, showing his medal, " don't you remem-
ber when I carried you wounded off the field of Waier-
lon t" The soldier imin.diately dropped his sabre, proud
that he haul fur the first time an opportunity of showmg
his gratitude to the mail to whom he owed ins existesice.
Soma poitirls in training last week in a field m cara-
way, near the Ilalfway-House, at Minster, oil Sneppy,
made a point for some tune before any gair.e could he
discovered ; at tempo tin search, three young partridges
and the old hen were found dead, sitting out the::
breasts as if asleep. On taking them up and examioing
them, no cause of aka death could be perceived ; they
were in good order as to flesh, and the lien had lost a:I
her feathers from her breast. 'lacy were taken home in
order to examine them more closely, and the ben being
picked, the inside of her wines, the rutty, tail, and in,
poll or the head, were compietely covered with masse;
of ticks and s.arilications, and, if possible. the row:,
trues were more infected, all'i (mitt this cause there is ri
doubt was their death produced. 'lite covey haul bet it
tound several tunes before they wire a moults old, au I
could fly well. Torre were Ito wounds or bruises about
them, and their iusides were perleCtiy correct. Toe
marsl bred both: to Shepil are very subject to this 1.1-
rction.

ItcHNERY.—A most ittiptid,tit and 51116,1'1.10y daring
robbery was co ... n Med oil suilday afternoon, at the 110111. a.
of Mr. Westwood, watchmaker dllti jewclirr, w Pollee:—
street, Soho. The family of Mr. ‘Veslwood were,
the trine, all absena on a Cutnitry eacsrstutt. loco,
It Appears, were oil baturiiity toglit taken into custody,
being loomd round the door wlth keys, whicii 1;a. y
seemed 10 be fitting to the keyhole. l'ne thieves 0.1
Son.layobtat ed entrvice by Übe keys, and made A
ucral clearance of the siocl. oi the shop, curisist:tig
warciic!, chains, seals, and jewellery, In the
1,7. mi., with winch they evc.Ted unobserved.
Illtee Well were oil Monday 1)7.1401111p to Malltanougu-
street, but there bring no satisiactury r‘idrixe
thew, Wry were d0C11.041.11.
I)ANING ItOYUEAY SY A FEMAl.E.—Thursdayere.i-
-mg, while NIG BJSSCO, of Ikall-bt11:CI, SOW; Wal3 1.11.
pi6ed Witli 113 family in tile upper part of the 1101154 .01
ail eldeily woman conisised to enter the place
from the parlour two books that were ly hig 011 a latAC ;
the one Fox's Book of Maravv, and a fAtttly Litolc
Flit robbery was dive.% erect Ji iiiii it innued,a,rly ail. r
was perpetrated, and all al inn was guru, When n was
ascertained that (hire own 11101411 Old wo,uall had e
,evil lurking About the house, and not far lruin the ,pot
all OM woatall Was discovered with one of the laua.ss
She was dia.ely taken to the W.IIOIIIO4ISC by Cu.ll ,
a C..nslable, and oil Friday exatnillcd
tiled, v%ltui she wrs

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