The National Register.
London, England, 1809-01-15 00:00:00

REGISTER.

On Saturtkiy morning he sent otrthe coach'lntsi, pith their lug-
gage and the carriage, from Bath to go to London, with direc-
tions to be in London on Monday afternoon; and his not haring
arrived on Tuesday evening, gave some re:lAm to suspect from
the description of the footman, that his (.mlOllll3ll had taken
one of his horses to commit the robbery. On Wednesday
morning, on its being known that a man had been taken by lite
horse-patrole, for the robbery of Mr. Mestaer, Mr. Brdham
attended at the office, till the tr.an in custody was brought ,in ;
he was then con's ineed it *as' not his coachman'; his alarm was
increased for the safety of his carriage, and he employed Ad-
kins to go in search of it. A post chaise was ordered for that
purpose, and about four o'clock, when Adkins was ready toset
off, Mr. Brabant came with great speed to the office, to say the
coachman had
,just arrived with the carriage safe ; and the (awe
assigned by the coachman for being sueh length of time
was, that the roads were in such a bad state, be -could nut tra-
vel any faster. •
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Thu.7...lay, William Luck, the man apprehended on Tuesdav
evenin?. last, in Surrey, on suspicion of various highway rolibe-
ries, was re-examined before James Read. Esq. NI- hen Mr.
Da,:iel Bird, of Epsom, attended, and gave an account of his
being robbed on Tuesday last, about two miles this side of ).11?
som, by two highway men, one of whom he believed to be the
prisoner at the bar, and positively identified a receipt the pri-
soner was seen to drop, soon after he was 'alien into custody ;
the circumstances of his apprehension corroborating the suspi-
cion, the parties were bound over to prosecute him for this of-
fence at next assizes for the county of Surrey.
Mr. and Mrs. Mestaer nttended, and related the particulars of
their being robbed on Monday evening last, between Layton-
stone and Wanstead, but could not possitively identify the pri-
soner, though Mrs. M. believed him to be one of the men, and
spoke positively to one of the horses produced at the Office door
' as being the same the robber was upon at the time.
Some other person appeared, who had been robbed on Mon-
day and Tuesday evening, but they did not know the Prisoner;
he was ordered to be brought up again on Thursday next.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Thursday morning ai the workmen were clearing away the
ruins of Covent-GardeeTheatre, at the Piazza door, muter the
place where the Phoenix engine was so unfortunately dostroved
with the firemen attending it, by the falling in of the arch, w ben
they came to the cistern, they found the body of a mon. not bun:-
ed, but much bruised. Mr. Webb, of Tottenham-Co-art-Row%
had missed his only son since the unfortunate catastrophe of the
tire. lie had made inquiry, but in vain—advertised him, but to no
effect; he flattered himself and his anxious family with the hope
that he had been impressed into the navy, or trapanned into a
regiment of the line. As soon as the body was found, word was
sent to Mr. Webb; he arrived in about ten minutes on horseback,
and exclaimed, " If he he my son, he has laced hoots on, and
a silver watch, chain, and seals in his pocket." This descrip-
tion was correct, and the parent appeared lost in affliction.
The body was removed in ashen, at twelve o'clock, to Covent-
garden watch-house. A Coroner's Inquest was held on the body
yesteaday—The Jury gave a Verdict of Accidental Death.
A curious species of robbery occurred in the mail coach last
week between Edinburgh and Carlisle. A Gentleman had taken
his seat in the mail from the former city, and on paying his fare,
pulled out hl4 purse, which contained about twenty gnineas, and
then returned it into a breast pocket of his waistcoat. An arch
rogue observingthis, likewise took hi"; seat in the mail to Car-
; lisle, on speculation. Before the Gentleman had arTiied at
Mosspaule, he fell asleep in the coach, and the fellow dexter-
; ously picked his pocket. At Mosspaule the pickpocket de-
-1 camped, and the Gentleman did not miss his purse until he ar-
rived at Carlisle.