The National Register.
London, England, 1815-04-02 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OTFENCES.

ATTEMPT TO rirE AL ThEritOWN —A singnl it and most dating at.
• tempt to ate. I IltitiCrosua at itheitteek tine, nr t Iterl'issver' was made
oil Friday, under pretext of viewing. the Regalia, the dt.iinquent
ittiamce,!aned risedete seiture•of tile diadem, ley thrusting
her rem .through I the iraisintransivich Aire pined for -security, the
pt,was,'however' 'eeudeted futile, by' the Crown brine much
400-leigge to admit Tefisaing iforeed -through them, and though much
'braised by alremioleoceoof. the-grasp, yet fortunately acne of the
jewels wete.steset. 'like female Appointed to exhibit the-Regalia
fainted, • eusithwatilins instantly elven, theilwattiasi seemed, and cost.
- veyadl (nom site Tower. in •a batkuey corals to the Police Office.

•itrES7MIWSTER 4ESSIONS.
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Wellitesslay lheAlessions eommeneed-at the Guildhall, •Westinin.
eteribefore -iitlliawitilisinwaising,•Esq. Chairman, and a Bench of
.Jeatiees.-11wOissiernan addressed the Grand Jury, in his charge
.Itossebinst She late disterbanees or riot, in the metropolis, which ne-
essaneilyiansbefect, Wie 'goblin feeling, in *saes of criminal proseer.
liensi so reeentty after the -civil 00ft111101i0113 ; but the more • the
-sniedsef ibe Jury-were-kept • abstratted from such considerations,
Abe better would-Hwy discharge. their dray to the public--:-an idea
Aie strongly impresaed-en their minds—Adding. that the populace
,Twere-deceived iirtheir eencelitions of the lowa against•risters ; es en
h4lve •Riet-aetiStb -of t George •I.• chap 5. made it-a eapital offence to
h-lirsik.iibto prieMe heases as-well as religions ones • hot. the sooner
eire.l44e.coamnotiens were forgotten the better.—iVni. Underwood
-an- ostler, -was tried ler an assault on Jame Bird, a pnblican, in the
neisitbou;heod of Eirasvenor.square.—lt appeared that the parties,
I,sorisi4e playing at dominoes. got to words, and then to something like
• blows, in cotoeynitire of Bird denouncing 'Underwood as a duet i
Baud in the sonliNevallich took plaee, the prisoiter seised Bird by the
aose, with his mouth, and literally bit lithe end of it ! 13ii d ap-
peared% the box. and prove-td his case, on which the jury found a
Verdict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced Underwood to six
months Imp: isonment.

'Tint LATE Dr+runniNcEs.--Tlie Grand Jury-found true bills
against Thomai. Hobbs mid William Adolplins Horne, for riotous
:oonduct, in breaking windows of the Committee Rooms belonging to
the house of Commons. They are not charged capitally, only IS ilk
misdemeanour. The parties are ont on bail.
The indictment preferred hgainst John Currie, the man who was
foliowed from Sir Joseph Banks's house to a public house in Hain.
ntidge•street, St. and apprehended with a bundle of Sir
Joseph's paper+ on bi,n, my' thrown out. after a considerable inves-
tistatimi sir Jtisepli's butler very tidly examined, as to all the
eirennistanees of the disarm-OA occurs that took place hontin and
within the house. It appeared, that the mob mistook Sir Joseph's
house for that of Mr. Hanks, the Member. The indictment against
Currie was not for 'tealinr, the papers found Upon Liao, butler I
Visdettleatwur) iu being guilty of riotous icuaduct,