The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-22 00:00:00

MANSION HOUSE.

Mr. Junes, of the King's Bench, applied to the Lord
m,,soe to assist him with a body of constables, to take port-
st•s•ion of a house in Cheapside. tOrinerly the property of a
worth y Alderman. He slated, that a pers.''', who had been
agent in the upward• oh 20 Veal-5,114d taken possession
n; 1111 l the ;hound of being a partner, a. well as ma the pre.
tel of• has made a ontelease of goods In it to the 111101131 t
Or 29,7001. Fie also said, that te•n gentlemen, who were
the teal poreltasers ut• the goods, had been shoved snit of
the hull.'• hey 1 who now held it, stilled by five others. It
Nee; apprehended, that in the hands of a person cap dile of
/OWL violence, the pi opert yin the house, amounting t•t
between 60,0001. and 70,0001. could not be very secure;
e+peci Illy a• lie had, by his own arknowle.gment, sent out of
•the house at night part of that property. Mr. Joiteshinted,
that the case was of that class to which his Lordship's alien•
iioll was MOO frequently directed, and declared that he
shmild indemnify his lordship if a legal process should he
institnivil in coiniegiterice of his direct• s to the police.
He added, that 2,5001 been offered to the person com-
plained against, as a compensation for his services in the
louse, drc. ; and that the offer had been cheerfully complied
with at host, but afterwards rejected. The house was now
-shut up, and the present possessor had no claim, either as a
partner or purchaser. The must etrectual way of doing jus-
tice appeared to Mr. Jones to be opposing force tu force, if
a direct warrant shoals' he ejected to.
frlse Lord Mayor agreed that .it would be a summary w ty,
Ent •relmied to give his sauction to any proceeding ot• the
;kind. A solicitor was theyerson to wham suet, di case ought
4u he referred.

Hip Lord.hip rent to the alverie party. who politely
aunwered through a grate that he could not wait upon him.

BOW STREET.

Mt.&lay, alleles Roberts, • pressman, in the employ of Mr.
Thorne, was examined on a charge of selling shintoist k
widow stamps. It appeared from the evidence produced,
that this injurious and unlawful practice has been earned on
t.p a very great detriment of the revenue as well as injury to
the frir wider. 'l'he case having been clearly made out,
the Alilgi,llAte 1001 about to commit Roberts to 1161011 for
three months, iu compliance with the Act of Parliament, a ken
Mr. Rivitigion, solieitor to the Company of Stant )))) eta, inter-
fered, and got the sentence mitigated to a week's imprison-
ment ; intimating-at the cline time, the determination of Ilse
Company, strictly to watch these nnlawlitl proceedings, and
in case amity future nonvictiou, to enforce the full penalties
of the law. The number of alinattackittoond in the possession
of Robust' exceeded 130 copies, subjeciiiig him to a penalty
of 101. fur each copy which he printed. besides to three
months' imprisonment for every separate offence, in the sale
of the same. The stamp-ditty on each aleitanack is one
shilling and threepence.
A young man of most tespectable appearance, whose name
we understood to be Cooke. was brought into the office on
Monday ty J. Kinsey, an offieor of Southwark,charged by a
man of she name of Kay, With an •ttempt to seduce him
to commit warder on the person of Messrs. Sheets and Sou,
coppersmiths,. its Fleet-market. He stated, that hay, aim
had bee,. its the utmost distress, was standing, about a NI t•
night ago, nudes- the walls of the Mansion-house, asking alms,
when she prisoner stepped up to 'Who, and asked loin if he
•wanted a job ; his answer was yes ; lie was then requested to
call iu Blackfriars-road, at his lodgings, and he would employ
him; after which the prisoner left the written particulars of
'his address for Kay with an old woman wltukeeps a stall close
by where the parties met. He accordingly wont, when the
prisoner t •id him there were two persons he wanted to have
disposed of, that were spending his property, and laughing at
it, and that he would point them out. Kay undertook the
assassination, and had several interviews with the 'prisoner,
in the coarse of which he had obtained from him a 21. and
note, about Ss. in -silver, a shirt, cravat, Sze.; finally, the
persons intended to be murdered were pointed outeand t,vo
pistols were procured, balls, and flask of powder,(all of which
were now produced,`, except the powder, which he bad
emptied while following Ihr gentleman, which lie had ce-
peatedly done, hi the neighbourhood of Fleet-market.
Kinsey, the officer, proved the state ufhay, before his con-
nexion with the. prisuar•r, to be extremely wretched, without
shoes, stockings, or shirt.

Tuesday, the investigation was resumed, and the prisoner,.
in answer to !heal:age, gave the same account ohich he hail
given the preceding night. He stated that Kay stood at the
front of the Mansime-'iouse, asking alms ; and .as he often
gave sock fellows.lialf.peuce and penny-pieces, he stopped to
conv-erse with hini,.o ills an.intetition of giving hien a ticket of
the rudely fat the suppression .of menoicity.; but he arc.
knowledged that lie Alia not.give him a ticket. He inquired
his business, and was intOrmed that lie was a gmismilli and a
piste : 1114.4!1"; and having ii„pistul that w;aited repairing, lie
li#l,iii!4l him if lit would repair It, thinking Kay, being our of
work, would to it cheap for him. He bad lately bought the
pistols iu Lanulmi-wall, tot .1 I.ls. k,r his brother, who re;
rides at Gillatt, anti who having frequently to travel to
Merton, &c., where there have been so many rubbesiesiately,
ver-b4.41 to travel armed. Since he had purchased the pistols,
to. 11.4;1 the misfortune to let one tall, which put it so notch
r. it of repair that it would not act. Lir left his direction with
the woman who sells but gingei bread at the Mansion...house,
'or Kay to call an him to repair the pistol. He denied giving
him any powder or the flask; he admitted giving Kay the
di.Jies hail stated, but assigned .his reason to be pure
ciiaTity, Kay having hail only part of a before. .He 41e.
li.ed giving
.Kay the different sinus of money lie bad stated.;
aid said he had only given him two shiliings.
(111 Ids being asked by Mr. Millie if lie was any relation to
11:s mastras, or had any expectation Isom them, he replied in
negatke to both noestions ; he stated .publicly, that he
was not ail at tided clerk, hut received a salary hour them.
This was confirmed by 'Messrs, James and .Henry Shears,
sviio were present; and a Wadded, that hislatlier and brother
were also iii their employ at 31ertimousi very considerably.in
tie it confidence.

W 4 OO Cross-examiocd, and told an many circom.
st,,nt:es wlii;•11 were proved un the f,put to be absolutely
fame, and was altogether so contradictory and incon,istriii,
tilat nut the slighteat ciedit was attached to any part utAtis
narrative.

The Ale ism Shears spoke in the highest possible terms
of the pi jointer, mitt said, they did not believe Win eitp4hleot
such an act, bolt did they believe atuy thiug that had been
said agaiiist hint. _ _

P.I r. Tustin applied to the Magistrate for Kay,.Culeman, and
Kilo Key to be lield to bail, to gusher what should lae•briseght
.Igaittst them at the emit's:s. •
Mt. Bifuit: :speed to the ,prsipositiosa so far .as relstod to