The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The following are some of the old standing orders of the
Manse of Commons: they serve to give us a few features of
the purtrai•s of our ancestors;—
•' 1314. May 17.—Ordered, That this Moue shall sit every day
at 7 o'clock in the morning. and enter into the great busineas at 13
u'eltick ; and no new motion to he made after 12.

•• Ordered. That who.o.Ner .:tandetli in the entry of the llouse
pay one shilling presehtly to the setgeant.
1641.-14dt:red. That all th' Menthers who ►hall come to the
Hou.e after tt o'clock. %hall pa— one shilhng ; and that if any
!ember shall forbear to come tor the whole he shall pay tive
a• .

Ifitt—Ordered, That r,•hotwever, shall not be at prayers every
morning, shall pay one chilling to the poor.
•• ti4;.—Hrtlered„ That so soon as the clock strikes 12. Mr.
Speaker do go out of the Chair. end the house shall rise ; and that
in going forth no member shall stir, until Mr. Speaker go hefOre,
and then all the teat shall follow. Whosoever shall go out of the
House before NIL Speaker, shall forfeit los. but that the reporters
sat go first.
•• tinkled. That while any stranger is in the House, no member to
stir out of his place, or speak unto another ; and if any member
shall whisper or cross the House. or read any printed book in the
House he shall pav Is. into the (oar's box.
•• 1691.-w That *do member do accept of any entertainment at any
public-house. for the carrying oil any loaner under the consideration
• ilmtw ; and that the offer of any money or gra i•v to any
memb,:"ot natters transacted in the House, shall be deemed a high
crime and misdemeanour.
•• Ordered, That no member ought to receive or give any visit to
any foreign agent or ambassador, without the leave and consent of
tin. House.

'• 1693.—0ri T'• it to :Well' he F of the Fiotv.e do presume to
rnolce tobacco in the gallery, or a the table of the !louse, sitting at
committees._

6. Ordered. That no Papists do presume to come intoWestminsters
hall. the ('curt of Requests. or lobby of the !louse, during. the sitting
of Parliament ; and that the Sergeant at Anne tin take into custody
all such persona as shall offend against this order."

The Committee of the Society fur the Suppression of Men-
dieity have made considerable progress in the plan proposed
to effect their ,audible purpose. We understand a meeting,
of the clones and parish officers of the metropolis, convened
by that society, took place on Tuesday at the Crown and
Alicie r Tavern, which was most re•peetably attended, and
the 'lines of the plots so ttttt ittial to their attention, Is heti an
resolwion of (India! en-operation was pas..;ed ;
and we have reaSoll to believe, that in a few days the society
Will be enabled to lay befoie the public such a digest of
their future procecitiogs. as will eventually conduce to the
suppression of beggary in the metropolis.
Extract of a leiter Ilona Bishop's Castle, Jan. 13.—" We
are here in hot water (or rather the fermenting liquor)of an
election contest. The Honourable I)trughts Killing 11 d having
canvassed the burg awes in opposition to the Wriest of Earl
Polol6,,entertlay Lord Clive and his uncles (the present mem.
hers), with the sturmending gristly, respectable willowy, and
yeoman, made a grand eutranee decorated with fan 1/1101
Sir Fn antis Burdett, as the Ilion' of Mr. Kiimaird, arrived
from the Crave', Arms Inii —the horses were taken from his
carriage, awl it was dragged through She oleos. Lord
Clive, on behalf of the Sitting Nlembeis, addressed the bur-
gesses t Mr. Kinnaird also made an eloquent appeal. All the
priblie.holises in the town were open to the friends of the
ponies, and there have been several skirmishes. Both par-
ties are *magnum of sllCl'es, when Parliament shall be slit.
tidied. earning `sir F. Burdett and kis Wends left
town tOr the Leicester sliiie Moist."

PAa RICIDF..—ID a small cottage on the side of Grange
Moor, near the colimm usually known by the name of the
Dumb Sit... Div, lived James Cheesbormigh, along with his
mother and his mother's brother. The young malt. who is
about 27 scars old, is a Del Soil of weak intellect. Ole Thurs-
day week. a dispute originated between the young man and
fns mother, respecting seine tobacco, a thing of a Inch he was
passionately fond, she hissing just purchased and bronchi
some home with her, and of which she refused to give hint
any part. irritated by this refusal, he i-ttempted to take it
out of his mothei's bosom. where she had previously con-
cealed it. Her brother, James Hammertoe, interfered to
prevent this, whets Cheexhiwough snatched op the coal rake
from the tire side, and struck him a violent blow on the side
of the bead, which fractured his skill, and brought the old
Vll3ll to the ground. The young wretch furiously repeated
ills Wows, broke his •le's left arm, and otherwise so much
bruised him, that ao amputation must take place, if indeed
that operation be able to save the poor old man's life. His
mother went to a neighbour's house to procure. assistance,
when her son met her on her retort', and saving *WI an oath
that he would give it her, levelled a fu rions blow at her head,
by which her skull aas severely fiat:lured. Not content with
this, he repeated his blows, with one of which lie broke her
left arm, anti with another made a large hole betwixt her
shoulders, sufficient alone to have cost her her life. The
poor (-trains e languished in great agony till the fullest log
day, when she expired. The inhuman wretch, her son, was
immediately taken into custody, and after the Coroner's
jury leash found a verdict of 'HOW murder against him, was
committed bv Mr. Brook to York Castle. We understand
that sonic of his neighbours think the young TOAD to be in a
Slate of aleratigement.—( Leeds Mercury.)
DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO Tlr M. SALISBURY COAL M.-011
Monday night about 7 o'clock, the Salisbury coach slopped
at Uniting Cross, and dining the temporary a bsenee of the
driver (who got off to transact some business), the horses
took fright at some object, aunt set otf in full speed along the
Strand, to the imminent danger of the passengers. The
horses could mot be stopped, until they ran against the fence
stir. ling the open serer at the coiner of Sontli:.nipion-
street, and they were precipitated into the open abyss, a
depth of 20 feet. The guard, who was behind, liwtotilately
escaped unhurt by leaping id. 'there were four or five men
at air'. in the ti.de at the Dilly. Nilo fortunately escaped with
Muir li, es lay hastily ronmuug into the 01)111 sewer, By the
wMghlof !he nurses the arch of the main sewer was broke
JD. and .10M, •Catt.l4l6.lt Islas she Whiell were laid across, pre-
vented Ike rowel' ir' m tau .Its a few • opa „. is or
3,000 pelt...its were assembled t lila. Mail try guard itninrili-
atels arrived Item the Savoy, 800 formed a circle to keep
bark thr mob. It) art at s xertions the harness was loosened
sad octane. erected to get out the horses, in the execueion of
Which. throw of the large tie:aro:4lllqt poles, Vogl acre erected
to %import the polite*, gave way, B:iii ft Ii attic violence among
the mood, by which one mail hail his aim looks n, and se-
vrral art.. %lightly w led. to was past eiAlst o'clock abuse
the horse• wete got nut, the% are alive, out luueh urui•rd
sad erippled. Very rut ttinaitl), Mir e acre use passengers its
the

It 41, a cool het, that no 1,-4A than tin UP lontited stage
Coaches pass dad) thrutigh the turnink? gala at lti,ydc Park
WM.

THZ NATIONAL nroLsoren.

OLD BAILEY.
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SPECIAL COMMISSION.-11lomonr, JAN. 10.

MANitALVIITER.—SamueI Harvey Brown was indicted for
feloniously assaulting Thomas Pierce, on the 13th of July
last, off the coast of Labrador, in North America, with a
certain knife, and for inflicting certain wounds upon the said
Thomas Pierce, of w bid, he then and there did die.
Henry Dillard was on the 13th of last July, at Dumpling
Island, off the coast of Labrador, and was employed in split-
ting fish, by Mr. Beard, the prisoner, John Bounstard, Ed•
ward Headly, and Thomas Pierce. Brown called Pierce a
great eater, and Pierce caught him by the collar, and gave
him a shove, saying, '' It' you do not give up calling me
names, I will give you a hiding." Pierce quitted Brown's
collar, and then Brown called him a great cuter again.
Pierce then then took up a stick, the size of a man's finger,
and gave Brown three or four blows across his shoulders.
Brown said, " It' you do that again I will rim you through. '
Pierce took up the stick and struck him again, and then
Brown h ok up the knife which he had been using in splitting
fish, and which was king on the table, Lord struck it into
Pierce's left breast. Pierce cried ont," Cut away, cut away !
he has s'abbed me !'"l'hese were the last words he said, and
be jinni( diately tell upon his back. In about 20 minutes he
died.

Edward Heatßy and John Bottnstard, deposed to the same
effect.

The prisoner being called upon for his defences gave in
a written paper, which declared that the act had been eom.
milted not will t the greatest provocation from the de-
ceased The latter part of the defence related the hardships
which the prisoner had sutkred since the coutetission of the
act. The paper stated, that he had been chained to the
coffin of the deceased fur a whole day and night, and that he
afterwards was heavily ironed, and taken to an uninhabited
island, and there rhained to a leaky boat, which was drawn
upon the shore, having only raw beef to cat, and that in
very scanty quantities. Here he should have starved had lie
nut been assisted by a female Negro, who broke his chains,
and enabled him to get food by gathering the herbs on the
island. (In one occasion he gut some live rod fish, which he
greedily dt•voured raw. The sailors on board the ship, lying
off the island, however. went on shine, and the prisoner was
again ironed and handcuffed by them. Ile asked for food, as
lee should otherwise starve, but they only 'aligned at hien. In
this state he crawled upon his hands and knees about the
island, and gathered berries for his subsistence, until the
snow covered the ground. He had emitting to drink but ice
and snow. Some men were afterwards sent from the ship to
fetch I • , but from weakness lie was unable to get along,
and he till down in the snow, and remained there buried for
an h He was, however, ears led on board the ship, and
dewing the whole voyage of 21 days be was allowed beet a
'usenet is day. lie had no clothes but a dirty shirt upon
hes back, and the vermin had actually eaten fades in his
flesh.

lbe Jury found the prisoner guilty ; lent Mr. Justice Park,
after the seotence was pronounced, told the prisoner that the
punishment he would receise would be mild, not bee:vise he
was actuated by the dreadtol story which had heels read in
his defile/4., hut on account of the loud in►prisoument lie had
already endured. He should, however, reem iiiii end that an
enquiry should be instituted into the ease, and he handed
the ',epee containing a statement of the facts o►er to:the At-
too ney-tieneral, that the proper steps might be taken upon
the e.o.e.

The Sp►cial Commission was then adjourned until five
o'clock, and at that hoar the prisoner was again brought to
the bar, and the Recorder passed the sentence ut—One
inouth'b impriaomnent.

TUESDAY.
.•John Rawlinson the elder, aged 27, William Henry Rawlin.
son, aced 21, am) John iiiiwlinson, the younger, aged IS, were
indicted fin• stealing 76 lengtht of lace and 9S silk hand-
kerchiefs, value 1001. and upwai tis, of Edward Sage, in a cer•
tain vessel called a lug-huat, nu the navigable river of Thames;
and Mary Griffiths, aged 19. and Sarah Co,, aged 111, were
indicted for receiving the Jamie, well knowing then. to be
stolen property.
James Hobson deposed, that lie way a warehouseman lit the
house of Gillman, Limas, and Cll. On the day mentioned in
indictment (2tl of Dec.) lie packed 7.1 lengths of lace iu a
laet—hoc, and confided it to the vale of Charles Crow.

Charles Cross !stated, that he assisted in peeking up the
lace, and a quantity of silk handereltiels, in a trout:, for Mr.
Pope, a Manchester warehouseman. The key was tastened
to the handle, and placed under the mat widest covered the
trunk. The trunk was given to Joseph Siinfiders to take to
the quay.
The goods were proved to he taken to the Galley.quay on
the 2.1 of December, by S lets.
Edward Payne, aervant to Messrs. Smith and Barber, of
Galley-quay, proved the receipt of the trunk from Saunders,
and that it was deliveted on the stb of December to the pri-
soner William Henry Rawlin.ou, afier being entered at the
Custom-house. This prisoner was servant to Mr. Sage, the
lighterman, and was to take the trunk in question in a tug-
boat to the John Palmer vessel lying in the river. Juhu
Rawlinson the younger was present when the trunk ffilY put
into the lag-boat
. _ . . . .

Edward Sage being examined, said he was a iighterman.
The prisoners, John Rawlinsou, jun. and William Henry
Rawlinson, were employed by him. On the Sth of Decem-
ber these two prisoners stated to witness, that they had deli-
vered the trunk in question on board the Jolts. Palmer. On
that day they sat off in the Ins-boat, at about one o'clock, and
expected them the next morning at nine o'clock, but they
slid not return until eight o'clock at night. The receipt
which the prisoner brought back from the master of the
vessel was wet ; and, upon obsersing this, the ir soue r re-
marked, that the trunk had been wetted with rain.

Cross-examined.—He succeeded his father in the business.
George Hul, :I searcher at Gravesend, staled, that Mr.
Pope applied to hint to go on board the John Palmer to open
the ti nick. Witness went, and found the key tied to the handle
of the tiiink. lie discovered that a small boa in it had been
opened and emptied. 'llls was on the 7th of Dec. about two
o'clock. 'nacre was a vacancy in the trunk which appeared
to have been filled up. (Mr. frost being called up &limit',
‘aid, that the hot contained ...!O &seen of handkeichiefs' and
s dozen were afterwards !Mind to lw mission ) The (clink ccil,
repacked, and git en to Mr. Pope. The lace and lianillkee-
-01144. were packed in the same trunk, and 73 lengths of
Vie Irmo to have tweet taken out.

livid), an dee ##### !thee .4'30 next examined. HE
.fated, that he lived 41 Laurel eeeee and kept a ehanulcr'.•
shop within Intl yard• u 1 the rivet pide. He was
*softy *lt the prisdtwr., and sin the 3111 of I)eventit, r, anent
three o'clock, Le wove the two primmer., Jaime liewliuseu the

JAN 2S.

elder, and William Henry Rawlinsom Witness was standing
on the wharf wherethey came on shore. He joined company
w itb them, and they all three went into the Horns and Che-
quers public-house, where they had some beer. The prisoners
told him that they were then ening to Blackwall, and they
said that they expected on Bair return that they should have
something for him. Soon after this the prisoners went away,
and at about • o'clock the same night witness saw them
again ; they came to his house, and went np ioto his bed-room,
and there told that they had some handkerchiefs and some
lace. They took them from about their pro sous, and laid
them upon the bed. Witness looked at them and asked.
" What do you want for them? The reply was, " They are
worth a good deal of money." They would not settle the
price until the other young nom came up from Gravesend.—
The next day (Sunday), about one o'clock, all the three pri-
soners came to his shop. Witness's sou was present, but he
sent him to church. Witness and the prisoners went up stairs,
and one of them said," The goods are worth 1001." Witness
said, they are very common, and I will give you no more than
441. for them." This they finally agreed to. Witness did not
then give them any money, but promised to do so the next
day. They were to meet him in the Borough about two
o'clock on the Monday ; but the elder prisoner came to
witness on the Monday early in the morning, and told him
not to meet them, as something had happened, and that he
had better remove the goods tiom his house, which he did.—
' He kaew the female prisoners, and had sold a piece of the
handkerchiefs to Gs Midis at half a crown each handkerchief.
He sold also two cards of lace to Mrs. Cox. He had previously
told her he bad such ariteles for sale, and she came to his
house in consprence• She paid nine shillings for the lace she
had.

The wife and on of the last witness corroborated his state-
ment. When the lace was sold to Cox she was not told that
it had been stolen.

Ann Recves,serrant in the public-house the Horns and Che-
quer•. at Limebonse, proved that tine prisoner and 111'
w•cte at that oiblie house on the tin stated.
The mistress of the public-house deposed to the same ef-
fect.

James White, the officer, apprehended the two younger
Rawlinsons, at 21, Mark falie, on the Hth of December : they
both stated, before they went down to the poliet,offif e, Om on
the sth of December they went to lamelsonse, and got some
refreshment at the Horns and (:heipaers public.hoese ; that
they went from thence to Blackmail, and found that the
John Palmer had gone to Gravesend. On the 12th of De-
cember the elder Itawlinson Came to the Police Office under
the name of Gem ge Jones, and stilt d, that lie lived at the
Nelson public-house in Southwark, and was a .tillowship
porter. He was apprehended. On the UM of December Cox
was apprehended at Limelionse. He went to her house and
tin ,! two or three silk handkerchiefs lying on the table, and
two or three lengths of lace in a woik-bag.
William Powis, another Police Officer, also assisted in ap-
prehending Cox. lie found her at her own house, placing a
petrel, containing three handkerehi►fe, in tt crown of a bon.
net. Ile asked her where she gut them, and she refused to
tell. At the office she said she had them from M'Ciillivray.
John Cotter, another Police Officer, apprehended Griffiths.
At the office he said he insist search her. She said, very well,
but let me take my money ont first. She put her hand in her
pocket, mid witness heard paper rattle. Ile said he could
wait no longer, and put his hand into her pocket. He found
nothing there ; but between her petticoat and gown found
some lace, and on the seat where she had been sittil,g, there
was a parcel containing 'hire silk handkerchiefs. At first
she denied that she had any thing of the kiurl ;shoot her.
The property was completely identified as being the pro.
perty of NICR,IS. Ciillman,,Liteas, and Co., and that which was
packed up and sent to Mr. Pups. by the ship Julia Palmer.—
The handkerchiefs were 465. per dozen, and the lace 3s. a
yard.

The case on the part of the prosecution being concluded
after abont tour lion's' examination, the prisoneis wet e calved
upon for their defence, but they all left their casts to their
Counsel and the Court.

Sarah Cox sieclared, that she thonglit she haul bought or
NUOillivi ay simiggle of, and not stolen, goods.
Several witnesses gave the prisons rs a good character.
At muck It netli Mr. insure Palk hummed up to the jury,
obFeJv ins, that in his oil:110011 their was not sufficient evidence
to convict either the twu female prisoners, or the elder Raw-.

The jury retired for about half on lionr, and returned the
following s erdict :—Julin Ban the eldi r, y
and Sarah CoN, Not Guilty; and William Henry Hi:Almon,
and Julio Rawlinson the younger, Guilty.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. !!1.
Matthew Sullivan. a lad of 11 years of age only, and Char-
lotte Brook, were indicted, the first fur stealing in the dwell-
ing house of Sarah Junes, a 51. Bank note, a guinea, and a is.
piece, and the latter for harbunring the said Sullivan, knuw'
tug him to have stolen these ninnies.

The prosecutor lived in lietlinal-green, and the lad had
been in her employment for four or the years. On the 28th
of December last, without any notice, the prisoner left her
house, and after he was gone site found that a box containing
this money was missing. In about a week afterwards the
boy was found living in the same house with Charlotte
Brooks, concealed under the bed. Upon being asked where
he had put the money be had stolen, be said he had given it
to his sister • afterwards, that lie had buried it in the cellar;
and lastly, dial the prisoner brooks had taken it. It was u/..
Innately pored that the female ',intoner had laid out the
money, which she had taken from the little boy, at different
shops, in linen and clothes ; and the jury, without hesitation,
bi might in a verdict of guilty against both prisoners.
William Tirane, a boy, was indicted for a burglary in the
dwelling.honse of William Hodge, and stealing therein •
swatch, his property,
The prosecutor lived in the New-road, and kept a shop.
At six o'clock on the evening of the 22d Dec., the prisoner
was observed to break a pane of glass and to take out a watck
from the window. The prosecutor's wife, seeing the trans.
action, attempted to get into the street, to follow the thief,
but she found that the street door had been fastened by a cord
on the outside, and the little thief got clear off. He was
afterwards taken, however, and the watch was di-tinctly
trared to his possession. A verdict at' Guilty 1443 pro-
iiiiimeed.