The National Register.
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safety awl character, it should not he slow in exercising
Parsimony on sash a subject w be alato•t disgrace-
ful. Chaplains, it is true. as I before said, are appoint-
ed to the prisons, and under the 51st and 54th of the
Kin, salaries are affixed to the office. I mention this
to atew you that the Legislatore has not been unmind-
ful even of.theec things, but still the allowances which
the Clergy receive for their attendance, is entirely too
small. They ghcnld be so enumerated, as not only to
perform the ordinary offices of the Lord's Day (for this
is not enough), but to pay almost constant attention to
the situation of the prison. and to the diffusion of mora-
lity and religion. You will. I trust, see at once, Gentle.
men, the object I have in view in addressing you upon
these points, not as Grand Jurors of the county of Here.
ford merely, but because I think they are well-deserv-
ing your attention as an inquest, whose collective and
Indivilual labours may be productive of general good
throughout the country. If reformation sud improve.
meat, therefore can be effected, I am sure you will give
your hest attention to the subject, and I beg you will
make such enquiries into the matter, before you sepa-
rate, as will lead to facilitate the desired object. You
will point out whatever evil you may perceive in the
gaol, and its management, and where the primps.' fitult
exists; whether as to want of room, proper classifica-
tion, or any other case. When you make these enqui-
ries, Gentlemen, and make known to mt• the result sug-
gesting at the same time any thing which in your wisdom
you should think fit to be done, I will take care to re-
port the thin,., and to obtain the assistance of my kern-
el Brother (Bayley), who will with me, I urn sure,
join most heartily in seconding your views for the accotn.
plishment of the great objects to which I have thus at
such length awakened your attention. With these ob-
servations, Gentlemen, I now dismiss you, in order to
the performance of your high and important duties."

POLICE.

GUILDHALL.

ROBBERY •T Bartholomew Brough.
ton, an officer in his Majesty's navy, and the son of a
solicitor of great respectability, was brought b?fore the
-itting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Cox, charged with
felony, under circumstances of very strong•sospicinn.
The prisoner was taken into custody yesterday week,
and I:r.)ngnt before Mr. Alderman Ileygate, the then
• • s,ig NlagiArate, on Saturday last, who, on appli,a-
tion to 'ciao fur that purpos., thought proper to grant a
private hearing, from which our reporter was of course
ci d . The prisoner wss then remanded, and on his
ukiin tieing brought up under very suspic ous circum-
stuoces dischx,ed at the previous examination, refused

by the worthy Aldermen.
We .shall risk; no comment on the oppoe...m conduct
adopted by the two Ailagistrates ; but laying before
our readers the evidence which has been produced,
.enable hem to form their own judgment how fur the
puhlie interest required that the particulars of this
case should be kept secret.
From the testimony of Mrs. I omas, the wife of Mr.
berme:, who keeps the White Horse Inn, Fetter Lane,
and that of Henry Taylor the waiter at that Inn, it
appears d, that the prisoner came to that house a few
drys bethre hristmas d Ay, and desired to have a bed,
as he was going off early the next morning by the
Cambridge coech; lie was itecommixlated acceirdingly,
and on being shown to his room, ordered the waiter to
call him at five o'clock in the morning. The prisoner
was called as he desired by five o'clock, and after dis-
cher4ing his bill, left the inn before any other of the
inmates were up, and without waiting for the Cam-
bridge coach. When the other persons who lodged in
the house got up, it was discovered that two gentle-
men had been robbed during the night, the one of his
the prisoner, with regard to whom little or no suspicion
was excited, his appearance and manners bespeaking the
watch, and the other of his cash and Bank notes. No
ether strangers had slept in the Liu that night except
gentleman.
On the night of the last day of the ola year, the pri-
soner came again to the White Horse, requested a bed,
anal desired to be called up early as her:ore.: previous,
however, to his going to bed, Taylor (the waiter), who
had been to one of the theatres, came home, end on
going into the co:lee-room reemmized the prisoner as
the gentleman who had slept there on the night of the
r(v)b-..r.7. This was mentioned to Mrs. Lomas, but no
particular precaution wail taken in mist !deuce, as it
was quite impossible to suspect a gentleman of his ap-
peal once thr a thief. The prisoner, therefore was
ct nice,
paid his bill, and lef. the Liu as early as at his previous
visit. A t breakfast time it was gain discovered that
two gentlemen who slept in the house had been robbed
us before.
Oa Tuesday, the 16th iast. the prigatcr paid a si-
milar visit to the Swan witu Two necks, in Lad Lane;
he went there about twelve °cloak, said he was going
Of by an early coach ; was called at twelve Welnek by
by Lis own desire, and oiler pa.ing his bill, left as he
had dude at the White Horse, without waiting for any
coach. About ten o'cock, a Mr. Smith, who had slept
'in the house came down, and complai-cal of haring
becu rubbed of six or soca pc-,10,L, a-ad at 11 o'clock

two other gentlemen, inmates in the house, discovered`
that they had also been robbed Of property of between.
ZlOOl and 4001. value. Mr. Kingsford, the landlord of
Kiugsford, the landlord of the Swan with Two
u.14.-mod fur the character and reputation of his house,
immediately offered a reward fisr the discovery of the-
thief; hand bills were printed and circulated, and
every means used for his detection and apprehension,
but without success, till yesterday week, when the •
prisoner paid a third visit to the White Horse Itrn ;
!here his person being again recognised, and the rob-
bery at the Swan with Two Necks, being also known..
Mr. Kingsford wus sent for, who, on his arrival, knew
the prisoner as the person who had slept at his house
when the property was stolen, as before mentioned, and.
caused him to be taken into custody.
The prisoner, on his first examination, sated who,
and what he was, and gave his address No. 61, Warren
Street, Fitzroy Square ; he admitted having slept at
Mr. Kingsford's, and also at the White Horse once,
but denied having slept at the latter place before
Christmas, as stated by the evidence, a-id expressed
much indignation at being taken for a thief.

At the second examination, Leadbeater, the my.,
shalman, who had seanhed the !prisoner's lodBiugt,
produced two watches, one found on his person, and
the of er on that of his wife; a 11. pound note and a
few shillings were all the money they had. The pri-
soner and his wife had lived in Warren Street three.
weeks, in furnished lodgings, at one guinea and a half
per week. Mr. Brown, the city marshal. who has been
extremely active in this business, stated that two of
the notes stolen had been paid at the Bank, and ho had
reason to believe he should be able to trace them to the
prisoner; he had also hopes of procuring a watch which
the prisoner had disposed of since he slept at the White-
Rose Inn.

At this hearing, the priso•ier begged earnestly to be
allowed to give bail, and urged that sufficient time had
been allowed to thy partits to bring forward evidence,
if they had any, which ne was suae they had not. Her
was then remanded to Thursday; when, on his being
brought up, Mr. Brown said, he had obtained the watch
mentioned; but that neither the person from whom it
was stolen, nor the watch maker who received it frotn
the prisoner, were in attendance to identify either the
property, or his person. The prisoner was, therefore,
with the assent of Mr. Harmer, his solicitor, remanded.

TIM LAW'S DISPILTCH.-012 Tuesday a young man
named Mitchel, a notorious character, who had been
discharged only the preceding day from prison, war.
brought up before the Surrey Magistrates, it Unior-
hall, charged with having robbed, on the over night, a
Mrs. Davies, of a gown and some articles of wearing
apparel. The charge being proved, he was immedi-
ately fully committed for trial at the Surrey Sessions;
a bill of indictment was, preferred the same morning
before the Grand Jury; a true biil was found ; Mitchel
was put on his trial by two o'clock, and before three he
was convicted and sentenced to seven years transporta-
tion.

Tuesday, a Mreting was held at the City of London
Tavern; Lard Gambier in the Chair, to take into eon.
sideration the very deep distress at present prevailing
among theinhabitants of the Stilly Islands. The Meet..
ing was numerous and highly repertable. Certain re•
lutions were adopted; a Committee formed, and sub-
saiptions entered ir.to for the sufferers.

The number of Electors who voted on the recent
Westminster Election were .8363, and the ntljority
obtained over Mr. Hubhouse by Mr. Lamb was 604.
The polling on the last day wu nearly equal, Mr.
Hobhouse having only a majority on the day's poll of
4. There were upwards of 6000 electors wno did not
vote.

La Fontaine, though celebrated for the genuine wit
of his tales, was in aprarance so stupid, that a Lady,
who protected him, used to say, that " whatever
forms she might make in her household, she would
never part with her three favourite brutcs—her dog,
her cat, and her poet."
At the Opera on Saturday week just when the
overthre vras commenced, the whole of the gas-lights
went out, and the house, was left in "darkness visible.'
for uliciet tire minutes.

It is at length determines, thnt• a Commigmion of
Oyer and Terminer. and Genetal Gaol Daivery,
issue in'o the titur Northen Counties; and Mr. 'Law,
the King's Council, is to preside on the occasion.
Tl4e Morning Herald says—.‘ We understand. that
Col. I-lay has been honourably nsvitted by the Court
Martif.l who trial Iti:n : and that the offiviil annuncia.
tion of the result will be made front the office of the
Commander-in-Chief in a few days."
Letters have been received from Culls to the
13th, and front Math-id to the 22a ult. The Spanish
Government, finding that the new system of raising
money, by increasing the Duties on Imports at Ckulis,
Carthagenia, and other places, has been attended with
scarcely any success, a Decree has just been issued,
taking off these duties, and placing the trade en the
foxing on which it stood a short tine buck

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II

MAIUSE OF COMM OM

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Mt. Aims! via presented a P. tition from labanren, &v. of
*v. Pit 1143 a, complaining 41w-their wages would not stipport
, that they were nevertheless obliged ta•resort to parish
•telief. •such was the fact, he apprehended t • sera-
'meld *Kehl not to add to the burdens of the people by /
°4 matt, or appointing useless .Lord sof the Adolirally. (Heart

i'clitian Inki on tito•tßhfo.

Mr W. `x ern presenter! a Petition from Norwich, praying
stliatottedscees to extend the benefit of a gaol delivery twice
...Near to that eityani4ht toe adopted.
*Lou! Non lan prvArnted .a Petition from the Roman • Ca.
subjects of ;Gotland. playing to I.r relieved from the
dkahilttira Adnler %%Welt they r.t present laboured. This
lonuale Fetition.rat sigued by 10,300 pernont., at the head of
wino: mere the fluke of Norfolk, and ten other Pet•r, ; 13
iliarooets, and insity linatireals of oar Gentry.- 11.. had deeply
%to dopkre the absence of malty of those olio had heretofore.
• sapported this .cov.stiroi. patticular the late Hon. W. Elliott.
He took oerrWott to-state, that should not Mr. Grattan brine
the general ...abject Wine the Hon.e, lie should on it future
sio..ession call the attention of the House•to the prayer of this

Lord MORI.ETE expressed .his grief that such a state of
ojaiags •Lituld continue to exist, which excluded the Petition_
,ere •from those .paths of honourable and laudable ambition
ithat sect e epee to all other classes of his Majesty's subjects.
--(Hear hear.)
After White observations from Dr. Phillimore and Mr. W.
.tg Malt,
'The Petition was read and ordered to be printed.
The Serjesitit at Arms tenoned, that Messrs. Long Welles-
der •hitl 1.4‘1,41 acre is and they were mitered to
the doickatged, on paying their tees, on the motion of 31r.
%Ito list Waved tin4t they be hi. en into custody.
Jr. Caositais brought forward his
motion tar Thanks to
the Martinis of .Hastiogs and the Army in India. In support
,ct at he detailed the causes and tin its of the war; the'
?tousled incursions of the Pindaret s in V 101411.11 lit treaties;
the heroic sichievinents of our forces iii• emiducting the war
..a.M the successes it4l4etciised the termination of the
,caul, et. and Itilieh lot unused a lasting petite. Respecting
,flen. lilislops and his execution of the /iiileilar of Tilleitr, he
Admitted that accounts lettliertai.rereived in this comm.y wets
Art sufficiently toll ; but witching the gallant conduct of shot
.General to the field, he submitted that there could only he
400 opinion, especially atter the testimony of the Governor
lle had no objection to agree to it Resolution,
.withholding the approbation of the Howe respect its the pro.
needing at 'rainier. All flintier information should be ae-
.ceived , as he thought there could then be uo opposition to
be granting of the Thaolui.
After soote remarks from Hr. Howarth, the thanks
were voted. A Resolution its accordance with the suggestion
.of Mr. Canting ware afterwards moved by Lord lorpeth,
:and agreed to.

Mr. 1111torsesLer moved for a Committee to enquire into
Mos propriety of selecting more fit places of meeting for the
..Cuntortissioners Bankrupt.

Stains was against the meeting taking .place in
inaritivars Inn, or being removed to any dummies. from Critild•
doll; and so far against those views of the CII4T whichseemed
:to dictate the present motion, that he moved the previous
oineation.
The &louse tiltinurtcly divided ; when there were for the
taut inn 62, against it 27. The Committee was ac.
.cordingiv 011110/oltd.
Vf'II.ITHNIAP/ moved for sundry returns, respecting the
Agents acting iu the Jaselvent e./ n I ...10CA'Cullf1; the numb, r
ilnc:icateces LiCCIICT.A ISI.IICII, &C.; which wore severally
,ordered.

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OrdPt of the flay, the Windsor Establishment Bill.
aS:c. be.ug di•puaed of, the House adjourned.