The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-14 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Wethwiliy, W. Dodd and A. Barton wore capitally indicted
ander the act commonly called Lord Ellenluirough's act, for
cutting and maiming a person on known, in Newton's-eourt,
Strand; who, it is supposed, died of the svomids he received,
nod he has not since been heard of. The case hal. already
been detailed in this paper. There being no evidence of auy
thing more than blows of the band given by the pri•oners, they
were acquitted.—James Mahotry, Elizabeth Isis will, Mary
Mitchell, the elder, and Mary Mitchell the yomiger, were in-
dicted for coining counterfeit sixpences. The Jury found
Mary Mitchell the younger, Not linilty, and three other pri-
soners Guilty—Death.—Cathcrine 111nlvv, Ate wiss Nil`Nlanus,
urged 53, and Margaret M•Manns, aged 18, w sewise ca-
',Baby convicted of coining counterfeit shillings
Thermlay, Solomon Bowerman was capitally indicted for
stealing a horse, the property of Robert Buff, and 4 cart, the
property of Mr. Bonen. The prosecutor state:l,llW lie lived
at lierstham, in Surrey, about Iri or 20 miles from London,
WWI that he was robbed of the horse oat of his stable on the
looming of the Isth. The prisoner was apprehended in Tut-
tenhain-cmirt-road, on that day, with the horse in his possession.
Guilty—Death.

MURDER.
Friday, Jemestlt Pent, a Spaniard, was capitally indicted for
basing wilfully 1111 l rdered Benjamin Twig, by maliciously stab-
li:ug him with a knife in the stomach.--l The particulars of this
case as they transpired at the Police Office, have been already
detailed Its a preceding paper. They were fully made out by
witnesses on the trial.]--The Jury found a verdict —Guilty;
and the Recorder passed sentence upon the prisoner, that he be
executed on Monday next.

Esther WeYI(.II Stood indicted for the wilful murder of n new
born male infint. The particulais of this tire having been
already fully before tile publie, in the report of the examination
of the witnesses before the Coroner, we shall only say, that the
Juty acquitted the prisoner.

SATURDAY.—CO INING.
Dennis Reordan, Thomas on•rolly 410 James Quin, were
indicted fur feloniously counterfeiting a quantity of pieces,
called shillings, purporting to he the coin of the realm.
The prison-rs, who were unacquainted with the English
tongue, had recourse to the medium of an interpreter; and it
appeared, that in the month of-May last, sonic of the City
Officers received intOrniation that the business of coining
going on at a house in Angt I-alley, floor-lane, Cripplegate.—
In consequence of this information, tin.), went to the lonise in
question, where tkey found the prisoner- at work, tiling and
rubbing shillings ; w bile at the same time there was foemil in
the room every article used in purposes of coining. together
with a quantity of finished and unfinished pieces of money of
the same satae.

The prisoners in their defence stated, that being destitute of
employment, and es en bread, they agreed to work for a man
who put them to the employment in w hich they were. found.
During the trial it was announced that the k)erson to whom
the prisoners alluded was taken into custody.
Mr. Joqice Park informed the Joey, that, however melon-
chaly the situation of the prisoners, they were found comet oed
in a fact which was so recognised by the 14W, that dine justii e
must he administered. The citeninstanees favmrable to the
prisoners would be considered in soother piece.
The Jury found the priu.nc.a Guilty, Lut recommended them
to marry; when the learned Judge assured them their recom-
mendation should be attended to.
Thomas Attwood .Elgertnn was capitally convicted of the
commission of an abominable odence upon tat person ofJaines
Jarvis. The particulars are too indelicate to relete ; but the
trial having lasted nearly the whole of the clay, the prisoner
was found Guilty—Death.—When the verdict was returned,
he fell into a Hood of tears, and besought the mercy of the
Court um behalf of his wife and family.
It commit' Blundell was capitally convicted of stealing a 51.
mote in a dwelling-home, llw property of Mary Martin. --He
was found Guilty—Death ; but recommended to mercy on ac-
count of his extreme youth, and former good character.
John Hardy. aged 19, we. also convicted of stealing a mare,
the property of John Payne, of Leieester—Death.
The trial of Tawnsend. for the forging of a promissory note
for 7251. in the name of Fortunetue Crisp, lived fm this day,
was postponed upon affidavit to the neat Sessious.

THE SEMAPHOHE.-1 his improvt ii machine began working
on Wednesday, between the Admiralty. and Chatham. 'I he
communications by this means very far surpass the Tel-graph
recently in use both in celerity and perspicuity. One among
the great advantages obtained is the di,tineteirss of obser‘ing
the apparatus from one station to another, %%Inch is accounted
for from the late one being of a square (twin, and thereby
holding the density of the atmosphere, and the pi e,elot
simply an upright hollow mast. The Telt graph, at is a ell•
t noun, consisted of six shooters or flaps, and timid not by any
means produce one hundred cmnbinatinur. So superior ate
the powers possessed by this machine, that with onto two atta.
it produces nut merely letters and words, but whole sentences,
and upwards of two thousand different symbols. The iiige-
away displayed in the arrangement is exceeitingly great—and
it may be said that communicating by characters in this man-
ner has rear-lied its ntmost 1. • s.

The powers of this machine are not confined to the naval
service, and its construction is upon such simple principles
as to admit of its being adapted to all the uses of an army, and
can be conveyed in five minutes. in a waggon from place to
Aare, as circumstances require. His Royal Highness this
Duke of York, Sir Henry Torrens, Sir H. Calvert, and several
noble and distinguished officers, have inspected it for this pur-
pose, and pronounced their approbation .nt. its powers.
The public are indebted to Admiral Sir !tome 'Amhara, for
the improvement and adoption of this important in, ention,
Mikadoy morning last, during a severe nullifier-storm, a tine
brood mare, the property of Mr. John Knapping, of South
Shoebury, Essex, was struck dead by the lightning. The
poor annual bore evieleut marks nioun its withers and wider
its throat, of the irresktible power of the electric fluid the
part+ appearing as though opened by a kiiite, in two or three
directions.

Sunday. VI the son of Mr. flrooltson, of Dolly's Bocf•steak-prase.
in Queen's tlead-passage, Newgate-street. was bathing off Kea-biidge,
he was unfortunately drowned. Every effort was inade to save him.
but without effort.

The following melancholy catastrophe occurred on Thursday last,
at !. ‘mberhurst :—Edward !limey, Esq. an acting ma-
gistrate tor Suss, and Kent (the castle standing in both counties), in
a parwayinti.of to 4 derangement, put a period to his existence with
hltnitlerbw-s ' 4 barrel of which, it is rather singular. bears the in-
scription,— • oe me. if you can." Cvmner's verdict—tr./mow.
A woman ...tax . num, muck advanced in years, the wife of a w•gch.
rnxn in Lynn. in t insequencc of some domestic troubles, drowned her-
self on Tuesday e' ening, in the river, Act deliberately tultind citt'her
alums, and plan her snuff-box in a state of =tufty.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

POLICE.

BOW-STREET.

J. Fountain was charged with a horirLiry in the house of the Rev.
F. Winthrop, of Hawley, near Dartford and stealilg therein a writing.
case, a pocket-book, three .el notes, awl a quantity of half-erow
Tee prisoner had lived servant with the prosecutor ; and in consequence
of his having been Keen near the house the night previous to the rob-
bery, suspicion fell upon hint; aad Godfrey. an Officer, found out that
he had applied to a Gentleman in Ruellersbury for a situation, iini
hod persuaded that Gentleman to write to Mr.Wintlimp for his chase.
ter, after the robbery had been committed. While going to Ittekirs-
bury to enquire about the situation, he WAS apprehenclel, wearing the
identical boots stolen front the prosecutor; and on his pgrem the pocket-
book was found. In his lodgings other articles were found, all of
which were sworn to by Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop. He was fully com-
mitted.
HArFON-GATIOF.N.

Thomas Fulk, landlord of the Fox-under-the-hill, Fox-mint.
Strand, appeared to a summons to answer to an information laid
against him by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, for suffering
persons to be tippling in Iris house during divine service on the Lord's
Hay. It appeared in evidence, that between i t and it o'clock on
Sunday, the 21d of June, there were between forty and fifty persons
smoking in his house. The defendant stated, that Ins house was
situate close to the water side, and that the people found there were
watermen and market people from the country. He was convicted in
the mitigated penalty of ins. and costs.
Henry Skinner, of the Blackamoor's-Head, Exeter-street. Strand,
was charged with a similar offence about tt o'clock on Sunday, the
of June. The defendant stated, that there were several workmen
employed in the English Opera, wine that worked all day on Sunday
is under to complete that building; and that 12 o'clock being their
dinner hour, they only cause for that purpose.
The Magistrate observed, that their doing as illegal offence could
not be a sufficient excuse for Mtn in a breach of the Sabbath, and
they were liable to have informations laid against them; but it being
his first offence, and the Society not pressing for the penalty, on his
promising not to offend again in like manner, he was discharged on
paying the costs.

Friday, George Farney was bmught up and examined, charged
with assuming the character of an Attorney, and thereby obtaining
and defrauding several persons of various sums of money. Mrs.
Abraham., of Gough-vutre, deposed, that in Fchruary last the pri-
soner was recommended to her as an Attorney; to consequence of
which she employed him to defend an action for her, and paid him
fol.; since which witness had disescered that tile prisoner was not an
Attorney. Mr. James .lay, of Sugar-Loaf-Court, Swan-yard, M
inis-
ries, deposed having paid the prisoner the stun of al. under similar
circumstanosa. There Leing other charges expected against the pri-
soner, he was remanded for further examination.

UNION HALL.
T. Wood, a vagrant, whose appearance pm-seined a striking picture
of mi'ery, was brought up by W. Snow, the Constable of Newington,
who stopped him in the act of begging from door to door. On search-
ing him, money was found concealed carefully in various parts of his
rim, to the amount of £' 3s. and also a valuable silver hunting watch,
capped and jewelled : it also appeared that the prisoner was in the
weAly receipt of 3s. from the Parish officers of St, George's, to which
Parise he helotb,ss. The money. watch, and some papers and memo-
randums found on the prisoner, were handed over tothe Churchwardens;
and on furCier inquiry. it appeared, that this miserable impostor was
Ow proprietor of several small tenements, the rent of which he receivma
weekly.—lle was committed to the House of Cornx.tiou for seven day's,
and ordered to be afterwards passed to his parish.

The nine convicts at Ely As,rtes, whose sentences were mi-
tie tied to transportation, were last week conveyed to Newpate,
front %%hence they are to be sent off to Botany Bay by the fir
VC!.3,4 that Naik.

At Lady Jersey's lateentertainment, a man in a good evening dress,
and a tolerable appearance. came to the door, out of a hackney midi.
and having announced himself to the sersant as Captain Kehy, was
permitted to go up stairs, with the usual repetitions of his supposed
name. On approaching the door of the ball-room, he stopped, on a
pretence that his shoe-buckle was loose; and, affecting to find great dif-
ficulty in fastening it, he desired to he shewn into some separate apart-
ment. 'nth was done by the servants ;he was shewn into a dressing-
room, and was des.•ending foam that to leave the house, when the ser-
vants suspected him, knowing that he had not been in the principal
apartments. He was searched. and a silver ink-stand of her Lady-
ship's being found upon him, he was taken to the watch-house by La-
vender.

At the Countess of Shaftesbury's hall, a man fashionably dressed,
sent up his name as General Gore, or Gower, and actually entered the
ball-room. In such a company no person with the rank of General
could long remain without being known to some one. It Is as observed.
that he did not present himself to the Lady of the mansion, nor speak
to any person. The suspicions of the company soon became apparent
to him, and he left the hall-mows, but not the house. Si.arrh being
made for him, he was found concealed in one of the apartments under
a sofa.—We have not heard that the Police Officers knew him, but
he acknowledged btaiself to he an impostor. As he had taken nothing,
he was dismissed.

A girl. I I yeivg of age. was run over by the Prince Regent's carriage,
in Beak-street. on 3loralay evening. pordace followed the car-
riage ; and the Regent, on being informed of the misfortune, sent back
his footman tJ take cue of the child.

A most dreadful ant of suicide was committed about nine o'clock on
Tuesday :norning, by Mr. Roullan. Rouse Steward to his Excellency
the lii.ssipm Ambassador to the Court of the Brarils„ (now on a
visit to this country). The unforternitte man retired tohi., apart-
ment, where he put a period to his existence by blowing his bead to
atoms with a donhle barrelled pistol, the report of which brought some
of the amnesties to the room, where they found him in a state List shock-
ing to be described. A brace of balls. which passed through his head,
lay near the body on the bed. In tile evening an Inquisition was held
on the body. It appeared that the as...eased was a pleasant cheerful
man, much in the favor of hie master, and esteemed by all who knew
hint ; that within the last fortnight he complained of a pain in his sto-
mach, and was also troubled with headach ; that he used to lean with
his elbow on the tilde, and his hetul resting on his hard ; that he grew
melancholy, and exhibited evident marks of derangement. The jury,
without any hesitation. returned a verdict-- That he shot himself is a
state of mmital derangement.
FATAL Erectes or IV' WATIO,L—SIIIIIiIV morning. Wil-
liam Morris. a private in the z I foot Guards, and who was at the bat-
tle of Waterloo. was removed in a dreadful state of intoxication from
the donr ofthe flee. Ttr. Nl•Clotta. in Dean-rt. Soho. to St. Anne's watch-
house. and renntinea in a state of insensibility fora considerable time ;
when about tire o'clock he rose from his stupor and said he should get
uncle reprimmilell when he returned to the regiment : after which he
re:insl to the p: ivy in the locit-up room of the watch-loose ; and about
twenty minutes after was seen by a woman who was locket! in the same
room (through n wicket in the privy doom, to be suspended by his belt.
which he had cut and spliced to ether to answer the purpose of a curd.
On its being discovered, he was immediately cut down, and every as-
sistance rendered him. Mr. Bryan, surgeon, of Compton-atreet. was
immediately rent for, who exerted every eflnrt to retort animation, but
without IIICTCSI, the top.irk of life being extinct ; he was a fine i.ming
m-an. about 23 years nf age, and hail sevend sears about !limo—Mona:la-
cy:ming an inqnest ern held on the body; when it appeared. that the
deceased received some wounds at the battle of Waterloo. which at
times had ems:hirable effect on his int:fleets. lie had been several
*irks confined in an basiatal, ana only twine oat last Saturday to join
hog regiment; when he naicived arrears of pay abowt 31. Whoi found
in the street. all his money was gone. but 1:c had his mead. The ex-
amination of witnesses lasted fur hour% and the Jury returned a verdict
al-aostaniev.

A horrible instance of Jealousy lately occurred at Hem Heath, Std.
fordshire. Rewbottom, lodging in the house of one Bedouita.
erlIC home rather late, and was admitted by Bedston's wife ; he sat
down, and the woman, who had purchased a ballad, unwittingly began
to sing it with Bewbottorn. when Bedston came down stairs, and
stabbed him in two places in the belly with a knife. No hopes are en.
tcrtained of his recovery.
A decent middle-aged woman went into the shop of Mr. Way, a
baker, living in Lower Sloane.street, Chelsea, about eleven o'clock on
Thursday evening; when she fell down in a fit, and expired without
speaking a word.
On Thursday, Mr. Bonham, an engraver, in Soho, dropped down
suddenly, in Than-suet, ar.d expired on the spot.