The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-23 00:00:00

FYIDAY, MAY Yl.

This day Mr. Warien niOveii to make the Rule, Whiff)
he Ltely obtained, to slew cause why an Information,
in the Dalian` 1/1 Quo llamvdo, should not he exhibited
agaitist Mr. John \leeres, the Major 01 Peterstield, ab.
solute.

Mr. Scarlett and Mr. Marryit slteweJ cause agaiust
the little ; but the Court 11134'e the linle absolute

MERCANTILE CONSPIRACY.
THE ICING V. KINNEAR. WOOLPE, AND LEVY.

'Mr. Gurney obtained a rule lo 'hew cause why an
Attorney, who had prepared the false affidavits of Jones
and Edwarus, introduced in behalf of the defendants,
%% hen brought up for judgment, should not produce the
said persons, or a 115%% er the matter coatained in an affi-
davit charging him with making the affidavits of-per-
sons not in t xlstence.

The Attorney will chew cause against the rule on
Monday.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Tun I v INTOR If or ♦ Cnnr6Rca♦r. Hot/sc.—Mr.
George Tucker, of No. S. Tottenham-court-road, applied
to the Lord Alayor to he folio-toed 111 I% hat matinee it ...aid
be most advisable to act, to the event of any angry prot eed-
ings of Vie firm of Lie, besot. Corking. and Cu.. of
Itnooks-what(-lanes Queelihitae, io consequence of the
rty he hid token in keepiog tilt in out of their counting-
hou a., and examining their hooks. pool., I. lieu., its. &.c.
The applicant *as informt d, that the trans:H.6ms or
Lich he had spoken did ion clone oit hiss the t•aa. t hunts
of police joriedii tinny but alter he hut prneeidvd•a jib lot
statement, the emitter wais found to be of such wrious public
importance. •tat advice %tits .lieerfully given.
Ale. Tucker, olio nu. landlord io the gentlemen, had
!wind a,nte %%Myer., intimating that the thus carts nut sw
are, tlouri,hins as the Humber of names and appearance at
the counting-house were likely to make mit trios imsgtsr,
He pressed the company for his rent, and received untheog
but excuses must suspiciously polite or itooLcii. At hos lie
went into the counting-house, and seised upon the effects fur
the amount of 1:41.

The invehtory tonsittcd of the fullowiti.e articles
empty boxes; J poi eel., made up very orally, tiered will.
hay ; 2 book-coven„ locally pasted togrilit r, mulled with
hay; several paretic, marked " Leiter. front Irelooti,
Guernsey, &c." welted w it's Lay ; bills of lading, 181 a,
stuffed %sib bay, saw-dome stint bran. Mr. Tuck. r them
came to the volt-nook, se here be expected to ter stomellimg
of a show ; but upon cutting it open, he found it to contalw
,in exact gamp:e of the above, mentioned totock, which be
begged the laird May or would allow him to scud to the
juttice-room, for 'he gi eater security.
His Lordship did not vo oh that the stock, though so ran.
able, should be deposited al the Mansion-Loser. lie, hon.
ever,.shoulJ have no objection to receive a visit fo,m the
gentlemen of the firm, whose object in this spec Walk's was
'.cry apparco.t.

Itl9

Tucker.—Wonld your lordship udvise me to k• els
th-la nit ? They threaten one vs kb all the consequences of a
legal proceeding, if 1 persi-t.
The Lonoshla Yoa.-1 should *se no ceremony on such
" "ea.. . I would prvvr sit such rascals from coal MO)
one "tsars. We are overwhelmed with impostors, and
should expose them upon every opportunity. If they are
displeased with the treatieteat they receive, tell diem to
come to me.
hit. Tucker went away dettrntined upon the course he
should pnrsue.
Jahn James ens, • fine lad 13 yrars of age, was charged
under the following singillar circumstances : His muter,
Mr. 11011.1..e111i111, of Sun-insect, Dishopipite, chinionmn and
copper-pl tie priadt r, lust taken him 111111 his lonise from a
1111111Ve of humanity us an apprentice. 'The sleepiog room
appropriated to him was one of the ware-rooms at the hack
of the shop. His hisresiou to it for reasons he could nut
cypress, was proved up au out occasion in a manlier the most
terrific, but Air. 14 41101.111:111 little Imagined that no event from
which fatal and Itittoollei4 mischief might have been appre-
headed had arises from the mischievous wicks of a boy. A
citcurn,ianee which took place on Tuesday morning, cou-
voiced him that he had a tianzerous te. On hlotiday
toiJi; Mr. Houseman left the prisoner to take care of the
Loose ! at a little after S in the nog of Tuesday, the
watchmen of I district, on going kis rounds, found the door
of the house open; lie called to the inhabitants, stud no an-
s. er having bee," returned, walked in, under apprehetivitios
of no ordinary kind. The house bore no marks of being
plundered, hat in the ware-mom the natchionn saw the pri-
mmer tied hands and feet to the posts of the bed with ropes,
and notified about the mouth with a handkerchief. Ou
be.nA released from his Mammy/6, the boy said that a tall
mum had soddenly come in upon him while he was in hed,
lied him d 0.% it, and threatened to murder luau if he dared to
move or speak a wild. Japwell, the officer, who was sent
for, wino learned from the boy, that no tall man had visited
hut that lie had tied laimseir to the bed-poste, In larder
that his master might remove him from the warehouse to
some to re twee:ili.e past of the home, upon seeing that
it oils daligerano to leave him there, expos, d to robhris and
murderers. The offiri r then was told by the boy, that the
experiment he had just mentioned was not the only one he
bad tried. Some time ago, Mr. llousrmnn, a bile itibed, was
alai mod by cries of " lire," and bud shouts from the boy.
lie ran down stairs, find fund one of the warerooms in
&ones. A crate i oat:lining rust is to lowiting, land the Bre
Lad already communicated to the timber. liy great efforts
she fret, wh,ch was :opposed to have been occasioned by
the servant gill, aho had taken away .11,1. waster's candle,
ysnsesiiuguishcd. The fuss sus wined wits to the amount of
131., a hick Mr. lloesemiat recovered from the Suu Ensu-
rance-oftiee. The boy said, this was all his work; that he
bated the warernom so much as to he prompted to steal sway
a tinder-bax and the apparatus from his mother's house, and
that the nrionent his master gut into ghe tedbe set fire to the
crate, the flames from which, however, terrified him into a
clamorous ex pi riAiloit of his fears.
The Lord Mayor directed, amt the prisoner should be kept
ill iirißois until the tarsal-dove Company shoals! determine
lather he was a fit subject for prosecution.