The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-09 00:00:00

OLD 'AILEY SESSIONS.

Wiwi Rana tr, Dan. 5 —This being the first day of the
Session of Dyer and Terminer, or Gaul Delivery, f..r the
County of Middlesex and City of London, the Lord Ma)or
came in state to open the Se,sions.
EXTENbIV 6 FORGERIES —Henry Thompeoti, a person
of very respectable appearance, was charged on on indict
meat with hayloft uttered, on she IStb of May last, a cheque,
purporting to be drawn by 11. C. Lluyd. Esq. on the respect-
able firm of Messrs. Jones, Llud, and Co. with intent to de-
fraud Mr. Fianris Pontet, of Pau Mall..

It :appeared, that on the 18th of May the prisoner went to
the .hop of .Nlr. I'ontet, and purchased a quantity of snuff,
amountiug to 61. and give a cheque for 111. 6s. in payment,
recessing the change. This was subsequently disco.. r. dto
be a Forgery. Ten other paters of paper, of a similar des-
criptinn, were afterwards passed—one to Mrs. Thomas,
eituriug Cross., and the other to a Mr. Hook, in the play-
uses ket. Seseral other charges were against the (taunt.'
nate prisoner, a Ito made situ .m 1 at' slefruce, but threwilion-
self (mind) on the mercy of the Court.
The Jury iiistantly pronounced the prisoner Guilty—
Den It.

Mr. Panto, jun. in the must feeling manner, recommended
(help, iM/11.1" lu mercy.
T. Fuy was iodic-Jed forreceivin;„ one block uf tin, value
151, 'iv property of It. Willson, knowing the acme to have
been ieloniumly t•toolen by use G. Fletcher.
The rubbery took place as lung ages as the •h uf Deees.
1818, on iii morning of which day Fletcher. who was
servant to Mr. Wilson, a w harfior,er, in Mill-lane, Toole) -
street, Wal. seen to leave his premises with a block
of tot, and It aced to the slop of ate prisoner, v%hu was then
n denier in martne•stotes. iti 1101) well Shoteditch.—
A ti apprehended Fielehei just :iftei he d, posiled the

block in the prismser'a bowie, and when be enquired of the
latter whether be hod way such article in the shop, be de-
nied that be Mad. It was tumid, however concealed in a
dark place, and while the officer was searching, the prisoner
made his escape from the house, and *M seen no more by
the police until Friday last, when the mine officer met hint,
and took him into custody. Fletcher was convicted at the
Surrey Assizes in March, 1819

leseral witnesses appeared and gave the prisoner a very
good character.
The Jury found him gui:ty; but recommended him to
mercy on account of the good character that had beau given
him.
Mr. Justic: Bailey said, he would hike care to give as
much 'Wert to the recommendation its he could, consistently
with the circumstances of the case ; but he felt himself
bound to observe, that men like the prisoner were often
known to keep up a fair character in their own neighbour.
hood, by pitying their way honestly, when privately they
were eat ry ing on a siefatious traffic, the profits of which
enabled them to keep up their pa)ments.
John Deakin was capitally indicted for breaking and en-
tering the dwellin4-house of Robert Wray; F,sq. in the parish
of Edmonton, and stealing therein a large quantity of wearing
apparel, his property.
The laundry adjoining Mr. Wray's dwelling house, and
enclosed within the same wall, was broken into in the night
of the 9th of November, and plundered of all it contained.--
The following Saturday an officer went with a search-war-
rant to the house of the prisoner, who lived in the neigh.
bourhood, and he there found the stolen property in diGtent
rooms.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
TOURSDAY, Dec. 6—William Woolley was capitally
indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling.house of Mr.
Charles Ward, and waling therein a tea chest and other
property.
The Jury retired for three quarters of an hour, and then
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
John Chester, aged VI, was capitally Indicted for assault-
ing Anne Emma Grey on the King's highway, and taking
front her person a ridicule, two handkerchiefs, and some
silver monies, her property.
The prosecutriz, on the evening mentioned in the indict-
ment, was walking near 'Brick-lane, Whitechapel, with a
gr•nt!etnan of hrr acquaintance, when the prisoner and se-
veral others iittack.l them, and the prisoner snatched the
property mentioned irom the hand of Miss Grey with great
violence.

The prisoner in his defence denied any participation in the
crime, and culled several witnesses, who gave him a good
e.i..racrer.
The Jury found him Guilty—Death.
The prosecuiriz, on account of the good character given
to the prisoner, hegged leave strongly to recommend him to
mercy ; and the Jury joined in rbe recommendation, on ac-
count of hi, youth.
Mr. Barron Garrow said, he would take care to forward
the recommendation in the precise words in which it was
couched.

During the absence of the Jury in the case of Woolley,
Mr. Justice Bayley ordered Joel Wilkinson and Joseph
51arsdeh to be put to the bar to receive the opinion of the
Judges upon their case ; it will be recollected they were con-
victed last sessions of stealing a quantity anus cornice, and
that an objection was taken, on the ground that it was not
taken with an intention to steal, but merely to evade the
payment of the duty.
The Court, however, considered, that taking. even for this
purpose, was a felony, nod acquainted the prisoners that
they would be brought up at the end of the Sessions to re-
trite jud :meet.
Wm. Hell and John James Burton were tried for a bur-
glary in the dwelling house of J. Dreper,un the t of Nov.
flail was found guilty, and Barton acquitted.—Aged 14 and
a ol thi years.
FRIDAY, Dec. 7.—John Chapman, aged 17, was capi-
tally indicted for assaulting Eleanor Wade, on the King's
highway, and taking from her person a pocket book, con.
taining twagold rings, and 151. in hank notes.
Mrs. Wade is the wife of a respectable tradesman, and on
the 20th No ember, on returning home from the house of a
friend, she nhsr red a home on fire very near ber own. S;ie
had occasion to pass the fire, and in so doing she was sur-
rounded by a gang of ruffians, among whom was the prisoner.
He he.d her by the pelisse, whilst the other pulled up her
clothes and robbed her of the property mentioned in the
indictment. I rosecutris made her loss known, and in about
half an hour afterwards she was info' used that many suspi-
cions characters had been apprehended, and were then is
custody at the watch house. Pranecutrie went there, and
singled out the prisoner flora eight or nine others. He had
been t ken near the fire, but nothing had been found upon
h s person.
The prisoner in his defence alleged that he was absent
from the place of tl.e time mentioned. He called three girls
to prove un alibi, all of whom swore that at the time when
Mrs. Wade was robbed, the prisoner was at a dance and
refit., at Lyn! eth Street.
The Jury returned a verdict of—Not Guilty.
Cordell was imbeted for stealing a gelding, value
71. the property of James Baldwin.
Tile animal was taken from the pasture in ullicb the pri-
soner had been d iected to place it on the night of the 15(11
Nave ber, and the prisoner tat an early hour the following
morning was slopped with it in his possession on the While.
chapel road, by the pntrole, whose suspicions were excited
by the appearance of the prisoner. The pcisriner did not
give satisfactory answers to the questions put to bins, and
VMS in consequence stopped.
The father of the pi isoncr stated, that his sun had been
subject to tits for the List lice years, in consequence of a kick
of a lior.e, and that ho was frequently in a state of mental
d, rang, m.nit.

ThrJar retired lei a short time, find on their return mo-
no i d tiie prisoner—Guilty.
Charles Yates Na. eapitully indicted for Inargluritmedy
breaking and entering the duelling house of IL. Beacroft,
with iment to steal.

Mr. licacroft is a coal meter, residing in Adaaserstreet,
Whilecinipel. nod had been out on the eyenisig of the tilth
of November. As lie was Imo-nine home about niue recipe's
he saw a throuxll the fan glass, and know log that ha
had left nu prison in the house, he went to the d looked
titraush the key hole, and saw the prisoner and man
standing in the passage, une of them with a light in his
hand. He uolucked the door, upon which the light was
put out, and the men rail out of the back-door. The prisoner
soon artery /ads wits found in the privy at the buck of
the house, while sail asyurtment uf picklock ke)s and it
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The Jury found the pri-wier Guilty—Deaths
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William Boswell aniJames Jones were capitally indicted
for stealing a great coat raise 31. to the dwelling bows of Sir
Woo. Adams, the celebrated oculist.
The prisoners were seen by a servant at a neighbouring
house to go down Sir W. Adam.** area, and take out a coat
belonging to the coachman, with which they were making
oft; but were stopped and secured.
The prisoners denied the charge, and impntcd perjury to
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The Jury found the prisoners guilty or stealing to the
amount of 395.

On Wednesday afternoon, as two gentlemen were rid-
ing in a chaise-cart, down Vauxhall Bridge-road, the
animal suddenly took fright, and gallopped off with the
greatest fury towards the bridge; in its course, however,
one of the wheels came in contact with a lamp post, si-
tuate by the road side, and suddenly broke it in two.—
At the same moment both the shafts snapped, when the
chaise was completely overturned. One of the gentle.
niru jumped out, and providentially received no injury,
but the other gentleman was taken up seriously cut and
hurt. The animal finding himself disentangled from
the vehicle, still furiously proceeded towards the bridge.
where the horse war at length stopped, without doing
any fuither mischief.
On Tuesday last, a lady had advertised for a cook and
a housemaid, and with the permission of a widow, who
keeps a hosiers' shop in Yarhament-street, had directed
them to apply there between the hours of eleven and
one; at eleven o'clock no less than 49 females met to.
gether, and by twelve the number amounted to 105!
The lady was there according to appointment, but was
so perplexed by the number of applicants that she could
not engage any of them.
Curious abek,—On Monday evening, at the sign
of the Prince and Priticess, in Gravel-lane, Blackfriars,
a millwright, of the name of Air, undertook, for a
trifling wager, to creep through a nine-inch square hole
in five minutes:—this, though apparently impossible, he
accomplished in hall a minute. The man stands it feet
6 inches, and weighs eleven stone.
FOOT.RACINO.—The sporting match between Lieut.
Smith, who lately did 100 miles in 24 hours, and Mr.
Ricketts, Int. 100 guineas a side, took place on Tuesday,
over a circular piece of groomd of five miles. They started
to do 60 miles, and Mr. Smith was backed at 6 to 4,
and even betting that neither did it in fourteen hours.
Mr. Smith resigned from a failure in one of his legs, after
doing 56 miles in 13 hours, 29 minutes, and 14 seconds.
Mr. Ricketts performed the 55 miles in 12 hours, 60
minutes, and 31 seconds, and walked gently over the
oilier five miles.—A snatch was run on Wednesday, its
Hyde Park, for 20 guineas, between Ben Born, the pu-
gilist, and a young gentleman who is fa-t on his speed
The distance was sixty yards, and Born got the start, and
was winning like a Jack Spiggoti, when he was stopped
close at home by a failure in the hip, and lost the match.
He was more than two yards a-head when the accident
happened.
EifECTS or Love—Stumm—We feel extreme re-
gret at having to record a melancholy instance of self-
slaughter, which occurred on Wednesday last at Sea-
port Parade, beyond.. Black-rack :—A young gentleman
of the name of n, from Oadands, near Stillorgan,
having been exceedingly attached to an interesting and
young lady of the name of of Dublin,
who died at Williamstown, on Tuesday morning last,
was, it appears, overwhelmed with affl.ction at her loss,
and, as we are informed, pass the window of his lod-
gings, when he put a pistol to his heart, and discharged
Its contents through it. Mr. IlPCarthy, the coroner,
held an Inquest upon the body of the unfortunate young
gentleman, when the Jury returned the following verdict
—" We find that the deceased shot himself, having been
in a state of insanity, from love of the deceased Miss H."
Dublin Paper.
On Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, a very fine
youth, about 14 years triage, one of the Marine Society
Boys, fell from the ladder at the side of their vessel, and
stank. The drags were instantly procured front the
Grampus, the Seamen's hospital ship; but alter dragging
the remainder of that day, and the greater part of .Mon-
day, the body could not be found.
One evening last week, about seven o'clock, as Mr.
A. Rouse, of Rcdruth, was returnina iron) Truro, after
having disposed of tin ore at one of the smelting-housesi''
when between the villages of Chacewater and NVithe-
ball, he was fired at by a rutliiin who had concealed
himself behind some heaps of earth and gravel that lie
near the road. The villain appears to have taken delibe-
rate aim, as the ball entered under the right shoulder
blade, and came out under the right breast. Mr lt.'s
horse, frightened at the report, set forward rapidly for
about 300 yards, when the rider fell, and the animal
stopped. Mr. R. then saw a Wall approaching, dressed
in sailor's jacket, hut just as he Cline up he suddenly
turned arid made a precipitate retreat across the country.
This it appears was occasioned by his perceiving a Itgitt
carried by a person advancing to the place, haring stew
the flash and heard the report, who found Mr. Rouse
weltering in his blood. He was removed to his haute.
II YDROPHOBIA.—A few days ago, the inhabitants of
I)iss, w Norfolk, were thrown into the greatest con-
sternation by a strange dog, of a large breed, in a state of
canine wainess, which worried and bit several dogs in
the street, and was pursued into the yard of the Crown
lots, where lie was fortunately killed before he had done
any further mischief. The unfortunate objects of his
fury were immediately destroyed by the vigilance of the
constables.—About three weeks since a dog, affected by
hydrophobia, which was seen about Southampton and
its neighbourhood, bit three fine yard dogs, two of winch
were in consequence destroyed. By the request of a me-
dical gentleman, the other dug was chained tip for a few
days longer, in order that the further progress of the
disease might be observed ; and on Sunday last the dog
died of the malady in a dreadful state.
Monday evening, about fiv.: o'clock, Mr. William
E. inns, of Anthony-street, St. George's in the East, pass-
ing the corner of Blue Anchor-yard, Rosemary-lane, was
attacked by four ruffians, who knocked him down, and
sobbad him of his watch.