The National Register.
London, England, 1817-05-05 00:00:00

LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS.

Friday the London Adjourned Sessions were held :it Guild-
hall, before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder and Aldermen.
MELANCHOLY VASE.—Mary Brown, alias Ryan, (the un•
tertian tie wife of the man wit I had It et ex•-coted is the
morning), WAS put to the bar, charnel with e leaeouring to
procure, and to aid and abet thel escape of her husband, and
two other persons named Hallard and Handley, from his Ma•
jests': gaol of Newgate, on the 13th of April last.
The prisoner. as might well he supposed, ezliih.ted the
roost wretched appearance; she was convulsed in agony, and
bad an infant at her breast.
The pariciders of this case have already appeared.
The prisoner, had no counsel, but Mr. Barry humanely
volunteered to plead. He observed, that if in the minds of a '
Ilritiri jery, whom be then bad the honour to address, con
vials° should be established scatted the prisoner, he would
then turn to the Court, and, appealing to its merry say, that
the pangs. tho maritime, the arse; and the sorrow, that at
present inundated the soolettbis ttafortunate.widow and mos
titer, were to her a far greater punishment than all the pains
and penalties of fete Law.
'the Recorder having summed lip the evidence, the jury
after some minutes consultation, pronounced a verdict of ,
Guilty, but strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy.
The Court having cousuised a few moments together, the
Recorder proceeded to pass eantence, and ordered her to be
seufined in Renate for one calendar snot th.
The prisoner, in a Hood of dears, begged the Court would
suffer her " to go to the melee of her husband (he being an
Irishman and Roman Cathafie), sad see the last of him."
The Court said it was we in their power to grant smell a
gegnest.
She was then conveyed in custody from the Court ; the
Jury, however, and almost every individual in Court, psa.
vainly bestowing upon her sumo( money.
ACAVEMIC SOCIETY.
Friday, application was made at the London Sessions foe
licenses to open public rooms for leetares, literary, Odious- .
phical,&e.
The' Recorder, Alderman Domenic Alderman Alias, and
Alderman Cox were on the Beech.
Before the several petitions were read,
Alderman Sir William Doraville rose, and said he Amnia
take that public opportunity of making some observations
upon circumstances which had been either misinterpreted
In another elate, or misrepresented in the public journals,
a d erhich had gone forth to the world in a shape calculated
`aprepidice his character to a very serious extent. •' My
•seativea," said Sir Wm. Dormant., " for refusing my assent to
riming the license when applied for at the Old Bailey, have
been eausid•sred in another place as improper. I insist sac, I
still think the words' clearly .ex pressed, create a doubt Wire.
Thar the license asked for was so expressed. 4 have s'ner
bad inure time to look at the act, with the dairies allowiu :
the presence of Magistrates at 11w debate, and revokine the
license-1n case any improper subjects were debated. I think
I roieht have jjoined in grataing the licen.e, but deny most
Mersey any imprinter motive .it my part, and trust Inv
oostilitet Is a Maziserate upon all occasions will bear me out
in that declaration."
Alderman Atkins stated, in effect, that the' motives of ells
worths. Alderman were by 110 means cou.idered its so injori.
was a 1041 it in the House of Commons. When the *object was
entertained in the MIAOW Of Commons, he rose to optow..r
tome onservatiot a made by Sir Matthew Ridley relative to
the conduct two brother Aldermen, who had oltWrted
to the appl cation made by the Academics. His motive in
rising was to instill, their conduct, knowing that they were
uninsured by the must pore considerations : and that they
wield, moiler no circumstances, act upon any oilier incitement
than that of pi ',triple.
The Rerneoen observed, that It had also been reported
shit he (the Iteroviler) was on the Beech when the decision
inifi.voui aide to the application was made.
Alderman Arlo NS.—I denied in the House of Commons
Olt you ,tIEIC there
rae Recoi der.--I am aware oftliat ; but T .lerlare, that ;f
I h id been there I should have given my opinion without fhe
slightest liesitatimi. In the face of Parliamilit I WOHili give
ins opinion upon the subject, whatever might be the renames
is which I should be exposed.
The licensee cur the societi•li were granted immediately.

POLICE. •

BOW s itEET.

Monday morning two of the lit ster Police Officers ar-
rived iii Londatst, by the unlaces, h from Nlanoliestrr, with
bent alias Wrßims Pi[kimono in their custody, ironed a 1,1
ermined. charged with politicist Aimee., He was court. t e,i to
tke Secretary of State's Office for the Home Departmern about
one o'clock, where he underwent an examination before xir
N•attianitd Conant and other official Gentlemen ; he war after_
wards committed to prison for a further investigation.
On Saturday night, at a late I J. J. Smith a Constable
belonging to thr Office, traced out J Lindsey, late the Man.' g
inu Clerk in the office of Messrs. Frusta anal Co. its Searle-
strret, Lincoln's lire fields, at an obscure house in Paddineton
in a room am a second floor, where he hail Meets concealed
since he had ensconded f his employers' office, when the
foige7leit and franils were discovered to have been committed
Monday Lindsey was brought to the office lay .1.3. Smith t and
after undergoing a private examination, he was committed for
a liir.lier oticstattation.
Wednesday J, Collins, N. Atkins, G. Court, and = Ranger,
were charged with aiding and assisting in the murder of three of the
crew of the Ranger Revenue cutter., in an action between that veset
and a smuggling lugger, of which the prisoners formed port of the
clew. Cullen, Atkins, and Ranger have been several time. rxri-
Rental on the same charge, but Court was apprehended °sly a few
stays since. The discovery of his delinquency was nude in come.
smelter of his being obliged to apply for surgical assistance. having
been severely wounded in the arm during the cngagt-nent. At il.e
Eque,t of Mr. Alley, Counsel for the prisoners. they were re-
minded.
T. Brown was charged with inhuman conduct to Mary, his wife.
Mrs„ M'Kenny, a lodger in the same house with the prisoner, stated
ghat .he had been repeatedly alarmed by the shrieks and cries of
murder, from the apartment occupied bb Brown. A few days hack