The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-01 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

necessary to commit so many, mere children to a place
where they must of consequence become the associates
of the most vicious and abandoned characters.

Grand Jury-room, Old Bailey, Feb. 19.
(Signed) "JAMES PEARSALL,
"Foreman of the Grand Jury."
" To the Right Honourable, the Lorl-Nlayor, and
other of his Majesty's Justices of the. peace."
MONDAY.
porsons were tried, rior of whom were capitally rot,
vieted ; viz. J. William% and W. Jones, tnr a burglary in the
dwell iocshoitse of J. liawkiiis,aml stealim; two handkerchiefs
W. Ward, for stealing a rtte. p, the property of S. Keene ; and
.1. for assault tog I). %Vomit:m.l, ,111 the King's highway,
and stealing from his person a pair of breeches and a waist-
coat.

W..tennivies WAS indicted for hiving a lnintity of gunpow-
der other colnincitatiles to Mnry Conduit ; tuns causing the
dee' of %toy Ann Coristack, a child outlet her r.tre.

Mary Cornioil stated, that she hail known the prisoner about
fortnight keine the tiainiaction. She attended Covent Oar
den Market to sell soup. He offered to help her bring out her
things, and lie cam.- for three mornings, hot on tke last re
rift need to the ii'use ruder a 111-oleure of gitting kis stick, and
after he had gone a cook fr the water hint and
he was told nut to come again. Some lime after. he brought
her a 1)411 of *Wt. lint he called a composition coal, and said
it would mike a good fire, and gentlemen hariit it in 'heir
pat lour•, b ecaitsc it produced nosuu.ke. Witness carried the
stuff home with her, and placed it about half a yard from the
tire place, and took 3 piece about as Lii.; as an egg. Immediately
she put it in the lire, it Wl.lll Off With a Inuit report, and CMll-
',tunic:lied to that in the basket,and in an instant that went oil
also, and ker children's chillies caught tn• and they were
taken to the hospital. Witness herself was much burnt, and
the little child Alary Anne died in 1110 hue iital
The prisoner in his defence said, lie foinol the composition
near Rolllll,l Conl.t, 111 the Strand, 411 d did not kuow 'ghat it
wag.—Guilty of Manslaughter.
Mr. Havuo Gotham delivered the opinion of the 12 Judges
on the ease of lye Csrr, convicted last Session of maliciously
drawing the trigger of a blonde buss against W.
that the convict tust ou% had ; but coufirined the capital convic-
tion of• it. Taylor, in December last, for cutting and destr,iy.
lug cet lain fruit-trees in the garden gi mind of S. Kaievett.
IUEsI)AI(.. _

W. Green was indicted fur stealing money and other arti-
cles, ansouutiag iu the whole to z.'.21. the property of W.
Stevens.-
FrancesSteventstattil, that her husband was a publican In
Marstial-street,Carnaby Mriket. On the 22d ult. shout eight
11 theeveniuq,the propel ty was stirlen Isom the bed-room.
Slit was Silting in her bar, soil heard a 'toile ap stairs ; when
she took a candle and went and listened at the iinition of the
stairs, hut did tint hear any further n:Ose. Witness opened
the tap-roan sloar. Prisnnrl 11•4,m. down %tails, and came up
to witness, who said to hit " Where hate yen been?" He
replied, "Up sighs." Witte, as tejnined, " Where to " He
said, " In the Iwo 1' r." She asks him to whom there; and he
eimer said,it was 40t nW eonseipsence to her, or no business of
her's. Wiine-s th a laid hold of bins by the collar. I
sersant gist also came oil, and hll,l Mild of MIN and said,
" Olt! mistress, he is a thief." A general confusion ensued
and the room tor,- was funud btukeo open and the clubdrox
standing 00 the landing-place. The primmer was searched,
sad on hint were found len skeleton keys, a crow liar, a dark
lantern, and a pliuspeortis box, but none or her pi operty.
he prisoner, in ins defence, sail, he knew notolog of the
robbeiy, the keys and impleinents of house-breaking nett
ci en NM by a h lend of bus, who was a locksinith.—Gailty—
Dcatii.—Aged 4ti.
The Recorder otisersed to the Jary, that the prisoner was
an tilt acquaintance ; he had been these before.
J. Frost and C. Arintield were indicted for assaulting J.
But t. no the King's highway, and takiiig from hint a waled
and putitit book, his property.
Jury Wend them butts Guilty—Death.—Aged •
and 21.
Elizabeth Patching, for stealing a snit of boy's clothes, and
other ea ticles, the property of J. Hodges, us his tiwelliiic-
house ; and J. theriton, for a burglary iu the house of H.
Spicer, and stealiug two watches were also capitally con-
victed.

WEAN LSD AY.
J. Doran was indicted for stealing • mare, value 501 stud
a bridle and saddle, the property of G. Wynne, of Patents's'
tea -row .
lis. Wynne said, he had a valuable mare, which he adver-
tises, 6.r ...Ale. the the 15th instant the prisoner stated, that lie
*mold a tali to have last days trial of the :nitre. Prosecutor tut A
him he oat a stringer, anti lie could not permit him to have the
mare ; but he was about to. take a ride upon atwitter, and it
tir priausmr thought proper, he might accompany him ; they
aeettrtlisegly rode to Tettersel's, when the primmer said he
waisted to commit n friend about the snare, and westt it,to the
yard ; bust I rillrllell in about five minutes, and said his li ielltl
was nut there; and he would accompany the ptoseeutur home,
awl send In. servant for the ware in the OIUI 1111 l g.
PrO,Cellior told hiss, that as he knew institute of him, he
/hold not let the mare go, hot that be would send the servant
wits nes, it he geee hots his address. 'file prisoner accord-
iss4ly lot e iron the address of " J. Horns, at Mr. Young's,
23, Parliament-slier'," and proitectetor mi. ee I, upon the re-
p,esehtion of the primnier, titAt lute friend would he al Mr.
V outie's the 'text 4 iy, to Attud the mato. PI thlerlil 01 41, Curd'
(ugly sent his groom with the mare, aid On !lig/lily he was not
their t but %title he was riding her up and iso Ais the street,
the prisoner come up, and tool him he esott!st take Ilse snare to
his (I i,lllil, o 114 !Willi tier smelt. Toe groom gave the snare
Mho Ins etllS.lssly kAltistusg,s not :maws Med to du au), and the
presumes dot nut remit With it.
Mr, Atleu phis. immted an oitiection in favour of the prisoner,
that it wet a uarg 4111, 1111,1 Hot aft lo ..s. It was, lio a eies.,
erern used, it ithold going to .411 Araussietst,
Mr. Young, 'N. POI ii.t.iietki—urcet, proved that the primmer
td lised with him about tan )eate elect. et nett said he Ii to
-1,, est Ishii atilltursiy to bare a letter directed there, lot. a g 'o-
hms:us, hot he hod nut given btu► any fits user authority.
'l;se Jury I,lolnm:iced the iss istmer Gain y-o.:at h.
J. Hubert*, tor ate.' g int) piecta of II marl, salt.e 401.
• the properly of J. EV.1115, its his tiV/eil:114 Iloll3e NOS al•u
eaii/14/illy Cllalltiell.
TiiIIIISDAY. . . .

Hymn Alexander and Ant.il:;tui Phillips were charged
picking the pocket of Lora Foley, vitae his L,,•l:ip was al-
it tiding tlio .lectioa Wetatittiottei on the Pith init. of a v.t
laaine gold %valets, three gold ►eals, and a pocket-hook con-
toinotg t6l. to notes. 'lice prisoners were found Guilty.
Julio Payer, alias I)yew, was indkttd for :um:no-13i s

w:t'r Ann Baker, his former wife, Ann 'layer, being ttili
alive.
Es idence of boils marriages were folly substantiated.
The Prisoner, in his defence, admitted that lie hail nisei iv,
Ann Baker, tint said he had never consummated the marriage,
nor had lie ever cohabited with, or seen Ann Baker since
they quitted the church. In support of this assertion. he
calk.' the witness Jane Roberts, who proved that lie had
never seen Ann Baker ;ince they were married.
The Court intimated to Blur, that tt at made no &Wei ante sr
d'stin lion; and Melo'', foam' the pi i-cmer
George Knight was indicted for stealing 301. of bitter
••bie 11. Pis. the propeity of George Lamb ; and Janie,
Voodley, was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing it
to base been stolen.
The prisoner Knight was entrusted to card a waggon, bar
on the arrival of the waggon at its 1,14 re of destination the"
butter Wilt and it o as la proof that iltri;glut look a but
to ri place in Aldersgate-strcet, and left it with a watchman,
for Woo Iley. who hail been a watchinan on that heat. Wind-.
les received it. and it was proved to cow ain butter, %bleb ha
• sold at Is. 311. per pound.
The Jury protioni.ceil both the ',limners Gui:ty.

A private letter from Paris mentions, that the Mi.
nistry have resolved to keep no further measures with.
the Ultra-Royalists ; and that the majority, small as it
was, which enabled Government to pass the law on the
financial year, was the consequeuce of a declaration to.
the above effect, announced by the Keeper of the Seals
in his speech; the left side, or party of the Liberal's,
immediately uniting themselves to Ministers. M.
Laine was reckoned among the minority on that
question.
A numerous meeting of merchants, manufactarers,
and nth, rs, was held on Thursday at the t its of Len-
don Tavern, for the purpose of taking into considera-
tion the necessity of petitioning Parliament. in order to
obtain an equalization of the Daty on (*mils ; \ir. Al-
derman Wood in the Chair when, after a very able
discussion, several Resolutions were passed unani•
mously ; and Petitions founded upon them, to both.
Houses, agreed to. Alderman Wood was deputed to
present that to the Commons.
G. Smith, a teacher of fencng in Carrubber's Cale!,
Edinburgh, was lately charged as being the miscreant.
whose conduct has for some time back been so grossly
shocking and annoying to numerous femat a in various
places in the vicinity of flat city. He was clearly iden.
tificil by a number of young allies, as the person who
had behaved towards them in a manner too indecent to
describe; and the Sittiag Magistrate, considering it a
case deserving of more severe punishment than ha was
warranted to inflict. remitted it o the Sheriff.
DARING ROTIFIERY.—M r. Cornby, of Beddington
Sarry was attacked by a gang of seven or eibh: per-
sons, early on Thursday veiling, on the (''astern side
of Blackfriars road, between Ro,vland Hill's Chapel
and Dover street, and robbed of 171. his watch, and.
his hat. He was attacked by a violent blow upon the
neck, which levelled him, and his property was gone
in a few seconds: These ruffians are part of a desperate.
gang, who turn out from their vile haunts in St.
GeLrge's-fields, nightly, and pariahs the upper part of,
Blecktriars road, in defiance of the watchmen.
Wednesday a'Cauat of Directors was held at the Ea •
India how.e. when the following ships were thus stag
tinned and timed, viz. the Bridgewater, Marquis o.
Ely, and Larkins, for St. Helena and China; an:.f
Aplle, Cornwall, and Matilda, thr China direct, to
be riloat on the '23d inst.; sail to Gravesend on the
Ist Mardi ; stay there A) daps; and be in de
Downs oh the I Oth of April.

A f dal disturbance took place a few days since, at the New Inn, it
Fresiifird. A number of young men and women were drinking. it.d
ab tut nine o'clozli a violent quarrel took place among tic m ; the can
dies were extinguisle.; and tic room rendered a seenc of disuubance.
Mr. Mareham. the landlord. with some ditticulty succeeded in clear-
ing the roots. and shut his street duot against them. '1 hey th,n •
began to beat at the door, and threatened to do mischief to the
landlord; one yo mg man said, he should le murdered if lie woe
not whn'tte.l into the house; upon which the landlord op...ned die.
door, when a young nwr, named .1. Kelson, swore lie would enter
the house,.and was in the a. tof doing so, when t!-:e landlord stre.dt
lint down with a stick. The blow 'roved a fatal one; and after
lingerin:t in errat pain for a week, he expired. Mr. Mareh-nt 'Mgt
been commi te I us :Hallett ctoal.
A frnin p.a attempted on Sir 11. Carr and his (th
widow of the late Minister. Mr. Percival), by a letter Fit-porting is
be written by a poor Clergyman named Racenarr. ft. with a wit!
and Liege fintilyovoo were very distr:,red, ad 4, di au.liti m N. that.
116 misery was Increased by. having been thrown °tribe onside of the
liGwd cinch, and oue of has kg. was broken. In con!iitnati in he
enclosed a letter from Lord Binning. desiring i= aceertance of an
en-baed ILA( note. The letter was se.ded with tlx arms of l.m-il
Binning. Oa enquiry thefellow tiirtettout to be an itnivatt.r ; rhos
tithed emelt had not broken down. nor tr..l Lind Bninteg redo id ia
Bank note to him, nor did limns o,ly thing of the impostor. Its;
lordship 16 at a lees to gttcu how be could obtain the unpreasion of
The Rtr. Mr. ',lnman, a Nu,. 11:111 lately &aunt
beta 1.14 a h r es ablislibig a genrial N. ',dime Saving Mpg:
for •emnro, which is about to be submitted I.- the Lords of
the Admiralty.
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A few days shire a Kinat,n, lately eahilli nt in a es ritvan
noon the Ca•tle D;tehes at Nino telt, eloped Iron, that place'
w th the WI-fair eneWnyed as bay' kr I. We &bow.
A lever 1,, ar ..1 itat tier. of the N. rith..eite art ,
tEttr:l I.ls tat issa. December 4, 1818, P ales, that oil day
before,* pi. 113141011 r 4111 nlowieri
every snip hat wan 101 g there they after.% at ilv went , a
$ ore Arnitotir.eil tie inhabitants and the t'uvlotr.anntse ; at. y
*No ninnies-ea rune nit he inliabitaitt•, and then lett the place.
The Nelwit (1,,1 not arrive till atter the eiresmishinee.
Oil BmitiAy r•ruing farther respite was received by the
Keeper of N( vo-zatc for J. Egerton (nt tiered. for ,xectitioncn
Teeslay Int but then revited for one werY) during I.sa
Royal 1116 hut the Prince RegenOt pleniutc.

LAIV INTELLIGENCE.

•COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. StrvitaAV Feb. tr.
.IMPORTANT CASE OF BANKRUPTCY.

"YOUNG V. 163 HUNT AND itworwen.
This was .an action of trespass alpinist the defend-
•arts, as the messenger sad his assistant, tattler a coin-
mission of htnkrapt against one Joint Crowley, for
tentering-the Queen's-Arms Tavern, St. James's Street,
'kept by Crowley, and alledged by the plaintiff to belong
Aci her, and seizing the stock, furniture, eta effects
itherein. The themages wereelaid at 5,0001.
The defendants put in the record a justification.
Mr. Flour opened the pleadings, and Mr. Sergeant
4GoeLta, addressed the Jury on the part of the plaiutiff.
fft was tteted by Crowley, who was examined on the
part of-the plaintiff. that he took the Queen's-Arms
Tavern, in June, 181*, and that so shortly afterwards
main the following December, he transferred his le-
terests in the premises and in the stock and furniture
ito his sister:in-law, the plaintiff; in consideration of
2000 t., which was paid in Bank notes, and the rest by
;bills, and took a house at Paddington, to which he re-
auoved. He stated the stock of wines and seirits at
glad time to be 11.001. and of ale and porter fin n 80
do 1001.
On his cross examination, which he underwent with
:Angular er.ontery, he stated that he came to Sr. James's
Str‘et, Goodman's-fields, where his wife k's a circy 11-
alng library ; that at that time he wa, • „-; afcrel
.elutut, buying anyteing and all 1 fiat hip r,
hotit•cs were in the satire haus° with tit. farcul J, •
Irary, liar which house he paid 91. a year. 'i hat (Ai
kaving Prescott Street he brought ..way with him fria,t
15001. to iSOOI , hiving paid his crediita 5... in the
pound. That he did not pay any •prentibm fur the
house in S.. James's Street, tell on entering into it
f4entracted debts to the wrintint of 20001., for which he
live bills which beer me u in the fieginning of ti •
following year. That he ..:ft St. James's Street, and
took the small house at Paddington, to carry on the
wine trade! He also acknowledge that he had for
been a milliner anti fancy dress-maker, at Leeds,
Where lie became a bankrupt, and had f. tierwards been
an auctioneer. The aceount he gave of the considera-
tion motley, said to be puitl him by the plaintiff, was
'lutist prevaricating and incredible.
The learned deltas: here said, that if the transfer
were nut banafide the plaintiff's. possession was a fel-
Ley.
Several other witnesses were called on the part of the
plaintiff, with an endeavour to show that the various
forms of the transfer were attended to. An attempt
was also made to set up the former commission, under
which t:rowlcy had not obtained his certificate, but the
prauf failing, the learned Judge told the Jury that the
farmer commission had fallen to the ground,
It came out from the plaitititi-s witnesses, in speak-
tag of the former enninisaion, that Crowley's brother
was the petitioning creditor, and sole assignee, he
claiming a debt of 1051. That he had poisessed himself
property 11.411):,.riwr to the bankrupt Ceowley to the
amount of 4001., ar.d that the crediters tv e that co
mammon had never received one penny, no cacti had tee
solicitor's bill been paid.
/dr. Sergeant VAUGHAN, in animated speech of two
Lours, addressed the Jury on the part of the defendants,
stating this to be ore of the most fraudulent cases that
ever came before any Court ; be commented with great
force and severity upon the evidence produced on the
part of the plaintiff, and particularly on that of Crow-
ley. He could not refrain from noticing, with sonic
humour, that instead of a fancy dre-o-tuaker, Crowley
should he culled a timer commission-maker, and said,
that he was a pedal Proteth, having been successive-
de a milliner and fancy ores.-maker, an auctioneer, a
1 b-arian, merchant, dealing in every thing and shy
thia a trivet fi-ke, per, arid a wine-merchant. After
thew: eg the fraud of the pretended transfer from
Lauwl.y to the plaintitl; or. Sergeant Vaughan told
the Jury, he wietld ;46N e them the hest evidence, for
he would lay lief:ire theca the evidence of the plaintiff
herself.

Up :n tl.is the proc,tedings under the pre cut conunir.
Sion xs:re prodJced, and the examinations ot the plain-
tiff. on or 4, beil.re the Commissioners, contained in
Viem, were read. We cannot detail the examinations,
ari ac..-o,int of their ;,eat length ; but we must say we
never heard sut.h a t....sue of prevarication and is jury!
We give a short exvact, as a specimen, where sue was
askeit as to the c,')" )1.

Whet:is did con ..,,tain the money which you said you
paid for the purchase procured it from friends.
Fronts whom—name then. ?—I did not prepare any.
self for that question.
From Thom did you receive it ?—I must obtain their
per ei•sipn Lefore I mention that names.
Did you. borrow it from any person ?—Yes, Sir, I
borrowed i ?

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Of whom t—l am sure 1 0 not know the gentle-

man's name.

Where does Le live ?—That ).not know.
On one of these examinati,a:, • . plaintiff was com-
mitted to Newgate for prevai
The plaintiff, is her exati;7r,,:• or, her cat!), states,
that in 1814, she kept iarcastic, :u w Lich

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