The National Register.
London, England, 1818-04-06 00:00:00

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Mr. Birnic addressed the prisoner, and said, " This
constable has brought y 0..: here ; I presume you know
the charges that are ag,airst you."
The prisoner denied that he did.

l'he magistrate inthruied him, he was ehargel with
being the murderer, or one of the manlerers, of Mr.
Bird- and his housekeeper, and with having robbed the
house, at Greenwich.

Prisoner.—" I know no more about it than you do,
your Worship ; 1 acted like a villain in nut making it
known when I had the things (meaning the things
which he said he found against a tree in Mr. Smith's
grounds at Creenwieh) which were stolen from Mr.
Bird's house.

V, hen Mr. Poulton, the conctable, was searcliing the
prisoner at I)eddington, he asked him for the riag
which the men who had been at his house had described
;as having the inscription on it—" To the memory of
six children." The prisoner admitted that he had such
a ring, but had thrown it flown the privy, at the tap of
the King's Arms Inn; at Dcildingtun, where, on exami-
nation, the ring was found, wrapped up in a niece of
rag, and which was now produced to t:v.e magistrate.—
.This is also supposed to be part of Mr. Bird's property.
A,pawnbruker's duplicate was found upon the pri.
soaer, by Vickery; 4i-r a ring, and was dated aLw t:ays
alter the 'murder and robbery.
The Magistrates told the prisoner it would be neces.
cart' fur Mm to account fur being possessed.ef the things
whic4 had been stois.n.

The prisoner, in reply, said that between fire anti
six o'clock on the Sunday, afternoon after the murders.
and robbery, he saw a man get over a wuli into Mr.
Smith's; grounds, at Greenwich, and run ; he follewed
him, and saw him put a bundle down age inst a large
tree and leave it there, and then run again ; curiosity
led hint to the spot, and be opened part of the bundle,
and saw two watches and the handle of, a silver soup-
ladle. left the bundle then as he found it. On
the Saturday afternoon following he went to the spot
again, and found the .bundle against the tree exactly
in the same state as when he left it. J-te denied that
the svastcoat which he sold to 111 r. Pyman was part of
Mr. Bird's property, allegiug, that he.bouglit it a few
miles beydnd Oxford. '1 he bundle, he said, did not
contain the pocket-hook found upon him, but its con-.
tents consisted, te believed, of three watches, a silver
soup ladle, a silver wine strainer, four sheets, six or
eight shirts, six rives, a quantity of old siver coins, two
21. Bank ofEngland rotes, three 11. not.2.s. The rings
were wrapped up in rags. There was to wearing ap-
parel in tho bundle, awl he did not recollect any thing
else that it contained. He put all the things which
were in the bundle-into his box, which was atLutton's
Greenwich ,academy. _ . .

/le said he had Pielgrd ore of the rings At a pawn.
broker's, in Tettenhmai Court-rnatl, opposite the South.
ampton Arms public
.house, for ss. in his own name.
He said he wore .1) tack since. the tine of .his lacing a
v:1116011. his motive fur absenting himself was, that •
. .

he vas ashamed to return ~back, after having such
things in his possession, meaning Mr: Bird's stolen pro-
perty, and not coming forward at the time to tell of it.
He removed his box, conttiliting the stolen prcperty.
front Lution's .Greenwieh academy, to the house of
Mrs. Goddard, No. 35, Hughes's-fields, Deptford. lie.
was asked, if he bud any ',biog.
sto say respecting the
charges. that were trade against him ; he replied, No,
he had nothing to say upon the subject. He was told,
witnesses would attend against him at the next exami.
nation, and it would be heard what they had to say
against him; he replied, " Very well, Sir "
Magistrate,—" You 3611 bo examined at a future
day."
Prisoner.—" Vcrx good, Sir."
Mr. ,Poaltun, the constable who apprehenled the tiri-
suuer,' then marked all the property which was titian('
upon the prisoner, and lie, was bound over to give 1.6,
denee •at the prisoner's trial, at the assizes fur the
county of Kent.
The p.isoper, during
~the whole of the examination,
betrayed no particular emotion. After hiv examina-
tion he was nutted struitgly, and conveyed to the
House. of Correction.

On Thursday, a. Ctb►uct Cvancil was held at the
Foreign ()ttice,. which- was attended by the Earl of
EurL of Westmorland, Earl Bathurst,
Vis-
count Castlereagh; Viscount Sid►nouth,,the Chancellor
of the hAcheiluer, Mr. Conning, Bathurst, and
Mr. E. Robinson. Friday another Cabinet Council wan
held at the sane place, which woo attended by all the
Cabinet. Ministers. 'l'i►e Council sat till past 5 o'clock,
after which Viscy nc Ca4let evil went to Curiton-house,
and had a long titalleace of the firs a Regent, to re-
port she result of thc.delibenitions ofthe t,ubi►;ct

Earl Ilitthurst. had- an au.lience• oCtIA Prirßurnt
xt Curiton-hou3c, previous to ilia of the
The ships destined for the Arctic Expedition dropt
down the river yesterday from Deptford.
The trial of L. tie Casseux ftr the outrageous assault
on Mr. Matthias, the Catholic Priest, is postponed till
next session.