The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-22 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, Friday, May 19•

BANK PROSECUTIONS.
The following 'trimmers were this morning brought
into Court, and severally pleaded Guilty to the
tumor offence of having forged 1/. notes in their pus.
session :
William Cooper, aged 25 ; George Thorpe, aged 24 ;
George Henley, aged 28 ; Joseph Lenney, aged 24.
They were informed by the Court that they would be
transported for fourteen years.
Samuel Benjamin Meredith, Robert Ireland, and
George Seymour, pleaded not Guilty.
The following were arraigned, and pleaded Nut
Guilty to the capital charge:—George Midfield, aged
25 : and Henry Brown, aged 28 ; for tittering five tot.
and five 51. notes ; James Gardener, for uttering thirty-
five I!. notes; Jane Harrison, for uttering seven 11.
notes ; and Peter Miller, for uttering two to!. and one
51. notes.
The prisoner who had pleaded Not Guilty were then
informed that their trials would commence to-morrow,
at ten o'clock.
EXTORTING MONEY BY A CHAOS OP AN UNNA-
TURAL OFFENCE.—WiIIiam Wilkinson, a wretched
looking man of colour, was indicted for an assault upon
Edward Hodder, on the King's highway, and stealing
from his person three half crowns, and two one-pound
Doles.
Mr. Bolland opened the case. He stated, that this
was a case of peculiar importance, and required their
utmost attention. The Learned Counsel proceeded to
detail the facts of the case as they were afterwards
proved in evidence.
Mr. Justice Bayley summed up, and the Jury found
the prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner upon hearing the verdict, exclaimed,
" I'm murdered."
Baron Garrow—Gentlemen, the observations just
made by the prisoner calls from me this remark. I have
attended to the course of the evidence, and I think
myself bound to say, that had your verdict been different,
an inroad, and a fatal inroad would have been made
upon the safety of society.
Mr. Justice Bayley also expressed his concurrence.
Benjamin Constable and Elizabeth, his wife, were
indicted, the former for stealing and the latter for felo-
niously receiving, a number of valuable pistols the
property of Mr. Riviere, the gun-maker, in Oxford-
Street.
The male prisoner was a workman to Mr. Riviere,
and it was proved that he had from time to time stolen a
number of pistols of the most valuable kind that the
shop contained, and his wife pledged ihein for trifling
sums at several pawnbrokers* shops. It came out in
course of evidence that the prisoner was in great distress,
in consequence of having a wife and children and a sick
father to support.
One of the pistols produced was stated to be worth 4L
365. at prime cost, and this was pledged at a pawnbro-
ker's for a few shillings.
Mr. Baron Garrow, in addressing the Jury, animad-
verted in very strong terms on the negligent (to say
no worse of it) conduct of the pawnbrokers in this
case. It was owing to the facility with which the tan.
happy couple at the bar, could raise a few paltry shil-
lings, by pledging articles worth as many pounds, that
they had been placed in such a situation, and Mr.
Riviere had been so great a sufferer in his property.—
His Lordship directed an acquittal of the wife on a
point of law.
The Jury found Benjamin Constable Guilty, Death
—and the Foreman begged permission to recommend
him to mercy, and to state the grounds on which they
did so, which were—first, the circomstance of this be-
ing his first offence, and the good character he had
borne—and, secondly, that they conceived his guilt
was in a very material degree owing to the readiness
with which he could raise money upon she articles at
some pawnbrokers.
Baron Garrovr.—" I hope this opinion of yours,
Gentlemen, entitled as it is to the highest consideration
and respect, will obtain a very wide circulation. I
shall direct that toe pawnbrokers do not receive one
shilling of their expences, and I hope that in future
they will attend to the interests of the public, as well as
to their own."
His Lordship then desired Mr. Clark, not to give the
pawnbrokers one single
In the course of the day Mr. Baron Garrow took occa-
sion to remark, that the public business in this Court, as
well as at the Assizes, were much retarded, and the
Judges put to much inconvenience, in consequence of
the neglectof Magistrates' Clerks to furnish the deposi-
tions taken at the Police Offices. He now requested Mr.
Clark, the Deputy Clerk of the Airaigns, to make wit a
list of all the prisoners in whose cases die depositions
had not been furnialied this Sessions, with the particular
office from which each was committed, and transmit
the same to Lord Sidmouth, in order that measures
might be adopted to put an end to so alarming ant evil.

The servant of Capt. Davis, who, as our readers
may recollect, enabled his master to escape from
Giltspur.street Compter, was tried on Monday at the
London Sessions, and sentenced to six months imp
prisonment. We understand the Jury were ex-
tremely reluctant to find a verdict against him, bet
without violating their oaths, they could not acquit
him.
Last wed: a servant at Mr. Dunn's, Firling, Holder-
ness, being about to light the fires, and having no
matches, got Nit.. Dunn's powder flask, and after strik
Mg some sparks of fire among the tinder, scattered a
small quantity of gunpowder upon it. This immedi-
ately taking tire, coinintinicaird with that in the flask,
which exploding, carried away all the glass in two
windows, and left the thumb of the young woman's
hand, in which she held the powder flask, hanging by
a piece of skin.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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EPSOM RACES.
wtrurcava2—FlitllT DAY.
These Races eoinnienced on Wednesday. but as usual, on this
first day, the ground was attended by those psesons only inter,
ested, and there was no betting excepting upon the Derby, .as
follows t-
-13 to 8 against Pindarrie
4to 1 Kill Devil filly
3 to 1 Sailor
It to 1 Brother to Blucher.
12 to 1 Duke
13 to 1 Abjer
20 to 1 any other.
The Craven Stakes for all ages was won by Mt: Mill's Moe-
tuner.
The Gold Cup, value 100 guineas, Subscribers of to guineas
each, with 20 guineas added Irons the Racing fund. The winner
to be sold, it demanded, for 430 guineas.
Mr. Walker's bl. I. Gem., beat Sir. Stevens's Charming Molly.
Five other. started. but two only were placed.
The Wooticet Stakes of 30gs. each. tor two yr. old colts, Bst.
61b. and fillies, ttst. 31b. was won cleverly. by Mr. Rush's, b. c.
by Hadley.
The Sweepstakes of lOgs. each was won easily, by Mr. Walker's
Shoe-horn.
Although but few persona were ass the grow& the road was
much thronged by persons going down to be present at the Rams
to-morrow.
THUBSDAY--LECOND DAY.
Such a Derby Race-day was never witnessed by the oldest
frequenters of the turf. 'The rainy morning kept more than halt'
from there, who enjoy this fine race as a holitle), and instead of
the first display in the world of equipage. beauty, and fashion,
the ladies were kept in their close carriages, expecting to be
blown over by the stormy. element; and as to the booths, many
were unroofed on the preceding n;ght, and those left shared the
sense fate this day, and sign-posts and canvas were flying in all
directions when the horses started.
The Derby Stakes of 50 guineas each, for three year old colts, to
carry Bst. 71b. and fillies est. 21b. (a 4 Subscribers) half forfeit.
The owner of the second horse to receive 100 guineas out of
the stakes.
Mr. Therhill's ch. c. Sailor. by Scud, dun Gosseander, beat Mr.
Udney's br. c. Abier, and Lord G. A. Cavendish 's c. by Middle.
theme, out of Cat.
Three only were placed. It is necessary to place two, but the
race was won in a canter by more than two tengtheSam.Chifiney,
rider.)—Antigallicen and Arbutus bolted sit *fottenham corner,
towards London, irons the storm, as mane say. Arbutus being
on the near side of Antigallican, and close at bins. drove that
horse out, anal Pindarrie swerved there, and got out of his place.
The Kill Devil filly and Pindarrie were fourth and fifth, and the
owners were a lung distance behind. It was a fast run race.—
Betting three to one against the Kill-Devil filly-12 WOW against
Abjer-16 to one against Arbutus—and 20 W one against any
other-15 started.
A great number now left the Course from the inclemency of
the weedier, without waiting for the other two races.
Sweepstakes of logs. each. with tugs. added from the Racing
Fund, for all ages.
Mr. Forth's Admiral, 4 yrs. old, Tat. 41b., beat Mr. Dilly's
Shee.hom, * years old, vat. 4lb" and Mr. Hobson's Fitzcloddy.
The last Race was a Sweepstakes of lugs. each for all ages.
Mr. Dilly's Shoe-horn, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 21b., beat Mr. Batson's
colt by Walton-out of Camelia, s yrs-old, est. Six started, but
two only were placed.
These last llama were interesting to the patties only, as they
were run in.rhe storm, and thew was no betuug.

EXECUTION.—On Wednesday the gth instant, T.
Collery, convicted at last Sligo Assizes, of ailionism,
burglary, and rubbery of fire-asms suffered the awful
sentence of the law in the front Of the prison there.—
There was a vast assemblage of persons, among whom
the strictest order prevailed. For some time previous to
his execution the culprit evinced the utmost contrition,
and attained a frame of mind which befitted his situ-
ation. Having ascended the platform, he addressed the
multitude—confessed his having deprived persons of
fire-arms, and thanked Providence that it arrested him
in his wicked career. He exhorted the spectators, as
they regarded the approbation of God, and the peace
and tranquillity of their fellow-creatures, to desist from
evil courses which brought him to his disgraceful end,
and which must, if persisted in, inevitably Involve diem
in a similar fate.
A beautiful fast sailing, French lugger, called.Le Lan-
cies- was brought into Portsmouth out Thursday last by
the'liper, tender to the Rum/Misr, on suspciion of basing
landed a cargo of smuggled goods on the coast of Sussex,
but them not being sufficient proof of the fact, she was
liberated. An illegally constructed galley, .10 feet in
length, and calculated to pull 12 stars on a side, which
the vessel bud with her, was seized and sent to the
custom-house.
Another attempt to. set Fire to Ilerci;rd College.—On
Friday List (the 12th inst.) another attempt was made
to set fire to tile College, in this city. About II o'clock
at night, a lighted candle was discovered in an unin-
habited room adjoining to the apartments occupied by
Rev. Henry Pearce, placed in an aperture between the
laths of an old partition. A small part of one of we
laths was burnt, but no material injury was done to the
building. A minute itsvestigatioa of this mysterious
business has taken place before Colonel Matmews,
auu
some circumstances of suspicion having attached titem-
selves to R. Carpenter, a youth of 16 years of age, oue
of tile Choristers of the Cathedral, he has beets co is
mined to prison till our next Assizes, to take his trial
for the offence of having set lire to the building.
Some labourers who were lately employed by Mr.
Neatne, its trellCbing the land adjolllll% tile 1)011 John
Field, in Canterbury, Cattle in contact with a steamed
grave containing the pectect skeleton of a man, woo,
from the teeth which remained sit the jaws, appeared to
have been of great age. The grave was steamed
in
chalk, and from the composition ut the mortar with
which it was worked, as well as limn Will(' old found-1.-
11011 S near it, is conjectured to have een wuliiit the
site of the Church of St. John, which it us said formerly
stood thereabouts. From the appearance of the grave,
it is supposed to have remained undisturbed many cen-
turies.
Mr. Dytnoke, the King's hereditary champion at
the coronation, died a few days ago at his seat in
Lincolnshire. The office of the King's champion
was enjoyed by him as Lord of the Manor of
Scrivelsby, in that county. His motto was pro
res.( dinuco•

107

On Wednesday last, the tOth of May instant, the
Commissioners of Appeals gave their final decision in
the case of Roger Coleman against Joseph Quelch,
' grocer, of Diibitis. The nature of the appeal was one
of peculiar singularity, and this singularity created
much interest. On Saturday the 24th day of October,
1818, certain officers of Its I.ljesty's Revenue entered
Mr. Quelch's house, and seize,' 011 C chest of tea as spu-
rious tea. A trial took place boom the Cominissione a
of Customs, which continued for several days, when
they, after heating evidence on both sides, pronounced
judgment that the tea was genuine as imported into
this country from the India House. Against this judg-
' mein the seizing officers appealed, and during the pre-
, seat and two last Terms, the Commiissioners of Appeals
were occupied, day after day, 10 hearing the arguments
of Counsel. The UO.OIIIOOOS PIdt4MCIIL of the Court
wits tins day pronounced, COlOll Ming the judgment of
rue Court below, and estaulislitng that the tea was. ge-
nuine, and fairly imported lions the sales at the India
l'huse, and ordering the tea to be restored to Mr.
Quelcii. NVe forbear to make any remark upon. the
injstry that Mr. Q,tielch must have suffered in property,
feelings, and character, from this business, as we•Ull.
derstand their is an action pending.
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A most daring burglary was committed on Wed• •
nesday night last, about eleven o'clock, at the house
of Mr. Thomas Homewood, a licensed victualler, .
sign of the Hope Tavern, Pollard's•rmv, Bethnal-
green. The villains watched the opportunity of
Mr. H. being busily engaged in the bar, serving his
customers, and placing a ladder against the. bed-
room window, entered. Mrs. Homewood howl*
occasion to go up stairs to the room, could not open
the door, and called Mr. H. to burst it open, when,
to their great surprise, they found every closet and
drawer ransacked of their contents. It is supposed
the villains were in the room when Mrs. H. endea-
voured to open the door. The thieves succeeded in
escaping the same way they entered, taking with
them cash, plate, and other articles, amounting to
1501,

At Boston great sheep fair on the 4th instant,.
the show was very large (estimated at 50,000.
sheep). They went off slowly at first, but ulti-
mately the chief part were sold, and brought as
good prices us at Lincoln fair. The show of beasts
on Friday was large; fresh beasts sold well, and..
stores obtained fair prices.
We understand a Committee has. been appointed
at Westminster Abbey, fur the purpose of arranging
the business relative to the intended coronation, and
installation of the Order *Nile. Bath.

Arthur Young, Esq., the venerable Secretary to
Board of Agriculture, whose death took place at his residence
in Sackville Street, London, on the 12th ult. in the 79th year of
his age, had the misfortune to be blind for the last to years of his
ife, and his death was accelerated by one of the must painful
disorders incident to the human frame—the stone; but the coin-
fort he derived from a firm reliance in the Christian Religion.
enabled him to bear the most ucate snaring* with pious resig-
nation and patience. His. remains were interred in the church-
yard of Bradfield. near Bury. St. Edmund's, where a small
property has been in the possession of the family above 200 years.
rho funeral was attended by a large :isemblage of poor lout the
surrounding country. all anxious to testify their &MOW for the
loss of so benevolent a benetattor; hit kindnesses must be long
regretted both by
The young who labour, andthe old who rest;"
as few men. with so limited as income. confernal greater benefits
in their neighbourhood.—Nlr. Young is well known to the public
as a voluminous writer on Agriculture and Political Economy.
One of his earliest,works, and which first culled the attention of
the country gentlemen of England to the value of their lauded .
property, was published about 50 years ago, entitled "A Farming
Four through the East. South, and North of England, in 9 vuls.
Sr.." and it is believed that most of the modern improvements
in agriculture originated front this work. liis account of Ireland.
drawn up after a most minute survey made in the year 1776, is
allowed, even by those most inimical to h;.; writings, to contain a
fund of intelligence rarely found in any single book; and it is no
slight proof of its merit that Miss Edgeworth remarks, that "it
was the first faithful portrait of its inhabitants." The " Annals
of Agriculture" were commenced in 1784. and he continued to
conduct it, as Editor, till the period of his blindness. inserting
from time to time his own ingenious and interesting cape-
riinents ; for the information coot:Usti:id in this work he re-
ceived the late King's approbation, and personal thanks, on
the Terrace at Windsor; and his Majesty afterwards sent
sonic accounts of the late Mir. Ducket's farm at Ether, which
were inserted under the signature of Ralph Robinson. and
have been copied into, all the published Memoirs of Gorge
111. In 1790. his " Travel* in France" appeared. the result
of three journeys performed through every province of that
kingdom, in 1787. nn. and 159; it was translatett into the
French. language, and gave the inhabitants a higher idea of the
value of their own roil and climate, than they before possessed.—
Nearly front this period Mr Y. became Secretary to the Board of
Agriculture 1,1793) and his time war chiefly devoted to the objectt,
of that Institution, though he occasionally vented seine politiesil
pamphlets, applicable to the disturbed and distressed state of the
nation ; amongst the most conspicuous was " The E.t:ample
France. a Warning to Britain." He also drew up tie: Agricul-
tural Reports for the counties of Lincoln, Noefollt. Suffolk.
F.,sex. I liwtford. and Oxford. Of the last pamphlet which
lie wrote. *. On the Depreciation. of Money, &r. the
" Etlinburgh.Review.7 lately printed says—" We are indebted
to the researches of Ma. Young, far much valuable intinniation
respecting the tate of wages at different periods." Mr. 1' sang
Into been a Fellow of the Royal Society nearly 5U years. and lus
name will be found inserted to the list of most of the Agricultural
Societies of the United Kindom ; anti it. tuanyof the Academical
anti Economical Institutiongs on the Continent. of Europe, asid
also in America. The striking features in this gentleman s per-
sonal qualities were an ardent industry. indefatigable per.eve-
ranee, and a lively imagination. His manners and address a ere
peculiarly pleasing ; his conversation highly animated awl
instructive; his countenance strongly marked his decision of
character, and the strength of his undxstamling.
After the near tragedy of Virginias had pawed
the ordeal of the Lord Chamberlain's office, the
manuscript was demanded for inspection in a high
quarter, and returned with snue pencil erasures.

WII IT -MON rAv —Holliday at all the Public Offices. "el

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY "22.
27u•cc o'Clock, p.

We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday
last.. The King it still confined to his apartments,
but transacts business daily wi:h his Ministers.
The •Gazdie de France repeats the idle rumour that
her Majesty the Queen of England is arrived in
Paris. M. Bastard d'Estang concluded his Report
in the case of Louvel, the assassin, on Wednesday,
in the Chamber of Peers. it was expected that
the interrogatories would be finished the day fol-
lowing. It appears that Louvel acted ent►rely from
himself without any accomplice. He made a soli-
.tary visit to Elba when Buonaparte was in that
Island, and conceived at Cherbourg the horrid
intention of assassinating the King. The Moniteur
. officially announces that the Duchess of Berri is in
• 'the fifth month of her pregnancy, and enjoys good
health.—The Paris Journals are almost wholly filled
with the debates on the P4et of the Election Law,
• which meets with much opposition, though consi-
derably modified since its first introduction. M. de
Rolland spoke in favour of the proposed alterations.
" You fear"' said he, " to introduce the Aristocracy
in the Chamber of Deputies, and you refer to Eng-
land. You forget the English Constitution is
is maintained rather by the Aristocracy of the House
of Commons than of the House of Lords. The
House of Commons is chiefly composed of the sons
. and nephews of the Nobility, and it is against this
• state of things •that the designs of the Radicals are
directed." After some further remarks, the orator
voted for the Projel, because the present law is
both anti-monarchical and anti-social. M. Dumefylet