The National Register.
London, England, 1818-04-12 00:00:00

THE ROYM, MARRIAGE.

On Thursday a- special Court of Common Council, which
was very thinly attended, and at which there was but two
Aldermen besides the Lord Mayor, was held for the purpose
of considering the propriety of addressing the Prince Re-
gent, the Queen, the Princess Elizabeth, and the Hereditary
Prince of Hesse Romberg, upon the marriage of the two last.
The Lord Mayor having stated the object, there was a
parse, as if for the purpose of fixing upon a mover. Alderman
Bridges rose•and said, he had no doubt the questions he had
to propose would meet with the unanimous approbation and
adoption of the Court. After a fvii words expressive of the
high estimation in which the Princess Elizabeth and her con-
sort were universally held, he concluded with inuring ad-
dresses in the order above mentioned.

Mr. Savage seconduct the motion, which were unanimously
agreed to.
['Pon the motion for the committee to prepare the second
add resg, _ _ _

Mr. Minn said, he could not help noticing, in the most
public manner, the thin attendance of Aldermen. A negleA
of such a description, upon such all occasion, was extremely
emitlentuable, and the Court were bound to prevent, if possi-
ble, a system of conduct which was certainly disrespectful,
and which, he ss as sorry to say, was not limited to one branch
of their duties.

Mr. Griffiths felt very much hart at the peculiarly thin
Court, aim agreed in all that had been said about the absent
Aldermen. Ire-declared that he should complain to the pub -
lic of them, whenever he saw such culpable instances of
neglect.
Mr. Oldham said, he should submit a motion to the Court,
upon an early day, upon the subject of the attendance, or
rather the non-attendance, of the Aldermen to their duties.
It was to him a matter of doubt, whether the Court had the
power of compelling them, to do those duties. The question
should, however, be decided at once, that in the event of
their independence upon the Court, Parliament might be
applied to. Perhaps a line for absence, would have the effect
of sharpening people's memories.
Mr. Waithman thought the Court was rather in an odd sit n-
ation. A ithough die Aldermen were generally inattentive to
the performance of their duties, the present was as occasion
upon which they might, perhaps, find an adequate excuse,
Tilton the ground of the shortness of the notice. It was nut,
in his epinion, fair to force a eissestion upon the Court without
due notice, and he wished to know how the members were
now called together. That no preparation hail been made
was evident front the canvass that had just taken place for a
mover and seconder, and the testimony given, that men came
forward in the +lark, to move that upon which they had never
bestowed a serious thought.
It was generally agreed that the question should not ha
ajourned.
'lle conversation ended here, sod the Committee was ap_
poitace in the usual way, after which the Court adjourned.

Ex•rn Annum lltY Fgar.--Baron Osten, of the Itith Lan.
eon, performed the following feat of activity, last week, at
Marino, the seat of Lord Charlemont, in Ireland. One Inn-
deed •tone. were placed ut a yard distance from each other,
and the Barou was to ride his horse to each stone, dismount
and pick IL np, ride to a hasket,placed at one extremity_ again
dismount and drop it ins thus mounting and dismounting
.:00 times. An honr was the given time for the task to lw
performed in, bin lie performed it with apparent ease in 4.5
minutes. The Earl and COl/11it'SS of Talbot were present,
and, at the conclusion, her Excellency crowned the Boron
with *chaplet of evergreens. He wore a yellow silk jacket,
and a lilac coloured cap, light pantaloons, and only one boot
and one spur. In the course of his arduous undertaking, he
disnionnted once, and scratched his eat wills the toot en
which he worc only a shoo.

GREENWICH Mt' L°1:1:5.

115

FINAL EXAMINATION AND CONIMITMTNT OF
HUSsEV, AT GREENWICH.

Thursday morning, at an early hour, a vast number of per-
sons had collected round ol:e House of Correction, Cold Batts
Fields, from motives of curiosity, to see the reputed murderer,
Hussey. About a quarter before nine o'clock a glass-coach
drove out, in which was the prisoner heavily ironed, guarded
by three pence-officers with him in the COM', and three or
four constables on each side. They set oil for Greenwich,
where his examination was to take place. The prisoner did
not appear to feel the least emotion : there was an air of brio
tal carelessness about him. Two of the constables gut behind
the coach and one on the box with the coachman, and the
coach drove on at a quick pace in order to get clear of the
crowd. On their arrival at Greenwich, the coach drove up,
amidst several thousands of spectators assembled on the oe-
casiod, to the door of the national school, near thu chimeh,
which was fitted up with a bar, Ac. for the examination.•
When the prisoner was conducted out of the coach, he saw
his brother, whom he shook by the hand and spoke to con•
cernins, a debt of is. He was then takenfin and placed at the
bar, and the examination proceeded before the follow iug
ma-
gistrates:—Colonel Foreman, Mr. Smyth, Mr. Davis, Mr.
Watson, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Parcel; Mr. Bicknet the
solicitor, and several other gentlemen were present. The
prisoner's box was produced, in which were 5 shirts, 3 watches,
a silver punch-ladle, and other articles already mentioned in
a former report, and likewise the: ring and other things found
on the prisoner when apprehended. The whole of the pro-
perty produced was identified by Mr. George Bird, and Mrs.
Bell, washerwoman to Mr. Bird deceased

flee only material circumstance in the examination we here
subjoin ; the rest was what has already appeared.
Mr. Ousten, the landlord of the Tiger's Head, stated that
Hussey and Hazeldon were at his house on Saturday, the day
preceding the murder
,abort 3 o'clock in the afternootidie did
not see either of them after, until half past 10 o'clock, when
he saw Hussey in the Lodge•rooin. What became of Hassey
from 3 o'clock until 10 he could not say. Hussey slept at his
house on the Saturday night the murders were committed, and
left as soon as lie had breakfasted in the morning.
Magistrate.—" Were not Hussey and Hateldon in custody
of the constables (Larkin and Hodges) at your house, a few.
days after the murder was discovered " Yes, they were ;
and the constables examined them, and discharged them
without taking them before a magistrate."
Magistrate.—" Did you not them say that both Hussey and
Hazetdon were at your house all the night of Saturday, on
which the murders were supposed to have been committed :"
—" I cant positively any the precise words I told the offi-
cers ; hut if I did say so, it was tinder a mistake.
Larkin and Hodges declared that the witness did most
positively say to them that Hussey and Hazeldon were in his
house allthe evening and night of the Saturday when the
murders were committed.

The Magistrate severely reprimanded the constables for
not bringing the prisoners beforethein, it:stead of taking upon
themselves the ()thee of Magistrates, to examine and dis-
charge prisoners ; and the witness, Mr. Ottsten, was censur-
ed very much for leading the odicere into an error, by spear,-
ing a falsehood.

Mr. Ousten said he was sorry, but it was finite an errua
what he said.

The evidence. of Mrs. Glodwin, of Peckham, Hut,sey's bro-
ther's wife (which we have already givcu,) was next read ; the
only additional part of it worth notice is, that she said Nat
Hussey and Hazeidon had hew) together at her house, and
that she found the watches belonging to nr. Bird in Hussey
hoz.

Mr. G. M. Bird was next examined. He seemed mach
affected at the sight of the blood•stained property. /le iden-
tified the watches, the silver ladle, and all the other properfy)
except the bank notes.
The evidence of Mr. Litton, of the Greenwich academy,
was then read; the chief part has already appeared ; the only
part worth mention is, that Hussey and fluzelden frequently
came together, after the murder, to his house, and (leaned
themselves, their shoes, fyc. and often ate and drank togc.
titer in his house ; indeed, he believed they were nearly a:-
ways together, and had hceu companions for a conaiderabte
time.

Mrs. Linton stated, that the box of the prisoner was on the
same floor as that they had usually gat In, and they alwa-s
passed through it every night and morning as they went Mid
returned from the sleeping room; the box was never locked
during the time it was in her house, but the lid was tied clown
with a eon! ; her husband carriml the box from his house to
Mrs. Goddard's, of Hughes'-fields ; it Wit, not locked at that
time, but packedinp with a piece of cord.
Mia. Goddard stated, that the box was not locked when .t
was at her house, but only fastened together with a cord.
Hussey made a similar defence to what he did when he
was first examined at Bow-street, with the addition that, en
the Saturday night of the miirder, he was at a free and easy
club. The man whom he described as having seen renning
with the bundle containing the stolen property', wore a brown
jacket and white trowsers. He said that, atter the man had
put the bootie, emstainine the stolen property, down against
the tree and left it, he, airier slightly examining it, covered it
over with a mat and some rislabish,and this lie accounted for
its not being discovered, after leaving it macre for screa
days.
l'he spotted shawl in which tic stolen property was tied ap
was prodneed ; it was stained with blood.
After the examination hail closed, it was with great diffi-
culty Hussey could lie peservcil from the rage of the poen-
lace ;. he was obliged to be conveyed through a private way
in the chinch yard, when he w.ss pot into a coach, and pro.
ciseil,,d, in the custody of Adkini and Vickery, to .710idsiciae
gaol, to he confined there till his t i.

The 1011,1 wing is an extract of a letter...ftsur.ninScitena. Hellenl22:6

66 nunnapal regitnet, altnno confmmils our calcTu of t..te
materials of w:ikii hr is composed, so opposed does he appear to be to
his thriller habits of life. lie has not paswil the thrediold of :de house
these tent months . confluence tt, his legs are Ovori,n, its svir-
',Wahl fast Mayas—, he can t help complaining of hariug a roost
painful pilpitation at the heart, and hi, c•.iviteitanee iti extremely
pallid. Ills sullen austere manner shuts out all descriptions of pr r-
ola; he refused to see the Admiral (I'latripin) a day or two
General Morscholon (whose wife has lately been delivered of a boy),
we are told, lately Milted to his itoyerial master, that he had halt:des
mind to go to Eurore; Cien Buonaparte repligil,‘ Yeti have always
hitherto proved yourself devoted to me; wait t.vclve months longer.
and then you will return with honour. for I shall he that time be i;,)
longer a trouble to-in, one.' Certaiu. it 15, than his health is become
in a lieu pits:awns state."