The National Register.
London, England, 1815-10-22 00:00:00

ME NATIONAL REGISTER.

having only a few friend,. His practice has been for some tinn•
ping 16 mile, out to work is the morning, and returning home the
St Me evening.

Ms last week's task was as follows :

Monday lie completed I •St miles.
Tne•day Do. . . 46
WedneAday Do. st
Thursday Do. (constant wtt) • • •54)
nicht), Do. to

Yeah rilay morning he Tete at half past time o'clock, and com-
menced his sixth day's task at five, and was in high spirits, and
completed 13 miles and a half at nine, and then retired to his
tent, where he breakfasted nn coffee and Oa!, and aoin started in
half an bow ; and at 11 o'clock be had completed tt2 miles; and was
expected to finish his day's performance bet‘%ren nine and ten
p'clock last night—making then in the whole 198 miles. tie is al-
lowed to walk this day without hindrance.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, Sic.

IMPORTANT CUSTOM-110MR SITIZURE.—On Saturday evening,
an information. tinder the Excise Laws. the 55th of the King, ch.
93, came nit for discussion before the Surrey Magistretes, relative
to the arieure of one of the Brieltton coaches and four horses, whilst
coming to town on the 14th of July last, in consequence of its hay.
ing a parcel therein, containing contraband coods.—lt appeared
from the evidence of Oliver Boys, an Excise Officer, that in cows
(pence of some intelligence he had gained., he went down to Reigate
401 the 14th of July last to meet one of Messrs. Cross, Morris, and
Newman's Brighton coaches in its way to to(yn ; when the coach
came up, he obtained a seat on the outside the coach, and arrived at
Croydon without his making any discovery ; but between Ceoysinu-and
Streatham, the Croydon coach poised, and the wi t nese °bier-mad .a mans
rtained-Joice on the roof, between whotwand Mr..Newman.who drove
the Brighton coach, a sign passed. When the coach arrived at the
'White Hart, Streatham, Mr. Newman got (loam, bud was taking a
small trus► tint of the boot, and proceedinginto the house milk it.
this was -the article alluded to in the witness's information ; he'
jumped down, seized the truss, and asked Mr. Newman if he knew
*hat it eoi.tained. At first he hesitated, and then said he did not. •
The witness told him he was a Condom lionsePfficer, and would
a'iew him. He aceordiugly cut.sspen one. end, and discovered some
Pandasia handkerchiefs. He immediately put the mark on
Ilse truss, and ordered Newman to pia it into tin bootregain; at
the sane time sayiag he- should. Om aciae ; the coach and borseP.;
When they arrive d at the,, Elephant ised Castlejloys ordered the,'
coach to go to the King,s Arms -in the Borough. At the varuest,
solicitation of Mr. Newman, however, he at 'length .
it to go to its usual ian, the Golden Cross, where,• before tho . wits:
peas would stiffer the horses to be taken -off, Mr. Morris ate!
-.Mr. Newman signed an. undertaking, for self and partner., to
produce the coach and herpes when, called for, under a • for-
teitnre of 2001. The pack, contenting forty-six pieces of Bandanas,
was taken to the Custom house.—:A person named Edward Joice,
stated that he knew Mr. Western or Brighton; he was there on the
;30th of May last, when Mr. Western introduced !Jr. Newman,.
saying, " This is my confidential man, by whom I send goods to
town." Some conversation. passed at .this time respecting a box
which was to be sent on the following Friday. Joke expected the
guess which came on the lath of July ; he passed the. Brighton coach
ON that day, and noticed Newman, as stated by the officer; but he
did not know that Newman's notice of him had any allusion to the
truss in the coach; he heard that night the goods had been melee('
next morning lie saw Newman at the Elephant and Castle, who
merely said some person bad fallen in love with the truss, but that
be might learn all the particulars at the office. He did not soya
word olliaving been imposed upon, or that the coach and horses had
been seized.—Mr. Alley, as Comtel for the defendants, contended--
}irst, thatthere were objections fatal to the information; second,
that before Cross and Morris could be considered at liable, their
privity must be proved ; and third, that Newman was no partner:
'tit:liber of these objections were held by the Magistrates as valid. ,
refute the last Objection, Newman 114 d signed the undertaking
to produce the coach and horses as a partner; and in answer to 1141
assertion that he had no knowledge of what the truss contajtied;
*hat also was (kerne.' inadmissible. In-this the' Magistrates *grim!,
and declared the coach and horses, valued at 2N31., to-be forfeited. ,
4 hatablelaUn and distressing - accident hapP(ll4.olo fisc GAI of

OCTG 22

October, at Moll, one of the Wallas at'Scoll•intl. The packet-
boat between 111n11 awl Cnll, having on board twenly•otse awn and
one %num), ovcr.rt in A Itivii wind and all on board perished.
Timm was a fair at Coll, to which the passenger. were going.

On Tuesday morning last. T. poolv, E'q of Hedshreve. puller-
took, for a wager of fifty guinea!, to ride down the steepest part of
the Devil's Dyke, near tirielstort, on horseback, a descent at least
of three hundred yards, awl, in many places. almost vertical I—Mr.
Poole is not only one of the most darieig. hut Otte of the hest ciders
in the county, and the frightful task alinveosamrki he ntrtortned
Tnetlay, with the greate+t ease, iu restore of a field of ,e.srly
100 sportsmen ! In the descent lie was allowed I. diverge ten yards
only to the right or left of the starting pains, but all nearly stra:elst
was his progress, that he did not deviate more thee three C•t:t at
most from the line. He rode an aged snare of hi. owls, ullo rapidly
executed her task, galloping wi th her fore feet, :mil most: ',er
hpcks, no less to the astonishment than admiration of all sive-i •

At a farmer's house, near Guildford, the followiny ie-
eumstance took place :—A little boy haying met with e t of
young rabbits which were yet blind, hro9glit them hem. .tiiA
fatherAnowing they could not be long kept alive, detetnv. . ,ton
giving them as a dainty meal to the cat, concluling p!ja tyke
them for young rats; aecor4ingly one Wil% thrOW I) to tie r phC
instantly took in her mouth and carried out of sight; 7: {bile
after she returned, mewing, and licking her chops feu ••iht•r,
which was given to her, and this 40e treated in a simian
It was taken for ge•nted that she had derntired them ; lot • t: • time,
after, to the great surprise of the fernier, it was di.covored
stead of that being the cake. she had given them slick. an•l treated
them as kittens. They had grown tonsiderably, and had gviticd
their sight, sold seemed woite reconciled to their yew in,otlier.

Rochester is now become the scene of perlestriast amusement. A
man of the name of Toffy has undertaken for a consider.il►le %%Reef
to perform the arduous task that Wilson rya. tutted in Permis•loq
having beets given by the worthy Mayer, P. Plow, q fie started
op Monday morning, at a (paltry past five o'clock. mill completed
twelve miles and a half before breakfast ; he then pnr•ned Ili. task,
and completed 26 miles and a half before diner, and finally hi!. 3►lth
mile at a quarter past eight o'clock, without the least inconvenience
or apparent fatigue. An immense number of spectators was col.
lected the whole of the day at Deice Farm, Idiom a quarter of a mile
from Rochester, the spot of his performance. Many bets have been
laid, which on the average are in his favour.

A labonring man fell from the work* at Vattrfleall Brides., on 4a-
torday, into the river, and the body leas not yet been)fonnd. A
•Atrauge idea WAS am:grated by a pltilosapher, on -41011(11
that if some cannon were-fired. the body would rise, andithis ridicu-
lous notion wa,s carried into effeet•from Cumberland Coredens !

..Saturday evening la*t,a fire .broke out at Ifowig;ilc fartu,,ba-
longing to :William Citrre, Esq. of Itton, near-Clirmtow. About
midnight, one of the isnildising, in which ercvted 4 itowcrtill
•theashi.ng machine, and the straw4tonse adjoining thereto, were
discovered to be in flames • .and a poor man. who sit:o.o)4lle latter
bnilding unhappily perished'. A building, about ball amide di-trot,
.that- contained another thilashing inaohine, was.also.set omfire and
,consumed. AZr. Curre having introdnoeil a variety of machinery
for the improvement of agriculture, is supposed to have occasioned
the %Illations act.

FRACD.-011 Thursday last, yoneg.tuau of. genteel
appearance, went to the home of Mr. James, a eurgeou of ;he New
Road, and requested that gentleman would go, as quick. as posri•
We, to Mr. Roberts, Warren-street. Fitzroy-square. Mr., fa pro-
.ceeded without delay to the appointed place—but, to hi. Plltplise,
found there was no such person wanting as a surgeon,--On his re-
• torn home, in half an hour, he found that as 80911 as he had pone
out. the se►ne young man who had called for him carne beck, and
called for Mr. James's ease of instruments. They were ►rtttnediete-
ly given to him ; and by this fraud be sucgeededipobtaiulug proper-
ty to the value of 1.51.

An elopement lately from the neighbourhood of
Twickenham, is at present the topic of coniersation.
Thc. youpg lagy is an only child, _aild.her paramour a
413 4 colour.

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Gi
SroAstse.—. amuel Turner, ..1 confinement yorni
linie,'cliarged with maliciously sta. llow servant, who ha;
been In the hospital ever since, but is now out of danger, attended be.;
fore Alderman Atkins, on Wednesday; and rave the following evi,
dence against the prisoner He said that they were both servants to
Mr. Ltnyd, &tobacconist, ion Snow ; that he had some word;
with the prisoner a few days beilgrq this rash act; took place, but lie
thought it was all forgot ; when hr was in the act nt stooping to drive in
a nail, the prisoner scabbed fiim in the rightside without saying a word:
The ,Conziable produced . the krilte..wtitch was a short
.voluted one;
end said that • the prisoner, when taken up, did net deny the crime,
but said it served him tight. The prisoner said nothing in •his de-
tepee, and was full) committed to take his trial upon Lord Ellettbo-
r.Alat's Act, for cutting and maiming with.an evil intent.
:cliornas. Ratlitott, a hackney coachnun, was examined, cm Monday,
charges! with being concernes, with others. in. stealing a corpse from
the private buo.irig-ground of the Parish of St,. Andrew's, ,Holborn.
The prisoner was seen, by some Police Officers, Waiting in shoe-lane
with his coach at two in tfie morning, when two Men taut a long
basketin, and ran otE. Upon stopping.. the. coach .and. f:xatadrling the
basket, the officers totind,it tatintatnea the dead Lindy of a woman wh6
had beenburied the night before in S. Andrer'shurying-ground.
The prisoner denied having an' knowledge of the gentleman who hired
him, and did not know what was in the basket, but was to driire to
Black friars-road. The Officers of the parish declared their determi.
na ion to prosecute the prisoner, and he was accordingly committed
for trial.
• UNION-NALL.
Art EXTRAORSINART CAsa...--Maria Warman, &twit interesting
and beautiful young worn in ° was brought before Mr. Serg, Selina,
charged lox two. men, pait4l.l,i4t and B.ollc, with. behaving in
riotous manner .at the. how af A Aersokinatned Leach, in Melnik
:Platte, Stirrey.litoad ; and also with. pawni, g several ar-
fiches, the. property of Major Yorges, who lodged in I.eache's house.
Mr. Rolle stared that be was the particular friend r f Major Yorges,
Who at present-laid dantkv-ott sly. at Le:mite's house. The prisoner'
had been several timestiesiring to„see the Major, but had been flawed
admission at the particular desire of the Major ; the last time she
came she behaved is so 'riotous at. Manner. .that she diittirbed and
annoyed not only the inhabitants of Leicbes house, but of the
veludeneighbourhood_The Medical Centleman who attended the Ma-
jor had desAsred him to be in asmosr daogerous state, and that any agi.
taxi .n of his mind would probably prove fatal. The visits of the pri-
a
n.s aid her violent behaviour, could not be concealed from him,
and had prodnced the worst ethncts. • The Mpjor vas a gentletnan o.f
property, and, had in his 3apartmentsi and about. his person, some
attic es of pot value Many of these had disappeared Previous to the
prisoner Wipe exclude from the housc. And during her occasion Al
visits. Ditplicates of :natty of the Missing articles had been touud
in rie• poisessiOo, and it appeared she hail•plidged them without the
tike-Isijor's sanction, under. Vicse eirt.n•Mitances he had thought right
togivn tier in 'charge tar an officer...,,:.. ••,„ . .
Mr.-Kerrison. the medical gentleman who attended the Major,
proved the .Gut of his illness, and that nothing but his being kept
quiet could..saachis life.
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Mr. List's evidence, was thc-swatin aubstanocas Unlit's, he added
also, thaLit wars at the particular desire of the Major that tile present
proceedings' had been -adopted': all that gentleman wanted, however,
was quiet .•.
ShaakieMr. attended for the prisoner, and in reply to the charge
brought against her, stated that this was no less titan a conspiracy
against his client. One of the. witnesses :was a than recently chs-
eau:god from-prison tinder 414' Iniolvent AC; of the other he wished
not to say'aftythiing. Thei(aCquaiAt.ince with the Majoryonameneed
during the teinporary confinement at that gentleman within t It- rules.
' His fair client had been acquainted with the Major a annsliereble
time—they were much attached to each othea A matrimonial onion
had been (A:internist:ned between them, and the banns had even neen
publishedst, something, however, had intervened to preyent the mar-
riage takings place; ° they. had t however, lived together for twelve
months past, and, up to the tame of the Major's illness, as man and
wife. On the Major fallsng however, Rolle and List had taken
on themselyes the entire management of him and his concerns, and
had turned Miss Dearmao out of the house, and refused to allow:,
her to sec him, or indeed' any other person to have access to him ex-
cept the Doctor.. It was in an attempt matte by the prisoner to see him
that .the c;isturbance of which advantage had been taken oc,..irred.
The !Major was a gentleman of considerable property, and still more
considerable expectations. Messrs. List and Rolle hest knew what
were the motivos which goversied.their conduct, hut he ha.; been in-
formed by Mr. Leech, the persola ip whose house Major Yorges lodged,
that it was t!.e wish of that gentleman that Miss Dearman should be
-admitted to ham as frequently As she desimd it. Under these contra-
dictory statements, if the Magistrkte world permit the examina-
tion to stand oVer tar half in hour, he-would. wait on Major Yorges
al4calfalitiefl hj Dr. lc.crrison, tttsd escart4ill the cal scntimcnts of

AL REGISTER.

.hat gentleman. This proposition was acceded to by the Magistranr,
and Mr. Silankly on his return wit, cl. that the% had .ern the 41-4jer,
who was indeed very ill. hut expressed a strong wish that Miss D.
should be admitted to hint as often as she wished it He enatessedt
great displeasure at the conduct of M sag Ro k and List. who. he
said, 'saki acted unauthorized by him ; and with respect sa slic articles
pledged by Miss th-y were pledged by hi• direciluu, and he
received the money. Under these circumstances the Magistrate
animadverted it severe terms upon the c-niluct at ,he prosecutors,
and tininctliatcly ordered the prisoner to he discharged

QUEEN'S SQUARE.
On Monday, Christopher House,. alas Chnese, a kurneyntan
baker, was charged at this Office, with assaulting Mail Williamson._
under most aggravating circumstances During the severe Invest of
Mr. Christian, Strutton Ground, Westminster, baker, Chloi•e was
engaged to act as Christian's it anager ; but eilferew es ti .ving. arisen.
Chohte 'vowed he would ruin Christian by spoil' le all his bakings and
bread. This vow was but too religiously obseried, hir on Sunday he
destroyed fifty-three bakings, belonging to poor. hard. working peoples
by, burniu every one of them to a complete ciin!er, and hi/Oiled/I large
batch of bread, by putting it into a slo.v &Yen When the people.
wentffor their bikings„ he behaved most insolentl - an' because Mary
Vt'illiimson complained of the less her family had stistaiiircl‘ by a
large joint being burnt to the very hone* hea,saulted her in a most
brutal manner.—The fellow wassentenced to three months' imprimis.,
ment for the wilful negligence, and ordcred to be tried at the Seatiotto
for the assault.
COACH Roatta y .—W hire, the never of the Windsor Union eoach,,
was brought up at this Office, on Welnesday, charged on suspicion Of
stealing a parcel, belonging to Messrs. grown and Combe. Windsor.
bankers, 'containing ;000. in Windsor bank-note.,, viz. Mot' 11.1,
161 of 21. ; and 193 of At each. This parcel was sent on Monday
night by the above-named coach, its driver being *sired ro take care
of it ;. but on arriving in town. application being :wade for the parcel, it
was ditchvered to have been lest. Tne coachman saidb that on %airing
Windsor he put the parcel into the hands of a lady inside., he coaeb.
charging her ro take care of it on arriving in town, a man aopeared as
the coach door, asking for the parcel and received it, he havlng called
for Whitell parcel', and that its iMprOper delivery under these c:trcurn-,
stances was not discoveted till some time afterwards, when, the •reel
owner applied for it. The coachman declared himself iniukent,th.at
he was ignorant of the man who had thus got the parcel; and his
masters spokq highly of him, undertaking to ans Wet for hit aLapeir_
ance whenever his attendance should be required, in the event of 'hll
being discharged out of custody.—Mr Celquhoun and Mr gieldipg
were of op'nion, particularly atter what hail been said by the Nopro-
tors,ithat criminal suspicion did not so attach itself to the prisoner's
conduct as to justify his being detained in custody.—Discharged.
Friday, a serjeant of the Se t re,:iment had a singular, . huge eel&
'hited against him by Macdonald, landlord of the BlUe Posts, York-
street, 'Westminster, namely, of 'having enticed the taid'Afacdonatdsa
son t:,.roh his own father's till, almeit daily, t.,r upwirds', of 'a year.
The setjeant lived next door to. the public house, and Mide'Macdo-
nald's house his rendezvous. "I‘laonalti's son is an infiim lad, nave
aged about ;4, 'and apprenticed to a tailor; and according toltis iota-
meat, first mentiored by him to his shopmatts, and by them to the
father, the serjeant gut bun to take shillings and sixpences out of ;hq
till,.prnrinsing presents in return ; to omit taking pay for liquors, or tq
give more Change than was' correct on taking pay out of a sixpence or
shilling. The boy said for a year back he had given the serjeant
weekly, flirt he lowest aierage, '6 and 6s. In money, stolen front the fil
purposely for him.
The Serrant 'denied the whole story, pronounning it. to be an infa.
'Motts.fabrication of the bey, to•skveen, no doubt, his own depreda,
tions.
Mr. Coletultoun gate so. Much credit to the statement of.a transac-
tion more infamous and depraved than any thing that had come before
him, that unless the serjeant -made his peace with the landlord by
Monday, the whole c ise should be laid before the Prince Regent, be.

MARRIED.
At Ashford, Kent. James Dunster, Esq of Stone, Isle of Oxie7,l
aged 75, to Mrs. Batton, widow, of Rolveoden, aged :ID.

DIED.

On Frilay, of an apoplectic fit, aged 68, the Rev. T Moore, of Pc,
tcrborough, Vicar of St: AUdtetv's anti St. Mary's, iu Whittles's.

HORNSBY and CO. present their hest thanks to the Public Jr
the many favours received for 43 Years gait, and beg •leave to solicit
their Qrders for the ensuing Lottery, to begin Drawing .41 the 7tk
of Nov EMAER next. It sof the utmost iinportance that every put.
chaser ofa *rioter or Sito.lt should know that Hellas the Chain:sof
obtaining the full value 4914,4001.. the amount of 20.000 tickets,
though the S-hence contains only 15,000—50 idvaniageous a proposal
was never before hit-swot). It is a bold and.enterptituig Scheme, and
no doubt will ensure a great Sale, whiLlt alre..dy is made manifest b%
the extraordinary demand for Tickets and Shares at the Otrkt Of
;lc R NSIS 4 4nd co, StoCk Brokers; ro

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