The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-31 00:00:00

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Andrew :grime was indicted (or htirglarionsly break-
ing entering the dweiling-hottse of Goori.e Pipott,
Esq. at ilmhton, on the night of the 49th of November
List, with iniett to steal.

It appeared in evidence that the prosecutor, an officer
in the dragoon guards, rented a Morse in Jenny'',
place, Brighton, in November last. On the night of the
Dills of that month, after the family had retired to bed,
the home was disturbed by a strange noise of some person
moving up and down stairs.—The prosecutor got up,
struck a light, and saw a man going down stairs. Ile
fo:lowed him to the dravving•roonu floor, and the man
hauteg eotered the drawing, be closed the door upon him
and went to the dining room to get some weapon of
defence. When he entered the dioing-rwnom he found
one of the windows open, the air front which blew his
candle out —however, he seized a poker, returned to
the drawinng-room, opened the door and seized the man
I.v the collar, and struck him two blows, in the second
of which the poker broke, When he was about on
strike a third, the man said he would surrender if the
prosecutor would not murder birn• Tiie into oder tooled
out to he the prison .r, who accounted for his midnight
chit by saying that he was a distracted lover, and that he
came only to visit one of the maid servants. The pro-
secutor's female servants were confronted with the pri-
soner, and they denied all knowledge of him. Tire
isauer then said that he had mistaken the house, and
that he had intruded to visit a female iu a neighboarina
house, with whom he had been junto tic. No property
was missing, nor had the prisoner made any preparation
for carrying off any.
The prisoner, in his defence, tepeated the same story
as vs hen detected, but called no witnt4ws. lle had
c ;me front the sister kingdom about two months before
the transaction in question.
Mr. Baron Grah 111 left it to the Jury to say whether
the prisoner had the attinaut Arrnek when he entered the
house. if lie came with an intention to steal, the bur-
glary was sufficiently proved.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty—Death.
Tine proseeinor recommended the prisoner to mercy.
CIVIL SIDE.
THE. (IN• V. PESKETT AND OTTERS.

This w, s an indictment against the defendant and five
other persons, for riotously pulling down a dam on the
liver A.rilit, and for as-a:thing Thomas Dyson, at Chi-
chester, on the 30th of December last.
Tne defendants were inhabitants of the suburbs of the
city of Colchester. lit 1817, an act of parliament had
passed for making a canal connecting the river Aron.—
The prosecutor, Mr. Dyson, had been employed as en-
gineer to conduct the work. It became necessary, in
the close of 1821, to dam up a rivulet, which interfered
is ith the progress of Ilir work, in order to prevent too
great an accession of is atcr. The country about Chi-
chester beit,g overflowed with water from the moisture
of the season, it was alleged that the defendants ha I 1111.
lawfully assembled to pull down the dam in question to
carry off the excess of water, and iu cousequeoce of their
milawful purpose had threatened the prosecutor with
viiilence, but had not, in fact, committed any personal
injury.
The Jury, after hearing the case on both sides, found
the defendants guilty of the assault only, and acquitted
them of the rio'.

iiORSHAY, MARCH LB.—Geo►ge Barnett and George
I;iilbeck, two victims under the age of 15, were indicted
under the Black Act, 9 Geo. I. for wilfully and mali-
ciously setting fire to and destroying a rick of wheat, on
the 27 iii of November, at Payliatn, the property of
liwthirdstm.

It appeared in evidence that on the day mentioned in
milictinetli the prosecutor had a rick of vetches and a
rick of wheat completely destroyed by fire. The pri-
soners were seen near the prosecutors premises shortly
alter the fire commenced, going away from the spot ap-
parently in a great hurry. The fire had commenced with
the rick of vetches, and artt•rwartls communicated to the
corn rick. Suspicion hating fallen on the prisoners,
they Were apprehended, and they made a voluntary con-
fession of their having deliberately Font• out th it day for
the cxpless 'impose of doing smite mischief of the kind
in miestion. They hail taken out wnh them some
tinder and niatcaes, and havin, struck a licht on the
hick of their knifes, lighted a piece of paper, and set fire
to the ptosecinor's fetch rick. They seemed to it:tie no
determinate object at first, and one said to the other that
they most not uo home until they set fire to something.
I he pri-ouer litilbeck proposed to set fire to NI r. Richard-
son-s rick, because lie was an ill-natured person. This
was resisted by the other prisoner, but they both joined
afterwards in doing the mischief, which appeared rather
to be the result of wantonness than any premeditated
anddeliherate imention.

.lure Mood boil) the prisoners aot;ily—Polth
but reeottimeutlett them to mercy ou Liceount oi their
)(unit.

DOE dint. TIIWATTES W. UPPERTON.
was all action of ejectment to recover possession
of a cottaue and !sardtli at Itotherfield, in this county.
The pLintiff, Mr. Tilwaites, had het•n a trademiati
J.ondm, who having amassed a considerable fortune,
p.irchased a large estate in the year 1808, at Itotherfield.
'rile defendant held a cottage on the edge of cue of tile
firms which uas included within Thwaite', pur-
chase, hut he itts'stetl that the cottage had been originally
built On the waste of Lord Abet,...c,iventiv't; manor, :mil
was no part of the estate purchased I,y r.
It appeared by the evidence on the part of the plaintili
tliJt Air. Ilarriscm, of whom Mrifilsviiitts imichabtd,

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Holland asked the Jury of they thought either of thew
only eighteen, and of their small make, could have forced
the grating ? " I firmly speak from my heart, my con-
science would not let me du such a barbarbarous act as
sticking Mr. Smart with such an in,trument."

ftnyle called his sister and another woman to prove an
alibi, but failed.

The Jury found both the prisoners guilty, and the Judge
told them to prepare themselves, as he could give them no
hopes uhatever.

The two great Ironing matches, for 160 guinea; aside,
made on the 12th inst. took place on Wednesday merit-
ing, in Marson I'ark, an enclosure in Essex, over a
two-mile piece of ground. The first match WAS between
M;ijor Iliwbrey's brown mare and Mr. Phillips's Ara-
bian, ten miles, to carry 9st. each, The two mules were
done by each as follows :—Mr. Hawbrey's, 39 minutes.
36 seconds—Mr. Phillips's, 38 minutes, 4K seconds.—
The match was lost by Mr. Phillips's horse breaking
into a gallop, which detained him for more than half an
hour—The other match, (or a like sum, was made to
do the ground in less time than the winner in the
former race. Mr. Wilkinson to ride his own horse,
11 stone. He did the first two miles in 6 min. 32 sec.;
second. 6 min. 33 sec.; third, 6 min. 34 sec.; fourth,
7-min. 14 sec ; and the filth, in 6 min. 29 sec.; mak-
ing, in the whole, 33 min. 19 sec. The horse broke
into a gallop in the eighth mile.

STREET Rotuma 1 Es.—On Tuesday evening an elderly
Lady passing through Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury.
was attacked near the Museum by a stout young fellow,
who snatched her gold watch from her side, and fled.
Sonic persons who witnessed the robbery quickly pnr-
sued, and the fellow being closely pressed on. planted
(dropped) the watch in a garden, where it was found
and delivered up to the Lady, who, on recovering her
watch, and on the thief lacing secured and brought back,
declined to pnisecute hint, and he was, after a short de-
tention, liberated for want of evidence against him:—
Otte evening last week, as a Gentleman was passing
through Holborn, between seven and eight o'clock, a
fellow made a snatch at his watch-chain with the seals,
which were valuable. A few nights afterwards, in the
very same place, another Gentleman was served in the
same manner, and supposed by the same fellow. It is
dangerous after nightfall to expose their watch-chains in
any of the public streets, whis.h swarm at all hours with
thieves of every description.
MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—The neigh-
bourhood of Whitechapel has for the last few days been
thrown into the grea:est ferment and agitation, in con-
sequence of a barbarous murder committed there, on the
per.on of a highly and respectable middle-aged gentle-
man. Mr. George Hare, late an extensive boater in
High-street, Whitechapel, on Friday night last, it ap-
pears, was on his way home, after spending the evening,
with souse friends, and schtas passing up Nell-street he
was attacked at the private door of the Royalty Theatre
(which was then closed in consequence of its being Fri-
day in L Att) by three ruffian:, woo. after anoekina
down, kicked flint about the head and body in a most
ft ghuitl manner, and in their brutal treatment bmke
his left lee, so that the bone protruded through the skin.
Tlte villains having thus disabled him, filled his pockets
of a Clli-diaity of silver. Out the watchman coming on
duty, about nine o'clock, he found the unfortunate gen-
tleman stretched its the kennel, quite insensible, and in-
stantly sprang his rattle for assistance, and had hien
taken to the Star public-house, close by, where, ones°.
Initiation of his frame, his injuries were found too seri-
ous to he benefitted by any temporary remedies, and it
was therefore deemed most prudent to convey hint to
the London Hospital, wnere all efforts which the fa-
culty could devise were resorted to, but in vain, and be
lingered until Sunday morning, when death put a pe-
riod to his sufferings. lie was perfectly collected a
short time previous to Isis (leant, and related to the sur-
geons the connected with his death, the
substance of which we have given in the forgoing state-
ment. Mr. Litwin, the Coroner, with a respectable
Jury, attended Thursday morning, at the Grave Morris,
Wintechape:-road, to hold an inquest on the body,
which lay in a shell at all undertaker's. and presented a
frightful spectacle. Several witnesses were heard at
great length in explanation of the dreadful affor, but
malting to throw light on the subject transpired ; and
the Court, in the absence of other witnesses, adjourned
to a future day, when, it is hoped, some 1111:Itcri.11 eel.
(knee will be nildoced, and 'cad to the discovery of the
murderers. TM. Pollee of the district are very active
on the occasion ; and it is st singular, that not the
slightest alarm appears to have peen heard when the
murder was perpetrated, front which it must be con-
cluded that site deceased was s;unned by the very first
blow.

Ott Thursday night, Thomas Thompson, a constahle
of Clerkenwell, the terror of all the pickoockets in town,
to whom he is well known, and consegnently shunned,
disguised himself by muffling hOuctell up in a great coat,
and tying a handkerchief round his head, as if troubled
with the tooth-ache, with his hand before his face to
prevent his being known, walked up liothorn on the
look-out for pick pot ke:s and shoplifters. At the end of
Middle-row he saw John Johnson and John Christo-
pher, two well known prigs, whom he had before its
custnly, and v.-ere tried Mr picking pockets; suspecting
their Intsims., lie watched tin m attempting to p:ck the
pocktit, si %era! L,,:tletilett; they tinned into Great
l'urris:ile, towards I.atteoln's-intafields,and in passing by
Int:chi:Cs shop, where there is usually a cony(' col-
lected, and many depredations comtnitted, he saw John-
SOU lock a gentletnati*s pocket of a silk hantlks.rctiiec
which he handed to Christopher. Toompsou
atvly pounced on them, sectired them both, and cal:ing
to the gentleman, he gave his 11.1111 e and address, %%hick
was limos Upton, 62, Wood•strect, Cheapside. Ile
bilged the prisoners in the 'NJ telt-house; they were exa-
mined on Frit:ay heiore the stains m vgistrat.! at !tattoo.
aml the charge Leit.g prated, they aex fu.iy
co:unlined Isa

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