The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-16 00:00:00

(From Me Limerick Chrwlick.)

Oa Monday night, the house of Thomas Wilkinson,
Esq. of Calietilly, was attacked in search of file-arms,
and as it was impossible, in a thatched house, to make
resistance, they succeeded in getting a gun, but searched
the house very minutely for more.
Store night the house of Mr. W. Mannan was also
attacked, his windows broken, and one gun taken.
On %Vednestlay night, about I I o'clock, the house of
Mr. John Barry, near Ballineguanl, was visited by the
nightly depredators, who, has tog tired a shot at the
house, Mr. Barry opened an upper window, and de-
usauded what they scanted; the reply was "arms," upon
which Mr. Barry fired out, when they instantly sweated
to the end of the house. A buy was afterwards dispatched
to Ballyneety by Mr. B. and in less than ten minutes
Lieutenant Arthur, and a party of the 93 regiment ar-
rived to his assistance, but not the least trace of the vil-
kilns could be found, though the party scoured that part
of the country till nay break next morning.
Mr. Shaughnessy's house, of Ballybricken, was also
attacked, and one gun taken.
(From 1/ Clonmel Morning Post.)
The painful duty has devolved upon us to record one
of the most melancholy circumstances which has occur-
red in this neighbourhood within our recollection. On
Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, a most promis-
ing young gentleman, fifteen years old, and highly ac-
complished, the eldest son of Major Lenon, who resides
at Grange Cottage, in the Queen's County, within three
miles of this town, got leave from his father to go out
fur the purpose of killing rabbits. The young gentle-
to n wript himself up in a Portuguese cloak, with the
intention of calling upon the son of a neighbouring far-
mer, of the name of Maher, some years older than
himself, who generally accompanied hint on such occa-
sions. In a fatal moment, however, Mr. Lefton con-
ceived the idea of giving the young farmer a aorprise„
and concealing his face, which he did by elevating the
cloak over his head ; on arriving at Maher's house, he
assumed a feigned voice, and leaning over a hatch-door,
demanded their money, arms, &c. Young Maher—the
rustic friend and companion of Mr. Lenon's hours of
recreation—struck with the supposed danger of the mo-
ment, seized a blunderbus loaded with slugs, which lay
by the fire-side, and, horrible to relate, fired at the
young man in whose &fence he would have died him-
self. We can scarcely bring our pen to perform its
office, in describing the consequence—the t,/5f and a
considerable part of the head was literally tor...;sway !
Doctor Bead and Surleon Byrn, of this town, were im-
mediately sent or, but they could only put earful to the
torturing anxiety of the wretched parents of both parties,
by declaring that hope had fled for ever I—Mr. L died
on Thursday. Tho miserable young man who commit-
ted the rash act was seized with a delirium, and has
gone off, no person can tell where !—Ou Saturday tune
was a Coroner's Inquest held on the body. Verdict—
" Accidental Death."

ADVENTURES 01 A COUNTRY CONSTABLE IN LOX-
DON.--A warrant of bastardy having been granted to the
overseers of a parish, about Ind tildes from London,
against a young man who had absconded, the gentlemen
01 the parish deputed an inch. trims!, wh they consi-
dered to be the 6harpesi of their coustables, to proceed to
London its order to execute it, and for this purpose :Ail.
was granted him to pay his expenees. This the vigilant
officer concealed snugly in his pocket-book, together with
his warrant, and putting it in his breast pocket, he ar-
rived in London on Tuesday last for the first time in his
life. On his arrival, above all places, he sought Charles-
street, Drury-lane, to take up his quarters, having heard
that the object of his mission was a resident in that
direction. He went into the Coach and Horses, and
there sat down with some geniis:mess, who, with all the
dexterity of versed thieves, contrived to cut out the
pocket book from his coat, unknown to him, whilst he
was intent in cons ersation. He at length discovered his
loss, and immediately quitted the place in search of a
man whom he suspected, lie having left the house. He
thoughtlessly left his great coat behind hiin, and that was
also taken during his absence. The enraged officer in-
stantly proceeovd to Queemsquare office, in order to
ascertain whether they could grant him a fresh warrant
to apprehend the man he had conic after, that likewise
being stolen. He was refused a warrant, and was advised
to go back to his own parish fur one, which he was com-
pelled to do.
On Monday se'nnight, as Mr. Allcock, of Norwich,
was I"ing up London-lane, a man afncted to stumble
against hitn, and at the same uusoent snatched his
watch from his fob, and ran off.—On the same evening,
Mr. Powell, gardener, of that city, was rubbed sear
Union-place, of some money, the produce of debts which
he had been collecting.—About five o'clock on the same
evening, a flail had the audacity to enter the house of a
person in St. Benedict's, by the back chamber window,
while the family was below, and was in the act of let-
ting a bed down from the window, when he was disco-
vered by a person passing at the time, who gate the
alarm, and the thief dropped down from the window
and decamped, leasing his booty behind him.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. •
SATURDAY, DEC. P.
Thomas Saxelbye, a man of most respectable and vene-
rable appearance (70 years of age), was this morning put
to the bar, to take his trial before a London Jury, upon an
indictment charging him with !flaking and forging, and
afterwards uttering as true, a certain will and testament,
purporting to be the last will and testament of Thomas
Robinson, deceased.
The prisoner having been arraigned, and pleaded Not
Guilty, and the Jury having been sworn,
Mr. Broderick open2d the indictment, which comprised
several counts, and
Mr. Adolphus proceeded to detail the circumstances to
the Jun•. The clinic imputed to the prisoner, he said,
was that of hitending, by lot gery, to deprive those enti-
tled by law to the succession of the property of which the
late Mr. Thomas Robinson had died possessed. or their
right It was neither his duty nor inch nation, lie said, to
lead the Jury one step towards a conclusion in this ease,
or to oti.er a remark in aggravation of the facts which he
should submit to their consideration in evidence. The
eiretimst lIIVes which led to the present proceeding were
thrse:-111 the year 1815 there lived at Hull a gentleman
of the name of Thomas Robinson. lie was a bachelor,
abort 28 years of age, possessed of very considerable pro.
perry, (ruin 15 to ::0,0001. Being a bachelor, lie lived
with his mother in law. This lady was a widow at the
time his father had married he•r, but she wits not his mo-
ther. Upon the death of his fiitier, Mr. Thos. Robinson
succeeded to all his property, with the exception of an
annuity of 2101. per a:imine, which was charged upon the
estate during the life of his mother in few, and which she
enjoy( d. About the beginning of May, 1815, this gentle •
Ilium was seized with a disease a Inch, in the end, ter-
minated his rakirtier. Immediately sifter his death, his
mother made the most diligent search, in every part of the
house, in the expectation of finding a will. For a long
time it was supposed he had died intestate; but at length
a paper was found, on wine!s were written, in the 11i:1111..
V.l tittle of the deceased, a memorandum, stating his desire
" that all the property of which he al Id die possessed
should he dedicated to Elizabeth Robinson, his late father's
relick." This pa per at as sent up to Diictors' Commons,
and attentisted to be proved as die a ill of the deceased,
eat ly lit the month of June, 1515. Upon this document it
appr area that a snit was instituted ; but, as it would be
proved, after some time a notice was served upoa airs.
Robinson's proctor, unnotincing that the Court 11411 de-
rided that this paper could not in any sense be considered
as a will, and that, unless a will or some testamentary
paper were produced on or before the nth of September,
a decree would lie issued, declaring that the deceased had
died intestate, and that the next of kin would be admitted
to the administration of the effects. By this decree, the
mother in law, who was not the next of kin, would of
course be dept ived of the possession of the property, and
all her views and hopes with respect to the succession
would he frustrated. In this state things remained until
almost the last moment prescribed by the notice in ques-
tion, namely, until the 3d of September, when there came
from the hands of Mr. Saxlebye, the prisoner, a paper,
which hail been set forth in the indictment, and which
was to this effect
" The whole of my property I wish to give to my Ma-
ther in law, if she survives me. With respect to my
uncle (who, it would seem, had been guilty of sonic bad
conduct, I hope she will be good to him when she finds it
necessary. (Signed) " nom as RUBINSON."
Tlll3 paper, was the paper which the prosecutor,
charged to lie a forgery by Mr. Saxlebye, tittered by him
at Doctors' Commons, for the con opt purpose of gaining
the property described fur the mother-in-law.
Several witnesses were then called to prove that the sig-
not lire, " Thomas Robinson," was not in the hand-writing
of the deceased ; hot on cross-examination, they almost
all completely neutralized their evidence by hesitations,
amounting to admissions that might he in his hand-wri-
ting. One of these witnesses was observed, during Isis
evidence, to keep his eye on flue attorney for the prosecu-
tion, Mr. Rushworth, who stood tip opposite to him. Mr.
Baron Gant ow ordered Rusliwot th to sit down.
The ptisoner, on hying called 011 for his defence, pot
in a written paper, in which he reiterated the statement
made in his deposition produced from Doctors' C 4011114113
—stated his perfect readiness on all occasions to meet his
accusers, and added, that he had now surrendered to take
his trial.
A great !umber of witnesses were then called, who not
only swore positively to the alleged forgery being the
hand-writing of Mr. Robinson deceased, but distinctly
contradicted the evidence of many of the witness's for
the prosecution—proved the friendly connexion which
subsisted between the deceased and dlr. Saxlebye, and
the fact of his having been with the deceased alone 011
Sunday the 3 'tit of November. Li addition to this, se-
vet al persons of high respestability bore testimony to the
unimpeachable honour and integrity of the ps 'setter in
all his transactions in life.
The Jury now !teetered themselves satisfied, without
hearing any further evidence.
Mr. Justice Bayley perfectly concurred in the propriety
of this decision ; and said that, on compating his notes
with 111 V speech of the learned counsel who had opened
this case, he observed that there was tint a proposition
uhi h hi had advanced which he had not Jailed to support 0)
evidence, or in which he had not been sails:fin:Wily contradicted.
—lie was tuna tiling to interrupt tt:c• counsel tOr the pri-
soner, however, as lie was desirous that he shook! appear,
not that the unfortune•ate man bail merely escaped twin
the consequences of this indictment, but that lie was en-
titled to he reinstated in the same honourable situation of
life which he had held previous to his being placed at the
bar.
The Jury S rid they were satisfied of the perfect limo-
cenee of the prisoner, and iumiediately prouounced him
—Not Guilty.
Mr. Shelton, the clerk of the Court, now stated dial
there was an indictment for perjury against the pi ismier
upon the same facts. After ,coare hesitation on the pat tof
the prosecutor to proceed with this indictment till a future
sessions, the prisoner, by the recoutmeadatien of the
learned Judge, having been in custody when the bill was
found, demanded to take his tile' do n, to which Mr. Be-
rout Gartow, however late the hour, expressed 1113
to WI( ad.
Mr. Broderick, for the prosecution, now stated that he
should decline calling any witnesses, and the Jury having
been charged, they ugain pronounced a verdict of—Not
Guilty.
Mr. Sergeant Ilullock, oa behalf of the prisoner, applied

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for a copy of the indictmenti with 1t view, it was under-
stood, to some ulterior proceeding, and the Court acceded
immediately to the request.
Mon es 1,, DEC. 10.--HIGHWAY Rosaitior.—Thomas
Bertrand any capitally indicted fur assaulting Evan James,
on the highway, and taking ft oat his person 4s. 6d. in monies.
Two persons gave the prisouer a good character for in-
dustry and honesty.
The Jury found him guilty —l)eath. Aged 19.
He was recommended to meo cy by the prosecutor, on ac-
count of his youth aid former gond character.
Richard Wood, aged 15, was capitally indicted for ma-
licioudy cultitig and maiming Clinks Sittchell Mattock,
with intent to murder him_ There were other counts varying
the manner of chargiog the oirenee.
The prosecutor tool prisoner were fellow apprentices, nod
having had a quarrel stone blows took pl.tce' and the prisoner
snatched up a pair of scissors, land itifiicted no less than 11
wounds upon the prosecutor, in his breast arms, and legs.
Mr. Justice Bayley, however, wits of opinion, that this
was not a case, which, upon Slits evidence would, in rase
death had ensued, have amounted to murder, and he there-
fore (lilt-cited an acquittal.
ROBSCRY AT Ma. ORDE.S.—Richard Jagn and Thos.
Beck were capitally indicted for burclarinusly breaking
and entering the tin citing-house of William Orde, Esq. and
stealing therein a vast quantity of jewellery, wearing ap-
parel, household furniture, nod other property, to the amount
of several bundled pounds. Gritty Len is and Mary Beck
were also put to the bar, charged with receiving part of the
property, knots lug it to have been stolen.
Mr. Commit] for the prosecution stated, that this was a
ertous awl lamentable case, nut often equalled in the annals
even of this Court.—Mt. (111-de um a gettillallall of rtiok, te-
nding in Berkeley-square, and the wife of the ill iSilller Jag,.
had been the (mill (coital servant of Mrs. Orde fur 11 ur 15
years. la June iast she married Jago, mid on that ticcouut
only Mrs. Orde discharged her, mill having Utr best opinion
111 her. About that time Mr. and Mrs Orde were going nut
of nowt!, for some mouth., mid Mrs. Jag.) aid her husband
were left in possession of the house. Illey conthoued there
moil (dotter; ou the 10th, ahiout leaf past tell in the even.
log, Jago and his wife having been out, retui tied, and utter
trying, or tareienoliog, to try to open the door, lie called the
watchman to his assistance, saying i Intl the door was fastened
inside, and lie was sure there were tin yes in the house.—
The watchman tried with the key to open the door, and
Hotline it was fa.tened inside, he called to someonter watch-
men, wins with dolliculty forced it open. 'Elley entered the
house, a here they found every thing in confusion, and every
room plundered, even the looking glasses and some of the
bed: a ere removed. In one of the rooms they room, a cut-
lass and a bludgeon, a lighted candle, and phosphorous box.
Jago, While the search was going on, %vitt to the back part
of the house below. and culled out that the thieves must have
escaped by a window there, for that the bar had been re-
moved from it, and it was standttic open. This was found to
he the case. The next day infortsmtion wus given of the
1/ClllCry, 111111 Ille hifirlbot oughistreet officers having Call.
ruined the premises, and interrogated Jago and his wife,
expressed a derided opinion that the house had not bee.,
brake n into, but that the rubbers had hero let in to plunder
it with the eunitivance of Mr. and Mrs. J. 1,40. Their sus-
picions n ere contunicated Mr. Scott, a friend of Mr. 011ie's,
hut he could
Mrs. Ja u, who-c previous excellent ehararter was a'.II
known to him, and no steps were therefore taken at that
time. Some weeks elapsed, auntie which Jugo had the au-
dacity to charge a man, whom he swore lie saw in possession
of some of the blulen property, and that 1111111 was app. e-
hended and kept in custody ten days, but then discharged,
there tint being an atom of real proof against him.—
At length a . ircumstance occurred which threw some light
upun this mysterious affair, and led eventualy to the detec-
tion of the prisoners. The prisoner, Thoncis Beck, lool.sol
at the house of one Gates, and bud prevailed upon loin
to take a guilty- part in the execution of the robbery, which
had been long planited, and part of the stolen property was
conve)etl to Gates's house. G des, very imprudently fur
himself and Collfedera(C.S, bile% :mine of the properly to a
man named Pugh, who iminediately gave information at
filarlharough.street, and an enquit y was set ou foot, which
terminated ht the apprehension of the prisoner nod Gates.—
All of them, upon their aitiorehemion, confessed the w lode
nous:tenon, and each ought to lie admitted au evidence,
by endeavouring to throw' lac grease. avight of guilt upon
the whets The mail Gates, was finally admitted an evidence
for the Crown, tutu it tons then chid eft, that nom the day
that Jago first look charge of the Louse the robbery hail
been going on, and .4..0d, were daily removed, with the as-
sistance of Titoonas li ek, met others. When the time up.
proached for the return of the fatuity, it unswgreed upon,
that by on, gr old manoeuvre the work of plunder should be
completed, and in such a untuoter as to relative all movie'
from Ja:4ll his ti Thomas Beck and others, toot yet
ii titettody, Isere admitted laid the house, and Carried toll the
ru inaiiiing property. Ja:',o and his is ice went out, having
previously thrown the furniture, &c. into confusion, anti
mole other preparations to induce a belief Out the house
it td been entered in their absence. 'The prisoners, Mai y
Beck and Lea is, were detected in pawtoing it great number
of the stolen articles,, and no intimate connection was found
to subsist between Jago and the female pi isoner.
The learned counsel theft proceeded to call the witnesses
iu support of his emeet, and nmoug them Gates, the ac-
complice, who underwent a rigid cross-examination on be.
half of the prisnmirs.
Ni,Now intesses were called on their behalf, and they merely
protested then Innocence.
The Jory, after retiring nearly an hour, returned a vtirdiet,
finding Jago and Thomas B. ck Guilty, and at gonna% Mary
Beck and Lean.