The National Register.
London, England, 1819-07-19 00:00:00

.01.7) BAILEY SESSIONS.

t D IY. NI r. J. Steel, siops,:ller, of Great k,astcteap,
had al apprentice named William Stinnes Smith, tt Ito
had lived in I t., i,ooic for a consid.:rable tine:, and
bt hated with much propriety. NI r. Steel hat ing %ere
exicitsive !:.:sines, was often nbitge-d to cotpluy %try
loose j•ilibert, and aitio:rzst others wive oecasiuna.l work
to a !mit:a Halt:V(l wltost desolate
appearance was his greatest recornotentlation. This
man took fr.:Twin opportiinitict-..0f conversing with the
boy, t.:111 was i..:son one cc•astott asked by him for this.
oast of ei?..,hre,:zr•pen.e. " What," said Noble, " CAI
you want money? You arc in the •ineyastl; and ;bow
can you want grapes?" lie explained II Intaelf by ssyiny,
that the lad had it in his powt.r us pot pivoty of tOotle•V
into his pockets by disposing of Anne of the bits vf
cloth about the warehouse, and offered to asitst tutu in
getting a purchaser. The hint was taken, au
was supplied wish as much money as pros idol ictu ttnb
fruit and cakes. the only commodities lie wished fur.--
From resultants of cloth .the two thivets gradually r
fled their depredations, till they came- to whole pieces,
which began to disappear from the premises with
amazing quickness.-1 be stock of Mr. Steel s so great,
that the proprietors- did not perceive the dehciency
that had taken place within the first few months of the
contmenceint of the-roltheries.—Noble was eatretsiely
catuious' and used generally so take hi. station, at ay.
pointed hours, opposite to the house, where he loitered
shout w ith a green bag. .His visits to the spot were,
however, us frequent, that two servant maids resident Iry
the neighbourhood, who had frequently seen him, and
judged front his manner that he had no honest intention,
wean to Mr. steel's sho:s.to mend's) their suepiciors.—
The first person they saw was the hey, whom theysup-
posed to be Mr. Steel's son, :nod made hint acquattnesi
with their suspicions. He thanked them, and took c..ra
that Noble should Sr no lon‘er exposed to the inqx iti-
nent observation orstrat4ers. A woman named Brown.
of whom Noble spoke as a paragon of fidelity, took. his
place, and as effectually answered the purpose of the-
plunderers, by tilling the green bag with tile most valu-
able cloths. At length, the rubber es has ing gone out
without interruption 11 months, the boy lot•gan to trem-
ble at the idea.of detection, and toll Isis two friends jll,llh
he should certainly lease the house. Noble nr;tetl she
neeeui.y of coining away with full hands, mud ads ised
him in make a pull at doe mone,-safe " That's always
locked," said the bay. " I'll snule that," rejoined Noi)le,
" by giving you picklock kris: take all you ran pt,
and-we'll go to a place of safety." It happened, bow.
ever, that the safe was by some accident left op cii. Tim
boy, who had a good opt ortunity, souk out a Bank•note
Inc 1001.,tw0 for 101. each, snelswenty-musnoall notes.
He thirst joined Noble ar:d Brown, who placed him it
an 'obscure lodging. Mr. Steel was surprised at the dis-
appearance of iviaappren nee, and made the most mutate
inquiries- for some time in sails. .Amongst those to
whom he went Mr intelligeuce was ?able, who of
cotter doclaimertall knowl. dge of his apprentice's flight.
Noble was, however, so nitwit struck at one ter (tamest
inao,ner in which the search was going for lie
sent the ,bny to Gravesend, under the eitirSt •
With direetions to ship Isini off for auv rempiats v.-, •
he should be out of reacts of inollui.ttse num*. W *es-

fresco Thase two were not long at Gravesend when
tae woman began to get:tired of her charge, and tinted•
ling to contribute .to his support. although she had
shared in the profits of. their speculation. She left hint
there without the means of subsistence, and came back
,to London, fronts which Noble had. departed. oriel
haring frett;sl the IMP. note for •401. to a purchaser of
. stolen goods. The boy was not long behind her; but
iastead ofgning to e ther of leis seducers. front whom he
bad never received more that %vas suflicient to supply
Lim with limit and cakes, be horde the best of his way
to his motion's house, and there niarle,a till conressimi
of ills VIII!. His soother immediately disclosed all the
zhvomstattees to Mr:Steel, who, baring set too officers
t,t work, succeeded in appiv4tembug NobLe and Brown.
There was however, great apparent (1011.414 in pro•
coring the necessity addition in the statement (tithe
,Loy, butt it wet hi a short Mot obtained. A piece of
tee u~len club had been taken to a tailor, VlllO war
employed 1w Noble to snake some coats of it... The coata
Ware Matte and sake.) away by Noble, avlso, huts erur,
did not find it eotwentent at the same time to cairn
assay the r ant. This reinnasit had upon it tile
chalk:walk of the owner; and open this evidence,
and that of the two senator, who recollected that the
woman had succeeded the man its his station oopostic
Ajar. Steers door with the green bag, Noble and Brown
were ein.ricred capitally. ',Ate boy. in order to become
fe.ral reuleuct, pleaded guilty before the trial, was fined
a shilling and discharged.
The whole of the trials hating been gone through on
Thursday night. early on Friday miscible sentences were
I.',sed upon the prisoners. Sentence of-death was pas-
red !mon I I prisuuers, but thecrimes they hate commit-
ted ate lint of the magnitude as to 'require the most
t,t;s ere punishment the law can inciet. names
are as nillow: —John Hider, W. F. taint. Sarah Ring,
Join Leaver, Sarah Lynn. Eltzttnun Levy. Henry
Padipt, Sat- th 'Fitoturs Alabaater, Benjamin
Noble, and Mary Brown.
'l'hr tubs!:qiicnt 14 itrisoners were sentenced to trans-
yartation for life, and among them we.sbserved a num-
ber of boys of a very tender age; mac of them could not
jaissittly be more than 10 or f 1 3.t.111 old :—Thomas
.lohn-on, John Lucas. Jolso,,Wiloon, John Britton,
George Collins, James •"mac Green, Walhain
.holm Wood. •..,1 sines Ilo,tan, John Duggan,
I.'N; 4:keel M•Carthy„;ohn Sullivan, and Michael Wekli.
Only six prisoners were sentenced to transportation
fa• 14 rats, viz. John .R Mora, Mary Deal, James
Lancis, Esthcz:,l3tran, Owen ‘Vriglit, and David
Anson.
NI) fewer than 5S were sentenced to seven years'
trattspentatiou.

postecrtpt.

LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 19.
Three o'clock. p. m.

•1 here is nothing in the last arrival of French
pipers to call for particular comment. The bureau
of the Peers, with the Chancellor at their head,
resentea to the ling the two ?ryes de loi, which
they had adopted, authorizing the exchanges of cer-
tri i Crown lands against a portion
.of the Orleans
property in Paris.

1: is expe6ted that the
rPriace Regent will embark
nu board thu L'o,..2l.Grorge- yacht, at Brighton, the
tLty ,after the races is that town. His Royal High-
rtge; will tile a cruise along the coast to Plymouth,
view the bren7;water an.l docks in that guarter, and
t.th.:egnently sail for the Isle of %%Iglu, where the
feet of Noblenitz:'s yachts will rendezvous.
The Bishep of Calcutta has lately addressed the
Society for prope.gating the Gospel iu tineign parts,
informing them that the sum of 3,000 L voted by
that &kitty the prAnotion of Christianity in
hdia, would he applied by his Lordship towards
the erection of a wis:..ion college in Calcutta. On
the receipt of this letter, the ....b;ociety for promoting
Christian knowlelgt, in Bortlett's-bulidings, im-
mediately voted 5,G00/. more towards tlic.!.ctended
cAllege, and the Church Society Las just
Liade a grant of in addition for the same
.object. Thus ho less a Ellin than I 5,000!. has been
s3teil by three !iecietier, in connexion with the
L.tablished Church, fur the great olcet. of pro-
noring Ciristianicy threo,;hout P.ritish India.
According to accounts from Berlin, an ono:ly-
letter laas been presented to the King ot Prus-
sia, in which his I%ton:sty is earnestly advised not to
ikarrit the celebration to the memory of Kotzebue
to take plum at the Berlin national theatre, on the
a
frtmiii that the results may prove very serious.
DisrviteLo Distittcrs.—The &Bowing is the
cepy is' a letter addressed b' Lord Sit:mouth to the
Lard Lieutenant of the county of Chester. Similar
letters, it is s;.ited, have been sent to the Lord
Lieutenants of all the countiei which arc the imme-
diate scene, or in the vicinity a the reform meet-

gA.. •
It to expectchl tilit the trial of Carlisle, 'lle realer
cf woks will take plaze. at
iii.; week. We titi,:rstand he h s actually
Bjirgilzatd,t!leir Gives the Arebilaishops t f Caattr-
-107 told .Fork, vi*.}l many ct4ttent dia:anting
Ap,l gr.. 3 of literature.

" Whitehall, Judy,
" My Lord,—The nmeerom public meetings midrib have.
lately taken place at Stockport and the adjacent parts of.
Leurashlre, their manifest purpose, amt the !squaki.
which has been held at them, have engaged the serious '
motion of his Majesty's Government t your Lordship's
p►nrure under these eireninstaares hi the county of which
your Lordship has the charge, cannot but be highly
dr-
sirable and important ; in order that, tinder your Loud- 1
I ship's authority, the most prompt and effectual means may
be adopted for the preset ration of the tranquillity of the
county of .Chester. The utmost vigilance and artivity
on
the part of the magistrates in the districts to whirls I have
referred, is indispensably and urgently necessary, u main.
tam and enfutee, if requisite, Obedience to the taws, and
to bring to justice those offenders by whom they may be
violated. For these purposes it is earnestly hoped the
power of the civil antliorities will be fully sufficient ; hut
as a measure of 'reconfirm, your Lordship is desired to
give immediate directions to the several corps or Fro.
money Cavalry in the comity ul Chester, to hold them
selves in readiness to attend to any call fur support end
assistance, which, its ease of necessity, they may receive
train the magistrates ; and the inmost confidence is justly
placed in the seal and promptitude with which, snider
Gaels circumstances, the call will he oneyed.
" I have the Imager to be. Rte.
" 811)111OUTH,"

The following is an extract of a letter from Holy-
head, received on Sunday, dated the 15th inst :-
0 The Talbot steam-vessel, which arrived here
this morning from ,Howth, took fire, whilst lying
close to the Tier, but by the greut exertions of the
persons then present she was aired from total de-
struction. A considerable part of her deck, how-
ever, has been cut away, to prevent the fire spread-
ing. A poor fellow, who was employed in this
work, bad his finger chopped off in the hurry and
confusion inseparable from so alarming an accident.
The vessel has fortunately, in this instance, been
' saved, as it was perfectly calm ; had there been a
breeze, she must have burped down to the water's

edge."
Important Decision, on Thursday last, in the
Court of Conscience in Fulwood's Rents—A gentle-
man agreed with a domestic servant for a month's
;yarning or a month's wages,but was oldged, by the
grossness of servant's behaviour, to.dismiss him with
only three days' notice. offering to pay him to the
day of his dismissal. The master pleaded that the
servant's agreement to complete a month's.tervice or
,forfeit a mouth's wages, necessarily implied a
mo-
deration and decency of behaviour ; and in ceasing
to be respectful he violated his contract. It was
further pleaded. that the case laud .been decided by
the.Chief-Justice in the cause rf Sautulerson versus
(fanky," . in the sittings after the present tenn.—
The Court
.found for the plaintiff. The Act 43
Geo. 11. cap. S 3, declares the decisions of these
Courts to be final ; but a body of freeholders have
resolved to avail themselves of a section of that Act,
which enables them to apply to the Chancellor fur
remedy fur ,spclt proceedings. •
The bast has been an important week at the Stock
F.xchange, having included the bodement of the largest
account and the most extensive series of time bargaias
pdhapsever known. I)urinv the last few days of the
account, the great subject or anxi. ty at the Smelt Ex-
change has been to determine on which site the pre-
yoiselerance lay, and whether tiw greater number of tame
bargains had Leen efT ewe' by the buyers or the sellers
for the day of settlement ; as opinions lasted either way,
the price of stack. rose or fell, bat the market was ma.
naged with so much skill, that until Friday, which sea,
settling day, it war far from,being generally known that
the sellers fur the account, as. we.anticipawil last week,
had sly cut:steel too e's.teatt,ively, anti sold stock fns much
greater extent than they were able to deliver. The
amount of stork dem:angled cannot he ascertained.; fiat
a, 1:1.11) of the it!..iticipal bankets, there being too cooti-
nnation early in the account, bought for time rather than
for money, and would necessarily claim its transfer oat
the day of settlement, it must have been enormous. The
strength of the party was strikingly manifested in the
quantity of slue: delivered on Friday, but it was still so
inadequate to the clauLs eet:ots them, that on Saturday
nilfning :MOMS were posted tip at the Stock Exchange,
dem sliding stoc:: ton [lids delivered, to the extent of
nearly hate a in Consuls. In the coarse of the
day, by great exertions, a large portion of this was pro-
snivel Far, and arrouseilients were made, as is said, for'
carrying the rematititer lorward to crvarselay next. The
demand cr. awe' hi;.rionvy-sinek by this peculiar state of
estemastet was So great, that it bore a, Licher price than
for thy August accoutu by I per cent.. The gem ral int-
pro einem, however, in the price of the Muds was less
than this demand siould of itself li:tve prolsiced ; but
their aelsacce,.wac checked lay the large sales fur the
August acc aunt, made by the party endeas ouritig to de-
press the funds, and seinen appear to.h.rte been transact-
ed. chirgy.with a view to assist in the settlement of !heir
present diflitemes. Toe casualties attendaut. we the
dote of this account have been ,very few : a meschtm:
of sortie respectability early in the deck declared hate ns-
,lstlity to tray Isis dillerenees tot his time bargain,
' anointing to between a,tx;ol. and 47.0001. ,• a.al a per-
. .nu reading, wee believe, at the west cod of the town,
sod formerly of great property, is isid to have left his
, huskers answerable fur a a exceeding 30,tX)01. Its rise
'sloe Extbance sane eallimrrationesia have taken pleat,
alit old) in One ossaarwe to a very material extent ; and
all, we understand, they have proved of such a W.
• Aare as tO 361114 Of I emir privately