The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-07 00:00:00

ROW-STREET.

Monday, G. Thorpe, and T. Thorpe his nephew, were charged on
suspicion of having broke open the house of Mr. W. Franklin, at lver,
in conjunction with two others. It appeand, that the chamber door
of Mr. Franklin was burst open ; when two men disguised entered,
armed with pistols, who threatened Mr. F. and his wife that it' they
MIMIC the least noise they would shoot them, and then covered them
over with the bed clothes, and took bank-notes and silver to the amount
of about al.; when one of them said he must have some of his rusty
guineas, as he knew he had got plenty of them, a relation of Mr.
Franklin having told him he had got 800 in the house; and having
found the keys in Mrs. F.'s pocket, he went to search for them, leav-
ing his companion to guard Mr. and Mrs. F. Soon after Mr. F.
hearing. the fellow at the place where the money was depositesl, he sud-
denly lumped up, wrested the pistol from the sentinel, gave him
several blows with the but-end. and ran down stairs amidst the rubbers
(four in wimber); when a scat& ensued ; during which one of the vil-
lains find, but missed his aim and shot one of his companions, who
exclaimed, " Let us be off, for I am properly done for;" when they
accordingly retreated. The scene had such an effect on Mrs. F. and
• her two female servants, that they jumped out of window in their
night-clothes, by which Mrs. F. had a leg broken; but the servants
escaped without material injury. At the time the two villains entered
Mr. F.'s chamber, the other two went into a room in which Mr. Pon-
tifex, of Shoe-lane, brother-in-law to Mr. F. was sleeping, whom they
confined in a similar nix ner.„ till he was nerdy suffocated, and robbed
him of 91. in hank notes. Mr. F. displayed the shirt he had on at the
time, which was literally covered with blood, which flowed from the
fellow who was shot, he being engaged in a contest with him at the
time. Both Mr. F. and Mr. P. swore to Thomas Thorp being one of
the mflions. Mr. F. had known him for years, he being a resident at
lyre; but they were not so cleat as to G. ThOrr. The former was,
therefore, Billy committed, orel the latter remanded. It was suspected
one of the robbers was a woman. The whole came in a one horse cart.
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Monday J. Smith and Ann Johnson. the latter a gorpsoy, was charg-
ed with rubbing J. Britten. a discharged seaman, of a suit of clothes
and 91. .1. Branen stated, that on Saturday he, in company with
his brother-in-law and another young man, went to Broker's-alley.
'Drury-lane, to buy a mangle, a bed and some chairs; and having got
rather inebriated, they were inveigled hy !some girls into a boire in
Charles-street. Drury-lane, which is kept by the moaner Smith; when
they scot out foe some porter and ham and hest Soon after Johnson
came into the room, under pretence of telling fortunes. and stayed
there several hours. About 11 o'clnrk the landlady insisted upon
their going out of the house. This the prosecutor refused to do; and
suer using much scurrility she went away, faking with her most of the
bed clothes, and muttering threats. Branen hay across one of the beds,
and his brother-in-law fell asleep in a chair, in which state they eon-
tinitA until about two o'clock in the morning; when they were
awakened. by a great mdse. i.nd immediately after the door was burst
open, and the prisoner Smith, attended by about a dozen nthern. male
and female, assaulted them in si most butte! manner, pinioning
limmm to the bed and kneeling on his breast; and in all probability
would have killed one of them. had not the watchmen come to their
assisamce, headed by Jefferson. the Police Officer, and took them to
the watA-house where the fortune-teller was, in custody. vyth the pro-
' secutor's jacket ;rid trowscrs tied up in a handkerchivf.witl which she
was stopped in Plurntree street by one of the watchmen. Smith said,
in his deferce, so far from using any violence, he went up stairs to
gull a riot which had ly_m made by the parties; and called one of his
lodgers as a witness, who said he heard not the least noise, all the
parties being waren—They. were remanded.
J. Read, a habenladier, in Rathbone-'.lace, was charged with as-
!milting Sarah Sadler, hk servant. The ir-sseentrix delayed. that
some months since, the iletendant. who wastpiarrelling with his a ifs,
struck her a violent blow nn the head, which shinned her, for having
lighted a fire at her mistrsQ's desire, which he had imixted should not
be done. (hi the day following she became addicted with a giddiness
and violent pains in the heed, which grew worse. She was at length
obliged to go into the Midilltsmat Hospital, where she had two setons cut
in the neck, andunderwent many ~.her surgical operations, but wiCanit
eff.vt; the Medial Gentkmaca bekoging to the Hospital havieg ail

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declared her to be incurable, and that the disorder in her head arose
solely from the violence of the blow. The defendant was ordered to
find sureties.

W. Cook, the driver of the hackney-coach No. RI. was charged by
Mr. De Chemant, of Frith.-treet, with assaulting him in his house.
The complainant had engaged the coach to take him to St. Paul's and
hack; for which he offered him Ss. but Coachee demanded Gs. 6d.;
complainant then offered him 4s. saying he had only paid three the
day previous. The defendant liken/ion made use of the most abusive
language, struck him several blows, and refused to have the house
until he was actually forced out by the servants. The Magistrate
convicted him in the full penalty of 101.; which not being able to pay,
he was committed to Tothil-tields Bridewell for two months.

To prove that illicit distillation is increasing in Ireland, eves
under the present severe system, it is but necessary to ex-
amine the Clerk of the Crown's certificate of the informations
returned to the last Assizes, the county of Donegal, for miss
demeanors, being about double the number at the former
Assizes. About la,oool. were imposed at the last Assizes, and
the gaol was so crowded, there being five persons for every
cell (intended for two at most), that the apprehension of lies.
tilential disease induced the Judge to leave above 59 persona
untried, because he had no prison to confine them in —the only
punishment be could inflict. In the gaols of Omagh and Derry,
it was equally bail, and the increase of prisoners even
vreater, there being seven to each eell in o.nagli. Such are
the consequences of those laws which punish the innocent for
the guilty! In a more retired part of the county, the ease of
widow Itroomliall, a respectable woman. npwa,rils of 80 years
old, seems particularly affecting. This anotlending widow,
whose age ought to base protected her, after being twice or
three times distrained, and her cattle sold, for an offence in the
town bind, of which she was as entirely ignorant, as incapable
o: preventing, was again stripped of the remainder of her
little property, and her house plundered of every article it
contained, even to her small pittance of oatmeal and poratoek,
and to the most trifling utensil. Nuts% ithstanding which, a
fourth time the Collector of Fines came to her house with sol-
diers. She pleaded in vain to spare her a bed, on which her
only child, a sick dau,:hter, lay ; but that indulgence she
could not obtain, without paying him 121. which completed ll*
slim of 2001. thus extorted from her in the course of twelve
months. __ _ . _

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Saturday se`nnight, the wife of John Turley, bailifi. at Shelve
Farm, Lenham, was safely delivered of three fine female chil-
dren, which were baptized, by the Rev. Brooke Edward
Bridges, after Jobs three daughters, Jernima, Kerla, and
Kereml:appneli—we suppose in intimation that this was a
visitation which required a considerable portion of Job's
patience.
The cause of the fire at Mr. Dunkin's, in Aldersgate-street,
last week, still continues enveloped in mystery. Thursday,
Mr. Dunkin complained to the Lord Mayor at the Matisim.-
Hottqe, that insinuations of a most prejudicial Hanna., had been
throwu out and "imitated against Wash—His Lordship said, he
was anxious and willing to devote his time to further investi•
gation, if any evidence could he produced; but it was impossi-
ble for him either to prevent or take cognizance of insinuations
or reports, however prejudiefal.
A writ of inquiry was executed on Tuesday, at the Gnildhaß
in Poole, in an action for defamation brought by Mr. It. Wills,
jun. against S. Johnson; the latter charged Mr. Wills with a
detestable crime, vi Melt was proved to be a complete fabrica-
tion, and totally void of truth. The Jury found for the plains
tiff--One Thousand Pomo!' Damages.
Tuesday,~ morning last the Brecoultill telegraph, near Os-
prime, aaidentally caught tire, and was burnt down, notwith.-
standing every exertion was made to save it.
On Sunday afternoon a dreadful accident happened in Queen's-
row Brampton. A boy, about three years old, named Leacha
having been left at play in the garden, unfortunately found his
way to the privy, and fell through the seat. About ten minutes
elapsed before the shocking cause of his disappearance was
discovered; and, when extricated, the poor infant was quite
dead. Mr. Anderson, a surgeon. for a long period, tried every
means to restore animation, but in vain.
'file following melancholy accident happened a few days
since :—As Mr. J. Limes, a respectable brewer, of Harpenden,
Hems, was attending the brewery, and giving instructions to
his men, lie imprudently leaned against a temporary rail over
the mash-toll ; when it gave way, and precipitated him into the
boiling liquid; he survived, in excruciating pain, only three
hours. Mrs. Lines was from home, and did not arrive in time
to see her husband :dive.
fell into a vat of boiling liquor, at the. brewhatise
of Messrs. Young and Co. of Norwich, and was so miserably
scalded that be expired the next morning.
On Tuesday J. Sharp fell down in the street in Leeds, and immedi-
ately expired. Ile had been dragging a cart, and it is supposed his.
violent exertions were the owatsion of his death.
The Duke of Beaufort met with an accident Friday se'nnight. which
providentially was not attended with tbtal exinsequences. Ile had
mounted, at his own dour in Grosvenor square, a favourite horse, high
in blood; the twined suddenly reared up, and fell backwards. the Duke
underneath. ilia t ;race, on being removed into the house, was imme-
diately bled by a Simseen, and put to bed. No bones were brokers ;
but his Grace complains much of his ribs.
Tuesday forenoon a bricklayer's labourer, of the name of David Shaw,,
employ,sl at the building of the Institution, Moor-tishls, fell from the
scaflithl, two stories high ; by which imeident his head was fractured,
and he was otherwise so shoskinaly bruised as to be taken to St. Bar-
tholomew's hospital, where he lingered till Wednesday, when he ex-
pired.
A melancholy act Meet happened on Tuesday last at Plymouth. As
Rnowling, a fisherman belonging to Torpoint, and his two mns, were
fishing bimetal Hameln:ad arid Penletspoint, a heavy sea earsteed the
boat, which they sweeeded in regaiuing, but were earns washed off.
and sunk to rise no more.
A fire brnkc out about six &clock on Thureday sennight, on the
premise. of Mr. Leach, of Barrowelvn, near Wallin]. which Vitally de-
stroyed the house, and the greater part of the furniture; happily no
lives were lost. The cause of this dreat.bil accident is unknown.
On Wednesday night last, a barge Laren with sante. belonaing to
Mr. Gouge Poolly, of Maidstone, was untintunanly sunk in tl c Mid-
way. at Pincup, in Leng Reach, near Gillingham ; and the calamity
wss dreadfully angmented by the less tit two men and a woman. (the
wife of one of the men) who were en. board at the time of the accident;
it is summed that these throe poor creatures were wiarimsl in sleep at
the moment of the cowl going dawn, and only *eked when escape
wee impossible. They were ull young. and the man and his wife 1
been married but a few montha. The unfortunate accident is auributol
to the heavy rain els Wednesday night, which was absorbed by the
stone, and by adding to its weight sent her to the bottom.
Tuesday's Gazate coatained a proalarnation oaring a re •a7d rf
Yin guineas for the apprehension et the persons who, with
blacked. entered on Friday seastight the faatory of Messrs. /teethe.% t
and Beaten, at Loaghborough. in the county at Leicester, lac traria
lecturers. and. atter waunding on; of the servants (a pew!) in the said
premises, demolished every frame in the building, destroyed all the
lace, aad did other damage.
A shower of hail destroyed. on the 10th of June, on the left lank of
the Dann'ie. near Munich in Bavaria, all ill, hops of the agricultunst
within a envie of to leagues. in the night bstwcen the 13th Aral Itaa.
there a as in the environs of Bamberg so terrible a fall of rain, that d •
fields belonging to 17 village; were entinly laid waste. Hon!rals of
cattle penslied, several houses were , cried then.
latuatainf, ante 15 C.,it L.sa,