The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-24 00:00:00

DECLARATION OP TfiE LONDAN .111111%

Jost before the Ignites) Jary left the Count, the Foreman.
Mr. P. Jacob, addr, -sett their Lordships. Before, he said,
the Jury quitted the hos, the:, weir anxious that a paper
which he .and his brother Jo') moot hail signed, should be
read and handed up to their Lordships, all it contained
nothing of un offensive description.
The Learned Judge how e,l assent, and Mr. Jacob read the
following declaration in au inapressi%e manner
%Ve, the Loudon Jury. being oat the eve of teriainatine
our most painful duties, most respectfully wiah to represent
1.• your Lordships, that the verdicts which we have 4i vett an
the evidence whirls 1144 been submitted to Its, will, \A lien
reported to his Majedy'sPrivy Conned, only he considered as
the decision 'Atonable linen. That we are convinced that all
sanguinary punishments have not only. hail a tendency to
destroy those principles of hnmatrity whirl, it is our ditty to !
cultivate. but that, to their frequent occurrence, they render
the heart callous. One in strusee of which has brim hnought
refure es, of a youth having picked a gentleman's poriset
while the dreadful sentence of the law was carrying into
effect nn three unfortionat r! persons. We disclaim all %%rum
ary ideas and principles—' We live to improve, or we live in
vain.' With these feelings and sentiments, we most earnestly
request, that when Corse cases :are reported, you will erge
this divine inktuction—• I will have mercy and no'. sacri-
fice.'

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" Signed by the Foreman and his brother Jurymen."
TUESDAY.
There were two capital convictions this day; one for
stealing in • dwelling twine to the amount of 40s. and up.
wards ; the other for burglary. The tither cases were nosof
importance.
NVEDNESDAY.

William Carr, whc. a isWriaYsa.:o-, was tried capitally for
shooting at William ftidingsley intent to kill him, and
who was found gnilty of levelling Mei:rect. was now again
put to the bar. charged with basing stolen a verlety of ear-
penters' tools, from a workshop in the nursery pounds of
Messrs. Colville and Co. in the King's-road.
Robert Perrot was the first witness called. He proved
that on Saturday, the dill of the present month, he left a bag
of carpenters' touts at Messrs. Colville's nursery .grounds, lu
the work shop.
William Billingsley was next called, and stated, that he was
appointed to, guard ,Messes. groiteds, and for that
purpose slept in the worn. adjoining Cie wink shop. On 111,
Haw ring of Monday, the lath, lie heard a sue in the
shop between !wo and 'lime o'clock. He got tip and sass
the prisoner in the shop. Witness immediately levelled a
blunderbuss loaded with slugs at him. The prisoner, how-
' ever, sei zed Billingsley by the throat with one Intel, and
pushed the muzzle of the piece aside with the other. A
scuffle ensued, and the prisoner succeeded in getting pea.
session of the blunderbuss. He then delibr ratsly levelled
the piece at witness, am! pulled the trigger, but it fortu-
nately missed fire. 'the pi ironer then ran away, and :vas
pursued by witness. On coming to some• railings, he threw the
piece over them. After another desperate struggla the
pi isouer was ultimately secured.
The blunder buss ssas found by a watchman on Monday
mut ning. Maybank, a watch-house keeper, searched the pri•
sorter, and found upon him a crow bar, which upon examines
Oen, exactly fitt:d the place where the workshop tloor was
broken open.
The Jury Mond the prisoner—Guilty.
The Common Sergeant told the prisoner that he was much
too had a character to remain in this country.
The prisoner having been tried capitally on a former day
for sheeting with intent to kill, and a point having been re-
served for the opiuion of the Judges, the judgment on the
present conviction will be of course postponed until the de-
eisioa of the Judges is known.
-- Wiggins was l'ollViell'd of stealing 42531 b. of po..atoes,
the property of William White, Esq. of Ease* farm, near Ed-
snontue.

POLICE.

GULDIIALL.

Ilachael Jackson, a; utTortiTiiiite restate, was examined
for uttering a crowd 11. note in payment for • wedeV nig ring,
at the shop of Mr. Smith, jeweller, 27, Barbican, vi here, cm
being asked her address, site gave a fictitious account both
as to place and name. Lu her.defence, she stated her unfor•
tanate situation, and said she had received it Pions a gentle
man, whose name and address she was ignorant of. As she
was not known as a common titterer, and no °Oki. notes
were found on her, she Of AS ilimitarget:. It is worthy of er,
mark, that this is the third instance at this office, within a few
days, in which women of the prisoner% description have made
precisely the same detunce, when under examination for a
similar criuet.

HOW-STREET.
Tuesday morning, %Valliant Jetatings was brought to tile
Office upon a most extraordicary charge--Mary Conden
stated, that she lireJ StewarVaseents, Drury Lane, and got
her living by attending in the Piazza. in Civent Garden, tosell
ulna!), &e. •She had known the prisoner about a fortnight,
and en Wednesday last lie called upon tier at her iesid ace,
and directly idler he was gone, she inissed a water•cock and a
quantity of leaden pipe. .In the evening she saw him dartbi.
when Fill' I !target' him with having 'telt n the c •ek.anl.plp?,
which lie denied. On the follurring morning Ws called upon
her at her salmi') ettutil, w hen lie had with hint% basket ;he told
her he lire got some pi:tent coals fur her, which would burn
without making any snit II or smoke, and they would make a
tine tire for her when she got Iwnse; site looked at them, and
they did not appear like coal•, hut pieces or lumps of bkick
to utt. She tack them home with her. In her pat lour were her
suit 'fltoitias,l4 yearsolege, Mary, her daughter, It years of
age, nod Maly Ann Corinick, a Chilli two year: and a Wield,
u 1 %%hum he had the care. Sean after her return home, she
put a piece of the black stuff upon her6re to try how it wonl4l
omit it it was only the size of a small egg ; it instantly caught
lieelikeg+mma del , and ft% plottet!,. hod cututatootcat ad to 411 e
remalnilet at the tilackctntf,whn•h Alt Ita•t inifurtuttately {dared
vrilltifi *Mont hall a yard of the fire a most dreadful taitturiuit
took plare, whirl' tided the room with tire and smoke,. gad site
and all titti-eilltdren experienced considerable Injury. . Her
fianove pdgo, was taken to the .workkoue for assistance,
wtue alts coutimu4s inAt vcypeattarrJusstatc, Meta:dive.

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The infant was iu a shocking inangle.l mate, that it was
inken in a he.pital for assi•tance, %%herr bile langlitslied of, the
he had I eteive.l iiliSator,lly morning, when Ate rh.
.1111. pri,uuer na,committrdfurtrial.—(hi 1%. rhiestlay
411 11111/1101111/11 V 1,44 taken on the body of the dere:v....l iniaist,
when 1111 ,11.1 y, after an hones consultation, eturued a verdict
oI 4Vurndatighter.
HATTON GARDEN.

Tit e nut/Peep Citii.n.—Monday night, Ann Symons, the
midwife, was brought up on a Bench IVarratit ; a true bid
having been found against her,at the Sessions in Glee ken well,
ter exposing a male bastard child iii the sheet, *1 already
stmed. She w.ts required to give 21 mom+ notice of bail,
l.,rself in OM. and earls of her suretie.. in 11101. each. She
govt. the mimes of Mr. Lamb, a loti!tler, mid Mt. White, an
aartioneer, as her intended bail ; but the Solicitor tor the
prosecution objected to Mr. White. MIA. Symons was tkea
conveyed to prison.