The National Register.
London, England, 1816-12-16 00:00:00

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chit lie saw the riotous condect a siivei ai ,e, rseas in the mob, or having orered it pism: as t pledge at a fewilbrokei's 'hop,
aneeigat wham was Sirnmons. was brought before his Lordship again on Priday.
4. 'olollann Hart said he saw the prisoner neer Mie Mansion- It will be remembered that the prisoner said on Wertnes-
house on the riohday with a musket, and that he appeared day, that his mother had sent him with the pistol to the pawn-
very active. broker's, being pressed by her necessities, and desired by
Simmons here raid, that Hart had declared a falsthold, in her hitthand, whose agate is Beecher, to dispose of the pistol
coaisequeltes of his (Simmons) having raised to accept of the in that manger for her relief. •
ieitnesire assistance in procuring a ship for him.: • The prisoner's mother [Miring condensed this statement,
Hart said lie could not be mistaksn in the person of the and declared that her Wm had acted under her direction, a
man. He took no further sotiuse of hint et that tithe, than warrant was issued against Beecher, who was supposed to
that of observing to.him, that he knew bow to handle a mils- have obtained the pistol as arms of all kinds had been obtain-
ket well : but having hears; that a black men had been very ed on the day of the riot. dapwell, the officer, immediately
riotous,- and WAS wanted by the Lord Mayor, it occurred to went in search of him, hut was unsuccesefig. Reacher, how-
him that Simmons was the man. ever, ou Friday made his appearance at the Mansion House,
Cashman was put to the her. and declared that lie had called upon his Lordship the too.
Mr. Griffin was still of opinion that Cashmartivras the per- meat he saw his name in the papers. 'His wife was then (le-
sion who entered Mr. Beckwith's shop, awl laid 11014 of hint sired to repeat her accownt of the manner In which site got
under the Ipipression, he supposed, that he was the master of the pistol into her possession. Her steternent, the leading
the lunise. .. feature of which was, that her husband said he had bought
Edward Hone, foraman to Mr. Reckwith,saw a sailor.very the pistol, and that he had given it to her with the above-
active in carrying ant muskets, but could not swear that Cash- mentioned direction*, was not contradicted by Beecher, who
mail was the person. . admitted that he might have used that deception. He, haw.
Mr. Lidvard, of Newgate-street, was in Mr. Beckwith's ever, assured his Lordship that he had received the pistol
home et tise time of the riot In saamer-street. Cashman from It young man named 'Manias Gill, who remarked at the
was the ascend mass that collared Mr. Griffin. The witness time he pat it into his hands, that his father was the owner of
r:ent to rescue Mr. Griffin, Who sold to the mob, from a pro- it upwards of 12 months.
dent motive, that he was one of them, and, that he knew no- '1 lie Lord Mayor having received intelligence that Gill had
thing of the matter. .Witness funnd it necessary to tire at given the pistol to Beecher, against whom nothing appeared
the swab, one of whom was wounded hi the shoulder by the but his mere possession of it, did not think it necessary to de-
discharge. The wounded man dropped, hut was taken up tarn him. Reacher assured his Lordship that be world d i
by his comrades. all in his power to aid the officers in the apprehending Gill,
Fagg, the niarsitainsan, apprehended Cashman at the Ex- against whom a warrant was Issued.
change, where he appeared with a gun on Isis shoulder. His Lordship regretted that Vincent had been a sufferer so
The Lord Mayor recollected Cashinsui in flue crowd long, aid ordered him to be discharged.
Cashman said, it was his intention to join the mob that A Serjeant of the Veteran Battalion, on gurad anise Tower,
morning, because he was starving. Melted tried ever) thing ; informed the Lord Mayor, that he was ordered by his coin-
ages sent irons police-office to police-office, without rectal.- mending officer to introduce to his Lordship a gess:lessen who
In; relief: the preservation of his life, and not riot, was his had some important particulars relating to the riots to corn-
aim. umnicate.
Hooper was put to the bar. 'lite gentleman, a Mr. Rutledge, of the Crescent, Minorics,
Mr. John Hodges, of Paternoster-row, seised him in the then said, that on the day of the riot he was passing the
act of stooping, near the north-east gate of the Exchange. Tower, towards his house, in his way from the core-market;
Ile expressed a wish to speak with the Lord Moyor, and the that he saw a great crowd assembled there, its couseqnence of
witness brought him under the Piazza, having first taken a which he was obliged to remain for half an hone on the spot;
brace of pistols' from underneath his coat: they were primed that during that time he saw two men, who appeared to be
and loaded ; the one contained slugs, the other a bullet. prominent characters in the mob, advance to the wooden-
Preston was next brought to the bar. He advanced with railing nest the ditch, and address a number of soldiers who
great boldness and intrepidity, and from the difficulty of pro- were on the bastion : that in the course of their speeches,
curing his mind libation of gin, owing to his confinement, which he was not near enough to hear, they presen'ed pistols
seemed is much better health than when we saw him at Spa at the soldiers, as if it was their intention fo tire at them.
Fields, , One of those men, the informant said, was tall, very thin
and was dressed in a light-coloured great-coat, light-
' shorter. - ' -

Mr.•Kinnersley deposed; that he saw the prisoner In the
Minories on the day of the riots, an the midst of the mob.
He saw him thrice, and remembered his features with the
greatest disiinetnets. The mob in which he was, was shunt-
ing and Meting at the Life Guards. The witness Vlll5 pro-
ceeding with his evidence, when the prisoner, apparently
more undone to make a epecch then a confession, interrupted
him by saying, that he acknowledged every thing now charged
against him, anti would anticipate ercry thing that could in
truth be aubeenneatly stated. He would enter into no de•
fence of hi itself —he relied en the purity of his motives, tad
the -ectiitide of Isis actions. Ho v he was in the
the

visaged,. „
blue waistcoat, and {pp-boots: the other et, full-Need,
pitted deeply with the small-pox, stooped much, and eas
dressed in a dark coat.
The Lord Mayor 'said the description of the latter person
corresponded with that of a nian who had been observed
conducting himself with remarkable activity amongst the
rioters, but wise had not been taken nor even folly described.
At the desire of his Lordship. Mr. Rutledge went to Bow.
street in order to make the above communication, and to as-
certain whether the former person was the elder Watson.

a;-kihosiledged
Miseries an the Monday of .e riots, and bad as doubt he THE IVAT9ONS.
was seas there by the tientleman who deposed to that erect I Bow Seneer.—No intelligence bed been reeeived at this
bat he was not there tor any end that d d blame, or office on Thursday, or at the Secretary of State's Office for
jnotified soospicion : business drew him to that quarter; and the Home I)epartusent, of the appreleanslea eyeing Watson.
he bail the gratification, while there; erdischarging one of the liifenmations are pouring in fro* raises trptarten at both
most important duties of a citizen: he saw ,twu misguided pieces daily, bat they all have hitherto garnet' out to be •
seen with anus in their hands, who might have become the conjecture met suspicion. The greatest enarebmis are
victims of the military force; We took the weapons from them, by the officers and others belonging to both .does, eight
threw them away, and thus saved the men, at whose escape day, in Loildan and the Country.
he eejoietA. Mr. Smathwaite, the keeper of die Lawhig,_llar livery-
The Lord Nlavor, after this speech, reminded the prisoner, stables, is Blackfriars Road, who let a haul IsTheitas Bat-
that it was in evidence against him, that he not only was in ler, who was taken into custody at Hatfieldealkesiny sigis4
the Nineties with the mob, but in the waggon at Spa Fields on suspicion of being your Watsont attended-40Thursday.*
along with its aeknowledged leaders. the offiee ; but Butler had not arrived in Leifilses. Isekorblei
Mr. Bradford, who saw hint there, deposed to this fact. Lord Cranhourne, the committing magistritiiim
Preston did not dispute or deny this evidence. tie was se. shire, was not at home on Wednesday, to adfilierise hit its
move! to Loodon. Mr. Susisrthwalte will enaction a teem
c rotary to the committee that managed the business of the
day the
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Spa Fields meetings. He acknowledged he was in the wag-
gon, front which the pretended conspirators descended, but
pose scion, which he admitted he bad got *Mons tbsrioters-g
he was there exerting his in tlueuee to preventriot, and giving
V.ondon, we' t brought to the office, but did not undergo an.
Lk ails im. to behave. ord.' i ly too l peaceably.
Mr. K innersley repeated his depositioe Chet he saw Preston other examination.
anion?: the mob in the Minories, wink they were booting nod An Italian was brwgbt is the Aloe, charged with stabbing
insulting the Lift Hoards, and wounding • porter employed in Covent Garhten market,
at the Northamberland Arias pnbliehonse, in Great Russell-
The Lord Mayor told hint be had only one thing mere to street, on Wednesday night, at half past la o'clock.
:1.1, him, and he wauld hear his confession on that point, it' lie it appeared, that who, the pertimwete et the wale
. ha.a to ',sake it volentsirily. It was in evitizaCe before him, a dispute arose, when the prisoner stabbed the porter basso
that he (the prisoner/ ma, in the waggon at Spa Fields—that rigid hand with a sharp instrument, and &Hermit* op
i.e was *tail passing Cheapside—that he joined the mob there sagely bit his right thumb thecae' with kis toe& iis.
- -that he walked with it toast the Mention Heine—and that strionent was not found, but there is every rogue Mt
he teas with it when eontinitting acts of violence in the Mino- he threw it into the street. es be was aboin iv. vskes"..oths
rics. lie would now ask what he to say about the colours door. A surgeon declared that the wound had le•MtpllnWelt
and the cockades used on the occasion. with a sharp-cutting instrument. ... ,
'flue prisoner answered, that there were many of these co- The prisoner could not speak a word of IWO& t• bit
lotus made, that lie conceived there was no harm iu them, theottgli an interpreter, a countryman, hasald the Waparitimd
that they were made toiler The itisftetion of the committee. been inflicted with a broken glass; ant Set with a slurp=
It' ith regard to his pessing ateapstile,. he was srotoare but he thug iustrument. He bad *sly arrived la tuddnie a few
to glit. go that way front Newgate-street as well as by as, from his own country, Mr. Binge, the matistiStee helairtell
ettier road. ' • whit such a desperate character was debar in this Country?
the Lord Ma)or remanded the prisoner till Saturday. which was answered, by saying he was ease into this cooretty j'
The prisoner replied, that he required so defeace. He to make images from casts he had brought wit* him. The
1:01 mimed mad^ up his mind; be leld 014 to Sa.Y, that he magistrate advised him to return to his own country :he also
acted conseientioitioly. All was dune openly, cud all was id- ceustired Mr. Stacey, the landlord of the house, &chairing his
ready known. . - lion.e open at that fate hour.
at' ilson, a Life Guards when, who wan stationed at the Minn- It is feared, (rain what the shwas sida, the peeler will
ries, was ecestionetl as to the etiortitet of Simmer's. The wit- lose-the use of his hand. The Italian was ordered to be coos-
lit'ss took the sword which Steepens ie,te brandishing, but twitted, but an arrangement was made between the pasties—
t., fore he cool(' du NO: he reecho(' 2 blow from hint, which the prisoner was to pay the surgeon, and to awake a comprn
cut through his coat awii.wahtemn. Witness struck Simmons sation to the porter. .
with the dat of his swordt• sum,' which the Litter gave up his Gut Sitors.—An application was made teethe transfer of
wealu•ih. several publicans' licenses, in the parish of St. Paul, Covent
.I.IIP Peltall found upon 11401,erwere PrudnerJ ; and Wit- Garden ; among tbese'appeared the landlord' of •the /Slakes-
ii on Mille, shinizaan to Mr. Packer, liothoru, stated, that he peeve Tavern, nearly opposite I)rary-lane theatre. Irthe ma-
. 41.1 them an Saturday week, to a permit' who said his name giotnites, Sir N. Conant and Mr. Weal., (Injected to it, on I
was Widsoii. ground, that tiers had bees a broacher the under eking
llouperssid Watson gave the pistols to bins on the Sanday at the time whom theMeessie was raised. It was whore 40411 k
prey iOll3 to file 1314*Nlig. a to tern only, whereas it bad been asceirtahlad_. by etsahe do-
Will'ang 31iMa sent, that the person who bought the pistols ministration of the magistrates, that it hid Noe used at a
returii..l :AI en hone anti.. Mad and purchased another hi ACC. common gin-shop: the wander was thereltworeetsed,-espy.
Thewttaem idearitied the motel fewest' erns Wittman senior as cialle- as it was strongly suspected that this house had got bite
one of them . :and tint Woad is Mr. Beek WI nits shop, and with ate possession of a gin distiller.
which Mr. Pi.itt was wounded, was the other. lir traced the W. Atkins, a sailor, complained of a fraud which bad beep
notes given in I,aysitent fur them with the moue of Wattles en practised oa him. He produced a watch (apparently jest/.
theta, which the witness had himstif written. oiled), a chain, and seal (apparently set with &cameo), which
Hooper said be received •the pistols at Na. Ir, .Greystoek• lie stated were knocked dawn tablet at an auction mars. near
place, fess young Watson; • /heater was .priseenr At, the time. Temple liar, for SI. W. 11141. and WI. Id. duty, which were
All die prisoners were remanded till Saturday. • scarcely worth ism. He wasteld that the only remedy would
Viocent, who whs on Wednesday euraincd upon a charge ire as action against time **cilium.