The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-03 00:00:00

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WedneadayW. tigliea was charged ti tJ liie4ling a variety
of plass sliailes, the property of M. sat.: . Spode and Copeland,
Purtisg.il street, Liticutiet: Inn fiel.ls, a ntik were traced o
pier nar,,ker's shop, b here they had been pledged by the
priaoner, whoa wall COLnillint'd 1..51 I vial.
111241)0m lt.oolia war charged with ithering a forged 11.
8.1,04.1 or Lietand note to 3Ir.J. Whae, a grocer, ha Akers-
Letildltats, New-road, well knowidg it to be furged.—Com..
mated for a lA. .

.1. Hoy was leaught to the office under extraordinary cir•
cunistances, being caterers' with felonsionslystealing .t watch,
his own property. It lice:tied fro,* the testiminly of Mr.
‘Virodo a pawithruker, of iligr street, St..Gilea'ri, mid his
ehopman, that the prisoner pledged 4 watch a amt t time Alice
ut the shop for ; a few days since he called it! the shop
and asked to have 2s. more Cent on the watch ; which being
produced and examined by the riliopusanAe agreed to ad-
sauce the tummy, which hr did ;.and Aaiun. the Militia was
011 the coiner and the shop teeu -torireti his back, the pri-
soner the watch 4114 the 2s. ran off with Cote of
.thi to, mid made his escape. illr. Wood gave iliformaotou to
severid pawnbrokers of the circumstance ; and on 'lnesday
inurninegoe eas iisfaritied by oue.of theinoltat a mils i.uswee.
lug the description had effered a watch similar to the one de-
scribed for 04. On Mr. Wuod's shopinan going these, lie
found the mean and the watch to be the home, mnd lie was 111
• con:violence !mingle to Ilie•office. A dial c oily arose at hest,
owis.g to the watch being the prisoner's own properly.; how-
ever, it turnin' out that the watch WAS in the possession of
Mr. Wood, and that he had as iotereet of Mi. iti it, .anis air.
'Weed expressing his determination to prosecute the prisimer
a: an example, having hum, repeatedly robbed lately, Mr.
tie 11agistrate, failly.eurainitted him for trial.--,The
account the prisoner gave utitimself was rather extraordatary.
.He said be bad beets a Midshipimiu in his Mikiesty's navy,
. and hail serve.) .00 board the Shannon, laud was la the wttiou
with the Chreapeake, on which occienou he received a wound
on his head ; and when he &auk too much he WAS in a slate
or iletaugenteno, which was the cast when lie co iiiii titled the
offence. He now enjoyed a pensiuu of ;WI. a year in conse-
quence of receiving the wound.
F. Mate. although only a boy between 10 and 11 years of
age, as• charged with a capital Ale ace ineaking open the
shop f NII. W. Fos, a jewel/et, in the lieyinarket, by
of making a small hole in one ut' 1110 Sqllateh• of glass in the
shop windew, and ingenioosly putting a piece of emu;
wire, with a hook at the end,meal pulling over a silver peter,
in which he was detected just its he Was getting out the
1:1.4:11,4 were attached to the purse at the a aertut e,
Ile w. s tally committed.
'flearifilay two yonug gentlemen eireee.ittal thermelvese .to
Mr. Bu. 1.• .111.1 vr. Conant, thetattisig Nlagistrates.; one of
:hem stated himself to be Mr.ilVallace Hall, trona the ministry,
but at present pramishog in the office of Messrs. Alliston tutu
t 0., anoraks, 114 Freeman's-court, Caudill'. On Friday week,
:lie gentleman accompanying 111611 to the uttiee, utu two other
tiiends, went up the river in a boat. In the ..resting, a sin•
lent storm of ram, Omelet, end lightning canoe cis about ....Veil
o'clock; they were milking for Putney hi idge to I ,Ise shelter,.
end observing on the Fenian: side a beaten track herding to
:he shore, they alighted from the bout, and too!. shelter nuarr
▪ tree, a few yards trout the water, '.'.here they manaitied
deride the morn,. As it was clearing, anti they wet e about
to Toone to their boat, they were surrounded ay a geutleman •
annual with a double hat-retied gici, and five 'tem.)? senorita ;
one of them appeared to be a groom, and was armed with a
PitehlUrk, the other four were armed with Indian Otaheite
clubs. The gentleman armed with a double has relied gun
was, he miderstoud, Lord ii46644114g11, WWI the tacit In livery
his sett aut.. Hag Lordship dernuaded to know wlt.tt they
weir: doing florae. Mr. Hail caplet/Iml to his Lordship Ike
cause of their being there, and they-were Moon to depart aud
✓eturn 10111 W 140,11. This was nut amtielartury to his Lord
ship, who &Tiered that lie and Itio companitun should answer
fir their conduct at Row Street Office; they espreeserl their
to motored there, though they were hot conscious
oi6avto¢ iliiite any thieg that. was cogeizable these, as the
extent of what tti,.y had /Line (Nail(' Hat possibly amnion to
Mote than a trespass, and that there must he run:octet ;dile
'unto even about Ilia!, us they La,l oat tan over rosy truce or
bedee ; awl tie Wave where t .t) had taken shelter under site
tree was perlectly open Gum the river.
Mr. flail stated tole& Lordship. 111A1 belted if" el"")'"1"""
were p.16114'4111014 Hr piratical to licei his card with his name
Hod a tars es ; tits couroaatuoie Mot the *Atka, but his Lord ;hip •
donut. tutu erpremmilitt i . Me of his companions ',eh ei ell
111.11 W ail. MllOl.. a magi/Owe for the
r ty, and who wink' prove Ise was the pcieuti he eePs i
to be. en this did not aim:list:l his Lorti'tic