The National Register.
London, England, 1818-07-13 00:00:00

LAMItEIM

Wednesday John Watson, a young man whose address and
appearance bespoke that of respectability, was brought tip
for final examination, charged, in several instances, with
beluga common 'meter of forged notes. and defrauding the
Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
Mr. Samnel Henry Leah, watchmaker, of 17,01 d—sheet.
St. Luke's, being sworn, said, that on the evening of the 2111,
of April, the prisoner came to his shop dressed in file!fe a
different style to-Attain which be now appeared before the
Magistrate, and bargained for a silver watch, worth four
guineas, mid offered 31. 10s. for it, which being refused, he
left the shop; bnt shortly after returned, and tendered 31.
lOs. for the watch, which was received, and he went away :
soon after, it was ascertained that the three notes were all
counterfeit;. information was instantly forwarded to the po-
lice, with a description of the prisoner's person, and he was
taken in auseelly, at which time -.a person •in a drew similar,
to that which the prisoner wore on purchasing the watch was •
with hut lie escaped. Prosecutor identified the pri-
soner. 4,:everal other witnesses under similar circumstances
identified. him. The Solicitor of the Bank attended in support
of the prosecution ; and also Mr. Christens*, the inspector,
mouth proved the whole of the notes produced to be forge.
ries.

The prisoner protested that he was innocent, and exclaim-
ed, " My life has been sworn away." He was fully committed
THAMES POLICE.

(Charles Williams, dealer in mariac•atores, and who it was
stated 11.1 d hitherto borne a re.speetable character, residing
in King street, Rotherbithe, was ellarged willubaving received
$ cwt. of rope ship tackling, the property of John Walker,
a pilot, knowing the same to have been stalest. The facts, as
they appeared in evidence, are as 4.allases:--On the 24.Je11y
inst. Mr. Walker left the rope in the hold of a cuttereavith
the hatches down and properly secnred. On the 4th he
found the hatches forced open, and the property stolen; he
gave information at this office, and subsequently ascertained ,
that a quantity of rope answering the same description was
in the possession of Mr. %Valium's, whose premises he caused'
to be searched, and there fo ttttt I it, beside a quantity of other
rape of which he could.give no „account. On Monday last,
the case came Oil to be heard, and Mr. Williams came for-
ward voluntarily: but the ll.sgistrate, on bearing the ease,
committed him till now, when he was finally Isrostglit up.—
Mr. Alley and Mr. Price attended to defend him, and strong_
ly .contended that the property came honestly into his pos-
session 4 that he bad purchased it of a man, whom however
they were unable to bring forward; but they had. a bill of
parcels and A receipt for 301-19 s. 4d., which was paid for
the rape. The Magistrate said he would give the defendant
an opportunity of clearing sop the imputation against him at
the Sessions ; but he would require him to find two sureties
in lOW. each, ansl himself in. 2001. to answer to the charge.--
A second charge was preferred against him, under the bum-
boat act, for having at the same time in Isis possession a
quantity of rope of which be could notgive alproper account.

IN QUEST ON • PRISONER IN NESVCIAT Inquisition was
taken at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, before Thomas Shel-
ton, Esq. coroner, in the Keeper's room. at Newgatc,.on the body of
Patrick Rawlins, aged about n years. Joseph Sevier. an assistant
to Mr. Box,. surgeon of Newgute, said, that the deceased had been
six weeks in the irifinuary, and had .died from a dewy of nature.—
The jury were about to return their verdict upon the above evidence,
when an officer of the prison said that a gentleman who had viewed
the body bad remarked that there were some very singular appear-
ances upon it. The gentleman alluded to came Marren!, and said
that he did make some /observations upon the arms of the deceased.
which.appcared to have had sonic cord or string tied very tight round
them, and round the body. The coroner ordered tbe.assastaat sur-
geon to go and re-examine the body; having done so, he returned in
a short time, and said that there were deco marks on the arms and
body ; and upon inquiry, he found that the deceased had tied him.
self, a shorttime prior to his death, with a silk cord, and said that he
should never be able to die unless he had the cord upon his arms.—
Mr. Brown, the keeper of Newgate, said that the deceased was com-
mitted Newgate about tame months ago, for the term of three
years, upon a charge of,an assault upon a girl : he had several times
before been convicted of similaroffences. lie was.a schoolmaster in
the neighbourhood of Hatton.garden. Verdict—Natural death.
On Saturday week a disturbance took place in the Fleet Prison,
occasioned; by a party of drunken prisoners ; when Mr. Nixon, the
.keeper, judged it necess try to lock four of them up in the strong-
:room. Their imprisonment in this place gave offence to another
,party. who determined to disturb the prison until. the men were
liberated; and this they did by breaking the lamps, and rolling lure
stones in the staircases. On Sunday moruinno• Mr. Nixon iiberateil
the,originaltrisoners..and confined in their places amt.-tithe ring-
leaders of this seuend tumult. '('he last so courmed tle'ermined ton
to remain in their degraded situation ;.and at tuitiklt on 14t25;,./
they broke the iron liars that contioed Meal, llowered theirselves
by their sheets into the yard of tl.c prison.tratio. their v. ay, t their
respective moms, and went wised. On'Mr. Nixon being ofortned
of this on Tuesday morning, lie • rent to tic Secretory u:. State's
Office, and a detachment of the 3d regiment of Guards were ordered
to his assistance, and will remain in the prison until the strong-room
is rendered inure secure. The three delinquents were carried back to
the strong-room, an.l oa Toesilay evening continued there, with
eight soldiers to watch the windows, from which the prisoners have
'lung a Hag, andleig!it more soldiers guard the door of this apartment.
The eliapel.of the prison is for the preseut converted into is barrack-
-Wain.

Wednesday ninwirg tV,I) fellows, isawio,, the home of Mr. Good.
liff, 12, Southampton eared.. CainkorwS, so: .erved..a mahogany
writing dc,k At3ndill just inbitle. the trindow.of a front room. the
sash of.which .was thrown up. A female servant was in the garden
;n front of the house, and, in order to draw her attention away while
their teloatou., project war carried into execution, one of them went'
into the fore court of the next house, and entered into convenasiom
with her over the separating wall, while his accomplice drew the
desk from is place and decamped. licAdia other valuable articles.
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