The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-08 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

501

The prisoner having complained, on the preceding day, that he
was friendless, and without the means of employing a Counsel, one
of the Magistrates, residing at Woodtbrd, with great humanity,
ordered hint a Cuunsel at his own expellee.
HERTFORD.
firwat Nos v. IlAstirfit...—This was an a to rerever perraltles
on the Ulnae Laws, for using an engine to destroy the game, at Berk•
hamstead, in this county. .
The oefendont was a person keeping a higler's cart. and the f
as proved against him, were as follow :—Smith and another, two games
keepers, found him in the middle of a field at Berkhatnstead, at three
o'clock in the morning. They found the gales of the field netted, and
forty-five snares placed in the hedges for catching hares. They imams
(Lady seized him, and :plied what he was doing there. He replied, •
hat he had quarrelled with his wile that morning, and came out foe .
die purpose 1 hanging himself ; but he was in the middle of the field,
not near any tree, and on searching hint they found navy implements
or strangling hares, but nothing well calculated to-strangle himself.
In his pocket were found se.eral bag nets, and a hay net, all used for
snaring game ; but his defence was, that these nets were used by him .
in his trade as a higler, fir confining pigs and poaltry is his cart.—
The Jury, found a veldi t for one penalty of 51
NORTHAMPTON.
At these Assizes, which ended on Wednesday night, Robert Ken-
-fall, azed :;3, and the well-known nutiham, alias Macy White,
ated 3a;. were found guilty of stealing divers bags of letters tram
the Leeds mail coach, on the '_6th of October last, sentenced to
Death, and ordered for esecution. Mary Howes, indicted as an
accessary after the fact, was acquitted. The trial of these prison-
ers occupied a crowded court from eight o'clock on Wednesday
,norning until ten at night : 38 witnesses were examined, and the
Judge (Thompson) was three hours and a half in summing, up. The
acquittal of the woman arose from an objection to the indictment
taken by her Counsel, founded on an Act passed in the last session
of Parliament, requiring, that an accessary after the fact shall be
arraigned in the county in which the sauce was committed : and
her offence did not arise until the other prisoners load travelled out
of Northamptonshire to her dwelling in Honti3gdonshire. Mary -
White has been for more than fifteen years a most active. and suc-
cessful depredator. He was, in the slang' language, what is termed
a complete out end out man ; Jso species of rubbery came amiss to
him. He was :if/fished housebreaker, .akpci an adroit Mistier. .Four
times he bas been cast for death; thrie times he has escaped 'from
the Hulks! exemplifying the old proverb, " that the greatest rogues
have frequently the greatest luck."
WINCHESTER. •
AIDING PRISONERS OF WAR.—Richard Welsh stood indicted
for unlawfully, wilfully, and felonionsly aiding and assisting Gaspard
Henry Van Tilburgh, and others, then being alien enemies of his
Majesty, and prisoners of war, on parole at Andover, to escape
from his Maje,ty's dominions.
Gaspard Henry Nan Tilborgh stated, that he is a native of Brus-
sels ; that in the month of September last, he was a prisoner of war
on parole at Andover. Oat the Ist of October, about seven in the
evening, he left Andover, in company with seven other officers, and
on turning into a cross road, they were met by two men named
Lodge and Cialkforal, who were furnished with two horses and some.
provisions. They accompanied these men about six miles, when, on
the signal of a whistle, the prisoner came up with three other
bor*, wherenpon, witness and the other fugitives, with Lodge
and Culleford, mounted two on each horse, and proceeded by cross-
roads towards Ringwood ; the prisoner at the bar attending on
foot as their guide. They arrived at Kingwood about five o'clock•
the next morning, but not choosing to go into the town, were cons
ducted to a neighbouring wood by Welsh and Lodge, where they
remained until three o'clock, at which time Welsh and Lodge
brought them bread, cheese, beer, and rum ; and, having again left
them. returned about eight o'clock its the evening, with Culleford
and the horses : they then proceeded towards Christeherch, in the
same manner as before. Welsh still attending on foot. They
resched Christchurch about three o'clock in the morning; when
Culleford took away the horses; Webb awl Lodge conducting them
to the coast. Welsh then went to look eat for a boat ; but not find-
(ling any, the officers retreated to it wood hard by, where provisions
were brought them by Csilleforal and Lodge After remaining there
until the 12th of October, a boat was engaged, and they embarked
for Cherbourg ; but the wind proving contrary, they were obliged
to reran, having' been several Weirs at sea. The officers had given
Lodge anal Culleford 30. and bargained to give them 600_goineas
inure when they Rhonld reach the French ,f this
statement was supported by a varn.ty
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returned a verdict of Guilty.—Fourteen

h coast. The troth of this
r% ':'lie Jury
years transportatieu.