The National Register.
London, England, 1814-06-05 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

Tuesday, Robert Hill was indicted for feloniously receiving three
as.es, the property of the Right Hon. Lord Ellenborongh. The
as es were stolen on the will 'if March by two men of the names of
Oddy and Purvis' the latter of whom was convicted at the last
Kingston Assizes. They were sold to the prisoner much under
vahte
at the door of a pnblic-honse in Charter-I louse-late, and one of the
animals was afterwards found in the prisoner's possession. In de-
fmce, the priSoner said he had bought them of a man named Wil-
liams, at Cvoydon,—
Same day, the Records r passed sentence of death on the follow-
ing priqmeis, viz : -
James Stanfuld, Samuel Knight, and James Knight, for ste:diug
in a dwelling-house ; Iletiiy Lye, for burglary; John Field, alias
Jonathan Wild and Michael Bcrry, for a similar offence ;
William
Marshall, alias Mashiter, for a burglary ; Thomas Alexander, for
sty aling goods privately in a shop; Mary Dnim, and Mary Leonard,
tur ; William Pritchard, for stealing in a dwelling-house;
and Francis Turner and John Robinson, for like offences.
Isaac Saunders, Andrew George, John Williams, Henry Hart,
James Bainbridge, and Thomas Jones, were ordered to be tranl-
ported far life.--Amelia Hatfield, William Powell, John Hickey,
and Robert Hill, for 14 years.—Ann Riley, James How, Julio
Nicholas Brown, Charles Edward COX, Barbara Nichols, Charles
Frederick, John Newman, John Fullwell, Robert Tucker, Eleanor
Brown, William Atkins, and Charles llarns, for seven years.—Two
were sentenced to be imprisoned in Clerkenwell Bridewell for two
years ; six for one year, and twelve for six calendar months ; twelve
were sentenced to various periods of imprisonment in Newgate; six
were fined I‘. each, and discharged; seven were ordered to be pri-
vately whipped, and fourteen were discharged by pioclanral ion.

Friday, a man by the name of Bevis, of Hook, near *FiteWield,
Hants, who -had been married only a few weeks, tilt his wife's
throat in so shocking a manner as to occasion her instant death.—
Insanity is the cause acsigned for this most dreadful act.
James Pearce, a haw kcr et pamphlets, is committed to Ilchester
gaol, Somerset, for the murder of James Elliott, landlord of Rack-
house, about seven miles from Taunton.. The prisoner had been
drinking in the house the whole day (Friday se'imight), and becom-
ing riotous, the landlord endeavoured to appease him ; and about
eleven o'clock urged him and his companion to go to the beds pre-
pared for them. Shortly after this, the prisoner took down a fowl-
ing-piece tom a considerable height on the wall, and discharged the
contents into the body of the deceased, near the groin, and he al-
most instantly expired. Verdict, Wilful Murder. 'rue deceased has
lett 4 wife and three children.
Some villains broke into the cottage of an infirm old man, named
Bloodworth, at a v illage a few miles from Peterborough, in the
night of Saturday se'nni4lit, and entered the room in which the old
man and his wife wane iu bed. After demanding their money, they
plundered a chest, of which :hey obtained the key, of bills and cash
to the amount of 501. the bard earnings of these poor people.
ExEcurtoNs.--Monday morning was executed, in Irma of the
Debtor's door, Newg,atc, W. H. Botterill, who was convicted at
the last A PHI Sessions of tattling a forged Bill of Exchange.—The
fate of this main innate young man is an awtnl lesson to the Whs.
cretion of youth. and of the eonsequerce of improper company.
linsuspiriona anti unguarded, lie became a prey to the allurements
of the designing, and he has fallen a victim in the dawn of manhood.
He was only twenty-three years of age, eight of which he has served
in the Navy.
On Saturday last, Wm. Wilson, convicted at the Cheshire As-
sizes. of setting fire to a barn belonging to Mr. Butler, of Tiverton,
in that county, underwent the dreadtid sentence of the law behind
the city gaol. He appeared. to the last, perfectly indifferent to his
awful fate. He ate a very hearty breakfast, and cotimmed eating
bread and cheese nearly all the way to the gallows. He continued
to assert his innocence of the crime for which he suffered, up to the
last moment of his existence. On being brought to the cart, which
was waiting for him at Glover's Stone, he laughed for some time,
which, he said, was at the thoughts of being so well guarded ;
a very numerous mititary escort, as well as the regular
posse of constables, having been drawn up to attend him to the
place of execution. He remarked, that they were making as touch
fozs as if there were a hundred men to be hanged. He was in his
70th year, and served many years both in the army and navy, and
is said to have carried many honourable scars with him to the gal-
lows. Previous to his being launched into eternity, he delivered a
paper to one of the spectators. containing reflections s)ti toe proe-
. cata;a, on the trial.

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