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London, England, 1821-09-23 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Highgate move 1 tint no bait yka in as " John Peon" bei or
OM now reside •h.,,•
Here the case for the pros( tit:on close], and the p,',oner
being caned upon for his defence, requested peonission to with.
draw for a few minutes. The jiey also withdrew. When they
rmumed their ',eats,
The ntisoner ruse, and entered upon his defence, which was
c'treine.y long, and tad from paper. The prisoner set out with
saying that he was the son of fir Bermud tuner, who, in the
1:0iF of ditit;igiliSlled himself in the defence • f the
nark, and by nis bravety, saved its Tteasury from det•truction.
Ile On istmer) hod been eighteen years employed in the Bank;
and he considered himself as it were &portion of the mtablialt-
tttached to it for life. It wr: his tuisfortene, se me time
ago, to get pequainted with one of those harpies, who go about
entrappitia the unwary; and in that acquaintance was to be
attributed the melancholy situations which he now shod. That
person was .hula' Peen, of whom the jury had herrel so much.
The le isuner tlien went on to state that he had repeatedly executed
money mama:dons for this Penn, and had received proper remu.
iteration for his labour. He had dime soupon his repimentation
that he had large expectations, end one tom! day, upon Isis pro-
ducing what he conceived to be prover decuments, he executed
the transfer in question. This he dot, however, without disguise,
and knowing well that it would undergo the rigid inspecoon of
two other exttesienced clerks, whose vigilance he could not hope
to mime, it he had done any thing wrong. Son etter the
accompsishment of his nlleged e itutnal puipose, he went to
Ilaatings, on the toast of Sustex, for a tot night, on leave of
absence. here then was ample means of carve. He had, it was
ellegetl, the produce of the plender in l'is pocket at this time ;
and wha es his condo ta With plenty of vessels in view, and
at his command fur money—with the coast of France in sight,
and with every possible facility for escape, he came back to
Loudon—to the think, where, if lie hil committed any offence,
he knew deceeiiun was eta.ain and lie mounted his employment,
and resided at his tiattal home. Besides he did not want
for money. His saluae at the Bank was above a competency,
anti. besides that. he two years ego iehmited2,t /01. front his
mother. and in the cot-se of kit year he received 5,0001. and
upwards with his a :te. With •liis •nerease of profits his habits
of living cons Meted the satne, anti he (veld therefore have no
temptation, no inducement, to commit such a ctime as that
allaged against him. With respta, to his attempt to escape, his
mind was at that time ist a state of distraction, and he sought to
escane ly ; but lie hoped to meet in the attempt what
wooed have been came acceptable to tottaitt des(:';. lie
knew the i"letrins . au. aieelt his waist of caution nail brought
him ; he knew the stating circumstroces that were against him ;
and that he amid have no mieleace t rebut them ; and he ha 1
elso upon Isis in'ad the cam:low:nes that, although he might
escape conviction, yet the very charge would t"ivc lam fur ever
from the pale of society, and render his .store existence tables-la
The psisoner went on in a &rain of poweliel teasoning, rod even
eloquence, to point out the extreme iinprobabby of a mat, ea-
cumstanced as lie was, committing ouch an offence, with (as he
from his lung experience knew) the most certain prospect of
detection. He reisoned upon the testimony fur the prosecution,
which, he said, consisted Amok eirieely of probabilities namely
—without positive proof, and earnestly entreated the jury to
weigh well the.probteities on either side, and see which way the
balance wuuid inc'i'te. He implored from their justice ant. hu-
manity that mercy which he could not expect from the law, if
thew verdict shoesel be against bins ; fur, to offences Mil: that
with which he stool charged, if cons.etion took place, mercy was
a stranger. 'f they were not convinced of Isis innocence, still
they might doubt his kailt, and the law, in that case, gave him
what he was see the lical.s of the je-y wottld nut withhold front
I im, the fell and entim benefit of that doub'
The pi:sorter then, in most fe•aling terms, and ia a matinee
which excited the sympathy of till who heard ilea, alluded to
his wife, who, he said, lied "eked her destily with his, raid who,
it' their vert"et shoeld lta one of ga"ty, weld have a home
which was once happy, rendered desolate. and wouldbC
doomed, for the leinatnuer of her days, to irissery and iv:etched-
Jetv.
Mt. Sergeant Bosanquet rise, and said, that tlsis and two other
indictments, chatging toe prisoner w ;di forgely. prose out c: the
statue trans:a:dun has( 10-oily been used anti decided upon.
Although in point of form there were t"-ce Melia:menu,
act the el:deuce was the same, and the transaction was "kewise
the 611111 e. AJr y has:ng, after a plena' Mvestigasion, decided
upon that ciitlence, as it was not for paint to call in qui:aim' that
venlict, and. with the pe..niasion of theie Lordships, he should
foabear calling any et :creme upon the present charge. The jesy
of course pionouticed a verdict of Not Guilty.
The jury were then charged upon the two miter indiesments,
and renataed in each a verdict of Not Getilty,
Mr. Alley applied to the cov-t to k:ve an order for the imme-
diate discharge of the in iaoner, such a coarse being casual what'
the Grand Jul/ were tl•smissed, as was now the awe.
The eOI`.IiICCIANI tO the application, end Mr. Turner was
' rmetliately "berated.
His done:mut • was serious and becoming, and he bowed most
reapectfully to the court and jury as he emitted the dock.
ness. The ontin.anate prisoner conduuml address with an
appeal to the jr y, of eloquent:it and feeling, which produced
MI effect upon the auditors that "I not soon be forgotten.
Mr. Lee, the High Constable of Westreisitaer, was called. who
grave the pi:soner a most amen diameter, and deposeth to the
•siterestin!; fact, that he it'd atachargial some heti% y debts which
his mother had contracted pteviceis to tier dectatee, without the
slightest legal obligation on las part.
A area number of persons of the highest respectability spoke
to the honourable and beepioachable conduct of the pitsoner
during the whole of hie life. We venteee to state, that a higher
elle-deter was never bottle by any man than Mr. Tenter main-
mined up to the tieliappy transaction in question.
Mr. Juaice Richardson :summed up toe evidence a :th great
trinuteneas and perspieoity.
The du y retired at half oast seven o'clock, and after tin ab.
Bence of sit hour and a bal., rata Jed viii a venlitt of—Not
silty.
A Oak expression of applauae was heard unon the return of
tile vert•aa, but it was very properly represses( by the Common
Sergeant.
The ptisoner was removed from the bar, assisted by several
fdends.—There are dim oilier indictments against
'l' cESDAY, SEPT. Its.—At lilt past two o'clock, Wm. S. B.
Tr -ter was happen ted into core, and placed at 'he bar.
Mr. Clark, toe !deputy Clerk or Atrelgos, then called upon
the prisoner ia the ust al final to challenge the jurors, or any
of mem, if he chose to do so, and the ju./ (the same as upon
his trial yesterday) were then sworn, and the custonetly
mation was made.

Befrre Dl r. Jurlice Richarevon.

WEIVIE,DAII:sser• 19.—FORGERY UPON THE PHU,.
SIAN GovENNAIENT.-3111nasseh Goldstein was put to the
bar ul an indictment, charging I • with feloninmly for-
ging roil counterfeiting 411%1'1 s 11011:6 for payment
of oio dollar, pus to he Tiee:ury notes of one of the
mi islet, and ullitci employed in the service of the King of
PI Weill.

Tutu ase wn' tried before a London Jury.
Mr. Law topesiell die indictment to the Jury, and Mr.
11011:tad stated the ciacutwitturlq•

Newman .won t.-11 ,S i. an engraver, and
resides hi Widegate•vitert, Bishops:ate. llc k.ions, uud
has emu. for :Xi 'ems, the prisoner at the bar, uho iu the
beginning of April made an appFratiiiii to him. The appli-
rill ion was, that he tinil tonne emr:tying tot the whllr•SS to do.
%Vitae— udvett him what it um, mid he said a l'itiydasi
ticket. inked bum what tic6rl it w• , and he vii'd

a ticket ofadmi.-‘ion. Witness was gain to ask him for
what, end he said—" God bless my soul, do you tbiok I am
going to give you any thing wrong to do ? you know me
very well ;" and witness ;lid he did. Prisoner then desired
him to engrave the two plates (there was a reverse side), and
and desired to have SO,COO if be could, in a fortnight. Wit-
ness said the time was too short. but he would get 10,000
done or mare if he could. The price for the 10,000 was to
be !101., SI. a thousand. The prisoner was to provide lib own
paper. The plates were executed stud shewu to the pri.
saner ; he approved of them and they were sent up stairs to
be printed t 10,000 were ultimately struck oil, and the pri-
soner, during the prose's, repeatedly came to superintend
the work. The prisoner came daily and cut them up, and
put theiniin parcels of Its each, rod took them away.—
When the process of engraving these tickets was concluded,
a line of letter-press and a copper-plate engraving, being put
into the hands of the witness, he said they were the same that
he used in the fabrication of the notes iu question. In Moist
het the prisoner came to him, and said he had received
another order for .50J0 more, and must be executed speedily.
The prisoner always brought the paper in reams himself,
cut in the form that was necessary for beiag struck off,
lying publicly on the coonter.—One of these notes being
produced, witness swine that it w; . one which he struck oil
in consequence of the second order from the prisurier.—
Those notes stated in the indictment were copies.
William Richard Newman strorn.....ls sun to the lest
witness, and knows the prisoner at the tsar. Knows of the
order given by the prisoner. Ile cat oil' the edges and
suggested alterations.
Wro. Augostus Eckert examined, through an interpre-
ter.—ls Inspector General of Police at Berlin, and it is
his duty to inspect the dollar notes. The note now pro-
duced to witness is a genuine Treasury note. Another
note was then put into his hand, and lie said that was a
forged note Ile had seen a number in the possession of
l'oy, the officer, and they were all false and forged. In
the mouth of May several Jews were taken into custody
at Berlin, and among them one Lobb and Simeon. Lobb
was arrested at Leipsic. Witness came over here with
Simeon, and arrived ou the 10th day of July. Witness
did not know of Simeon having any letter of introduction
to tile prisoner. Witness put a letter in the post at Ham-
burgh, directed to the prisoner.
John Schmidt translated the words on the genuine note,
and the number. It ran thus—

"A Treasury Note or Receipt of One Dollar in cur-
rency, according to the stendard of 1101; valued in all
dealings in " ALTENSTEIN."

On me reverse—
" Treasury Note or Receipt of One Dollar in currency.
—Office of Realization of Currency."
The note is wholly iu the German language. There is a
crown and sceptre on the note, and the initials " F. W.
R." fur" Frederick William Rex."

The forgery was then sliewn to the witness Eckart, and
he said it resembled the original in form and writing."
By Mr. Adolphus.—The term in German for a promis-
sory note is schuldt-schein. The term for a receipt is
schein.

_
Peter Simeon said, he arrived in England with Mr.
Ecker on the 10th of July, and saw the prisoner on the
following day. He had known him nine years. Foy gave
witness a live pound note, which, on the following day,
he gave the prisoner on account. He afterwards gave the
prisoner more money, and received in return, at one time
IWO, and on another occasion 2100. Ile received the
3100 on the day the prisoner was apprehended, and he
paid him 101. ter then', which he had received from Foy
for that purpose. Witness was always searched by the
officers before he went to the prisoner.
Upwards of 30 witnesses were called to the prisoner's
character.

Mr. Justice Richardson summed up, and the Jury re-
tained a verdict of Guilty.
Wm. Harding was placed at the bar,chargeil with stealing,
on the sth of July, six sheep, the property of Thomas tilling
It appeared, that on the day named in the indictment the
prosecutor had a flock of 29 sheep, six of which he missed
on the following day. On the Monday following they were
timid io the posscwion of the prisoner ut Smithfield market,
who stub about selling them to a butcher. The prisoner was
not at the same time taken into custody, but a few days sub-
serviently his residence was discovered, and he was taken
into custody by Austin, a constable of Edmonton, in the act
of corking his escape from the place of his residence at
IVinehenore-hill, disguised as nn old woman.
The account given by the prisoner was, that he bought the
sheep ran man named Tony, who had since absconded, and
called two n iinesses to prove they saw him pay fur them ;
thew two fellows, however, prevaricated so much, that the
court did not consider them entitled to belief, and the Jury
(mild the priAlller hailty—denth.
There were several other indictments against the prisoner,
which were instituted by the society fur the prosecur of
felons.

THU RSDA Y, Suer. Sutherin, aged 29, was
capitally in tar feloniously, knowingly, and willingly
accepting a false and untrue certificate relating to the duties
of Excise, with intent to defraud his Majesty
fflessr, Wilford and Holland conducted the prosecution,
and All. Alley and Mr. Adolphus the defence,
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner was a clerk in
the permit office, iu the excise, when any merchant, having
tobacco, or any other commodity, in the Eondon.docks,
under the lock orate excise and the company, wished to have
it removed, to go to tar ducks, and there have it weighed
out by the proper officer, in order to ascertain the amount of
duties regularly paid. The weighing officer makes a return
to the collector of the weights, and the collector then fur-
nishes to the merchant the amount of duty to be paid, and
when it is paid, the collector gives a certificate to the mer-
chant to that effect. This certificate having been fits: signed
by the collector, and consigned by the emnptroller, is pre-
sented al the permit office by the mere hunt or his agem,lund
a permit sit given for the removal of the goods from the
dock•' A person named Robert Grant, clerk ton merchant,
wr si in the habit of coining with certificates of this kind fr
his employer, and it was the pri.ime, s duty, with others,
to receive the certificates and give permits. The clerks
acre nut nice in examining the signatures of the collectors
and ',troffers as there were many different ones not even
known to the clerks. In July hot, Grunt, in taw• course of
of one week, brought its., certificates, one for 1271. and the
other for ups: •d, ut ::001. worth of tobacco, purporting to
be signed mid comiteisigued is the regular way, and he oh-
tented a permit for such rrom the prisoner, u hose duty it
was to enter them in a ledger, cared the " Huty Paid Led-
ger," kept fur that purpose. The numbers of these certificates
%%cue Os and 202. In the course of the neck a discovery
sat• made that the duty had not been paid upon either of
those certificate, and Oat the Ago:duns were forged. The

prisoner himself sot onset the first to meanies the discover y,
but when his" duty paid ledge.' lk &se:mimed, it was found
that the certificate YU, had lot been entered therein, and
that the certificate itself was missing. Upon searching the
prisoner's drawer in the o(bce, the aisles certificate wt
found. The certificate, Ihd, was found to base been rep-
lady entered in the prisoner's ledger. Enquiry was made '
for Great, and he was not to be found. The prisoner about
this time was absent for a fortnight, ou account of sickness,
but the officers who were employed to apprehend him as the
accomplice of Grant, foiled him at his lodgings in Gray's
Welk, Lambeth. In a few days after the discovery • 51.
note, which was part of the motley paid by Grant's em-
ployer to him, to pay the duty, was traced to the posse -ion
of the prisoner.
These were the leading facts of the case, as they were
stated by a great number of witnesses.
The piisuner, in his defence declared his innocence in the
most solemn inansie,, and said, with respect to the 51. note.
that he had lent some money to Grant in the early part of
the summer, and Grant, in repaying him, gave him among
others the 51. note in question.
The Jury retired for some time, and returned a verdict of
guilty—deatb.

Man:twills Goldstein, the person convicted on Wednesday
ofu forgery un the l'..3loollllC•rvernment, was put to the hat,
when Mr. Platt, to jetnior counsel. moved an arrest of judge
ment, on the ground that the itralutnent eileged to be forged
ought to have been set forth in the indictment in the English
language. Judgment postponed.
David Burton, a young man of respectable appearance,
was indicted for stealing four packages of roots, seed-, bulbs.
stuffed birds, and insects, the property of his Majesty, from
on board the renal, a ship lately arrived from the Cape of
Good Hope.
It appeared that the prisoner was a tide-waiter on board
the Venus. On the 21st ofJuly last, the goods had been
landed on the Kities wharf, and had been marked with the
broad arrow in older that they might not he removed without
the payment of duty. On the night of the 21st of July last,
it was pt wed that the prisoner had removed four of these
Mmes, whichhad be. • 11:7-lad, ••• ship. The pti-
soeer was heard by IAC mate of the ship in the middle of the
night, walking on the deck. " What are you about ' he
cried. " Never mind," replied the prisoner, "it she ith .1
on your neck." The next morning the prisoner told the
mate—" I will give you a pound note to say nothing about
what passed lust night." The mate replied, " A pound
note won't save your neck, nor me from in ansportatimi.'
On cross-e‘i mitint ion of the witnesses, it seemed that no
one of the p: -rengers, who owned the goods said ill be stolen,
was present us a witness for the prosecution. The prisoner
was very drunk on the night of the 21st 01 and the
nett day being r sked,said that lie knew not what lie did.
The prisoner, in 11'5.h-fence, said that on the iii,ht men-
tioned in the indictment he was much inebriated, rid %sus
not conscious that he had dune any thing improper.
Several respectable ssi. iesses gave the prisoner a very good
character. One of them paid lie saw the primmer at half
past eight nn Sunday evening so much intoxicated that lie
appeared like an inseite person. The Jmy returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.
Bin A MY.—Wm. Manner', aged 23, was jindicted for fe.
lonionsly marrying Susan Anderson, ou the tith of September,
1620, his fo. ncr wife being alive.
Mr. Adolphus stated the case to the Jury.
Edward Lewis deposed that he laaew the prisoner. He
was present at his marriage with E 1 abetlt HenLitison. He
acted as father, and gave the bride away. The marriage
took plc at Lawrence church. Reading, in Bertrhire,
Jan. 13, but in what year he could not recollect. Elizabeth
Renkinson we s a maid Sc, want. He saw her alive on Mon.
day last.
Susan Anderson deposed that her father kept a cook'.
shop in Drury-lane. She was married to the prisoner on
the Nth of September, last year. She was possessed of a
small sum of money when she married the prisoner. She
lived with the prisoner till the 16th of January, when she
left him and returned to her rather's house, having heard that
lie had another wife living.
The prisoner in his defence said that he w:. married to
Elizabeth Renkioson. but she misconducted herself in many
respects; and about three years ago she ran away from him,
and he had never since been able to prevail upon her to
return. Under these circumstances he married r;ain,
cause he thought a wife was necessary to a young man like
himself.
The prisoner during the dente.), of this address appeared
dreadfully agitated.
The prisoner called no witnesses, and the Jury immediately
found him Guilty.

On Thursday the lam ch of one of the East India li
ships, of 1,350 tons Written, took place from Mr. Bay-
ley's Halifax Ship-yard, Ipswich,a few minutes after 12,
nearly an hour before high water, by which many thou-
sand persons were disappointed of viewing the same.—
Just previous to the launch the ship was named " The
Sir David Scott,' by the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Ward,
of Coltish°ll, near Norwich, with infinite animation and
grace. In a moment afterwards the ship made the first
start, and accelerating is motion until her stern reached
the water, amidst the waving of hats, the music of the
band, and the shouts of the surr,undiug spectators, she
glided rather than plunged into her natural element,
with a steadiness and majesty which no words can de-
scribe. Owing to the violence of the wind the stern of
the vessel grounded on the the side of the (lock about
200 yards from where she was launched ; she, however,
floated with the flowing of the title, but unfortunately
soon after got again upon the edge of the channel, where
she remained immoveable. At the next tide the ship
was got into the channel, and was towed down the river
by the strain packet, on her passage to London, not
having received the slightest injury from her grounding.
The river was lined with boats and vessels, and both of
its sides were thronged with spectators.
On Friday week a duel was fought on Plumstead
Common, near NVoolwich, between Lieut. 13--, of
the Royal Artillery, and a Mr. C— —, a gentleman of
respectability; after exchanging two shots each Mr. C.
was wounded by the• ball of his antagonist going lino'
the upper part of one thigh and through the wrist of his
left hand. Lieutenant B. escaped with having the skin
on his forehead rased by the ball of Mr. C. It is some-
what remarkable, that on the first exchange of shots,
the balls came in contact with each other, and both of
them fell about 0-ee feet from t'',! feet of Mr C. :Ir.
C. b coavak-cciv.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

THE LAW RISLATIVe TO VAOr 1H rs.—By a SICHte
of the last session of Parliament, Ist and fzd George IV.
cap. 64, nearly all the provisions of former acts relative
to vagrants have been repealed, they having been found
inadequate to the prevention of vagrancy, and a new
system of treatment adopted as an experiment, to be iii
force for one year from the Ist of this present month.—
By this statute no reward can now be claimed for appre-
hending a vagrant; but the magistrate may, in his dis-
cretion, order a sum not exceeding ss. to be paid by the
parish officers, as a reward in such case. To direct the
passing of vagrants to their parishes the presence and
consent of two magistrates is required; and no person
convicted of an act of vaarancy is to be committed to the
House of Correction for less than one month, nor longer
than three months,
_ except by the Justices in general or
quarter sessions. Discretion is allowed the magistrate
to discharge a person brought before him for acts of va-
grancy if he should think fit; but in the case of a con-
vicieon, he can no longer send the party to prison for
seven days to be passed to the parish, hut must commit
the person so convicted, to actual punishment, hard la-
bour, for at least one month. The full imoishment of
tile new statute was inflected on Wednesday by Mr. Ald.
Brown, the sitting magistrate at Guildhall, upon a sturdy
iil-looking fellow, named M. Manley, who infests the
city, begging in the guise of a distressed sailor. Smith,
street-keeper of Fleet-street, found him that mowing
at his usual avocation, be4iug, at die corner of Bell-
yard. %Viten nesired to desist and go away, he became
abusive, imptalt ntly refused to stir, told the officer it was
his duty to look after thieves, and not beggars; and that
he would beg in suite of them, all over the city. When
brought to the (mice he was immediately recognized as
an old ollinder in this line. He had, it appeared, been
several times at the Mansion-house on similar charges,
and when last before the Lord Mayor, about a fortnight
ago, had been clothed to enable nim to get a situation
on board some ship; he ha* however, sold the clothes,
and resumed lt.s old occupation. These facts being
proved, and the fellow himself declaring lie hid no way
of getting his living hut by begging, Alderman Brown
adjudged him m be a vagrant within the meaning of the
statute, and committed him to hard labour in the house
of Correction for three months. _ _ .

lioxing.—At the Lancaster assizes, on Monday,
Joseph Rayner was found guilty of killing Peter Fisher.
—The learned judge, in passing sentence said, that the
deceased had certainly borne an towards the pri-
soner, awl had actually struck hint first ; and, if the
battle had been nothing but fair fighting he should have
deemed a very punishment sufficient for the offence,
but he hail, with deadly weapons (the clogs which he
had upon his feet), brutally kicked the deceased on the
breast, which had deprived I of life. The inisoner
had said, in his defence, that he had set ved his Majesty
many years, both in the army and the nary, and that
ought to have taught him what true courage was ; and
that it was unmanly to take advantage of another man
when he was on the ground, and unable to defend him-
self, and to inflict such punishment on him aq to occa-
sion his death. He was sentenced to ten months impri-
sonment.

.....
Singular Escape of a Cunv:cl —On Wednesday after-
noon, about five o'clock, the Bedford Telegraph Coach
arrived in London. Amongst the p.senaers were five
c 3nvicts, accompanied by the gaoler and his man, who
were placed in the dickey. The prisoners, smile of
whom were desperate fellows, were double ironed, and
through the links was passed a strong chain, the extre-
mities of which were fastened to the coach. NVhen the
coach arrived opposite Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell-
green, one of the prisoners, who was a very dexterous
fellow, and had been sentenced for uttering forged notes,
slipped, by sonic means or other, his feet from the iron
fetters, dropped to the ground, and took to his heels up
Compton-street, towards Goswell-street. A great num-
ber of people joined the officers in pursuit of him, but in
vain ;he got clear off. lle is well known to the Police-
offices. _ _

Ifigkvac Murder.—Since the last examination of &a-
rea and Ms wife, before Dr. Owen, of Highgate, every
thing has been done that was likely to cause a discovery
of the mysterious affair. Persons have been employed
in dragging the various ponds about that neighbourhood,
it being thought probable that the murderer might have
thrown things therein in order to prevent discovery; but
nothing was Ibund. A man named Murphy, who was
before Dr. Owen oil a recent occasion concerning the
horrid affair, has been again brought up to account for
some very suspicious circumstances brought against him.
It appeared that a mall, named Field, who was employ-
ed to drag the ponds, on searching near a hay stack on
Mr. Hale's premises, he discovered an old shirt buried
under one of the stacks ; the sleeve of the shirt exhibited
marks of blood, and the co.lar was torn, apparently in
a struggle. The shirt was found near .Ir. Hale's gal-
den, and was very filthy. There was no mark to prove
it to be Barrett's, and the only suspicion that it might
be his, is, that he was limn(' near the garden, and he
being under gardener. The shirt was ordered to be left
in Field's possession, the Wan who found it. 1)r. Owen
eulogized the officers lor their activity, and thought the
affair deserved suspicion. There was no direct evidence
that the shirt belonged to Murphy, and lie was dis-
charged, under promise to come forward at any future
period if required.
7 la Blood-Money Conspirators.—G. Vaughan, together
with Brock, Pelham, and Power, who, our readers may
recollect, were tried and convicted at the Old Bailey
Sessions, in Seincniber 1816, and sentenced to hive years
imprisonment, charged with swearing away the lives of
innocent persons, for the sake of the blood-money, have
served out the term of their imprisonment, and were on
Wednesday discharged, on entering into recognizances,
themselves in 801. and two sureties m a.il. each, bur
their good behaviour for three years.
A um:gable canal is about to be cut between Ly,
niington, in I himpshivc, and the city of Sisi;sbuiy-
wii;ch will fohn a juno;on with the Avon P'ld
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During the carter of the celebrated pickpocket Bar-
rington, an alarm was one night raised in the box lobby
of Covent-garden Theatre, that he was in the house.—
The news spread from box to box like electricity. One
gentleman had lost a snuff-box, another his watch, one
lady her parse, another her smelling-bottle; in fact,
every body had lost, or said they had lost something.—
Behind Mrs. J—s, the sister of the late Earl of C--,
sat a gentleman in black, who with much politeness
communieated to her the most dreadful intelligence.—
" The villains," said she, whipping a splendid pair of
brilliant ear-rings out of her ears and putting them care-
fully lists) her pocket. book, " shan't have my ear-rings,
I promise." When the play was over, Mrs. J--s
adjourned to the route of my Lady D—. Upon en-
tering the drawing-room she flew up to her " dear, dear
friend," and after embracing her with transport, told her
Ladyship what an escape she had had of that " horrid
villain Barrington," felicitating herself that only for her
amazing ingerwhy and cleverness she must most cer-
tainly have lost her drops. As she could now with per-
fect safety hang out her gems, she thrust her hand into
her pocket; bus, after a poke or two, she changed co-
lour and started—" lie has them," said she in an agony.
" Impossible," said her sympathetic friend, "impossi-
ble! " Alas ! it is too true; after the most serutinons
rummage, they were not to be found. Upon diligent
inquiry, it api 'eared that the very gentleman in black,
who laid so politely cautioned Mrs. J— —s against Bar-
rington, was Barnugtote himself As soon as the lady
had deposited her brilliants in her pocket, that able artist
skil:ully extracted thesis.
Tue. lay afternoon, one of the Paddingtoneoaches had
pulled up at the King's Head public-house, the corner
of' the Hampstead-road, and the coachman had incau-
tiously left his seat and went into the house, without
previously giving the reins to any one. During
his absence, which was very short, the horses took
fright at a horse and cart that were passing, and ran
across the road; their progress was stopped b,/ one of the
hind wheels coming in contact with a post, but the
contusion was so great, that the passengers on the oat-
side (consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Moore, ofCharles-
street, Hampstead-road, and Mr. William littlest, of
No. 37, George-street, Portman-square) were precipitated
into the high-road. Mrs. Moore fell with her stomach
on the wheel, by which she was so seriously injured,
that on Friday she was given over by the physician.—
Mr. Moore, her hu.band, fortunately received no ma-
terial injury. Mr. Wien, who was conveyed home im-
mediately, lingered in the greatest agony till Thursday
evening, whets be died of the injury he received.
7 Ise hue fire in Gractscliurch sireei.—Besides the two.•
firemen and turiicock, there was a fourth man lost his
life at that calamitous fire, whose name was not known.
until Thursday ; his name was George Ross, a journey-
man carpenter, and lived at N 0.40, Parker-street, I)ritry-
lane, where.lie bore a good character. From his wife's
statement, it appears that he and she were at market,
after which they went into a public-house at a late hour
on last Saturday was a week, (the night this dreadful
fire broke out) ; she went home, and left him in the
public-house, since which she has net seen him. Not
coining home that night, site dreaded he might get in
some scrape, anti she made inquiry at different watch-
houses; hearing no account of him, she inquired
next day (Monday) at the different Police-offices with
equal success; she afterwards inquired at the various,
prisons and hospitals, but her search proved fruitless;
at length, from the circumstance of his being missing
since the fire, she supposed he might be the person whose
body was not owned. An inquest sat on the bodies, and,
they were buried last Sunday. 'l'he disconsolate woman
repaired to make the necessary inquiry, and from his
stockings and some fragments of isis clothes, she was
convinced they were those of her unfortnnate husband.
Sic stated that they hail been thirteen years married, anti
that that Saturday night was the first he was ever absent
from home. It is conjecsured that, like a great nutty
curious persons, he must have accompanied the fire en-
vies, and assisted the firemen.
Singular Esat:se.—Dr. Palmer, of Tamworth, expe-
rienced a providential escape a few days ago oti the multi-
unit of Armitage-hill. Rewriting f Polesworth its
his gig, with his groom, the horse suddenly took fright,
and went off at full speed ; on reaching a part of the
road bouuded by a precipitous stone-pit, one of the rails
being brokett, the animal sprung with• a desperate leap
into the pit, at least 15 or Bi- feet deep. Its the descent
Dr. Palmer was pitched headlong from the carriage, and
though stunned by the fall, be soon recovered himself,
and went to the assistance of his groom, who lay avpa--
rently lifeless, but who was at Itmatis found to have
received no vet), material injury. The horse lay at the
further end of the pit, with the boay of the gig upon
111111, watch being removed, he rose up wholly tritium,
nor hail the carriage any marks of violence, with the
exception of the shafts being 'stoke's. Both the Doctor
and the WHOM suffered a good deal nom the shock, but
are now perlectly recovered.
llkeAurur. ATTEMPT At' S u c Wednesday
evening NIL F. a voting gentleman connected whit a
respectable family in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell,
made a desperate attempt to destroy liiinse.f. It appears
that Mr. F. who is V 2 years of age, (unknown to his
family), hail formed a strong attachment fur a young
lady, ankle was disapproied by his father, who forbid
the banns. ‘Vednestiay evening he went to White
Conduit !louse, wrote a letter to the young lady, the
object of hits affections, and sent the waiter to deliver it
to her; soon afterwards she arrived its the company of a
female friend, he met them at the door and ushered
them up stairs, and requested them to accept of sense
oegias, which they assented to, and he said he would go
and t"iler it ; he went Jowl; stairs, hut instead of ordering
it, lie went he n we middle of the road, placed a pistol
to 11;s head, and tl;scharged the contents, by which part
of the lett side of the scull was C.ll4;Cti away; he fell on
the road side insensible, medical aid was instantly pro
ett-cil, and he was placed its lied, bit, without the least
of recoveiy.