The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-17 00:00:00

OLD BAI LEI .

Will/NESDA Y, J A N. IS.
The Se,siong o: er and Teriajner for London and Middle-
sec commenced, before the Chief Baron Macdonald, and
Juftices Hooke and Lan rence.

Isaac Castle was capitally indicted for assaulting; and robbing
'Mary Little on the King's highway. In the COHrbt of the evi-
dence it appeared, that while the prosecutrix, in the evening,
was turning out of Sloane-street into Ilans-place, the prisoner
came behind her, and taking hold of one of her legs, pulled her
down, and rubbed her of a silk shawl, with which he ran of.
lle was, however, apprehended, carried before the Rev. H. B.
Datile, awl committed. The 11se being no►v clearly brought
home, he was found guilty—Dealb. The prosecutrix most earn-
estly recommended the prisoner to mercy.
Eliza Crosbie was capitally indicted for stealing 12 guineas,
awl 11 half-guineas, the property of Susanna Potter, in her
dwelling house.
It appeared, that Mrs. Potter kept a public house at Brent-
ford, and that the Prisoner had lodged in her house the night be-
fore the robbery. Mrs. Potter had made up the sum of money
meleioued in the indictment in order to pay some of her hills,
and had it put into a bag, which she deposited iu the till iii the
bar.—lu the morning she happened to go out, and then left the

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prisoner in the tap-rooms. On her return the prisoner was Rune;'
ani having occasion to look into the till. she found her money
also gone. uposs which she -suspected the prisoner, and immedi-
ately raising a hue and cry after her; she was apprehended, and
taken before a .mstgi Irate. Here the pr otter threw he rself on
her knees before-the prosecutri asd p rulacing the bag with
the money in it, confessed tirtt itad t,tuleu it. 'l' he magi:- trate,
however, felt himself bound to commit rite prisoner, and the fact
b•ing thus clearly established, she was found guilty, hut re-
commended to mercy by the jury..
Before the Londoti3Ury hve di:tine( cadges were herd, in
all of w bicit the pri% ners were ender the isige of 18 ;_and What
Is mart retnarkohleoltey were all found guilty, ilia al 4 except
uue, recommended to the humane cattsideratiOn of Chi Curt

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I'IMILSDA , JAN. 14.
John Little was indU:trd for burglariougy breakinrani enter•
lug the house of Mary l'a%ey, abd stealing therefrom several
articles of _wearing apparel.---V erdiet
John Coate.; and John Badger, two very 'ming boy!, were in-
dicted for a burglary, in breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of John Dowat, and stealing a piece of Itich cloth and
two Mk handkeechief,, 1,6 property.—Roth Gratty.
George Rudd and Thomas Donovan were indicted fur stealing
twenty-fire sheep, the property of •Jamee Burnell and Robert
?;wain, •ou the WO of December Inst. 'Eleven witnebses gave
Ithdd (who is a butcher at Piadirol a most excellent character.
The Jury withdrew, and ut Irngth found a verdict of Guilt y.
FRIDAY, .1111!1RY 15.
Ann Thompson was indicted for the wilful murder of Joseph
Walker, a black sailor, on the '26;11 of December last, in Den-
mark-street, Itataill Highway. It appeared in evidence that
a quarrel had arisen between the prisoner and the deceased, in
the course of which the former was much bruised ; that she
endeavoured to exclude him from her lodgings, but that he at-
tempted :quiff to get in. when a scuffle ensued, and the deceased
received the mound which caused his death. Several persons
gave the prisoner a good character. The Jury found her
guilty of Manvlaughter.

The two following were capitally convicted :
Martha Davis was convicted of tile robbery of Charles Tits•
well, a lad about 15, puttinghim in fear, and taking from his per-
son a half-crown piece, in Dyott-street, St. (;ilex s, on the 11th
inctant.

Elizabeth Minster, for F teal ing 12 yards of muslin, 25 bards
of ,arsnet, &e. of Thomas Nlorltull and Price :lames Lsani, in
their d►tielling-house.

ed the meeting, and Paster drew up resolutions, requiring aa
advance of stages; which, on being presented, to Mr. Limebeer,
were rejected, and a general strike was the consequence. All
those who had struck were to be allowed seven shillings, pro-
vided they chose to go into the country, and an alto trance male
to their wives and children,lmm the shop fund. The 'ease of
the journeymen was represented as dangerous, and on Mr. Lime-
bear applying to Northampton for workmen, was disappointed.
The journeymen there baying corresponded w ith those iti London.
All the prisoners were.foand Guilty.
ACCIDENTS, &e.
A serious accident happened on Wednesday to Mr. G. B.
Hearn, a young gentleman who resides in Portland-place, oc-
casioned by the restiveness of his horse. Mr. Hearn had pur-
chased the horse, which had a good deal of blood, sn recently
as Saturday last, and he had not mounted him but twice before.
On taking -him out of a stable in an adjoining ;news, the animal
began to play as usual by rising gently before; and a gentleman
who accompanied Dlr. Hearn advised him to dismount, to pre-
vent an accident. The horse went quiet for a short distance and
began to plunge, and on his rider clapping spars to atm ue
reared, and fell over on his back. Mr. It. was taken front
under the animal with his shoulder dislocated, and his head
thaigeroasly fractured. Ile was taken into the house of Mrs.
Hearn, bat we understood that apprehensions were entertained
of the accidana proving fatal.
An Inquisition was taken last week, at a public-house near
Newington, on the body of a young man of the name of Turner,
who met his death in the fields, by following a companion with
a gun, on Sunday morning.—It appeared in evidence that the
deceased was clerk in a wholesale house in St. Giles's, and ho
went out with the porter belonging to the same house, on Sunday
morning, to shoot small birds. The porter was making a leap
don ti a bank over the ditch, when the butt of the gun dashed
allainst the hank, by his missing his step, and it went of. The
deceased was standing on the bank, ready to get over the ditch
also, and he received the charge about the head and shoulders,
and survived but a few minutes. A bye-stander witnessed the
accident, and corroboreed the testimony.-4ccidentol Death.
A yotiug man, 22 years of age, the son of an opulent liquor
merchant, stands charged with having committed a rape on a
woman, 45 years of age, and a widow, in St. Anne's parish, at
wltose house he had apartments for the accommodatioa of tt
favourite female. The young damsel had recently eloped front
her father, a shoemaker, in Bloomsbury parish, and her retreat
having been discovered, she was taken home l'y the father oa
Sunday etening, w hich fact was not known to her protector
until the following night, w lien he called for her at eleven
o'clock; it was then that the rape is said to have been committed
on the landlady of the noose. The affair will be publicly int es-
tigated itt a day or•two.

f.tTVIMAY, .T.llll. 16.

John Ada.ns was indicted under the Ellenhorough Act, fur
wilfully and maliciously cutting and maiming William Bennett,
a police °nicer, with intent to murder him.
William ii•linett, the prosecutor, stated, that on the 19th of
June, he went with Lee a brother officer, to quell u riot in
Noble-street, Stepney, and whilst advising a woman who stood
in the street, to go house. a man, whom the prosecutor could not
identify, rushed from a court, attacked him with a weapon
which he suppoced to be iron ; he was knocked down, and had
several cuts and bruises on the head, one of which fractured his
4;111, and he was several weeks undrr the hands of a surgeon.
A surgeon proved that the prosecutor had sustained a serious
injury from the wounds and bruises he had received.--The
pssi-
soucr was found Gaut".

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

SAITRDAYI JAN. In.
CONITIR tr .—The following fifteeu pio-iieytnen boot-ma-
kers, in the employ of Mr. Limebeer,. Loot-maker, in Fleet-
street, viz. talhert, Weston, Poster, elford, Thompson,
(;rise!!, tirimbev, Curtis, It Criiiibc:, Baker, Stuart,
kobson, and Beikor, were indicted for un-
lustfully cotepiring together to prevent utter journeymen from
working at their trade, withiitttan iiieroase of wages.
it appeared; by the statement Of Air. Knapp and the te3timo-
RN of witnesses, that the dell•tulaiits were workmen in the cm-
Pio) of Mr. Limeheor, sonte'weeks previous to September last,
whein a gement strike took place,' In cowequence of the prose-
cutor not ehoosiwg to submit to sonic resolution, passed at a
shop-committee, in order to obtain an increase of wages. till-
bert acted as c halms* of the shop-meetings. By the steps taken
kit these jourueyinew, the evil extended through the Metropolis,
l'i'orthanipton, and other provincial towns, and to the. United
Kingdom. 'the shop-comfit] itter:.iat at theCrou ked Billet, in S !I ire-
hue, and every considerable shop in London' gent two lidegittei
h flair Cunaatittec sit their epresen:Ati:(:s. aciiltegg•

MARRIAGES.
Lord Keith led Miss 'fliwale to the Ilymeaial Altar. at Rams-
gate, on Sunday last.
At St. George's, Hanover-square, Joshua Sydney Horton,
Earl, Captain of his :N.lajet.ts's ship Princess of (range, to Mrs.
NVltorwood, widow of the lute H. NJ. Whorwood, Esq of
Headington House, Olfordshire. '• •
Lately, the celebrated jockey, Mr. Francis Buckle, of Long
Orton, and late Neusinaisei, to Mi,s June Thornton.
youngest dattg,hler of Mr. T. Thornton, of Litchfield. •
DEATHS.
Lord Alexander Isiordon, 60(.0/111 -on of the Duke of Gotdon,
at Edinburgh, in the 24th year ..f his age. In consequeece of his
death, the Houses of Gordon, Bedfirrii, Richmond, Manchester,
and Cornwallis, go into mourning-.
. liredneAuy, at her hou..e ia Parslatel-place, the Hoe. Mrs.
S. Vortlev Nltickenzie.nf;.•E n long illnoss.
On the tith instant, at flit. Fif-hire, Sir Philip An-
struther, Bart. lie is succeeded in his title and estates by the
Right Ilotioura.blc Sir John Aiitiutlior, Bart. late Chief Jus-
tice of Bengal.
Philip CoOpy, Esq. Admiral of tile Red, at his house in
Alfred-street, Bath, on Sunday moron g la.t, in the tiOth yeir
of hip age. . .
Angelica Kaufman, a celebrated artist, at Rome, on 7th
Nov. last, in the filth year of her age. Her Nacre' *vas at-
tended by several Nobility, 104 ":.e-elesiasties in the habits of
their orders, and a great number of Members of t Littler,
Societies at Rome. Some ut' her host picture; were displayed
in the procession, borne upon the shoulders of the mousers.
At Paris. on the 24th ult. Nladante La Fa)ette. She was the
daughter of the Duke D'Aven. son or the Minitel De Nuelle.s,
and wife 4.;trtetal I'4; ette.

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