The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

HATTON GARDEN.

Wednesday, in consequence of an anonymous letter re-
ceived by the Maeistratee at this 03. ice, stating, that the von
of • Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, (about seven years of age) of
Fished-street, Red Lion-square, had been kept tied up to the
foot of a bedstead for tie ec menthe in a flow garret, the
Magistrates, though not giving credence to the story to its
full extent, dispatched Read, jun. the officer, in order to
make eneeiry. The officer got in by akin( for Mr. Elliott ;
and alter 60471 e converr,ation, asked Mrs. Eiliott how many
children ske bad, and where they were She answered, three,
and they were all cult at play. lie then asked where they
slept, and slag answered in the garret; the officer expressed
a wish to see the place. She then told him he could nut,
mail asked his business; on which the officer pulled out
his stair, and told tier he Cattle to make a search. She in-
stantly lan up stairs, followed closely by Read; who, when
she had run over. the bed in the garret towards a nartow
corner of the room, pulled her back, and found the pool
child fastened by a strap to the bed-post,ll only a bit it
sacking to lie on, uncovered, and in a must filthy state. The
°diver called np the lodgers in the house, ;Ind a itli difiiculty
unlooseried the leather strap with whim' he was fastened to the
tied-post. Read brought the nufortunale clitA carefully
wrapped tip, to the office in a cuaeir, aid the father and
mother ha:Moulted together. The child, however, was pro•
duced at the office naked, and with the strap lotted its buds ;
and two persona in the house deposed to its has iii f ir tlirre
months Leto kept in the Cate already described. .The
parish officers attended, and directed the child to be taken
proper care lif ; and the prisoners were conveyed to Clerken.
w oil Prison, amidst the riser:rations of the populace, that they
may give 2$ hours notice of bails
Thursday Edward Newman. vim) charged by James Wilcox,
stoup:Dan to Messrs Rratlg,4 tck and Cooper, ironinoogers,St.
Johnte lane. with fraudulently ontai 44 iag a quantity of iron and
metal spum; to the amount of 151., the property of his em-
ployers. IVititess dc,uhted that the prisoner came to him on
the 1 Jib of Sept. witla written order. for the propeety, as ,
coining from Mr. 'Caller. 11011111/011SC1', WwOd•SIIPPI,
side, and witness delivered the goods to lieu. There wits a
"termite charge preferred against the prisons r by Mark
ner, sheltie m to Meese's. Warner, brass founders, charged with
&gaining a quantity of brass cocks to the amount of 71. 55.,
by 011e4011 of a fallie order as coming drum the above named
eieson. Mr. Barber oat:mud, and identified the prisoner to
114 t,e been his servant, but had beset Alischtirgeti fourteen
months since, and did not riallierise the pi isoi.er to go witti
ally other writer trern 1 oat of lite propel ty was trateed
to the possession of a man who keeps au nil iron shop in the
neighbourhood ui Hatton Wall. The piopurty awing b.rom
to, the prisoner fully committed tor trdal.
Daniel Morris .was CiCtigefil lay Mr. HO&NOII, landlord of
the Plassa entice house, Crivent Garden, ou suspicion of
steeling a valuable tortoiseshell stand:box tritiunted woo gold.
his properl‘. The prisoner had Used with Mr. feutlgson as
waiter, but end been discharged nine months since, in eons(
qneace of missing several valuable articles; and hearing the
prisoner had here sepreheibiled on a eharge of feloity.ltvit-
ness caused his lodgings to be seat cited: when the above

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property was found iii his box, whirl', produced, was
identified by the rust rittor. isoner ws IIlii) COMUilite4
for

SHAD W ELL.

A GItOST.—Mrs. Jervis, of Regent stre..t. Poplar, applied to the
Magistrates on Thursday last. in consequence of frightful noises beg
every night heard in her liaus.!, Olt MIS:: of whit t cAnnot be dis-
covered. These noises have been heard, she said, for three weirs
pa,t, and 1110 bi now assemble in the street to hear the ghost. • l'os-
session having been taken of the house in this strangi way, nu tenal:t
can he thine', and irreinains on the owner's hands. The Magistrates
immediately directed sonic officers to occupy the lions-. and to appre-
hend, as soon as possible, the evil spirit, which, however, tbcy have
not been able tc catch.

UNION HALL.
Friday William Smith, a most da7i.ig robber, was brought Score
the Magistrate, by Lewis, a coastable of C.tinbzrweli, and was
identified by sevaill persons as the man whose numerous deprrda.
tions have eattsetl-coasiderable alarm in the neighbourlioNl of Cam.
berwell and Peckham. The following charges were preferred again,'
him :

On Saturday evening about 7 o'clock, as Mrs. Tyler, of Peckham,
was crossing a field near Lothbury bona 31U was stopped by the
prisoner, who with imprecations of the most dreadful nature, demand.
ed her money ; she begged him to use no violence and he should
have all the tnoaey that she had in her possession, and handed Was
6d. to hint ; he then seized her hand. in the toot brutal manner,
and forcibly stripped a ring from one of her fingers, and in so dui g
bruised and hurt her hand so violently, that it has been in a ,tat.l.! of
great inflammation ever since. He then made off On Mohday,
stopped Mrs. Powell, of Camberwellot an early part of the evening.
and took from her au umbrella; her cries hastened the approadi of
Mr. Powell to take him into custody. Ott Tuesday tusk, about
eiAlit o'clock, Mrs. Downes of Kennington, was stopped •by the
prisoner on Kennington Common ; he thrust his ham! into L.:
pocket, anti took out all the money, and a silver fruit knife, aid eau
WV; threatening at the same time to return and murder her if she
made uny noise. Oa Thursday morning, at 11 o'clock, he accotted
Mrs. Jones. of Rosemary-branch Lane, I'eekhatn, in a held near
Peckham, and .before she had time to reply to a,t4uestion heasked her
about the time of day, snatched an umbrella from her band, tore a
ring front her finger, and demanded all the money She had about
her, and threatened, with horrid oaths, to murder her if she offered
the smallest resistance. Mrs. Jones was in the act of drawing the
mcney from her pocket, when he observed the approach of come per •
sons and made otf. •
Information being given to Lewis, the constable, of the above rlars•
ing robberies, he procured assistance, and commenced a search after
the lierpctratox. Perceiving the prisoner loitering about in a field,
he took him into custody on suspicion ; and upon searching him
found in his possession the ring that he had taken from Mrs. Jones.
and a pawnbroker's duplicate of an umbrella, which was n•cettained
to be the one belonging to Mrs. Powell. and in another field the Lam-
be:ilia belonging to Mrs. Jones was found concealed under the hedge.
In the pocket of the prisoner were found tiurnennts reliAinus tract!,
warititt,,, most iinpres..ively the readers Io n an evil coins: of lie,
and containing in front the representation of a man upon a gallows.
The prisoner made no defence ; he was committed.

A lady in appearance called at the house of Mr. Canatiie 1, in Short.
street, .N-loorfieltls, on Monday afternoon, under pretence of lueting
at the apartment:, which were to be let ; but •during tie absence of
Mrs. Campbell she contrived to secrete several article: of value, v:ith
which she got off umletected. This is only one of several attempts
made by her that day. She appears passably genteel, of a moth( rip
look, and is about 36 years of- age. She pretends to have a mothe4
for whom she wishes to take lodgings, &c. In her hand was a couple
of black ostrich feathers. and a market two-handle basket, into witch
she mast have thrust the articles stolen, vie.: a silk shawl, 2 tea-
spoons, 3 gold seais which were attached to a watch, lying on the
mamk-piece, (not stolen,) 2 others lying loose, and a gold watch.
key, together oith a small table-cloth.
About one o'clock in the morning of Saturday week two villains
enteeed the rack-hill of Messrs. Paul Itiathen and Co. at Wool-
chester. in Glocestershire, and whilst engaged so taking a pCeee cf
superfine black cloth out of the rake, they were discovered hy a
person employed to guard the premises. The latter.who was fumed.
called out to them to surrender, when they immediately ran of ;
upon which the guard fired at the person carrying the cloth, and it
is supposed wounded him severely, as he eselaimcd, " Lord have
mercy upon me !" and a great quantity of blood was aftcrwa-ds
found on the spot, which was traced as far at Woosicliesicr. '1 he
robbers succeeded nevertheless in making their escape for the prere
as the guard, who instantly went after them, thwoxri down by a
cord which they had previously tussle fa.t across the roa,!, for the Fr-
pose of intercepting any person who might follow them. A re 7:. d
has been offered lin their apprehension.
The Darkar .1 eraser tats, .• Last week W. Prield,
kzeper to C. Lion, 1.. q. of Binchester, tired at a covey consisting of
fourteen p•ittridges, and actually kilhal eleven of tile nuirVlcr at a
single shit. However incredil.ie this m,y apri.r, we do not doubt
the fact, placing full cotifidda..:i4 tlie vaulty of the Gentleman who
handed us the information."

-On We.incaday night, the house of Mr. \finislay, the eneine-r,,
in Lambeth, was broken open by sonic robbers, who carried o!f a
variety of drawing uteisils, and about 31. in silver, which was de-
posited in a writing ticsk. The same night, ilie of Mr. Col.
ling, in Lambeth, was broken open and plundered of 671. in flank
notes.

Grapes far making wine are now so plentiful,that they ate brought
by cart load; to Cov.nt•garlen-marJeet, where they are sold by the
hundred weight at about sevenpenee halfpenny per pound.
Several publicans, we understand, have lately applied to the Co-
railer of the City, to know whether they arc legally obliged to receive
dead bodies into their housez;; to which„i; is said, ha has replied, that
they are not ; bat, that parish officers are by law obliged to furnish
a place fur their ree..ption nil inquests can be held on them.
The return of our countrymen from France is unusually great;
from 30 to 40 arrive at Brighton every packet.
The Russian frigates Legroy, Propeaoy, and Pmvernoy, now de-
tained in Portsmouth by foul winds, are, it is mid, intended as a
cimptiwration to Spain for the bad tiLlte of the Russian squadron,
formerly purchased by that Pow er.
Th: re have been considorahlo importations of onions front France
into Portsmouth, so that they are now sf,l:,:g for 14s. per bushel, a
few days since they sold for double :.hat
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'Fues.l,iy ei ening, bet %reel' i.olll* a:.l five o'elock, the pre_
mimes of Nie:W'S .I.llllls. Wiftld, ana James, oil merchants,
College-hill, took file, which W.l/1 SO rapid in its progress.
that. not will:shim:big :►.Gil situp)), of water to the numerous
engines, they Were utterly (testes/so: in lia'fan hour. AL the
imuks and papers were fortsuottoly prem. re ed. The Stock,
which consisted print ipmly nit, WdS entilely consumed
but we ore happy to learn ill it the great. r lis rosin% d.
weihie,dey no 'mines' Was held at the Sproul Eagle, it.
Giles's, on the body nf•,ioh:utna Disgain, a child, whose death
was occasioned by stising,liquirta given to her by a woman
named Bryan. It, appeared from the eeidee,ee of the
varenis -i.trr..f. the deceased, that Rryac took the child
010 a!•ont h.r:f• past 7 no Sunday morning, and returned about
9 o'clock. Coo setting down the child it could not stand.—
Waif ii%kril what she mad dune, and the child said, " I
laic drunk two glasse•s ut Lin, nnc .I,rlllll, out. of peppermint.
and o'l.ll eol two pots tit porter.' Ihe elold grew very ill.
mid died in the eonrse of the they. Bryan had taken her cot
Allot made tier drink, in conseeptence of which she had been
very ill. Tlie body of bite opened, and the stomach
:Mimi to lie early thflame.l. The jury returned a verdict of
—Wilful Nltil der.