The National Register.
London, England, 1815-08-13 00:00:00

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PRO VINCIA LS.

.At the Somerset Assizes, I'. S. Chimpneys, Esq. with Ralph
epp.ier and Thomfis Atkinson. two of his dohitstivi, were indicted
for a violent assanit on White, a sheriff's officer, and his follower,
who cone info the house of the first Defemlant, to execnte war-
t-aids mr two excentiona, ihnomiting to about 3AI. ft was deposed,
on behalf of the prosecution, that the officers were violently es-
s.oilted—their warrants taken from them, and thrown into the tire
by Mr. Chanioneys, and consumed, While *late was collared, drag-
ged violently through the passage by the order and assistance of
Mr. C for the purpose of being thrown into a pond. He beg2.eil
for his life, and said, if they would let him go, he wrthd give up
the process. Mr. ('hampneya &feuded his own cGuae in person, in
a speeds of considerable length and interest, in which lie complained
that he was ms injured person, and marked out lot ruin for twelve
wars past, by the Under -Sheriffs of the county, through whose
hoods many ihousamb of his property had passed, On account of Vtl-
rions litigation% instituted by members of the legal profession. He
had been in the commission of the peace for twenty, five years, and
as,4 t fed that Ids conduct lead alwavc burn that of a man of honour
and integrity ; his farni'y had also borne that character for seven
centories. He denied the whole of the charge, and insisted that the
officers had been guilty of the assault.—Mr. Champne)'s house-
keeper and poptillion were examined, who swore positively, that
the officers were drunk and extremely rude—one so excessively
drunk that lie could hardly sit on his horse.—The Jory found the
Defendants guilty ; hut application is expected to be made for a
new tri L
A eit.e of considerable importance to all proprietors of waggons
and horses kept in or near London, was heard before the Magis-
trates of this Office on Saturday, the 3tlt inst. concerning the forci-
ble detension of waggons and horses for the conveyance of military
baggage. Upwards of twenty waggons and teams of horses were
impressed in Surrey, the owners of which are warfingers in Middle-
sex. The Magistrate gave it as his opinion, that no carriage or
horse belonging to any person not residing in the county in which
the iinpressment is made, can be legally detained; and in ease of
rout iletensinn, a penalty may he iecovered from the Commanding
Offieer, and that it is the duty of the constables to furnish carriages
and harses for the conveyance of military baggage, from the dis-
tricts only in which they reside.
On Saturday, the puni•liment of the pillory was inflicted at Man-
chester, on a fellow called Samuel Halliwell, who was convicted at
the Quarter Sessions of that town, of the too common but immoral,
and barbarously indecent act of exposing his wife for sale
in the public market, like " a beast which perishes." He was or-
dered to he imprisoned thres months in addition to the pillory.
At the late Assizes of Castlebar, a man was tried for murder.—
After the Jury brought in their verdict Guilty, the prisoner was ob-
served to drink out of a bottle, which be had during the trial con•
coaled The auditors conceived it to be poison, but it turned out
to be rood whiskey ; when lie had drank it out, he thing it at the
Lead of the pro,eclitor—the bottle broke. After the consternation
which this caused in Court, Connseller Radcliffe observed, it was
the first time lie ever heard of a criminal and a prosecutor cracking
a boltle tog-eller. _ _

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COUNTERFEIT NAPOLEONS.—The trade in this commodity has
,of late become very successful, and the children of Israel have
.4:a& Some pretty gleanings in this way both on the continent and
in this country. A respectable innkeeper at Hastings was on
Thissodav last induced to give VOL in Bank of England notes for a
ionntwi or these «porions coins, which were scarcely worth twenty
pence. Vise mode in which these frauds are practised is this : some
preteaed or real foreigner arrives by the packet, or says he has,
et.nd apetly proceeds to the first Tavern, where he obtains re-
fre.hmen t :suit «tops the night, and the next morning offers the land-
lord an aavasitageons bargain of his Napoleons, for which the land-
lord is happy to give a fair price, as he can re-sell them at a good
premium to persons departing for the Continent. Many of the
bargain., were undiscovered, and the landlord has innocently sold
his spurious coin, but of late it has been ascertained that the coin
ill a great number of instances is base. Birmingham has the credit
of heist: engaged in this manufacture.

In our lat paper. wit shortly mentioned the apprehension of two
per.oits, char:led with murder at Portsmouth. The following is a
ief of the eiten : --James Anderson, a seaman,
married Jerome, ii:,vitter of - Jerome, who keeps a
binkcr'• ship itt !lie w Portaea ; but throock the
inoleht iistelference or his wile% mother, Anderiion had not been
,Mitred to I;%e with his Mile. • In the night of Saturday se'unight,