The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION HOUSE

A few days since a young Gentleman attended. and after relating
the sudden death of his father. directly charged his uncle with hav-
ing been concerned in hastenin • his dis,adution. The charge was
ticatal as the chimera of a &pi-tiered mind, but folly to satisfy all
parties it was agreed thatan application shoalA be 'mule for the disin-
Nation of the body, which he I been buried in the church-yard of
St. James's, Piccadilly. The Coroner for Wohruitister was aceordingly
applied to, and in answer regretted. that without strong grounds of
suspicion he could no• grant a warrant for taking up the body : if he
did so it must he to have the matter investigated by a Jury, and from
the distance dilute, as well as the corrupt state of the deecased when
interred. it would be impossible for any man to come to a fair cm-
elusion
upon a view of the laxly. The matter remaining unexplained,
it was resolved to apply to Dr. Nley(x, who attended the deceased a
short time before his ei:ath. The Doctor immediately declared the
death to have been natural In order, however, to sat the question
at rest he went to the Justice room, and was sworn to the following .
—" London to wit, I, John Meyer, NI I)., do hereby make oath, that
I attended the late Win. M—, a few days previous to his death,
and in In vjuilgimnt he died of the chofera inoriitir. Signed, Jon N
Mrs-Ea.'. The uncle of the young man stated that this would he
satisfactory to all parties, although Mr. M. juts. still continued in a
state of mind truly distressing to his friends.

GUILDHALL.
Thtwelav James Ellis was charged before Mr. Alderman Good-
beliere, with plundering tile Paddington Can.il Warehoi,e, in Lon-
don Wall, of Manchester and other goods, to the amount of more
than 2001.. the property of Mes,rs. Turner aad Co. the proprietors.
Elizabeth Ellis, daughter to the prisoner, teal also put to the bar,
charged with being concerned in the rubbery.
At the re pleat of one of the prosecutors, the prisoners were both
remanded, to give time for further inquiry, and for the pawnbrokers
to attend with the property.

BOW STREET.
On the Ist of March. 1817, the Edinburgh mail was robbed of
bank notes to the amount of between 4 and 5,0001. which were in a
Parser sent by mail to Messrs. Edie and Cu. at the Stirling bank,
from the Edinburgh bank. On tae arrival of the nail coach at Stir-
ling, the parcel was missing. Thepassengers had all left the coach,
and it was strongly suspected that some or tile whole of the inside
passengers were concerned in the robbery. An inquiry soon took place
respecting them and their proceedings on the road, when it was as-
certained that all the inside places were taken previous to the mail
starting from Edinburgh, and that three persons, of the names of
lister, Hamilton and Carter, .aat into tne mail coach at the inn,
previously to its starting, and the four passengers were taken up on
the road. As the mail was passing the top of Prince's-street, Edin-
burgh, one of the passengers. who had booked himself by the name
of Hamilton, suddenly stopped the mail, and said he had forgot some
important papers, and as it would be of no use pursuing his journey
without them, he was obliged to return home. and left the mail,
taking his great coat over his arm, and saying he must pur me his
journey the next day. The passenger who had booked himself by
the name of M•Allister, got out of tie mail at Lithengrove, and did
not return into the coach, although he had taken his place to Stirling.
A full description of the meat's persons and conduct was obtained
from a young we man of the name of Brown, an outside passenger,
who was admitted into the coach in consequence of Hamilton getting
out at the top of Prince's-street. Edinburgh, and abandoning his
seat in the coach, and she rode a; fur as Lithengrove. The proprietors
of the Bank-notes have been making every possible exertion, and
sparing no expense to d,scuver the robbers, and to recover the tin.
mense cunt lost. Among other places they applied at Bow-street,
and in consequence Adkins, the officer. has been fur some time ex-
erting himself, but without success, till a few months since, when a
man was ditented at the Italian Opera, in robbing the company
there, by means of cutting th.:rt pockets with a sharp instrument,
and which practice it is supposed lie had pursued for some time with-
out suspicion or detection, owing to his being genteelly dressed, and
resorting to the pit. On searching him and his rsaidence some
articles of property were found, shich led to a suspicion that he was
one of the passengers in the Edinburgh mail, and had brvnixincemtal
in the rubbery. Information being sent to the bankers, the owners
of the valuable parcel, they sent Miss Brown the fellow-lemale pas-
senger before mentioned, to London, when she positively swore to the
man apprehended at the Italian Opera house, as being one of the
passengers. His name is Hamilton, alias Grey. lie has been tried
for the robberies at the Opera-house and has been sentenced to seven
years transportation. In the mean time Adkins has been exerting
himself to apprehend the other supposed robbers, and has succeeded
in tracing out and securing one et them of the name of Nl•Allister
alias Crowder ; and Miss Brown has been sent again Irma Edinburgh
to London, tu,d has also identified this man as one of Lie passengers
in the mail at the time of the robbery.
A habeas corpus has been obtained for the removal of Hamilton
alias Grey. flout Newgate to Edinburgh, to take his trial fur the
robbery of the mail • and Adkins has left town with hint and
M'Allister alias Crowder, fur Edinburgh, to take their trial for the
offence.
HATTON GARDE'. .

Thursday Pasquier Bother was brought to this office by one of the
officers of the Society ter the Suppression of Mendicity, upon a charge
of vagarancy and gross imposture. It appeared upon examioation,
that hie prisoner was n foteigner, who had be...n ficimently relieved
by the wendicity society, but refused to avail himself of the
means adopted tor his future support. He was this day found
standing in Holborn.. with a paper binned on his breast. stating
that he was a decayed .tratleuuan. and that he was bliud. The
latter circumstance was evidently an imposition. and the worthy
Nlagistente, concurring vvith the views of the society in punishing
gross imposture. committed hint for one month to the House of Cor-
rection. Coldbath- fields.