The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-22 00:00:00

HATTON GARDEN.

On Tuesday, Harriet Ball %tar mosight up fiir a final examinatirm,
on a clime of forgiii the accept:l;lre of Mr..). Parton, vestry-
clerk of St. Cider's parish, to our separate bills of exchange, one of
which was for 151. two l'or tol. each, and a fourth fur 181 which
hilt, Mr Greif, a baker, in Hyde-Art.(l, diNeninited for her. The
prisoner wa- led to the har it, tweet) two of the officers, who sop-
pot led her din Mg a •Itort coarge given to her by the Magistiale, oil
the enormity of the offence. and the narrow esc.ape hie had
through the prosecutor not wishing to come forw aid rite was tlic-
charged, she immediately swooned, and tell into the arms of Wood,
the ufficer. Wl4O carried lie. into the adjoining thrice, %bete she was
assisted by some ladies who came to attend the examination.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

--.4110.

Friday ae'linight early in the morning, Mr. Deacon, a respectable
wait houseman in %Vatting-street, was discovered, almost litless, in
the fn hii near the Shepherd and Sheperdess, City-road, having been
folioed and so ill-treated as to be kit for dead on the might pre-
vious

Information being given to Mr. Goff, at the Britannia, RI itannia-
row, he ►mmediately had the gentleman removed to his house on a
shutter, and procured medical assistance, by means of which he was
at length restored to animation. The occotm• he gave was as Vol
lows That he had been passing the preceding evening at the
King's Head Tavern, at Islington; And on his return home, about
halt•-past ten &Hoek, just as he entered the open field from Queen's
Head-lane, he received a violent blow on tin head, from a stick or
a stone, sod was instantly attacked by three men, with whom he
had a dreadful struggle. during which his clothes were torn to
pieces ; th .t they put a rope round his neck, and endeavoured to
strangle himond flintily succeeded in robbing and dragging, him into
the ditch, where he remained till discovered. 'as above stated, the
next morning. The two patroles were on duty at the time this outs
nese was committed, but neither of them heard or saw any think of
it, though one of them between eleven and twelve o'clock timid
M.. Deakin's hat, with a hole broke in the side of it ; and in the
coos, of the morning his shoes, one of his gaiters, several pieces of
his roat, some cards of Isis address, as well as some pieces of jack.
tine asarked with blood, were found scattered between the path and
the ,sitch, which are about fso yards apart. Little remained of Isis
(oat hut the sleeves and collar, and his under waistcoat. "his t,
mercies, and even his stockings were torn to rags, but his wail-
c(,;i: mu: uninsured, and the medical gentleman who atleneed him at
Mr. G tr's, after the strictest examination, could not discover the
slightestappearaoce of a %snood or swelling► on his Issad.or body, but
thcre was a mask round Isis neck, as it made by a rope, and his nuse
se med to have bled a little. Ile was taken home in a coach by some
of his frit'nds ; tale of whom stated, that on Thursday morning, Mr.
1). seas is, possession of bills, &c. to the amount of 3161. and was •
to receive &al. the same day, none of this property, however was
about him when he was attacked, as he had not more than four or
live pounds in his pot ker book. One extiasordinary circumstance
connected with this affair is, that the watchman who is stationed
Lear the Shepherd and Shepherdess, in the City Road, about two
o-cloc,, in the mornitss, saw a man cumin from tl.e fields with his
face bloody, and his clothes torn to pieces, and without hat or
shoes who told him he had brut) assaulted and sobbed in the fields,
and enquired for the nearest watch house; when the watchman di•
rected him to that of St. Luke's parish. Sir William Parsons, one
()like Magistrates at Worship street. was with Mr. Deakin, at the
Bsitanpia ; and as the business is under the investigation of the Ms.
gistrates, it is hoped that the mystery which at present envelops it
will be elucidated.

a' ()inlay su'ilnight, about two o'clock p. m. a fishing boat, belong-
ing to Gurdon, near liervie, re turning from fishing, was by a
sudden squall and heavy sea, upset, when the crew, five married
rren, all perished. Their names are James Mill, Alexander Watt,
John .13!iies. Andrew Chisholm, and William Ritchie; the wife of
the latter was delivered of an infant the same night. Two of the
bodies were limpid clinging to a part tit the wreck ; the rest are still
Ity this accident, five widows and sixteen children are
thr, on the Immanitv of the public.
Thuisday morning, about Om e o'clock, a file broke out near the
Elephant-stuns, at Rotherhithe, which consumed Wu houses.