The National Register.
London, England, 1817-10-13 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Naos underwent an exa-
mination before Mr. Hicki, the Sitting Magistrate, charged
with being a sturdy rogue and vagabond, by falsely pretend-
big to be in a famishing state, and to be afflicted with tits,
&c. in order to excite compassion for the purpose of obtain•
ing money from his Majesty's subjects. On his being placed
at the bar, he refused to till where his parish was, or to give
any account of himself; it was, however, drawn from hint
that he was borit in .Devonshire within fifteen miles of Exe.
ter ; that he was apprenticed to Mr. Blackwood, asurgeon and
apothecary, at Barnstable, and served out his apprenticeship
within a quarter of a year, when he entered into the North
Gloacestershire militia. No other particulaus would lie give
respecting his life, or how he now gained his living.
He was committed to Tuthill fields Bridewell AS a rogue
and vagabond.
Pariah, a waterman, was brought to the office, charged
with being concerned with a female of the name of Taff, and
four other men, in committing a violent assault and outrage
upon Lady Colebrook, and her ladyship's three grauddaugh-
ters, on the 23d of September last.
It appeared that Mrs. Taff, the mother of the young ladies
had applied to Lord Ellenburough some time since for a ha-
beas corpus, to bring the young ladies from the possession and
control of Lady Colebrook, who was educating them under
her own immediate protection, with which Mrs. Taff was not
satisfied. In her application to Lord Ellenborough she did
not succeed in outaining possession and emitted over her
dairghters, slit. therefore; had recourse to a stratagem, and
on the 23d day be Sept. she employed Joseph Parish, and
four other men, to accompany her in a carriage; they pro-
ceeded towards Hampstead, the residence of Lady Cole-
brook, at a time. when Mrs. Tall' expected her ladyship arid
the three young ladies would be out in a carriage. This ex-
pectation proved to be correct, as they met them OD Hamp-
stead-hill; it lien Mrs. Taff got wit of her carriage, the ;nen
accompanied her, and, tinder her direction, stopped Lady
Colebrook's carriage, and endeavoured forcibly to take the
Noun., ladies out, amid give them into the possession of Mrs.
Taff; the tine and spirited opposition of Lady Colebrook's
coachinau and footman, together with the assistance of some
persons passing at the time, win) were induced to act ill Assist-
ance, from the distress manifested by Lady Colebrook and
the young ladies, frustrated the design of M.'s. Taff, and the
young ladies were coat eyed back in security to Lady Cole-
brook's house. Mrs.'tait wits on the fillowing day held
to bail for the courage, but the men as lio accompanied her
could out be discovered them J. Pettish, upon Ids being
brought op to the office, was identified by Richard Cann,
Lady Colebrook's footman, as our of the party, who with
Mrs. Taff attacked his mistress's carriage.
The prisoner did not deny the charge, and said, he was in
the employ of Mrs. tie ti ax oi tiered to find had to
mower the charge at the eii,ming sesitiiis for Aliddlesex.

HA'rION-GAR DEN.
On Sunday night last, a 111,111 named lainsbnry, formerly a
soldier In the ;is NV:I4 found Nvdtki isis in his blood, in
Hornsey-wriod, with his throat rut to two places, one of the
%moan& having penetrated the u:suphagus. The wretched
man was forthwith carried to St. liartholoinew's-hospital,
where he declined, that he had been wet iu the.wood by two
men, knocked down, and robbed by them; and that among
other thinv which had Inca taken Irwin hun, werstwu du-

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plicates ; and further, that on leaving him, the robbers had
atte:liptcd in destroy him, by rutting his throat ui a .1 razor,
which had b-en picked up bloody limn under his head alien
he was lmild He sieuied having himself had any razor with
him at the lime. To all these circumstances hr deposed to
the Lord Mayor, who ettentled him in tbr hospital ; he es en
gave a very particular description of the persons of the two
men. lii consequence of his deposition, a wan named Flan-
nigan, was on Wednesday morning brought np to this office-
on suspicion), for having in his possession the duplicates, toge-
ther with a razor and lase which precisely answered to that
found bloody near the w Jed moo. These articles he de-
clared lie hurl found in the wood, a short distance from the
place where it appears, Lunshury had attempted to destroy
himself. Some suspicion as to the truth of the unfortunate
wretch's deposition having arisen in the Magiatrate's mind,
from-the circumstance of all the other apparatus for shaving
being found in his room, with the exception of razors. and
button which fastened the razor case being a similar ouli;ory
button with those worn by Luosbnry, be ordoied Flannigan
to be taken to the hospital, for the purpose of CJII•
fronted with lilac, when the wretched man COlifeigieti before
the Lord Mayor that he bad himself committed the act.
He stated, that on Saturday morning, the eth of October,
1817, he came down from Islington to Smithfield, to get a
job; could not find any thing to do; he walked back to the
Sluice-house : had a pint et' beer, and went from thence to
Hornsey-wood ; he took with him the two 'woes iu the case, .
with one of which lie cut his throat twice; he was on his
knees when he committed the act; lie could not get work;
be did dot like to beg or steal; and had resolved to destroy'.
himself. This lie declared to be the true state of the case,.
and that his former declaration before the Lord Mayor was
false.

MA RLB 0 RO UGH-STREET.
Tuesday, a man named Mackee, who had lately lived in
the employment of Mr. Sink'', of llama...crescent, was
charged by a genteel looking young woman, with a daring
species of robbery in York-street, Middlesex Hospital. It
appeared, that she was passing along, between the hours of 9
and 10 on Monday night, when some person Caine suddenly
behind, and snatching off her shawl, ran away with as much
speed as lie could. She immediately cried out " stop thief;"
and a watchman in the neighbourhood, taking the alma', went
in pursuit of the prisoner. Mackee, finding himselliu dan-
ger of being taken, dropped the shawl in Mary -le-laine-
Street, and it was taken up by Thomas Simon, a buy who
happeued to he passing at the time, and who ideutitied the
prisoner as the pie:sou in whose . possession it was. The
watchman still continued his pursuit, but the prisoner being
a more expert runner, would have probably escaped, had he
not accidentally met with a fall. His pursuer tumbled over
him, and lie was immediately secured. The prisoner was
fully committed.
Two wretched looking men, M illiam Nevel and Robert
Prunery, were charged with disorderly conduct by the keeper
of Hyde-park. He stated to the Magistrate, that they had
been in the habit fur some time, of retiring at night to a little
slued, which had bean erected for a watchman in the park,
with a miew to prevent the many robberies which occurred.
These men had been frequently found asleep there in the
morning, and were often warned not to repeat stick conduct,
but they still persevered, and were found in the saute sitna.
tion on Tuesday.
The prisoners in their defence said, that they had been at
sea many years, and not being able for some time back to
procure any employment to pay for their lodgings, they
were obliged to retire to this place at night, to shelter them-
selves from the cold. The poor creatures had a most wretch
ed appearance.
The Magistrate ordered them to be passed to their pa-
rishes.