The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-08 00:00:00

ietfiLIJFIALL.

EILTENSIVIt DE e-AEDSTIOXS.--fiTe„tay
J. Simmonds
Oat elearl;eial
young Mall of resocetable family, was brunt
with ,te,t," coatis articles of property to the amount! of
itr
90411 from the woo-Amuse of
Messrs. Watford, Gar
W. Malielies.cr dealers, in Watling-street. The prisoner, it
i
appe,,to, was in the employ of the prosecntorS fo r
time
months, nit had iett their service abont a fortni,
since
r
in con
equ eon lets s
esice of their refusing to '
•itarYteeii
Yrwtt.ys after he haul quitted them, something jr "
aledge which led to a suspicion that he them,
a.J Harrison, the Nforsholonein, was c.v. to apprehend
dint. This otticer discovered id :mixings to be at the Rose
and Horn public-h00..e, where, with the landlord's
permission, he searched his poxes and a clipboard, and found
them filled with gown pleces, shawls, scarfs, and other pro-
perty, all of which bore the private marks of the prosecutors.
The same evening lie took the prisoner into custody, and
found on his person more articles of the same description,
together is ith several letters from too yowng women, ac.
knowledging the receipt of divers handsome presents. He
also found a number of duplicates of oilmen,/ pledged at
different pawni.rokers. At the residence of Sarah Goble,
one of the young women alluded to, Harrison found several
articles• and, among others, a beautiful dress, which she said
the prisoner., who was about to merry leer. had presented to
her to wear on the nuptial day. 'flue Giber female Ann Fry,
Tesided at Stoke Newington, and had several dresses, &e. in
her possession. A sister of the prisoner living in Surrey,
had more goods, which were sold or given to her by her bro-
ther ; and the landlady of the Rose and French Horn had also
purchased a considerable quantity of him. The whole of the
-property traced by the exertions of Harrison was identified
by the prosecutors; it amounted in volume to about aUI. but it
was calculated that his depredations must have been to the
amount of at least 3001. Sarah Galsol a very interesting
-young girl, was present, And gave evidence as to the articles
which, hail been found in her possession. Her agitation was'
so violent as made it necessary to support her.; and at the
%-muclitsion of her testimony., she fainted. The prisoner, who
wits in tears the whole of the time, was taken troll, the bar
nearly senseless.—lle was fully committed fur
HATION GARDEN. •

Monday W. Ducey, post-boy to Mr. Clare, of the Rird.in.
'and, at Hampstead, was charged by his mistress with rob,
Ling her of 201. in notes net! cash. The proeectitrix deposed, '
ahat -on Friday morning she brought a bag down stairs, con_
Raining Bank note* and cash to a considerable atnonnt, which '
ehe put into a drawer in her bar, but Aeon after discovered
that part of the property hail been stolen. Suspicion falling
upon the prisoner, she had hint taken hit° castody. W. Read,
jun. the officer, deposed, that atter he bad taken the prisoner
into custody, lie confessed lie had been is the habit of robbing
his mistress for a considerable time, and that with part of
what he had stolen he bought clothes and a watch ; and what
he bad stolen out of the bag, he hid in the coal cellar, until
an opportunity Offered for his taking it away. On exaniiiiing
the cellar, lie found 61. :Is. arid three 11. notes, part of whirl,
the proseentria swore to have keit stolen from her, and the
prisoner was fully committed.
Wednesday --- Yett:f.•:, a master chimney-sweeper. of Clia.
fel-street, l'atltlii.gtoii, w,.s ttnat•geti by Mary Ct.rr, of the lireadase,
Iletaford, with detainieg her son, t 1 years of ege, from het, on pr. -
..r<:. of his beii.g apprentice. She stated, that the haul been WI
.a widow with two child:en, which the ma:::tained ty sAling things a;
f:.:rs; that about seven months ago her son wiz st.la:ed from her
Ly another bay, during her absence from home, b:,d in t. few days
after he was bound apprentice: liana this Office to }'emitter. without
.NT 7.. knowledge, the child being first instructed to tell the Mag;strates
t'sist he had neither titthe: nor mother,.anl that it was his with t be
aeep. 'net as soon so she discovered the circumstance, she re-
to his house to claMi him, considering that so young a boy
t1.a:.l not be legally bound without the consents( his parents tot
l'ettifer refused to deliver him up, and she watched an opportunity
4,ml took him borne. „In .a few days after he repaired to Deptford.
at al in her absence carried him cif; telling her neighbours he had
settled with his mother. :lie was able to maintain and clothe him,
ha crag a little capital to sank on, and wishea'. to have him under her
Gwen. care. The child was never sent either to school or to church;
`re had neither shirt, shoes, nor stockings or., and was not allowedon
41,..idays to wash or Bern himself; but was emplaced cn that nay
sernag soot in the cellar, where he usually had his victuals. and
at night slept on soot bags. 'file defertiant strongly denied every
part of the charge; and said that the cemp:ainant only wanted to
''-ake him away now, as he understood his tusiness, in order to get
money fmm another master for him ; the; in the tir=e in-te.r.,:e, his
-wither deserted him on Piaci:heath. where she left hie: to ph.cide
6'r I:enself, and that he did not know in what part of the world she
'Pm in ; and on this statement he was bound apprentice. The boy
net being present, the parties wereordered to attend again, cud bring
itiro with them.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.
T. Ward was charged with stealing a dead hotly. The (le,
'fend/nil, who is porter at St.lielirge's Uospite, was detected
ie A rlingtomstreet,Somonalown with a male hotly in matting.
Ills load being 'wary, he pitched it; and on taking it up
again, the arms and lugs were viSible,allti soon' persous pass.
mg, followed him, when lie threw it over a wall, and made
.eff, , hilt was pursued and taken. In his Iceence, he said, it
wasa I.olllli ry ..iabject, and he was on h s was' to Or. brookes's
with it, who hail ordered it a week ago.-I{e was ordered to
Sail bail, and sent for Dr. Brookes i'in-that.perpose.
:4INGULIR lillia6l2.—A Mr. John E.4gan charged his
elms:liter, a gill of ID, with assaulting hint and Illrealrllitig
his life. The complainant stated, that the accused had ab-
sconded from her 'home in Ireland, andslie liasing been in •
~.nerd of robbing a gentleman of 7001. be CAMP to Loatlon to
-find her, hie residence iu Ireland basing been searebed.for the
stolen property. Plank. the officer, (amid het to Riding
Honse-lane, when she denim! her lather, whom she bad
struck, amid threatened to plaitge itinife into hint if he made
any disclosures. Capt. M'Claian was the person she wu
charged with robbing, and who has u process against her in
for the felony . The deleadant was ordered to find
bail, and information was sent to Dublin.
14 Oltsibll STREET.
Saturday wo.,f, erge Miik in. charged with ntteting a
-forged 11. note at thr shop of i•. Rogers, busier, Oa Alders-
gate. street, was fully committed.
Cm ries Lou Nem, one of the inmates of the Refuge for the
Destitute, at I 10 si on, who atisconil.,l with a snit of clothes
bclongiiig youtli.iu :the ItEstillilloll, was fully cam.
mitte.l.
Tait e tfeksrsid co Munorm. —lSrs. Van Weede, a fa
shionable dressed Indy, was charged before William
SMI Esq. t, her hot•imati Mr. J. Ei Vale Weede, a gesitleman
•
residiug in the City-road, with acting tuwaids him with great
violence, and ilireatenei. to murder bias. The gentleounit
',Lard. that Ins wile gal imp in the middle of the night, we'd
to hit dressing 'ease anti took amt a •raaar., whiniest's, place.'
the pih.sw ; he awoke, awl she ,vowe4 wm .1 d .
troy I • —lie escaped from her. The &feud int • ..d, .11.
would WI I.m..er Irvr with her husband. Tuley agreed t t sr-
.lterate, and Mr. Van Veerie agreed to allow hex a selt:t;ntieui.

THE NATIONAL. NEGiSTER.
UNION .1'n"....-11
HALL.
-rxrewsivir RODHErtY.—WO3. 1)+0.
. . Jog it up for cx-
.•a. Willlain Broomfield,
animation under the yollawi,,, ,1...:..5. that the prisoner, for aeo-
nofderatiewleBtriinid4fe past, th...-V:rte-andiseePlerderedbtlyiahtinahis"stamtugibOrWX3lll:33dl).
On the toth of 144.1 contents, consisting of :.'35:. iu Bank of Eng-
been plooti,siie property was safe oat the preceding evening about
land, clock. it was his custom to put the key of his ensile)/ box
into the nll in the shop, and he was induced to open the box for the
purpose of seeing that all was safe in consequel,,se of f4nlin„,., the till
open, recollecting distinctly that he had shut it when he tut placed
the key there. He was riluzli alarmed when he discovered the rob-
bery, and immediately croinnotnicated th.:eirciuns.ance of his loss to
the prisoner who was 03 the premises, and engaged in carrying on
the business. He professed to be intvih amazed a: the event, ex-
pressed Mai sorrow, and recommended an active search for the rob-
ber. A few days afterwards the prisoner omitted to come to work as
usual, when Mr. Broomfield hearing that he was riding about in
hackney-coaches, and squaildering away large sums of money, in-
formed the Police officers, flail and Goff, of ttri circumstances of the

ease, end they apprehended him at a brothel, in !Sever-street. l'art
of the property was found upon his person, and he confessed that he
had committed the rubisery.—Cuinnutted.

Egs.rurioa.—Joseph Davey, a young man, who was eon_
vieted at the Sessions in April last, fur forging a certain or.
der for payment of 1201. with an intent to defraud Messrs.
Stephenson and Co., bankers, Lombard•street ; and Genii:,
Chapman, alias Claxton, for having uttered a, true, a forged
note, lourportinr to be that of Vic Governor and Company of
the itat.k. of Logland, were executed on Tuesday morning,
in front of the Old Batley, in presence of a less nwnermw
assemblage than has been oh.erveil for many years past no a
similar occasion. Roth of the unfortunate men conducted
themselves with great propriety, and met their fate with for.
thuds%

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FEN A person talking to Fenclon upon the subject
of the &Mill:111:w of France, and upproviug of the many
eaecutions ohich had taken place under it. in opposition to
the arguments of tae Archbishop, said, " I Maintain that
such persons are notit to list ."—" But my friend," said Fit-
nelon. "you du not a edect, that they are still more unfit to
die ."

A few evenings hark a waterman, in a state of inebriation,
inrprud►ntly attempted to row his boat, containing his wife
ahil child, through one of the arches of London bridge,at
high tide. 'The consequence was, that the boat overturned
and they were all precipitated into the water. The woman
held the child as long as possible, when it was carried oat of
her arms by the strength of the current, and drowned.—The
ns tit held his wife till assistance came from the shore, and
fort►►nately saved them heat. They were conveyed to a
neighbouring public house, but in such a weak state, that
they were unable to walk home.
While the funeral of Mr. Lush. who lately died in the Tower,
was proceeding from the door, his aged wile stood on the threshold,
Ind dreteAtown dead at the side of her husband's coffin.
On Tuesday night an inquest was held at the City of Louden pub.
lie house, City-read, on the body of Christiana Beams, aged :;7
The deceased was in the employ of Mr. Thomas, of creel. A
young man named Blake, residing with his father, in Sidney-street,
Islington. paid his addresses to her, but haring at length discovered
that she had been previously married, and had one child, he became
cool in his attention. On 'lliursday she went to his sister's, at Brit-
tle Bride,. where she was met by his father, who took h. r home to
his house. and there net tieing a spare bed, sat up; but the deceased
and Mr. B. jun. were left together. On Sunday morning she corn
plainest 'if bring unwell, and at one o'clock was observed by the fa-
ther in a dying state, and a surgeon was sent for. Ile could render
ne assistance, and she lingered till about three o'clock, when ale
expired. On the body being opened, abuut two (rocas of laudanum
were &land in the stomach. Ventiet--Insanity.

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Another inqutet was held at the same house, on the body rf J.
Brewton, who wee found by a labouring man in the Shepherd and
Shepherdest-fielde on Tuesday morning, about font o'clack, with his
throat cut nearly twin ear to car. Tlit: deeezoni was employed by
his brother, who is acabinet maker in CrosewAreet, rinsbury•Nuart;
who on Saturday night paid A. ',eget, and he had net been seen
afterwards until found dead. It further appeared that the family
had been subject to insanity. Verdict secordit:gly.

An iufamnus hand bill was on Monday circulated in the neigh-
bourhood of Ltrury-lane, accusing a pork-butcher of the horrit•le
practice of purchasing dead human Ladies to sae as a substitute for
pork ; and this most improbable calumny drew a misguided multi-
tude to the spot, where they indulged in wanton exceases to a late
hour ; and it was pith no little difficulty that the peace officers were
able to save the premises friar destruction.
Thursday ir.ornitl a Richmond steam packet boat met with a alight
accident at Chiswick on on its passage to London, owing to one of the
reds of *be vessel breaking. The pa.ssengers were conveyed to wwa
in boats. happily no injury was sustanted by any person on board.
Considerable diversion was .afliwded to several water parties 0:1
Wednesday, by the appearance of a porpoise, of a prodigious size,
between London and Blackfriars Bridges. A great many shots were
fired at it without effect. The sport had nearly been attended with a
fatal accident. A musket-shpt passed through the hat of a gentleman
who was in a boat, within an inch of his head
An untoward accident happened on :s!onday night to the Marchi-
ontss of Cornwallis, while alighting from her carriage, at the Prince's
grand party. The coachman having slackened the wins, the horses
mooed on, when herladyship fell oath her side agi.inetthe step: by
which she was so maeli hurt as to be rendered imete•ible tbr ;.time. •
She was carried by the Marquis sad woistants into the liatke, where
proper restoratives being applied, sbe speedily rczovered.
The 'tribunal of Police. at Pans, has fii,ed, to a censidelable
amount, several wine laud:ants and tavern keepers for adulterating
-their wines. The liquors were erdernl to be throwa into the street.
A hag, containing neatly wool. in Itngliftt gerd coil, was lately
picked up near low watt: mark, ca one (4 the beaches near Desl, by
a Cuatom Mouse officer. isle) wan oatroleng that roast. It is sappused
to have been thrown overboard by some smuggling boat whilstchas-
ed. A claim has been thrown in for the money in question, but
upon what ground we have r.--t heard.
Monday morning, Mt. 'I% Matte, a half-pay of cr, residing in
Orchard-..tree:, Wostiiiinster, attempted to put an end to hie litifliC4lCe
by shooting himself with sepiatol. The resort was heard by the sec-
' cant, who instantly went into the room awl found lino lying on t tie
floor bleeding prof:Lwly from a wounSin his aide. A ,tirgeim was
called in ; who, GA examination, found that the ball had taken a
slanting direction, and passed through the side 'between his ribs.
}lopes are entertained of his recovery.
A dreadful accident toils place at Wentwonli Home, Yorkshire.
last week. Fc::r girls t-ist:rs) having winded a swing chair, the
chain to which it fixed hei.:,, fastened :it each end •o a stone
lamp-post, their weight brought /loves a large snare, which fell iipoit
Mein.; when of the girls was killed instantly, and the other
three were terribly embed, one having both thighs and another a leg
• broken.
A.horrie belonging to Mr. Ratzhelor, of Brighton. a few days situ:
ran away with a cart, and went ewer to this clamor the Crescent.
* a. perpendicular descent of about in feet. The CM was &Stitt, to
piec,,s; be the animal escaped appartattly unhurt, and was Li Maine
imiwatiately after.
The late flue weather has enable:l many farmers to
their Lent grain,which the wetness of the wciaber
:14‘irisettays. at the Jattal tur.u.
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