The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-03 00:00:00

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street, Fitzroy-squire. When taxed n ith the Ida, he
admitted it, but said he had 4001. coining to him in a
few days, and would make every thing right. Upon
this representation Mr. (Laudon stoili•red him to ari at
large, Inn lie MA' vr returned mud lie was apprehended.
The defence of time plisoitei consisted in attacks upon
the character of his waste', fur which there did nut ap.
pear the smallest foundation.
fie was finitHi thl Court, in ender to mark
its sense of the ensile, and the . loci of the prisoner,
boils before and at his trial, immediately seitienced hint
to transportation for 14 years.
THURSDAY, FRB. U7...1):111iC1 'Griffiths was indicted
for feloniously recekitil batik notes to the amount of
1291., the limpet), of Thomas MgKennon, knowing the
saute to have been stolen. _

Mr. Al' Kennon glated, that he is an 'oil and colour
manufacturer. On the:lath of Novesubcr he received
iegl. 145., among which were a 1001., a COI., and a 51.
note. ROI home about seven oclock in the •
etenina, a little the worse for the wjne he had taken, he
met a WOlll3ll, awl OCCOtilllZllliVli ler to her lodgings in
Chapin:in-street, Conntiereial.rOad ; he {lad been there
bli. a few moments when the 4vmato suddenly leftihiai,
and he Own missed OW v 1 i.le of his money. lie give
in the n(111)1161- of the notes the lnxt g al' 114
Bank of England, and in Arndt a month afterwards the .
1001. note was paid ill. Tinsinisoner was apprehended
on the loth dr Janitiry.
Mr. Robertson, Irndlord of the King and Queen
pnl'lie homes, in Citainuau-street, deposed, that un the
evening iu question, about eight o'clock, the prisoner and -
a WOlllOllOl the town, wearing a ten whittle. came to
his house, and the prisoner said to a man who was there,
64 Game alcinglick, it is all rig.ht." They went away
treatiwr. Inc WIIMOU enactly answered tile tieseriptiun
of Cite one who rol,iied Mr. M‘liennoii.

Howard Lewi, a chitties salesman, in Cable-street
depu..t•d, that on the !telling of the arils of November,
the pri•ouer came to Isis shop with a girl in a red whittle.
Tote prisoner !mewed a 111UI., s WI., and a 51. note,
and haying asked witness the taint of them, for he said
he could not read himself, he offered to lay out the 61.
note if witness would change the other two—this the
witness refused to do, and they kit the shop. Wilms,
sitipectinv all was not ri*ltt. he followed them, but lost
them all at once in Mortuary-lane. He then gate in-
infantilism to the police.• .Tlic lOul. note /laden indorser
neat upon it very touch blotted. and a red.iiik mink.
Air. Dye), front toe Hank of England, produced the
10111, note stolen f the prosecu►or. !'here was •a
blotted indoraement upon it.
'foss note was ittemtlied by the progenitor, and the
wuttess.•Lewis, steureit was•the saute the prisoner had
uttered to him.

Tut. prisoner was round guilty, and sentenced to be
tramported fur
.14 years. Ho returned from transports
Lion only leo months ,12(1.
• I'nis ptirolier was.the bat on the list for trial, and the
Itectrisicr, alter a slum ain.iromein, proceeded to pass
beinclicc on those prisoners coovicied during the Sm.
shins, who had Nut already' received joslgineof..—'lhret"
were sentenced to trans's...illation for idea 2 iUr &YMCA
years; 16 • for keen. years; ~ to be imprisoned for rine
year, and kept Lu hard labour; and I 4 tilt
six months.--
Set eral mete oidered.ro tearer Mini-of imprisonment,
some to be privately whipped, and salsas fined a blid.ing
and discharged ; and pt
,tlle cases of two, jorlament was
remitted I next sessions.
The fulluwiD2 unhippy'perions (17 in number) were
then placed at the Mir to reteire die awful-sentence of
deaths—aoheit flaichinan, for house hreating in the •
slay time; Mary Aurae Sloth, Kenny. Oaten and .16110
Henke, i.tr scaling jii dwelling-houses; .)% rthim Halr,
for horse bleating ; James Farrier, William Harding,,
John W alt,ei, James Aldridge, Thomas Gitson, alias
Blacken, I len ry Serums; ,lolsit Davis, audJoseph
EfOlftile, Tor borklaries; Henry Cocks and I salte.Davis,
fur heAltway rolibeir; and Chaster Cleft, for uttering
hirgoti Id. ismes t 'chianti •th'England.—Tne learned
Recorder, its his exhortation to the In isouris, remarked
that there was thie whose lam was settled beyond the
possibility of a doubt. He-4%y as was the td ..rice im
W 4.0 In Wilt, and numerous as were the instances in
iiich he was &m em have coninitued it, and, notwith-
111 Ault lig repeated teal sii gigs from tile lea. lied and husliAtie
inthridualit who men sat apron the bench, he had sot
chosen to abide a trial, but, by a plea of guilty, had
cortfesseil his guilt to she fullest extent. Be must not,
tuicre foie. intitilge in the slightest hope of mercy.—Cleft
was, of conrie, the ;whom allotted to by the learned
Judge. ' lie Stied tears timing the address.

TIE PEN&TkNI'lit Timmlay ,olu.ht a Coroner's
jury woe empanelled at tne Peostentiaty,
before Mr. Gell,Cormier for the city and liberty ul West-
windier, to intiumie into the cause of the death of Hum-
Piney Attains, a prisoner, 34 years of.cee, who tame
into the Peisitendary in June,'lB2l, and in. Conwelf„
who was received tu Jude, 1820, both of whom had
been convicted of climes. The Jury • returned the fol-
lowing senile.. c—" We are of opinion that the deceased-
died ()Aural deaths.; but it is auras, )i tt ion so veiny
smitten would nht die if they were allowed nitwit portion
of meat and it is our wish and deuime that this our opi-
.tiiomi should log COllllll tttt icateel•to the Ditecturs of the
Testitentiarmr, mu hopes they will take Mine steps to ob-
tain it." This'vertlict was sanctioned by the Coroner,-
' who amerced to facilitate it as munch as possible.
,Ft r..--At 4 o'clock on Saturday utorniug, an alarm..
Ana fire broke mit ill the house of Mr. %Valls, a proctor,
in Bell Court, Carter Lane' Donors Commons; and
before any assistance could be rifOrded, his house and'
!Haverty was reduced to ashes. The fire then contend-
spiraled to the house of Alessrs. Adderley and Bons
Lir,:v:oetomd.rseishpaeainrritil,,s,acisn:lni:eocsrustvirianie7ur
irfetti.hresuoifisiiiee time could be ob-
se, I,inteltepsotphsessr honseisow.
Messrs. Adderley and Box's were preserved, and carried
to the house of Mr. Clarkson, of Great Carter Laneo--;
The fire, at half-past three, was got under, cud ail the
adjoining houses safe.