The National Register.
London, England, 1818-04-05 00:00:00

ROW STREET.

Monday, Capt. Walter Marriton was brought to this Office,
charged atilt violently assaulting and wounding Matti') Lynn,
• seaman, on the high seas ; and some extraordinary circum-
stances were connected with it.

In the year 181.5, the ship Atlas, of Whitby. was hiredity
the agents of Oovernment to carry convicts under sentei.ce '
of transportation to Botany Bay. At the beginning of the
month of December, she cleared out from Gravesend with
convicta on hoard fur Botany Bay, where she arrived safe iu
the month of July following : the convicts were landed, &c.
The Atlas remained at Botany Bay till the month of Septem-
ber, when it left, the prisoner taking assay with him on hoard
his ship four women and two men convicts, who were st•
crrtc.l until the ship had completely got to sea. When the
Atlas leached Batavia, the pri.esner timk one of the female
convicts, who was it :10tolig girl, on shore with him. The
three other female and two mate convicts were allowed to go
no shore at Batas na, and did not worn to the ship. They
remained at anchor seine time at Batavia, to take in freight,
and while they were tints stationed, one night, which he had
every reason to Indic% e was a Saturday night, but lie could
not tell the day of the month, bet wtett ten and eleven o'clock,
the prosecutor was pearti.ing a song which he had learnt
at Botany bay, whet M tier mate of the ship
°role' ed
telling, the Mate it was his watch. The mate then kit
and in a short time after the prisoner came to I' with great
speed, and seized him violently by the throat with both his
hands, ae.d held him so tight and so long that he was nearly
choked , and after be let go his hold ()flits throat, he ()Mei ed
the ptoscentor to lease the ship and get into the boat, for the
purpose t,!' being pot oil board one of the East India cruisers.
the proseentor refused to go, unless his wages werc first paid,
and he had time to pack up his clothes, and take them with
him. The prisoner then armed himself with a pair of pistols
and a cutlass, and presented one of the pistols at the prosecu-


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tor, who still reused toleave the skip, es ci pion being paid his
wages, and being allowed tato. Isis clothes with. hies;
the prisoner then aimed a Wow Mt hie licad with theinillass,
n harm cc; nln r. the right side of his head just above ids ear,
cdeseil him to bleed profusely ; and hying thus wound-
ed, lie ve:i obliged to comply with 11. • in der. of the prisoner,
and get bout eilliei moue) Or clothes, and
with nothing on but Aid( or trowsera, being without shoes
or a hat. prisoner proceeded w ittr him in the boat to
the Eavt Tpote Conipait's cruiser, and when the prosecutor
got on bolt Mils Cruiser, flu 2uniii•rof that sbip put iiim in irons,
at the Jest. e of the prisoner; lie was only allowed to be on
the quai ter-deck, where lie was kept all night, without soy
coveriair,, except the clothes be had on when lie left the Atlas.
The %veight and coldness of the irons remaining on his legs
such a length of time, he was completely disabled. The
prosecutor sailed in the East India Company.' el iiiser to
Cisletitta, where the prisoner was with his ship. When the
prosecutor arrived at Calcutta, he found there was a new
motet', Captain Motinteal r, with the ship; and the people Ott
boatel said, the old master had left the ship at Angell) Point,
and had gone home iu another ship, and that the mate had
returned hack with tin ship to Batavia, where the new cap-
Mouutearr, took nosvession of her.
'flier prosecutor's stdteinOnt was conlirmed by a sailor, who
was one of the crew of the Atlas at the time, and rowed
tile prosecutor on boatel by order of the prisoner, bat
on account of the darkness of the night he could not see
if the pi isioner was armed, and he was not allowed to go on
board ow is niter. _ _ _ _ -

The primmer was ordered •re find bail to answer the charge
at the next Admit alt Ses,lons.
Tuesday a lung investigatiou took place before Mr. Birnie„
respecting the robbery of the Earl of Mansileid's house, at
Leese Wood. No prison was in custody, but a man veleta.
;dilly attended at the desire of one of the patrol L clongieg to
lee office, iu eose.eursence of an instrument being fulled.—
Mr. the I..ad -.tee ard of • the noble Earl, Ai temletl,
and stated that the wing of the lions( at Wood, a hitch
he occupied, had beet; brokers open, :led . %stilted of:* huge
quantity of listen, entitle pp 3111, go% el gus, -ils tr coins,
and other p; °petty to a mishit:l elite ailment. The man was
nut detained in custody.
Mr. N relative, of l'emple.place, illackfriars-road, on his
way throe is St. Paul's chut cl.-yard eu Tuesday, lost . his
pocket-hook, containing, attsei,a,other papers of value, two
drafts to the amount of 731. lle immediately went to the
banker's to stop payment, and • had been hut iu a short time
in the shop, when one James- Leies entered, and presented
the two drafts for payment. Tie elect. his hurry did not
question biro how he became possessed of them, !sus imme-
diately gave them to Mr. Nelthorpe. Leith, boa ever, suss-
takea into custody, and eons c, est to Bow-street. He *tat (d
himself' to be a carver mei elide;, residing in Chapel-street,.
Soil°, where he had lived Jet 12 years ; and the account he
gave of the drafts was, that be picked them up in Leicester.
square, in which place Mr. Ns laterite had trot been in the
Course of Tuesday, The chuffs were in the same state as
when Mr. Neithorpe bud been robbed of them, and perfectly
clean ; whereas at the tune, as the prisoner said, he had.
picked them up in Leicestcr—square, a heavy shower of rain
hat!.sest ; andsrunsequently ere thefts must have bees
dirty, had he picked them up in the street as he described.
Lack, the patrol, was dispatched to ascertain if the prisoner
was the person he described himself to be, which was timed
to be the case. On searching his• residence, be found dare
pecket-b.soks, and broueht them to the office,.bat neither of
Went proved to be Mr. Nelthorpe's.
Mr. Bircie ordered the prisoner to be detained.
MARLBOROUGH STREET.

DISTRESSED CIA: Y M AN. —A clergyman, whose name we
forbear to mention, was brought to this office charged as a
mendicant, with having entered into several shops and asked
alms. He Pppeared the lowest state of misery, of about
the age of SO years, and described himself as having fille.i
several respectable sittratiens, as tutor and curate in this
country, in the West lushes, in Flanderi, and on beard of a
mall of war. He said he was ordained deacon by the Arch-
bishop of York, and priest by the Bishop of Winchester, and
that he staffed snuck from ; bet that being unmarried
he hoped yet to procure some situation in which lie could
cans means of subsistence.
_

The Magistrate expressed mneli regret at being unable to
offer any permanent relief to a gentleman of so respected a
profession, whom he was h concerned to see in such a
situation. lie recommenied him to return to his native
county, from which he had been absent 12 years, and offered
to remit him in the usual manner. The unfortunate gentle-
man consented, and he was conducted to the house of cor-
rection in Clerkenwell.
QUEEN SQUARE.

E. Jones was chargvd with robbingJ. Graham of his watch
and appciiilaizes. The prosecutor is servant to a Dragoon
Otticcr, and cone to town a few days ago with his waster.—
He was crossing the Seven Dials about dusk in the evening,
when he was knocked down, and the prisoner ran off with
his watch, but was subsequently taken.—lie was fully coni.

Mary Buckland, a Cyprian, was folly committed for rob_
hint 7'. Bagnet, whom she tmticeil to a house iif ill faint in the
Almon ,of a 11. note and SOllle silver.
J. Barber, charged with stealing a quantity of lead, the
property of Messrs. Maltby and Co. of thames-street,
finally examined, the particulars of which have been already
stated, and he was fully committed.
J. Townsend, remanded for tittering forged notes, 'ailer-
went a final examination un four charges, and was fullylcum•
mated.

At the Quarter Sessions for this town, on Thu:sda',
after the Deputy Recorder, Mr. Sergeant Blossctt, had
delivered his charge to the Grand Jury, the Vice-
Chancellor (the Master of Clare-hall) entered the Court,
attended by his solicitor, preceded by the Esquire Be-
dells, and followed by the Proctors, and demanded of
the Mayor, John Purchas, Esq. the situation which
he then occupied as chairman, which the Mayor posi-
tively and unequivocally refused, observing, that he
considered himself entitled to the situation, it having
always been occupied by his predecessors in office, and
that he should conceive it an abandonment of his duty
to resign it. The Vice-Chancellor then quitted the
Court.—Cambridge Chronicle.
The Drapers' Company, on Thursday, gave a most
sumptuous dinner to his Royal Highness the Duke of
York, at their noble Hall, in Throgutorton-street.

ELVIN

AI'UTL S.