The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-02 00:00:00

UNION HALL

William Fennell was elisrged with liorglariott.ly entering
Mn dwellingthon.e of P. 'll iiiiii as Richardson, of Chairing-
ton, in Mussels. and stealinz between 50 and 60 wa:eloes. The
tiAloning are the tl7Cll:l,o4lleva which %ere detailed in the
trident.° :--

On the 10th September Mat, 11fr,Rieleardson, who is a welch.
Maker. do.eovered urn' rising at an early hoar. stint Itite shop
bad been broken open the preceding nicht, tly mean+ of tl.ree
of the lower 11:1114rts of glass beim; *Alen Politely rut. Upon
feather heard', he i•erecirril that a hurr4it, a Idlest of liras, ers.
and a desk. hail horn 'Neil of their conteuts, consisting of
between 30 and 00 witches. and numerates seals and chains.
I we days subsequent to the rob:ser) , Chit le* Cotirch, a Lam•
betb OuStdble. oabi• d site prisoner in Prince'e.street, Lam.
bow, coming toward. London; but heariog a jingling noise
a;;init bins. he touted after him tewt de4lred 111,11 to stop ; lie
than *earthed him, and iu his hat found five in lii.
trowsers Over, and in a pecket.handkerclaier which he
raided in Wand were seven. together with several chains
and Acid*. lie look him into es.stoo , and upon application
to Mr. Richni &on. that gentleman came to sown.' and upot.
first sight of the property identified it es part of that which
be had been robbed of. _ . _

Th. poisoner declined saying any thing in defence. He
was formarly a private in the (I,iards. Le deserted from lilt
regiment, and latterly worked about Chalvingtou as a Jabot:r-
im( Ma. Ho was fully committed.

A man of the name of Seulthorre resides In the parish of
Middleton, 111 NOllll.iospiolltshire; he Is Rt years nf age, vt a
most penurious divpositioa, .s timely allowing himself common
necessaries forr•inence, although it is well known he is worth
several thousand pounds. He resides in a small house or
cartage, aceon,pnnied only by his bOll, who is of very mild and
Larinless habits, and about SU years of age. On the night of
the 10th Inst. his lions, was attacked by a desperate gang,
consisting of five fellows, armed with bludgeons, with their
faces blackened, and in other respects disguised, to avoid
heing recognised, as it has turned ant they all reside in that
neighbowitood. The old man was awoke he one Intl
tun o'clock in the mot Ding. when he ditienveleil three men in
his lc it room. Titi y were armed olds bludgeon., and with
hot !ad threats and oaths demand' d money and property,
The nil snail ho•itating at telling them where to find
wealth, the villains attacked I t bat baronviy, brat him
on hi. head and other pArls sit his body wish their bludgeon.
I'l he became insensible. Tim auivu of the soldiers In the old
gentleman's bed room awoke his son, who slept in an adjoin'
In 4 room. and it Ito hastened to his heel roost., when he was
knock t ,I down and ill fleeted by ter villain., and threatened
to be murdered if he attempted to make any Maros. Among
the articles of property they helped le, were awe)
bmkes. Wbielt contained gold coins end Hank looses to cute
amount of 1801.; also various bonds for money, leases for
bonen anti lands, nines of hand, and prmni.sory notes. It nil.
Above half an Itom after the gang had I.l't the home and pre.
Mises before the son attempted to mos camas where they lett
him, he bring afraid to stir, they having nved such horrid
threats to him of rettii Mug to nu.rdes him it he matte any
slant,. It W 144 for sonic time feared that Hie old gentleman
was dead; but on examination; it prove 4 that his insensibility
mime from a quanti'y of clotted blood whirls settled its hi:
from the wound Ise had es ceived on
bead, 6,:c.‘ and on proper asvi.tan. e being given lotion he
recovered. In the rower (lllhe following mormag, the boxes
in millets had been the gold eoiur, !Link notes, and valuable
elornments, ...-re found in Ilver-the house, hut without
any of their tOillt.l“%. 'the rubbery 111.1 kill!: a Brent twist is.
the neighbourhood, an application was mode to the public
are now.strart, for an active and intelligent to go
d wn and investigate the hisidite.s. Lavender wee divsiSPlsed,
din u short ramie 445 reason to 'ID et live ',revolts; a tits
iminerrostary celerity and revs:Winn, he Ni.prelienitsd the
whine of : oust, has tallied king's ev Weller, and the rest
will he wed at the next Aaillte,,. The county Magistrates,
admiratt as of the tool, int ellf;enee, anti etioraxe of La.
vends r, have revolved to give hits, very handsome ;en m.,1.
A nun of the name of W. Stanland was taken into custody ;t
foinoby a far days ago for forgery. A .orrer phtc, and a number
of impreviirant. In imitation of !dotter' flank-rme.,win: found men
him. He has been in Grimsby and its nrii4liLourltsual for nearly
three years. mostly litrog. It is said he broke not of prison in Loa
don and !lull, and that he is a Downerss bad char.icter. Ile !mil in
his bed-room a double barrelled gun and a brace of pistols.
A scandalous fraud has been discovered in the Cus-
tom-house at Liverpool ; the landing waiters there have
been in the practice of taking fees of the American
captains to facilitate the early clearing of their vessels,
and then suffer the bulk of th;tlr cargo to be landed un-
examined. The Board its London have sent down
officers to do away this abuse ; and they are also mules.
'taming to uholish the systems of feting efficers both in
town and country, which is generally and improperly
clone by persons to pct their business accelerated,

his intended, we understand, to remove the statue
from the are of St. .13mes*.square, and to substitute a
cagnificentje/ d'eou in l's stcad. A greAt number of
werlanen arc now 1) .sily employed is laying tut the
walLs and Wrack&

THE NA iON REGlgrr fit

postscrtpt.

MONDAY. TWELVe O'CLOCK.

The Bullotto respeellog tho Queen yestelilsy wee
es follows :

Ken, Palace, Nov. 1.
" The Quesnes symptoms have apt improved 'loot our last u•
pork Her Majesty has not bad a final

We yesterday received Paris Papers of Thursday
last. The Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia
arrived at P.u.is on Wednesday, and immediately had
an audience with the King of' France at the Thuilleries,
whore a sumptuous and inagniiicent dinner was pre-
pared for the Royal Visitors an.l their suite, The
Kuperor of Russia Paris in the evening for
Senna. The King of Prussia proposed to stay for some
days.
Mr. Gsllittin, the American Minister, who has re.
eently negociated here u Treaty of Commerce with this
oountry, arrived at Paris on Tuesday evening.
Tile accounts from Aix-la-Cliapello state, that the
Ministers there lied anther coaference on the 23d ult.
The same day the Prinz° de :t1 Aternieh gave a diplo.
mole dinner, to which all the Prim:es at Aix-
la-Chapelle were invited. Thu departura Of L-ird Cas.
tlereagh was talked of, but the day on which his Lord.
ship was to set out was not huown.
The Ex-King of Spain. Charles IV. and his consort
arrived at Rome on the

A troaty of sommocco bas b3en concluded between
Denmark and Prussia.

Au article from Hanover state", that the Duke of
Clarence is to quit that capital at Easter next to estab.
lisp his residence either at Zell or Osnaburgh.

This morning a detachment of the ttith Light Dra.
goons from France, with the Liggage, &o. Lelonging
to the regiment pay.ed through town on their route
ter St. Alban's

This morning at, eight o'clnelr, Francis Losoh was
executed in the Old Bailey for the murder of his wife.

OLD BA I LEY.-SA.TURDAY.

Balthazar Adams, a must respectable looking man, was indicted for
forging en acceptance to a bill of exchstigc for 2001. with intent to
defraud Hobert Snow.
Mr. Alley. in stating the case to the jury. said, the prisoner had
been in a situation of great respectability, nqd had. for along time,
kept a large account at the house ct Snow and Co. the bankers. The
pawner got Mr. Jalmaca of the 'temple, to discount the hill, who
discovered, on presenting the bill at Snow's house, that it was a
forge?,
Johnsou. a solicitor in the Temple, saw the ptisoner cr. the 4th
September, at'out one o'clock, and h,e. got him to discount the bill.
Witness sent it in half an hour to Snow's, and found IS Waa a forgery,
—Charles Guhbi is, the Clark at Snow's ant being prcscnt to prove the
forgery of Mr. Snow'. name to the bills, the priAmer was of course
xantirtl. aged 6a ; Sarah Leonard nerd 54, his trif. ; Sarah
Forcedly and Gilbert ‘Varren, were indicted for uttering tonged
Bank of Envlstal notes, and found Guilty—Death, It is somewhat
singultsr that the three first should have been allowed to plead Cuilty
to the ii:i.inr odium on Friday, and yet be tiled again on the follow,
ins moming for the capital osfsnct.

On Wednesday a most shocking accident occurred to
a young :ran named Edward Dudley, in the employ of
Mr. Joel:sun, butAer, Bond-strcii, The young num
was in the slaughter house, and was running after a
sheep with a knife in his hand, with the intention of
killing it, when in passing a railing to which was affixed
a uumher of hooks, one of them entered one of his eyes,
and comi letely removed it from the socket. He was
taken to :It. George's Hospital in the musk excruciating
pain,
NOR WII"1 CITY iSSSSIONS.:.- Marl: Woodcock, appel-
lant, and Thomas Philip Bagge, Etq., respondont.—,-
An appeal to a conviction for taking toll at the turn-
pike gate, of soldlers when on duty. The 13th light
dragoons are stationed at Lynn, and the troop had been
taken out for an airing, by command of the Aver ; and
as they were ',wing through Oaywotal gate, the appel-
lant demanded toll, amounting to 4s. 41d.,
that they were rot on duty, which was paid by one
ofthe sergemtts after a little altercation. The appellant
contended, that the troop rowi through his gate
wantonly and ufmccesotrily, and in order to give aim
trouble, end that they were not exempt from toll but
the Court lucid, that the troop was on duty, and there..
fore confirmed the valvietion,

. . •
At the Surrey Adjourned Sessions on %Vetlnazday at
Newington, Wm. l'iciftcy was tried on an indictment
preferred by the parish of Camberwell, cletrOng the
defendant, tc graduate of the University of Can.bridge,
with haying walked in a naked state, in the day, on the
banks of the canal, between Peckham and Caml erwe 1,
in which he had been bathing.-..-111r. Cowley for the
defendant, in a briltani speech, addressed himself to the
feelings pf the Jury. He conceived that if this tqueam-
Witless of seeing naked fgurac was listened it, there
would Bann he au end of our boosted constitution !-
I'he defendant was, however, convicted, and in consi-
deration of his having alreitay snlfi:red impri-enment,
;sentenced to pay a tine of ts. and to cnter into Lis own
reco.,nizance, in die sum of t:OL t t Leep the peace for
twelve months,

NOV, 0

On NI ruoll4ty night, het sweets 10 and 11 o:alock, the tVindsor.
castl#, riblir,lionse. in the City toad, was t,,l):wd to a eons,
siderable amount, in the following manner :—A lighted moils
was thrown into a roots) where ♦ CoMptlity of gentlemen
wh•re 31Mllbled, which canoed great t•oofnsinn ; while the
landlord was endeavouring so find out the person who dis-
charged the squib, sums person or persona went into his had-
rooms !mil brake open a trunk which contained 1191. in Bank.
notes, 2 guineas, 2 sovereigns, and 191. worth of silver; 8
silver teaspoons, 2 silver salt•spnns, 1 silver tousle' sl.spoon,
marked " !LE AL" in a cipher ; 2 large us avy•spoons, a large
ail ver pals-spoon, smirked S• $.0." in a cipher; 2 gold brooches,
and a topaz, and a quantity of old gold, with which the
thieves got clear off.

By the activity of a Celiac:flan In Cheshire, a man of the name of
Thompson was apprehended for addressing inflammatory and iiedt.
nowt lant.ptagit to sonic calibers at I;tuilr.ort, at a time nh en Ilia
disturbances emongst the spinners and wesvera were at the height• Tho
man Ivo; been convicted at the Iwit Quaner Sessions. and set.
winced to six months impri.onment in the Castle of Chester.